Class Note 1980
Issue
September-October 2024
We have two upcoming opportunities to reconnect face-to-face. Homecoming is this November 1-2. Our 45th reunion will be June 19-22, 2025. The classes of 1979 and 1981 will be on campus at the same time.
College reunions can create feelings of insecurity. For those anxious classmates concerned about looking too old, Bill Goodspeed’sphoto-filled newsletter covering the mini-reunion this past February in Park City, Utah, should have provided readers with a healthy boost of self-confidence. If you have suggestions for the reunion or would like to help put it together, please reach out to Frank Vecella or Carla Sloan.
Classmates have engaged for the second round of 80Connect. Mary Ann McGarry reported, “The experience offered so much more than I expected, and I feel so much richer in so many ways for having participated. I shouldn’t have been surprised that my Dartmouth classmates, none of whom I really knew beforehand, would create such a close, supportive connection.”
Susan Ackerman has retired. A professor in the College’s religion department since 1990, Susan has been a specialist in the religion of ancient Israel and its neighbors, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan. On Susan’s last day of class the Dartmouth College Marching Band arrived to give her a sendoff. Susan will remain in Hanover and resume work on several book projects in progress. The book she is hoping to publish next is titled Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mortality: Women’s Life Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel.
In early 2014 a group of dedicated alumnae set an ambitious goal to recruit 100 Dartmouth women to make gifts of $100,000 or more to honor the 100th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Fund. In less than three months, 114 women joined the Centennial Circle and raised almost $15 million to support current female students through financial aid, demonstrating the strength of community and commitment shared by the women of Dartmouth. Today, the Centennial Circle has more than 300 members and has raised $78 million in support of financial aid through the Dartmouth College Fund, equivalent to 1,500 full-tuition scholarships. In addition, the Centennial Circle members have given $311 million in support of areas across Dartmouth. Classmates Denise Dupre, Beth Cogan Fascitelli, Marjorie Schectner Gart, Barbara Martin, Anne Craige McNay, Trina Olin Santry, and Paula Ness Speers are all Centennial Circle members.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Kal Alston, 948 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210; alstonkal@gmail.com
College reunions can create feelings of insecurity. For those anxious classmates concerned about looking too old, Bill Goodspeed’sphoto-filled newsletter covering the mini-reunion this past February in Park City, Utah, should have provided readers with a healthy boost of self-confidence. If you have suggestions for the reunion or would like to help put it together, please reach out to Frank Vecella or Carla Sloan.
Classmates have engaged for the second round of 80Connect. Mary Ann McGarry reported, “The experience offered so much more than I expected, and I feel so much richer in so many ways for having participated. I shouldn’t have been surprised that my Dartmouth classmates, none of whom I really knew beforehand, would create such a close, supportive connection.”
Susan Ackerman has retired. A professor in the College’s religion department since 1990, Susan has been a specialist in the religion of ancient Israel and its neighbors, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan. On Susan’s last day of class the Dartmouth College Marching Band arrived to give her a sendoff. Susan will remain in Hanover and resume work on several book projects in progress. The book she is hoping to publish next is titled Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mortality: Women’s Life Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel.
In early 2014 a group of dedicated alumnae set an ambitious goal to recruit 100 Dartmouth women to make gifts of $100,000 or more to honor the 100th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Fund. In less than three months, 114 women joined the Centennial Circle and raised almost $15 million to support current female students through financial aid, demonstrating the strength of community and commitment shared by the women of Dartmouth. Today, the Centennial Circle has more than 300 members and has raised $78 million in support of financial aid through the Dartmouth College Fund, equivalent to 1,500 full-tuition scholarships. In addition, the Centennial Circle members have given $311 million in support of areas across Dartmouth. Classmates Denise Dupre, Beth Cogan Fascitelli, Marjorie Schectner Gart, Barbara Martin, Anne Craige McNay, Trina Olin Santry, and Paula Ness Speers are all Centennial Circle members.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Kal Alston, 948 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210; alstonkal@gmail.com