Thank you as always to those of you who sent in updates! The more the better, so please don’t hesitate to send blurbs my way. I know lots of you are in the midst of applying to grad schools, so please send me updates on your plans when you find out where you’ll be headed next year. Best of luck to all of you!


And now to all of your impressive accomplishments, jobs, and athletic feats.


Jacob and Alyssa Hickson are proud to announce the birth of their son Levi in August. Congratulations to the happy parents! Maybe one day we’ll see him in Dartmouth green, running around the Homecoming bonfire with the class of 2036.


Joshua Konieczny finished 10th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships. He also finished fourth in the lightweight double sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Cup II and finished sixth in the lightweight four at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships. What fantastic accomplishments—congratulations, Joshua!


Over Homecoming weekend Aly Perez, Jamie Li, Liz Fleming, Chelsea Hassett and Angie Yang ran the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in San Francisco. Way to go, ladies! I know I’ve seen some other pictures of sporty ’13s who have run races floating around social media recently, so let me know for next Class Notes and I’ll be sure to include you, too.


Emma Smith recently completed her M.A. in human rights at University College London and moved to Bunia in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to serve as the program development officer for Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian relief organization.


Matt Nichols earned a master’s in international environmental policy from Middlebury College and completed a research fellowship in Denmark before taking a position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. He also ran the Chicago Marathon in October.


Katherine Shu sent in this fun update: Julia Harvey and Ramesh Govindan have moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and are looking forward to celebrating the first birthday of their two cats, Winston and Jimmy (both girls).


Larissa Russell is working on an e-commerce business selling green pea cookies online and in stores. She says the cookies are sweet, salty and scrumptious and “don’t taste like dinner.” Sounds like a winning recipe! You can order yours at greenpeacookie.com and follow the company on social media (bonus: the cookies are a very Dartmouth-appropriate shade of green!).


Sara Stone is living in Fort Collins, Colorado, working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and applying for a master’s program to begin in September. She made it back to Dartmouth for Homecoming with a bunch of other ’13s and said it was fantastic to be in Hanover pretending we never graduated!


Torrey Barrett moved to San Francisco in September to work at Twitter and is excited to connect with all the Dartmouth alumni in the Bay Area.


Joanna Schneider is serving as the Advisory Board Co.’s inaugural community impact fellow. She will spend six months working on a pro-bono project focused on hospital sustainability. She will be publishing best practice research, piloting waste management tactics at hospitals across the United States and building a waste-tracking toolkit for hospitals. As a fellow Advisory Board employee, I think I can vouch for all of us when I say how impressed and proud of you we are!


That’s all for now, class of 2013, but please stay in touch and let me know what you’ve been up to!


—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com