The Dartmouth 7/24/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 99

RAINY HIGH 70 LOW 52

FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2015

Loved ones remember Summer Hammond ’17

B y ANNIE MA

The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

FIVE TEAMS GET ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS PAGE 8

OPINION

VERBUM: THE COST OF ONE’S MAJOR PAGE 4

HARARY: TERRORISM AND MENTAL ILLNESS

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

To Summer Hammond ’17, happiness was incomplete unless those around her felt it too. Not even a cancer diagnosis on her 16th birthday could shake her firm belief in positivity, in living life to the fullest. Family members say that Summer never made anything about herself — rather, it was always about what she could do for her friends. High school classmate Mary Vansuch remembers that when the school raised money to help pay for Hammond’s cancer treatment, Hammond insisted on donating the funds. She reasoned that she could afford the treatment, while someone else out there could not. “She was always a very genuinely nice and caring person, even to people who barely knew her,” Vansuch said. Hammond was kind, welcoming and unstoppable in her commitment to live every day like it mattered, family and friends said. After a five-year battle with cancer, Hammond passed away due to complications from radiation treatment at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Medical Center on July 20, 2015. She was 20. Growing up in Centennial, Colorado, Hammond developed a love for sports, animals and the outdoors. While a student at Grandview High School, she was a member of the varsity soccer, gymnastics, swimming and diving teams, among others. Hammond refused to let her diagnosis dictate how she lived her life, friends said. Despite undergoing a very aggressive chemotherapy regimen that almost always limits patients from attending school, Hammond continued to do so and often carried her treatments on her back while going to classes, her mother Sharon Hammond said. The treatment led Hammond to lose all her hair, though her mother laughed while recalling how adamantly she refused to wear a wig. The only exception was once for a wedding, though her mother said she ripped it off right after. “To her, cancer was just an inconvenience,” Sharon Hammond remembers. “She would never allow it to be a barrier to living her life.” At the start of her freshman fall, Hammond tried out for

club soccer. She also discovered that her cancer had returned, this time in an isolated lesion, her mother said. Still, she played three out of the four days of tryouts and made the cut, her teammate Sarah Latulipe ‘17 said. “When you make the team, the upperclassmen come to your room and surprise wake you up,” Latulipe said. “We did that for Summer too, except we went to Dick’s House where she was staying after treatment and she was just so incredibly happy that she was part of the team that she couldn’t care less about the cancer.” Friends remember Hammond as the type of person who could facilitate friendships, making sure everyone involved felt included and happy. “Summer believed that everyone should be comfortable and happy with how they were,” Sharon Hammond said. “Until then, she would work towards making other people happy, because it was never about herself.” Aliyah Gallup ‘17 met Hammond on Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips. They later roomed together their sophomore year. Gallup

Courtesy of Sharon Hammond

Hammond’s friends said she loved the outdoors.

recalls many nights where the two could never fall asleep, because they would keep each other up talking about their days. “We’d be lying there just so tired, but then we’d realize there’s this other thing we had to talk about,” Gallup said. “Conversations would last hours, and I just knew she was the person I could go to because she was so good at really listening.” Hammond loved to dance, and Gallup remembers how she would create a fun environment for her friends regardless

of the situation. “We would be out dancing at a party, and she’s this cowgirl from Colorado at heart,” Gallup said. “She’d grab my hand, twirl me around and teach me some line dance move and not care at all and be so happy.” Freshmen floormate Jennie Cunningham ‘17 remembers how dedicated Hammond was to building genuine, meaningful friendships. Though they were miles apart during their freshman summer, Hammond working on a ranch in WyoSEE SUMMER PAGE 3

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Four panelists shared stories of intersectionality last night at a panel kicking off the Center for Gender and Student Engagement’s Voices of Summer programming. The event featured three student panelists in addition to Kari Cooke, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership’s

assistant dean and advisor to black students. During the discussion, panelists Asha Wills ’17, Micah Park ’17 and Tsion Abera ’17 pointed out that students at Dartmouth each experience the College differently as a function of the different parts of their respective identities, a tenet of intersectionality. SEE PANEL PAGE 5

Alumni giving breaks records

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The College received a record-breaking $325.4 million in gifts and commitments in the 2014-15 fiscal year, the College announced on July 15. This total exceeds last year’s by 27 percent. The Dartmouth College Fund and the annual funds for the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck Business School also broke records this year. Almost 43 percent of Dartmouth alumni contributed for the fiscal year, which

ended on June 30. Most of the money raised will go toward implementing the new academic clusters, endowing professorships and increasing the number of scholarships awarded. In addition to these proposals, the money will fund the transformation of residential clusters, an important part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy. Three of the four largest gifts will create academic clusters in applied mathematics, globalization and health care delivery. Each of these

fi elds will host three new faculty members. Donors endowed 15 professorships for both current and future faculty members, which will recognize faculty for their teaching and scholarly work. Donations also contributed to the King Scholars Program, which was established by Dottie and Bob King ’57 in 2013. Four additional King Scholars, students from developing countries who are passionate SEE GIVING PAGE 2


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