2009

2009

Class of ’09s are doing exciting work around the world. Here are just a few of our new adventures.

Marissa Alert starts a postdoctoral research fellowship in August at Johns Hopkins in the division of general internal medicine. Alejandro Borquez is finishing up his pediatrics residency at Stanford and starts a pediatric cardiology fellowship at UC San Diego. He wrote, “All are welcome to come hang out in San Diego-Tijuana and grab a beer.” Agatha Erickson will work this summer for the Northern Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency in Darwin, Australia, and would love to catch up with any Dartmouth people while she is Down Under! Elise Hogan is moving from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago to attend Booth (the University of Chicago) for business school in the fall. Samantha Kaplan matched into an internal medicine residency at the University ofWashington so will move to Seattle for the next three-plus years. She would love to connect with classmates in the area. Alan Kwan is moving to Hong Kong to be a professor of finance. Peter Shellito finished his Ph.D. in hydrologic modeling and remote sensing at CU Boulder and married Dr. Cailey Condit. They will move to Houston this summer to enjoy a life with more humidity.

Michael Bamberger married his long-time girlfriend, Melissa Ouellette, in New Orleans this past January, joined by many Dartmouth friends from around the country. After spending eight prosperous years in N.Y.C., he finally moved out of the city in May, citing “soul-crushing winters, unconscionable rent payments and the summer garbage smell.” The happy couple will spend the summer traveling as much as possible and working as little as possible before moving west in the fall. In May Diana Dinescu graduated from the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and married Bryan Strother the following weekend! Alumni in attendance included members of the wedding party Elyssa Benedikt. Jenny Strakovsky and Wendell Smith, as well as Laura Hester, Ying Cheng. Kathryn Twyman and Vlad Dobru ’10.

Malcolm Freberg appeared on his third season of Survivor. Lilian Mehrel gotthe Tribeca All Access interactive prototype award for her comedy series, Bright & Gifted, to be shot in Miami. Kimberly Kruge appears in the spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares, an award-winningjournal ofnew writing. Ray Padgett has his first book coming out in October, called Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time. He interviewed David Byrne, Roger Daltrey, Weird Al, Pras and a bunch of others for the book. It is a spinoff of a website he has run for 10 years on cover songs, Cover Me (check it out at covermesongs.com), which he actually started on his religion foreign study program in Edinburgh fall 2007.

Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (Dartmouth College Class of2009), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com