Class Note 1987
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
Greetings from San Francisco! I am one of I hope two new class secretaries, taking the reins from outgoing secretaries Lisa (Pabich) Damon and Allison (Bleyler) McDonald. I cannot resist starting off with some musings on our wonderful, intimate 30th reunion. The cozy Thursday night kick-off gathering under the class tent felt like a party at a friend’s house! Throughout the weekend I learned fun tidbits about classmates, renewed connections and made new ones.
At the Thursday night jam session I found out that Coe Bancroft is a drummer, and he was thrilled when Colin Mahoney graciously ceded the seat behind the drums to him. After reminiscing with Nancy Lomazzo about spending our sophomore fall still stuck in the River Cluster, she immediately put me in touch via text with my French roommate Connie “Pete” Lapite. Pete continues to enjoy outdoor adventures, including a sea kayaking trip in Canada amidst beluga whales. Until he tapped me on the shoulder, Rob Mazzarese and I had not seen each other since we took the New York state bar exam together in 1992. He is now an intellectual property attorney in Newton, Massachusetts. I also finally met the man who gave Randy “H” Morgan his nickname: H’s freshmen roommate Tom McCallister. A fellow Bay Area resident, Tom promised me he would come to the next San Francisco mini-reunion.
Someone I should have met during reunion was Andrew McAllister, but I was fortunate to connect with him afterwards. Andrew and I work at sister state agencies: He is a commissioner at the California Energy Commission and I am an assistant general counsel at the California Public Utilities Commission. After the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and work on clean energy issues at the nonprofit Center for Sustainable Energy, Andrew became a commissioner in 2012. Andrew explained how California’s leadership role in energy policy has grown since the federal government pulled back: “It is a pathbreaking and very heady moment to be in California, where we are at the epicenter of the transformation of our energy systems from extractive to sustainable. The sense of mission here is palpable!” Andrew, his wife and their two children are building an energy- and water-efficient home in Davis, California, complete with chickens and honeybees.
Speaking of leadership, and in case you missed the great news in the August class newsletter, 39 percent of us participated in the 2017 Dartmouth College Fund and donated nearly $5.4 million, the second highest dollar amount of any class in 2017 and a record gift by the class of ’87. Thanks to all who gave!
Finally, on a fun programming note, the Dartmouth football team plays Brown at Fenway Park in Boston at 8 p.m. on November 10 in a nationally televised game. Buy tickets at www.redsox.com/gridiron.
—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; marcklaurag@aol.com
At the Thursday night jam session I found out that Coe Bancroft is a drummer, and he was thrilled when Colin Mahoney graciously ceded the seat behind the drums to him. After reminiscing with Nancy Lomazzo about spending our sophomore fall still stuck in the River Cluster, she immediately put me in touch via text with my French roommate Connie “Pete” Lapite. Pete continues to enjoy outdoor adventures, including a sea kayaking trip in Canada amidst beluga whales. Until he tapped me on the shoulder, Rob Mazzarese and I had not seen each other since we took the New York state bar exam together in 1992. He is now an intellectual property attorney in Newton, Massachusetts. I also finally met the man who gave Randy “H” Morgan his nickname: H’s freshmen roommate Tom McCallister. A fellow Bay Area resident, Tom promised me he would come to the next San Francisco mini-reunion.
Someone I should have met during reunion was Andrew McAllister, but I was fortunate to connect with him afterwards. Andrew and I work at sister state agencies: He is a commissioner at the California Energy Commission and I am an assistant general counsel at the California Public Utilities Commission. After the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and work on clean energy issues at the nonprofit Center for Sustainable Energy, Andrew became a commissioner in 2012. Andrew explained how California’s leadership role in energy policy has grown since the federal government pulled back: “It is a pathbreaking and very heady moment to be in California, where we are at the epicenter of the transformation of our energy systems from extractive to sustainable. The sense of mission here is palpable!” Andrew, his wife and their two children are building an energy- and water-efficient home in Davis, California, complete with chickens and honeybees.
Speaking of leadership, and in case you missed the great news in the August class newsletter, 39 percent of us participated in the 2017 Dartmouth College Fund and donated nearly $5.4 million, the second highest dollar amount of any class in 2017 and a record gift by the class of ’87. Thanks to all who gave!
Finally, on a fun programming note, the Dartmouth football team plays Brown at Fenway Park in Boston at 8 p.m. on November 10 in a nationally televised game. Buy tickets at www.redsox.com/gridiron.
—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; marcklaurag@aol.com