Class Note 1973
Say it again: It’s 2010!
We begin the year’s classmate chatter with the happy, albeit belated, news that Paul “Brooks” Cutright married Ann Paulsen ’76 last May. As Brooks tells it, “In January of 2007 I happened to run across Ann Paulsen’s name on the Dartmouth Web site and sent her a short e-mail reminiscing about some good times we shared working at Peter Christian’s Tavern. She was nice enough to respond and after many e-mails, a first date in Providence, Rhode Island, and a subsequent long-distance romance (Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, to Danvers, Massachusetts) we were married on May 23 with our four grown children (two for each of us) serving as our wedding party.” Brooks is vice president of operations for RISO Inc. in Danvers, a leading supplier of digital printing systems, supplies and accessories that help organizations improve information management.
From Lubbock, Texas, Wally Darneille wrote, “The wind is still blowing in west Texas and cotton is still king. Joe Nicosia ’78 is now the king of the cotton world, having just engineered the takeover of Dunavant Enterprises by Louis Dreyfus Commodities International’s Allenberg Cotton Co., of which he is chairman. I’m CEO of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association and am serving this year as chairman of the National Council of Textile Organizations and as president of Cotton Council International. But the really great achievement of my life is when my grandson in Atlanta pounds on the computer keyboard, points at the Skype camera and says, ‘Wa-wa, please!’ ” Wally also reports his neighbor John C. Selby ’38 is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease and some of the music from our College days helps soothe his suffering.
All these years I thought Jack Terrill was practicing land-use law in Pennsylvania, but recently he corrected this misperception. “My path to trusts and estates was a winding one. I started at Penn in the joint four-year law and city planning program and decided after a year at law school to limit myself. I ended up at a Philadelphia firm Duane, Morris & Heckscher and was put in the trusts and estates department initially since there was a recent departure. I expected to get into real estate eventually, but here I am 33 years later still doing it. I love what I do, the technical/tax focused/family counseling aspects. I left 15 years ago to start a trust-and-estate boutique, now one of the largest in the country. I do a lot of teaching and writing, focused somewhat in the asset protection arena. I have been involved for more than 20 years as counsel to and as an officer and director of a wonderful land trust, Natural Lands Trust. That is my source of satisfaction on the land preservation front. I’ve been married on and off, currently on, and have two lovely daughters.”
Unfortunately, despite a double lung transplant in 2008, at the end of October Ronn Tigner passed away. He lived long enough to welcome his only grandchild. Look for his obituary in a subsequent issue.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org
