So how does one go about becoming class secretary, you ask? Well, this highly sought after position was made known to me by Heather (Hanson) Manning, who originally nominated me as a joke. And if you all don’t remember voting at reunion, it wasn’t the ’03 beer-tasting extravaganza that caused you to forget. That’s right, the position was uncontested. Honestly, I’m happy that no one wanted to fight me on this, and I thank Heather for prompting (read: pushing) me to get more involved with our class. Hearing from people who I haven’t talked to in years has been so much fun and has brought back so many memories. 


After my shameless Facebook solicitations for news, Justin Latham threw me a bone and informed me that “nothing new has happened since the spring when I had a burst of changes. Baby No. 3 (Emily), with Adrienne (Brown) Latham (U Mass ’02), was born in March. Alex and Elliot are great big brothers to her. I also changed jobs, so I’m not in engineering anymore, but program management now. Lots of trips to Canada visiting my customers driving past Dartmouth on I-91.” How on earth do you drive past Dartmouth and not feel compelled to stop every single time? At least for some Hop fries or a Collis smoothie?


Pablo de la Huerta wrote in to say, “What’s up, Kellee! I finished a clerkship in Rhode Island and began working at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Boston, doing litigation work. Watching my daughter get bigger and doing the Providence-Boston commute.” Congratulations on the new job, Pablo!


Congratulations are also in order for Michael Sinha, who informed me that he received his M.D. and J.D. in 2012 from Southern Illinois University! And now he went over to the “dark side” and is currently at Harvard School of Public Health, doing a one-year M.P.H. in its law and public health track. Just kidding, Harvard is okay, I suppose. I mean, it’s no Dartmouth. I’m just sayin’. 


As I have only received a few updates I’ll have to make good on my threat and tell you all about life here in Terre Haute, Indiana. I won’t blow your minds all at once, but my husband, Ryan (Creighton ’00), and I moved here with our two little boys, Jaxon and Miles, and our furbaby, Hershey, in August to start jobs at Indiana State University. I am an assistant professor in the new physical therapy program and he is the director of the physical therapy and sports rehabilitation clinic on campus. It has definitely been an adjustment for this Los Angeles native now living in a Midwestern town of 60,000 people, but it’s been great being back in the academic world. 


I hope sharing a bit about me will inspire you all to share more about yourselves and all of the spectacular things that are going on in your lives. Please think of me when giving birth, accepting a new job, moving to a new city, getting married or any other life-altering event that may occur like making the switch from whole to skim milk in your Apple Jacks. No detail is too small. 


—Kellee (Harper) Hanigan, 165 Rome Court, Terre Haute, IN 47803; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com