Classes & Obits

Class Note 1983

Issue

Sept - Oct 2019

After 20 years in N.Y.C., Guy Bacigalupi has moved to Dublin, where, despite the move, he continues to work for the same company (Aircastle, which leases aircraft to airlines), in the same job (chief risk officer), with the same boss. His role keeps him traveling around the world evaluating such things as the values of guarantees from various governments. Guy’s oldest child, Alexia, graduated from the University of Chicago in June. His middle child, Noemie, recently finished her freshman year at Duke, and his youngest, Jeremy, lives in London with his mother and started high school at the American School in London. Guy is still in regular touch with Alex Stein, Geoff Durno, Larry Ramin, Sal Caruso, and Paul Fechtelkotter and gets back to New York and Connecticut regularly for work and to San Francisco a couple times a year to see his mother. He would love to catch up with classmates in any of those locations. Continuing with an Irish theme, but back in the United States, Kelley Bishop, Carrick Eggleston, and Tom McKean have been recording Irish and Scottish music with fiddler Sarah Collins (daughter of Dennis Collins ’80) in preparation for their band’s 2020 European tour. They formed their band, DunCreagan, in 1980 with classmate Rick Gagné. After many years apart, the members had been planning to reunite, but Rick’s death in 2014 was a sharp wakeup call. Since 2015 the band has been doing short tours each year in Europe and the United States, with Elise Morse-Gagné on vocals and flute. Next summer the band will be performing in Europe again, so please follow its website—www.duncreagan.com—or sign up for the mailing list and let your Euro-friends know. Tom writes that it’s good to celebrate friendship and music, but the biggest lesson is not to wait! Get together with old friends now! Laura Stephens Robinson has relocated to Beaufort, South Carolina, with her husband, Dave Robinson, Tu’83. Laura writes that although she took only one art class at Dartmouth, she was a regular at the pottery studio down by the Connecticut River and since graduation has taken many art classes. She describes herself as a multimedia artist. Recently the Association of Traditional Rug Hooking Artists (ATHA) featured one of Laura’s rugs, titled The Ta-dah Sisters, in a two-page article in the April/May international issue of ATHA Magazine. The work is an impressionistic picture in wool of Laura’s three daughters on a glorious day at the beach. Talking about daughters, Nancy Bick and Tory Rogers ran into each other while attending their respective daughters’ graduations at Colby College in Maine, while back in Hanover, several classmates witnessed their children graduate from Dartmouth, including Robin Henning Rochi, Kathy Hoes Provost, and Becky Walcott Ankeny. We are seeking international ’83 voices crying in the wilderness for an international-themed column later this year. Please submit news and announcements to dart838383mouth@gmail.com.

Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com