Class Note 2010
Great to see many of you at our five-year reunion in June. The ’10s had a strong showing, with 606 classmates attending!
Lauren Alpeyrie is back in Hanover to pursue her M.B.A. at Tuck. She previously worked as a business analyst at Google’s people operations. Caitlin Halpert is thrilled to be living in Burlington, Vermont, where she opened the Vermont office of 3Q Digital. They’re hiring! Kirsten Orloff is marrying Kyle Packer, DMS’13, in Maine in September.
In the Boston area: Catherine Armstrong moved to Cambridge to start a Ph.D. in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard; Nick Lomanto started business school at MIT Sloan (he is excited to reconnect with alums in the area); Casey Hingtgen joined startup tryscratch.com and is marrying Kirsten Goldberg ’12 in October; Caitlin Johnson received her M.A. in teaching from Boston University (she now teaches physics and environmental science at Waltham High School); and Hannah Raila reports that Chelsea Place finished her Ph.D. at Harvard in May and married Chris Johnson ’09 in June (many ’10s attended, including Eleni Stavrou, Sue Schmitz, Leigh Rorick, Ali Rope, Becca Dellenbaugh and Hannah herself).
In N.Y.C. Libbey Brown started medical school at Mount Sinai, Andrew Ching helped open Brooklyn Boulders’ fourth facility in the city, and Shinian Ye moved back to start a new job in finance. He still travels to Asia frequently for business.
Jerry Guo started year three of his Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. Jason Spellmire visited during a motorcycle ride from Ohio to New Hampshire. Lucretia Witte is in D.C. finishing her M.P.P. at Georgetown. She wants to start an experiential school and is looking for great teachers and organizations to learn from. Elyse Gabel married Matt Marcus in August in Cincinnati. Gloria Lin and Suzanne Spignesi were bridesmaids. Dan Thele married Carolyn García; they are moving to Cleveland. Evan Nogay graduated from Pitt Law as the top trial advocacy litigation student. He now clerks for federal judge John Bailey ’73 in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Molly Davis and Nick Foukal wed in March in Jacksonville, Florida. They are in Durham, North Carolina, finishing the last two years of their Ph.D. programs (clinical psychology and physical oceanography, respectively). Phil Aubart is working as an Army judge advocate general attorney at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and will marry Lindsey Staszak in Bumpass, Virginia, in October. Anastasia Miliano moved to Boulder, Colorado, as the first employee of Bitsbox, a tiny ed-tech startup teaching kids to code. Justin Tzou is a doctor of physical therapy in Pasadena, Texas. On the side he coaches tennis at AmpuTennis Houston and is a photographer for the American Amputee Society.
In the Bay Area: Bari Wien completed her M.B.A. at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and works in solar project finance for Wells Fargo in San Francisco; Chi Chu is an internal medicine resident at CPMC; and Liz Klinger and James Wang started SmartBod, an app and smart vibrator that helps women learn about their bodies.
Jenna Shue and Alex Olshonsky ’09 wed in May in Monte Rio, California.
Karen Iorio writes, “I had the pleasure of attending Zach Gottlieb’s wedding to Valerie Silverman ’04 in June. We had a healthy showing of alums—both ’10s and ’04s—for an impromptu performance of the alma mater and a group picture with a Dartmouth flag.”
Abbe Sokol and Rob Hoffman bought two-for-one tickets to Dubai on a whim and will be there October 10-18. They are seeking suggestions of what to do! Stefani Ruper is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion at Oxford University.
Keep killing it, ’10s!
—Jennifer Chong, 1680 Clay St., Apt. 2, San Francisco, CA 94109; jenniferashleychong@gmail.com
