Class Note 1981
On his website Dave Pine writes that he “is excited to share with you that I am a candidate for a seat on the San Mateo County [California] board of supervisors” in a special election that will be held on May 3.
Our classmate has an impressive record of public service in that part of California. He currently serves on the San Mateo Union High School District school board, was a school board member for the Burlingame School District and was a Redwood City planning commissioner, among other civic activities. Work-wise, Dave is an attorney in Silicon Valley, where he has lived since 1985, and was general counsel for three tech companies: Handspring, Excite@Home and Radius. He and his wife, Jane, have two boys: Kevin (10) and Jack (7).
Let’s stay in California: Santa Barbaran Cas Stimson wrote that he and his wife, Kathy, are excited that their oldest daughter Kelsey is a member of the Dartmouth class of 2015. “We were a little surprised when she applied early decision,” Cas said, “as I tried not to put too much pressure on her to go green!” Their other child, Kathleen, is in the eighth grade. “With Kelsey off to college and Kathleen off to high school,” Cas finished, “the family dynamics will be quite different—at least the weather in Santa Barbara is consistent and will help us through the change.”
Cas and Kathy saw Brad Baldridge when they attended a bash before the Dartmouth/UCLA men’s soccer match this past November.
More from that state: John Madden wrote that he “can’t believe it’s been almost five years since our 25th.” He and his wife, Fresca, live in Tiburon, north of San Francisco, and John works for the “frequently renamed Bank of America Merrill Lynch.” Son Brooks is a sophomore at Georgetown and, as with Kelsey Stimson, daughter Kendall is a member of the Dartmouth class of 2015. “I sign everything I send to her ‘Dad ’81,’ ” finished John.
Tori McGeer holds a tenured research position at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, with lecturing responsibilities in the department of philosophy. “I’m on sabbatical this year,” Tori wrote, “spending my time as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. I’m also catching up on a lot of yoga and otherwise glorying in the delights of the Bay Area.”
View Tori’s bio and you’ll see her wide range of academic interests, from moral psychology to the problems of self-knowledge and the metaphysics of the mind. Tori is married to Philip Pettit, who also teaches at Princeton.
Indianan Mary Favret wrote to say that they got “more ice than snow last week, and a half-inch of solid ice can be nearly as debilitating as 20 inches of snow.” Mary and her husband, Andrew Miller, have two kids, Cassie (13) and Ben (11), and both were off from school for three days. Cassie spent the time writing the next great American novel; Ben spent it eking out more time on various video games. Mary and Andrew are English professors at Indiana University, and Mary’s most recent book, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime, received very good reviews. In fact, one review appeared on a website edited by former Dartmouth professor James Heffernan, one of Mary’s former teachers. Mary finished by saying that she and “family will be living in the United Kingdom next year, in Oxford,” and she wonders if there are classmates in the vicinity.
Now, Team ’81, have you made your plans to be at reunion this June 16-19?
—Abner Oakes, 4807 Dover Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-1772; aoakes4@gmail.com; Julie Koeninger, 2 Wilson St., Wellesley, MA 02482; jkoeninger@comcast.net
