Class Notes 1983

Happy holidays, ’83s! One of our new favorite ways to remain connected has been the “D83 Discussions.” October’s virtual event was led by Alix Casler, “Living Genuine, Brave, and True: Queer Identities and Allyship.” She shared her journey of raising three happy and fulfilled LGBTQ+ children in Orlando, Florida. Following the massacre at the Pulse nightclub, Alix as a pediatrician served as a pediatric resource to the LGBTQ+ community. Present-day Alix is director of medical affairs at Merck, a proud (corporate) supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. Alix shares insights on being an ally at Merck and beyond. “I always want to help families understand a little bit more and help parents become allies and advocates for their kids.”

Earlier this fall, on the cusp of the release of Jean Korelitz’s highly anticipated thriller, The Sequel (an actual sequel to her bestseller The Plot), Jean was the featured author for the office of alumni relations’ virtual Dartmouth book club. She discussed her recent book, The Latecomer, with professor of English and creative writing Alexander Chee. Jean shared, “People who know me have told me the novel is like traveling through my brain because they recognize all the signposts.” If you missed this event, you can view the video at the Dartmouth website under “Dartmouth Book Club with The Latecomer Author Jean Hanff Korelitz ’83.”

Speaking of signposts, the photo essay by Rob Strong ’04, “The Adventure Starts Here: First-Year Trips” in the November/December DAM inspired us to reach out to some of our classmates for their memorable moments from their freshman trips. First up, Anne Blanchard recalls “Geoffrey Apthorp and trip leader Davin Mackenzie ’82 building a sail out of jackets and other clothes so that our canoes could sail down the length of Lake Aziscohos in Maine instead of paddling.” Peter Larsen says it was “the right touch to get ready for the larger Dartmouth experience. Always a big Dr. Seuss fan as a child, I enjoyed eating the green eggs and ham at Moosilauke.” Deb Ellsworth writes, “My strongest memory from my freshman trip—canoeing—was that my beautiful, new sleeping bag somehow didn’t make it to Hanover. I was sad; my mom had spent a small fortune buying it for me, but more importantly, I was really, really cold that first night. Thankfully, we all kind of bundled together on a stony beach. I know that I was rescued by my new (now longtime) girlfriends with some kind of snuggle/sleeping bag sharing, which otherwise was a great experience.” Sam Reckford recounts that his group “was very fit and we climbed Mount Washington and then raced across the Presidential ridge to secure spots in the bunkhouse that night. And then a few of us decided to run up and down Moosilauke and on the way down I kicked an immovable rock, broke my big toe, and spent freshman week on crutches. It was a major inconvenience, but a great conversation starter.” Our next column will include Part II of freshman trip stories. Send in your evergreen stories on this rite of passage.

—Wendy Nelson Kauffman, 101 Four Mile Road, West Hartford, CT 06107; wnelsonkauffman@gmail.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

So, what did you do this summer? If you’re Jim Sterling, you hiked the Appalachian Trail. Jim retired from his day job as a communications and leadership coach and consultant for Exec-Comm, a global firm with its HQ in N.Y.C., although he’s still teaching and coaching for the firm occasionally. He had a “terrific 20-year career with that company, including being a partner for 11 years.” Now his renewed focus is the theater and travel with his wife, Ros. They plan to go to Barcelona in July. But first, the AT. The goal was to do the section between New York’s Bear Mountain and Hanover during the month of June, about 300 miles. Lisa Quirk Kaija planned to join Jim in Vermont for a “guest hike!”

Jean Hanff Korelitz has a new book coming out this fall. She says, “I never thought I would write a sequel to any of my books, but it occurred to me that I wasn’t quite finished with one of the major characters in my 2021 novel, The Plot. She’s an unusual woman from central Vermont and, you might say, a bit of a sociopath (not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Unlike her late novelist husband, she’s never had any writing ambitions of her own, but really, how hard can it be to write a bestseller? When her own maiden effort, an ‘autobiographical’ novel called The Afterword is published, it meets with great success and things are going swimmingly until she begins receiving excerpts of a novel that should no longer exist. That it does, and that some person knows enough to send it to her, means that someone out there knows far too much about where she’s come from and what she’s done—and that’s not good. Don’t read the sequel, helpfully titled The Sequel, before reading The Plot. It won’t be nearly as fun! It’s out October first.”

Kevin Connolly’s film Confessions of a Name Dropper, a “film about a confused guy,” has been accepted by 12 international film festivals and was the winner of Best Comedy at the Istanbul Film Festival! Kevin’s second film, Boundaries, is now going through the film festival selection process. So far he’s been accepted by three festivals, most recently the Paris short film festival. The trailers are posted on our class website.

We’ve had interesting and spirited conversations in our newly formed “’83 Discussions.” Once a month we have a speaker from our class talk about something of interest (we hope) to you. So far we’ve had discussions about “The Next Chapter” from David Ellis, about Jonathan Howland’s book Native Air, about diversity with James McKim, and “How You Can Save the Planet From Home” with Lolly Jewett and Peggy Gilges. In July we will have heard from Peter Kilmarx on his DNA journey. Please visit our class website for more information about these past events and our future discussions.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

After 20 years, Jennie Norman and her husband have become veterans of safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana. This past winter Jennie paired up with her bestie, Loren Bachelder Wright, who was going on her first Kenyan safari and visit to the Africancontinent. The two have traveled together for 42-plus years since their foreign study program in Toulouse, France, junior fall.This most recent journey of eight included two Dartmouth ’85s: Mark and Kathy Gross. Old friends of Jennie’s, third-generation Kenyans who combine tourism and conservation, planned the trip. They own a few of the beautifully situated accommodations where the group stayed, including a hilltop lodge with a view of Mount Kenya. Highlights of the safari included Borana Conservancy, a 30,000-acre area where black and white rhino and other endangered species are protected. Then Jennie loved visiting Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants that are eventually reintegrated into the wild. Jennie shares that her group “observed the daily milk feedings of the babes and later joined them at their wateringhole and mud bath. One female was interested in my face and hair and explored both with the tip of her trunk! It was one of the most magical moments of my life.”Loren recalls, “The first night we lay awake in our tent listening to lions for two hours followed by a cacophony of rhythmic bird calls as the sun rose. Truly glorious!”

Meanwhile, on the slopes of Park City, Utah, Mike Peltz, Bruce Andrus, Alan Eagle, and Jens Robinson gathered for a ski reunion of their winter term of 1982 in Aspen, Colorado. Mike notes, “This was the first time in four decades that we all hit the slopes together—and it was a blast! Alan and Bruce can still shred the double black diamonds—but the best part of the week was just hanging out again.” They also skied with Greg Curhan, who was wintering in Park City with his wife, Randi. Another ski reunion is planned for next year, along with Howard Brick, their Alpha Chi Alpha brother and fellow of the original winter 1982 crew.

Maren Christensen launched a virtual book club in February: “D83 Zoom Book Group.” David Ellis, our class mini-reunions chair, N.Y.C., led the first discussion on retirement and the next chapter of our lives, along with Arthur Brooks’ book From Strength to Strength. Steve Hart, one of the 23 participants, offered, “After 30 years of practicing architecture, I have shifted my focus completely. I am working toward a graduate degree in education, specifically teaching emerging bilingual students. I miss the contact with colleagues but enjoy the challenge of being a student again and exploring a whole new realm.”

Please note that on May 3-5 the Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association (DAPAAA) will celebrate its 25th anniversary with virtual and on-campus events (https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/events/dapaaa-25-our-history-our-voices-our...).

Finally, we are sad to report that Rich Diver passed away on November 15, 2023. More at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

Let your dreams take flight in the new year! After happily writing an award-winning newspaper feature while concurrently working in communications for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Randy B. Young’s dream flight is the publication of his first book, And the Stars Flew with Us: Essays on the absurdity and elegance of the “Great American Family Road Trip” and a celebration of the man who steered mine. Randy invites us to “ride shotgun” as he recounts childhood family road trips traversing I-95 in their “Carolina Blue” Dodge Dart station wagon between the Berkshires of New England and their hometown of Chapel Hill. Along the way are a humorous variety of athletic, cultural, and historic stops and detours. He describes his book as “moments in time or snapshots in a photo album that you would have shared with your old college roommate.” And the Stars Flew with Us is available on Amazon.com and Bn.com. Randy also posts a blog every few weeks on his website: randy byoung.com. On a sunny September afternoon in Concord, Massachusetts, Kathy Hoes Provost tied the knot with longtime love Nick Tsantes. Classmate and Kathy’s good friend Shelley Drake-Hawks officiated. The happy couple share a passion for rowing and met each other while they were both reading The Boys in the Boat. In early October several Dartmouth friends—including Laura Stein, Susie Donovan, Michelle Ott Crookenden, Sheila Kirby Zinck, Mike Hjerpe, and Shari Nicolau Williams—joined Kathy and Nick for a post-wedding celebration in Groton, Massachusetts. Inspired by our 40th reunion last June, Tina Poulter Carrier and Anne Blanchard rounded up several ’83s for an early October “Fallapalooza” weekend in East Hampton, Massachusetts. Participating classmates included Pam Nolan Young, who recently relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts, after a few years living in Notre Dame, Indiana; Edie Schwalb Hotchkiss, a finance professor at Boston College; Robin Henning Rocchi, Pat Lippoczy Hedley, Liz Neisloss, and Dave Grubman. The crew gathered around the backyard firepit of Tina’s home Friday evening with her husband, Ian Carrier, for a chili dinner. Then many hiked Mount Tom on Saturday morning, followed by a scenic picnic at the summit. Saturday was capped off with dinner at a local eatery. Late last August more than 100 Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA) members, guests, and friends attended the third annual “BADA in Oak Bluffs” reception on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. In addition to animated conversations and networking, there were remarks from Dartmouth leaders Kimberly Juanita Brown, English and creative writing associate professor and inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life; Tuck School business administration professor Ella L.J. Bell Smith; and BADA president Maria Cole ’84. The class of ’83 was represented by Shanta Sullivan, co-secretary and executive committee member; Bruce Danziger, chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Committee of Enrollment and Admissions, and his wife, Stacey Danziger. Meanwhile, back in Hanover, Dean Cascadden proudly carried the “Dartmouth Class of 1983” banner on Dartmouth Night of Homecoming Weekend.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Bravo to our 40th reunion chairpersons—Maren Christensen, Mike Hjerpe, and Joe Dempsey! Events kicked off with a hike up Mount Moosilauke organized and led by Peter Kilmarx.Classmates, family, and friends were joined by a surprise participant: President Sian Beilock. We’ve gathered recollections of the hike from four classmates. Walter Foster reports, “We were lucky to have the rain hold off, but it had poured the night before so the rocks were wet but not soaked. Many of us took it at our own pace and eventually found our hiking mates.” Walter hiked with Wendy Nelson Kauffman and herhusband, Matt. They exchanged stories of careers, kids, retirement, and travel. Of the experience of hiking with President Beilock, Walter wrote, “Sian was warm and open, accompanied on the hike by photography drones and Walter Palmer ’90, director of Dartmouth for Life. Her inaugural Moosilauke hike was with our class—pretty special!” Monique Abner never went on a freshman trip, so she was excited to make her Dartmouth experience more complete with a Moosilauke hike. Off to a rocky start, she got lost in a rainstorm on route to the lodge and lost her phone signal. Her spirits soon lifted. “During dinner I enjoyed talking with Peter Kilmarx, Jean Korelitz, and her son, Asher. We connected over favorite Broadway shows.” Thankfully, Jessica Rosenberg Brown loaned Monique her hiking poles the next morning for the difficult hike down; Monique shared one with Laszlo Madaras. Back in Hanover, Monique had a massage followed by dinner with David Cumberbatch ’84 at Jesse’s, another first for her. She was delighted to complete her checklist of Dartmouth experiences with a Moosilauke hike and dinner at Jesse’s. Jean Korelitz writes that she couldn’t have made it up to Moosilauke without Asher or the poles Viva Hardigg ’84 loaned her. Entertainment following dinner included the film Schlitz on Mount Washington, which was even better than Jean remembered. Shelley Drake Hawks has returned to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge at least four times since freshman trips. While many of our classmates hiked to the summit, Shelley took it easy and hiked for only an hour due to a recent back injury. At the lodge, Shelley enjoyed visiting with Monique Abner, Sam Reckford, and many more. Shelley encourages everyone to spend time at the lodge, even if they don’t intend to hike to the summit, because the culture there is pure joy. Jessica Rosenberg Brown reports that she hiked to the summit, perhaps for the last time, although she reserves the right to change her mind in five years. She acknowledges that the hike is strenuous and suspects she’s not alone in wishing the end had come a mile or two sooner. “The hike was a wonderful opportunity to spend time with friends of long-standing (note I’m not using the word ‘old’ though it may be fitting) and enjoy the company of classmates we barely knew back in the day.” More reunion news in the next issue.

—Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

Areporter for NPR’s Morning Edition recently interviewed Mario Cohn-Haft, a staff scientist and curator of birds at the Brazil National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), based in Amazonas, a state in northern Brazil. During the interview Mario and his team were on a three-day trek to survey birds throughout the Amazonian rainforest, which hosts the most species of birds on earth. Meanwhile, the reporter bravely follows Mario and his team while dodging venomous snakes and sleeping on hammocks in a jungle so dark and lush with vegetation, Mario and his team must identify birds by ear. Mario explains, “You know, in a dark, tall, complexly layered rainforest, it’s very hard to see creatures. The real window into what’s going on is sound.” By listening, Mario and his team recently discovered two new species of potoo birds and possibly the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, which we’re told has a deafening song! Since the 1980s Mario has discovered and named several Amazonian birds and knows about 1,000 bird calls. His perfect pitch—he was a lead singer for the Aires in 1982-83—allows him to imitate and attract many birds. Mario lives on the edge of the rainforest, Manaus, Amazonas, at the junction of the Amazon and Rio Negra rivers with his Brazilian wife, Rita Nesquita, a well-known ecologist with the INPA. While at Dartmouth Mario wrote the birder field guide for the Dartmouth Grant and led birding outings from campus. Supporting animals stateside, Caryn Ginsberg continues her work invisuals and strategy in the animal protection field. “I serve as board president for Faunalytics, a nonprofit that collects research for animal advocates on animal protection issues.” Some weekends Caryn and her husband, Michael Levitin, leave D.C. to go birding in Cape May, New Jersey. Caryn’s Dartmouth women’s hockey teammate and co-captain of Dartmouth’s women’s hockey (1982-83) Heather Roulston Ettinger, chairman of Luma Wealth Advisors, recently led a virtual financial wellness workshop for Women of Dartmouth. An expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention, Peter Kilmarx, M.D., has been named acting director of the Fogarty International Center and acting associate director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Global Health Research. Recently Peter co-led an initiative to transform African health professional education and research, forming the African Association for Health Professions Education and Research (AFREHealth) and the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI), which brings African postdoctoral fellows to NIH. Reunion registration is open, as you’ve probably heard! We are designing a reunion experience this year that we hope will appeal to everyone. Whether you’ve never attended a reunion before or attended several through the years, we want everyone in the class of ’83 to feel included and welcome. We hope you will come back to see your old friends and to make some new ones. If you have any questions, please direct them to Maren (marenjc@yahoo.com) or Mike (michael.e.hjerpe@gmail.com). If you need financial assistance to attend, please contact Joe Dempsey (joseph.f.dempsey.jr.83@dartmouth.edu) for a confidential discussion. Together, forever green!

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Happy 2023, ’83s! What a stellar year it’s going to be as Dartmouth College welcomes President-elect Sian Leah Beilock! She’ll be the College’s 19th and first female president! The stars are also aligning because the constellation of the ’82s, ’83s, and ’84s will all be celebrating our “40th” reunions on the Hanover Green June 15-18. Mark your calendars and book your rooms now!

The ’83 reunion committee is gaining momentum beginning with our reunion co-chairs: class co-president Maren Christensen and Mike Hjerpe. Our class treasurer, Joe Dempsey, will also be our reunion treasurer. Robin Henning Rocchi is our new reunion giving chair for the Dartmouth College Fund. Then Laura Vail Wooster has signed on to coordinate our reunion entertainment.

Laura writes, “I happily retired from John Hancock in Boston a few years ago as head of insurance marketing after a 25-plus-year career. I recently decided to ‘unretire’ in 2021 to join a fully remote insurance tech startup called Reframe Financial, focused on helping families manage the financial issues of aging (a subject I’ve long been passionate about). My husband, Jim Wooster ’84, is the exec director of the historic folk music venue, Club Passim, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—so I’m planning to tap into his entertainment insights for our reunion. The highlight of our year (decade!) was the fairytale wedding of our oldest son, Zach Wooster ’15, in Ravello, Italy, in September. We feel incredibly blessed.”

The Hopkins Center is about to close for a two-plus-year renovation; it served as a creative springboard for many classmates. Lisa Tromovitch, a thespian during her years at Dartmouth, went on to obtain an M.F.A. at Southern Methodist University and today is a theater professor at University of the Pacific; much of her scholarship focuses on Shakespeare and she also directs and produces professional theater. Jim Sterling writes that the Hop was his Dartmouth home. His equity card came 10 years after graduation, having performed in a ton of N.Y.C. theater, including Shakespeare productions, and waiting tables. After starting his full-time job as a sales consultant and trainer with Exec-Comm in 2003, he pinched himself that he had played roles in theatrical productions that included King Arthur in Camelot, Fagin in Oliver, and in film and TV productions as cops in Law and Orderand Conspiracy Theory.

Shout out to Jonathan Howland! His book Native Air received the Mountain Fiction and Poetry Award and is currently a nominee for the grand prize at the 2022 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. The festival is an international competition that celebrates mountain literature. Congratulations, Jonathan!

From Tucson, Arizona, Kathy Hoy Burgess and Jeff Burgess ask: “Anyone going to, or living in Australia?” They will be there for a few months starting in February 2023. “Get in touch!”

Please consider making a tax-deductible year-end gift to the Dartmouth College Fund, at dartmouthcollegefund.org, in anticipation of our 40th reunion next summer! See you in June! “Let the good times roll!”

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Getting a head start on our next reunion were several ’83s who returned to Hanover in May to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA). Our guest correspondent, Maddie Thomas, reports: “Kevin Jones, a history teacher and varsity basketball coach at Kipp N.Y.C. College Prep spoke fondly of the impact his language study abroad trip to France has had on his life. During his daily commute he studies French and is returning to France this summer. Monique Abner hasn’t gained one ounce since graduation (making me jealous—kidding…sort of) and loves to spend her free time dancing. She is a busy plastic surgeon helping people to rebuild their lives and regain their self-esteem. With Gary Wilson’s ties to Dartmouth and Thayer, he knew everyone! Brian Roy and Mark Edwards celebrated the 50th anniversary of Alpha Phi Alpha at Dartmouth in addition to the BADA 50th anniversary. My biggest surprise was seeing Cathy Shelburne. I hadn’t seen her well-known smile since 1983. Cathy was smart to combine visiting her undergrad daughter and attending this historic BADA reunion. Taking a break from her editorial responsibilities at Politico, Teresa Wiltz also joined us all on our beloved Green. As for me, I’m still in northern New Jersey, where I enjoy working hard in real estate.” According to Maddie, throughout the BADA weekend alums of all ages shared memories, offered support and advice to current Black students, and shared thoughts about ways to support greater diversity within the faculty with President Phil Hanlon ’77, vice president for alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82, the inaugural senior vice president and senior diversity officer Shontay Delalue, former chair of the Dartmouth board of trustees Laurel Richie ’81, trustee Dr. Joyce Sackey ’85, and other past and present Black trustees. The highlight of the weekend was the gala awards dinner. Libby Schmeltzer Hinson and her husband, Rick, have relocated from Los Angeles to Franklin, Tennessee, a small Civil War town near Nashville, where Libby serves on the boards of the Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance and the Battle of Franklin Trust. Professionally, Libby works as a media arts professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Recently Libby discovered that her teaching assistant is the daughter of our late, great classmate Matt Haley! In June an unexpected ’83 mini-reunion occurred between David Hendren and Robin Rocchi at the Stanford Law School graduations of their daughters, who are both also Dartmouth grads, Catherine Rocchi ’19 and Charlotte Hendren ’14. Charlotte not only graduated from law school but also gave birth 10 weeks earlier to David’s first grandchild!

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Memories of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics 1980 were at the forefront of many ’83 ice hockey team players’ minds while watching the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Rich Diver has multiple Dartmouth ice hockey memories, including watching Carey Wilson play against the United States for Canada during the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. “No one ever forgets to remind me at reunions of how much fun it was to be the Swedish Olympic team’s final tune-up before Lake Placid in 1980!” Marisa DeAngelis also shared a memory of playing Dartmouth women’s ice hockey during the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. She recalls, “We were sitting in a locker room at an away game listening to the radio as the United States beat the USSR in the semifinals matchup, the ‘Miracle on Ice.’ Right after they won we flew out on the ice in Maine just after our boys crushed the USSR.” Anne Albright and Marisa DeAngelis have Rashomon effect memories of the same game. Anne recalls: “We were in upstate New York (Cornell and Clarkson, perhaps) for a weekend of away games. While dining at a restaurant we watched the United States vs. USSR men’s hockey semifinal. No such thing as DVR back then—it was on live TV. The United States, huge underdogs, won 4-3! Those of us who then knew how momentous this victory was (A.E. Lovett, for example) explained it to those who did not (me).” Heather Roulston Ettinger fondly remembers shooting practice against goalie Anne Albright until they were kicked off the ice.

The practice of medicine has become even more exhausting and disheartening for many of our physician classmates during the pandemic. Sarah Reynolds Walton has recently stepped back following an intense 18-year career in academic medicine as a pediatric anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan and a 27- year career in Navy medicine, retiring with the rank of captain. She currently does locum tenens work 16 to 18 weeks a year at pediatric hospitals in Fresno, California, and in Dayton, Ohio. She is enjoying more time with her grandchildren. Sarah says medicine “has become political, regulated, and much of the art of patient care and the personal relationships with colleagues and patients no longer exist, leading to greater burnout.” Eileen Lynch has been an attending anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for 30-plus years, participating in the care of cancer patients, providing clinical anesthesia care, and mentoring medical students, residents, and colleagues. She describes many physicians as physically and emotionally challenged these past two years, and the burnout in healthcare providers cannot be overstated. Eileen has concerns about the future availability of healthcare providers for patients. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Steve Hommeyer writes, “I’m a radiologist, so the volume of horrible-looking lungs I see on CT scans closely follows the spikes and dips of Covid cases you see in the news. It would be great to see a prolonged dip in the action as omicron wanes.”

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

“Celebrate good times, come on….” In September we toasted our milestone birthdays during a virtual party hosted by your ’83 class officers. Robin Henning Rocchi projected a slideshow of photos taken during our time at the College, resulting in much chatter and laughter. Walter Foster played master of ceremonies for games of “D’83 Trivia”; the questions and answers elicited animated conversation. Following a question that reminded many of us of Hurricane David soaking our freshmen trips, Raymond McKenzie shared his Odyssean journey to Dartmouth from Barbados that fateful August-September of 1979: The Barbados airport was closed for several days as the hurricane barreled across the island nation. “It was the most damaging hurricane to hit Barbados since 1955.” Shortly after Raymond’s flight to JFK took off, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Puerto Rico as the hurricane became more violent. Arriving three days later in N.Y.C., Raymond spent several soggy days buying winter clothes as the rain continued to pummel him. “Finally, I made it to Hanover, waterlogged and feeling somewhat blighted, when David blasted me one last time upon arrival. It was eerie as this hurricane followed and greatly impacted me on my seminal journey.” Liz Neisloss and David Grubman are back stateside following their own Odyssean journey, which began in 2007. Liz was a CNN reporter at the time, and Dave worked for AIG, both in N.Y.C., when they decided to uproot themselves and their two sons and move to Asia (including residencies in Chennai, Singapore, and Shanghai). Dave continued to work for AIG and Liz for CNN. The family later moved to Mumbai, where Dave worked for Amazon Web Services. Now living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Liz is a TV and radio reporter for PBS station GBH News. After decades working in D.C. to promote democracy in Eurasia, Lolly Jewett, like many others, is in sync with the pandemic’s “Great Reassessment.” In July she embarked on a new adventure. “I’m opening what I hope will be Chapter 2 in the field of biodiversity restoration and sustainable landscape design. I’m starting from scratch and it feels terrific. I’d be delighted to connect with any ’83s who actually do have expertise in these topics.” Also based in D.C., Dan Zelikow has worked at JP Morgan since 1999. He heads up the firm’s business with public sector clients globally and the global infrastructure finance business. Dan recently launched a development finance institution inside of JPM to help scale the firm’s work in emerging markets. Dan writes: “My twin 15-year-olds enjoyed our road trip through New England during the summer away from our home in Washington, D.C. They loved their first glimpse of Dartmouth and Hanover. Their swag from the Dartmouth Co-op was a highlight.” The family later saw Carole (Sonnenfeld) and Tim Geithner, Keith Moskow, and David Kupferschmid, all on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It’s hard for Dan to imagine we’re all 60 or just about. He writes: “Feel much younger with so much more to learn!”

—Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

As Dartmouth Hall continues to undergo renovations, we thought it might be a good time to collect favorite memories of this landmark from classmates. Jeanne Balcom writes, “My biggest memory is arriving for my 8 a.m. Russian class on a freezing cold day wearing multiple layers, only to have to strip off most of the layers because of the old, noisy radiators that gave off a lot of heat. Meanwhile, I thought my Russian teacher was saying ‘horror show’ about my Russian skills when he was actually saying xorosho, which means ‘good’ in Russian.” Now in the D.C. area, Jeanne is the new president of the board of Edu-Futuro, a nonprofit that helps immigrant youth build leadership and STEM skills, navigate college admissions, and obtain scholarships. Eric Valley writes, “I remember in that big lecture hall in the basement professor Donald Pease giving a lecture to his American literature class after a drive across the country. The lecture was thrilling, his excitement was contagious, and he was spitting into the first three rows. I took three courses from him. One time we talked on the steps outside about Herman Melville’s theory of the self. After 20 minutes I said, ‘I don’t get it,’ and he said, ‘Good!’ ”

Amidst her virtual media book tour for The Plot, on multiple top summer book lists, classmate and author Jean Korelitz discussed her book The Devil and Webster, her writing process, the publishing world, and witnessing screenplay adaptations of her books during the first class of ’83 virtual book event hosted by Maren Christensen.

“The book is a walk down memory lane with many direct references to Dartmouth,” says Becky Ankeny. “It also resonated with me because I am working as director of alumni relations at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, and I interact with the admissions department and office of the president.” Joanne Sardella zoomed in from Vero Beach, Florida, where she is a financial planner for Raymond James and the president of the Dartmouth Club. “An exciting evening with Jean. My small book group of Dartmouth women loved Jean’s book, and we just devoured The Plot.”

The Dartmouth Club of D.C. bestowed Daniel Webster awards for Distinguished Public Service to two classmates: Leighton Chan, M.D., M.P.H., chief of the rehabilitation medicine department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Peter H. Kilmarx, M.D., fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and deputy director of the NIH John E. Fogarty International Center. After 25 years in business consulting, Miriam Ricketts made a career transition. “I went to nursing school, and I’m working in Cleveland as a surgical nurse. The work is satisfying and eye-opening. Becoming a frontline worker during the pandemic had its challenges. One positive outcome was having our son home from McGill for 18 months.” Alexander Mandych and his wife, Karen (mathematics Ph.D. from Dartmouth), live in western New York. He’s an associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (a.k.a., ENT surgery) at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “I continue to see patients and perform surgery.”

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Hello, classmates! On Inauguration Day Monty Wilkinson, a veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice, was appointed acting attorney general while President Biden’s nominee, Merrick Garland, seeks U.S. Senate confirmation. Congratulations, Monty! During these isolating times, some of our classmates are coping with cabin fever by escaping into books. We recently received many “quarantine reading” lists from classmates. Deborah Michel Rosch, her husband, and their dog have been enjoying extended stays in their pied-a-terre in Venice, California. Her recent favorite books are What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez and The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. The latter we’d probably recommend for the title alone. All kidding aside, Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Lynn Johnson Kidder’srecent favoriteshave centered around pandemics and Dartmouth. She recently listened to The Great Influenza about the 1918 pandemic and The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel, which features a teenager who rides out the pandemic/post-apocalyptic world…in Hanover! Finally, Lynn’s recommendation of Interference by Brad Parks ’96 features a fictional Dartmouth physics professor. Another pandemic-related book, A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, was recommended by Natalie Hulen Diana, recently retired and also an avid listener of audiobooks. Natalie says it reads like a memoir of the Great Plague of London. In need of a good laugh, Natalie also listened to Jerry Seinfeld reading his book, Is This Anything? “I laughed my head off walking through my neighborhood.” Natalie also found Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne, narrated by the author, a captivating listen and elegy to Ireland. For Christmas, I (Elliot) received a year’s worth of books chosen monthly by the London bookstore Heywood Hill. The first just arrived—Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life by Selina Hastings. I (Shanta) am reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, a drama about twin sisters who run away from a small, Southern, Black community in the 1950s with plans for new identities. Speaking of books, be on the lookout for the new release Develop: 7 Practical Tools to Take Charge of Your Career by Ted Fleming.As head of talent at CVS Health, a Fortune “10 Company,” Ted has 30 years of experience advising individuals and businesses. Away from work Ted is an avid squash and tennis player and lives in Connecticut with his wife, Kathy. During our most recent class officers Zoom call we enjoyed the company of Ralph “Stephen” Coppola, Mark Hausmann, Ken Hudnut, Peter Kilmarx, Jean Hanff Korelitz and adorable pup Sherlock, J.B. McKoy, Rob O’Neal, John Venezia, and Ian Wiener. At the end of the call Robin Henning Rocchi treated everyone to a surprise photo show of Winter Carnival posters and sculptures from the years 1980 through 1983.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

The recent trail blazing legacy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminded us of Jay Alexander, who served as one of Justice Ginsburg’s law clerks from 1986 to 1987. For him, Justice Ginsburg was a teacher and a model of unchecked excellence who routinely worked late into the night to always try to get it “right.” Her law clerks’ children were her “grand-clerks” and her smile lit up when they visited. Jay says Justice Ginsburg paved the way for our daughters to have a seat at the table and for our sons to benefit from seeing the world through different lenses. May we all have her wisdom to listen intently, to learn from those with whom we disagree, and to be better for the effort. HBO’s newest limited series from writer and producer David E. Kelley, The Undoing, is based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s page-turner, You Should Have Known, and has been heralded as a thrill ride by many critics. The cast and crew are filled with award-winners, including Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman, Donald Sutherland, director Suzanne Bier, and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. According to Jean, “It’s quite different from the novel, especially toward the end, so don’t ask me what happens. I’ve seen all but the final episode and I have no idea who did what to whom.” Then, in time for your 2021 summer reading, be on the lookout for Jean’s latest novel, The Plot, before Memorial Day. Speaking of publishing, another anticipated book release, this winter, will be Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. It’s a career retrospective. Melissa Kaish, founder of the Kaish Family Art Project and daughter of Luise Kaish, is also happy to announce the launch of their redesigned website. Peter Kilmarx was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his career at the U.S. Public Health Service responding to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases and building health research capacity worldwide from 1996 to 2019. The award is the highest award granted and recognizes an exceedingly high level of achievement by an officer who possesses a genuine sense of public service. Peter retired from the Public Health Service in 2019 to become the deputy director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health. Congratulations, Peter! Following up on the architecture and construction theme of our last Class Notes, Richard Walsh is president and CEO (fourth generation) of Walsh Brothers Construction. Founded in 1901, the firm originally focused on constructing monumental classic academic buildings on college campuses throughout New England and New York. Today Walsh Brothers’ work reflects evolving styles of architecture, with numerous projects involving contemporary and traditional design, adaptive re-use, renovation, historic restoration and preservation, updated code compliance, and everything in between. The firm has even moved older structures and performed “facade-ectomies”—maintaining certain features of an established building to integrate with new master plan designs. Rick’s favorite traditional buildings at Dartmouth are Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall. His favorite contemporary building is the Hood Museum.

—Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

As Sam Sanders recently said during hisNPR podcast It’s Been a Minute, “It feels like we’re living in three movies at once: a satire, and a horror movie and a Spike Lee Joint.” The recent national wave of conversations about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, systemic racism, unemployment, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings protecting LGBTQ employees and supporting the DACA program makes the first six months of 2020 an historic and momentous time. Peter Kilmarx, M.D., writes that since March 13 he has been working from home in Bethesda, Maryland, and alternatively from his farm in Lyme, New Hampshire. In his role at the National Institutes of Health he is supporting global Covid-19 research partnerships, SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, contact tracing challenges, and many other projects. Peter has given many updates on Covid-19 research and epidemiology including a webinar, “What’s Needed to Re-open Safely” for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Since May, people have been vigorously coming together worldwide in record numbers in response to multiple video recordings of police officers and white supremacists brutalizing and sometimes killing Black people and other people of color over minor violations, suspicion, or simply living while Black. These protests also shine a light on increasing violence against trans women of color. Brian Roy,attorney for UnitedLex in Richmond, Virginia,likens the recent profound bipartisan, multiracial, interfaith union of people to two earlier events he experienced firsthand. In the early 1990s Brian arrived in Los Angeles within days of the Rodney King beating on March 3. 1991. Ten years later Brian was a newly appointed attorney for Morgan Stanley, with offices in the World Trade Center in New York City. Fortunately, on the morning of 9/11, Brian and his new wife were in Maui, Hawaii, on the second day of their honeymoon. In New Jersey, Maddie Thomas of Glen Rock resonantly marched in a Black Lives Matter protest and last week celebrated Juneteenth, a tradition passed down through the generations of her family. As a senior writer for Bloomberg News focusing on business and economic news and global equality, Karen Toulon writes: “It’s essential to include voices and perspectives from all communities and cultures—in our newsrooms and as sources in our stories.” Dave Wallinga and his family live in St. Paul, Minnesota, just a few miles away from the site in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. Dave reports the official lines of communication among the city, police, and citizens have been almost nonexistent for years. Dave has worked at two nonprofit organizations dealing with agriculture and the environment. Both organizations are now intensively addressing race-based and non-race-based inequities in their policy arenas. After the popularity of the N.Y.C. and Boston first Friday lunches organized by Dave Ellis and Patty Shepard, respectively, other regions have recently begun following their footsteps. In May Elliot Stultz and Becky Ankeny hosted the first virtual lunch for classmates living in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Not to be outdone, Maren Christensen, Shanta Sullivan, and Ian Wiener hosted the first West Coast virtual cocktail hour in June.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

David Ellis organized a hugely successful class weekend in N.Y.C. in November. Forty-six classmates converged on the city with significant others and family members—a total of 96 people—to partake in multiple activities, including a football game between Dartmouth and Princeton at Yankee Stadium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first college game, delicious meals at assorted venues, and a Tony Award-winning musical. On Friday night classmates attended Hadestown, a Broadway musical and winner of eight Tony Awards that was developed during the New York Theater Workshop’s 2014 summer residency at Dartmouth. Jessica Rosenberg Brown writes that the play was worth every penny. Having downloaded the original Broadway cast recording, she is continuing to enjoy the experience. Following the performance, Amber Grey, a star of the show and friend of actor Jim Sterling, treated classmates, including Gail Marcus, Patty Shepherd Green, and Wade Welch, to a backstage tour. Saturday’s activities commenced with a morning book event with Jamie Bernstein, daughter of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein and author of Famous Father Girl. On Saturday afternoon classmates traveled to Yankee Stadium for the historic game. Jessica Rosenberg Brown writes that by Hanover standards, the weather wasn’t all that frigid. Rick Baker flew in from Madison, Wisconsin, for the game, as did Lynn Johnson Kidder, from Palo Alto, California. As coach Buddy Teevens ’79 was quoted in The Dartmouth, “Dartmouth people, they’ll travel anywhere to watch. It was fun to see, to look at the sea of green.” Following the victory, the Dartmouth players turned to the rousing students and alums standing arm-over-arm in the stands and joined them in singing the alma mater. Of course, there were several tailgate parties as well as post-victory celebrations at Billy’s Sports Bar in the Bronx. Amy Bloch has been practicing psychiatry for 23 years and is the author of a newly published book, The Power of the Heart. Amy never expected to write a book but felt compelled to share her discovery of the heart’s power in the midst of personal crisis. Amy’s daughter, Emily, was born with severe brain damage. Upon hearing the devastating news, Amy fell into a state of despair and fear, but tapping into her heart enabled her to find strength and courage. Amy believes our brains don’t know everything, and when our hearts step in, we’re stronger, smarter, authentic, and better able to live with uncertainty and know our true selves. Rick Eggleston recently joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute as professor and department head of civil and environmental engineering. His teaching interests focus on geochemistry, solar energy, and semiconductor electrochemistry, surface and interface chemistry, and thermodynamics. According to Rick, as we approach the problem of climate adaptation, we face nothing less than the redesign and reconstruction of the global infrastructure for new energy, transportation, food, water, and environmental systems—with a leading role for a new generation of civil, architectural, and environmental engineers able to work with novel materials, smart world design, systems thinking, and data science.

—Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

We’re spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of news from ’83s. We received so many responses to our call for news from classmates abroad that we’re continuing the theme. Paul DeVierno writes from Singapore: “Even though I’ve lived life as an expat, I have been going through the circle of life with most everyone else.” He has noticed that there are few mentions of parents in ’83 Class Notes. Paul calls his mother in Kensington, Maryland, every Saturday, and when asked about the weather, tells her that Singapore remains hot and humid. Paul, his wife, and two children flew to the United States annually to visit family and friends for 26 years. The airlines used to offer half-price fares for children, so the 24 hours of torture were at least a bargain. Now that his mother has moved into an assisted living community, Paul flies alone. Paul’s daughter works in Atlanta and his son attends college in D.C., which means Paul is starting to enjoy something previously in short supply—free time. Classmates interested in joining Paul in Laos, Myanmar, or Indonesia—contact him. Kurt Bredenbeck left the United States at 23 to study in London. Each winter he travels between his beach house in sunny Florida and not-so-sunny, in fact mostly chilly and damp, London. For 18 months, between 2007 and 2008, Kurt visited 40 states, Mexico, and Canada in a Corvette convertible to reconnect to his American roots, including a trip to New Hampshire for our 25th reunion. Kurt appreciates the healthcare available in the United Kingdom and the rare gun violence. He is co-parenting his best friend’s two teenagers and would love for them to attend Dartmouth, although college is more expensive in the United States than even Cambridge or Oxford. Also, British entrance exams for university are different than American entrance exams for college. A future in London? Kurt has mixed feelings: “With the United Kingdom in possible Brexit economic and social meltdown, France sounds nice.” Tim Martin has lived in England for 35 years and appreciates its sanity and civility. However, Brexit is causing many to leave, and hostility to immigrants is rising. Americans are now subject to stringent rules, including carrying an identity card. Residents are nervous about everything from availability of fresh food and medicine to garbage disposal (the United Kingdom exports much recycling to Europe). The exchange rate is low, so the departure is more challenging for anyone with savings in sterling. Tim writes, “It feels like the party is over.” Anders Crofoot, his wife, and two children emigrated 21 years ago to New Zealand, where they operate a 9,000-acre farm with approximately 20,000 sheep, 1,000 head of cattle, six miles of coastline, and an accommodations business. The nearest town is an hour away. Anders is struck by the congestion while visiting the United States, which he’s done seven times since emigrating. Anders and his wife feel it’s a privilege to live where they do.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

After 20 years in N.Y.C., Guy Bacigalupi has moved to Dublin, where, despite the move, he continues to work for the same company (Aircastle, which leases aircraft to airlines), in the same job (chief risk officer), with the same boss. His role keeps him traveling around the world evaluating such things as the values of guarantees from various governments. Guy’s oldest child, Alexia, graduated from the University of Chicago in June. His middle child, Noemie, recently finished her freshman year at Duke, and his youngest, Jeremy, lives in London with his mother and started high school at the American School in London. Guy is still in regular touch with Alex Stein, Geoff Durno, Larry Ramin, Sal Caruso, and Paul Fechtelkotter and gets back to New York and Connecticut regularly for work and to San Francisco a couple times a year to see his mother. He would love to catch up with classmates in any of those locations. Continuing with an Irish theme, but back in the United States, Kelley Bishop, Carrick Eggleston, and Tom McKean have been recording Irish and Scottish music with fiddler Sarah Collins (daughter of Dennis Collins ’80) in preparation for their band’s 2020 European tour. They formed their band, DunCreagan, in 1980 with classmate Rick Gagné. After many years apart, the members had been planning to reunite, but Rick’s death in 2014 was a sharp wakeup call. Since 2015 the band has been doing short tours each year in Europe and the United States, with Elise Morse-Gagné on vocals and flute. Next summer the band will be performing in Europe again, so please follow its website—www.duncreagan.com—or sign up for the mailing list and let your Euro-friends know. Tom writes that it’s good to celebrate friendship and music, but the biggest lesson is not to wait! Get together with old friends now! Laura Stephens Robinson has relocated to Beaufort, South Carolina, with her husband, Dave Robinson, Tu’83. Laura writes that although she took only one art class at Dartmouth, she was a regular at the pottery studio down by the Connecticut River and since graduation has taken many art classes. She describes herself as a multimedia artist. Recently the Association of Traditional Rug Hooking Artists (ATHA) featured one of Laura’s rugs, titled The Ta-dah Sisters, in a two-page article in the April/May international issue of ATHA Magazine. The work is an impressionistic picture in wool of Laura’s three daughters on a glorious day at the beach. Talking about daughters, Nancy Bick and Tory Rogers ran into each other while attending their respective daughters’ graduations at Colby College in Maine, while back in Hanover, several classmates witnessed their children graduate from Dartmouth, including Robin Henning Rochi, Kathy Hoes Provost, and Becky Walcott Ankeny. We are seeking international ’83 voices crying in the wilderness for an international-themed column later this year. Please submit news and announcements to dart838383mouth@gmail.com.

—Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com

Dartmouth’s commitment to the fine and performing arts is manifested in part through the college’s vibrant arts district, including the recently reopened and much enlarged Hood Museum. Various classmates are active members of creative communities. The Falkirk Cultural Center in San Raphael, California, recently exhibited “This is Not a Book:Journals by Minna Towbin Pinger.” Minna’s journals are large mixed-media and written word works focused on home and family. No stranger to the creative spotlight, Jean Hanff Korelitz was pleased to learn that hernovel, You Should Have Known, is being produced by David E. Kelley as a limited series for HBO. Renamed The Undoing, it will feature Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland. Jean’s son, Asher, is following her creative lead and has joined the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen. According to Jean, her son has forbidden her from following him during the year-long tour. Consistent with the creative theme of this issue’s Class Notes, Daniel Rodgers and his significant other, Cybele Gontar, recently bought a second home in New Orleans and own The Degas Gallery in the Warehouse District. Check it out online or stop by if you are in New Orleans. Congratulations are due to various classmates. Rick Baker recently married his longtime girlfriend, Anne Mork—who earned a master of healthcare delivery science through the Dartmouth Institute and Tuck in 2016—at a small wedding attended by family at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison. The newlyweds honeymooned in Morocco. Best wishes, Rick and Anne! Gail Wiedman Marcus was recently named a partner at the N.Y.C. law firm McLaughlin & Stern. She counsels individuals and families concerning trusts and estates. Congratulations, Gail! Following a successful career in finance, including as the head of high-grade capital markets at JPMorgan Chase, Melanie Law Shugart has retired. She is learning Italian and recently spent a few months living in Italy. Molti auguri, Melanie! Pat Lippoczy Hedley has written a book we’re going to buy the minute we finish writing these notes—Meet 100 People. In her book, as well as in her TedXDartmouth talk, “Meet 100 People,” available online, Pat shares her wisdom on networking to cultivate meaningful and long-lasting relationships. Jim Sterling writes that he is committed to running at least nine New York Road Runner races in 2019 to qualify for the 2020 New York City Marathon. Go, Jim! Dave Ellis continues to organize the very popular first Friday Dartmouth lunches in New York City—noon to 1:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. Classmates in the New York City area should join him! We would love to hear from or about any of our classmates living outside the country for an upcoming international-themed Class Note. Please continue to send us news and announcements, international or domestic, creative or not, at dart838383mouth@gmail.com.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Whether you adhere to traditions or find them maddening, you’ll probably agree that Dartmouth has many, as do some of our classmates. Shortly after graduating, a group of our classmates established a tradition of getting together regularly for dinner and a movie. Among the regulars were Bob Gray, Bob Dinan, Barb Dinan, Bob Blum, Caryn “C.C.” Ginsberg, Walter Foster, Anne Marie Healey,and James McKim (yes, an eclectic crowd). With family and work commitments and relocations, the get-togethers became less frequent through the years, but the group still keeps in touch and the friendships endure. Anne Marie Healey and James McKim got together with Bob Gray in Reading, Massachusetts, shortly after Bob’s mother, Sandra, passed away last month. Bob works at the family company, Cushman & Marden. Anne Marie is project manager of the project on race and gender in science and medicine at the Harvard University Hutchins Center. She and her husband live in Somerville, Massachusetts, and recently became empty-nesters when their son, Liam, left for college in Georgia. After a stint at Hewlett Packard, James McKim is advising startups on organizational development and infrastructure. He and his wife live in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Similarly, after Dan Scherman accepted a position with financial advisors Waddell & Reed in Kansas City, Kansas, two years ago, he and Art Blackman began hosting micro-reunions for ’83s at Art’s home in Mission Hills, Kansas. According to Dan, a strong affinity for premium cigars and fine wine is a plus, but any “son of a gun for beer” is okay too. Likewise, Elliot Stultz and Dina Baker Smallman meet in Palm Springs, California, each October for a long weekend of mid-century modern, swapping the granite of New Hampshire for the desert sun. Closer to the “lone pine above her,” James McKim enjoyed two micro-miniature reunions when he had coffee recently with John Flanders. John is chief of operations at the N.H. Community Loan Fund and on the forefront of business startup programs. He too will become an empty-nester in the spring. Hours later, James ran into Rob Hirschfeld, also an empty-nester (see a pattern?). As the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, Rob has been ensuring the church is a welcoming place. Bob Goldman reports that his traditions include inviting Dartmouth friends to all his weddings and initiating ongoing friendships at reunions with classmates he hasn’t met before. Bob says he can’t wait until his next wedding! Following a long tradition of accomplishment and leadership among Dartmouth alums, Karen Toulon recently received the Gwen Ifill Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Karen is a senior editor on Bloomberg’s talent, diversity, standards, and training team and a former New York bureau chief. She was honored for developing and promoting the broadcast skills of Bloomberg journalists and researchers around the world while helping to diversify Bloomberg’s global lineup. Congratulations, Karen! Take a moment to submit your traditions. Let us share them with our classmates, lest the old traditions fail.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

Many of us are still basking in the glow of our 35th reunion and three wonderful days in Hanover. Two hundred ninety-six classmates, partners, and children participated. For some, the reunion began on Wednesday night with a stay at the newly rebuilt lodge at Mount Moosilauke, followed by a cold and blustery hike to the summit on Thursday led by Peter Kilmarx. Hikers included Lynn Johnson, Peter Kidder, Dan Zelikow, Melissa Kaish, Keith Moskow, Peter Ham, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, and Chris Hunt. Back in Hanover Mac Gardner graciously hosted a Thursday evening reception at his home, just steps from Main Street. On Friday four classmates talked about their recent work. Shelley Drake Hawks spoke about her book The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China, which tells the stories of secret, counterrevolutionary artists during the Cultural Revolution. Jean Hanff Korelitz read from her latest novel, The Devil and Webster, a captivating tale about a college president and a student protest at a small New England liberal arts college. Former CNN producer Marika Olsen described the two years she spent in Baghdad helping to establish the country’s election process, and former federal prosecutor Brian Kelly discussed trying the notable case U.S. v. James “Whitey” Bulger. Friday evening highlights included dancing to our favorite reunion band, The Marsels, with a performance by Kelly Fowler Hunter. Early Saturday morning in picture-perfect weather, Reed Webster guided a canoe trip on the Connecticut that included Fred Cuda, Kathy Bowler Mitchell, Belle Traver McDougal, and Jim Bloomer. They paddled upriver and drifted back down. Spotted at the alumni row were Anni Dupre Santry, Steve Hart, Andre Hunter, Libby Lawrence, Mike Hjerpe, Patty Shepard, and Laura Stephens Robinson. Meanwhile, back on solid ground, ’83s were represented at the tennis round robin by Kathy Provost, My Nguyen, David Ellis, and Lynn Vanderhoek. On Saturday afternoon the Baker Library lawn was awash with a luncheon gathering of the classes of 1982, 1983, and 1984 alumni, while 35th Reunion Songsters, composed of alumni from many singing groups, sang Dartmouth favorites. Some ’83 Glee Club singers included Catherine Brown Dougherty, Natalie Hulen Diana, Beth Hovey, and James McKim, who also directed the performance of Pea Green Freshmen. Saturday evening featured an outdoor banquet at the DOC House on Occom Pond during a beautiful sunset. The evening’s festivities went full-tilt boogie when the Dartmouth Idol All-Stars took center stage at the Green with live musical performances showcasing the extraordinary talent the College continues to nurture. Alumni classes danced, waved glow sticks, admired a pyrotechnic spectacular, and gave more than a rouse for dear old Dartmouth. As occurs every five years, the class elected its new class officers, which include Maren Christensen and Martha Gerhan as co-presidents, Walter Foster as vice president, Joe Dempsey as treasurer, and Becky Ankeny, James McKim, Elliot Stultz, and Shanta Sullivan doing communications. Our class has an active Facebook page—“Dartmouth Class of 1983”—and we hope everyone who attended the reunion will post photos.

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

By the time you read this magazine, registration will be live for our reunion June 13 thru 17, with the classes of 1982 and 1984. Yes, we’re clustering again! We’ll begin with an overnight at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on Wednesday, June 13, and hike the next morning beginning around 8:30. The lodge has been completely rebuilt and looks absolutely amazing. You’ll need to call lodge manager Chachi Riesco at (603) 646-6543 to make a reservation if you want to stay overnight. Space is limited! If you have any questions about the hike or accommodations, contact Peter Kilmarx at pkilmarx@gmail.com.

We’ll kick off our official reunion on Thursday evening with a reception and dinner at Mac Gardner’s house in Hanover. Golf will take place on Friday with an 8 a.m. tee time, followed by a class lunch and a class meeting to elect new officers. We’ll also have TEDx-style talks Friday afternoon featuring Marika Olsen, Brian Kelly and a classmate to be named. Friday evening we’ll be having dinner and then dancing with our class’ favorite band, The Marsels, making another appearance at our reunion.

Saturday will be full of family activities and the reunion row. Dinner that night will be at the DOC House following the class memorial service. Sunday we’ll drag ourselves out of bed and head home after breakfast.

Be sure to register early! Prices vary depending on how long you’ll be reuning and when you register. It promises to be a great time to reconnect with your classmates!

In classmate news, Kenneth Weinstein has become president and CEO of Newtown Savings Bank. Ken believes strongly in the community bank model. He has been with community banks his entire career, starting as a teller during a summer internship, and joined Newtown Savings Bank in 2011.

Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Devil and Webster has been long listed for the first Aspen Words Literary Prize. “The Aspen Words Literary Prize is a $35,000 annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture. All of these works reflect some of society’s most pressing contemporary issues with artistry and humanity.” Jean also wrote the novel Admission, which partly takes place at Dartmouth.

See you in June! (And if you have any questions, let me know!) Let it be green!

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

Homecoming saw a large group of ’83s in attendance. Wade Welch reports that he saw Paul Willis, Mary Beth Shimkus Murphy, Bob del Isola, Mac Gardner, Sally Moyer, Mark Flessel, Kathy Bowler Mitchell, Andre and Kelly Fowler Hunter, Ed Lear, and Brian Hebert. Sounds like a fun time, especially with a big win!

Peter Kilmarx and his wife, Nicha, are enjoying Bethesda, Maryland. Peter bikes to work at the National Institutes of Health and Nicha enjoys substitute teaching at area Montessori schools. Peter was promoted to rear admiral (assistant U.S. surgeon general) in the U.S. Public Health Service at the beginning of the year, with classmates Dan Zelikow and Keith Moskow among family and friends attending the ceremony. Highlights of the past year include skiing and maple sugaring in Lyme, New Hampshire, with Rob Hirschfeld and Keith Moskow and snowboarding with his son Hunter, Keith Moskow and Rob Rohn in Snowbird, Utah. They’ve stayed at the Atla Peruvian the last two years and Kevin Schulman has showed up with his son both times! Peter adds that any other ’83s are welcome in 2018. They’re looking forward to our 35th reunion June 14-17 and Peter asks everyone to pencil in June 13 for an overnight at the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and June 14 for a hike up Mount Moosilauke.

Roger Satterthwaite sent in his first note ever!After a three-year college interlude in the Army as a medic and paratrooper, Roger graduated from Dartmouth in 1987. After getting his M.D. and M.P.H. at Columbia in 1991, he trained as a urologic surgeon at the University of Southern California, then spent six years in the Air Force, serving stateside and in England, Germany and Turkey. He then did a fellowship in robotic surgery at the City of Hope in Los Angeles 2006 and remains with the City of Hope Medical Group. He is currently the director of community urology for City of Hope, runs the Pasadena office and sits on the medical group board. Roger married Corinna Wong in 2004 while they were living in Honolulu. They now live in San Marino, California, with their son and daughter. He makes it back to the Hanover area almost every year thanks to his parents living in the Upper Valley. Swimming has replaced running for his aging joints although he still bores people with stories of running on the legendary Dartmouth cross country teams of the mid 1980s. He sees his old roommate George Linzer every other year when he has a conference in D.C.

As I type this, I’m on the plane back to San Diego after spending a very fun, informative and tiring weekend in Hanover for Alumni Council. Roger Baumann, Michelle LaFond and our class rep Walter Foster were all there too. Congrats to Liz Cahill Lempres on her nomination to the Dartmouth board of trustees!

Plan on being in Hanover for our 35th reunion in June. Let it be green!

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

More news than space! On November 10, 2016, Monty Wilkinson received the U.S. Department of Justice Mary C. Lawton Lifetime Service Award at the department’s 64th annual awards ceremony. The award recognizes employees who have served at least 20 years in the U.S. Department of Justice and who have demonstrated high standards of excellence and dedication throughout their careers. The award is given only in exceptional circumstances, and Monty was the sole recipient of the award this year.

Kelly and Andre Hunter skied in the annual Donovan Invitational, held at Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. The event was hosted by Susie Donovan, along with her sisters, their respective husbands and their father. While Kelly and Andre brought home Nastar medals from the race, the bigger news was that they survived the wind chills that were running between minus-20 and minus-30 degrees! That night they were joined at the “awards banquet” by Sheila Kirby Zinc and Shelly Drake Hawkes.

Kelly and Andre saw Roger Baumann, Melissa Kaish Dorfman and Jeff Gardner at two events at the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) for their current production of the Object Lesson. Kelly is the board chair at NYTW and the group honored Dartmouth for their 25-year relationship at its annual gala in May (the workshop comes to Hanover each summer so the artists can work on plays and musicals that they are in the process of creating and refining; Rent was workshopped at Dartmouth before being produced by NYTW in New York and then going on to Broadway).  

Jean Hanff Korelitz has written a new novel (see the last issue of DAM for an excerpt). The Devil and Webster is about a college president, a baffling student protest and some of the most hot-button issues on today’s college campuses. Check out Jean’s website at www.jeanhanffkorelitz.com.

You’ve all seen this news: Alice Ruth is Dartmouth’s new endowment manager.

Ruth Goldman was elected chairwoman of the Newton (Massachusetts) School committee. Ruth had been vice chair for several years.

Chris Marquet has merged his firm with SunBlock Systems Inc., a leading computer forensics, e-discovery, cyber-investigations and digital security firm, after 11 years of leading Marquet International. In his new role he will be leading SunBlock’s expanded investigative services division.

David Sadoff published Bringing International Fugitives to Justice: Extradition and Its Alternatives in 2016. David is the executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Since Dartmouth he’s received a J.D. from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in public international law and an LL.M. in international humanitarian law from the Université de Genève and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Our first-Friday lunches in New York City are pretty popular! If you’re interested and not getting the email invite, either drop me a line or go to Facebook: “Dartmouth Class of 1983.” In addition to David Ellis and Andre Hunter, attendees have included Rick Stafford, Stuart Birdt, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Andrew Davilman, Ron Brody, Kathy Bowler Mitchell, Melanie Law Shugart, Dan Rogers and Tom Bain. Forever green!

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

Mario Cohn Haft has “finished” an expedition he organized to take 50 scientists of different persuasions to explore, looking for new species, a previously unexplored, uninhabited mountain in northern Brazil, Serra da Mocidade. They made two clearings big enough for Blackhawk helicopters to land, one at 600 meters in elevation and the other just more than 1,000 meters in elevation, with a primitive field camp/lab next to each. The group spent 10 days at the first camp and then moved up to the second for another two weeks, finding more than 80 new species. Most of the new species are insects or other invertebrates, including a new freshwater crab, about a dozen new plant species, a couple frogs, etc. Mario’s group (birds) produced one new bird species, which is pretty good, considering how well known the world’s birds are. A Brazilian documentary company called Grifa Filmes has made a 90-minute movie about the expedition. It should come out in the next month or two in theaters and then be sold to TV channels. Mario wants everyone to know that they’re still finding new species of birds, “which is pretty neat and downright fun. In 2013 colleagues and I published, in the Handbook of Birds of the World, a collection of 15 new bird species descriptions, the most new bird species described in a single volume since the mid 1800s!” He also wants to be sure classmates feel free to come down for a visit. He’d be happy to give an insider’s view of the Amazon and would enjoy (he thinks!) hearing about the latest escapades in the states.

Jim Sterling sent news. Robin Kaiser Gish graduated her daughter, Sophia Gish ’16, who then came to New York in September to pursue an acting career. Robin and Jim connected and Sophia came to a show called The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which Jim was playing multiple parts. The show was chosen as a “Top Favorite Show of 2016” in the NY Theater Guide, which called Jim’s performances as six different characters “gripping.”

Peter Kilmarx, M.D., has been promoted to rear admiral (assistant surgeon general) in the U.S. Public Health Service, the country’s uniformed service of public health professionals. An expert in infectious disease research and global health, Peter is deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center, which addresses global health challenges.

Stephen J. Farnsworth, University of Mary Washington professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has received the prestigious 2017 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia. It is the state’s highest award for college and university faculty. During the 17 years Steve has taught at UMW he has helped students develop a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. political and media systems. Along the way he has become a favorite professor, due in particular to his commitment to presenting interesting lectures, thinking of material in new ways and treating students with respect.

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

Deborah Robbins Healey was married to Rick Estabrook on June 25. The event took place at the Pitcher Inn in Warren, Vermont. Dartmouth folks in attendance included Amy Haigh Fassett, Deborah Ellsworth, Denise Mullane, Bill Paganelli ’79 and Deb’s dad, Alan Robbins ’59. Amy reports that great fun was had by all!

On that very same day, on the other side of the country, Mark Gorman married his long-time partner, Michael Sporn, in a beautiful evening wedding, according to Tina Poulter Carrier. Tina and her husband, Ian, made the trip from Massachusetts to join Mark and Michael on their big day. Other Dartmouth ’83s in attendance included Joel Riedenberg, Libby Schmeltzer Stinson and Anne Blanchard. Mark’s brother, Gregg ’85, was also there. Stella and Stanley the Labradoodles helped walk Mark down the aisle. Tina says that it was a “wonderful moving ceremony followed by dinner and dancing!” Congratulations to Mark and Michael!

Congratulations are also in order to Peter Burack, who let us know that his daughter, Samantha Burack, will be attending Dartmouth as a member of the class of 2020. She will be joining her sister, Emily, who is a ’17.

I received an actual hand-written letter, in script no less, from Debbie Himelman. Unfortunately, she’s had a bit of bad luck the past few years. Her husband died a couple years ago, but she recently hooked up with her much younger, handsome neighbor! You go, girl! She also lost her left foot from an infection, but is walking again after six months of no activity. She has a prosthetic foot that is titanium and she says her gait is faster and sturdier than it was before her loss.

That’s all the news (that’s fit to print!). Less than two years to our next reunion! Forever green!

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

Not much news this time around. Our reunion is coming up June 14-17, 2018—35th. Can you believe it? We’ll be hanging out with the ’82s and the ’84s again too. If you’re interested in helping to plan, just let me know. We can use lots and lots of people to help plan and execute.

A new feature of our newsletter will be “10 in 10,” 10 questions answered in less than 10 minutes. Look for an email from either me or Becky or, if you want to participate, contact one of us. Our next newsletter will feature Shanta Sullivan. Shanta is a voice-over actress and has worked in entertainment and media for many years. She lives in Los Angeles. Shanta wanted to be an Olympic figure skating champion when she was young. Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming were her idols, but she had to settle for a Dorothy Hamill haircut instead of a gold medal.

Don’t forget to like us on Facebook: “Dartmouth Class of 1983.” Forever green!

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

Every summer Phil Hultin goes to a gathering of radio-control flyers in Kenora, Ontario, where they all fly their radio-controlled float-planes off a lake. This year the weather was a bit doubtful but they still got in some nice flying time.

On July 17 Jeff Teich and his husband, Nicholas Pratley, celebrated their 2014 wedding (a ceremony in Malibu) and the birth in May of their daughter, Ava Grace, at the Boathouse in Central Park. They were thrilled that Steve Brosnihan, April Cooper, Stu Downs, Walter Foster, Richard Goldman, Rob O’Neal, Cristina Poulter, Bruce Redman and Joel Reidenberg shared in the celebration. Jeff is vice president of legal affairs at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. in Los Angeles. Nick is an instructor at Soul Cycle and spiritual and wellness practitioner, offering retreats and programs for people everywhere to live their best life.

Liz Mueller spent the summer in Europe with her Austrian boyfriend and they traveled through Italy, Croatia and Austria. He showed her the mountains where Becky Wolcott Ankeny’s son skis—too steep for her to hike, much less ski down. While in Italy for one month, Liz worked on perfecting her Italian grammar—especially prepositions—while her policeman boyfriend worked with the Italian Border Control at the port of Ancona, Italy, to deal with the flow of immigrants coming into Europe. While in Austria, she worked on trying to understand the complexities of German grammar and taking chairlifts and gondolas to the top of mountains to avoid having to hike up! She managed a few hikes amidst absolutely stunning scenery in the Pongau Valley, near Salzburg.

Martha Gerhan’s husband, a former Financial Times tech correspondent, will publish his first novel in January. Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison is a fast-paced thriller that exposes the dark side of social media, where big Internet companies use our data to manipulate our thoughts and actions. They are organizing a series of author readings early in the year, and Martha would love to see anyone who can make it—she even promises Scott will sign your copy! Reach out to Martha if you’re interested in hosting a reading (Boston, D.C., N.Y.C., Minneapolis, Chicago and Atlanta are all on the list!)

The weekend of September 26 saw beautiful weather in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, perfect for the wedding of Reed Webster to Kass Obrien. Many of Reed’s Dartmouth friends were in attendance: Rob Rohn and wife Kit ’85, Rich Diver, Jack Campbell, Anni Dupre, Jim Bloomer and wife Melinda ’85, Peter Ellis, Kevin Connolly, Keith Moscow, Mac Gardner, Fred Cuda, John Lee ’82, Bill White ’82 and Jack Blunt ’82.

Homecoming Weekend saw Dartmouth beat Yale. Our class and the ’84s hosted a pre-game mini-reunion. Sheila Kirby Zinck arranged the details and there was a good turnout of classmates: Andre and Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Gregg, Eileen Lynch, Jeff Shapiro, Mac Gardner, Cirri Nottedge, Kate Drislane Howe, Brian Hebert, Neil Donnenfeld and Mark Flessel.

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

Mary Jane Casavant ’85 and Barclay Fitzpatrick are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year with their sons, Declan (14) and Paxton (18), who last November joined the class of 2019! Barclay attached a picture showing Paxton at the moment he received the news of his early acceptance, which you can see in our next newsletter. One happy boy! Barclay retired a couple years ago and has been providing consulting services to charitable groups in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while rehabbing houses for fun. They were off to the United Kingdom and Scotland during the summer, hoping to run into Mike “Slim” Dickens ’82 and looking forward to many trips to Hanover during the next four years.

Libby Schmeltzer Hinson writes: “It’s a funny life, isn’t it? Between the unimaginable heartbreak of losing my parents in May and February, our family celebrated a year of milestones. Our son, Will, was graduated from Vanderbilt and has recently started his graduate degree in leadership and organizational performance at the Peabody School there. In June I was thrilled to spend two weeks in Omaha, Nebraska, watching him earn his College World Series ring as advance scout for the Commodores. His summer was spent working with the Milwaukee Brewers. Our daughter, Lizzie, was graduated from Sierra Canyon (high school) and began her freshman year at Vandy and was shocked to see snow fall out of the sky for the first time in her life!” Libby and her family live in the Los Angeles area.

Lots of graduations in June: Mac Gardner’s daughter, Annie, was a class marshal for the class of 2015. Andre Hunter and Kelly Fowler Hunter’s son, Cameron, graduated from Dartmouth as well. And daughter Casey graduated from high school and will be heading to Dartmouth in the fall. Jessica Rosenberg Brown’s daughter, Lily, graduated from Dartmouth too. Mark Flessel’s daughter, Ally, graduated from Bucknell, while daughter Katherine will be a sophomore at Dartmouth in the fall. I know there are a ton more graduations but that’s all I can remember now! Post your graduate on our Facebook page, “Dartmouth Class of 1983.” Send me your news! Forever green!

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

This month’s column comes courtesy of Peter Forbes. He recently wrote a book, A Man Apart, a family memoir about his relationship with Maine homesteader Bill Coperthwaite, 30 years older than us, who shaped a good deal of our lives and our dreams. Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to contemporary society and was often compared to Henry David Thoreau. Much like Helen and Scott Nearing, who were his friends and mentors, Coperthwaite led a 55-year-long “experiment in living” on a remote stretch of Maine coast. There he created a homestead of wooden, multistoried yurts, a form of architecture for which he was known around the world. Coperthwaite also embodied a philosophy that he called “democratic living,” which was about empowering all people to have agency over their lives in order to create a better community. The central question of Coperthwaite’s life was, “How can I live according to what I believe?” For Peter, Bill Coperthwaite was both sail and anchor. Coperthwaite taught Peter how to use his hands, build his own home and create his own life. And when Coperthwaite died in a car accident a year ago, Peter’s family helped build his casket, paddle him home and bury him on his homestead. The book is a story of friendship, encouragement and the quest to design a better world. You can read more at Peter’s website, billcoperthwaite.com.


Well, that’s pretty much it. Please remember to pay your class dues and to contribute to the Alumni Fund! You can do both on our class website. Forever green.


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


One of the coolest parts of this “job” is finding out about people you never knew at Dartmouth. David Peale is one of those people. He lives near me in San Diego and was a physics major, a pole vaulter for the track team and sang with the Chamber Singers. He was surprised that he and I didn’t cross paths at some point but we probably did somewhere! It’s not that big a campus, but what I figured out at graduation, sitting with people I somehow hadn’t seen since freshman year, was that there were a lot more people running around campus than I thought!


David now does private physics and engineering consulting. He mostly works on a project related to the brain-mapping initiative. David notes that he had a wonderful time at Dartmouth, and having seen other Ivy League schools up close while a teaching assistant in physics, realizes that “Dartmouth is a very special place of learning.”


Ken Johnson hosted a micro-mini-reunion with the classes of ’82 and ’84 following President Hanlon’s talk in Denver with “maybe a dozen people at its peak.” Michael Sullivan attended, but Ken was apparently sworn to secrecy about what Michael is doing these days because he “refused” to give me details. Ken does report that the Hanlon event was “a smashing success. There were a couple of videos shown during President Hanlon’s speech. One was a montage about the new president and his plans for Dartmouth, while the other was about students on a foreign study program in India learning about and helping an impoverished community. Both were compelling. President Hanlon spoke eloquently and didn’t shy away from directly addressing the not-so-savory issues on campus today, including sexual assault and civility.”


Following President Hanlon’s talk in Seattle, about 15 ’82s, ’83s and ’84s gathered at a local restaurant. Included in the fun were Bruce Basset, John Harvard and wife Michele, Peter Hussey and wife Winky ’84 and Courtenay Newton. Dan Drais and Roger Goodman attended the talk. Much to Courtenay’s surprise, the group stayed out late—11-11:30 p.m.—on a work night!


I heard from an anonymous source that Pete Spalding is alive and well. He owns a company called Gordon International that makes furniture for companies. My source says Pete seems happy and he has a son at Dartmouth. Pete “honestly looks exactly the same and is just as funny.”


Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the center for leadership and media studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has been elected chair of the political communication section of the American Political Science Association. The section includes roughly 400 political science professors and graduate students who study the intersection of media and politics.


And the bad part of this “job?” Reporting deaths. Rick Gagne died on May 28, nine weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. An obituary will be posted online shortly. Our condolences to Rick’s family. Forever green.


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com


I just returned from a quick trip to our alma mater for Alumni Council meetings. You’ll get a complete summary from me soon, but the campus looked beautiful (it didn’t snow!) and there are some exciting new ideas coming from our president, Phil Hanlon. I’d also like to report that the basement of Sigma Delta looks similar to a fraternity, with at least seven pong tables. However, it smells much better than a fraternity. I’ve also heard that one of the “new” sororities, Alpha Phi, plays pong with Andre champagne. Frightening.
As for classmate news, I have some! There were plenty of ’83s in Hanover for Homecoming Weekend. Spotted around campus were Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Bloomer, Anne Deacon, Susie Donovan, Buck Foote, Walter Foster, Jim Gregg, Brian Hebert, Toby Hitt, Eileen Lynch, Rob O’Neill, Jim Sterling, Wade Welch, Bob Del Isola and Geordie Lunt. Sheila Kirby Zinck did a great job organizing our mini-reunion with the classes of ’82 and ’84.
Edie Farwell wrote to tell us that her son Cedar Mead Farwell started Dartmouth in September and that she and her husband, Jay Mead, canoed him to college from where they live in Hartland, Vermont. Cedar is apparently trying to do everything at Dartmouth, having a good time, finding his way, loving all the opportunities and studying hard! Their other son Silas Farwell Mead is 15 and a junior at the Sharon Academy, where Cedar went.
Stephen J. Farnsworth is coauthor of The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government, published by Rowman & Littlefield. According to the publisher, “This book provides an expansive international examination of news coverage of U.S. political communication and the roles the U.S. government and the presidency play in an increasingly communicative and interconnected political world.”
Ellen Malinin Carpenter of UCLA’s department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine will be the next director of the undergraduate neuroscience program. Ellen arrived at UCLA in 1996 as an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she is now a professor. She is also the director of Project Brainstorm, an outreach program that brings UCLA neuroscience students to local school campuses to provide lessons on the function and dysfunction of the human brain. She is the assistant director of outreach for the UCLA Brain Research Institute and she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Teaching Award from the department of psychiatry in 2007. On the home front, Ellen’s been married for 30 years to Brad Carpenter ’82 and has two grown daughters. The eldest is graduating from the University of Maryland this December with a double major in physics and astronomy and the youngest departed for the University of Colorado this fall to study music education.
Mike Coster has been busy too, having completed a spin-out and a purchase of Ranieri Real Estate Advisors LLC. he has also formed Kimberlite Advisors LLC.
Have fun out there!
—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com



Class Officers Weekend occurred in September and several of your loyal officers convened in Hanover. I’m happy to report that the campus looks pretty much the same as it did for our reunion, Theta Delt has at least three pong tables in the basement and Beta smells like leather couches. TriKap was hosting a dance party and was very popular with the undergrads. Becky Wolcott Ankeny and I managed to push thru the hordes of people into the house, where one young coed greeted us with “Geez, they must be at least 40!” We took that as a compliment. Former class secretary Debbie Michel Rosch tells me she heard (thanks to Facebook) that Stuart Grider recently moved back to London from Hong Kong. She believes Stuart is a lawyer. Stuart, care to comment? Jean Hanff Korelitz has a new book out, Admission, which takes place partly at our lovely alma mater. Jean writes: “Admission is mainly set at present-day Princeton University, but there are a few key chapters that take place at Dartmouth in the 1980s. Class of ’83s may or may not recognize a few of our classmates, but the settings should be familiar to all: the bonfire, the frats and above all the clothes. (Surely there have never been such universally unflattering clothes as down vests, Fair Isle sweaters, Docksiders and turtlenecks with tiny little strawberries all over them. What on earth were we thinking?)” I have read the book and thankfully did not recognize myself in it. (I am wearing a down vest right now however!) I decided to discover which other classmates have authored a book, and I know there are quite a few. One of the less well-publicized authors is Sally Kahler Phillips. Sally lives in L.A. and writes children’s books. Sally has authored Cake Cake Cake Pie and another titled Nonesense. I unfortunately have not read either of Sally’s books, but I will have to ask my 5-year-old nephew. He’ll know. Matt Liddle, professor in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University, received the Board of Governors’ College of Fine and Performing Arts Teaching Award. “Most of the time you are on your own in the classroom, and it can feel like your work goes unnoticed,” Liddle said. “It’s nice to have someone tell you that you are doing a good job.” The award recognizes a faculty member for outstanding teaching. Students and colleagues alike may nominate faculty members, and selection committee members visit finalists as part of the selection process. 


Up the street from me in my little town lives a woman named Maren. Two Marens in one small town is a lot. The more interesting part is that she is married to a man with the last name of Grainger. I wanted to call her husband Dave and we finally put two and two together—her brother in law is our classmate Dave Grainger. I e-mailed Dave and got an update on his life. He holds an endowed professorship chair in the nation’s No. 2 academic pharmaceutical chemistry graduate program, is chairperson of this department and is a full professor of bioengineering at the University of Utah. He and his wife, Holly ’79, enjoy living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and backcountry skiing, biking, fly-fishing, etc. Dave has a son who graduated from Dartmouth in 2008, majoring in music. 


Homecoming was last weekend and our beleaguered football team finally won its first game in two-plus years! Congratulations! Numerous ’83s were apparently in attendance: Charlie Morrison, Hilleary Hoskinson, Bob Dell Isola and Jessica Rosenberg Brown, among others. Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@ yahoo.com


This column is the most challenging to write. It’s due December 28, for publication in February. I always mean to start it long before it’s due because I know that I’ll be busy with Christmas celebrations and guests and fun things and news is sparse this time of year; everyone else is busy too. News is hard to come by anytime though. No one sends me news! So, I’m going to randomly start picking people and e-mailing you to get your news. 


After the column about small-world coincidences came out, and I invited you all to meet Alison Chaiken and me for lunch at a local watering hole, I received an e-mail from Cathy Shelburne. I didn’t know Cathy (although I recognized her) and she didn’t know me, but she wanted to meet us for lunch. So we did. Cathy is the director of upper school admissions at Menlo School, a private school in Menlo Park, California (that my brothers attended; it wasn’t coed way back in our days). She’s been living in the Bay Area for about three years with her husband and two kids. 


Martha Gerhan has been living in San Francisco for about eight years. Martha is consulting with Wells Fargo, strategic stuff, and doing a lot of biking. She recently won the Raymond E. Miles Alumni Service Award from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The award was created in honor of former dean Raymond Miles, who believed in the value of the alumni network and was a strong supporter of the Cal business alumni association. Go, Martha! Martha is also vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Greater San Francisco Area and an Alumni Council representative. 


The only part of the class secretary job that I was hoping I’d never have to do was to write an obituary. Well, sadly, I’ll be writing one—our classmate Mark Bandeen passed away in October in La Jolla, California. Mark came to Dartmouth from Montreal. I knew him from hanging out at Beta, and he attended our last reunion. If anyone would like to share stories about Mark or pictures, let me know. I’d like to put together a tribute in our newsletter. Numerous family members including his children, Bradford and Blair ’12, survive Mark. 


Until next time, when I start my random e-mails, that’s all I have. Hope that you’re still keeping all those New Year’s resolutions! Forever green.


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


I have news! And I didn’t even have to cold call anyone!


Lisa Tromovitch received one of the select Dreammakers and Risktakers Awards at the Livermore (California) Chamber of Commerce’s new event Dreammakers and Risktakers on March 30. She’s planning an alumni night with the Livermore Shakespeare Festival at Concannon Vineyard for Saturday, July 10: wine tasting and picnicking on the winery grounds before an outdoor production of Romeo & Juliet. A super-deal hotel package is available, so out-of-town alumni can visit too!


Judy Stone Mallory did an admissions interview for the College and then decided to write to me. (While you’re thinking of Dartmouth, think of me and send me a note!) Judy lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where she grew up. She has two boys, Mark and Andrew, a senior and a sophomore who go to her old high school. They both play soccer, basketball and tennis, but the funny coincidence is that Andrew was on the same basketball team this year (and became friends with) Molly Langan Liebowitz’s son Jared. Molly and Judy were only acquaintances at Dartmouth, but have had fun reconnecting. Mark will be attending UVM next year. Judy was unable to make our last reunion because of a conflict but is hoping to make our next one (June 2013!).


Matt Jurkoic wrote to ask me a question about crew but I held Matty’s information hostage until he filled me in on what was happening in his life. His reply: “My life? It’s too dull. I mean, what’s so exciting about being a men’s underwear supermodel?” Glad to see nothing’s changed. Matty then added: “But when I’m not jetting to photo shoots in exotic places around the globe, I’m home in Lee, New Hampshire, with my wife, Debbie, and two girls Ana (8) and Brygida (6). If there is time I work for Picis—a high acuity care (emergency department, intensive care, operating room) software company in Wakefield, Massachusetts.” So there you have it.


Unfortunately, part of this job involves informing alumni of deaths in our class, and I unfortunately need to inform you all that Leanne Eberly Jordan died March 13 after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. Before I received the news about Leanne, I received an e-mail from Michael Bush detailing a visit he and other ’83s had with Leanne in late February. Leanne and Anni Dupre Santry were visiting Liz Mueller in La Jolla, California, and decided to ride from Orange County to San Diego, a distance of about 60 miles. “In typical executive fashion Anni contacted Michael to arrange the details and routing through Camp Pendleton and beyond. Anni also found out David Plekenpol ’82 would be flying across the country from New York on his way home to Shanghai, China, and would be available to surprise Leanne. The adventurers took off from Dana Point and rode along the Pacific coast braving such hazards as sand in the gears, mud on the bike shoes and the distraction of super buff surfers washing themselves on the side of the road while only half dressed. Some hours and 60-plus miles later the Dartmouth contingent arrived to cheers from pizza eating and beer drinking friends. Leanne left for Colorado the following day and Anni rustled up a free lunch, complete with drinks, from Jim Ulcickas at his restaurant Blue Water Grill in Newport Beach prior to her departure for the East Coast.” The ride took place on February 28, less than two weeks before Leanne’s death.


I actually have more news but no space. Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


August—back-to-school time. I remember arriving in Hanover my freshman year with my dad (class of ’51) a day before my freshman trip. Being from California, I had long, blonde hair and I was wearing platform shoes with wrap-around pants. The year 1979 was the height of preppy, and it didn’t take me long to figure out why! Bean boots, widewhale cords, Fair Isle sweaters, button-down shirts and brown hair replaced my California style. It got pretty darn cold pretty fast in Hanover. Our first soccer game was played in the snow! I tried to get in touch with some of the ’83 soccer players. I heard from Dave Hartzell: “I am living in suburban Philadelphia near where I grew up, after spending 10 years in New York City and Baltimore. Still doing investment banking but rarely admit it to anybody. I am currently doing restructurings for business services companies, which seems to be the only game in town these days. More importantly, family life is great. I am happily married to my wife, Christine, who ‘retired’ from the pharmaceutical industry to run our household many years ago. I have two daughters, Victoria (15) and Katie (11), who keep me in line. Victoria plays soccer for her school team and Katie plays travel for Lower Merion Soccer Club. My playing days have long been over except for scrimmages in our back yard. On the Dartmouth front I had a great time at 25th reunion, as did my family. Victoria particularly enjoyed playing water pong, so I guess it runs in the genes. I still stay in touch with several classmates and enjoyed a mini AD reunion in Florida last year with Kevin Connolly and Reed Webster.”


Ric Bucher also wrote: “I’m now a jack-of-all-trades covering the NBA for ESPN, basketball having always been a close second to soccer for me. I’m a senior writer with the magazine, sideline reporter for telecasts, in-studio TV analyst, dot-com columnist—if it’s a medium through which something can be said about the NBA, I’m probably on it. A touch of arthritis from knee surgery the winter of my freshman year has finally caught up with me. It doesn’t bother me surfing, so that has become my new passion; fortunately, we live in Half Moon Bay [California] with nearly a dozen different breaks within a 40-minute drive. Rather than risk a knee replacement in a couple of years I’ve retired from anything involving a ball other than playing one-on-one with my kids in the back yard.”


The only woman I heard from was my partner in crime, Amy Haigh Fassett. Amy’s in Walpole, Massachusetts, and just sent her oldest two kids off to college: Sarah to Elon in North Carolina and Spencer to Gettysburg. Their third, Emma, is in eighth grade. Amy has spent many years working as an instructional aide for severe special needs students at the middle school level. Amy wishes she could still play, but she has had multiple leg surgeries and has finally hung up her cleats. “My youngest, Emma, still plays and it is a pleasure to sit on the sidelines and watch the game for a change although sometimes I have to work hard to keep my mouth shut!”


And me, well, I still try to play in a coed recreational league in my town of Portola Valley, California, but have noticed I’m a bit slower and not so good with that ball. It’s still fun though, and in a recent game I played against a 19-year-old Dartmouth sophomore. That was depressing! Happy fall! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


Happy New Year!


Dartmouth for Life and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association recently sponsored a program in Boston: Off the Green: Dartmouth and the Law, with assistant U.S. attorney Brian Kelly. According to special correspondent Walter Foster, the reception was held at the offices of Choate, Hall & Stewart Boston. Brian spoke about his Dartmouth career and the path that brought him to the U.S. attorney’s office and the prosecution of most corruption cases in Boston—with great detail about the Whitey Bulger trial. He talked about one of the witnesses who might have testified showing up murdered in the Boston suburbs during the trial (dissatisfied business partner offed him!) and the victims and how they reacted to the various episodes that arose during the trial. Dartmouth was hosting a lawyers shadow day and there were at least 10 to 20 students who also attended. According to Walker, Brian was a great speaker and brought insight into the inner workings of his office.


South Jersey Biz has named Fran Manning one of South New Jersey’s 25 Executives of the Year. Fran is the partner-in-charge of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young’s New Jersey office in Cherry Hill, a firm he has now worked at for the past 12 years. Considered an expert in helping executives with commercial disputes and product liability matters, Fran has tried more than 30 cases to verdict or award. He has litigated a range of complex commercial, products liability and mass tort cases. He represents corporate, institutional and insurance company clients in health care disputes, employment disputes, Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims and wrongful-death cases. Fran has prosecuted dozens of fraud and breach-of-contract claims for banks and other financial institutions holding security interests in real property and general business assets. Outside of work, Fran is a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey, serving as the vice chairman of the government action division, and serves on the board of the executive committee of the Covered Bridge Swim Club in Cherry Hill.


I want to take a few words to pay tribute to someone close to me who recently passed away. My dad, Herman Christensen, was a Dartmouth ’51 who instilled in me early on a love for all things green. He encouraged loyalty, respect and perseverance and gave me his quirky sense of humor, among other things. He died unexpectedly on December 9, coming home after a workout. He was a great dad, a great person and a devoted fan of the green. I miss him.


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com


The College often uses the adjective “great” in front of a class: the great class of 1978, the great class of 1982, etc. Well, we don’t care if we’re a great class (we already know we are!); we just want to have fun. Our name: the fun class of 1983. We don’t care about buildings, and senators and trustees (although they’re all well and good), we’re just going to have fun. And fun was had at our 30th reunion! I don’t have enough space to get into all the details here (check out our class website and Facebook page) but suffice it to say all had a great time. And for all of you who didn’t make it, we missed you, but we went on just as before.


Thursday morning was a hike up Moosilauke, led by Peter Kilmarx, who came from Zimbabwe to have fun with us. K.J. Adler was on that hike, coming in from Switzerland! Thursday evening we gathered in the rain in our tent and talked and talked. Friday started early with golf. Thanks to Jack Campbell for organizing golf. David Moore and Tom Hastings both won prizes for being closest to the pin. Friday lunch was down at the river: picture perfect as always. Late Friday afternoon was our panel discussion with Jean Hanff Korelitz and Lisa Feinberg Densmore discussing their creative processes. Jean wrote the book Admission, which was made into a movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, and Lisa helped write Passion for Skiing, which she then turned into the documentary Passion for Snow. Friday night we had “our” band, and believe it or not, there was dancing. Lots of dancing. Some of us realized as we tried to get low for “Shout” that our knees weren’t quite as flexible anymore. And in case anyone had nothing to do after the dancing, there was a party in 106 Rauner. 


Saturday at 8 a.m. was tennis, organized by Reed Webster. Even though 20-plus people signed up, only 12 appeared—too much dancing apparently! Lunch found us on Kemeny Patio. Our class meeting was held and you elected the same slate of officers that you’ve had for the past five years, with a couple of changes: co-presidents, Mac Gardner and Andre Hunter; vice president, Jim Gregg; treasurer, Bob Goldman; communications, yours truly and Becky Wolcott Ankeny; head agent, Roger Baumann; webmaster, Mac Gardner; class project coordinators, Mac Gardner and Andre Hunter; mini-reunion and reunion chairs, Deb Robbins Healey and Patty Shepard. We added a new category of executive committee members: at-large, Joanne Sardella, Deb Ellsworth, Sarah Reynolds Walton, Tina Poulter, Martha Gerhan andPeter Kilmarx. 


Saturday afternoon saw Anni Dupre Santry helping to christen a shell named in honor of Leann Eberly Jordan. The ceremony was moving, but happy. The shell then made its inaugural run with many members of the women’s 1983 crew team: Laura Bordiuk Kasler, Emily Jordan ’14, Anni Dupre Santry, Liz Mueller, Libby Lawrence Sobota, Laura Stephens Robinson, Patty Shepard and Jeanne Hanff Korelitz. The 1983 men also rowed. Jon Aney, Keith Moscow, Bill Burke and Peter Kilmarx did us proud. 


Saturday night was much quieter, for some, than Friday night! No band, no dancing, but lots of chatting. Someone remarked to me that it was amazing how, after spending a relatively short four years together more than 30 years ago, we could come together every five years and have the time of our lives. We enjoy each other’s company, conversations flow no matter who you’re talking to, and we have fun. Here’s to coming together again in five years!


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com


It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring…hell has clearly frozen over since its pouring rain in California in June and the Giants have scored 13 runs on 18 hits against the Cubbies today. Thanks for this month’s news goes to the alumni relations office, which forwards me news that you people submit to them! Without them, this column would be very short and I’d probably just write about myself and all the gossip that I find on Facebook. Anyway, on to the “real” news. On May 24 InsideCounsel magazine honored seven women general counsel and law firm partners who demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in corporate law. Nadia Dombrowski, senior vice president, group head and lead region counsel of U.S. markets for MasterCard Worldwide, received the Pamela L. Carter Award, which recognizes a woman whose vision, values and philosophy of using her achievements are critical to her success. Nadia was quoted as saying, “The importance of being global citizens and developing international leadership skills has never been greater.” Congratulations, Nadia!


Greg Curhan was living in Los Angeles in 1991 during the Rodney King riots. While he suffered no harm or property damage, the surreal experience of urban warfare in a major city left an indelible impression on him. Almost 17 years later, during a break from his two and a half decade career as an investment banker, he decided to write a novel set during the riots. Ten months later he had completed the first draft of the novel. A year and a half after that he is publishing it. The novel is titled Indomitable Spirit and features a main character, Max Dinger, a Dartmouth graduate, as a hedge fund manager who uses his martial arts prowess in an attempt to rescue his kidnapped fiancée during the Rodney King riots. The book should be out this fall. Look for it on Amazon!


Kathy Stoughton is also a published author. Her latest book is Simple Machines Make Work Easier,and an accompanying lab book with experiments titled Simple Machines Lab Notebook. Kathy and her co-author Simone Robinson, a first-grade teacher at Sunapee (New Hampshire) Central Elementary School, put their ideas into a finished product in only five months. Kathy’s goal was to create less-expensive materials for schools to help their students excel. “These kids are so bright and they will need to compete for jobs in a pretty competitive marketplace. We need to give them as much of an edge as possible and do it in a way that lets as many schools as possible participate.” More about both books can be found on Kathy’s website, empoweringlearners.com, and the books are available on Amazon. 


Look for information about mini-reunions in your areas as well as more details about our 50th birthday party in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend. If you aren’t getting e-mails from us, please let us know your e-mail address! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


Let’s hear it for the end of summer…boo! Okay then, let’s hear it for Tory Rogers, who has been selected to receive the 2011 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. This award is presented annually in collaboration with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies to honor a medical school faculty physician who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students. In order to be selected, nominees must demonstrate positive mentoring skills, involvement in community service, compassion and sensitivity, collaboration with students and patients and model ethics of the profession. Tory specializes in the childhood obesity prevention and management. 


And another round of snaps for Jean Hanff Korelitz and Debbie Michel Rosch (Jean gets snaps for sending in news!). Jean was present when Debbie received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College in June. Not only was the degree a reason to celebrate, but Debbie’s first novel, The Accidental Divorce, had been recently sold to Berkely Books. Publisher’s Lunch describes the book as “A comedy of manners about a young couple who are very happily married until, ineluctably, they aren’t.” Look for it in spring 2012. Thanks, Jean, and congrats to Debbie!


Marika Olsen is back in the good ole USA, at least for a little while. She spent the last two years in Baghdad and is now writing a book about her experiences. The working title is Baghdad Barbie: Misfit Toys on the Green Zone Gravy Train. She’s looking for an agent and a publisher, so if any of you can help, she’d love it! While she was in Iraq, she would send her Baghdad diary via e-mail. Her book is taken from those entries, and based on what I read it should be very entertaining! Marika, when I corresponded with her, was in Atlanta, having met with designers at Cartoon Network about mentoring the Iraq election commission’s graphics team. 


And let’s have another round of snaps! It’s our 50th birthday year and by the time you read this we will have all celebrated together at Homecoming weekend.


Loren Bachelder Wright spent her birthday (Friday the 13th of May!) hiking Mount Etna with her husband, J.B. Jessica Rosenberg Brown asked, “If I don’t post my birthday on Facebook, does that mean I don’t really get any older?”


Martha Viehmann’s husband baked her a cake and then they graded papers together. Ann Blanchard and Marika Olsen celebrated their 50th in Ireland, but not together.


Becky Wolcott Ankeny traveled to the Crans-Montana ski area in Switzerland to watch her youngest son race in the World Junior Alpine Ski Championship. She spent her actual birthday on the plane though. And I attended a Giants-Padres game in San Diego at which my son rooted for the Padres while my husband and I cheered for the Giants. The Padres won. (I’m hoping that by the time this column comes out, my beloved Giants will have recovered and won the World Series, again.)


Davies Beller celebrated his 50th with Frank Falzetta, John Sontich, Eddie Lear and Tom Oppenheim (along with Scott Sipple ’84) at the racetrack in Del Mar, California. 


Hope you all are enjoying your fall and that many of you made it to our 50th birthday celebration in Hanover! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


It’s the end of February and there’s snow in the hills of San Diego but none in Hanover or the Sierras. Such a strange winter it’s been. I’ve thankfully been sent a few small bits of news so that we can have a column this month! Thanks, contributors!


Arvo Mikkanen received the 2011 Exceptional Service Award from the National Association of Former United States Attorneys. Arvo has been an assistant U.S. attorney in the western district of Oklahoma for more than 17 years and actively prosecutes criminal cases in its violent crime division. He formerly was in private law practice, taught as an adjunct law professor and served as a tribal court judge.


An ’83 micro-reunion took place at Chez Ted Demopolous for New Year’s Eve, with Chef Ted cooking some strange stuff and taking everyone on a tour of different champagnes. The jeroboam of champagne was fun (that means big bottle). In attendance were Miko Behn, Michelle “Veronica” Jodoin, Jeff Stanton, Alan Talbot, Susie Monagan, Dave “Cornelius” Bannon, Anne Hopkins ’85, Rick Bercovitz ’82 and Pat Gallager ’81 amongst others. Another micro-reunion took place in New Orleans in January. Lolly Jewett, Kathy Bachelder Coster, Peggy Gilges, Loren Bachelder Wright, Peggy Gilges, Jenny Norman, Martha Sundberg Harfiel and Beth Winnick Falcone have sworn themselves to secrecy about the events. 


Bill Scoville sent us his Christmas letter, which was a great way to let us know what’s going on in his world. His daughter Sara is now a freshman at Summit High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and son Michael graduated from Summit and is now a freshman at Villanova, where oldest daughter Katie is a junior majoring in communications (what a bonus: half the checks, twice the cost!). Bill celebrated 20 years with Shaw/IT Corp. by breaking his wrist (got a little over-aggressive on tree trimming).


Bill also generously gave us the scoop on his twin brother Jim: He’s still in London and is a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton. His oldest son is a ’12 at Dartmouth and a member of Zeta Psi. He has a 14-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter who looks and sounds like British royalty.


Caryn “C.C.” Ginsberg recently gave a talk at Dartmouth sharing highlights of her new book, Animal Impact: Secrets Proven to Achieve Results and Move the World. The book describes a system to help advocates get better results and highlights stories, examples, and tips that show effective advocacy in action. The book stems from C.C.’s decade of experience helping nonprofits enhance their effectiveness by applying business principles. C.C. is the founder of Priority Ventures Group LLC and has more than 10 years of experience using proven practices to help individuals and organizations get better results for animals. Her clients include the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States, PetSmart Charities, Farm Sanctuary and Humane Farm Animal Care. She has taught for Humane Society University as well as in the M.B.A. program for Johns Hopkins University.


By the time you read this column we will have had mini-reunions in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. (And we’ll have all kinds of exciting news for next time!) If you’d like to hold a mini-reunion in your area, let us know and we’ll do all the work for you (well, almost!). Also, if you’re not getting a monthly e-mail from Becky Ankeny, it means that we don’t have your e-mail address. (We’re missing e-mail addresses from almost half the class.) If you’re one of the missing, and want to be found, please let me know. Until next time, forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


I’m going to bug you every chance I get to remind you about our 30th reunion June 13-16. Can you believe it has been 30 years since we graduated? Check out our Facebook page and class website (http://dartmouth.org/classes/83) for pictures from the past. By the time you receive this magazine, our plans will be set. If you haven’t been getting monthly e-mails from the class, please send me your e-mail address!


Mark Gorman’sprofile picture on Facebook is intriguing. “Following a few days in Beijing on business, we had two days to explore. We had to see The Great Wall. After hiking to the top of the wall we explored, took pictures and generally enjoyed the views. When it came time to leave we found sleds that one could ride to the base of the wall. The sleds rode along tracks that were set up like an amusement park ride, with lots of twists and turns. Each sled had manual brakes, but their use was optional—it was a great ride and clearly one of my better business trips!”


Bill Hammond is making news again! The Hanover Lions Club recently honored him with the Melvin Jones Award. Named for the founder of Lions Club International, the award is the Lions Club Foundation’s highest honor acknowledging “an individual’s dedication to service in the community and beyond” and qualities such as generosity, compassion and concern for others.


Lisa Tromovitch, artistic director of Livermore Shakespeare Festival and chair of the theater arts department at University of the Pacific, was recognized by the Alameda County (California) board of supervisors with a 2012 Arts Leadership Award. Lisa is also a co-author of the recently released book More Votes that Count: A Case Study in Voter Mobilization. She created television education spots that helped voters fill out their ballots, recruited poll workers and prepared voters to use provisional ballots.


Roger Goodman was re-elected to a fourth term as state representative in the Washington State Legislature, representing the Seattle suburbs of Redmond (home of Microsoft) and Kirkland (home of Costco). He was just selected to be the new chair of the House public safety committee, overseeing the criminal justice system, emergency preparedness and other public safety matters. Roger says that they’ve “made major strides here in Washington State to reduce deaths on the roadways from drunk driving, as well as the harm from domestic violence. It’s really gratifying to be able to make a positive difference in the conditions of people’s lives.”


Dave Ross recently attended services at his local church, Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the newly ordained bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, Robert Hirschfeld, presided and gave the sermon.


Dave says that Robert “was excellent and really moving and a true credit to Dartmouth and our class.” Dave got together with Mark Ardagna for a Dartmouth hockey game in Hanover. Mark lives in Atlanta and “is going great guns as an exec for Akamai Technologies.” Dave himself is living in Manchester, New Hampshire, and his son Ben is a senior at the University of Oregon. Dave works as a writer for a company he founded called RossCommon, LLC. He stays in touch regularly with most of his class from Heorot. Dave also keeps in contact with Deno Mokas, who lives in Manchester as well and is “doing a great job with family and career.” 


Together again in 2013!


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com


Short and sweet this time, folks. Lack of news from you all makes it that way! Thank goodness for press releases!


Nadia A. Dombrowski, senior vice president, group head and managing counsel for emerging payments and advisors at MasterCard, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in her in-house practice. Nadia has five years of experience at MasterCard managing an international team that delivers legal support for two global businesses with MasterCard Innovation Platform and MasterCard Advisors. She became involved in her profession because of her interest in problem resolution and she attributes her success to a combination of analytical and communication skills, together with people management skills, creative problem solving and diligence. Nadia was a Fulbright and Rotary International Scholar and received her J.D. from Columbia University in 1988. 


Greg Curhan has been named clickworker.com’s new CEO. Based in Germany, clickworker.com has established a strong lead in the European paid crowdsourcing market with customers, including Deutsche Telekom AG, AOL, Honda and PayPal. Already generating a third of its worldwide revenue from the U.S. market, clickworker.com is now expanding its presence in North America. Greg’s son is a freshman at Dartmouth. He’s been to Hanover twice this fall: once to drop Evan off at freshman trips. The second time was for Homecoming. “It was the first Homecoming I went to since our senior fall—1982! It was great to see the College in full swing. Bonfire was awesome, although I don’t think they made it 114 railroad tiers high. President Kim was very impressive with his grasp of the spirit of Dartmouth. Great touch that he walked out holding hands with the team captains for the coin toss at the football game.” Greg wrote that “overall it feels like thing are similar to when we were there. Same super-friendly, engaged, gung-ho student body. My son is having a blast. He’s involved in lots of varied activities including the ultimate Frisbee team, working on the lighting crew for the fall play, mountain biking with members of the DOC, figuring out what his major should be (three changes so far), checking out the fraternity scene, etc. I love having a son there. Helps me reconnect to what is going on in Hanover, and will likely cause me to visit three to four times a year, a lot from the Bay Area.”


That’s all I have. Remember to pay your class dues and be on the look out for information about our 50th birthday party bashes in your area, as well as the big one at Homecoming this fall! Forever green!


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@yahoo.com


I’m happy to report that my ploy of an almost empty column a few months back worked! I got news from first-timers!


George Linzer sent in an update: “So our empty column in the latest alumni magazine shamed me enough to shake off my apathy and make my first-ever contribution. I’ve been living in Arlington, Virginia, for the last 20 or so years with my wife, Hope, and our kids. Zach’s now a sophomore at Colorado University-Boulder, Isabel is a high school junior looking at playing softball in college and my wife is just now embarking on a singer-songwriter career (check out SuburbanHearts.com). Eleven years ago I launched a patient education website, labtestsonline.org, for a medical laboratory association and I’m now a better patient because of all I’ve learned through the years. I keep in touch sporadically with several alums, more now thanks to Facebook, and just had dinner with Dr. R.W. Satterthwaite last weekend. And if Bill and Jud are up for it, I will make it to our 30th.”


I also managed to guilt Kris Thomas from Bozeman, Montana, into dropping us a line. “The last few years I have spent homeschooling and taking care of my son, who has had some serious health problems. I keep busy and social with nonprofit work—chairing the local chapter of Farm to School and a group that works on pollution issues in Montana and serving on the board of the Bozeman Community Food Cooperative. “


Kris thinks that she is no longer the only ’83 in Montana. She has seen Lisa Densmore’s byline in the Montana press. Lisa, please confirm!


Geoff Apthorp lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, working as vice president of business development and engineering for Environmental Solutions Group, a Dover Co. that is involved in manufacturing recycling equipment. He and his wife, Tammy, celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2011. They have boys Dylan and Connor, aged 20 and 16, respectively. Dylan will graduate from his engineering program at State University of New York, Cobleskill, in June.


Monique Abner is a plastic surgeon in private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. She does everything from breast reductions to skin cancer resection and treatment. “In my spare time I am enjoying Argentine tango, teaching a dance class and pursuing my art. Please tell classmate Tim Geithner that if he comes to the Democratic National Convention, he should stop by the office to check out the 36-by-24 oil painting that I made of his boss!”


A round of snaps (and more!) for Bill Hammond,who was chosen as principal of Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vermont. After graduation Bill accepted a position at Hanover High School as a member of the math and English departments, then went to Washington, D.C., before returning to Hanover High. “[H]e has been not just a teacher and mentor, but also a pioneer for new and innovative approaches to teaching that attempt to reach all students,” according to Neil Odell, chairman of the Norwich school board. 


Sharon Roth Franks sent us a beautiful picture of her and her 5-year-old golden retriever Wally. Wally and Sharon are weekly volunteers at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, where Wally makes countless patients, family members and friends of patients, and staff smile. Wally is also a regular at the quarterly therapy dog de-stress event for students during finals week at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where Sharon works. And Sharon is the director of research proposal development service in the office of research affairs at UCSD.


Debbie Michel Rosch’sfirst novel has been published! Prosper in Love is a story about the perfect marriage. Or is it? You can check out more at www.deborahmichel.net.


Great to hear from all you! Keep sending me news. Forever green.


—Maren Christensen, 166 Sausal Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028; (650) 529-2396; marenjc@ yahoo.com


Get ready! Our 30th reunion is coming! June 12-16. We’re actively planning and you should have gotten a letter from your reunion co-chairs and an intentions postcard. Please return the postcard so that we can plan accordingly. More information will be released in February. In the meantime, here’s the latest: Alan Eagle wanted to do something fitting for his 50th so he and his 14-year-old son reached the top of Kilimanjaro the day before Alan turned 51! They followed up the climb with eight days of safari in northern Tanzania.


Judy Stone Mallory’ssons Mark and Andrew are current students at UVM, a junior and a freshman.Judy hates being an empty nester, but is the luckiest one she knows since her kids are 10 minutes away!


Kimball Halsey and his fiancée, Cynthia Tschampl, were married on June 23 in Our Lady of Perpetual Hope, Bradford, Vermont. In attendance were Kimball’s dad, William Halsey ’40, his uncle James Halsey ’44, cousin John Halsey ’76 and friends Chandler Rosenberger ’87, Kristina Kohler ’87 and Judith Rust ’85. Their photographer was Eli Burakian ’00.


Lynn and Peter Kidder’s son Thomas is in the freshman class of 2016, and while dropping him off she had fun seeing Deborah Michel Rosch, Jim Gregg, Kate Drislane Howe and Dave Persampieri.


Martha Gerhan noticed that a recent issue of Swimmer magazine featured this year’s long course Nationals and one swimmer followed in her training was Leslie Livingston. In the article it mentions she swam at Dartmouth. “I remembered Leslie Cloutier on the team, and found in the alumni directory it’s one and the same! She set a world record in the 50-meter backstroke, breaking her previous world mark, and the article alludes to other world records. She lives in Vienna, Virginia, and swims there.” Martha continues to swim competitively, as does Eric Valley and Tom Karb.


Joel Reidenberg visited Zion National Park as part of a family trip to celebrate son Jeremy’s graduation from college. Joel hurt his wrist and after a two-hour hike to the park ranger, a few more hours to the nearest hospital, a phone call to orthopedic surgeon Dan Gelb and an emergency flight home to New York for surgery the next day, it took nine screws and a metal plate to put the wrist back together.


Joel hopes that his wrist heals by our reunion so he can get the Sigma Alpha Epsilon bike group (Dan Gelb, Rob O’Neal, Jeff Soldatis and Joel) together for a ride. They last did a trip together in 2010, the first time they were all together since June 1983, when they set out from SAE to bike to the N.Y.C. area.


Dan is an orthopedic spine surgeon at the University of Maryland. Jeff, an orthopedic surgeon, has a sports medicine practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Rob is a principal in Epsilon Associates, an engineering and environmental consulting firm in Maynard, Massachusetts.


I was sent Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner’s first book, If Only. Written from the point of view of Corinna, a 13-year-old girl whose mother has died of cancer, the book addresses Corinna’s grieving process. Carole did a great job of capturing a 13-year-old’s state of mind, probably because she’s spent the last 20 years as a clinical social worker, working in schools, hospitals and counseling agencies with children who have had a parent die. She is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine. She is married to our classmate Tim Geithner and they have two children, one who is a freshman at Dartmouth.


Together again 2013!


—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com