Class Note 1982
Issue
May-June 2020
By the time you read this column, many classmates will be heading to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for our 60th birthday reunion at the Hotel La Posada de Santa Fe. It will take place May 1-3 and include a variety of activities, such as hiking, golf, art walks, visits to museums, biking, and time to just relax and catch up with classmates or make new friends. Thanks to Sue Elliott for organizing such a fun event to celebrate such a birthday milestone for many of us. Stay tuned for a full report of the fun weekend.
Thanks to our daily birthday emails, Bill Best and Colin McNay discovered that they shared a birthday. They were high school classmates and never knew that. And Ben Tongue and Laura Morrell Hicks not only share a birthday, but they were born in the same hospital. It is a small world!
As I write this column, the Iowa caucuses just took place. Mark Weinhardt is a lawyer in Des Moines. His firm specializes in white collar criminal defense and complex business litigation. Mark is listed by Super Lawyers as one of the top 10 attorneys in Iowa and he is the only Iowan among the International Academy of Trial Lawyers 500 attorneys under 70 years of age.
Tom French is celebrating his retirement by listening to the mother abbess in The Sound of Music who advised Maria to “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.” Last year Tom and his son, Will, climbed Mount Vinson in Antarctica. Tom traveled to Argentina in January to climb a route on Aconcagua and in March Tom is scheduled to head to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. Above the girdled earth they roam!
My birthday twin, Marty Jacobs, is making progress on her Ph.D. (after a series of health challenges last year), after successfully defending her dissertation proposal last June and having her institutional review board application accepted in the fall in record time. She is on track to finish this summer and graduate in September. Looking forward to another doctor in the class!
Eric Fisher is an architect in Pittsburgh. He writes, “I worked in Berlin for six months as an architect just before I completed grad school in 1987. That was a couple years prior to the wall coming down. I lived near the Ku’damm on Bleibtreustrasse and rowed when I could with the Berliner Ruder Club out in Wannsee. I had many adventures for sure, but the coolest thing I did was take a week off and bicycle from Freiburg over the Gotthard Pass down to Florence.”
The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth is working with our class to put together a panel of speakers on campus in the spring called “Post Great Issues Scholars: Perspectives and Pathways.” This event is supported by the Class of 1982 Fund for Great Issues Innovation, where we are partnering with the class of 1957.
As we enter a new decade, what is the most interesting place that you visited this past decade and why? Please email me!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com
Thanks to our daily birthday emails, Bill Best and Colin McNay discovered that they shared a birthday. They were high school classmates and never knew that. And Ben Tongue and Laura Morrell Hicks not only share a birthday, but they were born in the same hospital. It is a small world!
As I write this column, the Iowa caucuses just took place. Mark Weinhardt is a lawyer in Des Moines. His firm specializes in white collar criminal defense and complex business litigation. Mark is listed by Super Lawyers as one of the top 10 attorneys in Iowa and he is the only Iowan among the International Academy of Trial Lawyers 500 attorneys under 70 years of age.
Tom French is celebrating his retirement by listening to the mother abbess in The Sound of Music who advised Maria to “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.” Last year Tom and his son, Will, climbed Mount Vinson in Antarctica. Tom traveled to Argentina in January to climb a route on Aconcagua and in March Tom is scheduled to head to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. Above the girdled earth they roam!
My birthday twin, Marty Jacobs, is making progress on her Ph.D. (after a series of health challenges last year), after successfully defending her dissertation proposal last June and having her institutional review board application accepted in the fall in record time. She is on track to finish this summer and graduate in September. Looking forward to another doctor in the class!
Eric Fisher is an architect in Pittsburgh. He writes, “I worked in Berlin for six months as an architect just before I completed grad school in 1987. That was a couple years prior to the wall coming down. I lived near the Ku’damm on Bleibtreustrasse and rowed when I could with the Berliner Ruder Club out in Wannsee. I had many adventures for sure, but the coolest thing I did was take a week off and bicycle from Freiburg over the Gotthard Pass down to Florence.”
The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth is working with our class to put together a panel of speakers on campus in the spring called “Post Great Issues Scholars: Perspectives and Pathways.” This event is supported by the Class of 1982 Fund for Great Issues Innovation, where we are partnering with the class of 1957.
As we enter a new decade, what is the most interesting place that you visited this past decade and why? Please email me!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com