2000

First off, I am happy to report that Ashley Jones and Kyle Rogers '99 were engaged in November in Quechee, Vermont. Ashleyis currently attending University of Texas, San Antonio, Medical School. Congratulations!

Also, congratulations to Jess Post, who completed her Dartmouth career in December as the women's soccer Ivy League Player of the Year. Jess is following her successful collegiate career as a professional soccer player as a member of the Raleigh, North Carolina, team.

Shelley Petrie is living in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for Southern Living Magazine as the Southern Living Cooking School program coordinator. She manages the cooking school show that travels around the South in the spring and fall, which includes the challenge of coordinating the show's sponsors and ensuring that everything runs smoothly. Shelley is learning some great cooking tips and enjoying the free samples! After e-mailing Linda Aucoin to congratulate her and the rest of the yearbook staff on a spectacular Agis (check it out if you haven t seen it yet—it's full of familiar feces 0, she wrote back with some good news. She's in the midst of applying to graduate school and is currently working at Georgetown University as a research assistant, but was promoted to be the lab director of the introductory biology course for spring semester. Linda is looking forward to the new challenge and also graduate school in the coming year. Janelle Ruley has been on top of the social scene in D.C. as she and her roommates Karolyn Abram and Allison Thomas got together with D.C. visitors Zeke Webber, Landis Fryer '99 and Shauna Brown '99 and new D.C. residents Ashley Brown and Braden Sweet. Janelle also met up with Casey Sixkiiler, Kevin Livelli and Paul Holzer, and informed me that Six is working for his Seattle congressman in D.C., Kevin is currently pursuing a fellowship in Dublin, Ireland, and Paul is working to raise homelessness awareness in N.Y.C. The four of them were able to talk on the phone with Annie Kneedler, who is in Tolo, Guinea, in Africa as a Peace Corps environmental education volunteer. Seven months into the 28-month program, Annie is doing well and acclimating to life in her village. In addition to learning how to accomplish daily tasks such as cooking and cleaning without running water, Annie is trying to help the villagers use their resources as efficiently as possible. The experience has been challenging but extremely rewarding.

Antje Herlyn is also abroad this year, traveling extensively in Nepal. She is working for Helping Hands and furthering the class of 2000 world that exists out there, running into Meghan Slocum and Frank Black on one of her hiking trips. I have more military news to report. On December 15 th Jeremy Joseph and Tom Serafin graduated from the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Ouantico, Virginia. Both were commissioned as officers and continued their training through the basic school in January. Jeremy finished second in his company of 250 candidates. Congratulations to both! I heard from llya Magazanin awhile back and heres what he had to say: "In case you need material for Class Notes, just thought I'd drop a note about a random meeting I had with Jay Hwang and Brig Wagner in London. Brigs on a one-year film fellowship in Germany, Jay's on a lifetime fellowship around the world, and I, llya Magazanin, couldn't get a fellowship, so I went to London for Thanksgiving. We met at a pub (we're Dartmouth students, after all) in the middle of London and fun was had by all." Thanks for the update, llya!

Also, I made an error in the last column. You can access Mike Roberts's Web site at www. michaeltroberts.com. If you would like to update the class on what you're doing, who you've run into recently or what others are doing, please e-mail me the information!

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