Class Note 1981
Issue
Logging on to Facebook I’m struck by the number of birthday greetings classmates are receiving as we hit the big 5-0. As Jane Alexander notes, “I’m glad my kids pushed me into this new world of communication. I have especially enjoyed congratulating and consoling one another as our odometers click past 50.” Jane recently celebrated her birthday in Bethel, Maine, but writes that the highlight of her summer was a week spent at her cabin in Grand Marais, Minnesota, with husband Chris O’Brien ’79 and their four children Tim, Erin, SuLin and Des. “It was spectacular weather and we did it all—paddling in the Boundary waters, walleye fishing and hiking on the Superior Hiking Trail. It was nice to be together before our oldest son Tim starts his freshman year at the University of Puget Sound. Tim is truly ready to launch but Mom is having a really rough time with the impending separation.”
Martin Weinstein’s children are keeping him young. On July 18 Martin and his wife Lori, along with 7-year-old brothers Max and Ethan, welcomed Joshua Michael Weinstein into the world. Max and Ethan are enjoying being big brothers and they play a variety of sports, including hockey, baseball and soccer. Martin, who ran track at Dartmouth, admits he has never done much in the way of winter sports—until now. As he explains, “The boys’ love of hockey prompted Lori to buy me my first pair of skates for my 50th birthday. Over the past few months I’ve learned how to skate—a bit—and actually joined a competitive adult ice hockey team for beginning adults. I was just elected captain of the Washington Gators!” When not on the ice or otherwise trying to keep pace with the kids Martin is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Washington, D.C., where he chairs the compliance and enforcement practice group, sits on the firm’s business committee and helps manage the office. Lori is a U.S. federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice and, as Martin insists, “the true athlete in the family.”
Barb Barker Schulze of Sunderland, Massachusetts, has been staying young by completing “a few triathlons since hitting the half-century mark and having an empty nest.” Barb and husband Rob just celebrated their 27th anniversary and still love living in New England. Their eldest daughter, Rachel, is married and their son Chris is getting married in June 2010. Their third child, Emily, just graduated from Biola University in California and their youngest, Will, is a sophomore at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. As Barb comments, “We are in no hurry to become grandparents, but we’ll cherish the day when it happens. I am still enjoying the challenges of teaching chemistry in a public high school. Life is good!”
Life’s been good for Susan Weiss Spencer, who has parlayed more than 25 years of experience as a writer, photographer and executive in the nonprofit and public policy sectors into a freelance writing and photography business. Sue shuttles between the Worcester, Massachusetts, suburbs and the family’s vacation home in Brewster, Massachusetts, and her work can be seen in regional magazines such as Cape Cod Life, Worcester Living and Rhode Island Monthly and nationally in Sister 2 Sister. She also contributes weekly to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Meanwhile daughter Dana’s and son Colin’s school activities occupy much of Sue’s spare time, as she “wants to make the most of the time before the teens leave the nest.”
I’m still trying to figure out how to celebrate my upcoming “big birthday,” but I do plan to be in Hanover for the class birthday party October 23-25. To sign up, please go to www.dartmouth.org/classes/81. See you then!
—Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net; Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com
Nov - Dec 2009
Logging on to Facebook I’m struck by the number of birthday greetings classmates are receiving as we hit the big 5-0. As Jane Alexander notes, “I’m glad my kids pushed me into this new world of communication. I have especially enjoyed congratulating and consoling one another as our odometers click past 50.” Jane recently celebrated her birthday in Bethel, Maine, but writes that the highlight of her summer was a week spent at her cabin in Grand Marais, Minnesota, with husband Chris O’Brien ’79 and their four children Tim, Erin, SuLin and Des. “It was spectacular weather and we did it all—paddling in the Boundary waters, walleye fishing and hiking on the Superior Hiking Trail. It was nice to be together before our oldest son Tim starts his freshman year at the University of Puget Sound. Tim is truly ready to launch but Mom is having a really rough time with the impending separation.”
Martin Weinstein’s children are keeping him young. On July 18 Martin and his wife Lori, along with 7-year-old brothers Max and Ethan, welcomed Joshua Michael Weinstein into the world. Max and Ethan are enjoying being big brothers and they play a variety of sports, including hockey, baseball and soccer. Martin, who ran track at Dartmouth, admits he has never done much in the way of winter sports—until now. As he explains, “The boys’ love of hockey prompted Lori to buy me my first pair of skates for my 50th birthday. Over the past few months I’ve learned how to skate—a bit—and actually joined a competitive adult ice hockey team for beginning adults. I was just elected captain of the Washington Gators!” When not on the ice or otherwise trying to keep pace with the kids Martin is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Washington, D.C., where he chairs the compliance and enforcement practice group, sits on the firm’s business committee and helps manage the office. Lori is a U.S. federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice and, as Martin insists, “the true athlete in the family.”
Barb Barker Schulze of Sunderland, Massachusetts, has been staying young by completing “a few triathlons since hitting the half-century mark and having an empty nest.” Barb and husband Rob just celebrated their 27th anniversary and still love living in New England. Their eldest daughter, Rachel, is married and their son Chris is getting married in June 2010. Their third child, Emily, just graduated from Biola University in California and their youngest, Will, is a sophomore at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. As Barb comments, “We are in no hurry to become grandparents, but we’ll cherish the day when it happens. I am still enjoying the challenges of teaching chemistry in a public high school. Life is good!”
Life’s been good for Susan Weiss Spencer, who has parlayed more than 25 years of experience as a writer, photographer and executive in the nonprofit and public policy sectors into a freelance writing and photography business. Sue shuttles between the Worcester, Massachusetts, suburbs and the family’s vacation home in Brewster, Massachusetts, and her work can be seen in regional magazines such as Cape Cod Life, Worcester Living and Rhode Island Monthly and nationally in Sister 2 Sister. She also contributes weekly to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Meanwhile daughter Dana’s and son Colin’s school activities occupy much of Sue’s spare time, as she “wants to make the most of the time before the teens leave the nest.”
I’m still trying to figure out how to celebrate my upcoming “big birthday,” but I do plan to be in Hanover for the class birthday party October 23-25. To sign up, please go to www.dartmouth.org/classes/81. See you then!
—Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net; Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com