Class Note 1995

I am so impressed when I hear about one of our classmates who has turned his or her college ambitions into a true profession. In May 1995 an article in The D featured Hosea H. Harvey III. The article reads: “Next fall Harvey will enter a Ph.D. program at Stanford University and will continue his education at Stanford Law School in the fall of 1997 with the hope of becoming a law professor.” Well, congratulations are due, Professor Harvey! Hosea joined the faculty of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law this academic year. Hosea earned his master’s, Ph.D. and J.D. from Stanford. He then clerked for several justices, worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and most recently served as general counsel for New York Needs You and as associate general counsel for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Hosea is teaching courses on contracts and banking, as well as a seminar on race and gender issues in corporate law, markets and business organizations.


There must be something in the name Harvey. Jackie (Kean) Harvey also is working in the field she aspired to at Dartmouth. I was always inspired by her conviction to go into speech pathology, a field she decided to pursue after seeing the wonderful work speech therapists did with her grandfather when he suffered a stroke. Jackie completed a master’s in speech pathology in 1997 and decided that she could make the greatest impact working with children. She is a speech pathologist in the Medford Public Schools. She is also a wonderful mom; her daughter Ava is 2 and has the best laugh I have ever heard (and she is a happy kid who laughs often)! Jackie and her family live in Billerica, Massachusetts.


I’ve seen a couple more of our Boston-area classmates recently at birthday parties. Carol (Gilchrist) McIver had a great candlepin bowling party for her 40-year-young husband Paul in October. Carol is an attorney with MassHousing, a Massachusetts state agency that provides home-ownership and rental-housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents. Paul and Carol live in Medford, Massachusetts, and have an adorable son named Kevin, who is 2. Jen (Sopko) Hee celebrated her younger son Jason’s third birthday at a fantastic indoor playground in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, this fall. Jason’s older brother Alex will have turned 5 by the time this prints. My daughters Elise and Kristi apparently like “older men” because they love playing with Jen’s boys. Jen is teaching Spanish at Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts, and her husband, Corwin, is with Covidien Healthcare.


In other news, Kathryn (Harty) Ross writes: “While the rest of the class was recovering from reunion (yes, we missed you), Kathryn, Chuck Ross, Yasi Ayat and Jon Ruel were enjoying a week of beaches and waterfalls (and hanging out gullyside) in beautiful Port Antonio, Jamaica. Also present were Kathryn’s mother, Dawn; Kathryn and Chuck’s sons Ezra, 12, and Isaac, 10; and Yasi and Jon’s kids Reza, 10, and Mitra, 6. Everyone had a brilliant time catching up and drinking Red Stripe to the sound of dance-hall music and Jamaican World Cup frenzy.” 


Buried in a New England winter right now, I for one could use a dose of beaches and waterfalls. Wishing you all warm Jamaican vacations. Keep your news coming!


Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 345 Commonwealth Ave., No. 8, Boston, MA 02115; kaja@alum. dartmouth.org


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