Class Note 1988
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
Greetings, and I hope everyone in the great class of ’88 is ready for an amazing new year in 2020! Are you making New Year’s resolutions? Planning new adventures and challenges for the upcoming year? Or perhaps, as the new year approaches, you are simply focusing on gratitude for today and hopefulness for tomorrow? Please let me know what might lie ahead for you in 2020.
As we close out 2019, I am thrilled to share good news from several classmates. First, Brian Corcoran has been appointed to the position of chief special master by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. In this new role, Brian will lead the office of special masters, which is known colloquially as “the Vaccine Program” and provides an expedited process for resolving claims that a vaccine caused an injury. Brian has served as a special master in the program for nearly six years. Previously, he worked as a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division.
Also currently in the D.C. area, Tim Mitchell has a new position that will take him to Birmingham, Alabama, where he will serve as the executive director of the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA). Tim has a Ph.D. in theater studies from Cornell and has served for 13 years as the director of fine arts at Flint Hill School in Fairfax County, Virginia. In announcing its selection of Tim following a nationwide search, ASFA cited his “extensive experience as a teacher, administrator, and artist.” Among his professional activities, Tim has studied, led, and participated in interactive theater exercises, including in prisons, around the world.
R. Gregg “Aldo” Nourjian also has a new venture. He reports that for the last two years he has been working to start a new company, Green Mountain Firewood, and it just launched production. The company recycles wood fiber and turns it into fire logs through a process that yields dense logs that burn cleaner and longer than regular wood. Does anyone else see a possible connection between Aldo’s exciting new venture and his work on our ’88 bonfire freshman year?
Congratulations also go to Renee Noto, who was named president of Brightstar Capital Partners, a private investment firm in which she is a partner, and to Rachel Sexton, who was named assistant superintendent of the Branford Public Schools in Connecticut after many successful years as a teacher and administrator.
Please continue to send me news and updates about yourself and ’88 classmates, and I hope to see many of you in the new year.
All the best.
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com
As we close out 2019, I am thrilled to share good news from several classmates. First, Brian Corcoran has been appointed to the position of chief special master by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. In this new role, Brian will lead the office of special masters, which is known colloquially as “the Vaccine Program” and provides an expedited process for resolving claims that a vaccine caused an injury. Brian has served as a special master in the program for nearly six years. Previously, he worked as a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division.
Also currently in the D.C. area, Tim Mitchell has a new position that will take him to Birmingham, Alabama, where he will serve as the executive director of the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA). Tim has a Ph.D. in theater studies from Cornell and has served for 13 years as the director of fine arts at Flint Hill School in Fairfax County, Virginia. In announcing its selection of Tim following a nationwide search, ASFA cited his “extensive experience as a teacher, administrator, and artist.” Among his professional activities, Tim has studied, led, and participated in interactive theater exercises, including in prisons, around the world.
R. Gregg “Aldo” Nourjian also has a new venture. He reports that for the last two years he has been working to start a new company, Green Mountain Firewood, and it just launched production. The company recycles wood fiber and turns it into fire logs through a process that yields dense logs that burn cleaner and longer than regular wood. Does anyone else see a possible connection between Aldo’s exciting new venture and his work on our ’88 bonfire freshman year?
Congratulations also go to Renee Noto, who was named president of Brightstar Capital Partners, a private investment firm in which she is a partner, and to Rachel Sexton, who was named assistant superintendent of the Branford Public Schools in Connecticut after many successful years as a teacher and administrator.
Please continue to send me news and updates about yourself and ’88 classmates, and I hope to see many of you in the new year.
All the best.
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com