Class Note 1990
Let’s start off with a birth announcement! Jen Gee Conway reports that the best thing that happened to her and her husband, Jim, during the summer of 2010 (or ever!) was the birth of their daughter Annabelle Rose on July 16. Jen and Jim live on Bainbridge Island, “just across the water” from Seattle, and Jen has her favorite job ever: mom!
While trolling for more summer news a moose story arrived in my inbox from Alaska. Since my boyhood in Maine I’ve loved a good moose yarn (and telling them too). It seems every few years, around the summer camp table, a new guest will bring up moose and the standards are dragged out for the re-telling. There’s the “moose charged the school bus” fabrication, the “van almost crashed into the rear end of a moose on 25A at midnight” story, the “brothers swimming with moose” story and the “moose running down the middle of a main street in Salt Lake City, Utah,” story. Kelin (Pickard) Colberg wrote in with a “moose chased my son down the street” story with a promise of more. A moose chased their 10-year-old son Elias while he was riding his bike with the family dog down a fairly busy Anchorage street. The dog ran into the street, the son kept on pedaling, the traffic stopped and eventually the moose stalked off into the Alaskan puckerbrush. A treasure Elias will tell (and, if my experience with moose stories holds true, build on) his whole life. Apparently, moose in Alaska are a more aggressive breed than here in the Northeast, where hunters use a lasso to lead giant moose back through the woods and up into the back of their pickups before shooting them (it’s either that or drag the carcass a long way)—really.
Ute Bowman Otley writes that the best thing her family did this summer was to take Oma (Ute’s mom) to her native land of Germany for her 65th birthday. Ute wrote, “The kids loved it, Brian and I loved it and my mom was in heaven!” While the Otleys were there the German soccer national team played in the semifinals of the World Cup in South Africa, “We sat in a Biergarten chanting ‘Auf Gehts Deutschland!’ in between blasts of the vuvuzelas (the ubiquitous horns blown in South African stadiums).” Ute reports that the mountains and lakes of Bavaria were beautiful and they are looking forward to a return trip for her mother’s 70th.
Being an older athlete myself, I had personal appreciation for Christian Heinrich’s submission. He wrote in that his wife, Lisa Huff Heinrich ’92, captained the Western New York Rugby 7s team to a bronze medal in the Empire State Games. Lisa was the oldest player on her team by 10 years.
Congratulations go out to Jonathan Sullivan, who has a new job as the director of electronic marketing at Learning Tree International.
Finally, “in the true Dartmouth spirit of keeping traditions,” Daniel Mayland met up with Mike Lindgren in the Thousand Islands region of New York State for their annual sailing trip. Mike reports that he and Dan were joined this year by his partner, Melanie Maslow Lumia (Cornell ’86), and Dan’s wife and two children, Corinne Gilchrist Mayland ’93 and Kirsten and William. “The captain and crew of the good ship Anodyne enjoyed a brief if energetic sail that was truncated by a close call with some wandering thundershowers, a common seasonal hazard of the upper St. Lawrence River, and some fine grilled foods.” With that, the book is closed on the summer of 2010.
—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford @yahoo.com
