Class Note 1992
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
Set your DVR to record Criminal Minds: Aisha Tyler just joined the cast and it begins airing new episodes at the end of September.
If you’re heading to Hanover for Dartmouth Night on October 9 you’re invited to lead the Homecoming parade, along with the other classes of the year. Look for our class officers holding the banner up front and jump in!
Here are some updates from classmates whose career paths led them to other campuses.
Sally Davis wrote: “We’ve moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where I started as an assistant professor of experimental pathology at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Recently our kindergarten-aged twins won their category at the regional science fair, kindergarten through third grade earth, space and environment. It is not flat here where we are in Kansas, in case you were wondering, as we live in the Flint Hills. We love living in a university town!” Sally is a recent graduate of the National Institutes of Health comparative biomedical scientist training program in partnership with North Carolina State University.
Kelly McMann recently published a book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia, based on her long-term research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. At Dartmouth Kelly majored in government and Russian and East European studies and studied Russian. She wrote: “I am a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Besides completing the book I have been part of the global Varieties of Democracy project. The data we are generating will help scholars better understand democratic development and government officials and nonprofits more effectively promote it. You can check out the project at https://v-dem.net. My husband, Greg York, is a patent attorney, and our daughter and son, ages 11 and 8, enjoy swimming on the community team and blogging.”
Scott Straus recently published another book, Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa. Scott is professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote in the preface: “During the course of researching and writing this book my two wonderful children, Sadie and Solomon, were born. They give me joy and make me proud every day. Going from the office, where I study genocide, to home, where a different logic reigns, was often jarring. But that change was so vital as I struggled for many years to make sense of my subject.” He also thanked Yoi Herrera Kydd for her suggestions during his research. As it turns out, they both work in the political science department at UW-Madison! Scott also just joined the board of visitors at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding (Avanish Bhavsar also serves on that board).
As your class secretary I hold the privilege and responsibility of reporting both joyous and sorrowful news of our fellow ’92s. We lost two classmates recently. David Shipper of Koror, Palau, died March 15, and Jason Cillo of Richmond, Virginia, died June 4. The class extends its deepest sympathies to their families and friends.
Some classmates have written remembrances about Dave and Jason for our class website’s “In Memoriam” section. If you’d like to contribute, please email news@dartmouth92.org (no word limit, photos welcome).
From the end of the second verse of the poem by Richard Hovey, class of 1885, traditionally sung as part of the alma mater only in times of war or during memorial services:
“The still North remembers them,
The hill-winds know their name,
And the granite of New Hampshire
Keeps the record of their fame.”
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org
If you’re heading to Hanover for Dartmouth Night on October 9 you’re invited to lead the Homecoming parade, along with the other classes of the year. Look for our class officers holding the banner up front and jump in!
Here are some updates from classmates whose career paths led them to other campuses.
Sally Davis wrote: “We’ve moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where I started as an assistant professor of experimental pathology at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Recently our kindergarten-aged twins won their category at the regional science fair, kindergarten through third grade earth, space and environment. It is not flat here where we are in Kansas, in case you were wondering, as we live in the Flint Hills. We love living in a university town!” Sally is a recent graduate of the National Institutes of Health comparative biomedical scientist training program in partnership with North Carolina State University.
Kelly McMann recently published a book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia, based on her long-term research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. At Dartmouth Kelly majored in government and Russian and East European studies and studied Russian. She wrote: “I am a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Besides completing the book I have been part of the global Varieties of Democracy project. The data we are generating will help scholars better understand democratic development and government officials and nonprofits more effectively promote it. You can check out the project at https://v-dem.net. My husband, Greg York, is a patent attorney, and our daughter and son, ages 11 and 8, enjoy swimming on the community team and blogging.”
Scott Straus recently published another book, Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa. Scott is professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote in the preface: “During the course of researching and writing this book my two wonderful children, Sadie and Solomon, were born. They give me joy and make me proud every day. Going from the office, where I study genocide, to home, where a different logic reigns, was often jarring. But that change was so vital as I struggled for many years to make sense of my subject.” He also thanked Yoi Herrera Kydd for her suggestions during his research. As it turns out, they both work in the political science department at UW-Madison! Scott also just joined the board of visitors at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding (Avanish Bhavsar also serves on that board).
As your class secretary I hold the privilege and responsibility of reporting both joyous and sorrowful news of our fellow ’92s. We lost two classmates recently. David Shipper of Koror, Palau, died March 15, and Jason Cillo of Richmond, Virginia, died June 4. The class extends its deepest sympathies to their families and friends.
Some classmates have written remembrances about Dave and Jason for our class website’s “In Memoriam” section. If you’d like to contribute, please email news@dartmouth92.org (no word limit, photos welcome).
From the end of the second verse of the poem by Richard Hovey, class of 1885, traditionally sung as part of the alma mater only in times of war or during memorial services:
“The still North remembers them,
The hill-winds know their name,
And the granite of New Hampshire
Keeps the record of their fame.”
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org