Class Notes
Class of 2000
Class of 2002
Isaac Chan finished up the first year of his MBA program at University of Chicago this past spring and spent the summer working at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in their Chicago office. Adam Clark reports that he’s been living in New York City since graduating from college in 2007. While he originally worked on traditional TV/print/radio advertising, he recently changed his focus to social media, working with brands to help them connect with users and/or customers across Facebook and Twitter and other peripheral social properties. Adam is engaged to his long-time girlfriend, whom he has known since his days at the University of Rochester. Apparently Erik Trautman has already signed on for best man duties. After meeting at Dartmouth and dating for seven years, Rob Hale married Catherine Haldeman on June 23, 2012. Catherine is an elementary school teacher, originally from Philadelphia. Matt Hedstrom spent a week in London this summer, watching his sister Kristin vie for an Olympic medal in the lightweight women’s double sculls. Matt lives in Utah where he runs the retail marketing business for DIRECTV. Joe Robbins graduated from Fordham Law School in May and is working as a first year associate doing commercial litigation for Goodwin Procter in their Washington, DC, office. Lance Stratton reports that he is living the dream in Montana, where he works at the Yellowstone Club as a fly fishing guide in the summer and as a member of the ski patrol during the winter. On August 21 he married Megan Larson, a Montana native from Helena. Lance, Megan, and their dog live in a house they purchased in historic downtown Bozeman. Peter Tully is working in New York City at American Express doing digital partnerships/marketing/capabilities. He says he was lucky enough to join one of the very innovative groups there, so it actually feels much more like a small business than one with 60,000 employees. He and his girlfriend are big foodies, so they love
Aaron Colby is getting his PhD in biomedical engineering at Boston University, which he also attended as an undergraduate. Xander Manshel made his way back to the United States from Hong Kong to work on his master’s degree at Bread Loaf in Vermont this past summer. Chris Seward is working as a lab manager in a microbiology lab at the University of Rochester, researching cholera pathogenesis. He was hoping to publish his first scientific paper this fall as well as applying to PhD programs in microbiology. Jon Weigel headed back to school this fall to enter Harvard’s Political Economy and Government Program, a cross between economics and political science. He’ll be working toward his PhD.
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Lance Stratton ’00 with current fifth grader Peter Jones in Big Sky, MT. The Joneses had hired fishing guides for their family trip and one of them turned out to be Lance, who fished for a day with Peter and his mom, LeeEllen.
exploring the city for new and exciting places, and at the same time, manage to get out of the city for a bit of travel and seeing family.
Class of 2001 Fenn was well represented at Chris Fincke’s wedding to Taylor Parrott on June 30. Greg '99 and Jonathan Fincke ’04 were best men, and groomsmen included David Khuen and Jack Martin. Sam Hoyt is living in Irvine, CA, and working as a video producer for Flash Point Communications, an internet marketing company. Siddharth Joshi is happily living in Cambridge and has been privately teaching music for the last year. Check out Eric Kester’s new book—That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World’s Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time—which was published this past summer. While at Harvard, Eric wrote a popular column for The Harvard Crimson. He is now a featured writer for CollegeHumor.com and also contributes to the Boston Globe, someEcards.com, and Dorkly.com. Andrew Vigne is returning to his undergraduate alma mater, Lynchburg College in Virginia, to help coach lacrosse and pursue a master’s degree.
Class of 2003 Ian Boll has temporarily left Colorado behind while he works in Lenox, MA, on his mother’s next film. Ben Griff iths provided an update on his life in recent years. After attending St. John’s College in Santa Fe for a year, he transferred to Boston University, where he studied classics and history. After graduation, he worked at a wind energy startup that attempted to make wind prospecting better, faster, and cheaper. As of this past summer Ben was living in Somerville and doing energy economics at Resource Insight in Arlington. Neal Hicks is working as a sales manager for AT&T in Washington, DC, and playing professional lacrosse for the Chesapeake Bayhawks in Annapolis, MD.
Class of 2004 Matt Livingston, an All American in lacrosse and Academic All American, graduated from Union College this past June with high honors in history. He is currently employed by the English Lacrosse Association in the U.K. Matthew Midon graduated from Villanova University in May. Jeff Olshan graduated from Oxford University last spring with a major in classics. He is now in his first year of law school at Boston University.
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