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May | June 2005

Beyond the Green

Dear Classmates, We have some good news and some bad news, unfortunately. Our colleague, Joe Nagraj has passed away. Thanks to Christine Cuoco ‘98, we think back on how Joe touched the lives of many of us in the Class of 1998. He will be missed. For good news, we bring you the stories of many in the Class of 1998 who have given of themselves to help at home and abroad. Some of their stories are included in this is- sue’s Green Gossip. Uriel Barrera-Vasquez committs his time to educate fifth-graders at a Bronx school; Heather Charles plans to teach in California; and Abby Augusta worked IN THIS ISSUE with poor communities in India.

News Others help in a more visceral way, giving us the gift of laughter, which, if you haven’t heard, is really good medicine. On opposite coasts of the US, Randy Barnes and Jason Dartmouth Launches inCircle Hsiao do their part to make us laugh. Dartmouth Bookstore On The Road These are just some of the stories out there waiting to be told. Please send us yours. ʻ97 on Broadway Simone and I are inspired by everything you do and anxiously await news of you. Juan Cisneros ʻ99 Memorial Fund — Gabi Sarhos Astronaut Dinosaur

Upcoming Events with , make new alumni friends, or In Memoriam News network with over 70,000 alumni. Also, whether you’re looking to buy or sell, Seven Questions Dartmouth To Launch employ or be employed, inCircle is a free with Jason Hsiao inCircle Networking outlet for advertising. Article excerpt courtesy of YADA Green Gossip http://yada.dartmouth.edu/connect/ Dartmouth Bookstore Steve Zrike Resurfaces If you haven’t been on campus for a while, incircle.htm Abby Augusta Spills All we got some news for you. You may think Dartmouth College has recently com- Baby Augustus James you know the Bookstore, but you are in pleted the deployment of a social and for a little surprise. It’s now a Barnes and business networking tool called in- Noble with a Starbucks inside! How times Circle. The service, accessible at https: have changed! //alumni.dartmouth.edu/services/socialnet/ login.php, will allow individuals to inter- On The Road with thousands of Dartmouth students Dartmouth President , and alumni. Better yet, the service is Alumni Council President Karen McKeel free... As alumni all you need is a VAN Calby ‘81 and Trustee Chair William H. login account and you can stay in touch (continued on page 2) Beyond the Green May | June 2005 2

Upcoming Events

Informal Gathering: Class of ʻ73 & Class of ʻ98 Hiking the Inca Trail: Machu Pichu Thursday, June 9th | 6:30PM August 20, 2005 - August 29, 2005 The ‘73s have graciously agreed to adopt our class. Join Dartmouth’s Deb Nichols and John Watanabe on a won- To celebrate, you are invited to join fellow ‘98s and members derous trip through Peru. The group will begin in Cusco, con- of the Class of ‘73 for an informal get-together. The organiz- tinue to the Sacred Valley of the Incas (north of Cusco), and ers—dedicated members of the Classes of ‘73 and ‘98— trek for four days along the Inca Trail to the Lost City of the hope that this is the first of many events and the beginning Incas to arrive at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu that was of great mentorships and friendships to come. lost in the dense jungle for hundreds of years. The Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Terminal Cost: Approximately $2500 15 Vanderbilt Avenue | New York Activity Level: Strenuous Operator: Global Adrenaline Friends. Food. Drink. Music. Faculty: Deb Nichols & John Watanabe Please RSVP to Joan Ai at [email protected] More Information: http://dartmouth.org/ACE/?fn=detail&ud=13

student who exhibits the ideals Juan Neukom ‘64 are making a series of visits The Juan P. Cisneros represented. A fundraiser for Juan’s schol- to Dartmouth alumi clubs in early 2005, Memorial Fund speaking to alumni in San Francisco, arship was held in New York Article excerpt courtesy of Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Denver. City on Friday, May 20. To view these clips, you’ll need Windows http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php If you would like to make a contribution, Media Player or Real Player. Written tran- ?aid=200110290103 please send contributions to: scripts of President Wright’s speeches on Ms. Nancy Bates the West Coast in January and in Chicago Juan Cisneros was working for Cantor Office of Donor Relations and Denver in February are also available. Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of Dartmouth College To view Clips/Images/Transcripts, please Tower One on September 11. Having 6066 Development Office visit http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/clubs/ graduated only two years earlier, Juan Hanover, NH 03755-3555 pres-travel.htm. was the youngest member of the Dart- mouth community to pass away on 9/11. (603) 646-3613 David Harbour ʻ97 on Broadway Juan was born in Guatemala and immi- When making the donation, please After a series of appearances on- and off- grated with his family to the US when be sure to make checks payable to Broadway, David Harbour ‘97 is starring he was 4; he came from an economically The Juan P. Cisneros Memorial Fund. opposite Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin in disadvantaged background and over- All proceeds will benefit the fund and the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's came unbelievable obstacles to attend will be tax-deductible. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Harbour college and begin his career in plays Nick, a young and ambitious college New York City. Astronaut-Dinosaur in Action professor, married to Honey (played by Scott Listfield's Astronaut-Dinosaur is In his memory and in his honor, Juan’s Mirelle Enos who starred with Harbour in HOT HOT HOT. Look for two new friends and family have established The Invention of Love). Catch the show paintings—entitled “If You Donʼt Know, The Juan P. Cisneros Memorial Fund at soon if you get a chance and maybe David Now You Know” and “Mach 5”—now at Dartmouth, a scholarship that will will introduce you to the cast. www.astronautdinosaur.com. be awarded annually to a Dartmouth 3 In Memoriam: Joe Nagraj

We are devastated by the loss of Joe Nagraj, who passed away in May 2005 from a brain tumor. A member of Groovemerchant (later Stand Up Eight) while at Dartmouth, Joe impressed his many friends not only with his awe-inspiring guitar but also with his subtle humor, consistently laid-back nature, and—despite a mysterious nonchalance— endless enthusiasm for hanging out no matter what time of night or what was due the next day. The only thing more extraordinary than Joe’s rare musical talent was his unassuming presence; he was brilliant, quietly hysterical, unbelievably gifted, and the sweetest guy we knew. Though he deserved it perhaps more than anyone, Joe never wanted attention and absolutely never took himself too seriously. His example is teach- ing all of us to slow down, listen to, and enjoy the music. A photo tribute to Joe can be accessed online at http://www.kodakgallery.com/ I.jsp?c=vbbs0mf.8k72lxjn&x=1&y=sf87is. You may also email Christine Cuoco ‘98 for the photo album link. Beyond the Green May | June 2005 4

on YoSAR (Search and Rescue Team) ings and credit groups and water and sani- Green over the summer, then travelled in Africa tation. It was an amazing experience. I got (attended Lara Hoffman’s wedding in to see lots of wells and newly built squat Gossip Tanzania and then travelled overland by toilets and talk about open defecation with Simone Swink bus/train/hitching to South Africa) over problems! Now, I’m finishing up my the winter, and now am starting an intern- and plan to graduate in May. I’m looking So many of our classmates have written in ship as a financial analyst at a non-profit for a job in international development, so with goods-n-news! We thank you all for back in San Fran this summer. I will start if anyone’s got any leads, let me know! my MBA studies at UCLA Anderson in supporting our efforts to keep the Class Now, as for my friends... In New York, September! Any Dartmouth grads living of 1998 newsletter a fun publication. And I mostly see Uriel Barrera-Vasquez and down there?!” now for the good stuff! Elena Reilly ‘97. Uri wages daily battles Steve Zrike writes that “it’s been a busy And Heather Charles wrote in with “lots as a fifth-grade bilingual teacher at Public year.” Currently, Steve is an elementary of news to share. In June, I will graduate School 85 in the Bronx. Elena works for school principal in Boston Public Schools from Stanford’s Teacher Education Pro- Save the Children and just moved down to at the Philbrick Elementary School in gram with a Master’s in Education and a Nicaragua to be the Deputy Field Director Roslindale, Massachusetts. “It has been a California teaching credential for French for their field office there.” (and maybe Spanish too!). It’s been a whirlwind of a first year, but I thoroughly Abby updates us on Hope Engels who “is tough year, but I love the work. I am enjoy the constant action. At the same also an educator in Philadelphia teaching teaching French at a middle school in Palo time, I am working to complete an EdD high school. Anat Levtov is working with Alto during the day and taking Stanford from an urban superintendency program. students and building community at the classes at night. Still finding time to belly I am getting married this summer to a of Virginia in their residential dance in my spare time.” Heather’s bigger fellow educator, and we will be living in life office, though she is leaving in June to news is that this past December, she got Charlestown, Massachusetts.” And he adds apply for PhD programs. Caroline Tim- engaged to Justin Wells ‘95. “It’s a long, that he believes “Noah Schneiderman has bers is in DC, working, playing capoeira, magical, fate-filled story that would fill met the love of his life, and that recently teaching ESL and plotting her next move up an entire green card like this,” so we’ll Noah, Ryan Broderick, Josh Freeman, out of the country.” Dong Shen and I attended the baptism have to wait for the next installment… Mike Fenzel writes that can be found in of Kapil Patel and Rachel Korn’s (both Abigail Augusta mentions that because Lyme, in the shadow of ‘97s) first born, Ides (Born on the Ides of she’s “never written into the newsletter the skiway. He’s a science teacher at the March!). What a wonderful party!” before, I have the 7 (!) years since we’ve Montshire Museum - right across the river graduated to update you on. And since Dan Goren has been working his way from the college. “The rest of my day is none of my friends ever write in, I’ll try to through the journalism world since gradu- spent training for my next marathon (and implicate them as well.” ation from a job at ABC News to a stint soon an ultra trail marathon), coaching for a weekly newspaper in Somerville, Abby writes that “after Dartmouth, I a local 5th/6th grade lacrosse team, and Massachusetts and then on to Columbia’s went to Ecuador (Ibarra and Otavalo) for playing with my dog. I definitely do not Graduate School of Journalism in 2003. two years, where I was teaching English, hear enough from my classmates, so they At Columbia, “I met Jessie Royce Hill learning to play guitar and performing in should feel free to stop by when next up and we were married in May 2004. We are local cafes and discotecas! Then I came visiting the college.” moving to Connecticut as I was just hired back to the States and moved to New York Eric Cross writes that he is “living side- as a reporter for the Hartford Courant.” City where I worked for a couple years at ways in Oaktown, pushing galettes and And Dan and Jessie are expecting a baby World Music Institute, a concert-present- cracking eggs till my heart begins to won- in August! ing organization of - guess - world music! der about pro-life omnivores. Save for the Then, in fall of 2003, I started grad school, Los Angeles resident Mary Hollendoner rare sightings of Orion or Ursa Major, the to get my master’s in International Affairs was working for a San Fran marketing only stars round here are those spinning at the New School in New York City. After firm for two years “climbing, biking, and 22s, Gavin Newsome and Alice Waters. my first year, I went to India for the sum- partying in every spare moment (the city is White tees are more popular than retro jer- mer to work with an NGO that works with so full of life and fun!) I quit almost a year seys. Hyphy is hot, but probably only in the rural poor, focusing on women’s sav- ago to go work in Yosemite National Park (continued on page 6) SEVEN QUESTIONS with JASON HSIAO

Our own Simone Swink spoke with Jason Hsiao in cyberspace and found out some pretty interesting things about our classmate.

1. What do you do? 4. Favorite Crank Yankers skit? I’m a television comedy producer in New York. Most of the shows I’ve done have been for , MTV, and Simone Swink: Mine’s the one with the blind stripper and her MTV2. I also produce some live-event comedies in the city seeing eye dog. The one with the puppet puking everywhere, like the off-Broadway show, Matt & Ben, and Sketch Fights, of course. I can always proudly point to that as my first official a battle of comedy TV writers at Caroline’s. Outside of work, contribution to the complete degrading of society. I’m pretty useless. 5. What are you working on now?

2. Is that what you were doing when I’m developing a political comedy with Dennis Miller and Eddie you left college? Feldmann. They have a bunch of Emmys from their HBO days, but I still win every drinking game against them. Personally, I I worked for a consulting firm in San Francisco. Then as the think that’s a more tangible accomplishment. (And just for the tech boom got underway, I jumped ship and joined a small record, there’s very little I agree with Dennis politically.) We’re “promising” start-up and did the whole boom and bust of the in middle of the “shopping it around” process. I’m also currently tech bubble... both thrilling and then depressing. Don’t ask producing a new comedy for MTV2, a show that’s sure to piss off what my startup did. Seems completely retarded now. half of America. In fact, I’m sure most of you will refuse to talk 3. How did you make the transition? to me again when it comes out.

I decided to go hang out with some friends in New York. 6. When should we look for it? I actually thought I was going to hate New York (because I’m The show is still untitled but it’s set to premiere July 8th. In all a west coast guy who grew up in Seattle). But a month turned seriousness, anyone who’s easily offended should completely into a summer, a summer into a year, and now it’s been almost avoid this show and just stick to the WB. This show is not for the five years, and I actually really like it here. I wanted to do some- morally upstanding, politically correct, or anyone who’s not a thing that was still business-ish but that had more creative outlet male skater between the ages of 18 and 24. and “fruits of my labor” sorta thing. After working on a few crappy film shoots, commercials, and slaving away for a couple 7. And in your spare time, you’re organizing jerky producers, I landed a gig as a production assistant, the alumni organizations? bottom of the bottom, at a Comedy Central show called “Crank Yankers” that re-enacts real prank phone calls with puppets. Well, yeah. We started up DAEMA, Dartmouth Alumni in Enter- I remember thinking... man, I graduated from an tainment and Media for alums who work in motion picture, tele- school and went from managing my own product, my team, and vision, music, theatre, news and documentaries. I thought maybe my own budget to being sent to a supermarket to find things there were a few dozen of us. But turns out there are upwards of that would make convincing puppet barf. (Which, FYI, is water 250 including Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winners. Who mixed with corn starch and frozen mixed vegetables, the super knew. It’s inspiring to see what other alumni are doing. budget school cafeteria kind.) From there, I relied on my flashy PowerPoint skills, colorful Excel spreadsheets, and smartass backtalk to climb my way up to the middle. For more on Dartmouth alums in entertainment and media, go to http://alum.dartmouthentertainment.org Beyond the Green May | June 2005 6

the Bay Area. Watch out for the Warriors for Carnivale). In my free time, I’ve been ing on weekends and coming back for the on the court next year though.” playing ice hockey, snowboarding, and sun in LA during the week (once we made road/mountain biking. I try to hang out “The only news on other classmates is it through the rainy season!)” with Natalie Wood and Alex Vogel when- that I have spent several nice evenings Chad Trexler reports that the West Coast ever their busy schedule allows.” with 3-2 ‘99 housemate is “treating me well. I took a job with a And he adds “if anyone makes it up to Michael Corr in San Fran and Eric Daly nascent management consulting firm, Seattle or the PNW...look me up...” in his fresh, yet sparsely decorated, pad in so I’ve been traveling a lot and have been the Oak/Berkeley hills (nice views). Most Peter Lanfer got married in 2002, moved working my tail off over the last year.” grads live in SF, and the FBI now seems to to California and is working on a PhD in He got engaged to his girlfriend, now fian- have an interest in the new Bay Bridge de- Hebrew Bible at UCLA. His wife, Sarah, cee, Taryn last June and the twosome are sign (perhaps terrorists will begin employ- is working as an actress on the WB show in the middle of planning their wedding! ing bicycle bombs). That’s , and ‘Everwood’ which shoots up in Salt Lake Randi Barnes, “in LA, along with a mass that’s me. Check me out at the Blackberry City. Peter mentions that they “just bought of other Dartmouth folks, among them Bistro for fiercely good food with global a house there and have been enjoying ski- inspiration.” Yuri Feldman graduated from Harvard last June and says “HBS was a great time, and being in Boston was really fun. There were lots of interesting people, the classes kept you awake, and the two year break was a real treat. After a summer of touring Australia and Hawaii, and marathon training (ran Chicago in October), I’ve re-joined Bain & Company in New York. I’ve enjoyed being back in the city, where post-MBA life is similar to pre-MBA life in that you still don’t save money, although you do get a slightly nicer apartment. Recently, I’ve hung out 1 with Jeff Beyer, Dave Pichler, and Ben Cooperberg in New York. Jeff is big pimpin’ as an antitrust lawyer at Skadden. Dave is finishing up at Wharton this year before joining a private equity shop in Philly this summer. Ben is toughing it out as a resident in St. Louis, although is finding it rewarding. Those guys are doing well, although everyone was in a 3 varied state of bleary-eyes from either work or play.” Joe Fitzgerald, a Seattle resident now for nearly five years, develops software for .com alongside Peter DeSantis. 2 Joe writes that he “just got back from a three week trip backpacking in South ʼRound the Girdled Earth They Roam America in February (including running 1 | Joe Fitzgerald in Machu Picchu 2 | Heather Charles and Justin Wells ʻ95 into some ‘04 ADs who had just gradu- at a Dartmouth cabin for Liz Gerberʼs birthday over MLK Jr. weekend in January ated and happened to be in Rio de Janeiro 3 | Augustus James Anderson, new baby boy of Rebecca (Davenport) Anderson and husband Jerry Anderson 7

Alex Prinstein, about whom I will gladly & Watkins, ran the Big Sur Marathon, and gossip. Because she’s getting married. got married to William King, one of my To Seth Pevnick ’99, whom she actually Columbia Business School study group met in Houston working at the Teach for members, in November! We had a mini-re- Class of ‘98 America institute. (Seth was basically her union as Wendy Fleske and Jackie Rose Executive Committee student there. Scandal!) Now she’s work- were two of our bridesmaids and Carolann ing at a school in Pacific Palisades, and Purcell ‘97 also flew to San Francisco to he’s getting his PhD in Classical attend. Bill and I are living in San Carlos Archaelogy (perhaps not the exact title, with our two dogs, a boxer named Tyler, Officers Betsy Lewis Roberts, President but a fairly accurate description, I’m sure). and a retired racing greyhound named Wendy Habeski, Vice President Much easier to tell you about her than Disco, and Huxley the cat. Please come Rodrego Byerly, Treasurer about me. Much more fun, too. I’m still visit us and the zoo!” Chris Atwood, Secretary writing, weathering the ups and downs of Adam Gorra proposed to Kelly Mac- the world of entertainment. I just finished Donald in December 2004 on a chairlift Newsletter Editors up on a reality show (who knew they had at Sugarloaf. He writes that she said Simone Swink writers?) for FOX. I did briefly work on “‘Yes!’ and now a September wedding is Gabi Sarhos a sitcom for ABC (with Dartmouth alums planned on Sebago Lake, Maine.” and in the Webmaster cast), but we got cancelled. Aah, Hol- Stasia Bochnowski, enjoying her second Ernesto Cuevas, Jr. lywood. Now I’m doing some freelance year of medical school at USC, is living in sunny Santa Monica. “I will be moving Mini-Reunion Chairs work for Disney (cartoons! perhaps my Anil Doshi to Boston for the next year to do research calling) and performing improv comedy Rachel Drew as my fiance Ted Muhlner completes his at Improv Olympic in Hollywood.” Lara Hoffman second year at Harvard Business School. Breeze Harper, researching at Harvard Allison Malley We will be married in August!” University, is looking for black female Daniel Doctor non-profit workers and/or adult students And Rebecca (Davenport) Anderson got Head Agents of non-profit organizations. She’s seeking married last May 2004 to long-time friend David Mace all types of ladies. Work or interests can Jerry Anderson, and she says “we’ve had Adrian Durbin range from being a literary activist, a whirlwind first year!Aimee Whitenack, to being out on the front lines at rallies, Jenny (Karlin) Elliott, Taylor (Craig) Alumni Council to being a student, to being a counselor Ware, Lisa Zeytoonjian, and Dune Taheera El Amin who works with empowering the mar- Thorne were all bridesmaids. We found ginalised, to teachers that teach about out we were pregnant mid-June and we Marketing Task Force Chair Tracy Van Dorpe destroying inequalities towards human, welcomed our first child February 16, 2005. His name is Augustus James non-human animals and/or the ecology Members-at-Large through such disciplines as Women’s Anderson. I am still in real estate in JC Serna Studies and Environmental Studies. Nar- the western suburbs of Minneapolis, Matt Herman ratives and experiences from all different and my husband works for a local manu- Sarah Rainwater points of leadership are welcome. You can facturing company.” Joan Ai email Breeze at her alumni address… her And also… Chantal Barland is moving Nita Farahany work will ultimately be turned into a DVD to Miami Beach in June to finish her and literary work that can be used for any- Dermatology Residency at University one interested in leadership development of Miami… Juan Carlos Serna and within non-profit organizations. Lauryn (Zipse ‘99) recently spent a Stephanie (Adamson) King writes on her weekend in Los Angeles and went for a green card that she “moved back to Cali- hike at Will Rogers State Park with fornia to study for the bar exam, climbed Lara Hoffman and her husband Kilimanjaro with business school friends, Nishad Chande ‘97. started work as an attorney with Latham This newsletter is brought to you by contributions from your fellow ʻ98s.

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