Class Note 1979

I can’t remember the last time I submitted news for a Dartmouth Alumni Magazine column, so I thought I’d open with a brief recap of my past year of changes. I lost my left hip last April, for starters, and it’s clear the right hip won’t be far behind judging by the all too familiar bone-on-bone pain I’m starting to feel again. On August 1 I ended four decades in media, trading them for a new start with a small Canadian technology company. In June my oldest, Zach, graduated from Union College and has begun a career in commercial real estate in Manhattan. My daughter Aubrey ’13 is thriving at the University of Michigan, and Jake ’15 is studying hard and playing Division 1 lacrosse for Dartmouth, which opened its season in a driving snowstorm at 19th-ranked Colgate February 25 and came away with a 9-6 upset!


One classmate who hasn’t forsaken media is my childhood friend Laurie Rosenfield. Laurie continues to supplement her full-time executive recruiting job with career coaching workshops. Look for Laurie every Friday morning doing a weekly career segment on New York’s WPIX/11 TV! You can also view her appearances on YouTube.


I grabbed lunch in January with my The Dartmouth sports editor Bob Gruendel. Bob lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife, Clare, and works in N.Y.C. as the global chair of the energy practice for legal behemoth DLA Piper. “My son Stephen is in the middle of his first year at Cornell Law School and my daughter Kerry is a senior at Princeton, where she captains the women’s swim team and was selected Academic All-Ivy. I stay in touch with Sam Seymour (white-collar litigation partner at Sullivan & Cromwell), Craig Enright (corporate bond trader at GE) and Richard Conn, who left a partnership at Latham & Watkins to run his own consulting firm.”


Thanks to my old summer sleep-away-campmate Dave Title for reconnecting after a long hiatus. “In July 2010 I uprooted my wife, four children and two poodles from Waterford to Fairfield, Connecticut, after I became the superintendent of schools for the Fairfield public schools, one of the largest suburban school systems in the state. In my spare time I was a Connecticut high school basketball official for 23 years.”


Kristy (Weinschreider) Rudel, wife of my high school pal Tony (Columbia ’79), is living in neighboring Chappaqua, New York. Kristy and Tony have two accomplished daughters, Rebecca (Tufts ’09) and Susannah (Amherst ’12). Kristy is the chief administration officer of a small “hedge-fund-of-funds” firm in Manhattan. Tony is a writer and college professor. They live down the street from fellow ’79 Chris Carstens. Kristy is “still in touch with my freshman roommate Carolynn Martin (who has been living in San Francisco for many years), Michelle Lavigne (financial advisor in Connecticut) and Linda Button, who runs a creative agency in Boston.”


Refresh, enjoy and travel on, mates.


—Stanley Weil, 14 Woodland Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com