Class Note 1991
Issue
May - Jun 2017
Here’s the latest 1991 news!
Leonard Chang filled out the “green card” that came in the class newsletter to let us know that his new novel, The Lockpicker, will be published in May. In addition, a new TV show, Snowfall, that he helped write and produce will premier on FX this summer! According to his bio at Leonardchang.com, Chang has been busy since graduating. His first novel, titled The Fruit ’N Food, sold while he was still in graduate school at Harvard, won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction and is now taught at universities around the world. His next novel, Dispatches from the Cold, won a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature. He is also the author of a critically acclaimed noir trilogy: Over the Shoulder, Underkill and Fade to Clear. Crossings, his sixth novel, was published in 2009, and his autobiographical novel, Triplines, was released in 2014. His novels have been translated into French, Japanese and Korean and are regularly studied in literature, sociology and theology courses throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Angela Brown Stafford sent an update from Hanover. “I ‘came home’ to Dartmouth in February 2016 and serve as assistant director within alumni relations, class activities. I work in Blunt Alumni Center—in the same suite where I made calls in 1990 and 1991 as a member of the Green Corp$ student telethon—with the classes of 1975 and older, assisting class officers and providing support with reunions and other class activities. Before this I was working with a local family services nonprofit, mainly focused on fundraising events, volunteer management and donor stewardship. (Clearly, I’ve put my French major to good use!) Michael Stafford and I love living in Hanover. Michael continues to row with the masters group, I volunteer on the board of the nonprofit I left last year and we spend lots of time chasing after our three high-schoolers. It’s surreal and awesome to work at the College—my favorite days are in the summer when I can hear the Baker bells through the open window in my office. Having kept a low profile while a student at Dartmouth, I look forward to connecting with more ’91s. Come find me in Blunt when next you’re on the Hanover Plain!”
In February Angela and Michael’s love story—and my own—were featured in a Valentine’s Day blog at alumni.dartmouth.edu/content/and-rest-history-dartmouth-love-stories.
Michael O’Flynn reached out with news and a photo of his 5-year-old son, namesake and doppleganger, Michael Jr., who “will I hope be terrorizing Ivy League quarterbacks in another 15 years or so, just like his daddy used to do!” I just uploaded this adorable photo to our class Facebook page: facebook.com/Dartmouth1991. Mike noted that he hasn’t sent an update since he sent a facetious story ahead of our fifth reunion in which he told everyone that he and Brendan Mahoney had joined the priesthood. Here’s the real deal: “I recently launched a long-short Japan hedge fund (Azabu Value Master Fund) with a couple of close friends from my many years in Tokyo, where I still spend significant time. Otherwise I’ve got three great, young kids and an awesome wife, Annie, who despite being a Yale ’94 has embraced all things Dartmouth.” The financial press reported about the launch, noting that Mike, a longtime financial markets veteran, serves as managing director of Azabu Value Partners (Cayman), the general partner of the fund. More at: marketwatch.com/story/azabu-value-partners-launch-japan-equity-fund-2016-12-20.
Thank you to everyone who posted on April 1, the 91st day of the year. A sampling of those updates will appear next month!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
Leonard Chang filled out the “green card” that came in the class newsletter to let us know that his new novel, The Lockpicker, will be published in May. In addition, a new TV show, Snowfall, that he helped write and produce will premier on FX this summer! According to his bio at Leonardchang.com, Chang has been busy since graduating. His first novel, titled The Fruit ’N Food, sold while he was still in graduate school at Harvard, won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction and is now taught at universities around the world. His next novel, Dispatches from the Cold, won a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature. He is also the author of a critically acclaimed noir trilogy: Over the Shoulder, Underkill and Fade to Clear. Crossings, his sixth novel, was published in 2009, and his autobiographical novel, Triplines, was released in 2014. His novels have been translated into French, Japanese and Korean and are regularly studied in literature, sociology and theology courses throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Angela Brown Stafford sent an update from Hanover. “I ‘came home’ to Dartmouth in February 2016 and serve as assistant director within alumni relations, class activities. I work in Blunt Alumni Center—in the same suite where I made calls in 1990 and 1991 as a member of the Green Corp$ student telethon—with the classes of 1975 and older, assisting class officers and providing support with reunions and other class activities. Before this I was working with a local family services nonprofit, mainly focused on fundraising events, volunteer management and donor stewardship. (Clearly, I’ve put my French major to good use!) Michael Stafford and I love living in Hanover. Michael continues to row with the masters group, I volunteer on the board of the nonprofit I left last year and we spend lots of time chasing after our three high-schoolers. It’s surreal and awesome to work at the College—my favorite days are in the summer when I can hear the Baker bells through the open window in my office. Having kept a low profile while a student at Dartmouth, I look forward to connecting with more ’91s. Come find me in Blunt when next you’re on the Hanover Plain!”
In February Angela and Michael’s love story—and my own—were featured in a Valentine’s Day blog at alumni.dartmouth.edu/content/and-rest-history-dartmouth-love-stories.
Michael O’Flynn reached out with news and a photo of his 5-year-old son, namesake and doppleganger, Michael Jr., who “will I hope be terrorizing Ivy League quarterbacks in another 15 years or so, just like his daddy used to do!” I just uploaded this adorable photo to our class Facebook page: facebook.com/Dartmouth1991. Mike noted that he hasn’t sent an update since he sent a facetious story ahead of our fifth reunion in which he told everyone that he and Brendan Mahoney had joined the priesthood. Here’s the real deal: “I recently launched a long-short Japan hedge fund (Azabu Value Master Fund) with a couple of close friends from my many years in Tokyo, where I still spend significant time. Otherwise I’ve got three great, young kids and an awesome wife, Annie, who despite being a Yale ’94 has embraced all things Dartmouth.” The financial press reported about the launch, noting that Mike, a longtime financial markets veteran, serves as managing director of Azabu Value Partners (Cayman), the general partner of the fund. More at: marketwatch.com/story/azabu-value-partners-launch-japan-equity-fund-2016-12-20.
Thank you to everyone who posted on April 1, the 91st day of the year. A sampling of those updates will appear next month!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net