Class Note 2003
Issue
January-February 2023
Dear, ’03s, once again it is with a heavy heart that I must pass on news of the death of a classmate. Scott Safadi passed away on October 17, 2022. Many condolences to the family and friends of Scott. Our class made a donation to the Dartmouth College Fund in his honor.
In October I was in Hanover for the biannual Dartmouth College Fund committee meeting and was able to tour some of the new athletic facilities, including the awesome new indoor practice field and the women’s lacrosse locker room, where I spied the names of Meredith Roy and Whitney Jamison in the lockers for their former numbers. Check out the photos on our class Facebook group. I talked with some other Washington, D.C., area alums from the 2000s era who are also on the committee and we are mulling the idea of an early 2000s (class ’00-’09) pong tourney in D.C. in the spring—contact me if interested and look for more later.
I heard from Kelsie (Clark) Greco for her first-ever Class Notes update. Kelsie reports that she and husband Paul Greco (Fairfield graduate) welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Madeline, in July 2022. The family lives in Rye, New York. Congratulations on the new addition!
Jamie (Singley) Shatsman checks in reporting on her first foray into local politics. She was recently elected to the school board in Willoughby-Eastlake, where she and her family reside in Ohio. Congrats, Jamie, and good luck!
My perusal of news and press releases had me stumble upon a new book release from Rebecca (Davis) Gibbons. Her new book, The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, was published in July 2022 and is available in hardcover on Amazon. Rebecca currently serves as an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine. Congratulations on the new book, Rebecca!
Melissa (Mowat) Moody relays news of her new career—after 14 years she has left Google and is forging her own path as an entrepreneur. She is now the founder and chief marketing officer for her startup, Gated (www.gated.com). Her company aims to reduce unwanted email in your inbox and simultaneously supports a nonprofit you love. Melissa is thriving on the chaos, thrills, and networking involved with a startup and keeping her workforce remote allows her to continue her life in big, wild Anchorage, Alaska, where she lives with husband Ryan Moody ’00 and their children. Good luck, Melissa!
News from another professor named Rebecca—this time Rebecca (Meyers) Galemba. Rebecca received the 2022 Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award from the American Anthropological Association (co-winner) for her work on the Just Wages Project, a research, teaching, policy, and activist project around wage theft. Her new book, Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City, is due out in early spring. She’s also looking forward to visiting Catie (Huisman) Griggs and her husband, Justin Griggs ’02, when she’s in Seattle in November. Well done on all fronts, Rebecca!
Lastly, I stopped in Larchmont, New York, on my way back from seeing my parents (and neighbor Barry Grove ’73) in Connecticut in October to visit with Meredith (Schwartz) Beuchaw and Sonja (Tonnesen) Davies over brunch. As usual, it’s like no time has elapsed at all when we get together.
Please note that we will be just more than a year out from our next reunion by the time this column publishes, and we need your help! More than 400 of our classmates and their families typically join us at reunions and putting the event on is entirely driven by our class. Consider assisting your class officers in making our 20th reunion the best one yet!
As always, send news, anything and everything, to the email address below.
—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com
In October I was in Hanover for the biannual Dartmouth College Fund committee meeting and was able to tour some of the new athletic facilities, including the awesome new indoor practice field and the women’s lacrosse locker room, where I spied the names of Meredith Roy and Whitney Jamison in the lockers for their former numbers. Check out the photos on our class Facebook group. I talked with some other Washington, D.C., area alums from the 2000s era who are also on the committee and we are mulling the idea of an early 2000s (class ’00-’09) pong tourney in D.C. in the spring—contact me if interested and look for more later.
I heard from Kelsie (Clark) Greco for her first-ever Class Notes update. Kelsie reports that she and husband Paul Greco (Fairfield graduate) welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Madeline, in July 2022. The family lives in Rye, New York. Congratulations on the new addition!
Jamie (Singley) Shatsman checks in reporting on her first foray into local politics. She was recently elected to the school board in Willoughby-Eastlake, where she and her family reside in Ohio. Congrats, Jamie, and good luck!
My perusal of news and press releases had me stumble upon a new book release from Rebecca (Davis) Gibbons. Her new book, The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, was published in July 2022 and is available in hardcover on Amazon. Rebecca currently serves as an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine. Congratulations on the new book, Rebecca!
Melissa (Mowat) Moody relays news of her new career—after 14 years she has left Google and is forging her own path as an entrepreneur. She is now the founder and chief marketing officer for her startup, Gated (www.gated.com). Her company aims to reduce unwanted email in your inbox and simultaneously supports a nonprofit you love. Melissa is thriving on the chaos, thrills, and networking involved with a startup and keeping her workforce remote allows her to continue her life in big, wild Anchorage, Alaska, where she lives with husband Ryan Moody ’00 and their children. Good luck, Melissa!
News from another professor named Rebecca—this time Rebecca (Meyers) Galemba. Rebecca received the 2022 Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award from the American Anthropological Association (co-winner) for her work on the Just Wages Project, a research, teaching, policy, and activist project around wage theft. Her new book, Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City, is due out in early spring. She’s also looking forward to visiting Catie (Huisman) Griggs and her husband, Justin Griggs ’02, when she’s in Seattle in November. Well done on all fronts, Rebecca!
Lastly, I stopped in Larchmont, New York, on my way back from seeing my parents (and neighbor Barry Grove ’73) in Connecticut in October to visit with Meredith (Schwartz) Beuchaw and Sonja (Tonnesen) Davies over brunch. As usual, it’s like no time has elapsed at all when we get together.
Please note that we will be just more than a year out from our next reunion by the time this column publishes, and we need your help! More than 400 of our classmates and their families typically join us at reunions and putting the event on is entirely driven by our class. Consider assisting your class officers in making our 20th reunion the best one yet!
As always, send news, anything and everything, to the email address below.
—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com