Class Note 2003
Issue
Greetings from Pittsburgh, where I am once again celebrating a championship team! Watching all these hockey games reminded me of all the times I watched at Dartmouth with friends or even random people in Collis. Dirk Blum, Katie Lundquist and Scott Stewart—for some reason your names stick out clearly.
We have another baby to welcome to our family! Lara Dotson-Renta (previously Santiago Renta) and Adam Dotson wrote to announce the birth of their daughter Catalina Elodie Dotson on April 30! Following an M.F.A. at the University of the Arts in 2007, Adam has also just completed his M.B.A. at Temple University, where he was the class commencement speaker, and is now working in venture capital. Lara is trying to balance a baby and her doctoral dissertation at UPenn!
I also heard about a recent wedding. Marianne Hall and Brent Jones were married on April 25 at Rollins Chapel on the Dartmouth campus. Included in the wedding party were fellow alums Kate Szilagyi, Katherine MacLean, Will Zimmerman and Dan Almeida ’02. Many other Dartmouth alumni were also in attendance. Marianne was finishing her first year of teaching ninth grade math in Vermont and Brent was finishing his last month at Dartmouth Medical School. In June they moved to Portland, Oregon, where Brent will begin his residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. “Anyone coming to the Portland area is more than welcome to look us up.”
Lisa Torrey wrote in to say she finished her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin in May and will start this fall as an assistant professor at St. Lawrence University. Jill Buhler recently represented the class of 2003 by participating with other Dartmouth female alums in the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges alumni event held back in May. The women, including one from the class of 1975, placed third.
Finally, I also received word about the Williamsburg Charter High School in Brooklyn, New York, headed up by our very own Ethan Mitnick. Ethan is principal of the school, which has been open for five years and has an enrollment of 650 students. He has been working diligently to bring various cultural elements and an overall sense of community to the school, much like that he enjoyed at Dartmouth. Apparently the hard work has paid off, because this fall one of the recent graduating seniors will be headed to Hanover! The school also features Sarah Blanton ’00 as a guidance counselor. Two new associated high schools will be opening this fall. For more information about the schools and their mission, please contact Ethan directly.
Congratulations to everyone—we always have the best news to report.
—Jill Haltigan, 6316 Riverfront Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238; jill.haltigan@gmail.com
Sept - Oct 2009
Greetings from Pittsburgh, where I am once again celebrating a championship team! Watching all these hockey games reminded me of all the times I watched at Dartmouth with friends or even random people in Collis. Dirk Blum, Katie Lundquist and Scott Stewart—for some reason your names stick out clearly.
We have another baby to welcome to our family! Lara Dotson-Renta (previously Santiago Renta) and Adam Dotson wrote to announce the birth of their daughter Catalina Elodie Dotson on April 30! Following an M.F.A. at the University of the Arts in 2007, Adam has also just completed his M.B.A. at Temple University, where he was the class commencement speaker, and is now working in venture capital. Lara is trying to balance a baby and her doctoral dissertation at UPenn!
I also heard about a recent wedding. Marianne Hall and Brent Jones were married on April 25 at Rollins Chapel on the Dartmouth campus. Included in the wedding party were fellow alums Kate Szilagyi, Katherine MacLean, Will Zimmerman and Dan Almeida ’02. Many other Dartmouth alumni were also in attendance. Marianne was finishing her first year of teaching ninth grade math in Vermont and Brent was finishing his last month at Dartmouth Medical School. In June they moved to Portland, Oregon, where Brent will begin his residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. “Anyone coming to the Portland area is more than welcome to look us up.”
Lisa Torrey wrote in to say she finished her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin in May and will start this fall as an assistant professor at St. Lawrence University. Jill Buhler recently represented the class of 2003 by participating with other Dartmouth female alums in the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges alumni event held back in May. The women, including one from the class of 1975, placed third.
Finally, I also received word about the Williamsburg Charter High School in Brooklyn, New York, headed up by our very own Ethan Mitnick. Ethan is principal of the school, which has been open for five years and has an enrollment of 650 students. He has been working diligently to bring various cultural elements and an overall sense of community to the school, much like that he enjoyed at Dartmouth. Apparently the hard work has paid off, because this fall one of the recent graduating seniors will be headed to Hanover! The school also features Sarah Blanton ’00 as a guidance counselor. Two new associated high schools will be opening this fall. For more information about the schools and their mission, please contact Ethan directly.
Congratulations to everyone—we always have the best news to report.
—Jill Haltigan, 6316 Riverfront Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238; jill.haltigan@gmail.com