Classes & Obits

Class Note 1987

Issue

Jan - Feb 2012

The 25th reunion is right around the corner, Thursday to Sunday, June 14-17! 


If you haven’t registered yet, check out the class website for current details, www. dartmouth87.org, or e-mail reunion@dartmouth87.org. You’ll find events, attendee list, lodging information and anything else you need to plan for this once-in-a-lifetime event. 


Also take a look at the class Facebook page to see what other ’87s are talking about, www.facebook.com/pages/dartmouth-class-of-1987/154123887962677. Lastly, another way to reconnect before reunion is through LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/groups/dartmouth-class- 1987-4022639.


The class is also looking to fill a new slate of class officers. If you have a desire to serve the Dartmouth community or wish to recommend someone, e-mail: h@dartmouth87.org.


Lisa Pabich Damon writes from Nashville, Tennessee, that none of the several college towns she has lived in hold the special place in her heart that Hanover does. “My kids Lindsay, 8, and Christopher, 11, have been to Dartmouth only once—we had an adventurous drive in a snowstorm in 2007 to visit Christen O’Connor, and due to some extenuating circumstances got “snowed in” at the Hanover Inn for several nights. We had a fabulous time visiting with friends, eating at old haunts, making angels on the Green in freshly fallen snow and sledding at the golf course. I am so excited to bring my family to the 25th reunion to give them a taste of Hanover in the warmer months. I had a great phone conversation with Susie Olson Perret about life in the Midwest and youth sports schedules; I’ve gotten a better handle on Facebook. Thank you, Sue Axelrod Emanuel, for being my friend! We really enjoy being in Nashville. My husband is on the faculty at Vanderbilt. I mostly hold down the home front, keep up with the kids and volunteer with the public schools. I seem to live in a high-Dartmouth-density neighborhood—at least three other alums in a two-block radius, including Matt Wiltshire ’96, and Kerstin Stanley Clark ’90. I have enjoyed seeing Cheryl Maier Walsh and her family on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, when we have been traveling—hope to see her and her husband, John Walsh, in June. Besides connecting with old friends, I’m looking forward to meeting people I never knew at Dartmouth at the reunion.”


Liz Davey, director of the Tulane office of environmental affairs, was the first recipient of the Yvette Milner Jones Award, recognizing an outstanding Tulane staff member or administrator “because of her exemplary leadership in the areas of Tulane’s sustainability and environmental responsibility, her ability to build partnerships and relationships to facilitate the university’s goals in this regard and her demonstrated innovation in her work” said Anne Baños, vice president for administrative services. In 1999 Davey was named Tulane’s first sustainability manager.


“There’s always plenty going on in the Voves household,” writes Joe Voves. “Lucie Haswell Voves ’86 and I have four kids ages 9 to 17 and they all keep us very busy. Our oldest is a high school senior and the college application process is full swing. We were just in Hanover last June for Lucie’s 25th—it was a great time and I absolutely recommend that ’87s get our date down on their calendars now. Lucie and I work together and business is going well (www.diplomaframe.com). What started as a basement business selling diploma frames to the Dartmouth Co-op in 1991 is now quite a different and flourishing operation. We have 60 full-time employees and sell frames for more than 1,500 colleges and professional associations across the United States.”


Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net; Wendy Becker, 4 Essex Villas, London, W8 7BN, UK, England; wendy.becker.87@alum.dartmouth.org