Class Note 2008
Andrew Blancero is working with the N.Y.C. Compost Project on Staten Island, New York. He is also helping to establish many new gardens. Laura Rodriguez had amazing April visits from Erica Jones, Emi Ito Ortiz, Nick Ortiz, Yasmin Mandviwala and Danielle Coutinho in Miami.
Meli Garber is graduating from Columbia University with a M.P.H. in sexuality and health and is looking for a job. Mike Epstein is graduating from UMass Medical School and starting his residency in pediatrics. Ying Xu is graduating from medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and starting anesthesiology residency. Evan Carlson and his wife, Anna (Bekker) Carlson ’09, are finally leaving Hanover for Sacramento, California, as she starts her pediatrics residency.
Mike Holmes is graduating from Dartmouth Medical School in June and is off to Seattle for anesthesiology residency. Lauren Orr is graduating from medical school at Columbia and will start surgery residency in June. Laura Young is starting her residency in obstetrics/gynecology in Baltimore and is looking for people to wear Patriots gear with! Matt Mackey is still at Dartmouth, graduating with his M.P.H. this year and then from medical school next year. Cecilia Zhang is graduating from Case Western medical school and starting her residency in internal medicine. She’s also engaged!
Matt Cohn recently played Algernon in Northern Stage’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Josh Feder just spent winter on campus, assistant directing the theater department production of The Liar.
Marc Lajoie and Kim Rocio Lajoie are finishing graduate school. Kim finished her M.E.M. at Tufts in May and Marc is defending his Ph.D. in chemical biology by September. Jordan Zastrow is finishing her Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Michigan this June. J.B. Cholnoky is going to Brown for an M.A. in history, and will also be a graduate assistant to the men’s heavyweight rowing team. Rachel Strohm is starting a Ph.D. in political science at Berkeley in August and getting married to Andy Shamel ’05 in September.
Samantha Fox cannot attend reunion, as she is currently working on her Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia and will be in Berlin doing research. However, she wants any ’08s in Europe to know they’re welcome to visit and have an unofficial reunion in Berlin—or Han(n)over.
Michael Larson was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Japan for 2013-14. If any ’08s want to make the trip, he’d be happy to show them around. Julia Hecht is (temporarily) living in India (again) and is heading to business school at Kellogg (Northwestern).
Joshua Kernoff and his wife, Kathryn Kernoff ’07, have founded a new company, K2 Trivia, that offers trivia programs to bars and restaurants. Andy Lesser is moving back to her hometown of Rochester, New York, after five years in Boston. Phil Rehayem is living in Manhattan, working at an Internet protocol law firm.
C.J. Ryan and Virginia Deaton ’09 were married in Lexington, Kentucky, last August. Virginia and C.J. are finishing up law school at the University of Kentucky. In attendance at the wedding were 11 ’08s.
Cher Zhao wrote halfway through walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Adam Platz wrote from mile 42 on the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile hike from which he is taking a week off to come to reunion.
As for me, I recently finished working in the stats and analysis department at ESPN and am beginning a Ph.D. program in African history at Michigan State University in East Lansing this May. Any ’08s (or other Dartmouth alums) in the area or who just want to visit should let me know. Hoping for Midwest reunions soon!
—David Glovsky, 10 Rowes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@gmail.com
