Congratulations to Cally Shea Bybee, Newsletter Editor of the Year! Our class also earned an honorable mention for Class of the Year (for classes less than 25 years out) for the second year in a row, at Class Officers Weekend in September. Dartmouth alumni relations bases these awards on a whole slew of criteria, and the common thread is class engagement. Your contributions to this column and the newsletter demonstrate this camaraderie, and Cally and I are happy to pass them along.
Nicole Clausing wrote from Oakland, California: “I hardly ever do this, but about every decade or so I shake things up enough that I’m moved to write to Class Notes. My big news is that after 17 years of courtship (and a week-long engagement) my girlfriend Pipi Diamond and I got married. We tied the knot at a little ceremony in Oakland on August 23, which is the day we’ve always celebrated as our anniversary anyway. So far married life is good! Thank you to the U.S. Supreme Court for recognizing that we have as much right to the sanctity of marriage as the Kardashians.”
Jon Kohl wrote from Costa Rica: “This year, after nearly 15 years of working as a consultant connected to UNESCO’s World Heritage Center, I am converting my long-time project, Public Use Planning, into a nonprofit global consortium that unites people and organizations dedicated to introducing emerging paradigms into heritage management. It starts from the observation that around the world we are suffering a massive crisis of unimplemented plans. They are stacking up in offices on all continents, yet few people seem to take notice of this widespread and systematic problem. If there is anyone out there interested in the theme of planning or heritage management and is good at thinking outside the box, I might have a movement for you (pupconsortium.net).”
Gloria Lopez was recently named dean of students at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She wrote: “I’m completing my doctorate in education at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and recently relocated to Pennsylvania with my partner Tammi after working in nonprofits and a community college in the Boston area during the last 15 years. Although I miss my family and friends back in Boston, I’m enjoying Philly!”
The last Saturday of October boasted two simultaneous mini-reunions. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Mike Mahoney, Julia Hynes Shoff, Jennifer Williams and Valerie Worthington in Philadelphia. Mike joined us after statting 210 minutes of women’s sports (his job with University of Pennsylvania athletics) that day, and told the amazing story of sitting in a dugout box at Fenway for Game One of the World Series with Ben Crawford. Jennifer just launched and is the executive producer of The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson on Fox News in New York. Valerie is in the process of moving from Washington, D.C., to Princeton, New Jersey. In addition to her Brazilian ju jitsu training, she works for Deltak in instructional design.
Meanwhile, up in Hanover Brant Rose, Nicholas Mourlas, Dave Harrison and Jen Frederick Bantner watched the Big Green steamroll Columbia 56-0 at Memorial Field during Alumni Council weekend. Watch for photos in the next newsletter. Older newsletters are archived at dartmouth92.org/news.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org