Class Note 1978
Issue
November-December 2023
It’s mailbag time—and yes, it’s still a mailbag even if nothing came in by actual mail. I’m old school. The year 2023 was the “Summer of Love” for our class. Timothy Patrick-Miller and Patricia Molina wed in May on the island of Bonaire, Netherlands, where they live. That’s technically spring, but “it’s summer year ’round here,” Tim points out.
Rick Kimball and Rose Repetto were married in July in Pebble Beach, California. “Smallish wedding but a small Dartmouth crew,” Rick wrote before the event, “Rick Spier, Ed Hill, David Dietze, Dave Clark ’76, Mark Weld ’76, Milton Harsh ’76, Peggy Tanner ’79, Ellie and Phil Laughlin ’88, and daughter Jaki Kimball ’16.” He added, and I sincerely hope this is now out of date: “I haven’t yet figured out the honeymoon!”
Scott Marber writes: “Born out of a pandemic where we’ve been together 24/7/1095, I’ve married the love of my life, Elizabeth [Simon]. It’s taken me two-thirds of a lifetime and two previous marriages to wrap my arms around what deep love is and how to be a good partner. If you’re lucky enough to find someone made for you after you find out who you are, grab them and don’t let go. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”
Thanks for those thoughts to keep us warm through a cold winter and best wishes to the happy couples.
In other news, Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, was quoted in a recent New York Times article about the color pink, pegged to the new Barbie movie. “Pink is the most controversial color in fashion history,” said Steele, author of Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. “It has so many contradictory meanings. It has fully entered our bloodstream like a virus and now different variants keep emerging.”
Fashion, history, and science: the liberal arts education on display. Thank you to Steve Strauss, newly appointed Eastern Seaboard correspondent for Class Notes, for that item. Steve will be keeping his day job as executive director of the Empire State Passengers Association—“a volunteer network of citizens, founded in 1980, constantly working to improve and expand Amtrak and public transit services across New York State.” Whew.
I leave you with a lovely note from Alvaro Saralegui on the theme of keeping in touch. “Not long after Covid began a group of ’78s, all members of Heorot, had a Zoom call to catch up,” Alvaro writes. “Two years later we are still meeting—weekly. We were not confident when this virtual ‘house meeting’ began that a weekly cadence would last nearly this long. The attendees change but the individuals with the best attendance records include Rich Lougee (founder), Stu Boyd, Andy Cutler, Tripp Peake, Doug Bradley,David Dietze, John Harvey, and myself. Interestingly, after doing some research through alumni records, we realized that this group also had the worst class attendance records when they were undergraduates.”
It’s never too late. Send news!
—Anne Bagamery, 13 rue de Presles, 75015 Paris, France; abagamery78@gmail.com; Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com
Rick Kimball and Rose Repetto were married in July in Pebble Beach, California. “Smallish wedding but a small Dartmouth crew,” Rick wrote before the event, “Rick Spier, Ed Hill, David Dietze, Dave Clark ’76, Mark Weld ’76, Milton Harsh ’76, Peggy Tanner ’79, Ellie and Phil Laughlin ’88, and daughter Jaki Kimball ’16.” He added, and I sincerely hope this is now out of date: “I haven’t yet figured out the honeymoon!”
Scott Marber writes: “Born out of a pandemic where we’ve been together 24/7/1095, I’ve married the love of my life, Elizabeth [Simon]. It’s taken me two-thirds of a lifetime and two previous marriages to wrap my arms around what deep love is and how to be a good partner. If you’re lucky enough to find someone made for you after you find out who you are, grab them and don’t let go. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”
Thanks for those thoughts to keep us warm through a cold winter and best wishes to the happy couples.
In other news, Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, was quoted in a recent New York Times article about the color pink, pegged to the new Barbie movie. “Pink is the most controversial color in fashion history,” said Steele, author of Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. “It has so many contradictory meanings. It has fully entered our bloodstream like a virus and now different variants keep emerging.”
Fashion, history, and science: the liberal arts education on display. Thank you to Steve Strauss, newly appointed Eastern Seaboard correspondent for Class Notes, for that item. Steve will be keeping his day job as executive director of the Empire State Passengers Association—“a volunteer network of citizens, founded in 1980, constantly working to improve and expand Amtrak and public transit services across New York State.” Whew.
I leave you with a lovely note from Alvaro Saralegui on the theme of keeping in touch. “Not long after Covid began a group of ’78s, all members of Heorot, had a Zoom call to catch up,” Alvaro writes. “Two years later we are still meeting—weekly. We were not confident when this virtual ‘house meeting’ began that a weekly cadence would last nearly this long. The attendees change but the individuals with the best attendance records include Rich Lougee (founder), Stu Boyd, Andy Cutler, Tripp Peake, Doug Bradley,David Dietze, John Harvey, and myself. Interestingly, after doing some research through alumni records, we realized that this group also had the worst class attendance records when they were undergraduates.”
It’s never too late. Send news!
—Anne Bagamery, 13 rue de Presles, 75015 Paris, France; abagamery78@gmail.com; Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com