Class Note 2008
Hi, ’08s! This is my first class notes column, as Dave Glovsky recently moved to Senegal with the Peace Corps. Jessica Alcantara is also volunteering with the Peace Corps, in Azerbaijan, and having an awesome time.
Other ’08s have been hanging out all over the world. Watson Sallay just returned from a winter skiing in France, drove across the country, saw Dave Heinicke in Denver and Emily Frank in San Francisco and is now living in Seattle. Sarah Stern wrote in to say that she, Frank Glaser, Jenna Sherman, Hannah Plotkin, Katherine Scovner and Michael Sloan-Rossiter attended the Dartmouth mini-reunion at Mount Snow, Vermont, organized by Adam Platz through Urban Escapes in March.
Drew Wenzel is finishing his master’s of engineering management program at the Thayer School and moving to San Francisco to help improve the environmental performance of Google’s Mountain View campus buildings. Owen Zidar is leaving California for the summer and heading to Washington, D.C. Zaneta Thayer, currently in her second year of a biological anthropology Ph.D. program at Northwestern University, is headed to New Zealand to do some lab work this summer and welcomes any visitors.
A bunch of ’08s wrote in about enrolling in higher education this fall. Katherine Gorman will be starting at Columbia Law School and Lauren Berkovitz will be enrolling in a clinical psychology Ph.D. program at UCLA. Erin Johnson is graduating from University of Pennsylvania with a master’s in education and starting at University of Wisconsin Law. Joshua Ring will be attending Indiana University School of Medicine. Michael Belinsky is excited to be starting an M.P.P. program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Also at Harvard, Marc Lajoie just passed his qualifying exams and is going for his Ph.D. in chemical biology.
Marc also wrote in to let us know that Michael Maccini is getting married to Niesje Wiersma (University of Idaho ’08) this June. Jordana Beeber is in her second year of medical school at Tel Aviv University and was recently engaged to Lior Hikri of Tel Aviv. Angela Libby tells us that Haley Bolin is engaged to John Shellito ’07 to be married January 1, 2011. Michael Whitticom and Lauren Morgan ’05 were engaged in early April and are planning on getting married next spring.
Sounds like ’08s continue crushing the real world. Keep sending any updates my way!
—Yasmin Mandviwala, 245 E 63rd St., #824, New York, NY 10065; yasminm@gmail.com
