Class Note 1982
As I write this, 2010 is coming to a close and the East Coast is blanketed by a post-Christmas snowstorm. Let’s hope that by the time you read this winter is easing and holiday resolutions have been kept!
Priscilla Downs Tuttle sent New Year wishes to us all, noting that she hopes her closest Dartmouth friends know that she thinks of them “often and fondly.” Priscilla, who plays piano at church and sings for the choir, teaches chemistry at the Eastport South Manor High School in Manorville, New York. Pardoning the pun, Priscilla reports she is “in [her] element in a high school classroom.” Priscilla’s oldest son is a senior at New York’s Oneonta State College, her daughter is an architecture student at Notre Dame University and her youngest son is a tenth-grader and star volleyball player who has his mom for a teacher!
Equally committed to high school students, Brian Goeselt, a teacher at Newton North in Newton, Massachusetts,wrote that he was about to grade freshman history essays answering the question, “Was Christianity primarily a force for good or evil in the early Middle Ages?” According to Brian, his and wife Nancy Bowler-Goeselt’s oldest child refuses to attend Massachusetts’ most expensive public high school, avoiding her dad’s challenging class at all costs.
Glenn Grube contacted me from his family’s annual Navidad visit to Caracas, Venezuela. In the spring he and wife Xiomara will be returning to South America to visit their daughter Xima, who will be studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Xima is a junior at Bucknell University and a classmate of Kate Pesek Sackman’s son Charlie.
Bob Bauer and his children recently hosted a weekend-long mini-reunion and 50th birthday party at his home in South Strafford, Vermont. Celebrants included several classmates and their families. Rick Bercuvitz, whose work involves software and green data centers, and wife Shira Gilbert crossed the border from Montreal, Canada. Rich Nadworny, who owns a digital marketing business,and wife Bella Bueno came from Burlington, Vermont. Hailing from nearby South Burlington were Sam Carlson and wife Linda McGinnis. Sam and Linda are recent retirees of the World Bank, most recently residing in India. Andy Shapiro and Betsy Henry came from Schenectady, New York, where Andy is a research and development expert at General Electric and Betsy is a biologist. Sculptor extraordinaire and landscape designer Brian Tompkins, IT entrepreneur Eric Richardson and potter Karin Rothwell and drummer/educator husband Steve Ferraris ’78 all joined the festivities from their homes in Norwich, Vermont. Wendi Terlizzi Cook and Gordon Cook traveled from Atlanta. Gordon, who now works for Verizon, spent two long and harrowing tours of duty in Afghanistan. Wendi continues to serve their community. Also celebrating were Joanne McMullen from Athens, Ohio; Randy Gordon, who works for Neighbor Works America in Washington, D.C., and wife Kathi Kotellos from Arlington, Virginia; and Pete Saltsman, who recently received from Harvard University his master’s in technology and sustainability, from Amesbury, Massachusetts. Classmates missed included newlywed and roads engineer George Huntington from Laramie, Wyoming; Ian Campbell, who hosted five weddings at his Salt Lake City, Utah, restaurant that weekend; and Davin MacKenzie, who lives in Beijing, China.
On December 9, 2010, Shanghai, China, residents Dave Plekenpol and family officially welcomed new baby daughter and sister Kailin Grace. Congratulations, Plek!
More good news for the class of 1982. Named by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, All-American Gail Koziara Boudreaux has been nominated to Dartmouth’s board of trustees. If elected she would join John Donahoe and Sherri Carroll Oberg on the board. Cheers!
—Cathy Judd-Stein, 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, MA 01890; cjuddstein@yahoo.com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
