Class Note 1982
Issue
March-April 2021
How did ’82s spend this past Covid-quarantine year? Innovating, surviving, grieving, reflecting, protesting, turning 60, and celebrating personal milestones that marked a year like no other. Here’s a roundup from the past 12 months.
John Gaudioso quarantined in New Jersey, “I’m equidistant between my boys, one in New Haven, Connecticut, one in Baltimore. My daughter is out in Denver. This is the longest stretch ever (more than a year) without seeing her.”
Multitalented Dr. Tee Lotson joined the board of directors of the N.Y. Road Runners Club. Hat tip to Tom Daniels, a fellow road runner, for that news.
It’s been a decade since David Plekenpol rode the smartphone wave to take a job with AAC in China. But during Covid David and Victoria quarantined in Colorado—living, not vacationing, in their U.S. residence. Starting in 2021 Plek anticipates splitting time between Shenzhen, Colorado, and Europe. Archaeologist Eric Cline has been busy—if not collecting artifacts from beneath the ground, then collecting accolades for his recent book, Digging Up Armageddon, which was named one of The Federalist’s“Notable Books for 2020.”
Jay Geller, lawyering in Falmouth, Maine, reflected: “I think the pandemic has been much harder on young families than on us old farts. I am most looking forward to the relief that they will experience by getting their lives back—returning to school and a more normal work environment. I miss seeing and being able to hug my godson and his siblings and occasionally giving their parents a break while the kids do a sleepover at our house.”
Betsy and Doug Latham quarantined with their youngest son (age 30). Doug works for a company that provides ebooks to college students. Betsy is a certified public accountant near Boston. “Being able to see friends and family is our wish for the new year. We are grateful to have jobs, a home where we can get out into nature, and the love of family and friends.”
We’ve got some inspiring amateur photographers in our class, among them Sarah Riddle Lilja, David Silbersweig, and Dan Gilman. If you are a photographer, feel free to post to the ’82 Facebook page, and if you delight in interesting photos and are on Instagram, do follow our official class Instagram account: @Dartmouth1982.
Class of ’82 doing good: Belated kudos to Steve Whitely, a York (Pennsylvania) Suburban High School teacher who received the 2020 Mini-Thon Leadership Development Award for helping his students raise more than $480,000 toward the fight against childhood cancer.
On his 60th birthday Hank Malin reported that it was a “beautiful day in Ohio (not an oxymoron) and our younger son is here to celebrate, so it’s a great day to turn 60. Here’s to a healthy and more civil and harmonious year ahead. I’m already looking forward to our 40th reunion, which will be here before we know it!” Hank’s right: Your class officers are starting to make a plan for June 2023! If you’d like to be involved in planning our 40th, please let our class president, George Thompson, know at gthompson@gthompsonlegal.com.
—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
John Gaudioso quarantined in New Jersey, “I’m equidistant between my boys, one in New Haven, Connecticut, one in Baltimore. My daughter is out in Denver. This is the longest stretch ever (more than a year) without seeing her.”
Multitalented Dr. Tee Lotson joined the board of directors of the N.Y. Road Runners Club. Hat tip to Tom Daniels, a fellow road runner, for that news.
It’s been a decade since David Plekenpol rode the smartphone wave to take a job with AAC in China. But during Covid David and Victoria quarantined in Colorado—living, not vacationing, in their U.S. residence. Starting in 2021 Plek anticipates splitting time between Shenzhen, Colorado, and Europe. Archaeologist Eric Cline has been busy—if not collecting artifacts from beneath the ground, then collecting accolades for his recent book, Digging Up Armageddon, which was named one of The Federalist’s“Notable Books for 2020.”
Jay Geller, lawyering in Falmouth, Maine, reflected: “I think the pandemic has been much harder on young families than on us old farts. I am most looking forward to the relief that they will experience by getting their lives back—returning to school and a more normal work environment. I miss seeing and being able to hug my godson and his siblings and occasionally giving their parents a break while the kids do a sleepover at our house.”
Betsy and Doug Latham quarantined with their youngest son (age 30). Doug works for a company that provides ebooks to college students. Betsy is a certified public accountant near Boston. “Being able to see friends and family is our wish for the new year. We are grateful to have jobs, a home where we can get out into nature, and the love of family and friends.”
We’ve got some inspiring amateur photographers in our class, among them Sarah Riddle Lilja, David Silbersweig, and Dan Gilman. If you are a photographer, feel free to post to the ’82 Facebook page, and if you delight in interesting photos and are on Instagram, do follow our official class Instagram account: @Dartmouth1982.
Class of ’82 doing good: Belated kudos to Steve Whitely, a York (Pennsylvania) Suburban High School teacher who received the 2020 Mini-Thon Leadership Development Award for helping his students raise more than $480,000 toward the fight against childhood cancer.
On his 60th birthday Hank Malin reported that it was a “beautiful day in Ohio (not an oxymoron) and our younger son is here to celebrate, so it’s a great day to turn 60. Here’s to a healthy and more civil and harmonious year ahead. I’m already looking forward to our 40th reunion, which will be here before we know it!” Hank’s right: Your class officers are starting to make a plan for June 2023! If you’d like to be involved in planning our 40th, please let our class president, George Thompson, know at gthompson@gthompsonlegal.com.
—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net