Class Note 2003

Happy winter, ’03s! I actually received news voluntarily, which is always better than me prying it out of you. First off, Lois Schonberger has a lot of important news to share! She writes, “After 10-plus years working in startups here in San Francisco I’ve switched gears and taken a job at McKinsey as a digital strategist helping old companies act more like young ones. Love it so far. Earlier this month I tied the knot with my amazing partner, Laura Bieging (Hollins University ’10). We were married in a barn in Sonoma County and were lucky enough to celebrate with friends and family from all over the place, including a stellar crew of ’03s, Mary McVeigh, Laura (Ashley) Gratten, Elisse Gaynor; a couple of rad ’04s, Julie Webb and Lea (Kiefer) Bialas; and even one intrepid ’02, Laura Christman! It was a pretty spectacular weekend. We couldn’t be happier. We plan to stay here in the Bay Area and can’t wait to start a family of Tahoe-skiing, Giants-loving, redwood-hugging San Francisco natives.” Congratulations, Lois! I saw pictures on Facebook and it looked like the most amazing barn wedding ever.

In other news that was already received by Dartmouth, Heidi Williams received a prestigious MacArthur fellowship. As I did not hear this directly from her, I do not have all of the details, but I wanted to send a congratulations note out nonetheless!

Again, class of ’03, I will not print anything in this column unless it has already been broadcasted via multiple sources (LinkedIn, Facebook, the alumni magazine). I know that some of you have added new additions to your families, started new businesses, moved to new parts of the country, etc. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to hunt everyone down to look for news (at least not this semester). I hope the next column will be rich with class information.

I do know that our executive committee—president Mike Vidmar,vice president Kamil Walji and treasurer Jamie (Singley) Shatsman—is working hard to continue to connect our class through social and philanthropic efforts, but we need your participation and support to be successful! I want to hear about all of the mini-reunions that have happened as well as all of the cool things ’03s are doing to better the world.

Until next time, (Harper) Hanigan, out.

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