Please join me in welcoming Katie Dowty to our class! Our dear classmate Melanie Pastuck recommended that we adopt Katie into our class earlier this year, and the adoption process has finally finished! Katie is currently the varsity head coach of the Dartmouth women’s rugby program. In nominating Katie, Melanie Pastuck wrote, “Katie Dowty became the first varsity head coach of the Dartmouth women’s rugby program when she was hired in June 2015. Since that time, she has brought the team (with a club sports history) to the very top of the rankings for U.S. collegiate rugby, with multiple Ivy League titles under her belt and Dartmouth currently ranked No. 2 in the country. Her commitment to the program and the way that she is inspiring Dartmouth undergrads is truly incredible. Attracting top national and international talent to Hanover as assistant and guest coaches, Coach Dowty has given the student-athletes an amazing and unparalleled rugby experience. Coach Dowty has also often said that she feels so much more connected to the passion and the spirit of Dartmouth than she ever did to her own alma mater (Harvard), and loves our community so much that she has recently purchased a home in Hanover. With regard to connection with our class, the class of 2011 formally applied for the women’s rugby team to become varsity at the end of my senior year. Four years later the proposal was finally approved by the athletics department (budget and recommendations virtually unchanged!)—and Coach Dowty has become the living embodiment of the vision we had for the future NCAA program. I would love to extend an invitation for her adoption into our class, as she helped make the dream for the players in our class year a reality.” In a recent email, Melanie also noted this exciting update: “Coach Dowty and the team also just won the first-ever national championship in the program’s history in a huge win over Harvard two weeks ago!”

In other news, two of our classmates made the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list this year. Congratulations to Daniel Hochman and Jana Landon for their incredible work. To quote from the Dartmouth alumni website feature, Daniel “heads research into environmental, social, and governance factors in investing at Bridgewater Associates,” and Jana “manages Google’s outreach efforts with historically black colleges and universities, matching engineers with computer science classes at the schools.” Keep doing amazing things! (And drop me an email so we can include your amazing deeds in our Class Notes!)

—Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, Unit 304, Tustin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu