Class Note 2013
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September-October 2026
Class Note 2013. As usual, congratulations are in order for several of us. Meeta Prakash recently graduated from her triple board residency at Tulane and is moving to Denver! “Ultimate Frisbee still going strong,” she wrote in June, noting an upcoming reunion in New York with Sharon Zhang, Nora Hodgson, Laura McFeely,and Noam Rosenthal. Also in June, Sarah (Rutter) Vermeer and Gordon Vermeer ’12 welcomed son Ezra to the family. Sarah says, “Big siblings Libby and Peter have been just as delighted by him as we are!” And this fall in Finland, Cally Womick is entering the University of the Arts Helsinki Praxis master’s program in curating and writing in contemporary art.
Now for the sad news: Guillermo K. Rojas Hernandez died in June. Friends Damaris Altomerianos, Dana Venerable, Daniela Valdes, Eli Lichtenstein, Emmanuel Tecuatl-Lee, Janet Kim, and Nikkita McPherson wrote in with the following remembrance.
“To many of us, Guillermo was family, someone who made us feel that we belonged, that we weren’t alone. We cherish the memories of hearing him play guitar on a Friday night in East Wheelock, sharing stories and ideas as roommates or floormates, catching up in the Rainbow rooms in Robinson Hall, and attending meetings together even if only a few people showed up. One of the smartest people we’ve met, Guillermo lovingly challenged us. He read the newspaper every day and loved talking about politics. One of the most selfless people we’ve met, he set aside what he was doing to listen. He genuinely wanted to make Dartmouth a more inclusive place for everyone, beyond what you might see in a superficial brochure, through his firm belief in the power of honest conversations, mutual help, and respect for others. As one of the youngest members of ‘Students Stand with Staff’ during our first year, Guillermo helped establish a foundation through experience and relationship building for campus activism such as ‘Occupy Dartmouth,’ The Dartmouth Radical, ‘Real Talk,’ and the 2013 Dimensions protest. He bravely confronted the elitism, homophobia, patriarchy, racism, and classism so present on campus at the time and helped us transform Dartmouth into a site of political education. In conversations about the founding of the Radical, Guillermo said he wanted to leave a mark on Dartmouth, and indeed he left an enormous one, donating materials to the Rauner Special Collections Library and helping to carry on and broaden efforts to make Dartmouth safer and more just, even after graduating. We will remember his courage against injustice, passion for learning and growing, and contagious laughter. Community oriented and grassroots to the core, in the words of his family, ‘He died as he lived, the friend of all.’ ”
Many thanks to Damaris for submitting the above on behalf of the group. I hope everyone is doing as well as possible as we come to the end of summer here in North America.
—Svati Narula, 2038 Hopi Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505; svatinarula@gmail.com
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Now for the sad news: Guillermo K. Rojas Hernandez died in June. Friends Damaris Altomerianos, Dana Venerable, Daniela Valdes, Eli Lichtenstein, Emmanuel Tecuatl-Lee, Janet Kim, and Nikkita McPherson wrote in with the following remembrance.
“To many of us, Guillermo was family, someone who made us feel that we belonged, that we weren’t alone. We cherish the memories of hearing him play guitar on a Friday night in East Wheelock, sharing stories and ideas as roommates or floormates, catching up in the Rainbow rooms in Robinson Hall, and attending meetings together even if only a few people showed up. One of the smartest people we’ve met, Guillermo lovingly challenged us. He read the newspaper every day and loved talking about politics. One of the most selfless people we’ve met, he set aside what he was doing to listen. He genuinely wanted to make Dartmouth a more inclusive place for everyone, beyond what you might see in a superficial brochure, through his firm belief in the power of honest conversations, mutual help, and respect for others. As one of the youngest members of ‘Students Stand with Staff’ during our first year, Guillermo helped establish a foundation through experience and relationship building for campus activism such as ‘Occupy Dartmouth,’ The Dartmouth Radical, ‘Real Talk,’ and the 2013 Dimensions protest. He bravely confronted the elitism, homophobia, patriarchy, racism, and classism so present on campus at the time and helped us transform Dartmouth into a site of political education. In conversations about the founding of the Radical, Guillermo said he wanted to leave a mark on Dartmouth, and indeed he left an enormous one, donating materials to the Rauner Special Collections Library and helping to carry on and broaden efforts to make Dartmouth safer and more just, even after graduating. We will remember his courage against injustice, passion for learning and growing, and contagious laughter. Community oriented and grassroots to the core, in the words of his family, ‘He died as he lived, the friend of all.’ ”
Many thanks to Damaris for submitting the above on behalf of the group. I hope everyone is doing as well as possible as we come to the end of summer here in North America.
—Svati Narula, 2038 Hopi Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505; svatinarula@gmail.com