Class Note 1992
My heart grew three sizes when I heard from three classmates right before my end-of-December deadline.
Mike Mahoney: “For a lot of us, the success of the men’s soccer program was a part of our experience at Dartmouth—I’m sure many of us remember the team’s run to the NCAA quarterfinals our junior year! I was lucky enough to play one year in the program—okay, I was JV—and also played a year of JV lax in Hanover. On both teams my coach was Bobby Clark. It took that first year for me to realize that maybe it was time to pursue other interests, which got me doing my work-study job in the sports information office. I found my passion, and the road has led me to my current job as the director of athletic communications at the University of Pennsylvania (where I have been for nine years now). It was with a lot of pride, then, that in mid-December I was the official scorer for the NCAA College Cup matches in Philadelphia that ended with Notre Dame as NCAA champion. The Fighting Irish’s head coach? Bobby Clark, with his first national title. It was long overdue but well deserved for a man who profoundly impacted my life and so many others during our time at Dartmouth, and I cherished being able to play a small part in a special weekend. (I also cringed a little to think I am now the same age he was when he was coaching me at Chase Field!) I even had a moment of fame with the media after his team’s semifinal win on the Friday night when in the postgame press conference he caught my eye and blurted out, ‘Is that Mike Mahoney, my only two-sport athlete ever?!’ As you might imagine, many of his Dartmouth ‘lads’ were on hand to share in the joyous occasion including, of course, son Tommy Clark and daughter Jen Clark ’94. Other Dartmouth alums I saw on the field after the championship match were Andrew Wiese ’91, Richie Graham ’91, Justin Head ’93, Brian Wiese ’95, Becky Gayman Wiese ’95 (Brian’s wife), Blaine LeGere ’95 and Billy Cronin ’95.”
Jenn (and husband Jack) Newsom: “We moved to northern California from Boston at the end of June for my job with Chubb. We’re living in Orinda and we were thrilled to be able to see Ellen and Todd Donovan (and Aidan and Jack) during their vacation to Point Reyes in August. Dave Chang and his wife, Laurie Brown, also made the (beautiful) trek up from San Francisco with their son Henry, who was joined by a brother, George Everett, about a month later. If anyone is visiting the Bay Area, please let us know!”
Lynne Schiffman Delise: “My husband, Bob Delise, and I moved to Concord, Massachusetts, this summer with our fifth-grade son. We love our new town and are really enjoying living further out in the ‘country!’ Bob is mostly focused on work, since in 2009 he started his own management consulting firm, Artisan Healthcare Consulting, which works with the biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. While I work some, I spend lots of my time as a mom and doing volunteer work. I am chair of a task force of alumni working with the Rassias Center at Dartmouth to analyze the center’s current strengths and help them plan for their future; I also sit on the board of the Eli and Bessie Cohen Camps, which has three Jewish summer camps in New England and leads summer trips to Israel.”
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org
