Class Note 1989
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
Winter time! I was bummed hearing that the College may close the golf course, as I remember sledding down the hills in one of the aluminum DOC canoes. But I’m guessing that sledding on the golf course has been gone for many years. As old traditions fade or change, new ones get made.
Back in early January I was in Hong Kong for work and met up with Greg Dinges on his way back to Japan. Greg is head of international with Cole Haan and just announced a long-term distribution agreement with Sitoy Retailing in China, so he’s moving back to Hong Kong in September. Here’s hoping I’ll see him and other ’89s in Hong Kong in January.
My travels also took me to Minneapolis in late January and I had dinner with Jody Warden, Bridget Hust and Kathy Heafey ’90. Jody was in ski patrol back when I was a ski instructor at the Dartmouth Skiway; she moved back from D.C. to Minneapolis about a year ago and is still working for Target. Coincidentally, Bridget Hust was on the ski team while at Dartmouth; she now is running her own law firm. I also got to have an early breakfast with Libby Carrier Doran. Libby is principal at LymanDoran, an executive search and consulting firm. Great catching up in Minnesota!
As part of clearing out my parents’ house of clutter, I sent three Winter Carnival posters (1973, 1985, 1990) to Catherine Baggia Duwan, who will be adding them to the Dartmouth bar in her home, which has a “great collection of Dartmouth glassware and a vintage tin and lightbulb Dartmouth sign, which remains lit during the countless pool games and pong matches on my 8-foot handmade pong table.”
Catherine writes: “This past year my family and I were lucky enough to spend a month in Italy touring around the northern half of the country, staying in various Airbnb apartments for a few days at a time each. The incredible journey culminated in a stay on the north coast of Lago di Garda, where we went sailing in a boat skippered by my teenaged son, Christopher. We made a very special visit to Carisolo, a ski-resort town at the foot of the Dolomite mountains and the hometown of my beloved late grandparents, Caterina and Rocco Baggia, who were born two days apart a few blocks away from each other back in 1897. I took countless photos sporting the Dartmouth swag at every photo-op locale. It was fantastic to spend so much time in off-the-beaten path places where my older son, Connor, and I spoke nothing but Italian since nobody understood English.
“Back in Connecticut I recently enjoyed a visit from my dearest roommate, Dr. Carolyn Gardella, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle who also runs a clinic at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs division. We got together with my neighbor Mike Conroy, who described ‘getting the posse back together’ as a too-infrequent event, much to the equanimity of local law enforcement. I continue my work as an admissions ambassador and as a board member of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and recently joined the Bartlett Tower Society. After all that, work as a corporate lawyer is too boring to talk about!”
So what Dartmouth traditions do you miss or are glad are no longer there? What traditions are you keeping or creating with family and friends? I want to hear your thoughts on this, what you’re up to and I hope if I’m in your town, we can catch up in person!
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com
Back in early January I was in Hong Kong for work and met up with Greg Dinges on his way back to Japan. Greg is head of international with Cole Haan and just announced a long-term distribution agreement with Sitoy Retailing in China, so he’s moving back to Hong Kong in September. Here’s hoping I’ll see him and other ’89s in Hong Kong in January.
My travels also took me to Minneapolis in late January and I had dinner with Jody Warden, Bridget Hust and Kathy Heafey ’90. Jody was in ski patrol back when I was a ski instructor at the Dartmouth Skiway; she moved back from D.C. to Minneapolis about a year ago and is still working for Target. Coincidentally, Bridget Hust was on the ski team while at Dartmouth; she now is running her own law firm. I also got to have an early breakfast with Libby Carrier Doran. Libby is principal at LymanDoran, an executive search and consulting firm. Great catching up in Minnesota!
As part of clearing out my parents’ house of clutter, I sent three Winter Carnival posters (1973, 1985, 1990) to Catherine Baggia Duwan, who will be adding them to the Dartmouth bar in her home, which has a “great collection of Dartmouth glassware and a vintage tin and lightbulb Dartmouth sign, which remains lit during the countless pool games and pong matches on my 8-foot handmade pong table.”
Catherine writes: “This past year my family and I were lucky enough to spend a month in Italy touring around the northern half of the country, staying in various Airbnb apartments for a few days at a time each. The incredible journey culminated in a stay on the north coast of Lago di Garda, where we went sailing in a boat skippered by my teenaged son, Christopher. We made a very special visit to Carisolo, a ski-resort town at the foot of the Dolomite mountains and the hometown of my beloved late grandparents, Caterina and Rocco Baggia, who were born two days apart a few blocks away from each other back in 1897. I took countless photos sporting the Dartmouth swag at every photo-op locale. It was fantastic to spend so much time in off-the-beaten path places where my older son, Connor, and I spoke nothing but Italian since nobody understood English.
“Back in Connecticut I recently enjoyed a visit from my dearest roommate, Dr. Carolyn Gardella, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle who also runs a clinic at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs division. We got together with my neighbor Mike Conroy, who described ‘getting the posse back together’ as a too-infrequent event, much to the equanimity of local law enforcement. I continue my work as an admissions ambassador and as a board member of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and recently joined the Bartlett Tower Society. After all that, work as a corporate lawyer is too boring to talk about!”
So what Dartmouth traditions do you miss or are glad are no longer there? What traditions are you keeping or creating with family and friends? I want to hear your thoughts on this, what you’re up to and I hope if I’m in your town, we can catch up in person!
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com