Class Note 1995
Issue
And now a word from Natalie Herring, our class president: “As you may know our 15th reunion is coming up next year—Friday, June 18, through Sunday, June 20, 2010. Many thanks go out to Lou Spelios for agreeing to chair the reunion committee. Thank you also to the following classmates who have agreed to serve as committee members: Corey Fleming Hirokawa, Judi Flynn-Echeverria, Cliff Weiss and Anne Hawk LeClercq.
“I have posted several items to the existing Dartmouth class of 1995 Facebook page, which has 195 members. I would encourage all of you who are not in the group (or on Facebook) to get on and to encourage others to get on. Please check the topics on the discussion board and sign up to help if you can. You can reply to me via Facebook or at 1995dc@gmail.com.
“Current executive committee openings include newsletter editor, Webmaster and nominating committee. If you are interested in one of these positions or in serving as an officer or on the executive committee from 2010-15, just let me know.
“We have also set up monthly conference calls; they are listed on Facebook. Please schedule them into your calendar.
“Please also note that the e-mail account 1995dc@gmail.com or ‘The Great Dartmouth Class of 1995’ is not spam. I sent a brief, fun questionnaire to the entire class and would love to hear from you so we can include your updates in upcoming newsletters. Be sure to update your e-mail address with the College and look for those e-mails.
“Many thanks to Sarah Kim (Boston) and James ‘Trip’ Von Rittmann ’95 (San Francisco) for agreeing to help host mini-reunions in their areas. If anyone in those areas would like to help or if you would like to head up an effort in your area, please let me know.
“If you consider yourself Mr. or Mrs. Popularity, a social butterfly, well-connected and in the know, i.e., you tweet often, are LinkedIn and MySpace is your space, you can help us reach out to our class and drum up interest in our 15th reunion. I would like at least one reunion rouser from Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association; Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association; Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association; Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth; and Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni, among others, to call, e-mail and contact classmates to make sure we hit our attendance goal of 366 classmates. This would be a new record for us and would represent 34 percent of our class. (Thirty-three percent of us attended our fifth and 28 percent of us attended our 10th.)”
Finally, a few personal notes. Congratulations to Yona Billington on her M.S. from Stanford and new post as global marketing manager for Byetta in London for Eli Lilly, to Candace Howell on her new home and to Evelyn (Waters) Brady on her 13th wedding anniversary to Dr. Drew Amin Brady ’96. Hope you all are well. Stay in touch!
—Alex (Morgan) Mareiniss, 100 Lancefield Road, Baltimore, MD 21209; alexmareiniss@yahoo.com
Sept - Oct 2009
And now a word from Natalie Herring, our class president: “As you may know our 15th reunion is coming up next year—Friday, June 18, through Sunday, June 20, 2010. Many thanks go out to Lou Spelios for agreeing to chair the reunion committee. Thank you also to the following classmates who have agreed to serve as committee members: Corey Fleming Hirokawa, Judi Flynn-Echeverria, Cliff Weiss and Anne Hawk LeClercq.
“I have posted several items to the existing Dartmouth class of 1995 Facebook page, which has 195 members. I would encourage all of you who are not in the group (or on Facebook) to get on and to encourage others to get on. Please check the topics on the discussion board and sign up to help if you can. You can reply to me via Facebook or at 1995dc@gmail.com.
“Current executive committee openings include newsletter editor, Webmaster and nominating committee. If you are interested in one of these positions or in serving as an officer or on the executive committee from 2010-15, just let me know.
“We have also set up monthly conference calls; they are listed on Facebook. Please schedule them into your calendar.
“Please also note that the e-mail account 1995dc@gmail.com or ‘The Great Dartmouth Class of 1995’ is not spam. I sent a brief, fun questionnaire to the entire class and would love to hear from you so we can include your updates in upcoming newsletters. Be sure to update your e-mail address with the College and look for those e-mails.
“Many thanks to Sarah Kim (Boston) and James ‘Trip’ Von Rittmann ’95 (San Francisco) for agreeing to help host mini-reunions in their areas. If anyone in those areas would like to help or if you would like to head up an effort in your area, please let me know.
“If you consider yourself Mr. or Mrs. Popularity, a social butterfly, well-connected and in the know, i.e., you tweet often, are LinkedIn and MySpace is your space, you can help us reach out to our class and drum up interest in our 15th reunion. I would like at least one reunion rouser from Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association; Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association; Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association; Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth; and Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni, among others, to call, e-mail and contact classmates to make sure we hit our attendance goal of 366 classmates. This would be a new record for us and would represent 34 percent of our class. (Thirty-three percent of us attended our fifth and 28 percent of us attended our 10th.)”
Finally, a few personal notes. Congratulations to Yona Billington on her M.S. from Stanford and new post as global marketing manager for Byetta in London for Eli Lilly, to Candace Howell on her new home and to Evelyn (Waters) Brady on her 13th wedding anniversary to Dr. Drew Amin Brady ’96. Hope you all are well. Stay in touch!
—Alex (Morgan) Mareiniss, 100 Lancefield Road, Baltimore, MD 21209; alexmareiniss@yahoo.com