Class Note 1984
It’s summertime and the living is easy…well—at least it was during our Sophomore Summer! Here are some memories of that idyllic time. Richard Ehling remembers: “I took four classes Sophomore Summer to allow me two semesters abroad, Mexico just before and Florence for art the next spring. It was still my most relaxed term, with lots of river swimming and biking to waterfalls. The best of it was having all my freshmen dorm-mates back in Wheeler all at once for a reconnect. This summer my husband and I are traveling for the first time in almost four years. His immunity is finally recovering after his bone marrow transplant, and we intend to lounge by water with friends and family.”
Laurie Kretchmar writes: “I remember doing lots of summery things including running the Vermont loop and having a picnic with Susan Fernyak in the cemetery in honor of her Bastile Day birthday.” Laurie is currently self-employed as an editor, PR person, and social media coach. Susan earned her M.D. at Dartmouth and is now chief medical officer at the county hospital, San Mateo (California) Medical Center.
Rich Boroff remembers, “I didn’t spend my Sophomore Summer on campus—I missed hanging out with most of the ’84s. Instead I spent my junior summer on campus, and I still remember the tornado that ruined a cookout at Sig Ep. It touched down on the golf course; we only saw black out of the window at 2 p.m. Guess I picked the wrong summer. As I write this, my wife and I are watching the Red Sox at Fenway; we have season tickets and live within walking distance of the park. We’ll also be going to London to see the Sox play two games vs. the Yankees at the end of June. Go, Sox!”
Lori Brogle writes, “My favorite Sophomore Summer memory: climbing the Skiway with Meghan Haney, Chris Huff, Ben Kahn, and Rob Rhee—and having Meghan, Rob, and Ben drive off and leave us there to be mosquito fodder for the night!” This summer Lori will be working, gardening, and riding her Morgan horse in the woods—and being mosquito fodder.
Matt Keener remembers taking the first course offered at Dartmouth on entrepreneurship. His project was The Little Green Book—the unofficial student guide to life on campus and the surrounding community. His group was up all night for days, about to go to press when they realized they needed more details on better hikes, and Matt writes, “so I went out at the crack of dawn and ran all of the trails in one morning. I was the only one out there in the woods that early and, having just pulled an all-nighter, I was in an elevated brain condition of some sort and experienced a glorious natural high.” And I’ll leave that for Eric Grubman,Matt’s Bones Gate brother, to discuss in our next column.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net
