Class Note 1984
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Dear ’84s, by the time you read this column, you might be feeling the post-reunion blues. Signs of this illness include but are not limited to singing Dear Old Dartmouth for an hour in the shower, adding green food coloring to your beer, and having everything you say be “subject-verb-Dartmouth.” But never fear, your faithful class secretary is here to offer tips to cure you of the Dartmouth clamantis caesitas. Yeah, that’s Latin.
You could chip in to Ed Kenealy’s GoFundMe Page. Word on the street is that he’s seeking donations for his presidential library. Now that he’s officially retired from acting as our class president, he’s going to build a library in his home state of Massachusetts. I heard he wants a whole wall of Dr. Seuss. See Ed Go. He’s also going to take up painting.
Handling Ed’s GoFundMe is Julie Levenson, our fearless class treasurer (who we’d better hope gets re-elected). She suggests you send her some loose change so we can increase our class participation. Wait, that was Eric Grubman’s idea, not Julie’s. And speaking of Eric, if we’re not re-elected as class secretaries, Eric will be writing a tell-all book about our class.
Other ways to get over that post-reunion ennui…consider trying ISOThrive. No, this is not an infomercial but our very own Jack Oswald, who is the cofounder of this hot new microbiome company. ISOThrive’s initial product is a microfood nectar that provides a missing nutrient for gut bacteria. Sounds like the cleanse we will all need after our reunion. But, hey, wasn’t the food great? We can all thank Wendee Lunt and Heather Keare for chairing that at reunion.
Glen French says golf is another great way to cope. After all grass is green. I highlighted that so you’d get the connection. Glen and his wife moved 20 years ago to Silicon Valley, where he’s been involved in starting a few medical device companies. You probably heard a lot from Glen, George Strander, and Leigh Miller Garry in the past month as they tried to encourage you to come to reunion. Now they’ve all got too much time on their hands and are helping out with Ed’s library.
Therese White gave birth after our 25th reunion. So, that’s an idea. Have another kid after our 35th reunion. That will keep your life busy and you’ll have no time to miss your ’84 classmates. Therese is also a plastic surgeon, so we know why she looked so gorgeous at reunion. She also likes Homecoming bonfires, kittens, and hanging out in Hanover.
And if these ideas aren’t helping you cure the post-reunion blues, Chuck Goss invites you to join him at the New Hampshire seacoast, where he’s surfing, I mean preserving the historic Powder Major’s Farm. Chuck says he hopes to have New Hampshire’s role in the Revolutionary War be more thoroughly preserved and better remembered. So, there you have it. Some great ways to stop missing your ’84 classmates.
—Juliet Aires Giglio,4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net
You could chip in to Ed Kenealy’s GoFundMe Page. Word on the street is that he’s seeking donations for his presidential library. Now that he’s officially retired from acting as our class president, he’s going to build a library in his home state of Massachusetts. I heard he wants a whole wall of Dr. Seuss. See Ed Go. He’s also going to take up painting.
Handling Ed’s GoFundMe is Julie Levenson, our fearless class treasurer (who we’d better hope gets re-elected). She suggests you send her some loose change so we can increase our class participation. Wait, that was Eric Grubman’s idea, not Julie’s. And speaking of Eric, if we’re not re-elected as class secretaries, Eric will be writing a tell-all book about our class.
Other ways to get over that post-reunion ennui…consider trying ISOThrive. No, this is not an infomercial but our very own Jack Oswald, who is the cofounder of this hot new microbiome company. ISOThrive’s initial product is a microfood nectar that provides a missing nutrient for gut bacteria. Sounds like the cleanse we will all need after our reunion. But, hey, wasn’t the food great? We can all thank Wendee Lunt and Heather Keare for chairing that at reunion.
Glen French says golf is another great way to cope. After all grass is green. I highlighted that so you’d get the connection. Glen and his wife moved 20 years ago to Silicon Valley, where he’s been involved in starting a few medical device companies. You probably heard a lot from Glen, George Strander, and Leigh Miller Garry in the past month as they tried to encourage you to come to reunion. Now they’ve all got too much time on their hands and are helping out with Ed’s library.
Therese White gave birth after our 25th reunion. So, that’s an idea. Have another kid after our 35th reunion. That will keep your life busy and you’ll have no time to miss your ’84 classmates. Therese is also a plastic surgeon, so we know why she looked so gorgeous at reunion. She also likes Homecoming bonfires, kittens, and hanging out in Hanover.
And if these ideas aren’t helping you cure the post-reunion blues, Chuck Goss invites you to join him at the New Hampshire seacoast, where he’s surfing, I mean preserving the historic Powder Major’s Farm. Chuck says he hopes to have New Hampshire’s role in the Revolutionary War be more thoroughly preserved and better remembered. So, there you have it. Some great ways to stop missing your ’84 classmates.
—Juliet Aires Giglio,4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net