Class Note 1977
Issue
July-August 2021
Jennifer Leigh Warren (known to some years ago as “Tweety”) starred in the new musical Passing Through, which tells the incredible true story of a young man who journeys on foot from Pennsylvania to California. The live production, which many classmates attended, was filmed in 2019 and streamed this spring on the Goodspeed Musicals site. Jennifer is “happy that even more people got to see this beautiful musical” and is looking ahead to when the show moves forward—we hope to Broadway.
Gina Russo, Roger Ulrich, and the director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum, John Stomberg, led a class Zoom presentation that took an inside look at the newly renovated Hood. Gina is currently the chair of the Hood board of advisors as well as board chair of the Museum Trustee Association, a national organization whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness of museum trustees. Gina and husband Tom Russo are enthusiastic art collectors. Roger joined Dartmouth’s classics department in 1989, after teaching art history at Rice University, and chaired the department from 2007 to 2012. With the help of student researchers, he is developing a website that focuses on Trajan’s Column in Rome that commemorates Emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars.
The documentary titled In a Different Key: The Movie, based on John Donvan’s 2016 book about autism, has won awards: the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Oxford Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sonoma International Film Festival.
Bets Kent will be inducted in June into the Phillips Academy Andover Athletic Hall of Honor. Bets, who rowed varsity crew at Dartmouth, was a member of the U.S. women’s 1980 Olympic rowing team. Bets has retired from Cambridge Associates and now lives with her husband, John, also an Olympic rower, in Watertown, Massachusetts. She still rows!
Susan Dentzer and Bill Greenbaum led a class Zoom panel discussion on Medicare. Susan is a senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. A longtime journalist, she has covered health policy issues, including Medicare, for almost four decades. Bill is an independent insurance broker for Medicare health insurance plans from private carriers, holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and lives with his wife in New York City.
James Mills passed away in March. He was an engineering major at Dartmouth and a member of Alpha Delta. He graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1983, served four years in the U.S. Army, and was a valued employee at the Micro Center store in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Jim’s father, Osbourne Mills ’41, and his uncle, Sandy Mills ’38, were Dartmouth graduates. He is greatly missed by siblings Osbourne Mills Jr. ’69, Margaret Mills Plumpton, and William Mills ’72.
—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
Gina Russo, Roger Ulrich, and the director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum, John Stomberg, led a class Zoom presentation that took an inside look at the newly renovated Hood. Gina is currently the chair of the Hood board of advisors as well as board chair of the Museum Trustee Association, a national organization whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness of museum trustees. Gina and husband Tom Russo are enthusiastic art collectors. Roger joined Dartmouth’s classics department in 1989, after teaching art history at Rice University, and chaired the department from 2007 to 2012. With the help of student researchers, he is developing a website that focuses on Trajan’s Column in Rome that commemorates Emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars.
The documentary titled In a Different Key: The Movie, based on John Donvan’s 2016 book about autism, has won awards: the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Oxford Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sonoma International Film Festival.
Bets Kent will be inducted in June into the Phillips Academy Andover Athletic Hall of Honor. Bets, who rowed varsity crew at Dartmouth, was a member of the U.S. women’s 1980 Olympic rowing team. Bets has retired from Cambridge Associates and now lives with her husband, John, also an Olympic rower, in Watertown, Massachusetts. She still rows!
Susan Dentzer and Bill Greenbaum led a class Zoom panel discussion on Medicare. Susan is a senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. A longtime journalist, she has covered health policy issues, including Medicare, for almost four decades. Bill is an independent insurance broker for Medicare health insurance plans from private carriers, holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and lives with his wife in New York City.
James Mills passed away in March. He was an engineering major at Dartmouth and a member of Alpha Delta. He graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1983, served four years in the U.S. Army, and was a valued employee at the Micro Center store in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Jim’s father, Osbourne Mills ’41, and his uncle, Sandy Mills ’38, were Dartmouth graduates. He is greatly missed by siblings Osbourne Mills Jr. ’69, Margaret Mills Plumpton, and William Mills ’72.
—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