Class Note 1984
For this month’s column, always written at the busiest time of year, I thank Derek for his holiday leftovers. (The stuff that reached him after our last deadline!) Always the best part!
From Marsha Trant: “I just returned from a very quick (16-hour) trip to Hanover. I’ve had more time there in the last six months than in the past five years as my son Evan started this fall as a ’17. It’s brought up all kinds of fun class connections. First, his trip leader, Ed Kennealy’s son Andrew, gave him a great introduction to his freshman year. When we arrived after his trip to move him into his dorm we had fun catching up with Beth McGee, who is teaching art in a neighboring town. On a more personal note, I’m working at IBM (still—24 years!—I must be in a rut) as the VP for global cloud sales. Cloud is a pretty interesting space and I get some good opportunities for global travel so on balance it’s still fun. I live in Ellicott City, a Baltimore-D.C. suburb, with my husband, Jordan, daughter Claire, dog and two cats. (We’re adjusting to being one kid down!) I also spend a lot of time volunteering as a youth leader at church.”
From Mary Meeker Alber: “I now have in hand a Ph.D. in transformative learning and change and am currently writing a condensed, user-friendly version of my dissertation (from 450 to 50 pages if possible!). From that resource I aim to help students and education and business organizations develop themselves through discovering and leveraging their unique passions, talents and collaborability (new word I just coined!). Also thinking about how to apply the process to those of us at this midlife juncture when big shifts in our sense of purpose and future are surely under way for many of us.” (Okay, where do I sign up?) From Viva Hardig: “My husband, two sons and I are moving to Hanover next summer from Greenwich, Connecticut. Having grown up milking goats, chopping wood and cross-country skiing on a farm in western Massachusetts, it was only a matter of time before I heeded the call of the North Country. I hope classmates visiting Hanover will come and find us at 34 Reservoir Road, the last house on the left on the way to Storr’s Pond. Among other things, we are looking forward to being within walking distance of Anna Sonnerup’s childhood home and her parents.”
And lastly from Jennifer Kelly: “I’ve been living in Walpole, New Hampshire, since 1993, married since 1990, one son, Sean, who is studying for a B.F.A. in acting at Chicago College of Performing Arts. I’ve been a freelance financial writer since about 1988, when my last employer, Drexel Burnham Lambert, flamed out in a blaze of something besides glory. Just for fun I also write about music for a few online websites. I’m still a runner but probably not a marathoner anymore (those 50-ish joints finally getting tired of me). I go to Dartmouth once in a while, never on any kind of official reunion-type occasion, but just to be there. It still makes me happy in a way I can’t explain.”
—Jan Gordon and Derek Chow, 132 Wildcat Lane, Boulder, CO 80304; (303) 448-1580; janandderek@comcast.net
