Class Note 1980
Issue
November-December 2020
The award-winning class of 1980 continues its proud tradition of achievement giving to the college. In case you missed the ad in a prior DAM edition, for our 40th reunion fundraising, our class received both the Class of 1938 Award for the highest reunion dollar total ($4,379,783) and the Class of 1964 Award for the greatest number of reunion 1769 Society members (94). Congratulations to all who gave so generously, to head agent Merle Adelman, co-presidents Mark Alperin and Susan Fagerstrom, and to new agents Grant Bogle, Kevin Boyle, and Harry Shulman,with an important assist from veteran Bill Helman!
Speaking of Grant Bogle, he left his job as head of commercial for a Boston-based biotech company called Tesaro in mid-2019, several months after it was sold to another company. Without skipping a beat, he and his wife, Karen, went back to school full-time at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. Grant is learning how to use his corporate savvy to make an impact for the greater good. That is a bold and noble encore career.
Speaking of encore careers, Bob Henderson recently hung up his cap and gown after 17 years of “transformational leadership” as head of Nobles and Greenough School. For his encore career Bob joined the independent consulting firm of Resource Group 175 and is helping schools find great heads like him. Speaking of great heads, Marc Lewis is also in the headhunting business, focusing on placing C-level executives and board members worldwide. Like all of us, Marc’s social life has slumped a bit during the pandemic. The low point came when his daughter, Sarah, had to postpone her much-anticipated wedding this summer. Marc is looking forward to more fun in the future, including our reunion and the Dartmouth alumni holiday party at Richards of Greenwich, Connecticut, which he touts as a not-to-be-missed event. Speaking of Greenwich, Dan Fitzpatrick sat down for an interview recently with the Greenwich Sentinel to explain his transformation from corporate lawyer to wealth advisor to a writer of “common-sense culture commentary.” Channeling Peggy Noonan and C.S. Lewis, Dan tries to be “thoughtful and thought-provoking without being mean, rude, partisan, or offensive.” That’s a novel approach these days. Asked if he would ever write a book, Dan quipped, “Every person of Irish descent believes that they have the ‘gift of gab’ and a solemn duty to share that gift with the world, whether the world wants it or not.” Maybe Dan’s book will be available for sale at our rescheduled reunion next year.
Speaking of sitting, Bill Goodspeed has created an encore career sitting on boards—seven of them at last count. Who would have known you could get paid for just sitting?
I am new at this, and I need material. For the next issue tell me about your encore careers or at least your plans for post-retirement adventures. I haven’t figured it out and need inspiration.
—Meg Coughlin LePage, 8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring,P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; dinsmo@earthlink.net
Speaking of Grant Bogle, he left his job as head of commercial for a Boston-based biotech company called Tesaro in mid-2019, several months after it was sold to another company. Without skipping a beat, he and his wife, Karen, went back to school full-time at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. Grant is learning how to use his corporate savvy to make an impact for the greater good. That is a bold and noble encore career.
Speaking of encore careers, Bob Henderson recently hung up his cap and gown after 17 years of “transformational leadership” as head of Nobles and Greenough School. For his encore career Bob joined the independent consulting firm of Resource Group 175 and is helping schools find great heads like him. Speaking of great heads, Marc Lewis is also in the headhunting business, focusing on placing C-level executives and board members worldwide. Like all of us, Marc’s social life has slumped a bit during the pandemic. The low point came when his daughter, Sarah, had to postpone her much-anticipated wedding this summer. Marc is looking forward to more fun in the future, including our reunion and the Dartmouth alumni holiday party at Richards of Greenwich, Connecticut, which he touts as a not-to-be-missed event. Speaking of Greenwich, Dan Fitzpatrick sat down for an interview recently with the Greenwich Sentinel to explain his transformation from corporate lawyer to wealth advisor to a writer of “common-sense culture commentary.” Channeling Peggy Noonan and C.S. Lewis, Dan tries to be “thoughtful and thought-provoking without being mean, rude, partisan, or offensive.” That’s a novel approach these days. Asked if he would ever write a book, Dan quipped, “Every person of Irish descent believes that they have the ‘gift of gab’ and a solemn duty to share that gift with the world, whether the world wants it or not.” Maybe Dan’s book will be available for sale at our rescheduled reunion next year.
Speaking of sitting, Bill Goodspeed has created an encore career sitting on boards—seven of them at last count. Who would have known you could get paid for just sitting?
I am new at this, and I need material. For the next issue tell me about your encore careers or at least your plans for post-retirement adventures. I haven’t figured it out and need inspiration.
—Meg Coughlin LePage, 8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring,P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; dinsmo@earthlink.net