Class Note 1992
Issue
Let’s start this set of notes with a word from a long-lost friend, Todd Gorman. He thought it had been awhile since he had written and it was time to remedy that.
“I’ve been living in Canada for 10 years, five years here in Québec City, so my French LSA seems to have paid off!” he said. “I met my Québecoise wife, Nathalie, during my medicine residency in Boston and—voila!—we now work together in the same hospital. I do internal medicine/ICU and Nat does infectious disease. Our first child, Emma, is 8 and perfect. Our second child, Noah, is 6 and approaches perfection asymptotically. The last child, Jacob—note I did not say the third child—is what I’m sure Marlon Brando was referring to as ‘The Horror’ in Apocalypse Now. The two-year warranty is up, though, so we’re keeping him. We’ve all been doing more and more sports as a family as the kids get older, which keeps everyone happy (tennis, soccer, kayaking, biking especially).
“We’ve kept in touch with Greg York and Kelly McMann, and their beautiful children Marie (5) and Henry (3). Greg finished his Ph.D. in molecular biology, but got bored so went back for his J.D. from Michigan. He now practices in Cleveland with emphasis on intellectual property law. Kelly continues to teach in the government department at Case Western, having received her Ph.D. with an emphasis on the process of democratization in the former Soviet Union. She just completed another extended research trip to Kazakhstan!
“Scott Miller returned to the Boston area from his engineering job in Hong Kong, accompanied by his wife, Lisa, who works as an infectious disease physician (with an emphasis on HIV) at the Brigham and with the Centers for Disease Control. Scott left iRobot and now does consulting to corporations interested in production in China. Their boy Caleb nearly matches the terror of our own last child, and Scott and Lisa are expecting their second child in August.”
These notes were submitted toward the end of summer, the season that is always great for gathering with friends. Ilana Shulman wrote in to share the “mini girls’ reunion” she had with Holly Johnson-Colt, Michelle (Beaulieu) Cooke and Kathy (Weigle) Florence at Kathy’s lake house in July. “Having not seen each other since my wedding five years ago, it was amazing to me how quickly we found ourselves sharing old Dartmouth memories and having a terrific time,” she said. “Specifically we found it unbelievable that we had lived in adjoining apartments in the damp basement of a house on School Street senior year and actually thought we had it good living on our own with no AC, dishwasher or clean carpets! Spending a few days in a beautiful house on Lake Michigan together was quite a treat.”
Winner of the well-travelled award goes to Caroline Harris: “I have had my own mini-reunion summer with visits to Nina Weber Neulight and her family (husband Joe Neulight ’91 and their two beautiful daughters) on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for Fourth of July activities; Simon Pearce in Pennsylvania with Jennifer Ackley Bobalik; Provence with Bettina Goldstein Decker (and her husband, Brian, and their two gorgeous little girls); and London with Sarah Carlson and her husband, Eric Zandvliet (both ’93s).”
Now that, my friends, is the Summer of Caroline!
—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu
Nov - Dec 2009
Let’s start this set of notes with a word from a long-lost friend, Todd Gorman. He thought it had been awhile since he had written and it was time to remedy that.
“I’ve been living in Canada for 10 years, five years here in Québec City, so my French LSA seems to have paid off!” he said. “I met my Québecoise wife, Nathalie, during my medicine residency in Boston and—voila!—we now work together in the same hospital. I do internal medicine/ICU and Nat does infectious disease. Our first child, Emma, is 8 and perfect. Our second child, Noah, is 6 and approaches perfection asymptotically. The last child, Jacob—note I did not say the third child—is what I’m sure Marlon Brando was referring to as ‘The Horror’ in Apocalypse Now. The two-year warranty is up, though, so we’re keeping him. We’ve all been doing more and more sports as a family as the kids get older, which keeps everyone happy (tennis, soccer, kayaking, biking especially).
“We’ve kept in touch with Greg York and Kelly McMann, and their beautiful children Marie (5) and Henry (3). Greg finished his Ph.D. in molecular biology, but got bored so went back for his J.D. from Michigan. He now practices in Cleveland with emphasis on intellectual property law. Kelly continues to teach in the government department at Case Western, having received her Ph.D. with an emphasis on the process of democratization in the former Soviet Union. She just completed another extended research trip to Kazakhstan!
“Scott Miller returned to the Boston area from his engineering job in Hong Kong, accompanied by his wife, Lisa, who works as an infectious disease physician (with an emphasis on HIV) at the Brigham and with the Centers for Disease Control. Scott left iRobot and now does consulting to corporations interested in production in China. Their boy Caleb nearly matches the terror of our own last child, and Scott and Lisa are expecting their second child in August.”
These notes were submitted toward the end of summer, the season that is always great for gathering with friends. Ilana Shulman wrote in to share the “mini girls’ reunion” she had with Holly Johnson-Colt, Michelle (Beaulieu) Cooke and Kathy (Weigle) Florence at Kathy’s lake house in July. “Having not seen each other since my wedding five years ago, it was amazing to me how quickly we found ourselves sharing old Dartmouth memories and having a terrific time,” she said. “Specifically we found it unbelievable that we had lived in adjoining apartments in the damp basement of a house on School Street senior year and actually thought we had it good living on our own with no AC, dishwasher or clean carpets! Spending a few days in a beautiful house on Lake Michigan together was quite a treat.”
Winner of the well-travelled award goes to Caroline Harris: “I have had my own mini-reunion summer with visits to Nina Weber Neulight and her family (husband Joe Neulight ’91 and their two beautiful daughters) on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for Fourth of July activities; Simon Pearce in Pennsylvania with Jennifer Ackley Bobalik; Provence with Bettina Goldstein Decker (and her husband, Brian, and their two gorgeous little girls); and London with Sarah Carlson and her husband, Eric Zandvliet (both ’93s).”
Now that, my friends, is the Summer of Caroline!
—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu