Class Note 1988
Issue
Hello, ’88s! As we head into the new year requests for the Dartmouth College Fund will inevitably start making their way to you once again. Before you consider your gift for this year’s fund it is worth congratulating our class on the amazing generosity we displayed last year. We raised $681,323 (two and a half times more than the previous year) through gifts from 53.7 percent of the class (nearly 100 more donors than the ’89s or ’90s—for those who care about such things). In fact, our participation was the third highest ever for a 20th reunion! Considering the economy last year, these results were especially impressive—and especially important to the College.
Stephanie Welsch Lewin, the co-chair of our 20th reunion and new class president, had more to say about the great class spirit that was rekindled last year. “Co-chairing the reunion was one of the most rewarding experiences of my recent past! Getting in touch with so many classmates prior to reunion made it really feel like coming home again. Time spent with Brett Matthews was especially rewarding when planning the tribute to our great class dean Susan Wright. It was also great to reconnect with old roomie Denise Audet as well as fellow Choate Hall mate Al Samuels. I also felt like we were off to a great start when I spent time with the new executive committee. Check out our new Web site, which is constantly being updated, thanks to our amazing new Webmaster Geoff Hyatt! The best feature is our new online dues paying system! Go to www.dartmouth88.org and click on the class funding tab to pay your dues for this year or all the years between now and the next reunion. Get it out of the way and never have to remember again! I also realized how many of my favorite classmates were missing despite the amazing turnout. Does anyone know where to find Steve Carlotti, Phil Schumm, Elise Ames, Fionn Mulligan or Sean Black? Let’s keep the ’88 spirit alive!”
The College informed me of a new ’88 author: Sarina Schrager co-wrote and co-edited The ACP Handbook of Women’s Health (available through Amazon). I asked Sarina to let us know what she’s been up to. “We have been in Madison for 13 years and love it. Sam is 10 (in fourth grade) and Caleb is 8 (in third grade). Madison is a great place for kids—lots of parks and activities. The boys are busy with school and sports (soccer, hockey, baseball) and that’s a lot of what we do. Our kids took skiing lessons last winter with Beth Burnside’s boys (Beth is a radiologist at the UW who does breast imaging and research). I work at the UW family medicine residency program taking care of patients, teaching residents and doing research/writing about women’s health.” Thanks, Sarina, and congratulations on the book!
Speaking of books, please send me the titles of your recent best reads. I would love to devote future column space to book recommendations (and updates on the readers are always most welcome). Cheers.
—Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist, 4510 Drexel Ave., Edina, MN 55424; jjlonnquist@earthlink.net
Jan - Feb 2010
Hello, ’88s! As we head into the new year requests for the Dartmouth College Fund will inevitably start making their way to you once again. Before you consider your gift for this year’s fund it is worth congratulating our class on the amazing generosity we displayed last year. We raised $681,323 (two and a half times more than the previous year) through gifts from 53.7 percent of the class (nearly 100 more donors than the ’89s or ’90s—for those who care about such things). In fact, our participation was the third highest ever for a 20th reunion! Considering the economy last year, these results were especially impressive—and especially important to the College.
Stephanie Welsch Lewin, the co-chair of our 20th reunion and new class president, had more to say about the great class spirit that was rekindled last year. “Co-chairing the reunion was one of the most rewarding experiences of my recent past! Getting in touch with so many classmates prior to reunion made it really feel like coming home again. Time spent with Brett Matthews was especially rewarding when planning the tribute to our great class dean Susan Wright. It was also great to reconnect with old roomie Denise Audet as well as fellow Choate Hall mate Al Samuels. I also felt like we were off to a great start when I spent time with the new executive committee. Check out our new Web site, which is constantly being updated, thanks to our amazing new Webmaster Geoff Hyatt! The best feature is our new online dues paying system! Go to www.dartmouth88.org and click on the class funding tab to pay your dues for this year or all the years between now and the next reunion. Get it out of the way and never have to remember again! I also realized how many of my favorite classmates were missing despite the amazing turnout. Does anyone know where to find Steve Carlotti, Phil Schumm, Elise Ames, Fionn Mulligan or Sean Black? Let’s keep the ’88 spirit alive!”
The College informed me of a new ’88 author: Sarina Schrager co-wrote and co-edited The ACP Handbook of Women’s Health (available through Amazon). I asked Sarina to let us know what she’s been up to. “We have been in Madison for 13 years and love it. Sam is 10 (in fourth grade) and Caleb is 8 (in third grade). Madison is a great place for kids—lots of parks and activities. The boys are busy with school and sports (soccer, hockey, baseball) and that’s a lot of what we do. Our kids took skiing lessons last winter with Beth Burnside’s boys (Beth is a radiologist at the UW who does breast imaging and research). I work at the UW family medicine residency program taking care of patients, teaching residents and doing research/writing about women’s health.” Thanks, Sarina, and congratulations on the book!
Speaking of books, please send me the titles of your recent best reads. I would love to devote future column space to book recommendations (and updates on the readers are always most welcome). Cheers.
—Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist, 4510 Drexel Ave., Edina, MN 55424; jjlonnquist@earthlink.net