This just in regarding the class of 1984’s newest additions to leadership positions: Congratulations to Wendee Hunsinger Lunt for her appointment as class representative to the Alumni Council. Wendee writes: “Since graduating from Dartmouth I have lived in N.Y.C./suburban New Jersey. I am married to Geordie Lunt ’83 and have two daughters—Katie, who is a Dartmouth 2015, and Becca, a junior in high school. Both are driving now, so life (and the roads of north Jersey) is a little scarier these days! I have spent the last 25 years in various roles in luxury retail, working for global brands including Tiffany, Coach, Tumi and Dylan’s Candy Bar. For the last four years I’ve had a consulting practice, and enjoy making my own schedule. I am on the board of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a public high school in N.Y.C. founded on the belief that students who can express themselves well in writing will do better in life.” Many thanks to Marty Lempres, who preceded Wendee, for representing our class very well and we congratulate him for his appointment as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council!


Additionally, we have also selected four classmates to serve as charter class trustees—congratulations to Ruth Bedell, Christine Burnley Bucklin, Robert White and Ricardo Worl,who will join as ex officio members of the class executive committee. The class trustee is a new position, approved in our new class constitution and is designed to ensure that our class governance is proactive and directed for the good of the class and with the purpose of providing continuity and oversight. Thanks to Lucia Jackson, Kyle Gore and Eric Taylor for managing the nominating process. The illustrious and aforementioned Robert White writes: “I am taking my parents on a cruise in the South Pacific to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. My 90-year-old father, Robert White ’42, is one of the last Iwo Jima veterans alive. After sailing across the Pacific from Beijing, I am visiting Steve Compton in Anchorage, Alaska.”


On a different note, Eric Dezenhall’s latest novel is due out in July. It’s called The Devil Himself and is based on the true story of the U.S. Navy’s collaboration with organized crime figures in WW II to help secure the east coast waterfront from Nazi sabotage and help plan the invasion of Sicily. For those who have not followed Eric’s career, he co-founded the communications firm Dezenhall Resources Ltd. and serves as its CEO. His first book of nonfiction, Nail ’Em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Business, pioneered techniques for understanding and defusing crises. The author of five previous novels, he lives in the Washington, D.C., area.


Speaking of the greater Washington, D.C., area, Tom Callahan reports: “I’ve been with Lockheed Martin [LM] since 2007 after my time at the State Department. LM recently divested PAE Inc., a company it bought in 2006 and I’ve joined PAE as VP for government affairs. PAE does a lot of interesting work in expeditionary training and logistics for the State Department, the Department of Defense and the United Nations. Lots of work in sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. I’m looking forward to returning to Hanover this summer to attend my wife’s (Kathy Gord ’86) 25th reunion with our daughters Grace (14) and Claire (11). I am also looking forward to a motorcycle trip this summer with a couple South African friends from Johannesburg to the Makgadikgadi Salt Plains in Botswana. Our extended family currently includes a cat and four dogs—one of whom is a temporary resident sent to us by friends serving at the U.S. embassy in Yemen (no place for a Bernese mountain dog!).”


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