Well, there. Hasn’t that been the fastest 11 years of our lives? Seeing everyone again at reunion—it could have been senior spring yesterday. Even after all this time, Dartmouth is still home. You all looked great. Truly, no one has aged a bit—or more likely, were we ever really that young to begin with? We were still kids when we started in the fall of 1999. Now we’re young adults, many with kids of our own. All with our own unique journeys ’round the girdled earth. One of the greatest privileges of my life has been to collect our stories these past 11 years. I am so grateful for your forgiveness when I made mistakes and for your immense patience with my stories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sports glory. I will tell anyone that listens, “You will not find a more exceptional and inspiring bunch than the Dartmouth class of 2003.” Thank you from the bottom of my heart; it is an honor to call each of you classmate and friend. 


We are in such great hands moving forward. Possessing the rare combination of courage and insanity, Michael Vidmar volunteered to be our president. He writes, “I just graduated from business school at University of Illinois and am living in Chicago while touring with my polka band.” Extra thanks go out to our new vice president Kamil Walji for all his hard work organizing the reunion. Quite simply, without him it wouldn’t have happened. Jaime Singley Shatsman will be taking over as our treasurer. “I just celebrated my one-year anniversary of being married to Eugene. I took a completely different turn with my career and started running operations at a startup charter school in an impoverished school district. My title is assistant head of school at Steam Academy of Warrensville Heights, Ohio. Other than that, everything is the same. My dog Vito is still as crazy as ever and my husband is still obsessed with boating and just did his fourth upgrade. If any classmates are in the Cleveland area, we have plenty of spare bedrooms!” Finally it is my pleasure to introduce again our new secretary moving forward. As a long time Facebook fan I assure you that Kellee Harper Hanigan is far more entertaining than I. “Ryan (Creighton ’99) and I are moving with our boys Jaxon and Miles to Terre Haute, Indiana, where I will be an assistant professor of physical therapy at Indiana State University. I will also be starting a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Indiana University. I am very excited about staying connected with the ’03 class through life updates and trying to fill the shoes of our outgoing class secretary, who has done an amazing job for the past 10 years! Charlotte Coultrap-Bagg, Maura Pritchard and Justin Johnson are all very excited to be new members of the executive committee. They were inspired at the reunion and wanted to maintain a stronger connection to our class until we meet again in five years. Justin has been looking for some way to get involved since his days on ’03 class council freshman year!” Interested in helping out yourself? Contact Mike. 


Finally I would be remiss if I didn’t thank our outgoing class president Alan Washington. He has spent a tremendous amount of time and effort on behalf of our class these past five years, mostly behind the scenes. Job very well done, friend.


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