April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

lives down the street from her
in New Haven. Carolyn (Dekker)
Bahls had a reunion with Masha
Lifshin. Carolyn’s moving to
Springfield and welcomes any
New England-based Ephs who
can help her avoid a “madwoman
writing in the attic
situation” while she continues
her dissertation.
Noah Capurso graduated from
Yale School of Medicine, moved
to a new place in downtown
New Haven for his first year of
residency at Yale in the department
of psychiatry and recently
published a book on the medical
school admission process.
Daniel Krass returned from an
amazing trip to Brazil with Ari
Schoenholtz for Melanie Beeck’s
’04 wedding. Enyi Koene was
the maid of honor, and Sam
Goldman made the trip as well.
Dan is enjoying his audiology
program at Vanderbilt’s
School of Medicine—Ari, Jane
McCamant and Abby Whitbeck
visited during the fall. He
writes, “I didn’t think I would
begin to enjoy country music
this quickly, but I totally dig
the ‘Music City’ scene and even
made my Broadway debut.”
Micah Halsey moved to NYC
after six years in Boston and
notes, “It was great to see
several ’05s at homecoming in
November like Abby Wattley,
Kevin Kingman, Julia Kivitz
and Ashley and James Cart. In
January Micah was starting
his MBA at Columbia Business
School, where Michelle Flowers
was to start the executive MBA
program. They expected to join
Elena Bonifacio and Scott Malish
on campus.
Rosemary Kendrick graduated
from Harvard Business School,
moved to San Francisco, and
now works at an education
technology startup. Ricardo
Woolery passed the New York
Bar exam and is currently
settling into life as a first-year
associate at a corporate law
firm in DC
Hilarie Ashton lives in
Brooklyn, where she sees many
Williams alumni on a regular
basis. Hilarie also started a new
job as a senior institutional
research analyst in NYU Office
of Institutional Research.
Gavin McCormick and Brian
Hirshman ’06 found the joke
was on them when they tried
to get free labor to help build
a treehouse for Emily Cooper
’93. The pair used an old WSO
list serve to declare the first
Saturday in October as “West
Coast Mountain Day,” hoping
to entice Joe Gangestad ’06 to
come and help them build. But
Gavin and Brian were stunned
to also get RSVPs from 16 other
Ephs, including Kelly Morgan,
Jenni Simmons, Josh and Aubryn
Cooperman, Justin Brown and
Amy Katzen. What started as a
joke ended with an actual hike
up Wildcat Peak in Berkeley,
Calif., complete of course with
hot cider, camping and a stirring
rendition of “The Mountains.”
Elizabeth Van Heuvelen and
Amy Dieckmann finished a wonderful
road trip on the Great
Ocean Road in Australia. They
also had the pleasure of having
a local host in Melbourne when
they met up with Melanie Beeck
’04. Amy’s still living in Austin,
finishing up business school and
will be moving to Dallas next
summer.
Elena Bonifacio, Laura
Futransky, Laura Kaufman,
Litia Shaw, Abby Whitbeck and
Karen Vanderbilt met up in
Philadelphia to ring in 2012
together. They ate many foods,
drank many drinks and danced
many dances and still had the
energy to get up and watch
the Philadelphia Mummer’s
Parade...on TV.
It appears that Jonathan
Landsman and Zach McArthur
have moved on from cribbage
to other games. Zach came to
NYC for a game of Taboo on
Jonathan’s birthday. “He (Zach)
was in fine form, basically the
most attractive I’ve ever seen
him. Zach’s the only guy I’ve
ever known to misunderstand
the proper use of a sand timer,”
Jonathan said.
JJ O’Brien is enjoying life in
San Francisco, where he rocked
out to My Morning Jacket with
Drew ’06 and Emily (Welsh)
Gottenborg, with whom he also
enjoyed a bonfire on Ocean
Beach along with Ben and Jaye
(Gregory) Locke ’06, Ned Hole,
Jake Randall ’07 and Garrett
Collins ’04. JJ rang in the New
Year with with Katie Shattuck,
Lindsey Dwyer, Jon Silvestro ’06,
Tim Crawley and Blair Coffman
’06.
Liz Gluck got engaged last
week – her boyfriend Greg
proposed while they were skiing
at Breckenridge. The snow was
terrible, but it was the best day
of skiing she’s ever had!
Eric Manchester went to
his 10 th high school reunion.
Williams was well represented,
with Zach McArthur and Danner
Hickman also in attendance.
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Melanie Kingsley moved back
to Boston from Guatemala to
start writing her dissertation.
She went to see Three Pianos
with Brittany Duncan and got
the awesome opportunity to
create and teach a class this
spring at Brandeis University
called “Archaeology in Politics,
Film and Public Culture.” She
has dinners with Chris Vaughn
’04 and Lindsey Taylor, who
graduated from Tuck this
past summer and started back
at Parthenon in Boston in
September.
Alice Brown moved back to
the Chicago area last fall and
now teaches middle school
history at the Avery Coonley
School. Zophia Edwards is still in
graduate school in sociology at
Boston University and has made
some major progress toward her
dissertation. She was heading to
Gabon for the spring semester
to collect data. Parlez-vous
Français?
Aaron Helfand celebrated
New Year’s in Northampton
with a number of Williams
alums, including Jeff Kaplan ’09,
Lindsay Moore ’09 and Kevin
Waite ’09. He’s back in Boston
now, happily re-settled into his
old architecture job.
2006
Ariel Peters
2070 Belmont Road, NW
Apt. 307
Washington, DC 20009
2006secretary@williams.edu
Former Morgan West entrymates
Steve Myers and Hayley
Wynn got engaged in November!
Remember that photo we took
on the science quad during
freshman orientation? Steve
and Hayley own a copy. (Why
wouldn’t they?)
I got to wondering: Exactly
how many of us ended up
engaged or married to someone
in that photo? Since I make
it my business to know these
things, I decided I should start
counting. Here goes!
Will Pucillo and Sarah Connell
(two!) also got engaged in
November. They’re living in
Denver and loving the proximity
to the mountains. Sarah’s
a resident in OB/GYN at the
University of Colorado, and
Will works for a private-equity
firm in Boulder.
Ian Bone is engaged to an
Argentinian named Mike.
He popped the question
after asking Mike’s parents
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