1998

Meaty update from Aimee Whitenack: "Jen Karlen has joined the list of the engaged. She's marrying Grant Elliot, who we became friends with our first year out of Dartmouth living in Boston. Grant and Jenny now live in San Francisco but plan to move back East before their wedding in Quechee this August (there are rumors they'll hike the Appalachian Trail starting in March).... Newish jobs: Marc Yasuda is a marketing manager for Business 2.0 in San Francisco. Lisa Zeytoonjian does strategic relationship consulting for a Cambridge-based firm called Vantage Partners. Rebecca Davenport may be willing to share some pretty amusing accounts of her training in Kansas City for her new job with Sprint. Ali Jacoby made the long-awaited decision that she's going to become a teacher. And Laura Turner just accepted a brand manager job for chocolate-covered cherries (and other cherry concoctions) in Portland, Oregon. Let's just say a full-year's ski pass was included in the offer."

And more from Aimee: "I recently got to see Brent Laffoon for the first time in ages....He was breezing through Boston on his way to the Cape, all part of the cross-country traveling he's doing while writing a book. I recently also got to see Katie Bardzik, who's in med school at Dartmouth, during a weekend at Jojo Blaxall's condo in Quechee. She told us more than we wanted to know about the rectal exams she's now doing. And Julia Morrill came to Quechee too, just back from Argentina, where she was working for an English-speaking newspaper. Also on the international front, I saw Kristen Hinman and Avery Rueb over the holidays, both of whom are studying in Paris, getting their masters in French literature through Middlebury—made me want to live in Paris."

Dimestore Scenario, a band made up of '98s Dorothy Hui, Rachel Federman, Joe Nagraj and Ivan X,was featured in Time Out New York's preview section in early February. The review said, "Dimestore Scenario is a girl/boy indie-pop quartet in which the two women do most of the singing. Lazily enunciated, unselfconsciously intelligent lyrics meet oblique melodies for the kind of unpolished DIY approach that often evokes the Australians and New Zealanders who were up to the same thing a decade ago. That means they sometimes reinvent pop even if its a bit out of tune. Always charming, sometimes brilliant, with a lead guitarist who can be eyebrow-raising." You can check out pictures and songs at www.putoutrecords.com and www.mp3.com/dimestorescenario.

Other tidbits...Matthew Tarver-Wahlquist has relocated to Berkeley and has crossed the bay to visit Mark Zanatta, Andrew Fritts and Simon Holmes a Court '97. Since returning from his year-long jaunt in Australia, Matt has been freelancing for National Geographic. Jay Zimmerman is abandoning Cambridge for the summer to toil as a summer associate at a D.C. law firm. Kristin Terry and Chris Atwood both graduate from UVA law school this June, heading to jobs in Boston.

Super news from Josh Mooney—we now have a class Web site! The URL is www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/98/index.html. In ensuing months we anticipate putting up Class Notes, more pictures, and announcements for the whole class.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you.

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