Class Notes 1983

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May-June 2025

During President Sian Leah Beilock’s 2023 inaugural address, she mapped out her 10-year commitment to add 1,000 beds for students, faculty, and staff. As the renovation of existing dorms continues, the ground has been broken for Russo Hall, an apartment-style residence on West Wheelock. The class of ’89 recently announced its commitment to fund a second residence hall on West Wheelock. In mid-February Dartmouth agreed to finance a $15.2-million, 21-unit housing development for faculty and staff in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, a mile south of the Dartmouth Green. Jeff Shapiro’sreal estate company, Occom Path Inc., is developing the project.

At the end of February our annual class meeting was held virtually. Class officers gave an overview of their responsibilities throughout 2024 and their goals for 2025. For more details, please refer to our Dartmouth class of 1983 website and ’83 class newsletter. Mark Flessel and Kathy Hoes Provost, our co-head agents for the Dartmouth College Fund, are seeking volunteers to join their team. Kathy says, “If you can commit a few hours annually, it’s a great way to support financial aid and to reconnect with classmates. Mark and I are both fans of personal outreach—no hard sell tactics necessary!” Please reach out at mflessel@gmail.com or kathyprovost@icloud.com for more info.

If you’re looking for a spellbinding novel, you’ll hit the target by placing Jean Korelitz’s latest novel in your quiver: The Sequel, the sequel to her New York Times bestseller The Plot. We enjoyed a lively virtual “D’83 Discussion” with Jean. She entertained classmates’ thoughtful questions about Anna, The Sequel’s talented yet secretive and unscrupulous writing heroine, and with an amusing peek between the covers of the publishing industry. I don’t want to allude to any spoilers, so here’s a fun fact: She titled each chapter with the titles of other well-known sequels, for example, chapter 26: “The Burden of Proof.” The Plot is currently in development as a limited series for Hulu with Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali set to star. Could there be a third book featuring Anna Williams Bonner? Jean doesn’t have plans—but she says, “Never say never.”

Throughout the “D’83 Discussion: Medicare for You,” facilitated by Courtenay Newton, a licensed naturopathic physician in Washington state, she discussed her professional and personal experience with Medicare, which she joined six years ago due to a disability. Most ’83s will be eligible to join Medicare three months before their 65th birthday, though they will not receive benefits until the first day of their birth month. As the discussion progressed, the system’s complexity became clear—from the required traditional Medicare to more extensive coverage with Medigap or Medicare Advantage plans. Newton’s advice is “to do your homework to ensure a good experience,” as plans differ in coverage for many items. She ended her presentation on a reassuring note: “Medicare is an adventure [and] is generally good.” Video and slides from this discussion are available on our class website: 1983.dartmouth.org under “Events” and “D’83 Discussions.”

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

March-April 2025

During his virtual “D’83 Discussion” on “Uncovering Creativity,” Kevin Connolly shared, “I don’t know where along the line of being a rock-head from the South Shore of Boston to being a singer-songwriter, now doing some acting, that I decided to come out of my shell in my hometown community as a football player and announce that I knew how to write stories, play guitar, and sing songs, because it was a hard thing to do!” Kevincredits his curiosity from a young age for his creativity journey. During the late 1960s his family became one of the first Peace Corps volunteer families in Barbados. Kevin was inspired by the 20-something Peace Corps volunteers who would play the guitar and sing the music of Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, etc., in song circles. After saving money for his first guitar, Kevin soon learned to play. Following college Kevin traced a sinuous path from advertising to songwriting and recording numerous CDs, fatherhood, radio management, and then back to songwriting and performing. Now he has expanded his storytelling to acting, screenwriting, and producing. He is now represented by an agent in New York and Los Angeles and recently completed the first draft of his screenplay for his third short film, The Organist.Kevin’s final recommendation to foster creativity is to “have a sacred space, whether it’s a shed, room, time of day where you can be creative. It can be right after a cup of coffee. You have an intention that this is what I’m going to do today.”

Lisa Ballard received a lifetime achievement award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America based on her career in outdoor media as a television producer, magazine writer, and photographer. Though the organization is almost 100 years old, Lisa is only the second woman to have won the Joan Wulff Award. In her acceptance speech, she noted, “I’m hardly done yet. There are still a lot more adventures to be had and a couple of books that I need to write.”

The Dartmouth Climate Alliance (DCA) is a new alumni shared-interest group for all members of the Dartmouth community who care about climate change. In October the DCA presented three events, including an in-person panel discussion in Seattle titled “Startups Take on Climate Change,” which was moderated by Dan Drais, the vice president of DCA. The panel discussion was cosponsored by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship in Seattle. The participating panelists included Sydney House ’18 and David Weld ’85, Tu’90, whose companies use “technology (including artificial intelligence) to track greenhouse gas emissions from scope 3 sources and methane from power plants.” For more information on DCA, go to www.dartmouthclimatealliance.org. Later this year Dan will be leading a “D’83 Discussion” on climate change.

January-February 2025

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

November-December 2024

Tempestuous weather was unable to drown out the vibrant green glow on Martha’s Vineyard when more than 168 alumni, guests, and friends attended the 2024 Dartmouth Martha’s Vineyard event with Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA) at the Martha’s Vineyard (MV) Museum in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. The occasion allowed alumni and attendees to connect with old friends and befriend new ones. Representing the ’83s were Liz Cahill Lempres, chair of the Dartmouth board of trustees; Bruce Danziger, a member of the Alumni Council; Deborah Hayden; and yours truly, Shanta Sullivan. The BADA leadership included Maria Cole ’84, president, and David Cumberbatch ’84, Alumni Council representative. Among the many trustees present were Shonda Rhimes ’91, David Grain, Tu’89 (and a board member of the MV Museum), Ellie Loughlin ’89, and chair emeritus Laurel Richie ’81. The gathering featured an address by President Sian Beilock, who affirmed Dartmouth’s commitments to embracing diversity as a strength; prioritizing mental health and wellness; expanding housing for students, faculty, and staff; and the College’s work on climate initiatives. She cited some of the College’s outreach intentions for inclusion, such as the Dartmouth Bound Program, founded by Gary Love ’76, created to give rising high school seniors from underrepresented backgrounds and communities across the country an extended campus visit each summer. President Beilock acknowledged the presence of Dr. Estevan Garcia, Dartmouth’s inaugural chief health and wellness officer, who oversees health services, the student wellness center, and employee wellness. She shared recent news of the purchase of four properties on West Wheelock—part of her pledge to add 1,000 beds during the next decade. As for long-range goals, our president pointed out the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative’s plan to invest $500 million toward 100-percent decarbonization of the campus by 2050.

Sam Reckford reports that he and his family went to Paris to watch daughter Molly ’15 compete in the Olympic lightweight women’s double sculls rowing events, not to mention the final. She had a respectable finish to a remarkably surprising post-collegiate rowing career. “Never in a million years would I have expected any of my children to make an Olympic team. And she did it twice.”

We’re proud to report that Arvo Q. Mikkanen, the president of the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association and an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, was honored with the National Native American Bar Association’s inaugural Advocacy Warrior Award, which celebrates excellence in legal practice advocating for Native American justice, rights, and tribal sovereignty.

Let’s cheer for Liz Neisloss, a news reporter at GBH,who recently won a Boston-New England Emmy Award for a Serious Feature: Priced Out. “Grateful to Judith for sharing her story, which reveals the economic fragility of older women.”

Before closing, I want to give a rouse and a heartfelt thank you to Elliot Stultz, my wonderful co-secretary, for his undying enthusiasm, reliability, and commitment to our class during the past six years!

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

September-October 2024

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

July-August 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the setting for a mini-reunion of classmates. Bruce Redman recounts: “Dave Badger, Steve Brosnihan (with spouse Susan and son Teddy), Bob Dinan, Stu Downs, Jeff Teich, Dan Veno, and I recently visited Rich “Dicky” Goldman and family members to catch up on old friendships that started with Dicky, Bob, Dan, and Stu as freshmen in the River Cluster and later included Dave, Steve, Jeff, myself, and others; many stories, hugs, much laughter, and love—even a pie in the face for Stu and a dog pile to honor the occasion.”

The April book discussion group (virtual) featured Jonathan Howland and his book Native Air, grand prize winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition 2022 and a finalist for the California Book Awards 2023. Summer is approaching, so I asked Jonathan, “Which books are on your nightstand?” His reply: “The Fraud by Zadie Smith—a clever, funny, touching romp; A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James—inventive, energetic, virtuosic; A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin—traces the long walk of an old Italian man and his young companion, unique, tender, hors catégorie.”

Lisa Feinberg Ballard writes: “I’m still racing on the international masters circuit, chasing the FIS Masters Cup. This winter I defended my overall women’s super G title and placed second in my age group (women 60-64). I swept our age group at the World Criterium Masters (world championships) at Kimberley, British Columbia; winning the super G, giant slalom, and slalom. That was a thrill! My highlight of winter was skiing in Park City, Utah, with two of my Dartmouth ski team buddies, Betsy Cowles ’84 and Sarah Millham Horton ’85, and her husband, Tom Horton ’85.”

In March Lisa Quirk Kaija, Bill Hammond, and Kevin Connolly were in White River Junction, Vermont, to support Jim Sterling when he performed in Shaker Bridge Theatre’s production of Tracy Lett’s The Minutes, a play that examines the inner workings of a town council meeting room. Later in April Jim appeared in a musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Axis Theater Company in N.Y.C.

After reconnecting with Julia Mueller McNeal during our 40th reunion, Daniel Gelb and his wife, Jillian, recently traveled from New Hartford, Connecticut, to San Francisco to see Julia perform alongside Tony Award-winning actor B.D. Wong in the American Conservatory Theater’s world premiere of Big Data, written by Kate Atwell and directed by Tony Award-winning director Pam McKinnon, the artistic director of A.C.T. Atwell revealed to the San Francisco Chronicle, “when we give up our digital privacy, our homes, family, love, and sex lives feel the cost.” Julia also wrote 5 Ways In to Character, A Workbook for Creators.

Peter Kilmarx wrote, Unraveling Roots: A Journey through DNA, Identity, and Family History on Medium (https://bit.ly/3vbccXs). Peter’s work “friend” ChatGPT summarizes his essay: “Dr. Peter Kilmarx recounts the seismic impact of his son’s innocuous question about their family’s ancestry. Triggered by a 23andMe test, Dr. Kilmarx’s exploration leads to a startling revelation.”

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

May-June 2024

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

March - April 2024

I enjoyed running into Alan Eagle, my Hitchcock next-door neighbor, for the first time in years this past June. Alan began 2024 with the release of his new book, Learned Excellence, coauthored with Eric Potterat, Ph.D., a world-renowned performance psychologist. Alan describes their book as “a comprehensive guide to the mental disciplines of high performance. It is based on Eric’s career working with thousands of top performers from the military, sports, business, and first-responder worlds, and my career working with several Silicon Valley startups and as a managing director at Google.” Both New York Times’ Bestsellers: How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach were coauthored by Alan. Now for the admirers of political humor, check out Late-Night in Washington, coauthored by classmate Stephen Farnsworth with Robert Lichter and Farah Latif and available on Amazon. Stephen is a professor in the department of political science and international affairs and the director of the University of Mary Washington Center for Leadership and Media Studies. The book is the ninth coauthored by Stephen on the presidency, the mass media, politics, and public opinion. Stephen’s publisher writes, “This book traces the trajectory of late-night political humor, which has long been a staple of entertainment television and is now a prominent part of social media political discourse.” Our classmates have long admired the acoustic-based folk rock and Americana songs of “Best of Boston” singer and songwriter Kevin Connolly. During Covid Kevin broadened his horizons and began taking virtual acting courses with the country’s top acting coaches and was hooked. In 2023 Kevin was a lead actor in Confessions of a Namedropper, a short film he cowrote and starred in with James Dumont. In Kevin’s words, “It’s a twisted little, short film about a mixed-up, middle-aged guy and his unconventional therapist.” Screened at numerous film festivals stateside and internationally in 2023, the film won “Best Comedy Award” at the Istanbul Movie Awards and was a semifinalist in the Rome International Short Festival. Speaking of Kevin’s international recognition, New Shot Records, an Italian label, has remastered Kevin’s Violin Sirens from his music cassette recording from 30 years ago and released it on CD, available at newshotrecords.com. Finally, Kathy Provost and Mark Flessel have agreed to become our class head agents for the Dartmouth College Fund. Please continue to keep us up to date on your stories and adventures!

—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

January-February 2024

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.

November-December 2023

Wellness, mental health, storytelling to strengthen our community, and connection were some themes during our recent 40th reunion. During breakfast on Friday and Saturday morning, Bruce Redman, and Kathy Bowler Mitchell were among several class members facilitating table discussions on pressing topics many of us face entering this new decade. Some topics included “Supporting Addicted Relatives,” “Caring for Aging Parents,” “Angel Investing,” and “Parenting LGBTQ Children.”

Classmates who participated in a service project for the Upper Valley Haven included Clay Spears, Anne Davidson Barr, and Jean Gleason. During our first reunion lunch Friday, on the lawn of McNutt, classmates voted to retain most of our existing class officers: Walter Foster and Martha Gehren, co-presidents; Shelley Drake Hawks, vice president; Robin Henning Rocchi, communications coordinator; and Mike Hjerpe, Alumni Council representative.

All class officers are listed on the back of the ’83 newsletters. We have two class officer openings: head agent for the Dartmouth College Fund and planned giving chair. Contact Walter Foster at wfoster@eckertseamans.com for information.

In a departure from traditional reunion programming, two storytelling events by classmates were scheduled on Friday. “Writing Our Next Chapters (Lives)” touched on second careers, spirituality, philanthropy, and hobbies. Speakers included Anne Blanchard, Joe Dempsey, and Steve Baggott. “The Stories of Our Lives” touched upon frightening health challenges, life in the Amazon, practicing medicine in Rwanda, and diverse parenting experiences. Speakers included Neil Donnenfeld, Alix Casler Friend, Laszlo Madaras, Lisa Ottaviano McLaughlin, and Mario Cohn-Haft.

Saturday morning President Beilock gave an address to the 2023 reunion classes, which was followed by a fascinating conversation on leadership with Nike CEO John Donahoe ’82. He broke the ice by presenting her with green-and-white Air Jordans; she rocked the Jordans.

Due to the rainy conditions, our 40th lunch with the ’82s and ’84s took place in Leverone. Lively conversations of shared, as well as different, life experiences continued. We were later entertained by the Reunion Glee Club singers, including Natalie Hulen Diana and Chris Koller. Their program included Dartmouth favorites. For “Dear Old Dartmouth,” the Glee Club and members of all three classes sang.

Mike Hjerpe reported on the alumni row. His boat included Andre Hunter (coxswain), Bill Middlesworth, Jeff Gardner, and Anni Dupre Santry.“Thoughts of glory days called my name. Risky as it was, a bunch of 60-somethings strapped in for a 60-minute paddle on the Connecticut—no broken bones or equipment. (We rowed in a national team boat—who’s crazy idea was that?)”

At twilight many of us gathered in Rollins Chapel for a memorial service for departed classmates. It was led by Rabbi David Stern, and Kevin Connolly performed poignant music. It was beautifully nuanced between loss and life celebration.

We had a delightful final class dinner, which was unexpectedly moved to the ballrooms of The Hanover Inn. Our reunion was awesome! Just wish we had five more days to catch up with everyone and hear about some of the places they’ve gone and the people they’ve seen.

September-October 2023

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

July-August 2023

“Together, Forever Green,” our 40th class reunion, was celebrated in Hanover just a few weeks ago. We promise to share stories about hiking Moosilauke 44 years later, reconnecting with Dartmouth friends as well as making new ones, dancing the night away on the Gold Coast, dining on Baker lawn, programming, including entertainment provided by the College, and more soon. While academia is on everyone’s mind, we decided to check in with the professors in our class. Josh Bornstein, director and assistant professor of educational leadership at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) in New Jersey, was granted tenure in March. “While taking education courses in the basement of Silsby, it became clear I wanted to be in education. Learning about Paolo Freire inspired my work as a community and union organizer, teacher, and principal in schools between New York and the D.C. area. Now at FDU, “it’s gratifying to be in a place that supports my teaching and research on leaders committed to justice for schools to work for all kids.” From the campus of Pacific University in Oregon, Phil Ruder, a professor of economics, writes, “Being a Spanish language teaching assistant for the Rassias Center launched my teaching career. Beginning as a Spanish teacher at Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led to a Ph.D. in economics and a professorship at Pacific University. My favorite part about teaching is seeing my former students, years later, once they have become interesting people.” Nancy Langston is an environmental historian, artist, author, and distinguished professor of environmental history at Michigan Technological University. She writes, “My goal as an environmental historian is to understand how human and ecological communities have influenced each other’s histories.” Becky Ankeny recently shared an update on Nancy, who has been accepted for a residency in 2024 with the Arctic Circle expedition! Every year the program brings international artists and scientists together to sail around Svalbard, Norway, as they work on projects focused on climate change in the Arctic. Nancy plans to combine her paintings of arctic reindeer and other migratory wildlife with a narrative of her observations in an illustrated book.

It’s with sadness that we share the news that Toby Brewster passed away peacefully on March 16, surrounded by his family following a long illness. After graduating from Dartmouth and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Toby worked for 35 years in education, the majority spent at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. A full obituary is available on dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

From historic Elberon, New Jersey, along the Jersey shore, Debra Himelman, who lives with her boyfriend, sent her regrets to have missed our 40th reunion due to mobility issues. After surviving a tragic fall in 1999, she is now a paralyzed amputee. She navigates her world with a walker or wheelchair. Her last visit to Hanover was for our 10th reunion in 1993. She plays acoustic guitar and writes songs, which she finds therapeutic. An avid reader, Debra is currently reading and enjoying Jean Korelitz’s The Latecomer.

—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

May-June 2023

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!

March-April 2023

Numerous classmates traveled to Hanover for “A Celebration of Women: 50 Years of Coeducation at Dartmouth” weekend, November 11-13, including Kathy Hoes Provost, Eileen Lynch Sylvia, Michelle Ott Crookenden, Shari Nicolau Williams, Susie Donovan, Melanie Law Shugart, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Edie Farwell, Patty Greene Shepard, Liz Cahill Lempres, and Kathy Bowler Mitchell (with sister Nancy Bowler Goeselt ’82). Kathy Hoes generously shared key moments from the weekend. She enjoyed touring Dartmouth Hall, bathed in a green glow of floodlights for its rededication on Friday night; alumnae raised $26 million for the extensive renovation. She was impressed by the star power of the female alums who populated the Saturday panel discussions, including barrier-breakers in entertainment, business, sports, human rights, politics, and climate change. A popular topic of conversation throughout the weekend was the board’s selection of Dr. Sian Leah Beilock as Dartmouth’s first female president. The Hanover Inn’s ballroom on Saturday afternoon was brimming with excited attendees during a conversation with Sian Leah Beilock, president-elect of Dartmouth, and Liz Cahill Lempres, chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. During Saturday’s closing dinner, a female alum from each decade told her story and then led a toast: “I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.” Jeff and Kathy Hoy Burgess were in Hanover earlier in the year for the class of 2020 Commencement, which took place on a scorching day in August. Their twins, Isabel ’20, Th’21, and Jack ’20, finally got to see classmates they’d missed since spring break of senior year, after which no one returned to campus. Jeff and Kathy stayed in Mid-Fayerweather and relied on two abandoned box fans in the windows to make it through the sweltering night. Jeff and Kathy live in Tucson, Arizona, where Jeff works at the University of Arizona College of Public Health focusing on Covid and firefighter cancer. Jeff’s work with wildland firefighters will take them to Australia for a few months beginning in February. Jean Korelitz’s latest novel, The Latecomer, was named one of the “Best Books of 2022” by The Washington Post and included in The New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2022.” In April Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan swore in Anne Albright as a judge on the Maryland Appellate Court, saying, “Judge Albright brings years of experience and knowledge to the bench and has truly excelled in her legal career.” Save the dates of June 15-18 as the ’83s, ’84s, and ’82s collectively celebrate our 40th reunions in Hanover! Peter Kilmarx is organizing the popular hike and overnight at Moosilauke. Then Friday night The Marsels will be playing in our tent. Many other exciting activities are being mapped out. If you would like to be involved in the planning of our reunion, please contact Maren Christensen (marenjc@yahoo.com) or Mike Hjerpe (michael.e.hjerpe@gmail.com). See you on the Green!

January-February 2023

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!”

November-December 2022

Many of our classmates were and are involved in live theater. For the last seven years Kelly Fowler Hunter has served as board president of New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), an off-Broadway theater known for sending shows to Broadway and Tony- and Pulitzer-winning fame. NYTW is where Rent originated and shows such as Hadestown and others had their N.Y.C. premieres. Fun fact: Hadestown was workshopped at Dartmouth during a NYTW summer residency. Kelly became involved with NYTW through Dartmouth; she is also a trustee of the Hopkins Center and in the summer of 2011 the Hop’s director introduced her to the NYTW team in Hanover for its annual residency. Kelly writes that leading a theater during the pandemic has been a monumental challenge. She and her board have worked to preserve staff jobs without one single furlough and support artists and engage donors. They have also navigated the industry-wide social justice reckoning. Kelly writes that NYTW has survived and is stronger and more inclusive, producing exciting seasons once again. One of their more anticipated upcoming productions—Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along—will appear on NYTW’s stage in December and January and star none other than Daniel Radcliffe. Classmates should keep an eye out for a special Dartmouth-on-location event: Seats have been blocked for the January 7, 2023, evening performance and a pre-performance talk by Dartmouth’s professor of music and Sondheim expert Steve Swayne. I (Elliot) can vouch for Kelly’s experience, as I am a board member of Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago. The pandemic has seriously challenged theater companies, but it has also pushed them to embrace new technology. Virtual performances and programming have expanded audiences exponentially and made theater available to previously unserved and underserved audiences. Beth Wagshul Besen was very happy to see N.Y.C. theater re-open. In early 2020 she and her daughter had tickets for Six: The Musical, but before they could see it theaters everywhere closed due to the pandemic. After the lights of Broadway turned on again, Beth and her daughter repurchased tickets and enjoyed the show and appreciated on many levels being able to see theater in-person again. Connie Craig enjoyed her theater experience at Dartmouth and was saddened to hear about the recent passing of Dartmouth alum David Birney ’61, with whom she worked in Richard III at the Dartmouth summer repertory program our freshman summer. Connie describes David as passionate about theater—he frequently returned to the stage between television roles. Connie also writes that professor Errol Hill’s discipline, respect, and professional approach to play production has served her well. One of Connie’s favorite college memories was a drama department trip to see Othello at the Boston Conservatory Theatre because it was a compelling, riveting production, and Professor Hill arranged for a private backstage meeting with stars James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. Susie Donovan and her sisters (also Dartmouth grads) recently took their parents to see A Beautiful Noise, the new musical about Neil Diamond, for their mother’s 90th birthday.

—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

September-October 2022

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

July-August 2022

Our classmates in healthcare professions have experienced a myriad of challenges since the beginning of the pandemic.Continuing from our May/June column, Kevin Schulman recalls:“I was rounding at Stanford Hospital mid-March in 2020. At the start of my rotation no one in the hospital was wearing masks. By the end of the week we were all wearing masks, not knowing if the patients or if the staff were infected with Covid-19. Throughout the pandemic I have served as a hospital medicine attending, working with interns and residents caring for hospitalized patients on the medicine service. I have also been involved with Covid research. I helped to run one of the large National Institutes of Health multi-center convalescent plasma clinical trials (unfortunately, it did not work) and examined the importance of telemedicine in response to the challenges of the pandemic. I also worked with a marketing colleague to help develop communication strategies for the Covid vaccine for the United States and later validated this effort for the World Bank.” Gastroenterologist Bruce Greenwald writes that early in the pandemic his inpatient consultations continued, but outpatient visits and endoscopies screeched to a halt. Now configured for virtual office visits, he’s pleased that patients who previously traveled hours for a consultation can have an initial virtual visit, saving time and money. According to Bruce, “Everyone who’s behind on their screenings (you know who you are) today wants to be scheduled yesterday.” Jeff Tharp practices internal medicine and leads a primary care service of 400 independent and employee physicians. During the pandemic many shifted to virtual visits, when appropriate. Bruce and Jeff each described the frustrations shared by many of their colleagues, who sometimes worked with inadequate personal protection equipment, faced burnout and mortal injury in overcrowded hospitals, dealt with the politization and polarization of medical issues, and in some cases have suffered and died from Covid. Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner, a clinical social worker, volunteered for the Emotional PPE project, which offers pro bono counseling to frontline healthcare workers affected by the Covid crisis. A recurring theme has been the hurt and anger at family members unwilling to get vaccinated or who remain skeptical of the severe realities facing family members who work in healthcare. Sandy Johnson has pursued an academic career as a glaucoma specialist. She works at the University of Missouri, where she formed a glaucoma fellowship and is now the director. Deb Schiff and her husband are pediatric oncologists at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. Deb cares primarily for a very vulnerable population—children with leukemia and children undergoing stem cell transplantation and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. Her patients began masking and social distancing before those practices were politicized. Recently, Deb’s family found a $10 bill in an envelope under their doormat with the message: “Roberts Family thanks you for your service during the pandemic.” They posted about the experience to express their thanks to the unknown responsible person; they’ve received 17,000 reactions and counting from across the country!

—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

May-June 2022

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

March-April 2022

Kris Thomas has lived in Bozeman, Montana, for 31 years and writes that quite a few Dartmouth alums live in her neighborhood, which is an older neighborhood near Montana State University. She writes that if someone really wants to run into Dartmouth folks of all ages around Bozeman, all they have to do is head out to the cross-country ski trails at any of the nearby Nordic centers, where they’ll invariably run into a half dozen or so alums every time. Kris and her husband recently retired, mainly from careers with nonprofit work and environmental groups, and have been living out of a tiny Escape trailer for months this year, exploring the Southwest with gravel bikes and an inflatable canoe in tow for hitting tracks, trails, and rivers. Kris describes it as a lovely time notwithstanding the challenges of the pandemic.

Dave Persampieri ran the Boston Marathon in 2021 to raise money for Dreamfar High School Marathon, a mentor-supported marathon training program for high school students. The organization targets students who are “falling through the cracks” but is open to any high school students willing to commit to the program. Students train during the course of the winter, including Saturday long runs with mentors, with the goal being to complete the Providence (Rhode Island) Marathon in early May. Dave has been a mentor in the program for the past four years and finds it incredibly rewarding.

Teresa Wiltz, a resident of Washington, D.C., is senior editor at Politico and was recently appointed to the editorial board of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Congratulations, Teresa!

Our class enjoys an abundance of authors. Jonathan Howland is happy to share the news that his novel, Native Air, is scheduled for publication in March. He describes it as a story of friendship, obsession, grief, and despair. You can learn more about the book on Green Writers Press’ website: Native Air book page.

Anne Albright, Natalie Hulen Diana, and Shelley Hawks Drake visited me (Elliot) in Rhode Island during the Columbus Day Weekend for a micro-reunion, enjoying lots of walks, leisurely meals, and catching up.

—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

January-February 2022

“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

November-December 2021

“Hey, hey, hey, hey”: Jean Hanff Korelitz was a guest onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonafter her novel, The Plot, was chosen by viewers as the winner, out of six books, of the show’s summer book club. During a playful discussion with the host about the book, including various accusations that Jean stole the novel’s plot (the book is all about a stolen plot), Jean shared some of the most amusing accusations. Throughout the summer readers followed Jimmy Fallon’s Instagram and The Tonight Show’s social media channels to discuss the book. When asked if her book will be turned into a movie, Jean admitted The Plot has been optioned for television, but beyond that her lips are sealed. Stay tuned. Another class author, John Fanestil, has written a second book, One Life to Give: Martyrdom and the Making of the American Revolution, which was released in August. Erik R. Seeman, chair of the history department at the University of Buffalo, says, “Fanestil makes a persuasive case that religion shaped the course and outcome of the revolution.” Other academics and writers of religion and history have drawn parallel to present day times. John’s writing has also been featured in The Christian Century and The San Diego Union Tribune. Based in San Diego, John, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a former Rhodes scholar, is the executive director of Via International and has worked for years to advance social justice, including the Central American peace movement. Spanning the globe to bring you…new from Japan: Sam Reckford’s daughter, Molly Reckford ’15, and her teammate, Michelle Sechser, competed at the Olympic Games in rowing in the women’s double sculls. She and her partner finished fifth, just one second out of first place! In the semi-final they rowed the second-fastest time ever in the event—just .18 seconds off the record, which was set by the Italians who beat them in that race and also won gold in the final. In other news, Rich Roberts, a partner at the law firm of Halloran Sage in Hartford, Connecticut, was recently included in the 2022 list of the “Best Lawyers in America.” He was recognized for his land use and zoning law, municipal law, and real estate law practices. “Rocky mountain high, Colorado”: d’Andre “Dee” Willis is heading west after being selected as the new campus architect and director of planning for the University Colorado, Boulder. With her consulting practice in D.C. and as a vice president at the architecture firm HGA, some of Dee’s architectural highlights include the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Northern Virginia Science Center, the Contemplative Site and the African American Burial Ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and many buildings for the campuses of the University of Virginia, Marquette University, and Wheaton College. By the time you read this column our class will have just collectively celebrated our 60th birthdays during our virtual party. Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday!

—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

September-October 2021

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

July-August 2021

Our very own Liz Cahill Lempres has been elected chair of Dartmouth’s board of trustees and is excited to be taking on that role at such an important time for Dartmouth. She has served as an alumni trustee since 2018 and will succeed Laurel Richie ’81, current board chair, on June 14. Liz writes that during the last year the board has focused on three strategic priorities: ensuring Dartmouth’s continued preeminence in a rapidly changing higher ed landscape, building a more diverse and inclusive community, and deepening its dialogue with the graduate schools. She thinks those issues will continue to be front and center on the board’s agenda. While many of the issues were important before the pandemic, the pace of change has accelerated dramatically. Liz writes that, in the same way many of us wouldn’t have imagined working from home full-time a year ago, for example, we wouldn’t have predicted that selective colleges would embrace online education as quickly or as fully as they have. At the same time, there’s a critical role for in-person classes, especially at Dartmouth, where the teacher-scholar model is at the heart of what the College does. Liz believes that Dartmouth’s challenge—and opportunity—is to take a fresh look at everything it has learned during the last year to reimagine what Dartmouth can be not just next year or five years from now, but 20 and 30 years from now. That includes the academic experience as well as co- and extracurriculars and residential life, and it involves students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni. Liz thinks the board can be most effective by focusing on longer-term issues such as these. According to Liz, serving on the board—as with many things Dartmouth—is also a lot of fun! The issues the board is considering dovetail nicely with Liz’s professional background. A senior partner emeritus at McKinsey & Co., she spent almost 30 years working on strategy issues around the world and continues to think about them daily as a member of corporate boards. Liz feels fortunate to be able to bring that experience to the College. She writes that the board members reflect diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and at least once in every board meeting, someone has shared an opinion on an important topic that has made her stop and re-evaluate her own view. Liz is definitely looking forward to being together with the other board members again in Hanover—she hopes for their first meeting of the new academic year in September. Like many of us, Liz has had her fill of Zoom calls too!

—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

May-June 2021

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

March-April 2021

Happy New Year, ’83s! During the season of giving, several of our classmates were recognized for making a difference in the lives of others. James McKim was honored by Volunteer NH with a 2020 Spirit of New Hampshire Award for his contributions to social justice as president of the Manchester, New Hampshire, NAACP. Responding to the racial tensions of 2020, Gov. Chris Sununu appointed James to serve on his new commission on law enforcement accountability, community, and transparency. Just to the south, Rich Roberts was recognized recently as a “Municipal Champion” by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities at its statewide convention for his work on a wide range of executive orders from the governor of Connecticut that have impacted local governments since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Following graduation from Dartmouth, Rich earned a J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law. Rich practices law at the Connecticut-based law firm Halloran Sage, where he focuses on municipal law, providing counsel to cities and towns on real estate acquisitions and sales, land use, charter revisions, ordinances, the Freedom of Information Act, elections, and property tax issues. The Dartmouth College Fund recently recognized Roger Baumann, class head agent, in the Greenline Dartmouth College Fund newsletter as an outstanding volunteer for leading our class to record participation rates during our two most recent reunions. Inspired by the generosity of alumni through the generations, Roger says, “It’s a privilege to be able to continue this tradition, and most people are happy to support deserving students in whatever way they can.” Unseasonably warm weather in November allowed Kelly Fowler Hunter and Andre Hunter to host a physically distanced outdoor ’83 New York lunch at their home in Bedford. Armed with outdoor heaters (which proved unnecessary) and Dartmouth masks for everyone, attendees included Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Robin Henning Rocci, David Ellis, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Michelle Ott Crookenden, and Kathy Bowler Mitchell. On December 15, numerous classmates participated in a non-weather-dependent ’83 Boston area Zoom chat, including Anne Blanchard, Thea Calkins, Dean Cascaden, Susan Donovan, Walter Foster, Michael Hjerpe, Peter Kilmarx,Jean Hanff Korelitz, Chris Marquet,James McKim,Kathy Bowler Mitchell, Dave Persampieri, Kathy Provost, Patty Shepard, John Westney,and Laura Vail Wooster. Not surprisingly, Peter fielded a lot of questions about vaccines and quarantine.

—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

January-February 2021

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

November-December 2020

The last issue’s profile of architect Keith Moskow inspired us to contact classmates who have chosen careers in architecture and related professions. Susan Grant has been a licensed architect for 28 years. She ran her own architecture firm in Chicago for more than a decade, focusing on retail, restaurant, and custom residential design. Currently, she is working with a nonprofit that finances the development of affordable housing across the country. The organization has raised and invested more than $1.2 billion during the last four years to help address the dearth of affordable housing, including a project in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Fred Cuda followed a more circuitous path to construction. After working as a geologist in the oil and gas industry and an entrepreneur running a salmon ranching and farming business in Oregon, Fred moved back to Connecticut 30 years ago to join his family’s businesses—the Blake Group—which distributes water and thermal energy solutions throughout New England and New York. As the president of the Blake Group, Fred writes, “We supplied and now service Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s high-efficiency boiler room equipment, which provides the hospital with steam and heat.” More recently the Blake Group supplied the high-efficiency replacement boiler room equipment for Dartmouth’s 7 Lebanon Street.

Igor Sikorsky ultimately chose to forego a career in architecture and landed in a place he loves: the middle of the North Maine woods, where he owns and runs the Bradford Camps, a traditional sporting lodge with a few dozen hundred-year-old log cabins. Igor’s knowledge of architecture guides his sensitive choices for renovating and maintaining the buildings for the enjoyment of Bradford’s guests. One of Igor’s favorite buildings at Dartmouth is the Hop. While he describes its design as “a reach” for its time, he appreciates the cultural hub it provides to the Dartmouth community. His other favorite? Gamma Delta! He likens it to an indestructible tank with a neighborly design. After receiving her master’s in architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago, D’Andre “Dee” Willis spent her formative years working for Stanley Tigerman and Nagle, Hartray. For the last 20 or so years she has worked at HGA, first in Milwaukee and then for the past five years in D.C., where she started a new higher-ed, arts, and cultural practice for the architecture firm. Dee’s experience rowing Dartmouth women’s crew informed her boathouse designs at Cornell, the University of Minnesota, and Washington College. This year Dee opened her own firm. Her projects focus on the performing and visual arts as well as community organizations. She is currently working with the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C. to manage a project, designed by Kieran Timberlake, to add exhibition galleries to the historic building. Unrelated to architecture but equally interesting, Episode 6 of the Sports Business Classroom web show features Bleacher Report/Fox News writer Ric Bucher sharing his thoughts about NBA players’ concerns about the bubble environment in Orlando, Florida; the financial impact of the Covid-19-shortened season on professional basketball; and player free agency.

—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

September-October 2020

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

July-August 2020

Life under quarantine is also the age of Zoom! David Ellis reports that recent ’83 New York luncheons have occurred via Zoom. According to Jim Maguire, some Boston area ’83s “Zoom-bombed the April gathering.” Ted Fleming writes that Jim was inspired to organize a Zoom reunion of “the Ripley Dorm Gang.” Sourdough breadmaking is a trend on the rise and takes days to make. Kathy Bowler Mitchell says “it gives quarantiners a project”; she also takes bike rides with her family and posts amusing vignettes of her dog on Instagram. Rick Baker uses his extra time to prepare gourmet meals. He recently spent seven days nurturing his starter for sourdough bread. Rick’s wife, Anne Mork, is busy coordinating surgical operations during the pandemic at University of Wisconsin Hospital. Meanwhile, Bill Cossaboom reports, right before column submission to DAM: “Have the starter fed for the weekend, wish me luck on my first loaf.” In Massachusetts Jenny Cheshire Hussin is leveraging junior high home ec. skills to make colorful fabric masks for her neighborhood. “I had forgotten how much swearing is involved in using a sewing machine.” Neil Donnenfeld’s summer wedding to Ellen Sandler, Harvard ’79, has unfortunately been postponed due to the pandemic. Professional cartoonist Steve Brosnihan’s work at schools and the Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Rhode Island, has likewise been postponed. He is reinventing his means of earning a living while enjoying time with family and connecting with Dartmouth friends. He offers online cartooning lessons and has resumed his brushwork again instead of a Sharpie. Steve is also helping a friend whose machine shop is building parts for a producer of personal protection equipment for frontliners, giving Steve a chance to earn money while supporting the caregivers at the hospital. As a board member of the Community Foodbank of New Jersey, Joe Dempsey has witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of Covid-19. As the virus became rampant in New Jersey, the foodbank significantly reduced the number of volunteers to maintain social distancing and protect employees while also responding to an unprecedented increase in demand. According to Joe, nationwide demand has increased 45 percent during the pandemic, while food donations declined 55 percent. With higher food costs and the cancellation of fundraisers, foodbanks are struggling. Feeding America, which oversees 200 foodbanks, estimates a $1.4-billion shortfall to meet Covid-19-related demand. The need for support has never been greater. Joe and his wife volunteered with members of FEMA and other organizations at the foodbank this spring until they developed mild Covid-19-related symptoms. Fortunately, after two weeks with no further issues, they were back volunteering. Belle Traver McDougall is home in Vermont with her husband and son. In addition to hikes, they have been cooking and playing games, including virtually with Belle’s mother in Maine. Following a 30-year career as a physician’s assistant, Belle retired three years ago to start a business selling her pastels, watercolors, and notecards in local shops. She enjoys expressing herself creatively and has turned to her art most days during the pandemic. She describes it as “art therapy.”

—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

May-June 2020

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

March-April 2020

Shout out to David Ellis for organizing a hugely successful class weekend in N.Y.C. in November. Details to come in the new year. Happy holidays, all.

—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

Jan-Feb 2020

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

Nov-Dec 2019

Dartmouth’s tradition of foreign study inspired us to contact international classmates. Their responses reflect global, multicultural perspectives. Yet virtually all miss Thanksgiving! Anne Burrill lives in Belgium and has lived elsewhere in Europe and Africa. She describes herself as culturally more American than anything else but is a dual national and identifies as “international.” Anne’s husband is Spanish. Two of their three children were adopted from other countries. Anne’s children have been educated in Spanish and English in international schools. Anne finds that as the world globalizes, differences among countries and cultures are becoming fewer. She liked it better when places were more unique. Anne often cooks a turkey for Thanksgiving and used to feel accomplished when she managed to find cranberry sauce and sweet potatoes, which today can be found in many large stores in Belgium. Gary Portugal has lived in London for 22 years and returns to the United States infrequently. Gary’s wife is English and their kids are “totally English,” having attended English schools. Gary describes England today as very different from the country that existed when he arrived and could hardly find pizza, burgers, or Mexican food. Today, every ethnic food imaginable is available. The United Kingdom has absorbed a lot of U.S. culture and is increasingly international as the inflow of people from the European Union has accelerated. Alfredo Riefkohl writes that studying in the United States after being raised in Mexico was very valuable, although it wasn’t always easy being away from family and country and adjusting to cold weather. After graduating from Dartmouth and Stanford (M.B.A.), Alfredo returned to Mexico to run the family business. He attributes much of his success to his education abroad and encouraged his sons to follow him. Both graduated from Middlebury and then received an M.B.A., one at Stanford and the other at Harvard. Stuart Grider has lived in London since 1998 with brief stints in Hong Kong and Frankfurt. He and his husband married in 2016. Stuart is a partner at an international law firm and has worked on transactions in approximately 60 countries. He visits the United States twice a year but doesn’t think he will live there again and sometimes feels out of step with the zeitgeist. David Mason leads a peripatetic life, spending five months annually in the United States and seven in Southeast Asia with a base in Bangkok. In Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and, to a lesser extent, Vietnam, he finds the people have a tremendous capacity to appreciate the simple joys in everyday life. The relaxed culture sometimes frustrates him when he is trying to get things done, but his advice for expats in Thailand is, “Don’t try to change Thailand. Let Thailand change you.” When returning to the United States, David often fills his suitcases with textiles for family and friends, helping to preserve and promote local traditions. In celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th, the College has published Dartmouth Undying, available for purchase at www.dartmouth-undying.com and launched the Dartmouth Undying Project to collect individual memories. Send memories to dartmouthundying250@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

Sept - Oct 2019

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

Jul - Aug 2019

Unbelievably, increasing numbers of our classmates are empty-nesters! Some are exhaling for the first time in years. What does one do when the carpools to hockey practice are over and the trips to doctors, dentists, and orthodontists have ended? Why not trip the light fantastic, like Barbara Thistle Tormondsen, who began ballroom dancing after her children left for college? It lifted her spirits, and she now dances in competitions throughout the United States. Barbara’s favorite dance is the foxtrot, which reminds her of her parents dancing to Frank Sinatra. She writes, “I encourage anyone thinking of ballroom dancing to give it a try, whether it’s to compete or to socialize. Also, everyone can dance.”

Now that the nest is empty, the girdled earth is easier to roam, according to Rick Watts. Last winter he and his wife, Roberta, studied Spanish and painting in San Miguel de Allende, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mexico. Within the United States they travel coast to coast in their RV and take extended hikes. They ran across Gamma Delta alums last summer while camping in New England. As veterans of the entire Camino Frances, they logged 12 to 18 miles a day, covering France, Spain, and Portugal, and they are now planning a trek on the Camino de Santiago to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

The transition to an empty nest has been an adjustment for Eric Valley. He calls it the “Great Experiment!” Eric enjoys participating in swim meets across the country with fellow Dartmouth swimmers, including classmates Martha Gerhan and Tom Karb, as well as others who graduated in the 1970s and 1980s. Eric wants everyone to know he is a far better jazz trombonist than when he played with the Barbary Coast.

Some classmates are not empty-nesters but so-called boomerang parents. Mark Gorman writes that he wishes his nest were empty! Mark’s two sons have flown the coop, but his daughter is the female version of Matthew McConaughey in Failure to Launch, although Mark does appreciate the end of tuition payments. With more disposable income, Mark and his husband have upped their travel game, including a recent trip to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Earlier this winter Tracey Glenn Pashley and her mother-in-law left port from Southampton, England, to see the Northern Lights on a Norwegian cruise, a priority on Tracey’s bucket list. Back in Los Angeles, Tracey recently became a step-grandmother. She writes that it was love at first sight; her step-grandson immediately fell asleep in her arms, and she can’t wait for their future adventures and fun.

When Deborah Hayden’s son left for college, she remarried, leaving little time to consider an empty nest. And some of our classmates’ professions make the empty-nest syndrome impossible. Jim Ventre was recently named interim head of school for the 2019-20 school year at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and will continue as assistant head of school for admission and financial aid. Congratulations, Jim!

Please continue to send 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

May - Jun 2019

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

Mar - Apr 2019

Our class includes a surprising number of prolific authors! Following the publication of her fifth book, Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India, Sikata Banerjee, professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, spent 2018 on sabbatical. Among the many highlights of her year were a series of lectures and seminars she gave across Scandinavia at the University of Helsinki, the University of Lapland, and the University of Copenhagen. Sikata writes that she is very grateful for the education she received at Dartmouth, although as a female student of color, at times she had hoped for a more welcoming student body. According to Sikata, students today are much more fluent with respect to issues of race and gender than they were in the early 1980s. Alan Eagle, director of communications at Google, also recently coauthored a book, available in April: Trillion Dollar Coach, The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell. According to Alan, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg, the trio of Google leaders behind The New York Times’ bestseller How Google Works, Bill Campbell was instrumental in the growth and success of Silicon Valley’s Google, Apple, and Intuit. Author and photographer Lisa Ballard’s 11th book will be released in January. Gasparilla, A Pirate’s Tale, is Lisa’s first children’s book and tells the story of the legendary pirate, Gasparilla, who controlled (terrorized?) the west coast of Florida during the 1800s. Lisa began her writing career in 1991 and has won numerous Excellence in Craft awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America and other media organizations. Lisa lives in Montana but has spent part of every year in Florida, initially visiting her grandmother as a child and later taking her own family to visit her parents and other relatives there.

Other classmates have written to us (admittedly not with a book) about what surprised them at Dartmouth and their favorite Dartmouth traditions. Beth Wagshul Besen writes that she was surprised how much she enjoyed the mandatory summer term, although she was also surprised to find that the D-Plan at the time—her primary reason for choosing Dartmouth because of the flexibility and independence it provided—could make the undergraduate experience less cohesive. The current D-Plan includes more structure and on-campus requirements, which provides students with a more cohesive undergraduate experience. Finally, Jennie Norman writes that her favorite Dartmouth tradition since graduation is an annual gathering of a group of Sigma Kappa friends: Loren Batchelder Wright, Lolly Jewett, Heather Roulston Ettinger, Beth Winnick Falcone, Martha Sundberg Hartfiel, Peggy Gilges, and Kathy Bachelder Coster. According to Jennie, the group spends a long weekend together in one of their homes sharing stories, laughter, and sometimes tears. Jennie’s non-Dartmouth friends are impressed by and envious of her enduring Dartmouth friendships and the commitment she and her friends have made to nurturing those relationships. Thank you, Dartmouth!

—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

Jan - Feb 2019

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

Nov - Dec 2018

“Summer should get a speeding ticket” or so the saying goes. After our 35th reunion jump-started the season, your class co-secretaries had to condense a bevy of memorable moments down to 500 words or less, so we begin this issue with a sequel. Thanks are due to our executive committee members, who worked tirelessly leading up to the reunion and continue in their roles, including Frank Davis, David Ellis, and Wade Welch,who oversee mini-reunions; Roger Baumann,who continues as head agent for Dartmouth fundraising (and, we’re told, has a wealth of news to share in an upcoming letter to the class about the 2018 Dartmouth College Fund—stay tuned); Reed Webster,who helms planned giving; and Patty Shepard and Robin Henning Rocchi,who are coordinating the class project.

Production credits for our 35th reunion belong to Mac Gardner and Andre Hunter, who are our multi-tasking class co-presidents; Reed Webster, Anni Dupre Santry, and Frank Davis, our reunion co-chairs; as well as Maren Christensen and Becky Ankeny, who orchestrated the swag bags, registration, and communications. Behind-the-scenes work included mailings, marketing, all sorts of accounting, and even last-minute beer runs. A shout-out goes to the Hanover Inn for its outstanding catering.

While letting the good times roll, during the weekend we also took time to reflect on the classmates we’ve lost during a lovely and moving memorial service led by Toby Hitt. Mac Gardner, Andre Hunter, and Reed Webster read the names of classmates gone too soon, and Kevin Connolly sang remembrances.

As Anni Dupre Santry writes, “Whoosh! The years have flown by. The irony of reunions is that you think you’re ‘going back’ to relive college experiences and renew old friendships, and then, ha, you walk away on Sunday with new and deeper friendships and experiences with folks we have known since we were 18.”

In other news, Michael Bush, managing member of BIV Investments, recently joined the advisory board of Herofi, a revenue optimization company for physical retail. After 22 years as a commercial, insurance regulatory, and tax attorney, Kevin Moriarty recently began pursuing a second career as a voiceover artist.

Anne Albright has moved from her private law practice to become a judge on the circuit court for Montgomery County in Maryland. Anne reports that she sees Jessica Rosenberg Brown when Jessica travels to Washington, D.C., in connection with her work for J Street, an advocacy group looking for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Finally, Michael Behn,a trial attorney and former federal prosecutor specializing in the civil prosecution of fraud, was featured with a client on the July 28 episode of a new CBS News series, Whistleblower: The Case Against Northrop. The episode (season one, episode three) can still be viewed on CBS.com. Without giving anything away, we can say it’s an emotional rollercoaster. Michael has been representing whistleblowers for decades.

If only he could prosecute the summer for speeding.

—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

Sep - Oct 2018

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

Jul - Aug 2018

Well, it’s been 10 years since I started writing this column, and this is my final hurrah. Thanks for reading and sending updates! I appreciate it. And on to the news! HGA, a national multi-disciplinary design firm, promoted d’Andre Willis to vice president in its Washington, D.C., office. Dee is a principal, practice leader, and project manager specializing in projects for arts, community, and education. Congrats, roomie!

ISOThrive is a hot new microbiome company that has developed a patented and patent-pending platform for curating the microbiome for optimal health for humans and animals. Its initial product is a microfood nectar that provides a missing nutrient for gut bacteria. What makes ISOThrive unique is that people actually feel the difference. When they take it, they experience tangible results. ISOThrive was cofounded by Jack Oswald ’84 and Peter Swann, M.D.

Barb Angus is chief tax counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. After graduating from Dartmouth Barb attended Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She moved into the public sector about two years ago, after spending years talking about tax reform. Moving gave her the opportunity to be part of tax reform. Apparently while Barb was in Chicago, she was part of an all-lawyer comedy troupe. They called themselves the Public Offenders and did sketch comedy and songs about legal topics.

Steve Farnsworth has released his sixth book: Presidential Communication and Character: White House News Management from Clinton and Cable to Twitter and Trump. Steve is a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has authored several other books, including The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government and The Nightly News Nightmare: Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008.

Ashley Korenblat was recently profiled in the Outdoor Industry Association newsletter. The article is titled “Public Lands Trailblazer: Ashley Korenblat” and highlights Ashley’s work on public lands protection and access. Early in her career Ashley worked as CEO for Merlin Bikes, where she coordinated building the first titanium-frame mountain bikes and, according to her bio in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, forged one of the first company cultures that promoted self-directed work teams operating on a flex-time system. She then moved to the New England Mountain Bike Association (NEMBA) where she had her first advocacy success, getting trails open to mountain bikes in city parks and where she began to narrow her focus to access while expanding her range of impact. From the regional NEMBA, she went on to work with the International Mountain Bike Association, with whom she has collaborated on 30 public land bills. In 1997 Ashley started Moab-based Western Spirit Cycling Adventures, which leads multi-day road and mountain bike trips across the United States. Since 2012 she has balanced ride time with advocacy through her nonprofit Public Lands Solutions, which brings together various stakeholders to solve public land conflicts around recreation, economic development, and resource extraction. Let it be green!

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

May - Jun 2018

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

Mar - Apr 2018

First and foremost, our reunion is almost upon us! It’s June 14-17, and we’ll be clustered with the ’82s and ’84s again, just like the old days. By the time you read this, you should have received a mailing and an email about reunion, but if you haven’t, please let me know! Also, if you aren’t receiving emails from the class, please either change or add your email address to the College database by going to alumni.dartmouth.edu and updating your info in the alumni directory. Susan Monagan would like some visitors: “After 12 years in the theater department at Ithaca College, I have taken the plunge and moved from theory to practice. I’m now the executive director of the 1,400-seat Smith Opera House in Geneva, New York. It has been a wild ride so far, programming Rocky Horror Picture Show one week and Steve Earle the next. Please come visit! The Finger Lakes are a spectacularly beautiful (and relatively inexpensive) region with a top-notch food and wine scene (40-plus wineries on Seneca Lake), outdoor adventure and, of course, great entertainment!”

Hope Michelsen was elected a fellow of the Optical Society for pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of laser-radiation interactions with soot particles through laser-induced incandescence, absorption and scattering, and using laser-induced incandescence to assess environmental impacts of carbonaceous particle. “It is an opportunity for me to remember and express gratitude for all of the great people I’ve worked with in developing the optical diagnostics for soot and black carbon that have brought me this honor. I have also been very fortunate to have stable funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s basic energy sciences program to accomplish this work,” she said. Her research program focuses on developing and using optical techniques for studying the chemistry of combustion-generated particles inside the combustor and their impact on climate when released to the atmosphere. Her research experience includes gas-surface scattering experiments, atmospheric modeling, soot-formation studies, combustion-diagnostics development, atmospheric black-carbon measurements and greenhouse-gas source attribution. She completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and worked at Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. before joining Sandia Labs in 1999.

Joan Martelli is excited to have just published her first book, The Law of Storms. It’s a non-fiction narrative about a luxury passenger steamship, the Rhone, that sank in a hurricane in the British Virgin Islands in 1867. The Rhone is one of the most popular dive sites in the Caribbean and this book is the most complete and accurate history of this fascinating ship. Joan is living in the Netherlands and we hope she comes to see us at reunion! Shelley Drake Hawks has also published a book. The book is about private art by Chinese painters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) at a time when they were forbidden to paint. The title is The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China, published by University of Washington Press.

See you in June, and let it be green!

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

Jan - Feb 2018

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

Nov - Dec 2017

Robin Henning Rocchi was fortunate to experience the total solar eclipse in central Oregon with her brother and sister and all of their families, including her sister, Chris Henning Ferrante ’90, and her daughter, Catherine Rocchi ’19. They were on top of a mountain at the Wine Down Ranch north of Prineville, Oregon. Robin’s sister, Chris, lives in Portland, Oregon, and encouraged them to visit the area. Robin’s daughter, Catherine, took the final weekend of her Sophomore Summer term to join them for the long weekend and then headed back on a redeye for the two final days of classes and to finish several papers and projects.

Dan Baum had a great summer. In June he chaperoned his kids’ middle school trip to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. “It was great to introduce these kids to different cultures and countries; however, I quickly learned that traveling with 23 seventh- and eighth-graders is even more ‘entertaining’ than traveling with just our twin boys.” In July Dan spent a week bicycling 500 miles through southwestern Utah with a number of friends. They had a couple of challenging days with 100-plus temperatures, but overall the ride was fantastic. In August Dan had his “boys” camping trip in the San Juan Islands. This annual tradition with his three brothers and their friends from high school started more than 35 years ago while he was at Dartmouth. What used to be a trip full of outdoor activities has morphed into a weekend of “top that,” revising their childhood history, testing pie-making abilities and politics.

A couple of days after returning home from San Juan, Dan made the last-minute decision to road trip to see the eclipse. He packed camping equipment and drove from his home in the California central coast to the Bay Area, where he picked up one of his brothers and nephew. From there, they continued the 850-mile trip to Weiser, Idaho, which was close to the centerline on the path of totality. Although they had read about “Eclipsageddon” gridlock in Idaho, the only bad traffic was the Friday afternoon commute traffic in the Bay Area. On Monday morning they parked on a rural road outside of town and only saw a handful of people waiting for the show to start. Dan says that, “Although totality was only two minutes and nine seconds, it truly was an incredible experience.” They packed up the tent right after the eclipse and headed back to California. There was some traffic on the way out, but nowhere near as bad as they expected.

Dan’s hoping to make it out to Hanover for our 35th reunion.

Speaking of which: Start planning your trip! Our 35th reunion will be June 14 -17, 2018. As in the old days, we will be paired up with the ’84s and ’82s. Once again, we’ve booked the Marsels to play Friday night. Anyone interested in the planning effort should contact me. Let it be green!

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

Jul - Aug 2017

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

Sep - Oct 2017

Roger Goodman was re-elected to his sixth term in the Washington State legislature, representing the Seattle suburbs of Redmond (Microsoft) and Kirkland (Costco). He serves as chair of the House of Representatives public safety committee, overseeing state criminal justice policy, working successfully to reduce elder abuse, drunk driving and domestic violence and focusing on helping foster kids. Roger’s 10-year-old son, Felix, and 14-year-old daughter, Vivian, are thriving and he loves being a devoted dad. He’s also practicing law in Seattle, representing growers and retailers in the state’s exciting new legal marijuana market.

Pat Hedley published a book called Meet 100 People, A How-to Guide to the Career and Life Edge Everyone’s Missing. Currently available at meet100people.com, the book is targeted at millennials and young adults who are looking for jobs or just starting their careers. It is meant to encourage the most digitally well-networked generation to take their networking to the next level by meeting with people in person to build valuable lifelong relationships. A well-networked person is a valuable one and yet many people do not know how to get started. Meet 100 People helps with just that—provides a step-by-step guide with stories and anecdotes.

Lisa Densmore Ballard has been a writing maniac since she last checked in—three books in the last year! After 17 years she finally updated her first book, Ski Faster! Guide to Ski Racing and High Performance Skiing, which was a 90-percent rewrite with all new (150-plus) photos. Lisa adds, “The sport has sure changed a lot since 2000!” Lisa also updated two of her hiking books, Hiking the Adirondacks and Best Easy Day Hikes Adirondacks (both FalconGuides). She’s particularly excited about Hiking the Adirondacks, which is now in color with tons of photos. Lisa won an FIS Masters title (international masters circuit) this winter, too, in Super G, after racing in South America, North America and Europe. She now has a beautiful crystal globe on her bookshelf!

Every year since 1998 the Kraft family and the New England Patriots have celebrated those who give their time to help others with the Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards. On June 8, 26 volunteers were recognized for their contributions at an awards ceremony at Gillette Stadium. Steve Brosnihan was recognized as one of this year’s $5,000 third-prize winners.

As a professional cartoonist, Steve has been brightening up the halls of Hasbro Children’s Hospital for the past 26 years. During the past two years he has recruited hundreds of volunteers to help brighten the Providence, Rhode Island, skies. Through his Good Night Lights program, volunteers say good night to children at Hasbro by flashing their car headlights and flashlights in the direction of the hospital. At 8:30 every night patients look out their windows to know that the Providence community is thinking about them.

Send me news about what your family is doing this summer! And get ready for our 35th reunion next June! Forever green!

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

May - Jun 2017

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

Nov - Dec 2016

Not a lot of news to report. I’m sure that there’s plenty out there, but none that’s made its way to me. Lots of our classmates dropping their kids off for college: Mary Fairbanks dropping daughter Ana at University of Wooster, Kathy Bowler Mitchell dropping off Bob at BC, Greg Curhan’s son heading off to UC Berkeley and Sean Borgeson’s son Joe off to University of Montana, among others. Lots of pictures of vacations on Facebook as well but you can all look at that by yourselves! I also saw that Robin Henning Roche has retired from GM after 28 years. I find it hard to believe that it’s been that long since we graduated! In the last issue of the magazine is a blurb about Steve Brosnihan. That will have to suffice as my column for this issue. Forever green!

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

Sept - Oct 2016

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

Jul - Aug 2016

Mary Fairbanks was honored to receive the Family Physician of the Year award for the state of Colorado from the Colorado chapter of Family Physicians. Way to go, roomie!

Pamela Nolan Young has been named director of academic diversity and inclusion at the University of Notre Dame. As a member of the university’s provost office staff she will coordinate the academy’s diversity and inclusion efforts with an eye toward enhancing Notre Dame’s faculty climate.

Most recently a private consultant on equality, privacy and diversity issues for colleges, businesses and individuals, Pamela was previously the director of institutional diversity and equity at Smith College. There she administered the school’s affirmative action plan, maintained oversight of diversity and equity policies, served as chair of the president’s diversity council and supervised the office of disability services. She also worked as the human resources director at North Shore Community College for five years.

Along with her law degree from Notre Dame, Pamela earned a master of educational leadership degree from Salem State College. She also attended the institute for management and leadership education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Lynn Vanderhoek has been appointed associate vice president for principal gifts and strategic initiatives at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Lynn served most recently as the assistant dean of advancement for the Newhouse School. In her new role Lynn will work closely with university leadership, the schools and colleges and Syracuse University’s most committed philanthropists to support interdisciplinary and priority projects that emerge from the university’s academic strategic plan. Lynn began her career in the brand management program at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. She earned a master’s in television, radio and film from the Newhouse School.

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

May - June 2016

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

Mar - Apr 2016

Rich Lena and Joann Taplin Romeyn started their Thanksgiving morning providing food for the less fortunate in New Haven, Connecticut, on the Green. They were joined by Rich’s brother, Mike ’84, and Joanne’s husband, Peter Romeyn ’85.

From Facebook: SkiRacing.com “Premium” contributor Lisa Densmore Ballard was honored with the Hirsch Award in the columns category for her regular features on Masters ski racing that appear on the website. An Emmy Award-winning television producer and host, Lisa has worked as a full-time freelance journalist since retiring from the Women’s Pro Ski Tour in 1990. Originally a commentator for ESPN covering ski racing and host of Ski New England on the Travel Channel, she spent 20 years producing and hosting television programming for a number of networks. Lisa also received an honorable mention in the feature writing category in addition to her win for columns. Her most recent contributions to SkiRacing.com include “Ski Faster Slalom,” “A New Vision for Masters” and “Mount Hood Family Affair.”

Heather Roulston Ettinger was named one of the 2015 Women to Watch by Investment News. Heather has been a managing partner at Fairport Asset Management in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1987. Heather states in the article that she is most proud of being able to connect to other women to advance the agenda for women as clients and as financial advisors.

Kevin Connolly’s 10th album, Ice Fishing, has been named one of the top local albums for 2015 by The Boston Globe. Ice Fishing was also named one of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s favorite New England albums for 2015, the only album that the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette agreed upon! Kevin wrote the songs for the album and he and his brother, Jim, traded files back and forth. The Globe calls the end product an “asynchronous outcome: a marvelous collection of muscular, electric folk that, fittingly, includes the autobiography of ‘My Brother and Me.’ ”

Amy Haigh Fassett has moved to the best coast and is living in Valencia, California, with her husband, Jim.

This month’s issue focuses on reasons to love Dartmouth. What are yours? I love Dartmouth because its isolated location makes all of us closer and creates a sense of camaraderie and loyalty. Forever green!

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

Jan - Feb 2016

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

Nov - Dec 2015

Josh Bornstein is heading to New Jersey. He is assistant professor of educational leadership at Felician College. Josh is excited to help grow the program with a focus on social justice leadership for schools. He’s had a good 24 years in Ithaca, New York, raising kids, working for urban, suburban and rural schools in every capacity.

Patty Shepard had a “fantastic” visit to Moosilauke this summer, unexpectedly meeting up with Walter Foster at the lodge during a Sunday morning breakfast. Patty was able to introduce their dog Moosilauke (a.k.a. Moose) to his namesake!

Walter Foster followed Patty’s note by letting us know that he climbed Moosilauke with his son, Jack. They stayed in the brand new Class of ’65 Bunkhouse. There was “excellent grub and the lodge echoed the spirit of our freshman class trips.”

Rick Watts was in Chicago July 4th weekend for the final Grateful Dead shows. He didn’t see any ’83s but enjoyed the show with a couple of Gamma Delt ’84s. Rick and his wife embarked from France last year to begin a 490-mile hike on the Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. They made it past Pamplona and will return this fall to complete the rest of the journey, sharing pilgrim meals and staying in monasteries and pensions along the way.

Guy Rasco had a mini-reunion during July 4th weekend in Chicago, also attending the final shows of the Grateful Dead at Soldiers Field. “Sure brought back a lot of memories of seeing shows in the early 1980s with Dartmouth classmates.” Rick flew up from Miami, Chris Marquet flew in from Boston, Kurt Benkley drove down from Wisconsin and Mike Behn lives in Chicago.

I put out a call on Facebook for news this morning and heard from several people. Most chatty was Cristina Poulter Carrier: “Robin Henning Rocchi’sdaughter is a Dartmouth freshman, Jeffrey Teich married Nick Pratley in a wonderful celebration of their marriage and their new baby, Ava Grace in Central Park! Class of ’83s present included Walter Foster, Rob O’Neal, Bruce Redman, Joel Reidenberg, April Cooper, Rich Goldman, Steve Brosnihan and me. Peter Barbur was relaxing on the Jersey shore, Kurt Bredenbeck was visiting family in Ohio, Ann Blanchard has a new tech job, Pam Nolan moved to Alabama, Jeff Tharp was doing the college tour with son Addison and Edie Shwalb Hotchkiss was sighted in western Massachusetts with her super fun family! Mark Gorman is traveling the world and has been visiting great steakhouses of late.” (Mark added that he has visited all seven continents at least twice. Wow!) Cristina herself is working on long-distance swimming and remodeling her kitchen. She added that, “Libby Schmeltzer Hinson is fabulously crafty with the needlepoint—who knew?”

Dee Willis notes that she and her husband are moving to Alexandria, Virginia, but neglected to add that it’s for a great job.

Bob Roach is (eagerly) awaiting his first fall wine shipment! And Andy Thomas’ eldest daughter, Anneliese, will be wearing the pea green this fall.

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

Sept - Oct 2015

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

Jul - Aug 2015

On the 83rd day of the year about 20 ’83s in the New York area convened at the Dartmouth Club in Manhattan for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Most were from the New York area, but some guests from out of town were also spotted. Attending were Joe Dempsey, Ned Ferguson, Kate Drislane Howe, Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jeanne Korlitz, Debbie Michel Rosch, Dave Friedensohn, Mac Gardner, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Roger Baumann, Peter Larsen, Andy Davilman, Peter Ham, Rick Stafford, Melanie Law Shugart, Jim Sterling and Dan Rodgers. Everyone had a great time and it’s rumored that this may become an annual event. 

Classmates also gathered in Boston a few days earlier at the home of Shelley Drake Hawks and her husband, Jim. Also in attendance were Kathy Hoes, Jim Gregg and his wife, Connie, Rob O’Neill, Walter Foster, Bobby Goldman, Jenny Cheshire Hussin and Sheila Kirby Zinck and her husband, Bob ’79. 

Our virtual reunion was somewhat successful. Pictures were posted on Facebook by Tina Poulter, Liz Mueller, Becky Wolcott Ankeny, Melissa Kaish, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Debbie Michel Rosch, Bill Cossaboom, Walter Foster, Dan Gelb, Tom Hastings (who I just noticed wrote “’83” on his forehead for extra bonus points!), Joel Reidenberg (who posed with his freshman banner for extra bonus points!) and yours truly with Amy Haigh Fassett. Make sure you like us, “Dartmouth Class of 1983,” on Facebook! 

Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Robin Henning Rochi, Lore Serra and Beth Hovey joined Pat Lippoczy-Hedley at a benefit dinner for Reach the World. Reach the World is a nonprofit that brings the world into the classroom through travelers who email with students. Pat’s on the board of directors. The group is also pictured on our Facebook page! Jessica had a busy month. She visited with Anne Albright in Washington, D.C., while Jess was in D.C. for a conference. Anne is an associate judge in Maryland. She and Jess are also on our Facebook page! 

Not a whole lot of news this time around. Please send me anything, everything or I’ll make stuff up! Don’t forget to pay your class dues (which pays for our class project and our scholarship student) and donate to the Alumni Fund! 

Forever green! 

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

May - June 2015

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 

Mar - Apr 2015

Our class virtual reunion will take place the week of March 23 (March 24 is the 83rd day of the year). Get out your cell phones and cameras and take a picture of yourself or with a classmate and email it to me! We’ll put them together in a collage to be included in a newsletter. 

Keith Moskow, who brought the sculptural installation Ice Chimes to campus for Dartmouth’s “Year of the Arts,” presented a film, Microtopia, at the architecture and design film series held at the Burlington (Vermont) City Arts Center. Keith introduced the film with a talk titled, “Swamp Hut, Ice Chime and Rural Interventions,” that focused on rural projects built as part of his Studio North program in Norwich, Vermont, as well as an 800-square-foot home entirely heated and cooled by passive solar means and a two-story tower built in downtown Boston for the sole purpose of making enormous icicles.  

I got an actual written letter from the Rev. James Nadeau. On November 1, 2013, he was promoted to knight commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. The order dates back to 1099 and the conquest of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon. Today the order works for peace in the Holy Land and is known for its charitable giving to schools, hospitals and direct assistance to all in need. James is living in Fort Kent, Maine. 

David Ellis recently saw a number of friends in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for an annual guys’ get together they’ve held more than 20 times and included Dartmouth friends Tien Wong ’84, Chris Hessler ’85, Chris Roche ’85 and Bill Worden ’85. What started as a boat cruise to talk about big entrepreneurial ideas has morphed into some of that plus a lot of commiserating about spouses, kids and increasing degrees of back pain!  

David started and manages a company that produces healthcare conferences. “It’s a good niche business that is helping healthcare CEOs raise their quality and lower their costs.” David’s divorced, and “my kids are good, and now I’m good too—and available, if any single classmates are reading this!” 

Alan Eagle was just finishing a week in Peru when I connected with him. “Wednesday was a pretty amazing day: I started the day at dawn at Machu Picchu and ended by watching the Giants win the World Series.” Awesome day!  

Alan has been at Google for more than seven years. His first job included writing speeches for former CEO Eric Schmidt and senior VP Jonathan Rosenberg (a high school buddy of Alan’s). They decided to turn their experiences at Google into a book titled How Google Works. “It was a pretty cool experience and a lot more work than I expected! But it seems to be doing quite well—not bad for a computer science major.” 

Alan now lives in Los Altos Hills, California, in the house he grew up in, his two kids are doing great and, most importantly, so are his Malamutes Kiana and Timber. 

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

Jan - Feb 2015

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 

Nov - Dec 2014

Random emails were sent to a bunch of classmates asking for news and I got news from only two of those random people. David Krall is general counsel of VIA Motors Inc., which converts Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks and Chevrolet Express vans into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, primarily for commercial fleet use. He has two sons, Steven, who graduated from Miami University (Ohio not Florida!) in 2012 and now works as an analyst in the finance department at Aon Corporation in Chicago, and Andrew, who has Angelman syndrome and still lives at home with David in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Ashley Korenblatt is the CEO of Western Spirit Cycling in Moab, Utah. Western Spirit is a cycling tour company and gives bike tours for people and families of all abilities all across the Western states. Ashley wrote back to me while she was in the middle of preparing for Outerbike: “Everyone is invited to come test ride 2015 bicycles while enjoying the incredible trails and national parks around Moab, Utah, October 3-5! Can’t make it on such short notice? We will be running another one in March of 2015.” 

David Stern was recently feted for being the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El for 25 years. How can we have been doing anything for 25 years? We’re not that old! 

Facebook has been full of pictures of classmates dropping their kids off at college. Kathy Bowler Mitchell’s daughter, Lauren, was pictured climbing onto a bus for her freshman trip. Facebook is also a source of summer vacation photos: Liz Mueller spent the better part of her summer in Italy, Reed Webster spent some time on a boat with Rich Diver and a bunch of Lodge boys got together on Long Island for who knows what (Rob Roach posted pics of himself, David Friedensohn, Paul Curnin and Steve Cramer McAlpine). 

Anne Burrill has been working for the European Commission on EU environment policy since 1997. She first developed policy on integrated coastal zone management, then she dealt with international affairs (in environment), including the environmental part of the accession negotiations for the countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, and now she deals with the EU’s environmental grant program. Anne also spent the academic year of 2011-12 as a visiting fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, teaching EU environment policy and doing related research. 

That’s all for now. Send me a note about what you’re up to. I can’t write this unless I hear from you! (I guess I could make things up but I’m not sure that’s allowed!) Forever green. 

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

Sept - Oct 2014

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 

Jul - Aug 2014

The Dartmouth College Fund recently recognized volunteers and classes that did outstanding work this year. Thanks to Roger Baumann, our class received two awards: the Charles F. Moore ’25 Award for the greatest reunion percent improvement in donors and the Harvey P. Hood 1918 Award for new reunion participation percentage. A dinner was held in New York City that was attended by Roger with support from Mac Gardner, Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Gregg, Jim Maguire, Sam Reckford and Alice Ruth. Congrats to Roger and to all of us! 

Andre and Kelly are very social. They got together with several classmates in New York to see Queen of the Night. Kate Drislane Howe and Melanie Law Shugart joined Kelly and Andre as well as Max Hunter ’13 and Lexi Kellison ’13. Andre said that it was “a great experience, and one that [he’d] highly recommend to anyone coming through N.Y.C.. The queen did not disappoint.” 

Walter Ellis received the Modern-Day Technology Leader Award at the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year Awards. Walter works for the Mitre Corp., a nonprofit organization that operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government. He has nearly 30 years of experience working with federal clients and brought his expertise to Mitre in 2008. (Yes, we are that old!) He is currently supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he helped develop the award-winning veteran homelessness analytics model to track future homeless levels among veterans. Most recently Walter’s other projects included serving as the team lead for the Census Bureau’s electronic census operations center program management website and as an acquisition analyst for the Internal Revenue Service’s customer account data engine initiative. In his free time Ellis volunteers at the D.C. Central Kitchen and Baltimore Station, an innovative therapeutic residential treatment program supporting veterans. Ellis received a bachelor’s in computer science from Dartmouth and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University. Do you think we could have him work on the Obamacare website? Congrats, Walter! 

David Hartzell co-hosted a mini-reunion with the ’82s and ’84s following President Hanlon’s speech in Philadelphia. Dave reports about 15 people were in attendance, including Dave Neslund and Fran Manning. Dave reports having a nice time and a few drinks but gives no other details. He also met Greg Cerveny, Kip’s younger brother, who works in development for the College. 

Please check us out on Facebook to keep up with the latest, view pictures and giggle at Throwback Thursday photos! Forever green! 

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

Jan - Feb 2014

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  

Sept - Oct 2009

Wow. I’ve been doing this for a year now…so, what’s new with you all? How about letting me know so that I have something to write about! The ’84s just had their 25th reunion. Does anyone remember ours? I was looking at the pictures on our Shutterfly site the other day and laughing at the fun I had. Apparently Bob Roach showed up for the ’84 reunion. Guess he couldn’t get enough! There were recently a few kids of our cohorts admitted into the class of 2013. Congratulations to Luke and Trisha Murphy, twins of Mary Beth Shimkus Murphy; Elizabeth Raphael, daughter of Justine Robinson Raphael; Christian Fisch, son of Mike Fisch; Chloe Teeter, daughter of Bob Teeter; John Coster, son of Mike and Kathy Batchelder Coster; Hana Bowers, daughter of Kenneth Bowers; Michael Ankeny, son of Chuck Ankeny and Becky Wolcott Ankeny; and Max Hunter, son of Andre and Kelly Fowler Hunter.  

Since I have heard from no one I have taken to Facebook to find out what has been happening in our classmates’ lives. I had an amusing “conversation” with Martha Gerhan and Martha Sundberg Hartfiel about Phi Delt running out of beer over Green Key weekend. The Marthas were in Hanover in their roles with the Alumni Council. Always need to check out the condition of fraternity basements in that role. 

Wait! Via Facebook comes the following: Marika Olsen decided it would be safer to wait out the recession in Baghdad, where she is working as a media specialist. There are definite upsides. For instance, the stress of incoming mortars and wearing heavy body armor does wonders for one’s figure. She can finally fit into that pair of jeans that has been taunting her for years. She has also learned to be flexible about toilet seats, an attitude adjustment made possible by sharing a bathroom with eight large men, five of whom are 6-foot-4-inch bodyguards. After Baghdad she’d like to live a normal life somewhere, whatever that is. Send her an e-mail. She’d love to hear from anyone. And if you’re in Baghdad, please stop by. We’ll compare whose bodyguards are cuter. Based on the pics I’ve seen on Facebook, I’d say she’d win, hands down. Her e-mail is molsen@fastmail.fm. 

Peter Kilmarx checked in: He received the 2009 Moses Brown School Distinguished Alumni Award. “The distinguished alumnus award recognizes an alumnus for significant, long-term success in personal and professional achievements, who has made outstanding contributions to his or her profession and has rendered distinguished service to the public welfare, thus honoring Moses Brown School.” He and his wife, Nicha, were just in north Thailand for two weeks. Peter was providing medical care in five public hospital HIV clinics in Chiang Rai province. Nicha is staying on another month to visit with family and friends and conduct Montessori training for poor hill tribe children’s schools. Peter’s son Ben is at the Juniper Summer Institute for Young Writers at UMass Amherst. Rev. Rob Hirschfeld very kindly met Ben at the bus station in Amherst and delivered him to campus. The 29-hour Greyhound Bus ride gave Ben plenty to write about!  

Last column I said I was going to write about small world coincidences…maybe next time. If you’re in my neck of the woods, I’ll be writing about you!  

Apologies to Michael DeFelice—I misspelled his name last time. (Interestingly, spellcheck wants to change his last name to “derelict.”) 

Condolences to Mary Fairbanks, my old roomie, whose mom recently passed away. 

Forever green! 

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

Jan - Feb 2010

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 

Nov - Dec 2009

It’s back to school time here in sunny California. One thing I find hard to believe is the number of Dartmouth alums who live in this tiny town. Portola Valley, California, has an almost official population of 4,500, with a few more than 460 families in our school district. (Some of our district includes parts of Woodside, another very small town.) But for all our smallness we are located on the edge of Silicon Valley, almost halfway exactly between San Jose and San Francisco, an area that has grown dramatically since I was child. But even with all those people there are still huge numbers of Dartmouth alums. Two houses away lives John Donahoe ’82 and his wife, Eileen Chamberlain ’81. Just a few more houses away is Chris Badger ’81. And then another little hop off our street lives Dave Plough ’81. Small, small world! In looking through our reunion book I noticed another ’83 who lives in this town: Vera Hromadko. I didn’t know her at school but through a couple of very coincidental conversations with non-Dartmouth friends found out that her name is now Vera Nelson, she has a son a year younger than mine at the same school and lives maybe a mile away. I finally ran into her at the school last year. Small world! After graduating Dartmouth in 1983 Vera got her master’s and engineering degree from Stanford in water resources/environmental engineering in 1984 and 1986, respectively. She met her husband at Stanford and they have been here ever since, even though she grew up in New Jersey. Her children are 7 and 4. Vera often wonders where some of her other friends have ended up. So if you were a friend of Vera’s, write me! I’ll pass along your news!  

Another funny little coincidence is with a woman who lives maybe four miles away. Her children are older than mine but go to my old high school and used to go to my son’s school. She is also a member of the country club to which my parents’ belong. Debbie Michel Rosch lives in the tiny town of Woodside. She was dragged up here by her husband, Tom, when he switched career paths (management consultant to venture capitalist) and she claims to remain the “only So. Cal. stalwart in the Bay Area who continues to prefer L.A. to San Francisco despite the protests of everyone around me that S.F. is superior. That’s after over a decade here.” Debbie is still a freelance writer. 

And then, there’s a friend from the soccer team who I discovered was here thanks to the wonders of Facebook. Alison Chaiken lives in Mountain View, California, a few exits down 280 from here, but can often be found riding a bike on the roads and in the hills of my town and will soon be starting work at Stanford Linear Accelerator down the road. Alison is now “Dr. Chaiken,” thanks to the Ph.D. she received from MIT in physics in 1988. She moved to Silicon Valley for the tech jobs. I rarely understand anything she writes on her Facebook postings except for the biking bits. Being a hardcore nut Alison just climbed Mount Washington (yes, that one in New Hampshire) on her bike. She says she likes hill climbs and did it for the challenge. Ouch. Alison and I hope to meet up for beers at Rosotti’s soon. If you’re in the area and know what we’re talking about, you can meet us too. You just have to contact me and be willing to share all your vital information! 

Forever green! 

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

Mar - Apr 2010

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 

May - June 2010

While roaming the girdled earth in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Ravens-Colts AFC playoff game Rick Watts ran across a family wearing the green at a brew pub in the bar district. Turned out to be Rick’s freshman advisor in Russell Sage, Sam Laurin ’82. Rick lives in Pasadena, Maryland, with his “great wife” and two kids. He’s running a mid-sized commercial real-estate appraisal business with two partners. Sounds like business is going well: Rick moved four houses down the street to get a better view and more boat slips. He notes that there is a “beach gazebo with a bar here on the Magothy River (north of Annapolis) ready to welcome any alumni visitors.” When he’s not working and enjoying his view, Rick enjoys sailing and road biking. 

Lisa Feinberg Densmore has not one, not two, but three books coming out this spring! Hiking the Adirondacks and Hiking the White Mountains are both FalconGuides. The third is part of a Backpacker magazine backcountry basics series called “Predicting Weather” (Globe Pequot Press). “It tells you how to figure out the weather based not only the clouds but also other clues around you in the backcountry. I capped it all off with a climb up Kilimanjaro. And everyone thought I just skied down mountains! I love to climb up them too.” Lisa is living in Hanover and ran into Chuck Ankeny at the Dartmouth Skiway during the Winter Carnival slalom. His son Michael was skiing for Dartmouth. 

Peter Kilmarx received the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Justice as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Dartmouth on January 29. Matt Wilson, 2006 Social Justice Award honoree, Keith Moskow and Allison Schutz Moskow ’85 also attended. Peter is still the chief of the epidemiology branch in the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His wife, Nicha, is a Montessori teacher, son Ben is a high school junior at Academe of the Oaks and Hunter is a seventh-grader at the Paideia School. 

Martha Viehmann wrote in response to my plea for news. She has joined Transition Anderson, part of the international transition movement to unleash local creative genius to address the challenges of climate change and peak oil. “I’m especially interested in strengthening the local sense of community so we can work together to reduce our energy use and live more locally. My home, Anderson Township, Ohio (near Cincinnati), is a conservative suburb, so finding this group is surprising and exciting.“ Martha has two sons, Nathan, 15, and Seth, 11. “I am also among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. If anyone could use some editing assistance or a writing tutor, get in touch!” 

With the Winter Olympics just concluding as I write this, we wondered if any of our classmates had any connections. One of Toby Brewster’s former skiers from Bermuda, Tucker Murphy, learned to ski at St. Paul’s and was the captain of St. Paul’s team in 1999. He went on to study and ski at Dartmouth and was a Rhodes Scholar and the sole representative for Bermuda, carrying the flag into the stadium and competing in the 15k. Love that story! Dean Cascadden has paid close attention to the Bode Miller story since Bode and Dean both grew up skiing at Cannon. Dean ran into Lisa at Cannon while she was participating in Masters ski races and doing well. 

And just in: Ked Hudnut was spotted on MSNBC commenting on the earthquake in Chili. As you may remember, Ken is a geologist with the USGS. Forever green! 

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

July - Aug 2010

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 

Sept - Oct 2010

Kerry Sullivan ran the Comrades Marathon (it is 56 miles, actually) in South Africa. “If anyone is a runner this is a must-do race—unbelievably fun, I never wanted it to end!” She then went on safari, toured the Cape of Good Hope and did all of the tourist stuff. 

Gary Allen’s 15-year-old daughter Katie has gotten the backpacking bug. Their adventures have included a trek through a mosquito-infested swamp looking for WW II bomber wreckage at Loon Lake near McCall, Idaho, a death march through Idaho’s Seven Devils range, nearly freezing to death in Death Valley during Christmas and torrential rains and snow in Zion National Park during spring break. 

Liz Mueller has been training rigorously for a hiking trip in the Dolomites in northern Italy in July. She is taking Leanne Ebberly Jordan’s daughter Emily. Liz saw Michael Bush a few weeks ago—he took a new job as CEO of a company called Buzztime headquartered in Carlsbad, California. His daughter is headed to the University of California this fall. 

Anne Davidson Barr is living in Orinda, California, with her husband and four kids (boys Zio, Daniel and Dekkers and daughter Emma). After seven years of working at Kaiser Permanente in senior IT roles Anne decided to leave work for a while and take the summer off. She is using the time to train for a 100-mile charity bike ride with Best Buddies. 

In April Melissa Kaish Dorfman, Debbie Michel Rosch, Jessica Rosenberg Brown and Lynn Johnson Kidder arranged a bicoastal reunion in Napa Valley, California. Melissa and Jessica both flew out from New York to join Lynn and Debbie in California and the four drove north to Napa for a weekend of wine tasting, fabulous food, sunbathing and hiking. 

Rob Hirschfield writes: “My wife, Polly Ingraham ’79, and I still live near Amherst, Massachusetts, with our three children. We just saw the graduation from Amherst Regional High School of our oldest son, William, who will join the Dartmouth class of 2014 this fall. Despite my best efforts to get him on the water to learn to row he has taken up boxing, which he plans to continue in Hanover. His interest in this ‘sweet science’ began when he was translating the Aeneid. Go figure. 

Ken Weinstein is serving as chairman of the board of FSW (formerly Family Services Woodfield) Inc., a leading nonprofit located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, serving thousands of clients throughout the state. 

Julie Patterson Fago and her husband have an 18-year-old son currently in school at Le Cassia in Toulouse, France, to finish his senior year at high school. This fall he’ll attend Yale. Julie and her husband live on a beautiful 1832 farm in Bethel, Vermont, overlooking the Green Mountains. Julie has been on a leave of absence from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and Dartmouth Medical School, where she is an associate professor of medicine and geriatrics. 

Chuck Ankeny has moved to Boulder, Colorado, and started a new business, Pete’s Electric Bikes, with retail stores in Boulder, Wayzata, Calgary and now Aspen. 

Ashley Korenblatt will be writing a column for Bike magazine starting in September! And she is off to Dinosaur National Monument with husband and 5-year-old to work on a new family mountain bike trip where the kids will be able find dinosaur bones along the trail! 

Betsy Evans Bodner and husband Randy Bodner ’81 are doing well and living in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Their three kids, ages 11, 13 and 15, and one bunny, one dog and one horse are keeping them busy and happy. Betsy is a pediatrician. Forever green! 

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

Nov - Dec 2010

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 

May - Jun 2014

It’s the last day of February as I frantically type toward my deadline. Its raining here in San Diego, probably snowing in the rest of the country, but by the time you read this it will be spring. Happy spring! Deb Ellsworth was happy to report on a small but successful gathering of ’83s following President Hanlon’s speech in Washington, D.C. Deb, Jeanne Balcom, Caryn Ginsburg and Philip Meyers all managed to find each other at Chef Geoff’s and shared a good dinner with some ’82s in the mix. It was a nice evening, according to Deb, but she failed to give me any news on these people—next time, I hope! 

Marci Wolk Taylor says that her son Jeff graduated from Tufts last year and is a healthcare technology consultant in Boston. Her daughter Lauren is a junior at Tufts. Marci’s husband works for an energy software company based in Colorado, so he works from home. Marci is trying to figure out what comes next for her (like a lot of us probably are at this point!). She has worked at Bain, in different roles, since Dartmouth. Her last project was doing research and editing for three business strategy books published by Bain/Harvard Business Press. “Now I have to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.” Ideas, anyone? 

Henry Pickford is an assistant professor of German at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He co-founded the graduate program in critical thinking. Henry is in the news because he recently translated the early works of exiled Russian poet Lev Loseff. He is also the editor and translator of Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, by Theodor W. Adorno. 

The Rev. Jim Nadeau, pastor of St. John Vianney Parish, was selected to receive the 2014 Maine Educational Opportunity Association Achiever Award for his educational accomplishments and contributions to the community. “The award is a testament to Fr. Nadeau’s commitment to inspiring students in the Fort Kent area as well as his own history of exceptional academic achievement,” said Bishop Richard J. Malone, apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Portland, Maine. 

The Maine Educational Opportunity Association is an association of professionals providing educational opportunities for low-income and first-generation college-bound students who hope to enter and find success in higher education. Jim participated in a TRIO Upward Bound program during high school and he credits the experience with assisting him in preparing for college. “It was designed to encourage you to go to college,” said Jim, according to the press release. “If I wasn’t involved with that program I might not have gone to college. I try to recruit kids for it when I see low-income students in Fort Kent. People helped me along the way and I try to offer that same assistance to others.” Following Dartmouth Jim received a degree from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and was ordained to the priesthood in July 1988 at Holy Rosary Church in Caribou, Maine. 

Check us out on Facebook for more news! Forever green! 

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

Mar - Apr 2014

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 

Nov - Dec 2013

We begin my sixth year as class secretary. Just to remind you, our column is only as good as the news that I get from you, so I encourage (plead with?) you to send me your news, no matter how trivial you may think it is. Thanks Toby Brewster for sending me a note. Toby has been teaching, coaching and advising at St. Paul’s School for 18 years. He worked for two years at Bowdoin College (admissions) and then returned to St. Paul’s as director of college advising. Now back in the classroom, he is teaching fourth-form humanities (American literature and history) to 10th-graders. He is the head coach of the boy’s cross-country team and is assistant coach, to Joe Holland ’84, of the Nordic team. “With three Dartmouth coaches—Joe, me and Jill Blackmer ’79—we are a powerhouse in the New England Nordic world. We are fortunate to have national-caliber skiers like Jack and Tessa Schrupp—offspring of Eliza Deery.” 

Becca ’84 and Toby have been married almost 24 years and are starting to plan a 25th anniversary trip next year. “We have four boys, Will (Northeastern ’16), Eli ’17, Peter (St. Paul’s ’17) and Seth, who will be in seventh grade at the local middle school. Lots of college tuition in the years ahead. (Maybe we will go to Starbucks for our anniversary.)” Becca works in development at St. Paul’s, where she is director of the parent’s fund.  

Toby arrived late to our 30th reunion “but enjoyed a late night in the Phi basement. Same as it ever was….” 

And from the alumni office, news of Kevin Meuse. Kevin recently joined Boston’s Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP’s trust and estates department as partner. Kevin joins Nutter from the Boston office of K&L Gates. He focuses his practice on estate planning and estate settlement matters and also serves as trustee of numerous private trusts. His broad practice encompasses post-mortem tax planning, resolution of disputes with the tax authorities and the negotiation and preparation of complex prenuptial agreements.  

Liz Mueller spent another “fabulous” month in Italy—two weeks in Sicily and two weeks in Tuscany, all at Italian language school.  

And from Facebook: Bill Huber is a grandpa, Kurt Bredenbeck went to Elton John’s White Tie Summer Ball and danced with Grace Jones to Chris Martin of Coldplay, Tina Poulter Carrier and family traveled across the USA and Tina has been doing some open-water swimming. Andre Hunter and Kelly Fowler Hunter celebrated an anniversary and Mac Gardner caught a fish. Phil Ruder and his wife Lisa just celebrated their 20th anniversary. Doug Darrow also celebrated an anniversary. James McKim, Debbie Robbins Healey, Heather Roulston Ettinger, Kathy Bowler Mitchell and, I’m sure, many others dropped kids off at various colleges for freshman year. 

Lastly, a very cool article in the Smithsonianmag.com, “Following in the Footsteps of Balboa,” about Juan Carlos Navarro and his trek to retrace Balboa’s footsteps across Panama. Have a fun fall! 

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

Sept - Oct 2013

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 

Sept - Oct 2012

If you get our class newsletter, this column may look pretty similar to what you’ve already read. Gotta blame that on the lack of news! And if you’re not getting our class newsletter and want to (and are in the class of ’83), let me know! 

Davies Beller’s son Austin graduated from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, California. Austin will be attending Texas Christian University in the fall. 

Nancy Bick is celebrating her son Cody Krossa’s graduation from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington. He’s off to Carleton College in Minnesota in the fall.  

Julie Keegan Reed’s daughter Alyssa completed her bachelor of education this year at Queen’s University, having received her bachelor of science in math last year. Queen’s reminds Julie a lot of Dartmouth, as it is a school steeped in history and tradition with a strong, spirited alumni community. Alyssa and Julie will be traveling at the end of July to Sweden, where Alyssa will be starting her teaching career in Karlstad. Exciting times! 

Dan Gelb’s daughter Samara graduated from University of Tennessee, where she was a varsity swimmer for four years. She is on her way to Olympic trials at the end of June! Her mother, brother Aiden and Dan are all very proud of her. 

The Jim Gregg family celebrated son Chandler’s graduation from Lexington High. He will be a member of the Dartmouth class of 2016 starting this fall. 

Deborah Ellsworth’s son Andrew Dewhurst graduated from TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Andrew will also be joining the class of 2016 in Hanover in the fall.  

Matt Haley says there are no celebrations, “just the normal family drama, with three kids in three schools with three agendas. I do play percussion with the Worship Team at church and my wife runs a consignment boutique in town.” Matt is the director of category marketing at PartyLite Worldwide in Plymouth, Massachusetts. 

Davin McKenzie and Geoff Andrews are both closely associated with the Western Academy of Beijing, Davin as an alumni parent and former board chair, Geoff as a current parent and director. Geoff says, “Running a large international school has been a terrific experience for me this year, and my family has been very supportive. This role is substantially different than the school district superintendent role I had for the previous six years—no television or media at board meetings, very different labor arrangements and no public funding (bond issues, levies, overrides, etc.), for starters. Students at international schools have many different experiences, too—meeting kids from all over the world and traveling all over Asia for student events, be they arts, athletics or service. Our 12-team conference includes schools from six countries. Any ’83s coming through China are welcome to visit.” E-mail gandrews@wab.edu. 

Rob Hirschfield was elected New Hampshire bishop in May. He was elected on a single ballot (the first time that had happened since 1905!) and received 145 of the 252 votes cast by the clergy and the laity. Rob previously served as a vice chaplain at St. Mark’s Chapel at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, and was assistant priest at Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Rob is married to Polly Ingraham, a teacher. They have two sons and a daughter.  

It’s the one-year countdown until our 30th reunion, to be held June 13-16, 2013. Mark your calendars now and plan accordingly. And remember, if you aren’t getting e-mails from the class, please let me know! Also, if your address has changed, please update! Happy summer! Forever green! 

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

Sept - Oct 2011

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 

Nov - Dec 2012

We’re counting down to our 30th reunion in June! Reunion will be June 13-16, so mark your calendars, request vacation time and get ready to have an entertaining weekend. The office of alumni relations now schedules programming for many reunion activities. Last year featured a performance of Stomp and fireworks on the Green. Also, don’t forget about Homecoming Weekend, October 26-27, when we host Hahvahd for soccer, field hockey and yes, football. 

In classmate news, Magnet Schools of America named Wendy Nelson Kauffman NationalTeacher of the Year. The highlight of this school year for Wendy, though, was being one of 15 student-teacher teams selected by National History Day to study World War II in Normandy, France. As part of the Albert H. Small Normandy Institute: The Sacrifice for Freedom, Wendy and her high school student researched two local Connecticut brothers who were buried at the famous American Cemetery in Normandy. Not until her student read their eulogies at their gravesites this summer did cemetery officials realize that the two men were brothers who normally would have been buried side by side. Wendy corrected the record, and their life stories are now being incorporated as part of the narratives told at the American Cemetery. As an added bonus, her inspiring lead professor was C. Thomas Long ’65. 

Jennie Norman is ecstatic to report: “Bill and I have not one but two little grandsons, courtesy of my stepdaughter Sarah and her husband. Harvey is 17 months old and Dexter is almost 6 weeks. They live two miles away, so we see them almost every day.” The babies had a wonderful time with Loren Batchelder Wright and husband J.B., Lolly Jewett, Abner Oakes ’81, Martha Sundberg Hartfiel and husband Jim, along with Lolly and Abner’s son Charlie and Jennie’s nephew Eric a couple of weeks ago when they all came to visit Bill and Jenny at their home on Silver Lake in Harrisville, New Hampshire. “The Jewett-Oakes clan comes to visit us in New England every summer and we have a traveling party between our place in New Hampshire and Loren and J.B.’s in Maine. This year Martha and Jim joined thanks to daughter Casey’s college visit trip East. Many lobsters sacrificed their lives to help us celebrate!” 

Guy Bacigalupi left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to take a somewhat riskier job as chief risk officer of Aircastle, a small, publicly traded aircraft leasing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. His wife, Muriel, also left her job at NBC to take a mergers and acquisitions/strategy job at the parent company of Condé Nast. “Lots of change professionally, other than that same old same old. Alexia just finished her freshman year at high school, Noemie her first year at middle school and Jeremy is trying his best to get thrown out of elementary school (fortunately for him we are in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and they don’t do that sort of stuff).” Guy managed to get Larry Ramin out of Boston a couple months ago and he sees Alex Stein and Geoff Durno fairly regularly. 

Debbie Michel Rosch let us know that her twin daughters Catherine and Amelia graduated from Castilleja, a girls’ school in Palo Alto, California, in June. “I’ll abruptly become an empty nester this fall when they both go off to college, Amelia joining the class of 2016 at Dartmouth, Catherine not too far away at Brandeis in Boston. In a nice symmetry Lynn and Peter Kidder’s twins Tommy and Laura (born a week before mine!) follow a similar pattern, with Tommy at Dartmouth and Laura at BU in Boston.” 

That’s all I have! Forever green! 

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

Nov - Dec 2011

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 

May - Jun 2013

If you haven’t heard already, its time to register for our 30th reunion. Yes, it’s been 30 years since we graduated! I’m sure that you have all had plenty of changes in that time span! “Together Again” in 2013 will celebrate those 30 years and our four years in Hanover. If you haven’t registered already, do so now! Go to our newly revamped class website at http://dartmouth.org/classes/83.  

Keith Moskow is in the news again. As part of a continuing slate of public art installations during Dartmouth’s Year of the Arts, a piece by Keith, Ice Chimes, has been placed outside the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. The 20-foot-tall sculpture is a weather-responsive musical sculpture that creates sounds from collected ice and snow. Keith and his partner Robert Linn designed Ice Chimes for the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston, where it was installed last winter. It is now on loan to Dartmouth for this winter. The sculpture is constructed of heavy timbers that are bolted together. A perforated canopy on top of the Ice Chimes catches precipitation, and heating coils then melt the collected snow and freezing rain. This liquid drips down through a grid of holes onto suspended metal rods, forming icicles on the rods. The rods sway in the wind, clinking and chiming, until the icicles break off and fall into the metal collection bucket below, which amplifies the sound and causes reverberations. Keith and his wife, Alison ’85, live in Norwich, Vermont, and their son Zach is a 2014. Keith lives too close to Hanover to not attend our reunion.  

David Wallinga, M.D., M.P.A., is senior advisor in science, food and health at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. David is among the leading science and policy experts applying a health lens to our food system—the food we eat, plus the ways in which it’s produced, processed, packaged and distributed in today’s globalized economy. After graduating from Dartmouth he received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and a master’s from Princeton University. I recently read a blog that David wrote about the dangers of antibiotics in our foods. Scary stuff! He is also part of consumer education/advocacy group called Keep Antibiotics Working.  

Jim Ventre has been named Phillips Academy’s dean of admission and will continue to oversee the financial aid program at Andover. All sorts of nice things were said about Jimmy in the press release that I received, and all are well deserved. Apparently Jim is one of the most highly regarded financial aid directors among independent schools. He was instrumental in making Andover become a need-blind school and played a major role in the campaign for Andover, which raised more than $92 million for financial aid. I hope this new position allows him enough time off to get up to Hanover for our reunion! 

In the arts realm, we have lots of news. As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now (because you are all on Facebook and like the Dartmouth class of 1983), Lisa Feinberg Densmore’s movie, Passion for Snow, premiered to a full house at Winter Carnival. The film traces the more than 100-year history of skiing at Dartmouth. Lisa Tromovitch has been elected the vice president of the International Shakespeare Organization. And, Jeanne Hanff Korelitz’s novel, Admission, is now a movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.  

See you all in June in Hanover. Together again! 

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

May - Jun 2012

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 

May - June 2011

Ann Cianchette moonlights as a real estate broker when she’s not singing. She’s in a Sweet Adeline chorus, the Royal River Chorus, chartered in Yarmouth, Maine. She also sings in a quartet called Rally. 

Jean Hanff Korelitz announced that Tina Fey would be playing the main character in the movie version of Jean’s book Admission. She’s working on another novel and performing stage-mom duties for her 11-year-old thespian son. 

Mike Golub works in the “wacky world of sports.” Mike is COO of the startup Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer that begins play as an expansion team this spring. Mike is on several boards and is married to Sam Shelhorse, a retired lawyer who is now in the sports business herself. 

After 23 years in Los Angeles Connie Craig moved back to her home state of Michigan. In Los Angeles she worked in film and television and, prior to having her daughter, some theater. Connie now does voice-over work as well as product specialty work for bilingual events. Her daughter Julia, 6, recently did a commercial for Ford. In addition to acting Connie works with survivors (like herself) for breast cancer support groups. 

Michael Cooper is working on several new film projects and is continuing his technology transfer business (repurposing aerospace technologies into the automotive sector to promote CO2 reduction).  

Kevin Connolly continues to write and play his own songs and has put out nine CDs of original material. Kevin feels lucky to have a somewhat complementary day job, working as general sales manager for one of Boston’s classic rock stations. His wife, Liza, is a chef and started a cooking program called Kids Cooking Green. Son Nicholas is 11, a brown belt in karate and budding Charlie Parker on saxophone. Daughter Lyla, 14, does great in school, soccer, and is known to belt out an occasional song on guitar or piano. 

Arvo Mikkanen has been nominated by President Obama to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Mikkanen has been an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma since 1994. He is also an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. 

Christopher Koller is the governor’s choice to continue to serve as Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner. Chris is married to Colette Cook, a religion teacher. Son Ben is 18 and a freshman at Union College and daughter Rachel is 15. Chris spends his free time in denial about middle age, walking the dog, chasing the kids down the ski slopes, singing with the Providence Singers, having an occasional bike ride with Jim Allen and beer session with Paul Efthim. 

Bill Robbins has lived in Los Angeles since 1995 with his wife, Hila. He founded and runs a family of companies under the Convergent Ventures umbrella. Recently, he diversified into the cycling business to indulge his passion for training and racing road bikes and riding mountain bikes. This summer he and coauthors will publish the second edition of a how-to book they wrote about startup companies. 

Jeff Gardner recently married Leigh Barker. Leigh teaches history and coaches cross-country at Tenafly High School. Jeff is a management consultant but took a few years off to become a full-time artist and work with nonprofit organizations. They got engaged last July; he started consulting again in September and moved to Englewood, New Jersey, in November. They were married in January and their first child is due this July. And they’re buying a house! Bill Middlesworth, Mike Hjerpe, Andre and Kelly Fowler Hunter and Jim Gregg were all in attendance. Forever green! 

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

Mar - Apr 2013

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 

Mar - Apr 2012

Happy new year to all. Send me your news to avoid columns like this!  

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

Mar - Apr 2011

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 

Jul - Aug 2013

By the time this column is published our 30th reunion will have occurred and we’ll all be caught up on what everyone is doing in the real world, right? Everyone’s going, right? Well, there are those that aren’t. Peter Burack is one who can’t make it. His daughter Emily is graduating from high school that weekend. Peter writes: “The good news is that she was accepted early decision to Dartmouth for the class of 2017! Everyone is very excited.” Peter is managing partner of ABS Partners Real Estate (www.absre.com). They own, manage and lease commercial real estate in N.Y.C. They are partners with the Hudson Cos. Peter has two other children, a daughter and a son, and they are looking forward to visiting Hanover on a regular basis starting this fall when Emily starts school. 

Wade Welch can’t make our reunion either but I did hear (via Facebook) that his son will be joining Peter’s daughter this fall.  

No word on whether Phil Gerson is going to reunion but Dave Ross sent me this about him: Philip “Phil” Gerson is a senior advisor in the International Monetary Fund’s fiscal affairs department, where he supervises the department’s macro-fiscal agenda, including the fiscal monitor, the fund’s flagship public finance publication. During his 18-year career at the fund, he has worked on a variety of advanced and emerging market economies and as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director. Besides graduating with us Phil also graduated from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. 

We attempted a few mini-reunions April 19, which your newsletter editor calculated to be 83 days before our reunion, but she was off by (quite) a few days. Nonetheless, the reunions went on as planned, except for Boston. Because the city was closed we had to cancel, but thanks to Walter Foster and Rob O’Neal for attempting to host. 

Jim Sterling hosted a reunion for two in New York City. Neither Jim nor Sam Reckford will be at reunion due to prior family commitments. Sam is a proud parent of two girls at Dartmouth and a son who graduated from NYU. He is CFO of Hugo Neu, a firm specializing in recycling technology. He is also treasurer of Sigma Epsilon and is proud to report that the frat is going great guns. 

For the last five years Jim has been busy with three things: raising a family in N.Y.C., growing his business career and continuing his work as an actor. For his job Jim coaches and trains executives to come across with more impact in a variety of business settings. In 2011 he became a partner with his firm Exec-Comm, heading up program quality and design and working actively with firms such as Ernst & Young, National Grid and Mass Mutual, among many others. They have more than 40 facilitators around the country and are starting to develop resources in Europe and Asia. 

At Dartmouth Jim acted in a lot of shows (Our Town, Inherit the Wind), and he continues to act with Axis Theatre Company in N.Y.C. as a company member, keeping his hand in a craft that he loves. His wife, Ros, makes and teaches art, his oldest boy plays baseball and is excited to go to high school at Xavier in N.Y.C. this coming fall, and his youngest boy is a middle-schooler and competes as a level 5 gymnast for the Chelsea Piers team. They live in the East Village and love visitors! Jim will “miss everyone at our 30th—dance, dance, dance!” 

Lots more news to come after we’re together again! 

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

Jul - Aug 2012

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 

Jul - Aug 2011

Spring has sprung! I hope by the time you all get this magazine, it will be summer! Some administrative things: If you haven’t been getting emails from our class, please be sure to update your email address with me! We’ve been sending out at least one email per month with information about mini-reunions and our big 50th birthday bash in Hanover this fall! By the time this magazine hits your mailboxes we will have had mini-reunions in Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles! 

Peter Kilmarx hosted the Atlanta mini-reunion. He had three adventurous former classmates meet him: Suzy Alexander Viguiere, Stu Downs (and his wife) and Jeff Tharp (and his wife). “While we had not known each other well at Dartmouth, we had many single degrees of separation and enjoyed comparing notes on Dartmouth days, recent visits to Hanover, parenthood, college admissions, life in Atlanta, etc.” 

And now on to the gossip: Thanks to my mother I learned that Tim Geithner was surfing in Half Moon Bay, California, this month. According to the local newspaper, he and his son were surfing (at an “intermediate/beginner level”) while a surf instructor taught his daughter. “They’re a very mellow, nice family,” said the instructor. 

Being a little desperate for news, I called in a favor from none other than Paul Curnin. When I asked him to write about himself (in 200 words or less!) he yelled some obscure Lodge rule at me: Self-cite. Not being a member of the esteemed Boom-Boom Lodge, I pled ignorance and he filled me in: “Thank you for your kind invitation to let our classmates know what I’ve been up to for the last 28 years, in 200 words or less. I’m sure they have been eagerly awaiting this news. Well, I have five kids, ages 4 to 14 (Grace, Patrick, Shane, Charlie and Lexi), all of whom are healthy and several of whom show promise of one kind or another from time to time. We left downtown N.Y.C. two years ago, moved to the suburbs and acquired a lot of things powered by fossil fuel, which, of course, has been great. I’m co-head of litigation at Simpson Thacher + Bartlett, where I spend most of my time on securities matters and government investigations, as well as representing Charlie Winslow against various meritless allegations. I’m also in touch, but not often enough, with a few of the old Lodge boys, all of whom, possibly with one exception, seem to have settled down nicely. I do think of Hanover often, usually when my new knee sets off a metal detector.” He gave me a tiny bit more news about some of those Lodge boys but I promised I wouldn’t print it. You’re all safe, for now. 

Geez…I should have asked him for 400 words. 

Andre Hunter just sent me an article from The Wall Street Journal about Tory Rogers and the good work that she is doing to combat childhood obesity in Portland, Maine. Tory’s program, Let’s Go! began in 2004, when she saw lots of kids on the upper end of the growth curve. Let’s Go! has expanded to at least 345 schools, as well as child-care centers, medical practices and after-school programs across Maine. Communities and medical practices in other states have adopted it as well. Read all about it on our Facebook page, “Dartmouth Class of 1983.” 

And, Frank Davis was just elected to his fourth term as a Milton, Massachusetts, town meeting member! 

Please remember to pay your class dues and donate to the alumni fund by the end of June! Forever green! 

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

Jan - Feb 2013

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 

Jan - Feb 2012

Homecoming Weekend was a big event for our class: Our 50th birthday bash took place! Thanks to my guest correspondents who were able to provide me with news since I was unable to attend. The weather was perfect, the trees were in their glory and the campus was abuzz. More than 50 of our classmates showed up for the festivities. We started with our class marching in the Homecoming Parade on Friday night. We even had a band play “Happy Birthday” for our class in front of the Hanover Inn. Classmates then convened on the Green for the Homecoming speeches and the bonfire, where the ’15s ran 115 times (almost 10 miles!) around the raging heat and flames. A cocktail party hosted by Anni Dupre Santry capped off the evening. Attendees included Courtney Newton, Matt Wilson, Becky Wolcott Ankeny, Reed Webster, Jack Campbell, Andre and Kelly Fowler Hunter, Laura Bordiuk Kasler, Liz Mueller, Peter Burach, Jessica Rosenberg Brown, Martha Gerhan (who called me in San Diego for directions to Anni’s place in Hanover!) and Mike DeFelice. I hear that all the watering holes on Main Street were well attended by classmates late into the evening.  

Saturday morning started with a tour of the organic farm to view our class project. The tour was given by Scott Stokoe, the farm manager and an assistant instructor at the College. Saturday afternoon saw the Big Green football team trounce the Columbia Lions, 37-0, with ’83s having an impressively full section in the stands. Seen at the game were Rick Watts, Steve Baggott, Roger Baumann, Howie Brick and Rich Bradley. After the game, and a brief nap for some, we were joined at our Hanover Inn cocktail party by President Kim, who wished us all a happy 50th and told us about the College’s achievements and future priorities, especially in the areas of athletics, financial aid and faculty recruiting and retention.  

Much of the party moved to Molly’s, Murphy’s and the Salt Hill Pub for more revelry and dancing until the wee hours. Some, such as Deb Robbins Healey, Denise Mullane, Amy Haigh Fassett, Deb Ellsworth and Martha Gerhan, headed over to Alpha Chi for a little beer pong with Mac Gardner. (Also spotted playing beer pong, but at Sigma Delta, was Anne Davidson Barr.) I heard that Alpha Chi and Phi Delt’s basements look, and smell, pretty much the same as they did 30 years ago. 

Also seen around campus and at various class events were Mary Gerraughty Shaia, Kathy Hoes Provost, Eileen Lynch, Shari Nicolau Williams, Michelle Ott Crookenden, Mary Beth Shimkus, Laura Stein, class treasurer Jim Gregg, Mary Allen, Patti Shepard, Julie Cochran, Laura Vail Wooster, Kate Drislane Howe, Kimball Halsey, Bob Dell Isola, Bill Flanigan and Jim Bloomer. Rob Rohn was spotted hobbling around campus with a torn MCL. (The body at our age isn’t so bendable anymore is it?) A big thanks to Michael Bush, Liz Mueller and Martha Gerhan for coming all the way from California and Courtenay Newton who came from Oregon.  

The perfect end of the weekend was a brunch held at Kelly and Andre’s home in Sunapee, New Hampshire. All in all, it was an incredible weekend for our 50th birthday/Homecoming mini-reunion, and thanks go to Becky Wolcott Ankeny, Jim Gregg, Anni Dupre Santry, Roger Baumann and the rest of the executive committee for putting together such a spectacular event! I hope we’ll do it again next year! If you feel like getting together with your classmates and hosting a mini-reunion, let me know. Forever green! 

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

Jan - Feb 2011

As I write this, I’m also working on the Class Notes portion of our newsletter, so I’m co-mingling information. Is that right? In the newsletter for this month, which you most likely received long before you received this magazine, we were focusing on education and, more specifically, our classmates who are teaching our kids. In looking at our class spreadsheet I can see that a large proportion of our class is in the education field. However, not too many of us are actually teaching kids. Lots of professors, deans, presidents, but not so many teachers. In my mind, teaching is the most important profession we have. How can you get to be anything else without having first learned how to read and write and do math? Unfortunately, teaching is one of the least celebrated professions. So, teachers, here’s to you! Those who responded to my questions about education included Paul Aubin, a seventh-grade science teacher and chiropractor in California who was recently laid off; Wendy Nelson Kauffman, teaching social studies in Connecticut; David Badger, teaching science in North Hollywood, California; and Bill Hammond, a math and drama teacher at Hanover High School. Ginny Lower Viteri is teaching fifth grade in a quiet corner of Connecticut. Carol Anderson Pepper has worked in independent schools for years, and is the current director of curriculum development at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. Her job includes planning faculty in-service, investigating how to address students’ various learning styles, overseeing the testing program and working with schoolwide initiatives. She also teaches a section of eighth-grade algebra. Ellen Malinin Carpenter is a professor in the department of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Her research focuses on how cells migrate and has applications to both breast cancer and autism. 

She teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate level and likes undergraduate teaching the best—“the students are bright, engaged, curious and interesting.” 

Steven Cramer McAlpine (yes, Steve Cramer from the Lodge, but with a different last name), is an instructor of writing and critical thinking in interdisciplinary studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, campus. As for the name change, he married a Scottish lass, and to celebrate their common Scottish ancestry (McAlpine is his paternal grandmother’s clan) they each added the McAlpine surname. “Symbol of a new identity, too.” 

Mary Beth Shimkus Murphy wrote that her twins are loving their time at Dartmouth. They are ’13s, sing in two of the a capella groups (Sings and Dodecaphonics) and son Luke is a Dog Day Player and a brand-new member of Sig Ep (along with Max Hunter, Andre and Kelly Hunter’s son). 

In non-education related news, I received an actual handwritten note from Debra Himelman. Deborah writes that she is a paraplegic after falling from a window in 1999. She is now happily married to an exterminator whom she met at the nursing home that she lived in for nine years. They celebrated their one-year anniversary on December 22, 2009. Her husband coaches her with her folk guitar music. Debra and her husband live in Brick, New Jersey. 

Eric Valley has an eighth-grade daughter and is happily practicing criminal defense law, traveling to Masters swim meets all over the country (such as San Juan, Puerto Rico, this August) and going to band camp every summer (studying jazz trombone) and playing in two different big bands. There’s more news from John Leonard about his weekend at Dartmouth, and Stuart Grider and his vacation in California. Check out our newsletter, which should be online on our website page! 

Forever green! 

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