Class Note 1983
Issue
Mar - Apr 2018
First and foremost, our reunion is almost upon us! It’s June 14-17, and we’ll be clustered with the ’82s and ’84s again, just like the old days. By the time you read this, you should have received a mailing and an email about reunion, but if you haven’t, please let me know! Also, if you aren’t receiving emails from the class, please either change or add your email address to the College database by going to alumni.dartmouth.edu and updating your info in the alumni directory. Susan Monagan would like some visitors: “After 12 years in the theater department at Ithaca College, I have taken the plunge and moved from theory to practice. I’m now the executive director of the 1,400-seat Smith Opera House in Geneva, New York. It has been a wild ride so far, programming Rocky Horror Picture Show one week and Steve Earle the next. Please come visit! The Finger Lakes are a spectacularly beautiful (and relatively inexpensive) region with a top-notch food and wine scene (40-plus wineries on Seneca Lake), outdoor adventure and, of course, great entertainment!”
Hope Michelsen was elected a fellow of the Optical Society for pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of laser-radiation interactions with soot particles through laser-induced incandescence, absorption and scattering, and using laser-induced incandescence to assess environmental impacts of carbonaceous particle. “It is an opportunity for me to remember and express gratitude for all of the great people I’ve worked with in developing the optical diagnostics for soot and black carbon that have brought me this honor. I have also been very fortunate to have stable funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s basic energy sciences program to accomplish this work,” she said. Her research program focuses on developing and using optical techniques for studying the chemistry of combustion-generated particles inside the combustor and their impact on climate when released to the atmosphere. Her research experience includes gas-surface scattering experiments, atmospheric modeling, soot-formation studies, combustion-diagnostics development, atmospheric black-carbon measurements and greenhouse-gas source attribution. She completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and worked at Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. before joining Sandia Labs in 1999.
Joan Martelli is excited to have just published her first book, The Law of Storms. It’s a non-fiction narrative about a luxury passenger steamship, the Rhone, that sank in a hurricane in the British Virgin Islands in 1867. The Rhone is one of the most popular dive sites in the Caribbean and this book is the most complete and accurate history of this fascinating ship. Joan is living in the Netherlands and we hope she comes to see us at reunion! Shelley Drake Hawks has also published a book. The book is about private art by Chinese painters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) at a time when they were forbidden to paint. The title is The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China, published by University of Washington Press.
See you in June, and let it be green!
—Maren Christensen, P.O. Box 9778, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067; marenjc@yahoo.com
Hope Michelsen was elected a fellow of the Optical Society for pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of laser-radiation interactions with soot particles through laser-induced incandescence, absorption and scattering, and using laser-induced incandescence to assess environmental impacts of carbonaceous particle. “It is an opportunity for me to remember and express gratitude for all of the great people I’ve worked with in developing the optical diagnostics for soot and black carbon that have brought me this honor. I have also been very fortunate to have stable funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s basic energy sciences program to accomplish this work,” she said. Her research program focuses on developing and using optical techniques for studying the chemistry of combustion-generated particles inside the combustor and their impact on climate when released to the atmosphere. Her research experience includes gas-surface scattering experiments, atmospheric modeling, soot-formation studies, combustion-diagnostics development, atmospheric black-carbon measurements and greenhouse-gas source attribution. She completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and worked at Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. before joining Sandia Labs in 1999.
Joan Martelli is excited to have just published her first book, The Law of Storms. It’s a non-fiction narrative about a luxury passenger steamship, the Rhone, that sank in a hurricane in the British Virgin Islands in 1867. The Rhone is one of the most popular dive sites in the Caribbean and this book is the most complete and accurate history of this fascinating ship. Joan is living in the Netherlands and we hope she comes to see us at reunion! Shelley Drake Hawks has also published a book. The book is about private art by Chinese painters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) at a time when they were forbidden to paint. The title is The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China, published by University of Washington Press.
See you in June, and let it be green!
—Maren Christensen, P.O. Box 9778, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067; marenjc@yahoo.com