Class Note 1990
Greetings all from sunny Lima, Peru! I’m here attending a Sport for All conference hosted by the International Olympic Committee and the Peruvian Olympic Committee. It’s been fascinating, if a bit out of my union-organizing wheelhouse. Next week I’ll have the opportunity to visit Rob Adams in Cape Town, South Africa. Rob is the CEO of Grassroots Soccer, a program that uses soccer to teach life skills to young people to help prevent HIV and AIDS. I’ll be there as part of an ambassador program we’ve initiated with the NFL players union to help South African athletes come together to form player associations.
Congratulations to Rob Cohenuram, who has been selected as one of Connecticut’s top doctors according to polling done by Connecticut Magazine. Rob is an oncologist and member of the Praxiair Cancer Center, Danbury Hospital and Diebold Family Cancer Center, New Milford Hospital.
I heard from Andy Affleck, who manages the development team of Ozmott, an iPhone/Android app started by Andy and Joseph Walker ’91. They are also spinning up a new company to develop another app to be named later. In the evenings he acts, directs and produces productions with Swamp Meadow Community Theatre in Rhode Island. Andy also acts as our class Alumni Council representative and Facebook tsar (a working title).
On that note, I want to call everyone’s attention to our class Facebook page. There have been some very important posts recently. Chinua Achebe, who you may remember was the author of Things Fall Apart, our pre-Dartmouth summer reading, died this year at the age of 82.
Meg Sommerfeld posted an eerie video from 1988. PBS correspondent John Merrow ’63 filmed a report from his 25th reunion. Many ’90s make cameos, including Meg and the Aires. If you’re on Facebook, please join the class of 1990 page to stay in touch.
Your class officers have been busy getting organized for our own 25th reunion. A conference call, scheduled for April 19, was delayed in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. While we are still counting the injured, we can only pray that no one from the Dartmouth family has been affected. Our thoughts go out to all the victims. Stay safe.
—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 47 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; robertlcrawford @yahoo.com
