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Lauren Budd, 242 Prospect Parks West, Apt. 4L, Brooklyn, NY 11215-5841; lauren.m.budd@ gmail.com Jamie Rasmussen is studying secondary English education at the Teachers College at Columbia while Hannah Weiss is at NYU getting her master’s in childhood education. Victoria Irvine is an account executive at BBDO New York in the healthcare division. In Trenton, N.J., Annie Lucid is an intern architect at Spiezle Architectural Group while finishing her master’s in architecture and certification in sustainability at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Before starting the MFA in dance program at Brockport with Colleen Wahl Culley ’06, Bethany Fagan bumped into Kimmy Tremlett and Darren Smith ’12 in New York City. Brittany Flaherty is living in Boston as a development assistant in principal and major gifts for the DanaFarber Cancer Institute and recently met up with Meggie Schmidt, Rachel Malley and Abi Wikoff. Abi was living on an educational nonprofit farm in Connecticut and is starting graduate school at Yale University to become a family nurse practitioner. Rachael Dye is studying the erosion of beaches and salt marshes in Cape Cod through GeoCorps America. In Boston, Lelde Taimina sees Laura Valdmanis and Molly DiStefano often and then met up with Alex Hancock, Mary Humphrey, Meghan Ignatosky, Jamie Rasmussen and Katie Mitchell ’09 in New York City. Caitlyn Schrader moved to Boston joining friends Nicole Caravella, Meghan Crump, Tim Sharke, and Kimmy Tremlett as Bostonians. Caitlyn is teaching dance and French. Katie Geise is living in Melrose, Mass., getting her master’s in education at Lesley University while working as a second grade teaching apprentice at Brookwood School in Manchester, Mass. Mary Marciniak loves being an assistant teacher at Wediko Children’s Services, a residential school for children with various behavioral, mental and social issues. After two years as the AmeriCorps VISTA at HWS, Kelsey Lagana joined Teach for America to teach seventh grade English in Houston, Texas. Back in Geneva, Morgan Hopkins became the coordinator of leadership programs for the Centennial Center for Leadership. During her short summer break, before her third year of podiatry school in Cleveland, Ohio, Sarah Foyle saw Jenna Forehand in New York City and Mamme Daley in Boston. Lastly, Holly Roussell married Maxence Perret-Gentil in the Loire Valley of France with guests from Switzerland, the U.S. and China.
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Brian Burbank, 138 Pulteney Street, Apt 4, Geneva, NY 14456; BABurbs2@gmail.com Caleb Campbell joined the Obama campaign in March 2012, working as a field organizer. He has run an office in St. Augustine, Fla., speaking at events, recruiting and organizing volunteers, and managing a staff. He got to meet the President at a rally in Jacksonville that he helped organize. Since graduating, Michael J. Doane moved to Reno, Nev., from his hometown of Marathon, N.Y. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and a graduate assistant for the Center for Research Design and Analysis at UNR. His research interest involves understanding the intersection between religiosity and well-being. Furthermore, he’s interested in assessing the ill health effects of perceived discrimination among people identifying as atheist. He anticipates completing his
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master’s in 2013 and his Ph.D. in 2016 (both in social psychology). After interning with The Jim Henson Company in NYC during the 2009-2010 school year, Myles Hunt has since continued his work in the field. He is currently a puppeteer with the Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Fla., and a freelance puppeteer/builder linked with various educational programs. Myles has connected his academic experience at HWS with his current work: “In linking arts and education, I wanted to not only develop my artistic skills in a liberal arts environment, but also to study child development to be better prepare me to creatively originate material to entertain and teach young children and families.” Following graduation, Michael T. Kane enrolled at SUNY Upstate Medical University. After a successful first year, he went on a medical relief trip to Haiti to help provide care. He has begun his second year and writes: “I look forward to medical rounds that will begin next year.” Kevin “Meaty” McCarthy has been quite active since graduation. For a few weeks he worked as a financial adviser in Binghamton. Then, from Aug. 2011 to Aug. 2012, he served as the men’s soccer graduate assistant at Manhattanville College and studied sports business management. He’s currently in Naples, Fla., coaching youth soccer. He hopes to finish his master’s, and continue coaching at the collegiate level. Max Swagler moved to D.C. after graduation, hoping to find a job in a policy-related field. He is currently working as the support lead at Interfolio, an SAAS startup that’s focusing on improving higher education faculty and staff selection processes. Excited to travel back to Geneva, Max writes: “Looking forward to getting back to HWS for Hobart Crew Alumni weekend!” Shlomo Gelernter writes: “Since graduation in May of 2011, I have been working at the company that I interned for during my summer vacations at HWS. They hired me in March of 2011 so I knew where I was going upon graduation. I started July 1 of that year and have been working here since. I work for Marcus & Millichap, a real estate investment services company on the brokerage end of the spectrum. I work on the top producing team in the Manhattan office and specialize in multi-family investment buildings in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since finishing my training program in Manhattan and Miami, which expired Dec. 31, 2011, I have acquired several listings and have brought three deals to contract. This is a 100 percent commission pay structure which entails cold calling, going on meetings and taking investors on property tours. Studying economics at HWS for four years really paid off by developing an understanding of the markets and realizing trends that take place. I really started working with the wind to my back since investment sales are very strong in today’s market in Manhattan. I see myself staying here for a while.” Kyle Whitaker writes: “I am an upper school mathematics instructor, head coach of boys’ varsity lacrosse and assistant coach of boys’ prep ice hockey at Gilmour Academy near Cleveland, Ohio. I am pursuing an M.A. degree in mathematics at John Carroll University.”
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Megan Rechin, 18 Oak Street, Silver Creek, NY 14136-1218; meganrechin@gmail.com Kelsey Bair, 144 D. Street Southeast, Washington, DC 200003-1810; kelseyjbair@gmail.com
Kolinski lives in Arlington, Va., and works as an account manager at Mack/Crounse Group, a political strategy company. He rooms with fellow alum Dave Fay. Ryan Geswell worked at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., back in August. He worked in the social media command center. Peter Wasmund works at a political software company called NGP VAN. He lives in Cambridge, Mass. Speaking of technology, Charlie Hale is an emerging technology strategist at Allen & Gerristen in Watertown, Mass. He released a mobile game in September called Social Snap. A lot of our classmates joined a huge Hobart contingent in the Big Apple when they moved to New York City following graduation, many in the financial industry. Nick Henkin works at Markit as an associate on the securities finance team. He lives in Manhattan and rooms with Ben Chaplin. Jerimiah BooreamPhelps works at Deutsche Bank. Right now, he’s finishing up training and preparing for his FINRA exams before a specific sector is assigned to him. Matt Campbell works in the human relations department at Morgan Stanley. His office overlooks Times Square. Chris Lagaspi lives in New York City with four of our William Smith colleagues. He’s a freelance fashion assistant for Details magazine at Conde Nast. Nearby, Brendan Hatlee is a customer development representative, working at Grimco, Inc., a wholesale sign manufacturer and distributor in New Britain, Conn. Some financial-industry news outside of New York City: Sean Breen now lives in Charlotte, N.C., and works in global corporate banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mark Wasmund lives in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., working for FairWinds Partners as a business development associate. From money to medicine: Pat Dillingham is working in the emergency room of Children’s Hospital in Boston. He works with physicians and nurses to coordinate patient care. He works with our William Smith colleague Amy Kacprowicz. Adam Law is a physical therapy aide at Saco Bay Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy in his home state of Maine. Adam’s cousin, Darren Smith is working on campus in Geneva in the Office of Admissions before he applies to dental school. Gian Contro is busy with his own landscaping business and is working with his local football team, Chenango Valley Football near Binghamton. Trevor Gionet is working as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Vietnam. Just a quick update from me, I’m working as a digital media producer and special projects reporter at WKTV, the NBC affiliate in Utica, N.Y. The election season is one of our busiest times of year, with several congressional and state legislature elections this year all over New York State. Thanks to everyone for their submissions and updates on their life post-Geneva. It’s truly an honor to be the one responsible for updating all of you on each other’s lives. Keep me posted and please stay in touch! Ryan Young writes: “I was recently hired by Life Technologies Corporation as an ADME-Tox Technical Applications Scientist. I answer technical questions from researchers around the world about hepatocytes (liver cells) and the drug discovery research associated with these cells. Additionally, I am currently applying to medical schools with the hope of matriculating in the fall of 2013.”
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Kaylyn O’Brien, ksobrie13@gmail.com
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Andrew Donovan, 126 Clarion Drive, Whitesboro, NY; abdonovan@gmail.com Hello everybody. Welcome to our first edition of Class Notes. It feels like yesterday that we were all together on the Quad for Commencement, and here we are, already several months later updating each other on our lives. Dan
Greetings fellow 2012ers. I hope this finds each of you pleasantly enjoying whatever new adventure you have embarked upon. It has been great to hear about what you have all been up to, so keep those e-mails coming! Emily Ross has moved to Syracuse and is pursuing a master’s in inclusive special education, severe and multiple disabilities. Joining her at Syracuse is Tra To who is working toward a master’s in advertising as the
recipient of the Liu Multicultural Scholarship. Casey Kennedy is diligently working as a school program coordinator for North Chicago Community Partners, a non-profit dedicated to striving for academic improvement through collaboration between school communities. Jamie Sawyer packed up and moved down to Washington, D.C. She is living in an apartment with Alexa Turner and is working at SmithBucklin as an education and learning services associate. Lucia Berliner, Charlotte Lysohir and Kristen Kush are all knee deep in their teaching careers with Teach For America. They are living and teaching in Pinebluff, Ark., Washington D.C., and Newark, N.J., respectively. Here’s to hoping you each have had a great school year! Currently attending Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine in Clevland, Ohio, Jenna Lohre has already started dissecting cadavers and writes that while it is certainly intense it is also exciting. She is studying to become a podiatric surgeon and is looking to get involved in sports medicine. Sarah Marlow has begun her time at Columbia University Teacher’s College where she is pursuing a master’s in philosophy and education. Busy working at the Vineyard Vines Corporate Headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Emily Rogowski took many ferries across the Long Island Sound this past summer to come visit me. Thanks, girl! Cait Hughes has taken off for Rwanda to begin her work with the Peace Corps. Best of luck to you, Cait! Jetting off around the world, Emma Boehm is currently teaching English in Lille, France. Joining her and also settling down in Europe are Katie McLean and Caitlin O’Brien, who both now call Copenhagen, Denmark, home. McLean is beginning a new job, and O’Brien is working toward a master’s. Nora Clarke and Kelsey Lee have hopped across the pond to the United Kingdom. Clarke is living in London and studying fashion at the University of the Arts, and Lee has settled down in Scotland to begin her postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh. As for me, I am so overjoyed to find myself back in Ireland! If anyone happens to end up near Dublin, be sure to let me know: I’d love to meet up for a Guinness. A special shout out to my fellow Galway girls, Corey McClintock, Jess McCue, Sarah Marlow, Amy Waddell, Kelsey Lee, Amy Kievit, Caley Goldblatt, Courtney Good and Braden Barret, too! I wish you all were over here with me again. That’s the news for now. I hope you all continue to keep me updated. I truly enjoy hearing about everyone’s new and exciting lives. Until next time, cheers!