Class Note 1991
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
Hello to the great class of 1991! As we all start celebrating our 50th birthdays, I thought it would be fun to hear how everyone is marking the occasion! Are you taking a trip? Having a family dinner? Throwing a big party? Throughout the year I would love to showcase some of your big or small 5-0 celebrations. Please email me at the address below. In the meantime, here is our latest class news.
Michael Arad has designed the memorial that will be placed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine worshippers were killed by a gunman. The design features two large, curving stone benches, a gentle fountain that lists the names of the victims, and a garden space dedicated to life and resiliency. Michael is a partner at Handel Architects in New York City. According to National Public Radio, the two “fellowship benches” face each other across the fountain, have an opening between them that welcomes people to “enter and join in community,” and have high backs that “arc up and around like sheltering wings. They provide a sense of enclosure, and like a pair of arms, [cradle] visitors inside this space.”
Michele DeStefano has written a book, Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law. The book includes more than 100 interviews with general counsels of large international corporations and heads of innovation at law firms. As a professor of law at the University of Miami, Michele researches and writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. Michele, who founded the organization LawWithoutWalls, was also up at Dartmouth recently to celebrate Law Day and to give a talk about “enhancing access to justice and lawyers’ skills with innovation.”
Tina Yen was chosen to be the president-elect of the Central Surgical Association (CSA) at the 75th annual CSA meeting in March. The regional surgical society in Wisconsin was founded in 1940, and its purpose is to “further the practice of surgery in its various departments, and the study and investigation of surgical problems.” While at Dartmouth, Tina was involved in the Women in Science program. She is married to fellow classmate J.D. Optekar.
In addition to sending me your 50th birthday updates (include photos please!), it’s time to make sure your alumni profiles are updated. Visit www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni to make sure yours is accurate.
I’ll sign off with my own 50th birthday story. While I do not hit the half-century mark until January, my family felt that the only way to surprise me was to host a party five months early! So, on a Friday in August, I was treated to a wonderful reunion of friends, family, dinner, and dancing! I was overjoyed to see a cohort of Dartmouth friends including Marjorie Culver, E.J. Robbin Greenspan, Sara Burbine Potter, Wendy Crumbine Ferdinand ’92, Tony Moody ’92, Maxine Lum Mauricio ’93, Dino Mauricio ’90, Kathy Bowler Mitchell ’83, Russ Mitchell ’85, and Suzy Nachman Mercado ’86. My husband, Jeff Owens ’92, and kids Katie ’21 and Jack gave me a night I’ll never forget. I hope you all have meaningful 50th birthdays this coming year. We are so fortunate to have reached this milestone.
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
Michael Arad has designed the memorial that will be placed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine worshippers were killed by a gunman. The design features two large, curving stone benches, a gentle fountain that lists the names of the victims, and a garden space dedicated to life and resiliency. Michael is a partner at Handel Architects in New York City. According to National Public Radio, the two “fellowship benches” face each other across the fountain, have an opening between them that welcomes people to “enter and join in community,” and have high backs that “arc up and around like sheltering wings. They provide a sense of enclosure, and like a pair of arms, [cradle] visitors inside this space.”
Michele DeStefano has written a book, Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law. The book includes more than 100 interviews with general counsels of large international corporations and heads of innovation at law firms. As a professor of law at the University of Miami, Michele researches and writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. Michele, who founded the organization LawWithoutWalls, was also up at Dartmouth recently to celebrate Law Day and to give a talk about “enhancing access to justice and lawyers’ skills with innovation.”
Tina Yen was chosen to be the president-elect of the Central Surgical Association (CSA) at the 75th annual CSA meeting in March. The regional surgical society in Wisconsin was founded in 1940, and its purpose is to “further the practice of surgery in its various departments, and the study and investigation of surgical problems.” While at Dartmouth, Tina was involved in the Women in Science program. She is married to fellow classmate J.D. Optekar.
In addition to sending me your 50th birthday updates (include photos please!), it’s time to make sure your alumni profiles are updated. Visit www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni to make sure yours is accurate.
I’ll sign off with my own 50th birthday story. While I do not hit the half-century mark until January, my family felt that the only way to surprise me was to host a party five months early! So, on a Friday in August, I was treated to a wonderful reunion of friends, family, dinner, and dancing! I was overjoyed to see a cohort of Dartmouth friends including Marjorie Culver, E.J. Robbin Greenspan, Sara Burbine Potter, Wendy Crumbine Ferdinand ’92, Tony Moody ’92, Maxine Lum Mauricio ’93, Dino Mauricio ’90, Kathy Bowler Mitchell ’83, Russ Mitchell ’85, and Suzy Nachman Mercado ’86. My husband, Jeff Owens ’92, and kids Katie ’21 and Jack gave me a night I’ll never forget. I hope you all have meaningful 50th birthdays this coming year. We are so fortunate to have reached this milestone.
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net