It’s the end of February and there’s snow in the hills of San Diego but none in Hanover or the Sierras. Such a strange winter it’s been. I’ve thankfully been sent a few small bits of news so that we can have a column this month! Thanks, contributors!


Arvo Mikkanen received the 2011 Exceptional Service Award from the National Association of Former United States Attorneys. Arvo has been an assistant U.S. attorney in the western district of Oklahoma for more than 17 years and actively prosecutes criminal cases in its violent crime division. He formerly was in private law practice, taught as an adjunct law professor and served as a tribal court judge.


An ’83 micro-reunion took place at Chez Ted Demopolous for New Year’s Eve, with Chef Ted cooking some strange stuff and taking everyone on a tour of different champagnes. The jeroboam of champagne was fun (that means big bottle). In attendance were Miko Behn, Michelle “Veronica” Jodoin, Jeff Stanton, Alan Talbot, Susie Monagan, Dave “Cornelius” Bannon, Anne Hopkins ’85, Rick Bercovitz ’82 and Pat Gallager ’81 amongst others. Another micro-reunion took place in New Orleans in January. Lolly Jewett, Kathy Bachelder Coster, Peggy Gilges, Loren Bachelder Wright, Peggy Gilges, Jenny Norman, Martha Sundberg Harfiel and Beth Winnick Falcone have sworn themselves to secrecy about the events. 


Bill Scoville sent us his Christmas letter, which was a great way to let us know what’s going on in his world. His daughter Sara is now a freshman at Summit High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and son Michael graduated from Summit and is now a freshman at Villanova, where oldest daughter Katie is a junior majoring in communications (what a bonus: half the checks, twice the cost!). Bill celebrated 20 years with Shaw/IT Corp. by breaking his wrist (got a little over-aggressive on tree trimming).


Bill also generously gave us the scoop on his twin brother Jim: He’s still in London and is a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton. His oldest son is a ’12 at Dartmouth and a member of Zeta Psi. He has a 14-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter who looks and sounds like British royalty.


Caryn “C.C.” Ginsberg recently gave a talk at Dartmouth sharing highlights of her new book, Animal Impact: Secrets Proven to Achieve Results and Move the World. The book describes a system to help advocates get better results and highlights stories, examples, and tips that show effective advocacy in action. The book stems from C.C.’s decade of experience helping nonprofits enhance their effectiveness by applying business principles. C.C. is the founder of Priority Ventures Group LLC and has more than 10 years of experience using proven practices to help individuals and organizations get better results for animals. Her clients include the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States, PetSmart Charities, Farm Sanctuary and Humane Farm Animal Care. She has taught for Humane Society University as well as in the M.B.A. program for Johns Hopkins University.


By the time you read this column we will have had mini-reunions in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. (And we’ll have all kinds of exciting news for next time!) If you’d like to hold a mini-reunion in your area, let us know and we’ll do all the work for you (well, almost!). Also, if you’re not getting a monthly e-mail from Becky Ankeny, it means that we don’t have your e-mail address. (We’re missing e-mail addresses from almost half the class.) If you’re one of the missing, and want to be found, please let me know. Until next time, forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com