Let your dreams take flight in the new year! After happily writing an award-winning newspaper feature while concurrently working in communications for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Randy B. Young’s dream flight is the publication of his first book, And the Stars Flew with Us: Essays on the absurdity and elegance of the “Great American Family Road Trip” and a celebration of the man who steered mine. Randy invites us to “ride shotgun” as he recounts childhood family road trips traversing I-95 in their “Carolina Blue” Dodge Dart station wagon between the Berkshires of New England and their hometown of Chapel Hill. Along the way are a humorous variety of athletic, cultural, and historic stops and detours. He describes his book as “moments in time or snapshots in a photo album that you would have shared with your old college roommate.” And the Stars Flew with Us is available on Amazon.com and Bn.com. Randy also posts a blog every few weeks on his website: randy byoung.com. On a sunny September afternoon in Concord, Massachusetts, Kathy Hoes Provost tied the knot with longtime love Nick Tsantes. Classmate and Kathy’s good friend Shelley Drake-Hawks officiated. The happy couple share a passion for rowing and met each other while they were both reading The Boys in the Boat. In early October several Dartmouth friends—including Laura Stein, Susie Donovan, Michelle Ott Crookenden, Sheila Kirby Zinck, Mike Hjerpe, and Shari Nicolau Williams—joined Kathy and Nick for a post-wedding celebration in Groton, Massachusetts. Inspired by our 40th reunion last June, Tina Poulter Carrier and Anne Blanchard rounded up several ’83s for an early October “Fallapalooza” weekend in East Hampton, Massachusetts. Participating classmates included Pam Nolan Young, who recently relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts, after a few years living in Notre Dame, Indiana; Edie Schwalb Hotchkiss, a finance professor at Boston College; Robin Henning Rocchi, Pat Lippoczy Hedley, Liz Neisloss, and Dave Grubman. The crew gathered around the backyard firepit of Tina’s home Friday evening with her husband, Ian Carrier, for a chili dinner. Then many hiked Mount Tom on Saturday morning, followed by a scenic picnic at the summit. Saturday was capped off with dinner at a local eatery. Late last August more than 100 Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA) members, guests, and friends attended the third annual “BADA in Oak Bluffs” reception on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. In addition to animated conversations and networking, there were remarks from Dartmouth leaders Kimberly Juanita Brown, English and creative writing associate professor and inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life; Tuck School business administration professor Ella L.J. Bell Smith; and BADA president Maria Cole ’84. The class of ’83 was represented by Shanta Sullivan, co-secretary and executive committee member; Bruce Danziger, chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Committee of Enrollment and Admissions, and his wife, Stacey Danziger. Meanwhile, back in Hanover, Dean Cascadden proudly carried the “Dartmouth Class of 1983” banner on Dartmouth Night of Homecoming Weekend.

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