2004

Greetings Class of 2004! This is Amo Loring, Robin Deliso and Carrie O'Neil reporting to you live (in the sense that this will be published two months after we write it) from Boston during the holidays. And this month is packed with news!

Let's start with the weddings. First, ladiesbury your hearts—Casey Cramer is off the market, and engaged to Lizzie Fontaine. Casey is playing pro football with the Carolina Panthers, and he and Lizzie are living in Charlotte. Their wedding is planned for June 24,2006, in her hometown, Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Also engaged: Julia Keane and Dave Seidman, to be married June 17,2006, in Simsbury, Connecticut. Hilary Bakker is also engaged. For a full list of all engagements in the class of 2004, reremember that you can visit our class Web site at www.dartmouth.org/classes/2004.

On to the world travelers: Sebastian Jaeger is teaching English on a JET program in China. He spent Christmas with Joe Marucheck in Thailand and Cambodia. His pictures can be viewed at www.homepage.mac.com/j.jaeger. Our illustrious SEC member Catherine Buck is about to head to Dunedin, on the South Island of New Zealand, to study for her masters degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Otago. Anyone passing through should shoot her an e-mail—she's looking for tour guides in middle earth.

Down on the southernmost continent, Margie Graham, Brad Bate, Bekka Stucker and Anna Fleder arrived in December for two months of soil chemistry and ecology research. When they return, Margie will be waiting to hear of a posting in the Peace Corps.

Many of our other classmates are also giving their time to the Peace Corps: Kiva Wilson is working in environmental education in Ecuador, Kathryn Lusk is in China teaching English and Ashley Massey will soon be heading to Guinea, West Africa, to work in the field of agroforestry.

Back in the good old USA, Will Fourt is working for Americorps in Sacramento, California, helping to facilitate transportation in low-income areas of the Sacramento Valley. Also in the Bay area, Kane Russell is teaching fourth grade, coaching third- to fifth-grade lacrosse and sixth-grade basketball, tutoring Spanish and helping eighth-graders with interviewing techniques at his old school in San Francisco.

And on his home island of Hawaii, Tom Sanford reports that he's enjoying his time at home and working various part-time jobs and training and surfing.

Back east, Julian Saltman is working in Boston for EF Education, helping high school teachers who take their students abroad, and living with Susan Napier and Meghan Carr. Amy Benziger reports that she is glad to give up her production assistant gig at The Bachelorette in New York City. Damien Quinn is studying for his M.B.A. at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and played soccer there this fall. Erica Finsness is living in D.C. and working for a nonprofit called Physicians for Social Responsibility, interning in its environment and health program. She's looking to go up to Alaska for the summer. Cat McManus is working in the admissions department at Princeton. And Lauren Nickerson is in vet school at Ohio State and says that she is enjoying the Dartmouth Club of Columbus as well as supporting the Buckeye sports teams.

And this concludes our monthly update. Carrie is soon off to the Caribbean to teach for Proctor Academy s high school semester on the tall ship Westward (of former SEA fame) and Robin is headed back to our nations capital to her job at Spitfire Strategies. I am now soliciting future guest columnists—please look me up during the fourth week of February in Boston! I'll bring the wine.

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