Hello, class of 2005. I hope you are all enjoying a beautiful and relaxing summer. Can you believe a year from now we will be in Hanover celebrating our 10-year reunion? I hope everyone has the date saved: June 13-15, 2014. In the meantime we have lots of exciting news and web links to keep you busy. Thanks to all for the updates!
Congratulations to Thom Pasculli, who married Stephanie Smith on June 8 in Chicago, where they live with their 3-year-old son Leo. Groomsmen included Tommy Dickie, Andrew Dahl, Eric Smith, Neel Tiruviluamala, Andrew Verstein and Rob Strong ’04. Dartmouth alums were in abundance at the ceremony and reception. Tommy Dickie wrote, “Thom and Steph rented a private el train which escorted all of the wedding guests from downtown Chicago to a temple north of the city as the groomsmen served snacks and ran games—it was such a special weekend.”
Congratulations are also in order for ’05 classmates Alexis Ettinger and Jason Edgar, who got engaged in May, and Kelly Sennatt, who got engaged in June to Tuck School of Business classmate Jordan Esten! We wish you all the best in your wedding planning futures.
In other exciting news, Tim Katz won a Sports Emmy in May 2013 for “Outstanding New Approaches: Sports Event Coverage” as a producer from YouTube of Red Bull Stratos: Space Jump. Tim’s wife, Jennifer Der Yuen, wrote, “This award broke a number of records both in terms of human achievement and Internet traffic. Remarkably, the live stream used an estimated 8 percent of the entire Internet’s bandwidth.” Tim currently works in the sports content partnerships group at Google/YouTube. The National Academy of Television announcement of winners can be found online at www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/sports_34th_winners.html.
Heather Monley received First Prize in the Kenyon Review short fiction contest for her piece titled “Town of Birds.” One of the contest judges described Heather’s writing as “a quietly spectacular flight of imagination.” Read more at www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/the-kenyon-review-short-fiction-pa….
In partnership with the Dartmouth department of theater, alums Kate Mulley, Thom Pasculli and Matthew Cohn ’08 are organizing a festival of new theatrical work at Dartmouth this summer. The event, VoxFest, will feature performances by Karisa Bruin and Andrew Dahlas well as many alums from other classes. If you are interested in attending or learning more about the event, please visit the website www.voxtheater.org/voxfest.
In other theater-related news, Tommy Dickie just got his first TV gig since moving to Los Angeles last year; he will be in the season finale of FX’s Wilfred in September and has a line with Elijah Wood! Tommy wrote, “After eight months in L.A. I find this place super strange and isolating, so if you’re here and want to get a group together, let’s do it! In fact, that may be my late New Year’s resolution: to make more mini-reunions happen out here.”
After getting his M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management in 2012, Kedar Deshpande moved to Los Angeles to work for Beyond Meat: www.beyondmeat.com. Kedar wrote, “Beyond Meat is a cutting-edge start-up that makes plant-based proteins that are delicious and good for you and for the planet. Look for Beyond Meat’s chicken-free strips in the refrigerated section of Whole Foods nationwide!”
Lindsay Ferstanding moved to San Francisco in June to begin a new job doing marketing at a company called Stitch Fix. Lindsay wrote, “Stitch Fix offers personal styling at affordable prices. Try it out, ladies! You can find us online at www.stitchfix.com.”
Please keep the news coming and enjoy your summer!
—Lindsey Horton, 423 Georgia Ave., Apt. 302, Atlanta, GA 30312; lhorton27@gmail.com
