Class Note 1985
Issue
May-June 2022
Writing my first column as new co-secretary with John MacManus, I fully appreciate the magnitude of what John and Leslie Davis Dahl have accomplished for our classmates through so many years and columns. I’m honored to be asked to step into Leslie’s role and will work to continue their legacy of having our DAM class column share news of ’85s in every issue. I would love to hear from you!
Mark your calendars for Homecoming Weekend on October 28-29 (corrected date)! Gather with classmates and friends for Dartoberfest, the Homecoming parade, and Dartmouth Night, culminating with the traditional annual bonfire. If the Friday evening festivities aren’t enticement enough, come watch Dartmouth play football rival Harvard at Memorial Field on Saturday. Keep up to date on Homecoming planning here: https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/dartmouth-homecoming.
The Winter Olympics are in full swing as I write this, and I’ve become fascinated by curling…who knew? The skiing competition is another favorite. Lionel Conacher is doing a ton of skiing and surfing these days, from home base in Marin County, California. He retired for the third time (apparently the first two times didn’t take) in March 2021 and is now sitting on a few public company boards and some advisory boards for early-stage companies and doing some angel investing. Lionel’s “60th year project” is surfing Mavericks (located in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco), which he reports as “one of the three big waves in the world.” A quick Google search reveals that waves at Mavericks routinely crest at 25 feet and often top out at (wait for it) 60 feet! Lionel’s take: “It’s been a very intense project and I’ve learned a lot about myself in the process.” Spoken like a true entrepreneur. By all accounts Lionel and wife Joanie have launched three amazing kids into the world with Chas, their oldest, working at TikTok running LGBTQ partnerships; Chloe ’19 running the developmental learning department at a charter school based in Richmond, California; and their youngest daughter, Jasper, currently a junior at NYU Gallatin School.
Also on the sports front, my children got me hooked on the Netflix reality series Formula One: Drive to Survive (and I’m as surprised by this new obsession as you probably are.) If you are also an F1 fan, you’ll be jazzed to learn that Jefferson Slack, managing director for commercial and marketing at Aston Martin, recently announced that the brand has entered a long-term partnership with Aramco, thus forming the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One team. Big question: Team Sebastian or Team Lance?
Following John’s lead from the last column, I’m drawing on very sweet freshman trip memories hiking the White Mountains with Peter Durnan, Chip Kuzborski, Patty Waldman Thompson, and my dear friend who we lost too early, Craig Byrne. Reach out to those people you haven’t connected with in a while because they will surely appreciate rekindling memories with you.
—Rebecca Blake Osborne, 42 Olive St., Newburyport, MA 01950; (603) 381-4164; rosborne29@comcast.net; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com
Mark your calendars for Homecoming Weekend on October 28-29 (corrected date)! Gather with classmates and friends for Dartoberfest, the Homecoming parade, and Dartmouth Night, culminating with the traditional annual bonfire. If the Friday evening festivities aren’t enticement enough, come watch Dartmouth play football rival Harvard at Memorial Field on Saturday. Keep up to date on Homecoming planning here: https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/dartmouth-homecoming.
The Winter Olympics are in full swing as I write this, and I’ve become fascinated by curling…who knew? The skiing competition is another favorite. Lionel Conacher is doing a ton of skiing and surfing these days, from home base in Marin County, California. He retired for the third time (apparently the first two times didn’t take) in March 2021 and is now sitting on a few public company boards and some advisory boards for early-stage companies and doing some angel investing. Lionel’s “60th year project” is surfing Mavericks (located in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco), which he reports as “one of the three big waves in the world.” A quick Google search reveals that waves at Mavericks routinely crest at 25 feet and often top out at (wait for it) 60 feet! Lionel’s take: “It’s been a very intense project and I’ve learned a lot about myself in the process.” Spoken like a true entrepreneur. By all accounts Lionel and wife Joanie have launched three amazing kids into the world with Chas, their oldest, working at TikTok running LGBTQ partnerships; Chloe ’19 running the developmental learning department at a charter school based in Richmond, California; and their youngest daughter, Jasper, currently a junior at NYU Gallatin School.
Also on the sports front, my children got me hooked on the Netflix reality series Formula One: Drive to Survive (and I’m as surprised by this new obsession as you probably are.) If you are also an F1 fan, you’ll be jazzed to learn that Jefferson Slack, managing director for commercial and marketing at Aston Martin, recently announced that the brand has entered a long-term partnership with Aramco, thus forming the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One team. Big question: Team Sebastian or Team Lance?
Following John’s lead from the last column, I’m drawing on very sweet freshman trip memories hiking the White Mountains with Peter Durnan, Chip Kuzborski, Patty Waldman Thompson, and my dear friend who we lost too early, Craig Byrne. Reach out to those people you haven’t connected with in a while because they will surely appreciate rekindling memories with you.
—Rebecca Blake Osborne, 42 Olive St., Newburyport, MA 01950; (603) 381-4164; rosborne29@comcast.net; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com