Class Note 1989
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Registration for our 25th reunion from June 12 to 15 goes live in March. Reunion housing is separate, so look for that mailing, too. Join our class Facebook page and our new 1989 LinkedIn page to stay connected. Nine reunion classes will share Hanover with us during the long weekend so it should be a fantastic time and our planning committee is hard at work. Fall brought many of our classmates to Hanover for Homecoming, Class Officers Weekend, Alumni Council and other activities. The Wentworth Bowl changed hands at Convocation 2013, as former presidents James Wright and Jim Kim passed the College’s leadership to new Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon ’77. Hanlon greeted the incoming class of 2017, which included the sons and daughters of Mateo Romero, Jim Katzman, Craig Morton, June Park and Ellie Mahoney Loughlin and Phil Loughlin. You can hear from President Hanlon about the College’s priorities ahead, as he travels to meet Dartmouth alums in the coming months in London, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and Denver, with past events in California and on the East Coast. Congratulations to Wall Street Journal reporter Geeta Anand, one of the winners of the 2013 Daniel Pearl Award, given by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for her examination of the spread of drug-resistant TB. The New York Time’s Tokyo bureau chief Martin Fackler was scheduled to lecture at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth in early November about his experience covering the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Award-winning documentary filmmakers Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller are gaining attention for their new film, Still Dreaming, which follows a group of older people at an actors retirement home as they prepare for a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hank was quoted in The Huffington Post as saying that Shakespeare understood “what it was to be human in all stages of life. He has a remarkable ability to connect through time. His plays have relevance today in very significant ways.” Jilann and Hank are known for their previous documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, about a group of prisoners taking on a production of The Tempest. Chris Rorke is back in Hanover, working for head coach Buddy Teevens as the quarterback and passing coach for Dartmouth football. Julie McColl-McKenna and David McKenna, who live in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and have four children, are building a house in Quechee, Vermont, where Julie is the parent manager of the youth ski program. David is a managing partner at Advent International, where he’s worked since 1992. Bill Dean lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Christine, and their 3-year-old twin boys, which must keep them plenty busy. Bill has been at General Mills since graduation, which just might be a class record. Allison Polley Hirsch is at Deutsche Bank in Boston and living in Back Bay with her husband, Andrew Hirsch, and their two kids Matthew and Sarah. Matt McDonald is the associate director of upper school admission at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He’s also an assistant coach for the varsity soccer team and teaches ninth-grade history. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Belmont with their daughters Molly, age 5, and Annie, age 2. And finally, Neil Abramson, an attorney in New Orleans, continues as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he’s served since 2007. He and his wife, Kim, and their sixth-grade son Parrish have headed north the last couple of summers for time with classmates and a vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts. See you in June. —Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com
Jan - Feb 2014
Registration for our 25th reunion from June 12 to 15 goes live in March. Reunion housing is separate, so look for that mailing, too. Join our class Facebook page and our new 1989 LinkedIn page to stay connected. Nine reunion classes will share Hanover with us during the long weekend so it should be a fantastic time and our planning committee is hard at work. Fall brought many of our classmates to Hanover for Homecoming, Class Officers Weekend, Alumni Council and other activities. The Wentworth Bowl changed hands at Convocation 2013, as former presidents James Wright and Jim Kim passed the College’s leadership to new Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon ’77. Hanlon greeted the incoming class of 2017, which included the sons and daughters of Mateo Romero, Jim Katzman, Craig Morton, June Park and Ellie Mahoney Loughlin and Phil Loughlin. You can hear from President Hanlon about the College’s priorities ahead, as he travels to meet Dartmouth alums in the coming months in London, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and Denver, with past events in California and on the East Coast. Congratulations to Wall Street Journal reporter Geeta Anand, one of the winners of the 2013 Daniel Pearl Award, given by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for her examination of the spread of drug-resistant TB. The New York Time’s Tokyo bureau chief Martin Fackler was scheduled to lecture at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth in early November about his experience covering the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Award-winning documentary filmmakers Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller are gaining attention for their new film, Still Dreaming, which follows a group of older people at an actors retirement home as they prepare for a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hank was quoted in The Huffington Post as saying that Shakespeare understood “what it was to be human in all stages of life. He has a remarkable ability to connect through time. His plays have relevance today in very significant ways.” Jilann and Hank are known for their previous documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, about a group of prisoners taking on a production of The Tempest. Chris Rorke is back in Hanover, working for head coach Buddy Teevens as the quarterback and passing coach for Dartmouth football. Julie McColl-McKenna and David McKenna, who live in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and have four children, are building a house in Quechee, Vermont, where Julie is the parent manager of the youth ski program. David is a managing partner at Advent International, where he’s worked since 1992. Bill Dean lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Christine, and their 3-year-old twin boys, which must keep them plenty busy. Bill has been at General Mills since graduation, which just might be a class record. Allison Polley Hirsch is at Deutsche Bank in Boston and living in Back Bay with her husband, Andrew Hirsch, and their two kids Matthew and Sarah. Matt McDonald is the associate director of upper school admission at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He’s also an assistant coach for the varsity soccer team and teaches ninth-grade history. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Belmont with their daughters Molly, age 5, and Annie, age 2. And finally, Neil Abramson, an attorney in New Orleans, continues as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he’s served since 2007. He and his wife, Kim, and their sixth-grade son Parrish have headed north the last couple of summers for time with classmates and a vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts. See you in June. —Jennifer Avellino, 5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda, MD 20817; javellino@mac.com