Class Note 1982
Issue
July-August 2024
This column will write itself since I attended the spectacular Park City, Utah, mini-reunion in March. But first, a report on one of those Dartmouth love-fests that happens because, well, Dartmouth is weird and special.
In 2022 John Nicholson and I were both in Hanover celebrating Tee Lotson’s Dartmouth Alumni Award. There were about 12 ’82s toasting Tee and over drinks at the Hanover Inn afterwards John mentioned Gary Levine’s class of ’19 daughter was considering the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Would I mind talking to her? I live in Bloomington and graduated from Maurer (as did Sam Laurin and Ernest Brewer). Of course I would talk to her. Emily Levine soon called and we talked for an hour—at least. We both sang in a cappella groups. Need we say more? The upshot: Emily signed up for Maurer and then signed up in year two for the same O’Neill School joint J.D./M.P.A. degree I did. We meet for coffee once or twice a semester, she joined our kids and us for Thanksgiving dinner at a local Indian restaurant, and I ran into Emily and her visiting mother, Cathy Sneider Levine, walking in a Bloomington park one evening. I finally got to meet the charming Levine parents again at reunion! Mentoring the next generation—part of the D pact.
Now to Park City. Listing attendees may take the rest of my word limit. Huge thanks to Mike Berg for organizing an amazing event that went off without a hitch. And huge thanks to Mike Sapers and wife Marci, Dana Burroughs Klinges and husband Dave Klinges ’79, and Kristin Farrish Shaw and husband Tiger Shaw ’85 for hosting all of us on three successive nights for delicious dinners at their beautiful homes. Mike Sapers also served as a ski guide, along with Eric Einhorn.Other ’82 attendees included Lee Apgar, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger, Dave Britton, Susan Burkhardt, Alison Schmults Burns, Ian Campbell, Brad Carpenter, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Tom Daniels, Vaune Dugan, Rosi Dupre Littlefield, David Eichman, Peter Feer, Martha Hill Gaskill, Dan Gilman, Cathy Judd-Stein, Betsy Leggat, Peter Moran, Sherri Carroll Oberg, Howard Tung, Beth Haffenreffer Scholle, Malcolm Robinson, Gail Sullivan, and Libbet Waterman McKeon. There were also spouses, partners, and friends who added wonderfully to the festivities, for 49 total (31 classmates, 18 guests). The weather was perfect, the snow excellent, and I am incredibly impressed at how many good skiers we have among us—and we’re still braving the slopes. May we continue into our 80s and beyond.
There will be more in future communiques about our ’82 class celebrations of the 82nd day of 2024, which just wrapped as I write. There were lots of Zooms and in-person events that were really fun! Everyone wants to do more of it and sooner rather than later.
And a final sad note that we lost another classmate, Lisa Greeley. Look for an alumni magazine obituary in the coming weeks. Our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.
—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
In 2022 John Nicholson and I were both in Hanover celebrating Tee Lotson’s Dartmouth Alumni Award. There were about 12 ’82s toasting Tee and over drinks at the Hanover Inn afterwards John mentioned Gary Levine’s class of ’19 daughter was considering the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Would I mind talking to her? I live in Bloomington and graduated from Maurer (as did Sam Laurin and Ernest Brewer). Of course I would talk to her. Emily Levine soon called and we talked for an hour—at least. We both sang in a cappella groups. Need we say more? The upshot: Emily signed up for Maurer and then signed up in year two for the same O’Neill School joint J.D./M.P.A. degree I did. We meet for coffee once or twice a semester, she joined our kids and us for Thanksgiving dinner at a local Indian restaurant, and I ran into Emily and her visiting mother, Cathy Sneider Levine, walking in a Bloomington park one evening. I finally got to meet the charming Levine parents again at reunion! Mentoring the next generation—part of the D pact.
Now to Park City. Listing attendees may take the rest of my word limit. Huge thanks to Mike Berg for organizing an amazing event that went off without a hitch. And huge thanks to Mike Sapers and wife Marci, Dana Burroughs Klinges and husband Dave Klinges ’79, and Kristin Farrish Shaw and husband Tiger Shaw ’85 for hosting all of us on three successive nights for delicious dinners at their beautiful homes. Mike Sapers also served as a ski guide, along with Eric Einhorn.Other ’82 attendees included Lee Apgar, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger, Dave Britton, Susan Burkhardt, Alison Schmults Burns, Ian Campbell, Brad Carpenter, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Tom Daniels, Vaune Dugan, Rosi Dupre Littlefield, David Eichman, Peter Feer, Martha Hill Gaskill, Dan Gilman, Cathy Judd-Stein, Betsy Leggat, Peter Moran, Sherri Carroll Oberg, Howard Tung, Beth Haffenreffer Scholle, Malcolm Robinson, Gail Sullivan, and Libbet Waterman McKeon. There were also spouses, partners, and friends who added wonderfully to the festivities, for 49 total (31 classmates, 18 guests). The weather was perfect, the snow excellent, and I am incredibly impressed at how many good skiers we have among us—and we’re still braving the slopes. May we continue into our 80s and beyond.
There will be more in future communiques about our ’82 class celebrations of the 82nd day of 2024, which just wrapped as I write. There were lots of Zooms and in-person events that were really fun! Everyone wants to do more of it and sooner rather than later.
And a final sad note that we lost another classmate, Lisa Greeley. Look for an alumni magazine obituary in the coming weeks. Our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.
—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net