Class Note 1983
Spring has sprung! I hope by the time you all get this magazine, it will be summer! Some administrative things: If you haven’t been getting emails from our class, please be sure to update your email address with me! We’ve been sending out at least one email per month with information about mini-reunions and our big 50th birthday bash in Hanover this fall! By the time this magazine hits your mailboxes we will have had mini-reunions in Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles!
Peter Kilmarx hosted the Atlanta mini-reunion. He had three adventurous former classmates meet him: Suzy Alexander Viguiere, Stu Downs (and his wife) and Jeff Tharp (and his wife). “While we had not known each other well at Dartmouth, we had many single degrees of separation and enjoyed comparing notes on Dartmouth days, recent visits to Hanover, parenthood, college admissions, life in Atlanta, etc.”
And now on to the gossip: Thanks to my mother I learned that Tim Geithner was surfing in Half Moon Bay, California, this month. According to the local newspaper, he and his son were surfing (at an “intermediate/beginner level”) while a surf instructor taught his daughter. “They’re a very mellow, nice family,” said the instructor.
Being a little desperate for news, I called in a favor from none other than Paul Curnin. When I asked him to write about himself (in 200 words or less!) he yelled some obscure Lodge rule at me: Self-cite. Not being a member of the esteemed Boom-Boom Lodge, I pled ignorance and he filled me in: “Thank you for your kind invitation to let our classmates know what I’ve been up to for the last 28 years, in 200 words or less. I’m sure they have been eagerly awaiting this news. Well, I have five kids, ages 4 to 14 (Grace, Patrick, Shane, Charlie and Lexi), all of whom are healthy and several of whom show promise of one kind or another from time to time. We left downtown N.Y.C. two years ago, moved to the suburbs and acquired a lot of things powered by fossil fuel, which, of course, has been great. I’m co-head of litigation at Simpson Thacher + Bartlett, where I spend most of my time on securities matters and government investigations, as well as representing Charlie Winslow against various meritless allegations. I’m also in touch, but not often enough, with a few of the old Lodge boys, all of whom, possibly with one exception, seem to have settled down nicely. I do think of Hanover often, usually when my new knee sets off a metal detector.” He gave me a tiny bit more news about some of those Lodge boys but I promised I wouldn’t print it. You’re all safe, for now.
Geez…I should have asked him for 400 words.
Andre Hunter just sent me an article from The Wall Street Journal about Tory Rogers and the good work that she is doing to combat childhood obesity in Portland, Maine. Tory’s program, Let’s Go! began in 2004, when she saw lots of kids on the upper end of the growth curve. Let’s Go! has expanded to at least 345 schools, as well as child-care centers, medical practices and after-school programs across Maine. Communities and medical practices in other states have adopted it as well. Read all about it on our Facebook page, “Dartmouth Class of 1983.”
And, Frank Davis was just elected to his fourth term as a Milton, Massachusetts, town meeting member!
Please remember to pay your class dues and donate to the alumni fund by the end of June! Forever green!
—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@ yahoo.com
