Class Note 1978
Issue
January-February 2022
Harriet Travilla Reynolds and Ann Hoover Maddox organized a wonderful mini-reunion Homecoming Weekend at the beautiful Norwich, Vermont, home of Drew Rockwell and Bartlett Leber. About 50 people gathered on the banks of the Connecticut River, and after many months of isolation and Zooms, it was glorious to catch up with classmates in person.
Drew is working part-time to launch a new kind of wireless marketplace, volunteering in the nonprofit sector (mostly on transitional housing for people leaving prison) and writing a novel. “It opens in 1970 New York as the Weather Underground inadvertently detonates a pipe bomb, killing three people and destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse. The story explores the involvement of a 40-year-old woman who lives a block over. Meanwhile, my wife, Bartlett, a former general counsel in the cable industry, is now a full-blown artist as well as deeply involved in the local nonprofit scene, so together we are incubating a small creative renaissance of sorts!”
It was great to see John Jordan and his husband, Dennis. John returned to Dartmouth this fall to teach an innovative leadership course in the psychological and brain sciences department. His 22 students kept busy interviewing leaders (including some classmates) and applying psychological science to a community impact initiative that they selected and designed. One of his students was Sally Eastman’sson, Clarke Eastman-Pinto ’22, who waxed enthusiastic about the class. “I feel like I’m getting an M.B.A.,” he told me. John, Dennis, and their Goldendoodle Cooper have returned to Toronto, where John works as an organizational psychologist, and he expects to return next fall to teach two more courses.
Amy Berg was also in attendance. She moved into a townhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania early in 2021 as part of her downsizing plan. Now she is spending about half time there and half time at a vacation home in New London, New Hampshire. “I recently hiked in the White Mountains with Jill Eilertsen Rogers and with Jane Kirstetter Ingram visited the Hay estate on Lake Sunapee, where we chatted with landscape director Nick Scheu.”
I also chatted with Clifton Below at the party—he is part of the dynamic duo running Lebanon, New Hampshire. Tim McNamara serves as mayor, Clif as assistant mayor. Under their leadership Lebanon has joined 13 other N.H. communities to create the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire. This nonprofit agency was created to assist cities and towns in launching community power programs. Clif is serving as vice chair of the agency. “We are in the startup phase of launching a new electric power agency that will take a risk-managed portfolio approach to supplying electric power and helping modernize the electric grid.”
Finally, I heard from John Brenner that he is closing out his 41-year legal career, retiring as senior VP at Becton, Dickinson, and Co. He and his wife plan to split their time between their homes in New Jersey and Maryland and spend more time with their granddaughter.
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—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com
Drew is working part-time to launch a new kind of wireless marketplace, volunteering in the nonprofit sector (mostly on transitional housing for people leaving prison) and writing a novel. “It opens in 1970 New York as the Weather Underground inadvertently detonates a pipe bomb, killing three people and destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse. The story explores the involvement of a 40-year-old woman who lives a block over. Meanwhile, my wife, Bartlett, a former general counsel in the cable industry, is now a full-blown artist as well as deeply involved in the local nonprofit scene, so together we are incubating a small creative renaissance of sorts!”
It was great to see John Jordan and his husband, Dennis. John returned to Dartmouth this fall to teach an innovative leadership course in the psychological and brain sciences department. His 22 students kept busy interviewing leaders (including some classmates) and applying psychological science to a community impact initiative that they selected and designed. One of his students was Sally Eastman’sson, Clarke Eastman-Pinto ’22, who waxed enthusiastic about the class. “I feel like I’m getting an M.B.A.,” he told me. John, Dennis, and their Goldendoodle Cooper have returned to Toronto, where John works as an organizational psychologist, and he expects to return next fall to teach two more courses.
Amy Berg was also in attendance. She moved into a townhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania early in 2021 as part of her downsizing plan. Now she is spending about half time there and half time at a vacation home in New London, New Hampshire. “I recently hiked in the White Mountains with Jill Eilertsen Rogers and with Jane Kirstetter Ingram visited the Hay estate on Lake Sunapee, where we chatted with landscape director Nick Scheu.”
I also chatted with Clifton Below at the party—he is part of the dynamic duo running Lebanon, New Hampshire. Tim McNamara serves as mayor, Clif as assistant mayor. Under their leadership Lebanon has joined 13 other N.H. communities to create the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire. This nonprofit agency was created to assist cities and towns in launching community power programs. Clif is serving as vice chair of the agency. “We are in the startup phase of launching a new electric power agency that will take a risk-managed portfolio approach to supplying electric power and helping modernize the electric grid.”
Finally, I heard from John Brenner that he is closing out his 41-year legal career, retiring as senior VP at Becton, Dickinson, and Co. He and his wife plan to split their time between their homes in New Jersey and Maryland and spend more time with their granddaughter.
Send news!
—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com