Class Note 1982
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
With temperatures approaching 80 degrees during Class Officers Weekend, it was hard for Cathy Judd-Stein, Michael Berg, Jenny Chandler Hauge, Carol Davis, Daniel Black, David Plekenpol, Matt Hoffman, Jon Baker, reunion chair Mary Thomson Renner and me to believe it was fall in New Hampshire.
Our 35th—actually 36th—reunion is fast approaching. Mark your calendars for June 14-17. Mary and her committee are busy crafting a weekend that will guarantee a fabulous time. There will be something for everyone, including lots of informal time to catch up with classmates, good food and drink, the most welcoming tent, great music and dancing, plenty of opportunity to explore Hanover and connect with professors, interesting panels and presentations, time to visit the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and our ’82 bridge and time to just be together! Registration for this reunion (including College housing) will take place online beginning during the first week of March. Please sign up and please reach out to your ’82 friends and encourage them to join us. Mary notes, “We all chose Dartmouth and the Hanover Plain for a reason. We are the great class of ’82 and we are greater together!”
Starting early, a crowd of revelers gathered for Homecoming, including Gina Kunz Podlesak, Laura Murray Dobbin, Al Forbes, Rich Schwartz, Mary Thomson Renner, Cathy Judd-Stein, Todd Audsley, Beth Johnston Stephenson,Jon Baker, Colin McNay, Marc Lewis, Dan Gaulin, David Andryc, Jon Sadick, Crashy Zacher Brown, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Mark Nesline, Ann MacAffer, Cheryl Bascomb, Sharon Flynn McClymonds, Dana Burroughs Klinges, Vaune Dugan, Matt Norton, Alison Schmultz Burns, Sherri Carroll Oberg and Mike Berg.
Even 35 years out we continue to write new chapters. Rich Nadworny reports, “I’m back in Stockholm with the family after a 20-year absence. It’s something we’ve talked about doing for a while and then we realized that this was the last year we could do it with both of the kids. My daughter, Olivia, is a Dartmouth ’21, well now ’22, since she’s over here doing a gap year.” Rich is working at Scandinavia’s biggest service design company, Transformator Design, helping them expand their training business. He is hoping to be back in Hanover this summer, working with the Dickey Center on the Young African Leaders Initiative.
Meanwhile, J.J. Hanley is the new director of Illinois Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) for the office of the state treasurer of Illinois. J.J. explains, “ABLE is a paradigm-shifting new program that allows individuals with disabilities to save and invest money for their disability-related expenses without losing much-needed federal benefits.”
J.J. notes, “After an early career in financial services, I changed personal and professional direction when autism spectrum disorder entered my family life about 23 years ago. Since then I’ve dedicated my work to creating innovative programs that foster economic and community participation by people with disabilities—from a documentary on autism to training companies in disability communications skills to founding a yelp.com-style nonprofit review platform about the disability friendliness of businesses.”
—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net;
Our 35th—actually 36th—reunion is fast approaching. Mark your calendars for June 14-17. Mary and her committee are busy crafting a weekend that will guarantee a fabulous time. There will be something for everyone, including lots of informal time to catch up with classmates, good food and drink, the most welcoming tent, great music and dancing, plenty of opportunity to explore Hanover and connect with professors, interesting panels and presentations, time to visit the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and our ’82 bridge and time to just be together! Registration for this reunion (including College housing) will take place online beginning during the first week of March. Please sign up and please reach out to your ’82 friends and encourage them to join us. Mary notes, “We all chose Dartmouth and the Hanover Plain for a reason. We are the great class of ’82 and we are greater together!”
Starting early, a crowd of revelers gathered for Homecoming, including Gina Kunz Podlesak, Laura Murray Dobbin, Al Forbes, Rich Schwartz, Mary Thomson Renner, Cathy Judd-Stein, Todd Audsley, Beth Johnston Stephenson,Jon Baker, Colin McNay, Marc Lewis, Dan Gaulin, David Andryc, Jon Sadick, Crashy Zacher Brown, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Mark Nesline, Ann MacAffer, Cheryl Bascomb, Sharon Flynn McClymonds, Dana Burroughs Klinges, Vaune Dugan, Matt Norton, Alison Schmultz Burns, Sherri Carroll Oberg and Mike Berg.
Even 35 years out we continue to write new chapters. Rich Nadworny reports, “I’m back in Stockholm with the family after a 20-year absence. It’s something we’ve talked about doing for a while and then we realized that this was the last year we could do it with both of the kids. My daughter, Olivia, is a Dartmouth ’21, well now ’22, since she’s over here doing a gap year.” Rich is working at Scandinavia’s biggest service design company, Transformator Design, helping them expand their training business. He is hoping to be back in Hanover this summer, working with the Dickey Center on the Young African Leaders Initiative.
Meanwhile, J.J. Hanley is the new director of Illinois Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) for the office of the state treasurer of Illinois. J.J. explains, “ABLE is a paradigm-shifting new program that allows individuals with disabilities to save and invest money for their disability-related expenses without losing much-needed federal benefits.”
J.J. notes, “After an early career in financial services, I changed personal and professional direction when autism spectrum disorder entered my family life about 23 years ago. Since then I’ve dedicated my work to creating innovative programs that foster economic and community participation by people with disabilities—from a documentary on autism to training companies in disability communications skills to founding a yelp.com-style nonprofit review platform about the disability friendliness of businesses.”
—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net;