Class Note 1995
Everyone’s moving these days! Debbie Rosenbaum’s family has recently relocated from Chicago to Madison, Wisconsin, where her husband, Jason, has started his residency at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “I still work for AT Kearney (a little more than seven years now) but I recently stepped away from client delivery to take on staffing for North America and India. Which means I get to work from home, which is wonderful, as it allows me more time with Jason and my son Max (2). We all miss Chicago very much and I especially miss my Dartmouth friends—Jen (Evers) Shakeshaft, Melissa (Trumbull) Mitchell and Meghan (Sherlock) Welch ’96—whom I used to see Monday nights to watch a certain train-wreck reality TV show. I would love to hear from anyone in the Madison area (and have already been in touch with Emily Winslow who lives in the area).”
Alexandra (Lesk) Blomerus and her family have moved from England back to her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, to be closer to her parents. She writes: “I have my two boys and am having such fun with them, most of the time. Boys’ capacity for naughtiness never ceases to amaze.” Alex is teaching English and history at her boys’ school, “a bit of a change from physics.” She looks forward to seeing everyone more often now that she is back on the right continent. A former Dartmouth Glee Club member, Alex also hopes to rejoin the adult section of the choir that she sang with in Vancouver as a child.
Ken “Flash” Gordon sends greetings from Bristol, Connecticut, where he remains with ESPN as in-house counsel. He and his wife, Christy (Horner) Gordon, are doing well and spent the first part of the summer “trashing, packing and moving—lots of fun (not really)” as they relocated from Cromwell, Connecticut, to Glastonbury, Connecticut. They have two children: Julia (5), who started first grade this fall, and Kenny III (2). Ken went to this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star game with Dan Glazer in Arizona and, as of the deadline for this column, planned to “be in Hanover in the fall for the Penn game for the first of many victories for the Big Green!”
That’s it for submitted news this month, so I now resort once again to my R95MBDG (Random ’95 Midnight-Before-Deadline Google Report) feature. The first name I googled—Yasaman Ayat—yielded a nice Dartmouth-related hit. Did you know that 13 of our classmates had their artwork purchased for installation in Dartmouth undergraduate residence halls our senior year? A scavenger hunt may be in order for our 20th reunion. Yasaman’s photography composite was purchased, along with works by Katina Foy, Priscilla Gilman, Jake Hobson, Andrew Kim, Alicia Lisowski, Laura Lutsk, Abigail Neisius, Malika Ra, Marcin Ramocki, Enrico Riley, Charles Ross and Manushka Martine Solomon.
So where are they now? Alicia wrote under her painting (you can see all of the works on the Dartmouth website by searching “art acquisition program”): “After graduating from Dartmouth I pursued a career in marketing/advertising, though I have kept up my painting on the side. I’m currently head of global web/e-commerce strategy for NAVTEQ, the world’s leading provider of digital images. I am very proud to have my art displayed at Dartmouth.” Enricois currently a senior lecturer in the studio art department at Dartmouth and there is really nice profile on him in the Dartmouth Now’s archives at now.dartmouth.edu. As for the rest of these talented artists, write in and let us know what you’re up to!
Keep your news coming!
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum. dartmouth.org
