How much do I love Louisa Guthrie, our dear friend and classmate? When I recently asked Louisa for a little news, back came 1,100 words, more than double my column limit! So let’s start with a brief teaser from her notes and ideally Mark Winkler can run the full text in his next awesome newsletter.


“I recently moved back to Chicago after having lived in Cleveland, Ohio, for about five years. One of the highlights of my time in Cleveland was getting to know Laurie (Laidlaw) Roulston, a Dartmouth acquaintance I am now fortunate to count as a great friend. Back in Chicago I’ve reconnected with Jon Peabody, manager of Midwest operations for the Cutler Group, LLC, a San Francisco-based derivatives trading firm. He and his wife, Lindsey, bought a second home in Orchid Bay, Belize. Jon says, ‘We are only going twice a year for a total of four weeks now, but the plan is to be working from there three months a year starting in 2015.’ Other buddies in and around Chicago I’ve enjoyed catching up with include Julie (Lange) Varga, Mark Rader, John Gilbertson, Terry Gould, Norm Richter, Liz (Deming) Dauten, George Stone, Nancy Wilder and Peter Greulich.”


I was happy to run into Peter “Big Fella” Roby in April. Peter writes: “I attended a roast for Gary Walters, who is retiring as Princeton University’s athletic director after 20 incredible years. Gary was our varsity basketball coach at Dartmouth and inspired me to be a coach and educator. Gary Dicovitsky ’72, my freshman coach, was present, along with former players Rich Hayes ’76, Bill Hooper ’77, Sterling Edmonds ’78, Keri Davis and David Broll ’80. Bill and I watched the men’s lacrosse team play Princeton that same weekend and had the pleasure of seeing your son [Jake Weil ’15] score four goals! Obviously takes after his mother. I stay in close touch with Tom “TBird” Bird and his wife, Tracey, who live in Concord, Massachusetts. I enjoyed hosting TBird, Dennis Hughes and Tom Garden ’78 at a hockey game here at Northeastern University this February. All are thriving.”


Lisa (Mendelson) Friel, who graced the cover of the July/August 2009 issue of the DAM, says: “I’ve been incredibly busy establishing my now not-so-new sexual misconduct consulting and private investigations business. Our client base is comprised of schools, businesses, lawyers and my favorite—sports teams and leagues. I had a great time with my children in February at the NBA All-Star Weekend, where I give an annual prevention talk for rookies. My oldest just got into law school at the University of Virginia; he’ll be joining his sister, who is an undergrad there. My middle child, James, graduates from Trinity College in May and will start a sales analyst training program at Bloomberg in June. One last bit of good news: I got Nancy Wilder to work with me part time. In addition to the great experience Nancy brings to our work, she keeps us all laughing!”


—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com