Class Note 1984
Issue
May - June 2016
In our never-ending quest to bring you, our dear classmates, only the most up-to-date scintillating information, we’ve farmed out our column this month to our own Ted Cooperstein. Thank you, Ted! We assume our good thanks will be enough. If not, we’ll buy you a beer at the next reunion. Wait, the beers are free? Then we’ll buy you two beers! This is where I’d put an emoji, but alas, it’s not permitted by the constraints of the DAM style.
And now in Ted’s words, let our column begin: “I am still an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of Florida, prosecuting federal felony crimes out of the U.S. courthouse in Fort Pierce. This past year has been a good one for connecting and seeing ’84 friends. In January 2015 I went to Hanover for the Club and Group Officers Weekend (CAGOW), representing the Dartmouth Club of Vero Beach, for whom I am the treasurer (as well as the youngest member, I think). I traveled to Hanover by way of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I stayed one night with Zete brother Brian Kinney and his family.
“In early February Kaz Lawler made a point of returning to his Boise, Idaho, home from a convention in Miami, by way of visiting us before flying out of Melbourne, Florida. Highlights included a dinner at a Japanese-style steakhouse, which prompted comparisons, through dim memory, of the late Pagoda restaurant in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, during our undergrad days.
“At CAGOW I sat at the Floridian lunch table with Dr. Ivan Castro, president of the Orlando alumni club. In June Ivan converged on Vero Beach at the same time as Ted von Hippel and his wife, Pamela, to join us for a minor mini-reunion weekend. Not long after that Ted and Pamela relocated north of us to Daytona Beach, where Ted is a tenured professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Ted and I regularly correspond and debate by email on varied and sundry topics, along with Mike Salzhauer and Geoff Berlin. We have yet to reach consensus on a group nickname, let alone most other topics, for that matter, but Ted and I are conspiring to arrange a face-to-face meeting of the full foursome here in Florida when it should prove possible.
“All classmates are welcome to contact us and drop by as well if you should pass through southern Florida. As a result of this year’s visits Ted and Pamela von Hippel now are tied in first place for the number of visits to see us in Vero Beach, along with Kaz Lawler (who with his wife, Anne, was gracious enough to take part in our 2008 wedding in Florida) and with Al Chaker, who also has been to see us twice. Honorable mention goes to Jim Schaefer, who only made it so far north as Stuart, Florida, but we have hopes of seeing him again, too.”
Next month we’ll hear more lies, I mean stories, from Eric Grubman.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; (315) 682-5501; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net
And now in Ted’s words, let our column begin: “I am still an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of Florida, prosecuting federal felony crimes out of the U.S. courthouse in Fort Pierce. This past year has been a good one for connecting and seeing ’84 friends. In January 2015 I went to Hanover for the Club and Group Officers Weekend (CAGOW), representing the Dartmouth Club of Vero Beach, for whom I am the treasurer (as well as the youngest member, I think). I traveled to Hanover by way of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I stayed one night with Zete brother Brian Kinney and his family.
“In early February Kaz Lawler made a point of returning to his Boise, Idaho, home from a convention in Miami, by way of visiting us before flying out of Melbourne, Florida. Highlights included a dinner at a Japanese-style steakhouse, which prompted comparisons, through dim memory, of the late Pagoda restaurant in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, during our undergrad days.
“At CAGOW I sat at the Floridian lunch table with Dr. Ivan Castro, president of the Orlando alumni club. In June Ivan converged on Vero Beach at the same time as Ted von Hippel and his wife, Pamela, to join us for a minor mini-reunion weekend. Not long after that Ted and Pamela relocated north of us to Daytona Beach, where Ted is a tenured professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Ted and I regularly correspond and debate by email on varied and sundry topics, along with Mike Salzhauer and Geoff Berlin. We have yet to reach consensus on a group nickname, let alone most other topics, for that matter, but Ted and I are conspiring to arrange a face-to-face meeting of the full foursome here in Florida when it should prove possible.
“All classmates are welcome to contact us and drop by as well if you should pass through southern Florida. As a result of this year’s visits Ted and Pamela von Hippel now are tied in first place for the number of visits to see us in Vero Beach, along with Kaz Lawler (who with his wife, Anne, was gracious enough to take part in our 2008 wedding in Florida) and with Al Chaker, who also has been to see us twice. Honorable mention goes to Jim Schaefer, who only made it so far north as Stuart, Florida, but we have hopes of seeing him again, too.”
Next month we’ll hear more lies, I mean stories, from Eric Grubman.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; (315) 682-5501; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net