Class Note 2017
Issue
January-February 2022
Happy New Year and happy holidays, ’17s! Can you believe it’s 2022 already? We graduated nearly five years ago! For this edition of the Class Notes, you’ll learn about two ’17s who just couldn’t get enough time in the classroom and decided to return to school recently.
First up is Sarah Guinee, who is in her second year at the University of Virginia School of Law. She has loved her experience at UVA so far and feels fortunate to have fellow ’17 Megan Ong on campus with her. Prior to law school, Sarah worked on First Amendment issues in various capacities, concentrating on issues ranging from press freedom to protest rights. She is pursuing a J.D. so she can amplify her impact on these issues as a legal advocate. During Sarah’s first year, she earned the Democracy Summer Fellowship Award, which is a grant that helps fund summer public interest work. Last summer she interned at the Brennan Center, which is a legal nonprofit aiming to strengthen American democracy. Sarah’s work focused on the relationship of national security and law enforcement to our ability to self-govern. She appreciated the opportunity to work with brilliant, like-minded people on issues she cares about deeply. In 2022 Sarah looks forward to returning to the West Coast while trying something new. In the summer she will work at both a nonprofit and a law firm in southern California. While in SoCal, she plans to spend plenty of time with her homie Morgan Finnegan, who is in her first year at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Next we have Timo Vaimann, who is in his second year at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Timo is majoring in business analytics because numbers are cool, but his favorite course so far has been on negotiations; he hopes to use his newly acquired skills to negotiate lower rent on his future apartment when he moves to San Francisco with Amy Sun after business school. Although he loves Wharton and enjoys not having to attend 6 a.m. practice before a full day of classes (Timo was on the varsity swim team at Dartmouth), Timo affirms that Dartmouth is superior to Penn! He can feel lost on campus without “Foco” and the plethora of chocolate chip cookies. Luckily, our class is represented heavily at Wharton; the Big Green GroupMe is poppin’ and he frequently spends time with classmates Jared Tagen, Sarah Han, and Kevin Zhang. In 2022 Timo looks forward to our five-year reunion.
This past summer Timo moved to California to intern at the Duckhorn Portfolio, one of North America’s largest luxury wine producers. The company is headquartered in Napa Valley and produces a portfolio of premium wines. Duckhorn loves duck puns, which inspire the names for most of its “ducklings,” or brands (Decoy, Migration, Paraduxx, Goldeneye, Canvasback, etc.). At Duckhorn Timo was part of the finance “flock,” focusing on merger and acquisition opportunities. He asserts that working for Duckhorn was an amazing experience, not only because of the perks—of which there were many, all involving wine—but also because he had opportunities to learn about wine and finance. When he was not at work, Timo enjoyed exploring the West Coast and hosting many Dartmouth friends in the wine country. Highlights include driving along Highway 1 and watching Joby Bernstein win the Trans-Tahoe relay swim with the Olympic club team.
Congrats to Sarah and Timo on all of their academic and professional feats!
—Dorian J. Allen, 33 Tuckernuck Ave., Oak Bluffs, MA 02557; dorallen@comcast.net
First up is Sarah Guinee, who is in her second year at the University of Virginia School of Law. She has loved her experience at UVA so far and feels fortunate to have fellow ’17 Megan Ong on campus with her. Prior to law school, Sarah worked on First Amendment issues in various capacities, concentrating on issues ranging from press freedom to protest rights. She is pursuing a J.D. so she can amplify her impact on these issues as a legal advocate. During Sarah’s first year, she earned the Democracy Summer Fellowship Award, which is a grant that helps fund summer public interest work. Last summer she interned at the Brennan Center, which is a legal nonprofit aiming to strengthen American democracy. Sarah’s work focused on the relationship of national security and law enforcement to our ability to self-govern. She appreciated the opportunity to work with brilliant, like-minded people on issues she cares about deeply. In 2022 Sarah looks forward to returning to the West Coast while trying something new. In the summer she will work at both a nonprofit and a law firm in southern California. While in SoCal, she plans to spend plenty of time with her homie Morgan Finnegan, who is in her first year at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Next we have Timo Vaimann, who is in his second year at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Timo is majoring in business analytics because numbers are cool, but his favorite course so far has been on negotiations; he hopes to use his newly acquired skills to negotiate lower rent on his future apartment when he moves to San Francisco with Amy Sun after business school. Although he loves Wharton and enjoys not having to attend 6 a.m. practice before a full day of classes (Timo was on the varsity swim team at Dartmouth), Timo affirms that Dartmouth is superior to Penn! He can feel lost on campus without “Foco” and the plethora of chocolate chip cookies. Luckily, our class is represented heavily at Wharton; the Big Green GroupMe is poppin’ and he frequently spends time with classmates Jared Tagen, Sarah Han, and Kevin Zhang. In 2022 Timo looks forward to our five-year reunion.
This past summer Timo moved to California to intern at the Duckhorn Portfolio, one of North America’s largest luxury wine producers. The company is headquartered in Napa Valley and produces a portfolio of premium wines. Duckhorn loves duck puns, which inspire the names for most of its “ducklings,” or brands (Decoy, Migration, Paraduxx, Goldeneye, Canvasback, etc.). At Duckhorn Timo was part of the finance “flock,” focusing on merger and acquisition opportunities. He asserts that working for Duckhorn was an amazing experience, not only because of the perks—of which there were many, all involving wine—but also because he had opportunities to learn about wine and finance. When he was not at work, Timo enjoyed exploring the West Coast and hosting many Dartmouth friends in the wine country. Highlights include driving along Highway 1 and watching Joby Bernstein win the Trans-Tahoe relay swim with the Olympic club team.
Congrats to Sarah and Timo on all of their academic and professional feats!
—Dorian J. Allen, 33 Tuckernuck Ave., Oak Bluffs, MA 02557; dorallen@comcast.net