Happy Fourth of July everyone. Lots of news to cover this month…
Carolyn Fucile is living in New York City making a living as a graphic designer while also focusing on her artwork, especially printmaking. She’s been working at the Art Students’ League doing monotypes and etchings and is planning lots of artistic and musical collaborations with friends. Carolyn sees Nate Huckel-Bauer often and she keeps in touch with Joe Edelman, who is currently traveling around Nepal and India.
Speaking of travel abroad, Jeannie Lee recently had her first music performance at an international music festival in Florida. She’ll be living in Nice and Versaille, France, next year composing music and dance.
Jennifer Collins (pronounced as one word, jencollins) just ended a winter of traveling as both skier and ski coach. In February, Jen competed in the World University Games in Poland along with fellow Big Greeners Dave Viele ’98 and Gusty Swift ’01. Dave won the giant slalom and Jen was eighth in the GS (the best American finish) and a respectable eighteenth in the slalom. "For someone who spent the entire year on the other end of things as coach," Jen wrote, "I was pretty psyched." Jen has put away her alpine ski gear for the year and is currently telemarking out in the Tahoe area.
Brendan Reidy is living in California working for Pacific Growth Equities, a stock brokerage house in San Francisco. He was recently engaged to "the woman of his dreams," Dana McDonald, and will be married on September 23. He is also coaching high school and club soccer in the East Bay, but still finds time to hang out with fellow Theta Delts Kirk Spahn, Jon Heaton, Greg Dietrick, and Stephen Donahue.
Dustin Rubenstein is currently in his first year of grad school at Cornell after spending last year in the Galapagos Islands on a Reynolds scholarship. He was recently engaged to Katy Weiss ’00, who works in marketing at World Kitchen, and the two will be married in September.
Here’s an engagement announcement that is long overdue: Yoona Park and Tom Johnson, a University of Michigan and UNC law school graduate, were engaged last October. They met while working together in New York and subsequently moved back to Yoona’s hometown of Portland, Oregon. A July wedding is planned. Congratulations!
Karen Yen caught up recently with former roommate Amy Mikolajczyk in Washington, D.C. According to Karen, "Amy has had a busy year, continuing her great work with Teach for America, testifying on urban education in front of the house committee on education, and being invited to the White House to meet President Bush." Karen is finishing her second year at Georgetown Law School and will be spending the summer in New York at a Manhattan law firm.
Here are some short updates: Gabriela Novo is almost done with her second year at the University of Miami law school and is currently working as a law clerk for HBO Latin America. John Fowler moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and has been working as a floorhand on an exploratory oil rig wildcatting for oil 130 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. Marty Vona, an MIT graduate student, "hacked one of those singing/talking fish things so it said what he wanted to say, rather than what the designer programmed it to say." He’s been picked up by reporters from all over the country, and the story has appeared in the New York Times and on National Public Radio.
That’s all the room for this month. Cheers.
– Seth Kelly,
seth.kelly.99@alum.dartmouth.org