Class Note 2017

Congratulations to Matt Herzig and Isabella Caruso for crushing the Boston Marathon this April! Isabella ran a 2:56:18 and placed 40th among the women, and Matt completed the course in 2:27:55 to finish 12th overall. While at Dartmouth Isabella ran with the Dartmouth endurance running team. She also spent the past year on the Hanover Plain working as a teaching science fellow in the chemistry department.

Since moving to Boston after graduation, Matt has been training with the Heartbreaker Running Club and puts in roughly 110 miles a week in preparation for marathons. Matt lives with former Dartmouth track-and-field teammates Corey Muggler and Matt Klein ’16, and he works in the cardiology lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In August Matt will attend the Perelman Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania with fellow ’17 Meghan Chamberlain as well as Kelly Bach ’16 and Patrick Gould ’15. When he moves to Philadelphia, he hopes to find a training group and run the marathon there in the fall. However, before he starts school, Matt and Isabella will go backpacking in Colorado for eight days. They will also head up to the College Grant on the East Coast for some peace and quiet without cell service or electricity for a weekend.

Last fall Lucy Hale spent four months in Belize as a public health intern for a nonprofit medical center. She spent most of her time at a clinic in a rural village in the south of Belize. Lucy has always been interested in global and public health, and she studied these topics as an anthropology minor at Dartmouth. For her first months in Central America Lucy created curriculums in primary schools. On a daily basis she would go out to remote villages in the mountains to teach kids about dental hygiene and nutrition. For her last several weeks in Belize she worked with a holistic education center in Belize City and wrote a piece on disability awareness in schools. Upon her return to the United States, Lucy began work at Hawk Partners, a marketing consulting firm in Boston. She lives with her random freshman roommate and now close friend Blake Hamblett. Lucy enjoys being in Boston because she likes her coworkers, is around great friends, and is close to home (as she grew up nearby). Although training has been difficult, Lucy hopes to keep up with Blake, a former lacrosse star at Dartmouth, in their upcoming seven-mile race.

—Dorian Allen, 117 West Grant St., Apt. 123, Minneapolis, MN 55403; (973) 986-5988; dorallen@comcast.net