Wow! The ’17s are making major life moves these days! So many congrats in order!

Congrats to our entrepreneur Melanie Brown. Last year Melanie and a former Boston Consulting Group colleague launched Weat, a platform where customers can buy food and home goods from the restaurants they love and trust—starting with meal kits. As indoor dining came to a halt in New York City, Melanie wanted to help small businesses generate revenue while also creating unique experiences. Weat allows restaurants to offer their delicious food through easily accessible, experiential, and high-quality restaurant meal kits. The kits even include staff-curated playlists and chef tutorials. Restaurants now have the ability to enter customers’ homes on their own terms. Weat has been crushing the game and even earned recognition from Forbes earlier this year.

Now congrats to Chris Aguemon, who has been making loads of life changes recently. In 2019 Chris moved to San Francisco to work in private equity at TPG (Texas Pacific Group) Capital. While at Dartmouth Chris participated in U.S. Army ROTC, and he continues to serve our country while balancing the demands of his private-sector job. Chris is a commander for a signal company with more than 150 people reporting to him. He enjoys this work as a commander because he can use his technical skills and train in the field with troops. This summer Chris and his group will head to the Middle East for his first deployment. He is nervous and anxious, but excited. Thank you for your service, Chris! The ’17s are grateful for and proud of you!

Another congrats goes to Yingna Wang, who completed her master’s of public health at Harvard. After graduating Dartmouth Yingna worked as an associate program coordinator at a pediatric hospital in New York City and noticed a lot of gaps in our healthcare system. She realized that if she wanted to continue working in public health, she needed to learn more about the healthcare system from policy and systems-level perspectives. In 2019 she began studying health policy at Harvard. She is particularly interested in payment systems and healthcare financing to develop equitable and effective health systems. Despite the fact that half of her program has been over Zoom, Yingna has enjoyed her experience at Harvard; she’s learned a great deal about health policy and the healthcare system and has met some wonderful classmates. One of those classmates is fellow ’17 Regan Plekenpol. When she is not in class, Yingna enjoys testing new recipes in the kitchen, reading, and listening to loud music.

And our last, but certainly not least, congratulations are for Kelsey Kittelson, who got engaged in the fall! Kelsey’s bae is a Tuck ’17 and the two met on campus during her junior winter. He popped the question in beautiful Stowe, Vermont, and even arranged for Kelsey’s friends Freya Jamison (the future maid of honor) and Zachary Shank to be there to celebrate. She and her fiancé also bought their first house in Oakland, California, and are very excited to have outdoor space, a gas stove, and an extra bathroom. True luxury! This summer Kelsey looks forward to going to Massachusetts to see her family; this will be her first time seeing her grandmother in more than a year and her grandmother’s first time seeing the ring!

—Dorian J. Allen, 33 Tuckernuck Ave., Oak Bluffs, MA 02557; (973) 986-5988; dorallen@comcast.net