AlumNotes
Class News Ben Yormak: “Life continues to be great here in Naples, FL! I married the love of my life, Jessica, on August 31, 2013, with many fellow Polar Bears in attendance!”
2007
Kelsey Abbruzzese, communications director at MassDevelopment, reported that Night Shift Brewing has expanded in Everett, MA, with the benefit of a $700,000 MassDevelopment loan. Launched in March 2012 by Robert Burns, Michael Oxton, and Michael O’Mara, Night Shift Brewing sells to customers at its taproom and to liquor stores, bars and restaurants in greater Boston. From a MassDevelopment news release, March 4, 2014. Niki Alvarez Rodrigues: “After finishing law school, I moved back home to Miami, and married Thomas Rodrigues ’06. I’m currently a fourth-year associate at a boutique family law firm in downtown Miami, while Tom is working as an urban planner at the City of Miami. We are keeping busy with work and travel, and just recently came back from a fantastic trip to Australia.” Mina Bartovics is “moving with my husband, Rowan, to
Portland, OR, driving across the country from Maine.” Britta Bene: “I took all of 2013 off from work to adventure around the world. From skiing out west and in the Alps to spending time on a lonely island in the Bay of Bengal, kite surfing on Maui, living in Rome, and hanging out in New York and around Europe, I have had an amazing time. Very lucky. Now I have moved back home to Germany and am working at BlackRock in Frankfurt. I have also started to build furniture.” Pavlina Borisova-Bensen: “Dan Bensen ’06 and I had a baby. Maggie is now fourteen months old. I am back to work and trying to juggle my consulting business, Maggie, and an education IT start up I’m working on. Dan’s teaching business communication and ESL, and we’re enjoying Bulgaria very much.” Tyler Boyer “completed an MBA at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and have since returned to Deloitte Consulting. Grad school offered a bit more free time and fun than work has so far (as expected), but I’m very much enjoying the lifestyle and twelvemonth golf season here in San Francisco.” Haley Bridger “got married!”
Dylan Brix: “It’s been an exciting year in building a network of people who are focused on blending financial, social, and environmental value. I have been working in investment management in the NYC area.” Jessica Brooks is “living in DC, working for the Defense Department. Heading to Cambodia in April with Jen Renteria to visit Sam Weiss, who is there for Peace Corps!” Kristen Brownell Flajslik “completed a PhD in organic chemistry at Stanford University in September 2012. In October of 2012, I began my first ‘real job’ as a senior R&D chemist at the semiconductor technologies division of the Dow chemical company in Newark, DE. In late August of 2013, I moved back to MA, about thirty minutes from my hometown, to work at the electronic materials division of Dow. More importantly, on September 14, 2013, I married my soul mate, Mario Flajslik, whom I
met and fell in love with while in graduate school. Mario and I are happily living in central MA.” Dana R. Cohen: “I work at Hatfield Family Medicine in Tempe, AZ, and married Ahron Cohen ’06 in Sedona, AZ, on April 6, 2013.” Ashley Conti “recently moved to Boston after graduating from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in June and got engaged to Christopher Smith (Cornell ’06, Tuck ’13) on December 1, 2013! We are planning a November 2014 wedding in NH.”
Meghan Detering ’07 and Maya Jaafar Lena ’07 got in some cross-country skiing together in Jackson, NH, last Christmas. Pavlina Borisova-Bensen ’07 and daughter Maggie mug it up.
Charlie Johnson ’07 proposes to his girlfriend, Claire. “This is an actual picture of the proposal taken by Claire’s father. The whole thing was staged as a family photo in a really beautiful park in Claire’s hometown.”
Niki Alvarez Rodrigues ’07 and Thomas Rodrigues ’06 fed a kangaroo at Trowunna Wildlife Park in Tasmania during a trip Down Under last December.
Eric Robinson ’07 and Jess Liu ’08 at Land’s End “right after my proposal!” CLASSNEWS@BOWDOIN.EDU 47