Class Note 2003
I love this time of year. It always makes me think of Dartmouth!
Katie Ward wrote to say, “Ben Ward and I were excited to welcome our daughter Elinor Macaulay Ward on August 28. For the last four years we have been living in Boston while Ben completes his residency in orthopedic surgery. I work in the marketing department at Wiley-Blackwell, an academic publisher. Next summer the three of us will be heading out to Taos, New Mexico, for Ben’s sports medicine fellowship. We will miss being on the East Coast but are looking forward to a year of skiing and other outdoor activities!”
Oliver Bernstein and his wife, Corrie MacLaggan (UNC-Chapel Hill ’02), also welcomed their first child, Carmen Miriam Bernstein, on July 4. Oliver and Corrie live in Austin, Texas. Corrie is a national correspondent for Reuters America Service and Oliver is the national communications strategist for the Sierra Club. He also recently wrapped up his term as board president at American Gateways, a nonprofit that provides free legal services and education to immigrants and refugees.
And Brian Mason and wife Jocelyn Mason ’05 welcomed their daughter Lynn Heather Mason on July 29! “She was born a few weeks early at 5 pounds, 15 ounces, a beautiful little, wide-eyed girl. Everyone is doing well. Jocelyn and I are still living in Menlo Park, California, where I work as a project lead in our medical product development business. Jocelyn is teaching first grade. We look forward to taking Lynn to a Dartmouth homecoming soon!”
I also heard from Sara Yablon-Smith, who wrote, “Andy Smith ’98, DMS’04, and I and our 20-month-old daughter, Rosie, are moving to Guatemala in early December. We will be living in Santiago Atitlan and volunteering at Hospitalito Atitlan for the next two years. Andy will be working as a family physician and I will be working as a developmental specialist focusing on the maternal infant program. We spent some time in Santiago in 2006 and are excited to return. If you’d like to learn more about the Hospitalito or help support our mission, please visit our website at www.smithsinsantiago.com. Visitors are welcome anytime, whether to volunteer at the Hospitalito, study Spanish or just travel to a beautiful part of the world.”
Carl Burnett married Mary Stark on September 4 in Seattle’s Discovery Park. “Dartmouth folks in attendance were Jessica Adams, Lindsay Barnes ’06 and Kilsy (Torres) Barnes ’06, Sarah Hackney ’06, Will Meland, Sam Reisner ’02, Bonnie Tice and Matt Fagan, Adv’03. A great time was had by all, under gorgeous and atypically sunny Seattle skies.” Carl is in the process of earning his master of library and information science degree at the University of Washington. In other wedding news, Jean Bredeche and Sabrina Singh ’05 recently got married twice — first in a traditional three-day Sikh wedding in New Delhi, India, then again two weeks later in Brookline, Massachusetts. Highlights included Jean in full Indian regalia riding a horse in the traditional Baraat parade with full marching band and a bunch of Dartmouth people coming to India: Adrian Hartline, Adam Parker, Kristen Johnson Parker, Aaron Nutt, Grace Lee, Ainslee Withey ’05, Ashley Barton Bernstein ’05 and Nils Johnson ’73. It was quite the adventure for everyone! For more on the Brookline wedding, see the ’05 Class Notes.
Finally, Lara Dotson-Renta is the new assistant dean of career services for the college of arts and sciences at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. “I also have a dual appointment as assistant professor and will be teaching a course on the Arab spring next term.”
—Jill Haltigan, 3537-4 Hunters Woods Blvd., New Castle, PA 16105; jill.haltigan@gmail.com
