Class Note 1994
I received the below email update from classmate Anne (Jeffers) Weber just in time for tonight’s deadline; thanks, Anne!
“I don’t think I’ve written an update in many, many years, but given our 20th year as alums is just over a month away, I thought I might.
“After working in ad agencies big and small, going client-side for a short stint and starting and selling my own startup, I’ve settled back into the kind of agency I love—small, nimble and creative—at Glantz Design. I’m the proud mother of two girls and happy to be celebrating 10 years in Evanston, Illinois, where I serve also on the boards of four local nonprofits.
“I regularly keep up with a few ’94s and can report: I’m looking forward to celebrating the bat mitzvah of Elissa Slovik’s daughter Abigail this month. After completing her M.D. at Harvard, Elissa went back for her master’s of public health at the University of Michigan and now works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Whenever I get home to Colorado I see Gwin Pitman, who is in consulting with Deloitte and the mother of two little towheads.
“I also keep up with Lorien Albala Saumier, who, in addition to many duties within her community and kids, is an amazing knitter and entering her second career in insurance as she gears up to take over her family business.
“Most years we also reunion with Laura Lee (Hardegree) Davis and Kelly (Bell) Lytle. Laura keeps busy with three kids ranging in age from a teenager to a 5-year-old. She and Ken Davis live in Pennsylvania, where he also took over the family business, and they remain quite active with Dartmouth. Kelly and Rich Lytle ’93 are happily entrenched in Asheville, North Carolina, where she raises their three boys and acts as director of programs for Susan Loomis, an experiential French cooking school. Truly wish we were getting together this year, but trying to convince my family to make the trek next year.”
Which provides me with a great segue into a message from our class president, Deme (Navab) Taleghani. Since our 20th class reunion will be held next year—June 19-21, 2015, to be precise—we need your help to form a reunion committee. In Deme’s own words: “Consider volunteering with a friend. It’s not that much work and actually fun. (I should know because I chaired the last two reunions.) The College helps and provides volunteers to run the actual reunion. So don’t worry, you will not work at all during the reunion, just enjoy yourself, hang out and drink. So far we have a small group that has already agreed to be on the reunion committee: Sam Stoddard, who will serve once again as our reunion treasurer, and Laura Davis, Catherine (Adams) Stanzler, Colleen (Linehan) Haskell, Sarah Thomas, Hugh Carspecken and Marlyse Haward-Sawyer. This is a great start but we need more volunteers and still need a reunion chair to steer this amazing group of volunteers.”
If you are interested in helping, please shoot Deme an email at demetra.taleghani@gmail.com. And happy 20th!
—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suziefromer@gmail.com
