Class Note 1998
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
Hello, ’98s.
Kicking things off this month, congratulations are definitely in order for Steve Zrike Jr., who made headlines in the Massachusetts press earlier this summer for his appointment as the receiver for the Holyoke, Massachusetts, public school system. At the time of his appointment Steve was superintendent of the Wakefield, Massachusetts, public schools. Steve has had a long career focused on school improvement in both the Boston and Chicago areas, which makes him eminently qualified for this latest challenge. Here’s wishing Steve great success in his latest endeavor!
If you all are anything like me, the summer is a great opportunity to get together with old Dartmouth friends. I was recently thrilled to spend a couple of days in Philadelphia with Ben Cooperberg and his family. Ben, his wife and four children live outside of Philadelphia, where Ben is an endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. And just as this magazine is arriving in mailboxes, my family and I are looking forward to spending Labor Day weekend down in the Maryland-D.C. area with Jeff Giuffrida and his family. And back in June I had the pleasure of seeing Noah Schneiderman, Yuri Feldman, Jay Park and Steve Oh as we got together to reminisce about our dear friend and fellow ’98 David Pichler, who passed away way too soon, at the age of 34, back in 2011. As some of you may know a scholarship fund in David’s memory was established shortly after his passing that provides a yearly award of $5,000 to a deserving graduating student from Stuyvesant High School in New York (David’s alma mater) who is attending Dartmouth. The aforementioned gentlemen and I had the pleasure of meeting the 2015 winner of the scholarship award and presenting him with the check in a brief ceremony in New York. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in making a (fully tax deductible) contribution in David’s memory to his scholarship fund, please contact me at my email address below and I can get you further information.
And while we’re on the topic, I would encourage you to take a moment from time to time to think fondly not only of David but of the other ’98s who have passed away way too soon since our time together in Hanover, including Joe Nagraj and Nicole Wiley. While I try to use this space to share happy news as much as possible, I think this is also a good forum to remember our classmates who are gone but should never be forgotten.
With that I will bid everyone adieu for a few more weeks. Looking forward to hearing from as many of you as possible between now and this fall! Please send me a note with anything going on in your lives that you’d like to share (work, personal or otherwise) and I’d be happy to share it in this space!
—Jeffrey Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com
Kicking things off this month, congratulations are definitely in order for Steve Zrike Jr., who made headlines in the Massachusetts press earlier this summer for his appointment as the receiver for the Holyoke, Massachusetts, public school system. At the time of his appointment Steve was superintendent of the Wakefield, Massachusetts, public schools. Steve has had a long career focused on school improvement in both the Boston and Chicago areas, which makes him eminently qualified for this latest challenge. Here’s wishing Steve great success in his latest endeavor!
If you all are anything like me, the summer is a great opportunity to get together with old Dartmouth friends. I was recently thrilled to spend a couple of days in Philadelphia with Ben Cooperberg and his family. Ben, his wife and four children live outside of Philadelphia, where Ben is an endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. And just as this magazine is arriving in mailboxes, my family and I are looking forward to spending Labor Day weekend down in the Maryland-D.C. area with Jeff Giuffrida and his family. And back in June I had the pleasure of seeing Noah Schneiderman, Yuri Feldman, Jay Park and Steve Oh as we got together to reminisce about our dear friend and fellow ’98 David Pichler, who passed away way too soon, at the age of 34, back in 2011. As some of you may know a scholarship fund in David’s memory was established shortly after his passing that provides a yearly award of $5,000 to a deserving graduating student from Stuyvesant High School in New York (David’s alma mater) who is attending Dartmouth. The aforementioned gentlemen and I had the pleasure of meeting the 2015 winner of the scholarship award and presenting him with the check in a brief ceremony in New York. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in making a (fully tax deductible) contribution in David’s memory to his scholarship fund, please contact me at my email address below and I can get you further information.
And while we’re on the topic, I would encourage you to take a moment from time to time to think fondly not only of David but of the other ’98s who have passed away way too soon since our time together in Hanover, including Joe Nagraj and Nicole Wiley. While I try to use this space to share happy news as much as possible, I think this is also a good forum to remember our classmates who are gone but should never be forgotten.
With that I will bid everyone adieu for a few more weeks. Looking forward to hearing from as many of you as possible between now and this fall! Please send me a note with anything going on in your lives that you’d like to share (work, personal or otherwise) and I’d be happy to share it in this space!
—Jeffrey Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com