Class Note 2016

A bit belated, but congratulations, ’16s! We are officially Dartmouth alumni (hence you’re receiving this magazine) and this is officially the first ’16s Class Notes column. I’m thrilled to be serving as your class secretary. I’ll be updating you all on the exciting, impressive and fun things that our classmates are up to over the next five years!

That being said, if you have any updates about your friends or yourself please feel free to Facebook message or email me and I’ll include it in the next Class Notes! This can be anything from new jobs or spouses to vacations or just spending time with other ’16s. Although it’s been only a few months since graduating, our classmates are already doing some incredible things!

Sarah Bennett, Missy Cantave, John Damianos, Keegan O’Hern, Rui Zhang and Yvette Zou are sticking around Hanover for a bit longer as they have started medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine. John is also continuing his work with undergraduate student health and wellness by serving as a Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students provider in the student wellness center.

Julietta Gervase, Shinri Kamei and Cecilia Robinson also spent some time in Hanover after graduating. The trio, who were freshman floormates on Zimmerman 3 (also with me!), hiked the Appalachian Trial for two weeks. They were overjoyed to conclude their time as students with such a meaningful adventure in the New Hampshire wilderness.

Hui Cheng, Shreya Indukuri, Er Li Peng and Francis Slaughter also had their own adventure in Southeast Asia. They spent several weeks traveling around the region and meeting up with other ’16s in the area. Their trip included plenty of delicious street food and elephant pants.

Thienan Dang, Axel Hufford and Jordan Kastrinsky capped off their Dartmouth career with a trip to Poland and Greece to learn about Jewish culture and history while restoring a Jewish cemetery through Project Preservation. After the trip Thienan volunteered as a photographer for local animal shelters before starting work in Boston in the fall. Axel continued to travel the world; he’s heading to Japan, Korea and Thailand with Matthew Mirliani and Shawn Xie before moving to Washington, D.C. Jordan is now working on a kibbutz in Israel, where he will later draft into the Israel Defense Forces.

Joe Wang and Julia Pomerantz recently took a trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where they enjoyed spectacular views, gorged on delicious carbs, perfected their Italian gestures and wished they had done more cardio to prep for a lot of the stair climbing under the hot Mediterranean sun.

In addition to starting graduate school and traveling some of our classmates moved to new cities and started new jobs.

Taylor Watson and Jess Ma are both working in healthcare consulting in New York City. They’re living with John Beneville, who is teaching at a charter school in the Bronx.

Will Lynch moved to Boston to work in consulting and is excited to be living with Henry Arndt, Jamie Billings, Ben Geithner and Shinri Kamei.

David Cordero has also moved to Boston and is now living in Beacon Hill with Esther Wu.

That’s all for now, but don’t forget to keep sending updates my way! I look forward to hearing from you all. Happy holidays!

—Feyaad Allie, 6915 NW 29th Court, Margate, FL 33063; feyaad.allie@gmail.com