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I’m
delighted to share a few happy announcements that narrowly
missed the deadline for the last notes. First,
Eve
Treuille Wachtell married
Princeton grad Dan Wachtell at her parent’s house in
Millbrook, NY, followed by an ‘insanely great’ month-long honeymoon
in Japan and Australia for
nearly 4 weeks. Classmates in attendance included
Anna Headley and Dan
Consiglio, Jenny
Lunstead, Mike Smith, Erik Osheim
and Kate Duffy,
Cyndi Leger, and Sara
Edelstein. Eve
and Dan met during law school at New
York University, and
Eve is now an associate at
New York
law firm Hogan & Hartson. Second, after finishing her Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT last August,
Laura Zager married MIT history grad student Kieran Downes last
September and began working as a technical advisor at Boston law
firm Ropes & Gray (alongside fellow Swat and MIT grads
Tushar Parlikar ’01 and Tan
Mau Wu ’02). Third,
Sarah Frohardt-Lane sent in gorgeous photos of her wedding
to fellow history Ph.D. student Andy Bruno at the
University
of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign arboretum, including a great photo of ‘03s
in attendance: Mike
Camilleri and wife Marya, Charlie
and Olivia Gruber Florek, and
Denise and John Lillvis.
This fun event was followed up by a joint
Lillvis-Frodhardt-Lane-Bruno
running of the Detroit
half marathon!
Finally, Cathy Ta
married Alan Beadle last December in Norwalk,
California, and after passing the
California
bar, began a bankruptcy clerkship in the Southern District of
Houston, Texas. Cathy
and Alan are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their son Upton any
day now!
We also have some exciting
newcomers to the class notes.
Jayson Yost graduated
from Columbia Business School
in May and now works for the investment bank Credit Suisse. More
importantly, Jason
recently had the pleasure of enjoying
Zach Ellison '04’s
delicious homemade chocolate chip pancakes along with
Justin Singer '03 and Yasu
Denda '02. After graduation,
Charles Small moved
to D.C. and had a variety of stints working for General Wesley
Clark’s short-lived Presidential run, California Senator Barbara
Boxer, a boutique public affairs firm called Westin Rinehart,
the Obama campaign in Ohio, and then the Presidential Inaugural
Committee (where he helped organize the Lincoln Memorial concert
and Mid-Atlantic Ball – including a sound check with Bruce
Springsteen). A few phone calls later,
Charles is now a proud member of the Obama White House, working in
the office of the U.S. Trade Representative on congressional
affairs and soaking up the inspiring surroundings.
After two years coaching
basketball at the D3 Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken
(where they were 46-13 over two years and went to the Sweet
Sixteen in year one),
Josh Loeffler is now an assistant basketball coach at D1
Lafayette College. Josh reports that Swarthmore basketball teammate
Eran Ganot is also
coaching D1 ball at the
University of Hawaii. Go team!
The Fulbright Program has
smiled on the class of ’03, again.
Olivia Gruber Florek
won, among other awards, a Fulbright for her Viennese doctoral
research this year, and ‘professor’
Patty Park won a
Fulbright Award to research and write her novel in South Korea. Well done!
Now for the doctors in
training report… Ilana
Luft is desperately finishing dissertation data collection
before moving to Baltimore this
summer for her pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship at
the Kennedy Krieger Institute/
Johns
Hopkins
Medical
School.
Christine James
graduated from the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine in
May and headed to
Michigan for
her intern year of training in
pediatrics. After her surprised
match-day visage appeared on the front page of the March 20th
Hartford Courant, Kasia
Koziol-Dube graduated from UConn Med School with a gigantic
polka party, and is heading to the Yale-New Haven Hospital to
begin a residency in
pediatrics.
Jessica Lee is
beginning her residency in psychiatry at NYU/Bellevue, and
writes that both she and USC general surgery intern
Heather (Fleharty) Warren
are exhausted! Finally,
Chris Keary is apartment-hunting in
Boston for his four year psychiatric residency at
Mass
General
Hospital.
Next is the lawyer’s
report… After thoroughly dominating the UPenn law school bowling
league, Neil Cavanaugh graduated, passed the bar, started a job at Pepper
Hamilton in
Philadelphia, and married Swarthmore
native, veterinarian, and children’s book author Eva Furrow at
our alma mater. Adrienne
Fowler is wrapping up law school at the University of
Michigan and moving to Denver next year to clerk for a judge.
Noah Metheny writes
in from Bangkok, Thailand, where he’s living and working as a Luce
Scholar at a Thai consumer NGO, doing legal research into access
to medicines issues, as well as travelling extensively
throughout SE Asia and posting glorious Facebook photo albums.
Now for the Ph.D. lowdown…
After a year-long stint coordinating Middlebury’s study abroad
program in Alexandria, Egypt,
Paul Wulfsburg is
returning to the U.S. to start a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies in Austin, Texas. Elcin
Akcura is in the second year of a Ph.D. in Economics at
University of Cambridge, where she won a
UK
government grant to research renewable energy and climate change
policy in the UK.
Zoila Forgione writes
in from the D.C. area where she is building scientists at
Virginia-based Orbital Sciences while attending graduate school
in materials engineering at the University of Maryland
and researching advanced lithium ion batteries.
David January finished his Ph.D. in Psychology at UPenn this past
December, and has relocated to
Massachusetts
to job hunt with wife Elizabeth. Finally, my job search spirits
are lifted tremendously by
Alicia Muñoz’s
successful appointment as an Assistant Professor of Hispanic
Studies at Macalester College
(St. Paul),
a small private liberal arts college with excellent students,
progressive values, and an emphasis on service.
In other news, “serial
jobist” Jeremy Schifeling
has a new gig working for mentoring organization (www.imentor.org).
When not busy grilling anything that can’t run out of his reach,
Mark Angelillo is
living it up in Park Slope, Brooklyn
and building Snooth.com, the largest wine site in the world.
Hofan Chau’s Hong
Kong-based dance ensemble, Burnt Mango Dance Theatre, received
three grants in the past year and is planning several
productions including a dance based on Leonard Cohen's
Hallelujah, a play inspired by Susan Sontag's “Alice in Bed”, and a rerun
of a play inspired by Haruki Murakami's “Norwegian Wood.”
There’s not quite enough room here to report everything
Hollis Easter has been up to, but selected activities include ice
climbing, running the outings for the local Adirondack Mountain
Club, running the crisis hotline in upstate New York, travelling
as national secretary for the national crisis hotline board,
teaching suicide intervention professionally, sitting on New
York's state trainer board, and oh, getting his pilot’s license,
of course.
Stay tuned for the next
class notes, when I’ll spill all the juicy details of several
more classmate’s upcoming marriages, births, grad school
appointments, and job hunts! I’m sorry I couldn’t include
everything here, and thank you to everyone for your emails and
exuberance.
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