Class Note 1981
Issue
For an hour last evening I followed Dartmouth Night festivities online and at 7:59 p.m. this was posted at The Dartmouth’s stream: “The class of 1981 may win the award for greatest enthusiasm—the yell ‘81’ can be heard up and down North Main Street.” Well done, classmates. Wish there had been audio to that stream.
So who’s the ombudsman for the ’81 newsletter? “I just got the October newsletter,” wrote Bob Spears, “and guess it’s my own damn fault for not going public with the fact that I’m back in South Dakota. As a result Mike Peterson and Steve Sanford received recognition for ‘being the only ’81s living in South Dakota!’ ”
In August Bob, his wife, Chris, and their three kids moved from San Diego to South Dakota, to Dakota Dunes, and Bob wrote that these are “our old stomping grounds from my Gateway days, and we’re having fun reacquainting ourselves with friends not seen since we moved to San Diego in 1998.” Bob is the CEO of InMoTx, a 3-year-old tech company that sells vision-guided assembly-line robotic solutions to food processing companies.
“Our two older kids are at Bishop Heelan High School,” wrote Bob. “Corinne, 11th grade, is playing volleyball this fall and Connor, ninth, is playing football, and our youngest, Tucker, is in seventh grade.” As for work, Bob wrote, “In September I organized a new round of investor financing to recapitalize the company. I’m excited by the professional challenges that lie ahead but hope that I encounter more startup-related challenges this winter than snowdrifts!”
Had some great back and forth with Facebook friend, former New Hamp resident and Los Angelean Jeff Healy. He and I reminisced about the time we spent waiting tables at the Breakers Hotel sophomore winter, and I heard about Jeff’s work, his husband, Chris Cook, their kids Will (8) and Jamie (4) and their summer vacation in Durango, Colorado.
“I am a senior vice president at Citibank,” wrote Jeff, “dealing primarily with corporate finance for companies in Mexico, and Chris works at USC in fundraising. We had a great time in Durango—did 11- and 6-mile hikes, the boys went fishing and we had some great meals.” Will and Jamie are at an Episcopal school five minutes from the house and Jamie has already had the honor of hosting at home Stripey, the preschool class pet, a stuffed tiger. Jeff reminded me that he had lived in Mexico City from 1986 to 1990, and while he travels much less to Mexico, he wrote, “Almost everybody I work with is Mexican—my work life is conducted 90 percent in Spanish, so I think my Spanish has improved in my current job.”
Hugo Ribot is outside Atlanta, in Cartersville, and he and his partner at Cartersville Ob/Gyn Associates have started “construction on our very own ambulatory surgery center, where we’ll be doing some groundbreaking stuff in the world of gynecology.” Hugo continued that he “had shoulder surgery in October, but thanks to my crackerjack orthopedist I returned to work in one week and to doing surgery in 13 days.” Hugo wrote that his oldest, Sydney, is a Dartmouth ’11 in Glasgow on her second FSP. Son Max is a frosh at the University of Georgia and their youngest, Sara, is a high school senior who also wants to attend UGA. Lastly Hugo and a passel of SAE brethren—confirmed are Greg Smyers, Ken Holmes, Mitch Arion, and Tom Kiernan—will head to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, this March for a weekend of skiing and snowboarding.
—Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com; Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net
Jan - Feb 2010
For an hour last evening I followed Dartmouth Night festivities online and at 7:59 p.m. this was posted at The Dartmouth’s stream: “The class of 1981 may win the award for greatest enthusiasm—the yell ‘81’ can be heard up and down North Main Street.” Well done, classmates. Wish there had been audio to that stream.
So who’s the ombudsman for the ’81 newsletter? “I just got the October newsletter,” wrote Bob Spears, “and guess it’s my own damn fault for not going public with the fact that I’m back in South Dakota. As a result Mike Peterson and Steve Sanford received recognition for ‘being the only ’81s living in South Dakota!’ ”
In August Bob, his wife, Chris, and their three kids moved from San Diego to South Dakota, to Dakota Dunes, and Bob wrote that these are “our old stomping grounds from my Gateway days, and we’re having fun reacquainting ourselves with friends not seen since we moved to San Diego in 1998.” Bob is the CEO of InMoTx, a 3-year-old tech company that sells vision-guided assembly-line robotic solutions to food processing companies.
“Our two older kids are at Bishop Heelan High School,” wrote Bob. “Corinne, 11th grade, is playing volleyball this fall and Connor, ninth, is playing football, and our youngest, Tucker, is in seventh grade.” As for work, Bob wrote, “In September I organized a new round of investor financing to recapitalize the company. I’m excited by the professional challenges that lie ahead but hope that I encounter more startup-related challenges this winter than snowdrifts!”
Had some great back and forth with Facebook friend, former New Hamp resident and Los Angelean Jeff Healy. He and I reminisced about the time we spent waiting tables at the Breakers Hotel sophomore winter, and I heard about Jeff’s work, his husband, Chris Cook, their kids Will (8) and Jamie (4) and their summer vacation in Durango, Colorado.
“I am a senior vice president at Citibank,” wrote Jeff, “dealing primarily with corporate finance for companies in Mexico, and Chris works at USC in fundraising. We had a great time in Durango—did 11- and 6-mile hikes, the boys went fishing and we had some great meals.” Will and Jamie are at an Episcopal school five minutes from the house and Jamie has already had the honor of hosting at home Stripey, the preschool class pet, a stuffed tiger. Jeff reminded me that he had lived in Mexico City from 1986 to 1990, and while he travels much less to Mexico, he wrote, “Almost everybody I work with is Mexican—my work life is conducted 90 percent in Spanish, so I think my Spanish has improved in my current job.”
Hugo Ribot is outside Atlanta, in Cartersville, and he and his partner at Cartersville Ob/Gyn Associates have started “construction on our very own ambulatory surgery center, where we’ll be doing some groundbreaking stuff in the world of gynecology.” Hugo continued that he “had shoulder surgery in October, but thanks to my crackerjack orthopedist I returned to work in one week and to doing surgery in 13 days.” Hugo wrote that his oldest, Sydney, is a Dartmouth ’11 in Glasgow on her second FSP. Son Max is a frosh at the University of Georgia and their youngest, Sara, is a high school senior who also wants to attend UGA. Lastly Hugo and a passel of SAE brethren—confirmed are Greg Smyers, Ken Holmes, Mitch Arion, and Tom Kiernan—will head to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, this March for a weekend of skiing and snowboarding.
—Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com; Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net