Class Note 1976
Issue
Jan - Feb 2016
Happy holidays! It seems strange to be saying this as I’m sitting here at the end of October. I hope you were able to enjoy Thanksgiving and the December holidays with family and friends. I actually got my first taste of snow in northern Vermont visiting in mid-October and later in northern-northwestern Maine. I was able to do some bird hunting with friends up on the Canadian border, and it turns out that another of the guests was the nephew of Seamus and Amy Hourihan.
I received a note from Kip Hall, who came up for air after not communicating or revisiting Hanover for 39 years. We’ll forgive you, Kip, since you provided so much information. He spent his career with DLA Piper in N.Y.C. as a Wall Street litigator. He remains as senior counsel while pursuing teaching and public service. He’s been teaching at the University of Connecticut School of Law for the last five years, gets to lecture at Oxford every other year, finishes as chair of a state commission this month (where he interacts with George Jepsen, the Connecticut attorney general) and next month finishes as selectman for Darien, Connecticut. If the next appointment comes through, he’ll move from the state executive to the legislative branch. He also just started his first assignment for the Aspen Institute’s Middle East investment initiative to develop small businesses in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He re-entered the world of competitive ski racing in the masters class. Kip also is a sailor and says, “I double hand a J-122 sailboat, and with my sailing partner we are preparing for the Grand Prix 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. Having done five Bermuda races for owners of much larger boats with crews of up to 28, we decided this year to race a 40-foot boat with just two people. It’s been scary at times, but we like the challenge and just got second place in the 2015 Vineyard Race, covering 278 miles in 43 sleep-deprived hours.” He and his wife, Britt, will winter in Crested Butte, Colorado, returning East as necessary. Thanks for the news, Kip.
The College reported that Marty Doyle’s son Riley, Th’08, has founded Desktop Genetics, a bioinformatics company that aims to revolutionize the way genetic researchers work. They recently received more than $2 million from venture capitalists and angel investors to accelerate development of the startup’s Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) genome editing software platform. Riley said, “To date the DeskGen platform has enabled more than 4,000 gene editing experiments and assisted thousands of users in designing and accessing the best reagents for their research.” Congratulations and good luck going forward to Riley.
I mentioned last month that there was a benefit in September for the Michael Brigham ’77 Cancer Fund. It was well attended by Dartmouth folk, although Todd Morris, Paul McCarthy and I were the only ’76s. We hope that Mark Mullan has recovered from the injury that kept him off the course. All in all, it was a successful event, generating a significant sum for cancer research.
—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
I received a note from Kip Hall, who came up for air after not communicating or revisiting Hanover for 39 years. We’ll forgive you, Kip, since you provided so much information. He spent his career with DLA Piper in N.Y.C. as a Wall Street litigator. He remains as senior counsel while pursuing teaching and public service. He’s been teaching at the University of Connecticut School of Law for the last five years, gets to lecture at Oxford every other year, finishes as chair of a state commission this month (where he interacts with George Jepsen, the Connecticut attorney general) and next month finishes as selectman for Darien, Connecticut. If the next appointment comes through, he’ll move from the state executive to the legislative branch. He also just started his first assignment for the Aspen Institute’s Middle East investment initiative to develop small businesses in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He re-entered the world of competitive ski racing in the masters class. Kip also is a sailor and says, “I double hand a J-122 sailboat, and with my sailing partner we are preparing for the Grand Prix 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. Having done five Bermuda races for owners of much larger boats with crews of up to 28, we decided this year to race a 40-foot boat with just two people. It’s been scary at times, but we like the challenge and just got second place in the 2015 Vineyard Race, covering 278 miles in 43 sleep-deprived hours.” He and his wife, Britt, will winter in Crested Butte, Colorado, returning East as necessary. Thanks for the news, Kip.
The College reported that Marty Doyle’s son Riley, Th’08, has founded Desktop Genetics, a bioinformatics company that aims to revolutionize the way genetic researchers work. They recently received more than $2 million from venture capitalists and angel investors to accelerate development of the startup’s Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) genome editing software platform. Riley said, “To date the DeskGen platform has enabled more than 4,000 gene editing experiments and assisted thousands of users in designing and accessing the best reagents for their research.” Congratulations and good luck going forward to Riley.
I mentioned last month that there was a benefit in September for the Michael Brigham ’77 Cancer Fund. It was well attended by Dartmouth folk, although Todd Morris, Paul McCarthy and I were the only ’76s. We hope that Mark Mullan has recovered from the injury that kept him off the course. All in all, it was a successful event, generating a significant sum for cancer research.
—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com