Class Note 1981
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
I hope many of you had the chance to attend Homecoming and our joint ’81-’82 reunion. Please send your fun stories our way!
It was a pleasure to hear from K.C. Worden, a travel mate during a Toulouse foreign study junior fall. After Dartmouth K.C. went to law school in Washington, D.C., and then Harvard for an LL.M. After teaching public interest law in San Francisco for 10 years, K.C. switched to mediation and moved to New Zealand with her Kiwi husband and three children. Another career change brought her to the University of Otago Medical School, where K.C. works in health sciences. K.C. and family live a low-key, mostly rural life on the Otago Harbor.
Forever a fan of warmer climes, Jody (Awad) Evans writes that she is in her 16th year of private psychotherapy practice in Hilton Head, South Carolina. She looks forward to regular visits from Mark Frawley, whose sojourns can be depended upon to light up the island. Mark is currently working on the new musical, The Bipolar Express, for which he wrote the book, lyrics and music.
Jody also mentions seeing Mark Lotito in Jersey Boys and being mesmerized by his phenomenal talent.
In further entertainment news, Mark Hansson reports from Los Angeles that his last two shows, Animal Kingdom and Angie Tribeca, were renewed and he is grateful that interesting shows are finding audiences. Kudos to all of our talented artistic classmates. You make our crazy world a better place through your amazing creativity.
Mary Gearn was elected a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Mary, a hematologist-oncologist, has recently completed a fellowship in palliative medicine, which she now practices in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations, Mary!
Jane Alexander recently retired from 30 years in human resources management, most recently as the managing partner of the Mercer Consulting office in Minneapolis, and is now focused on board work. Jane and her husband, Chris O’Brien ’79, have recently purchased their fulltime dream home in Grand Marais, Minnesota, a small town on Lake Superior that last year was voted “The Coolest Small Town in America” by CNN. Jane writes, “I have yet to ascertain if the ‘coolest’ refers to the vibe or the temperature as both would be accurate! The community is made up of writers, artists and outdoor enthusiasts and, thankfully, lots of people with trucks who like to move snow in the winter! At times it feels a bit like we live on the old TV show, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, as we routinely see deer, wolves, bobcat and bears in our yard, which provides our 3-year-old wheaten terrier Guster hours of viewing pleasure from a perch at a loft window.” Jane was looking forward to a late summer visit from pals Pat Berry, Jill Martin Eichner and Patti Marchand Bradbury.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 77 Bates St., Suite 202, Lewiston, ME 04240; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com
It was a pleasure to hear from K.C. Worden, a travel mate during a Toulouse foreign study junior fall. After Dartmouth K.C. went to law school in Washington, D.C., and then Harvard for an LL.M. After teaching public interest law in San Francisco for 10 years, K.C. switched to mediation and moved to New Zealand with her Kiwi husband and three children. Another career change brought her to the University of Otago Medical School, where K.C. works in health sciences. K.C. and family live a low-key, mostly rural life on the Otago Harbor.
Forever a fan of warmer climes, Jody (Awad) Evans writes that she is in her 16th year of private psychotherapy practice in Hilton Head, South Carolina. She looks forward to regular visits from Mark Frawley, whose sojourns can be depended upon to light up the island. Mark is currently working on the new musical, The Bipolar Express, for which he wrote the book, lyrics and music.
Jody also mentions seeing Mark Lotito in Jersey Boys and being mesmerized by his phenomenal talent.
In further entertainment news, Mark Hansson reports from Los Angeles that his last two shows, Animal Kingdom and Angie Tribeca, were renewed and he is grateful that interesting shows are finding audiences. Kudos to all of our talented artistic classmates. You make our crazy world a better place through your amazing creativity.
Mary Gearn was elected a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Mary, a hematologist-oncologist, has recently completed a fellowship in palliative medicine, which she now practices in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations, Mary!
Jane Alexander recently retired from 30 years in human resources management, most recently as the managing partner of the Mercer Consulting office in Minneapolis, and is now focused on board work. Jane and her husband, Chris O’Brien ’79, have recently purchased their fulltime dream home in Grand Marais, Minnesota, a small town on Lake Superior that last year was voted “The Coolest Small Town in America” by CNN. Jane writes, “I have yet to ascertain if the ‘coolest’ refers to the vibe or the temperature as both would be accurate! The community is made up of writers, artists and outdoor enthusiasts and, thankfully, lots of people with trucks who like to move snow in the winter! At times it feels a bit like we live on the old TV show, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, as we routinely see deer, wolves, bobcat and bears in our yard, which provides our 3-year-old wheaten terrier Guster hours of viewing pleasure from a perch at a loft window.” Jane was looking forward to a late summer visit from pals Pat Berry, Jill Martin Eichner and Patti Marchand Bradbury.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 77 Bates St., Suite 202, Lewiston, ME 04240; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com