Class Note 1979
Issue
In September I attended Class Officers Weekend with seven other ’79s. As you all know Hanover in the fall is beautiful and, as you may have heard since then, the class of 1979 walked away with awards for Class of the Year and Mini-Reunion Class of the Year. You can read all about our class accomplishments on the 1979 Web site.
Later that weekend I was at Lou’s for breakfast with my son when Jeff Jackson recognized me and came over to chat. He and his wife and their son, a senior at St. Mark’s in Dallas, were looking at the College. I used our encounter to try to convince my son that I haven’t aged much since I was an undergrad; that might have worked except that I didn’t remember Jeff, so my son pointed out that my memory could be better! Anyway, Jeff graduated from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and was the CFO of Sabre for 10 years until handing off those duties a few months ago. Jeff is now doing business development work for Sabre. He and his family live in Dallas. His wife, Sally Warren, originally from San Antonio, Texas, is a contemporary abstract artist and their daughter is a junior at Carleton.
I spoke with Renée Diao Graham, who lives in Connecticut with her husband and three sons. Their oldest graduated from Colgate, the next is a junior at Choate and their youngest is in eighth grade at Brunswick School. Renée’s husband works in banking and Renée has recently reinvented herself: She is working in admissions at a private school. The whole family loves summering on Block Island, Rhode Island. Last year Renée learned to skimboard; she sent me photos of herself jumping on a fiberglass board in the waves.
I heard from Polly Ingraham, who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Rob Hirschfeld ’83. She sees Mary Cleary Kiely and Steve Schreiber, who also live in the Amherst area. Polly is a high school English teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is also writing about being a clergy spouse. She and Rob have a son who is a high school senior, a daughter in 10th grade and a son in sixth grade.
Congratulations are in order! In October Karen Loeffler was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. attorney for Alaska. Loeffler, a longtime federal prosecutor, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983 and was admitted to the bar in Alaska in 1985. She served as an assistant attorney general and assistant district attorney for the state before joining the federal government in 1989.
I am so sorry to report that John D. West III, M.D., died on September 9 at his home in Maine. Our heart goes out to his wife, Stephanie, their sons Drew and Geoff and to the rest of John’s family.
Don’t forget to send news, especially if you haven’t done so in the past. If you don’t I may track down someone who knows you and ask for all kinds of information.
—Deborah Krieger Jennings, 34 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (973) 744-2582; djennings@mka.org
Jan - Feb 2010
In September I attended Class Officers Weekend with seven other ’79s. As you all know Hanover in the fall is beautiful and, as you may have heard since then, the class of 1979 walked away with awards for Class of the Year and Mini-Reunion Class of the Year. You can read all about our class accomplishments on the 1979 Web site.
Later that weekend I was at Lou’s for breakfast with my son when Jeff Jackson recognized me and came over to chat. He and his wife and their son, a senior at St. Mark’s in Dallas, were looking at the College. I used our encounter to try to convince my son that I haven’t aged much since I was an undergrad; that might have worked except that I didn’t remember Jeff, so my son pointed out that my memory could be better! Anyway, Jeff graduated from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and was the CFO of Sabre for 10 years until handing off those duties a few months ago. Jeff is now doing business development work for Sabre. He and his family live in Dallas. His wife, Sally Warren, originally from San Antonio, Texas, is a contemporary abstract artist and their daughter is a junior at Carleton.
I spoke with Renée Diao Graham, who lives in Connecticut with her husband and three sons. Their oldest graduated from Colgate, the next is a junior at Choate and their youngest is in eighth grade at Brunswick School. Renée’s husband works in banking and Renée has recently reinvented herself: She is working in admissions at a private school. The whole family loves summering on Block Island, Rhode Island. Last year Renée learned to skimboard; she sent me photos of herself jumping on a fiberglass board in the waves.
I heard from Polly Ingraham, who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Rob Hirschfeld ’83. She sees Mary Cleary Kiely and Steve Schreiber, who also live in the Amherst area. Polly is a high school English teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is also writing about being a clergy spouse. She and Rob have a son who is a high school senior, a daughter in 10th grade and a son in sixth grade.
Congratulations are in order! In October Karen Loeffler was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. attorney for Alaska. Loeffler, a longtime federal prosecutor, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983 and was admitted to the bar in Alaska in 1985. She served as an assistant attorney general and assistant district attorney for the state before joining the federal government in 1989.
I am so sorry to report that John D. West III, M.D., died on September 9 at his home in Maine. Our heart goes out to his wife, Stephanie, their sons Drew and Geoff and to the rest of John’s family.
Don’t forget to send news, especially if you haven’t done so in the past. If you don’t I may track down someone who knows you and ask for all kinds of information.
—Deborah Krieger Jennings, 34 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (973) 744-2582; djennings@mka.org