2005 Tyler Hoffberger wthoffberger@gmail.com Another year, another reason for me to brag about my class being the best in the School’s history. It’s been amazing catching up with everyone as we’re all over the country — and world even — doing some very impressive and genuinely interesting stuff. So here we go: First thing’s first — congratulations to Matt Hogans and Tess Jones (now Tess Hogans, of course) on getting married this past year! Matt and Tess live on the Eastern Shore where Matt works as a carpenter. The newlyweds also expect their first child, a girl. Here’s to a healthy baby and one more congrats to the new family! Moving on to our fellow ’05ers working on post-grad degrees: John Thompson, in his third year at Hopkins medical school, is working toward a May 2013 graduation and plans to start his residency in surgery in July 2013. Halcott Turner recently finished teaching special education at KIPP Central City Academy in New Orleans through Teach For America; he is currently pursuing his master’s degree in student affairs practice in higher education at the University of Virginia. Adrian Kostrubiak just graduated with a master’s in computer science from Dartmouth College. Good luck to them as they wrap up what has been some grueling work over the past few years. Take a trip to NYC and hang out with Alex Kaplan, Alex Goldscher and Thomas Rogers. Kaplan, who lives in Brooklyn, works in advertising in Manhattan. He’s an art director at Grey NY where he make ads for Ally Bank, the NFL, the reboot of the classic show “Dallas” on TNT and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. (Lasletts — now you know who your go-to is for your favorite adult beverage.) TRR works in sales and analytics at Bloomberg LP. Goldscher recently moved to NYC from Charlotte where he worked as an analyst in the consumer and retail investment banking group at Wells Fargo Securities. He’s now an associate at Goode Partners, a consumer and retail focused private equity firm in New York City. Back down in Charlotte, Red Farha works for Bank of America’s sports finance and advisory group after graduating from Wake Forest with a master’s in accounting. Red’s still plays hockey in a men’s league each Sunday, just another example of us ’05ers clutching to our high school glory days. Britton Nyce, always good for the funniest e-mail to me each year, writes a lot of stuff he probably doesn’t want me to actually include. All you need to know is he’s loving life in New Orleans and working at Ernst & Young. Matt Bressler is currently taking a supported leave from his consulting job to pursue a non-profit fellowship. He’s working for the Rocky Mountain Institute, a really innovative “think-and-do-tank” working on renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives. He is based in Boulder, Colo., and taking
advantage of as much of the good skiing as he possibly can. He’ll likely be moving back to the East Coast to New York City this summer. As for yours truly, I’m still living with Peter Cornbrooks in D.C. The Pain Train works as an advisory specialist for Corporate Executive Board, and I’m still at New Media Strategies doing work in sports and entertainment marketing, specifically within social media. Again — it was a pleasure to catch up with you all and hope the year treats you all well. Proud of you guys!
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