Class Note 2003

Greetings, ’03s.

I hope everyone had a wonderful fall. Were you able to make it to N.Y.C. for the Dartmouth-Princeton 250th celebration football game in Yankee Stadium or up to Hanover for Homecoming? Tell me about your experience!

We have more news on our class Dartmouth College Fund gift for the past fiscal year. Our class won three fund awards: the Class of 1953 Award for greatest number of reunion donors; the Charles F. Moore Jr. 1925 Award for greatest improvement in donors of a reunion class since the prior year; and the Harvey P. Hood 1918 Award for new reunion year participation record. These are the first fund awards our class has ever received. Even better, the Dartmouth College Fund has added a new award, named after our class! Going forward, the Class of 2003 Award will be presented to the reunion class that brings in the most lapsed and previous “never givers” every year. Also on the fund front, Becca (Kurzweil) Levine is stepping down from her role as head agent; many thanks to Becca for her years of work. Charlotte (Haldeman) Whitmore will remain on, joined by John Apostolides, John Robinson, and me as co-head agents, to lead our class into our 20th reunion.

One of the neat parts about being class secretary is receiving copies of books our classmates have written so that I can read them and tell you about what great work they are producing. Most recently On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News by Matthew Pressman arrived at my doorstep. Matt is currently an assistant professor of journalism at Seton Hall University and his new book stems from the dissertation he completed while pursuing his Ph.D. in history at Boston University. On Press examines the history of the news, looks at how news shifted from reporting of facts to analyzing, the advent of “lifestyle” pieces, and the forces that drove news reporting to its current state. It is timely and fascinating and I see Amazon has only one copy left!

Paula (Bigboy) Maday writes in to tell us that she and husband Travis welcomed Angelena Joy to their family on April 19. A.J. joins proud big brother Everett, who started second grade this fall. Congratulations, Paula!

I’m a little short on news this column, so I’ll share my own: In September I left my position of nearly 13 years as an attorney to the National Taxpayer Advocate and joined the IRS Office of Chief Counsel.

Please submit any news to the email below.

—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com