Mark your calendars now—our 25th reunion is just 12 months away, on June 16-19, 2016! As we count down to the big event, look for updates here and in your mailbox from our reunion chair Heather Lane Spehr and our reunion giving co-chairs Dave Cogar and Robin Reynolds.


As I mentioned in my column last December, a number of classmates were involved in the founding of the new Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN) Innovation Center in Hanover. In April several classmates returned to campus to participate in the Dartmouth Ventures Conference, where they had the chance to interact with fellow alumni, students, faculty, staff, researchers and the greater Upper Valley community at the daylong conference and competition focused on entrepreneurship. Andrea Reisman Johnson was one of the participants and she sent me this update. “It was exciting to participate; the students’ energy around entrepreneurship is palpable! They are so much more sophisticated than I was at their age. It was also terrific to witness the increased connectivity between the College, Thayer, Tuck and Geisel. For fun I brought my 11-year-old son to Hanover. It was his first visit and he loved it. As we drove back to Logan Airport he listed his campus highlights: breakfast at Lou’s, a new green hoodie and ‘the part of Sanborn Library that looks like Hogwarts.’ ” Andrea was joined at the conference by Tim Healy, who delivered the keynote address with his Tuck classmate and business partner David Brewster, as well as George Dunston, Hoyoung Huh, Steve Kahl, John Pepper and Joe Walker.


Moyenda Mutharika Knapp wrote in about the exciting events for her and her family in 2014. “In May my father, His Excellency A. Peter Mutharika, was elected president of Malawi, a country located in East Africa. I was fortunate enough to be in Malawi in May (for the first of my three trips to Malawi in 2014) to be a part of his campaign. This trip, my career and my completion of a Tough Mudder event in Virginia in June were the focus of a June 2014 article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin “Amicus Curious” column. Being a part of the election campaign and seeing the incredible support for him was truly an amazing experience. I was also honored to witness him addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2014. The year also saw my move from being a shareholder with a regional Chicago firm to Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, LLC, a national law firm with a Chicago office. I am continuing with my employment law and commercial litigation practice as well as teaching at Northwestern Law School as an adjunct professor. I am looking forward to a great 2015 and wish all of my classmates well.”


Keep those updates coming! As we approach our big reunion I’d love to hear from you about a favorite spot on or near campus that you can’t wait to visit or a long-lost classmate with whom you hope to reconnect.


—Sara Burbine Potter, 108 Hillcrest Road, Fairfield, CT 06824; sara_burbine@yahoo.com