April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

Rowena Ahsan ’07 (kneeling, center) celebrated her wedding to Jainal
Chisty (not pictured) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with Ephs from the classes of
2005 through 2009.
a month off before starting
work at the Draper Lab. Wife
Erika Latham (six!) loves Boston
and is dancing tango about six
days a week. Joe Shoer visited
over New Year’s; he and Dave
got started on a new batch of
homebrew and did some sampling
as well.
Rachel Segretto got her
master’s in social work from
the University of Louisville last
May and landed her dream
job—she’s working for a refugee
resettlement agency. After
she ran into Travis Vachon in
San Fran in early December, she
showed him and Ellen Crocker
(seven!) Louisville’s secret
hipster scene (“Bet you didn’t
think we had one!”) when they
were in town for the holidays.
Bars don’t close until 4 in the
morning, and they took full
advantage.
Lucy Cox-Chapman finished
her master’s in public health at
BU and was getting ready for
the next big thing but hoping
to stay in Boston, where she
regularly sees Sara Beach, Tomio
Ueda and lots of other Ephs. A
big group of them celebrated
New Year’s together and reminisced
about reunion.
Cassie Montenegro and Sarah
Steege flew to Boston and
joined Miriam Lawrence and
Elissa Hardy in greeting Alissa
Caron on a trip home from
Cambodia. They had a belated
five-year reunion in her honor
and celebrated Sarah’s birthday
and New Year’s all in one. They
also met up with Elissa Klein for
some yummy Mexican food—
something Alissa can’t get in
Cambodia.
Elspeth Mitchell and her boyfriend
Greg were headed for the
States in February after a year
of teaching in Taiwan. She had
an internship lined up outside
Boston and was excited about
getting together with Williams
folks.
Robin Stewart quit his job in
November and was using his
free time to learn aerial circus
acrobatics.
Andres Schabelman has been
at Silicon Valley startup Airbnb
since last summer; he helps set
up and train teams in different
offices around the world.
He’s an elite member of several
different airlines: “I get paid
to travel and be myself. Life is
good.”
Steve Acton, Matt Teschke
and his girlfriend Helah hosted
former DC resident Bryan
Dragon (now residing in Fort
Collins, Colo.) and Aaron Reibel
in our nation’s capital over the
holidays. Aaron was in between
basic training and officercandidate
school and returned
to Fort Benning (Evan Bick’s
old haunt) in early January. He
says Army life is crazy, but he’s
really enjoying it.
By the way, Evan Bick is married
to Gillian Sowden (eight!).
Adam Bloch arrived in Harlem
in the winter where, despite a
profound sense of alienation
and some communication problems,
he was welcomed into the
local community while pursuing
love, chasing down drug pushers
and evading two foreign
goons who were after him—a
pair of Williams alums from the
’70s named John and David (no
last names provided).
n 2006–07
I’m still counting, by the way.
Next time, Adam, you’d better
be marrying a classmate.
2007
REUNION JUNE 7–10
Diana Davis
Brown University
Math Department, Box 1917
Providence, RI 02912
2007secretary@williams.edu
Chris Furlong visited Chris
Ellis-Ferrara in NYC and met
up with Sean Hyland and Andy
Stevenson also. Things are good
with Furlong; he has a new job
in multi-family underwriting
beginning soon.
Katie Fleming is at UC
Berkeley, getting a master’s in
public policy. She reports, “I am
so glad to be back in school and
love the NorCal lifestyle and
food culture. I think I ate only
tomatoes the first three months
I lived there; it was delicious.
I’ve been lucky enough to see
Laura Wagner several times!”
Jess (Phillips) Silverstein rang
in the New Year Williams-style
in New York City! Her husband
Mike Silverstein ’05 got Ashok
Pillai ’05 into town, and Anne
Louise Ennis ’06 and Nick Perry
’04 came downtown to enjoy
such varied pleasures as a vintage
rooster-shaped chip’n’dip,
terrible SNL highlights and a
grape-eating countdown at a
Spanish restaurant.
Michael Fairhurst is finishing
his third and final year of
law school at UC Berkeley and
plans to start a clerkship with
a federal judge in Jacksonville,
Florida, in August.
Abby Taylor is in vet school at
Ohio State.
Brett Marinelli is a first-year
now at Mount Sinai medical
school in NYC; he moved there
from Boston in August. During
their orientation week in the
fall, he, Jessica Harris ’10 and
Brittany Micham ’10 all coincidentally
signed up for tae kwon
do and found themselves in the
same class!
Pilar Macdonald is getting
an MBA at the University
of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
Business School with Doug
Holm. They are both in their
first year.
In November Jen Sleeper
was hired as a production
finance analyst at Walt
Disney Animation Studios in
Hollywood, Calif. They are
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