CLASS NOTES Anees Ahmed ’00


I graduated from the 3rd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague in September of this year from the six-year program in General Medicine (2005-2011). I am now back in Portland preparing for the USMLE’s!


Andrea Murray ’00 Still dissertating...


David Bow ’05


Since graduating from Bennington College with a bachelor of arts degree in 2009, David Bow has returned to Portland, where he is a freelance writer, a personal assistant, a dishwasher, and an early childhood educator. He also writes, records, and performs music. In his spare time, David dreams of pursuing a career in the construction of celebrity reliquaries with the goal of tastefully preserving and displaying stray hair and nail clippings of some favorite stars.


Sarah Marshall ’06 Sarah just got a story accepted at


Hayden’s Ferry Review. It is the first story she has ever had accepted and will appear in the Fall/Winter issue.


Allison Rhines ’06 In July, I completed my master’s


degree at the University of Cambridge in Human Evolutionary Studies as a Gates Scholar. This fall I started Stanford’s PhD program in biology, funded by an NSF Graduate Fellowship. My research interests are in human demography and infectious disease.


Jenny Wolochow ’06


Jenny has been teaching second grade literacy in San Jose with Teach for America for about four months. She has learned that having a strong voice is incredibly important and that she has a lot of work ahead of her this year in order for her students to achieve their learning goals. Hopefully her immune system will become stronger as the year progresses! Jenny would like to give a huge shout-out to the Class of 2006


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alumni who came to the five-year reunion in October. Hopefully the class can reunite again in December at the OES holiday gathering!


Alexandra Mason ’07 Just finished my last season of


collegiate volleyball, breaking a few school records in the process! I’m now training to go on a European tour, where I will hopefully be picked up by a German team to play professionally for a couple years. Somewhere in there I’ll get my degree too.


Alex Truax ’07


I am a fourth grade special education teacher in Harlem, New York City, as a member of Teach for America. I graduated from Colorado College this past May with a degree in political science.


Natasha Michalowsky ’08


I am in my final year of product design at University of Oregon. It is a recently founded program dedicated to learning about and creating innovative, functional design. Through the university I was able to show my work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York last spring. I have worked for a year as a licensee of Nike Golf designing a line of belts and small gift items and currently have my products in stores! This past summer, I interned at Nike WHQ in their apparel wear testing department creating graphic materials, researching social media business opportunities, and working on a project to make their supply chain more innovative. I am looking forward to graduating in the spring. Best of luck to you all!


Emily Petroff ’08 I just got home to Portland


from Australia, where I’ve been for the past year, after studying for two years at Carleton College toward a physics major. I’ve been living in Sydney juggling my time between the


physics program at the University of Sydney and working as an astrophysics researcher at the Australia Telescope National Facility. Through my job I’ve been working toward the detection of gravitational waves, and I became a fully licensed operator of the Parkes Radio Telescope (I even met the Governor General of Australia!). I’ll be graduating in June from Carleton and will be starting on an astrophysics PhD soon after.


Laura Tolosa-Leiva ’08


I’m in the midst of writing a senior thesis at Mount Holyoke College on the history of family planning and sexual practices in Zimbabwe. I’ll be travelling to Zimbabwe in December with a grant from the history department here to conduct ethnographic research on sexual practices and educational resources. While there, I’ll also be running a sexual health workshop for 70 girls who are currently in secondary school. Hopefully this workshop will dispel any sexual health misconceptions they have and encourage them to make healthy and safe decisions.


Christina Donovan ’09


I have been spending the last two and a half months living in an Eco-Village called Sólheimar in southern Iceland. I am studying with the Center for Ecological Living and Learning (better known as CELL) with nine other students from all over the U.S. We have spent most of our time traveling, hiking,


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