Author: Ryan Hickox

Hi Westians,

Great to see so many of you (including our new grad student Westians) at the kickoff BBQ on Friday afternoon, and at the Exec Board meeting tonight. Looking forward to a great term.

(If you didn’t get to pick up your new House gear on Friday, we still have hats in the House Office in Fahey Hall; please stop by and see Pamela or Ted to get yours.)

Lots of exciting activities this week!

Best,
RCH

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 9/17/17
as always, for more see sites.dartmouth.edu/west-house/

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

Westians in the News

West House faculty affiliate Alexander Chee won the 2017 Paul Engle Prize, awarded by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, to excellent writers who have improved his or her community. Congratulations!
Haley Gordon ’18, a double major in theater and government, is serving as an intern at the Hop this year. See her top picks for the Hop calendar in the article (West House has free tickets for many of these).

Graduate welcome reception Tuesday night, Sept 18

We’re delighted to welcome our new graduate student members to West House, and will be holding a graduate welcome reception on Tuesday at 5:30pm in the Fahey Lounge. We’ll have hors d’oevres and refreshments, including beer and wine for 21+. All House members are invited; please come along, enjoy some wonderful conversation, and welcome our newest members to the community.

First-year dinner at Moosilauke Lodge on Wednesday, Sep 20

On Wednesday, West House ‘21s will be among the first to enjoy a meal at the newly renovated Moosilauke Ravine Lodge! The ‘21s will have received an invitation via OrgSync. Space is limited, so please be sure to sign up!

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Sophomore Outing: Lake Winnipesaukee Boat Cruise! Sat Sept. 23

On Saturday, Sep. 23rd we will be having our first West House Sophomore Outing: A chance for the sophomores in the House to take a fun day trip, hang out together, and make new connections among House members. This year we’ll be going for a boat cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. The trip is FREE and will leave around 9:30am and return before dinner. Space is getting limited, and priority will be given to ‘20s, but faculty and staff (including families) and students from other years are welcome to sign up in case there’s extra space. To sign up, please go to: https://goo.gl/forms/Uzej2RABwwRRDRWI2

Fellows Dinner Sunday Sept. 24

On Sunday, Sep. 24th we will host our second annual West House Fellows Dinner. West House faculty and staff affiliates, students, and families are all invited to the House Professor’s residence for an evening of wonderful dinner and conversation. The dinner starts early (5pm) and we will once again have babysitters for those with kids! RSVP to Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

IM Soccer

After finishing as runners-up last fall, the West House IM soccer team will once again be playing in the House league this term, on Fridays at 4:50pm. The IM competitions will all count toward an overall House Cup this year, so we’ve got extra incentives to represent our House and come out on top at the end of the year! If interested in playing, please contact our IM Captain, Resident Fellow Cory Cline at Cory.T.Cline.TH@dartmouth.edu. IM registration is FREE for members of House teams. If we’re limited in space, spots on the team will be first come first served, so let Cory know right away.

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

yle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion “Dearest Home”
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion “Dearest Home”
Thu Sep 21 2017 – 7:00 PM
MacArthur “genius” choreographer Kyle Abraham returns with poetic show about love, longing and loss.
merson String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
Sat Sep 30 2017 – 8:00 PM
Nine-time Grammy winners bring luminous intellect, musicality and joy to Mozart, Beethoven and more.
azz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Tue Oct 03 2017 – 7:00 PM
Premier jazz big band’s program includes tribute to jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton.

Photos from the weekend

Here are some photos from the weekend. Good to see Westians enjoying the ballooning adventure on the Green yesterday!

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House Professor, West House
Dartmouth College
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THE WESTLETTER for the week of 9/10/17

as always, for more see sites.dartmouth.edu/west-house/

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

Westians in the News

• Valentina García González ’19 has written an article for Business Insider about her experiences as an undocumented student, in response to Trump administration’s ending of DACA.
• Ice Quiñones ‘19 was part of the Puerto Rican national basketball team that competed in Buenos Aires at the FIBA AmeriCup in August, coming in third and defeating Cuba, Mexico, and powerhouse Brazil to earn their first ever trip to the FIBA World Cup in Spain in 2018.
• Brothers Corey Kalk ’18 and Zach Kalk ’20 (both Westians) traveled to Israel in July to represent Canada in hockey and soccer, respectively, at the Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish and Israeli mult-sport event.
• Jessica Kittelberger ’18 was named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars Team.
• Madison Sabol ’18 led the creation of the Green2Go program bringing renewable containers to ’53 Commons, reducing waste and saving resources.
• Aaron Lit ’19 created a fashion show inspired by marine biology, with pieces based on photographs of underwater animals.

Welcome to the West House ‘21s!

We had a wonderful welcome dinner on Saturday with the ‘21s at our residence. If you see some first-year Westians around, be sure to say hello and welcome them to the community!

Community Dinner: Kickoff BBQ Friday

We all love the West House Community Dinners! Our first one of the year, the Kickoff BBQ. will be this Friday at 5 on the Fahey patio, prior to the Fallapalooza concert across Tuck Mall. All students, faculty, staff, friends, and family are very much invited! On Friday will also be revealing the new West House insignia and will have some new House branded items (because we also love the gear).

Leadership Workshop Tuesday 5:30pm

The Student Assembly is hosting well-known expert on college life, Harlan Cohen to campus this Tuesday, September 12. He will be holding a Leadership Workshop for House Exec Boards and other interested House members at 5:30pm in Carson 60. West House has six slots available; if you’re interested, please contact SA president Ian Sullivan at Ian.J.Sullivan.18@dartmouth.edu

Sophomore Outing: Lake Winnipesaukee Boat Cruise! Sat Sept. 23

On Saturday, Sep. 23^rd we will be having our first West House Sophomore Outing: A chance for the sophomores in the House to take a fun day trip, hang out together, and make new connections among House members. This year we’ll be going for a boat cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. The trip is FREE and will leave around 9:30am and return before dinner. Space is limited; priority will be given to ‘20s, but students from other years are welcome to sign up in case there’s extra space. To sign up, please go to: https://goo.gl/forms/Uzej2RABwwRRDRWI2

Fellows Dinner Sunday Sept. 24

On Sunday, Sep. 24^th will be our second annual West House Fellows Dinner. West House faculty and staff affiliates, students, and families are all invited to the House Professor’s residence for an evening of wonderful dinner and conversation. The dinner starts early (5pm) and we will once again have babysitters for those with kids! RSVP to Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

IM Soccer

After finishing as runners-up last fall, the West House IM soccer team will once again be playing in the House league this term. The IM competitions will all count toward an overall House Cup this year, so we’ve got extra incentives to represent our House and come out on top at the end of the year! If interested in playing, please contact our IM Captain, Resident Fellow Cory Cline at Cory.T.Cline.TH@dartmouth.edu. IM registration is FREE for members of House teams. If we’re limited in space, spots on the team will be first come first served, so let Cory know right away.

Welcome to Assistant Director and Resident Fellows

We are delighted to welcome to the West House community our new Assistant Director, Dr. Ted Stratton, who was previously the AD for South House. Ted has a PhD in Higher Education and is an expert in research on undergraduate student experiences. Ted lives in the apartment at the end of Fahey Hall with his wife Lindsay, three year-old daughter Willow, and two pups. Be sure to say hi when you see them around!

We’d also like to welcome our four new Resident Fellows, who will be helping organize a number of House activities and will hold office hours in their academic specialties. Get to know them!

Alen Amini (Business, Fahey 101)
Alen.A.Amini.TU18@tuck.dartmouth.edu

Cory Cline (Engineering, Butterfield 112)
Cory.T.Cline.TH@dartmouth.edu

Jennifer Franks (Biomedical Sciences, Russell Sage 102)
Sophie.L.Leung.MED@dartmouth.edu

Sam Modder (Engineering / Studio Art, Butterfield 112)
Samantha.A.Modder.TH@dartmouth.edu

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/16/17

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WESTIANS IN THE NEWS

• Chenguang Li ’18 and Jared Duker Litchman ’18, are two of three Dartmouth undergraduates who have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships in recognition of their excellent undergraduate work in the sciences.
• Apoorva Dixit ’17 has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to pursue research on the Bhopal industrial disaster in India.
• Kathryn Giroux ’19 of the women’s lacrosse team set a Dartmouth record of 13 draw controls in a single game against Cornell on Saturday.
• WestHouse faculty affiliate Ashley Fure (Music) has recently received two extraordinary recognitionsfor her work – she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been named a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her composition Bound to the Bow.

If you know of more accomplishments of West House members that we can highlight in the Westletter, please be in touch!

House Professor’s Teas

We had a wonderful HP Tea this Friday with Alix FitzGerald ’07 who discussed her role as a Group Product Manger for Betterment, and her path to success in the FinTech industry.

We won’t be having our regular HP Tea this Friday, but we will be having a special dinner discussion this Thursday night with Judge John Mott ’81, in collaboration with the Center for Professional Development:

Thursday, April 20^th

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

West House Professor’s Residence

Register by Wednesday, April 19^th at 4:00 p.m. under “My Events” in DartBoard.

Join us for an evening conversation and connect with Judge John Mott ’81 to learn about his journey through law, most recently serving as a Judge in the District of Columbia Superior Court. Judge Mott will offer perspective and insights on the current legal employment landscape, his career path that has ranged from practicing in public interest law, serving as a trial lawyer, teaching in the law school environment to his most recent role as a Judge.

Dinner will be served! Please note, this event is capped at 25 students.

To learn more about Judge Mott, visit here.

Sustainability and Social Justice Dinner

 West House is pleased to be co-sponsoring the Sustainability and Social Justice Dinner this Monday evening, and have 10 places reserved forWest House students. Some information is below – to RSVP, please follow this link:

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

West House had our first IM volleyball game this Friday against South House. We ended up on the wrong end of the scoreline against SouthHouse. Our next game is April 28 against School House. If you’re interested in joining the team, email Ryan.R.Monasch.19@dartmouth.edu and register FREE on IMLeagues.com.

WEST HOUSE GEAR

We had over 300 orders for West House gear this week! Thanks to all of you for your productive feedback on how we can make West Housebetter going forward. We expect to have the gear in within 3-4 weeks; looking forward to being the best-dressed House on campus!

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

The Gloaming

Fri Apr 21 2017 – 8:00 PM

Transatlantic supergroup takes Celtic music to breathtaking new heights while staying true to its roots.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

1. Planning for Community Dinner on Apr 30
2. Co-sponsorships
3. Potential Green Key Event
4. Election Planning
5. Update on Gear Orders
6. Recruiting Bartenders

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/9/17

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

WESTIANS IN THE NEWS

• Congrats to Kaya Thomas ’17, who was featured on Huffington Post this week for her work creating We Read Too, an iPhone app that serves as a directory of hundreds of books showcasing characters of color.
• WestHouse faculty affiliate Petra McGillen (German Studies) has a great article this week in the Observer about “fake news” in 19^th Century  Germany and what it can tell us about the current media environment. She’ll be chatting with us at a House Professor’s Tea on May 12.

If you know of more accomplishments of West House members that we can highlight here, please be in touch!

A FAREWELL, AND A WELCOME

This week we said a bittersweet farewell to our Assistant Director, Darby Wiggins, who is moving south to take up an exciting new opportunity at the University of Mississippi. We are very grateful to Darby for her instrumental role in getting the West House community started this year. We’ll miss you Darby — you’ll forever be a Westian!

At the same time, we are delighted to welcome Lauren Oliver to the West House community. Lauren is currently the AD of Allen House, and through her graduate work she is an expert on residential houses and colleges around the country and the world. She’ll be overseeing the UGAs in West House this term – if you see Lauren please give her a warm welcome to the House!

House Professor’s Teas

Our next HP Tea will be This Friday, April 14 from 4:45 to 5:30pm, with Alix Fitzgerald ’07, for a discussion about entrepreneurship at the leading edge of the personal finance industry.

Alix Fitzgerald ’07 is a Senior Product Manager at Betterment, a company leading the market in automated “robo-advising” for investors, based in New York City.

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

House IM Volleyball starts THIS FRIDAY! The join the first ever West House Volleyball team, contact IM captain Ryan Monasch ’19 atRyan.R.Monasch.19@dartmouth.edu and register on IMLeagues.com

BARTEND AT WEST HOUSE EVENTS!

As we continue to host our fun wine & cheese receptions we are looking to hire bartenders for these and other House events. Candidates must be 21+ and complete an hour of TIPS training — then are eligible for a fun job with a competitive hourly wage. If interested, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

WEST HOUSE APPAREL

For Spring term we’ll be doing an order for more House merchandise; current ideas are fleeces, hoodies, T-shirts, baseball hats, PJ pants, and blankets. Every Westian will be able to order the specific item and size you like. ORDER FORM AVAILABLE SOON!

HELP DESIGN THE OFFICIAL WEST HOUSE INSIGNIA!

(Please note the deadline for input is tomorrow, April 10 so if you have ideas please send them along as soon as you can.)
The time has come for the College to design a set of six official insignia to represent all the House Communities staring this fall. Towards this end, the West House Executive Board has begun accepting prototypes for the official West House Insignia – please send email to Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu with the subject line “West House Insignia Ideas” and it will be passed to the Exec. Your submission can be a complete design or a sketch of a concept: feel free to use words where your artistic skills come up a bit short. Ideas that were submitted during the open call for input last spring have already been passed to the Executive Board and will be considered fully as part of this process.

The House Executive Board will review your submissions and create a portfolio containing the most promising ideas. This portfolio will be used as a starting point and inspiration for a professional design team charged with developing a coherent set of six insignia for the HouseCommunities. To help guide your creative process, please see this document with a few basic guidelines for the House Insignia plus some samples from other institutions. Please submit your ideas by Monday, April 10.

One final note, if you happen to like the design concept behind our interim “elm tree” insignia representing the majestic tree between Fahey and Russell Sage – please let us know that too! One possibility is that our official insignia could build on this idea.

BAKER-BERRY LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON HOUSE COMMUNITIES

For next academic year, Dartmouth Libraries (led in part by our West House Librarian, Laura Barrett) will be hosting an exhibit in Baker-Berry called “House Communities at Dartmouth: The First Year”. West House will have our own case and the opportunity to highlight all the activities and growth of community that we’ve had in this inaugural year. If you’re interested in joining our House Historian, Alexis Colbert ’19, in curating and developing the exhibit, please contact her at Alexis.R.Colbert.19@dartmouth.edu.

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

The Gloaming

Fri Apr 21 2017 – 8:00 PM

Transatlantic supergroup takes Celtic music to breathtaking new heights while staying true to its roots.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

1. Recruit Bartenders
2. Plan for Spring Events
3. Update on Elections
4. Update on Gear
5. Visits to other House communities

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/2/17

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

COMMUNITY DINNER and RECEPTION TONIGHT

Our next West House COMMUNITY DINNER will be TONIGHT at 6pm in the Fahey Lounge, catered by Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant. From 5-6pm in the Fahey ground floor lounge we’ll have a wine & cheese reception (with soft drinks, and beer, wine, and cider for 21+).

Also, for those (particularly ‘20s) who have questions about ROOM DRAW, representatives from the Housing Office will be visiting the Community Dinner starting at 6:30pm to answer any queries you have.

House Professor’s Teas

On Friday we had a productive discussion regarding the future of West House space for our HP Tea. The schedule for future House Professor’s Teas is available here. There will be no HP Tea this week – our next Tea will be Friday, April 14, with Alix Fitzgerald ’07, for a discussion about entrepreneurship at the leading edge of the personal finance industry.

Alix Fitzgerald ’07 is a Senior Product Manager at Betterment, a company leading the market in automated “robo-advising” for investors, based in New York City.

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

We’ll be continuing House IM sports this term – it’s looking like there will be House leagues in volleyball and softball and/or kickball. Watch this space!

WEST HOUSE APPAREL

For Spring term we’ll be doing an order for more House merchandise; current ideas are fleeces, hoodies, T-shirts, baseball hats, PJ pants, and blankets. Every Westian will be able to order the specific item and size you like.

HELP DESIGN THE OFFICIAL WEST HOUSE INSIGNIA!
The time has come for the College to design a set of six official insignia to represent all the House Communities staring this fall. Towards this end, the West House Executive Board has begun accepting prototypes for the official West House Insignia – please send email to Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu with the subject line “West House Insignia Ideas” and it will be passed to the Exec. Your submission can be a complete design or a sketch of a concept: feel free to use words where your artistic skills come up a bit short. Ideas that were submitted during the open call for input last spring have already been passed to the Executive Board and will be considered fully as part of this process.

The House Executive Board will review your submissions and create a portfolio containing the most promising ideas. This portfolio will be used as a starting point and inspiration for a professional design team charged with developing a coherent set of six insignia for the HouseCommunities. To help guide your creative process, please see this document with a few basic guidelines for the House Insignia plus some samples from other institutions. Please submit your ideas by Monday, April 10.

One final note, if you happen to like the design concept behind our interim “elm tree” insignia representing the majestic tree between Fahey and Russell Sage – please let us know that too! One possibility is that our official insignia could build on this idea.

BAKER-BERRY LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON HOUSE COMMUNITIES

For next academic year, Dartmouth Libraries (led in part by our West House Library Liaison, Laura Barrett) will be hosting an exhibit in Baker-Berry called “House Communities at Dartmouth: The First Year”. West House will have our own case and the opportunity to highlight all the activities and growth of community that we’ve had in this inaugural year. We are looking for students to join our House Historian, Alexis Colbert ’19, in curating and developing the exhibit.

There will be a kickoff meeting on Wednesday, April 5 in the Rauner Library Bryant Room from 3:30 to 5pm. Come represent West House, and learn about creating compelling exhibits, gathering oral histories, and digital archiving.

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu. 

Brad Mehldau, piano

Tue Apr 04 2017 – 7:00 PM

Supremely expressive jazz pianist blends diverse influences—from classical to pop—into shapely impromptu musical creations.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting of the term will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18, to be run in concert with the SA elections on April 18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.