Class Note 1982
Get ready for Act II! Our 30th reunion is scheduled for June 14-17, 2012. Our reunion committee, led by John Hastings, Tee Lotson, Eric Miller and Jim Vahey, hopes we will reflect on what may be next at this juncture of our lives, while making sure to repeat the fun we had at our 25th! So bring your dance shoes, as The Awesome Marcels Band has been booked! Plan on joining classmate President Jim Kim ’82A at a special event. Webster Avenue will be closed for a reunion block party, and at some point there will be fireworks!
A few mini-reunions are popping up around the globe. I hosted one for fellow North Mass dorm alumnae Carol Davis Fiske, Donna Fagerstrom, Kathy Boak Dubishar and Philippa Guthrie. Steve Lichtenauer and Ralph McDevitt reunited in Hanover at their children’s graduations and enjoyed what looked like spectacular fly-fishing. Gina Kunz Podlesak wrote from London that she was there cheering on her son at the British Royal Henley Regatta and saw Beth Haffenreffer Scholle’s son win his final for Harvard University. I literally bumped into Sandy Kelsey at the base of Mount Washington after he, unknowingly with my husband and son, biked up it in the Newton’s Revenge race. Jim Froelich and Jim Vahey may have run into each other this fall as they dropped off their freshmen at Yale University.
Chris Cincebeaux, a vice president at Howry Design in San Francisco, responded to my co-secretary David Eichman’s birthday wishes and entertained us with clever banter, including commentary on the artist Gustav Klimt’s modernism and the 25th birthday of Spongebob Squarepants. This is one conversation that must continue in Hanover next June!
Speaking of David, he will receive a 2011-12 Dartmouth Alumni Award on December 2 during Alumni Council Weekend in Hanover. Besides serving as class co-secretary David is president of the Class Secretaries Association and vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles. Congratulations, David!
Lisa Harrison Kender may not join us at our 30th as her husband, a professor at Virginia Tech, may be teaching in China at that time. While Lisa hates to miss reconnecting with everyone, she looks forward to learning Mandarin and experiencing the Chinese culture with their 10-year-old daughter.
Jack Oakes has worked seven years as assistant dean for career development at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. His wife is enjoying her second year as an art teacher while their three children are in high school and college.
Eben Jones competed in the USA Triathlon Age Group Olympic Distance National Championship in Burlington, Vermont, in August. A former pro, Eben won his age group and qualified for the world championships in New Zealand in 2012. I will be there cheering him and my husband, who also qualified for the worlds.
On a much more serious note, Kjersti Aksnes Skantze, who lives in a suburb of Oslo, Norway, wrote that she works as the occupational physician for the labor party across from the building bombed in July. Three windows of her office were blown out. Thankfully, Kjersti was not hurt, but she remains heartbroken over the massacre of so many young people at their summer camp.
And as reported earlier, Bill Koslo passed away in May. John Pascale, deeply saddened by this loss, wrote that he and “Koz” were best friends “ever since we were neighbors in the Choates freshman year” and served as ushers at each other’s weddings. Doug Fitton added that Bill “maintained his sense of humor and loyalty to his friends throughout his illness.…I will miss him forever.”
—Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
