Class Note 1990
Issue
This DAM column has been an important part of my connection to Dartmouth during the past 19 years so it is with a sense of honor, responsibility and a bit of fun that my cousin Rob Crawford and I take over the charge of adapting your news to fit this forum. We hope we can live up to the high standard set by Brad Drazen and Bill Levin and those that have come before.
If you remember us it is probably for our extracurricular activities—I was the tall ’90 on the basketball team and Rob was a stellar musician on campus, singing in Second Hand Jam and the Aires. We will be taking turns with the writing duties so expect a column you can set to music next issue.
A little bit about Rob: He now lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife, Meg, who is a full-time pediatrician at Framingham Pediatrics, and his five children: Robert (10), Benjamin (7), Elizabeth (5), Charlotte (3) and Katherine (1). He is the director of development at the independent school that his three oldest children attend, but his life is focused around baseball. This summer he helped coach the team of his Robert Jr. to victory in the Eastern Massachusetts championship. Rob is also vice president of Red Sox Nation, a position he was elected to by the fans in 2007. I will write more about his VP activities in a future column but you can check him out at www.crawdaddycove.com.
Reunion is still fresh in my mind as I write. It was the first that I attended since our fifth. The first evening, under the threat of rain (which never came), we were corralled into the echoing and rather dark depths of Leverone. There I met Tom Parker, who is living in Miami. He meets Nick Stanham for breakfast every week and recently welcomed his first daughter, Mia Florence, last May. He also reported that his legal practice is growing. I also saw my former teammate Steve Trundle. Steve is CEO of Alarm.com and living in Falls Church, Virginia, with his wife, Kim, and their three children.
Our class tent was set up in front of Alumni Gym where we registered, breakfasted, listened to the Aires, heard a bittersweet talk by outgoing President Jim Wright and (some of us) gathered up the courage to go back for a second lobster—just to balance off all the corn on our plates…really.
The highlight of reunion for me was not an event on the official schedule. It was an honor to be invited to participate in a women’s hoop mini-reunion. A 10th body was needed for a five-on-five pick-up game at the Ray School. The group included fellow ’90s Ute Bowman Otley, Sophia Neely, Patty Webb, Allison Greene and Jennifer Lowry. After all these years they reminded me why they were four-time Ivy League champions. Wow.
For those of you in politics, our new class president Tim Cleary could show you a thing or two about political hardball. Class officer elections were scheduled the same time as the Rassias lecture, practically assuring that the only ones who would show up were those standing for office. So by unanimous consent your class officers: vice president, Carter “C.J.” Strickland; treasurer, David Greenberg; Webmaster, Andy Affleck; newsletter editor, Clayton Gates; mini-reunion chair, Lucinda Welch; and head agent, Emily Hill.
Finally, a joke for the kids courtesy of A Prairie Home Companion: What does a fish say when he runs into a cement wall? “DAM!”
—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford @yahoo.com
Nov - Dec 2009
This DAM column has been an important part of my connection to Dartmouth during the past 19 years so it is with a sense of honor, responsibility and a bit of fun that my cousin Rob Crawford and I take over the charge of adapting your news to fit this forum. We hope we can live up to the high standard set by Brad Drazen and Bill Levin and those that have come before.
If you remember us it is probably for our extracurricular activities—I was the tall ’90 on the basketball team and Rob was a stellar musician on campus, singing in Second Hand Jam and the Aires. We will be taking turns with the writing duties so expect a column you can set to music next issue.
A little bit about Rob: He now lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife, Meg, who is a full-time pediatrician at Framingham Pediatrics, and his five children: Robert (10), Benjamin (7), Elizabeth (5), Charlotte (3) and Katherine (1). He is the director of development at the independent school that his three oldest children attend, but his life is focused around baseball. This summer he helped coach the team of his Robert Jr. to victory in the Eastern Massachusetts championship. Rob is also vice president of Red Sox Nation, a position he was elected to by the fans in 2007. I will write more about his VP activities in a future column but you can check him out at www.crawdaddycove.com.
Reunion is still fresh in my mind as I write. It was the first that I attended since our fifth. The first evening, under the threat of rain (which never came), we were corralled into the echoing and rather dark depths of Leverone. There I met Tom Parker, who is living in Miami. He meets Nick Stanham for breakfast every week and recently welcomed his first daughter, Mia Florence, last May. He also reported that his legal practice is growing. I also saw my former teammate Steve Trundle. Steve is CEO of Alarm.com and living in Falls Church, Virginia, with his wife, Kim, and their three children.
Our class tent was set up in front of Alumni Gym where we registered, breakfasted, listened to the Aires, heard a bittersweet talk by outgoing President Jim Wright and (some of us) gathered up the courage to go back for a second lobster—just to balance off all the corn on our plates…really.
The highlight of reunion for me was not an event on the official schedule. It was an honor to be invited to participate in a women’s hoop mini-reunion. A 10th body was needed for a five-on-five pick-up game at the Ray School. The group included fellow ’90s Ute Bowman Otley, Sophia Neely, Patty Webb, Allison Greene and Jennifer Lowry. After all these years they reminded me why they were four-time Ivy League champions. Wow.
For those of you in politics, our new class president Tim Cleary could show you a thing or two about political hardball. Class officer elections were scheduled the same time as the Rassias lecture, practically assuring that the only ones who would show up were those standing for office. So by unanimous consent your class officers: vice president, Carter “C.J.” Strickland; treasurer, David Greenberg; Webmaster, Andy Affleck; newsletter editor, Clayton Gates; mini-reunion chair, Lucinda Welch; and head agent, Emily Hill.
Finally, a joke for the kids courtesy of A Prairie Home Companion: What does a fish say when he runs into a cement wall? “DAM!”
—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford @yahoo.com