Class Note 1987
Issue
Jan - Feb 2019
In 2019 Dartmouth is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of its charter, with a year’s worth of events reflecting on Dartmouth’s past and future. The grand kickoff happens on January 12, “Greenlighting Day,” when Niagara Falls, One World Tower in N.Y.C., and other locations around the world will be lit green. If you are in a “greenlit” location, post a photo on our Facebook page! On January 31 former U.S. solicitor general Greg Garre and former acting U.S. solicitor general (and my husband’s law school housemate and friend) Neal Katyal ’91 will reenact the Dartmouth College case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Greg and Neal will reprise the reenactment at Dartmouth on March 1, so watch the newsletter and your email for news of ’87 events in Hanover that weekend.
Here is more good news from Washington, D.C.: The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute honored Dan Gisser in September as a recipient of a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award, which recognizes people and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions on behalf of children in need of families. Dan is a board member at Adoption Network Cleveland, a nonprofit adoption and foster care organization in Ohio. As parents of a daughter from Vietnam, Dan and his wife have worked to ensure that she is connected with her birth family. Dan attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C., and not only met with members of Congress and senators the “chaotic” day before the Kavanaugh-Blasey Ford confirmation hearings, but was also able to squeeze in a visit with Baltimore resident Jim Goodrich. Jim impressively stays in touch with quite a few ’87s: This summer he had a nostalgic dinner at Jesse’s with Peter DeLong and a visit with Janet (Mailing) Wittenberg in her New Hampshire home. “Janet helped me decipher my own handwriting in letters I had written to her while I was in the Peace Corps 30 years ago,” Jim said. “My 23-year-old self sounded a lot like me now. I am not entirely sure what to make of that!”
David Toll also has an impressive accomplishment to report: self-publication of his first book, A Cartoon Lover’s Guide to Private Equity. After his experiences with drawing magazine cartoons and designing private equity training, “I figured I could combine the two into a private equity primer that serves as a vehicle for my cartoons,” David said. The book is available for free download at www.privateequitycartoon.com, and you can order hard copies by contacting David at dtoll@buyoutinsider.com. All after-tax profits go to the Robert Toigo Foundation, an organization that encourages women and minorities to pursue careers in finance.
David still gets together with fellow New Jersey resident (and law school classmate of mine) John Ashbrook. David joked that, “In 31 years I’ve never had a mention in Class Notes, but I thought I’d give it a shot!” You, too, can see your name in print by simply sending me an email with your news.
—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; marcklaurag@aol.com
Here is more good news from Washington, D.C.: The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute honored Dan Gisser in September as a recipient of a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award, which recognizes people and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions on behalf of children in need of families. Dan is a board member at Adoption Network Cleveland, a nonprofit adoption and foster care organization in Ohio. As parents of a daughter from Vietnam, Dan and his wife have worked to ensure that she is connected with her birth family. Dan attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C., and not only met with members of Congress and senators the “chaotic” day before the Kavanaugh-Blasey Ford confirmation hearings, but was also able to squeeze in a visit with Baltimore resident Jim Goodrich. Jim impressively stays in touch with quite a few ’87s: This summer he had a nostalgic dinner at Jesse’s with Peter DeLong and a visit with Janet (Mailing) Wittenberg in her New Hampshire home. “Janet helped me decipher my own handwriting in letters I had written to her while I was in the Peace Corps 30 years ago,” Jim said. “My 23-year-old self sounded a lot like me now. I am not entirely sure what to make of that!”
David Toll also has an impressive accomplishment to report: self-publication of his first book, A Cartoon Lover’s Guide to Private Equity. After his experiences with drawing magazine cartoons and designing private equity training, “I figured I could combine the two into a private equity primer that serves as a vehicle for my cartoons,” David said. The book is available for free download at www.privateequitycartoon.com, and you can order hard copies by contacting David at dtoll@buyoutinsider.com. All after-tax profits go to the Robert Toigo Foundation, an organization that encourages women and minorities to pursue careers in finance.
David still gets together with fellow New Jersey resident (and law school classmate of mine) John Ashbrook. David joked that, “In 31 years I’ve never had a mention in Class Notes, but I thought I’d give it a shot!” You, too, can see your name in print by simply sending me an email with your news.
—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; marcklaurag@aol.com