Class Note 1992
Issue
November-December 2020
Thanks to John McWilliams for suggesting I ask classmates about “Dartmouth moments” they’ve experienced overseas. He and a few others wrote in about trips that occurred soon before the pandemic curtailed international travel.
John wrote: “I was in Bangkok having breakfast alone wearing a Dartmouth shirt last year and happened to be seated next to two Dartmouth professors who noticed and had me join them.”
The day after attending the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium last year, Brian Gordon wrote, “I left for a week in Mexico City as part of the Call to Serve Initiative. The Rassias Foundation was looking for alumni volunteers to help with English instruction in Mexico City high schools in lower-income areas in the city. I had an absolute blast! There were a total of 11 alumni plus two spouses, and I was the baby of a group that reached back to the class of 1959 (and included members from the classes of ’62, ’72, and ’82). We worked with a group of four teachers, at two colegios, who had been to Dartmouth to learn the Rassias Method as part of the Inter-American Partnership for Education. We were native English speakers for their students and participated with them in numerous skits, interviews, and a week of fun! Apparently I can (sorta) moonwalk! It was one of those ‘time of your life’ experiences I’ll never forget!”
Catherine O’Neill Goodbred wrote: “In 2019 I took a wonderful trip to Spain with my Dartmouth roomie, Anne-Corinne Beaver. We visited her niece, my son, and my parents on a fabulous trip to Madrid, Zaragoza, and Barcelona. While we were in Barcelona she ran the half marathon with my son, Colin ’21 who was there on a Dartmouth language study abroad [LSA]. The office of residential life certainly knew what it was doing matching us as first-year roomies!”
Delightful memories from our undergrad days also emerged. Elaine Anderson wrote: “I will never forget the day when half a dozen or so of my classmates from LSA Siena were in Rome touring the Colosseum. As we clambered over the stones (when you used to be able to do that!) someone called out—I think to Ashley O’Neill Kleiderer—a hearty hello. Lo and behold, another group of Dartmouth ’92s were doing the sightseeing. And they had just bumped into another group of ’92s and made plans for dinner. So that night at least 18 of us brought a little bit of Hanover to Roma over a wonderful Italian meal!”
Pete DeBalli wrote, “Best overseas Dartmouth moment: Leningrad foreign study program, spring 1990. Andy Neckers, Carl Schaefer, and I bluffed our way into the swanky Pribaltiskaya Hotel so we could buy lunch in the buffet restaurant. Carl is wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt. A friendly Canadian businessman invites us to join him, buys us a round of beers, then offers a toast. ‘I see you boys are from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Here’s to us Canucks!’ And we spent the rest of lunch making small talk and pretending to be Canadian!”
If you attended our 2017 reunion, you’ll surely remember the care and dignity Pete brought to our memorial service for classmates we’ve lost. I’m very sorry to report that two more ’92s passed away earlier this year: Bill Sandholm of Madison, Wisconsin, on July 6; and Mark Berman of San Francisco on August 11. The class extends our deepest sympathies to their families and friends. You are welcome to share remembrances—just email us and we’ll include them in our website’s “In Memoriam” section.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
John wrote: “I was in Bangkok having breakfast alone wearing a Dartmouth shirt last year and happened to be seated next to two Dartmouth professors who noticed and had me join them.”
The day after attending the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium last year, Brian Gordon wrote, “I left for a week in Mexico City as part of the Call to Serve Initiative. The Rassias Foundation was looking for alumni volunteers to help with English instruction in Mexico City high schools in lower-income areas in the city. I had an absolute blast! There were a total of 11 alumni plus two spouses, and I was the baby of a group that reached back to the class of 1959 (and included members from the classes of ’62, ’72, and ’82). We worked with a group of four teachers, at two colegios, who had been to Dartmouth to learn the Rassias Method as part of the Inter-American Partnership for Education. We were native English speakers for their students and participated with them in numerous skits, interviews, and a week of fun! Apparently I can (sorta) moonwalk! It was one of those ‘time of your life’ experiences I’ll never forget!”
Catherine O’Neill Goodbred wrote: “In 2019 I took a wonderful trip to Spain with my Dartmouth roomie, Anne-Corinne Beaver. We visited her niece, my son, and my parents on a fabulous trip to Madrid, Zaragoza, and Barcelona. While we were in Barcelona she ran the half marathon with my son, Colin ’21 who was there on a Dartmouth language study abroad [LSA]. The office of residential life certainly knew what it was doing matching us as first-year roomies!”
Delightful memories from our undergrad days also emerged. Elaine Anderson wrote: “I will never forget the day when half a dozen or so of my classmates from LSA Siena were in Rome touring the Colosseum. As we clambered over the stones (when you used to be able to do that!) someone called out—I think to Ashley O’Neill Kleiderer—a hearty hello. Lo and behold, another group of Dartmouth ’92s were doing the sightseeing. And they had just bumped into another group of ’92s and made plans for dinner. So that night at least 18 of us brought a little bit of Hanover to Roma over a wonderful Italian meal!”
Pete DeBalli wrote, “Best overseas Dartmouth moment: Leningrad foreign study program, spring 1990. Andy Neckers, Carl Schaefer, and I bluffed our way into the swanky Pribaltiskaya Hotel so we could buy lunch in the buffet restaurant. Carl is wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt. A friendly Canadian businessman invites us to join him, buys us a round of beers, then offers a toast. ‘I see you boys are from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Here’s to us Canucks!’ And we spent the rest of lunch making small talk and pretending to be Canadian!”
If you attended our 2017 reunion, you’ll surely remember the care and dignity Pete brought to our memorial service for classmates we’ve lost. I’m very sorry to report that two more ’92s passed away earlier this year: Bill Sandholm of Madison, Wisconsin, on July 6; and Mark Berman of San Francisco on August 11. The class extends our deepest sympathies to their families and friends. You are welcome to share remembrances—just email us and we’ll include them in our website’s “In Memoriam” section.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com