In case you were wondering what Neil Sharma and Zach Cherry are up to, correspondent Neil Sharma wrote in with this season’s updates: “Zach is working in NYC, and is part of an improv group named Pulley who perform regularly around New York. Check them out! Neil works out in Jersey City, but recently moved into NYC with fellow '06 alum Charles Hamlin. They have settled into their apartment and hope everyone visits them at some point. Charlie is an expert cook.” [I checked out Cherry’s improv group page and it looks pretty neat. You can find it here: http://newyork.improvteams.com/ performers/3723/zach_cherry] Sharma added, “Unfortunately, Zach and Neil are currently not on speaking terms after an argument about their favorite character on HBO's Girls.” I hope they reconcile before the next class notes. Jon Hofmann is moving to the Mississippi Delta as a member of Teach for America. “Jonny will be enriching the minds and souls of the Mississippi Delta Youth.” Ellen Cook recently bought a condo in Philadelphia, where she works for PNC Bank. Hannah Tamminen lives in the San Diego area and is completing an MFA in acting with the UCSD/La Jolla playhouse. Tamminen wrote: “I am currently in a production of Titus Andronicus at La Jolla Playhouse. It is warm and sunny out here in San Diego! Love it!” In what promises to be the last update related to Arvind Thambidurai’s wedding, I saw Colin Wollack, Adam Savitzky, Neil Sharma, and Kiran Vepuri at Thambidurai’s wedding reception in September. Thambidurai’s actual marriage to Santhra Stephen took place in Kerala, India, last August, but his wedding reception was a good mix of Indian food, dancing, and stories about Thambidurai. I’m including a photo from Santhra’s Facebook. At the reception, Vepuri told me about his work for Navigant Consulting, where he researches the pharmaceutical industry. Savitzky lives in San Francisco and works for Forio Online Simulations. He combined the trip out to
Arvind’s wedding with a business trip to Boston to work with a Forio client. I’m midway through my second year of law school. This summer I’m working for a group at the law firm Lowenstein that focuses on technology startups. I’m still unsure what post lawschool life has in store for me. An exciting thing that happened to me recently was that I made the move over to using a smartphone, purchasing Samsung Galaxy S III. Now I am never lost and usually remember appointments, as long as my battery has power. It was great hearing from those who sent in updates, and I look forward to improving my mailing list for next time to reach everyone.
2007 Melanie Philippou 9 Bonner Court Pennington, NJ 08534 609-730-9479 philippoum@rider.edu
2008 5th Reunion Tessica Glancey 208 Massachusetts Ave NE Johnson Building Room #309 Washington DC, 20002 tessicaglancey@gmail.com Hannah Epstein has been working at NFL Films as a cinematography intern since August, assisting in the camera department with the prep technicians to help test, prep, and pack equipment before it is sent out on shoots. She works as an assistant to cinematographers on all kinds of shoots, ranging from interviews, to commercial work, to games. On weekends she works as a "runner" at NFL games for a variety of different camera positions, and travels to games as far north as the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers, and then down as far as the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins. Tessica Glancey worked on Senator Scott Brown's re-election campaign in Boston this past fall, and has made the move to Washington, DC to continue to pursue her interest in politics. She will work at the Heritage Foundation in the Marketing and Strategic Operations departments. Greg Francfort moved to New York City after graduating from Georgetown University to research the restaurant industry for Bank of America. Lindsey Mischner will be missing 2008's fifth reunion because she will be graduating from college that weekend. At Yale, Lindsey was an active member of the Women’s Club Volleyball Team (2010 National Champions!) as well as intramural sports and student council within her residential college. She will be in Princeton for most of the summer if anyone wants their own mini-reunion before she moves to Madison, WI in late July.
2009 Ashley Smoots 1100 Surrey Lane Yardley, PA 19067 215-497-5025 ans155@pitt.edu 63
Vinay Trivedi 325 Ridge Avenue Newtown, PA 18940 215-598-0568 vinay.a.trivedi@gmail.com Vinay sent news: Sara Cook has enjoyed her college years, especially working with her school’s Student Television Network on a show called The Biweekly Show. She spent the month of January in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany with a group of students on an abroad winter session trip. She is interning with ABC Channel Six in Philadelphia for the spring semester, and after that she plans to look for a job in media production.
Classs Notes
Feeling outraged at the lack of acknowledgment, I wrote to the President of my university, and ended up spearheading many fundraising efforts on campus, as well as hosting a Jersey-inspired yoga benefit at the studio I teach at.” She added: “We really are Jersey Strong compared to the rest of the country!” Leopold was recently certified as a Yoga Therapist and is finishing up her clinical requirement for that degree. Additionally, she has been teaching yoga for the past few years. She explained: “For those who are not very familiar with it, yoga therapy is a field which combines many of the Westernmedicine practices found in physical therapy with Eastern-medicine practices of Ayurveda.” Leopold’s long-term goal is to “work one-onone with individuals who are dealing with longterm illness or rehabilitation” and to move back to New Jersey. “I look forward to bringing all I have learned on the West Coast back to New Jersey where I hope to one day open up my own healing center, offering a range of private therapies (talk, yoga, art, etc.), as well as public yoga classes.”
Natalie Heker spent the last part of her winter break touring Miami and West Palm Beach and Boca Raton with her a cappella group. She will be graduating Boston University in May with a major in business administration and concentration in finance, and will be working at Unilever as a financial analyst at their headquarters in northern NJ.
2010 Alexandra Feuer 16 Meetinghouse Court Princeton, NJ 08540 609-683-1542 feueal01@gettysburg.edu Rebecca Golden 2 Alexander Drive Monroe Township, NJ 08831 rg244315@muhlenberg.edu Sheridan Gates is studying theatre in London this spring and will be working in Nashville in the music industry again this summer. Evan Quinn won the 2012 Wake Forest Concerto Competition. Over the fall, Rebecca Golden received an Outstanding Undergraduate Poster award after presenting her summer research at Drexel University College of Medicine’s annual discovery day. Adrienne Esposito has been featured in numerous roles at Texas Christian University's prestigious dance program, including the lead in Elizabeth Gillaspy’s “Sorrow’s Labyrinth.” She is also a member of Diamond Darlings, a group of marketing interns for the TCU baseball team. Alexandra Feuer is studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark this spring semester at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. Rachel Manning and her co-founder of Mountain Garden Initiative brought five college interns to Harlen County, KY where they taught kids about sustainable agriculture, healthy lifestyles, plant science, and gardening skills.
Spring 2013