Class Note 1988
Issue
September-October 2022
Greetings, ’88s.
Congratulations to Cari Jackson Lewis, whom the California Black Women’s Collective honored with a 2022 Trailblazer Hall of Fame Award. This award recognizes leaders who have championed and elevated Black women in California. As founder and principal of California Philanthropic Consulting, Cari has worked to highlight and support the impact of effective nonprofit organizations that are BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving. Additionally, in 2021 Cari was named executive director of development, gift planning, of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Also doing great things in her community is Elizabeth Koldyke Boolbol. She spends much of her time with the nonprofit she founded in 2016, Partnership to End Human Trafficking or PEHT, based in Fairfield County, Connecticut. PEHT is a long-term residential restoration program for adult survivors of sex trafficking and serves women from all across the country, primarily along the I-95 corridor. Elizabeth reports, “The work is monumentally rewarding and the women we serve are some of the bravest human beings I have ever met.”
Larissa Roesch reports doing something many of us will no doubt admire: “I had designated 2021 as a ‘year of listening’ for myself. I wanted to see what came up for me, what piqued my interest. In January 2022 I returned to school and am studying to be an Ayurvedic wellness coach. It’s quite different from managing corporate pensions, and I am enjoying it immensely.”
Chris Ludwig writes that he is married to Iesa Figueroa, from the Yale class of 1988, and has two children in college. As we reminisced via email about our class’ senior symposium on “The Family: Myth and Reality in a Changing America,” on which we both worked in the spring of 1988 with other classmates, Chris noted he is glad to see the definition of family has evolved to embrace diverse approaches. His wife is stepmother to his children, and he says he “made the conscious decision to spend much of my time with my two children simply as a unit of three,” which although not conventional, “really worked out best for all parties.”
I am pleased to share this abbreviated update from Luzi Robinson: “I was thrilled to represent our class at the Alumni Council 224th meeting in Hanover in mid-May. The best thing happening at Dartmouth to me was seeing Dartmouth’s commitment to academic excellence for today’s students. The new buildings, courses, and programs were phenomenal. I especially applaud Dartmouth for sharing that it is one of the first institutions to not only offer need-blind admission to students, but also do so in the future while eliminating the student loan component.”
Finally, Luzi lifted up Catherine Craighead Briggs, who received a well-deserved Dartmouth Alumni Award during Alumni Council weekend. This award celebrates those who have demonstrated extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishments. Please watch the incredible video highlighting Catherine’s work, with heartfelt tributes from Richard Cloobeck and Danielle Barney Green, available on the Dartmouth website. Kudos to you, Catherine!
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com
Congratulations to Cari Jackson Lewis, whom the California Black Women’s Collective honored with a 2022 Trailblazer Hall of Fame Award. This award recognizes leaders who have championed and elevated Black women in California. As founder and principal of California Philanthropic Consulting, Cari has worked to highlight and support the impact of effective nonprofit organizations that are BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving. Additionally, in 2021 Cari was named executive director of development, gift planning, of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Also doing great things in her community is Elizabeth Koldyke Boolbol. She spends much of her time with the nonprofit she founded in 2016, Partnership to End Human Trafficking or PEHT, based in Fairfield County, Connecticut. PEHT is a long-term residential restoration program for adult survivors of sex trafficking and serves women from all across the country, primarily along the I-95 corridor. Elizabeth reports, “The work is monumentally rewarding and the women we serve are some of the bravest human beings I have ever met.”
Larissa Roesch reports doing something many of us will no doubt admire: “I had designated 2021 as a ‘year of listening’ for myself. I wanted to see what came up for me, what piqued my interest. In January 2022 I returned to school and am studying to be an Ayurvedic wellness coach. It’s quite different from managing corporate pensions, and I am enjoying it immensely.”
Chris Ludwig writes that he is married to Iesa Figueroa, from the Yale class of 1988, and has two children in college. As we reminisced via email about our class’ senior symposium on “The Family: Myth and Reality in a Changing America,” on which we both worked in the spring of 1988 with other classmates, Chris noted he is glad to see the definition of family has evolved to embrace diverse approaches. His wife is stepmother to his children, and he says he “made the conscious decision to spend much of my time with my two children simply as a unit of three,” which although not conventional, “really worked out best for all parties.”
I am pleased to share this abbreviated update from Luzi Robinson: “I was thrilled to represent our class at the Alumni Council 224th meeting in Hanover in mid-May. The best thing happening at Dartmouth to me was seeing Dartmouth’s commitment to academic excellence for today’s students. The new buildings, courses, and programs were phenomenal. I especially applaud Dartmouth for sharing that it is one of the first institutions to not only offer need-blind admission to students, but also do so in the future while eliminating the student loan component.”
Finally, Luzi lifted up Catherine Craighead Briggs, who received a well-deserved Dartmouth Alumni Award during Alumni Council weekend. This award celebrates those who have demonstrated extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishments. Please watch the incredible video highlighting Catherine’s work, with heartfelt tributes from Richard Cloobeck and Danielle Barney Green, available on the Dartmouth website. Kudos to you, Catherine!
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com