Class Notes Winter 2019 by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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CL ASS NOTES ’55 Charles A. Morrison

probably a college that could use them in some academic way. To quote Phil, “Life is good, I am blessed.” Also had a short conversation with Dick Pearl. He seems well. Gets to Hanover periodically.

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Heard from Ed Hayes, who has enjoyed living with Brenda on Cape Cod for the past 14 years: “There is a nice sense of community here.” His three sons “are off the payroll,” two having graduated from Dartmouth while one escaped to Williams. He continues—“As for me, perhaps a positive thing is that an old dog can actually learn new tricks. About 5 years ago, a friend suggested that a talk I gave on maritime history should become a published article. So far 21 articles have appeared, and even more surprising were 4 awards received. I blame Ken Davis and his marketing course demands for analyzing, then creating solutions, for his case studies.” Is there a book in the offing? Dick Gates, who has been living in Florida for a long time, shared with me the following: “A little history of my NE roots. My great-, greatgrandfather was one of the original settlers of Bar Harbor, ME. His parents were from Scotland and migrated to Nova Scotia then south for better fishing. During the War of 1812 the British were raiding the islands E of Bar Harbor and his daughter and family moved inland to Blue Hill Bay and homesteaded. When my mother died she willed the property to grandchildren as my brother had died. My mother did me a favor as I did not want to own the property with nieces and nephews while I was living in Florida.” The old Mainer Dick Lewis should be interested in this! Had a delightful conversation with Phil Kaiser. He’s still living in Mobile, though currently looking at transitioning to a retirement village. His current home boasts a riverfront shoreline of 600 ft., which he will miss. Phil has been very active in the Alabama Mineralogical Society, currently acting as the state director. He is also involved in a current campaign with the local Rock and Gem Society. Pursuing his “hobby” has resulted in Phil accumulating a collection of over 2,000 “rocks,” which are presenting a challenge in the prospective change of address! His current project is to find a home for his acquisitions,

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And finally from Mort Galper, received just before press time— “My story is a case of being connected with many people in several parts of the world. Truly a global education.

next. Included in my portfolio of international teaching assignments were executive education programs in U.K., the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Africa. “Along the way Judy and I have raised three children who have built wonderful lives for themselves and their families. We keep in touch regularly on FaceTime with our children and grandchildren. Wonderful recent technology!

“For the past 11 years we have made Florida our permanent residence. During this time we worked on our golf games and enjoyed “It began after the conclusion of my military the warm winter weather and sweltered in service, when employment as a sales rep the summer when we were not traveling to ended shortly after it began; I learned this was more temperate climes. We are also enjoying not to be my calling. I was both relieved and the company of many new friends. We are challenged. reading eclectically, mostly nonfiction. Judy helped organize a women’s book club and I “Judy, my pregnant wife, and I moved back to the joined a men’s discussion group of 12 with Boston area to begin my search, and a contact focus on economic, financial, and societal with Joe Saba helped open the door to Raytheon, issues. Members are widely traveled so many where I was hired as market researcher. It was a stimulating perspectives are shared. Politics are very good fit. kept to a minimum by mutual agreement!! “A neighbor recruited me to join a small high-tech company as manager of market research, and the company and I prospered. After five years I got the entrepreneurial itch and became a partner in a programming school. After a bumpy three years we had to close, and I began my career as a teacher and consultant. A friend who was a part-time faculty member at Babson College suggested I apply to Babson for a part-time opening in the marketing department. I was hired, and thus began my true life’s career. My career path took a detour for four years to pursue a doctorate at Harvard Business School, which gave me many opportunities to meet several outstanding professors both at HBS and MIT, in addition to many classmates who were later to become renowned academics themselves, including the future president of Babson College. “The highlights include 30 years’ association with Babson as a professor and later as dean of executive education. An appointment as a visiting professor in France led to a 20-year association with ESSEC, one of the top business schools in France. A visiting professorship in the Czech Republic (Czech Management Center) just after the ‘Velvet Revolution’ led to an appointment to CMC’s International Advisory Board. A visiting professorship at the Monterey Institute of International Studies came

“I think that covers most of the important aspects of our past and contemporary lives.” Great job, Mort. That’s it for now. I encourage you to drop me a note/email about your doings. I look forward to hearing from you. —Charlie

’56 Editor’s note: Would you like to volunteer to be class secretary for the T’56s? If so, please email Renée Hirschberg, director of alumni engagement, at renee.i.hirschberg@tuck.dartmouth.edu.

’57 Editor’s note: The class of ’57 is still looking for a class secretary! If you’d like to volunteer, please email Renée Hirschberg, director of alumni engagement, at renee.i.hirschberg@tuck. dartmouth.edu.

’58 Barry Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

Jerry Jones recently moved from Salt Lake City to a total care facility, the Huntington, in Nashua, New Hampshire, in order to be near his daughter, who lives in nearby Lancaster, Massachusetts. As Jerry described his life, he said that he is in good health and attempting to ward off the ravages of aging by eating well, exercising 1-2 hours daily, and staying happy. One of his neighbors at the senior living facility is Jim Dawson.

T’58 Reunion dinner group: Tom and Alice Macy, Arline and Barry Rotman, Rod and Carol DuBois, Bob Frank, John Donnelly, and Karen and Jay Trepp.

In Salt Lake City, Jerry gave up his car since almost everything he wanted was easily reached by walking or public transportation. Now whenever he needs to drive he just rents a car!

am very active, for help in their small business. Meanwhile John Donnelly attended a panel on LinkedIn to learn how to better market his consulting skills.

Genealogical research, centering on Colonial Virginia and medieval England, takes up a good bit of Jerry’s time. He told me that learning about his ancestors who struggled through these periods is a better way to learn history. Although he misses the comprehensive library available to him in Salt Lake City, he can still find what he needs since almost everything is digitized and available online.

Our evening reception was at the completely remodeled Hanover Inn, where Arline and I joined John Donnelly, Bob Frank, Carol and Rod Du Bois, Karen and Jay Trepp, and Alice and Tom Macy. Jay is still working almost a full week, traveling the world for an exposition company. He and Karen also travel for pleasure as well, having recently visited Alaska and the Ukraine. Next on the list is Hawaii. Carol and Rod are very proud of their son, a medical doctor who lives in the area and is working toward a graduate degree in health-care management at Tuck. Although he is in his fifties, he will soon be another Tuck alum. Meanwhile Carol is very involved with our local hospital, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), in establishing a patientdoctor evaluation system.

Jerry still has fond memories of his roommate Rod Du Bois and some of the wonderful times they had together. Our Tuck 60th Reunion...A Great Weekend! Our 60th Tuck Reunion registration was in the beautiful Stell Hall. The dark oak walls, ceiling, and trim haven’t changed much since the mid-’50s except that all the dining tables are gone. I picked up my red crimson registration tag and lots of goodies—from a Tuck tote bag to pens, frisbees, and snacks. John Donnelly joined me for lunch in the adjoining contemporary Byrne Hall, which is more like a food court, with a massive selection from sandwiches to hot meals. After lunch I attended a panel on entrepreneurship moderated by Caroline Cannon T’98, associate director of the Career Development Office, and the daughter-in-law of Mike Tompkins (Dartmouth ’57). I gained some new insights that will help me in advising clients who apply to SCORE, a nonprofit in which I

Saturday morning Arline and I parked at the Ledyard Canoe Club and walked up to Tuck. Concrete blocks have replaced the old wood stairs, making the walk much easier. Along with Alice and Tom Macy, we attended a lecture by Professor Vijay Govindarajan on reverse innovation—how innovations can flow from developing nations to developed ones. It was fascinating. Lunch was on the Tuck Mall, followed by our class picture. It was fun to watch all the younger Tuck graduates and their kids playing outside while waiting for their class pictures. It was just a reminder that we are, and

will continue to be, one of the oldest of the reunion classes. You may remember that we were the first class to have a 50th reunion. Our class dinner was held at my house, with fully catered meal from hors d’oeuvres to flowers and wine, courtesy of Tuck. Lots of conversations and interesting discussions going on all night. Bob Frank also announced that he is retiring as class agent, and we all congratulate him on 15 years of service! If any of you are interested in taking up the task now, you can contact Renée Hirschberg, director of alumni engagement, at renee.i.hirschberg@tuck. dartmouth.edu or by phone at (603) 646-9113. I heard from Dave Cudlip offering condolences on the recent loss of my mother, Ida Rotman, an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1957. We discussed some of her memorable words of wisdom. “Always look forward. Remember the past but concentrate on the future.” As she adapted to some of the limitations of aging, she often said, “ We have to play the hand we are dealt.” Dave thought she should have taught a course on philosophy. On April 16, 2018, Mal Robinson died at his home at Westminster in World Golf Village, Florida. He spent his childhood as a student sailor, hockey player, lacrosse player, and a boxer in Darien, Connecticut. After Dartmouth and Tuck, he married Betsy and began a 30+ year career with IBM. That career involved 7 moves. Mal served many capacities with IBM. He was an assistant to the SVP— and future CEO—Frank Cary, and then a product director

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CL ASS NOTES in France. Betsy, his wife of 55 years, his 3 sons, and 7 grandchildren survive him. Lee Hirschey died on May 24, 2018, in Sarasota, Florida. After Tuck Lee joined the Container Corporation of America but later returned to his family business, Climax Manufacturing Company, in Castorland, New York. He was promoted to president in 1971 and ran the company with his brother Urban until 2008, when they sold the company and Lee retired. Lee lived his life dedicated to northern New York, building the communities and generously supporting local charities. He served on the Carthage School Board, the Carthage Area Hospital Board, the local Boys’ Club, and the Watertown Family YMCA. When he moved to Chippewa Bay, New York, in 2000, he focused on preserving the region’s heritage and legacy as an active member of the Antique Boat Museum, the Remington Museum, and The Nature Conservancy. His proudest recreational achievement was completing the New York City Marathon with his wife Debby in 1981. Evan “Shelly” Kjellenberg died on January 25, 2018, in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. He met his wife Marilyn at Green Mountain College, and they married in September of 1958. After Tuck, Shelly earned his law degree at the University of Chicago Law School. In 1983 he was asked by the Illinois secretary of state, Jim Edgar, to chair the Committee of Commercial Code of Illinois and rewrite the code of 1936. Shelly was in the private practice of law for 36 years, and he enjoyed his membership in the Chicago Law Club. In 1996 he started a law practice in rural Wisconsin, retiring in 2014. Shelly enjoyed 25 years of helping the Evanston 4th of July Association, barbershop singing with the Arlingtones Barbershop Chorus, aiding the Sister Bay Historical Society, and loved volunteering with fellow Lions Club members for 20 years. His wife Missy, daughter Suzanne, son Todd, sister Marilyn Anderson of Illinois, and two grandchildren survive him. Emerson Houck passed away in Boca Raton, Florida, on January 25, 2018. After Dartmouth and Tuck-Thayer he joined Eli Lilly, retiring as a director after 35 years. He was a trustee emeritus of Hanover College and an honorary member of the Indianapolis Garden Club. He leaves Hanna, his wife of 60 years, a daughter, and 2 sons.

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Our class losses include Walter Prindle, Thomas Wallace, and James Lothrop. We now have 60 alums who started in September of 1957 and 38 who graduated in June of 1958.

’59 Editor’s note: We just received word that Ben Reid passed away on November 26, 2018. We always looked forward to hearing from “Bodacious Ben,” as he often signed off to us, and will miss him and his wonderful, kind presence. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

’60 David Ward davidwardsr@aol.com

Editor’s note: You may have read in the last issue that Dave Ward will be your new class scribe. But he needs news from you to, er, scribe about! Email Dave at the aol.com address above, or submit your news online at the new class-notes submission form at http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes — Dave’s waiting to hear from you!

’61 Walt Freedman wfreedman@mac.com

Greetings from Chicago! I am happy to be your new class of ’61 scribe. Many thanks to Tom Kirby for his many years of diligent work on our behalf. I will endeavor to be an effective relief pitcher, even though my fastball has diminished. I still have an effective curve and a terrific change of pace!

I sent a short note out in late August and heard from Harry Holland, Reuell Stanley, John Owens, and Joe McHugh. Here is what they had to report. Harry Holland sends greetings from Kendal at Hanover. Jack Benson and Scilla are living at Kendal as well. Harry reports that he and his wife moved one mile from 23 Lyme Rd. in Hanover to 80 Lyme Rd. His son Joe and family moved from Norwich to their house. While Harry did not have any children attend Dartmouth, he does have a grandson who chose Yale over Dartmouth. He notably was the outstanding goalie of Yale’s 2018 NCAA Champion Lacrosse team. Reuell Stanley is in a great place “on all levels.” Carley and Reuell have been married for six years and live in Manasquan on the Jersey shore and at The Loxahatchee Club in Jupiter, Florida. They have six children and nine grandchildren. Reuell serves on a few local boards and plays some golf from time to time. Joe McHugh enthusiastically lives with his bride of 56 years. Spring and fall are in Dallas, and summer and winter in Vail. They have two daughters and at least two grandchildren with whom they traveled to South Africa in June, rushing home to enjoy the outstanding symphony offerings in Vail. Joe retired almost twenty years ago after a “checkered career” in banking, investment banking, and building materials (“my only real job”). He continued to serve on various public and private company boards. As he has achieved the magical 80 years of age, he is migrating off of those remaining and is now hiking, biking, sailing, and skiing more. In 2013 John Owens retired from his second career of eleven years on the Tuck faculty. He and his wife Janet moved to Ojai, California, a small community north of Los Angeles. This interesting town suits them well. John and Janet have six grown children between them and eight grandchildren. The children live in Maine, Kentucky, Ohio, California, Arizona, and South Korea. John writes that except for one granddaughter, who is in medical school in Seoul, all the grandkids have finished school and are pursuing the “great mysteries of adult life.” John says that he doesn’t do a lot of anything except serve on boards of the usual

nonprofits and make “modest venture capital investments.” On a personal note, Karen Harrison and I have been married for 34 years! We have four children and sixteen grandchildren. Seven of the grands are out of universities and working. Two more will graduate this year. Keeping in contact with all sixteen and their special occasions keeps us on the go! I still do some middle-market corporate advisory work, but that is winding down. We spend significant time in Steamboat Springs, CO, but still base in Chicago. All is well here! I look forward to hearing from more of you and promise to faithfully report the information you provide. I might throw a curve or change of pace. All the best!!

’62 Judy Holmes judy@judyholmes.com

Hello class of 1962, this is Judy Holmes T’85, your new class secretary. My husband, Jim Progin, is a ’62. We both had a lot of admiration and affection for your prior secretary, Hank Gerfen, who unfortunately left us way too soon. I’m going to try my best to continue his excellent work of squeezing information out of you to pass along to your classmates. If this column is too short or mundane, send me updates on you or classmates to spice it up. Rod MacLennan was a ray of newsy sunshine when I sent out my desperate last-minute email blitz this week: Robin and he are planning on getting back to Hanover this fall to meet a current Tuckie who was presented the MacLennan Family Scholarship they established some time ago for Canadians at Tuck. They were en route to Burlington, VT, when Rod wrote, visiting daughter Susan D’90, DMS’94 where she is reestablishing her surgical practice after having lived in Alberta the past three years. Susan had been in Burlington the previous 15 years as an associate professor in plastic surgery.

We swapped fond Burlington tales since I graduated from UVM and loved the lake and mountains surrounding the town when I was there. Like Jim, Rod joins the 80+ club in the next year and also drives around his property on a John Deere tractor! With two replaced hips, Rod isn’t skiing anymore, but Robin both skis and plays tennis. They live full-time on the Northumberland Shore in Truro, Nova Scotia. Thanks, Rod, for the first news I received from your class. I’m very grateful. Jim Nova also responded to my email quickly and enjoys being on “the green side of the grass”! He’s retired and lives in Scottsdale, with a summer home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He and wife Gail have two sons, both Dartmouth grads and lawyers, and six grandchildren. They just celebrated their 52nd anniversary “without bloodshed or the police”—always the sign of a happy union! Jim visited campus a few years ago and remarked on that picture on the wall showing James Brian Quinn teaching a class with a caption “circa 1960.” It was actually 1961, and we all agree the “circa” should be for pre–Civil War shots, not the Sixties. Jim stays busy with the Civil Air Patrol, the all-volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force: he’s on the national staff. I mentioned to Jim that he had JBQ early in his career, when he was known to be a tough prof; I had him in the early ’80s, and I don’t think he mellowed much! Jim liked his teaching style and acerbic attitude. Glad we didn’t have Saturday classes the way you did, though, after Friday eves of revelry. You aren’t going to want to read this if you’re a golfer...Dick Noel shoots his age or better over 20 times a season! He even recorded a 74 and a few 75s this summer. Yikes. I was depressed until he wrote those were also his average grades at Tuck. Our saving grace was no numerical grades at the end of a semester, just “ranges” such as High Pass, Satisfactory, and so on. Three Low Passes and you were out. Dick hears from Jack Penn, his Tuck roommate, occasionally, who tells him he is doing well, and we think is a big wig on the AARP board of directors. I’d love to hear from you directly, Jack, for an update on what must be an interesting board. Dick Klein also wrote to wish me well and thank me for taking on Hank’s role. What keeps you busy, Dick? I’d love to know. Richard Husband sent a terrific update on life

in the Hanover area—Etna, specifically. He returned in 1990 as an area VP for Fleet Bank, the former Dartmouth National. He enjoys life in the area if “one ignores the community noise generated by the College.” He retired in 1995 and has enjoyed every minute so far. Loves to garden, raise bees, and tend his orchard. He reads a lot during the winter and finds that season in northern NE to be one of his favorites. Richard earlier worked with Gerf when he was with the Warren, Muller, Dolobowsky advertising agency and Richard was with HP Hood, New England’s leading dairy since 1846. Gerf retired and set the example for him to get out of the advertising business and into banking. Richard’s wife is a retired doctor who has returned to the piano business as a registered piano tech after two years at North Bennet Street School in Boston. Lots of retirees here in the Upper Valley have started interesting and challenging part-time businesses, he says. Thanks, Richard. More later I hope. I wrangled an update out of hubby Jim since this is the news column of his class, not mine. After this, he’s going to put in calls to many of you—especially those named Tonneson, Tracy, and Elmore—for news so he doesn’t have to put pen to paper every time.... “A year ago we took a 28-day cruise from Seward AK to Bar Harbor ME up and over—the Northwest Passage.” Some ice, a few polar bears, a lot of remote Canadian villages, spectacular scenery in Greenland—especially an iceberg-choked bay in Ilulissat—made the time pass quickly and in an interesting way. Lots of presentations on the ecology, geography, native populations, and climate kept us busy. In early 2018, the snow conditions were very poor in Beaver Creek, where we’ve spent the last 32 winters. A road trip to Montana uncovered great skiing at Big Sky and the Yellowstone Club. No crowds, super terrain, and interesting people convinced us to sell our townhome and downsize to a cabin at 9,000 feet straddling the two ski areas. We closed on it in March and never looked back. Many of you remember the great ski filmmaker Warren Miller, who made the Yellowstone Club his home for 20 years. He had a favorite saying: “If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be a year older when you do.” That resonated with us. Come visit. We have an extra bedroom and bath. And, by the time you read this, a new Saint Bernard puppy.

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CL ASS NOTES We are looking forward to hearing what everyone has been up to and including it in future columns. Please send any news or updates to bobhumboldt@aol.com and artwill3@aol.com. We hope to hear from you soon!

’63 Tom Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

Jim Progin on the slopes of the Yellowstone Club, overlooking Lone Peak at Big Sky, Montana, in January

The changes in our habitats continued last spring. We sold our Sanibel Island condo and bought at the Greenbrier Sporting Club in June. The climate suits us better and it’s quiet, private, and safe. Very laid back, with welcoming people in West Virginia. Jim still maintains a trail or two for teleskiers who skin up at our home base in Jackson, NH, the former Tyrol Ski Area, defunct since the ’80s. His daughters are married with kids, living in the Boston area. Grandkids number 4, from 2 to 17. That’s it from here. Please consider sending me a quick note after you read this with an update on your life and those you stay in touch with. It’s much appreciated! Late-breaking news from Win Black! “Judy, Thanks for taking on a relatively thankless task. My best to Jim for backing you. Recently sold house I had built in Inverness, CA, and now live at Smith Ranch Homes in San Rafael, CA. Picture of me at helm of friend’s boat on SF Bay. Still play golf, but arthritis has eliminated tennis from activities. Active with a couple of nonprofits, dealing with enabling seniors to stay in their homes. Enjoy travel, and will leave for Egypt and Jordan in December. Have not seen any Tuck classmates in years. Assume there are none living in California. Last reunion some 15 years or so ago, only 5 or 6 attended. Visited with Ed Lau in Hong Kong years ago.”—Win Black

I JUST KNOW your recent news and pictures are “in the mail,” but it appears they will not arrive today in time to meet the winter ’63 class-notes closing. Please update your news for the summer issue. It is really easy now with the new online class notes submission form at http:// mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes. However, there is good news!! Kudos are in order for our 1963 Tuck Annual Giving (TAG) Agent team of Stu MacKay, Bill Obenshain, and Ernie Roessler. They put in another year of hard work, excessive hours, and dedication in organizing and executing the class TAG program, in which 1963 achieved a 49% participation level and your generosity resulted in the class of 1963 raising just short of $90,000.00! The Tuck Annual Giving Team greatly appreciates and thanks you all for your efforts. Best wishes to you!

’64 Bob Humboldt bobhumboldt@aol.com

Art Williams artwill3@aol.com

55TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Tuck 1964 classmates—

Many thanks—Art Williams and Bob Humboldt

’65 George Weller gweller@ctq2.org

Hello T’65 classmates— As your new T’65 class secretary, I will do my best to fill Fuzzy Bruno’s shoes a bit. To get us started, some updates from me. I (we) host a flyin every September, where we serve Beefalo burgers and all the sweet corn you can eat. September 9 we had 60 planes fly in and attend, possibly a record in Canada. I have been trying to get CANPASS for my airfield CTQ2 for summers but have been unsuccessful so far. One RV-9A flew up from NYC, buzzed the field, and flew back, unable to land since I did not have CANPASS here. Although the 9A is a homebuilt and the distance is almost 400 miles, it probably took only about 2 hours each way. So be brave, all classmates, and send me your stories. You can email them to me at gweller@ ctq2.org. Many thanks—George Weller T’65

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

Win Black at the helm in San Francisco Bay 64

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We are very happy to be assisting the wonderful Bill Ferguson with class notes moving forward. Thanks to Bill for all his past work and effort to make the class notes timely and interesting!

Frederick [Bill] Gregory settled in the Pacific Northwest after a stint in the Army at Fort Lewis, Washington. After earning

a doctorate in education, Bill became a leader in career development, working as a college career councilor, author, and coordinator for the Career Engagement Team at careerengagementteam.com. Bill took advantage of the spectacular Cascade Range, climbing five of the six glacier peaks. As he remarked, “It was a lucky path. But most lucky has been a wife, Barbara, who has a special talent for family.” James Hartmann had a long career at Midlantic, later PNC Bank, retiring in 2001 as senior vice president and corporate communications director. Over the span of 32 years, the bank won numerous national awards in every communications discipline. Jim is very involved with Catholic Charities, with his primary focus on St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, NJ. St. Benedict’s is an impressive academic institution occupying fourteen buildings on a large inner-city campus serving 600 minority and low-income students. Ninety-eight percent of the graduates go on to college. The school has been nationally recognized and featured on PBS and CBS’ 60 Minutes. Jim was named an honorary member of the class of 2008. Jim has many fond memories of Tuck, including outstanding teachers and their dreaded blue books. On life in Hanover, he recalls the “rich historic fabric of the college,” Baker Tower bells playing “Dartmouth Undying” at the end of day, and the Green ringed with Christmas trees. He remembers John Catlett charging each of us to “have a good life” as we were leaving after graduation. What better way to sum up the last fifty-two years. Edward Jones did not graduate from Tuck but went on to finish his MBA at the University of Chicago. He spent 35+ years in banking with assignments in Chicago at Bankers Trust, Barclays, and BMO Harris. In the mid-1990s Edward embarked on a second career as an outplacement consultant. With four children and a parcel of grandchildren, Edward is “really excited to see and participate as our grandchildren blossom.” Of his year at Tuck he says, “Tuck was a great experience, and I am forever indebted to Dean Hennessey.” Charles Klotz parlayed contacts made in banking into a long and successful career as CEO of a large shipping company operating LNG and crude-oil tanker ships globally. He managed new ship construction in Denmark, Finland, Korea, and Japan while traveling

the world managing his fleet. Retired in 2012, Charlie embarked on another building career, managing major construction projects as chair of his golf clubs in Wellesley and Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Debby and he split their time between Wellesley, West Falmouth, and Naples, Florida. Richard Macartney had a long and varied career in the meatpacking industry with national firms like Armour Food Company and regional firms across the country. He had stops in Springfield, MA; Sterling, IL; Houston, TX; Albany, NY; Sioux Falls, SD; Omaha, NE; Rogers, AR; and finally, in 1992, Mount Olive, NC. Dick retired to an oceanfront home he built on Topsail Island, NC. He has been deeply involved with beach restoration projects while serving as town alderman. As I write this, his town is recovering from Hurricane Florence, which slammed into that beautiful coastline in mid-September 2018. (Classmates Bam Alling, Doug MacDonald, and Peter Meehan all have homes nearby, and we are thinking of them.) In retirement Dick founded a franchise that creates onsite poker and trivia games in 17 counties in eastern North Carolina. His other retirement passion is ice curling. Starting in Albany in 1977, Dick and wife Charlotte have traveled the world competing and winning. In 2012 they went to Scotland as part of the U.S. team and won the coveted Herries Maxwell trophy. After a few years at Scott Paper Company, with a tour in Vietnam sandwiched between, Doug MacDonald settled into a 34-year run with a family-owned manufacturing company in Newark, New Jersey. An avid golfer, Doug served as president of the Montclair Golf Club and retired in 2003 to live in a golf community with four courses in Ocean Isle Beach, NC. He serves as president of the HOA board and keeps busy hosting his children and nine grandchildren, who visit often to enjoy golf and the ocean beaches that are just five miles from his home. Another North Carolinian, Peter Meehan, lives in Chapel Hill and has a vacation home on Figure Eight Island. After twenty years in corporate life with Corning and Insilco, Peter and two partners purchased a Manpower franchise in Raleigh, NC in 1992. In 2007 it was the largest Manpower franchise in the country and was purchased by the parent company. Since then Peter has focused on nonprofit opportunities, serving a chairman

of the board of Peace College, president of the Old Chatham Golf Club, and as class agent for Trinity College. Wife Prue is equally active in social work and philanthropy. Once an avid runner and marathoner, a back fusion in 1982 ended Peter’s running career but launched him into biking and golf, pursued with equal passion. Charles J. Mitchell Jr. spent the first 21 years of his career at Boise Cascade and WheelabratorFrye. In 1987, with two silent partners, Charlie purchased six unrelated businesses from Pullman Company and formed Alta Acquisition Corporation. He developed an environmental engineering unit that built a methane gas-to-energy facility and partnered in the Boston “Big Dig” project. The company was sold and Charlie went on to lead two more private equity–based acquisitions that were eventually sold. After a stint in retirement, Charlie is back as CEO of a technology based startup. He and wife Nancy split their time between two golf-course homes in Minnesota and Snowmass, Colorado. Golf trips to Ireland and other great venues are interspersed with worldwide travel to China, Africa, and numerous countries in Europe. William E. Moeller settled in Chicago and was a business and civic leader for over thirty-five years. Bill was director of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Chicago Boy Scout Council, and Jupiter Industries. He is a director of the Chicago Horticultural Society, which operates the Chicago Botanic Garden. Bill had a long career in banking and health care, retiring in 2008 as UnitedHealthcare Group senior vice president. He and Kitty split their time between homes in Northbrook, IL, and Tucson, AZ. Late-breaking note in from Tom Stanfield! “Not much to report. Had a hot and humid summer in Nova Scotia. Much hotter than normal. Beth and I are enjoying the ‘golden years.’ Spend most of the winter in Florida. We have a place there. We both enjoy that. Hope everyone is in good health. All the best to T’66 classmates.”

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And from Don Walker: “Hi Bob—

Heard from a few of you, including from Tony Milbank, who sent in a note via the new online class-notes submission form (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes)!

“Eliot Sherman and I are both teaching at Northeastern—he in finance, I in accounting. I’m still a practicing forensic accountant and expert witness specializing in SEC matters and financial fraud. Tomorrow I will send you a two-man Tuck selfie of the Tuck Profs ’67 at Northeastern for the magazine. [Editor’s note: Look on the 1967 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu to see the Eliot-and-Don pics!]

From Al Keiller:

“HOLD THE PRESSES!

Robert Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

“Hi Bob—If you are desperate for news, attached is a photo of Jo and me at Stonehenge in early September. We were nearing the end of a trip to Wales, on our way to Heathrow.

“In addition, Cheryl and I moved in April to Bedford, NH, to be nearer to 4 of our 5 children living in New England and to two new grandchildren born this summer.

“It’s been a busy year since our 50th Tuck Reunion with lots of family gatherings, including in Palo Alto, Raleigh, and the White Mountains, topped off by a wonderful wedding in York, Maine, of our niece Chelsea, daughter of my brother Todd D’73, T’74. Brother Stu D’65, T’66, daughter Mary Beth D’93, T’00 and husband David Bluestein T’00, and families all attended. The entire Keiller clan will be gathering again at our home in Vermont for Thanksgiving. I also had a wonderful time visiting with Allan Anderson and John Arnold in San Francisco in July. I continue to be busy as board chair of Mt. Ascutney Hospital, as a trustee of the Montshire Museum in Norwich, and with various church and town responsibilities.

“Best to you both—Don Walker.”

“Best wishes to you and Bonnie, Al Keiller.”

And the first-ever T’67 note submitted via the new online form, from Tony Milbank: “Some of you may remember me hobbling around during our 50th anniversary celebration last fall. I had a total knee replacement in January. I had intended to be on the golf course by April. That was a pipe dream. I am only now getting out and playing, albeit below my poor standard play, but at least I am back on the golf course....”

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

A group of over 30 classmates and their trophy wives converged on Tuck Hall for our Golden Anniversary last October for a weekend of meetings, parties, and “catching up.” I must say that we all looked pretty good for the age we are. Included in the class group was Carole Lee Randall (widow of Ron, who died a few years ago). Her presence, a remarkable display of class loyalty, was facilitated by the Biggars and the Hendersons. Carole Lee had been president of the Sachem Wives Group 50 years ago.

Al and Jo Keiller at Stonehenge 66

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Rod Van Sciver made one of the featured presentations of the weekend in a session called

“Tuck Talks” He talked about EFAC (Education For All Children), the nonprofit organization he founded with wife Nancy. EFAC provides scholarships to boarding schools for needy Kenyan children. Opportunities usually result in university scholarships in Kenya and elsewhere. EFAC seeks donors who will pledge $1,000 per year for 4 years—enough to pay for 1 student through the 4 years of high school. EFAC is currently supporting some 500 students at 20 different Kenyan high schools. As proof of his effort, Rod presented “Caroline,” who is currently a junior at Dartmouth. Caroline gave an impressive presentation to the assembled reunioners. George Trumbull, who sits on EFAC’s board, also made a presentation at the session. George stated that after his wife’s death a few years ago, he went to Kenya with Rod to see for himself how EFAC operates. George stated that he always believed that the best way to help someone elevate their life status was through education. He was greatly moved by EFAC’s program and saw for himself the dramatic results. Among those in attendance at the reunion was David Schwartz, who has become very active as a trombonist since he left Tuck. He currently performs with a German “Oom-pah” band as well as with a local Boston area symphony. Paul Castle reported that he has relocated to Peaks Island, Maine, after many years in the Atlanta area. Charlie White chuckled that his daughter and family have relocated to Pittsfield in the Berkshires of Massachusetts so Charlie has made it his business to teach their 4-year-old daughter how to speak in a Boston accent. (Don’t ask: it’s a “Charlie thing.”) If you encounter a cute little tyke greeting you with a “How why ya” on your next trip to the Berkshires, say hello to Charlie’s granddaughter. Pete Allen was there. Pete and wife Kris have been living in Westborough, MA, for many years, where among his local activities he includes coaching the local high school tennis team as well as serving as a SCORE counselor. “Finally” he stated, “I’ve become very involved in New England tennis advancement, not just lifelong competitive play.” Pete and Kris recently celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. John Bowen, who became a lawyer after Tuck, states “after 45 years I am still doing it, now as a sole practitioner. My only court activity is

the probating of estates, which is just a lot of paperwork and minimal court appearances. My concession to old age is to be selective in what I take on and not get to the office before 10:00.” John went on: “Several years ago I had a hip replacement and had to give up basketball. Now my hobby is going to the office, which I will continue to do as long as it’s fun.” John and Beth live in Westminster, MA, where he has been the town moderator since 1991, “which I have been told is the closest thing to God that I will ever get.” (You have to experience a New England town meeting to understand.) Blakely and Harvey Bundy celebrated their 50th anniversary with a “family trip to the Serengeti” organized by National Geographic. He heartily recommends the trip. Jack Curley has kept Tuck in the family with sons Mike T’03 and Brian T’06. Son-in-law Chris Vowells is T’99. Jack has retired to Florida, where he has done some real estate deals with son Brian. Mel Fallis has recently moved from Chicago to Memphis. His last corporate job was vice president, sales development at BlackVoices. com (a Tribune company subsidiary) in Chicago. While he was there, Mel was named by Advertising Age as a “media maven” in September 2000. Mel plans on doing mentoring programs at Memphis churches in which his in-laws are ministers, elders, and leaders. Charlie White had an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun entitled “What Trump Can Learn from Baltimore’s Port” (http://www. baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-edop-0420-3ps-infrastructure-20180419-story. html). Charlie served as port commissioner for the Port of Baltimore from 2007-2015. Claudette and Russ Engle took a trip to visit their daughter in London by sailing there on the Queen Victoria on a voyage from Fort Lauderdale. He emailed me from somewhere near the Azores. Makes perfect sense when you make your home in Sonoma, CA. Mike Hirsh joined the Peace Corps after Tuck, serving in Bolivia. That led to a career with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), living and working in seven Latin American countries. He also worked as Peace Corps country director in Peru and the Dominican Republic. He now works in Washington with the Foreign Agricultural

Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture “managing a team of environmental experts who are doing really interesting sustainable biodiversity work throughout the world.” Mike lives in Rockville, MD. Fred Schauer is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has previously served on the faculties of West Virginia, William & Mary, Michigan, and Harvard (at both the law school and the Kennedy School of Government). His wife, Barbara Spellman, is also on the Virginia faculty. He states that he has “too many hobbies, including furniture building, pretentious cooking, large-format film photography, and working on his 1959 Austin-Healey Sprite.”

’69 Robert M. Cohn robertmarkcohn@gmail.com

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Greetings classmates! I’d like to start this column by sharing some general announcements. Next year is our 50th Tuck Reunion! • Save the dates: Friday Oct 4th through Sunday Oct 6th •O ur slogan is 50/50—at least 50 classmates attending our 50th reunion. • J on Shafmaster will host the class reunion dinner on Saturday night at his beautiful home in Quechee, VT; that alone is reason to attend. • We are planning a lot of other events for the reunion; if you have any ideas for activities, please share them with Dick Schmitt (dickschmitt67@gmail.com). This past year, our class raised $79,500 for the Tuck Annual Giving campaign, with a participation rate of 69%. •O nly one class earlier than 1985 has had a higher participation percentage. •O ver the past 5 years our participation rate has increased by 10 percentage points.

• Thanks to all of our class agents who worked on this campaign, and to all of you, for another spectacular year of supporting Tuck! Classmates in the New York City metropolitan area get together for a quarterly lunch at the Yale Club, organized by Bob Harrell. • The next lunch is scheduled for Tuesday, December 11th, at 12:00 noon. All classmates who might be passing through New York City are welcome! Please email Bob (bob@ harrellassociates.com) if you would like to join the group. Unfortunately, four of our classmates have passed away so far this year: Allen Webster Ken Euske Tom Seel Dana Miller (formerly Dana Milnes) I will share what I have heard about each of them. I shared the sad news about Allen Webster’s passing in the last class notes. On June 30th, his family held a memorial service for Al at the Alumni House at the University of Vermont in Burlington—Al’s undergraduate alma mater. In an emotional tribute to his well-lived life, speakers included his sister, wife, high school friend, law school friend, and his children Jon and Sarah. Seven of our Tuck classmates attended the service—Peter Stern, Jon Shafmaster, Dick Schmitt, John Gage, Rick Hubbard, Ed Williams, and Bob Cohn. Before and after the service, we were able to get together at dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings to share our memories of Al as well as our memories of Tuck and current life experiences. Peter Stern and his wife Margie arranged a lovely dinner at a spectacular location in Shelburne, VT, on Friday night (see picture) and others of us gathered for another dinner after the service at the Bistro de Margot in Burlington, VT (see picture). Again, condolences can be sent to Al’s wife Marti at Ms. Marti Webster, 143 Old Schoolhouse Road, South Burlington, VT 05403. Ken Euske passed away on Saturday, August 11, 2018. He had been diagnosed a few years ago with an incurable illness (MSA, or multiple

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CL ASS NOTES innumerable people he has impacted in his life. My wife, Michael, and I are blessed to have had Ken shine on our lives for so many years.”

Tuck ’69 classmates gathered for dinner at the Inn at Shelburne Farms in Vermont on June 29th, on the eve of Allen Webster’s memorial service. Left to right: Inda Gage, Dabney Schmitt, Rick Hubbard, Margie Stern, Peter Stern, Bob Cohn, John Gage, and Dick Schmitt.

Classmates gathered for dinner at the Bistro de Margot in Burlington, VT, after Allen Webster’s memorial service. Left to right: John Gage, Dick Schmitt, Inda Gage, Herve (chef & owner), Bob Cohn, Dabney Schmitt, and Ed Williams.

system atrophy). According to Michel Lebas, he fought his illness with his natural grace and full determination since he was diagnosed, keeping fully engaged in his academic endeavors. Lately, his health deteriorated in leaps and bounds. He had to retire from his job as professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey at the end of last fall. His quality of life took a turn for the worse for two weeks before his death. His body stopped supporting him, but his brain was sharp until the end. Ken passed away at home with his wife Nancy by his side in Pacific Grove, CA, fully himself, conscious, and caring for others until the last

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minutes. He never spent a night in a hospital in his whole life! On Sunday, August 12th, there was a celebration of his life at Ken and Nancy’s home. It was planned as a way for the Naval Postgraduate School to honor Ken for his long career. Should our classmates wish to express their support or share moving or funny anecdotes or memories they shared with Ken, his wife Nancy Euske can be reached at Dr. Nancy Euske, PO Box 4736, Carmel, CA 93921. Michel Lebas wrote: “I will miss him very much, and he lives forever through all the

Dave McKane added: “Like most of you I had no idea. Ken and I split duties our second year running Stell Hall. He was a gem...allowed me to go to Leverone to exercise with Dudley Hendrick, Reed Hilliard, and Gary Freeman at lunch and work in the mornings and nights. We laughed mightily in later years about the ‘food fight’ one night in May ’69 when dear Armen was in tears until you all pitched in bringing it back to some semblance of propriety. Ken was a good fellow.... RIP, Ken.” Dana Miller—known as Dana Milnes when we were at Tuck—passed away on February 3rd. Before Tuck, he attended Tufts University and then volunteered for the Army and was selected for the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, to learn Russian. He proudly served in Vietnam from 1963 through 1965, where he was a lieutenant in Special Forces. After Tuck, Dana worked for Dean Witter in New York for a few years, then joined Commercial Credit Company in 1973 and went to Japan as president of Commercial Credit Far East Inc. He lived in Japan for two years. Upon his return to the U.S., he started a joint venture with a foreign company for several years before joining Chevron Corporation. He worked for Chevron for over 30 years, traveling throughout the world. He used his fluency speaking Russian in travels to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. Dana married Carole Bojan Miller in 1986. They made their home in Clayton, CA, and enjoyed entertaining friends and traveling around the world. Dana was a lifelong history buff and loved constantly learning about history and military history. He enlightened his friends and family on fascinating historical figures and events. He also played tennis, golf, and took up bridge later in life. It should also be noted that Dana was a lifelong Red Sox fan, and his baseball blogs were legendary to his friends. He had a sharp wit, a wonderfully honed sense of humor, and he was a man of absolute honesty and integrity. Tom Seel passed away on May 12, 2018, at his home in Savannah, GA. He was a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 1965 and an Army veteran. His wife Megan shared, “I will

be taking his ashes back to Jackson Hole to rest in the waters that he loved to fly fish.” If you wish to send condolences, Megan can be reached at Megan Seel, 6 Top Gallant Circle, Savannah, GA 31411-2720. In other news: Ed Williams is a founding member and board member of the Committee to Restore Integrity to the USOC, comprised of Olympic athletes and coaches of direct and indirect victims of sexual abuse, child advocacy experts, and attorneys who have represented athletes who have been the victims of sexual and other abuse in their Olympic pursuits. Ed notes, “Most all my fellow Olympians with me in this effort have gold medals. I have a 46th-place finish in the individual biathlon race and an 8th in the relay. But I have something they do not have: a law degree, knowledge of how to use it, and one whip-smart law professor wife.” Mark Diskin had a major heart attack in Cape Town, South Africa. According to wife Sybil, he “was unbelievably fortunate to be in a gym in Sea Point, which houses the only defibrillator in Cape Town. He also fell right under this defibrillator apparently, smashing his head on the metal base of the exercise machine and knocking himself out on the way.... He was luckily dealt with very swiftly, and his heart was shocked back into normal rhythm. I’m happy and proud to say, they said it was unheard of to survive this kind of attack outside of a hospital.... He was rushed to hospital, where his EKG was normal. All other tests were fine, no stroke, no clots and nothing of significance to detect. I went to the hospital from the airport and the surgeon said that the operation couldn’t have gone any better. Mark was fine and recovering well.”

On vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, September 2018: Bob Harrell, Andy Nicoletta, and John Stahler.

That’s all the news I have for now....I’ll share more in the next issue! I am looking forward to seeing at least 49 of you in Hanover next October 4th to kick off our 50th Tuck Reunion!

’70 Patty and Mike Vaughn visited Machu Picchu in September.

Vietnam, where Dabney completed a 100-mile charity bicycle ride for the Children of Vietnam, on whose board she serves. The ride, over a 3-day period on roads outside Da Nang and Hoi An, raised over $11,000, exceeding their goal by a comfortable margin. Dick attended lunches and dinners held by several local Vietnamese government officials.

Patty and Mike Vaughn celebrated their 50th anniversary with a “bucket list” trip to Machu Picchu. (see picture) Dabney and Dick Schmitt visited Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks and the Pacific Northwest in August, then journeyed to Malta and Sicily in September. (see picture) Earlier they spent several weeks in the spring in

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Several classmates enjoyed destination vacations in the past few months: Bob Harrell shared an annual vacation in Martha’s Vineyard in early September with Andy Nicoletta and John Stahler. (see picture)

speaking about well-documented problems with our federal political system that are tipping outcomes of law, regulation, and policy away from serving the broad public interests of most American citizens.... Our own Dean John Hennessey, in more recent years, was very concerned about these same issues.” [Look on the 1969 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a photo from Rick’s hiking trip!]

Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

Dabney and Dick Schmitt in Malta, September 2018

Rick Hubbard writes, “I’m spending two months hiking in the German and Austrian Alps, albeit with a brand-new pacemaker due to atrial fibrillation—in my case, a too-low heart rate. I still go up and down the mountains, just not anything like 50+ years ago.... The hiking is a much-needed break from my writing and

Greetings and best wishes to you all from Prides Crossing, MA. Sadly, we have lost classmate Keith “Kit” Taylor, who passed away on August 30, 2018, after a yearlong battle with ALS. He leaves behind his wife Kathy, son Torin and wife Anika, and three grandchildren—Nils, Augusta, and Ernest of Manchester, MA—as WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES well as son Keith and his wife, Erica England, of NYC. Upon graduation from Tuck, he served a stint as vice president at New England Merchants Bank before joining the Gutierrez Company of Burlington, MA, as vice president of development until his retirement in 2005. I remember walking or driving by projects with which he was involved both in Boston and along Route 93 outside of the city. After retirement he put these skills to work as the volunteer project manager for the construction of the Sawtelle Family Hospice House in Reading, MA, and as president of the board of trustees of his condo association, where he was highly regarded and respected. He also was a member of the boards of the Visiting Nurse Association of Middlesex-East and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. He had many other family commitments, volunteer service endeavors, and loved to travel. An inquisitive mind was engaged as a lover of jazz, history, geography, geology, and was informed and entertaining on scores of other subjects. Fittingly enough, the last seven weeks of his life were spent at the Sawtelle Family Hospice facility he had overseen the building of as project manager, facing his terminal situation with courage and strength. Those of us who knew him remember his passion for skiing and sailing. He was a Naval veteran of the Vietnam War, during which he served as a forward observer for the 9th Marine Division on the demilitarized zone in Vietnam. That experience led him to value and cherish the rest of his life as a gift. A celebration of his life was held at the Second Congregational Church in Beverly, MA, on October 20, a church where he served as chairman of the finance committee for many years. He will be missed. I commend to you all the poem entitled “The Dash,” which can be googled. Kit lived his dash well. May we all do the same. Paul Clark’s news missed the prior newsletter deadline. He reports being somewhat retired after selling the biotech company ICOS (product Cialis) of which he was in charge. Paul and his wife live the summer/fall season in Beaver Creek, CO, and the summer/spring in Indian Wells, CA. Continuing business activities involve chairing the board of

Keysight Technologies and service on the board of Agilent Technologies. Also, he had a terrific family vacation to Australia. Still notes very fond memories of Tuck. Daniel Viard, one of our faithful correspondents, reports having a very pleasant dinner in Neuilly, Sarkozy’s hometown, with Dave and Patte Irwin at the beginning of June. In the fall there is a hoped-for meeting with the McGuckians and the Pierces in Paris; it happens they will be in France separately but at about the same time. If a connection is made, hopefully some pictures will follow. The Loring family continues to be well, although it is a challenge to keep up with our six grandchildren (ages 6 to 17) and wife Bonny, who is as busy as ever as a director of Global Unites—a global peace movement founded by a Gordon College graduate. She also continues as a trustee at Gordon College as I do at GordonConwell Theological Seminary—a sister school. In short, our volunteer lives are very full, and I continue professionally active on several corporate boards and trust committees. We will keep going as long as we can and feel we are making a positive contribution to the organizations with which we are involved. Our best to everyone as we approach the holidays and the New Year. Live that dash!!! —Caleb

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’73 Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

Greetings to all T’73s and thanks for the letters, emails, and calls. Sorry I missed the reunion, and I look forward to hearing all about the weekend. It has been a busy travel year for the Hotchkies family, and we just could not make it this time. Looking forward to our 50th in five years. Good news from Scott Fitzsimmons, who writes that he and his wife (Connie) are doing well—they are now in their 20th year in Tequesta, on the east coast of Florida. Scott retired earlier this year after leading a consumer health care company (Kramer Labs.) in Miami for eleven years. He is relieved not to need to travel back and forth to Miami every week. Agree with that, Scott—I do not miss commuting at all!! Scott and Connie love living very close to the ocean and have a very comfortable Florida lifestyle. He notes that they are blessed to have both their adult children living in the same town. If memory serves (though it does not always serve these days), their son is now about 30 and is an avid surfer and fisherman, and their daughter Julianne is now probably 26. Unfortunately, Scott and Connie were not able to attend the reunion this year but were able to visit Hanover two years ago. It was a great return visit. While many things had changed, they felt right at home.

John South johnsouth@mac.com

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Scott would love to hear from any classmates heading down to Florida. Nice to hear from Bill Lawliss, who writes that he is enjoying retirement and continues to be active: skiing, tennis, and golf, although it is getting tougher at 77, he says. Wow, Bill, that is awesome. Bill and his wife, Maggie, are reasonably healthy, although Maggie is waiting for an appointment to get her second knee replaced. Seems like quite a few of my friends and relatives have new knees or hips

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or both and seem to have a new lease on life. Via one son’ts family, Bill and Maggie have three grandchildren: one granddaughter who is a sophomore at Tufts and plays lacrosse; a grandson who plays soccer well; and another granddaughter who is a senior in high school and has committed to Cal Berkeley to play lacrosse—well Bill, if you decide to visit Cal, let us know, as we live about two miles from Cal. They all live in Portland, Oregon, so Bill is getting pretty good at streaming games on television. Their other son lives in Bar Harbor, Maine—he is married, but has no children. Bill is involved in his son’s business as investor in 13 buildings with 61 apartments. Bill and Maggie have returned to their Vermont roots and are now living in South Burlington, Vermont, in a condo after downsizing from a house on Lake Champlain. Gary Fradkin had a wedding to attend in Atlanta over the reunion weekend so, unfortunately, had to miss the reunion. Gary is still working contract part time with Hentzen Coatings in Milwaukee—ouch, that commute from Nashville to Milwaukee must hurt!! Gary had intended to stop working this summer but was asked to stay on for some project work for one more year, and he agreed to assist. Gary is, however, pretty sure that he will wrap up his work life sometime next summer. Gary and his wife, Carol, really enjoy living in Nashville and expect to stay there for the long term. It is not too far to visit their granddaughter, Quinn Noelle, in Atlanta— she will turn two in December. It has been a busy travel year for Gary, with three weeks in Spain last winter, including one week on Gran Canaria island, then a family get-together for a week in Asheville, North Carolina, in May. Then a Baltic cruise in the summer with some extra days in Copenhagen before and after the cruise. And, finally, as he wrote this news update, Gary and Carol were headed home to Nashville from New York City after a ten-day fall cruise from Montreal to New York. This was Gary’s fourth cruise and he has enjoyed them all. Next year Gary has scheduled only one big trip—a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. Happy cruising, Gary—great thing to do as you retire. Charlie Quimby is retiring in January and plans to spend most of his winter time in La Quinta near Palm Desert in sunny California. Charlie was at the reunion and notes that we

had ten attendees: Ralph Harding, Charlie Quimby, Stan Gutkowski, Steve Halstedt, Cliff Lewis, Ev Schenk, Janet Ganson, Gene Hornsby, Jim Kavney, and Dick Curran. Most with spouses but not all. Charlie commented that the ten classmates are about 9% of the class, with the average for the 45th reunion at about 15%. We all expect that more people will make it to the 50th. Charlie noted that Hanover looked pretty much the same, although he thought that Sachem Village has changed quite a bit over the years—much improved. Janet Ganson is continuing her volunteer work in plant conservation and is excited with her first grandson, who was born last Christmas (yes, Janet—grandies are so much fun). Every other week Janet visits her 96-year-old mother in Connecticut plus manages her finances. Still active and alert, her mother is, however, a bit frail and frustrated that she can’t finish the whole edition of The Economist every week—wow, Janet that is great; I have rarely ever finished The Economist. Janet expects that with these genes, we will be seeing her at many future reunions. Janet’s comments on our 45th reunion: “The weather cooperated, and the school has worked out the meals really well. The turnout of only about 20 in our class was disappointing, but I really enjoyed the more in-depth discussions it afforded, especially with spouses and the students who lived in Sachem, whom I had not known well on campus. I encourage all who did not come to plan to attend the 50th. Class of ’68 had a great turnout this year, after a sparsely attended 45th reunion. A new feature many of us enjoyed was Tuck Talks: individual alums from a range of classes talking about a worthwhile retirement project, and experiences at Tuck or in the workplace.” Dick Curran’s comments on the 45th: “Barry, it was a small but spirited group. Most of the usual suspects (Harding, Curran, Gutkowski, Wadsworth, Quimby, Lewis) returned. But we had some less common subjects, like Kavney and Halstedt. Rachel Logan of Tuck staff told me that the 45th was universally the least well attended of any reunion year. So, let’s all plan for our 50th. We especially need to rally some classmates who have periodically attended in the past, like Kelliher, Baxter, Raether, Pfohl, Rauh, and Hotchkies.” OK, Dick, I got the message—I will do my very best to be there for the 50th.

Sad to report that Bill Cummings passed on October 2 at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. Our prayers and condolences go out to his family. His obituary is at http:// mcdonaldfs.tributes.com/obituary/show/ William-A.-Cummings-106475098. Don Wilson has had a wonderful summer with his family: the British Open at Carnoustie in Scotland, followed by some glorious trout fishing on the Missouri River in Montana, and then wonderful salmon fishing in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the northern coast of British Columbia. Don’s daughter Charlotte is starting a master’s program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, while son Robert has started work as a Senate aide in Washington, DC. Son James enjoys being a design engineer in the medical-products division at Johnson & Johnson. After all that traveling, Don and his wife, Lynn, were eager to return to Vero Beach, Florida, in October— their new home after many years in Greenwich, Connecticut. Don continues publishing his limited-edition golf books. The next book is in final proof with the printer—Machrihanish: Machaire Shanais Golf 1870s-1930s. Note from your Scottish scribe—Machrihanish (Gaelic name is Machaire Shanais, meaning “plain of whispers”) is a village in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland. Machrihanish is (in)famous for sunsets and a classic links golf course designed by Old Tom Morris. All is well with the Hotchkies family. Like all retirees we seem to travel a lot. Couple of weeks in March visiting my wife Eleanor’s sister south of London, then some time in Cornwall for a Scottish dance weekend and a return to Newquay, where we had spent a summer working in hotels (1965). We did our first-ever cruise, with ten days from Seward, Alaska, to Vancouver, British Columbia—great cruise and the best way to see Alaska highlights. In September, we did a looong road trip—from Oakland to Port Townsend, Washington, for another Scottish dance weekend then into Canada to Lake Louise, Alberta, which we had last visited in 1966 as students on a round North America trip on Greyhound—still as beautiful as ever. This time we could afford to stay at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise— lovely hotel but somewhat disappointing dining. On to Jasper, Banff, Waterton Lakes, then back into the U.S. to Glacier National Park. Luckily for us the Going-to-the-Sun

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Eleanor and Barry near Jasper in September

OK classmates, let’s hear from you for the next edition. —Best to all, Barry (call 510-918-5901 or email bhotchkies@aol.com)

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The dates for our 45th (!) Reunion are now set for October 4-6, 2019. Plan now to come back to Hanover, do some leaf peeping, stock up on Vermont maple syrup, get your Lou’s breakfast fix, catch up and reminisce with your classmates, and see what’s new at TUCK. Watch your mailbox and email inbox for more information as the date approaches! Just a reminder to everyone that we now have a class page on Facebook! Judging from the level of postings and activity so far, this has proven to be a great way for ’74s to share news, travel, photos, and to stay in touch. If you haven’t joined yet, go to Facebook and search “Tuck School Class of 1974” to sign up. On to the news.... Congratulations to Jim Coakley, who recently celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary. Jim is retired, and he and his wife live in Maine. Congratulations too to Nick North, who with his wife Susan Keeler North enjoyed their 45th anniversary! Nick was in Boston this summer for an American Brands alumni reunion. Former AB execs from all over the world met in Beantown, taking in a Red Sox game, sightseeing, bar hopping, and restaurant sampling. This summer, Bill Bohrer combined a vacation to Spain with celebrating son Scott’s wedding in Morocco. Congratulations! Apparently weddings in Morocco are not for the faint of heart—Bill reports getting only an hour of sleep a night during the festivities! Best wishes too to Diane and Todd Keiller—their daughter Chelsea was married this summer in a beautiful ceremony at the Keillers’ waterfront home in Maine. Check out our Facebook page—a great shot of Todd dancing with the bride!

It was a busy summer for John Bello. John sold Beso Del Sol to the Wine Group and with daughter Lindsay T’07 has been busy building Reed’s retail distribution. John and Nancy took time off to do a bicycle tour through Bavaria and Switzerland with some of JJ’s old Tufts buddies. From the “who knew” department, I learned that John fronted a very successful band in college under a name that TUCK’S editors will not let me print! Itching to get back on stage, JJ has started a new band, “Johnny B and The Moscow Mules,” playing ol’ time rock ’n’ roll (think Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis...). On the heels of their wellreceived debut concert in Bello’s backyard (really!), the band has embarked on the aptly named “Geezerpalooza!” World Tour. Initial stops included Bridgeport, Stamford, Setauket, Madison Beach, Rye, and a Trader Joe’s opening in West Haven. I’m trying to convince Johnny B to take a break from the tour and to play at Reunion—fingers crossed!

John and Nancy Bello during their summer bike tour through Germany

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45TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed the last issue of Tuck Today, and thanks so much to all of you who sent news, photos, reading suggestions, and feedback!

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Nick and Susan celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary

’74s were all over Europe this past summer. Steve Bates, John Kirby, and Connie Voldstad were in Scotland for golf, Kingsbarns among several stops. Jim Head vacationed in Moscow and shared many photos through Facebook—looked like he especially enjoyed the chandelier-festooned halls of the Moscow Metro system, Red Square, and the presidential palace. Hilary Miller and his wife Kate spent most of the summer at their lovely home in France’s Beaujolais region, near Lyon. Lots of cycling through the picturesque French

countryside, leisurely lunches, and great wine seemed to be their daily routine—nice! Larry Edgar took an extended vacation through France, Switzerland, and Italy, his first there since he backpacked across Europe after graduating from BC. Kudos too to Larry, as he just celebrated 45 years as his class secretary for Boston College! Before setting off for Europe, he checked in with Jack Harrington, who is enjoying retirement in Brewster, NY. Jack’s son Jack Jr. just returned from Japan, where his trip included climbing Mt. Fuji. Menno van Wyk is also in Europe as I prepare this column. Menno’s itinerary featured visits to France, Holland, and Sweden, where he is reconnecting with family and friends. Before setting off on his trip, Menno kept active with his usual routine of hiking and climbing near Bend, Oregon, and in the North Cascades. Menno shared a number of photos, which I’ve posted on our class Facebook page—check ’em out! John McQuiston dropped me a note just before my deadline, checking in from France. John and Rita’s vacation included visits to Chartres and Reims, where John says it was a tossup which they enjoyed more—the sights or the champagne! From there it was off to Rome, mixing business with pleasure. Rita leads a family business that provides production support for the Italian film and television industries. The project now underway is the third season of I Medici—Medici: Masters of Florence for all of you non-Italian speakers!

John Kirby, Connie Voldstad, and Steve Bates at Kingsbarns in Scotland

Vandy Van Wagener reports that the house renovation was FINALLY completed after 11 months and they’ve moved out of the basement. He and Betty now turn their attention to refurnishing the house, as 2/3 of the old “stuff” didn’t seem to fit with the new décor—another classic example of “scope creep”! The golf game took a back seat to completing the project this summer, but Vandy did manage to squeeze

Hilary Miller and wife Kate Bent getting ready to enjoy lunch in France

in a golf outing to Portugal with his old P&G buddies. He and Betty also made quick trips to Michigan and Indiana to reconnect with some of Betty’s college sorority sisters. As this column goes to press, Vandy and Betty will be in France for a barge cruise through Burgundy, with side trips planned to Dijon and Paris. On the work side, Vandy keeps busy with Far Niente, the National Association of Corporate Directors, consulting with Clorox and Burt’s Bees, and volunteer work with the Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute. Fellow Denver resident Jack Tankersley stayed busy this summer too, with syndications for two Meritage portfolio companies and a new fund for individual investors. Tank is a big proponent of the “Entrepreneurial Operating System” concept, developed by Gino Wickman and described in Wickman’s book, Traction. Jack’s son Jay (T’07) is a partner in managing the new fund, which will invest exclusively in companies running the EOS model in their businesses. Tank also serves as a trustee at both his undergrad alma mater, Denison University, and with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Linda and Blaine Gunther have returned from their Latter-day Saints mission to Cyprus and are back home, safe and sound, in Utah. Another ’74 with a connection to Cyprus is Brad Stirn. He and Becky have just completed their third year in the Cyprus Friendship Program. Becky is the program’s coordinator for the SF Bay Area. This great initiative involves pairing teenagers from the northern (Turkish speaking) and southern (Greek speaking) regions, for a monthlong stay with a U.S. host family. The experience includes courses at Stanford, team-building exercises, surfing lessons, and camping, all with the goals of building personal bonds and helping overcome the enmity and mistrust

that have plagued this region for so long. Before attending the 2018 CFP graduation ceremonies in Cyprus, Brad and Becky journeyed to Indonesia for scuba diving, underwater photography, and hanging out with Komodo dragons. Son Andrew has completed his master’s degree in computer science at Columbia and will be staying on to get his PhD. Andrew’s wife Jenelle just started a new position at Salesforce.com in NYC—Brad and Becky are loving the fact that the kids are in the Big Apple as it gives them an excuse to get back east, especially for the holidays and, of course, the T’74 Holiday Lunch! HJ Markley has been up close and personal with all of the volcanic activity and nasty weather in Hawaii starting back in May. He was watching intently when Hurricanes Lane and Olivia hit. Fortunately no damage to his home, but he was “treated” to some spectacular views of the weather from his lanai. Good to hear everything was ok. Got a great update from Bill Weston! He retired from Dentsply International in 2004 and now divides his time between residences in Switzerland and Florida. The home in Switzerland sits on beautiful Lake Constance, and Bill and family spend summers there. The restoration of this ca. 1926 villa was his initial postretirement project. When the weather turns nippy, he heads to Bonita Springs, FL, where golf, tennis, and tooling around on a Harley keep him busy. Christmas is traditionally spent skiing in Garmisch, and from there it’s either back to Florida or traveling somewhere warm—this year it looks like Thailand is the choice. The Weston clan includes 2 daughters and two granddaughters. Daughter Kathrin is an attorney and lives with her 2 daughters in Zurich; daughter Alexandra lives and works in Munich. Other news from Bill—in 2017, he and a partner bought a sailing yacht in the Med, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Ports of call included Malaga, Antibes, Ibiza, Mallorca, and Barcelona, and several stops in Italy. Alas, he ended up selling his share of the boat after a falling out with his partner, proving the old adage that the two best days of boat ownership are the day you buy and the day you sell! On the health front, Bill reports that he has fully recovered from a cycling accident suffered while training for a Transalp bike ride, where his injuries included...well, I won’t go into all of that, but suffice to say Bill counts himself very fortunate to have survived! He closed his note by hoping someone takes him up on the offer of setting up a mini ’74 reunion in the Naples/Ft. Myers area. Interested? Let me know and I’ll put you in touch! WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES Chuck Lucas sends greetings from the Twin Cities, where as CEO he continues to be immersed in running Aria, a business that assists in fund-raising for nonprofits. That and 2 small grandchildren—2½ and 5 months—are keeping him pretty busy! He’s still working on a succession plan that would free him up from day-to-day involvement in the business. Checking in from the Florida Keys, Jake Jacobsen reports that the rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Irma are now completed, just in time for the next hurricane season! Thanks to Marnie’s incredible design and landscaping prowess, Jake says the house actually looks better than it did before the hurricane! Knowing Jake, you won’t be surprised to learn that he spends every possible minute on the water, where dolphins, sharks, rays, and tarpon keep him company while he sails, rows (he just bought a sliding-seat rowing skiff), fishes, and traps lobsters. Jake invites all ’74s to join him and Marnie in Margaritaville!! By the time you read this, Judy and Jim Keller may well have taken him up on the invitation—they have a timeshare in the Keys, not far from Jake and Marnie! The Kellers always summer on their boat at the top of Vancouver Island. This year featured a family reunion aboard, with kids and grandchildren, all enjoying great fishing, crabbing, and wildlife sightings that included bears, eagles, porpoise, and humpback and killer whales. Before heading out on the boat, though, the Kellers went to Arusha, Tanzania, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the school they support there. Daughter Jen and her family still live in Nairobi, so Jim and Judy stopped in for a visit with them on the way to Arusha. In October, Jim and Judy move to their La Quinta home for the winter. From there, Jim still regularly commutes to his box plant in Hawaii; Barons Winery in Washington, where he is a partner; and UVM, where he serves as a trustee. Rich Andrews checked in from Houston. The family celebrated Judy’s birthday in Hawaii before heading to Telluride to escape the heat of the Houston summer. Although he has retired from car racing, Rich continues to support his friends’ racing hobbies and hung out this summer at the Road America track in Wisconsin. I caught up with Pat Martin around his trips to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sun Valley. While in Sun Valley for a conference, he and Sandy caught their limit of trout on the Salmon River—go to our Facebook page to see a great photo of Sandy and a beautiful rainbow she

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A Keeper of Bees, by Allison Wallace. A work of nonfiction describing the author’s fascination with bees, their biology, and the society of the hive. From John McQuiston. Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark. A book that discusses artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of life on earth. From Dave Wilhoite. These Truths, by Jill Lepore. A fast-moving and entertaining single-volume history of the United States. From yours truly.

Rich Andrews at the Road America track in Wisconsin

caught. Pat and Sandy’s investment firm has been getting a lot of press recently regarding their Women in Leadership investment strategy. Pat and Sandy caught up with Dan Hunt while they were in town but missed seeing Jodie, as she was in San Francisco. The Hunts now divide their time between winters in Florida and the rest of the year in Sun Valley. I guess that means that “Bionic Man” Dan has hung up the snow skis. Dave Wilhoite laments that his golf game has been suffering of late, as his handicap has risen 2 full strokes this summer; he thinks it might have something to do with playing too much! Dave continues to be one of the stalwart contributors of suggestions to the T’74 Book Club—see his recommendation below. Hank Hakewill is keeping busy with his consulting practice, fishing, and family, though not necessarily in that order! Hank consults several days a week for XMS Capital Partners and its asset-management subsidiary. When Hank checked in, he was involved in a fundraising effort with XMS, with the intent of securing a listing of the fund on the NYSE. By the time this column goes to press, grandchild #4 will have joined the Hakewill portfolio. Hank and family are all avid fishermen, and Hank noted with some pride that his 8- and 6-year-old grandsons now cast, hook, and land their own fish without any help from Grandpa! Congrats to Hank’s wife Mary Lois. As president of the Kenilworth Garden Club, she spearheaded the club’s winning entry in a national competition, beating out 200 other entries! Well done! Your classmates offer the following book recommendations for you to check out:

That’s it for now. Thanks to all for staying in touch! Don’t forget our 45th Reunion, and sign up for our class Facebook page!

’75 Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

More time to travel when and where we like is one of the great rewards of retirement. Please let me know of your travel plans or send me a trip report! Nancy Bello and husband John T’74 recently took a bike tour through southern Germany and Switzerland. Look nearby for a photo of Nancy with her tour guide!

Nancy Bello at the Marienplatz in Munich with her tour guide

Barb and I will be visiting the Grand Canyon next May (first time for both of us) on our way back from a graduation ceremony at USC in Los Angeles. Just last September we were in Alameda to visit our daughter Alanna and her husband, Buck. She is a practice manager at a San Francisco eye clinic, and he is an engineer at Google in Mountain View. While in Alameda we stayed at a cozy Airbnb that I can recommend highly. I love having a place with a complete kitchen where I can wreak my culinary miracles, and this kitchen was especially complete—Keurig coffee maker, blender, cocktail shaker, and so on. Alameda is a good location for a tourist visiting the Bay Area. Drop me a line if you’d like additional information about where we stayed.

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Joel Barad, Bob Bingham, and Rick Routhier at their October 2 lunch in New York City

Tom Henderson just got back from a three-week trip to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania. It combined a week in Cape Town’s wine country, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, and an added two weeks of safari activity in east Africa, with a stop at Victoria Falls. Kathleen and Tom continue to travel frequently. His motto is “do it while you can,” when not in upstate South Carolina and occasionally Minneapolis. Luckily Hurricane Florence just missed Tom and Kathleen in South Carolina. Tom keeps in touch with Doug Cozad, who still works in his financialplanning business and splits his time between Arizona and Minneapolis.

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Rick and Sarah Routhier on route to Nantucket

Kong, though we drank so much I’m surprised I do recall anything at all! Also I’ve played at Machrihanish, but I did not wear a kilt.” Walter Lutz went to Hanover for Dean Hennessey’s memorial service. “Family and friends reminisced about Dean Hennessey. Dean Slaughter said a few words. Saw Andy Steele, Paul Gardent, and Mado MacDonald and, yes, Professor Bower. Dean Hennessey was very special to me... changed my life for the better.” Walt also attended the Holy Cross– Dartmouth football game.

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John Salek retired this past June after 42 years in finance. He continues to do some freelance consulting and develops training programs. However, his major focus is his son in Philly, daughter in DC, and two (soon to be three) grandchildren. John still teaches a cash-flow course for veterans starting their own businesses, sponsored by the Wounded Warrior Project and the University of Connecticut. Thank you, John, for your service to veterans. Speaking of veterans, Bob Bingham is retiring and moving to Colorado from New Jersey. I saw him for a goodbye lunch with Rick Routhier in New York this week. (See photo nearby.) Bob explains his reasons for retiring now. He reports, “Zolfo Cooper (where I have worked for more than 19 years) is being acquired by Alix Partners. Seems like a sign that it is time for me to be put out to pasture. Can’t see getting used to a new culture when I am the longer side of 70.” So he and Doris bought a house in an “active adult” community in Broomfield, CO, near where his oldest son lives and where he will officially begin his retirement with the closing of the acquisition.

Rick Routhier and I tried to play golf at his club twice last year, and it did not work out. But we finally made it a few weeks ago and had a great time, except for the ferocious black flies that attacked our ankles on the last 7 holes. Rick had his second hip done earlier this year, is well on the mend, and is as fit as ever. His golf game is better than ever and puts mine to shame. Of course, I put myself to shame, but that’s a different story. Nearby is a picture of Rick and Sarah on their way to Nantucket this past August for a brief getaway.

Joanie and John Morosani stopped in London prior to boarding a 65th-birthday-present cruise to St. Petersburg. They had a very festive dinner with Anthony Simpson at an Indian restaurant in Westminster called the Cinnamon Club, where they traded stories about their respective children and reminisced about their days in Hanover. John and Joanie then took a 12-day cruise through the Baltic, winding up in Copenhagen. After spending a few days in Berlin, they returned to Litchfield. John writes: “Despite what I thought was a brilliant plan to be off the farm for the bulk of hay season, a combination of bad weather and broken equipment landed me right back home for another 2 weeks of haying. I am very lucky to have been joined on the farm by our son Daniel and his wife Bunny, who are enjoying learning the grass-fed beef business, turning it into a real family farm. In addition to the farm work, I was just elected to the Litchfield Board of Education. I have been trying to bring some of the financial-management skills and accountability that we learned at Tuck to an environment that appears to be lacking in both.”

Alicia Cooney writes: “Read your last column and thanks, Joel, for picking up the quill from Stu. I recall those days you lived in Hong

Craig Tapley retired 2 years ago after teaching finance at the University of Florida for 35 years and being an administrator there for 12 of

Kathleen and Tom Henderson in East Africa

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CL ASS NOTES those years. Although he also taught graduate courses, he estimates that he taught over 40,000 students in the introductory finance class over those 35 years. Craig writes, “I like to think that I may have had some impact on the lives of my students. Students considered the intro course to be the most intense and demanding course in the undergraduate curriculum, so it was always a special treat to get notes from students, years later, saying that they ‘finally’ understood why I was so demanding and thanking me for helping to prepare them for their future careers. What also took a while to get used to was, in the later years, having a number of students each year who were children of my former students. For current news, Trish and Craig renovated their retirement lake house (not too far from Gainesville). Trish, an orthodontist, is still in private practice, Craig goes on to write, “I love the lake...it’s very peaceful. To keep busy, I am restoring a little (1-2 acres) private cemetery by our house that had become completely overgrown with weeds, saplings, vines, dead trees, etc. and was used as a dumping ground by some people. I now take care of it and keep it mowed. I also use my tractor, with a box blade and a drag mat, to keep our dirt road graded. Unfortunately, old age keeps coming at me. But I now work out, lost over 100 pounds, and then just got my hip replaced. Plan to do traveling once Trish decides to retire. I have already been checking out Harley and Gold Wing trikes for after I complete my physical therapy. “

Craig Tapley in the ancient graveyard he has cleaned up and kept tidy near his home in Florida

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Cris Jacobs has decided to put together his life-coaching skills and experience as a pension portfolio manager and has become a financial advisor at Edward Jones. Cris says that he “really likes the culture at Edward Jones: a Midwestern employee-owned company that focuses on the long-term relationship between the advisor and the client. They did a lot of work with Peter Drucker years ago, and they actually listened to him...I can see his DNA in the culture.” Cris and Karen’s son, Steve, is working at Wayfair in product management, where he oversees designing the website to optimize sales. Cris says, “He’s the MBA herding the PhD cats.” He attaches a 4-year-old of photo of himself and Karen. He is afraid to send a more recent one.

Meg Browar and her cousin’s granddaughter

choose only a limited number of performances and see then at the local movie house on Saturday afternoons for only $20. Think of all the golf balls I can buy with the savings. Golf season is coming to an end soon but not before I was invited to play at Shinnecock Hills and National Golf Links. (See photos nearby.)

Karen and Cris Jacobs

Designed by famed architect Stanford White in 1892, Shinnecock Hills’ clubhouse sits atop the highest point of the property, overlooking the golf course and Peconic Bay. It is considered the oldest structure in America built specifically for the purpose of a golf clubhouse.

Meg Browar is living in her childhood home in Tenafly, New Jersey, after taking care of her late parents, cleaning out 60 years of stuff (hers, her parents’, and grandparents’). Meg does volunteering and traveling, like all retirees do. Photo nearby is of her cousin’s granddaughter. There are a lot of new arrivals on both sides of her family, plus one in Australia. “Good thing I still get a discount on J&J baby products.” You might think that your first and now most recent class secretary does nothing but golf. Well, in the summertime, you would be mostly correct. But Joel Barad still likes to garden, cook French food, and has taken up going to at least one lecture a week, often at the New York Historical Society. I no longer go to the opera. Why? (1) Most of what the Met does I have seen before, often more than once. (2) The new productions are too avant garde for me: they take away the magic that the period sets and costumes gave to the operas. (3) The ticket prices are now sky-high for the best seats. So I gave up my subscription and now pick and

Joel Barad (on right) at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Long Island, New York

At National Golf Links, the windmill was erected by C.B Macdonald, the course architect, after Daniel Pomeroy, an early member of the club, had mused that it would be nice to have a windmill there. Macdonald, who owned the land, went ahead, built the mill, and proceeded to send Pomeroy the bill.

Otherwise, I really don’t have any more news from the class to report. C’mon. Admit it. You check on the class notes when you get Tuck Today. So send me some notes to share with the others.

Joel Barad (on left) at National Golf Links, Long Island, New York

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

Dear folks, We have an update from Mike and Nicole Montgomery. Their son Colyn married a French lass, Lauren, this summer, and French is now their house language. They attached a photo of sunrise from their home in Megeve, France.

An update on Arthur and my move to a retirement community: we still love it and are very grateful that we are here. Arthur has been made the head of the technology committee, which of course our grandson, Aron, to whom we always go for technology help, thinks is hilarious. About five years ago I was given a 5-year life estimate by my wonderful Stanford doctor. Remember the old trichinosis? Well, it apparently made a mess of my diaphragm muscles, which power my breathing. Any little thing like an airplane flight or a flu could be a disaster. I couldn’t have oxygen administered because my body had adjusted to the high CO2 levels, and applying oxygen would now signal to the body that it didn’t have to breathe. I’ve gone back to Stanford every 4-6 months for a new checkup on the lung situation. The report has always been the same. But in March of this year I saw him again, and he said the tests show a radical improvement in my oxygen levels and now show that if things got bad I could have oxygen administered. He’s lifted my deadline! I now plan to stay around for awhile. Although I have recently taken to riding battery-powered scooters (which are an absolute gas), so my deadline might be soon anyway.

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and I can say with certainty that every one of us (and our spouses/significant others) had our best weekend in many years. It started for Mark Freise, Don Derrick, Bob Lindberg, Jeff “The Streak” Oberg, Peter Lebovitz, and me with a round of golf (golf for Oberg and Lindy; not sure what you would call what the rest of us did) at the Hanover CC. And while I’m on this, a huge shout-out for Peter and Janet for all they did to make the weekend happen (their son Adam is now a first-year at Tuck!). And Don and Betsy Derrick, who again opened their home for the first-night reception, which always gets the weekend off to a great start. Green Stars for all! This reunion had a major subplot: the return of the notorious Chase Ghetto. Yes, Walter (Wally, Walt, Skip) Grodahl, Benjie Byrnside (successfully retired after selling his manufacturing company), Roger Soderberg (who instigated the minireunion), Dwight Dingwall (poor 3D had some kind of flu bug after journeying all the way from Vietnam), and designated Earthling John Heywood. That gathering alone was worth the trip, and what a trip it was.

Jeff Oberg, Peter Lebovitz, Don Derrick, Jim Scardino, and Bob Lindberg in the Hanover CC club house after finishing their round of golf

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Sunrise from the Montgomery home in Megeve, France

Mike reports that “5 boards, LA Foodbank, and teaching at UCLA keeps me involved and current, I hope! Life is good; Nicole and I try to live each day.” Carl Treleaven climbed Kilimanjaro this past July. How about a report and some photos, Carl??

In his session with the reunion classes on Saturday morning, Dean Matt Slaughter picked a handful of people at random and asked why they returned for the reunion. The answers he received aligned along the theme of “to see friends I made during two special years.” Ah, the wisdom of the dean. That captured it. Seeing friends. And not just the people you hung around with back in the day. Everyone. There really must be something to the magic of “The Green.” Thirty-five members of our class made it back,

Jon Baer shared a story about his restoration of a 1906 Victorian home in Los Altos, CA. Ralph Carlton made it back for his first Tuck reunion. Since he is co-CEO of King Arthur Flour in Norwich and lives in Hanover, we were relieved there was little hardship in attending! One of our very few classmates who worked for the same employer his entire career, Scott Hunter, is retiring from Ford at the end of this year. Longtime Denver resident Sir Brian Deevy had to work through conflicts during the baseball playoffs, with the local favorite Rockies eliminating his native Cubs, and the Braves, owned by Liberty Media, also in the mix. The baseball gods took care of it, as WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES all three teams went out early. Dave Kapnick came back from San Francisco, where he is CFO of Andersen Tax and Advisory. Linda still runs the best independent toy store you ever saw—Ambassador Toys in San Francisco. Jack Sullivan, now retired from Samsonite, lives in Denver but remains true to his Boston sports roots, avoiding the conflicted feelings plaguing Deevy. Luisa Hunnewell and Larry Newman are continuing in the investment and real estate management business, respectively, in Manhattan. Still awaiting their eventual relocation to Wellesley. The Macker came back! Mark Kimak cracked everyone up with reminiscences of secondyear job interviews taken only for the purpose of nearby skiing boondoggles. Randy Miller continues to consult with the boards of public pension plans. He had a nice visit with Pam and Angelo Ianello while in Tacoma recently. Rick Mayberry has found the anti-aging formula: put all three of your kids through Dartmouth. Jay Mixter is finding fulfillment teaching entrepreneurship at his undergrad alma mater, Tufts University, and mentoring start-up companies. Russ Robertson is a senior director at UBS while not impersonating Jeff Bezos. Rem Laan joined us from Santa Barbara, where he is in semiretirement, which would translate to overtime for average people. Among other pursuits, Rem is regional head of the Porsche Club of America. Keith Hynes splits time among Stratton, Portsmouth, and Venice, FL, in his retirement. He, Charlie Johnston, and I will always be bound by our Tuck years and by our harrowing time with a company that must not be named. And, yes, CJ was back for the reunion, his first since the first. Robin Bunker Timmins and Paul Timmins joined us from North Carolina. Paul still plays old-guy hockey. And let me pause at this point to say that probably around half of our classmates are now retired or engaged with postretirement activities. Now, Vic McGee would deem this not to be a SIRS (a beer on me for everyone who remembers what that acronym stands for), but everyone in that life/career stage appears to be happy, healthy, and enthusiastic for the benefits of retirement. If any of you are on the fence, such as Tanna Moore, still young and vibrant in her role as CEO of Meritas, a legal resources network, please contact Mr. Timmins, who will be eager to share the joys of a self-structured lifestyle.

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There are some who just can’t shake free, like which reflects the unique spirit and ethos of Jim Reilly, who tried to retire to Falmouth, ME, our school, embodied in and promulgated by but couldn’t fire his consulting clients. Or Art the people who choose Tuck over other options: Karlin, still arranging financing for third“I am now residing in the Philippines, engaged world countries and enterprises at the IFC. Tim mainly in microfinancing, a kind of grassroots Morris isn’t retired but does live in Boynton financing for the needy and the less privileged, Beach, FL and seems to have maintained a which is totally different from the greedy, the terrific golf game. He and Gary Penna set up extremely profit-oriented, and the ‘too big to a tee time. So if Macker is a young Sean Penn, fail’ Wall Street, where I stayed with Goldman and Robertson is Bezos, Gary is DeNiro of a Sachs as a fixed-income trader for years. As you decade or two ago. Sorry. A bad habit I have may know, there were so many fierce battles (”Hey, doesn’t s/he look like...”) that Mary fought between the US and Japan on the soil, scolds me over continuously. And our Guy, on the ocean, and in the sky of the Philippines Randy Millian, as always delivering the goods. during World War II. Of course, millions of Four bottles of the finest products the Cuervo Philippine people were also victimized. In organization has to offer. the month of October every year, I organize a Ceremony for World Peace to pray for the war Arne Nielsen, who journeyed from Oslo with dead, regardless of nationality, together with Astrid, got the distance award (tough one my fellow Filipinos. This has been for the last for 3D, but the judges’ decision is final) and thirty years in Clark, two hours north from I think the most grandchildren (or was that Manila, where there used to be the largest US Robertson? Too much Irish whiskey by this air base outside of the US mainland. This is time for your faithful correspondent). Roger why I cannot make the reunion.” Koji, thank Soderberg, whom Randy credits with getting you for all you are doing and for being who you him through the quant courses, was justly are. And thank you to all our classmates in the rewarded. And by the way, to the roaring chant great ’78. of “ROAD TRIP!!” it was determined that our next official gathering will be held in Oslo at a time to be determined! Attendance mandatory!

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Richard Bowden richard.k.bowden@gmail.com

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Arne Nielsen, Astrid Nielsen, Tanna Moore, Luisa Hunnewell, Mary Scardino, Jim Scardino, Larry Newman, Charlie Johnston, Paulette Johnston, Jack Sullivan, Irene Zimmer, and Jeff Oberg

So I think you may have a sense of what you missed (I missed a lot and I was there!). We received a wonderful note from Bart Brewer, who promises to be with us next time. Also Bill Schink, who attended the wedding of Helm Dobbins’s daughter last summer. And I want to conclude this column with an excerpt from Koji Nakamura’s letter to Peter,

We’ll start things off with an update from Donna Hinshaw. She zinged my solicitation letter very sharply by pointing out that she has been using the Internet for over 30 years, so my characterizing online notes submissions as “high-tech” was hopelessly out of date. Donna will no longer receive class notes solicitation emails. Donna is “keeping busy in retirement—using my Operations Research knowledge from Tuck to efficiently plan the routes I take to walk my roadsides as a trash-bag lady. Yes, I’m one of those who walk the byways wearing fluorescent-yellow vests and hard hats, carrying bags and long-reach grabbers. Even

have my own official sign. [Look in the ’79 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a great photo of her official sign!] Lots of other activities, including running, biking, quilting, ham radio CW (AG6V), and wondering how I ever worked 50-60 hours per week!” Jim Campbell has signed a contract with McGraw-Hill to do a book on [Bernie] Madoff, along with doing the two radio shows and as assistant news director at WGCH Greenwich. (I’d get paid up front, Jimbo).

Murray Beach on the Meridian at sunset

Brooks Cutright with Chris Kydd

Jim has also included a photo of his daughter Tessa and Cristian Araque at their wedding in July at the Saratoga National Golf Club, where Jim officiated.

didn’t trust me to save his spring email, which arrived a bit too late for the previous issue. I’ll mosh them together.

nights ago, for dinner I ordered a french-dip sandwich and a lobster roll. The waitress commented that I must be very hungry. I didn’t know what she was talking about. When my brother’s french onion soup arrived, I wondered, “Why didn’t they bring mine?”

“Our younger son Macgill was married to Julie King in Taos, NM, in late March. He had the good sense to marry a fellow Mainer and Bowdoin alum. They will live in Boston, where Macgill works for TripAdvisor and Julie is the head field-hockey coach at Wellesley College. Arabella and I were out in Taos for two weeks and had a blast skiing, hiking, and partying with all the millennials who gathered for the wedding. During our two weeks in NM, we were able to catch up with Brian and Karin McMahon in Santa Fe. We also see Michael and Denise Stern regularly, as Denise is originally from Portland and visits family there.

Jim Campbell officiating at the wedding of his daughter Tessa and Christian Araque

Murray Beach writes, “I had a terrific race to Bermuda this past June on my boat Meridian. Started in Newport, Rhode Island, and took five days to get to the finish. Finished near the top of our class. The return trip was even more exciting, as I returned with my daughter, Hillary Beach, as a two-handed crew. Just the start of a great summer!” Murray sent three photos: Meridian at the start, relaxing in a beautiful sunset on the way to Bermuda, and his excellent crew member and daughter, Hillary. [Look on the 1979 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.ed for the pictures of the Meridian and crew member Hillary!] John Eldredge wins this issue’s “multiple submissions award” with two emails, although the second was sent because he

“You know how much I like winter and Nordic skiing, but the length of New England winters is beginning to wear on me. I think we may spend an increasing amount of time in Taos each winter, as the weather is great but I can still alpine and Nordic ski.” Brooks Cutright is back in the notes with, “In your last column you wrote that I submitted verbiage ‘sans photograph,’ which I discovered, after extensive research, means ‘without a picture.’ So I have attached a photo of myself with Chris Kydd, my significant other. She’s a semiretired professor of operations at the University of Delaware and a competitive equestrian. She’s teaching a two-week course in Sydney, Australia, this coming winter, and my golf clubs and I are tagging along. Her horse is not going. I had also written ‘sans photograph’ that I have no grandchildren. That is all going to change on or about December 7, when my son, Brooks, Jr., and his wife, Nahema Mehta, are expecting a girl. There you go. And stop calling me Paul.” Brooks, if I called you “Paul,” I apaulogize. Two

Ron Miller sent a photo from a Kansas City “Tuck ’Tails.” That’s Ron leaning against the fabric sign for support. He fell shortly thereafter, but he’s OK.

Ron Miller and fellow Tuck alums at a Kansas City Tuck ’Tails

Ben Butcher, who affectionately referred to me as “Dog,” reports that “in a sign of the times (or at least of advancing age or misspent youth), I was in Denver last week getting stem cell treatments on my left knee. Now praying for a little cartilage growth. It turns out that I may not be immortal/invincible (as I had previously contended)....” Good luck, Ben! I had some titanium put in my knee a year ago, and I still can’t keep up with Darrell. John Taylor writes, “The five of us on our class’s Tuck Annual Giving team are again awed by the great support of Tuck by our class. It’s our reunion year, so we hope everyone will step it up! Speaking of which, the dates WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES have been out there for our return to Hanover: October 4-6, 2019. No excuses. It’s the 40th!!” “Nanci and I have been traveling. Since somehow we must reimburse the kids to come to us, we go to them: NYC; Burlington, VT; and Boulder/Keystone. Keeping our perfect attendance streak alive, we attended the wedding of Mary and Jim Campbell’s third daughter to be married, Tessa, in Saratoga Springs in July. Of course there was a friendly golf tournament at Saratoga National. There were 5 teams with 4 prizes awarded. We weren’t in the top 4...but we hope to have 1 more chance!” “I continue to be active as an advisory board member of the newly reconstituted Tuck Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital and recently attended the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum in SF with 500+ alums of Green heritage. It is an impressive showing with Tuck and Thayer well-represented. (Who knew?)” Speaking of the reunion, it would be nice if we could break the class record for the largest group to hike Mount Cardigan. Get those treadmills busy! Rob Jevon—pack some sneakers! Jean Serenbetz writes, “Stuart and I had a fun visit to Paris with John and Custis Glover. We had a great day at the Ryder Cup on Friday. I guess we didn’t cheer loudly enough for our USA team to bring home a win on foreign soil... but it was a great experience to be there, and we had a fun couple of days sightseeing and eating well in Paris.” [Look in the ’79 pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a great pic of all four!]

The Pinto and Rosenbluth travel group

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thinking of visiting Antarctica next. Now it’s time to mow my fields, so I’ll be on the John Deere enjoying these beautiful New England autumn days. [Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu in the ’79 class-notes pages for another great pic of MK!]

MK Beach and Tuck tee in the Arctic Circle

together nearly weekly with Rob Jevon for long walks, sailing in Marblehead, boating and Jeeping on beach trips in Chatham/ Orleans. My wife Susan and I have traveled with Harry and Karen Rosenbluth to San Sebastián, Spain, and Hawaii. Harry has an encyclopedic knowledge of fine food and wine. Jack Boyles took me to an incredible Red Sox game (Mookie Betts hit a grand slam). I even had lunch with Ben Butcher at the downtown Harvard Club—must be all of that compliance stuff, but Ben is really CEO-like. Bill Nimmo and I had coffee on the veranda of the Chatham Bars Inn. I see and talk with Buck Parson frequently. I see Frank Sica from time to time—Frank is the most productive person I know. I was chair of the finance committee for Wellesley (low bar, huh?), and yeah, Wellesley is the best-run town in MA, way ahead on pension and retirement health-care funding. I’ve dialed back and joined the Council on Aging board and am a senior-center greeter— more fun than it sounds. Recent adventure: We circumvented Monomoy Island off Chatham in our small craft, got stuck in a tide change in Nantucket Sound (amateurs, our kids texted). My wife was rescued by the Chatham Harbormaster by daylight. I stayed with the boat trying to find my way back in the dark (impossible) then called the Coast Guard—got to set off flares to get located. Memorable. Hard to tell if Rob is wearing loafers in the photo, but I’m guessing yes. [Look on mytuck. dartmouth.edu in the ’79 class-notes pages for that great pic of Rob and Frank!] And MK Beach wins this issue’s award for most exotic trip. She writes, “I had the trip of a lifetime, visiting parts of the Arctic and Greenland. I had never crossed the Arctic Circle before and thought it appropriate to wear my latitude/longitude (and attitude) Tuck T-shirt for that occasion. Saw polar bears, whales, and more! Walked on the Greenland Ice Sheet! Had so much fun that we are

And, finally, news from Michael Stern. He has become the new spokesperson for the “Zenyatta Spiritual and Holistic Wellness Center” in Sage Hen, California. If you’re out in CA, keep an eye out for Michael on TV in a toga pitching healing oils, crystals, and candles.

’80 Rick Kilbride kilbride@optonline.net

The least understandable aspect of our class notes is how close they are displayed to the front of this issue. In light of our recent graduation, it’s so hard to wrap my thinking around this. We have several updates from our classmates. Our very best correspondent, Sherry Kernan, reports in from London, a city she reports as wrapping its thinking around Brexit. Sherry has become a British citizen “to protect her options.” She sent a photo of our classmates on a trip in France.

Sherry Kernan and T’80 classmates in France

“The highlight of the year was a hiking trip with other Tuck women in the Dordogne in May: Helen Young Savage, Myla Taylor Williams, Sherry, Susan Baute Stewart, Anne Berg, & Karen Beckvar (a new grandmother!). French

train strikes notwithstanding, it was a terrific excursion. We were part of a small but perfectly formed group that included a professional baker who had switched from wedding cakes to medical marijuana edibles, an antique clock expert and former literature professor, a community-health nurse practitioner, and a clinical psychiatry professor. So we had the bases covered for meeting most of our possible needs on the trail. Needless to say, we had lively discussions and thoroughly enjoyed catching up in a smaller setting than the reunions.” “That part of France is full of medieval villages, old churches, chateaus with incredible gardens, and the requisite outstanding regional food and wine. [In the photo], we are in a market in a town called Sarlat where we bought provisions for a ‘lunch on the march.’” Sherry further reported that they missed BFF Joanne Beatty Dombrosky on this trip, as she was unable to go. Jack Rubin reports that Mary Woods and husband Bob, Sue & Rick Hill, and Kelli & Charlie Kreter were visitors in Utah this year. Rick Hill also checked in with wonderful news. “I officially retired from Bank of America in May with an incredibly generous package. It’s definitely a new adventure, and I feel like I’ve adjusted pretty easily—you’d have to ask Susan how she feels about it—quite different for her to have me around! Summer was a great time to kick this journey off—but it is winter with my crazy passion for skiing that I am so looking forward to. We are headed to Italy and Croatia at the end of this week but to date haven’t done a lot of traveling, other a trip to the Bay Area to visit my son Tim and his fiancée.”    “I caught up with Scott Wilson at a Sox game a few weeks ago—he is still teaching at Noble and Greenough. I hear from my sources that he is a fabulous teacher with kids flocking to his courses. Not a surprise. Also had dinner with Alec Macmillan in Boston recently— can’t seem to get away from our 73 Lebanon St crew!” And I heard from Melissa Thornton. “Well, here’s the whole story in a nutshell. I’ve been in Maine for 12 years now...fell in love with kayaking while still in CT 15+ years ago...and began to look for a small place where I could ‘roll down the hill, into my kayak, and paddle away to see Nature’s beauty.’ It took three years, but this place (Boothbay) found me at last. :-)”

“I then spent 6 years commuting from CT to ME to care for my CT psychotherapy clients there and to oversee the renovations of the barn and cape, as well as the design and building of the farmhouse here in Maine. Now that it’s complete, it’s really become a wonderful retreat. Here’s the story of the evolution of this estate.” “In the early days, when we’d successfully picked up and moved the original barn and the Cape Cod home to their new sites across the courtyard, out of the winds from the Back River...and once the cape was fully renovated, I opened a B&B there in 2008. However, even though we’re only about 6 miles from the hustle and bustle of the tourist draw, Boothbay Harbor, no one ever drove past the site, so the advertising costs were heading toward outrageous. That’s when I discovered the vacation rental options...and both the cape and the farmhouse have been vacation rentals since 2009.” “This year was the best yet...both buildings were continuously rented throughout the season. Both buildings have solid 5-star ratings... hurrah! It’s a great destination for family vacations, large family reunions, destination weddings, and all kinds of retreat gatherings.” “And this year, in the late winter, my handyman and I completed an enchanted trail, which leads to a ‘fairy walk,’ where children of all ages can build fairy homes and talk with the ‘little people’ and all the creatures of the woodlands. Katie Dolan visited in June, and she and I walked the trail and had a wonderful chance to catch up!”  “This spring, I also took a class in ‘forest bathing’ and have set up the 15 waterfront acres with medallions and a grand map to help visitors find the perfect spot to ‘take in the healing atmosphere of the forest.’ Research has shown how awesome Nature is for having positive influence over energy, mood, sleep, and, most importantly, building the immune system’s ability to fight illness. So the place has become an oasis of beauty, comfort, and healing.” Melissa, bless her, included all sorts of hot links embedded in her post. Follow more at boothbayadventure.com and boldcolorlife.com. And also lucky to enjoy a fun side of life is Mark Hurst. I last remember seeing Mark in an adjacent subway car in Manhattan in the 1980s. He checked in with “I’ve been well. I

live in Manhattan Beach, CA, with my family. We’ve got a 17-year-old son who is a senior in high school and an 11-year-old daughter who is in 6th grade. My wife, Christine, and I have been retired for about 10 years, but we sit on some boards and volunteer in the community to stay active. Christine has itchy feet, so we travel a lot to keep her happy. The truth is we all enjoy traveling, so that isn’t much of a burden. This summer we met our son in Greece, where he was doing an archaeological excavation in Corinth. Our daughter is a circus performer for Le PeTiT CiRqUe, which she loves. It’s all kind of random, but the kids enjoy what they do, and we try to be supportive and encouraging.” And be sure to check out Melanie & Sheldon Roesch’s new Kalm & ON product, a herbal formulation delivered as a beverage. They have a Kickstarter preorder crowdfunding campaign.

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

Greetings. Before we get into the class news (or lack thereof), we must first report on a miracle. The Cleveland Browns won a game. A football game. Apparently, this happens when the Browns score more points than the other team does. A Congressional investigation is under way to try to determine how this happened. Stay tuned for updates. Since news flow has dried to a trickle, Tony and I are going to try a more aggressive approach to extracting input from you slackers next time. Tony argues for carrot (free Tuck pencil), I argue for stick (we send Jim Gaffigan to sleep on your couch for a week). We are working out the details. Meanwhile, just a reminder as to the intricate and difficult process required to submit news: open your email, put in mercer.glenn@ gmail.com, then start pressing the keys on your computer (those things you mostly use to play Fortnite with), and eventually words will form. Talk about your life these last few months. Or, if that fails, type in your ATM passcode. Either works. Then press Send. Remember, Gaffigan is standing (or lying) by. WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES tartar sauce). Congratulations to Hannah and the groom, Stephen Morris. George painted a detailed portrait of Stephen for us, which in its entirety reads, “a great guy and a five handicap.” (Why do I even try?) But more importantly, “Now I know what a thrill it is to walk a daughter down the aisle: such emotion!” I am with you there, George! Again, congratulations. (Also, I have a separate note from Spo about some overdue bill for the bar tab, some confusion about whether “open bar” means “free bar” or not. Hope we can keep this out of the Wareham District Court. And no, George, you don’t get to take some of Spo’s silverware as “wedding souvenirs.”)

Next, a new feature, Usual Suspects Bingo. Having just asked for your help, we can really energize you to provide same by making fun of those who have already assisted. Slick move, we agree. That is, we are going to give you some Usual Suspect names, and Usual Suspect activities, and you get to match ’em up. Here goes: Suspects: Cruess, Esposito, Allen, Stanesco, Parker, Remmer.... Activities: hiking, golf, biking, wedding, golf, South America, climbing large geological features, wedding (with golf), biking to a wedding and then playing golf, Red Sox. Golf. (Of course, we do this only because the US have a sense of humor. We hope. Thank you, US! Do not slacken in your rate of input. Except for two of you, who must remain nameless, Parker and Esposito. After a self-imposed and greatly-appreciated Golf Talk Ban, now you’re back with three golf mentions between you. We may need to take away your clubs. Here’s the question: When the little ball goes in the hole, why take it out and hit it back in again? Isn’t the initial achievement enough?) Okay, finally gotta write something useful. Leigh Cruess, in the spirit of being “slightly” pregnant, is now “mostly” retired from Enbridge. He is “mostly” retired since he is looking for nonprofit work, Board stuff, etc., where he can dig in and help out. Possibly undermining this goal of helping out, Leigh has recently become head of the local chapter of the Burgundy lovers club in Calgary. It 82

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sounds better in French: Grand Senechal of the Sous-Commanderie de Calgary of la Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. (In American: Elks Club Suds Master.) Congratulations on this elevation, but I suggest going to the board meetings before the Chevaliers events, not after. Also, by the time you read this Leigh and Susan’s son Jim will be married, to Kate. Congratulations! As both are lawyers, the prenup will be 6,000 pages long. Leigh closes by reminding us all that Canada is still accepting refugees from America, though I have no idea what he is talking about. I do agree that while we’re all heated up about the USA’s southern border; what about that very leaky northern one? If we are not alert, Canadians will soon be pouring over the 49th parallel, bringing their maple syrup, and their national health care, and their Gordon Lightfoot LPs, and their curling rocks, and getting all polite with us. “Hello, we’re invading—that is, if you’re not too busy right now....”Nancy Stanesco has done well on the Bingo card, sending in the wonderful photo nearby. The pic shows Nancy, Jack, Andy and Annabelle Steele, and “a host of other Tuck/Dartmouth folks (plus a tour guide and driver).” The group was on a bucket-list trip to Chile, and the photo is from Torres del Paine National Park. I translate that as “Tower of Pain Park,” but I could be wrong. Excellent, thanks for sending! (Is that a golf ball by Nancy’s foot? Huh.) George and Gina Parker saw their daughter Hannah married this past June, at the Silver Gull, the Esposito Home and Clam Shack (free

From the West Coast, Dan Taylor writes in, about the kids (working for Google (or as we elderly types call it, “the Google”), about his wealth-management clients (who work for Google), etc. Looks like a sort of Silicon Valley money-laundering scheme here: Google money comes into the business, helps pay for kids’ education so they can go work for... Google. Retirement is impending for both Dan and Carol. Unless they go work for the Google. Not to be outdone in US Bingo, both “had a wonderful trip to Peru in early June with a native guide who made the Inca civilization come alive: highly recommended.” Excellent. Dan did not send in a photo of Friends on a Mountain, which is a good thing, lest some Photoshop vandal inset a golf ball into the pic. Mike Esposito wrote in to explain that I may have misunderstood the terminology of the Parker wedding: “A 5 handicap is not a disability, nor is it a handicap to have George as a fatherin-law.” Hmm. I consulted the official PGA Rules of Golf (really? This tome is over 200 pages long!) and nowhere does it weigh in on the pros and cons of having Parker as a fatherin-law. I think the jury is out here. I do have

U.S. Air Force photo: Benjamin Faske

Nancy and Jack Stanesco, Andy and Annabelle Steele, more Tuck/Dartmouth folks, plus a tour guide and driver in Chile

nearby an artist’s conception of the ideal set of grandchildren George and Mike are planning on. Separately, Spo mentioned that his pharma/ biopharma consulting practice and firm (Norbridge) has merged with Alacrita (big company: offices in Switzerland, London, and Boston and soon in San Francisco). (I tried doing anagrams of Norbridge and Alacrita, for the name of the new firm, but the closest I could get was Linerboard. That probably won’t fly.) “My partner Brian and I are enjoying having a bigger firm and expanded capabilities and resources. Business is good, so all well since joining forces. I hope to keep working a few more years and continue transitioning clients to Brian, who is about 15 years younger than me.” Further, “Cynthia is still doing big IT projects but has moved from the auto industry to the pharma sector and is now doing a new system for a beer, wine, and spirits distributor. Actually very complicated, in terms of the state liquor-distribution laws, etc.” I can empathize as regards those laws. A classmate of mine from Another School (not Tuck) opened a retail liquor store in Missouri years back, and I recall him spending hours one night pouring vodka or something from liter bottles into quart bottles, as at the time at least Missouri forbade selling metric alcohol. (I guess it gets you drunk at a different rate?) Mike has not limited his energy to the corporate world (and wedding catering) but is also on the board of the New Bedford Symphony. His repeated requests for a night of “the entire soundtrack from Tin Cup” have gone unanswered, but if all works out correctly Spo will be able to provide musical accompaniment for the next Silver Gull wedding. Gotta love the all-inclusive packages.... Fran Allen and Cindy have moved to Amsterdam, apparently after Britain expelled Fran for shouting one too many times at the soccer game on the pub TV “Just PICK UP the ball and THROW IT, ya morons!” They have found an apartment ideal for those with aging knees, “only 500 steps up a very narrow staircase that bends around several corners.” But it pays off with a large roof deck allowing panoramic views of the old city. Actually, at 500 steps up, this may be the highest point in the Netherlands. Everyone is welcome to come visit, but no, Fran will not take you on a tour of his “personal favorite places in the

Red Light District.” He has no such favorite places. Doesn’t even know where that district is. He wanted me to be very clear about this. He especially does not know where the Banana Bar is, nor the Sex Palace Peep Show, on Achterburgwal #84. Never heard of them, either, in case Cindy reads this issue. Spends most of his free time in the nearby Rijksmuseum in fact, and I know he is telling the truth because he quite accurately describes it as “a museum about everything related to anyone named Rick.”

One-third of the bar performances of Beethoven’s Fifth, after the forest fires closed the Britt Ampitheater

Anyway, Fran expects to be deported return finally to the USA in three more years, which will make him 77 in metric years, 67 or so in ’Merican. So visit them soon, and see the Ban— Rick’s Museum, while you can!

Conductor stood on the bar. It actually worked. Patrons stunned: “I knew they had live music here, but 60 musicians?!” Only weak spot: replacing the tympani with bongos did...not... quite...work.

Quick recap on the Glenn and Ida Mercer front. Big travel time. March in the UK to teach, April in the UK for business, May in Scotland (still part of the UK) on business (with Ida accompanying), then Denmark (also with Ida) on business—where Ida and I lived years ago, back when we had just Baby Nicholas. Memory lane. Darn Danes are so happy and healthy and well-adjusted, grrrr. Together in June to the Ojai Music Festival (always astonishing... Your Correspondent for once speechless); then Ida teaching at the International Cello Institute in Minnesota; then off to Oregon for the Britt Music & Arts Festival (almost entirely “smoked out” by the massive forest fires); a visit to Aspen, where son Ian was working at the Music Festival there; home in late August. Then off to Australia (solo) on business, finally back home, more or less. Bermuda next week, hurricanes willing. Glenn is trying to emulate George Clooney (not in looks!) from Up in the Air, in that he is closing in on 3 million air miles on United (not frequent flier miles—air miles). I think I get an extra free luggage tag then. November includes a tour of car-manufacturing plants in Michigan, Japan, China, Germany, and the UK—I am that much of a car nerd. Think of all the little tiny shampoo bottles I’ll have!

Thanks to all for reading this, more thanks to those who wrote in, even more thanks to them for putting up with my “humor,” and here’s hoping more of you will weigh in with news. Remember, any topic is of interest to your classmates, from your trips to famous golf courses, to your joining the local golf club’s board of directors, or photos of your latest golf trophies! Fore!

For an uplifting moment, see the nearby photo and the video at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FII5o58hMlg. With the fires keeping the Britt amphitheater closed, the orchestra decided to play Beethoven indoors. In local bars. The Fifth, divided up across three taverns.

’82 Andy Rieth riethba@welchpkg.com

Hello Tuck ’82s! Everyone must be glued to the Kavanaugh hearings, as I received few updates from our fellow classmates. Unless you want me to start making things up (which seems OK to some people these days), please send your updates to Tuck via the new online class-notes submission form at http://mytuck.dartmouth. edu/submit_class_notes or to me directly at the email above. Thankfully, I received a great update from Uncle Gary Savadove about his and Meredith’s adventurous existence. Oh what an exciting and rewarding life the two of them lead. Listen to this: “...2018 has been a good, but unusual, year. I’m continuing to enjoy exporting wine

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CL ASS NOTES from Italy to Asia. In conjunction with a trip to Italy, Meredith and I visited Malta in April... such a beautiful and fascinating country! After having to abort a few ski trips this past season, I decided it was finally time to trade in my left hip for a new one. (Gail, unfortunately, the new hip hasn’t helped my dancing). Although the surgery curtailed our travel for several months, with the help of amazing doctors (and great coaching from Steve Ballou!), I’m back on my feet, starting to bike, hike, and travel again. Looking forward to a great ski season!”

Bailey in flip-flops; he did that on purpose to remind us of his most unique habit of wearing flip-flops, back in the day, even if it was 10 degrees below, on his way to and from class. Right now he is standing in his flops next to Enoch Stiff, Miki Hirai, Russ Steenberg, and Dave St. Amand. (Photo nearby for proof.) We haven’t talked to any of those gentlemen in quite some time, but now we can.

So now, we have our own version of the Bionic Man! I knew all that exercise was hard on the old joints. Seriously, it’s great to see Gary is out of rehab ~;-) and back to his active lifestyle. Thanks to Gary and Meredith for regularly sharing their updates. With all the mundane stuff and crazy cat videos millennials are posting to FB, Instagram, etc. I’m confident we can come up with some interesting updates for the next installment of class notes. See if we can dazzle readers with our exploits. Here’s wishing all of you a glorious fall and a cozy winter season to all our fellow Tuck ’82s— wherever you are.

’83 Chris Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Doug Ross doug@ragnoassociates.com

For those of you at our reunion last weekend, no need to tell you what you missed. For those of you not at the reunion, I [Doug] will try to fill you in, but it won’t be easy. At cocktail parties, like the Tuck ’Tails last Friday night in Hanover, you start talking to one person then turn around to another; a glance to the right to greet another friend and off the conversation goes, a mix of current and old— classes, professors, children, new ventures and old friendships, grown children and now baby grandchildren. Retired or not? You turn back and then you see, hold it—what is that—yep, Ian

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Dave, Russ, Miki, Ian, and Enoch at Reunion

The weekend was like that, a blur between one event and another, one conversation hopscotching off to a different one depending on who you happened to see or where they happened to be. After ’Tails on Friday night, many of us retreated to a Rope Ferry Rd. home (a beauty) that Roger Prevot had arranged to rent on a tip by nearby neighbor Cam Eldred. Eliot Powell was in on the house along with Doug Ross, Roger, Skip Irving, Val Hollingsworth, Fan Cromwell Watkinson, and all of their spouses—even though a memorial service for close friends took Fan away from us for the reunion weekend, leaving us with the great good fortune of having her husband Peter leading us in discussions of the virtues of peeled versus unpeeled beets, organic farming, the Boston Red Sox, and all things Massachusetts. The house pizza party after ’Tails gave us ample opportunity to see yet more classmates and, better yet, grill Brent and Tina West’s daughter Molly (now a 2nd-year student at Tuck) about the differences between current Tuck life and the wonder years of way back when. (Molly was an absolute saint to put up with all of our questions, clarifying for many of us what we deep down knew already: judged by current test scores and GPAs for new entrants, none of us could now get into Tuck.) Meg VanDeWeghe was at the post-’Tails party along with her husband Rick, with all sorts

of interesting news about work and social life in suburban Washington, D.C., none of which can be repeated here. Meg, as many of you may remember, lives very close to Chris and Gary Cahn, allowing for frequent tennis games between Meg and Chris. It was also great fun to talk with Jack and Nancy (Stoecker) Evans, discussing everything from politics to the weather in Houston, which has involved a fair amount of flooding in recent years (though only in their neighborhood, not at their specific house). “I’m not going to die in a flood down in Houston,” Nancy reassured me. “We might have to move out of Houston, but I’m not going to die in a flood,” she said as we left dinner one night, which seemed to me like awfully good news. Speaking of Jack and Nancy, we have a photo of them here with Miki Hirai, Skip Irving, and Jake Prader. While Miki got the award for furthest traveler to the reunion (Japan), Jake represented a pretty fair-sized California contingent: yours truly, Robin Rose Filipski, Jim Levison (sort of—more on this later), Matt Hogan, and Doug McLean (our host of hosts and grand marshal of the event). Jake, among his many virtues, was kind enough to bring several bottles of wine from his California vineyard for all of us to sample (and go home with), handing them out at Friday Night ’Tails. He owns, along with his family, Shale Canyon Wines, produced in the Arroyo Seco area of Monterey County by Winemaker Ken Gallegos. They produce Cabs, Merlot, Zinfandel, and many others—producing their wine with the motto “Production quantity will always be secondary to quality.”

Nancy, Jack, Miki, Skip, and Jake

We were also able to taste some of Jake’s wine at classmate Enoch Stiff ’s renovated 18th-century residence (currently rented, hoping to purchase) in Orford, New Hampshire, just up the road about 20 minutes from Hanover. Enoch and his

wife had invited any and all classmates to visit before the Saturday dinner, so there we all were. I had been walking on the side of the road back on campus, quite literally, when Eliot Powell and his wife Glara stopped their car and asked me to join them, but with Russ Steenberg and his wife in the back seat, I was directed to the trailing car with Roger and Margie Prevot. Enoch and his wife couldn’t have been more gracious, cleaning up their home as we all spilled out of our cars and into their house. Mike Lauber was there, along with Scott Pattullo and wife Jenny; Jake Prader and Lise; Russ Steenberg and Pat; Eliot and Glara; Doug, Roger, and Margie; and then Dave St. Amand, who knows more about flint-lock rifles than you would expect any person to know (there were some on the wall, and he knew all about them). We drank Jake’s wine, found out about Enoch’s travels and adventures since he left Tuck (private equity before private equity was a thing), and admired the lovely house they allowed us to drop in on. Buying new homes in New Hampshire or Vermont is apparently all the rage. Roger Prevot started the ball rolling last year with his Vermont farm, where he continues his solo pursuit of cross-country ski trail installation. This was recently followed last August by Jim Levison, who bought a farm (not THE farm) in Lyndon, Vt., just over the mountain from Roger and Margie. By next spring he will have transitioned full-time from his California residence to Vermont. Not content with simply moving cross-country, Jim will start his New England life with a new bride, Deborah, whom he married in Vermont last August and whom many of you met during the reunion. A brave couple indeed—two Californians starting a new life together in Vermont. Nice to see other new spouses as well, not just Deborah. Jane Mullen was in attendance with her husband Bill—they were married in Portland, ME, in 2016. Renny Smith, a fellow Oregonian, was also in attendance with his wife Mary Alice, an alum of Ohio State and now a competitive presence in the household as Renny cheers on his sentimental collegiate favorite, the Oregon Ducks, against any and all Big 10 opponents—especially Ohio State. Thank goodness Hanover is so close to all of you New Englanders, allowing you to join in the festivities. Jeff Newton and Sue Kahn made the trip, as you can see in the accompanying photo with Jane Mullen and Miki Hirai (Do you notice Miki is in all of the photos? Not a coincidence.)

Bob MacIntosh was there with his wife, up from Boston, and we also saw Mike Ahearn, who continues as VP of finance and administration at Gordon College, a small liberal-arts college near the shoreline of Cape Ann. Also joining us were good friends Mary Quinton-Barry, still teaching languages after all of these years, and Carolyn Carr McGuire who, unfortunately, has to travel all the way to New Zealand to visit one of her grandchildren. Jill Wawro Weatherhead was in attendance, staying in the same house as Robin Rose Filipski, Sharon Shaw Slade, and Diane Heidt Steinberg. Diane has invited us all to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she is only the 13th board chair in the 107-year history of the gardens. “Still living in Brooklyn?” I asked her. “I’ve been living in Brooklyn since before it was cool to live in Brooklyn,” she told me.

Jane, Sue, Miki, and Jeff

There were more, so many more, and so difficult to touch base with everybody. Stewart Cutler was there for some lectures and the photo shoot on Saturday but couldn’t stay for dinner. Sue and Gibbs Roddy made it; so too Becky and Clint Marshall, taking a weekend away from Biddeford Pool, Maine. Judi Donnelly and husband Kevin (T’82) were there on Saturday, looking almost exactly like they did back in 1983, which can’t be said for all of us. Keith Day up from the Philadelphia area without his wife, who was home working with their son on his college apps (a familiar story for many of you). Can we all provide a standing ovation for Doug McLean, who was kind enough to help organize the entire weekend as reunion chair, and who gave a thoughtful and informative review of life back in the early 1980s. It’s an effort that required him go above and beyond, leading him to say with only a hint of sarcasm, “If you get a call to do this in five years, you might want to just not pick up.”

Finally, let me say to all of our classmates who weren’t able to attend: we understand that life, work, and just plain stuff get in the way of carving out three days to reminisce about the way things used to be. But for those of us who like to plug faces into distant memories, who like to flesh out the flickering holograms of 35 years ago, it’s just difficult to see Renny Smith, Scott Pattullo, and Mike Lauber standing together, beers in hand, without having Mike Sneed and Brian Bunch also there, pointing to a hole in the sheetrock wall, a lifelong memory of Herschel Walker memorialized forever. It somehow seems ironic to have Professor Bower in attendance at Saturday night dinner, head of the table, discussing this and that with all of us, and not have him stand up, look around the room, and say clearly and unequivocally, “Yes, Ms. Nyrop, what is it?”—and to not have Ms. Nyrop there to ask the question she always had. How can I remember my ManEc project without Tom Roose explaining regression analysis or, for that matter, Gerry Lodge confirming the calculus of how much each laundromat’s wash machine made for the owner in any given year. These are the gaps we need to fill in five years from now, the faded and somewhat shaky recollections that can only be confirmed by your presence. We hope to see you there, Columbus Day weekend 2023; we will have a name tag for you to hang around your neck, as if we would need a name tag to identify that fond memory from 40 years ago, or to identify that face so clearly etched in each of our minds. See you then.

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

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As fall finally arrives in New England after a very hot summer, our country continues in its surreal state. Fortunately several things provide me with some sense of normalcy: the Red Sox playing the Yankees in the MLB playoffs, the Pittsburgh Pirates NOT in the MLB playoffs (but they ended the season over .500—woo hoo!), the start of hockey and

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CL ASS NOTES football seasons, and the beautiful change in seasons—autumn is my favorite season. As I approach my milestone date for a reduced Social Security benefit, I know I am fortunate I can still play tennis & golf relatively pain-free. And since I lost my older brother in April, I am now even more focused on taking advantage of my health and energy while I still have it. This led to a 2nd Cowgirl Getaway to Colorado, this time with my daughter, Hannah (23). We had a terrific time on horseback and also enjoyed whitewater rafting and hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a treat to do a mother/daughter adventure in such a beautiful place. I highly recommend it! Speaking of adventures out west, Tom Ley, David McGarry, and Rich Elliott climbed the Rim-to-Rim at the Grand Canyon on June 2. It took 17 hours to complete the climb—WOW! They loved it!

Janet and Hannah Friedman, Colorado, June 2018

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I am excited to share news about two weddings among our classmates. On 8/13/16, Karen Zurheide married Robert Freitas. They relocated to a new house in New London, NH, with access to Little Lake Sunapee and regular swimming and kayaking. Bob is retired, and Karen retired in January 2017 to enjoy their new digs and travel more. In spring 2017, Karen and Bob traversed northern Spain on foot, walking 570 miles in 40 days (without incident!) on the Camino Frances historic pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela, then on to the ocean. Per Karen, “The experience was truly the gift that keeps on giving, ingrained deeply within.” In 2018 they took a monthlong trip in southern Africa by overland truck. Their adventures have to work around Rob’s serious health concerns—and they are increasingly in carpe diem mode. Karen’s daughter Molly (29) is an MSW working with low-income elderly (with recent computer-coding training for a possible career change), and son Andrew (26) is sports director for a small regional TV station (he needs a connection for a next step—anyone?). Unusual for a Tuckie, Karen is now an AMSOIL synthetic oil dealer, continuing her father’s 42year-old business. She also contributes time on several nonprofit boards/committees and says she has much to be grateful for. Our other newlywed is Roger Wellington. In July he married Amy Vorenberg, his partner of 10 years. Amy is a professor at UNH School of Law, where she has taught Legal Writing and Criminal Law for over 20 years. Per Roger, “we both had long first marriages that ended unpleasantly. We approached the idea of a second go-round with perhaps excessive caution. But I guess we finally got over our deep-seated psychological problems. :) We did not have a big honeymoon—we already spend summers at my peaceful lake cottage north of Hanover or at her family’s place on Martha’s Vineyard. It’s hard to beat New England in the summertime!” Roger has been living in Concord, NH, for the last 7 years and spends his time managing 11 rental properties and occasionally doing a house “flip.” “Last year I bought an oddball property comprising three little houses and started renovating the most beat-up one, intending to sell it at the conclusion of my work. But in the midst of the project I got a call from Lily, my older daughter (37), that she and her husband of 10 years were splitting up. She wanted to move back to New Hampshire from Oregon. The house I was fixing up was the perfect landing

pad for Lily and her boys, so now I have two of my five grandsons living close by and attending the elementary school across the street from my house. I am experiencing kind of a second fatherhood as I teach the kids (ages 10 and 7) how to break in a baseball glove or ride a bicycle safely. It’s been a big change but fun and rewarding.” Our best wishes to Karen and Bob—and to Roger and Amy—on their nuptials! It was wonderful to hear from Hiroshi Izawa in London. He recently visited Tokyo and had dinner with Kiyoshi Goto and Nori Kato Tuck ’85. He wrote about a small-world sighting: “As you may know, on every stage (first round onward), the winner of each US Open tennis match who plays at the main stadiums signs three balls and hits them to spectators. If you are there to watch a match and luckily catch that ball, it is a wonderful souvenir. I just happened to watch a match won by a German top player, Angelique Kerber, on TV. One of three winner’s balls was caught by our classmate, Wilbur Kim! Well done Wilbur, your fantastic catch must have been witnessed by millions of people. Anyway, it was very nice to see Wilbur on TV.”

Hiroshi Izawa, Kiyoshi Goto, and Nori Kato Tuck (T’85), Tokyo, October 2018

I confirmed with Wilbur that yes, indeed, he was the fan who caught the ball after the fan in front of him missed! Per Wilbur, “I’ve been working with the USTA since 1999 and fortunate to attend the US Open. I’m still playing competitively and have been lucky to make it to USTA Team Nationals 3 times, the last time in 2015, with 9.0 55+ over men. My family is growing up fast—13, 16, 19, and 23. Alex, our oldest, graduated from Washington U in St. Louis in 2017. Daniel is a sophomore at Goucher, William a high school junior, and Isabella in 8th grade. Margaret keeps busy

running her nonprofit nursery school (infant through pre-K), serving 220+ children. Two Scottish Terriers and two cats round out our family. We spend most winter weekends at Cannon Mountain—get in touch if you venture to NH this winter!”

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

Jennie Martzloff and Andrew Martzloff (T’83), Montana, July 2018

Jennie Martzloff writes from the Wild West: “California continues to be great. Despite the weather challenges of drought, flooding, and now wildfires, we continue to do well here and have been largely unaffected. I continue to expand my marketing consulting practice and really enjoy the variety of opportunities and the schedule flexibility it provides. I had a Carla and Bill Schneiderman sighting at a Dartmouth event this spring—we caught up on life in and around San Francisco. This summer Gary and I traveled to Montana to visit my brother, Andrew (T’83). What beautiful country! We enjoyed spending a couple days in the mountains with him, a few days in Bozeman, and went to the annual Fourth of July rodeo in Livingston. Just to prove that Andrew is still alive and kicking (as I know he can be very elusive for Tuck Today), I’m including a photo from our visit.” Save the dates for our next Tuck Reunion: October 4-6, 2019! Until next time....

Reed Bergwall had the best suggestion, that I should have offered an incentive for news with a package of Kansas City’s famous burnt-ends BBQ to the best news update. I’ll do that next round. But for now, I’ll start with Reed’s newsy update. “Today at Harvard Business School, we dedicated the opening of the new Klarman convening hall with 1,000 seats. It really is a spectacular building and probably the most complex one that I have worked on in my career. The day has been punctuated by a terrific symposium on the future of democracy in our country. It is a sobering discussion but obviously a very important one. Jamie Dimon was one of many great speakers. I received a nice recognition award for my work supporting the university effort to push industry toward healthier materials—i.e. dropping the use of cancer-causing chemicals like stain resistors. Many of these quickly come off fabric and carpet and become part of the inhalable dust in buildings. I’ve been considering the idea of retirement after this project, but I’ve decided that I like working and will continue at least for the time being. I don’t know what next project awaits me, but I am busy with a great new house out by Mascoma Lake near Dartmouth. After 27 years, downsizing from a 112-year-old house was a great idea.” Just wait— RETIREMENT is a theme for this column. Not sure if Phil Giudice is retiring yet, but “after 7 years as Ambri’s CEO and president, I have stepped down from my executive responsibilities. I will continue to serve Ambri as an engaged board member, ambassador, cheerleader, and supreme fan of the company. I am particularly looking forward to spending time with my grandchildren, Isley and Theodore. I will also be engaging as an advisor and board member for organizations working on creating a better energy future for us all. These last 7 years have been a great experience for me. It has been an honor and privilege to serve, to help build a team and a culture to work productively on a global challenge, and where world-class investors have supported our journey. I look forward to seeing great success at Ambri and to playing a strong board role as Ambri delivers its full potential to the world.”

[Look on the ’85 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a great photo of Phil!] Michael Granger sent a great photo of him and John Weston from a recent visit to John’s home in Newburyport, Mass. “John still remembers me napping during Tycoon while we were pulling an all-nighter. He swears that I looked like a newborn baby as I woke up. He never lets me forget that incident.”

Michael Granger and John Weston

Scott von Eschen didn’t call it “retirement” but says, “Kristin and I made the big leap last year and moved the family and our business from the SF Bay Area to Bend, OR. We haven’t looked back. Bend is pretty amazing, with world-class mountain biking, skiing, trail running, and fly fishing...and finally we live in a place with reasonable home values. Oldest daughter Campbell got her master’s in education and is a kindergarten teacher in Boston. Youngest daughter Andie just graduated from Dartmouth and is a consultant (I warned her!) in D.C. We have lots of room in Bend if anyone wants to come check it out!! We have two versions of the same visit from a September weekend in Skaneateles, NY. From Craig Froelich: “Giles Chance visited our home in Skaneateles, NY. We had great fun and chatted with Laura and Spence on the telephone, who were in sunny Florida. Giles generally behaved himself except that he said our black lab puppy Jack was ‘not very smart,’ which hurt the hostess’s (wife Barbara) feelings. I am not sure how smart Jack is, but at 13 months of age he remains very annoying, although a very good swimmer.” And the other side of the story from Giles Chance: “I stayed with Craig last w/end. He made out big from selling his company in OK and has built a new and splendid mansion on the shore of Skaneateles lake near Syracuse, NY. I met WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES his dog, Jack, who is enthusiastic, met again his delightful wife Barbara (last saw her in 1994), and I played his beautiful new Steinway piano. We had a very pleasant dinner in a local restaurant, with some wine, and then we called you, Laura, and Spence—and learned all about the poisonous toads of Florida. I’m sorry if we came over a little happy on the phone. I am back at Tuck, teaching a course ‘Doing Business in China.’ Tuck is still great. Ken Baker is still teaching here, also Richard Rogalski. Colin Blaydon has just retired to become dean and professor emeritus. He was here at Tuck last week. Dartmouth has launched a drive to raise US$3 billion, and US$1.7 billion is already pledged. Amazing. Tuck is also raising a bunch of money. The school is in good shape, and some of the money will go to scholarships, to enable talented students to choose Tuck rather than preferring Stanford, Wharton, or Kellogg, where they will receive full funding. I leave for London in two weeks, then travel to China to participate in a government-sponsored innovation conference in Shanghai. I am writing a book about my China experiences 1988-2008.” From Dow Wilson: “Greetings from Palo Alto. And an invitation to any T’85s visiting Silicon Valley to drop by for dinner. We are doing well. I am in my seventh year as CEO at Varian. It’s been a blast leading a purpose-led company. Our customers treat about three million cancer patients each year. Family is doing great. Our fourth was married this past summer, and we are now up to four grandchildren. Lynne is doing great: has had a great response to her cancer and is almost to the third year of remission.”

Falls in Argentina provides a pretty spectacular backdrop. I have included a picture from the top of the falls of me and from the bottom with family in case you want to use one. If any classmates get down to Argentina, I would encourage them to make the trip to the falls. There are a lot of things in life that may disappoint, but I wouldn’t put this in that group. We went in June when water levels are lower. It may be best to see in their summer when the water is even higher. We went down for a combination dove-hunting trip and sightseeing. We do a lot of hunting here, but we can’t compete with what they have in Argentina. If anyone has an Arkansas duck hunting trip on their bucket list, have them contact me.

Bill Wells in front of Iguazu Falls in Argentina

Another short and sweet post came from John Weston: “Things are good in Newburyport. Counting down months to full-time skier and surfer! Sold one of my companies in May—long process but happy ending. Saw Dave Brown in Jackson Hole this summer while on a family fishing trip. Great to see him living the life. His office view is to die for!” Finally (I know, “Yay!!!), Spence and I have sold our house in Kansas City and moved to Naples, FL. Not sure it’s retirement yet (at least not for me: my business is booming, so I’ll be able to fund those burnt ends promised at the opening). By the time you read this, half of you will be shoveling snow... but we won’t! And I just spent a wonderful weekend with Judy Holmes, Lisa Bush Hankin, Leonora Jungerwirth Polonsky, Di Daych, and Mary Yamahiro Hutchison. Judy hosted us in wonderful style at her home in Maine, with hikes in Acadia National Park (aka her backyard), great food & wine, and one super-fun night in an RV! I promised I wouldn’t reveal any of the details discussed, but let me end by saying I am the luckiest person in the world to have been part of this great group of the Tuck Class of 1985!

Tersely, Bob Evans reports that “just spent the week with Janie (Creamer) Plank (class of ’84) and friends cycling across the Dalmatian coast of Croatia.” But if you follow him on Facebook, you’ll know that’s just a typical Tuesday for him.

More grandchildren news came from Tom Chapin: “Biggest news in the Chapin family: our daughter, Emily, and her husband Brad Vollkommer gave birth to a son—our first grandchild—Bennett in June. They live in NYC, so close enough that we can get up for periodic visits. Our son Colin was married on Nantucket in June and started at Tuck in September. He and his wife Sarah moved into Sachem Village in August, a stone’s throw from where Kate and I lived 35 (!) years ago. The ‘new Sachem’ is worlds better than the Sachem of our era: two stories, nice kitchens, front and back porches, etc....” Tom is the CIO of Mill Creek Capital Advisors in Conshohocken, PA.

Bob Evans biked across the Dalmation Coast of Croatia with Janie Creamer Plank T’84

Bill Wells had low expectations, expecting I might be “desperate enough for material to want family-trip pictures, but the Iguazu

Eduardo Navarro has “just came back from NYC with my art, and it went wonderful. Will

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be in a residency unlimited program with the Rockefeller Foundation next year for several months.”

Judy, Leonora, Mary, Di, Laura, and Lisa at their “Happy Campers” weekend at Judy’s house in Maine

Late-breaking news from Salil Tripathi! “Sorry, I’ve been traveling like a maniac after my enforced absence from the world’s airplanes for three months, as I recovered from a surgical procedure. I’m fine now, feeling healthier and better, and hope that the next time many of you see me, you will see me as I looked in 1985, and not my, shall we say, expanded version. :-)

“My operation was in late July, and after a summer period of reflection, I’m now back in my stride. I designed a course, which I’m also teaching, at the University of Bergen, on business and human rights. Earlier this year, at Ashoka University—India’s premier liberal arts university—I codesigned and taught a course on women, business, and human rights. Late last year, I cowrote a paper for the UN Human Rights office on business and LGBTI rights. Called “Standards of Conduct for Business with Regard to LGBTI Rights,” it has now been endorsed by over 180 companies, and we have ‘launched’ the standards in New York, London, Delhi, Sao Paulo, Sydney, and many other places. I’m now working on a new project, of developing similar standards with a group of allies, including businesses, to address gender inequities in business. “My journalism and writing continue—I’m writing a book about Gujaratis (the language group of India to which I belong), which will be out next year. I’ve been speaking at literature festivals too—I was in Brisbane and Newcastle in Australia earlier this year and in Edinburgh at the famous literature festival over the summer. I will be speaking later this year in Georgetown (Malaysia), Folkestone (UK), and Goa (India). I’ve also started writing for the South China Morning Post and the New York Review of Books. My sons live in New York; my older son Udayan is now a consultant (after his MBA from Stern at NYU), while my younger son Ameya is in his fourth year of doctoral studies in comparative literature—Spanish and English—at Columbia. “I’ve been in touch with Kate Laud and Patrick Durkin and heard recently from Joe Dixon, and wish for calmer times and hope we will all meet soon at the next reunion!”

’86 Tony Ehinger tonyehinger@gmail.com

Julia Rabkin juliamrabkin@gmail.com

Joe and Karen Organick, together with Andrew Farnsworth and his wife Tessa Rowland, pedaled and ate their way through

Puglia (southern Italy) in late May. Joe and Karen continue to be based in Spokane, Washington. Joe continues to develop real estate projects but spends more and more time navigating on his boat and traveling the globe. Andrew and Tessa are now based in Concord, Mass, having recently moved back to the US after over 20 years in Europe. Andrew is the head of HR for CIRCOR, a global manufacturing and engineering company. In riding through Italy, Andrew had many of the same career thoughts as John Chandler and Marc Johnson during their Italian cycling trip (as expressed in the summer 2018 Tuck class notes). Maybe time to start organizing bike tours in Europe? Steve Schoch professes “I am just a simple Tuck soldier out here on the western frontier trying to represent my school. It’s hostile, but I’m holding up!  “So I spent from 2011 to early 2017 working for a private equity group rebuilding Miramax Films back into an independent studio, holding both the CEO and CFO role. We sold the company to Middle Eastern interests, and I poked around Silicon Valley, finding the 23andMe gig. It’s fantastic.  “Moved to Palo Alto with girlfriend. Got divorced a few years ago. Three boys all through college and in the working world. One right there in Manhattan working at CAA.” Joe Jangro writes, “Just wrapping up our summer out west. Headed back to Florida in a week. Life is good.” Oldest son David works in Salt Lake City, Stephen produces and directs in LA, Jake resides in NYC, and youngest Nick is finishing up at the University of Richmond, where he is studying in Australia until January. Joe continues to invest at Water Street Capital in Florida, while wife Sue is busily completing a reasonably complex second-home project in Aspen. Moving back to the States, Bernt Killingstad reports that after “20 years in Europe (Berlin) starting and running a real estate company, my wife Maria and I moved back to Annapolis with our 2 boys (Liam and Finn). My wife and I met in Baltimore in the mid-’80s (first job out of Tuck was in Baltimore with Trammell Crow Company). I am dinking around in the start-up space and trying to keep my feeble mind active. Maria and I dropped our older son off at Goldman in NY (watching it all happen again as a spectator!!) this summer. Rich

McArdle—thank you for guiding our young man on his journey with your time and advice. Younger son Finn a freshman in college. “As a member of the Tuck European Council, I ran into Ted Sotir last fall in London. My immediate and extended family spend the summers in Norway (where I am from and have a home)—have run into some Norwegian alums from other classes there. So long in Europe...I have done a bad job of staying in touch with some classmates (compadres) I lived with, skied with or got in trouble with and think of often—Derek Lindsay, Gordon Davenport, Dave Burfeind, Jim Haynie, Tom Hernquist, Jeff Spurr—and many more. Hope you are well and thriving! I’m thrilled to see where Tuck is heading under Matt Slaughter’s leadership. Glad to be part of it.”  Bill Talbot “lives in the North Shore of Chicago managing small-cap equity portfolios along with my team that I lifted out of UBS and transported to Manulife Asset Management several years ago. My daughter, Hope, is a junior at a university-sized public high school outside Chicago. My son, Trevor, is a corporal in the Marines. He is scheduled to be deployed overseas soon. In the meantime, he is living at Camp Lejeune in NC. He is currently helping with cleanup from the storm. My wife, daughter, and I will visit him in NC at Thanksgiving. I’ll have an opportunity to compare his physical fitness to mine!”  Janice and Marc Johnson “are loving life in Indy and traveling a fair amount. Our kids have launched in their careers in Indy, Atlanta, and San Francisco. I’m CEO of a family office focused on building an investment portfolio of ‘socially responsible’ investments (that should also, hopefully, earn market returns!) and had a chance to confer with Collette Chilton on the topic. It is remarkable to see a high number of Dartmouth/Tuck grads involved in impact investing—in fact, two of our investments are funds based in Hanover. On the trying-to-stayin-shape-but-definitely-getting-older-andslower front, I try to bike as often as I can (but not as often as retired John Chandler)—and recently survived a Grand Canyon hike (48 miles across and back in two days, using Jim Weber’s Brooks trail-running shoes). The shoes were great, but my engine needed work. Otherwise, all’s well.” Kevin Kirk is well, “not retired, but continuing my work with Inland Imaging I began 20 years ago. I divorced and remarried since Tuck, and WINTER 2019

CL ASS NOTES my kids are all adults. My wife is Svetlana and has one daughter. She is from Moscow and loves the States and is a recent US citizen. I’m an artist as well as a businessman, and I built my studio 5 years ago. I began painting in the late ’60s. I participate in various art events and sell my paintings mainly through my website and studio visits. Anyone in Spokane Dec 1st, come on out. I’m participating in the MAC museum’s annual artist studio tour. I’m working to reach markets on the East & West Coasts. It’s slow, but people told me if I build it they will come ;) www.kevinrkirk.com. I heard my old tovarishch Rufus Woods is back on the beat as a writer for The Wenatchee World and loving it!” Charlie Craig has “been working in commercial real estate in Greater Portland since graduation. Portland has transformed into a fun small city on the water with a nationally renowned restaurant scene. We’ve enjoyed a stable development cycle the past 8 years.   “The new 100,000-square-foot glass headquarters currently under construction on Portland Harbor is for WEX. WEX is an international payment-processing and informationmanagement company based in Portland. WEX is planning to use the facility to help recruit IT talent, given they compete for this pool with the likes of Google and Facebook.  “I represent WEX and was involved in site procurement, building design, and lease negotiations. Very interesting project; I love the glass architecture and the views of the harbor are spectacular. Maybe this project will help me retire some day!”  Not much new going on according to Lafayette Ford. “We have been back in Chicago for four and a half years now after 8 years living in Kansas City. I have been with Fifth Third Securities for three and a half years. I have been traveling a lot on business and recently had dinner with John Fontana in St. Louis. My daughter graduated from Dartmouth in 2015 and is with IBM in New York City, while my son is a Dartmouth ’21 and is currently studying in Berlin with Dartmouth’s German Foreign Study Abroad Program. Both of our children are now fluent in German, while I speak no German. Susanne and I enjoy being empty nesters but always enjoy it when the kids come home. My

parents live in Naples, FL, and I am often there assisting them as they get older.” George Stromeyer and family are back in the USA and his hometown of Portola Valley, California, since eight years now. “Silicon Valley dynamics, great climate, quick access to all kinds of nature, and a great community of friends means we plan to finally stay put after the restless years abroad. Still in a global role though, with Belgian-headquartered Barco NV and excessive travel and challenges. Splitting my restorative time between nature and flying our Beechcraft Bonanza. In general, definitely overprivileged and overstimulated and trying to stay healthy! “So...was taking the garbage out yesterday, wearing a faded Tuck T-shirt, and a neighbor walking by asked if I went to Tuck. Turns out it was Jerry Sauer... Dec-Anal was back! He had great memories of his short tenure at Tuck before fleeing back to the Bay Area and, it seems, making his fortune following some clever decision trees, no doubt. I shared with him the beer party we had after the midterm with posters shouting at us, [Editor’s note: Well, you might remember what they shouted…]. Left the poor guy feeling guilty about terrifying the nontechies in the class.   “I asked for a visit to the Freemark Abbey Winery when a bunch of you are out this way— he said yes; so let’s do it!” Stan Colla spent “almost two decades working for Dartmouth immediately after our graduation from Tuck. In 2005, I left Dartmouth after twelve years of being responsible for the college’s fund-raising and alumni relations, and I formed a small consulting practice in advancement with my wife, Judi. “That ultimately led to an offer to lead the advancement operation at Alfred University in late 2007, just ten months before the recession enveloped our financial markets. Alfred University was, at the time, a remarkable institution comprised of two private colleges as well as two statutory colleges. It provided me with a wonderful education in living off the taxpayers of New York State while our economy was recovering. “In 2012, I retired from full-time employment at Alfred in order to return home to Hanover and

do part-time consulting. I should clarify that this was my first retirement, because in 2016 one of my clients asked me to come out of retirement to be the interim head of school for a year. That summer, Judi and I relocated to Saxtons River, Vermont, home of Vermont Academy. “This assignment turned out to be a fitting ‘bookend’ to my career because it was at Vermont Academy that I began my professional career forty-five years ago. Another notable coincidence was that the head of school who first hired me back then is the father of the current board chairman who hired me this time. During our first stint living at this boarding school, we were housed in the smallest apartment on campus; during our final residence, we lived in the biggest house there. “Some of my Tuck classmates might rightly ask why I, at the age of seventy-two, would want to assume in loco parentis responsibility for 225 teenagers. It is a very reasonable question, but Judi and I have a particular bond with this small school, and it felt like exactly the right thing to do for many reasons. I will leave it to others to assess how we did, but I can tell you for sure that it was the most fun I have ever had in my working career. “We are now back in our home of thirty-two years in Hanover and engaged in several volunteer activities that deal with environmental and land conservation, domestic and sexual violence, and strengthening our community. One of our two sons lives in Hanover with his wife and three children, with whom we get to spend time every week. Our other son lives in Napa, California, with his wife and son, and they are expecting their second child next April. We look for opportunities to visit them several times a year, particularly late in New Hampshire winters. “As befits people of our age, we attempt to fight off the frailties of advanced years by working out on a daily basis. We also try to travel to new places on an annual basis, and next spring I will get to my sixth continent. In between these forays, we enjoy the company of the many good friends we have made here in the Upper Valley. We also look forward to seeing old friends who come to visit, vacation, reune, or retire here, including all those Tuck alumni with whom we spent two special years back in the 1980s.”

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thought of that line several times over these last 30 years and have always smiled and thought about Bill. Now it means even more.”

Thanks to all who sent in their tales of their activities and adventures. Don’t be shy! Keep those cards and letters coming.

’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Joanie and Sharon together on the West Coast

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

I [Felicia Pfeiffer Angus] think back to my two years at Tuck w/a healthy mixture of stress, laughter, love and maybe a wee bit of party juice. Going to Tuck was one of the best decisions of my life, most of all for the friends we made, and continue to make. The connection Tuck spun around us is strong. This is exemplified in many ways, and often. For instance, this summer empty nesters Sharon Mainini Bargetto and Joanie Morris Hipp got together on the West Coast to toast their newfound freedoms from college bills. In Belgium Wolfgang Schobesberger ran into someone at his pool with a Tuck sweatshirt on. Immediately a friendship ensued. In Japan, Andrea and Noel O’Neill spent quality time with Kenji Yamada, Ken Yokohama, and Yoshi and Emi Maruyama. In several cities Rick Yu continually arranges get-togethers, and we all keep on going to them. On the East Coast, several of us got together on Lake Champlain at the houses of Lourdes Dingman and Anne Doremus. For two days Andrea Ploss O’Neill, Beth McCombs Westvold, Maura Shaughnessy, Melissa Zales Koller, Mary Barcus, Gail Sullivan [Page] and I reconnected...or connected for a first time in some instances. (Mary Rumowicz Strickland and Cynthia Frost got waylaid b/c of Hurricane Flo). Several times folks said “Wow, what a neat person...I wish I had known her better at Tuck.” The contacts, the friends, the loved ones...this was all Tuck. It was by no means a two-year experience, but rather a lifelong one. This is no better demonstrated than by how big a hole is felt by many of us upon the death of Bill Buckingham. Being in Section 3 first semester I never got to know Bill as well as others. Once he was diagnosed we started chatting via emails, and I got such a great sense

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John Meaney writes: “I have two stories to share. First, about 4 years ago when I heard Bill was beginning his fight with pancreatic cancer, we got back in touch and set up a bike ride in Marin. Bill had always been a big cyclist since our days in Hanover and New York, and I knew he was still at it. Anyway, we headed out for a 2 hr. ride in the canyons and hills around Bill’s home in Ross, and I was absolutely gassed trying to keep up with Bill. He was literally just recovering from surgery and was on an aggressive chemo regimen that was wiping him out, but he still left me in the dust. Bill refused to give an inch to his fight against cancer and never felt sorry for himself for a minute. He absolutely cherished every minute of life, especially with Joey—the love of his life—and his beautiful kids, and biking (of course). Secondly, Bill and I discovered last September that our girls, Bridget and Ellie, were in the same incoming class at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sometime this spring, the girls started planning a bike ride with all of us, and lucky for us, Dave and Suzanne Oliver decided to make a trip to SF and joined in the fun. We had a fun 20-miler through the rolling hills and ended up pedaling around Stanford, which was really magical for all of us. I remember Joey showing me where she and Bill first met in front of Tresidder student union when she came over from Cal to visit her sister, who was in Bill’s class at Stanford. We ended the day with a BBQ at my house with lots of wine and stories and laughs. It was a special time and truly a time that all of us will remember forever. And it was the last time I hung out with Bill.”

of what a solid, happy, and spiritual guy he was. I wish I had known him better at Tuck. My great loss. Sharon Bargetto shared that her favorite Bill story was on the morning after a major party. “Can’t remember what the prior evening event was, but it was a blowout. The morning after I was sitting on the steps of Tuck Hall when Bill rode up on that funny bike that he used to have. We were commiserating about our respective hangovers and he told me that his mouth was so dry that it felt like his grandmother had knitted a sweater around each one of his teeth!!! What an accurate description!! I have

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Ellie and Joey with Bill Buckingham and Bill Kitchel

The rest of the class notes is beautifully and touchingly written by Bill Kitchel. I write in honor of Bill Buckingham. Before elaborating on our initiative to establish a scholarship at Tuck in his name, I will try to convey the spirit of the celebration of Bill’s life held on August 30th. “The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time.” This was Bill Buckingham’s quote on his high school yearbook page, which Father Gagan referenced in his eulogy for Bill at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. Father Gagan taught Bill in high school in Pasadena and married Joey and Bill, and so his personal connection to Bill was palpable as he honored his friend. As Father Gagan said, how remarkable that Bill had the mindset at age 18 to recognize this simple truth from this quote, and then to live it fully. For those of us who knew him well at Tuck, it is so Buck. The service for Bill was a spectacular tribute and celebration of his life. For its stunning beauty, St. Ignatius might as well have been the Vatican, a fitting setting for a man grounded in faith. It seemed the city turned out to honor its best. Bill fought an arduous battle with pancreatic cancer for four and a half years, never complaining. His love for Joey and his faith sustained him. Joey and Bill attended mass together on most days in his last months. Their lives were centered on faith. When I visited him three weeks before he died, one of the many great things Buck said reflecting his faith was, “Kitch, I have nothing to complain about.”

Know that Bill was at peace. Joey was the reason for this, as she was at the center of Bill’s life and soul since the fall of 1987, when they met in New York. Bill and Joey’s story is one of a fairy tale, love at first sight, a magical destiny of two with California in their blood. While he was active snowboarding, sailing, surfing, and biking, Bill’s favorite time was simply being with Joey. As his son Henry said in his remembrance at St. Ignatius, “There was a time right after my dad’s diagnosis when I asked him how he felt about being home all day instead of being at work. He responded, “Are you kidding me? It’s awesome—I get to hang out with Mom all day!”

When I wrote you with the sad news in late August, nearly everyone in our class of 169 responded with a personal story of fondness for Bill. Is it not wonderful that we could have less than two years with Bill in Hanover and yet have such feelings and opinions of him? Of course this speaks to the power of our Tuck experience in that we knew each other so well, but it also speaks to the very essence of Bill Buckingham. He was always upbeat, had a smile, and was genuinely interested and engaging with all members of our class. Humble and hardworking, Bill was the best team member to have. And he was a hell of a lot of fun!

In other remarks, Bill’s oldest brother, Jim, spoke of Bill’s birth order of number 3 out of 6 in a wild household, noting Buck “quickly learned that staying under the radar screen was a very effective strategy.” Bill’s daughter Grace spoke of how “I have always been so very proud that my dad was mine, and I was his.” Her message resonated beyond their relationship, as I bet most sitting in the church felt that Bill was their truest and best friend. Bill’s daughter Ellie touched on Buck’s innate cool side, something we all saw at Tuck. Ellie said, “I actually have a running theory that over 90% of our friends growing up only hung out with us to spend time with Dad. Honestly, I don’t blame them.” Lifelong friend Johnny Griffith spoke of surfing so much with Buck when they were boys that their noses would bleed from sunburn. Later in life when Johnny asked him how bonds trade, Buck said, “Oh who cares, but did you see that picture of that wave at Teahupoo?” Out of context, these quotes do not do justice to the profound effect Bill had on their lives.

For these reasons, notably the broad admiration felt for him in our class and the fact that he embodied all that we hope a Tuck student should be, it seems right that we honor Bill with a lasting tribute at Tuck. At the time of this writing in late September, I, along with his closet friends, are forming the William A. Buckingham Scholarship at Tuck. Once established, this endowed and perpetual scholarship will help support Tuck’s scholarship initiatives. Ultimately when the funds we raise reach a larger size, there will be a more direct link between the recipient and the scholarship. The William A. Buckingham Scholarship will honor Bill at Tuck forever. By the time you have received this publication, we will have contacted all of you by phone or email about this scholarship initiative. Thank you for considering a contribution. Because the scholarship will exist in perpetuity, it is something you can support repeatedly over the years, just like TAG.

David Oliver, John and Susie Meaney, John Chapman, Steve Socolof, Sarah Wilkinson Bird, Regine Familet, Cathy Frye, and I basked in all things Buck at St. Ignatius and later at the reception at St. Francis Yacht Club. Bill’s two sisters, Mary and Ann, and two other brothers in addition to Jim, Charlie and Henry, all make for a prodigious Buckingham family, including thirteen nieces and nephews. And Joey at the center of it all. Bill lives on in their lives, in the minds of his colleagues at Goldman; at Mission Dolores Academy, where he funded the education of underprivileged children; in Newport; in Pasadena; in Ross....

Joey is touched by the scholarship. She speaks of how much Bill adored his friends from Tuck and how much he valued his Tuck experience, launching him into a successful career. Buck and I got together for over thirty trips or weekends since our graduation in 1987, something we pieced together and reminisced about in July. Six of those times were Tuck reunions, and he loved them all. While Joey and I had a good laugh about Buck thinking the scholarship was making too much of a fuss over him, we know he would like that it might bring us all together. Once it is established, we will find a time to commemorate the

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There are a few pics from our reunion here...I [Jill Ward] am limited to 5 for this column, so I went for the group shots that folks sent me. First, one of those reunion hikes I mentioned (a real one). Walther Schoeller is leading the charge and spurring on Susanne Tolmach Schoeller, Dan Lubash, and Chuck Davis, who seem to be taking a break!

Bill Buckingham with T’87 hikers during the 2012 reunion

Michael and Olivier

missing the class picture! The suggestion was that we superimpose it on the class picture, adding them as the last row. Still skydecking, fellas!!

scholarship with Joey and his children and to dive in to all things Buck. A groomsman in Elizabeth’s and my wedding and godfather to our middle child, Billy, Buck was ever present in our lives, even if thousands of miles away. This greatest of my friendships began at Tuck. Please join me in celebrating the life of Bill Buckingham.

’88 Laurie Marshall laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Hi everyone! So wonderful and so fun to see so many of us at our 30th reunion! For those who could not make it, we did indeed miss you. Just being on campus and in the area felt like a homecoming, and to be surrounded by our class...it was a transport to our younger days! There were lectures, and architecture tours, and class pictures bull-horned by Andy Steele, of course, and wanderings downtown to the bookstore and Lou’s, and Dartmouth sports events, and hikes (ok, well, mostly walks) and Tuck ’Tails at the Hanover Inn, and pub crawls at Molly’s in town, etc. For our class, Ted Niedermayer and his wife hosted our class dinner on the lawn at their house in Hanover. It was fabulous! My table did not want to get up after dinner...the staff actually had to yank the table cloth out from under us, despite Scotty Brown’s dug-in elbows! Ted and Virginie, thank you for hosting such a wonderful evening!

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Next, Frank Hunnewell, Laurie Marshall, and Peter Feer at Starbucks. Laurie Marshall says that George Favaloro commented about this photo, “This impressive team of brilliant analysts, through unwavering focus, figured out the correct number of Tuck ’88s at the reunion...55!” Throughout the weekend, we were all wondering exactly how many of us were there. Seemed like a lot! But, you know our class...we had people appearing on campus, whether registered yet or not. Hey, however you got there, glad you got there!

The Knuckleheads!

Finally, a group from our class had a minireunion last summer...at Jen Jacobsen [Jordan’s] house on Nantucket! Eric Speer, John Kilgallon, Steve Mongillo, and Jim Peck and families were celebrating summer with Jen. Jen writes, “The gang got together in Nantucket this summer! Kilgallons, Mongillos, Speers, Pecks, and Jen Jordan!!! Very fun getting part of the knucklehead crew and all their kids together!! So many laughs!! Love all these guys!!!” Jen couldn’t come to Tuck reunion... she was traveling, and fun travel at that, which she seems to do full-time now!

Peter, Frank, and Laurie at Starbucks in Hanover

Next is Michael Cooper and Olivier, also hiking. Cooper is so dashing with beret...few are so pulled together on a hike...the pic had to be included. And Olivier is always dashing! And not be left out of reunion photos, the knuckleheads! This pic was the appeasement they offered me and Laurie Marshall for

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CL ASS NOTES My sense from your notes and from reunion is that so many good things are happening for all of us...and that many of us are in transition mode. Moving, changing jobs, leaving jobs, embarking on new relationships, post-kidsleaving-the-nest adventures, investing more deeply in charitable causes. The noise we made as everyone reconnected and caught up at Reunion was thunderous! We were always good at “bringing the ruckus”!!

notes with you all was much-needed medicine and a reality check for our crazy-making age. “I’ve decided Reunion is akin to attending a wedding or standing watch: you spot familiar ships passing in the mist, but by the time you’ve shouted ahoy and callooh callay, they’ve softly and suddenly vanished away again. “At this rate it will take me another 15 to 30 years to finish conversations such as those started with fine fellows such as George Favaloro or Dan Cornew, and many more. There must be an enabling technological solution!

Several folks who could not come to Reunion sent in news. Dave Hawkins reports, “While I would very much like to join y’all in Hanover for the Tuck reunion, it’s just not in the cards for me this year. I’m presently traveling in Europe and return this week only to turn around and travel to Indiana and then soon after to China in early/mid-October. I’m overscheduled and thus a trip to Hanover is just not workable for me.

Few of you who attended Reunion sent in “One bit of news is that I recently visited in news...despite my email begging! You felt you New York area with Andre and Kelly Hunter. updated one another in person...the best! :) They’re doing great and are very busy with a Still, a few folks did send in updates. Here’s multitude of philanthropic activities, many of what Olivier Fainsilber shared, vividly, about which are related to NYC theater (Kelly) and “I’m still doing my thing, repurposing Reunion...and life! “Our reunion was a blast. environmental issues (Andre). technology and writing subversive scripts. Reconnecting with so many friends as if we One of these days one of you will hire me for were just continuing a conversation from 30 “For me, my big news is that I separated from a real job! years ago or from the previous reunion was Linda over 4 years ago and a divorce was simply amazing. For those who missed this one, concluded earlier in 2018. After the separation, you absolutely need to show up in 2023! Classes “Be good, but not too good!” I moved to my hometown of Richmond, VA, were great: VG, who walked on water when he and met an extraordinary woman from North Michael Cooper also weighed in...on family taught us accounting, still dazzles all with his Carolina, Maggie Will, who I recently got and work! “STOR-H, the solid-state hydrogen insights on innovation. Dinner on the lawn of engaged to. She’s a former professional golfer cartridge technology my company developed, Château Niedermayer by the pond was grand. on the LPGA tour and now runs a website for and presented at the Paris Climate Summit, has junior golfers called Will2golf.com. She’s very found limited market penetration in specialty “Other than Reunion, a highlight of our entrepreneurial and I’d love for her to meet areas such as airport services. Technology summer was visiting with the Holderrieds the Tuck community, as I’m certain she’d transfer (repurposing IP for new solutions) at their stunning Bavarian house and seeing love talking with all of our interesting and is catching on, and it’s ever more exciting, Andrew and Map Black there. This was the accomplished classmates. We have not set a risky, and rewarding. It’s for generalists who first trip Cécile and I took just over one year wedding date, but we expect sometime in the like to work project-by-project and can tell a after her bone marrow transplant, and it was first half of 2019. good story. Compared to the Russian roulette a thrill to reconnect with Tuck friends on that world of moviemaking, while tech transfer occasion. Cécile’s health continues to improve “Anyway, I hope that y’all have a terrific reunion promises to provide real value, it’s far riskier even if there are occasional bumps on the road weekend, and hopefully Maggie and I will than making Hollywood-style schlock. The to full recovery. She is amazing. Maurice, our make it to Hanover in 2023!” conservative voice in the back of my head is son, is back from a year studying German advising me to go back to robbing small banks law in Potsdam near Berlin. He will intern Ted Niggli checked in from China. “Regarding in the Midwest. Or, as I said, seek gainful for six months with a headhunter focused on Reunion, I won’t be able to make it. I live in employment. law firms. I try to stay out of trouble and keep China, and it’s a bit of a trek. I have been in consulting in the field of transport. On Feb 1, Shanghai, China, for 6 years now; time flies. “My son Owen just completed his CFA and is 2019, it will have been 35 years since I joined working for BT Wealth Management in Atlanta. My Mandarin is as good as it’s ever been, the transport practice of Oliver Wyman, where which is basically taxi-Chinese. Any visitors My daughter Mathilda is a semiprofessional I was before Tuck.” welcome to connect; we were happy to see Tom horse jumper based in Paris and a marketing Holderried a few years back. Working hard on executive for Fedrigoni, an Italian specialtyAnd here’s Michael Cooper on Reunion... advocating the entry of China A shares into paper producer. with his uniquely Cooperian turns of the global capital markets with some success, phrase. “Reunion was great: what a uniformly but still lots of wood to chop. 2 children now remarkable and interesting group. Wish I knew “Otherwise, I am still living in Brooklyn in US colleges, one teenager at home. Wishing Heights, continuing the never-ending job of you all better. Above all, it was a heartwarming everyone a great Reunion. Cheers!” renovating an 1865 brownstone townhouse. privilege to be included and to spend rare Look me up when you’re in town, one and all moments with dear, lifelong friends and get to Stacie Soule [Waring] had family in town and know some of you better. Rob Freeman quoted, (805-403-6053).” so missed Reunion. She reports, “Sorry to have ‘What a long strange trip it’s been.’ Comparing

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missed everyone at Reunion. Our oldest was home from college on his fall break, so I had to forego the trip to Hanover. Ginny Cate and I had a minireunion earlier that week when she was in NYC for a visit. In case anyone is curious, neither of us has aged a bit! Here’s hoping I can make the next reunion!” Peter Jahn missed Reunion too...but sent happy thoughts to all of us. “Kathy and I will miss seeing the gang, but we are overseas and cannot make it. Please send my best wishes to all the Tuckies!” Consider it done, Peter! Laith Ezzet sent a note in via the new online class-notes submission form [http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes]: “Visited Kangaroo Island and Tasmania in March 2018. Highlights of the trip included holding a koala bear, feeding kangaroos, enjoying Tasmanian pinot noir, and making friends with a wombat. Oh, and the fierce Tasmanian Devil is quite the carnivore—strongest jaw for its size of any mammal.” Terry Pitts shared that after 30 years in asset management, he is embarking on an exciting new project...and is looking for early seed investors! He is accelerating a proven set of investment algorithms “focused on eliminating risk,” as the approach repetitively “harvests relatively small returns from the predictable ebb and flow of the markets.” I can’t do it justice here...you need Terry to explain it...so get in touch with him directly! GO Terry! As for me, your class secretary, life is good. Reunion was awash in wonderful, familiar faces and smiles, and timeless, memorable senses of humor...surrounded by the beauty of Dartmouth and Hanover. While Dartmouth’s growth, investment, and modernization is pleasing, some Dartmouth fixtures...and people...and even small local things...were gorgeous in their unaltered essences...Stell Hall, the entrance and front steps of Tuck, Professor Bower (wow, he was there!), VG, Andy Steele, Occom Pond, the Rip Road run (ok, walk), the Dartmouth Green, the river, wearable Dartmouth gear, students everywhere, even the chipped slate floor at Stinson’s Village Store! Can’t believe I didn’t make it into Baker Library or to Moosilauke or to Simon Pearce on this trip. As for real life back in Boston, I am doing public, private, and nonprofit board work and am also working with a growth equity fund to help find good tech investments and advise portfolio companies. It is varied and

fun, and appeals to the ex-consultant in me! Once a Bainie, always a Bainie! Speaking of being your class secretary, Laurie Marshall and I can’t believe we’ve been that for 30 years! We also can’t believe we never asked about the duration of the role before we took it on...we, uhhhh, had no idea if there were term limits! Now we are rather wondering if you would like different voices riffing at you after all this time? If anyone wants to take a turn at it, then reach out to either of us! :) I will close with bits and pieces shared or heard during Reunion at various Tuck ’Tails...small snippets about great ’88.... ....Rob Chung and Steve Mongillo are running a distribution business together...it distros things like picture frames to retailers...can you just hear them arguing and laughing?... Regina Carlo [Church] lives in Massachusetts this year, in Cohasset.... Jill and Dave Paul spend lots of time in Sunapee...Kelly and Andre do too...Sunapee is a short drive to Dartmouth! ....David Southwell has a new gig; it’s David with a bunch of scientists in a lab; picture that!... Chuck Chapman is COO at Panera... Peter Feer is an exec coach in Colorado... Frank Hunnewell, entrepreneur, is growing his talent development business fast...Jeff Ott and wife Sheryl are deeply involved in charity in Marin County, and are maybe moving to Montana (!)...people like Dan Lubash traveled a loooong way to get to Tuck reunion...that’s commitment!... Amy Seltzer Hedison has one daughter still in college and has gone back to work...two consulting jobs at the same time!..with an investor relations firm and with the Massachusetts Dept of Health.... Bill Connolly was mighty dapper at the Hanover Inn cocktail party/class meeting...and was half the class was in the PINE Restaurant at the Hanover Inn after cocktails?..Start dinner at 10 pm!... Scott Brown has a son in his senior year at Dartmouth...Dave Lynch hosted the knuckleheads in northern New England for golf the day/night before Reunion...and somehow Eric Speer ended up in a trundle bed overnight, and no one slept for the snoring!... John Kilgallon is at Bain Capital... Mike Dickman’s house weathered Southeast storms well over past two years.... Eric Speer’s son is a pro baseball player.... Matt Haley lives in Plymouth, home of Plymouth Rock.... Heidi Reichenbach Harring is still at Citizens Bank in digital product management, and her husband Vaughn recovered well from a knee

blow-out while skiing.... Did anyone count how many of us showed up at Reunion….seems like more than we expected!? :) Finally, a word of thanks on behalf of all of us to our ’88 reunion committee, the volunteers who helped out, and the Tuck staff and community! High-fives to Ward Urban, Frank Hunnewell, Laurie Marshall, Amy Seltzer Hedison, Ted Niedermayer, and I am sure I missed a few! Thank you Tuck, and one and all who attended, for a great 30th reunion! —JW

’89 Betsy Robertson betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

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With a last-ditch effort to round up some news, a few of you came through! Many thanks for taking the time to send your updates. Note to the rest of you—if you want to read a column that’s got something interesting in it, you know what to do. Kent Arnold writes, “I occasionally see our classmate Keith Rosten and his three children here in DC. Besides a nondescript and rewarding 28+ year career at an engineering firm, my second job out of Tuck, I make fun & exercise plus negative cash flow and far too much luggage out of photographing amateur sports. Not so long ago, I ran into Stephanie Gates Osborne in the stands at the Naval Academy, where her son (a Dartmouth undergrad) was competing in a lacrosse match that I was shooting. It was a great pleasure to see her and her husband there. Doreen and I recently visited Belfast, where our daughter Kathy was finishing a graduate degree in Mandarin & Spanish translation, competing— all 95 pounds of her—on a rugby team, and acting at Titanic Studios. After two years

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CL ASS NOTES in Japan as a teacher and hotelier, our son John is gearing up for a doctoral program in psychology. The young retain the capacity to startle and inspire.” Lora Louise Broady sends both news and a photo.... “A pic of Professor Deshpande from this summer—we got together for a great dinner in Boston and caught up on the world of branding. He’s very involved in music/ arts branding as of late and is collaborating with Sue Dahling Sullivan in her awesome leadership role at the Citi Performing Arts Center [Boch Center]. I’m entering my 11th year as a marketing professor at Denver University’s Daniels College of Business and am grateful for Professor Deshpande’s tutelage. Still have my day job in higher-ed marketing strategy at Pearson (they haven’t kicked me out yet). Bob is doing great (no surprise)—running a firm dedicated to executive recruiting in the health care space. We are 1-month in to empty nesting...our twins flew the coop and are settling into their freshman year at their respective colleges (U Tennessee and Miami of Ohio). Nicholas is a full-on adult now (what?)—3 years out of college and living the traveling consultant life at Deloitte in Chicago.”

Professor Deshpande and Lora Louise Broady

News from the international crowd—Naoko Horie Ichikawa sent this: “After working at GE and a few other global companies, I am currently CMO at Mitsubishi Chemical, a large Japanese corporation. I am taking a few days off and coming to Tuck ’88 reunion as a guest to my husband Hiroya ‘Itchy’ Ichikawa, Tuck ’88. I have not seen Upper Valley foliage for so many years and am looking forward to relaxing in nice weather. Itchy is already talking about coming to our Tuck ’89 reunion next year. We will see.”

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Adam Inselbuch has migrated west...to get out of the winter...so he moved to Chicago. What?? “Kate and I moved to Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend. One of my friends said it is easier to have a fire than to move, and he was right! We have been getting settled, but the process has taken more time than we expected. Had dinner with Jack Zollinger last night— (from the looks of it, Adam was napping?) Neither of us is getting any younger.”

DeWitt. Met him mountain biking at Kingdom Trails in Vermont. I’m sure we both look more normal without helmet hair. All good with him. He currently works at Mass General in the marketing department. I’m working happily as a health care consultant in IT, managing big implementation projects. All kids in college (Bates, Williams, and Northeastern) and loving it. We are traveling a bit more, last year Berlin, this year Italy and Costa Rica. I’m a long-time runner and relatively new mountain biker. Gray and I are celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary this year. We got married just before or after our five-year reunion and then showed up with three little kids for our 10th.”

Jack Zollinger and Adam Inselbuch

From John Jove: “Working at PepsiCo at NY HQ in global sales, looking to crack the code on omnichannel retail development! Joined the Stamford Symphony board (for the love of music!). Completed term on Tuck Latin American Advisory Board (great experience!). Son, Richard, a soph at Boston College Carroll School of Management, is heading to Morgan Stanley for next summer S&T internship.” Margaret Trevisani Erbe wrote in: “Hi Sara—I hope you are great and apologize if late. Last week was Frieze London so I was offline most of the week. I have recently relocated to London with my husband and daughter for his job with Fidelity International. We have been here almost 2 years now. I continue my work as a private art advisor working with clients in London, New York, and Boston. My son, Sumner, is at Dartmouth, class of 2020, so we still try to get there for events and rugby games. I am in touch with Tricia Roberts Winton, whose son Fuller will graduate Dartmouth this year, and Laura Poler Ward, who is doing awesome! “I would love to connect with any London alums living here or passing through. Thanks for being our class leader on this!” And Marianne Deignan tells us, “Every few years, I run into a Tuck person. Here is Terry

Terry DeWitt and Marianne Deignan

As for me, Sara, I had a great trip to Hanover this past spring (still below 40 degrees however) to speak at the Tuck women’s symposium earlier this year—caught up with Andy Steele, who still remembers every name of every person in our class...somehow. The symposium had all sorts of interesting speakers (including some men!), and it was fun to get back to Hanover. Speaking of which.... As a reminder, next fall, October 4-6, 2019, is our 30th, yes 30th, reunion year. Remember when we used to watch all the “old classes” line up for the photo and marvel that they were still well enough to travel? That’s us now. Hope to see you all there—we’ll dust off the newly digitized (as of the 25th reunion) slide show and show the youngsters how it’s done at Tuck ’Tails, before going to bed at 9:30. Looking

forward to seeing you all there! Valuable prizes for longest traveler, and who knows, maybe 2019 will be the year we finally see Eric Sachsse travel all the way from Norwich!

’90 Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

Editor’s note: A reminder that you can now submit your news—and news about your classmates or other Tuck alums!— online through the new class-notes submission form at http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/ submit_class_notes.

’91 Suzanne Shaw

come those young kids I used to hang out with are now welcoming grandchildren...well except Greg Berzolla?” but more on that in a bit. Let’s start with Robin Frank, also known as Robeen Frank, her super-cool DJ persona. (But seriously, could Robin ever be cooler than she already was.) I reconnected with Robin a few years ago when we discovered we were both part of the Burning Man community and shared many of the same very close friends.  Robin, her husband Hans, and their two twin boys, Beck and Jasper, returned this summer from their Dried Mango World Tour, where they spent a year traveling the world and experiencing life the way most people just read about. Then it was time to settle down. That lasted a month. They are now on Dried Mango Tour 2.0. Look for them in your area.    During this year, they have had chance to hang with Michael Ingemann and his wife Inger in Denmark, as well as Nick and Birgitte Laird. They also saw Ben Pettersen and caught up with Kathryn Baker T’93. Personally, I really want to know what Ben is saying to Robin’s kids in the online picture, but I’m fairly sure it involves the word “Wiking.”

Greg Berzolla with daughter Ellie Then there’s a pic sent to us by Kirsten Detrick, where she caught up with Jim West and Ron Voigt in Vienna of all places. I’d like to tell you Ron is Photoshopped. He is not. I don’t know what your secret is Ron, but we’ll have what you’re having. Look on mytuck to see.

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’92 Glenn Millar millargg@gmail.com

Editor’s note: Look for lots more photos from T’92s on the 2002 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu! Welcome to the first edition of, “Damn, has it really been 26 years since graduation and how

Kirsten Detrick with the Lairds

Hans and Robin with the Ingemanns

Apparently heading to Denmark is quite the popular tour this year, as Kirsten Detrick reports she also visited Michael, Nick, and Birgitte. [Photo on mytuck!] Now looking in on our friends who haven’t aged, let’s start with Greg Berzolla. While I’m showing people pictures of my three grandchildren (I prefer the title Granddude rather than Grandpa), Greg is pictured nearby with his one-year-old daughter Ellie. Greg, you’re a better man than me. At this point in my life, if I am changing a diaper, it’s probably going to be my own.

Amy Reeves, who penned this column for decades and who, upon passing the baton to me, enlightened me with these words that I’ll never forget, “I’m free! I’m free! It’s now yours sucka!”... Anyway, Amy also has seen a number of Tuckies. Look on mytuck for a pic of Amy with Kirsten.   There’s a pic of Amy playing golf with Mark Ranalli and Nathan Pieri nearby And on mytuck, a pic of her visiting Rick Ganong and his family. Amy also reports that she ran into Michael and Laura Ward on the ferry to Nantucket. She dares any of you to come up with a more

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CL ASS NOTES then was ready to take on Steve’s Fat Tire beer. Apparently the apple does not fall far from the tree. Look on mytuck for the pic of all three. Steve saw Greg when he was nearby celebrating his parents’ 60th anniversary. How incredible is that!

Mark, Nathan, and Amy at golf

Jon Horowitch was in Seattle recently and caught up with Mike McGinn. While discussing HR, they decided it would be so much easier if humans weren’t actually involved.

ridiculously stereotypical Dartmouth alumni class-notes entry than that. We agree, Amy.

Jon and Mike in Seattle

Finally, we’ve recently moved to San Diego after 20 years in the Bay Area. It was time for a lifestyle change. Now conversations that used to start with, “How’s your funding going?” have changed to, “Dude, did you see those gnarly waves this morning.” We love it down here and are never leaving.

Alexandra and I were also were visited by Anne O’Malley and her family. Forgive the lighting as the photo was taken at night in front of the surfboard fence.

Mike says that his daughter is a senior at Emory in Atlanta (Who’s hiring in Atlanta? How about you, Kim Hoelting?) and his son is a freshman at Georgetown. Mike reports that his youngest child, and I quote, “is now enjoying, no, experiencing the undivided attention of mom and dad.” Yeah, they’ll be empty nesters soon.    Steve Sklar sent in a great pic with Greg Berzolla and Ellie. According to Steve, while having lunch, Ellie wiped out a slider and

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Cathy Dishner I still cannot believe that it has been 25 years since we graduated from the “sexiest” business school on Earth (I quote Master of Ceremonies Alastair Borthwick loosely here).

I’ve already seen Kel Phoon and his family, and Amy Rasdal has been a great help to me in getting acclimated.

The Sherman family in Maui

’93 cldish66@gmail.com

Gerry Moore tells us that he too saw Amy and shared 4th of July with her and her family watching the Boston Pops and Indigo Girls from Amy’s balcony, which overlooks the Esplanade. (And the winner for the consummate Boston experience: again, Amy Feind Reeves.) Heard from Mike Sherman. Nearby is a pic of him with his 4 children on the top of Haleakalā in Maui. Oh hold it! He only has three kids. The fourth is actually Kristin Sherman, who apparently also hasn’t aged. Another case of, “I’ll have what you’re having.”

Speaking of which, I spent the first three months here building our tiki backyard, complete with surfboard fence (look on mytuck for a pic) and tiki bar. You are all encouraged to visit. We have plenty of room. Until next time....

The Millars and O’Malleys at the Millar surfboard fence and tiki yard

The reunion started for some even before arriving in Hanover. Nancy Koefoed flew to Boston on Thursday and spent the night. On Friday morning she went downtown to rent a car from a random Hertz office and who should be standing directly in front of her in the queue? None other than Mike Carusi! Serkan Bektas flew over from London to Boston and who did he find in front of him in the passport control line? None other than Todd and Esther [da Silva] Huntley! If you ever wondered how small a town Hanover is, I ran into Bob and Cyndie Crocco four times within the span of two hours on Friday. Each time we had another chance to catch up and share more laughs. Murphy’s was the unofficial reunion headquarters with a packed house both Friday and Saturday nights. Apparently Steve Couig made such an impression on Friday that he was nearly banned Saturday. There was a beer that Cougar just couldn’t let go of, despite the fact that he had wondered onto the sidewalk with it. Good thing Mike McIvor was there to use his power of persuasion on both Cougar and Murphy’s management. We T’93s know how to close down a bar and also how to deplete a bar. The wine and beer supplied at our Saturday night event were no match for our talented class. We worked through the beverage resources in no time, leading to a desperate situation where Jay Weiss and John Roësset had to succumb to playing beer bong with water in their cups! At least John kept his clothes on after accepting

Study group!

The A Frame

The Dude Palace

The Girls in the Hood

The Core

the award for playing pong naked back in the day.

holding the other. Loads of us have high school– and college-age children or, more aptly, young adults. It occurred to me this weekend that I met Jeff Dishner at Tuck when I was 24, just two years older than my daughter, who is now a senior at Dartmouth. The circle of life... an indication that I am getting old! Regardless of age, everyone shared stories of their families and what their children were up to. I learned this interesting tidbit: Serkan explained that his son randomly met Kathleen Bacon’s daughter in London. Now they are dating!

At our class lunch on Saturday, James Marciano asked Dean Slaughter how to foster entrepreneurship and embrace the concept of risk among future classes. I’d say our class clearly has no fear of taking risks. Efforts to pour our own beverages on Saturday night led to stern warnings and a review of NH state liquor laws. Our entrepreneurial efforts were not appreciated! We had people come from near and far. Atsuro Fujii made the trip from Japan while Julie Lang simply walked out of her classroom and onto the Tuck circle. Atsuro and his lovely wife proudly presented an album of pictures displaying their two beautiful grandchildren. Annie Bauer also mentioned that she is now a happy grandma (though she doesn’t look a day older than when she left Tuck). Mark Tecca has a son getting married after his engagement this April. On the other end of the spectrum, Diego Ferro was pushing a stroller with his lovely 6-monthold sucking on a pacifier and cooing quietly in the background of Dean Slaughter’s speech. Marshall Cooper was also spotted with a stroller in one hand and very cute toddler

Look throughout for pics: The A Frame (Jeff Dishner, Jeff Macher, Mike McIvor, Steve Couig); The Girls in the Hood (Cathy Dishner, Dana Macher, Nancy Koefoed); The Dude Palace (John Amato, Greg Capitolo, Glenn Crotty, Alastair Borthwick); the Core (Joe Z, Jay Weiss, Tom W, John Roesset, Marce). And a study group in Stell! (Marc Becca, Laurence Whittemore, Dale Tritschler, Dwight Poler) One skill we honed during our years at Tuck was persuasive recruitment. Over the weekend, I networked a bit with one of my favorite classmates, Dwight Poler, and convinced him to join me as your class scribe. Look out for his messages in the future as we work as a team to track down noteworthy news and class updates.

During the Saturday night dinner, Kathleen Bacon shared highlights from the class survey. One of the questions asked was to “describe a favorite memory from Tuck.” My favorite response that someone wrote in was this pithy but so accurate comment: “My classmates. Pretty simple.” On that note, I’ll end with quoting the great Scot, Al Borthwick, loosely once again. He said that the thing that makes Tuck great is the sense of community it fosters while creating leaders and cultivating empathy. The world would be a better place if Tuckies were running it. I saw people hugging and laughing and deeply connecting over the course of the weekend. That is what makes Tuck a special place. To all you Tuckies, I close with my mantra that has been repeated frequently throughout the years: I love you guys! —Cathy Dishner And coming soon: Dwight Poler

’94 David Link bearcap08@gmail.com

Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

25TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Hi all, and welcome to a very maple-flavored edition of the T’94 Tuck Notes. Elder statesmen Bono—a man who sings “We are one, but we’re not the same”—once said, “The world needs more Canada.” I [Toph]

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CL ASS NOTES am biasedly prone to agree with him, so to celebrate my second nationality (yep, my arteries are now clogged with both apple pie and poutine), I’m including some fun facts about my adopted homeland. Just doing my part to offer the world a little more Canada. (You’re welcome.) Canada Fun Fact #1: Canada’s tallest mountain is Mt. Logan in the Yukon. I will not soon forget this piece of information, because it was the one answer I missed on the citizenship test. (What kind of country names its tallest peak after a scientist? Canada, evidently.) “I love me a good avocado mask,” says John Tyree, maybe, and who I like to imagine enjoys putting cucumber slices over his eyes. Flat Tyree goes on an adventure with the ’Hood gals! Tyree joined ’Hood gals Jeanine Borthwick, Angelique Bellmer Krembs, Patty Wolff, Canada Fun Fact #2: New Brunswick is the and Kristen Erdlen Curtin on a recent trip. only province in Canada with two official Well, he accompanied them in spirit...in the languages. Also, there is a province in Canada form of a life-size cardboard cutout. I’m not called “New Brunswick.” making this up. First, accept that a life-size cardboard image of John Tyree exists, and “Happy to report I attended a Tuck admissions second, that the ’Hood women—for reasons session in Sydney,” reports reporting unknown—took it with them on a recent reporter Moray Vincent, who, despite the spa weekend. One theory of mine: Tyree appearance, is not reapplying. After chatting produced the likeness for promotional up Tuck staff at the event, he learned that “the purposes for a new side hustle. (“I’ll stand philosophy and values of Tuck from our day on my head, I’ll eat a bug! Come on down are unchanged.” He also points to an evolved to Tyree Motors and tell me what it’ll take student-body gender balance, which, for some to put you in this low-mileage ’09 Camry!”) reason, he credits to “improvements [that] “He [in cardboard form] showed up as a surprise,” explains Jeanine rather unhelpfully, have been made in technology.” (Who am I to question a Tuck Scholar?) Moray says he’d like continuing, “Tyree was apparently feeling left out, so he sent the next best thing.” She added, to see more Tuck Aussies actually return to the land down under with their MBAs. (“Most of “Patty took him home and Flat Tyree enjoyed us down here are expats!”). With 25 potential Yom Kippur with the Wolffs.” (“This chewy applicants attending the information session, pink stuff on the salty donut? To die for! there’s a decent chance some will. “Hopefully,” What is it you say? ‘Matzo Toph?’”) concludes Mr. Vincent, “meeting me will not have put them off.” One of my favorite Angelenos has returned to his City of Angels. Altaf Shamji has I find your note on a dark Paris morning abandoned Princeton, New Jersey, and its on my way home from Singapore,” starts glamorous, fast-paced movie-star lifestyle to Christophe Oliver’s unduly-cryptic email. re-relocate to the docile climes of Southern Monsieur Oliver admits that he’s “trying to California. “Retired, and enjoying the good sound like a spy novel,” though I confess life,” says Altaf, before adding ominously, “...at I was lost before getting to Singapore or least for now.” (Dude, what have you heard?) Paris. Our Frenchish classmate and master “Retirement” signifies different things for of the humblebrag recently completed the different people. For Altaf, it means spending IRONMAN Lake Placid triathlon, after only his days volunteering as an unofficial La Brea “21 months and 1000+ hours of training.” Tar Pits tour guide (“Stare long enough and (Fun!) Tom Loring—not to be one-upped by you might see the mud bubble”) and dressing a former housemate—will join Christophe up as Spiderman to pose for tourist photos at for next year’s event. (“Maybe,” says otherGrauman’s Chinese Theatre. housemate-that’s-not-me David Matthew.)

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First prize for Christophe’s Ironman age group? A zillion dollars. Runners-up prize? Cargo shorts, apparently.

Lisa Lemire has an actual job doing actual stuff. But she might moonlight as a travel agent. Kous recently sightsaw New England with Linda Carey (“now ‘Larkin,’ and living in Portland, Oregon,” updates Lisa) “with the express purpose of visiting Tuck classmates.” On their circuit of Massachusetts, the duo connected with Kathy Schaller and Pam Rorke [Moeller] (“who flew in from Minneapolis for the fun!”) in Scituate and kaffeeklatsched with Ken Carangelo in Nahant. They then turned south to wine and dine with Linda Kurtz in Bristol, Rhode Island. Lisa assures me the trip was an actual vacation and not an on-the-runfrom-the-law-Thelma-and-Louise thing.

Linda Carey Larkin, Lisa Lemire, Kathy Schaller, and Pam Rorke [Moeller] pose for a wicked-pissah selfie at the Scituate Shore

“Summer flew by,” says the aforementioned Ken Carangelo, who has had a busy few months: “Our little analytics team in scenic Copley Square got acquired by Time Warner, which

days later got bought by some phone company, so all that work stuff, blah blah.” When he’s not lamenting the passage of time, Ken is “looking forward to retiring to writing and baking.” (Coming soon: Pastries with Ken, a cookbook featuring 47 recipes for chicken pot pie.) Ken anticipates frequent “cocktails in person instead of phone calls and texts” with Annie Allman, who soon starts work at a Boston Harbor casino. Canada Fun Fact #3: Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October, because...metric system, probably. In legacy news (oy, we’re old), there’s a new Immel in Hanover. Proud papa Brian reports that son Kyle has “joined the Dartmouth family as a member of the Dartmouth class of ’22.” Brian and Carolyn and high-schooler Riley now live in Connecticut, where Brian leads marketing for Cycling Sports Group. His next goal? Getting Christophe to pay retail for a Cannondale: “We’ll even throw in a little electric motor to give him a boost!” (If you see Christophe on a shiny new bike, TAG donations are up.) Bill Townsend has spent the last twelve years working on a project. It’s not finished—They’ve only just commenced production. (Bill blames delays on teammate “Val,” who hasn’t contributed much to the group effort.) Bill explains that the natural-gas venture represents “the largest ever overseas investment by a Japanese company,” in this case INPEX, which is funding the so-called “Ichthys LNG Project.” (For forty billion dollars, you’d think they could come up with a more-pronounceable name.) “I recently visited our facilities in the Indian Ocean,” says Bill, who choppered in to what he describes as “the world’s largest semisubmersible platform.” (Coincidentally, “SemisubmersiBill” is his wife’s nickname for him.) Adds Mr. T, “Belinda and I plan to make it to Tuck for our 25th reunion next year—hope to see you there!” On that very topic: Our next reunion is approaching, and it’s a big one. “Please publicize it,” begs also-a-dual-citizen Christophe. Mark off your calendar now for our 25th reunion over the weekend of October 4-6, 2019. (“Time to celebrate with a big check to TAG,” adds Christophe, who has no off switch when it comes to fund-raising.) Shameless plug: If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, stretch that reunion trip an extra

it might engender, I respectfully encourage American classmates to exercise that one privilege I can’t wait to carry out in both of my countries: Vote. Even if it’s for a ridiculous person. (Fortunately for me, most of our puerile northern politicians are in Quebec and Ontario.)

Bill Townsend on “the world’s largest semisubmersiBill platform”

week and join Sherry and me in Nashville for Habitat for Humanity’s 2019 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. I’ll introduce you to my close friends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. (You think I’m kidding.) Details at habitatnashville.org/cwp. Finally, and not to brag (since we Canadians don’t do that sort of thing), but I can now vote in two countries. (Kennish is vying for three.) Yes, as much as I love the penny and the dollar bill, I’m now a citizen of a nation with neither. On the plus side, I have convenient access to Timbits (Google it, Ulrik) and to what Mike Pence calls a failing health care system. (Canada Fun Fact #4: When my wife Sherry needed ACL surgery two years ago, she got it. From the knee surgeon for the Canadian ski team. It was free. For an immigrant. As was the rehabilitation. And the sports brace. But yeah, taxes and stuff, blah blah.)

One perk to Canadian citizenship? Souvenir flag.

Down south I often get asked why I became Canadian. One privilege in particular had much to do with it. I share this contrast: Last year, Canada changed the lyrics of its national anthem to be more inclusive. In my homeland... well...yeah. Instead of finishing that last sentence with whatever level of frustration

All right, all right, I’ll dismount my redand-white high horse. Come visit. British Columbia’s lovely. We have donuts. (Sorry Kennish, “doughnuts.”) In the meantime, be nice, take care, and—this is becoming a mantra—hug someone with whom you don’t agree. And see you in Hanover next October.

’95 Kristin Sanborn ksanborn27@gmail.com

Rick Smith rasarizona@hotmail.com

Kristin: Rick, these columns are getting pretty stale. Same old people sending in updates, and since we’re all middle aged, even the updates we do get are pretty boring. I think we need to spice things up. Rick: Did you just collectively call us “old” and “boring”? Kristin: Ummmm...I did. Rick: Harsh yet accurate. That’s the Kristin I love. Kristin: Well, I think after 23 years of columns, we might want to try something a little different. I went and tracked down a classmate that we hadn’t heard from in a while and asked, “Where the hell have you been for 20 years?” And I got some really cool answers. Rick: I’m skeptical those answers will be more interesting than my inane banter, but what the heck, go for it. Kristin: Well, why don’t we let our readers be the judge of if this is more interesting than inane banter? Rick: I’m definitely voting for inane banter. Kristin: As I was saying...without further ado, I’d like to present my interview with our T’95 classmate Wayne Fritsche! The first important thing to know is that Wayne now goes by his stage name, Richard Wayne. Rick: Stage name...you can just...you know...

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CL ASS NOTES make up a name that people will call you? Kristin: You can. Rick: Awesome. You can now refer to me as Anaconda Jones. Kristin: Oh my. Ok, Anaconda. And now...the interview! Kristin: Richard, it has been 23 years since we last spoke, but you were the first name that popped into my head for a profile on a long-lost classmate. I had heard through the grapevine that your career had taken a different track than most. Why don’t you walk me through the highlight of your life after Tuck? Richard: I spent my first 5 years after Tuck working for Pepsi in Westchester in a fabulous but very conventional post-Tuck job. Then I spent a year as the head of marketing for family entertainment at Radio City Music Hall. I think this was a little too close to what I was really interested in, which was working in theater, but not the thing itself. At that point, my partner Curt got an opportunity to go back to Boston, which was where we wanted to be geographically. I did a year at a start-up that didn’t make it and then joined a boutique advertising agency for three years, which I ended up running. Then I want back to the large corporate setting, joining a division of Colgate-Palmolive for three years. Kristin: And is that when the big change came? Richard: Yes, then there was a lot going on almost simultaneously. I realized that I did not want to want to work in a corporate setting full-time. I started doing community theater. Once I got a taste, I realized that I wanted to do more. I began trying out for professional theater and booking gigs in Boston. At that point, I joined the actors’ union. On the personal side, Curt and I adopted a 5-year-old son in 2005 and I took a 6-month leave from Colgate. Then the Massachusetts office was shut down. In 2010, I did 2 year-long consulting assignments with Gillette, but I stopped to return to acting full-time. Eventually, I went back to school to get my MFA (musical theater) at Boston Conservatory, which I received in 2015. Now I am living part-time in New York City, which is where most of the acting jobs are. But full-time, the family is living in Williamstown. I went to Williams, so it’s nice to have a home in the area. Kristin: So, wow! Lots of transitions. I just can’t picture you as the typical young struggling actor waiting tables. Was there something else that you did on the side? Richard: When I stopped working full-time, I began working part-time for an executive

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Rick: You’re not going to say, are you? Kristin: Nope! People will find out in 6 months!

’96 Ewa Borowska The Richard Wayne family

ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Trent Meyerhoefer search firm, doing reference interviews for senior-level positions in mission-driven organizations. Now I do it full-time, but it is very flexible, which is great. I am constantly juggling auditions, acting jobs, and spending time with the family. Luckily, Curt has been working for the same company for 20 years. That has allowed for more flexibility for me to pursue my love for acting. Kristin: Were you glad you went to Tuck? Richard: Absolutely. Tuck provided me with interview skills, credibility, experience, and authority to do the search work I do now. And frankly, I use my marketing training and experience all the time as an actor. And, let’s face it, organizational management training is invaluable in all aspects of life, especially when you’re trying to advance on multiple fronts as I am. Kristin: Do you have a favorite kind of acting work? Looking at your resume online, it seems like you have done many different types. Richard: Musical theater is definitely my favorite, but lately I’ve been changing my focus more to screen work since television is undergoing a bit of a renaissance. Kristin: If you had some words of advice to your “stuck in a rut” classmates, what would it be? Richard: I would say to always consider yourself a beginner at something. That way, you’re sure to always be growing personally in some way. Kristin: So what’d you think? Rick: Looks pretty straightforward to me. Person goes to business school. Person works in corporate America. Person becomes jaded with corporate America, does what they want, and adopts a 5-year-old. Kristin: Yeah, that’s super straightforward, Anaconda. Rick: So who will be our target for the next column? Kristin: Let’s spin the wheel and see who comes up...tick tick tick tick tick...and it’s....

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Barry Winer bmwiner@gmail.com

As always, we would love for everyone to provide an update, particularly since we are a few years out from our 25th reunion. 25th reunion—yup, it is coming. Until then, thanks to everyone for the news and appreciate those who responded to my [Trent’s] late “begging email.” Look out, Boston workforce! Laurie Lee may be back in the job market! After a lovely summer of boating—“no job, no kids, loving life!”—she may need a new cold-weather hobby. Why not a job? On a June trip to Boston, Irene and I met Laurie and Keith for dinner drinks in the North End and drinks on the water. Great to catch up and meet Laurie’s guy—no, not as much scotch as one might presume. Beat Näf sends his greetings from Switzerland. He has transitioned professionally as well. After having managed two Swiss-based family offices as CEO in the last roughly 15 years, he is now enjoying being active in some areas (primarily direct investments and board mandates) but not anymore on a 100%+ “employed” time budget. “Leaves me more flexibility for other things, e.g., trying to improve my previously nonexistent golf game (work in progress...). Martina and I are doing fine, and so are our two girls (now 16 and 13, respectively; both active soccer players, just like Martina and I used to be).” The Näfs are still living in beautiful Richterswil on Lake Zurich. Life is good. In the short but sweet category, we have the Calcios, Knoers, and Barry Bonder. Detroit & Labor Day weekend—seems like a perfect time for a minireunion. The Calcios and Knoers took over the town. Looking good! Barry

time traveling, golfing, and spending our kids’ inheritance. A great plan!

The Calcios and Knoers in Detroit

Gene, Karl, and Jim in Seattle

Bonder sends a quick update on his 3 boys. Jon, 18, is a freshman at Case Western in Cleveland. Matt, 23, is earning decent money on YouTube teaching people how to learn Japanese. And Zack, 21, is “a super nice guy, but honestly I really don’t know what he does all day.” Been there, Barry. Been there. Professional life/job changes abound. Jeff Douthit has moved from Credit Suisse to Goldman Sachs. Jeff had done his internship at CS and logged 21 years before making the switch. On the home front, Jeff is still in Chicago, shipped off the oldest of the 4 kids to college, and sends #2 next year. A bit more of an adventurous change for Jodi Baier Campbell: “After my daughter Rachel finished high school in 2016, I sold the house in Boston, put everything in storage, then Rachel and I spent 6 weeks walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain (ever see the movie The Way?). A sort of symbolic pilgrimage for us from past to future. When we returned to the States, I relocated to beautiful Beaufort, SC, settled in, changed my name back to Campbell, and opened a successful kitchen store in the historic waterfront district. Rachel is now a junior at Furman University in Greenville, SC, majoring in econ/public health. We’ve enjoyed a few more adventures together since Spain, including Hokkaido, Japan, this past June. Who knows where the road will take me next!? If anyone’s up for a coastal holiday, drop by for a visit!” Great to hear, Jodi, and hope the store keeps going strong! Gene Lowe and the boys remain in touch and catching up. He had dinner in Seattle with Karl Siebrecht and Jim Nida. He also found the unfindable hermit Bob Heiser (his word, not mine, Bob). Gene continues as CEO at SPX Corporation, Karl and Jim have start-ups with expanding valuations, and Bob is regional director for the Champlain Valley at the

Gene and Bob

Alissa (Graham) Goldwasser wins the most unexpected T’96 reunion award for this issue. In her words: “I did, however, have an amazing Tuckie encounter in the most unlikely of places—our older daughter’s bat mitzvah in May. We belong to a synagogue in Evanston, IL, and our daughter, Emilia, was paired with another girl for the service. It turns out that the mother of the other girl is the closest of friends with Val McGary. I was so surprised and delighted to see her at the synagogue. Truly a great moment in an already special day. Of course, I was too scattered to get a picture with Val, but attached is one of the four Goldwassers.” Alissa is still working for a youth arts nonprofit, Young Chicago Authors, in development. “Mike is currently the CHRO of Ferrara Candy, and we live just outside of Chicago in Park Ridge. Our daughters, Emilia (13) and Eliza (11) are both in middle school this year and are pretty awesome kids.”

Vermont Land Trust. David Huang is doing well and starting to look for a change of scenery. Following 20 years of living in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, he is looking to relocate back to the States. On the job front, he is completing his contract as a turn-around specialist at a battery technology firm. He wanted to thank the T’96 alumni network (Jean-Yves Lagarde, Dan Hurwitz, John Olson, & me) for opening the door and working together commercializing lithium batteries into their systems. The network does “make Tuck a special place.” Like David, Kevin McCuistion submitted Mungenti-style bullet points, converted into Tuck Today format here. Kevin just finished 22 years at Microsoft and recently moved from the U.S. Cloud business to the Worldwide Education business to run the Strategy and Planning team (our mission: winning the hearts and minds of students; our main competitors: Google, Amazon, and Apple). Noble Purpose with the Burning Platform of tough competition—sounds perfect! He and Kristin are officially empty nesters after sending off Grace to Boise State. Jonathan is in his junior year at the University of Washington. To console ourselves, we will spend more

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Christine Amirian now works for Disney Media Networks in New York, right across from Lincoln Center. Now being part of Disney, she took the first family trip to Disney World in September. “Pro tip: don’t ride Expedition Everest roller coaster right after lunch.” Another family trip was to Armenia in the summer of 2018. “It was fantastic, even though the temperature hit 109. Another pro tip: visit Armenia in spring or fall. On a lark, before writing to you, I googled ‘Armenia and Tuck School’ and learned that Professor Powell has taken students there the past few years. You learn something new every day.”

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CL ASS NOTES While not quite the same as an empty nest, we do have news of a retirement home. Not sure what Jay Bartlett is referring to but probably not assisted living, bingo, and salads from a blender.... From Jay: “On the professional front, I’m 16 years with Parthenon (now EYParthenon) and opened our LA office a few years ago, despite not living in LA. We moved to Salt Lake 3 years ago and have recently built a ‘retirement home’ in Park City. Unfortunately, building the house is going to push back retirement a few years, but in the meantime would love to see any classmates that make their way to Park City or Deer Valley to ski this winter! I’ve seen Rob Lynch a few times, as he is living in Park City.” Jay has been busy keeping up with classmates beyond his Park City neighbor Lynch: “I will be at Tuck in mid-October for recruiting and am looking forward to dinner with Jay Benson, Matt Rightmire, and Chris Trimble. After spending 10+ years of weekends in the Upper Valley before moving to Salt Lake City, I’m looking forward to being back in Hanover and seeing classmates. And to be there during foliage season is a bonus! “I was able to get a ski day in with Reid Jackson last winter and hope to do so again this year. He was in Utah for board meetings, so we took advantage of a weekday at Alta. I also ran into Perry Hall a few months back—we were sitting across the aisle from each other on a flight and caught up after far too many years. “Lastly, thanks to all the T’96s who contributed to TAG this year—we had great participation and giving. I can’t believe I’ve been harassing you for more than 20 years!” On my [Trent’s] end, the biggest change is the empty nest. Love the kids but worth the wait, if not the tuition. Braden is a junior at George Washington Univ., and Ellen is a freshman at Boston University. The empty nest and time flexibility is awesome, but Irene and I may not be using it the right way yet. Irene is campaign manager for Shaker Heights’ mayor’s election, and I am not making it to the golf course more. Life at Eaton continues to be engaging and challenging, where I remain treasurer and keep picking up other corporate sub-functions. Have a safe and joyful autumn, holiday season, and winter!

’97 Helen Kurtz helenwkurtz@gmail.com

Judd Liebman judd.liebman@gmail.com

Let us first say, we are sorry for sleeping through the last issue. That was a big LP moment for us, and Judd and I are so sorry to have disappointed you. Happily, this seems to be a tenured gig, so we’re hoping the repercussions won’t be too severe. Consider this, then, a double(ish) issue of news—albeit slightly past its code date—and read on.... From our most consistent and farthest-flung classmate, Tom Stiles, comes news that “I’m continuing my work with McKinsey, which is going well. As I expected, with my oil and gas background, the Firm has me traveling the world, but that’s OK with me—I still get to come home to the world’s most livable city. My family is absolutely loving it in Melbourne, and there are amazing things for me to do when I’m not working (I’ve most recently taken up open-water swimming in the bay here)...if anyone finds themselves coming to Melbourne, give me a shout!” Mark Elliot sent a note in via the new classnotes online submission form (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes) to say, “Enjoyed celebrating my son Sam’s bar mitzvah with Ron, his husband Colin, and Keith and Heather.” Wendy Pease has been running Rapport International for 13 years and updates that “it has been a lot of fun—always lots of change, and I’m fascinated by the linguists who we work with. Many well-educated immigrants with crazy stories. Right now, I have a great team, and that makes a world of difference. I love working with companies to develop an outreach strategy when they start considering multilingual marketing and how to handle communication. On a personal note, my kids are teenagers, so life is no peaceful...but it is entertaining!” Rob Kain shared that “we are still plunking along in Salt Lake City. Sharon is working

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on her photography and was covered in Black+White Photography magazine in May. The kids—well, they’re not so much kids anymore—are doing well. Katherine is a sophomore at Mount Holyoke and enjoying every moment of it. Jeff is finishing up senior year of high school, and his hockey team won the state championship for their division. Nice way to finish a high school hockey career!” “All is well in ATL,” writes Paul Ollinger. “Family is healthy and happy. I continue to leverage my world-class business education by telling jokes to drunk people in comedy clubs around North America. In addition to lots of local shows here in town, I’ve recently worked weekends in Detroit and Montreal and have Philly, Hartford, and Phoenix coming up in the next couple of months. While I give Tuck credit for launching my internet career, I also hold the school responsible for the comedy bug it embedded when I co-hosted the talent show during first year. Damn you, chronic need for attention!” Paul is being far too modest; my sources confirm that he is doing 175 shows this year, many in front of 500 people. And he has written his second book...not sure about all of you, but the idea of 2 side hustles on top of a full-time job is incredibly impressive.

Paul Ollinger “working” in Detroit

Becky Joffrey has been “living the life in Ithaca, even though my heart is still in Hanover. Elizabeth is ski racing and competed in the NY State championships, which has been keeping us busy this winter. On the work front, Ken Wisdom, Kim LaFontana, Mike Goldwasser, Ying Shiau, and Rob Gulliver will be happy to know that I’m leading the Cornell Student Experience Initiative; you can check out our first project: experience.cornell.edu [I (Helen) did, and it is fantastic]. Also I’m planning to visit Grace Tan in Pittsburgh on an upcoming trip to Carnegie Mellon.”

’98 Doug Haar doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

Carolyn LaVoie T’98, Helen Kurtz, Dean Matt Slaughter, and Erin Tunnicliffe at a Tuck celebration in San Francisco

As for me (Helen), I have now been in California for a year and have loved it. I joined Geoff Beard at his banner birthday celebration and caught up with Chris Weasler there, too. Geoff was fresh from a road bike injury that had done little to slow down his epic pursuits of athleticism, and Chris is still loving life at Facebook. Both are great dads, and it was amazing to see all of our kids playing ping pong and foosball together. I seem to be one of the few left in CPG, which gives me a great chance to connect with finance people like Dave Craver and Marco Tablada (T’98), who somehow find themselves needing advice in the marketing world. I got to see Erin Tunnicliffe at an incredible Tuck event this spring—it was a spectacular tribute to the school and celebration of Dartmouth and Tuck successes. Seeing Yancey Spruill, Amy Houston, Vicki Craver, Charlie Newton, Karl Spielmann, and Erin at Tuck board meetings has also been a true treat. All is well in the world of poultry (I am now CMO of Foster Farms), and people have a lot of good questions for me when I’m sitting next to them on the airplane. No, there aren’t ever any hormones used; yes, air-chilled tastes better; and it turns out dark meat is more popular than white meat. It really has been fun to learn a new business and take a brand with strong foundations to the next level through innovation, campaign, and packaging. And I might even prefer the lemon and orange trees in our backyard to the snow drifts of our former Minnesota backyard.... All the best to you all!

This edition of class notes is being prepared right after our 20th-year reunion. Alas your humble class scribe was unable to make the sojourn to Hanover to document the festivities (which may be a blessing in disguise for some of you). Fortunately, Caroline La Voie recovered enough to send along this update [and look on the T’98 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for wonderful Reunion photos!]: “Our twenty-year reunion was amazing, with 63 classmates in attendance along with their families for a glorious fall New Hampshire weekend. We had a great reception on Friday night at Top of the Hop to kick off the weekend, with a guest appearance by Dean Slaughter. On Saturday, many attended lectures in the morning, and some of the late risers enjoyed a leisurely brunch at the Norwich Inn (thanks to Susan Hunt Stevens for organizing). We assembled midday at Tuck for the BBQ and came together for the famous class photo in which we were all surely squinting...another one in the books. The highlight of the weekend was a gathering of almost 100 of us on Saturday night at Philip and Stephanie McCaull’s beautiful home in Norwich. It was a super fun night that included Steve Meade and Jen Moyer with microphones in hand roasting...just about everyone. Thanks to Jen’s preservation of all of the Tuck Times from our stay in Hanover, they were able to re-embarrass many. We had an entertaining night of reconnecting—can’t wait for the 25th.” Speaking of Phil McCaull...“After nearly 17 years of working as a financial advisor for AG Edwards/Wachovia Securities/Wells Fargo Advisors in the Upper Valley, I resigned on August 3, 2017, to start my own independent financial advisory firm with my long-time colleague, Pete Fahey Jr. (D’94 and husband to Justine Wruble Fahey T’99). Pete and I set up shop in Centerra Park in Lebanon, NH, and affiliated with Commonwealth Financial

Network out of Waltham, MA, as our brokerdealer. We love working for ourselves, and we’ve had a great year. Stephanie and I have enjoyed having Jen Moyer and Dave Bartlett (T’97) back in the Upper Valley (actually not far down the road). Jen continues to impress as chief-something-important-officer at White Mountains Insurance, and it’s fun to see her and her family riding in the Norwich parade in their very own fire truck (seriously).” And there is no such thing as too much Jen Moyer...“We are wrapping up a year of living back in the US here in the Upper Valley, and more specifically in Norwich, Vermont. After a year of tropical living, we have been nerding out on the seasons, and I’ve been especially focused on filling the shoe void, as clearly there are so many many kinds of shoes that I never knew I needed. I’m rounding a year at White Mountains as their chief administrative officer. As you can imagine, the traffic is a bitch for the 5-mile commute from Norwich into the big city of Hanover. I’ve had a steep learning curve, but I’m loving the small company environment, and I’m surrounded by cool, smart people who highly value teamwork. I’ve lucked into a great situation. Dave is like a wild animal freed back into his natural habitat. He is still managing his business (Winrock Advisors) and travels back and forth to Hong Kong once a month. The kids had a great first year at Marion Cross here in Norwich and are keeping us logistically chaotic with 1,000 sports. We absolutely love to see people coming through for visits to Tuck or camp or leaf peeping or whatever, so drop me a line if you’re coming through Hanover!” Sticking with an Upper Valley theme, Greg Jones reports, “My family and I were able to visit with Mike DiFilippo, Cameron Steele, and John and Caroline La Voie during a family trip to California this July. Great seeing all of them. Among the highlights of the trip were spending a few days at Lake Tahoe with the La Voies and having my ten-year-old son teach John some of the intricacies of Fortnite. Other semi-interesting note is that I’ll continue to have the opportunity to spend more time in Hanover over the next few years, as I’ll have two children at Dartmouth this fall—Margaret (’19) and Caroline (’22). Exciting for the Jones family. Not so exciting to have two Dartmouth tuition payments.” Long-time listener, first-time caller Jun Sasaki, writes in: “I am married with two kids (Girl, 17, currently on exchange program in Ohio, and

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CL ASS NOTES Boy, 14, enjoys playing soccer and is the only midfielder selected from his age group). As, for me, I am taking up a new position with a new company, a small Canadian exporter called Canpotex. Unfortunately, I will have to miss out on the reunion as I will be in a transition period, but I look forward in meeting everyone at the 25th. Also, if anyone is traveling to Tokyo, please look me up!” Jun’s been so busy, he still calls his children Girl and Boy. If you have hot tips for names for Jun’s kids, please contact him directly! Brian Thonn’s report was brief but deep. “My son Carter chose to attend Rhodes College in Tennessee. Given that I’m not a fan of the cold Northeast winters, decided Carter’s idea to move south had merit. Relocated the family (Heather, Hadley, 2 dogs, 3 cats) to the Atlanta area in July. Thinking that maybe I should find a job now.” Traditional work is overrated. Just ask Dan Givens: “After spending the winter months volunteering in southern Chile (where conveniently—and not coincidentally—it was summer), I returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2018. I have spent the last 6 months working as a part-time sailing instructor at the OCSC Sailing club. The work is fun and fulfilling, especially since the SF Bay is famous for challenging sailing conditions, and my students have 0 experience! As the summer sailing season ends, I’ll pack my bags and start traveling internationally again, unfortunately missing the Tuck reunion.” Sticking with SF, Mike DiFilippo and Stacy are “now living in San Francisco, enjoying empty nester life. We dropped off our youngest at college yesterday! We never did the city-living thing back when we were 20, so now we’ll try it at 50. Kids are all great—Emma is a second-year medical school student, Allison graduated from college last spring and is now crushing it at a start-up here in SF, and Sophia and Olivia are enjoying USC together. Work is great; I love the short commute. We’ve seen Cameron and Mary Steele a couple times—they live nearby, which is fun—and Greg and Amy Jones stopped by recently! We look forward to the reunion and catching up with everyone in Hanover!” Scott and Rana Andrews have embarked on their own adventure. “Rana and I have moved

to Macau (yes, that small country right next to Hong Kong that’s part of China...sort of). We kept the Vegas house with the intent of going back, so this is a temporary thing (2-3 years) but should be a wild experience.” The more things change the more they stay the same. Just ask Frank Knapp. “My update is pretty much the same as the one from our reunion five years ago (should I be depressed about that...?). Still working at Lone Pine with David Craver (Marco Tablada left us last year, sadly). Still living in Darien, CT—near Kevin Kuryla and Mark Edwards and just down the road from Pete Chapman. Still fumbling my way through fatherhood with a girl of 10 (Kit) and a boy of 7 (Charlie). I know parenting is supposed to teach one patience, but apparently I am a poor student. Still running, riding, swimming, skiing in VT, etc.—but older, slower, and pretty much injured all the time. At least I am about to graduate into the master age group this year! (Again—should I be depressed about that...?) Had a great dinner earlier in the summer with Pete and Kevin and their lovely spouses, during which Kevin regaled us with stories of his and Marco’s dominance of the pong tournament (like, 20 years ago). Like I said—not much has changed since the last reunion!” David Nelson checks in...“Over the past year, I’ve been working as a business consultant for small businesses and running a propertyservices business. It’s been fun because I was able to reconnect Bill Bennett on his CommonThread platform to help some of our clients with their IT needs. At the same time, I’ve joined a start-up in the human capital industry, H.E.R.E., where we map people’s talents and passions to jobs and teams. With a senior in high school and an eighth grader, Mary Christy and I are preparing for all types of changes. We are enjoying time with the Sea Scouts on Lake Travis in Austin.” Tom Piper sent a long, philosophical, streamof-consciousness update that pretty much boiled down to “I almost beat Meade the last time we played tennis. Though there seems little question he was taking it very easy on me.” Much going on with Gary Domoracki: “We have lived in Hamilton, MA, on the north shore of Boston since we graduated. Christie

is still the family COO and is taking care of our homes and kids. My oldest son Steven graduated from Hobart College and is living and working in Boston doing enterprise sales for a software company called Crayon. My daughter Kelsey followed in my footsteps and graduated from Middlebury College and is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in Princeton, NJ. Lyndsay graduated from Boston College, worked in tech sales for a cloud company, and is now going back to school to get her nursing degree. Katie just left for her senior year at Union College. Our twin boys just started freshman year in high school and are playing on the high school football team. Earlier this year we took a family vacation to Zermatt, Switzerland, and had the best family vacation of our lives. “Professionally, I have been in wealth management now for 20 years. I spent many years at Wall Street firms working with clients and in senior management roles running their Boston offices. I spent five years as CEO of two different family offices for a couple of different billionaire families. For the last three years I have been at Stifel, a St. Louis–based middle-market investment bank and wealthmanagement firm. I am running their Boston office and selectively working with a broad range of clients, mostly whom are personal friends who I have known for a long time who have had success and are now CEOs of public companies, entrepreneurs, VCs, and other professionals.... Looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion.” And what have I been up to? Why thanks for asking! Doug Haar remains much the same, with life revolving around work and kids. Still in Westfield, NJ. Still at Oliver Wyman for now almost 8 years. Michelle busy with her private practice as a psychotherapist. Our Tuck baby Hannah is now a junior at Syracuse. Rachel is a senior in high school, and Alexandra turns 13 in the spring, so our lives now are consumed with trying to get into college and bat mitzvah planning. Until next time.... Editor’s note: Vince Trantolo is officially retiring as T’98 class secretary, and we thank him for his service!

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sister, the family caught up with Felicia Rosenzweig in London, returning a visit Felicia made in the summer.

’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia.rosenzweig@gmail.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

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So it seems that we’re less than one year out from our 20-year (gasp!) reunion. The Hanover Inn seems to have sold out all of its rooms moments after they opened for Reunion ’19 booking, so we hope everyone’s got their planning for Hanover well underway. We didn’t manage to get a summer ’18 column together (and the winter ’18 column was online only, but we hope you got to see it; let us know if you can’t find it on the website). We sincerely apologise to Paolo Giordano, who kindly shared a note back in February: “Life in NYC has been treating my wife and me well. We’ve been in NYC for more than 15 years by now. After many years on the sell side and then with a few hedge funds, I now keep myself busy trading at a small fixed-income asset manager. My wife works as a pediatrician at Columbia University, and our 11-yrs-old twins enjoy middle school. We still consider from time to time to move back to Europe, but for now NYC is perfect. Would love to catch up and hang out with anyone coming thru NYC. Best to everyone, Paolo.” Mentioning Paolo’s twins takes us to a new set of T’99 twins who have recently been added to the class. Tom Sherwood and his wife Liz welcomed Ford Aibel and Willa Ruth on September 25. They join big siblings Lou and Mack at home in Chicago. Another Chicago family had a big summer as Thomas and Jane (Ngo) Chiang visited Paris and London with their three sons—Benjamin, Jack, and Will. In addition to seeing Thomas’s

Also visiting London in separate visits were Beth Merle and her daughter Kate, and Kathy (Valade) MacDonald. Both Beth and Kathy spent quality time with Cindy Varga and her daughter Eloise, as well as had all-too-short visits with Felicia. Cindy and Eloise took Boston by storm last spring, spreading boundless energy to all they visited. A night in Charlestown was on the agenda, when Cindy met up with Jen Sayer, Kathy, and Beth in Charlestown. It was a great night and preview to the fun that will be had at Reunion! And if we’re not mistaken, farther up the coast in Maine, Curtis Kroeker may have enjoyed a visit as well during the whirlwind Cindy/Eloise tour. Linda Brunzell also made a summer family trip to the UK (and also saw Felicia) with her husband Nate and son Henry. Linda and family live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, also home to Sara (Nuernberg) and Rick Armbruster and their kids Ellery and Will. Linda and Sara both have badass jobs, VP of corporate strategy at Wolverine Worldwide and VP, Strategy, Research & Digital Transformation at Steelcase Inc., respectively. Unfortunately, the T’99 count in Michigan went down by one this summer with Luis Canales and family making the long drive in July to relocate to Lafayette, California, although they left their daughter behind to start her freshman year at the University of Michigan. Luis was recently promoted to executive director, technology and business development at Nexteer Automotive, which seems to have prompted the move. It must be a very good job to pry Luis away from Michigan.... While Luis has joined the many, many T’99s in Northern California, Southern California is becoming the new hot spot. Julie Meyer is now a proud resident of Santa Monica and has become the target of paparazzi every time she frequents the Chateau Marmont. She is having fun sculling in the marina with all the sea lions and also tries to do some work when time allows. :) Paving the way in LA (or close to it) was the coast-hopping Margo (Ellis) Christou, who is down in San Clemente becoming an expert ocean paddle boarder!

Margo and Julie hope to get together soon with other SoCal T’99s, Richard Carriere and Karen Haus Moran, to enjoy one of Richard’s famous cocktails! Anyone else wanna join? Come on down! Also taking a relatively new job is Laura (Foster) Whitaker, who became chief operating officer at GroundTruth Global (such a cool name), an insight-driven tech start-up in Washington, DC, with origins in the NGO sector. Per their mission (yes, we did our due diligence), it seems like a company with purpose: “We believe that companies can simultaneously protect their supply chain assets while building strong partnerships with the communities in which they operate.” Well done, Laura. Caitlin Appleton has made a triumphant return to the investment world. After taking time off to raise her four children, she has joined another Double Dartmouth alum as a senior portfolio manager at South Shore Capital Advisors. Not to mention the fact that it’s a great professional opportunity, the job has the benefit of being close to home in Cohasset, so she can continue the multitasking mom hustle with her signature unflappable style. We hope to see everyone at the reunion! Remember, if you’re not the one at the meeting, then you get volunteered for all the tasks. Best to be in the “room where it happens”!

’00 Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

A couple of weeks before writing this, I attended a Tuck information session for applicants in Sydney, the first they’d had in a while down here. No other T’00s there, but it was fun to meet some of the other alumni in Sydney. I probably went a bit “off message” with my discussion of dorm life in the late 1990s and the shared showers in Woodbury. We’ll see if I get invited back for the next session. Grant Beggs wrote in to say that after 20 years

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CL ASS NOTES in the corporate world, he retired last summer and started his own real estate company. He is already in the top 5% of realtors and is aiming to be in the top 1% in the next 12 months. Now that Grant doesn’t have to travel, he can take his daughter GG to school every day and recently joined the board of her school, as well as the board of his own undergrad. He also proudly no longer has status on any airline! Priorities realigned.

’01 Gail Perrault gperreault7@gmail.com

Editor’s note: Welcome your new T’01 class secretary, Gail Perrault! And look for lots more T’01 pics on the class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu!

Hi everyone, We have a lot to catch up on, so let’s jump right in. Let’s start with baby news from Claudia Pardo and Alex Lejeune. “Our little Catalina joined the family July 2017. We « feel » 15 years younger, and we are thankful for all the experience we gathered with our three boys— but it is still a bit of unchartered territory with this little princess! We are now settled down in beautiful Geneva area and love it here. All Tuckies are welcome anytime!”

Georgina Beggs-Garcia (Gigi)

In July, Eric Wang, CEO of EcoFibre, convinced me to join as CTO to help digitize the business. Check out the website (http:// www.ecofibre.com) to see what we are up to. Definitely using some Tuck skills there, especially around optimizing ops. As I’ve written before, a great way to keep in touch in a more real-time way than Tuck Today is via the Tuck2000 Facebook group. It’s a closed group with 140 members, so most of you are already on there. Since the last Tuck Today, there are some great updates with photos and the usual Facebook commentary and likes from Brian Ries about his trip to NJ, where he met up with “1/3 of the greatest study group ever”; David Ehrich’s update on his Petal venture, which just announced a big Series A funding round; Miguel Iribarne’s Tuck info session in Buenos Aires; David Menko’s visit with Miguel; Sherilyn Butler and Cecilia [Bouras] Stewart’s meet-up; Cecilia and Deepa Prahalad’s meet-up; and much much more. Hope you all are well! —Alastair

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The Pardo/Lejeune family—Nicolas, Catalina, Claudia, Mateo, Alex, and Marcelo]

Alison Wille Harris and Jim Harris (T’04) also welcomed a little girl, with Caroline Wille Harris arriving this July. “Caroline arrived three weeks early at a healthy 7 lbs, 11 oz (so maybe very lucky I didn’t take her to 40 weeks?). Natalie (4.5) is thrilled with her new role of big sister and being my wonderful helper. We’ve been in Washington, DC, for two years now. We frequently see both Shelley Huchel Guiley and Isobel Shih Cox and enjoy having our kids play together—more of that in our future. Would love to see other Tuckies who are in DC or when they come to town.”

Natalie and Caroline Harris

We’ve also had some big moves, with one of the biggest being by Alejandro Martinez. “My wife Melanie and I moved from El Salvador to Calgary, Canada, this summer. So far we are very happy. Plenty of outdoor activities nearby, which is great for Lucas, our son. I started a job with TELUS in September. I continue to manage a coffee farm in El Salvador, but the distance makes it a bit complicated. I do expect that at least I will be able to market the coffee locally to roasters in the area, which is a plus.” Eve Marhafer Meek, who likely holds the title of “most moves post-Tuck,” is now calling Hawaii home. “From Hanover to DC (marriage to Tres, a Navy Lieutenant, in 2001), then Monterey (first baby boy, Gordie), Ventura (second baby boy, Andrew), Norfolk, Groton, Ventura, DC again, and now Hawaii, I say, ‘Aloha!’ When I resigned from the Navy in 1999, I thought I was leaving Navy life behind and that Tuck was going to help me launch myself far away from it. Then, a year after graduation, I married my way right back in as a Navy spouse. Through all of our moves, I have been consulting to government clients, telecommuting for LMI. My 14-year-old is now in his seventh school. Tres is in his maybe 10th job since we got married. I’m rearing two kids, making and leaving friends speckled throughout the world, living with multiple sclerosis, thankful to be a breast cancer survivor, and loving life. Looking out my windows at the glistening Pearl Harbor about 20 feet past my back door, I pinch myself because I literally live in the middle of the harbor on Ford Island. I am greeted each day as I cross the bridge home by the USS Arizona Memorial, the Battleship Missouri Memorial, the USS Utah Memorial, and the USS Oklahoma Memorial. It’s an easy place to sit back and be mindfully aware of and thankful for my many blessings. Come visit me if you’re looking for that kind of thing.... Aloha.”

Hunter Xia and his family have relocated from China to New York. “We moved to Long Island, living in Great Neck. Mizuki, my eldest son, is in 7th grade, Anna is in 5th grade, and Tomoki is in 3rd grade. My wife Junko has signed up for English lessons and is going to take driving lessons. I left Nature’s Bounty Co., where I had worked for 10 years, and started up my own business, still mostly focused on selling supplement products in China through social media and e-commerce channels. I’m splitting my time between China and the US, but we are happy to have the kids go through the schools in the US.” Hunter encouraged any T’01s who want to sell to China via e-commerce channels to free to contact him.

Hunter Xia and family

Nate Pund was also on the move, relocating to Dallas. “I was recruited by Houlihan Lokey to head their active lifestyle (e.g., sporting goods, outdoor, action sports, etc.) investment-banking practice. A fantastic firm and terrific people. My wife, seven-year-old son, and 13-week pug puppy are all enjoying the Lone Star State. I also just celebrated my 10-year anniversary in Bermuda with my lovely wife Randi.”

through Giving Wings, the Influence Film Foundation, and The Case For Her. I am moving into advocacy after building a menstrual-health portfolio.” Things are going strong for Mike Burgmaier at Whipstitch Capital, the investment bank he founded with a colleague three years ago. “We started out as just two people using the outsourced broker-dealer model, but we kept growing. Earlier this year we bought our own broker-dealer, so I somehow unbelievably own and run an investment bank (despite never taking an investment banking class at Tuck!). We focus exclusively on the better-for-you consumer space. We are up to eight people and have completed seven transactions so far this year. Our big one to date was selling KeVita to PepsiCo in late 2016. I truly love my job and can’t believe I get to do this for a living! Still up in Maine, outside of Portland. Home to four of us T’01s (me, plus Gary Grunewald, Tiffany Breau-Metivier, and Heidi Peterson)! Toby is applying to colleges now—yes, the little one I held in one arm at graduation. Crazy!” With another “baby at graduation” reflection, Omar Santiago checked in from Boston. “A big hello from Omar in Boston! JoAnn, the kids, and I are all doing well. Our oldest, Lucy, who was in a baby car seat at our Tuck graduation, is now a high school senior and looking into colleges! Dartmouth is on her list so we are all wishing her luck! Work is great; many of you know that I went on to nursing school shortly after Tuck. Now I do a little bit of everything over at Boston Children’s Hospital. Feel free to reach out to me if you are ever in the area!!!”

Margaret Denniston Lin is now a North Carolinian. “2018 has been a year of change. Steve Lin (T’02) and I relocated to Charlotte, NC, where I’ve started a new job at Corning focused on talent management. It’s been great to reconnect with Bill Thibault, who also works for Corning based in NY.”

Mary Turso wrote in with a hello from Miami, Florida. “I have a six-year-old daughter who is keeping me young while I run two businesses. I still head my customer strategy consulting firm, New View Research. And in the past two years I became the managing director of my husband’s company, Tursair Fueling, which fuels aircraft at Miami International Airport. So if you have a private jet, and you’d like to have it fueled while at MIA, please reach out. I’d love to catch up with any local visitors.”

Cristina Ljungberg has moved away from Sweden, albeit temporarily. “I am living in Mexico for a year with my family on a learning journey. I am 100% focused on our family philanthropy. It’s a 200-percent job and passion. I invest in and fund women’s education and health as well documentaries

Emi Kausafuka-Lehmann also reported in. “I’m still living in Stuttgart, Germany, with my husband Andreas and my daughters Veronika (12) and Charlotte (9), and am still working as a sales and marketing manager for a midsized company here in Stuttgart. We were supposed to move to Japan last year, but

due our older daughter being diagnosed with lymphoma, we cancelled our move. She went through several cycles of chemotherapy and is a happy, healthy girl again. I truly hope that she stays healthy (knocking on wood...). Both of our girls (neither of whom speaks Japanese) are attending English-German bilingual Gymnasium, so they can still communicate with my parents and my sister, who don’t speak a word in German.” Chris Row and Jamie Athanasoulas are together again, as they both joined the private equity firm HarbourVest Partners over the summer. It was a big shift for both—Jamie moving on from Bain Capital after 13 years, and Chris relocating his family from NY to Boston. Chris provided the inside scoop that their new colleagues can’t pronounce Athanasoulas, so he’s known as “Jamie A.” Chris has threatened to “strategically use some of Jamie’s Tuck nicknames in meetings to see if any will stick.” Only time will tell.... Carmen de Pablo Redondo reported a Tuck professor sighting in Spain. “I just bumped into Professor Paul Argenti—yes, in Madrid! I am taking an executive leadership program at ESADE, and Argenti had come for a day to teach in a communications executive program... small world! Also, this summer we had the opportunity to see the Lejeune/Pardo family. Claudia and Alex were great hosts.” Asi De Silva checked in from Singapore. “It’s now six years since we moved to Asia, the last two in Singapore. I caught up with a bunch of Tuckies on my annual summer pilgrimage to the US, in July. I (along with my wife Cristin and 12year-old daughter Amali) had drinks and dinner with Paul Behar, Jim Lindstrom, Michael Sullivan, Pete Siciliano, and Chris Row in CT. Jason Skruck was out fishing! When I was down in DC, Shelley Huchel Guiley hosted brunch at her place in Chevy Chase, with Jake Appleton and his wife there too. We are clearly not part of the selfie generation as no one took a picture during the gatherings!” Steven Tseng has been catching up with Tuckies left and right. First it was Mike Sullivan and Jim Lindstrom. And then it was Gina Clark des Cognets and fellow members of the Tuck Asian Council Jie Lian and Charlotte Liu at a September Tuck event in Shanghai with Dean Slaughter. (After the Shanghai event, Gina hopped over to Tokyo, where she saw Mika Chiba Magoshi and

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Charlotte Liu, Steve Tseng, Gina Clark des Cognets, and Jie Lian, in Shanghai

Tsukiko Tsukahara.) Steven and his wife Anne (along with several Dartmouth alums) also made it out to the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus in Helsinki to see an extremely rare skeleton of a Javan tiger—recently restored for the exhibition thanks to their donation. Like Steven, Andrei Belyi is promoting Tuck outside of the US. “I have been working with TechnoServe for the past six years, running its Latin America and the Caribbean region, based in Lima. Last fall, I was invited to come to Tuck to speak with the students about international economic development, the field that I am now dedicated to professionally. It was my first Tuck visit since our graduation, and it could not have had a better way to reconnect with the school. I have recently accepted a role to join the Tuck Latin America Council and hope to be able to contribute to Tuck’s promotion in the region. I continue an active life of a sportsman. Last month (August 2018), I participated in the Pan American Masters swim games held in Orlando, FL. These games attract the best masters swimmers in the world (most of them are US swimmers). I managed to place in top 10 in 100m free, 100m fly, and 200m fly in 50-54 year age category.” Liz Walles Duda continues to focus on promoting healthy eating and active living for kids in her community. “My family is happy and healthy, with the kids in school and involved in sports and activities. I am coaching my daughter’s soccer team (each of our first times)—fun! I was honored to receive recognition for my community efforts by being named Tega Cay Citizen of the Year. I am trying to leverage this to bring greater awareness to the community organizations that are important to me (Eat Smart Move More York County, for which I am the chair, and Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, for which I am a ‘covekeeper’).”

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Tuckies at the first annual Mighty Moose 5K Fun Run/Walk, in honor of Jenna Hoge Swaim

Keith Gamble caught up with Nick Luthwood when Keith was in London for business. Keith assured me that Nick is still “a laugh a minute.” Was there ever any doubt?

to compete in my fifth triathlon, a summer tradition that has kept me active. And we’ve become a crazy cat family, adopting two orange tabby kittens in January, Pekoe and Queso.”

Also staying in touch are Tigger Hitchcock, Michael Ewald, Jamie Athanasoulas, and Matt Smith. The four took in an early-September Red Sox game together.

I’ll close with a tribute to Jenna Hoge Swaim, who passed away early this July after a courageous four-year battle with ovarian cancer. Later in July, several of us joined Derek Swaim and scores of family members and friends for a “Celebration of Life” event at the Great Brook Farm in Carlisle, MA. It had been an overcast, rainy day, but the skies cleared for exactly the duration of the celebration. Jenna and Derek’s children—Luke, Jason, and Nora—each spoke, sharing stories of special memories they had made with their mom. Kids and families played games in the fields, just as Jenna had hoped when she planned the event.

Jason Copland wrote in with one of our more uplifting submissions. “The older I get, I feel like the less I have to report. Life just keeps moving on. My daughter starts 8th grade, and I am not getting any younger!” I don’t know, Jason—word is that you’re aging in reverse. And your life sounds more serene than Ray Faust’s, who reports that he “can barely keep the kids from destroying the house.” Jane Lannon is keeping busy. “Life is good in NH! I live on a small island, New Castle, NH. (Yes, you can drive there. No, you don’t need to take a boat.) I’m still working at Investor Group Services, now in my 15th year there. I work on financial and operational issues and enjoy working part-time. Ben still works in Portland for Boston IVF. We are about to enter the daunting and exciting phase of middle school with Gigi, age 13. Ollie, age 10, is still at our little island elementary school, which has a total student enrollment of 50! We’ve spent the last couple of years moving around the island while we renovated our dream house on the water. It has been a great move for us, and we are really loving small town life. I’m about

In late September, we gathered again in Jenna’s honor, this time for the first annual Mighty Moose 5K Fun Run/Walk. Derek explained that Jenna’s Alaskan roots, love for fun, and strength inspired the name of the event. Jenna had done quite a bit of the planning for the race while she was receiving cancer treatment. Over 1,100 people registered, raising more than $50,000 to support ovarian-cancer research at Dana-Farber. Taken together with other fundraising activities, as of this writing the donations in memory of Jenna total over $200,000. Jenna was a dear friend to many of us. Quoting from her obituary, “She will be remembered by

the many lives she touched for her bright smile, humility, thoughtfulness, strength of character, and dedication to every endeavor. Jenna loved life, cherished it, and lived it to the fullest. She was extremely grateful and felt lucky to have had such a full life in a short period of time.” We will miss you dearly, Jenna. And we are here for you, Derek.

’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

Editor’s note: After 15 (!) years of class-notesing, Lisa would love to take a break, share the T’02 communications, or turn over the T’02 class-secretarying to one or more classmates! If you’d like to volunteer, please email Renee Hirschberg, director of alumni engagement, at renee.i.hirschberg@tuck.dartmouth.edu or give her a call at (603) 646-9113. Hello T’02s. Some great career news from classmates below, with the full disclosure that some of these “updates” came from my LinkedIn newsfeed. Congratulations to all! In January 2018, Tim Baldwin became president of itslearning, Inc., a global learning management system company whose mission is to make the world’s best teaching and learning solutions for schools. Tim started with itslearning in 2016 as chief strategy officer. Itslearning is a Norwegian company with North American headquarters in Newton, MA. Kate Thunnissen sent news in via the new online class-notes submission form (http:// mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes): “After taking some lovely time off to visit the world, see friends, and read a ton of books, I recently started as CMO at AlphaSense, an AI-powered business insights platform. We consolidate 1000s of sources of data (news, company info, SEC filings, broker research, trade journals, etc.) and layer on AI for powerful, quick, and smart search capabilities. Everyone from global banks to huge corporations use our product. It’s really fun—the company is great. And I’m learning all about natural language processing, machine

learning, semantic search—I sometimes worry I fell into the Matrix, but until the robots actually take over the world, I might as well enjoy it!” In September, Alexis (Browning) McLaughlin was named CEO of 2020 On-Site, a leading provider of on-site vision care for businesses and schools in America. 2020 On-site serves over 450 leading employers. Alexis also joins 2020’s board of directors. Great to have a new Tuck CEO in the Boston area!

Misael with Eliane Almeida and family

In October, David Woodhouse was appointed CEO of NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on harnessing the powerful biology underlying major diseases to develop transformative therapeutics for patients. He was also elected to NGM’s board of directors. David joined NGM Biopharmaceuticals after almost 13 years with Goldman Sachs’ health-care investment banking group and is still San Francisco-based. Misael Shimizu and Sarah [Lefferts] Millard represented T’02 at the T’03s’ 15th reunion this fall. Misael’s wife, Mildreth T’03, updated me on the T’02 connections during their quick trip to the US, which included visits with Eliane Almeida and Mariana Rioboo, both of whom live in or outside of New York City with their families. Misael and Mildreth are a great model of seeking out Tuckies wherever their travels take them!

Misael with Mariana Rioboo and Midreth

friend and classmate when Jason Andris passed away in June. Your many emails about Jason were beautiful and highlighted his kindness and always-smiling presence, as well as his capacity for deep friendships. Thank you for continuing to keep Jason’s family, especially his wife, Julie, and their infant daughter, Olivia, in your thoughts. I’m grateful for all of you, the amazing and strong class of 2002, and wish you all the best in 2019.

’03 Brian Feltz Misael Shimizu and Sarah Millard

feltz.brian@gmail.com

And speaking of T’02 connections, from Renee Hirschberg, Tuck’s director of alumni angagement, “Frank Yao has signed up to take a lead role in helping to relaunch the Tuck Club of Northern California!”

Editor’s note: Look on the 2003 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for lots more photos!

Our notes conclude on an incredibly sad note: Many of you know that we lost another Tuck

By the time you read this, our 15-year reunion will be a fond but somewhat distant memory.

Hey, what’s up y’all!

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the journey, and I hope and trust it was a worthwhile one! I suppose they didn’t leave Louie much choice but to show up, having recently become the face of our class around campus [look on mytuck for a pic!]. Meanwhile, though he didn’t have to travel very far, a big tip of the cap to Frank Truslow, who somehow managed to get to Reunion— and even stay awake for some of it—with brand-new son Thomas (3 weeks!) in tow, along with his wife Nicole and older son Teddy (2). Strong work, Truslows. And handsome boys. Can’t imagine where they could have gotten that from. There were so many highlights from the weekend, I couldn’t possibly do it justice with a recap. It was such a whirlwind from one enjoyable moment to the next. (And alright, well, alcohol may have been a factor. Turns out trying to party like an MBA student when you’re 40-something is way harder than trying to party like a college student when you’re an MBA student.) But there were a couple of particularly memorable moments, to be sure.... The TuckTalks event on Saturday afternoon was a definite stand-out, with several Tuckies (ranging from T’68 to T’19) sharing highly personal and poignant stories from their life journeys and some of the challenges, crises, and crossroads they’ve navigated. Alison Conlon and Krystal Williams each took the stage to share a small slice of their stories, and they had a packed audience riveted to every word. We laughed, we cried, we cheered. It’s hard to remember a time I’ve felt prouder to be a Tuckie than hearing these folks’ remarkable stories and especially to be a T’03 and count such extraordinary people as Alison and Krystal among my classmates and friends. And I swear, either one of them could be a regular on The Moth Radio Hour the way they can captivate an audience with such an intimate and compelling glimpse into their lives. Amazing. The highly anticipated capstone event of the weekend was, of course, the Saturday night banquet—and it did not disappoint. The Hop could barely contain us, and it was a mighty struggle to get everyone to settle down for dinner, knowing this might be the last chance in a long time for many of us to catch up. But once we did, we were treated to quite a show. Andrew and Fernando (well okay, pretty

Krystal and Alison with the rest of the TuckTalks cast and crew

The hair. The shirt. Andy Bernard. The optical illusion that has Sean Ruhmann seemingly with his hand on Bernard’s shoulder from 15 feet away. This photo is everything.

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much Andrew by Fernando’s own admission) delivered the most epic slideshow imaginable, taking us all the way back to our Tuck years through today, with plenty of stops along the way. I can’t imagine where they managed to dig up all those vintage shots (aside from the 500 photos on Alison’s g-drive). This journey down memory lane ran close to 45 minutes long, and I think it could have gone on for another few hours as far as we were concerned. Just phenomenal.

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To cap the evening off, Joe and Mildreth led us through a spirited round of T’03 Jeopardy—another tour de force by our stellar reunion committee. It’s amazing how some of those questions brought us back to things we hadn’t thought about in 15+ years but left a permanent enough impression deep in our minds to come back to us in a flash. I’m proud to say that our table was among the prize winners, which led to me practically having to arm wrestle Louise for arguably the most coveted prize of the night—a Ryan Mayhugh commemorative T-shirt. I won’t disclose who won that face-off, but suffice it to say that I ended up with a Dan & Whit’s gift certificate. As for the T-shirt? Look nearby. In between these noteworthy highlights, there were plenty of shenanigans, naturally. Murphy’s was a popular watering hole Friday and Saturday nights. Some of us may or may not have closed the place both nights. Alas, there were no late-night basement wings to be had (RIP, 5 Olde). So instead, this happened (see pizza nearby). Following a bittersweet farewell breakfast in Raether Hall on Sunday, it was back to reality. Katy and I swung by Dan & Whit’s on our way out of town, where I spent my gift certificate on a couple of essential items—chicken feed and smoked cubed cheese. I ate the whole bag on the way home (the bag of cheese, not the

chicken feed), drowning my sorrows over the fact that it will be another five years until I see some of these fine folks again. Well, that’s a wrap for now. A couple of you sent me some updates recently, which I’d like to reserve for our next issue when we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming. For now, I thought I’d keep it to a reflective celebration of our collective awesomeness. I know I’m not alone when I say that I’m grateful every day for the time I spent at Tuck, what I learned there, the doors it opened, and the path of personal and professional growth it has led me to—but first and foremost for the lifelong friendships it has forged. Since early on in my days in Hanover, I have come to believe that the Tuck Class of 2003 are among the best people on earth. Reunion weekend definitely added another exclamation point to that sentiment. Looking forward to 2023 already! In the meantime, enjoy a few more pictureworthy Reunion moments to close us out. Some of them might even be new to those of you who aren’t Facebook friends with Alison or Mildreth (thanks for the pics, ladies!).

’04 Frank Arias frank.arias.97@alum.dartmouth.org

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Hello everyone. I hope this update finds you all happy and healthy. It is that time again and, while this version of the column is quite brief, we are glad to receive and share updates from a couple of our classmates. Jane Ginsburg adds to the growing list of T’04 Tiny Tuckies, writing that “she has become a mommy to a wonderful son, Harry Levis Shilling, born on 6/23/18. Life has changed and it’s truly wonderful!” Bart Cornelissen—title holder of Most Prolific Traveling T’04—and family are back on the move! “After 3 years back in Amsterdam, the travel bug caught us again. We have moved over the summer to Dubai, where I will lead our Monitor Deloitte practice, as well as our energy & resources practice. Life is getting WINTER 2019

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Congratulations, Jane Ginsburg!

Jack Lee, Shay Brine, Fabrice Daguet, Martha Daguet, and Erik Brine

At Vielcka and Stephen Wong’s wedding

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Ann and Kanishka with Katerina and family in Greece

year in July. The Prouty Ultimate is a (much better in my opinion) alternative to the PMC— check it out!”

Vielcka Mansukhani: “My husband, Stephen N Wong, and I were married this past Saturday, March 3, 2018, in Beacon, NY. Stephen went to Macalester College for undergrad and Cornell for his master’s in architecture. We met volunteering with the Teak fellowship. We were both in the same mentor class. Fernando Castillo and Shadia were in from Palo Alto, Pauke Corstens and Philip from Mexico City, and Mercedes Martínez Ballesty and Eduardo made it all the way from Córdoba, Argentina.

pleasant now after a very hot and humid summer here, and we are slowly settling in. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you happen to stop by the UAE at some point.” And Jack Lee comes through with our Upper Valley news fix. His update from Hanover reports that he caught up with the Daguets during their US visit this summer. “It was great to catch up with Fabrice, Martha, and the kids (Alexandra, Antoine, and Elena). Erik Brine and his wife, Shay (and their children, Elle and Owen), hosted a wonderful lunch and afternoon with friends. And the ‘Not-So-TinyAnymore’ Tuckies picked up right where they left off.”

Until the next update, I wish you all a great rest of 2018 (can’t believe it’s almost over!) and, as always, we look forward to hearing from more of you for the next column. —Frank Arias T’04

’05 Throwback picture of Jack Lee preparing for 1st-year fall term

Francis Barel francis.barel@gmail.com

Jack remains a proud participant of The Prouty, a cycling/walking/golf/rowing event in Hanover that supports research and patient services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. “I’m on the board of the FNCCC, which raised more than $2.7mln at this year’s event. The rides (and other events) are incredible; I would recommend anyone interested to come back for a great opportunity to explore the Upper Valley again, held every

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Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

Editor’s note: Quick notes here from T’05s, as Francis and Dora are ready to hand over the class-secretary duties to another T’05 or team of ’05s. Look for an email from Renée Hirschberg, director of alumni engagement, about volunteering!

Ann Waterman Roy: “Kanishka surprised me with a 10th anniversary surprise trip to Greece in mid-March. We had an amazing time and got to meet Katerina Mavroidis and her husband and girls for dinner in Athens.” Dave Gilbertson: “Amidst the worst blizzard of the year, the power went out and a baby arrived. Emmalyn Gilbertson was born on March 8, 2018 ,to join her sister Lily (4) and brother Noah (7). Mom and baby are doing well, Dad is in a bit of a daze. A few days later, unfortunately, Noah’s frog Maya died. We held a rather formal funeral in the midst of the 2nd worst blizzard of the year. The funeral was delayed when the toilet became clogged,

Lindsay Connor and husband Dan Seigel

Lauren Augusta Seigel

but we persevered in Maya’s honor. This is the Gilbertson version of the circle of life, 2018.” [Look on the 2005 pages at mytuck.dartmouth. edu to see the Gilbertson death and life photos!]

Christian Fong: “Over the last year, I’ve joined four boards in the power/energy and fintech spaces that need strategic pivots, and having fun with some intense strategy, HR, and capital revamps. And this last January I hosted a visit from Ethan Martin, who, lucky for me, was willing to leave ski country for our winter fog in Marin County.”

Dora Fang: “Moved back to San Francisco from Park City and decided to add *another* industry to my career portfolio—real estate! I’m now working at Essex Property Trust, a fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, redevelops, and manages multifamily apartment communities on the West Coast.” Lindsay Connor: “In January, I started a new job as a fixed income analyst for a family office. The hunt for underpriced investments is still very exciting to me. On July 2, I finally settled down and got married. My husband, Dan Seigel, is an attorney who makes me laugh every day. We were fortunate to have Isai Peimer attend the wedding. On August 23, I gave birth to a baby girl, Lauren Augusta Seigel. My husband, daughter, and I live on the beach in Boca Raton, FL. When hurricanes aren’t ripping thru, it is beautiful, and we would welcome the chance to entertain any Tuckie who finds themselves in the area.” Kathleen Borthwick: “Last year, I passed the 20-year mark working on corporate finance at Johnson & Johnson. In 2018, my family and I picked up and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, to continue the journey and add some fun and excitement to our home life. I’m working to support J&J’s pharmaceutical business in Europe and loving the opportunity to learn about the health care systems, markets access, and pricing across Europe. Erin (7) and Maya (6) are attending Antwerp International School and love riding their bikes all around the city. Please get in touch if you’re in the area.”

Alex Pak and family

Alex Pak: Alex joined Canada Post Corporation and its group of companies as general manager and head of strategy in January 2017. After 9 years in various strategy and enterprise tranformation roles at BMO Financial Group, Canada’s first chartered bank (200 years old), with 45,000 employees and several million customers, Alex is excited to help define the future for the postal crown corporation, which is over 250+ years old with 60,000+ employees, and which serves all 16+ million Canadian households and nearly all Canadian businesses. Alex, Yun, and their two boys, Ethan (8 years) and Cameron (6 years), enjoy downtime camping in summer, skiiing all winter, and being on the beach anytime. Edwin Lau: “My startup LEDR was selected as a TiE50 “Top Startup” out of 7400 submissions by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a Silicon Valley global entrepreneurship network.”

Channing and William Rice

William Rice Jr.: In December, the management team of Anchor Capital announced that it was taking back control and ownership from Boston Private Financial. As part of the transaction, Bill Rice will be appointed CEO of the firm, in addition to his current role as chief investment officer and manager of Anchor’s midcap and dividend strategies. Anchor is a Boston-based value investment management firm with close to $10bn of assets under management.

Elizabeth Bride: “I am still in the Boston area and starting a new role at Berkshire Partners this fall. I live in Newton along with my husband, Jay, and our girls Frances (7) and Weezie (5). We have the great fortune of living within a little bubble with Jon Stuart and Jeff Russel and their families within a few hundred yards of us.” Pauke Corstens: “Middle of July we moved back from Mexico City to San Francisco, completing our 4-year adventure of 2 years in Arkansas and 2 years in Mexico. I miss Mexico, which for me was London with good weather, but I welcome being back in one of the places in the world where a lot happens. I am still at Walmart and now leading the home improvement category for Walmart, Hayneedle, and Jet.com. Our house in San Francisco has become too small, and therefore we are planning to add a basement. Let’s see if it will happen and what the experience is going to be.”

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CL ASS NOTES ’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

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Hi all, Kummell here. It’s a Tuesday night. Two days before class notes are “due.” (“Due” because it’s become a running joke with the folks up in Hanover that we never get them in on time. This is probably the earliest I’ve ever worked on them; I’m sure Keeler will slow us down, as always!). (Keeler note from 3 days later: You’re not the boss of me, Kummell. I do what I want, when I want to do it.) Now I’ve been through my inbox—started with all the emails with my “Semi-annual begging for class notes” subject line. Got to “Shake Shack Order Received” and that’s how I knew I was ready to start writing! (Speaking of Shake Shack—their stupid mobile app malfunctioned and tripled my order—honest! That’s pretty much my TT update this time around.) This is going to be a fun set of class notes, something about putting “begging” in the subject of my email pulled some submissions out of people we don’t hear from often...or ever. I’m not even going to make you wait for it, let’s get it. Our first update comes from Mark Nuckols. Yeah, I know! I’ve ended up trading half a dozen emails with him since...but let’s hear from him in his own words: “Hello from Moscow. Some news, I have for several years now become a well-known figure on Russian state TV, appearing several times a week on political talk shows (which are a very popular thing here). I generally express a vociferously anti-Kremlin, anti-Trump, pro-liberal democracy point of view. I am somewhat famous for saying pretty provocative things before a Russian audience, for example ‘America liberated Russia—from the Soviet Union.’” Mark also has a “trademark phrase” that I don’t think Tuck will let me print, but he says it sounds funny “in old-fashioned literary Russian.” Mark continues: “And much to my

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surprise, the audience adores me. But I am already making plans to move to Central Asia, for reasons I am not yet at liberty to disclose.” The Groziers are back after nearly eight years in Berlin—Ted and family are living in Shelburne, Vermont. “Matilda (6) is in kindergarten and Franzi (3) has a nursery gig. Kate and I are looking for work. Let us know if you have ideas for a sports teacher and sustainability guru. In the meantime, we’ve fired up the pizza oven and have a guest room for leaf-peepers and ski bums!” Michelle Duke’s twins are almost 4 and she’s planning a 2nd sabbatical after 12 years with Genentech. “We are taking the girls + au pair to Costa Rica in November but will probably use the sabbatical for a bigger trip to Australia next year.” Oh yeah? Well Keeler, Kummell, and Manning are taking an even BIGGER trip the year after next—just need to see how much time you spend Down Under first. Erin Lifeso welcomed a new little one to the world: “Scott and I are happy to introduce the latest addition to our family—Teagan Elliott Lifeso Martling was born Thursday, September 6th. She weighed in at a very healthy 9lbs 3oz and was 20.5” long. Abigail was SUPER excited to meet her little sister in the hospital and now to have her home where they enjoy morning chats and snuggles. Looking forward to family adventures to come as well as all of us sleeping through the night once more.” And not even 2 weeks later, Tommy “The Prez” Cho (who did indeed Make Tuck Great Again) and his wife Jessica welcomed their daughter Isla into the world on September 22. “And just

Abigail Lifeso Martling meeting her new little sister Teagan

in case you are wondering, Isla is pronounced Eye-La. She was born on the autumnal equinox, so we hope that means she will be very wellbalanced. I have also been given some great advice from our veteran dad classmates on the dos and don’ts of fatherhood. In the don’t category, Weld, Becker, and Manning all vehemently warned me that if I ever have a good night’s sleep, no matter how rested I may feel when I wake up, never go up to my wife and say, ‘Wow, I slept like a rock. How refreshing. I feel great!’ Just don’t, especially if she is the one feeding the kid every few hours. Note taken, gentlemen. Note taken. And thank you.” Barry Bhola took a trip to the Bay Area in late April—“I had the good fortune to catch up with a few Tuckies: Cristina, Shannon, Martin,

We’re sorry, Isla, this is only the beginning of how annoying your dad is.

Sienna, Nisha, Gray and Eduardo in the Castro, and Shannon, Martin, Leela & Joel at Leela’s home.” Our invite must have gotten lost in the mail, I guess. Leela. Ethan Brown pretty much captured how we feel in this eloquent note: “I’m not a Kardashian fan nor have I seen much more than 15 mins of accumulated Kardashian TV footage in my lifetime, but your request for class news reminds me how amazing it is that their life is so full that they can produce entertaining content each week. A year has passed and I can sum it up in a very short paragraph: Life is happy and full. The best part of having three boys is that I can confidently state that I like at least one of them all of the time. Kids are now 4, 6, and 8. I’m nearing 40. Hillary remains the perfect age.”

Manuel de Tezanos Pinto chimes in from sunny California. “This summer we went to Yosemite with friends. We hiked all day to remote places, enjoyed nature, and the best was we stayed away from electronics! OK...stayed away from electronics most of the time...this is a digital picture, not film! In the picture, Manu Jr. proudly wearing his Dartmouth shirt. He has just started high school.”

Manuel and family in Yosemite. Don’t let your daughters see Junior!

Leah Bayer & Hamish Morrin are moving to Frankfurt! “Mediq is asking me [Leah] to take over the Germany operations. If they haven’t rethought this by the summer (e.g., come to their senses and found someone who can actually do the job)—a couple more geos may come in over the summer. Hamish luckily can move with his business—his main German distributor is near Frankfurt—and has found a racing cycling club and a beer drinking cycling club (‘Guilty 76’...mmhmm)—so with that we’re covered.” Guilty 76 what? We are afraid to Google it...men in spandex. Anne-Titia Bové and Alex Thiollier are still in Sao Paulo. “The kids are awesome (Ana-Sofia 9, Yazmin 6) and continue their Tiny Tuckie grooming at the British School here. Alex is loving his new digs at Brookfield Asset Management. AT is stiiiiiiiiiill at McKinsey— and very pleased to bump into Matt Libbey (he’s back at McKinsey) on monthly calls and sometimes in far-flung places—most recently Budapest! Highlight of the year has been our family trip to Iceland—a place I’m sure most Tuckies (who go and seclude themselves in a remote little town squeezed between river and woods) would love!” According to our notes, Shannon Gordon is writing in for the FIRST time. “All is well here in SF. I have made a pretty significant shift

Anne Titia, Alex & family on a glacier. A GLACIER.

from big companies (also known as stable) to start-ups (also known as hair on fire, kinda unstable, why would I do this in my forties??). Hey, it’s the San Francisco way. On the personal side, I have been spending lots of time with my new-ish niece—the world’s cutest— and seeing SF-based Tuckies like Sienna Rogers, the Chius (T’07s), the Whitelaws, the Michaels, Martin and Gray...the list goes on! We’ve got a good little crew here. Always excited about visits from the rest of you too. Have been so happy to see Ricardo Ortiz, Barry Bhola, and Chris Manning roll through town recently!” SG: it was great to see you and Sienna in Park City this summer—come again and see the Mannings! Damali Rhett has traded sinkholes for hurricanes: “Curley finally got to me and I am going to be moving to South Florida to take on a new job with NextEra Energy Resources. I will be moving to Boynton Beach, which is about 30 mins north of Fort Lauderdale. Brian and I are trying to increase the FL Tuck contingent, so folks are welcome to join us!”

Drew Richards chimes in from Vermont: “Buddies! I’m certainly guilty as charged for not contributing here (though I always love reading everyone else’s notes), so here’s my decennial update...two beautiful girls, 6 and 9, each of whom are active in many things, including skiing and gymnastics, as well as any project requiring a glue-gun and glitter; a wife (Tammy), who ran 22 miles yesterday before I left for work; and our beloved golden retriever Tucker, who we got 13 years ago while at Tuck—he literally might live forever, given the wear-and-tear he puts on his body by sleeping 23½ hours a day. I myself continue to find new and expensive hobbies to take up that quickly turn into obsessions, the latest being cycling. Tammy was so happy at first because it meant I wasn’t playing golf...she quickly wished I was still playing golf. Our company (insurance, employee benefits, retirement & wealth management) bought an agency in Hanover this spring, so we are now fully committed to the Upper Valley and I’m up there often. Otherwise, Vermont (Brattleboro) continues to treat our family well. I was able to spend some bike time with Hamish recently (he’s much faster than me...) and spoke with Manning last week (on his way to a surfing session...in Utah...). Kummell, the last time I laid eyes on you was at the hospital post-Reunion and am always happy to see your name come across the ether and know that you’re not laid up! Hope everyone else reading this is doing well.”

Juan Carlos chimed in from South America: “Beside going to the World Cup, I had the visits of Brad and Julian. Eleven years have passed and the trick to made them happy is the same food and alcohol.... Amazing it always works!”

Super athletic outdoorsy Richards family. Yes they’re aging in reverse.

Yes, Juan Carlos sent us this picture where his eyes are closed. Yes it belongs in the magazine.

With that, we’ve hit the end of the submissions, so your trusty class secretaries now how to waffle on for another 2,000 words to keep our real estate in the TT magazine.

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CL ASS NOTES Tom (C’mon Kosowski, we need you next time!) Where were you when you filled out the survey? We have a map! (see map at right) Is that creepy, or totally cool?

Classic Tuck organization—we couldn’t get all the Tuckies in the same photo at their Dartmouth reunion…so they get two photos in the class notes

Kummell actually has more news than his tripled Shake Shack order, though that was a pretty epic day. While on vacation in July, the Kummells were staying in a remote part of the Outer Banks in North Carolina—so remote you need to drive a 4x4 on the beach with deflated tires to get there. So pulling onto the beach, Kummell stops and is letting the air out of his tires and some random guy pulls up and asks if help is needed. “No, got it all under control, thanks.” But the guy won’t leave. He gets out of his truck and walks up to Matt and it’s none other than JOHN FOX. May you all have a random John Fox experience! The Kummells ended the summer by adopting a puppy. I’m sorry, “#rescuing a #puppy. #hero.” The family started the day looking for a designer dog that would fit their Greenwich lifestyle but ended up with a mutt from a shelter. Our first big learning? When the kids write a contract about all the things they’re going to do if you get them a dog? 99% worthless, even if you got it notarized.

ranking each person on a number of different categories. Please email me directly. One night, a few of us were out grabbing a beer. Helfat was supposed to meet us at a bar, which ended up being too Midtowney, even for this crew. We headed down the street to a bar called Murphy’s (I know!), and I texted Helfat as much. He thought I was kidding when he read “We are at Murphy’s,” so he walked around the original location, a vest-laden loud analyst watering hole, for 30 minutes, then went home. Dang!

So, What’s New? Marriages! Babies! Jobs! Cities! Schools! Pets! Tom Wooton has had a very eventful last six months. He got married in April “to the love of my life, who I met on a shuttle between terminals at LAX—but that’s a longer story.” Tom—why are you holding out on us!?! Do tell. In addition to getting hitched, Tom changed jobs in May, bought a new house in June and moved in July. Whew. We are exhausted just listening to that.

’07 Marc Aquila marc.aquila@gmail.com

Whitney Chiu

Tom Wooton and the love of his life

whitney.s.chiu@gmail.com

Keeler is spending a significant amount of time working out how to stunt his children’s growth. At ages 9 and 10, Kate’s DNA has clearly taken over, and Quinn and Owen are already almost as tall as their dwarfish old man. So far, nothing has worked, but he’s optimistic that hours of Fortnite may be the key. Fingers crossed, his ego can’t handle his elementary school kids dunking on him. The Manning family spent some time in New York this summer and got to see all kinds of important people, including Keys, Kummells, Butzes, Welds, Cho, and Beckers. All were doing well, and I’d be happy to share the spreadsheet I made on the flight home,

Hi friends, It’s fall here (at least according to the calendar), which makes us think of going back to school, which makes us think of studying, which makes us think of spreadsheets and data...so we decided to give you a data-filled column. We have a chart! And numbers! Some of them are not MECE. Get over it. 44 = number of people who filled out the survey this time 18% = response rate for our class (thank you!) 75% = response rate of our classmates named

Lauren Purnell is also all about the change. She’s getting married and starting a new job all in the next 30 days (as of this writing). Lauren also gets to walk to work which sounds like a dream. Caroline Allen [Kwiatkowski] got married in July 2018 and is expecting a baby girl in March 2019. In her own words, “If I had work-life balance figured out, I’m about to throw a wrench in it.” Caroline, read on at the end of the column for some tips & tricks (or at least some empathizing) on work life balance. [Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!]

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Chuck Dwy recently moved to Singapore with his family (Lisa; Hunter, 10; Midori, 8). Chuck is now a captain in the Navy ad the US Navy’s senior logistics officer in the Western Pacific.

Kyle Schroeder’s daughter Suzie was born at the end of July. Christian Koether is now a father of three: Ebba Inez Koether was born April 12th, 2018, to join brothers Otto and Hoyer. Benjamin Farmer is also now a father of three. “Hayden Sue Farmer joined our family on June 27th. We now have 3-under-4, and couldn’t be happier about it.”

Note the Dartmouth socks on Kyle Swingle D’05, or the soon to be Mr. Purnell.

Peng Zhang’s second daughter, Zoey, was born right after the Chinese New Year in February. In the nearby photo: From left, Xiaobei Tang (Shikun T’07’s wife), Shikun Pan T’07, Yongchen Lu T’07, Xiaolu Wu T’07, Ivy Dai T’09, Peng Zhang T’07, and Ming Yao T’08.

8 Tuckies and a baby. Tom Selleck not pictured.

Tim Cleary’s second daughter, Millie, arrived in June, joining her 2-year-old big sis Isabelle (who calls herself Ishy).

Tom Watson checked in from the East Coast, where he lives with his wife and their four kids, Ellie (12), Jack (10), Sadie (6), and Maeve (4). [Look on mytuck for a pic!] Tom Curran has a “new baby boy, Daniel, new black lab ‘Tuck’.” No details on either, though I am glad he didn’t make us guess which was which.

Also on the move, Venkat Gopalakrishnan recently left California for Maryland, transitioned out of his previous role, and is now “taking some time off and looking forward to exploring next steps!” Since “Getting to spend more quality time with the family!” is what is making him happy these days, we assume these changes helped his work/life balance situation significantly. Joon Soo Ryu has a new role in a “quite notso-satisfying company.” I bet many among us can relate. But what is making him happy? “Daydreaming, thinking of nothing, occasionally finding myself concentrated in work at job” Joon Soo—have have you seen the movie Office Space? If not, we strongly suggest you check it out. In the meantime, have seen my stapler? Kurt Beloff left New York for Portland, Oregon, where he works in strategy for Nike. You might have heard of them—they’re an up and coming shoe & sportswear brand. You heard it here first. Kurt’s wife Kara is a surgeon at OHSU, and their son, Alex, will turn four this November. Victor Ocran is “currently working with a group of partners to raise capital for business in Africa” and has been “spending time on the continent as a result.” From our LinkedIn stalking research, it looks like Victor is working with Global Village Advisors to invest in medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs across Africa to raise financing to grow their business.

Apparently Andrew Smith and Bob Hall are working together now, something we figured out because Andrew said “Working with Bob Hall” is his something new. We’re very clever like that. What they are working on is apparently shrouded in mystery, and LinkedIn was no help since it still says Andrew lives in the SF Bay Area and we know he lives in Bend, Oregon. I know—we were shocked too to discover that people don’t keep their LinkedIn profiles up to date. Absolutely shocked.

Also on “the continent,” Esi Nana Sekyiamah is still living in Ghana but has a “New job; New challenge; Great opportunity for impact :) :) “ She is the regional director for Sustainable Management Solutions. She also has a son whose “joie de vivre!” is bringing her lots of joy.

Scott Seiffert recently packed up and moved “the wife and 4 kiddos (now a number medically fixed) from Chattanooga to Cleveland.” He managed to pack quite a lot of info into those 14 words, and now we all feel closer to Scott, his wife, and their doctor. I guess—Congratulations? Is there a card for that? (the medical fixing not the moving). LeBron leaves, Scott arrives. Cleveland wins!

Chris Herbert checked in from Atlanta with this very succinct update: “My oldest son broke his arm playing lacrosse. I went 28 days without alcohol. Grew a beard and now it’s turning gray.” No word from Chris about whether the graying beard correlated with the 28 days of no alcohol or is just a coincidence. If anyone else is willing to repeat that experiment, just let us know.

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CL ASS NOTES Zealand, and the UK in his role as president McLean Wilson is feeling very zen these and CEO of the PSC Group. In his words, days. Here’s his update: “Everything is new. “Living the dream, absolutely my own boss. Everything is old. Keith (White), Charlie Well, that is, except for customers. I have to (Kuntz), and I did the Leadville 100-mile work 24 hours a day, but the good news is I can mountain bike race together. It was incredible. choose which 24 hours!” Sounds like it’s a very Nick Waugh was a part of our aid crew.” As for good thing that “my wife, Katharine is VERY what is making him happy: “Family, friends, and life in general. There is happiness to be had, patient with me.” just need eyes for it.” Mark Pierson and Maija Aittola reported in from Minneapolis, where their two kids just started a new school, a Waldorf School. Saku is outside almost all day, even in the rain and cold, and Eila is in 1st grade with other students and a teacher she will be with until she graduates 8th grade.

Where is Nick?!

Laetitia Veleba is still in London and writes in that she went back to work in April 2017 at Credit Suisse “after taking a 2-year career break! and a big nightmare house renovation.” She has three “Duracell-powered” boys (her words, not ours) who are making her happy, though we suspect also contribute to her feelings that “there aren’t enough hours in a day to do what I have on my to-do list.” Sudev Balakrishnan started a new job as the chief product officer of StashInvest. “After having been in a large company for two years, joining a start-up is like skinny dipping!” Oh my! Just make sure your time at work doesn’t involve actual skinny dipping. Because. Well, you know.... Sue Feury’s had an exciting few years. The business she was working on (part of GE Healthcare) was acquired by a private equity firm, and she’s now building a new company. As we all know, private equity deals are very low stress and easy on the home life, so I’m sure it’s been a ton of fun. Somewhere in there Sue had a daughter, Kaitlyn, who is now almost three. She has some super practical tips for how she made her work/life a little more manageable—check out that section in the end of the column. Alex Boyd has been traveling a ton and spending lots of time in Australia, New

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Jimmy Lee is also doing a lot of traveling, though sounds like most of it is with his family. They are living in Basel, Switzerland, and “still enjoying our life abroad and learning something new everyday.” [Look on mytuck for a photo!] Takeshi Maeda is “doing fine somehow in Jakarta, Indonesia,” where he is working as the general manager of the foodstuff division for Mitsui & Co. My geography is bad, but Jakarta was spared the earthquake and tsunami, and he and his family were safe as of this writing. [Look on mytuck for a photo!] Joe & Aki Fletcher are getting around Japan! They live in Kobe, got to catch up with Takashi (Taxi) Nagaoka and Kei Watanabe at the Tokyo Tuck ’Tails (say that three times fast) and also had dinner with Ken Tittle and his wife, Angel, in Kyoto when the Tittles were in town. While, in general, the Fletchers report that “work/life balance in Japan is...um, less awesome than in Australia,” they are able to bike to school with their daughters Charlotte (7) and Elsie (3). Patrick Redmond and family have a new Bernedoodle named Cleo, and she’s bringing them much happiness. Speaking of Bernedoodles (maybe the only time that phrase has appeared in Tuck Today), Peter and I [Whitney] also have a new(ish) Bernedoodle named Ocho. He’s Canadian, like Peter, and stubborn, like me, so he fits in well in our house. He also has his own Instagram account because...San Francisco. Peter is still working for the Google Industrial Complex, though now working on YouTube TV trying to help you cut the cord. I left my job at Shutterfly

Cleo Redmond

last July and after a yearlong #chiubattical am now starting a company. Again because...San Francisco. Apparently this is what happens if you live here for a decade. As for more pets, your other co-author, Marc, has more than doubled down on the pet-fish front. 5-year old Violet is thriving with several guppies, and Marc is living the dream of his 12year-old self and now has a 30-gallon aquarium to compete with share the excitement with his daughter. Sometimes the fish mysteriously go missing, like we can’t find them dead or alive, but nothing smells bad. Yet. Your thoughts on the ever-thorny concept of “work/life balance”: 5.1 = average response to Work-Life balance question 15 = number of people who copped out and picked “5” or didn’t move the default response

Work/life balance... Makes us philosophical “Like most false dichotomies, the very construct [of work/life balance] collapses when one rejects the premise that life is somehow separate than work.” Lauren Purnell “I think this topic is better titled as priorities. There is a synthetic question being posed that people have to think about trading off work versus life as two distinct entities. That allows someone to prioritize on a daily basis things in life that matter!” Sudev Balakrishnan

“Make work part of life and then you don’t have to balance anything.” Andrew Smith “How many work-nonwork trade-offs can you balance on the tip of a pin? Zero.” Patrick Redmond “The answer is not whether the glass is half full or empty, it is that it is refillable.” Christian Koether “It’s a myth. These are buzzwords that are not followed.” Chuck Dwy “Read High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard,” says Ted Callahan. Is hard... “Work/life balance is hard to achieve for me because I genuinely have trouble relaxing. I’m working on this.” Ben Flaim “There is just never enough time for either... you’re always compromising and never able to give 100% to work or your family.” Lauren King ...but maybe getting easier? Or at least we have some ideas for what helps. “As [I am ] getting older, I am not so ambitious as before, so it is easy to keep balance....” Peng Zhang “I’m guilty of long assuming that my work/ life balance or ratio was something that was assigned or given to me by the work overlords. Turns out I have a say in it... what a revelation!” Tim Cleary “Never turn down an adventure, but always respond to emails. Makes returning home less stressful. But more importantly, try to blend work + life seamlessly.” Richard Mumby “Make the most out of off-peak time—I’m on and off to projects, so my workload fluctuates widely, depending on project phase. I’m trying to maximize whatever spare time I can take.” Sungsook Hong “Balance was not something I managed to achieve, but was something forced on me by the fact that I have two little dependents and a working spouse. At some point, I just have to leave work and be okay with the fact that I didn’t accomplish everything. So I’ve actually imposed work/life balance on my job, rather than the other way around. Big question: does that change, or does it affect my career? We’ll see, I guess.” Mark Pierson

“Force yourself to delegate and find a situation where your boss is in a different city. Also find a place where output matters, not input.” Chris Herbert “Early morning wake-ups to get work done before the family is awake on the front end. Block my calendar @ 5:30-8 pm on the back end for time with family. Usually requires a bit of work at night but gives me quality family time.” Shawn Kelly “My work/life balance was about a zero or one last year. Several things helped: (1) we hired another person, (2) we used benchmarks to reset expectations about what is reasonable given our budget and staffing levels, (3) we demonstrated what we could do if we were better resourced (using surge funding), (4) we had frank discussions about the trade-offs between volume and quality, (5) we were more vocal about all that we had accomplished and found that the organization had a very short memory, and (6) when new initiatives became important, we asked those needing the new initiative which of their prior initiatives could be deprioritized or delayed.” Sue Feury “Demands from loved family members drive us to strive in meeting those demands; however, what works for me is always to step back and take in some fresh breaths of air. Work/life balance is up to the individual; you have to make a determined effort to find that balance.” Victor Ocran “Just love your family and love people. All else will work itself out.” McLean Wilson And when in doubt, move: “Move to Tampa for great work/life balance....” Kyle Schroeder “Live someplace you’d want to vacation...like a ski town.” Tom Wooton Or marry someone who will help you: “It helps to have a super type-A spouse who keeps everything on the rails.” Andrew Ulland

’08 Allison Curran amc0501@hotmail.com

Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

Louisa Roberts louisabgoodlet@gmail.com

A note about the future of this space. To say the least, we have been remiss in the execution of our class-secretary duties. In addition to being busy with the typical roster of excuses, we have also been having existential thoughts about how this space can better connect us in these digital times. The class of 2008 was the first class to use Facebook and LinkedIn and the iPhone. I remember sitting in Whit Lounge with Emily Nielsten [White] and Evan Konwiser when they walked me through signing up and became my first friends on Facebook. Despite its recent challenges with privacy, Facebook has drastically changed the way we consume updates about our friends’ personal lives, and LinkedIn has changed the way we get professional news. We now get these updates instantly and constantly with unlimited pictures. If we want to know more, there are 15 ways to reach out and learn more. The downside is that this column, published twice a year, is often rendered outdated. A space that was once a great way to connect is now searching for new relevance. Since we were the early adopters, it falls to us to be the innovators. So while the typical news about mergers and acquisitions will ALWAYS be welcome here, we are adding something new. Starting with the next column, we will be adding a new section, featuring more in-depth interviews with 2 to 4 classmates. The interviews will start with the same series of 5 questions each time and, with time, evolve. Just like we all do. We are calling it the connection project. Get excited. For future submissions, we would appreciate if you used the online submission platform WINTER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES [http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_ notes] for continuity; we will get your updates in for those of you not on FB or other social platforms. You can also continue to hit us up by email. But for now, here is all of the stuff we have amassed in the past few issues.... Ben Renda recently completed a 17-month active duty military tour at Defense Innovation Unit experimental (DIUx) in Mountain View, CA—a military unit tasked with finding commercial technologies and delivering them to the Department of Defense as quickly as possible using expanded Other Transaction (OT) authorities granted by Congress in the NDAA 2016. During his tenure, DIUx awarded 48 prototype projects; leveraged approximately $84 million in DoD partner funding from more than 30 different DoD entities to initiate prototype projects; recruited top talent with commercial technology and subject-matter expertise from around the nation to build a staff of 29 full-time personnel across four offices; stood up a unit of 55 reservists and national guard personnel; and awarded DoD’s first-ever follow-on production contract under the OT authority. He took a hiatus from his role as director, operations at YouTube, where he grew global operations teams responsible for policy development and enforcement, copyright/IP protection, scaled abuse prevention, and multiple customer support teams, including YouTube Premium and YouTube TV. Team Donigian continues to grow and do well. Baby #6 is due at the end of May. Just adding more fun to a crazy household. Kristen is working toward a nursing degree. Aram has been the director of leadership programs at the Air Force Academy for the past two years and retires in October after 20 years in the Army: “Looking forward to the next adventure! Staying in Colorado for the time being, while doing some leadership and negotiation training from there.” Angela Kung Shulman: “Will and I now have two little girls—Addison is 7, and Natalie is 3. Both are sweet, and both are trouble! We still live in San Francisco in the neighborhood of Noe Valley, although we moved last year (just two blocks away on the same street). The girls both attend a Mandarin-immersion school, and although I’m trying to improve my Chinese, much of Addison’s homework is already too difficult for me.... On the work front, I realized 122

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recently that, amazingly, I seem to be fulfilling the ‘long-term goals’ that I wrote about in my application to Tuck! I cofounded, with Will, an enterprise software start-up called mLab that provides tools for developers. Even though I’ve been working on this a long time (7 years now), I’m still mostly loving it; it’s just an insane amount of work, and we can never turn it off.” Justin White: “I am 2 years into managing a diversified US mutual fund, and so far so good. I am T Rowe’s youngest portfolio manager for the time being. Thanks to market appreciation it is now a $5 billion fund. Ticker PRWAX. I have a beautiful and mischievous toddler, Niklas. His favorite foods are gooseberries and olives.... We are spending as much time in Berlin, Germany, as we can, especially during summer (awesome city; we have an apartment there).... And on a side note, Jason Adams is kicking ass and taking names at T Rowe.” Yvan [Baker] is coming close to the end of his first term as a member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario and will be running for re-election in June 2018. He is currently serving as Parliamentary assistant to the minister of finance, a role in which he has used his Tuck and BCG experience to advise the premier and the finance minister on how to successfully execute the transformation being undertaken by the Government of Ontario to deliver better value for government dollars and balance the provincial budget.... He has had a number of milestones in his first term. They range from saving a school that serves hundreds of children with special needs; introducing legislation that was adopted into law that will stop aggressive and misleading door-to-door sales tactics by banning unsolicited door-todoor sales of certain products; and successfully advocating then leading several initiatives to help students be better prepared for the labor force so as to address youth unemployment and underemployment. Louisa Roberts is still experimenting with drugs, or at least the application of data and AI to make better pharmaceutical agents. She is excited to take on the new role of head of commercial strategy at WuXiNextCODE, which helps biopharma companies leverage the human genome for drug discovery and development; she wishes she still had some of those old Tuck frameworks to hand. Having completed a life-changing event (new job (2)/ baby (2)/house move (1) (“threw out all the Tuck binders!!!”)) every year for the last 5 years, she decided to pause, which is good news for

the still Iron Man–obsessed Sean Goodlet. Olivia (5) and Harper (3.5) keep her busy and help to inform her leadership mantras, which work equally well for teams and toddlers: (1) Sharing is caring, (2) Team work makes the dream work, (3) Stop whining, start winning. In order to accommodate Pudding’s middle age and request for a garden, the whole team moved to the NJ suburbs. During earlymorning coffee on the porch, Louisa regularly feels zen, like Snow White, surrounded by deer, rabbits, chipmunks, and squirrels, then they start to eat her shrubbery, at which point she becomes the nasty witch.... Heather Andrews’ update from a while back... this is tragically late! “After having our son Ben in 2013, life in San Francisco seemed harder than it needed to be, and we moved to Boulder, Colorado, last winter. Life in Boulder has been good, and being able to hike really close to our house helps me to feel like this move was a good decision. We bought a house earlier in the summer (which here means a brick ranch) and are in the process of renovating it. I am due with our 2nd boy next February and wish a new kitchen was also on that timeline, but oh well. I continue to work for EnerNOC with Joel Obillo, albeit now really remotely, and am grateful for being able to work part-time. Attached is a photo of Thayer, Ben and myself, with a festive bird thrown in.”

’09 Patricia Henderson patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

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In order to thoroughly research this edition of your class notes—and to get the lay of the land in advance of next fall’s ten-year T’09 reunion— one of your enterprising class secretaries (ie, Colin) visited Tuck for his wife Kristyn’s T’08 reunion, where he spotted fellow ’09/’08 partners Rose Kraemer Carpenter, Hadley Fuller Allen, and Jess Liu. No sightings of T’09

resident Upper Valley residents Chris Harris, Caroline Kendall, Dan Weinstein, or Ryan McGovern though! Here’s the full report to prepare you for the coming ten-year (!!) reunion next fall. The bad news? Brace yourself: Canoe Club has poured its last drink and shut its doors. The good news? Buch is a dorm again! The funny part? Buchanan is now “the quiet dorm.” Yes, there are actually signs up explaining that. No word yet on how long that scheme has lasted.

Bank for several years, he cofounded Omniex with two other former State Street cofounders, raising a $10mm seed round in late 2017 and building the first institutional investment and trading platform for crypto-assets so hedge funds and traditional asset managers can gain access to the rapidly growing crypto-asset class. And to top all that, John & Anastasia welcomed a baby boy this summer! Aaron Mihaly, wife Anita, and 2-year-old son Nathan moved back to Washington, DC, in the fall of 2017, after a year in India, just in time for twins! (See photo.) That hasn’t stopped recent travel to Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, Seattle, and Vancouver.

Also amusing: Incoming students at Tuck have long since abandoned the “web board” discussion groups and now just communicate all summer pre-Tuck on a massive WhatsApp group text string. Kids these days.... In terms of your reunion planning, keep in mind that roughly 100+ members of the class of ’08 made it to their 10-year reunion, and we counted exactly 4 of those who made it to the Sunday morning breakfast. Make of that what you will. Finally, just as a reminder: there is perhaps nowhere as beautiful on earth as Hanover the first week of October. Make your plans (and your reservations) now! AS FOR YOUR UPDATES FROM CLASSMATES: (Please note that where a few of these are a bit belated, it is the fault of your secretaries and not your classmates!) Last winter, Yeechin Harvey moved back to New Hampshire, working on the Seacoast at Lindt & Sprungli in Stratham, NH, as marketing director. Our Tuck gatherings are about to get a whole lot sweeter! Mike and Yeechin are doing well, and kids Jacob and Sarah are getting huge and hanging out with other Tiny Tuckies (Jon Pearson’s daughter Vivi, Kristen Loureiro’s daughter Isla, Jill Cohen [Piscsopo’s] daughters Sadie and Lylah). John Burnett has had a busy few years—he was married back in September of 2016, with fellow Tuckies Mark Perez and Dennis Lasko ’08 as groomsmen. He and wife Anastasia moved from Boston to San Francisco last winter. After leading blockchain & crypto at State Street

Manish Tangri is still at Intel, the company he joined post-Tuck, but moved to Intel Capital 18 months ago. Did some equity deals last year, worked on Wind River Systems’ divestiture to a private equity firm: TPG earlier this year and likely more M&A going forward. Furthermore, he’s been fortunate to partner with VG (picture nearby) to accelerate Intel’s innovation execution. On the personal side, Siyona just started kindergarten, and Isha is in 4th grade. They keep Arti and Manish snowed under at home. Not having picked up skiing while at Tuck, Manish took lessons with Isha, during her spring break, at Tahoe. The same week, they visited Death Valley National Park and experienced a sandstorm! Regarding T’09 encounters, he met up with Udayan in Seattle this summer, and this past fall had a great time at Kal’s for a Bollywood karaoke party. Curiously, his study group seems to be getting active again, as he received a pitch from Mike Parker recently, and Charles reached out to meet this week after a multiyear hiatus. Maybe just warming up for the 10-year reunion?

The Mihaly family—now with twins!

Also lapping the rest of us in the family expansion plans, Jenny Farrelly and husband George are now the proud parents of three! Daughter Katie is two, and twin boys Nate & Theo joined the family in Brooklyn last winter (Dec 2017). They definitely have their hands full but love being a family of five. Jenny is still at growth equity firm General Atlantic as chief marketing and communications officer. Nitesh Dixit decided to leave the big corporate life at Deloitte last year to embrace start-up culture and joined Auctus Advisors in early 2017, moving up to become director & North America practice leader. Auctus is a young advisory firm based in India, with offices in Spain and the Philippines and now Chicago. So you know, you can reach out to Nitesh to solve your corporate advisory needs. Now, with the BD plug out of the way...Nitesh is building roots in Chicago and reconnecting with Tuckies in the area. The Ravals joined at Kabir’s (Nitesh’s son) b’day party celebrations last winter, while he met Cindy, Cameron and Michael Parker for drinks during the last Chicago holiday season!

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Lucas Nelson and wife Jeannie now have a oneyear-old son, Milo. Lucas has launched his own venture fund focused on early stage enterprise technology, and become a world ranked pinball player. Yup, that’s a thing. Caroline Kendall and husband Jason welcomed tiny Tuckie Anna Elizabeth Kendall last April 15th—so Caroline spent the majority of the summer on a sweet maternity leave from Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs, where she is leading up sales planning and strategy. Baby Anna loves to swim, sleep, and hang in the baby jogger for long runs. (See picture nearby.) Fancisco Barua is back in Lima, Peru, his hometown, where he manages the investments of the largest cement group in the country, WINTER 2019

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So. Much. Relocation. Anna Elizabeth Kendall

UNACEM. He and wife Lorena have 4 beautiful daughters!

Fiona Charlton is back in Ottawa, Canada working as VP marketing for the Ottawa Hospital. Her twin daughters Lina and Tessa were born on May 5, 2018, and are doing great.

AND FINALLY, A PROGRAMMING NOTE: We’re looking for new class secretaries! Right now Colin & Patricia’s class-notes completion record stands at 17-for-18 Tuck Todays—not bad for a couple of capital “S” students—and we’d love to use the reunion to recruit a new scribe or two as we move into our second decade as alumni. In fact: We think the job has the opportunity to evolve a bit, just as have our social networks and digital communications in the past decade. There is an opportunity to not just keep each other in the loop through these updates but also perhaps to take on a bit of a virtual social-chair role (for the right Tuckie or two). Interested? Drop an email to Colin at colin@vanostern.com and we can discuss....

Prashant Hegde and Allison Merrett’s wedding

like payments and nationwide shipping. He is loving the outdoor PNW lifestyle and summited Mt. Rainier this past July.

Fiona Charlton, with twins Lina and Tessa

Eric Ho shared that 2018 has been a year of tons of change for him. He and his wife, Mai, recently had their second daughter, Akira, in March. Eric astutely notes that this effort was “mostly Mai.” Akira joined big sister Fei Fei. The Ho fam moved to the Boston area last week and are staying in my hometown of Lexington while scoping out more permanent digs. Prashant Hegde finally left Amazon to come work at Zillow Group, where he’s leading product development for the Zillow Offers program, which buys and sells homes across America. Prashant relocated back from SF to Seattle in May. But most importantly—he married the lovely Allison Merrett in Italy this past September! Quite a big few months. Back in November 2017 Igor Borojevic moved with his wife Petra and their two daughters from the Bay Area to Seattle, where he is working for Craigslist-killer OfferUp on some super-cool new product offerings,

Also relocating is the Daniel Hawkins family, which is spending a year in London. Dan writes, “My wife (Summer) has a sabbatical so we had the freedom to move and live here for the year. Not sure my daughters (Iris 7 and Celia 4) will pick up British accents as they are attending the American School in London. Oh well! Trying to fill this year up with as much as possible: family, friends, travels. If you are in town or passing through, please get in touch.” Dan moved from TripAdvisor to Time Out Group in May of this year. And from Alex Jenny, via the new online class-notes submission form (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu): “Aly (D12) and I got engaged in April of this year, we have moved to San Francisco, and I recently began a new job at Allbirds. Looking forward to meeting up with SF Tuckies! Hans and Karl Reichstetter’s latest Kickstarter project is Rumble Jar, a super-simple at-home cold-brew kit. At press time 1,259 backers had contributed—will you be number 1,260? (Ok let’s be honest: by the time you get this, they’ll be on to their next Kickstarter.) Brice Crawford visited Bastian Latt for a long weekend in Munich, and he and Bastian had fun exploring Munich by bike in the fantastic

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fall weather and having some Oktoberfest fun. NBD. Bastian also ran into Kathryn Doherty on a sailing trip in Croatia this summer. Also NBD. Wait, there’s more. Bastian recently took a 3-month sabbatical to surf in Sri Lanka. Ok, seriously Bastian, that’s just over the top.

’11 Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

Work at Tuckerman Capital in the Upper Valley has been busy but exciting and fun for Nick Russell. His firm has investments in a company that operates a small fleet of aircraft to fight forest fires—something I greatly appreciate, as that seems to be global warming’s gift to Washington state. He has also been moonlighting down Tuck Drive leading a program through the Private Equity Center focused on small company investing. Nick is delighted to report that Baby #2 (he promises to find a new nickname soon), Marguerite, joined big brother William in early August. Word has it that John Kim got engaged! And Jim Marett is very sad about Canoe Club closing and is hoping it can reopen by Reunion. Let’s close out with a roundup of the newest crop of Tiny Tuckies: • Eaun Gray and wife Kim—Baby boy Liam Harrison Gray. • Leo Trautwein and wife Kelly—Baby girl Lívia Elaine Trautwein, who joins big brother Caio. • Amanda Lynch Hegge and John Hegge—Baby girl Cora Hegge, who joins big brother Otto. • Steve Hallowell and wife Emily—Baby boy Theodore John Hallowell, born August 2nd, 7 pounds, 3 oz, and 20 inches long. He joins sister Claire Elisabeth, who just turned two. • And see above about Nick Russell’s daughter Marguerite.

Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

In other news, Richard Smith has descended upon the US again. He writes that after 5 years in the US, he and Jen are moving to Weston, MA—just in time for new baby girl Mary (Molly) Martel Sophie Smith (born May 22nd) to fully avoid developing an English accent.

In typical news from us, Shaun and Amanda see each other from time to time. We just love reunions, so we’re thrilled to see the lovely familiar faces of our TP’11 family! Erika Alders shared that in carrying on the tradition of a TP’11 reunion every two years, Jessica, Aileen, Kerry, Laura, Erika, Kristen, and Hillary descended upon Asheville, North Carolina. Highlights included (1) attempting to sneak into Biltmore, only to be thwarted at the last minute by an astute security guard, (2) convincing a waiter they were in their 20s, and receiving a recommendation for a nightclub that was “dark, with really loud music, and full of hipsters” (these were its positive traits); and (3) renting out an entire defunct bed and breakfast that was decorated floor to ceiling with enormous roosters and assorted tchotchkes. Fun times and hush puppies were had by all, and the TP’11s are looking forward to their next reunion!

Here’s hoping that these bundles of joy are all STTN by the time you read this.

TP’11 two-year reunion, with Jessica, Aileen, Kerry, Laura, Erika, Kristen, and Hillary in Asheville, North Carolina

The Hallowell family

Hector Arguelles for last-minute, end-ofsummer drinks. (Annie’s been busy! Amanda also recently saw her, Fay Gosiengfiao, and Sara Glazer for dinner and a show.)

Annie (Snodgrass) Dennett started a new job in July as the VP of business operations at Flipboard, which is an app that curates stories (download it and try it!). She and her husband Zach continue to live on the UWS of Manhattan with their two sons Jacob (3) and Eli (1). She had fun seeing Cassie Young, John Cristando, Peter Giordano, Pete Stosich, and

Richard Smith and Jen welcome Molly Smith, born on May 22nd

Lindsey (Taylor) Kiely bought a farm! (Congrats!) Lindsey writes, “This summer, Brian and I literally bought the farm. We decided we love this part of the country, have made some really good friends, and I decided I’m quite happy flitting around the East Coast on the American Airlines shuttle. Highly likely I’m one of a very few people who earn status by flying 90 segments a year (dear god). Back to the farm: we have 110 acres of land in Middletown, MD, at the foot of South Mountain, with a lovely house and a beautiful old barn. We haven’t moved our horses up yet, so right now the only things living in the barn are ~35 chickens and an adorable but very naughty miniature donkey named Frankie. Our property backs up to the Appalachian Trail, so if any of you decide to ditch your day jobs and go on walkabout, we can offer a comfy bed and a warm meal.” A big congratulations to all the additional future Tuckies! Jenny Merrill and her husband, Dhruva, on the announcement their little lady. They welcomed baby girl Ruby Elizabeth in early June. Writes Jenny, “We had a great summer off adjusting to and enjoying life as a family of three. We appreciated all of the well wishes from Tuckies! After maternity leave, I left Pandora and started a new job WINTER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES with Framebridge, an online custom-framing company, and will lead our charge into retail. Finally, we bought and settled into a home in Chevy Chase. (We hope to see you if we’re in the DC area!)”

Escobosas moved to the Bay Area. So did Sheas. Adds up to: balance of coastal power shifting to the California.” Finally, for Peter Stosich—we highly disagree that your life is boring this year but wish you the best of luck with your interesting updates in our next column.

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• Jonathan Mitchell and Janet welcomed baby Leo in March—he’s already enjoying the perks of living in Hawaii, with most of his pictures set in the beach. • Liz and Luke Ferriter welcomed Katherine Grace in April. She’s every bit as gorgeous as her big sister. • Alex and Sarah Duff welcomed baby Madeline, in May—Maddie is super cute and loves her dad so much she copied his haircut. • Tom and Avni Finn received a beautiful baby girl, Oleana Jay Finn, in July. • Rebecca Drejet and Geoff Mattei welcomed their second child, Maja, on July 30, 2018. See below for an interesting tidbit about their little one.

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Roman Hughes Jenny Merrill and husband Druhva welcome Ruby Elizabeth, born in early July

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Melissa Vess [Schwarz], Fred Schwarz (T’12), and Hunter also wrote to introduce the world to baby girl Savannah Ashley Schwarz. The family writes, “Savannah was born at 12:05 p.m. on September 1st, weighing 8 lbs and 4 oz. Unlike her crazy brother, she came into the world in organized calm, and Melissa and Savannah are doing great. Hunter is over the moon for his new playmate.” [Look in the T’12 class notes for a wonderful family picture!!] Molly (Prendergast) Muchmore announced, “Caroline Elizabeth Muchmore was born 9/9/18. Big brother Luke is 3 years old, loves excavators and bossing around his parents.” We also managed to get the scoop from our West Coast–based crew.... Juston Johnson shared, “After 4 years, I’m leaving the celebrities, AI, and audio-tech businesses of Los Angeles for the blockchain world of Salt Lake City. Whoa! So what is in SLC (besides great skiing)—an early-stage blockchain company called tZERO (t0) that has the only SEC-approved blockchain securities trading platform, and I will be director over products from them. Also, the executive chairman and founder is Patrick Byrne (a well-known Dartmouth alum). Since I’ll have more space than I know what to do with, I look forward to hosting whoever wants to come take a ski vacation to Park City.” (Congrats, Juston!) And Grady Snyder spilled on all of you: “Justin and Nadine had their second kid. The Tolosa 126

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Greetings, fellow classmates. As we head into fall, we often reflect on the beautiful Hanover scenery that we oh so miss. Do you remember the drive from Hanover to VT, with the foliage on on the mountain just over the CT River? Ah, memories. In any case, we’ve a lot of news to cover across our class. As per usual, we’ve done mostly social-media stalking but will change our strategy for the next set of notes (so stay tuned)! TINY TUCKIES As we get older (or maybe crazier), more classmates are bringing future Tuckies into the world. • Simon and Morgan Fowles welcomed a new British-American citizen into the world in June. Kip Fowles is doing well and looking forward to meeting everyone soon. • Melissa, Hunter, and Fred welcomed Savannah Ashley Schwarz. Savannah was born at 12:05 p.m. on September 1st, weighing 8 lbs and 4 oz. Unlike her crazy brother, she came into the world in organized calm, and both Melissa and Savannah are doing great. Hunter is over the moon for his new playmate. Savannah is in love with her brave, strong, and graceful mother as is Fred. They cannot wait for you all to meet their beautiful daughter. • Alicia and Aman Bajwa welcomed baby Ethan to the world, with Alex being the most overjoyed, now having a permanent playmate. They also moved to Minnesota, after Aman acquired a wood-components manufacturing company in April.

Kip Fowles sending you a “top or the morning!”

Fred, Melissa, and Hunter welcome Savannah to the world.

GETTING HITCHED In a continuous slew of Tuckies who are tying the knot, we have a few more who are now legally bound to another person via a government document. • John Douglas Boomgard somehow convinced Nimisha Dutta Chavan to marry him—we’re still wondering how. They got hitched in Seattle the last day of August,

surrounded by friends, family, and weird costumes (one assumes), • Emily Shieh tied the knot to Lee Rosen in a gorgeous ceremony in Colorado. She and Lee bought and moved into a house in late August. They have a patio, grill, and spare bedrooms, so all Tuckies are invited to visit! Other than that, life is pretty much the same in a good way— still at Celestial Seasonings and still spending as much time as possible in the CO outdoors. • Andres Brito tied the knot with Ashley Holofcener in Bogota, Colombia. In true Brito fashion, he was dressed to the nines and also had a lot of aguardiente for all.

Emily Shieh and Lee Rosen looking fantastic on their wedding day.

NON-WEDDING AND CHILD UPDATES Now that we’ve got the kids and weddings out the way, here’s some other things going on in Tuckies’ lives around the world. • Nate, Judy, and Lily Walsh had an amazing trip to London, complete with tea parties, palace sights, and a visit to Platform 9 3/4! Aside from being a great mom, Judy has found the time to publish two articles on family business in HBR! You can read them here (https://hbr.org/2018/06/should-youjoin-the-family-business) and here (https:// hbr.org/2018/05/building-your-own-networkwhen-youre-part-of-a-family-business). • Google has wisely decided they don’t have enough Tuckies and hired both Brian Kang and Lianne Okada Yi in strategy roles. Best of luck to both of them! • Ben Dower has moved to Cybrary, where he’ll be taking the role of VP of finance. We’ve heard he took the job because there’s a Chili’s To Go in the lobby of the building. • Avraj Sandhu is one of two Tuckies to join the C-Level: he’s joined Quantify Energy as COO. • The other is Tulio Landin, who, after a stint at the NBA, returns to Track & Field, this

time as their CEO—great sports gear, if you’re looking for some. • Chris Lapointe, yours truly’s favorite pong partner, has moved to SoFi as VP and head of business operations. If anyone is looking to refinance their loans, you know who to call! • Sophia Pan got promoted to senior marketing director, immunology, hepatology & dermatology (IHD) at Novartis. • Min Sung Kim is now head of digital acquisition, his second role in a year at Citi! AS FOR YOUR SECRETARIES.... Román, Flo, and Romancito welcomed Joaquin to the world on March, only a week after his brother’s third birthday. Joaco is a chubby ball of happiness who gets enthralled by anything his big bro does. We recently took a family vacation in Patagonia, where the boys experienced snow for the first time, and we were struck by the breathtaking beauty of the lakes and the mountains (the kids were significantly less excited). With the local currency devaluing at the rate it has recently, we highly encourage you to consider coming to visit! The last several months for Ben have been pretty great. He and Megan had an amazing trip to Colombia. Tayrona National Natural Park and Cartagena are both incredible. You should all go and reach out for tips! They were even able to meet up with Pablo Navarro (T’13) in Bogota. Summer came and went...too quickly, but it was awesome. It was full of long weekends with Megan and her family at their Lake George cabin. Amazing place with the clearest water. He attended the lovely nuptials of John Boomgard and Nimisha and just got back from an intense game in State College, PA, where Ohio State pulled out a one-point win over Mike Cwalinski’s PSU. For work, he’s still at Williams-Sonoma and prepping for holiday season for Williams Sonoma, West Elm, Pottery Barn, and Rejuvenation. Hit him up to catch up in NYC! He misses you all! Derrick and Natalie continue to enjoy Seattle at Amazon and Nordstrom, respectively. Derrick took on a new role as head of content marketing for Prime Video, so anytime you see marketing for an original on A.com, it’s his team. Hopefully you like some shows! He and Natalie also welcomed a baby boy to the world—Abram Ellsworth Lawrence Deese. Two middle names for the two grandfathers. All are doing well and loving parenthood (and the lack of sleep). Referencing an earlier story above, during delivery Derrick got a text from Mattei

Ben and Megan hanging out in Colombia!

Abram Ellsworth Lawrence Deese living his best life.

The Deeses and the Drejet-Matteis at hospital discharge time

asking, “Hey man, are you at the hospital?” Turns out, Natalie and Rebecca were NEXT DOOR in delivery—Abram and Maja were born about four hours apart on 7/30.

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he’s walking. Tyson Seely and wife Shannon welcomed the birth of a baby girl, Scarlett “Etta” Aylwin Seely on August 29th. Caitlin and Eben Pingree welcomed a Thayer Louise on September 28 into their family; we hope she gets big brother Cole’s beautiful blonde ringlets.

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Liz Yepsen

Yvan before donating his hair

elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

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The Bryan family with new member Eleanor “Nori”

And it doesn’t get easier for T’46 or beyond... look out for these Tiny Tuckies coming to a Tuck ’Tails soon near you. JP Cantos and wife Lele are expecting their second child. Koushi and Rich (T’12) King are expecting their new arrival in December. John MacKinnon and wife Sasha (T’14) are expecting. Blythe [Chorn] Cohen is expecting twins in November— double-wide congrats Blythe! Garrett DeNinno and wife Erica Karlin are also expecting in November. Catherine Jonash will soon have her own backup singer. Rafael Hidalgo will soon have his complete three Musketeers. Yvan Stern-Plaza and Laura Pryor are expecting a baby boy in October! Yvan and Laura recently moved to Montreal, where they are enjoying the late summer, but are also toying with San Francisco as a potential new base. When asked for an update, Laura shared, “Yvan grew a very long man bun while working remotely and we just cut it off. 10 inches of curly blond locks he is donating for cancer patients.” Awwww. Oliver and Kinnon Foley are expecting their second child to join big sister Tinsley. T’13 parties of two (engagements) Andres Bilbao got engaged to Maria Echeverri Gomez in June, and Kate Bante got engaged to Bryan Nelson in September. We hope to give the partners a proper screening at Reunion and come back to you with more detail. LNDP (weddings) Chenae White wed Joel Edwards in Charleston, SC, on August 25th with a crew of Tuckies present to celebrate. Dan Ettinger wed Caroline

Bressan T’14 Aug 11 at the Skybox, Dan’s second-year Tuck home, in Vermont, with many former roommates and Tuckies in attendance. We hope Mathieu Pluvinage moved his yellow car off the lawn first. Justin Rodriguez wed Renee Manorat in Estes Park, Colorado, on July 28th. Justine and Renee met at Walker Fullerton’s wedding; Renee was roommates with Walker’s wife, Jess Harrison, at Harvard Kennedy School. Mason Duke and Walker Fullerton were in the wedding party. Still wondering if JRod’s opening line was about that H in AGM. Jasmine Liqiong He married Bryan Jordan in a traditional Hawaii ceremony in May. Check out more on Jasmine in the spotlight! Yamini Jagannadhan wed Srikant Iyer at City Hall in New York. However, the big fat Indian wedding will take place in December in Chennai, India—her “cousin” Tara is excited! Young Choi wed Andrea Quadros on Sept 30 in Jersey City at the Maritime Parc. They had quite a international wedding, with 12 countries represented! Reading this counts as networking (jobs) The T’13 lunch table at Liberty Mutual has gotten a little less crowded. Rory Barratt left for Bunker Hill Insurance Company as senior product manager and Matt Consigli for Lincoln Financial, which bought Matt’s division from Liberty. Matt is responsible for defining the sales/growth strategies, as well as managing many of the integration activities between the two companies. Tangential question, how much life insurance do we need? HALP. Paritosh Birla launched Cohoma Coffee Company, designed to give you back that shelf space where your AeroPress, french press, drip filter, and Bialetti sit—no extra equipment required for good coffee (and no wait for that cold brew). Brad Callow has quit his corporate job to focus full time on 6AM Health, a healthy juice and

connecting companies to their suppliers/ customers.

Chenae White and Joel Edwards’ wedding, with Tuckies

the original Shake Shack? In other exciting news, Wayne Harrington also left banking at Harris Williams and moved from Richmond, VA, back to his native Massachusetts...to do banking at MVP Capital. So many head fakes this edition.

Young Choi and Andrea Quadros

Talia Judson joined Smita at the Gap Inc., focused on marketing at Banana Republic Factory, after four years with Peet’s Coffee. Rafael Hidalgo has a new job at Valero Energy Corporation as tax manager, Latin America from Seadrill. Please direct all your oil & gas taxation questions to Rafael. James Valdes joined Danone from Mondelez. I guess he felt yogurt had better probiotics than Swedish fish. Matt Zepernick joined BounceX, a leader in behavioral automation software and analytics (aka a people-based marketing (PBM) cloud), as director of client partnerships. Jamie Nicholson joined Rockhill Management, from Normandy Real Estate Partners, with fellow Tuckie John Stonestreet T’95! Also in Boston real estate, Brian Carlisle joined Celera Properties from Longfellow Real Estate. Luis Gomez is now with PAREXEL, a biopharmaceutical services company. Alexis Garcia left DaVita for Omni Eye Specialists as director of operations.

Jasmine Liqiong He and Bryan Jordan

meal delivery company, for now in the greater Boston area. In totally unrelated news, Katie Callow got a promotion to chief of staff, US strategy offering at Monitor. NBD. Francis Lee finally left banking at Barclays...to do banking at Credit Suisse. I guess now he has direct access to

Mimi Sibley [Macauley] started as VP, corporate strategy & business acceleration at Optum from Welltok. Daniel Rosenzweig is now with BanRegio doing advanced analytics and business intelligence. Neha Anand joined Okta, the independent provider of identity for the enterprise, as group product manager. It provides “identity for the enterprise,” which sounds like a really good “Leadership Out of the Box” session, but apparently it is about securely

Christina Fanitzi is back from Afghanistan and has moved to Washington, DC, and in with JRod and his new wife Renee! Just kidding. She’s living with Matteo. Also kidding. She couldn’t find a matching pair of white angel wings to Matteo’s, so he kicked her out. She is serving as a White House fellow, a program started in 1964 to give leaders experience in the process of governing. Christina is one of 14 fellows (and only 2 women!) in this year’s class, selected from an original pool of 1,200 applicants (1% yield rate, for you math nerds). “I am placed in the National Economic Council and work often with the Council of Economic Advisers—really I’m just trying to make Dean Slaughter proud because his name still carries a lot of weight around here (the CEA chief of staff brought him up during my interview). Anyway, I just want to thank Tuck for, yet again, giving me the skills to open up another great door/opportunity, and for all of you for all your support while I was overseas.” This program is not to be confused with Pete Gauthier’s position as a presidential management fellow based in Bangladesh. Last, our bad—we totally missed a few job changes, including Rob Hillas, who has been a strategy and corporate development consultant at Sherman Labs for 1 year, and we’d like to solicit an update from Marret Arfsten, who is strategic marketing leader at Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate. Not sure how we let this one slip for five years. And by update we mean free chocolate. New postcode, who dis (moves) Maxime Vincent left sunny Poland and moved to an even sunnier London in June. Jasmine He has quit her job at Amgen and is currently living in Jackson Hole, WY, as a self proclaimed “Nomad.” See more in the spotlight! Tuck community outreach T’13s continue to represent broadly for the Tuck community. Quentin Reeve hosted Australia’s Global Tuck ’Tails and Betsabeh Madani is managing the Tuck Canada chapter for the 3rd year. It is a small group spread across a big country, which makes coordination and traveling not the easiest, but it has been great to facilitate the connection of Tuckies across Canada (as well as Dartmouth alumni across western Canada). About 6 events annually across the country! She’s also sponsored her fifth FYP project, which seems like it could be a fit

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CL ASS NOTES for so many folks here (entrepreneurs? would-be managers?)—more info on how to apply at tuck. dartmouth.edu/fyp. Potentially related: Andreas and Zep hit Greece, again; we’re on the fence as to whether this was good for our brand. Shilpa Sharma climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. SPOTLIGHT (more detail) Jasmine He: 2018 was a busy year for Jasmine, including a wedding, a new location, and a new career. In mid-May she got married to Bryan Jordan, chief economist at Nationwide Insurance, in Hawaii, where they had a traditional Hawaiian ceremony with close family and, of course, the blowing of the Hawaiian ceremonial pu shell horn. Jasmine met Bryan through D’09 Catalina Gorla while both were in Columbus, OH. Jasmine and Bryan left LA, where they were living, to move to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Jasmine quit her health-care career and is “spending most of my time exploring my interests and living my “second childhood”; on the side, “my family and I are working on an online business in the fitness area in China.” Jasmine has been enjoying the immediacy of nature, including a view of the Tetons and the raccoons of WY, moose. Liz Yepsen: If you haven’t been following Insta’s @1948tour, you haven’t been living vicariously through Liz as she and partner Philipp biked 3,515 miles (5,654 km) and 47,684 vertical meters of climbing over 72 days across Europe, following in the pedals of Liz’s grandparents’ trip in 1948. Luckily for Liz, her grandparents welldocumented their trip with letters (and photos) filled with important details, like the cost of a new rubber shoe heel (a shocking 70 cents, or $7.25 today), lack of vegetables, and exact routes they took. Liz followed their lead, re-creating the trip and providing the parallel stories in her posts. We are fortunate today to not be feeling the impacts of WWII and to have open borders (except for the UK; sorry, Brexit). Liz is currently living in Zurich, purposefully unemployed, and would be happy to hear from anyone who’s considering or has taken an extended break to find the next thing. Will Wentworth: Will hasn’t been that active on our regular information sources until this year, when BAM, he was everywhere. We got the scoop because we know everyone is wondering. Will originally moved to London for 2014-2015, then to Sweden in 2015. During time off in summer 2016, he visited a cousin in Alaska, where he met his now-wife, Anina, who is Swiss but also has family up in AK. I guess Tinder

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Liz Yepsen following her grandparents’ European trip

doesn’t work for everyone. Side note, has anyone else heard of “slow dating”? Back to Will: they were married in January 2018 in an intimate civil ceremony with close family and friends. Their son, Julian, joined this past May. Now Will, Anina, and Julian are in Basel, Switzerland, since January, with Will back at Deloitte. You can check out Facebook, where Julian is now a star. Will is in some photos too.

Happy days!

’14 Katherine Lawrence katie.b.lawrence@gmail.com

Gabriel Martinez

So dapper, Ceddy!

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There were a slew of Upper Valley weddings! In May, Emile Got Meried! In the #EmileGetsMeried wedding, Emile Santos and Meri Carman tied the knot, surrounded by a wonderful group of Tuckies. Not to be outdone, Caroline Bressan and Dan Ettinger (T’13) were married at a common Tuckie haunt, the Skybox, in August. The Skybox owners, Jean and Jim Bray, in their kindness and fondness for the Tuck students who have lived there for the past 10+ years, offered their home up for the long weekend as a wedding present to the couple. Beyond the wall (i.e., in Canadia),

Cedric Gomes (a.k.a. Ceddybear, a.k.a. Ceddy Gomeslice) got hitched to the love of his life, Ann Casey. Finally, congrats to Jeff Nitz and Kaitlyn Young on the nuptials in August! A couple other nuptials are soon on the way! Jess Seymour got engaged to her boyfriend, Bill Dillon, on December 24, 2017, at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama, in the company of their golden retriever, Beau. Jess & Bill will be married on December 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, likely melting all the snow around them with the warmth of their love (which, considering they will likely be piled under 12 feet of snow, will be a significant feat!). In the spirit of cold places, Stephanie O’Brien ran all the way to Norway before being proposed to by her beau, Matt Schaar, in October. Gratulasjoner! Fresh off their return from a short-term jaunt in Japan, Erin Schwarz and Adam Kramer

brand strategy and development for Caledonia Spirits, a craft distillery in Vermont. Tuck has found its biggest outspoken endorser of Tuck’s new “nice” admission-evaluation criterion in Michael Caspani, who gives two enthusiastic thumbs-up, particularly to ensure limits on more people like him (love you!). Avanti Maluste has turned her love of scuba diving into her career as CEO of Lacadives. Oh, also, she got engaged, underwater (ladies/gents, take note for future proposals) to her love, Sachit Ahuja!

’15 #EmileGetsMeried

Kelsey Byrne kelsey.byrne@gmail.com

recently launched a new venture, Banabox! Stemming from their time abroad and the chance for Erin to hone her skills, their goal is to make ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, accessible to everyone through a monthly subscription of boxes containing DIY flower arranging kits (and with videos facing yours truly...Erin, of course. Definitely not Adam; he’s not photogenic enough). Check out banabox.co or @banabox.co on Insta to see Adam and Erin’s budding flowering business in action. When asked about potential wedding plans, they claimed that they are currently married to their business

ever having a miserable day, go to Erin or Ryan’s Facebook to see more adorable pictures of Caroline. Other new arrivals include Matt and Neha Woodward’s son, Chris, as well as Ben and Lexi Hall’s son, Theo!

Cuteoverload! Erin (McInerney) Nagle and Ryan Nagle (TP’14) welcomed their first bundle of joy, Caroline Renee, future Tuck Class of 2042, assuming all things go as planned. If you are

2018 has been a busy year for the class of 2018! New loves, new babies, new jobs—we’re so happy to see our classmates enjoying post-Tuck life! First comes love: Lyusha Goldberger is celebrating her recent engagement. She wrote in, “I got engaged to my favorite person, Sasha Zaltsman, who I’ve known for 15 years since our days as competitive Latin ballroom dancers. Both cats plan to attend the wedding.” We’re so happy that Lyusha found her person— congratulations! [Look on the T’15 pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu to see a wonderful photo!]

Awwwww....

Banabox is easy and beautiful!

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Unsolicited updates based on Facebook and LinkedIn. Susan Chen was looking #fabulous at Burning Man. David Garcia has continued his conquest of Atlanta sports, moving from director of fan experience for the Falcons and United to VP of guest experience for the Hawks. The 2018 World Cup brought back some bitter Facebook memories on the 2014 tournament and biting. Where is Jason Bodewitz? Dana Spaulding has a very pretty place in Hoboken to sell (or have you sold already?). Harry Kahn decided beer was weak sauce and shifted from Magic Hat Brewing to become the director of

Annu Kayastha got engaged to her boyfriend, Kunal Batra. They’re getting married in October (by time you read this column—they’ll have tied the knot!). Ian Bomberg proposed to Alexandra Delfiner in Central Park earlier this summer. Nathan Isaacson and Alison Hiler T’16 also decided to take the plunge. In addition—Christa Vottero and Spencer Vaughn got engaged and are planning a Vermont wedding. Then Comes Marriage: Sean Vander Linde and Caitlyn TP’15 got WINTER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES Will Eusden and Olivia Eusden welcomed a baby boy named Teddy. Cathleen and Graham Allen welcomed Nolan Graham Allen earlier this summer. Jed and Jane McDonald welcomed John Shiverick McDonald in September. Jed’s Norwich neighbor, Charles Christianson, and his wife, Courtney, also welcomed a baby boy, August, earlier this summer. Sean and Caitlyn’s wedding

married earlier. Since their wedding—they’ve relocated to Fort Irwin, a military base, for Caitlyn’s first army posting as a doctor! This summer was filled with Tuck weddings! Jan Tomaszewski and Melissa Wyble got married in New York. Brooke Beatt and Matt Hooks T’10 had a beautiful Labor Day weekend wedding in Kennebunkport, Maine. That same weekend, across the country, Michael Needel and Kelsey MacEachern T’16 got hitched!

Zac Yoffe and Holly welcomed their first child, Theodore Augustus Yoffe, in August. Theodore was born in Cambridge, MA, and upon birth Zac let us know that Baby Theo and Holly were doing great. Sayantani Nandi and her husband Chinmay Gandhi welcomed Daksh Gandhi to their family.

Another Tuck wedding happened earlier this year—congratulations to Mike (Tilly) Gentile and Amy Craig T’16. The wedding circuit didn’t stop for Tuckies in September. Nancy Walton and TP’15 Richard Scioli got hitched out on the Cape. Wendy Zhao and TP’15 Dan Jose said I do in New York! Then comes the baby in the baby carriage: Our Instagram feeds have all showed us that many of our classmates are starting and growing their families!

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Juan Giovaneli and his family are going through a lot of change! Juan and Luján Partido and welcomed a baby girl! In addition, they moved to Argentina, and Juan is working for AB InBev. Juan’s not the only T’15 making moves. Sarah Boole left the cold winters of Minneapolis for the cold winters of Boston. She’s working at Boston Beer Company, working with Twisted Tea. Alex Clegg and husband Ben Grant left Chicago and ventured out west to Seattle. Ben remains with Bain, while Alex has accepted a new job as the director of product and business strategy at A Place For Mom.

Baby Theo Yoffe

Jan and Melissa’s wedding

A Tiny Tuckie ascends Buck Mountain in the Adirondacks to enjoy a beautiful fall view (Pascal and Jaimie Meyer with one-year-old Liam)

Laura Ionita and Martin Wolff have welcomed baby Eric Alexander Wolff in June 2018. Laura let us know that Eric is a very curious baby, and just like his parents he already loves hikes and road trips. [Look on mytuck for a photo of Eric!] Mohan Pichika and Ammani Arulmurugesan welcomed baby #2 since graduating from Tuck. Welcome to the Tuck Family Aria Arul-Pichika. Michael Perrin and his wife welcomed a second baby to their home—and Michael also started a new job, leaving Walmart for a job at the Great Western Bank ! It’s been a busy year in the Perrin household! One of our favorite T’15 Band members, Suraj (SUV) Venkitachalam, welcomed some extra band members to his family—welcoming twins! Congrats SUV!

Luis Mendoza left Amazon and is working at DiDi. Curry Helton has joined SVPGlobal, Nathan Nam is now in Palo Alto at Confluent as a product manager “after 3 incredible years at MuleSoft in SF and Buenos Aires,” while Russ Barnes has joined Macy’s digital innovation team. As for us—Heather Levy Sigel is loving her job at Applause and getting settled into her not-so-new apartment in the South End. More importantly—she’s excited to celebrate Kelsey! Kelsey Byrne has moved to Park City, got engaged to Craig Kelly, and is getting married in mid-October. We look forward to hearing more news from all of you!

’16 Sarah B. Hayes sarah.a.brierley@gmail.com

Hi everyone! You guys have a ton going on. I know, because I scroll social media every 2-3 hours through the night while feeding my baby. Thanks for keeping me awake and as alert as possible with your exciting posts! Let’s get started with career stuff! Alex Jenny recently moved to San Francisco to start a new job at Allbirds. (The various 24-year-olds in my department at work claim that these shoes are the coolest, so I obviously bought some to offset the new mom chic vibe I’m putting out there right now. Sorry if I’ve brought shame to the brand, Alex.) Alex also got engaged to Aly, who moved to San Francisco as well. After 1.5 years at L.E.K. in Chicago, Frances Thunder made what she views as a very “new and original decision” to take a job at Wayfair in Boston (never heard of it). She’s now the senior category manager for all things outdoor furniture (despite having no outdoor space of her own) and sits within arm’s length of at least two other Tuckies. Katie Landry also left L.E.K. to start a new job at Wayfair in August. She’s senior manager of category operations. Nick Hall recently joined CVS. He’s on the digital team, doing personalization for the ExtraCare card. I feel like this means that Nick knows about all the weird stuff we all buy at CVS now. Think about it, and proceed with caution. In other news, Nick and Heather Clark are getting married in December. Their wedding will be at the Woodstock Inn, where they plan to relive the glory days of Tuck spring formals. Avi Sethi graduated from The Broad Residency with his master’s in educational leadership in summer 2018. He has spent the last two years as a resident working for Boston Public Schools as a strategic projects manager. After graduation, he joined Curriculum Associates

in the Greater Boston area. He is working on helping the company start an internal strategy group and works in concert with CA’s CEO to evaluate potential strategy and growth opportunities. Dominic Yau left McKinsey to join a designer furniture ecommerce start-up called Clippings as VP of brands. He’ll be looking after the supply-side of the platform and customer experience and is still in London. In an unfortunate turn of events, Fan Zhou and Jenny Desrosier have left Boston. Fan is transferring to Bain’s Seattle Office, and Jenny has decided to leave her consulting life behind on the East Coast and find a new job in Seattle. If I mention Fan and Jenny, I also need to mention Omar Abdelsamad. He’s newly back on U.S. soil after 2 years in South Korea and hopes to move into the basement of their new house in Seattle ASAP. Adi Shah and his wife Anu are leaving Minneapolis to head back home to Mumbai! Adi is moving within General Mills to their India operation. He will be working on launching new snacks in India!

to associate director in category management (living room furniture & home office). Ale Jochum and Katie Lynch also received promotions to associate director. Katie Lynch is moving off of the email marketing team and into app marketing. This means we are all now free to unsubscribe from her Wayfair emails immediately. I know I did. Ellen Pratt got promoted to director of international operations at HubSpot. She’s bopping around the planet doing cool HubSpot stuff that I don’t really understand, but her Instagram sure looks cool. Moving on to exciting relationship news, we have three new engagements to report! Allan Mendes got engaged to Mary Kociuba last fall while hiking at Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, WA. The couple also got a super-cute black English labrador retriever puppy in the spring of 2017 and named him Blue. Today he weighs in at 80 lb and loves everything and everyone! [Look on the T’16 pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for pics!]

James Goff is now living in Lagos, Nigeria, for his job at McKinsey. He has already eaten his body weight in plantain and has also met up with (the man, the myth, the legend) Ayo Olufadeji while he was in town. He’s still wondering how to get in contact with Ryan Amico (#whereintheworldisRyanAmico). Anyway, Goffy also got to see fellow T’16s Eric Giles, Andrew Bralver, Emeka Kanu, and Ed Harding at Oktoberfest in Germany! For whatever reason, folks are being coy about getting promoted. But here’s what I managed to find out about our super-talented classmates’ recent career accomplishments: On the Deloitte promotions front, congratulations to Meagan Robinson and Stephanie Liu for getting promoted to the manager role! (Sounds like there are others who got the same promotion—identify yourselves!) BCG promotions also happened. Congratulations to Becca Moore, Ashish Sharma, Chris Foley, and Byron Peyster on their promotions to project leader.

Will and Katie

Will Collins and Katie Landry got engaged this past July on their deck in Beacon Hill, Boston. Will planned a day of celebrating at all their favorite spots in Boston, and later surprised Katie with both of their families joining them to celebrate at dinner!

At Wayfair, Hilary Modjeska got promoted

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CL ASS NOTES Matt Wheeler got engaged to Ashley Finethy on July 23 in Newburyport, MA, during sunset atop an historic lighthouse. Their wedding is planned for October 5, 2019, in Ashley’s hometown on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. [Look on mytuck for a pic!]

Jack Swain married Tally Wolff on September 2 in Ohio, with many Tuckies in tow.

We also have quite a few marriages to celebrate! And four of them are Tuckie to Tuckie!

Jeff Clark married Allison Stein on September 8 at the Four Seasons in Boston. [Look on mytuck for a pic!]

Ale Jochum married Duncan Kirby (T’15) in June in Norwich, VT. They also moved into a new place in Back Bay! In July, Mark Andrews married Meredith Sanderson in a small family ceremony in Maine. Mark met Meredith while studying abroad in Argentina in 2008. He says they made out once in a taxi in Mendoza but otherwise were always just close friends until they started seeing each other while he was at Tuck and she was in Burlington, VT. They now live in Brooklyn, NY. Meredith is a labor and delivery nurse, and Mark works in the markets group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he conducts open market MBS operations and covers financial market developments. The class of 2016 was out in force when Katie Soja and Bryan Seelagy were married at Riverside Farm in Pittsfield, Vermont, on July 28. Katie, who now goes by Katie Seelagy (which I’ll never get used to), also got promoted right after the wedding! She is now vice president, investor relations and portfolio management at Beacon Capital Partners.

Henrique Bahr married Molly O’Hara (T’17) on September 1 in Minneapolis with a crowd of Tuckies from both the 2016 and 2017 classes.

Matt Shofnos married Ashley Cahill (T’17) on September 29 in Maryland.

Mollie and Louisa Naber

Congratulations everyone!

March 6. He’s already attending Dartmouth football games and having cocktails with mom and dad at Pine.

We’ve added a bunch of adorable new Tiny Tuckies to the T’16 family. We have six new baby boys and five new baby girls to celebrate! Chelsea and Warren Williamson welcomed Charlie Castle Williamson to the world on

Eliav Kahan and his wife Kayla welcomed new baby Noah on March 19. His big sister Michal is quite infatuated! [Look on mytuck for a pic!] Mollie Naber’s third child, Louisa Naber, arrived on March 25. Her first few months on earth included a “Great Women of Tuck Road Trip” with visits with Ying Li in Shanghai, Emma Zhang in Beijing, and Whitney Flynn in Boulder. Chris and Brooke Hogan welcomed a second daughter, Nora Kerry Hogan, on May 26.

Chelsea and Charlie Castle Williamson

Mike and Colleen Rubbelke welcomed Graham Patrick into the world on May 29 and report that he has kept them on their toes ever since. His dad believes that his size, core strength, and other intangibles are indicative of a future full of Tripod championships. [Look on mytuck for a pic!] Katie (Endress) Shactman and her husband Brian welcomed Alexander Philip Shactman on June 2. Katie’s loving motherhood and having Alex at daycare in her office building! [Look on mytuck for a pic!] The next baby in this series is mine! After a genuinely nightmarish 42 weeks of hyperemesis gravidarum (never again), Brian and I welcomed a healthy, happy, surprisingly huge baby girl. Caroline Brierley Hayes was born on June 16, two weeks late but worth the wait! I don’t even know what to say about how aggressively happy she makes us.

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Bryan Pyfer and his wife Catherine had twins! Benjamin and Abigail Pyfer were born on July 3, at 32 weeks. They spent four weeks in the ICU before coming home to their very excited

The Linge family, with new member Jane Annette

That’s a wrap, you guys! Thanks for sharing all your amazing news with me. Keep it up! —Sarah Caroline Brierley Hayes

’17 Monique Alves t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Jenny Djupedal t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Emma He t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Twins Benjamin and Abigail Pyfer with older sister Charlotte

older sister, Charlotte, who couldn’t be happier with the new additions to the family. Bryan is now on year 3 of his 7-year surgery residency at Duke. Tom and Ericka Martin welcomed their second child, Tom Martin V, to the world on August 18th. [Look on mytuck for a pic!]

Tiny Tuckies Gastón Labougle and Paz Gallino welcomed their son, Félix Labougle, on April 22nd in Stamford, CT. He was baptized in Hanover in a beautiful ceremony with friends and family. Hopefully setting the foundation for him to return to Hanover many times (Tuck class of 204X?).

Dan and Anne Linge welcomed Jane Annette Linge on September 2, when she arrived measuring 7 lb, 4 oz, 20.5 in and completely perfect! She is named after Anne’s mother’s first name and Dan’s mother’s middle name. Rob Wilson reported in to share a major kidrelated accomplishment: a two-week vacation with just Shannon. They ditched all three of their kids with Rob’s parents and went to England and Scotland. They returned home refreshed, and Rob hopes to retire shortly to write children’s books full-time.

Maeve Kathryn O’Brien

Maeve Kathryn O’Brien was welcomed into Dan O’Brien’s family on August 6, 2018. “Declan and Kieran are thrilled to have a little sister, and we’re adjusting to life where the kids outnumber us. Life is crazy in the Navy here in Pennsylvania, but we’re happy to have finally had a baby close to family.” For Thiago Azevedo, “Baby Nicholas Ambrozini Alday was born on 15 September 2018, to share the same birthday as Thais (Ambrozini Filipe). He is doing great since then, and Thais is recovering pretty well from labour. London is a great city and we are loving it so far, especially now with the arrival of Nicholas. Also, having not only classmates here but also other Tuckies in the city helps a lot in settling in. We look forward to seeing you all soon—we invite our classmates to come to London to meet baby Nicholas and spend some time with your fellow Tuckies!”

Nicholas Ambrozini Alday

Gastón and baby Félix

Tuck Engagements Coming full circle, Kate Hauser and Conrad Hendrickson got engaged at the site of their first date—along the Appalachian Trail behind the Dartmouth soccer field. There must be something in the air back there.

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Conrad Hendrickson and Kate Hauser

Tuckies in Chicago for the inaugural Evergreen reunion

featuring a boat cruise and dinner (including pong!) on top of Willis Tower. About half the class are members now, and we’re hoping to encourage others that it’s never too late to join!

’18 Arushi Kumar arushi.kumar90@gmail.com

Sijia Li Shawn and Julia Curley

sijia.li2016@gmail.com

relationships with intelligence, military, and financial services clients. He shares that baby Juliet’s first birthday is right around the corner and that she’s oh so close to walking. If you’re ever in SF (or Walnut Creek), don’t hesitate to look him or Kara up.

rebeccayi33@gmail.com

Rebecca Yi Anna Mac and Mitesh Patel

Anna Mac (Macharackova) eloped with Mitesh Patel on August 24, 2018. It was a wonderfully intimate affair. Tuckies on the Move Thiago Azevedo has made the move to London, England as has Radim Jaros. Sunny Kim is now in Munich, Germany. And Fedor Volkov moved to Toronto, where he is potentially enjoying the crepes and hockey. In Other Tuck News Brian Raymond shares that this past June he accepted a position with artificial intelligence start-up Primer Technologies in San Francisco, California. There he’s helping manage

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All is with well with the Curleys in Boston. Shawn continues to enjoy the HBS partner life—”Julia and I are looking forward to our 4th year of business school and many more clam bakes (TuckStuff idea—lobster bibs...). Too many Tuck encounters to mention succinctly, but all have been wonderful and we look forward to many more!” Evergreen hosted its inaugural reunion trek in Chicago Sep 21-23. Over 100 T’17s and TP’17s gathered in the Windy City for a weekend of fun,

Editor’s note: Please welcome your T’18 class secretaries! Arushi, Roger, and Arushi are ready to share your news and pics now that you’re back out in the world as official Tuck MBAs! To share your news with them for Tuck Today, email them or submit your news and pics at http:// mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes.

IN MEMORIAM The Tuck School of Business offers its condolences to the families of the following alumni whose deaths have been reported to us in the past six months.

Louis F. Oldershaw T‘40 October 19, 2018

E. Andrew Wilde Jr. T‘51 August 11, 2018

Jeffrey I. Fine T’61 [not available]

William A. Buckingham T’87 August 22, 2018

Edward L. Finn T‘43 May 19, 2018

Jack Flock T‘52 October 26, 2017

Jack W. Swenson T’61 July 14, 2018

John P. Levis III T’90 July 11, 2018

David S. Hazelton T‘46 October 31, 2018

Robert H. Moore T‘52 August 6, 2018

Stephen W. Crisafulli T’62 October 18, 2018

Jenna H. Swaim T’01 July 3, 2018

Robert E. Field Sr. T‘47 June 23, 2018

Walter Tumeniuk T‘55 September 15, 2018

Joseph J. Dowd T’63 May 22, 2018

Jason P. Andris T’02 [not available]

Robert L. Gifford T‘47 July 28, 2018

John H. Brinckerhoff II T‘57 November 5, 2018

Robert M. Shaughnessy T’64 [not available]

John S. Hannon T’08 February 25, 2018

Thomas J. Murray T‘47 November 17, 2018

Stuart Klapper T‘57 June 3, 2018

Gerard J. O’Brien T’65 October 29, 2018

Harvey White T‘47 July 4, 2018

John Van C. Parker T‘57 June 26, 2018

Kenneth J. Euske T’69 August 11, 2018

Walter M. Wingate T‘48 July 8, 2018

Lee T. Hirschey T‘58 May 24, 2018

Thomas G. Seel Jr. T’69 May 12, 2018

Frank E. Bateman T‘49 July 17, 2018

James H. Lothrop T‘58 May 24, 2018

Ted W. Graves T’71 May 9, 2018

Richard S. Holway T‘50 September 24, 2018

Bruce D. McAllister T‘58 September 29, 2017

Keith A. Taylor T’71 August 30, 2018

Alexander C. Hoffman T‘51 August 6, 2018

Benjamin H. Reid Jr. T’59 November 26, 2018

William A. Cummings T’73 October 2, 2018

H. Clifton Whiteman T‘51 September 8, 2018

Edward J. Willi Jr. T‘60 June 25, 2018

Stephen G. Hall T’73 May 15, 2013

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