Class Notes 1982

Health is precious, as Julie Hahnke, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, consultant and author knows after a stroke seven years ago. She suffered death of 20 to 25 percent of her brain cells, resulting in aphasia and the inability to talk, read beyond grade-school level, or use the right side of her body. After significant recovery, she founded nonprofit Cecropia Strong, which sponsors events, makes treatment and research grants to universities, and funds gifts to rehab hospital patients and horseback riding lessons for those with disabilities. What a courageous and life-changing endeavor. See her website at https://cecropiastrong.org.

Crist Vial called in August. Crist and his wife, Elizabeth Boelte Vial, live in Dallas and have a nephew who started at Indiana University this fall. Yes, yes, we are the center of the universe. Crist was buying dorm hall pizzas for his nephew’s upcoming birthday and needed recommendations. I sure wish I’d had an uncle like Crist freshman year. Although I didn’t need help finding piles of food 24/7, so I retract that. Crist is a successful oil, gas, and energy attorney currently litigating a case in North Dakota involving a client’s minerals investment held hostage by a private equity firm. Crist has missed reunions and hopes to get to the next one.

Robert B. “Bobby” Charles’ new book came out September 15. Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character and Kindness took Bobby six years to write and relates previously untold stories about remarkable people demonstrating courage and nobility in challenging circumstances. The stories tie together through Bobby’s life and career in law, public policy, and public service. He called it “perfectly fitted to this moment and the year or so ahead—a sense of can-do, inspiration, grounded optimism, patriotism, and hope!” Bobby and his wife, Marina, live in Maine and Washington, D.C., and work as president and managing member, and senior vice president, operations, respectively, at consulting firm The Charles Group.

A class birthday email prompted Ted Trabue to share a charming birthday message from daughter Justin, a California winemaker. We drank her delicious wine last reunion. I learned so much. First, while I was swilling Blue Nun, Ted was starting a gourmet wine and cheese club in Wheeler. I guess they didn’t need my access to superb Wisconsin cheddar, but I didn’t know Ted then so it’s understandable. He later wrote speeches for D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and was president of the Washington, D.C., school board. Today, he’s a commissioner for the D.C. Public Service Commission. What a resume! Justin called Ted “the coolest dad” and “my biggest supporter, making sure to taste test and approve every new vintage before it gets to y’all.” Now, Ted is Dad of the Year in my book, but not because he’ll suffer through tastings of excellent free wine. Sign me up for suffering. Lucky Ted and lucky Justin. Thanks for sharing your wine with us!

Speaking of sharing, share your stories with David Eichman and me. Otherwise, you may regret what we fabricate for lack of material.

—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

This column will write itself since I attended the spectacular Park City, Utah, mini-reunion in March. But first, a report on one of those Dartmouth love-fests that happens because, well, Dartmouth is weird and special.

In 2022 John Nicholson and I were both in Hanover celebrating Tee Lotson’s Dartmouth Alumni Award. There were about 12 ’82s toasting Tee and over drinks at the Hanover Inn afterwards John mentioned Gary Levine’s class of ’19 daughter was considering the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Would I mind talking to her? I live in Bloomington and graduated from Maurer (as did Sam Laurin and Ernest Brewer). Of course I would talk to her. Emily Levine soon called and we talked for an hour—at least. We both sang in a cappella groups. Need we say more? The upshot: Emily signed up for Maurer and then signed up in year two for the same O’Neill School joint J.D./M.P.A. degree I did. We meet for coffee once or twice a semester, she joined our kids and us for Thanksgiving dinner at a local Indian restaurant, and I ran into Emily and her visiting mother, Cathy Sneider Levine, walking in a Bloomington park one evening. I finally got to meet the charming Levine parents again at reunion! Mentoring the next generation—part of the D pact.

Now to Park City. Listing attendees may take the rest of my word limit. Huge thanks to Mike Berg for organizing an amazing event that went off without a hitch. And huge thanks to Mike Sapers and wife Marci, Dana Burroughs Klinges and husband Dave Klinges ’79, and Kristin Farrish Shaw and husband Tiger Shaw ’85 for hosting all of us on three successive nights for delicious dinners at their beautiful homes. Mike Sapers also served as a ski guide, along with Eric Einhorn.Other ’82 attendees included Lee Apgar, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger, Dave Britton, Susan Burkhardt, Alison Schmults Burns, Ian Campbell, Brad Carpenter, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Tom Daniels, Vaune Dugan, Rosi Dupre Littlefield, David Eichman, Peter Feer, Martha Hill Gaskill, Dan Gilman, Cathy Judd-Stein, Betsy Leggat, Peter Moran, Sherri Carroll Oberg, Howard Tung, Beth Haffenreffer Scholle, Malcolm Robinson, Gail Sullivan, and Libbet Waterman McKeon. There were also spouses, partners, and friends who added wonderfully to the festivities, for 49 total (31 classmates, 18 guests). The weather was perfect, the snow excellent, and I am incredibly impressed at how many good skiers we have among us—and we’re still braving the slopes. May we continue into our 80s and beyond.

There will be more in future communiques about our ’82 class celebrations of the 82nd day of 2024, which just wrapped as I write. There were lots of Zooms and in-person events that were really fun! Everyone wants to do more of it and sooner rather than later.

And a final sad note that we lost another classmate, Lisa Greeley. Look for an alumni magazine obituary in the coming weeks. Our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.

—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

There are still things to say about reunion encounters, and so many ’82s I didn’t have time with. Knowing this would happen, I actually made some appointments.

Kate Pesek Roski and I met at the class tent amid rain and the lunch rush. Kate and husband Dudley met when living in the same Brooklyn brownstone in the 1980s. They reconnected and married three years ago. They have three sons: Arthur, philosophy student in N.Y.C.; Charlie, cybersecurity consultant in Chicago; and Henry, also Chicago, a mergers-and-acquisitions advisor at an investment bank. Henry is engaged and will marry in August. Dudley is retired and Kate semi-retired, mentoring early-stage and advising green tech companies and committed to helping the planet through science, land preservation, education, and technology. They enjoy golf and nature, living mostly in Naples, Florida, and summering in San Francisco.

Next, were freshmen Gile roommates Jim Morrison and Tim Geibel. I cherish the memory of sitting in their room in an oddly familiar chair covered in an Indian bedspread. “New chair?” Um, yeah. “Nice. I think I’ve sat in it before.” The chair was back in the North Mass commons room the next morning. All grown up and presumably no longer borrowing furniture, Jim and wife Sally retired to the Berkshires after Jim’s career in insurance moved them all over the country. Jim manages their seven acres and Sally runs the Episcopal church office and is a fiber artist, specifically felted wool landscapes and stilllifes. They have three children: Katy, a Louisville Zoo animal ambassador; Alice ’14, running an Oregon nonprofit that develops state policy for family farms; and Nate in Denver, who runs 48-mile races and is an electrical engineer working in high-voltage architecture. Is that buildings with illuminated walls? That Jim has children who like snakes, farms, and distance running amazes him. And me, frankly.

Tim Geibel and wife Kay live in Acworth, Georgia, near Atlanta. He’s a principal solution architect with Dragonfly Financial Technologies digital banking company; she is in admissions at Georgia Highlands College. Daughter Abby is the office manager for an Acworth HVAC company. Son Mike is head rugby coach at Wheeling University, where he has led them to 10 Division I rankings the last three to four years. They have a number of dogs that Tim often takes hiking at Kennesaw Mountain National Park.

Finally, I just returned from a Dartmouth alumni trip to South Africa. Carol Davis, sister Leslie Dahl ’84, and Cheryl Bascomb were fellow travelers. The fabulous Dartmouth professor Jeremy DeSilva allowed us unique access to sites where he has helped identify early hominid skeletons. We also had a safari, great food and wine, and a wonderful, enlightening time. Check out alumni trips. This was our second—we’re hooked. After a 36-hour return, husband Alex and I crashed. Cheryl, however, went to a party the next night at Kathy Briscoe’s with Vaune Dugan, Gray Horan, Sherri Oberg, Cathy Judd-Stein, and Pete Folger. As Leslie said, “Impressive rally, Cheryl.” Indeed. I’m obviously a lazy putz.

—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie @yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

Thank you for electing me co-class secretary. It was a nail biter given I had no opponent. Jenny Chandler is a very hard act to follow, but I’m so grateful she’s agreed to continue helping David Eichman and me with outreach.

There’s reunion fodder for several columns, so buckle up! We’re on the rental car shuttle from Logan Airport. At the stop, I stand up and glance right. “Philippa Guthrie?” “Hank Malin?” We’d been sitting adjacent for 10 minutes unawares. Hank “retired” from running Denison’s career center in 2022 and now has his own coaching business. He and his wife have two grown boys.

There was a mess of people at the Moosilauke overnight and others showed up for the next day hike to the peak. Either way I know Matt Hoffman, Mike Berg, Mark Bunker and Sheryl Bunker, Joe Reinkemeyer, Tom Daniels, Meg Huffman, Dave Plekenpol, Beth Haffenreffer Scholle, Carol Davis, Kathy Boak, Brian Herrle, Libbet Waterman McKeon, Peter Feer, Woody Kingman, JB and Katie Stearns Friday, Sherry Carroll Oberg, Kate Pesek Roski, Steve Burnham, Alex Blumrosen, Sue Elliot and Eric Christensen, Colin McNay, Sam Carlson, Richard Pinkham, Rosie Dupre Littlefield, Peter Saltsman, Brad Weirick, Kathy Briscoe, and Peter Folger were there. I’m sure there were others. Note to self: Next time, take notes. The evening entertainment was our own Tom Burack, pardon me, Jean Baptiste, followed by Schlitz on Mount Washington and then a cool bunk room. Second note to self: Moosilauke cabins are coed. We were 10 to 12 ’82s in ours, all mildly taken aback. “Is anyone a champion snorer?” someone asked. All I know is I slept through whoever was. After breakfast Kathy Briscoe and I, who met on freshman trip, took a 3-mile hike about halfway to the peak and talked nonstop for two hours. What a treat.

Registering at Thompson scored me three more early encounters—Sarah Riddle Lilja, Scrib Fauver and Walt Cressler. Appearances aside (mine only) it could have been 1982 as we talked. Sarah’s a retired mental health professional in Minnesota doing photography, Scrib lives down the road and teaches at Kimball Union, and Walt is a professor of paleobotany and science librarian at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

A shout-out to the “Rassias Raiders,” an ’82 French language study abroad group and clan for life. They mini-reuned and celebrated one of their own, Matt Yee, who has cancer, and husband Paul Hannigan. Carol Davis will cover it more fully in the ’82 newsletter.

So many ’82s and so little time, but what is time? It seemed we’d left in 1982 for parallel universes and were just slipping back to the original in the middle of summer semester. It was surreal. Maybe all that rain and mist…very Brigadoonish, if you know what I mean.

Final note to self: Bring soap for dorm shower. Running furtively down the hall soaking wet in towel and shower cap to retrieve facial cleanser is not desirable first reunion impression.

—Philippa M. Guthrie, 2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 325-7512; philippaguthrie@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

“Where in the world are the ’82s?” This is an important question given that our class is likely to trample any prior records for attendance at a 40th reunion, which means that many of our farthest-flung classmates may be back with us on the Hanover Plain in June. Sixty percent of our graduating class participated in a foreign study program. Since graduating, many have pursued professional and personal passions far from U.S. soil. What motivates ’82s to live abroad? As Jay Shofet shared, “My political inspiration—that all politics is local—came from my dad, who was mayor of our village, on the county board, and in his younger days, active in Connecticut state politics. In Israel the polity is just a few million people—a medium-sized metropolis—so I get to experience and participate in the thrill of national politics with the intimacy of local political activism. To give a banal example, I’ve met and chatted with every recent prime minister of Israel, and one prime minister—and his wife—are in our larger circle of friends.” In case you bump into someone at reunion who has lived abroad, I’m offering what I hope is a useful primer to who’s-living-where. Armed with this information you’ll surely have something to break any awkward silence after not seeing someone in 41 years. Here’s where we’ve landed (or where the College thinks we are): Garry Anthony, Virgin Islands; Rick Bercuvitz, Canada; Lynn Blades, England; Alex Blumrosen, France; Sean Burke, France; Nilgun Celik, Turkey; Mark Davidson, Japan; Kevin Devine, Germany; Mike Dickens, England; Bob Faber, Bulgaria; Dov Fraser, Australia; David Gibbons, Bermuda; Gerard Hekker, Singapore; Phillipa Jones, New Zealand; Tricia Kinsman, France; Ann Lindley, Spain; Nathan Longan, Russia; Joey Wallace Lowther, England; Davin Mackenzie, Taiwan; James Nadler, Canada; Richard Nadworny, Sweden; Edith Weinshienk Olesker, Israel; Michael Paige, Canada; Dave Parker, Netherlands; Phil Perry, Argentina; Statis Rizas, Canada; Yisrael “Jay” Rosenberg, Israel; Roberto Saint Malo, Spain; Amy Seibold, Australia; Wes Sheridan, Canada; Jay Shofet, Israel; Kjersti Aksnes Skantze, Norway; Tony Smith, Germany; Harry Teahan, Denmark; Hilda Wang, Hong Kong; Stephen Wood, Spain—and those are just the foreign-based classmates we know about. Others used to live abroad (Stephen Berger, John Henderson, and David Plenkenpol among them) and have now settled stateside. I’m curious to learn from each ’82 where in this world is “home” and what keeps you there? As some of us consider next chapters (retirement!) and where we might plant our feet, I’ve heard at least one classmate suggest she might be heading to Portugal—great elder care and good wine, inexpensive housing, and nice weather. As for me, this is my farewell column. I take my leave inspired by the lyrics, “’round the girdled earth they roam,” and the ’82 spirit of “greater together.” I’ve so enjoyed sending happy birthday wishes your way in partnership with David Eichman, who’s the epitome of a classy class secretary. Be well, travel far, and return “home”—wherever that may be—at peace.

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

A highlights reel for the fall of 2022 would include the virtual mini-reunion author talk attended by 20-plus classmates, organized by mini-reunion co-chairs Mike Berg, Sue Elliot,and Jon Baker and facilitated by Nicole Stent. Guest speaker Dartmouth professor Matt Delmont, associate dean of international studies and interdisciplinary programs and the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, who is an expert on Black history and the history of civil rights, spoke about his newest book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. Everyone reported it was a fascinating conversation. Another highlight was the celebration of coeducation and reopening of Dartmouth Hall in November attended by an enthusiastic posse of ’82 women and a few men, too. Word has it that not only did the ’82s shine as superstars for the weekend’s programs but our class also had the largest number of classmates attending: Emily Bakemeier (moderator for the welcome keynote panel,“When Dartmouth Women Lead: Creating Space for New Voices and Perspectives”), Dan Black, Cheryl Bascomb, Jean Bina, Nancy Bowler-Goeselt, Kathy Briscoe, Brook Confort, Melissa Cook, Carol Davis, Tina Dooley-Jones (panelist for “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”), Kathy Dubishar, Vaune Dugan, Rosie Dupre, Martha Hill Gaskill (panelist for “Stories of Trials and Triumph from World-Class Competitors”), Gail Kezer, Betsy Leggat, Tee Lotson, Ann MacAffer, Sharon McClymonds, Elisabeth McKeon, Sarah Melcher, Alison Schultz Moscow, Kate Ringe-Welch, Kate Riski, Beth Scholle, Meg Singer, Margaret Spring (panelist for“World on Fire: Planet Earth’s ‘Code Red’ ”), George Thompson, Robin Shaffert, Laura Dobbin, Corinne Heyes, Regina Podlesak, Laura Davis, Gray Horan, Cathy Judd-Stein, Sherri Oberg, Sue Elliott, Sue Burkhardt,and Gail Sullivan. Class of ’82s dominate in the world of entertainment, too. “Christmas Eve,” a new release by Seth Swirsky, was a radio hit and Steve Warren’s Emmy-nominated television series, We’re Here! was included in The Los Angeles Times’ December list of “perfect movies and TV shows to curl up with over the holiday break.” Austin Beutner spearheaded the passage of Prop. 28 in California that provides $1 billion for arts funding in public schools. “I’m a public-school kid—the son of an immigrant and a public school teacher—who has lived the American dream. When Prop. 28 passes, it will create a brighter future for 6 million public school kids in California. That’s my reward.” Daniel Geschwind received the National Academy of Medicine Sarnat Prize for Contributions to Understanding of the Genetics of Autism. Sadly, Andy Gaillard passed away on November 3. Before he left us, Andy joined by Zoom as numerous classmates, brothers from Phi Delt, and underclassmen rowers gathered at the Head of the Charles to dedicate a boat in his honor. In typical fashion Kathy Briscoe sprang into action and galvanized folks to raise enough money to endow the racing shell named The Gaillard. John Froemming spoke eloquently to Andy’s legacy as a rower and wonderful human. You can add your tribute to Andy—and Jeff Bechler, who we just learned died December 29—on our “In Memoriam” page on the ’82 website.

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

We’ve launched our pathway to our next big reunion thanks to 40th reunion co-chairs Eric Miller and Jim Vahey, joined by enthusiastic volunteers from the class. The word on the street is that it’s going to be epic: the music, the dancing, and of course the main reason why we’re gathering in Hanover June 15-18, 2023—to spend time with our amazing classmates. From teatime at Sanborn Library (thank you, Carl and Sandra Salas) to TED talks (Beth Johnston Stephenson, producer extraordinaire) you won’t want to miss a minute.

Dana Kurtz sends her best wishes to everyone reporting that “all is great in San Francisco” and she’ll be there! Kate Pesek (now Kate Roski) is now bicoastal. “My husband and I are living in Naples, Florida, in the winter and San Francisco in the summer. I have been working in sustainability and entrepreneurship for several years and currently work as director of business development for a global nonprofit called Net Impact, which prepares business school students for ESG [environmental, social, governance] careers. I’m also working on my golf game, with much less success, but it’s fun anyway. My husband is a very good golfer, so the game is a big part of our lives. I’m really looking forward to our reunion next year and getting reengaged with the class!”

David Eichman, now retired from the law, has a new gig volunteering on the West Hollywood, California, senior advisory board: “I am the youngest member by about 12 years! There is a movement now to stop using the term ‘senior’ and replace it with ‘older adult.’ Barry and Phyllis Caldwell are looking at aging through a different lens: grapes! They’ve become winemakers. (Who else remembers Barry’s favorite expression as “fine wine”?) Alex Blumrosen welcomed this correspondent and Cheryl Bascomb, together with our spouses, while we were in Paris at the end of June enjoying a Dartmouth alumni trip focused on the African American experience in Paris during the Jazz Age. It was great to learn that Dartmouth students also have the opportunity to experience the same curriculum. Alex appreciated his 62nd birthday message of encouragement from the class officers to buy a lifetime senior visitor pass for the U.S. National Parks, sharing this comment: “Indeed will sign up for the National Parks Service [NPS] lifetime pass with thoughts of classmate Mike Kenyon, now retired, who worked legal for NPS for most of his career.”

In July Dan Gaulin spent time with Mike Berg and a few other ’82s: Jason Klein, Bruce Randall, Jon Sadick,and Steve Levitan. Dan noted, “Mike reminded us of the reunion next year and all of us who were at the 35th are definitely going to the 40th. The TED talks were a huge hit with us.” The messages your class co-secretaries send celebrating classmates’ birthdays often lead to humorous comments, such as this quip from Tom Burack: “My barber gave me an early gift yesterday that will keep on giving—a senior citizen discount!” Keep on laughing, everyone!

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

How amazing that the College has recognized ’82 fabulousness by naming the new engineering building the Class of ’82 Engineering and Computer Science Center! Here’s Hugh Jackson, Th’83, on his engineering career: “It all began when a 15-pound box of IBM computer cards arrived at my Hinman box from the U.S. Geological Service containing daily river flow data dating from the 1930s for the Mascoma River. Thus was launched my freshman seminar project at the engineering school studying the potential of low-head hydro power. The data, the analysis—I loved it all—despite the 3 a.m. sessions at Kiewit. Professor Paul Queneau, a world expert in smelting processes, exposed me to this great profession of real-world problem-solving, and Chris Weiss rescued me many times along the way with his expert computer programming!” Linda Jackson, the first Black woman to graduate from Dartmouth with an engineering science degree, is now a well-recognized orthopedic surgeon with an inspirational story: “I came to Dartmouth aspiring to be a physician, following in my father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, but temporarily changed course for biomedical engineering. During my master’s in chemical engineering I spent a great deal of time working on projects involving orthopedic implants, not knowing where I would end up in life. Once in the work world I realized quickly that I wanted to be more directly involved in improving people’s lives. I applied to medical school at Columbia, following in the legacy of my cousin, who was the second African American female admitted to Columbia in 1936 and the only female of 14 applicants to orthopedic residency programs. At the University of Connecticut I was the only female orthopedic resident and later at the Hospital for Special Surgery in 1995 shared the honor of being one of the first two African American females to be fellowship-trained in hand and upper-extremity surgery in the United States. I started practicing in Atlanta, but I had always longed to retire in the Caribbean and an opportunity came along to practice in the U.S Virgin Islands, where I stayed for nine years. I currently provide orthopedic care in an underserved area in West Virginia part time. Surgery is hard to give up. It is who I am and what I love. Eventually the hours and the physical nature of it all will get the better of me, but that day is not here yet. I love my work and my patients. It gives me purpose. I can only hope that during the last 25 years I have been an inspiration to young girls and women and an example of the possibilities in the field of orthopedic surgery and engineering. We have made small gains, but there is room for more women in both of those professions. Dartmouth was where it all began. The path was long and arduous, but my encouragement and support at the beginning gave me confidence and made it all possible.”

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

Hat tip to Betsy Leggat for uncovering news of classmate Margaret Spring: “I clicked on a story about plastic waste in the United States and a report calling for a national strategy on plastic pollution in the world’s oceans (spoiler alert—the United States comprises only 4 percent of the world’s population but provides 20 percent of plastic trash).” The report Betsy noticed was issued by a national committee chaired by our own ’82, Margaret Spring, who also serves as chief conservation and science officer at the Monterey Bay (California) Aquarium. Plastic waste is found in almost every marine habitat, from the ocean surface to deep sea sediments. What path did Margaret take between Hanover and Monterey that led to her chairing the National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine’s committee on U.S. contributions to global ocean plastic waste? “Like many of us, I arrived in Hanover with a jumble of interests, curiosity, and a thirst for knowledge and no career path in mind. At Dartmouth I combined my long fascination with the ocean and environment with earth science classes, eventually focusing on environmental solutions. After Duke Law School and two fellowships and externships in D.C., I began a career in environmental law, first in private practice counseling corporations on waste and pollution compliance, then in government focusing on ocean and climate law and policy in the U.S. Senate and then in the Obama administration. My husband, Mark Bunter (a California-born winemaker), and I moved to Monterey in 2013, and it’s been fantastic. I recently chaired a committee for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine around ocean plastic called for by the 2020 bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. On December 1, 2021, we released our study. I invite everyone to learn about what we can all do—the next generation is counting on us!” As a result of Margaret’s committee’s work, negotiation of an ocean plastic pollution treaty is on the agenda in the United Nations. Margaret is one among many ’82s whose professional and personal passions are focused on environmental sustainability. Lydia Chambers advocates for clean water and more in her New Jersey community. She has served on her local planning board and is currently cochair of a regional pollinator working group. Sam Carlson isanother pollinator advocate. Arecent project with Green Lantern Solar in Vermont is turning land under solar arrays and power lines into habitat for native pollinators. Katie Stearns Friday (U.S. Forest Service)and J.B. Friday (University of Hawaii) have long devoted their work lives to forest stewardship in Hawaii. Gina Blus writes: “[In 2021] I moved from Oakland, California, to Post Mills, Vermont, to White River Junction, Vermont, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I plan to stay forever. I aspire to less packing and more fun in the year ahead and hope the same for you.” Mike Berg shared his aspirations for ’22: “They are simple. I want to ski and travel someplace sunny this winter, enjoy good health, and reconnect with lots of friends and classmates post-pandemic.” Well said, Mike!

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

The year2021 was a time to reflect on what really matters to each of us. Some ’82s are already retiring, some are heading in new directions, and we are each facing new challenges and taking stock of where we want to be with the time we have left. At the end of July Dan Gaulin wrote:“Some of the best times lately have included ’82s and water. Bruce Randall and I went out on Jon Sadick’s sailboat, which he now moors in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Last weekend Bruce, Mike Berg, and I went out on the Hudson on Jason Klein’s cruiser. Tomorrow I’m going to the ‘WooSox’ game with Jon Sadick. His dad, a WW II vet, will be honored before the game. I am retired and have returned to an old pastime—baseball—in a league for 55-year-olds and up. I can still hit a bit but sometime in the last few decades my arm turned into a pool noodle. I also enjoy making things with the trees in the neighborhood, maple syrup and nocino (black walnut liquor).” David Noonan wrote about turning 61, “The joys of my post-pandemic existence include still having a job but not really working, falling asleep when I should be awake and staying awake when I should be sleeping, maintaining golf mediocrity despite diligent practice, and forgetting everyone’s name at the same time.” Some lucky ’82s are traveling overseas again. Before he wrapped up his law practice of 28 years, my class co-secretary, David Eichman, made it to O’ahu, Hawaii, where he got together with Matt Yee. While they were hiking together Matt and David FaceTimed with Leslie Fleming, who has moved back to O’ahu (from San Francisco) with her husband and is teaching art. Also during the summer, Tom Daniels met up with longtime Parisian resident Alex Blumrosen, and Brian McDonough set out for London to work on the new Peninsula Hotel near Hyde Park. Thinking about traveling to Iceland? Check in with Peter Feer, who traveled there in July to compete with one of his sons in The Rift, a gravel bike race, or ask Dan Gilman to share his photos from his family’s exploration of the “Land of Fire and Ice” with cameras in hand on a Dartmouth Alumni Travel excursion. Keep on exploring and be safe, ’82s! With sadness I must report the deaths of Charles Nierman of Malden, Massachusetts, on June 24, and Jeffrey Given of Lafayette, California, on July 9. A reminder that you can contribute reflections about Chaz and Jeff or submit a tribute for any of our deceased classmates and we’ll publish them on the “In Memoriam” pages of our Class website: www.1982.dartmouth.org. Also, please keep us updated if you have a new email address so you will continue to receive Class Notes and news. Did you know that we each have a dartmouth.edu email account? Claim your personal dartmouth.edu email address by emailing the alumni help desk at alumni.help@dartmouth.edu.

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

They say time bends, and if so, then perhaps ’82s have been wishing to stave off our 60s as we’ve turned to meditating, exercising, or volunteering our way out of Covid isolation. For John Henderson, who has devoted so much of his life to the people of Myanmar, this time has meant feeling helpless as tragedies unfolded far away. At least one classmate bucked the Covid-19 weight gain trend: Matt Yee lost 50 pounds! What changes caused by Covid will stick in our future personal or professional lives? What do we hope will stay the same? Matt Hoffman writes, “The inabilityto gather in person during Covid with friends, families, and colleagues will encourage me to have more face-to-face interactions once we’re out of the woods. Also, I plan to hug my loved ones for a second or two longer and think about not only the physical sensation, but also the individual and what (s)he means to me.I hope we will continue to have video calls, rather than text sessions, with long-distance friends and families.” Betsy Leggat says: “What will stick with me is the realization that I have more time than I thought! During Covid I allowed myself the time to exercise and do more volunteer work, and I hope that continues.” Our class president, George Thompson, sums it up: “Family hugs, hugs, and more hugs.” Melissa Cook, a member the advisory board for our class project with the Dickey Center for International Understanding, shared why she’s proud to support the creation of an academic enrichment fund for the African and African American studies (AAAS) program: “I studied Africa during my time at Dartmouth—in Leo Spitzer’s history courses and in anthropology courses. I remember sitting in the stacks looking for books—looking left, looking right, and discovering new worlds and ideas at every turn. That set me up for a career in investment research and strengthened my love of learning, travel, and understanding how different cultures work. To paraphrase the words of a former president of Dartmouth—the College should train students to go out and find the world’s opportunities or solve the world’s problems (although that presupposes that other people can’t solve their own problems)! Africa is the youngest, fastest-growing, most tech-savvy, and most dynamic continent and is the future for companies across the technology, healthcare, financial services, and other industries. African entrepreneurs and innovators are coming up with solutions to their own problems and creating products and services that will work around the world. For young people looking for the next great place to work, study, travel, and invest, Africa is the place to be. The AAAS program should be seen as core to the College’s mission and I am happy to be able to support it.” Melissa founded African Sunrise Partners LLC, a research and advisory firm dedicated to bringing investment to Africa. Look for an invitation to attend a virtual program this summer with the AAAS faculty to celebrate the endowment created by our class.

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

How did ’82s spend this past Covid-quarantine year? Innovating, surviving, grieving, reflecting, protesting, turning 60, and celebrating personal milestones that marked a year like no other. Here’s a roundup from the past 12 months.

John Gaudioso quarantined in New Jersey, “I’m equidistant between my boys, one in New Haven, Connecticut, one in Baltimore. My daughter is out in Denver. This is the longest stretch ever (more than a year) without seeing her.”

Multitalented Dr. Tee Lotson joined the board of directors of the N.Y. Road Runners Club. Hat tip to Tom Daniels, a fellow road runner, for that news.

It’s been a decade since David Plekenpol rode the smartphone wave to take a job with AAC in China. But during Covid David and Victoria quarantined in Colorado—living, not vacationing, in their U.S. residence. Starting in 2021 Plek anticipates splitting time between Shenzhen, Colorado, and Europe. Archaeologist Eric Cline has been busy—if not collecting artifacts from beneath the ground, then collecting accolades for his recent book, Digging Up Armageddon, which was named one of The Federalist’s“Notable Books for 2020.”

Jay Geller, lawyering in Falmouth, Maine, reflected: “I think the pandemic has been much harder on young families than on us old farts. I am most looking forward to the relief that they will experience by getting their lives back—returning to school and a more normal work environment. I miss seeing and being able to hug my godson and his siblings and occasionally giving their parents a break while the kids do a sleepover at our house.”

Betsy and Doug Latham quarantined with their youngest son (age 30). Doug works for a company that provides ebooks to college students. Betsy is a certified public accountant near Boston. “Being able to see friends and family is our wish for the new year. We are grateful to have jobs, a home where we can get out into nature, and the love of family and friends.”

We’ve got some inspiring amateur photographers in our class, among them Sarah Riddle Lilja, David Silbersweig, and Dan Gilman. If you are a photographer, feel free to post to the ’82 Facebook page, and if you delight in interesting photos and are on Instagram, do follow our official class Instagram account: @Dartmouth1982.

Class of ’82 doing good: Belated kudos to Steve Whitely, a York (Pennsylvania) Suburban High School teacher who received the 2020 Mini-Thon Leadership Development Award for helping his students raise more than $480,000 toward the fight against childhood cancer.

On his 60th birthday Hank Malin reported that it was a “beautiful day in Ohio (not an oxymoron) and our younger son is here to celebrate, so it’s a great day to turn 60. Here’s to a healthy and more civil and harmonious year ahead. I’m already looking forward to our 40th reunion, which will be here before we know it!” Hank’s right: Your class officers are starting to make a plan for June 2023! If you’d like to be involved in planning our 40th, please let our class president, George Thompson, know at gthompson@gthompsonlegal.com.

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

Sean Burke challenged himself to write a poem every day in April during lockdown in Paris where he lives. Here’s one of his daily “Covid Chronicles,” titled, “You Used to Be In Shape,” that I think works well as a rap to any of the songs from Hamilton: “You’d indulge yourself on Saturday/Not give a second thought to the price you’d pay/Just eat and drink to the hilt/And let Sunday’s workout banish the guilt!/You’d say hi to your gym friends/Inquire politely about their weekends/Even shake a hand or two/It’s what proper manners require we do. /Remember how every muscle was tended to/That’s what all those weights were meant to do/Each machine more advanced than the last/Making flabbiness a thing of the past./Now along comes confinement /And you’re faced with an assignment/How to live life like before/When the fitness center is no more?/So you tried that old jump rope/But deep down knew there was little hope/Sure, it would have been a breeze/Were it not for those aging knees./Then you read about something called isometrics/You thought, wow, that sounds better than calisthenics/So carefully and patiently you twisted and turned/But hours later barely a calorie had burned./Sure, you can go running or walking/But then you face policemen balking/Why are you so far from home, they ask/And why aren’t you wearing a mask?/Well perhaps you should just give in/During quarantine no one’s meant to be thin/So enjoy those chips as you ponder when/You’ll be able to work out once again!”

Perhaps like me you ache to go somewhere more exotic that the local CVS. You can visit an English historic estate thanks to a Smithsonian virtual tour, featuring our very own Karen (Joey) Wallace Lowther, mistress of Holdenby House, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, built in 1583. (And you thought turning 60 was historic!) From Karen: “You may not be able to invite me to your home, but I can invite you to mine from the comfort of your own sofa: www.holdenby.com. Holdenby House—my family home for 30-odd years—is featured in a series about great British estates on the Smithsonian Channel. I love the idea of showing my fellow ’82s around my home digitally, hoping many will visit in person when lockdown and quarantines end and the world returns to normal. Becki Ambrose and Meg Singer have visited and Phil Kaufmann was on his way when lockdown hit. Keep well and hope to see you soon, be it in Hanover or here at Holdenby.” Karen and her husband, James, have raised their four children in the historic home. If Italy’s more your thing, someday you may want to visit a formerly dilapidated villa in Tuscany, La Casa di Montegrossi, that Hope Wernick Wigmore and her husband, Mark, lovingly restored. Paying guests can visit for week-long holidays. Mini-reunion in Tuscany, anyone?

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

These are tough times. As Covid-19 upended our worlds, we reached out to well-recognized voices in our class, asking them to share how they’ve been coping and what the Dartmouth community means to them. Here is Part I of the ’82 “Vox Clamantis in Pandemus.” Part II will appear in a future Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Matt Hoffman writes: “It’s natural to feel anxious, frightened, and depressed while this invisible killer surrounds us. Although I am being very careful about minimizing the risk of spreading the virus, I refuse to allow it to dominate. What helps maintain normalcy for me is to think about everything I am grateful for. It has also been comforting to connect with classmates via the internet. Why didn’t I do so more often before Covid-19? Will I keep it up after the virus is gone? I hope so. I wish all ’82s and their loved ones good physical and mental health.”

Carol Davis writes: “When I was 12 my greatest dream was to be on the PBS show, Zoom. In the category of being careful of what you wish for, I never thought I’d be on Zoom celebrating Easter or that my son would be finishing his junior year of college on Zoom. The silver lining, of course, is extra time with my son. I most miss live performances, but I am grateful to all the artists and theaters that are connecting with audiences from their homes and puzzles—hours and hours and hours of puzzles.” 

Cathy Judd Stein writes: “This pandemic confirms for me that community truly depends on innovation and perseverance, powered by heart and hope. How fortunate that Dartmouth ’82s comprise such a community. Our class Compassion Committee is an outstanding example, offering outreach at this time of such immense loss. Additionally, in Massachusetts, a contact tracing collaborative is underway (and being replicated across the nation), aimed at staring this virus down. The program evolved from a roadside call that the governor had with former Dartmouth President Jim Kim (an adopted ’82), who detailed the success of the Partners in Health approach to infectious disease control. The scope of this crisis is overwhelming, but the leader of this new tracing program inspires me with her simple but enduring words: ‘You just have to start and believe that it’s possible.’ We will come out on the other side, greater together, with bigger hearts and stronger hope, motivated by possibility.”

It is with a very heavy heart that we report the death of a bright ’82 light: Sally Adnopoz Gendler succumbed to a long illness on April 22 with her husband, Steve, and daughters Abigail and Liza at her side. Our class has a new way to leave tributes to other classmates by submitting photos for the “In Memoriam” pages of our ’82 website. Please send tributes and photos to remember deceased classmates to dartmouth1982@gmail.com.

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

How does the class of 1982 celebrate a new decade? Carolyn Wilcox Galliette, cofounder, chief investment officer, and president of Ironwood Capital, was named to the 2020 list of most influential women in mid-market mergers and acquisitions, proving that studying James Joyce as an undergrad can lead you anywhere. Gray Reisfield Horan’s musical about early Hollywood is a semifinalist for the 2020 National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Waterford, Connecticut. Dan Gilman continues his 20-plus-year run as a professional policy geek in the Federal Trade Commission’s office of policy planning (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Nick Holecamp, chief medical officer at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, was recognized with the Missouri Foundation for Health’s 2019 Walentik Leadership in Health Award. If you have questions about those grandkids’ health, you know who to ask. And did you see Michael Rafter’s cameo in Marriage Story at the piano while Adam Driver sings “Being Alive”? Guess who coached Mr. Driver through the song? The arc of Robin Shaffert’s career as a disability rights lawyer has taken a local turn. After a decade working on national policy and programs in the disability community, she is now senior policy associate at the Georgetown University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disability and will be focusing on local, D.C. policy issues. Did someone say “retirement”? Nope.After 33 yearsat McKinsey, Tom French is taking a “gap year” to summit a few more big mountains. Mike Donoghue is eschewing retirement to serve as executive director of Catholic Charities for Fairfield County, Connecticut.

At an ’82 mini-reunion in Washington, D.C., I asked Kathy Boak Dubishar to share a 60th birthday wish. She’d love anything involving traveling with all four children and animal viewing. If a trip to the Arctic to see polar bears doesn’t come through, a little birdy told me that Kathy’s kids may surprise her with a trip to the San Diego Zoo! News from the West Coast includes these milestones shared by Winky Stearns Hussey: “March-August 2019 was pretty momentous for our family. Our daughter had a baby, one son got married, the other son matched for his internal medicine specialty at University of Washington in our hometown of Seattle. Both ‘boys’ bought homes, and on August 3 my husband, Peter, interred his father’s ashes in Maine and my mother died in New Hampshire. So many milestones.” Milestones, indeed. And in recognition of the fact that celebrating life’s milestones also means facing challenges, our class executive committee recently launched ’82 Compassion. This initiative connects classmates to serve as resources for each other. Our class has a long tradition of celebrating birthdays and sending condolence notes, and this initiative offers us other opportunities to show up for each other as a supportive community of ’82s during good times and bad. Thank you to Laura Davis, Sarah Lilja, Robin Shaffert, Cindy Willett Sherwood, Drea Papp Thorne, and Laurie Morris Betts for being among our pioneer ’82 Compassion volunteers. If you’d like to get involved, please drop me a line.

Finally, I am saddened to report that we recently learned that our classmate, Brian Fitzpatrick, died on December 4, 2018. Our thoughts are with his loved ones, family, and friends.

—Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

As we reach an age starting with a six, let’s reflect on our first years at Dartmouth. How did President/Professor Kemeny and the advent of personal computing change our trajectories? John Idzik, a mathematics major, recalls that his attraction to Dartmouth stemmed from his love for math…and football. “With a president who invented BASIC as an active faculty member within your major and a football program competing for Ivy League championships, what could be more challenging and fulfilling?” John’s career has been a combination of both passions. After Dartmouth John worked for IBM, pivoting after seven years to coach football. He currently works for the Jacksonville Jaguars. John’s early work as a pro scout for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers included integrating technology into football operations, a role he continued while working with the Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets, and now the Jaguars. He’s witnessed the technological transformation of the game firsthand: “From 16mm film to digital video and from hard copy coaching and scouting reports to web-based football applications, for me it all started at Dartmouth under the watch of President Kemeny.” Professor Walter Cressler is experiencing the technology revolution in his role as chair of the department of university libraries at West Chester University. As librarians retire and he hires younger more tech-savvy replacements, “Pretty soon I’ll be the only one of my colleagues who remembers when desktop computers were a thing.” For fun, Walter, formerly a geology professor, is working on a digital app to create GPS-coordinated themed walking trails as a way of investigating whether digital technology can get people more engaged with their landscapes for both personal and environmental health. Cathy Green Solomon recollects: “One of the best courses I took at Dartmouth was President Kemeny’s. I was starstruck at first to be in the classroom with a brilliant mathematician and our revered college president, but his unassuming manner put us all quickly at ease. I’ll never forget walking out of the final exam when he handed us copies of the answers. Why? He explained that we would never again be so focused on the material, so seeing the solutions in the moment would reinforce the learning when our brains were most receptive.” Cathy’s carrying that lesson forward in her new role as chief financial officer of N Street Village in Washington, D.C., which empowers homeless and low-income women to achieve stability in housing, employment, mental and physical health, and addiction recovery. To close the loop on how technology is changing our lives, we’re now at an age to celebrate both grandparenting and joint replacement! Congrats to Sue Ringler Pet and Pacey Pet, Ralph McDevitt, and Sarah Riddle Lilja (new grandparents) and Dana Burroughs Klinges, who’s already been skiing with her new ACL. In closing, it is with fond memories of our classmate and deep condolences to his family and friends that we report the death of Robert G. Lasko Jr. of North Branford, Connecticut, on August 6.

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

The Hood Museum has reopened, inspiring us to wonder, What reflections do the ’82 art majors have about their undergraduate experiences? Here are their reports. Marrin Robinson, a painter and academic success coordinator at Arizona State University, wrote: “Professor Ashley Bryan was a wonderful inspiration, and I’m still in touch with him. He is still publishing books at age 90-plus. We write regularly, and I’ve visited him on his island in Maine a few times! Painting with Jonathan Marvel and Jay Mead in Italy on our art history study abroad was great. The camaraderie of all the ’82 art majors was wonderful. Dartmouth prepared me for getting a Fulbright grant to Portugal the year after I graduated and propelled me into grad school, where I had a full tuition scholarship. I started teaching as an art professor right after that. Now I’m advising dance and theater students at Arizona State University, which is a lot of fun. And I have a studio in my home in Sedona [Arizona], where I paint. Would love to see anyone passing through!” Jim Mott, best known for his passion, “the itinerant artist project,” shared: “In retrospect I’d have to say the camaraderie among the art majors—and, within that, the sense of shared, earnest purpose as artists—was the most valuable thing about my art experience at Dartmouth. It helped to fortify me for the journey ahead, which is so often about holding onto faith in art’s value as a way to articulate a vital sense of meaning while navigating a path between the seeming indifference of the public, on the one hand, and the ironic indifference of the artworld game players on the other.” Leslie Fleming, now residing in Hawaii, reminisces: “The Hood was built after we left Dartmouth. They were planning for it our senior spring. The architectural firm was on campus then, and I remember helping them do some measurements for their plans. I had taken two architecture courses earlier that year at Dartmouth and felt quite honored to do this. There weren’t too many art majors in our class so we were a pretty tight-knit group. My favorite class was an advanced painting class with Ashley Bryan. We had class in a building near the steam plant and were able to paint at all hours of the night—unlike at the Hop, where we were booted out at midnight. I still think of Ashley when I paint now, which is not often enough, as I am more likely to be teaching art to elementary school students through the Honolulu Museum of Art (where I first took art classes as a child!).” Carol Davis,our class newsletter editor, wrote: “I was an art history major who ended up going to law school. Thirty-five years after graduation I am training to be a docent at a local museum in Hartford, Connecticut, and am very much looking forward to (finally) putting my major to use. Can’t wait to see the new Hood!”

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

Have you been thinking about what it means to turn 60? Most of us have one more year to let the 50s rip. What adventures are ahead? News broke before the New Year that Danny Black has been nominated as a trustee of Dartmouth College, becoming the seventh member of our class to serve the College as a trustee. Davin MacKenzie who now lives in Taipei, Taiwan, prefers adventures that involve bicycling. He likes cycling so much that he switched jobs to join Madison Sports Group, a worldwide leading promoter of cycling events. Marci and Michael Sapers are spending their second winter in Park City, Utah. They were convinced by Tiger and Kristin Farrish Shaw that Park City is the place to be. “We drove west last December and spent four months living the dream. Within the first week, Marci and I realized what a magical place Park City is and how much we would like to spend the rest of our winters here.” But Mike’s not just thinking about spending his days skiing the powder. Oh no, he’s got a bigger adventure in mind: “In fact, Kristin and I are looking for a large parcel of land to develop as a community for, what we have dubbed, ‘the actively aging.’ It would harken back to the days when we were living in the dorms and all we needed to do was walk down the hall to find someone to go play with.” For now, Mike and Marci’s grand plans are to ski in Utah for four months during the winter, and return to Boston for the rest of the year. “Of course, Kristin keeps saying as nice as Park City is in the winter, it is even better in the summer….” Martha Solis-Turner and her husband, Jamie, are heading to Antarctica for a three-week trip that will be a partial recreation of Ernest Shackleton’s historic expedition. Another classmate’s adventure will be exploring the southern hemisphere this winter. Sarah Riddle Lilja and her husband are both semi-retired, so have the opportunity to plan a multi-month adventure to pursue their passions: “This will be my second trip to New Zealand and my fifth to Australia. I have simply fallen in love with Down Under. The people, places, flora, and fauna—I can’t wait to immerse myself and photograph it all. My Dartmouth language study abroad in Spain was my first taste of living in a place and culture that was so different from my everyday life, and I fell in love with the experience. As I age, I want more and more to spend my time in these profoundly stimulating and engaging adventures. I will be blogging with photos at https://downunder2019.blogspot.com.” Many of our classmates share Sarah’s fascination with other cultures and faraway places. Looking for travel ideas? All you have to do is scroll down the “Dartmouth College Class of 1982” Facebook page to read about classmates’ adventures, connect, and share.

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

Greetings, ’82s! We hope you’ll enjoy getting to know some of the new class executive committee members. Sarah (Riddle) Lilja joins Joanne McMullen as class co-biographer: “I’m semi-retired after working more than 30 years as a clinical social worker. I still have a small private practice working with children with behavior disorders. Now that I have more free time to indulge my passions, this year I launched Sarah Lilja Photography, an art photography business. I will be spending four months in New Zealand and Australia in 2019 enjoying partial-retirement with my husband and taking lots of photos. I volunteered to serve on the executive committee because I had such a great experience on our reunion committee that I wanted to get more involved with our class.”

Sue Elliott writes: “My home base is in Marin County, California. I have so enjoyed connecting with old friends and making new ones at Dartmouth reunions through the years since our graduation. I am looking forward to joining the mini-reunion team to help organize more opportunities for the class of ’82 to get together, share experiences, and have fun!”

When Jon Baker called to ask Steve Berger to serve as our class Dartmouth College Fund head agent, Steve wasn’t really sure what the role would involve. “But I knew it meant a further chance to engage with the College and our great class of 1982. Since moving to Charleston, South Carolina, a few years ago following a 30-year career in finance in Asia, one of my favorite activities has been reconnecting with Dartmouth, whether through Friends of Dartmouth Rowing or renewing friendships at our recent reunion and now through this new role on our class executive committee.”

Here’s why Martha Solis said “yes” to serving as an at-large member of the class executive committee: “I see it as a great way to reconnect with classmates and the College, while serving our great class of ’82!”

What else is lighting up the passions of our classmates? Woody Kingman,inspired by his senior year Trip to the Sea, is pumped about the Canoemobile program, a wildly successful floating classroom project of Wilderness Inquiry that gets inner-city kids into canoes and out onto the water, where they learn new leadership skills and appreciation for the natural world. Ted Trabue, executive director of the District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility, loves his work: “The environmental and economic benefits are very fulfilling. Our energy-efficiency programs allow people to divert money from energy bills into more important needs.” And speaking of Ted—TED Talks, that is—classmates are still buzzing about the amazing TED-style talks at our 36th reunion in June. (Thanks, Beth Johnston Stephenson!)

We did a little digging for ’82s who have presented TED Talks around the country. Turns out that Kevin Peterson, while program director at the N.H. Charitable Foundation, took the national stage at TEDxFargo 2017—one of the largest independent TEDx events in the country—to share a great idea: impact investing. Kevin is now director of economic development at the Community Development Finance Authority in New Hampshire. Bobby Charles spent 10 years writing his newly published book, Eagles and Evergreens, that celebrates adventure, small-town values, and our WW II veterans. He calls it an “uplifting, enjoyable, happy read!”

Austin Beutner is “back to school” this fall, as he was recently named the superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District.

What are you passionate about these days? Let us know!

—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

As I write this column, our 35th (actually 36th) reunion is just six weeks away. By the time you read it, the reunion will have happened. We hope reunion chair Mary Thomson Renner is taking a well-deserved vacation and your new class officers will be getting ready for their first monthly conference call. Were we able to lure 266 classmates back to Hanover and break the attendance record for a 35th reunion? You will have to wait until the next column to find out….

The big news is that our very own Cheryl Bascomb has been named Dartmouth’s next vice president for alumni relations. Cheryl begins her new job on June 1—her birthday! She has more than 30 years of experience in marketing and business development. Cheryl has been an active alumna since our graduation, serving Dartmouth in many different ways. She is married to David Van Wie ’79, and their daughter, Rosa, is a member of the class of 2012. Cheryl writes, “I am beyond excited to tackle this role.” She is an inspired choice to head up Dartmouth’s worldwide effort in alumni engagement. So proud of my fellow Gemini! You go, girl!

Cathy Camp Boyle lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she is a commissioner of the Winchester Housing Authority and a member of the Winchester Housing Partnership board. Cathy is the recipient of several awards for her work with Autism Housing Pathways, which helps families find or create housing and improves the ability of the housing sector to meet the needs of people with autism. She also serves on the state autism commission. After graduation Cathy lived in Lagos, Nigeria, for two and a half years working as a foreign service officer.

I want to close this column with a big thank-you to all those classmates who contributed so much to the leadership of the class these past six years, including Cathy Judd-Stein, Peter Feer, Robin Shaffert, David Plekenpol, Joanne McMullen, Matt Hoffman, Carol Davis, Mike Berg, Jon Baker, Betsy Leggat, Corinne Heyes, Patrick Viguerie, Jenny Chandler Hauge, Sam Carlson, Joe Reinkemeyer, Brian McDonough, Danny Black, Ralph McDevitt, Al Dotson, Sally McCoy, David Silbersweig, Lillian Cousins Giornelli, Karl Thurmond, and Mary Thomson Renner. We call ourselves “NETCO” which stands for “Nineteen Eighty-Two Class Officers.” Cathy has done an amazing job organizing and leading this diverse group of volunteers. I asked each officer for a word or two to describe Cathy and got the following responses: thoughtful, inclusive, dedicated, fun-loving, supportive, unflappable, aware, diplomatic, deliberate, gracious, feisty, green-blooded, kindhearted, brilliant, compassionate, authentic, kind, indomitable, sexy, big-hearted, relentless, consensus-building, respectful, principled, consistent, and endlessly enthusiastic. I will add: humble. She has raised the profile of our class to new heights. Cathy, you are simply the best.

My final plea is that the deadline to make a gift to the Dartmouth College Fund for this fiscal year is June 30. If you are able to do so, we are grateful. A safe and happy summer to all!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com

I hope to see all of you in Hanover June 14 to 17 for our 35th reunion. Save the date and please encourage your Dartmouth friends to attend. Our reunion theme is “Greater Together!” Reunion chair Mary Thomson Renner has assembled a diverse and dedicated team of classmates to make this reunion the best one yet. Rosi Dupre Littlefield, J.J. Hanley and Chris Caravette will be overseeing the food. Philippa Guthrie is handling communications. Ann MacAffer is directing our social media outreach, including Facebook. Jim Vahey is our reunion treasurer and Amy Warner is handling registration. Cynthia Hall McCraven and Tee Lotson will be organizing the memorial service. Mike Sapers is coordinating athletics and special events and Tom Burack and Kevin Peterson are in charge of our Moosilauke adventure. Matt Norton is our DJ extraordinaire and music coordinator. Sue Elliott and Gray Reisfield Horan are in charge of swag. Beth Johnston Stephenson and Sarah Riddle Lilja are organizing a panel of speakers. Crashy Zacher Brown and Ann MacAffer are our late-night fun gurus. Other classmates stepping forward to help include Brian McDonough, Herb Hardwick, Barry Caldwell, Meg Singer Huffman, Jack Oakes, Martha Solis-Turner, Emily Bakemeier, Jeanie Witte Bina, Cathy Judd-Stein, Laura Murray Dobbin and Linda Bornhuetter Gridley. If you would like to help out, please contact Mary at maryrenner5@gmail.com.

At our reunion we will select class officers who will lead the class for the next five years. If you are interested in getting more involved in class leadership, please email class president Cathy Judd-Stein at cjuddstein@gmail.com and she can go over the different roles and responsibilities and time commitment involved.

Richard Pinkham spent his November birthday skiing in Loveland Basin, Colorado, with Pete Cogan. Richard writes, “Always good to get on snow on the birthday. Especially with old Dartmouth friends! Pete Moran was there in spirit. We called him from the lift.” Congratulations to Bill Cole on his election as mayor of Billings, Montana. Bill is an attorney and one of his campaign themes was “building a Billings that will retain and attract young people.” His election makes wife Anne Remmer Cole first lady of Billings. A shout-out also to Al Dotson, who was named managing partner of his Miami law firm, Bilzin Sumberg. Al is a government relations attorney and serves as chair of the firm’s land use and government relations practice group. Al is also chairman emeritus of 100 Black Men of America. Jack Zaremski went to Harvard Law School and clerked on the supreme court of Israel before founding Hanover Legal Personnel Services, a legal staffing and attorney recruitment company based in Manhattan—in the Empire State Building. Jack splits his time between New York and Israel, where he started a business brewing and distributing a line of craft beer using freshly squeezed pomegranate juice. Hilda Wang lives in Hong Kong, where she writes for a variety of newspapers. Hilda is looking forward to the reunion and promises to tell me all about eating snake soup.

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com

As I write this column your class officers have just submitted our annual class activities report, in which we describe in great detail all of the activities we have done this past school year. By the time you read this column your class officers will have traveled to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. I thought it would be fun to focus in this column on class numbers rather than classmate names, so here we go.

There were 1,054 of us who matriculated back in September 1978. As of July 1, 2017, 1,018 of us are still alive. We have current email addresses for 976 classmates.

Our class dues participation rate was 51 percent this past year. Our class raised $1,268,995 for the Dartmouth College Fund this year, with 38.3 percent of classmates participating. I know our class agents would like to see that percentage rise as we head into our 35th reunion (June 14-17, 2018).

Twenty-three members of the class are in the Bartlett Tower Society (BTS), which means they have included Dartmouth in their estate plans. The amount of the bequest is not important: Any amount is welcome. The goal for our 35th reunion is to have 40 BTS members.

As class co-secretaries Robin and I submitted six Class Notes columns this past year for Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Sixty-one different classmates’ names appeared in our columns, including 18 classmates whose names had not previously been mentioned. We strive to report on classmates who we have not included before—and even keep a list to help us. And lest you think we only want to hear about job promotions and honorary degrees, we welcome anything that you would like to share. Sadly, Robin and I also wrote two classmate obituaries this past year.

One of the special joys of being class secretary for the great class of 1982 is sending birthday emails. I am fascinated by the age range in our class. Our oldest member was born in March of 1952 and our youngest in March of 1962—a full 10-year difference! We have two classmates who were born on February 29—1960 was a leap year! There are four classmate birthdays on Valentine’s Day and three classmates with Christmas Day birthdays. None of us were born on the 4th of July or Christmas Eve! The two classmates born on May 1 are married to each other. The dates with the most birthdays are January 16, February 16 and September 3—with eight birthdays each. And there are only 19 days during the year where we do not need to send a birthday email: January 2, 9, 17; February 3, 20; April 26; May 20; June 24, 29; July 3, 4; September 7; October 21, 23; November 7, 23; and December 10, 23, 24.

The final number I will mention is 265. That is the number of classmates we need to bring back to Hanover next June in order to break the 35th reunion record set by the class of 1979. That would make all your class officers very happy!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com

I am back from a whirlwind trip to Israel for the wedding of Jay Shofet and Adeena Sussman. Jay has lived in Israel for all but a few years since we graduated. He is now the director of partnerships and development at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. Adeena is a food writer, recipe developer and cookbook author. And they throw a great wedding. The food was fabulous and, more importantly, Jay and Adeena’s love for each other and for their families and friends created a powerful energy in the room that fueled a long night of dancing and celebration. Also attending the wedding was the newly minted Adrienne Lotson, Ph.D.It has been a busy spring for Tee, who, in addition to receiving her doctorate in anthropology from the graduate center of the City University, was elected president-elect of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Tee is embarking on a new chapter of her life as a professional thinker and writer while continuing to work as an administrative law judge and hearing officer for the City of New York to pay for those pesky habits of eating and having a roof over her head. No matter how many degrees Tee gets, she will always be the life of the party. We had a great time with Tee and with her traveling companion, Juanne Renee Harris ’85. Yisrael (Jay) Rosenberg has been living in Israel almost as long as Jay Shofet. Three years ago Yisrael left his career in information technology and now works for the organization that gives tours of the tunnels under the Western Wall. We enjoyed the chance to visit with Yisrael in Jerusalem, arranged by my cousin, whose wife is Yisrael’s wife’s cousin.

Jay Shofet isn’t the only newlywed in our class. Bruce Martin was married on June 18, 2016, to Alison Nelson, a teacher of gifted elementary students. Bruce is a senior vice president in commercial lending with JPMorgan Chase in Chicago.

With her stint in the White House behind her, Cathy Green Solomon is now the chief operating officer of N Street Village, Washington, D.C.’s largest provider of housing and support services to homeless and low-income women. Cathy’s daughter, Julie, graduated from Dartmouth in June and is headed to New York to make a go of it in theater set design, after spending a summer interning at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Her older daughter, Amy (Princeton ’14), is an associate producer at HBO, working on Silicon Valley and a new show starring Bill Hader that will air this winter. Cathy’s husband, Bob, is happily consulting to business-to-business software companies, while the two of them wonder how two M.B.A. parents raised such creative daughters!

I regret that I must end with the sad news that classmates Scott Davidoff and Peter Zimmerman died recently. May their memories be a blessing. Obituaries will appear in the online edition of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

I hope to see you all in less than a year at our next reunion in Hanover—June 14-17, 2018!

—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net

One hundred thirty-five of you showed up in Hanover at the end of October for our joint Homecoming mini-reunion with the class of 1981. I could use the 500 words in this column just to list all the names, but you know who you are. Instead let me list the responses you posted in our Facebook group to my question to provide one word to describe the weekend: awesome, thankful, wonderful, hoarse, fun, memory-jogger, magical and inspirational.

Thanks go to many people starting with our amazing class president, Cathy Judd-Stein, and all the class officers of both classes. Special shout-outs go to Ann MacAffer for organizing the weekend, galvanizing the masses and literally pitching the tent; to Carol Davis for leading our social media coverage and helping out wherever she could; to Mike Berg for all the time spent on the original joint ’81-’82 newsletter; to Kathy Briscoe for bringing classmates to the river for crew and for always being the Energizer bunny; to Matt Hoffman for all his tech support and for getting the word out and his daily tallies; to Lita Remsen for her yoga class on Sunday morning; to Charlie Winslow for reminding us not to overprogram and to keep it simple since we most enjoy just talking with each other; to Tee Lotson for her thoughtful reflections on Sunday morning remembering those classmates who are no longer with us; to Jay Rosenberg for traveling from Israel and to Joe Reinkemeyer for coming from Germany; and to the following tailgate contributors: Danny Black, Rosi Dupre Littlefield, Tee Lotson, Laura Murray Dobbin, Mary Thomson Renner, Emily Bakemeier, Carol Davis, Drea Papp Thorn, Sharon Flynn McClymonds, Mary Conway, Colin McNay, Philippa Guthrie, Sam Laurin, Maya Ohl Boreen, Libbet Waterman McKeon, Betsy Leggat and Vaune Dugan. It was a real team effort.

This was a good dress rehearsal leading up to our 35th reunion June 14-17, 2018, in Hanover. I am so pleased that Mary Renner has agreed to head up our 35th reunion planning team. I know that Mary would love to hear your thoughts and ideas about this next big gathering. Email her at maryrenner5@gmail.com. Mary also welcomes anyone who would like to help with the planning.

The weekend before Homecoming was the Head of the Charles in Boston, which saw Steve “Fabes” Faber, Pete Folger, Kathy Briscoe and Holly Henson in a boat on the water.

One of the strengths of our class is our commitment to transition planning. This means a new set of officers will be elected at the 35th reunion. If you have been wanting to get involved in our class activities, now is your chance to take on a bigger role. About to retire? Kids out of the house? Bored with the local chamber of commerce board? Now is the chance to devote some time to the great class of 1982! If you are interested, please email Cathy Judd-Stein at cjuddstein@gmail.com.

I am out of space. Easter and Passover will soon be here. Happy happy!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com

Halloween is almost here again. Where did the summer go? My grandmother always used to say that time goes by more quickly the older you get. I would always respond, “That’s not true, Nanny. Time is constant.” But now I understand what she meant. Before we know it our 35th reunion will be here: June 14-17, 2018. Save the date!

Dan Gaulin works in the field of affordable housing, where he helps for-profit and nonprofit developers obtain subsidized development financing. In 2012 one of the deals that he worked on, Salem Towers in Malden, Massachusetts, won national recognition as the best senior housing project using federal housing tax credits. Dan and wife Nancy live in Framingham, Massachusetts. He writes: “We get a kick out of all the wildlife—deer, turkeys, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, song birds, bats. Yet we can walk to a Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens and Starbucks.”

Charlie “Chars” Crane works at Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC in New York City and splits his time between Manhattan and Maine with a goal to move to Maine full-time. Charlie got his M.B.A. from Tuck and always had an entrepreneurial nature. While at Dartmouth he and Ray Kelly owned and operated a business that sold stereo equipment and blank cassette tapes. Remember cassette tapes?

Bob Pattillo is also an entrepreneur and a world leader on microfinance. His Atlanta-based company Gray Matters Capital has invested more than $160 million in microfinance and education, mainly in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. “There isn’t a tradeoff between doing good and making money,” Bob says. He is a member of the 100 Percent Impact Network, a group of investors who have pledged their wealth to social or environmental impact. Gray Matters Capital has committed to providing 100 million women with an education by 2036.

Chris Marriott has moved from Connecticut back to Lake Forest, Illinois, where he grew up. “I had forgotten how lousy the weather was,” he writes. I was not sure if Chris was related to the hotel family, but he confirmed that he is not. His youngest son is at Vanderbilt.

Steve Becker is an ear, nose and throat doctor in Las Vegas. He and wife Sherri have a house in Oregon—in the western part of the Applegate Valley near Grants Pass. I think I see a mini-reunion opportunity in Oregon! Steve has already scaled back his work in Nevada so he can spend more time in the Beaver State. My husband and I had dinner with Steve when we were in Las Vegas last fall.

I am happy to report that Sandy Kelsey got married to Liz Verney in Hanover in August. Classmates in attendance included Peter Feer, David “Plek” Plekenpol, Brad Fanestil, Libbet Waterman McKeon, Cathy Judd-Stein, John Donahoe, John King, Peter Moran, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger.

I close with the sad news that Rob Maxwell died in July. A full obituary will be forthcoming—both on our class website and online at Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com

I am happy to report that 122 of you participated in our virtual reunion on March 22—the 82nd day of the year—by posting a photo or comment to our class Facebook group describing something that you are passionate about. If you have not read the individual posts, please do so as soon as you finish reading this column! Next year the 82nd day will be March 23 (2017 is not a leap year). If you are not currently a member of our Facebook group (which totals 374 classmates!), please join: “Dartmouth College Class of 1982.” Facebook seems to be the best way for all of us to stay in touch.

Adam Spindell has lived in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, for 20 years. His sons are proud graduates of the University of Wisconsin and Northwestern University, respectively. Adam plays disc golf, which apparently is really Frisbee golf where you toss a specialized Frisbee into a basket hanging from chains. Who knew?

Dominic Sekyere grew up in Ghana and has been spending more time there than at his official residence in Grapevine, Texas. He runs an information technology outsourcing business that focuses on processing payroll for multinational companies.

Lisa Harrison Kender and husband Mike moved from New Jersey to Blacksburg, Virginia, last year. Mike is teaching at Virginia Tech (his alma mater). Lisa writes, “I think we will like it here. It reminds me of New Hampshire, where I grew up, but is more rural.” If you find yourself in southwestern Virginia, contact Lisa.

Grant Davis Reeher has been working at Syracuse University for 24 years. He has taught American politics and democratic theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Grant also created and currently hosts and produces a weekly interview-based public affairs radio program. In his free time he enjoys fishing with his son, Davis.

Steve Zilber has a consulting business that focuses on helping companies design new products that meet real customer needs and desires, using a user-centric approach. Steve enjoys practicing martial arts and tai chi and going to movies at the Cleveland Cinematheque. He is also president of the Cleveland Go Club.

Congratulations to two sets of newlyweds. Dianne Vogel Vazquez, now Dianne Vogel Boucher, married Marc Boucher in December. Loved the photos on Facebook, Dianne. Peter Moran and Ingeborg Sacksen ’84 married on March 19 after a brief eight-year courtship. Classmates in attendance included best man Sandy Kelsey and Dave Britton.

Finally, put October 28-30 in your calendars for our joint Homecoming Weekend celebration in Hanover with the great class of 1981. Thanks to Ann MacAffer and Charlie Winslow for helping to coordinate the events, which will include a party at the DOC House on October 29 after the Dartmouth-Harvard football game. Please check our Facebook page for more details. We want to kick off the event with a contest. Who is your favorite member of the class of 1981? Please email me your choice. Next class newsletter to include ’81 and ’82 couples. Hope that you are enjoying the summer!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com

Sometimes it takes a hit Broadway musical to remind Americans of their history. Thanks to the popularity of Hamilton, the important role of France in the history of the United States is remembered. Without the financial support of France and leaders such as the Marquis de Lafayette, we might not have broken free from England. Yet most people cannot name the country that gave us the Statue of Liberty. So I am devoting this column to our great ally and will highlight classmates who call France home or have studied or lived there.

Alex Blumrosen holds the class record for the longest tenure in France. After double-majoring in French and government and completing a master’s in French studies at NYU and a J.D. at Georgetown, Alex moved in 1989 to Paris, where he has lived ever since. He obtained a graduate law degree from the Sorbonne and works for a French law firm. Alex writes, “After almost 30 years in Paris I have yet to become immune to the beauty and majesty of the city, the gorgeous Haussmannian architecture, the lovely parks, the endless museums—I can walk to the office in about 30 minutes from our small town next to the Bois de Boulogne.”

Craig Bradley has resided in France for a decade. He lives in St. Germain-en-Laye, about 15 kilometers west of Paris. Craig works for the Aga Khan Development Network building boarding schools for gifted and talented girls and boys of all backgrounds in diverse countries in the developing world. Craig credits professors Henry Buckley and John Rassias with sparking his interest in French and France. Craig participated in the language study abroad (LSA) in Blois in 1980 with Professor Rassias.

Matt Yee is also a proud “Rassias Raiter.” Matt and his husband, Paul, visit Sean Burke and his husband, Alberto, in Paris almost every year. Sean and Alberto live in the Marais. Matt writes about his LSA experience, “Biking in from Ville Barou to Blois each day gave me a taste of the joy of biking I still have this day.”

David Plekenpol participated in LSA in 1979 in Bourges. In 2001 David moved to Scotland and ended up with a weekly commute from Edinburgh to Paris for four years, staying at the Hotel Clos de Medici near the Jardin du Luxembourg while working for Alcatel Optronics.

Mark Cormier’s favorite French tale is mistaking “la bidet pour la toilette.” I remember that too. Tim Geibel wanted to know if eating French fries counts.

My own favorite French story is when my best friend Tony (Pasol) Campbell participated in the foreign study program in Toulouse and lived with Famille Roy. When they heard that I would be traveling from Germany to Spain the following term, they insisted I stop in Toulouse to visit them even though I did not speak a word of French and they spoke no English. I spent a wonderful weekend communicating with my hands and my high school Latin. Famille Roy would be happy to know that I have been taking French for three years now and can now carry on a simple conversation. Vive la France!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com

I just learned that three more classmates are leaving the United States to live abroad. That makes 42 total! After 29 years as a foreign service officer, Mark Davidson is retiring and moving with his family to Japan to take a private sector job in public and government relations. Mark completed four tours of duty over the years at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo and writes that he is “delighted to return to the city with more Michelin stars than any other on Earth.” Mark previously lived in Pakistan, Paraguay, Venezuela and Spain.

Sarah Riddle Lilja has begun her own one-year foreign study program. Her husband is taking a sabbatical from the University of Minnesota and visiting nine different universities abroad to talk about his research, learn about their programs and teach. New Zealand and Australia are the first stops—then on to Europe with stays in Belgium and Sweden. Sarah promises to blog about her adventures and post pictures to our class Facebook page.

And Los Angeles will now have one more parking space when herr professor doktor Joseph Reinkemeyer returns to Deutschland to teach screenwriting at the international film school at Cologne University of Applied Sciences. His appointment is for three years. Alles gute, mein freund! I lived in Cologne for two years after Dartmouth.

In June I was in San Francisco and helped organize an ’82 gathering at Arguello’s in the Presidio. Susan Burkhardt, Jon Root, Tony Zanze, Mark Cormier, Bill Prescott, Leslie Fleming, Gabe Kind, Karen Masterson Dienst and I had a wonderful time catching up. It turns out that Mark got married in the Presidio, Bill lived there for three years while his dad was in the Army and Tony’s real estate office is located there.

One of the great joys of being a class secretary is helping classmates reconnect with each other. I am pleased to report that 140 classmates participated in our virtual reunion back in March on the 82nd day of the year. And preparing our annual class officer report, Robin and I confirmed that we mentioned 65 different classmates in our columns this past year—of which 24 had not been included in at least a decade. That’s a challenge with only 500 words!

I conclude my column by reporting that I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting Ed Gerson, who is the class secretary of the great class of 1935. Ed lives in Laguna Woods, California, and I had lunch with him in June. He turned 101 in July. Ed has an amazing life story, which was featured earlier this year in a Wall Street Journal article written by Victoria McGrane ’02. It was such fun hearing about Dartmouth in the 1930s. There are only three members of his class still alive. Ed does a wonderful job keeping in touch with them. In fact, I encourage you to read his column after you finish this one. Here’s to you, Ed!

—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com

Around the girdled earth they roam…and reside! Our class newsletter editors have recently been reporting on classmates living outside the United States, which prompted me to try to figure how many ’82s currently live abroad. According to my (unofficial) secretary records, the number is 39. Canada and England are the favorites, with six classmates each. And Myanmar (Burma) is probably the most exotic location. The full list is as follows: Meg Bailey (England), Rick Bercuvitz (Canada), Steve Berger (Singapore), Alex Blumrosen (France), Craig Bradley (France), Mark Bunker (England), Brian Burdelle (Bermuda), Sean Burke (France), Nilgun Celik (Turkey), Dickson Cunningham (England), Kevin Devine (Germany), Mike Dickens (England), Tina Dooley-Jones (Kenya), Bob Faber (Bulgaria), Dov Frazer (Australia), David Gibbons (Bermuda), Lynn Grant (England), Gerard Hekker (Singapore), John Henderson (Myanmar), Tricia Kinsman (France), Ann Lindley (Spain), Joey Wallace Lowther (England), Davin Mackenzie (China), Robert “Maxx” Maxwell (Canada), James Nadler (Canada), Ita Weinshienk Olesker (Israel), Michael Paige (Canada), David “Plek” Plekenpol (China), Statis Rizas (Canada), Yisrael “Jay” Rosenberg (Israel), Roberto Saint-Malo (Spain), Amy Seibold (Australia), Wes Sheridan (Canada), Jay Shofet (Israel), Kjersti Aksnes Skantze (Norway), Tony Smith (Germany), Harry Teahan (Denmark), Hilda Wang (Hong Kong) and Stephen Wood (Spain). I am sure that I missed some classmates. If so, let me know!


In March I got to see our class president, Cathy Judd-Stein, while she was in Los Angeles for the annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) media awards dinner, which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusiveness in film and television. Cathy is a member of the GLAAD board of directors; Steve Warren is the board co-chair. Cathy has a new job as deputy chief legal counsel for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. Cathy has now provided legal advice to five Massachusetts governors!


Joe Ranzini lives in Waynesboro, Virginia, which is in the Shenandoah Valley just west of Charlottesville. Joe went to medical school at the University of Virginia and completed a general surgery residency in Cooperstown, New York. His wife and two sons all graduated from the College of William and Mary. Joe is a general surgeon and serves on the board of directors at Augusta Health, a local hospital.


I keep seeing Roger Lanctot’s name on LinkedIn articles. He is associate director of the global automotive practice of Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting firm. Roger travels the world attending car shows, speaking at industry events and writing lots of articles about connected car strategies.


Al Forbes runs Forbes Consulting and works primarily with small nonprofit organizations and for-profit community-based or community service organizations. His goal is to support efforts that improve community health and well-being at an organizational or programmatic level. Al was recently in Chicago leading a two-day cultural competency workshop for Illinois Department of Health HIV service providers.


Thanks to all of you who posted a photo on our class Facebook page on March 23, 2015—the 82nd day of the year. We broke a record: 140 classmates! Great job!


Have a wonderful summer!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com


At our 30th reunion Melissa Cook spoke on a panel about her decision to leave her job as head of global research at Lazard to create an investment research and advisory boutique supporting U.S. businesses interested in investing in Africa. In November Melissa, as founder and executive director of African Sunrise Partners, was one of 15 private-sector leaders appointed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to the newly established President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. These days Melissa travels to Africa five to six times a year. She provides her institutional investors and corporate clients with reports and advice on business opportunities in Africa. Melissa traces her interest in Africa to an undergraduate history class with professor Leo Spitzer.


Like Melissa, Karl Thurmond prefers being his own boss. After practicing law at a large firm and then in partnership with John Moscarino, Karl hung out his own shingle in 2009. Today he says being a solo practitioner is “the best decision I ever made.” Essentially, Karl says, he solves problems for a living. Sometimes he is on the plaintiff’s side and sometimes on the defense side. In this construct, he is able to work as a generalist and bring in specialists as required. Since his wife passed away in 2011, Karl has been a single parent to his daughter, who is now in ninth grade. He has served on the board of her school and has been very involved in their temple. He still runs when he can but claims he isn’t fast.


Nancy Pease is indisputably fast. While writing this column I received a letter from Tom Meacham ’65, enclosing an article from the Alaska Dispatch News, reporting that Nancy is one of three individuals inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2015. 


Speaking of people who run fast, Alicia Bixby reports that she and Keith Hampton are still happily married, living and working together in Telluride, Colorado. They sold the bed and breakfasts they operated for many years, but they continue in the vacation rental and property management business. If you are interested in visiting Telluride, you can find them at www.silverstartelluride.com. Their son is a pro ski patroller in Washington State. Their daughter is a sophomore at Harvard, where she runs, skis and studies earth and planetary sciences. Alicia and Keith caught up with John Gaudioso at the cross-country Heps championship and they will see Chuck Cairns during New Year’s. 


After 20 years providing government contracts legal support at the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of general counsel, in October 2013 Jon Baker moved to the U.S. Commerce Department, where he primarily advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jon lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Anita Mosner, a law firm partner. Their daughter is a freshman at Tufts University. Their son is a sophomore at Walt Whitman High School, which I also attended. Jon spends a fair amount of time watching the Whitman Vikings and Montgomery Blue Devils hockey clubs and is quite familiar with the rinks between Pennsylvania and Virginia.


I must share the sad news that Marc Krantz died in a skiing accident in December. Marc is survived by his wife, Michele; their children, Ellen, Tara and Ross; his parents, Byron and Joan; and his brother, Brett. An obituary will appear online. 


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


I chatted with Austin Beutner four and a half days into his new role as CEO and publisher of The Los Angeles Times. Noting that Los Angeles needs a vibrant local media to thrive, Austin sees the challenge ahead as making the business viable. He added that L.A. is the most diverse community in the world, and the Times is first and foremost a news organization with 500 people in its newsroom. “The world values news. The challenge is to get people to pay for it.” 


While Austin works to keep the media strong, two classmates have thrown their hats in the ring for public office. Kass Spanos Ardinger is running in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire State Senate District 15. As a former government major, Kass’ interest in public service is longstanding. She has served as a member and president of the Concord, New Hampshire, school board. On the other side of the aisle, Steve Schuh is the Republican nominee for county executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Steve became politically aware while at Dartmouth. Early in his business career he adopted a philosophy of learn, earn, return—spend the first third of life learning, the second third earning and the final third returning, or giving back. As part of his give-back efforts Steve entered public service and has served as a Maryland state delegate since 2006. 


Since 2009 Steve Hathcock has been practicing and teaching in the family medicine department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Keene, New Hampshire. “It was a magical five years, living in an 1830s school house in the village of Nelson on a classic 200-year-old New England dirt road complete with maples and vistas of mountains and lakes and the ubiquitous stone walls.” Steve has returned to Arkansas to be with his two sons and to participate in a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine. “Going back to school is an intellectual and financial challenge, but it is without a doubt the most enriching experience I’ve had as a physician.” 


I also have a new job. As senior executive officer of individual and family support at the Arc, I am focusing on supporting families that include an adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities living at home with aging parents to plan for the future. 


New jobs aren’t for everyone. Mike Cummings is a release engineer with Avention. Mike started at Lotus in 1984. “We have gone through various stages of being private, public and owned by larger companies. So while the names on the paychecks have changed numerous times over the years, from my point of view I have been working for the same company for three decades.” When work slows down Mike hopes to get back to learning to play the Irish tin whistle.


Unfortunately, I need to share the sad news that George Huntington died on August 19 in Laramie, Wyoming. George is survived by his wife, Anne Marie Powell, their two young children, Sophie and Sam, and his parents, Charles and Louise Huntington. An obituary will appear online.


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


If you remember Michael Rafter playing the piano in Collis, The New York Times recognition that Michael “expertly led” the orchestra in the Broadway show Violet will resonate with you. Plans are under way for a mini-reunion in New York City to see the show. This will cap a season of mini-reunions scheduled around President Hanlon’s alumni speeches. At Joe Reinkemeyer’s suggestion we invited our neighboring classes to gather with us. At the D.C. mini-reunion I had a chance to chat with Peter Folger, who is a specialist in energy and natural resources policy at the Congressional Research Service, and Jack Oakes, who is assistant dean for career development at UVA Darden School of Business, as well as with Cathy Green Solomon, Jenny Chandler Hauge and John King. 


We are delighted that Gail Gentes, President Hanlon’s wife, has agreed to join the advisory board for our Upper Valley Social Entrepreneurship fellowship. Katelyn Wong ’15 is our newest fellow. She is working with the Family Place, a parent-child center in Norwich, Vermont. Katelyn is focusing on building a solid business plan and researching market opportunities for the Jewelry O’s line of beaded jewelry, which was developed by staff and clients at the Family Place as a potential revenue-generating program that could teach clients how to manage a small business. 


Nick Holekamp shared the news of his engagement to Heather Raznick. Heather is a relationship therapist and Nick is chief medical officer of Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital. Nick described the hospital’s unique approach to ensuring the patients are treated as normal kids. The kids spend 70 percent of their time out of bed, on the playground or out in the community. Nick’s kids Jack and Katie are 15 and 10.


Also engaged is our class biographer, Joanne McMullen. Joanne and her fiancé, Wheaton Wood, live in Athens, Ohio. Joanne works in medical education and practice management and her hobby is training dogs. Co-class newsletter editor Dianne Vogel Vazquez also announced her engagement to Marc Boucher. 


Fourteen years ago Peter Jacobs moved back to the Philadelphia area from Connecticut. Peter and his partner, Jack, live in Wayne and spend as much time as possible in Cape May, New Jersey. Peter’s daughter is teaching in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Peter’s son graduates from Haverford this spring. After practicing law for a number of years Peter “stepped off the treadmill some 10 years ago” and is now focusing on a second career selling real estate.


His early-stage investing platform, On Grid Ventures LLC, www.ongridventures.com, is Jason Klein’s main professional interest. Jason focuses on e-commerce marketplaces, next-generation publishing models and tools and “geo-disruptive” businesses. Jason is active with the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network. His son Michael is graduating from Dartmouth with majors in economics and geography. His daughter Jill is a sophomore at Barnard College.


I must share the sad news that Elizabeth Whistling Elk Boutis Seibert died in March. Liz is survived by her husband, Fred, son Daniel and daughter Amanda. An obituary will appear online.


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


By the time you read this summer will be winding down and Labor Day will be on the horizon. On behalf of the 1982 class officers, I hope that you had a safe and memorable summer and that you made at least one new friend. Fall means new beginnings with a new class arriving on the Hanover plain.


Jill Sparhawk Scott has not quite regained her equilibrium after her 30th Cheltenham (Pennsylvania) High School reunion last year. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her husband, Will, and their daughters Annie and Meg. Jill works at Christ Memorial’s Christian preschool and volunteers for the PTA and Girl Scouts. Jill and Wendy Richter were the first two classmates I met in September 1978 while walking across the Green.


Pamela Egan Singer is a corporate bankruptcy attorney in San Francisco. She is fluent in Russian and is studying French. Pam was a Tucker Fellow who helped Soviet émigrés develop resumes and find jobs. She met up with buddies Nathan Longan and Hal Sandstrom in Paris last summer and then visited Nathan in St. Petersburg this past spring. I teased Pam about not having a picture in the Freshman Book. It is not fair that the rest of us have to endure those photos!


Tim von Herrmann and his wife, Susan (an estate planning attorney in Oakland, California), have been competing in triathlons for the last few years and are “moving from hopeless beginners to barely competitive intermediates.” They also enjoy sailing from nearby Sausalito. Tim is a healthcare consultant. He ran into Anne Bolen, Sue Burkhardt, Mark Cormier and Derek Webb at the President Wright event in San Francisco.


Jason Klein is the new chair of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine editorial board. Jason is CEO of the Newspaper National Network, a partnership of 25 major newspaper companies formed to market and sell to national advertisers. Jason also enjoys boating. In May Jason and family headed down the Hudson River about 30 miles to see a flotilla of U.S. Navy vessels docked in Manhattan for Fleet Week. He also enjoyed a visit from Bob Faber, whose son just graduated from Yale. 


Michael Kenyon and his partner, Tom, live in Rockport, Massachusetts, and enjoy traveling. They also have a place on Squam Lake (where On Golden Pond was filmed) in Sandwich, New Hampshire, near Lake Winnipesaukee as well as one in Palm Springs, California, so they can escape winters! Michael recently flew to North Carolina to sail up the coast with his 82-year-old father, who was on his spring journey from Florida to Rhode Island. This column definitely has a nautical theme!


Michael DuBose lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and two children. He serves as chief of the computer crime and intellectual property (IP) section in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The section consists of 40 prosecutors who litigate computer crime and IP cases all over the country. After Dartmouth Mike worked for two years in a psychiatric hospital outside Boston, writing, “That work experience proved to be the best possible preparation for a career in the law.”


Bruce Perry has been working at the BELL Foundation in Massachusetts for three years. The BELL Foundation organizes summer and after-school programs for children in low-income urban communities. Bruce works on the software that tracks and reports on the programs. He also has gotten involved in the Gigapan project as a beta tester. He took their robotic camera to Machu Picchu, the Galapagos Islands and Patagonia. The Gigapan project (www.gigapan.org) includes a Web site to let people create and share highly detailed panoramas. Have a wonderful autumn!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com


The summer—after a slow start here in New England—is starting to fade, but our classmates continue to inspire as they do more than just roam around the girdled earth. 


Sam Carlson, the World Bank’s lead education specialist in New Delhi, India, writes, “We are working closely with the Indian government to expand access to both elementary and secondary education—in the past six years more than 20 million children who were out of school are now enrolled as more than 200,000 new schools have opened. The scale of everything here just boggles the mind. I’m writing from a hotel in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, where we launch tomorrow a statewide school-based deworming initiative in 37,000 schools to kill off the little beastly worms living in the stomachs of more than 25 percent of the kids here. I know worms deserve a chance at a good life, too, but not in the stomachs of these kids.” In his summer travels Sam has seen Bob Bauer, Rich Nadworny, Randy Gordon and Pete Folger. Sam adds, “The wonders of Skype have me yakking with Davin Mackenzie in Beijing and Mike Tavis in Latvia, so can attest that while around the girdled earth we roam Dartmouth’s spell on us remains.” 


John Cavanaugh serves as the International Republican Institute’s resident country director for the Republic of Macedonia. He manages programs in political polling and minority subgroup advancement, advising governing and opposition parties, prime ministers and presidents on communications strategies. John has observed elections for the institute in Bangladesh, Liberia and Nigeria. Not far from John, Eric Cline spent the summer excavating his site of Tel Kabri, Israel, which hosts a 3,700 year-old Canaanite palace. Eric invites classmates to next summer’s site, Megiddo, the “real biblical Armageddon,”in Israel. Eric is chair of the classics/Semitics department at George Washington University.


Also from Washington, D.C., comes the exciting news that President Obama has nominated Ben Wagner to serve as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California. Ben has led the area’s special prosecutions office, which addresses public corruption and white-collar crime. Upon confirmation he will manage an office of 150 employees covering 34 counties in California. 


Peter Feer left Colorado to celebrate his birthday mountain biking in San Rafael, California, with Peter Moran and David Plekenpol, visiting from Shanghai, China. Plek then stopped by Derek Webb’s home in Mendocino, California. Meanwhile, David Eichman headed east to teach German at Dartmouth in July. He met Kim Quirk and Marty Jacobs for breakfast at Lou’s. Bill Pahl, in turn, recently relocated from the Upper Valley with the Timken Co. to its corporate headquarters in Canton, Ohio. Trading only trees and mountains for rolling farmland, Bill has already spotted Charlie Winslow in his Columbus office. Nearby Dave Winchester, Kate Pesek Sackman and J.J. Hanley organized a mini-reunion for Chicago ’80s-’83s. Seen or rumored to be in the crowd enjoying the Mexican cuisine were Jack Blunt, Chris Caravette, Doug Thomas and Mark Pals. J.J. is founder of JJ’s List, a nonprofit helping people with disabilities review and find services.


Finally, Sam Carlson described his experience working on a “wonderful virtual collaboration” led by filmmaker Peter Frechette with Matt Hoffman, David Plekenpol, Nathan Longan, Marty Jacobs, Kevin Peterson and Chris Weiss. Peter is producing a video on the Class of 1982 Upper Valley Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Sam states, “Our class should be proud of its great talent and commitment to helping others. I hope other ’82s will be inspired to make a contribution to the effort. Many hands make light work.” Around the girdled earth….


—Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


We continue to turn 50 at a brisk pace. I should first correct some birthday information from my last column. The award for the day with the most classmate birthdays goes to January 16 (not January 10) with nine birthdays. And I overlooked February 16, which ties for second place with September 3 with eight birthdays, although February 16 holds the record for the most ’82 birthdays in the same year. That means the American Association of Retired Persons gained eight new members on February 16!


Edie “Ita” Weinshienk Olesker has lived in Israel for the past 27 years. She is an editor and proofreader at Targum Press, a Judaica publisher in Jerusalem. “I have a large family—I won’t write exactly how many kids I have for fear of shocking those with weak hearts.” Two of her kids are married and she became a grandmother at the beginning of last year. If anyone can beat Ita as the first ’82 grandparent, please let me know.


Joanne McMullen has been busy setting up a mini-wolfdog rescue. The idea began when she found a white wolfdog at the local dog shelter that was about to be put to sleep. She had to build a chainlink enclosure for him and is now working on his aggression issues. She has also rescued several other dogs in addition to her own dogs, a corgi mix and a chow/elkhound mix. Joanne’s father lives in Manchester, New Hampshire, so she can get back to Hanover regularly. She recently bought a beautiful wood sculpture by Brian Tomkins.


Mark “Zoner” Soane writes, “Denver is a wonderful place to live. Lively, growing city that borders one of the best grownup playgrounds in the country.” He enjoys playing platform tennis, also known as paddle tennis, a popular alternative to tennis in the winter. At Dartmouth Mark was a Tucker intern, where he worked as a teacher in a first-grade class in a parochial school in Jersey City.


Mark Krantz lives just outside Cleveland, Ohio, and is a partner in the law firm of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. He met his wife in law school and they have three children and a yellow Lab named Lilly. Mark spent the year after Dartmouth working on a kibbutz in Israel right next to the Gaza Strip. He is a board member of the local port authority and is also involved with several local philanthropic foundations. Mark has forgotten all the German we learned together in Mainz. Schade! Another fellow Mainz LSA-er, Andy Westphal, who lives in Camas, Washington, did remember some of his German. “I was actually in Duesseldorf last year on business and ended up in a pharmacy needing to buy allergy tablets and ended up with a pharmacist who spoke virtually no English. Between my butchered German and a lot of hand signs I ended up with some pills (didn’t really help with my allergies, so I’m not sure what they were).”


Peter Fitzgerald has returned to his banking roots and started Chain Bridge Bank in McLean, Virginia. “It’s much better being a banker than a senator!”


Dan Lopresti has been promoted to full professor and chair of the computer science department at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2003. Dan is married to Debbie Lee Wesselmann ’81 and he is a high school classmate of my cousin Yvette!


Gene Co has been living in New York City the past 15 years and working on Wall Street. He was first with the Blackstone Group and now is with an international mergers and acquisitions advisory boutique called Compass Advisers.
Happy spring!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com 


It’s official! By the time you read this column a majority of the class of 1982 will have turned 50. Some younger classmates will be celebrating this big birthday in the fall and a few prodigies will not be older and wiser for a year or two. If you want an excuse to return to Hanover this autumn, come for our class 50th birthday party during Homecoming Weekend (October 29-31). See our class website for details.


I celebrated my 50th birthday in June by riding my hybrid bike 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS/LifeCycle 9. The ride takes place during seven days and it was the most physically challenging week I have ever experienced. There were many moments each day when I doubted I would make it to camp, especially during the 107-mile day from Santa Cruz to King City or the day we had 35 mph headwinds. But I am happy to report that I rode every single mile and in the process raised more than $15,000 for AIDS/HIV programs at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. Thanks to all of you who donated! I plan to have a bike-free summer and celebrate my 51st birthday on a beach!!


I nominate Cathy L. Bagley as poet laureate of our class. Cathy is a doctor specializing in obstetrics/gynecology, but she has hidden creative talents. She composed the following poem while waiting for nurses to prep a woman who was having a C-section:


“Oh my most generous Lawdy,


I don’t want to leave age 40.


So, next year if You do not mind,


Start turning back the hands of time!


An age starting with 5-anything,


Leaves such an awful nasty ring.


So, God, I ask, please stop right here.


No wrinkles on my derriere,


Just keep me where I am today,


Or subtract ’bout 10—that is okay.


But venture further in another year,


Is a cross this gal finds hard to bear.


So grant me wishes in advance,


That my ageless beauty makes me dance


The dance of youth


For ever more,


That my body parts stay off the floor,


That I might tell a little lie,


“Why, I’m no more than 35!”


At least for the next decade or two, 


Why, I’m no more than 32.


So, Master, grant my birthday desire.


Keep me out of that 50s quagmire


For 10, 20, 30 years more,


Oh my Lawdy, how I do implore!


Cathy reports that the C-section was successful and that mother and baby are fine.


Peter Cogan writes that he is still teaching high school English in Denver, Colorado. A major highlight of the year was when one of his students told him that the student loved his class “even though he usually doesn’t receive A’s and he argues with me about every paper he writes.”


Bill Prescott lives in Los Altos, California, and enjoys writing adult fiction and middle grade children’s fiction. In his previous life in technology sales, Bill traveled extensively throughout Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. His favorite road in the world is Highway 1 just north of San Luis Obispo, California.


Doug Tengdin lives in Hanover next door to Cathy and Diana Munson’s dad, a member of the class of ’48. Doug is a volunteer for United Way and he and his family also volunteer for High Horses, a therapeutic riding program. While working for Citibank Doug lived in Tunis, Tunisia, where he learned Arabic and French. Au revoir!


Where did summer go?


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890;cjuddstein@yahoo.com


I hope that by the time this column appears, all the snow that has fallen this winter has melted and spring is making an appearance in your neighborhood. I am sure that Michael Steel has not had to deal with snow in San Diego. In 1982 Michael founded San Diego Seaplanes, which operates seaplanes in Southern California and Hawaii. It also conducts international seaplane charter “air taxi” flights to the Caribbean and Mexico. Has it ever snowed in San Diego?


Jenny Jones Cavenaugh is the associate dean of arts and sciences at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Jenny writes: “My job is quite varied and includes working with academic departments to meet student enrollment needs, working with students on academic probation, serving on the student crisis care team and handling all manner of faculty, student and parent concerns and complaints. I still manage to teach a class every semester which is truly the best part of my job!” Jenny previously worked at Louisiana State University and continues her involvement with the Depot Theater in upstate New York. She also volunteers with Habitat for Humanity in Florida.


President Obama has appointed Al Dotson Jr. to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. The commission is charged with strengthening the nation by improving educational outcomes for African Americans to ensure that all African Americans receive an education that prepares them for college, productive careers and satisfying lives. Al graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1987 and practices land use law at Bilzin Sumberg in Miami. From 2004 to 2012 Al served as Chairman of 100 Black Men of America Inc., a men’s civic organization founded to mentor, educate and empower African American youth.


There was a nice article in Bloomberg Markets Magazine about Tony Pritzker and his brother J.B. Several years ago they formed the Pritzker Group to invest long-term in family-run and entrepreneurial businesses. Tony oversees the investments in industrial companies, including a metal-castings firm, a maker of medical devices for maternity care and a distributor of construction materials. Tony majored in engineering at Dartmouth and worked at a computer company in Silicon Valley and in a Japanese computer factory before getting his master of business administration from the University of Chicago. Tony and his wife, Jeanne, have seven children and live in Los Angeles. A few years ago he hosted a 1982 mini-reunion at his house, where professor Donald Pease spoke about Dr. Seuss. Tony has also completed eight Ironman triathlons and 22 marathons. 


Austin Beutner is co-chairing an independent private commission established by the president of the Los Angeles City Council to study and report on fiscal stability and job growth in Los Angeles. The final report will contain recommendations for addressing the challenges facing the city. 


Finally, Heather Hazle Lambert, Gray Reisfield Horan, Dana Burroughs Klinges, Charlie Winslow, Rachel Froman Bettencourt and I were back in Hanover in February for Club and Group Officers Weekend. It is always fun to be back on campus during Winter Carnival.


Happy spring!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016 robinshaffert@yahoo.com


Documentary filmmaker David Hamlin received his sixth Emmy nomination for War Elephants, a story that he wrote, produced and directed about elephants in Mozambique that are trying to recover from a lifetime of trauma, having survived Mozambique’s horrible civil war (read more on him on page 62). As I write this, David has already received two Emmy awards for his documentaries. I am hoping that by the time you read this he has received a third! David recently checked off a bucket list item by hiking Mount Washington with his wife, Julie, and younger son Will. David has been making films for National Geographic for 17 years. In this new world, he is working as a freelancer. He’d welcome leads and connections from classmates at david@davidhamlin.com.


Sue Ringler-Pet celebrated two milestones this year. In May Sue received her Ph.D. in education from the University of Connecticut. She and Pacey Pet marked their 30th wedding anniversary with a trip to Sedona, Arizona, this summer. Sue is now a visiting assistant professor at Iona College focusing on adolescent literacy and English education. She received her teaching certificate at Dartmouth. While raising three sons, Sue worked in different aspects of education. Sue and Pacey live in New Milford, Connecticut. Pacey is an internist and their three sons are now 28, 26 and 23.


This spring I had arranged to meet Lisa Campney for lunch while she was visiting D.C. from Seattle. Sarah, the oldest of Lisa’s three children, was interning at the Smithsonian for three weeks during her senior year of high school. To my delight, as I saw Lisa walking down the street toward the restaurant, I realized that Chris Persson was with her. It was wonderful to catch up with both of them. Until recently Lisa was the general counsel of PopCap Games. Following PopCap’s acquisition, she is enjoying a sabbatical and finding plenty to keep her busy while she ponders her next act. Chris and husband Jim Froehlich are physicians at the University of Michigan Hospital and are also the parents of three children. If my memory and math skills serve me correctly, Chris and Jim celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary during the time between my writing this column and your reading it.


I caught up briefly with Bruce Boyer in August as we each became empty nesters. Bruce was dropping off his youngest son David for his freshman year at Duke, while I was dropping off my younger son Steven. Both Bruce and I are married to Duke alumni. 


As I write this column my husband and I just got home from dinner with Alex Blumrosen and his wife, Laure, who were vacationing in D.C. with their two daughters. Alex and Laure continue to practice law at the firm where they met in Paris. Alex focuses on international arbitrations and corporate matters, while Laure focuses on intellectual property and advertising. We are hoping to have our next dinner with them in Paris.


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


By the time you read this column our 30th reunion may seem like a distant memory, but if you were one of the 273 of us who were there you will smile and remember fondly those glorious four days in June. The weather was absolutely perfect and our reunion team of Eric Miller, Jim Vahey, John Hastings and Tee Lotson put together the perfect mix of structured activities and free time for us to reconnect and make new friendships. With 273 classmates there, we shattered the previous record for a 30th reunion (224 set by the class of 1980 two years ago). Kudos to attendance czarina Mary Thomson Renner. Special thanks to Laura Murray Dobbin and Gray Reisfield Horan for overseeing the food. It was truly amazing.


If you were unable to make it back to Hanover, I encourage you to read the comments posted on our 30th reunion Facebook page. Thanks to Ann MacAffer for managing our Facebook group. I ask each of you who attended to post your favorite moment of the weekend. 


Highlights included a cocktail reception with Dartmouth President (and adopted classmate) Jim Yong Kim in his garden, where he gave a touching farewell speech. We presented Jim with a work of art that may well end up in the headquarters of the World Bank—a photo collage of all of our Freshman Book pictures interspersed with photos of Jim. Thank you, Tee and Jonathan Marvel!


New class officers were elected: president Cathy Judd-Stein, vice presidents Peter Feer and Patrick Viguerie, treasurer David “Plek” Plekenpol, secretaries David Eichman and Robin Shaffert, newsletter editors Mike Berg and Dianne Vogel Vazquez, head agents Jon Baker, Patrick Viguerie, Corinne Heyes and Betsy Leggat, class project coordinator Sam Carlson, Alumni Council representative Matt Hoffman, mini-reunion chairs Danny Black, Jenny Chandler Hauge and Joe Reinkemeyer and webmaster Rich Nadworny. Matt thanked the outgoing class officers for their work and dedication these past five years and pointed out that all 13 officers attended the reunion! Kudos to outgoing officers John Hastings, Mary Conway, Gina Blus, Kate Pesek Sackman, Tee Lotson, Philippa Guthrie and Martha Solis Turner.


It is impossible to describe all the magical moments in just 500 words, but I do want to mention the lovely memorial service Sunday morning at Occom Pond for our 22 deceased classmates. Julie Hahnke opened and closed the service with her bagpipes and numerous classmates sang, spoke and told anecdotes of lives cut short. As Tee read each of the 22 names, a classmate took a white rose and placed it in the water. The hill winds will always know their names: Howard W. Anderson, Gene L. Best, Jane-Anne Dalton, Colette Drape, Melissa Morris Durot, Chip Hankins, Norman D. Hanson, T. Wayne Higginbotham, James W. Hoffman, Monteria H. Ivey, William J. Koslo Jr, Daniel B. Lapham, William R. Martineau, James M. McCardie, Victoria Evans McIntosh, Marie Center Mecaskey, Timothy N. Murphy, Tony C. Pasol, Joyce J. Seko, William W. Shields, III, Scott E. Stedman and William Tate. 


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com


I checked in with a few classmates to see what kept them from our 30th reunion. I caught up with Elizabeth Thomson and her husband Jeff Wilkie ’83, over dinner in New York City. Elizabeth was on vacation from her radiology practice, biking in the Loire Valley during the reunion. Jamie MacKenzie reported from Jersey City, New Jersey, that he and his husband, Barrie Bates, an Episcopal priest, were on a clergy trip to Rome. Another summer highlight for Jamie and Barrie was a weeklong visit from their 10-year-old son Jeroen, who lives with his moms in California. Dave Noonan reports from New York, “Missed reunion, but managed to connect with Eric Christensen (golf in Puerto Rico), and Brad Weirick (skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming) this winter and will visit David Lee in the Adirondacks.”


At least four of our classmates have racked up extraordinary accomplishments of late. After 24 years of teaching English, Pete Cogan was honored by a former student and Stanford University. One of Pete’s former students received the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award from Stanford. He named Pete as the high school teacher who had been most influential in his academic career. Stanford flew Pete out for an awards ceremony. Pete lives in Denver and is currently taking a break from teaching to care for his 2-year-old son. Pete’s favorite book to teach is Catcher in the Rye because “the kids don’t get it on their own, but then in class they really do get it.” Tom Daniels will receive the Dartmouth Alumni Award in November. The College lauds Tom for his service in a myriad of capacities—including as our class president. I met Tom when we were in the Green Key Society. Having witnessed the start of Tom’s service to the College, I dissent from the College’s description of him as an “everyman during his time at Dartmouth.” Tom is unique, and his spirit is infectious. When I met Tom our junior year I was living in an apartment above the Village Green with Margaret Spring. This summer Margaret was named the principal deputy undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. After one of the hottest summers on record, we should all be glad that Margaret is on the case! Her husband, Mark Bunter, is a Napa Valley winemaker. Look for the Spring and Bunter labels (featuring a tulip originally painted by Mary Hart as a wedding gift to Margaret and Mark)—or stop by my house for a glass. Amelia Craig Cramer was recently elected president of the State Bar of Arizona and serves as chief deputy Pima County attorney. Amelia and her wife, Amy, who is an economics professor, are balancing work and raising their daughter—who became a bat mitzvah this summer—in Tucson, Arizona. 


I must end with very sad news. Two of our beloved classmates passed away in August. Tom Norris died on August 4, and Sue McClary Keenan on August 24. Obituaries will appear online in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


In January, as all eyes turned to Washington, D.C., for President Obama’s inauguration, Jenny Chandler Hauge organized a post-inauguration event at her husband’s law firm. Attendees included Jenny, Cathy Judd-Stein, Carol Davis Fiske, Kathy Boak Dubishar, Philippa Guthrie, Kate McKee Fox, Matt Yee, John King, Anne Higgs Morin, Ted Trabue, Robin Shaffert and Cathy Green Solomon.


A few days later Cathy Green Solomon (who almost literally keeps the White House running) invited all ’82s to a bowling party at the White House bowling lanes. I am not sure if anyone bowled a 300, but participants included Cathy, John King, Sally Adnopoz Gendler, Matt Yee, Rich Phipps, Margaret Spring, Anne Higgs Morin, Kathy Boak Dubishar and Robin Shaffert. Thank you, Cathy, for organizing this wonderful event!


John Idzik has been named the general manager of the New York Jets. I think that is a football team. John’s father was an assistant coach for the Jets 35 years ago. John is the shining example of the student athlete, playing football at Dartmouth and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. I think I see a mini reunion at Met-Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this fall!


John Henderson is still living in Thailand, but has moved from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. He writes: “Filling my days with volunteering, hiking, reading, writing and occasional trips down south to see my mother-in-law. Chiang Mai is an especially pleasant place for a foreigner with only moderate Thai who likes to hear the occasional concert or attend the occasional talk.” John met up with Matt Yee down in Phuket when Matt’s cruise ship docked there. I had lunch with John in Bangkok a few years ago at a neighborhood restaurant where no one spoke English. He then took us on a tour of some of the local food carts. I did not eat any worms or insects.


Todd Audsley is an architect in Batavia, New York, between Rochester and Buffalo. His firm is called smartDesign and provides a host of services, including residential design (new homes and additions), adaptive re-use of existing buildings and interior design, both commercial and residential. Todd hopes to move into developing his own projects. Classmates who can provide capital for such projects should contact him!


Peter Heller has written another book, The Dog Stars, which has gotten stellar reviews. A client of mine recently gave me a copy without knowing that we were classmates. Synchronicity at work!


Ron Holman is an attorney at a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, where he specializes in employment law and commercial litigation. He has served as treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland and as board chair of several local nonprofit organizations. While in Los Angeles in November Ron had dinner at the restaurant that is in the base of my office building. 


Finally, while in Hanover in February, I had lunch with Noah Bond ’13, one of our current Upper Valley Social Entrepreneurship fellows who is helping to improve the lives of homeless individuals and families in the Upper Valley. Happy spring!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com


I write this column having just returned from a very cold Hanover and attendance at Club and Affiliated Group Officers Weekend (CAGOW). It was also Winter Carnival weekend. I was happy to find several other classmates serving as club officers across the world. Gray Reisfield Horan and Heather Hazle Lambert serve as district enrollment directors for the Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island. Gray is also club treasurer. Rachel Froman Bettencourt continues to serve as treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Central Massachusetts. Charlie Winslow is the vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Ohio. The person who traveled the farthest to attend CAGOW this year was Paresh Vaish, who is the president of the Dartmouth Club of India. I encourage all of you to get involved in your local Dartmouth club or with an affiliated or shared interest group. I have enjoyed serving as the vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles. 


Gail Koziara Boudreaux was also in Hanover during CAGOW. By the time you read this column she should be a new member of the Dartmouth board of trustees. Congratulations, Gail!


Dana Burroughs Klinges celebrated her 50th birthday in January with classmates Ann MacAffer, Alison Schmults Burns, Lillian Cousins Giornelli and Crashy Zacher Brown. “Nothing like old friends to help you ease into the second half-century,” writes Dana. Meanwhile Jared Smith celebrated his January birthday watching the Dartmouth hockey team beat UNH. Jared lives in Londonderry, New Hampshire, so he’d better be at our 30th reunion in Hanover June 14-17, 2012.


Artist and teacher Jay Mead has published A Little Farm Story, described as “a simple and provocative intergenerational picture story that follows the life of a farm through the seasons with gorgeous bright color images throughout and a brief text.” The book emphasizes sustainability on local farms and community sustained agriculture. Jay lives in an “eco-village” in Hartland, Vermont, and his art installations are inspired by Bread & Puppet Theater techniques. See www.jaymead.net.


Mary Dolan lives in Petaluma, California, and works in technical services/database management for the library system at Sonoma State University. Mary writes, “I’m still happy living in northern California, although I still miss fall in New Jersey and New Hampshire.”


John Starbuck has lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia, for four years. John graduated from Boalt Law School at UC Berkeley and is still a member of the California bar although he has not practiced law for 15 years. John writes, “I am considering getting active as a ‘neutral’ arbitrator/mediator, etc., if my health permits and I can figure out if they allow non-Georgia attorneys to do that.” John’s daughter graduated from Dartmouth in 2007.


Brad Carpenter lives in Santa Monica, California, and is an architect at AC Martin, the oldest architectural firm in Los Angeles. He works on projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He and his wife, Ellen, “run marathons and the occasional ultra-marathon on trails.” His elder daughter is a first year at the University of Maryland and his younger daughter is still at Santa Monica High, where Brad is a PTA volunteer.


Sterling Champ is a real estate broker and executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis in Los Angeles. He lives in nearby La Cañada-Flintridge (where Brad Weirick and Susan Ross Marki also reside) with his wife and three daughters.


Mark Belmonte lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with his two dogs, 14 and 16, and writes, “They are the only two things here older than me, but I hope to live as long, relatively speaking.” I miss hearing you on the radio, Mark!


Happy spring!


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com


Act II begins June 14! Our 30th reunion committee is busy planning a weekend that rivals our 25th, while challenging us to consider our next “act” and the range of possibilities for the next 50 years!


Eric Miller, a co-chair of the reunion committee, reports that our 30th reunion will be “bigger and better than ever.” Plan on catching up at the Friday evening cocktail party at President Jim Kim’s home. Saturday, reminisce with classmates at a block party on Webster Avenue. Dance to the music of the returning Marcels Band under a midnight fireworks display. And by the time you read this column the College will have announced a Saturday afternoon college-wide reunion first: a nationally recognized show that we will all get to enjoy! These activities, and Act II-related symposiums, will make your return to Hanover memorable, but Eric emphasizes that reunions are made meaningful only by the reconnections we forge. Let’s plan to replicate or surpass our 25th reunion’s attendance record of 410! 


Kevin Thorne writes that he feels “blessed to have an awesome family.” His son Kevin II, a junior in high school, is a talented actor who just landed his first paying (yes, paying!) role in a local production, and his daughter Kennedy is president of her freshman class and a rising track star. Kevin’s wife, Darlene, recently completed her master’s of divinity and published her first book, titled A Heart after God. Kevin, working to catch up, bought a new racing bike and hopes to get in shape and raise money for local charities. 


Sarah Riddle Lilja recently had a Dartmouth student, Jiaqi Li ’14, shadow her at work. Sarah provides mental health and behavioral consulting to schools and private therapeutic services to children and families. She and her husband, Dave, plan to escape their Minnesota winter for a Caribbean cruise right after the New Year. 


In contrast Vaune Dugan is looking forward to New England powder, after returning east from Colorado, where both of her children are pursuing their skiing passions. Her son Chase attends the University of Colorado at Boulder and shoots urban skiing video. Her daughter Torey races with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. Vaune lives in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where she specializes in lake house designs for the lakes regions of New Hampshire and Maine.


Indiana lawyer Sam Laurin writes that he has followed his love for music by becoming involved in Music for All, an organization that advocates for music and arts education at the high school and junior high level. This organization sponsors the Bands of America National Championship in Indiana. The youths’ talent amazes Sam. Sam also reports living college years vicariously through his daughter, who attends Kenyon College.


I visited Kathy Briscoe at her beautiful beachside home in Hermosa Beach, California, right before Thanksgiving. Southern Californians Steve Warren, Joe Reinkemeyer and Jim Ulcickas ’83 joined us one evening and helped us recount just how special the Dartmouth family is. 


Finally, I was so pleased to be included, along with Matt Hoffman, as a guest of co-secretary David Eichman at the Alumni Council’s presentation of the Dartmouth Alumni Awards. One of three alumni honored that evening, David was recognized for his many contributions to the College, including as president of the Dartmouth Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association and as president of the Class Secretaries Association. Attending the council’s meeting were Tee Lotson, Tom Daniels, Jay Miller, Sherri Carroll Oberg andPresident Kim.David gave a heartwarming, generous speech that made all of the ’82s in attendance proud to be his classmate. See you in June! 


—Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net 


At this year’s GLAAD awards dinner President Bill Clinton prefaced his remarks by saying, “I was very impressed by the speech of my predecessor up here, and I cannot hope to equal it, but I’d like to say amen to it.” Clinton was referring to Steve Warren’sremarks accepting GLAAD’s Stephen F. Kolzak Award. After being introduced by his clients Charlize Theron and Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve gave a compelling speech on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community’s fight for civil rights, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to recognize the right to marriage equality. Cathy Judd-Stein, Kathy Briscoe and Kass Spanos Ardinger attended the dinner as Steve’s guests. Steve’s intelligence and his advocacy skills, commitment to social justice and vast love for his family and friends are all evident in his speech, which I urge you to watch on the Internet as I did.


Steve is not alone in being recognized for his commitment to social justice. Illinois’s Orchard Village presented J.J. Hanley withits Advocacy Leadership Award, recognizing her demonstrated, long-term commitment to improving the quality of life for people with developmental disabilities. 


The women of our class turned out in force to mark the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Dartmouth during the Greenways program. Amid the events planned by the College, our classmates gathered for Friday night dinner and talked, laughed and played pong late into the night. Attendees included Jenny Chandler Hauge, Ann MacAffer, Lillian Cousins Giornelli, Kelly Dixon Cooper, Philippa Guthrie, Emily Bakemeier, Crashy Zacher Brown, Kate Pesek Sackman, Corinne Heyes, Gail Koziara Boudreaux, Gail Kezer, Gail Sullivan, Sherri Carroll Oberg, Mary Thomson Renner, Mary Conway, Nancy Bowler Goeselt, Kristin Farrish Shaw, Carol Davis, J.J. Hanley, Susan Burkhardt, Sharon Flynn McClymonds, Heather Hazle Lambert, Betsy Leggat, Cathy Green Solomon, Martha Solis-Turner, Dana Burroughs Klinges, Alison Schmults Burns, Gray Reisfield Horan, Brook Tolley Confort and Cathy Judd-Stein.


I had dinner recently with Jay Shofet who was on a whirlwind trip through the United States to raise awareness and, of course, funds for his work as director of the Green Environment Fund in Israel. Jay told me that he would soon be moving from Modiin to Tel Aviv. Jay’s daughter Shani is studying to be a social worker and his son Nadav is serving in the Israeli army. A few days later I found myself in the office of professor Mark Chaves at Duke University. In the fall of 1978 Mark and I explored the question “Is this the best of all possible worlds?” in our freshman seminar. These days Mark’s scholarship focuses on the sociology of religion. He holds a joint appointment in Duke’s sociology and religion departments as well as in the divinity school. While my son Steven explored the campus Mark caught me up on his work, including his recent sabbatical, which he spent in Lausanne, Switzerland, with his wife, Ami Nagle, and their two sons, who are now in second and fifth grades. 


—Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


Congratulations to Gail Koziara Boudreaux on her election to Dartmouth’s board of trustees. She joins Sherri Carroll Oberg and John Donahoe.


In another nod to ’82 leadership, Betsy Leggat was recently inducted into Dartmouth’s Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society, which recognizes alumni who exemplify the best in Dartmouth volunteers by their visionary leadership in raising gifts for the Dartmouth College Fund. Joining in honoring Betsy at The Pierre in New York City were our adopted classmate, Dartmouth PresidentJim Yong Kim,class president Matt Hoffman, Emily Bakemeier, Jon Baker, Mary Conway, Linda Gridley and husband Paul, Jason Klein and wife Robin, Tee Lotson, John Nicholson, Kate Pesek Sackman and Patrick Viguerie. Celebrations started earlier in the Big Apple when the ’82s gathered in Patrick’s McKinsey offices to commemorate Matt’s 50th birthday with cake and champagne. Chansoo Joung joined the festivities before heading home reportedly to help with middle-school math. 


After doing business in Washington, D.C., Tom Burack and his family traveled to Gaithersburg, Maryland, to visit Bobby Charles and his family. Tom, who serves as New Hampshire’s commissioner of the department of environmental services, reports that he is one of three Dartmouth graduates who currently lead their states’ environmental offices. Meeting with Tom in D.C. were Colin O’Mara ’01 of Delaware and Janet Coit ’85 of Rhode Island. 


From Richmond, Virginia, Tony Shaia writes that he continues to practice orthopedic surgery. He and his wife, Mary Gerraughty ’83, will be traveling to Hanover regularly to see their youngest child, daughter Bridget, who will enter the class of 2015 this fall! 


Pam Egan Singer will visit Nathan Longan’s family in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Richard Voorhees ’80 this June during the “White Nights”—that time when the sky is white at night because it is so far north. Pam is still practicing law at Pachulski Stang, a San Francisco boutique firm specializing in insolvency and restructuring. Pam tells me that she, Nathan, Hal Sandstrom and Chuck Luce have already made plans to attend our 30th reunion in June 2012. 


Members of ’82, however, are not waiting for 2012 to reunite. Brad Carpenter, John Faucher, David Eichman, Susan Ross Marki, Joe Reinkemeyer and Karl Thurmond joined President Kim at a Dartmouth reception in Los Angeles. Betsy Leggat, Beth Scholle and I met in early April to help Ralph McDevitt and his wife, Tink, cheer on their daughter Grace ’14 and her Dartmouth women’s water polo teammates at a tournament at Boston University. In addition to being honored by Dartmouth, Betsy has been traveling extensively, including to Afghanistan, for her work with CamelBak, led by president and CEO Sally McCoy.Beth continues to sail competitively. Her team has participated in the International One Design World Championships in such venues as Sweden and San Francisco. 


In response to my note to formidable outdoorswoman Rosi Dupre Littlefield that I was heading to Chamonix, France, to ski while our son studied abroad, I learned she and her husband, Tim, were heading to Switzerland to “do an excursion on the Haute Route from Zermatt to Chamonix.” Her training would involve “wearing the same wool clothes day in and day out.” Mine involved maneuvering chairlift lines.


Finally, Tom Daniels reports that Austin Beutner has entered Los Angeles’ mayoral race, while Facebook tells us that Seth Swirsky will be singing the national anthem at Wrigley Field in Chicago before the Cubs-Braves game on August 23. Alex Blumrosen caught Seth’s documentary, Beatles Stories, at its world premiere in Paris. Seth’s song, “Watercolor Day,” won “Best Pop Song of the Year” at the Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Congratulations!


—Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net


Happy New Year! Our 30th reunion is just months away. The reunion team is planning a memorable four days in Hanover. A series of mini-reunions is planned for the first half of 2012. If you are interested in helping to organize one in your area, please contact our mini-reunion co-chairs Philippa Guthrie (philippaguthrie@yahoo.com) or Martha Solis-Turner (msolisturner@gmail.com). The 82nd day of this coming year is March 22—mark that in your calendars for actual events as well as a virtual mini-reunion on Facebook. If you are not a member of our Dartmouth ’82s 30th reunion Facebook group, please join. And check to make sure the College has a current e-mail address for you by contacting Michelle Brown in Alumni Records (alumni.records@dartmouth.edu).


Class Officers Weekend in September saw a good turnout of ’82s: Matt Hoffman, John Hastings, David Plekenpol, Cathy Judd-Stein, Jon Baker, Eric Miller, Jim Vahey and I were all in Hanover to learn how to better serve you and to plan for the next five years. We also met with our adopted classmate, Jim Kim, who is looking forward to being part of our 30th reunion events.


Please join me in wishing our second youngest classmate, Tee Lotson, a happy birthday. Tee finally turns 50 at the end of January. The youngest member of our class, Bill Taylor, turns 50 at the beginning of March and then we will all be eligible for membership in AARP. Remember seeing those “old” alums walking around campus in 1978? I hope that we were nice to them!


Congratulations to David Hamlin for his multiple Emmys in connection with the “Great Migrations” series on National Geographic Television, where he works as a senior producer, special projects. 


Mark Weinhardt writes from Des Moines, Iowa, that he has started his own law firm, Weinhardt & Logan. 


Kent Arnold spent his September birthday in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, doing some engineering work for Mitre Corp. He writes: “Grateful to be here, alive and kicking, with my family secure back in the USA: Both young ones are now in their university years, a ‘real’ reason for pride and gratitude.” Stay safe, Kent!


Miguel Kamat is also living overseas. Miguel is a Foreign Service officer and just landed a new assignment in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Bueño suerte, Miguel!


Bruce Boyer is the director of the Civitas Child Law Clinic at Loyola Chicago School of Law. Many of the clients of the clinic are children in foster care. His wife teaches at the legal clinic at Northwestern Law School, my alma mater.


Sarah Riddle Lilja lives in Maplewood, Minnesota, and writes: “I love the Twin Cities because we have all the amenities of a bigger metropolis but it still feels like a smallish town. I am getting sick of the winters after 20 years but we try to go somewhere warm in January every year so that helps.” Her husband, Dave, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota.


My freshman year roommate, Scott Davidoff, lives and works in his hometown of Albany, New York. Scott has his own law practice concentrating on commercial transactions, tax and real estate. He also is a corporate sub agent for the New York Life Insurance Co. 


Betsy Kingsbury Dowd is now of counsel at Hoffmann & Baron, LLP, a Long Island, New York, intellectual property boutique. She specializes in patent and trademark litigation and licensing. 


Joel (Jody) Hubbard is a pastor at Park United Methodist in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He went to graduate school at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.


Are we too old to make New Year’s resolutions?


—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com