Class Note 1984
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
As the year 2019 comes to an end, and I watch yet another heart-warming Lifetime holiday movie, I take a moment to reflect with some classmates.
After a long career in journalism, Susan Schoenberger now works as the director of communications for Hartford Seminary, an interfaith graduate school. Her 2019 highlights include making the last tuition payment after putting three kids through college and signing a contract for her next book, The Liability of Love, due out in 2021.
Ray Wood spends his days working in N.Y.C. and traveling across the United States, Europe, and Asia. For fun he took several trips to the Upper Valley and Vermont to visit his daughter at Middlebury and his parents in Hanover. Best thing to happen to Ray in 2019 was a new 4-month-old puppy at home.
For Linda Freeley the best part of 2019 was reuniting on vacation in Mexico City with Barbara Mair. Naturally they spent lots of reminiscing about their ’84 Dartmouth days. It was a magical time!
Speaking of magical, that’s what it was for Mary Fabio when she happened to run into Carla Small and Bob Cronin in N.Y.C.’s East Village.Mary was moving her daughter, Emma, a new University of Virginia graduate, into N.Y.C., just by luck two buildings down from Michaela Cronin (Carla Small and Bob Cronin’s daughter). “Getting one kid off the payroll” was another 2019 highlight. Mary ran into more classmates at Homecoming, where she saw Heather Keare, Chris Huff, Wendee Hunsinger Lundt, Willa Ridinger,Carla Small,and Amy Eisenberg Folbe.And when she’s not busy with her own children, Mary is working at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as a pediatrician and director of the CHOP Refugee Health Program.
And our class jetsetter, Ed Keannely, wrote me as he was landing in London: “I have had a really great 2019, so hard to think of one ‘best’ thing. Work took me to Washington, D.C., a lot this year and I got to see both my kids, who have been there since they graduated from college. The other good thing is that we got to spend a great deal of time in Maine at a cottage on Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, that we bought at the end of 2018 and spent time and energy renovating. Had great visits from Anjali Chuttani and Paul Groark.”
And from another world traveler, Elizabeth Miles Waring, I heard: “Hmm, just waking up in Seoul (Korea is a new country for me!). I’ve been busy getting ready for Apple TV+. The best thing about 2019 has been reconnecting with people—I saw Karen Plafker for the first time in years, attended Juliet Aires Giglio’sdaughter’s wedding, went to Vegas with my sisters. I feel like we’re at a time in life where it’s really important and rewarding to try to pull all the threads together. Which is a challenge, since I’ve never been busier!”
Eric Grubman and I look forward to hearing about more great memories from fellow ’84s in 2020.
—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
After a long career in journalism, Susan Schoenberger now works as the director of communications for Hartford Seminary, an interfaith graduate school. Her 2019 highlights include making the last tuition payment after putting three kids through college and signing a contract for her next book, The Liability of Love, due out in 2021.
Ray Wood spends his days working in N.Y.C. and traveling across the United States, Europe, and Asia. For fun he took several trips to the Upper Valley and Vermont to visit his daughter at Middlebury and his parents in Hanover. Best thing to happen to Ray in 2019 was a new 4-month-old puppy at home.
For Linda Freeley the best part of 2019 was reuniting on vacation in Mexico City with Barbara Mair. Naturally they spent lots of reminiscing about their ’84 Dartmouth days. It was a magical time!
Speaking of magical, that’s what it was for Mary Fabio when she happened to run into Carla Small and Bob Cronin in N.Y.C.’s East Village.Mary was moving her daughter, Emma, a new University of Virginia graduate, into N.Y.C., just by luck two buildings down from Michaela Cronin (Carla Small and Bob Cronin’s daughter). “Getting one kid off the payroll” was another 2019 highlight. Mary ran into more classmates at Homecoming, where she saw Heather Keare, Chris Huff, Wendee Hunsinger Lundt, Willa Ridinger,Carla Small,and Amy Eisenberg Folbe.And when she’s not busy with her own children, Mary is working at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as a pediatrician and director of the CHOP Refugee Health Program.
And our class jetsetter, Ed Keannely, wrote me as he was landing in London: “I have had a really great 2019, so hard to think of one ‘best’ thing. Work took me to Washington, D.C., a lot this year and I got to see both my kids, who have been there since they graduated from college. The other good thing is that we got to spend a great deal of time in Maine at a cottage on Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, that we bought at the end of 2018 and spent time and energy renovating. Had great visits from Anjali Chuttani and Paul Groark.”
And from another world traveler, Elizabeth Miles Waring, I heard: “Hmm, just waking up in Seoul (Korea is a new country for me!). I’ve been busy getting ready for Apple TV+. The best thing about 2019 has been reconnecting with people—I saw Karen Plafker for the first time in years, attended Juliet Aires Giglio’sdaughter’s wedding, went to Vegas with my sisters. I feel like we’re at a time in life where it’s really important and rewarding to try to pull all the threads together. Which is a challenge, since I’ve never been busier!”
Eric Grubman and I look forward to hearing about more great memories from fellow ’84s in 2020.
—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