Class Note 1977
Jeff Stone and his wife, Susan, recently enjoyed a Dartmouth alumni travel trip to Uganda. Bushwhacking through the aptly named Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to reach a troop of mountain gorillas was the highlight of the expedition. Nearly as cool were encounters with many primates, daily game-watching opportunities (rhinos, lions, elephants, giraffes, birds), climbing to the top of the thunderous Murchison Falls, and a rare meet-up with some very short-statured Batwa people, native to the Uganda-Congo border. A real draw was the company of faculty trip leader Nate Dominy, whose commentary added perspective and detail.
Ellen Sen is still an engineer with GE Aviation, working on helicopter engines, volunteering with Girls Inc., a nonprofit promoting “strong, smart, and bold” young women through after-school mentoring and leadership programs. She and her husband, Ron, enjoy traveling to visit their four kids and two grandkids. Ellen keeps up with her roommate Janet O’Neill Selling. Janet and her husband, Tom, are “promoting the works of Luisa Piccarreta, an Italian woman under consideration for canonization by the Catholic Church.”
John Storella, who practices patent law with early-stage biotech companies in Berkeley, California, met up with classmates at a Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Forum in San Francisco. Doug Ireland has created a career-focused card game called Launch Mode that makes fun of the wackiness of searching for a job. It was spawned from his work counseling young people prepping for the job market. Find it online through retailers or at www.youlaunchu.com. “Whether you’ve applied for a job, had a job, or lost a job, you’ll get a kick out of it.” Peter Mills is working on a new business called Track3t that enables companies to track precisely their inventory, equipment, and tooling as they move through a factory or warehouse. He loves to bicycle around the Bay Area with his wife, Mary. Mary McDougall is a vice president at Astia, a social enterprise that provides access to venture capital and networks for women-led ventures. She attended the forum to meet female entrepreneurs and to recruit male and female alums who wish to help as Astia advisors and Astia Angel investors. Learn more at www.astia.org.
Bernie Lambek, who has practiced law in Montpelier, Vermont, for the past 26 years, has written a legal mystery titled Uncivil Liberties. The story focuses on the circumstances surrounding the death of a young and promising gay high school student in a small Vermont town. As the community deals with her death, issues arise about hate speech and free speech, cyberbullying and privacy, and religious and sexual freedom. “A splendid legal mystery with savvy political ethics and vivid characters,” writes Howard Norman; an “intriguing book, especially for addicts of courtroom drama,” says Simon Mawer. See more at www.bernielambek.com.
Please mark your calendars right now for our 65th birthday bash. It will be held on August 27-30, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The more classmates who come, the more fun we will all have. See you there!
—Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, Signal Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton.com
