Class Notes 2014

Happy New Year, ’14s! I’m writing this just after Homecoming. I hope some of you were able to attend; here in London we celebrated as we always do, by constructing a small cardboard model of the bonfire and lighting it in the back garden. I must say that what started as a toilet paper tube topped with a cutout number “17” when I missed Homecoming on my Spain foreign study program has become quite professional through the years, evolving into a complex system of notched cardboard slabs that fit together like flattened Lincoln Logs. Get in touch next year if you find yourself far from the Green—maybe I’ll offer tutorials in exchange for updates!

Meanwhile in Hanover, during Homecoming four ’14s were inducted into the Wearers of the Green, Dartmouth’s athletics hall of fame. Aditi Misra, Michael Klein, Trevy Wing, and Malcolm Leverett earned their place among the Wearers as members of the 2014 national championship club fencing team. They join teammates Nate Utterback, Stuart Ghafoor, Ivan Antoniv, Gaby Stern, Peter Horak, and Scott Brookes, who were named Wearers of the Green in 2019. Peter and Scott were in Hanover joining in celebrating the new inductees. Scott recently returned to coach the team for the second time, after leading the fencers to another national championship win as coach in 2018.

This past September Christine Kim was spotted at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum in San Francisco speaking from her experience as a consumer investor at Greylock in a panel on the “Next Generation of Investors.”

Congrats to Jayne Caron, who will be starting a complex family planning fellowship at Stanford in July, after finishing her current obstetrics/gynecology residency at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles.

In wedding news, Diana Ming married Jonathan Gold on June 3 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The occasion was marked with a traditional Chinese lion dance the night before the ceremony, which was officiated by Victor Hollenberg. And on September 15 Holly Wakeman married Ben Campbell in Charlotte, Vermont.

Finally, I have two new members of the extended 2014 family (and potential members of the class of 2046?) to announce. Alison Levens Zhao and Dong Zhao ’13, along with big sister Laney, welcomed Rylie Brooke Zhao on September 6 in New York. And across the country in San Francisco, Talia Weiss and Rob Rein ’12 welcomed Caleb Joseph Rein on September 19, joining brother Wesley.

This year marks 10 years since we graduated, and around 800 of you have never been featured in the Class Notes! Job changes, weddings, moves, babies, graduations, awards, competitions, projects, even new hobbies—whatever you’ve been up to during the past decade, your classmates would love to hear about it. Please send your updates either to me directly or to dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com!

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com

Another summer and another reunion in the books. I’m writing this only days after returning to London from Hanover and still find myself in a bit of a jet lag haze and post-reunion daze. It was great to see so many of you around campus and at the class tent, and I hope those of you who made it had a great reunion weekend, even with Saturday’s crazy rain! Thank you to reunion chairs Amber Porter, Bam Willoughby, Brian Flint, Jamilah Mena, and the rest of the reunion committee for putting in the hard work during the past months.

Some reunions statistics and accomplishments: More than 250 ’14s were in attendance, and we raised $201,963 for the Dartmouth College Fund, exceeding our reunion goal of $200,000. We also managed to consume every single cruller at Lou’s by 10 a.m. Sunday, Saturday night we ran Murphy’s out of martini cups, and—I hear this is unprecedented—cleared Stinson’s shelves of every last case of Keystone (I assume the other reunion classes helped, so I guess we can’t take full credit). But on to the updates.

Christine Kerr was engaged to Connor Dodds this spring and writes in,“Connor and I are planning on getting married in California in April 2024. I am finishing up my anesthesiology residency in Portland, Maine, and am in the process of applying to interventional pain management fellowships. Connor will be looking to start a master’s in political science as well.”

Harriett Gabbidon and Harold Arzu got married in March in Boston. Many ’14s were in attendance, and the wedding party included Ellen (Daily) Stephen, Delanyo Kpo, Tyné Freeman ’17, and Crystal Williams ’15 as maid-of-honor. 

Kathleen Herring married Adam Grant on June 10 in Asheville, North Carolina, with first-year trippie Kristen Flint in the wedding party.

Marissa Wizig married Andrew Klegman in June in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with lots of ’14s in attendance. Lindsay (Mandel) Foley was a bridesmaid and Erin Abraham signed the ketubah. Marissa and Andrew met in business school, where mutual friend Julie Shabto told them to look out for each other. They are currently spending a few months in the Boston area while they figure out where they want to settle down.

Meg (Guard) Andriola matched into psychiatry at Columbia after graduating from Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. She plans on focusing on reproductive psychiatry. Meg and husband Mark Andriola moved to N.Y.C., where Mark is a corporate associate at Wachtell Lipton.

Cheers, ’14s! Keep sending your updates to dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com!

—John Daniels, 12 Fiske Road Wenham, MA 01984; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com; Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com

By the time you read this, it will almost be time for our 10th (well, ninth) reunion! Be sure to register and mark your calendars for June 16-18. Whether over pong tables or Baker tables, we’ll all be catching up and swapping stories soon, but in the meantime, some classmate news.

After a brief stint at Moosilauke, Krystyna Oszkinis settled across the Connecticut River in Norwich, Vermont, where she and her partner started their ecological landscaping company Rooted Gardens. Krystyna writes, “Rooted Gardens strives to make the landscaping industry greener through electric mowing, native garden design, and holistic plant care. We especially enjoy designing projects for fellow alumni and employing a few Dartmouth students (’25s!) during the growing season.” Krystyna looks forward to reconnecting with friends from near and far during reunions!

Frank Wang graduated with his M.B.A. from London Business School in summer 2020 and is now based in Hong Kong, working in investment banking at JP Morgan. His work covers the Asia-Pacific market, and he’s eager to get back to travelling globally. At reunion Frank is looking forward to seeing everyone after 10 years and to playing a real game of pong. Frank writes, “It would be great if we can arrange a beer pong tournament, beer post-college tastes too rich for pong. I missed New Hampshire a lot, just good to see the beautiful town again.”

Grace (McDevitt) Loveland and her husband, Sam, welcomed Liam Douglas Loveland on November 28. He is very excited to make his first trip to Dartmouth for reunion this June!

Dennis Wu and Dedeepya Konuthula had a mini Covid wedding in Pittsburgh in 2021 (with a lot of Dartmouth friends joining via livestream) and are now living in Chicago.

To steal an update from Dartmouth alumni’s annual feature, “Big Green Love Stories,” Don Casler married Taylor Malmsheimer ’15 in August. The couple met while working as editors for The Dartmouth. They write, “We’re moving to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, this summer since Don will be starting a new job as a professor at the University of Illinois. We’re excited to explore the Midwest!”

Currently working on her master’s at Harvard Divinity School, Morgan Curtis hosted a workshop on “Mobilizing wealth and class privilege for social justice” as part of Women of Dartmouth’s Thrive series on February 3. Catch up on past Thrive programs at women.dartmouth.org.

I’m sure the upcoming weekend in Hanover will inspire you to send plenty of reunion stories and updates our way, at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com. See you in June!

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 12 Fiske Road Wenham, MA 01984; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com

Happy holidays, ’14s! As we enter 2023, our 10-year reunion is only months away. In anticipation, mini-reunions are in the works for several cities around the country and London—be sure to keep your contact information up to date at dartgo.org/update to receive information about events happening near you!

There are a number of weddings to report.

On October 2 Katie Chung married Harry Levine in Los Angeles. Mitchell Jacobs officiated the ceremony with fellow ’14s Allegra Condiotte, Colleen Cowdery, and Crystal Ye in attendance as well as Sharang Biswas ’12.

Amy Couture married Kevin Francfort ’15 on June 25.

Nick Allen and Lindsay Haut were married on August 13 in Standish, Maine.

Sophia Vazquez married Ryan McIntyre on October 22 in Columbia, Maryland.

Michelle Khare married Garrett Kennell in Malibu on October 22, celebrating with a fusion Western-Indian wedding. They met working on Michelle’s YouTube channel. And speaking of her YouTube channel, Michelle has even more to celebrate, as her show Challenge Accepted has been nominated for the 12th Annual YouTube Streamy Awards Show of the Year as well as best unscripted series.

Eliana Piper writes in: “I married Sam McIntire ’11 in August in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. We met for the first time at Moosilauke when I was on my freshman trip. There were many Dartmouth alums in attendance (Nathan Potter ’11 was the best man and Luke Peters ’13 was the officiant). In addition to many ’11s, ’12s, and ’13s, ’14s in attendance included Adrian Ferrari, Alex Wolf, Eric Waskowicz, Semarley Jarrett, Genevieve Mifflin, Emily Jordan, Michelle Khare, Joe Singh, Rianna Starheim, and Abby Bard.”

Maddie (Garcia) and Andrew Roberts welcomed their first child, Sage Noel, on August 31. The new parents are loving getting to know their little girl and are settling in as a family of three in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Finally, ’14 entrepreneurs have been active as always. Janna (Wandzilak) Colucci competed in the Dartmouth Angels “Startup Showcase” at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum in San Francisco, with Jenieri Cyrus among the moderators and judges. Also at the forum, Andy Gay hosted a fireside chat discussing beverage company Cirkul, which he and Garrett Waggoner ’13 developed as students. Meanwhile, in N.Y.C., Jessica Wolf cohosted a Dartmouth female founders get-together with fellow entrepreneurs.

Keep sharing your updates at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com!

—John Daniels, 12 Fiske Road, Wenham, MA 01984; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com; Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS, United Kingdom; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com

Happy fall, ’14s! We are fast approaching our 10-year reunion, and in anticipation we’re holding a series of mini-reunions with the classes of 2012 and 2013, taking place in 10 cities around the country (plus London!). Look out for a “10x10” mini-reunion happening near you!

On a side note, it was great to catch-up with our class president Jessica Womack this spring, while she was in the United Kingdom conducting research for her Ph.D. thesis on Jamaican art. Looking forward to seeing more ’14s (and ’12s and ’13s, too) at our upcoming mini-reunion!

In other news from across the pond, Nicola Segal and Jorge Rodriguez ’12 finally celebrated their wedding at London’s Dartmouth House (!) on May 28 after multiple reschedulings due to the pandemic.

On January 8 Jonathan Pedde married Bethan Saunders in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California. Gaby Heffesse married Matthew Lifson ’11 on March 26. And in April Lilly Maguire married Ryan Hockstad in Washington, D.C, and Dominick Pierre married Frances Buren ’15 in Stafford, Virginia.

Congrats to Stuart Allan, who got engaged to Eva Sadej this past spring in New York City.

Daniel Miao graduated from University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute with a joint M.A. in international studies and M.B.A. from Wharton. He will be moving to Chicago to work for BP, trading feedstocks for the renewable distillates and low-carbon fuels team.

Jenni Gargano graduated with her M.A. from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and is moving to New York to work at the International Rescue Committee.

Holly Wakeman received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Watch out for Samara Shanker’s debut novel, Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World, in bookstores September 6. Samara’s second book, Rebecca Reznik Reboots the Universe, “lending traditional Hanukkah tales of mischief a modern twist,” is due to be released next fall.

Kwame Ohene-Adu writes in: “After graduation I had the opportunity to work with professor Joe BelBruno (chemistry) and Jack O’Toole, Tu’14, on their startup FreshAir Sensor, which was built around new sensor technology developed by Joe. This opportunity meant staying in the Upper Valley, which at first seemed less than ideal, but I certainly grew to love being there (except the winters—the winters were always rough). At FreshAir I worked alongside a brilliant and motivated team (which included two other ’14s) to take two product lines from concept to production. I was also fortunate enough to become involved in the rugby community in New England by playing with the Upper Valley Rugby Football Club. Who knew tackling without pads could be so much fun. After almost 12 years in the Upper Valley though, I’ve finally made the move and relocated to about as far southwest as it gets: San Diego. Not sure what this new chapter holds, but definitely excited for what new adventures it brings!”

Keep sending in your updates to dartmouth 2014classnotes@gmail.com!

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 12 Fiske Road, Wenham, MA 01984; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com

Can you believe next year at this time we’ll be getting ready for our 10-year reunion? It would be great to hear what you’ve all been up to during the past almost-decade, so keep sending in your updates!

Dartmouth alumni relations kicked off its new recurring web series “Big Green BFFs” in January with Meegan Daigler, Kaitlin Maier, and Ariana Sopher, cofounders of women’s healthcare startup Reia. The series looks at groups of alumni friends and how they stay connected. Meegan, Kaitlin, and Ariana discuss becoming friends during engineering classes, dyeing their hair pink during a fifth-year Thayer project, and the strong bonds formed through teamwork.

This summer Karen Wai will graduate from her ophthalmology residency with Harvard; she will next be at Stanford for her fellowship in surgical retina.

Chris Megrue graduated from Harvard Business School.

Kathleen Herring was engaged to Adam Grant in November at Morrow Mountain State Park, North Carolina. Kathleen is currently in her second year of internal medicine residency at Wake Forest.

Vicky Stein has started making and selling beautiful handmade books. She writes: “I loved book arts as a kid and have returned to it in a big way this past year, crafting, selling and teaching open-spine bookbinding. It combines my love of sewing with newer interests in painting and drawing.” Check out Vicky’s latest creations on her Briar Books and Goods Instagram account.

Iris Yu married Benjamin Beames in a small ceremony in New York City last May. Iris is currently attending Harvard Business School and would love to get reconnected with any other ’14s who are in Boston!

October saw quite a Russell Sage reunion at the wedding of freshman floor mates John Canning and Alexia Pereira in Philadelphia. Renee Lai and Steve Muenzen tied the knot in Austin this past December. Lots of Dartmouth friends were in attendance, including Kristen Flint, Stefan Deutsch, Cassie Hartt, Dravid Joseph, Dela Kpo, Eric Waskowicz, Brendan Nagle, Alex Styk, Alex Kim, Brian Flint, Jessica Womack, Harry Gates, Joy Piotrowski ’13, Vikram Narayan ’15, and, of course, Steve’s dad, Chuck Muenzen ’80.

Rachael Bornstein and Aaron Mondshine were married on the beach in Miami on February 20. Alison Levens Zhao, Liz Lubiak, Juliet Hollingsworth, Lilly Maguire, and Cohle Fowler were in the wedding party, with plenty of other alums in attendance, including ’14s Kalon and Ellen (Daily) Stephen.

Alison Levens Zhao and Dong Zhao ’13 welcomed their daughter, Laney Blake Zhao, on December 20, 2021. She’s already counting down the days until her DOC trip!

Finally, Grace (McDevitt) Loveland writes in: “I’m the Women of Dartmouth liaison for the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia. If you have anything you’d like me to include in an upcoming Philly Women of Dartmouth newsletter, please send it to me at grace.loveland@raymondjames.com. In honor of May Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m also working with a collaboration of alumni-led groups to launch a series that will feature Dartmouth alumnae sharing their stories of balancing mental health and wellness. Together, we can raise awareness about mental health needs throughout the Dartmouth community and beyond. Please enjoy the stories published at inspire.host.dartmouth.edu and consider sharing a story as well.”

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com;John Daniels, 12 Fiske Road Wenham, MA 01984; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com

Happy New Year, ’14s!

It’s been great to see ’14 entrepreneurs represented in the Magnuson Center’s virtual events during the past few months. As part of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum 2021 in September, two ’14s took part in the Dartmouth Angels Startup Showcase: Janna (Wandzilak) Colucci presented her startup Bundle, a one-stop shop for buildings materials procurement, and Travis Kuster discussed Frio, which he cofounded with fellow ’14 Alex Brown to produce energy-efficient controllers for heating systems. And in October, Meegan Daigler, founder and chief technology officer of healthcare startup Reia,was the first entrepreneur to hold one-on-one meetings with other alums in the center’s new office hours initiative.

Anna Winham is currently working as the grant writer for the Poetry Society of New York and also recently became editor-in-chief of Passengers Journal, “an online literary and visual arts publication that seeks artists whose work challenges and perhaps offends prevailing artistic or societal sentiment.”

You might have seen a familiar face during ad breaks this past summer: Jacqui Calloway appeared in commercials for Bud Light, Giant Grocery, and Laurel Road. Jacqui also starred in the web series The Electrics, which was featured in the American Black Film Festival in November, and was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for her performance in the audio theater production of The Frog Prince. Recognizing outstanding theater in Austin, Texas, the awards council nominated The Frog Prince in 11 different categories!

Congrats to Caitie Meyer, who completed the Boston Marathon in October!

Grace Russo married Michael Fitzgerald, M.D., on June 26, 2021, in New York City with a strong ’14 crowd in attendance, including Abby Cohen, Shelley Wenzel, Grace (McDevitt) Loveland, Eric Waskowicz, John Hong, Lauren Kwan, Nik Medrano, and Hannah Rowe. Grace also received her M.D. from Brown Medical School and is currently doing her residency at New York Presbyterian-Columbia.

September was a busy month for weddings: Wendy Xiao and Dylan Assael were married in Vermont. They first met when randomly paired for an Alpha Xi Delta-Sigma Epsilon pong tournament, which they relived with a “first pong game” at the wedding against best man Bobby Arao ’13 and maid of honor Lucia Qian. Ellen (Daily) Stephen, Sid Sathe, Joe Yi ’13, and Dan Marcusa ’13 were also in the wedding party, and Sean Kaufman ’13 officiated. On September 4 Lauren Jenny married Peter Foley in Rhode Island, and on September 18 Julia Herringer married Kyle Beilman.

Jonathan Pedde was engaged to Bethan Saunders in July, and the couple moved to Boston in August.

Holly Wakeman had a whirlwind summer: In the final steps toward her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, she defended her dissertation in May and began an internship at Children’s Hospital Colorado in June. And in July Holly was engaged to Ben Campbell, who proposed on a hike in Telluride, Colorado.

After the past two crazy years, it seems as though everyone has something new going into 2022: weddings, babies, new cities, new jobs, and new schools. Even my familiar underground line somehow managed to come out of this mess with two new stops.

In other words, I know you all have updates, so send them in! Drop us a note on what you’ve been up to at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com.

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 1495 Wisteria Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com

Hi, ’14s, and happy fall! Graduation season is in full swing as I write this and there are quite a few updates to report.

To start things off, co-class secretary John Daniels and his wife, Allie Taikowski, graduated with M.B.A.s from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and have relocated back to the Boston area.

Chelsye Nelson graduated from NYU School of Law and will be taking the bar exam before starting at a law firm in New York City in the fall.

Liz Lubiak graduated with an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management and is returning to Boston to work in consulting.

Alison Levens Zhao received her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and will be continuing with Google at its New York City offices.

Alesy (Iturrey) Lerner also completed her M.B.A. at Columbia and now works at TikTok in business marketing and creator strategy. Alesy and her husband, David Lerner, live in New York City and look forward to many Dartmouth meet-ups this summer and fall.

Janna (Wandzilak) Colucci finished her M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is working on her own startup, Bundle, a one-stop marketplace for building materials that aims to make construction materials procurement easier and more transparent.

Kevin Mulquin received his M.B.A. from the Emory University Goizueta Business School.

At the University of Chicago, Rohail Premjee graduated with dual degrees: master’s in public policy from the Harris School and an M.B.A. from Booth.

Tony Zhao also graduated with an M.B.A. from Booth and will be moving back to New York City in the fall, when he’ll be joining Bain & Co. after interning there last summer. Tony has even more to celebrate: “I recently got engaged to Jessica Goldstein ’16 in San Diego after dating for four years. Thanks to Emily Zhao ’16 for introducing us!”

Kellogg awarded M.B.A.s to a number of Dartmouth ’14s, including Erin Abraham, Marissa Wizig, and Jenieri Cyrus. Erin will be moving into management consulting in Boston, and Marissa will be joining McKinsey in San Francisco after spending the summer traveling and working at a summer camp. Jenieri is relocating to Los Angeles, where he will be joining the Urban Innovation Fund as a venture capital associate and marrying his longtime girlfriend Viviana Ramos ’13 in November.

Kalon Stephen also completed his M.B.A. at Kellogg and in April married Ellen Daily in St. Augustine, Florida. Many ’14s were in attendance, with Julie Ann Haldeman, Ayushi Narayan, Josh Hall, and Atul Vaidyanathan in the wedding party. Ellen writes, “There would really have been no wedding without Dartmouth and Kappa Delta formal. A strong ’14s showing made the day a real party and so special for us!”

Congrats to Matt Bossart, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship in electrical and electronic engineering.

Chantal Shirley writes, “I recently accepted a full-time position as a cloud engineer with Pearson doing cloud infrastructure work and software development. This has been a dream many years in the making and it is finally a reality.”

And finally, Talia Weiss and her husband, Rob Rein ’12, welcomed their son, Wesley Lev Rein, on May 2. As a prospective member of the class of 2043, he’s already looking quite comfortable in his tiny Dartmouth apparel!

Tell us about your ’14 meet-ups, life updates, or anything else you’d like to see in the Class Notes at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com!

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS, UK; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com; John Daniels, 1495 Wisteria Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.com

Hi, ’14s—back again! You may have noticed (but probably did not) that the class of 2014 did not have any updates in the last issue of the alumni magazine. Given the current circumstances, I debated making a virus-related excuse so that you would all excuse my forgetfulness. However, I’ve decided to come clean. The truth of the matter is that these notes are due months in advance. I was actually just busy at John Zahka’s bachelor party down in Miami drinking my body weight in Keystone Light with our classmates Tom Whalen, Preston Suan, and Rahul Raina, which I hope you all agree, is a more than valid excuse.

Before getting to any other updates, I think we have to give a shout-out to all the members of the class of 2014 who work in healthcare and have been on the frontlines of this fight! There are way too many of you to list here right now, but during the coming months make sure to check out the @dartmouth_2014 Instagram, where we will be recognizing their tremendous work during this crazy time! Quickly though, big shout-out to Jayne Caron, who chose to graduate early from medical school this spring in order to join the fight at NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital!

I hope by the time these notes get to your mailbox, things have settled down a bit. Staying safe and sane during this lockdown isn’t easy, but I’ve been very impressed by some of the creative ways the class of 2014 has tried to maintain a sense of normalcy in these difficult times. East Coast correspondent Amelia Acosta has temporarily relocated back to the Midwest, where she continues to promote all of our classmates’ bread-related adventures. Out on the West Coast, our classmate Michelle Khare reached more than 2 million subscribers to her YouTube channel and has endless hours of content if anyone is in need of some entertainment. Down in Texas, Renee Lai has started an art school that is currently offering online “classes that are more rigorous and intellectually engaging than wine and drink places, but less pressure than taking class at a community college.” So if you are interested in checking them out, the website is theartlocal.com and she is on Instagram at @theartlocalatx. With each passing day John D’Antonio gets closer and closer to posting his first TikTok. We can’t wait, John! We will all be watching when you do!

I’m sure there are plenty of updates to the normal engagement/wedding section that I could add to this note but seeing as only Zoom weddings will be taking place for a while longer, I’ll report back on that front later.

Finally, it also seems like everyone is either starting or ending graduate school right now, so congrats to everyone who is either getting ready to start a new chapter or busy virtually celebrating their tremendous accomplishments and hard work! A few quick shout-outs to Kara Dastrup,who will be starting a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at the University of Washington, and Andrew Roberts, who graduated from Columbia Business School. Andrew will be returning home in order to pursue a career dealing hand sanitizer, masks, and toilet paper with dreams of becoming Miami’s newest kingpin!

—George Helding, 1216 W. Addison St., Apt. 2, Chicago, IL 60613; georgehelding92@gmail.com

Hello again, ’14s.

Happy new year and welcome back to another edition of updates from the class of 2014! However, given our class’s general lack of enthusiasm for sending in updates, this note might be more aptly titled, “George’s musings after scrolling through social media for three hours.” Thank you all for giving my Internet addiction and God-given talent for procrastination a productive and creative outlet, but in the future please send me updates! Not only will they be much appreciated, but they will also prevent me from reporting any fake news, which, entering 2020, is more important than ever before.

Starting off this issue’s edition of “Weddings, Engagements, & Other Romantic Activities,” Isa Francisco and Nate Reznicek got married this October in Boston. Meanwhile over in the vastly superior city of Chicago, Kalon Stephen and Ellen Daily got engaged on the shores of Lake Michigan. I know I have missed many other engagements and weddings, but one in particular was the wedding of Alison Levens and Dong Zhao who got married in St. Louis, Missouri, in July. Speaking of St. Louis, going back into the Class Notes archives, it also seems as though my predecessor as secretary never announced the engagement of Meg Guard and Mark Andriola. Congrats everyone!

The only actual update I received for this edition comes from Dan Harnish, who writes, “There were 12 ’14s inducted into the Dartmouth Athletic Hall of Fame during Homecoming.” Upon further investigation, Nathan Utterback, Peter Horak, Stuart Ghafoor, Scott Brookes, Ivan Antoniv, and Gabby Stern joined the Wearers of the Green this fall for outstanding years fencing at Dartmouth. Additionally, Victoria Rackohn, Kristen Nehls, Maria Sperduto, Iris Yu, and Jojo Miller were honored for their accomplishments on the ice while figure skating at Thompson Arena. What Dan somehow failed to mention was that he also was inducted into this illustrious group for putting his ridiculously long limbs to use as goalie for the water polo team. While some may think Dan was just being humble and deferential to his classmates, I would definitely put this update in the category of “subtle self-call.” Well done, Dan.

In terms of professional accomplishments, our fellow classmate Ben Nguyen won this year’s Milken Educator Award for his work teaching students robotics at Sunrise Mountain High School in Las Vegas. This year Ben was one of only 40 teachers in the country to win this award, dubbed as “Oscar of Teaching” by Teacher magazine.

Finally, Clifton Lyons recently moved into a new apartment, started a new job in Chicago, and is generally thriving. Since graduation Clifton has been a co-creator and executive producer of the web series Velvet, which premiered in March 2018 and is obviously still worth checking out if you haven’t already. More recently, Clifton writes in that they have rebranded as “sporty” and can be found in their free time watching The Game.

—George Helding, 1216 W. Addison St., Apt. 2, Chicago, IL 60613; georgehelding92@gmail.com

My dear classmates, I am writing this a few weeks after our reunion. I spent time with some of you I knew well, as well as others who had been acquaintances and people who I didn’t know at all during our time in Hanover who I got to know better. This was my favorite part—just chatting, connecting, seeing smiles, and hearing laughter. I asked you to submit news and your favorite part of reunions if you were able to attend, so…on to the news.

Kristen Flint graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in May. While celebrating graduation in Scotland, she and Stefan Deutsch got engaged! The two are now living in Boston, where Kristen has begun her internal medicine residency. Her favorite thing from reunions was seeing friends all together and walking around Occom admiring the flowers.

This year Kate Thorstad graduated from NYU School of Law. She will move to New Orleans to work as a public defender in August. Her favorite part of reunions was throwing an almost-surprise birthday party on the Collis porch with an Umpleby’s cake and old friends.

Another newly minted lawyer is Andrew Shanahan, who graduated from Columbia Law School this past May and will work in New York City starting this fall. Additionally, he and Nancy Seem are getting married this summer in Princeton, New Jersey, and will spend their honeymoon in Hawaii. Andrew’s favorite part of reunions was hiking Moosilauke and seeing friends again.

Kylie Lucas graduated from Harvard Business School with her M.B.A. in May and is moving to Washington, D.C., where she will work at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space launch company. There, she will work on national security market strategy and sales. “I’m very excited to be combining my passions for engineering, physics, space, and business together in my next professional chapter.” Her favorite part of reunions was sitting by the river Saturday afternoon, a throwback to Sophomore Summer and a reminder of how special Dartmouth is.

Matt Wefer and Sarah (Knapp) Wefer were married in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, in January with many alumni in attendance. They’ve come a long way from their first date of pong in the Alpha Chi basement. Don’t worry, they recalled it several times at reunion!

Renee Lai graduated with her M.F.A. in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin this past spring. She loved singing “Dear Old Dartmouth” at reunions after the fireworks show.

Lindsay Mandel emailed in: “After meeting sophomore year, Jack Foley ’13 and I finally tied the knot this summer! The wedding was absolutely beautiful, and we were so blessed to have many ’14s in attendance! After an incredible European adventure with Jack, I am excited to be back home in N.Y.C. to begin my career as a physician.”

Arianne Hunter recently completed her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Her research was focused on the development of synthetic methods to rapidly construct pharmaceutical drug molecules in hopes of making them more affordable. She will be pursuing postdoctoral training at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory as a forensic chemist in Atlanta.

J.D.s, M.D.s, Ph.D.s (and more that don’t fit this rhyme scheme), oh my! This is my last column, so I wanted to thank you all for reading, and an even bigger thanks to those who sent in news and responded to my sometimes desperate calls for submissions. Sending you all the best, and I am so excited to see many of you over the next few years!

—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com

Hello, dear classmates! I am so thrilled I get to see you in just a few weeks’ time at our five-year reunion! The reunion planning committee, led by the wonderful Jen Weissbach, Kasey Boyd, and Sophia Vazquez,has been hard at work organizing a weekend to remember. In the last column I asked you all to send in news along with your answers to the question, “What are you most excited to see or do at our reunion?” I got some lovely responses, so here they are!

Our incredible class president Holly Foster will kick us off with some news and anticipations. She wrote in, “After four years working at State Street Global Advisors in Boston, I moved over to Acadian Asset Management, where I work in business development and sales with Dartmouth ’05 Layne Finnerty, covering endowments and foundations. I am loving the new role so far and beginning to explore part-time business school options for next year. I’m so excited to bring our class back together again at the place where it all began. Can’t wait to see people who I haven’t seen in five years and feel the magic of Hanover and Dartmouth all over again!”

Ryan Toimil emailed, “I’ve been living in south Florida since graduation (my hometown is Boca Raton) and I currently live in Delray Beach with another former baseball alum Christopher England ’15. I’m currently an outside sales representative for a roofing material distribution company called Beacon Roofing Supply and am thinking about business school in the next few years. I hope to attend our reunion and am most excited to see everyone and lose to them at pong just like when we were undergrads.”

Congrats to Nicola Segal and Jorge Rodriguez ’12, who got engaged during Thanksgiving in Paris. The happy couple feels so fortunate to have met at Dartmouth, which of course holds a special place in their hearts. Nicola is also looking forward to seeing everyone back at the College this summer and can’t wait for “that summer smell on campus.”

Emma McDermott will be graduating with a J.D. from Yale Law School this May and starting a Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard this fall. She would love to connect with classmates in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, and she’s excited to jump into the Connecticut River again in June.

Nina Montgomery reports from her Ph.D. program in anthropology and business at Oxford. Based on her academic research, she has edited two books, Perspectives on Impact and Perspectives on Purpose, that feature essays by 40 leaders from various sectors discussing social impact and corporate purpose. Both books came out in March and feature introductory essays by Nina.

Joseph Miller was promoted to assistant principal at Success Academy Charter School. As an ice skater, he’s excited to visit Thompson Arena, check in with figure skating club coach Jackie Smith, and eat Collis chocolate scones.

And that’s it for this column. See you in the 603.

—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; classnotes2014dartmouth@gmail.com

Happy new year! This issue marks the first for Dartmouth’s special celebration of the College’s 250th anniversary. Of course the College on the Hill is a storied institution, one with many alumni across the world who work hard to make change in a multitude of different ways. I’ve been proud to be a Dartmouth alumna, and there are countless ways I’ve used lessons I learned at Dartmouth (both inside and outside of the classroom) to work to become a better person. I met people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences during my time at the College that broadened my perspective, challenged me, and helped shape me, and I personally hope that, in another 250 years, Dartmouth thrives as a place that pushes people out of their comfort zones and nurtures students who are open, global citizens. So, what do you think Dartmouth will look like in another 250 years? Send me your updates for next issue with an answer to this question! Now on to this month’s news.

On October 7 Kelly Brait ran the Chicago Marathon. Even though it rained, it did not dampen her spirit and enthusiasm to complete her first marathon. She was enjoying her time so much throughout the race that she said, “I never got to my playlist!” Kelly also earned her C.F.P. designation this year and is working with J.P. Morgan Chase in Chicago. She still meets with former Dartmouth soccer teammates and enjoys annual trips with the girls.

Patton Lowenstein writes in, “I spent the first year or so working on an oyster farm on Cape Cod, including the winter when New England got about 8 feet of snow—we spent a lot of time in sub-30-degree water in leaky waders. For a year or so after that (plus about two weeks of unemployment) I worked as baker, then line cook, then sous chef at Water Street Kitchen in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Since mid-2017 I have been working in the chemistry department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studying coral skeleton chemistry as proxy for ocean temperature and chemistry change. I am beginning with a new lab next week to study lipid biomarkers (metabolic indicators) in marine microbes.”

And, if I may, I’d love to share some personal news. I had the pleasure of marrying Brian Flint in New Orleans on October 27. We were so thrilled to share our hometown (we met at a Dartmouth meet-up event the summer before freshman year) with people we love so much. Many Dartmouth alumni attended, including Brian’s parents, Delos and Elizabeth (Putnam) Flint ’78. Maids-of-honor Semarley Jarrett and Tashneen Bakht, best man Brendan Nagle, and bridesmaid Chisom Obi-Okoye were a part of our wedding party, which also included, among others, Connor Flint ’12 and Caitlin Flint ’16. Thank you to all of the alums who joined us for this special day!

Looking forward to receiving your news! Also, don’t forget to tell me what you hope the College will look like in 250 years!

—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Hello, ’14s! Can you believe our run around the fire during freshman year’s Homecoming Weekend was eight years ago? Now, this school year, we’re headed back for our fifth-year reunion!

I promised to share more information about this highly anticipated event (June 14-16, 2019) as it became available, and I will deliver! Your five-year reunion chairs are—drum roll, please—Kasey Boyd, Sophia Vazquez, and Jenn Weissbach! They eagerly look forward to planning and executing an unforgettable weekend for our class. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to reach out to any of the organizers! Now, on to the news!

In May Jovalee Thompson graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master’s of science in nursing. She’s now working in the neuroscience critical care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Phil Schmidt writes, “I have been in Manhattan working in finance since graduation. I recently made the move to Goldman Sachs’s leveraged finance sales team in the Fixed Income Clearing Corp. division. It’s going six years strong with Caroline Black ’13, who is currently working at Decade Capital, and I spend most of my free time with fellow ’14s Myles Christian, Peter Calvanelli, and Dean Bakes as well as the handful of ’13s living in the city.”

Aaron McGee interned this past summer at Citi, where he worked with the mergers and acquisitions group; he was very excited to be back in New York City. Now he’s returning to Philadelphia to finish up his M.B.A. at Wharton.

Paige Monborne recently moved from the Washington, D.C., area to Manhattan, where she will be attending Columbia University Teachers College to pursue her master’s of education in counseling psychology.

Rae (Kameko) Winborn is in Beijing this academic year as a Yenching Scholar at the Yenching Academy of Peking University pursuing her master’s. She will study Chinese private equity and social impact investing in China, joining 120 other Yenching Scholars from more than 60 countries.

Shea Flanagan will be starting the master of environmental management program at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in August after three years working for the Nature Conservancy. She is excited to connect with Dartmouth alums and new friends in New Haven, Connecticut.

Thank you to all of those who wrote in and answered my requests for news. I look forward to getting more updates, especially as we near June!

—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Hello, ’14s! I hope you all are well and enjoying the spring! We have some great news from our classmates, so let’s get to it!

James Lin is finishing up his master’s in public administration with a focus in environmental science and policy at Columbia University. He has worked on various client-focused projects during his study and is expected to work for the New York City mayor’s office or in the public sector after graduation. Congrats, James!

Morgan Curtis writes in, “In these times of intersecting crises, I’m grateful to wake up and contribute each day at Canticle Farm, an interracial, intergenerational, interfaith urban farm and intentional community in East Oakland, California. I’ve also been working for three years now with SustainUS, a national network of youth climate justice activists. This year I am organizing the California Allegory Youth Fellowship, an opportunity for young artists and organizers from the frontlines of the climate crisis in California to bring their stories to the Global Climate Action Summit. The question most alive for me right now is: How, amidst our work resisting the systems of oppressions that bind us, do we enact our visions of liberation in the here and now?”

Alison Polton-Simon recently started a new job working as a software engineer at Angaza in San Francisco. At Angaza, she’ll be working to expand access to solar energy and other clean technologies in areas without grid electricity.

After spending three months last summer cycling across Europe from Scotland to Poland, Eric Waskowicz joined the American Academy of Family Physicians in Washington, D.C., as a legislative and policy strategist in their state health policy office.

Lauren Jenny moved from her hometown of Boston to Dallas in January. After working in finance for three years, she is excited to join Compass Real Estate, a technology-driven real estate firm.

Katie Randolph recently joined the BlackRock digital wealth team. In her new role she facilitates strategic partnerships between BlackRock’s technology platforms (most notably its robo-advisor) and other financial institutions.

Jane Cavalier has returned to the Museum of Modern Art as a curatorial assistant in the department of drawings and prints. Having worked there in 2016-17 as the Modern Women’s Fund 12-month intern, Jane eagerly continues developing MoMA’s collection and exhibition program.

Last, I write with the news about the passing this past fall of two of our classmates, Hunter Foraker and Caleb Ladue. Our deepest condolences are with their families and friends. I have seen some beautiful tributes to Caleb and Hunter from many of you; I know our class will miss these two vibrant and kind individuals very much.

Thank you to all of those who wrote in. I look forward to hearing from more of you as the year progresses. Sending the very best wishes.

—Jessica Womack, 8 Spring St., Princeton, NJ 08542; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Happy spring, ’14s! I hope you all have had a lovely start to 2017. This column is short and sweet, so I’ll get to it!

This fall Aaron McGee will move to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. While pursuing his M.B.A. Aaron also looks forward to being a voice for progress at Wharton, serving as a student leader and becoming involved in a selected set of academic and cocurricular activities (maybe even the rugby team!). Aaron hopes to travel rather extensively in the months leading up to business school, noting that he “hopes to break 35 countries visited before the end of the year!”

Margaret “Maggie” Rowland emailed in, “I started my master’s in nonproliferation and terrorism studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, in August 2016, preceded by a 10-week intensive course in Arabic at the Middlebury summer intensive language program. I’m also excited to say that, along with my studies, I have recently begun work as a content analyst at the homeland security digital library located at the naval postgraduate school in Monterey. Life is full of excitement!”

Congrats, you two! To others reading, please email in with anything and everything! I look forward to hearing from more of you soon.

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53 St., New York, NY, 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Hello, my dear classmates, and welcome to 2017. Though you’re reading this at the beginning of January, I am writing this on the Friday of Homecoming weekend and my Instagram feed is full of pictures of the bonfire, Dartmouth Hall, brilliant orange and yellow leaves and people in warm-looking deep green sweaters. Many of those sharing these images are a few years younger or a few years older; it doesn’t seem like many ’14s went up to campus for Homecoming 2016, likely because of increasing work or school obligations. I’m sure many of you also scrolled past these images and were filled with the same sense of nostalgia as I am feeling presently.

But life goes on, and we are presented with other chances to see people we care about. Like how I recently went to the wedding of Chelsea Stewart ’12 and Connor Flint ’12 (congrats!) and got to celebrate with Brian Flint, Kristen Flint, Stefan Deutsch, Brendan Nagle, Harry Gates, Steve Muenzen and Jenna Vickers. Class of ’14s roll deep.

Anyway, enough of my musings. On to the updates. Thanks to the kind souls below who responded to my call.

Last summer Alex St. Romain, Molly Grimes and Kara Hedges spent three weeks hiking the John Muir Trail. They completed their 220-mile journey with a sunrise summit of Mount Whitney on July 2. After quite a successful summer trip Alex began law school at New York University this past fall. She is excited to reconnect with the many other ’14s in New York City! 

Jane Cavalier is also in New York and actually works just two floors away from me at the Museum of Modern Art. After receiving her master’s in the history of art last spring from the Courtauld Institute in London (where she concentrated on contemporary American art) Jane accepted a 12-month curatorial internship in the department of drawings and prints at MoMA.

Stefan Deutschreported,“For the past year I worked as a team leader for AmeriCorps National Civilian Corps, so I did a variety of service projects throughout the southwestern United States. Now I’ve started my M.S. in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and am looking for friends in the Bay Area!”

Rohail Premjee currently works for the impact investing initiative at the Aga Khan Development Network’s offices in Washington, D.C. He is excited to be moving for a year to Karachi, Pakistan, to consult for the Aga Khan University and Hospital System on its grants and investment strategy, as well to assist with a World Bank study that is evaluating the system’s social and economic impact in Pakistan. Let him know if you’ll be passing through!

Cal Steffen also wrote in with an exciting update of a different sort: She and Luke Suydam are engaged! The couple recently moved to Hong Kong, where they will be for the next year. Luke is working at Bain Capital’s Hong Kong office as a private equity associate and Cal is working remotely at Rent the Runway as a software engineer. Congrats, Cal and Luke!

Looking forward to hearing good tidings from more of you all! Here’s to a great year.

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53 St., New York, NY 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com
 

Hello all! All of my dedicated readers will notice this column is a bit lighter than usual. One can only assume you all have been truly living life rather than spending your time telling me about it. Which is fair. Luckily, some of our wonderful classmates indulged my ceaseless pleading and sent in some updates. Many thanks to you!

Boston is getting some fine folk these days, if I do say so myself. I know there is a pretty strong contingent of Dartmouth ’14s in the area, so those there: Be prepared to welcome some familiar faces! Kelsey Wheeler is moving to Boston in September and she’s going to be living with Avery Plough. While (as of June) Kelsey doesn’t know what her new job is going to be quite yet, she looks forward to being in a new location after Hanover.

Michael Zhu, Anoush Arakelian and Andrew Roberts are all moving in together in Kendall Square in Boston. “Pong table included,” they announce. In addition to crushing marathons regularly, Anoush also runs the class website and Instagram (@dartmouth_2014—follow it!), so if you have any recent pictures from mini-reunions, trips back to Dartmouth or any other events where you’re with a contingent of our classmates, please send them her way (anoush_arakelian@gmail.com)!

Julie Ann Haldeman writes in, “I’m looking forward to joining the Dartmouth community in Boston! I’ll be starting at Harvard Business School this fall along with classmate Alex Styk.” Catherine “Caitie” Meyer emails, “I have been working at Deloitte Consulting in Boston since graduation but have left my job to do a post-baccalaureate program so I can apply to medical school.”

Good luck to you all on your new endeavors!

Also, on a separate note, I wanted to share a recent lesson. I was able to go up to Hanover for Commencement and I was very pleased to hear to the words of Leymah Gbowee. In her speech she challenged members of the class of 2016 to take the “open mind challenge.” To make the conscious effort to learn about others and their backgrounds and experiences to become a more compassionate person and a true global citizen. If you have not watched the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s speech yet, I recommend it. I look forward to taking the challenge with all of you.

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53, New York, NY 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Hello, ’14s! I hope everyone is enjoying the spring! I recently took a trip out to California with Tashneen Bakht and Brian Flint to visit Brendan Nagle for his birthday. Loved seeing him and other ’14s such as Jennafer (Jenna) Vickers, Ryan Tibble and Kali Pruss! Mark Andriola also ventured out west recently. In addition to currently finishing up as a business analyst at McKinsey, where he has spent the last five months on a project aimed at reducing violence in one of the largest jails in the United States, he visited Phi Delta West Coast ’14s Daniel (Dan) Bernhard, Samuel (Sam) Bauer and Nelson Santry. “While I still live with four fellow ’14s in N.Y.C.,” says Mark, “I will be leaving my job and apartment to attend law school this fall.”

Lauren Jenny reports, “I live in Boston’s North End with classmate Kara Lehman. I recently completed a rotational program with Putnam Investments and started as a relationship manager for the firm. I am heading to Florida with some classmates from my sorority Kappa Delta Epsilon in three weeks for a nice vacation!” Xavier Curry lives in New York City. He’s releasing colorful, vibrant R&B music under the moniker Xav A. His most recent projects feature contributions with amazing Dartmouth talents, including Christopher Gallerani ’15 and Nathaniel Graves ’13!

Dylan Gabel writes in, “I am currently a medical scribe at Tufts Medical Center for ScribeAmerica. In this role I work alongside ER physicians to provide real-time documentation and facilitate greater efficiency and care for patients. Also, I accepted a full-time offer from Fanning Personnel, a financial services staffing agency in downtown Boston.” Graylin Harrison says, “After spending a year in Italy, I returned to the United States and have been working in Chicago. I have applied to Ph.D. programs in art history and have received some offers of admission. I am still contemplating my options, but it’s looking like this adventure will take me someplace new (with balmy winters).”

Anna Bladey and Patrick Yukman have moved to Chicago. Anna is starting mathematics classes at the University of Chicago as a graduate student-at-large and Patrick is starting a new job as a software developer in the center for personalized therapeutics at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

And now for some exciting engagement news from Kevin Griffith and Nayrana Carneiro: According to Kevin, “A few minutes after sunset on Friday, February 12, I asked Nayrana for her hand in marriage while on vacation in Colorado. Nay and I first met during freshman fall and quickly became close friends, though we didn’t begin dating until much later. After college Nay stayed in Hanover to attend Geisel while I moved down to Dallas, returning to visit her every two or three weeks. In January I moved back up to Boston to be closer to her and decided the time was right to propose! Thankfully, she said yes. We’d like to thank all our classmates and friends who have reached out to congratulate us on the engagement.”

Marianna Cid is searching for jobs in Los Angeles, but writes in with a winter highlight. She spent Valentine’s Day with 20,000 runners, joggers and power-walkers for the Los Angeles Marathon. Clarisse Benoit emailed in, “After almost two years teaching kindergarten in the Upper Valley I am planning to move to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, this summer to be closer to my family. I am excited for the move, but it will be hard saying goodbye to the Dartmouth area, since I didn’t really go far after graduation!”

Thanks for the updates! Keep emailing in!

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53, New York, NY 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Happy 2016! I hope you all had an amazing holiday season and are starting the new year off happy and healthy. I am writing these notes at the end of October, and I have been hearing great stories about members of the class of 2014 meeting up and traveling to Hanover for what I am sure was a fun Homecoming.

Although I was unable to make it to Homecoming this year, I did manage to make it back to the College this fall. In September several members of our class’s executive committee traveled up for Class Officers Weekend, when we attended different sessions on how to plan mini-reunions and most effectively lead our class in our alumni years. Our class had a great showing that weekend, especially for such a young class. We love keeping our class connected to Dartmouth. Now on to the updates!

Ian Stewart wrote in, “I’ve recently started my Ph.D. in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech, and so far I’m loving the Atlanta sunshine. Also, a few ’14s—Crystal Ye, Kathleen “Katie” Chung, Abigail “Abby” Bard and I—recently had a reunion in Boston to celebrate Abby’s briefly returning from South Korea to the United States. It was a great chance for everyone to catch up over drinks and karaoke.”

Robert “Rob” Rein ’12 and Talia Weiss got engaged over Homecoming Weekend at the top of Baker Tower. According to Talia, “We met at Dartmouth four years ago and we are both currently living in N.Y.C.” Congrats to Rob and Talia!

Tev’n Powers spent the past year working as a data and applied scientist on the natural language experiences team at Microsoft in Seattle. According to Tev’n, “In my time here I’ve also been involved in the #BlackLivesMatter community organizing and hope to continue to contribute to this type of liberation work. Also, most recently I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Hong Kong, China, and Seoul. In November 2015 I’m working on releasing a black business app called Commonwealth (http://becommonwealthy.com) with Kyle Davy, Kaya Thomas ’17 and Logan Henderson ’17.

Shelley Wenzel, Kellie MacPhee, Lisa Rennels and Grace McDevitt went to Greece in June and, according to Grace, it was the best week of their lives. They saw all the sights, swam in the middle of the Aegean, colonized a private beach and befriended the goats on an uninhabited island. “It was glorious.”

Nathaniel “Nate” Davis reported in, “Brian Joseff and I hiked the Teton Crest Trail in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, in mid-September. We unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately) did not see any bears, but we did run into several mule deer, the friendliest of which we named ‘Gladys.’ ”

Arenne Clark and Brendon Stoner got engaged in May and are planning a summer wedding in New Hampshire with plenty of Big Green teammates and friends in attendance. Congrats to the happy couple!

Lillian “Lilly” Maguire emailed in, “I’m glad to report I’m back on the East Coast, attending Georgetown Law School and living with Lela McCrea, Anna Harty, Amelia Raether ’13 and Heather Szilagyi ’15 in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.”

“Since graduation,” said Kathleen Dobell, “I’ve been working for Axiom Learning in Boston. I recently moved up to managing two of our Boston centers so most of my time now is spent in business development and management rather than teaching. I’m planning on staying in Boston for another year and then I hope do some traveling before going back to school.

Thanks so much to those who emailed in, and I look forward to hearing more exciting news soon!

—Jessica Womack, 228 West 140, Apt. 3C, New York, NY 10030; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Happy August, ’14s! I hope everyone is having a lovely summer! I recently moved to New York City to start a new job working with the junior associates young patrons group at the Museum of Modern Art. I love the city in the summer and it’s great running into friends and other Dartmouth alumni here. Now for the updates from our classmates!

Abigail “Abby” Cohen writes in, “I moved to Paraguay in March and on May 18 I swore in as a Peace Corps volunteer in the community economic development sector. For the next two years I will be living in Paso de Patria, a town at the southwestern tip of Paraguay. I will be working with Paraguayan counterparts in the local schools and municipal government and the local youth group, getting involved with community projects.”

Harrison “Harry” Gates is currently living in Boston working as a technology consultant at Mindstream Analytics. Outside of traveling for work he has been keeping up with Frisbee with a pickup group at Harvard.

Rachel Decker-Sadowski just finished her mechanical engineering degree this year at Thayer and has been in Los Angeles since June pursuing her dreams to be an actress. Jacqueline “Jacqui” Calloway is also in L.A., living with Emma Steele, Charlie Laud and Michelle Khare. “I’ve signed with a commercial agent,” she writes, “and have been going out on auditions! I’m appearing in Jeremy Thibodeau and Ben Edlin’s next feature, Circle. Other than that I’ve been soaking up the sun!”

Julia Berkowitz emailed, “During my gap year I had worked as an intern in the clinical department of Partners In Health. My responsibilities included helping the team in Boston to support the Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia, working to reduce maternal mortality in Haiti and reanalyzing existing malnutrition protocols for improvements.”

Samantha “Sam” Oh reports in, “I quit my job the first week of 2015 and joined my brother Kevin, a ’12, to work full time on bringing Axel Audio to life. Believing that only you know for yourself how to listen, look and feel, we created three distinct soundscapes—or sound profiles—to cater to the music you listen to and adopted a fully customizable design to match your unique personality. Since raising more than $200,000 on Kickstarter earlier this summer we’ve been gearing up for our official launch this fall!”

This past year Rebecca “Becca” Rothfeld has been published in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bookforum, Slate and the Los Angeles Review of Books. “This fall,” she writes, “I will begin a master’s program at the University of Cambridge before continuing on to the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Harvard.”

Hugh “Joseph” Miller says, “I’m doing a teaching fellowship at Success Academy charter schools, teaching first grade. I’m also working toward a master’s in elementary and special education. It’s been incredibly fast-paced; Success Academy is intense and the days are long. However, I’ve fallen in love with teaching and my students and I’ve learned so much about education and myself. It’s endlessly fulfilling to journey with my students during the year. Next year I’ll be completing my master’s and teaching first grade again! Other than work and school a large part of my life has been keeping my attention on Madagascar, where Charles “Tyler” Bradford is for the Peace Corps. I miss him dearly, but it’s been an adventure for us both to be doing things that require our passions and a desire to do good by the world.”

Thanks to all who wrote in, and I look forward to hearing from more ’14s soon!

—Jessica Womack, 228 West 140, Apt. 3C, New York, NY 10030; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

Hello, fellow ’14s! It is the first anniversary of our graduation from Dartmouth! Congratulations to you all for all of your successes and adventures from this past year. I have been reflecting a lot about the past year and realized this year has been very important for me and my personal development. I have been deciding who I am, what my passions are and how I like to spend my free time after work. I have discovered I really enjoy cooking, especially for friends and family. Also, this first year has reminded me how much I like reading for fun; I missed having time to get wrapped up in a book and stay up all night reading.


For this issue of the Class Notes I asked our classmates what they have been up to and what is the most interesting thing they’ve learned during their first year after college. Here are a few people’s answers.


Amanda Spoto will be attending Oxford University’s English literature summer school 2015 program. She says, “I plan on taking two seminars, ‘Modernist Fiction’ and ‘Contemporary Fiction,’ both of which will count as my elective courses for MALS. These two classes coincide with my cultural studies track in MALS as well as my interest in fiction related to memory and nation. The most interesting thing I’ve learned during my first year after college is realizing I will forever be a student of life. The learning experience never really ends.”


Shane O’Neal reported in, “I just started a new job working in a research department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and am living in Boston. Since graduation I’ve learned that Dartmouth grads pop up in all sorts of unexpected places.”


Samuel Rauschenfels, inspired by his time as a program coordinator at the Collis Center for student involvement, will be attending a master’s program in higher education and student affairs in August. He said, “The most interesting thing I’ve learned at my job is how rich and varied student life is at Dartmouth and institutions around the country.” 


Renee Lai has been working as an assistant product marketing manager at MBI in Norwalk, Connecticut. This year she has renewed her love of cooking and working out.


Brendan Nagle is currently interning at Rabobank in New York City in the global client solutions department. He will be starting a job in July at Oracle in Santa Clara, California, in July and will be living with Jennafer “Jenna” Vickers. He commented, “The most interesting thing I’ve learned since graduation is what I want in life. I don’t have an exact idea, but I feel like I have a better idea.”


Steven Muenzen is working at Rabobank in New York City as an analyst. He says, “I have learned to keep my nice cooking appliances in my room and away from my roommates.”


Leslie Ye moved from New York City to Boston and is currently working as a staff writer at HubSpot. Aaron McGee recently traveled to Dubai with coworkers. Erin Abraham recently started as an account associate at EMI Strategic Marketing in Boston after spending the past few months completing book publishing internships in New York City. Earlier this year Matthew Wefer was in Miami trying to qualify for the 2016 Olympic team in sailing.


Thanks to everyone who reported in! I really want to hear from more of you all, so please respond to my random email requests and Facebook posts if and when you see them. Have a lovely summer everyone!


—Jessica Womack, 6034 Hinman, Hanover, NH 03755; jessica.r.womack@dartmouth.edu


Happy New Year, ’14s! 2015 marks a big year for us. It will be the first full year we are out in the “real world.” Well, I shouldn’t say “we.” Unlike many of you who are traveling the world or calling new places home, I am in Hanover still freezing my eyelashes off. However, I do have a pretty big New Year’s resolution. I will do this fifth winter in the Upper Valley right and actually ski. I implore all of you to hold me to this goal.


Some of you emailed me with updates or New Year’s resolutions. So, let’s get to it!


Dylan Assal writes in, “Right now I’m a first-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (in New York City). I’m studying the standard medical curriculum while also trying to gain experience in technology and business. Over the next year I hope to become more active in community involvement.”


Rachel Aragon is currently working as a general assignment reporter in Bozeman, Montana, for a local ABC/Fox affiliate station. She is slowly embracing the outdoors of the Big Sky country and hopes to squeeze in some traveling in the new year!


Nathaniel “Nate” Davis is living in Boston, where he is working at Treacy & Co., a management consulting firm located in Needham, Massachusetts. His New Year’s resolution is to begin giving back financially to Dartmouth. 


Devin Chu started his first year of graduate school in astronomy at UCLA. He is currently researching the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. He works for professor Andrea Ghez, principal investigator of UCLA’s galactic center group. 


Last summer Kali Pruss traveled to Peru (highlights, according to her, were the Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu and traveling to the Peruvian Amazon basin) and Maui, Hawaii. She also traveled along the East Coast visiting friends in Washington, D.C., New York City and Boston. Currently, Kali is a first-year microbiology and immunology Ph.D. student in the biosciences department at Stanford. She says, “It’s a five-plus-year program, so everyone has plenty of time to come visit me.”


Wei Wu and Joseph Styer got married on August 2, 2014, in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Wei and Joseph! Best of luck to you both. 


Amber Porter moved to New York City this fall to work as the production assistant for Tony Award-winner John Doyle and his production of Allegro at Classic Stage Company. Michael Berger moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, after graduation and has been working for an environmental consulting firm on the cleanup and restoration of the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill. 


Sonja (Ali) Uribe spent her fall at home in Hamburg, Germany, where she enjoyed hanging out with her dogs and working a few internships. This February she will be traveling to Australia for four months to work at a dive shop and travel around the continent. José Valdovinos is working as a junior analyst at Acento Advertising in Santa Monica, California. Nikolas (Nik) Medrano has been working in recruiting at Box, a cloud storage and content management company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is working to grow Box’s rapidly expanding sales team. He loves San Francisco, saying, “It’s been an awesome experience so far. I ride around on a scooter all day, and I couldn’t be happier!”


Keep sending updates my way! I love hearing from you all!


—Jessica Womack, 6034 Hinman, Hanover, NH 03755; jessica.r.womack@dartmouth.edu