Class Note 1981
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Greetings from Canada’s capital! Emil Miskovsky and I are your new DAM scribes. Following a long hiatus away from the College I am happy to report that I once again bleed green. Reunion was amazing—joy, emotion and fun all wrapped up and tied with a bow. I even had my very own embarrassing senior moment when I called Lee Carson “Peter.” Well, it had been 34 years after all. On a sad note, Winnifred Levy lost her brave battle with multiple sclerosis that weekend. Rest in peace, Winnie.
A few notes came from classmates who weren’t able to make reunion. From Portland, Maine, Charlie Craig writes that he and his new wife, Kate, were in Chicago for a wedding. Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, whose son, Thomas ’09, tied the knot in California, continues her travels as director of global affairs for Human Rights Watch. Judy Yun was busy with the marriage of her eldest son in Pennsylvania. She reports that she, Betsy Brew and Bob Van Wetter enjoyed cheering for their Williams daughters at the NCAA Division III soccer championship in Kansas in December. Rachel Kenzie King has had a hectic year with both her children getting married. Rachel just finished a two-year term as chair of the national Biotechnology Industry Organization. She is CEO of GlycoMimetics, which has two drugs (to treat sickle cell disease and leukemia) in clinical trials.
From Tracy Bennett: “Bob Bristol and I were married on the shores of Lake Superior on August 15 surrounded by family and friends, including my five children and his daughter. Bob and I were colleagues at the Overlake School 20 years ago and reconnected by chance four years ago. He teaches history and coaches soccer there and I am head of school at Seattle Waldorf School.”
Ann Jacobus’ first novel, Romancing in the Dark in the City of Light, was released in October. It’s an edgy young adult thriller about a girl in Paris who is in love with love and death. The novel isn’t autobiographical, she says. Sharon Washington ended a week-long residency in Hanover in the summer with the New York Theatre Workshop with a reading of her new work-in-progress play, Feeding the Dragon, and is spending the fall in Louisville, Kentucky, performing in Seven Guitars at Actors Theatre.
By the time you read this the College will have honored the achievements of several of our classmates. Bill Sherman (master swimming)and Patrick King (ultimate Frisbee) will have been inducted into the Wearers of the Green at Homecoming. And once again a Dartmouth Alumni Award goes to someone from our class—congratulations, Pat Berry! Pat and Susan Adler Funk attended a symposium in May in honor of Janet Jakobsen’s 15 years as director of the Barnard Centre for Research on Women.
I am pleased to be back in the fold and hope that my own positive experience may prompt others to reconnect. Write, call and join the class Facebook page. You’ll be happy you did.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 748-6248; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 77 Bates St., Suite 202, Lewiston, ME 04240; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com
A few notes came from classmates who weren’t able to make reunion. From Portland, Maine, Charlie Craig writes that he and his new wife, Kate, were in Chicago for a wedding. Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, whose son, Thomas ’09, tied the knot in California, continues her travels as director of global affairs for Human Rights Watch. Judy Yun was busy with the marriage of her eldest son in Pennsylvania. She reports that she, Betsy Brew and Bob Van Wetter enjoyed cheering for their Williams daughters at the NCAA Division III soccer championship in Kansas in December. Rachel Kenzie King has had a hectic year with both her children getting married. Rachel just finished a two-year term as chair of the national Biotechnology Industry Organization. She is CEO of GlycoMimetics, which has two drugs (to treat sickle cell disease and leukemia) in clinical trials.
From Tracy Bennett: “Bob Bristol and I were married on the shores of Lake Superior on August 15 surrounded by family and friends, including my five children and his daughter. Bob and I were colleagues at the Overlake School 20 years ago and reconnected by chance four years ago. He teaches history and coaches soccer there and I am head of school at Seattle Waldorf School.”
Ann Jacobus’ first novel, Romancing in the Dark in the City of Light, was released in October. It’s an edgy young adult thriller about a girl in Paris who is in love with love and death. The novel isn’t autobiographical, she says. Sharon Washington ended a week-long residency in Hanover in the summer with the New York Theatre Workshop with a reading of her new work-in-progress play, Feeding the Dragon, and is spending the fall in Louisville, Kentucky, performing in Seven Guitars at Actors Theatre.
By the time you read this the College will have honored the achievements of several of our classmates. Bill Sherman (master swimming)and Patrick King (ultimate Frisbee) will have been inducted into the Wearers of the Green at Homecoming. And once again a Dartmouth Alumni Award goes to someone from our class—congratulations, Pat Berry! Pat and Susan Adler Funk attended a symposium in May in honor of Janet Jakobsen’s 15 years as director of the Barnard Centre for Research on Women.
I am pleased to be back in the fold and hope that my own positive experience may prompt others to reconnect. Write, call and join the class Facebook page. You’ll be happy you did.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 748-6248; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 77 Bates St., Suite 202, Lewiston, ME 04240; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com