Class Note 2008
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
