Class Note 2003
I hope that the new year is off to a healthy and happy start for you all. Here are a few updates to share. Leah M. Wright-Rigueur wrote to say, “On October 9, 2010, I married Philip Rigueur (Cornell ’02) at Guastavino’s in New York City. The wedding was so much fun! And of course Dartmouth was well represented: Adrian Bell ’02, Stacy Harper, Diamond Hicks, Aquilla Raiford, Andrea Salone, Heiyab Tessema ’04, Saida Grundy (exchange fall ’02) and Kathleen O’Quinn (exchange fall ’02) all joined in the wedding festivities. In other news I defended my Ph.D. in history in 2009 at Princeton University (as I was heading out of Princeton Rob Karl was heading in as an assistant professor of history). Currently Phil and I live in Connecticut, where I’m an assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Wesleyan University.”
I also heard from Pamela Piccola-Fales, who had a lot of news to report. “I just moved back to New York from Boston in July of this year and couldn’t be happier to be back in the greatest city on earth. I’m still working at Digitas, an online ad agency, in marketing analytics, which means occasionally I get to do cool things like go shoot rifles with Google at the ‘oldest Italian-American gun club in the United States’ (it’s in the West Village, of all places). More often I do less cool stuff like run analyses and create kickass PowerPoint presentations. Not only does being back in N.Y.C. mean I get to eat BBQ and sing live band karaoke with Shevani Jaisingh and eat Chinese food and sing regular karaoke with Evan Konwiser, I got to travel with both of them, plus Katie Lundquist, to the wedding of Kris Kleutghen in Horley, United Kingdom! We toured Shakespeare’s birthplace, made plans to buy an inn in the adorable village of Chepstow, Wales, took the waters in Bath and learned about cricket and croquet with the groom’s friends. Most importantly we met up with Michael Golub and Jo Weingarten Golub ’98 for Kris’ absolutely gorgeous wedding. And of course the bride made sure the ‘Salty Dog Rag’ was a key part of the reception!”
—Jill Haltigan, 6316 Riverfront Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238; jill.haltigan@gmail.com
