Class Note 1995

I hope this column finds you sipping lemonade and enjoying a beautiful summer day. Kick back, relax and read up on some of our fellow ’95s. 


After many years in the Upper Valley Kisha Teaney Weiser has moved to Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, Dan, and their beautiful twin girls Sophie and Emma, who will turn 6 in October. She is practicing medicine with Asheville Gastroenterology Associates and the family is really enjoying life down south. David Shamberger is a new partner at Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston and is a member of the firm’s corporate, finance, life sciences and securities groups. Dan Glazer also recently made partner in his firm, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where he focuses his practice on intellectual property and technology transactions. Dan is particularly recognized for his work in sports law and you may have heard him on any number of national media outlets—from ESPN to CNN to NPR—as a commentator on legal issues in professional and college sports. Chris Hamner’s new book Enduring Battle: American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945 was published by Kansas Press in April. The book examines combat behaviors of soldiers in the Revolutionary, Civil and Second World wars and looks like a fascinating read. Chris is an associate professor of history at George Mason University.


While we’re on the subject of new books to check out on Amazon, back in 1995, Andrea Useem won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics for her essay “Towards a Civil Society: Memory, History, and the Enola Gay.” This piece has now been published in a collection of ethics prize essays titled An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century. Andrea is a correspondent for the Religion News Service (www.religionnews.com) and she and her family live in northern Virginia, where she is a member of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. 


I’m adding a new feature this issue that I think I’ll call the “Random ’95 Midnight-Before-Deadline Google Report” (R95MBDG for short). Kicking off this feature are two bloggers in our ranks: Daisy Alpert Florin and Eric Waters. Daisy is a fabulous mom who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband of 10 years, Ken, and her kids Sam, Ellie and Oliver. She writes an insightful, honest and humorous blog about life as an at-home mom titled “Days Like This (And Other Things Mama Said).” Check it out at www.daisyalpertflorin.com. Eric Waters is a Lutheran pastor at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio. He is married to his college sweetheart Michelle Erickson Waters ’96, who is homeschooling their five children and is the author of Forty Days and Forty Nights: Devotions for New Mothers and Through the Clouds: More Devotions for Moms. You can read Eric’s reflections on faith and life and hear his sermons at waterseric.blogspot.com. I also learned in my midnight surfing that Gina Vetere is the executive director of intellectual property promotion for the Global Intellectual Property Center of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Brad Backus is a research fellow at the UCL Ear Institute in London and owns a consumer electronics company called Audio3. (Brad, I hope you’re still finding time to dance too!)


Finally, we can’t have a column go by without some baby news! Rebecca Slisz and her husband, Steve Blank ’89, are pleased to announce the birth of their son Jordan Eli Blank, born Thursday, January 27, at 11:25 a.m. He is a very healthy baby who weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches. Congratulations!


Keep your news coming!


—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum. dartmouth.org