Class Note 1980
Issue
May-June 2023
I found the Covid-related travel restrictions daunting and wound up aborting several international trips. Since many of these restrictions have been eased, I’ve been ready to travel again, as have many of our classmates. In October Gretchen Kruysman traveled to Tuscany with Carol (Krensky) Huston, Ellen (Remsen) Webb, Karen Calby ’81, Annabelle Canning ’81, Jenny McCAuliffe ’81, and Colleen Barlett ’79. “It was non-stop laughter!” Gretchen reports. “On a day trip to Pienza another American group overheard us laughing about Dartmouth field hockey and told us their daughter had played at Dartmouth as well!”
Four Way Books published Victoria Redel’s latest collection of poems, Paradise, in February 2022. According to the book’s promotional copy, Victoria explores the idea of paradise within the historical context of borders, exile, and diaspora that brought us to the present global migration crisis. “Drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge, the poems interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and imagined. They ask: What if what we fell from was never, actually, grace? What is a boundary really? Redel navigates geopolitical perimeters while also questioning the border between living and dead and delineating the migrations aging women make in their bodies and lives. With stark lyricism and unflinching attention, Paradise considers how a legacy of trauma shapes imagination and asks readers to see the threads that tie contemporary catastrophes to the exigencies and flight paths that made us.”
Paul Susca, who retired in August 2022 from the N.H. Department of Environmental Services (DES), was the recipient of a 2022 Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the EPA, “Paul’s three-decade career left an indelible mark on state efforts to protect drinking water resources.” He was the founding architect of the Salmon Falls Collaborative, an interstate partnership, nationally recognized in 2012 by the Clean Water America Alliance, organized to protect the Salmon Falls River watershed. Throughout his career, Paul led a series of public health-related initiatives, including adoption of a lower standard for arsenic levels in drinking water. Paul solicited the expert opinions from EPA and DES health-risk assessors and contracted health economists to monetize the costs, and these findings were pivotal to cutting the arsenic standard in half.”
On August 6, 2022, Ed Rowland became the 1,156th person to complete the “Eastern 115”—the 115 peaks in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine greater than 4,000 feet in elevation. Following our 25th reunion in 2005, he organized one long weekend climbing trip every summer joined by, among others, Rick Bagley, Ted and Lynne, Tu’75, Stone, Rick Routhier ’73, Tu’76, and his wife, Sarah Kahn. “The adventures were many and the joy wasn’t so much in completing the list but the journey.” (Bravo! I estimate that I myself have another 111 peaks to go. I have some serious catching up to do!)
—Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Meg Coughlin LePage,8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com
Four Way Books published Victoria Redel’s latest collection of poems, Paradise, in February 2022. According to the book’s promotional copy, Victoria explores the idea of paradise within the historical context of borders, exile, and diaspora that brought us to the present global migration crisis. “Drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge, the poems interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and imagined. They ask: What if what we fell from was never, actually, grace? What is a boundary really? Redel navigates geopolitical perimeters while also questioning the border between living and dead and delineating the migrations aging women make in their bodies and lives. With stark lyricism and unflinching attention, Paradise considers how a legacy of trauma shapes imagination and asks readers to see the threads that tie contemporary catastrophes to the exigencies and flight paths that made us.”
Paul Susca, who retired in August 2022 from the N.H. Department of Environmental Services (DES), was the recipient of a 2022 Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the EPA, “Paul’s three-decade career left an indelible mark on state efforts to protect drinking water resources.” He was the founding architect of the Salmon Falls Collaborative, an interstate partnership, nationally recognized in 2012 by the Clean Water America Alliance, organized to protect the Salmon Falls River watershed. Throughout his career, Paul led a series of public health-related initiatives, including adoption of a lower standard for arsenic levels in drinking water. Paul solicited the expert opinions from EPA and DES health-risk assessors and contracted health economists to monetize the costs, and these findings were pivotal to cutting the arsenic standard in half.”
On August 6, 2022, Ed Rowland became the 1,156th person to complete the “Eastern 115”—the 115 peaks in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine greater than 4,000 feet in elevation. Following our 25th reunion in 2005, he organized one long weekend climbing trip every summer joined by, among others, Rick Bagley, Ted and Lynne, Tu’75, Stone, Rick Routhier ’73, Tu’76, and his wife, Sarah Kahn. “The adventures were many and the joy wasn’t so much in completing the list but the journey.” (Bravo! I estimate that I myself have another 111 peaks to go. I have some serious catching up to do!)
—Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@earthlink.net; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Meg Coughlin LePage,8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@pierceatwood.com