Class Note 2009
Greetings, fellow classmates! Yesterday I received a call from my younger cousin who was in the middle of a grueling college trip. He and his father were visiting 40 schools in 10 days and would be ending their trip at Dartmouth (saving the best for last, I assumed). He wanted to know what five things he should do while on campus. I was stumped. I felt like he had just asked me to choose my favorite child (I don’t have any yet, but I hear it’s a hard decision). After writing him a five-page e-mail detailing everything I loved about our school, I boiled down my highlights to this list: Collis pastries, lying on the Green, the Sanborn reading room, breakfast at Lou’s and canoeing on the river. Do you agree? Try to condense your favorite things about Dartmouth to five items or less and e-mail to me at the address below. I’ll compile the list for the next issue. In the meantime, let’s check in with our classmates around the globe.
Annabel Seymour, now in her third year of film school at University of Southern California, recently won the Subway Fresh Artists Featured Filmmakers contest! Subway will fund the production of her and her team’s three-episode webseries that will premier at USC later this year.
Katie Silberman is now working as the assistant to the showrunner on the upcoming network television show Ben and Kate. Look for the premier this fall on Fox!
Molly Bode will be moving out of Hanover to start a dual M.B.A./M.P.H. program at the University of California, Berkeley, this August.
Stephanie Morales will be relocating from Brooklyn, New York, to San Francisco, California, to start a job at a mobile banking company, where she will be working with other Dartmouth alumni.
Matt McDonald will also be in the Bay Area this year working for a startup called Kiwi Crate.
Maria Castilla graduated from Cardozo School of Law last June. Congrats!
Samuel Richardson has released an album with the experiment post-music trio Trope le Monde titled Slow Monde. Search for it on iTunes!
Laura Richardson graduated from University of Virginia Law School this summer and is now living in Chicago, working for McGuireWoods LLP.
Jordan Rose and Mike Knapp traveled to the Rift Valley in Kenya this summer to work for a volunteer teaching program.
Emily Eros will also be leaving the Upper Valley to get her master’s in urban planning at MIT. She’ll be enrolling in the program with fellow Dartmouth alum Laura Andreae ’10 and Sara Brown ’10.
Sam Blazek is starting a Ph.D. program in information systems at UT Austin. He is also producing dance/electronic music on the side. Check out his track “Royal Highness” here: http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/obsessive_compulsions_fil....
Taylor Dryman will be starting a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at Temple University this August: “I look forward to hanging out with any ’09s living in the Philadelphia area!”
Shannon Prince completed nine months as a Reynolds Scholar in Canberra, Australia, where she wrote a novel titled The Place Beneath Falling Stars, about a young indigenous woman and her quest to repatriate a sacred object belonging to her people.
Samantha Kaplan wrote me to share this piece of news: “After spending a great year in Boston living with Luke Mann-O’Halloran, Minal Caron and Nick Weir, I’m taking the summer off before starting medical school at Yale this fall. These past couple of months I’ve been hiking out West with my sister and in a few weeks I’ll be visiting Mandy Lobel and Dai Lin in Europe. Anyone in New Haven, Connecticut, hit me up this fall!”
That’s all for now folks! Class of ’09 love.
—Peter Rothbard, 542 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 3-B, Brooklyn NY, 11225; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org
