Class Note 1977
Issue
I feel like Pink Floyd, from “The Dark Side of the Moon”: “Hello, is anybody out there?” I can’t believe not one classmate contacted me to proudly announce a son or daughter who is matriculating into the class of 2014. Are we getting too old to have 18-year-olds? I know I have one, but he’s going to Penn State to enter their golf course/turf management program. Someday I’m going to be able to get into Augusta National, when he’s managing the place!
Someone I have always admired in our class checked in from the West Coast. Edy Ullman has finally retired after 30 years as a firefighter with the State of California. Not one to sit still, Edy said she plans to hike Machu Picchu, cheer on her son Max at his baseball games and schmush her apples into cider!
Mike Zischke is a lawyer in San Francisco, still practicing land use and environmental law at Cox Castle and Nicholson, a specialty real estate and environmental firm. Three years ago he married Nadin Sponamore, whom he met when he defended an environmental impact report that she wrote. Mike recently returned from a college–visiting trip with his daughter and visited Nelson Valverde’s new coffee shop in Salem, Massachusetts. Nelson and his wife, Eleni, have been importing coffee from Bolivia for a few years and selling coffee beans through the Internet. Mike was the first classmate to visit the store and he reports the coffee is excellent! Check it out at www.cafevalverde.com.
I received notice from a group known as Hanover Partners, which in August of 2009 held its fourth annual conference in Montreal honoring Dartmouth professor John Rassias. This organization formed following discussion by members of the class of ’75 at their 25th reunion. Their mission is to maintain and strengthen the bond of friendship formed while at Dartmouth and to enhance the social, intellectual and economic well-being of its members. The ’77s who attended the conference included Armond Enos and Steve White.
My favorite source of classmate information, John Bird, passed along some news about Kathy Phillips. A recent New York Times column by Jane Brody was based on her interview with Kathy, a psychiatrist/author whose latest book is titled Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Essential Guide. Kathy has written many books on this disorder and in considered an expert in this field.
Sadly, it was reported to me that Jim Jennings passed away at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on March 9. After Dartmouth Jim spent a couple of years at Boston College Law School before deciding law wasn’t for him. After several years he reentered academia and received a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is remembered by his many friends at the Four Corners sports bar and restaurant in Chapel Hill, where his picture and a plaque in his honor hang prominently over the bar.
I look forward to hearing from you!
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@comcast.net
July - Aug 2010
I feel like Pink Floyd, from “The Dark Side of the Moon”: “Hello, is anybody out there?” I can’t believe not one classmate contacted me to proudly announce a son or daughter who is matriculating into the class of 2014. Are we getting too old to have 18-year-olds? I know I have one, but he’s going to Penn State to enter their golf course/turf management program. Someday I’m going to be able to get into Augusta National, when he’s managing the place!
Someone I have always admired in our class checked in from the West Coast. Edy Ullman has finally retired after 30 years as a firefighter with the State of California. Not one to sit still, Edy said she plans to hike Machu Picchu, cheer on her son Max at his baseball games and schmush her apples into cider!
Mike Zischke is a lawyer in San Francisco, still practicing land use and environmental law at Cox Castle and Nicholson, a specialty real estate and environmental firm. Three years ago he married Nadin Sponamore, whom he met when he defended an environmental impact report that she wrote. Mike recently returned from a college–visiting trip with his daughter and visited Nelson Valverde’s new coffee shop in Salem, Massachusetts. Nelson and his wife, Eleni, have been importing coffee from Bolivia for a few years and selling coffee beans through the Internet. Mike was the first classmate to visit the store and he reports the coffee is excellent! Check it out at www.cafevalverde.com.
I received notice from a group known as Hanover Partners, which in August of 2009 held its fourth annual conference in Montreal honoring Dartmouth professor John Rassias. This organization formed following discussion by members of the class of ’75 at their 25th reunion. Their mission is to maintain and strengthen the bond of friendship formed while at Dartmouth and to enhance the social, intellectual and economic well-being of its members. The ’77s who attended the conference included Armond Enos and Steve White.
My favorite source of classmate information, John Bird, passed along some news about Kathy Phillips. A recent New York Times column by Jane Brody was based on her interview with Kathy, a psychiatrist/author whose latest book is titled Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Essential Guide. Kathy has written many books on this disorder and in considered an expert in this field.
Sadly, it was reported to me that Jim Jennings passed away at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on March 9. After Dartmouth Jim spent a couple of years at Boston College Law School before deciding law wasn’t for him. After several years he reentered academia and received a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is remembered by his many friends at the Four Corners sports bar and restaurant in Chapel Hill, where his picture and a plaque in his honor hang prominently over the bar.
I look forward to hearing from you!
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@comcast.net