Lots of updates this time around! I heard from Jennifer Johnston Horner about her recent wedding to Timothy Horner (SUNY Fredonia ’96). They got married July 7 in Buffalo, New York, where they are now living. Dartmouth friends who were able to join in the celebration included bridesmaid Gabriela Sapia, Scott Stewart, Caryn Barnet Mutchnick and basketball teammates Katie Skelly, Keri Downs, Samantha Burnham, Jamie Lizbrizzi, Yah Demann and Michelle Strong. Based on all accounts the bride was radiantly beautiful!


I also heard from Dan Galemba: “Rebecca (Meyers) Galemba, our daughter Lanie, dog Oscar and I moved west to my hometown of Denver during the summer. After nine moves since graduating Dartmouth, we’re thrilled to actually settle down like grownups with real jobs and a real house. I left Bain for DaVita, a leading dialysis provider, and Rebecca is a lecturer at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. We miss our friends in Boston but have been having a great time getting outside every weekend and, of course, seeing Peyton Manning in a Broncos jersey. Visitors (or Denver residents we haven’t seen yet) welcome—we have room for guests now!”


Joel Vikre has been pretty busy since graduation too, mostly working in global health. “I spent three years helping Milton Ochieng ’04 and Fred Ochieng ’05 get the Lwala Community Hospital up and running, and get its footing as a nonprofit here in the States. For the last three years I’ve been working on strategy and innovation at Management Sciences for Health in Boston. But big change is on the way: My wife, Emily, and I are moving to Duluth, Minnesota, in late August and starting a craft whiskey distillery. We just met up with Jeff Hluchyj and Katie Martin Hluchyj. Jeff’s been doing marketing for Long Trail Brewery and attending Tuck and is our newest advisor. Katie is a Spanish teacher in Vermont. They’re in Spain now doing some serious ‘professional development.’ And Duluth is a little Dartmouth hotspot. The Rev. P. Joshua Griffin wisely married into Duluth first—he married Liz Harrington ’05. They’re in Portland, Oregon, where she’s doing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and he’s doing a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington, in addition to his duties as an Episcopal priest. Lately he’s commuting back and forth from a village in northern Alaska that’s suing the oil companies for global warming, which is sinking the island where they live. Several Duluth weddings have been Dartmouth events—with Jared Daugherty (he’s doing a Ph.D. in political science at Duke), Ben Terry (an ER doctor and instructor in Worcester, Massachusetts, who also briefly served as personal physician to the president of Liberia) and Peter Jenks ’05 (a tenure-track professor at UC Berkeley in linguistics), and about a million others.”


Finally, congratulations are in order for Lara N. Dotson-Renta on multiple fronts! She writes, “This has been a busy few months for my husband, Adam Dotson, and I. We bought our first house in Connecticut, and Adam began a new job as a senior associate at Ironwood Capital, a private equity firm in Avon. My first academic book, Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Re-Routing of European Muslim Identity, is off to press and will be released by Palgrave Macmillan in September. Most importantly, we welcomed our second daughter Clara Victoria on July 27. She joins big sister Catalina in expanding the Dartmouth family!”


—Jill Haltigan, 3537-4 Hunters Woods Blvd., New Castle, PA 16105; jill.haltigan@gmail.com