When an envelope arrived in the mail from Judge James D. Rogers ’51, I was a little nervous. Fortunately, it contained a newspaper clipping announcing that Steve Faber is now chief sales officer for SheerWind. Through the commercial real estate work he has been doing since graduation, Steve met the founder of SheerWind, who developed and patented a process to generate wind energy more efficiently. As Steve explains, the process gathers wind in a funnel, accelerates it, runs it through turbines and exhausts it out. Now that Steve’s daughter has graduated from Middlebury and is working in New York, he can devote a couple of days a week to this venture on top of his regular more-than-full-time job. Thank you, Judge Rogers, for sharing this news.


Philippa Guthrie is also seeking to add a new adventure to an already full plate. After years of involvement in local politics, Philippa has thrown her hat into the ring for city council in Bloomington, Indiana. Philippa reports, “Campaigning is an adventure for sure. If you haven’t been laying months of groundwork, you have to come out of the gate at full speed. February has been a whirlwind of establishing a campaign team and plan, designing and ordering campaign materials, creating a website and Facebook page, fundraising, meeting and talking with everyone about neighborhood issues, writing press releases, fundraising, attending events, public comments at city council meetings, did I say fundraising?” Philippa’s husband, who retired this year, serves as campaign treasurer. Her daughter is a junior at Duke. Her son is a freshman at Oberlin. 


After reading Guy Lister’s post on our class Facebook page about why he picked Dartmouth, I reached out. Guy responded, “Both daughters are at college. I’m working in New Jersey after encountering a life script similar to the Shawshank Redemption. I’m in the treasure-beach scene now and reconnecting with my friends on the East Coast.” I have no idea what this means.


Their fathers met at Yale and they both lived in Hitchcock freshman year, so perhaps Kate Pesek Sackman and Ben Wagner should not have been surprised to run into each other when each had a son graduating from Colorado College last May. Kate’s new graduate is working in Chicago, her older son is working in D.C. and she started a new job as the U.S. executive director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. 


Mark Butterfield has taken a winding path from Hanover to Santa Barbara, California. After graduation Mark started his premed studies and ended up in Ireland for medical school. He completed residencies in internal medicine and preventive medicine. Now he is building a small practice in functional medicine while he prepares to begin speaking and writing about natural health and connections between looking after oneself, our planet and society. Mark explained that functional medicine has an entirely different philosophical basis from traditional medicine, looking for the root causes that tie together apparently disparate symptoms. Mark’s daughter is in her second year at Trinity College in Dublin.


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