Paul Sawyer lives in a log cabin in the woods in Hartland Four Corners, Vermont. He’s the minister for the Unitarian Universalist church in Hartland, which he says is a growing, lively, friendly group of people. He and his wife, Katy, have two children—Emma, 11, and Aidan, 4. Paul writes, “We just began homeschooling Emma and one of her first requests was to ‘just go into the library at Dartmouth and be around all those books!’ I’ve been teaching her about researching in Baker/Berry, but I think what she really wants to do is just sit there and look at the books and read. You should have seen her face when I first took her into the Tower Room. I think she thought it was heaven or Hogwarts, and either way she just wanted to sit and soak it all in.” Paul says he has some good friends among the many other alums in the Upper Valley, including Hartland’s other minister, Lucia Jackson ’84, and says it’s nice to have the connection of being part of a Dartmouth pastor team, serving the community together.


Congratulations to Martin Fackler, The New York Times’ Tokyo bureau chief, who was a finalist this spring for a Pulitzer Prize, along with his colleagues, for their reporting on the Japanese government’s failure to disclose information on the radiation spread following last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.


I tracked down Tina Richardson Miller, my old freshman-year hall-mate, when I noticed that she had joined our class Facebook group. (Hint to the rest of you to join us there too! We have 318 members and I have to believe there are more of you out there.) Tina is a long-time Alaska resident, living in Anchorage, where she is an engineer with the local water/wastewater utility. Water for the 291,000 people who live in Anchorage comes mostly from a glacial lake. But the infrastructure needed to distribute it involves more than 1,500 miles of underground pipes! The area of Anchorage covers 1,800 square miles, but only 121 of those square miles are populated. The rest is vacant, state park or national park land. Tina has three children, who are 14, 16 and 18. The oldest, Anna, is headed to Hanover this fall as a member of the class of 2016. Tina returnedlast year for the first time since graduation and hiked Moosilauke with Anna, so obviously that sealed the deal.


Finally, our deepest condolences to Ken Horton, whose wife, LeeAnn Agnelli Horton ’87, passed away in February after a six-year battle with cancer. Our thoughts are with Ken and their children Katie, Sophie and Andrew.


—Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com