Class Note 1998
Hello, ’98s!
As we start to look forward to spring I’ve had the pleasure of receiving news from a number of ’98s in the last couple of months.
Andrea “Andi” Korber checked in from western Colorado—Aspen, to be exact—where she works as an architect. In 2014 Andi became a partner at her architecture and planning firm, which is named Land+Shelter. She also admits to “enjoying the powder,” which is, as I understand it, pretty much a requirement for Colorado. Also celebrating a career milestone is Tim White, an assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University, whose book, Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater, was just recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Congratulations to both Andi and Tim for their great accomplishments!
I also traded notes with Danielle (Flanders) Jensen, who lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and four children—two girls and two boys. Danielle has been in the San Francisco Bay Area since right after graduation and for the last 12 years has taught high school math at a private school called Menlo School in Atherton, where she reports that she has had the chance to write many college recommendations, including many for Dartmouth! Danielle reports that she absolutely loves teaching, which she finds both “challenging and rewarding all at once and simply gives me so much joy each day.” Raili (Cook) Donnelly also sent me a nice note about life in Denver, where she has lived for more than 10 years and where she recently started a new job at Rose Hospital as a physician assistant for the orthopedics and spine unit. Raili wrote that in surgeries she assists on total joint replacements as well as hip and humerus fractures. And she assists in caring for post-operative patients during their hospital stays. When not working Raili and her husband, Judd, are hanging at home with their three daughters—4-year-old twins Rhys and Shae and 7-year-old Maij—not to mention Raili’s two stepdaughters, ages 16 and 18. Raili also passed along word of a visit she had last summer to the East Coast, where she was lucky enough to see Sarah (Sedgwick) Perno and Eric Perno and got to meet Sarah and Eric’s new little boy, Isaac, who was born last May. Congratulations, guys!
Well I am almost out of column inches already, but I wanted to conclude by passing along an important mention from ’98 class president Jo (Weingarten) Golub about the “98th day” event, which is coming up soon, on April 11. All members of the class of 1998 are encouraged to participate in a community service or philanthropic endeavor of some kind on this day, either by themselves, with a family member or friend or, even better, with other ’98s. We hope may of you can participate, and please take a photo or two, which you can submit to the next ’98 class newsletter!
Please, pass along to me some news about whatever exciting is going on in your life or the lives of other ’98s! And, while you’re at it, please join the ’98 Facebook page and, perhaps most importantly, please be sure to update your email address with us!
My best, as always.
—Jeff Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com
