Class Note 1980
Issue
November-December 2022
Thank you, everyone, for writing! Tom Bartlett recently published Sailing from Plymouth, a book of short stories which “present a range of characters and experiences from the past, present, and future that capture either the fair seas or stormy conditions of human existence.” The book is available on eBay UK and all proceeds will benefit the life-changing work of Advantage Africa in Kenya and Uganda.
Meanwhile, Big Table Publishing published my second book of short stories, You’ll Never See It Coming, which, like its predecessor, Toxic Cookout, finds humor in everyday paranoia. Both are available on Amazon and from the Big Table Publishing website.
Ben Zuraw writes: “Peter Boone and I had the priviledge of attending the annual awards dinner this spring of Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education (SCOPE), a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to send deserving children to camp. There Dan Zenkel was awarded SCOPE’s youth advocate award. Dan has been a long-time board member of SCOPE as well as its board president. Dan and Michele hosted Peter and me for a fun dinner at their home the next evening.”
In July Dr. John A. Rich assumed the position of inaugural director of the Rush University System for Health Bank of Montreal (RUSH BMO) Institute for Health Equity. The institute was launched last year to help coordinate health-equity efforts across RUSH and its diverse communities and recognized the need for a full-time director who shares its vision and values. After graduating from Dartmouth John earned a medical degree from Duke University Medical School and a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. While at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), he was troubled by the way that trauma, poverty, and the lack of access to healthcare constantly affected the health of Black and Latino men. There he launched a young men’s health clinic and created a community health worker training initiative in which young men from the community were taught skills alongside primary providers. He received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. His book Wrong Place, Wrong Time; Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009.
In May Chris Browne was named director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, where he has served as acting director since January 2021. While majoring in history and Native American studies at Dartmouth, he learned aviation through the Flying Club. After Dartmouth he went on to graduate from the U.S. Navy’s “Top Gun” fighter weapons school.
I’m eagerly following Wade Herring’s congressional bid in Georgia. “I am grateful for the encouragement, support, and financial generosity of the great class of 1980,” he writes. “I am confident that my decision to run was the right thing to do. Despite all of our nation’s problems and divisions, I remain hopeful about America and the promises that she has to keep.”
—Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net; 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
Meanwhile, Big Table Publishing published my second book of short stories, You’ll Never See It Coming, which, like its predecessor, Toxic Cookout, finds humor in everyday paranoia. Both are available on Amazon and from the Big Table Publishing website.
Ben Zuraw writes: “Peter Boone and I had the priviledge of attending the annual awards dinner this spring of Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education (SCOPE), a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to send deserving children to camp. There Dan Zenkel was awarded SCOPE’s youth advocate award. Dan has been a long-time board member of SCOPE as well as its board president. Dan and Michele hosted Peter and me for a fun dinner at their home the next evening.”
In July Dr. John A. Rich assumed the position of inaugural director of the Rush University System for Health Bank of Montreal (RUSH BMO) Institute for Health Equity. The institute was launched last year to help coordinate health-equity efforts across RUSH and its diverse communities and recognized the need for a full-time director who shares its vision and values. After graduating from Dartmouth John earned a medical degree from Duke University Medical School and a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. While at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), he was troubled by the way that trauma, poverty, and the lack of access to healthcare constantly affected the health of Black and Latino men. There he launched a young men’s health clinic and created a community health worker training initiative in which young men from the community were taught skills alongside primary providers. He received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. His book Wrong Place, Wrong Time; Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009.
In May Chris Browne was named director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, where he has served as acting director since January 2021. While majoring in history and Native American studies at Dartmouth, he learned aviation through the Flying Club. After Dartmouth he went on to graduate from the U.S. Navy’s “Top Gun” fighter weapons school.
I’m eagerly following Wade Herring’s congressional bid in Georgia. “I am grateful for the encouragement, support, and financial generosity of the great class of 1980,” he writes. “I am confident that my decision to run was the right thing to do. Despite all of our nation’s problems and divisions, I remain hopeful about America and the promises that she has to keep.”
—Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net; 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