Class Note 1988. An ’88 trivia quiz might include: “Which ’88 began his career as a beekeeper in the Central African Republic (CAR)?” The answer: Adam Rabiner, of course. “The CAR was relatively stable then,” Adam recalls. “As a Peace Corps volunteer, I lived in a smaller village, Maorka, teaching beekeeping using the Kenya top-bar hive.” Adam left the Peace Corps after a year and later married Dina, a Peace Corps alumna who had served in Albania. He went on to study public policy at Carnegie Mellon and urban and regional planning at Rutgers, earning an M.B.A. at NYU after nearly completing a doctorate. He’s since held senior roles across New York City government under four mayors. Still a regular Dartmouth volunteer—with a long reading list and golf, tennis, and writing chops to hone—Adam is now contemplating retirement and spending more time upstate. He organized a May mini-reunion al frescowith Paul Sonn, Liza CeeBee, Lisa Ellis, Richard Lombard, Paul Gorczyca, Sam Braverman, Jennifer Arlin, and Saad Iqbal.
A future ’88 trivia quiz might also ask: “Which classmate has a daughter who, like Adam Rabiner’s wife, also served the Peace Corps in Albania?” Speaking of John Replogle:Capt. John plunged into the Connecticut River in July to haul a downed branch out of harm’s way while ferrying Jack Steinberg, Sarah Jackson-Han, and their spouses. He then towed a stranded craft of alumni to safety. John and his wife, Kristin, divide their time between Hanover and Raleigh, North Carolina. A College trustee from 2010 to 2018, John declined to comment on reports he’ll host a class-wide birthday bash in 2026 but stopped short of branding them “fake news.”
Luzi Robinson recently met Nicola McLeod Pitter, Lisa Getter,and Katherine Dawes—in the D.C. metro area. Luzi, married for 35 years to Tiger Robinson ’86, with whom she has three sons, works as in-house legal compliance lead at Pfizer. Nicola, a new empty-nester in northern Virginia, works as a healthcare consultant. Lisa spent her career in housing finance—including 20 years at Fannie Mae—before moving to NeighborWorks America to manage its real estate and access-to-capital efforts. She joins photography workshops in her free time. Professor Katherine, newly retired from the EPA, is a Data Foundation fellow and teaches graduate courses at George Washington University.
Lawyer Elizabeth Klein Frumkin is working on a new initiative, Dartmouth Courage, aimed at rallying alumni to advocate for higher education and fight broad government attacks on colleges and universities.InApril—with classmates Paul Sonn, Roberta Millstein, and Steve Nichols—she organized the www.change.org alumni petition, now with nearly 2,800 signatures, calling on Dartmouth leadership to denounce and resist White House attacks on academic freedom.
Elizabeth, who lives outside Boston with her husband and has two college-age sons, invites interested classmates to email her at elizabethfrumkin@yahoo.com. Read our fall newsletter for more, with photos.
—Sarah Jackson-Han, 6213 Winnebago Road, Bethesda, MD 20816; smjhan2@gmail.com;Bill Bundy, 442 Cedar Lane, New Canaan CT 06840; bill.bundy@mac.com