Class of 2014

Congrats to the newest members of the Wearers of the Green, who were inducted at Homecoming in early November. Two ’14 varsity athletes joined the Wearers this year: Nordic skier Anne Hart was recognized as a member of the women’s All-American team 2012-14 and for her participation on the U.S. Olympic team in 2018. As a member of the track-and-field team, Janae McGuirk was inducted for being a six-time Ivy League champion in the pentathlon (2011-14) and heptathlon (2012 and 2014).

Morgan Curtis writes in that during the summer of 2023 she “graduated from Harvard Divinity School, got married, and got pregnant in the space of six weeks!” Little Sabine Jasmine is now 1 year old, and Morgan is finding her way to balancing work and mama life while living in an intentional community at Canticle Farm in Oakland, California. She continues to find great meaning in her work as a coach and facilitator supporting wealth inheritors who are interested in redistribution through a reparations lens. She’d love to connect with any other ’14s thinking critically and creatively about money and how it can be a tool for healing and systems change.

Nina Montgomery comes full circle this year as she returns to Dartmouth as an appointed lecturer at Thayer. Nina writes, “Alongside my day job at Ayble Health, I’ll be heading up to campus each week to teach undergrads on the topics of design, meaning, and storytelling. I hope we can cover questions ranging from ‘how can narrative design help grow big ideas?’ and ‘what is the role of meaning and mythology in the age of artificial intelligence?’ to ‘how can I design a meaningful life?’ When I graduated a decade ago I did not have it on my bingo card that I’d be heading back to campus to teach—let alone on these topics. As a classics major the only time I spent near Thayer was walking past it on my way to the river.” A foreign study scholarship from Dartmouth took Nina to Oxford for a master’s in classical art and archaeology; from there she continued studying for a Ph.D., switching to a focus on brands and innovation and earning herself a place on Forbes “30 Under 30” listing in marketing and advertising in 2020. For Nina’s winter term course, Narrative Design for Innovators, President Sian Leah Beilock will even be putting in a special appearance to give students feedback on their projects.

During the holidays Rena Sapon-White debuted her first novel, The Christmas Pic, a heartwarming sapphic holiday romance coauthored with Ella Schaefer and published through their independent imprint Smokeshow Press. The novel, which quickly rose to No. 8 on Amazon’s lesbian fiction bestseller list, brings together two unlikely allies—a Fortune 5 CEO and a determined photographer—in an unexpected journey of desire and vulnerability that dismantles their carefully constructed defenses.

Finally, Stefan Deutsch is training for the Boston Marathon to support the Brookline Library Foundation. Donate to support community literacy programs or follow along with his progress here: https://tinyurl.com/stefanruns. Or head out to the streets of Boston on April 21 to cheer on Stefan in person!

Thank you to everyone who wrote in! Keep sending those updates my way, either to the email below or to dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com.

—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com