Class Note 1987
Issue
November-December 2024
Many thanks to those of you who have answered my pleas for news!
Mike Roy has been living in Middlebury, Vermont, for the past 16 years, where he has been serving as the dean of the library at Middlebury College. With his three kids now more or less launched, he’s getting ready for his third act, where he plans to shift his focus to climate. To get ready for this move, he’s chairing the Middlebury energy committee, serving on the board of the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County, volunteering with climate justice group 350VT, helping to launch an energy coaching program, and writing occasional climate-oriented columns for the local newspaper (edited by classmate John McCright). If you are on a similar journey, Mike would love to talk! He can be reached at roymichaeldonald@gmail.com.
Shanta Puchtler, who lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and Stratton, Vermont, recently retired from his role as CEO of a quant investing shop in Boston and president of Man Group in London. Shanta is married to a pastry chef and keeps himself busy fly fishing in Alaska, Wyoming, New Zealand, and the Bahamas (sometimes with classmate Rob Shen) and mountain climbing in the Alaska Range and the Wind River mountains of Wyoming. He recently returned to Vang Vieng, Laos, 53 years after evacuating from the Laotian village where he lived for his first five years. Shanta tries to get back annually to his cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he grew up after coming to the United States from Laos in 1970.
H. Randall Morgan reports that he and his wife were on the verge of empty-nesting, but their oldest boomeranged in a good way and is now home in Potomac, Maryland, while working as a marketing associate for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces. Their son is in N.Y.C., working as a biomedical engineer and has been fortunate to get a position exploring therapies and cures for pancreatitis. Their youngest has been in Israel working at an internship in a pharma research lab for the summer before she returns to Cornell University for her sophomore fall. H. has picked up the guitar again and is splitting his time between his translation services contracts, caregiving for his father with dementia, and finally playing some golf.
Bruce Kelson is also anticipating life as an empty-nester. He writes, “My oldest son graduated in neuroscience from UNC Chapel Hill last year and is now coaching women’s soccer at a D1 college (Western Illinois University) while he gets his M.B.A.; my middle son graduated in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and is about to start his first real job at Pratt & Whitney in August; and my youngest son is about to head off to college at University of Colorado Boulder.”
I would love to hear what you are up to. If you don’t want to write about yourself, please send news about your classmates!
—Lisa Snyder, 430 Ward St., Newton, MA 02459; dartmouth87classnews@gmail.com
Mike Roy has been living in Middlebury, Vermont, for the past 16 years, where he has been serving as the dean of the library at Middlebury College. With his three kids now more or less launched, he’s getting ready for his third act, where he plans to shift his focus to climate. To get ready for this move, he’s chairing the Middlebury energy committee, serving on the board of the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County, volunteering with climate justice group 350VT, helping to launch an energy coaching program, and writing occasional climate-oriented columns for the local newspaper (edited by classmate John McCright). If you are on a similar journey, Mike would love to talk! He can be reached at roymichaeldonald@gmail.com.
Shanta Puchtler, who lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and Stratton, Vermont, recently retired from his role as CEO of a quant investing shop in Boston and president of Man Group in London. Shanta is married to a pastry chef and keeps himself busy fly fishing in Alaska, Wyoming, New Zealand, and the Bahamas (sometimes with classmate Rob Shen) and mountain climbing in the Alaska Range and the Wind River mountains of Wyoming. He recently returned to Vang Vieng, Laos, 53 years after evacuating from the Laotian village where he lived for his first five years. Shanta tries to get back annually to his cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he grew up after coming to the United States from Laos in 1970.
H. Randall Morgan reports that he and his wife were on the verge of empty-nesting, but their oldest boomeranged in a good way and is now home in Potomac, Maryland, while working as a marketing associate for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces. Their son is in N.Y.C., working as a biomedical engineer and has been fortunate to get a position exploring therapies and cures for pancreatitis. Their youngest has been in Israel working at an internship in a pharma research lab for the summer before she returns to Cornell University for her sophomore fall. H. has picked up the guitar again and is splitting his time between his translation services contracts, caregiving for his father with dementia, and finally playing some golf.
Bruce Kelson is also anticipating life as an empty-nester. He writes, “My oldest son graduated in neuroscience from UNC Chapel Hill last year and is now coaching women’s soccer at a D1 college (Western Illinois University) while he gets his M.B.A.; my middle son graduated in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and is about to start his first real job at Pratt & Whitney in August; and my youngest son is about to head off to college at University of Colorado Boulder.”
I would love to hear what you are up to. If you don’t want to write about yourself, please send news about your classmates!
—Lisa Snyder, 430 Ward St., Newton, MA 02459; dartmouth87classnews@gmail.com