Class Note 1991
A plethora of classmate news to share, with much of it coming (quite by chance) from my own Colorado back yard. First it started in January with an accidental rendezvous with Andy Potter at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, an annual rite of passage for those with itty-bitties. Across a sea of 10-gallon hats and dozens of real John Deere tractors from which I could not extricate my sons, I spotted Andy, wife Becky and daughters Maddie (5), Carly (3) and Willabel (1). The Potters live in Evergreen, Colorado, where Andy operates Hand It to Mom, a full-service promotions agency he founded in 2007. Hand It to Mom offers grassroots access to more than 2 million moms where they live, work and play and helps clients develop highly targeted, authentic relationships with moms and provides them with brand experience that generates sales. You can read more about Andy’s cool company at www.handittomom.com.
As we wrangled our kids Andy mentioned that I had just missed Eddie Gilmartin, who had been taking in the National Western Fiddling Contest with his crew. Eddie, it turns out, lives just up the road in Boulder, where he sees Heidi Turer and Anders Halverson on a somewhat regular basis. (More about Anders below.) Eddie and his wife, Kerry (Potter introduced them, he told me at the rodeo), keep busy with 3-year-old Griffin and 1-year-old Willow. After several years with McKesson Eddie is now at MedAssurant, a Maryland-based, nationwide provider of healthcare quality, care management and financial performance improvement solutions driven by advanced data analysis, abstraction and verification systems. Eddie, sounding very enthusiastic about his new gig, pointed out that MedAssurant is in good Dartmouth hands; the president and CEO is none other than fellow ’91 Keith Dunleavy, M.D. Scott Groussman and Jonathan Moon are both vice presidents at the company.
A few days after the stock show I received in the mail a copy of Anders Halverson’s literary baby, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World. As a research associate at the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West, Anders chronicled the discovery of rainbow trout, their artificial propagation and distribution and why they are being eradicated in some waters yet are still the most commonly stocked fish in the United States. Before returning to Colorado Anders earned a Ph.D. in ecology from Yale University. He and his wife, Ginna, live in Boulder with sons Will (7), Charlie (6) and Toby (3). You can learn more about the book at www.andershalverson.com or, better yet, buy it at Amazon.
Finally, on to Las Vegas and the Venetian Hotel, where Laura Friedman Klein, Anda Kuo, Judy Moon and Zia Daniell Wigder gathered to celebrate their beautiful 40-year-old selves. It had been more than 10 years since they had all been in the same location at the same time but, Laura said it was like no time had passed at all. It was a whirlwind of chatting, eating, spa-ing, shopping and a few spins at the roulette table. Anda, her husband, Mike Shlipak ’90, and their three kids live in San Francisco, where Anda practices medicine and directs the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved fellowship program at UCSF (I wrote about Anda’s good works recently). Judy is doing medical research in San Francisco while on a yearlong hiatus from medical school in Chicago. Zia, who lives in the Bronx with husband David and their three children, travels the globe spreading the word about the benefits of e-commerce. And Laura, you may recall from a few columns back, lives in Maryland with her husband, Sean, and two children. Laura oversees the pro bono program at the Department of Justice.
Love the news, folks. Please keep it coming.
—Dianna Goldberg May, 395 Birch St., Denver, 80220; digoldbergmay@gmail.com
