Class Note 2000
Issue
September-October 2023
Greetings from Karen Liot Hill, guest editor for this column.
Give a rouse for David Schleicher, who recently published In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises with Oxford University Press. Currently a professor at Yale Law School, David’s book provides the first comprehensive historical and theoretical analysis of how the federal government has addressed city and state debt crises. Puts me right back to senior year and the quality time I spent in the stacks working on my govy thesis!
Did you see the February Dartmouth Alumni Newsarticle about Big Green love stories? One of the sweet stories is Jay Artz and Laura Zoeller Artz, who met freshman year and married on campus in 2002. They celebrated their 20th anniversary last summer in Maui, Hawaii, and by the time this issue comes out it will be time to congratulate them on their 21st anniversary.
Kim Keith Bergland is now vice president of development for Disney Jr. She announced recently that she has been working on an upcoming series, The Little Mermaid. “We’ve taken Ariel back in time to when she was 8 and still full of curiosity and adventure (and Sebastian is still trying to keep up with her!). It was a blast helping to build the world and characters—old and new. It’s coming to your screens in the near future.”
I ran into Ross Fenderson during the winter when he was doing some business in the Upper Valley at King Arthur Flour. He is currently general manager for Bay State Milling Co., which was named one of the “2023 Best Managed Companies” in the eastern United States by Deloitte. Ross is also busy with kids’ activities and volunteering in the community. He has served on the board of the Sara Holbrook Community Center in Vermont’s Chittenden County for 10 years—doing good work in the Northeast!
Speaking of the Northeast, I enjoyed Jenny Platt Toyohara’s skiing pics on social media this winter. From Mont Tremblant in Canada to the mountains of Vermont, she and her kids had fun on the slopes! Jenny is currently president of the Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology and is a strong advocate for skin health. Safe to say that Jenny would want us all to wear sunscreen!
My teenager, Zoe, and I did a college visit road trip during spring break and spent a wonderful day with Hoi Ning Ngai at Bates College, where she is the director of employer engagement and business advising at the Bates Center for Purposeful Work. Walking around the Bates campus with Hoi Ning made me very sentimental for those early days at Dartmouth. Do you remember doing college visits with your parents?
Life is good in the Upper Valley. I was recently elected to my 10th term on the Lebanon city council, where I have made economic development, sustainability, and social justice my focus during the past two decades. Soon it will be time to move on to another challenge, but for now there is plenty more work to do at the local level.
If you are doing college visits with your teenagers, I’d love to hear from you. And if you visit Dartmouth, I’d love to catch up when you’re in Hanover! You can reach me at karenliothill@gmail.com
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com
Give a rouse for David Schleicher, who recently published In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises with Oxford University Press. Currently a professor at Yale Law School, David’s book provides the first comprehensive historical and theoretical analysis of how the federal government has addressed city and state debt crises. Puts me right back to senior year and the quality time I spent in the stacks working on my govy thesis!
Did you see the February Dartmouth Alumni Newsarticle about Big Green love stories? One of the sweet stories is Jay Artz and Laura Zoeller Artz, who met freshman year and married on campus in 2002. They celebrated their 20th anniversary last summer in Maui, Hawaii, and by the time this issue comes out it will be time to congratulate them on their 21st anniversary.
Kim Keith Bergland is now vice president of development for Disney Jr. She announced recently that she has been working on an upcoming series, The Little Mermaid. “We’ve taken Ariel back in time to when she was 8 and still full of curiosity and adventure (and Sebastian is still trying to keep up with her!). It was a blast helping to build the world and characters—old and new. It’s coming to your screens in the near future.”
I ran into Ross Fenderson during the winter when he was doing some business in the Upper Valley at King Arthur Flour. He is currently general manager for Bay State Milling Co., which was named one of the “2023 Best Managed Companies” in the eastern United States by Deloitte. Ross is also busy with kids’ activities and volunteering in the community. He has served on the board of the Sara Holbrook Community Center in Vermont’s Chittenden County for 10 years—doing good work in the Northeast!
Speaking of the Northeast, I enjoyed Jenny Platt Toyohara’s skiing pics on social media this winter. From Mont Tremblant in Canada to the mountains of Vermont, she and her kids had fun on the slopes! Jenny is currently president of the Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology and is a strong advocate for skin health. Safe to say that Jenny would want us all to wear sunscreen!
My teenager, Zoe, and I did a college visit road trip during spring break and spent a wonderful day with Hoi Ning Ngai at Bates College, where she is the director of employer engagement and business advising at the Bates Center for Purposeful Work. Walking around the Bates campus with Hoi Ning made me very sentimental for those early days at Dartmouth. Do you remember doing college visits with your parents?
Life is good in the Upper Valley. I was recently elected to my 10th term on the Lebanon city council, where I have made economic development, sustainability, and social justice my focus during the past two decades. Soon it will be time to move on to another challenge, but for now there is plenty more work to do at the local level.
If you are doing college visits with your teenagers, I’d love to hear from you. And if you visit Dartmouth, I’d love to catch up when you’re in Hanover! You can reach me at karenliothill@gmail.com
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com