Our 35th reunion will be history by the time you read this! I’m sure it will be our best ever! I will also be history, as my five-year reign as class secretary ends with this column. Thanks to everyone who has contributed news to me—it has been a pleasure to serve and connect with so many classmates. Please remember that no news is too small to share and your classmates really are interested in what you and your families are up to! You can lay to rest that often-asked question, “I wonder what happened to my freshman-year roommate?” by sending the new class secretary your news.


In 1973 Jeffrey Cutts graduated from Kimball Union Academy (KUA) in Meriden, New Hampshire, before coming to Dartmouth. After graduation Jeff returned to KUA to teach and coach for a few years before moving on to several other private schools and eventually the business world. In 2006 he was named the chair of the board of trustees at KUA. He was recently honored for his contributions to the school: exceeding annual fund goals, increasing financial assistance for deserving students, purchasing, renovating and re-purposing residence halls and faculty homes and improving learning spaces with state-of-the-art technology. His daughter Sarah graduated from KUA and is now a senior at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. 


On a sad note, Peter Beutel passed away after suffering a heart attack on March 8 in New Canaan, Connecticut. Peter was an oil analyst for more than 30 years, starting with a position at E.F. Hutton in 1979. He was president of Cameron Hanover, an energy research and risk management company based in New Canaan he founded in 1994. He was the editor and publisher of the Daily Energy Hedger and often appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox News. Peter is survived by his mother and three sisters. His father, William Beutel, graduated from Dartmouth in 1953.


Hope everyone has a fabulous time at our reunion. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend, but I can’t wait to hear about it in our next column written by our new class secretary and check out all those incriminating pictures on our reunion Facebook page! 


—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@verizon.net