Class Note 1982
The class of 1982 once again had a good turnout for Class Officers Weekend (C.O.W.) in Hanover in September. Led by class president Cathy Judd-Stein (who is now president of the Class Presidents Association), Peter Feer, Matt Hoffman, Carol Davis (who celebrated her birthday that weekend!), Mike Berg, Jon Baker, Patrick Viguerie and I participated in this annual leadership weekend. At the awards dinner our class received a special recognition for our class project: the Class of 1982 Upper Valley Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Many of us got to meet our current fellow Katelyn Wong ’15 and hear about her work at the Family Place in Norwich, Vermont. Our class webmasters Matt Hoffman and Rich Nadworny also won the Webmasters of the Year Award. Matt is also chair of the student affairs committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
This year C.O.W. coincided with a meeting of the Dartmouth board of trustees, so we got to see Sherri Carroll Oberg, Gail Koziara Boudreaux, Emily Bakemeier, Jim Coulter and Greg Maffei. I think five classmates concurrently serving on the board is a College record!
Welcome to the two newest members of the ’82 class officers—Al Dotson Jr. and Ralph McDevitt. Al and Ralph will serve as co-chairs of gift planning for our class. These class officers are usually named after the 30th reunion and I think it is the unofficial sign that we are getting old. Al’s daughter is a first year at Dartmouth. Ralph has two daughters who graduated from the College.
Kathy Wholey Zsolway is a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, where she is the medical director and also a clinical professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. More importantly, she lives in my hometown of Hamilton, New Jersey—around the block from my junior high school. In addition, her husband went to my high school, Hamilton West. Kathy’s daughter also attends Villa Victoria Academy, where I used to play bingo with my grandmother.
Jim Steiner lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and writes: “I used to be a commercial litigator and a partner at Cades Schutte (big firm in Honolulu, at least by Honolulu standards), but made a career change when the opportunity to be an asset manager for our family’s commercial real estate came along.” Jim and his wife have three children and one of Tim von Herrmann’s daughters is living with them right now while she explores life in Hawaii.
I will end with both happy and sad news. Charlie Winslow and wife Katie welcomed baby daughter Sophia (class of 2036?) into the family. I think that makes Charlie the oldest dad in the class. On a sad note, we recently learned that classmate Maxwell Kleiman died on January 24, 2009. Max was a resident of Washington, D.C., and grew up in New York City. Gina Blus writes that, “Max was a brilliant musician and the ultimate ‘Manhattanite.’ ” A full obituary will be forthcoming.
All the best for the new year!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com
