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Hello to everyone from my
lovely post-Masters dissertation world. Of course, that
officially makes me a PhD student (scary, yes). But, ’05
promises to be exciting and full of new opportunities for all.
Jeremy Schifeling moved up to the big apple to recruit
teachers for Teach for America, Renee Willemsen-Goode is
teaching 5th grade at Community Partnership Charter
School in Brooklyn while earning her Masters at Columbia
Teacher’s College, and Kai Xu is ever the busy, fulfilled
medical student at UPenn. Aside from decimating the
one-year-out class fundraising record, you will also be happy to
know that our class gifts are installed on campus, including the
bookcase in Sharples (with a plaque for Eric Johnson) and
the science center patio furniture. Thanks again for such
excellent contributions!
Many congratulations go
out to the newlyweds. Anna Headley
and Dan Consiglio were
married May 28th in beautiful Rose Valley, PA with
Erik Osheim
(best man) and Eve Treuille (maid of honor) in
attendance. David January married long-time sweetheart
Elizabeth Hamm on June 26, and started grad school in psychology
at UPenn. Alicia Muñoz
and Ben Hamilton were married in June
and attended by Hang Le (maid of honor), Dan Dan
(best man), Gabrielle MonDesire, and Tony Nguyen.
Many others helped them celebrate, including: Alyssa Bell,
Carolyn Laurenza, Ilana Luft, Collin Peng-Sue,
John Anderson, Lucy Lang, Emily Brown,
Rashelle Isip, Roban Kramer, Charles Small,
Sarah Stanton, Eric Stephens, and Misha Horowitz.
After a lovely honeymoon in Spain, Alicia and Ben
are both back at Cornell and making their new house home in
Ithaca, NY.
Jesse Taylor
has just taken the nation by storm, as a blogger for Jerry
Springer in Columbus. Along with keeping up his own blog,
pandagon.net, Jesse found time to interview with the New
York Times magazine and the Daily Show, following the DNC.
Unsurprisingly,
we are scattering all around. Erika Doyle is keeping
very busy in Chicago, as a 2nd grade teacher’s aid
and photo lab assistant. Loving the blue skies, John Pottage
has nearly completed his commercial pilot’s license in Daytona
Beach, FL. Anne Tantamjarik
is working for AmeriCorps at a library in Monterey Park, CA, and
planning trips with Cathy Ta. And, Emily Brown is
in New Jersey with fiancé Mike Stanley ’01, working
for the service employees international union, organizing
home health aides.
In D.C.,
Abram Lipman is thinking for an
environmental economics think tank called Resources for the
Future. Joanna
Gaskell reports that John
Anderson is also working at the International Food Policy
Research Institute. Up the road,
Geoff Klein
gets to design our favorite Wawas for
CVM Engineers in Wayne, PA. (Yes, hoagies are complementary).
Kate Hurster rooms with Amanda Parrish and furry
friend Gracie, and receives fabulous reviews for her recent
roles, including Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker at
Hedgerow Theatre. Matthew Rubin is working for esteemed
boss Liane Rice as a court advocate for Women Organized
Against Rape in Philly. And, Cyndi Leger re-joins us in
Philly after a year freelance writing and editing in Hong Kong
and hanging out with Loring Pfieffer '04.
Loving the NYC scene,
Helaine Blumenthal is taking German, and enjoying working
for nonprofit Advertising Educational Foundation. As a Bronx
elementary teacher for Teach for America, Melissa Min’s
students are surpassing reading standards left and right, while
she works on her Masters Degree in Childhood Education.
Upstate, Mike Smith headed up to Rochester and a computer
programming position with marketing research firm Harris
Interactive. And, Mark Angelillo has moved to White
Plains to do software development for Reflexions Data and run
his own company, Gradient Solutions, on the side.
Phil Blumenshine
is back in Boston after his year at Oxford, eating Toscanini’s
and applying to med school. Denise Finley spent the past
year doing health policy research at Northwestern University and
is now taking an intensive language course in Munich and
applying to grad school.
Nearby, Gabe Hankins
just finished a summer working with troubled kids at Lake Lugano,
and is likely back teaching English in Cologne. Neil
Cavanaugh is done taking various standardized tests and
preparing to “work” for his former study abroad program in Siena
come January. Off a bit further is Esther Kim, who will
be teaching in Turkey for the next two years.
On a side note,
marathons are become quite popular for ‘03ers, especially:
Sarah Kate Selling (who extended her teaching tenure in
Milan), Elizabeth Nolte (paralegaling in NYC), and
Nori Heikkinen (working for StreamSage in DC and living with
Clair Weiss).
And for every
‘03er off working or traveling, there’s two more of us back in
the school grind. After a year home in Turkey, Emine Fisek
started a PhD in Performance Studies at Berkeley. Katherine
Voll, returned from a year in
Chiangmai, Thailand working as an intern at an international
school, to UC Santa Barbara to begin her PhD in English.
Davita
Burkhead-Weiner, who just began
medical school at Michigan State, writes that John Fort
is in Malawi for the Peace Corps. Starting his second year at
UMichigan law school, William Tran has been doing
research on how employers track their employees with GPS
devices, and loved meeting up with Jessica Lee and
Danielle Masor in NYC last summer.
Anna Tyler
finished up co-authoring a bioethics textbook with our very own
Prof. Scott Gilbert, and started her Biology PhD at Dartmouth.
Mixing business with pleasure,
David L. K. Murphy completed his
awesome debut EP “Home To You” in NYC and started a M.S. in
Plasma Physics at Columbia University.
After a fun year in Princeton,
Meggie Miao was excited to start her MFA in Photography,
Video, and related Media at NYC’s
School of Visual Arts. After a frantic schedule of a full-time
programming job at UPenn, a music teaching job at the Bryn Mawr
Conservatory, and freelance cello work, Hwa-chow Oliver Hsu
is relieved to begin a Master's in cello performance at NYC’s
Mannes College of Music. Ilana Luft left everyone in
Philly to begin a PhD in Clinical Psychology at SUNY Albany.
Ayanna Butler just finished up a year with Big Brothers Big
Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania, and is starting a Masters of
Social Work at UPenn, while hanging out with fellow Philly
dweller’s Brandyn White and Kwaku Ntoso. Kasia
Koziol-Dube headed down to New Jersey for a pre-med
Masters. Susan Christensen survived year one of a
Biomedical Engineering PhD program at Duke University, and was
recently joined by Eileen Thorsos and Allen McBride,
who are both beginning Duke's graduate program in Ecology. On
the other side of the pond, after dizzying amounts of research
in New Mexico and France, Robin Smith is starting a
Masters in Physics Theory at Cambridge, UK. Also joining
Robin and I is Erica Cartmill, who recently began a
PhD in evolutionary psychology at St.Andrews in Scotland,
specializing in gestural communication in great apes!
In other news, I suggest
that our 2-year reunion be held across the pond, as Mark
Romanowsky reports running into no less than four‘03ers (3
in Krakow!) in his last backpack voyage. Really, the food would
be amazing. I hope all is well with you, and if you haven’t
seen your name here yet, what are you waiting for? Drop me a
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