Class Notes 2008

Stevie Belchak and her partner, Travis Murray, are settling into their new home of Old Town Key West, Florida. This February they enjoyed chasing chickens, swimming in 80-degree heat, and drinking mojitos with none other than Lindsay Deane-Mayer, Zach Deane-Mayer, Emi Ito Ortiz, and Nick Ortiz plus the absolute best troupe of kiddos. Give her a shout if you find yourself at Mile Marker 0.

Jessica Long is living in Washington, D.C., finishing up her pediatric and adolescent gynecology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She will head back to Chicago this summer to work.

Daisy Freund, her wife, and two children are living in Lima, Peru, for a year and were visited for a week by Jennifer Lopez and her fiancé!

Rebekah Sagredo graduated in May 2022 with an M.A. in international relations from St. John’s University. In October 2022 she bought a home in Italy!

Elliott Dial and his wife, Molly Giorgio, had a baby boy, Junah Anthony Dial, on January 12. All three are doing well in Windsor, Connecticut, and are excited for Junah to explore campus for the first time, they hope this spring.

In August 2022 Matthew Cohn married Nicolle Allen ’16 in a small, long-overdue ceremony at Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills, New York. There was a sizable Dartmouth presence: Christopher Smith, Olivia Gilliatt, Lily (King) Bodley ’07, Robin (McKechnie) Brown and Will Brown ’07, Megan Cogguillo ’16 (the maid of honor), Robert Leverett ’16, Noah Cramer ’16, Clara Aranovich ’07, and professors Peter Hackett ’75, Carol Dunne, and Laura Edmondson. Matthew’s uncle, Paul Chrzanowski ’66, attended via Zoom. It was a blast, and everyone was extremely well-dressed.

Tim Chingos and Jillian (Hamma) Chingos ’09 moved to London, United Kingdom, in August 2022. They’re loving it!

In January Nick Ortizattended the Jacksonville Jaguars playoff game against the Los Angeles Chargers, in which the Jaguars overcame a 27-point deficit to win the game in the third-largest comeback in NFL playoff history. Nick is confident that Emi Ito Ortiz, while not physically present at the game, was there with him in spirit.

Jonathan Scherr and his wife, Kat Stillman ’10, are still in San Francisco with their baby, Nora, who was born in August. They’d love to see folks if they make it to the Bay Area!

—Nicholas Desai, 9 Malvern Ave., Apt. 6, Richmond, VA 23221; nicholasdesai@gmail.com

Thanks to all who answered the call for updates. Ring ring, you’re the best. Here’s what your classmates are up to!

Tim Chingos is getting a music project started as an electronic dance music producer. His artist name is Coppermines, inspired by the amazing swimming spot/former Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in Vermont. Give him some love on Instagram: @copperminesmusic.

Rachel Strohm has had an eventful pandemic, involving a move to Uganda, a move to the United Kingdom, and another move to Kenya in November, which she hopes will be the last one for a long time. Let her know if you’re ever passing through Nairobi!

Kiersten (Hallquist) Tavares and her husband, Mike, finally were able to celebrate their wedding with friends and family on October 2, 2021. “Yay, science!” she says. Among the fully vaccinated folks in attendance were ’08s Ashley (Mas) Hearn, Kannon Lee, and Zach and Lindsay Deane-Meyer. Kiersten and Mike took over a summer camp on Lake Champlain, Vermont, danced to an incredible band, and stuffed their faces with lovely local food and booze. “I may have had three servings of poutine…and stashed some in my dress for later,” she confides.

Jeff Fielding got married in September to Anushree Dasgupta, a graduate of Santa Clara University and Columbia. They met at an Ivy-plus event in Seattle.

Phil Bracikowski and Laura Young are happy to announce they (finally) married each other on the steps of their new home in Spokane, Washington, and they send special thanks to Mike Maccini for getting ordained online and officiating their intimate ceremony!

Veronia de Zayas and her husband, Andrew, had a baby on July 1, 2021, named Charlotte Anne Ingalls-Zayas.

Sandy and Steve Hunt now have three kids, ranging in age from 18 months to 6 years old. Sandy started her own practice performing all nonsurgical techniques as well as addressing women’s health postpartum and through menopause. And Steve graduated from the Northeastern M.B.A. program with honors and a focus on entrepreneurship.

Riley End recently moved to Cos Cob, Connecticut, with his wife, Courtney, son Holden (2), and daughter Scout (2 months). Riley is currently the chief operating officer of Spring Health, a precision mental healthcare company providing mental health services as a benefit through employers.

Here’s a cool one: Caroline Lee set the New York state record in powerlifting for her age and weight class with the 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation in bench press, deadlift, strict curl, and full power. And to top it off, she and Tiger (Yi Huang) are expecting.

Amelia (Potvin) Donahey moved back to the Upper Valley last summer after 12 years in Colorado and Washington, with her partner, James, forester and home-solar-installer extraordinaire. While she’s missing the mountains, she’s happy to be closer to her dear friend Katrina Roi and is excited to get to work alongside Erika (Sogge) Schneider in the public schools. Amelia is also looking for running, skiing, hiking, or general outdoor adventure partners, if you’re in the area!

Jon Hopper was trying to grow a tomato plant and failing horribly, which makes sense because he sent that update in late October.

Finally, Chris Barth (hey, that’s me!) and Ashley Thorfinnson ’07 welcomed baby No. 2, Oliver Lee Barth, in late September. After three years running an urban farm in Minneapolis, we’re heading west of the Twin Cities (at least for next summer) to explore a collaborative farming model with some farmer friends. In the parlance of these updates: If you find yourself passing through Litchfield, hit us up! We’ll be right by the country’s largest ball of twine assembled by a single person.

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Let’s take a tour around America, clockwise from Hanover!

Matt Mackwood is still at Geisel Medical School, increasingly doing research around telehealth, given the “opportunities” presented by the pandemic. He writes in from a beach in Saco, Maine, watching his kids occupy themselves with sand and surf. “Bliss,” he says.

In April Sandy Hunt opened a medical aesthetics practice, the French NP, in Hingham and Brockton, Massachusetts. She specializes in nonsurgical procedures, with a focus on aging gracefully.

Ben Jastrzembski lives in Boston and got a golden retriever puppy named Pumpkin!

Sophie Pauze had a baby boy, Lucas Peper, in October 2020. “Despite being born during a pandemic, he is a healthy 9-month-old who loves to eat, play outside, and scoot around the house,” says Sophie. When you’re reading this, he’s even older!

Meeka Charles and her husband, Brandon ’05, are moving back east to New York City. “Who still lives there and wants to hang out?” asks Meeka.

Meli Garber-Browne is excited to celebrate Jon Hopper’s wedding with fellow ’08s in September! That’s in the past!

Yasmin Kothari and husband Aamir had a daughter, Sabina Kothari, on June 11. They live in Jersey City, New Jersey, and would love to hang out with any alums in the neighborhood.

Let’s head south! After a year stuck in their Manhattan apartment with a baby, Alix Toothman and her husband decided to take advantage of the new hybrid working arrangements and buy a house in Philadelphia! “If anyone else is based in Philly, hit me up,” says Alix. “We need friends.”

Down in the mid-Atlantic Betsy Bryant Struse shares that Dr. Sarah Isbey passed her boards and is now an emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital. Betsy witnessed Sarah’s expertise firsthand when Dr. Isbey stitched up her toddler son’s face in the ER after a gardening accident. Betsy also notes that Andrea Palmer Kleinbard moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, and welcomed her second child, Eloise Gray Kleinbard, in April.

After years splitting time between work as an autopsy technician and graduate studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Kinsey Stewart is kicking off the last leg of her Ph.D. in anthropology with a cross-country sampling of medical examiner and coroner offices.

On the left coast Tim K. Shen finished his pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in June. “This year has forever changed my outlook,” says Tim. “I’ve gained a lot of faith in and respect for some, lost a lot of the same for others, and bonded heavily with those who slogged through the hospital trenches. It’s a bit cliche but true: It’s hard to really explain to those who weren’t there.” He and Aimy Tran are moving out to the eastern end of the San Gabriel Valley, California, where Tim will be working as a physician and Aimy will be working as a general dentist.

Kate and Taylor Kauer welcomed baby boy James Joseph Kauer into the world on March 5. “We are still in awe and James is taking it easy on us, sleeping a lot and growing too fast!” says Kate. They are living on Mount Tam in Mill Valley, California, and are always up for a hike with any visitors.

Outside the United States, Pat Delgado popped the big question to fiancée Kelsey on a trip to Iceland! Pat proposed while they hiked up the (very!) active Fagradalsfjall volcano. “Yes, the photos were as bonkers as you’d imagine,” Pat says. He notes that the happy couple is looking forward to a loving marriage and a festive Phi Delt wedding!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

We’ll kick it off with the babies. Two of our classmates write in to say that they have welcomed their third child, which is, honestly, astonishing. Neil Willis and his wife, Lilly, had their third kiddo in December, Ryder Jett Willis. “Brother Asher (5) and sister Ava (3) are already corrupting him,” says Neil. Meanwhile, Emi Ito Ortiz had another baby! Zoe Hana Ortiz was born on November 10, 2020, and is a little sister to twins Lucas and Arielle (2 years old). “Three under 2 is as crazy as it sounds!” says Emi. I can’t even imagine.

We have a few first children to announce as well. Gregg Rubin and his wife, Roxanne, welcomed their first child, Layla Marin, in November. “She can’t wait to visit Hanover!” he says. Congrats, Gregg!

Elise Braunschweig Kaufman and Zak Kaufman share the news of the birth of their first child, Claire Skye Kaufman, on August 28, 2020. She was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where they’ve lived for the last (almost) seven years. “We’re all doing well, getting the hang of parenting, and looking forward to the days when she sees more faces than just ours! We have a small chalet in the French Alps and would love to host visitors if anyone fancies a ski trip or great hiking when we’re all traveling again,” says Elise. Sounds lovely.

Kate Eklin is finishing up her tour in Japan this summer as a foreign service officer and will be headed to Santiago, Chile, in the fall as the next assignment. Kate and her husband, Kevin, also welcomed their first child, Owen, born in Tokyo in June. Kate, Kevin, and Owen will be back in D.C. in July and August and hope conditions will allow for some meetups. Don’t we all! Congrats!

And Liz Spence and her husband, Pete, welcomed their first child, Otto, on a cold, pre-Covid February day in 2020. They live in Minneapolis and really enjoy seeing your class secretary, Chris Barth, his lovely wife, Ashley Thorfinnson, and their jolly baby, Rhys, at outdoor hangs at Chris and Ashley’s urban farm or their backyard fire pit. Can confirm these things are true and these people are lovely, even if they sometimes miss deadlines to send in updates for the Class Notes column.

Tami Martin was promoted to legislative director at Equality California—the largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization in the country—after having served as legislative manager since January 2019. She lives in Sacramento, California, and is proud to be a voice for the LGBTQ community in her home state. Keep up the great work, Tami!

And Matt Mackwood is enjoying a mixture of work-life balance, where his two little ones (Langston, 3.5, Willow, 1.5) dominate his home life and his work is a never-ending mix of interesting problems to solve. He’s been enjoying academia far more than he expected, doing half-time clinical work in primary care and the rest a mixture of teaching and research at the Geisel Schoolof Medicine at Dartmouth. “Dartmouth Medical School is so 20th century, and Dr Seuss School of Medicine, I guess, didn’t pass muster with the board,” he observes. Matt’s really thinking hard lately about a stronger pivot into research focused on telemedicine and says the pandemic has made for some really nice opportunities there. Always good to have a silver lining.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in! And thanks to everyone else, just for being you. You don’t need to write in an update for me to appreciate you, although it certainly can’t hurt.

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Dearest classmates, I hope this column finds you well.

Per my earlier email, please see some updates from our fellow ’08s below.

The year 2020 was a big one for Elizabeth Sherman and Josh Wexler (for more than the obvious reasons). They welcomed their son, Remy, in February and, together with big sis Izzy, the whole family moved from Brooklyn to Kansas City, Missouri, in June. They’re working virtually in the same jobs for now while renovating an old home and exploring what’s next in this new chapter.

In the home renovation realm, Zach and Lindsay Deane-Mayer are wrapping up construction on their new home in Cohasset, Massachusetts. They’re looking forward to moving in and hosting Dartmouth friends for visits when it’s safe to do so!

Khadijah Enoh has started medical school in the midst of a global pandemic. She writes in to say: “Pray for me.” Yes, indeed.

Jason Blydell moved back to San Diego to kick off 2020 and recently welcomed twin girls, Hazel and Meadow, into his family, joining their almost 2-year-old big brother, Camden. Jason joined the San Diego-based defense tech startup Shield AI in November.

Krystal Elkins got married on July 25 in Asheville, North Carolina! Her Dartmouth roommate Amy (Cobb) Laurita was able to attend. Congrats, Krystal!

Watson Sallay is still living and working in south Seattle, albeit now from home. He writes in to say that his 3-year-old son, Edison, is wonderful and now has learned to say goodbye whenever Watson goes into the basement (even for just a minute), because it’s functionally the same as walking out the door to go to work. Watson has been riding bikes a lot and is off social media (permanently) and the news (temporarily).

“I’ve also managed to get through seasons one and two of the board game Pandemic Legacy entirely through Zooming with friends, which I think is enough to qualify me as an expert in dealing with Covid-19,” he says. “Seriously, guys, build more research stations so you can move around the world easier. How hard is this to figure out?!”

Someone get that man on the phone stat.

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

It has been quite a year so far, to say the least. But our classmates continue to find bright spots.

Zachary Dorner published his first book in June, a history of early modern medicine and empire from the University of Chicago Press. Congrats, Zack! Buy it and support a struggling academic!

Glavy Cruz continues working at Lynn (Massachusetts) Community Health Center, where she is part of the care team for patients diagnosed with Covid-19. She engages patients in psychotherapy in both Spanish and English and has led a couple of forums for youth in Lynn and nearby Lawrence, providing safe spaces to share perspectives about racial tension and discuss steps toward racial equity.

After spending the last 22 months staying home with her daughter, Van, Rachel Hochman started work as an aerospace engineer at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. In June she and her husband took their daughter backpacking for the first time—hoping she will be a future member of the Dartmouth Outing Club!

Kids are keeping plenty of ’08s occupied. Benjamin David Brown was born on May 18 to parents Robin (McKechnie) Brown and Will Brown ’07 and big sister Abby. Neil Willis and his wife, Lilly, are expecting a baby boy in December. And Angela Libby and her husband, Anwar, welcomed their first child, Calista Libby Ragep, in October. Angela was also promoted to partner in the restructuring department at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP last July.

Tim Chingos and his wife, Jillian (Hamma) Chingos ’09, are being kept busy with their 21-month-old daughter, Emma. Emma’s favorite words are “move” and “owl” and she gets very upset when things don’t go her way.

Katherine Michelis and her husband, Chad, welcomed son Milo Theodore Priest on April 20. “He’s been the best distraction,” she says. Katherine finished her eighth and final year of post-medical school training at the end of June and will join the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center as an advanced heart failure attending this fall.

Before the pandemic began Emily Chen traveled to Australia for a meditation retreat and stopped over in Sydney to catch up with Jeanie Lau for a fancy dinner overlooking Sydney Harbour.

Jeffrey Coleman got promoted to associate professor with tenure at Marquette University, his first book (The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage) came out with Northwestern University Press in May, and he launched a podcast called Tinterías (the first Spanish-language podcast about fountain pens and stationery).

Ian Tapu graduated from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law this past May. He is proposing to his partner, Alika Masei, in July on the beach, so expect an Hawaiian sunset wedding in a year or two.

Elliott Dial is currently in Windsor, Connecticut, and was just married to Molly Giorgio. They weren’t able to have anyone in attendance, but the party part of the ceremony is expected next year in Vermont. Elliott will be the junior dean at Loomis Chaffee next year and is looking for educators who might want a change of scenery.

Kiersten Hallquist and her partner, Mike, are getting married in October. As things started to take off in March, they promised to marry each other—whether it was the 175-person wedding they’d been planning for two-plus years or just them and an officiant. They landed with something very close to the latter for safety and invite you to raise a glass with them at 3 p.m. October 3. “We could end up celebrating with so many more than we had planned!” says Kiersten. “Together, apart.”

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Another two months gone, another slate of impressive updates from the ’08s around the world. Thanks to everyone for writing in! We’ll kick it off with the doctor contingent: Liz Embick writes in to share that she, Sophie Spencer ’07, and Josh Ring got grown-up doctor jobs at Alaska Native Medical in Anchorage and started working in September. Dartmouth is taking over! DaeWoong “Dillon” Lee is moving to Rochester, Minnesota, for a pain medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. 

And Glavielinys Cruz has a doctorate in clinical psychology and works as a behavioral health clinician at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC) in Lynn, Massachusetts. She’s the lead clinician and site manager for one of their school-based health center sites as well as seeing patients for individual psychotherapy in the outpatient setting at LCHC. Additionally, she’s part of the board of directors for a nonprofit organization called the Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits in Lawrence, Massachusetts, alongside Dr. Scott Early, who received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School.

Mike Holmes is still in Seattle but, in his words, is “finally done with indentured servitude (that residency and fellowship business).” He’s working as a cardiac anesthesiologist/intensivist at Swedish Medical Center, the big community hospital in town. He has plenty of space if anyone happens to be passing through!

Elsewhere, Krystal Elkins was promoted to regional sales manager this year. And she’s engaged! Owen Parsons scored another point for Casual Thursday alums by winning a second Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. And Rebecca Sacks sold her first novel to HarperCollins. It will be published in Spring 2021.

In the last year and a half or so, Lucas Shultz and Ellen McDevitt ‘11 decided to be real grownups so they got a dog, finally got married, welcomed their son Eben, and bought a house.

Conor Frantzen got married to Erin McGonagle in late August outside Vail, Colorado. There were many Dartmouth alums in attendance. 

Khiet Chhu’s 3-year-old, Ty, got to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” to start off Landmark school’s homecoming 5k. He killed it and got a shaved ice afterward while cheering on his mama and baby sister.

As for me, my wife, Ashley Thorfinnson ’07, and I finished our first season running an urban farm in Northeast Minneapolis and selling veggies at the local farmers market. And on the auspicious date of 9/19/19, we welcomed our son, Rhys Matthias Barth, to the party. A good year of growing! Although, as Adam Platz made sure to write in and share, “Chris Barth is still trailing Adam Platz 45-37 in Words with Friends.” Thanks, Adam.

Until next time!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

We’re back! As always, ’08s around the world are moving around and doing things and making kids and generally being very accomplished. A big gold star to all, but here are some self-selected highlights.

After nine years in New York, where she taught at the Dalton School and served as the assistant head of upper school and dean of students at Friends Seminary, Erica Jones is moving to London to be the middle school vice principal at the American School. She had an epic birthday-going-away party with lots of N.Y.C. ’08s in attendance. Lucy Hoffman flew in from South Africa, Anne Stava-Murray flew in from Chicago, and Jane Choi came in from L.A. (and also DJ’d the party!). Erica’s excited to be joining one of her best friends, Anna Bofa ’09, in London, and would love to connect with anyone living there or just passing through!

Lyndsey Girod Ramsey was promoted to director of strategic engagement in the governmental affairs division of Illinois Farm Bureau. If you work in food, sustainability, or agriculture, she’d love to talk shop! Sandy Barbut Hunt became an adult-geriatric critical care nurse practitioner this year. She’s looking to start her doctorate next year. Cyrus Attia finished his M.D. in New York City and moved to Boston for work in July.

Erika Schneider is moving back to the Upper Valley this fall. She’ll be teaching in Hartford, Vermont, and would love to see folks who are in the area. 

Matt Mackwood is back in the Upper Valley too. He and his wife, Cristina, returned last fall after four years in Seattle, where he did a family medicine residency, worked with Kaiser Permanente (where he trained), and did his best to father their new kid. Now he’s back working in primary care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Heater Road clinic in Lebanon, New Hampshire, caring for locals, teaching med students, and working with the larger Dartmouth-Hitchcock system on incorporating innovative uses of telehealth technology to expand the ability to provide excellent, timely care in the region. Matt and Cristina are loving their home in Canaan, New Hampshire, where they are getting a burgeoning farmstead up and running with 19 chickens who free-range 3.5 acres. By the time you read this, they’ll be managing two youngsters as well!

Meeka Charles says not much has changed: She’s still with Brandon Charles ’05 (married since 2012), still lives on the West (best) Coast (Seattle since 2014), and is still working in finance. Despite the lack of change, she sent in an update after going to the ’05 reunion and feeling all the Dartmouth love. Hot tip: “Jewel of India’s Sunday brunch is still delicious.”

Jon Hopper shares that Charlie Stoebe married Michaela St. Onge (together the “St. Oebes”) on June 15 in New London, New Hampshire, just 30 minutes from Dartmouth. In attendance were Ashley Mas, Bryan Siegel, Dana (Cushing) Olverson, David Lamb, Erika (Graham) Sharp, Jamal Brown, Jon Hopper, and Steve and Sandy (Barbut) Hunt.

Jon also graduated at the top of his Columbia Business School class, where he was elected class speaker. True to form, Jon channeled his inner Elle Woods and quoted Legally Blonde throughout his speech: “What, like it’s hard?”

In August Rebekah Sagredo celebrated 10 years of living in Italy. In May she got a new job as a residence director for a local study abroad program and in June she participated in a kettlebell competition at her gym and won first place!

Robin Brown says, “Hi, Chris Barth!” which seems weirdly personal to include in this column, but hey, I have the word count to play with.

Thanks for all your updates!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone who sent in a note! No thanks to Sean Walsh, who noted the lack of notes last issue while simultaneously declining to send in a note of his own. Your lack of support has been, ahem, noted.

Some professional updates from our classmates around the world. Amelia Alvarez is a practicing civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. Liz Embick finally finished her residency and “got a big-girl job” as a general surgeon in Anchorage, Alaska, starting this fall. And Erika Schneider shares that Emmy Frank is both teaching and doctoring in Oakland, California, and published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about it. It’s great and you should read it—way to go, Emmy!

Yasmin Kothari (née Mandviwala) and her husband, Aamir, have moved from San Francisco to New York. She took a new job as VP of product at Domio, a hospitality startup. They’d love to hang out with any Dartmouth folks in the area! Daria Red Earth moved to southern California and is working on her Ph.D. in neuroeconomics at Claremont Graduate University. She also wouldn’t mind getting together with some fellow alums!

Brooks Smith and his wife are well-settled in their new home in Melbourne, Australia. They even adopted a rescue greyhound, named Stella, who is absolutely loving the idea of lying on couches rather than running on tracks. Brooks started a new job, which he really likes, as engineering development lead for a startup called ClearCalcs, which develops cloud-based structural engineering design calculators for Australian and U.S. markets. Lately, he’s also been spending some time introducing Vinny Ng ’03 to Melbourne after he made the move from Hong Kong.

Margaret Jacobs is one of the First Peoples Fund 2019 Artist in Business Fellows. She’ll be using her fellowship funds to custom build a powder-coating oven and spray booth that she started on in March when she returned from the Heard Indian Market and Fair in Phoenix, Arizona.

Josh Feder recently got engaged to Philip Montana, DMS’18, and is finishing the second year of his three-year M.F.A. in directing at University of California, Irvine. Congratulations, Josh!

Last December Khiet Chhu stopped in D.C. with his wife, Katie, son Ty (3), and daughter Cora (9 months) on their way to visit family in North Carolina. They stayed with Dan Belkin and his family. Khiet was embarrassed because his kids’ sleep schedule was all thrown off and they must’ve kept the Belkins up all night. Nevertheless, Dan still made breakfast in the morning and, perhaps as punishment, introduced Ty to “Baby Shark,” which Khiet now hears in his sleep. They also got some museum time in with Klarisaa Ruiz, Kelly Cockerill, and Sarah Stern. There was a lunch-time tantrum over French fries (Ty, not Stern). For New Year’s, the Chhu crew saw Dave Lamb’s family and Devin Fallon’s bunch. Devin’s daughter taught Ty to sing “Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light.” It changed his life. Khiet sums it up: “I’m just trying to survive two kids, but life has been great.”

Kevin Tang found a single wilted Cheeto at the bottom of a Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pit and ate it with extreme gusto.

Enjoy your summer!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

I have some fascinating updates to share from the class of 2008 around the girdled earth.

Matthew Siegfried is leaving Stanford and starting as an assistant professor at Colorado School of Mines in January. Somewhat inconveniently, he’ll be in the middle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on his first day of work. He headed off to start his eighth field season in October. You can see what he’s been up to on Twitter at @MinesGlaciology, where he posts updates via satellite phone.

Some more updates on the job front. Sidd Singhal writes in to share that his current job is to manage Totino’s Pizza Rolls. If anyone is having a Dartmouth reunion (big or small) and wants to celebrate with pizza rolls, he’s happy to help hook them up! RuDee Sade Lipscomb is working with an indigenous rights and community advocacy nonprofit in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. And Emily Frank remains in the Bay Area teaching public school in Oakland, California, and practicing medicine as a pediatrician. If you’re in the area, get in touch and you can arrange to visit her class sometime; they would love to have you!

Approaching two years sober, Joshua Turnbull is engrossed and enjoying his first year at Pitt Law. He writes, “It’s not been an easy path but as our graduation theme told us: ‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’ There can be no doubt I’ve paid my dues. It’s great to finally share some good news.” He keeps the rhyming up to solicit visitors to his neck of the woods: “Need some Dartmouth visitors in Pittsburgh, singly or in twos (Hi, Mitch/Stiffy), it’s up to yous.”

On the wedding front, Adria Buchanan wed Aleksey Karulin in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on March 27, 2018. They were joined by family and friends, including fellow Casque & Gauntlets Abe Holland, Ian Tapu, Lena Martinez-Wolfinger, Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, and Uma Shankoor. Adria and Aleksey just returned from their honeymoon in Vietnam and recommend it to anyone!

And Evon Noyes shares the amazing story of what he’s been up to for the past half-decade or so. He and four friends were tired of waking up a 7 a.m. to watch the English Premier League, so they started what they hoped would become a professional soccer team in his adopted hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. They put together exhibition matches in 2013 to raise money and awareness, and then recruited a coach and college players to play a full exhibition season in 2014 in front of crowds of 400 to 500 people. Leveraging that success, they earned an expansion charter in the National Premier Soccer League in 2015, and for the next three years Evon was a forensic accountant by day and part-time minor league soccer team owner by night.

Without employees, the founder group ran everything from merchandise sales to security, drawing more than a thousand people to some games and beating Nashville in the Vanderbilt Stadium to win the I-65 Cup. In 2017 they sold the team to investors with a United Soccer League franchise, and in 2019 the dream of a truly professional team in Birmingham will be a reality with Birmingham Legion FC. A truly wild success story. Congrats to Evon, who has now moved to California.

I didn’t start a soccer team, but I did coauthor a book, The Contagious Commandments: Ten Steps to Brand Bravery, out now from Penguin Business UK. It feels weird to write about it, but it’s my duty as class secretary to share. So there it is.

Until next time!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Hello, ’08s! Thanks to everyone who sent in updates. As promised, here they are, free of charge.

In June Ashley Mas married Mike Hearn in Grafton, Vermont. Guests included Charlie Stoebe, Dave Lamb, Jess (Ogden) Lamb, Dana (Cushing) Olverson, Devin Fallon, Jon Hopper, Zach Deane-Mayer, Lindsay Deane-Mayer, and many more. Congrats to team Full Service Gas!

Also in June Mita Sharma married Manish Dave in Princeton, New Jersey. Lots of Dartmouth alumni were in attendance, including Sravya Venguswamy, Ashia (Sheikh) Dearwester, JeanCarlos Bonilla, Mitalee (Patil) Christman, Nora (Ward) Graham, Stephanie St. Louis, Mike Dearwester ’10, Nick Christman, Marie-Louise Meng ’06, and Irene Shyu. Mita and Manish moved to Westchester county in New York, so let them know if you’re in the area. 

Tim Shen and Aimy Tran got engaged. He also started his fellowship in pulmonology and critical care medicine at Cedars-Sinai in July. Congrats to both!

Ani Liu started a job as a design director in WeWork’s new concepts studio and would love to connect with any other alums in the WeWork family. As you’ve likely read in this very magazine, Ani’s own art practice is also flourishing. She recently won the Biological Art & Design Award and is exhibiting in four different countries and a the Queens Biennial this year. Ani has also moved back home to N.Y.C. and would love to see any ’08 faces.

Portia Lombardo has been busy! Within the past year she received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Salk Institute-UC San Diego, had beautiful baby daughter Imogen, moved across the country to Boston with the baby, her husband, and their two dogs, and started work at a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Katherine Scovner finished up an internal medicine residency at Brown last July and is a year into her subspecialty training in nephrology (that’s kidneys) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Massachusetts General Hospital. She’d be pumped to find more alums in Boston.

Elliot Dial is currently working at Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut, entering his eighth year at the school (and second as the head football coach). His girlfriend of two years is moving in this fall, and they are on the hunt for a puppy to add to the house. He recently saw “the infamous” Erica Jones in Hartford, Connecticut. If you’re around the Hartford area yourself, or making your way up I-91, let him know!

Chris Smith is making moves. In August he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film and TV industry. He’d love to meet up with anyone in the city who wants to catch up or give him a job.

Joe Malchow has launched Hanover Partners, a new technology investment fund located in Menlo Park, California. Elise Krieger writes in with some updates from the past few years. In 2016 she graduated from Kellogg School of Management. In the summer of 2017 she married Brent Bowen, with Dartmouth friends in tow: Frances (Samolowicz) Lazarow, Jonathan Lazarow ’05, Hayley Steplyk, Katie Frett ’05, and Akay Tuncak ’06. These days Elise and Brent are settled in Columbus, Ohio. She says they may not get enough sleep but are entirely in love with their newborn son, Otto Krieger Bowen.

Fernando Orta and Maura Pennington had their third annual get-together in Mexico City in March. Maura graduated from UCLA School of Law in May and is moving to work in Orange County for Jones Day. She plans to take one surf lesson and see how it goes. Craig Breslawski visited Kevin Pfieffer ’09 in London and missed his flight back in the morning. Whoops!

Until next time.

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Much like that old Nutri-Grain commercial, there are babies everywhere. Elizabeth Sherman and Josh Wexler welcomed their first child, daughter Isadora, on September 27. They were excited to see Trish (Kelly) Dunne and her husband, Michael, in a birthing class in August and send best wishes to the Dunnes and their new son, Ian. Tom and Liz (Silvey) Healy had their first child, Grace, in December. They’re hoping she’ll be a Dartmouth ’40. Meli Garber-Browne had her baby, Micaela Garber-Browne, on December 23, 2017. And Jon Hopper shares that Dana Cushing Olverson and her husband, Dave, are expecting an “Olverdaughter” in May. Congratulations to all!

Sandy Barbut Hunt is working as an emergency room trauma nurse at Boston Medical Center and almost finished getting her doctorate as an acute care nurse practitioner. She’s hoping to get into the dermatology and plastic surgery specialty. Sandy and her husband, Steve Hunt, have two kids and bought their first home in the South Shore of Boston last May. Steve is working in the field of medical device sales for capital equipment, serving all the major hospitals in Boston.

Emily Chen was just named CEO of her company, MediQuire, a healthcare data analytics company based out of N.Y.C. that is changing how payers and providers work together. She’s looking for great hires for her team, so get in touch.

Laura Little is running the Paris Marathon in April, after which she plans to eat all the macarons. She’s looking for other ’08s who are crazy enough to do marathons to run with!

On the nuptials front, Yasmin Mandviwala got married in October, with many ’08s in attendance. In February Evan Meyerson married Katie Davis (Brown ’09) in N.Y.C. There was a solid Dartmouth showing at that wedding as well, including 19 ’08s! Adria Buchanan married Aleksey Karulin on March 27 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Adria and Aleksey offer a huge thank you to everyone who came from far and wide to celebrate the occasion!

On July 8, 2017, Brooks H. Smith got married to Jean Van Bourgondien in Goshen, Vermont, in front of a crowd that included Dartmouth alums ranging from class of 1956 to 2013. Brooks is now heavily involved in helping launch Engineers Without Borders-Hong Kong, particularly its overseas projects team, focusing on providing technical assistance to designers of water, sanitation and hygiene systems in Cambodia and Myanmar. In June Jean and Brooks will be moving to Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Larson married Junko Takagi last year. They live in Tokyo, where she works in English-language education and he is writing his dissertation and teaching part-time at Waseda University. They have a guest room that is open to any ’08s passing through Asia, unless your name is Joseph Hanley, because no one in their 30s needs to hear another Bon Jovi song ever again.

Devin Fallon informs me that he recently visited our nation’s capital, where he met up with Klarissa Ruiz and Daniel Belkin for two-for-$10 margaritas at Santa Rosa Taqueria. He also says Dave Lamb recently bought an Oculus Rift (virtual reality headset) and rumor has it he’s working on a Model UN simulator so he can relive his glory days of crushing high school debate teamers under his rhetorical heel.

And Adam Platz writes in to brag that, after months of hard work, he has finally overtaken Chris Barth in Words with Friends with an overall record of 26-24. But Adam is a big nerd and uses obscure words, so it’s not that impressive.

Until next time!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Thanks to those of you who sent in updates for this, my inaugural Class Notes. It was great to hear from all of you, and I hope to be an acceptable heir to the Jon Hopper throne.

First up, a few new additions to the families of the class of 2008. On August 8 Neil Willis and his wife, Lilly, welcomed their second child, Ava Grace Willis.

Three days later Megan (Strout) Maher and her husband, Ryan, welcomed their first child, Beverly “Bizzy” Anne Maher. Bizzy clocked in at an ounce under eight pounds, and Megan is already penciling her in for the class of 2039.

Jon Simpson and his wife Abby welcomed their first child Melody Rebel Emerson-Simpson on July 19th. Everyone is doing great, and Melody is reportedly snoozin’ only at the most inopportune of times.

Congratulations are also in order for Meredith (Druss) Lesser, who married Jon Lesser in May. The long list of Dartmouth attendees included Kelsey Blodget, Victoria Fener, Julia Schwartz, Leslie Shribman, Elise Waxenberg, Ling Guo, Tess Hales, Elizabeth Healy, Tom Healy, Steve Lonegan, Jess Kahn Marks, Rebekah Rombom and Dana Silberstein, among others. They dusted off “Blame it on the Boogie” and still remembered the moves 13 years after first learning them on trips. Good times!

If you’re roaming around the girdled earth, odds are you’ll bump into a classmate. In northern California you may run across Simon Trabelsi, hanging out at his brother and sister’s vegan butcher shop in Berkeley or in any random recording studio in Oakland. If he’s not in California, he’s probably in Sweden spending time with family and working on music.

And if your roamings take you east, Kiersten Hallquist and her husband recently closed on their first house in the New North End of Burlington, Vermont. The house comes complete with a guest room, so look them up if you’re ever in town!

Academically and beyond, ’08s continue to excel. Daewoong “Dillon” Lee is in Boston, enjoying an anesthesia residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. And Ani Liu graduated from MIT Media Lab with a master’s in science earlier this year. In her thesis, she developed an interface by which women can control the movement of sperm with their mind as an act of feminist protest. Since then, she’s been busy, moving back to New York to pursue a career as an artist, working on a project about labor, mechanical production and the psyche in China on a hacking manufacturing grant and opening a solo art show at the Boston Center for the Arts in October. (Read more about her on page 63.)

Matthew Siegfried is doing well and keeping details close to the chest.

That’s it for this round, friends. Stay in touch and keep doing interesting things!

—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

Hey, ’08s. In this special pre-reunion Class Notes, we’re playing a little game I like to call “One Truth and a Lie.” For some of the below updates, I’ll be giving two possible stories, but only one is correct. Want to find out the real answer? Be sure to reach out to the classmate and find out!

Zane Thayer and Sarah Stern recreated their foreign study program and had a mini 10-year reunion in New Zealand, or Zane and Sarah completed their tour of all 60 U.S. National Parks.

Bonnie Hennessee’s boyfriend asked her to marry him and she said yes, or Bonnie got to attend the Academy Awards and sat next to Hugh Jackman.

Neil Willis had a “life-changing” encounter with “The Rock” or he and his wife, Lilly, are expecting a daughter in August.

While visiting her family during the holidays Adria Buchanan and Aleksey Karulin became engaged or they got engaged on vacation in Cancun.

Mike Milne got married on January 28 to Madeline Hall. Mike is spending the rest of 2017 in Washington, D.C., for work or Mike is spending the rest of 2017 in Denver.

Andrew Geffken started his own mead company, Charm City Meadworks, which was recently picked up by a distributer. From Betsy Struse, “Dare I say his mead is certainly better than Keystone Light.” High claims, Betsy. But we’ll give it to you. Or Andrew has started an REO Speedwagon tribute band in Maryland. Betsy claims, “Their cover of ‘Take It on the Run’ puts Neal Doughty to shame.”

Matt Mackey is graduating in June and spending next year working in Seattle with Group Health as a family doctor or Matt is channeling Beyonce and is expecting twins this August.

Mind boggling, isn’t it?

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

Howdy, fellow ’08s!

I write this from a couch in New Orleans, surrounded by classmates Frank Glaser, Chris Knape and Will DeKrey. We like it so much we’re starting a grassroots campaign to move 10-year reunion to the Tulane campus, just to mix things up.

Cyrus Attia and Sean (Vivek) Gupta ’15 are now best friends. They recently hung out with Delia O’Shea ’15 and Victoria Yu ’12 for eight straight weeks starting in late August.

David Lamb and Devin Fallon subjected themselves to ID4:2 (a.k.a. Independence Day: Resurgence). Even Four Loko couldn’t save it.

Kyle Engelman tied the knot with Brian Westrick in October and hired the fabulous Liz Vaughn for the wedding band. Will McMahan, Tyler Frisbee and Travis Green report that it was a nonstop dance party.

By the time this comes out Matt Mackey will be married to Cristina Stanwood.

Laura Crowe, Lindsay Deane-Mayer and Zach Deane-Mayer had overlapping visits to N.Y.C. and met up with Rebekah Rombom, Jenny Fisher and Jennifer Garfinkel. Laura then bumped into Alan Han, Tom Sheridan and Zack Styskal at a block party in the West Village.

Charlie Stoebe should really consider a career as a game show host.

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

It’s time for another edition of “Jon Stalks You On Facebook.”

Josh Green took in some “epic dinner views” with his wife, Dani, in Big Sur, California.

Liz Sherman was tagged in a post that reminds us that, “There are big ships and there are small ships, but the best ships of all are friendships.”

Kate Breeding was crowdsourcing ideas for her honeymoon. If anyone has advice on where to go in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, let her know!

Amelia Potvin reached the summit of Mount Jarvis in Alaska—a whopping 13,421 feet.

Ethan Handel and his wife, Morgan, have been hosting game nights with my sister in Austin, Texas. I’m not jealous at all.

Whitney Norton moved to Los Angeles.

Jennie Post’s belief in miracles paid off when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals.

Meghan Wendland received her M.P.H. at Dartmouth, focusing on bridging dental care and public health to improve the oral health status in underserved communities.

Kevin Decker hosted Cyrus Attia in Portland, Maine, where they went to a brewing company.

Eddie Kalletta went to a wedding in Chicago and took full advantage of the photo booth.

Brian Wang’s friends love posting about corgis on his wall.

Bryan Siegel is still using the same profile picture I took of him in 2006. And if Josh Ring’s profile picture is to be believed, he turned into a patriotic dolphin around 2013.

If you’d like to be included in these awkward updates, be sure to like “Dartmouth Class of 2008” on Facebook (and friend me, so I can actually see your updates)!

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

Bailey Massey married Dillon Magrann-Wells in Los Angeles in December. Many generations of the Dartmouth Film Society were represented, including Meredith Fraser. There was plenty of dancing, laughing and macaroons! Jenny Fisher continues to fight the good fight against HIV. She hasn’t cured it yet, but will gladly accept the Nobel Peace Prize if it’s thrust upon her. Chris Barth and Ashley Thorfinnson ’07 moved to Minneapolis at the end of last year. Say hi if you find yourself in the Twin Cities! Or even if you don’t!

JeanEllen Cowgill spoke at South by Southwest in a series called “#Movements: When a Hashtag Breaks the News,” about the rise of social media and hashtag activism. Dave Lamb, Jessica Ogden Lamb, Khiet Chhu, Devin Fallon and their spouses discovered the wonders of gas station milkshakes at a Cumberland Farms in Massachusetts. Khiet is also vying to become the undisputed Crokinole Champion of 2016 and we wish him all the best in this endeavor. Whitney Waugh will be moving to N.Y.C. in July for her clinical psychology internship at NYU Bellevue.

Kevin Tang has been happily working as a designer at Twitch.tv in San Francisco. Blunderbuss Magazine, a literary site he helped found with fellow ’08s Travis Mushett, Niral Shah, Hayley Powers Thornton-Kennedy, Meredith Fraser, Lauren Wool and Alex Howe will be celebrating its third anniversary soon—look forward to a fundraising party this spring in New York!

Barton McGuire and Valerie Arvidson apparently loved the Hobbit movies and moved to Wellington, New Zealand, last August to embark on new projects for the next few years. If you are ever down under in kiwi-land, send them a message! Laura Assis (née Rodriguez) and her husband, Wagner Assis, welcomed their son, Charlie, in February.

James Kim’s two recent films, Precursor and After Her, were recently selected by the Clean Shorts Film Festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Milledgeville Film Festival in Georgia, respectively.

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

Hi, ’08s! A lot of first-time contributors this month. Our class is growing bigger than ever, with wedding bells and bouncing baby newborns. Does this mean we’re adults?

Nick Williams visited Dartmouth for the first time since graduation to give the annual linguistics alumni lecture at Homecoming. He and his wife welcomed their first baby this fall! Neil Willis and his wife, Lilly, welcomed Asher Blake Willis into the world this September. He was 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Khadijah Enoh welcomed her third child, James, this August. I hope they’re all friends when they’re at Dartmouth (class of 2036?).

Daisy Freund is working at the ASPCA, and is not responsible for those Sarah McLaughlin commercials. She is responsible for making farm animals’ lives better and getting consumers to buy more humanely raised products.

Nova Robinson moved to Seattle to start a tenure-track assistant professor position in Middle Eastern history at Seattle University. She is joining fellow ’08s in the area, including Will McMahan, Nora Johnson, Andrew Berry and Maryanna Brown.

Maura Pennington moved to Los Angeles and is in her first year at UCLA School of Law, where she has an annual pass to Disneyland. Lydia Islan just started her M.B.A. at Foster School of Business. Anne Liu started at MIT Media Lab. Katharine “Dr. KatieMac” McIntyre successfully defended her dissertation and will be receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in February.

Adria Buchanan graduated in May from the University of Delaware, moved to Pennsylvania and started a stakeholder engagement consultancy firm for entities interested in asset-based community development.

Laura Little graduated from Harvard Business School and does corporate development for a digital health startup called American Well. She ran into Rebecca (Treat) Ward in Oxford, England, where she was working on a documentary, and Sindhura Kodali in Venice. Laura will be running the London Marathon in the spring.

A few ’08s are moving to foreign countries. If you’re in the area, let them know! Katherine Gorman Denby and her husband, Owen, are moving to London for a two- and three-year rotation in their respective firms’ London offices. Essien Ukanna moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to work at the World Health Organization. James Marlow moved back to Beirut, Lebanon.

Lucy Hoffman is learning how to scuba dive.

Bud Simis is working on the video team at BarkBox in New York City, where he sees Hayley Powers Kennedy, who does freelance design for them. If your dog has a funny Instagram, send him the handle!

Lauren Bennett and Meg Strout Maher ran the Marine Corps Marathon in October, with Betsy Bryant Struse and Jean Ellen Cowgill cheering them on.

Zach Nass recently moved from N.Y.C. to L.A., leaving consulting to do international strategy at Riot Games (best known for League of Legends). “Any fellow players should hit me up in game (summoner name: GrimTrigger)!”

Ian Wilson proposed to Meghan Wendland in Hanover during Homecoming Weekend! With the help of some friends, Ian was able to arrange a private tour of Baker Tower during the bonfire and popped the question on the observation deck above the clock. Brian Schwartz and Emma Baumgartner got engaged. Sara del Nido Burdish got married in Boston to Ryan Budish. Lena Martinez-Watt got married in November. Chase Carpenter married Jacqueline Lee in August. Marissa Slany got herself hitched to Witold Wdziekonski. The bride’s Dartmouth side was well represented, not only in ’08s, but also in a rousing rendition of “Blame It on the Boogie.”

Chuck Flynn informs us that Alex Sherman thinks the Knicks are good at basketball.

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

Hi, ’08s! I hope the summer treated you well. Here are some updates from your classmates.

Joe Hanley, Dana Cushing and Ben Davis are each having a wedding on the same day this August. Surprisingly, it’s not August 8 (08/08), which would have been an even better coincidence.

Chelsea Jia moved back home to the USA after five years of living the good expat life. Dan Weisman is opening a menswear retail store in SoHo, New York City. He would love to connect with fellow ’08s who have worked in menswear or retail. Bud Simis is living in N.Y.C., where he is currently writing and videotaping for BarkPost.com. Offices are on Canal Street, so if any alums want to share pro tips over $3 Chinese he knows a few spots!

This summer Kiersten Hallquist is spending some of her precious free time promoting CarShareVT, as a member of a 10-person #LetsShareVT team; plotting fun adventures across the Northeast with her Marshallese dog, Poki! Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! #shamelessplug

Adria Buchanan just graduated from her master’s program in urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware. She is now an independent consultant and has started a company to help governments and other agencies engage stakeholders in community development. She also had a girls weekend in Austin, Texas, with Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, Uma Ramaswamy and Lena Martinez-Watts.

Jenny (Croteau) Deren and her husband, Matt, welcomed a baby boy, Mark, on April 30. She’s home with Mark for the summer and in September she will start a new job as a visiting assistant professor of English at Providence College.

Jessica Long writes in to tell us that Michele Smith-Hattan will be starting school soon in Tennessee, Louisa Thompson Olushoga will start a residency in Chicago and RuDee Lipscomb came to stop and stay “at the house by the side of the road in the City of Sin.” This year Jessica has embarked on clinical rotations. “It’s been a great time thus far!”

Irena Kyuchukova sends greetings from London and gives thanks to Ashia Sheikh for giving her a shout when she visited for a few days. She hopes others will say hi when they’re jumping across the pond!

Anastasia Kendrick-Adey received her M.D. from the Weill Cornell Medical College and is now starting her emergency medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. Annette Richard is graduating with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Eastern Michigan University and starting a postdoc in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Michigan Health System in September.

Erica Jones started graduate school this June for a master’s in private school leadership from Columbia. She also vacationed to Trinidad and Tobago for her birthday earlier this month with a bunch of friends, including a big crew of ’08s: Laura Assis, Jackie Benson, Sheila Dunning, Schuyler Mapp-Williams, Jenna Sherman, Anne Stava-Murray and Stephanie Zamorano.

Simon Trabelsi has been using all his personal time off going back and forth to Sweden to work on new music and perform with his group, Blänk. The album they released in March was well received so he’s finally back in creative mode. He also recently saw Essien Ukanna for the first time since graduation, since he now lives in Atlanta.

Keep up the great work!

—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu

Spring is here! At least, once you’re reading this it will be. As I write, I’m staring at a giant pile of snow and regretting that I didn’t move to Key West, Florida, after graduation. But the snow hasn’t stopped our class! If you’re half as productive in warm weather as you are in cold, I can’t wait to see the next Class Notes.


Julianne Mifflin Austin and her husband welcomed their daughter, Grace Mifflin Austin, this February. Congratulations to the new parents!


Maura Pennington is in Philly where she spends her nights and weekends writing and performing with a sketch comedy team that recently won a competition. Nickelodeon’s Pete & Pete were judges. Unfortunately, the prize was not a Casio keyboard.


Caroline Lee and Tiger Huang got married.


Rena Fried and Vivian Chung ’07 are getting married on May 30.


Scott Muir celebrated the completion of his comprehensive exams for a religious studies doctorate at Duke this March and immediately went to Tahoe, California, for a ski reunion with some ’07 Bones Gates brothers. Last fall he married Sarah Brittingham at Camp Rockmont, his old summer camp just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Emmett Knox and his band, the Van Burens, threw down for a marathon dance party. 


Ephraim Froehlich was hired to the personal office staff of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Washington, D.C.


Michael Kreicher and Mike Belinsky were named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list for their accomplishments in finance at Morgan Stanley and social entrepreneurship founding Instiglio, respectfully. 


Anna Stork killed it on Shark Tank while pitching her company LuminAID. After receiving offers from all five sharks, Anna decided to partner with Mark Cuban. Go, Mavericks!


Zack Dorner went to sea for five weeks studying maritime trade interactions for his Ph.D. program. Craig Breslawski saw him in N.Y.C. before he set sail.


Corinne Headley writes in from a beach in New Zealand as she got married to her husband, Ryan, at Cape Rienga and stayed in New Zealand for the honeymoon. They successfully hiked the first half of the Te Araroa trail (about 1,800 kilometers) and took some beach time before heading back stateside. They’re thrilled they’ve missed so much of the winter snow.


Kara Pydynkowski will be graduating from MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations M.B.A.-M.S. program and heading out to Portland, Oregon, to work for Nike. If you’re an ’08 in the area, hit her up!


Krystal Elkins writes in from Sydney, Australia, where it is currently summer in January. She lives near Bondi Beach, where her only worries are unfiltered sun rays (no ozone) and sharks. She recently joined a rugby team, the Waverley Warriors, and hopes to get her visa extended. If anyone is down and around, she says, “look me up and we can hang out at the beach.” 


Matt Mackey writes in from Seattle, where he is doing his family medicine residency—in the same place Mike Holmes is practicing anesthesia. Matt recently got dinner with Watson Sallay and Lydia Islan, who are also Seattle locals. Climate change has been giving Seattle an incredibly pleasant winter.


While receiving her M.F.A. from the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles, Margo Dunlap’s graphic design was chosen by her home state of Vermont’s Renaissance Faire and Festival Council to appear in its 2015 marketing collateral. A nonpareil achievement, fair maiden!


Until next time!


—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu


Hi, ’08s! Apologies for the short Class Notes last time. As promised, a more fleshed-out notes for you this time around. We keep continuing to make big moves in our lives, from marriages to new jobs. One thing remains consistent though, we keep losing our black North Face jackets.


Meli Garber-Browne married Andy Garber-Browne during Columbus Day Weekend in Brooklyn. Yours truly (Jon Hopper) officiated the ceremony.


Dave Olverson proposed to Dana Cushing while in New Orleans. She said yes!


Daniel Belkin got engaged to Mandy Runner.


Katherine Gorman (now Katherine Denby) got married last June to Owen Denby.


Simon Trabelsi went to New Orleans for Kelvin Quezada and Austin Willis’s wedding. In the wedding party were Simon, Michael Simoni, Alexis Abbey, Darrayl Cummings, Earl Williams Jr., Cresandra Corbin, Honoria Tsang and Erika White.


Tim Wheeler and Abby Reed married on October 18 at Abby’s parents’ house outside of Chicago. They were joined by a large contingent of fellow classmates, as well as many Dartmouth alums from years past (her father, Glenn Reed, is a ’75). 


Khiet Chhu left a light windbreaker at Devin Fallon’s apartment during a recent visit. It is uncertain when he may get it back again.


Jessica Long began her second year of medical school and is excited for it to be over. She got to see RuDee Lipscomb this summer, who was back on the East Coast for a minute before going to Ferguson, Missouri, to start a civil outreach program. Jessica reports that Louisa Thompson graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine this year. And with baby news, Khadijah Bermiss Enoh just added another little girl to her growing family. Congrats!


Brooks Smith finished hiking the Appalachian Trail and got a visa to move to Australia. He plans to do lots of exploring and traveling around Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands nearby.


Chris Barth interviewed Drake, one of his favorite artists, for Contagious magazine in a full feature in November. For those wondering, Drake was very nice in person.


Caroline Lee is currently in her third year of med school and working at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn.


Jacquie Pound and her husband, Josh, welcomed Asher Joshua Biehl on September 4, 2014, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is already brainwashing him to adore the alma mater.


Kiersten Hallquist began her master’s program in educational leadership at the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services; she’s pursuing the degree while working full-time at the University of Vermont College of Medicine office of medical student education.


Corinne Headley is moving to New Zealand and hiking the TeAraroa trail for six months with her husband, Ryan Foster.


Carolyn Kylstra is the new health editor at Buzzfeed. Same great advice, but now with gifs!


Phil Rehayem recently road-tripped from New York City to the San Francisco Bay Area, stopping to enjoy America’s amazing natural beauty. He is staying in San Francisco and working at Access Softek Inc. as its mobile finance manager.


Until next time!


—Jon Hopper, 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York City, NY 10003; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu


You know it’s wedding season when the Class Notes fills up with stories of nuptials (and because your Facebook newsfeed has exploded with pictures of white dresses). And as many classmates wrap up grad school, there are some big moves going on.


In May Chris Barth and Ashley Thorfinnson ’07 got married in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Sean Walsh used his new pilot’s license to give attendees sky-high tours of the coastline.


Khiet Chhu married Katie Loughlin in Edenton, North Carolina, in March. Khiet and Katie bought a dream home in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the [Devin] Fallon clan is super excited to make its first official visit.


Clare Benzian and Jon Grecu both write to tell us “Jessica Calhoun and Mike Devine were married June 21 in Pittsfield, Vermont.” Jon adds that if anyone is in Shanghai, he will be there for another year!


David Lamb and Jessica Ogden tied the knot this August on the North Fork, New York. Whitney Norton, Devin Fallon and Jon Hopper were in the wedding party.


Lindsay Deane and Zach Mayer got married in Cohasset, Massachusetts, this August.


Cait Robers writes that Carrie Burns (now Dr. Caroline Stroup) married Justin Stroup during Memorial Day Weekend in Vermont. Justin proved his Dartmouth loyalties learning “The Salty Dog.” Who could ask for anything more?


Anne Lui graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a master’s in architecture this past May and on July 4 she married Adam Belanich. Anne and Adam met while studying studio art at Dartmouth. Adam’s company, Joyride Coffee Distributors, has had a big year as well, written up in The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, New York Post and Fox Business, and he even got to go on NBC’s Today Show.


Theresa Yang got engaged, graduated from medical school, moved to Los Angeles, started residency in internal medicine and is getting married in December.


Corinne Headley ran a marathon, got engaged and became the youngest tribal historic preservation officer in the nation!


Patrick Karas graduated with his M.D. from Columbia University in May. He then moved to Houston, where he will be completing residency training in neurological surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.


Krystal Elkins moved to Sydney, Australia! She’ll be there for at least a year and hopes to see all of the country.


Neil Willis writes to us from his honeymoon in Bora Bora to announce that he got married to Lilly Li this June.


Tess Reeder graduated from Harvard Business School and moved back to N.Y.C. This summer she started a new job with Birchbox and got married to Peter Hales (she has Lucy Hoffman to thank for the introduction).


Sindhura Kodali attended the wedding of Erin Leavitt. She also recently graduated from medical school and just moved to San Francisco to start residency in pediatrics at UCSF.


Julia Hecht finished up her first year at Kellogg and interned with General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the summer. Thanks to Instagram location services, she got drinks with Joseph Hanley while he was in town for work. Also in the Twin Cities area are Tim Wheeler, who interned in St. Paul, and Jamie Bergeson-Bradshaw, who is starting at Mills in the fall.


Laura Little is working at Medtronic’s diabetes unit doing business development out in Los Angeles this summer.


Jessica Glago created the Wholesome app for iOS—check it out: www.wholesomeapp.com.


Another great season, ’08s. Keep it up!


—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper.08@dartmouth.edu


Lots of great updates this month that remind me just how single I am. (Seriously, any one know any good doctors/lawyers/paleontologists/anything-I-can-bring-home-to-Mom?) The only thing we had more than weddings were wedding guests, but I have to limit this to the bridal parties since I only get 600 words.
Laura Cherkas and Mike Trapp got married in July at the DOC House on Occom Pond and they danced the “Salty Dog Rag” as their father-daughter/mother-son dance. They then spent two weeks traveling France for their honeymoon. 
Two weddings happened during Labor Day. Carolyn Kylstra married Ryan Meehan in Long Island City with Lisa Moon as a bridesmaid. And Elaine Lee married Shawn Zhou ’06 in Portland, Oregon.
Lyndsey Girod Ramsey married David Ramsey in September. Leslie Shribman and Denise Abeita were bridesmaids in the Oklahoma wedding.
Nick Christman and Mitalee Patil finally got hitched in the Cape. Many ’08s were involved, including Alejandro Frischeisen (officiant), Ashia Sheikh (maid of honor), Taylor Alan-Lee (best man).
Dan Weisman recently became engaged to Dr. Ashley Kochanek. They plan to get married in New Hampshire next summer. Dan is also starting a new job as the director of marketing at Ministry of Supply, a Boston startup that makes performance attire for professionals.
Nora Ward got married this summer to Brian in her childhood church in upstate New York. Nora and Brian enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon exploring Paris.
Jamie Tansey and Josh Green each got married (but not to each other). And Josh Turnbull, Cathy Chang and Neil Willis each got engaged (again, not to each other). Jon Hopper is still single.
Andy Lesser has been working full-time at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York, and part-time for her aunt’s company, Caring Transitions of Rochester. 
Conor Frantzen got an awesome job in Boulder at Natural Habitat Adventures and will probably have to go to the Galapagos pretty soon.
Richard Denton has begun his master’s program in clinical psychology at Columbia. Outside of his student senate duties and putting on the TEDx conference for Teacher’s College, he can be found with Pat Delgado and Kendrick Li.
Marc Lajoie just published two papers in Science on reassigning the genetic code, which could have implications in virus resistance, safer genetically modified organisms and expanding biological functions. I’m 90 percent sure one of them is about becoming an X-Man.
JeanCarlos Bonilla is managing the mobile communications platform for Starwood and taking advantage of the perks—his recent and upcoming trips include Russia, India, Colombia, Australia, Cambodia and Thailand.
Elliot Dial is currently in Windsor, Connecticut, teaching and coaching at the Loomis Chaffee School.
J.B. Cholnoky is completing a M.A. in American history and coaching rowing at Brown. 
Craig Breslawski is thrilled that Sean Walsh got his pilot’s license; we hope he’ll take Craig and Chris Barth up in the air pretty soon.
From your head agents: We want new Dartmouth College Fund volunteers! Contact Jenny Fisher, Monica Morrison and Alex Sherman.
To conclude, Jon is still single. Till next time!
—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper@alum.dartmouth.org 



Hi, everyone! Time for another update! Tomi Jun is back at Dartmouth finishing his senior year with the ’10s and putting out new Pinces & Phillips comics at pincesandphillips.com. Chuck Flynn reports that Mike Giovacchini is playing basketball in Iceland and is tearing it up, and though the link he sent me to Mike’s stats is in Icelandic, it looks impressive nonetheless.


Cher Zhao began her first year this fall at the University of Michigan medical school and Meg Whicker started medical school at Yale. Lindsay Leone began law school at Boston University. Veronica de Zayas is in her second year of law school at Notre Dame and is spending the year studying in London. Nick Ortiz transferred to Columbia Law School, where he is in his second year. He will also be in Miami this summer.


Adam Levine got his master’s in art history and has started his Ph.D. at Oxford. He has also started an art finance company, Art Research Technologies. Laura Rodriguez just finished her master’s in international relations and is working as an asset analyst in Miami.


Emily Frank lives in Berkeley and teaches seventh-grade life science with Teach for America in Vallejo, California. Frances Kalich has started a teaching program in Louisiana and is enjoying her time in the South. Chad Detloff is teaching Spanish to grades nine through 12 at the Chadwick School and living in Venice, California. He would love to connect with any other Dartmouth alums in L.A.


Kristin Li, Kristen Limbach, Jamie Wallace, Sarah Shaw, Sarah Stern and Kelly Cockerill all flew out to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend Annette Sacks’ wedding to Tom Richard. Sarah and Kelly stayed with Sheila Dunning, who is at Michigan Law School.


Sarah Stern saw Becca Auritt and she still looks okay. Jenny Fisher moved to Boston. Emerson Curry is continuing his education by taking driver’s ed classes. Jessie Long has been working with the youth at her church, where she co-directs the youth choir and the youth group and is a mentor to the youth liturgical dance group.


Dana Cushing moved to New York City, where she lives on the Upper East Side with Jon Hopper. Dana works for CUNY and tends bar on the side (Jon says she makes great drinks). Jordana Kier recently started a new job working at New York City Opera in Lincoln Center and says everyone should check out their 2009-10 season at nycopera.com. Corey Chu began a job last month at NBC Universal working as a research analyst for Syfy.


Dexter Mackie is living in Washington, D.C., and working as a technician for a private optometry practice while he continues to research optometry schools. He is also choreographing a dance performance for a new R&B artist. Taylor Kauer has been living in San Francisco since January working for an environmental consulting firm. He vacations frequently in Santa Barbara, California.


Emmett Knox is touring the northeast with his band The Van Burens in support of their debut EP. They will be touring nationally in the spring. Joshua Feder is the assistant director on Band Geeks! for the National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals and is performing in and choreographing Nunsense: Amen! with the BrooklynONE Theater.


—David Glovsky, 18 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland, MA 01778; david.n.glovsky.08@alum.dartmouth.org


Hi members of the great class of 2008! This is my penultimate update as I am leaving my job (and the United States) in March, joining the Peace Corps and moving to Senegal to work in preventive health and environmental education. It has been my pleasure to write about you all.


Maryanna Brown reports that she has moved to Seattle and is a global classroom intern at World Affairs Council in Seattle and the personal assistant and right-hand woman to the founder of Mandarin Express, a Chinese-teaching school.


Laura Rodriguez wrote in to say that she, Sheila Dunning, Yasmin Mandviwala, Jenna Sherman, Stephanie Zamorano and Alexandra Mesa spent an epic New Year’s together in Miami. I was in New York City in December and went to a Knicks game with Yasmin and Alex at Madison Square Garden before returning the next day to attend a college basketball game with Nova Robinson. I also saw Zack Styskal, who recently started a new position on the sales and business development team with an Internet start-up, www.scoopst.com, that gives daily deals and coupons at a fraction of their actual cost.


Betsy Bryant says she is still alive and employed in Washington, D.C. Kelly Cockerill was promoted to senior analyst at Health Advances outside of Boston.


Chris Barth quit his desk job as a healthcare IT consultant in November and since then has been visiting friends along the East Coast. He plans to spend the next six months or so traveling to Argentina, SXSW Music Festival, Guatemala, El Salvador and Spain, doing a combination of backpacking, writing and volunteering. He highly recommends the wandering lifestyle.


Zak Kaufman was selected as a Marshall Scholar and will be heading to London in October to study epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently living with Elise Braunschweig in Cape Town, South Africa, and working for Grassroots Soccer.


Mike Milne belatedly let me know that Anthony Fahden won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in August with the U.S. lightweight men’s eight.


Joshua Feder just finished choreographing a production of A Christmas Carol at the 13th Street Repertory Company in Manhattan (working with fellow alums Lillian King ’07, Justin Zalkin ’07 and Brian Fortin ’08) and will soon be appearing in Sperm Bank (Short Play Festival) and Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass (The Actor’s Temple) as the March Hare.


Jon Hopper wrote in to congratulate David Lamb on being admitted early decision to both Harvard and Yale Law School.


That’s all for now, but I look forward to hearing more from all of you for the next update!


—David Glovsky, 18 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland, MA 01778; david.n.glovsky.08@alum.dartmouth.org


Hi, ’08s! This is my first class notes column, as Dave Glovsky recently moved to Senegal with the Peace Corps. Jessica Alcantara is also volunteering with the Peace Corps, in Azerbaijan, and having an awesome time.


Other ’08s have been hanging out all over the world. Watson Sallay just returned from a winter skiing in France, drove across the country, saw Dave Heinicke in Denver and Emily Frank in San Francisco and is now living in Seattle. Sarah Stern wrote in to say that she, Frank Glaser, Jenna Sherman, Hannah Plotkin, Katherine Scovner and Michael Sloan-Rossiter attended the Dartmouth mini-reunion at Mount Snow, Vermont, organized by Adam Platz through Urban Escapes in March.


Drew Wenzel is finishing his master’s of engineering management program at the Thayer School and moving to San Francisco to help improve the environmental performance of Google’s Mountain View campus buildings. Owen Zidar is leaving California for the summer and heading to Washington, D.C. Zaneta Thayer, currently in her second year of a biological anthropology Ph.D. program at Northwestern University, is headed to New Zealand to do some lab work this summer and welcomes any visitors.


A bunch of ’08s wrote in about enrolling in higher education this fall. Katherine Gorman will be starting at Columbia Law School and Lauren Berkovitz will be enrolling in a clinical psychology Ph.D. program at UCLA. Erin Johnson is graduating from University of Pennsylvania with a master’s in education and starting at University of Wisconsin Law. Joshua Ring will be attending Indiana University School of Medicine. Michael Belinsky is excited to be starting an M.P.P. program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Also at Harvard, Marc Lajoie just passed his qualifying exams and is going for his Ph.D. in chemical biology. 


Marc also wrote in to let us know that Michael Maccini is getting married to Niesje Wiersma (University of Idaho ’08) this June. Jordana Beeber is in her second year of medical school at Tel Aviv University and was recently engaged to Lior Hikri of Tel Aviv. Angela Libby tells us that Haley Bolin is engaged to John Shellito ’07 to be married January 1, 2011. Michael Whitticom and Lauren Morgan ’05 were engaged in early April and are planning on getting married next spring.


Sounds like ’08s continue crushing the real world. Keep sending any updates my way!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 245 E 63rd St., #824, New York, NY 10065; yasminm@gmail.com


I have many updates from around the world so here goes!


With fall in full swing many ’08s are attending school. Katherine Scovner is in the class of 2014 at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Theresa Yang is starting at Albany Medical College and reports that being unemployed feels awesome! Dunia Rkein has started as a ’13 at Cornell Law and Katherine Gorman is having a great time at Columbia Law with Hallie Damon and Rachel Tishler. Sara Ludin started a Ph.D. program in jurisprudence and social policy at UC Berkeley. Evan Meyerson is delaying his inevitable return to New York for three more years while attending law school at Harvard. Claire Dunning is also starting at Harvard, getting her Ph.D. in American history. 


Several ’08s are starting school after having spent some time in Africa. After spending two years working in Rwanda, the Congo and Ghana, Rachel Strohm is getting her M.A. in international relations at Johns Hopkins. Eric McFeely is starting at Columbia Medical School after working at a Rwandan NGO with Zack Scott and Lauren Penneys. While in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Benjamin Jastrzembski and Ben Robbins learned that they will be attending Harvard Medical School this fall, along with six Dartmouth alumni! Zak Kaufman is leaving South Africa to study epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a Marshall Scholarship.


Dave Glovsky, still in Africa, has “creeping eruption.” Yikes. 


Fueled primarily by Coca-Cola and buffalo jerky Alix Toothman and Lindsey Wolf completed a tour of six western National Parks, meeting moose and bears, stargazing and scaling canyon cliffs. Alix had just spent two months in southeast Asia and Australia (austrolasianadventure.wordpress.com). She is beginning a WPP Group fellowship at the Futures Co. in New York. Lindsey is starting as a volunteer coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club in Austin through AmeriCorps VISTA.


Daniel Dittrick just returned from England with an M.A. in conflict resolution from the University of Bradford department of peace studies. He adds, “Did I hear that the average job hunt is taking nine months? Sweet.” Don’t fret, Dartmouth grads are finding cool jobs. Andrew Blancero is the new manager of the N.Y.C. compost project on Staten Island at Snug Harbor. Owen Zidar spent the summer working at the White House and will stay on for a year as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors, focusing on housing and tax reform, before returning to Berkeley. Joe Cavanaugh tells us that Thad Olchowski has founded the Diesel Dream Team, which will drive across the country promoting awareness of clean diesel. They’re in discussions with the Speed Channel to film an online documentary. Apparently they’re identifiable by matching cars and black satin jackets.


Under the leadership of Charles Stoebe and David Lamb, a group of ’08s, including Bryan Siegel, Devin Fallon, Dana Cushing, Ashley Mas and Jon Hopper, has assembled an unstoppable kickball team that reigns champion in New York City. In true Dartmouth form they’ve won the coveted bar championship for three seasons. One champion, Devin Fallon, recently married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth Davis!


Jenna Sherman, Stephanie Zamorano, Alexandra Mesa and I recently visited Sheila Dunning on Cape Cod to celebrate Jenna’s birthday and Sheila’s return from three months in Cambodia!


I am currently last-minute packing for my move to Hyderabad, India. I’ll be spending the next eight months working within the energy portfolio of Acumen Fund, traveling and having adventures. Let me know if you are ever in the area and, of course, send any updates my way!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com


Hi, ’08s! Jeez, you guys keep having amazing life changes. Forgive me as I live vicariously through you.


Devin Fallon and his wife, Liz, had their baby daughter Nina in October. Class of 2024?


Dr. Sarah Bankoff got engaged to her boyfriend of 11 years, Anthony Leone, and Meli Garber got engaged to Andrew Browne. She has yet to ask me to be in her wedding party (hint, hint).


On July 28 Kristen Carloni (nee Bulkowski) married Dorian Carloni (’08 exchange student) at a vineyard in Sonoma, California. Kristen’s bridesmaids included Danielle Strollo ’09 and Rebecca Beasley-Cockroft, who after nearly seven years together were also married this summer!


The big news for Neil Willis this year was that he got engaged to Lilly Li, and after graduation from Wharton in May they’ll be moving to Chicago, where he’ll be working at GTCR.


JB Cholnoky was hired as the varsity assistant coach for Brown men’s crew and will be extending his “one-year master’s” into next fall.


Dana Cushing was admitted to Columbia University Teacher’s College master’s program in industrial/organizational psychology and started this January. Frank Glaser transferred to Columbia Business School this January.


Ephraim Froehlich returned from four months in South Africa working at Legal Aid, their public defenders office, for credit during his second-to-last semester at Maryland Law School. He graduates this May from Maryland Law and if anyone wants to give him an amazing job, he wants to take it.


Dr. Marc Lajoie successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. And David Lamb, Lauren Bennet and Dunia Rkein passed the bar exam.


Felicia Read got engaged in August to David Schnur ’05! He proposed during a sunset hike near the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland. Felicia just wrapped up five and a half years at a Lebanon, New Hampshire, biotech company called Adimab and finally moved out of the Upper Valley. After Christmas she moved to Mountain View, California, and joined pharmaceutical giant Genentech as a part of the protein analytical chemistry team.


Josh Federer has made the move back to Connecticut to start a job as a math teacher and theater director at the Kingswood Oxford School.


Valerie Arvidson and Barton McGuire bought a house in Seattle. Valerie is teaching and writing and Barton is developing websites and playing lots of rock ’n’ roll music as well as hand-making boutique custom guitar pedals. There’s lots of creative energy in Seattle!


James Marlow is working as a programmer in a tech firm in Manhattan


Bridget Alex is spending the year doing archaeological research in Israel on a Fulbright. Read her blog at bannelia.com; she promises that it’s funny.


Teryn Williams and husband Jonathan Grudis (M.P.H. ’08 from DMS), headed to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and the Society Islands for some Christmas R&R, scuba diving and hiking. Good way to end 2013!


Drew Jennings quit his finance job and gave up his N.Y.C. apartment in the winter of 2013 and headed down to Springer Mountain, Georgia, in March. From there he thru-hiked the entirety of the Appalachian Trail (2,185 miles) and summited Mount Katahdin in Maine on August 1. Drew missed the five-year reunion as he went through Hanover two weeks too late, but had lots of support from Paul Heintz ’06 and Adam Platz. Drew accepted a job offer at Google and moved to the Bay Area. 


Charlie Stoebe finally got an iPhone. Follow him on Snapchat. 


Congratulations on an amazing 2013! I hope your 2014 will be just as successful.


—Jon Hopper, 1590 2nd Ave., Apt. 5FN, New York City, NY 10028; (203) 539-1225; jonathan.r.hopper@alum.dartmouth.org 


Since for once we have extra space in this column, let me lead off by thanking you all for a great reunion. It was wonderful to catch up with all of you who managed to attend, and we look forward to seeing the rest of you at our 10th reunion.


Josh Drake and his wife, Ashley, will be moving to Vermont in July, where Josh will begin serving as the pastor of the East Brookfield Community Church.


Dana Cushing wrote in just after reunion, when she was preparing for Robin McKechnie’s wedding to Will Brown ’07. Since I haven’t heard anything since then, I’m assuming the wedding was a smashing success. Dana and Olivia Gilliatt were bridesmaids, and Lily King ’07 was the maid of honor.


Meli Garber is thrilled to start a new job as the health educator at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, New York. She is “very excited since my dearest friend Rena Fried went there. As for Rena, she got engaged to Vivian Chung ’07 in April and both are headed to Philly to begin their M.B.A. program at Wharton. (Yay! Super proud of this gal.)”


Jenny Fisher is sad to report that Jenny Ratner is moving back to Boston for her first architecture job. To quote Jenny, “My evil plot to keep her in N.Y.C. has failed.” Evan Meyerson has finally returned home to New York City after “four years lost in the wilderness and five years avoiding Boston sports fans.”


Mike Holmes is starting anesthesiology residency at the University of Washington. Matt Siegfried is prepping for his third Antarctica field season with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project. In Matt’s words, “Last year’s season was featured in The New York Times twice, Fox News said we won the new Cold War, long feature in this month’s (July/August) Discover magazine, etc. We found life in a lake beneath Antarctica. Pick up Discover mag if you want to see pictures!”


Laura Little wrote in from Buenos Aires, soon to travel “to Santiago (Chile) and then back to Argentina to ski bum in Bariloche (possibly head to another continent?) before heading back to Boston to start business school at Harvard in late August.” If anyone is looking to escape the heat and get some skiing in over the summer, let her know!


As I pass this column off to Jon Hopper, let me just say that the last five years as your class secretary have been a treat. I looked forward every two months to hearing from those near and far, and continue to marvel at what we’ve done in our short, post-college lives. I look forward to serving all of you as your class president going forward, and I hope you treat my successor as well (if not better) than you treated me.


—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com


Mike Belinsky just finished grad school and started a social enterprise called Instiglio. Check it out at instiglio.org.


Veronica de Zayas was at Diane Ellis’wedding outside of Santa Cruz, California, where Haley Bolin, Angela Libby, Sarah Rathnam and Veronica were bridesmaids, with Essien Ukanna and Alex Nomitch also in attendance. Sandy Barbut and Steve Hunt got engaged in June. They’re living in New Jersey, where Sandy is in school to become a nurse practitioner and Steve is a medical device sales executive. Scott Wong is getting married in October and moved to California this fall to attend Stanford to study computational math and engineering. Kate Labrum and Taylor Kauer are also engaged.


Brian McMillan is teaching second grade in Oakland, California, fulfilling a childhood dream as a firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Reserve and in July married Jennifer Thompson (Harvard ’06) in Michigan. In attendance were ’08s Owen Zidar, Mike Heslin, Dru Heinz, Conor Fernandez, Elisa McCarthy, Johnathan Ball and Chris Knape. Marc Lajoie and his new wife, Kim Rocio Lajoie, not only just got married, but also attended the Olympics, where Mark reports, “We didn’t compete. Anthony Fahden did—lightweight crew.”


Olivia Gilliatt is returning to NYU’s graduate acting program this fall. Brian Fortin will be two floors down from her, starting in NYU’s graduate lighting division. Jessica Long is moving to Worcester, Massachusetts, to do a program at UMass Worcester. Marianne Epstein just moved to the Washington, D.C. area to begin a master’s program in graphic design at George Mason University.


J.B. Cholnoky is working for a hunting outfitter in Wyoming and applying to grad schools for an M.A. in American history. Megan Strout just moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and started working in brand management for Nature’s Variety, a natural pet food company. Hannah Rossman was just accepted to the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, for a certification and apprenticeship in pastry arts. Kate Eklin left Buenos Aires after four years, relocating to Paris to do a master’s in international development.


Lucy Hoffman moved to Cape Town, South Africa, to work for an impact investing advisory company. She also reports on some of her classmates, telling us, “Erin Miller just spent the summer dressing models for Vera Wang and is excited for her second year at Harvard Business School. Jane Choi is crushing it at Hulu as a marketing analytics manager and recently hosted her first company-wide, brown bag lunch. Erica Jones has been jet setting all summer (China, Vegas, Pacific Northwest) during her break from the Dalton School.”


Will McMahan is also in South Africa, finishing up his two years as a Peace Corps volunteer working at an HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organization. He would love visitors. Abe Holland is still based in Chennai and enjoying life in India at the Center for Micro Finance. James Marlow had been living in Beirut for the past year, but moved to the Bay Area in September. Alix Toothman is moving from Singapore to London in October to start her third year with the WPP Fellowship by working at Grey London in advertising.


Ephraim Froehlich informs us of a mini-reunion he had in the Yukon Territory and Alaska this summer with Bennet Meyers, Dara Goldberg, John Beardsley and Ephraim. Simon Trabelsi “is still unemployed, living the rap life in Sweden with his group /BLÄNK.”


Just in: Louisa McCarthy and Alex Latham ’09 were married outside of Boston at the Brooksby Farm on July 14!


I moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, to start a job at ESPN. Right before that I was in Israel, where I was accidentally on the same Birthright Israel trip as Elysa Corin and hung out with Anna Stone, Chuck Flynn and Chuck’s wife, Emma.


—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com


Thanks for all the great updates this time! See you in June! Alix Toothman is in London for the final year of her rotational scheme with WPP, currently working for Grey Advertising. She’s looking forward to coming back to the United States for reunion. When Alix wrote, Lindsey Wolf was soon to visit her to travel around Spain, France and possibly Berlin.


After four and a half years in finance Drew Jennings left his job in Oliver Wyman and left on March 24 to hike the Appalachian Trail. Sadly, this will keep him away from reunion, but he will pass through Hanover later in the summer. Yasmin Mandviwala is graduating from business school in May and will be moving to the Bay Area in July to work for the product team at PayPal.


Jacquie Pound is living in Paris this year on a research fellowship. Jacquie is en route to finishing a Ph.D. in Romance studies at Duke and is getting married in Maine this July to Josh Biehl, an engineer from Ohio. Emily Frank is moving to Farmington, Maine, to begin her third year of medical school.


Kim Rocio Lajoie was promoted to an engineer II at Boston Scientific, according to her husband, Marc Lajoie. Mark recently went to Japan to give a few scientific talks on his graduate research.


Michael Beers updates us on his last (almost) five years. He married Norah Comstock (now Norah Beers) in March 2010. They have three children, Owen, who’s 3.5 years old, and identical twin boys Charlie and Harry, who are almost 2 years old. Norah works at Bridgewater Associates and Michael currently works at Alternative Investment Group. They purchased their first house, in Weston, Connecticut, in November.


Jenny Croteau (now Jenny Deren) married Matt Deren (Yale ’07) on February 9 during a horrific New England snowstorm. Unfortunately many could no longer attend, but Kate Robb, Laura Young, Phil Bracikowski and Lisa Mao managed to defeat the weather. Phil and Laura also wrote in to announce their engagement. Katherine Gorman recently got engaged to Owen Denby, and is planning her wedding for June 2014.


Diane Ellis Scalisi moved to Washington, D.C., with her husband, Paul, in December. She’s recently spotted ’08s Maura Pennington, Trudy Hong and Driu Colgan.


Khadjiah Bermiss is now Khadijah Enoh, as she got married last year. But that wasn’t Khadjiah’s biggest update, as she informs us: “I gave birth to our beautiful daughter Magdalene, who I hope will attend Dartmouth in 17 years!”


Jon Scherr’snonprofit, Blueprint Schools Network, is working to implement its charter-based turnaround model in schools across Massachusetts and expanding its Blueprint Fellows tutoring program to 40 schools in Denver. Zak Kaufman, along with his two business partners,was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30: Social Entrepreneurs” list for his company Vera Solutions.


David Smith reports, “After making the U.S. rowing national team for the first time this summer, I moved to Philadelphia to continue training. I train two to three times a day, work for myself doing pet portraiture and generally love pursuing the rowing lifestyle.”


In November Elise Krieger left Interbrand to work for Victoria’s Secret in Columbus, Ohio. Elise sent an update for Frances Samolowicz,who is marrying Jonathan Lazarow ’05 in May in Chicago. Elise and Hayley Steplyk will be bridesmaids. Hayley is in Seattle, where she recently moved to take a new position with Microsoft. Frances will not only be getting married, but will start residency around the same time. Elise also saw Tim Chingos and Jillian (Hamma) Chingos ’09 during the holidays at Disney World. She correctly notes, “It’s a small world after all.”


—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com


Hope everyone has shaken off the winter blues by the time this gets to you!


Congratulations to David Chodounsky, who was named to the 2011 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships team at the end of January!


And another congratulations to Meghan Feely, who was recently awarded the Mayo Clinic Fellows’ Association Humanitarian Award for 2010. She received the award for her work as the founder and chair of Aid for Africa and Asia, which collects textbooks and ships them to medical schools in Third World countries. In the past three years they have sent more than four tons of books to Africa!


Marc Lajoie was just invited to go to Lindau, Germany, to participate in the Nobel laureates’ meeting in physiology and medicine—a meeting in which 20 Nobel laureates meet with a group of graduate students for a week to discuss their science, experiences and thoughts. He says he may be staying in Germany for a few days after the conference is done, so it’d be cool to know if any ’08s are around in the area. Marc also tells us that Kim Rocio was just accepted to the Tufts M.E. program for mechanical engineering!


After living in her home state of Oklahoma for two years working in land conservation and tribal government, Lyndsey Girod writes in to tell us that she has seen very few Dartmouth alums there and is hoping her next move will help! In May she will be starting a master’s program in natural resources and environmental science at the University of Illinois in Urbana. She also says she has developed a crush on the city of Chicago and will be spending a lot of time there, so would love to see ’08s in the area.


Leo Ospina recently started working for Grand Circle Travel and is going to Thailand and Tokyo in April/May!


Thanks to everyone who sent in updates—and as always please send any news my way. We all love to hear what our classmates are up to.


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA 01810; yasminm@gmail.com


Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Here are the last updates of 2011.


Two of our classmates made the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” lists. Marc Lajoie is featured in science for his research in genome engineering, and Joe Malchow is on the law and policy list as co-founder of Internet advertising firm Integer. Congratulations, guys!


Marissa Slany tells us that after living abroad for two years, she will be returning to the United States this summer. In her time abroad she joined the ranks of perpetual students, doing two master’s programs: an M.A. in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, followed by an M.B.A. at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She’ll be returning to Chicago to work at McKinsey, and eventually combine her interests in business and art through a career in museum management. 


Whitney Norton just moved to Hermosa Beach, California, and is commuting to her new job in Studio City. She is working for NPO Solutions, a consulting firm founded by fellow alum Warren Riley ’66. She’s looking for a carpool lane buddy, so if anyone knows anyone with a similar commute let her know at whit.norton@gmail.com.


Timothy Chingos recently joined the Google Offers team with fellow Big Green alumni Nannan Hu ’06, Anthony Arch ’09 and Sydney Thomashow ’11. He reports that it’s a Dartmouth party!


James Marlow is still living in Beirut and looking for work in science or civil society.


Nick Ware is filming a fitness DVD featuring revolutionary Resistance Flexibility technology, and preparing to present his research that demonstrates Resistance Flexibility increases flexibility and athletic performance 10 times faster than any known modality at the 2012 International Fascia Congress in Vancouver. He also reports that he is looking forward to spending January on the beach and in the jungle on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.


Jon Scherr would like ’08s to know that Blueprint Schools Network, the nonprofit he launched, is hiring. Contact him at jscherr@blueprintschools.org if you’d like to learn more.


After quitting Bain Leo Gong has founded a startup, www.heyawanna.com, which aims to be the site where people share event ideas and organize them. He is looking to launch exclusively in Dartmouth during the start of winter term and looking for developers and designers to join him.


Cyrus Tingley is working for a renewable energy development firm in Philadelphia, living just a block away from both Pete Roller and Lauren Bennett.


Ethan Handel moved to Brooklyn and got married in September to longtime girlfriend Morgan Seaman, with Adam Levine, Gregg Rubin, and Jenny Fisher in the wedding party. Plenty of other ’08s were there to party and celebrate as well!


Nick Ortiz would like to let all the ’08 men know that Emi Ito is officially off the market. Congratulations on your engagement!


Congratulations are also in order for Nicole Newman, who got engaged to her boyfriend Craig Kessler in November!


And a third ’08 woman off the market is Jamie Bergeson-Bradshaw, who got engaged to her boyfriend Jeff Lyon in December!


Finally, Anna Stork has designed an inflatable solar light and started a company called LuminAID. She raised $50,000 in an online campaign through indiegogo. Check it out at www.luminaidlab.com. 


As always, send any updates my way. Happy New Year!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com


Andrew Blancero is working with the N.Y.C. Compost Project on Staten Island, New York. He is also helping to establish many new gardens. Laura Rodriguez had amazing April visits from Erica Jones, Emi Ito Ortiz, Nick Ortiz, Yasmin Mandviwala and Danielle Coutinho in Miami.


Meli Garber is graduating from Columbia University with a M.P.H. in sexuality and health and is looking for a job. Mike Epstein is graduating from UMass Medical School and starting his residency in pediatrics. Ying Xu is graduating from medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and starting anesthesiology residency. Evan Carlson and his wife, Anna (Bekker) Carlson ’09, are finally leaving Hanover for Sacramento, California, as she starts her pediatrics residency.


Mike Holmes is graduating from Dartmouth Medical School in June and is off to Seattle for anesthesiology residency. Lauren Orr is graduating from medical school at Columbia and will start surgery residency in June. Laura Young is starting her residency in obstetrics/gynecology in Baltimore and is looking for people to wear Patriots gear with! Matt Mackey is still at Dartmouth, graduating with his M.P.H. this year and then from medical school next year. Cecilia Zhang is graduating from Case Western medical school and starting her residency in internal medicine. She’s also engaged!


Matt Cohn recently played Algernon in Northern Stage’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Josh Feder just spent winter on campus, assistant directing the theater department production of The Liar.


Marc Lajoie and Kim Rocio Lajoie are finishing graduate school. Kim finished her M.E.M. at Tufts in May and Marc is defending his Ph.D. in chemical biology by September. Jordan Zastrow is finishing her Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Michigan this June. J.B. Cholnoky is going to Brown for an M.A. in history, and will also be a graduate assistant to the men’s heavyweight rowing team. Rachel Strohm is starting a Ph.D. in political science at Berkeley in August and getting married to Andy Shamel ’05 in September.


Samantha Fox cannot attend reunion, as she is currently working on her Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia and will be in Berlin doing research. However, she wants any ’08s in Europe to know they’re welcome to visit and have an unofficial reunion in Berlin—or Han(n)over.


Michael Larson was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Japan for 2013-14. If any ’08s want to make the trip, he’d be happy to show them around. Julia Hecht is (temporarily) living in India (again) and is heading to business school at Kellogg (Northwestern).


Joshua Kernoff and his wife, Kathryn Kernoff ’07, have founded a new company, K2 Trivia, that offers trivia programs to bars and restaurants. Andy Lesser is moving back to her hometown of Rochester, New York, after five years in Boston. Phil Rehayem is living in Manhattan, working at an Internet protocol law firm.


C.J. Ryan and Virginia Deaton ’09 were married in Lexington, Kentucky, last August. Virginia and C.J. are finishing up law school at the University of Kentucky. In attendance at the wedding were 11 ’08s.


Cher Zhao wrote halfway through walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Adam Platz wrote from mile 42 on the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile hike from which he is taking a week off to come to reunion.


As for me, I recently finished working in the stats and analysis department at ESPN and am beginning a Ph.D. program in African history at Michigan State University in East Lansing this May. Any ’08s (or other Dartmouth alums) in the area or who just want to visit should let me know. Hoping for Midwest reunions soon!


—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com


So. Many. Updates.


Meghan Wendland is joining the class of 2015 at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC this fall.


Elliot Dial is returning to the Northeast to begin a master’s program at Harvard’s School of Education.


In May Tomi Jun will be biking from Dallas to D.C. with the Ride for World Health at http://rideforworldhealth.org. After, he will be starting at Harvard Medical School.


Sarah Stern is attending Tuck next year, and invites everyone to visit!


Becca Auritt tells us that Emily Weisburst is beginning her Ph.D. in economics at University of Texas, Austin. Let her know if you’re around and like to party.


Nora Johnson tells us that Jenny Fisher is starting nursing school at Columbia in June…and Jenny Fisher tells us that Lindsay Deane and Zach Mayer completed the Boston Marathon in five hours, 28 minutes, with a big smooch at the finish line!


Lauren Moser has been serving in the Peace Corps in Jordan since October 2009 and recently competed in a 150-mile race from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea!


Kiersten Hallquist is spending the summer working as a program manager at the Center on Disability and Community Inclusion at UVM. She gets discounts on outing club boats and invites everyone to come play on Lake Champlain.


Benjamin True won the world-class Boston Athletic Association 5k, finishing in a time of 14:07. He set a new course record by more than 22 seconds!


Leaving behind the corporate world of New York City, Riley End is now the Colorado business development manager for VillageVines (www.villagevines.com), a startup that discreetly gives its members a 30-percent discount at their city’s most popular restaurants. Now living in Denver, Riley enjoys many outdoor activities and competes in the occasional triathlon.


Daniel Cohen, Ling Guo and Meredith Druss write in to say they are currently watching Modern Family on Daniel’s couch in Boston.


Jon Scherr is starting an education nonprofit called Blueprint Schools Network that works with school districts around the country to use evidence-based practices. They are looking for expertise in education, management consulting and public policy, so reach out to Jon if interested!


After three years at Choate J.B. Cholnoky is moving to Jackson Hole to try and make pro ski patrol this coming winter. He says he’ll take all the help he can to land the job.


Andrew Blancero is the manager of the N.Y.C. Compost Project on Staten Island, where he maintains school programs, gardens and composting and is bringing a small-scale organic farm to Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.


Meeka Droese is engaged to Brandon Charles ’05. They met on a DOC trip, where he was her trip leader! The wedding will likely be next May in Sonoma, California.


Bridget Alex is still getting married at Bates. Date TBA, man TBA, location announced.


Maryanna Brown has thrown away her LSAT prep book and devoted her life to science and becoming a nutritional epidemiologist. Or Oprah’s nutrition guru. She might even author the next Skinny Bitch.


On a recent trip to New York Adria Buchanan met up with Erica Jones, Lena Martinez-Watts, Abe Holland, Liz Sherman and Josh Wexler to bring some West Coast love after the cold winter. Adria also watched Ian Tapu and his dance troupe from Hawaii win the 2011 World of Dance Hip Hop Competition in Los Angeles!


I am spending the summer working with coffee farmers in Rwanda to assess demand for mobile payments and training. If you are near Kigali, give me a shout!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com


Arjun Chandrasekaran reports that Homecoming was a “bust,” a vague, sickly sweet blur of drunken/hungover nostalgic self-loathing for still being wasted at 4 p.m. for four days straight. This feeling of self-loathing was cured, of course, by more drinking. Lest the old traditions fail, indeed.


In related Homecoming news, Jenny Fisher spotted Zach Mayer fleeing from Safety & Security this weekend down frat row.


In more mature Homecoming news, C.J. Ryan proposed to Virginia Deaton ’09 on the Friday of Homecoming atop the Baker bell tower while the bells played “My Old Kentucky Home” (since Virginia is a Kentucky native). A video of the special moment can be found on the Dartmouth Facebook and YouTube pages. Afterwards, they had a cocktail party attended by tons of Dartmouth friends, including Mike Sloan-Rossiter, Andrew Kempler, Pat Delgado and Rich Denton.C.J. tells us, “It was a fantastic weekend, and Virginia and I just wanted to send our sincere thanks to all those who were able to attend. We definitely missed our friends who couldn’t join us in Hanover, but we hope everyone is doing very well, enjoying and generally dominating life. If anyone finds him or herself in Lexington, or anywhere in the Bluegrass State, especially for the Keeneland meet or Derby, please plan on paying us a visit!”


Another Dartmouth couple was engaged in Hanover as well. Congratulations to Rachel Strohm, who recently got engaged to Andy Shamel ’05 on top of the Gile fire tower!


On July 9 Erike (Sogge) Schneider was married to Kyle Schneider, whom she met while teaching in rural Alaska. Lots of Dartmouth guests were in attendance and Matt Mackey and Emmy Frank led guests in the “Salty Dog Rag.”


Elliot Dial is currently teaching at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. Let him know if you are around the area!


Leo Ospina has embarked on a new journey working for Grand Circle Foundation. He is working in Cuba and the United States, leading groups of Americans in a cultural exchange with the passionate and warm Cuban people.


Alix Toothman moved to Singapore in early October for her second rotation of the WPP Fellowship. She will be working at a media agency called Maxus and plans to travel throughout Asia. If anyone is in Singapore or has friends there, let her know—she is on the hunt for friends and travel buddies!


Also far, far away from Dartmouth, James Marlow is living near Hamra Street in Beirut, Lebanon. He is working for Hibr, an activist newspaper published in English and Arabic, and looking for work to keep him in the city in the near future.


Zach Scott and Wheaton Simis report that they have been living in the so-cool secular urbanite dreamland known as Brooklyn, New York, for nearly eight months. Monday through Thursday Zach gallivants around the world with his consulting job and Wheaton waits tables at Balthazar restaurant. On the weekends they play board games in relative silence. 


Matt Siegfried wants everyone to know that Ephraim Froehlich is awful at fantasy football. Thanks, Matt.


As always, send any updates my way!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA 01810; yasminm@gmail.com