Class Note 1992
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
A recent trend among classmates: relocation!
Jen Bergeron, her husband, Joe, and her 4-year-old daughter, Meryl, moved back to their home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in July. “We were in Vienna, Austria, for the past three years and loved every minute. As sad as we were to leave, we can’t wait to catch up with old friends and family and are looking forward to returning to Hanover next June for reunion.”
Bill Scott moved from Hawaii to his native Toronto.
David Miller wrote: “My family moved April 13. From Manhattan, Upper East Side, to Manhattan, Upper East Side. Guaranteed I will receive the award for the shortest move. I remained in the same zip code and moved across the street. In fact, I now can look into my prior neighbor’s apartment! (Not that I do that.) Why? I had been in the other apartment for 12 years and it was time for a change. We are renting for a year to buy time to make a more permanent decision. Thus, I’ll likely be on the ‘move list’ next year, too.”
Kathie CalkinsKeyes also moved just across the street from her old house, in St. Louis. Let’s get out the measuring tape before David grabs that “shortest move” award.
It’s hard to believe this will be the first academic year in decades without Professor Rassias, although thousands of others have certainly taken up the mantle and passed along his methods. I was glad to hear from Nam Mokwunye: “Professor Rassias was one of the first people I met at Dartmouth during orientation. We would pass one another in the hallways from time to time and he’d ask how I was doing, wondering what I thought about my instruction from Jean-Marc Lanterie and drill instructor and later friend Deep Khosla. We talked about language and culture and the impact they can have on the good (development) and bad (politics) of nations. When I returned from a language study abroad in Arles, he was the first prof I visited. And before I took a summer off to Lome, Togo, in 1989 to visit my parents and to take a capstone course at the Village du Benin in Lome, his advice to go was the last I received. While at Village du Benin I met students from University of California, San Diego. They too knew of Rassias, his methodology, and his views on the relative powers of language, culture and communication. He is legend.” Nam lives in hometown Florence, Alabama, with his wife, Emily, a Pilates teacher from Indiana. He runs PublicVine, a tech company he founded while a fellow at Stanford, and is regularly in touch with Dartmouth alumni from various classes—including Andrew Wiese ’91, Joseph Dadzie ’95, and Eric Yarboi, some of his partners in PublicVine; and Noble Ekajeh ’93, with whom he is restructuring the healthcare ecosystems in Nigeria.
From our reunion planner Julie Cillo: “In less than a year we will gather on the Green for our 25th reunion. Keep the legacy of our standing bonfire strong as we stand together (as sister stands by brother, to quote the alma mater) in celebration of friendships old and new. See you June 15-18, 2017.” Check our new website (1992.dartmouth.org) or Facebook group for details and for Homecoming and other minireunion info.
My final update is a sad one: Our classmate John Wolfenden died June 23. He and his wife had just opened a wine shop in Los Angeles. To contribute remembrances of John for our website’s “In Memoriam” section (stories and photos are welcome), please email me.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
Jen Bergeron, her husband, Joe, and her 4-year-old daughter, Meryl, moved back to their home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in July. “We were in Vienna, Austria, for the past three years and loved every minute. As sad as we were to leave, we can’t wait to catch up with old friends and family and are looking forward to returning to Hanover next June for reunion.”
Bill Scott moved from Hawaii to his native Toronto.
David Miller wrote: “My family moved April 13. From Manhattan, Upper East Side, to Manhattan, Upper East Side. Guaranteed I will receive the award for the shortest move. I remained in the same zip code and moved across the street. In fact, I now can look into my prior neighbor’s apartment! (Not that I do that.) Why? I had been in the other apartment for 12 years and it was time for a change. We are renting for a year to buy time to make a more permanent decision. Thus, I’ll likely be on the ‘move list’ next year, too.”
Kathie CalkinsKeyes also moved just across the street from her old house, in St. Louis. Let’s get out the measuring tape before David grabs that “shortest move” award.
It’s hard to believe this will be the first academic year in decades without Professor Rassias, although thousands of others have certainly taken up the mantle and passed along his methods. I was glad to hear from Nam Mokwunye: “Professor Rassias was one of the first people I met at Dartmouth during orientation. We would pass one another in the hallways from time to time and he’d ask how I was doing, wondering what I thought about my instruction from Jean-Marc Lanterie and drill instructor and later friend Deep Khosla. We talked about language and culture and the impact they can have on the good (development) and bad (politics) of nations. When I returned from a language study abroad in Arles, he was the first prof I visited. And before I took a summer off to Lome, Togo, in 1989 to visit my parents and to take a capstone course at the Village du Benin in Lome, his advice to go was the last I received. While at Village du Benin I met students from University of California, San Diego. They too knew of Rassias, his methodology, and his views on the relative powers of language, culture and communication. He is legend.” Nam lives in hometown Florence, Alabama, with his wife, Emily, a Pilates teacher from Indiana. He runs PublicVine, a tech company he founded while a fellow at Stanford, and is regularly in touch with Dartmouth alumni from various classes—including Andrew Wiese ’91, Joseph Dadzie ’95, and Eric Yarboi, some of his partners in PublicVine; and Noble Ekajeh ’93, with whom he is restructuring the healthcare ecosystems in Nigeria.
From our reunion planner Julie Cillo: “In less than a year we will gather on the Green for our 25th reunion. Keep the legacy of our standing bonfire strong as we stand together (as sister stands by brother, to quote the alma mater) in celebration of friendships old and new. See you June 15-18, 2017.” Check our new website (1992.dartmouth.org) or Facebook group for details and for Homecoming and other minireunion info.
My final update is a sad one: Our classmate John Wolfenden died June 23. He and his wife had just opened a wine shop in Los Angeles. To contribute remembrances of John for our website’s “In Memoriam” section (stories and photos are welcome), please email me.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; dartmouth92news@gmail.com