2008

Mike Belinsky just finished grad school and started a social enterprise called Instiglio. Check it out at instiglio. org. Veronica de Zayas was at Diane Ellis' wedding outside of Santa Cruz, California, where Haley Bolin, Angela Libby, Sarah Rathnam and Veronica were bridesmaids, with Essien Ukanna and Alex Nomitch also in attendance. Sandy Barbut and Steve Hunt got engaged in June. They're living in New Jersey, where Sandy is in school to become a nurse practitioner and Steve is a medical device sales executive. Scott Wong is getting married in October and moved to California this fall to attend Stanford to study computational math and engineering. Kate Labrum and Taylor Kauer are also engaged. Brian McMillan is teaching second grade in Oakland, California, fulfilling a childhood dream as a firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Reserve and in July married Jennifer Thompson (Harvard '06) in Michigan. In attendance were '08s Owen Zidar, Mike Heslin, Dru Heinz, Conor Fernandez, Elisa McCarthy, Johnathan Ball and Chris Knape. Marc Lajoie and his new wife, Kim Rocio Lajoie, not only just got married, but also attended the Olympics, where Mark reports, "We didn't compete. Anthony Fahden did—lightweight crew." Olivia Gilliatt is returning to NYU's graduate acting program this fall. Brian Fortin will be two floors down from her, starting in NYU's graduate lighting division. Jessica Long is moving to Worcester, Massachusetts, to do a program at UMass Worcester. Marianne Epstein just moved to the Washington, D.C. area to begin a masters program in graphic design at George Mason University. J.B. Cholnoky is working for a hunting outfitter in Wyoming and applying to grad schools for an M.A. in American history. Megan Strout just moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and started working in brand management for Natures Variety, a natural pet foocl company. Hannah Rossman was just accepted to the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, for a certification and apprenticeship in pastry arts. Kate Eklin left Buenos Aires after four years, relocating to Paris to do a masters in international development. Lucy Hoffman moved to Cape Town, South Africa, to work for an impact investing advisory company. She also reports on some of her classmates, telling us, "Erin Miller just spent the summer dressing models for Vera Wang and is excited for her second year ar Harvard Business School. Jane Choi is crushing it at Hulu as a marketing analytics manager and recently hosted her first company-wide, brown bag lunch. Erica Jones has been jet setting all summer (China, Vegas, Pacific Northwest) during her break from the Dalton School." Will McMahan is also in South Africa, finishing up his two years as a Peace Corps volunteer working at an HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organization. He would love visitors. Abe Holland is still based in Chennai and enjoying life in India at the Center for Micro Finance. James Marlow had been living in Beirut for the past year, but moved to the Bay Area in September. Alix Toothman is moving from Singapore to London in October to start her third year with the WPP Fellowship by working at Grey London in advertising. Ephraim Froehlich informs us of a minireunion he had in the Yukon Territory and Alaska this summer with Bennet Meyers, Dara Goldberg, John Beardsley and Ephraim. Simon Trabelsi "is still unemployed, living the rap life in Sweden with his group /BLANK." Just in: Louisa McCarthy and Alex Latham '09 were married outside of Boston at the Brooksby Farm on July 14! I moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, to start a job at ESPN. Right before that I was in Israel, where I was accidentally on the same Birthright Israel trip as Elysa Corin and hung out with Anna Stone, Chuck Flynn and Chucks wife, Emma. 10 Routes Wharf, Unit 901, Boston, MA 02110; dglovsky@pgmail.com