Class Note 1979
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
So much news, so little space; so let’s waste no time seeing how much we can squeeze into 500 words.
John Currier received a nice email from Gina (Inguaggiato) Maguire, who says: “It was great to see you and Barb in Hanover last year while visiting campus with my daughter, Meghan. It was also wonderful to see John Collier ’72, Th’75, Th’77. John gave us the royal professorial tour of Thayer, where things sure have changed since our days in the gone-but-not-forgotten ‘barn.’ Thayer is now approximately 50 percent women, a far cry from when Anne (Carlson) Rourke and I were the first two female Dartmouth undergraduates to graduate from the five-year B.E. program! Work has been fantastic since I transitioned from engineering to healthcare 11 years ago. I’m an R.N. on an inpatient oncology unit where I enjoy mentoring the newer nurses and caring for our very ill patients. I’m also back in school getting my master’s in nursing education.”
“After 25 years in medicine,” writes Lincoln Cleveland, “I retired and joined the local volunteer ambulance squad to stay busy. One dark and stormy night I was driving an old lady to the hospital with her slacker, slightly inebriated son riding shotgun. We were coming down a hill when suddenly a tree fell across the road, boom! I jammed on the brakes and screeched to a stop just two feet shy of a harsh impact or worse. In what was arguably the highlight of my medical career, the son turned to me and said, ‘Dude, you are the Jedi ambulance driver!’ ”
Rick Katz reports: “A great Bones Gate showing materialized at the Dartmouth-Harvard football game in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last October, including Steve Franklin, Terry Gould, Joe Henley, Mark Alperin ’80, and Rob Ruocco ’80. We have certainly matured since the days of throwing green paint on the John Harvard statue. I even spotted some alums drinking wine from proper wine glasses. My graduation gift for my kids was a trip to Greece, which I last visited during my foreign study program in 1978. The most notable moment was giving them a tour of the Acropolis to demonstrate the enduring value of my classical archaeology major. Give a rouse for the College on the Hill and all the gifts she bestowed, especially each other.”
That’s the perfect segue into a multi-generational Big Green celebration that occurred last September when Rob Henley ’09—son of Joe and Kim (Donovan) Henley and grandson of Dave Donovan ’53—married Sarah Freihofer ’10—daughter of Penny Breed and Dan Freihofer ’80 and granddaughter of Bill Breed ’52. Among the guests to witness what we think was the first-ever merger of children of Dartmouth classmates were Eve Pratt Hoar and husband Sam ’77, and Bill and Debbie Mitchell. It should come as no surprise that Billy stormed the stage when the band launched into “Rosalita.” What is surprising is that he willingly shared lead vocals with the father of the groom and the mother of the bride!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu
John Currier received a nice email from Gina (Inguaggiato) Maguire, who says: “It was great to see you and Barb in Hanover last year while visiting campus with my daughter, Meghan. It was also wonderful to see John Collier ’72, Th’75, Th’77. John gave us the royal professorial tour of Thayer, where things sure have changed since our days in the gone-but-not-forgotten ‘barn.’ Thayer is now approximately 50 percent women, a far cry from when Anne (Carlson) Rourke and I were the first two female Dartmouth undergraduates to graduate from the five-year B.E. program! Work has been fantastic since I transitioned from engineering to healthcare 11 years ago. I’m an R.N. on an inpatient oncology unit where I enjoy mentoring the newer nurses and caring for our very ill patients. I’m also back in school getting my master’s in nursing education.”
“After 25 years in medicine,” writes Lincoln Cleveland, “I retired and joined the local volunteer ambulance squad to stay busy. One dark and stormy night I was driving an old lady to the hospital with her slacker, slightly inebriated son riding shotgun. We were coming down a hill when suddenly a tree fell across the road, boom! I jammed on the brakes and screeched to a stop just two feet shy of a harsh impact or worse. In what was arguably the highlight of my medical career, the son turned to me and said, ‘Dude, you are the Jedi ambulance driver!’ ”
Rick Katz reports: “A great Bones Gate showing materialized at the Dartmouth-Harvard football game in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last October, including Steve Franklin, Terry Gould, Joe Henley, Mark Alperin ’80, and Rob Ruocco ’80. We have certainly matured since the days of throwing green paint on the John Harvard statue. I even spotted some alums drinking wine from proper wine glasses. My graduation gift for my kids was a trip to Greece, which I last visited during my foreign study program in 1978. The most notable moment was giving them a tour of the Acropolis to demonstrate the enduring value of my classical archaeology major. Give a rouse for the College on the Hill and all the gifts she bestowed, especially each other.”
That’s the perfect segue into a multi-generational Big Green celebration that occurred last September when Rob Henley ’09—son of Joe and Kim (Donovan) Henley and grandson of Dave Donovan ’53—married Sarah Freihofer ’10—daughter of Penny Breed and Dan Freihofer ’80 and granddaughter of Bill Breed ’52. Among the guests to witness what we think was the first-ever merger of children of Dartmouth classmates were Eve Pratt Hoar and husband Sam ’77, and Bill and Debbie Mitchell. It should come as no surprise that Billy stormed the stage when the band launched into “Rosalita.” What is surprising is that he willingly shared lead vocals with the father of the groom and the mother of the bride!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu