Class Note 1991
Issue
Sep - Oct 2017
Hello to the great class of 1991! It’s back-to-school season and this month I heard from one of our classmates with a brand new member of the class of 2021. Rosamond Hong wrote that her oldest of three daughters, Jessica Weil, will head to Hanover this fall. “She recently registered for her first-year trip, which I never did, so I can continue my habit of living vicariously through my daughter.” Although Rosy no longer works in internal medicine, she keeps busy volunteering for the schools and her daughters’ dance teams. In addition, she is involved with the independent film scene in Cleveland, and her most recent project was a martial arts musical comedy that is “as cheesy as it sounds! There really aren’t enough martial arts musical comedies out there,” she notes. Rosy, her husband, Jeff Weil, and the three girls were planning to head to London for a summer trip before bringing Jessica up for orientation. “I hope I will see some familiar faces when we are there!”
Indeed, Rosy will see me and my husband, Jeff Owens ’92, at orientation, as our first-born, Katie, is also a member of the class of 2021. We can’t wait, like Rosy, to re-live Dartmouth through her eyes and to stalk her for the next four years. I hope Julie Grace Burke and husband John Burke ’90, whose daughter Lucy is also a ’21, and Stephen Forrest and Amy (Burton) Forrest, whose daughter Delilah is also a ’21, will be there too!
One of our classmates, Christie (Rabke) Henry, just moved from Illinois to New Jersey. Christie is the new director of Princeton University Press. Previously she was the editorial director for the sciences, social sciences and reference at the University of Chicago Press, where she had been working since 1993. Congratulations, Christie!
News from across the Connecticut River: This spring John Pepper was elected to the Norwich, Vermont, selectboard. John was pleased and ready to serve. The Valley News quoted him as saying, “I have to say that win or lose, I really enjoyed the process.” Way to go, John!
In business news, our talented classmate, Rick Gomez was recently appointed to be Target’s new chief marketing officer. Can’t wait to see what he does! And in the legal world, three members of our class were named to the 2017 Lawdragon list of the top 500 American Lawyers: David Anders, Neel Chatterjee and Neal Katyal.
In case you missed our summer class newsletter—thanks Alex Kapp for your help with that—I wanted to mention one more time the huge class of 1991 news that Jake Tapper was the Commencement speaker in June. In addition, Jake was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The transcript of his well-received speech can be found at news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/06/2017-commencement-address-jake-tapper-91. As Jake humbly summed up this honor on his Facebook page, “What a cool day.”
I hope to see many 1991s on campus in September for Class Officers Weekend and in October for Homecoming Weekend. This year’s Homecoming is the weekend of October 6-7. If you are planning to come to enjoy the bonfire, the parade and the anticipated thrashing of Yale, post a message on our 1991 class Facebook page so we can arrange a meet-up!
And finally, on our next “91 day,” which will be September 1, or 9/1, please visit our class Facebook page to check in. The “everyday” updates are some of the best and we can’t wait to see what everyone is doing this fall.
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
Indeed, Rosy will see me and my husband, Jeff Owens ’92, at orientation, as our first-born, Katie, is also a member of the class of 2021. We can’t wait, like Rosy, to re-live Dartmouth through her eyes and to stalk her for the next four years. I hope Julie Grace Burke and husband John Burke ’90, whose daughter Lucy is also a ’21, and Stephen Forrest and Amy (Burton) Forrest, whose daughter Delilah is also a ’21, will be there too!
One of our classmates, Christie (Rabke) Henry, just moved from Illinois to New Jersey. Christie is the new director of Princeton University Press. Previously she was the editorial director for the sciences, social sciences and reference at the University of Chicago Press, where she had been working since 1993. Congratulations, Christie!
News from across the Connecticut River: This spring John Pepper was elected to the Norwich, Vermont, selectboard. John was pleased and ready to serve. The Valley News quoted him as saying, “I have to say that win or lose, I really enjoyed the process.” Way to go, John!
In business news, our talented classmate, Rick Gomez was recently appointed to be Target’s new chief marketing officer. Can’t wait to see what he does! And in the legal world, three members of our class were named to the 2017 Lawdragon list of the top 500 American Lawyers: David Anders, Neel Chatterjee and Neal Katyal.
In case you missed our summer class newsletter—thanks Alex Kapp for your help with that—I wanted to mention one more time the huge class of 1991 news that Jake Tapper was the Commencement speaker in June. In addition, Jake was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The transcript of his well-received speech can be found at news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/06/2017-commencement-address-jake-tapper-91. As Jake humbly summed up this honor on his Facebook page, “What a cool day.”
I hope to see many 1991s on campus in September for Class Officers Weekend and in October for Homecoming Weekend. This year’s Homecoming is the weekend of October 6-7. If you are planning to come to enjoy the bonfire, the parade and the anticipated thrashing of Yale, post a message on our 1991 class Facebook page so we can arrange a meet-up!
And finally, on our next “91 day,” which will be September 1, or 9/1, please visit our class Facebook page to check in. The “everyday” updates are some of the best and we can’t wait to see what everyone is doing this fall.
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net