Class Note 2014. As you read this we are (I hope!) celebrating the start of spring and warmer weather. However, at the time of writing, it is late December and I’m home for the holidays, hunkering down for an end-of-year blizzard. This month’s column is due during those rather blurry days between Christmas and New Year’s, when updates are few and far between, though I have been having a very Dartmouth holiday: While attending A Christmas Carol at Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater, I was pleasantly surprised to find the program filled with Dartmouth faces, with Addie Gorlin-Han ’11 as director, Nathaniel Fuller ’67 in the cast, and David Beach ’86 as Ebenezer Scrooge himself!
I found a little Dartmouth spirit under the tree as well, with a jersey from Maine’s first professional soccer team, Hearts of Pine, founded by our very own Gabe Hoffman-Johnson. Viewers of Good Morning America might have caught Gabe on air in December discussing the team, which was featured as part of the program’s 50 States in 50 Weeks, in which correspondents visit a different state each week in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. If you missed it, check out the clip on YouTube (apparently even actor Patrick Dempsey is a Hearts fan!).
I did hear from Isha Flores, who finished her master’s in public administration at Columbia this December. She is currently living happily in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and completed three years on the Advanced Placement team at College Board in January, working in strategy and consulting.
Finally, I received a glowing account from a member of the Dartmouth community about Liz Niehaus and her work on a new Montessori school in New London, New Hampshire. The note begins, “Liz climbed Mount Everest with her dad (Chris Niehaus ’81), but the local Mount Everest she is climbing right now is even more exciting.” As founder of Strawberry Blossom Montessori School, Liz has been busy raising funds, working with architects and construction crews, hiring teachers, and running open enrollment for the school, which will open in the fall for the upcoming school year. Liz will also teach classes as the Montessori’s lead primary teacher.
That’s all for now! Send me your updates at the email below or at dartmouth2014classnotes@gmail.com!
—Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS, England; (651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com