We are coming up on March, which was a month I particularly loved during our Dartmouth days. The winter term was finally over and everyone was coming back to campus for the start of spring. We were ecstatic to be reunited with our friends, especially those who had been off campus the previous term. We trudged through the melting snow, knowing it was only a matter of time before it was gone completely and the grass would start to grow. We would choose our classes, swear that this time we weren’t going to skip our PE’s, and vow to spend more time outside as soon as it was warm enough. Everyone was already looking forward to Green Key, when the barbecues would line Fraternity Row and we would all get a little rowdy in the sunshine.


March used to be the month of anticipation and new beginnings, and I hope 2013 has already offered you all some beautiful new beginnings. Let’s see how some of our classmates have been spending the first few months of the new year.


Caitlin Kelly is now the senior web producer for The New Yorker. Congratulations!


Mary Katherine Flanigan is pursuing her M.B.A. at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She’d love to see any alums in the Bay Area!


Dylan Kane is enjoying his seven-month off-season from fighting wildfires and has moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, to enjoy the outdoors until the West starts to burn again next summer.


Mark J. Harris finished his clinical training in Cooperstown, New York, and by the time of this writing, will have finished Step 1 of his boards, too. He’s moving back to New York City in April and is excited to reconnect with classmates!


Liz Chang, Julia Koo, Erin Choo, Layne Zhao, Aimee Lim, Caroline Shin and Faye Yu all enjoyed a reunion cruise over Thanksgiving. It was short but sweet trip to the Bahamas. Some of the highlights of their trip: watching several girls get hit by 5-foot waves and roll onto the beach (think sand in hair, gasping for breath) and having to send out a search party for one girl on the last night. Sounds like a crazy trip!


Nell Pascall wrote in with this update: “I left London in mid-December. I have just finished a one-week road trip across Australia from Perth to Brisbane (about 3,000 miles through the desert). Now it’s two weeks in Queensland for Christmas and New Year’s and then three weeks skiing at Whistler (life is hard). I will then be settling back in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia, for 2013. Plans as yet unsettled, but hoping to go back to school for a postgrad diploma in mining engineering.”


That’s all for now, folks. Keep writing with any new developments. Class of ’09 love.


—Peter Rothbard, 2490 Purdue Ave., #7, Los Angeles, CA 90064; (407) 421-4676; peter.s.rothbard.09@alum.dartmouth.org