2004

Hello '04s and welcome back to the class column. Despite my disappointment that no one jumped at the chance to join me as a guest columnist this time around, I am pleased to report that the news is streaming in these days—our class is globetrotting and blogging like no other.

So, to start things off, a correction from my last column: Kiva Wilson is actually in El Salvador, not Ecuador. She is working in environmental education with the Peace Corps. On a similar note, as I write this Freddi Ghesquiere is preparing to leave for the Peace Corps in Philippines, and will be there by the time this column appears. Another world traveler, Katie Greenwood, has settled in to her tent/grass hut in Northern Malawi. She is there to study and help preserve native agricultural methods, reforestation and the improvement of nutrition with an eye to HIV resistance. Check out her adventures at http://geographyfieldwork.blogspot. com!

Continuing with the theme of volunteering across the globe, Annabel Raebeck, Laura Curtis, and Katinka Harrison are working for the LAMB institute in Honduras, mothering five Honduran children who have suffered long-term sexual abuse. In the fall Laura will be starting VT law school in South Royal ton, just a few exits north of Hanover on 89. Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, Alex Robbins and Jessica Lawson are working for a nonprofit education foundation called the Dominican Republic Education & Mentoring Foundation (DREAM for short) and, we hope, making plenty of time for kite surfing.

From other corners of the earth: Ahmad Abdur-Rahim is working at a language institute in Syria, doing Arabesk studies in Damascus. Katie Simon spent the fall working and traveling in Australia. Jesse Beach is a TA on the current LSA in Lyon, and will be headed to Romania when the winter term ends. Lena Golze Desmond is living in Amsterdam, interning with the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

And some highlights from within the good old U.S. of A.: Illustrious D sports writer Elliot Olshansky was hired as a writer and assistant editor for collegesports.com in New York after freelancing for several months this fall. His articles have covered several Dartmouth hockey players. Sheila Hicks is working for Americorps in Seattle, doing preventive health education, which involves teaching sex ed classes at local high schools. And another 'O4 Americorps volunteer, Will Fourt, writes that in his spare time in Sacramento, he has "taken to harvesting squirrels out of capital park," and is working on starting an international nonprofit called Squirrel Harvesters International. Sounds like he's been in touch with class rabbit vegetable farmer, Paul Marino.

Nicolas Duquette reports that he and Mike Weiss '02 are writing a blog'n' commentary Web site and readership is growing. The address is www.snarksmith.com. Brigit Furguson is working in Boston part time at the Museum of Fine Arts and part time at Peet's Coffee. Chris Toepp is in law school at William and Mary. He will be clerking for the federal prosecutors office in New York this summer. Geoff Vitt is working for Google in San Francisco and living with fellow '04s Justin Silverman and John Harlow. In D.C. Ben Wade is working as an analyst for a company called Advisory Board, doing leadership development work. And last, but certainly not least, our class president Cassie Welch has accepted a job interning for the U.S. attorney general in the Springfield, Massachusetts, office this summer.

So that about wraps things up for this column. Happy spring to all of you, and keep your info coming!

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