Happy holidays! If you didn’t read it on our Facebook page, then you need to know that Peter Kilmarx accepted an invitation to serve as Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Ebola response team leader in Sierra Leone. He was overseeing about 40 CDC staff responsible for epidemiology, surveillance, contact tracing, health communications, infection control, laboratory testing and quarantine (screening passengers on outgoing flights). He was there for a month, then went back to Zimbabwe, where he is CDC country director. 


A few months ago Jim McKim and his wife, Nancy (whose father was a ’50), had the pleasure of hosting a mini-reunion with Bob “Rock” Gray; Ann Marie Healey, her husband, Paul Baxter, and son Liam; Erin Walls Reynolds; and Bob Dinan. “We spent the afternoon on a lovely hike up south Uncanoonic Mountain, which is just behind our home in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Bob Blum was supposed to join us but his plane was later than expected.”


According to Jim, Bob Gray is still working at the family business, Cushman and Marsden, and living in Reading, Massachusetts. Ann Marie is still in Somerville, Massachusetts, doing a lot of volunteering at Liam’s school. Erin was visiting from Tennessee helping market a client at a convention in Boston, leaving her better half, Faust, to fend for himself back home. Bob Dinan was out East on break from teaching middle school in Plymouth, Michigan, and on the way home from dropping his daughter Emily off at camp at Princeton for a few weeks, leaving his better half, Barb, home to fend for herself. Bob Blum just moved back East and is now living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.


As for Jim, he’s still doing research into the use of technology for learning at Hewlett-Packard. This past May he received a citation from the American Society of Training and Development (now the Association for Talent Development) for a groundbreaking career development program he managed last year. “I guess that’s what you get when you put computer science and philosophy together as majors.”


Reed Webster and Mac Gardner went fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. They caught silver salmon, rainbow trout, dolly varden, graylings and char. Mac arranged a mini-reunion in Anchorage by sending out an email about two weeks before they went and there were five who met for drinks and dinner on Friday night. Kip Cerveny, Ken Miller ’84 and Sarah Burrell Troxel ’84 joined Mac and Reed.


Sorry, ladies, but Davies Beller (a.k.a. Erik Estrada) and Gaelle Cohen were recently married in Napa, California. Gaelle is originally from Paris and a former French national fencing champion (and a bronze medalist at the World Games!). She’s currently a professional stunt woman and stunt coordinator. A number of Davies’ Beta cronies were at Calistoga Ranch with him to celebrate, including Tom Oppenheim, Jim Ventre, John Sontich, Frank Falzetta, Ed Lear, Steve Quinn, and a few random ’84s.


Don’t forget to like us (Dartmouth Class of 1983) on Facebook! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, P.O. Box 9778, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067; marenjc@yahoo.com