2003

2003

Hello again, ’03s! Jill Haltigan, your former secretary, here, pinch-hitting for Kellee Harper Hanigan, who is currently crushing it in the academic world, working toward tenure and in the midst of her Ph.D. Let me take a moment for old time’s sake and say that I hope by the time you are reading this the Pittsburgh Penguins will have clinched back-to-back Stanley Cups, with the Pirates well positioned to play into October.

A few of these updates got missed from the fall, and we apologize, but better late than never when keeping up with old friends! Strawn C. Cathcart wrote to say he got married to Nathan M. Davis (Middlebuiy’03) last August in Yosemite National Park. Fellow alums in attendance were Taylor W. French ’02, Luke R. Caffey and Andrew Goldstein’05. We also heard from Reid Thompson, my old lab buddy, who moved to Portland, Oregon, about six months ago with his husband of more than a year now, Jeffrey Barnet (Harvard ’06). “We’re excited for hiking and biking and all that the Pacific Northwest has to offer! This is also my first real job post-residency: I’ll be treating skin cancers and doing genomics research at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland VA Medical Center.”

More recently, Courtney (Anderson) DaCosta wrote to say, “Jason DaCosta and I welcomed a baby girl, Claire Mariann, on April 16. She joins proud big brother Flynn, who is 3. We live in Minneapolis, where I’m in-house counsel with 3M Co. and Jason leads the Twin Cities office and the customer support function ofAlarm.com Inc.” Henry Shi passed along his good news too: “In January I became a partner at the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP in Washington, D.C., focusing on telecommunications regulation and transactions.” Kathleen (Reeder) Paley was also recently promoted to special counsel at Covington & Burling. “I’m a litigator focusing on pharmaceutical product liability defense work. It’s an interesting, challenging practice and I’m thrilled with the new role.”

Sara E. Baron got married to Kevin Nelson (Oklahoma City University ’02, MTS Drew Theological School ’05) at her church, First United Methodist of Schenectady, New York, on March 18. Dartmouth was well represented with Mark Alvarez ’69, John Olsen ’02, Hilary Alvarez and Alex Streeter (whose lovely daughter, Brynna, served as the ring bearer), Katie Blye, Katie Lundquist Swor, Alicia Willson Grossmann, Rachel Wolfe Mandel. Keith Burdette, Rod Beaton and Kristin Weekley all in attendance.

Finally, Pam Piccola-Fales wrote, “I started a new job in January at Plated! I’m director of acquisition marketing and really excited to be at a fast-moving startup filled with smart people, creating a great product (vs. my last role at a big corporate business). And I can wear jeans, which is really all I want out of life. Plated delivers weekly recipes and ingredients for you to cook at home, and I can honestly say the food is fantastic. So if anyone wants to try it, hit me up for a referral link. (Also, I’m going to have a baby in a week or two, but that’s boring. Everyone’s doing that.)”

So many wonderful things to reportcongratulations all around. It was a joy to do another column for you all. Please do send any future updates you may have to our class email account, dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com. 

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