Class Note 1993
Issue
March-April 2022
Greetings, ’93s! I am hoping by publication this pervasive Omicron strain has eased (and not been replaced!) and that you and your families are healthy and well. Our fabulous social media chair Munir Haddad organized another Zoom call for us in mid-December; these gatherings are great and we encourage you all to join whenever you’re able!
Andrew Weber joined us from Shiprock, New Mexico, where he and his wife, Heather Kovich, live on the Navajo Nation reservation with their two children, ages 8 and 10. The reservation is located on the Four Corners and encompasses land in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Andrew writes outdoor Visit with Respect guidebooks, which coach travelers on how to enjoy important historical sites without damaging them. His most recent publication is Exploring Utah’s Bears Ears and Cedar Mesa. He talked us through the political ping-pong of how President Obama designated Bears Ears as a national monument, President Trump dramatically cut the monument’s size, and then President Biden restored it and even augmented the protected area. While Andrew did not ask me to do so, I will shamelessly plug a college friend and say that it is available on Amazon and has gotten great reviews! Andrew’s wife works at the hospital on the reservation, and their briefly intended stay in the area has now turned into a multi-year home with no current plans to relocate.
Kathy Vaughn again bridged the significant time change and joined us from Nairobi, Kenya, where she has been for more than 15 years with her partner, Silla Mullei ’95, and their 9- and 13-year-old children. Kathy has had quite the international exposure, having done her formative schooling in Tokyo before coming to Hanover. Her children are now participating in “democratic learning” online, which she describes as a project-based approach to learning where every term is different. Kathy is trained in the field of education but is currently working outside of the classroom.
Also joining us from afar was Miller McCord from Rome, Italy. Miller was based in San Diego, where she spent 19 years working for a nonprofit. She then headed east to spend three years sailing in the Caribbean and now lives in Rome with her partner, somewhere in the vicinity of his family’s home and 700-plus olive trees. Sounds fabulous!
Taking the time change in the other direction, Lisa Overton joined us from Alameda, California. Lisa is a management consultant who was previously downtown in San Francisco but moved to a more spacious setting once it was clear that Covid wasn’t going anywhere quickly. She has been shifting her focus to more nonprofit work and is currently doing a lot with First Book here in Washington, D.C. First Book’s website (firstbook.org) describes its mission as “Building a path out of poverty through educational equity.”
Finally, Doug Chia had exciting news to share: The first of his two sets of girl-boy twins (yes, you read that correctly!) are ’25s! They did have first-year trips, although a highly modified version after several of the trip leaders came down with Covid right before departure, and a Homecoming bonfire (with actual safety regulations—oh, my!). They are living in the Choate and River clusters, and his son is rowing lightweight crew. We were all excited for them, and I’m sure I was not alone in being envious of them just beginning their Dartmouth journey!
Keep our Dartmouth journeys alive by sending your news to Dwight or me! Cheers!
—Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu; Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021; dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu
Andrew Weber joined us from Shiprock, New Mexico, where he and his wife, Heather Kovich, live on the Navajo Nation reservation with their two children, ages 8 and 10. The reservation is located on the Four Corners and encompasses land in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Andrew writes outdoor Visit with Respect guidebooks, which coach travelers on how to enjoy important historical sites without damaging them. His most recent publication is Exploring Utah’s Bears Ears and Cedar Mesa. He talked us through the political ping-pong of how President Obama designated Bears Ears as a national monument, President Trump dramatically cut the monument’s size, and then President Biden restored it and even augmented the protected area. While Andrew did not ask me to do so, I will shamelessly plug a college friend and say that it is available on Amazon and has gotten great reviews! Andrew’s wife works at the hospital on the reservation, and their briefly intended stay in the area has now turned into a multi-year home with no current plans to relocate.
Kathy Vaughn again bridged the significant time change and joined us from Nairobi, Kenya, where she has been for more than 15 years with her partner, Silla Mullei ’95, and their 9- and 13-year-old children. Kathy has had quite the international exposure, having done her formative schooling in Tokyo before coming to Hanover. Her children are now participating in “democratic learning” online, which she describes as a project-based approach to learning where every term is different. Kathy is trained in the field of education but is currently working outside of the classroom.
Also joining us from afar was Miller McCord from Rome, Italy. Miller was based in San Diego, where she spent 19 years working for a nonprofit. She then headed east to spend three years sailing in the Caribbean and now lives in Rome with her partner, somewhere in the vicinity of his family’s home and 700-plus olive trees. Sounds fabulous!
Taking the time change in the other direction, Lisa Overton joined us from Alameda, California. Lisa is a management consultant who was previously downtown in San Francisco but moved to a more spacious setting once it was clear that Covid wasn’t going anywhere quickly. She has been shifting her focus to more nonprofit work and is currently doing a lot with First Book here in Washington, D.C. First Book’s website (firstbook.org) describes its mission as “Building a path out of poverty through educational equity.”
Finally, Doug Chia had exciting news to share: The first of his two sets of girl-boy twins (yes, you read that correctly!) are ’25s! They did have first-year trips, although a highly modified version after several of the trip leaders came down with Covid right before departure, and a Homecoming bonfire (with actual safety regulations—oh, my!). They are living in the Choate and River clusters, and his son is rowing lightweight crew. We were all excited for them, and I’m sure I was not alone in being envious of them just beginning their Dartmouth journey!
Keep our Dartmouth journeys alive by sending your news to Dwight or me! Cheers!
—Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu; Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021; dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu