Class Note 2004
Hey, ’04s! Plenty of updates to share.
Kristin Burdge is wrapping up her field placement in Amman, Jordan, with the World Health Organization and is about to return back to Boston for graduation from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.
Sarah Sirota is graduating in May from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with her master’s of fine arts in acting. Sarah writes that she is “moving back to N.Y.C. to jump back into the acting world. Showcase will be at the beginning of May as part of the league presentations. And I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in N.Y.C. again soon.”
Jocelyn Singer Sargent reports, “After hanging out in New Mexico for five years I’m heading to N.Y.C. in August to start the master’s in social work program at Columbia. I’ve been off the grid for a while, and I’d love to reconnect with Dartmouth folk once I get to the Big City.”
Laura Roche graduated from the London Business School in July 2010, when she received her M.B.A. Laura is currently working for American Express in the United Kingdom and covers Switzerland and Middle Eastern markets for premium products. She has been living in London for almost three years and often sees Anya Eckbo, who graduated from the London School of Economics in 2009.
After working in London for the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change for about a year, Aimee Barnes moved to Abu Dhabi in September, to help establish a similar directorate in the United Arab Emirate Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Aimee says that she was lucky to be welcomed by Kerry and Patrick Granfield ’03 in Abu Dhabi, and that she and her fiance, Jakub Zielkiewicz, have settled in nicely during the past few months.
Adrienne Draper and Josh Marcuse bumped into one another on a remote beach in the British Virgin Islands while sailing with their families. Josh writes, “It was nice to see a familiar Dartmouth face so far from home.”
Monica Balanoff ’11 and David Nutt ’09 are in the process of launching a sailing program, Seas of Peace, which is dedicated to conflict resolution and leadership. They recently hired Carrie O’Neil, who has worked in conflict resolution and facilitation, to help design and implement their facilitation and leadership curricula. The program will have approximately 15 participants from Israel, Palestine and the United States and will last three weeks with the first nine days spent learning to sail small boats in Portland, Maine, and the remaining time spent aboard a 140-foot schooner. During both parts of the program the participants will engage in dialogue about who they are and where they come from, while undergoing leadership training and discussing how they can continue their work for peace back home.
Claire Superfine married Jacob Schneider (Trinity College ’04) on May 14 in Chicago at the Newberry Library. Dartmouth friends joined in the celebration, including Nancy Unsworth, Valerie Silverman, Alexis Lawrence, Erin Fitzgerald, Judith Phillips, Jessica Leinwand, Sam Stein, Phil Peisch, Greta Milligan, Benjamin Converse, Alex (Topping) Van Beek, Robin Deliso, Amory Loring, Katie (Crawford) Yarger and Fred Yarger.
—Jess Leinwand, 1440 S St., NW, Apt. 2, Washington, DC 20009; jess.leinwand@gmail.com
