Reunion has come and gone.


Since this column was due prior to our gathering, the reunion write-up will be in the next issue.


New York City’s GymSource, America’s largest commercial distributor of fitness equipment, with clientele (including Dartmouth) in all 50 states, has Bill Kemnitzer as its vice president of sales. For recreation, Bill runs half-marathons.


Stephen Slatter owns and operates both Slatter Park Bench Co. (www.slatterparkbench.com) and Vermont Iron Stove Works (www.vermont ironstove.com) in Montpelier, Vermont. He makes swings and clocks, as well as benches that can be found in locales as diverse as Battery Park in New York City and the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters visitor center at the Waterbury, Vermont, train station. Stephen’s elm wood stoves are now also available in Europe.


Another craftsman, goldsmith Doug Ostrander, is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his studio, d.h. Ostrander, is located in the Button Factory (www.dhostrander.com). Doug specializes in custom-design in 14- and 18-karat gold, platinum and sterling silver as well as repair, restoration and fine diamond and gemstone setting. Doug and his wife, Anne Rugg, also have a birdhouse business, Garden Path, known for its gaudily colored gothic-inspired houses (www.garden-path.com).


John Elias, a partner at Elias, Meginnes, Riffle & Seghetti in Peoria, Illinois, is a member of the bar in Illinois, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, tax and business matters. First named an Illinois super lawyer in 2007, John has been named one every year since 2009.


Concord, New Hampshire, orthopedic surgeon John Lambrukos, also serves as certification coordinator for the New Hampshire Health Facilities Administration. With regard to nursing home ratings, he provided this insight: The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services first ranks the relative performance of all certified facilities within a state based on unannounced health inspections the state conducts about once a year. The top 10 percent of homes receive five stars, the bottom 20 percent get one star and the remaining 70 percent is divided equally among the two-, three- and four-star categories. Those health inspection ratings are then modified up or down, based on how a home scores on staffing levels and a variety of quality measures to come up with an overall rating. A two-star home in one state might be a three-star home in another state. The data that goes into the ratings, including results of health inspections, are posted on medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare.


Mitch Whiteley obtained a master’s in education from Johns Hopkins and teaches upper school history at St. Paul’s in Baltimore. He is also involved in the college counseling program and the philanthropy department. St. Paul’s offers the international baccalaureate program. Previously, Mitch served as the dean of students, assistant headmaster of the upper school and director of college guidance.


Unfortunately, two classmate obituaries were in the March 16 New York Times. Anthropologist, traveler and lover of nature and the arts John Weatherly died in New Canaan, Connecticut. Flutist, skier and tennis player Scott Shedden died in New York City. 


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@dartmouth.edu