Class Note 1988
Issue
January-February 2022
Greetings, ’88s!
This issue of the alumni magazine is hitting your mailboxes just as we say goodbye to 2021 and usher in a new year of possibility and opportunity. What are you dreaming about or planning for in 2022? Please let me know what you are up to in the new year, and I would love to feature you in a future column.
We have a few updates from some of our Texan classmates. Kristin (Ramstad) Cartwright writes that she and her husband, Bret ’90, are now officially empty-nesters. With all three children in New England—a daughter in Boston and two sons at Dartmouth—Kristin has recently connected with Valerie (Robins) Price, Kim (Fasolo) LoMonaco, and Valerie Fasolo on campus. Kristin also enjoyed a recent visit from Mary (Flounders) Green, who was in Dallas on business.
Another report from Texas comes from Jonathan Risch, who lives in Houston and is adjusting to life as an “almost” empty-nester, which he says has allowed him to “rediscover the art of conversation” with his wife. They recently enjoyed a birthday celebration with Jonathan’s Dartmouth roommate, Earnest Wotring and his wife. Jonathan also saw Mary when her business trip took her from Dallas to Houston, and tells me that, although he did not know Mary at Dartmouth, they have connected and become friends during the past several years through Facebook. I could not agree more with Jonathan’s observation that “one of the greatest gifts of Dartmouth for me has been the lifelong friendships, both old and new.”
Another Texas classmate, Anne Chmielewski Kushwaha, was recently spotted far north and east in Middlebury, Vermont, where she got together with Laura Weylman Turner and Holly Vinchesi Cox. They gathered at Laura and her husband’s house in Middlebury on the weekend that Middlebury played Amherst in football, as Anne’s son plays for Middlebury and Holly’s plays for Amherst. Now that Anne has retired, she spends much of her time in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Holly lives in Connecticut.
I too had the pleasure of recently seeing Laura, along with Beth Burnside Rollins, when we hiked Velvet Rocks in Hanover as part of the Omondi Obura Peak Bag challenge. This year was the second annual Peak Bag event and was organized by several classmates who were rowing teammates of Omondi. The challenge brings awareness to the need for support of mental health and suicide prevention, and the organizers have now established a permanent fund for that purpose.
Finally, Robin Kass has lived in Florida for more than 20 years and, after leaving her neurology practice in Stuart seven years ago, she has worked as a neurologist locum tenens. That means she travels to various cities of her choosing to work for a week or more at a time. Robin has recently been working in Florence, South Carolina, and when not working she loves to travel, run marathons, and engage in political activism.
Happy New Year to all, and I look forward to hearing from you!
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com
This issue of the alumni magazine is hitting your mailboxes just as we say goodbye to 2021 and usher in a new year of possibility and opportunity. What are you dreaming about or planning for in 2022? Please let me know what you are up to in the new year, and I would love to feature you in a future column.
We have a few updates from some of our Texan classmates. Kristin (Ramstad) Cartwright writes that she and her husband, Bret ’90, are now officially empty-nesters. With all three children in New England—a daughter in Boston and two sons at Dartmouth—Kristin has recently connected with Valerie (Robins) Price, Kim (Fasolo) LoMonaco, and Valerie Fasolo on campus. Kristin also enjoyed a recent visit from Mary (Flounders) Green, who was in Dallas on business.
Another report from Texas comes from Jonathan Risch, who lives in Houston and is adjusting to life as an “almost” empty-nester, which he says has allowed him to “rediscover the art of conversation” with his wife. They recently enjoyed a birthday celebration with Jonathan’s Dartmouth roommate, Earnest Wotring and his wife. Jonathan also saw Mary when her business trip took her from Dallas to Houston, and tells me that, although he did not know Mary at Dartmouth, they have connected and become friends during the past several years through Facebook. I could not agree more with Jonathan’s observation that “one of the greatest gifts of Dartmouth for me has been the lifelong friendships, both old and new.”
Another Texas classmate, Anne Chmielewski Kushwaha, was recently spotted far north and east in Middlebury, Vermont, where she got together with Laura Weylman Turner and Holly Vinchesi Cox. They gathered at Laura and her husband’s house in Middlebury on the weekend that Middlebury played Amherst in football, as Anne’s son plays for Middlebury and Holly’s plays for Amherst. Now that Anne has retired, she spends much of her time in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Holly lives in Connecticut.
I too had the pleasure of recently seeing Laura, along with Beth Burnside Rollins, when we hiked Velvet Rocks in Hanover as part of the Omondi Obura Peak Bag challenge. This year was the second annual Peak Bag event and was organized by several classmates who were rowing teammates of Omondi. The challenge brings awareness to the need for support of mental health and suicide prevention, and the organizers have now established a permanent fund for that purpose.
Finally, Robin Kass has lived in Florida for more than 20 years and, after leaving her neurology practice in Stuart seven years ago, she has worked as a neurologist locum tenens. That means she travels to various cities of her choosing to work for a week or more at a time. Robin has recently been working in Florence, South Carolina, and when not working she loves to travel, run marathons, and engage in political activism.
Happy New Year to all, and I look forward to hearing from you!
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com