Class Note 1992
Issue
March-April 2021
Our 30th reunion is scheduled for June 16-19, 2022, in Hanover! Joni McCray Wiredu, our reunion planner, is building a team to organize the festivities. If you’re interested in helping, email 30threunion.dartmouth92@gmail.com or visit the 30th reunion page at 1992.dartmouth.org.
Monica Hooks will deliver the 2021 Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center. The virtual event, titled “Women, Entrepreneurship, and Atlanta in the New South,” takes place on February 17 (rockefeller.dartmouth.edu). Monica is executive director of the Atlanta Development Authority’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, a business incubator for early-stage, female-led startup companies.
Lakshmi (Lewis) Emory, M.D., M.P.H., is running for mayor in Flossmoor, Illinois (emory4flossmoor.org). The election will be held this April. Lakshmi wrote, “If elected, I will be the first woman and the first African-American mayor of the Village of Flossmoor (a suburb of Chicago). I am celebrating 18 years of marriage to the Rev. Keitric Emory, who is nearing the completion of the ordination process, and we have a daughter who is a junior in high school. The three of us attended the 25th class of ’92 reunion. Looking forward to the 30th. I keep in touch with lots of ’92s mostly through Facebook. When I travel, I try to make meetups happen. Was fortunate to have breakfast with Kim Malone Bobb when I visited New York this time last year. I see Stephanie Williams with regularity in Chicago. She is the reason I came to Chicago for medical school. I am originally from California.” A family physician for almost 20 years, Lakshmi is chief medical officer of a statewide managed care organization. She also served on the lieutenant governor of Illinois’ health equity working group.
Teri Balser, Ph.D., has been appointed provost and vice president (academic) at the University of Calgary in Canada. Teri was formerly the interim president and provost and vice president academic at Dalhousie University. The University of Calgary’s president sung her praises: “Dr. Balser is widely known in higher education as a collaborative and consultative leader—an advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion and a change agent and leader in STEM.” Teri wrote, “I saw Ann Schrot Gregoire in Bozeman a bit ago while job hunting, and in 2019 I saw Lynne Schiffman Delise at Christmas (her son, Will, is about to start college) and Eagle Glassheim in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. It was great to reconnect. My partner and I have traveled around the world together during the past five or six years and we are looking forward to settling in Calgary and being near the mountains. Hoping to find Dartmouth connections nearby!”
Kathie Calkins Keyes reported on her second year in Arizona: “We love living in Tucson and hiking around the mountains. Look us up if you come to town. I had an opportunity to learn and teach grant writing at an education nonprofit for the last year, so that was cool. I can’t wait for the next reunion! Love to you all!”
Axel Grabowsky ’60 made my day when he emailed: “Since your classmate Tara Grabowsky isn’t about to toot her own horn, I better do it. (I am her father and a member of the class of ’60.) Tara has earned a black belt in Aikido! Quite an accomplishment! She’s also a physician and the chief data officer for the life science group at McKinsey. She is married to Kev and has three delightful and accomplished (a grandfather’s terminology but nevertheless very true) kids, Christian, 15, Helen, 13, and Ryan, 10.”
Attention parents of ’92s who are reading this: please write in with your kids’ good news!
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
Monica Hooks will deliver the 2021 Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center. The virtual event, titled “Women, Entrepreneurship, and Atlanta in the New South,” takes place on February 17 (rockefeller.dartmouth.edu). Monica is executive director of the Atlanta Development Authority’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, a business incubator for early-stage, female-led startup companies.
Lakshmi (Lewis) Emory, M.D., M.P.H., is running for mayor in Flossmoor, Illinois (emory4flossmoor.org). The election will be held this April. Lakshmi wrote, “If elected, I will be the first woman and the first African-American mayor of the Village of Flossmoor (a suburb of Chicago). I am celebrating 18 years of marriage to the Rev. Keitric Emory, who is nearing the completion of the ordination process, and we have a daughter who is a junior in high school. The three of us attended the 25th class of ’92 reunion. Looking forward to the 30th. I keep in touch with lots of ’92s mostly through Facebook. When I travel, I try to make meetups happen. Was fortunate to have breakfast with Kim Malone Bobb when I visited New York this time last year. I see Stephanie Williams with regularity in Chicago. She is the reason I came to Chicago for medical school. I am originally from California.” A family physician for almost 20 years, Lakshmi is chief medical officer of a statewide managed care organization. She also served on the lieutenant governor of Illinois’ health equity working group.
Teri Balser, Ph.D., has been appointed provost and vice president (academic) at the University of Calgary in Canada. Teri was formerly the interim president and provost and vice president academic at Dalhousie University. The University of Calgary’s president sung her praises: “Dr. Balser is widely known in higher education as a collaborative and consultative leader—an advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion and a change agent and leader in STEM.” Teri wrote, “I saw Ann Schrot Gregoire in Bozeman a bit ago while job hunting, and in 2019 I saw Lynne Schiffman Delise at Christmas (her son, Will, is about to start college) and Eagle Glassheim in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. It was great to reconnect. My partner and I have traveled around the world together during the past five or six years and we are looking forward to settling in Calgary and being near the mountains. Hoping to find Dartmouth connections nearby!”
Kathie Calkins Keyes reported on her second year in Arizona: “We love living in Tucson and hiking around the mountains. Look us up if you come to town. I had an opportunity to learn and teach grant writing at an education nonprofit for the last year, so that was cool. I can’t wait for the next reunion! Love to you all!”
Axel Grabowsky ’60 made my day when he emailed: “Since your classmate Tara Grabowsky isn’t about to toot her own horn, I better do it. (I am her father and a member of the class of ’60.) Tara has earned a black belt in Aikido! Quite an accomplishment! She’s also a physician and the chief data officer for the life science group at McKinsey. She is married to Kev and has three delightful and accomplished (a grandfather’s terminology but nevertheless very true) kids, Christian, 15, Helen, 13, and Ryan, 10.”
Attention parents of ’92s who are reading this: please write in with your kids’ good news!
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com