Class Note 1995
Issue
March-April 2023
Nat and Jen (Chapman) Schindler and Ken and Christy (Horner) Gordon have kids who are Dartmouth-bound this fall. Way to go, Devon and Julia!
I reached out to hear more of our classmates’ plans for the big 5-0 and Pam Brockmeier responded: “Your email was the first jolt of reality I’ve felt that I’m turning 50 this year. And it made me smile (see the wrinkle lines?). Whatever I do, it will be a celebration. Not everyone gets to turn 50. Thanks for the reminder…can’t let it sneak past! As for what turning 50 means to me: It means it’s time to get serious about crafting my eccentric second half-century. I intend it to include salt water, fresh water, bicycles, and a lot of color.”
Kenneth Harker celebrated his 50th birthday by running the Chicago Marathon. “My wife, Jen (Sims) Harker ’96, son James (11), and my dad all joined me on the trip. I took up running in 2014. Before then I had never run a full kilometer nonstop. Running has changed me significantly.” Congratulations, Kenneth!
Jess Gregory, professor and interim chair of educational leadership and policy studies at Southern Connecticut State University, has no idea how she’ll mark her big birthday in July, but expects it will be with friends and family and very chill. Brian Greenberg will celebrate his 50th with friends and family on Lake Mary in Tahoe, California, at the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California cabin. He looks forward to a “weekend of food, music, canoeing, fishing, and good times.”
Daisy Florin celebrated her 50th by publishing her first novel, My Last Innocent Year, out from Henry Holt on February 14. “Some might say 50 is old to be debuting anything but I think the timing is just right. Here’s to second acts for us all!”
Shiamin Kwa also is celebrating a new book, in her case an academic publication from Rutgers University Press, Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic. Shiamin is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is also the author of Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (RIT Press, 2020).
Gonzalo Lira recently reached out from Kharkov, Ukraine, where he has lived since February 2022. He has a YouTube channel called The Roundtable with 110,000 subscribers and about 80,000 to 130,000 viewers per broadcast.
Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu
I reached out to hear more of our classmates’ plans for the big 5-0 and Pam Brockmeier responded: “Your email was the first jolt of reality I’ve felt that I’m turning 50 this year. And it made me smile (see the wrinkle lines?). Whatever I do, it will be a celebration. Not everyone gets to turn 50. Thanks for the reminder…can’t let it sneak past! As for what turning 50 means to me: It means it’s time to get serious about crafting my eccentric second half-century. I intend it to include salt water, fresh water, bicycles, and a lot of color.”
Kenneth Harker celebrated his 50th birthday by running the Chicago Marathon. “My wife, Jen (Sims) Harker ’96, son James (11), and my dad all joined me on the trip. I took up running in 2014. Before then I had never run a full kilometer nonstop. Running has changed me significantly.” Congratulations, Kenneth!
Jess Gregory, professor and interim chair of educational leadership and policy studies at Southern Connecticut State University, has no idea how she’ll mark her big birthday in July, but expects it will be with friends and family and very chill. Brian Greenberg will celebrate his 50th with friends and family on Lake Mary in Tahoe, California, at the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California cabin. He looks forward to a “weekend of food, music, canoeing, fishing, and good times.”
Daisy Florin celebrated her 50th by publishing her first novel, My Last Innocent Year, out from Henry Holt on February 14. “Some might say 50 is old to be debuting anything but I think the timing is just right. Here’s to second acts for us all!”
Shiamin Kwa also is celebrating a new book, in her case an academic publication from Rutgers University Press, Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic. Shiamin is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is also the author of Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (RIT Press, 2020).
Gonzalo Lira recently reached out from Kharkov, Ukraine, where he has lived since February 2022. He has a YouTube channel called The Roundtable with 110,000 subscribers and about 80,000 to 130,000 viewers per broadcast.
Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu