April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
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CLASS NOTES<br />
exchange student at <strong>Williams</strong><br />
from Armenia in 2004.<br />
Seven of the “Goodrich<br />
9”—Josh Earn, Jamaal Mobley,<br />
Neil Hoffman, Jacob Scott,<br />
Chris Vaughan, Peter Deutsch<br />
and Drew Newman—met up in<br />
Tampa in December for a weekend<br />
of beach, cigars, libations<br />
and sports games.<br />
Nathan Hodas graduated from<br />
Caltech in the spring with his<br />
PhD in physics. He is a postdoc<br />
at the Information Sciences<br />
Institute at USC studying the<br />
dynamics of social networks<br />
like Twitter. Nathan also had<br />
his second son, Eli Joseph<br />
Hodas, on Sept. 20. He’s<br />
already best friends with his<br />
older brother!<br />
Aaron Wilson and his wife<br />
Stephanie moved to Dallas.<br />
Aaron started work with the<br />
Boston Consulting Group in the<br />
fall, and they are both loving<br />
Texas.<br />
Adam Grogg reports that<br />
although flatter landscapes<br />
and warmer temperatures<br />
have taken some getting used<br />
to, finishing up one clerkship<br />
in Montana and starting<br />
another in DC has happily<br />
meant many more <strong>Williams</strong><br />
encounters. Adam writes,<br />
“Highlights include sharing<br />
a charming apartment in an<br />
alarmingly dilapidated building<br />
in Columbia Heights with Jack<br />
Nelson ’07; frequent outings<br />
with Steve Seigel and husband<br />
Justin Wilson in DC; an embarrassing<br />
(but delightful) four<br />
visits to <strong>Williams</strong>town this fall;<br />
and recent New Year/birthday/<br />
etc. celebrations in New York<br />
with our fantastic class notes<br />
editors Cortney Tunis and Nicole<br />
Eisenman Weber (and her husband<br />
Simon Weber), Jeff Nelson<br />
and Meredith Sanger-Katz ’06,<br />
Elliot Morrison and Maggie<br />
Popkin ’03, Christina Draghi<br />
and Will Edgar ’03, Charlie<br />
Wittenberg, and many more.<br />
Cheers, <strong>2012</strong>.”<br />
SENDPHOTOS<br />
illiams People accepts<br />
Wphotographs of alumni<br />
gatherings and events. Please<br />
send photos to <strong>Williams</strong><br />
magazine, P.O. Box 676,<br />
<strong>Williams</strong>town, Mass. 01267-<br />
0676. High-quality digital<br />
photos may be emailed to<br />
alumni.review@williams.edu.<br />
102 | <strong>Williams</strong> PeoPle | aPril <strong>2012</strong><br />
From left: Amy Dieckmann ’05 and Elizabeth Van Heuvelen ’05 visited<br />
Melanie Beeck ’04 in December in Melbourne, Australia, where Melanie<br />
teaches fifth grade.<br />
2005<br />
Aron Chang<br />
1432 6th St.<br />
New Orleans, LA 70115<br />
Charles Soha<br />
2500 Wisconsin Ave., NW<br />
Apt. 619<br />
Washington, DC 20007<br />
2005secretary@williams.edu<br />
Marissa Doran is finishing her<br />
second year of law school and<br />
loving it. Fran-Fredane Fraser<br />
has moved back to NYC and<br />
joined Lillian Chang and Mark<br />
Hobel for tapas and is hoping<br />
to spot her roomie Liz Suda.<br />
Joanna Lloyd is in veterinary<br />
school and is bird-sitting five<br />
birds and fostering a kitten.<br />
Ned Hole bumped into Tim<br />
Crawley in San Francisco when<br />
he spotted Tim rocking a<br />
<strong>Williams</strong> <strong>College</strong> sweatsuit—<br />
they caught up over a Guinness.<br />
Wes Connors stopped by Tim’s<br />
Christmas party only to miss a<br />
broken window, burnt carpeting<br />
and Chinese floating lanterns<br />
later in the evening.<br />
Afton (Johnson) Gilyard had<br />
a baby, William Jesse, on Sept.<br />
3. Joyia (Chadwick) Yorgey<br />
gave birth to Noah David on<br />
Sept. 17. Noah has already<br />
become quite the piano player.<br />
Ward Bitter and his wife Jenny<br />
celebrated the birth of their first<br />
child, Mirabelle May, on Oct.<br />
14 and spent Christmas and<br />
New Year’s Eve up at their family<br />
home in Stowe, Vt.<br />
Katie Joyce and her husband<br />
Rob Follansbee ’04 had their<br />
first child, Daniel, on Nov.<br />
4. They’ve already had visits<br />
from Louisa Swain, Lindsay<br />
Payne, Kam Shahid ’04, Charlie<br />
Davidson ’04 and Matt Rade ’04.<br />
Natalia Romano is pleased to<br />
announce the birth of her first<br />
son, Emil Agramonte Gehlot,<br />
on Dec. 11 in Singapore.<br />
Congratulations to all!<br />
Lucy Thiboutot and David<br />
Cooperman ’02 were married<br />
by <strong>Williams</strong> Chaplain Rick<br />
Spalding in the Berkshires on<br />
Sept. 17, 2011. Twenty-four<br />
<strong>Williams</strong> alums were in attendance.<br />
Emily Perry got married<br />
in September in São Paulo,<br />
Brazil, to Renato Lulia-Jacob.<br />
Kerel Nurse married Ines Major<br />
’06 on Nov. 4, 2011. Phil Smith,<br />
who recently completed law<br />
school, attended the wedding<br />
and reports, “It was awesome.”<br />
Perhaps as awesome as Kyle<br />
Skor’s plans to build the firstever<br />
art gallery on Antarctica?<br />
Ross Smith came back to<br />
Boston from Sweden for just<br />
a couple of weeks for the<br />
holidays and is planning a few<br />
trips, notably to Portugal and<br />
Croatia. Any hints about where/<br />
how to be a tourist in Croatia<br />
are welcome.<br />
Chuck Soha survived his first<br />
brushfire evacuation in Austin<br />
and caught a Longhorns game<br />
with Amy Dieckmann. He went<br />
to Oktoberfest in Munich with<br />
Andrew Leeser, and celebrated<br />
New Year’s in New York with<br />
Jay Ross.<br />
Jaime Hensel is halfway<br />
through Yale’s nurse practitioner<br />
program. She and Zach<br />
Sullivan ran a 6.66 mile race<br />
called the Devil’s Chase in<br />
Salem, Mass., on Halloween,<br />
and she noted that Julia Brown
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