Happy summer, classmates!
As you may have seen in our Facebook group, we had a huge success ’round the girdled earth on the 89th day of the year, thanks to our intrepid mini-reunion chairs Ken Horton and Ned Ward.
Jennifer Avellino reports they were a dozen strong in D.C. for a lunch of fish tacos and a stroll down the Capital Crescent trail to the Kenwood neighborhood of Bethesda for peak cherry blossom viewing. The trees were fabulous and so was the company. Attendees included Scott McElhaney (newly arrived in D.C. from Texas and currently senior counsel at the U.S. Senate Office of Chief Counsel for Employment), Chris Kagy, Estelle Bowman, Brigid Herrick, Nellie Huang and husband Jon Winslow ’87, Jennifer Avellino and Zach Levine, Kurt Moser and Linda Kelly, Chad Tyranski and wife Barbara.
Jarvis Murphy Weld hosted ’89 day in Seattle joined by Katy Beierle Klinkenberg, Barney Silver, Heather Killebrew, Andrew Ehrlichson, Adrianne Adomeit, Laurie Fanger Reed, and Willemijn de Clercq.
Ken Horton did double duty as host first in Hanover at Pine for lunch with Dan Parish and Tim Burdick. Ken then braved an ice storm to drive to Boston and host mini-reunion No. 2 of the day, which included numerous other classmates, including Mary Beth Basile Chopas, Lindsey Brace Martinez, Walter Colsman, Kristen Daly Schneider, Andrew Shepard and wife Cheryl Shepard ’90, Matthew Walko, and Karen Wilinski.
Heading overseas, Margo Miller hosted a mini-reunion walk on Hampstead Heath in London with Dennis O’Connor, Kristin Roth, Chris Whitman, and Rich Reilly. And Ellie Loughlin caught up with Cliff Bernstein in Tokyo as part of President Beilock’s visit to Japan.
Antonia (Rutigliano) Nedder gathered fellow ’89s together in Fairfield County, Connecticut, including husband Joe Nedder, Hans Richter, Jen Bowman, Karla Cohen, and Rob Kyle.
In Los Angeles two ’89s met for the first time at our mini-reunion! Ned Ward and Andy Maldonado gathered for food truck fun and, as it turns out, had been classmates at Kellogg Business School in Chicago decades earlier.
Last but not least, N.Y.C.’s gathering included Alex Simpson, Nancy Obler Kaufman, Jen Kochman Marrus, Dave McKenna and wife Julie, Syd Williams and wife Beatriz, Heidi Reich, Colette Ellis, Andy Wells, Eric Potoker and wife Jenn Arcure, Beth Robischon, and Chris Fuller.
Stacy Higgins, Sharon (Geary) Barnes, and Harriet (Cato) Pinkerton returned to campus in April to celebrate the 40th year since the Pi Theta chapter of their national sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Inc., was chartered at Dartmouth in 1985. More than 60 alumnae braved a snowstorm for a reunion coordinated by undergraduate members with participation by faculty who are also sorority members. The weekend was filled with fun, memories, love, and lots of laughter.
If you didn’t get a chance to connect with classmates in person you might turn on the tube and check out Hank Rogerson on Season 1, Episode 4, of the Netflix series Pulse. Well done, Hank!
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—Robin Byrd, P.O. Box 660563, Arcadia, CA 91066; robinwinters@msn.com; Candace Locklear, 5829 Colton Blvd., Oakland, CA 94611; (510) 292-8216; candace@mightypr.com