Class Note 1992

Thanks to Todd Gorman for emailing news@dartmouth92.org with this update: “Greetings! Haven’t written in awhile. I’m getting my Canadian citizenship this summer after 15 years here in Quebec with my wife, Nathalie. I’m practicing internal and intensive care unit medicine very happily in an academic center and Nat does infectious disease. Emma (13) is competing on the provincial and national levels in tennis, Noah (11) is competing in soccer-basketball-football and Jake (7) is competing in soccer and basketball as well. I’m sure many of you commiserate with our competitive taxiing activities! Love seeing the kids do things we never could, though—we’re very grateful for all the good in life. 


“Greg York and Kelly McMann are doing well in Cleveland, Ohio, with their professions and two beautiful kids. Scott Miller and Lisa Cosimi (Cornell ’91) are also well in Lexington, Massachusetts, with their professions and their two beautiful kids, too. Give a holler if coming north (…way north).”


The Dartmouth College Alumni group on LinkedIn.com has more than 15,000 members and an active message board. I checked in with Scott Bienenfeld after his question, “Does anybody out there think smoking is okay?” drummed up some lively discussion in the group.


Scott wrote, “I am an addiction and forensic psychiatrist. I founded the only M.D.-owned and operated residential and outpatient addiction treatment program in New York City, called Rebound Brooklyn, and we are located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I’m married and have two children and live in New Jersey.”


I asked him why he asked that particular question on LinkedIn, and he replied: “It’s pretty simple. The tobacco industry is allowed to make billions of dollars selling a product that literally kills people and it’s not an issue. The alcohol industry—same thing. Yet a person sells pot and is considered a criminal? (Although this is changing, you get the point.)” Scott has written several articles about addiction and recovery (see reboundbrooklyn.com and “Recovery Group of NY” on Facebook) and is often quoted in the media. Bringing a little levity to a serious subject, he diagnosed the fictional Don Draper of Mad Men as an alcoholic on Esquire.com’s culture blog.


Next time I’ll report on Class Officers Weekend in Hanover (September 12-13), where hundreds of class volunteers meet and compare best practices and plan class activities for the upcoming year. 


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Kelly Shriver Kolln
, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org