Class Note 1996
Issue
At the time of this writing there’s been a run on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the Iran election is still being contested and they just found the South Carolina governor. Hope you’re having a good harvest!
Andre Hylton practices law as an in-house attorney at Georgia-Pacific. He was recently appointed as senior division counsel and lives in Atlanta with his 3-year-old daughter Sophia.
Ben Brainard has been living in Athens, Georgia, and is an assistant professor of critical care at the University of Georgia Veterinary School. He commented to me that he has been forced to radically increase his intake of fried foods and is pleased to support this aspect of the local economy.
Having recently finished veterinary school Carrie Bagshaw has accepted a position at a small animal practice close to home in Santa Monica, California, after celebrating her accomplishments in Europe. Her daughter Katherine is turning 7 and Sarah is looking forward with some trepidation to starting kindergarten in September.
Genevieve Jeong Bennett and her husband, Christian Bennett ’99, welcomed their second son, Callum Matthew, on January 29, 2008. He joins big brother Ronan (4). After graduating from Dartmouth Genevieve and Christian spent 10 years in San Francisco before moving to sunnier Palo Alto. When not chasing the kids she is putting her English degree to good use as a director with the nonprofit National Writing Project.
After three years there William Isaac Thorne is still living in London. Following two and half years consulting with Bain he recently joined the reorganization services group at Deloitte Corporate Finance UK as an assistant director, focusing primarily on financial restructuring and turnaround plans for distressed companies. If anyone is visiting London for work or fun, give him a shout—he knows all the fun old pubs at this point.
Brad and Melissa (Taylor) Parks welcomed Cara Lillian, born 8 pounds, 6 ounces, on December 6, 2008, joining older brother Avery (2). Melissa has a new job as director of guidance services at the Christchurch School, a boys boarding school down in the tidewater part of Virginia. The family lives in a tiny little cottage on the shore of the Rappahannock River. Brad has a new murder mystery book called Faces of the Gone, published by St. Martin’s Press. Pre-order at Amazon.com
Joey Hood, his wife and two kids are currently living in Doha, Qatar, where Joey is the U.S. Embassy’s public affairs officer. The New York Times designated Doha as the “Cultural Destination of 2009,” and Joey invites fellow ’96s to come check out this tiny country with a ton of important U.S. interests and an interesting museum of Islamic art. Just don’t come during the summer, when it’s 120 degrees in the shade.
Jim and Katie Shutzer Brennan had a number of ’96 sightings: Laurel and Tyler Newby and their adorable, sweet little girl Adeline (1) in Washington, D.C.; Betsy Miller and Cory Wishengrad at the Harvard reunion—both seemed great; Alex Edlich and his wife, Gouri (their kids will be attending the same school in September!); Sarah Brooke MacColl and Sharon Wolfe Schwartz, who both visited over the winter with their children. Sarah’s son James will be 2 in May and she is expecting baby No. 2 in July. Sharon’s daughter Josie will be 2 in June. Monica Oberkofler Gorman also stopped in a few months ago.
The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (Religion in North America) by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler, published earlier this year, is a collection of essays that create a dynamic, humanistic and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African-American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African-American experience.
That’s all for now! Be well, and keep on keeping on.
—Kelii Opulauoho, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #3F, New York, NY 10025; l.alan.keli’i.opulauoho.96@alum.dartmouth.org
Sept - Oct 2009
At the time of this writing there’s been a run on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the Iran election is still being contested and they just found the South Carolina governor. Hope you’re having a good harvest!
Andre Hylton practices law as an in-house attorney at Georgia-Pacific. He was recently appointed as senior division counsel and lives in Atlanta with his 3-year-old daughter Sophia.
Ben Brainard has been living in Athens, Georgia, and is an assistant professor of critical care at the University of Georgia Veterinary School. He commented to me that he has been forced to radically increase his intake of fried foods and is pleased to support this aspect of the local economy.
Having recently finished veterinary school Carrie Bagshaw has accepted a position at a small animal practice close to home in Santa Monica, California, after celebrating her accomplishments in Europe. Her daughter Katherine is turning 7 and Sarah is looking forward with some trepidation to starting kindergarten in September.
Genevieve Jeong Bennett and her husband, Christian Bennett ’99, welcomed their second son, Callum Matthew, on January 29, 2008. He joins big brother Ronan (4). After graduating from Dartmouth Genevieve and Christian spent 10 years in San Francisco before moving to sunnier Palo Alto. When not chasing the kids she is putting her English degree to good use as a director with the nonprofit National Writing Project.
After three years there William Isaac Thorne is still living in London. Following two and half years consulting with Bain he recently joined the reorganization services group at Deloitte Corporate Finance UK as an assistant director, focusing primarily on financial restructuring and turnaround plans for distressed companies. If anyone is visiting London for work or fun, give him a shout—he knows all the fun old pubs at this point.
Brad and Melissa (Taylor) Parks welcomed Cara Lillian, born 8 pounds, 6 ounces, on December 6, 2008, joining older brother Avery (2). Melissa has a new job as director of guidance services at the Christchurch School, a boys boarding school down in the tidewater part of Virginia. The family lives in a tiny little cottage on the shore of the Rappahannock River. Brad has a new murder mystery book called Faces of the Gone, published by St. Martin’s Press. Pre-order at Amazon.com
Joey Hood, his wife and two kids are currently living in Doha, Qatar, where Joey is the U.S. Embassy’s public affairs officer. The New York Times designated Doha as the “Cultural Destination of 2009,” and Joey invites fellow ’96s to come check out this tiny country with a ton of important U.S. interests and an interesting museum of Islamic art. Just don’t come during the summer, when it’s 120 degrees in the shade.
Jim and Katie Shutzer Brennan had a number of ’96 sightings: Laurel and Tyler Newby and their adorable, sweet little girl Adeline (1) in Washington, D.C.; Betsy Miller and Cory Wishengrad at the Harvard reunion—both seemed great; Alex Edlich and his wife, Gouri (their kids will be attending the same school in September!); Sarah Brooke MacColl and Sharon Wolfe Schwartz, who both visited over the winter with their children. Sarah’s son James will be 2 in May and she is expecting baby No. 2 in July. Sharon’s daughter Josie will be 2 in June. Monica Oberkofler Gorman also stopped in a few months ago.
The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (Religion in North America) by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler, published earlier this year, is a collection of essays that create a dynamic, humanistic and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African-American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African-American experience.
That’s all for now! Be well, and keep on keeping on.
—Kelii Opulauoho, 733 Amsterdam Ave., #3F, New York, NY 10025; l.alan.keli’i.opulauoho.96@alum.dartmouth.org