Class Note 2008
Thanks to everyone who sent in a note! No thanks to Sean Walsh, who noted the lack of notes last issue while simultaneously declining to send in a note of his own. Your lack of support has been, ahem, noted.
Some professional updates from our classmates around the world. Amelia Alvarez is a practicing civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. Liz Embick finally finished her residency and “got a big-girl job” as a general surgeon in Anchorage, Alaska, starting this fall. And Erika Schneider shares that Emmy Frank is both teaching and doctoring in Oakland, California, and published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about it. It’s great and you should read it—way to go, Emmy!
Yasmin Kothari (née Mandviwala) and her husband, Aamir, have moved from San Francisco to New York. She took a new job as VP of product at Domio, a hospitality startup. They’d love to hang out with any Dartmouth folks in the area! Daria Red Earth moved to southern California and is working on her Ph.D. in neuroeconomics at Claremont Graduate University. She also wouldn’t mind getting together with some fellow alums!
Brooks Smith and his wife are well-settled in their new home in Melbourne, Australia. They even adopted a rescue greyhound, named Stella, who is absolutely loving the idea of lying on couches rather than running on tracks. Brooks started a new job, which he really likes, as engineering development lead for a startup called ClearCalcs, which develops cloud-based structural engineering design calculators for Australian and U.S. markets. Lately, he’s also been spending some time introducing Vinny Ng ’03 to Melbourne after he made the move from Hong Kong.
Margaret Jacobs is one of the First Peoples Fund 2019 Artist in Business Fellows. She’ll be using her fellowship funds to custom build a powder-coating oven and spray booth that she started on in March when she returned from the Heard Indian Market and Fair in Phoenix, Arizona.
Josh Feder recently got engaged to Philip Montana, DMS’18, and is finishing the second year of his three-year M.F.A. in directing at University of California, Irvine. Congratulations, Josh!
Last December Khiet Chhu stopped in D.C. with his wife, Katie, son Ty (3), and daughter Cora (9 months) on their way to visit family in North Carolina. They stayed with Dan Belkin and his family. Khiet was embarrassed because his kids’ sleep schedule was all thrown off and they must’ve kept the Belkins up all night. Nevertheless, Dan still made breakfast in the morning and, perhaps as punishment, introduced Ty to “Baby Shark,” which Khiet now hears in his sleep. They also got some museum time in with Klarisaa Ruiz, Kelly Cockerill, and Sarah Stern. There was a lunch-time tantrum over French fries (Ty, not Stern). For New Year’s, the Chhu crew saw Dave Lamb’s family and Devin Fallon’s bunch. Devin’s daughter taught Ty to sing “Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light.” It changed his life. Khiet sums it up: “I’m just trying to survive two kids, but life has been great.”
Kevin Tang found a single wilted Cheeto at the bottom of a Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pit and ate it with extreme gusto.
Enjoy your summer!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com
