Hello, class of 2003! I didn’t have a chance to say how great it was to see so many of you at our reunion in June! If there is one thing that reunion taught me, it’s that I’m not as young as I think I am. Staying up late, eating EBAs and watching Can’t Hardly Wait on the floor of our East Wheelock dorm room was a welcomed blast from the past, but I remember it being much easier to get up and down off that floor 11 years ago and with a lot fewer creaks and cracks of the knees! I also realized how you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Seeing Dartmouth in its entire splendor, even with the rain, was magical and made me nostalgic for the days that I was privileged to call 101 Mid Mass home. 


I have the great pleasure of serving as your class secretary for the next five years and what I’m most looking forward to is staying in contact with so many of you whom I have not seen or heard from in years. Jill Haltigan has left some pretty big shoes to fill, but I promised to not let her down. So, without further ado, kicking off my first column, we have a lot of baby news to share! 


Oliver Bernstein and wife Corrie MacLaggan (UNC Chapel Hill ’02) welcomed their second child in March. He writes that, “Leo already loves his big sister Carmen.” And on the job front, “After nearly 10 years on staff at the national Sierra Club, I recently became communications director for the Center for Public Policy Priorities. Founded in 1985, the center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute committed to improving public policies to make a better Texas. Let me know when anyone comes to visit Austin.” I hear that Austin is a great town to visit. I hope you have a comfy pull-out couch, Oliver!


I recently heard from Katharine (Hanks) Loveland, who reports that she and husband Adam Loveland (U of Miami ’04) welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Grace Natalia, on August 10. She reports that everyone is happy and healthy and that they are already totally obsessed!


Rounding out the baby bliss, Lee “Trey” Sears wanted to share some exciting news coming out of Denver with the class. He and wife Brenda (Williams) Sears will be expecting a little boy in early November! 


To all the parents and parents-to-be—get some sleep. You. Will. Never. Feel. Well-rested. Again. No, really. I’m. Serious. 


Just kidding! Congratulations to you all! Enjoy your bundles of joy!


From baby bliss to wedded bliss, Sonja Tonnesen married Andrew Davies (Purdue ’02) on August 24 on Long Island. Other ’03s in attendance included Megan (Riley) Kenney and husband Matthew Kenney ’04, Meredith (Schwartz) Beuchaw, Lindsay (Hirschfeld) Guzowski and Sarah (Murray) Silva. Rounding out the Dartmouth crowd were Melissa Fedders ’02, Kristen (White) Orndorff ’04 and Lidia (Barabash) Kratz ’05.


Keep me updated everyone. I will try to make the news interesting, but unless you want to hear about my recent move to Terre Haute, Indiana (pause for looks of confusion as to where that is, exactly), please send me something to work with. And if you’re ever in Terre Haute…I’ll question your sanity. Until next time.


—Kellee (Harper) Hanigan, 165 Rome Court, Terre Haute, IN 47803; kelleeharper@gmail.com