Class Note 1993
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This month’s column (with lots of updates! woo!) honors a sense of place. Take George Ramos, for instance, who currently resides in my former stomping ground: “I’ve been writing poetry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this summer. Just got my M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Michigan. Before that I finally graduated from Dartmouth in 2007 (having left Hanover in 1991 after finishing only my sophomore year) after 14 years working in advertising and theater in my home country of the Philippines. Hi to everyone, especially Bones Gate, North Hall and history FSP pals!”
Lynn-Marie Sederlöf-Airisto returns from a different kind of break: “I’m still living in Espoo, Finland, with my husband and three kids, Niklas (7), Sylvia (4) and Noah (2). But I’m returning to work at Nokia this fall as my parental leave ends. (In Finland, you can be on leave until your youngest child’s third birthday without losing your job). I’ve been pretty much a home-mom for the past five years so it will be interesting to see how we manage to juggle a two-career, three-kid household. Luckily, taking care of three kids full-time has made me a master at multitasking, organizing and being efficient!”
Andrew W.J. Toler is back up toward the Big Green: “At first I was like, bleh, yuck, even more days off, but then after a year of unemployment got a job at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. I’m a curriculum and teaching assistant. Things are good; very busy now with the arrival of 70 new M.P.H. students. It’s going to be a fun year. Oh, and I’m getting married in October.” Congrats!
Making a break for the D.C. suburbs, Marshall and Karen Ehrhardt Billingslea now live in northern Virginia. Marshall joined the private sector and works at Deloitte Consulting. Karen writes: “I continue to ‘run the show’ at home but am starting to think about what the next career chapter may hold for me. Our girls, 8 and 6, are a hoot. Earlier this summer we spent 14 days on the road—literally—doing an RV tour of the national parks in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. We had a blast and totally recommend it to everyone. On the home front we were lucky enough to spend time with Farrell Page Harwood, who was visiting from London. She and I met up with our Dartmouth soccer coach Steve Swanson (currently coaching at UVA). In May a bunch of ’93 ladies (too many to list!) met up in N.Y.C. for a mini-reunion and we had a great time—all refusing to believe that we are almost 40. We also anticipate a visit to see Scott Quesenberry and family in early September in their new home in North Carolina.”
Finally, after three years in N.Y.C., Courtney Cook Williamson “can officially say I know my way around—almost. My daughter Veronica is a ninth-grader at Horace Mann in Riverdale and my son John Michael (who was at Dartmouth with me) is a ‘youngster’ at the U.S. Naval Academy (otherwise known as a sophomore!). I’m earning a living as the director of communications and social media at Rye Country Day School, but my primary focus is on completing my memoir, Love and Empire. You can check out an excerpt that came out on Salon.com on January 31st called “How to Leave a Soldier.” There’s also a follow-up on Dick Gordon’s APM program The Story. I’d love to have my classmates’ comments! I think of you often, and to those of you in Manhattan—let’s meet!” Check her stuff out!
—Jeffrey Middents, 505 Ethan Allen Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912; dartmouth93@gmail.com
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This month’s column (with lots of updates! woo!) honors a sense of place. Take George Ramos, for instance, who currently resides in my former stomping ground: “I’ve been writing poetry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this summer. Just got my M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Michigan. Before that I finally graduated from Dartmouth in 2007 (having left Hanover in 1991 after finishing only my sophomore year) after 14 years working in advertising and theater in my home country of the Philippines. Hi to everyone, especially Bones Gate, North Hall and history FSP pals!”
Lynn-Marie Sederlöf-Airisto returns from a different kind of break: “I’m still living in Espoo, Finland, with my husband and three kids, Niklas (7), Sylvia (4) and Noah (2). But I’m returning to work at Nokia this fall as my parental leave ends. (In Finland, you can be on leave until your youngest child’s third birthday without losing your job). I’ve been pretty much a home-mom for the past five years so it will be interesting to see how we manage to juggle a two-career, three-kid household. Luckily, taking care of three kids full-time has made me a master at multitasking, organizing and being efficient!”
Andrew W.J. Toler is back up toward the Big Green: “At first I was like, bleh, yuck, even more days off, but then after a year of unemployment got a job at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. I’m a curriculum and teaching assistant. Things are good; very busy now with the arrival of 70 new M.P.H. students. It’s going to be a fun year. Oh, and I’m getting married in October.” Congrats!
Making a break for the D.C. suburbs, Marshall and Karen Ehrhardt Billingslea now live in northern Virginia. Marshall joined the private sector and works at Deloitte Consulting. Karen writes: “I continue to ‘run the show’ at home but am starting to think about what the next career chapter may hold for me. Our girls, 8 and 6, are a hoot. Earlier this summer we spent 14 days on the road—literally—doing an RV tour of the national parks in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. We had a blast and totally recommend it to everyone. On the home front we were lucky enough to spend time with Farrell Page Harwood, who was visiting from London. She and I met up with our Dartmouth soccer coach Steve Swanson (currently coaching at UVA). In May a bunch of ’93 ladies (too many to list!) met up in N.Y.C. for a mini-reunion and we had a great time—all refusing to believe that we are almost 40. We also anticipate a visit to see Scott Quesenberry and family in early September in their new home in North Carolina.”
Finally, after three years in N.Y.C., Courtney Cook Williamson “can officially say I know my way around—almost. My daughter Veronica is a ninth-grader at Horace Mann in Riverdale and my son John Michael (who was at Dartmouth with me) is a ‘youngster’ at the U.S. Naval Academy (otherwise known as a sophomore!). I’m earning a living as the director of communications and social media at Rye Country Day School, but my primary focus is on completing my memoir, Love and Empire. You can check out an excerpt that came out on Salon.com on January 31st called “How to Leave a Soldier.” There’s also a follow-up on Dick Gordon’s APM program The Story. I’d love to have my classmates’ comments! I think of you often, and to those of you in Manhattan—let’s meet!” Check her stuff out!
—Jeffrey Middents, 505 Ethan Allen Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912; dartmouth93@gmail.com