Class Note 1987
Brian Venerable has lived in Altadena, California, for 20 years. He has his own chiropractic practice in Temple City, California. He saw Shay Holland last month in southern California at a brunch.
Brian sent in an update on his family situation: “Married, third time. Four kids. Noah (19) is a sophomore at Arizona State. Naomi is president of her class. She is a junior at Pasadena High School. Caleb is 10 and lives with my second wife in Arlington, Texas. Ezekiel would have been 11 but he died at age 6 in 2004. Brain aneurysm. Probably transient ischemic attack.”
Eric Weidman, who is a radiologist, wrote: ‘I now live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with my wife and two children. I have been here for more than seven years, having moved out here from Hanover, where my wife and I were briefly on staff at DHMC. I continue to run and cross-country ski and I took up snowboarding after age 40 to have a more social activity here in Colorado. I have been an alumnus interviewer for Dartmouth for several years. I have lost contact with most of my Dartmouth friends regrettably, largely my fault. I posted my old Sig Ep composite from 1985 in the master bath above the toilet to tease my wife, but it has had an odd effect on me. I see these guys every day, trapped in time, and I wonder how they are aging in real life. Would I recognize them and remember their names? It’s kind of a weird exercise.”
Anne Flemming has lived in Franklin, Massachusetts, with her husband and two cats since June. Anne wrote: “Last year I left my 15-plus-year management consulting career to start a new adventure/career in veterinary medicine. After finishing a two-year post-baccalaureate course of study in premed classes I applied and was accepted to Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Am neck deep in my first year of veterinary studies. I am almost the oldest student in the class and the only Dartmouth graduate in this year’s crop of future veterinarians. It’s great to get a chance to follow a passion that’s been dogging me (pun intended) my whole life! In addition to the D.V.M. I am also pursuing a joint degree in public health. I haven’t seen much of my Dartmouth classmates, but am connecting with them right and left on Facebook! Most recent was Brian Rowles, whose daughter wants to be a vet.”
John Whipple has lived in Montclair, New Jersey, for 13 years and has been married for 17 years to Jane, with whom he has three kids—Henry (13), Claire (9) and Eliza (9). John has been a partner at a 20-attorney firm, Pashman Stein in Hackensack, New Jersey, for 12 years. John describes what he has been up to since Dartmouth: “Following a five-year stint with the May Department Stores in Connecticut (where I worked with Andy McGrath and lived with Andy and Conrad Smith and met my wife, Jane) I went to law school. Practice is generally litigation. I continue to play trumpet (I was in the Marching Band and Barbary Coast) and currently play with a garage band (Angels Garage) and a cover band (Cranetown). In September we visited San Francisco and stayed with Steve Slanec and his family. I climbed 14,000-foot Mt. Shasta with Steve in 2005. I’m also in regular contact with Andy and Conrad and have maintained an annual tradition of tubing down the Delaware River. This past Labor Day was our 20th consecutive tubefest. I’m also in pretty regular contact with John Youle, who lives in Peru.”
—Wendy Becker, 2 Kensington Gate, London, England, W8 5NA; wendy.becker.87@alum.dartmouth.org; Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net
