2010

Michael Aldema just finished his firs: year at Harvard Law School, where he saw a lot of recent Dartmouth alums around Cambridge. This summer Mike is working at the office of the attorney general for the District of Columbia, living in a townhouse with four Dartmouth '09s. He will be heading back to Cambridge in August for his second year of law school. He says he is looking forward to making it back up to Hanover for Labor Day weekend and Homecoming.

Rob Higdon is working in strategy consulting for Altman Vilandrie & Co. Rob will be transferring from Boston to the new New York City office on July 1.

Sheila Chang will be starting graduate school at Dartmouth this upcoming fall. She will get her master's in public health.

John Alekna is now living in the East Village (N.Y.C.) with Zachary Gottlieb and James Cart. More news to come in the next issue.

This just in from Jon Carty's autobiographer: After a summer that ended in a road trip across the desert expanses of the American West with classmates Thea Sutton, Dan Abbott and Reed Boeger, Jon Carty spent the better part of the year living in Boston. While Jon's year has been chock-full of invaluable learning experiences, these experiences have led him to the rather concrete conclusion that he'll likely not be pursuing a career in big-corporation consulting. He has truly enjoyed holding down the fort in the South End with fellow Dartmouth classmates Joe DeBonis, Reed Boeger and Dan Abbott (with cameo appearances in their "guest closet" by Emily Baumrin, followed by Casey Hingtgen), but he's fairly certain a move to the West Coast is imminent....

What a cliffhanger.

I was pretty excited to receive an e-mail from Dr. Lowe (the father of Jensen Lowe) this June. Jensen has been in the Philippines and probably has never even seen the DartmouthAlumni Magazine. Being a good father, Dr. Lowe decided to write in for Jensen: Jensen Lowe is currently a Peace Corps Volunteer on the island of Guimaras in the Philippines doing coastal resource management. Jensen has a lot of responsibilities, which include interfacing with the local governments, local non-governmental agencies and the local fisherman working on coastal mangrove reforestation; establishment of marine-protected fisheries; and reef evaluation and management.

Thank you to all who shared their updates. As usual, please send in any updates (small or big) that you may have. Also, if there are any other parents out there reading this, please email vbstockman@gmail.com with an update on your daughter or son. It was really great to hear from Dr. Lowe!

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