Class Note 1991
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
We’ve got a few pieces of lawyer news this month! Neel Chatterjee lives out in the Bay Area in California, where he is a partner at Goodwin. This year he once again made the area’s “Best Lawyers” list for trade secrets. Congrats, Neel! Moyenda Knapp recently joined the Chicago office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP as of counsel in the labor and employment practice. Congratulations, Moyenda! Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner at MWH Law Group LLP. According to the firm’s press release, Moyenda represents clients before administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She defends employers against claims of employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination, including claims alleging discrimination, termination, or harassment due to disability, race, reverse race, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, color, and religion. She also has experience in commercial litigation and insurance coverage litigation.
In other classmate news, in case you have not heard, Erica Coles Jacobsen was elected to represent our class on the Alumni Council. Erica was up in Hanover in October for her first council meeting and sent this brief report: “My first Alumni Council meeting was an amazing experience, and I am so proud and honored to be representing our class. First, I was able to connect in person with fellow ’91s Mitch Epner, Shannon (Crockett) Kates, and Steve Fried. Second, it was an incredibly informative weekend—we received updates on admissions, the new Baker-Berry Library project, the College’s financial outlook, Dartmouth energy and sustainability programs. In conversations at Pine in the Hanover Inn after each day’s session many of us agreed that the College has so many amazing opportunities for today’s students and alums. I was fortunate to be able to extend my stay so I could wander my way through Baker (sit and reflect in the Tower Room), explore the renovated and expanded Hood Museum, and get in two great runs (one around Occom Pond and the Rip Road loop) to take pictures and take some trips down memory lane. I also want to thank all of our classmates who submitted questions and feedback and concerns. I was able to share one incredibly moving email from a classmate with Laurel Ritchie ’81, chair of the board of trustees. Please keep the feedback and questions coming!”
Ollie Goulston has started his own Latin American and Caribbean basketball scouting service. He lives in Medellin, Colombia, and, according to a recent article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, “finds uncovered players in steamy jungle outposts, in hardscrabble metropolises, on windswept islands. He found a 7-footer in the Dominican Republic and another in Ecuador.” Ollie played baseball at Dartmouth and began his career as a scout for the Padres. Eventually he started a youth basketball club in San Diego and became a high school coach in 2003. This all led to his newest venture. You can read more about Ollie’s fascinating journey at www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/story/2019-09-19/ollie-goulston-bas….
Sara Burbine Potter was also up in Hanover recently at VOX, a weekend for Dartmouth volunteers. Sara now heads up the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Fairfield County and Women of Dartmouth Fairfield County. She and our class president Heather Lane Spehr were busy planning a Homecoming 50th birthday party for the class of 1991 as the column went to print.
Finally, please update your alumni profile at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni. That way you can opt into (and out of) any communications you’d like to receive (or not)!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net
In other classmate news, in case you have not heard, Erica Coles Jacobsen was elected to represent our class on the Alumni Council. Erica was up in Hanover in October for her first council meeting and sent this brief report: “My first Alumni Council meeting was an amazing experience, and I am so proud and honored to be representing our class. First, I was able to connect in person with fellow ’91s Mitch Epner, Shannon (Crockett) Kates, and Steve Fried. Second, it was an incredibly informative weekend—we received updates on admissions, the new Baker-Berry Library project, the College’s financial outlook, Dartmouth energy and sustainability programs. In conversations at Pine in the Hanover Inn after each day’s session many of us agreed that the College has so many amazing opportunities for today’s students and alums. I was fortunate to be able to extend my stay so I could wander my way through Baker (sit and reflect in the Tower Room), explore the renovated and expanded Hood Museum, and get in two great runs (one around Occom Pond and the Rip Road loop) to take pictures and take some trips down memory lane. I also want to thank all of our classmates who submitted questions and feedback and concerns. I was able to share one incredibly moving email from a classmate with Laurel Ritchie ’81, chair of the board of trustees. Please keep the feedback and questions coming!”
Ollie Goulston has started his own Latin American and Caribbean basketball scouting service. He lives in Medellin, Colombia, and, according to a recent article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, “finds uncovered players in steamy jungle outposts, in hardscrabble metropolises, on windswept islands. He found a 7-footer in the Dominican Republic and another in Ecuador.” Ollie played baseball at Dartmouth and began his career as a scout for the Padres. Eventually he started a youth basketball club in San Diego and became a high school coach in 2003. This all led to his newest venture. You can read more about Ollie’s fascinating journey at www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/story/2019-09-19/ollie-goulston-bas….
Sara Burbine Potter was also up in Hanover recently at VOX, a weekend for Dartmouth volunteers. Sara now heads up the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Fairfield County and Women of Dartmouth Fairfield County. She and our class president Heather Lane Spehr were busy planning a Homecoming 50th birthday party for the class of 1991 as the column went to print.
Finally, please update your alumni profile at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni. That way you can opt into (and out of) any communications you’d like to receive (or not)!
—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net