Class Note 1985

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore and Santa Claus, I share the following tale.


’Twas the night before the deadline and all


through the house


No updates from classmates, not even their


spouse


The electronics were poised to receive news


with care


In the hopes an email or text would be there


The keyboard was ready for words any


minute


But with nothing to share, I’d have to


fabricate and spin it


When, what to my thankful inbox did appear


A litany of stories from my co-secretary so 


clear


Overflow Homecoming news in abundance


I’m hopeful you’ve heard it just this once


So with great thanks to Leslie, our ’85 class elf


I didn’t have to make stuff up by myself.


Laura Hicks was up from Florida with 16-year-old daughter; has a ’14 and a ’16 at Dartmouth so spends quite a bit of time around the Hanover Plain. Linda Marshall was up from New Canaan, Connecticut; kids all currently at boarding school so she and Jenkins ’84 are having a dry-run at empty-nesting status; two sons at Taft (one senior; one sophomore); daughter at Choate, where Fran O’Donoghue ’84 is her field hockey coach. David Etz is living in Chicago; still carries that delightful twinkle in his eye! (Remember, these are Leslie’s notes. I do not recall the same twinkle.) Joe Riley is a lawyer at Wilkie Farr & Gallagher in N.Y.C.; coordinated our class b-day party on Saturday before football game along with Margaret Marder and Valerie Hartman. Tyler Woolson is chief financial officer at Georgia Pacific in Atlanta; twin 14-year-old sons; enjoys spending time on their house in Little Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. David Hall was up from Milton, Massachusetts, showing off the Big Green to oldest daughter Kendall. Sue Spencer Reckford is living in Short Hills, New Jersey, with three kids all in or out (already) of college, so enjoying life. Judy Stein earned the record for traveling the farthest distance to attend—came from Torino, Italy, with her daughters Umbra (Fordham University), Jenny (UVM) and Nicole (high school). Judy splits her time between Vail, Colorado, and Italy, along with visiting her daughters. Nancy Vogele is in Hanover full-time as the director of spiritual life at Tucker. She had been in Hartford, Vermont, serving in a parish before returning recently to Hanover. Michael Davidson lives in Lebanon (that’s New Hampshire) and is likely our class of ’85 longest continuous presence at Homecoming, having attended most of them since our graduation as he has been in and around Lebanon almost since 1985. Michael has been traveling quite a lot between Mexico and Lebanon, as his children Piper and Joe are currently in school in Mexico, where his wife decided they should be living now. Michael recently joined in the surprise celebration of Brian Bandler’s 50th, which was even a bigger surprise to Brian as his wife threw the party months in advance of his actual birthday. Katie Harris Robbins is living in Hanover; daughter Heidi graduated from Princeton last spring and is training on the U.S. national rowing team. Younger daughter Liesl is a senior at Hanover High busy with senior year and deciding where she will be taking her lacrosse prowess next year. Kris Robbins manages Swiss Semester in Zermatt, Switzerland, throughout each fall.


And as we approach the conclusion of this 


clever rhyme


News of the Alpha Chi Alpha Caribbean 


mini-reunion will be shared next time


So ’tis the end of column and end of night


To all our classmates, happy New Year and 


please write.


—John MacManus, 118 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com; Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Greenwich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com