My pleas have not gone unanswered. Since my desperate cries for assistance in the May issue, I have been literally inundated with information. I just hope I can get it all into this quaint little spot!
First of all, I was in Cambridge with the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team in late April when I happened upon Amy Burroughs, who was waiting for a friend to pick her up. Since then, she has picked up and left Beantown for Washington, D.C., where she works as director of marketing for a small healthcare startup called American Whole Health. At the time of her writing, Amy was also looking forward to the respective nuptials of Jane Pfaff (Tune 20) and Susan Orlando (September 5). Julia Clarkson, who recently completed Harvard Business School with Susan, will be the maid of honor for both weddings. Jane, meanwhile, graduated from Wharton and will join Susan working for the Boston Consulting Group in NYC. Julia is staying in the Hub to work for a retail company. I ran into another recent Wharton grad", Liza Millet, at (gulp!) my 10th high school reunion.
While in Boston, Amy spent a lot of time with Courtney Dickinson who, coincidentally, also contacted Joanne Hwang. Joanne has graduated from Harvard Law and is now at the Sydley Law Firm in Chicago. She also found enough time to run the Chicago Marathon! Amy said that Courtney has "her dream job," so I cross-checked and sure enough, Courtney wrote, "I absolutely love what I do!" What she does is work for a consulting company called Sapient. She is working a 75-percent schedule, too, giving her time to paint landscapes. Life should be so good, Courtney!
Courtney also gave me the whereabouts of several '92s: Pam Lang and Mark Moeller are happily married in San Francisco, where Pam is working for an educational product company that, among other things, re-created Hooked on Phonics. This, after finishing her M.B.A. and M.Ed, at Stanford. Mark, meanwhile, is working for a software company. Jill Ludke and Jeff Dixon, who spent six months working and traveling through India last year, have been in Charlottesville, Va., at the Darden School of Business. Meredith Benedict recently finished up at Georgetown Law and is in Boston working for Hutchiris, Wheeler, and Dittmar. Another Bostonian is Yoo Jin Kim, working for Bain Capital.
Kristin Knies has taught seventh-grade humanities at an all-girls school in Princeton for three years, but more impressively she has spent the three summers counseling and teaching at the Paul Newman camp for chronically ill children. She is moving to New York this fall. The New York contingent also includes Christine McCann and Tori Martens. Courtney also reported on Monique Guesnon, who has been in Moscow for most of the past two years working in the financial services field.
I will end these notes with a word from our correspondent on the West Coast, Aisha Tyler. She admits to judging at a kissing contest, as was reported here by Christine Blanchet, but claims she was there only to add her sardonic wit for the Laugh Factory, where she does standup on weekends while husband Jeff Tietjens '91 toils away at Loyola Law School. Among several people she mentioned whom I will get to next issue she reported on Jason Venokur, who is writing for the TV show Third Rock From the Sun and has sold screenplays to Warner Bros, and Dreamworks SKG. Like any good La La Lander, Aisha got the info from The Hollywood Reporter.
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