Classes & Obits

Class Note 1978

Issue

Sept - Oct 2012

Most important! Mark your calendars: Our 35th reunion will be June 14-16, 2013. In Hanover. Be there.


In news from the Hawaiian Archipelago, Fritz Rohlfing was honored to chair the Hawaii for Romney campaign this year for the inaugural Hawaii Republican Party Presidential Caucuses. 


Dr. Dan Gaylon writes about the upstate New York neurosurgical practice he helped build during the past 23 years. “Since its inception Empire State Neurological Institute has been innovative. Today we are one of the last full-service, nonacademic neurological practices based in New York State.” Dan promises that, “Eventually, I will get to a reunion.” Dan, do it in 2013!


Melanie Rios sends “some news from me: I’m working as executive director of a sustainability education center and eco-village outside of Eugene, Oregon. I’m heading to Boulder, Colorado, this summer to help my youngest son find a home where he’ll be studying quantum chemistry and renewable energy at Colorado University on a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. Any classmates in Boulder? It’d be great to connect.” Connect with Melanie at melanie@rios.org.


A round of snaps for Bill Dexter, M.D., who has recently been named president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine. In his day job Bill serves as director of the sports medicine program at Maine Medical Center and as medical director of the University of Southern Maine’s athletic training education program and team physician for its department of athletics.


John Mares writes, “Greetings from Ithaca! Even though we’ve lived in Big Red country since moving here in 2000, I have managed to keep the Big Green shining brightly. I just loved wearing my Dartmouth rugby cap around the Cornell Law School during their big reunion weekend! My roller-coaster invention has come a long way since the late 1990s. It is now officially labeled the 4th Dimension roller coaster, and the eighth one is scheduled for construction in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during 2014. (My most recent coaster here in the United States is the Green Lantern at Magic Mountain.) In the meantime I am co-authoring the new Barron’s LSAT review book due for publication fall 2013 and I am working in the intellectual property commercialization area.”


From Mike Urban, “I have more good news to share: My novel Drake’s Coffin was recently named a finalist in action/adventure by Next Generation Indie Book Awards. On an unrelated note, have you noticed that many of the men in our class have a strange resemblance—portly, gray beards, thinning hair, a certain ‘I don’t give a shit anymore’ aura. Is this a class phenom or merely the result of hard living in our youths? Something to ponder.”


Hmmm, I resemble all that except the gray beard—where did I go wrong? Sigh. Well, my next deadline for submitting Class Notes to the alumni magazine is August 28. Send me a note, while it’s still warm.


Dave Hov, 6742 Towne Lane Road, McLean, VA 22101; (571) 643-8040; davidthov@gmail.com