2013

Congratulations to all those members of the class of 2013 who graduated this year! Whether with a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of engineering, we are proud of you and excited to welcome you all into the alumni ranks. No matter when you took your last term of classes, if you matriculated with the class of 2013, you are one of us. Lucky you!

Best wishes to Carolyn Gaut and Jay Kraska ’12, who got engaged on march 29 while on a trip with Carolyn’s parents! the couple met in the basement of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in spring of 2010 and they have been dating for three and a

half years. they both live in Boston and are excited to be getting married.

Sophia Schwartz finished up an incredible season on the U.S. freestyle ski team in March, coming in second in the dual mogul event at the U.S. championships in Deer Valley, Utah. The season took Sophia to competitions in Canada, Australia, Norway, France and Japan.

Our classmates continue to enroll in a variety of interesting and impressive graduate programs! Emma Vance is headed to Berkeley in the fall for the Ph.D. program in ancient history and Medi- terranean archaeology. Across the country, Kate o’Brien is starting a master’s program in physiol- ogy at Georgetown University.

Greg Patton is headed to Washington, D.C., to begin his studies at George Washington Univer- sity law School. i’ll see you there, greg! i’m also moving to D.C. to begin work as an analyst at the Advisory Board Co. Amelia Raether is also working nearby at the McChrystal Group.

Katie de la Rosa is enrolling at the University of Michigan Medical School and Nirali Patel, the Presidential Fellow in dartmouth’s wellness of- fice, will be sticking around Hanover for a few more years at Geisel Medical School.

Cote Theriault is starting her second year at Boston College, where she is studying for her master’s in applied developmental and education- al psychology. Philip Royer is also a second-year master’s candidate, studying at the university of tulsa for a master’s in computer science. else- where in Oklahoma, Katherine Lindzey is halfway done with her master’s in geology at the univer- sity of Oklahoma.

naomi elias is finishing up her master’s in communication at Stanford University. Sydney Ayers is completing her year as a Society of Ar- chitectural Historians H. Allen Brooks Traveling Fellow, which allows an emerging scholar to ex- perience architecture and landscapes firsthand. This year Sydney traveled to England, France, Italy and Croatia.

After completing Presidential fellowships in the office of the president, Holly Ceplikas is now working in the development office at Harvard and Edita Robinson is working as a customer suc- cess manager at relateiQ in Palo alto, California. chris o’connell recently relocated from hanover to Singapore to work for Yale-nuS College, a new initiative from Yale university. look him up if you find yourself in the area!

Marissa Lynn is finishing up her Fulbright grant year teaching English at an all-boys middle school on Jeju Island in South Korea. She is now moving to Seoul to become the Fulbright Korea program coordinator and lead a network of 100 Fulbrighters throughout South Korea.

Amanda Duchesne is working as a project manager and geologist for the New York City mayor’s office of environmental remediation through the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection.

Entrepreneurs Will Lowry and Eric Wu recent- ly launched Thriftbox, which allows Dartmouth students to order boxes of surprise thrift store items for delivery. Will and Eric curate the items at New York thrift shops and send boxes of flair and vintage clothing items to buyers.

Please continue to send me updates!

—Emily Fletcher, 545 North 70th St., Seattle, WA 98103; emilyefletcher@gmail.com