Class Note 1998
Issue
March-April 2023
Toshiaki Komura shared two important updates. First, he and wife Kelly had a baby in January 2022. Baby Emily joined big sister Lily, age 9. Second, Toshiaki’s book Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracing Inaccessible Grief from Stevens to Post-9/11 won the American Literary Society of Japan’s book prize in October 2021.
Tracy Van Dorpe is still living outside of Boston, in Arlington, Massachusetts, which made it easy for her to attend two ’98 mini-reunions in October.
Chris Egan, Dune Thorne, and Jojo (Blaxall) Lognecker hosted one, where Tracy caught up with Lia Monahon, Yuri Feldman, and Matthew Blanton. Tracy and Lia shared memories of their foreign study abroad in Toulouse, France. Yuri is spending one week per month in Boston with a new job, commuting from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Matthew continues to teach at Milton Academy and shared insight into the mental health crisis facing teens, an issue Dartmouth is trying to get a handle on too.
The second reunion was hosted by Shirley (Sperling) Paley, Rachel (Bogardus) Drew, and Carline (Dorcena) Durocher out in the Boston suburbs. Here Tracy caught up with Justin Littlefield, who had just returned from a jam band concert in Seattle. Tracy also spoke to Will Scarbrough about his son’s first year at university. Tracy could not believe that a classmate’s kid is in college.
Speaking of Will, he has twin 19-year-old sons. Rhys and Neo have been figuring out college and adulting in Denmark and Connecticut. A third son, Tate, is a 15-year-old sophomore in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts. Will and wife Jodi are looking ahead to being empty-nesters in a few years and hope to travel to biking destinations around the world. Will continues to build data and analytics teams in the built environment and education industries. And with the pandemic easing up, Will and family managed to take a trip to South Africa to see family.
Finally, during the Thanksgiving holiday my family visited the Washington, D.C., area, where we saw Dave Ware, Dan Kerzner, Charles Davant, and their families. We met at Dave’s house in Alexandria, Virginia. Dave was hosting the pie breakfast, an annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition where friends bring pies and gather at Dave’s to mingle and to feast. Dave had also just been named partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com
Tracy Van Dorpe is still living outside of Boston, in Arlington, Massachusetts, which made it easy for her to attend two ’98 mini-reunions in October.
Chris Egan, Dune Thorne, and Jojo (Blaxall) Lognecker hosted one, where Tracy caught up with Lia Monahon, Yuri Feldman, and Matthew Blanton. Tracy and Lia shared memories of their foreign study abroad in Toulouse, France. Yuri is spending one week per month in Boston with a new job, commuting from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Matthew continues to teach at Milton Academy and shared insight into the mental health crisis facing teens, an issue Dartmouth is trying to get a handle on too.
The second reunion was hosted by Shirley (Sperling) Paley, Rachel (Bogardus) Drew, and Carline (Dorcena) Durocher out in the Boston suburbs. Here Tracy caught up with Justin Littlefield, who had just returned from a jam band concert in Seattle. Tracy also spoke to Will Scarbrough about his son’s first year at university. Tracy could not believe that a classmate’s kid is in college.
Speaking of Will, he has twin 19-year-old sons. Rhys and Neo have been figuring out college and adulting in Denmark and Connecticut. A third son, Tate, is a 15-year-old sophomore in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts. Will and wife Jodi are looking ahead to being empty-nesters in a few years and hope to travel to biking destinations around the world. Will continues to build data and analytics teams in the built environment and education industries. And with the pandemic easing up, Will and family managed to take a trip to South Africa to see family.
Finally, during the Thanksgiving holiday my family visited the Washington, D.C., area, where we saw Dave Ware, Dan Kerzner, Charles Davant, and their families. We met at Dave’s house in Alexandria, Virginia. Dave was hosting the pie breakfast, an annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition where friends bring pies and gather at Dave’s to mingle and to feast. Dave had also just been named partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com