Class Note 1979
Issue
A very heartfelt congratulations to Peggy Epstein Tanner, who was elected to the board of trustees in June. As you can read on the College’s website, Peggy lives with her husband, David, in New York City. Her older sister and their father are Dartmouth alums, and one of Peggy’s three sons, Eric ’11, was elected president of Dartmouth’s Student Assembly for 2010-11. Peggy was honored as an inaugural recipient of the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award, and with an Alumni Award “for extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment.” She has served as chair of the Tucker Foundation’s board of visitors and as a member of the Alumni Council and the President’s Leadership Council. She served two terms as our class head agent and was reunion giving co-chair for our 25th and 30th reunions. Peggy was also inducted into Dartmouth’s Stephen F. Mandel Sr. ’52 Society.
Speaking of Peggy, I reconnected with Joe Nastri at a ’79 mini-reunion in New York City held at Peggy and David’s beautiful apartment. Joe and his wife—an Italian national whom he married in Italy—have lived in Manhattan for about 15 years. Joe was at Bank of America and now works in commercial banking at JP Morgan running a team that specializes in apparel. Joe is still in touch with Jeff Hickey (they played golf together recently), John Gogolak (who lives in Arizona and has three daughters) and Jimmy Eden (who is a commercial pilot for Delta Airlines).
Cindy Marder Calder lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Jon, Tu’83. They have four sons: Tim ’10 earned a Princeton in Asia fellowship and is going to teach history in Singapore, where he plans to see Missy Pemberton; Billy ’12 is currently doing his sophomore summer; and two children are in high school. Cindy worked in banking, then owned a translation company for 20 years. Two years ago she began taking classes in Greek and Latin at Columbia and has earned a post-bac degree. She is going to be teaching Latin part-time at a high school this fall and is planning on earning her master’s.
Kathy Peden Blaisdell is the director of student financial services at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she loves being part of the college community. Since financing a college education gets more challenging every year, she has a lot of work to do. Her husband, Ted ’80, teaches middle school science; the highlight of the school year for his eighth-graders is the cardboard boat races in the pool on the last day of school. Kathy and Ted both continue to be involved in Valley Light Opera in the Pioneer Valley area but they take turns being in the shows; he was in Pirates of Penzance last year and she is in Iolanthe this year. Church involvement and keeping up with their teenagers takes up the rest of their time. Kathy and Ted have two daughters, Emma, 15, and Phoebe, 13.
—Deborah Krieger Jennings, 34 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (973) 744-2582; djennings@mka.org
Sept - Oct 2010
A very heartfelt congratulations to Peggy Epstein Tanner, who was elected to the board of trustees in June. As you can read on the College’s website, Peggy lives with her husband, David, in New York City. Her older sister and their father are Dartmouth alums, and one of Peggy’s three sons, Eric ’11, was elected president of Dartmouth’s Student Assembly for 2010-11. Peggy was honored as an inaugural recipient of the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award, and with an Alumni Award “for extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment.” She has served as chair of the Tucker Foundation’s board of visitors and as a member of the Alumni Council and the President’s Leadership Council. She served two terms as our class head agent and was reunion giving co-chair for our 25th and 30th reunions. Peggy was also inducted into Dartmouth’s Stephen F. Mandel Sr. ’52 Society.
Speaking of Peggy, I reconnected with Joe Nastri at a ’79 mini-reunion in New York City held at Peggy and David’s beautiful apartment. Joe and his wife—an Italian national whom he married in Italy—have lived in Manhattan for about 15 years. Joe was at Bank of America and now works in commercial banking at JP Morgan running a team that specializes in apparel. Joe is still in touch with Jeff Hickey (they played golf together recently), John Gogolak (who lives in Arizona and has three daughters) and Jimmy Eden (who is a commercial pilot for Delta Airlines).
Cindy Marder Calder lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Jon, Tu’83. They have four sons: Tim ’10 earned a Princeton in Asia fellowship and is going to teach history in Singapore, where he plans to see Missy Pemberton; Billy ’12 is currently doing his sophomore summer; and two children are in high school. Cindy worked in banking, then owned a translation company for 20 years. Two years ago she began taking classes in Greek and Latin at Columbia and has earned a post-bac degree. She is going to be teaching Latin part-time at a high school this fall and is planning on earning her master’s.
Kathy Peden Blaisdell is the director of student financial services at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she loves being part of the college community. Since financing a college education gets more challenging every year, she has a lot of work to do. Her husband, Ted ’80, teaches middle school science; the highlight of the school year for his eighth-graders is the cardboard boat races in the pool on the last day of school. Kathy and Ted both continue to be involved in Valley Light Opera in the Pioneer Valley area but they take turns being in the shows; he was in Pirates of Penzance last year and she is in Iolanthe this year. Church involvement and keeping up with their teenagers takes up the rest of their time. Kathy and Ted have two daughters, Emma, 15, and Phoebe, 13.
—Deborah Krieger Jennings, 34 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (973) 744-2582; djennings@mka.org