Class Note 2013
Issue
September-October 2020
Hello, ’13s.
I hope this will find you, your family, and your friends safe and well. As I write this, we remain in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and the incredible changes and uncertainty that it has brought. We are also in the midst of the continued cries for racial justice that urge us all to both reflect and take action in a myriad of ways. Though these are difficult times, we hope you will continue to lean on your Dartmouth community for both support and action.
We have a few updates this edition, so let’s get to them. First, we received a note about our classmate Allie Young, who is a Navajo tribal member and creator of “Protect the Sacred,” a social media campaign calling on youth to protect their elders, their language, and their culture. You can check out Allie’s work in numerous outlets, including NBC News, the Tamron Hall show, and The Hollywood Reporter. Incredible work, Allie!
Courtney Karol recently graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and has traded the desert of Tucson, Arizona, for the mountains of Denver to start her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She also writes that she’s found a beautiful Big Green coincidence in that Julia Hudnut Bueller will be her chief resident! ’Round the girdled earth we roam! Sarah Aronson Fischell graduated from her Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She pursued a partnership program between the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She will be returning to medical school at UMSOM to finish her clerkships. Reese Ramponi has been working as a psychiatric advanced practice nurse and just got grant funding to start a multidisciplinary program that includes both mental and medical health for transgender teens.
Maggie (Conners) Deforge got married in May 2019 to Robby Deforge. They just bought a house in Durham, North Carolina, with a big back yard for their dogs Rugger and Skipper. She will be starting a yearlong geriatric psychology occupational therapy fellowship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and her husband, Jacob Lightner, recently moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she’ll be doing dissertation research for her Ph.D. in art history. She would love to connect with other alums in the area! Finally, Teo Larsson Sax, Libby (Hamlin) Sax, and 2-year-old Eva welcomed Emma into the family in late April. Congratulations!
Thank you everyone for your submissions, and we hope to hear from you again soon!
—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com
I hope this will find you, your family, and your friends safe and well. As I write this, we remain in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and the incredible changes and uncertainty that it has brought. We are also in the midst of the continued cries for racial justice that urge us all to both reflect and take action in a myriad of ways. Though these are difficult times, we hope you will continue to lean on your Dartmouth community for both support and action.
We have a few updates this edition, so let’s get to them. First, we received a note about our classmate Allie Young, who is a Navajo tribal member and creator of “Protect the Sacred,” a social media campaign calling on youth to protect their elders, their language, and their culture. You can check out Allie’s work in numerous outlets, including NBC News, the Tamron Hall show, and The Hollywood Reporter. Incredible work, Allie!
Courtney Karol recently graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and has traded the desert of Tucson, Arizona, for the mountains of Denver to start her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She also writes that she’s found a beautiful Big Green coincidence in that Julia Hudnut Bueller will be her chief resident! ’Round the girdled earth we roam! Sarah Aronson Fischell graduated from her Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She pursued a partnership program between the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She will be returning to medical school at UMSOM to finish her clerkships. Reese Ramponi has been working as a psychiatric advanced practice nurse and just got grant funding to start a multidisciplinary program that includes both mental and medical health for transgender teens.
Maggie (Conners) Deforge got married in May 2019 to Robby Deforge. They just bought a house in Durham, North Carolina, with a big back yard for their dogs Rugger and Skipper. She will be starting a yearlong geriatric psychology occupational therapy fellowship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and her husband, Jacob Lightner, recently moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she’ll be doing dissertation research for her Ph.D. in art history. She would love to connect with other alums in the area! Finally, Teo Larsson Sax, Libby (Hamlin) Sax, and 2-year-old Eva welcomed Emma into the family in late April. Congratulations!
Thank you everyone for your submissions, and we hope to hear from you again soon!
—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com