Class Note 1992
As promised in my last column, I include here dispatches from classmates we missed at reunion.
Julia Hynes Shoff: “I spent May, June and July 2012 on leave from Merck completing a Clark Fellowship. This program is the newest aspect of Merck’s substantial corporate philanthropy efforts. Five of us from different parts of the company were the inaugural class. We were lent to PSI, a large international healthcare nongovernmental organization (NGO), to complete specific projects supporting PSI’s pioneering social franchising efforts with healthcare clinics in the developing world. Social franchising is pretty much what it sounds like: applying the principles of franchising (standards, operating systems) for social good. I drew on my private-sector experience (pharma marketing and strategy) to help PSI with strategic brand management of its social franchises; in exchange I learned about developing world healthcare systems, international development and the NGO world. In conclusion, it was a foreign study program for grownups! Clearly, spending four weeks in East Africa and the other nine workweeks in Georgetown did not leave room for playtime in Hanover. (I managed to grab drinks with Val Worthington and Elaine Anderson in D.C. shortly after reunion, which was a nice substitute.) The project was a truly cool opportunity, but I am glad to be off the road and back to my day job. I recently flipped from a global cardiovascular job to a domestic assignment, running part of the Merck U.S. respiratory product portfolio. Looking forward to seeing you all in 2017!”
Loryn Weinstein Peterson: “I have been learning what it really means to be sleepless in Seattle. My husband, Ryan, and I remodeled our floating home on Lake Union, moved three times in the course of the rebuild and welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Elle, in February. During the same time I switched gears to join an in-city orthopedic practice after 10 years of private practice in the ’burbs. Crazy! All worth it in the end, but definitely too many stressful events for one year.”
Chris Ehrlich: [Note: A little birdie (sorry, I couldn’t resist) told me Chris had the opportunity to attend a major golf tournament during reunion.] “Yes, I traded time at Dartmouth (although my wife, Sara Fried Ehrlich ’93, and daughter Charlotte went) for the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. I did not do anything special other than enjoy the privilege of watching the world’s best golfers up close and personal on a few beautiful weather days. Then I got to go home and babysit my beautiful new 1-year-old baby boy Harrison!”
Matt Mosk: “My 8-year-old son’s ice hockey obsession is helping me keep connected to Dartmouth. I had the fun experience this summer of watching him skate at Thompson Arena as a participant in a weeklong Dartmouth hockey camp. And this month his team will be playing in Richmond, Virginia, where I am looking forward to seeing Jason and Julie Cillo. We’re still living in Annapolis, Maryland, and I am at ABC News, where I recently had the honor of winning an Emmy Award for a series of investigative stories I produced for World News and Nightline.”
Nice work, Matt (whose great stories have also been gracing the pages of this magazine)! We actually have two recent ’92 Emmy winners to congratulate: Tim Greenberg also won for his work as a supervising producer on The Daily Show. I happened to tune in to the broadcast just in time to see him step up on stage with Jon Stewart to accept the award.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org
