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CLASS NOTES November-December 2006
The fabulous 40th reunion during Memorial Day Weekend continued to generate warm memories for both the 131 classmates in attendance and those who couldn't get to Hanover.
Brad and Mary Stein cut short their reunion reveling when they got word Sunday evening from their son Zachary '96 that his wife,
Margaret Chang '96 had gone into labor in Washington, D.C. The couple left the Upper Valley at dawn on
Monday, stopped in their Mamaroneck, New York, home to repack, and reached the nations capital by late
afternoon in rime to greet their first grandchild Isabel, who also has a Chinese name, Yi Jueh. The Steins
made sure that a Dartmouth sweatshirt, hat, mittens and sleeper were added to their granddaughter's wardrobe
before they left to tend to Zach and Margaret's dog Ripken.
Jim Hourdequin was in Bennington, Vermont, during reunion weekend where his son Jim '97 married Kathryn Cunningham.
The couple will be settling in the Dartmouth area. Jim works for local Lynne Properties and Kathryn will be setting
up a medical practice. Jim's wife, Mary has recovered from a muscle-debilitating autoimmune disease and continues as
a middle school principal in West Hartford, Connecticut. Daughter Marion, a philosophy teacher, is moving to Colorado
College, and son Peter, with a master's in Asian studies, lives in Hawaii.
Albie Macdonald had a prior commitment, too - an eight-day golf trip to Wales with other Winchester (Massachusetts)
Country Club members. "It was poor planning," Albie acknowledged, "but the scheduling was done by unsympathetic Harvard types."
As a run-up to reunion, Joff and Graciela Keane spent six months traveling throughout Latin America after Joff retired from the
Foreign Service as U.S. ambassador to Paraguay. They hiked, surfed, rode and painted in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and
Costa Rica. Now they've settled in Fairfax, Virginia.
Awards to classmates: Dr. Steve Jordan, who works out of New London Hospital, was recognized as the state's top internist by New Hampshire Magazine.
Lance Tapley recently received a first-place news story award from the Association of Alternative Weeklies for investigative articles in the
Portland Phoenix on abusive conditions in Maine's "supermax" prison.
– Larry Geiger
93 Greenridge Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
Tel: 914-761-2709
lgeiger@aol.com
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