Classes & Obits

Class Note 1992

Issue

Mar - Apr 2016

Mark your calendars: the 92nd day of 2016 falls on April 1, and we’ll be having our annual virtual reunion that day. Just send a quick note about what you’re doing that day to news@dartmouth92.org (or post in our Facebook group). You don’t have to feel pressured to pull an epic prank to impress the rest of us; however, I will be disappointed if several of you don’t report your maple-sugaring efforts, as you did last year. As always, we will compile all responses into a newsletter.

I need to post an addendum to the last column—I learned that three classmates won Emmys last fall, not just Matthew Mosk and David Benioff. Tim Greenberg, who is an executive producer of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, won for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. I asked him whether he’s still with the show, now that the host has changed, or is he working on something else? Tim replied: “Yes, I’m an executive producer at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Yes, I’ve got some other projects going on. And yes I live in N.Y.C. with wife, two girls, 4 and 2, and a dog, all of whom I love very much. Things are good.”

This issue of the magazine is full of reasons to love the College on the Hill, and many thanks to those of you who wrote in with your own favorite people, places and traditions.

Nancy DeSa: “Winter carnival sculpture, snow shoveling, hosing and packing ice, axe hitting ice to carve something, and freezing my ass off.”

Catherine O’Neill Goodbred: “I loved walking down to the river to canoe. It was a beautiful break from campus without leaving campus!”

Cameron Myler: “Our tradition of winter sports: a Dartmouth student or alum in every Winter Olympics since 1924. Happy that I got us through four!”

Rachel Johnson: “The weekday Sanborn Library tea party and the priceless looks from the uninitiated when the grandfather clock struck 4 p.m.”

Kristel Dorion: “The Green when it’s shrouded with fog, on a crisp evening with campus lights twinkling.”

Christina Flavell: “Professor Rassias was my favorite professor; he taught language not as verbs and vocabulary, but as an element of love, passion and humanity.”

Lynne Schiffman: “Gazing at the Big Dipper on the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge porch, Gleek, language study abroad and foreign study programs, all things Rassias, lunches on the Hanover Inn terrace.”

I asked Lynne to elaborate, since she currently chairs the advisory board of the Rassias Center at Dartmouth. She wrote, “How does one begin to express what Professor John Rassias meant to Dartmouth and to those of us who knew him? How could any of us who were touched by his genius ever forget him? Exuberant, all-enveloping, enthusiastic, passionate, caring, inspiring, phenomenal. These are only some of the adjectives that come to mind. So many of us are better people for his influence in our lives; so many of us were inspired by his energy and zeal for life and his desire to make the world a better place. To honor his legacy let each of us strive to put a little extra effort into connecting with the world around us, learning a new language or trying to understand a different culture, doing our best and, to paraphrase one of his favorite songs, take it to the limit one more time!”

If you’d also like to share your fond memories of him, you can post them in the “Remember John Rassias” section of the center’s website (rassias.dartmouth.edu).

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