Class Note 1980
Issue
Jan - Feb 2016
As the year comes to a close we briefly look back to our 35th reunion this past June. By broad consensus it was our best reunion ever, although Rich Ackerboom casts a dissenting vote in favor of the fifth. Most of us have about five reunions left, but how much fun can the 60th be? Make your plans now for our 40th.
Do not wait for roommates and good friends to attend. Steve Brooks, Tom Chapin and Stuart Sarnoff,this admonition includes you. In fairness to Steve, when reunion rolled around he had only recently started a new job as CIO for ITT Industrial Process in Seneca Falls, New York. When not traveling around the world Steve enjoys the good life at home in Canandaigua, New York, enjoying his boat on the lake.
Do not worry about how you look for reunion. After I observed that everyone looked pretty good, Anne Daigneault MacEwan explained, “Yes, in previous reunions some people looked old, but now, we’ve all caught up.”
Do not worry that no one will know you. I heard with mixed emotions the exclamation, “You haven’t changed a bit.” In college did I look like an overweight man in his late 50s? John Coco helped me decode the declarant’s true meaning: “I recognize you. You still have your hair.”
John is an ophthalmologist in Rutland, Vermont, but he lives down the road apiece. Directions to his farm include “covered bridge” and “dirt road.” When I visited in September John had been clearing land to restore old meadows. He was excited to discover a glacial boulder previously hidden in the brush, because it might become a good “sittin’ rock.”
John reports that Jose Samson will be relocating his anesthesiology practice in the new year from Tucson, Arizona, to Rutland.
If you Google “A.B. Dartmouth College 1980,” Rob Ruocco is one the first hits. Rob is a general partner and portfolio manager with Carl Marks Management Co. in New York, where he has been since 1993.
Diana Dean pops up as a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her specialties include the anthropology of religion, magic and ritual.
Scrolling down the list, we learn that Kris Treu is a founding partner of the Cleveland law firm Moscarino & Treu. Kris’s practice areas include medical malpractice, professional liability and business litigation.
Kris’ fellow Aire, Dana Cetlin, is a lawyer at the firm of Cunningham, Machanic, Cetlin, Johnson, Harney & Tenney in Natick, Massachusetts. The receptionist there answers the phone, “We, the people.” Dana focuses on commercial and residential real estate.
Ed Smith is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Overland Park, Kansas. Also armed with an M.D. from Dartmouth, Ed teaches extremity anatomy, general pathology and the physiology lab.
More Google searches later. This column has a strict 500-word limit, fewer than when I last did this gig. We are still at the party, just closer to the exit. Best wishes for the holidays and 2016.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 242 River Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@gmail.com
Do not wait for roommates and good friends to attend. Steve Brooks, Tom Chapin and Stuart Sarnoff,this admonition includes you. In fairness to Steve, when reunion rolled around he had only recently started a new job as CIO for ITT Industrial Process in Seneca Falls, New York. When not traveling around the world Steve enjoys the good life at home in Canandaigua, New York, enjoying his boat on the lake.
Do not worry about how you look for reunion. After I observed that everyone looked pretty good, Anne Daigneault MacEwan explained, “Yes, in previous reunions some people looked old, but now, we’ve all caught up.”
Do not worry that no one will know you. I heard with mixed emotions the exclamation, “You haven’t changed a bit.” In college did I look like an overweight man in his late 50s? John Coco helped me decode the declarant’s true meaning: “I recognize you. You still have your hair.”
John is an ophthalmologist in Rutland, Vermont, but he lives down the road apiece. Directions to his farm include “covered bridge” and “dirt road.” When I visited in September John had been clearing land to restore old meadows. He was excited to discover a glacial boulder previously hidden in the brush, because it might become a good “sittin’ rock.”
John reports that Jose Samson will be relocating his anesthesiology practice in the new year from Tucson, Arizona, to Rutland.
If you Google “A.B. Dartmouth College 1980,” Rob Ruocco is one the first hits. Rob is a general partner and portfolio manager with Carl Marks Management Co. in New York, where he has been since 1993.
Diana Dean pops up as a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her specialties include the anthropology of religion, magic and ritual.
Scrolling down the list, we learn that Kris Treu is a founding partner of the Cleveland law firm Moscarino & Treu. Kris’s practice areas include medical malpractice, professional liability and business litigation.
Kris’ fellow Aire, Dana Cetlin, is a lawyer at the firm of Cunningham, Machanic, Cetlin, Johnson, Harney & Tenney in Natick, Massachusetts. The receptionist there answers the phone, “We, the people.” Dana focuses on commercial and residential real estate.
Ed Smith is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Overland Park, Kansas. Also armed with an M.D. from Dartmouth, Ed teaches extremity anatomy, general pathology and the physiology lab.
More Google searches later. This column has a strict 500-word limit, fewer than when I last did this gig. We are still at the party, just closer to the exit. Best wishes for the holidays and 2016.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 242 River Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@gmail.com