Thanks to everyone who shared news to include in this month’s column. We learned that Robin Neiterman has been inducted as the president of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JF&CS) of Boston. JF&CS provides human service and healthcare programs to people of all faiths, races and ages and has been a presence in Boston area communities for almost 150 years. Keep up the good work, Robin!
Jonathan Silverman continues his writing and publishing adventures and has started a small press, 99: The Press. From the website, 99thepress.com, “99 is a series of short, readable books on provocative, timely subjects that are precisely 99 pages long (prefaces, footnotes and references aside). Although the Internet has changed the way we receive information, people’s love of books has not significantly diminished. But their attention spans may have, as has their willingness to receive books of pure text; 99 will serve a series of audiences who value both complex ideas and a readable frame for those ideas. In addition to standard pop culture subjects, these books will feature interesting visual components, making them even more attractive and enjoyable.” The first book to come out is We’ll Always Have Linsanity: Strange Takes on the Strangest Season in Knicks History. You can find it on Amazon.
Three classmates had an unplanned, spontaneous mini-reunion at Emil Chynn’s practice, Park Avenue SafeSight. Garrett Hornsby had Lasik by Emil a decade ago, and is still 20/20 for distance, but now is starting to need reading glasses (like most of us). He is going to get a tune-up so he won’t need readers while working in the real estate division of Citibank. Sean Reese was considering doing the same thing, and visited from New Hampshire to do an epithelial PreVue, which is a new way that the patient can experience how he would see after Lasik that Emil invented and is patenting (he holds three U.S. patents). Sean lives with Elizabeth Miles ’88 with his daughters Sky and Megan.
Stephen Hegarty found himself unexpectedly at a Dartmouth mini-reunion this spring on the baseball field in suburban Maryland. He, David Nitkin ’88 and James Mahoney ’84 were assistant coaches for their sons’ baseball team. The three had never met but exchanged e-mails before the first practice of the Howard County Youth Program Pony League Braves because they had volunteered to help out the team. The sighting of a sweatshirt in a familiar shade of green and an equally familiar font and letter (hint: it comes after “C”) led to conversation and the discovery that all three assistants were graduates of the College on the Hill. While their boys connected with each other playing baseball, the Dartmouth grads enjoyed getting to know each other by reminiscing about freshman dorms, majors and visits to campus.
Keep the news coming! See what’s going on with ’87s on Facebook, www.facebook.com/dartmouth87.
—Lisa Pabich Damon, 2124 Ashwood Ave., Nashville, TN 37212; lisa.damon.87@alum.dartmouth.org; Allison Bleyler McDonald, 43 Hop Brook Road, Amherst, MA 01002; allisonmcd@gmail.com
