Class Note 1982
Greetings, ’82s! We hope you’ll enjoy getting to know some of the new class executive committee members. Sarah (Riddle) Lilja joins Joanne McMullen as class co-biographer: “I’m semi-retired after working more than 30 years as a clinical social worker. I still have a small private practice working with children with behavior disorders. Now that I have more free time to indulge my passions, this year I launched Sarah Lilja Photography, an art photography business. I will be spending four months in New Zealand and Australia in 2019 enjoying partial-retirement with my husband and taking lots of photos. I volunteered to serve on the executive committee because I had such a great experience on our reunion committee that I wanted to get more involved with our class.”
Sue Elliott writes: “My home base is in Marin County, California. I have so enjoyed connecting with old friends and making new ones at Dartmouth reunions through the years since our graduation. I am looking forward to joining the mini-reunion team to help organize more opportunities for the class of ’82 to get together, share experiences, and have fun!”
When Jon Baker called to ask Steve Berger to serve as our class Dartmouth College Fund head agent, Steve wasn’t really sure what the role would involve. “But I knew it meant a further chance to engage with the College and our great class of 1982. Since moving to Charleston, South Carolina, a few years ago following a 30-year career in finance in Asia, one of my favorite activities has been reconnecting with Dartmouth, whether through Friends of Dartmouth Rowing or renewing friendships at our recent reunion and now through this new role on our class executive committee.”
Here’s why Martha Solis said “yes” to serving as an at-large member of the class executive committee: “I see it as a great way to reconnect with classmates and the College, while serving our great class of ’82!”
What else is lighting up the passions of our classmates? Woody Kingman,inspired by his senior year Trip to the Sea, is pumped about the Canoemobile program, a wildly successful floating classroom project of Wilderness Inquiry that gets inner-city kids into canoes and out onto the water, where they learn new leadership skills and appreciation for the natural world. Ted Trabue, executive director of the District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility, loves his work: “The environmental and economic benefits are very fulfilling. Our energy-efficiency programs allow people to divert money from energy bills into more important needs.” And speaking of Ted—TED Talks, that is—classmates are still buzzing about the amazing TED-style talks at our 36th reunion in June. (Thanks, Beth Johnston Stephenson!)
We did a little digging for ’82s who have presented TED Talks around the country. Turns out that Kevin Peterson, while program director at the N.H. Charitable Foundation, took the national stage at TEDxFargo 2017—one of the largest independent TEDx events in the country—to share a great idea: impact investing. Kevin is now director of economic development at the Community Development Finance Authority in New Hampshire. Bobby Charles spent 10 years writing his newly published book, Eagles and Evergreens, that celebrates adventure, small-town values, and our WW II veterans. He calls it an “uplifting, enjoyable, happy read!”
Austin Beutner is “back to school” this fall, as he was recently named the superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District.
What are you passionate about these days? Let us know!
—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
