Class Note 1983
Issue
While roaming the girdled earth in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Ravens-Colts AFC playoff game Rick Watts ran across a family wearing the green at a brew pub in the bar district. Turned out to be Rick’s freshman advisor in Russell Sage, Sam Laurin ’82. Rick lives in Pasadena, Maryland, with his “great wife” and two kids. He’s running a mid-sized commercial real-estate appraisal business with two partners. Sounds like business is going well: Rick moved four houses down the street to get a better view and more boat slips. He notes that there is a “beach gazebo with a bar here on the Magothy River (north of Annapolis) ready to welcome any alumni visitors.” When he’s not working and enjoying his view, Rick enjoys sailing and road biking.
Lisa Feinberg Densmore has not one, not two, but three books coming out this spring! Hiking the Adirondacks and Hiking the White Mountains are both FalconGuides. The third is part of a Backpacker magazine backcountry basics series called “Predicting Weather” (Globe Pequot Press). “It tells you how to figure out the weather based not only the clouds but also other clues around you in the backcountry. I capped it all off with a climb up Kilimanjaro. And everyone thought I just skied down mountains! I love to climb up them too.” Lisa is living in Hanover and ran into Chuck Ankeny at the Dartmouth Skiway during the Winter Carnival slalom. His son Michael was skiing for Dartmouth.
Peter Kilmarx received the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Justice as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Dartmouth on January 29. Matt Wilson, 2006 Social Justice Award honoree, Keith Moskow and Allison Schutz Moskow ’85 also attended. Peter is still the chief of the epidemiology branch in the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His wife, Nicha, is a Montessori teacher, son Ben is a high school junior at Academe of the Oaks and Hunter is a seventh-grader at the Paideia School.
Martha Viehmann wrote in response to my plea for news. She has joined Transition Anderson, part of the international transition movement to unleash local creative genius to address the challenges of climate change and peak oil. “I’m especially interested in strengthening the local sense of community so we can work together to reduce our energy use and live more locally. My home, Anderson Township, Ohio (near Cincinnati), is a conservative suburb, so finding this group is surprising and exciting.“ Martha has two sons, Nathan, 15, and Seth, 11. “I am also among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. If anyone could use some editing assistance or a writing tutor, get in touch!”
With the Winter Olympics just concluding as I write this, we wondered if any of our classmates had any connections. One of Toby Brewster’s former skiers from Bermuda, Tucker Murphy, learned to ski at St. Paul’s and was the captain of St. Paul’s team in 1999. He went on to study and ski at Dartmouth and was a Rhodes Scholar and the sole representative for Bermuda, carrying the flag into the stadium and competing in the 15k. Love that story! Dean Cascadden has paid close attention to the Bode Miller story since Bode and Dean both grew up skiing at Cannon. Dean ran into Lisa at Cannon while she was participating in Masters ski races and doing well.
And just in: Ked Hudnut was spotted on MSNBC commenting on the earthquake in Chili. As you may remember, Ken is a geologist with the USGS. Forever green!
—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com
May - June 2010
While roaming the girdled earth in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Ravens-Colts AFC playoff game Rick Watts ran across a family wearing the green at a brew pub in the bar district. Turned out to be Rick’s freshman advisor in Russell Sage, Sam Laurin ’82. Rick lives in Pasadena, Maryland, with his “great wife” and two kids. He’s running a mid-sized commercial real-estate appraisal business with two partners. Sounds like business is going well: Rick moved four houses down the street to get a better view and more boat slips. He notes that there is a “beach gazebo with a bar here on the Magothy River (north of Annapolis) ready to welcome any alumni visitors.” When he’s not working and enjoying his view, Rick enjoys sailing and road biking.
Lisa Feinberg Densmore has not one, not two, but three books coming out this spring! Hiking the Adirondacks and Hiking the White Mountains are both FalconGuides. The third is part of a Backpacker magazine backcountry basics series called “Predicting Weather” (Globe Pequot Press). “It tells you how to figure out the weather based not only the clouds but also other clues around you in the backcountry. I capped it all off with a climb up Kilimanjaro. And everyone thought I just skied down mountains! I love to climb up them too.” Lisa is living in Hanover and ran into Chuck Ankeny at the Dartmouth Skiway during the Winter Carnival slalom. His son Michael was skiing for Dartmouth.
Peter Kilmarx received the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Justice as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Dartmouth on January 29. Matt Wilson, 2006 Social Justice Award honoree, Keith Moskow and Allison Schutz Moskow ’85 also attended. Peter is still the chief of the epidemiology branch in the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His wife, Nicha, is a Montessori teacher, son Ben is a high school junior at Academe of the Oaks and Hunter is a seventh-grader at the Paideia School.
Martha Viehmann wrote in response to my plea for news. She has joined Transition Anderson, part of the international transition movement to unleash local creative genius to address the challenges of climate change and peak oil. “I’m especially interested in strengthening the local sense of community so we can work together to reduce our energy use and live more locally. My home, Anderson Township, Ohio (near Cincinnati), is a conservative suburb, so finding this group is surprising and exciting.“ Martha has two sons, Nathan, 15, and Seth, 11. “I am also among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. If anyone could use some editing assistance or a writing tutor, get in touch!”
With the Winter Olympics just concluding as I write this, we wondered if any of our classmates had any connections. One of Toby Brewster’s former skiers from Bermuda, Tucker Murphy, learned to ski at St. Paul’s and was the captain of St. Paul’s team in 1999. He went on to study and ski at Dartmouth and was a Rhodes Scholar and the sole representative for Bermuda, carrying the flag into the stadium and competing in the 15k. Love that story! Dean Cascadden has paid close attention to the Bode Miller story since Bode and Dean both grew up skiing at Cannon. Dean ran into Lisa at Cannon while she was participating in Masters ski races and doing well.
And just in: Ked Hudnut was spotted on MSNBC commenting on the earthquake in Chili. As you may remember, Ken is a geologist with the USGS. Forever green!
—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com