Lucy Townsend is a caterer and event planner in Cooperstown, New York, looking forward to serving Derek Jeter when he is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer. Her largest event, “Belgium Comes to Cooperstown,” featured a plated eight-course dinner for 800 guests. Her most stressful event was a lobster bake for 100 people. One propane burner broke down and she was able to manage only four lobsters at a time, while clams, potatoes, and corn steamed in a convection oven. Her most memorable compliment came from Jacqueline Onassis: “Lunch was divine!” The key to success: “Stay calm when you’re not.”

The Wall Street Journal named two Kimbell Art Museum projects in its Top 10 U.S. art exhibitions of 2019. Critic Karen Wilkin listed Renoir: The Body, The Senses and Monet: The Late Years as two of the most striking and compelling exhibitions of the year. George Shackelford organized both shows. The Renoir exhibit gave viewers the opportunity “to savor [Renoir’s]…marriage of inventive color and mass.” The Monet exhibit was the highest-attended exhibition at the Kimbell in two decades.

The Washington Post featured a lengthy, front-page profile of Diana Taylor in its style section. The article focused on “her personal stature, her formidable resume, and her independence” on the campaign trail for former mayor Mike Bloomberg. The piece offered a unique view into one woman’s personal and professional journey at a time of fundamental change in our society. The essay touched on Diana’s Dartmouth experience (“I absolutely loved it; but it was hard.”) as well as her career and charitable activities since college. To read the article, search for our classmate’s name at washingtonpost.com.

Aimee Ballantyne is the CEO of her own company, called Friends in Stitches Recovery Bee, LLC. Its mission is to recycle fabrics and return to traditional values such as hand-sewing. The online website, friendsinstichesrecoverybee.com, keeps the community informed about the business with no carbon footprint. Aimee operates the business out of the house she co-owns with classmate Wayne Ballantyne. She plows every penny she makes back into the company. It stays solvent by sending many prints right back into the community in the form of cottons delivered to local dog groomers, who cut them into bandanas for newly groomed pooches.

We have recently learned that Linda Peppard Hart-Buuck died in January 2019. After Dartmouth, where she was a proud member of the ski team, she earned master’s degrees in anthropology and special education, worked in special education, and was an avid community volunteer, all the while raising three sons on her own due to the sudden death of her first husband, Glen Hart. Her bubbly personality and ever-present smile eventually drew the attention of Charlie Buuck, whom she happily wed in 2007. One fellow member of the ski team described Linda as “the epitome of tenacity and optimism.” Friends say Linda lived every day to the absolute fullest and was an inspiration to all.

— Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, DC Advisory, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton.com