Class Note 1992
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Watch your mailboxes for electronic and paper newsletters featuring our 92nd day of the year updates (for next year I’m wishing everyone plenty of exotic vacations and way less booting and snow, unless your trip requires snow), March Madness results, and more.
I’ve been delighted to hear about many great nonprofits to which you are donating your time.
Frazier Miller wrote: “I advise a wonderful organization called Adventure Scientists. They leverage an amazing network of adventure racers and outdoor enthusiasts to collect scientific data that helps push causes of environmental conservation. Eric Chin ’91 and his wife, Christy, introduced me to Adventure Scientists. I was immediately drawn to their mission of environmental conservation. While my days of Alaska adventure racing are behind me, I do get out and about here in the Bay Area frequently. I live in Portola Valley, California, with my wife, Tia, and three boys. I’m currently chief marketing officer at a software company called Wrike, based in San Jose. I see Jamie Rosen and Ben Hudnut regularly. I’m looking forward to a visit to Hanover this June with my family. We’re going to hike Tuckerman’s, which lives large in my memories of college.”
Kenta Takamori wrote: “Since last year I have been the executive director of the Silicon Valley Japan Platform (SVJP), which is a nonprofit initiative with a mission to deepen U.S.-Japan relations through technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.”
Samantha Schnee wrote: “Back in 2003 two friends from the N.Y.C. publishing world and I founded a magazine for writers working in any language but English called Words Without Borders (WWB). Using a seed grant from the National Endowment for the Arts we launched with stories and poetry from Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Fifteen years later we’ve amassed a huge trove of writing from 2,000 authors working in more than 130 languages; we’re especially proud to have published the first English translations of novels from Madagascar and Rwanda ever to appear in English. In addition to the NEA, WWB is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, along with many private foundations, so everything we’ve ever published remains available online for free. Last year we launched a sister website, WWB-Campus.org, to help educators (at high schools and colleges) integrate international literature into their classroom curricula; it’s been used by a wide range of teachers—from a class for Mexican deportees (that used the material to help students reintegrate into life in Mexico) to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. I’ve chaired the board of WWB for the past five years. While I was living in the United Kingdom, where I was born, for most of the past decade, I joined the board of trustees of English PEN (a writers’ organization that supports freedom of expression and helps writers who’ve been imprisoned in their homelands). When we returned to the United States last year, I agreed to chair the jury of the PEN America Heim Translation Grants, which give translators money to work on bringing new texts into English.”
It breaks my heart to report I can no longer share news of Winnie Huang’s amazing volunteer efforts. She passed away on April 24. Her leadership of Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni and the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, plus countless other generous works, will not be forgotten. If you would like to share a remembrance of Winnie, please email me and I will pass it along to her family and include it in our class website’s “In Memoriam” section (1992.dartmouth.org/memoriam).
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
I’ve been delighted to hear about many great nonprofits to which you are donating your time.
Frazier Miller wrote: “I advise a wonderful organization called Adventure Scientists. They leverage an amazing network of adventure racers and outdoor enthusiasts to collect scientific data that helps push causes of environmental conservation. Eric Chin ’91 and his wife, Christy, introduced me to Adventure Scientists. I was immediately drawn to their mission of environmental conservation. While my days of Alaska adventure racing are behind me, I do get out and about here in the Bay Area frequently. I live in Portola Valley, California, with my wife, Tia, and three boys. I’m currently chief marketing officer at a software company called Wrike, based in San Jose. I see Jamie Rosen and Ben Hudnut regularly. I’m looking forward to a visit to Hanover this June with my family. We’re going to hike Tuckerman’s, which lives large in my memories of college.”
Kenta Takamori wrote: “Since last year I have been the executive director of the Silicon Valley Japan Platform (SVJP), which is a nonprofit initiative with a mission to deepen U.S.-Japan relations through technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.”
Samantha Schnee wrote: “Back in 2003 two friends from the N.Y.C. publishing world and I founded a magazine for writers working in any language but English called Words Without Borders (WWB). Using a seed grant from the National Endowment for the Arts we launched with stories and poetry from Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Fifteen years later we’ve amassed a huge trove of writing from 2,000 authors working in more than 130 languages; we’re especially proud to have published the first English translations of novels from Madagascar and Rwanda ever to appear in English. In addition to the NEA, WWB is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, along with many private foundations, so everything we’ve ever published remains available online for free. Last year we launched a sister website, WWB-Campus.org, to help educators (at high schools and colleges) integrate international literature into their classroom curricula; it’s been used by a wide range of teachers—from a class for Mexican deportees (that used the material to help students reintegrate into life in Mexico) to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. I’ve chaired the board of WWB for the past five years. While I was living in the United Kingdom, where I was born, for most of the past decade, I joined the board of trustees of English PEN (a writers’ organization that supports freedom of expression and helps writers who’ve been imprisoned in their homelands). When we returned to the United States last year, I agreed to chair the jury of the PEN America Heim Translation Grants, which give translators money to work on bringing new texts into English.”
It breaks my heart to report I can no longer share news of Winnie Huang’s amazing volunteer efforts. She passed away on April 24. Her leadership of Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni and the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, plus countless other generous works, will not be forgotten. If you would like to share a remembrance of Winnie, please email me and I will pass it along to her family and include it in our class website’s “In Memoriam” section (1992.dartmouth.org/memoriam).
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com