It’s hard to believe but our 30th reunion is June 16-19! Reunion chair Nancy Baskin promises an exciting and fun weekend of reconnecting with old friends and classmates. Details will follow shortly, but here’s a pre-reunion look at what some of what your classmates have been up to: 


At the 30th you’ll have a chance to congratulate Bill Burgess, who was recently nominated as a candidate for the board of trustees by the Alumni Council. (See www.voxthevote.org and please vote March 9 to April 6.) Bill is a managing partner of ABS Ventures. Throughout his career he has advised and invested in emerging growth technology companies. He is also an active volunteer, serving as trustee and treasurer of St. Mark’s School and as chairman of the New England Aquarium. Bill and his wife, Barbara, have a blended family of five children from each of their previous marriages. As Bill notes, “We seem to have pretty successively navigated the treacherous waters of merged families and I think that all our children are better for having one more adult who loves them.” Two of Bill’s three sons, Drew (22) and Christopher (20), are at the University of Vermont, while Peter (15) is at New Hampton School. Stepson Willie Mead (15) and stepdaughter Emily Mead (16) are both at Weston High School. Bill stays in touch with Mark Heuberger (who first introduced him to Barb!), Kirk Wilson, Dave Edelson, Dan Evans, Mike Steinharter, Chris Niehaus, Joe McLaughlin and John Westerfield.


Congratulations are also in order for Dr. Dong Kim, whosesister Jenny Kim Voelker ’94 wrote to say he was named 2010 Physician of the Year by the Provena St. Mary’s Foundation of Kankakee, Illinois. A surgeon at Provena St. Mary’s Hospital, Dong was nominated for exemplifying “dignity, compassion, patience, virtue and respect” and “rising up to the Provena mission of healing and hope and the pillars of people, quality, excellence, finance and service.” Dong and his wife, Margaret, live in Kankakee with their children Alex, Daniel and Audrey.


Steve Herzog plans to be at the 30th. Steve lives in San Rafael, California, with his wife, Jackie, and daughter J.J. (6). Jackie and Steve adopted J.J. (Jessica Jingting Qingling Herzog) from China in May 2005 at age 11 months. In Steve’s words, “Bringing her into our life has been the greatest joy imaginable.” J.J. loves soccer, gymnastics, skiing and her two cats. Since 2005 Steve has been a principal, wealth manager and member of the investment committee at Wetherby Asset Management, an independent registered investment advisor to individuals, families, endowments and foundations. He also serves on the board of nonprofit Environmental Traveling Companions (ETC; www.etctrips.org/index.html). ETC provides outdoor adventure trips for people with disabilities and disadvantaged youth. Steve thinks ETC’s mission should resonate with Dartmouth’s active, outdoors-oriented community and would love for classmates to support the organization. As Steve says, “It’s a wonderful organization that really changes lives.” 


Dean Lodmell is an “unpaid strategic consultant” to Lodmell Cellars, a Walla Walla, Washington, winery owned by his first cousins. As Dean explains, “I lend them a hand in various areas, some welcomed and others not, including manufacturing (crushing and fermentation), testing (tasting the wine while it is still in the barrels—my favorite part) and sales and marketing. Dean gave up his day job in the hedge fund industry sometime before 1999, but he’s currently looking for the right property from which to continue the family wine tradition with a “very small, super premium winery.” When not immersed in the wine business Dean spends time skiing at Mt. Hood and reports that he skied every month of the year in 2010!


—Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net; Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com