How does the class of 1982 celebrate a new decade? Carolyn Wilcox Galliette, cofounder, chief investment officer, and president of Ironwood Capital, was named to the 2020 list of most influential women in mid-market mergers and acquisitions, proving that studying James Joyce as an undergrad can lead you anywhere. Gray Reisfield Horan’s musical about early Hollywood is a semifinalist for the 2020 National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Waterford, Connecticut. Dan Gilman continues his 20-plus-year run as a professional policy geek in the Federal Trade Commission’s office of policy planning (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Nick Holecamp, chief medical officer at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, was recognized with the Missouri Foundation for Health’s 2019 Walentik Leadership in Health Award. If you have questions about those grandkids’ health, you know who to ask. And did you see Michael Rafter’s cameo in Marriage Story at the piano while Adam Driver sings “Being Alive”? Guess who coached Mr. Driver through the song? The arc of Robin Shaffert’s career as a disability rights lawyer has taken a local turn. After a decade working on national policy and programs in the disability community, she is now senior policy associate at the Georgetown University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disability and will be focusing on local, D.C. policy issues. Did someone say “retirement”? Nope.After 33 yearsat McKinsey, Tom French is taking a “gap year” to summit a few more big mountains. Mike Donoghue is eschewing retirement to serve as executive director of Catholic Charities for Fairfield County, Connecticut.

At an ’82 mini-reunion in Washington, D.C., I asked Kathy Boak Dubishar to share a 60th birthday wish. She’d love anything involving traveling with all four children and animal viewing. If a trip to the Arctic to see polar bears doesn’t come through, a little birdy told me that Kathy’s kids may surprise her with a trip to the San Diego Zoo! News from the West Coast includes these milestones shared by Winky Stearns Hussey: “March-August 2019 was pretty momentous for our family. Our daughter had a baby, one son got married, the other son matched for his internal medicine specialty at University of Washington in our hometown of Seattle. Both ‘boys’ bought homes, and on August 3 my husband, Peter, interred his father’s ashes in Maine and my mother died in New Hampshire. So many milestones.” Milestones, indeed. And in recognition of the fact that celebrating life’s milestones also means facing challenges, our class executive committee recently launched ’82 Compassion. This initiative connects classmates to serve as resources for each other. Our class has a long tradition of celebrating birthdays and sending condolence notes, and this initiative offers us other opportunities to show up for each other as a supportive community of ’82s during good times and bad. Thank you to Laura Davis, Sarah Lilja, Robin Shaffert, Cindy Willett Sherwood, Drea Papp Thorne, and Laurie Morris Betts for being among our pioneer ’82 Compassion volunteers. If you’d like to get involved, please drop me a line.

Finally, I am saddened to report that we recently learned that our classmate, Brian Fitzpatrick, died on December 4, 2018. Our thoughts are with his loved ones, family, and friends.

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net