Class Note 1983
Get ready! Our 30th reunion is coming! June 12-16. We’re actively planning and you should have gotten a letter from your reunion co-chairs and an intentions postcard. Please return the postcard so that we can plan accordingly. More information will be released in February. In the meantime, here’s the latest: Alan Eagle wanted to do something fitting for his 50th so he and his 14-year-old son reached the top of Kilimanjaro the day before Alan turned 51! They followed up the climb with eight days of safari in northern Tanzania.
Judy Stone Mallory’ssons Mark and Andrew are current students at UVM, a junior and a freshman.Judy hates being an empty nester, but is the luckiest one she knows since her kids are 10 minutes away!
Kimball Halsey and his fiancée, Cynthia Tschampl, were married on June 23 in Our Lady of Perpetual Hope, Bradford, Vermont. In attendance were Kimball’s dad, William Halsey ’40, his uncle James Halsey ’44, cousin John Halsey ’76 and friends Chandler Rosenberger ’87, Kristina Kohler ’87 and Judith Rust ’85. Their photographer was Eli Burakian ’00.
Lynn and Peter Kidder’s son Thomas is in the freshman class of 2016, and while dropping him off she had fun seeing Deborah Michel Rosch, Jim Gregg, Kate Drislane Howe and Dave Persampieri.
Martha Gerhan noticed that a recent issue of Swimmer magazine featured this year’s long course Nationals and one swimmer followed in her training was Leslie Livingston. In the article it mentions she swam at Dartmouth. “I remembered Leslie Cloutier on the team, and found in the alumni directory it’s one and the same! She set a world record in the 50-meter backstroke, breaking her previous world mark, and the article alludes to other world records. She lives in Vienna, Virginia, and swims there.” Martha continues to swim competitively, as does Eric Valley and Tom Karb.
Joel Reidenberg visited Zion National Park as part of a family trip to celebrate son Jeremy’s graduation from college. Joel hurt his wrist and after a two-hour hike to the park ranger, a few more hours to the nearest hospital, a phone call to orthopedic surgeon Dan Gelb and an emergency flight home to New York for surgery the next day, it took nine screws and a metal plate to put the wrist back together.
Joel hopes that his wrist heals by our reunion so he can get the Sigma Alpha Epsilon bike group (Dan Gelb, Rob O’Neal, Jeff Soldatis and Joel) together for a ride. They last did a trip together in 2010, the first time they were all together since June 1983, when they set out from SAE to bike to the N.Y.C. area.
Dan is an orthopedic spine surgeon at the University of Maryland. Jeff, an orthopedic surgeon, has a sports medicine practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Rob is a principal in Epsilon Associates, an engineering and environmental consulting firm in Maynard, Massachusetts.
I was sent Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner’s first book, If Only. Written from the point of view of Corinna, a 13-year-old girl whose mother has died of cancer, the book addresses Corinna’s grieving process. Carole did a great job of capturing a 13-year-old’s state of mind, probably because she’s spent the last 20 years as a clinical social worker, working in schools, hospitals and counseling agencies with children who have had a parent die. She is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine. She is married to our classmate Tim Geithner and they have two children, one who is a freshman at Dartmouth.
Together again 2013!
—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com
