Class Note 1986
Issue
We still have a generally healthy and happy class. Marie Longo and family were in Vancouver for the first week of the Olympics. “It was phenomenal, especially for our kids (7-year-old twins Joshua and Rebecca). I ran into fellow ’86ers Cate McGavin and Rob Nugent and met many other great alums at a Dartmouth reception. Also in attendance were alumni athletes from past Olympics (alpine skiers and women’s hockey players). My kids went running around asking for everyone’s autographs and collecting Olympic pins. It was fun to see the Big Green connection at play in another country. We can’t wait for London 2012!”
Newest (reported) father in the class is Chad Rosenberger. Wife Atissa gave birth to Silas Kazem Rosenberger on November 29. “I have also changed jobs,” Chad writes. “After years working at Boston University I am now a professor of international studies and sociology at Brandeis University. I’m loving being a father and teaching all my favorite classes in a new setting, although both have slowed down the writing!” Fellow Zeta Psi ’86 Niko Skipitaris is a (fairly) new dad. He writes, “My wife and I are enjoying our 19-month-old son Loukas. Having the little guy hold my hand and say ‘Dada’ makes the stress of the day at work melt away. I never thought that fatherhood would be this cool!”
Miami-based Chris Brown has authored a play called When the Sun Shone Brighter that gets its world premiere in May. The premiere is at the Florida Stage (the largest U.S. theater dedicated exclusively to new work) in Palm Beach. He writes from Miami that he recently had lunch with David Beach (another Zete ’86 with a tot) and his daughter Sadie in New York City. Patricia Doykos lives in Titusville, New Jersey, with son Culver and works at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation on philanthropic initiatives for mental health, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes in the United States, cancer in Central and Eastern Europe and HIV/AIDS in Africa. “It’s been a real pleasure to return to Hanover to give talks on global health and to work with the global health initiative faculty. With Mr. Kim as college president I think we’ll see an expanded role for Dartmouth in global health arena. I’d love to get connected with any classmates working on public health/global health issues.”
Burgie Howard is now dean of students at Northwestern University. “I am NU’s version of Vernon Wermer of Animal House,” he writes. I hope students won’t be hating me too much after I put them on ‘double secret probation.’ I hope someone will invite me to play beer pong. I can relieve my anxiety and then I’ll bust ’em!” Mark Irish was in Little Rock, Arkansas, playing the role of Jim Reston in Frost/Nixon at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre: “Spring in ‘tornado country.’ I saw Sean O’Hern in N.Y.C. at the Players Club last month for a mini-reunion. Sean and I were the two Dartmouth students who attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, at the O’Neill Center in 1984. And Peter Gibson is a doubly good fundraiser—both for our 25th reunion and as co-chair of a capital campaign for a central New Jersey environmental organization. “I am starting my 15th year as founder/owner of a web development and online advertising firm called Princeton Online. My wife, Margie ’88, and I have three high schoolers and a fifth-grader who thinks he is in high school. Our oldest, Christopher, was accepted early decision to Dartmouth and is bouncing off walls (as are we).”
—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; mgreenstein@collegenannies.com
July - Aug 2010
We still have a generally healthy and happy class. Marie Longo and family were in Vancouver for the first week of the Olympics. “It was phenomenal, especially for our kids (7-year-old twins Joshua and Rebecca). I ran into fellow ’86ers Cate McGavin and Rob Nugent and met many other great alums at a Dartmouth reception. Also in attendance were alumni athletes from past Olympics (alpine skiers and women’s hockey players). My kids went running around asking for everyone’s autographs and collecting Olympic pins. It was fun to see the Big Green connection at play in another country. We can’t wait for London 2012!”
Newest (reported) father in the class is Chad Rosenberger. Wife Atissa gave birth to Silas Kazem Rosenberger on November 29. “I have also changed jobs,” Chad writes. “After years working at Boston University I am now a professor of international studies and sociology at Brandeis University. I’m loving being a father and teaching all my favorite classes in a new setting, although both have slowed down the writing!” Fellow Zeta Psi ’86 Niko Skipitaris is a (fairly) new dad. He writes, “My wife and I are enjoying our 19-month-old son Loukas. Having the little guy hold my hand and say ‘Dada’ makes the stress of the day at work melt away. I never thought that fatherhood would be this cool!”
Miami-based Chris Brown has authored a play called When the Sun Shone Brighter that gets its world premiere in May. The premiere is at the Florida Stage (the largest U.S. theater dedicated exclusively to new work) in Palm Beach. He writes from Miami that he recently had lunch with David Beach (another Zete ’86 with a tot) and his daughter Sadie in New York City. Patricia Doykos lives in Titusville, New Jersey, with son Culver and works at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation on philanthropic initiatives for mental health, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes in the United States, cancer in Central and Eastern Europe and HIV/AIDS in Africa. “It’s been a real pleasure to return to Hanover to give talks on global health and to work with the global health initiative faculty. With Mr. Kim as college president I think we’ll see an expanded role for Dartmouth in global health arena. I’d love to get connected with any classmates working on public health/global health issues.”
Burgie Howard is now dean of students at Northwestern University. “I am NU’s version of Vernon Wermer of Animal House,” he writes. I hope students won’t be hating me too much after I put them on ‘double secret probation.’ I hope someone will invite me to play beer pong. I can relieve my anxiety and then I’ll bust ’em!” Mark Irish was in Little Rock, Arkansas, playing the role of Jim Reston in Frost/Nixon at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre: “Spring in ‘tornado country.’ I saw Sean O’Hern in N.Y.C. at the Players Club last month for a mini-reunion. Sean and I were the two Dartmouth students who attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, at the O’Neill Center in 1984. And Peter Gibson is a doubly good fundraiser—both for our 25th reunion and as co-chair of a capital campaign for a central New Jersey environmental organization. “I am starting my 15th year as founder/owner of a web development and online advertising firm called Princeton Online. My wife, Margie ’88, and I have three high schoolers and a fifth-grader who thinks he is in high school. Our oldest, Christopher, was accepted early decision to Dartmouth and is bouncing off walls (as are we).”
—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; mgreenstein@collegenannies.com