April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

From left: Robert Kim ’11, Michael Ives ’11, Josephine Warshauer ’11,
Rebecca Shoer ’13 and Brittany Baker-Brousseau ’11 ushered in 2012
with a celebratory dinner at JoJo in NYC.
University of Michigan, where
she has bumped into Jake
Levinson and Tatiana Fernandez.
She lives with fellow rugger
Emily MacLeary ’10, and they
have hosted Veronica’s Williams
roommate Mike Semensi ’12.
Andrei Baiu and Veronica have
switched off visiting each other
in Ann Arbor and Madison,
where she has bumped into his
co-worker Will Slack.
Abby Martin works at the
Yestermorrow Sustainable
Design/Build School in
Warren, Vermont. “It’s right
by Sugarbush and Mad River
Glen; any ’11s headed that way
should say hello!”
Laura Corona lives with Ariel
White and Ben Atkinson in
Boston.They’re all working as
research assistants—Ariel at
the Harvard School of Public
Health, Ben at Children’s
Hospital and Laura at UMass-
Boston. These days, they spend
a lot of time reading on the T,
and enjoying having their own
kitchen and paying incredibly
expensive cab fares coming
home from downtown bars.
While sending in her news,
Laura happened to be texting
Harlan Dodson, so she decided
to send in an update on his
behalf as well. He teaches
American history and economics
and coaches basketball at
the New Hampton School in
New Hampshire.
Nathaniel Lim continues his
PhD program in mechanical
engineering at Boston
University. Tina Zeng is a project
manager at an IT company in
Cambridge, Mass., and volunteers
her free time at Venture
Cafe. She has been accepted to
Tufts Dental School and will
matriculate in the fall. In their
spare time, Tina and Nathaniel
have been working on an idea
for a website, which launched
at ranksocial.net. They welcome
support from fellow Ephs!
Our trusty class treasurer
Joey Kiernan reports that he
had a great time with a bunch
of members from the classes
of 2008-11 at the Head of the
Charles in the fall, where the
current men’s Eph rowers beat
Trinity by over 20 seconds for
their third Head of the Charles
victory in four years. Though
based in Boston, Joey spends a
few days a week in Chicago for
work.
Becca Licht started work at a
small consulting firm outside of
Boston in July but in January
relocated to NYC with the
same firm and moved in with
Dan Constanza and former crew
teammate Liz Zhu. As much as
she loved spending time with
the Beacon Hill “crew crew,”
which includes Jenny Schnabel,
Leland Brewster, Shawn Curley
and Joey Kiernan, Becca was
looking forward to a change
from Boston, where she grew
up.
Fiona Moriarty works at an art
law firm in NYC and lives with
Nicole Ballon-Landa in Chelsea.
Fiona and Christine Chung have
just started a food blog entitled
“Kiimchi + Bangers” (after
two notorious foods from their
respective backgrounds) which
will give the inside scoop on
New York’s food scene with
sarcastic flair.
Douglas Onyango is enjoying
Manhattan and learning about
machines at Columbia and also
n 2011
runs into random Ephs in the
subway. Elliot Schrok is in NYC
pursuing an MA in math and
spent Thanksgiving with Katrina
Tulla and Iliyana Hadjistoyanova.
They were graced with a visit by
Catalina Stoica as well!
Since moving (back) to NYC,
Evan Maltby has been lucky
enough to land two acting
gigs, the first a production of
Woychek by George Buchner,
with a small company called
Stasz/Pruitt Productions, and the
second an ongoing job with the
NiteStar Program, an educational
theater company that performs
in schools and community
centers all around NYC.
As for myself, I hosted Evan
along with Chandler Sherman,
Clare Quinlan, Tess Bingham,
Tommy Nelson, Lauren Anstey,
Chris Fox, Carla Cain-Walther,
Nathaniel Basch-Gould, Jared
Nourse, Maya Hislop and Eric
Koenigsberg ’10 for dinner in
NYC on New Year’s Eve. Also,
before starting a new job, I
made a spontaneous visit to the
West Coast to surprise Michelle
Noyer-Granacki in LA for her
birthday in January. Much
credit is due to Lucas Bruton for
helping organize the surprise
and for driving me around LA.
Finally, Will Harron is living
in a shack in the mountains of
North Carolina, interning on a
farm, herding goats and mastering
key skills that Williams did
not teach him, including “splitting
wood, building rail fences,
slaughtering chickens, driving
tractors, herding cows, goats
and pigs (although JAing might
count towards that).” His boss’s
father is John Ager ’71 and Henry
Schmidt ’14 is also related to the
farm. He’s there until fall 2012
and, “would love to see more
Ephs swing by these beautiful
mountains, although nothing
compares to seeing Greylock
loom over the horizon.”
Till next time, folks. Thanks
for writing in!
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