Class Note 2002
Issue
July-August 2021
Hello, ’02s!
Julie (Cumming) Higgins sent me a lovely update: “I thought I would write to give an update for the Class Notes, I haven’t done so in a very long time, but was inspired recently by my grandfather, who was a ’39. Quite randomly, I came across some letters that he wrote during WW II that are archived at the Rauner Library. They are letters he wrote to his Dartmouth class secretary while serving in the Navy during the war. He diligently wrote every single year, with updates on his life and any classmates he had come across. It was crazy to read about his life during this time (1943-45), including learning that he was at sea during my dad’s birth. Since my last update we have had another child—Alice Higgins was born in 2018, joining her big brother and sister, Jack and Molly. We are still living in Boston and I get to see Rose (Kraemer) Carpenter, Mel Seymour, Sara Donahue, and Annie (Nash) Bing quite frequently, at least in non-pandemic times. We also just bought a vacation home in the Upper Valley and are really excited to spend more time up there!”
Mara Buchbinder reports that her book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, was published by the University of California Press Series in Public Anthropology in May. The book tells the story of what happened after Vermont legalized medical aid in dying in 2013. Mara says that the best part of her research was dragging her family to Vermont for several summers and frequently visiting Hanover.
Ty Roy-Garland and his husband, Brian, welcomed their son, Leo Sebastian, to Denver through surrogacy on March 3. It’s a little late for this season, but they’re already excited to get him on skis next year.
I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com
Julie (Cumming) Higgins sent me a lovely update: “I thought I would write to give an update for the Class Notes, I haven’t done so in a very long time, but was inspired recently by my grandfather, who was a ’39. Quite randomly, I came across some letters that he wrote during WW II that are archived at the Rauner Library. They are letters he wrote to his Dartmouth class secretary while serving in the Navy during the war. He diligently wrote every single year, with updates on his life and any classmates he had come across. It was crazy to read about his life during this time (1943-45), including learning that he was at sea during my dad’s birth. Since my last update we have had another child—Alice Higgins was born in 2018, joining her big brother and sister, Jack and Molly. We are still living in Boston and I get to see Rose (Kraemer) Carpenter, Mel Seymour, Sara Donahue, and Annie (Nash) Bing quite frequently, at least in non-pandemic times. We also just bought a vacation home in the Upper Valley and are really excited to spend more time up there!”
Mara Buchbinder reports that her book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, was published by the University of California Press Series in Public Anthropology in May. The book tells the story of what happened after Vermont legalized medical aid in dying in 2013. Mara says that the best part of her research was dragging her family to Vermont for several summers and frequently visiting Hanover.
Ty Roy-Garland and his husband, Brian, welcomed their son, Leo Sebastian, to Denver through surrogacy on March 3. It’s a little late for this season, but they’re already excited to get him on skis next year.
I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com