Class Note 1983
By the time this column is published our 30th reunion will have occurred and we’ll all be caught up on what everyone is doing in the real world, right? Everyone’s going, right? Well, there are those that aren’t. Peter Burack is one who can’t make it. His daughter Emily is graduating from high school that weekend. Peter writes: “The good news is that she was accepted early decision to Dartmouth for the class of 2017! Everyone is very excited.” Peter is managing partner of ABS Partners Real Estate (www.absre.com). They own, manage and lease commercial real estate in N.Y.C. They are partners with the Hudson Cos. Peter has two other children, a daughter and a son, and they are looking forward to visiting Hanover on a regular basis starting this fall when Emily starts school.
Wade Welch can’t make our reunion either but I did hear (via Facebook) that his son will be joining Peter’s daughter this fall.
No word on whether Phil Gerson is going to reunion but Dave Ross sent me this about him: Philip “Phil” Gerson is a senior advisor in the International Monetary Fund’s fiscal affairs department, where he supervises the department’s macro-fiscal agenda, including the fiscal monitor, the fund’s flagship public finance publication. During his 18-year career at the fund, he has worked on a variety of advanced and emerging market economies and as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director. Besides graduating with us Phil also graduated from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University.
We attempted a few mini-reunions April 19, which your newsletter editor calculated to be 83 days before our reunion, but she was off by (quite) a few days. Nonetheless, the reunions went on as planned, except for Boston. Because the city was closed we had to cancel, but thanks to Walter Foster and Rob O’Neal for attempting to host.
Jim Sterling hosted a reunion for two in New York City. Neither Jim nor Sam Reckford will be at reunion due to prior family commitments. Sam is a proud parent of two girls at Dartmouth and a son who graduated from NYU. He is CFO of Hugo Neu, a firm specializing in recycling technology. He is also treasurer of Sigma Epsilon and is proud to report that the frat is going great guns.
For the last five years Jim has been busy with three things: raising a family in N.Y.C., growing his business career and continuing his work as an actor. For his job Jim coaches and trains executives to come across with more impact in a variety of business settings. In 2011 he became a partner with his firm Exec-Comm, heading up program quality and design and working actively with firms such as Ernst & Young, National Grid and Mass Mutual, among many others. They have more than 40 facilitators around the country and are starting to develop resources in Europe and Asia.
At Dartmouth Jim acted in a lot of shows (Our Town, Inherit the Wind), and he continues to act with Axis Theatre Company in N.Y.C. as a company member, keeping his hand in a craft that he loves. His wife, Ros, makes and teaches art, his oldest boy plays baseball and is excited to go to high school at Xavier in N.Y.C. this coming fall, and his youngest boy is a middle-schooler and competes as a level 5 gymnast for the Chelsea Piers team. They live in the East Village and love visitors! Jim will “miss everyone at our 30th—dance, dance, dance!”
Lots more news to come after we’re together again!
—Maren Christensen, 173 S. Nardo Ave. Solana Beach CA 92075; marenjc@yahoo.com
