Class Note 1991
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
As you read this we will be heading into September, but right now the summer is just getting started and I have lots of class news to share.
First off, here are a few of the April 1 updates you all posted on Facebook! Kristin Savilia is the CEO of a technology company for the fashion industry called JOOR. She has four children, ranging from a college senior to a second-grader! Brooke Spencer “made it” through the first year of her new medical practice, Minimally Invasive Procedure Specialists, in Denver. She was slated to open an outpatient center this summer! John Ramspacher posted that he is “easing my way (incrementally) into retirement by stealing a few hours each quarter in order to play percussion with amateurs and professionals on the East Coast who are wise and sage enough to give me a spot on stage.” You can follow him on Instagram at drjohnbongo. Head to our class page Facebook.com/Dartmouth1991 to see the rest of the great posts and photos! And don’t forget to write something on September 1, “91 Day.”
David Martosko won a Daytime Emmy Award for his political correspondent work on DailyMailTV. The show is an offshoot of DailyMail.com, where David is the U.S. political editor. It was named “Outstanding Entertainment News Program” in its second season. David touched base from Zambia, where he was taking a week off from politics to write about the orphan crisis there. “It’s a country of 17 million people,” he wrote, “half of them are under 17 1/2 years old, and more than a million children have lost parents” to things such as AIDS and warfare. When not on the road covering such international news and U.S. politics, David lives in northern Virginia with his wife, Susan, a professional opera singer, and daughters Lillian (15) and Evelyn (11). He’s hoping to visit Hanover when the primary season brings the candidates to the area!
Several classmates have recently shared their personal stories on Dartmouth Speaks, a platform developed by the advocacy group, Dartmouth Community against Gender Harassment and Sexual Violence. DartmouthSpeaks.com publishes user-submitted stories relating to those issues to amplify the voices of survivors. If you visit the website you can read their important stories as well as those of far too many other survivors.
Austin “Keith” Willacy, who many of us had the privilege to watch sing back in our Dartmouth days, shared news that he was accepted into Creative Lab Hawaii’s music immersive program. During the five-day, intensive program he’ll be focusing on cowriting and producing music for specific film and television projects with a team of professional mentors in the business. Austin is a musician who still sings with the a cappella group The House Jacks, which began right after graduation in 1991. He also directs an award-winning teen a cappella group, writes and produces music, and gives his time generously to many social causes.
May 4 was Dartmouth’s annual Alumni Day of Service, and I was able to reconnect with Sam Shukovsky that day. Sam lives in Wilton, Connecticut, with his wife and daughters and works as an associate director and business lead consultant at Boehringer-Ingelheim Inc.
Finally, classmate Jim Lucier was appointed president of SAP Concur, a provider of integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions. Jim joined the company in 2008 and held a series of positions there, most recently holding down the role of chief revenue officer in the North America region. Congrats, Jim!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
First off, here are a few of the April 1 updates you all posted on Facebook! Kristin Savilia is the CEO of a technology company for the fashion industry called JOOR. She has four children, ranging from a college senior to a second-grader! Brooke Spencer “made it” through the first year of her new medical practice, Minimally Invasive Procedure Specialists, in Denver. She was slated to open an outpatient center this summer! John Ramspacher posted that he is “easing my way (incrementally) into retirement by stealing a few hours each quarter in order to play percussion with amateurs and professionals on the East Coast who are wise and sage enough to give me a spot on stage.” You can follow him on Instagram at drjohnbongo. Head to our class page Facebook.com/Dartmouth1991 to see the rest of the great posts and photos! And don’t forget to write something on September 1, “91 Day.”
David Martosko won a Daytime Emmy Award for his political correspondent work on DailyMailTV. The show is an offshoot of DailyMail.com, where David is the U.S. political editor. It was named “Outstanding Entertainment News Program” in its second season. David touched base from Zambia, where he was taking a week off from politics to write about the orphan crisis there. “It’s a country of 17 million people,” he wrote, “half of them are under 17 1/2 years old, and more than a million children have lost parents” to things such as AIDS and warfare. When not on the road covering such international news and U.S. politics, David lives in northern Virginia with his wife, Susan, a professional opera singer, and daughters Lillian (15) and Evelyn (11). He’s hoping to visit Hanover when the primary season brings the candidates to the area!
Several classmates have recently shared their personal stories on Dartmouth Speaks, a platform developed by the advocacy group, Dartmouth Community against Gender Harassment and Sexual Violence. DartmouthSpeaks.com publishes user-submitted stories relating to those issues to amplify the voices of survivors. If you visit the website you can read their important stories as well as those of far too many other survivors.
Austin “Keith” Willacy, who many of us had the privilege to watch sing back in our Dartmouth days, shared news that he was accepted into Creative Lab Hawaii’s music immersive program. During the five-day, intensive program he’ll be focusing on cowriting and producing music for specific film and television projects with a team of professional mentors in the business. Austin is a musician who still sings with the a cappella group The House Jacks, which began right after graduation in 1991. He also directs an award-winning teen a cappella group, writes and produces music, and gives his time generously to many social causes.
May 4 was Dartmouth’s annual Alumni Day of Service, and I was able to reconnect with Sam Shukovsky that day. Sam lives in Wilton, Connecticut, with his wife and daughters and works as an associate director and business lead consultant at Boehringer-Ingelheim Inc.
Finally, classmate Jim Lucier was appointed president of SAP Concur, a provider of integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions. Jim joined the company in 2008 and held a series of positions there, most recently holding down the role of chief revenue officer in the North America region. Congrats, Jim!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net