Thatcher Wine was featured in The New York Times last year for his work assembling custom book collections and creating “decorative book solutions” for interior designers, homeowners, visual merchandisers, set designers and businesses. In addition to helping book owners fill in their collections he also designs and prints custom book jackets and covers for collections, whether they were lovingly amassed over the years by booklovers or just hardcover overstocks wrapped for visual appeal. Thatcher’s work can be found in some of the world’s finest homes, hotels, retail stores, restaurants and even yachts. In case you’re looking to start or add to your own literary collection, Thatcher also sells books at his Juniper Books warehouse in Boulder, Colorado. For more information or some beautiful photos of his work, visit http://juniperbooks.com. I seem to be one of the last kindle/nook holdouts, so I really appreciated the artful displays on Thatcher’s bookshelves, including a stunning Christmas tree made up of repurposed, carved law books for his company’s last holiday party.


I also heard from George Fesus ’64 that his daughter Katie (Fesus) Zanto was chosen as a recipient of L.L. Bean’s “Outdoor Hero” award for her work in founding and running Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC), based in Truckee, California. Fueled by her dedication to both education and the environment, Katie’s idea in founding ARC was to incorporate wilderness challenges into a literacy and leadership curriculum in order to raise the aspirations of California high school students. Thanks to ARC, hundreds of teens from immigrant families have improved their reading and writing skills while also experiencing the outdoors—some for the first time. Katie put her master’s from Stanford in curriculum development together with her 10-plus years experience as an Outward Bound instructor to develop ARC, which has proven to be a life-changing program. Seven years after its start ARC enrollees have both passed their high school exit exams and enrolled in college at higher rates than their non-participating classmates. ARC gives teens access to a 40-day summer course as well as weekend retreats that combine an English curriculum that includes journaling, public speaking and poetry with backpacking, kayaking and rafting. I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems most fitting that this amazing organization was created by a Dartmouth alum, and I’m very impressed—so glad L.L. Bean saw fit to honor her, and that her father sent the news to me to share. For more information on Katie’s organization, visit arcprogram.org.


I’m also pleased to report that Lexie Riley Bonitatibus has had a third child, son Peter Cesidio Stephen Bonitatibus. Congratulations to Lexie and her family up in Saratoga Springs, New York.


And I’m extremely happy to announce that we have two new class of ’94 newsletter editors, Terry Boyle and Jessica Cormier. Don’t forget to update them on your news, news of your fellow ’94s, news of your Dartmouth gatherings large and small and, most importantly, pictures! Unlike the DAM column—which is severely limited in length and cannot accommodate any photos—the newsletter is the perfect place to share pictures of your accomplishments and families with your classmates. Good luck and thank you to our new newsletter editors! Terry can be reached at tboyle@landvest.com and Jessica can be reached at jessicacormier94@gmail.com or you can send news to them online through our class website’s online Green Card at www.dartmouth94.org/index.php?r=6.


—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suziefromer@gmail.com