Class Letters BRANDON TAYLOR ’12 of Arlee, Montana, is a technology consultant at Accenture in northern California, supporting high-tech clients in Silicon Valley. SNEHA THAPA ’12 of Lexington, Kentucky, is a caseworker for Kentucky Refugee Ministries, a refugee resettlement agency in Louisville, Kentucky. She gets to interact with a lot of Congolese and Syrian refugees who have just arrived to the United States (Kentucky). She also is continuing research for her Ph.D. on Tibetan refugees living in Dharamshala, India and the United States. JOSIE ULLSPERGER ’12 of Iowa City, Iowa, is working on her clinical psychology Ph.D. at the University of Iowa and is starting to write her dissertation proposal. She has three published papers. MITCH BROUSE ’12 and Josie are the proud owners of a 1½-year-old aussiedoodle named Ollie. VICKY WEBER ’12 of Madison, Wisconsin, moved back to Madison from Colorado. She is a technical support analyst at a tech company in Middleton called Spredfast. Spredfast has an office keg for FREE BEER. She’s also teaching a public speaking class at UW-Richland this semester. She has no puppies, houses, children, spouses or awards, but she has the world’s best cat and will soon be the proud parent of a gaming computer. SARAH WEINBERG ’12 of Middleton, Wisconsin, is a sales coordinator at a hotel in downtown Madison (the same place she’s been working)! She will be negotiating group blocks and events for the hotel, managing their social media accounts, networking with local businesses in the downtown area and working on design and marketing campaigns! Super excited. On a personal note, she’s currently working on becoming TEFL certified to teach English in Busan, South Korea fall of 2017 with her partner in crime (JORDAN HILL ’11). Enjoying life in Madison! Missing Ripon always. RACHEL WEYKER ’12 of Appleton, Wisconsin, is still at Alta Resources in Neenah (more than four years!), owns a house in Appleton (almost two years), still has a dog, now has a cat (he turns 1 on 9/4). In April, she changed roles in her company from team leader to operations analyst, which she’s enjoyed a lot more and it’s a fun but stressful challenge. She’s also begun some prerequisite classes on the way to a master’s degree in data science. Thank you to all the people who sent us their life updates on Facebook or via email! Feel free to contact the College (or us) throughout the year and we will be sure to include them in our class updates. We hope that everyone is doing well and we hope you will plan ahead and join us for our reunion next summer! KATLYN, ERIN and BRANDON
2013 Travis Bitters bitters.travis@gmail.com Charlotte E. S. Lee charlotteeslee@gmail.com Lauren Ott lauren.a.ott.42@gmail.com Alexandra Peltier alipeltier13@gmail.com Here we are again, 20-somethings with jobs, apartments or houses, marriages, babies and/or martinis. I find it incredible that one minute I feel like I am an adult. Someone with a savings and 401K, someone with a purpose to get out of bed every morning (“wake up, you
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