Class Note 2019
Issue
May-June 2026
Class Note 2019. Hi, ’19s!
Congrats to class of 2019 Olympians Julia Kern and AJ Ginnis!
Lindsey Frumer shared that Henry Goodwyn and Kierra Sweeney started out with a flitz and are now engaged! Mary Amis and Brendan Leech got engaged in December in Chicago—congrats to the happy couples.
Katie Dishner wrote in to share the happy news of Cayla Plotch’s wedding to James Lynfield in January. Katie was joined in celebrating their wedding in N.Y.C. by classmates Jaclyn Eagle, Sam Stern, Alexa (Green) Plesco, and myself. It was a beautiful event!
It’s always fun to see our fellow ’19s! Erika Cabrera’s bachelorette party in Austin, Texas, this March functioned as a mini-reunion, with classmates including Anneliese Thomas, Camille (Johnson) Tong, Danielle Ramsay, Milla Anderson, and Karina Martinez.Regan Gore had a lovely time visiting Jackie McInerney and Amanda Sload in Chicago. I flew to Boston for Audrey Bransfield’s birthday in March, and we celebrated her acceptance into Boston College Law School, where she’ll matriculate this fall.
In news from Hanover, I was intrigued to learn that Dartmouth recently introduced a transfer portal for the housing communities. Our class in particular has a unique relationship with Dartmouth’s housing system—we’re old enough to remember a Dartmouth before housing communities, so even as founding members (circa winter 2016) of these houses, I’m not sure they ever truly caught on as a core part of our Dartmouth identity. Personally, I only wore my School House swag ironically, but I did love living in Hitchcock as a sophomore.
I decided to poll our classmates on this new transfer option. Thirty-five percent of respondents claimed interest in transferring houses (theirs was lame); 32 percent of respondents liked their house and would not transfer; 32 percent selected the “School House Best House (blue heart emoji)” poll option, so I’ll include them in also not wanting to transfer, meaning that 64 percent of ’19s were content with their semirandom sort!
In a follow-up study, I decided to query which houses built the most loyalty in the 2019 community. I did have to exclude South House from the options, as Instagram’s poll feature only lets you include four choices. Our final results read: 32 percent School House, 30 percent West House, 12 percent North Park House, and 25 percent East Wheelock.
School House best house confirmed. Guess those weekly sushi platters in the Cube really did build camaraderie. See y’all next issue!
—Tara Burchmore, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; tara.f.burchmore@gmail.com
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Congrats to class of 2019 Olympians Julia Kern and AJ Ginnis!
Lindsey Frumer shared that Henry Goodwyn and Kierra Sweeney started out with a flitz and are now engaged! Mary Amis and Brendan Leech got engaged in December in Chicago—congrats to the happy couples.
Katie Dishner wrote in to share the happy news of Cayla Plotch’s wedding to James Lynfield in January. Katie was joined in celebrating their wedding in N.Y.C. by classmates Jaclyn Eagle, Sam Stern, Alexa (Green) Plesco, and myself. It was a beautiful event!
It’s always fun to see our fellow ’19s! Erika Cabrera’s bachelorette party in Austin, Texas, this March functioned as a mini-reunion, with classmates including Anneliese Thomas, Camille (Johnson) Tong, Danielle Ramsay, Milla Anderson, and Karina Martinez.Regan Gore had a lovely time visiting Jackie McInerney and Amanda Sload in Chicago. I flew to Boston for Audrey Bransfield’s birthday in March, and we celebrated her acceptance into Boston College Law School, where she’ll matriculate this fall.
In news from Hanover, I was intrigued to learn that Dartmouth recently introduced a transfer portal for the housing communities. Our class in particular has a unique relationship with Dartmouth’s housing system—we’re old enough to remember a Dartmouth before housing communities, so even as founding members (circa winter 2016) of these houses, I’m not sure they ever truly caught on as a core part of our Dartmouth identity. Personally, I only wore my School House swag ironically, but I did love living in Hitchcock as a sophomore.
I decided to poll our classmates on this new transfer option. Thirty-five percent of respondents claimed interest in transferring houses (theirs was lame); 32 percent of respondents liked their house and would not transfer; 32 percent selected the “School House Best House (blue heart emoji)” poll option, so I’ll include them in also not wanting to transfer, meaning that 64 percent of ’19s were content with their semirandom sort!
In a follow-up study, I decided to query which houses built the most loyalty in the 2019 community. I did have to exclude South House from the options, as Instagram’s poll feature only lets you include four choices. Our final results read: 32 percent School House, 30 percent West House, 12 percent North Park House, and 25 percent East Wheelock.
School House best house confirmed. Guess those weekly sushi platters in the Cube really did build camaraderie. See y’all next issue!
—Tara Burchmore, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; tara.f.burchmore@gmail.com