Class Note 1979
Issue
January-February 2022
Kerry Hershel shared in the fall 2021, “After 30 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I am retiring; ‘re-launching’ would be a better term! It was a fun run, but I am ready to add new, fulfilling activities in my life. I plan on doing lots of hiking and reading, so if you have any favorite hikes or books, I’d love to hear about them or even do them with you! My new contact information is kerry.herschel@gmail.com.”
Mark Snyderman retired in the summer of 2021 after a 27-year career at Fidelity that he “truly enjoyed.” Mark wrote, “I love investing, and Fidelity gave me a chance to pursue that with ample resources and freedom.” He was warned not to overcommit in the first year of retirement. “I have grandchildren and many outdoor pursuits, so it shouldn’t be too hard to stay busy.”
After graduation Carol Gieg earned graduate degrees in social welfare and public health from UC Berkeley. She authored TBI, Surviving and Thriving After a Brain Injury, a well-researched memoir outlining her own struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury and offering tips for managing brain injury and other brain-compromising illnesses. Her poetry and prose have appeared in journals and anthologies and have been featured on her local radio station. She shared, “I have found myself migrating toward certain topics, batched into individual series. For example, I have a cache of them about homelessness (a population with which I have had a significant amount of contact), dementia (my husband has a rapidly progressing form), love and friendship and others.” Ask her about them at carolgieg7@gmail.com. Now retired after 35 years as a social worker and psychotherapist, including returning to work for 10 years just three months after having had brain surgery, Carol lives in Benicia, California, where she takes care of her husband, Luis.
Carolyn Greene wrote, “Except for my Sophomore Summer in Lord Hall, I spent all four years in Brown Hall in the Choates. A great group of people lived in that dormitory, and I still maintain contact with many of them. Right after leaving Dartmouth, I went on to UC Berkeley School of Public Health, where I obtained my M.P.H. in epidemiology. Following that I married David Hathaway ’78 and we moved to Vermont, where we have remained. After many years in state government, I retired and now do quite a bit of volunteer work.” A fun Dartmouth ’79 fact about Carolyn is that she shares her birthday with seven other classmates.
Not all of us have retired. Dave Reed, who practices business law in Syracuse, New York, had a chance encounter with classmate Tom Givas at a real estate closing. They “had no recollection of each other from Hanover but were able to discuss a few shared memories.” A fun fact about Dave is that his 18th birthday in 1975 marked the first day of classes during our freshman year!
Share your fun ’79 facts.
—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com
Mark Snyderman retired in the summer of 2021 after a 27-year career at Fidelity that he “truly enjoyed.” Mark wrote, “I love investing, and Fidelity gave me a chance to pursue that with ample resources and freedom.” He was warned not to overcommit in the first year of retirement. “I have grandchildren and many outdoor pursuits, so it shouldn’t be too hard to stay busy.”
After graduation Carol Gieg earned graduate degrees in social welfare and public health from UC Berkeley. She authored TBI, Surviving and Thriving After a Brain Injury, a well-researched memoir outlining her own struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury and offering tips for managing brain injury and other brain-compromising illnesses. Her poetry and prose have appeared in journals and anthologies and have been featured on her local radio station. She shared, “I have found myself migrating toward certain topics, batched into individual series. For example, I have a cache of them about homelessness (a population with which I have had a significant amount of contact), dementia (my husband has a rapidly progressing form), love and friendship and others.” Ask her about them at carolgieg7@gmail.com. Now retired after 35 years as a social worker and psychotherapist, including returning to work for 10 years just three months after having had brain surgery, Carol lives in Benicia, California, where she takes care of her husband, Luis.
Carolyn Greene wrote, “Except for my Sophomore Summer in Lord Hall, I spent all four years in Brown Hall in the Choates. A great group of people lived in that dormitory, and I still maintain contact with many of them. Right after leaving Dartmouth, I went on to UC Berkeley School of Public Health, where I obtained my M.P.H. in epidemiology. Following that I married David Hathaway ’78 and we moved to Vermont, where we have remained. After many years in state government, I retired and now do quite a bit of volunteer work.” A fun Dartmouth ’79 fact about Carolyn is that she shares her birthday with seven other classmates.
Not all of us have retired. Dave Reed, who practices business law in Syracuse, New York, had a chance encounter with classmate Tom Givas at a real estate closing. They “had no recollection of each other from Hanover but were able to discuss a few shared memories.” A fun fact about Dave is that his 18th birthday in 1975 marked the first day of classes during our freshman year!
Share your fun ’79 facts.
—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com