Greetings, ’03s. I always hate to start columns like this, but unfortunately we lost a fellow classmate, Kelly Polen, on August 30, 2015. He was a member of Chi Gamma Epsilon as well as Griffin during his time at Dartmouth. He is survived by parents Larry and Rosemary Polen of Maryland. If anyone would like to write in with memories of Kelly, I would love to report them.

So, I must extend my apologies to you all. I have been soliciting (forcefully at times) for news and actually receiving it, but the email account it has been going to was not properly forwarding things to me. Now that the problem is fixed, I’m going to start disseminating the news that I have been receiving for (gulp) almost a year! Mea culpa!

The first bit of news comes from Adam Tapley,who writes, “Twelve years out of Dartmouth, I’m taking the dive back into school and into a new career. I started this past August at UC San Francisco School of Medicine—three months after my twin brother Asa ’02 graduated from UCSF himself.” Congratulations, Adam! I hope that your first semester went well and that your professors didn’t feel like they were in a remake of The Parent Trap!

Sarah (Murray) Sliva wanted to update that she and her husband, Stephen ’02, welcomed their second child, Violet Catherine, on January 15, 2015. Violet joined her older brother Calvin, age 2. Well, due to my promptness of reporting, I think it’s now safe to wish Violet a happy first birthday!

In other baby news, Megan (Riley) Kenney and husband Matt ’04 welcomed their second child, Finnian Thomas Kenney, on August 11 at 4:59 p.m., weighing in at 8 pounds even. She reports that “big sister Bridget, age 4, is adapting well and we are remembering what the throes of sleep deprivation are like after a four-year reprieve. Our other, rather delayed news is that we moved back into Washington, D.C., from Alexandria, Virginia, last summer and are very much enjoying life in the city again.” Congratulations on the new baby and the move, Megan! I hope that you’re getting more sleep these days and are enjoying D.C.

Lastly, I heard from S. Rosa (Kim) Ryals, who wrote in about some recently exciting news! “After a brief stint in Hemau, Germany, with Jeff (UF ’99) and our three girls, we moved back to Korea to continue work as an interoperability project manager for Northrop Grumman in 2014. Just recently I moved jobs to become a budget and programs analyst for the U.S. Forces Korea J6 (communications and information technology). We also found out we are pregnant again and due in January 2015. Ultrasounds show that this one might actually have a Y chromosome. I’ll believe it once he’s no longer on the inside. In the years since I’ve been away from the homeland (Dartmouth) I haven’t had much meetups with Dartmouth folks, sadly, but I did get to catch up with Suzanne Lee and her lovely son briefly on their trip out to Korea. If anyone else happens to be in Seoul, hit me up. Would love to meet up and introduce you to my herd.”

Thanks to all who have sent me news recently, I’m limited in the amount of space that I have each column, but I hope to get all caught up by next issue. In the meantime, continue to do great things and be the great people that (most) of you are. Kidding! Hope the holidays were filled with fun, laughter and love.

—Kellee (Harper) Hanigan, 4347 Golf Bag Lane, Terre Haute, IN 47802; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com