Well, another year gone by. Just when you thought graduating college was traumatic, consider the fact that you graduated in a different millennium. Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? Well, enough of that. On to the news…
I recently received a blitz from Michael Tierney announcing his engagement to Bridget Finn. While busy planning for the future, the couple hasn’t quite set a date yet. Michael writes that "we are tentatively planning for February 14, 2071, but it may happen as early as next summer. I have accepted a one-year teaching contract in St. Johnsbury, VT and she will be teaching ESL and citizenship classes as part of Americorp next year. We both plan to be in the Boston area (with the gazillion other ’99s) in married bliss." Make sure you send them a note to say congratulations!
Speaking of Boston, our class is definitely raising a ruckus in the quiet, seaside town. Rex Morey writes that "a bunch of us ’99s had a little party the other night at my place. We played pong on a table we built at my apartment, drank, hung out, and just caught up since graduation." Kyle Roderick, Dave Rapson, Sheryl Koval, Pam Smith, Mike Hren, Roy Wildeman, Matt Wrobel, Sarah Kimberly, Erin Gross, Sarah Piecuch, and Courtney Jacobs ’98 were all there.
Ann Sharfstein is also in the area, where she is enjoying her work at A Better Chance, a non-profit education organization, and living in Brighton. She shares her apartment with Dan Mielcarz and Pete Woodruff, both of whom are working in medical research. Ann wrote to tell me that they recently met up with Liz Kane, who is living and working in Maine, and Laura Jastrem, who was living in Boston but has since moved to New York to start a new job.
Jennie Hume and Susie Rudders just aren’t any fun anymore. While the rest of the Boston ’99s are out partying, these two work during the day and take classes at night through the local Coast Guard Auxillary. Roommate Ada Añon remarks: "Jennie finally realized what she was missing out on in the Midwest, and figured Boston would be as good a place as any to practice sailing" (which she abandoned after Sophomore Summer).
Elsewhere in the U.S., Adam Kane continues to moonlight as a housekeeper in exchange for the sofa in Chris Sullivan and Kyle Rogers’ bachelor pad. Don’t worry, he has a pretty impressive day job, too.
Amy Mikolajczyk is in D.C. with the Teach for America program. She got a job teaching first grade at Malcolm X Elementary School and is the leader of the school’s brownie troop. She "couldn’t be happier with [her] little babies even though the job is more challenging than [she] could have imagined." And, she is still looking for an apartment if anyone knows of an opening!
Across the U.S., Kyle Marchesseault and Lauren Williams are whooping it up in San Francisco. Kyle works so hard that he can’t return my phone calls, while Lauren is clearly not busy enough at her new job at a magazine startup company. She "gets to play foosball and video games all day, in addition to managing the website." Lauren, if there are any openings where you work, definitely let me know.
Well, I’m almost out of room. Make sure you put blitzing me on your list of resolutions for the next century, as I am definitely looking for stuff to put in the column. In the meantime, have a great holiday and safe and happy New Year.
Cheers.
Seth Kelly,
seth.kelly.99@alum.dartmouth.org