Class of '79 Newsletter
March 2000
Greetings to the Class of 1979 from your officers:
| President: |
Burr Gray |
| Head Agent: |
David Costello |
| Secretary: |
Jim Wasz |
| Secretary: |
Jeff Boylan |
| Treasurer: |
Bill Mitchell |
| Mini-Reunion Director: |
Phil Odence |
... and yours truly, the
Newsletter Editors:
Sue Goodman Cohen and Dick O'Brien
If you want the College to have your email address, simply send it to:
Heeeere’s Dickie!!
Hello everyone. This will be the last newsletter brought to you by the esteemed team of Cohen-O’Brien. Please, do not shed a tear. (I know, you’re sobbing already.) The time has come to move into the new millennium with a fresh perspective. Though how much fresher we just don’t know.
In any event, we’re outta here! It’s been great hearing from you all over the past five years. For better or worse, we’ve never felt so in touch with Dartmouth. You see, being a class officer means that you get a tremendous amount of mail, and now e-mail, from the college in a mad attempt to keep you completely and continuously up-to-date with all manner of goings on at the Big Green. It’s a lot to read and, frankly, we’re pooped. So we’re glad there will be a pair of new, eager souls to take on the ever-exciting job of editing your life chronicles for the equally eager consumption of fellow classmates.
And remember, until two of you do step up to the plate, no more newsletters. That’s a promise, not just an empty threat. (Or was that the other way around?)
Take care.
Victoria Thys Barnes writes:
My husband and I welcomed our third child, Ian Courtland Edouard Barnes (aka "Ice B") on December 26, 1999 (ed. That’s alotta names Victoria. Forget monogramming; it will ruin you.). Big sisters Nicola (7) and Elizabeth (3) are delighted with their baby brother. I left Wind River Systems in June and am currently enjoying full-time mom status. (Never a dull moment when the kids outnumber the parents!)
And from Megan Thomas:
Hi, Sue.
I always mean to, but never get around to, filling out those green cards the college includes with our newsletter. Thought I'd try it this way instead. I've recently returned from a pre-Christmas trip to Copenhagen to celebrate my husband's (Bob Olson, '71) 50th birthday. We took three of our children--Gwyneth, age 14, Ned, age 12, and Sonja, age 4, and my mother-in-law. We had to leave behind Rob, age 21 and a senior at Penn, because he had exams last week. It was quite a trip. The city is beautifully lit up from 4:00 in the afternoon and everyone is outdoors. I became a partner this year in the law firm of Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan, a mid-size Princeton firm. My area is trusts & estates, concentrating especially on charitable gift planning. I love it. Law is a second career for me--the first was publishing. We live in an old rambling house along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, just north of Princeton. I'm looking forward to reunions in the spring. I may drag along some of my kids. We'll see.--All good wishes for the New Year.
MET@SSWHB.COM (Thomas, Megan E.)
Gwen Kujala Stein:
Sue, Happy New Year from Chicago! We didn't send Christmas cards this year (as has been typical the last few years), but we are sending out birth announcements. Yes, you read that right. We had a baby girl on New Year's Eve. Clara Camille Stein is here. So, we won't be quite out of diapers for a while yet. Life is mildly chaotic and sure to get more so, but I'm enjoying it.
Kathryn Peden Blaisdell
We're still living in Lancaster and I'm still working at Franklin & Marshall College, but I moved from Admissions to Financial Aid. The lifestyle is saner, especially with children. Emma is now almost five and will start kindergarten in a year. Phoebe is two and almost as big as Emma. Right now they mostly love each other and play well together. Ted ('80) is ABD for his PhD in English. He still practices medicine 12 hours a week during the school year at a school-based clinic, but his heart is in literature. We're not sure where we'll end up with all this, but we sure want him to get that dissertation written.
And from Dean Esserman:
Still serving as the Chief of Police for The city of Stamford, Connecticut and raising my family with my wife Gilda Hernandez. We have three children: Rolando, Nellie and Sammy.
(ed. Now Dean what does it say to the residents of the fair city of Stamford that you won’t live among them? Or do they consider this a plus?)
From Doug Egan we hear:
I left PG&E Generating Company where I was SVP of Development to start my own plant development company, Competitive Power Ventures, L.P. I’ve discovered that moving from on of the largest integrated energy companies in the country to a 2 person start up is not nearly as frightening as it first sounded and a lot of fun. Jumping out of the airplane was the hardest part. (ed. Why are you out taking sky diving lessons when you have a business to run?) Julie and I and the 3 boys are staying put in Maryland, we like it here and Aaron, our oldest, is junior in high
Katrin Dobbs von Gierke writes:
We’re still in Hamburg, Germany; our 3 sons are 10, 7, and 5. I stopped working when our second child was born and am now a full-time chauffeur and childcarer. We’ve built a small chalet in a remote valley in the Swiss Alps where we spend our summers and winter holidays, hiking or skiing. Even our 5 year old is up to big hiking tours over 1000m of height difference. We train them young!
(ed. I’m packing my lederhosen now! Where’d you say the chalet was?)
And from beautiful downtown Fresno, Bryan Wagner writes:
(ed. Beautifully ,too, I might add. Such good penmanship and punctuation.)
It has been a long time. Although I rarely write (maybe never) I was feeling a little nostalgic so here I go. My family grew fast. I have four kids, three boys, and a girl all under 8 years of age. (ed. Your tranquilizer of choice would be . . .?) Of course, they are all skiing. Work is good; I am still working in Fresno as a lawyer. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Dartmouth group. See you in June.
Tim Kelley tells us:
I continue to fight with a life-long addiction to cross country ski racing. This persistent malady drove me to the point this year of winning the National Masters Cross Country Skiing Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota in our age group (40 - 44). I don't have the resolve to endure the treatments for this addiction, the side effects being high body fat, low VO2 max and loss of muscle tissue. So a ski junkie I remain, in good health.
Tim Kelley
Anchorage, AK
Second Annual National Dartmouth Community Service Week
May 6 - 14, 2000
Dear Friends:
The Young Alumni Committee of the Dartmouth College Alumni Council is pleased to announce the Second Annual National Dartmouth Community Service Week May 6-14, 2000. Continuing with the tradition started last year, the Young Alumni Committee ("YAC") is again encouraging Dartmouth Alumni, as well as friends and family, to organize regional community service projects that will
Benefit their own community.
Exciting news to announce includes our joining together with Dartmouth Community OutReach Projects ("DARCORPS"), an upper valley community service project that was created by Dartmouth students. We are pleased that our Alumni Service Week will kick off on the same day of the campus wide DARCORPS Event, Saturday, May 6, 2000! On this day over 500 Dartmouth students and faculty will be uniting with more than 65 Upper Valley non-profit organizations. This day of community service throughout the Upper Valley will be supported by alumni throughout the nation as we participate in our own community service.
Last year alumni service projects ranged from sponsoring a summer band concert in a local community; painting and cleaning a city school;
maintaining and cleaning a local city park; offering a lecture series at a local university; a book drive for city shelters; volunteering at a local elder home as well as other thoughtful events which greatly benefited the local communities in which our alumni live and work.
The YAC hopes again to assist and support Dartmouth Alumni Clubs, Classes, Affiliated Clubs, and all alumni throughout the country to build a diverse, working network. The community service projects may differ from region to region and group to group, as it is our belief that the respective Dartmouth community members should take ownership of their own project in order to best meet their own community’s needs. In addition, for
those groups or clubs that already participate in community service projects, it is our hope they such regions will consider incorporating this
week of May 6-14 into their planned events.
Our goal is to foster an increased awareness of the importance of participation by Dartmouth alumni in their own community, and we encourage you and the alumni in your region to promote and support events at any time
throughout the year when you find it most convenient. We only ask that you contact our Committee to inform us of your efforts to properly recognize your participation in community service in the name of Dartmouth.
For more information about the National Dartmouth Community Service Week
2000, contact the Young Alumni Committee at young-alumni-comm@dartmouth.edu
or check the web at www.dartmouth.edu/alumni or www.dartmouth.edu/~darcorps/
We hope to soon have a listing of all the participating regions or parties available on line so that alumni may find out if a project is being planned close to home.
Thanks for all you do in the name of Dartmouth,
Seth Jacoby, '90 Chairperson, Young Alumni Committee
(860)-659-0569 (w)
(860)-659-8930 (fax)
(860)-657-3096 (h)
seth.jacoby.90@alum.dartmouth.org
young-alumni-comm@dartmouth.edu
Notes from your other class officers:
The good news is we are ahead of giving for last year...Through early January we had 461 classmates sending in Class dues and had raised almost $4,000 for the Dartmouth Bound Program. If you have already sent your dues in, thanks for your tax deductable contribution.
If you haven't, please respond to the postcard which was recently sent out, or send your contribution for $25, plus $10 for the optional Dartmouth Bound Program, in with your Reunion Registration.
And from your President, Burr Gray:
You'll probably get a few of these e-mails between now and Reunion, so I promise to keep them brief.
(1) We need people willing to be class officers for the next 4 years (not 5, since our 25th reunion will be in 2004). We also really need someone to head the nominating/Search Committee to ferret out some viable candidates.
(2) Get your family photo (w/any accompanying description of family/life/work) to Barbara Wiese Ross, P.O. BOX 1062, NORWICH VT 05055, or barbara.w.ross@valley.net for the electronic Reunion Yearbook. Your photo gets returned following Reunion, but if you don't want to part with it, many of the photo labs will convert for $5 hard copy pictures into electrons which is even easier for Barbara to work with. Jim Cioban, Mike McCoy, and Anne Carlson Rourke are also working on this project, but we need to get them the raw material to work with!!!!!!!
(3) The deadline for pledges that qualify you for shot at a Dartmouth chair has been extended to March 31st. Right now, we have about the same number of alumni fund donors as we did last year at this time (approx. 39% of the class), so these chairs are obviously a huge incentive. Not. Still, they are very nice durable items, so get your pledge in by the 31st. Drawing of 3 chairs is at Reunion Sat. dinner.
(4) Let us know if you want to do an event for the Dartmouth Community Service week held in June. We'll help publicize it.
That's it for now.
Burr Gray
Class of '79 - Prez
"Our Favorite Women,"
a reception for 79-80-81 alumnae and their daughters
Think back 20 years to the wonderful women professors, coaches, deans, and administrators who made our Dartmouth days special. Wouldn't it be a treat to see them again?
Announcing..."Our Favorite Women," a reception for 79-80-81 alumnae and
their daughters (men and sons welcome). Special guests are women faculty, administrators, and coaches from our Dartmouth days. We are inviting all we can track down! To date, among those who have said "yes" or "I'll come if I'm in town/if I can" are: Marilyn Baldwin Austin, Lu Martin, and Ann Craig
Hanson, Lyn Hutton, Mary Kelley, Martha Rockwell, Holly Sateia, and Brenda Silver. (plans subject to change, of course). Invitations are still going out...watch for this list to grow.
Saturday, June 17, 4-6 pm, at the Kim Gallery in the Hood Museum.
Celebrate our favorite women!
If you would like to help with the event, contact Anne Swire at
aswire@hotmail.com.
Thank you,
Anne Putney Swire '81
OFFICERS
(soon to be "ex")
| President: |
Burr Gray
6 Tomlinson Court
Cabin John, MD 20818
301-320-2918 (h)
703-614-6230 (w)
703-693-4170 (fax)
burr.gray@alum.dartmouth.org
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| Head Agent: |
David Costello
39 Balcom Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
617-564-2195 (w)
617-564-2177 (fax)
DJCOSTELLO@aol.com
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| Secretary: |
Jim Wasz
7 Griffen Street
Simsbury, CT 06070-2113
203-651-0085 (h)
1-800-982-6810 x5557 (w)
(203) 949-5670 (fax)
jwasz1979@aol.com
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| Secretary: |
Jeff Boylan
765 Teresita Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94127-2366
415-337-7737 (h)
zeke79@ix.netcom.com
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| Treasurer: |
Bill Mitchell
221 Washington Avenue
Chatham, NJ 07928
(973) 701-0888 (h)
whmdart@aol.com
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| Mini-Reunion Director: |
Phil Odence
6 Ledyard Lane
Hanover, NH 03755-2118
603-643-9528 (h)
603-643-9636 (w)
phil.odence@alum.dartmouth.org
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YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITORS:
(Picture your name here!!!) |
Sue Goodman Cohen
51 Charles Road
Stirling, NJ 07980
908 580-0593 (h)
SueCohen79@aol.com
Dick O’Brien
1770 Broadway #402
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 440-4276 (home/fax)
(415) 441-0516 (office)
RPOBRIEN@aol.com
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| Alumni Council Representative: |
Parker Small '80
11 Westwood Road
Wellesley, MA 02181-7015
781-237-5820 (w & h)
psmall@mba1985.hbs.edu
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| Fundraising Participation: |
Elyse Benson Allan
25 Birchview Blvd.
Etobicoke M8X1H4
Ontario, Canada
(w) 416-862-4542
Fax 416-366-6460
(h) 416-231-8611
eallan@bot.com
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