Class Note 2006
Hi, fellow 2006s! Jess Tory here, reporting for your note-delivery duty! As those of you who make a habit of reading the Alumni Association’s e-mail messages may already know, I have the task of succeeding the amazing Heidi Immesberger as our class secretary. Please make a note of this and remember to send your news and updates my way from now on. So, without further ado, let’s get to some of those updates!
By way of introduction, I’ll start with some of my own news. I’ve just returned from two months of travel through South America—Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina—and am a few days from moving to Palo Alto to start business school at Stanford. As I know from our recently passed (and extremely awesome) five-year reunion, I am certainly not alone in my pursuit of an M.B.A.: Hank Alexander and Brittany Mantell are both entering their second year at Harvard Business School; Jen Peterson is starting her second year at Tuck; Edy Wilson just started her first year at Wharton; and Julia Baxter is starting this September at Stern, where Matt Slaine just graduated in May! Clearly we will not have a shortage of advanced degree-holders in our class, considering that Rachel David, Yale Fillingham, Steve Savella, Dan Donoho, Diana Kirschner, Maya Ilowite, Jessica Watson and her husband, Zach Smith,are all either recently graduated M.D.s or well on their way to that tortuous period of life known as medical residency. Grey’s Anatomy it is not (or so I hear). And where would we be without our lawyers? Ali Amrhein, Lynda Tricarico, Brian Martin and Danny Ellman are either full-on bar-certified attorneys or will be someday soon.
Clearly a lot of moving and shaking happening in our professional lives, but what about our personal lives? Lots of excitement there, too, as I have plenty of nuptial news to report, beginning with the aforementioned Rachel David, who is getting married in September!Her fellow Kappa Delta Epsilon sister Annie Delhanty just took the marriage plunge this summer. Other recent newlyweds are classmates Lindsay Barnes and Kilsy Torres Barnes, who got married in Baltimore earlier this summer. In attendance to celebrate their happy day was classmate Jenna Krumminga,who was in professor Robert Dallek’s 20th-century American presidency course with them Sophomore Summer. The kicker, however, is that Kilsy and Lindsay did not actually meet until well after graduation! By the way, I might add that I was also in that class and that it was great. I still remember Dallek referring to L.B.J. as a “master manipulator,” a term I have since used to describe, among others, my mother’s cat. But I digress. In other wedding stories, Jose Gonzalez popped the question to Shaina Landau ’07 in June in front of New Hamp, where they met six and a half years ago. Congratulations, you two! Not just on the engagement, but on succeeding in making a dorm romantic.
Well folks, that’s it for now! Please send any and all news my way, and please feel free to brag. Like, a lot. Great to see so many of you in Hanover at our reunion—I am pretty sure that I speak for a great many of us when I say that I can’t wait for the next one! Write often, and write a lot!
—Jess Tory, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra St., Stanford, CA 94305; (310) 210-2391; jessica.e.tory@gmail.com
