Roommates Reunite In Nashville

(from Rebecca Blake Osborne)

In October 2022, four senior year roommates ventured to Music City for a packed weekend of music and loads of fun to celebrate the first of us turning 60!

Kathy Reilly Gross’s birthday was celebrated in style by Eleni Daskalakis Henkel, Marcy Sitnik Reed, and Rebecca Blake Osborne in Nashville, including pink cowboy hats with flashing lights and a pink tiara for the birthday girl! Our visit covered the historic Ryman Auditorium, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and an array of incredible food and yummy beverages while taking in live music at every turn. So much laughter and fond memories. 60 is truly the new 40!

Annette, Heidi, and Laura Celebrate 60 in Costa Rica

(from Annette Hach-Clein)

In late October 2022, Heidi Cary Nadiak, Laura Robertson, and Annette Hatch-Clein traveled separately from their corners of the US to meet up in Costa Rica and “gently” relive their days in Fairweather Hall and celebrate turning 60 years young. 

We pretended to be ecologists, searching for birds, insects, flowering plants, monkeys, sloths (Laura’s favorite), while enjoying amazing avocadoes, local fruits, kind local people, good rum and our own company. A good time was had by all; I still hear the laughter and the howling monkeys near our cottage.

AXΩ Trip to Spain and Marrakech

Margaret Marder sent along pictures of an amazing 16 day trip in a couple of months ago to Spain and Marrakech with her ’85 AXO sisters, including Karen Garbe Matjucha, Shelley Leavitt Nadel, Margaret, Terri Sergesketter Heath, Claudia Broekker Egger and sister-for-the-trip Linda Blockus.

Dartmouth ’85 AXOs in Barcelona
In the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco
In the desert at a Berber Camp

Nacho Gutierrez ’25 Named John Robert Lewis Scholar

Ignacio “Nacho” Gutierrez ’25, the first Class of 1985 Scholar, shared the exciting news that he has been named a John Robert Lewis Scholar by the Faith and Politics Institute for the 2023-2024 cohort. Read the College’s press release about this exciting honor!

(above, Valerie Hartman and Leslie Davis Dahl visit with Nacho in Hanover)

Ignacio Gutierrez ’25 and Jackelinne Claros Benitez ’24 have been named John Robert Lewis Scholars. (Photos by Katie Lenhart)

Throughout the year, he will work alongside inspiring advocates as part of the third cohort of the John Robert Lewis Scholars and Fellows Program, “founded to examine Lewis’s nonviolent philosophy from a historical perspective; define its principles and strategies; and identify their applicability to modern times and movements.” He’s looking forward to applying the program’s discussions in D.C. and Selma to improving his advocacy work with Hispanic communities throughout the United States and Mexico.