Class Note 2009
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Greetings, ’09ers! As I sit and type this in the cardboard box that I’m subletting from a pigeon in the East Village, it dawns on me that nearly a year has passed since our graduation. Let’s see how just a few of our classmates have been spending the time.
Shannon Prince has certainly been keeping busy: “I’m currently a postgraduate Lombard Fellow. In 2009 I traveled to Mongolia to collect oral history from the Tuvan and Darhad peoples on traditional practices, beliefs and forms of knowledge that were banned during communism. I’m currently using that oral history to create an ethnographic reference work that will be used by the contributing communities as a resource in rebuilding their cultures. I’m also writing a paper on changes in grazing practices from communism to democracy that the NGO I’m affiliated with, Bioregions International, will use as a reference as they aim to promote sustainable grazing practices. Finally, I’m writing the oral history of Mongolian-American immigrants.”
Annabel Seymour was recently accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and will be getting her M.F.A. in film production. She will be moving from New York to L.A. in the fall and is on the lookout for a roommate. Congratulations, Annabel!
Rembert Browne has some incentive to stay in New York for a few more years, as he was accepted to Columbia University’s M.F.A. in urban planning program. He will be starting in the fall. Well done, Rem!
Likewise, the lovely Lora Johns was accepted into the Ph.D. program for linguistics at UMass Amherst. Way to go!
Gabrielle Santa-Donato is currently finishing up her urban education fellowship year at the MATCH school where she started the first arts program the school has had. She will be organic farming in Italy this July and would love a travel buddy.
A few days ago I caught up with Adam Frank, who is currently working as the audience development assistant in the marketing department of the Public Theater in New York City.
Thomas McDermott is finishing up his first year at UVA Law and will be spending the summer in Boston working for the public defender office in Middlesex County.
Having finished his first year at Duke Law, Brian Flood will be spending the summer in Portland, Maine, as an associate at the firm Pierce Atwood.
Filligar (featuring band members Pete and Teddy Mathias) wrote to tell me about their year. They were inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, attended and voted in the Grammy Awards, are currently recording a new album due out in June and will be going on tour for the second time this summer. Check out their dates at filligar.com!
Clare Fortune-Agan is living in her native southern Maine and working as a community educator at Caring Unlimited, a local domestic violence shelter. She recently starred in the Portland production of That Takes Ovaries.
Luke Mann-O’Halloran is living in Boston with Kate Harney. “We, along with Courtney Talmadge, Scott Henning and Megan Snively, are slowly but surely taking over CSN Stores, an up-and-coming online retailer.”
Brian Mengwasser, Awni Hannun, Ian Murphy and Matthew Siegfried ’08 are finalists in the Green Launching Pad business plan competition, a University of New Hampshire/Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network venture that is designed to promote the development of clean-tech and energy-efficiency businesses in the state of New Hampshire. Their entry in the competition is a self-programming thermostat that learns the occupancy patterns of a residence by incorporating motion sensors strategically placed throughout a home and then automatically adapts the home’s heating output to fit the user’s schedule.
If this is any indication of what our class can accomplish in only a year, I can’t wait to see what the future holds. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 630 E. 9th St., #5, New York, NY 10009; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org
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Greetings, ’09ers! As I sit and type this in the cardboard box that I’m subletting from a pigeon in the East Village, it dawns on me that nearly a year has passed since our graduation. Let’s see how just a few of our classmates have been spending the time.
Shannon Prince has certainly been keeping busy: “I’m currently a postgraduate Lombard Fellow. In 2009 I traveled to Mongolia to collect oral history from the Tuvan and Darhad peoples on traditional practices, beliefs and forms of knowledge that were banned during communism. I’m currently using that oral history to create an ethnographic reference work that will be used by the contributing communities as a resource in rebuilding their cultures. I’m also writing a paper on changes in grazing practices from communism to democracy that the NGO I’m affiliated with, Bioregions International, will use as a reference as they aim to promote sustainable grazing practices. Finally, I’m writing the oral history of Mongolian-American immigrants.”
Annabel Seymour was recently accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and will be getting her M.F.A. in film production. She will be moving from New York to L.A. in the fall and is on the lookout for a roommate. Congratulations, Annabel!
Rembert Browne has some incentive to stay in New York for a few more years, as he was accepted to Columbia University’s M.F.A. in urban planning program. He will be starting in the fall. Well done, Rem!
Likewise, the lovely Lora Johns was accepted into the Ph.D. program for linguistics at UMass Amherst. Way to go!
Gabrielle Santa-Donato is currently finishing up her urban education fellowship year at the MATCH school where she started the first arts program the school has had. She will be organic farming in Italy this July and would love a travel buddy.
A few days ago I caught up with Adam Frank, who is currently working as the audience development assistant in the marketing department of the Public Theater in New York City.
Thomas McDermott is finishing up his first year at UVA Law and will be spending the summer in Boston working for the public defender office in Middlesex County.
Having finished his first year at Duke Law, Brian Flood will be spending the summer in Portland, Maine, as an associate at the firm Pierce Atwood.
Filligar (featuring band members Pete and Teddy Mathias) wrote to tell me about their year. They were inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, attended and voted in the Grammy Awards, are currently recording a new album due out in June and will be going on tour for the second time this summer. Check out their dates at filligar.com!
Clare Fortune-Agan is living in her native southern Maine and working as a community educator at Caring Unlimited, a local domestic violence shelter. She recently starred in the Portland production of That Takes Ovaries.
Luke Mann-O’Halloran is living in Boston with Kate Harney. “We, along with Courtney Talmadge, Scott Henning and Megan Snively, are slowly but surely taking over CSN Stores, an up-and-coming online retailer.”
Brian Mengwasser, Awni Hannun, Ian Murphy and Matthew Siegfried ’08 are finalists in the Green Launching Pad business plan competition, a University of New Hampshire/Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network venture that is designed to promote the development of clean-tech and energy-efficiency businesses in the state of New Hampshire. Their entry in the competition is a self-programming thermostat that learns the occupancy patterns of a residence by incorporating motion sensors strategically placed throughout a home and then automatically adapts the home’s heating output to fit the user’s schedule.
If this is any indication of what our class can accomplish in only a year, I can’t wait to see what the future holds. Class of ’09 love!
—Peter Rothbard, 630 E. 9th St., #5, New York, NY 10009; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org