What is your favorite freshman trip memory? A lot of our classmates had fun answering that question on our class Facebook page recently, all part of a walk down memory lane that we’ll take together over the next year, as we look back a quarter century and ahead to Dartmouth’s future with new college president Phil Hanlon.
Our 25th reunion is just eight months away and the planning is moving ahead full steam for Thursday-Sunday, June 12-15, 2014!
Reunion starts a full day earlier, on Thursday, for our 25th, so mark your calendars. By now you should have probably received our first official reunion letter. All of the following reunion communications and registration will be by e-mail only. So now is the time to make sure that our reunion committee knows how to get in touch.
E-mail alumni.records@dartmouth.edu or you can e-mail me at the address below. If you don’t recall getting any e-mails from our class or the College in the past year, we don’t have your e-mail.
Here are some of the folks missing from our filees: James Bastone, Fox Benton, Isabelle Blasio, Scott Bonz, Emily Brewster, Heather Caldwell, Ashley Chadowitz, Lisa Collins, Kevin Cooper, Lisa Colby Crawford, Dennis Donnelly, Demetrius Eudell, Scott Garber, Nancy Katz, Doug Kroll, Steve Lehman, Jennifer Lois, Chris Maher, John Mahoney, Bill McIlwain, Maryann Murphy, Dana Pilson, Jennifer Pinkas, John Rhee, Katie Bigelow Sawrey, Eric Stambler, Laurie Stearns, Amy Beard Vachris, Martha Wadleigh, Brad Wilder and Jeff Zarse. Many more to come in the next column.
Please also consider joining our Dartmouth “Class of 1989” Facebook page, where we’ll link to lots of reunion information. We’re up to 382 members and counting. We’ll also have a reunion homepage up and running by later in the fall.
In other news, Antonia Rutigliano Nedder has launched her own blog, “Inspirational Sweets: Dessert reviews paired with inspirational, feel-good stories!” You can find her on blogspot.com. Antonia successfully blends nostalgia, life lessons and love of desserts, all rolled into a short blog post that’s worth a read.
Barbara Krauthamer, an associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has published two books this past year. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (UNC Press) is the first full-length study of slavery and the lives of enslaved people in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Barbara says the book examines the ways slavery shaped Native American life and also influenced U.S. policy toward Native peoples in the Deep South from the early 1800s through the end of the 19th century. She also co-authored Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (Temple University Press). Barbara says it features more than 150 photographs of enslaved and freed black Americans, and focuses on many photographs made by prominent African American photographers, including Augustus Washington, who attended Dartmouth in the early 1840s.
Meredith McCredie Winter enjoyed her annual summer get-together in northern Maine with Sue Shons Luria,Ariel Tabor MacTavish and Lindsey Brace Martinez. They have seven kids among them, all within a four-year age span, and the agenda contains plenty of hiking, swimming, kayaking and fun. Meredith writes, “As the kids get older, we find more time to hang out and catch up with each other instead of mediating squabbles or organizing activities.”
Sounds like a perfect plan for our 25th reunion too. The College will organize the activities and programs for your kids, if you want to bring them. And you’ll get plenty of time to catch up and reconnect with old friends.
—Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com