Class Note 1998
Issue
July-August 2023
So did you hear that we had a reunion? As I write this, it is a little less than two months away. But this column should run slightly after the reunion, which I bet was just smashing.
Wendy Cover is looking forward to the reunion, especially the chance to see old friends and familiar faces. She is especially excited to reunite with the crew who lived at 13 School Street senior year: Raimy Kamons, Juan Carlos Serna, Melissa Woo, Kate (Mottinger) Bjordahl, and Chris Saccardi ’97. The group is piling into a couple of houses in Grantham, New Hampshire, for the weekend.
Marlene (Sheehan) Dandler looks forward to reunion too. She owns Seashore Academy, an educational kindergarten through eighth-grade custom-schooling private academy in Southern California with four campuses and a fifth (the first to be franchised) opening in September. She and her husband, Andres Dandler ’97, raise kids Paul (18), Fiona, (16), and Jasmine (13) in Newport Beach, California. The kids take advantage of the weather and sports: tennis, rowing, sailing, and rock climbing. Marlene enjoys daily runs on the beach with girlfriends and cooking family dinners. Marlene also has seen Mary (Albert) Koenen and opined that she is the best.
Rachel (Bogardus) Drew is in charge of reunion recruitment and registration, that is, getting as many classmates as possible back to campus. When not preparing for reunion, she works as the senior research director in the public policy group at Enterprise Community Partners, where she studies the policy-based challenges and solutions to increasing the supply of affordable housing nationwide. She lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, Jonathan Drew, and their two kids.
Lea (Defrancisci) Lis wrote a book titled No Shame: Real Talk with Your Kids About Sex, Self-Confidence, and Healthy Relationships. She wrote that the book is “amazing,” and I confirmed this on Amazon, where the book has garnered an amazing 4.9 out of 5 rating. Lea just opened a psychedelic psychotherapy clinic out on Long Island, New York, in the Hamptons called Hampton Insight. She loves that she can provide cutting-edge healthcare to patients in her community.
Finally, Rob Nutt made it to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill vs. Dartmouth men’s lacrosse game. The weather was unseasonably cold, which reminded Rob of Hanover in the springtime. As for the game, Dartmouth won many battles; they won a majority of the faceoffs; but alas, they did not win the game.
Well, that is all I got. I hope you had a fantastic reunion, and if you did not attend, there is always our 30th.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com
Wendy Cover is looking forward to the reunion, especially the chance to see old friends and familiar faces. She is especially excited to reunite with the crew who lived at 13 School Street senior year: Raimy Kamons, Juan Carlos Serna, Melissa Woo, Kate (Mottinger) Bjordahl, and Chris Saccardi ’97. The group is piling into a couple of houses in Grantham, New Hampshire, for the weekend.
Marlene (Sheehan) Dandler looks forward to reunion too. She owns Seashore Academy, an educational kindergarten through eighth-grade custom-schooling private academy in Southern California with four campuses and a fifth (the first to be franchised) opening in September. She and her husband, Andres Dandler ’97, raise kids Paul (18), Fiona, (16), and Jasmine (13) in Newport Beach, California. The kids take advantage of the weather and sports: tennis, rowing, sailing, and rock climbing. Marlene enjoys daily runs on the beach with girlfriends and cooking family dinners. Marlene also has seen Mary (Albert) Koenen and opined that she is the best.
Rachel (Bogardus) Drew is in charge of reunion recruitment and registration, that is, getting as many classmates as possible back to campus. When not preparing for reunion, she works as the senior research director in the public policy group at Enterprise Community Partners, where she studies the policy-based challenges and solutions to increasing the supply of affordable housing nationwide. She lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, Jonathan Drew, and their two kids.
Lea (Defrancisci) Lis wrote a book titled No Shame: Real Talk with Your Kids About Sex, Self-Confidence, and Healthy Relationships. She wrote that the book is “amazing,” and I confirmed this on Amazon, where the book has garnered an amazing 4.9 out of 5 rating. Lea just opened a psychedelic psychotherapy clinic out on Long Island, New York, in the Hamptons called Hampton Insight. She loves that she can provide cutting-edge healthcare to patients in her community.
Finally, Rob Nutt made it to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill vs. Dartmouth men’s lacrosse game. The weather was unseasonably cold, which reminded Rob of Hanover in the springtime. As for the game, Dartmouth won many battles; they won a majority of the faceoffs; but alas, they did not win the game.
Well, that is all I got. I hope you had a fantastic reunion, and if you did not attend, there is always our 30th.
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com