Class Note 1991

Barbara Fiacco, a partner at Foley Hoag LLP, has been named president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), a national bar association of approximately 14,000 members. In this role, Barbara will be responsible for representing U.S. intellectual property interests throughout the world and guiding AIPLA’s domestic intellectual property policy. Barbara majored in government at Dartmouth and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996.

Tracie Gunion is living in Atlanta and sees Doris Lee from time to time. She wrote to me about a fun get-together in New York around Thanksgiving last year. A group of classmates who lived in New York during the 1990s and early 2000s used to have a pre-Thanksgiving party every year. This year Heather Rosbe Vrattos and Bill Vrattos opened their home to classmates in the area. Some of the ’91s in attendance were Elizabeth Kellogg Winterbottom, Kiwon Choi, Joanna Stevenson Garrett, Josie Sandler, Robin Bryson Reynolds, Vicky Sadock Gregg, Linda Chung, and Morgan Schmauder Mermagen. According to Morgan, “It was lovely to see that no one had changed even the slightest bit. Heather and Bill could be picked up and transplanted into Hanover and you would think we were still celebrating TubeStock. The whole crew reinvigorated me.” Morgan also sees Kathryn McKenna D’Amico in Westport, Connecticut, where they live, “on a regular basis, made more frequent lately by our new puppies, who need exercise and socialization as much as we do.” Kathryn also connected recently with Molly Higgins Aube and Rich Aube at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. They were attending a squash tournament to see Molly and Rich’s daughter, Haley, play for Stanford, where she is a freshman. Their other twin daughter, Claire, is a freshman at Dartmouth, also playing on the squash team.

As summer approaches I thought it might be fun to ask you all to share a memory from Sophomore Summer! The summer of 1989 was the summer of Milli Vanilli, Paula Abdul, and Fine Young Cannibals, movies such as Dead Poet’s Society and Batman (the one with Michael Keaton), and events such as Gen. Colin Powell’s nomination to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Nolan Ryan becoming the first pitcher in history to get 5,000 strikeouts. What do you remember about that summer? Email me at the address below.

Meanwhile, on May 2 the College invites alumni to participate in its “Day of Service.” I would love to hear from members of the class of 1991 to learn how any of you volunteered in your communities on that day! More information can be found at alumni.dartmouth.edu/serve/alumni-day-service.

—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net