Class Note 1989
Issue
January-February 2025
Happy holidays and Happy New Year!
My mother always said that how you start a new year sets the tone for the rest of the year. So let us start 2025 with great news. The data is in. Our class broke reunion attendance records with the highest classmate attendance at 336, and the highest total attendance at 437, for any 35th reunion (which includes other classes). Thank you, Antonia Nedder and the entire reunion committee, for a job well done! In other great news, give a rouse for Jamie Heller, recently named Business Insider editor-in-chief after more than 20 years with The Wall Street Journal. Congratulations, Jamie! Read more at nytimes.com/2024/09/09/business/media/business-insider-jamie-heller.html.
Nancy Obler had the unexpected pleasure of seeing Ellie Loughlin, Heidi Briggs Buonanno, and Sid Williams in Rhode Island at an author speaker series where Sid’s wife, Beatriz, was the featured author. After reconnecting in Hanover after 35 years, Nancy met up with Jim Sullivan, who is living in Westchester, New York, with his twin daughters and working in N.Y.C. Nancy joined Jennifer Marrus for her son’s send off to Wake Forest. And Joe and Nancy dined with Gregg and Sharyl Reisman. Sharyl’s hectic travel schedule continues as her legal career takes her around the world fighting the good fight.
Another mini-reunion inspired Jennifer Beck Giacobetti to reengage with the class. In October she joined David Hammond, Jennifer Avellino, and Ken Horton at President Beilock’s house to seed the Pollinator Project’s latest wildflower bed. While David’s team works to secure the future of healthy ecosystems, 89 Cares cochairs Jennifer Marrus and Antonia Nedder help us honor our past. In October 89 Cares presented “Alzheimer’s and Memory Related Disease: Perspectives on Treatment and Caregiving.” You can access the recording on our class website. For info on future related programming, contact Jennifer and Antonia.
When Dartmouth alums think of the outdoors, rarely do thoughts call to mind the sunny Pacific coast. However, Linda Swenberg discovered the beauty of a rustic cabin near Lake Tahoe stewarded by the Dartmouth Outing Club Northern California. Linda, her daughter Nadine ’18, and other alumni including Matt Holleran enjoyed hiking, boating, and an August snowstorm, which did not dampen the mood.
During the fall Estelle Bowman’sthoughtslean toward home where the community prepares for winter during the YeiBiChei ceremony on the Navajo Nation. Her family brings the celebration to Estelle, who is in Washington, D.C., serving as the first-ever tribal specialist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office providing counsel on issues impacting tribal nations and their citizens.
Ned Ward and Eric Berlin had so much fun playing together for the Dartmouthpalooza at reunion that they are planning an encore performance at their high school reunion this spring. Ned also shares that he is still at Walmart leading marketing for Entertainment Council. Ned and his wife, Noriko, are soon to be empty-nesters with daughters at University of California, Davis, and Loyola Marymount University.
Continue making great news this year and drop me a line.
—Robin Byrd, P.O. Box 660563, Arcadia, CA 91066; robinwinters@msn.com
My mother always said that how you start a new year sets the tone for the rest of the year. So let us start 2025 with great news. The data is in. Our class broke reunion attendance records with the highest classmate attendance at 336, and the highest total attendance at 437, for any 35th reunion (which includes other classes). Thank you, Antonia Nedder and the entire reunion committee, for a job well done! In other great news, give a rouse for Jamie Heller, recently named Business Insider editor-in-chief after more than 20 years with The Wall Street Journal. Congratulations, Jamie! Read more at nytimes.com/2024/09/09/business/media/business-insider-jamie-heller.html.
Nancy Obler had the unexpected pleasure of seeing Ellie Loughlin, Heidi Briggs Buonanno, and Sid Williams in Rhode Island at an author speaker series where Sid’s wife, Beatriz, was the featured author. After reconnecting in Hanover after 35 years, Nancy met up with Jim Sullivan, who is living in Westchester, New York, with his twin daughters and working in N.Y.C. Nancy joined Jennifer Marrus for her son’s send off to Wake Forest. And Joe and Nancy dined with Gregg and Sharyl Reisman. Sharyl’s hectic travel schedule continues as her legal career takes her around the world fighting the good fight.
Another mini-reunion inspired Jennifer Beck Giacobetti to reengage with the class. In October she joined David Hammond, Jennifer Avellino, and Ken Horton at President Beilock’s house to seed the Pollinator Project’s latest wildflower bed. While David’s team works to secure the future of healthy ecosystems, 89 Cares cochairs Jennifer Marrus and Antonia Nedder help us honor our past. In October 89 Cares presented “Alzheimer’s and Memory Related Disease: Perspectives on Treatment and Caregiving.” You can access the recording on our class website. For info on future related programming, contact Jennifer and Antonia.
When Dartmouth alums think of the outdoors, rarely do thoughts call to mind the sunny Pacific coast. However, Linda Swenberg discovered the beauty of a rustic cabin near Lake Tahoe stewarded by the Dartmouth Outing Club Northern California. Linda, her daughter Nadine ’18, and other alumni including Matt Holleran enjoyed hiking, boating, and an August snowstorm, which did not dampen the mood.
During the fall Estelle Bowman’sthoughtslean toward home where the community prepares for winter during the YeiBiChei ceremony on the Navajo Nation. Her family brings the celebration to Estelle, who is in Washington, D.C., serving as the first-ever tribal specialist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office providing counsel on issues impacting tribal nations and their citizens.
Ned Ward and Eric Berlin had so much fun playing together for the Dartmouthpalooza at reunion that they are planning an encore performance at their high school reunion this spring. Ned also shares that he is still at Walmart leading marketing for Entertainment Council. Ned and his wife, Noriko, are soon to be empty-nesters with daughters at University of California, Davis, and Loyola Marymount University.
Continue making great news this year and drop me a line.
—Robin Byrd, P.O. Box 660563, Arcadia, CA 91066; robinwinters@msn.com