Class Note 1979
Issue
Sep - Oct 2018
Five years ago I posted a Class Notes column in which I wrote, “We have much to be proud of, particularly when it comes to service. Did you know, for example, that we have had more Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) mentors than any other class in Dartmouth history?” That statement has weathered well as our class’ “Partycipatory” legacy continues to grow across the four key pillars of a successful class—leadership, communication, community, and service. This summer, for example, ’79s represented almost half of the total number of DPCS mentors across the country. Thanks to Carol Kurtz Bates, Paul Krupka, Bill McGee, Josh Nossiter, Etta Pisano and Jan Kylstra, Kevin Rand, Ben Riley, Libby Roberts, and Stanley Weil for stepping up.
In other “doing well by doing good” news, congratulations go out to Gina Barreca, who received the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) highest faculty honor when she “was named the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature” in May and was also honored with “the 2018 UConn-AAUP (American Association of University Professors) Excellence in Research and Creativity Career Award”; Richard Conn on the publication of his controversial, thought-provoking new book titled The Earthbound Parent: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion, which you’ll find featured as one of the “Editor’s Picks” in this issue of DAM; head and neck cancer specialist Kevin Cullen, who for the last several years has served as director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and who was elected chair of the 2018 American Cancer Society board of directors; Jim Feuille, who will be taking his mad business skills and decades of experience in the equity capital markets to the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship in September as executive director; Bill Holmes, who received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Dartmouth’s 2018 Commencement ceremony for his altruism and his humanitarian efforts “on behalf of the neediest of patients in every corner of the globe, often at great personal risk”; Bruce Smoller, chairman of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine “for achievements in the areas of basic research, education, clinical care, health service administration, and public and civic duties”; Dave “Guy” Van Wie, who in 1984 had the good sense to marry Cheryl Bascomb ’82, Dartmouth’s recently appointed vice president for alumni relations in charge of worldwide alumni engagement efforts; and Cheryl, primarily for having had the good sense to marry a ’79, but also for her well-deserved appointment!
Hope you’re all ready for some football, tailgating, and parading at Homecoming October 26-27. We have it on good authority that head coach Buddy Teevens, his staff, and his squad will be ready to put a can of something on Harvard instead of on the ridiculously talented Mobile Virtual Player.
Finally, now is a good time to start preparing for our milestone 40th reunion June 17-21, 2020, so please be sure to mark your calendars and save the dates. You don’t want to miss this one, not with the likes of reunion chairs Dawn Hudson and Otho Kerr running the show!
—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
In other “doing well by doing good” news, congratulations go out to Gina Barreca, who received the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) highest faculty honor when she “was named the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature” in May and was also honored with “the 2018 UConn-AAUP (American Association of University Professors) Excellence in Research and Creativity Career Award”; Richard Conn on the publication of his controversial, thought-provoking new book titled The Earthbound Parent: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion, which you’ll find featured as one of the “Editor’s Picks” in this issue of DAM; head and neck cancer specialist Kevin Cullen, who for the last several years has served as director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and who was elected chair of the 2018 American Cancer Society board of directors; Jim Feuille, who will be taking his mad business skills and decades of experience in the equity capital markets to the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship in September as executive director; Bill Holmes, who received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Dartmouth’s 2018 Commencement ceremony for his altruism and his humanitarian efforts “on behalf of the neediest of patients in every corner of the globe, often at great personal risk”; Bruce Smoller, chairman of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine “for achievements in the areas of basic research, education, clinical care, health service administration, and public and civic duties”; Dave “Guy” Van Wie, who in 1984 had the good sense to marry Cheryl Bascomb ’82, Dartmouth’s recently appointed vice president for alumni relations in charge of worldwide alumni engagement efforts; and Cheryl, primarily for having had the good sense to marry a ’79, but also for her well-deserved appointment!
Hope you’re all ready for some football, tailgating, and parading at Homecoming October 26-27. We have it on good authority that head coach Buddy Teevens, his staff, and his squad will be ready to put a can of something on Harvard instead of on the ridiculously talented Mobile Virtual Player.
Finally, now is a good time to start preparing for our milestone 40th reunion June 17-21, 2020, so please be sure to mark your calendars and save the dates. You don’t want to miss this one, not with the likes of reunion chairs Dawn Hudson and Otho Kerr running the show!
—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