If you haven’t heard already, its time to register for our 30th reunion. Yes, it’s been 30 years since we graduated! I’m sure that you have all had plenty of changes in that time span! “Together Again” in 2013 will celebrate those 30 years and our four years in Hanover. If you haven’t registered already, do so now! Go to our newly revamped class website at http://dartmouth.org/classes/83. 


Keith Moskow is in the news again. As part of a continuing slate of public art installations during Dartmouth’s Year of the Arts, a piece by Keith, Ice Chimes, has been placed outside the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. The 20-foot-tall sculpture is a weather-responsive musical sculpture that creates sounds from collected ice and snow. Keith and his partner Robert Linn designed Ice Chimes for the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston, where it was installed last winter. It is now on loan to Dartmouth for this winter. The sculpture is constructed of heavy timbers that are bolted together. A perforated canopy on top of the Ice Chimes catches precipitation, and heating coils then melt the collected snow and freezing rain. This liquid drips down through a grid of holes onto suspended metal rods, forming icicles on the rods. The rods sway in the wind, clinking and chiming, until the icicles break off and fall into the metal collection bucket below, which amplifies the sound and causes reverberations. Keith and his wife, Alison ’85, live in Norwich, Vermont, and their son Zach is a 2014. Keith lives too close to Hanover to not attend our reunion. 


David Wallinga, M.D., M.P.A., is senior advisor in science, food and health at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. David is among the leading science and policy experts applying a health lens to our food system—the food we eat, plus the ways in which it’s produced, processed, packaged and distributed in today’s globalized economy. After graduating from Dartmouth he received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and a master’s from Princeton University. I recently read a blog that David wrote about the dangers of antibiotics in our foods. Scary stuff! He is also part of consumer education/advocacy group called Keep Antibiotics Working. 


Jim Ventre has been named Phillips Academy’s dean of admission and will continue to oversee the financial aid program at Andover. All sorts of nice things were said about Jimmy in the press release that I received, and all are well deserved. Apparently Jim is one of the most highly regarded financial aid directors among independent schools. He was instrumental in making Andover become a need-blind school and played a major role in the campaign for Andover, which raised more than $92 million for financial aid. I hope this new position allows him enough time off to get up to Hanover for our reunion!


In the arts realm, we have lots of news. As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now (because you are all on Facebook and like the Dartmouth class of 1983), Lisa Feinberg Densmore’s movie, Passion for Snow, premiered to a full house at Winter Carnival. The film traces the more than 100-year history of skiing at Dartmouth. Lisa Tromovitch has been elected the vice president of the International Shakespeare Organization. And, Jeanne Hanff Korelitz’s novel, Admission, is now a movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. 


See you all in June in Hanover. Together again!


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com