Class Note 1991
Issue
May - Jun 2018
All rise—some very exciting news hit the presses regarding our classmate and the former sports editor at The Dartmouth, Andrew Edison. “I am off on a new adventure. After nine incredible years at Edison, McDowell & Hetherington LLP, I am leaving the law firm to pursue a career in public service. I am honored and humbled to have been appointed a U.S. magistrate judge for the Southern District of Texas (Galveston division).” The now-honorable Andy took the oath of office on February 20 and began sitting on the bench the following day.
You may have received the fantastic update from the College that our own Angela Brown Stafford was promoted to associate director of class activities. The announcement noted that “Angela has been a warm, creative and strategic presence in the class activities office” since she arrived two years ago. Angela and our classmate Michael Stafford moved back to the Upper Valley in 2005 to raise their three children, Connor, Heather and Anna. She manages the classes of 1975 and older and oversees the Class Newsletter Editors Association. In her new role she will also manage class communications strategies and work toward a more integrated approach for class secretaries, newsletter editors, webmasters and social media chairs. This is welcome news for all alums!
Doris Lee reported that she watched the Dartmouth women’s tennis team compete at Georgia Tech’s Ken Byers Tennis Complex in January. The team won the Ivy League Championship in 2017 and was in Georgia to play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association kickoff event! Doris, who was the team captain back in 1991, hosted the team for a dinner at her home after the match. Keeping the 1991 connection to the women’s tennis team alive, Shannon Crockett Kates was also slated to host a dinner for the team when it went out to California over spring break. In other news, Doris enjoyed catching up with classmate Tracie Gunion at the bridal shower of a mutual friend recently in Atlanta!
Austin Willacy was nominated for a Posi, a positive music award from emPower, an organization created to amplify the awareness and impact of positive, empowering art. Many classmates will remember watching and listening to Austin in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he was a member of of the Dartmouth Aires and other bands and musical groups on campus. On February 25 Austin attended the Posi Music Awards in Florida, where he and his co-writer Ariel Tiermann were announced as the winners of the Posi in the category of social justice for their song “Thrive.” Congratulations, Austin! “Thrive” is the theme song to the film Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? If you’d like to listen to the song, visit you tube.com/watch?v=geGu_mp7-dI&app=desktop.
I am excited to be working with a group of amazing alumnae in Connecticut to expand and grow Women of Dartmouth of Fairfield County. We have planned social gatherings including movie nights—Deb Van Winkle Dulsky and Kathryn McKenna D’Amico are regular attendees!—a dinner on International Women’s Day March 8, a career-networking event at Green & Tonic in Westport and a project for Dartmouth’s Alumni Day of Service. Our career event featured Victoria Gonin, deputy director of alumni affairs, as well as the founder of Green & Tonic, Cai (Boldt) Pandolfino ’97. Sara Burbine Potter is serving as the group’s communications wizard!
Thank you for continuing to send your news and updates!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
You may have received the fantastic update from the College that our own Angela Brown Stafford was promoted to associate director of class activities. The announcement noted that “Angela has been a warm, creative and strategic presence in the class activities office” since she arrived two years ago. Angela and our classmate Michael Stafford moved back to the Upper Valley in 2005 to raise their three children, Connor, Heather and Anna. She manages the classes of 1975 and older and oversees the Class Newsletter Editors Association. In her new role she will also manage class communications strategies and work toward a more integrated approach for class secretaries, newsletter editors, webmasters and social media chairs. This is welcome news for all alums!
Doris Lee reported that she watched the Dartmouth women’s tennis team compete at Georgia Tech’s Ken Byers Tennis Complex in January. The team won the Ivy League Championship in 2017 and was in Georgia to play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association kickoff event! Doris, who was the team captain back in 1991, hosted the team for a dinner at her home after the match. Keeping the 1991 connection to the women’s tennis team alive, Shannon Crockett Kates was also slated to host a dinner for the team when it went out to California over spring break. In other news, Doris enjoyed catching up with classmate Tracie Gunion at the bridal shower of a mutual friend recently in Atlanta!
Austin Willacy was nominated for a Posi, a positive music award from emPower, an organization created to amplify the awareness and impact of positive, empowering art. Many classmates will remember watching and listening to Austin in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he was a member of of the Dartmouth Aires and other bands and musical groups on campus. On February 25 Austin attended the Posi Music Awards in Florida, where he and his co-writer Ariel Tiermann were announced as the winners of the Posi in the category of social justice for their song “Thrive.” Congratulations, Austin! “Thrive” is the theme song to the film Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? If you’d like to listen to the song, visit you tube.com/watch?v=geGu_mp7-dI&app=desktop.
I am excited to be working with a group of amazing alumnae in Connecticut to expand and grow Women of Dartmouth of Fairfield County. We have planned social gatherings including movie nights—Deb Van Winkle Dulsky and Kathryn McKenna D’Amico are regular attendees!—a dinner on International Women’s Day March 8, a career-networking event at Green & Tonic in Westport and a project for Dartmouth’s Alumni Day of Service. Our career event featured Victoria Gonin, deputy director of alumni affairs, as well as the founder of Green & Tonic, Cai (Boldt) Pandolfino ’97. Sara Burbine Potter is serving as the group’s communications wizard!
Thank you for continuing to send your news and updates!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net