Class Note 1983
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I just returned from a quick trip to our alma mater for Alumni Council meetings. You’ll get a complete summary from me soon, but the campus looked beautiful (it didn’t snow!) and there are some exciting new ideas coming from our president, Phil Hanlon. I’d also like to report that the basement of Sigma Delta looks similar to a fraternity, with at least seven pong tables. However, it smells much better than a fraternity. I’ve also heard that one of the “new” sororities, Alpha Phi, plays pong with Andre champagne. Frightening. As for classmate news, I have some! There were plenty of ’83s in Hanover for Homecoming Weekend. Spotted around campus were Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Bloomer, Anne Deacon, Susie Donovan, Buck Foote, Walter Foster, Jim Gregg, Brian Hebert, Toby Hitt, Eileen Lynch, Rob O’Neill, Jim Sterling, Wade Welch, Bob Del Isola and Geordie Lunt. Sheila Kirby Zinck did a great job organizing our mini-reunion with the classes of ’82 and ’84. Edie Farwell wrote to tell us that her son Cedar Mead Farwell started Dartmouth in September and that she and her husband, Jay Mead, canoed him to college from where they live in Hartland, Vermont. Cedar is apparently trying to do everything at Dartmouth, having a good time, finding his way, loving all the opportunities and studying hard! Their other son Silas Farwell Mead is 15 and a junior at the Sharon Academy, where Cedar went. Stephen J. Farnsworth is coauthor of The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government, published by Rowman & Littlefield. According to the publisher, “This book provides an expansive international examination of news coverage of U.S. political communication and the roles the U.S. government and the presidency play in an increasingly communicative and interconnected political world.” Ellen Malinin Carpenter of UCLA’s department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine will be the next director of the undergraduate neuroscience program. Ellen arrived at UCLA in 1996 as an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she is now a professor. She is also the director of Project Brainstorm, an outreach program that brings UCLA neuroscience students to local school campuses to provide lessons on the function and dysfunction of the human brain. She is the assistant director of outreach for the UCLA Brain Research Institute and she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Teaching Award from the department of psychiatry in 2007. On the home front, Ellen’s been married for 30 years to Brad Carpenter ’82 and has two grown daughters. The eldest is graduating from the University of Maryland this December with a double major in physics and astronomy and the youngest departed for the University of Colorado this fall to study music education. Mike Coster has been busy too, having completed a spin-out and a purchase of Ranieri Real Estate Advisors LLC. he has also formed Kimberlite Advisors LLC. Have fun out there! —Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com
Jan - Feb 2014
I just returned from a quick trip to our alma mater for Alumni Council meetings. You’ll get a complete summary from me soon, but the campus looked beautiful (it didn’t snow!) and there are some exciting new ideas coming from our president, Phil Hanlon. I’d also like to report that the basement of Sigma Delta looks similar to a fraternity, with at least seven pong tables. However, it smells much better than a fraternity. I’ve also heard that one of the “new” sororities, Alpha Phi, plays pong with Andre champagne. Frightening. As for classmate news, I have some! There were plenty of ’83s in Hanover for Homecoming Weekend. Spotted around campus were Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Bloomer, Anne Deacon, Susie Donovan, Buck Foote, Walter Foster, Jim Gregg, Brian Hebert, Toby Hitt, Eileen Lynch, Rob O’Neill, Jim Sterling, Wade Welch, Bob Del Isola and Geordie Lunt. Sheila Kirby Zinck did a great job organizing our mini-reunion with the classes of ’82 and ’84. Edie Farwell wrote to tell us that her son Cedar Mead Farwell started Dartmouth in September and that she and her husband, Jay Mead, canoed him to college from where they live in Hartland, Vermont. Cedar is apparently trying to do everything at Dartmouth, having a good time, finding his way, loving all the opportunities and studying hard! Their other son Silas Farwell Mead is 15 and a junior at the Sharon Academy, where Cedar went. Stephen J. Farnsworth is coauthor of The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government, published by Rowman & Littlefield. According to the publisher, “This book provides an expansive international examination of news coverage of U.S. political communication and the roles the U.S. government and the presidency play in an increasingly communicative and interconnected political world.” Ellen Malinin Carpenter of UCLA’s department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine will be the next director of the undergraduate neuroscience program. Ellen arrived at UCLA in 1996 as an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she is now a professor. She is also the director of Project Brainstorm, an outreach program that brings UCLA neuroscience students to local school campuses to provide lessons on the function and dysfunction of the human brain. She is the assistant director of outreach for the UCLA Brain Research Institute and she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Teaching Award from the department of psychiatry in 2007. On the home front, Ellen’s been married for 30 years to Brad Carpenter ’82 and has two grown daughters. The eldest is graduating from the University of Maryland this December with a double major in physics and astronomy and the youngest departed for the University of Colorado this fall to study music education. Mike Coster has been busy too, having completed a spin-out and a purchase of Ranieri Real Estate Advisors LLC. he has also formed Kimberlite Advisors LLC. Have fun out there! —Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com