2008

First off, some big news! As of December Teryn Williams is engaged to Jonathan Grudis (Dartmouth M.P.H. ’08). Congratulations, Teryn!

Moving on, Lydia Islan is working for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in health management. Soon returning to New York is Ilissa Samplin, who is currently finishing up her first year at Stanford Law School and has a summer associate position at Dewey & LeBeouf in New York City. Jon Hopper has moved to the Upper East Side with fellow ’08 Ethan Handel. He reports that there are at least six ’08s within a two-block radius, so people should come visit. He is also working in development for a nonprofit school system called New York Nativity. Zach Styskal, who also lives in New York, has vacationed in Guatemala and Belize in the last few months.

Just outside of New York Scott Wong is waiting to start his job at Blackstone in July in New York City and until then is fish mongering at the local fish market and auditing classes at Princeton. For those wondering what fish mongering entails, Scott says, “I cut and sell fish and produce. It’s pretty fun, unintense and interesting.” On the other side of New York City Josh Feder finished up the Festival of New Musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut, and in the spring will be assistant director of 1776 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey and Pirates! at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston.

In the real hub of the East Coast, Boston, Jenna Sherman recently gave a star performance in the Boston University Medical School performance of The Vagina Monologues, followed by an appropriately themed party. She was given rave reviews and the party was well attended by ’08s. Also in town are Jamie Bergeson-Bradshaw and Julia Hecht, who write to say that they are enjoying their jobs consulting at the Parthenon Group. If you are in town they would love to show you around the South End.

Down where it’s warm Lauren Bennett is the bar manager for Houston’s in Miami, Florida, and is “living the dream.” Across the country our lone West Coast update comes from Chris Knape, who is working at BCG in San Francisco and enjoying the West Coast, but still could not stay up from Hanover over Winter Carnival.

Further inland Evan Chriss and Cyrus Tingley are living in a converted van in Vail, Colorado, preparing for the upcoming Powder Eights Championship and “staying on the lookout for cougars in the meantime.” Another skiing report comes from Nat Grainger, who is “ski patrolling at The Canyons in Utah. Other than that am looking for a summer seasonal job and getting ready to do a juvenile diabetes fundraiser bike ride in June.”

In a more education-oriented note Katy Hagy will be starting a master’s of science in education program at Northwestern University this spring.

Down in our nation’s capital Haley Morris started working as a press assistant in the office of a democratic midwestern U.S. senator in January.

Moving across the Pacific, Maryanna Brown was teaching in South Korea, but decided to move to Beijing, where Dan Weisman also resides. She reports she is “occupying her time with fat on Peking duck and various dumpling and noodle dishes.” Also in Asia, Laura Plummer is going to Nepal to volunteer for six weeks from March 12 to April 26. She is going with Global Vision International and will be in a village in the Himalayas working and teaching children in orphanages.

Thanks for reading and check back again in two months!

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