Class Note 1989
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
What inspires you to do the impossible? For Dave Nerrow, I saw an Instagram pic celebrating his 25th consecutive Boston Marathon. Dave’s been running since senior year at Dartmouth; along with 25 Boston Marathons, Dave “couldn’t count the number of races, but probably 50 marathons, a bunch of 50s and one 100. Turned to long-distance cycling and lots of triathlons, maybe 10 Ironman races and all that nonsense.”
Staggering, right? But then I thought—who else in our class runs that much? Here’s a fraction of the responses I received.
For Jeff Kauffman, “I set a goal senior year to go for a run for 365 straight days and only missed by a handful. That year Larry Miller and I ran the first ever Vermont City Marathon. Jeff went on to focus on trail and mountain running, including the Mount Hood to Oregon Coast, Big Sur and many more, snowshoe running and then triathlons as he got older, as well as the 50-mile run and climb Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim or running up Mount Washington.”
What inspires Carrie Luft to run? “It’s quantifiable. In a race your time is recorded. The field I entered is defined by subjectivity; more often than not you receive no feedback as to why you weren’t cast or your script was rejected.”
In 1994 Dan Parish, Brian Lenihan, Bob Reetz, Tim Clark ’88, and Rich Beaver ’90 ran the Maine marathon together. Nowadays Brian Lenihan only does “trail running, mostly longer races (marathon, 50K, 50M relay).” Brian ran the Boston Marathon several times, including running with Dave Nerrow in his very first. Bob Reetz finished eight Boston marathons and seven others in the 1990s. Bob shared, “A bunch of us track and cross-country alums (and Dave Nerrow) ran in the early 1990s Hood to Coast and I ended up competing four times. I still get immense satisfaction from completing a 90-minute run through the Blue Hills in Milton, Massachusetts.”
David Aman is another cross-country and track alum, but didn’t run his first marathon until after age 40. “I’ve run five (including Boston twice). I’m a software developer at the medical school and live in Hanover.” Clay Nichols started at 40 to set an example for his kids and to get outside regularly. Clay’s run five marathons to date, quitting the sport after every one. But New York is in November….
Tracy Dike Shackett has run a dozen marathons and a few half marathons; she started running “pushing my kids around in a buggy. My first marathon was in Burlington, Vermont, in 2005. I have run Boston six times.” Tracy has three kids and now runs races with her 17-year-old daughter. Tracy and her family live in Alabama, where she’s director of marketing for Bridgeway Diagnostics, a diagnostic imaging company.
Paul Mahoney ran the 1993 Boston Marathon as an unregistered runner, wearing a Dartmouth “GREEN” shirt. Jeanne Lucich Dwyer ran the Chicago Marathon in 2009; Josh Adler ran the N.Y.C. Marathon in 2009. Elizabeth Doherty ran the Boston Marathon in 1996, and was one of the reasons Bobby Jaffe started running and has since done several marathons and Ironmans. “[I was] in awe of Elizabeth Doherty and her running. It was amazing to me that she could just get out and fly.”
Let me hear what you’re passionate about to dedicate this kind of time and energy, whether it’s running, writing, cooking, music, whatever. Chances are, other ’89s share your passion.
–Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com
Staggering, right? But then I thought—who else in our class runs that much? Here’s a fraction of the responses I received.
For Jeff Kauffman, “I set a goal senior year to go for a run for 365 straight days and only missed by a handful. That year Larry Miller and I ran the first ever Vermont City Marathon. Jeff went on to focus on trail and mountain running, including the Mount Hood to Oregon Coast, Big Sur and many more, snowshoe running and then triathlons as he got older, as well as the 50-mile run and climb Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim or running up Mount Washington.”
What inspires Carrie Luft to run? “It’s quantifiable. In a race your time is recorded. The field I entered is defined by subjectivity; more often than not you receive no feedback as to why you weren’t cast or your script was rejected.”
In 1994 Dan Parish, Brian Lenihan, Bob Reetz, Tim Clark ’88, and Rich Beaver ’90 ran the Maine marathon together. Nowadays Brian Lenihan only does “trail running, mostly longer races (marathon, 50K, 50M relay).” Brian ran the Boston Marathon several times, including running with Dave Nerrow in his very first. Bob Reetz finished eight Boston marathons and seven others in the 1990s. Bob shared, “A bunch of us track and cross-country alums (and Dave Nerrow) ran in the early 1990s Hood to Coast and I ended up competing four times. I still get immense satisfaction from completing a 90-minute run through the Blue Hills in Milton, Massachusetts.”
David Aman is another cross-country and track alum, but didn’t run his first marathon until after age 40. “I’ve run five (including Boston twice). I’m a software developer at the medical school and live in Hanover.” Clay Nichols started at 40 to set an example for his kids and to get outside regularly. Clay’s run five marathons to date, quitting the sport after every one. But New York is in November….
Tracy Dike Shackett has run a dozen marathons and a few half marathons; she started running “pushing my kids around in a buggy. My first marathon was in Burlington, Vermont, in 2005. I have run Boston six times.” Tracy has three kids and now runs races with her 17-year-old daughter. Tracy and her family live in Alabama, where she’s director of marketing for Bridgeway Diagnostics, a diagnostic imaging company.
Paul Mahoney ran the 1993 Boston Marathon as an unregistered runner, wearing a Dartmouth “GREEN” shirt. Jeanne Lucich Dwyer ran the Chicago Marathon in 2009; Josh Adler ran the N.Y.C. Marathon in 2009. Elizabeth Doherty ran the Boston Marathon in 1996, and was one of the reasons Bobby Jaffe started running and has since done several marathons and Ironmans. “[I was] in awe of Elizabeth Doherty and her running. It was amazing to me that she could just get out and fly.”
Let me hear what you’re passionate about to dedicate this kind of time and energy, whether it’s running, writing, cooking, music, whatever. Chances are, other ’89s share your passion.
–Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com