Class Note 1977
By the time you read this we will be less than two months away from our 35th reunion! By now, if you haven’t seen all the details via our class Facebook page, class newsletter or any of the other mailings sent out, you must be living under a rock! Seriously, please take a moment to respond—you don’t want to miss out on all the fabulous festivities planned and the chance to reconnect with classmates back in Hanover.
I was happy to hear back from some fellow Distractions after my last column! Kathy Martin is still practicing at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Unfortunately she will be unable to make our reunion, as she and her husband will be visiting their daughter Hannah in Tanzania and will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, followed by a safari. Hannah is graduating from Williams College and is planning on following her mother’s footsteps into medicine. Garth and Lindsay Larrabee Greiman will be attending reunion. In 2010 they sold their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and moved into a condominium in Harvard Square. She has kept her voice intact by rehearsing and performing with a five-woman a cappella group in Boston. Carol Akerson hopes to attend. She is married to Rich Kelly ’69 and had a great time at his 35th a few years ago. Carol reminisced about a luncheon some of us in the Boston area attended in the spring of 1973 to meet other incoming freshmen. I remember meeting Kurt Reimann and Ron Smith at that luncheon, thinking they were two of the biggest guys I’d ever seen! Of course, they were freshmen football recruits, along with Bruce Taylor, also in attendance!
Good news arrived from T. David Reese on the birth of his first child. He wrote: “My wife, Jennifer, and I welcomed Thomas Carlton Reese on October 6, 2011. At a time when most members of our class are having grandchildren, we are considering the merits of orthodontic pacifiers and the admission standards for the Dartmouth class of 2034! If the reunion committee is planning on an award for the member of our class with the youngest child, we should claim the award. I suspect that Dan Mahoney thought he had a lock on it—sorry, Dan!”
Donald Gaylord checked in from Sao Paulo, Brazil! “I arrived here in October 2011 after training in Washington, D.C., for four months to head up the Open Source Center’s new office here. I love it—I’m following the Brazilian media, writing reports for people back in D.C. and learning Portuguese. Unfortunately my wife, Suse, daughter Jess and son Alan remain back home in North Carolina. I won’t be able to attend our 35th. I have some home leave coming, but I’ll be using it to attend my parents’ 60th anniversary. It will also be my father’s 79th birthday—he taught English at Dartmouth from 1966 to 2005.
Hope to see you Hanover June 14-16!
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73 @verizon.net
