Class Note 1981
Issue
November-December 2025
Class Note 1981. Greetings! Howard Morse and I are pleased to begin our term as your new class cosecretaries, to serve until our 50th (!) reunion. Please send us updates, anecdotes, brags—the works. Otherwise, we’ll invent stories. Meanwhile, huge thanks to Ann Jacobus and Emil Miskovsky for serving as secretaries so well for so long.
As a new officer, I’ve learned some new things about our class of 1981 initiatives. If you, like me, could use a reminder, here goes.
Chris Morrison heads up Compassio, which helps classmates support one another. Chris notes that our reunion demonstrated “how much we have to offer each other as classmates. And it’s the reason we started Compassio a few years ago—to remind everyone that we have a mechanism for classmates to give and to receive, answering President Kemeny’s charge ‘to make this a better world, a more compassionate world, for all of us.’ For those who are in need, whatever that need may be, please let us know. We’ve helped classmates find lodging after natural disasters, connected classmates who needed help with those who could provide resources for some of the challenges many of us now face, etc. Your request is completely confidential and shared only with your permission to someone that can lend support. We are here for each other—please reach out if you are in need: compassio81@gmail.com.”
Julie Koeninger and Molly Sundberg Van Metre manage our five class projects, including two undergraduate internships funded by class dues. We support Rockefeller interns who work with organizations in public policy, public affairs, and social entrepreneurship as well as internships through the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
One former Dickey intern, Francisco Silveira Azar ’27 from Rio de Janeiro, recently thanked the class for funding his internship with Le Refuge in Paris. He wrote, “My work at Le Refuge has shown me that there are a lot of good people doing incredible work in all corners of the world. From Dartmouth to Paris and back to Dartmouth, I continue fighting for a just world in which we can all be free to fulfill our full potential. It is incredible to go on this journey knowing that I am backed by your class.”
To learn more about our class projects, visit https://1981.dartmouth.org.
Now for some closing inspiration: Susan Weiss Spencer reported in from Des Moines, Iowa, this summer after running the 5K and 10K in the National Senior Games “against some of the most inspiring 50-to-90ish-year-old women in the country. I’m proud to report I placed fifth in the 10K and eighth in the 5K among women ages 65-69.” She and Sally Ankeny Reiley plan to run the Tokyo Marathon this March, hoping to “complete our sixth star of the original Abbott World Marathon Majors series.” Wow.
We send season’s greetings to all and wishes for peace around the girdled earth.
—Christy Hunter Mihaly, P.O. Box 119, East Calais, VT 05650; christymihaly@gmail.com;Howard Morse, 1836 Milvale Road, Annapolis, MD 21409; m.howard.morse@gmail.com
As a new officer, I’ve learned some new things about our class of 1981 initiatives. If you, like me, could use a reminder, here goes.
Chris Morrison heads up Compassio, which helps classmates support one another. Chris notes that our reunion demonstrated “how much we have to offer each other as classmates. And it’s the reason we started Compassio a few years ago—to remind everyone that we have a mechanism for classmates to give and to receive, answering President Kemeny’s charge ‘to make this a better world, a more compassionate world, for all of us.’ For those who are in need, whatever that need may be, please let us know. We’ve helped classmates find lodging after natural disasters, connected classmates who needed help with those who could provide resources for some of the challenges many of us now face, etc. Your request is completely confidential and shared only with your permission to someone that can lend support. We are here for each other—please reach out if you are in need: compassio81@gmail.com.”
Julie Koeninger and Molly Sundberg Van Metre manage our five class projects, including two undergraduate internships funded by class dues. We support Rockefeller interns who work with organizations in public policy, public affairs, and social entrepreneurship as well as internships through the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
One former Dickey intern, Francisco Silveira Azar ’27 from Rio de Janeiro, recently thanked the class for funding his internship with Le Refuge in Paris. He wrote, “My work at Le Refuge has shown me that there are a lot of good people doing incredible work in all corners of the world. From Dartmouth to Paris and back to Dartmouth, I continue fighting for a just world in which we can all be free to fulfill our full potential. It is incredible to go on this journey knowing that I am backed by your class.”
To learn more about our class projects, visit https://1981.dartmouth.org.
Now for some closing inspiration: Susan Weiss Spencer reported in from Des Moines, Iowa, this summer after running the 5K and 10K in the National Senior Games “against some of the most inspiring 50-to-90ish-year-old women in the country. I’m proud to report I placed fifth in the 10K and eighth in the 5K among women ages 65-69.” She and Sally Ankeny Reiley plan to run the Tokyo Marathon this March, hoping to “complete our sixth star of the original Abbott World Marathon Majors series.” Wow.
We send season’s greetings to all and wishes for peace around the girdled earth.
—Christy Hunter Mihaly, P.O. Box 119, East Calais, VT 05650; christymihaly@gmail.com;Howard Morse, 1836 Milvale Road, Annapolis, MD 21409; m.howard.morse@gmail.com