Class Note 1984

Greetings from your new class secretaries! Eric Grubman and I will be sharing the duties. Thanks to Jan and Derek for keeping us informed these past five years. 


Our 30th reunion was outstanding! It gave us many firsts. The following classmates all popped the proverbial cherry by attending their very first reunion! After selling his World Wide Poker business, Steve Lipscomb’s living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and wouldn’t divulge his next great idea. Chris Covert-Bowlds is one of those amazing family practice docs in Seattle and no, he’s not on Grey’s Anatomy, but he did credit Steve Lipscomb for getting him back to Hanover. Paul Groark lives outside Boston and when he’s not working as a lawyer—he’s hanging with Eva Mendes at weddings (but not his own)—this is still a very eligible bachelor. George Mannes is a senior editor for Money magazine in N.Y.C., where he edits personal finance stories for online, print and video. Peer pressure from Mark Montgomery induced George to attend reunion. Wallace Butler, assistant general counsel for Serco in Reston, Virginia, also had “encouragement” from long-lost classmates. Wallace had a great time and is disappointed it was his first time back. Lisa Foy is retired from Lehman Brothers and is now doing something she really loves in Queens: Creating and writing the gluten-free website, kissmyglutenfreebuns.com, which has been featured on Thomas Keller’s Cup4Cup website.


Paul Gorman and Eric Taylor brought their daughters from Minnesota and Los Angeles, respectively, to visit Dartmouth for the first time. But the daughters of Lisa Brody, Heather Keare,Chris Huff and Wendee (Hunsinger) Lunt won’t be applying. That’s because they’re already on campus! 


Braving rain and 60-mph winds at the top of Moosilauke, a group of five hiked the mountain for the first time since graduation. Elisabeth (Adair) Jaffe is a math tutor in Mill Valley, California, and she pulled up her entire front lawn to put in an organic vegetable garden, doing her part for the drought-ridden state. Dave McCormick, a geologist living in Concord, Massachusetts, pointed out interesting rock formations on the trail. Peter Neuman sprinted up the mountain, having just traded a lifetime in Shanghai for Santa Monica, California, where he’ll continue to practice law. Chris Covert-Bowlds and I also enjoyed the hike.


Thanks to David Cumberbatch, reunion entertainment chair extraordinaire, we had the first-ever class photo booth. Kappa Kappa Gamma “womaned” the booth. The Kappas are mostly M.D.s—either the medical or the banking kind. Sarah (Burrell) Troxell is a plastic surgeon in Anchorage, Alaska. Common procedures include bear injuries and botox, but no botox for the bear. That would be unethical. Anjali (Hulyaker) Chuttani is a sought-after dermatologist specializing in melanoma in Boston and has two sons attending Dartmouth. Catherine (Sikorovsky) Lachenauer is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital and the director of its infectious diseases clinic. Susie Huang is an uber successful managing director and vice chairman at Morgan Stanley in N.Y.C. in mergers and acquisitions. Julie Levenson of Woodside, California, is a former managing director and now cofounder of her own business, La Honda Advisors.


But the most amazing first from our 30th reunion was—drum roll please—Washington, D.C., consultant Mara Rudman spontaneously got married during the reunion (a.k.a. Dartmouth elopement) to Jeff Moscow, DMS ’82, her sweetheart of four years. Eric Grubman was the flower girl and wants you to know he wore pink Dior. Viva Hardigg catered and Lucia Jackson officiated. Mara’s registered at the Dartmouth Co-op. But don’t buy the set of four Dartmouth shot glasses because that’s what I’m getting her. 


—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; (315) 682-5501; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net