2001

I was showered with '01 updates in February. Yay. Read on.

Overseas news: Jennifer Lee is in Kazakhstan, making tents, sledding down the foothills among horses and camels and wrestling with babushkas for seats on the trolley car when she's not working at UNICEF. Jake Kissel is in New Zealand working as a hut caretaker in Tongariro National Park and planning "to put my college education into real action as a migrant laborer, picking apples and kiwifruit up and down the south island, climbing mountains as I go." Tom Campbell is back from New Zealand and working at Hypercar Inc. near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Kate Collins was traveling in Central America this winter and is now in California, working on noxious weed eradication in Sequoia National Park.

Colorado news: Brad Crevier drove from Jackson Hole to Vail this winter to visit Andy Hoke, Jen Gill, Shea Dahlberg and Wes Self '02. Ellen Hur, Jeannie Eisberg, Gusty Swift, Kristen Luckenbill and Jenny Viele '00 also gathered at Vail for a ski reunion. Soon after, Dana Parnes, Molly McKenna, Mamie Fitzgerald and Natalie Reese flew in from Boston and San Francisco to celebrate Mamies engagement (to Aidan Marcuss) "mountain-style" with Ellen Hur and Katie Heist.

Education news: Allison Cardlin is teaching middle school science at a Catholic school on Long Island. Danielle Davey is teaching high school English at St. Timothys-Hale School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Adam Tanney is working at New Hampton School in New Hampshire as a history teacher, coach and dorm parent.

Good news: David Gates was promoted to editor at Business News Americas in Santiago, Chile, and is managing an eight-person team in Chile and Brazil, covering telecoms and technology in all of Latin America. La Tanya Harry, housing policy advisor for Senator Charles Schumer, recently negotiated a $100 million deal with Fannie Mae to assist working class families on Long Island in buying homes.

Non-profit news: After placing sixth in the Nationals for skeleton at Lake Placid in March, Elena Ghanotakis is working with the Clinton Foundation to build an AIDS drug distribution infrastructure in the Dominican Republic. Jocelyn Leavitt is finishing up a Lombard fellowship at a community development organization in Hawaii. In Boston, Judy Huang is working at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and Michelle Chui is an Ameri Corps VISTA volunteer at a homeless shelter and plans to attend NYU law school in the fall.

Academic News: Meredith Rubin, Ken Gerber and Bill Burgess are finishing up their first years at Penn Law School. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey is at Thayer, doing an M.S. in computer engineering. Patrick Griffin received his master's of philosophy in medieval history from Trinity College, Dublin. He assures everyone that electronic copies of his thesis, "The Mac Lochlainn Kingship in Late Pre-Norman Ireland," are available. Don't slowdown the Internet with all your requests, please.

All-over-the-map news: Jeff Dutremble is in his second spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Florida. Brian Nickerson is in Chicago doing engineering work and TA-ing freshman chemistry at Northwestern. Reid Smith is also there, working for the Robert Bosch Corp. and living with Brad Stanley. Genaro Bugarin is in LA, working as marketing director for Concept Design Productions. Kate Knight is working at a micro-finance firm in Seattle and Matt Markell is head of video production at a small fire service training company outside the city. Fred Deschamps is working for an energy company, Tractebel Power, in D.C. He's seen a lot of Drew Crapser, Jim Thomas and Ken Tang.

Wedding news: Ali Waggener and Brewster Boyd (Middlebury '00) will be married in August in Keystone, Colorado. Rebecca Jacobs and Jesse Cook-Dubin had a beautiful wedding in Charleston, South Carolina, in March with too many Dartmouth friends to squeeze into this column!

Enjoy the spring!

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