Class Note 1982
Issue
Sep - Oct 2018
We did it! We broke the attendance record at a Dartmouth College 35th reunion. Congratulations to reunion chair Mary Thomson Renner and team for enticing almost 300 members of the class to return to Hanover for four days of connecting, including dozens of classmates who had never attended a reunion.
The welcome reception and dinner in the class tent on Thursday featured crepes, and later Matt Norton was our DJ. Many of us saw the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge—either by staying overnight or on a bus tour Friday morning (and, yes, I mean a real yellow school bus!). Our Friday lunch at the Dartmouth Outing Club was relaxing and a great chance to make new friends and rekindle connections. The 1982 TED-style talks titled “The Roads We Take” were a big hit. Kudos to Beth Johnston Stephenson for organizing. Jonathan Marvel, Judith Service Montier, Stephen D’Antonio, Bill Cole, and Margaret Spring shared stories of triumphs and challenges showing that many of us are doing things we never imagined. The reunion committee organized many diverse events, but there was also time to just relax in the class tent and catch up. On Saturday we had a “clustered” lunch on the lawn of Baker Library with the classes of 1983 and 1984, followed by the first-ever “Salty Dog Rag” flash mob on the Green. A new slate of class officers was elected during our Saturday night dinner (with grilled lobster tail!) on the lawn outside Hitchcock.
Congratulations to Daniel Black on his election as class president and to Corinne Heyes and Robin Shaffert as vice presidents! I am thrilled that Jennifer Chandler Hauge will be joining me as class co-secretary. And David Plekenpol will continue on as treasurer. The class officers thanked outgoing president Cathy Judd-Stein with an engraved crystal bowl from Simon Pearce. Thanks to Matt Hoffman for organizing that gift. Matt wins the award for most dedicated classmate. He drove to Hanover on Thursday and then drove back to Boston for his high school reunion Friday night and returned to Hanover on Saturday.
On Sunday morning Cynthia Hall McCraven organized a memorial service for our most recently deceased classmates. The Rev. Dr. Adrienne “Tee” Lotson officiated, and as she read the names, classmates shared personal recollections and stories. We were honored to have Tony Lupien’s wife, Miriam ’84, and Rob Maxwell’s sister, Denyse ’84, join us. Yisrael “Jay” Rosenberg blew the shofar, and Jay Shofet recited the Kaddish. Bernie Thompson and Glenn Grube played instrumental music, and Karen Cassidy Thompson, Kevin and Darlene Thorne, Al Forbes, and Matt Yee sang.
I want to close by thanking my co-secretary these past six years, Robin Shaffert, for never missing a deadline and for her careful eye in proofreading all these columns and writing several obituaries as well as dozens of cards to classmates on both happy and sad occasions. On to the 40th-41st reunion! We are stronger together!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Jennifer Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016; (973) 650-7914; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com
The welcome reception and dinner in the class tent on Thursday featured crepes, and later Matt Norton was our DJ. Many of us saw the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge—either by staying overnight or on a bus tour Friday morning (and, yes, I mean a real yellow school bus!). Our Friday lunch at the Dartmouth Outing Club was relaxing and a great chance to make new friends and rekindle connections. The 1982 TED-style talks titled “The Roads We Take” were a big hit. Kudos to Beth Johnston Stephenson for organizing. Jonathan Marvel, Judith Service Montier, Stephen D’Antonio, Bill Cole, and Margaret Spring shared stories of triumphs and challenges showing that many of us are doing things we never imagined. The reunion committee organized many diverse events, but there was also time to just relax in the class tent and catch up. On Saturday we had a “clustered” lunch on the lawn of Baker Library with the classes of 1983 and 1984, followed by the first-ever “Salty Dog Rag” flash mob on the Green. A new slate of class officers was elected during our Saturday night dinner (with grilled lobster tail!) on the lawn outside Hitchcock.
Congratulations to Daniel Black on his election as class president and to Corinne Heyes and Robin Shaffert as vice presidents! I am thrilled that Jennifer Chandler Hauge will be joining me as class co-secretary. And David Plekenpol will continue on as treasurer. The class officers thanked outgoing president Cathy Judd-Stein with an engraved crystal bowl from Simon Pearce. Thanks to Matt Hoffman for organizing that gift. Matt wins the award for most dedicated classmate. He drove to Hanover on Thursday and then drove back to Boston for his high school reunion Friday night and returned to Hanover on Saturday.
On Sunday morning Cynthia Hall McCraven organized a memorial service for our most recently deceased classmates. The Rev. Dr. Adrienne “Tee” Lotson officiated, and as she read the names, classmates shared personal recollections and stories. We were honored to have Tony Lupien’s wife, Miriam ’84, and Rob Maxwell’s sister, Denyse ’84, join us. Yisrael “Jay” Rosenberg blew the shofar, and Jay Shofet recited the Kaddish. Bernie Thompson and Glenn Grube played instrumental music, and Karen Cassidy Thompson, Kevin and Darlene Thorne, Al Forbes, and Matt Yee sang.
I want to close by thanking my co-secretary these past six years, Robin Shaffert, for never missing a deadline and for her careful eye in proofreading all these columns and writing several obituaries as well as dozens of cards to classmates on both happy and sad occasions. On to the 40th-41st reunion! We are stronger together!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Jennifer Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016; (973) 650-7914; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com