Class Note 1989
Issue
David Spindler, featured in this column in the last issue for his amazing work as a scholar of the Great Wall of China, has a new production to report. He and wife K.C. welcomed daughter Samantha Dorothy in November.
Sue Shons Luria writes from Shaker Heights, Ohio, that she’s training for the Boston Marathon, scheduled to take place in April. Sue must really love running since this is her 14th marathon. But she says that her daughters Margot, 7, and Elena, 6, are her true joy. While not running or being Mom Sue works as a consultant in the bioscience industry, developing early-stage companies. She also serves on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, which she humbly neglected to mention. Sue also reports that Jeff Ustin recently moved to Cleveland, Ohio, from Massachusetts with his wife, Pauline, and three kids. Jeff is a trauma surgeon who works with new technologies involving medical robotics.
Anne Boardman Pohnert, who lives in Vienna, Virginia, says that it’s been a good winter for cross-country skiing in the D.C. area. She says it reminds her of skiing around the golf course in Hanover. Anne is a family nurse practitioner and manager of operations for 20 CVS Minute Clinics in Virginia. Anne has recently been singing with the Vienna Choral Society, which performed at the Kennedy Center in December, leading more than 1,500 people in the Messiah Sing-a-Long. In January they were scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center in N.Y.C., singing “The Armed Man for Peace” Mass on Martin Luther King Day. Anne says she sang in the Handel Society for a few years at Dartmouth and enjoys getting back to making music.
Catherine Baggia Duwan says she was disappointed to miss reunion last year, but that she’s been dealing with an acute case of Lyme disease. She says she’s doing much better now and she continues to be active as an alumni interviewer in the Princeton, New Jersey, area, where she lives with her husband, Paul, and boys Connor and Christopher. Catherine also had the chance to visit with Mike Conroy last fall and says he and his family are doing well in Simsbury, Connecticut, where Mike is a trial attorney and partner in a Hartford law firm. She says Mike still enjoys playing lacrosse in a recreational league.
Lenora Brown reports that she is excited to be appointed to the international advisory board for the 2011 International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) World Congress and Performing Arts Festival, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden, in May. ASSITEJ is an international organization that includes a network of thousands of theaters in about 80 member countries. Lenora recently left DePaul University in Chicago, where she was a professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, and she’s on the hunt for her next great adventure in the performing arts world. Lenora got her M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama.
Finally, as many of you know from our e-mails, our classmates Deanna Emberly Bailey and Chris Bailey suffered the utterly tragic loss of their two sons Solon and Liam in a Kentucky fire on Christmas Day. Close to 800 people turned out for the boys’ funeral in their hometown of Barre, Vermont, in January. Donations can be sent to the Beauregard Foundation: Solon and Liam Bailey Memorial Fund, c/o Chrysalis Ventures, 101 South 5th St., Suite 1650, Louisville, KY 40202. The fund will be used for nonprofit children’s education programs in Vermont. A class memorial is also in the works.
—Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com
May - June 2010
David Spindler, featured in this column in the last issue for his amazing work as a scholar of the Great Wall of China, has a new production to report. He and wife K.C. welcomed daughter Samantha Dorothy in November.
Sue Shons Luria writes from Shaker Heights, Ohio, that she’s training for the Boston Marathon, scheduled to take place in April. Sue must really love running since this is her 14th marathon. But she says that her daughters Margot, 7, and Elena, 6, are her true joy. While not running or being Mom Sue works as a consultant in the bioscience industry, developing early-stage companies. She also serves on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, which she humbly neglected to mention. Sue also reports that Jeff Ustin recently moved to Cleveland, Ohio, from Massachusetts with his wife, Pauline, and three kids. Jeff is a trauma surgeon who works with new technologies involving medical robotics.
Anne Boardman Pohnert, who lives in Vienna, Virginia, says that it’s been a good winter for cross-country skiing in the D.C. area. She says it reminds her of skiing around the golf course in Hanover. Anne is a family nurse practitioner and manager of operations for 20 CVS Minute Clinics in Virginia. Anne has recently been singing with the Vienna Choral Society, which performed at the Kennedy Center in December, leading more than 1,500 people in the Messiah Sing-a-Long. In January they were scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center in N.Y.C., singing “The Armed Man for Peace” Mass on Martin Luther King Day. Anne says she sang in the Handel Society for a few years at Dartmouth and enjoys getting back to making music.
Catherine Baggia Duwan says she was disappointed to miss reunion last year, but that she’s been dealing with an acute case of Lyme disease. She says she’s doing much better now and she continues to be active as an alumni interviewer in the Princeton, New Jersey, area, where she lives with her husband, Paul, and boys Connor and Christopher. Catherine also had the chance to visit with Mike Conroy last fall and says he and his family are doing well in Simsbury, Connecticut, where Mike is a trial attorney and partner in a Hartford law firm. She says Mike still enjoys playing lacrosse in a recreational league.
Lenora Brown reports that she is excited to be appointed to the international advisory board for the 2011 International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) World Congress and Performing Arts Festival, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden, in May. ASSITEJ is an international organization that includes a network of thousands of theaters in about 80 member countries. Lenora recently left DePaul University in Chicago, where she was a professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, and she’s on the hunt for her next great adventure in the performing arts world. Lenora got her M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama.
Finally, as many of you know from our e-mails, our classmates Deanna Emberly Bailey and Chris Bailey suffered the utterly tragic loss of their two sons Solon and Liam in a Kentucky fire on Christmas Day. Close to 800 people turned out for the boys’ funeral in their hometown of Barre, Vermont, in January. Donations can be sent to the Beauregard Foundation: Solon and Liam Bailey Memorial Fund, c/o Chrysalis Ventures, 101 South 5th St., Suite 1650, Louisville, KY 40202. The fund will be used for nonprofit children’s education programs in Vermont. A class memorial is also in the works.
—Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com