Class Note 1988
Issue
Greetings from your new class secretary! Although Townley Slack’s farewell column shared highlights from our 20th reunion celebration in June (it sounds like you really made the most of your toddler-free weekend, Townley!), I want to add a few more reunion recollections. Three hundred eight classmates attended—a 20th-reunion record!—plus 386 guests so there were familiar faces all over campus. Thanks to Steph Welsch Lewin and Regina Glocker for putting the reunion together with such flair. Special thanks to those who invested significant time and money to travel ’round the girdled earth all the way to Hanover: Ana Coyne and her beautiful daughter came from Nicaragua, Tim Ambrose from Hawaii, Tom Molnar and his lovely wife from London, Saad Iqbal from Dubai, Cynthia Marshall from Germany and Melinda Harrington and her charming husband from Australia.
As we reconnected with (increasingly!) old friends in Hanover an air of sincere gratitude permeated most conversations. Whether due to mid-life maturity or recession-induced sensibility we seemed to be beyond the stage of automatically reciting resumes and cataloging children and were just happy to be able to spend time together once again.
Aside from the long conversations with dear old friends it was the little unexpected moments that made the reunion so memorable. Here are a few of mine: Seeing Sonja Kuftinec on my flight from Minneapolis, rocking the sundress-with-hiking-boots look as only a Dartmouth woman can; recalling some goofy 1980s dance moves with Tom Ward; admiring the big hair in the photos that Kris (Ramstad) Carlock brought along; detecting slight limps in the post-Moosilauke gaits of Brian Corcoran and Paul Gorzyca; agreeing with Laura Weylman that mini LSA-reunions are in order for the 25th; hearing how Dudley King and Gregg Nourjian resourcefully gained entry to Mid-Mass after the student dormmaster had locked up for the night; learning that Mich Dupre’s watch alarm is synchronized to go off at the same time that her kids’ watches do, thereby eliminating the need to call them home for dinner; getting Paul Steinwald’s reports of late-night dorm poker; wondering with Amy Beller why Kate Haffner didn’t make it, then spotting Kate diving toward us seconds later; and finally, seeing Ed Gray “reading” in Sanborn on Sunday morning.
What about you? What nuggets did you glean at reunion to share with those who couldn’t be there? What would you have shared if you could have been there? Don’t be stingy or self-conscious—no one loves to write the news but everyone loves to read it. (And remember this threat: If I run out of updates from you I’ll be forced to submit saccharine stories of the Fun Bunch.) I look forward to hearing from you!
—Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist, 4510 Drexel Ave., Edina, MN 55424; jjlonnquist@earthlink.net
Nov - Dec 2009
Greetings from your new class secretary! Although Townley Slack’s farewell column shared highlights from our 20th reunion celebration in June (it sounds like you really made the most of your toddler-free weekend, Townley!), I want to add a few more reunion recollections. Three hundred eight classmates attended—a 20th-reunion record!—plus 386 guests so there were familiar faces all over campus. Thanks to Steph Welsch Lewin and Regina Glocker for putting the reunion together with such flair. Special thanks to those who invested significant time and money to travel ’round the girdled earth all the way to Hanover: Ana Coyne and her beautiful daughter came from Nicaragua, Tim Ambrose from Hawaii, Tom Molnar and his lovely wife from London, Saad Iqbal from Dubai, Cynthia Marshall from Germany and Melinda Harrington and her charming husband from Australia.
As we reconnected with (increasingly!) old friends in Hanover an air of sincere gratitude permeated most conversations. Whether due to mid-life maturity or recession-induced sensibility we seemed to be beyond the stage of automatically reciting resumes and cataloging children and were just happy to be able to spend time together once again.
Aside from the long conversations with dear old friends it was the little unexpected moments that made the reunion so memorable. Here are a few of mine: Seeing Sonja Kuftinec on my flight from Minneapolis, rocking the sundress-with-hiking-boots look as only a Dartmouth woman can; recalling some goofy 1980s dance moves with Tom Ward; admiring the big hair in the photos that Kris (Ramstad) Carlock brought along; detecting slight limps in the post-Moosilauke gaits of Brian Corcoran and Paul Gorzyca; agreeing with Laura Weylman that mini LSA-reunions are in order for the 25th; hearing how Dudley King and Gregg Nourjian resourcefully gained entry to Mid-Mass after the student dormmaster had locked up for the night; learning that Mich Dupre’s watch alarm is synchronized to go off at the same time that her kids’ watches do, thereby eliminating the need to call them home for dinner; getting Paul Steinwald’s reports of late-night dorm poker; wondering with Amy Beller why Kate Haffner didn’t make it, then spotting Kate diving toward us seconds later; and finally, seeing Ed Gray “reading” in Sanborn on Sunday morning.
What about you? What nuggets did you glean at reunion to share with those who couldn’t be there? What would you have shared if you could have been there? Don’t be stingy or self-conscious—no one loves to write the news but everyone loves to read it. (And remember this threat: If I run out of updates from you I’ll be forced to submit saccharine stories of the Fun Bunch.) I look forward to hearing from you!
—Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist, 4510 Drexel Ave., Edina, MN 55424; jjlonnquist@earthlink.net