Sept - Oct 2011
Another author in our midst! The third book by Paul Griffin, Stay With Me,will be published by Penguin on September 8.
Class Notes
Another author in our midst! The third book by Paul Griffin, Stay With Me,will be published by Penguin on September 8.
I am very sorry to report that Heather (Van Blarcom) Gumuchian passed away in July. She leaves behind her husband, Gary Gumuchian, and two children.
I am writing on a snowy February morning, knowing that you will be reading these notes on a warm spring day, just weeks before our 25th reunion. With the reunion in mind I wrote a few classmates to ask about reunion plans.
You may have already heard the very sad news that Cameron Fleming died in December. The cause of death was heart arrhythmia due to late-stage alcoholism. While at Dartmouth Cam was a beloved member of the Tabard.
Congratulations to Hilary Kovar Justice on her selection as keynote speaker at the Idaho Hemingway Festival next fall.
I open with the sad news of another terrible loss for our class. Tom Pollard died in late October.
Among the retrospectives on Steve Jobs following his death, this quote jumped out at me: “Our goal was to bring a liberal arts perspective to what had traditionally been a very geeky technology.” This got me thinking about our class, the first in
Happy New Year! Although we’re now well into 2011, these notes were written at the close of 2010 so I asked some classmates to share their resolutions for the new year.
Happy summer! This is likely reaching you around the time of our reunion, but since I am writing in April (during a blizzard) the Hanover news will be in the next issue.
Jack Steinberg’s latest book, You Are an Ironman, explores the extreme-distance triathlon and inspired this column. A query on the ’88 Facebook page quickly found some ’88 Ironmen/women (IM).
“It’s Rachel Dratch here. Just having read the last ’88 notes about our classmates’ kids headed off to Dartmouth, I must share my news from the slower track—that I gave birth to a son, Eli, in August.