Class Note 2000
Hello, ’00s.
As Meaghan (Fanning) Karczewski told Jess (Margolin) Fenton on the bus en route to freshman trips way back in 1996, lots of Dartmouth people marry each other. Our class’ experience certainly seems to support that, anecdotally. In fact, both Meaghan and Jess met their eventual spouses on campus. In honor of this being our Valentine’s Day issue, I did a little data mining to see exactly how many of us married classmates. The number is pretty surprising! By my best estimate, at least 53 (!) marriages exist today because Dartmouth College brought together the class of 2000. A full 10 percent of us married classmates—and that doesn’t even count those of us who married other Dartmouth alums.
In more recent news, congratulations to Brenda Withers, whose cyber mystery play, Jordan, opened at Northern Stage last fall in White River Junction, Vermont. The play explores the pros and cons of social media and email—networks that can lead to connection as well as to misunderstanding and malfeasance.
Debbie (Godsoe) Rand was inducted into the Old Town (Maine) High School’s athletic hall of fame for her swimming achievements. Congrats to Debbie for still holding multiple records at her high school—wow!
Gerry Cadava is a fellow at the Stanford University Humanities Center this year, where he is working on a book about Hispanic conservatism and the making of modern Latino politics. His permanent gig is at Northwestern, where he is a history professor. You might also be seeing his very impressive wife, Kathleen Belew, frequently in the news as an expert commentator—she is a history professor at the University of Chicago and an authority on the white-power movement in the United States.
Congratulations to Jelena Madir on the publication of her book, FinTech: Law and Regulation, which is a compilation of insights on legal and regulatory issues in crypto-assets, initial coin offerings, blockchain, and other innovations in the global financial marketplace. Jelena is the director and chief counsel at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in London.
Finally, an update on last year’s giving challenge issued by the Alumni Fund: Our class did not achieve the 45-percent participation level required to endow a scholarship in our name, but we did set a class record for participation, and with the help of matching funds from an anonymous donor we will be fully funding one student for this academic year. Let’s do even better next year!
With apologies to those I Google-stalked.
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com
