Class Note 1988
Matthew Lansburgh lives with his partner (Stan Hsue) in N.Y.C., where he works part time as a lawyer and spends his free time writing. “I’m currently working on a novel, and one of my stories (“Driving North,” published in the Michigan Quarterly Review) was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. That story and some of my other fiction is available online at www.matthewlansburgh.com.”
Judith Greenberg lives in N.Y.C. with her husband, Ira Joseph, and kids Claire (17) and Sasha (14). She has taught for 13 years at NYU’s Gallatin School for Interdisciplinary Study after stints teaching at Yale (where she got her Ph.D. in comparative literature), Dartmouth and Williams. “My writing and research explore intersections of trauma and literary studies. In 2003 I put together the book Trauma at Home: After 9/11 and I am trying to finish a decade-long project called Cypora’s Echo about cousins during the Holocaust and the transmission of trauma across generations. My Dartmouth friends—classmates and professors—remain among the dearest people in my life. Some of my columns for The Huffington Post remember classmates and feelings from Dartmouth. I am also an avid crafter, dog-lover, party-hoster (especially for worthy causes) and enthusiastic attendee of N.Y.C. theater, dance and art.”
After working with the U.S. ski team for seven years in junior development, Terry DelliQuadri took a coaching position with Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (Colorado) four years ago. Last year his family moved to his wife’s hometown in Germany. “We rented a house in a small village near her parents, her brother and sister and their families. Our kids—Esther Rose (17), Cisco (14), Peppi (12)—did not speak any German but we enrolled them in the local gymnasium (school) for the year. They had the full immersion experience. The boys played on hockey teams and our daughter joined a ski jumping club. I stayed back in Colorado for work, but was lucky enough to spend August with them and then three more one-week stints throughout the winter. It was tough being apart, but such a worthwhile experience for the kids.”
John Patten lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with wife Carolyn, kids Anna (15) and Christopher (13) and dogs Nala and Abby. The family moved there last year to live closer to the kids’ school, King Low Heywood, where Carolyn is head of the English department. “Happy to say there are still plenty of woods where our dogs can run unleashed. Both Anna and Christopher are doing well with field hockey, soccer and lacrosse and everyone is still skiing, even on the colder days in Vermont.” John worked for National Geographic for 15 years, selling advertising and sponsorships, then worked for two years in venture capital, joining Facebook in 2009. John sees his Dartmouth roommate, Gregg Nourjian, in Stowe, Vermont, and is also in close touch with Toby O’Connor, with whom he roomed for a time after Dartmouth (he and Toby spent a month trekking in Patagonia, Chile, in 1996). John also flew a Cessna for 10 years: “There’s always a story to tell in flying. One night, departing a Vermont airport in light snow, I heard a loud bang in the cockpit and thought ‘Damn, this is how it all ends, pushing it to try to get home.’ In quiet resignation I waited to see which needle would climb into the red. After several uncomfortable minutes when nothing alarming happened, I became aware of a distinct vinegary aroma coming from the back. I turned around to find that all of the potato chip bags in my grocery bags had exploded.”
—Jere Mancini, 34 Wearimus Road, HoHoKus, NJ 07423; d88correspondent@gmail.com
