Class Note 1992
This month I defer to our class president, Brant Rose, as he asked for the opportunity to get everyone in the class up to speed on some of the goings-on with our executive committee. Who am I to say no? He’s our class president! The following text is from Brant.
“This was an incredible year of growth and performance against the goals we set for ourselves. I’d like to thank all the class officers and executive committee who made it happen. Our VP Elissa Aten took on the role of communications shepherd this year, leading our communication team toward doing more online than ever before. She set up a centralized, coordinated system for gathering news across the class, supporting our newsletters, website and alumni columns. She also tirelessly orchestrated a campaign by the executive committee to find every missing e-mail (250ish) from classmates who have not updated themselves with the College to receive class e-mails.
“Newsletter editor Heej Ko doubled her mailings to six this year with more to share than ever and a robust new e-mail tool from the College.
“Treasurer Jason Grinnell and webmaster Tom Paganucci toiled to bring online dues paying to life on our website and now in emails. They’ve also created a tracking system for managing dues payments. Tom deserves a second shout-out for all the hours and coordination he put in this year, engineering the class’ move online this year in most functions. He also managed the difficult transition to the College’s new Harris e-mail tool.
“Our mini-reunion chair, Gary Rovner, now has the support of an entire cadre of city captains in our most populous metro areas. We held a record eight mini-reunions this year in Hanover, D.C., San Francisco, L.A., Atlanta and Virginia.
“Our class project co-chairs Bob and Lynne Delise researched and advocated for our second class project: the Haven Family Shelter. We’ll have more on this valuable resource to the Upper Valley and our support of a student’s work there. I hope you’ll visit the Haven Family Shelter during reunions.
“Dartmouth College Fund chairs Anne Hammer, Libby Peruchini and Brett Scoll Perryman have outdone themselves again—posting our second-best numbers behind our 15th reunion year in terms of participation and gifts raised for the College during this challenging economic climate.
“We have just appointed a day of service chair, Joni Wiredu, after a successful mini-reunion in Los Angeles centered around the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. We hope to spread the concept across the class.
“Our 20th reunion chair, Julie Cillo, is already working on long-range awareness for our next reunion, reaching out to a diverse cross-section of classmates. The executive committee has been so helpful in all these efforts—Kate Aiken, Jen Bobalik, Cally Shea Bybee, Mark A.B. Carlson, Bettina Decker, Todd Donovan, Patricia Gagnon, Caroline Harris, Dave Harrison, Allegra Kochman, Paul Larson, Nina Weber Neulight, Cindy Hansel, Chris Stahl, Joni Wiredu and Wendy Gruenberg Wray.”
I do have one bit of non-business news, about Jason Venokur. If I offended anyone else in the last issue—especially Jason—I am truly sorry. No harm was meant. Peter Aaron sent me the skinny on Jason: “Several years ago, having executive produced two network sitcoms, Jason took a sabbatical from entertainment and moved to Jerusalem to pursue rabbinical studies. He currently lives in Jerusalem, where he still writes both film and television, but also devotes a portion of his time to a charitable media education program he developed with a group of other film and television producers. He is married and has a son named Shalom, after his grandfather.”
—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu
