Class Note 2015
Last week I was hiking in the White Mountains with two other alums and when we met up in the morning we realized that we had unintentionally all worn Dartmouth gear for the hike. Later in the day, when a large group stepped aside to let us pass on a tricky downhill, a man in the group turned and said, “This is the only time I’ve seen Dartmouth pass Princeton.” Comments such as these always strike me as hilarious and unnecessary. Since the day I went to Bed Bath & Beyond for dorm supplies six years ago, when I responded to the “So where do you go to school?” question with “Dartmouth,” I’m met with things such as, “That’s in Colorado right?” or the crowd favorite, “But it’s so cold there!” This phenomenon has come up in discussions with classmates and I wanted to use a bit of this space to provide some comic relief. Below are some of the responses we’ve gotten since we first decided that Hanover would be our home for four years.
“Where?”
“UMass Dartmouth?”
“Is that an Ivy?”
“I’ve heard of it.”
“That’s in Hanover right? Or should I say Hangover?”
“Bet you scored over 34 on your ACT.”
“That’s where Nate Archibald’s dad went!”
“Like Meredith Grey!”
“Is it really like Animal House?”
In College news, Big Green football will play Brown at Fenway Park in Boston on November 10. It is the first time the teams have played a football game against each other outside of their home fields since 1923. In classmate news, check out some updates from ’15s below!
Lindsay Ellis writes, “After a fellowship, I’ve accepted a permanent position at the Houston Chronicle covering higher education in Texas. I’d love to connect with alums in the area.”
Lily Albrecht writes, “I wanted to tell other ’15s that I’m living in Seattle, working for a tech startup called Igneous Systems and that we’re hiring and that I’m getting married this fall to Jonathan Bowdler, a non-Dartmouth grad who is working on a dissertation in American history.”
Alex Stockton writes, “I remember the first time I received the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. It was just after I’d been accepted to Dartmouth. In it there was an article about Rashaad Ernesto Green, a Dartmouth alum who directed a feature film that had just played at Sundance. I cut out that article and pasted it into my film journal. A lot of my friends were going to film school. I was nervous about going to a liberal arts school. This article inspired me and made me feel like I was making the right choice. Later on I met Rashaad and he became a mentor to me. And that film of his that the magazine profiled, when I watched it, it changed my life. I recently wrote and directed an independent feature film titled Transient, about an undocumented immigrant, deported from the only home he’s ever known, who risks everything to make it back over the border.”
Kimberly Strauch and Philip Larie traveled to Madras, Oregon, in August to view the total solar eclipse. Philip proposed under the shadow of the moon and Kimberly said yes before he could finish asking. The two are living together in San Francisco and are looking forward to the next big adventure.
—Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samwweb15@gmail.com
