Class Note 1994
Issue
Seems everyone was very busy over the summer; thank you to everyone for writing in to share your news.
My hearty congratulations to David S. Cohen, who won a teaching award at the inaugural graduation of Drexel University’s Earle Mack School of Law earlier this year. David is an associate professor at Drexel Law in Philadelphia, where he teaches constitutional law. The Excellence in the Classroom Award was voted on by students and the winners were announced in the middle of the graduation ceremony. We actually got to visit with David this summer—it had been a year since we’d last seen him and his wife, Cassie Ehrenberg ’96—and we had a blast watching our four boys (!) play together.
From Facebook I learned that Rebecca Eldredge recently launched threefourone, a new strategic marketing initiative that represents an innovative take on the traditional cross-promotional event format. Incorporating elements of cause-related marketing, threefourone matches businesses and not-for-profits based on shared current or desired target market to serve as co-hosts for an event that showcases each participant’s products, services or programming and enhances the enjoyment of attendees. For more information, you can find them on Facebook, visit their Web site at www.3four1.com or find them on Twitter at threefourone. Look them up if you’re going to be in the Dallas area; the events look phenomenal.
I got a note from Nina McAdoo, who it turns out lives only 25 minutes from me in Westchester County, New York. We commiserated via e-mail over the sad state of our respective tomato crops; seems like we both picked a hell of a year to start growing tomatoes. (For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, this summer’s record rains in the Northeast brought the worst tomato blight in years. And as I write this Hurricane Danny is threatening to do in the last of ’em.) “It’s been a really long time since I contributed to our Class Notes, so here goes. In January I had a baby girl named Caitlin Sydney McAdoo Savitt (yes, I saddled my daughter with four names!), who joins her also lengthily named brother Aidan James McAdoo Savitt, 5. I am an in-house corporate lawyer with the accounting firm KPMG LLP in New York; my husband, Andy Savitt, is a marketing and communications consultant. We live in Tuckahoe in the New York suburbs of Westchester County. We have been enjoying this very rainy summer as much as possible and look forward to spending Labor Day weekend up in Maine with fellow ’94 Lauren DeLong, her husband, Mike Healey, and their two boys Calvin and Luke.”
And I heard that Ashley Campion was just appointed to the board of directors of New Avenues for Youth. This Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit service organization is committed to helping at-risk and homeless teens gain the life skills necessary to lead sustainable lives and avoid lifelong homelessness. Ashley is the vice president of the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation, where she has served for 15 years. She is also involved with a number of other nonprofits in Portland, including the Community Transitional School, Friends of the Children and Planned Parenthood.
Last but not least, hot off the presses as I write this, Leah (Tarpy) Rodgers and Greg Rodgers have a brand new son! I don’t have too many details yet but earlier this week I received the following missive from the proud new papa: “Franklin Robert Rodgers was born at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, August 25. Seven pounds, four ounces. Mom and baby are doing great!”
Congratulations to everyone. And happy Halloween.
—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suzanne.fromer@alum.dartmouth.org
Nov - Dec 2009
Seems everyone was very busy over the summer; thank you to everyone for writing in to share your news.
My hearty congratulations to David S. Cohen, who won a teaching award at the inaugural graduation of Drexel University’s Earle Mack School of Law earlier this year. David is an associate professor at Drexel Law in Philadelphia, where he teaches constitutional law. The Excellence in the Classroom Award was voted on by students and the winners were announced in the middle of the graduation ceremony. We actually got to visit with David this summer—it had been a year since we’d last seen him and his wife, Cassie Ehrenberg ’96—and we had a blast watching our four boys (!) play together.
From Facebook I learned that Rebecca Eldredge recently launched threefourone, a new strategic marketing initiative that represents an innovative take on the traditional cross-promotional event format. Incorporating elements of cause-related marketing, threefourone matches businesses and not-for-profits based on shared current or desired target market to serve as co-hosts for an event that showcases each participant’s products, services or programming and enhances the enjoyment of attendees. For more information, you can find them on Facebook, visit their Web site at www.3four1.com or find them on Twitter at threefourone. Look them up if you’re going to be in the Dallas area; the events look phenomenal.
I got a note from Nina McAdoo, who it turns out lives only 25 minutes from me in Westchester County, New York. We commiserated via e-mail over the sad state of our respective tomato crops; seems like we both picked a hell of a year to start growing tomatoes. (For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, this summer’s record rains in the Northeast brought the worst tomato blight in years. And as I write this Hurricane Danny is threatening to do in the last of ’em.) “It’s been a really long time since I contributed to our Class Notes, so here goes. In January I had a baby girl named Caitlin Sydney McAdoo Savitt (yes, I saddled my daughter with four names!), who joins her also lengthily named brother Aidan James McAdoo Savitt, 5. I am an in-house corporate lawyer with the accounting firm KPMG LLP in New York; my husband, Andy Savitt, is a marketing and communications consultant. We live in Tuckahoe in the New York suburbs of Westchester County. We have been enjoying this very rainy summer as much as possible and look forward to spending Labor Day weekend up in Maine with fellow ’94 Lauren DeLong, her husband, Mike Healey, and their two boys Calvin and Luke.”
And I heard that Ashley Campion was just appointed to the board of directors of New Avenues for Youth. This Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit service organization is committed to helping at-risk and homeless teens gain the life skills necessary to lead sustainable lives and avoid lifelong homelessness. Ashley is the vice president of the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation, where she has served for 15 years. She is also involved with a number of other nonprofits in Portland, including the Community Transitional School, Friends of the Children and Planned Parenthood.
Last but not least, hot off the presses as I write this, Leah (Tarpy) Rodgers and Greg Rodgers have a brand new son! I don’t have too many details yet but earlier this week I received the following missive from the proud new papa: “Franklin Robert Rodgers was born at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, August 25. Seven pounds, four ounces. Mom and baby are doing great!”
Congratulations to everyone. And happy Halloween.
—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suzanne.fromer@alum.dartmouth.org