Tuck Today Alumni Magazine Summer 2020 by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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TUCK DEVELOPS WISE, DECISIVE LEADERS WHO BETTER THE WORLD THROUGH BUSINESS.

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Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 100 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH 03755-9000 USA

WHAT IT TAKES In celebration of 50 years of women at Tuck, we asked alumnae what it takes to succeed in today’s business world.

Plus: Tuck Goes Virtual, Partnering During a Pandemic, & How Tuck Integrates the Core

A resident physician at the Mayo Clinic, Tolu Kehinde T’19 is deeply committed to building robust health care systems and furthering development in Africa.

News. Ideas. People.

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TUCK ALUMNI LIFELONG LEARNING brings you global insights, career enrichment, and Tuck insider experiences from faculty, alumni, and current students.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS DESIGN THE JOB THAT IS DESERVING OF YOU Thursday, July 30 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Supporting your professional development with Karin Stawarky, T’99 CAREER CONVERSATIONS—UNCONVENTIONAL CAREER PATHS Tuesday, August 11 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Tuck alumni share their unconventional career paths THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUAL NETWORKING Wednesday, August 19 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Practice networking with other Tuckies after tips, resources and tools are shared

WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS Friday, October 16 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Working with executive search firms effectively with Sarah Burley Reid T’00 EFFECTIVE NETWORKING Friday, October 20 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Discovering strategies to help you be effective on the job search

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CREATING YOUR PROFESSIONAL NARRATIVE—MARVENA EDMOND T’10 Monday, November 9 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Identify and communicate career accomplishments with Marvena Edmond T’10

To view a list of all upcoming events, visit mytuck.dartmouth.edu/virtualprograms

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CEO WITH JAY BENSON T’96 Wednesday, September 9 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Typical day and common challenges with CEO of Simon Pearce, Jay Benson T’96

A VIRTUAL CELEBRATION: The Tuck community tuned in from all around the world for a virtual event celebrating the Tuck Class of 2020.

To view recordings of past virtual programs, visit mytuck.dartmouth.edu/pastprograms

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CREATING YOUR PROFESSIONAL NARRATIVE—MARVENA EDMOND T’10 Monday, November 9 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Identify and communicate career accomplishments with Marvena Edmond T’10

To view a list of all upcoming events, visit mytuck.dartmouth.edu/virtualprograms

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CEO WITH JAY BENSON T’96 Wednesday, September 9 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Typical day and common challenges with CEO of Simon Pearce, Jay Benson T’96

A VIRTUAL CELEBRATION: The Tuck community tuned in from all around the world for a virtual event celebrating the Tuck Class of 2020.

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OUR COLLECTIVE RESOLVE

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LETTER FROM THE DEAN

This moment in human history will be studied for generations to come. The coronavirus pandemic continues to grip our planet. The world is now suffering its broadest and deepest recession since the Great Depression. And here in the United States, the searing legacy and persistence of racism and of violence against people of color continues to be all too prevalent. Amid these tragedies, each of us has mourned some form of loss, or has experienced the regret of well-loved and much anticipated plans altered. At the same time, each of us has also shown remarkable agility and resilience. Across the world, our homes have transformed into offices, classrooms, gyms, and much else. We are apart, but we are also connected in new ways. At Tuck, where our community is deeply anchored by a sense of place, this spring we accomplished a historic first: an entire term of the MBA experience delivered online. The trust, the teamwork, the risk-taking, and the joy that are hallmarks of our vibrant community were all present in our virtual classes, our guest speaker webinars, through Zoom TuckTails, during our first-ever virtual Investiture ceremony, and more. Our community rallied to live our mission under challenging circumstances. We were determined to not let the world’s tragedy dim the power of our school to develop wise, decisive leaders who will better the world through business. Our school’s greatest asset has always been its people, and I continue to be inspired by the collective resolve and creativity of this powerful community. As you will read in these pages, in recent months we have witnessed Tuck alumni partner to combat the public-health crisis, to keep businesses running, and to protect our physicians. Our loyal alumni have also been working tirelessly to counsel our students during this time of great uncertainty, to provide warm leads for internships and jobs, and to share compelling visions for our postpandemic future. In this issue, we also pay special tribute to our alumnae. This year marks 50 years since Martha Fransson T’70 earned her MBA at Tuck and paved a path for the many women who followed. As we honor our past and look to a challenging yet promising future, we asked alumnae to share their perspectives on leadership, on what it takes to make a mark on the world of business, and on how to leave a powerful legacy. The magazine before you today is also a tribute. It is a result of the inspiring leadership of Ed Winchester, who served as Tuck’s executive director of marketing and communications and the longtime editor of Tuck Today. Ed died unexpectedly in April at the too-young age of 49. He was a world-renowned Olympic rower and a gifted and accomplished writer. As editor, Ed transformed the pages of Tuck Today with powerful narrative storytelling and beautiful photography that celebrated our community. Ed was one of you—a wise, decisive leader bettering our world. Please be safe and be well.

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CONTENTS

DEPARTMENTS

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WHAT DOES IT TAKE? Celebrating 50 years of women at Tuck with voices of our alumnae on what it takes to succeed in today’s business world.

UPFRONT: INSIDE SPRING TERM 2020

TUCK DIVERSITY PROGRAMS CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY

VIRTUAL ALUMNI TOWN HALLS

ONSITE GLOBAL CONSULTING

STARTUP INCUBATOR

IDEAS

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BY MEGAN MICHELSON

PROFILE: JEN DANNALS

RESEARCH: NAVIGATING THE MANY ROUTES TO CONSUMERS

Q&A: EESHA SHARMA

RESEARCH: THREE BOXES, ONE PLAYBOOK

INSIGHTS: NERDY GIRLS VERSUS THE PANDEMIC

FACULTY NEWS

FINDINGS: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

ALUMNI NEWS

PROFILE: KELLY ESTEN D’05, T’12

BEST PRACTICES: ALISON ELWORTHY T’11

Q&A: LAURA WARD T’89

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HOW THE CORE CURRICULUM FITS TOGETHER

PARTNERING DURING A PANDEMIC

IN MEMORIAM

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What does it mean to have an integrated curriculum? Tuck offers the best example.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuck alumni from near and far are tapping into the strength of the Tuck network to help combat the crisis.

BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

BY BETSY VERECKEY

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Through the creative resolve of the students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the entirely remote spring term featured hundreds of synchronous and richly interactive classroom sessions, more executive visits and talks from leaders in business and government than ever before, and a wide range of virtual meet-ups and social gatherings.

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UNMISTAKABLY TUCK: INSIDE SPRING TERM 2020 Amid a pandemic, Tuck’s first-ever term of remote MBA learning was a great success. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

n early May, Professor Ramon Lecuona and the students of Strategy in Emerging Markets were talking about a case on Sherritt International, a Canadian mining company that had invested in Cuba in the 1990s. The choice to partner with the Cuban government was not straightforward, and the case centered on the decisionmaking process of Sherritt’s CEO at the time, Ian Delaney. After about an hour of discussion, the students noticed that a special guest had joined the class. Ian Delaney appeared on their screens, as he too Zoomed in to the

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online classroom from his home in Toronto. For the next 25 minutes, students were able to ask the former CEO questions directly and round out the story from the case. “It was a great conversation,” says Lecuona. “We not only got the insights directly from the person who was actually making the decisions, but students got to ask questions to a seasoned manager with years of experience investing in emerging markets.” The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented the Tuck community—and visitors—from congregating on campus, but it has not diminished the personal, connected and

transformative learning experience that is Tuck’s hallmark. Through the creative resolve of the students, faculty, staff and alumni, the entirely remote spring term featured hundreds of synchronous and richly interactive classroom sessions, more executive visits and talks from leaders in business and government than ever before, and a wide range of virtual meet-ups and social gatherings. “I’ve learned at Tuck that nothing is impossible,” reflected Tanushree Podder T’20. “This is an extremely strong community.” The transition to a virtual learning

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community happened quickly. During the second week of March, as the magnitude of the public health crisis became evident, Tuck leadership realized that the spring 2020 term would have to be conducted online. The school had less than 14 days to implement an entirely different format for the curricular, co-curricular and career aspects of its renowned MBA experience. “We started by leveraging the online learning expertise across our community,” explains Joe Hall, senior associate dean for teaching and learning. Since 2011, Tuck has partnered with The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice on the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program, an intensive and hightouch online degree with short residential periods. Tuck’s MHCDS professors advised the rest of the faculty on the platforms and processes they use for remote teaching, and helped run mock online classes to help work out virtual classroom details. The school also created new facultysupport roles to allow professors to focus entirely on their teaching during class times. These included IT personnel who were present to help solve technical problems and ensure streaming quality, as well as classroom facilitators, who assisted the faculty with Zoom-related student interactions during the remote sessions.

which allows students to type answers to questions, and then the professor can pick a few students to expand on their answer. Professors can also create breakout rooms, where small groups can meet to discuss a problem, and professors can then visit those rooms. “It really extends and expands upon what we can do in regular, in-person instruction,” says Hall, who taught the other two sections of the Operations core course. Peter Bourgeois T’21 came away from the term impressed with how well the faculty adopted the distance-learning technology. And academically, Bourgeois says he benefited from being at his home workstation when class ended, so he could begin his assignments right away, while the material from class was still fresh in his mind. “Before, I would have lunch with friends, go home, and maybe not start the assignment until eight or nine hours later,” he says. He also found the professors to be just as accessible as ever, spending time with students after class and being available during virtual office hours. Many of the faculty also continued their lunch meet-ups with small groups of students,

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“The spring term is what we had planned to do all year long. The nuts and bolts changed, but the educational opportunities remained the same.” —Joe Hall, senior associate dean for teaching and learning

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The students really stepped up. They brought their best selves to class, and that makes a huge difference when you’re teaching because it’s very much a co-creative experience.”

Few other top business schools provided the same level of support in virtual classroom settings. Upon return from spring break, Tuck students were introduced to the Zoom platform and the school established norms for online behavior, setting participation and engagement expectations that were just as high as they were for in-person classes. All classes were delivered live, at their regularly scheduled times, and students were expected to have their computer cameras turned on during class so professors could see their faces. Grading remained as usual. “The students really stepped up,” says Brian Tomlin, the senior associate dean for faculty and research, who taught two sections of the required core Operations course during the spring. “They brought their best selves to class, and that makes a huge difference when you’re teaching because it’s very much a co-creative experience.” That experience was highly interactive. Using Zoom, professors poll their students and get immediate feedback on a question, seeing the percentages that chose one answer over another. There’s a chat function,

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We all miss this in-person community we all love, but at the same time, we’re able to create something that is very similar and, in some ways, better.” —DEAN SALLY JAEGER

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Tuck’s student-organized Virtual AgTech Summit, the world’s largest online conference on agriculture technology, drew over 900 attendees from all over the world. “The summit came at a particularly historic time in human history.” — Kristin Ng T’21

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but remotely. “This was the best learning semester for me,” Bourgeois says. Courses that are traditionally smaller and more experiential thrived in the online setting. One example is Advanced Management Communications, which was taught this spring by Courtney Pierson T’01 and Julie Lang T’93. The course is taught as a communications workshop, with a maximum of 12 students and no lecturing. Each student hones his/her presentation and discussion skills, based on their individual intentions. When one student is presenting, her classmates are acting as either the intended audience or observers who provide feedback. “It’s very hands-on by design,” says Pierson. “That translated to Zoom better than we expected, and we created more structure to make the students’ roles as speakers, listeners and feedback providers clearer.” The students, adds Pierson, were glad they took the course while it was on Zoom, because they learned the skill of presenting remotely, something they all imagined they will be doing frequently even after the pandemic is over. The Tuck First-Year Project (FYP) was another experiential course that worked surprisingly well in a remote format. A required first-year course, the First-Year Project challenges students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to solve complex, strategic business challenges for clients—ranging from multinationals to nonprofits and early-stage startups. This culminates in a report and presentation to the client. The FYP experiences were as rich and

rewarding as ever. Yangming Fei T’21 worked on a project advising a client in the petroleum industry about monetizing a software platform. “Before starting this project, I thought working remotely as a team would substantially impact our efficiency, but it turned out to be quite the opposite,” he says. “We could talk and schedule meetings very easily, and didn’t need to worry about which location to choose. And scheduling interviews with the client was just as easy.” For Madeleine Livingston T’21, who worked on a project about delivering preventative medical care virtually, her experience developing close relationships with her team members “helped refute the preconceived notion that it would be difficult to do rapport-building in a virtual setting,” she says. Beyond academics, the Tuck community rallied to make sure the social experience outside of the classroom was just as fulfilling. Students began putting out a weekly QuaranTuck newsletter promoting various gatherings, which included TuckTails, trivia nights, scavenger hunts, baking and cooking classes, TikTok challenges, and even a virtual version of the

annual MBA World Cup soccer tournament, which took place on PlayStation and Xbox as opposed to campus fields. “The students jumped at the opportunity to be thoughtful and creative and still have this personal, connected and transformative experience, but doing it differently,” says Sally Jaeger, the associate dean of the MBA Program. The freedom and ease of the virtual environment opened up opportunities for more compelling talks and interactions with alumni and high-level leaders in business and government. Steve Schwarzman, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, and David Rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, visited David Marchick’s class on Managing Stakeholders in Private Equity. The View from the Top speaker series brought in four-star general Stanley McChrystal and Jacqueline Novogratz, the CEO of Acumen. The new weekly Faculty Research Chats featured a diverse array of professors from each business discipline discussing their research and its intersection with the current business world. The school also launched a new series,

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Tuck Board Chats, connecting students with influential alumni who are or have been serving on one of Tuck’s advisory boards or councils. Jim Esposito T’95, global co-head of the securities division at Goldman Sachs, spoke with students about the pandemic’s impact on global markets and leadership during volatile times. Kevin Demoff D’99, T’06, COO of the Los Angeles Rams and Russell Wolff D’89, T’94, EVP and general manager of ESPN+ engaged in lively conversation with students about the future of the sports industry. Three heads of the MBA Advisory Council, Mike Koester T’99, partner in merchant banking at Goldman Sachs; Leela Srinivasan T’06, CMO at SurveyMonkey; and Errik Anderson T’07, founder and CEO of Ulysses Diversified Holdings, joined students to discuss compassionate leadership. On the job front, Tuck’s extraordinarily distinguished and loyal network of alumni and corporate partners also proved critical to the success of student career exploration during the spring term. “Every day for the past few weeks, I have received at least one email from an alum with a warm lead to an internship or a job posting,” says Stephen Pidgeon T’07, executive director of career services. By the end of May, more than 99 percent of Tuck first-year students had summer internship offers. As

Tuck’s first-ever virtual Investiture celebration featured live remarks from Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and a musical tribute from the Tuck Band.

virtual Investiture kicked off, the number of graduating students who have already accepted full-time offers is the highest it has ever been. “Recruiting lends itself well to virtual interactions,” continues Pidgeon, “Whether it is an office hour or a one-on-one chat over the phone, the process of networking and

“Every day for the past few weeks, I have received at least one email from an alum with a warm lead to an internship or a job posting.”

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— Stephen Pidgeon T’07, executive director of Career Services

learning about a company continues quite the same. But the outreach and help from alumni during this pandemic especially has really shown the value of the Tuck network.” Jaeger is confident about the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, even though it will be different than years past. “The richness of what we’re able to do virtually is phenomenal,” she says. “It helps set us up for the fall, and gives us more possibilities for future programming.” To help firstyears merge into the community, this summer the MBA Program is creating buddy groups each composed of three T’21s and three T’22s. And the school will organize virtual gatherings to slowly mix the two classes together early on. “We all miss this in-person community we all love, but at the same time, we’re able to create something that is very similar and, in some ways, better,” says Jaeger. After making it to the other side of the spring term, rising first-year Peter Bourgeois has some friendly advice for his new Tuck colleagues starting their MBA in August. “Tuck is what you make of it,” he says. “Come here ready to contribute to the learning experience of your peers. The difference between in-person and online has not been as great as I thought. You are going to learn just as much, if not more.”

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Tuck Diversity Business Programs Celebrate 40th Anniversary Tuck was the first business school to create its own executive program for diverse entrepreneurs. Marking its 40th anniversary this year, more than 8,000 students have graduated from the program to date. By BETSY VERECKEY

n the summer of 1983 Robert Wallace T’84 began working alongside his professors on a research project to help strengthen an existing executive education program that Tuck had designed just a few years earlier for minority business owners. Originated in 1980, the Diversity Business Programs became the first of its kind among business schools. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this fall, Tuck’s program is the largest in the world— with more than 8,000 program graduates. “This idea of putting on an executive program for CEOs of minority-owned businesses was a novel concept back then,” recalls Wallace, who has returned multiple times to participate in the program, finding value in it for his own businesses, Bithgroup Technologies, Inc. and Bithenergy Inc., his Baltimore-based information technology and energy services firms. “I spent a great deal of that summer reaching out to business owners to convince them to come to Tuck to take a program,” he says. “Up to that time, no one had ever approached them with this kind of value

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proposition, but when they arrived, and they experienced what I call ‘the Tuck experience,’ these men and women said, ‘Wow— this is great.’”

SUPPORTING DIVERSE ENTREPRENEURS FOR 40 YEARS

For decades, the uniquely constructed programs have offered participants exactly what they need at different points in their ownership journey. Emerging entrepreneurs learn the fundamentals of business and what it takes to succeed, while established business owners and their top team members gain the deeper knowledge they need to accelerate their growth and success. For Marcel Benson, founder of Benson Watch, attending Building a Successful Diverse Business in 2017 helped him get up to speed on cash management and network with valuable connections, one of whom led him to a lucrative business contract with a major retailer. “I would say that after attending Tuck, I'm equipped with a lot more knowledge about how to get new business and make

good business decisions, to not go after things with an emotional mind, but to really understand the numbers behind the decisions that I make,” Benson says. “Our Tuck Diversity Business Programs have been positively impacting both small businesses and lives for four decades,” says Punam Anand Keller, senior associate dean of innovation and growth and a longstanding faculty member in the programs. “Additionally, they help inspire inclusivity in our MBA program. Our MBA students and faculty engage with the participants, offering them the opportunity to reflect on how diversity can improve business outcomes.”

SPONSOR SUPPORT

Throughout the years, corporate sponsors, such as General Motors, Google, Sundial Brands, and Wells Fargo, have partnered with Tuck to connect their suppliers to educational opportunities and further their advancement. Reginald Humphrey, senior manager of supplier diversity at GM, has sent many of GM’s suppliers to Tuck. “I always refer to Tuck as the Disneyland of academia because I have literally seen the magic that program and what it has done for entrepreneurs,” says Humphrey. “I hear over and over again that this program is life-changing. And that's a very rewarding a thing to hear.”

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

New initiatives, like a program with the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship that pairs current MBA students with select program participants to provide personalized business consulting and a webinar series with Tuck alumni speakers, are in the works to help keep the Tuck Diversity Business Programs relevant in today’s changing business environment. And although the course curricula will change in the years to come in order to match new business challenges and opportunities, the overall mission of the programs will remain unchanged. “The connections that participants build with each other and with the Tuck community last a lifetime, and that’s something no other program can provide,” said Keller. “We look forward to continuing this legacy of commitment to diverse entrepreneurs into the future.”

Dean Matthew Slaughter and others addressed alumni in a virtual discussion on how Tuck is moving forward during these historic times. By TUCK COMMUNICATIONS

ven as an unprecedented public health crisis grips the world, it’s nice to know some things never change, like the loyalty and engagement of the Tuck alumni. As a way to thank alumni for all the ways they have supported the school, Dean Matthew Slaughter convened a series of virtual alumni town halls this spring, where he was joined by members of the Deans’ Office as well as senior leaders from Career Services and Admissions. Speaking from his home, and with a virtual background of the McLaughlin Atrium, Dean Slaughter laid out the purpose of these first-of-their-kind gatherings. “I want you to be informed about the strategic intent and clarity with which Tuck came into the crisis, and to be informed about what we’re doing in these historic times,” he said. “And I want you to be inspired, as I have been, by the way in which our faculty, staff, and students have been so terrific in summoning resolve to live our mission under these circumstances, despite the regret we feel for doing things in a different way.” Slaughter first guided participants through Tuck’s mission, vision and strategic elements, then deputy dean Punam Keller presented the school’s core values and strategic pillars, and went into further depth on some of the initiatives the school has been working on to strengthen those pillars. At a broad level, those initiatives have goals to push educational frontiers, improve the student experience, build careers for today and tomorrow and make a better world. Next, Joe Hall, the senior associate dean of

Teaching and Learning, gave an enthusiastic update on the remote learning experience, where 40 courses are being delivered to 60 sections via the Zoom platform. “It allows a high degree of interaction between faculty and students,” he said. “So teachers can still cold-call, and they use the chat function to ask questions to the class.” Teachers are also using discussion boards to pose questions before class, and to expand on class discussions afterward, something they intend to continue when in-person teaching returns. Sally Jaeger, the associate dean of the MBA Program, followed Hall with the latest on the student experience, and was happy to report that extracurricular life is still alive

Joe Hall, the senior associate dean of Teaching and Learning, gave an enthusiastic update on the remote learning experience.

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and well, with activities such as TuckTails, small group dinners, and Tuck Trivia being conducted virtually, organized through the QuaranTuck newsletter. “Students are active and busy and engaged and making the most they can of a difficult situation,” she said. “I’ve never been prouder of a group of people.” She also reported receiving loads of emails from students, praising the care and attention they have been receiving from their faculty teachers. The Town Halls concluded with discussions on the status of jobs and internships from Stephen Pidgeon, the executive director of Career Services, and on the status of the admissions process from Luke Anthony Peña, the executive director of Admissions and Financial Aid. Both reported good news on these fronts, with relatively little impact from the pandemic at this point. The events ended with a question-andanswer session where alumni engaged in active dialogue with the deans and leaders. “These town halls were received even more positively than I anticipated,” said Renee Hirschberg, the director of Alumni Engagement and Advancement Operations, who also appeared in the town hall to give an update on alumni engagement and how the school is adjusting alumni activity during the pandemic. “We will be doing these with a regular cadence in the months to come. It’s a great opportunity for alumni to hear from senior leaders, and hopefully, in future events, from students, volunteers, and faculty as well.” Recordings of the Town Halls and all past virtual programs can be found at mytuck. dartmouth.edu/pastprograms.

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A team of six Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;20s worked with WEnergy in Singapore to help the company determine if it should implement blockchain technology.

CREATIVE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, REAL RESULTS Two OnSite Global Consulting projects illustrate how Tuckies are putting their rigorous and relevant education to tackle real-world problems in the energy and health care sectors. By BETSY VERECKEY 12

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o date, Tuck students have participated in 237 projects for 168 clients in 60 countries. Here are two recent OnSite projects where students successfully helped a client solve a realworld business challenge.

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For a company as innovative and fastgrowing as WEnergy Global, blockchain technology seemed like a promising way for the Singapore renewables company to generate more revenue as it carries out its mission to bring electricity to 120 million residents in southeast Asia who lack access. To help WEnergy determine if the company should implement blockchain, a Tuck team comprised of six Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;20s con-

help establish Croatia as a go-to destination for health and wellness. The team—comprised of T’20s Linda Horner, Nirlipta Panda, Tanushree Podder, and Zach Castle, as well as Owen Ritz D’21—visited Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Rijeka, Vukovar, and additional cities in Croatia to conduct qualitative interviews with professionals from organizations that included public and private medical clinics, wellness centers, hotels and health tourism startups. They surveyed more than 100 customers, sifted through different data points to identify certain themes and identified important questions for ACAP to answer, such as: Does Croatia have the technology and infrastructure to roll out such a program? “It was exciting to be creating an entirely new product,” said Horner, who grew up in Uganda and has an interest in global health. “The complexity of the project was very interesting to me. It was an opportunity to build something from nothing.” The team recommended that ACAP roll out three product offerings—a rejuvenating health retreat, a personalized lifestyle medicine program and a rehabilitation paradise—believing that the programs would

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ducted extensive, in-depth interviews with industry experts in blockchain and in the crypto-investment space. They culled through helpful industry reports, examined financial statements and reviewed WEnergy’s existing business operations. It was a dream team comprised of T’20s Junyang Ke, Cihan Sahin, Josephine Ren, Samyak Jaroli and Todor Parushev, who have backgrounds ranging from law and fintech to finance and consulting. “When we were working together to solve problems, there was a lot of friendly debate and discussion, and I think our diversity as a team helped us deliver a transformative solution for the client,” says Ke. “This has been one of my best experiences at Tuck.” The team also tapped into support from their advisers and resources at the Revers Center for Energy and the Center for Digital Strategies. All five students worked from Hanover in the project’s initial stages, then traveled to Singapore for three weeks, where they met with key client stakeholders, senior management and blockchain industry practitioners. The founder and CEO of WEnergy Global, Atem Ramsundersingh, had previously interacted with Tuck students on an OnSite project and was so delighted with the results that he signed up for another engagement. This time, the students did not disappoint, either. WEnergy plans to implement the team’s recommendations to develop blockchain and market it as two products to two investor groups. Ramsundersingh, who hosted the students at his home before they departed back to Hanover, says he was thrilled with the amount of information the Tuck team was able to deliver and the manner in which they made their recommendations. “The students really wanted to use their knowledge to better the world. They really had their hearts in the right place,” Ramsundersingh says.

help create positive lifestyle interventions while connecting participants to their roots in Croatia. ACAP plans to implement the students’ recommendations and establish programs in Croatia within the next two years. Bringing key stakeholders together— from Croatian and US Governments to the private health care sector—enabled the ACAP Medical Tourism Task Force to start meaningful discussions. In the future, ACAP is interested in collaborating with Tuck on other programs, including establishing a much-needed cancer center in Eastern Europe.

TUCK AND DARTMOUTH ALUMNI: If your organization has a global strategy challenge that could use MBA insights and actionable recommendations, please contact Kerry Laufer, director of OnSite, for more information on how to become a client: Kerry.J.Laufer@tuck.dartmouth.edu

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When the Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) decided it wanted to launch an evidence-based integrated wellness tourism program, it tapped a team of Tuck students to help them map out an appropriate strategy. ACAP—a member-driven nonprofit based in California consisting of 15 chapters across the U.S.—hoped the initiative would

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The Incubator is led by Center for Entrepreneurship Executive Director Daniella Reichstetter T’07 (pictured above during the fall Entrepreneurship Day) and Faculty Director Steve Kahl D’91. (Also pictured above is Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital Executive Director Jim Feuille D’79)

START IT UP The Center for Entrepreneurship’s Startup Incubator saw more participation than ever this spring. By EILEEN O’TOOLE

he Center for Entrepreneurship’s Tuck Startup Incubator kicked off this spring with 55 smiling faces on a Zoom screen. This year, twenty-six teams from Tuck, Geisel, Thayer, TDI, and Dartmouth participated—more than any since its inception in 2018—representing five cohorts: Consumer Product, Cosmetic, Manufacturing, B2B, and Care (child care and health care). A creation of the Center, the Incubator provides a distinct pathway of learning and application for students at various stages of their entrepreneur journey. A combination of live sessions, shared resource documents, office hours with incubator mentors, asynchronous teach-ins from industry experts, and coaching from incubator directors, the Incubator’s weekly sessions are designed to help students move from customer discovery to implementation and execution of venture creation. Each term culminates with demos and pitches at Entrepreneurship Day. Thereafter, several first-year teams receive summer startup funding through the Maynard Internship Program, while several second-year teams are continuing work on their venture after graduation. The following Tuck teams participated in this year's Incubator. 14

AnsweredMe AnsweredMe is a platform to help sales teams and customers have a better experience by getting additional data when no one is answering the phones. Our product enhances customer service for both calling customers and sales development teams. When a customer calls the company and no one is available to answer the phone, the AnsweredMe platform can transcribe the voicemail and provide additional channels for data transfer, which can also be integrated with the company’s existing CRM. Information is directed to the right department and sales teams can easily identify and prioritize data to keep potential deals alive. Team: Cristian Molina Cornejo T'21, Alex Wojcik D'23, Arijeet S. Grewal D’23

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Beauty Jar products are 100% customized, formulated with everything you need and nothing you don’t. Consumers leave with products in hand and a personalized recipe, cutting down on the number of products in their medicine cabinet and answering the question of what works best for them. Team: Sydney Schuit T’20, Nicole Ferraro T’20, Alyssa K. Winter T’20

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BetterBra is a brand new, state of the art nursing bra that is self-adjustable up to five cup sizes. It is the first nursing bra a woman can wear through every stage of her breastfeeding journey. Team: Lindsey Weiss T'21, Harriet Partridge T'21

Indigo is bettering the experience of therapy through an app that uses artificial intelligence to provide cognitive behavioral therapy. Team: Nammi Nadella T’20

Mythos is addressing a common problem faced by many dungeons and dragons players: the time required to create a compelling campaign (story). We provide a software platform that walks dungeon masters (story-tellers) through the creation process and then provides a one-stop-shop for any physical props (minis, terrain, etc.) they need to run their campaign. Team: Aadhi Manivannan T’21

Blue Norther

Blue Norther is America's best-tasting hard seltzer. We're all-natural, sweetened with Agave, and born & bottled in Austin, TX. Cheers! Team: Austin Pittman T’21, Dennis M. Gallagher T’21

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Clueset is the go-to destination for Social Shopping. We are creating a better e-commerce experience through a new, curated self-registry platform. Team: Laina Crosby T’20, Annie Snider T’20

Flux Biosciences

Flux Biosciences' core technology, once used to read computer hard drives, has been repurposed to read the human body by measuring key biomarkers in blood, urine or saliva related to a person’s general wellness. Our first product is an at-home urine test which a woman can use to improve her chances of a successful pregnancy by predicting ovulation, detecting a healthy pregnancy, and most importantly, detecting and treating the most common cause of infertility. Team: Travis McCain, T’21

Lady Tonic

Designed for women post-puberty to pre-menopause, Lady Tonic is a natural herbal tea/ready to drink juice which has medicinal elements for women's health. Team: Linda Horner T'20, Titi Arasi T'21

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We’re revolutionizing childcare with a B2B, shared-use model serving small to medium sized businesses in the US. We drive ROI for businesses through strengthening talent acquisition, retention, and productivity. We lighten the financial burden for—and bring peace of mind to—working parents, in turn addressing the gender gap by empowering mothers with the choice to work. Team: Mark Noble T'21, Willem Sandberg T'21

Mysh

Mysh is your inside scoop into the skincare routines of your friends and trusted voices. Team: David Fayngor T’20, Jessica Campbell T’20, Josh Ramos, T’20

Peace Corners

Peace Corners is connecting parents, their children and their caretaker with best in class tracking and content to support cognitive development milestones. Team: Kinan Bachour T’21, Madeleine Livingston T’21

Persian Natural Skincare

Persian Natural Skincare is a natural skincare line based on Persian skincare traditions. Team: Shayda Teymourpour T'21

Simplify

Simplify is a B2B platform that directly connects tea suppliers and buyers in India, eliminating the current brokerage cost of 1% per transaction paid by suppliers, reducing the average sales cycle from 21 to 10 days, and significantly increasing suppliers’ access to buyers. Screen reader support enabled. Team: Shailendra Khemka T’20, Sudhanshu Khemka T’20

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Superfood's mission is to transform healthy eating into a habit. We provide a superfood salad dressing with high quality, organic, sustainably sourced ingredients. We offer flavors with functional health benefits such as detox, focus, digest, and energize in single-serve portions to make healthy eating easy and delicious. Team: Elizabeth Holmes T'21

Use our technology and trace the journey of your food from the farm to your table. Team: Avinash Upadhyaya T'20, Alberto Ariztia Tagle T'20

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Goalberg is a soccer training device that better simulates the presence of a goalie defending the net, which supports more competitive and effective practices and pickup games for times when the requisite number of adequately trained goalies is not available. Team: Simon Hirsch T'21

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VesprSolar is a solar hardware development startup that develops solutions that reduce installation costs for utility-scale solar. Team: Robert Sewell T’21

Hangen Innovations, LLC

Hangen Innovations, LLC is an injection molded product that holds a full suite of personal protective equipment, reducing costs to companies surrounding lost or damaged PPE and reducing frustration/lost time to employees using said PPE. Team: Daniel Roper T’21

T’20s David Fayngor (pictured), Jessica Campbell, and Josh Ramos have developed Mysh, “your inside scoop into the skincare routines of the people you trust.” Learn more about Mysh at myshskincare.com.

Whiteboard

Whiteboard is a web and mobile app that integrates task-management, goal-setting, habit-tracking, calendaring, reminders, reflections, and an accountability network into one platform. Team: Sam Wolfson T’21

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INSIDE MULTI-CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION In a new book, Kusum Ailawadi discusses how managers can get it right.

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RESEARCH: NAVIGATING THE MANY ROUTES TO CONSUMERS /

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RESEARCH: THREE BOXES, ONE PLAYBOOK /

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THE POWER OF INCLUSION Rising star Jen Dannals, named a best 40-under-40 professor by Poets & Quants, shows how organizations bring out the best in their people—through her research, teaching, and her own example at Tuck. By JEFF MOAG

hen JEN DANNALS joined the Tuck faculty as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in 2018, she was precisely the median age of the students in the organizational behavior course she teaches. The very next year, the curriculum committee gave her license to redesign the course, a pillar of the MBA core called Managing People. Working with Prof. Daniel Feiler, who also teaches the class, she re-imagined it to be more experiential, using a powerful mix of group exercises, debriefing and lecture. Students and colleagues gave rave reviews. Dannals, now 29 and the youngest honoree on Poets & Quants magazine’s best 40-under-40 list of outstanding young business faculty, still marvels at the faith Tuck placed in her. “The committee gave some direction about content but also gave us a lot of freedom,’” she says. “That’s an incredible amount of trust to put in someone so new.” Judging from the more than two dozen faculty and students who wrote the magazine in support of Dannals’ nomination, that trust was well-placed. “Her ability to convey information, captivate a classroom, and connect with her students is something one would only expect from a very tenured professor,” one student wrote. Colleagues were equally complimentary. “Professor Dannals took the lead on the changes in these areas and delivered a new course with absolutely blockbuster ratings, unheard of for a relatively new professor in

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the MBA core at Tuck,” one wrote. Dannals also is making waves in the field of social norms and organizational behavior. Her research sheds new light on how factors such as hierarchy, social norms, and gender dynamics affect important aspects of organizational behavior. Her work provides new evidence showing that diversity and inclusion are fundamental to organizational success, and that teams thrive when leaders encourage new voices to be heard. Dannals studied psychology as an undergraduate at Princeton, and discovered an abiding love of research while working on her senior thesis. After graduation she worked as a research assistant with Prof. Betsy Levy Paluck, a mentor whose fearless approach to research inspires her own work. For that project, the researchers created the equivalent of a nonprofit consulting firm to study social norms around bullying at 56 New Jersey Middle Schools. The work gave Dannals a taste for ambitious research and a lasting interest in the field. “Social norms are one of the oldest topics within social psychology, but that project impressed upon me how little we actually know about them,” she says. “This was testing a very basic premise of social norms theory in a pretty epic way, and so I took away from that a recognition of how much is still there to be researched and understood.” Dannals tore into the topic at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where she earned her PhD in 2018. The groups division of the American Psychological

Association honored her Essays on Social Norm Perception as dissertation of the year. She continues to present and publish at a steady clip, coauthoring several wellreceived papers and opening new lines of inquiry. Her forthcoming projects include collaborations with Tuck colleagues Feiler and Adam Kleinbaum, examining how a person’s place within an organization— whether they are central to the social network or on its fringes—influences their perceptions of norms. As a keen observer of organizational culture, Dannals naturally wondered what to expect when she first came to Tuck. After settling in and finding her academic stride, the researcher in her has had occasion to analyze why Tuck works as it does. Though she hasn’t subjected the school’s secret sauce to a full scientific analysis, a discerning taste test confirms its potency and key ingredients. She was taken by how profoundly size and location impact Tuck’s organizational chemistry. Those factors could go a long way toward explaining Tuck’s collegiality and continuity, says Dannals. She has coffee with colleagues from different departments nearly every day, providing a kind of academic cross-pollination rarely seen at larger institutions. “There's much more of a family feel, and there’s less churn,” she says. “You end up with people like Associate Dean Sally Jaeger, who knows everything and everyone, and serves as a kind of grand historian of Tuck.” She also found the academic schedule conducive to teaching and research. “I like

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the idea of teaching intensely for a period of time and focusing on doing a good job at that, and then switching back to research and giving that my full attention,” she says. The name Dannals and Feiler chose for their revamped organizational behavior course, Managing People, describes both the course content and the reason it is part of the MBA core. Managing people is a foundational business skill, yet it’s one that is not easily conveyed with traditional teaching methods. “It's a different kind of skill set to learn,” Dannals says. “It’s not something where I can tell you how to do it, and then you can apply that formula forever.” Dannals and Feiler designed a course that imparts theory and best practices, and then allows those variables to play out in group exercises. The course design allows students’ own work experience to contribute to the learning experience. She recalls giving a lecture in which she said one way to avoid an influence cascade— the phenomenon of team members going around the table repeating what they think the boss wants to hear—is for the leader to speak last during brainstorming. “After that class,” Dannals says, “a student came to me and said, ‘I was a White House intern, and President Obama ran all of his meetings just as you described.’ “That’s what I love about teaching MBA students—the experiences that they bring with them,” she says, adding the broader lesson is that successful leadership is about bringing out the best in those around you. The approach values diversity and inclusion. It allows good ideas to flourish, no matter where they originate. There’s a corollary in Tuck’s secret sauce. Dannals knew Tuck’s reputation as a small, inclusive and supportive environment before she arrived in Hanover. Still, she didn’t expect the leadership to put so much faith in her so soon. “I was surprised that Dan and I were given so much license to change our class, a core class, after my first year,” Dannals says. “It felt a little crazy to have only taught MBAs once, and then have the curriculum committee say, ‘Go ahead. Make something new.’” "The result has validated the committee’s trust, and the inclusive experience that has long been a Tuck hallmark. “It meant that I could include things in the course that I feel are really important and that I'm really passionate about,” says Dannals. “That’s such an important part of teaching.”

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NAVIGATING THE MANY ROUTES TO CONSUMERS In a new book, Getting Multi-Channel Distribution Right, Tuck professor Kusum Ailawadi melds research with practical tools on how suppliers can select and manage the physical and digital channels through which their products reach consumers. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

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As distribution options multiply, making the right choices is critical and product line, pricing, and other decisions are becoming more complex along with distribution decisions. This is something Kusum Ailawadi, the Charles Jordan 1911 TU’12 Professor of Marketing at Tuck, understands well. She’s spent a decade teaching her MBA students this topic in her course Multichannel Routeto-Market Strategy and more than two decades researching various aspects of the interaction between suppliers and their channel partners. In that time, while becoming fluent in the challenges, language, and tools of multichannel distribution, she noticed that there wasn’t a definitive resource on the modern distribution system for managers and MBA students or those who train them. So, she decided to partner on a book with her longtime research collaborator and friend, Paul Farris, the Emeritus Landmark Professor of Marketing at the Darden School of Business. The product of their years-long work is Getting Multi-channel Distribution Right (John Wiley & Sons), a comprehensive and

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practical guide to the strategies, metrics, and tools suppliers need today to navigate the many ways they can reach the end consumer, and manage relationships with the many intermediaries they have to partner with. To get a sense of the challenges suppliers face, consider the case of performance running shoe manufacturer, Brooks, a company Ailawadi and Farris discuss at length in the book. “It is focused on the runner and distributes its full product line

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hen you buy something online and it shows up at your door, it’s easy to discount the complexity of the decisions and relationships behind the scenes that made it happen. For example, you can order a pair of Brooks running shoes on Amazon, but they’re not sold by either Brooks or Amazon—one of Brooks’ omnichannel retailers is likely the dealer of record. Or, if Nikes are more your style, you can find an odd size of a model or two on Amazon, but it will probably come from an unauthorized retailer. Every company today has to manage more than one route to reach customers, whether it’s a digital-native like Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company realizing it needs to be on the grocery store shelf after all, or a home furnishings manufacturer trying to meet customers wherever they search and buy, or a hotel company deciding what being available on Expedia is worth, or a media company figuring out what price is sustainable for its direct streaming channel and which content to license to or take away from Netflix.

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through multiple channels, from specialty running stores to omni-channel general sporting goods chains and some pure-play online retailers, and it has its own direct digital channel,” they write. Aside from servicing all those channels, Brooks must come up with ways to capture important metrics across the channels, such as who searches and buys where and why, and the breadth and depth of distribution, in addition to prices and margins. It has to manage the channel conflicts that arise when, say, runners get their gait and the shape of their foot checked at Fleet Feet and then buy their Brooks shoes on Amazon, while at the same time filling the holes in distribution that are left by the increasing rate of physical store closures. Or take the hotel industry, where a rather fragmented group of hotel companies and independent hotels depend on the two behemoths of the booking business, Booking Holdings and Expedia, and increasingly on Google Travel. Online travel agencies (OTAs) are attractive to consumers because they offer one-stop comparison shopping. Meanwhile, hotels must pay OTAs commissions of 12 percent to as much as 50 percent for bookings on top of having to offer low prices on the rooms. Large companies like Marriott, made even larger after the merger with Starwood, can negotiate better deals with OTAs. But even so, Ailawadi and Farris advise that the deals reflect a clear understanding of the specific functions the OTAs perform and what they are worth. They also underscore the short and longer-term ramifications of entering into new agreements and modifying existing ones, offering a lesson in détente: “Don’t forget that a partner today may become a competitor tomorrow and that the balance of power shifts over time,” they write. “Work hard to earn the consumer’s search loyalty and accumulate power but try to use that power without using it up.”

These are two of the many cases Ailawadi and Farris use to animate and explicate the distribution problem, but the bulk of the book is grounded in researchbased frameworks, metrics, and tools that will help managers do their jobs, and MBA students learn the skills necessary to get those jobs. The book is organized into three sections: (1) the bedrock, which describes today’s physical and digital intermediaries, their functions, their sources of power and the root causes of conflict in the system; (2) the metrics, tools, and frameworks for getting the right type and intensity of distribution; and (3) the ongoing marketing mix decisions needed to keep the system

well-oiled and running smoothly. Taken together, the book is the first of its kind to address the modern distribution landscape in a holistic and rigorous way. “Our goal for this book,” Ailawadi says, “is to have current and future managers incorporate our research-based metrics, frameworks, and dashboards into their thinking as they wrestle with the distribution challenges they face, while learning from our case studies on how other companies, from very different industries, have dealt with them.” FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK, VISIT WWW.GETMULTICHANNELRIGHT.COM

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WHAT OWNERSHIP MEANS IN A WORLD OF INDEBTEDNESS Tuck marketing professor Eesha Sharma has uncovered a psychological construct that helps explain our willingness to borrow money. / By KIRK KARDASHIAN

ESHA SHARMA has an uncommon perspective on personal wealth. Originally from India, she worked as an investment banker and recalls listening to her well-heeled colleagues complain about being poor. Today, as an associate professor in the Marketing group at Tuck, Sharma’s personal history flows into her research agenda, which is centered on consumers’ financial status. About half of her work is about charitable giving—how people make decisions towards others who are poor; the other half is on how people make decisions when they feel poor. A few years ago, Sharma’s research on financial decision making under resource constraints led her to a curious observation.

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She noticed that people used credit cards—a highly expensive type of financing— more often than personal loans to pay for things they couldn’t immediately afford. This might make rational sense for nondiscretionary purchases, such as food and health care, which must be made quickly. But people also used credit cards for discretionary items, like vacations, when they could have borrowed the money at a much lower interest rate. As Sharma investigated this phenomenon more closely, she found evidence that it had some psychological underpinnings. “What we find the most evidence for is that people feel like money in the form of credit feels more like their own money,” she says. “It feels like it belongs to them, more so than

does money in the form of a loan, so they are more willing to use it.” In a new working paper co-authored with Stephanie Tully of Stanford and Cynthia Cryder of Washington University, Sharma identifies this mental credit/loan dichotomy as Psychological Ownership of Borrowed Money, an entirely new concept in academic literature. This research has taken Sharma on a winding path from Tuck to rural Kenya and back again, and there is a lot more adventure in store. We caught up with Sharma to discuss Psychological Ownership of Borrowed Money and its potential to drive a new wave of research.

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Sharma recently visited Kenya to research the psychological ownership of money and how it impacts borrowers’ behavior.

It refers to the extent to which people feel like money belongs to them. We look at it in the realm of debt, when people are using money that actually doesn’t belong to them and has to be returned. We see that all individuals naturally vary in the extent to which they think that borrowed money feels like their own money. We’ve documented that this perception of ownership explains willingness to borrow, above and beyond demographic variables like age, income, and financial literacy, and psychological variables like debt aversion, self control, and materialism.

You say in your paper that higher levels of psychological ownership make borrowers more willing to get into debt. Can this be influenced so people are less likely to borrow? We have seen that psychological ownership of borrowed money is malleable. If you emphasize that a particular form of debt needs to be repaid, or that it temporarily belongs to you but actually belongs to the lender so it’s not actually yours, you can change these feelings and decrease peoples’ willingness to use certain financial tools.

If this research can impact consumer debt decisions, what other decisions might it apply to? I think there could be a lot of application to different areas, basically anytime someone is using money that doesn’t belong to them. You could think about a manager using company funds, and look at the extent to which they feel company funds are theirs versus belonging to their stakeholders; it might change how risky they are with that money, or how careful they are with spending it, or how fast they spend it. You also could think about politicians spending government money.

or not people have used their credit card, whether they’ve taken on a personal loan, and how many loans they have received. We would love to take this to the field and look at how perceptions of ownership affect other borrowing behaviors.

You went to Kenya this winter to consult for the microfinancing organization Vision Fund Kenya. What were you doing there? VisionFund Kenya was interested in whether psychological ownership of money could help them understand their borrowers’ behavior. I was really excited about this opportunity, because I care a lot about consumer welfare and wellbeing, and VisionFund really cares about its customers and getting them the funds they need, but not in a predatory way. We spent time interviewing clients in Nairobi and Machakos, meeting people at someone’s home or a landmark.

How did you measure psychological ownership in this context? We developed a few different ways to measure it. One is with an image that has a bank on one side of a scale and a hand holding money on the other side of a scale. And the question asks about the extent to which the loan money that recipients receive feels like their own money—similar to cash in their pocket. It was a very interesting experience taking this from the U.S. to another country;

you learn a lot about how to explain concepts. In some cases, the customers did speak English, but a lot of them were more comfortable in Swahili, so we did a lot of work to make sure that the concept was properly understood in English, Swahili, or both. There were so many open questions. I had no idea if this concept would apply in another country. And if it does, does it have any predictive ability?

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How do you describe Psychological Ownership of Money?

What was your big-picture takeaway? It seems from our initial work there that this is a fundamental human concept that people can relate to across cultures. We do actually have some early evidence that greater perception of ownership is related to the number of loans people have taken out. I was intrigued when I saw this, although it’s unclear what direction that relationship goes in. It’s possible that the more people borrow, the more they feel money is theirs.

It's not every day you discover a new psychological concept. This seems really promising. My co-authors and I feel like this could easily launch a whole area of study. We’ve thought about 15 different papers we want to work on. We’re really excited about the potential impact of this work, both for theory and practice.

Now that you’ve identified this concept, what’s the natural next step in your research? We’re trying to uncover some of the antecedents that actually influence perceptions of ownership toward borrowed money. For example, if there are more barriers to a loan, does that make it feel more or less like your own? What are some of the features that increase or decrease psychological ownership of borrowed money? On the consequences side, we have correlational evidence that perceptions of ownership affect things like whether

Sharma worked with Vision Fund Kenya to help the organization better understand their customers' feelings toward borrowing money.

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THREE BOXES, ONE PLAYBOOK Vijay Govindarajan and Manish Tangri T’09 have teamed up to write a how-to book for leading innovation.

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40 years, VIJAY the Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management, has worked with scores of Fortune 500 companies on the tricky juggling act that is longterm corporate success. The way VG sees it, firms must divide their attention into three time zones: managing the present, selectively forgetting the past, and creating the future. He outlined this approach in his bestselling 2016 book, The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation. The book went a long way towards making the three-box framework the lingua franca among executives charged with guiding their firms into the uncertain future. But, for VG, not far enough. “I want to put myself out of business,” he says, “and the best way I can do that is to embed my capabilities as a consultant inside companies. I want to train the trainers.” Toward that end, his publisher, Harvard Business Review Press, suggested he put the bulk of his practical knowledge into a new book, so firms could learn the tools of the three-box system themselves. The product of that suggestion is The Three Box Solution Playbook: Tools and Tactics for Creating Your Company’s Strategy, which was published at the beginning of May. To add even more practical heft and timeliness, VG co-authored the book with his former student, MANISH TANGRI T’09, who works in the M&A group at Intel Capital. The pair have penned articles together for years and share a passion for innovation and the challenges of executing new ideas.

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“When VG asked me to co-author this book with him, I was a little apprehensive about taking something like this on,” Tangri says. “But it became clear to me that VG was seeing my value as a practitioner with 20-plus years of experience.” The central conceit of the three-box framework is that the only constant in the business world is change, so firms need to be continuously evolving. Boxes one and two, in that they deal with the present and the past are wholly different animals from box three, the dream of what’s to come. Box three is about innovating to keep a business current and thriving as the context shifts: by finding new customers, creating new value for existing customers, or dramatically changing the value chain. That sort of evolution is easier said than done. “If you ask somebody to do box-three thinking and box-three execution, they don’t even know where to start,” VG says. “They say, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ What they need is a structure.” That’s what The Three Box Solution Playbook offers, through question prompts and exercises designed to foster a meaningful and thorough conversation among the people who will be putting the innovation into action. Moreover, the exercises are ordered to facilitate a progression from the beginning of the process to the end, so the methodology is clear and, therefore, replicable. It’s not lost on the co-authors that their book is appearing in the midst of the most profound black-swan event of the century, the coronavirus pandemic. To sum up the situation for businesses, Tangri paraphras-

es the legendary Intel CEO Andy Grove: “Bad companies are destroyed by crises; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them.” While their book is relevant in normal times (if such things exist), its focus on creating a solid future is especially relevant today, as uncertainty is at an all-time high and companies are struggling to survive today and prepare for what’s next. “I think our book can really help leaders lead their organizations through the process of ideating, incubating and scaling new business models, to thrive in the future.” Tangri says. “Balancing resources, priorities, and execution across all three boxes is what great companies should be doing.”

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NERDY GIRLS VERSUS THE PANDEMIC Clinical professor Lindsey Leininger has teamed up with eight other female public health experts to disseminate evidence-based information and advice about the COVID pandemic. By LINDSEY LEININGER

uring these tough days, I’m finding solace in being a “Nerdy Girl.” More accurately, I’m finding solace in being part of a team of Nerdy Girls — a group of Ph.D.- trained public health scientists (all of whom happen to be female) disseminating evidence-based information on the COVID pandemic via our “Dear Pandemic” social media profiles on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. When news of the novel coronavirus first dropped I did what I always do and jumped head-first into the evidence. I bumped a planned session on the flu from my winterterm Health Care Analytics and Society course, replacing it with a Coronavirus lesson. Along with my faculty colleague Andy Bernard, I participated on a panel organized by several wonderful Tuck students as an effort to raise awareness and funds for those suffering in Wuhan. Those days now seem like the distant past. When the virus hit closer to our Tuck community in early March, things started changing rapidly. Tuck students and colleagues, my family members back in Texas, physician friends sprinkled across the country, and even people I knew back in middle school all started asking me “what do the data say?” As science communicator Liz Neely writes, I became a “nerd node of trust” — a go-to for friends and family about COVID information. I’ve been more than happy to play that role, as it’s helped me productively channel my own rising anxieties about the

pandemic and feel like I am contributing in some small way during the crisis. I learned that others in my professional circle were filling similar roles across their varied family and community networks. And when given the opportunity to team up with two terrific public health scholars — the founding “Nerdy Girls” of our team, Malia Jones, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Alison Buttenheim, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) — I eagerly accepted. They had started the Dear Pandemic Facebook page as an online community providing evidence-based content about the pandemic. We Nerdy Girls are now a team of nine Ph.D.- trained public health researchers and educators with expertise ranging across epidemiology, demography, nursing, health policy, and mental health clinical practice, among others. We come from different walks of life, so our collective networks exhibit broad geographic, political, cultural, and racial/ethnic diversity. The page’s most common queries are about day-to-day activities, such as food preparation and grocery shopping. Other popular questions include requests for best-practices about monitoring and treating COVID-like symptoms and healthcare seeking practices, both for COVID and non-COVID conditions. A small but highly engaged group of followers loves all things data and models, so we share updates and plain-language explainers of the major infectious disease modeling efforts

driving policy and media narratives. The exponential math unique to epidemics that is so difficult for human intuition to grasp is a favorite topic. And we tackle the major controversies of the moment with as much scientific reserve as is possible. This week’s example is the heated question “Should everyone be wearing a mask in public?” As a collective, we’ve trained and worked in major academic and policy centers across the world, and we draw on these broad and deep scientific networks to answer questions and curate content. Our team is triaging media requests and various policy advisory activities while continuing with existing research and education activities launched pre-COVID. Several of us are homeschooling young children! Where do we most commonly look for evidence? Federal scientific agencies (especially the CDC and FDA), medical societies, scientific journalism (with a special shout-out to the A-plus coverage at Stat News), and trusted industry thought leadership such as McKinsey executive briefs. I enthusiastically recommend these same resources to members of the Tuck community who want help navigating the overwhelming volume of COVID news. As a group of scientists, we avoid politics and stick to the data. We answer questions honestly and transparently, and update our content as the science quickly evolves. We’re even learning to deal with the occasional troll. But mostly we feel grateful for the trust and openness that others have given us as their COVID “nerd node of trust.”

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On June 30, STEVE POWELL, professor of business administration, will retire from Tuck, capping more than 30 years of teaching and service to MBA students and business leaders. Powell’s longtime Decision Science course, familiar through the years as DecSci, was legend in the core at Tuck, and his Art of Modeling, Applications of Simulation, and Data Mining electives built on the DecSci foundation. Tuck emeritus professor Ken Baker, Powell’s operations colleague and frequent coauthor, noted, “Steve Powell made a lasting imprint on the Tuck curriculum through his innovations in the Decision Science core course. His emphasis on the process of modeling, and ultimately on modeling with spreadsheets, helped the course become a well-regarded cornerstone of the required curriculum.” Powell elaborated on his teaching philosophy in a number of journal articles and professional conferences, and thanks to his efforts, Tuck’s version of the Decision Science course became a benchmark for instructors in many other MBA programs. In 2001, Powell was recognized by his professional and academic colleagues with the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research/ Management Science Practice. In later years at Tuck, but early on in the history of the school’s First-Year Project (FYP) course, Powell served as FYP faculty director alongside FYP Director Becky Rice, redesigning and continually 26

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refining the course to ensure that students gained practical skills and knowledge through experiential learning but within the structure of a course that mandated specific educational goals. In 2015, Powell led his first Global Insight Expedition (GIX) course to Georgia and Armenia. He returned to Armenia with Tuck students three more times, most recently with co-leader Daniella Reichstetter T’07. In retirement, he hopes to continue visiting the country with Tuck students and supporting a collaboration between Tuck and the American University of Armenia. Powell was part of a decades-long team of operations faculty at Tuck, coauthoring, among other works, Business Analytics: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets—now in its fifth edition—with Professor Emeritus Ken Baker, and Modeling for Insight: A Master Class for Business Analysts with T’06 Bob Batt D’00, MEM’01, now assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. Powell joined Tuck in 1987, after several years of postdoctoral work in industry at Wang Laboratories, RCA, and Merrill Lynch. He earned his PhD and MS, both in Engineering-Economic Systems, from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin College. After retiring from Tuck, Powell—an avid hiker, rower, and skier—is looking forward to spending time with his wife Becky, son Nick, and his guitar and banjo.

Lauren Lu

Morten Sørensen

On July 1, LAUREN LU will join Tuck’s faculty as an associate professor in the Operations group. Lu’s research centers on firms’ strategic and tactical decisions in the broad context of global supply chain management and health-care operations, and her areas of expertise include incentives and outsourcing. Lu comes to Tuck from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where she was a professor of operations and Edward M. O’Herron Scholar. She earned her PhD in managerial economics and strategy from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, her MS in industrial engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in biochemistry from Nanjing University.

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faculty as an associate professor in the Finance group on January 1, 2020. Sørensen had most recently served as a professor of finance at Copenhagen Business School and prior to that on the faculties of Columbia Business School and the University of Chicago. His research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, and private equity, and he has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and grant awards. Sørensen is a research fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a referee for numerous leading peer-reviewed journals. He earned his PhD in economics from Stanford University and his MSc and BSc, both in economics, from Aarhus University.

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ideas In a new working paper, Kusum Ailawadi, the Charles Jordan 1911 TU'12 Professor of Marketing at Tuck, tries to understand how these self-scanners affect shopping behavior. For their paper, “How Mobile Self-Scanning Use Influences Consumers’ Grocery Purchases,” Ailawadi and her co-authors—Maya Vuegen, Anne Ter Braak and Lien Lamey (all from KU Leuven, in Belgium)—study a year’s worth of homescan panel data from the Dutch grocery market along with a brief survey completed by 1,800 Dutch shoppers during a one-month period in 2015. The survey, which shoppers completed when they scanned their purchases after a shopping trip, asked how experienced they were with using a mobile self-scanner and whether they had used one during the shopping trip.

FINDING #1: New self-scanner users spend less

How Mobile Self-Scanners Change Customer Behavior By KIRK KARDASHIAN

ith fierce competition coming from online retailers, brick-and-mortar outlets are trying to accomplish two somewhat contradictory things at the same time: offer a pleasant, smooth shopping experience and cut operating costs. Towards those ends, some retailers are equipping their stores with mobile self-scanners. Here’s how they work: when you walk into a store, you pick up a handheld self-scanner and, as you shop, you use it to scan the barcode of every item you put into your cart. The scanner tells you the price of the item you just scanned, whether there was a discount, and it gives you a running total of what you’ve spent so far. When you’re done, you skip the regular checkout process, go to a special checkout, pay without having to unload your cart, and be on your way. In theory, this system allows customers to stay well-informed of prices and totals, while speeding through the store. It could also save labor costs by reducing the need for cashiers. But if you haven’t seen this system in a store yet, you’re not alone. Mobile self-scanners are more popular in Europe than they are in the U.S. And even over there, consumer use is low— somewhere around 20 to 25 percent. Domestically, Walmart tried the system and discontinued it in all but its Sam’s Club stores. Other U.S. retailers are experimenting with it and it is unclear whether they are good for business.

“Most of the effects of self-scanner use we find are amongst people without much experience using the scanners,” Ailawadi says. “We find that those people buy fewer items and therefore spend less when they use the self-scanner. This is after we properly control for the fact that shoppers may choose whether or not to use the scanner based on how much they plan to buy on a trip.” Ailawadi and her co-authors speculate that this effect could be attributable to two factors. First, the spending feedback shoppers receive through the device may act as a constant reminder of their total, and thereby urge customers to spend less. Second, the extra cognitive load of using a new device may cause shoppers to adjust their money-saving tactics away from hunting for special deals and towards simply buying fewer items.

FINDING #2: Experienced users buy more private label products

“When we look at the people who do have experience using the self-scanners, we don’t see any significant impact on spending amounts and the number of items they buy,” Ailawadi explains. “What we do see is that they devote a higher percentage of their buying to private label.” This could be because the cognitive load has decreased with experience, so the shoppers are focusing on saving money through the good value of private label, instead of through buying fewer items. This is good news for retailers: they like private label sales because they are unique to their own stores, and they can generate store loyalty. “In any event, retailers should understand that in the short term, mobile self-scanners might result in lower revenue,” Ailawadi concludes, “but that is unlikely to persist as consumers gain more experience.” Does that mean we will start seeing more mobile selfscanners in the U.S.? The answer is unclear. While the technology makes sense for package goods with barcodes, the system becomes much more complicated and cumbersome with fresh produce, which must be weighed and labeled before it can be scanned. And there’s always the danger of cheating, where customers walk out without paying for some items. Amazon has been trying to perfect its “Amazon Go” store technology, which would allow shoppers to walk in, be recognized by their mobile phone, just pick up items, put them in their cart, and walk out. But, it is not ready for mass or even limited roll-out yet. “This is definitely not a silver bullet,” Ailawadi says.

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owards the beginning of Fall A last year, first-year students in the core course Analytics learned about a tool called a decision tree. It’s nothing new or cutting edge, but it is a foundational framework for thinking about decisions under uncertainty and risk. A few days later, those students began working through the Carter Racing case in the core course Managing People. The case is well-known in the MBA world, but there’s a twist at the end and future students shouldn’t have that surprise ruined. Suffice it to say, a car-racing team is trying to decide whether to participate in a race when they still haven’t figured out why their engines have failed in prior races. There’s a lot of money, and the future of the team, on the line. Daniel Feiler co-teaches Managing People with Jennifer Dannals. The lesson of the Carter Racing case, Feiler explains, is to “not just wave your hands at risk and uncertainty. You need to be really systematic and organized with how you think about and value the outcomes, and be careful about the risks and probabilities.” Professors James Smith and Robert Shumsky introduced students to decision trees in Analytics, and then Feiler and Dannals layered the psychology of decision making on top of it. But this was not a coincidence. Before the term started, both sets of professors got together to plan how their lessons would intersect. They all worked on a decision tree for the Carter Racing case, using Tree Plan, the software the students learn how to use in Analytics. Then Feiler and Dannals asked their students to think about how they would approach the case. Many of them began drawing decision trees by hand, or they opened their computers to make digital ones. After a while, Feiler and Dannals made the reveal. They said to their students: “We actually talked to your teachers in Analytics and here’s the decision tree we came up with together for this case. Does yours look something like this?” For many of the students, it was an ah-ha moment, seeing the close intersection of their courses. One section of Managing People, in fact, gave the professors a round of applause when they unveiled the decision tree. This type of coordination and integration is a hallmark of the Tuck curriculum and, arguably, no other business school does it better. In part, it’s facilitated by the school’s size and commitment to a personal, connected, and transformative learning experience. But it’s also just a result of the genial relationship among faculty members, who are more than happy to search out those curricular connections with each other. Examples abound. Managing People integrates with Management Communications in a case about presenting and defending a point of view. Marketing integrates with Managerial Economics on price elasticity, and with Managing People on how to work in teams. There are dozens of connections like these, turning the core curriculum into a finely crafted web that gives students both the granular detail and the big picture.

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To illustrate how this coordination takes shape, here’s a picture of the integration from the perspective of the two fall Analytics core courses. A similar diagram could be drawn with many other core courses at the center.

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+ DEMAND CURVES + REGRESSION ANALYSIS

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+ DECISION TREES Put simply, decision trees are a way to help guide decisions. “By having the language of decision trees to describe the structure of the problem, you can have a much better conversation about it,” says James Smith, the Jack Byrne Distinguished Professor in Decision Science. “You don’t have to waste time building these lists of what could happen; you just build a tree and then you can talk about what you should do.”

+ SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS + TORNADO CHARTS

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+ TORNADO CHART Say you have a spreadsheet model with a cashflow prediction for a new venture. Chances are, a lot of the input numbers are a bestguess. A tornado chart varies each of the input parameters over an established range, and shows you how much the cashflow changes when the inputs change. It’s a very efficient way to display the causes of variation, ranked from the most impactful to the least. 32

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+ REGRESSION ANALYSIS + PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION + SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS + MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

+ DECISION TREES + PROSPECT THEORY

+ UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING/CLUSTER ANALYSIS

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+ PROSPECT THEORY + PROBABILITY ASSESSMENT

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Marketing introduces cluster analysis as a way to segment customers in the Kirin beer case. Customers have many different preferences on beer attributes, creating a monstrous 20-dimensional segmentation problem. Cluster analysis uses an algorithm to separate all beer drinkers into, perhaps, four or five categories, which helps marketers think about targeting those clusters. Analytics takes this application to the next level by teaching students optimization methods in Excel. “Marketing is giving us the context, and then we build on that,” says Professor of Operations Management Robert Shumsky.

+ MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

+ PROSPECT THEORY

+ SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS + CLUSTER ANALYSIS + REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Imagine you are trying to predict the outcome of an R&D investment. Since many of the inputs are uncertain, it’s hard to have confidence your prediction. One way to gain confidence is to put a probability distribution around those uncertain inputs and randomly draw input values. You can do this on paper a few times, but computers can do it tens of thousands of times in a few seconds, giving you a clear view of how your investment could turn out.

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+ PROSPECT THEORY Economists used to think people acted with perfect rationality. Now they know better, and prospect theory tries to capture some of humanity’s predictable irrationality. The theory holds that we tend to give more weight in our minds to potential losses rather than gains. Being loss-averse, we will pay more to avoid a loss than we would to get an equivalent gain. This shows up in Strategy and Managing People under the heading of goal setting, and in Marketing where price discounts can create new reference points that make subsequent price increases harder to swallow.

+ PROBABILITY ASSESSMENT As in Prospect Theory, people are often biased and easily manipulated when they try to estimate the chance of random events. Effective decision-making depends on our ability to overcome these biases and accurately assess risks.

+ REGRESSION ANALYSIS Regression is the technical term for a model where you use data to make a prediction or explanation. Say you have data on undergraduate GPAs and GMAT scores and want to predict how well someone will do at Tuck. You can use historical data to estimate the relationship between GPAs at Tuck and GMAT scores. The model provides weights on various parameters and ranges of accuracy for forecasts. Marketers use it to understand demand and predict it based on other attributes of products. In Finance, students use it to understand risk-return relationships. How do you actually do it? You’ll have to take Analytics to find out.

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Celebrating 50 years of women at Tuck with voices of our alumnae on what it takes to succeed in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business world.

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ARTHA FRANSSON T’70 was determined to attend business school. She didn’t care that very few of the top MBA programs in the U.S. at the time accepted women. It was the late 1960s and Fransson, a graduate of Radcliffe College, showed up in Hanover, New Hampshire, for a visit to the Tuck School of Business. The school had a new dean—John Hennessey, Jr.—and although they didn’t yet allow women into the MBA program, he was more than happy to assign a group of first-year men the task of showing Fransson around. “They answered all my questions, they took me to lunch—you had to be careful not to get in middle of a bun fight back then,” Fransson recalls. “They asked, ‘How would you like to be the only girl?’ I looked them in the eyes and said, ‘I truly want to go to business school. It doesn’t matter how many other girls are around.’” That is how Fransson ended up becoming the first woman to graduate from Tuck. As part of the class of 1970, she was the lone female student on campus for her two years, but she paved the way for other women, who soon began applying in higher numbers. As we celebrate 50 years of women at Tuck this year, we wanted to know: What does it take to succeed in today’s business world? So, we called up alumnae from across the years— dating all the way back to Fransson— and asked them exactly that.

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MARTHA FRANSSON T'70 is the first woman to graduate from Tuck.

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TO BE A PIONEER? Ask Fransson that question and she’ll tell you it requires fortitude and positivity. When a work group her first year at Tuck said they’d rather not work with her—she was, after all, a 22-year-old woman fresh out of undergraduate alongside men who’d come from several years in the professional world. “They were concerned I couldn’t keep up. At the time, I just said ‘OK,’ then I found another group who would work with mae,” Fransson says. “I wouldn’t have survived if I didn’t have a positive attitude.” You also have to be a real contributor. “I’m a very good writer, so one of the ways I pulled my weight was by doing a lot of the writing,” Fransson says. Having stamina— physically and mentally—helped her, too. Near the end of her second year, she continued working on a problem late into the night, while the rest of her group went to bed. At 1 a.m., she finally solved the problem, then had to trudge up the hill on College Street to her dorm in total darkness. On-campus recruiters didn’t quite know what to do with women MBAs at that time. But Fransson got offered a job in finance at Hartford National Bank, where she spent the next 12 years and eventually became a vice president of lending. She later served as vice president of Times Mirror Cable, then spent two decades and the bulk of her career as an associate professor at the Hartford Graduate Center, now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she pioneered a course in strategic planning. “Everybody eventually finds his or her calling in life. What are you called to do? I found my calling fairly young. It takes other people longer,” Fransson says. “I’ve never looked back once I made that decision to go to Tuck. That is where I belonged.”

“You may start somewhere you like or don’t like, but don’t think that’s where you need to stay.”

PAMELA SCOTT T’75 didn’t realize she was a pioneer when she arrived at Tuck in 1973 as the first black woman in the MBA program. She’d studied accounting at Rice University in Texas and had chosen Tuck because it was completely different than anything she’d experienced before. “My mission was to get through those two years and prepare myself for all the things I was going to accomplish in the business world,” Scott says. “I was determined to get through the process with as much information as I could.” After Tuck, Scott got a job in investment management at Citibank in New York, where she took on senior-level management positions that no black woman had held before her. Confidence, she says, was critical in her success. When a person she was tasked with managing showed clear signs that he wasn’t happy that she had the position she did, she didn’t let it get to her. “I was very clear about what his responsibilities were, I praised him when he did well, commented on the challenges he might have,” Scott says. “I was not put back by the fact that he had that attitude. I just managed it. I had the sense of confidence to do that.” In addition to three decades working in sales and management for financial services, Scott served on a number of corporate boards and a portfolio of nonprofit organizations. Her advice to others? “Think about reviewing your career on a periodic basis,” she says. “You may start somewhere you like or don’t like, but don’t think that’s where you need to stay. I would always assess my situation and say, ‘Where I am? Am I happy? Where do I need to go and how I am going to get there?’ You have to do that introspectively.”

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TO BE A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR? After attending Princeton on an ROTC scholarship, SARAH APGAR, T’11, was commissioned as a second lieutenant and deployed to Mosul, Iraq, just months after the 9/11 attacks. When she returned home, Apgar decided to pursue her MBA at Tuck, figuring entrepreneurship could be her next step in making a positive impact in the world. Her post-Tuck journey began at Warby Parker, but missing public service and the camaraderie of the military, she joined a volunteer fire department near her home in Long Island—a decision that would change the trajectory of her business career. While Apgar quickly learned about ground activities and movements, she noticed a lack of standardized fitness training for fire departments, and particularly volunteer firefighters. Before long, she developed an entrepreneurial solution: fitness and strength training using recycled firehose.

Building an initial prototype using a piece of recycled firehose filled with sand, Apgar launched FitFighter in 2019, first bringing her service-inspired fitness equipment and strength training system to

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the FDNY Fire Academy where it was used to train candidates entering the NYC Fire Service. Supporting wounded warriors, fallen first responders, and their families through the Stephen Stiller Tunnel to Tower Foundation, FitFighter is now used by not only fire departments and first responders, but also by gyms, boot camps, and home fitness enthusiasts in living rooms

throughout the U.S. and Canada using an iOS app-based training platform. —Adam Sylvain

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As she continues to build on FitFighter’s early success, Apgar shares some of the key lessons she has learned along the way.

the dynamics underlying them, you may struggle to find your niche. Many entrepreneurs start companies in industries with which they are not intimately familiar. This is where the first two points come into play as essential behaviors in climbing the steep learning curve as quickly as possible.

CAPITAL CLARITY. A short alliteration to say that you have to be clear with yourself, your family, and any others in your inner circle about both your personal financial situation and plan, and the capital plan and requirements for the launch of your company. The capital you think you need will likely not be enough. Moreover, the market for more capital can change at an inopportune time for your company. You will never be able to predict the future with the global COVID-19 pandemic offering a poignant example. You need plans A,B,C, and Z.

USE THE 37 SIGNALS METHODOLOGY TO STAY AGILE AND RESPONSIVE. I have received feedback during my corporate career that my nature is to jump into decisions with enthusiasm without turning over certain stones. Therefore, I take advice on product development and go-to-market strategy seriously and make decisions together with my advisory team, but sometimes you have to go for it or you will never execute. If you hesitate, you may never receive the critical feedback from the market that you need. An example is our commercial Steelhose for gyms and home fitness, whose current design and packaging approach reflects many rounds of market feedback from consumers we never touched in our Fire Service days. Be agile in the correct context of your business and your product or service, so that you can pivot and continue to grow.

BE THE MOST CURIOUS PERSON YOU KNOW. You should see the boxes of materials I have stored in our factory from the days of experimenting with the inner fill for our product. For months, I tinkered away to find the perfect consistency and density. Grits, sands, recycled plastics, shavings. I landed on a stainless steel sandblasting media and found a refurbished version to reduce cost and have a more sustainable materials model. You may have a different type of business, but the lesson is the same. The spirit of curiosity leads me to my next piece of advice, which is to . . . ASK ONE MORE QUESTION THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD. Just when you thought you were out of questions, think of one more every time. Entrepreneurs are in constant problem-solving mode, which is an exhausting day-to-day cadence. You have to lean on others to survive and succeed, and remember that it is your responsibility to show them how they can help. A friend and colleague Damon West says this succinctly: “The only question you know the answer to is the one you never ask. And that’s always an emphatic ‘No!’ Never risk not finding your golden ticket. ALWAYS RAISE YOUR HAND FIRST. I was invited to an exclusive event in conjunction with the 2019 NBA All-Star Game, to network and meet potential pro-athlete-partners, and the host of the panel asked for one volunteer from the audience to come explain why they were there and how the event could support their mission. My dad taught me to always raise my hand first, so I did and got 60 seconds in the limelight that led to two critical follow ups for FitFighter. This is not always a comfortable practice and can leave you feeling like you weren’t ready for the moment, but these are times when feeling unprepared is a worthy risk. LEARN YOUR MARKET LIKE THE AGE LINES ON YOUR PALM! This is one of the hardest “you don’t know what you don’t know” journeys that I’ve had. After all, I’m an Army gal, a collegiate athlete, an elite adult athlete, and a certified fitness professional. How could there be so much that I don’t know about the fitness industry? You can read market and industry reports until you are blue in the face, but until you deeply understand

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Make sure you and your organization understand, minimize, and strive to eliminate unconscious bias. Aim for gender parity in senior operating roles. Measure against targets and communicate results internally and externally. Endeavor to promote based on performance and not presence. And make sure senior women with potential have sponsors in your organization, as well as mentors.” NOREEN DOYLE T’74, CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION; FIRST WOMAN TO CHAIR THE BRITISH BANKER’S ASSOCIATION

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WHAT DOES IT TAKE

TO INVEST FOR BETTER?

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help women recognize the power they have in their investing.” ELLEN REMMER T’81

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When ELLEN REMMER T’81 graduated from Wesleyan University, she knew she wanted to change the world. She spent four years working at nonprofit organizations, doing community engagement, but then, she says, “I realized business ran the world.” So, she enrolled at Tuck, where she started a social impact group and took her first business classes. Post Tuck, Remmer worked for a management consulting firm, then served as the president of her family’s foundation, which benefits girls’ empowerment programs and sustainable fisheries. She then worked for and ultimately became the president and CEO of The Philanthropic Initiative, a nonprofit advisory practice focused on strategic philanthropy that helps donors make positive social impacts. When she launched the nonprofit campaign Invest for Better in 2019, her goal was to help women use their investment capital for good. “I thought, yes, philanthropy is critically important, but business still runs the world and there needs to be fundamental shifts in how we do business,” Remmer says. “I believe that investors can be the change. In impact investing, you’re intentionally investing for both a financial return and a positive social return.” So, how do you invest for better? For starters, you need to be intentional and recognize the power of your investments. “Research shows that women spend a third less time on their investments than men. Because they don’t spend time on it, they’re not as knowledgeable, not as interested,” Remmer says. “It’s all about trying to help women recognize the power they have in their investing. This could be women with any level of investment. Through being very intentional and active, they can focus on issues that are important to them.” Second is knowing what you own. “So many of us say, ‘I’ve got this investment advisor telling me what to do, and then simply reporting to me on how much money I made. We don’t even question what that money is doing,” says Remmer. “Question the assumptions. Before you invest, ask: ‘What’s the gender pay equity? What’s the carbon footprint? What are they doing about food safety?’ Those things will only improve if investors keep asking for it.”

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TO LEAD WITH IMPACT? LIZ HARTLEY T’05 and LEELA SRINIVASAN T’06 have led different paths, but both have proven to be impactful leaders. And both have evolved their leadership styles over the course of their careers. “Today’s business world is dynamic. Things move incredibly fast and shift rapidly. Succeeding in this environment requires resilience and adaptability,” says Liz Hartley T’05, who led the integration strategy for Beats by Dre when it was acquired by Apple. She later went on to join WeWork in a strategy and growth operations role, where she helped scale the company from operating in 20 cities to over 100. “In my earlier years, I was much more focused on management. Setting goals. Aligning teams and resources. Prioritizing tasks. Steering the process from inputs to outputs,” says Hartley, whose career has spanned many roles, from strategy consulting to startups and venture capital. “Good management is table stakes. Increasingly, I’m focused on leadership and culture. How to create a shared vision? How to inspire teams? How to better anticipate and respond to change and challenge? Maintaining motivation

and morale is a constant juggling act,” Hartley added. Intellectual honesty and active listening, she says, is part of how she views leading with impact. “It’s not a mindset about mastery. It’s a practice of continuously listening, asking, and learning.” For Srinivasan, it’s all about putting the right people in place. “It’s about hiring your leadership team to cover your blind spots,” she says, the chief marketing officer for SurveyMonkey, who previously worked at Lever, OpenTable, LinkedIn, and Bain & Company. “The myth I would dispel is that leaders at my level have everything figured out. The thing I try to do is hire leaders on my team who are better than I am in the areas they oversee.” The culture of an organization is integral to its success. “All of the places I’ve worked have been companies I admired for their culture and values. One thing I’ve enjoyed most is making conditions for that culture to thrive and those values to be lived,” Srinivasan says. “As you become more senior, you realize you play a bigger role in setting the tone and leading by example.” According to a SurveyMonkey report, 79 percent of women have imposter syndrome in the workplace; among men, that number is 61 percent. “Women are more likely to feel like they don’t belong. I have definitely felt that in my career,” Srinivasan says. In a recent conversation with a mentor of hers, she asked for guidance about how to serve on a specific board. Her mentor’s advice? Act like you’ve been there. “Psyche yourself up. Remember you’re there for a reason. Lean into that,” Srinivasan says. “Recognize where your expertise is and have confidence.”

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TOLULOPE KEHINDE T’19 grew up in Nigeria and moved to the U.S. in 2009 to study neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College. After graduating, she worked as a research assistant in the neurology lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, before deciding to go back to school for a joint MD-MBA degree. Dartmouth, it turns out, was a perfect fit. Kehinde spent five years studying at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Tuck to earn a combined degree in medicine and management in 2019. “In medical school, you’re often not learning about the other systems that feed into healthcare—the financial system, the socioeconomic system. Those things don’t happen in a silo,” says Kehinde, who’s particularly interested in improving health care systems on the African continent throughout her career. “I wanted to have some skillsets outside of medicine that would help me look at problems from other angles.” Halfway through medical school, Kehinde was feeling emotionally exhausted and isolated. So, a storyteller by nature, she started writing prose and poetry. As she began to share her writing, she realized many of her peers in medical school were dealing with their own battles with fatigue and burnout. She opened up a conversation between medical trainees around the world and asked them to share their thoughts. The result is an anthology Kehinde edited called Human: Voices of Tomorrow’s Doctors, published in 2019. She now works as a resident physician in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Kehinde says she’s reflected on skills she learned at Tuck, from courses on change management and communication or leadership in time of crisis. “One of the big things I learned at Tuck was confident humility. When I come to a problem, there’s a certain level of confidence that I walk into the room with now that I didn’t have before,” she says. "At Tuck, I didn’t know what the outcome was going to be, but I had steps, I had people. Regardless of what part of the world you’re in, coming to the table with the attitude of ‘We can do this. We have the people and resources’ helps tremendously.” She’s currently figuring out how to create an intubation scope in the operating room that’s less expensive, just as effective, and could be used in lower-resource areas. “I’m always thinking, how can this be better? I don’t want to just look at the clinical side,” Kehinde says. “I’m using some of the tenants of reverse innovation and design thinking— those are things I learned in the business world that will help me in the medical world, too.”

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think through what matters to us, then ask for what we want.” MEGAN MAYHUGH T’01

WHAT DOES IT TAKE

MEGAN MAYHUGH T’01 clearly remembers the first time she asked for a raise. She was in her early twenties, working as a trader on adjustable rate mortgages, making, as she calls it, very little money and working hard. She was bringing in $300,000 in trading profit in one month but making something like $25,000 a year. She asked for a bonus to at least match what she’d made when she was working as an assistant, but when bonuses came out, the dollar amount didn’t add up. “I sent out two resumes, I got two job offers, and both were more than double my current salary,” Mayhugh remembers. “I resigned and took one of the jobs. It never occurred to my previous employer that I’d actually leave. That’s when I learned that there’s no such thing as being loyal to an institution. There’s loyalty to people. First you need to be loyal to yourself and your family. As women, knowing what you’re worth ends up becoming really important.” After graduating Tuck, Mayhugh worked at McKinsey for five years, but she made it a practice every year to look for a new job. “Every year, I’d get an offer, and it’d be really exciting, but every year, I stayed at McKinsey,” she says. “We can all get into a rut, so I wanted to know what was out there—what my choices were. I stayed at McKinsey for

years because it was the right choice. I was choosing to stay. I wasn’t being complacent.” Now as the chief of staff and in charge of talent acquisition at Cleveland-based management consulting firm Insight2Profit, Mayhugh knows exactly what it takes to ask for—and get—an increase. “When you go back to ask for more—and you should always go back and ask—what’s the worst thing that can happen? They’ll say no. You can always accept the offer as it stands,” Mayhugh says. “When you ask, be reasonable. If you’re up front and clear and transparent on the rational, that can really help.” Know what is important to you, Mayhugh advises. “So many people are hunkered into salary that they miss out on asking for other things: a one-time bonus, an extra week of vacation, more flexibility, long-term incentives, working from home a day a week to avoid the commute,” she says. “We have to think through what matters to us, then ask for what we want. There’s an old-school mentality that you have to ask for a raise.” The other thing: Women often never ask. “It’s almost unbelievable to me. I’ve found that women don’t want the conflict,” she says. “But they shouldn’t see it as a conflict. You can always ask in a respectful way.”

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THANKS TO NONPROFIT CARE, Adler recently

visited a cocoa-growing community in the central region of Ghana. She is pictured here with the first farmer family she met, Abdul Razak, in a community called Asarekwaa.

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TO MAKE A CAREER SWITCH? LAUREN ADLER T’95 is in the midst of a career switch right now. It’s the not first one she’s made either. For the past 12 years, Adler has run a boutique chocolate shop in Seattle called Chocolopolis. A veritable chocolate expert, she’s also a consultant for the fine chocolate industry, founded the Pacific Northwest Chocolate Society, and is the board vice president for the Fine Chocolate Industry Association. Why chocolate? “I love specialty foods and I always wanted my own retail store,” Adler says. “I loved the history and science of cacao and chocolate. I love creating community and experience. Having a chocolate store allowed me to do that.” She came to chocolate by way of business: She’d worked on Wall Street out of college, but it wasn’t for her, so she went to Tuck for her MBA. “I wanted to stay in business, but I wanted to switch and get more into products and people,” she says. After Tuck, she worked for Star Markets in Boston, a general manager for a $28 million division of the New England supermarket chain and its natural foods subsidiary. 44

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Later, she worked in finance and supply chain for Amazon in Seattle in the late 1990s, when the site mainly sold books. Then, of course, she got into chocolate. But now, she’s closing up her chocolate shop and looking for the next thing. “I miss those bigger picture, strategic projects. One thing I’m really excited about is blockchain and the Internet of supply chain,” Adler says. “I get very excited about the many different challenges you can solve.” She’s been networking in the blockchain arena to see how she might combine her love of chocolate, technology, and supply chain to solve some of the chocolate industry’s problems. “You go through phases in your career. Sometimes, you aren’t where you want to be. There’s a sense of dissatisfaction,” Adler says. “A career change can feel scary. You can feel ready for something new but not know exactly what that may be. For me, it’s always been following my passion.”

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TO SERVE ON BOARDS? SHANNON GORDON T’06 knows first-hand that when a team is diverse, it’s more successful. Working at McKinsey in Chicago after Tuck changed her professional life for good and was, as she describes it, “the most diverse place I’ve worked.” Later, she spent nearly six years at Walmart in the Bay Area, where she was the VP of Customer Experience for Walmart.com. There, too, she was surrounded in a balanced way. “When you have it, you can see that teams that are diverse are far and away the highest performing teams you can pull together,” Gordon says. So, when you ask Gordon what makes a great board, she’ll tell you diversity is key. “The answer is that we live in a complex world and business challenges that we’re dealing with across industries are so dynamic, the pace is so fast, the complexity is so great that it’s very difficult to be successful in solving those complex problems without having a wide variety of people around the table,” she says. Since 2018, Gordon has served as the CEO of theBoardlist, a San Francisco-based company that uses technology to connect qualified women leaders with opportunities to serve on private and public company boards. She knows exactly what it takes to serve on boards. “The most important quality of a board director is a high degree of integrity and the moral fortitude to do the right thing,” says Gordon. “There are a lot of people who might be qualified from an experience standpoint, but not all can maintain their integrity through a crisis or challenging time.” Each board needs something different, but Gordon says there are a few important things to look for when knowing if someone is board ready. “You need to be at a certain point in your career where you’ve had sufficient exposure and you’re well positioned to be an advisor,” she says. “You should be a thought leader in your industry.” When you look at business leaders, a vast majority—some 90 percent—of board seats are filled by personal networks, or referrals. Since most board members and CEOs are men, homogeneity in the board room gets perpetuated. “We all know people who’ve worked in a similar space as us. By definition, networks are limited,” says Gordon. “So, unless you make a concerted effort to reach outside that network, it’s hard to find diverse candidates.”

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Legacy is about how you treat the people in your life. Legacy is about the way you both support and develop your employees. It is all about the ways you show love to your loved ones. It is about opening doors for the generation behind you. Thinking beyond you and contributing to a greater purpose creates legacy. This is what leadership should be about.” ELLA BELL SMITH PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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PROFESSOR ELLA BELL SMITH, a longtime gender equity advocate, teaches Reconceiving Representation: Gender Equity in Management and Society and Leadership Out of the Box at Tuck, among others.

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partnering During a BY Betsy Vereckey During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuck alumni from near and far are tapping into the strength of the Tuck network to keep business running, show customers how much they care, and to help combat the crisis.

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LED BY BEN TILTON Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;12, New York-based New Stand is a Series A startup whose mission is to improve daily life for its customers, selling a curated mix of fun gifts like snacks, journals, coffee mugs, and face masks.

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TILTON, SVP of operations and digital product at New Stand, is keeping business moving while working from his New York City apartment.

NDER ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES, VICTORIA LAMBERTH T’13 SAID SHE MIGHT HAVE EASILY SCROLLED PAST A LINKEDIN POST FROM HER FRIEND BEN TILTON T’12: “SHOW YOUR TEAM SOME LOVE WITH NEW STAND CARE PACKAGES.” But at the time, life was far from ordinary. It was April and the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, where Lamberth and Tilton both worked. Lamberth, like many others working remotely during the pandemic, had been using LinkedIn more often than usual as a way to stay connected to her friends and fellow Tuck students during the crisis. Lamberth said that Tilton and New Stand’s idea of a care package—inspired by the homemade care packages they used to receive from parents during college—was unique and really resonated with her. Though her company had never made that type of gesture before, she thought it would be a great way for her to connect with her own customers.

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“People are craving connection at the moment,” says Lamberth, who is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of ZenFi Networks, a communications infrastructure company that operates fiber optic networks in the New York City metro area. “In this environment, I’ve seen an openness to creativity within organizations. People are thinking outside of the box on how to engage their customers and show empathy while doing so.” Lamberth, a New Jersey native and entrepreneur who knew she wanted to start ZenFi when she arrived at Tuck for her studies, thought the care package would be a great way to support ZenFi’s customers, which include Internet providers, mobile network operators and telecom services providers, all essential to keeping people connected during the pandemic. Lamberth messaged Tilton to learn more about New Stand’s product to see if it could be a fit for them, quickly learning that it was. Even though Lamberth and Tilton worked in completely different industries, the partnership allowed them to support both of their businesses in New York City—an area that was hit hard during the pandemic.

New Stand, for whom Tilton works as senior vice president, is a Series A startup that melds media with retail convenience and has a mission to improve daily life for its customers, selling a curated mix of fun gifts like snacks, journals, coffee mugs, and face masks. Before the pandemic, the company’s footprint was centered in office lobbies, New York City ferries and airports, but during the coronavirus, Tilton helped the company pivot to a digital sales strategy (B2B and direct to consumer) to stay in business, given that on-the-ground locations have closed, with no more foot traffic from customers. “Every bit of business helps us—it allows us to refine our business product and prove our viability,” says Tilton, who worked in consulting and at Amazon after graduating from Tuck. After Tilton and Lamberth connected, Tilton looped in his team to design curated care package options for Lamberth’s customers. “We had been wanting to do something special for our customers during the crisis, and I thought it would be fun to send a care package to them, but we weren’t sure how,” said Lamberth. “Because of the coronavirus, we couldn’t send anything to their offices, and we didn’t want to ask for our customers’ home addresses. We were also sensitive that some customers might not want mail, so we wanted it to be a nice opt-in thing.” Tilton and New Stand met the challenge by creating a Google form with different care package options. Then,

they sent the form to Lamberth’s customers, who had the choice to opt in, enter their mailing addresses and choose a tailored package that suited them, such as “work from home with wine” or “work from home with wine and kids.” New Stand completed the project in a week. It resonated with Lamberth’s customers and was incredibly wellreceived—30 customers signed up to receive care packages, giving New Stand a $10,000 bump in sales. Both Lamberth

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TUCKIES Tuck students and alumni across the Tuck and Dartmouth community are joining forces in creative and impactful ways and taking important actions to help combat the public health crisis

Mission: Masks to NYC & Boston LISA CLOITRE T'02 with three-year-old son Christophe: "Day 76 of self-isolation."

It all started on March 14, 2020. As COVID-19 began to spread rapidly in the U.S., Boston-based LISA CLOITRE T'02, founder and CEO of LJC Advisory, was at home in isolation with her three-year-old son. Cloitre, who is immunosuppressed, was looking for innovative opportunities to help combat the crisis. She decided to reach out to fellow alumni in China for advice. Cloitre emailed Shanghai-based Tuck classmate and fellow Phillips Exeter Academy alumna SARAH MILLARD T’02, director of operations and finance at PureLiving China—a leading environmental consulting company in the country. “She advised that everyone should be wearing masks,” Cloitre recalls. “I responded to her, ‘But, there are no masks!’ I had heard firsthand from multiple Emergency Room physicians that there were PPE [Personal Protective Equipment] shortages everywhere.”

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BUSINESS (NOT) AS USUAL: Victoria Lamberth T'13, chief revenue officer at ZenFi Networks, is working from home while caring for her two children.

and Tilton said that the partnership opened their eyes to new ways that companies could connect with customers. “Lead with empathy—that’s the big tie to Tuck for me, and that’s what I’ve seen of our classmates in LinkedIn posts,” Lamberth said. “People are being smart about their business, but they’re also recognizing that this is a people thing. And you can’t ignore what’s going on in people’s lives when addressing your business needs. I loved that we could reach our customers in a unique way and support a business, like New Stand, that was quickly adapting to a COVID-19 world. It felt like such a win-win.” Tilton said working with Lamberth exemplified the strong ties that students forge at Tuck and the ways in which Tuck students stay connected long after they’ve left Hanover. “The experience reminds me of some of the reasons I chose Tuck for my MBA: a tight-knit community and a network that lasts past your two years there,” Tilton said. “A time like this really tests people’s mettle. Tuck taught us to be strategic, and more importantly, to be human. People from Tuck come together, and this is a really great example of that.”

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IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, I’VE SEEN AN OPENNESS TO CREATIVITY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS. PEOPLE ARE THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX ON HOW TO ENGAGE THEIR CUSTOMERS AND SHOW EMPATHY WHILE DOING SO.” VICTORIA LAMBERTH T’13

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TUCKIES TAKE ACTION Mission: Masks to NYC & Boston The wheels began turning for both Millard and Cloitre—and they knew they needed to act quickly. Below is a brief timeline of their efforts and the alumni they engaged for their advocacy campaign.

39,000 KN95 masks were shipped to NYC and distributed to physicians working in over two-thirds of NYC hospitals.

39,000 masks were sent to NYC and distributed to physicians working in over two-thirds of NYC hospitals. 40,000 masks were sent to Beth Israel Lahey in Boston. 1,000 KN95 masks and 2,100 FFP1 surgical masks— distributed, literally, from Cloitre’s front door—were sent to Boston Medical Center and various community health centers in and around Boston.

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ANDREW DUNN T'16 reached out to Tuck Ambassador ANDY STEELE T'79 in early April to ask if he knew of

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Kevin Demoff T’06 The Los Angeles Rams, led by chief operating officer KEVIN DEMOFF T’06 introduced new branding, including updated logos and a refreshed color scheme. Demoff used the unveiling to help raise funds for a coronavirus pandemic relief fund.

XIA T'01, CEO of China Channels and FITBOXBeijing, managed the import of the masks and distribution logistics with help from Jasmine Li T'10.

any Tuckies who needed help on COVID-19 efforts while on a mandatory three-week furlough from his management consulting job. “Andrew has been instrumental in more ways than I can articulate, including helping me identify and finalize the 501c3 agreement, identifying pro-bono legal counsel, and helping think through broader strategic implications for continued COVID-19 advocacy and efforts in the U.S.,” says Cloitre.

John Pepper T’97 Jarett Berke T’17 Boloco, led by CEO JOHN PEPPER T’97, and Lou’s Restaurant & Bakery, led by owner JARETT BERKE T’17, joined forces and launched GoFundMe campaigns to both boost business and help feed hospital workers, civil servants, police, fire, and other restaurant and essential workers who are on the frontlines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaigns combined have raised more than $57,000 to date.

SARAH MILLARD T'02 and LOUIE CHENG T'03 (life partners and co-founders of PureLiving China) procured and vetted masks through long-standing business relationships with Chinese manufacturers and suppliers. Their trusted relationships and stamp of approval were essential to this transaction. They earmarked and shipped 80,000 KN95 and 2,100 FFP1 surgical masks to Cloitre and/or donor recipients. Masks arrived in the U.S. in different shipments between March 27 – March 31, 2020— pre-COVID-19 peak in both NYC and Boston.

As of mid-May, 2020, $66K was raised through a GoFundMe campaign for Mission: Masks to Boston & NYC. An additional $50K was donated by an anonymous Boston donor, bringing the current total to ~$112K. Organized by Tuck first-year students, the Wuhan Relief Fund donated their $3,200 to the Mission: Masks campaign. Cloitre is also in current discussions with a few other student organizations that are looking to donate their unused budgets to the GoFundMe Campaign.

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LAUREN FARRAR TP'21 hand-sewed facemasks and donated them to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Mo Earley T'20 Kate Hoffman T'20

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T’20S NATALIE TRIEDMAN, MO EARLEY, KATE HOFFMAN, and others have created a centralized online collection of resources, Helping the Upper Valley During COVID-19, to match volunteers with local opportunities—ranging from stocking shelves and preparing meals at The Haven to providing childcare for staff at the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center.

Natalie Triedman T’20, Emily Maine T’20 Megan Tervo T’20 Alex Woos T'20 Christian Haudenschild TP’20 Last month, 75 students and partners volunteered to make over 250 deliveries of groceries and other essentials to seniors in the Upper Valley. These volunteers also decided to donate all tips to local COVID-relief efforts. COOPER HENDERSON T’20 has been delivering groceries to the same elderly couple every week since the launch of Hanover Helpers; “once this thing is over,” the couple reports, “we want to do something for him to show our gratitude.” T’21 CINDY ENGMAN’s special delivery allowed an older man to make a special meal for his wife to celebrate their 61st wedding anniversary. TP’20S CHRISTIAN HAUDENSCHIELD and THOMAS DAVIDS spent countless hours building a website to seamlessly connect Hanover Helpers volunteers to seniors in the community.

Lauren Farrar TP’21 LAUREN FARRAR TP’21 joined nationwide volunteers by hand-sewing facemasks for local healthcare workers, family, and friends. The masks were donated to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and made according to their guidelines after the CDC announced fabric masks as an acceptable option when supplies are limited. (See photo above)

Katharine Eddy T'20 Kate Hoffman T'20 T’20S KATHARINE EDDY and KATE HOFFMAN have been organizing a

team with MBAs Fight COVID-19, a cross-business-school platform that matches MBA students with pro-bono consulting projects.

Junfei Yu Thayer’19 Dingyang Lu Dartmouth’17 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) received a donation of 50,000 medical face masks in April, thanks to JUNFEI YU THAYER’19, a TuckLAB graduate. Yu and his teammate DINGYANG LU DARTMOUTH’17, both managers for the international department of the company, sourced 50,000 type II disposable surgical masks from across China before shipping them to Shanghai, where their team performed a final check and labeled the boxes with Dartmouth’s logo and motto “Vox Clamantis in Deserto.” The masks were then flown to Hanover, New Hampshire.

Betsabeh Madani Hermann T’13 John Boomgard T’12 In March, BETSABEH MADANI HERMANN T’13 saw a LinkedIn post from classmate JOHN BOOMGARD T’12 that caught her attention. John was looking for volunteers for a new digital venture called The Commons Project (TCP), whose mission is to “build digital platforms and services that put people’s interests first.” Since then, Betsabeh and John have been busy developing digital products such as COVIDcheck, a powerful tool that provides guidance to those who believe they have COVID-19. The team has also been busy building a new COVID product mapping tool that maps the virus globally, with an initial focus on East Africa. As the project evolved, more volunteers were needed, so Betsabeh and John reached out to current students for help: T’21S WENDY LU, HAYLLE REIDY, MELISA ASLAN, JAMES MCLOUGHLIN, and ANISH MORE will all be working with the TCP this summer as volunteers and interns.

Thad Hill T’95 Calpine, led by CEO THAD HILL T’95, established a community assistance fund and seeded it with $1 million. The fund will provide COVID-19 relief aid to communities in which the company operates. 52

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Toast’s Kelly Esten T’12 is managing her business from her home office—all while caring for her three-year-old son.

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TOAST’S KELLY ESTEN IS AT HOME DURING THE CORONAVIRUS STORM Kelly Sennatt Esten D’05, T’12 had just overseen the launch of a new line of point-of-service products for restaurants when the COVID-19 pandemic brought the industry to a shuddering stop. By JEFF MOAG

uddenly, the vice president of product and partner marketing at Toast, Inc., found herself navigating the crisis from her home office, as she and her husband Jordan Esten T’12 juggled two demanding careers and the one client who won’t take no for an answer, their three-year-old son. With no childcare and preschool closed indefinitely, Esten and her husband took turns looking after the youngster, who promptly photo-bombed one of her video conferences. “I spend half my day really focused on work and the rest with him, trying to answer Slacks when I can,” says Esten, whose creativity has often been tested in a career that has included

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senior roles in banking, energy, and now restaurant technology, though never quite like this. While a toddler’s guest appearance in a Zoom meeting is something many working parents can relate to, it also signals a paradigm shift in business culture. A generation ago such shenanigans would have been unheard of, but now, 50 years after the first cadre of Tuck women received their degrees, dual-career relationships are the norm for business school graduates of both genders. For Esten, it helps that she’s not alone. She stays in close contact with a circle of Tuck friends who are also starting families at the same time they and their partners navigate critical stages in their careers.

“A lot of us have young kids, and we’re at that moment where we’re making partner, we’re making V.P. and moving into that executive level in our careers,” she says. “You're really trying to build this 50/50 relationship. There’s not an obvious person who’s playing the lead role at home.” Esten’s own parents met at a Wall Street firm, and tell a cute story about sneaking downtown for dates before they were married. Her mother had a finance career ahead of her but chose to stay home after Kelly and her younger sister were born. “My mom was sure she wanted to stay at home with us,” stresses Esten, “and I was just as sure I wanted a career.” At school Esten was a standout athlete. She was drawn to the camaraderie of

year, Esten joined Prof. Peter Golder’s Global Insights Expedition to China, where she learned she’d made the cut to interview for a promising internship. “He spent the entire flight back from China prepping me for my interview,” Esten says. “I think I monopolized him for 10 hours, but that really shows how invested the professors at Tuck are in students.” She won the internship with the Boston-based energy distribution firm EnerNOC and parlayed it into an offer to join the company full-time after graduation. The position promised stability and room for career growth, which allowed Jordan

From her home office, sometimes with a toddler tapping her shoulder, Esten organized the fastest product launch of her career. The Toast Now product suite allows any restaurant—whether a Toast customer or not—to use the company’s digital ordering, delivery, and digital gift cards at no charge. Toast Now is a critical complement to the company’s Rally for Restaurants social campaign. The program quickly became the motive force and organizational nexus behind the nationwide surge in gift card sales that provided a financial lifeline to tens of thousands of cash-strapped restaurants.

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field hockey and lacrosse, but her passion was squash. She competed nationally, and narrowed her college search to top schools with squash programs. Among that select group was Dartmouth. She visited during Mud Season, and as she and her father drove home in the pouring rain she surprised him by announcing her college search was over. “I just fell in love with Hanover,” says Esten, who still enjoys spending time outdoors, no matter the weather. At Dartmouth she majored in Environmental Earth Sciences, thriving in a small department that provided a very personal academic experience. She spent a semester on a field study in Belize and loved it, but at her parents urging also took an internship with UBS. She found that she loved banking just as well, and accepted an offer to join the bank’s rotation program after graduation, learning the ropes of wealth management, investment banking and sales in different parts of the organization. One of those rotations brought her to Zurich on a three-month appointment, which stretched to nearly four years as she rose to become chief of staff to the firm’s managing director of wealth management in Europe, who was responsible for managing 750 people across 13 countries. The work was engaging and fast-paced—the perfect job for that stage in her life, but not what she wanted for the rest of her career. “Tuck was an opportunity to come home,” she says. “It felt like home, and I knew it was an environment where I could thrive.” Hanover was familiar and welcoming, and a sense of intimacy infused the academic experience at Tuck. “In a small community, you're very accountable. Everyone on campus is invested in having that important experience together,” says Esten, who cochaired the school’s Entrepreneurship Club and served as commissioner of Tuck Women’s Hockey. “I could skate backwards, so I was a hot ticket,” she jokes. Esten joined the league because it was fun and social, but the former squash champion also notes that her team won the league title. Esten forged some of her deepest friendships at Tuck, and met Jordan, her future husband, at orientation. By October they were dating. That same fall she took professor Paul Argenti’s general management course, and later assisted him on a project around corporate social responsibility, and helped research one of his books. During spring break her first

A lot of us have young kids, and we’re at that moment where we’re making partner, we’re making V.P. and moving into that executive level in our careers. You’re really trying to build this 50/50 relationship.” KELLY ESTEN D’05, T’12

Esten to begin his post-Tuck career with a tech startup, Clear Ballot Group. He didn’t take a salary for the first six months. The arrangement isn’t one for the faint of heart, but leveraged a key advantage of two-career households. She and Jordan, who married in 2014, were able to manage their collective career risk—to “balance their portfolio,” as she puts it. As she climbed through the ranks at EnerNOC, Jordan became CEO and helped Clear Ballot Group become the fastest-growing company in the booming elections technology segment. In 2017, it was Kelly Esten’s turn to stretch her wings, joining Toast Inc., a young tech company that provides cloudbased restaurant management and point of sale solutions built on the Android operating system. As vice president in charge of marketing, she now finds herself on the front lines, helping clients confront the biggest economic calamity in the history of the restaurant business.

These are big picture measures designed to help the entire industry, but Esten has seen first-hand how important they are to real people. Many she knows personally. One is a high school friend who recently opened a restaurant outside of Boston. Another is Jarett Berke T’17 and his wife Cailin, who own the iconic Lou’s Restaurant & Bakery in Hanover. Berke is a classmate of Esten’s sister, Kaitlin Sennatt T'17. Before the COVID-19 crisis, Toast completed a round of recession planning and concluded that the restaurant industry is remarkably resilient. Still, no scenario anticipated a shock so jarring as the Coronavirus, or a response so creative and impactful as Esten and her team have mounted. She knows what’s at stake though. “Most of our clients are independent restaurants,” she says. “They’re someone’s dream.”

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HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOMER-FIRST CULTURE with ALISON ELWORTHY T’11, SVP of Customer Success, HubSpot

By RACHEL LEVIN

fter a Tuck internship with HubSpot in 2010, ALISON ELWORTHY T’11 was offered the

unique opportunity to join the then small, but rapidly growing software startup after graduation. In 2010, tech at a startup didn’t have the same catchy ring

to it as it does today. Elworthy was unsure what a career for a woman in tech

could look like, but she took a risk that would completely transform her career. Over the course of a decade with HubSpot, Elworthy has transitioned from

marketing, to sales, to operations, gaining a holistic perspective of the functions of the entire organization. Elworthy found her groove in operations, becoming VP of operations

in 2014 and overseeing the IPO when HubSpot went public. After returning from maternity leave in 2017, Elworthy was approached to lead the Customer Success organization, a team with now over 1,000 employees. Despite never having served in a customer-facing role, she accepted the challenge and became a force in building a company culture defined by putting the customer first. We asked Elworthy for advice on how to put customers first—no matter the size of your organization.

Develop a shared mission to connect employees. 2019 was the Year of the Customer at HubSpot where the entire organization made a commitment to solve for the customer above all, bringing employees back to the mission of helping millions of organizations grow better. As a result, employees felt a stronger sense of mission. Functionally, HubSpot builds the software and systems that empowers organizations to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers.

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It turns out the best people in the world care more about making an impact than they do about free coffee. They care about the problems they solve and the people they get to solve them with. Like our co-founder Dharmesh Shah says in the Culture Code, “whether you like it or not, you're going to have a culture. Why not make it one you love?” Start by listening to customers. You can put a bunch of processes in place, but in order to really foster a culture

that puts the customer first, you have to start with a strong and clear foundation. Last year, we recognized that in order to solve for our customers, we had to truly listen to them and then spread that knowledge throughout the company. We formed the Voice of the Customer team under the Customer Success team with the goal to collect and analyze feedback across the customer experience, hold the company accountable for taking action on that feedback and evangelising for the customer throughout the entire company. We also made an influential change to our executive staff meetings. Instead of focusing on operations, we brought it back to the customer. We invite a customer to every exec meeting. The agenda is driven by what the customer loves, hates, and is stuck on—and we solve it as an exec team. You can’t just talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions. In a large organization, not every team is customer-facing, so it’s important that you’re sharing customer knowledge and feedback throughout the entire company. We do that proactively in a few ways. The first is that we invite a customer to our quarterly company-wide meetings and host a Q&A with them where we ask them what’s working, what isn’t, and to ‘score us’ on how we’re living up to our Customer Code.

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We’ve built a Customer Advisory Board which is a group of 15 HubSpot customers with varying levels of expertise and experience working with our software who have committed to act as a trusted advisor sharing feedback and exploring strategies to help us grow better. We really lean on this board before making any big changes. Additionally, we developed a program called Customer Roadblocks. Our front line employees have hundreds of interactions with customers everyday, and we receive endless feedback. Feedback is incredibly valuable to HubSpot's continued growth and development so we need to not only encourage our customers to give us feedback, but also have internal processes of getting that feedback to the right individuals so that we can act on it. Anyone can log a Roadblock. We take this customer feedback, and we work with our product team to address the issues with the product. A lot of my work has been partnering with the product team directly. How do you bring the folks on the front lines with customers closer to the entire business to understand what they’re hearing?

We recognized that in order to solve for our customers, we had to truly listen to them and then spread that knowledge throughout the company.” ALISON ELWORTHY T’11

Accountability matters. You need to hold everyone accountable when making a cultural shift. In 2019, every single team at HubSpot had a “play” tied to putting the customer first. Every team, therefore every individual, had metrics to ensure the customer was at the center and everyone is working under the same shared mission. Structures were built so that every team is able to map how their role achieves that for the company. Everyone can visualize the impact of their role, and how it ties to the entire organization and our larger mission.

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Customer > Team > Individual. We developed this framework as a foundational hierarchy in our Culture Code: customer before team before individual. A myth out there is that customer-first means employees come second. We actually think the opposite. Our core values emphasize autonomy, transparency, and flexibility and because we are gathered around a shared mission, employees are trusted to engage in productive decision making. Employees don’t feel second because they are a part of building this global mission and they see where their puzzle piece fits. We say employees should be thinking as CEOs and making decisions autonomously, and being a great CEO means solving for the customer above all else.

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BUSINESS FOR GOOD: TACKLING THE MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA Armed with an MBA and an MPH, Laura Ward T’89 is building a more informed health care model for individuals with histories of trauma and abuse.

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I brought a specific structured way of thinking—I knew how to frame and solve a problem. I knew how important communication was in getting people to enact real change, and I knew it was imperative to deeply understand people’s motivation. I was able to apply the analytical skills I learned at Tuck to a new set of problems in health care and found the organizational skills we learned at Tuck were still useful 25+ years later. I can’t think of one thing I learned at Tuck that was not applicable to tackling a new degree.

world was changing and how much work was needed to fix it. The shift for me to go back to health care came after taking time off after my second child was born. As I was thinking about what I wanted to do next, a fellow Tuck grad told me about Community Consulting Teams (CCT) of Boston, an organization that provides consulting to Boston nonprofits. My first project with CCT was with an all Tuck alumni team, 15 years after graduation. I loved the work and stayed involved with CCT from 2007-2012, working with clients in the health care space and serving as director of client development. The more I learned about the needs of community health organizations and child and adolescent mental health, the more I realized that this was a career path I wanted to follow. I began to see how broken health care was on the front lines. I began consulting with a research team at McLean Hospital that was focused on the study of PTSD. I was very interested in the lack of attention paid to effects of childhood trauma in medical settings. Trauma and abuse are rarely discussed or treated in medical care, yet known to be highly correlated with one’s physical health. While the ability to frame and analyze problems—typical MBA skills—provided me with a great platform to bring to the world of health care, I knew there was so much about health care that I didn’t fully

There’s so much in health care that involves change. Having a business and public health degree provided a joint lens to look at the complexity of a problem, and actually solve the problem creatively and with more depth. With a business degree, you look at operations, the people component, the data—and if you’re not attending to all of them, you’re not going to reach the goals you’re looking for. There’s so much need for change in health care, but it’s a challenging shift to correct, being such a complicated industry with such ingrained behaviors and incentives. I spent a lot of time trying to understand how to overcome problems and improve care in heavily silo-based organizations.

What problems are you solving in your work at McLean? We have lost many important values related to health as we have moved towards decentralized and high tech care. While there are certainly benefits, we have also moved away from patient-centric care. One area I’m very interested in is how to move closer to a health care system where the patient is at the center of the process and treated as a whole person rather than as distinct conditions or parts of the body. I am hopeful that one day mental health and physical health will be treated in more integrated ways and with greater parity. A large part of my public health focus has been to help reduce the stigma associated with mental health in any way I can.

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Over 25 years after graduating from Tuck, what inspired you to return to the Dartmouth campus?

Did you apply your business degree and experience in consulting to your MPH?

Tell me more about using business for good in health care reform.

By RACHEL LEVIN

LAURA WARD T’89 forged a career journey defined by creating positive change. Upon graduating from Tuck in 1989, she entered the world of strategic planning with American Express in New York City. From there, Laura moved to Boston where she entered consulting—sharpening her focus on change in health care reform. With this new lens, Laura earned a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) at The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Now, applying what she learned in both her MBA and MPH, she works as a researcher and consultant to health-care providers and research staff at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA. Ward’s current work focuses on developing and supporting a more patient-centric and trauma-informed health care model for individuals with histories of trauma and abuse.

understand. I needed deeper knowledge of what health care looked like.

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Meera Bhatia T’04 TechStyle Fashion Group named MEERA BHATIA T’04 president of expert services. In her new role, Bhatia will oversee TechStyle divisions supporting the company’s five fastgrowing global brands. Based in El Segundo, CA, TechStyle’s mission is to reimagine the fashion industry by creating “the world’s most innovative and admired fashion company,” according to its website.

Carmen de Pablo Redondo T’01 CARMEN DE PABLO REDONDO T’01 was named the Chief Financial Officer of Gestamp, a Spanish multi-national engineering company and one of the leading firms in the European automotive industry.

Nykia Wright T’09 The Chicago Sun-Times has named NYKIA WRIGHT T’09 to its permanent CEO position, removing her interim status. Wright has served as interim CEO for the newspaper since 2018. “I’m thankful to have been selected,” Wright told the Times. “I don’t know that I was ever looking for it, my mission was just to turn the business around.”

SARAH BARPOULIS T’97, president of Interim Energy Solutions, LLC, was named to Equitrans Midstream Corporation’s (ETRN) board of directors. With Barpoulis’ appointment, the ETRN board now has eight directors.

MICHAEL ARAGON T’01, SVP of content at Twitch, was featured in an article about the #PlayApartTogether initiative— which saw 19 companies, including Twitch, partner to share key messages from the World Health Organization encouraging users to follow health guidelines.

Manna Tree Partners has made a $15 million minority investment in Verde Farms, led by CEO DANA EHRLICH T’05. The investment in Verde, a leading provider of 100 percent grass-fed organic beef, will accelerate channel and geographic market expansion, new product development, brand promotion, and more.

RICARDO FERRARI T’16 was named director of business development at Nova Austral, a Chilean salmon farmer. Previously, Ferrari was mergers, acquisitions, and investments associate manager at Chilean retail giant Cencosud.

NEAL BIBEAU T’89 was appointed CEO of Target PharmaSolutions, a leading realworld data solutions company for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

STEVEN ROTH T’63 was named one of the five most powerful figures in New York real estate by City & State. The list identifies the key executives, elected officials, appointees, advocates, and others at the intersection of real estate development and public policy.

Repisodic, a health care technology company founded by MIKE CWALINSKI T’12 and RYAN MILLER T’13 announced it has raised $1.75M in a seed round of funding and plans to double its headcount.

AKIN SAWYERR T’03 joined Nasdaq to discuss blockchain and emerging technologies in Africa as part of Nasdaq’s “TradeTalks” series. Sawyerr is the Africa lead for Decred, a multi-platform digital currency.

The Denver Broncos hired RICH HURTADO T’06 as the team’s vice president of football administration. In his new role, Hurtado will oversee managing the team’s salary cap, negotiating player contracts, and ensuring the club’s compliance with the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement.

ROBERT WALLACE T’84, founder and CEO of BITHGROUP Technologies, officially launched his campaign to become the next Mayor of Baltimore. Wallace will run as an Independent.

ArcLight Capital Partners, led by DANIEL REVERS T’89, closed its seventh fund with $3.4 billion in commitments. Including its latest fund, ArcLight has raised $19 billion globally since its founding.

Outrider, a company founded by ANDREW SMITH T’07 aiming to make distribution yards more efficient and safer with autonomous technology, came out of stealth to announce that it has raised $53 million in seed and Series A funding rounds. KAREN COLBERG T’91, co-CEO of King Arthur Flour, was featured in numerous outlets—including Marketplace and Yahoo! Finance—as the sale of flour saw a spike amid the pandemic. The company also began a program called For Goodness Bake, in which it directly purchases bread and other baked foods from its customers and distributes the products to those who need it.

Dunkin’ Brands announced that JILL MCVICAR NELSON T’16 has been promoted to vice president, marketing strategy. In her new role, Nelson will lead a reorganized team responsible for brand marketing & planning as well as value and pricing strategies. Nelson first joined Dunkin’ brands in 2011, but took a brief hiatus to pursue her MBA at Tuck, returning to the company after graduation.

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CL ASS NOTES ’55 Charles A. Morrison f_cmorrison@yahoo.com

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What a time!! When I started this (March 20), the markets were hemorrhaging. Yesterday (March 26), they were bursting with positive energy!! Today (March 27), not so much!! More importantly, the coronavirus updates rule the airwaves. Prayfully, by the time you are reading this, we’ll be well down the road to resolving this frightening disease. We’ll have to wait and see what impact these two issues will have on the upcoming presidential election. Now on to news from Tuck ’55s. Ted Hartshorn, like me another retiree from Arthur Andersen, writes, “I am still vertical and ambulatory. Do 60-minute workout daily. Am borderline blind from 50-year battle with severe glaucoma. Active in Methodist Church, Lions Club, area council on aging, and Batesville community volunteering. Up until recently, spent two months every late winter at Saddlebrooke, Arizona, soaking up rays and playing golf. This summer, wife Ginny and I will celebrate 60 years of marriage with a big family gathering in Door County, Wisconsin. Retired from career with Arthur Andersen and Hill-Rom (IT director). Blessings, Ted.” Congratulations, Ted, on 60 years of marriage! And also on your participation in so many worthwhile activities. Henry Nachman has stayed in close proximity to Tuck as he writes, “We have also relocated but only five miles down the road from Hanover. Amy and I are in an independent living facility in Lebanon, having moved from Hanover four years ago. The month of January we cruised South and Central America and are now enjoying the amenities of our home plus the many offerings at Dartmouth and the Upper Valley. Life is good!” A few weeks ago, Frannie and I shared a delightful dinner in downtown Naples (FL) 62

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with Peter and Jill Kenyon and Bob and Barbara Levine. The Kenyons are full-time Neopolitans, while the Levines spend “the season” here and return to Vermont for the summer months. Both Peter and Bob responded to my request for news and submitted the following. From Peter: “Daughter Sasha, T’16, will be married in June in Bermuda. Jill and I joined them there for a 5-day visit to work out the details of the event. I had forgotten what a lovely place the island is. Colored houses everywhere, hotels with great views of the island and the Atlantic. Met with wedding planner (native) at the two hotels: Coral Beach Club, where the wedding will be held, and the 400-room Fairmont, where the guests will be staying. One of the most interesting things learned was the formal dress code for males was jacket and tie, light colored Bermuda shorts and knee length socks. Basic plan, based on replies, is that the number of people that will be in attendance will be 180. NB: If any classmate has an extra credit card, I trust they have my snail mail address!!” Now from Bob: “Son Gary (D’82, Tuck’87) and his wife arrived in Naples intending to bring Barbara and me to Key West to celebrate Barbara’s birthday, but the coronavirus discouraged us from taking the ferry. Instead we stayed in town for a micro-reunion dinner with the Kenyons and the Morrisons. Enjoyed a little nostalgia reminiscing about our Tuck professors, including Louis Foster and Len Morrissey.” Finally, some comments from Luke Case: “Good luck on your move to Naples. I will miss hearing about you from a whole lot of people who did or still do inhabit your old digs (Harbour Ridge). I add that Ann and I moved 10 years ago into a (then) brand new Judson Residential cum care establishment, South Franklin Circle in Chagrin Falls. “Ed Hayes’s comments on Katz and Davis caught me. From Katz I learned that I was in well over my pay grade and simply didn’t have the experience to understand diddly about things.... Davis was another matter. He once gave a 10-question quiz on marketing arithmetic. I was never good at formulas because I was good at ‘figuring things out.’ I figured each question out doodling on a sheet of paper. My answers were all correct! He gave me a ‘0’ zero—for cheating! By the time I got

to trying to explain my doodling...it was all Chinese to me.” Frannie and I have been enjoying Bentley Village, the CCRC in Naples, FL, we moved to last year. Nice people, great staff, excellent facilities (bocce courts, 18-hole par-3 golf course, among other amenities), and excellent food. It’s working well for us. We plan to head for Sunapee, NH, in June for a few months in the North. As Henry Nachman said above, “Life is good!!”

’58 Barry S. Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

If you haven’t been to Hanover recently, there are big changes around Tuck School. Old Tuck Drive, the road from the Ledyard Bridge up to Tuck Mall [Tuck Drive], is now open for cars traveling one-way from the river to the campus. Also, if you drive down Tuck Mall from Baker Library, you will come to a dead end at Tuck School. In front of the main Tuck building, construction is underway for the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society. It will connect to Murdough Hall, and it should be completed by the fall of 2021. Tom Macy and Barry Rotman attended the June 2019 Dartmouth Commencement on the Green in Hanover. It was a beautiful summer day, and everyone was entertained with a short concert by honorary doctoral degree recipient and speaker Yo-Yo Ma. Tom was there to watch his son John C. Macy MD receive a master’s in health care delivery science from Dartmouth, a joint venture program between the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Tuck School. Dr. Macy is chairman of the Orthopedics Department at Copley Hospital in Morrisville, Vermont, where he specializes in shoulder surgery. He also serves as a U.S. Ski Team physician. As a retired accountant, Tom especially enjoyed watching his doctor-son taking courses (mostly online) in accounting, finance, and marketing given by Tuck professors while maintaining a full surgical work schedule at Copley! The 18-month master’s program admitted its first class of 45 health-care professionals in 2011. It was founded by an anonymous $35

million donation to help health-care leaders develop new skills and knowledge to transform the quality and efficiency of care delivered in their institutions. When founded, it was the first in the history of education to offer a degree in health-care delivery science. We are all subject to the lifestyle changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. What could be more relevant than a degree in healthcare delivery. Barry Rotman was at the graduation to cheer on one of his SCORE clients. Four years ago, a young Dartmouth freshman became his youngest client when she wanted to start a handmade-jewelry business. They worked together for 4 years until Barry was invited to be her guest to watch her graduate. Jerry Jones is now settled in Nashua, New Hampshire, close to his daughter and his grandchildren. He’s not too far from Hanover. His big passion is reading, and one of his favorite authors is Yuval Harari, who has a PhD from Oxford and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harari’s most recent book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, follows 2 other books. The first, Sapiens, is about the history of mankind, and it explores our past. The second, Homo Deus, speaks of what is happening in the world today, as well as the meaning of these events. Harari’s latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, covers present-day concerns such as terrorism, climate change, the rise of AI, and the apparent decline of international cooperation. He provides a useful framework for confronting these fears. Jerry is rereading these books because he is concerned about the world we are leaving to our grandchildren. He is in good company because Harari is a favorite of Bill Gates and over 15 million of Harari’s books have been sold. Chip Corley is one of the few members of our class who still goes to work every day. Corley Manufacturing Company manufactures machines for sawmills, such as carriages, band mills, and electronic controls. It is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has an electronic subsidiary just outside Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in 1905 and now has the third and fourth generations associated with the firm—including two of Chip’s sons. Although the major portion of their business

is in the states, 5% to 20% is in other parts of the world. Chip still plays golf regularly, but for the last 10 years he and his wife Martha have been traveling a lot. They’ve taken a number of cruises with relatively smaller boats (250-650 passengers). Two of these trips were especially memorable. One was in the Caribbean sailing to the Barbados, Sint Maarten, Saint Barths, and Puerto Rico. The other traveled up the Saint Lawrence River. Other outstanding trips were to the south of France with a tour guide whose background was architecture. Sue Aran started the company, French Country Adventures, in the Gers department of southwest France. She provides private, personally guided, smallgroup food & wine adventures into Gascony, the Pays Basque and Provence. Chip highly recommends her and her small group tours, limited to 6 in a group. A few years ago Bill Hutchens wrote a book about his great-uncle, the artist Frank Hutchins (1869-1937). I bought a copy and it’s a fabulous book. Titled An Artist’s Life—Frank Townsend Hutchens, it is available online or from Amazon. I can’t imagine the amount of time and effort it took Bill to do all the research that was required. The book blends the story of Frank Hutchens’s life with pictures of his art. It’s well worth buying. Bill has just published another book, The Hunt, which covers his worldwide hunting trips. Bill has hunted all his life for wild animals, from grizzly bears to wild sheep. He kept a log for each trip and now he wanted to share his love of the outdoors and hunting with his children and other family members. Bill is in love with the Adirondacks, and about 20 years ago he helped found the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, a not-forprofit museum located in Tupper Lake, New York. It cost $30 million to build and is now called the Wild Center, and is situated on 115 acres. It is a repeat winner for the number-one family attraction in the Adirondacks. Bob Frank and I were taking about Israel recently. I have a son who lives in Zichron Yaakov, a small city north of Tel Aviv. The city was founded in 1883 by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, who started a winery there 2 years later. Bob’s great-grandfather was invited by the

Rothschilds to go to Israel and help set up the winery. He lived near the clock tower in Jaffa, and in 1906 he was directly involved in the founding of Tel Aviv, which abuts Jaffa. For over 5 years Bob was an active member of the board of directors for Liberation Programs in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is a leading behavioral-health organization specializing in the treatment of all types of substance-use disorders, including alcohol, opiates, depressants, and stimulants. Their goal is to help individuals and families overcome addiction in order to restore their lives and ultimately strengthen our communities. What a very worthwhile cause! I still remember Bob’s breakfast/lunch group called FINDIS, which stood for Formerly Important and Demographically Insignificant Souls. It met at a restaurant called the Early Bird Café, which had so many old-timers coming for a group get-together that they each had their own scheduled time—either 6:30, 7:30, or 8:30. About a dozen years ago Bob and his wife were driving thru Dorset, Vermont, when his wife shouted “STOP.” Bob stopped the car, and he and his wife went to visit a farmer who was selling his 1941 green Chevrolet pickup truck. It is still in in Bob’s garage and it runs fine. Although they regularly take it out for a spin, Bob feels that it is time to part company with the car and retake ownership of his garage. If you’re interested in the truck, just drop me a note and I’ll forward it to Bob. Gordon Hally passed away in Seattle, Washington, on February 7, 2020. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1936, he spent his formative years in Long Island and New Jersey. After Dartmouth and Tuck, Gordy joined Johnson & Johnson and then Texas Instruments. His deep interest in economics and financial markets led him to a long career with PIMCO (a global investment management company) managing bond funds for city governments and Fortune 500 companies. After retiring, Gordy and his wife, Jill Runstad Hally, moved to the Pacific Northwest, where they enjoyed skiing, sailing, tennis, and local charitable causes. He is survived by his wife Jill, brother David, and sons Mark and Craig. This is being written while we are “sheltering in place” in Norwich, Vermont. It is hard to comprehend the changes that we are all about to see in our lives as a result of the COVID-19 SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES pandemic. I wish you all well during these trying times, and I would love to hear from you about any changes in your life. I believe it is important that we all stay connected.

’59 Myles Slosberg mjs145@yahoo.com

Editor’s note: We owe the great class of ’59 and its dedicated class secretary, Myles Slosberg, an apology about the missing notes column for the last issue of Tuck Today. An overzealous automated email filter sent them astray here at Tuck. We are printing them here ahead of the most current submission from Myles—whose reputation for perfect timeliness, we are pleased to say, remains intact. WINTER 2020 Notes Dear Fellow Tuck Classmates, I hope all are hanging in there and doing well!! Tuck is having reunions this year during the period from October 4 thru October 6. Our Class is included because it is our 60th reunion year. As of now, I am not sure how many members of our class will attend. I have sent out a global email to our class asking for news that I could include in this column, and so far, I have had very few replies. That being said, I will report what relevant information I have received from some classmates. Dan Wilkes reports that he and his wife Lynda took a wonderful 10-day river cruise from Amsterdam down the Rhine River to Basel, Switzerland, on a new ship from Crystal Cruises called the Debussy. He was able to spend time in the wheelhouse with the captain and crew, watching them maneuver through locks at night. Crystal has three luxury buses that accompany the ship, and all shore excursions were complimentary. With a maximum of 102 passengers and a crew of 70, food, wine and service were incredible. While I am on the subject of river cruises, I took a cruise this past May on a much smaller barge (8 passengers and 5 in crew) that left

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Amsterdam and cruised throughout the Netherlands for one week. It was terrific!! Great food and accommodations. We did many side trips from the barge, including visiting the Ketel One distillery (owned by the Nolet family, 14th generation), cheesemaking in Gouda, Delft china in the town of Delft and of course seeing many beautiful fields of flowers. We also visited the world-famous Flower Auction facility in Alsmeer, where flowers are auctioned every day and shipped all over the world the same day by air. If anyone is interested in doing similar barge trips, I suggest you contact a travel company that specializes in barge trips, called the Barge Lady. They are very good. Skip Coggin reports that he and his wife Liz rented a condo in Eagle Creek, which is in Naples, Florida, this past March and April. Skip had owned a home in that community for 16 years. Skip is planning to meet his German son-in-law and daughter in Frankfurt, Germany, this coming June. His son-in-law has offered to drive Skip and his wife around Germany to visit 3 cities where Skip lived during 1946-1948 with his Army colonel stepfather and his mother as part of the post-war occupation of Germany. Pete Heegaard writes that for many years, he has been taking 22 bankers a year into the most challenged neighborhoods in his area to work on issues that help upgrade the economics of the community. The most important issues include early childhood education, affordable housing, and job-skills training. About 450 bankers have completed the program and are making a difference for their bank and the community. Peter is still together with his wife Anne, after 61 years (quite an accomplishment for sure!!). He also reports that he fished Montana rivers this summer and landed some big ones. On the subject of fishing, during August and September, I made two trips out west to go fly-fishing for trout. I just spent 4 days fishing the South Fork and Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in Idaho. In August I fished for 4 days on the Missouri River in Montana. Both trips were great and I caught many nice trout. If you doubt this, I can provide some nice photos!!! And I have booked a trip to Argentina next March for the same kind of fishing. In the future, I would love to hear about similar fishing and/or hunting experiences from my classmates.

I am sorry to report that one of our classmates, Bill Myers, passed away in April. That is all for now. I look forward to hearing from more of you in the future. Respectfully yours, Myles Slosberg. [Editor’s note: And herewith, we present the current notes for this issue.] SUMMER 2020 Notes Dear Fellow Tuck Classmates, I am writing this column on 4/1/20, right in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. To say these are trying times, is to put it very mildly!! We are all in the middle of self-imposed quarantines, or worse government-imposed quarantines. I can only hope that there is light at the end of this very dark tunnel!! I can only wish all of you the best and hope that you and your families pull through. I have heard from a very few of our fellow classmates, but I will pass on what tidbits I have been able to collect. Larry Hampton sent me his Christmas musings. Of course, this preceded the virus. He writes that he and his wife Helga are in good health and have 5 children and 8 grandchildren. Larry did quite a bit of traveling over the holidays, going to Mexico, and Paris, in January. Last year he travelled to Mallorca and Romania. He and Helga spend much time In the Algarve. Skip Coggin wrote in March that he had been told to stay close to his retirement home and he has done so, relying on family to shop for him and his wife. Skip was introduced to Zoom by his daughter, who lives in Northern California, and he enjoyed communicating with his granddaughter and daughter via Zoom. Speaking of Zoom, I was introduced to it this past week by my daughter and her family. It is a wonderful way to connect with family. I recommend to any and all of you. I live in a gated community, Admirals Cove, in Jupiter, Florida. It is as good as place as any to wait out the virus situation. Like most communities here in Florida, most everything

is closed, including all dining facilities (takeout is available), fitness facilities, tennis, swimming pools, and now this week all golf is prohibited on our golf courses. That edict came from Palm Beach County government. Most of our residents who have homes in the North are staying here rather than go to places where the virus has spread more prevalently than here in Florida. There are a few exceptions. Dan Wilkes, one of our Tuck classmates, who lives here in Admirals Cove in the winter, decided to drive back to his home in Connecticut two weeks ago. He feels more comfortable there, being close to his children and doctors. I cannot fault his decision at all. One of our classmates, Don Shagrin, passed away in January of this year. Don was a Dartmouth undergraduate and was a Tuck 3-2 student. He was from Cleveland, Ohio, and spent a long career in the securities Industry. Don was my roommate in our second year at Tuck. We lived in Norwich, Vt, with Walter Yusen and Don Dorough. As I am sure you know, Tuck is closed now, as is Dartmouth College, for classes. The only class participation has to be online. This is the case in most all colleges and secondary schools. I wish I had more class news to give to you, but information from classmates has been sorely lacking.

’60 David Ward davidwardsr@aol.com

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Welcome to spring in New England, specifically Lake Mascoma, New Hampshire, still covered with ice at the end of March. I have received no emails from anyone wanting to share their life with classmates. Finally, I have started to make limited telephone calls. My first test case is a report on Bob Hedley from New Canaan, CT. Like many of us, Bob spent his class of ’59 senior year at Tuck and then before his second year married Barbara, and they found housing off the green in Lebanon. Their first son joined Bob’s Tuck graduation ceremony and returned years later to graduate from Dartmouth and went on to HBS for his MBA, where he met his wife, also a Dartmouth alum. One of their children later graduated from Dartmouth. Bob and Barbara’s daughter attended Mt. Holyoke, while their second son also graduated from Dartmouth and has a daughter in this year’s freshman class.

and its wildlife. They had many memorable experiences of safari camping amongst the wildlife throughout five countries in eastern and southern Africa, highlighted by a hot air balloon trip over the Serengeti plains. They have spent much of their summers at their New Jersey shore home and had recently spent several winters on Sanibel Island with classmate Jim Burner and his family. When I assumed this role I was introduced in John Ferries’s column in the summer issue that year. Now an update on Dave Ward in retirement at Lake Mascoma. When circumstances allow, I organize a monthly Dartmouth Class ’59 lunch that includes many Tuck Class ’60s. In November 2017, I lost my Barbara to Alzheimer’s, and the 1901 antique electric boat has been sold. I keep busy following the progress of 5 children, 12 grandchildren, and 6 great-grandchildren spread from Boston to Phoenix. In addition I enjoy my April Fool’s Day birthday as old friends remember that “fool” and make contact. Look forward to our 60th reunion in October if the virus allows. Send me info for the next issue of Tuck Today!!

’61 Walt Freedman wfreedman@mac.com

That is all for now. I look forward to hearing from more of you in the future. Respectfully yours, Myles Slosberg.

After graduation, Bob joined Colgate-Palmolive in New York and spent three years in the financial training program. Realizing that Colgate was marketing driven, he moved to Texasgulf Inc. in their New York headquarters, where he became their vice president and treasurer. When the company moved to Stamford, CT, the Hedleys bought their current house in New Canaan, CT, in April 1976. In 1981, Elf Aquitaine, one of the world’s largest oil companies, bought Texasgulf. Bob continued as the vice president and treasurer for the company’s American operations for the next thirteen years. During this time, he and Barbara enjoyed many trips to Paris and Europe. After retirement in the mid-1990s, they continued to travel worldwide, over five continents, with an emphasis on Africa

Greetings to you from Chicago! It is the beginning of spring, and we are sheltering in place until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. We are grateful to have our family, friends, and a comfortable place to endure this massive outbreak. I hope and expect that we will learn from this experience. Certainly, Tuck and Dartmouth will gain knowledge regarding distance teaching and learning. I asked for experiences and projects that our classmates were involved with at this juncture in our life. It was an open-ended request, centering on activities where we were giving back to our communities, families, and/or charities. As always, I received some most interesting responses. The lead item for this column comes from Joe Mandel. It is dated February 12, 2020. It is not

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relocate, perhaps to Singapore or perhaps back to Melbourne. What a mess! Please hold a good thought for them and for all affected by this dreaded pandemic. I deeply hope that, by the time the next issue of Tuck Today hits the presses, all will be back to normal.” Thanks, Joe, you certainly experienced an early warning of our situation here in the States! Harry Holland once again provides us evidence of his dry, self-deprecating sense of humor. “Greetings from Vero Beach. We are here for our 22nd winter. Just had one wrecking crew here for a week, our next two generations from Norwich. More to come later from Hanover. “We are inmates at Kendal in Hanover when not in Vero. Son Joe and family took over our house on the practice course in Hanover. “I’ve kept doctors pretty busy this year. One episode cost me a few inches of the large intestine. Thus, I’m now living with a semi-colon.” Bob Boye and his great wife Nancy continue to find exotic and strenuous travel destinations. He gives a description of a recent trip to Costa Rica. By the way, quetzals are birds of the trogon family with iridescent green plumage and typically red underparts, found in the forests of tropical America (GOOGLE). “Nancy and I are still traveling (while we are able). But last week we took a nature trip to Costa Rica. It was rated ‘easy to moderate.’ However, hiking through jungle to see birds and small mammals when the temperature was ninety, and the humidity was eighty-five, and the trails were far from horizontal, was flat out strenuous. And while we did see a pair of resplendent quetzals in the mountains at 9,000 feet, that effort was also a physical test. We have decided that is the end of such challenging trips. Fortunately, we got to see areas of the country not visited on past adventures. “We are still booked for a National Geographic/ Lindblad trip to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia where we will see tens of thousands of King penguins and lots of waves along the way.” Bob continues that he stays busy as the president of the condo homeowner’s association where there is constant tension between those who ”want” things and those

who don’t want to pay for them. It is indeed an interesting challenge! Finally, I received a tight summary of the last 28 years of service from Jim Adler. “Having retired from a career in international advertising in 1991, I’ve now had 28 years of experience as a more or less full-time operator in the not-for-profit world, mostly for social services and arts organizations and, of course, for Dartmouth. No salary, bonus or expense account—in fact, the cash flows entirely the reverse of the play-to-pay model—but the psychic rewards more than make up for no longer having a corner office. And you learn pretty fast that if you’re reasonably competent, willing to work hard, able to deliver the goods more often than not, and do it all without a paycheck, the nonprofit world will beat a path to your door. “Tuck helped prepare me well for this second career. For openers, a ‘D’ in Louie Foster’s Accounting 1 reinforced what I already knew— that I’m a marketing and sales guy. (That ‘D’ has also given me a perfect excuse for never having to serve on a finance committee.) Most importantly, Tuck scared me into learning how to work hard (Second Year), gave me confidence in analyzing and solving problems and identifying opportunities, and taught me how to write effectively. Finally, Brian Quinn showed me the importance of bringing a passion for doing it right to whatever job you take in life—a wonderful role model.” Way to go, Roomie, I admire your contributions. Sadly, we recently heard that John Owens, Tuck ’61, has died. John had a most notable consulting career. Most significantly relative to this column, John was the director of Tuck Global Consultancy for twelve years, from 2002 to 2013. In this role he sent teams of second-year Tuck MBA candidates to complete consulting assignments for clients in international venues. During John’s tenure the TGC program completed 155 consulting projects for over 90 clients in 52 countries. John’s leadership of this program advanced Tuck’s initiatives in experiential learning and international business. We send our profound condolences to Janet Owens and John’s family and friends. Stay well!

’62 Judy Holmes judy@judyholmes.com

Hello from snowy Montana. No ski lifts are running due to distancing and Stay at Home requirements, but we have two feet of new snow and five degrees’ chilliness this morning. So much for March going out like a lamb.... How are all of you? This inquiring mind would love to know. It’s lucky for both me and this column I ran into Kenny Walker in January at the Yellowstone Club, as I was eavesdropping on a conversation he was having with his lunch mate. He was back to me, but I heard a familiar dialect from NYC and something about his days at Dartmouth. Then I knew it was him and we enjoyed an afternoon of skiing together with his buddy Pat and just catching up. His skiing is as graceful as I remember from the Vail Valley days when he would visit with other ski friends. That was at least 20 years ago. The picture near this column is a bluebird day of us with Yellowstone National Park in the background, from the club’s Timberline Cafe. At the time, hubby Jim Progin was on Sanibel Island working on getting our home there sold. With no algae blooms or red tide, the market was beginning to come back before the bottom fell out with COVID-19.

Kenny Walker and Judy Holmes ’85 overlooking Yellowstone National Park from the Yellowstone Club ski area

Kenny still has a huge number of interests and is one of the most upbeat people I know. To prove it, he mentioned how busy the breakfast buffet was at the club, lots of families with kids arriving for MLK weekend. I remarked that my first thought was all those germs coming from all corners of the country, to which he replied,

“What a sardonic take. That never would have occurred to me.” How life has changed since January.... He also told me his daughter’s theatre work is thriving. Her professional name is Leese Walker and her theater company is Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, a permanent collective of jazz musicians, modern dancers, and actors. Leese is the artistic/producing director of the ensemble and has such an interesting and impressive background that I’m including some of it here. Thanks, Kenny, for great conversation and skiing while you were out here. And to think you made all your flight connections back to NYC was impressive in winter weather. “Leese Walker is an interdisciplinary performance artist, director, producer and teaching-artist. Leese is the founder and Artistic Director of NYC’s Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble. She established the company in 1997 to create politically-charged, original works that blur the lines between jazz, theater and modern dance. Leese figures strongly in the history of Soundpainting. She was the first actress to be soundpainted and was instrumental in helping inventor Walter Thompson to adapt the Soundpainting language for theater. The language has since evolved to include all performance disciplines and is now practiced in 35 countries worldwide. Leese has been a core member of the Walter Thompson Orchestra since 1997 and is one of three certified multidisciplinary soundpainters in the United States. Leese has soundpainted at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Airlines Theater, the Irondale Center, Bard College, and internationally in Milan, Paris, London, Tours, Bordeaux, Barcelona and in Bali, Indonesia. Her work has been featured on Radio France, NPR, German Public Radio and U.S. television. Leese is the recipient of the 2011 BAX Arts Educator Award, the 2010 Arts Presenters Emerging Leaders Scholarship, and the 2004 APPEX Fellowship in Ubud, Bali.” (By the way, from the Soundpainting website: “Soundpainting is the universal multidisciplinary live composing sign language for musicians, actors, dancers, and visual Artists. Presently (2020) the language comprises more than 1500 gestures that are signed by the Soundpainter (composer) to indicate the type of material desired of the performers. The creation of the composition is realized, by the Soundpainter, through the

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parameters of each set of signed gestures. The Soundpainting language was created by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York in 1974.”) That’s the sum total of news from your class. Without more text, I submit more photos of Gretel, my 18-month-old Saint Bernard, ready at the rescue as these times change...though many would say the barrel of brandy would be at least as desirable as a roll of toilet paper. Please stay in touch with each other and slide a few words my way. All the best in good health and safety.

’63 Tom Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

In the midst of unsettled times and stayat-home restrictions, I had a welcomed call from Mike D’Elia. Mike and Sue still live in Harwich Port, Cape Cod, while their two daughters and families live in the Boston and San Francisco areas. Mike indicated that the combination of the New England winter weather and the quarantining has created “at-home “ time and opportunity to do some home renovation and remodeling, while at the same time keeping them fit and trim!! While there has been little news from other classmates, I am hopeful that you are all safe and SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES well, wherever you are “riding out the storm.” Keep each other in your thoughts and prayers in the coming months.

’64 Art Williams artwill3@aol.com

“I am honing my skills at predicting the past, having not done so well with the other kind.” Given the quote above, I decided to ignore the future (and the present) and talk about Tuck and our 1964 classmates. Every year my Florida community, which was started by a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1953, holds a Dartmouth event. Sandra and I have run this event since it almost disappeared in 2008. This year Bob Humboldt and I represented the Tuck 1964s.

Speaking for myself, I found all the courses had value to one extent or another. But I realized a few short years ago that Accounting was the one which was most indelible and most helpful. I never was in accounting, as a CPA or otherwise, so the value was not there. But it was in other places. I noticed it first in securities analysis, when I was a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts in the late 1960s. It was nice to be able to follow along with a speaker, without having any further training in the subject. The most memorable person I met as a presenter at the New York Society was from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yes, I met the Colonel himself, Colonel Sanders (no relation to the senator from Vermont). In and of himself he was a personification of the brand, the business, and the franchisability of the idea. Holiday Inn motels had shown us that with President Eisenhower’s interstate highway system there was a travel market as well as a local market for restaurants. And if an idea worked in 10 locations in 10 cities in a number of states, it would very likely work in many others. Thus the franchise boom. In the current world, one of the most discouraging areas is what we see now, where every company seems to report GAAP earnings, those based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Great, but then they ignore GAAP. They instead pick and choose among the items on their financial statements to find the ones which best reflect that which occurred or perhaps that which they wish had occurred. So-called adjusted earnings.

Art Williams and Bob Humboldt at a Dartmouth-Tuck gathering in Florida

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Early in my career there was an article in the Financial Analysts Journal suggesting that the principal measurement of a company’s value should be CASH. The theory was, you could fib about the value of your assets, or the pace of depreciation, or of the value of capitalized expenses. But cash was cash. Tongue-in-cheek, yes, but wisdom there beyond just wisdom teeth.

fund strategies as well as in understanding accounting for the business. I was advised, however, not to push too hard on tax positions. The co-head of a major Wall Street firm said to me, “It doesn’t pay to play too close to the line. Because after the fact, they move the line.” I of course can’t leave this subject without extending my thanks to the late Professor Leonard E Morrissey Jr. Professor Morrissey was knowledgeable and articulate in teaching accounting principles. And a delightful gentleman. I remember trying to earn a free cup of coffee finding a typo in the manuscript of his excellent 1960 book, Contemporary Accounting Problems. I don’t think I succeeded. How I regret that I didn’t have the knowledge, or time, to share my thoughts with him in person.

Professor Morrissey’s Contemporary Accounting Problems

Jean-Pierre Naz writes: “Greetings to all. Like most people in Europe we are being asked to stay home, especially if you are 84 years old...even if you feel absolutely fine! So it is time to try to satisfy Art for the next edition of Tuck Today!

A familiarity with accounting also helped with income taxes. It is easy to see how people can be confused with income and assets, depreciable assets versus nondepreciable, the value of royalties and patents, and that of “goodwill.” But I could steer through most of these subjects, and at least be a knowledgeable consumer. Accounting also helped when I had my own investment business for about 15 years. It helped in understanding complicated hedge

Jean-Pierre and Mayette Naz, at home in Geneva

“I find it interesting when at 84 you recall what has been your life! One thing is clear: I never planned my life but was fortunate to be involved in many different activities that I would never have dreamed of. Let me summarize: “Undergraduate in Geneva in a French environment: I always loved technical things so I thought engineering was the way to go and went to Zurich and got (in German) a master’s in electrical engineering (MSEE) but I could not see myself in that field. I looked for an MBA and friends of my parents said...there is only one place to go—Tuck! But Tuck was in English, so I spent 3 months in a bank in London. At that time London was not what it is now (even with the Brexit). As a trainee in a bank...you were told, ‘Look at what I do and don’t do anything’...more boring [than] impossible but you could also experience what meant ‘pecking order’ and ‘British society.’ So for my effort at improving my English. “Now I arrived one day at the Lebanon airport. Geneva to New York in a DC-8 jet, New York to Lebanon in a WWII-age DC-3. When at the Lebanon airport I asked, ‘’How do you go to Dartmouth,’’ at what was the airport shack. Someone told me to step into his pickup truck with my suitcase. He dropped me at the start of the Tuck Drive in the middle of the night and told me to go straight! Fortunately I knew the name of my room. The next morning in the bathroom someone talked to me...I remember he was from Mobile, Alabama, and with a toothbrush in his mouth...I could not understand a word. “Anyway, 2 years later, graduation T’64! “From then on 3 years in Dearborn, Michigan, in Ford Motor Central Staff Finance. Analysing ‘warranty’ expenses and preparing reports so that board members could ask intelligent questions during meetings (we had also to provide the intelligent answers). It was also interesting to note how board members could buy a fleet of aircraft one by one with three engines separately and so remain within ‘limit’ and not go to the General Assembly (shareholders). I was then transferred to their Switzerland office. I left at the time of the Detroit riots and a first staff reduction. Whereas in Dearborn we reported in USD millions, in Switzerland the pricing was in cents! I did not last but it was an interesting experience to look at the relationship of the field, the region, and the head office.

“I joined the Swiss watch industry (brands Omega, Tissot...) as finance director. It was still going pretty well, especially in the high end, but a catastrophe in the low end. In 1979 I was moved to New York City, where we had acquired the exclusive distributor. After 16 years, I suddenly noticed that all the board members had left and bankers were breathing down our neck—very uncomfortable. “In 1983 it was time to go. A headhunter had called me. He was based in Place Vendome in Paris (Place Vendome is much better than New York’s Fifth Avenue). I was interviewed for the position of finance manager based in Geneva for a foundation no one had ever heard of (no Internet at the time). I had the impression that they were not interviewing me but selling me the organisation. Intellectually and provided you are willing to work hard, a dream job...I discovered provided you do not refer to your job description. But when the chairman says ‘something has to be done,’ your answer is, ‘Prince it will be done.’ The Aga Khan Foundation (have a look on Internet AKDN.ORG) is an incredible private organisation, active in social development. It owns and finances more than 400 schools and academies, one university in Pakistan and one in Central Asia, a large hospital in Karachi, in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, an institute on Islamic civilisation in London, etc, etc., plus many other organisations in the field of culture but some also ‘for profit,’’ among other things in tourism (if you consider Kabul tourism). It is now referred to as the Aga Khan Development Network. You meet people with incredible pedigrees and from all walks of life. “Finally for my last activities I managed 3 helicopters...to make things simple...registered in Switzerland but based in Pakistan and Central Asia. “I lasted 27 years but at 75 decided to retire, in 2015! “When I am being asked to motivate the children of friends, I always tell them leave no stone unturned, the environment is full of totally unknown organisations (even today with Internet) and forget career plans, grab what seems unusual, interesting, unexpected, challenging.”

Google AKDN.ORG. You will be amazed. Sadly, I note the passing of Bill Ferguson (C. William Ferguson) in September 2018, after long illnesses, information that Tuck was just able to provide. I had written to Bill and called him, but did not make a connection. While in Hanover I found a Tuck shirt for sale in the Dartmouth Bookstore and purchased one for Bill and mailed it to him. But it came back, address unknown, a month later. Bill was a class stalwart from the beginning, a devoted fan of Professors James Brian Quinn and Richard S. Bower. Bill was an excellent golfer as well as businessman and father. Bill was our class secretary for a decade or more, extracting information from our classmates and keeping us informed. Bill spoke so proudly of his son in the military, who made repeated tours to the war front post-9/11. On behalf of the class, I want to thank both Bill and his son for their service. Thanks to all for contributions, and for reading our class column. Write while you think of it. And we need one or two more biographies for the winter 2020 edition of Tuck Today. Thanks, Art. artwill3@aol.com

’65 George Weller gweller@ctq2.org

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“Hi George. I am still doing stand-up comedy in Hollywood clubs, and now hiding from the coronavirus. I took your advice on financial focus a while ago, and lightened up substantially on long positions. But the combination of world-wide debt, the crash in oil, an overbought market, and now this exogenous event...could truly result in an economic disaster. At least you can grow vegetables and raise chickens. Best regards, Ted Morehouse.”

Thank you, Jean-Pierre. You have had a most unusual career, which I am sure has helped many thousands of people. Classmates, seriously, “Walmart Names Beaumont Products as

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CL ASS NOTES Veteran-Owned Supplier of the Year. Georgia Company To Be Recognized On Veterans Day For Products Made In The United States. KENNESAW, Ga.—November 6, 2019—Beaumont Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of household consumer products, including Citrus Magic and Hero Clean, has been named the Veteran-Owned Supplier of the Year by Walmart, Inc. Companies considered for the honor must be veteranowned and supply products made in America. Beaumont makes all its products in Kennesaw, Ga., and is owned by Hank Picken, a Vietnam veteran. Beaumont will be recognized during a corporate-wide ceremony at Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019. Receiving the honor on behalf of the company will be founder Hank Picken and his son, Jeff Picken, who serves as Beaumont Products’ president and CEO.” I, George Weller, here on our farm in southern Quebec just across from Vermont are grateful that we are so self-sufficient ourselves and have universal health care if needed. I was sorry to see Bernie Sanders not do better in the polls. I think that doing away with US income and capital gains taxes and replacing them with a 15% flat tax paid on all “things” purchased, or a 10.5% flat tax if all investments purchased were included, is a good idea. It would even out the huge wealth discrepancy in the US and encourage innovation. Thus, when selling something you would keep ALL the proceeds tax-free.

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

Rusty Wallingford married his longtime girlfriend immediately after graduation. After some graduate work at the University of Michigan, Rusty joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In 1976 he moved to the Graduate School of Business at Rutgers University, where he was associate dean and founding director of the school’s Executive MBA program. In 1982 Rusty joined with the former dean from Rutgers to form a consulting business conducting economic studies for business, trade associations, governments, and in

support of legislation. He was also engaged in teaching commercial lending programs for many of the major banks. Rusty retired from Economic Studies, Inc. in 1999 and continued working in semiretirement form until 2005. Now fully retired, he says, “I’ve had a thoroughly enjoyable life. I feel very lucky and blessed.” Matt Yakovakis tried the corporate world for a few years and then settled down to a 45-year run as owner and operator of two Ethan Allen furniture stores. He opened his first store near his home in New Hampshire in 1970 and added another in North Andover, MA, three years later. Matt’s son and general manager run the business in his retirement. Matt built his home in Amherst, NH, a hunting cabin in northern New Hampshire, and a second home in Estero, FL. Matt lost his first wife in 1974 and his second wife in 2015. He remarked, “Never wanted to live in the hustle, bustle big cities, and so was quite happy enjoying the quiet life of a small community in good ol’ New Hampshire.” Allen Zern spent his entire career at Morgan Stanley. He went to work for the firm right out of Tuck in 1966 and retired in 1994. During his tenure the firm grew from one office on Wall Street with 140 employees to a worldwide public financial services company with over 10,000 employees. Allen worked in the corporate finance department and in the 1980s had positions of increasing responsibility managing various Morgan Stanley departments, including human resources, finance, and general administration. Allen met Judy when she became Morgan Stanley’s first IT department employee installing the first IBM computer in 1969. Judy and Allen were married in the White Church in Hanover in 1971. They have two children, Peter D’95 and Carolyn D’97, T’09. Allen and Judy spend winters in Vero Beach, FL, and summers in Rockport, ME, with worldwide travel in spring and fall. Allen sums up his Tuck years: “Tuck was a great experience for me.”

’67 Robert Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

I am writing this on March 15, 2020, when coronavirus has changed our ordinary lives. Hoping that with a lot of luck, at least the TESTING for the disease will become available “shortly”—and that age won’t be a handicap! (In a playback, remember when NYC went dark while we were at Tuck?) Our class news, as usual, is sparse. Thanks to Jay Gronlund, John Holley, Dick Bankart, and Tony Milbank for keeping in touch. As for the rest of you homebound classmates, please pick up your pen and use it so your humble servant can do his job of sending news...and not fake news! Another minireunion (see picture) at Arne Rovick’s condo in Naples: John Arnold, Jay Johnston, Allan Anderson, and Jay Gronlund raised their glasses to Jim Beardsley, who died in February. (Over the years, I have been in touch with Jim through a common board of directors relationship: Jim was an excellent, always balanced voice on the board, making a fine contribution to its members.)

T’67 minireunion, and a tribute to Jim Beardsley, in Naples, Florida

John Holley reminds us to get caught up on “good books.” He is enjoying gardening and Netflix movies. On his quest to see the world, Dick Bankart reports that he has been to 145 countries and island groups on The Travelers Century Club list of 329.

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And, finally, Tony Milbank responded, “I am such a boring correspondent since nothing changes.” He is busy as ever, although he notes that he has become more strident in expressing his views. The implication is “how could someone have such an uninformed point of view....” Bonnie and I are enjoying Florida but looking forward to a return to Wisconsin for the summer: what will that season bring to each of us. Stay well: practice social distance and wash those hands. —Bob Buchanan

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

As I write, it is early April 2020 and the planet is “sheltering in place,” trying to cope with the worldwide pandemic. Not only has the world slowed down but so has the news flow from fellow Tuckers. One note I have received is from Nick Hayes, who writes from Madrid. “We can go to the supermarket and our neighborhood mercado—but stand in line, at least a meter from our neighbor, to be admitted. The shelves are generally well stocked, with no indications of shortages. Other permitted destinations/activities include pharmacies, news stands, and dog walking. Going to and from work is still permitted, by car, bike, or public transport, although people are urged to work from home where possible. Other public services such as garbage and trash collection and postal delivery continue. “Schools are now in their second week of closure. The teenage boy who lives across the hall from us is busy at his computer, where his school has posted online assignments. Our great nieces and nephews are equally occupied, one hopes with studies rather than games. Last Friday was our last luncheon at a nearby restaurant, which joined its fellow eateries and bars in a compulsory closing. All retail businesses are closed, although some of the big stores are taking online orders for home delivery.

Theaters and cinemas are closed, sports contests postponed, and no gatherings of over 100 people are allowed. Tourism, a major industry here, has ceased with the cancellation of most flights and closure of museums. Some hotels remain open to accommodate those few domestic business travelers, but others, like the paradors, are closed. “So, Madrid is eerily quiet. We live near one of the main east-west traffic corridors where normally we are treated to rush hour horn concertos coming from the middle distance. Today, over a five minute period, the traffic count totaled thirteen vehicles and ten pedestrians. Our street contains a typical mixture of residential, offices, restaurants, and retail shops. In that same period I counted all of eight pedestrians and five cars. Normally traffic would be backed up for at least a block, and one would jostle one’s way down the sidewalk. “Not totally quiet, however. With other noises stilled we can hear a neighborliness dog at an open window expressing displeasure at other people and animals. On a different note, each evening at eight everyone goes to their windows and throws them open for a few minutes to clap and cheer for the health care workers.” The cancellation of sports competitions that we all have recently witnessed reminded me of the Holy Cross football season of 1969 when their season was canceled after two games because of an outbreak of hepatitis A. The last game they played was at Memorial Stadium in Hanover on a beautiful weekend in September. My new bride Judy and I watched the game accompanied by “Charlie” Anderson and his intended, Maureen. It was obvious that something was wrong with this talented but listless Crusader team, which lost 38-6. We later found out that they had been infected by a water hose at their practice facility in Worcester. In a bit of personal news, my son Brian was recently named one of the top 100 Influencers in Educational Technology by EdTech Digest. Brian the leads the Virtual Reality classroom initiative for Lenovo, the world’s largest maker of personal computers. —John Moynihan T’68

’69 Robert M. Cohn robertmarkcohn@gmail.com

Greetings Classmates! As I write this, we are in the middle of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, with the biggest economic and medical dislocations we have witnessed in our lifetimes. I hope by the time you read this we will have begun the turnaround toward normalcy. I am sad to share with you the sad news that our classmate Michel Lebas passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on February 15th at his home in Seattle, Washington. Michel had a distinguished career as a professor of accounting at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris and at the University of Washington.

Michel Lebas

After Tuck, Michel obtained a PhD at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. In 1979, he married his wife Michael and moved to Paris, where he was a highly regarded professor of accounting for 33 years and served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1986 to 1989. He also taught at other schools in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the US, including the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Throughout his career he was a consultant to numerous businesses in France and around

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I respect Michel, because very few, if any, of us have had parents who lived beyond 100. In other news, Ed Williams reports that his son Gregory originally planned to marry Sarah Weitzman on May 23rd. They have now postponed their wedding to October 2nd. During the virus crisis, Greg and Sarah camped out with Ed and Gail in their two cabins on the north shore of Williams Lake in Rosendale, NY (see picture). Ed says it is lot like camping out, but with real beds and a shower.

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’70 georgerfulton@gmail.com

Gap Kovach g.kovach.jr@gmail.com

If you wish to send condolences to Michel’s widow, Michael Adler, she may be reached at: 3502 N.E. 43rd Street, Seattle, WA 98105-5619.

Michel Klein with his 102-year-old mother in Nice, France

Let me know how you are faring and send me information you would like to share in the next issue of Tuck Today. Best wishes!

George Fulton

We are glad that many of us had the opportunity to spend time with Michel and his wife, Michael, last October when they attended our 50th reunion and returned to Hanover for the first time in many years.

Our other French classmate, Michel Klein, writes that he was not able to join us at our reunion, or otherwise travel in Europe, because of the health problems of his 102-year-old mother (see photo) and his life partner Gabriela. His mother was never seriously sick in her life and was in good shape until May 2019, when she developed heart problems. She was admitted to a hospital, but, after three nights there, Michel decided to bring her back home and become her caregiver. After a fall in October 2019, she lost the use of her right arm and began losing her short-term memory. Michel adds, “I do my best so that her life is still enjoyable, but it is not easy and requires much of my time and attention. This prevents me to travel abroad in Europe for research projects as often as I used to do until a few years ago, but I do not regret it since there is enough to keep me busy.”

I hope that all of you have stayed safe and are in good health! Let’s hope that 2021 is a better year than 2020.

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Ed and Gail Williams hunkered down during the virus crisis with their son and his fiancée at their cabins in Rosendale NY

On March 21st, Dabney and Dick Schmitt celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (see picture). Dick writes: “The best decision I ever made in my life was to marry Dabney Waters on March 21, 1970. I have been the recipient of her love, her nurturing, her generosity, her selflessness, her kindness, and her compassion for 50 years. Along the way Dabney raised two wonderful sons who both acquired her best attributes. Dabney’s generosity and talents did not stop at home. She has spent her life serving and helping others.”

Dick and Dabney Schmitt celebrating their 50th anniversary

Tom Huse: Currently retired—20 years ago. Tom spent most of his career working for the Bank of America in foreign exchange and the market trading business primarily in Asia. A business he described as requiring lots of probability equations coupled with the time value of money—to which he gives his training at Tuck high marks. A typical year necessitated 10-12 trips to Asia for business. Toward the later portion of his career Tom managed all the hiring and training of those who were interested in this type of the business. Tom tells the story of his due diligence in exploring B-schools to attend. He had a green light to Wharton and decided to go to Philly to look at the school, their program, and the Philly area. Well he happened to be in Philly the night that MLK was killed. The folks at Wharton said, “You have to get out of here! There’s likely to be riots.” He drove south to Baltimore but they wouldn’t let him in; so he headed down to D.C. That was the end of Wharton for Tom—he loved the program, freshness, and safety of Tuck. Tom and I must have been in Philly about the same time; when I was visiting Wharton, there were riots in Philly. You may not know that Tom’s first job before Tuck was with the American intelligence company, sometimes known as “The Company,” or by its real name: CIA. No. Not the Culinary Institute of America. Tom describes a full year

of intensive training: learning such handy skills as picking locks, etc., etc. After graduation from Tuck he was visiting the campus and spent a few minutes with Tuck management confessing that his application was riddled with false statements—he was prohibited from mentioning his CIA assignments. That got a laugh from the Tuck gatekeepers; they let Tom graduate anyway! Tom has two kids and 2 grandkids and lives about 20 miles east of SF. He comments that it’s a long way to Hanover and doubts whether he can make the trip to the 50th reunion. Frank McCarthy: Currently retired since 2006; has 3 kids and 5 grandkids, and lives a bit north of Toronto. While we talked he was visiting his son in Vancouver, who is in the real estate development business. (Frank, you should talk with Jim Yarmon—mentioned later in this report.) Frank loves traveling to see his kids, especially after losing his beloved wife several years ago. Her initial ill health was one of the reasons he retired. After several years since her passing, he has found another lovely lady; they are both very happy, and she is encouraging Frank to begin skiing again. (Those of you who know Frank may remember Frank was an excellent skier.) Frank’s career included a stop at Campco – a real estate development company, then onto Arthur Young Consulting, Atco, and finally, and perhaps his most interesting stop—The Canadian Postal Corporation. Frank was involved in the overall of the Canadian post office, which evolved from being a hugely unprofitable part of the Canadian government (like the U.S. post office) to becoming a business unto itself. Today the Canadian Postal Corp. is profitable, and yet is still wholly owned by the Canadian government. (Megan Brennan (current U.S. postmaster general) are you listening?) Frank said that the politics of making this happen was, as you could imagine, both interesting and robust! Frank, in addition to skiing, loves boating and spends the summers on the water. He is definitely going to the 50th Tuck reunion. Ward Nelson: Ward, retired, is living in Ely, Minnesota, population of 3460 (2010 census), and located about 250 miles north of Minneapolis, and 20 miles from the Canadian border. July is its hottest month—average high temp is 76 degrees, and it isn’t until May when

the average low is above freezing. Why Ely? You ask. Ely is home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a million acres of wild, protected forest with thousands of miles of canoe routes linked by lakes, rivers, and portages. It also home to the International Wolf Center. It is beautiful and, as you might guess, entirely unspoiled. So, if you love the outdoors and wonder what life used to be like before 1950.... Ward has been retired for about 9-10 years after spending 36 years at IBM. Ward was leading IBM’s internet hosting business, which included everything needed to host and update the websites of many of IBM’s customers. He and his wife of 47 years have two kids and, naturally, spend much of their time out-ofdoors. Ward is president of the local lake association (lot of lakes in MN), treasurer of his church, and as most of you know, he has served as fundraiser for the Tuck ’70 class. Ward is definitely planning to attend the 50th reunion this fall. Walt Jewett. Walt, born and raised in Florida, is enjoying the spoils of life in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida—retired with his lovely wife Becky, who plays better golf than Walt, several grandkids now entering college, and a bevy of friends and volunteer activities to keep him current. Walt as many of you know stepped from Tuck into McKinsey, then moved to banking in North Carolina, which Walt felt wasn’t as pleasing as consulting. McKinsey, being the insightful firm that they are, sensed that Walt wanted to get back into consulting and made him an offer. He hopped a flight to NYC and the very day of meeting with McKinsey met an old friend from Tuck who convinced Walt to join not McKinsey but the firm for which he worked. So, Walt’s 31-year career at Booz Allen began with his meeting to join McKinsey. Time passed and Walt was lured away to make a contribution at Goldman Sachs as an independent consultant. After about a year with GS, he began taking stock of his career that had spanned several decades and asked himself why he continued to cope with constant travel, NYC congestion, traffic, and cold winters and why he wasn’t enjoying life along with his Florida home. (Many of us have had those thoughts, even if we weren’t raised in Florida.) So, on a bright day in September when an unexpected turn of events occurred in NYC (“9-11”), Walt pointed his car at Florida and never returned to NYC.

Now back in Florida, Walt found ways to relax—board work at Flager College in St. Augustine and teaching in the B-school at Jacksonville University. What course, you ask? Business Policy—of course. Today he also does some volunteer work with the Mayo Clinic. So while Gap Kovach knows the western side of Florida, Walt knows the Atlantic. Both welcome you if you’re in the area! Walt is a long way from NH but hasn’t decided yet about the 50th. Pete Negri: Except for a few meetings with his son, who now runs their third-generation distribution business (Jamaica Bearings), Pete is retired and is learning to play golf using his Naples second home as a base of operations. His lovely wife of 48/49 years (Pete didn’t commit to either date...hmmmm) also loves the game. Their favorite golf activities are the Nine & Dine golf events during the week. Pete isn’t too confident about his golf game but confesses that he’s holding his own when it comes to the Dine. (I said to Pete, “Pete, that’s such a surprise!” We both laughed.) If you’re in Naples from January to May and looking to play golf with Pete, be cautious: while Pete’s a latecomer to the game, he’s getting a bit sharper playing three times a week. His son and two daughters have a total of 10 grandkids, and one of Pete’s favorite activities is to host the entire family at least once a year in his Long Island water’s-edge home during colder weather, and repeat the same during the warmer weather at his Naples retreat. Pete is planning to attend the 50th— perhaps get there early and get in a quick 18 at the Dartmouth course where Tanner, Kovach, and yours truly mastered many of the required Tuck case studies. Jim Fish: “I just show up, have a cup of coffee, tell a few jokes, and watch what’s going on” is how James describes his remaining days in the investment management business at UBS. Jim will officially retire on June 30, three years after establishing a strong working relationship with a UBS associate who will take over Jim’s deck of customers acquired over his 31 UBS years. Jim didn’t always deal In the sale of securities; clothing was his first love. His first stop after Tuck was to returned to his Minnesota home working for Dayton-Hudson in strategy planning and new ventures. You remember Daytons? The store Mary Tyler Moore stood in front of as she tossed her cap in the air every Tuesday evening? Of course

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CL ASS NOTES you do. Jim continued in the retail world for several years, switching from staff to line management in retail merchandising. This lasted until 1987, when he began his investment management career. Daytons no longer exists, but before they boarded the windows, they managed to open a different kind of test store in Minneapolis—Target. Jim and Annie continue to enjoy life in Sacramento and are planning to attend the 50th reunion, especially since Annie has never seen New England. Their son, James Jr., is based in NYC , loves NY, and has built a very successful career working for a French-based private equity firm. Fishing seems to be calling Jim, and he’s hopeful to return often to Great Falls, Montana, where he remains a board member of the C.M. Russell Museum, named for a well-known Western artist. Jim Yarmon: Jim is trying to figure out how to retire! After thriving for several years within the Wall Street culture at U.S. Trust, Jim switched over to real estate equity financing, where he built upon many of the skills he learned from his dad back in Toronto. Soon Jim returned to his native Toronto to work side by side with his dad in the real estate development/investment business. Since the boys had property in Alaska, Jim eventually moved to Anchorage to carry on the company’s real estate business, and this also allowed Jim to start a VC fund in Anchorage with other investors. Moving to Anchorage also allowed Jim to meet Nadene; they were married in 1979 and raised two sons. Jim still plays local hockey and continues to enjoy the beauty of the Alaskan country via biking and hiking. Today the Yarmons still live in Alaska; they have the 50th reunion planned, yet Jim has yet to retire. He is still holding real estate in places like Miami, Reno, Salt Lake City, etc. Ideally the market will become a bit more attractive and Jim can close this chapter of real estate investing and come much closer to experiencing retirement. Aye, but after 50 years of investment experience, doesn’t it sound like Jim will always have his hand in some kind of investment... forever? I’d bet Nadene would say YES! Late-breaking news received at Tuck! From James Dwinnell, in his own words: “Below is a long wandering note, Tuck may not be able to afford the ink to print most of this, so edit away. “I sold my Key West home two years ago after 74

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15 years of hanging out there part of the winter months. I am now spending spring until the end of foliage in Randolph, VT, on the family homestead, fall in Florida, winter in Oaxaca, Mexico, Christmas of course where it snows so that Santa will find me. Thank goodness for the ‘parts’ store or I would be in a wheelchair. It seems that everything collapsed at once over the last few years with rotator cuff surgery, knee replacement surgery, back surgery, PT for a torn bicep tendon, and a previous hip replacement. Thankfully all is currently well, and through it all, I have managed to ski in Colorado every March for years. And thankfully I live where marijuana and hemp products are available and legal! “I went to Morgan Nields’s funeral in Denver last July, held at some folks’ temple of worship, the Cherry Creek Golf Club, with over 300 other mourners, with Bill Owen and others eulogizing Morgan, with Peter White’s widow, Candy also in attendance. “I keep at the impossible and frustrating task of local, state, national, and international politics; keeping up with my membership in the International Association of Political Consultants; writing, consulting, and agitating; continuing to prove only that Einstein’s theory of insanity, doing the same thing and expecting a different result, prevails. “All four kids are launched and doing well. I plan, God willing, to attend our 50th Tuck reunion. For the homeless classmates, I should have four empty bedrooms, so should all the hotels be filled, please give me a call.” And from Richard Seigel to Joe Rokus, though it just missed the last round of notes: “I am definitely a proud member of the class of 1970 just as it appears on my diploma hanging proudly in my office. I have no idea why the class of 1969 set a record for the number of Reunion attendees. I do know that Dick Schmitt and Bob Cohn both worked very hard on the reunion. If your enthusiasm exhibited thus far is any indication, I would not be surprised to see the class of 70 beat the attendance record. In sharing any class notes for the 1970 alumni, please mention that when I came back for our 25th in 1995, I was accompanied by my girlfriend at the time, Terry Stratton. Please let the class know that Terry and I got married on Valentine’s Day of 1996, less than five months after the 25th, and will be celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary February 14, 2020. Terry was with

me at the 50th reunion of the class of 1969, and we both send our warmest regards to class of 1970 attendees who we saw back in 1995 at our 25th. Good luck to you in putting together a fantastic reunion.” And on the topic of our upcoming 50th.... Joe Rokus: Joe “Mayor of our Tuck 50th Reunion” Rokus has asked that we include notes about our forthcoming 50 th for the Tuck class of 1970! Thanks to Joe and his extraordinary effort to make all of our lives—via the 50th anniversary of our Tuck graduation—more exciting. Here are some reminders from Joe: • Just in case you have forgotten, our 50th Class Reunion (October 9-11) is right around the corner—you can refer to the “special reminder” that you received in the mail, courtesy of one of our generous classmates! • Joe Rokus, our reunion “mayor,” reports that quite a few of you have not yet decided whether or not to come. Don’t forget that our 50th Class Reunion is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Therefore, make plans NOW to come back to Tuck this October! (Remember that Prof. Bower will be our special guest.) • As you know, Joe is working on assembling a special souvenir package for the reunion. Part of that will be the short (10 minutes) surveys he has sent out. This is your opportunity to summarize what you have been doing for the last half century and what you are up to now on one page! You would not believe the fascinating things we have learned from the surveys we have received so far! We are aiming for 100% participation, but we can’t get there without YOUR survey! They will, of course, be part of the souvenir package. • Joe and Craig Tanner have also obtained digitized versions of all of the issues of The Tuck Tycoon, the student-published monthly newspaper from 1968–1970, from the Dartmouth Library archives. Craig was the editor-in-chief for this great record of probably everything that happened during our two years at Tuck. Again, they will be available to everyone at the reunion. • So, finally, decide NOW to come to the reunion to relive our good old days at Tuck and to reminisce with everyone! You’ll be very disappointed if you don’t come, and we will really miss you! Please contact Joe (rokus@ comcast.net) if you have any questions. See you there! Blessings all. —George and Gap

’71 Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

Who would have guessed on entering 2020 that a black swan moment would appear in the form of the coronavirus. Needless to say it has descended upon us in a way to emphasize such things as social distancing (in the past, good hygiene), virtual and Zoom meetings, conference calls, stay at home orders, etc. Makes one wonder how this experience will effect a permanent change in the way we conduct social and business interactions. The global economy is certainly being jolted. By the time our next news letter is due, let’s hope things have passed a bit, lessons have been learned, and the globe as well—as each of us— rebounds to firmer footing. I trust each of you will have some observations to make. News from the class of 1971 includes a report from one of our faithful foreign classmates, Daniel Viard. He and wife Claudine were joined by Dennis McGuckian and Sharon Shellstrom on a bridge over the Loue River, a famous trout tributary (unfortunately a bit spoiled by not clearly explainable pollution) of the Doubs River, flowing into the Saône River and further into the Rhône in Lyon, the second city of France in terms of population. A picture to follow.

drove around their family home in the Jura department, a beautiful part of France, not far from Switzerland. Jura is a mountainous massif, related to the Alps, but not as high. In his note about the trip, Dennis added that they also visited the Gustave Courbet museum and, “For our last evening we had a delicious meal from the Viards’ own garden—excellent, so fresh. We can’t thank Daniel and Claudine enough for their wonderful hospitality.” Last October the Viards were fortunate to lunch with Dave and Pat Irwin, accompanied by Jean Rozwadowski in a nice Paris bar. He reminded me that Dave, Jean, and the late Christian Breynaert were very good skiers and distinguished members of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol. Still expecting a picture of these folks in action from Jean. Daniel also attended a very interesting meeting in early March (before the coronavirus hit) with the Dartmouth Club of Paris. Several Dartmouth students were in attendance with their program director, Lynn Higgins (professor of French), all hosted by several French families for the current term of study. The evening included some fascinating remarks from Pierre Kirch (Dartmouth 1979), a lawyer specializing in artificial intelligence and big data, on the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence conference of summer 1956, which coined the term and conceptualized artificial intelligence for the first time; the conference was organized by Professor John McCarthy and may have been attended by a young mathematics professor, John Kemeny, who later became the 13th president of Dartmouth College in 1970. He was also the codeveloper of the BASIC computer language. Daniel wishes us all the best in the face of this coronavirus challenge/pandemic.

Daniel Viard, Claudine Viard, Sharon Shellstrom, and Dennis McGuckian (picture courtesy of Dennis)

Dennis and Sharon had the great idea to join the Viards and spend two days last September in the central eastern part of France, first in Burgundy (Dijon, capital city), where they drove through the vineyards. Did some prodigious wine tasting with Claudine’s high school classmate who became a successful wine grower. On the second part of the journey they

The Loring family keeps moving along, with six grandchildren in the pipeline ranging in ages from 7 to 18. Hard to believe my son Cabe (born during our second year at Tuck) is approaching age 50. Oldest granddaughter received early decision to enter Cornell. Married to Bonny for 54 years come December! Where has the time gone? We spent part of the winter at our time share on Marco Island in Florida. Left earlier than planned because of the coronavirus preventing our son and his family from joining us there. We decided to drive to Spartanburg, SC, to be nearer to him with proper social distancing— cocktail hour outside on lawn chairs. We are keeping an eye on Massachusetts and the virus

Bonny and Caleb Loring on Marco Island in March 2002 with daughter Caitlyn Thomas and husband Greg, along with grandchildren Alayna, Emma, and Adam.

to see when we return home. Part of the reason we can be flexible is that most of my board and committee meetings are no longer in person but in conference calls, Zoom, Skype, or other means of distance communication. The grandchildren’s schools are all closed, but learning continues at home online at the elementary, secondary, and college/university level. I know many of you are going through similar experiences. Certainly the outcomes of all this are not entirely known, but it seems a certain paradigm shift is afoot. For example, our church has gone to streaming its services. Attendance has grown on some Sundays to around 1000 versus the usual 250 or so in person. I think this may be attributable to better geographic versus in person access. So, 2020 is turning out to be a year of unexpected surprises. Let’s hope the current situation passes soon and that recovery to a more normal one takes place before too long. In the meantime, best wishes to you all for good health and stability in life. Look forward in hope to our 50th reunion on October 1-3, 2021. Be well. —Caleb

’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

Anthony (Tony) Orr checked in with an update: “After graduating from Tuck, I did an 8-year stint in Hanover, working for John Meck, Dartmouth’s financial vice president, who was in charge of the college’s endowment. During that time in Hanover, I got divorced from Alex, who was with me at Tuck and Sachem Village, and several years later married my current wife SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES Nancy, who had 4 kids, plus me with my son Chris who was also at Sachem Village as a toddler. Many classmates knew him while we were at Tuck. Nancy and I have been together now for going on 44 years. We all moved to Florida in 1980 and I worked for NCNB/NationsBank, now Bank of America, and later SunTrust in their wealth management operations. In my last position with SunTrust, I was in a group that managed the assets of about 140 of SunTrust’s largest clients and also ran a family of hedge funds. We had a $50 million minimum, but most of the families I was responsible for had assets in the hundreds of millions. Almost all the families were headed by the creators of the wealth, and only 3 had inherited the money. The creators were fascinating and amazingly talented people who had the full paint box of abilities. They were much like the people we met in Brian Quinn’s Entrepreneurship course, and it was a real privilege to know and work with that group. “I retired from SunTrust in 2003 and spent a year fly-fishing and backpacking some of the remote, wild places I had fantasized about while working, including the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, the Wind River Range in Wyoming, and Alaska. “Like a lot of retirees, I failed at retirement after a year and went back to work as a volunteer in the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program. This organization is part of a system mandated for all 50 states by a federal statute to assist state courts in intervening in child abuse and neglect cases. I went from working with some of the most talented people in America to the other extreme end of the spectrum. My new clients were people who were drug users, career criminals, and convicted child abusers in a court-run system designed to protect their children and to try to rehabilitate the parents. I had about 6 cases as a volunteer and after a year went to work full time for this agency and got involved in hundreds. The job involved meeting with the family and children regularly, as well as the other social workers on the cases, and reporting on the progress, or lack, to the court. In Florida, child abuse and neglect is a very large industry, with tens of thousands of people employed in numerous social work agencies, courts, foster homes, and dedicated law enforcement. Unfortunately, it is a growth industry. Few people here have any idea of the extent of the problem. There are many saints who labor in this field to help the children all their lives, for low pay and lots of frustration. Very few parents are rehabilitated, and most wind up back in the system. Character is 76

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destiny. I did this until a few years ago, when I decided that I had had enough. “For classmates who lived in Sachem Village and remember my son, little Chris, he went on to live his dream of becoming a fighter pilot in the Navy. He flew the F-14 Super Tomcat, did Topgun at Miramar, and flew about 36 combat missions during the Iraq wars in the ’90s. He left the Navy as a lieutenant commander and transferred to an Air National Guard special ops unit that deployed every other year for six months to the Horn of Africa, and retired after 26 years as a lieutenant colonel while also flying full time as a captain for JetBlue. His hobby is flying World War II fighters on weekends at air shows with the GEICO Skytypers. He lives on Long Island with his wife of 19 years and two children. Alex died a few years ago in California. Two of our kids and four grandchildren are in the Orlando area with us, a third in Sarasota, and another in Virginia.

Nancy and Tony Orr

“That’s a long update. Health is good, and hopefully we will meet again at a reunion. Best wishes to all our classmates!” Bill Moyes reports on recent travels—“Got this picture as we were starting a little ‘i-vacation’: Iceland and Italy recently. My partner, Susan, and I had a great time in both places, but if you go to Iceland, be sure to take a pair of ‘rain pants’ for each of you. It can be cold, windy and wet! Italy, of course, is just the opposite. This photo was taken at an eatery in downtown Reykjavik that specializes in yummy craft cocktails...just the thing after a strenuous day of sight-seeing! Why go through Iceland? Considerably lower fares to Europe if you stop in Reykjavik for an overnight.” Eric Spielrein wrote to bring us up to date: “I retired mid 2015 as EVP and secretary general of RCI Banque, the Renault Nissan Alliance captive finance company (operating in 40 countries thru Europe, Russia, Latin America and Northern Africa with about 40 billion euros in assets). In charge of risk management, compliance and internal control, my last achievement was to manage the transition from local banking supervision to European Central Bank supervision; the exercise included a thorough asset quality review, an assessment of the organization and its governance, and compliance of all current and future solvency and liquidity ratios. This required about 1 year of work by a dedicated team of a dozen specialists and the assistance of several consulting firms.

Bill and Susan – Iceland

“Then started a difficult period. During the following 4 years I had to undergo 4 significant operations to cure different cancers and overcome a vascular incident. Once you are in the hands of the medical profession they discover all kinds of problems! But now it is over and I am well. Meanwhile the condition of my wife Laure, who had been diagnosed of Parkinson’s disease, was deteriorating, with no hope of remission at the current level of medical research. She finally underwent last fall a complex brain surgery leading to electric stimulation of the motricity sections of the brain and she has now a more comfortable day to day life even though it cannot be perfect. The support of our two daughters and their families has been outstanding and helped us a lot. They both live in Paris and at no more than 10 minutes walking from our apartment so that we see each other every week or so, together with our four grandchildren, who range from 3 to 8 years old. It is a lot of fun to discuss with them as they are curious and ask a lot of questions, and love to comment on the answers! “All in all we have closed this dark tunnel and we have started 2020 with a positive attitude and some projects. We can travel from Paris to

our summer home north of Lyon, where a lot of renovation work has been deferred. Part of it dates back to the 14th century, and what we call the new part goes back to the middle of the 19th century. It did resist, overall, to the various storms we had this winter, but it does need some repair work! Laure and I (!) have started to play golf again, still in Saint-Nom-la Bretèche, but my game also needs some repair work! “If any classmate happens to travel thru Paris, they are welcome to stop by for drinks or dinner.” [Note from John South—Thank God and the medical profession for your and Laure’s finding a light at the end of a very long tunnel!] John Millerick chimed in—“It has been quite some time since I have sent along any updates. I thought it was about time that I send along a few notes of what I have been up to over the years. “I will be attending my 50th reunion this year at Holy Cross and will hopefully catch up with several classmates who were also in the Tuck Class of ’72. By my count, there were six HC grads in our class. My travels have kept me from attending the past two Tuck reunions, but I certainly plan on being at our 50th. “I’m currently retired after having spent most of career in senior financial positions with high tech and medical device companies. I was fortunate enough to have lived just outside of London for four years and spent at various times a total of six years in California. Of recent, I have worked with a few private equity firms on a consulting basis and have also chaired the audit committees of several private and public companies. “My family and I were fortunate to live and travel overseas and always learned much from these experiences. My three children now have families and children of their own and are well into their own business careers. A few years back, my son Shawn spent time at Tuck in a weeklong executive management course. “Sandy and I both have stayed in touch with Mike and Rosemary Jeans over the years and have caught up with Jeff and Cindy Dowd and Peter and Joan Hoffman on occasion.” Bill Goodyear reports that all is going along smoothly for him and his family. “I am working 3 corporate boards (healthcare, energy, fintech) which keeps the gray matter functioning. Also remain active as a trustee at Notre Dame. Go Irish! Golf game continues to age with the body.

John and Dianne sampling Port in the Douro Valley

Karen holds down our home in Scottsdale and I go back and forth from Chicago. All good.” All is also good for John South here at the Kendal at Lexington LifeCare Community in Lexington, VA. In the current COVID-19 crisis, some of the I.T. knowledge gained at Tuck and in the years since has led our resident leadership and professional staff to ask me to help improve our electronic communications capabilities. (I keep telling them I don’t really know that much, but “In the Land of the Blind, the One-eyed Man is King.”) So I am keeping the little gray cells busy trying to find and implement a new I.T. communication platform. Last year Dianne and I continued an ambitious travel schedule, with visits to friends and family in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and New Jersey. Our international jaunt was a three-week self-drive tour of Portugal and western Spain, which we highly recommend. This year looks less promising. Only a three-day trip in-state to Williamsburg for a USGA New Rules of Handicapping seminar. At present we feel excited if we just get to go to the grocery store! Hoping this pandemic will be behind us by the fall, so I can get a haircut and play some golf!

’73 Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

It is a difficult and challenging time to be writing the Tuck newsletter—in the middle of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Pretty scary, with confirmed cases and deaths increasing at

an alarming rate around the world and here in the U.S. By the time you receive Tuck Today, the pandemic is, hopefully, in the rearview mirror. So far, I have not heard of any T’73s confirming the virus. Fortunately, California and the San Francisco Bay Area seemed to get in front of the virus with very early lockdowns—maybe due to the prevalence of tech companies with operations in China and, hence, an early warning of things to come. We are all doing our best to stay home and stay safe. Must admit, it gets a bit tiring to stay home much more than we are used to. Nice newsy update from Bob Bianchetti, who is now retired in Sandpoint, Idaho. Here is Bob’s history of his move from the Northeast to Idaho: “Here is how we ended up in Sandpoint, ID. I worked the last 15 or so years of my working career in Henniker, NH, just outside of Concord, NH. I worked for a REIT located in NYC, but I was able to convince them to let me work remotely while still living in NH. (I did their due diligence on new acquisitions and headed up property management.) “It was a great job. I’d commute to my office about 7 miles away, there was no traffic, and most days I was able to dress in jeans and a casual shirt. It was like being semi-retired because at nights and weekends I was free to enjoy the NH environment and feel like I was on vacation. “As my wife and I started to think about real retirement, we were originally going to move farther north in NH up into the White Mountains. But we had always enjoyed taking vacations out west to visit the national parks and hike around in the mountains. So we started to think about maybe retiring out west. We started planning vacations to scenic areas out west and then tacking on a couple of extra days to check out potential retirement places. We checked out Santa Fe, NM, Jackson Hole, WY, and Glacier National Park, MT. “When we were planning the trip to Glacier, we had read some articles about Sandpoint, ID, being an undiscovered place for retirement. So on that trip we flew into Spokane, WA, and drove to Glacier via Sandpoint. We really liked what we saw in Sandpoint and decided to give it a try. We moved out in October of 2016 and rented a house for a year to see if we were going to like it. Within about 3 months, we decided that this was the place for us and ended up buying a house in the summer of 2017 SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES just as our rental was ending. So it all worked out well. Our house has a great view over the valley and the lake looking toward the Cabinet Mountains. Our goal was to get a house with a view and we lucked out. I have attached a picture from our rear deck. “Sandpoint is a great place. Lots of mountains for hiking, the largest lake in Idaho (Lake Pend Oreille), a terrific ski area (Schweitzer Mountain) and a small town environment. The town is a nice mix of normal working people, retirees, seasonal home owners, tourists, etc. Plus it is an hour drive to the Canadian border for easy access to some of the beautiful national parks in the Canadian Rockies. My wife and I would never move back east from here. The only real problem of late is that Sandpoint is no longer undiscovered—lots of people moving here— especially people escaping from California! “It will be interesting to see if we get much of the coronavirus here. Idaho supposedly only has 5 known cases and all of them so far have been of the mild type. They are closing schools, meetings are getting cancelled, people are ‘social distancing,’ etc. So precautions are being taken, but it is nothing like some of the major metropolitan areas. We have a son in Seattle, where things are pretty bad (his employer has everyone working remotely), and another son, daughter-in-law, and grandkids in the Washington, DC, area. So they are giving us updates on what is going on in their areas. I am so glad I am not working, having to travel or living in a large metropolitan area. What a worldwide mess this virus is. “We had Dave Atiyeh and his wife, Darlene, out visiting us last summer. It was fun doing some hiking with them and showing them the Sandpoint area.” Nearby is the view from Bob’s back deck—stunning. Harry Pfohl was kind enough to let me have Bob Bianchetti’s latest coordinates so we could make contact. Harry and his wife Peggy moved in February after 35 years in their house—so lots of stuff to clear out: hard work. I sympathize, Harry. Not something I look forward to. Must admit that I periodically clean stuff out only to find new stuff moving in!! They moved to a condo not far from their house so have been able to keep up local contacts and Harry’s “Council of Elders” coffee group. It is a prime location for many 78

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foreign-service officers, top bureaucrats, lawyers, senior academics, and some businessmen. Net result is a community with a body of wonderful life experience that Harry loves, given his long absorption in history and politics. Unfortunately, Peggy broke a femur early in the year and had major surgery to insert a rod in the bone. Recovery has gone well and she is walking much of the time without a cane (as of April). Unfortunately, that meant that the normal house purging couldn’t take place prior to the move, so they are (and will be for some time to come) rooting through mountains of boxes and discarding or sending to Goodwill much of the 35-year accumulation at their prior home. Harry notes that “it is strangely quiet in this region—just about everything that would invite a public gathering is closed. The hoarding is amazing. A friend at our local Safeway witnessed one individual taking the entire pasta stock!! And what is it with cleaning out the entire toilet paper supply?” Yep, quite amazing, Harry. As they say in Yorkshire: “There’s nowt so queer as folk.” Rich Farrand is now also fully retired Rich retired as pastor of Sunset Beach Community Church (in North Carolina close to the border with South Carolina) at the end of 2016 and then was involved in local responsibilities. After that, Rich and Karen (his wife) became deans of a teachers college in Zambia for all of 2019—wow, what a great experience and a great way to “give back.” They have been planning to go back to Malawi for three months this summer, but that is probably not going to

happen until the pandemic settles down. Rich notes that they are in a pretty slow area regarding the virus but almost everyone is 60+, so many are in the higher-risk category. They had planned many short and long travel trips for this year and are hopeful that some become reality. Rich reminded me that they had lived in Pleasanton and Lafayette for years way back when he worked for Clorox at their HQ in Oakland, California. Rich wishes that he still had some Clorox stock today—about the only bright spot in the market, he notes. Personally, I think Clorox wipes are worth more than the stock and very, very hard to find!! Note from Reed Lowry that he and Linda (his wife) are enjoying retired life—now three years. They are still in Massachusetts. Their two sons have grown up, moved away, and are gainfully employed. So far so good, says Reed. Dick Haines moved three years ago from north Georgia to just south of Asheville, North Carolina—still in the mountains. Dick still splits his time from the East Coast to Montana and has just got back from two months in Montana for his winter ski fix. They spend a lot of time in the spring clearing trails in the forest and national park with horses and chain saws, which keeps them pretty busy. They will head back to Montana in June for four months. Life is good, notes Dick, and fortunately very few COVID-19 cases in the Asheville area. “We wound up not going to Chile,” writes Gary Fradkin, because the friends they were going with were very uncomfortable given

the riots in Chile last year. Although Gary’s travel company thought it was safe in Chile, he thought it prudent not to go. Gary is waiting to see how COVID-19 does or does not impact their other travel plans this year—including a scheduled tour in New Mexico in early May, a short trip to Aruba in late May, and an Alaska cruise followed by time in the Canadian Rockies in August. Fingers crossed, Gary. On a very happy note, Gary and Carol welcomed their second granddaughter, Brooke Everleigh, born in Marietta, Georgia, on January 7, 2020 to their son Adam and his wife Jen. Gary also bought a second home (condo) in Kennesaw, Georgia, to facilitate visits with the family there. Gary is happy to still be healthy and even happier that he stopped working in late November 2019 and so far is thoroughly enjoying retirement. Nice to have an update from Steve Fulton: “Your note made me reflect. Life is not at all what I envisioned when I walked the halls at Tuck. But, it has been so rich. I take joy in the wife I married almost 50 years ago. I am humbled that my two sons have become responsible husbands, fathers, and breadwinners. I am thankful for the few great friends that embrace me still, and for the examples that have gone on ahead of me.”

economic conditions, what influences what, etc. Much of that is still valid today and forms the basis of the outlook. I must admit that it has been relatively accurate and consistently better than most that I read. “On a sadder note, you might remember my brother Ron Lewis T’74. He passed away this past year from glioblastoma. It was very, very sad. For me, he was always there and I do miss him immensely. For my part, I’m trying to stay healthy, got a second new hip last week and am in the process of setting up a rowing program here in Wayland to encourage adults to get some exercise. It is a great sport if you have never rowed.” Cliff subsequently let me know that the new hip is doing fine. He and Anette are doing well and shopping biweekly at senior hours. I followed Tom Wilberding’s January trip in the San Diego area on Facebook—FB is a great way to keep up. Tom and wife Barb had a great time and posted some super photographs in the San Diego Zoo and Anza Borrego Desert State Park—both favorites of mine. We both agreed that the slot canyon in Anza Borrego is well worth a visit. Unfortunately, Tom took many photos in southern California of scenery, birds, and Barb, but none of himself. Tom and Barb continue to enjoy U.S. road trips. In October they tried to become more familiar with the old Confederacy—Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks, Nashville, Natchez, New Orleans, and Galveston. In March they had planned to drive to Tucson to enjoy some hiking and birding for a month. Warm climates beckon, notes Tom, with skiing days behind them. The U.S. is such an interesting tapestry of geography and history, perhaps, as some say, a confederacy more than a nation.

Steve Ringlee and Cliff Lewis have been in contact regarding a cycle trip through the Loire—Steve had planned this for May 2020, while Cliff had completed a similar trip a few years back. Nice info from Cliff on an exciting trip. Unfortunately, Steve had to change his plans and decided on a bike trip along the Moselle. There is a bike route starting at the river’s source in the Vosges Mountains just west of Basel, and the river/bike route makes a large loop through Alsace, Lorraine, and Luxembourg before ending at Koblenz on the Rhine. Due to COVID-19, Steve has postponed that trip until September. Cliff and Steve had planned a lunch in April to compare trip notes—that has also been postponed.

Don Wilson recently published his tenth limited-edition golf book, entitled Some Golf in 1888. Also, Don accepted an invitation to be a trustee of the new USGA Foundation at “Golf House” in Liberty Corner, New Jersey. Sounds like quite an honor, Don—congratulations. Hope that includes invites to some of the golf majors!!

From Cliff Lewis: “Barry, thanks for the note. No real ‘news’ here in Wayland, Massachusetts. Still working two days a week doing stock analysis and writing an economic outlook once a quarter. When I graduated from Tuck, I became the chief economist for a Fortune 500 company and my job was to look into the future and forecast orders. Did a lot of work on

Nice newsy letter from Stan Gutkowski: “I’ve been meaning to write to you since the summer issue of Tuck Today was released. So, I’m writing to you today for several reasons. First, thanks for your efforts over the years as the author of our class’s class notes in each issue of Tuck Today. While I have not been a contributor (except for once when I retired in

2006), I do read about our classmates and find Class Notes the best part of Tuck Today. I also wanted to thank you for your comments on the importance of supporting TAG. The final results of TAG 2019 were: class participation rate of 51% vs. goal of 56%; total dollars raised of $189,959 vs. goal of $200,000. To put that in perspective, our participation rate in 2018 (a reunion year) was 55% and we raised $199,149. “While I’m on TAG, I also wanted to thank you for your consistent support for TAG. The fact that you’ve contributed in 40 campaigns is truly remarkable and makes you one of our most consistent supporters. I trust that you will continue your support by making a contribution to TAG 2020. In any case, thanks for all you do for Tuck. “So, here’s an update on me. I retired from Accenture in November 2006, spending 33 years at Accenture and its predecessor organizations, Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen. That was the only real job I had. I spent my entire career based in its Washington, DC, location. I wound up running its government practice in the US, which included its federal, state and local government and higher education organizations. Post retirement, for ten years, I served on the board of directors of Cayuse Technologies, a Native American–owned IT outsourcing company located on the reservation of the Consolidated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). For the past six years, I’ve been on the board of directors of the Medstar Washington Hospital Center. On a personal note, Cyndy and I are enjoying being grandparents. We have 6 grandchildren, 3 who live near us in northern Virginia and 3 who live in Chicago. Since both of us grew up in New Jersey and always wanted a house on the Jersey shore, we finally did so back in 2011, buying a house in Sea Girt, NJ, a small beach town on the Jersey coast. So, we spend summers in New Jersey and winters in northern Virginia. “Back to Tuck, I know it’s hard to believe but our class’s 50th anniversary is coming up. Having gone to both the 40th and 45th, I would encourage people to attend. It’s amazing to see firsthand how the place has changed since we were students there.” Great to hear from you Stan, and congratulations on the grandies—keeps you young and on your toes!! I plan on seeing you in 2023 at the 50th. Thank you for all your great work with TAG. SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES Mike LaRose says he has “little news here except I had a slip and fall on my driveway back on December (black ice running from a roof gutter) and I broke my right hip. Five days in the local hospital and three weeks in a rehab place. Got home just before New Year’s Day. Most frustrating parts were that...I’ve been in the house for years and I knew that ice was likely to be there...just plain not thinking. Plus I was just out to get the morning paper. “My wife Regina was my savior while in the hospital and rehab place. Visited 2-3 times every day, brought my laptop in so I could do my ‘stuff,’ brought me home-baked goodies, etc. There is a reason why she is not only my wife, but also my best ‘bud.’ “My home and facility physical therapy (PT) was going reasonably well and then all PT appointments were cancelled from mid-March onward (COVID-19). Sort of at a plateau now (was advised don’t try new things on my own... could get into hip or arm trouble). So, here we sit/walk with cane in hand.” Mike—I am very sorry to hear about the fall and the delay in PT. Best keep out of hospitals for now until the COVID-19 is all over. The Class of 1973 Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Melina Sánchez Montañés, who is pursuing a dual degree—Tuck MBA and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. Melina is from a small port town in in Southern Spain—her father is a farmer. Melina has always wanted to drive social change and is focusing on impact investing. She is grateful for our assistance and looks forward to having an impact when she graduates in June. We look forward to following your path, Melina—best of luck in your chosen path.

We have a trip planned to the U.K. in May to see family and friends but suspect that we will cancel out of that. Also a trip to Argentina in October—fingers crossed on that. It was great to hear from everyone and many thanks for your news. Please stay home and keep healthy. Maybe, by the time you receive this Tuck Today, we are all able to freely eat, drink, and be merry wherever/whenever we wish!! Stay healthy and please send news to me at bhotchkies@aol.com or text/call at 510-9185901. —Barry Hotchkies

’74 Paul Stupinski pstupinski@aol.com

Hi everyone! As I write this column, our country is in the midst of dealing with COVID-19. I hope by the time you read this, we can say that we, our families, friends, and our nation got through this safely. So much of what I’m writing about here is planned travel, family events, vacations and the like, which may or may not actually happen, given the pandemic. Let’s hope they do! The Annual Class of ’74 Holiday Lunch returned to Keens Steakhouse in NYC and, thanks to the efforts of Steve Bates and Brian Landry, was a great success! This year, spouses and “SOs” joined the festivities, and we hope to make that a regular feature of this wonderful class tradition. Joining Brian and Steve were

All is well with the Hotchkies family. Eleanor and I try to get out for a walk most days— round the community and local village. Clockwise one day and anticlockwise the next day just to mix things up!! Occasionally we drive for a stroll along the Bay or up to one of the local parks in the hills—observing social distancing, of course. Our son Blair Hotchkies T’06 and daughter Lindsey Schramm have been working from home since early March when Amazon and Apple, respectively, had their employees work from home. If only our federal, state, and local governments had done the same!! T’74s at this year’s holiday lunch at Keens in NYC 80

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Hilary Miller, Jack Tankersley, Pat Martin, Penny and Bill Bohrer, Lloyd Ucko, Noreen Doyle, Twig MacArthur, Danny Eng, Larry Edgar and friend Suthy (all the way from LA!), Rick Goldberg, Kathy and Jack Harrington, Debbie Elcock, T’75 John Murphy, and Tuck Ambassador Andy Steele. Somewhere near the column is a photo from lunch. If you look very closely, you will notice a unique element of the décor at Keens—clay pipes! Opened in 1885, the restaurant was a rest stop for stagecoach travelers, and patrons were allowed to store fragile clay pipes there, in order to enjoy an after-dinner smoke. The collection of clay pipes at Keens expanded over time to more than 50,000 pipes, and membership in Keens Pipe Club numbers over 90,000. The walls and ceilings are festooned with pipes belonging to many actors, celebrities, athletes, statesmen, military heroes, and titans of industry, including John Barrymore, Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, JP Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, Enrico Caruso, Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, and “Buffalo Bill” Cody, to name just a few (no ’74s though!). Pretty cool.... Over lunch, Rick Goldberg shared his plans to take a break from his numerous projects around the house to winter in Palm Beach. Volunteer work, lunching with old friends, and visiting the New York area’s many museums also keep him busy. Rick also reported he and Hilary broke bread recently with Penny and Jim Spanos in South Norwalk. Back in March, Noreen Doyle was featured in an article on CNBC that discussed ambitions of women in the workplace. Noreen is chair of Newmont Mining Corporation and has been a tireless advocate of corporations putting specific plans in place to retain and promote female talent. There is a link to the article on our class Facebook page—check it out! Dave

Potter is keeping very busy as senior director of Technology Transfer at Brown University. He’s especially pleased to be collaborating with Todd Keiller on a project codeveloped between Brown and WPI, where Todd has the same role. Dave also sent along a photo from Kathy and Bob Twomey’s 50th anniversary party—congratulations, Twomeys! Dan Clark is keeping fingers crossed as I write this, hoping to make a driving trip in May to tour Ireland’s Wildlands, Connemara, and Dingle with old friends from Dartmouth. Rita and John McQuiston’s son Eddie is getting married this summer in St. Louis; Eddie works for a private equity firm in Boston. Boston College will be well represented at the nuptials—both Eddie and his fiancée are BC grads, and Eddie’s teammates from 4 years on the golf team will also be attending. Rumor has it the bride and groom will process out of church under a gauntlet of 9 irons! Larry Edgar and Jack Harrington, also BC grads, will be there too. George Kelly’s CapStreet Group had a busy year in 2019, completing 2 new platform investments and 5 add-on acquisitions. CapStreet, headquartered in Houston, invests in Texas-based family- and founder-owned businesses in a variety of industries.

Jim and Penny Spanos and Rick and Hilary Goldberg enjoying dinner together recently

Kathy and Bob Twomey celebrating their 50th anniversary

The big news from the Van Wagener household is that Betty and Vandy’s son David has returned to Denver, after accepting an engineering consulting job less than a mile from Van Wagener HQ. While David is living at home temporarily, the plan is for him to move into his own place nearby. Beyond helping David with this transition, Vandy is staying busy with board work, consulting, philanthropy, and keeping up with the rest of the clan. Fellow Denver resident Tom Hardy spends his days honing his craft as a writer of fiction. He is putting the finishing touches on a novel set in Brazil—Where The Sabia Bird Sings—and, after completing a final edit, will begin the literary agent acquisition process. This fall, the Hardys will bike through France’s Dordogne Valley, then drive to the Alentejo region of Portugal. Tom’s plan is to spend a month there converting a short story (set in Portugal) into a novella or screenplay. Pam continues counseling clients on parenting skills. Tom and Pam both try to cheat Father Time with a rigorous workout routine of swimming, biking, SUP, skiing, and in Tom’s case, rowing. John Graham has been keeping busy taking courses at UNC Asheville’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He and Jan are living at the Pisgah Valley Retirement Community, just outside of Asheville. Jan’s mother lives in the same community, and daughter Jenna lives nearby, so it’s an ideal living arrangement for the Grahams. Grahamsby laments that he has given up his beloved golf, but reports no withdrawal symptoms...yet. Dave Wilhoite has been (unfortunately) a regular at several local hospitals, as his daughter, mother-inlaw, and father-in-law all recently had to deal with emergency surgeries, falls, and broken bones. The past several months have given him a real understanding of the term “sandwich generation.” Dave and Lyn are reliable contributors of suggestions to the class book club—their latest recommendations are among those included below. Paul Hogan sends greetings, after returning from the annual family getaway trip to Captiva Island. Now fully retired from his board commitments, Paul is taking time to enjoy a number of hobbies, including pastel painting. Brad Stirn happily reports he is up and around after major ankle surgery. A lifetime of gymnastics, springboard diving, pole vaulting, and soccer will do that to you, I guess. He will be back in form just in time to walk daughter Caroline down the aisle at her August wedding in Baltimore, where she and her fiancé currently live. Nancy and Phil Spokowski are loving life

on Florida’s West Coast, living at the Venetian Golf and River Club. His update sounds like an ad for the Venice/Sarasota area, raving about the beautiful beaches, outdoor activities, cultural events, restaurants, and nightlife. The welcome mat is out for any ’74s or ’75s in the area, says Phil. Steve Graves just celebrated 43 years at MIT and is taking it a year at a time until he decides to take a “permanent sabbatical.” Steve was just elected presidentelect of INFORMS, the leading professional society for operations management and analytics, with 12,000 members worldwide. He will transition to president in 2021. Big year in Hank Hakewill’s household—Hank turned 70, and he and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. When not out on the water fishing, Hank continues consulting with small asset management firms, offering a range of marketing and communications services. Charley Eddy is living in the Santa Cruz Mountains, above Silicon Valley, but truth be told spends most of his time aboard Snug Harbor, his 47’ sailboat. Last winter, the boat was based out of La Paz, on the Sea of Cortez, where he and Mitzie hosted a stream of friends sailing around Baja California. Charley has a blog that chronicles Snug Harbor’s voyages— check out SailingOnSnugHarbor.wordpress. com. When ashore, Charley and Mitzie are active in their local church, with Charley having served as president and treasurer on the church council, and Mitzie involved in religious education and community bible study programs. The Eddys are doing some traveling too—most recently they spent 2 weeks in Norway, with stops in Bergen, Oslo, Balestrand, as well as exploring the fjords between Kirkenes and Bergen on the Hurtigruten coastal ferry. Marnie and Jake Jacobsen took time off from renovating their newly acquired Montana cabin to return to Antigua for the wedding of a close friend. Jake and Marnie plan to stay up in Montana until late fall before returning to their home in the Florida Keys. As promised, here are some reading suggestions, courtesy of the Class of ’74 Book Club: The Body Outside the Kremlin, by James May. An unusual and absorbing murder mystery set in a 1917 Soviet prison. Educated, by Tara Westover. The story of an abusive family environment and what one woman did to escape. The Uninhabitable Earth, by David WallaceWells. A thoughtful discussion on the effects of

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CL ASS NOTES climate change. Natural Rivals, by John Clayton. This book contrasts the views of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot on how to manage public lands in America. Sugar Money, by Jane Harris. An historical novel about a slave uprising, set in Grenada in 1765, based on actual events. The Body, by Bill Bryson. A compelling, very readable tour of the human body. Just a reminder to join our Tuck School Class of 1974 Facebook page. We are now up to 39 members, and this is a wonderful, timely way to stay connected with your classmates. Sign up through Facebook or email me and I’ll walk you through how to join.

Barb and I are also using our long hours at home to undertake by ourselves a bathroom remodeling project that we otherwise would have bid out. Needed parts can be ordered for home delivery from Amazon or hygienically picked up paid for in advance from a locker at Home Depot.

That’s it for now—thanks for staying in touch!

We watch the relevant YouTube videos and then take a stab at the needed carpentry, plumbing, and tile work. Thank goodness that, as an excellent quilter, Barb has the patience and physical skills for the job. As for me, I finally get to use the ½-inch drill I bought for some reason years ago. —Bill Kelly

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As I write this (3/31/20), Barb and I are “sheltered in place” in our cozy condo in Stratford, CT. I hope all you classmates are comfortable and safe as well and riding out the coronavirus crisis as best you can. In past notes, I have written of the joys of travel during retirement. That is of course off the table for the moment. Just last week we had to cancel planned trips to Mountain View and Nashville to visit our daughters. And I am beginning to unwind a trip to Hannover (not Hanover!) that I been planning for this coming September. (It will be interesting to see if I can get a refund on the German Eurail Pass I bought....) What to do instead? Well, besides learning languages on Duolingo, I’ve found that with the help of Google maps, Wikipedia, and YouTube videos, some interesting “virtual tours” are possible. True, I am not visiting the local beer halls and restaurants. But I’m pleased to report that Aldi U.S. supermarkets sell 82

Wernesgrüner, a very good beer from eastern Germany, along with their other German specialties.

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Leckie Rives left Sotheby’s International Realty in December and joined Landmark Realty Group, LLC (owned by Royal Dutch Shell), which is the #1 real estate brokerage and rental firm on the “Plateau” consisting of Highlands, Cashiers, Sapphire, and Lake Toxaway, NC. He says he is thrilled to be part of this terrific team of people. He and his wife Vicki had lunch with Gail Tritle, in February at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Fletcher, NC. Gail is spending the winter with his daughter Sydney, her husband, and their 3 kids in Aberdeen, NC, to escape the snow in Minneapolis. Ever the entrepreneur, Gail had a meeting in Asheville with a guy who was a potential source of funding on a livestock deal that Gail is involved with. Gail spent a whole day with the Rives. Leckie said, “I tried to get him to pose for a picture, but he wouldn’t consent.” Typical! Craig Tapley writes that his wife Trish sold her orthodontics practice and is now retired. As such, she wants to do some traveling. At the end of January, his two sons (Kirk, 26, and Kyle, 23) went to Las Vegas. They saw George Strait; did the Sundance Helicopters tour of the Grand Canyon, with a stopover at the Hoover Dam; and spent the rest of their stay just having a good time. Both sons are teachers; the older of the two was just selected as his district’s

teacher of the year—at 26, the youngest ever to have been so chosen. Proud parents for sure. Trish and Craig also went down to Fort Myers to spend some time on Estero Island (Sanibel was completely booked). While there they got together with Marcella and Dennis Logue. (See photo below.)

The Tapleys and Logues in Florida

Hap Stein moved from CEO of Regency Centers to executive chairman. Brooke and Hap now have seven grandchildren, who with their parents all live nearby at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Rick Routhier and his son Jake visited the South Kaibab trail of the Grand Canyon in February. Father and son had a wonderful time hiking a couple of times from the South Rim to the Colorado River and back. Rick also celebrated birth of grandchild #1 in midNovember: a healthy baby girl named Kirin. (Her middle name is Pilsner.)

Rick Routhier and his son Jake at the Grand Canyon. Rick is the short one.

Meg Browar had a big birthday in December and spent it in Antarctica. It is her 7th continent. Meg says “Now I can stop traveling— just in time for the pandemic,” she writes. Bill Dryden is spending a lot of time in the art conservation world with the 3D x-ray

Tom Rooney spends a few months wintering in in Naples, FL, before getting back to MA. Nearby is a picture of him and some friends participating in one of the local native rites— toasting the sunset. Martha is second from the right. They also did this last year on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Meg Browar in Antarctica

technology of Digitome. Bill writes, “Unlike the time-is-critical business environment we are used to, the art conservator has a different model: it doesn’t matter how long it takes, just make sure you get it right! In October 2018 at the Met in NYC, we imaged a 6th century bronze Buddha casting (see side-by-side images). The purpose was to see how they managed the flow of molten bronze by creating internal channels in the mold device such that the extremes of the cavity were completely filled. The finding also validated the geography and time period of the casting.” He is now working on five projects at Yale: the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, the Yale Center for British Art, the Beinecke Library, the Yale Art Gallery, and the Peabody. “No shortage of art objects that they want to see inside of—provenance validation, method and materials of construction, and assembly details to aid conservation work. The pace certainly is friendly to my current stage of retirement.”

Sixth-century Buddha casting and x-ray image of it

Tom and Martha Rooney toasting the sunset with friends in Naples, Florida

Cris Jacobs joined Edward Jones 2 years ago. On a professional note, Cris writes, “I get to do 2 things I love: helping people and following the markets. I picked Edward Jones because of its focus on building relationships and doing what’s best for each client. Importantly, behind each financial advisor is the support of one of the largest financial services companies in the US. What I do is helping people prepare for and live in retirement. Answering questions

like: Do I have enough saved?... How much should I save?... What should I invest in?... or, What should I do with my old 401(k)’s?” On a personal note, he says that Karen is well and works as a nursing director taking care of foster kids for the state. Their son Stephen (works at Wayfair) and his wife, Melissa, just bought a house in Newton: “They both do work that I barely understand....” Bob Spears reports that his son, Nicholas, is well in NYC. Son Jesse and daughter-in-law Rosa are working at home in LA trading off taking care of 9-month-old first grandchild, Clark. His wife, Ann, is doing some light legal work for her old firm in Berkeley. Bob is spending time on two portfolio companies that need lots of hand-holding. According to Routhier, he said, “Hang in there. Stay safe. Wash your hands and take some walks.” Tobe and Joel Barad spent a brief week in New Orleans after Mardi Gras had passed. Nearby is a photo of me at the float museum with Bugs Bunny. I am the one with the green jacket.

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

[Editor’s note: We received the following at Tuck Today hq for this issue of T’77’s class notes!] Peter Fohlin: “I always thought I would work until 70. Then I turned 65 and realized it was socially and psychologically acceptable to be unemployed. So five years ago, at 67, I retired in perfect health to our home on Martha’s Vineyard. After thirty years as a private person in public life, I enjoy the solitude of the island. The best part of being retired is the freedom to control my own time. Mary and I visit our son and two grandchildren in Houston every four months or so, although recently it’s been once a month. We cut short our March visit and escaped to MV to avoid COVID-19. I have no tangible indication that I won’t live forever. But I wish I had more hair.”

Joel Barad and friend in New Orleans SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES ’78 Jim Scardino jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

As I am writing this short note, it is early April and the COVID-19 pandemic is approaching a forecast climax. I really hope all of you and your families and friends have come through this event unharmed. And as it is likely June that you are reading this, let’s hope the worst is behind us and that we are reassembling the familiar patterns of our lives. Or maybe embarking on new but pleasant paths, such as the one Mark Kimak described: “I have finally retired and called it quits on the bond trading business. I will be spending November to May each year in Scottsdale, AZ, and would welcome any other alumni in the area to give me a shout and play some golf.” Hey Macker, I usually get to Scottsdale for a visit on the day full squads report to the Giants camp, midFebruary. Let’s plan to connect in 2021! Here is a letter from Tanna Moore. You can tell where the coronavirus interfered with short-term plans (remember the Greek adage about gods laughing at the plans for the future that people make?). “I thought it might be the right time to submit class notes as I am ‘retiring’ from my current role as president & CEO of Meritas. I am now in the process of transitioning to our president-elect and will have my public swan song at our annual meeting in London May 1 [Secretary’s note: Oh those cynical gods! —JS]. A year ago I was fretting over what I would do with myself after working for 42 years, now I can’t wait. I actually prefer to call my next adventure a ‘gap year’ or sabbatical. I have joined the board of Global Minnesota, which will keep me internationally connected [Secty note: By phone and Zoom for at least a while, I suspect! —JS]. My husband Craig and I have brought a new old house that will be a renovation project (which we love), and we actually bought a small RV (the ‘mini Winnie’) to do a bit of North American travel [Secty note: Don’t we long for those days! —JS] with our dog...hopefully visiting lots of friends and staying in dogfriendly hotels.” Tanna, I hope by the time you read this you are on the road to somewhere nice! And a late-breaking note from Peter Lebovitz: “I spent an awesome week in Yellowstone in late 84

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January on a Dartmouth alum trip. Wolves & Wildlife of Yellowstone. Couldn’t have been better.” Go to the ’78 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu to check out the tripcharacter photo Peter sent in! Please take care, everyone, and let me know what you’re up to.

’79 Richard Bowden richard.k.bowden@gmail.com

These notes were compiled in the midst of social distancing. Hopefully we’re all out on the good side of this pandemic as we’re reading. Tom Thomson writes, “Life in retirement has been great. Numerous civic and nonprofit board and other activities in the Richmond and Charlottesville areas keep me busy, and life with Cathy on our ‘farmette’ in Scottsville is idyllic, with extended views to the fields and mountains in every direction. Our last (of four) daughter was married here at home in September, and she and her husband moved to Florida. Her sisters are in Los Angeles, Newbury MA, and Hinsdale IL (Chicago), with four children between them, so our travel is focused on seeing them. May your children also live in interesting places! Seats on several endowment/foundation investment committees keep me acutely attuned to the latest in portfolio theory and performance measurement, in which I received an invaluable grounding from Rogalski and Gultekin at Tuck. Ken French is a rock star in this discipline, and his website is a favorite bookmark of mine. Reach out if you’re ever in the area—Virginia has a lot of history and some damn good wine now, too.” John Taylor writes that “it was great to be back in Hanover the first week of February for the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital board of advisors meeting and the annual CPEVC conference. It was a great conference—one of the largest ever—and always good to catch up with Andy Steele. Ben Butcher was scheduled to be a panelist but, alas, rumor has it he had a better offer in a place where it wasn’t snowing. But you’ll have to ask him about that. (Rumor has it he might have had an invite to play Augusta National,

but that’s a third-hand rumor. Perhaps you can ‘out’ the truth and counsel him on choosing wisely.) I even got a bonus extra night in Hanover because of heavy snow between Hanover and our Burlington, VT, place. We caught up with Mike and Karen McGown and their son Justin for lunch on Christmas Eve day. From their place in Rochester, Vermont, they came to Burlington for some last-minute shopping. We met at a bistro on Church Street, about four blocks from our place. Nanci and I have enjoyed some great skiing both here at Wintergreen Resort in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains (1000’ vertical and darn good snowmaking) and Stowe. The coronavirus uncertainty curtailed our usual westward trip after VA skiing ends, but it was a good season overall.” John Reed writes, “After a few years in Raleigh (getting to see Huismans!) we moved once again. My wife Perry Ann accepted a position as the president of Nicklaus (formerly Miami) Children’s Hospital. We settled in Coral Gables in February, a few days ahead of the Super Bowl. For me the change is simply traveling out of a different airport—with Miami International a short Uber ride away. A longtime friend, Dartmouth fraternity brother, and former Chiefs kicker, Nick Lowery, stayed with us and, after a 50-year break between Super Bowl wins, Chiefs fans went wild!” I’m sure that Ron Miller would agree! Andy Steele wrote to request that I put in a plug for the new alumni programs available online. Webinars, classes, etc. going virtual has its advantages!!

Ron Miller with the job supervisor at Dartmouth’s new indoor practice facility

Ron Miller retired from Butler Manufacturing in November 2019, but not before the Butler Heavy Structures Group provided the structure and roof system for Dartmouth’s new indoor practice facility. Andy Steele and Ron visited the building in late September. Ron’s also opened a consulting gig, Industrial Marketing and Innovation LLC. John Eldredge included a photo of the intrepid 40th reunion hikers. It wasn’t quite the challenge that we’ve come to expect from Mt. Cardigan, but no one wanted to be late for cocktails. And let’s face it—we’re not the intrepid climbers that we used to be. Hopefully we all look well rested because we finished almost before we started.

Darrell Brown, missing his former role as class scribe, couldn’t resist penning a few lines. “The news is that after being in Aspen for a wedding that barely happened last weekend, we are in partial quarantine. Eerily empty town, and the gondola shut down on Sunday. Just like the near-ghost town Aspen was from 1893 until after WWII. The ski areas are shut down, so we are doing more backcountry skiing and spending quality time with my spouse.” That would be Suzanne McNitt—hi, Suzanne!—I was thinking of you as I pass the time with a jigsaw puzzle!

Andy Steele and John Ogden in Irvine, CA

summer house in Cohasset, MA, where we are snuggled in and cranking up the video chat equipment. No real worries yet. “By the time this gets published, we may all be looking back at the bad days or, conversely, looking ahead to worse to come. Be well, and I wish the best for my Tuck colleagues.”

’80 Ned Brooks nedbooks@gmail.com

T’79 40th reunion Cardigan hikers

Joanie de Regt writes, “So in this time of challenge, there was a wedding in Lanai, Hawaii. Our son Kevin, and his bride Libby, both Tuck ’17s. Kip Cleaver and wife Kathi were in attendance. Fabulous event!”

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020 Clark Johnson

And finally, Clark Johnson contributes, “Up until the middle of March, we were living the dream in Fort Myers. After selling my company, I was taking my time enjoying life. I was playing in two different bands and had just done a free concert for about 1,000 people at a state park on the beach (see photo). Also getting into nature photography, since Florida is one of the perfect places to photograph birds, etc., I included one of my cool pictures as well, in case you need something to publish. Kathryn was deeply involved in groups for various fabric arts (spinning, etc.). Kids are great, grandkids are the best ever, all is good.

T’17s Kevin de Regt and bride Libby

“Then COVID-19 became serious, and rather than be around the most vulnerable population imaginable (really old folks who liked to socialize), we bailed out and moved to our

Your new class secretary is learning that this job has one perk—I get to write about myself at the top of the column. Five years ago, I attended our 35th reunion, having donated my kidney ten days previously. I did not know at the time that I would remain involved in the world of transplant advocacy, but soon after I created Donor to Donor, a foundation devoted to helping potential donors to donate effectively, and to find donors for patients in need of a transplant. We now have a team of 30 volunteer donors and recipients across the country, and we have facilitated scores of transplants. In essence, this has become a second career for me; I just wish my first career had been so fulfilling. Please browse our website at https://www.donortodonor.net/. We were scheduled to host the first national volunteer kidney donor advocate conference

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CL ASS NOTES in New York City on April 24, with over 200 volunteer advocates signed up. We have had to postpone that until November. On to your submissions. George Gorman— “Sue & I are finally (almost) empty nesters, as our youngest daughter, Grace, is a junior at Trinity College. Meggie is in her 2nd year at Deloitte (another CPA in the family!) and Jack graduates from NEU in April. Since 2014, I have been serving on the board of the Eaton Vance Funds, for which I chair the audit committee, and previously chaired the compliance committee. I am also on the governing council (and executive & education committees) of the Independent Directors Council since 2016. The IDC advances the education and policy positions of fund independent directors, promoting high standards of fund governance for the benefit and protection of fund shareholders. We meet in DC and I have seen Myla Taylor [Williams] occasionally when there. She’s enjoying retirement. Also, on the volunteer front, since getting new knees, I have done the Boston Children’s Hospital Walk (in memory of our daughter Annie, who was a cardiac patient and died in 2004 when she was 11) for the past several years. I am proud to say that I was among the top 10 individual fundraisers in last year’s walk. Prior to the Eaton Vance Funds, I served on two other mutual fund boards: Bank of America Money Market Funds from 2011-2014 and Ashmore Funds (for which I was lead independent director and audit committee chair) from 2010-2014. I try not to use the ‘R-word’!” Bill Baker— “Still publishing smid-cap growth institutional research and managing smid-cap assets, including models for other investment advisors. Spending some time in Canada in the summer and September, at a boat-access-only spot on a pristine lake 4 or 5 hours north of the border. Just established a presence on the east coast of Florida, where I hope to be about 3 months or so during the colder months next year. Helps that my two boys are at William & Mary (one is a freshman, the other is joining him next fall), so we will be empty nesters.... Have been working to improve my golf game, as what’s left of my limited athletic ability makes pole vaulting out of the question. Can still go down black diamonds, but try to keep away from them.... Trying very hard to develop a sense of humor, reading all the PG Wodehouse I can, but it isn’t working....”

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Chuck Badavas— “Nancy and I both just recently retired: Nancy from teaching 5th grade and me as CFO of True Fit Corp (VC backed e-commerce for apparel and footwear). Although it hasn’t lasted long as she is already substituting and I have picked up a couple of consulting engagements. We hope to spend time with our three kids and their spouses, each with a grandchild spread across Denver, NY, and Charlotte. We are splitting our time between Ipswich, Falmouth, and of course Bermuda. My golf game needs considerable work. Best wishes to all the Tu’80s—awesome group of people.” Rich & Sara McNeil— “We have been living in South Carolina for the last fifteen years still running our software company. We moved to South Carolina because we have gotten into horseback riding and now fox hunting and with the internet we can work wherever we want. Last year was the year of the 50s. We went to Rich’s 50th Dartmouth reunion, and we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to China and Japan in November— apparently just in time.” Scott Sillars— “I’m up in VT visiting with my son Creighton for a few days. Skied Mad River with him; definitely losing my ski legs.” Jeff Karan— Jeff lives in Woodside CA and has two lovely twin daughters: “Both are following their passions: one majoring in women and gender studies at Kenyon College, and the other learning how to act at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles. If you have jobs for either of them, please let me know. Since private colleges are a bit more expensive these days, Carrie and I plan on working through our 90s and retiring comfortably after that. Hope everyone from the Tuck family is well!” Laurie Whittenberger Rasmussen— “My husband (of 38 years and counting) and I sold our business this year, and—after assisting in the transition and sticking around to collect on our non-compete clause—plan to travel in our motor home to visit US & Canadian National Parks. Although we don’t see our grown daughters (ages 29 & 31, pictured) so much anymore, we do enjoy their company on holidays!” Laurie Branch— “At this point, I pretty much only do what I want to do—age has its privileges! These days that means working with the next generation in the family business (now a $1.5B operation), teaching at the undergrad

The Rasmussen family

and graduate level, taking classes whenever I can (especially if it is with Katie Dolan!), and making sure I spend time with the people I love and the people who love me. Feeling incredibly lucky!” Greg Winfield— Greg and Deborah Winfield celebrated Scott Sillar’s 65th birthday here in Philadelphia over oysters and beer. Also in attendance were Scott’s wife Margaret Griffin and her son William. Great fun was had by all. Katie Dolan— Katie Dolan has published another book in her Bella, the Wildlife Ambassador series. The new book is about cougars in Colorado and is particularly timely as cougar/human conflicts increase. She is also conducting workshops on Wildlife and Pets around the state in bookstores. Spring is a particularly vulnerable time for wildlife. Bears emerge from their dens, while cougar kittens begin to hunt with their mothers. Mule deer and elk, including pregnant females, migrate to higher elevations. As more people spend time in wilderness areas, cougar–human/ pet encounters are likely to increase. To live peaceable with wild animals, we all need to learn more about their habits and habitats. Rich Horan— Rich promises full disclosure on his activities, but he tells me that the treatise is going to have to wait until the next newsletter. Rich, we know it will be good. Peter Reed— “After retiring (again) from my community banking job in March 2019, I had the good fortune of being appointed by Governor Phil Scott to the Vermont House of Representatives in January. I represent 5 towns spanning 3 counties, and am learning the ropes on being a citizen legislator. I am one of 5 Independents so that presents its own special challenges, and I’m serving on the health care committee. So far it has been a fascinating experience and I am already strategizing on my fall election campaign!”

Mark Hamlin— “I have stayed in pretty good touch with a core group: mostly Shanley, Rubin (my old first-year roommate), Wilson, Hill, and Kreter. Alec was in our circle but that is sadly no more. See if you can find out what Callahan is doing. I lost touch with her years ago but wish I hadn’t. [Note from Ned—This query surfaces regularly from different classmates: we would all like to know what Jeannie is doing.] Elizabeth and I have lived outside Jackson Hole since 2005. We put our daughter in school in Wyoming in the fourth grade and she never looked back to Ohio, although I still go back to Ohio for work—reporting to my son now. Workwise, I am in the final lap of working a lifetime in manufacturing. Now, I am going into the cattle business my daughter runs in Bondurant, Wyoming. We have a little ranch about an hour from Jackson, Wyoming, where we have Angus beef cows. Rubins and Shanleys have visited and are now our direct beef customers!” “Please note to the class that we are huge fans of Dave Jeffrey’s Calluna cabernet wine.”

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

As to your correspondent, here in northeastern Ohio, we are all well. In fact, we are seeing how the erstwhile liability of living in a not very exciting—but leafy and spacious—Midwestern suburb turns into an asset, in the present situation. (We have a very, very well-walked dog.) Working from home is what I’ve done for years, so no issue there (it’s the Revenge of the Introverted!); and Ida is by day teaching cello lessons online (and in the evenings using her vintage Pfaff sewing machine to create batches of masks for the medical community). Our two local offspring bring us supplies, and soon it will be time for garden work—the local flora has no concern for any human complaint. We won’t apologize for the brevity of this column: if this isn’t a case of force majeure, what is? But we will ask all of you, after you read this, to take the time to drop us a line. A brief haiku or an epic poem, with or without photos—we don’t care. Just write. I think all of your classmates will want to know how you are weathering, or maybe have weathered, this particular storm. With a greater emphasis on our closing words than ever before: take care, stay healthy, and be good!

I received many notes from our classmates indicating their intent to attend Fred’s memorial service. Please remember Fred and his family in your thoughts and prayers in the coming months. Turning to other news, I heard from Tom McInerney about becoming a first-time grandparent. He highly recommends it! He makes it up to Hanover twice a year as a Tuck Board of Advisors member representing our class. He reports Dean Slaughter is doing a fantastic job leading Tuck. His youngest of 3 daughters, Kelsey, is a Tuck 2021 and accepted an internship in NYC. (I wonder how all those experiences are going to happen in a world of distance learning and virtual classes???) He reminded her how all we did was study in 1980-82—except for an occasional adult beverage at ‘Tails (or was it “Tales”?). Ellen and Sarge have certainly been busy! They reported they “...have married off two kids, sold our house in Massachusetts, moved to a rental in Norwich, Vermont, changed jobs, and put an offer in on a house in Hanover! Ellen joined GW Plastics in Bethel, VT, as head of finance, and I am consulting for defense and aerospace companies. Life is good!”

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Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

Andy Rieth riethba@welchpkg.com

Hello from a very quiet Shaker Heights, Ohio. By the time you read this, the virus situation will surely have unfolded in any number of ways which we won’t even try to forecast. But here in early April, as in much of the rest of the world, the Tuck ’81 news’n’gossip machine is on pause. (I had to lay off Tony, and he did not take it well!) We did receive a tiny trickle of news, but we’ll hold that aside for now: let’s face it, we could write much more about all the places Tuck ’81s are not going, than about the places they are going. Costco, rather than the Galapagos. We do expect this will change, and hope that happens soon, though maybe—for a while at least—all of us will be staying closer to home, even after this is over. During this time we suspect you are all keeping in touch with each other more often than might have been the case before, so you don’t necessarily need to hear from us.

With the global COVID-19 pandemic threatening our economy and our culture, I hope I can provide a brief distraction from the tumult. It has certainly been a bumpy ride and I hope this column will help us to connect in a “virtual” way. I must, however, start on a somber note by remembering the passing of our friend and classmate, Fred Smith. Fred left us on November 19, 2019, in Natick after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer. We remember Fred and Lisa as recent newlyweds when they arrived at Tuck. They brought 3 children into the world. Remembering our days in the shadow of Mount Moosilauke, Fred was an accomplished mountaineer and led many hikes as part of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Professionally, Fred served as the financial officer for many entrepreneurial companies.

The Bullions with their daughter Elissa at her wedding

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CL ASS NOTES ’83 Chris Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Doug Ross doug@ragnoassociates.com

I [Chris] am compiling these notes while the nation is dealing with COVID-19. My wish is that all of you and your families are safe and well. Ellen Bullion dancing with son Matthew at his wedding

Mark Bobesine and Heidi Hild Sommers

The Savadoves continued their globetrotting right up until the pandemic, returning in March from Japan. Prior to that, Gary shared, “...Meredith and I continue to pursue our passion for travel and learning about new cultures. Particularly memorable were a few weeks in Bhutan this past October. What a unique and fabulous country and culture! The scenery is beyond spectacular, the food is simple, yet delicious, but the real highlight for us was the people. They live a simple but rich and contented life, and exude a genuine warmth. Very refreshing...a true Shangrila. And, all the stuff about Gross National Happiness isn’t marketing, it’s real! Highly recommended for all adventurous Tuckies.”

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Tuck group in Portland, ME, after the wedding of Clare Boland

Archie Smith would like to report that he and his partner finished fourth in the 65- to 70-year-old age bracket at the US National Doubles Squash Tournament held recently in Minneapolis. While friends have pointed out that there are a couple of “asterisks” to consider here, Archie feels under no obligation to report those and is comfortable with a fourth-place finish in such a prestigious event. Fourth is fourth, as he likes to say. But upon being pressed for details on the finish by that relentless truth-seeker, Chris Heger Cahn, Archie reluctantly filled in a few of the details. There were 5 teams in the bracket. Archie feels that his team’s entry scared off a large number of other teams that might have signed up otherwise. And he is quick to point out that a fourth-place finish indicates that his team won one of its four matches...and a win at the national level is a very big thing! That said, it is rumored (although yet to be confirmed) that one of their opponents in that match did not arrive in time to complete the match, resulting in a DQ, or disqualification. After winning the first game, Archie is sure that they would have prevailed in the match regardless of whether a DQ might or might not have happened.... Trophies have been ordered online to celebrate this great accomplishment! When not playing squash, Archie finds himself trying to keep up w/wife U.S. Senator Tina Smith (Tuck ’84). He claims to be tired even though she is doing all of the work! He continues to fly-fish and dive (SCUBA) all over the world (heading to Tahiti shortly for a week of the latter). When not pursuing those activities, Archie enjoys managing a portfolio of perfectly undiversified microcapitalization medical device stocks. Can you spell V-O-L-A-T-I-L-I-T-Y??????

Tuck group in Westbrook, CT, after the wedding of Laurel Clark

Bob Hannah reminds us of the large band of friends he gained at Tuck. In Bob’s words: “Due to Tuck, a great group of friends met, and over the past 36 years we have been in regular contact. The Bolands, Clarks, Eldreds, Grand Pres, Hannahs, Kirchgessners, MacIntoshes, and Oakmans have watched our families grow over this time frame (20 children across the 8 families). We are now at a very special stage regarding our kids—one by one, they are finding tremendous people to marry. Three of the 20 were married in 2015, and three more were married over just 6 weeks in 2019.” The dates of the most recent happy occasions are as follows—September 6, 2019: Clare Boland, in Portland, ME; October 5, 2019: Colin Hannah, in Asheville, NC; October 19, 2019: Laurel Clark, in Westbrook, CT. Bob noted that the past year was an extremely happy time for this gang of friends, as each celebration became a minireunion. See the photo of those couples who were able to attend the Boland wedding in Portland and the Clark wedding in Westbrook. Charlie Crane sent the following update: “Life is amazing!! By the time you read this, Paula

I hope life will return to some semblance of “normal” by the time this column is published. I am thankful my family is safe and healthy. I know I am fortunate to have food and shelter; good friends, neighbors & work colleagues; a spiritual community; technology connecting us while isolated; first responders who do amazing work; and beautiful places nearby to walk and explore. I heard from only two classmates this time around. Tom Ley and family hosted David McGarry and his two children for Thanksgiving 2019 in Orinda, CA. True to form, Tom offered no other details! Back row (left to right): Michael McDonnell, Christina Louis, Gary Cahn, Chris Cahn, Tom Bauer, Chris Jones, Mike Lauber, Elizabeth Lauber, Chris Mahoney, Jenny Johnson Pattullo, Scott Pattullo, Meghan Duggan. Front row (left to right): Amanda Walbridge, Charlotte Johnson, Danny Dearing, Molly West Dearing, Jamie Mittelman, Sara Mahoney, Gill Apps, Brent West and Tina West.

a decade as Visa’s senior associate general counsel in San Francisco, where we travel often. It feels great to be gearing up for the next few decades and the opportunities they will bring. I have never felt so happy and alive! Dreams really do come true.”

Charlie and Paula Crane

and I will have celebrated our second wedding anniversary on the remote island of Petit St. Vincent in the West Indies. No phones, no TV, no Internet for two weeks...just blissful time alone with my brilliant and beautiful wife on a tiny speck somewhere in the middle of the sea. We married on May 5, 2018, at The Pratt House in NYC, a perfect evening with family and friends...including Clint and Becky Marshall and their three kids. We live in midtown Manhattan and being in the city 24/7 is incredibly exciting in so many ways. We have closed down many a restaurant and routinely dance in our kitchen until the wee hours of the morning...we can verify that the city never sleeps!” On the professional side, Charlie wrote, “I am still at Douglass Winthrop Advisors, serving as the firm’s operating partner. Paula is pursuing entrepreneurial interests after more than

We have a follow-up item to news we shared in the last issue regarding the wedding of Tina and Brent West’s daughter, Molly West (T’19), to Danny Dearing, and that item is a group photo of the Tuckies from the classes of 1983 and 2019 (and more) who attended the wedding. We believe you will be able to identify in the photo which attendees were from the class of 1983! Many thanks to the contributors to this column. Be safe and healthy and a happy spring and summer to all of you. —Chris and Doug

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

I am writing this in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been challenging to process the rapid changes in our lives since early March—I feel like we are living in a sci-fi version of the film Groundhog Day, each day waking up to the same weird reality and trying to sort out which day of the week it is.

Tom Ley and David McGarry

John Voltmer has officially retired, but takes one aerospace/defense consulting engagement per year just so he can buy the latest toys. His wife, Carole, retired from the Central Intelligence Agency and became a Florida Master Gardener. Their Amelia Island house became quite a showplace, but its upkeep required the same amount of time as full employment. John and Carole sold it, along with their Virginia home, and now live in just one home in Dallas. Their oldest daughter, Chever, recently retired from the State Department after postings in Poland, Guyana, Russia, Ecuador, The War College, Bosnia, Ukraine, and Estonia. (OK, now I feel really old, now that the child of a classmate has retired!). Chever lives in the greater DC area and is director of plastics for the Ocean Conservancy (Does anybody want to buy a floating island?). She has more frequent-flyer miles than John ever earned while working for Booz-Allen. Middle daughter, Sabra, is CEO of a group of 11 health-care clinics in San Francisco serving underrepresented populations. She gets to rub elbows with the elites of the Democratic party. Youngest daughter, Alicia, is a lawyer in Dallas. SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES She released her first book, The Rise of Lady Justice (available on Amazon) about a lawyer who wakes up dead (see her book cover photo nearby). In February she planned to climb to the Mt. Everest base camp in Nepal.

Alicia Voltmer’s book cover photo

I hope that you and your family and friends stay healthy, safe and comfortable during these unusual times.

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

35TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Like all of us, I am writing this column under a Stay At Home order without any optimism about where we are headed. My last-minute appeal for news proved fruitful and I loved connecting personally with all of you (#ILoveMyJob)! We have the most awesome class with people who change the world—some globally, some locally. Read on.... Let’s start with two COVID-related reports, so I can end with happier news. Giles Chance reports, “Ying and I are holed-up in our French chateau. We are so isolated that when we put our clocks back instead of forward last weekend for summertime, it took us several hours to discover we had made a mistake and had been on our own time! Ying and I went to Beijing on January 13th to stay with my wife’s father over Chinese New Year. We saw the 90

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coronavirus drama unfold on Chinese TV and Chinese social media. We managed to get a plane out, to Munich on Air China on February 1st, which left, completely full, an hour late at 0320am (yes, in the middle of the night) after a Chinese man had been taken off the plane, with his luggage. The Chinese authorities discovered he had already been turned back at London Heathrow airport with a temperature and was trying to reach the UK by a different route.” Kevin Wenck is a coronavirus survivor! His story is long, but my word count is limited so I will have to paraphrase. He started a wineimporting company in 2017 (“If any of you are bored in retirement, I recommend you stay bored!”). In October 2019 he had 5 containers on their way to the US when wine tariffs were announced in retaliation for Europe subsidizing Airbus—immediately making his holiday wines more expensive. Then Kevin decided to visit some suppliers in France and Germany in February ’20, as the initial reports on coronavirus weren’t causing him much concern. One of his suppliers invited him to a wine-tasting event in Alsace. From here it’s best to let Kevin tell the story. “When I arrived, I was startled to see a huge mob of people in a convention center in Strasbourg, as there were around 300 wineries pouring wines at the event. I was pretty freaked out and only spent about 20 minutes there to taste the supplier’s new vintages and quickly left. Five days later when I was scheduled to fly home, I also still felt ok and thought that maybe I was safe from having been exposed to the huge mob of people in Strasbourg. On my first night back in San Francisco, however, I started to experience the dry cough that was already unfortunately pretty well publicized at that point. The next night the intermittent fevers and chills started along with an acutely painful headache. I was then completely debilitated and disoriented for three days before the headache and the fever and chills finally stopped. After the acute symptoms went away, I initially felt ‘better’ until I realized that I was horribly fatigued by the whole experience. It took about two weeks after that to finally feel pretty much back to normal, but I now feel very fortunate, given the severe complications that others are unfortunately experiencing. I knew enough already during the experience to know that I needed to stay isolated for the additional two weeks when I was recovering, but my wife unfortunately also ended up with a somewhat more mild experience of

the same thing. Both of us are fine now and are also strictly staying at home other than weekly trips out for groceries. I did contact all of my suppliers that I visited on the trip, and fortunately every one of them has continued to be well other than the Alsace supplier, who had an experience similar to mine. Alsace, however, unfortunately turned into one of the coronavirus ‘hotspots’ in France and so I’m left to wonder how many people may have been infected at the wine-tasting event. I still seem to be enjoying what I am doing with my wine-importing company but, as mentioned at the start of this, if you are bored not working, maybe that isn’t all that bad!” Salil Tripathi hasn’t had coronavirus (as of this writing) but has written a report on “coronavirus and the human-rights challenges it poses for governments and business” while working for the Institute for Human Rights and Business. He is back in America, in NYC, after 33 years away in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and London. Since September he “attended a wedding in India, has taught in Norway, spoke on human rights at the UN in Geneva, went to Paris on work twice, and passed through Madrid.” (Wait what?? “Spoke on human rights at the UN in Geneva”!!). When he’s not speaking, “I am on my couch daily, frantically trying to finish the manuscript of my next book—on Gujaratis, the Indian community, about who we are and why we are the way we are, and writing for other publications—and looking forward in summer 2021 to handing over to my successor as the chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee (where my second and final term ends, and mercifully, there are term limits). That it will be PEN’s centenary year gives me the added bonus of getting to hang out at the celebrations with the likes of Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and others.” Salil—how many books have you written? When do you sleep? “I have avoided the dreadful virus so far, though I am in Brooklyn, surrounded by the sounds of sirens. We are going through a heartbreakingly challenging time; I have faith in human ingenuity to discover the vaccine, and look forward to better tomorrows for all of us, but I am acutely aware of the randomness and fragility of life. I have been in touch with Kate Laud on the phone, and Donna Schmiedel Stockman has been amazing in guiding me about the New York real estate market. It was a joy to meet Patrick Durkin and his lovely wife Kristen at an event on gender empowerment where Kristen spoke.” He ended his note saying he’ll see us all at Reunion!

Patrick Durkin and wife Kristen with Salil Tripathi at an event on gender empowerment

Now for some more traditional updates. Pat Maloney is building a house in Huntsville, AL, and hopes “it will be finished the same time this is all over.” Lou Taylor sent me a picture of Kevin Holian and Tom Christie at the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club in Scotland in September. The three of them and Pete McManus are planning a return trip this September!

Tom Christie and Kevin Holian at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club (with Lou Taylor behind the camera)

Bret Bero reported that he and Maynard Southard recently sold their company ECHO Industries, Inc. (“a small 95-year-old worn-out manufacturing business in Western Massachusetts”) in December, which they had bought about 25 years ago. From Maynard: “Talk about great timing—better lucky than good! Maynard worked ‘balls to the wall’ for the 5 weeks from first contact with the seller Thanksgiving week to a 5 pm close on New Year’s Eve. Maynard and I have had a great business partnership—and it is all due to his meeting my wife while they were waiting in a line (she was covering for me as I was in a different line) for some administrative reason at Tuck on the Sunday before the first day of classes. Maynard has retired (?) near Dartmouth but is keeping busy as the scorekeeper for a lot of

Dartmouth’s varsity athletic events. I am in my 4th year as a full-time faculty member at Babson College teaching undergraduate and graduate students Strategy, Management Consulting, Leading Business Turnarounds, and Disruptive Change and Enterprise Transformation. My son, Brad, got engaged last fall and, COVID-19 permitting, the wedding will be this September in Cincinnati. We have entered the stage of life where we are watching the next generation get married—Joan and I have 7 weddings to attend this summer.” Bret added his own spin: “We presented our lenders with generous projected sales growth, lean manufacturing plans, acquisition targets and a well-crafted vision statement. JBQ would be proud! Of course, reality never matched our vision, but we kept our cool and rode a pretty good wave until this past December, when we sold our little business. We’ve joked about writing a book titled Success in Declining Industries or something like that. Best of all, we have been good friends all along the way.” Reed Bergwall is “back in the Upper Valley full-time and just finished managing construction of a spectacular new field house for Dartmouth. We finished just under the wire before Covid really hit...and now we don’t have any athletes to use this great facility. Next up— some much-needed full-gut res hall renovations over the next several years. Still loving what I do. Gretchen Rittenhouse, Maynard Southard, and I all caught up with Giles Chance for a beer at Murphy’s last fall when Giles was on campus teaching at Tuck. I missed Di Daych when she was at Tuck for a presentation, but I get to see her in summer on the CT shore.”

Reed Bergwall, Maynard Southard, Ethan Wright (Don Wright’s son), and Don Wright after a Dartmouth/ Princeton basketball game. Ethan is a starter and Maynard was the official scorer. Photo: Andy Steele

Dow Wilson, like everyone, says they are “hunkered down, waiting out the Covid surge. Otherwise life is good. We have 5

grandchildren now. One of the grandkids is at Sachem Village. His dad, Abraham, is our second child to go to Tuck and is loving it. I’m still enjoying being CEO at Varian, though the gyrations of this market are crazy...I think we’ve had greater than +-5% volatility in our stock price in something like 15 of the last 18 days. But we are doing well and enjoying a bit simpler life now for a bit. With a little luck, we look forward to seeing everybody in the fall.” Barb Thistle now lives in Stamford with her two dogs, Ellie and Bridget, “and am loving the peace. I have two beautiful grandsons, Henry (2 1/2) and George (7 months). My daughter, son-in-law Ben, and the boys live in Cornwall, VT. I am busy with my volunteer work for church serving as treasurer for my congregation. I am also on the national board for our women’s group, Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, serving on the budget and finance committee. I also teach Pilates part time. And my passion still continues to be ballroom dancing. I especially love competing.” (See Barb’s photo nearby!)

Barb Thistle in competitive ballroom dancing

Tore [Rynning-]Nielsen says, “All well in Norway, short and mild winter, and now this. Schools closed March 8 but have in a very effective way been able to convert to online platforms. Hope numbers start to turn towards end of April. I am sending you some pictures in separate mails; both from the very successful Tuck Dartmouth 250 Summit in London, and from last year’s Tuck graduation, where I received the Distinguished Achievement Medal, another win for the class of 1985! Looking forward to October, have already been in touch with other classmates, had a nice chat with Jed Davis and Paul Solli last week, Alison Hefele [Bonney] is also ready, and Bill Wells I emailed with recently.” From Craig Froelich: “All is good here. Jake and Matt are both here quarantining with us. SUMMER 2020

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Tore with Professor Ken Baker at Investiture 2019, after receiving the Distinguished Achievement Medal

Skaneateles has 4 cases, Greater Syracuse 20+. I am walking and exercising multiple hours per day but still gaining weight. Need better control on inputs. Stay safe and wash your hands.” John Weston says that he and Jayne “are doing good considering the circumstances. All the days blur together with home quarantine—I started 2 new businesses in the last two weeks... at least in my head :). Can’t ski, can’t surf, can’t sail, but getting my jogs and home weight routine in whenever I can. Shout out to all Tuck bros—you have 6 months to get in shape before Reunion—no excuses. On a more serious note, I started my semi-retirement phase Jan 1. Sold one company but still have good teams running other two—I need smart guys like Fred M, Craig F, and Bill W to show me the way to full exit!” I recently spent a fun afternoon with Laura Robertson, who had been presenting at a medical conference in Miami. She’s not practicing anymore (remember she became a pediatric cardiologist) but is now the medical director at clinical research at Cytokinetics, Inc. She is “designing and running international clinical trials of new drugs for heart failure.” And just texted me this morning that she has volunteered for California’s statewide COVID-19 medical response!! On another fun note, Spence Fitzgibbons and I hosted a Girls weekend here in Florida in mid-February, just before the COVID sh*t hit the fan. Lisa Bush Hankin came all the way from LA, to share her birthday with us. She and Steve Hankin have lived there for the past 5 years. She has returned to her first love, horse-riding competition! A few months ago, the two of them, along with 3 other West Coast equestrian families, purchased the Desert 92

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international Horse Park and its associated horse show circuits in Thermal, CA, and Tucson, AZ. As Spence pointed out, her laugh and humor hasn’t changed in 35 years! Judy Holmes flew in from her cabin in Montana, with stories of peace and quiet and snow piled up over her roof, and photos of her 18-monthold puppy, Gretel—a spirited St. Bernard. She continues to be a professional nature and wildlife photographer represented by a stock agency, but it’s not all-consuming anymore. After 32 winters of hosting friends and relatives at ski areas, she took the season off and relished the time to explore the Yellowstone Club. Jim Progin (Tuck Class of ‘62) spent the winter split between the warmer climates of Sanibel and the Greenbrier. Di Daych somehow managed to steal away from her deal-making to slow down a bit. She is the co-founder of Granite Growth Health Partners, a growth equity firm exclusively focused on health-services companies. When not making deals, she was fretting about both her kids being (at the time) in COVID hot spots (NYC and Italy). And Leonora Jungerwirth Polonsky took a wellneeded and more-than-deserved 2-day break from taking care of both her parents to come drink wine by the pool with us (photo nearby), on top of her international consulting on brand management at her eponymous company. Spence maintained a safe distance, avoiding any chance of a #MeToo moment, but opened many bottles of wine for us! We made plans to gather again for our Reunion in October!

Laura Brown Fitzgibbons, Leonora Jungerwirth Polonsky, Judy Holmes, Lisa Bush Hankin, and Diane Daych in Naples, FL

So, I’ll end with Mike Murphy’s short and sweet note: “We are well. Planning to see everyone in October at Reunion. Hopefully by then we will have had enough of this social distancing stuff. Looking forward to see everyone in Hanover!!” Well said, Mike. Well said.

’86 Tony Ehinger tonyehinger@gmail.com

Julia Rabkin juliamrabkin@gmail.com

We were happy to receive submissions from a few classmates and hope that others of you will be spurred to action at the next opportunity. George Stromeyer provided the following update: “Well, it was another multicontinent year for me shaping the business at Barco, Inc., which stretched my travel limits (again), and our home/life balance while still exposing new dimensions of leadership to take forward and exciting technology innovations to navigate thru. My internal tensions have grown between being a stimulation junkie and an introvert who restores himself with time in the big outdoors with Katharina, reading/ studying/doing piloting and family time. Some alternatives have now sprouted that we need to go figure out together in the coming months. [Look on the 1986 class-notes page at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic of Katharina and George!] “As a family, we took our biggest decision in a long time by making a completely unplanned purchase of property in Patagonia—several thousand acres of undeveloped, mountainous range land that offers limitless opportunities for recreation, adventure, natural conservation, and a limited amount of cattle grazing. This came our way unexpectedly through friends, and the unique conditions of depressed land prices in Argentina made the unimaginable possible. “Conceiving the purchase as a multigenerational family project of land stewardship, what won us all over is the remoteness and natural beauty of its diverse ecosystems, which range from riverfront ‘beaches,’ to a high mountain range, some classic Patagonia steppe mixed with scattered lush, spring and stream fed grasslands and isolated forest plots. With nothing except border fences in place, we have begun the journey of building some infrastructure, beginning with housing for a caretaker and a road to access the property. Named La Catalina, our motto for the property is the Benedictine ‘All Are Welcome’ and we

look forward to sharing this with family and friends!”

too far in Somerville by yourself, and now it is quite gentrified.

Fresh from the surprise birthday party her husband, Jamie, recently threw for her in NYC, KK Kamerschen Streator noted: “To say I was surprised would be an understatement—as you will see, I was wearing a dirndl (WHY?! Suffice it to say I still have a sense of humor and thought it would be highly amusing for a 60year-old to show up at the restaurant I thought I was attending wearing a $20 thrift store dirndl....) At any rate, many of my nearest and dearest did surprise me, including a sizeable Tuck contingent: Nancy and Mark Davis (’85), Debi Brooks, Stacey Brenner and Kathleen Galvin, as well as Tom Melly (’85). It would be fair to say a good time was had by all...even though Nancy looks like she’s searching for an escape route in one of the photos. At some point, Kathleen and I thought it would be a good idea to resurrect the ‘chihuahua’—a ‘dance’ we originated in Tuck Mall that involves getting down on all fours and yipping (ideally to Madonna songs). As we aged, our families made us SWEAR we’d never do it in public... but once in a very RARE while, the ‘tabletop’ version makes an appearance. (We did actually engage in the ‘full’ chihuahua, but I’m only sending tabletop photos—much more publicly acceptable AND our families won’t disown us.”

“I have left Molnlycke, have done consulting, and am looking for my ‘next thing.’ I want to stay in Maine if possible and am taking my time, especially now, to find something that I really want to do. In the meantime I am still skiing, riding my bike, and getting up to camp as much as I can. “I stay in touch with Bill Talbot and he is doing well although nerve-wracking, as his wife Mary is a nurse. Bill notes that she has him chained to his home office chair and periodically douses him with bleach! Alain Leray and family are doing well, and other than becoming a curmudgeon, oh wait a minute—he always was, he is doing well! “I do have to tell you that after a few years of ‘hints,’ Jean finally convinced me that we should go to Antarctica. We went for two weeks in Dec 2019 and it was fantastic. Penguins, elephant seals, killer whales, several types of other whales, and plenty of birds. Scenery is impossible to explain or show through pictures—so vast and untouched. I am grateful we went, and if anyone is even thinking about it they should go.” By the time this is published, we hope that the current crisis is over, and that all classmates and their families are safe and healthy!

’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Mark, Nancy, Kathleen, Stacey, KK, and Debi

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enjoyed meeting some other Tuckies. George writes, “I struck up a conversation w/ a guy who’d obviously done very well in real estate development, who was talking about how great travel experiences were. I agreed and said that I was excited about finally getting to take my family to Europe this summer for the first time. He looked puzzled and asked why we hadn’t gone before.” George had to remind him that some people (even Tuck graduates) need to work for a living a bit longer than others. George switched jobs late last year to 8x8, a cloud communications company in Campbell, CA (enterprise voice, video, etc.). He leads competitive intelligence, which is rather like being a spy, he explains to his almost adult kids. Chip Connor wins the prize for transitioning from an extremely overwhelming international tour to staying at home and not going anyplace beyond the backyard porch. In the fortnight starting in mid-March, he canceled trips to cancelled trips to Azerbaijan, Canada, Iceland, Georgia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. A planned trip to South Africa is on hold. I [Steve] do confess that I go into work every day to lessen demand on the internet at home and because I see fewer people at work these days. That is the extent of my travel here in the Upper Valley. All courses at Tuck have been taught online this spring, and faculty, by and large, are teaching from home offices when they can. Of the students I have spoken to, they say the experience is pretty decent; Tuck faculty have figured out how to get up to speed quickly on Zoom and are adapting their courses to this new channel of distribution. The content is still informative and useful. The job market for the kids without is going to be tight, but we still learn of companies recruiting and those that are preparing for the post–COVID-19 world and not cutting ties to this talented labor source.

steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

Jim Detert reported in from the woods in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: “Things are good in Maine. Jean and I are at the same location in Brunswick with horses, dogs and chickens—a ‘hobby farm.’ Coming in handy during the current crisis as easy to self-isolate and we have an abundance of eggs every day! Son William is a commercial fisherman making his way. Our daughter Hillary is living in Somerville, MA, and working for a pharma company in Cambridge. Ironic for me as when I lived there (Tufts) you did not want to go out

What a strange time? At the writing of this column, we do not know that state of the world. There could be signals of clairvoyance among these notes, or they may just seem insignificant depending on the direction the world took between submission and printing. So we proceed with some caution and awareness of the uncertainty of our times.

I’ve heard of a couple of Zoom meetups taking place among our classmates. Some at cocktail hour, some early in the morning, and some to discuss the markets. The very talented technologists among us have figured out how to present an alternative background to their Zoom account and project themselves with full heads of hair, no dark roots, and 20 pounds lighter than a month ago.

George Liddle finally attended a Tuck Alumni Mountain View get-together before Christmas—there were no T’87s there, but he

Art Santry was sighted off the coast of Newport RI piloting one of his ocean racers. It was a cold morning as the temperature inversion brought SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES a fog bank, the size and density of which had not seen since Steve Frary was seen piloting HIS sailboat out of the harbor for a trek around the world with his family. Steve’s specific location is not known, but they are all alive and much wiser according to Facebook and Instagram. The purpose of Art’s clandestine cruise is still unknown, as he expertly avoided all shoreline law-enforcement personnel (should we expect anything less from Art?) but with the run on RI-based liquor stores, and Art’s known love for cabernets, one might expect he was bringing in some bootlegged hooch. Bill (Smokey) Weihs was supposed to have a long-anticipated lunch with Noel, Scott Page, and Jonathan just before the virus shut down restaurants in Boston. Smokey and Maureen are hunkering down with our “baby Katherine (HS Jr), who has WAY TOO MUCH time on her hands! Hopefully this will change in the near future...! This week she took up learning the piano and now we’re not sure which is worse!!” Connor (Cone) O’Brien is passing time up in Tremblant at one of his many homes. He acknowledges the good things about staying at home, some of which include having the kids back for extra family time, not having to travel to places you don’t want to visit, and the chance to reconnect with old friends on Zoom for virtual cocktails, and having extra time to respond to class-notes requests. Cone (CEO) is still tenaciously working with Shark Tank persona Kevin O’Leary to promote his app: BEANSTOX. It’s reported that they had to chase him off the mountain as ski lift operators attempted to shut the place down for the season. Speaking of the slopes, Keith Oberg is spending a lot more time up at Killington with Leeny and the family and it’s a virtual blast almost seeing him many times over. Alain Karaoglan reminded us all to watch the Queen’s speech (April 6th)—simple message and resolute leadership. (Art—that is Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. You know, the short lady with the colorful hats.) And by way of Felicia we are dusting off a December note from Andrea Ploss O’Neill (from around Christmas we think) reporting that Andrea and Noel went to a live Wagner performance w/Yoshi and Emi when they were

in town. Yoshi had never been to a concert of this magnitude before and it was super-special. Now, not surprisingly when Felicia writes I never really know the details behind the story... Is she referring to Dick Wagner—a journeyman guitarist for Alice Cooper and Kiss? No, I don’t think that’s Yoshi’s taste in music. Or maybe it’s the Johnny Wagner band complete with Austrian cowbells, accordions, and yodeling. Yes, I’d like to see Yoshi yodel, as would all of you I suspect, but that’s not it either. Most likely it was Richard Wagner best known for (and I hope they played it) the Ride of the Valkyries. Maybe Felicia could be a bit more accurate with her news reports next time to save us all from this unfortunate speculation. Lenny Jardine is a grandfather again and looking very much like Ernie Hemingway, but Felicia reported that, so maybe Lenny just got a puppy, or a haircut. Again...I am not so sure. Chris Belnap is running a manufacturing plant and thus, as an essential worker, he and his team are wicked busy. His son Matt is half way through his BU MBA at night school. You gotta have a lot of respect for a kid who can go to work all day and then study at night. Chris’s daughter Maggie is now in NYC, having moved from Washington, and another daughter (Tess) is at Williams. Jed Simmons is a teaching down at Duke and UNC, which puts him in the enviable position of being able to opine of the relative nonbasketball strengths of the two rival programs. At one institution he’s a “visiting professor,” while at another he is a “professor.” Same guy. Same content. Jed’s teaching classes on entrepreneurship. I am logging onto class number 6—how to return the investment capital your friends lost when they invested in your idea (ouch...I know—wicked low blow). I caught a glimpse of Sean Joyce, who is back at PWC, looking pretty lean and clean. I am pretty sure that guy could still do 200 pushups while doing bond math. Not that he did that exactly as a student, but it would make good lore. If you have not read James Comey’s book, you should. It’s well written, regardless of how you think about that mess, and Sean is mentioned in a very favorable way throughout. I wonder how many of us are on the other side

of that retirement divide and how many of us as still scrambling over that wall? I heard from Meaney, and he reminded me that he has been living on the other side of that wall for a lot of years now. Not that I regret my career choices. I love working at Tuck, but when you decide to work in Hanover, NH, for a nonprofit you do leave a bit of earning potential on the table. That said, the things I have in life that I value the most—my wife, my children, my family— all happened in large part because this is where our lives started and thrived. You cannot put that in the bank. Felicia and Mike Angus joined Lourdes and Milt on a sailing trip around the Dry Tortugas, before COVID-19 had really hit full blast. It was a splendid 58 ft catamaran. “Totally great to be off the grid for a week and getting the chance to see one of the US’s most remote national parks. A few weeks later Lourdes and Milt left their Miami digs for their house in Vt. They said the entire trip up they were in the company of cars w/Canadian plates...all the snowbirds being called home so they don’t get sick down here. “Mike and I have been working from home now for 4 full weeks. We got our kids moved out of NYC...my son to our shore house and my daughter is here w/us (with a boyfriend). Everyone WFH. Having them around has been the positive of all this.” Fortunately Felicia and Mike have not yet downsized their home (as was planned), and there is room enough for everybody to be working w/out getting on each other, and it’s in a great, low-traffic neighborhood. “So come 1 pm or whenever kids are done the homeschooling, it’s fun to watch them all biking or running w/ their folks from my office windows.” Bill Kitchel stopped by Hanover and camped out at the Lubrano house for the weekend with the full family in tow. He and Elizabeth were up visiting their daughter, a freshman at Dartmouth, before all the hullabaloo. Kitch is still managing the Millrace Asset group and has posted some attractive returns since the inception of his fund in 2001. Check it out, as he is ready to discuss strategies to get back into the markets. Kitch, by the way and quite noticeably, still has the same bouffant he had back in the late ’80s, and from a guy who lost his ‘fro to a migration path south from his head I have to say that I was a bit jealous. A selfless plug for all of us to remember the Bill

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Buckingham Scholarship, which would benefit greatly from your donation. I understand that Brian Nash is painting quite prolifically and taking requests. Check out his site—easy to find. Though my taste in art has only slightly moved from what is now considered the vintage and collectible velveteen dogs playing poker, I find Brian’s work to be fun, playful, and likely to brighten up your habitat. From the site: “His popular and pop cultureinspired paintings boast inventive takes on placement, proportion and perspective.” I continue to get my regular distribution of wine from Big Basin, Wendy Brown’s vineyard, during our stay-at-home restrictions. Between cases of Kim Crawford we will every so often drink a vintage that lingers a bit longer on the palate and goes well with something other than Cheerios. The best food delivery deal in Hanover right now is Lou’s. Yes, the home of the $12 breakfast sandwich now offers the best value for a family meal, with curbside takeout. The place is now owned and operated by a Tuck graduate who loved Hanover so much that he simply did not wish to leave after graduation and wanted to get involved with a local business to sustain the character of this town we love so much. The other Tuck-inspired business that has slightly pivoted is Zippity—a mobile car-care company founded by Tuck grads. The business is simple. Everybody (almost) has a car, and cars need to be serviced. But who likes to take time from work or on weekends for these mundane tasks? In our family, we have six cars each over 100k, so they need a lot of attention. So whaddya do? You drive to work, tell Zippity where your car is, they pick it up, service it, and return it to the site. You go to your car at the end of the day and drive home with a restored vehicle. Simple and genius, and now that people are not going to work, Zippity will go to your home. All you folks looking to invest some big capital in a good idea with a solid management team—check out Zippity, and talk to Ed. And at the Lubrano house, we have all now joined Allegra for her online hot Pilates class at 6 am. It’s not as hot as the studio, but for all you former footballers this stuff really has legs. I do hip thrusts better than Jane Fonda; on a weekly basis I am adding minutes to my planking, and I have new appreciation for the

rhythmic thumping of electronic techno-beat background music...kind of like being in a Montreal bar with Cone at 1:00 am. Anyway, by next Reunion I plan to show you all my one-pack abs. I am reminded that our class suffered through 1987’s Black Monday, and many of us were impacted. A little walk through history.... “In the days between October 14 and October 19, 1987, major indexes of market valuation in the United States dropped 30 percent or more. On October 19th the Dow plummeted 508 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. The S&P 500 dropped 20.4%, falling from 282.7 to 225.06. This was the greatest loss Wall Street had ever suffered on a single day to that point. Markets rallied on October 22nd and within 2 years all the losses were wiped out.” Seems kind of quaint right now as we had our full careers ahead of us to recoup losses...not so much time left any longer. I am starting to enjoy Zoom meetings when they are well managed and protocols are honored. Seems like a new degree of trust has emerged within our culture that suggests that employers might adopt a new model. I read the McKinsey reports on management strategies and techniques in a post-COVID world. Still waiting for one authored by Chis Gagnon, but I suspect he is too busy running the firm. I have made a resolution in the year ahead to visit Chris in Austin, TX, and now that this is down in print I intend to make it happen. I’ve dusted off an old ukulele instructional CD and am trying to figure out a couple of songs without driving the home-based family bonkers. They’ve sent me out to the barn to practice. Danny Friehofer offered lessons, and I really should take him up on that. The crazy-looking dude with the ponytails who headlines the video (not Danny) says it’s wicked easy, but so far the only thing I’ve been able to accomplish is to scare away the rodents in the barn. I just cannot seem to get my wrist and fingers to bend around the neck of the uke. Allegra has volunteered to break my wrists so we can reposition the bones to allow them to heal differently, but I think that is a red herring for something nefarious. Taking requests, I remain...Steve Lubrano

’88 Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Hi everyone. I hope that by the time you read this, the world is well past its pandemic peak and we’ve been able to enter a new phase that permits our lives and the economy to safely adjust and reboot. At this point in early April, so much remains to be seen. May you all be, and remain, safe and well. As for our class, I’ll begin with your class secretary, moi. I’m grateful that friends and family are well right now. I’m grateful for living where it’s easy to get outside with no crowd, as this really helps the stir-crazy impact of a long “stay at home”! I’m grateful for video conferencing (though it’s challenging for hours-long sessions like board meetings). The Brady Bunch images of colleagues help. Watching movies “together” with my extended family helps. If, perchance, this is a time you are making some additions to your reading list (beyond obsessive consumption of COVID-19 media coverage, if you are like me), here are some of my Q1 nonfiction reads that were pretty engaging. Churchill’s Memoirs of WWII (detailed observations of a large collection of countries responding to a rapidly evolving crisis!). Ride of a Lifetime, Zucked, Principles, Bad Blood, Catch & Kill, Educated. Would love any great recos from you! Good updates from our class this time around. They all contained wishes for everyone’s safety and well-being and shared how family, work, and life are progressing in these turbulent times. John Sughrue captured early April 2020 well, with “Shout-out from home in Texas. Hope everyone is coping with this pandemic and economic apocalypse. I think I missed that class at Tuck where guideposts were presented to navigate today’s environment. So I’m just making things up and hoping for the best. Be well!” Rick Bertasi shared how life is evolving for his family. “Wow what a world change. As for many others, this is impactful for us, but

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Olivier Fainsilber commented on the changes wrought over a few short weeks: “Strange to think about the time lag between writing and reading in such a strange period when so many things are happening around us and yet everything is so quiet. Thinking back to a few weeks ago when Paris was busier, I had the pleasure to have Michael Cooper’s visit. Also managed to have coffee with Prof Anant Sundaram, whose vacation got cut short just a few days after arriving here. Last week saw Prof Argenti’s webinar on the crisis and it felt like a flashback to 1986 when we first had his class. Thinking of all my great Tuck friends.”

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picture), not just his ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but his great and positive and indomitable spirit. “Additionally, had some wonderful moments on the slopes of MT with and courtesy of Robbie Freeman et famille (see picture). Didn’t Hemingway say there are really just three great pleasures in life? I know one of them was skiing but cannot recall the other two. Wine and ? “It’s been great reconnecting with dear friends, thanks to the dawning of The Covidean Era... Chuck Davis, Andrew and Map Black, Dan Lubash...we should all be so grateful to the POTUS for providing such steadfast and wise leadership (not). Wishing our classmates health and prosperity, and lots of antibodies.”

Chuck Chapman sent in the nearby picture from (great) Back Bay Boston steak house Grill 23, that he thought you might appreciate. You will recognize a few dudes from ’88...Bill Connolly, Jim Calmas, Jim Peck, Chuck, and Matt Haley. They look like they are having fun...back when restaurants were open! Chuck told no stories, however, just shared the pic! Larry Van Meter reported from his farmhouse, “Hope you are doing well and staying safe. After 24 years as an independent school head, I failed miserably at retirement and am now serving as the president/CEO of the Forman S. Acton Educational Foundation in Salem, New Jersey. That’s not far from our old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere in deep South Jersey, near Delaware Bay. “Our older son, Matt (who was in the Tuck Bridge program way back in 2006), is a nonfiction writer and has a book coming out next month. It’s titled Deep Delta Justice and is being published by Little, Brown. All ’88s should buy a copy! Our younger son, Luke (who was born in Hanover and graduated

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from Tuck last year) is working for Doblin, a boutique innovation consulting firm owned by Deloitte.” Perry Boyle checked in from Idaho. (And despite his “retiring,” it seems to me he always has 8 careers simultaneously.) *grin* “Hope all are safe. All good here. Lisa and I have shifted base from CT to ID (Ketchum), and would love to see our fellow Tuckies here. “As of tomorrow (Apr 1), I am officially retired. Thus the rapid reply because I literally have no work to do. I spent the last 15 years at Point72, the Steve Cohen hedge fund, where I ran the long/short equity business and led external relationships (brokers and investors). I haven’t been unemployed since I was 9 years old. It feels weird. “I am going to stay occupied by finishing up a master’s degree in foreign policy at the Fletcher School (Tufts) and serving as chairman of The BOMA Project, a povertygraduation program for women in the arid lands of East Africa. Advisory boards at think tanks IISS and CNAS are interesting. I’m also talking to people about a couple of board seats.” Earlier in Q1, class of ’88 job news included Amy Seltzer Hedison going back to work full-time, leading many aspects of a cool bioscience start-up. This builds on her earlier work at Exact Science and Biogen. Go, Amy! Word is that she loves it. In early March, Barron’s reported that Suni Pedersen Harford made the Barron’s list of the 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance. She’s currently president of UBS Asset Management. Big congrats Suni! At the moment, she and husband Woody are busy navigating a full house of family under stayat-home orders.

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Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

Hello everyone— I [Betsy] hope that by the time you read this column our coronavirus quarantine will be old news and we will be back to normal or living a new normal that includes actual social connections. But, right now, we are in the middle of the pandemic and almost every state is in “stay at home” mode. Therefore, the news is slow and, in general, not much to talk about. I’m sure you are all doing what I am doing, which is hanging out at home and hoping that the coronavirus pandemic will quickly get under control. It seems like forever ago that many of us were in Hanover for a stellar Reunion this past October. Thank you to everyone who organized, worked, attended, etc. It was awesome to see folks, to reconnect, and to be back at Tuck! Thumbs up to Mitchan Enomoto for sending in on the “class notes submission form.” These never come in and are so easy to fill out. Love it! [Editor’s note: mytuck.dartmouth.edu/ submit_class_notes] Michan writes that “on my way back from the 30th reunion in Hanover to Tokyo, I stopped over in Palo Alto, CA, and met Rich Dvorak after 30 years!” Love that, and love the photo! Thank you for your submission!

I also heard from my fellow class secretary, Sara Spivey. Sara “met up with Adam Inselbuch and spouse Kate Milano whilst on a quick business trip to Chicago. Now that I am a New Yorker, they were full of tips and tricks for meeting people in a new city, having gained a lot of experience since moving to Chicago. Alas, I probably won’t be joining a trombone choir, so I will have to go another route. Had dinner with Brian Griffiths (he’s back working in Manhattan) and am hopeful that I will connect with Renee McColl, having run into her son on the subway and freaking him out by telling him I knew who he was from Christmas card photos for the last 25 years. Any NYC classmates, reach out!” I was hoping to meet up with Sara Spivey over spring break in New York, but unfortunately coronavirus squelched that trip. I’m sure this has been the case for many of you as well. But, maybe you are all connecting virtually? My study group—Lora Louise Broady, Jim Stern, Sue Dahling Sullivan, Kevin Rosenstein, and myself—are holding Zoom study group meetings twice a month. It’s great to check in with everyone and get regular updates. After the first meeting I can report that everyone is working from home, a couple of us have college kids taking online courses at home (which is a whole other world!), and we are all trying to figure out how to find some silver lining in this new world. So far I would say that talking with friends, video and phone, has been a huge upside. Jim, Sue, and I have also held a couple Zoom get-togethers with Marsha Trant and Lynn and Tom Loewald. Again, great to check in and spend some time hearing about everyone’s life (which are all surprisingly similar right now). Hopefully by next column we will all have lots to share. Send in your info—we love hearing from all of you! Please take care of yourself and those around you, and stay safe.

Heidi Reichenbach Harring has been checking in on several folks under New England stay-at-home orders, including Jill Paul, Jen Jordan, Suni, and Amy Seltzer Hedison, and she and Suni are prompting a Zoom quarantini cocktails and catch-up session soon. Go Zoom! That’s all for now, everyone. Talk to you soon. Even better to see you soon. Be well. —Jill

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30TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020 Ken Graham To Note, or Not to Note, that is the question... whether tis nobler to pretend the world is not in crisis and share tidbits of past vacations, promotions, and personal hobbies, or instead to acknowledge the pain and suffering and complete bafflement that the virus has subjected upon our hapless species and dwell upon the insuring misery. Or neither. Forsooth indeed. Hose here, and this will be a shorter edition of the notes, as I write with complete uncertainty of what the world will look like when you are reading this (sometime in June I think). Will the virus have subsided, and we are back to starting lifus normalus, or will we all be still sheltering in place and donning designer facemasks in between dog walks and Zoom calls? We were always taught to have an opinion at Tuck, even if it was not fully developed. Well at this point I can safely say I am without any opinion about what all this means or where it will end. So in place of answers to the question “what have we all been up to,” I thought we’d ask the question, What do we all want to know when we come back to Reunion (this October)? It’s always good to go to these events with a couple curiosities top of mind. So from our classmates.... ”For Gary the Weatherman Luciani: How’s that weather, man?” For Kenny Graham: “What happened to Ken Graham’s vintage MG? Did it die in a rage of glory or is it sitting in his garage?” From Tom Mullins: “Is there anyone in the class besides me who is still with the same company they joined upon graduation from Tuck?” We all want to know what happened to some of our classmates: “Where is Martha?” “How is Nason?” “I would love to see Pradeep.” And of course “Who has heard from Salome!” From an unnamed grandparent (maybe): “Is anyone a grandparent already?” For the brewing/ distilling contingency: “Who will follow up with an encore to Lagunitas and High 98

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West?” From our existentialist classmates: “What percentage of us will show up in person after this period of isolation comes to an end? Hopefully the highest percentage we have ever had.” And from Virginia: “Here’s a question that I, for one, would love to see answers to from my beloved ’90s out there. In these days of frightening news and interruption and heartbreak, what gives you hope? My answers: Seeing the outpouring of free art—musicians playing from their living rooms, actors and poets reading from their kitchen tables, yoga teachers teaching from their backyards. Friends coming together at a moment’s notice for a backyard cleanup work party for an elderly couple. What was once a monthly phone call with my 90-year-old parents now a daily video call full of love and laughter. Dinners via Zoom with friends near and far. And, especially, Tuck ’Tails via Zoom tomorrow evening.” As noted by Virginia (thanks for the segue), a highlight during the virus was the Virtual ’Tails—thanks to Melissa. We had a huge crew: see the photo nearby. Also a highlight was Rob Capone’s new dog. And seeing all the folks virtually we will see in October. Photos also nearby. And now for some more straightforward updates. From Appy in Florida (shelter in place even if you are going to the early-bird special): “Hope you are staying well, and thank you for reaching out despite the virus challenges. Tammy and I are in St. Augustine riding out the Florida-state mandated ‘stay at home’ order for the next 30 days. Tammy’s dad Jim (84 years old) is with us here, and we are being extra careful to keep him safe until the virus risks diminish. We love the beaches here locally, but they too are shut down until further notice. Accordingly, our dog Sandy (pictured)

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is in the best shape of her life and very happy because we are all walking her 3 times a day around our condo complex to get some fresh air outdoors while complying with Florida’s ‘stay at home’ rules.

“Our boys, Dylan and Connor, live in Chattanooga, TN, with their new spouses (both were married in 2019). To date, we are very fortunate, as everyone is doing fine in our newly extended family. We hope all Tuck ’90 alums and their families are likewise safe and well and that this crisis passes quickly so we can all return to normalcy and hopefully reconnect soon for a Tuck ’90 30th reunion.” Appy, you were always so even keeled. Thanks.

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From Guillermo: “As we are quarantined at home, I am spending quality time with my family, including my son, who is in college (this is certainly not the housing he was hoping for in his sophomore spring term!). Hope we all come out of this healthy and stronger as a society. Time is flying by, and the clock is ticking for all of us. Might it be time for us to consider doing a fun group trip!? Skiing? Hiking? Whitewater rafting? Or simply Tucktailing?” He of course will be at the reunion—and we look forward to seeing you there. “Stay healthy and stay positive.” Big news from the Left Coast: “Carl Rashad Jaeger and Leo Chyi are engaged to be married, with a tentative date of June 2021 for the wedding.” Great to hear. Rashad continues: “This year I have written two feature-length films and am pushing them out into the world to find production companies that want them. Prince in a Storm is my favorite, with some of the best rewrite advice coming from Joel Margolese. Who would have thought that would happen?” You can tell Rashad now thinks he is on the brink of fame, as he refers to himself in the 3rd person. “Leo and Carl bought a house in Russian River Valley wine country near Occidental, CA, in Sonoma County, and we are living up here mostly now. My children are grown and living in the San Francisco Bay area, and my granddaughter Jazmyne will turn

7 this summer. Canceled a trip to the sea coast of Maine for my father’s 85th birthday. That celebration will have to wait, but Mom and Dad are doing well in Georgetown, Maine.” So great to hear how you are doing and making the most of life. He also revealed on the Tuck ’Tails Zoom call that he bought a chainsaw. No drinking before chainsawing. From Mark Wetzel, some career news: “After 14 years running Fiduciary Investment Advisors as an independent firm, we have merged (yesterday 4/1/20) with a sister firm, DiMeo Schneider & Associates out of Chicago, to create a combined firm of 30 partners and 180 associates advising just north of $200 billion. I will be the president of the combined firm. My kids are all grown and out of the house, but many of them or their significant others work in hospitals, so hoping for a solution to COVID soon. My best to the entire class.” Wetzy, shout-out to your family.

’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

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Hello from Springfield MO. It’s Suzanne, a glass of wine in hand, making my way through sheltering in place (SIP) as I write this. First off, the response rate jumped to 13%. Thank you one and all. Let’s start with the first person who wrote in—not when I sent out a note in the middle of March, but when Tuck Today staff sent out the original request—IN EARLY FEBRUARY!!!

Our class North Stars, the Kolstads, write, “Mark, thanks for leading the charge! Kolstads are doing well, washing our hands and looking forward to being six feet away from all of our classmates this fall. REALLY looking forward to that occasion, One fish tale whose ending will be known when we next meet is the summer salmon-fishing trip that Harald, Kelley Murphy, George Spencer, and I have/ had? on the calendar for this July in Iceland. The odds unfortunately seem to be worsening day by day. Will let you know when we see you!” Bring back some salmon for the grill on October.

Jon Gilbert regaled us with his retirement activities last year—you recall—participating in a “sheep airlift” transporting sheep from one Washington mountain range to another. Well, now he has the job that I know will be the envy of many. “I’m an official scorer for the Tacoma Rainiers, the AAA-affiliate of the Seattle Mariners. Technically, I’m a Pacific Coast League contractor. A fun way to get out of the house during the dog days of summer. 2020 will be my fourth year, and I love it.” I would like to note—Jon used this for his subject line: T’91 Tuck Today tidbit. Who doesn’t love alliteration????

We had a few other inputs, but this one sums it up: ”Nothin’ up my sleeve. The reunion is all I have left to live for. [hahaha]” Honestly, we all feel that way. 182 lives shot into the world post a transformative 20 months in Hanover thirty years ago. Now is the time to get to home base to tell one another about our respective journeys. My guess: every one of our stories will be part surprise, part expected, and part inspiration. You have to be in Hanover in October with the rest of us—or risk being subjected to crank calls late at night, texts of the bar at 5 Olde, and the issue of missing out on getting your piece of Kenny’s car, which he has threatened to drive up and dismantle as one of the lecture sessions. How can you miss that!? Don’t make the mistake of wishing you had been there, just join us instead!

Let’s move on to the most pitiful pair of notes— before and during COVID-19.... Richard O’Reagan first wrote in on March 15.... “So, had the fun of getting together over Christmas and New Year’s holiday with Alan and Eliza Royal and Allison Makkay Davis on the Cape. Allison didn’t invite Tim because somehow, she didn’t think it was spouses. We are enjoying a year in a condo down the road from our house [in Provincetown], which has been gutted. Hope to have our new retirement home done soon.” “We are planning on hiding out the next couple of weeks in Mexico while I ‘work at home.’ A dream trip in the south of France in September. Hope everyone is staying safe.” Fast forward to March 30.... “Hope you are healthy. Trip to Germany. Canceled. Trip SUMMER 2020

CL ASS NOTES to Mexico. Canceled. Trip to New Orleans. Canceled. Isolated in Royal Oak [Michigan].” And from what I gather from FB, he has not transitioned out of “lounge wear” for a while now. We have several new not-so-empty-nesters. From Mark Sherman, a quick update from Seattle. “The empty nest has been shattered; our daughter is on her way home from NYC to ‘shelter in place’—and our son (a senior in college) is driving north from California with 3 friends in tow. I have a hunch I might be reliving some of those 20-something dorm moments again soon. At least I’ll get to sample some new music. “In other news, I ran across both Trina Peterson and Gib Biddle in February on the slopes at Alta; it was great to catch up briefly with them. On the job front, I’m still at Year Up, and really enjoying the nonprofit world. I’m getting ready for a 2-month sabbatical in the fall—and planning on some educational and recreational travel; hoping this will include both fresh water (rafting) and salt water as well (surfing—if I’m still capable).” Leslie Kennedy is, like everyone else, “currently taxing our Wifi with 3 ‘distance learners’ (Carly a high school junior, Colin a college freshman home from U Michigan (not Purdue...), and Justin a college junior home from UC Davis) and me trying to move all scheduled projects and meetings online. Min is the only one leaving the house, to report to the hospital ‘front lines’—so thanks to everyone who has been checking in on him. “On a happier note, it was so fun to catch dinner with Felipe Burgaz, back when we were all still allowed to actually sit in a restaurant together. Ah, the good old days!” Peg Mayor wrote in from Ohio and made me laugh. “I’m still bewildered that my first year of empty-nesthood (which I was enjoying just fine, thanks!) has come crashing down, and I now have people around. All. The. Time. And they eat a LOT. And leave their giant size 12 shoes everywhere. I’m normally a lunch-at-three and then no dinner girl. Now I’m cooking (or ordering and picking up) every damn night. The upside is my happy and well-walked dog, lots of knitting and stitching projects getting done, and a giant mulch pile in the driveway that I don’t have to spread myself. So, not so bad after all.”

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We also have a group of folks who are deciding what they want to be when they grow up AND maybe have also lost their empty-nest hood. Doug Neil is SIPing with his wife, 3 daughters, and 3 dogs.... “After fourteen years at Universal Pictures (as EVP, digital marketing), I was ready for a change and recently left to start the next chapter of my life. Still figuring out the long-term plan, but in the interim, I’m going to be teaching an entertainment marketing class at UCLA’s Anderson School (to first- and second-years). Should be interesting as it’s all through Zoom (and I’m little worried about the dogs not barking while class is in session).

just board and mentoring work, that’s for sure.” It’s been a while since we heard from Michael Keller and he has lots to share. “I will turn 55 (s**t!) in ten days from the composition of this update. I am re-married and have three kids and two bonus kids. I met my wife Gina 10 years ago and we were married in 2014. My children are Ava (20), Davis (18), and Alden (15), and Gina’s daughters Hanna and Raina are 29 and 26 respectively.

“I am currently unemployed but working on two projects. The first is a children’s picture book due out in October called The Legend of Jet the Gerbil, which is about my pet gerbil when I was 10 years old in 1975. Jet’s legend derived from “After being near-empty-nesters with just our a remarkable survival story that happens to high school junior, Tara, at home, JoAnn and I involve a truth-is-sometimes-stranger-thanhave adjusted to having the whole family back fiction incident with a central vacuum cleaner. under one roof as we shelter in place in Studio City with family dinners and workout sessions.” The second project is a start-up, a B-Corp called Playada Sports, a multi-sport skill development and fitness concept for kids 5-12. Stephen Langlois left his CRO role at eMoney I was about to sign a lease for my first 10,000 in January “with great plans for a few months square foot facility in March (so I could open of what Sally dubbed my ‘Eat, Pray, Love tour’ in October) when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. before pursing one more full-time gig as a path Needless to say, I am lucky I did not sign the to a more fulsome retirement. The EPL Tour lease, but it does mean my first opening will started strong—yoga in Mexico; Sundance not be until 2021. Film festival with Mike Tonneson, Gib, Karen Blodgett, and a subset of extended families; “Up until March of 2019 I was the CEO/ skiing in Colorado; long weekend with Scott President of a private-equity backed candy and Mary Ellen Barton in VA—but sadly has company in St. Paul, called Pearson’s Candy. It been stunted as a result of COVID-19 travel was quite the PE roller coaster ride with high restrictions. Even my plan to focus my skiing highs and low lows. It was a 7.5-year run (after in northern New England was squashed by my 10 years as CMO at Dairy Queen) that, COVID-19–related suspension of operations at unlike my book, did not have a very happy most mountains. Who would have thunk? ending. I learned a lot, some the hard way, but departing 90 days after the new owner took “Regardless, I’m keeping busy on the boards of a over certainly did give me my life back. couple of small fin techs, rolling up my sleeves (on video) with start-ups in the Mass Challenge “I thought this epic old-school photo of the end incubator, and doing some consulting, while of a boys’ poker night in the winter of ’91 would I start to codify my focus for the next chapter. be the perfect reminder of the social creatures I’ve definitely learned I’m not yet ready to do

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we all are (or were) and how instinctually and physically closely we can bond as humans.” Mark Sherman, apparently your head had to be cut off because you were sitting down. Sorry, dude. From someone who found himself 5 years ago... Stephen, Doug, and Michael, you might get some ideas here.... Peter Henderson wrote in from Boston. “Hoping all our classmates are safe and healthy in this historic time. About five years ago I embarked on a new career path for my second career. Since then I have gone back to graduate school in clinical psychology and pursued certifications in individual and team coaching. I am loving the shift and the new learning and new challenges. I saw a group of Tuckies recently at Dave Danielsen’s house in New London, NH. Steve Murray was there, having recently returned from his version of A Walk In The Woods hiking the Appalachian trail. $100 goes to the first person to guess his trail name. In Boston, I occasionally see Phil Martin as he and Pam are now living in the area.” We interrupt this program for a safe and sound update from Mark Magers and Linda Yoshino that I received on March 31. “We are home-based in Mexico but traveling for part of the year these days. After 4+ months in southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) we were in Indonesia for a couple of months of diving and sightseeing (the monkey forest was NOT a highlight for Mark). Watching the coronavirus unfold, we thought we were pretty safe in tiny towns on small islands and planned to return in late April. Then our return flight was canceled a month in advance, and the US consulate in Jakarta went from ‘be aware’ to ‘run!’ in about 6 days. On Day 6 we tried to run, and it took 5 more days to make it happen due to countries closing borders, flights being canceled, etc. At this moment, we are happy to be in Hawaii under quarantine.” Since Andy Schmit’s company makes the power supplies that go into x-ray machines, food inspection devices, etc., he’s a long way from SIP. “Our output is down, but we are still very much running the factory. Most of our customers are pleading with us to pull-in/ accelerate our shipments, so we’re doing whatever we can.

“While Sue has worked from home for much of her career, her travel has obviously ground to a halt. Tim (our oldest) moved out before things got crazy and has been working from home as a mechanical engineer about 20 minutes away from us. Alex and Eric are both home from NYU and Hartford, respectively. Alex graduates in May, but the ceremony itself has obviously been canceled. But it’s still nice that we’re almost back to a full house! Amazing how quickly the dishwasher and washing machine gets used now vs. a month ago! I do think it dawned on me just how bored/cooped up I felt when I found myself on Saturday evening, about 7 pm, vacuuming the dust bunnies out of the corners of the UNFINISHED part of the basement.” Clare Corcoran Bonifant checked in with news on North Carolina Tuckies. “We are tucked in at home—we’ve been enjoying Instagram posts from Peter Ginsberg and his gorgeous girls (wife Lori and daughters Talia & Danica), who get dressed up for weekend dinners in their finest! The Bonifant girls packed up their dorms and moved home from Boston a month ago—and our gaping empty nest became very crowded overnight. “While online college courses and remote consulting seem to work for the rest of my family, apparently veterinarians are still essential services (MarCat agrees!), so I’m working my regular part-time schedule. We have banished clients to our parking lot, where they turn over their pets to our technicians. We take phone histories and discharge patients that way as well. It’s kind of nice...for a while. We are lucky it’s been a glorious spring, so being outdoors is easy and beautiful.” Kevin Marshall wrote in to say “Barb still leads the Portfolio & Project Management Office at Upsher-Smith Laboratories. With relocation of the company’s manufacturing plant from Denver to Minnesota, her team is aligning limited corporate resources to manage the rapidly growing workload. She volunteers with Junior Achievement and loves teaching business concepts to elementary students.” Kevin still works at Starkey as a product manager for advanced hearing technologies. “It was rewarding to see my recent innovative product launch included in Time magazine’s ‘100 Best Inventions of 2019’ list.” Outside work, Kevin coaches Collin’s 9th-grade baseball and basketball teams. “Last spring, our daughter

Caileigh graduated from Denison University, where we ran into Jeff Blue (whose daughter was also graduating). Post-graduation, Caileigh participated in the Tuck Bridge program and is now working at 3M. Our oldest son is working in Indianapolis.” A funny story from Harry Holt: “I am on the board of trustees for the Irvine Nature Center in the Baltimore area.” About six months ago we embarked upon a quest to find a consulting firm to help us develop 3- to 5-year strategic plan. We solicited several proposals from a variety of firms, and we end up selecting Kelly Dettmann’s firm to assist us. I did not realize that Next Level was Kelly’s company at first. Although I had been in touch with her and even talked to her about what she was doing, at my age you just are a little slow to put it all together. I’m the chairman of the strategic planning committee, and when I read Kelly’s proposal it did not hit me until I read her name on the cover letter.” Harry has also written a book. It should be available sometime in May of 2020. It is entitled You Can Get There From Here: From A Historically Black College and University To Greatness, volume one. “It is sort of a historical book discussing HBCUs and their significant contributions to the educational landscape of higher education in this country and the world.” Go Harry!! Joe Gammal is teaching graduate school now (as an adjunct) in Creative Collaboration and Innovation. “It’s fun to be in the classroom with part-time master’s students and more fun attempting to break teaching norms.” Joe is also working with a small group on a little something for our 30th reunion they’re calling “Operation Dancing Bear.” “About a year ago a few us got together to start fleshing out a crazy idea—a pre-Reunion cabin adventure for 3 days prior to Reunion weekend. More details will follow soon, and I’d be delighted to have you help us start spreading the word.” Consider the word spread! Okay, folks, keep an eye out on T’91 Facebook for the official announcement. And now from someone who is straddling “The Pond” during the time of COVID-19. Hoddy Klein sent in a quick update from the Kleins. “Our four children are scattered about

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CL ASS NOTES the country. We have a medical researcher at the Children’s Hospital in Denver, an engineer in Knoxville, a fourth-year architecture major at the University of Notre Dame, and a freshman building construction major at Virginia Tech. Go Irish! Go Hokies! “Alesia and I are in the midst of a move to Lausanne, Switzerland. I am still working for Nestle Health Science, and I’ve come to Switzerland to join our global team for a few years. Alesia is finishing the year teaching in Princeton, New Jersey. She plans to join me in Lausanne in June. While it’s not ideal to be apart right now, we are all diligently staying at home and practicing our social distancing.” And from those who started across the Pond.... Andreu Ylla sent in this update. “All our family is confined like probably anyone else in Barcelona since 2 weeks ago. We had a baby daughter—Maria—10 weeks ago. So, we can fill our day quite easily with or without confinement. We go to the block roof with our son Adrià, 5 years old. We play hockey and breathe some air—our ‘submarine hatch.’ We are right at the Sagrada Familia church. Usually it is full of people, but now the street landscape has become hard to recognize; nobody is there, zero. We do hope these descriptions are outdated when the Tuck magazine is published.” No kidding.

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room, which is fun and makes our children cringe.... Just before the virus hit Germany, I spent a week in the Middle East and had dinner with Jean-Christophe Renondin one night.” Eduard Biekens sent in a picture of the Biekens family. “Made 2 weeks before the lockdown on Jan’s (my oldest son) fraternity in Rotterdam. He’s even living in my old student house in Rotterdam (following his father’s footsteps J). The other two boys (Olivier and Tobias) are studying in Antwerp and combining study with top sports (field hockey). Josefien is on her last year of secondary school and also leaving our house in September for (hopefully) a gap year in Spain. Life in Antwerp is in total lockdown. Strange world we ended up in. Hopefully all the beloved ones stay safe and we will turn to normal soon!”

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Martin Huth and his family had a bit of a scare. “We’re doing fine, having gone through 3 weeks of quarantine after one of the children tested positive—two of them are currently with us in Frankfurt. Thankfully, nobody had any symptoms and the whole family is in good health and spirits. Not much has changed since the end of that quarantine, since the country is shut down anyway. Meanwhile, to make up for not being able to go out, Sabine and I started ballroom dancing in the living

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Ranjit Malik sent in an update: “Life goes on for our family—myself, wife, son, daughter, and two dogs here in Gurgaon. We are trying to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak just like everyone else around the world and are currently a quarter way through a 21-day lockdown where we are getting a lot of time to spend with each other. My daughter will be going to the US to attend design school this

fall (we hope that the situation improves by then). She currently has to choose between SAIC in Chicago, Pratt in Brooklyn, MICA in Baltimore, CCA in San Francisco, CCAD in Columbus, Ohio, and SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. She is also still waitlisted at her dream school, RISD in Providence, RI, and is still hoping for a positive response from them before she has to make her decision. Any which way, I will hopefully be making quite a few visits to the US in the near future starting fall 2020 and look forward to seeing a lot more of certain classmates (depending on where she chooses) over the next 4 years.” Now, back to Colorado for a little wisdom and humor from our good friend, Trina. “In addition to enjoying the companionship of crackling fires, I have filled my hunkerdown time with crafting crossword puzzles, shoveling out my mailbox (March is still a very snowy month in the CO mountains), going on long walks, and teaching my parents Facetime and Zoom etiquette. Regarding the latter, it apparently is hard for my otherwise very smart and vigorous parents to break the habit of holding the phone to their ear, even if that means the person they are Facetiming sees only ear wax! And it was comical figuring out from afar that the reason I couldn’t see my mother on Zoom was because she had long ago taped over the camera in an effort to thwart the Russians and Zuckerberg! I am lucky in that my work with The Colorado Forum can be done remotely, at least for the short term. Wishing all Tuckies the very best.” As for me, I was part of a small Tuck reunion in September with ROR, his husband Rich, Joe and Anne Stabnick, Eliza and Allen Royal, Deanna Helmig, and Donna Malone Knight. We gathered in Ptown on the Cape. Richard and Rich played hosts. It was a beautiful fall weekend with lots of eating, drinking and merriment.

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I am SIPing now, but am hoping as you read this in June, you are eating, drinking and being merry with large groups of people without the aid of Zoom. As for Mose (aka, MarCat), he has moved out of the office and is SIPing with my admin and her family, which includes a very excited 5-year-old and a basset hound that, after 10 days, still hasn’t figured out there’s a C-A-T in the house. I am hoping this is the happy ending to his memoirs! Cheers!

’92 Glenn Millar millargg@gmail.com

By the time you read this, we hope the coronavirus will have subsided and we’ll be back to seminormal. This issue’s column is a little light. I suspect people have lots on their minds right now. Here’s hoping none of you have been personally affected. I did hear from a few people before this thing really got started. Scott Russell writes that he got together with Sean Cook and Ken Karegeannes for Ken’s 60th birthday. Scott says it was a surprise. He had no idea any of us had gotten that old.

Skyler O’Malley visiting with Marwan on her bike trip

Young T’92s, courtesy of Amy Feind Reeves

Considering we all went to business school, it’s amazing to me how many of us have ended up in nontraditional business school professions. One of those professions is fiction writing, of which we have at least two participants: Of course you probably know about Greg Thompson, executive producer and writer for the show Bob’s Burgers. Now we also have Lamar Rutherford, who has written a book called CodeY. It’s the story of three doctors who set out to find their perfect genetic matches. What starts out as a success then goes awry. Lamar ends the excerpt with “Is the CodeY social experiment foreshadowing world collapse?” Timely indeed. It’s available on Amazon.

for awhile. Fortunately, I have something to read. I brought The Goal with me, as I carry it everywhere. Wish me luck.” Nearby is a random pic sent by Amy Feind Reeves to show how young we used to be. Hanan Miron took a trip to New Zealand on business, and three days later they shut down travel due to the virus. Then he and his family headed for Peru and the Galapagos. With just a couple of days left in his trip, the entire continent got shut down. They got out on the last flight from Peru. As of this writing he and his family were just finishing up their 14-day quarantine period back in Tel Aviv. He spends half his time there and half in Quechee, Vermont, though he suspects this year that’s not going to happen. Mike McGinn sent me a very heartfelt catch-up. He and his family are going through a rough time, so I am printing it in its entirety rather than trying to condense. Mike has always been a positive guy and I know he’ll get through this.

T’92 get-together for Ken’s 60th Lamar’s book Marwan Naja hosted Anne O’Malley’s daughter Skyler in Switzerland while she was biking through. Looking at this pic, I think Marwan should be the new Most Interesting Man in the World for Dos Equis beer.

Steve Sylwester sent us a message in a bottle. It said, “Help! Went to Australia for work. While here my company shut down all international travel. Stuck in Australia

“Professionally, I left my ‘corporate’ job in 2013 and started a signs & graphics business. We had initial business success but were unable to build a team to support additional growth. I ended up in the doom loop of working 80+ hour weeks, deeply involved in the day-to-day operation, just to keep the business operating and providing barely enough income to cover basic living expenses for our family. It took some time but I started a new job in August 2019 with a nonprofit called Northwest Center, building an FP&A function more or less from scratch. Unlike many nonprofits, much of our funding is generated internally, by a collection

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CL ASS NOTES of businesses whose profits go toward delivering on the mission. It’s really gratifying to work for a mission-focused organization and I’m super happy with the change. Deborah Scott continues to lead the vehicle graphics business that we spun out a few years ago, focused on branding graphics for commercial fleets. “On the personal front, the same week that I started my new job I began experiencing symptoms of what turns out to be pancreatic cancer. I had surgery in September and began chemotherapy in late October. Once we’re through the chemo (end of April), we’ll take a short break before a month of radiation. I expect I’ll be finishing all that up around the time our classmates read this. The good news is we caught the cancer relatively early (stage 2B); the bad news is pancreatic cancer is really aggressive and has statistically poor outcomes. In addition, the chemotherapy is very hard on my immune system, so the COVID-19 pandemic is an extra PITA for our family, especially living here in the Seattle area. So far so good, as I’ve remained healthy and interim tests indicate no spreading of the cancer. I’m being diligent about following doctor’s orders and we’re maintaining a positive outlook. “I’ve reached out to a few Tuck friends, and it’s been good to reconnect with people after doing a poor job of keeping in touch over the years. P. Amy Feind visited us a couple of weekends ago, although sadly we forgot to get a photo. Nevertheless it was really sweet of her to visit and we enjoyed our time together. As for the family, our son McKinley is living in Seattle and working for Pitchbook Data, and Riley is taking this year off to help at home while working through a college transfer. As of this writing, we joke that he’s still deciding between ‘TBD U’ and ‘IDK Tech,’ but he’ll be somewhere in the fall. If anyone is so inclined, don’t hesitate to call, text or email me or Deborah. In these times, it’s really nice to hear from old friends. And if you feel you don’t know us well enough to reach out, that’s okay—just hug your loved ones and offer support to anyone you do know who’s in a rough patch.” Mike’s number is 425-443-8194. Back to Glenn—I hope as you read this, you and your family are healthy and happy. Personally, I hope this thing brings us closer together as people. Once it ends, if you are ever in San Diego, look me up. You are always welcome to join me for an umbrella-topped drink at “Croc’s Tiki Bar,” located in my backyard. 104

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Dwight Poler dwight@polers.org

Dear Tuck ‘93s,As I [Cathy] type, I am “contained” in my home: bumping elbows, washing hands, and stuffing an overflowing freezer full of enough Trader Joe’s chicken tikka, cheese ravioli, and mint chocolate chip ice cream to wait out the coronavirus rampage. Hopefully you are all safe and sound wherever you may be. By the time you read this, I hope all of this is old news. As in life at the moment, there is both great joy and sadness contained in this edition of the notes. I’d like to start with the latest news we collected from all of you and conclude with a tribute to our friend, Eric Bergwall, who lost his battle against cancer on December 13, 2019.

McKenna studying media studies, and the eldest one graduated from Claremont last year and now works at Parthenon Consulting. Life feels a bit more relaxed as the kids are out of sight and out of mind, but TJ tests that theory as much as possible by visiting them and hovering without over doing it. We are traveling a bit more and creating some great memories at new destinations which seem to involve alcohol—Bordeaux, Tuscany, etc. I will close with we have a place in Chicago that can house many Tuckies, so any visitors are always welcome and if any of your kids decide to attend Univ. of Chicago or Northwestern, let us know and we can help keep an eye on them.” As for getting older, Glenn Crotty recently retired after 17 years at BAML: “At one point, we had a large group of Tuck ’93s at BAML (McIvor, Borthwick, Deignan, Comer, Ladoucer), but now just Borthwick and Ladoucer are carrying the torch. I’m thoroughly enjoying my time off, ticking off bucket-list items such as cheering my Kansas City Chiefs to victory at the Super Bowl in Miami. There, I was able to catch up with Jeff DiModica and John Roësset. DiModica is now spending part of the year in south Florida and Roësset is enjoying the Miami lifestyle all year. Looking forward to spending some time skiing and golfing while considering the next chapter of my life. Will keep you posted.” Direct from DiModica (a first-time post!): “Sun seekers converged on our winter home in Miami when the McIvors sailed in for dinner with the Roëssetts, Jay Weiss, Kay and me, followed by Jeff Dishner (working with Dish at Starwood is a hoot) and Ward Davis (marketing his cool new G-squared fund) for a few days and finished the liver workout by hosting lifetime Chiefs fan Glen Crotty for Super Bowl weekend, golf, the game, and a Vespa Ride.

John Roësset was in NYC for his 20th wedding anniversary celebration. Congrats to John and Nicole! These ever-hardcore geeks took the opportunity to form an impromptu Saturday night “study group” to wrestle with the unsolved mysteries of the Freemark Abbey case study. They apparently left none the wiser, but with a keen appreciation of the product. Raj Rathi acknowledged that we are getting older, as he wrote, “My news is more of an empty nester update. The kids are growing and gone: one is at Univ. of Illinois studying business, another one is at Claremont

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Jeff continues, “We made lemonade out of lemons by hosting so many T’93s at our CT home to celebrate Bergie’s massive footprint, where we turned back the clock with a dozen T’93s to empty my bar in his honor.”

Labrador puppy. Second, Eric was both first and last. He was the first to help out someone in need. But he was also the last to leave any party—usually with Weiss, Wisniewski, and Roësset in tow. Third, Eric was both hard and soft. He was a beast in the weight room, extremely strong, and physically fit. But he was also always seeming to break a bone (alcohol may have been involved in certain instances). Fourth, Eric was both naughty and nice. He was whimsical and mischievous. But he was also gracious, kind, and loyal. Above all else, Eric was my friend. In the past few years, I saw him about one-third as much as I should have. Today, I miss him three times more than I can describe. We are collectively devastated; our hearts ache. But it has also brought many of us closer to reminisce, to reflect, and to reconnect. Eric would be pleased.”

The loss of Bergie was recognized by so many classmates who traveled from near and far to pay respect to a dear friend, share fond memories, and throw back a few too many beers in Bergie’s honor. The night before the funeral turned into a boozy dinner reminiscent of many Tuck gatherings of yore. We toasted Bergie liberally, told stories that evoked many memories, and shared heartfelt laughs and hugs among good friends reunited in his honor. At the funeral, we were all incredibly moved by the fine eulogies delivered by both Tom Wisniewski and Jeff Macher, who spoke about their dear friend with the perfect blend of passion, humor, and love. I’d like to share the comments we collected from the T’93s in remembrance of Eric. A common theme that runs through everyone’s thoughts was the strength of the bond we all created all those years ago and how important the friendships among the T’93s have been in our lives. From Jeff Macher: “I can say that Eric treasured his time in Hanover, partaking in all that Tuck offered and departing with dozens of lifelong friendships. He was beloved by many of us for his sardonic wit, his unremitting loyalty and his joie de vivre. As I reflect on Eric and his passing, I consider him partially as a contradiction. Here are four examples. First, Eric was both old and young. He one of the oldest in our class. But he was also one of the youngest at heart—in constant motion, with no off switch—I swear the man was part

From Tom Wisniewski: “An amazing turnout from the ’93s at the funeral. A rare group that I am always proud to be a part of. And so great to see, despite the circumstances.” From Kathleen Bacon: “I have fond memories of Eric being a really good guy. He was either there with a smile and a wicked sense of humor or he would be disgusted with something and he would let you know about it. He was, as Jeff Macher said, ‘one of the good guys’ and what you saw was what you got with him. He was also one of the people you always wanted to go up and say hi to at Reunion and again, you would be welcomed with a warm smile.” From Cathy Dishner: “When I think of Eric, the image that immediately pops in my head is that Cheshire cat smile, so wide that it filled out his entire face. That smile was radiating from above when we all got together to remember Bergie. His spirit soared among us. I was reminded of how very special the Tuckies are

as a group and how fortunate we are to have built such strong bonds. Our relationships are priceless and bring true, unbridled ‘Bergie smiles’ to all our faces.” From Greg Capitalo: “During these past three days, I, again, realized how special the Tuck relationships are. All of us coming together to support one another. Many times, we get so lost in the day-to-day that we forget about all the love and energy that those friendships have brought and will continue to bring. Maureen and I are going to work harder to stay connected. It is so important! It is hard to think of us without Bergie but his spirit will bring us closer and it is comforting to know that he is still bringing people together.” From Daniel Rosenbaum: “As difficult as the circumstances were, it was heartwarming to see everyone. Eric really seemed to embody the idea of keeping/nurturing connections, and so in that spirit it was terrific to reconnect with so many that I haven’t seen in years. I was with both my kids the next night (not typical that they are both in the same place these days) and I made special mention of Friday and the importance (and joy) of being active and engaged with each other.” From Jack Petersen: “I am still in shock and saddened by Eric’s passing. Friday was a very emotional day. Really sad. However, there were a few positives as well. It was great to see all of our classmates. It reminded me how special our class was. The strength of our friendships, the ability to pick up where you left off, the great memories and storytelling feels really good while you are dealing with the emotions of losing a friend. I also think it helped the family seeing all of Eric’s friends. I have not done a good job in keeping in touch with our class. The funeral, while very sad, will serve as a positive catalyst for me to

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CL ASS NOTES reconnect with the T’93s.” From Ray Oen: “I am very glad that I made the decision (with Evelyn’s encouragement) to come out for Bergie’s service and that I was able to contribute in some way with the pictures. It was an odd weekend for me in that I went from feeling extreme sadness one moment to happiness and joy in the next. I was very sad for Donna and her children that they will be without Eric for these holidays and in the future. I cannot even imagine how she and the kids are working through their grief. On the other hand, it was so great to see you and others this weekend. I found myself in deeper, rich conversations with the folks I talked to.” From Dwight Poler: “What was an incredibly sad day for all of us—losing a good friend and seeing a wonderful family separated from father and husband—was also a truly wonderful gathering of friends. We all found out how close we could become at Tuck when faced with the challenges of too much work in too little time. I come away from yesterday reminded how much I appreciate this group as we each face new and different challenges now. Each conversation was an example of that. We are lucky to be T‘93s—then, now and onward. Thank you!” From James Marciano: “Having a hard time dealing with this, as we all are. Can’t stop thinking about him. He deserved a lot better (and his family too). Doing an annual event in Bergie’s honor would be a great thing. Waiting five years between reunions is starting to feel like a long time.” From Mike Carusi: “I came away realizing how much I miss you all. I will do better to stay in touch. I truly miss our time together.” From Michael McIvor: “We’re all going to miss Bergie. Hopefully his passing, the services, the eulogies, the reconnecting with one another will all serve as a strong reminder that life is indeed short, the end is not at a time of our choosing, and we all make that extra effort to stay more closely connected to one another in the Tuck community, and with others we’ve unintentionally drifted from.” From Jeff Dishner: “We all need to work on remembering that every day is a gift. For some reason, it’s generally only when something tragic happens that we remember that we are truly blessed. Eric’s passing is obviously

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extremely sad and especially so for Donna and their children. Buts let’s make sure we use it not only as a reminder of what a truly wonderful person Eric was, but as a reminder to each of us that life is short and we should make the most of it every single day! It’s easy to find excuses of why we can’t do things, but how about trying to ‘yes’ a little bit more so that we ensure ourselves of a life lived to the fullest!” From Andy Bernstein: “So very sorry about Eric. Life is short, and it is made up primarily of happy memories. Glad we were all able to make some really good ones with Bergie.” Life is indeed short. We are all lucky to have the memories we forged together at Tuck and the ongoing relationships that continue to enrich our lives and create new memories going forward.

“Hi David—Nice to hear from you. Here is my latest news. I think I am going to take the summer off before starting on a new adventure. Hope you are well. Best, Ed Devlin (and Becky)” https://business.financialpost.com/ investing/pimco-canadian-portfolio-managered-devlin-leaving-investing-giant “Hi Dave—Attached is a photo from Switzerland. As all the hairdressers are closed in Switzerland, my children are cutting each other’s hair! Worked like a charm. One mitigation factor which convinced the lucky one is that the lockdown will be going on for at least another 3 to 4 weeks so his hair will have time to grow back before he sees his class. A funny moment in a very sad one. Best Regards, Grégoire Bordier.”

We will miss you Eric and will carry you in our hearts. “To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die” ― Thomas Campbell —Submitted by Cathy Dishner and Dwight Poler

’94 David Link bearcap08@gmail.com

The Bordier children, cutting each other’s hair during lockdown

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Greg Littleton: “Thanks for the reminder. Our daughter Amelia lives in Oakland and recently got engaged. Our son Victor is stationed in Germany, assigned to what he calls a PR stunt since Russia doesn’t fight land wars anymore (just cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns). Nica and I are pretty sure we’re getting old: a few weeks ago I had a classic Wilbur Ross moment and wondered why everybody didn’t just leave the city and go to their country house. Be well, stay safe and thanks for reaching out. —Greg” Ulrik Schack sends his best wishes during these strange times.

“Hola! A very different life before and after coronavirus. Before: I spent a few days in January in Spain with my two daughters. Margarita, the eldest, came form Melbourne, and Candela, the youngest, was in Madrid in an exchange program for architecture. From Madrid, we went to Baqueira Beret for a ski week. I somehow survived the speed and rhythm proposed from the younger generation, but it was not easy. Excellent resort, and food as always in Spain was excellent. While in Madrid, I took the opportunity of going for dinner with Jesus Marcos and Diego Martinez. It was a happy gathering with them and their families in a restaurant in the outskirts of Madrid. After: Since March 16, Argentina is in quarantine.... Wise measure by my understanding, given that public health

and finances are ill prepared for everyday life and even less for extraordinary events. Hope that classmates and families are all well! PS: I am attaching a photo of the happy ski days in Baqueira. —Eduardo Dutrey”

Eduardo Dutrey and daughters in Baqueira

“Dave—here’s a quick report from Nashville. I was sorry to have missed our Reunion last fall. My father-in-law passed away right before Reunion, and we had his funeral that weekend. Of course, the pandemic is what’s on everyone’s mind these days. The company I work for is a public healthcare REIT, and we own a little more than 200 medical office buildings across the country. While having physicians and hospitals as our tenants is generally a good thing during a pandemic, it’s been interesting to see the pandemic’s impact upon our tenants. For examples, surgery centers are canceling nonessential cases, and many of our physician tenants are feeling the economic strain too. (Of course, I’m far more concerned with folks in the restaurant, hospitality, and travel industries.) My office experimented with a split schedule (half work from home, half work at the office), but we changed to everyone at the corporate office working from home now. We’re still supporting the 200+ employees who are running and maintaining our buildings. We welcomed our college sophomore daughter back home last week, so that’s been an adjustment for all of us. She and my high-school-aged son begin online classes soon. My wife is a physician at Vanderbilt’s student health center, and she’s been very busy testing students (undergraduate and graduate) for COVID-19. Vandy has had several dozen positive cases, so she’s been on the front lines. Our family has been spending a lot of time together playing games, working puzzles, and catching up on movies. The family dog has never had so many walks! Today’s highlight was finding TP at the grocery store! I hope this pandemic will be somewhat under control by

the time our class notes hit the press. I wish everyone good health, and I hope the economic downturn can be minimized. Take care, Doug Whitman.” Other notes: “Hi David, Allmans are in the bunker. Be safe and be well—and be nice to each other! Annie.” “Proof—got yer note.... Stay safe friend. Jeff Beard.” “Love to catch up,” says Michael L. Goering. Well, we did. Michael is enjoying life in NYC and working on new ventures. From other conversations, I can also report that Simon Parmett recently spent time with Matt Kilguss in his new digs in the Carolinas, as they both continue to enjoy success in enterprise software. Tachi (Tatsushi Izuta) enjoys his trading business (post-Wellington) and would love to tell you about the merits of investment in solar energy. Ken Carangelo, former editor in chief of the Tuck Times, is living large outside of Boston and has agreed to a celebrity guest appearance on the class notes! Altaf Shamji is through the transition settling down back home in Southern California and offers a great reminder that health is our true wealth. And more news: Spoke with John Dex and got the inside scoop on State of Washington and his take on the state of the world. I encouraged Dex to stay vocal. Also spoke with Arnaud Tesson and had a long discussion regarding what it means to be have confidence in the face of uncertainty. And I caught up with Michael Perera and Robin at Hotel Boulderado over cocktails, as two of their sons attend(ed) University of Colorado Boulder. [Editor’s note: We apologize for our photo error in the last T’94 class notes and hereby include the correct photo and caption for you below.]

The Krishnas welcomed the Joneses for a visit to Virginia.

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Oh, how to write this update. I won’t go into how this is unprecedented times...we all know that. I will say that for the first time in my life, I am truly fearful for all my loved ones across the world. Every. Single. One. It is unnerving to know that the only way we can help is to wash our hands, sit at home, and helplessly do nothing. But I know that we are all in this together, working together and praying that everyone we know and love comes out safe and healthy on the other side. So, I keep myself calm and think of things that bring me comfort and remind me of what we are working for. I hope it brings you comfort too. Memories of normalcy bring me comfort. Roger Lynch started his new role as global CEO of Conde Nast last spring. He and Cathleen moved to New York, and they are now proud grandparents of two grandchildren. I think he is enjoying both new roles. Art McAleer is still at Thomas H. Lee Partners and was in Hanover for the Tuck PE/VC conference. I did not know this, but Art powerlifts! And he enjoys it. So, don’t mess with him. He and his family are social distancing in NH and he has heavy weights there too. Dan Rolett is still in Moscow, developing and operating boutique hotels. “Besides work I enjoy long-distance running. I’ve run in several half-marathons, marathons, and ultra-runs in Russia and France and Serbia.” By my count, I think Tuck can officially put together a marathon team with just T’95s. John Sweeney’s firm, 165-year-old Hilliard Lyons, was purchased by a much younger

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CL ASS NOTES 100-year-old firm, RW Baird. John’s role as the “Middle Market coverage guy” for the East Coast hasn’t changed much, so he does a bit of traveling (when that was allowed) to our neck of the woods. John also had his 22-year-old son Harry interviewed on TD Ameritrade’s business channel. Next stop, CNBC.

(Sutherland) Loar, and Sam (Scollard) Truex for participating in Tuck’s virtual program, Tuck Alumni Lifelong Learning (TALL). Always there to help and support alumni and friends.

Vincent Cottrez is still at Jabil—the company is doing well, with over 100 factories around the world making products for health care, automotive, energy & industrial, computer & cloud, and consumer electronics companies. I hope its health-care factories are bubble wrapped and continuing production. Vincent also started college tours for his eldest son.

Thad Hill saw Rob Abbe, Wilbur Swan, and Steve Hedlund in Utah for a ski weekend. They were also able to meet up with John and Elizabeth Shaw. As you can see in the nearby photo, they have decided not to age or, in Elizabeth’s case, to age backwards.

Tena Melfi is retired and loving it. “I love Sunday nights, Monday mornings, every day.” She is cooking, cycling, and taking long walks when she is not worried about COVID, the upcoming election, or stock market gyrations. She is also joining boards and advising start-ups. If anyone has any for-profit companies that need some sage advice, please keep her in mind. Pam (Lechner) and Klaus Jensen are doing well. Pam is busy with her consulting work at the Harvard I-Lab and other national clients. Klaus is VP of lending at Guaranteed Rate and is enjoying originating loans. He is prudently practicing social distancing by originating loans mostly online. Mary (Flounders) Green recently joined Federated Hermes as a client portfolio manager specializing in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investment. The UN Principles for Responsible Investment were authored in Hermes’s offices back in 2006, and they have been engaging with companies on sustainability for three decades. Mary is very excited for this next phase of her career. Lauren Adler is exiting Chocolopolis and is now using her chocolate connections in creating blockchain and IOT solutions for the chocolate supply chain. I love that Lauren can use the words blockchain, IOT, and chocolate in the same sentence and make it totally make sense. Also, a shout-out to our ladies Rebecca (Adams) Renner, Heike Arendt, Elizabeth

Family and friends bring me comfort.

Sam, Andrea, and Tanya celebrating and enjoying the snow

John Harpole met with Brendt Stallings and they talked about global market risk factors and Brendt’s “cocktail virtuosity.” I think everyone of us should experience Brendt’s cocktail virtuosity and have a friend like John who will use the term “virtuosity” in describing our skills.

John, Elizabeth, Rob, Thad, Wilbur, and Steve all looking good

Carlos and Sara [Hughes] Trecenti visited the US with their daughters. Carlos sold a part of his business and is now looking for other interesting opportunities. He visited several Tuck friends, including Rod and Catia Coelho at Rod and Catia’s home. If I were there, I would not have understood a single word they said, but I’m positive I would have been laughing the entire time. Carlos promised to be back for the reunion.

The Coelho and Trecenti families laughing the night away

Andrea (Setian) Lukens and Tanya (Schuler) Sharman got together with Sam (Scollard) Truex to celebrate Sam’s birthday with some cat-skiing, epic ping pong matches, and some magazine-level photo ops. Ruth (Schmidt) Burk squeezed in a family trip to Disney World before returning to this world of TP and pinto bean shortages. “So strange to enter into the new reality a week after everyone else.” She also adds, “Silver lining in all this madness is that our daughter, Hannah, is home from West Point, doing online classes and daily workouts. If I continue to work out with her, I may find that I still have abs! There is always hope.” That is one hope I will never have.... Deb Gerardi and Steve Kemper are distancing in Rhode Island and Deb is getting used to “not being ‘distant’ from my kids nor being an ‘empty nester’ anymore.” Not only do they have both their kids back, but Deb has another kid (roommate of son) who decided to stay on the East Coast. She is also crazy busy with work, advising the start-ups in her portfolio. Before COVID hit full force, Greg and Tracey Maxwell were able to get away for a ski trip to Steamboat Springs with their daughter Katie and her husband, as well as a short trip to Cancun for some sun. But now he is back, “fully engaged as part of the ‘US Defense

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Industrial Base Essential Critical Workforce’ managing this crisis and trying to mitigate the supply chain risk involved with this national emergency.” Greg, we’re relying on you, man. [Look in the 1995 class notes at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Future hopes/plans bring me comfort. Steve Ritchie just relocated to Carlsbad, CA, to work as the chief revenue officer for Airspace Technologies. Airspace does time-critical shipment in the health care space. I can say with utmost confidence that Airspace had perfect timing in hiring Steve at this time in history. Cannot think of a better person to get test kits delivered in time. Steve is rescheduling a meeting with Prof Pyke, with whom he had to cancel once due to COVID. In addition, fellow T’95s Karen (Baese) Vargo, Elizabeth (Sutherland) Loar, and Geri (Jin) Doran all plan a welcome gathering for him post-COVID. Something to look forward to. Take lots of photos. Jan Faller is staying safe in the LA/Orange County area and hopes that T’95s are navigating through these volatile times safely. He did say the air quality around them is amazingly clear due to the self-quarantine and he is curious (nay, I think hopeful) that this will permanently change our behavior for the better. After several different successful careers as a venture capitalist, a professor, a wealth advisor and a UNC program director, Charles Merritt has returned to school for his Master of Theological Studies at Duke Divinity School. He will be restarting the Ormond Center at Duke to restore common good in our culture and work with congregations and their communities to create flourishing lives; in short, he will be making the world a better place. Charles did point out that this was again another type of start-up, so that entrepreneur seed is still in him. And finally, a bit of humor brings me comfort. Rick Smith wrote from Arizona, saying that he wishes he had something fun or glamorous to tell. He did say the weather is nice so he can go outside and things are so spread out in Arizona that social distancing is the norm, “except when fighting for TP at the grocery store.” Rick, you may think your update is unglamorous, but from my garden-less tightly packed condo, it sounds divine....

Speaking of condos, Liam Donohue’s crazy wife sold their old condo without his knowing, bought another condo (he did know about this transaction), and put him in a rental until the new place was built. They were supposed to move in last December. However, a pipe burst and the place was completely ruined, so he is back in a rental, waiting, as no construction is allowed in Boston at this time. He’s been telling himself to always read before signing whatever his wife puts in front of him. Ron Will is sheltering in place and working from home via videoconferencing. He is enjoying participants talking while muted or typing while someone else is talking or the 5-second empty silence that defines the joy of teleconferencing. He tells me that he tries to liven things up by randomly wearing his collection of Halloween masks. Oh, and he also tells me that alongside essential grocery stores, essential pharmacies and essential bike shops, essential marijuana stores are remaining open. I did not ask him how he knows.... Deanna Smeltz wrote in to say she is going through a “test of endurance—on every dimension!” I have to agree. You wonder how the blue Genie (Will Smith, Robin Williams, Barbara Eden, your choice) stayed inside its lamp for so long. All of us are intensely stressed—we’ve stocked up on pasta, but are running low on TP; worry when family members cough; and check our retirement portfolio every 10 minutes. On top of that, we are dealing with (1) parents who think an extra dose of vitamin C will stop the virus so they can quickly run to the store, or (2) teenagers with whom you are only allowed to speak to on Tues/Thurs because you are too annoying to speak to 7 days/week, or (3) people who have no clue how far 6 feet is and just won’t step to their side of the sidewalk. All this will pass and we will once again be stressed over mundane things. Until then, think of things that bring you comfort and stay safe my friends, wherever you are.

’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Trent Meyerhoefer tmeyerho@gmail.com

Barry Winer bmwiner@zoho.com

Well, classmates, we must all have a wicked case of the virus blues and cabin/work-fromhome fever. Updates were light, but that is more than understandable given the much larger concerns in the world right now. My apologies for not doggedly pursuing updates or setting up a massive Microsoft Teams or Zoom video conference for us all. So, Barry Bonder, thank you for the update, sent just before the lockdowns kicked in. Barry writes in from the West Coast: “The career at Intel continues, I’m managing business operations for a large global engineering group, and I enjoy it most days haha. The news is more fun on the personal side—I kicked my adult kids out of the house in suburbia, sold it, and am moving to Portland’s Pearl District. I’m sooooo excited! Will be able to enjoy a beverage with dinner and walk home.” Sounds great, Barry. Maybe a pre-25th reunion party in Portland this fall?

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The update from Cleveland is that Braden will be moving to Boston to start with EY Technical Advisory this summer. Got one off the payroll!!! With Ellen there for BU, Irene and I are looking forward to spending more time in New England next year—presuming we can travel again. The new gig at the new company remains...let’s just say dynamic. One upside has SUMMER 2020

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’97 Helen Kurtz helenwkurtz@gmail.com

’98 Doug Haar doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

This edition of class notes is being written in early April during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic with most of our class trapped at home under some sort of shelter in place mandate, whether in the US or elsewhere around the world. It’s a somber time. Yet by the time this is published we will hopefully be through the worst of it—though what “back to normal” means after this is all done is an open question. Being trapped indoors brought all sorts of classmates out of the woodwork who hadn’t sent updates in decades. So let’s take a trip around the T’98 globe and catch up.... Let’s start in health care with Chad Johnston. “I’m at Penn Medicine as a sort of internal consultant. I’m coming up on a decade, so if anyone wants a perspective on US health care from a Bain/Tuck alum, I’m your guy. S**t may get real over the next 2-3 months.... We’re a little overexposed to health care at the moment. Gloria just took a new job at Envision Physician Services, and our only, Lauren, is at Michigan studying neuroscience and possibly getting a teaching degree on the side. On a lighter note, we stayed with Jon and Vicki DeSimone

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recently to attend Pax Boston and play board games all weekend. And drink wine, of course. We tried to convince Ralph and Annette [Heidrich] to join us, but Ralph didn’t want to get his a** beat all weekend by Jon, so he declined. That’s not how he described it, but we all know what the score is.” Look who I found—Tracy Thomas! “I’ve been absent from class notes for a decade or two. After a period of family caregiving here in Sacramento, CA, I’m trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Kathy Hunter-Blyden and I talk by phone weekly. I appreciate you, Kathy! In recent months, I’ve had the good fortune of visiting with Michelle Jeong, Adam Koval, and Cameron Steele. With accoutrements from Michelle, I sported a smashing Rocky Horror Picture Show costume for Halloween. I’ll save photos for the next reunion. (Note to Eamonn [O’Sullivan] Gomez Jimenez:: You would have been proud!) During a trip to Washington, D.C., in January, I had the opportunity to dine with Becky Fair and Marty Zug on one evening and my former study group member, Kiki Li, on another evening. Pre-coronavirus, I made a decision to say ‘goodbye’ California and ‘hello’ Washington, D.C. Post coronavirus, I haven’t reversed my decision, but the timing is, like life itself, a bit fluid. Stay tuned for details.”

had to temporarily close a month later due to COVID-19. I have spent the past 10 days isolated at home and building my Shopify account myself. I hope to have it up and running by the time this column comes out so that all of you can shop my products from the comfort of your homes. You can follow me on Facebook and Instagram @tiffanyhunterhome. On another note, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. During the last pandemic in 2009-2010, my husband (now ex) became sick with the H1N1 virus and spent over 100 days in the hospital, including 6 weeks on a ventilator. Please reach out if you or a friend needs advice and support during this challenging time. Love to everyone.”

Tiffany Hunter in her new store, Tiffany Hunter Home

Tracy Thomas and Kiki Li

Another longtime listener, first-time caller, Tiffany Hunter! “Greetings from Orange County, California. I opened a home furnishings store called Tiffany Hunter Home in Fashion Island on February 15th. Fashion Island is the hub of Newport Beach and home to many luxury brands. My store offers a relaxed, global aesthetic: think surf culture meets global chic. It was a huge endeavor launching my 7500 square foot store in a former Z-Gallerie and our opening was met with rave reviews. But sadly we

But wait! There’s more. A Mike Gibney report: “First the important stuff: Elise (born at DHMC, now 22—wow!) is studying neuroengineering at Rice, Camille (20) is studying environmental science and business at Willamette—both are doing great, and thanks to Rain are both really awesome young women.... Rain returned to teaching kindergarten a few years ago— working way harder than I ever have or will.... Since my last writing I’ve had two career shifts. After 20 years consulting I joined an executive search firm thinking that it’d be a great next chapter—new, leveraging my experiences, blah, blah, blah. I hated it, my heart wasn’t in it, and I wasn’t very good at it. So I got back

into consulting, this time with AWS’s global transformation advisory practice. I’m three months in now, am amazed by the platform’s capability, and looking forward to doing some great work.... About 6 months ago I was having a meeting in NYC and afterwards had dinner with Brian Thonn. Big reunion after many years, NYC full of great restaurants—we chose Shake Shack, and it was perfect.... I was in the Seattle airport a few weeks back. I stepped into a restaurant for a quick dinner and was told there is one seat available in the whole place, at the bar. So I’m seated, look to my left, and say—’Well, hello Dave Block!’ It was great to catch up with Dave. As of this writing (3/26) we’re all back at home—collegeing and working remotely. We should have enough TP and little fruit cups to see this thing through; hoping you all have the same. I’d love to hear from you all. mikegibney@gmail.com

Mike Gibney and Dave Block catching up

Hold the phone! It’s Tracie Gunion. “I know many folks are not on social media—just an FYI—our fellow Tuckie and friend John Pepper’s restaurant company, Boloco, is struggling to survive. Since cofounding Boloco 23 years ago, John has done tremendous amounts for his employees, the communities they serve, and small business in general. Boloco is a certified B-Corp and is fighting to stay open. They have created a GoFundMe page where for $5 per burrito you can supply a FIRST RESPONDER with a meal and help Boloco at the same time. It’s called Feed the Frontline. John also has an appeal on his FB page. (They need to go to gofundme.com and then in the search bar type Boloco Feed the Frontline.) Please think about helping Boloco, helping John keep folks employed and small business stay afloat in this truly crazy time.” In Italy, Marco Di Liberto is in the throes of the virus. “It has been a while since my last update. I am ok, and my family and friends

are also ok, but the situation in Italy is surreal. Everyday 2.000 people on average are infected by COVID-19 and I fear things will get worse before they get better (today it’s Sunday, March 15). Schools, universities, restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas, stadiums: every place is closed. Hospitals in the north of Italy are collapsing and we have to hope that the virus doesn’t spread around in the south of the Country. Nothing else to report, just hope that this nightmare will soon be over.” Elsewhere in Europe, Vicky Levy writes, “Greetings from Basel, Switzerland. These are indeed crazy times for all of us, families and communities. The overwhelming feeling I have is anxiety for the health of my family— especially my family in NYC. It’s hard to be far away and be a ‘fixer’ and ‘idea generator’ in a situation where fixing and idea generation is only marginally helpful. Anxiety is a little odd for me to tune in with and manage as I don’t consider myself a particularly anxious person. These are new emotions for me! But enough about me...Tucker and Gracie have been great. Gracie (11 by time of printing this) is taking to virtual learning—she likes her VCs, virtual team work together with her friends, and PowerPoint :) . Not surprising I guess given my consulting heritage! Not sure a work update really rises to this occasion, so I’ll just say that work with Deloitte continues to be rewarding/ great so will leave it at that. Closer to Tuck, the some of the Tuck ’98 chiquitas have gone virtual. Last Friday, Susan, Bry, Jean, Hewey, Clare, Amanda, Caroline C, and I organised a virtual cocktail ‘party’ and committed to continuing the habit. It was great to check in and connect with some of these fabulous ladies. It’s a special community. The silver lining of these times is that I am reconnecting with friends old and new from all over the world. I hope everyone is well and stays healthy!” Meanwhile, Anosha Subasinghe writes from Sri Lanka: “We have lockdown now in the form of curfew and from next week it will be a different form of lockdown. We have 102 cases as of today and we are in our second week. Our government and tri forces are doing a fantastic job in terms of addressing critical issues during the pandemic with the resources available, and the president adheres to the WHO and the medical association guidelines. Sri Lanka has free health care for all citizens so that’s a plus! On a personal note, we were fortunate that Kenula, our son, arrived from Berkeley, California, just in time before our border was

closed to air travel last week. So he is in selfquarantine. We thought it is best that he is with us, and we now feel it is the best decision we made. Unfortunately I had to cancel my trips to Australia (early March) and USA (April) these months, so it will be awhile before I visit anyone. Other than that, we are doing fine... and hope we get through this one day at a time. The feeling of anxiety and uncertainty pervades through me as I think about the nearby future. Sending love to everyone all over the world. Keep those fb posts coming! Always happy to hear news from the Tuck community. Please stay safe!” Jon DeSimone reports, “Life is good for the DeSimones. We become truly empty nesters in August when Portia goes off to Colorado College. Christian is learning about life with his 90-minute commute each way to his first co-op as a sophomore at Northeastern, and Brendan graduates from Georgetown in May. I’ve been enjoying my time away from a Bloomberg screen, spending more time with a few nonprofit boards, skiing, and connecting with lots of folks. We saw Rana and Scott Andrews out in Vegas and Chad and Gloria Johnston recently among a bunch of others. Of course, did we remember to take pictures for Tuck Today? No. But they happened. Really.” Rugged individualist and international man of mystery Dan Givens is still at it. “I finished 2019 with another yacht delivery and ocean crossing. This time it was a 900-mile sail across the Coral Sea, from New Caledonia to Australia. I then spent 5 weeks road-tripping around southeastern Australia (New South Wales and Tasmania). I’m now back in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’ll spend the spring and summer seasons teaching sailing on the Bay. Hoping to line up another delivery or vacation charter in 2020, but more on that in the next update!” Deep in the heart of Texas, Tom Leverton writes, “It has been a long time since I checked in. After 6 great years at Chuck E. Cheese, I left industry and joined Pritzker Private Capital as the operating partner over the services group. The firm is based in Chicago, but I’ll remain in Dallas.” While nearby Dave Nelson says, “Since our business has raised seed funding, I can say I’m officially full-time at a start-up in the HR tech space, HERE Inc., operating in Austin. If you’re curious, we report soft skill metrics for job applicants, with a focus in health care recruitment. No risk of mistaking

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CL ASS NOTES me for the genius psychologist behind the curtain—I’m operations. While riding that bronco, Mary Christy and I sent our son, Mason, off to Michigan in the fall, only to see him boomerang back home after spring break due to COVID-19. Our daughter, Ashleigh, is now a high school freshman and about to get driving lessons from her father—you can pray for both of us!” Dave Finley has Texas in the blood while living in New England. “Laura and I became empty-nesters back in the fall of 2017 when our youngest, Bryce (22), our B-school baby, left for college. Bryce is now a junior at SMU in Dallas. Speaking of SMU, despite Laura and I having no connection to the school other than the proximity of both of us being from Oklahoma, come the spring of 2021, there will be four SMU degrees among the three Finley children—besides Bryce, Connor (27) will be an SMU double with a 2015 undergraduate degree and a 2021 MBA, and Madison (29), after graduating from Union in 2013, earned her MBA at SMU last spring. Even more notable, Madison is engaged to be married this coming fall, assuming our institutions are back up and functioning by then. All three children live within four miles of each other in Dallas, which, if holds, suggests that our post-employment future most likely involves the DFW metroplex. In the meantime, Laura and I are enjoying urban living in America’s oldest neighborhood, one block off the Boston Common, were we ritually walk our two yellow labs. I wish everyone of you, your families, friends, and all Americans the best wishes during these trying times and hope we come out of this intact and stronger. Stay safe and take care.” In New York, Amanda Kavanaugh noted, “Kevin and our girls and I were able to just sneak in our spring break to Nevis before the pandemic grounded us all. The trip was heaven, brilliantly planned by Shawna Huffman Owen (as all of our trips are). Like everyone else, we are now quarantining in our home in Rye, NY, and sending healthy thoughts and prayers to everyone. The kids go back to virtual school next week, and I’m not sure how that’s going to go down. I’m pretty sure I can handle the 4th grade curriculum, probably even 6th. 8th is going to be a challenge and I have no chance

with 10th grade chemistry. If Kevin ever leaves his home office, perhaps he can be of some assistance. However he seems to be growing roots into his chair (and an extremely bushy head of hair). All the best to everyone! Stay safe and healthy”

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Caroline La Voie and Linda Lynch reported in to say that they had a minigathering for Ann McGowan’s birthday back in December. But details were suspiciously scarce and the photo provided didn’t have Ann in it. Hmm....

Front row: Megan Gaillard, Linda Lynch, and Jean Tsai. Back row: Drew Gaillard, Caroline La Voie, John La Voie, and Bry Roskoz.

Jean Tsai is finding silver linings: “The upside of the pandemic? I’ve caught up with people scattered in different locations more than I ever have pre-pause. I’ve had Zoom calls with Tuckies in multiple time zones, which was very fun. It appears the US government is working—Pop Karma received a registered trademark after people started sheltering in place. Mark and I squeezed in a trip to India before COVID-19 hit the US hard, and we also managed to pop over to Boston to wish

Susan Hunt Stevens a happy birthday (not sure how it’s possible, but she’s never looked more fabulous) and check out the site of Allison and Andrew Hirsch’s new quasi-suburban digs. I hope everyone stays safe, and by the time you read this the pandemic has passed. Regardless of whether it has or hasn’t, feel free to Zoom or FT me!” Becky Fair and Marty Zug are ruling the world outside our nation’s capital. “Marty is the CFO at Symplicity—a software platform for higher-ed SaaS. If your kids get in trouble on campus, they are probably being adjudicated through his software. I’m running a small software company in the AI space. From the beginning the team has been distributed, so we are all set to keep our social distance. Maddie is 22 and working in San Francisco. At the time of this writing they have instituted shelter in place. We are doing lots of video calls. Calvin is a sophomore at William & Mary. (Yay in-state tuition!) Our youngest, Amelia, is a junior in high school. We can see our empty nest light at the end of the tunnel. But as sending off the final child approaches, I’m finding I really don’t want it to end. I like having everyone around... arguments and all. I didn’t think I’d feel this way 22 years ago when I was barely balancing finance classes and breastfeeding. And don’t get me wrong, Marty and I have a long list of traveling planned. But once-in-a-generation times like these have me deeply grateful for family, friends, and community. Sending all of you good wishes. And if anyone in the DC area needs anything, don’t hesitate to reach out.” Down near Charlotte, Mark Russell is “trying to figure out how to survive having our two college students back in the house for the next few months (just when we thought had successfully become free nesters). Love having them home, but can already tell that cabin fever will become a major issue if this ‘shelter in place’ order lasts much longer. Currently pursuing my next corporate role while doing some consulting until the market comes back. Enjoyed getting together last fall with Lee Modesitt and Mark Hess and enjoyed Mark’s awesome KC-style burnt ends and brisket. Still celebrating the Chiefs’ victory, but extremely bummed about no March Madness and that my Jayhawks weren’t able to finish out the season with a championship. It was looking good with

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the Final Four in Atlanta, but now we have to settle for re-runs of the 2008 championship. Oh well. Also recently enjoyed getting a tour of Corning’s awesome new building in Charlotte at a Tuck event put on by Jim Rideout (T’92) and Meg Lin (T’01). Always great to connect with other Tuckies! Stay safe out there.” A potential sign of the Apocalypse is the ever-reliable and always loquacious Tom Piper almost not submitting an update and belatedly sending in one with little to say. “I just can’t think of anything to say. I mean, I can think of all sorts of things to say, but they aren’t really class notes material. Fortunately, not much is new in the traditional sense, as of yet. We’re both still working, for now. We’ve canceled a lot of vacations and travel. We’ve lost a bunch of our nest egg. Nothing too novel there I expect.” The much cooler and better looking class secretary, Steve Meade, brags, “I was social distancing before it was cool! Drinking alone in my room in the dark is now considered responsible; I was prescient. We Meades are enjoying the extended time with family, although we have sort of thrown out all the rules on screen time. I haven’t watched this much bad tv since college. It’s funny, I thought Two and a Half Men would have held up better.... Hoping everyone stays healthy and gets to lean back a bit, and maybe finally finishes Infinite Jest or whatever book has been your white whale all these years. Also, an update on the Tuck men’s team that competed at the 14th annual Senior Men’s American Hurling National Championship at Myrtle in the fall, which included John Smith IV, Greg Jones, Pete Chapman, John La Voie, Frank Knapp, Johnny Mac, Kevin Kuryla, Scott Andrews, Fitz, Greg Elliott, Matt Iorio, Steve Meade, and Bill Bennett, as well as their attorney Joe C. It was a spirited competition, through hurricanes and tsunamis, but at the end of the dogfight there were fireworks and our team emerged triumphant, if somewhat bruised. Kudos to Smith and Jones for creating the experience, and to all for their gamesmanship. Unfortunately, despite the rest of the team’s individual skill sets and competitive spirit, it was Chaps and Andrews who won the competition with best overall score across all competitions. Knapp came in a close second due to his mastery of elements, Kuryla was day two winner, La Voie and Mac close behind, and Jonesy longest and closest, with Smith most relentless and best dressed.”

Finally, your other humble class scribe (Doug Haar, if you haven’t figured it out) is also in his element in a world of social distancing. I’m sheltering in my home in Westfield, NJ, with Michelle and 2 of my daughters. My oldest is living off campus in Syracuse doing her last semester of distance learning there instead of being depressed at the loss of her senior year while surrounded by her parents and sisters. Our parents are in senior living communities and so we are spending more time worried about them than our kids. May you all come through this with you, your families and friends healthy. Stay safe.

’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

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Tuck Notes Summer 2020: T’99 Corona edition Where to begin in such circumstances? How about just starting with the fact that we are writing to you on April 3, smack in the middle of 2020’s global pandemic? ’Nuff said. Dire circumstances aside, one of the silver linings for your secretaries, and we hope for you as well, has been reconnecting with so many classmates through Zoom, Facetime, or even just by phone. We already knew we had a pretty cohesive class, but this pandemic has reinforced how special it really is, and how meaningful it is to have live conversations with friends around the globe. For those able to attend the 20-year reunion last October, it has been especially lovely to build on the momentum of connections reestablished there. One of our great London-based connecters, Cindy Varga, started a recurring Zoom call for a small group of T’99 ladies to jump in and chat/commiserate, and the group began to grow as the twin needs for connection and distraction increased with every passing day. Is anyone more motivating than Varga? She may have missed her calling in sales. Perhaps we

can just expand this to an entire class Zoom reunion? Anyone? Another impromptu Zoom call, initiated by Susan (Yeh) Yung and Jane (Ngo) Chiang, managed to bring in a wide range of time zones, from afternoon snacks in San Francisco with Luis Canales to breakfast in Bangkok with Lukwa Phornwises. In between were participants from Chicago (Jane and Thomas Chiang), Cleveland (Sanjay Vyas), Hartford (Alex Smith), Boston (Nhai Cao, Katherine Rivet), and London (Felicia Rosenzweig), in many cases showcasing spouses, beloved dogs and children clearly not very interested in their parents’ friends. Nhai has also provided an update on his budding entrepreneurial foray. “I’m trying to open the world’s smallest brewery in Lynn, Massachusetts, dubbed ‘Ursa Micro Brewing,’ which is a play on constellations and bears. If all goes well, I hope to be open in June!” Given the inevitable pent-up demand for socializing in bars and restaurants in summer 2020, we’re sure Nhai will have a winner on his hands. He has not yet disclosed the T’99 discount, but we’re sure it will be compelling. Alex Smith was also kind enough to provide an update: “Since our 20-year Tuck reunion... my son Arthur was selected as one of two 2004 birth-year goalies for USA Hockey in the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland (January 9th-January 22nd). Like the Olympics, the Youth Olympics happen every 4 years, so the timing of Arthur being a 15-year-old eligible in 2019/2020 was a stroke of genius on my wife Christine’s part.

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CL ASS NOTES called “Women, Wealth and Well-Being.” Caitlin was at her shining best, providing intelligent and accessible information for women at all stages of adult life. Carry on, Caitlin!

“So Christine and I (along with 7 other relatives) flew to Switzerland to watch him play with Team USA. So yes hockey, of all things, got me to leave North America for the first time. In between games we took a day trip to Paris, where I sported a custom knit hat by Tuck ’99’s very own Lukwa Phornwises. That’s right I BROUGHT fashion to Paris. [NB— Providing a little sneak peek of her craftiness at the last reunion, Lukwa is wowing us with social media posts of her beautiful hand-knit items. Nothing better than a little homespun love during these times.] “Arthur’s team beat Switzerland (twice), Finland, and Canada but lost the gold medal match to Russia (opinion: the USA team was great, but the Russian team played better that day). I now share a house with an Olympic silver medalist. “To answer a few questions: Yes there is an Olympic Village (not for parents), an opening and a closing ceremony. Unfortunately, it was a bad winter in Switzerland so there wasn’t much snow. Here’s another photo Arthur in action (first photo).” We’re super-proud of Arthur for his achievements and of Alex for not wearing a sweater vest (as far as we know...). At time of writing, Sue Wheeler and Alex Dichter were distancing at a pastoral escape in the Lake District, a few hours drive north from London. Rolling hills, a load of sheep, and lots of quiet time. Not a bad place to hunker down for a while. Sue has been running like a rock star, completing marathons and halfmarathons and taking no prisoners. Meanwhile, Alex has been educating the masses with his sharp intellect and extremely informative epidemic explanations on social media. No one can distill information (not to mention whip up a top-chef quality meal) quite like our illustrious classmate. Just before the world descended entirely into chaos, Sue and Felicia snuck in a quick trip to visit Asli (Erkanli) Olcay in Istanbul. There were many observations to be made related to walking (Asli’s not so keen unless there’s a worthy destination, while it may now be Felicia’s favorite thing after food), hand sanitizing (local brand Atelier Rebul’s green tea cologne seems to be the Turkish Purell), plastic surgery (the Kardashians would feel very welcome in Istanbul), and food/drink (everything single thing consumed was flat-out yummy). Everyone should put Istanbul on their bucket list. Seriously.

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Asli, Sue, and Felicia in Istanbul

Back in the States, Kara (Rocheleau) Lazarus has been acting as a visiting executive at Tuck. Where did the time go—our baby girl is all grown up! While preparing for a Zoom lecture for a Consumer Insights class, she noted that “Ben [her husband] told me I look like a mullet—I’m in a shirt with my hair blown out and make-up on for my Tuck presentation in two hours, but I’m wearing sweatpants on the bottom. I can’t imagine how button pants would feel right now!” We hear you, sister. Who needs buttons and zippers, anyway? In addition, Kara’s been working on a study of the experience of the Tuck women in our class. She’s about 40% of the way through the interviews and looks forward to connecting with the rest. We can’t wait to see how she uses her learnings—it should be very interesting. After pumping Wonjae Yang for some news, he wrote in from his bunker in New Jersey, where his family is waiting out the storm. He writes, “I have reconnected with Alex Galston [Murray] and Jeff Dodge for work in the past year and it’s been great to see them after all these years. Alex and Jeff haven’t aged at all and look as terrific as they did 20 years ago (20 years? that must be a typo, right?).” We miss you, Wonjer, and you best make it to the next Reunion if you know what’s good for you. Caitlin (Staunton) Appleton is growing her investment advisory business. Working closely with another Tuckie, Taylor Thomas, at South Shore Capital Advisors, Caitlin is developing a niche working with women to help them take charge of and maximize their wealth. In the winter, she partnered with a peer from BlackRock for a lively and informative event

We’ve got lots of news from the West Coast. Jazzy Jen (Watt) Wilson wrote: “My last three weeks have been AMAZING. I have been eating the most incredible home-cooked meals sourced from all the best local farmers’ markets, I’ve been exercising every day and sleeping 9 hours a night, and have finished all the nagging projects that I’ve been meaning to get to for the last decade. OH! I almost forgot, I also taught myself how to play the lute and learned Mandarin in my spare time!” That’s our Jen. But for real, she had some legit good news that her older son Thomas was accepted into Northeastern early decision. Can’t wait to see more of JJW in Boston. Jen’s younger son Kurt is on the high school mountain bike team and finished 1st and 2nd in his first two races of the season. She also wrote, “Just after Reunion I also had the pleasure of catching up with Mike Koester, Sam Hayes, Curtis Kroeker, and Dave Gross at an MBA Council event with Dean Slaughter in SF.” Fun stuff! Also in the Bay Area and one to always be in the mix, Vipul Vyas reported that his amazing and brilliant surgeon wife, Kristan, is leading the way and is in charge of Stanford’s surge response to the virus. I think we can all sleep better at night knowing someone as capable as Kristan is involved. Once the world returns to normal, Vipul is hoping to make a bike trek down the California coast. From just a bit further south than Palo Alto, Boris had this to report: “Reporting to you live from Carmel Valley, CA, where Lynne and I have been SIP’ing for the last 3 weeks. Wine collection is dwindling rapidly. And our ever expanding waistline is now referred to in this household as the dreaded ‘COVID-19.’ Joking aside, we’re being safe, we’re healthy, and we wish all of you same. Not sure if it’s ‘news’ but thought I’d share: In late September Lynne and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary with a music-festival themed party at our house in Carmel Valley. We were fortunate to get good attendance, in large part thanks to the draw of the band Dark and Stormy, led by none other than guitar virtuoso T’99 Pete Petitt. It was a day/night to remember and we feel very lucky to have so many great friends and family members willing to travel to share in the celebration with us, including Pete and

Claire Petitt, Gordon and Kathy Boyes, Kerri Heninger, Dave and Laura Gross, Kurt and Elizabeth Rieke, Brion and Melissa Raymond, Laura and Joel Whitaker, Curtis and Jessica Kroeker, and Jeff and Barb Gaillard. Last but certainly not least, Brion Raymond and I ventured out on a weeklong snowcat ski trip in the Monashee Range, BC, in early March. We just missed the travel lockdown and skied 6 days of fresh knee- to thigh-deep powder. It was heavenly!” I think it’s safe to say that a 20th wedding anniversary definitely counts as “news.” Congratulations!!

Gabriel and Elena Ceballos, Germán Silva and Dolores Felgueras, and all of their kids in Buenos Aires

In Tokyo in February, Lukwa caught up with Yoichi Ouchi and Yasunori Yazaki over dinner; Duke Takano expressed his sadness at missing the get-together. Also In Japanese news, we saw on Facebook that Yoji Izaki has become the general manager of the video streaming department at eCommerce giant Rakuten.

quarantine: “On day one of the lockdown, I baked blueberry muffins, designed color-coded schedules for the kids, and woke them with strains of Bizet’s Carmen. By day eighteen, the children were subsisting on Fritos and binging Shark Tank in the early afternoon. Later, we made tiny rafts out of tree branches and duct tape and floated them in the tub. I was too tired to read allegory into our little armada. Instead I snuck off to take yet another one of my ‘selfcare’ naps.” “Self-care naps” seems like a good place to stop. Hard to follow that act, after all. We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. Love to you all! [Note: Look on the T’99 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for more photos!]

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The Boris and Lynne 20th-anniversary party

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Further down in SoCal, Margo (Ellis) Christou is now a managing director at an executive search firm, Platt Partners, where she focuses on C-level searches across a variety of industries. With her laser insight into what makes people tick, there couldn’t be a better person to have in your court. New puppy Daisy (acquired weeks before the new-puppyduring-quarantine-trend) is keeping everyone entertained. Like Alex Smith, Gabriel and Elena (Kokoreva) Ceballos have very hockeyaccomplished children (four of them!) who compete throughout North America from their Florida base. On a nonhockey trip to Latin America late last December, the Ceballos family visited with some of the T’99 Argentine contingent and their families in Buenos Aires— Germán Silva and Dolores Felgueras and Leslie Bridger. Continuing in the traveling vein, Germán and Dolores took a big European family trip in January, making stops in many of the most beautiful locations in Italy, Spain, and France. Moving on to Africa, Sebastian Bacchus and his family attended a family reunion in Kenya in December, posting amazing photos from the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

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Lukwa, Yaz, and Yoichi in Tokyo

Chris Johnson had this to share about sheltering in place: “We are doing pretty well in Darien. Taking it seriously, so it’s been 3 ½ weeks with only the family. At least we got a ski week in Jackson Hole in February before airline travel evaporated, but our Sea Island spring-break trip and my Ireland golf trip got canceled. Right before COVID starting to get real traction in NYC, Sonia organized a significant (no numbers need be mentioned) birthday dinner for me in NYC with O’Rorke, Neuwirth, Koester, and Rudge, along with some other college friends. The kids are great. Finley (5 ½) is in pre-K now and she’s looking forward to riding the school bus next year. Reid (18 months) is a total daredevil with a knack for finding dangerous things to do. He keeps us on our toes.” Always one to brighten any day, James LaRowe had this to say about his family time in

With the planned reunion for this year, I didn’t get much in the way of updates—this also hasn’t been helped by the big distractions we are all facing as part of the COVID-19 pandemic, so this will be a very short column this time around. If you want something to take your mind off things and take you back to an earlier time, check out http://www.tuck2000.com, which is still up and if you go to the “Interesting Links” area, you can find some real blasts from the past, particularly in the “Archived Personal Pages” section. This site hasn’t been touched in years, and it certainly shows. In late November, Brian Foster made it out to Sydney as he usually manages to do (he’s now at his 3rd employer that he’s conned into sending him out here). He and I grabbed some ribs with Amy Duly [McKeough], who is looking great after going through a tough year with a health scare. Check out the photo on the SUMMER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/tuck2000/ Also in November, Xili Wu and Julianne Woo met up in Madrid, where Julianne was on a business trip. She also posted some great pics on our Facebook group about it. In December Ace Suzuki and his family came out to Sydney as part of a larger tour of Australia. We all caught up in Sydney as part of that. It was during the bushfire crisis in Sydney, but they managed to get a few good relatively smokeless days in. Who would have thought that the fires portended something even more dramatic to come? With Ace’s expertise in the Japanese health care space, in March he published an interesting article in Medium on the subject here: https://medium.com/@ acesuzuki0512/situation-analysis-of-covid-19on-mar-15-2020-c53faf602ef8. As for myself, I was on a business trip to the US when Australia announced that it was going to be closing the borders. I was rooming with Eric Wang in Philadelphia and Kentucky, but because of all the craziness didn’t get a chance to catch up with Jonathan Struthers in Philly...nor Jerry Newton in Kentucky. I had to suddenly fly back with a few hours’ notice to avoid stranding myself away from my family for an unknown amount of time. Hope you all stay safe and sane during this time.

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York for my birthday, but the global lockdown meant that the dinner she had arranged for when we were to be there couldn’t go ahead. With people in isolation around the world, we suggested having a virtual cocktail party with friends that were to have been there, so Asi [De Silva], Dav [Aaron Davenport], Sully [Michael Sullivan], and the Weatherlys [James Weatherly] joined from their US bunkers, while Steve Bonz joined from Singapore and a tagged John Selkrig from Hong Kong (John told us that his tag was due to his quarantine, but I don’t think anyone really believed him!). We were also joined by some of Mandy’s friends from when she lived in New York, so it was great to connect with people. In times like this, it is always warming to realize that you are part of something bigger and that love and friendship endure.”

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Matt Umscheid wrote in with tales from being holed up with his family: “Cynthia [Umscheid T’02] and Will average three to six games of ping pong per day and have a running tournament. Hazel is perfecting the art of the peanut butter cookie. She is also tutoring me in how to drive better in a video racing game. I have been able to transition the company to a remote workforce. Less travel to Denver. It is nice to be home with the family more. I am running more miles but I have a lot of cookies to make up for.” Ray Faust reported from New Hampshire that his family is “adapting to the new schedule of home schooling, including a project to build a fort outside and much more,” and sent “thoughts and prayers to those hard hit by our crazy world today.” There were also some stories of Tuckie meet-ups pre-social distancing. Mary Turso met up with the Foster family (Nancy Ho

Ray Faust’s six-year-old twins Patrick and William and three-year-old son Christopher master fort building as part of their home schooling

Foster and T’00 Brian Foster) in December and Jane Lannon and family in February: “Each vacationed in Miami, and it was so great to see them. Sending love and prayers to the entire Tuck community worldwide. Our business continues to fuel cargo aircraft 24/7 at Miami International Airport to get needed goods and supplies to the world during this crisis. Proud to be a source of support.” Hayden Perry caught up with Jialan Guo during a family vacation to Japan: “We took in the sites (and ate our way through) Tokyo and Kyoto before landing in Niseko for a week of skiing. There, we got to catch up with Jialan and her family, who were unexpectedly in town avoiding the coronavirus in Hong Kong. Jialan treated us to an incredible homemade meal, which was a welcome respite from many, many meals out. She also recommended the perfect après ski onsen and the best places to enjoy sushi and shabu-shabu in town. It’d been over a decade since we’d last met up—we hope that our next in-person catch-up isn’t so many years apart.” Maria Estefanell wrote in about a gathering T’97 Jose Aberg Cobo organized in February: “We had an ‘asado’ in Buenos Aires. Many Tuckies from different classes and their families attended. We spent all the afternoon together, talking, riding horses, playing tennis. We had a great time!!” Dipesh Bhise caught up with Andres Arizpe. “My family and I visited Mexico City for a vacation. It was lovely to see Andres and his family and have a fabulous meal cooked by his wife, who is a professional chef.” Asi De Silva rang in the holidays with the “DC ’01s,” including Jake Appleton, Dipesh Bhise, Nancy Ho Foster, Eric Grorud, Alison Wille Harris, and James Weatherly.

’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

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Dipesh Bhise and Andrew Arizpe reunite in Mexico City Dear T’02s and your families: We write this during the impending height of the US COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone is in our hearts and minds as we hope for health, safety, and steadiness to all. Tuck Strong, Lisa and Amy.

’03 Brian Feltz Tuckie holiday party, DC-style

On the career front, a few columns ago I shared that Jamie Athanasoulas and Chris Row had both joined the private equity firm HarbourVest Partners. Well they’ve roped in another T’01. Drew Snow joined them at HarbourVest this January. I’ll close with some sad news of a loss in the T’01 family. Ray Morin’s wife Sabine passed away in January after seven years of treatment for a rare form of abdominal cancer. Ray shared: “Sabine was an enthusiastic Tuck Partner who thoroughly enjoyed our two years in the Upper Valley. She stayed in touch with lifelong friends made in Tuck Partner clubs, such as Helping Hands and the Gourmet Club, as well as those made in Lebanon where we lived. She also took advantage of the academic opportunities that Dartmouth College offers to partners, which prompted her to change careers and go to university when we arrived in London. When I was transferred to Frankfurt, we settled in her hometown nearby. She began working full-time at the Climate Alliance and rejoined her amateur orchestra. Sabine died at home with many members of her family present. She was the most important part of my world in so many ways that I am still having difficulty imagining a life apart after more than 25 years together.” We are here for you, Ray.

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Greetings, T’03 Nation! It’s been an eventful few months to say the least, and it seems like a looooong time since we last did this—so I bet you’re all super-excited to read all about what your classmate has been up to, right?! That’s right – I said classmate. Singular. For this issue I decided to randomly select one update from the many dozens of submissions I received, for a deep-dive profile edition of our class notes. And this issue’s lucky winner is...Shannon Polson! But thanks to Shannon sharing some news about herself along with fellow Tuck hubby T’01 Peter Polson, you get two for the price of one in this case.... Shannon, Peter, and their two boys are still enjoying the Methow Valley in Washington, where the occasional midday ski or bike and technology makes the long commutes more manageable. Shannon’s newest book, The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male- Dominated Organization in the World, is out from Harvard Business Review Press the end of the summer (preorders available now, hint hint!). Shannon is developing online courses on leadership for organizations through The Grit Institute, while speaking on leadership through Keppler Speakers. Meanwhile, Peter continues his work on growing Tiller Money. Extracurriculars

include fundraising for and overseeing building of a new library in the valley and running the Methow Episcopal lay fellowship. They’d love to have you come visit! Okay, ya got me. The Polsons’ update was the only submission I received. I’ll give you guys a pass this time around, though. We are in the midst of a global pandemic after all, the likes of which we’ve never experienced in our lifetime. As of this writing, we’re about three weeks into our stay-at-home advisory here in Massachusetts, and the coronavirus has yet to peak in the U.S. I dearly hope that by the time you’re reading this, we’re well past the worst of it and our efforts to “flatten the curve” helped avoid the worst-case scenarios that have been projected. For my part, I’ve been doing my best to flatten the curve by living pretty much the same life I have for the past few years—working in my basement, going days on end without having face-to-face contact with anyone outside my immediate family. Now I just have more company. But I know many others aren’t nearly as fortunate. One thing I’ve been so impressed by during this ordeal is how much people— whether individuals or corporations—have stepped up for the greater good, including several classmates (among other Tuckies) I’ve seen promoting or leading charitable initiatives. It’s no surprise of course, but it’s a gratifying reminder that while the Tuck Class of 2003 surely has a lot of characters, it also has a lot of character. So, yeah. Lots of other priorities and distractions take precedence over class-notes submissions these days, I realize. So no guilt trip this time around. Just stay safe and be well, and let’s look forward to better days ahead!

’04 Frank Arias frankarias97@gmail.com

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breathed alive and is now thriving, also joined for a bit. Kenny Mitchell spent the entire session modeling each and every Snapchat filter for Zoom, and I caught a brief glance of Jay Lessard trying to speak into the camera with an electric toothbrush in one hand, while fending off a flank attack from a rogue kid in the background. Others who could not make the Zoom meeting included Frederick Echeverria, who is currently “social distancing here in Jersey City and working from home and trying to help keep financial markets operating in a functional/orderly manner.” Jack Lee, who proposed virtual wing night, and Joe Wisniewski, who mentioned that he ordered a sample package from Shipley Farms (Gray Shipley’s company). Aaron Smith sent in his first update in 15 years. He and his wife, Wendy, live in San Francisco (East Bay) with their boys Camden (12) and Parker (13). Aaron still works for LEK. He and the family took a 2-month sabbatical at the end of 2019, which took them to Japan, Thailand, Tasmania, and New Zealand. [Note: Look on the 2004 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for more pics from Aaron!]

Meet the newest addition to the Peterson household

That is all for this edition of T’04 updates. Stay safe and stay strong. —Frank Arias T’04 Please note that you can now send a note via the new class-notes submission form (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes), or you can also continue to send your updates to my email address (frankarias97@gmail.com). Hope to hear from as many of you as possible.

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Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

Aaron Smith and family in New Zealand

Bart Cornelissen and family are now “in full lockdown mode, with the kids getting home-schooled, and getting used to doing all work remotely.” Stay safe, Bart. Thank you for touching base. And, lastly, Hunter Peterson shared news of the arrival of a new baby girl to the Peterson home in Dallas. “The Peterson family added another daughter (our 3rd) on 1/3/2020. Mom, Dad, and all the girls are well, although wondering why Dad is home so much these days!

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All, It is with great sadness that as Dora and I prepare this next issue of class notes for our T’05 class, we have to share with you the sad news that our classmate Glenn Crabbe has passed. Many of you will remember just how great a guy Glenn was and he will surely be missed by us, his family, and his friends!

At the very beginning of working on these notes with Dora, I shared with all of you that part of my motivation for doing this was to force behavior that I need to improve. I wanted to be forced to reach out and speak to more of you, my classmates, more frequently than I have over the years. And I must say it has helped. However, I realize that it is not enough. Fact is we really don’t know when something as simple as a phone call or a little check-in may be just what the doctor ordered for a person. So please pick up the phone or send out a quick text or email to reach out to a former classmate to check in! Let them know they crossed your mind and you wanted to catch up. Yes, we are all busy living our lives, raising kids, and busting our humps at work. But a text takes seconds. A quick call or email can be a few minutes. You don’t have to think too hard about it. Just do it! Then do it again next week and next month and next.... You get the picture. In this issue of notes, we have contributions from 4 of our classmates, Guilherme Steagall, Sarah (Bellows) Upbin, Julien Bradley, and Joseph Newsum. They all have some pretty cool things going on in their lives, so it is great that we are able to share their updates with you. Send us your thoughts on who you want to hear from in the next issue of class notes. Cheers, Shawn and Dora Guilherme Steagall gsteagall@44capital.com.br 1. where are you living now and what do you like about it? We live in São Paulo, Brazil, ever since we left New York to come back to our home country. São Paulo is a huge city, business oriented, but has an incredible lineup of restaurants and a great nightlife. Even though it is very busy and full of traffic, its parks are great places to spend time with the family—specially Parque do Ibirapuera and Parque Villa Lobos. It is also only 1 hour away from the sea, with great summer vacationing options. I was born in São Paulo and love it very much. Our kids (Gabi, 13, and Augusto, 10) both attend the American School of São Paulo, so the Dartmouth dreams are on, even here. 2. tell us a Tuck story My times at Tuck were incredibly rich, I met

a lot of people and interacted with folks with a very different background. But one story that stands out for me was being Corporate Finance TA (for Professor Rafael La Porta; I am sure anyone who had classes with him will remember). He is one of the most brilliant and generous people I have ever met. But a lot of things happened during TA sessions, including a great deal of psych work with students who were having a hard time in class. All in all, I always loved CorpFin, so I had a great time and met a lot of students. But listening to both La Porta and the students describe their class experience was priceless. Another story happened right after graduation. My boss, mentor, and Tuck alum Guillermo Jasson T’90 had been invited to present in a finance elective as a visiting executive but was unable to attend because of a last-minute client meeting. He asked me to go instead. This was literally three or four months after graduation, and so I got to “teach” a class on finance to many second-year students whom I met as first-year students. I also got to use the executive suite earlier than I could ever imagine. The students were remarkably nice and, in my opinion, ultimately enjoyed the class. 3. describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional) In 2015 I helped another Tuck alum (Colin Butterfield T’04) and a friend expand and run a large street movement in Brazil, called “Vem Pra Rua” (Come to the Streets, literally). This is right after the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff, someone whose party and administration were destroying the country, after 13 years of a terrible left-wing dynasty. Incredible corruption, amazing incompetence. We successfully organized a number of street demonstrations, all entirely peaceful and family oriented, one of which was recognized as the largest nonreligious demonstration ever, with 2.5 million people in São Paulo alone and over 6.5 million people across Brazil. Using political pressure through these demonstrations, we enabled an impeachment procedure against Dilma, who was accused of using creative accounting to be able to fool the electorate into believing that the country’s financial situation was not that bad. Ultimately, she was removed from

power during the first semester of 2016. The movement continues to thrive, always fighting corruption and the lack of transparency. I am very proud of my involvement in this. 4. who would you like to hear from next? I would love to hear next from some of the Latin guys. Federico Delfino, Javier Romero, Jorge Ontiveros, Cesar Galan, Bruno Pinasco, Rony Levinson, etc., etc.

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Sarah (Bellows) Upbin sarah.upbin@gmail.com 1. where are you living now and what do you like about it? Since graduating Tuck, I have lived in New York City on the Upper West Side with my husband Brian (a frequent visitor to Tuck during my two years in New Hampshire) and our two kids, Olivia (9) and Matthew (7). Though vibrant, energetic, and diverse like any other neighborhood in New York, we have embraced the small community feel of our little part of the city. Our kids are in school just 3 blocks from our home, and we run into our friends and neighbors all the time, even more so now that we have a sixth-month-old golden retriever puppy that is a local celebrity among the dog-loving crowd. 2. tell us a Tuck story One of my recollections of Tuck is how busy we felt at Tuck with all of our classes, social activities, and efforts to secure internships or full-time jobs. Despite all that we were balancing and experiencing, what made it all so special is that we were experiencing it all together as a “family” and how much fun it all was, even with the intermittent stresses. I remember making frequent plans with Ramsey Jay to carve out windows in the afternoon

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after class to hit the gym and then unwinding with an almost nightly family-style dinner with Ann Waterman [Roy] and Tom Groves in Lyme afterwards. If only we knew how busy we’d really be 15 years later.... 3. describe a recent achievement After many years at Colgate-Palmolive, and then some time off raising my family, I have recently started my own marketing insights and strategy consultancy. Over the last year, the business has grown and is working with a broad range of firms, from start-ups to industry-leading companies in a variety of fields, ranging from tech, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, retail, and nonprofit. 4. any surprising twists after school? Not exactly a twist, but we’ve begun an influencer strategy for our daughter to introduce her to Hanover. She’s now attending a wonderful girls summer camp just east of Hanover, which was partially selected based on its proximity to Dartmouth. The older girls take field trips to campus and come back with gear from the Dartmouth Coop and stories of Hanover. We’re hoping these non-family members will be able to plant the seeds so that it all doesn’t have to come from her mom and grandmother. 5. fun fact or who would you like to hear from next? We’d love to hear from Tom Groves next. Our family visited Tom about a year ago in London, and he’s living the “Most Interesting Man in the World” life that you’d expect from someone with his unique intellect and world perspective. I’d bet good money that most people who know him from Tuck would not be able to guess what he’s up to now and that they also wouldn’t be surprised by his path post-Tuck one bit. If you’ve already heard from Tom, we should hear from Ramsey Jay, who I remember as one of the best motivators and leaders from my time at Tuck. [Note: See another pic of Sarah and family in the 2005 class-notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu] Julien Bradley jnbradley98@gmail.com 1. where are you living now and what do you like about it? We are currently living in the town of Harvard, MA (about 30 miles outside Boston) since 2011...we tried to find a Boston suburb 120

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3. describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional) We also started fostering 2 years ago which has been an incredible and transformative experience for all of us. We’ve had 4 long-term placements since we started, and right now have an amazing 12-year-old girl who has been with us since last summer and likely will be with us for a quite some time. If anyone in the Tuck community is thinking of fostering, we would love to share our experience with you and encourage you to consider it seriously. Joseph Newsum joseph.newsum@gmail.com

Sarah Upbin and Tom Groves in August 2019

that was most like Vermont but still within commuting distance of the city, and we love it! It’s a small, somewhat rural, down-to-earth community with great schools, and we bought an old farmhouse with a couple big barns. We have 2 goats, 2 sheep, 2 dogs, 20+ chickens, and 7 rabbits (and counting), as well as a large garden and really enjoy the balance it brings to otherwise pretty busy lives! Lisa and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last summer, and our 4 kids are 16, 15, 13, and 10 now. 2. tell us a Tuck story My career has taken me to 7 companies since graduating from Tuck 15 years ago (one of them twice :) ) and has been full of lots of twists and turns. I am currently CEO of a small (<50 person) VC-backed life-science tools start-up called RedShiftBio. One interesting/ surprising part of our story is that our house was used for the set in the Netflix series The Society as one of the main characters’ homes (Campbell)...we had to move in and out 6 times for each episode last fall, but it was an exciting experience and we are actually looking forward to filming Season 2 in the next few months. Funny coincidence is the only other house in town they used as well is also owned by the only other Tuckie I know of in our town. I can’t say I’ve been the best at keeping up with fellow Tuckies but certainly welcome the opportunity to do so whenever possible and have plenty of

1. where are you living now and what do you like about it? Many of you remember Hailey, who was born 5 minutes before my statistics final. She is now 16, driving and figuring out life. Valerie and I also have Andrew (12) and Dean (10). Over the past decade, we’ve been living in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. I love the mountains. I fly-fish and ski quite often. It is always fun when I get to connect with classmates on the water or slopes. When you make it out here, let me know. We now have a fairly large class contingent here in Colorado with Andrew Oliver, Stuart Logan, Brian Safyan, John Koehler, Carey Albertine, and Ethan Martin. I guess it is time for a class BBQ (sorry if I missed anyone). 2. tell us a Tuck story There are so many. My fondest memories are of our Tuck soccer conquests, running up to Killington for some terrible snow, fishing for three-eyed, parasite-infested fish up at Boston Lot Lake, the collective madness of Man Days, figuring out parenthood and diapers in the splendor of Sachem Village, flipping a golf cart with Ken Allen while impaired at the Lundy, and so many awesome dinners, BBQs, adventures, Tiny Tuckie events, Tuck ’Tails, and late nights getting to know many of you. 3. describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional) The past 5 years have been about family and balance with some work and projects. You can check out one of my projects, Stratechi.com, which is a few books I wrote that evolved into

a fairly large site on strategy and leadership. Over a quarter of a million people have visited the content, but [I’m] still trying to figure out what it will become. 4. any surprising twists after school? The role reversal of supporting Valerie through grad school to become a therapist. 5. who would you like to hear from next? Sumito Kawano. Would love to hear from Sumito! Haven’t seen him since we had a great time at the Tsukiji Fish Market.

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

Susan Shindler’s first sentence pretty much sums up 50% of the Tuck Today submissions we receive: “Did I send an update last time or did I just think about it and not get around to it?” Most likely you didn’t get around to it, so just send us something! And c’mon! Self-quarantining? What better time to write a note to us! You’re just sitting in front of your computer procrastinating and avoiding your kids anyways!

Stuart Logan, Joe Newsum, and Brian Safyan at CarniVail

The Newsum family

Things are already getting touchy Chez Nichols as Matt also evicted Meg from their home office recently: “Sorry—didn’t we agree I would be in here til 1:30? Maybe I misunderstood. Vacate based on a previous agreement!” Yup— full-blown hunger games here at Chez Nichols.

Before we get into our normal nonsense, we want to send a heartfelt message out to our friends in the class of 2006. We hope you’re all healthy and by the time this arrives in your mailbox, the whole coronavirus thing is a distant memory...but at the time of writing, the level of government and corporate response was on an uptrend at an inverse proportion to the trajectory of our 401(k)s. Meg and Matt Nichols were on vacation with Covahne and Jon Michaels (and families) when school was cancelled indefinitely, so they kicked off “shelter in place” and homeschooling together. On Day 1, 7-year-old Sam Nichols asked Matt, “Dad, are you the principal of our school” and without missing a beat, the Nichol’s 10-year-old barely looked up and said, “No, Covahne is.” And immediately went back to work. Sounds right to us.

The Nichols, Michaels, Browns, and Meyers family visit—everyone’s looking pretty young still!

Similar to Principal Covahne, Cartoef van Panhuys is also living out a childhood fantasy: “At last my dream has come true. With the kids at home, I have finally been able to become a gym teacher! I have spent a few mornings this week ‘teaching’ dodgeball to my three daughters. Love that game. When I asked my youngest if she thought I was a good gym teacher, she told me that usually the teacher explains more and doesn’t actually participate. I think she was dissatisfied because I crushed them.” Shannon Gordon checked in from total lockdown in SF: “The novelty of having a whole lot of downtime is slowly wearing off. But I have big plans for the weekend—it’s my birthday so I am throwing a videoconference birthday party (BYOB of course). It’s going to be a rager!” Please see the nearby pic from the event!

Virtual Tuck ’Tails for Shannon Gordon’s birthday

Matt Trail fired in a note from Massachusetts: “While I thought I was already in a bubble working and living on the North Shore of MA, this is a new level. I have continued on my ‘Range’ career path, going from services to operations and now product management. Trail family is doing well, Martha is a 5th grade teacher in town, Will is a junior with his license caravanning around town with his friends so they are not in cars together, and Shay is a freshman relegated to her bike; fortunately Newburyport is a small town!” Hillary and Ethan Brown chimed in from Texas (after some prodding from Kummell!): “Hillary and I are currently running the Browns’ School for Boys. Teaching quality is low but SUMMER 2020

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Of course one of the Browns’ kids didn’t want to be an Incredible

Michelle Duke sent in an update that really doesn’t reflect the quality of her Instagram game in December: “After facing the reality that we will be grounded for the next few months (I can’t even imagine a world where kids aren’t in summer camps), I feel even more grateful that we were able to go to Australia for 3 weeks over the holidays. We spent a week in Tasmania, and 2 weeks in South Australia and Victoria. Lots of beach time, wine tasting, and hanging with the wallabies. The girls loved it, even though it was a strange experience to spend Christmas in 103-degree weather. Fortunately, we were not impacted by the fires during our trip, but it was certainly a surreal time to be there.” Haozhong Mao is safe in Shanghai: “Hope all well with you and Tuck family! The world is changing by COVID-19 and people in different countries are going through the same. I really like the slogan that Japanese put on support goods for China: ‘Mountains and rivers on 122

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any foreign land, with wind and moon under same heaven stand.’ And I really do not like President Trump call[ing] it ‘Chinese Virus.’ Home office since Feb. 3 and finally come back to office this week. Very nice weather in Shanghai. My wife took a picture of my son and me. Do you recognize me with mask?” Jackie Li fills us in on life in Beijing: “I just would like to send my best regards to all Tuck friends. Stay safe, stay healthy and stay happy. More than ever I know we are connected all the time and you are family. More than ever I know I have more than I need no matter in my kitchen, my phone and my life. All of you are on my minds in my prayers. My son is now on campus in Ohio cooking for himself, Sophia has been with Michael and me at home in Beijing up to 55 days now—plus 10 more at my parents’ (we still dined out with family twice by then and went downstairs twice, without masks). I know many are curious about our not-yet-over lockdown life—first we are very lucky in Beijing, there are plenty of supplies. Basically we could buy everything online, logistics is no doubt by far the best in the world. I do not even need to step out of my front door to get everything—for living and for fun. What I do? With a five-year aside, I push my limits across all boundaries—a couple of Italian cookbooks read as philosophy books to me. And I finally enjoy tea and string Guqin as fun but not as learning now. Well, have to go as Sophia requests a couple of times already—to her secret place (my living room Is a myth now!)” Andrew Schneller says outside what he’s supposed to only say with his inside voice: “All right. I’ve been a Tuck Today deadbeat. I’m probably suffering from an inferiority complex because my life is boring and I don’t want anyone else to know. But here I am stuck in isolation trying to work and deal with my kids. And I have a real Tuck update. To deal with our sad isolation, Mike Song, Mike Gaisford, Brad Wollmer, and Brian Curley got together

Schneller, I’m sure you’re folding with that hand— cards with Wollmer, Gaisford, Song, and an unpictured (thank you!) Curley.

virtually to play poker. We used to do this all the time in person back on Hanover. Not so much since then. The pandemic provided a great excuse to make this happen.” Damali almost doubled her word count this time around—and did the whole “talking about myself in the third person” submission, making our lives quite simple: “As you might remember, Damali Harding (née Rhett) got married and made it the shortest Tuck update ever! So she is back with a longer one that includes she and Mr. Malchijah Harding moving back to DC, got to experience the AutoTrain on Amtrak (surprisingly a fun trip) and have settled into life with two cats. She has taken him for his required trip to Hanover and looks forward to exposing a Caribbean national to ‘real [UNPRINTABLE!!] cold.’” Where in the world is Mark Nuckols, you ask? Riga, Lativa, by way of Ethiopia, of course! “Hello from Riga. After having my passport stolen in Ethiopia, I had to come to Riga to get a new Russian visa. So the very day I get here, Latvia closes its border to both inbound and outbound travel. So I am stuck here for at least a month, probably two. But it’s really not so bad. I rented a small studio, which has all I really require—a bed, a shower, a toilet, a desk, a chair, and a teapot. No stove so I buy readyto-eat salads and sandwiches. And Riga’s a ghost town right now. So what to do? I read the NYT and the Post in the morning, then spend the rest of the day reading some European history, in the evening I have a few glasses of wine and watch Better Call Saul. So for me, so far, the virus is an inconvenience but no tragedy. I do hope it burns itself out reasonably

soon, without too many additional victims. But it seems to have been a good reminder that life is less predictable and more risky than most people usually assume. That said, it’s worth remembering, people have endured far, far worse things in the past, as crises historically go, this is small potatoes. Stay healthy.” Man, it’s tempting to make a HuFu joke, but we think they’ve run their course and hope Mark makes it out of Riga safely. We didn’t just get our introductory sentence from Susan Shindler, she did send an update: “Same as everyone else, Dave and I are hunkered down at home with the kids. I am trying to figure out how to classify Dave as a ‘key worker’ so the kids can go back to school. Surely, his work at MFS is invaluable for keeping the financial system afloat, right? I’ve been working remotely since September for Wellist, the healthcare tech start-up in Boston I used to work for before moving to London, so the whole working from home thing has been a pretty easy transition for me. Ollie (11) started secondary school this year, where parents were up in arms about the school making Year 7 guinea pigs for a new laptop rollout in January, and then were singing a very different tune by March when they had everything they needed for remote learning. We’re just trying to keep Rosie (8) literate. I hope everyone else is managing ok and has managed to secure some toilet paper.” Toilet paper. Pfff, must be nice. Matt Bazarian fired in a note “only because you sound desperate.” Honestly Matt, if you listen, there’s always a little desperation in our voices. “We’re still living in Singapore. Sari and I celebrated our 20th anniversary in South Africa last October.” John’s 10 and Mark’s 15—Mark and Matt play hockey together. (See photo of them in the penalty box together for proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!) Juan Carlos Salem is on lockdown in Peru: “We are in a 2-weeks lockdown...things are crazy around here with COVID 19. I work in health care, so figure it out how crazy it is...at the end all about helping others. On the other hand, my wife is about to kill me.... I really do not get why she does not adore having me around.” We get it, Juan Carlos, we get it. We had some on-time, BCV (Before Corona Virus) submissions as well: Rob Langrick sent us a few “small world” observations: “You know the world’s a small place when you find out at your son’s fourth

that it spreads to other parts of my life. Get the kids calling me Professor Dad, colleagues and clients calling me Professor Kummell. And maybe let Vicky call me Professor Matt since we’ve been together for nearly 20 years.

Matt and Mark Bazarian getting some quality time, in the penalty box

birthday party that his best friend’s dad is Scott Roman T’07.” That’s all you’ve got? A 26-word submission? With some prompting: “I bumped into EDB in the JFK BA lounge at 6 am on a Sunday morning in January. He had been out with Andy Martin in Manhattan the night before. It didn’t take me long to apply my Fall B stats toolkit to figure out that the chance of bumping into EDB in the JFK BA Clubworld lounge on any given Sunday morning after he has been out with Andy Martin is greater than 50% no matter which estimation methodology you use, and so I decided to submit the 1% odds Scott Roman story instead.” So, Rob hasn’t changed much. We also had a submission from our old friend Bob Batt: “After 6 years as assistant professor of operations management at University of Wisconsin-Madison, I was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor. I continue to teach Service Operations, with several elements of the course being borrowed from Prof. Hall’s Service Ops class back in the day: Shouldice, ExtendSim queuing simulation. We’re super excited that we will be heading back to Hanover in August 2020, as I will be taking sabbatical from UW and will be spending the year at Tuck! It’s been twelve years since we left the Upper Valley. I wonder if anything’s changed?” No one goes outside anymore. Other than that, it’s the same. In other professor-y news, your trusty class secretary Matt Kummell taught a class at Tuck. After guest lecturing in Client Project Management (a winter mini) for 10 years, Matt co-taught the course in February 2020 with Professor Julie Lang T’93. It was a combination of fulfilling and exhausting and I’m getting used to being called “Professor” and hoping

The Manning family is doing just fine so far in the midst of the pandemic. There are inconveniences, but thankfully, it’s nothing like the suffering going on for so many. And there are upsides to all of this family time—not getting on planes, eating in. I’m sure a lot of us will think twice before getting back to the same level of pre-crisis commitments we had.

’07 Marc Aquila marc.aquila@gmail.com

Whitney Chiu whitney.s.chiu@gmail.com

Hi friends. Greetings from the past. Specifically April 2nd, 2020. These are “unprecedented” times (if only we owned stock in that word...) and we really hope that by the time you read this, we will have emerged on the other side of this pandemic. We also really, really hope that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. It’s so heartbreaking that we have to write that at the beginning of this column. But that’s our new reality. Things are hard and stressful and scary, for all of us. So we’re extra-grateful to our classmates who took the time to share updates with us. We’ve been feeling a bit discombobulated and procrastinated the heck out of writing the column this time around, but it was lovely to spend some time reading about what you’ve been up to and daydreaming about 2005-2007 at Tuck. We knew we had it good while we were there, but man...we had no idea. Okay, on to the column, but with even more of a disclaimer than usual: There’s a time lag between when we started getting updates from you all for the column (in March) and when we’re writing this in April, and then there’s an even bigger time lag between writing and publishing this. So—who knows how this will all read and feel when you have Tuck Today in your hands. Hopefully all the good stuff remains true and the stress has somehow miraculously evaporated (we say with tremendous wishful thinking...). SUMMER 2020

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Venkat Gopalakrishnan finished up an assignment for a fintech startup. He’s now exploring his next gig and new opportunities, so if you know anything give him a shout. Neal Salerno checked in from Lancaster, PA, and reports, “Still working for Eurofins running part of their bio pharma testing division. After four years in Amish country, the kids still get a kick out of seeing horse-andbuggies. Our neighbors are Amish farmers who still plow with horses. They don’t wave back when I wave to them as I ride my riding lawnmower with a beer. Oh well. Family is doing well. All three daughters are growing up fast and keeping Sandra and me busy. Overall life is good. Only thing better would be to see you all again.” Same to you Neal.

on YouTube TV. If you’ve watched any live sporting event in the last two years, you’ve probably seen their advertising. I started a company called Joone Creative that launched last June (obviously)—we sell craft kits and supplies online. It’s been really interesting/ hard/exciting/fun/exhausting going from working at a large publicly traded company to being a “team of one” at the moment and having to do all the functions. Brian Fairweather checked in from Chicago, where he and Liz are still living. The big news is that he recently resigned from the FBI after almost ten years as a special agent to join Uptake Technologies as the chief of staff to the CEO.

Audrey The-Dumas is still in Singapore and is “enjoying some time off and resetting.” Ben Flaim is “trying to survive the market meltdown while wiping down every seat I take on a plane.” We suspect the plane travel is long gone; here’s hoping the market meltdowns will also soon be a thing of the past (we again say with tremendous wishful thinking...), and that we all have a good stock of Clorox wipes. Lindsay (Bello) Martin is “launching a ton of GINGER products as VP of Marketing @ Reed’s Inc and bringing all my kids along for the RIDE! Skiing VT up at Bromley. Acquiring American Girl Doll accessories and walkie talkies.” I now mix a half teaspoon of apple cider vinegar into my ginger beer to keep the germs away—thanks Lindsay! Christian D. Koether checked in from Westport, CT, where his wife, Christina, launched her new business: www.nomadica. space, a store and online retailer selling globally inspired home accessories. Congratulations Christina and Christian!

From Brian Fairweather—February 2020

Laetitia Valeba reports that she’s trying to do her own Brexit and is looking to emigrate to Montreal/Toronto. She’s looking for a buyside role. If you know of any roles, or have any tips for making the move to Canada, please reach out to her.

Lauren Purnell moved to Keswick, Virginia, and lives on the seventh hole of Full Cry golf course. She says they are ready for visitors, so you have at least one vacation destination when we’re all able to travel again.

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Peter Chiu and I (Whitney Stull Chiu) are still in San Francisco with our Bernedoodle, Ocho. (That’s right Patrick Redmond...you’ve got Bernedoodle competition.) Peter has been a product manager at Google since 2013 and for the last four years has been working

From Laetitia Valeba—February 2020

Lalo (Eduardo Medina) has been skiing at the Dartmouth Skiway with Sebastian, Daniella, and Greg.

Lauren (Pastrich) and Ben King are doing the most with their four kids and two full-time jobs right now. “We’ve become full-time homeschooling parents & babysitters...oh but also need to work full time at our jobs ???????? WTF” Alex Boyd says, “I am grounded! No travel for me for a while...which is totally new.” From Lalo—February 2020

Henry Robinson says “nothing new here, but I found out Shaheen Robinson is retired. Apparently she got the ‘good-with-money-DNA’ in her family. (Or I should have gone to work for the CIA).” Henry - We thought we were all still pretending Shaheen worked at the US Treasury Department? Did we give that up already? Both Alan Walker and his wife Kate have started new jobs/ventures so ended up with some time off together in January. Well done on the timing you guys! They met up with Joe and Aki in Kyoto for a great dinner—Aki did all the ordering (sounds like the right call!). They also “got both kids up on skis this season as well and are now in full coronavirus lockdown/staycation mode. Good times. Stay safe everyone!”

In addition to updates on your life, we wanted to know how you all were feeling. These are some snapshots from early/mid-March. We’re including them almost like a time capsule...to record this point in time and see what’s the same/ different in a few months when we read this. So what’s on our mind (March 2020)? “Staying well! Missing my time at Tuck” “It amazes me how in 2020 we can still be so vulnerable to a new disease. It reminds me of when Merlin becomes a germ while he’s dueling with the witch in The Sword in the Stone. I hope we’re in better shape by the time this is published.” “What to do with Archie, my 7-year-old, whose school is closed until March 30th. Spontaneous RV trip cross-country, perhaps? Also, what costume I’m going to wear at my ’80s Murder Mystery party.” “Will the debt markets dry up?!?!” “More cowbell.” “The Orioles (it’s spring training). This is the year! (Why not?)”

From Alan—February 2020

“I just want to say that I’m a huge fan of relationships (professional and personal) with no gender roles! (I’m simply feeling discombobulated at everything happening in the world right now and utter lack of common sense!)”

Heather Onstott Perrygo is a “newly minted “Coronavirus, government response to markets” 1st grade teacher...since NH governor decided to shutter the school system for 3 weeks.” “Week 1 of the post-school shutdown era is Heather, from a few weeks ago, we have some bad news...it’s going to be longer than 3 weeks.... coming up—optimism is running mediumhigh. Especially after treating the kids to chocolate chip pancakes and waffles to get Stephen Pidgeon “binge-watched Cheer.” If things started (see Walker pic above)....Talk to only we had more Jerry in our life! us in a couple weeks ;) ” Steve Varney checked in to let us know “Market is crashing!!!” which is helpful...we had “Are 2 tequila bottles enough for the next 3 weeks or should I have splurged for the 3rd...?” no idea! Cash is king!

(Note from future us: You definitely should have splurged for the 3rd. And probably the 4th.) “Hoping they make a second season of Cheer” “How long will COVID last? How bad will it impact all our lives?” “Trapped at home with the people I love most in the entire world. Someone please rescue me!! This coronavirus has been helpful in making me focus on the important things in life, namely the ability to scout out good hiding spots throughout the house. How do teachers manage to keep my kids so well behaved all day long? I’ve tried humor, military discipline, and some heavy sedatives, but they keep coming at us. Hopefully by the time this is published this crisis will have passed, and I’ll be back to having other reasons to empty the (modest) wine cellar. Before this global pandemic, we took a lovely family trip to Arizona. Wow, America is such a beautiful country. We had a great time, though I’m still confused how it’s legal at dude ranches to let six-year-olds shoot revolvers with real bullets and even more shocked how idiot parents like me actually let them (don’t judge me, that kid can nag). Hope everyone is healthy, safe and happy!” “Not looking forward to this indefinite telework situation we’re in but hoping I can at least get out for long walks to break up the monotony. And that Webex (and other providers) can handle the huge uptick in demand for virtual meetings.” “The Dow just broke 20,000 on the down side so there’s that....” “What’s not on my mind...health, finances, my business, parents’ health, staying sane with 7 people quarantined under 1 roof...just a tad stressed here :( “ “How do I keep 185 people in eight countries connected to each other while they are all working from home?” So friends, there was a lot on our minds and hearts in March when you filled out the survey. And, we suspect, even more so now given how quickly this “unprecedented” situation is evolving. We (Marc and Whitney) wish you and your loved ones health, safety, and peace. xoxo

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CL ASS NOTES ’08 Jennifer Schiele Schaper, Guest Columnist schielej@gmail.com

[Note: Look for more fantastic photos in the ’08 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] Hi all, Jennifer Schiele Schaper here. Like it or not, I’m your substitute class-updater, stepping in for Louisa Roberts, Dennis Lasko, and Allison Curran, all of whom have all been too busy “snack[ing] and yell[ing] at [their] kids and [pets]” to aggregate the latest in T’08 news. (Just FYI, you too could end up in this same spot should you have the audacity to complain to Louisa about the lack of updates.) Anyway, I write to you from New York City, the country’s COVID-19 epicenter, where my family and I are hunkered down, socially distancing ourselves in an apartment that was never meant to be hunkered down in for an extended period of time by two adults, two small kids, and a cat. As you could imagine, life has been busy these days. Caroline is now four, and on August 18, 2019, Mark and I welcomed our second Tiny Tuckie, a daughter named Nora. She arrived exactly two days before my birthday, which made this the best birthday ever while also ensuring that I will never celebrate one again.

sheltered-in-place ledge, I’ve been working with Kristen Cullen Forti on her exciting venture in executive recruiting. From Kristen: “I started my own executive recruiting firm, Epitome Executive Search, in May 2019 and we’ve had great early successes. We are former operators who have transitioned into search, so we’ve been in the roles and know the nuances. We focus on directors, VPs, and C-level in marketing, strategy, and finance. Happy to connect with any of you to support your teams or your own job search. It goes without saying that the Tuck community has been an amazing support!” I know we took a brief detour, but we have more baby news to share: Bill Hughes and his partner, Kim, welcomed Imogen Grace Atwood Hughes to the world on February 5, 2020. Baby Imogen weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and measured 20 inches long. In less than two months’ time, the little nugget was already doing her parents proud by sleeping eight hours at night!

Imogen Hughes, Bill’s beautiful baby girl, was born on February 5, in San Francisco. Look at those eyes!

Nora Cromwell Schaper was born on August 18, 2019, in New York City.

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The Foglesong family

In other awesome news, Sarah Schwarzschild is excited to have joined Tuck’s MBA Council. The school is really lucky to have her in this capacity! She recently caught up with Tuckies at an event in San Francisco. Speaking of San Francisco, John and Anna Foglesong have left the West Coast, much to the dismay of the SF Tuckies. From Anna: “John and I moved with Eleanor (2nd grade) and Henry (junior kindergarten) to Indianapolis at the beginning of the year to be closer to John’s family and out of the hubbub of the Bay Area. I took a new job doing strategy at MISO, operator of the electric grid for 14 states in the middle of the country. Interesting work but a little odd to have started a new job 2 weeks before being told to work from home! Kids were really liking their new school and are now tolerating homeschooling. John will look for work in earnest once coronavirus stabilizes and in the meantime is turning into a star homeschooler. We are feeling very grateful for our new backyard and playroom, and for our health and strong community.” While California has suffered the loss of the Foglesongs, it was fortunate enough to gain the Chin family. That’s right, folks. Dave Chin and his family have gone West. From Chin: “In these unprecedented times, I hope you and your family are healthy and safe. I have moved from one corner of the country (Boston) to the opposite corner (Orange County, CA). We moved two parents, two kids, two grandparents, two condos worth of stuff, four cars, rented out two condos, rented one house, enrolled in new schools. It was exhausting and sad. We miss our great Tuck friends in Boston. We are acclimating to life in the OC. Fortunately, we have beautiful weather almost every day and live within walking distance to the beach. We’ve lost our ability to drive in the rain and find 60 degrees too cold to go out. Careerwise, after almost 20 years on the investing side, I went in-house and am a senior

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executive at a health-care services company that is consolidating the eye-care vertical in California. I hope to see any Tuck friends who are traveling through or near Orange County.” Our last bit of news from California is from Lucile Chung, who reports that she, Duke, and their beautiful twins “...are safe, healthy, and sheltering in our home in SF. Henry and Jacquelyn are almost 2 years old and growing so fast! Wishing all T’08s safety and peace through these uncertain times. Please don’t hesitate to reach out directly—would love to hear from you! (Lucile.chung@gmail.com)”

your families safe and well. These times are uncertain to be sure, and while sheltering in place may make you want to pull your hair out at times, those of us who are safe at home are truly fortunate (even if you suffer a few bald spots). Until next time. —xx, Jen aka Schiele aka Schiele Monster aka Monster

On December 11, Yaron Zimmerman and wife Rena were overjoyed to welcome their daughter Shai Malone Zimmerman. No more color to add there but check out the beautiful picture!

’09 Patricia Henderson patricia.b.henderson09@gmail.com

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I also heard word of a few more babies in “pending” state, so it seems our baby boom hasn’t quite come to an end yet. If memory serves, the youngest member of our class is around 35, so this column should continue to feature cute baby pics for a little while longer.

’10 Carey Schwaber Armstrong Lucile Chung’s twins, Jacquelyn and Henry

The only news out of the middle of the country comes from David Hill, who moved to the suburbs of Chicago and now refers to himself as his alter ego, Trap Griswold. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Trap in person, but if he’s the guy posting pics of “joose” every day on DHill’s Instagram, then he’s a-okay in my book. Now back to New York! Charlie Schilling has exciting news. He “...started a new job in January as general manager, investments at Yieldstreet, which is a digital alternative investment platform. So good so far. Sending good vibes to the Tuck community in this bewildering time.”

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Micah Moreau is sheltering-in-place (I hope that won’t be a thing anymore by the time this lands in your mailboxes) in San Francisco with wife Christen and their brand-new baby Rio (Merrick Rio Moreau). Rio was born on February 6 and much like his father outgrew newborn clothes within two weeks of birth. Micah’s job at DoorDash is unsurprisingly very busy and very rapidly evolving right now.

Heading overseas, I bucket the next update in the “very cool international news” category. Eli David and his family are on their fourth year of traveling the world, after leaving Israel in 2017. So far they have covered most of SE Asia and Western Europe. They are currently in Goa, India. I’m so envious! [Note: Look for a pic of Eli and his family on the ’08 class-notes pages at myTUCK!] So that is the T’08 news for now. In all seriousness, I hope this finds all of you and

The first thing I saw in Kevin Williams’s submission was the phrase, “The family recently invaded Greece.” I was truly alarmed for the people of Greece, but then I read on to learn that the context was a family vacation. During that vacation Kevin kept introducing himself as the brother of Poseidon, and he was rewarded with exactly 0 Greek smiles in return.

The Williams family in Greece

Rio Moreau

Kevin writes, “Team Williams is no worse for the wear. We are anchored in east Salt Lake City, a stone’s throw from some decent skiing, so come one, come all! Toni is teaching kindergarten and digging it. Darby is now a proud Wolverine and digging it. Andy and Casey are plotting post-H.S. moves as I type. I spend most of my time in staring contests SUMMER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES with bankers while trying to cobble together a portfolio of companies in the middle market. We have a small but mighty band of Tuckies slowly growing in the Salt Lake area who congregate every third full moon. Don’t be a stranger if you drift our way.” Travis Page and his family are doing well in LA. Travis still considers the most important thing he got out of Tuck to be “international leisure connections.” Most recent example: He spent a week in London borrowing Carrie Ferman’s (T’04) flat and meeting up with John Lojek for pub grubs and pints. Travis shared a photo of himself with Katie Advena and Nathan Brookshire at a Global Tuck ’Tails in Venice. Travis says that Katie Advena is living in South Bay and doing equity research.

Katie, Travis, and Nathan at a Global Tuck ’Tails in Venice

8yo Kaavya and 4yo Vendath, is very excited about the move. Karenne Eng recently joined Reflect, a mental health platform with the mission of making quality mental health care more accessible, as head of product. The company was started by Jonathan TranPham in 2016, and Dana Callow is an advisor. Jonathan couldn’t be more excited to welcome his friend on this exciting journey to help millions. Reflect recently facilitated its 20,000th therapy session in the Bay Area, and it launched in LA earlier this year. Anyone interested in learning more should check out www.joinreflect.com. For my part, I (Carey Armstrong) left my job as an exec at Zillow Group in January after 7 years at the company. It has been incredibly refreshing to be able to focus on my family. I’m doing a few projects and working on some ideas while exploring what might come next. Open to suggestions! Along those same lines, after 5 years of service I’m also ready to hand off the class-secretary baton. So please think about whether you’d be interested in taking on a role like this and raise your hand to me or to Tuck if so! [Editor’s note: If you’d like to contact Tuck about taking that baton as the new class secretary for the fabulous class of 2010, please contact tuck.alumni. engagement@tuck.dartmouth.edu to volunteer!]

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she reconnected with in 2018 during a work trip to Boston. Jessi writes, “He lived in Alaska (now in San Francisco) and was also traveling to Boston for work—we had dinner with our mutual best friend, and the rest is history. A former professional cross-country ski athlete and now a coach of an elite US ski team, he might be the only person who can out-endurance me! We’re expecting our first baby boy this summer and I’m both thrilled and totally terrified.” Exciting news, Jessi! Congratulations! Sara Glazer and Sean Heikkila (and Griffin) welcomed Cole to the family on November 18th. Cole is a cuddly, smiley little guy! (Griffin is a bit skeptical about his role of big brother, but he’s coming around.) Sara shares, “Life with two is hectic, but quarantining with these two has taken it to a new level.”

Sara Glazer and Sean Heikkila shared that eldest Griffin has been teaching new baby brother Cole how to play with his spaceship

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Dear Fellow Tuckies—At the time of submission, it is late winter/early spring and we are all going through a difficult time. We did not wish to pry too much for information, but some of our fellow T’11 classmates have written in to share positive and bright moments that we are grateful to be able to share. Wishing health and happiness to all our Tuck family. Jessi England got married over Thanksgiving last year, to a (Williams) college classmate

Erin (Schallhorn) Powers, Ryan, and big sister Skyler welcomed Summer in December 2019

Erin Schallhorn Powers writes, “Ryan and I are in Fort Worth, and welcomed baby #2 in December. Summer is now almost 4 months, and big sister Skylar is 18 months (yes, they are very close...). Life is crazy, but the girls are super fun and cute. I’m still in health care

in their homes (in New York, Montevideo, and Seattle). We’re hopeful that by the time these notes reach you, we (and you) have all navigated the pandemic and made it safely to the other side as more well-read, better cooks, bakers, and with just the right amount of toilet paper. And, we can more fully turn our attention back to promotions, weddings, babies, and new homes. For now, our hope is that you are each safe, healthy, and sheltered in place. What’s great about Tuck is we can always lean on each other during these challenging times. So, if the crisis has impacted you in any way, hopefully you will have already reached out to us all, but if not, do not hesitate a second longer—we’re here for you. Topher Watts and Renata T’12 welcomed Thérèse Lourdes Watts on March 22nd

(ophthalmology).” Congrats, Erin! Topher and Renata T’12 Watts (and Matthew and Phoebe) welcomed baby Thérèse Lourdes Watts (Tessa) on March 22nd. Topher shares, “We’re adjusting to the new ‘normal’ as a family of five. Kids haven’t burned the house down yet; Phoebe is an old soul like her dad, singing original lullabies to her younger brother as he goes down for a nap, currently playing classical music while doing a jigsaw puzzle. We’ll see how long that lasts, but it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

’12 Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

Wow.... Where to begin...? The writing of these notes takes place in March 2020 (a year that become better known as the “WTF Year”). Springtime is supposed to be filled with cherry blossoms, spring breaks for kids, the return of outdoor drinking (in NY), and sunshine peeking from behind the storm clouds (especially if you’re in Seattle). Instead, today finds each of your secretaries quarantined

In other news, while we said that we would have a new format with interviews where we force people to answer our questions, that has still yet come to pass because, you know, life.... Some people still diligently write to us, so thank you for those who do! If you all have any Tuck sightings, run-ins, or just general news, we always love to hear. Without further ado, some updates on life. • Bogo wrote to us from Brazil! (with a photo): “Let’s take the opportunity to get some free press.... Following Tulio Landin’s advice, I also adventured into an internal corporate leadership role, assuming the position of country manager Brazil of GOintegro, a HR tech company focused on employee experience in Latam (soon to arrive in the US). Personally, we completed the family team, since Gustavo was born about 6 months ago, and Gabriela is already 3 years old. Fernanda and I are desperately imagining when we will be able to get a proper night of sleep again. Hopefully on our 10-year reunion, in 2022. Miss you guys!” • Patroklos Karantinos checked in. He’s still living in and enjoying the Upper Valley in VT. • Torlisa Jeffrey is settling into life in Singapore and is enjoying her team at Grab. Luckily, Singapore was one of the countries that quickly adapted to the virus. • Rich and Koushi King are getting to spend a lot of quality time with little Sunder, who is unfazed by coronavirus and smiling more than ever. Ben and Megan had a great virtual happy hour with them. • Judy Lin Walsh and Nate are running through every at-home science experiment under the sun with Lily, setting a high bar for other parents out there. • Erin Reilly got engaged to her boyfriend, Pat, in Patagonia with a private penguin proposal. So cool. Big congrats!

Bogo enjoying life with his family in Brazil

Third time’s a charm! Gustavo and Luciana welcome another member to the family.

• Luciana Zanini Rocha and Gustavo Fróes completed their family…for now…with the arrival of their 3rd little one! Congrats! • Shannon Mosier got ready for her new baby with a shower with family and friends. Congratulations! Our class continues to move upward through the business world: • Justin Garrison was promoted to managing director at BV Investment Partners • Jason Rivas started a new role as strategic sales leader at Gympass • Kurt Zwald started a new role as director, research, intelligence & analytics at Boston Red Sox • Tom Finn started a new role as staff physician at Sutter Health - Palo Alto Medical Foundation • Johnny Kaye is now vice president of strategic growth at Cerner Corporation • Daniel Bohorquez was promoted to VP of operations at Liberty Mutual in Miami • Kevin Cangemi started a new role in strategic partnerships at Rescale in San Francisco • Seba Martinez was promoted to marketing director of HH Iconic Brands at Reckitt Benckiser • Jordan Esten began a new role as GM of Drift AI at Drift in Boston SUMMER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES • Marco Cauduro left the consulting life at McKinsey to lead digital transformation at Itau Chile As for your very busy, quarantined, social network–stalking class secretaries… Ben and Megan got in a couple of amazing trips prior to the lockdown. They had an incredible trip to Morocco, which is such a unique country. They ate their fill of tagine in Marrakech, hiked the Atlas mountains, and spent the night in the desert and watched the sunrise over the Sahara. They had a quick getaway to Aruba and an incredible dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barn (see photo) for Megan’s birthday. It all feels like a distant memory now. They’ve been locked down in their New York City apartment working remotely and cooking up a storm. Megan is selling NPR ad spots and Ben is trying to navigate New Stand, whose stores are all currently closed, through these turbulent times. Download the New Stand app and send him any feedback. They’re looking forward to happier days at Lake George this summer. Don’t hesitate to reach out whether you’re in NYC or not.

Derrick and Natalie have been working from home since early March, as Washington was one of the initial harder-hit states. Prior to the lockdown, they had a trip planned to Portugal (and the grandparents were going to watch Abram!) but that was quickly shut down after the airline industry in essence shut down. They’ve both been facetiming with family and friends on the regular. Derrick’s still at Prime Video, and they’ve been navigating changing consumption behaviors on nearly a day-to-day basis since March. It’s been fast paced and challenging, and he’s hoping that things settle down sooner rather than later. He’s wishing everyone out there to stay safe and keep in touch with loved ones on a regular basis if you can. We really appreciate the people who wrote to us this time. It makes the updates more personal and the writing more fun. Please keep sending us your news whenever it occurs. Stay safe, healthy, and communicative! Love you all!

’13 Anne Duggan anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

Your faithful class secretary Ben enjoying a lovely evening

The Hughes family were unbelievably lucky in being able to complete the move to Uruguay literally days before the quarantine began. Little did they know that moving to be close to the family would mean the 24/7 coexistence we’re experiencing, while not being able to see the loved ones they moved to be closer to. Roman is still working full-time from home and is enjoying the opportunity to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the kids every day. Workwise, like Deese and many of you out there, trying to figure out these new customer behaviors, to best survive the circumstances.

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Who knows what post-pocalypse state this will reach you in...will you be avidly reading every word of this twice from inside a bunker because it’s somehow the only reading material you grabbed on the way in? Will you be reading none of these words because you’re out sharing bubble tea and toasting health-care workers at a public sauna to celebrate the crisis being over? The words are here for you, and our class is finding ways to be here for each other, whatever happens. The Changing Face of Global Health We checked in with those of you working in the health sector—while not all are on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic, T’13s are working across systems, technologies, and geographies to improve health outcomes. Maggie Guo gave us a global perspective, writing: “China’s health-care system is under

transformational change at the moment. In 2015, China kicked off regulatory reform to integrate the country into the global system, and afterwards, multinational pharmaceutical companies sped up their product registrations and new launches in China. Digital is transforming the overall health-care delivery system. Internet hospitals experienced strong growth in the past few years and significantly increased patient coverage during the COVID-19 epidemic. Nationwide reimbursement policy, which covers over 95% of the Chinese population, is also under significant changes to provide better benefits across the country. We expect the transformation to speed up after COVID-19, as 5G, AI and overall smart health-care infrastructure building will be clearly be promoted for the industry.” Abigail Isaacson [Abbott] works at MaineHealth, a not-for-profit health-care system, as a senior director of system service line operations. She writes: “I lead the delivery of cardiovascular, oncology, pediatric, and surgical services across our 11-hospital network. Increasingly, community hospitals are joining health systems to improve the care provided to patients and maintain financial sustainability into the future. Hospitals leverage the health system’s shared resources to improve access for vulnerable populations, enhance the clinical offerings available to patients, and maintain financial stability. MaineHealth is the state of Maine’s largest health system, serving 1 million of Maine’s 1.3 million population. As health care becomes increasingly complex, regulated, and expensive, MaineHealth works to ensure that patients receive high-quality and patient-centered care, regardless of their location or ability to pay.” Mimi Sibley shared, “I’m on the transformation team at UnitedHealth Group, where I focus on how we can improve health outcomes while reducing cost. Health-care spending is nearing 20% of US GDP, and one driving factor is the growing population of people with multiple chronic diseases. Today, 86% of US health-care spending is generated by people with chronic disease. And this population is growing rapidly as people live longer. My work looks at how we can build a new care model to manage these individuals.” Catherine Jonash has been heading up operations at Virtudent. Virtudent is a mobile teledentistry company that brings preventive dental services right to the workplace. Using

state-of-the-art mobile equipment, Virtudent hygienists provide complete dental cleanings (including x-rays, intraoral photographs, and comprehensive patient education) right on site in a conference room or wellness center. Virtudent services are covered by standard dental insurance, so there is no added cost to the employer or employee. The overall mission of the company is to increase access to highquality oral health care by making it easy and convenient to stay on top of your dental needs. Catherine serves as the vice president and general manager of New England operations for Virtudent. She manages the sales, customer success, clinical, and operations teams that support the patient care provided in MA, NH, RI, CT, VT, and ME. It has been a remarkable learning experience for her to transition from a traditional hospital system to a start-up organization looking to disrupt the standard care delivery model of dentistry. There is a remarkable rate of nonconsumption of dental benefits across the country; many individuals avoid the dentist due to the lack of convenience, fear of the dentist, or inability to make time with a busy schedule. More and more employers are experimenting with on-site wellness services like on-site dental, on-site vision care, and on-site primary care to enable employees to stay healthy and engaged in the workplace; in such a competitive market for talent, these on-site benefits have become the key for employers to differentiate, attract and retain top talent. Betsabeh Madani also wears several hats in the health-care world, with varied responsibilities! As advisor to the chairman + CEO at Equicare Health, she furthers the company’s focus on oncology care coordination and chronic illness management (covering 350K+ patients and 300+ cancer centers mostly in the US, and then in Canada, Australia, and the UK ). At Cerner, she’s managing population health programs on diabetes and heart failure, as well as new products design and launch for patient readmission modeling in the ML/AI space of healthcare. Finally, at Hanover’s own Borealis Ventures, Betsabeh covers Canada as a venture consultant and engaging cutting edge start-ups in digital health and lifesciences since summer 2018. She writes: “I am currently working with a global task force on COVID-19, launching a product as we speak... it is a global and free digital health service: www.thecommonsproject.org/. We will have a link for DataMap and content soon where I am wearing the product manager hat.”

Kate Head also writes “will send something this weekend...currently rolling out telehealth to 300 clinicians to deal with COVID-19!” She never did send it, and I think we’re pretty proud of her prioritization skills these days. Still Plenty to Celebrate Even in the weirdest times, Tuckies grew careers and families. Christina Fanitzi was promoted to lt. colonel, and John Lehman and Justin Rodriquez were there to show support. The chief of staff of the Army promoted her personally at the Pentagon!

Pete Gauthier is keeping Tuckies together, writing: Olá, I am officially back in Washington, DC, and despite the current situation, it feels good to be home in America. After leaving Dhaka, I got to spend Christmas at home with the family and my fiancé, Sunny. I am learning Portuguese via Google hangouts now, and although it’s tough it is keeping me busy. On a positive note the coronavirus has led us to find interesting ways to reconnect. The Coop Bros had a virtual reunion with some wine and of course there was Keystone Light (thanks to Taylor Cornwall). Also had a socially distant happy hour with Dan Ettinger and Caroline Bressan in a local community garden. It is great and mentally healthy to stay in touch with Tuckies in different ways. Hoping Sunny will arrive in the US soon (unfortunately he got notice 45 minutes before the last flight from Frankfurt before the travel ban was leaving, which we had booked a ticket for, that his fiancé visa was ready (frowny emoji)—should have had the show 90 Day Fiancé taping the fiasco (facepalm emoji)). Other than that just trying to keep busy and sane. Miss you all and hope you are doing well! Tenha um bom dia!”

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Jamie Lippman moved to Miami to take up director of corporate responsibility for Bacardi. Kate Bante got married, but we missed it last edition! She writes: “Bryan (Nelson) and I got married on July 20, 2019, in Minneapolis. It was a fantastic day and I was so happy to have some of my favorite Tuckies in attendance! We just bought a home in Saint Paul and are busy getting settled and figuring out how big of a snowblower we need to buy for the impending MN winter....”

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CL ASS NOTES On the babies front, our Seattle Tuckie Nishant Mehta and wife Vaishali welcomed Viraaj, brother to 5-year-old Nirvi in October. In November, Mike and Eileen Kuo welcomed baby Hunter Kuo to the world, increasing their clan to a size of 4. Over in New York, Yamini Jagannadhan and Srikant Iyer had their first child, Ayaan Iyer Jason Crowl and wife Dani welcomed son Aiden Jackson Crowl in January, bring their clan count to 4. Max and Caroline Angeles Lefranc welcomed Emmanuelle Grace, sister to Nathianel Storm. Alexis Garcia and wife Jennifer are expecting a baby boy in June. Jesse Toronto shared: “I finally have something for class notes. I think the deadline passed a couple days ago [we can barely keep track of the deadline ourselves Jesse, and we don’t have newborns] but if there is still time to squeeze something in let’s do it. We decided that we needed at least one more tax credit, so we had another kid. Jordan J Toronto, born on March 16th, the day of the largest single-point drop in Dow Jones history. He really came in with a bang. Paternity leave will be interesting this time around, with the entire family home from school and a newborn. Mom and baby are doing great.” Is This Real Life Didn’t seem right to spend more time hunting down other updates, so here’s some reflections from yours trulies. Tara: “So I am writing to you from my flat in Hackney, London, the first day of our official nationwide lockdown. The entire country watched Boris set our new rules last night— one trip to the grocery store max, one form of exercise per day, no physical interaction between households, with police enforcing fines and arrests. It is astonishing to see how things have changed over the past weeks—from an initial sense of caution to full-blown anxiety and fear, watching this disease unfold globally. “As for me, I’m trying to stay sane in creative ways: Zoom yoga classes, meditation, cycling (through what currently looks like a zombie apocalypse), writing daily gratitudes, video calls, ‘garden hangs’ with my neighbour as we chat over our fence, puzzling, baking, losing 132

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myself in various music rabbit holes (Mixmag! NTS radio! Beats in Space! Boiler room!) and of course...Drag Race. I sit on the board of a wonderful charity called Made in Hackney, which is responding to the crisis by preparing and delivering free plant-based meals to vulnerable community members, and I am helping with that effort as much as I can. I haven’t started talking to my plants yet, but it’s probably only a matter of days (by the time you read this they will all have names). “At this moment, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t riddled with fear and anxiety, but I hope that we are collectively taking the right steps to alleviate our public health systems and save lives. Sending you all lots of love from across the pond. And if you ever want to discuss Tiger King...I am only a phone call away.”

security funds to weather personal financial impact, and a home to easily socially isolate in. The highlights of this experience thus far have been spending more time with my family, in particular dinners together that aren’t just microwaved chicken nuggets (ok, we did have that last night, but other nights have real food!). I feel immensely for those less fortunate, who are hourly workers, or are in less stable situations. I cannot imagine how hard it is for those people, already living paycheck to paycheck, with no childcare, no way to feed yourself or your family, fearing losing one’s home (if you have one), with no end in sight. There is so much uncertainty. Everyone has their own struggles right now. I hope everyone gets the support they need and please talk to someone if you are feeling depressed or desperate. “I will also provide some market data to put March 2020 in context. The MSCI World Index had a Q1 performance of -19.8%, or -22.5% from the January peak. Volatility reached highs we haven’t seen since 2008 and the global financial crisis. March 2020 set records in the market, including:

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Anne: “My first work-from-home day was Thursday, March 12. At that time, our reality today seemed unfathomable. By Sunday, March 15, Gov. Baker had shut down all schools and childcare, which has been extended from April 4 to May 4th. What once was a simple ‘WFH’ exercise has become a daily juggling act with how to care for my 4-year-old son while managing 2x the regular workload. Because I work in the investment-management industry, clients were going bananas as the markets have been insane based on the immediate economic impact and future uncertainty. Every day is a new effort in how to do a remotely decent job at work (mostly through becoming a master delegator to my teams and ultra-prioritizing) and making sure my son isn’t just a zombie in front of the TV/iPad. So far, this experience has highlighted the immense and critical role childcare providers/schools play in any parent’s life and how families are having their own special struggles these days with how to manage. At the same time, I feel incredibly fortunate that I have a stable job with a salary,

• Dow’s Largest Single-Day Point Drop Ever: The Dow dropped 13% in terms of points (worst day ever) and the S&P500 dropped 9% (worst day since since Black Monday 1987). • Fastest Correction Ever: Equity markets experienced one of the sharpest selloffs in history as the S&P 500 suffered a peak-totrough decline of -34% before the large-scale stimulus measures spurred an increase of +17.6% in just three days, the largest three-day rally since 1933, helping to pare losses. • Volatility Worse than in the Great Depression: The average daily S&P500 absolute change in March was 5%+ (the previous record was 3.9% in Nov 1929). • Worst US initial jobless claims ever (3.3M vs. an average of 220K). • Biggest credit outflows on record. • The yield on the entire US Treasury curve fell below 1% for the first time ever. As of market close on March 31st, there are over 860K reported cases (637K active) and 42,340 deaths (38,028 ex-China). New cases in China have slowed down completely and in Hubei, with China starting to loosening suppression tactics. Europe has become the epicenter of the outbreak with over 292,000 active cases as of April 1st. We have seen significant monetary and fiscal stimulus from the US, Europe, UK, China, Hong Kong,

Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The US Fed cut interest rates to 0% and committed to purchase $500B US Treasuries and $200B agency MBS and made $1.5T of short-term loans available. Congress has passed a historic $2T stimulus package, the largest in US history. The US government may buy into corporate rescues and is considering taking equity stakes in those rescued companies. Experts believe that real global GDP growth will slow to -1.3% in 2020, marking the slowest growth since the global financial crisis. While emerging-market growth will remain positive, developedmarkets are expected to contract by -4.0%.”

time i hear that song chords, doc antle britney spears, swiss snake bread, justin hakuta, john finlay, bubble tea, tiger king husband teeth, see my search history. Take care of yourselves, your families, and reach out to a Tuckie!

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Gabriel Martinez gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

The Levy family with the newest addition, Riley!

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Liz: “Feeling thankful to be far from U.S. politics in the time of COVID. Taught my parents how to video call me, may regret that. Other than that, I think my search history since the first COVID case was diagnosed in Switzerland, on Feb. 25th, paints an accurate picture of how things are going in our 63m 2 apartment, so I’ll close this edition of class notes with that. From earliest until now: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Engadin Ski Marathon coronavirus, too many ski accessories meme, Ebola Vanity Fair, Justin Hakuta, kale pesto bon appetit, mcsweeneys, John Mulaney, John Mulaney bodega, Endlich wieder Schutwetter, Vanguard, Charles Schwaab, Morgan Stanley StockPlan, des moines employment agency, composition III schiffbau, joe biden abortion stance, when is the convention, swiss bike route planner, u.s. Swiss border, gloria song, Takako Fuji, oerlikon market coronavirus, tormund instagram, st. patrick’s day, 7.7km in miles, bare feet power yoga, new yorker refugee terrorism, omar ameen ruling, momofuku brussel sprouts, turn off whatsapp notifications, gochujang chicken, toddler twins quarantine reddit, gallon to liter, ricotta citric acid recipe, armagnac, tiger king, kale pesto, tetrachromat, zoom, 1.25 lbs to kg, fernberger wolfson, every

Hello T’14s! We hope y’all (can you guess who is writing this one?) have been happy and healthy. In light of the quarantine that most of us have had to endure, we can’t wait for our next update to be filled with all the news of babies! Speaking of which, Hilary and Ryan Ferro just gave birth to a little cutie patootie—Owen Ryan Ferro—last November 18, 2019. Not too long after, Alexis Robbins and her hubster Leland have given birth to their own bundle of joy, Paxton Simon Robbins, on December 12, 2019. The arrival of their child has coincided with the move to the ‘burbs, so please visit them in their new digs in Orinda! And finally, one of our own class secretaries, Katie Levy, and her hubbie Simon had their own little angelface, with Riley Lawrence Levy joining the world on February 6, 2020, clocking in at an even 9 lbs.

The Robbins family in their new digs in Orinda

Soon to be on the baby train are our newlyweds. First up, John Kirk who married his now wife, Jess, on October 26th. This came after hiking the Appalachian Trail in late September—because what doesn’t prep you more than a 160+ day trip over 2,000+ miles. Kudos to both of you! John followed up the hike and marriage with his next big move, running a small gas-turbine repair business. Because, everyone needs turbines. Early this year, Josh Mellen got married to his now wife, Elizabeth, on January 18th in New York City. It was a black tie affair, because he’s fancy like that. Tuckies were there, Meri Carman sang, Josh DJed, fun was had. Not too long after that, John Brunda got married to his now wife, Chelsea (a fellow Dartmouth alum! Go Big Green!) on February 15th—not a moment too soon, beating COVID to the altar. In attendance were a number of Tuckies, including Andrew Wong and Lorea Barturen (yes, putting you on blast—you’re next!). Like Alexis, John is also going to be moving to the ‘burbs—which, for Atlanta, means moving to the country with a capital C, capital twang.

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Hope these updates leave you all as excited as we are for our October reunion, now more than ever, as we write these notes from quarantine!

John Brunda and Chelsea Hassett looking happy as ever!

I suppose our normal update wouldn’t be complete without finding out the latest job moves! Scott Keenan finally hung up his consulting hat (say it ain’t so!) to explore the world of start-ups. He joined WhyHotel, basically a fancy version of Airbnb. He can get you a discount, so hit him up (once you’ve decided to leave your house). In case your LinkedIn is broken or you get your news exclusively from our updates, here are a few rapid fire for your reading pleasure: Sasha MacKinnon “liked” Facebook, Alejandro Lorenzo-Rojas is streaming over at YouTube, Mustafa Ali has his head in the clouds at AWS, Violet Li uploaded herself over at Dell, and one of our own class secretaries, Nick Scarchilli, is <science science mumble science> at Amagma Therapeutics. Congrats to everyone!

Lindsey Windham got engaged to Bay Area native Gavin Garrison on December 14, 2019, in Maui, Hawaii. They met in Santa Monica, CA, soon after Lindsey relocated from Seattle to So-Cal in early 2019. Both work at Amazon Studios—Lindsey in awards marketing and Gavin as a creative producer. They are getting married in October in Ojai, CA, where Gavin’s family lives, and are excited to remain in Los Angeles and support Tuckies looking to break into the entertainment industry!

Gavin Garrison and Lindsey Windham

Also, hi Erin Schwarz and Adam Kramer! How’s it going?

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Pat Lawler proposed to longtime girlfriend Tamara Rosenkranz. And Kenly Drake got engaged to HBS grad Toby Voight. Ashwin Gargeya and Lauren Blanchard got engaged and are getting married this September. Alison (Hiler) Isaacson T’16 and Nathan Isaacson were married in August 2019 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, joined by many Tuck friends—Zander and Abigail Abbott T’13, Pat Lawler and Tamara Rosenkranz, Toby Voight and Kenly Drake, Caroline Mann, Nell Kelleher, Ashley and Matt Salmon T’17, Matt Prescottano, Alex Russell and Wynn Tanner, Meg and Maxime Guillaume, Pat and Kat Brown, Alice Demmerle T’16, Jamie and Amy [Lichorat] O’Donnell T’16, Amy [Craig] Gentile T’16 and Mike Gentile, Lauren and Dan Calano. Marshall Mentz T’15 also celebrated his big day in March. In addition to weddings—we’re excited about the newest edition of Tiny Tuckies! Christina Vottero and Spencer Vaughn welcomed George Becker Vaughn on February 25, 2020. Will Eusden and Olivia Eusden TP’15 had their second child, Sophie. Sean Vander Linde and Caitlyn de Kanter TP’15 welcomed their first child, Alexandra. Also welcoming their first children, Amy [Craig] Gentile T’16 and Mike Gentile and Luiz Mendoza and Ana Espinoza TP’15. Juan Giovaneli wrote in to share that as part of his role as innovation director for Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, and Paraguay at AB InBev, he identifies potential white spaces in the beer industry. “In Argentina, with the boom of the beer category and the proliferation of imports, the consumer was thirsty for new, internationally inspired, aspirational beer brands.

This is the reason why we created a new brand, whose name you might be familiar with: Hanover. A pure-malt, rich, beautifully crafted beer for our ever-demanding consumers. Every Tuckie who gets to Buenos Aires will be invited to a Hanover beer on me. Just shoot me an email if you’re around!” Also in South America, Lyusha (Goldberger) Zaltsman shared a photo from her visit to Sao Paolo last October, where she “had the absolute pleasure of meeting up with Dante, Xiaobo, and Sussumo!”

Lyusha, Dante, Xiaobo, and Sussumo in Sao Paolo

Weddings I know many of you are working from home and frantically rescheduling your meticulously planned weddings due to social-distancing orders. That is the worst, and I’m super-sorry. I’ll make sure to include our first-ever, extraextra-extra celebratory “Rescheduled Tuckie Weddings” section next time. But meanwhile, we can talk about a couple classmates who have decided to get engaged! Remi Evans and Tim Dolan (T’17) got engaged last year on Remi’s birthday, out in San Diego. Tim and Remi first met when they were paired up as pong partners in the school tournament, which is just the most Tuck thing I’ve ever heard. They’re planning on getting married on 7/11/20 (free Slurpee day!) at the top of Beaver Creek Mountain. She’s expecting a strong Tuck showing on the dance floor. Remi and Tim also have a new addition: a miniature Australian Shepherd puppy named Dunkin Dolan. He’s a double D (Dunkin Dolan) just like his dad. [Note: Look on the ’16 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of Dunkin!]

Babies The T’16 class is experiencing a baby boom as it is. And I hear so many jokes about all the “coronababies” who are going to be born in December, so I look forward to a lot more baby photos in the next round. Mark my words though, these will all be first children. Trust me. No one with existing children is going to risk getting themselves into this type of no-childcare situation again with even more children. Chelsea Dodds and Warren Williamson welcomed Cody Harvel Williamson in October, the same day as Dartmouth Homecoming. Side note: Chelsea and Warren and their two boys want to move to Boston this year (private equity and investment banking backgrounds; willing to do anything with good people; get in touch). My personal excitement level for this happening is absolutely sky high. Mike Hill and his wife Jaycee welcomed Miles Ranger Hill on 10/19/19. He’s thriving in his Manhattan apartment but missing his extended city walks now that we’re all social distancing.

As for us, Kelsey (Byrne) Kelly is currently quarantining in Utah with her husband, Craig, and their two cats, Five and Rockwell. Heather (Levy) Sigel is practicing social distancing in Boston with her husband, Shane.

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

Ok, so you guys—I almost forgot to write this in time for the deadline. Not because I don’t love you, but because I love Tiger King more. Just kidding, but I am actually on Day 23 of family quarantine and I’m superdistracted. We’re talking two working parents trying to stay employed, one screaming toddler, zero childcare help, and 12 remaining Clorox wipes. Just living life in the middle of coronavirus hot-spot city. Is this still going to be over by Easter? Anyway, our class continues to have plenty of great news to share in dark times, so get excited!

Francisco Riederer (Chico) and his fiancée Ji’s wedding will be on 10/10/20 in a chateau in Burgundy, France. They had their engagement photo shoot in South Korea during Thanksgiving.

Whit McClung and his wife Ashley welcomed their first daughter, Margaret Page (Margot), in February. Margo’s baby book asks for news headlines from around the time she was born, so the McClungs are trying to come up with some fake news to make the world seem a bit lighter. One thing’s for sure, Margot’s looking forward to being sous chef to Chas Richard’s new baby at the 2047 Tuck Crawfish Boil. Joe Brown and his wife have a new baby boy, Samir Patrick Brown. Samir arrived after Joe moved with his wife to Berkeley, CA, for her new job as a professor at the university. Joe has a new job as well, working in pricing strategy at Salesforce.

Chico and Ji’s engagement photo shoot

Katie Endress Shactman and her husband Brian welcomed their second child, William Henry Shactman (Will) on November 9, 2019. Alex loves being a big brother, and they’re loving life in Chicagoland as a family of four.

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Chris Hogan and Jeff Clark run into each other at the hospital

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The Crandall family—Jake, Alana, Liam, and Jack

the fall B final for DecSci. Awww, memories. Anyway, Jenny is basically a teenager now, and Zane is enjoying spending more time with both kids now that he’s working from home. Gotta love Zane for writing in with a silver lining for the pandemic!

Zane Zheng’s new baby boy Ziya with big sister Jenny

Mollie Naber gave birth to baby #4, Ada Sophie Naber, born on 2/2/2020 at 2 am.

Welcome to the family, Tiny Tuckies! Can’t wait to meet you all at our reunion in 2021.

Jacob Crandall and his wife Alana added a second child to their family. Jack Joseph was born on January 8, 2020. The Crandalls have decided to leave Chicago and move back to the East Coast to be closer to family. They’ll be putting down roots in the NYC area. They’re looking forward to getting back in touch with the other NYC Tuckies!

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Amarendra Singh and his wife Priya had a baby boy, Aarav, in November. His grandparents flew in from India to meet him! Amarendra is still working with Sentinel Investments and enjoying life in Burlington, Vermont. Mollie Naber’s family and new baby Ada

Zane Zheng and his wife welcomed a second child, baby boy Ziya. Not-so-Tiny Tuckie Jenny is loving being a big sister! I was in Zane’s study group when Jenny was born during that crazy snowstorm we had during

Jasmine and Kevin meet up in Seoul

Jeff Clark and his wife Allison welcomed their first child, Stella Cade Clark, on October 8, 2019. A crazy coincidence—Chris Hogan and his wife Brooke had a baby 12 hours later at the same hospital in Boston, and their recovery rooms were all of 30 feet apart. Crazy! [Note: Look for a lovely photo of Jeff, Allison, and Stella on mytuck.dartmouth.edu!]

Jasmine Fei Qu returned to her hometown in Guangzhou and took a job at a Chinese mutual fund (易方达 E Fund). She also finished her first-ever triathlon in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China. She also recently got to run into Kevin Kim in Seoul! [Note: Look for a great pic of Jasmine’s triathlon finish at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] Tony Sampson said farewell to the frigid winters of Boston in favor of a move to sunny California. He left Bain and took a role with PayPal’s global strategy group in San Jose. He’s loving this new California life, sleeping in his own bed every night, and getting to see Mitzi and Guy every day. Dan Linge jumped ship from consulting life as well and started at WorkBoard, Inc., an enterprise SaaS startup focused on strategy and results management through OKRs, as

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Tiny Tuckies

Rob Wilson with his family in Cabo

director, strategy & alignment. Henrique Bahr moved from Minnesota to Amsterdam. He is the new finance lead for Cargill’s protein business in Europe, which means he must be eating a lot of chicken nuggets during business hours. HB and Molly moved in February and got settled into their place just in time for the virus to hit. They welcome visitors when life returns to normal!

Bernard Piché and Geneviève welcomed their firstborn baby daughter, Amélie, on Jan 9th and have been over the moon ever since. Bernard is still at BCG in Toronto but is planning a temporary move to rural Nova Scotia later this year to reconnect with the woods. He writes that it’s been great having Daniela Murillo and her husband Kiel here in Canada and staying in touch with the few but committed Tuck alumni up north.

Aru and daughter Vera Walsh

Megan (Farrell) Amarante and her husband Nick are proud parents to Theodore “Teddy” James Amarante who arrived on February 23rd, 2020 weighing 7.5 lbs and measuring 20 inches long. Megan writes that they are all doing well and loving life as a family of three!

Rob Wilson is busy in Seattle, keeping their three girls busy as he and Shannon work from home. He sent in a photo from his family vacation to Cabo in February! Remember going places? All is well in Boston. I’m still at Liberty Mutual, working on insurtech product innovation and running a small business unit. Caroline is going to turn 2 in June (in quarantine?!) and Brian’s still working for Tracksmith as head of digital. I miss you all and the before times— you know, when we could all recklessly share champagne straight from the bottle at the DISO Pop and Lock party. Speaking of which, please pour one out for the T’20s, who don’t get to have their second-year spring or their DISO. Ugh, awful. Stay safe and stay in touch, everyone!

Amélie Piché Teddy Amarante Aru Murthy and her husband, Conor, welcomed daughter Vera Walsh on January 5th, 2020. Conor is a physician and currently working on the COVID unit at his hospital. This is challenging work under any circumstance but especially hard to self-isolate and miss precious moments in his newborn’s life. Thank you, most sincerely, for the work you’re doing, Conor.

Ajax the cat earned the title “big brother” when Taryn and Phil Rich welcomed daughter Campbell “Cam” Avery on January 27th, 2020. Taryn and Phil are loving life as new parents, although Phil wishes the CEO Experience included a case on how to raise a baby. Cam and her parents welcome any visitors missing the Upper Valley! SUMMER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES General Life Updates Dale Kim and Angela Szabó “Brexit-ed” London and moved back to the US in late 2019. Leo De Cara shared that the Brazilian representation in Hanover will continue, as his brother, Andre De Cara, has been accepted as a T’22. Leo is delighted that they will graduate 5 years apart so they can attend reunions together in the coming years. Sunny Kim moved to NYC.

Cam Rich

Weddings and Engagements Libby Pendery and Kevin de Regt got “maui’ed” in Hawaii. Emma Mahoney got engaged to Kevin Cox (D’13) during a snowshoe excursion in Woodstock, VT. Indrani Santra got married to Deepak Mohan in Kolkata in December 2019. In true “never stop exploring” fashion, Paula Pedowitz got engaged to Dhruv Gupta (T’16) in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Gaby Rapke Hoffman started an encore hockey career with a “hockey mom’s team” called the Westchester Wildcats. Highlights so far include realizing that she actually should have been playing lefty all along.

Mike Goldwasser with Sam Goldhar and baby Leo Goldhar

Lastly, this issue’s class-notes compiler, Jenny Djupedal, is finding ways to stay connected while under shelter-in-place orders in MN. Last week she reunited with the rest of Study Group 20—Neeti Bandodker, Rick DiPaolo, Molly Schloss, Aaron Li, and Rup Basuroychowdhury—over Zoom. Neeti and Rick chose iconic Hanover landmarks for their virtual backgrounds—Tuck Hall and Murphy’s, respectively. Hoping everyone is healthy, safe, and focusing on the positives during this uncertain time.

’18 [Editor’s note: We are looking for T’18 class secretaries! Please contact tuck.alumni. engagement@tuck.dartmouth.edu if you’re interested in joining the ranks of Tuck’s most loyal volunteers.] Sam and Emily Goldhar welcomed their first child, Leo, in December. Leo came to visit Sam (right in pic) at work to check in on operations at Ferrara, as well as the company’s CHRO, Mike Goldwasser T’97 (left in pic).

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Martina Ravelli [Thornton] and her husband John welcomed their baby girl Victoria Kathleen Thornton into the world on January 25th, 2020.

Martina Ravelli and John Thornton with their daughter Victoria, born in January

Victoria has already brought lots of joy to their home and is getting spoiled by her parents, grandparents, and doggie brother Tuckie. Annabel de Braganca and Andrea Papi tied the knot in Rome at San Luigi dei Francesi on June 22, 2019. Twenty-one Tuckies and TPs made the journey overseas to celebrate. We are very grateful to Tuck for the lifelong bonds formed at school and are excited for the Tuck community’s continued presence in the next chapter of our lives.

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Tuckies in Rome at the wedding of Annabel de Braganca and Andrea Papi on June 22, 2019

Mark Piana and Arch Vamanrao ’20 at their March 14, 2020, wedding

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Tayo Odusanya odusanya.tayo@gmail.com

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Caitlin Tappan and TP Terry with Tuck classmates celebrating their wedding in York, ME!

Molly F. Tyler mtyler@wellesley.edu

[Note: See lots more fantastic photos in the ’19 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] Weddings John Michel and Katie Patterson (now Katie Michel) got married on August 17th, 2019, at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont, with around 100 friends and family. They both love Vermontshire (Vermont + New Hampshire) and really treasured being able to get married 30 minutes from Tuck, where they met. John had three Tuckies as groomsmen: Jeff Wu, Nikilesh Eswarapu, and Nilav Ranpara. It was a beautiful day, and they narrowly missed a thunderstorm that opened up the sky right as they sat down for dinner. [See pic on myTUCK!] Caitlin Tappan and her husband Terry got married this fall in York, Maine, surrounded by Tuck classmates.

Katie Donovan Waltham and Chris Waltham ’20 had a whirlwind of a wedding weekend, as a rare “Nor’easter” swept across New England in the days leading up to the wedding, leaving a flurry of canceled flights and ferries to the wedding location, Martha’s Vineyard, in its wake. The skies miraculously cleared on Saturday morning and ferries and flights resumed, helping nearly all guests make it to the ceremony in the nick of time. Due to high winds, the reception venue was moved to Katie’s parents’ backyard, so the happy couple was able to make memories at home that will last a lifetime. They say their wedding day was, hands down, the best day of their lives. On March 14, 2020, Mark Piana and Archana Vamanrao ’20 tied the knot! The couple snuck in their wedding just hours before the city of Boston ground to a halt due to COVID-19. Determined to celebrate with Arch and Mark, many Tuckies were in attendance and kept the dance floor hopping all night. Faced with the prospect of a remote spring term for Arch,

Sam Bristol and Georgia Gomez Bristol were married in the town of Gordes in France’s Luberon Valley on June 29th, 2019. Family, friends, and several Tuckies braved historic heat to help them celebrate. [See pic on myTUCK!] Molly West Dearing and Danny Dearing were married on September 7, 2019, in Kennebunkport, ME. Molly’s parents, T’83 Brent and TP’83 Tina, celebrated Molly and Danny, along with classmates from both the classes of ’19 and ’83! See the class of ’83 column in class notes for a picture! Lauren Fallon Drusbosky and Craig Drusbosky were married on August 3, 2019, in Danvers, MA, with friends, family, and Tuckies joining the celebrations. [See pic on myTUCK!] Lin Duan and Tyler Hassenpflug tied the knot on July 27, 2019, at the Bear Mountain Inn, Maine, surrounded by family, friends, and several Tuckies. [See pic on myTUCK!] Archi Vamathevan and Kyle Boyd (D’12) were married on October 19, 2019, in St. Paul, Minnesota, with friends, family, and plenty of Tuck and Dartmouth alums in attendance. Alfred Mushonga and Charity Tarima got married on August 4, 2019, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Friends, family, and Tuckies were present to celebrate with the lovely SUMMER 2020

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Katie Donovan Waltham and her husband Chris Waltham ’20, surrounded by Tuck classmates at their October 12, 2019, wedding at Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard

couple. The newlyweds have since moved to San Francisco and are loving the Bay area. [See myTUCK for a photo!] Mark Barosky and Kathleen Sullivan were married at the LINE Hotel in Washington, DC, in November 2019. Babies Yoav Shehory and his wife Hila welcomed their second daughter, Ayala, last November. Big sister and seasoned Tiny Tuckie Tamara is excited to show Baby Ayala the ropes! On January 2nd, Mitch Leestma and Katy were blessed to welcome baby boy Joseph into the world. Joey is doing great! Mom and dad could use a bit more sleep. The family currently resides in St. Louis, where Mitch works for AB InBev. Gillian Apps (D’07) and wife Meghan Duggan welcomed baby boy George AppsDuggan on February 29th, 2020. Rumor is baby George has already begun training for his first hockey season. Charlotte Johnson and Chris Jones welcomed daughter Emme Spring Jones on March 18, 2020. Liz and Tom Savory celebrated the birth of their son Sebastian in London on 27 February. The three of them are relocating to Johannesburg later this year—any visiting Tuckies are welcome to stay and enjoy a “new world” wine night! [See a photo on myTUCK!]

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Tiny Tuckie Ayala Shehory, born November 2019

Engagements After graduating from Tuck, summiting Kilimanjaro, and roadtripping cross-country to start new jobs, Alison Dieringer and Alex Pandrangi were ready for an even bigger adventure together. In January, after a short hike in the Marin Headlands outside of SF, Alex proposed and Alison said “of course!” [See photo on myTUCK; photo credit to Jin Baik, a co-conspirator for the proposal.] Life Updates After making Hanover home for a decade, Ahra Cho (D’11, MED’20) will be moving to New York City to begin her emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in July. Tolu Kehinde’s (MED’19) medical anthology on the psychosocial impacts of medical training was published in fall 2019. Since then, she has spoken at medical schools and to her residency program at the Mayo Clinic about the anthology and her writing journey. Last summer, in collaboration with Tuck’s Center for Business, Government & Society, Jamie Mittelman helped write a case on her alma mater Middlebury College’s divestment from fossil fuels. She started a Master of Public Administration at HKS in fall 2019. Shout-out to Vengatesh Muralidharan and Mathew O’Sullivan for leading the Tuck Alumni Lifelong Learning (TALL) program “Puerto Rico Energy Recovery” in June 2019, keeping us all educated!

Tiny Tuckie Joey Leestma, born January 2, 2020

Special Shout-Out We wanted to give a special shout-out to all of our classmates working hard on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, especially our MD/ MBA classmates (Brendin Beaulieu-Jones, Ahra Cho, Tolu Kehinde, Andrew Park, Ana Rodriguez-Villa, and Silas Wong) and Captain Miles Kirwin, who spent his March and April commanding a national guard unit, setting up drive-through testing centers in New York.

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.

Henri E. Rosen T’41 April 9, 2020

George A. Davis T’53 January 27, 2020

Putnam W. Blodgett T’61 March 3, 2020

Roger K. Taylor T’76 March 10, 2020

Henry C. Keck T’44 April 4, 2020

Robert A. Malin T’54 April 15, 2020

John B. Owens T’61 March 12, 2020

Jonathan A. Hayes T’78 February 5, 2020

Carlton P. Frost IV T’45 April 3, 2020

Donn E. Hill T’55 March 30, 2020

Charles L. Pugh T’64 March 23, 2020

Charles R. Kreter T’80 April 20, 2020

James D. Kennedy Jr. T’47 February 4, 2020

Richard A. Pearl T’55 April 20, 2020

C. William Ferguson T’64 September 23, 2018

Alexander S. Macmillan III T’80 February 20, 2020

John F. Steele T’48 April 12, 2020

T. N. Trolle T’55 February 10, 2020

James H. Beardsley Jr. T’67 January 31, 2020

Brian R. Igoe T’81 April 7, 2020

James H. von Rohr T’48 March 4, 2020

William Foggle T’56 April 4, 2020

Michel J. Lebas T’69 February 15, 2020

Frederick H. Smith T’82 November 19, 2019

Richard D. Fitzgerald T’49 November 26, 2019

Preston V. Pumphrey T’57 April 14, 2020

Glenn A. Chadbourne T’70 March 26, 2020

Eric Joseph Bergwall T’93 December 13, 2019

Edward H. Grant T’50 November 28, 2019

Robert R. Sullivan T’57 February 22, 2020

Don DiDio T’71 April 14, 2019

Glenn M. Crabbe T’05 February 20, 2020

Hugh K. Brower T’51 December 25, 2019

Gordon C. Hally T’58 February 7, 2020

Claude W. Hinsley T’71 November 1, 2019

Charles J. Urstadt T’51 March 2, 2020

Don M. Shagrin T’59 January 17, 2020

Thomas E. O’Connor Jr. T’72 April 7, 2020

Charles E. Clough T’53 November 29, 2019

Richard E. Nau T’60 November 29, 2019

Nathaniel T. Mason T’75 November 21, 2019

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