Class Note 1977
We’re going to have a white Christmas! I’m writing this during the big East Coast snowstorm the Saturday before Christmas—happy holidays to everyone. It looks like a picture-perfect Hanover postcard outside my window. I miss those days of trudging across the Green with knee-deep snow all around. Speaking of Dartmouth snow, I received the following news from Cathy Cook Holmstrom: “I am 19 years old in a photo taken at the Dartmouth ski jump during Winter Carnival in 1974. While holding a graham cracker in one hand and a beer in the other, the passage of time is not as amazing as the sense that I am still 19 years old! I do wonder how we ever partied until 4 a.m., then woke up to ski the next morning. I have three boys: Anders, U.S. Naval Academy ’08, Navy pilot; Charlie, USNA ’10, selected to train as a Navy SEAL; Isaac, USNA ’12, yet to be determined! My husband, Garry, USNA ’71, a retired captain, works for Raytheon in missile defense. When not cheering for Navy football, the Patriots or the Red Sox I’m usually walking a neurotic chocolate Lab and discussing the meaning of life with everyone I meet in downtown Bristol, Rhode Island. I am blessed to be in touch with Emily Geoghegan ’76 and Marian Meijer Doorley—two friends who always provide me with comic relief. Please keep our service men and women in your thoughts and prayers.”
York Kim Rosenau and husband Bruce ’76 went on their first Dartmouth alumni travel trip—a cruise from Athens to Istanbul with Professor Rassias in October. Then they attended their first Homecoming weekend in Hanover, witnessed President Kim’s first Dartmouth Night, a win over Columbia and stormed the field in victory! Other ’77s seen that weekend were Will Danford, Brian Deevy, Bets Kent, Betsy Fauver and Michelle Valensi Stacy. Kim and Bruce reside in Mercer Island, Washington.
Al Gordon checked in from Chicago with some news: “ I recently visited my son Griffin ’06, who is living and working in Boston. While there I met for lunch a group of ’77s including Kevin Young, Fred Kramer, Mark Berthiaume, Mike Brigham, John Caroll, as well as Tom Garden ’78, Curt Oberg ’78 and Pete Roby ’79. Gary Rogers was missing as he and his wife, Jill ’78, were hiking Mount Adams as they near completion of their pursuit of all the 4,000-footers in the White Mountains.
John Bird notified me that Vernon Wayne Banks passed away in Richmond, Virginia, on October 10. He worked for the Virginia Department of Mines and Minerals. He was a government major and a member of Tabard. Vernon was one of seven Phillips Academy graduates from Andover, Massachusetts, who matriculated at Dartmouth, along with John, Nick Bircher, John Elrod, Doug Mavor and Sandy Wood. Joe Flounders perished in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Bob Leach and I appreciate your news—keep it coming!
—Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@ comcast.net
