Class Note 1993
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I would like to start this column highlighting some good works that some of our classmates are doing in memory of others that we have lost. Shawn Burt oversees Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer (RHCC, www.teamuptoconquercancer.ca), the world’s largest event of its kind. He writes, “We raise funds for critical cancer research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre—one of the top-five cancer research centers in the world. Each year this event becomes an excuse for our Dartmouth friends to come together to raise funds while re-visiting old times. Not surprisingly the team is called Tenacious D and we have been one of the top fundraising teams in the first two years of the event, having raised more than $60,000. RHCC itself has raised just under $6 million across Canada in two years.” Rob Simmelkjaer posted on the class Facebook page, “As you know we lost our classmate Deborah Bernstein to breast cancer earlier this year. It was in part Deb’s untimely death that inspired me to run this year’s N.Y.C. Marathon for Fred’s Team to benefit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Please support my run and honor the memory of Deb by contributing.” Congratulations go out to Amy Beatie, who was married this past August to Declan Gavin. According to The New York Times listing, she is “the executive director of the Colorado Water Trust, a nonprofit organization in Denver whose aim is to restore and protect the flow of water in streams and rivers. She graduated from Dartmouth and received a law degree from the University of Denver.” Sharon (Cox) Hujik writes in, “My husband, Peter Hujik ’88, and I are thrilled to share that our family has expanded with the recent addition of John (4) and Nora (2), who are joining big brother Luke (6). Our two youngest were born in Haiti and their adoption was finalized at the end of June. I’m a full-time mom (and we’re home schooling) so life is busy, but we’re very blessed!” Lastly Olaf Minge is enjoying life in Minnesota with wife Amy and two kids. He works at Target HQ and recently became chair of a Haitian community development and clean-water organization. He writes, “Big fundraising event each year is a Rotary-sponsored polar plunge in a frozen lake, which is a little hard for Haitians to relate to. Two years ago the ice was so thick we had to use extra-long chainsaw blades to cut our hole. Give a shout if coming to Minneapolis!” —Beth Krakower, c/o CineMedia Promotions, 11500 Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90064; dartmouth93@gmail.com
Jan - Feb 2014
I would like to start this column highlighting some good works that some of our classmates are doing in memory of others that we have lost. Shawn Burt oversees Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer (RHCC, www.teamuptoconquercancer.ca), the world’s largest event of its kind. He writes, “We raise funds for critical cancer research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre—one of the top-five cancer research centers in the world. Each year this event becomes an excuse for our Dartmouth friends to come together to raise funds while re-visiting old times. Not surprisingly the team is called Tenacious D and we have been one of the top fundraising teams in the first two years of the event, having raised more than $60,000. RHCC itself has raised just under $6 million across Canada in two years.” Rob Simmelkjaer posted on the class Facebook page, “As you know we lost our classmate Deborah Bernstein to breast cancer earlier this year. It was in part Deb’s untimely death that inspired me to run this year’s N.Y.C. Marathon for Fred’s Team to benefit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Please support my run and honor the memory of Deb by contributing.” Congratulations go out to Amy Beatie, who was married this past August to Declan Gavin. According to The New York Times listing, she is “the executive director of the Colorado Water Trust, a nonprofit organization in Denver whose aim is to restore and protect the flow of water in streams and rivers. She graduated from Dartmouth and received a law degree from the University of Denver.” Sharon (Cox) Hujik writes in, “My husband, Peter Hujik ’88, and I are thrilled to share that our family has expanded with the recent addition of John (4) and Nora (2), who are joining big brother Luke (6). Our two youngest were born in Haiti and their adoption was finalized at the end of June. I’m a full-time mom (and we’re home schooling) so life is busy, but we’re very blessed!” Lastly Olaf Minge is enjoying life in Minnesota with wife Amy and two kids. He works at Target HQ and recently became chair of a Haitian community development and clean-water organization. He writes, “Big fundraising event each year is a Rotary-sponsored polar plunge in a frozen lake, which is a little hard for Haitians to relate to. Two years ago the ice was so thick we had to use extra-long chainsaw blades to cut our hole. Give a shout if coming to Minneapolis!” —Beth Krakower, c/o CineMedia Promotions, 11500 Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90064; dartmouth93@gmail.com