Class Note 2004

Hope you are all having a wonderful summer. The notes submissions were a little sparse this time around, even though it is wedding/graduation season. But with a little Facebook sleuthing, here is what I was able to piece together: 


Gaby Jaramillo graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government with a master’s in public administration and international development. Gaby is returning to Ecuador for good, but will first be taking a few months off to backpack and surf in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 


Leigh (Heeter) Fiske graduated in December from the dual M.B.A./M.P.H. program at Berkeley, and she has returned to FSG, a global social-impact consulting firm where she focuses on international health and development. 


Carl DeSelm received his M.D. and Ph.D. in May from Washington University. He will be doing a year of internal medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and then move to New York to specialize in radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he plans to practice and research new cancer treatments.


Seth Goldman married Jennifer Hersh at the Museum of Natural History in New York in June. Seth is the manager of operations at Quidsi, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that specializes in consumer products. His wife, Jennifer, is a research coordinator in the public health department of Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan in the field of brain injuries.


Sonia Tarantolo, a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State, left in July for a new post at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, Mexico. Sonia will be working in the consular affairs section of the embassy. 


Dara Adams married Cameron Hoyler in Napa Valley, California, during Labor Day Weekend. Blair (Dickinson) Schroeder, Rachel (Holmes) Kelly, Robin Deliso and Lindsay Clayton were all in attendance. Congrats, Dara and Cameron—your pictures on Facebook were beautiful! 


Simon Weber, Geoff Vitt and Chris O’Connell all graduated from Wharton Business School in May. Nick Danoff also graduated with an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. 


Ryan Van Hoff and Sophia (Schippers) Van Hoff ’06 welcomed their second son, Owen Daniel, on June 7. Owen joins big brother Miles Adrian, and the whole family is doing great. Ryan and Sophia are both residents at DHMC.


Dave Philips graduated from Stanford University this spring with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His thesis was on computational fluid dynamics. Congrats!


Sean Furey, Th’05, will head to London with the U.S. track and field team next month to compete in his first Olympic Games after finishing fourth in the javelin at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, on June 25.


Please continue to send your updates to me at the e-mail address below.


—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com