It’s great to get news from some classmates we haven’t heard from in a while. Such as Bill Barker,who recently traded in his Chicago reverse commute for a job as CFO of a “pre-IPO” tech company called Trustwave. He is coming to terms with being the oldest person at the company. “It’s a very steep learning curve (I think they make up extra acronyms just to throw me off), but I am enjoying the role.”


John Dodd is living outside of Wilmington, Delaware, but working two to three days a week out of N.Y.C. for an equity and hedge fund firm. “I run the sales and marketing side and still find myself on the road a lot.” He still has three kids at home, ages 12, 10 and 6. They’re involved in multiple activities, but they’re all tall and (most importantly!) they are all swimmers.


Having trouble getting a handle on Twitter? See Jill Carpenter. She has two Twitter handles: @jcclicks and @ptsdinfo. Jill reports that she and her husband, George ’80, recently got to travel together on business like never before. “I was invited to attend the State of the Union address at the White House and a panel discussion following based on my social media expertise. I took photos for the inauguration book.” (That’s the “jcclicks” part.) She also curates information on post-traumatic stress disorder, so she was right at home at the National Press Club when George—as CEO of CNS Response—announced a major psychiatric trial his company was starting. The Carpenters have three kids who all share their parents’ high-tech or medical yen. 


We managed to coax Mike Steinharter to come out. Mike is working at Xerox and still maintaining four kids on the family payroll: three of them in college or grad school. He keeps in touch with soccer buddies “like Brian Hitchcock and Abner Oakes, where we talk trash about global soccer happenings.”


Patsy Fisher reports that it has been great fun reconnecting with Chris Blaski, who is back at Dartmouth as a student in the master of healthcare delivery science program, where Patsy is director of student and alumni affairs. 


Sally Johnson has been busy rebuilding a house from the footings up with her boyfriend. And now they are building a home together, along with Sally’s two new teenage stepchildren. “Nancy Green Oey and Diane Bennett both came to the wedding. Nancy was one of the six women who rowed me (photos on Facebook!) to the blessed event.”


Taking B.G. Sykes’ boat would have been a little easier. He offers an open invitation to classmates coming through Florida to stay aboard. B.G. and his wife, Cathy, have been working hard to put their two daughters through college. 


Speaking of which, Tim Fredel, Danielle Dyer, Toby and Sally Reiley, Nancy Baskin, Bob and Lynne Gaudet and Su-Moon Paik all learned recently that their once-little girls will soon be daughters of Dartmouth in the class of ’17!


—Robert Goldbloom, 324 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706; (914) 231-5117; robertgoldbloom@gmail.com; Brian Cusack, 26 Ocean Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945; (617) 710-7228; briancusack13@gmail.com