Happy New Year! Our 30th reunion is just months away. The reunion team is planning a memorable four days in Hanover. A series of mini-reunions is planned for the first half of 2012. If you are interested in helping to organize one in your area, please contact our mini-reunion co-chairs Philippa Guthrie (philippaguthrie@yahoo.com) or Martha Solis-Turner (msolisturner@gmail.com). The 82nd day of this coming year is March 22—mark that in your calendars for actual events as well as a virtual mini-reunion on Facebook. If you are not a member of our Dartmouth ’82s 30th reunion Facebook group, please join. And check to make sure the College has a current e-mail address for you by contacting Michelle Brown in Alumni Records (alumni.records@dartmouth.edu).


Class Officers Weekend in September saw a good turnout of ’82s: Matt Hoffman, John Hastings, David Plekenpol, Cathy Judd-Stein, Jon Baker, Eric Miller, Jim Vahey and I were all in Hanover to learn how to better serve you and to plan for the next five years. We also met with our adopted classmate, Jim Kim, who is looking forward to being part of our 30th reunion events.


Please join me in wishing our second youngest classmate, Tee Lotson, a happy birthday. Tee finally turns 50 at the end of January. The youngest member of our class, Bill Taylor, turns 50 at the beginning of March and then we will all be eligible for membership in AARP. Remember seeing those “old” alums walking around campus in 1978? I hope that we were nice to them!


Congratulations to David Hamlin for his multiple Emmys in connection with the “Great Migrations” series on National Geographic Television, where he works as a senior producer, special projects. 


Mark Weinhardt writes from Des Moines, Iowa, that he has started his own law firm, Weinhardt & Logan. 


Kent Arnold spent his September birthday in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, doing some engineering work for Mitre Corp. He writes: “Grateful to be here, alive and kicking, with my family secure back in the USA: Both young ones are now in their university years, a ‘real’ reason for pride and gratitude.” Stay safe, Kent!


Miguel Kamat is also living overseas. Miguel is a Foreign Service officer and just landed a new assignment in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Bueño suerte, Miguel!


Bruce Boyer is the director of the Civitas Child Law Clinic at Loyola Chicago School of Law. Many of the clients of the clinic are children in foster care. His wife teaches at the legal clinic at Northwestern Law School, my alma mater.


Sarah Riddle Lilja lives in Maplewood, Minnesota, and writes: “I love the Twin Cities because we have all the amenities of a bigger metropolis but it still feels like a smallish town. I am getting sick of the winters after 20 years but we try to go somewhere warm in January every year so that helps.” Her husband, Dave, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota.


My freshman year roommate, Scott Davidoff, lives and works in his hometown of Albany, New York. Scott has his own law practice concentrating on commercial transactions, tax and real estate. He also is a corporate sub agent for the New York Life Insurance Co. 


Betsy Kingsbury Dowd is now of counsel at Hoffmann & Baron, LLP, a Long Island, New York, intellectual property boutique. She specializes in patent and trademark litigation and licensing. 


Joel (Jody) Hubbard is a pastor at Park United Methodist in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He went to graduate school at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.


Are we too old to make New Year’s resolutions?


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com