Class Note 1970
Issue
January-February 2024
“Though ’round the girdled earth they roam, her spell on them remains….”
More than 20 of our classmates have lived abroad for most of their careers. We start with the four below.
Scott Perry earned an M.B.A. at Stanford and moved to England, where he became a liquidator, buying companies out of bankruptcy. “With several good partners I managed to turn around companies and sell them. The companies were largely smokestack, old-fashioned manufacturers or agri-businesses.”
Besides the United States and United Kingdom, he has lived in Argentina, Chile, Gibraltar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Uruguay. Today his passion is sailing, which has taken him to many countries as a competitor or racing official. In 2017 he sailed across the Atlantic from Europe and miscalculated the days it would take to reach St. Lucia. As a result, they ran out of food (except for frozen meat) three days out. Fortunately, they had plenty of beer and were able to catch some fish. Every May for the past 16 years he’s taken seriously ill people from Madrid to Lourdes for five days.
Steve Cox checks in from Honduras, where he moved in 1979 “to make a new beginning.” He met his wife, Isabelle, there; they now have a family that includes three grandchildren.
“I found myself professionally as an English teacher at binational and bilingual schools in Tegucigalpa. Subsequently, at the Panamerican Agricultural School, I taught future farmers from across the continent. In 1999 I moved to the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, where I became a translator. I since moved to the Caribbean coast, where I invested in vacation beach properties that I rent via Airbnb.”
Paul Gambaccini writes, “I celebrated my 50th anniversary as a national broadcaster in the United Kingdom in October 2021. I met all five Beatles (including Pete Best), interviewed major Motown groups, Bob Dylan, and Aretha Franklin. I found myself interviewing Mick Jagger and group at 4 a.m.”
Paula Sinclair,one of the exchange students our senior year, reports “living overseas may have been less disconcerting than spending the past 50 years in the states. After Dartmouth I lived stateside in Ithaca, Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York but mostly overseas in Portugal and Brazil (as a diplomat) and then England, Scotland, and China (as a trailing spouse). My two sons grew up in the United Kingdom. They speak ‘British,’ my U.S. neighbor remarked.
“With 30 moves under my belt, the travel bug is addictive (pre-pandemic, up to six months travel each year). Nowadays, air travel means delayed, canceled, or a Chariots of Fire sprint through a terminal. California is now home. I’m blessed with good health, amazing memories, wonderful sons, and a good laugh daily.”
Submissions from more ’70 classmates living abroad will be in a class e-newsletter you’ll receive concurrent with this DAM issue.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, N.Y. 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
More than 20 of our classmates have lived abroad for most of their careers. We start with the four below.
Scott Perry earned an M.B.A. at Stanford and moved to England, where he became a liquidator, buying companies out of bankruptcy. “With several good partners I managed to turn around companies and sell them. The companies were largely smokestack, old-fashioned manufacturers or agri-businesses.”
Besides the United States and United Kingdom, he has lived in Argentina, Chile, Gibraltar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Uruguay. Today his passion is sailing, which has taken him to many countries as a competitor or racing official. In 2017 he sailed across the Atlantic from Europe and miscalculated the days it would take to reach St. Lucia. As a result, they ran out of food (except for frozen meat) three days out. Fortunately, they had plenty of beer and were able to catch some fish. Every May for the past 16 years he’s taken seriously ill people from Madrid to Lourdes for five days.
Steve Cox checks in from Honduras, where he moved in 1979 “to make a new beginning.” He met his wife, Isabelle, there; they now have a family that includes three grandchildren.
“I found myself professionally as an English teacher at binational and bilingual schools in Tegucigalpa. Subsequently, at the Panamerican Agricultural School, I taught future farmers from across the continent. In 1999 I moved to the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, where I became a translator. I since moved to the Caribbean coast, where I invested in vacation beach properties that I rent via Airbnb.”
Paul Gambaccini writes, “I celebrated my 50th anniversary as a national broadcaster in the United Kingdom in October 2021. I met all five Beatles (including Pete Best), interviewed major Motown groups, Bob Dylan, and Aretha Franklin. I found myself interviewing Mick Jagger and group at 4 a.m.”
Paula Sinclair,one of the exchange students our senior year, reports “living overseas may have been less disconcerting than spending the past 50 years in the states. After Dartmouth I lived stateside in Ithaca, Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York but mostly overseas in Portugal and Brazil (as a diplomat) and then England, Scotland, and China (as a trailing spouse). My two sons grew up in the United Kingdom. They speak ‘British,’ my U.S. neighbor remarked.
“With 30 moves under my belt, the travel bug is addictive (pre-pandemic, up to six months travel each year). Nowadays, air travel means delayed, canceled, or a Chariots of Fire sprint through a terminal. California is now home. I’m blessed with good health, amazing memories, wonderful sons, and a good laugh daily.”
Submissions from more ’70 classmates living abroad will be in a class e-newsletter you’ll receive concurrent with this DAM issue.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, N.Y. 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com