From time to time, I discover a surprising connection between friends from our class and friends from other places. My son Steven’s best friend’s father was recently installed as a judge. At the ceremony the new judge’s best friend, David Fein,spoke movingly about the new judge, whom he met in law school. After the ceremony I had a chance to chat with Dave and his wife, Liz Oestreich. Dave is currently serving as U.S. attorney for Connecticut and Liz is a librarian and teacher. 


The Act II theme of our reunion continues to ring true. After serving for nine years on the board of HomeStart, a nonprofit fighting homelessness, Ed Frechette left his career in marketing and is a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Ed intends to work full time with nonprofits after graduation. A big 1982 mazel tov to Jenny Chandler Hauge, who wed Steven Berk this fall with classmates Emily Bakemeier, Mary Thomson Renner, Gray Reisfield Horan, John King and their non-1982 Dartmouth spouses in attendance. Jenny’s son Michael ’12 and her daughter Camden, an alumna of St. Andrews, also joined the festivities. Jenny, Steve and a new puppy live in Washington, D.C., where Jenny works as a vice president at the National Council of Nonprofits and Steve is a lawyer in private practice. Jenny and her organization are a great source of advice for those whose Act II brought us into the nonprofit world. 


After reading a few of her posts on our class’s Facebook page, I am looking forward to Nancy Kricorian’s third book, All the Light There Was, which will be coming out in March. Nancy’s husband, James Schamus, teaches at Columbia University, is the CEO of Focus Features and is writing a book titled My Wife is a Terrorist: Lessons in Storytelling from the Department of Homeland Security. It uses Nancy’s run-in with the Maryland state police as a launching pad for a discussion of “fusion centers,” surveillance technology, narrative theory, the films of Alfred Hitchcock and other topics. I don’t know whose book to read first. 


Cathy Green Solomon’s daughter Julie can name at least two great highlights from this past December. With her high school singing group, Julie entertained the crowd at the national Christmas tree lighting ceremony, and she was accepted into Dartmouth’s class of 2017.


Our class project—the class of 1982 Upper Valley Social Entrepreneurship (UVSE) Fellowship—has produced seven UVSE fellows since our 25th reunion, all of whom have made meaningful and lasting impacts on Upper Valley nonprofit organizations. Through their creative and sustainable business models, these undergraduate fellows have helped bridge the gap between the College and the Upper Valley’s neediest community members. Yang Wei Neo ’12, for example, developed a system for the Red Logan Dental Clinic to relieve pain and suffering for hundreds of Dartmouth’s neighbors. To fully endow two fellowships annually, we must raise $150,000. If you wish to support our class project, please go to our class website, www.dartmouth82.org. Thanks.


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net