Class Note 1981
With the passage of another reunion, a new slate of class officers moves into place. While several of our new officers have moved into new roles from past positions, there is also a new set of classmates joining the team. Included among them, your Class Notes secretaries, and more on that in just a moment.
Current officers, who are always looking for your support, input and feedback: co-presidents, Julie Koeninger and Molly Van Metre; vice president, Andrew Lewin; treasurer, Martin Weinstein; Alumni Council representative, Mark Davis; co-webmasters, Jim Jankowski and Will Blanchard; newsletter editors, Rick Silverman, Abner Oakes, Pat Berry and Lynne Gaudet; co-secretaries, Robert Goldbloom and Brian Cusack; mini-reunion chairs and head agent—still to be determined at this writing. Stay tuned or, better yet, volunteer!
Many thanks to our most recent past officers for all of their hard work.
Co-president Julie Koeninger was recently honored with the Dartmouth Alumni Award. This award was established in 1954 and is selected annually by a standing committee of seven past recipients. The primary criterion is meritorious service to Dartmouth with career achievement and community service as additional dimensions.
Recently winning a ruling before the U.S. Supreme Court was classmate Sean Devlin Bersell. Sean is the vice president of public affairs for the Entertainment Merchants Association and the case revolved around video game sales. In the wake of the ruling Sean’s comments were recorded and broadcast on various TV and radio outlets as well as in the pages of many properties, including the Los Angeles Daily News. There’s making a case for yourself and there’s the Supreme Court!
As Class Notes secretaries Robert and I will be relying on you to submit information that is inspiring, informative and entertaining. The Class Notes section will be bite-size updates while the class newsletter format allows us to provide more in-depth information. Newsletter editors and secretaries are always looking for fresh content. Even in the day of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, MySpace (what?) and YouTube it’s easy to keep track of friends and family through your digital life. If you are like me though, you straddle communications platforms—I’m on Facebook, but I still read the Sunday Boston Globe and books, sometimes on the Kindle, sometimes on paper pages. At our certain age that is probably familiar behavior. I know when the Alumni Magazine arrives in the mailbox, the first or second thing I do is turn to Class Notes. It’s great to keep up, it’s a fun seasonal activity—catching up with ’81s and others. Help us keep that up with a quick e-mail.
Inspire with stories of community service, philanthropy, middle-aged athletic achievement and deep thought.
Inform with updates on you, your career, your family, other ’81s.
Entertain with accounts of escapades with family and classmates, a great joke about that place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, you just heard or a link to your favorite new YouTube video. It’s six months old but have you seen Maria Aragon on YouTube? Take a look, you won’t be disappointed if you haven’t seen it already.
—Brian Cusack, 26 Ocean Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945; (781) 710-7228; briancusack13@gmail.com; Robert Goldbloom, 324 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706; (914) 231-5117; rgoldbloom@optonline.net
