For Kathleen Bacon 2015 is the year of skiing. She and her family hit the Alps in St. Anton, Austria, during New Year’s. Then they took a brief jaunt to the Dartmouth Skiway in February to catch up with Jennifer Harris Brown and her family. Kathleen said, “I forgot that the chair lifts have hard seats and are unbelievably slow, but slipping down those sweet little slopes with Dartmouth friends was terrific.” March included Beaver Creek and in April she was in Albeck, Austria. Kathleen concluded, “Gotta pack it in while the legs are still willing.” David Kotz spent three days in Bangalore earlier this year. It was his annual trip to India for a conference and a visit to his one-time home on the campus at the Indian Institute of Science. Mary Frances Spatola Sabo got back to us about the “getaway” request. She and her family traveled to Aruba in February for their last big family getaway before the kids started to apply for college and drain finances. She said, “My son, Adam, 17, also had a getaway of his own when he went to New Mexico to interview for a Davis scholarship at United World College (UWC), one of 19 colleges in the UWC system. He ended up getting accepted and earning the scholarship. He will attend UWC in New Mexico for two years, earning an international business degree.” Lucy Mathews Heegaard wrote, “You asked about one of my favorite topics: travel. Dublin has been my destination three times in the past year. Our eldest child, a senior at NYU, spent half of last year studying there and in the course of visiting her I became totally enamored with the Emerald Isle.” Lucy maintains two blogs. One is called The Thirsty Kitten and is an outgrowth of her and her husband’s passion for wine. They consider themselves cheerleaders for small wineries of the world. The other blog, Studio-Lu, is intended as a little oasis from the daily grind. The wine-and-dine Dublin report is at http://thethirstykitten.com. The pause-and-reflect Dublin story is at http://studio-lu.net. I was happy to hear from Michelle (Montgomery) Ragsdale, D.V.M., who is a small-animal veterinarian running her own pain management and sports medicine practice. Apparently there are only a few in the country who do this. As she wrote, “A far cry from my English/history major days on the Green. I love what I do and wouldn’t trade it for the world, which is what it is all about. I continue the animal theme in my spare time, competing in various dog sports with my Labs and the new addition, a Border collie. That makes five dogs (and various foster dogs) and four birds in the house—a noisy, hairy, feathery, but fulfilling bunch! I have given up on keeping a neat house and have settled for clean. Jedi and I qualified for national championships in more than one venue this year, which was a lifetime goal for me.” “Hello from N.Y.C.!” said Will Rexer. He has a number of Dartmouth graduates in the film and television world. Last month Will worked on a TV pilot for ABC and Shonda Rhimes ’91 in Austin, Texas. The working title is The Catch. This August Public Morals, a new 11-part drama, comes out on TNT, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Ed Burns and shot by our Will. The show takes place in the mid 1960s; think part Mad Men and part Sopranos.


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