Class Note 1990
“What’s one interest that was sparked at Dartmouth that has become a core part of your life?” continued.
For Monica Davis it was rowing. “In the fall of 1989 the crew coaches were out on the Green recruiting. I told them, ‘I’m a senior,’ and they said, ‘That’s okay.’ ” For Laurin Grollman it was running. “I remember running Rip Road with my roommate Jane Bieneman when I was in good enough shape to keep up with her and by myself when I wasn’t.”
Ed Callaway developed deep interests in hockey and beer. Junior year he did the religion FSP in Edinburgh’s pubs and learned to skate on Occom Pond. Today he spends his weekends traveling with his son’s bantam hockey team and “hacking away in a men’s league.” Ed, a certified beer judge, has brewed several award-winning batches.
At Dartmouth David Engler developed a physical fitness regimen that continues today. Now a pediatrician in Tennessee, which ranks 47th in the United States in overall health, David writes, “My Dartmouth experience inspired me to attempt to change the attitudes and lifestyles of my patients.”
Drew Jones writes, “What started at Dartmouth in the late 1980s was my calling to work as a crazy-ass advocate for the environment. It began with trash and now my focus is the climate.” Environmental activism also inspires Patty Webb. Last summer she built a dog waste composter in her back yard “so I don’t have to use plastic bags anymore!” And Susan Domchek reports, “I have a physical reaction when I see people throw out aluminum cans or paper instead of recycling.” Susan is a breast cancer oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania and has two children, David (11) and Matthew (6).
Tom Thompson: “I was determined to become a rich lawyer and proceed directly to politics. But my LSA in Blois, France, hooked me on Baudelaire and Rimbaud. I skipped law school, got a lit M.A. and an M.F.A. in poetry, and it’s been all poetry ever since. Two books out and a third on the way.”
Kathleen Heafey’s core interest is “being a citizen of the world.” Today she’s an adoptive parent of two Colombian kids (7 and 4) and fundraises for children who still wait in an orphanage in Bogota.
Carrie Tower Lott credits her art history FSP in Florence, Italy, with sparking a love of traveling outside the United States. “And my obsession with Italian food and cappuccino.”
Pamela Chandran: “Film! Film! Film!” Pamela, who earned a master’s in film from USC, became a devotee of film because of the Dartmouth Film Society. She has a 1-year-old son, Declan.
Marcus Weiss, who is a Blue Man in Las Vegas, writes, “I fell in love with Dartmouth’s drama department.” Eighteen months ago Marcus became a dad—his son Jacob “is our greatest treasure!”
Pianist Roth Herrlinger found his love of composing and performing at Dartmouth and Mark Sternman found his love of politics. “Young Democrats at Dartmouth gave me a front-row seat to the 1988 campaign, sparking my career.”
Julie Urda: “I took a class called ‘Psychology of Business’ because I heard it was taught by a Tuck professor. At the end I asked Professor Greenhalgh, “How do I get from where I am to where you are?” Twenty years later I am a professor of management at Rhode Island College.
Megan Hammond writes, “Dartmouth itself became a core interest in my life.” Megan, who helps run Dartmouth’s endowment, lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with her husband and three daughters Cailie (6) and twins Anna and Maeve (1).
Timothy Kolk: “The rejection of conventional wisdom without evidence.”
—Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford@yahoo.com; Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com
