Hello, fellow ’94s.
It is a little quiet for class updates this month. A few of our classmates moved from North America to Europe and have established their lives there.
Ginny Hague moved to Europe after graduation and then just kept moving around. Starting in Germany, she then went to graduate school in Barcelona, Spain, before getting a postgrad job in London. Then it was back to Spain, where she had her three children, and then off to the Netherlands. From there, she spent a couple years in Moscow in a neighborhood that cannot actually be found on Google maps. Hmmm. Oh do I want to learn more about this experience and living in Russia in general. Ginny and family then returned to the Netherlands during Covid and, yes, she added the Covid dog to her family and now has returned to Spain and currently resides in Madrid. Did everyone follow that? Ginny’s oldest, her daughter, is studying back in the Netherlands and her two boys keep her busy with their sports and other activities. She stays involved with the college as an admissions ambassador—giving back to dear old Dartmouth!
Matt Peterson has also settled in Europe. He moved to Frankfurt, Germany, in 2001 expecting to stay for a year. He met the right woman, Fritzi, and has lived in Germany ever since. They moved to Munich in 2017 and enjoy the benefits of amazing sights and adventures within two hours of home in every direction. The family comes back to the United States about once a year to either his home state of Maine or Florida.
He currently works for WL Gore as in Gore-Tex. You may remember Gore-Tex from freshman trips, where the upperclassmen would yell at us “That’s Gore-Tex, you freshman!” as part of some cheer or story. Some had more colorful words in the cheer instead of “freshman,” as I recall. He is doing his part to help the environment by leading a team that is focused on ways to use new fabrics to reduce overall carbon footprint.
For those who say Dartmouth language study abroad (“L-S-Play”) is silly, Matt, along with John Faubert, Jim Hall, Neil Smith, and Baldwin Way and a few others, spent sophomore winter 1992 in Mainz, Germany. It’s not hard to argue that trip influenced and ultimately changed his life!
Finally, Lisa Boden resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has lived there for almost 20 years. Lisa specializes in veterinary epidemiology and public health. Recently, she was named dean of the University of Edinburgh Royal School of Veterinary Studies.
Reminder: Our class is expanding its social media reach with a WhatsApp class account, “Dartmouth 1994.” Unlike Facebook, WhatsApp invites must be pushed out to users as opposed to users joining on their own. If you want to keep up to date with more of your classmates, email me and I will send you the invite.
Keep in touch.
—Sean Kinney, 53 Lighthouse Lane, Moultonborough, NH 03254; seankinney2001@yahoo.com