Class Note 1982
I write this column having just returned from a very cold Hanover and attendance at Club and Affiliated Group Officers Weekend (CAGOW). It was also Winter Carnival weekend. I was happy to find several other classmates serving as club officers across the world. Gray Reisfield Horan and Heather Hazle Lambert serve as district enrollment directors for the Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island. Gray is also club treasurer. Rachel Froman Bettencourt continues to serve as treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Central Massachusetts. Charlie Winslow is the vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Ohio. The person who traveled the farthest to attend CAGOW this year was Paresh Vaish, who is the president of the Dartmouth Club of India. I encourage all of you to get involved in your local Dartmouth club or with an affiliated or shared interest group. I have enjoyed serving as the vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles.
Gail Koziara Boudreaux was also in Hanover during CAGOW. By the time you read this column she should be a new member of the Dartmouth board of trustees. Congratulations, Gail!
Dana Burroughs Klinges celebrated her 50th birthday in January with classmates Ann MacAffer, Alison Schmults Burns, Lillian Cousins Giornelli and Crashy Zacher Brown. “Nothing like old friends to help you ease into the second half-century,” writes Dana. Meanwhile Jared Smith celebrated his January birthday watching the Dartmouth hockey team beat UNH. Jared lives in Londonderry, New Hampshire, so he’d better be at our 30th reunion in Hanover June 14-17, 2012.
Artist and teacher Jay Mead has published A Little Farm Story, described as “a simple and provocative intergenerational picture story that follows the life of a farm through the seasons with gorgeous bright color images throughout and a brief text.” The book emphasizes sustainability on local farms and community sustained agriculture. Jay lives in an “eco-village” in Hartland, Vermont, and his art installations are inspired by Bread & Puppet Theater techniques. See www.jaymead.net.
Mary Dolan lives in Petaluma, California, and works in technical services/database management for the library system at Sonoma State University. Mary writes, “I’m still happy living in northern California, although I still miss fall in New Jersey and New Hampshire.”
John Starbuck has lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia, for four years. John graduated from Boalt Law School at UC Berkeley and is still a member of the California bar although he has not practiced law for 15 years. John writes, “I am considering getting active as a ‘neutral’ arbitrator/mediator, etc., if my health permits and I can figure out if they allow non-Georgia attorneys to do that.” John’s daughter graduated from Dartmouth in 2007.
Brad Carpenter lives in Santa Monica, California, and is an architect at AC Martin, the oldest architectural firm in Los Angeles. He works on projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He and his wife, Ellen, “run marathons and the occasional ultra-marathon on trails.” His elder daughter is a first year at the University of Maryland and his younger daughter is still at Santa Monica High, where Brad is a PTA volunteer.
Sterling Champ is a real estate broker and executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis in Los Angeles. He lives in nearby La Cañada-Flintridge (where Brad Weirick and Susan Ross Marki also reside) with his wife and three daughters.
Mark Belmonte lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with his two dogs, 14 and 16, and writes, “They are the only two things here older than me, but I hope to live as long, relatively speaking.” I miss hearing you on the radio, Mark!
Happy spring!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com
