Class Note 1984
Issue
We’ve yet to write anything even remotely timely since we were handed over our 1984 class secretarial duties. Probably because we have a hard enough time planning day to day to try to calculate two months out (this column is always published two months after we write it). So in an attempt to try and come up with something timely, we wracked our brains for days and came up with Halloween!
As a parent, I’m sure that this holiday is nobody’s favorite. Buying expensive costumes, going door-to-door trick-or-treating with our kids or wondering where they are or what trouble they are getting into (if they are teenagers and acted anything like us when we were growing up!). And then there is the candy—an obvious parental, dental nightmare. To manage the inflow of sweets, a friend told us years ago that we should tell our children that they can keep 10 pieces (of the hundreds they received) and that the rest was being given to those less fortunate. Our friend then instructed us to dump the excess in the garbage. That trick worked for years until our youngest queried, “If they are less fortunate, why are we giving them candy, which is unhealthy and bad for their teeth?” Busted!
Anyway, although today many of you probably grumble on the days leading toward Halloween, we know that you enjoyed it back then. For instance, Revell Horsey once accompanied me (Jan) to a Sigma Kappa formal that was so rudely scheduled on, you guessed it, Halloween. As a joke, we dressed up like a homeless old man and lady and with our masks on, went undetected almost the entire night (they thought we were just weirdos who crashed the party!) These days Revell finds himself recently remarried!
After an adventurous wedding ceremony during a Nor’easter at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Revell returned to West Hartford, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Katherine, and her children. During the week, however, Revell calls Washington, D.C., home. There he is busy with his startup, HelloWallet. The new service provides its members with customized financial plans, 24/7 personal money management and monitoring and an individualized bank shopper service, which looks at more than 50,000 different financial products to find better prices for its members. Most recently HelloWallet was featured on ABC news as a startup to watch! You can read more about it at www.hellowallet.com.
On October 31, back in the day in Hanover, Roy Forbes could be found trying to impersonate the “emperor’s new clothes” at the local cemetery or perhaps he was attempting to be the Invisible Man. In any event, he eluded arrest for indecent exposure and more recently has decided to wear clothes from his wife’s organic clothing line, Raw Earth Wild Sky. (Oops, I guess that’s women’s clothing.) Fresh from the outback, Roy writes: “Literally just got back two hours ago from a multi-day backpack trek at 11,000 feet in the Sierras with my wife, Samantha, 9-year-old daughter Merryn and Australian shepherd Hobie. We’re living in L.A. in a 1923 Spanish house we just updated with solar panels, so doing our part for the earth. For the past four years I’ve been director of business development for Grossman Burn Centers, a medical practice specializing in the comprehensive treatment of burn injuries. When I’m not working I’m out on the ice, playing hockey every Tuesday! More importantly, Merryn just completed softball all-stars with the daughters of three other Dartmouth alums: Ian Weiner ’83, Chris Frisina ’88 and Sonia Ooten ’89. We have the nucleus of Dartmouth’s future women’s softball team right here in L.A.!”
—Jan Gordon and Derek Chow, 132 Wildcat Lane, Boulder, CO 80304; (303) 448-1580; janandderek @comcast.net
Nov - Dec 2010
We’ve yet to write anything even remotely timely since we were handed over our 1984 class secretarial duties. Probably because we have a hard enough time planning day to day to try to calculate two months out (this column is always published two months after we write it). So in an attempt to try and come up with something timely, we wracked our brains for days and came up with Halloween!
As a parent, I’m sure that this holiday is nobody’s favorite. Buying expensive costumes, going door-to-door trick-or-treating with our kids or wondering where they are or what trouble they are getting into (if they are teenagers and acted anything like us when we were growing up!). And then there is the candy—an obvious parental, dental nightmare. To manage the inflow of sweets, a friend told us years ago that we should tell our children that they can keep 10 pieces (of the hundreds they received) and that the rest was being given to those less fortunate. Our friend then instructed us to dump the excess in the garbage. That trick worked for years until our youngest queried, “If they are less fortunate, why are we giving them candy, which is unhealthy and bad for their teeth?” Busted!
Anyway, although today many of you probably grumble on the days leading toward Halloween, we know that you enjoyed it back then. For instance, Revell Horsey once accompanied me (Jan) to a Sigma Kappa formal that was so rudely scheduled on, you guessed it, Halloween. As a joke, we dressed up like a homeless old man and lady and with our masks on, went undetected almost the entire night (they thought we were just weirdos who crashed the party!) These days Revell finds himself recently remarried!
After an adventurous wedding ceremony during a Nor’easter at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Revell returned to West Hartford, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Katherine, and her children. During the week, however, Revell calls Washington, D.C., home. There he is busy with his startup, HelloWallet. The new service provides its members with customized financial plans, 24/7 personal money management and monitoring and an individualized bank shopper service, which looks at more than 50,000 different financial products to find better prices for its members. Most recently HelloWallet was featured on ABC news as a startup to watch! You can read more about it at www.hellowallet.com.
On October 31, back in the day in Hanover, Roy Forbes could be found trying to impersonate the “emperor’s new clothes” at the local cemetery or perhaps he was attempting to be the Invisible Man. In any event, he eluded arrest for indecent exposure and more recently has decided to wear clothes from his wife’s organic clothing line, Raw Earth Wild Sky. (Oops, I guess that’s women’s clothing.) Fresh from the outback, Roy writes: “Literally just got back two hours ago from a multi-day backpack trek at 11,000 feet in the Sierras with my wife, Samantha, 9-year-old daughter Merryn and Australian shepherd Hobie. We’re living in L.A. in a 1923 Spanish house we just updated with solar panels, so doing our part for the earth. For the past four years I’ve been director of business development for Grossman Burn Centers, a medical practice specializing in the comprehensive treatment of burn injuries. When I’m not working I’m out on the ice, playing hockey every Tuesday! More importantly, Merryn just completed softball all-stars with the daughters of three other Dartmouth alums: Ian Weiner ’83, Chris Frisina ’88 and Sonia Ooten ’89. We have the nucleus of Dartmouth’s future women’s softball team right here in L.A.!”
—Jan Gordon and Derek Chow, 132 Wildcat Lane, Boulder, CO 80304; (303) 448-1580; janandderek @comcast.net