Class Note 1980
Issue
We have lived charmed lives partly because we were born at the right time. Indeed, our timing has been near-perfect. Had we been born just a few years earlier or later our lives might be considerably different. Whenever new privileges were handed out to young people we were at the front of the line. For example, many of us dodged bullets—figuratively and quite possibly literally—in 1973 when Congress ended the draft just a few years before our eligibility. When a draft registration requirement returned in 1980 it only applied to young men born in 1960 or later; we somehow slipped under the wire. We also benefited from a timely change in the voting laws. In 1976 we were among the first group of 18-year-olds to vote in a presidential election, when a slight majority of Dartmouth students confounded the sensibilities of our contemporaries by backing incumbent Gerald Ford. Such reckless, Republican-leaning youth we were! And we must be grateful for the trust bestowed in us by the State of New Hampshire, which lowered its legal drinking age to 18 from 21 shortly before we arrived in Hanover before jacking it up to 19 when we were 20-year-old juniors and to 21 after we were long gone.
The stars are scheduled to align for us again this spring when we celebrate our 30th reunion, fittingly in the year 2010. Some of us will fight to get our bodies into shape before reunion but not Mitch Cohen, whose metabolism may still be close to what it was during his days as a cross-country runner. Inspired by a visit from John Quackenbush when John rode his bicycle down the West Coast more than 20 years ago, Mitch likes to take his bike out for scenic trips between his home in Berkeley, California, and faraway destinations such as Seattle and San Diego. He has already signed up for this year’s California Climate Ride, a five-day trip that will end with a climate rally at the governor’s office in Sacramento. At reunion Mitch is interested in leading a 45-mile ride from Hanover to Moosilauke on Thursday morning. Don’t worry: You can stay up on Wednesday night until sunrise and still do this ride.
Mitch shared a recent article from The New York Times about bone-loss treatment that included a quote from our own Nananda Col and identified her as the director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Maine Medical Center in Portland, which by Yankee reckoning is down and east from Nananda’s previous home in central Massachusetts.
If practice makes perfect, then Marshal Grant should have an outstanding time at our upcoming reunion. Last June Marshal crashed the ’79 30th reunion, which by all accounts was pretty good for a ’79 event but not quite up to ’80 standards. When not attending reunions Marshal still does estate and asset protection planning at Burns & Levinson in Boston. He remains in close contact with Tampa Bay, Florida, area resident Jim Novo and Twin Cities resident Evan Petty. When it’s time for a late-night game of Wales Tails at reunion look no further than these three.
After several years on the West Coast with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, most recently in San Francisco focused on corporate and venture services for their high-tech business, Guy Dietrich has moved to New York to head the private wealth management practice for UBS. It will be fun to see Guy face-to-face at reunion: With so many common personal and professional acquaintances it’s amazing that our paths don’t cross more often.
—Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Paul Elmlinger, 1111 Park Ave., #2A, New York, NY 10128; pelmlin@frk.com
Mar - Apr 2010
We have lived charmed lives partly because we were born at the right time. Indeed, our timing has been near-perfect. Had we been born just a few years earlier or later our lives might be considerably different. Whenever new privileges were handed out to young people we were at the front of the line. For example, many of us dodged bullets—figuratively and quite possibly literally—in 1973 when Congress ended the draft just a few years before our eligibility. When a draft registration requirement returned in 1980 it only applied to young men born in 1960 or later; we somehow slipped under the wire. We also benefited from a timely change in the voting laws. In 1976 we were among the first group of 18-year-olds to vote in a presidential election, when a slight majority of Dartmouth students confounded the sensibilities of our contemporaries by backing incumbent Gerald Ford. Such reckless, Republican-leaning youth we were! And we must be grateful for the trust bestowed in us by the State of New Hampshire, which lowered its legal drinking age to 18 from 21 shortly before we arrived in Hanover before jacking it up to 19 when we were 20-year-old juniors and to 21 after we were long gone.
The stars are scheduled to align for us again this spring when we celebrate our 30th reunion, fittingly in the year 2010. Some of us will fight to get our bodies into shape before reunion but not Mitch Cohen, whose metabolism may still be close to what it was during his days as a cross-country runner. Inspired by a visit from John Quackenbush when John rode his bicycle down the West Coast more than 20 years ago, Mitch likes to take his bike out for scenic trips between his home in Berkeley, California, and faraway destinations such as Seattle and San Diego. He has already signed up for this year’s California Climate Ride, a five-day trip that will end with a climate rally at the governor’s office in Sacramento. At reunion Mitch is interested in leading a 45-mile ride from Hanover to Moosilauke on Thursday morning. Don’t worry: You can stay up on Wednesday night until sunrise and still do this ride.
Mitch shared a recent article from The New York Times about bone-loss treatment that included a quote from our own Nananda Col and identified her as the director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Maine Medical Center in Portland, which by Yankee reckoning is down and east from Nananda’s previous home in central Massachusetts.
If practice makes perfect, then Marshal Grant should have an outstanding time at our upcoming reunion. Last June Marshal crashed the ’79 30th reunion, which by all accounts was pretty good for a ’79 event but not quite up to ’80 standards. When not attending reunions Marshal still does estate and asset protection planning at Burns & Levinson in Boston. He remains in close contact with Tampa Bay, Florida, area resident Jim Novo and Twin Cities resident Evan Petty. When it’s time for a late-night game of Wales Tails at reunion look no further than these three.
After several years on the West Coast with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, most recently in San Francisco focused on corporate and venture services for their high-tech business, Guy Dietrich has moved to New York to head the private wealth management practice for UBS. It will be fun to see Guy face-to-face at reunion: With so many common personal and professional acquaintances it’s amazing that our paths don’t cross more often.
—Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Paul Elmlinger, 1111 Park Ave., #2A, New York, NY 10128; pelmlin@frk.com