Class Note 1987
Our reunion is coming up. Twenty-five years certainly seems awfully fast to me. Mark your calendars now for June 4-17, 2012. It promises to be good fun. Volunteers and great ideas are being sought of things to do to make it awesome for everyone. No idea is too big or too small. If you want to get in on the planning or pass along a brilliant thought, please let Allison Bleyler McDonald (allisonmcd@gmail.com) or Dan Wolfe (daniel_wolfe@mindspring.com) know and they will sign you up!
Meg Crone Ramsden is still in Rhode Island teaching preschool. She wrote: “Our big news is that our oldest child, Margaret, has been accepted to Dartmouth’s class of 2015! My husband, Chris Ramsden ’84, and I are delighted we will be able to carry on the green tradition.”
Stephanie Song is living in Maywood, New Jersey, with her husband, Bill, and two boys Eric (7) and Matthew (5). She is a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator and has a private nutrition practice. She reports: “It’s small at the moment because I’m basically at home with my boys. My husband has quit medicine and now has a medical aesthetic practice. I ran into a classmate two years ago. We were on our way to Newark, New Jersey, airport to catch an 8 a.m. We got lost trying to find our parking area, so we ended up very late in long-term parking and were running to catch that bus into the terminal. So here we are with two little boys with a bunch of luggage including skis getting on this bus, totally stressed since we had lost major time and had a good chance of missing our flight. I happened to look across the aisle at another family and noticed a Greenwich (Connecticut) Library stamp on one of the books they were reading. Since that’s where I’d lived until college I couldn’t help striking up a conversation. The dad had been very nice in helping me get settled in my seat with all of the stuff I was carrying—turned out to be a slimmed-down Chris Matonis. I didn’t really know him in college but I knew of him and he was quick to mention that he was ‘no longer fat.’ We had a good laugh and a nice conversation until we had to rush off to catch our plane.”
Debbi Jayne Seaver lives in Park City, Utah, teaches skiing at Deer Valley, does massage and teaches yoga, plus is mom to boys Luke (10) and Grant (8). “My husband and I just separated. My son Luke is a rippin’ snowboarder and just qualified for Nationals, which he’s really excited about. Grant is in a dual immersion program so speaks Spanish half the day. I just saw Laura Kennedy and Shannon Finnegan in Sun Valley, Idaho (where they both live), while I was there for Luke’s snowboard competition, then the next week I saw Dave Foster, who came to Park City with a group of friends. Perfectly timed, he was able to attend a Park City Winter Carnival with many Dartmouth alums—it was great fun!”
Chris Segal updated us that he is living in Chicago and running Chiasso, a retailer of modern furnishings. He and his wife, Karen, have children Andrew (16), Jonathan (14) and Caroline (8). Andrew is a sophomore at Loomis Chaffee so they’re spending a lot of time out East again.
He has seen to Steve Hutensky, who got married last year, and Kim Jacobs, who is revolutionizing social media for the liquor industry.
—Wendy Becker, 4 Essex Villas, London W8 7BN, United Kingdom, England, W8 5NA; wendy.becker. 87@alum.dartmouth.org; Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net
