Class Note 1983

Jul - Aug 2017

More news than space! On November 10, 2016, Monty Wilkinson received the U.S. Department of Justice Mary C. Lawton Lifetime Service Award at the department’s 64th annual awards ceremony. The award recognizes employees who have served at least 20 years in the U.S. Department of Justice and who have demonstrated high standards of excellence and dedication throughout their careers. The award is given only in exceptional circumstances, and Monty was the sole recipient of the award this year.

Kelly and Andre Hunter skied in the annual Donovan Invitational, held at Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. The event was hosted by Susie Donovan, along with her sisters, their respective husbands and their father. While Kelly and Andre brought home Nastar medals from the race, the bigger news was that they survived the wind chills that were running between minus-20 and minus-30 degrees! That night they were joined at the “awards banquet” by Sheila Kirby Zinc and Shelly Drake Hawkes.

Kelly and Andre saw Roger Baumann, Melissa Kaish Dorfman and Jeff Gardner at two events at the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) for their current production of the Object Lesson. Kelly is the board chair at NYTW and the group honored Dartmouth for their 25-year relationship at its annual gala in May (the workshop comes to Hanover each summer so the artists can work on plays and musicals that they are in the process of creating and refining; Rent was workshopped at Dartmouth before being produced by NYTW in New York and then going on to Broadway).

Jean Hanff Korelitz has written a new novel (see the last issue of DAM for an excerpt). The Devil and Webster is about a college president, a baffling student protest and some of the most hot-button issues on today’s college campuses. Check out Jean’s website at www.jeanhanffkorelitz.com.

You’ve all seen this news: Alice Ruth is Dartmouth’s new endowment manager.

Ruth Goldman was elected chairwoman of the Newton (Massachusetts) School committee. Ruth had been vice chair for several years.

Chris Marquet has merged his firm with SunBlock Systems Inc., a leading computer forensics, e-discovery, cyber-investigations and digital security firm, after 11 years of leading Marquet International. In his new role he will be leading SunBlock’s expanded investigative services division.

David Sadoff published Bringing International Fugitives to Justice: Extradition and Its Alternatives in 2016. David is the executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Since Dartmouth he’s received a J.D. from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in public international law and an LL.M. in international humanitarian law from the Université de Genève and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Our first-Friday lunches in New York City are pretty popular! If you’re interested and not getting the email invite, either drop me a line or go to Facebook: “Dartmouth Class of 1983.” In addition to David Ellis and Andre Hunter, attendees have included Rick Stafford, Stuart Birdt, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Andrew Davilman, Ron Brody, Kathy Bowler Mitchell, Melanie Law Shugart, Dan Rogers and Tom Bain. Forever green!