Tuck Today Alumni Magazine Summer 2019 by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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TUCK EDUCATES WISE LEADERS TO BETTER THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.

STITCH FIX MARKETING CHIEF DEIRDRE FINDLAY T’00 IS CHANGING THE WAY WE SHOP FOR CLOTHES

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Plus: Tuck’s Campus Transforms

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News. Ideas. People.

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BRIDGE

Their Future

Tuck Business Bridge is a total immersion business program designed to prepare top liberal arts, science, and engineering undergrads for challenging careers in business and beyond. In just a few weeks, the Tuck Business Bridge Program®, held at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, delivers a comprehensive business curriculum taught by Tuck’s top-ranked MBA faculty, a capstone team project, recruiting, and one-onone career guidance, to give students the tools they need to get a job and succeed.

2019 December Bridge Program December 1–20 2020 Summer Bridge Program Session dates to be announced

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Scholarships are available!

CITY SCOOTERS: For their First-Year Project, five Tuck students worked with Lime Italy in Rome to help the urban mobility company develop a partnership strategy.

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CHRIS MILLIMAN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

ON BALANCE Leadership is in many ways a balance—between today and tomorrow, between continuity and change. Tuck’s success rests in that relationship. Indeed, it is the synergy of dynamic change rooted in historic strength that has long enabled Tuck to thrive. This balance is present in our timeless and timely foundational first-year core curriculum, newly enhanced to meet the evolving and future needs of students and companies, and in the cutting-edge research and teaching of our talented faculty. So too is it found in the ongoing transformation of our physical environment—most recently in the creation of technologically-advanced spaces designed to foster in students time-honored teamwork and collaboration skills. It is these skills—together with a motivation to improve both business and the broader world—that have long set our graduates apart. As you will read, this is true whether they are leading marketing for an algorithm-driven personal shopping service, like new Stitch Fix CMO Deirdre Findlay T’00, or they are among the many Tuck students each year who enter the dynamic and increasingly complex field of management consulting. Though their paths may vary, all have benefitted from a learning experience that balances both present and future. Ours is a community that innovates continually and intentionally. We at Tuck are constantly building new capabilities through new faculty members, new courses, and new co-curricular and career opportunities for our students. And yet the fundamental formula of bringing together gifted learners and scholar-educators remains the same. It is there where we find our balance.

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

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EDITOR Justine Kohr

SENIOR EDITORS

OVERHEARD @TuckSchool

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Kirk Kardashian Cathy Melocik

CLASS NOTES EDITOR Cathy Melocik

PHOTO EDITOR Laura DeCapua

AGBU Young Professionals Yerevan @ypyerevan

We had an amazing networking night with Tuck School MBA students. We had a discussion about economic growth and development in #Armenia. #agbuyp #agbuypyerevan

TUCK TODAY ADVISORY BOARD Gina C. des Cognets T’01

Pat Milligan @pat_milligan1

Huge thank you to @TuckSchool for inviting me to speak on the future of women at work and how to move the needle toward #genderequality #TuckForShe #WhenWomenThrive

Renee Hirschberg Sally Jaeger Punam Anand Keller

Philip Moss @ManaPhilip

Steven Lubrano T’87 Matthew J. Slaughter

Back in Hanover @TuckSchool – amazing to see how passionate our future MBAs are about social issues and development. Thanks to John McKinley and the Center for Business, Government & Society for arranging the visit! #blendedfinance #TuckAlumni #cbgs

Erin Tunnicliffe T’97

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Yvan T Baker yvanbaker

One of the most valuable experiences in my life and one of the most fun was my MBA at Tuck in New Hampshire. On Saturday it was great to see the CN Tower in #Toronto and buildings around the world lit green to celebrate Dartmouth College's 250th birthday! #dartmouth250 #mba #tuckies

Katie Burke @katieburke

Such a treat to spend yesterday with @AlisonElworthy @TuckSchool teaching the HubSpot case with the amazing @dralvataylor great discussion with some amazing students.

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Aja Evans ajalevans Tuck’s Next Step: Transition to Business program has instilled a certain confidence in me as I continue to explore this next chapter of my life. #TuckNextStep has created a network of people that will forever have a special place in my heart, and I know will always have my back. Nothing but love for my TNS19 family, you guys have inspired me more than you know! Thank you @tuckschool

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CONTENTS

DEPARTMENTS Byrne 2nd Floor; Main Lounge

NEWSROOM TUCKLAB: A BOLD NEW PROGRAM

FRESH PRODUCE, FRESH FRIDGE

BRACING BREXIT

TUCK NEXT STEP WILL OFFER FALL PROGRAM

ENHANCED CORE CURRICULUM TAKING SHAPE

SHAKABALL: A TUCK STARTUP

TUCK TEAM WINS GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES CHALLENGE

IDEAS

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Major upgrades and new spaces are coming to Tuck. Here’s what you can expect. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

DOES FINANCIAL ADVICE COST MORE THAN IT SHOULD?

FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE AIRWAVES

THE HIDDEN DANGER OF COLLABORATION

FINDINGS: LESLIE ROBINSON ON SPECIAL TAX DEALS IN THE EU

FINDING NORMAL

FACULTY NEWS

ALUMNI NEWS

Q&A: DAWSON HER MANY HORSES T’10

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THE NEW CONSULTING

Stitch Fix CMO Deirdre Findlay T'00 is disrupting

Alumni weigh in on the evolution of consulting.

traditional approaches to marketing.

BY MICHAEL BLANDING

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SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI AUTHORS 56 ALUMNI ESSAY: A POSITIVE SPIN ON LIFE AFTER CANCER

NEWSMAKERS 60 CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

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08 T UCKGO / 10 T UCK NEXT STEP /

11 CORE CURRICULUM UPDATE / 12 S TARTUP STORIES /

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UPfront A BOLD NEW PROGRAM FOR DARTMOUTH UNDERGRADUATES A partnership between Tuck and Dartmouth, TuckLAB wants to help undergraduate students pursue their dreams—no matter their passion. By KRISTIN MAFFEI

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inter 2019 marked the launch of an exciting new program for Dartmouth undergraduates: TuckLAB (Liberal Arts and Business). This partnership between Tuck and Dartmouth’s Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship provides students with general business analytic and communication skills, as well as an understanding of the core concepts and practices of entrepreneurship. The brainchild of Rick Magnuson D’79, Jeffrey Crowe D’78, Dean Matthew Slaughter, Deputy Dean Punam Anand Keller, and Jamie Coughlin, director of the Magnuson Center, TuckLAB is meant to make it easier for program participants to build a viable career in any field. “We want students to be able to pursue their dreams, no matter what their passions are. Whether they care about dance or health care or something else entirely, we want them to feel prepared for what comes after graduation,” says Keller. The six-week program is taught twice yearly by six Tuck professors and one Thayer professor, and is divided into two sections: the core and the ABLE

Most TuckLAB classes are linked to an experience-based deliverable, such as idea pitching and product development.

concentration. The core section focuses on fundamental business skills. The ABLE (Applied Business Learning and Entrepreneurship) concentration applies these skills to the entrepreneurial setting and allows students to develop insight into the entrepreneurial lifecycle. TuckLAB culminates with a Shark Tankstyle pitch competition. The inaugural winner of the competition was Valkyr,

a company that is working on a new medicine for rheumatoid arthritis. Judges for the competition are drawn from across the Tuck and Upper Valley communities and include alumni like Phil Ferneau D’84, T’96, co-founder of Borealis Ventures, who participated in the winter competition. Students work closely with Tuck faculty, students, and alumni throughout the

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program, and almost everyone finds the arrangement to be mutually beneficial. For example, teaching undergraduates can also be an exciting change of pace for the Tuck faculty members who are teaching in the program. “The enthusiasm, skills, and energy of the undergraduates inspire me to be more creative in my teaching,” says faculty director Steven J. Kahl D’91, associate professor of business administration and faculty director of Tuck’s Center for Entrepreneurship. “It is fantastic to see the students wrestle with a concept discussed in class and apply it to their project. They are fast learners who really push me.” Throughout the program, eight MBA students serve as TuckLAB e-ship associ-

ates, judging the program’s smaller challenges and providing coaching during working group time. Alumni have also gotten involved in coaching. This winter, Errik Anderson D’00, T’07, Th’07 acted as a mentor the night before the pitch competition, spending time with each group to help them perfect their pitch. “TuckLAB helps bring everything we know at Tuck to the undergraduates,” he says. “If we do it in the right way, as one Dartmouth—not as Tuck, not as the college, but together—we support the core liberal arts mission.” Post-program, students are maintaining their relationship to Tuck. Several students continue to meet regularly with Tuck faculty, and many have interviewed at Tuck's Startup Incubator to work on

Global Leadership is a highly experiential program, with participants undertaking visits in China, India, projects. One groupfield even intends to use the and the Upper Valley.

Tuck test kitchen to continue honing their recipes. The skills the TuckLAB students learned during their six-week intensive will remain with them as they enter the workforce and grow their careers. “Every one of us has an ‘inner entrepreneur,’ but we need the training and tools to channel these ambitions.” says co-founder Rick Magnuson. “These skills are relevant to every major and academic background, and are entirely complementary to the deep knowledge developed in any chosen major. We applaud the students who are willing to take the time to complete TuckLAB while pursuing their normal course work.”

TuckLAB is also deepening connections between Dartmouth students and the Tuck community.

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FIRST-YEAR PROJECTS

FRESH PRODUCE, FRESH FRIDGE A team of Tuck students is working with 6AM Health, a specialty food business founded by Brad Callow T’13, to help bring the company to scale. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

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rad Callow T’13 is quick to find the common thread in his post-MBA career: health care. In his first few jobs, this is clear. He began working in the therapeutics space, and then switched to diagnostics and health care technology. But in 2017, he went in a different direction. That’s when he founded 6AM Health, a specialty food business that focused on green juices. He soon expanded to fresh salads and meals, delivering them directly to his customers in the Boston Metro area before 6 a.m. For Callow, food is the first medicine—both preventative and healing. “I realized that problems like obesity have a lot of co-morbidities,” he says, “so if we use food to minimize obesity, we can prevent a lot of other diseases at the same time.” Now Callow is partnering with Tuck students on a First-Year Project (FYP) to take his company to scale. As he learned more and more about the food industry, he discovered that success is mostly about logistics. You can have the freshest, best-tasting food, but without an efficient way to deliver it to customers, it’s not worth much. So instead of selling food to individual customers through a subscription delivery service, 6AM Health will begin installing “fresh fridges”—think healthy vending machines—at locations across the Northeast. The first one was installed in March at Tuck, in the PepsiCo Dining Room. He’s counting on the FirstYear Project students to bring an entrepreneurial focus to the Fresh Fridge, testing pricing and product combinations and solving logistical problems.

The first 6AM Health fresh fridge was installed in March in Tuck’s PepsiCo Dining Room.

“Having the FYP team will be incredibly helpful,” Callow says. “What we need to do is continue learning and sorting out what people like and don’t like. And I would love this to eventually be something like TuckStuff or theBOX, where it’s studentrun and it becomes a permanent operation there.” Elizabeth Kachavos T’20 knows theBOX well: she’s worked there since arriving at Tuck last summer. The FYP with 6AM Health was a natural choice for her, since she’s interested in the food industry and looking for more opportunities for realworld learning in that sector. “We’ve seen there’s a great demand for healthier fresh food on campus—especially on the weekends when the dining hall is closed,” she says. “I’d love to play a role in increasing those options at Tuck.” Another member of the FYP team is Elisa Scudder D’14, T’20. She gravitated toward 6AM Health because she’s interested in

product entry strategy and market entry. “This fits that niche perfectly,” she says. “It’s not too early-stage: the business model is set up but it’s just expanding into this new market.” Scudder is also excited about working on a project that can have a real impact on campus. “We’re going to physically see what we’re working on and hear our classmates talk about how they like it or don’t like it,” Scudder says. At first, the Fresh Fridge will be stocked with food prepared at 6AM Health’s kitchen outside Boston, and will be re-stocked every week. During the course of the FYP, Callow hopes the team can find a more local farm to partner with, and the most efficient and cost-effective way to prepare and package the items. It might involve working with the Byrne servery, or the team from theBOX. “This FYP is really about eship,” Callow says. “What’s the best, most sustainable way to keep this going? I’m also just fired up to work with Tuckies.” SUMMER 2019

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BRACING FOR BREXIT A GIX to Ireland and the UK highlights the costs of political uncertainty. / By KIRK KARDASHIAN

n the days leading up to the 2016 referendum on Brexit, very few political observers or business leaders predicted that a majority of voters in the United Kingdom would vote for the UK to leave the European Union. As we now know, they were wrong. That surprising outcome set in motion a process that was supposed to conclude on March 29, 2019 with the UK officially severing ties with the EU. That looming deadline was just a week after the end of Tuck’s March break, so the timing was perfect for a Global Insight Expedition (GIX) to that region, where students could learn about the myriad ways political uncertainty can impact businesses, countries, and individual people. Lisa Miller, the director of the Global Insight Expedition course, knew of two perfect people to lead the trip. One is Thomas Lawton, a visiting professor of business administration at Tuck. Lawton studies the intersection of geopolitics and business strategy and is based at Cork University Business School, University College Cork, in Ireland. The other is John McKinley, executive director of the Center

for Business, Government & Society, who spent two years at BlackRock’s London office, where he was a founding member of its sustainable investment team. “I had moved to London just a month after the historic Brexit vote in 2016,” McKinley says. “This was an exciting opportunity to return and experience the continued uncertainties through the eyes of Tuck students. The GIX offered students a front row seat to history.” The group began its expedition in Cork, where students visited the Irish headquarters of Johnson Controls, a company that designs and produces building control systems. They met with a vice president of the company and got a tour of the building, which is a showcase for the firm’s technology and considered the “smartest building in Ireland.” “Beyond their technology solutions, we discussed how Johnson Controls is managing the potential demand shocks associated with Brexit,” explains trip member Arch Vamanrao T’20. The group also visited Jameson’s largest whiskey distillery and learned how Brexit might impact its operations. Jameson

exports its whiskey all over the world, but it sources its bottles, labels, and even bottlecaps from the UK, so Brexit could create a supply chain disruption for the company. Similarly, the agriculture industry is vulnerable to Brexit, since Ireland exports 40 percent of its production to the UK. “We were realizing that most sectors in Ireland will potentially be badly hit by a hard Brexit,” Lawton says, referring to a Brexit scenario without carefully crafted customs and trade provisions. But there’s more at stake in Ireland than just business interruptions from Brexit. Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ostensibly ended the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, the border between Northern Ireland (legally part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland has been open, like borders between other EU members. After Brexit, the border, and relations between north and south on the island of Ireland, could get a lot more complicated. To gain perspective on this, the group spent some time touring Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital city, which still has 18-foot-high walls separating Catholic

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and Protestant communities. It was an eye-opening experience for Kate Hartford T’20. “I hadn’t realized that Belfast, while it’s come a long way, is still a deeply divided city,” she says. Brexit may compound that division and reignite old enmities. In the second half of the trip, the group visited financial and consulting firms in London, including BlackRock, Eurasia Group, Control Risks, and Daiwa Capital Markets. These companies are spending considerable human and financial resources on ensuring they can still do business in the EU after Brexit. The students learned that Daiwa Capital, for example, opened a new office in Germany so it would be able to operate in both the EU and the UK. “The number one takeaway for me is the cost of political uncertainty,” says Hartford, who is returning to McKinsey & Company after Tuck. “I think there are really good lessons in there for business leaders such as myself. If I’m ever faced with a situation of political uncertainty, I’ll be able to think about deploying capital to manage it. And it’s great that I’ve now had exposure to that.”

John McKinley, executive director of the CBGS and former BlackRock executive, co-led the Tuck course.

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The most recent Next Step class included veterans with a collective 670 years of service and athletes who have competed in 2,900 international competitions and won 48 Olympic or Paralympic medals.

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TUCK NEXT STEP WILL OFFER FALL PROGRAM The general management program for athletes and veterans transitioning into the civilian world will now be offered in fall 2019— opening up the program to a wider audience. By KRISTIN MAFFEI

hanks to the success of its first three iterations, the Tuck Next Step program will run twice this year, with a new fall program for military veterans and elite athletes in transition running from September 1 – 13. Tuck Next Step is a general management certificate program that is designed specifically to meet the needs of athletes and veterans as they transition into the civilian world. The program helps participants hone their business acumen and apply the valuable skills they’ve gained in their fields to the world of business as they begin the next step of their careers, and it has only grown since its inception in 2017. “When we started planning Next Step, the appetite for this kind of program was unknown to us, and we planned for a class of maybe 35 participants, which is typical of other Tuck Executive Education programs,” says Margaux Lohry, assistant director of Tuck’s Transition to Business programs. “But we got such an overwhelming response for the first cohort that we increased the

class to 65. Then last year, we aimed for that class size and got even more applications. The demand is there and we want to meet that need.” Interest in Next Step has only continued to grow. Applications for the most recent program were up 22 percent over last year. The program builds on Dartmouth College and the Tuck School of Business’s well-known commitment to supporting the education of both veterans and athletes. Dartmouth College president emeritus James Wright worked closely with senators Jim Webb, John Warner, and Chuck Hagel on the language for the 2008 GI Bill that allows private institutions to partner with Veterans Affairs to support veterans in their schools. The college also has a rich legacy of elite athletics, most recently with 15 student and alumni athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Next Step continues this legacy, welcoming new and tremendously talented cohorts each year. In the April 2019 program, the participating veterans collectively had 670 years of service and 245 commendations.

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MBA PROGRAM

Enhanced Core Curriculum Taking Shape The first-year core curriculum is changing to meet the evolving needs of students. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

n November 30, the Tuck faculty voted unanimously in favor of broadscale changes to Tuck’s foundational first-year core curriculum. Central to this endeavor are structural changes to the academic calendar designed to meet the evolving and future needs of students and companies while preserving the core’s renowned rigor. These changes include an expanded orientation program to ensure students have an even richer and more vibrant start to their Tuck MBA experience; adjusted term lengths and new courses for Fall A and Fall B; a restructured winter term to allow for concentrated recruiting; a refined leadership framework; a new sequence of data analytics courses in Fall A and Fall B; and increased optionality with elective courses. Combined, these changes ensure that Tuck students continue to receive a truly exceptional first year experience that academically is unquestionably upto-date in both rigor and relevance.

Now that the general shape of the new curriculum is coming into focus, the school is shifting to the planning and implementation phases of the process to make these changes a reality. Four faculty subcommittees are working on the areas of leadership, point of view and data skills, content, and teaching excellence. The Master Plan is scheduled to be submitted to the Curriculum Committee by July 1. Then begins the ongoing, multi-year implementation plan, which will start with the incoming Class of 2021. “The first-year core curriculum is a hallmark of the Tuck academic experience and essential to our mission of educating wise leaders to better the world of business,” says Dean Matthew Slaughter. “To create the best curriculum for our students to be successful, we must continually look outward, listen to our many stakeholders, and learn from their feedback to adapt to a dynamic world.”

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The athletes collectively participated in 2,900 international competitions and won 48 Olympic or Paralympic medals. Response to the program has been overwhelmingly positive, with the 2018 cohort rating the overall effectiveness of the program a 4.9 out of 5, and 100 percent saying they would recommend Next Step to a friend. The program is made possible through generous contributions from individual and corporate donors. The fee is highly subsidized for participants, which reflects its importance to Tuck’s mission. “Athletes and veterans have a really unique set of experiences, and that diversity is a key component of wise leadership,” says Next Step faculty director and Tuck Deputy Dean Punam Anand Keller. “Tuck aspires to provide the business foundation and connections that enable participants to take the next step and pursue civilian careers.” In expanding the program, Next Step is also propelling itself into the future, with new online offerings added to the in-person curriculum. Starting with the September 2019 program, all participants will be asked to take both live and asynchronous online classes in the months leading up to the in-person offering—arriving to campus even better prepared to dive into the intensive sessions. The timing will also make the program more accessible to a wider audience. Many athletes are restricted because of the timing of competition schedules and where they are located during a given time of year. “Offering it twice a year means we’re not only accessible to summer sport or winter athletes—we’re really open to as many athletes as possible,” says Lohry. “Likewise, veterans transition into civilian life at all different times of year, and now veterans transitioning in the late spring and early summer won’t have to wait almost a year to attend the program.” Most importantly, offering the program more frequently will allow more veterans and athletes to share in this singular experience. “I see how transformative the program has been and how powerful this experience is and I want to make sure that experience is accessible to more people,” says Lohry. “I have a personal attachment to both of these communities myself, so it’s fulfilling to me to see someone leave Tuck and start something amazing, something they couldn’t have done without Next Step. I’m just really thrilled that more people will get to have that.”

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STARTUP STORY

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A TUCK STARTUP, STARTED ON THE BEACH Charlotte Johnson T’19 and Pace Ralli T’09 are the creators of ShakaBall, a new beach game business that brings fun to people of all ages. By BETSY VERECKEY

harlotte Johnson T’19 remembers the first time her cousin-inlaw, Pace Ralli, T’09, showed her family how to play ShakaBall, a one-of-a-kind paddle game named after the Hawaiian hand gesture associated with surfing culture and good vibes. The game originated from surf beaches on the East Coast over 15 years ago, while Ralli and his surfer friends were hanging out on the sand and waiting for good waves. “It was addictive,” Johnson recalls. “We played it for hours on end when we were together as a family.” Initially, the game was nothing more than that—a fun game to pass the time with friends and family. Then two years ago

while celebrating the Fourth of July with a day of lawn games, their family members started talking seriously about how fun it would be to bring ShakaBall to the masses, on all coasts. Along with Ralli’s co-inventors (who now live on the beach on the West Coast), they hypothesized that all age groups could play the game, from millennials and young children to older generations—like Johnson’s dad, who is 66 and plays ShakaBall whenever he has the chance. “It’s just a great way to get people off their phones and in the outdoors, where they can engage in a fun way,” Johnson says. “But we needed to figure out—how could we take this from a concept to an actual product?” In 2017, the ShakaBall team began experimenting with prototyping and manufacturing the product. They wanted to make the game user-friendly, visually

appealing, and practical for bringing to the beach. It took eight rounds of prototyping to land on a final product, but it was well worth it. The entire game fits in a small backpack, and is easy to set up, whether you’re on the beach or on the Dartmouth quad. “We wanted something that was easy to carry around,” says Ralli. “So we kept testing it out with different friends, took their feedback, and worked it into the next prototype. One of the big lessons I learned about product development is that you can’t figure out how to do it until you actually do it—you just have to start somewhere and keep iterating.” With a finalized product design the question then became, how can we grow and operationalize this business? They knew Johnson could use her remaining time at Tuck to help formalize some of the business processes. Enter the Startup Incubator: a creation

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The paddle game is named after the Hawaiian hand gesture associated with surfing culture.

of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Under the leadership of Center of Entrepreneurship faculty director Steve Kahl D’91 and executive director Daniella Reichstetter T’07, the Incubator is an outlet for Tuck students to collaborate on their business ideas and bring them to reality. “Being in the Incubator has been helpful because it gives us structure when we’re starting from scratch,” Johnson says. “It’s great because it’s such a small community and feels like a safe space to take risks and experiment. It takes guts to put yourself out there, and this community embraces that. I think the Incubator is small but mighty, and I think it has a lot of room to grow.” Johnson says she was also helped by what she learned in elective courses, such as Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy, a class taught by professor Ron Adner. She touted the course for helping her discover market opportunities that the ShakaBall team hadn’t thought about previously. One of the game’s most marketable features lies in its uniqueness. Four players stand in a small circle, taking turns serving a small ball to each other, using wooden paddles bearing the Shaka symbol. It wasn’t uncommon for passersby to stop and ask what the players were up to when playing a game they hadn’t seen before— and ask if they could hop in the circle. Ralli, an entrepreneur twice over as the founder of Clean Marine Energy (which develops clean energy for large ships),

says that developing ShakaBall has been a completely different experience for him. This time around he’s been knee-deep in research and development and working alongside manufacturers and suppliers on the prototyping process. “It’s using a totally different skillset, but I am really enjoying it,” he says. So far, the ShakaBall team has raised more than $10,000 on Kickstarter, and is just starting to develop its sales channels. This summer is crucial for its go-to-market strategy, and the Shaka team will be out spreading the fun on what they’re calling the “Shaka Tour 2019.” They plan to hold events throughout the summer season, starting with the first official tour stop on

Cape Cod during Memorial Day weekend. Other stops include Newport, Montauk, and Manhattan Beach. They have already sold about a quarter of the product from their first manufacturing run, which currently retails for forty-nine dollars on their website ShakaBall.com. Going forward, the team is exploring how to best sell ShakaBall: Direct to consumer? Through retail stores? For Johnson, a former teacher who also worked at IBM, the experience was a highlight of her Tuck education. While she enrolled with a desire to invest in herself and in her career, she still never imagined that she would have helped to launch ShakaBall while in school studying for her MBA. “I had no idea that this would be how my Tuck experience would end and that we’d be able to create ShakaBall as a family,” Johnson says. “I thought maybe I’d be an entrepreneur in the future, but never did I think it would happen while I was in school at Tuck. I feel incredibly lucky to be here.” Follow ShakaBall on Instagram @shakaball.

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It’s just a great way to get people off their phones and in the outdoors, where they can engage in a fun way,” Johnson says.

ShakaBall has already raised more than ten thousand dollars on Kickstarter.

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Tuck Team Wins Global Universities Challenge A team of five Tuck students took top honors in the Global Universities Challenge at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

The teams had two days to come up with a 10-year strategy for the sustainable development of the fictional war-torn country of Urmania.

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By KIRK KARDASHIAN

team of five Tuck students has just won the Shaping Future Governments: Global Universities Challenge at the World Government Summit (WGS) in Dubai, overcoming teams from the Harvard Kennedy School, Wharton, London Business School, and 15 other elite MBA and public policy institutions. The WGS is billed as the “largest global platform dedicated to exploring the future of government driven by technological advances and evolving citizen expectation,” and brings together more than 4,000 leaders and thinkers from 125 countries to advance sustainable development goals around the world. Keynote speakers included French lawyer Christine Largarde, American economist Paul Krugman, American economist Jeff Sachs, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, and President of Rwanda Paul Kagame. This is the second year Tuck students have attended the summit, but the first time the school has been invited to participate in the elite Global Universities Challenge, a competition within the WGS that tasks participating student teams with crafting quick and creative solutions to global problems. This year, the teams

had two days to come up with a 10-year strategy for the sustainable development of the fictional war-torn country of Urmania. Travis Cyphers T’19—a member of the Tuck team that included Tolu Kehinde T’19, Maria Barragan Santana T’20, Melina Sanchez Montanes T’20, and Alen Amini T’18—gave a five-minute presentation of their strategy to a panel of judges that contained high-level officials from the Emirati government. They proposed to improve Urmania in three youth-driven phases: (1) stabilizing the country through developing the rule of law, integrating the economy with global markets, and improving social wellbeing; (2) connecting youth, communities and the economy through technology; and (3) transforming Urmania with radical transparency and public-private partnerships. The judges deemed this presentation, which was accompanied by a PowerPoint deck, the best of the competition, based on the following criteria: novelty and innovation (40 percent), impact and comprehensiveness (25 percent), viability and feasibility (20 percent), and presentation (15 percent). The Tuck team accepted their award on stage in front of thousands of Summit participants, posing for a photo with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice president

and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and ruler of the Emirate of Dubai. Other members of the Tuck delegation to the WGS included faculty adviser John McKinley, executive director of the Center for Business, Government & Society, and students Chris Ramos T’19, Elizabeth Davis T’20, and Hudson Leung T’19. Jamie Mittelman T’19 attended the WGS last year and served as the lead for this year’s cohort. “I think this win is really fantastic on a number of fronts,” she says. “This win will help continue to grow Tuck’s relationship with the WGS organization, and it’s a credit to the quality of the education we get here at Tuck.” Dean Matthew Slaughter was equally excited about Tuck’s performance at the Summit. “What a terrific example of how wise leadership is about asking the right questions, building the right teams, and taking the right risks—and winning, too!" he says. Prospective students interested in the WGS can look forward to more opportunities like this, as the Center for Business, Government & Society will continue to support Tuck’s participation at future World Government Summits.

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16 RESEARCH: FINANCIAL ADVISORS / 18 Q &A: SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN /

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DOES FINANCIAL ADVICE COST MORE THAN IT SHOULD? TUCK FINANCE PROFESSORS BRIAN MELZER AND JUHANI LINNAINMAA MAKE A SURPRISING DISCOVERY ABOUT FINANCIAL ADVISORS.

ver the past 40 years, the process of saving for retirement has changed drastically. For much of the 20th century, workers outsourced retirement planning to their employers, who relied on pension managers and advisors to create “defined benefit” retirement plans for their employees. In other words, employees didn’t have to think about it too much. They knew that when they retired, their pension would provide most of their income. Today, the equation has flipped. People are more frequently making their own retirement investments, either through employer-sponsored funds like a 401(k), or by investing in mutual funds, index funds and other appreciating assets. This means that individuals need to be much savvier and more sophisticated about financial decisions to ensure they have enough money to draw from when they stop getting a paycheck from their employer. As with most complex decisions requiring specialized knowledge, people saving for retirement often seek out advice from an expert: their financial advisor. According to the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, almost 40 million American households received advice from a financial planner or securities broker. This advice comes at a cost that’s more significant than

you might think. Financial advisors take a fee that’s roughly one percent of the value of their client’s retirement fund per year. With the mathematics of compounding interest, that amount can balloon into 15 to 20 percent of a person’s retirement wealth after 30 years of saving. The high cost of financial advice has come under scrutiny by policy makers around the world. Some critics of the industry claim that financial advisors are reaping high fees because they are acting out of a conflict of interest. Some economists argue that, because many advisors are paid directly by mutual funds, they may have an incentive to steer clients towards the most expensive “actively managed” funds that don’t necessarily produce the best returns— in effect, putting their own financial gain ahead of their clients’ wealth. Two Tuck professors wanted to test whether that charge might be true. In a working paper titled “The Misguided Beliefs of Financial Advisors,” associate professor Brian Melzer and visiting professor of finance Juhani Linnainmaa—along with Alessandro Previtero of Indiana University—devised a novel way to determine if financial advisors behave out of a conflict of interest: they compared the advisors’ personal investment decisions to those of their clients. Using data provided by two large Canadian financial

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institutions, Melzer and Linnainmaa were able to analyze trading and portfolio information on more than 4,000 advisors and almost 500,000 clients between 1999 and 2013. “How do you test whether advisors are doing what they think is right?” Melzer said. “One of the clearest ways is to look at how they behave on their own behalf, when they are the principal instead of the agent.” The co-authors begin their analysis by characterizing trading patterns of

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clients and advisors. “We focus on trading behaviors that may hurt risk-adjusted performance: high turnover, preference for funds with active management or high expense ratios, return chasing, and underdiversification,” they write. One attribute all of these categories have in common is that they usually result in higher fees for advisors. Simple index funds pay the lowest commissions, so if advisors are acting out of conflict of interest, they will choose active management funds. Some individual investors like to chase returns—i.e., invest in the funds that recently performed well— even if that strategy doesn’t always work, especially when trading fees are factored in. Advisors who cater to that desire may do so because they know it leads to more trading, and thus more commissions. But when Melzer and Linnainmaa dug into the data, they found something a bit surprising. First, the good news. The trading characteristics of clients aligned with those of the advisors themselves. The advisors were investing similarly to their clients, indicating that they weren’t conflicted. The bad news was that the portfolios on both sides were quite expensive. There was a high share of active management, high turnover, and high rates of return chasing. This resulted in poor net returns: on average, the annual returns were three percent less than the market as a whole (the alpha). Oft-cited research by Ken French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at Tuck, could have predicted this. In the 2009 paper “Luck Versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund Returns,” French and coauthor Eugene Fama found that few actively managed funds produce enough gains to offset their costs. “There’s just no evidence that active management is adding value and that you can go and find the best performing mutual funds,” Melzer explained. These findings suggest that conflict of interest is not driving the high cost of financial advice. Instead, the costs are driven by the advisors themselves being uninformed. Given this reality, Melzer said, households should consider ways to avoid active management. One option is to invest in a lifecycle fund that adjusts over time for retirement at a certain date. These funds have low costs and track the trends of the market as a whole. For people hesitant to invest without guidance, Melzer offers another option. “Find an investment advisor who will work on an hourly basis,” he said. “Work with that person to choose a lifecycle fund, and stick with it. It looks expensive up front—maybe $1,000. But that’s a lot less than 15 percent of your retirement assets.”

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Q+A FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE AIRWAVES Tuck professor Sydney Finkelsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new podcast delves into what makes ordinary people tick.

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By BETSY VERECKEY

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Why did you decide to start a podcast? I thrive on trying new things and was ready to try something different. I thought a podcast could be an interesting platform where I could engage with people in a fun and meaningful way. I’ve made a living out of asking good questions—in the classroom and in my research—so why not draw on that experience to create enjoyable content that can also give listeners new insights to business, careers, and how we live day to day?

What do you aim to do in each episode? My tagline is: intimate and informative conversations with really interesting people. Many of the people I talk to are local and have a Dartmouth connection. I especially like talking to people under the radar. I’m not planning to interview very many CEOs of big companies or famous people profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Lots of people do that, and they often end up hearing the usual talking points. In contrast, take the owner of our local Lucky’s coffee shop, Deb Shinnlinger. Outside of the Upper Valley, not many people know her, but she’s a fascinating woman with a story to tell that you’ll want to hear. And doing the podcast in her café was perfect for someone who is fanatical about great coffee, like me!

talk to someone in real life, the conversation is superficial. You talk about the weather or your kids. It’s not bad; it’s just the way it is. It’s unusual to really have an in-depth conversation. I try to approach it in the same way as you might when you know someone well, when you can really talk.

If you were going to interview someone famous, who would it be? At the top of my list would be President Obama and Michael Jordan. They’re the best in their respective fields. People who have achieved the maximum you possibly can in a field are few and far between. They are true outliers. I’d like to see if I can get them to really open up—not just sound bites and the usual talking points. Like everyone else I talk to for The Sydcast, I would want to know what makes them tick and how that translates to their personal and professional lives.

I have learned a lot about podcasting from my Tuck students. They all listen to podcasts, which didn’t exist when I was younger or in school, but they’re really taking off now. I like How I Built This, an NPR podcast hosted by Guy Raz. He does a fantastic job interviewing entrepreneurs about how they built their companies. In the political arena, I listen to The Axe Files hosted by David Axelrod, the right-hand man to President Obama when he was in office. He gets a lot of famous political players on his show.

Why have you dedicated your professional career to helping senior executives become more effective leaders? Leadership has always interested me. I don’t think anything of importance in the world can be done without leadership. If you can be a leader, if you can energize and motivate and unleash the creativity of people around you, you can do almost anything. You are leveraging your capability to a gigantic extent. That’s why leadership is so important at Tuck. And to me personally. You cannot accomplish anything of importance without leadership skills.

What do you hope your listeners come away with? I hope listeners will learn something about themselves by listening to my conversations with people. I want them to reflect upon their own lives and how they’ve crafted those lives, all without even knowing they’re doing it.

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How do you put an episode together? I do a little background research, but not much. I’ve interviewed so many people over the years in all sorts of venues that I feel confident I can rely on my own intuition. I try to treat it like a real conversation and less like an interview. A lot of times when you

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s a Tuck professor and best-selling author, SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN has appeared as a guest on plenty of podcasts. Now as the host of his own show, The Sydcast, Finkelstein is the one asking the questions. The author of Superbosses and 25 other books, Finkelstein started his podcast in February, which features intimate conversations with fascinating people who aren’t particularly well-known. “Outside of teaching Tuck students, which is really at the top of my list, this is the most exciting thing I’m doing right now,” says Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck. Finkelstein discusses interview strategies, his favorite podcasts, and who he would love to interview if given the chance.

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THE HIDDEN DANGER OF COLLABORATION TUCK PROFESSORS RON ADNER AND DAN FEILER EXAMINE A HIDDEN DRIVER OF OVERCONFIDENCE IN INTERDEPENDENT INNOVATION.

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

n the year 2000, Nokia predicted a great surge of 3G cellular technology. By 2002, the company believed there would be 300 million 3G handsets in operation, and all of them would be using location-based services, secure mobile payment systems, and a vast library of mobile applications. In anticipation of this expectation, Nokia invested substantial resources and energy into R&D, hoping to serve a booming demand for 3G phones. But the demand arrived late—not until 2008 did the 3G handset tally reach 300 million. Nokia’s phones weren’t the hold-up. The problem was that many of the other 3G technologies weren’t in place, so that the value proposition promised to consumers took years longer than expected to materialize. Nokia succeeded in making its handset, but still lost its bet because of other external pieces crucial to its success. Ron Adner, the David T. McLaughlin D’54, T’55 Professor at Tuck, detailed Nokia’s innovation blind spots in his acclaimed 2012 book The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss. After reading the book, Adner’s colleague Dan Feiler, associate professor and Raether T’73 faculty fellow, who studies the psychology of judgment and decision making, realized

their research had something in common. Both professors are interested in the challenges of interdependence as it relates to risk. Adner approaches it from a macro level, focusing on innovation strategy when multiple firms collaborate. Feiler approaches it from a micro level, studying how bias and overconfidence impact managers’ decision making. Feiler was aware of research in behavioral psychology demonstrating a systematic overestimation when people mentally compute the likelihoods of conjunctive events. They suspected a different bias was affecting managers thinking through the probability of multiple partners successfully contributing to a shared goal. After all, when a company like Nokia invests a fortune in research and development, managers aren’t doing these calculations in their head. There had to be something else going on. So Feiler and Adner teamed up to figure out if there was an additional source of bias that the literature had not yet considered. As Feiler explains, “when it comes to conjunctive projects, merely thinking through to the likelihood of each needed part makes us feel more optimistic about the aggregate chance of success even when the aggregate chance is known. So it turns out that people

feel better about an X percent chance of overall project success when that X percent is known to be the product of various parts that are all individually quite likely.” These findings have recently resulted in a paper by Adner and Feiler, published in the journal Organization Science, titled “Interdependence, Perception, and Investment Choices: An Experimental Approach to Decision Making in Innovation Ecosystems.” Understanding interdependence in the business world is becoming more important, as collaboration among firms is growing in popularity. Why? “It’s because as technologies have evolved, collaboration has become easier,” Adner says. “And at the same time, we’re seeing greater pressure towards collaboration because it allows for more advanced and richer value creation: we can do things together that neither one of us can do alone.” While the benefits of collaboration are easy to see—exciting new products—its dangers are often underappreciated. The chief challenge of collaboration is that it creates a dependence on parties over which a firm has no control. Nokia, for example, relied on software developers to build 3G apps, but it couldn’t direct

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their work. This means firms need to be shrewd about measuring the likelihoods that partnerships will coalesce towards a desired outcome. Gauging this type of probability is a two-step process: assessing the individual likelihood of each component, and then using those figures to calculate the likelihood of the overall project. For instance, in a six-party project where each party has a 75 percent chance of completion, compounding each 25 percent chance of failure results in an 18 percent overall chance of success. In a series of five experiments around this basic theme, using business executives, managers, and undergraduates as subjects, Adner and Feiler uncovered a subconscious bias towards overestimating the chances that a multi-party project will succeed. In one experiment, they studied the decision to “green-light” a conjunctive project and whether it depends on how the risks are presented: separately for each part, or in aggregate for the whole project. It did matter. “Participants reported a higher willingness-to-pay for the opportunity when presented with separate probabilities than when presented with the aggregate probability,” they write. In another experiment, they found that simply exposing subjects to the higher individual probabilities generated an over-optimism in the overall project, compared to subjects who merely saw the overall probability alone. For example, an 18 percent chance of success, on its own, doesn’t seem very good. But the subjects’ assessment of that 18 percent chance brightened after seeing the higher likelihoods of the individual pieces. “After reviewing the relatively good chances for the individual parts, you get some spillover of that positivity into how people feel about the overall project, even when the aggregate chance of success is calculated,” Feiler says. “We call it an intuitive confidence spillover.” One potential solution to this bias is to shield the decision maker from the individual probabilities,

so she can make a clear-eyed appraisal of the project as a whole. “We’re not saying this bias can’t be managed,” Adner notes. “But it can only be managed if you understand it’s there. Otherwise, your organization is at greater risk of having to live with the consequences of these biased decisions.” Adner and Feiler will continue their joint research in this area, exploring the new questions that this research raises. They discussed these questions with the MBA students in Adner’s Research-to-Practice Seminar, “Strategy in Innovation Ecosystems,” which Feiler joined for discussion of this paper. “The classroom discussion was really rich. The students reinvigorated our

interest in one idea in particular—a bias towards overvaluing certainty for individual parts within conjunctive projects,” says Feiler. Adner continues, “We had done an early experiment along these lines, but had let it fall by the wayside. The classroom discussion brought it back into focus, and gave ideas for additional experiments, which could be the heart of a new paper. This is part of what makes the class so great—it completes the research-to-practice cycle by taking teaching-to-research.”

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ideas Leslie Robinson examined this in a working paper entitled “Negotiated Tax Havens,” written with Kevin Markle of the University of Iowa. “The Apple ruling was an eye-opener for everyone,” Robinson says. “It’s a lot of money, it made me realize how very different the EU approached these issues compared to the US, and my students were asking about it. So, I wanted to understand more about the concept of state aid in the EU”

Corporate Taxation in the EU

Most Americans are familiar with cases where states offer tax incentives for companies to open factories or headquarters in their state. Under US law, these incentives are perfectly legal. The EU is run differently. Each EU country has the ability to set and administer its own tax laws, but the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union prevents countries from luring businesses inside their borders with the promise of preferential tax treatment. The European Commission enforces this rule by making sure that, say, Ireland, does not get profits that should have been taxed in Germany, in a way that violates the Treaty. Given the large number of multinational firms operating in Europe, it’s been difficult to determine how much illegal state aid is actually being doled out.

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State Aid Really Does Make a Difference

Leslie Robinson on the Prevalence of Special Tax Deals in the EU By KIRK KARDASHIAN

n 2016, Apple was hit with the largest one-time tax bill in history. After years of investigations, the European Commission found that Ireland had helped Apple avoid $15 billion in income taxes between 2003 and 2014. Ireland allegedly did this through a “tax ruling,” a unique tax treatment that applied only to Apple, allowing the company to pass profits from European sales through Ireland at a very low rate, and then funnel and stockpile them in the tax-free Cayman Islands. Aside from Apple’s culpability in this scheme, a larger question exists about the pervasiveness of these deals in the EU, which are technically deemed “illegal state aid.” Tuck professor

Robinson and Markle studied the profitability and tax rate for all domestic companies in the EU, within each separate country, and compared these metrics to those of multinational firms also operating in the EU. They wanted to know how the companies differed in countries that issue a lot of tax rulings to foreign companies. “We posited that if a country issues tax rulings just for certainty, there shouldn’t be any difference between the performance of multinationals and domestics. But we found that, in countries that issue many tax rulings, foreign firms have much lower effective tax rates and profitability,” Robinson says. Their study showed that foreign firms’ tax rates were 1.7 percent lower than those of domestic firms; and their profitability was 10 percent lower. Importantly, lower profitability doesn’t mean the companies performed worse; it means the country was allowing the firms to shift their income out of the country, which is a benefit.

Shining a Light on Preferential Treatment

While it appears Apple’s case wasn’t a one-off, the future of these forms of state aid may be at risk. Since the European Commission’s ruling on Apple, two new EU disclosure rules have taken effect. One requires each country to notify all other EU countries of their tax rulings. The hope is that, if a country knows its neighbors will be aware of preferential tax rulings, it will be less likely to issue them. The other disclosure rule appeals to the public’s sense of outrage at the unfairness of these special deals. In 2017, the European Commission created a public database where people can see how much state aid in the form of taxes has been given to companies in the EU For Robinson, these disclosure requirements are good news. They not only signal a return to more fairness in taxation, they also help clarify what taxation actually means. “These are situations where the taxing authority is treating companies differently,” she says. “That’s interesting to me because if it’s pervasive, then a tax system can’t be defined, because it’s specific to every tax payer.”

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Jennifer Dannals explores how quickly people change their own behavior to adjust to what they think is normal in an organization.

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very office has its own way of doing things. Maybe it’s the kind of place where emails are returned within an hour of receiving them, or where people come in early, or stay late, or socialize in the kitchen over coffee in the afternoons. When we enter those new environments, we may find ourselves subtly conforming what we perceive to be the expected behavior— suddenly coming in at 7 a.m. for example, even though we have never been a morning person before. “A lot of individuals hold private beliefs, but they don’t act in line with them because they believe that the average belief within a group is different,” says Jennifer Dannals, who came to Tuck as a new assistant professor in July. Dannals has long been fascinated with how people change the way they act to bring themselves in line with perceived social norms. As a psychology major at Princeton, she worked on a project to change social norms around bullying in New Jersey schools. “I was interested in how we develop a sense of what is normal and not normal and what’s appropriate and not appropriate,” she says. She went on to earn a doctorate at Stanford in organizational behavior, examining how that sense of perceived social norms is affected by diversity and hierarchy within an organization. In one recent research project, for example, she showed participants videos of people arriving to work to see how quickly new people get a sense of average behavior within a group. Overall, she found, participants were very quick to develop an accurate view of the time most people arrived at work. When there was an outlier who arrived 15 or 20 minutes early or late,

however, people tended to exaggerate their effect, revising their whole estimate in that person’s direction. “If something is really available to you in your mind, you tend to over-represent it,” Dannals says. Interestingly, when people were much earlier or later, however, people discounted them as a fluke, and ignored them in their estimates. “That tells you something,” Dannals says. “If you want to change a social norm, it’s important to be sufficiently moderate rather than really dramatic overnight.” In another project, she looked at how hierarchy affects people’s perceptions of what is appropriate in an organization. Despite the emphasis on leading by example, she actually found that most people coming into a new organization tended to put less stock in the actions of leaders in determining their own behavior,

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in favor of people lower in the hierarchy. “If you ask people whose advice they would like to read about organizational culture, more than half of people picked the people on the bottom end of the hierarchy,” she says. The findings emphasize the need to get buy-in from the rank-and-file in an organization in order to change or maintain social norms. Dannals’ latest project is examining how someone’s position within an organization—whether they are central to the social network or on its fringes— influences their perceptions of norms. “The same forces that lead you to become central to an organization, a tendency to extraversion or sociability, might lead you to become more biased in your perception of what’s appropriate,” Dannals says. “There is an interesting tension between those things.” For that research she is partnering with new Tuck colleagues Adam Kleinbaum and Daniel Feiler who have long been collecting data on social networks. Dannals herself is acclimating quickly to the social norms of Tuck. “The faculty and students are all very communityminded and collegial and nice,” she says, noting that in the psychological literature, people tend to adapt more quickly in smaller communities. “In a big city, people can easily defect from the collective if they choose,” she says. For that reason, she says, it’s definitely been a positive to see how welcoming Tuck’s community has been. “People really want you to feel like you can get involved easily. They ask you what you’re doing outside work, and really want to know the whole person,” she says. “So far so good.”

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Longtime Faculty Members Baker and Greenhalgh Retire Professors Kenneth Baker and Leonard Greenhalgh, among Tuck’s longest-serving faculty members, will retire this summer, having taught thousands of business and engineering students and executives.

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KEN BAKER, the Nathaniel D’1906 & Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Management, joined Tuck in 1979 from his faculty position at Duke University. Baker had previously been awarded a bachelor’s degree in engineering and applied physics at Harvard before going on to Cornell to earn a doctorate in operations research. Hired at Tuck by Dean Dick West, Baker went on to teach courses in decision science, quality

management, applications of optimization, and production management. In the 1990s, his Tuck elective on environmentally conscious manufacturing and design was also adapted as an elective at Vermont Law School. Along with a small group of Stanford colleagues, Baker helped bring to Tuck a successful executive-development course in the Effective Management of Production Operations (EMPO), which

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helped raise Tuck’s profile in the field of operations management. He served as associate dean of faculty from 1990 to 1993 and as associate dean from 1998 to 2000. As an adjunct professor at the Thayer School of Engineering from 1980 to 2016, Baker’s dual background in engineering and business served him—and Dartmouth—well. In the 1980s, Thayer Dean Charles Hutchinson tapped him to chair a committee developing a joint Tuck-Thayer program that would combine engineering and business knowledge. That curriculum eventually became Dartmouth’s Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program in 1997. Baker served as co-director of the MEM program from 2001 to 2011 and at one time taught a Thayer course that attracted students from five different degree programs. Baker was a founding senior editor of the International Journal of Planning and Scheduling and has served on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals throughout his career. His textbooks—including The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, coauthored by Tuck Professor Steve Powell—have been published in multiple editions and in some cases translated for use in other countries. Baker’s collaboration with Powell began with teaching in the Tuck core and grew to encompass a number of research publications and a federally funded research project that studied spreadsheet engineering. In retirement, Baker hopes to find more time to enhance his tennis career. He and his wife, Judy Reeve, a favorite landscape designer in the area, expect to remain anchored in the Upper Valley, home to six of their eight grandchildren.

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LEN GREENHALGH, professor of management, was also brought to Tuck by Dean Dick West, in 1978, after earning his PhD at Cornell University. Greenhalgh had entered the doctoral program at Cornell from his work in management consulting and purchasing after earning his MBA at the University of Rhode Island. Greenhalgh is the author of Managing Strategic Relationships: The Key to Business Success and Minority Business Success: Refocusing on the American Dream (with James H. Lowry) and is likely best known for his pioneering work in developing and promoting minority business education programs. Soon after his arrival at Tuck, Greenhalgh was approached by former Tuck dean John Hennessey and then-dean Dick West about teaching a new minority business executive program—the first in the U.S. More than 8,000 participants later, Greenhalgh will be retiring this summer as professor of management but will continue to be interim faculty director for Tuck’s programs for minority and women-owned business enterprises. He has lent his talents and experience to public service in a number of organizations and has been awarded many honors, including the National Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency. He was appointed by The White House to the Advisory Board for the Special Trustee

for American Indians. His work in helping minority business is reflected in the Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, the 2017 Martin Luther King Social Justice Award for Lifetime Achievement conferred by Dartmouth College, the 2017 National Minority Supplier Development Council Robert M. Stuart Leadership Award, the 2018 Minority Supplier Development Council of the UK Special Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2018 MBDA Abe Venable Award—the top award conferred by the Department of Commerce. Len has also worked at his own expense on environmental restoration of a stripmined granite quarry where the previous owner had dumped large boulders on wetlands at his 86-acre Wheeler Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on the Maine coast. His sanctuary, which incorporates a half-mile of untouched shoreline, is preserved in perpetuity from development. For this 30-year effort he was awarded the Maine Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award, recognizing his work to preserve coastal wetlands. With wife Jocelyn Paquette, Greenhalgh will be able to continue his restoration work at the Sanctuary and enjoy operating his 35-ton Caterpillar excavator and the occasional drive in his 1961 Lotus Super Seven.

This summer, MARSHALL GOLDSMITH , long recognized as one of the world’s leading executive educators and coaches, will retire from teaching in Tuck’s Executive Education program. Goldsmith received his PhD from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, which honored him in 2012 with its John E. Anderson Distinguished Alumni Award. He is founding partner of the Marshall Goldsmith Group and has published more than 30 books, including the best-selling What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Among his many awards are the Institute for Management Studies’ Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership by the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School; in 2018 he was named to the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

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In March, Dean Matthew Slaughter announced that LAURENS DEBO has been promoted to professor of operations management, effective July 1, 2019. Debo joined Tuck as a visiting associate professor in 2014 and became an associate professor in the school’s operations management group in 2015; he was named Harvey H. Bundy III T’68 Faculty Fellow in 2018. Before Tuck, Debo served on the faculties of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. At Tuck, Debo teaches the Management of Service Operations elective; he also led a TuckGO Global Insight Expedition in March—“EU Green Supply Chains: Extended Producer Responsibility in Belgium and Germany”—and teaches Operations Management in the Master of Engineering Management program offered jointly by Tuck and the Thayer School of Engineering.

Jordan Schoenfeld NAMED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JORDAN SCHOENFELD will join Tuck on July 1 as an associate professor in the accounting group. Schoenfeld most recently served as assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Before that, he served on the faculty at the Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, after receiving his PhD, and before that as a business risk consultant for Deloitte & Touche. Schoenfeld earned his PhD in business administration, focusing on accounting, at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and received a BS in business from Miami University. His research focuses on financial contracts and the role of information in the financial markets, and he created and taught an executive education course for startup founders, entitled Entrepreneurial Accounting.

Sharmistha Sikdar NAMED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHARMISTHA SIKDAR will join Tuck as an assistant professor in the marketing group on July 1. Sikdar earned her PhD in a marketing and quantitative studies track from the Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management at Cornell University; an MS in quantitative economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; and a BS in economics from Scottish Church College, Calcutta University. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Sikdar worked in banking and analytics for GE Capital, Citigroup, and Infosys and also served as a visiting faculty member in Bangalore. Her research interests lie in the development and application of statistical models to understand customer behavior, and she is co-inventor of a customer analytics solution patented in the U.S.

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Deirdre Findlay Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;00 is changing the way we shop for clothes.

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DEIRDRE FINDLAY T’00 is chief marketing officer at Stitch Fix, a company poised to disrupt the retail industry with personalized clothing packages delivered directly to customers’ doors. It’s a billion-plus dollar company with plenty of room to grow in the $345-billion retail apparel industry, but coming from her previous gig as global marketing chief for Google’s home group, it feels almost like a startup. She took on the role in June 2018 and set about transitioning Stitch Fix’s messaging from explaining what it is (an algorithm-driven personal shopping service that seems to know your style better than you do) to how it can change your life. The company’s first integrated brand campaign launched in February with a big push centered around the Oscars. The challenge is uniquely suited to Findlay’s deep experience in digital marketing. After Tuck, she spent 11 years at digital marketing innovator Digitas, coming of age as an executive during the same years online marketing sped through its childhood and adolescence. Her cutting-edge work attracted the interest of then-Dean Paul Danos, who invited her to join Tuck’s MBA Advisory Board, on which she served more than six years. Findlay’s work also gained the attention of eBay, which she joined in 2011 as senior marketing director, and then Google, which hired her away to run marketing for some of its highest-profile products. Her portfolio included Google Home and Google Wifi as well as Chromecast, the Silicon Valley giant’s first major hardware offering for the home. And then one day last spring she sat down with Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake, who six months earlier had rung in the company’s $130 million IPO with a toddler on her hip. The iconic moment wasn’t planned, but seemed emblematic of a can-do company with a business plan predicated on inspiring everybody to be their best selves. Findlay had been looking for a new challenge, and within minutes of meeting Lake, she knew that Stitch Fix was it. “Katrina is hands-down one of the smartest people I have ever worked for, with a clear vision for how to revolutionize retail. That’s a meaty challenge,

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and it’s exciting because it requires me to leverage what I consider to be one of my strengths—building emotional connections that drive business value.” Findlay grew up in New York City, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. Her father was an engineer and her mother took a decade away from her business career to raise Findlay and her sister, then went back to work in commercial property development. “Jamaicans have a very strong work ethic. They place a strong emphasis on education, and so from day one I felt there was nothing I couldn't do provided I got a good education, worked hard, and was committed 100 percent,” says Findlay. “That’s a big part of what shaped me.” Findlay’s first passion was dance. Her mother believed ballet instills a kind of grace and discipline that would serve her later in life, and Findlay feels her training influenced the way she carries herself now, both personally and professionally. She was also drawn to sports, playing field hockey in high school and rugby as an undergraduate at Williams. She’d never played before but loved the feeling of teamwork on the pitch. At Williams she majored in economics, largely at the urging of her parents. (“That's the Jamaican sensibility,” she says, laughing. “They wanted to make sure I could get a job when I finished.”) But she also developed an enduring love for art and architecture. “I just couldn’t stop taking courses in art and architecture, and what I realized is that I'm equal parts left-brain and rightbrain,” she says. “I've always been highly analytical, but I need to be exposed to the creative aspect as well.” Three years in the reinsurance business after Williams reinforced that insight. “I was flexing a lot of my analytical muscles, but it wasn’t creative,” she says. “You don't want to get creative when it comes to numbers.” She sought an MBA program that would provide a broad business education and the opportunity to explore a variety of career paths. Tuck’s general management focus and top ranking seemed a natural fit. The school’s small New England campus and close-knit community also appealed to Findlay, who had thrived in a similar environment at Williams. In her first year at Tuck, Findlay took advantage of the breadth of the curriculum and kept her mind open to possibilities. She sat for some consulting interviews, but knew in her gut that path wasn’t for her. “I wanted to

own the results of my work, so while it was appealing to be able to influence Fortune 100 and 500 companies, it didn't feel like the complete solution,” she says. “I had an interview with a woman from Pepsi, and I told her, ‘Look I'm not sure I want to do marketing but what I do know is that I don't want to be couponing all summer. I want exposure to the strategy work that happens in a company like Pepsi.’ And she told me I could design an internship like that,” Findlay says. “True to her word, they made that happen and I had a great internship.” She graduated with offers from Pepsi, Colgate, and American Express, and turned them all down. “In my second year at Tuck I made a decision that was counter to my personality and counter to how I was raised,” she says. “I made the non-obvious choice.” The catalyst was a lunch conversation with classmate Daphne Streeter in Stell Hall. “She told me how great her summer had been, working with a company at the cutting edge of marketing, dabbling in the new thing called the Internet,” Findlay says. The company was Bronner Slosberg Humphrey, a Boston direct marketing firm soon to merge with its digital subsidiary Strategic Interactive Group. Rebranded as Digitas, the company would soon thrive on the synergy of creativity and analytic rigor across offline and online marketing channels. Findlay arranged an interview and was smitten. “I fell in love with the company because it would enable me to use both my right brain and my left brain,” says Findlay. Her first assignment on the Allstate account was serving as a nexus of integration between the company’s analog and digital arms, a role that called on her talents for communication and collaboration. “They

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had two leadership teams in a now-united company, and they sat me in the middle,” Findlay says. Near the end of her time at Digitas, Danos visited the company to observe Findlay and her team. Digital marketing is a fast-moving field, and Digitas had earned a reputation for bringing cutting-edge techniques to mainstream firms in partnership with the likes of American Express, Whirlpool appliances, and Allstate insurance. Danos was intrigued with this new dimension of marketing and was eager to have someone on the MBA Advisory Board (now MBA Council) who had a deep understanding of its nuances and potential. Soon after their meeting, he invited Findlay to join the board. “The work I was doing at the time allowed me to bring insights to the board especially as we thought about curriculum,” says Findlay, who was an SVP and part of the management team of Digitas Chicago before moving to Silicon Valley to direct eBay’s consumer marketing efforts. One of those insights was the importance of versatility, particularly in the tech sector where much of the opportunity is in small, agile companies in which leaders are often called on to fill a variety of roles. Findlay’s skill in both the art and science of digital marketing fueled her ascent in the tech industry, where according to one study women hold only 11 percent of executive positions. Women of color are even more rare: A study of 177 large Valley firms found that a third had no executives who were women of color in 2016. Ten of those companies had no black women employees at all. 32

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Findlay never set out to be a change-maker: “I was following my heart, and my heart led me to a place where people that look like me are fairly underrepresented,” she says. “I am a big believer in giving back to organizations that matter to me, like Tuck and Williams, but also thinking about how I can empower communities in meaningful ways. So when it comes to women and people of color, but specifically women of color, I try to make myself available as a sounding board. “It’s important to be accessible and visible, because it’s hard to believe you can get there if you can’t see it,” says Findlay, who played a leading role in Google’s retention efforts aimed at African American and Latinx employees and helped spearhead the company’s firstever marketing diversity conference. As Google’s senior director of global hardware marketing, Findlay was given the heady task of leading marketing for the search and advertising behemoth’s entry into the home hardware space. She spent five years there and shepherded Google Home through its 2016 launch and meteoric rise to challenge Amazon for the top spot in the smart speaker market. She loved the work and excelled at it—Home sales grew more than 400 percent in 2017—but found herself seeking something more. “I got to a place where I was still doing good work, but it wasn't as challenging as it had been when we scaled,” she says. “So I began to think about that next challenge.”

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Stitch Fix offered that opportunity, at a company built on the confluence of art and analysis that has always brought out Findlay’s best work. The company’s combination of human and data-driven curation has the potential to reinvent the retail clothing business. Stitch Fix asks customers to fill out a detailed survey when they start with the service, and continually updates that information with purchase history, customer feedback, and even games. In 2018 the company introduced a feature called Style Shuffle, which allows customers to rate a collection of clothing images each day. According to a Fast Company feature naming Stitch Fix one of 2018’s most innovative companies, 75 percent of Stitch Fix customers have played the game, creating more than one billion data points. All of that information goes into the algorithms used to make sure the cardigan that lands on a customer’s doorstep is just what they wanted, even if they didn’t know it yet. The packages—the company calls them “Fixes”— arrive by mail, and if the partnership between the stylist and the algorithm get it right, the clothes inside are a perfect fit, not just in terms of size, but also the customer’s style and personality. Customers keep what they like and return the rest for free. The technology allows Stitch Fix to give everyday folks the kind of personalized service once reserved only for those with the means to hire their own stylists. That universal appeal is one reason Findlay is so bullish on the company, which reported sales of $1.2 billion last year in a U.S. apparel market worth about $345 billion. “We’re a bigger company than people realize,” Findlay says. “Not only are we delivering a value proposition that people need, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.”

Realizing that potential requires a shift in marketing strategy. Instead of explaining how Stitch Fix works as it did in the past, the company’s new integrated brand campaign is designed to build an emotional connection to the brand. The campaign started with a social media push in early February, followed by a red carpet activation in New York and Los Angeles the day after the Grammys. Oscar night was a fully integrated moment across television, radio, print, and digital, anchored by a 60-second TV spot leading into the Oscars broadcast. The ad starts with a woman trying on a new pair of jeans, looking in a mirror, and smiling as a voiceover says, “Today, Hollywood got dressed up for their big night out, and Molly got dressed for hers.” The characters in the spot are diverse and relatable, and the messaging is that everyone can look their best, whether for a Hollywood soiree or a friend’s birthday party. Findlay, too, is motivated to be her best self. In her professional life, that means using her collaborative leadership style to help her colleagues exercise their own marketing superpowers. “Just as Stitch Fix celebrates every unique individual and empowers them, I'm building a world-class marketing organization that brings together bright, curious, and motivated people and challenges them to disrupt traditional approaches to marketing,” she says. “It sounds lofty, but we work for a company that's revolutionizing retail and workplace culture. Anything is possible here.”

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T HE T UCK T R A NSFOR M AT ION MA JOR UPGRADES AND NE W SPACES ARE COMING TO TUCK . HEREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WHAT YOU CAN E XPECT.

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

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A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE With the new Irving Institute, and other campus upgrades, the view from Tuck Circle will look a bit different from years past.

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worthwhile. “Imagine having the Irving Institute on the front of Murdough, with a beautiful indoor atrium,” he says. “Imagine being able to walk between Byrne and Murdough with an indoor pathway. New study rooms, new open space, and a renovated Murdough. It will vastly improve our campus.” Thomas J. McInerney T’82, a member of the Tuck Board of Advisors, and the president and CEO of Genworth Financial, is equally excited. His main philanthropic focus at Tuck has been the McInerney Family Scholarship, yet he also decided to make an early commitment to Tuck’s physical transformation by funding a lounge in the newly renovated buildings. “I always thought one of the main benefits of Tuck versus other business schools is how close all the students and faculty are,” he says. “So I think funding a great meeting space as part of a renovation is long overdue. I am delighted to be able to do it.” To make the transitions between old and new easier, Tuck will create a physical and virtual “construction information zone” to inform the community on a weekly—and sometimes daily—basis of the work being done and its implications on the school’s operation. For now, here’s a rough timeline of the major structural changes and personnel relocations in the next six months.

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n the summer of 2016, Tuck began planning for the addition of a new building in its neighborhood: the headquarters of Dartmouth’s Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society. The three-story building, which is scheduled to be under construction from October 2019 to the fall of 2021, will be attached to the south side of Murdough Center, filling up the space that is currently a multilevel concrete courtyard. In order to accommodate the construction of this new building, Murdough Hall will be temporarily offline. This will provide an opportunity for much-needed upgrades to Murdough, and a complete re-thinking of its interior configuration—conforming to modern building codes and energy standards, and the current and future needs of the Tuck community. Enhancing Tuck’s physical spaces and infrastructure is also a priority for The Tuck Difference, the school’s $250-million campaign for tomorrow’s wise leaders, which seeks strategic investments in new and technologically advanced spaces for teaching, learning, and knowledge creation. A project of this scope will have significant impacts on students, faculty, and staff. Steve Lubrano T’87, executive director of infrastructure and operations, wants the community to know the impacts will be

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ALL OF 2019 Since the beginning of the year, Tuck’s IT department has been working hard to upgrade the Internet infrastructure on campus. The last major upgrade of the physical cables behind the walls and above the ceilings was in the mid-1990s (except for the buildings built after that), and today the demands on the network are greater than ever. On any given day, every person on campus may have three or four devices connecting to the network, seeking a constant and voluminous flow of information. That requires new copper wires, state-of-the-art wireless routers, and new switches to manage Internet traffic. “Dean Slaughter has a vision for the school,” says Geoff Bronner D’91, the executive director of information technology, “and part of that vision is to be technically current. So, with financial support from Dartmouth and the dean’s discretionary fund, we are moving aggressively.” Bronner and his team began re-wiring most of the buildings in December and plan to finish by the end of the year. Right now, every office at Tuck has a maximum speed of 100 megabits per second, but the wiring often reduces that speed to 10. After the upgrade, the speed will increase to 1 gigabit per second, which will be 10 to 100 times faster. “That makes all the difference, whether you’re using Zoom to video conference, streaming video from a platform, or any of the things people take for granted today,” Bronner says. For the new wireless routers and switches, Tuck is working with technology firms Mist Systems and Juniper Networks to create an AI-driven network with near-field Bluetooth connectivity. This will facilitate mobile way-finding on campus, since the network will know a person’s location within a few square feet. Ultimately, the new network will support more devices, be more secure, and create a better experience for students, staff, and guests.

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Improvements to second floor of Byrne Hall Tuck will be nearly doubling the number of study rooms on the second floor of Byrne Hall. These study rooms will replace the Bosworth study rooms during Murdough construction. The roof of Byrne will be rebuilt with dormers to expand the space and bring in more natural light. These modern collaboration rooms will have the latest AV capabilities. In addition to the new study rooms, there will be a welcoming lobby at the top of the grand staircase, a small printing center, and open alcoves. During construction, the second floor of Byrne will be closed, with intermittent closures of the first floor. Michael Carusi T’93, an emeritus member of the MBA Council and a general partner at Lightstone Ventures, has generously funded one of the new study rooms. Doing so wasn’t a difficult decision for him. “Tuck has had a tremendous impact on my life, so I want to give back in a multitude of ways,” he says. He does that by teaching a mini-course on deal making in the health care sector, and his past service on the Council. “This is yet another way to give back,” he explains. He chose to support an upgrade to the campus because he has seen firsthand how new spaces can create new opportunities

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for students. He recently served as the co-chair on a capital campaign at his children’s private high school, raising money for a new science building. The building has been open for about a year, and already the impact has been huge. “More students are participating in robotics and various science programs,” Carusi says, “and it helps the school attract high caliber teachers, because now they have this great facility to teach out of.” Study groups and teamwork are a critical part of the Tuck experience, so Carusi is happy to be able to impact this part of the Tuck transformation. JULY 2019

Begin moving personnel out of Murdough, and reconfigure some offices in Tuck and Chase Halls. Staff members from Communications, Executive Education, Undergraduate Programs, and Advancement will move to a new office space, “Tuck on Main,” in downtown Hanover, on the second floor of the former Barnes & Noble bookstore building at 33 Main Street. They will be conveniently located next to a new independent bookstore opening at the Allen Street entrance to the building. Still North Books & Bar, spearheaded by Allie Levy D’11, will feature books curated for the unique Dartmouth community, as well as a bar and café. The building will also house Woody’s (a mountain lifestyle retailer), and a J. McLaughlin store. Tuck Career Services, in order to remain close and accessible to students, will move to the first floor of Tuck Hall, on the side closest to Woodbury; TuckGO will be relocated to the lower level of Tuck Hall; and Information Technology will move to the ground floor of Chase Hall. The Tuck portion of Feldberg Library (Bloomberg terminals and some books) and its staff will move to the Curley Lounge and Zacamy space, across from the Uhrig conference room in the Pineau-Valencienne building.

SPEEDING UP Technology upgrades and re-wiring across campus will dramatically increase network speeds.

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Byrne servery and JOE close for four weeks. To accommodate the construction on the second floor of Byrne Hall, the servery, grill, and JOE coffee shop will need to close for approximately one month during the summer. JOE will temporarily operate out of the Stell kitchen during that time. The Byrne kitchen and the PepsiCo Dining Room will remain open, in a slightly different configuration to continue to serve the Tuck community. These closures will minimally impact Tuck MBA students. OCTOBER 2019

Renovated Byrne second floor opens. Irving and Murdough construction begin. When Irving construction begins, Murdough Hall will also be renovated with lifesaving improvements (such as sprinklers), new lighting, new ceilings, and new carpet. Its heating, ventilation, and cooling systems will eventually be connected to those of the new Irving building. When Murdough re-opens, a new connection on the first floor will join Byrne Hall to the Feldberg Library space and TuckGO will occupy the space formerly used by Career Services.

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An Update on the Campaign with ERIN TUNNICLIFFE T’97, Executive Director of Advancement

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Can you bring us up to speed on the state of the campaign? ERIN: We are rounding out our fifth total year of the campaign, and our first full year after our public launch. Tuck has hosted many fun gatherings across the country and the world, where we brought alumni together to share the story of our priorities, and our alumni have stepped up with a tremendous show of support. Our alumni and friends have contributed more than $155 million as of May 1, which is over 60 percent of our total goal of $250 million. Alumni have opted to support all of our strategic priorities, which include People (scholarships and faculty), Programs (centers, TuckGO, and non-MBA programs such as TuckLAB, Bridge, and Next Step), and Places (facilities and infrastructure).

Can you talk a bit about the importance of the Places component of the campaign? ERIN: The Places component of the campaign has been the one that has evolved the most since the start of the campaign, and that’s because the story of our campus has evolved since then, too. Between the design and development of the Irving Institute, Thayer’s planned Engineering and Computer Science building, and even the parking garage being constructed right now in the former Cummings lot, many things are impacting what is going on in the Tuck neighborhood. When we looked at what is needed here, it was a really purposeful examination of how and where people convene, and having the right types of spaces for our students and faculty, and also making sure they have the technology they need when they are connecting with information, ideas, and other people out in the world. That’s why we’ve added a focus on

technology and infrastructure to the campaign, in addition to renovating our terrific buildings. By leaving Murdough unoccupied for a period of time, it allows us to completely re-think that space, raise its quality and functionality, and re-fit spaces. For example, we have a great need for study spaces— students use them all the time, so that’s a high priority. This is not a campaign with large new buildings—we’ve done that in a recent campaign and those continue to be phenomenal spaces for us. This part of the campaign is about being really smart about the buildings we have.

What are you looking forward to in the campaign in the next six months? ERIN: All of us who work in Tuck Advancement are out sharing the Tuck story to our alumni in large and small settings. Next year, we are celebrating 50 years of women at Tuck, so expect to see a number of events connected to that. We’re also excited to share the impact of the campaign gifts that have already begun helping our students with scholarships, helping our faculty be more productive, and helping our centers launch new programs and initiatives.

Can you give us a sneak peek at some major gifts you’re excited about? ERIN: We are so grateful for all of the gifts to the campaign thus far and have been celebrating those along the way. I am not one to count chickens prematurely but we aim to have more good news to share soon.

Where can alumni go for information about the campaign and how to be part of it? ERIN: Please go to our Tuck Difference website: campaign.tuck.dartmouth.edu, which lays out our priorities and has some sample gift ideas. It has impact stories and also posts our upcoming events. So, it’s a great place to go to get an update on the campaign and a look forward on how you might engage with it. Alumni can also feel free to reach out to any of us in Tuck Advancement, which encompasses all of our development professionals and those in our alumni engagement office. We’re here to help and guide you.

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C the new

CONSULTING Consulting isn't dead. It has evolved. Eleven alumni in the industry explain how.

BY MICHAEL BLANDING

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or years, clever business observers have been predicting the death of the consulting industry. Gone are the days, they argue, when companies need an outsider from BCG or Bain to parachute in with a slide deck that offers recommendations on how to create synergies to turn a company around. Today’s firms are hiring their own talented managers, with a solid grasp of business strategy, HR, and market segmentation. “People assume if you can hire someone who has those qualities, why pay a premium to bring in McKinsey?” says Stephen Pidgeon T’07, Tuck’s executive director of career services. “I think consultants have stayed ahead of that.” Pidgeon literally wrote the book on How to Get a Job in Consulting (published in 2013) and has long advised Tuck students on how to find jobs in the industry. Reports of consulting’s death, he says, have been greatly exaggerated. “I take it with a massive pinch of salt whenever anyone tells me consultants are a dying breed. People who say that probably have an outdated view of what consulting is—a generally clever chap who will come in and write a report for you,” says Pidgeon, a former McKinsey consultant. Today’s consultants, by contrast, come from globally connected firms that specialize in dealing with major disruptions from Brexit to the Affordable Care Act, as well as the many ways the digital revolution is disrupting different industries. “When you bring in a consulting company, you are getting more than a team of two or three smart MBAs,” he says. “You are getting a deep global network of experts who have seen these situations many times before and have access to resources and competencies you probably couldn’t have in-house.” Each year, about a third of Tuck’s graduating class goes into consulting, with some 20 percent joining the big three of McKinsey, Bain, or Boston Consulting Group. “Tuck’s focus on the general management curriculum gives students a broad skillset you don’t get at other schools where you are choosing a major,” he says. “That, combined with our very hands-on approach to learning and practicing analytical tools and presentation skills, gives you what you need to hit the ground running.” This past year, Tuck revamped its decision science and statistics program to add a new data analytics course with advanced software tools in direct response to feedback from alumni in the industry. More than anything, Pidgeon says, it’s the emphasis on teamwork and problem-solving that gives Tuckies a leg-up in the field. “What makes somebody a good consultant is what makes someone a good Tuck student,” he says. “It’s people who are super-smart, get excited about solving tough problems, and have very good people skills layered in. Oftentimes you are working in teams in stressful situations, where the success of the project lies in those relationships.” To gain more insight into how Tuck alumni are handling the changing face of consulting, we talked to 11 Tuckies currently working in the business in both large and small outfits, focusing on a range of industries. They paint a picture of an increasingly complex industry, whose value in an increasingly competitive business environment might be greater than ever.

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JAY BARTLETT T’96, EYParthenon (Managing Director; co-head, Private Equity): Coming out of Tuck, I joined Bain for three years, after which I had the opportunity to work for the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games. I joined Parthenon in 2002, and found myself working in private equity, and very quickly realized I’d found a home.

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MEREDITH LAPOINTE D’06, TH’07, T’12 (Partner, McKinsey & Company; Healthcare Systems & Services Practice): I originally joined McKinsey & Company after graduation from Dartmouth. I then took two years to come back to Hanover to earn my MBA from Tuck and have been back at McKinsey & Company ever since.

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Generalists Yesterday, Specialists Today Bring your A game.

OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS I HAVE SEEN A SHIFT FROM LARGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRMS focusing on strategy and engaging at a broader level within organizations to bringing both the high-level strategic thinking as well as the vertical depth and operational capabilities to achieve even more impact. To be on the leading edge of that, you need to have experts who really understand the nuances of an industry. For example, in our health care practice, we have always had physician consultants, but our workforce has expanded to include former hospital administrators, telehealth experts, data scientists with EMR specialization, pharmacists—people who have really lived and breathed the industry.

MEREDITH LAPOINTE D’06, TH’07, T’12 BACK IN THE 1980S AND 90S, THE CONSULTING INDUSTRY ADDED VALUE BY HIRING THE SMARTEST PEOPLE who went to the best schools, and worked them twice as hard as anyone else. As consulting firms put more and more alums into industry, however, more and more people had the same toolkit and the industry needed to change to continue to be valuable to their clients. Now, we have to be much more specialized to be valuable to our clients. What teams once did in a six- to nine-month project 30 years ago is now what we do to prepare a pitch.

JAY BARTLETT T’96 OUR CLIENTS LONG AGO FIGURED OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF TALENT. That means you really have to bring expertise. Increasingly, our clients are asking for more tailored experience from our teams. I’m looking for people who have worked at an airline for four to five years and then decided to go to business school. Those people are gold. Even better if they’ve worked in a couple of airlines, because then they’ve really started to integrate their knowledge.

ALEXANDER DICHTER T’99

CLIENT EXPECTATIONS HAVE CHANGED AS ACCESS TO DATA HAS CHANGED. You are not going to come in and say, “I’ve seen this playbook 50 times, and I’m just going to change the names.” You’ve got to understand the role of technology disruption and talent implications and how they’ve evolved in any given sub-sector.

ROB HASLEHURST T’06 AS CLIENTS’ SOPHISTICATION HAS INCREASED, THE VALUE OF REPORTS AND STUDIES HAS GONE DOWN. But most industries are in disruption, and the need to navigate that disruption on a global level in a way that works for a company and protects assets and creates advantages is still there. That is where consultants, who are able to meaningfully address the disruption, are still highly valued partners.

VICKY LEVY T’98 WITHIN MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN, WHERE I SPECIALIZE, YOU CAN’T JUST WALK INTO A COMPANY ANYMORE simply knowing how to use Excel and doing the traditional modeling and providing smart answers. You have to have an understanding in data science, and the ability to ask those technical second- or third-level questions alongside a team of digital solution architects. And you need to combine that with deep knowledge of industry, manufacturing physics, and supply chain concepts. On top of that there is a need to be a visionary leader for clients who continue to be reluctant about digital, and the disruption potential that is inherent in it. All of this needs to come together to create a very compelling narrative and level of leadership to take customers on that journey.

JUSTIN RODRIGUEZ T’13

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Clients Want Fresh Perspectives Look outside the industry. WE AS AN INDUSTRY CAN HELP BY PROVIDING OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES. The need for that isn’t going away. Most executives are spending a lot of their time running the business and don’t often have the time to understand what’s around the corner, or how other companies are approaching things. We work with a lot of investors and operators, and can help each side understand the other.

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thinking from those who haven’t been raised in the corporate culture of a specific company. Often, the best breakthroughs come from merging ideas and approaches across industries.

WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE ABILITY TO HAVE OUT-OF-INDUSTRY, PLUS IN-INDUSTRY, EXAMPLES IS INCREDIBLY HELPFUL. That provides a fuller perspective, and I think a degree of comfort to know that, while my challenge feels unique, these are problems that others have confronted previously, and I can learn from that.

ANDREW WALDECK T’04 THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY—AND I THINK THIS IS TRUE OF A LOT OF INDUSTRIES—IS VERY INWARDLOOKING, which means the industry tends to look at other companies within the industry for best practices. But let’s be clear, it’s an industry that has not made a lot of money over the years, and it’s an industry that doesn’t exactly delight its customer on average. Our view is that you probably need to look outside for best practices. Think about what Amazon would do if it were running your website. How would Toyota run your maintenance facilities?

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BRIAN MYERHOLTZ T’03 ALEXANDER DICHTER T’99, McKinsey & Company (Senior Partner; leader, Global Airline and Travel Practice): I went from Tuck directly to McKinsey. I started as a summer associate in 1998, and an associate after graduation in 1999, and have been here ever since. I’d been in the airline industry before

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CLIENTS ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVE: New ideas informed by fresh

DARCI DARNELL T’00, Bain & Company (Partner; Lead, Global Customer Strategy & Marketing): I joined Bain right out of Tuck, and have been in four different offices: London, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, where I live now. I started out as a generalist, but I have since developed expertise in customer loyalty and organic growth, as well as financial services, where I spend most of my time today.

coming to Tuck, and so I arrived with a very clear sense of what I wanted to do, and have helped build our airline practice from an early tenure.

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A Solution, and Execution Develop the strategy—and help implement it.

THERE’S BEEN AN EVOLUTION OF CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. Clients want more integrated solutions, not only coming up with the idea and setting the direction but also providing support and guidance on how to execute and achieve the value that is promised. The teams we bring to clients today provide not just creative ideas and fresh thinking but also real-world experience from people who have done it before.

MYERHOLTZ MORE AND MORE OF THE CONSULTING BUSINESS HAS BECOME OPERATIONS MORE THAN STRATEGY. Teams can be on the ground for months, if not years, to do big turnarounds and transformations. Currently, we are hearing a lot of questions about the impact of e-commerce, or blockchain, or AI, and how do you get out in front of technological and consumer changes.

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and grow, it’s less a “fix it and forget it” attitude—it’s helping to build a more functional platform and capability that helps them develop resilience in the face of disruption and competition.

DARCI DARNELL T’00 THE TRADITIONAL CONSULTING TOWERS OF STRATEGY, OPERATIONS, HR, AND TECHNOLOGY ARE ALL INTEGRATED now as a result of technology being ubiquitous and data and scaled analytics being so much cheaper. Consulting firms need to get over their own silos and change to deliver integrated services. The notion that you generate a hypothesis, test it, validate it, and put it into the market—a waterfall way of working—is not the way you can afford to operate anymore. You need to be more agile, moving quickly into testing and learning, getting to a minimum viable product, and then quickly refining it and testing it in an iterative way to demonstrate and generate value all along the way.

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AS WE ARE BUILDING THE DATA AND INSIGHT TO RESPOND TO CUSTOMERS as they change

ROB HASLEHURST T’06 L.E.K Consulting (Managing Director and Partner): I joined L.E.K. out of undergrad, and have been with them close to 19 years. I’m now head of our Boston office, where I focus on consumer-led growth strategy, working with retail and consumer products clients, as well as in media, tech, and sports.

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The Rise of Big Data and Technology Crunch big data. FROM MY SEAT, THE MOST MAJOR CHANGE IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS IS THE RAPID EMERGENCE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL . We started seeing people pioneering big data, AI, machinelearning, etc. a few years ago, and now the early pioneers have moved from spot applications to implementing things like artificial intelligence at scale, and transforming their operations and customer value propositions in their go-tomarket strategies. It’s very much changing the way BCG partners with its clients. Increasingly we have to build these capabilities around IT, digital products, and big data to serve the marketplace.

RODRIGUEZ WE USED TO TALK TO OUR CLIENTS ABOUT DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NOW DIGITAL IS UP-FRONT IN EVERYTHING WE DO. If we’re talking about organic growth, it’s in the context of technology; if we’re talking about cost transformations, it’s with technology. Human intellect and human problem-solving is still at the core of what we do, but the way we mechanize that has drastically changed.

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DARNELL VICKY LEVY T’98, Deloitte (Lead Partner, Life Sciences and Health care): Out of Tuck I joined the Monitor Company, which was a strategy boutique firm sold to Deloitte in 2013. From the beginning, I’ve been involved in life sciences and pharma, looking at marketing sales, pricing, customer transformation,

THERE IS AN INCREASING USE OF DATA AND ANALYTICAL TOOLS. It used to be that you could add an enormous amount in operations just by teaching people the basics, but now every business has that lexicon. We’re now in an era where the next generation of performance improvement is coming from much more advanced techniques. How do I build a machinelearning algorithm that takes all of the data from my operations and teaches me how to see things I would not see otherwise?

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and customer experience in the health care ecosystem.

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REDMOND TAKE A WIDGET COMPANY THAT’S BEEN AROUND FOR 60 OR 70 YEARS. They’ve been pretty stable in the marketplace using traditional supply chain and manufacturing management techniques and processes. But now their marketplaces are disrupted by China and harsh competition from around the globe, and they don’t have the people internally to collect millions of data points from their machines to really achieve next-level of efficiency in their supply chain and their operations, or the people to build digital products that are bespoke to them to allow them to run their supply chain more leanly. So all of a sudden they’re very far behind. Much of the work we’re doing today is bringing those capabilities in those very specific instances to those customers.

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BRIAN MYERHOLTZ T’03, Boston Consulting Group (Partner and Managing Director, Chicago; Industrial Goods, Corporate Finance and Strategy, and Operations): I started with Accenture after undergrad back in 1997; I was there for four years, focusing on technology and operations. Given my engineering background, I came to Tuck to round out my business acumen with the hopes of continuing to move more into strategic consulting. I summered at BCG in 2002 and returned full time after

LESLIE READ T’02

things that I did for my clients 12 years ago that they can now do for themselves. The profession is going to have to keep pushing the state of the art with regard to our ability to crunch big data and use sophisticated analytical tools to find patterns and develop insights. If you are a cable company, you are collecting billions of data points on set top box behavior. If you are a media company with a direct-to-consumer product, you could be collecting an enormous amount of information on how people use your products, how long they watch a video clip, etc. The challenge becomes architecting your data infrastructure so you can store all that information; deciding what questions you want to ask of that data set, and then doing it.

BRIAN MYERHOLTZ T’03

COMPANIES ARE GETTING A LOT MORE SOPHISTICATED IN WHAT THEY CAN DO TO MANAGE DATA SETS AND VISUALIZE INFORMATION. I see

LESLIE READ T’02, Monitor Deloitte (Principal, Customer Strategy; Leader, Health Plans Customer Transformation Practice): I summered at the Monitor Group when I was at Tuck and when I graduated, I returned to Monitor and joined our costumer and marketing practice, where I dug right into the life sciences, and later transitioned to health care.

graduation. At BCG, I focus on industrial goods clients and engineered products— things not sold directly to consumers like pumps, valves, and bulldozers.

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All About the Customer Consider the brands customers interact with. AS YOU ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND CUSTOMERS, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY’RE INTERACTING WITH COMPANIES IN THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM AROUND YOU. It used to be good enough when you were talking with an insurance company to say, “Here’s what best in class looks like in insurance,” but that has rapidly evolved to, “I need to understand how consumers are interacting across the industry.” If you want to know what a good digital shopping cart looks like, for example, should you look at another insurance company, or should you see how Apple is doing it?

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WALDECK CUSTOMERS ARE STARTING TO EXPECT MORE IN TERMS OF DIGITAL; THEY’RE EXPECTING MORE INFORMATION, LIKE DIGITAL PLATFORMS. And old, slow-to-change companies that have historically been run with these “old-school” processes and managerial approaches are struggling. They don’t have the digital product architects to build things like sales platforms in the marketplace, and are looking to us to build the products and capabilities.

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PATRICK REDMOND T’07, Altman Vilandrie & Company (Principal): I graduated from Tuck 12 years ago, looking for an entrepreneurial, techoriented, Boston-based environment, and found it in Altman Vilandrie, which was recruiting there for the first time that year. We focus on strategy for telecom, tech, and media companies, including the major players in the telecom environment.

CUSTOMERS ARE COMPARING THEIR HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE WITH THEIR RETAIL EXPERIENCE at Starbucks, or their hospitality experience at Ritz-Carlton, or the best apps that allow them to do what they want to do in a seamless, easy way. The conversation we are having with health care clients is how to develop that seamless experience, recognizing that they will have to rely on ecosystem partners, like the physician, the pharmacy, or community organizations, to help you provide it.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock has to have an Amazon-like experience in the mind of a consumer. And that same perspective ripples through whether I am a physician in a health system, or a supplier in a B2B environment.

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HEALTH CARE’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS THAT PEOPLE BRING THE EXPECTATION OF AN EXPERIENCE WITH AMAZON INTO A HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT. So

JUSTIN RODRIGUEZ T’13, Boston Consulting Group (Principal): Before Tuck I was an engineer working in the construction industry. At Tuck, I ended up doing my summer internship at BCG and sticking around. When I started it was very much about lean manufacturing and traditional operations and supply-chain methodologies. Now my work has very much shifted towards digital productization, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, and management.

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ANew Kind of Strategy Don't be afraid to get creative. RETAILERS AREN’T JUST THINKING ABOUT WHERE TO ADD STORES—THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW CUSTOMERS EXPERIENCE THEIR COMPANY in a

HASLEHURST AT BCG WE IN THE INDUSTRIAL GOODS PRACTICE HAVE LEARNED NEW WAYS OF USING SEGMENTATION TO DRIVE GROWTH FROM OUR CONSUMER GOODS-FOCUSED COUNTERPARTS. Demand-centric growth segments consumers not by traditional demographics such as age and gender, but by their buying habits in specific situations we call “demand events.” What are the actual choices and decisions they are making and how are they making them in the moment? We’ve used that approach and applied it to industrial companies, treating industrial buyers as “consumers” and creatively finding ways to meet their needs.

ANDREW WALDECK T’04

cross-channel way; how they combine online and stores together. Brands meanwhile are having to become retailers themselves and build entirely new muscles to compete in that world. We are combining bespoke and client data sets in order to develop insight around how different customer segments are behaving. A sports league can tie together an understanding of fan segmentation, viewing behavior, purchase behavior, and digital activity to talk—and sell —to fans in a personalized way. But they likely can’t do it all, and certainly not at once, so the strategy—what to do and not do—is critical.

ANDREW WALDECK T’04, Innosight (Senior Partner and the health care practice leader): I spent a year working for a local VC firm, and then I made the jump over to Innosight. We are a strategy-focused firm that focuses solely on helping large organizations navigate disruptive change.

MYERHOLTZ WE’RE WORKING WITH CLIENTS AND THEIR PARTNERS TO ACCELERATE HOW SMART DEVICES CAN HELP IDENTIFY WHEN PATIENTS ARE GETTING HEALTHIER OR SICKER. We then help companies understand how to use that data. You need to interpret the data, integrate it with clinical trial data to identify whether a patient is a good candidate for a company’s drug, protect that data, and partner with health care providers to improve patient outcomes. So you’ve got questions that require strategy, operations, analytics, data privacy management, and technology capabilities. The same questions play out for heart failure, eye loss, cancer, and other diseases. We are moving to a world where digital technology and data science can determine and directly impact patients, and pharmaceutical companies need to embrace and be ready to integrate those digital assets as a part of the way they interact with the health system to enhance patient outcomes.

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On Tuck Harness the hard, and soft, skills. TUCK HAS A DISTINCTIVE STRENGTH IN DEVELOPING GREAT PROBLEM SOLVERS —people who are creative and are not afraid to reach out to a broader network and work collaboratively to get to the right solution. The entire Tuckie mentality around teamwork helped prepare and empower me to use my network. If I am not the right person for the job, I know how to go out and build the right team to get the job done well.

TUCK INFUSED IN ME THE NOTION THAT BEING CONFIDENT IN YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF IS THE WAY YOU’LL BE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE. I have become far more comfortable over time being vulnerable and sharing more of who I am, what makes me tick, with my teams and my clients. In demonstrating vulnerability, especially in higher stakes situations, it has helped to create deeper connections with people.

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LAPOINTE A LOT OF THE WORK WE DID AT TUCK IN SOFTER SKILLS, WHETHER IT’S IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR OR COMMUNICATIONS, PLAYS INTO THAT. We’re able to tell the story better and more strongly, to empathize with other people, and then to organize change.

THE THING I TOOK AWAY FROM TUCK IS THE IMPACT THAT YOU CAN HAVE—IT GOES BEYOND PROFIT AND LOSS. I often define my job as trying to make lives better, one customer and one marketing message at a time. You have to think about the impact you can have on the world as a wise leader.

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HASLEHURST THE MANIACAL FOCUS OF TEAMWORK AT TUCK WAS CERTAINLY GOOD PREPARATION FOR CONSULTING. All of the management communications courses have become incredibly relevant to thinking about how to communicate and influence clients and teams.

BARTLETT AS ADVISERS, WE’RE IN THE INFLUENCE BUSINESS, and while part of that is an analytical exercise, a big part of that is having the ability to connect with individuals, having empathy for the nature of the challenge they are taking on, and the personal risk it can take. And so an environment like Tuck and the intimacy you have as a Tuckie I think is a great training ground for those types of skills.

WALDECK ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT TUCK IS HOW IT BROUGHT TOGETHER PEOPLE WITH WIDELY VARYING BACKGROUNDS, approaches, and perspectives on a team together. That’s what I aspire to do leading recruiting at BCG Chicago—hiring not just MBAs and PhDs but also medical doctors, lawyers, and experienced people from industry and putting them all on a team together to solve problems in new, more creative ways.

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The thing I took away from Tuck is the impact that you can have— it goes beyond profit and loss. I often define my job as trying to make lives better, one customer and one marketing message at a time. You have to think about the impact you can have on the world as a wise leader.” DARCI DARNELL T’00

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After surviving cancer, Kelly Leach T’02 is cycling to fundraise and fight against rare cancers. / p. 58

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What role do tribally owned casinos and hotels play in the wellbeing of Native American communities?

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PRESERVING CULTURE THROUGH BANKING DAWSON HER MANY HORSES T’10 HELPS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES PROTECT THEIR WAY OF LIFE.

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

rowing up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in the Great Plains of South Dakota, Dawson Her Many Horses T’10 was fortunate to be part of a Native American tribe that has held on to its ancient beliefs, traditions, and language. Dawson’s parents were the first members of their families to attend college, and they impressed upon him the need to protect, preserve, and improve the lives of their fellow tribal members.

Since federally recognized tribes are independent governments with a legal status akin to

state and local governments, Dawson reasoned that an effective way to advocate for Native Americans was to become a lawyer. While pursuing a degree in political science at Columbia University, with plans to attend law school, he began working for the office of the general counsel at Merrill Lynch. Around that time, in 2003, there was a boom in Native American gaming—many tribes were building casinos and hotels as vehicles for economic development. So when he graduated in 2004, Merrill Lynch offered Dawson a position as the director of Native American business development for the investment banking, wealth management, and asset management groups. In that role, he worked with tribal governments and tribally owned enterprises (casinos and hotels) on their financing needs. He later moved into Merrill Lynch investment banking, where he was an analyst focused on the gaming industry. It wasn’t law school, but he had stayed true to his cultural values. “I realized there was a need for people in finance who understood tribal communities and the histories and cultures of tribal nations across the U.S.,” Dawson says. “There was only one other person with my background in Native American banking, so I thought, 'Wow, there’s a need here. I can make a difference'.” Since 2018, Dawson has been a senior vice president and Native American business leader at Wells Fargo & Company, where he leads the bank’s services to tribes and tribally owned enterprises.

Tribal casinos are wholly owned by tribal governments. After paying expenses, some tribes elect to take a distribution from these businesses, which fund the operations of the government, such as health care, elder services, housing, language preservation efforts, courts—everything that a typical government needs to do.

In addition to financing these tribal enterprises, how else does Wells Fargo work with the tribes? As a bank, we’ve worked with tribes in the lower 48 and Alaska for more than 50 years. We have over 200 relationships across 27 states, and provide our clients financing, risk management, investments, retirement, depository and traditional banking products. We also spend a lot of time focused on helping tribes manage the resources and the wealth these casinos are generating. Our wealth management people help them come up with strategies to invest money and create portfolios that help these tribal governments in perpetuity. Our tribal clients are also interested in economic diversification, and we’re helping them think about future business opportunities.

In your 15 years in Native American banking, have casinos made a positive economic impact on reservations? From a macro level, yes. Native American gaming has been the biggest driver of economic development for tribes across the U.S. A lot of tribes have been able to create programming and implement services for their members who didn’t have things like health care and housing or elder care. And yet, challenges remain. Gaming markets are maturing. Some new casinos and hotels are being built, but it’s not like it was when I started working in 2004. Markets are starting to flatten. The number of tribal members continues to grow, so the demand for services continues to grow. Gaming has been great, but we’re going to need new enterprises and businesses to continue to help our community and members in the future.

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I realized there was a need for people in finance who understood tribal communities and the histories and cultures of tribal nations across the U.S.” DAWSON HER MANY HORSES T'10

Why did you choose Tuck as the business school that would make you the best possible advocate for Native American communities? I wanted more than an education; I wanted an experience. As I was looking at my options, Tuck ended up being on the short list. It wound up being the only place I applied. And it was compelling for me because Tuck is at Dartmouth, and in the 1970s Dartmouth president John G. Kemeny recommitted Dartmouth College to recruiting and retaining Native American students. In the 40 years since, there have been more than 1,100 Native American and Alaska Native Dartmouth alumni. They are leaders in every field you can imagine, from elected tribal leadership to state and federal governments, business and art. I wanted to be a part of that broader alumni network.

How did your Tuck experience help you grow as a business leader?

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I came to Tuck as an individual producer, as an analyst putting together presentations and building models. One of the things I’ve taken away from my experience at Tuck is the importance of relationships and working in teams. My role is as a Native American business leader, but I don’t just do it from a commercial banking group; I have an enterprise-wide focus. I’m using a lot of influence, building relationships, and leveraging teamwork to solve problems. That’s the big thing I took from Tuck: building relationships to achieve the objectives that you want to achieve.

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It’s intensely analytical—the card industry was the first user of big data—and it’s also a branded product. It's one of the few financial services products that people see you use.”

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THE GARDENER ROGER HOCHSCHILD T'90 WANTED TO TEND A GARDEN. HE FOUND IT IN THE CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY. By JEFF MOAG

hen ROGER HOCHSCHILD T’90 became CEO of Discover Financial Services, the challenge of the new role wasn’t learning the business and its culture. He’d been at the firm for 14 years as president and COO, positions he still holds. The challenge was adding another full-time job to the roles he already had. It’s an appropriate test for the 54-yearold chief executive, who preaches—and practices—lean management. “It’s exciting and challenging, and it’s also forcing me to rethink how I spend my time,” says Hochschild, who became CEO in October 2018, two months after joining the company’s board. “Learning how to be a good team member, and how to lead a team in a collaborative way, is one of the key lessons I learned at Tuck and it has stayed with me throughout my career,” Hochschild says. “It’s been useful in this transition, because part of how I'm doing two jobs now is by empowering my team to assume greater responsibility.” Hochschild grew up in San Francisco, where his father was a pioneer in the computer business. “It's fascinating to hear him tell the story of how his company got a computer in the late 50s and of course there's no IT department. So they grab three guys out of accounting to figure out what to do with it. One of them was my dad,” says Hochschild, who wrote code for his father’s company as a teenager in the early 1980s. He still has an affinity for tech, though he chose to study economics at Georgetown University. “I didn't really have any idea what I wanted to do, and took my first job in investment banking largely because I wanted to be in New York,” he says frankly. “I was doing municipal interest rate derivatives and I knew that was not going to be my life.” He saw business school as a

way to transition to a new path, and looked for one that would give him a broad set of business skills. “I wanted that close collegial environment, but also a focus on general management that covered all the bases, from marketing to finance to organizational behavior,” he says. Tuck seemed to offer all of the above, and a visit to Hanover sealed his decision. “You can't separate Tuck from its location,” he says. “It drives the sense of community, and that combination of place, community and closeness between students and faculty, coalesces to make Tuck special.” Hochschild took a broad range of classes at Tuck and says professor John Shank’s managerial accounting course made a particular impact. “You wouldn't think that managerial accounting is the most exciting course, but I would say what he taught was fundamental to how I think about business. It was really about how to take any business problem apart and approach it analytically to come up with the answer.” The lessons stayed with him throughout his career, from strategy consulting to product development and now as chief executive at Discover. Though best known as a credit card issuer, during Hochschild’s 14year tenure as president and COO, the firm became the second-largest private student lender in the United States and expanded its range of direct banking products, including personal and home equity loans, checking and savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. Discover is also one of only two U.S. banks that operate a payments network, which sets it apart from many rivals. “The difference when we compare to Visa and Mastercard is that we’re also a bank, and compared to banks we have a payments network. So we’re unique,” says Hochschild, who played a significant role in Discover’s 2008 acquisition of Diners Club International. The move helped

expand Discover’s payment network to 190 countries, making it the third largest globally in terms of acceptance. Discover often white-labels that network, a strategy that has allowed Discover to thrive in the rapidly changing payments business. “Frequently we’re the Intel Inside for payment methods,” Hochschild explains. “When Apple launched Apple Pay Cash, we provided the network backbone for processing those transactions. When PayPal expands pay with Venmo to merchants, we’re processing those transactions.” The company maintains the PULSE ATM network and has forged partnerships around the world, from India to China and Brazil. When a visitor from Japan orders barbecue brisket and Lone Star beer in San Antonio, Discover’s network handles the transaction for JCB, Japan’s largest credit card processor. The integrated approach is natural for Hochschild, who came to Tuck looking for a more versatile set of business skills and the opportunity to employ them creatively. Municipal bonds felt like a monoculture, the soybeans of financial services. Hochschild wanted to tend a garden. He found it in the credit card industry. “What I like is it combines everything,” he says. “It’s intensely analytical—the card industry was the first user of big data—and it’s also a branded product. It's one of the few financial services products that people see you use, so you get all of the branding aspects that you get from an industry like consumer packaged goods. So I just found it appealing from the beginning.” Hochschild is confident in Discover’s integrated approach, but cautions that success is not just about strategic vision. His job is also to drive execution. That brings us full circle, to empowering his colleagues and trusting them to carry out their roles. He leads by example, and makes a point to maintain a healthy work-life balance even as he juggles two demanding roles. Hochschild sometimes spends evenings or weekends working with his wife at the independent bookstore she owns, and he coached his daughter’s youth soccer team for eight years. His team learned not to schedule meetings with him on Friday afternoons during the soccer season, and perhaps a deeper lesson. “That balance, and all the pieces that go into having a good life, is very important to me,” he says. “That was another thing I learned a lot about at Tuck.” SUMMER 2019

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LOWEY BUNDY SICHOL T’02, author of the From an Idea to … business biography books for elementary/middle grade children, is also the founder and principal of Case Marketing, a writer/producer of MBA case studies for business schools.

In addition to distinguishing

CURRENT BOOKS: From an Idea to LEGO and From an Idea to Google, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2019.

themselves in the world of business, Tuck alumni continue to achieve in the world of publishing. Here are six current or forthcoming must-reads by Tuck alumni authors.

By PATTI BACON

In her latest books From an Idea to LEGO and From an Idea to Google, marketing and brand management expert Lowey Bundy Sichol shares the entrepreneurial journeys of LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. She breaks down the business strategies that brought LEGO from wooden toys to an interlocking plastic brick system and Google from a Stanford dorm room project to one of the world’s most valuable brands. Sprinkled with kid-friendly visuals, fun facts, and easy-to-read business definitions, these books explore such topics as how LEGO minifigures came to be, the importance of failing at Google, and how both companies changed the world through innovation. The books join a growing collection written by Bundy Sichol including From an Idea to Nike and From an Idea to Disney. COM I NG SOON...

THE GRIT FACTOR COMING SOON

SHANNON HUFFMAN POLSON T’03, speaker, author, and veteran, is also the founder and CEO of online leadership training provider The Grit Institute and a former group manager for Microsoft. COMING SOON: The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Industry in the World, Harvard Business Review Press, expected 2020.

An avid mountain climber in her teens and twenties who spent more than a decade traveling the world, Polson later became one of the U.S. Army’s first female attack helicopter pilots and went on to lead a platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina and a line company in Korea. Over the past three years, she has interviewed other women in the vanguard of their military fields. Those critical leadership lessons and stories, drawn from her own crucibles of experience and from this elite pack of female iconoclasts, form the basis of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male Dominated Industry in the World. The book relays candid stories of combat and the careers of women such as Heather Penney, one of the first female F-16 pilots who was put on a “suicide mission” for 9/11; General Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general in the Army; Marine Commander Amy McGrath, the first woman to fly the F/A-18 in combat and a 2018 Congressional candidate; and dozens of other unstoppable women.

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Author and keynote speaker PETER HORST T’88, named by Forbes as one of the World’s Top 50 Most Influential CMO’s, is the founder and head of marketing consultancy firm CMO, Inc.

JORGE AGUILAR T’04, partner at Prophet, works with leaders to create momentum in their careers, with their teams, and in their organizations at large.

ROGER MCNAMEE T’82, businessman, investor, venture capitalist, and musician, is also a best-selling author and the founding partner of venture capital firm Elevation Partners.

CURRENT BOOK: Marketing in the Fake News Era: New Rules for a New Reality of Tribalism, Activism, and Loss of Trust, Advantage | Forbes Books, June 2018.

CURRENT BOOK: Perspectives on Purpose: Leading Voices on Building Brands and Businesses for the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, March 2019.

CURRENT BOOK: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Penguin Press, February 2019.

Horst’s book examines the increasingly complex challenges brands face and how much higher the stakes have become in the era of Fake News. “Leaders,” the publisher’s synopsis explains, “must now address a highly polarized marketplace in which consumers are energized by their tribal affiliations to take action for or against brands based on their perceived values, beliefs, and biases.” Marketing in the Fake News Era provides strategic and tactical guidance on how to take control and protect the company’s brand in the event of a PR crisis.

Perspectives on Purpose is a compilation of essays by nearly two dozen senior executives who share stories from their jobs about social responsibility in business and how companies can, and should, do good while also doing well. Aguilar’s chapter, titled “Activating Living Experiences: Building Brand Relevance by Putting Purpose to Work,” supports his perspective that purpose is necessary, but not sufficient to drive growth. “To be impactful,” he says, “purpose needs to be translated into living brand experiences.”

JIM CAMPBELL T’79, is host of nationally syndicated radio shows Business Talk with Jim Campbell and Forensic Talk with Jim Campbell on the Biz Talk Radio Network. COMING SOON: Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History, McGraw Hill, 2020. In a deeper dive on the subject matter of his two radio shows—business and crime—Campbell is currently completing a book about Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff. Madoff Talks, publisher McGraw Hill reveals, is “an in-depth analysis of the largest Ponzi scheme in history—with new details from Madoff himself, in the most extensive communications he’s had with any media source.” Campbell exposes the systemic failure of Madoff’s scheme, investigating the roles of the SEC and SIPC, as well as Madoff’s biggest clients, his bank, the feeder funds, the whistleblowers, and others.

Zucked is McNamee’s highly personal account of his status as an early Facebook investor, his longtime mentorship of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and his more recent and growing fears that the social media platform has become a danger to society and democracy. The book is McNamee’s call to action for Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to contain the damage by reorienting the platform along more socially responsible lines that protect privacy and user data and curtail exploitation by bad actors. He also calls for regulatory oversight.

JOHN HAWKINS T’82, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry veteran, is vice chairman and board director of executive search firm Odgers Berndtson, LLC in New York. COMING SOON: Conscience and Courage: How Visionary CEO Henri Termeer Built a Biotech Giant and Pioneered the Rare Disease Industry, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, October 2019. In Conscience and Courage, John Hawkins, an insightful analyst of health care leaders, reveals the philosophy, principles, methods, and habits of prominent CEO Henri Termeer who defied convention to create an investor-owned global enterprise that put people before profits and improved the lives of thousands of forgotten patients. Hawkins argues that Termeer was one of the first of a pioneering group of business executives who built a disparate group of fledgling companies into a biotech industry that has driven decades of therapeutic innovation. During a 28-year career at Genzyme, including 26 years as CEO, he created a process of drug development that for the first time was patient-centered. Hawkins also reveals how Termeer helped forge biotech's public policy agenda and inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to take on large and important challenges.”

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A POSITIVE SPIN ON LIFE AFTER CANCER By KELLY MEAD LEACH T’02

“I got my first cancer scars when I lost my mother to cervical cancer in 1992. I was only 20 years old at that time, grateful for the years I had with my mom, but devastated by the loss, and so saddened by a future without her. Fast forward to 2014, when cancer came for me. I battled hard for a full year, and declared victory on Ewing’s Sarcoma in September 2015, after 12 rounds of chemotherapy and eight weeks of radiation. During my battle, my stepmother waged her own battle—a recurrence with endometrial cancer. She continues to fight. Countless friends have fought their own battles, and most are still around to share their experiences—but not all.

I will not stand by and let these scars deepen. I will not watch while others are scarred. I will

JOIN THE BATTLE for those who battled before me, for those who battle now, for those who have won, for those who have lost, for recurrences that may be brewing, and for all who may have a battle ahead of them and don’t even know it yet.”

t goes without saying that a cancer diagnosis is life changing, but its long-term effect doesn’t have to be negative. The quote above is an excerpt from my Cycle for Survival (cycleforsurvival.org) fundraising page. Cycle for Survival helped me put a positive spin (pun intended) on life after cancer. I discovered Cycle for Survival in February 2015, about halfway through my cancer treatment. My husband, David Leach T’01, and I attended our first ride as observers only. I had just finished chemo treatment, and was physically exhausted and unable to stand for a long period of time. I probably shouldn’t have been out of my house on that winter day, and certainly not in a room full of people with my suppressed immune system. But I couldn’t resist checking out the nearby ride. I was fairly certain that this event, this community of fighters, this movement to beat rare cancers would provide the answers to my questions: Why me? Why now? What is the bigger picture for my life after cancer? I stood in that Equinox gym, where hundreds of riders, families, cheerleaders, and spinning instructors poured their energy into the bikes. I immediately felt the power of this community. It was hot in that gym, so I had to take off my winter hat which exposed my bald head. I immediately received encouraging smiles and pats on

the back from strangers. I met the parents of one of the founders of Cycle for Survival and we shared some powerful hugs. On that day, I made a commitment to myself, and on behalf of many others, to fundraise and fight rare cancers. As fate would have it, the first day of registration for the 2016 rides fell on my last day of radiation treatment, and Team Pedaling Sunshine was born. Our team name was inspired by the bedtime song, “You Are My Sunshine,” which I sang to my sons every night. They were only two and six at the time of my diagnosis and they were the inspiration behind my battle. Launching and managing Team Pedaling Sunshine was a bit like running a small business. In that first year, I recruited 10 local city captains, plus two regional captains, plus two affiliate captains. They helped me with planning, communications, and event-day logistics. Together, we recruited 190 riders, and armed them with tools to support their fundraising efforts (e.g. email and social media templates, ideas for local fundraisers, and lots of team swag). With the support of my kids, I also launched an annual kids event, The Sunshine Striders one-mile fun run. Over the past four years, our fun run has seen a 60 percent increase in participation and has almost doubled its fundraising strength from $13,000

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In 2019, Leach’s Cycle for Survival team, Team Pedaling Sunshine, raised a record-breaking $350,000 toward curing rare cancers.

in 2015 to almost $25,000 in 2018. We’ve received support from town sponsors, event day presence from the local fire and police departments, coverage in local newspapers and magazines, and we even march in the fourth of July parade to promote our event. My initial fundraising goal was for each rider to raise $1,000. Simple multiplication allowed for tremendous fundraising potential, and my hopes and dreams were exceeded that first year when 190 riders raised over $257,000. In year two, we honed our fundraising skills further and raised over $270,000. And the story continues: 2019 was a record-breaking year for Team Pedaling Sunshine. We raised over $350,000, crushing the $1 million fundraising milestone in just four years! While it may be my passion as a cancer survivor that is the driving force behind this team, I have merely created a vehicle through which others find comfort in doing something to fight this horrible disease—some as cancer warriors themselves, some as survivors, and some honoring and remembering others touched by cancer. The rides are fun and energetic, but I challenge you to find a rider who has yet to cry at these events. The Cycle for Survival community is bound by the hope that we, as one team, will one day put an end to any suffering and sadness caused by cancer.

The Tuck community, and especially the T’01 and T’02 classes, have been hugely supportive of me and Dave since my diagnosis, and so many have participated in the rides with us and donated to Team Pedaling Sunshine. Though we’ve tried through many emails, words cannot express our gratitude. If you’d like to learn more about Cycle for Survival or join Team Pedaling Sunshine, please contact me at kellyaleach@ yahoo.com. Cycle for Survival (cycleforsurvival.org) is the movement to beat rare cancers. Rare cancers account for half of all cancers being treated today. These cancers receive minimal research funding and therefore patients have fewer treatment options. Cycle for Survival is changing the game for rare cancer patients. 100 percent of every dollar donated to Cycle for Survival goes directly to rare cancer research, and is allocated to doctors, researchers, and scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center within six months of the ride events. In just 12 years, Cycle for Survival has raised over $221 million, and funded over 100 clinical trials.

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CAROLINE FOLMER T’18 JOINS WOMEN’S CYCLING TEAM TO RIDE THE ROUTE OF THE 2019 TOUR DE FRANCE

will oversee Fallon’s continued involvement in Massachusetts government programs. Educational nonprofit New Jersey SEEDS, which provides educational opportunities for high-achieving, low-income students, honored NATHANIEL CONARD T’85, a SEEDS trustee and headmaster of the K-12, co-ed Pingry School in Short Hills and Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with its Leading Change Award in March. The award recognizes people whose initiative and commitment have enhanced the educational opportunities of young people throughout the state.

CAROLINE FOLMER T’18, a Bain & Company consultant based in the Netherlands and a former member of the Dartmouth Cycling Team, will ride the 2,082-mile Tour de France route in July as one of 13 women comprising the “Donnons des Elles au Vélo” J-1 team. The women ride all 21 stages of the race a day before the professional men’s teams ride them, with the goal of promoting women’s cycling and gender equality in cycling, and to advocate for the return of a high-profile women’s stage race in France.

Roger Lynch T’95 named CEO of Condé Nast Global media company Condé Nast, publisher of iconic magazines such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, named Roger Lynch T’95 its first global CEO. Lynch will run the combined Condé Nast US and Condé Nast International organizations, helping to extend their print brands into digital formats. Before joining Condé Nast, Lynch served as CEO of streaming music service Pandora, and prior to that was founding CEO of Sling TV, the streaming television service owned by Dish.

Peter Sisson T’94 named one of the most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech

Mobile and Internet product-focused entrepreneur Peter Sisson T’94, the current CEO and co-founder of augmented-reality company Yaza, has been named one of the 23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech by Business Insider. The financial and business news website describes Sisson as “a serial entrepreneur who has founded a number of companies that have all been acquired,” including wine retail website WineShopper.com, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network and (Skype competitor) Teleo. Sisson was similarly recognized in 2013 by website Mashable as one of “Nine gay leaders making a difference in technology.” 60

ALEXIS MCLAUGHLIN T’02 has been named CEO of 2020 On-site, a vision care company that brings mobile vision centers to businesses and schools to provide comprehensive eye exams and retail sales of glasses and contact lenses. She joins 2020 On-site with a decade of experience in the vision care industry, having most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of retail licenses brands at Luxottica Retail. Technology news website GeekWire profiled JULIET HORTON T’14’s wedding planning platform “Everly” in its Startup Spotlight section in April. The profile quotes Horton crediting her Tuck experience as class social chair responsible for planning large events as the genesis of her app. Fallon Health, a Massachusettsbased, not-for-profit health care-services organization, named MICHAEL NICKEY T’03 to the newly created position of vice president of state programs. In this position he

North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company Chimerix, researcher and developer of medicines that improve outcomes for immunocompromised patients, named MICHAEL SHERMAN T’92 its new CEO. He joined the company from Endocyte, where he served as chief executive until its acquisition in 2018. DAVID NEITHARDT T’98 and his business partner Joe DaGrosa announced the launch of DaGrosa Capital Partners LLC (DCP), an alternative investment firm dedicated to a private equity approach to public securities investing. Neithardt is chief operating officer of DCP as well as COO and co-founder of GACP, a private equity firm based in Coral Gables, Florida. ACT, the nonprofit organization that administers the ACT standardized test used for college admissions, named finance and strategy executive SANTONU JANA T’01 its new CFO. Jana was previously managing principal for Axle Finance and Strategy Consulting and served earlier as vice president for finance at Scantron and Pearson Education.

Biopharmaceutical company ArQule, developer of targeted therapeutics to treat cancers and rare diseases, named MARC SCHEGERIN T’07 its new CFO and head of strategy. Schegerin joined ArQule in 2018 as a senior vice president and worked previously at Citigroup as a health care investment banking director. TOM LEVERTON T’98, chief executive of CEC Entertainment, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese, spoke to CNBC about the company returning to the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with a special purpose company. The plan makes CEC the first restaurant company to go public in four years. Dominican Academy, a private, Catholic college preparatory high school for girls in Manhattan honored NOREEN DOYLE T’74 as a distinguished alumna. The honor acknowledged Doyle’s long and accomplished career in banking—including her position as first vice president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and her service as chair of the British Banker’s Association (2015 - 17)—as well as her significant civic involvement. KENNY MITCHELL T’04 was named the first CMO for Snap, Inc. In his new role, Mitchell will lead all consumer and product marketing programs at Snap. “I look forward to helping Evan and Snap continue to tell their story to people around the world,” Mitchell told Variety in April. Mitchell was previously VP of brand content at McDonald’s. He has also worked in leadership roles at Alli (Alliance of Action Sports), NASCAR, and Gatorade.

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“To ensure our students are ready for the future, Tuck must adapt and evolve—while still maintaining what it has done so well for the past 100 years.” VICKI CRAVER T’97, PRESIDENT & CEO, IMPACT FAIRFIELD COUNTY

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Frozen Fenway: Alumni huddle together during a chilly Tuck Difference campaign event at Fenway Park last November.

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CL ASS NOTES ’51 Tom Swartz Jr. tswartzjr@comcast.net

It has been a long and rather tortuous road for all of us since the halcyon days of the early fifties, when we left the insular guessing game of unannounced hour exams to our retirement mode of wondering just what is coming up next. I was asked to write up this ’51 column in a majestic attempt to fill up the near pages about the remaining group of us who are farther along than we would like to admit. We will need your fill, so please let us hear from you to assure our space. My first hurried column will take us to the world of real estate, where my Tuck roomie and longtime friend sits as one of the explorers of the jungle. He is currently chairman emeritus of Urstadt Biddle Properties, lnc. Our classmate recently celebrated his big 90 with family and friends at his Westchester golf club. He subsequently sent along his 2018 Annual Report, which only serves to embellish a career well done by our friend, Jay Urstadt. It reads as follows: “Urstadt Biddle Properties has a dramatically different investment portfolio today than it did in the early stages of its existence. A mix of 24 office, warehouse and retail properties located in 15 states has been transformed into 85 properties, consisting primarily of grocery-anchored open air shopping centers concentrated in the demographic suburbs of New York City.”

’55 Charles A. Morrison f_cmorrison@yahoo.com

I didn’t receive ANY info from ANYONE so the news is very limited! Frannie and I just moved from Harbour Ridge on the east coast of Florida to Naples, on the west coast, to join the “CCRC Brigade” at Bentley Village. At the time of this writing we’ve been here for three weeks so still learning the ropes. It’s all been a plus so far! We had a wonderful 29 years at Harbour Ridge and look forward to another great stretch here. 64

Some sad news I did hear about was the passing of Audrey Lewis, Dick Lewis’ wife. She was a great and positive lady and will be missed by all who knew her! Please let me hear from you—at any time—so we can share your news with our friends and classmates. Our address is 412 Bentley Drive, Naples, FL 34110. [Editor’s note: We received the following from mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes] From Ed Hayes: “Early Relationships—My perspective, with great appreciation, is for two outstanding Tuck professors who I had at Tuck in 1954-55, who also had national impact: Kenneth R. Davis, marketing; Robert L. Katz, administration. Neither retired from Tuck so have not received the recognition they deserve. I was privileged to be a dogsbody, now called an intern, for each. Ken Davis was the outstanding marketing professor of his time. His book Marketing Management had at least 5 editions. My 5th Edition has a wonderful Davis inscription. It is a bit overstated but much appreciated nonetheless. Also, Ken personally negotiated a pay increase from General Mills for my first job after graduation. How’s that! We stayed in touch until Ken died—much too early. Bob Katz was a short-timer at Tuck before moving to a distinguished career at Harvard Business School with outstanding outside consulting. Bob did ground-breaking research on his new concept of leadership that intrigued me and proved quite useful in earning a living. I still have seven of his articles on the subject from the Harvard Business Review: 1955-1960. We kept in touch for years until he retired to the West Coast and I worked in England for 7 years. I hope other Tuck graduates will step forward to celebrate outstanding past Tuck professors who impacted them. Perhaps Tuck can also look back and celebrate past Tuck professors who have made profound impacts.”

’58 Barry Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

Gus Allen and I had an interesting chat on the importance of good health. We both feel very blessed because currently neither our wives nor we have any major health problems. We can pretty much do what we want—albeit at a much slower pace. This year we are both celebrating our 60th wedding anniversaries and plan to do something special. Gus and Mabel will celebrate their 60th in September and are thinking of going to the Coral Beach & Tennis Club in Bermuda. Arline and I will be celebrating our 60th in London and Paris this March where there is always lots to do between museums and theatres. Each year Gus usually leaves Tenafly, New Jersey, to spend part of the winter in Florida and part of the summer in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, but they don’t do as much foreign travel as they did in their younger years. Giving back to his local community is very important to Gus. Without the time commitments required of a full-time job he has filled his time with community service. He is on the state environmental commission and is vice chair of the 10-member Tenafly Planning Board, where he has served for over 12 years. He is still active in the Tenafly Rotary, which is the founder of the Northern Valley Greenway project, a plan to convert the unused CSX railroad line from Tenafly north to Northvale by rail, banking the track and building over 7 miles of park, providing pedestrian, bike, and possibly jogging paths. Great for the environment! Gus and Mabel have three children. Two of their children went to Dartmouth, and now there is a possibility that their granddaughter, who is a senior in high school, may go there next fall. That would make Gus very happy. Even though John Donnelly’s wife of 58 years had passed away in early 2018, he came to our 60th Tuck reunion last summer. He thought that it was good therapy and an opportunity to visit his daughter in Connecticut. John has three other children: one in Florida and two in the Minneapolis area. His children were very supportive throughout Karen’s illness.

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John recently had a heart valve replacement. He was a little lightheaded over Thanksgiving and one checkup led to another, and it was determined that he was a good candidate for a relatively new procedure for a valve replacement. It’s called the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) and it’s for heart patients with inoperable aortic stenosis (failing heart valves). TAVR valves are inserted via a catheter through the femoral artery, without requiring open-heart surgery. John was awake during the whole elaborate procedure, involving 4 doctors, 6 nurses, and 45 minutes in the operating room. The success rate is in the 90+% area and the recovery period is shorter than after open-heart surgery. John still finds time to utilize his management and organizational skills. Within a few weeks after his TAVR procedure, John was back at work helping an individual who bought 3 companies that John recommended and is now operating them together. When Karen became ill, they downsized from his large house on the water to a smaller house with a neighborhood association. It didn’t take too long for John to join the 32-member board and become the chairman. I still associate Dick Perkins with LandVest even though he is no longer directing the company. Dick founded the company and incorporated it in 1968. It was sold to a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch in 1988 and then in 1989 it was sold to Prudential Insurance. In 1992 Dick and his 2 partners reacquired LandVest from Prudential. Since then the company has grown a lot and now has 135 employees and a presence outside of New England—in California, Georgia, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. It offers a wide range of services on real estate, timberland, and undeveloped land. Dick limits his LandVest activities primarily to the finance committee. Outside of the company he is a member of a number of nonprofits involved with protecting our natural resources and serving on all of their boards. The New England Forestry Foundation, active in conserving forests all across the 6-state area, is very important to Dick. Founded in 1944, it is active in all 6 states and has conserved over 1 million acres of land. The Sudbury Valley Trustees covers a 36-community area between Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and is committed to protecting natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people. It cares for almost 5,000 acres on 89 reservations

and maintains more than 55 miles of trails. The Stow Conservation Trust leads in the preservation of the open land and the natural and scenic resources of Stow, Massachusetts. This is an organization that Dick helped create over 40 years ago. Although Dick is legally blind, he still is able to do most of the things that are important to him. He goes to the gym regularly, and last week he went to Florida. He even skis down the slopes following a few friends who wear brightorange vests. He can detect colors and has good peripheral vision. Although he cannot read regular print, he listens to the many audio books available. Since Dick does not drive a car anymore, getting around does put a burden on Cynthia because she has to drive him around. For this Dick is very appreciative. He and Cynthia have 7 children between them, and they are both pleased that the children are well, happy, and well adjusted. That’s a blessing. John Price and his wife Joan are both in good health and enjoy their life in Winnetka, Illinois. They’ve lived in the same 2-story house for 50 years and are still able to climb the stairs but just move a little slower. They sold their property in Canada on Lake of Bays in the Muskoka area in 2015. The property was in a remote area 150 miles north of Toronto, but they had good cell phone coverage. I was very impressed when I heard that because I still frequently lose my signal traveling just south of Hanover on I-91. John and Joan still travel (over 600 miles) to the area, but now they rent whenever they go. Maintaining their old house took a lot of effort. Trimming brush, splitting firewood, and keeping drainage ditches open was a lot of work. They have 2 children: a son who lives just north of Milwaukee and a daughter who lives 20 miles away. Fortunately for them she drops in 2-4 times a week. John has fond memories from his days at Tuck when Jay Trepp was his roommate. John remembers Jay working at night plowing snow for the Town of Hanover and then getting up for class in the morning and getting an A on a surprise exam. John, on the other hand, studied all night and didn’t do as well. On December 14, 2018, Frank Mooney III died at Mass General Hospital in Boston. Frank grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts. After Tuck, and 2 years in the Army, he joined his family business, Lundey Sales, in Waltham.

They specialized in fasteners and tools for metal fabrication as well as distributing tools for the commercial business trade. In 1975 he became president and then sold the company in 1995. After retiring, Frank enjoyed fishing, camping, and spending time at his family’s beach home in Warwick, Rhode Island. In addition to his wife, Helen, Frank left 3 children.

’59 Myles Slosberg mjs145@yahoo.com

60TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Dear Fellow Tuck Classmates, Sadly, I must report that Ben Reid passed away on November 26, 2018. Ben served diligently as our class secretary since 2002. We will sorely miss him!! In a moment of weakness, I agreed to become class secretary after being approachedby Andy Steele. He said the job was easy, and the administration would do everything.I am not finding that to be true!! In any case, there is some work involved, and hopefully you fellow classmates will provide material for this periodic column. In case you have no recollection of who I am, here is a quick update. Like most of us in our Tuck class, I was a Dartmouth 3/2. I graduated Dartmouth in 1958.Two of my 3 children attended Dartmouth; my daughter Jessica graduated in 1987. She met her husband, Jim Benjamin, in the same class. My son Tom graduated in 1990 and later graduated Tuck in 1999. A great thrill for me was when my oldest granddaughter, Grace Benjamin, graduated in 2016. I have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. Fortunately, all are doing well!! I had two careers. I worked in the shoe business for 30 years, at the Stride Rite Corp. SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES I was involved in all phases of the business, manufacturing, finance, retail, acquisitions, etc. We acquired some very important brands along the way, including Keds sneakers, Sperry TopSiders, and Saucony running shoes. My son Tom is still with the company in international sales and marketing. The company was sold 6 years ago and is now owned by Wolverine World Wide, based in Rockford, Michigan. Their biggest brand is Merrell. I left Stride Rite and enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1986, graduating in 1989. I was the second oldest student in my class. I went on to become an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, practicing as a criminal prosecutor. A very challenging career to be sure!! I live in Jupiter, Florida, in the winter and in North Falmouth, Massachusetts (Cape Cod), in the summer. I enjoy golf, biking, fishing, and traveling. As of late, I have taken up pickleball, which is great fun!! Enough about me! Since it is my first column as your class secretary, I have not heard from many of you. Tuck sent out a global email to our class, and only a few responded. I live in a gated community in Jupiter, FL, called Admirals Cove. One of our classmates, Dan Wilkes, lives here too. I see him from time to time around campus and we have enjoyed going out with him and his wife. Dan reports that he had dinner recently with David Hoffman and Geoff Picket. Both were classmates and buddies with Dan in the Army (I’m not sure what war was involved, probably the Civil War!!). Dan keeps in touch with Dick Roth and Tom Green from our class. Tom lives in Miami. Pete Heegaard, who lives in Minneapolis, writes that he is starting his 23rd year of Urban Adventures, a program that he founded in 1996 after he retired from Lowry Hill, a money management subsidiary of Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo). Urban Adventures takes midcareer bank managers into depressed neighborhoods and shows them how they can improve the bank’s bottom line if they help build the economic viability of the neighborhood. Pete says this is tricky and it involves some of the John Hennessey teachings we learned about communicating.

Pete also asks as class agent that we all make a meaningful gift to Tuck in recognition of our sixtieth reunion. Skip Coggin writes that he had a class dinner of sorts at the Bonita Bay Club, in Florida, which was attended by a few Tuck classmates, including Tryg Myhren. Skip says, “I think the college must make a statement of principle, stating that they will not participate in or endorse the current schemes to get students, with wealthy parents, into Dartmouth.” Skip believes, as I do, that we were accepted by Dartmouth on merit and that should be the way it should continue. I am pleased that I do not have to report that any other classmates passed away recently. That is all for now. This column depends on communications from all of you inthe future. I am here waiting to hear from you. Respectfully yours, Myles Slosberg.

’60 David Ward davidwardsr@aol.com

Since Ed Russell introduced me as the future writer of ’60 class notes, I have missed two editions of Tuck Today. After I became a widower, it has been harder to get my life organized, but I am committed to fill the next issue. In order to succeed, I need info from some of you, and those from Dartmouth ’59 I will track down at the reunion in June. I further commit to not issue any news that you have not had a chance to edit, but I am more likely to get it right if you send the news versus answer the phone. Information such as: After school, where did you live and subsequent moves? How many occupations have you tried? When did you give up and retire and where? When did you start a family and with whom? How big has your family grown and where? I look forward to becoming a lot better informed!! Email davidwardsr@aol.com and phone 203 258-7691.

’61 Walt Freedman wfreedman@mac.com

Greetings to you all! It is spring here in Steamboat Springs, CO, and I have news from seven of our classmates. In my note to all of you seeking material, I referred to us as “Tuckers.” John Owens corrected me, saying that since he had spent twelve years from 2001 to 2013 on the Tuck faculty (as his second career), he could tell me that today’s Tuck students universally and emphatically refer to themselves as “Tuckies” and not “Tuckers.” I accept John’s point, but I guess at our age we have the privilege of choosing either moniker. Personally, I like Tuckers! John was adjunct professor for the twelve years mentioned above. One of his responsibilities was leading the Tuck Global Consultancy (TGC), which sent second-year students to do real consulting engagements for real clients in overseas venues. During his tenure TGC completed about 100 engagements for over 80 clients in more than 50 countries. John states that all the work was modeled after McKinsey. John reports that because of this consulting activity, he is fortunate to be able to follow the post-Tuck lives of over 700 students. He always enjoys reading the class notes to see who is getting married, having children, changing jobs, and whatever else may be happening. Art Pritchard reports in from the San Jose, CA, area. He reports that he had his 80th birthday last October and is celebrating being cancer free as of six days ago...thanks to Stanford cancer doctors. It was a two-year effort. “Now I can think about life, I am pleased to say.” Thanks for sharing your good news, Art. We are so pleased for you! Joe Mandel has checked in with a fulsome report of his recent life experiences. Sadly, he reminded us of our recent loss of our dear friend Allan Glick. Allan was a steadfast and generous supporter of Dartmouth and Tuck. He was Joe’s fraternity brother and roommate during year one at Tuck. Joe states that, as for

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him, retirement is definitely agreeable. It has been exactly 11 years since he stepped down from his 17-year fascinating and challenging gig as UCLA’s vice chancellor of legal affairs. That experience was a dramatic change from Joe’s career up until then as a corporate and securities lawyer in private practice. His recent retirement life has focused on travel and family. Joe and Jean just returned from a four-week visit to their Hong Kong–based older son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, who is 11 and “delicious.” That visit included taking the three of them for six days to Osaka and Tokyo. Joe’s travels continue with a great recent trip to Europe and a fascinating contemplated first visit to Israel. Harry Holland checks in again from Vero Beach, where he and Barb hosted Jack and Scilla Benson. Harry says that Jack tutors him as always. Harry further tells us that Robin Honiss and Dick Sameth of our class also hold forth in Vero Beach. He states that Dick had a valve job done last week. According to Harry, it was on his heart, not his car! Get well soon, Dick. Jon Cohen checks in with the comment that he also just hit the big 80. “Doesn’t feel much different.” Jon continues with the significant fact that he was the chairman of Dartmouth’s art museum, the Hood, from 2006 to 2016. While the Hood opened in 1985, the College began collecting in 1773 and has over 60,000 objects in its collection. Space to show the collection had been scarce, and also space to use as a location to teach with the collection was almost nonexistent. He continues, “So we built a new building with 40% more gallery space and three smart classrooms for teaching. It opened at the end of January with great praise. The architects are world class (Barnes Foundation collection, Philadelphia; US Embassy, Mexico City; Obama Presidential Library).” Jon modestly states that he and the museum directors raised over 75% of the $50,000,000 needed to build it. He further reports that Rick Roesch’s wife, Linda, and Joel Avord were very involved on the Hood board with Jon. This is a notable achievement that we can and should all see. Thanks, Jon, for all of your service to this cause and to others, including Tuck as well! Old friend Bob Boye reports in. “If you and Karen can hike up Mt. Etna and live with lots of snow, you might want to consider a jaunt to Churchill, Manitoba, next February to see the Northern Lights. Nancy and I proved that we

are nuts once again by taking that trip with Dartmouth classmate Rory Mullett and wife Heather. Sub-zero temps (34 below one night) were tempered by heavy-duty cold-weather gear. But all four nights, the skies were lit. Quite a sight, but a site we will visit only once.”

Vermont but that as soon as it does, he promises more golf war stories for us. As I write this, hubby Jim Progin is at our Greenbrier home thawing out from the winter in Montana and awaiting warmer weather to start golfing in West Virginia.

Finally, Karen and I were so happy to have Brooke and Jim Adler visit us once again in Steamboat. Jim has been a significant leader of our Dartmouth class for years and had an illustrious advertising career before that. We had three glorious bluebird skiing days and solved all the world’s problems while eating and drinking and enjoying friends to the fullest. Jim and I went to Shaker High School together, were roommates at Dartmouth, fraternity brothers, and Tuck classmates. That covers about 65 years. Isn’t that what it is all about?

And that’s all the news I received this time, so here’s Gretel....

Keep the news coming! This is fun!

Gretel

All the best to you! —Walt

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Judy Holmes judy@judyholmes.com

Tom Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

Hello ’62s, I know there are many of you reading this who really meant to send me notes but somehow missed the deadline, so how about sending me something now for the next issue? That would be terrific because otherwise I have to fill the column with puppy pictures of our new Saint Bernard, Gretel.... Thank you to Jack Penn for sending a note along: “I am now fully retired, having completed my last BD chairman role at the end of 2017. I served on several for-profit and nonprofit boards in my career, more than 20 I believe. My Dartmouth and Tuck education really prepared me to be a ‘good questioner’ of management and therefore helped to shape the strategy of several firms. I am very grateful that as a poor kid from Iowa I had the benefits of a Hanover education.” Dick Noel says in early April he was still waiting for the snow to melt in southern

It was nice to receive an email from one of our most consistent contributors, Frank Thomas. While apologizing for a long pause in any communication, Frank admits that he has been rather intensely preoccupied, along with others equally dedicated, in analyzing and writing in-depth papers on the science of human-enhanced climate change. In characterizing a tortuously slow development of a public awakening to a truly monstrous existential planet threat, Frank is now sensing a really significant “step-up,” by both people and national leaders, in taking this threat very seriously. Closer to home, Frank also says it is great to see that TUCK is also prioritizing “climate change” in its business program, including focusing on the rapid lifestyle and corporate conversions to green energy sources and efficiencies. A true passion is evident in Frank’s position that environmentally critical near- and long-term impact actions must now be implemented, smartly and swiftly. If you have an interest or viewpoint on this subject, SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES I encourage you to contact Frank, and I know he would love to share more of his studies and writings with you. I look forward to hearing YOUR news!

’64 Art Williams artwill3@aol.com

55TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

It is a pleasure to be writing my first Tuck notes column. Tuck School is one of the treasures in my life, and I much look forward to engaging and re-engaging with you, my classmates, so critical to the building of that treasure. Bob Humboldt and I attended a Dartmouth reunion in Florida in Feb, the 31st such event. We were the two ’64s among the 5 Tuck graduates.

and 5 years later we decided to come to NY for a better educational opportunity for my young children. In accordance with your request, I summarize my business career below. “As you may remember, I started my business career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in New York in 1964, while you were with Merrill Lynch and Peter with Chase Manhattan Bank, if my memory is correct. “In 1967, I was transferred to Peat Marwick’s Tokyo office to start up its Management Consulting Department. Then, for several years, I had experience consulting for many foreign companies coming to Japan. “In 1981, I was offered by one of my management consulting clients, Louis Vuitton SA (France), to head up and develop Asian markets for the brand. The following 24 years I worked 100% for LVMH brands’ development for the Japan and Pacific areas. After opening over 80 stores in Japan, Southeast Asia countries, Hawaii, and Australia, I retired from the LVMH group in 2005 and started my own consulting company, Hata Brand Consulting K.K. “Then about a half century later, I am back to NY with my new family.”

The Hata family Bob Humboldt and Art Williams at a Dartmouth gathering at Harbour Ridge

Pete Lengyel, fresh from his completion of movie Super Troopers 2, is wrapping up on an online sitcom called MayDay, for which he recently received significant financing. In response to my requests, three classmates summarized their lives and careers. Kyo Hata, writes: “We left Tokyo for Honolulu in July 2011 to seek better living environments,

In New York City for his whole career, Barry Linsky nonetheless had a broad experience in marketing: “After graduating (D’63, T’64), enlisted in the Army Reserves (including doing basic training at Fort Dix with Chris Miller!). Recruited by Lever Brothers while at Tuck, moved to NYC, starting my career there in consumer packaged goods, rising through several marketing management ranks over four years. Then to Clairol/Bristol-Myers as dir of marketing, then cofounded ethnic greeting card company and took it public. Rejoined corporate world with Squibb Beech-Nut (Tetley

teas, etc). And finally rejoined the ‘Mad Men’ world of consumer advertising in 1972 (and yes, I knew and worked with those guys, or at least the real ones on whom the TV composites were based)—first with Marschalk, rising to EVP - dir of account management, then to parent company Interpublic in 1990 as EVP, dir of strat planning (acquisitions, global client compensation, etc). Eventually becoming EVP emeritus there. Still doing a little marketing consulting, still skiing (pretty well), playing golf (not so well), traveling to Europe and elsewhere with wife Jane (UMich ’64), and enjoying life.”

Barry and Jane Linsky

Finally, Gary McClure did many things, and in many places: “Following Tuck graduation, I joined the Xerox Corporation in Rochester, New York, and enjoyed a very successful 15 years in finance, marketing, project, & operations management with Xerox & Rank Xerox, in Rochester, NY; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; & London, UK. During this time I was divorced in the USA by Anita Ford (2 sons) & subsequently remarried in UK to Helen Gunn (1 daughter). After Rank Xerox I was a vice president for approximately 2 years with an international Kuwaiti company in the Middle East (great compensation but very hot & unpleasant). I took the money, retired & returned to metropolitan London, where I established & operated 2 restaurants (laborintensive &, as the English would say, not my cup of tea). “Happily, after 2-3 hectic years I was recruited to be regional director-Western Hemisphere, UK, & Ireland Operations for the German firm Olympia International. I sold the restaurants & worked initially from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, & subsequently from Somerville, NJ.After approximately 3 years, I left Olympia International to be president of Electronic Systems Products (ESP) in Titusville, FL. My

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English wife, Helen, was not happy in the USA (& our many relocations) & returned to England with our daughter rather than move to Florida. She divorced me a year later (ARRRGH, here we go again). “I ran ESP for 3+ years, lived on a 36’ Tri-Cabin Cruiser in a Cocoa Beach marina, met & married Rosalind ‘Roz’ Wooten (third time’s a charm but no children). The company was sold to a Swiss firm & I again took the money & retired for a second time.

Gary and Roz McClure

“After dabbling in real estate, lowering my golf handicap, & becoming bored, I decided to pursue a PhD in finance at the University of Central Florida. Post-PhD, Roz & I returned to the frozen tundra in upstate New York to teach at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. While at Skidmore we skied in the winter, hiked the Adirondack & Catskill Mountains in the summer, & played golf (weather permitting). “While my careers in domestic & international business were enjoyable & offered extensive travel around the world, the next 18 years in higher education were the most rewarding & best in my life! In addition to a wonderful marriage, at Skidmore College I was fortunate to be 1 of 5 faculty who envisioned, designed, & established the International Affairs program. Besides Skidmore I was a lecturer for the United States (State Department) Information Agency; was awarded a Fulbright scholarship; & taught in the graduate programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, Regent’s College (London, UK), & for 12 years on the faculty at the University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia). My most repeated comment during these 18 years was, ‘This is so much fun I can’t believe they pay me to do it!’ “After 18 years of fun but dark, long, cold winters & high taxes in New York, I retired

again in 2011 (hopefully for the last time?). We moved to a beautiful condo in Cocoa, FL, overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway (no more cold weather for us). My oldest son, David, lives nearby in Melbourne Beach, FL; my youngest son, Kevin, lives in Aspen, CO; & my daughter, Katherine, lives in Worthing, UK. “My entire life has been & continues to be incredible—multiple interesting careers (including pre-Tuck US Navy), 3 good marriages (2 shorter than planned), wonderful children, visited over 60 countries/all 7 seas/6 of 7 continents (missing Antarctica), crossed the Equator several times (plus the International Date Line), circumnavigated the globe, skied in 10 states & 11 countries, have a reasonable golf handicap, & fortunately still enjoy excellent health! “My first goal after retirement at age 74 was to improve my golf handicap & shoot my age. This was accomplished within a year & every year since. This led to the writing & publication of a book titled How to Shoot Your Age in Golf available on Amazon. My current golf goal is to shoot my age 100 times. “During our retirement Roz & I have enjoyed three Star Clippers sailing cruises to the Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, & from Venice to Rome; three Viking River Cruises on the Danube, Rhine, & Rhône Rivers (upcoming this summer); a Viking ‘Midnight Sun’ ocean cruise from Norway to London, UK, via Scotland; a Silversea Alaskan cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver; a Royal Caribbean Cruise to the Bahamas; & an American Cruise Lines Maine coastal cruise. All things considered it has been great fun & not a bad life for a kid from Coffeyville, Kansas.” Richard Weiss adds: “At the end of March Nancy and I head back to DC after three months in Phoenix, AZ. The weather has been kind of a mixed bag, but a bad day here is a good day there. I am still board chairman of RetireSafe, a seniors’ advocacy group. We are making some real traction on the drug price issue. We also deal with Social Security and other areas impacting seniors. Look us up at www.retiresafe.org. I am also on the board of Grange Advocacy, the advocacy arm of my former employer The National Grange, where I was COO.” From Bob Humboldt: “Bob and Joyce Humboldt took a cruise to visit Sweden,

Russia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Norway, with two days in St. Petersburg at the Peterhof Palace and the Hermitage Museum. In Berlin they visited Humboldt University, famous as the ‘mother of all modern universities.’ Bob had his picture taken in front of Alexander (explorer) and Wilhelm (diplomat) von Humboldt and then found out from a Berliner that after five generations in America, he had been mispronouncing ‘Humboldt.’ It’s ‘Hoomboldt’!”

Joyce and Bob Humboldt in Germany

Finally, be sure to look at the website for more photos. Best to all, Art Williams. PS: Don’t forget to write: artwill3@aol.com

’65 George Weller gweller@ctq2.org

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

David Mulliken had a long and distinguished career as an attorney focused on environmental law. Following graduation Dave joined General Mills, along with classmate Jerry Hayes. After about a year Dave was off to Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI. He served

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CL ASS NOTES on destroyers in the Pacific supporting carrier strikes from Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Dave met Noreen in Long Beach and married in 1969. Discharged in 1972, rather than returning to a business career, Dave chose to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law and never looked back. He joined the largest firm in San Diego and in 1980 was recruited by Latham & Watkins to open their San Diego office in 1980. L&W grew from a mid-size regional firm to the largest law firm in the world, measured by total revenue. Dave was the founding chair of the Environmental Law department, growing the department from 19 to 100+ lawyers before relocating to London in 2005 to chair the L&W European Litigation department until retirement in 2009. Dave successfully argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and made 10+ appearances before the Supreme Court of California in various precedent-setting cases. Although he had a long career in the law, Dave never regretted his two years at Tuck. “I am highly confident that the understanding and appreciation of management principles and various business disciplines I acquired during our time at Tuck has been indispensible to what I have been able to accomplish as a lawyer.” In retirement Dave and Noreen split their time between homes in Hawaii and London. Bill Oberlink went to work for Arthur Young in Boston and four years later transferred to its newly formed Florida Practice in Miami. He became the managing partner in 1979. In 1990 Bill joined McCaw Cellular as president of Southeast Operations. He retired in 1997 soon after AT&T’s acquisition. Since retirement he started and sold several companies. Now completely retired, Bill serves as his wife Christine’s “gofer” in her extensive charity work. “My memories of Tuck and Dartmouth, especially the people I met, are treasures for which I will always be thankful.” Marc Passot went to work for Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh after graduation. After eighteen months training with the French Navy, he joined Gulf’s Belgian subsidiary in Antwerp. Marc worked for several small industrial companies in Paris before joining Renault. A 23-year career with Renault in various staff positions kept Marc in Paris. He retired in 2003. Marc met Colette in Brussels and they married in 1972. Their three daughters are accomplished professional women living in Palo Alto, Dublin, and Paris. Colette passed away suddenly in 2015. Marc is “trying to 70

survive, with the help of my family and friends.” He travels the world visiting his daughters and grandchildren. Joe Picken transitioned from business to academics mid-career. After serving as CFO, COO, and CEO of several companies spanning industries from heavy equipment to electronics, Joe earned a PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is clinical professor and the founder and academic director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Dallas. Joe and his colleagues built a program with more than 1,200 students annually enrolled in 19 graduate and 10 undergraduate courses. Joe attended Dartmouth on an NROTC scholarship and served a line officer in the United States Navy. One son is a Navy medical doctor and another a Naval aviator flying F/A-18s. Joe is co-author of two business books and is still active teaching at UT.

John Ruml was one of “Robert McNamara’s whiz kids” working in systems analysis at the Pentagon right out of Tuck. He became director of Manpower Analysis working on retirement, training, and healthcare policy. John joined the Kaiser Permanente health care system in 1976. His first assignment was to study whether Kaiser should purchase a revolutionary million-dollar piece of equipment called a CAT scanner. John retired in 1996 as VP of Financial Planning and Analysis. He lives in Arlington, VA, with his high school/Dartmouth girlfriend. They became reacquainted after both spouses passed away. Steve Sawdon flew KC-135s for the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. After leaving the Air Force Steve worked for the consulting department of KPMG. After ten years of heavy travel, he left consulting to found a company manufacturer of computercontrolled irrigation systems. After selling the company, Steve formed another firm to treat hydrocarbon spills and wastewater contamination. They are transitioning operations into manufacturing fertilizer from sludge. Steve enjoys ocean sailing out of Newport Beach, California. He and Marc Passot stay in contact and visit frequently.

’67 Robert Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

Marcia and Joseph playing mahout on Asian elephants in Laos (Marcia in yellow jacket)

Pat Roadarmel sent the sad news that Mark died on February 15, 2019. We carry fond memories of Mark and Pat as he was a regular contributor to our class notes. We feel that we “kept up” with the two of them. Pat will continue to live in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Peter and Phebe Elliott attended Mark’s celebration of a life well lived. Pete then visited Peter Gillespie in Jupiter, Florida, where the latter was slowly recovering from foot surgery: one-third of a foot was removed. We wish him a solid recovery.

Joseph with a new friend in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam

A noteworthy statistical moment: the class of ’67 was 100 strong. As of February 2019, twenty-one of our classmates had died, leaving 79 of us to carry on. Stay healthy, guys! And, keep in touch.

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It appears that the topic of note among us is: DOWNSIZING, in both living space and “stuff.” I have received reports that Gillespie, Elliott, Boardman, and O’Reilly are making progress on this front. How about the rest of you? — is the project completed, project underway, or project simply not going to happen? Class members have had mini-reunions in 2019: Jay Gronlund, Arne Rovick, Jim Beardsley and Alex Arnold got together (photo nearby).

T’67 Minireunion

Keith and Marsha Kuhlman, Bill and Margie Hart, Di Spurdle (Don’s widow), and Bob and Bonnie Buchanan spent time together at the Harts’ place in St. Helena, California (photo nearby).

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

Francois writes from France: “We had a wonderful Christmas family gathering at Chirac. The 20 of us (10 grandchildren) could dwell comfortably in the renewed family house, with a wonderful Mediterranean weather allowing all sorts of outdoor activities. Among them, baseball has become important as three of our grand children are involved in this new and promising sportive discipline in France!

Charlie White writes: “Ed Glassmeyer and I had a chance almost 20 years ago (gasp !) to help expand the logistics curriculum at the US Merchant Marine Academy, the nation’s premier maritime academy at Kings Point, NY. We have talked off and on over the years about related topics and my attempts at writing for various publications. Most recently we “My eldest son is a frequent USA visitor as discussed a draft I had prepared concerning he has just created a subsidiary company the relative disappearance of the US merchant in Denver for his young Montpellier firm fleet, and its commercial implications. Ed was specialized in advanced LiDAR systems of quick to point out the far more important detection. First months seem promising. strategic implications. “Meanwhile, our expat extraordinaire, Nick Hayes (vice president for international affairs and member of the board of the Navy League of the US) read a piece I did on public/private partnership financing and introduced me to the editor of the league’s publication: Seapower. She asked me if I could reshape it to fit the situation of the US merchant fleet...I tried and it was published.” Jay Atlas has organized the Tuck ’68 Lunch Club of Boston’s Metro West. People joke about “ladies who lunch”—I guess you could call us “geezers who lunch.” Attending the most recent gathering at the Papa Razzi restaurant in Concord were Bill Seaver, Bob Sauer, Dave Schwartz, John Bowen, Pete Allen, Jay Atlas, and your scribe. For more info, contact me.

T’67 Minireunion at Bill Hart’s

Tony Milbank reports he STILL has not figured out retirement as he serves on eleven investment committees as well as several board positions. I am weary just thinking about his schedule. Hope this finds all of you in good health, enjoying your life, and managing well the various projects that you face!!

Barkley sent me this note in February: “As I write, Minako and I are visiting the UNESCO WHS in western Japan. The site celebrates the world’s first non-western industrialization. Minako’s family had a role in that event and that makes for a fun trip.”

Tuck ’68 lunch club: Bob Sauer, Pete Allen, Bill Seaver, John Bowen, Jay Atlas, John Moynihan, Dave Schwartz

“Anne [took] sculpture two years ago and has since made impressive progress, while I keep quite busy in painting and choir participation, also playing the guitar and singing in a house for elderly people. No surprise, the same songs I used to sing at Tuck.... We are both active in social associations, one [to benefit] young people in difficult situations (including African migrants) and one [to benefit] mistreated women.” Nick Hayes contributed this interesting essay about the travails of living in Madrid. “So, from Amsterdam back here to Spain and what promises to be our permanent residence. Sheila has completed her tasks and passed the torch to the new management at Child Helpline International, not that this change resulted in much leisure as we went through the throes of house hunting, moving, and redecorating. But here we are, in a different but very nice corner of our old barrio, near family, friends and shops. “Despite our frequent visits, after an absence of almost three years we’ve found ourselves having to adapt to this city that we know so well. Much of the change which we’ve noticed has been positive. Madrid (and Spain) is visibly more prosperous. Some indicators are better than others. The streets are cleaner and potholes are repaired, new businesses are starting up, lots of new cars are on the road. Office demand and new office construction,

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CL ASS NOTES which began to turn up a few years ago, is now in full swing and the residential building sector is also experiencing growth. Public spaces and the many parks are better maintained and indeed are being improved. “Other indicators—the chatarreros, the informal scrap scavengers, are driving bigger and better trucks, while our professional beggars who report daily to their posts are looking somewhat spiffier. They also take vacations with the rest of Spain in August and on public holidays! A downside to this prosperity is heavy traffic in the commuting hours, with the accompanying horn concerti. “More indicators—upgrading of shops and a proliferation of clinics offering facelifts, dental surgery, and implants for the perfect smile. Hairdressers and stylists abound. The founder of one such chain recently bought a property near our country house for €4,000,000. Some of this consumption, and especially the high-end real estate market in the better barrios of Madrid, is being driven by flight money, from Venezuela and Central America, especially. We are told that one very luxurious development in Madrid’s barrio Salamanca (think Fifth Avenue) refuses to sell to Russians, who have become a visible presence on the Costa del Sol, or to Chinese. “The governments’—national, regional, and local—financial positions have improved with the economy, and our taxes are now going into useful things like highway improvements and urban parks, rather than the pre-crisis show-off projects. We have just welcomed two new trees in front of our building....

that technically the car was still registered in the Netherlands, and (2) that our Dutch insurance had expired, and that we were therefore liable for a hefty fine. “Then followed many phone calls and emails, including the Dutch vehicle registry and insurance company, our Spanish agent, insurance company, and the Spanish registry to resolve the issue. Our permanent Spanish registration finally came through, six months after we had initiated the process—a process that, when we registered the car in the Netherlands, had taken less than three weeks. “But we put up with these things—‘Sorry, sir, but the payment form which you need to pay for the renewal of your residence permit is Modelo 50 B, not Modelo 50.’ Back to the bank, a twenty-minute walk—and they´ve just closed for lunch. It’s not only here—Sheila missed a flight at Heathrow when a security team left for their break before their replacements arrived. “We put up with these things because the climate is warm and dry, our friends and the Spanish family are warm and nearby, and a wide variety of cultures and attractions are near at hand.” —John Moynihan ’68

’69 Bob Cohn robertmarkcohn@gmail.com

“Of course the notorious bureaucracy remains. Spain still ranks low relative to northern Europe in surveys of the ease of doing business. On the individual level, some of you may recall our letter of a several years back describing our travails in getting Spanish drivers’ licenses. Fast forward to our return from the Netherlands. To re-register our car here, we were advised by one and all to use an outside service, which we did. Paperwork assembled and car safety inspection passed, we surrendered our Dutch license plates and received a temporary Spanish registration—all within one month, to our pleasant surprise. Then reality set in. Some three months and many emails later our permanent Spanish registration had not yet arrived. What did arrive was a notice from the Dutch saying (1)

50TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Greetings Classmates! We’re in the countdown to our 50th Reunion, being held in Hanover from Friday, October 4th to Sunday, October 6th. It should be a great weekend! By the time you read this, you should have received complete information and registration forms directly from Tuck. If not, please contact Julie Hinman at Tuck (julie.hinman@tuck.

dartmouth.edu or 603-646-0694) to find out the details and register. As I write this column in early April, there are 34 classmates who have indicated they are coming. Together with spouses and significant others, we are expecting total attendance of at least 61. Among those planning to attend are Earl Bahler, Bill Blakey, Jim Casey, Bob Cohn, Per Coucheron, Dave Downes, Jack Gage, Bob Harrell, Walter Harrison, Bard Heroy, Paul Johnson, Bruce Jones, John Kornet, Dudley Ladd, Michel Lebas, Kirk Leighton, Charles McGill, David McKane, Andy Nicoletta, Jon Page, Meyrick Payne, Jerry Petitt, Ben Powell, Al Ritter, Steve Roehm, Mike Ryan, Rich Seigel, Dick Schmitt, Jon Shafmaster, John Stahler, Peter Stern, Bob Valleau, Mike Vaughn, Harold Woolley, and (hopefully) Harold Krivan. By the time you read this, the list should be considerably longer! Many classmates have expressed their enthusiasm about attending. Bob Valleau writes, “Yes, Kathy and I plan to attend our 50th Tuck reunion. We are very much looking forward to it and seeing you and, hopefully, so many others again.” Michel Lebas notes “Bookings are made, plane reservations are made and, if the ‘Powers That Be’ keep me alive until then, I will actually attend.” Among those sending regrets that they cannot join us are Rick Hubbard, who says “Normally, I’d happily attend our 50th, but prior travel plans will unfortunately prevent it. Sally and I will be trekking in Nepal from Sept 28th through October 18th.” Michel Klein writes “Unfortunately I cannot afford to leave for a distant place, having to take care of my mother.” He adds “a few of us plan to meet in Paris for a drink to commemorate the 50th anniversary of our class.” In addition to lunch with Dean Slaughter on Friday, and many other activities planned by the school, Meyrick Payne is going to moderate a special discussion about the changes that were swirling around us during our years at Tuck. These include societal changes in the world—which Meyrick refers to as WARM (War, Assassinations, Racism, and Misogyny)—and changes at Tuck, which were revealed in an interview with Dean Hennessey before he passed away. His moderated group discussion should be interesting not only to

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classmates but to our partners and children who are attending the reunion. In other news, Kathy and Bob Valleau write that “We are continuing our cruising on our boat now in the Mediterranean. Today we are on our way to Saint-Tropez and will sit out there a coming storm (mistral) before proceeding along the French Riviera toward Italy. We hope to leave the boat in Montenegro when we come back to the USA for our reunion, visit our children, and our chapel on Cape Cod.” Mike Vaughn sent along a picture of them in Gibraltar en route to Morocco (see picture) and notes that their itinerary is very “fluid.”

Jerry Petitt notes that his son Jess and Harold Woolley went to Scotland together in May for a week of golf. In August, Ellie and Mike Ryan joined an eleven-day Road Scholar trip to the Canadian Rockies, where they made new friends. Their trip included visits to Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper, followed by a Rocky Mountaineer train ride to Vancouver where we spent a few days (see picture).

anticipated that his funds will run out in the near term. “A trust fund has been established exclusively for Bill’s benefit. I am certain it would mean so much to Bill if [any of] you could contribute any amount to this fund for his care. Good friends have meant a great deal to Bill over the years, and I think he would be bolstered by our support now. I hope you will join me in making a contribution in whatever amount you are able to give.” Al asks any classmate who wishes to help to send a check made out to “The William Donnelly 2019 Irrevocable Trust” to Bill Donnelly, c/o Jane Donnelly, 11 Valley View Road, Weston, MA 02493. If you have any questions, please reach out to Al at ahritter@ ritterconsultinggroup.com or (630) 673-4254.

Ellie and Mike Ryan visiting the Canadian Rockies Kathy and Bob Valleau docking in Gibraltar Al Ritter shared some sad news about Bill Donnelly, and some plans to help defray some I just learned that Chuck Morgan passed of his medical expenses: away on April 23, 2019 in his home town of Carmel, Indiana. He is survived by his wife Roxy, daughters Anne and Beth, and son David. “Bill Donnelly has been a close friend of mine for 50 years. Bill has had serious health Since 1983, Chuck owned and managed his difficulties over the last eighteen months. He own home building company, C.P. Morgan, had open heart surgery to repair his aorta, and in the Indianapolis area. Chuck came to six months later Bill sustained a devastating Tuck after receiving his bachelor’s degree in spinal cord injury when he lost consciousness electrical engineering from the Rose Hulman and fell due to an irregular heartbeat called Institute of Technology, where he was recently atrial fibrillation. His spinal cord was crushed elected to the board of trustees. as a result of his fall, and he was in intensive care for close to two weeks. He has spent the As lay leader of his church, Charlie Mead last year hospitalized at Massachusetts General oversaw all the church’s business for 3 months Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, last year while the pastor was on sabbatical. He and other rehabilitation institutions as he also took a great trip to New Zealand with a requires 24-hour care. college friend and spent part of the summer at the Delaware beaches with daughter Heather, “The good news is that because his spinal cord son Chris, and their families. He writes “I’m was not severed, he is expected to make a looking forward to seeing everyone at the 50th significant recovery over the next year. The bad Reunion in October! Before that, though, I’m news is that he has exhausted all his insurance planning to spend a couple weeks in Alaska coverage, including Medicare and private doing some short hikes and some kayaking. So insurance, and is now paying privately for his great to be retired!” own care. Without insurance he will need to fund a handicap van ($50,000), an electric Sarah & Ben Powell have a new Ben—grandson wheelchair, ($50,000), and at minimum a year Benjamin Harrison Powell VII was born on of continued physical therapy (~$35,000). It is December 31, 2018.

In March, Dabney & Dick Schmitt journeyed to Vietnam, as they do every year. Among other activities, they dedicated a kindergarten in ATEP, a remote village near the Laotian border, funded by the Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund (see picture). They also visited the school for visually impaired children in Dong Ha named after their late son Landon. Dick also organized a mini-Tuck reunion at the Park Hyatt Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City with two of the three Tuck alums living in Vietnam— Tung Dang T’00 and Dwight Dingwall ’78. Dabney completed a 100-mile bike ride from Hue to Da Nang over three days to raise funds for a fund called Children of Vietnam, where she serves on the board of directors.

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CL ASS NOTES As noted in the last issue, Ed Williams served as a founding member and co-chair of the Committee to Restore Integrity to the USOC, made up entirely of Olympic athletes who called for a change in the culture of the US Olympic Committee. They charged the committee emphasized money and medals ahead of the welfare of its athletes and, for many years, ignored the emotional and physical abuse of some of those athletes. As a result of their efforts, the CEO and the board chair of the USOC resigned. All during his now over 40-year career as an attorney, Ed has been an unwavering advocate of athletes’ due process rights. Jim Page ’63, Ed’s teammate, Dartmouth Ski Team Captain, and former longtime managing director for sport performance at the USOC, said that “Ed was one of the first in this field and is still one of the most respected.”

In March, Inda and Jack Gage travelled to Langkawi Island in Malaysia for a Parsi/Hindu wedding (see picture). They then joined with some friends they had met in London 30 years ago to visit south India for two weeks. Jack writes, “We started at Chennai on India’s east coast, proceeded south to Pondicherry and Madurai. Then headed west to the Malabar Coast visiting spice and tea plantations. Near Cochin we stayed on a houseboat for a night. Our trip ended at Hyderabad and Golconda Fort.” He adds, “One highlight of the trip was seeing the Chettinad region, between Pondicherry and Madurai. This was settled by the Chettiars, a prosperous mercantile community that relocated inland from the coast about 150 years ago. The region is about 1500 square kilometers and originally included 96 villages of palatial houses, each house the size of a city block.”

When asked if and when he plans to retire, Ed replied: “I love what I do. And while I do plan to cut down on my regular commercial litigation, I hope to continue to represent athletes on a pro bono basis with respect to matters arising under the Sports Act as long as my phone keeps ringing, or I am on the wrong side of the grass.” Michel Klein celebrated his mother’s 101st birthday with a bottle of champagne on board a flight from Paris to Nice and sent along a picture of them with the pilot (see picture). Michel notes that he is taking advantage of having more leisure time by going to the opera, both in Nice and at the Royal Opera in Versailles, near his home in Jouy-en-Josas. His goal this year is to see all of Mozart’s operas.

George Fulton georgerfulton@gmail.com

Gap Kovach g.kovach.jr@gmail.com

Apparently our 1970 class in still heavily engaged in controlling the world. So, naturally, everyone is too involved in business du jour— negotiations. Yet John Yahres has found a way to get a lone note to us about the more sane version of the world! After retiring in 2014 from corporate finance, he moved from Mass to Fla. Where he claims to have golf, cycling, and sunshine at his behest. Thus he leave his chairmanship of the board of MA/ NH chapter of the Alzheimers Assoc. and will no longer raise funds by running the Boston marathon (twice) for them. John and wife Toni just returned from Vietnam, where they went to enjoy the culture and beauty, a trip that increasingly typifies their new lifestyle when they can break away from a total of 10 grandchildren and a great-grandson. Reach John at jby_98@yahoo.com. Next time folks, we could use a bit more fodder for this insightful rag! Blessings, George & Gap. [Editor’s note: We received the following at mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes]

Jack and Inda Gage at a Parsi/Hindu wedding in Malaysia

Michel Klein celebrating his mother’s 101st birthday on a flight from Paris to Nice

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Jack looks forward to seeing everyone at our 50th in October...as do I! I hope to see most of you in Hanover on October 4th.

From Mike Neal: “Mike and Kay Neal moved this fall from St. Louis and now split their time between St Andrews club condo in Delray Beach, Florida, and Mountain Park cottage in Cliffs community in foothills of Blue Ridge mountains between Greenville and Asheville. Recently saw fellow Tuck 3-2 Gerry Schultz and his wife Missy at Dartmouth minireunion in Charleston. Hope to see other 3-2s at Dartmouth 50th reunion this June.”

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’71 Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

ON VACATION - Hello all from Marco Island, Florida, which over the last 30 years has become our spring break spot with children and grandchildren rotating through. A picture of our three Southern (SC) grandchildren is included as witness to our viewing an osprey nest and lots of other wildlife off Tigertail Beach off the end of the Island. Also viewed a lot of fiddler crabs, leaping fish, birds, and other wildlife. Truly a beautiful part of the natural world. These three girls are the daughters of son Cabe, who was born in Hanover, NH, at Mary Hitchcock during our final year at Tuck. Also, the weather has been great and a refreshing escape from NE this time of year.

Because of all the family, business, and nonprofit demands on my time, I have been derelict in my class secretary duties. Being away from home the last several weeks has kept me distant from various resources, which is part of my problem. Also, I am not a creature of social media, which means those areas of communication are not on my radar screen. Probably also getting a little burned having done this for so many years. Always open to a volunteer replacement.

“Businesswise, I sold my New Hampshire businesses, The Highlander Inn and Conference Center and Highlander Airport Parking in 2010, and reinvented myself as an investor in commercial real estate, focused mainly on investments in North and South Carolina. This has been enormously liberating... no employees...and very satisfying from a financial point of view. More recently (the last 3 years), we have initiated investments in affordable housing.

That being said, now that my work with the family office has slowed down considerably, I hope to be able on the next newsletter to reach out to all of you in a more personal way, if only by email. Best wishes from Bonny and me for good health and particularly for the coming holiday season and the New Year—2020. Our 50th Reunion draws one year closer. —Caleb

“My other key passion is developing a teaching program for financial literacy, targeting young men and women ages 15-18. This started in 2014 and has grown into the Morgan Franklin Fellowship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) enterprise, with a broad array of students, including fellows (those who complete our initial online course), financial mentors, and a full-time executive director. This has legs, is resonating with a broad array of interested parties, and is evolving. Your loyal correspondent, John South, has been a financial mentor now for about 18 months (since we spoke of this at our 45th Reunion in October 2017). [Secretary note: Peter told me an interesting anecdote about how the financial literacy program was being used by a company of Marines deployed to the Middle East—ask him about it.]

’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

Peter Morgan updated me on his current activities and progress with his financial literacy program. Noting that I did my undergraduate degree at Brown, Peter wrote: “My daughter, Paige, is also a Brown alum, class of 1993. Paige just recently changed firms, working in capital markets in Portland, Oregon, now with CB Richard Ellis. She is married and the proud parent of two (2) of my four (4) grandchildren, Parker (9) and Jude (6). “Joan Bechtel and I have now been partners for 3 years. My wife, Carolyn, and I had been married for 50 years, when she unfortunately passed in October of 2015. Joan and I live in New Hampshire (New Boston) from June We see the last of the grandchildren off to mid-October and then journey to Venice, tomorrow, then a few days to ourselves before heading north to a stop in Stone Mountain, GA, Florida, for the long winter months. We schedule one (1) long trip each year. 2018 saw to visit the church of a long-standing friend, us in Italy for the month of May, and this May Richard Allen Farmer, who gave the homily at we are headed to South America with Road our 25th wedding anniversary service in 1991 Scholar for visits to the Galapagos Islands and and has called us each year on our anniversary Machu Picchu. since then to check in. It will be good to see him in person. The Loring grandchildren

“My other child, Tom, makes his home in New Boston, operates a real estate business in greater Manchester, is married, and also has two (2) of my grandchildren, Avery (14) and Bennett (11). “Want a direct connection....petermorgan1942@ gmail.com...will work.” He sends his best to the Tuck Class of 1972. Bob Gregson writes: “Spokane and most of the rest of the NW have more snow than ever. Reminds me of New Hampshire, especially out walking today in an area that reminded me of cross-country skiing on a full-moon night, out our back door at Old Sachem Village. That was spectacular. Probably that whole farmer’s field is now full of homes. “This snowy time is a nice break from the new Smoke Season (May-November) in this area... forests have been bone-dry like California and the SW. We’re getting a snowpack but no rain in spring/summer. I hope there will be meaningful action about climate change issues,

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CL ASS NOTES melting Arctic ice, multiple 100-year storms, etc., before it’s too late for a great many places, creatures, and things. “My local stepson has changed careers after several very successful decades working and managing in the remodeling industry. He’s spent several months studying for, passing, and field practicing to become an FAAcertified commercial drone pilot...not at all an easy process as I came to realize! He’ll be doing advertising shoots and related stuff for homeowners. It’s hard to recall how we were in on the ground floor of basic computer programming (not very successfully in my case) and now a small drone has the computer power that vastly surpasses anything we did or thought of back when.”

Mark Blanchard with his daughter, Professor Emily Blanchard, and Dean Matthew Slaughter at the recently reopened (January 2019) Hood Museum

market around the 34th week of the year when the supply from other states runs out and the ‘farm gate’ prices get interesting. Ever noticed how the ‘clam shell’ of blueberries in September goes way up in price?” A sad piece of news is the death of classmate Rick Kreter, after a long battle with nonHodgkin lymphoma. Rick graduated from Lehigh University in 1968. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and then obtained his MBA from Tuck 1972. While he led a very successful career as a businessman and entrepreneur, Rick’s greatest passion focused on spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. His life revolved around attending every one of their milestones and activities across the country. Rick is survived by his beloved wife of 49 years, Evelyn “Evie” Kreter, children Scott, Allyson and David, as well as six grandchildren. His brothers Stephen T’73 and Charlie T’80 and his father Warren T’43 show there has been a lot of Tuck blood in the family! He served many years, alongside Tim Carmody, as our co-TAG class agent. He will be sorely missed. Ramsay Merriss advises that he is having a great time in retirement, which began in early 2016. He now gets to spend a lot more time with his wife Janet and their 36-year old son Ian. Janet and he travel a lot more and get to do a lot of things together that there was never time for before.

Bill Moyes sent in a brief update.... “My 3 wonderful children are finally all out of college and gainfully employed! YEAH! Ryan—my second son, who went to Santa Clara and graduated as Marketing Student of the Year a few years ago—is a marketing manager at Amazon at the headquarters in Seattle and has been there almost 3 years. His dream is to go to Tuck, and he plans to apply in another year or two.”

“While I really enjoyed my 42+ years at JPMorgan, it was a very long day with the daily commute from Connecticut to New York and back. I would get up at 3:30, run my daily 5 mile loop at 4, return home, shower, change and drive 20 minutes to the station to catch a 6:05 train into the city from Westport. After a long very busy pressure-packed day at work, I would commute home and arrive at about 6:45 at the earliest.”

“My big passion these days—after retiring (mostly) from doing radio station research, consulting, and ownership—is blueberries. I’m the lead investor and pretty active partner in The Blueberry Ranch in the Hood River Valley in Oregon. We’ve developed about 100,000 bushes of wonderful late-season blueberry varieties and sell all of our product to Driscoll’s, so you may have eaten some! The great thing about it is that our harvests start going to

Their only child Ian is getting married this June to Anna, a lovely lady he has been seeing for over 5 years. Ramsay and Janet are really looking forward to their wedding. Janet and Ramsay had a great time seeing a number of Tuck classmates at our 45th Reunion in Hanover in the fall of 2017. They often see Connecticut-based Vic Ugolyn and his wife Diane.

Richard Noyes in Hanover with Nancy, his Beemer, and a cool license plate.

John Morris contributed his report for March: • “Moved to Del Mar June 2018, loving San Diego area with new home and new CC • We are closer to my son Tyler and his family and my granddaughter • This San Diego move motivated me to transition my three Vistage advisory boards to another Los Angeles chair • Now in process of taking over a Vistage CEO advisory group in San Diego • Serving on five boards, one is as chairman of the advisory board for a $40M company with a big BHAG • Now also active with the Tech Coast Angels network in San Diego. I was a co-founder in 1999 of this angel network in Los Angeles, TCA is now the largest angel network in USA • BTW, if you have not heard of Vistage, please check out the opportunity to serve your community as an advisory group chair and CEO coach, visit www.vistage.com” Bill Goodyear responded to a plea from John Morris with an update. “Currently splitting time between and among residences in Chicago, Scottsdale, and Hawaii. Also spend quite a bit of time visiting LA (daughter) and San Francisco (son). Just stepped down as chair of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago after 5 interesting years. Enjoying three corporate boards (energy, Fintech, and health care) and remain on the board of the University of Notre Dame. Go Irish! Thanks for reaching out!” [Look on the 1972 class notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of Bill!] As for John South, I am keeping busy, as usual. Since the last T’72 class notes appeared in Tuck Today a year ago, my travels have ranged from Seattle to Miami, with many

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points in between. I am over-committed to many hobbies and volunteer activities, still including a struggling golf game. I have become involved at my undergraduate school (Brown) with their Athletes In Action and Campus Crusade ministry (presenter at a leadership seminar last month), organized a sixtieth high school reunion, edited a dozen newsletters for our retirement community, and am taking an active role in memoir writing as well as hands-on IT device training in my retirement community. Oh, and I am still an occasional golf course rater for the Virginia State Golf Association. And in the spirit of “do it while you still can,” more trips are planned for a grandson’s high school graduation, visits to old haunts in Minnesota, Colorado, New Jersey, and New England, not to mention three weeks in Portugal and Spain in April/May 2019. Whew! We would love to hear from more classmates in the next Tuck Today. And send high-resolution photos too.

John South at a memoirs workshop at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA (photo courtesy of Kelly Nye, VMI)

’73 Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

Greetings from a wetter than usual San Francisco Bay Area. The drought seems finally to be over in California and there is plenty of snow in the Sierra, with resorts planning to stay open until July 4th!! Seems like plenty of rain all over the state. We are just back from a short trip to Phoenix and passed through Los Angeles, where we hit some heavy rain that flooded part of I-215—luckily the worst of the flooding came just after we made it through. Thanks to all T’73s for the letters, emails, and calls. Your news is much appreciated. Nice to hear from Bill Wood, who is now in Rocky Hill, South Carolina. Bill texted “nothing of note happening here—selfcongratulations for escaping the snow/cold/etc. and confiscatory taxes of CT—what a disaster that state has become.” Rocky Hill is just to the south of Charlotte. Jeff Wulfson is still churning away as deputy commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. According to Jeff, Massachusetts is doing a complete overhaul of its school funding formula this year, so it is exciting times for government finance policy wonks. That, plus two young grandchildren and a still-underdevelopment golf game are keeping Jeff busy. Nice update from Mark Hursty, who emailed: “No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth!” Mark has been living in Buffalo for the past 30 years with his second wife, Linda, who is a native of Buffalo. Mark retired as an SVP at KeyBank in 2013. He spent the last 15 years of his working career there in a number of capacities. “Can’t say I miss it” comments Mark. For me, not sure how I ever found time to work!!

Richard Noyes sent in this photo of his recently acquired Tuck banner. Looks like it is in good company.

To help deal with the long winters in Buffalo and some retirement blues, Mark decided to give back to the community and do something that he always wanted to do—teach. He has been a substitute teacher for the last three years. Mostly subbing at the middle school level and having a great time interacting with that age group.

Both of Linda’s children live near them, and they get the benefit of being around Linda’s five grandchildren, Mark’s step-grandkids. As for Mark’s two sons: son Mark and his wife Victoria, live in Asheville, North Carolina, where they both teach at the University of North Carolina Asheville—they have two children. Second son, Pete, is a pilot with Hawaiian Airlines. He and his wife, Marnie, and their two children live in Honolulu. Marnie runs her family’s construction company. Pete was born in West Lebanon while his mother, Donna, and Mark were at Tuck. Wow—nine grandkids—got to keep you real busy, Mark. Mark notes that he and Linda don’t travel all that much since it is beautiful in the Buffalo area in summer. Winters are not a problem with a hockey-crazy family and all five of the local grandkids on hockey teams. Means lots of early morning and late night driving to get the grandies to their ice time. Mark notes that: “My vice continues to be boating. I brought my sailboat with me when I moved here from Massachusetts. Three years ago, we added a power boat to the Hursty fleet so the grandies could tube and wakeboard. The young folks are, indeed, a lot of fun. By the way, we, too, are starting to figure out what to do with all the stuff we’ve accumulated.” Great news from John Musser—he and his wife Camille celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary in March. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and have two adult children: Amber, a professor of American studies at The George Washington University in DC, and Thomas, a data scientist in Boston. John is still importing fair-trade organic mangoes from Peru and Haiti, mostly for Whole Foods. This is Tropic Trade’s 10th year—John’s daughter-in-law, Ashley, works with John. Camille is in her 18th year with the Youlou Arts Foundation, an organization she set up to provide art education for children in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (an island group in the Caribbean). She travels there a few times per year, and John occasionally joins her there. John has no plans to retire, although he has cut back a bit on work and is not consulting with Choate these days. John had to miss our 45th reunion due to travel to Saint Vincent. John saw Chuck Stewart in St. Louis a couple of times last year and continues to be in touch with Jan Opsahl, who is now living in London, SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES as well as Stan Gutkowski. John, you must have the magic touch, I have had no luck in communicating with either Stan or Jan!!

years, and something he has always loved. Glad to see Al’s joints and muscles are holding up to the tennis.

Peter Brown is keeping busy as the COO for Aliado Solutions, LLC, an information technology security consulting company. It is a new virtual company with no bricks and mortar here in the U.S. The company has just opened an office in Dubai and plans on doing the same in Australia in the summer. IT security is a great field to be in these days, Pete. Glad to say that Pete is having tons of fun and enjoying New England.

Al and Beth play duplicate bridge several times a week. Al thinks this is unusual for many married couples, who often find it difficult partnering with their spouses. In fact, when their opponents find out Al and Beth are married, they are stunned.

Allan Curtis sends a nice Christmas card every year and notes that he and his wife, Beth, love having their four grandchildren over. The grandies keep them busy with lots of games to watch (baseball, soccer, volleyball, tennis and basketball) plus performances to attend. Tiring just to think about it, Al!! I am sure it is helping to keep you young. Al and Beth celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year with a wonderful trip down the Moselle. Congratulations to Al and Beth.

Al and Beth Curtis

In the nearby photo, they were retracing many of their familiar haunts when Al was in the military in Frankfurt and his student days at the University of Freiburg. Al is not yet retired from Moneta Group, but definitely slowing down, he says. Employing two sons and another terrific staff of five, he tries to give them as much breathing room as possible. Al is still playing tennis 2-3 times a week, which has been his routine for over 40

In conclusion, Al wrote: “Assuming many things, of course, we would love to think we will make our Tuck 50th in ’23. It’s certainly our intent to try. Meanwhile, Barry, you have been a most faithful, conscientious scribe for our class, and I thank you sincerely. Beth and I always look forward to reading the class ‘news’ and keeping in touch, albeit vicariously. Thank you, and may our paths cross soon.” Great sentiments, Al—hope to see you in 2023 if not sooner. Always good to hear insightful comments from Harry Pfohl. Harry is hoping to spend less time on political campaigns and his community activities to focus on his everexpanding bucket list, particularly the 40-year project on German American settlement in the Northwest Territories. Harry also notes that his brain is stuck in the late 1800s agrarian ideal and in the Hudson River School of art. Harry, you should check in with Hank Martin, who has assembled an impressive collection of Hudson River School artwork. Harry and his wife, Peg, are busy with grandchildren despite Peg’s recent hip injury. Glad to hear Peg has recovered.

violence that has been added in recent years. Don still finds it worthwhile to try to help people survive the turmoil and continues to do the odd consulting job with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)— typically filling in when there are vacancies between staff comings/goings, and sometimes helping to design a new recovery program. Last year he spent eight weeks in Angola working on malaria and HIV. Mostly, he has been going to the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and Senegal) in recent years. Don started his development career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso and feels at home in that part of the world. Don’s wife of 41 years, Connie, is from there and their first son was born there. Another big wedding anniversary in T’73— Don and Connie celebrated their 40th with a trip to Thailand and Bali—accompanied by one son, daughter-in-law, and their first grandson (born last year). They enjoyed some super scuba diving in Bali and lots of good eating. Wow, sounds awesome. With the arrival of his grandson, Don plans to cut back on the number and length of any overseas consultations. Maybe even retire for good (yes, Don, you have been saying that for a few years now). Don has a hard time saying no to last-minute requests/pleas for assistance and gets interested/committed enough to say “yes.” Great work though, Don, and you make a huge difference to a lot of lives. In his spare time, Don is active in a local senior softball league. Also, Don’s Tibetan mastiffs recently had a litter of 10 puppies (now 7 weeks old)—so life chez Clark is filled with rambunctious, mischief-seeking puppies these days.

Some of the news on Harry Pfohl came from Tom Wilberding, who continues to have “It’s been a long winter here in Jackson Hole,” regular email chats with Harry. Tom and I writes Al Connor. “The ski mountain is enjoy our respective Facebook postings—Tom reporting almost 500” of snow year to date regularly posts on his ornithological sightings and there are probably two months of winter while I tend to focus on rare beer sightings!! left.” Well, I could think of a lot worse places to He and his wife, Barb, visited Joshua Tree National Park for the first time in October 2018, spend winter than Jackson Hole—summer too is beautiful. and loved it. Their next trip is a three-week outing to Michigan to see grandkids, followed The nearby photo is of Al’s wife Marcia deep by an East Coast trip—a drive from Virginia in the snow. Note nice shadow of Al taking to Florida. They just started watching Ken the photo. Burns’s The Civil War, which they have not seen since 1990. They plan to spend a few nights in Al and Marcia sold their Santa Fe house in Charleston, where it all started. August, having decided that New Mexico was not for them. They woke up one morning last Nice newsy update from Don Clark. We spring and said “let’s get back to our roots commiserated on the sad developments in in New England.” They started looking for West Africa, where life was hard before all the

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property in Woodstock, Vermont, and while they loved the town, taxes in Vermont were “over the top,” notes Al. So they started looking across the river in New Hampshire and in November they closed on Mending Wall Farm in Lyme, New Hampshire. Lovely large secluded place in beautiful Lyme. Al and Marcia are gathering up their animals and heading to Lyme from Jackson Hole in April—sounds a bit like Noah’s Ark, Al!! Al notes: “If we like the area as much as we think we will, we’ll make that our home. Sort of come full circle.” Al is getting pretty good at moving, having sold out of Connecticut and Nantucket in 2006 for Jackson Hole and Santa Fe. Rich Hovey has been spending time researching his family’s genealogical history. It is a real activity trap, notes Rich—I can agree with that as I get into the Hotchkies family tree from time to time. Rich is trying figure out how to re-take the 30-acre Hoveys Island a few miles upstream from Tuck that belonged to his 4th great-grandfather in the late 1700s. Rich and his wife, Jane, are both well but, says Rich, nothing exciting to report. I would think living in DC these days would be enough excitement for anyone!! Writing from Kiawah, South Carolina, Martin Imbler notes that he and his wife, Lisa, are both well and enjoying the winter in sunnier climes, having just missed a couple of freezing weeks in Evansville, Indiana. They tend to move around a lot, particularly in winter—they enjoyed a Disney cruise with their grandkids over Christmas and are just back from short stays in Florida and Arizona. This summer they have plans to travel to southern France and to Italy. Sounds great, Martin. “Retired life continues to suit me just fine,” writes Martin, “with all the travel, things seem to move along at an acceptable pace.”

By coincidence, Gary Fradkin notes that he and his wife, Carol, are following in the Hotchkies’s travel footprints. They have booked an Alaska cruise for 2019—Seward to Vancouver—and plan after that to travel with another couple across the Canadian Rockies to Jasper and Banff. Gary and Carol have also planned a driving trip down the West Coast this May—going from Seattle down to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they will pass through the San Francisco Bay Area when we are in the U.K.

I found on LinkedIn that John McAuliffe is now senior auditor at Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Gary notes that they did not cruise for years because Carol was afraid she’d be motion sick. They have done quite a few cruises in recent years with no ill effects. Their first two cruises were in the Aegean/Mediterranean with no rough water anywhere. They also did a Baltic cruise last year and the water was smooth throughout. Last fall they had one bad day on a Montreal to New York cruise that meant they actually had to skip a port—but they handled it okay. I think it helps that modern cruise ships are designed better and have effective stabilizing systems that keep motion to a minimum.

John and his wife, Tracie, finished their new country house in Castleton two years ago—Castleton is in Virginia toward the Shenandoah National Park. They divide their time between McLean and Castleton on a 25/75 basis. John notes that Castleton is a heavenly place that lifts his spirits—“It is not only a beautiful place, but there are many weekenders and full-time retired residents from the DC area who make this a very vibrant community.”

Gary enjoys travel and was lucky enough to work for a Dutch company for many years, which facilitated some of their European travels. “With luck,” says Gary, “we will all stay healthy and then make it to the 50th reunion.”   Noted on LinkedIn that Scott Fitzsimmons is now the vice president of the Orleans Firebirds in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Scott tells me that this was “a self-inflicted demotion! Working with the Orleans Firebirds and the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) is a great deal of fun. I had been president of the team for four years and the time commitment was just becoming too much in light of a growing family (three grandchildren currently, another due in less than three weeks, and yet another in April, all local to the Boston area) and rotator cuff surgery at the beginning of the year. So going to vice president will keep me involved, but reduced the workload. FYI, the Cape League is the oldest summer college league in the nation. In 2018 the CCBL had over 300 alumni playing in Major League Baseball plus many more alums in the Minor Leagues. Frank Thomas, an Orleans alum, is even enshrined in Cooperstown.” Keep up the good work, Scott. Hope the rotator cuff is mending nicely.

Not such great news from John Jacquemin, who has just been diagnosed with a blood cancer. As we would expect, John is determined to defeat the cancer and get back to the travel and adventures he so enjoys, though perhaps on a reduced scale. Maybe have to cut back on triathlons and marathons a bit, John. Our thoughts are with you, John.

John’s three daughters are not married as yet, but John is waiting impatiently for some grandchildren to bounce on his knees! Despite heroic efforts from our TAG team of Stan Gutkowski and Dick Curran, T’73 is lagging behind recent years’ fund-raising. We are at 80% of the way to this year’s goal of $200,000, which is what we raised last year. We used to consistently have a participation rate of 70% or more. As of April 8, there are 37 classmates who have donated, for a 33% participation rate—wow, how the mighty have fallen. It would be great if another 42 classmates could dig deep into their hearts and pocketbooks to make a contribution before June 30, 2019. Come on classmates, retirement does not mean retiring from TAG!! Things are still pretty much the same on the Hotchkies front. Eleanor and I continue healthy, apart from the usual moans and groans that go with getting a wee bit older. We are just back from ten days in Phoenix including side trips to Zion National Park and Joshua Tree National Park. Both were stunning—Joshua Tree had a “superbloom” of wildflowers thanks to a wet winter and spring— spectacular. Next, we are off on our annual trip to the U.K. to catch up with friends and family. Then a trip to Greece in August-September—a trip that we have put off for many years and have finally got round to booking.

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CL ASS NOTES We did get to spend a few great days in Seattle, Washington, visiting son Blair Hotchkies (T’06), his wife Kathy, and their three sons. Blair continues at Amazon while our daughter Lindsey continues at Apple. Don’t ask me what either of them do—mumbo jumbo to my old brain!! We do get to see Lindsey, her husband Karl, and their two daughters most weekends. Thanks again for all the news, have a great summer, and please write or call in the fall. —Barry (cell: 510-918-5901 or email: bhotchkies@aol.com)

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included Bill Bohrer, Noreen Doyle, Danny Eng, Rick Goldberg, John Lathrop, Twig MacArthur, HJ Markley, Pat Martin, Jim Spanos, Stuart Pinski, Jack Tankersley, Wright Watling, Lloyd Ucko, T’75 John Murphy, and Tuck Ambassador Andy Steele. It was great to see Wright make the trip all the way from Santa Barbara to join us—the “out of town” contingent seems to get bigger every year! After lunch, Andy Steele was gracious enough to field questions about Tuck, the Tuck Experience program, and demographics of the current student body. The 2019 lunch is already set for December 5—join us!! Email Brian at bflandry86@gmail.com to make your reservation!

in Savannah around last year’s Christmas holidays. There should be a photo nearby of the happy couple toasting their nuptials with a champagne carriage ride through town.

Paul Stupinski pstupinski@aol.com

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Newlyweds Jim Head and Becky on their wedding day in Savannah

OCTOBER 4-6, 2019 Great turnout for the annual Holiday Lunch in NYC! Hi Classmates! Thanks to all of you for your notes, emails, and photos, and special thanks to those of you who have joined the Class of 1974 Facebook page! It makes staying in touch so much easier (and more timely!) for everyone. If you’re not signed up for our Facebook page, here is just one example of what you’re missing— What does Hilary Miller look like in a wig, and why is he wearing one??? MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our 45th Reunion, October 4-6, in Hanover is fast approaching! It promises to be a great weekend for seeing what’s new at Tuck and catching up with your classmates. Dwight Sargent has graciously agreed to host our class dinner at Pompanoosuc Mills’ beautiful showroom in East Thetford. Those of you who’ve been there know what a special treat that is! We also have arranged for some great door prizes to be given away that evening, and some other surprises too! See you there! I never tire of thanking Steve Bates and Brian Landry for a great job putting on the Annual Holiday Lunch in NYC! This year’s attendees

Another holiday tradition is dinner at Mill’s Tavern in Providence for the T’74 Massachusetts–Rhode Island crew. Joining Angie and me were Diane and Todd Keiller, Mary Moore and Dave Potter, and Kathy and Bob Twomey. Marnie and Jake Jacobsen regularly attended these get-togethers but now they are full-time residents of the Conch Republic! Shortly after the new year, Jake did journey north and over coffee and Belgian waffles, Jake, Potter and I celebrated the sale of Jake’s company. Kathy and Bob were headed to West Palm Beach shortly after dinner to escape the New England winter. Last year’s dinner conversation centered on the Twomey and Keiller families’ wedding planning—this time it was our turn, as our son Jack is getting married in Santa Fe this September. Never underestimate the power of the Tuck connection—courtesy of Andy Steele, I reached out to several Santa Fe-based Tuckies for advice on a variety of wedding logistical questions. Within HOURS of emailing them, I got answers to all of my questions and a whole lot more useful information! Staying with the wedding theme, congratulations and best wishes to Jim Head, who married Becky

Congratulations to Bob Buhrmaster, who retired as lead director on Toro’s board after serving on the board for 25 years. Toro feted Bob and Maureen at a dinner at Toro’s HQ just outside Minneapolis. I guess this means that Air Buhrmaster is back in business! Bob and Maureen also recently celebrated the arrival of grandchild Egan. Maureen spent some time with daughter Kate and Egan in LA, and took time off from oohing and ahhing over the baby to do some shopping on Rodeo Drive and visiting the candy store made famous by the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel worked (?) wrapping and boxing candy. Also welcoming a new grandchild are Judy and Rich Andrews, granddaughter Elyse. Rich is also celebrating a 2nd gross/3rd net finish at the ROCC/Houston CC Super Senior tournament this fall. Congrats too to Hank Hakewill— grandchild #4 arrived this past September. She’s already talking, and “Fish Whisperer” Grandpa reports her first words were “Fish on”! Helen and Mike Caulfield just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary AND their 3rd grandchild—Grace Helen. Caulfield thought “Grace Mike” was a better choice of names but was somehow overruled. Imagine that! Nick North garnered rave reviews as Lt. Brannigan in Guys and Dolls this fall at the Rubber City

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Bob and Maureen Burhmaster with new grandson Egan

Country music legend Toby Keith with the Bellos

and inviting John and Nancy to see him play at Sammy Hagar’s local watering hole, Cabo Wabo. No word on how Bello managed to insult Sammy....

Rich and Judy Andrews welcoming new granddaughter Elyse to the family

Theatre in Akron. Personally, I thought he looked more like Inspector Gadget in his costume—go to our Facebook page and you be the judge! It wouldn’t be a Tuck Today column without a news item from John Bello. Fresh off his critically acclaimed but exhausting “Geezerpalooza” Tour, Nancy and John went on a golfing vacation at Cabo del Sol, at the tip of the Baja Peninsula. As John and Nancy unpacked their golf bags after a round, the group behind them pulled up and one of the players started singing a C&W tune with the refrain “Let’s Have a Party!” Deciding he liked the song and the singer’s voice, JJ went over and introduced himself to the singer who turned out to be country music legend Toby Keith. When Bello complimented him on the tune, Keith replied, “Thanks, I wrote it. It’s called ‘Red Solo Cup.’” Not believing him for a second, Bello tried taking credit for writing “Okie from Muskogee,” the Merle Haggard classic. Keith called him out on it and at this point, Nancy is looking for the nearest escape route, trying to distance herself as far as possible from Bello’s faux pas! But it gets worse...Bello then confuses Toby Keith with another country music singer, Keith Urban, and JJ begins peppering him with questions about Keith Urban’s wife, Australian film star Nicole Kidman. What is Spanish for “Oops”? Toby took it all in stride, though, even offering JJ some tips on playing guitar,

Rick Goldberg and wife Hilary have stayed on the go, albeit a bit less that we’re used to hearing about. Recent trips included Cape May, Baltimore, Cape Cod, the Hamptons, and several family events in Cranston and Pawtucket, RI, not far from me. When not traveling, Rick stays busy with work at his synagogue and regular trip into New York, visiting museums and having lunch with colleagues from his days at Rimmel. Brad Stirn got together with Bill Bohrer for 4 days of skiing in the Salt Lake City area. The visit included breaking bread with Connie Voldstad, who has a place in Park City. Larry Edgar has just returned from an extensive trip through Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, the highlight being riding an elephant. Lots of photos on our Facebook page—check em out. Larry is an early “YES” for Reunion. Noreen Doyle has been very busy since the holiday lunch. Ducky has completed the transition to living full time in NYC and CT, and things have been hectic at Newmont Mining, where as board chai, she helped complete a joint venture with Barrick Gold. Wall Street seems to like the deal—well done, Noreen! Blaine Gunther and family, 2 of the 4 kids and 9 of the 10 grandchildren, are vacationing in Peru, as this issue goes to press. After returning from Cyprus last August, Blaine and Linda have been keeping busy with local volunteer work in Utah when not enjoying family time. Steve Graves continues his teaching and research in supply chain management and manufacturing systems design at MIT. Weekends are spent in the Berkshires and the travel highlights this year have been cruises—one from NYC to LA through the Panama Canal, and another

from Bali to Sydney, via the west and south coasts of Australia. Cathy Needham Grein checked in from Bermuda, where she and Fred were enjoying a golfing vacation at Tucker’s Point. Cathy reports that the view from their veranda overlooking the 17th fairway afforded spectacular ocean views and front row seats for both good and bad golf! Debbie Elcock and husband Sy recently returned from a trip to Egypt. The itinerary included Cairo, Luxor (“...the city, not the casino, Stuart!”), Thebes, Aswan, temple visits, pyramids, mummies, tomb paintings AND a first for Deb-o and Sy, a cruise with no problems! They enjoyed a four-day trip down the Nile in a 100 ft vintage 19th century Dahabiya sailboat, all to themselves, with a crew of 10 to cater to their every whim. Pictures of Deb-o, Sy, and Oscar the camel are on our Facebook page. Deb-o said something about Oscar developing an unhealthy attachment to Sy, but no details.... Nice to get an update from John Stinebaugh! John and Jean just celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, have lived in the Alpharetta, Georgia, area for the last 22 years, and have operated a residential real estate practice since moving there. Daughter Lindsay and her 3 children, Flora, Pierce, and Addison, live nearby. Daughter Whitney and children Easton and Lincoln, live in Houston. Vacations normally revolve around visiting family in Boston or Florida, but there was also a recent trip to Costa Rica. John and Jean stay very active with golf, tennis, and cycling, with John boasting that at 67, he has the body of a 66-year-old! As I complete this column, the Stupinskis are preparing for an extended vacation in Italy. We are headed back to Tuscany, renting the same house we (and Dan Clark) have rented several times before. We’ll be joined by a succession of our kids, their significant others, and old friends of ours. I’ll post pictures periodically on the class Facebook page. Sad news—our classmate Chuck Kanach passed away March 2, from complications following cancer treatment. Please join me in keeping Chuck and his family in our thoughts and prayers. The only suggestions from the Class of ’74 Book Club come from yours truly this time: First, by Evan Thomas. A very interesting biography of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES The New Iberia Blues, by James Lee Burke. A murder mystery set in the Louisiana bayou. Presidents of War, by Michael Beschloss. A readable account of how a succession of US presidents took our country into major conflicts. That’s it for now. Don’t forget to sign up for our Facebook page, and make your plans to attend our 45th Reunion, October 4-6. Thanks to all for staying in touch!

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Barb and I are also planning a trip to Stockholm in July. I’m looking forward to the surströmming, a fermented Baltic herring so powerful that most airlines will not accept it for shipment. (The tins could explode from the gas pressure that builds up.) I have the feeling that Nancy and I are not the only Tuck ’75s traveling a bit—I bet you are too! Let me know about your adventures, and I’ll include them in the next column.

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Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

Joel Barad joelibarad@gmail.com

Shown nearby is Nancy Bello enjoying a round of golf with friends at Cabo del Sol. (My thanks to Paul Stupinski, who sent me the photo last February.)

Nancy Bello (second from left) golfing with friends at Cabo del Sol

I was in Cabo myself not long ago, but it was en route to La Paz, farther up the Baja Peninsula. My younger brother Casey has bought a property there and is renovating it for retirement. Earlier this year I was in Nashville for the first time. My daughter Keara and her husband have moved there from Austria. He is on the mathematics faculty at Vanderbilt, and Keara is a first-year MBA student at the Owen School there. My daughter Alanna receives her master’s diploma from USC in May, in the area of medical practice management. Barb and I have arranged for an apartment in downtown LA for her family and ours.

[Editor’s note: Look on the 1976 class notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for photos!] After 18 years with ADP, John Clayman was offered an early retirement package that was “too good to pass up.” He sold his house of 33 years, where he raised his 2 boys; the youngest got married in June 2018. He bought condo in a community for those 55+, west of Boston. Until it is ready he is wintering in Savannah, his third year there. He says it is an “awesome city with southern charm and great food.” In November, Craig Benedetti celebrated his 15th year of retirement. He has used that time to volunteer on the boards of nonprofits and supporting his favorite causes, the San Diego Zoo being one. Craig is now volunteering to help LGBT asylum seekers gain access to professional resources needed to navigate the asylum process. He says that “one of the biggest challenges is helping these individuals find the bail needed to be released during the process. Craig says, “The logic of bail escapes me as these people arrive in this country with only the clothes on their back. As a result, many of them have already spent 18 to 36 months in jail awaiting asylum hearings.“ In February, Craig and Pablo Ochoa-Mayo celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary— having married shortly after the Supreme Court ruling. After 31 years of living in the same home in Laguna Beach, they moved to Floral Park in Santa Ana into a historic home.

They find the change great fun. To celebrate these anniversaries, Craig and Pablo spent a month traveling through northern Italy and the Aegean. Craig was in Venice during the flooding. As seen in the pic nearby, he reports that the “street vendors sell plastic waders so you can navigate the sidewalks. Great fashion statement!” Amy and Paul Mesches just ended 45 days in Austin, looking after their 3-year-old granddaughter, Lola, and her new brother, Wally. Paul reports, “Austin justifiably differentiates itself from Texas, though I recognize our friends from other parts of the state may challenge the assertion. The fact is, it is a wonderful place. BBQ is top notch, traditional restaurants are equally good, and every hole in the wall place we have found has been an absolute delight.“ Amy is getting ready to publish her compendium of the 30+ coffee shops she has visited over the last couple of trips. Paul’s firm, Porte Advertising, continues after nearly 26 years, making what he lovingly refers to as “Two Yutzes with a Crayon” one of the oldest continuously operating, never-merged agencies in New York. He is in wind-down mode but still gets summoned from the golf course on occasion. “Last week the call came as I was about to navigate a golf ball through a thick stand of trees. “ Solving his client’s problem was easier than navigating the next shot. Don Levis, Frank Brown, and I all grew up three blocks from one another in Belmont, Mass. Frank was way older than Don and me and went to a different high school. But Don and I were one year apart all through school. Don still recalls fondly his Belmont days. He sold his parents’ house in 2015 so has no ties to the town anymore. Don is living in Andover, Mass., and very happy with his wife of 40 years, Tobi. Their 3 children are all “off the payroll”—gainfully employed and out of the house. Don says that being an empty nester is quite good—“my wife calls it our selfish time.” His 2 daughters are married. He and Tobi now have 3 grandchildren and their son is recently engaged. Don enjoys his semiretirement as a professor of accounting at Merrimack College in N. Andover—10 minutes from his house. He started there as an adjunct in 2013 and was hired full-time a year and a half later. “It’s a very stimulating job, but not stressful, so perfect for this stage in my life. Not sure how

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long I will keep going, but I am happy with my lifestyle for now. I don’t teach in the summer, so I have plenty of time for golf, and typically play about 100 rounds per year.” Last summer Don played in Ireland on courses such as Royal County Down, Portstewart, and Royal Portrush. The year before in Scotland at St Andrews, Royal Dornoch, Nairn, Carnoustie, Royal Aberdeen and others. Jim Schultze is busy as ever with his winery. In addition to the tasting room at the winery itself, he opened additional tasting rooms in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Carmel Valley Village. Both of his sons are actively involved in the business, so it is a real family affair. Earlier this year, PinotFile—a widely read Pinot Noir publication—named him 2018 Winery of the Year. He is happy to see any classmates who come out his way. Scott Cleary is still at the helm of SMC Partners in Hartford, managing the highly sophisticated consulting business of “doing anything for money in the health care realm.” Except now all three kids are partners, so he and Jo don’t know whether they are coming or going. So instead of any forward progress it’s more like a time machine, with 4 little grandkids and a dog running around all the time, just like 30 years ago. No rocking chair or beach anywhere in sight. Marc Wilson is writing because Mary Sexton twisted his arm to do so. He entered his second phase of early retirement, reducing a long list of projects to a very few. Marc writes “after 4 years in a Denver spirituals choir, I gave myself a low pass as a bass (Charley Silcox may get a kick out of this) and was bumped up to board chairman instead. Now I’m simply in a blues band you’ve never heard of and traveling a ton. I’ll be in Reykjavik this April performing, if you want to hear me.” His son, having gone to Harvard and then Columbia for his MBA, is having great fun in Manhattan managing his startup, Thursday Boots Co. “My daughter gave us our first grandchild, and we all are loving that experience.” Nancy and Frank Brown continue to live in Amherst, NH, and have a nice home right in the village area. He says that he is starting to feel old as his eldest has hit forty! Two of his kids, Patrick and Maggie, are living and working in the Boston area. Kate, the youngest, with two girls, is in Alexandria, VA. John lives and works in Manchester close by. Frank

keeps busy with a small website business that is mostly about fun and keeping engaged with all the online technology. In addition, for the past ten years, he has been involved with a start-up trying to bring wellness and nutrition services to the fitness industry. “This keeps limping along looking for the breakout event.” Claudia and Stu Fishler spent last October “following in the footsteps of the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Spaniards, and French by invading Sicily.” Stu was particularly skeptical since his only exposure to the island was from the movie Patton...“it just seemed so desolate!” Yet again he was schooled by his brilliant wife and came away a huge fan, feeling strongly that it should be added to anyone’s short list of Italian trips. Stu is prepared for “even more spousal schooling” this fall, when they “head off to the Adriatic Coast on a three-week small ship excursion that will touch everywhere from Zagreb to Sarajevo and several islands in between.” Hap Stein is still working as chairman and CEO of his company. He and his wife Brooke now have seven grandchildren who live within 5 minutes of their home at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jacksonville. Hap expects to play the LA Country Club and Augusta within the next month. I am jealous. Charlie Haydock and I had a nice catch-up on the phone. He and Kyra just got back from 2+ weeks at Boca Grande in Florida. They go down each March. They spend parts of each summer on Nantucket. They have been renting a house each year from the same couple, who finally decided to sell, and Charlie snatched it up. Three-bedroom, two-story weathered shingle. Just what you would expect. Now that he is retired, Charlie serves as an investment advisor on six charity boards and as a paid private trustee for six families. He doesn’t run the money, just advises. The advisor fees keep him in tennis balls. Your secretary has had a quiet winter. Made one trip with my wife Tobe to Oaxaca in Mexico. Delightful in all respects. A World Heritage site, great food, charming people, fine weather. We went out of town to visit Monte Alban, an ancient religious spot started by the Zapotec tribes in about 500 BC. They leveled the mountaintop to build religious structures, still being excavated. In summer it is all very green. Now we look forward to my son Gordon’s graduation from McGill in June.

Until next time.... Late-breaking news: In October Bill Dryden was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, working with the 3D x-ray technology of Digitome in the x-ray lab of the Objects Conservation group. “Digitome is a patented variable depth volumetric imaging process that combines multiple flat x-ray or other penetrating energy images of an object in a way that permits the complete display and precise measurement of any internal structure in the imaged object.” In addition to working for the Met, Digitome was used to find bugs behind light switches in the US Embassy in Moscow. Cool stuff. Other than that, Bill’s doctors tell him “just keep doing what you are doing.” His grandkids never pass up the opportunity to show grandpa how to operate his iPhone! And from Rick Routhier: “Sarah and I are heading to Sicily tonight for a trip with a St. Stephen’s alumni group. We had a good winter, but no travel. Kids are in good shape. I visited son Jake in SF, where he moved last September. We had a lovely dinner with Bob Spears, who just married off his oldest son (to a Southern California bride). Bob is still doing early stage PE investing in food and health and wellness products. Looking forward to spring on the East Coast and getting back on the golf course.”

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

Dear Folks, Therese and Larry Fish have been living in Atlanta for the last five years. A year ago they saw the light and joined Arthur and me in moving to a retirement community. They say they are enjoying their new lifestyle: “Lots of old farts just like me with many activities available. Small house on a hill overlooking the golf course.” Larry has been occupying himself off and on with online courses and is currently studying Understanding the World’s Great Structures and Thermodynamics. Thermodynamics! I can’t believe it. Larry says “...took it in college but forgot everything I learned. Will likely happen again.” Lordy,

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CL ASS NOTES Larry, you’re braver than I am! Incidentally, if you are into online courses and programs, check out Tuck’s new virtual programs. I am attending one this May on Tuck’s New Curriculum. You can access it and check out previous programs at mytuck. dartmouth.edu/virtualprograms. Carl Treleaven sent in a copy of a November 6, 1921, issue of the Chicago newspaper Oak Leaves. It reports that Carl’s great-aunt, one of his great-great-grandmothers, and one of his great-great-great-grandmothers (age 90 at the time) were among the very first women in Chicago to vote, thanks to the newly enacted 19th Amendment. He reports that the bad news is that, “Apparently they all voted for Warren Harding, the winner of the election, who went on to infamy in the Teapot Dome scandal. Oh well, I guess you had to expect that sort of thing when they gave women the vote!” Now c’mon, Carl. If you look at the voting figures, both the men and the women went 5 to 1 for Harding.

Jack Ryder and Theo getting the worm for the hook

Steve of Arabia on a camel

’78 Jim Scardino jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

From the Chicago Oak Leaves, Nov. 6, 1920

We also got some gorgeous pics from Steve Pytka from his trip to Egypt, and a report that he is living the dream in Rincon, Puerto Rico. Tell us how Rincon and the rest of the island has recovered from the hurricane, Steve.

I begin this column with a note from Brian Ruder, who wrote, “Greetings from suburban NY, where Ginny and I are among the dwindling number of our generation sticking around. I continue to chair the Leadership Fellows program at NYU Stern for secondyear MBAs. An integral part of the program is our monthly two-hour sessions with guest CEOs. It is an intimate group of 12 students who get a glimpse of walking in the shoes of a CEO. A number of Tuck grads have come in...I find them in the Tuck alumni news. I would welcome any of our classmates to join in here. All volunteers welcome.” Diana Potts Beck wrote her regrets for having to miss the reunion. Seems she and Ted were on a long-planned safari in Africa. They returned safely. Dave Kapnick and I met up for dinner when Dave was in Chicago in April. It was just the day after Duke’s loss in the Final Four, but Dave had the game in a very good perspective. As he says, it’s easier to have a good outlook when you are sitting on a pile of NCAA championships. Dave is CFO of Andersen Tax, lives in San Francisco, and spends as much time at his home at Lake Tahoe as he and Linda can. A couple of grandkid shots, one set from Jack Ryder, who wrote, ”Theo (2) getting the worm

Jack and Theo catch one

Theo thanking the fish before letting it go

for the hook, catching the fish, then thanking (kissing) it before letting it go. Grandkids are the best! Much more fun than children. We have less responsibility and are much more relaxed.” The other shot came from Bob Lindberg, who had an interesting take on grandkids: “Grandchildren are God’s reward for not killing your teenagers.” Janet and Peter Lebovitz were expecting their first grandchild this spring. Meanwhile, Peter reported on 33 days of skiing around their winter home in Colorado. “Still trying to avoid Florida,” Peter added. Tom Flanagan joined the ranks of the retired in December. Spent the winter on Kiawah Island, planning to be back in Connecticut for the warm months. And Tom seconded Lindy’s thoughts on retirement, saying, “I haven’t

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them, but I wouldn’t know since Jack never writes. John also writes that “have appreciated volunteering in Tuck’s new executive education program Next Step for returning veterans and athletes, as a Navy vet. Also appreciate my daughter Elisabeth (Annapolis ’10) and son-in-law Pete Mamone (West Point ’05) coming up from Austin to volunteer—they met in the UT MBA program and now work at Google. Seeing Andy Steele and other longtime Tuck friends is great.” Bob Lindberg and one grandchild in hats

looked back.” Offering a counterpoint is Koji Nakamura, still working as a consultant at age 71 in addition to his humanitarian endeavors in the Philippines we reported on last time. Koji offered this observation/theory: “Our generation looks much younger physically and mentally than our parents’ and grandparents’ because of foods, medical care, lifestyles, and so on. Accordingly, I make it a rule to encourage my ‘old’ friends by telling them my ‘80% Theory,’ which means that Our Actual Age = Our Nominal Age x 80%! So, in my case, my actual age is 56.8 years old = 71 x 80%!!” Well, the arithmetic works, if nothing else. And I close thanking the many of you who wrote of your memories of Engin Kevenk, who left us in February. The theme of all our memories of Engin is his kindness and pure niceness. Engin was part of the Stell Hall crew working under the enlightened guidance of Tom Stenovec and Mark Beasman (T’77). Engin was such a nice guy that our “Kitchen Mom,” Armen Bagdasarian, an Armenian native, had only great affection for him. Mark Freise remembered Engin’s general invitation to visit him in Turkey at any time. Suzanne McNitt took Engin up on this and wrote: “Darrell and I were so sad to hear about the early passing of Engin. Even though he was my classmate, I really became acquainted with him at a reunion and found him fascinating. So when we took Anna and Jud to Turkey in 2008, he and Rengin invited us to a lovely restaurant in Istanbul. We had a local meal with incredible views of the city and the sounds of the mosques calling to prayer. It was a magical evening. He shared about growing up in Turkey and the political situation then, which was stable compared to today. Rengin was charming and we only wished we had more time to spend with them. Here is a photo from the dinner. He will be missed.” Yes, he will be. And to all of you, please stay well!

Engin Kevenk, Suzanne McNitt, and Rengin Kevenk

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

Oakes Ames, in competition with Darrell Brown to become the world’s first 200-yearold man, “went on a 28 day, 279 mile rafting/ canyoneering trip in Feb. through Grand Canyon. Yep, it snowed, it was cold, and I flipped in Crystal Rapid (also known as joining the CO River swim team). Fortunately, I’m now fat enough to survive in a harsh environment. Photo attached.” Yes, Oakes, you’re a real porker.

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

As a demonstration of my dedication to this column, we’ll start things off with a note from Cathy Stephenson that arrived last fall, a bit too late for my deadline, fluid as it is since this column was due yesterday. Cathy spent last summer in Michigan and finished the season in Ireland, touring for two weeks and then spending a week in Lahinch on the west coast of Ireland. (The Bowden Family spent a week in Lahinch in 2000, a lovely place with a golf course that I would never like to play and home of the 2019 Irish Open.) I hope Cathy saw the nearby Cliffs of Moher, a spectacular place where the Irish Government believes that guard rails are unnecessary as common sense will prevent most people from plunging 700 feet over the edge. She was then looking forward to a week in San Diego, which is now, sadly, over. John Reed writes that he will be playing in a charity golf event in a month and is concerned that he has not played in 12 months. No worries, John, I’ve been playing for years and nothing changes. John is now an empty nester, and in the last year he and his wife, Perry Ann, have moved from Houston to Raleigh, NC, only a few hundred yards from Jack and Marti Huisman. John said it was great to see

Oakes Ames

John Taylor writes that “I have had a few good consulting gigs over the past few months but I’m still working to lock down the big one! Nanci and I have been filling in the time with 30 days of skiing this past winter in 3 states with 2 of our kids using just 2 different ski passes (our home mountain Wintergreen, VA, and Vail Epic). We again spent January in Germany driving sports cars on ice fields and enjoying great symphonic music. This spring, we enjoyed Pickleball round robins here at Wintergreen but we are concerned that it is SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES really a gateway drug for shuffleboard!” That’s an interesting observation John, but let’s leave the jokes to your humble columnist. Wendell Murray writes that “I gave up on the business world decades ago, after I sold a small manufacturing business that I owned and ran. Subsequently, I started doing professional software development, which has always been my primary interest. I still do that work into advancing age, working on a contract basis on projects that last anywhere from 6 months to several years. Currently I am working on an interesting project for the Social Security Administration outside Baltimore, MD.” About 15 years ago Wendell, divorced at the time, met Elena Vladimirovna Vechkanova, “Lena,” who, with her daughter, Maria, emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1991. He writes that “To gain some idea of the chaos in the dissolved Soviet Union at that time, her former husband, whom she had recently divorced, was murdered by two so-called ‘business associates’ in the disastrous headlong plunge into what was supposed to be capitalist enterprise, but was simply lawless chaos instead.” Wendell and Lena now live to the west of Philadelphia, somewhat north of Wilmington, DE, and have recently traveled to Samara, Russia (Lena’s Russian home), northern Italy (where Wendell has close friends from his childhood time there), and to Chile, where Wendell’s life-long friend lives with his Chilean wife and children. Nearby is a photo of Wendell and Lena taken in Montreal (they do get around!)

Wendell and Lena in Old Montreal

Kip and I had breakfast in Sarasota, FL, recently. I’m sure my readers are disappointed that we pathetically couldn’t think of taking a picture. I can’t even remember what we talked about other than we both recently had been bitten by dogs while riding our bikes. Kip points out that this begs the headline “It’s a Dog Bites Dog World.” I was able to one-up his 86

story by regaling him with my adventures with the rabies vaccination routine. Your humble columnist and his long-suffering wife, Dianne, just spent another lovely winter in Sarasota, FL. Gary and Jody Peterson were in town in December, Gary and I played golf (Gary was always focused on aiming for the 150 yard marker—see below) and we all went out to dinner. Wayne and Ann [Merrifield] Davis were in Longboat Key for a week, and Wayne and I played golf and we all went out... to the opera! (and dinner!) Petie was not sophisticated enough for the opera. Next big trips include another Tauck tour with Dianne and many friends to Portugal and Spain (I’ve been learning Spanish), followed by a few days in Paris. And later in the summer, a golf trip to Ireland with my two sons and one of my many brothers.

which we enjoyed. So with retirement from the day-to-day grind now at hand, a change of scenery (from Oklahoma plains) seems to be a fun thing to do. (I know, January in New Hampshire!!!!) Anyway, we missed seeing Andy as he was out of town over their spring break (in Palo Alto, perhaps?). Thought he could show me a bargain house or two—but we will likely end up in the New London area, where taxes are a bit lower. Anyway, this puts us in the area for Reunion—probably in a rental somewhere— but hopefully with something long term in the works. Looking forward to the events.” Larry Bridges recently sold his business, Red Car, Inc., in 2014. “Red Car was a leading name in TV commercial production nationwide.” He has been spending his time traveling, perfecting his yoga, Pilates, and SoulCycle skills while Instagramming daily (@ larrybridges). He (Tuck ’79) and his wife Betsy (HBS’81) just returned from three weeks in Japan and Hong Kong. Photo nearby was taken on the art island of Naoshima, Japan. Their daughter Melanie, 28, (Stanford ’12) works in digital advertising in San Francisco.

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On the Bridgeses’ trip to Naoshima, Japan

Andy Steele wrote that he was at a recent Tuck event in Palo Alto, where he saw Mark Olbert. That’s it. That’s all he wrote. He didn’t even capitalize “Tuck”—I had to do that for him. In fairness, he did ask me to put in a plug for TAG but I won’t be his shill.

MK Beach has been her usual wandering self, and here are some of her recent travels: “I spent five weeks on two different islands in the Bahamas this winter. Time on Andros was lovely; my husband Terry Osborne and I stayed on a remote beach where our nearest (and only) neighbors were a nesting pair of ospreys. While on Andros, I was lucky to see the veryendangered Bahama oriole. (Andros is the only place it now lives.) I was able to share my photos with the Bahama Oriole Project. I also spent three weeks on the island of San Salvador (with my daughter, Hillary, Dartmouth ’09), where I was fortunate enough to meet up with a teacher/leader of a historic archaeology field work course I took 45 years ago. (Yikes!) While I was there, she gave a lecture about the very work we did back then on the island. (There is

Gary Peterson, Michael Stern, and Roger Berman are busy coming up with plans to entertain us at our upcoming 40th reunion. Hard to imagine we’re 40 years out. For those wanting to join a group hike of Mt. Cardigan after the class picture, remember to pack warm clothes and sneakers or hiking shoes. Larry Findeiss writes that “we were in central NH in mid-March doing some searching for a spot to retire. Barbara and I met in Hanover,

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now a research center on San Salvador named for her and her late husband.) OK, fine: I will also admit to having a Kalik beer or two, and perhaps some rum. In March Terry and I spent some time in the Southwest, birding in southeast Arizona and taking a day trip to the White Sands National Monument: acres and acres of gypsum dunes! I am working on some new photography/writing projects after giving a presentation to the local chapter of the Audubon Society on my trip to the Arctic and Greenland. The snow has (almost) all melted here in Hanover. Soon it will be time to plant the garden!”

friend Pam ‘Wally’ Meyer. Tuck classmates in attendance included Susan and Don Stuart, Jody and Gary Peterson, Toddy and Tom Turrentine, Brinton and Buck Parson, and John and I. Pam chose to be very private about her multi-year battle with cancer, never wanting to be a burden or obligation, so many of us were shocked to hear about her passing. We will hold her in our hearts and memories. Pam was very special.”

’80 Rick Kilbride richardckilbride@gmail.com

MK Beach’s trip to White Sands

And in conclusion, Gretchen Teichgraeber submitted this touching note about the passing of our classmate and friend, Pam Meyer:

“It was with heavy hearts that many of us met in Wilton in mid-February to participate in the celebration of life service for our dear

is on the donation plaque of all the AMC lodges and huts I’ve ever been to (I think 13), the award is no doubt well received. The nearby photo shows Cliff receiving his award from AMC President John Judge.

A little class news, just a taste. Peter Reed reports that after four years with Northfield Savings Bank in Vermont, he took another shot at retirement! “I had a great experience as a small-town community banker and expect to remain busy with a number of local volunteer activities focusing on local economic development. Also investing in a small tractor to continue our small-scale agricultural pursuits and help to manage our Vermont property.” Remembering that our OB/ Negotiation professor Len Greenhalgh was also a tractor guy; perhaps we can ask Peter and Len for a demo at our next reunion. Cliff Krauss has been a long-time board member of the Appalachian Mountain Club. The “Gov” termed out his board seat this year and received the AMC’s Distinguished Service Award at the AMC’s 143th annual meeting. (143 years?!) This award “highlights long-term commitment to enhancing and sustaining the integrity of AMC’s conservation, education, and recreation values, with a special acknowledgement that the recipients have developed a complete understanding of the values and goals of the entire organization.” Cliff’s citation went on to say “Cliff personifies what it means to be an AMC volunteer.... He gives of his time freely and participates fully. His expertise and guidance navigating fiscal issues for the Club has been invaluable and AMC is a better organization because of his dedicated service. His enthusiasm and sense of humor also make him a welcome addition to any AMC meeting or event! Thank you, Cliff, for your distinguished service to AMC.” As Cliff was vice chairman and long-time treasurer, and his name

Cliff Krauss receiving his Distinguished Service Award from AMC President John Judge George Gorman checked in with a news of his work on the Eaton Vance mutual fund board with other Tuck grads. Nearby is a picture of the three: George Gorman T’80, Cynthia Frost T’87, and Keith Quinton T’82. George Reports that he “and Cynthia joined the board on the same day in 2014. Keith joined in 2019. George chairs the audit committee, after having chaired the compliance committee for 2 years; Cynthia chairs the portfolio managers committee. There is a healthy competition on the board between the number of Tuck graduates, Penn graduates, and HBS graduates.” What you need to appreciate about the photo of George is that there is a black plaque on the wall behind his head. It gives a bit of initial uncertainty about his haircut.

George Gorman, Cynthia Frost T’87, and Keith Quinton T’82, Eaton Vance board members

My gig at the University of New Hampshire is going well. Thank you to the Tuck staff for finding me a robe and hood. As many of you know, Charlie Kreter has been sick. He has a site on CaringBridge called SUMMER 2019

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Rick Kilbride repping Tuck at UNH

Moonshot. I urge you to log in and read his story and acknowledge Charlie’s strength and perseverance and the fabulous support he is receiving from his family and friends. Charlie has always been our alumni leader and has been deeply committed to TAG as well as keeping us all engaged and aligned with supporting the institution that was at the center of our professional and personal success. While Charlie heals, Jack Rubin and Sandy Stewart have stepped up as TAG volunteers. Thank you in advance for supporting their efforts.

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

We know that the six months between publications of this column (each one of which is accompanied by some supplemental material, known as Tuck Today) seem like an eternity. The days drag by, with each bit of work or leisure really just marking time until these masterpieces slide into your mailbox. We empathize. We know exactly how good our writing is. But due to Tuck management stubbornly rejecting our proposal that Tuck Today become a monthly publication (and they

wouldn’t even listen to our idea of making it into a weekly sitcom!), we can’t accelerate the schedule. But if we can’t increase the frequency, we can increase the content, so that there’s more to read (and re-read!) during those six empty months. Thus this time around we have an expanded column, and we didn’t even make up the additional content (well, not all of it). How did we pull off this miracle? How, you may ask, do Tony and Glenn, already typing their fingers to the bone to generate prose that some* have said ranks right up there with the best from James Joyce or Anthony Weiner, go this extra mile, and add as it were this additional espresso shot to your Frappuccino©? Why, by enlisting help. We’re not too proud to beg, and beg we did, to bring on board ace reporter Mike Esposito, best known otherwise for his fine work on the Mattapoisett Smart Shopper and Golf Intelligencer, which is read by dozens of people across the greater Acushnet metropolitan area. Mike is of course too new to trust with any actual writing, but we did dragoon him into hassling more classmates for news. And hassle he did, as you will see in our enlarged content below. Thanks Mike, welcome aboard, and remember that you will be eligible for a 10% discount off a Tuck tote bag, after vesting as an employee after only one decade of hard work! (*source: Glenn’s Mom ) One last comment: for those of you Social Justice Warriors concerned about creeping economic inequality in America, please know that Mike will be paid exactly the same amount as Glenn and Tony. Before we get deep into the main course of the column, let’s lead off with a photo appetizer, of three classmates at their annual Macanudo Night, where any number of cigars went up in smoke. (I thought Macanudo was a defunct Boy Band.) Brian Igoe and George Parker here flank Cub Reporter Mike Esposito. The boys are looking spiffy in their evening attire— almost like a Boy Band—though we suspect only George actually owns a tux, given his Old Bostonian background (that’s his great-aunt Euphemia Knickerworthy, in the painting behind Mike). Next, staying with the appetizer metaphor, a couple of small plates from those masters of class notes haiku, Bill Moylan and Sean Austin: Bill: No news is good news! Sean: Ever had a deep fat fried Oreo?

Brian, Mike, and George at Macanudo Night

Sean just refuses to take his meds! ... Okay, maybe we should move on. On to the salad course, from Bob Sargent, who saw the Byrnes, along with Dan Pyne, Drew Pace, and Bart Geer, while skiing in Utah. “Unfortunately, everyone is retired except for me.” Well, there is something to be said for waiting until 70, when those maximum Social Security benefits kick in. Also the Extra Early Bird Special (4 PM) at the Olive Garden. Cryptically, Bob added “Pace is just too healthy.” (That, Sean, is because Drew does take his meds! Specifically MuscleMeds™ Carnivor Mass™ down at the GNC. Yes, they really do spell it “carnivor.”) Now for the main courses as it were.... Tom Phillips did retire, on his 65th birthday in April 2018, after his last consulting gig at Tektronix, and after hanging up his postal worker shorts. No more mailman stints. To celebrate not having to walk all day, he... walked all month, hiking the Oregon section of the Pacific Crest Trail (450 miles in 30 days) with his son. Presumably delivering mail to squirrels in trees along the way. “We stopped for a very welcome hotel night twice, but other than that enjoyed sleeping on the ground for 28 nights. I got to know my adopted state of Oregon much better and marveled at the beautiful lakes and mountains along the way.” Your correspondent can only agree, after spending a couple of dozen Augusts there, with Ida at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville (Oregon): any state that can offer Crater Lake, high desert, Douglas fir forests, and a spectacular coastline wins in my book. Esther saved up projects for Tom while he was being a Yeti, so now he spends his “retirement” refinishing the basement, enclosing the back patio, and fixing up Esther’s “she shed” (a kinder/gentler version of a man cave). This has been a learning experience for Tom (you know, we never had shop classes at Tuck, mighta

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been a good idea), and let’s just say you should all go out and buy Home Depot stock. Once the house is fixed up, the family is headed for the open road, first Cuba (commies!) and then a truck-and-trailer tour of the USA, possibly ending up at their daughter’s home in Baltimore. Thanks, Tom, for the update, and here’s hoping you don’t staple your hand to the wall studs. Oh and by the way, for those of you wondering how a Phillips update could be so— well, normal—no worries: nearby is a photo he sent in, of him and Buford T. Justice. No, I don’t understand, either.

Tom Phillips and Buford T. Justice

Mary Hodgkin and Tom Dunne have betrayed the Code of Maine (stay put until your double-wide falls into the ocean) and become snowbirds. “We ship my horse to the Biltmore Estate (in Asheville, NC) during the winter, where I am able to ride 5 days a week on trails that are 99% free of ice and snow, unlike Maine.” Proof of horse nearby. Why does the horse not get a hat?

Mary Hodgkin

Mary has discovered Pilates (a town in upstate New York?) and something called Kaiut Yoga. I looked this up, it is “a floor-based practice that utilizes gravity to unwind chronic restrictions in the joints.” I call this “taking a nap on the floor,” but I may be wrong. Meanwhile Tom is doing rock climbing and golf, apparently not at the same time. “We also entertain the southern branch of his family with local culture, nature hikes, and multiethnic restaurant dining. The rest of the year, we are gardening, riding, golfing, and volunteering for various nonprofits in Maine.” Thank you, Mary, for the info. Also, in the Carolinas is “multiethnic dining” just shorthand for varying the meat in the pork BBQ? And finally, by the way, the horse is named Medo, apparently not after our own Mado Macdonald.

still enjoy working and running Altus Capital Partners, which I will do well past our 40th reunion. I built a new home in Westport three years ago, which I enjoy and which houses a golf simulator. I am near Compo Beach and would enjoy seeing classmates as the weather warms up this spring. My oldest Alexi who is now 31 is working for IBM in consulting in D.C. My older son Max, who is 29, founded his sunglass business in Pasadena, which he designs, manufactures and sells under the name of Roaveyewear.com. My younger son Asher graduated from Claremont McKenna last May and has been working for EY-Parthenon [small world!] in Los Angeles.” Excellent, Russ, thank you. Now will everyone reading this go buy some sunglasses from Max? (I get a commission on each pair.)

Dwight Allison sent in a lengthy entry, thanks to Mike’s hot pursuit. It is well written, even better than we Tuck writers are wanting to be gooder than, so we’ll just cut-and-paste it in: “Although I still ‘live’ [sic] on the coast of New Hampshire with my wife, we spend summers at our house in Maine on Belgrade Lakes, and have been to Hawaii for each of the last five years for the month of January. In between, we travel fairly regularly. I’m on the board of a nonprofit (Semester at Sea—www. semesteratsea.org) that offers study-abroad programs to college students (15 weeks traveling around the world on a 600-foot ship). The program also accepts “Life Long Learners” (adults that participate in the classes and program). We have traveled with SAS numerous times for periods ranging between 2 and 15 weeks and expect to be back onboard again this fall for about 5-6 weeks. Together with my two sons (Matt-32 and Dewey-34), I continue to invest in small companies. We currently own Maine Fiber Company: we lease fiberoptic cables to telecommunication companies doing business in Maine. Matt and Dewey run the company and although I speak with them regularly, I try to stay out of the way! Matt is getting married this June to someone he met in 3rd grade. [Well, he took long enough to pop the question!]” Excellent recap, many thanks, Dwight.

We may just keep Mike on the “payroll” for a while yet, as Chuck Fowler also took pity on his plea for news, and gave us a great update. “[To recap] I retired from the Army as a colonel in 2001, after 26 years active duty, including a jaunt in Iraq for Desert Storm. I joined a company, Calibre, and was there for 12 years as vice president for environmental programs. Next, I went on to a fledgling service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), REK Associates, as chief operations officer in 2013, and the business has grown and stabilized. Rita and I live in Williamsburg, Virginia, where I operate the corporate headquarters. Our two daughters, Valerie and Laura, have provided five grandkids, including one set of triplets (now 2 years old): pictures of grandkids are available on demand.” Spectacular update, sir, and as trite as it may sound, a sincere thank-you for your service, both with Uncle Sam and with the SDVOSB.

Russ Greenberg also confessed that it was a Missive from Mikey that got him to take pen in hand, metaphorically. Last time we saw Russ I think he was atop Kilimanjaro. Now down from the mountaintop, he reports that: “Things are well in my life and I have healthy children and a happy and healthy marriage. I

Martha and Bill McLaughlin updated us as well: “We continue to enjoy time back in New England, living in Vermont, and of course Bill is still with The Orvis Company. We’ve enjoyed catching up a bit with Bart and Sarge, Ellen and Chris, and hope to see more of East Coast classmates as the weather improves! Our family is spread across the country. Our oldest daughter had her first baby about a year ago, and granddaughter Harper brings much joy and laughter. Too bad the family’s in California, but it’s a great place to visit. Our middle daughter and her husband live in Seattle, and our youngest is in Connecticut and considering business school. Orvis has some great fly fishing and shooting schools and trips. We recently ‘tested’ the trip to Cuba

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CL ASS NOTES and highly recommend it for rich cultural exchange and great time on the water. Bill is getting used to a brand-new knee replacement. So, life is good. Looking forward to summer and more outdoor adventure.” Many thanks Martha. This is the second mention of Cuba in the column, I sense a Tuck trend. Many US B-schools have an overseas campus...is it time for Tuck Havana? Maybe Tuque Havana? Habana? (I took Latin and French in high school, am hopeless in Spanish.) Mary Jane Eaton Sobel and Andy Sobel wrote in, Andy at the keyboard. “Since our three children left the nest, Mary Jane and I have been splitting our time between our home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City’s Upper West Side. We also visit the West Coast a lot (Vancouver, Washington) to visit our son and two grandchildren, aged 2 and 5. Our youngest daughter is studying in Paris this spring, so we couldn’t resist coming over to visit her and take some vacation there as well, where actually I am writing from. I get up to Hanover a lot, especially since my stepmom still lives in our old house on Stevens Road in Etna: she’s 95 and continues to live capably by herself. We visit her a few times a year and enjoy taking walks and drives in the surrounding hills. I was also there in the fall to teach in a Tuck executive program, which was great fun. They say the average age of Tuck students has increased a lot, but to my eye they are admitting youngsters—I mean, they looked ridiculously young. But in all seriousness, it’s pretty impressive how the school has developed over these years and gained in depth and reputation. “I’m still running my consulting firm, but I’ve reduced my travel a lot and am trying to work less: I’m now moving heavily into digital learning based on my books and training programs. I’m also writing two new books that will be published by Wiley in 2020. I believe work can be very important and rewarding, however, it is still just work, and as we get older what Mary Jane and I increasingly focus on and draw joy from are the unseen things that you can’t measure: for us, our relationships with family and friends, and our faith. If anyone makes it to Santa Fe or NYC, please do give us a shout: we’d love to see you.” Thanks Andy, great report. By the way, as you can see, almost all of our correspondents really upped their eloquence level this time around, while simultaneously cutting back on the golf coverage, which two trends in combination are going to put me out 90

of a job if we’re not careful. I mean, I could really chew into and, um, “improve” an email like “Moved to Utah play golf four times a week drank lotta beers with Nye”—but these thoughtful, interesting, and heartfelt missives give me much less to work with. Jeff Johnston continued this new tradition, dang it! “After retiring in 2008, Kris and I tired of Chicago winters, so we moved to Austin in 2013, where we are currently avoiding the SXSW traffic this weekend. I continue to live the Tuck experience through my daughter Erica T’15, who is now living in Minneapolis and working for General Mills. I did participate in a Google/Tuck event here where a few Tuckies volunteered to serve as ‘mentors’ for minority small business folks. We had several breakout sessions with groups of 10 where they could ask whatever questions they wanted. Imagine me as a mentor. [Um, not gonna answer that! “Jeff, tell us what it was like, having an 8-track player and a landline?”] Had a great time and there were some thoughtful questions, but mostly they wanted to know how to retire early. Wish I had a formula for that.” Mercer formula: Stop Working. (I got this from The Big Lebowski.) “We continue to travel often and use our other daughter’s place in Rotterdam as a layover opportunity, particularly for the tulips in April. When not traveling, I continue to mentor some small-business folks and pretend to play golf. Kris is active in a quilt guild, and we both attend the continuing ed lecture series at University of Texas.” Thanks Jeff. And I thought I had an opening when he mentioned golf, but then he made fun of himself and blocked my shot. Dang. From one JJ to the next: Jeffrie Jones. “My husband Mike Drace and I continue to enjoy living in Las Vegas. I changed positions at UNLV in September 2018, moving from the new School of Medicine to the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. The college just moved into a fabulous, new academic space in January 2018, Hospitality Hall. It’s a great program, often ranked as #1 or #2 in hospitality worldwide. [Well, if Vegas can’t do hospitality well, who can? Cleveland had someone stay at a hotel here just last year, but only because their car broke down on I-90.] It’s been fun learning about a new industry. Mike and I are headed to Switzerland and then the Rhine for backto-back hiking/cycling trips this coming fall.” Thanks Ms. Jones. As proof of travel, we have Jeffrie and Mike in Lisbon nearby!

Mike and Jeffrie in Lisbon

Susan Woods continued with the Parthenon Mafia trend: “Our son Martin got married in September to Ali Huberlie—who works for Bill Achtmeyer at Parthenon. Small world. They just bought a house in Cambridge and are renovating it. Daughter Anna is transferring to London with her company. Must have been one of the few people applying for a UK visa when everyone else is leaving in advance of Brexit. We have enjoyed having an excuse to go to San Francisco to visit and are really looking forward to visiting her in London. We continue to ski and hike and bike. Peter now sporting two new knees, which should make outdoor ventures more fun.” Hmm. We may need to start a running count of Tuck ’81 replacement knees. Can we get a volume discount? One tip: when replacing both knees, they should bend in the same direction. As for Brexit, as someone with a small stake in a UK auto parts company, so that I am in Britain often, I don’t know which news situation is worse: in the USA it is All Trump All the Time (both for and against) and in the UK All Brexit All the Time (both for and against). I think in both countries alien UFOs could land and they wouldn’t even make the nightly news.... Matt Lincoln is doing the grandparent thing (I gotta get myself some grandchildren, I have generational FOMO): “I expected to enjoy being a grandparent, but it’s better than I expected. Otherwise I am generally enjoying retired life with a combination of family, friends, exercise (bike riding mainly), travel, and a few board seats. Feeling fortunate in being healthy.” Amen, brother. Let’s close with a last photo, as the dessert course I suppose, of Bob Stockman and Brian Igoe, “meeting at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, just before Christmas 2018, with a few hundred thousand of our closest friends!” Not a bad place to be.... That’s it for now. Thanks so much to our new staff colleague Mike (no, YOU don’t get an office until WE get an office!), without whom

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’83 Chris Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Doug Ross Bob Stockman and Brian Igoe

this column would have been much shorter. But special thanks to our correspondents, who really stepped up this time around. Isn’t it better to read classmates’ own updates, than Mercer attempts at humor? (Don’t answer that, I need this job!) No worries though, I sense a return to golf jokes next time around, after all our Class of ’81 Tiger Woodsies get out on the course this summer. Fore!

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T’82s showing their support: Scott Hambley, Jay Weed, Jim Bullion, and Kevin Donnelly

Pretty heavy stuff for the guy who used to entertain us with his guitar playing in the Tuck dorms! Congratulations, Roger! While Roger was in Boston, a gang of T’82s attended his book signing at the UMass Club. The group included Scott Hambley, Jay Weed, Debbie Power, Kevin Donnelly, Jim Bullion, Martha Groves, Pete Renner, Bob Klehm, and Dave Fineman. Roger’s brothers, Giles and Dan, and wife Ann also attended the festivities. The book tour continues through the end of May. [Thanks to Scott for sending in pics!]

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Below are a few updates on life, work, and family from several of our classmates. Louise van Deth sent a short update from Amsterdam. “After more than 10 years as executive director of Aidsfonds, I left the foundation last November. I had a wonderful and loving farewell party, and my successor is the person I have been prepping for the job for the past 3 years.” Louise noted that she now enjoys a life without stress and haste, though she still is becoming acclimated to the slower pace. In the beginning of 2019, Louise spent 6 weeks in Venice, taking Italian classes, wandering through the city, and generally being very happy. “I am now starting to look for non-executive positions.”

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With the Final Four behind us and the Stanley Cup in front of us, it’s time to update the world on what’s going on with the remarkable Class of ’82. I hope this finds you all thawing out and getting ready for Mud Season! Our notable classmate Roger McNamee is at it again—making the rounds on CNBC and a nationwide book tour to discuss his new bestselling book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Roger writes of his disenchantment with Mark Zuckerberg and the unintended (or maybe not) consequences of Facebook’s business model. An early investor in Facebook and mentor of Zuckerberg, Roger says Facebook today represents “the greatest threat to the global order in my lifetime.” A recent New York Times review of Roger’s book, states “McNamee currently advocates breaking up Facebook’s data monopoly by force, and heavily regulating its appalling business practices. Zucked is thus a candid and highly entertaining explanation of how and why a man who spent decades picking tech winners and cheering his industry on has been carried to the shore of social activism.”

Scott Hambley and Roger McNamee

Well...that’s all the news that’s fit to print for this installment. Keep cards, letters, and emails coming. Everyone—and I mean everyone— wants to know what you’re doing! Enjoy!

In addition, Louise sent the following update on her family: “My family is well. My partner Sander works at Deutsche Bank. As to my children, Willem (30) is part owner of a restaurant in Amsterdam and works very hard. Laetitia (24) is doing a master’s in conflict studies; she has spent time in Paris and Cape Town. Paul (22) is studying psychology and soon will spend a semester in Berlin.” Jeff Murphy wrote to inform us that he has relocated from Pennsylvania to Texas. “After 5+ years leading the poultry business for Wenger Feeds, for the first time in my life I have assumed the role of ‘trailing spouse’ and have followed my wife Kelly from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to our new home in Sherman, Texas (about an hour north of Dallas). Kelly is head coach for women’s softball at Austin College, and I am currently enjoying my time working on our new house and volunteering as one of her assistants. Daughter Ali crushed her first semester at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami with a dean’s list performance and enjoyed the kind of ‘winter weather’ that only a place like Miami has to offer. Sorry we missed the class reunion last October, but the transition noted above made planning a little difficult. We hope that SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES everyone who did attend had a great time, and we will try to make it in 2023!” Brent West, program manager for the Navy’s newest Zumwalt-class destroyer, USS Michael Monsoor, spoke to a large crowd of people attending the Commissioning of USS Michael Monsoor in San Diego this past winter. Brent discussed how Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, a Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient, was a role model for Bath shipbuilders and inspired the teamwork required to build a ship as complex as the Zumwalt class. Monsoor’s final brave act—diving onto a grenade to save his fellow SEALS and soldiers while providing cover from a roof in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006—was spoken of frequently during the hourlong commissioning ceremony. Per Brent: “At its core, shipbuilding is a team sport, and in Michael we had the example of an ultimate team leader.” Twenty Gold Star families and four Medal of Honor recipients witnessed the Navy’s second Zumwalt-class destroyer enter the fleet at the January ceremony. We had several classmates share happy news of new grandchildren. Pam Callan sent us the following family update: “Great news! My daughter, Nicole (from my marriage to Keith Day), and her husband, Matt Auster, had a baby boy, Calvin, in March! They reside in New Jersey, as Matt works in Manhattan in private equity. I am so thrilled to be a grandma! After Tuck, I have worked mostly for my family’s real estate company in the San Francisco Bay Area. I live in Larkspur, a small town about 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, where I enjoy lap swimming, redwood groves, and classical music. I think of everyone and enjoy reading about your lives since Tuck. Wish you all well and miss you!” [Look on the 1983 class notes page at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for another pic!]

Pam’s new grandson, Calvin Auster

In a span of less than 72 hours this past February, Elizabeth and Mike Lauber expanded from one grandson to five grandchildren! Daughters Elissa and Alexandra each gave birth to fraternal twins. Per Mike, “Yes, multiples run through the Lauber family. The kids—three boys and a girl—were all quite premature and spent time in their respective NICU, but everyone is doing well. The grandparents are shopping for high chairs, car seats, and baby food at Costco in preparation for Christmas.” Miki Hirai sent photos of recent Tuck gatherings and reunions that he hosted in Japan at his mountain cabin.

Pete Boland’s son Emmet, Pete, Bob MacIntosh, and Paul Grand Pré at Paramount Studios

Miki, Saito, Taka, Saito’s wife Yae, Kiyoshi Goto (T’84), and Miki’s wife Seiko

Pam Callan’s daughter and son-in-law, Nicole and Matt Auster

March of 2018, Paul Grand Pré, Peter Boland, and Bob MacIntosh traveled cross-country to visit with Cam Eldred, who lives in West Hollywood. Per Bob, “Cam is developing a portfolio as a movie producer and could soon have some content showing at film festivals and movie theaters.” The Tuck contingent explored many of the iconic tourist attractions around Los Angeles, including an extensive tour of Paramount Studios and a stroll along the Santa Monica Pier. Peter’s youngest son, Emmet, joined the group for a portion of the trip. The Club unanimously elected Emmet to be an “honorary member.”

Bob Hannah sent a teaser promising many updates after this summer with the upcoming 37th annual summer gathering at Cam Eldred’s cabin in Quebec and three approaching weddings of Tuck offspring this fall. In the meantime, while we await details of the above, Bob MacIntosh sent a recap of the Tuck ’83 Boston Area Men’s Club (The Club). Bob wrote that The Club was active in 2018 with three separate gatherings. In

In August, the same group, plus Bob Hannah, Joe Kirchgessner, and Steve Clark, spent a long weekend at Cam’s “cabin” on Lac Papineau in Quebec, Canada. Activities included cribbage, bocce, paddle boarding, lake cruising, reminiscing, and eating delicious meals prepared by Bob Hannah (our “chef-in-residence”). Finally, for the third year in a row, an abridged version of The Club (Paul, Joe, and Mac) gathered at Fenway Park for a game between the Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. Not only was this a glorious late summer evening to watch a baseball game, but it turned into an historic event as the Sox pulled out a 1–0 win for their 100th victory of the 2018 season—an event that the attendees agreed would be unlikely to witness in person again in their lifetimes.

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Russ Steenberg was a panelist at the 14th Annual Private Equity Conference hosted by Tuck in February. We send our best wishes for a happy and fun-filled summer and a special thanks to all who sent in updates. There would not be a column without you.

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Greetings classmates! The most succinct news comes from Eduardo Navarro: “Hi Laura!” Another short & sweet note came from Reed Bergwall, simply sharing that Andy Steele is his new neighbor on Mascoma Lake. He attached a photo as the two set off to crosscountry ski “on the lake.”

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35TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

This column is short and sweet—no news was forthcoming this time around. I suspect everyone is keeping their news close to the vest until they can share updates in person at our upcoming 35th Reunion from October 4-6, 2019. Kristen Angrist Balderston went to a reception for Roger McNamee at the Yale Club in New York on March 14 to hear him discuss his new book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. She said it “was a fascinating discussion, and my husband Dave and I got to catch up with Miday Wilkey briefly.” Kristen and fellow Co-Reunion Coordinator Johanna Bergmans Musselman sent this note:“Save the dates and book your hotels now. The link to the general reunions page with hotel info is mytuck.dartmouth.edu/reunion. We appreciate any and all suggestions for activities and events at Reunion—we want everyone to have a blast. If you are interested in providing ‘swag’ for our class (or for all classes celebrating this year), it would be much appreciated! We can’t wait to see everyone!” For more details about in-kind donations, contact Julie Hinman, assistant director of alumni engagement, at julie.hinman@tuck. dartmouth.edu. For all other questions/ suggestions, contact Yanna at johannam567@ gmail.com or Kristen at kbalderston1@yahoo. com. Hope to see you in October!

Andy Steele with Reed Bergwall

Scott von Eschen wondered if he had already shared his news of moving his business, ARCCprograms.com, and family to Bend, OR, after living for 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area (he had but we love news, even old). “We love it in Bend. Having access to skiing, biking and fly fishing 20 minutes from the house is a nice switch from driving 4 hours in weekend traffic. Bend has so many people our age moving here that it often takes me back to our first days at Tuck when everyone was so excited to be there and to meet one another. We are really excited for this next stage in our life adventure. We have lots of room if anyone wants to come check out Bend. We love visitors!” Another welcome note for visitors came from Dow Wilson. “Things in Silicon Valley are wet. This is our version of complaining about the weather. Life otherwise is good. I went to a Tuck alumni event the other day in Palo Alto and saw Steve Eskenazi, who is eternally young. We had a great visit. Life for us goes well. We’ve had another son get accepted to Tuck (our oldest Adam, who was born our first year, graduated in 2015)...crossing our fingers he ends up there. Standing invitation for lunch or dinner to all who cross through Palo Alto.”

After reading in my last column that Spence and I had moved to Naples, FL, Heather Lightbody got in touch to say she and husband Paul were going to be in town! So we got to see them several times. They shared photos—and an invitation to visit—a beautiful house they have in the South of France, though they live primarily in Wimbledon, England (where we will reciprocate and visit soon, as our son just moved to London). Continuing the theme of invitations to visitors, Pat Maloney has “moved to Huntsville, AL! In the DC area I was supporting NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and now I am supporting NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. My commute just dropped by 2 hours per day! Life is good here: people are nice, living is super inexpensive, lots of cultural things with both the Von Braun Center and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Only downside is that you cannot ship wine in directly! Huntsville is the third largest concentration of STEM employees in the US, after Silicon Valley and the DC/Baltimore corridor. So come on down (I promised my folks not to pick up a Southern accent!).” Pat is the principal engineer, Civil Systems Group, for The Aerospace Corporation. Paul Solli didn’t offer to host any visitors but was the wordiest contributor, with news on several classmates. “Stine Ball and I are still together since we began dating while at Tuck in the fall of 1984. If you’ll recall, Stine used to follow me around campus begging me to marry her until, just prior to graduation, I finally agreed, and I have to say...all things considered...it’s worked out pretty well! (BTW, I’m still amazed that Tore Nielsen and Eduardo Navarro figured we’d gotten engaged after rifling through my mail and seeing a jewelry receipt!) Stine stepped down as director of development at Marin Agricultural Land Trust a couple of years ago and has been enjoying a life of excess, leisure, and debauchery, though she’s also been pretty busy informally advising other nonprofits on fund-raising and in her role as president of the Mycological Society of Marin County. Our daughter Sara enjoys living in LA with her three-legged pit bull (Axl, from Guns N’ Roses) while she completes her second year of law school at UCLA, and our son, Erik, is on his third year working at BlackRock while dreaming about rock climbing and kitesurfing. As part of getting ready for the day we retire and planning for succession, my partners and I just recently sold a majority interest in our company, Aperio Group, to the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital. Atypical SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES for a PE firm, Golden Gate has an unusual “perpetual” structure that doesn’t require them to sell all investments within 5–10 years, so a good fit for us. I did a great mushroom hike recently with Dave LaDuke, who’s been busy writing songs and playing his guitar at open mics, as well as being CEO of his consumer engagement technology firm, Lokket. I’ve also had the great fortune to work with Dave’s brilliant consultant wife, Patty (i.e., the brains of the LaDuke operation, for sure), who has been a very important part of my company’s marketing and communications strategy. Stine and I also see both Laura Robertson and Heather Little [King] (Class of ’86) on a regular basis, and Tore Nielsen makes me jealous sending pictures of his two boys doing amazing things on cross-country skis in the woods behind Oslo. As for Eduardo Navarro and Steve Eskanazi, I don’t want even want to imagine what they’re up to.” Phil Giudice sent us a darling photo with his grandchildren. “Having found my highest and best role in my life—being a grandpa—I am relishing my time with Teddy and Isley. I am also spending a lot of time with cardiac experts to fix a birth defect requiring my ascending aorta and aortic valve to be replaced very soon. Never known until recently and having no symptoms.” Hope all is well with that Phil!!

Phil Giudice with his grandchildren Teddy and Isley

And ending on a really nice note, the Vermont Dairy Industry Association honored Jed Davis earlier this year, presenting him with the Finley Award. The Finley Award recognizes that person whose character, education, accomplishments, and dedication to Vermont agriculture most closely resemble those goals, ideals, and achievements that were so important to former Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture John Finley. Jed is the director

of sustainability for Cabot Creamery Cooperative. Congratulations Jed! (Side note: I typed this column while enjoying a plate of Cabot “Vermont Extra” cheddar cheese with a few crackers.) Keep the news, invitations—and cheese— coming!

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Julia Rabkin

“I see Michael Lypka and Mark Floyd when I visit my stepdaughter and sister in NYC. I’m also in touch with Jane Fraleigh and Susanne Lee, who now lives in Maine. I’d love to hear from anyone’s who’s up this way.” Mori Morishita reports “after retiring from a major Japanese bank, I started a consulting firm named M&M Advisory, LLC in the field of M&A advisory, company revitalization, and management coaching. Four years ago, the Japanese Government started supporting medium- and smaller-sized companies that have no successors of their businesses in finding acquirers of these companies. Our firm was selected as one of the members of the head office named business succession support center. Our head office manages 48 local supporting offices all over Japan.

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We heard from a number of classmates who haven’t updated us in quite a while. Thanks for the many photographs as well, as it’s always fun to get a pictorial accompaniment to your latest news. Beth Healy has “lived since 1991 in the small historic town of Harrisville on a lake in southwest New Hampshire with my husband Jack Calhoun. I’m about 90 miles from Hanover so I get up to Dartmouth on occasion. I came here first for a sales job and then worked for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, our statewide community foundation, working with individuals and local organizations to better our communities. “Along the way, I had the great good fortune of meeting Duncan McDougall, Tuck ’87, who founded Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) in 1998, whose mission is to inspire a love of reading and writing in kids ages 0–12 in rural communities in Vermont and New Hampshire. “Inspired by CLiF and having served on its board, I now work with Keene Community Education helping adults and kids with a variety of literacy challenges, and with new immigrants in the ESOL program. Two years ago I met a Burmese family, helped them learn English and become US citizens, and then I was so fortunate to travel with them to Burma in 2018.

“Last year, we completed (closed) about 900 M&A transactions, and this year we target 1,500 transactions. This number is really challenging, but we have to challenge to save small businesses in Japan. “For the last 10 years, the number of mediumand smaller-sized companies has decreased dramatically. These companies had to discontinue their businesses because they had no successors of their businesses. So, the Japanese government had to take measures to prevent the decrease of the number of M&S sized companies. “As for my private life, I enjoy playing with my four grandsons and one granddaughter. I play golf two or three times a month and sometimes play the guitar with my family.” Tim Durkin had a productive spring making maple syrup on the Durkin Family Farm. Located in Cavendish, Vermont, the farm features acres of tapped maple trees cleverly flowing sap through a myriad of flexible pipes that terminate at the Durkin valley floor barn. Tim then produces and bottles a “Vermont Fancy Grade A” quality syrup worthy of an honors grade in Professor Wayne Broehl’s Agribusiness class. Production volumes and revenues remain a Durkin Family closely guarded secret, although local lore has it that Tim’s brother Patrick, class of ’85, who handles the farm’s finances, has struggled for years to work

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Darryl Williams has “nothing to report. Still at Time Warner (WarnerMedia). Watching our new owner’s (AT&T) moves closely. On the personal front, I got divorced after about ten years, and about five years ago I began studies for a Master of Divinity. I expect to graduate in May 2020. Not sure what’s next...only God knows!” Tim Durkin “sugarin’” in the Vermont sugar shack

through the production data and seems to experience extreme difficulty in generating accurate year-end results. Ashley Korenblat’s “big news is that we recently hired the former CEO of Dakine to run Outerbike—our bike demo event series that is growing like crazy as we bring the event to new destinations across the country and beyond. So if you need a new bike—join us at Outerbike to try before you buy.

Frank DeCoste also doesn’t have “much to tell. I am still happily semi-retired, living in Hingham, MA, and working part-time assisting Sue with her practice, South Coast Dermatology in Weymouth. Our oldest daughter, Leah, followed partly in her mother’s footsteps; she is an MD but hopes to pursue gastroenterology rather than derm. Our twin girls Sammy and Carly work in finance in NY and marketing in Boston, respectively. I spend most of my free time trying to play the guitar, riding my bike, or walking our dogs, Cisco and Lola, in Nantucket, and traveling the US following the Patriots.”

“In other news, I just returned from a trip to Spain with 5 soccer players ages 9 to 14, including my son Kip. They participated in a soccer camp at FC Barcelona and we saw the most famous player in the world, Lionel Messi, play in the largest stadium in Europe! “Meanwhile, I continue my work with our nonprofit helping communities pivot from dependence on coal, and oil and gas, to recreation as an economic driver. So off to DC at regular intervals, where we have made some surprising progress with the recent passage of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.”

Einar Gruner-Hegge has been in Holland since 2016, “which is my second expat stint here with the same German shipping bank that I have been with since 2008. Our ‘Irish twins’ have finished their studies in the UK, where they have remained working as a doctor and teacher and shacking up with their respective love interests. “Fortunately, we still have our youngest at home for two more years, after which we shall be empty-nesters and facing the conundrum of where to ‘retire.’ We have been living a nomadic existence in several different lovely places for most of the last few decades, and as such there is no particular place that we would naturally call home. So, we might continue to travel light for a while longer in search of retirement utopia....” See Einar’s photo nearby showing, from left to right, “our oldest (Nicolai) with his girlfriend (Isabel), our youngest (Andreas), my wife (Anna, distracting the chef), our daughter (Sophia) with her boyfriend (Simon), and lastly yours truly....”

Frank and Sue DeCoste at one of many recent New England Patriots playoff games

Rufus Woods explains “it takes a bit of time for email to get to the hinterlands of Washington. I enjoy reading what my classmates are doing—and they are doing very productive and interesting things. I much prefer reading about others than talking about myself, but here goes. “My family was in the newspaper business in Wenatchee, Washington, for 111 years. The last 20 years, I was the newspaper’s editor and publisher. In 2017, I decided the time had come to hand off the business to another family newspaper company, a sale that was completed in March, 2018.

Ashley and Kip at FC Barcelona soccer camp

headaches and kept the fun part of the job. Having a free rein to write about people giving back to the community and highlight those contributions is my way of giving back.”

Einar’s family photo taken December 31, 2018, in Italy

We appreciate everyone who took the time to make a submission, and if we missed you please keep us in mind for future editions.

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CL ASS NOTES ’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

So what happens when you write class notes in a few hours and well past the deadline? You get this, though arguably still the best column in the whole magazine. Arguably. I saw Elisabeth Bittner Joung a few weeks ago. She was on campus checking some stuff out for a gig they have going on in August—their oldest son Nick (D’15) will marry Jill Corcoran (D’15) on the 17th in Hanover NH. Now I mention the date specifically because if some of us showed up at Murphy’s on that weekend and if there just happened to be a Joung wedding next door, well CJ and Bitt are so nice they would of course ask us to join them and because we would already be in tuxedos for no specific reason. Kind of reminds me of the wedding Hanover hosted for the family of a noteworthy St. Louis beer company. The family made sure that all the pubs in town served nothing but Budweiser products for the weekend so regardless of what bar you walked into you would be served Bud. Unfortunately, I am told that a fight broke out at the reception between the groom and one of the bride’s old boyfriends and the marriage was quickly annulled. But the town drank Bud that weekend so it wasn’t all bad. Bitt and CJ. Don’t serve Bud. Art Santry got a mention in the WSJ as being one of the top brokers for Cushman & Wakefield last year. He was the only Tuckie listed. I verified that it was not Art who took out the advertisement. Doug and Kathy Heidt treated me to dinner at Pine at the Hanover Inn with their son Jimmy, a sophomore at Dartmouth who had just competed in a lacrosse game. I ordered the fish at Pine. It was great. I also ordered the prime rib because Heidt was paying and the baked Alaska desert was well complimented by the bottle of 2007 Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru. A tough game for the Big Green but what

fun watching Tommy out there on the field running much faster than their dad ever did. Their son Tommy plays goalie for Michigan. He’s a grad student taking advantage of a 5th year of eligibility. Tommy still has the school record for the lowest goals against average. And to complete the trifecta, Billy was another Dartmouth lacrosse standout back in 2016. I still get a regular delivery of Big Basin, an ocean-influenced vineyard up in the mountains of Santa Cruz. Big Basin is co-owned by Wendy Brown and her brother Bradley, who has wine flowing through his DNA. Wendy joined Bradley in 2005 as co-owner, and her experiences post-Tuck are exactly what a winemaker needs to make the business work. Wendy is still regularly hanging out in Hamburg, Germany, but travels back to do the books and to hang out in the tasting room. Chris and Donna Gagnon are now hanging their hats in Austin, Texas, which, as you will read, seems to be the city of interest for our class this season. Mark and Jenny Clayton have entered that realm of the unimaginable: grandparents. Piper Clayton was born to Zach (son) and Emma (his fabulous wife). Allegra and I barely avoided a chimney fire last week. We had what they call a” heat event” which last occurred with me some time in 1985 and we won’t go into that. One more hot fire they said and we woulda’ been toast. If you’ve not inspected your chimney, have it done ASAP. I came just a little bit closer to understanding the devastating loss Mark and Martha Tecca experienced when they lost their Lyme home to a chimney fire. They now have a beautiful spot on the Connecticut River in Orford. Bill Kitchel’s daughter Isabelle will matriculate at Dartmouth this fall, and the whole Upper Valley is excited to welcome Bill back to the North Country, but not nearly as much as we look forward to tracking Isabelle’s progress and ensuring that she stays out of the local constable’s blotter. We’ve also heard of a few other Dartmouth acceptances among our classmates, but until the kids decide to matriculate at Dartmouth, and not Stanford, the news remains private they won’t be subjected to my ramblings. Bill then sent in

this little missive: “I went to the Final Four in Minneapolis with my son Read, and we had an absolute blast cheering on Virginia through two miraculous victories. I nearly needed medical attention numerous times in both games and really enjoyed sending pictures from the game to two terminal Duke competitors, John Meaney and Jed Simmons. Meaney was the only one gracious enough to respond, probably reflecting his true soul was at Virginia. Curiously, no response from Jed.” Bill also reported that he had a serendipitous lunch with Kyle Guy’s grandfather, father, brother and sister. That’s kind of a cool “almost celebrity” sighting. Kitch had the fish at lunch. Smokey (Bill Weihs) hosted a gaggle of classmates at the Boston Tuck Club golf outing on May 14th. Smokey was looking for a count of how many sons and daughters of ’87 have attended Bridge. With my daughter Amelia attending this June, that’ll be 3 for me. I’ve asked for a count, but...deadlines. Bridge is a great program. Kinda’ expensive but the kids get a lot out of it. Ideal for a college sophomore looking for some direction. Mikela O’Brien (yes, amazing Dartmouth skier and prodigy of Connor and L.A. O’Brien) was in Russia this spring for a ski race. Connor writes “It was actually in Siberia, Putin did the opening ceremony, Russia cheated at everything, the US team was provided with room in the basement...what the....! Canada made the hockey final with a bunch of no playoff college kids who got crushed by Russia who sent their 30yr old all-star team from the KHL pro hockey league.” Allegra and I had a couple of draughts up at the Latham House Tavern in Lyme with Cone and L.A. last month. Nary a day goes by the Cone does not smile, and his energy continues to be legendary. He’s working on a side gig that ya’ll ought to check out called Beanstox, which is a self-directed investment app that, among other things, allows investing in fractional shares and is a marvelous way for young investors to get into the game. Tell ’em Connor sent you. Just off the phone with Keith Oberg. Keith continues to teach and coach at the Landon School, and he is revered by students and athletes alike. Leeny continues to keep the Marriott company honest and the kids are prospering, as one might expect with those two contributing their DNA. From the top down,

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Colleen graduates from Darden this spring and will be heading to PepsiCo in NYC, Curtis has departed Goldman Sachs and accepted a new job with a PE firm in DC, and Tim graduates Colgate after completing a remarkable soccer career and joins JLL real estate in NYC. Life ain’t any slower in the Oberg family as Keith hurdles the 60 yr mark, but they have figured out how to manage the race and keep everybody smiling. Rich Coomber writes in that his son Ethan is going to be going to Colby College next year (class of 2023). “He’s a tough defender on the soccer field, so my alma mater (Williams) will have its work cut out trying to tickle the twine against Colby. These two teams met for the NESCAC championship this past year, and Colby prevailed. When the two teams square off, I will be donning Colby blue, but otherwise I will be free to wear the purple and gold of Williams. Fortunately, Colby does not play Dartmouth. Phew!” Thanks goodness for Joanie Hipp to keep me connected to the left coast. Joanie writes, “I just had a minireunion with Maura (Shaughnessy) while she attended an MHS conference in Santa Monica—where she was in a question & answer session about retirement—turns out it was about her own! We had a nice walk on the beach and dinner. Joanie is a coupla’ years shy of retirement with a current freshman and sophomore to support. She’s loving SoCal despite the crazy rainy season. She also mentioned that the computers at Tuck have been sending Tuck Today to her mom, in a house that Joanie never lived in. I dare say that a computer data base will never be as good as the one in Andy Steele’s head. We’re not going to correct that because Joanie’s Mom loves the magazine, but it has raised the bar for me because now Joanie has to appear in every issue. Who knew we’d be drinking something called “milk” that did not come from cows. I’ve not yet quite figured out what kind of milk to add to my smoothies—Soy? Almond? Coconut? And who knew it would be legal within our lifetime to buy pot down the street. And from the realm of “life certainly isn’t boring,” I give you the latest tale from Steve Frary. Steve writes, “We are still on the boat. The family is gung-ho to keep going—14 months so far. The kids are 11 and 13 and having a great experience. Meeting other cruising families from around the world, running the occasional regatta (placing 3rd

in Grenada), getting great sailing experience, interacting with people from all walks of life. There’s plenty of responsibility and independence. It’s been the ultimate family experience.” It turns out we’re all invited to visit the boat, but first you’ve got to find them on the map, and second, you have to be able to varnish, or what they call down at the pier the brightwork. Steve continues. “We’re sailing a Herreshoff ketch called the ARRLUUK. We are currently at Jacques Cousteau’s marine nature reserve at Pigeon Island, Guadeloupe. Snorkeling tomorrow then headed north to race in the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. Today we saw a humpback whale breach 5 or 6 times. As we sailed up the west side of Guadeloupe. Totally cool. Homeschooling is a challenge, more for the parents than the kids. We’re happy to be off the grid but miss family and friends.” I wanted to include a photo— Steve sent some good ones—but the deadline being what it is and me being late I got the nix on the photos. They will be on the school class page web site. I ran into Nancy Copeland at Lyme Hardware store. She bought a 52 lb bag of dog food— Taste of the Wild, most expensive bloody dog food in the world. Then she went and got a second bag...104 pounds of dog food. We’ll be talking about this for the next month in the Upper Valley. I’ve been following Chas Chigas on Instagram as he completes a journey with a cherry red 1967 4-speed manual Pontiac Firebird 400 ragtop from San Diego to Savannah. He threw a rod in Austin and had he known that Gagnon lived there he could had that taken care of. Probably excessive wear on that high-mileage engine. One of Allegra’s bucket list items is to fly to some remote part of the country, buy a cool car, and drive it to Hanover. Chas...Legs woulda’ gone with you. Mary Rumowicz—now Strickland—has opened a client-choice food pantry for low-income people around Jacksonville, FL. This is a pantry where you can shop for bread, meat, milk, condiments, and fresh fruits and vegetables, all totally free. Mary writes, “Since this is the first such model in the city of Jacksonville, we got a lot of local publicity.” Mary is taking the nonprofit world by storm! I had to google Jed Simmons down at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to see what they had on him in the faculty profile. Jed is a professor of the practice and an

entrepreneur in residence. It was a nice picture but no profile was offered. Another professor of practice is Gary Moskowitz, down there at Southern Methodist. Gary is also the associate dean for strategic planning and accreditation. I’ll note that Gary looks only marginally different than he did in 1987, which says something about then, or now. Earlier this spring I was down in Todos Santos, Mexico (out on the Baja), hanging out at a roadside casita eating fifty-cent tacos and beer when I stuck up a conversation with the gringo next to me. Turned out to be a business partner of Tom McGonagle. Nothing but smiles and good stories from both of us about that guy, and somehow I ended up with the bill, which at $10.25 was something I could handle. Tom writes “Here is the update on the daughters...Erin becomes a doctor next month in pediatrics. Residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC). Getting married in August to, no lie, a Dartmouth grad! Caitlin a child life specialist at CHC. Morgan graduated from Dartmouth and got an engineering degree at Thayer this year finished in March and is doing the Annapurna Circuit. McGoos and Joungs with a few other couples have a boat in the Galapagos end of April early May to celebrate a bunch of 60th birthdays—pics to follow. 80 degrees in Denver today, blizzard six plus inches tomorrow.” And to avoid having you Google it, the Annapurna Circuit is a trek within the Annapurna mountain range of central Nepal. The total length of the route—145 miles—crosses two different river valleys and encircles the Annapurna massif. The path reaches its highest point at Thorong La pass (17,769 ft), touching the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Peter Saulnier was in town to judge some e-ship projects—awarding the 3rd place finish (out of 88 entries) to an app launched by a couple of Tuck employees. If you like to camp, check out campersAPP. And hurrahs and hats off to Rick Yu, who continues to organize T’87 lunches in Boston and New York. Rick is the ultimate networker and the biggest fan of our class. Send him a note if you want to get on the lunch distribution list for either city. On the Lubrano front...the oldest daughter Georgia is on an equity desk at Morgan Stanley in NYC, Sophie graduates from Bowdoin this year and will be starting a job at Liberty SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES Mutual in Boston in September, and Amelia is a sophomore at Colby; she’ll be attending Bridge this June and then heading over to Australia (Sydney) for the fall term. All girls have played lacrosse, and this will the last time they’ll square off against each other (Bowdoin vs. Colby). I’m going to miss the fun of that game. Rick von Gnechten is still CFO for Sapere Wealth Management in Charlotte. He writes a missive that strikes a predictive chord with me: “After three daughters’ weddings in 8 months three years ago, we are now getting four grandchildren in 12 months; twins (boy and girl) born 10 months ago in San Jose, grandson born 5 months ago in DC, and granddaughter expected in GA in two months. Opa and Oma von Gnechten are proud grandparents and racking up the miles on planes, trains, and automobiles!” And for the uneducated among you, Opa and Oma are short for “Grootvader and Grootmoeder.” Felicia Angus reports that she keeps running into Grover Fitch in Rockefeller Center (waiting in line at the hot dog stand) and also made the trek to Miami for a visit with Lourdes and Mike over New Year’s. She claims life is quiet but I don’t believe it. Tom Barney reports in from Durango, Colorado. He’s been talking to Rod Fletcher (T’86) about financing some sport-oriented start-up and Tom’s new little cycling apparel brand (ElevenPine) is start to “roll” with 17 new styles being introduced this year. Their daughter Emily is getting married this June in Austin, Texas (lot of Austin in these notes), to the Duke women’s soccer coach, and their other daughter, Sarah, started first year of law school at George Washington after graduating from Pepperdine last spring, and their son Will is an intern with Disney Imagineering in Orlando. At Tuck we’re about to launch all sorts of construction projects (good naming opportunities for those of you inclined to do so), and with each new day the place looks just a bit brighter and sharper than it did when we walked these halls as students. Come back and visit if you’ve not done so in a while. Though this is where I go to work every day, the joy of being part of this place never grows old.

’88 Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Hi everyone! Let’s start by expressing thanks from the class of ’88 to Laurie Marshall for 30 years of service as class secretary! Laurie retired from the role after our reunion. A huge thank-you from all of us, Laurie! And it was a pleasure to partner with you as we collected and shared news for all! Now, a question for the class...are there others who would like to take a turn as class secretary? If there are two serving as secretary, then each writes one column per year. Easy and fun! Please let me (Jill Ward) or Renée Hirschberg know (603-646-9113 at Tuck). And as far as a news update from Laurie, she is in the midst of new phases, with big changes for family and firm.... “I am the mother of an 18-year-old about to head to college in the fall! I am also a partner in a very special financial planning firm! Life is good and super-busy as we just merged with another firm on 1/1. As you know, I am stepping back after 30 years working with Jill as class secretary. If you have passion for your classmates and the school, please consider volunteering along with Jill!” Yes! What Laurie said! So, what are the rest of the ’88s up to? What have the 6 months since our reunion yielded for us, beyond a whole lot of winter for most? It seems that globetrotting and state hopping top the list...for fun, for work, for kids. Even with kids still orbiting you closely...in college or living close by...there seems to be a newfound freedom of movement that so many of you are exuberantly exercising! Check it out! Susanne Tolmach Schoeller reports, “With all three of our kids in college this year, Walther and I headed out to Crested Butte, Colorado, for the winter. Two months of sun, snow and mountain air was our idea of bliss—and definitely will be repeated! Our eldest daughter

graduates from Colorado College in May, so we’ll be going back out west to celebrate this milestone. Everyone always says that it goes by too fast, but it really does go by too fast! Our other two kids just finished their sophomore and freshman years at Dartmouth. As a result we’ve spent a lot more time enjoying the Upper Valley. Since our daughter will be staying on campus for ‘sophomore summer,’ we’ll have the chance to see what summer looks like in Hanover. She’s promising to teach us to play pong at her sorority. Should be fun!?! We get the chance to see other Tuckies from time to time, and we’re always looking forward to catching up with a few more!” Susanne and Walther, hmm, I wonder if you guys could teach pong to the kids at Dartmouth vs the other way around?! Perry Boyle is on the move, worldwide! He writes, “After 35 years of the grind, and with the kids now out of the house, I’m starting to follow my interests in international affairs in the naive hope to make the world a little better. I am on the advisory boards at the Center for a New American Security (a bipartisan defense think tank in DC) and the International Institute for International Security (another defense think tank, in London). I’m looking forward to participating in the Shangri-La Dialogue as a delegate this June in Singapore. I am the vice chair of The BOMA Project, a poverty graduation program for women in East Africa (BOMAProject.org). Donations welcome! And I’m going back to school to get a degree at Fletcher (Tufts). Lisa and I are contemplating a move out of CT in the next year or so, to Idaho (and probably DC). If anyone finds themselves in Ketchum, ID, please stop by!” Perry is giving back as well as tackling his second, third, and fourth careers all at once! Wow! Very inspiring! Brij Singh is frequently in India, Dubai, and New York. See Brij, pictured nearby at the Tuck dinner in Dubai! Brij would happily host...so go visit! He shares, “We continue to chug along and are focused on managing a private equity business in India. I shuttle between New Delhi and Dubai and am happy to host anyone from our class that

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has skied every weekend since the beginning of November. Ali, 20, is a sophomore at Georgetown majoring in pre-med. Most of the time I’m now living in Nantucket!!”

Brij toasts at the Dubai Tuck dinner!

Jen (and Amy Seltzer Hedison) occasionally stop by together to visit yours truly, your class secretary. Recently, I wanted to welcome them and the coming of spring...the modest wine glasses and Mardi Gras beads seemed the way to go! See Jen holding her glass in the pic nearby!

plans to visit our part of the world. My wife Piyali and I being empty nesters are generally free and always open to having and hosting our friends from across the globe. We do get to NYC every so often as our son lives there and has his own ‘start-up.’ So next time we are there would love to catch up with any fellow Tuckies around.” It sounds like Heidi Reichenbach Harring is busy criss-crossing state lines to keep up with the kids! Heidi says, “One would think with two daughters in college and only one at home scheduling would get easier—not so! Happy event in May when our oldest graduates from college (yay, one tuition done). Of course that weekend is final exams for the freshman in college and Confirmation for our youngest. Three states, a few 6AM, late-night airplane trips, a solo car ride to get a car to OH to bring home four years of stuff. But these are all happy milestones, so that is why we do it. Our anniversary of course is also that weekend, but it would appear that is taking the backseat. Or maybe not...as that was the beginning of the schedule juggling!” Heidi, you and Vaughn must make time to celebrate the anniversary! And no, helping each other clean up the yard or barn doesn’t count. Though hmm, the barn. If you two have been captivated by the Marie Kondo “tidying” craze as so many have, the barn could be like summiting Mt. Everest together! I saw the Kondo Netflix series and subsequently ended up at the Best Buy electronics donation and recycling center. Seven times. A barn—even better! Jennifer Jacobsen Jordan has also been on the road lately, combining kids, sports, and vacation! Jennifer spent MLK weekend with her kids in Telluride. She says, “Jake, 27, works for The North Face and will be moving to Denver from San Francisco in August. Sam, 24, works for Veracode in Denver and

On to one of my and Suni’s second-year housemates. Our house was Suni, Jill, Regina Carlo, Lester Brafman, and Dave Wright. Quite a mix, and it weirdly, wonderfully worked! Despite Lester’s muddy boots everywhere, and four of us (not Regina) eating all of Regina’s food, usually at 2:00 am. Regina divided her year between Massachusetts and Pennsylvania for family, work, and school. She says, “Living in Cohasset, MA, and Lititz, PA, where my husband Andy works. Our son Gerrit will be graduating from Johns Hopkins a week before daughter Rebecca graduates from high school. She will be joining son Bryce next year at American University.” Regina and I (Jill) got together recently and had the luxury of a long lunch on a rainy afternoon on the South Shore in MA. Regina and I both made it to Reunion too...and it’s rumored Dave Wright was there, at least briefly. Uhh, Dave?!? Suni, Lester, and Dave, we missed you at Reunion! Finally, dontcha just love the nearby ’88 pic of Howard, Lester, and Dave.... Takes us all back, yes!?

Jen makes a toast!

Meanwhile, Suni Pedersen Harford is on the global road for work. She comments, “Am almost two years in to the new role at UBS Asset Mgmt. The buy side is DEFINITELY different than the sell side. And Swiss is DEFINITELY different than American. The upside to all of the travel required is that it is actually quicker to get to an airport than to the office, given our move 6 years ago to Ridgefield, CT (my hometown). I had been thinking about retirement, but my kids told me that was not allowed as Woody retired 6 years ago when we moved out of the city, and they refuse to have both of us home at the same time... But all is well. Kids are great. I have one daughter graduating from college this year so looking for a job, and another daughter graduating from high school this year so looking for a college. My son isn’t looking for anything outside of lacrosse and Fortnite (anyone else have a 15-year-old son???). I run into the occasionally Tuckie with work, and see Jen J, Heidi, Amy and the two Jills as often as possible, but not nearly enough. Was really sorry to miss Reunion this year. My best to everyone.”

Howard, Lester, and Dave...hangin’ out at Tuck in ’88

As for me, happy to be in the Northeast a lot these days, with the occasional trips south and west for work and play. Continuing to do board work, and enjoying my role as an operating partner at a growth equity firm in New York. Happy to meet up if you find yourselves out here.... And I promise not to pressure you for Tuck notes news! Well, not at that precise moment, anyway. I hope you are all well, and I would love to hear from you as we get farther away in time from the giant “catch-up coffee klatch” that was our 30th reunion! Best, Jill.

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CL ASS NOTES ’89 Betsy Robertson betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

30TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Hello everyone! Well, it’s almost Reunion time and I [Betsy Robertson] hope most—all??—of you are planning to head to Hanover! No worries if you haven’t made plans—it’s not too late! There are VRBO houses all over the Upper Valley, so grab some friends and come on up. I am looking forward to seeing everyone and enjoying some time at Tuck! Not much news this time, so feel free to email us with updates! In the meantime, I have had the pleasure of touching base with a few of you. On the Reunion topic, I have talked to Lora Louise and Bob Broady, Jim Stern, Kevin Rosenstein, and Sue Dahling Sullivan. By Reunion next year our youngest will be at college and empty nesting will “be a thing” at my house. Yikes! A big transition but can’t think of a better place to start the transition. Actually, come to think about it—our oldest is graduating this spring, so she may be home.... Looking forward to seeing you! I caught up with Susan Unruh a bit this past fall. My daughter and I were fortunate enough to spend a week in Turkey, and given that Susan was based in Turkey for a couple of years, she was an amazing resource. Turkey is a beautiful country and the people are wonderful. There are very few American or European tourists, so we were warmly welcomed. We hit the main highlights, Istanbul, Cappadocia, and Ephesus. All very different and well worth taking the time to explore. I can’t recommend the country enough. Thank you, Susan, for encouraging us to make the trip. Jim Stern has also been traveling to Turkey for work and we got a few recommendations from him as well.

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He too speaks very highly of Istanbul. Highly recommend this trip! An, that’s about it from me, so here is the scant info from classmates: Brad Hu “had the great privilege of hosting a breakfast at Citigroup’s headquarters, this past October, for Dean Slaughter, with Jennifer Brown [T’90; director, major giving] and Elise Dunn from the major gifts office. Doug Baird attended and was in top form.” Others in attendance were Alexander Mulley T’08, Gonzalo Martin T’04, Mark Floyd T’86, Dean Slaughter, Heather Espinosa T’97, and Stuart Murray T’97. Billy and Clarisa Odell and Lee and Melissa (T’90) Caswell enjoyed the Sierras skiing in Tahoe this past winter and apparently had a great time! Billy “took a CMO role at a very interesting start-up in November—just can’t stop doing the start-up thing I suppose. Also doing some advisory work for start-ups as well. Boys are 25 and 22, youngest finished college this May—fingers crossed. Clarisa and I are enjoying having more free time.” Lee said it was a “white-out weekend” of skiing. Billy says he will also be at Reunion! Yea!

All smiles with the Odells and Caswells in Lake Tahoe!

That’s it on the news. Sparse, but I know you are all saving it so we have something to say to each other at Reunion. Hope to see you there— it will be a blast! Post-Reunion: send photos and news to us, and we’ll have a killer column next edition. Here’s the easy submission form location: http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_ class_notes. Thank you!

’90 Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

Hi all—Hose here with some great updates. From Maarten Kelder in points far away: “Hose, good you keep reminding us to give you some fodder. Life very good in Singapore, spending most of my time trying to figure out how to digitalise our 100 years old healthcare services company Zuellig Pharma. Working with a lot of start-ups which is great fun. The Tuck community is still small but growing in Asia—anybody who swings by Singapore please let me know.” On a more US front, there was a West Coast gathering at the recent hockey game. I am not sure who played or where it was, but Miskovsky was sporting the San Jose Sharks jersey with pride. Super Fan! Betsy, Audrey and JD in attendance as well, see the photo! From Seattle, Tom Johnston is looking forward (as are we all, I hope) “to seeing everyone at our 30th next year. Here’s a recent picture (this

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infant formula company, New Zealand Dairy Products, which is launching a new to the world combination sheep/goat infant formula product called «Shegoa». Now dare I ask, but are there any classmates who can actually use a case of Shegoa? I mean do we have anyone with a baby in the house (late-blooming parents) or, and this is a time for true confessions, do we have any grandparents in the class yet? Any one responding in the affirmative, for either reason, free case of Shegoa.” Answers will be posted in the next column. (Reason to read the next column). Audrey Kania, Mike Miskovsky, and John Driver

past Labor Day) of my daughters and me. Still at Amazon Web Services, now 7 years in—see Patrick Hogan and David Weld occasionally here in Seattle.” Good life, good-looking family, and good pick on Amazon.

A nice note from the ever festive Westy: “All is well with me also. Kid in grad school, one in college, one in high school, and one in grade school. I’ve just about cornered the education market! Thank God that Al Gore invented the 529 plan. I’ve attached a photo from Rich Zogheb’s wedding last fall. It was a really nice ceremony in Pocantico Hills, 45 minutes north of the city, for him and his wife, Stephanie. It was great to see Richie and the old roommates (Kirk, Higgy, Appy) again after many moons. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to take a photo with the groom as there was no milk crate or footstool handy to equalize the height differential. Thank you for your continued efforts to keep us all updated on one another.” It is amazing how the friendships we all made back then were so special and feel so fresh even after all these years.

of Hanover). I mean, could we have been luckier to have been part of such a dynamic and changing business world over the last 30 years. And honestly, it seems like some of our classmates have even put the proverbial dent in the universe, so to speak, by creating some those changes. Okay, besides High West, Caribou, Lagunitas! (We should have all seen those coming given how much the coffee at Stell sucked and how much time we all spent at 5 Olde). The best part about living today is that assuming we are all in our early to mid-50s, we still have aways to go (and the college debt to prove it). Tuck and our careers were all about business, and we’ve all done amazing things. But I hope that everyone is also doing well outside the office—family, friends, health, and hobbies. All is good by me, Steph, and the boys—we have few real complaints, we’ve been in New Jersey 25 years, have nice friends, a great dog, and one of my sons even ran the NYC Marathon. Still lots of things still on our bucket list.

Tom Johnston and family Mark Hosbein and family For Tracey Fulmer, life has gone to the dogs, literally. She writes: “Hi Hose! No exciting news from me, other than being happy and healthy. I’m still in Amherst, NH, with my two dogs and loving the peace, space, and lack of traffic. Looking forward to the last of the snow melting so I can garden and get back to training my dogs outside in our agility field. Competing in that sport has become a bit of an obsession, and we’ll be traveling to PA, FL, TN, and GA in the next year for regional and national championships. It definitely keeps me on my toes.” Maybe you can recreate the agility field, and we can make it a drinking game at the reunion. Back overseas, Peter Foyston writes: “Mark: here is an update. After 20 years in China and a brief stint in Abu Dhabi, I have immigrated to beautiful New Zealand. I am part of a start-up

Hope the same is true with you. Let’s build up to the big 30th reunion a year from this fall... not to early to book a room in Hanover and plan to share stories and smiles in real life.

Kirk Adams, Mike Higgins, Appy, and Mark West

Until then, on behalf of everyone, all the best. —Hose

As for yours truly, gosh, I was thinking, it really will be 30 years next year from the day we walked into the world post–business school. I always go back to our time in Hanover, when we all were feverishly studying Japan, printing our papers on the few machines available, and trying to parse the phone bills amongst roommates (especially problematic for those of us with romantic interests outside

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CL ASS NOTES ’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Joe Stabnick jstabnick@gmail.com

Hello from Springfield, MO. It’s Suzanne, ready to share all the news that’s fit to print, and then some.

facilitation—18 years and counting. As the kids are getting older though, I’m trying to enjoy the business travel more and meeting up with Tuckies for a drink when I can—like with Mark Sherman in Seattle, Jon Myerow at Tria in Philly, and of course, Jon Gilbert. I see Jon in Seattle every chance I get, that is, when he’s not transporting goats (just ask him about it). Next big thing is visiting my son Nicholas after his semester abroad in Sydney. Look out Great Barrier Reef—here we come for that big bucket list item!”

After a slow start and perhaps some threats of an all-cat column, you came through. So pull on your big girl and big boy pants and let’s get started. Jon Gilbert, a self-proclaimed “long-time lurker,” felt it was his duty to send in an update, and it’s a doozy. “Had a great past year in that I think I retired in 2018 (‘think’ in the sense that it’s still weird to me). Bought a pickup truck (which my daughters scoured for any sign of a MAGA hat— negative) and am doing quite a bit of outdoor stuff (when I’m not living vicariously through Mark Magers and Linda Yoshino).” Based on some intel I received from Joe Gammal, I followed up with Jon to find out a little bit more about “quite a bit of outdoor stuff” using code words—“goats” and “helicopters.” From Jon: “I volunteered with Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife to transport non-native mountain goats from the Olympic National Park to the Cascade mountain range. It was a combined effort with state, U.S. National Park Service, and tribal organizations. The goats are darted from a helicopter, then flown back to the National Park’s base camp, where they are checked by veterinarians and crated for a truck ride to the Cascades. We followed the refrigerated truck caravan (14 goats), overnighted in our vehicles, then helped hook the crates up to another helicopter that deposited the goats onto their new mountaintop home.” Now, that’s how you do retirement! Kind of doing the six degrees of separation here.... Joe Gammal wrote in—“I’m still enjoying what I do around innovation coaching and 102

Joe and Mark out for beers in Seattle

Which gets us to Mark Sherman. “Jenny and I have now been empty nesters for about 2+ years. It didn’t take us long to adjust to life without the kids in the house; maybe about 36 hours. We do miss our kids, and we’ve also rediscovered spontaneity. I’m now into my 5th year in the nonprofit world, and loving working at Year Up. Adam Hetnarski moved to Seattle a few years ago, so it’s been good to catch up with him every few months. I see Jon Gilbert on occasion as well—although I’ve not yet been updated on his ‘driving goats’ endeavors. Sounds like an excuse to give him a call.” And the thread continues.... Mark Magers and I had quite a little brainstorming session on names for my earthquake-/tornado-detecting cat service. But more importantly, he and Linda have been in Mexico for about 1.5 years now and have a couple of Tuck anecdotes to share. “We were graciously hosted by Felipe Burgaz and family in January. We encouraged Felipe to get Dean Slaughter, who was visiting Mexico City a couple of weeks later, a green and white lucha libre mask—what could be a better wrestling name than Dean Slaughter?” That’s pretty funny. Mark, can you please bring a mask for Dean Slaughter for the 2021 reunion??? Mark also had lunch with a Tuck ’50, Bollie

Hangin’ in Mexico City

Bollenbach, in Ajijic, near Lake Chapala where he and Linda have been living, after an introduction from Andy Steele. Bollie kept asking Mark why he was 30 years old when he went to Tuck. Had he been held back in school? Not only was Bollie funny, he also founded one of the first scholarships at Tuck. Mark and Linda are also diving every day in Bonaire, doing beach and reef cleanups and taking classes on coral reef restoration and turtle preservation. Speaking of Felipe, he is working at Amazon— heading up marketing for Mexico. He’s very happy to be combining years of traditional marketing with digital and e-commerce. “Amazon is not an easy place to work (by the way I think it’s the #1 recruiter at Tuck? Heard that somewhere) but you learn a lot very quickly.” His wife, Mariana, is head of sales for a large art gallery in Mexico City and doing great. And his daughter Elena is finishing high school and is off to medical school—which in Mexico is a combined 7-year undergrad/grad degree. “Dad, I don’t want to study history and philosophy. I want to start studying to be a doctor.” And so she decided to stay in Mexico to study. Felipe sees Mary-Ann Somers quite a bit on trips to San Diego. “She’s doing great and working hard to get all of us a larger refund come tax time!!!” Hmmm, how is Mary-Ann getting us all a larger refund you ask??? She moved to San Diego and is working for Intuit. “I’m loving living in San Diego, even if it was the rainiest and coldest winter in history (not sure if it’s factually true but that’s what everyone says!). I often see Susan Tredwell Kuruvilla (usually for a walk along the ocean) and Felipe and Mariana Burgaz, who have a second home here (they fit me in between all their Tahoe weekends!)—and, less often, Dave and Laurie Sheehan and John Driver. It’s been so nice to move to a new city and have strong Tuck connections. I’ve had a pretty constant stream

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ride, and Beth and I have really enjoyed living in Laguna Beach. We’ll wander our way back to the Philadelphia area over the next several months and take things from there.”

Shots with the tour guide?

of visitors, including Tuckies Ann Marie Nemanich, Susan Richman Caraviello, and a dinner with Steve Langlois. Susan C, Susan T, and I went for a fun bike tour. That was a few weeks before I fell off a bike and shattered my wrist—ouch. (all better now!). My house is open for any Tuckies coming through!” (Don’t waste your time trying to figure out who is in the picture with them—it’s the tour guide.) And right on cue, Susan Tredwell Kuruvilla wrote in to say “life is pretty good in San Diego. We’re getting ready to send our first child off to college somewhere this fall. Which means: we’ll finally have a guest room for visitors.” She has seen more Tuckies in the last 9 months since Mary-Ann moved to town, so that’s been a lot of fun. She had lunch with John Driver and drinks with Ann Marie on the same day. “Couldn’t sort out how to work in a Tuck breakfast however.” “I hear people talking about retirement and still struggling to wrap my head around my actual age where that’s really a thing. I think I’m further away from that topic than most.” And that ends that amazing thread. But since we’re here, let’s continue with West Coast updates.

“Over the past couple of months I’ve had wonderful visits with Ken Oshima, Will Hicks, and Stu Richards. They are all doing well, and it’s always great being with T’91s.”Suzanne Hoff Hadley and her family have been very busy “Our son is married and finishing his Fulbright master’s in Ankara, Turkey. He’ll be stationed at Fort Benning (Georgia) in August as a 2nd lieutenant on active duty with the U.S. Army. Jack got married last June, which is still a shock to us, but we love our DIL and they’re a great match.” “Our oldest daughter is graduating from the College of William & Mary in May and relocating to Austin, Texas. Good thing she loves C&W music and line dancing—and BBQ! Oh, and no state income tax. My kids are too cheap to pay California housing and taxes, so we’re not sure whether any of the four Hadley crumbcrunchers will move back home to SoCal.” “Our second daughter is at Univ. of Michigan in her second year of nursing school, and our youngest daughter will be a freshman at Miami Univ. in Ohio this fall. She’s in the first class of Presidential Fellows, so she’s excited. Now she’ll have to keep explaining to her HS classmates in California that Miami University is not in Florida.” “I just won a seat on our city council for Manhattan Beach. A town of 35,000 souls and four square miles. (As Daniel Webster might say, “It is, sir, a small [town], and yet there are those who love it.”) I came in first place among a field of 7 candidates. Swearing in is April 2.”

So it seems Steve Murray has been a stealth Californian for the last 18 months.... All is well with Steve and his family. “Two of our kids are out of school and gainfully employed in Chicago. Our third graduates this spring from Colorado College, and our youngest is wrapping up his sophomore year at UVM. The college tuition hemorrhaging is, thankfully, starting to slow....”

“The election campaign featured burning issues of global importance, such as whether to keep our fire department in house—or contract with LA County; and whether to ban short-term rentals (Airbnb) from residential neighborhoods. Oh, and how to pay for rising pension costs. Hoping the power doesn’t go to my head, ha, ha.” Way to go, councilwoman!

“I’ve been working with J&J out in Southern California since early 2018. The business I joined is being divested. Shortly after that I will be moving on to something new, and yet to be determined, outside of J&J. It’s been a good

Leslie Kennedy’s son was just accepted into Purdue’s computer science program!! So, I’m excited, but apparently he has a few more schools to hear from before he makes his final decision. Leslie’s going to keep me posted.

Boiler up!! On a side note, I am not even going to mention how Leslie spelled Perdue in her email, even though it cut me right through the heart. And a brief break from the West Coast to discuss Purdue a little more.... Tim Greene wrote in to say: “No news from me, but I have Purdue going far!” I know it’s June when you are reading this, but recall that I sent out my request for info in the middle of March Madness and Purdue did go to the Elite Eight before they were robbed by the overrated UVA. Yes, Richard O’Reagan, and I mean it! From Jim Kean: “Your call for help shall not fall upon deaf ears. In the interest of avoiding a cat disaster, I am happy to shower you in my mundanity.” Thank you!!Jim’s oldest son, Douglas, is a freshman at University of Oregon studying urban planning. His daughter, Catie, is a high school junior and Zac is in 4th grade. “The two younger ones, my wife Claire, and I had an awesome ski season and recorded 35 days on the slopes. Both kids are awesome double black diamond skiers, and I can see the day in the not so distant future where they dust me.” “Workwise, I am working at Cambia, the oldest Blue Cross insurance company. I am heading up digital transformation and operational worker bot development. My job just got even more interesting as my company (Cambia) announced it was merging with Blue Cross North Carolina. Combined we will be about a $20 billion company.” “Claire and I are finishing up the construction of a vacation house on a wild and scenic river by the Pacific Crest Trail. It has been a three-year project, and we are looking forward to completion and enjoyment.” Jim, are there any non-native goats there? I’ve heard Jon Gilbert can give you a hand with this. He has a truck and he’s retired. Ok—let’s swing over to the East Coast. Scott Erdman broke his nearly 28-year silence on class notes with some pretty exciting news—a wedding!! “Last November I married Greg Merten, my partner of 21 years. We had a very small private ceremony officiated by my son Ryan at our house in Palm Springs. We had a reception for

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CL ASS NOTES friends and family in early March attended by seven (including me) Dartmouth alums. No Tuck alums, as I have unfortunately been terrible at keeping in touch with my classmates.

The newlyweds!

“Yes, son Ryan, the cute little nugget when we were at Tuck, is a practicing lawyer in Boulder, Colorado, and will be 32 this year. Gah! “I am back in NYC after a two-year stint in Denver and am always up for drinks if any of my former classmates are interested in reconnecting.” Scott, I think there might be a few Tuckies in NYC. In fact.... Donna Malone Knight wrote in with some big news. This year, “Jeff took a job in New York City, so I am splitting my time between NYC and Boston. It is a big change for us, but we are empty nesters now so Jeff jumped on the opportunity. I would love for any of our classmates to call me when they are in NYC to get together!! It seems that so many more people visit New York than Boston. I am having dinner with Stephen Langlois, Sally Marrer, Martha Records, and Rich Rainaldi next week so we can send you a picture!” And, in a New York minute.... Robert Douglass noted: “With a young lad about to enter kindergarten this fall, retirement is a laughable concept; however, I applaud those classmates savvy enough to engineer successfully.” “Last April I moved to Palm Beach, FL, to open a new office for my firm, Douglass Winthrop Advisors. It’s a big change from NYC, where I lived since graduating from Tuck; however, I could not be more excited. FL is vibrant and booming, and the lifestyle change from NYC is refreshing. This is a great place to live whether one is working or retiring! Recently had dinner 104

with Brian and Kelly Dettmann, who were passing through town. Please contact me if you’re headed this direction—I would be happy to reconnect and show you around.” Andy Schmit has not electrocuted anyone in his 2 years with Spellman High Voltage in Westchester County, where he’s a site manager. And I would just like to say we are all happy about that. “Sue’s officially back with Corning (again). Yes, she’s giving it another shot, this time working full-time but from home. And, ahhh, yes, the hands of time slowly grind onward. Tim graduated with a BSME in May from Binghamton, Alex wraps up her junior year at NYU, and Eric will conclude his freshmen year in Hartford by the time you write this. Where oh where did the time go? I hope to see a few T’91s at the next Tuck event in NYC this summer!” Liz Sigler Mather sent me a wonderful note full of news. I can’t include it all, or the Tuck Today editors might faint. Anyway, here are some updates: “I just returned from the Upper Valley from a combined ski trip with my husband Charlie and a several-days visit with my parents. My son Charlie is finishing his sophomore year at Emory as a statistics major. He spent last summer at Morgan Stanley and will work with a biotech firm here in NYC this summer. His biggest goal in life is to spend his days helping people. My daughter Libby is a junior at Horace Mann School in the Bronx. She is on the robotics team and is the editor of a publication called Pixelated, which is about gaming and other things that I do not understand. “Entei, our Brussels griffon, just turned 15 and is the oldest dog I have ever had. He is doing pretty well and still manages to photobomb most family photos, which makes me believe he is still all there.” [Look on the 1991 classnotes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Speaking of dogs, Richard O’Reagan has a new puppy—MacKenzie—and apparently he rules, even though their other tiny dog, Ruby, is the queen. Richard and Rich bought a new condo down the street from their house in Provincetown. It’s close to the Red Inn at the tip. “What started as a refresh turned into new

floors, bathroom guts, new counters/sink/ dishwasher/backsplash/microwave, paint and window treatments throughout, and a fireplace reface with a wood stove. So, kind of a gut. It’s 2 bedrooms with another loft bedroom and 1.5 baths. It’s rented from June– Sept. We will move in in September to redo (down to the studs) the house. We think that will take at least a year. We plan on it being our retirement home. Can you say money pit?” Driek Desmet swung past Tuck in early February when they dropped their son Rahul off at Middlebury. “Went out for a great lunch at Lou’s (now Tuck owned) with Jim Napier, as Lizzie was, of course, out of town traveling to exotic places. Seemed like nothing had changed and it was so nice to talk about enjoying life and what we had all been up to. Also saw Andreu Ylla in Barcelona during the holidays. Tuck is doing so well—went to the PE day with Matt Slaughter, the dean, and ran into Lawrence Calcano, of course too. Time for a reunion soon—2021 is scarily close....

Driek with the “mayor” of Hanover

Dave Paradi and Sheila are looking forward to spring after a cold, snowy winter. They are planning to see Barb & Kevin Marshall in Minneapolis at the end of April. “I am still speaking and writing about effective presentations of financial and other data, and with both kids out of the house Sheila has the opportunity to come on some trips with me. Sheila is very involved in helping care for her parents and her uncle and aunt as well as volunteering at the hospital and church. If any classmates come to the Toronto area, please let us know!” From Harry Holt: “My daughter Nancy returned from the Peace Corps after two years teaching chemistry at a high school in Mozambique, Africa. She is applying to graduate school for a master’s in education and wants to teach science to elementary-age

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kids. My son Harry is a freshman studying environmental science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “Nancy is retired and her mother lives with us. Nancy takes care of her mom and sells Mary Kay products. I’m still working at BITHGROUP Technologies, which is owned by a Tuckie (Robert Wallace Tuck’84). I see Jock McClees pretty much every other month since we serve on the Brown University Greater Baltimore Club together. “ Martin Huth says “life continues to race along. We’ll have the third of four kids leaving for college in a few months” “One encounter that I did want to report is that I caught up with JC Renondin last month—in Muscat (Oman) out of all places! JeanChristophe has been working there for over three years and helped me raise money from a local institution, which was great.” And nearby.... Tom Arnold is still based in Abu Dhabi (year 10) and has been promoted to global head of real estate at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He completed a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program at the University of Florida since graduating from Tuck. He has published two articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, lectured extensively, and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Florida since 2017. “I am balancing a demanding industry role with a passion for higher education. I am currently serving on the Dartmouth EMEA Committee for the Call to Lead capital campaign. Stay tuned....”

sourcing could do to make change. While there is tremendous focus in this country on how terrible people are, I find I have a tremendous sense of optimism these days. My mother has always told me to take one day at a time, do not look back and regret, and that judging others is really for insecure people. So far, she has been right.”

Corporation. Three years? That’s incredibly impressive. He also tells us that he recently booked a trip to Iceland for his family...on WOW Air...which he paid in full...on the day before they went under. Boy, timing really is everything. That’s almost as bad as if someone had fallen out of a window the day before spring break.

Cheers! Don’t forget to send updates to Joe Stabnick for the next Tuck notes!

Speaking of timing, Kel Phoon, who lives in beautiful San Diego with me...well not actually with me because that would be really weird... says he took his family (Florence and two teenage daughters) to Hawaii for a vacation. They went to the Big Island, you know the one with the very active volcano. It apparently started gurgling and smoking while Kel was nearby. He debated running or filming. He says he stayed and filmed. Remember Kel, if it wasn’t on Facebook, it didn’t happen.

’92 Glenn Millar millargg@gmail.com

Jim—In front of you there is a dossier of 163 T’92s, who are spread out all over the world. Many have not been heard from recently and may have been captured by Russian operatives. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to track down your T’92 classmates and find out what they are doing. Here’s what we know so far. Dan Chan had a clandestine meeting in Seattle with a Nancy Wampler Evans. Dan was supposedly in Seattle to drop his daughter off at college. It’s a fine cover story, but we suspect he was actually there because you really can’t get a decent cup of coffee in Silicon Valley where he lives.

Speaking of Mr. Berzolla, it seems his and Randy ’s son Zack, who I remember being one year old, recently graduated from Dartmouth and will now be going to MIT for grad school. Really, now I feel old. Seems the success of Tuck kids knows no bounds. Anne O’Malley’s son Tristan just signed a contract with the New York Empire to play professional Ultimate Frisbee, or just Ultimate, as the kids call it now days. Getting paid to throw a Frisbee? Seriously, how did I not know that could be a thing.

As for me, all is well in Springfield. As you are reading this, I will be on a family vacation in the Northwoods of Wisconsin kayaking, biking, and hanging with the family—which is ever evolving as we get older. I’ll wrap with an excerpt from Liz Mather’s note: “As for me, the days are full of...I am not sure, but they are full. You have heard the expression, ‘The days are long but the years fly by.’ That is exactly how I feel. For various reasons, I have taken a keen interest in a few topics that are little reported in the mainstream and have great impact on people who most of us never encounter. I would never have imagined 28 years ago what social media and crowd

Our cameras also spied Steve Sklar sneaking into the home of Greg Berzolla at one in the morning. It seems Steve’s sister lives on the same street as Greg, and Steve was visiting her. He decides to call up Greg at 11 at night. “Sure, let’s get really drunk,” says Berzolla. (It’s possible that Greg may have not actually said that.) However, after a fun Tuck visit, Sklar finds he has locked himself out of his sister’s house and has to return to the Berzollas’. Greg, having remembered the case of the Sadu on the side of the mountain, takes Steve in for the night, proving that ethics cases really work.

Nancy Evans and Dan Chan in the Emerald City

We have been following Gerry Moore, and we’ve learned he just recently sold his company, ZiipRoom, after only 3 years to the Bose

In other sports news, Lamar Rutherford is a fairly serious polo player and plays regularly around the world and in La Jolla, California, where she makes her home. And you thought you were cool just wearing a polo shirt. Personally, I tried playing water polo once, but I had to quit when my horse drowned. We searched far and wide to find some of our other classmates. I heard from Tim King, who SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES and Elisa Slee. The Slees were on a road trip visiting their son at Princeton. Princeton is about 1,000 miles from Atlanta. I want stories and pics from that road trip! Sounds more like Road Rally.   And then there’s Jim Rideout, who went fishing and was a bit of an overachiever. [Look on the 1992 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth. edu for a pic!!] Lamar Rutherford shows her intensity on the polo field

left beautiful California nine years ago to live in a nearly undiscovered territory where the people have strange customs and their language is difficult to understand. He calls it Columbus, Ohio. He recently married one of the local natives and is very happy. Tim has been visited by the ghosts of cases past, Joe DePaulo and Dave and Debbie Baran. From halfway around the world—well, if you’re traveling north—we tracked down Akira Uchida. Akira had a lot to say about his management consulting business and how much he loves it, but what really caught my eye was his hobby: Akira restores cars from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, including American muscle cars. Dude, you’re my new hero. I can’t imagine how cool you must be driving a ’65 Mustang in Japan.

I also heard from Kevin Lippincott, who didn’t have much to report but says he is alive and well and promises he will read the case and have answers for the next issue. Quick—name the only T’92, and possibly the only Tuckie ever, who has won an Emmy. Here’s a hint. It’s for a cartoon. If you weren’t aware, our own Greg Thompson is a Hollywood writer and has written for a number of shows, like King of the Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Currently he is the producer and writer for Bob’s Burgers, for which he has won numerous awards, including two Emmys. [Did you read about Greg in the last Tuck Today?]

Greg has always been an animated guy. [Photo by Nancy Pastor]

Akira Uchida captures the muscle cars of America

In South America we found Mathis Dreher, who is living in Brazil with his family and keeping busy with his twin 7-year-old girls. He recently had a visit from Sam Malik where they went out for wine and meat...lots and lots of meat. If you have ever been to a Brazilian steakhouse, you know what I’m talking about. I’m jealous, Mathis! Back in the US, Ken Karegeannes, who lives in Atlanta, was recently visited by Earl 106

Finally, Eileen Shapiro was in San Diego for a few days and we had dinner together. It was so good to catch up. It’s truly amazing how there are some people that you can not converse with for years and then when you do, it’s like you saw them yesterday. Well Jim, those are the Tuckies we know about. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to find the other Tuckies by the next issue and learn about their lives. As always, should you be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.

’93 Cathy Dishner cldish@gmail.com

Dwight Poler dwight@polers.org

Dear Tuck ’93s, Ah, the sound of silence.... I [Cathy] know my hearing isn’t what it used to be, but I do keep a keen ear out for word from you. I am sorry to say, I received no news this time round. And so, your class secretaries, Dwight and I, can only share our own Tuck encounters. Dwight is loving the opportunity to be a student again as he begins his year-long ALI Fellowship at Harvard. He reports, “Knowing that ‘youth is wasted on the young,’ I am making the most of this year, even reading past midnight, and staying awake in lectures (Classroom Bingo soon to be introduced). Pub night just isn’t the same though.... Tuck still rules!” This March, the A Frame connected in Jackson Hole for a ski weekend amidst epic snowfall. Ward Davis, Mike McIvor, Jeff Macher, and Jeff Dishner caught up out west. The formidable ski slopes had some of the guys huffing and puffing more than others (the ever-fit Macher), but all excelled in apres activities at the Mangy Moose. Cougar never posted and has some explaining to do! I had a surprise encounter with Heather Crotty after too many years. On the first day of my new art class in NY, Heather walked in! We set a date and got together with Jeanine Borthwick over lunch for a minireunion. It was so good to see those city gals looking so great. The Machers are heading up to spend Easter with the Jeff and me. As much as I love Dana, I’m thrilled to have Macher in house to help cook (ok, to take over the cooking!) for the holiday feast. I’m sure Macher is a good professor, but I know he is a master chef and, therefore, the very best houseguest. You should think of inviting the Machers for the next holiday...but be aware that we’ve already booked them for Christmas!!

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I am keeping busy and recently joined a company called The Charted Path as a travel advisor. This new endeavor combines my passion for adventure, my innate desire to make plans, and my love of travel blogging. If you have any future trips you want help planning, reach out and let me know! The world awaits.... ...and so do The Tuck Notes. Please give me better material for the next edition!! —Cathy Dishner

’94 David Link bearcap08@gmail.com

Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

25TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Dear Class of ’94, I [David Link] am writing to you from South Denver, where the spring is about to hit. I wrote quite a bit, and I hope everyone will read it. I must also say I very much wish our friend and classmate Jeff Schlachtenhaufen was still around for one of our catch-ups on the Ag industry. We all miss Jeff. The Halcyon Days were when we both were working (or in my case consulting) with Cargill in the ’90s. Perhaps he’s looking down on us now and smiling. Susie, if you are reading this I am sending a hug and hope to catch up soon. I have been quite busy being part of building the industrial hemp industry, primarily in Colorado, Kentucky, and Virginia. I have two main projects to note here. The first is Charlottesville-based Old Dominion Hemp (ODHemp.com) and we are, as you may recall, a supplier of animal bedding, hempcrete, and other applications. Consider the “Tobacco Belt” to stretch roughly from CVille (which has become a second home

for me) to Louisville, KY, and back. The real discussion needs to be about tobacco and rail revitalization in this critical Mid-Atlantic agricultural region. When we get a chance to sit down, I will explain how this is part of what I call Warfarin 2.0. I also think of it as the rat poison or perhaps “barnyard phase,” roughly from 1941 to 1955 in the Warfarin history. This phase is in honor of my grandfather, Dr. Karl Paul Link, of Madison, WI, recipient of the biggest snubbing in Nobel Prize history in my estimation. The other notable project is called YomChai. com. Here we are focused on developing medically validated products with a team of entrepreneurs and scientists based in Tel Aviv, Israel. This project is part of the Warfarin/ Brand Name Coumadin 2.0 phase. Back then, my great-uncle, Dr. Shepard “Shep” Shapiro, cardiologist and hematologist based at NYU, and other doctors from Mayo Clinic, UW Madison Hospital and Columbia were working feverishly with agricultural chemists at UW Madison to solve problems such as “Thrombosis” and other cardiovascular ailments in humans with clinical dosing trials. Basically they were figuring out how to develop a derivative of a rat poison into a human medicine that could help with anticoagulation. This also included overcoming biases, preconceived notions, and dare I say prejudices. Are there corollaries to industrial hemp and cannabis legalization today, both in the US and Canada, and globally? Is the answer as obvious today as it was then? You bet. Guess what differentiates the key players? Capitalization. Oh that Tuck MBA sure comes in handy. Perhaps I can finally explain why I went to B-school in the first place.

I’ve attached a picture with Wacinhin “Rosebud” White Plume of Manderson, SD, and Pine Ridge Reservation. The Lakota are a Native American tribe. It is through meeting Rosebud, as well as her dad, Alex White Plume, that I have learned of and support the concept of sovereign hemp. Purchasing products made in whole or in part from “sovereign hemp” provides a mechanism for each of us to “give back” for all the treaties that have not been honored. Check out my friends at Boulderbased EvoHemp.com for what it means to create a sovereign hemp brand. Thanks for listening! Also, thanks for all the responses. Without further ado.... Grégoire Bordier: “Some news from Switzerland. Dean Slaughter made a trip to Switzerland, and I had the opportunity to see him in Geneva. We had a wonderful conversation, and I could clearly feel that Tuck’s spirit goes on. It has been fun seeing my children—now 18, 15, and 13—comparing colleges in the US, Asia, and Europe. The good news is that top US colleges still are the most attractive proposals. I am looking forward to coming to the reunion with my wife, Laurence, to go back to school even if only for a weekend. What a great time we had!” John Gannon: “Last year I spent 60 days in Japan leading a migration of AIG’s storage to internal cloud. On weekends I traveled the country from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Harry Higuchi and I spent a nice day walking around Tokyo, seeing some of his favorite sights and talking about our lives since Tuck. “I’m now based in Shenton Way Singapore for the next 6 months, living in a corporate apartment. Singapore is a great place to work and an excellent base for travel. I have had work trips to Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Hong Kong already. Mary is headed over for a few visits during my time here. I could see moving here to work. I’m interested to see what Mary makes of it. Unemployment is very low, and it’s all financial services. I’ll attend Tuck ’Tails here later this month. The expats and locals are really good about networking.

Rosebud White Plume with David Link

“Nick and his wife Kendall (met at Dartmouth, go figure) live in London and spent New Year’s Day with the Halls at their very cool home in

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CL ASS NOTES Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mary and I attended class at HBS this fall with Jack. He is loving school and playing rugby again. Lela, who was born after Tuck, is an actress in New York and just finished her first web commercial—for PrettyLitter kitty litter. Anand Krishna: “David—Anand Krishna here! Sharing a photo—Laureen Costa and I bumped into each other at Tuck on 2/9 Friday— at a private equity conference.

“And the other email I sent with a pic of Lisa and Raymond Lemire—I’d written about how they visit with us when they’re coming to Richmond to see their son Dillon, who’s at U Richmond.” From John Koike: “Updates on my end: 1. Moved to “spice-land” Mumbai, India, in June 2018, after 4.5 years of stay in “samba-land” Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2. Was regional head for Latin America for MUFG Bank. 3. Now regional head for India & Sri Lanka for MUFG Bank.” Bruce Myers: “After nearly 25 years with the same firm, I retired at the end of 2018. Happily, Her Majesty’s Canadian government saw fit to grant us permanent residency last year, so we’ll be staying put here in Toronto. I hope any T’94s that find themselves in Toronto will let me know! It would be great to catch up.”

Anand and Laureen at Tuck’s PE conference

“An update from my end: I decided to leave ‘corporate’ life and explore doing something on my own. Over the next 6 months I’m exploring various avenues, from tech start-ups to running small industrial outfits where the owner wants to move on. Sonali is well. Nina is almost 15 and Sonia is 12-1/2. We’re still in Richmond, VA—though depending on what I end up settling on, we might be somewhere else in 2019. “I just emailed the pic of John Koike and myself right after it was taken at a restaurant in Mumbai, India, where we met today 3/21/19.”

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Michael LaRoche: “I left the corporate rat race last June. I was tired of the travel. And frankly, the older I got, the lower my tolerance for incompetence, especially in my bosses. I was able to negotiate a small package, so it was the right time to start a new chapter in my life. I’m now playing with puppies—SERIOUSLY! Kim and I opened Pampered Puppies LLC (www. ppups.com) in September out of our garage. We’re about to move into a newly renovated 3200 sqft shop at Linden Square in Wellesley. Grand opening will be April 6th. We offer grooming, training, and daycare services. We also have a small retail business for specialty dog products.

Bill Reich: “My life is way too boring.” I finished a few more sentences for Bill. This is why Arnaud Tesson drags me into political “discussions” on Facebook on the daily. This is why I let him.

“Alexis (born while at Tuck) just graduated magna cum laude with degrees in psychology and business from UNH and is working with Kim and me at Pampered Puppies. Christopher (born in Australia) is a junior at BU, studying biomedical engineering. He is interested in mundane things such as developing artificial organs.

[Editor’s note: Look on the 1995 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for more pics!]

“So a lot of change around here, but all good. It’s never boring at the LaRoche house.”

Anand and John in Mumbai

“borrowing” the attached picture. It bears repeating that many of us keep in touch and also make sure Arnaud Tesson stays out of hot water. The Korean peninsula is a fascinating area with serious tech innovation. Just ask Apple about Samsung.

Andy Palmer (still has opt out capability): On Facebook from October 2018, Andy writes of his Pacific Rim trip for Tamr: “Incredible week in Seoul and Tokyo—crazy productive, exhausting and fun.” The rest is written by David, not Andy. I had a chance to catch up with Andy late last year, and what I would say is my former study-group partner (or was it ManEc) is en fuego. I warned Andy before

’95 So-June Donohue smin@406ventures.com

My dear T’95s. When I sent my first classnotes email to everyone, I received a lot of comments (you’re brave, crazy, gracious, foolhardy, not the smartest thing you’ve done, etc.), which are all so very true. But I am a middle-aged woman with grey hair, cellulite, and half a dozen credit cards— nothing fazes me anymore, so here I am. In all honestly, I received a lot of thank-yous and encouragements, so I am delighted to give this a go. However, I do feel like Milli Vanilli coming after the Beatles of Tuck updates. A huge thank-you again to Kristin and Rick for taking on this task for the last 24 years. If this trend continues, I will be in my mid-70s when I pass the baton. (Or sooner if I totally bomb or use nonsanctioned curse words....)

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see Andrea soon in Zermatt. Sam also sees Anne Sullivan as she and Anne work in the same venture portfolio. Sam is now leading a new venture-backed company in the biotech industry, currently in stealth mode. Oooh, I want to be stealth. Or maybe it was svelte. I get those two words mixed up.

It is only fitting that I start off this edition with updates about my fearless predecessors. Rick Smith says that he has retired as class notes writer and is now enjoying his 30 minutes of free time every six months. He is applying that time toward a new and rewarding hobby. I hope that hobby is napping, as that is what I have given up to write the class notes. Kristin Sanborn was too busy using her free time to send in a report (public shaming...), but Deanna Smeltz did tell us that she saw Kristin’s headlights pulling into her house after a ski vacation. Wait...Deanna lives across from Kristin? You can do that? D’oh, I misunderstood the Tuck memo—I didn’t know you could just live across from another Tuckie. I thought you had to marry them.... Well, if we don’t live across from another T’95 (or marry them), we still see each other quite a bit. John Harpole moved to LA recently and meets up with Brendt Stallings often. John says he is surviving the 110-degree summers in LA and would love to see you if you are ever in the area—hint: just avoid the dead of summer.

Bill, Tracey, Greg, and Charlene cheering Navy on

defense and space company. He was just getting ready to head off to Jamaica for some R&R as he was sending me his update, so let’s not feel too bad for him. Steve and Catherine Hedlund temporarily relocated to central London and had a visit from Rob and Melissa Abbe and Kevin Vassily. If anyone is going through London, Steve and Catherine would love to see you. At minimum, they can help with the food language. Seriously, what is a bubble and squeak? (I do have a question on another popular food item, but I don’t think it’ll pass the censors.)

PA and Wallis Weiner met Hiko Yasumatsu in NYC when Hiko came for a business trip from Tokyo. Hiko says to look him up if you ever visit Tokyo. PA and Wallis are soon to be empty nesters and have our upcoming 25th Reunion on their calendars. Take this a reminder to start making Hanover hotel reservations.

Steve, Rob, Catherine, and Melissa in London

Hiko, PA, Wallis, and PA’s mom. Yes, they looked perfect in the other photo they sent also.

Greg and Tracey Maxwell met with Bill and Charlene DeRoche at the Army-Navy football game. Greg says Bill still has all his hockey moves (a la Mick Jagger), as he scored a goal at the alumni game. I personally think Charlene would not have forgiven him if he didn’t. Greg’s company was acquired by Northrop Grumman last June, so he is back at working for a large

Rob Abbe also met with Thad Hill to go duck hunting in California, but they were “skunked.” I have no idea what this means, but I’m going to guess and say that it doesn’t mean “we rock at duck hunting.” Thad is still running Calpine in Houston. He took the company private, so he no longer deals with activist investors, but now has “teenager” investors with laptops. Think of it as practice for your kids, Thad. Except you can’t ground them, take their phone away, or threaten to embarrass them at their weddings. Sam (Scollard) Truex wrote to say she regularly sees Andrea (Setian) Lukens and Tanya (Schuler) Sharman. She saw Tanya recently in Boston at a birthday party and will

James Beach and Marc LaMagna are starting a business together to develop a portfolio of battery-storage projects over the next few years around the USA to help support the growth of renewable energy. All joking aside, this is one cause I must stand and applaud. If there is one thing I do want to leave my ungrateful kids, it is a path to renewable energy. James is still doing work in Russia and staying in touch with Vaho Khoutsishvili and Dan Rolett. He also has plans to meet with his year-one study group (David Sette-Ducati, Charles Merritt, and Alex Murayama) in Chicago as Alex is making his way through North and South America for work. Alex is only able to spare half a day in his entire business trek, and James wondered how Japanese businessmen don’t implode. May I point out that Alex is from the country of Marie Kondo, a woman who can paper-napkin-fold your entire wardrobe into a single carry-on. Alex has figured out how to tightly “fold” his schedule to make things work. The only one who might do this better than a Japanese businessman is a Japanese businesswoman. (Yep, women rock!) Wilbur Swan writes that if anyone is interested in working with other T’95s in a great nonprofit, give him a call. Wilbur started Good Sports to supply athletic equipment to those kids in need. Peter Stevens and Jim Catudal led the national board as chairman and Peter Lawler led the Chicago board. Glenn Harper’s wife Melissa is the CEO, so you can drop Glenn a note also. Besides starting nonprofits, Wilbur is working at Refinitiv, which Blackstone purchased from Thomson Reuters, his last employer. So now that we’ve covered T’95s who planned to meet, you will find that you also run into T’95s when you least expect it. Todd Clark ran into Dan Myers at their respective college seniors’ swim meet. Even after 24 years, Todd had not changed and Dan was able to recognize and wave him down. Dan has not changed either, so Todd recognized the waver.

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CL ASS NOTES

Dan and Todd, shiny foreheads memorialized for posterity

Charles and Valerie Merritt ran into Pat and Ann Marie Brennan at their children’s graduation from Davidson College. They did not know their kids went to the same college. Charles is still part-time venture capital-ing and part-time teaching at UNC. Pat and his family hiked Mt. Moosilauke for the first time and survived the 40-degree temperature difference from base to summit. Tuck has definitely turned us into a hearty stock.

Stevens. To quote, “You let Ricky & Kristin have the fun, easy years filled with weddings, kids, and new business launches. Now you’re stuck with the boring pre-retirement days (at best) and deaths (the inevitable unless you can pass it off to someone else). So, for my update, I am happy to report that I have not died. I suppose retirement news could be kind of fun, but sadly that is not my case. Not much to fill the column with I’m afraid, but if you must have something, I’m doing the same thing, living in the same house, and have the same wife and kids. The good news is that I’m enjoying every minute of it. That pretty much sums it up.” I agree that we are enjoying our lives wholeheartedly, but I do have to offer up a rebuttal on our boring years. And, since I am doing the updates, I get to have the last word. While we may no longer have weddings, kids, and new businesses (except James Beach and Marc LaMagna, standing and applauding again), we do have cool trips, gorgeous grandkids, and dream jobs. Roger Lynch is now a proud grandfather to the most adorable Francis Roo Baxter. He’s not competitive, but he’d like to know if any other T’95 has had a grandchild yet. Roger stepped down as CEO of Pandora after it was sold to SiriusXM for $3.5B and will be announcing his next company very soon. [Editor’s note: You’ve likely heard by now: Condé Nast!] He also plays lead guitar in a CEO band called The Merger and got to open for Lady Antebellum at Red Rocks. Now how’s THAT for a cool grandad. Check out his photo on myTUCK.

Anna, Valerie, Charles, Pat, Ann Marie, and Paul at the Davidson graduation

Ned and Tessa Hill ran into T’11s and T’18s at the airport lounge in Buenos Aires, because isn’t that where we all go to in our moment of Zen? Ned and Tessa are now empty-nesters and were returning home from a cruise around Cape Horn, celebrating their 30th anniversary. (Dear Tuck husbands, please re-read last sentence.) Now I pause, at the halfway point, to single out a specific update from our good friend Peter

Roger’s, and perhaps T’95’s, first grandchild, Francis Roo Baxter

Art McAleer went surfing with his son Ian in Costa Rica—or as Art says, “someone looking in from the outside would say Ian was surfing and what I was doing looked more like a guy imitating clothes in a washing machine on an aggressive spin cycle.” I feel you, Art. It would be a bit hard to surf with someone (i.e. your son) who is so athletic that he breaks his school track records. Art is still at Thomas H. Lee, enjoying his job when he is not imitating clothing. Tucker Scott and his family are moving from one paradise (Bahamas) to another (Colorado). After 22 years at Templeton and over 10 years in Nassau, he is retiring for some mountain air and a break. Now THIS is how you retire. Bravo, Tucker, bravo. Ruth (Schmidt) Burk and husband Scott are leading international walking tours as a hobby job. They’ve been to Croatia, Montenegro, Germany, Austria, and Italy. This is sheer brilliance—combining dream hobby and dream job. So, Ruth has done quite a bit of traveling, but this does not spare her from the, shall we say, occasional “travel shaming.” Ruth writes, “We visited Kristin and Mark in NJ in January when Hannah was doing an overnight visit to West Point, so that was fun. It was super cold (sub-zero arctic blast stuff) and Kristin was concerned that us West Coasters may not be adequately prepared. She asked to see my gloves, which I dutifully produced for inspection, and she said ‘THOSE AREN’T GLOVES! Those are liners!’ Never been glove shamed before, but there you have it.” Glove shaming. You heard it here first! Dream job alert: Lauren Adler is heavily involved in the chocolate and cacao world and was recently elected to the board of the Fine Chocolate Industry Association. She was at the forefront of the craft chocolate market when she opened Chocolopolis in 2008. Now she is the grandmaster sensei of chocolates and she consults with chocolate start-ups and established companies. (I really really hope consulting = tasting.) Lauren will also travel to all the exotic places where cacao is produced—Ghana, Ecuador, and Peru are already planned, and Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, and Tanzania are on her radar. If anyone wants to visit some cacao-growing countries, she’s the one to ask.

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Dream job alert deux: Linda (Berkowitz) and Eric Tetrault have been growing their sake importing and distribution business. You can now find Floating World sake in NYC, Portland, Las Vegas, and later this year in San Francisco and LA. From their hometown of Santa Fe, Linda and Eric also distribute Japanese whisky, vermouths, mezcal, shochu, tequilas, scotch, and wines from all over the world. But to make this life even more dreamy, Eric gets to use a forklift. Now you tell me who has not looked at a forklift and thought, “I could totally do a three-point turn on that.” Eric, Mr. Renaissance Man, is also fixing up old adobe houses and building new homes. As far as the Liam and So-June (Min) Donohue posse, we visited Bernd Nagel (aka Sprockets) for his 50th birthday party in Germany. He is now running his family’s business, and for his birthday venue, he cleared out his factory floor and held the coolest event, all organized by his lovely wife Yvonne. Sprockets literally has not aged a day and his glasses are still da bomb. Liam also went to Colin Blaydon’s retirement party in California. Who can forget Prof. Blaydon’s DecSci classes. Here are some updates on folks Liam and I have met, but they have not written in. I am adding my flair because they can’t stop me, so if I am way off, write me and let me know. Meg (Devine) Aronsohn is leading a hedge fund using deception detection as its secret sauce. When she buys her first private jet, I want a ride!! Barry Hume sold his company, Package Concierge, where he was the CEO. Jim Catudal had invested in the company. Next time Barry and Jim team up on anything, we should all definitely invest. Michelle Teillon is at Silk Therapeutics, a company that uses silk protein to do everything—deliver skin care, protect fabric, wick away moisture. Whatever silk does, I want some, as she still looks as fashionable and cool as ever. My ever-so-trusty emissary and dishwasher unloader (aka, Liam) met Don LeBlanc for breakfast. Don is at Vistaprint and is responsible for SME and enterprise accounts globally, recently adding Japan and India to his printing kingdom.

Rodolfo and Catia Coelho moved back to the US from Australia. I know Rodolfo is up to something big, and by the looks of his huge smile, it has to be something fun/exciting/ yummy. Or...it could have something to do with him samba dancing. (Do you have an image in your head now? You’re welcome.)

’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Also, Liam didn’t see John Stonestreet, but they did speak regarding a huge property John was managing. The story I hear was that John gave Liam a hard time. Don’t know why, but that gives me the giggles. (John, call me with some pointers.)

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Deb and Steve Kemper moved to Boston from the suburbs and they walk. A lot. Liam and I always run into them walking. Different parts of the city. Different times of the day. Walking. We’re pretty sure they are super busy doing other really important things, but we’ve only seen them walk.

At the end of March, I [Ewa] had a wonderful trip back to Hanover with my daughter, Sara. We stayed at the Benson Inn (the Norwich location) and enjoyed catching up and hearing about adventures of various classmates from near and far. We also saw familiar faces around campus (Sally Jaeger, Steve Lubrano) and were keenly reminded of the joys that come with the mud season. I came prepared with my bright-red Sorels only to be told by Sara that they “clashed” with everything else I owned and it would be best if I cut down on fashion suicides in her presence. Did I mention that Sara is 16?

Also, those of you who told me you are planning college tours in the Boston area with your very bright children (I’m talking to you, Rob Abbe and Geri (Jin) Doran) don’t forget to give us a call. We can’t help with the colleges, but we can show you the best bubble tea places in Boston. Last, but not least, I end with Ron Will’s update as I wholeheartedly agree with his final words. “I’m still living in San Francisco after more than 20 years—and am currently the CFO of a Fintech company called Ripple Labs that provides ‘one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain.’ We are different than Ripple, the fortified wine sold by Gallo, and Ripple the dairy-free milk made of pea protein. Lastly, I’m grayer, slower, and saltier than I’ve ever been. Folks at work comment that I only seem to smile when I get to reject expense reports = you find joy where you can....” As the gray salty guy says, find joy where you can, folks. Until next time, Milli out.

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We got to poke our heads into Simon Pearce in Quechee and enjoyed a wonderful meal there. If you have not done it recently, I highly recommend it. As you wait for a table, you may find its current CEO, Jay Benson, throwing glasses up in the air to the horror of his daughters and the unsuspecting general public to see how well they handle impact with the wooden floors. One evening, the Rightmires joined us for dinner, and it was such a treat to see them. Margaret continues to spread her wisdom in the nonprofit world, and her good works have impacted many organizations in the Upper Valley. Matt gave Sara a very thoughtful treatise on the benefits of living in a small community (she is ready to move to Hanover). They are raising three wonderful kids, with the eldest, Andy, ready to take off for college next year. That should allow Margaret to join a few more boards. They are all lucky to have her. Earlier in March, I had an opportunity to see Barry Winer in DC. As ever, he is beaming with ideas and pursuing his entrepreneurial

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CL ASS NOTES visions. We spent a day at the not-so-new National Museum of African American History. If you have not seen it yet and you find yourself in Washington, run, don’t walk. It is that good. In the fall, Dean Slaughter made a visit to Boulder. It was great to see Sue Cho, who has made Denver her permanent home and has a gig helping nonprofits. Christine Iozza was there as well. We compared notes on the joys of raising teenage girls. The Orrises hosted the event, bringing the T’96 contingent to 5. Not bad for a small town! I am also grateful to all who shared their news. Amy Madsen wrote from California, “I had Paul Ollinger (T’97) perform two shows at our Los Altos Tasting Room. We own a winery called Byington Vineyard & Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains which is its own AVA—so we have two storefronts, so to speak. Paul was hugely hilarious. Everyone needs to hear his middle-class summer camp at grandpa’s routine and dishwasher musings. He is so talented. He is working full-time on a stand-up career. He’s also written books and has a podcast. At least a dozen of his classmates attended. Tuck and the awesome Renée Hirschberg, who works at Tuck, promoted the event. That night I was able to catch up with the lovely Lisa Morse and everyone’s favorite Mark Morse. I ran into Pete Cimmet for all of five minutes. I so wish it were longer. It was so great to see Pete.” How about that as a coolest gig: promoting wine, community, and laughter. Amy wins! In other news, Amy reports, “Biren Talati’s wife put on a fantastic 50th birthday party for him in Oakland, where he lives. We all had a great time. Present from our class were Alison Harapat and Noelle Weyer. He spends a lot of time skiing at Tahoe with his family. Tuck also had a big event with the dean out in Silicon Valley within the last few weeks. I didn’t see any classmates, but Helen Kurtz was one of the speakers—she is a ’97, and it was great to hear her. She is the head of marketing for Foster Farms.” In case the rest of you were wondering, Amy was paid the big bucks for reporting all of the above. Just like the rest of your faithful scribes. Alex Santos wrote that he is still playing soccer with Mike Goldwasser (Alissa’s husband) and enduring the craziness with “Tricia, Luiza, and Max.” It is my recollection, my sweet friend,

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that Tricia was the sane one. I am thrilled to hear, however, that you are still “solving business challenges through talent.” If anybody out there has a business challenge, Alex will have the talent for you. He may suggest going global. Rob Lytle also dropped me a line. “Our eldest, Jacob, whom we brought to Tuck at the age of 5 months, was recently engaged in Dallas, where he is a teacher with DISC. Cady, whom we had at Tuck, graduated last year from college and is now in Detroit with GM, babysitting engineers. Zach is now at Swarthmore, training to be socialist. Nicole and I bounce around a huge empty house and travel to visit them or entice to come with us on lavish vacations. I lured Cady to Park City for a stay at Chez Bartlett. As for changing jobs—nah. 20 years and running at EY-Parthenon, so I am thinking I will just run this one out.” Congrats on the longevity of your career, Rob, and launching your kids. Is there a Rolex at the 25-year mark? Laurie Lee wins the prize for the shortest retirement. Ever. In her own words, “After a year of practicing for retirement, I’ve taken a role at a nonprofit, The Trustees of Reservations, to work on a several revenuegenerating projects. It is a 6-month stint that may or may not lead to something more permanent. The beauty is that I can walk to the office, so really I’d be fine washing dishes.” Congrats, Laurie! I just hope that the new gig does not get in a way of annual Kate Skelly’s Maine get-together and your newly found passion for spending a lot of time on or near boats. Greg Finlay is roughing it in the great outdoors when he is not slaving at Fidelity. “Carolyn and I have 3 kids across a broad range of ages and activities keeping us very busy. Owen (12) and Declan (7) are both involved in Scouting, so there are lots of overnight trips for me—biking on Martha’s Vineyard, skiing in the White Mountains, visiting museums locally, and hiking (everywhere). Amelia (5) is studying dance and learning to ski. All of them are involved in musical endeavors—choir and piano mostly. Carolyn so far has resisted my suggestions that we get Amelia a drum set. We are looking forward to spending time this summer up on Lake Winnipesaukee. Carolyn’s family has had a camp on an island there for generations. This fall I went in with my mother on a little getaway near Mt. Sunapee in Sutton, NH, which is becoming a base of operations

for family skiing. Grandma needed a project, so we all get a project! I am in my 19th year at Fidelity (where did the time go?), currently in the Enterprise Relationships Group overseeing a range of financial service partner relationships, as well as business intelligence and other efforts.” Greg, I think you and Carolyn can expect some visitors on that island. The place sounds amazing. Here is a big shocker: the Orrises are having another wonderful international adventure. Christy writes, “The Orris family is on Semester at Sea (SAS) for a 4th time. We are SAS groupies. We sent out a New Year’s card and received a text from Shauna Thompson Simmonds to call her. We got the text the day we were sailing from Ensenada on our way across the Pacific to Japan. She said that she and her daughter wanted to go on the voyage. Even though I said that we had already left, she still pressed us on how she could join us. Perseverance pays off. Shauna and her 16year-old daughter, Hannah, joined the voyage midway in India. We are now sailing together and visiting Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco, and Amsterdam together. Shauna and I were roommates 24 years ago at Tuck. How crazy to be traveling the world together with our teenage children.” Just for the record, next time the Orrises take off, everyone is invited. With or without teenage children (especially when those start talking about “fashion suicides”; overboard they go).

Shauna and daughter Hannah at the Cradle of Humankind just outside of Johannesburg

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On the left, from front to back, Anne-Elliott (Jim’s wife), Dylan Odell (17, senior in high school), and Kristen Odell. On right, from front to back, Jenson (Jim’s daughter), Jim Nida, and Jay Odell.

The Odells also had some news. “We are in Seattle this week for a combination business trip (for me) and break for my wife and youngest son (spring break). We took advantage of being here to have lunch with 3/5 of the Nida clan. We had a great time catching up and telling some old-times stories. We were sorry we didn’t ping Karl Siebrecht to join us, who is also in Seattle. Other Odell family things going on: Our oldest son, JJ (19), is a freshman at Rice University in Houston. He is majoring in astrophysics and computer science. He loves it there, and we love hearing all about it. Kristen and I both went to Rice undergrad. Dylan is a senior in high school. He will be attending Johns Hopkins University in the fall studying neuroscience. Yes, that makes us almost empty nesters!!!! Crazy. It will be an interesting experience starting in five months. We plan to take advantage of being able to travel together more and seeing exciting places. If only work didn’t get in the way! I am still at Blackbaud (leading cloud software company focused on social good serving nonprofits, higher ed, health care, etc.). I just hit my 15-year anniversary. It’s been a great experience. I’m currently the president of our nonprofit division. Kristen has continued her role as CEO of the Odell household. She stayed at home with the kids and has clearly done a marvelous job! In November, we celebrated our 26th anniversary. I have continued my hobby/addiction to endurance events. Over the last 7 years I’ve done 6 marathons and 25+ triathlons, including a full Ironman 140.6. I’m running another marathon next month in Nevada and have 5 triathlons in the calendar for May-October. It keeps me semi-young.” Jay, hearing about all your athletic pursuits does not make me feel semi-young; it makes me feel exhausted. Well done on all fronts. Please share any wisdom on the empty nester front. I have a feeling that will be quite an adjustment.

Tim Bohdan also wrote. “I have one very interesting bit of news. My younger son Patrick, who was born at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in our second year at Tuck (yep, it’s been that long), is now a U.S. Navy officer aboard a warship, the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG-53), which is circumnavigating the globe as part of routine peacekeeping operations. During the first several months of deployment, the ship made port calls in Thailand and Bahrain. I still spend my spare time officiating the sport of lacrosse at all levels, including youth, high school, and college. Last summer I officiated a major summer high school lacrosse tournament championship final game inside the big football stadium at Ohio State University. Fernanda and I toured the California wine country in Napa Valley last fall, a trip that has always been on our bucket list. We then proceeded up the coast to Fox Island, Washington, where I gave a detailed presentation describing how the USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609), my submarine, ran aground there in 1989 (no, it wasn’t my fault). The Fox Islanders had invited Fernanda and me as part of a monthlong Navy month and Veterans Day celebration festivities.” Tim, congrats on having an officer in your midst and working your way through a bucket list.

I know Tom Marler changed jobs because here is what I got as a response to my email: “Thank you for your message. I am no longer with DentalOne Partners and have moved on to another opportunity.” Tom, we would love to know what that is! Tom’s message is only marginally better than Craig LeGrande’s, who had “limited access to email and voicemail while traveling for business.” When Dr. Paiva is not investing in companies and giving keynote speeches, he is cheering his kids on at various sports events and spending quality time with his family. He has been known to solicit alcohol drop-offs at his house around Lent, which strikes me as slightly unethical because he did not offer to share with the rest of us. Javier Rico has been carting his four gorgeous kids across the pond every year. Last summer it was tennis camp for the boys in Hanover and a camp in Iowa. What will it be this summer and can we expect a visit (please)? Tom Naughton was on campus in February participating in a panel on land conservation finance. Way to go, Tom! For all of you who have called and written, thank you from the bottom of my heart. For those who did not get a chance to be in touch this time, please let us know your comings and goings on the next round. Otherwise, Barry will be really depressed that his column is shorter than mine. Have a wonderful summer everyone!

’97 Helen Kurtz Patrick Bohdan

helenwkurtz@gmail.com

Judd Liebman judd.liebman@gmail.com

While news was short this cycle, I (Helen) will report on a few great reunions and happenings.

The Bohdan family

At the Palo Alto Tuck Difference event in April, I was joined by Kirk Hendrickson and Amer Akhtar as we celebrated Tuck and heard about updates and plans for the school. I took the stage to talk about why I give (my first & biggest) gift every year to Tuck. Erin Tunnicliffe was of course there too and modestly accepted a huge round of applause

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CL ASS NOTES on her leadership in setting another record on alumni contributions this year. Amer was trim and fit and shared his secret: the 1 minute workout. Seriously, that’s a thing, and according to Amer it led to a double-digit weight loss. Kirk sold his company and is on to the next, enjoying the Bay Area and empty nesting with his wife. I got to reminisce about DecSci with Professor Blaydon, who attended the event, and hear updates on Tony Florence’s success (in DecSci and in life). Susan Chan wrote that she “just returned to work full-time in February of last year after a long break, joining the Strategy and Risk Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.” She lamented that there has been an exodus from the Bay Area but “there aren’t many of us left in the city...although I recently ran into Tuckies in the strangest places. Last year, I saw Brian Mesic at the funeral for someone from work, and I ran into Erin Tunnicliffe in a bathrobe at a spa in Napa.” Paul Ollinger answered my panicked request for news with a characteristically awesome update: “Are you asking me to talk about myself? You know how shy I am. Well, if you insist.... Yes, lots going on with comedy. As always, Tuck folks have had my back 100%. Specifically, Tuckies came out in full support to the West Side Comedy Club NYC in December, to Los Altos Tasting Room (owned by Amy Perkel Madsen T’96 and her husband) in February, and to NYC’s Carolines on Broadway (owned by Caroline) in March. For the West Side CC, the NYC Tuck Club rallied lots of alums from other classes (thank you, Sasha Kenyon T’16 and Justin Purnell T’13) who graciously laughed at my jokes and pretended not to be offended. T’97s in attendance included Ben Braun, Graham and Cathy, Julie Moore, Beth Spruance T’96 (honorary), Dostal, and Schneiderman. Los Altos brought out Beardo, Weas, Amer, Brent A., Nadr, Herrick, and John Byun (whose jet-lagged son slept in the back through the whole thing). Bone was also there, but he was late because he went to the winery instead of the tasting room (duh). Carolines attracted Team Craver, Becky Joffrey of Ithaca, Mark Elliot, Heather (sin Cube), and Praveen (apologies if I omitted anyone). Not in attendance were Rob Gulliver and Jeff Gimby (don’t think I didn’t notice). Also, Hirose has yet to fly in from Japan for any of my shows, which is sort of rude. Can I tell you some more stuff? Earlier this year, I launched a podcast called Crazy Money. It’s

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an exploration of how our relationship with money (individually and collectively) affects our decision-making in careers, relationships, and life in general. Guests so far include Dr. Drew Pinsky (Loveline, Celebrity Rehab), Ron Lieber (NYT columnist and the author of The Opposite of Spoiled), five other NYT best-selling authors, Ed Roland (lead singer of deca-platinum artists Collective Soul), and— most notably—my dad. It’s awesome and it’s available on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. Y’all should listen to it and share it with everyone you know.”

Tuck reunion-slash-Williams ’93 reunion!

reunion! In the picture: Keith, me, Nancy Ho Foster, Matt Smith, Brian Foster, and Kristin Van Horne [Conneen]. A few other Tuckies not pictured were also there, including Nina Coslov. So great to see everyone! Hope all is well with you!”

’98 Paul Ollinger at Carolines

Doug Haar doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

’99 Paul has a podcast!

Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

That’s it for news.... I (Helen) am writing this column from Tuck Hall, where I’m late as ever in getting this column in and thrilled to be here for the Tuck Board of Advisors meeting. Vicki Craver and I do our best to represent the T’97s and love getting to catch up. All the best for a fantastic summer to you all! [Editor’s note: We have the following from the class-notes submission form at mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes] From Heather Espinosa: “Hi Helen and Judd! Just read your fantastic write-up in the most recent Tuck Today and realized that I forgot to send in this great picture from the Williams ’93 reunion in June—which also doubled as a Tuck

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia.rosenzweig@gmail.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

20TH REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

Welcome spring! After a long winter with freezing temperatures, lack of sunshine, and a dearth of T’99 class news, we were saved by one sunny note from CJ (Christian Johnson). After holding back on us for way too long, he sent

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in a lovely photo of his newly expanded clan, writing, “On Oct 31, 2018, my wife, Sonia, and I welcomed our son, Reid Christian Johnson, to the family. He joins big sister Finley, who is 4. After many years living in New York City, we moved to Darien, CT, roughly three years ago and are really enjoying our new neighborhood and being closer to golf, tennis, and the beach.” Congratulations to CJ and his brood! If anyone knows how to MacDaddy the tennis and golf circuit, it’s none other than our dear CJ!

did the New York Marathon in the fall and got to fly home with Greg Pesky as we discussed our battle wounds from the race. I don’t get to see too many Tuckies in Minneapolis, but was happy to connect with Jen Sayer for our annual Thanksgiving Phoenix meet-up and got to visit Margo Christou while on spring break! The whole family is headed to Hanover for the first time and looking forward to seeing everyone in October!”

There was some big news from Kiran Mishra Smith, who became CEO of Arnold Worldwide in July and also got featured in the last Tuck Today—not just a little mention in the class notes (grin).

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In mid-March, Kamran Pasha’s episode of Roswell, New Mexico aired on the CW network. Unfortunately, due to the geo-block treating people outside the U.S. as second-class citizens, I have to wait until my next trip north to watch it “officially.” If only there were a way I could watch it sooner *cough*VPN*cough*.

Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

CJ, wife Sonia, daughter Finley, and new son Reid Christian

And in other baby news, unless Facebook is leading us astray, it appears that Thomas Gerster has a new bouncing baby boy! He sure looks juicy and delightful, and we bet Thomas is entertaining him with that big grin 24/7. That’s about all we’ve got. Please, please send us news any time of the year and give us something to talk about. Until then, get on your Reunion plans! The date is October 4-6, and it won’t be the same without all of you. If you are on the fence, please come—you won’t regret it. There’s always that friend who you forgot how much you enjoyed, and the years only make re-connection that much more meaningful. Hope to see you there. [Editor’s note: We received the following at mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes] From Kara Rocheleau Lazarus: “Greetings from Minneapolis! The Lazarus family is doing well. Lucia (12) and Theodore (8) are keeping Ben and me on our toes and running from swimming pool to hockey rink to the soccer field. My market-research business is almost 15 years old and is still going strong! I just cross-country skied the American Birkebeiner (the largest race in North America) and had so much fun. Saw Peter Milliken’s name on the results but, sadly, didn’t run into him. I also

Johanna Myers McChesney and Nina Coslov created Women Living Better, a website about the ins and outs of perimenopause. Check out the site if you or someone in your family is (or will soon be) going through this stage in life. (womenlivingbetter.org)

Although most of you are already on the Tuck2000 Facebook Group (in which case some of this news is a bit old hat), we are still getting new members. Kotaro Tanaka recently came out of stealth mode to join the group, and if you are reading this and feeling left out, let me know. In January, David Ehrich’s venture, Petal, raised $13M in Series A funding to give starter credit cards to millennials. This was covered in a Forbes article linked from our Facebook group. Check it out.

Ecofibre CTO Alastair and CEO Eric at the Australian Securities Exchange

There is also a nice photo in the Facebook group of Brian Ries and Barak Bar-Cohen, who managed to catch up for dinner in Princeton while Brian was on a business trip. Similarly, there were a couple of little T’00 reunions in Japan. One with Ace Suzuki, Renato Carvalho, and Carla Marchese and another with Kotaro Tanaka and Sherilyn Butler. I think Tokyo is becoming the #1 international destination for get-togethers. There seems to be something going on every time I write these up. It seems that just like David Hasselhoff, T’00s are big in Japan! Around Thanksgiving, Gates Bryant, Nate Lewis, and Andy Kuo caught up in front of a Hamilton poster, so I can only assume they saw the show after taking the photo. Also, Eric Wang, Amy (Duly) McKeough, and my families caught up at Eric’s house for the usual summer-weather version of Thanksgiving-bythe-sea in Sydney.

Alastair and Eric ringing the trading-kickoff bell

On March 29, Ecofibre Limited (EOF.AX) became the first T’00-managed business to list its shares on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with CEO Eric Wang and

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CL ASS NOTES yours truly as CTO ringing the bell to kick off trading. Although Ecofibre and its subsidiaries produce all sorts of products that T’00 alumni could benefit from, I would suggest that our Bliss product may have the broadest appeal (especially JM :). https://anandahemp.com/ bliss/ — We’ve arranged a special coupon for Tuckies; try anandafriend. Have a blissful time until our next issue!

’01 Gail Perrault gperreault7@gmail.com

A big perk of taking on class notes has been getting the chance to reconnect with classmates I’d fallen out of touch with. JeanStephane Yansouni fits this description. In addition to reminiscing about being in firstsemester study group together (remember that amazing meal he and his wife Marissa made for us when they hosted our study session, Beth Holland Athanasoulas, Eric Haley, and Matt Umscheid?), Jean also shared this update on home and work life: “Marissa and I are both doing well, and are still living in Montreal with our two kids, Emilie (16) and Nicholas (12). I’m nearing my 15th year with Champlain Financial Corporation, the private equity firm that my partners and I started—where I’ve been since leaving McKinsey in 2005. We invest in stable, old-economy-type businesses ranging from things like maple syrup and seafood to canned soup and tractors—basically investing in anything that an 11-year-old can understand and that generates cash.” I also reconnected with Guillermo MacLean. Attention Boston friends—Guillermo makes it to Boston once or twice a month, so reach out and get on his coffee/drinks/dinner rotation. He’d love to catch up. Guillermo wrote: “I go to Boston mostly because my oldest son Santi (who was 2 years old when we started Tuck) is graduating from Emerson College (acting) this May/June. But he is staying in Boston to start off his acting career in the Boston theater scene. My second son Ale (who was 9 months old when we started Tuck) is a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and we

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also visit him quite often since he plays soccer for the school. And in addition to the two boys, we have two girls (a junior in high school and an eighth grader), so we still have for five more years before an empty nest.” My class notes role aside, one T’01 I’ve had the good fortune of staying in regular touch with is Rachael Parsons. Rach sent in this update from beautiful Carmel Valley in late March: “Thank you to all the Tuckies who have visited me at Parsonage Vineyard over the years! After years of drought, fires, and heatwaves, the vineyard is green, healthy, and happy thanks to the most rain we’ve seen in many years. I don’t want to jinx anything, but we’re crossing our fingers for a ‘normal’ harvest this year. Bud break has just started, and everything looks awesome. And for anyone who remembers the botrytis case study from our first year, it took 15 years but we did finally get a bit of botrytis a few years ago and made a delicious dessert wine from those vines. I hope all is well with everyone, and please give me a shout if you’re ever in Carmel Valley!” Secretary’s note: Parsonage has a wine club (I am a member), and their wines are delicious.

“Bud break” at Parsonage Vineyard

Gretchen Ki Steidle wrote in with exciting news on both the family and career fronts: “I’m still leading my nonprofit, Global Grassroots, which operates a mindfulness-based leadership program and social venture incubator for women survivors of war in East Africa. Michael Sullivan sits on our board, and we are seeking other interested board members in case any Tuckies want to join us! Also, after the publication of my new book last year, Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation, I just launched a new business, Circles for Conscious Change, LLC, which works with social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and corporations on

the use of mindfulness as a social innovation design tool. In personal news, I recently got engaged to an amazing man, Daniel Ellis (getting married in June), moved to Ashland, Oregon, and gave birth to our son, William Steidle Ellis, on February 15th. My daughter Avery (7) is enamored with her little brother, and we are loving living on 170 acres in the mountains. We have lots of space, so please come visit!”

Gretchen Steidle’s 7-year-old daughter Avery and newborn son William

Gretchen wasn’t the only one moving house. Zak Gaibi and his family have just returned from another four-year international stint. This time they relocated from sunny Sydney, Australia, to northern New Jersey (Zak’s commentary: “oh my!”). Zak is looking to reconnecting with folks “once the moving dust settles.” And Asi De Silva shared the news that Steve Bonz has moved to Singapore after many years in Manila. Asi pointed out that, “Half the Hawk’s Nest in Singapore now!”

Asi De Silva and Steve Bonz at Singapore Tuck ’Tails

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Gina Clark des Cognets shared “big news from up north”—she’s a student again: “I am still working full-time and am getting my doctorate in education from Vanderbilt (Peabody) in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. The program is taught mostly online. I have two live classes each week plus ‘asynchronous’ classwork and assignments that I can do on my own time. I am enjoying it even more than I expected, although am also juggling my work/ home/school commitments even more than I expected. I have even more respect for our T’01 classmates who were married with kids during our program—you all made it look easy! Please all be in touch if/when you are in the neighborhood—and I will do the same.” In the last edition of class notes, Cristina Ljungberg shared that she and her family had headed out on a yearlong “learning journey.” This time she wrote in with an update on their adventures together: “Greetings from the road. You can find us in Buenos Aires until June. We have been on the move through Latin America for eight months now, becoming experts at living with little and struggling to homeschool the four boys, work, and keep everyone fed and clean-ish. All in all, magical. It’s been an incredible experience to spend this time together and seeing a handful of Tuckies along the way.” Liz Walles Duda continues to stay active in her community: “I am working with my son on his 6th grade ‘Pay It Forward’ project to plan a community ‘Bike Safety Rodeo’—to teach kids safe bicycling and introduce them to a new neighborhood dirt trail. At work, I am training to become a ‘Fed Ambassador,’ to be able to share Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond information and messages publicly—a really interesting training opportunity for me. Tuckrelated, the Tuck Club of the Carolinas (which I co-chair with Brian Murdock T’05) held a reception during Andy Steele’s recent visit to Charlotte; we enjoyed visiting with Professor Ella Bell and her husband, local alumni, and a new admitted student and his wife.” Sadly, for the second column in a row, I’ll close with a tribute to a classmate who has passed away. David Cook succumbed to some longstanding health issues this past September. His sister, Cynthia Cook, reflecting on Dave’s Tuck days, shared that “he enjoyed his time in New Hampshire, and had a number of really great anecdotes about his time there.”

Several of you sent in kind words and special memories for Dave’s family. There was the time during a Tuck visit to NYC banks that he went out of his way to introduce Happy Hazelton Daily to a banker he thought could help her land a summer internship on a syndicate desk. And there was the time he taught Daisy Liu how to make “proper pasta, step by step”—with “pasta Dave’s way” still being a dish she makes for her teenage son and daughter. Then there were the many hungry-man breakfasts he and Eric Grorud enjoyed together at Four Aces Diner, with Dave converting Eric from black coffee to coffee with cream. Keeping with the culinary theme, Cynthia sent along the following request of us: “Dave loved good food and drink, so we ask everyone to remember him and raise a glass at their next nice dinner out.” We’ll miss you, Dave.

’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

Amy Gillin amy.gillin@bayer.com

This installment of class notes is brief but rich with happy news. From China, Sarah Millard writes (on behalf of her and Louie Cheng): “Colby Maxwell Cheng was born December 2018 in Kiev, Ukraine, making us eligible for a dependent deduction on our taxes! Kiev was beautiful; the snow and general weather reminded us of NH winters, and the food was amazing. Took a few weeks to get a US passport issued for him & then the Chinese visa (because the Chinese embassy said he was a ‘nationality conflict baby’), but everything finally came through and we came back home to Shanghai, where we’ve been for 12 years. He’s settling in here well, but our 3 cats aren’t adjusting to the increased noise!” Needless to say, Louie made things exciting by sending me a bunch of WhatsApp photos of

Tuck Tuck Colby!

this adorable baby without any accompanying explanation. A few “fun” text exchanges later surfaced the very happy and out-of-left-field news, especially given that Sarah and I tried (unsuccessfully) to connect in NH this past summer. Next time, I will definitely make that happen, Sarah. Congratulations and best wishes (for sleep especially!) to you both! Dave VanderSchee missed the last class notes deadline by a week, so here is a (now dated) update: “We are still in Colorado and enjoy all it has to offer! We’re quickly (and reluctantly) moving into the next phase of life as our son Nicholas has graduated high school and is in first year at Montana State U studying civil engineering. Our daughter Lindsay is a senior and is eagerly exploring college options. We had a wonderful visit with the Stemple/ Whiteley family in early October as they were on vacation through California and Colorado. We invite all Tuckies to Colorado for some wonderful skiing or summer hiking!” I will also add that I recently saw a FB post from Dave announcing that Lindsay was accepted and will matriculate at the University of Victoria (Vancouver, British Columbia) next fall—congratulations to Lindsay and proud parents!! In closing, some very welcome news is that Amy Gillin has generously volunteered to join me as a class secretary. This was just as unexpected as Sarah and Louie’s baby news, and I’m sure you all share in my joy (yes, joy) at having a new voice on these pages. I will also guess that Amy doesn’t procrastinate and miss deadlines like others (ahem) do.

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CL ASS NOTES Amy and Pete live in South Bend, Indiana, with Henry (12) and Clara (8). Amy has been with Bayer for 12 years in Supply Chain/Logistics, filling a variety of roles but always around process and/or technology. While we were on the phone recently, catching up about life and the class-secretary role, Amy mentioned something offhandedly—and so modestly— about an award. So I Googled it. I will leave you all with the following on Amy Gillin, 2019 recipient of the South Bend Regional Chamber ATHENA Award, which was presented at a sold-out ceremony whose attendees included Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb. It won’t surprise you, but I hope it will inspire you! (And welcome, Amy, to class notes!) South Bend Regional Chamber 2019 ATHENA Award (https://www. sbrchamber.com/news/2019/02/13/default/ salute-to-business-2019-recap-sold-outrecord-crowd-conversation-with-the-governor5-awards-presented/) “Amy Gillin is one of those unassuming leaders that simply goes about her work, yet not recognizing the impact she is making not only with her job performance but also with the people she interacts with. It’s those people who laud her tireless commitment to collaboration and talent development. “For nearly 12 years, Amy has worked in various capacities at Bayer focusing on organizational effectiveness. She is currently the director of Order-2-Cash (O2C) Process Excellence with Bayer U.S., Customer Logistics. In this role, she builds organizational capability and operational excellence through continuous improvement, process expertise, robotics process automation, learning and development, training, recruiting and university relations. “Described as an influential role model and driver of diversity and inclusion at the Bayer Edison Lakes site, she is the executive sponsor for the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) and the Customer Logistics Service Center (CLSC) Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) team. As the sponsor for each group, she’s responsible for coaching these team members and acting as the facilitator when necessary to resolve problems or stimulate action. “In her first two years of executive sponsorship of the WLI and the D&I teams, not only has she provided development opportunities for the members, but she has doubled membership and extended the company’s footprint within the community by growing the partnerships 118

with the American Cancer Society, Food Bank of Northern Indiana and local food trucks. “Amy also supports the newly founded Future Leaders Group at the CLSC, which is comprised of GenZ and Millennial employees who aim to positively impact the organization by sharing their unique perspectives with the leadership team. “Within the Customer Logistics organization, Amy mentors more than 10 women, offering the mentees resources and advice for developmental purposes. A colleague shared, ‘As a young woman just starting my career, you can really be intimidated. I was lucky to feel at ease when I started thanks to Amy. From the start, I had a mentor unlike any other. She found ways to get me involved in the organization in different leadership roles that I know, in turn, will help advance me in my professional career.’”

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lots of business with the Tuck School at present (pre-term adventure trips to Peru and Croatia, and study tours to Morocco) and happy to count several T’03s as clients as well!! Family life is buuuuusyyyyy.... If you want to catch up with Andrea and me, your best bet is to find us in an ice rink somewhere near you as we are basically unpaid Uber drivers, running Zach and Ty and their hockey gear all over the place!” I heard from Mike Curley, who moved to Vero Beach, FL a couple years back to start a wealthmanagement business at Morgan Stanley. Mike, his wife Cathy, and sons Jack (10) and Chris (8) are thoroughly enjoying small-town beach living. He also caught up with a few of our classmates over dinner at the Olympic Club.... From Frank Truslow: “Been a busy three years for me: Got married to my amazing wife Nicole. Bought and renovated a place in Brooklyn. Had two children Teddy (2 years old) and Thomas (3 weeks old). Still working a pharma company in Manhattan doing business development/M&A, though we were Forest Laboratories and now Allergan through a series of mergers.”

Brian Feltz feltz.brian@gmail.com

Okay, gang. Since I’m behind schedule on this submission deadline—and about a dozen other things (one of these days I’ll learn to say no to a client!), this “copy-and-paste” edition of our T’03 class notes will be pretty light on scintillating editorial commentary. It’s just as well I suppose—since after last issue’s masterful Reunion write-up, anything I write here is sure to be a letdown. So I might as well make it count. That said, I realize you’ve gotten accustomed to an extremely high degree of quality from me, and rightly so. So let me assure you that our next issue will be back up to snuff, filled with the witty wordcraft you’ve come to expect and appreciate. I promise I won’t let you down again. Unless you’re one of the guys I occasionally play pub trivia with.... (Mike Conlon, Peter May, Sean Ruhmann: I promise I will let you down again soon!) And with that, having deftly managed your expectations, let’s see what some of our classmates have been up to.... Our friendly entrepreneurial neighbor to the north, Chris Clark, writes that his “travel venture—Terraficionados—is pumping. Doing

Matt Sitter, Mike Curley, Owen DeHoff, and Josh Richter. Buds.

[Secretary’s note: Frank shared this update quite a while ago. Teddy is now a first-year at Tuck.] Elsewhere in NYC, David Garrison writes: “The kids are still doing well, Remède (the clinic) continues to grow, and Brytemoore seems to have hit its stride working with leaders on difficult brand problems. This past year’s seen us working with clients in technical spaces—financial RegTech, biotech, and healthcare data—which I’ve really been enjoying. Big news is that, by the time everyone reads this, we’ll have released the first edition

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of The Brytemoore Notes, a new kind of journal for leaders. It’s been inspiring (and great fun) to make. We’ve even included a few Tuck connections (Danos, Finkelstein, Cathy Kim Walker, Lisa Danzig T’04...)! Initial response has been positive. Looking forward to sharing with you. More excitement to come.... “This is our second year splitting the summer between NYC and Maine, which has been wonderful and challenging both. We’re in a good spot.... In recent Tuckie sightings, I had a Reunion warm-up coffee in Bryant Park with John Ruth last week. Sounds like he’s onto something good with his tax-exempt bond offerings idea. Excited to see him grow it!”

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[Secretary’s note: “Second year” is now “third year” – and “last week” is now “several months ago.” Did I mention I’m behind schedule?] From the East Coast to the Far East, we hear from Hiroshi Hashiguchi: “I am running my own sports-tech start-up company in Tokyo. My clients include Japan’s national teams of rugby, soccer, volleyball, and many others. I am planning to do an IPO within a couple of years. Besides, I am teaching at a graduate school at Keio University in Tokyo. I visited Tsuyoshi Togo’s house in NJ together with my students in the last year. “My daughter, Moe, is now 19 years old (of course, she was 4 when we left Hanover). My son, Yotaro, is 14. My partner, Makiko, is doing great. She is running her business and in a lot of TV shows in Japan. I visited Hanover 2 years ago for the first time since graduating, in the middle of a business trip, and visited 5 Olde, Tuck Circle, Campion and Thompson arenas, Sachem Village, and many memorable places. Was so so nostalgic...I miss you guys and Tuck days...Cannot wait to see you at our 20-year reunion!”

• Competed in my first Olympic distance triathlon • Kids turned 18 (Dan) and 13 (Ella). Dan is applying to colleges now (he was 1 when we started at Tuck!) • Dogs turned 15 (Jackson—yes, the puppy you met at Tuck) and 3 (Leroy Brown) • Started as COO of Takeoff Technologies, a Series B start-up transforming the e-grocery space.Life is crazy again as I’m back to work figuring out how to grow the operations from 1 site to hundreds of sites in the next 12-18 months. I’m so thankful for all the support from my Tuck classmates as I was exploring and evaluating options for my next career move. Hope to see many more of you before our next reunion!

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Jackson and Leroy Brown

Ryan, Neema, the Mayhugh boys, and the triumphant return of the Dawg Van

to spend some time at the vet to get ready for the last home game of the year on December 23rd. It will be in tip top shape for the home opener in September. There is still room on the Browns bandwagon, but it is filling up fast.”

The feeling is most definitely mutual, Hiroshi! In the meantime, Hiroshi and his T’03 compatriots have been bringing a strong Reunion game of their own.... Nearby are a couple pics from some recent T’03 Tokyo gatherings, courtesy of Tsuyoshi Togo and current expat Laura Vogel! (More on that next issue...eh Laura?)

From Laura Scott via the class-notes submission form online: “It was so fun to spend time with our Tuck classmates at the reunion! Wanted to share some updates as 2018 has been a big year for us. I’ll put it in high skim value format for you:

Meanwhile, back stateside, some important and exciting news out of the Cleve! Ryan Mayhugh writes: “Browns fever is official. After spending a few years with a friend, Neema and I are happy to report that our tailgate vehicle (The Dawg Van) is back where it belongs. It needed

• Left Wayfair after 9 years building the operation for 24x growth ($250M to $6B) • Took 6 months off—amazing, I highly recommend it • Hosted ~30 Boston area T’03s at our new summer house in Hull, MA

Dan and Ella Orem

Finally for now, Fernando Maddock shared a photo from a recent [no longer recent] Maddock-Jacobson ski jaunt in Colorado. The picture looks so perfect, I was sure it was fake. Turns out it was taken by a camera that isn’t also a phone. I didn’t realize people still used those, but I guess I can see why....

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Jack Lee, Erik and Shay Brine, Gonzalo Martin, and Valeria Aloe catch up at Murphy’s

Fernando and Alexa Maddock, Ian and Jessica Jacobson, and assorted uncredited offspring

Alright y’all—that’s it for now. Until next time.... Keep being awesome, and keep those awesome updates coming!

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

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Greetings everyone, I hope this update finds all of you happy, healthy, and thriving. While time sure flies, this winter has felt like one of the longest ones I can remember, even by Hanover standards. But, as a Northern California resident, I wouldn’t go so far as to complain about getting massive amounts of rain. And I can definitely hear sad-song violins playing for me from the cold Northeast. Speaking of which, our returning champion, Jack Lee, chimes in with a couple of T’04 sightings from his neck of the woods. Jack randomly bumped into Kjetil Birkeland and his son in the parking lot at Lui Lui. They were

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passing through on the way back from skiing at Stowe. In the other instance, “Gonzalo Martin and Valeria Aloe let us know that they were in Hanover to ski with their two great kids. Erik and Shay Brine and I met them up at Murphy’s for some catching up and debrief on their day at the Dartmouth Skiway.” Katherine Greig moved to London in August (2018) with her husband and their two boys but continues to work remotely for the Wharton Risk Management Center on natural hazard risk and resiliency. “Highlights of my recent work include a couple of papers analyzing the CA wildfire damages associated with utilities, contributing to the Adaptation chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment released in November, and serving as a committee member on the National Academy of Sciences’ urban flooding study released in March.”

Jack Lee and Kjetil Birkeland’s chance run-in

Todd Newman is now the VP for innovation at Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. This requires him to split his time between the Dallas and Boston HQs. “(I) tried like hell to stay in San Diego, but the career gods had other designs. I’m setting up in Dallas, and fingers are crossed that Heather and the boys will eventually join me!”

We have an update from Duncan Chapple, who has assumed a new role as associate director at CCgroup, a transatlantic public relations agency. “I’m helping to grow the business through to a sale. I work in London two days a week, but love living in Edinburgh.”

Stefan Muehlemann graces us with a shortand-sweet update. He writes, “It’s simple but significant: I’m getting old, bald and fat. Working less and making more has not worked out. It’s the other way around.” Sorry to hear it, Stefan. You were one of my last hopes on all those fronts.

Duncan also asks, “What are the logistics for the 15th anniversary reunion? Might I be able to take part?” Absolutely, Duncan! Please see some details at the end of this piece.

There has been some change on my end. I left my job at the end of the year and have spent some time traveling, connecting with family, recharging, and thinking about what’s next. I

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have stepped up my jiu-jitsu training in hopes of getting closer to my blue belt. Last year I competed in 4 tournaments and I’m getting ready for this coming season. No chance of becoming a professional MMA fighter due to my propensity for getting injured in my sleep, so there’s no doubt that my next job will likely require my laptop, my computer glasses, and massive quantities of coffee. Now on to the 15-year reunion, which will be on October 4th-6th, 2019. Please check your inbox for emails from the Alumni Engagement Team, providing more information about registration, activities and events, and opportunities to volunteer as a member of the Fun Committee for our class. If you have questions about reunion, you can also email Julie Hinman (julie.hinman@tuck.dartmouth. edu) or call (603) 646-0694.

Wojtek and Samantha wedding That’s the end of this update edition. I wish you everyone a great summer, and please send your news! Please note that you can now send a note via the new class-notes submission form Dora was willing to stick around for a little (http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_ while with me. She did, so I joined and here notes), or you can also continue to send them we are. to my email address (frankarias97@gmail.com). —Frank Arias, T’04 “I also made a promise to myself at the beginning of the year to make more of an effort to keep in touch more with former classmates, family, and friends. Life can get hectic. It’s rather easy to get lost in the minutiae of getting the kids off to school, going to work, taking the kids to activities, and basic family priorities of day-to-day living. Many times, things don’t necessarily take a lot of time to fulfill. Often a Shawn Card quick text, call, or email is all it takes. It’s not shawn.d.card.tu05@dartmouth.edu much to send a text, call, or email but it can be difficult to simply take the second to do it. Dora Fang Taking on the responsibility of helping pull dorafang@gmail.com together updates for our class was a way to force myself into behavior I really want to work on improving. Welcome Shawn Card, my [Dora’s] new coconspirator! Here’s a quick note from him on “Thank you, Francis Barel for all of the hard “why” he’s here! work you put in over the years! You hung in there for a really long time and published some “I am very excited to be joining Dora as a class great stuff for our class! rep to pull together our T’05 class notes! Through the years I have read class notes with the general expectation that I would see Dora’s “As Dora and I try to move things forward, we hope to add in a couple of new creative things. and Francis’s names as the reps who put in the We also hope to hear from all of you! The more work to pull together class notes for us—every information you share with us the better class time appreciating the level of work it took to update we can share with you. It does not take pull it together and wondering how the hell much; a 10-second text, a 2-minute email, or they did it over the last eight years of doing a 5-minute call to catch up is all it takes every it! I figured I would give it a go since Francis once in a while. decided it was time to move on; but only if

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A few words from me (Dora!) “super excited to have Shawn join me in this labor of love, and wanted to add a few things to his note. (not *quite* sure how he roped me into staying, but here we are…!) we took this opportunity to rethink/reinvent/be inspired by other classes’ innovations in ‘how’ these updates can look. “we will, of course, ALWAYS, happily publish the news you submit to us at 2005tuckies@ gmail.com or via the Tuck web form at http:// mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes— and we’ve decided to create a new format for these notes!” Class note submissions: Bill Dering – “Dering family moved to Dallas in January after 10 years in Michigan. Still plan to spend summers in pure Michigan. Started new job. All good. Holler if coming through....” Wojtek Wolski – “For about 8 yrs, I haven’t provided any updates to Tuck Today, and here I am sending an update for the second consecutive time. On July 8, 2014, I got married to my wife, Samantha, in a small and intimate ceremony with immediate family in Mauritius. We celebrated our honeymoon on a safari and visited Victoria Falls in Africa. Attached is a pic of us tying the knot.” For our new format, we thought about how we could simultaneously increase

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CL ASS NOTES “interesting-ness” and inclusion (classmates we haven’t heard from), while decreasing the WORK we have to do and effort involved. Nice goal, eh? Well, we think we’ve done it! We’re going to be reaching out to specific classmates (and YOU are welcome to volunteer or suggest someone you’d like to hear from!) with 5 questions for each issue. We aim to include 3-5 classmates in each issue, and hope that this new format will drive depth and connection in a new way! Please enjoy our inaugural 4 (me, Shawn, Ethan, Carolyn)! Dora Fang 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? “in San Francisco (again), after living in 13 places (total), SF is the only place on the list that is a ‘repeat.’ the fun, whimsy, art, music, food, culture, energy, drive, and enthusiasm are unbeatable --- along with great access to wine country, Pacific Coast, Yosemite, and Tahoe. it is, however, a struggle to co-exist with compassion around the increasingly visible inequality issues....” 2. Tell us a Tuck story “service project when we started as 1st years...we were painting playground equipment in teams, and through alphabetical ordering, the group was Yixin (Cindy) Fan, Dora Fang, Christian Fong, Malik Franklin. we discovered that we all had connections to China and (differing levels of) Mandarin Chinese language skills!” 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church etc. in addition to professional) “happy and proud to close out my 1st season back to playing USTA League tennis (after a 14 month break due to snowboarding injury MCL sprain) with a 70% win record in 3.5 singles, including a winning streak of the last 6 matches in a row!!!” 4. (optional) Any surprising twists after school? “i actually thought i’d be working my way up through the leadership development program at Harley-Davidson. instead, i’ve won the ‘most jobs’ award at both the 5 year and 10 year

reunions. life continues to laugh at me when i try to make ‘plans.’” Shawn Card 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? “Living in the DC area now; in Silver Spring, MD, one of the towns in Maryland or northern Virginia where you cross the street and you’re in DC after crossing. Was in DC right before Tuck, moved to Cleveland for a year after graduation, and came right back to the DC area. We love many things about the DC area. It’s an international city, offers tons of culture (most museums are free thanks to all of your tax dollars), great schools, really close and easy to access other major cities such as Philly, NYC, and Boston, weather is decent (a bit more south so it warms up a little sooner and gets cold a bit later but still get all 4 seasons), etc., etc., etc....” 2. Tell us a Tuck story “Well, I was just reminded of a Tuck story that I did not fully recall. Was in Vail for a weekend about a month ago attending CarniVail with Ethan Martin and Joe Newsum. While we were on one of the ski lifts up the mountain, Joe reminded me of a bit of a crazy night of dinner and drinks at his place with Tim Grein and all three of our wives. Apparently there was a sake tasting event at Tuck that Tim and I went to before dinner at Joe’s. Of course after getting to Joe and Valerie’s place the drinking continued, which led to a full-on spilling of my guts of my great love for my wife (that part of course is a good thing, as drinking can be a bit of a truth serum for me, lol) and after tons of deep (drunk) conversation (me, not Erica; she does not drink) me caving in to her desire to try to start a family in the near term even though I wanted to wait until a year or two after graduation. Cut to credits, we found out Erica was pregnant literally the day after graduation!” 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church etc. in addition to professional) “Recently started a small private equity real estate company (I say small because it’s literally just me until I can raise a bit of capital to begin hiring a few needed employees). The general

premise is to invest in exceptional women and minority development partners (their businesses and their real estate projects). Came to a realization about this being a problem I thought needed solving about 8 years or so ago when I was the CFO and VP of investments at a minority-owned development shop in DC. Before I joined, most of their deals were funded by friends and family. However, we wanted to do more and bigger deals: deals that required bigger checks than we could get from just friends and family. Started getting in front of institutional investors. While we checked all the boxes—great track record, ability to take care of back office and proper reporting, team of well experienced, talented and educated people and a strategy well proven with a strong chance of continued success (as a fiduciary you always need to say that past performance is not a guarantee of future performance so I just said it...lol)—we were not getting the kind of traction that other non-minority firms were getting. We did eventually start to get traction, but it took much longer than we were seeing in the market for non-minority organizations. In most cases these non-minority firms had weaker track records, no staff or relationships with other groups who provided back office/ reporting support to them, not nearly as qualified a team, nor a differentiated investment strategy. Yet still capital came to them much more easily. So for years I pondered what I thought was a solution to this problem and decided the best solution was not to fix just one portion of the equation but to take a holistic approach to solving this problem of access to capital for women and minority developers. The solution entails not just providing capital for their projects (that can take the form of equity and/or debt) but to also provide working capital and strategic support for their organizations to build great teams and going concern development shops positioned to grow. I am at the very beginning stages of this journey having now started to source development partners to invest in and capital to invest so welcome all the help my fellow Tuckies have to offer (advice or investment capital, lol).” 4. (optional) Any surprising twists after school? “My surprising twist after school was mentioned a bit earlier. We found out Erica was pregnant literally the day after school was fully and

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completely ended. You can’t get any more immediately “after school” than the very next day after school was over for all of us!” 5. (optional) Fun fact *or* who would you like to hear from next? “I have some people in mind who I would like to hear from next but given the fact that Dora and I will be pulling together future entries for Tuck Today for our class of T’05s, I will reserve my thoughts, as I hope we hear from all of you as to who you would like to hear from next and we will work to make it so.” Ethan Martin 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? “Boulder, CO—the mountains, the people and the entrepreneurial spirit of the West.” 2. Tell us a Tuck story “Had an awesome time skiing Vail with Joe Newsum and Shawn Card in February.” 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church etc. in addition to professional) “Launched an innovative educational foundation—leveraging the power of STEM education to improve and mentor underserved students. We use of a team of teams model to provide leadership support, industry collaboration, and resources for the social enterprises leading programs in the Aviation Community Foundation network. It is a fun way to pay it forward and leverage the growth tools we use for the high-growth missiondriven companies we coach through PFD Group.” 4. (optional) Any surprising twists after school? “Grateful for my amazing wife Kate and our two boys, Andrew (8) and Sam (3).” Carolyn Ball 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? “Right now I live in Hopkinton, MA. Randomly, some website just ranked us the safest city in the US, so we have that going for us! www. safewise.com/safest-cities-america/”

Ethan Martin, Joe Newsum, and Shawn Card at CarniVail

“It IS super quiet and my neighbors are very friendly. Our little town is famous for exactly one half-day per year when it hosts the start line of the Boston Marathon. The helicopters, loudspeakers, and media are just buzzing from about 7am onward. The local high school hosts the athletes’ village and the town population triples on race day. I can watch the race from the end of my street—and living here sort of got me into running. One of my neighbors (who also ran Boston) said it’s like living at the bottom of a mountain and never climbing it—so I signed up with a charity in 2016 and ran!” 2. Tell us a Tuck story “Best memory was Glen Tuck spring break 2005. We drank lots and lots of whiskey in Scotland. All over Scotland. We had breakfast whiskey, lunch whiskey, pre-dinner whiskey, dinner whiskey, and after-dinner whiskey. Nothing better than tooling around the Highlands with (drunk) classmates!” 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church etc. in addition to professional) “Ran marathon #5 last November. New York! (Shhh...don’t tell anyone, but I actually liked the NYC Marathon better than Boston). Twice the size and twice the fun. I’ve signed up for two more this year. Wish me luck! (Unfortunately I was in tough shape after NYC, so you’ll have to do with a pic from my 2017 Chicago finish) :-) “ 4. (optional) Any surprising twists after school? “Worked my first job after Tuck for 12+ years. Mid-size company was bought by a giant company and it became drudgery. Now I work

Carolyn Ball at the 2017 (yes, see the text...) Chicago marathon

for a start-up and I’ve never worked so hard in my life. The hours are crazy and the workload is intense.” 5. (optional) Fun fact *or* who would you like to hear from next? “Wow—that’s a good one. Actually—Francis Barel! He (and you) ran the column for so long, I want to hear more about his life in Paris!” And, that’s a wrap for this new format—please let us know your thoughts! Loyally yours, Dora and Shawn.

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

Thanks to everyone who responded to Kummell’s last-minute plea for class notes submissions. Except Ezequiel Strachan. Cheche just wrote in to make fun of Kummell’s Yahoo! email address.

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CL ASS NOTES Back in fall 2014, Adam Bernstein wrote an 18-word submission announcing a new child. And that’s giving him credit for the “20th” and the “2014” in Nicholas’s birthday. Well folks, we’re here to announce a new entrant in the “How Few Words Can I Use To Announce Something Important” contest here at Tuck Today. Eleven words. Eleven words from Damali Rhett: “I am getting married where Cristina Tejeda will be in attendance.” This is what texting and Twitter have done to our generation. Imagine what it’s going to be like when our kids graduate from Tuck and send in their own TT submissions: “Cooper Manning T’36 wrote in: ‘baby emoji July 15, 2041.’” (After a bit of nagging and noting that Damali had spent more words describing a sinkhole in Philly, she came back with the following submission.) “Did you know Damali wrote poetry? Neither did we. But apparently it was enough to win the heart of a man a thousand miles away. After reading her words, her intended decided to move from Barbados to America to put a ring on it. So down to the sands of Key Largo in a whirlwind courtship involving hundreds of miles the navigation of the perils of many dozens (hundreds?) of visas to the USA. They even hashtagged their relationship #RegardingtheHardings” Yes Damali wrote about herself in the third person and we copied and pasted into our Word doc. Dude, she’s a poet, we ain’t messin’ with that! Nakisa Bidarian sent in his third or fourth Tuck Today submission. “In 2018 I invested in and sit on the board of a music label, where we had our first number 1 song by year end. Music has always been my first love. As of today we have 18 artists signed. Label is called Hitco.” (and the song was “That’s On Me” by Yella Beezy—you should YouTube it) Oh, and of course another classmate, Kevin Demoff chief operating officered (yes, that’s a verb, we swear!) the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl! Whoever would have expected our alumni newsletter to be full of number one hits and Super Bowls? Mark Nuckols wrote in for the second class notes in a row. Only it was basically the exact same thing he wrote to us last time. He’s on TV in Russia! He’s pro USA and says lots of controversial things and has arguments in Russian! He now writes to Kummell 2-3 times a week with some combination of Russian folk

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music, criticisms of spoiled Ivy League alums, and trash talk about Trump. He has a Hotmail account and appreciates Kummell’s Yahoo! account. Kummell walked past a guy who looked just like Dan Rinehart in Grand Central Station recently so reached out for an update...beware that this is what happens when one of your class secretaries sees your doppelgänger! Oh, right, Dan’s update: “Fam is still doing well in Fort Collins. Edward is 12 and just started middle school in the fall. Started playing lacrosse a couple years ago and he’s surpassed his dad in stick work. Helen and Eliza are 10 (next week) and 8, still going to the same charter Montessori elementary here in town. They started lax last fall and are loving it. Ski season is here and looks like a good one. Hope to get up next weekend. Betsy is good too, although she feels like a single mom about half the time with all my travels. Your note came in while I was in Vietnam and then China. Crazy week. Outside of the recent uptick in travel, Danaher has been great for me, looking to hit 7 years this summer, which would be 2x my previous longest stop. They gave me another role last summer, leading marketing for one of our businesses, along with the M&A job. Thankfully, they finally have a backfill for the acquisition job, so I will be down to one job next quarter. I have been leading recruiting at Tuck too so have been able to get up 2-3x/year, which is fun. Bummer about Canoe though.” After four years, Jen Sikes is ditching Connecticut. “We are relocating to Dallas, TX, with our two girls: Ida, who is 3 years old, and Jane who is 10 months. My husband, Scott, works with ATW (based in Richardson, TX) and I continue my role as global communications director with Generation, a youth employment nonprofit that was founded by McKinsey. Since I joined, we’ve grown from a couple of pilot programs to more than 26,000 graduates in 10 countries and are now expanding into reskilling midcareer workers. We have ambitious plans to have greater and greater impact on a really significant social issue, and it continues to be a lot of fun. (Shameless plug: we are always looking for new employer partners who need great entrylevel talent in health care, technology, skilled trades, or customer service, so if any of you have talent needs in those areas, connect with me!). Looking forward to catching up with

Jessie La Patra-Greene, James Greene, and Ricardo Ortiz in our new home.” Matt Bazarian is still in Singapore but has left UBS after 11 years to join BCP Securities. “John just turned 10. Mark is 14. Both kids are active in rugby, hockey, and baseball, which consumes all our free time. And in my free time I’m playing hockey too. Just won a tournament in Bangkok last week!”

Bazarian sent in a family photo, but hockey pictures will always win.

At dinner in London in March, Kummell laid the guilt trip on a few people really hard, and it worked! Susan Shindler writes, “Dave and I have been in London for three years now. Given how much we’re enjoying it and that I’m a far better expat than he ever was, we’re likely here for the long haul. The kids (Ollie, 10, and Rosie, 7) have adjusted well in British schools and sound very English now. Dave is still at MFS, one of the very few still at the same company since leaving Tuck. I gave up the corporate world and work at a small tech start-up called PiC doing contextual recruitment and diversity analytics. I’m learning to code in Python and generally do a bit of everything. It’s been really fun. That’s it from the Shindlers, except to say let us know if you’re in town. We love visitors!” Erin Lifeso’s submission was such a perfect example of parent brain that we’re not touching it, just sharing it verbatim: “Did I already send one about Teagan being born? Everything since then has been a blur. She doesn’t sleep so 7 months in I’m a bit of a zombie.”

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Kinda hard to believe Ollie and Rosie Shindler have English accents now!

Manuel sent us almost the exact same photo last year and we didn’t print it. Yes, guilt trips work.

Bryan Falchuk has a lot going on: “I left my dream job after deciding three years of commuting to Atlanta was enough, have been doing a lot more speaking and coaching work, and just joined an InsurTech start-up, where I was an advisor. The best part of the new job was randomly seeing Ben Magnano in our old WeWork office (we just moved into our own space). Otherwise, the job has been pretty good. I also just got back from doing my third TEDx Talk at my undergrad alma mater (Bowdoin) after Dartmouth turned me down to speak at their TEDx. I think they’re still upset at Tuck about whatever they claim we did to one of the bathrooms at an event during Winter Carnival in 2006, or something. That’s probably what it was rather than anything about me specifically. I also have been randomly running into Tuckies at Whole Foods, like Chris Koegel, Jeff Blecher, and Jenn Blecher (though not at the same time). Otherwise, I just sent the draft of my next book to my editor, so you’ll have to deal with more updates from me about that.” Oh god we hope it’s “Do a Week.” Please don’t tell us if it’s not “Do a Week” because if it isn’t it would be a yuge mistake.

and tech and was recently elected head of our Boston office, which adds the new challenge of having to remember 300 people’s names (bringing back memories of fall at Tuck).”

Rob Haslehurst and T’07 Jen Wound are a year-in on child #2. “Our daughter, Isabel, was born in February 2018 and has recently started walking and now running around the house (still in Wellesley close by to several other Tuckies). Her older brother, Alex, is now in first grade and generally likes having a sibling. At work, I am still at L.E.K. working across consumer, retail, automotive, sport,

Seaton got back to us with a buzzer beater: “It has been a long time since my last update and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is my first EVER update. I don’t recall. My wife Jennifer and I live in Newport Beach, CA. I’ve been working at the same company, First American Financial, since we graduated. It’s been 12 years now, and for half of those years I’ve been the CFO. We have 4 lovely children: Finley (10), Sawyer (8), Scarlett (6), and Poppy (3). We visited Tuck last spring and had a wonderful time. We saw the Peschel family on the way up. All the best!” And finally, a note from Leah and Hamish, the newlyweds in Germany! We bet they’re all schmoopy babytalk all the time: “We’re now in Frankfurt and married (the German government managed to do what 19 years and 5 other countries could not). Did it as a surprise bbq-cum-wedding and managed to round up quite an international and Tuck contingent on basically no info and at short notice. Hamish is still with Armadillo Merino and learning German much faster than anyone expected. I bizarrely am running Germany - 700 team and I’m the only native English speaker (read, my whole day is back to auf Deutsch). We’re enjoying it more than expected, and will have 2 houses here from early May if anyone is in the area for a visit.”

Elnor and crew in Boulder for a boys’ weekend.

Thanks to all who read this column and bigger thanks to those who submit. You may recall the “network effect” discussed in Micro...more participation makes it better for everyone!

07 Marc Aquila marc.aquila@gmail.com

Whitney Chiu whitney.s.chiu@gmail.com

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CL ASS NOTES dorm. I think about half of our class went to ASW in the spring of 2005 and not one of us could have predicted we’d be writing about it in March 2019, yikes! The Tuck class of 2021 is in for 40-degree rainy, windy, cloudy weather— don’t you wish you could start it all over again? Speaking of starting, we have lots of new news to report! The first, which should come as no surprise since you are reading this column, is that people actually read this column! 100% of survey respondents said they read the print version of Tuck Today! So thank you and we’ll try to keep this interesting.... Inspired by McLean Wilson’s suggestion, we asked you to share with us “When’s the last time you did something for the first time and what was it?” Your answers are probably a pretty good reflection of what life feels like 10+ years after graduation. Some life milestones like babies. Some professional milestones like starting companies. Some extreme sports. And a whole lot of “everyday” firsts as well. Caroline (Allen) Kwiatkowski and her husband Ryan welcomed their first child, Charlotte Kwiatkowski, on March 6th! AND she had time to write in to class notes. So— everyone else who ignored the survey this time YOU HAVE NO EXCUSES.

is due in April. Despite referring to their new offspring as a blueberry, we’re fairly sure they’re expecting a human child. If not, this list of firsts just got VERRRYY interesting. National Enquirer here we come.

stroke of genius or moment of insanity, he subsequently decided to hire Marc Aquila as a career coach. Just in case you don’t get enough email from us, we keep finding other reasons to reach out!

Kimberly Eckert launched her first company— Eva’s Energy, which was founded on the simple notion that food tastes better when it is fresh, comes from your own kitchen, and is made from ingredients you can pronounce. Eva’s first product is No Bake Energy Bite Kits— everything you need to make energy bites at home. We have yet to decide if our favorite is the Apricot & Pecan, Cherry & Chocolate, or Ginger & Mango, but you can buy some today at evasenergy.com and try yourself (I just bought all 3 bags).

Kyle Schroeder tried mountain biking for the first time in Park City, Utah. Unfortunately it was “one of the worst experiences of my life. We took the ski lift halfway up the mountain and then proceeded to pedal up the other half. Likely would have been more enjoyable if I wasn’t with a half dozen other very seasoned mountain bikers.” With cuddles like these (see the photo nearby), I’m sure the recovery wasn’t so bad. His firm is also launching a “new and exciting software product,” a single pane of glass dashboard called Captain’s Chair, which displays high-level and drill-down information for all of a company’s IT information. While I’m not entirely sure what that is, it sounds super cool and I want one.

Tony Hanlon is still living outside of London and has been in his job for almost two years (that might be the first) so he says it is time for a change. Tune in this fall for the update! He also went to his first 50th birthday party which is just...something. It obviously was for one of his much, much, much older friends. Tim Cleary started a new job as the VP of corporate growth at Zume, a robot-powered pizza delivery company. Robots and pizza?!? Together?!? Tim—this is just so much cooler than your last job at CA. You must be the most popular dad on the birthday party circuit. Can you guys work on having drones deliver our pizza next? Lindsay Bello Martin is now the VP of marketing at Reed’s Inc., maker of delicious ginger beer, and drinking tons of Mules. For market research purposes only. Obviously. Her family is growing (vertically only, thank you very much) with the “same amazing husband, Bea (4), Archie (6), Ben (8). House is feeling smaller due to the vertical growth, but we have a new animal print rug and lots of princess gear.”

Charlotte Kwiatkowski

Sonali Aggarwal and her husband Mukesh also had their first baby girl. Sahana was born in January, and Sonali reports “we are loving every moment with her!” By the time you all are reading this, Chris Selden and his wife Claire will have welcomed their first blueberry child to the world. Claire

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Lindsay Eichelberger Fox was seen driving through Hanover and Pat Fox made the “long” trek back to campus to speak on a panel at the 14th Annual PE conference recently, so we have signs of life from the Foxes. Continuing the updates from our Upper Valley crew, Stephen Pidgeon was named the executive director of the Tuck CDO last summer, he and wife Danielle became US citizens, and in what can be called either a

Kyle Schroeder

Chris Herbert is “a beast” at Fortnite now. His screen name is 40-YEAR-OLD DAD in case you want to take him on. When he’s not gaming, he “bought a Peloton and almost had a heart attack during a 20 minute ride.” It sounds like he stuck with it though because apparently he’s following David & Marianna on Peloton now. Marianna Fassinotti & Dave Browne checked in from London, where they’ve been since

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2007. Marianna is covering Europe for D. E. Shaw, and Dave is working at a very colo(u)rful private equity firm called Terra Firma. They report, “Our 6-year-old and 20-month-old are doing great, but we all miss home!” Between their Peloton love fest with Herbert and the hot yoga they started this past January, sounds like they’re entirely too healthy to be truly at home in England. You guys sure you don’t live in San Francisco? Paul Atwood went flyfishing for bonefish in Bahamas. According to Paul it was “amazing,” so you fisher people may want to look into that. Also, Paul Jr. killed his first turkey; James placed third in his heat at Rodeo Houston mutton bustin’, and, most importantly, ladies and gentlemen...THE ATWOODS ARE FINALLY OUT OF DIAPERS! Marc Schegerin recently went deep caving in New Zealand. Guessing that’s like caving but even more extreme? Because being in a dark, small, confined space underground with not a lot of oxygen isn’t hardcore enough for some folks, I guess. Marc also moved back to Boston to join a small cancer research/ treatment developments company (ArQule, ARQL) as CFO, head of strategy, and found some time to vacation.

The winning “Most Tuckies” photo (photo by Damian Hickey)

Firsts: Adventures in Parenting Corner As we schuss from one double-black diamond achievement to another, Joe Pfeister reports that recently “Jameson beat me for the first time in a sanctioned ski race. This is not a phase of parenthood I’m prepared for.” We hear you Joe. Confronting your own mortality by watching the next generation surpass you in feats of physical skill and endurance is humbling for anyone. And on the bunny slope, Alan Walker has two new skiers in the family. Mission accomplished! [Look on the 2007 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!!] Tim Cleary flew to Australia in December with a toddler and infant. “First time and last time. I’m still recovering.”

Marc Schegerin

Continuing the extreme-sports thing, Michael Sinclair went parasailing in February for the first time. In a slightly less extreme sports move, Michael moved from East West Bank to People’s United Bank last November. Richard Mumby discovered the downsides of physical activity over the age of 35 when he “dislocated my left shoulder for the first time while skiing with T’08s Charlie Schilling and Byron LaMotte.” He also wins for sending the photo with the most Tuckies this time around—kudos!

Heather Onstott [Perrygo] shared a very relatable moment: “Yesterday I failed to meet my son’s bus for the first time and had to pick up a very distraught kindergartner back at his school. No worries, I have zero guilt and am positive it won’t end up as a future therapy ‘a-ha’ moment. #momwinning” Christian Koether took his son Hoyer sledding for the first time. In the “throwback” department, Christian emailed out a PDF copy of the Schooner Spooners ship’s log to all his boatmates from Outward Bound. Lyndsey Erickson Lis has been spending time with Daniella Reichstetter passing on the Tuck costuming gene in the next generation. while they are young! Left to right in the

From Lyndsey Erickson Lis

photo nearby: Molly Lis (age 6), Samantha Lis (age 4), Daniella Reichstetter (eternal child), Isa Beam (age 10). Note: This is just one photo in a series from what was quite the fashion show (all from the Reichstetter costume boxes). Jimmy Lee rode camels for the first time (in Dubai) last October. And Ben Flaim went to Athens for the first time with his son Tuck (8). Tuck is “obsessed with mythology and we had a wonderful father/son excursion.” Closer to home, Lisa Wang started learning to figure skate last year, inspired by her daughter, who got into it the year before. Henry Robinson ate hot chicken at Bolton’s Spicy Chicken & Fish in Nashville and reports back that it was, in fact, hot chicken. That’s it for this time around. We really love hearing from you all. Wishing you all many fun adventures and firsts. —Whitney & Marc

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CL ASS NOTES ’08 Allison Curran amc0501@hotmail.com

Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

Louisa Roberts louisabgoodlet@gmail.com

[Editor’s note: We have the following from the class-notes submission form at mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes] Marcy Chong: “It has been 5 years now that I am back working directly for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). My current role is director of strategic initiatives for the public division...kind of a mouthful. I have been working mostly on issues related to higher education, childcare, and state and local government. Some of the most interesting work of the past couple of years has been work to support worker-owned platforms and networks for childcare providers. My kids are teenagers now, and life is good and busy. We are very happy to still be in the Upper Valley even though my office is in DC. This spring we are making a short-distance move across the river to Hartland, VT.”

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

Colin Van Ostern colin@vanostern.com

10 T H REUNION OCTOBER 4-6, 2019

It’s 10-year-reunion-year! Of course, many of us are thinking about returning this fall...like Papa Sekyiamah,

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who is headed back to Hanover to see you in October! Check out the digital version of your class notes online at myTUCK to see a great pic of Papa wearing a traditional Lesotho hat. (Lesotho is the highest country in the world as it has the highest lowest point and the only place in Africa cold enough to have a natural ski resort, the Afriski....) Kal Kuchimanchi and Curtis Gasser both claimed they had nothing too newsworthy to share but wanted to make a point of saying hi and that each is excited to see everyone at our upcoming 10-year reunion this fall.

graduation—when we do our class photo, they all stand on the left and the rest on the right and we see where the over/under is? Meanwhile, around the country (and globe) Tiny Tuckies continue to abound: Shefali Shah wins the family photo picture this edition. She and family in Chicago welcomed a baby boy named Rohit Dinesh Aravindhan on December 3rd, 2018.

Rafael Coelho moved to Mexico to be closer to Hanover and therefore be able to make it to the class reunion. After leaving Google, he joined HSBC México as the director of data, analytics, CRM and management information for HSBC México. Dan Weinstein is hoping to have one of the shortest pathways to Reunion, as the Weinstein family continues to love living here in the Upper Valley. He asks us all to please reach out and say hi whenever we come back to Tuck for recruiting or anything else! After a dozen years in consulting, a couple of years ago Dan took a position to help spin off and lead an engineering firm in Lebanon, NH. His company, Edare, is a spinoff of a larger local R&D firm (Creare) and is focused on transitioning mostly aerospace technologies from R&D to production. For now they are commercializing several Creare-born technologies, but in the future they may expand outside of Creare technologies.

The Shah family becomes a family of four!

Kristin Gaudino Rowe writes in to share news (and an adorable photo of her newest son, Christopher Lee Rowe), born November 29, 2018.

The Weinstein kids (Grace-10, Sophie-7, and Levi-4), like their parents, all love the winter sports that the Upper Valley offers. They are cross-country skiers, speedskaters (of course), and now ski jumpers. Dan welcomes anyone to his house in Etna throughout the Reunion festivities this fall.... Also from our “welcome back to New England” contingent, Chuck Toye proudly tallies 3 addresses, 3 kids, 3 kids, 3 dogs, 4 jobs, 4 goats (for awhile), and 12 chickens (mmmm... breakfast...) since Tuck. Currently living in the western suburbs of Boston, working for EverQuote in Cambridge, and claiming he will never move again—but makes it up to NH as often as he can. He wants to know who has beat him with 5 new jobs since

Welcome to the Tuck family, Christopher Lee Rowe!

Allison (Zeilinger) Greason and Taylor welcomed a son this past October the night of the Harvest Moon, a full moon (which apparently packed the labor and delivery wing of the hospital!). Charlie looks forward to meeting everyone at Reunion this fall. The company she worked for was bought by Square,

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Charlie Parker Greason

so she’ll be working on the Square brand upon return from maternity leave. Aaron Mihaly and family are still living in the Washington, DC, area and he’s still working as an associate director at FSG, the socialsector consulting firm. The household is full of toddlers who are growing up fast—Nathan is 3, and their twins Marina and David are 16 months! (Family pic online on at myTUCK) Matt & Mindy Barber are still living in Boston but putting down Maine roots (no surprise!) and head up to a house on a lake up there nearly every weekend. Happy raising Elizabeth (4) and Amelia (2) and looking forward to seeing everyone in Hanover this fall! Lucas Nelson very proudly reports that 18-month-old Milo’s first sentence was “no more veggies.” On a professional note, Lucas has launched a venture fund focused on cybersecurity, data analytics, and AI—he has around half of the fund raised and is already putting it to good use. He is Hanover-bound this fall as well. Jana Swedburg and Andres Gomez are still living in Toronto. Welcomed third kid Irene Gomez-Swedburg (“we saddled the kids with hyphenated last names: it builds character”). They’re happy enjoying a very busy house along with Oliver (7) and Alexa (5). Jana is taking advantage of Canada’s very generous maternity-leave policies (18 months...yes, eighteen, and will be back at work January 2020). “Looking forward to Reunion!” Check out a picture of the whole family online at myTUCK.

Emily Carroll claims hers is the most boring update ever: “I have been a stay at home mom for the past 5 years. Our son Matthew is in 4th grade. He’s a red belt in karate and just joined a USA Swim team. He’s not competing yet though. Ger is still an ER doc at Cooper University Hospital, where he treats the challenges in the Camden, NJ, area. He also does medical direction for the EMS services in the area. I am finishing my turn on the board of our local Home and School Association. Like I said, most boring update ever. :-) ” As an aside, she also notes that EMS (Emergency Medical Services) is an interesting public health/business opportunity space. Especially when you consider the infrastructure for fire departments across the country and how many fires actually occur vs the infrastructure for EMS and how many accidents/heart attacks/ strokes etc. occur that necessitate a response. Maybe not so boring after all! In Chicago, Nitesh Dixit reports that he took nearly two weeks of unplanned reminiscing during the winter holidays—interspersed with eating, sleeping, and (gasp!) drinking—and he wanted to share his findings: “Professionally, 2018 had been full of new accomplishments: continuing the climb upstream to do strategy definition, evaluation, and directing execution. In this, I came closer to realizing my vision of advising smaller organizations, but much work remains! In 2019 I aim to continue and build on this momentum: better defining the value proposition, getting the name out, and enrolling new clients. If you or your organization needs some help—I am eager to talk! Straddling personal and professional: I became active with the local community— organizing the Chicago chapter festivities for the 50th anniversary of the founding of IIT Bombay; and signing up to run the Chicago Marathon in support of Asha. On the personal front, it was quite a busy year: we tried to make the most of the 52 weekends, and then, fully exhausted, spent a week in the Caribbean in November— doing nothing but gazing at the sea, sunsets and on the beach. We are looking forward to braving the cold this winter: get some ski in maybe, celebrate Kabir’s 5th birthday and prepare for his march into Kindergarten: we keep telling him to not grow so fast, but he doesn’t listen!” Hannes Schill sadly reports that he and family have parted ways with one of their beloved Tuck-times memorabilia and faithful family companion: their iconic red car. Check out

the digital class notes on myTUCK for the last picture of Hannes (T’09), Meike (TP’09), Luise (TT’09), and Charlotte with the red car. Finally, in San Francisco, an informal Tuck ’Tails broke out this winter when your faithful class secretary met up while in town with Saba Deyhim, Katherine Loarie, John Burnett, and Lokesh Bidhan the day after Valentine’s Day for a drink or two (accompanied by T’08 Kristyn (McLeod) Van Ostern, who filled in as photographer).

Tuck ’Tails San Francisco: Saba, Colin, John, Katherine, and Lokesh at Perry’s (a fine, Dartmouth-alum-owned drinking establishment)

The newest Tiny Tuckie, Kevin Johnson’s baby.

And Kevin Johnson had the best reason yet for *missing* this informal Tuck ’Tails—the birth of a brand-new Tiny Tuckie, born just a few days earlier! Back in New Hampshire, the US is headed into a presidential election year, so I am dodging presidential candidates all across the First In The Nation primary state (really, usually we have a half-dozen folks campaigning here every

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CL ASS NOTES weekend for president). After serving in state government for four years myself and running for statewide office, I’m now doing my best to avoid running for anything again (for the near future at least). Very happy to be raising two great boys (five and eight years old) – we churned through the entire Harry Potter series at bedtime reading in 2017-2018 and are now deep into The Lord of the Rings. Our family dog Moses, of Tuck Puppy fame, turned 11 this winter (!) and we’re getting another puppy any day now. We also moved into a new house in Concord, NH—right at the corner where you turn from I-93 to I-89 when driving north from Boston to Hanover. Plenty of spare guest rooms for anyone who wants to stop by! Thank you to everyone who submitted updates (for the record, we get room for 5 photos in print and the rest online, so the print ones are the first 5 sent in that are sufficient resolution to be printed). See you in Hanover this fall. Most of the class will be there...but if you can’t, you owe us a class notes update in the fall at minimum!

John Kim and the boys’ ski weekend in Park City

Moved from NYC to San Francisco, started a new job leading marketing and growth at DoorDash, got married to Christen Reardon.” Congratulations Micah! After many years in Singapore, Harry Alverson and family have relocated to Madrid. Ferdinand de Roubaix reports that his daughter Pia de Roubaix was born on July 29, 2018. Ferdi reports that Pia “makes her parents the happiest.” Don’t miss the lovely picture he shared!

switched from Seoul to Hamburg. Perhaps we’re in need of a class notes update to explain this? • Dan Hawkins has been zipping through London on his bike. • James Brooman (who has no news to report, what has the world come to?) is logging runs in SF these days. He’s hitting some of the same segments as Steve Hallowell, so if they haven’t bumped into each other yet it will probably happen soon. • Jim Marett continues to log solid mileage in Wellesley, MA, and is also planning to run CBHM this year! • And if you thought you saw someone who looked like a blurry Jenn Coughlin flash past you in NYC—yes, that was her. [Editor’s note: We apologize for our error in including T’16 Alex Jenny’s (great!) news in the T’10 column last issue.]

’11 Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

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Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

Carey Schwaber Armstrong t10tuckupdates@yahoo.com

A light news cycle! Apologies not to have more to report. The best way to fix it? Drop a line to share what’s happening. John Kim married Linda Kim—just think of all the paperwork she’ll never have to fill out—in San Francisco. Before the wedding he enjoyed a boys’ ski weekend in Park City with Steve Hallowell, Drew Wilkins, Will Vincent, Zlati Christov, Rodrigo de la Torre, Travis Page, and Alex Figueroa. Check out the accompanying shot of the crew. Scott Dalgleish recently took on a new role at Providence St. Joseph Health as the CFO for California. His daughter Ivy turned one in December, and she and her family are enjoying sand and surf in Laguna Beach. Tuckies looking for some Orange County sunshine should stop in to say hello! From Micah Moreau: “Many large life events! 130

Baby Pia de Roubaix with happy parents! Jim Marett welcome a third baby, Emmeline (7 lbs 4 oz and 19.5 inches long), on Nov 19. Emmeline joins big brother Tommy and big sister Louisa, who are thrilled by the addition. And in the absence of any more reported news, I’m going to take a risk here and give a brief overview of athletic pursuits posted to Strava: • Ben Gregg continues to log a ton of miles in both Silicon Valley and interesting corners of China. Classic Ben Gregg, NBD to be traveling the world. • Derek Nowak has been getting in some good miles on the bike in Seattle. • At press time Paul Granada was training for the Covered Bridges Half Marathon—all the way from Portland! • Cedric Dallemagne’s runs have suddenly

We love hearing about the innovative and impressive work our classmates have been up to! Wishing everyone a fantastic spring and summer. Claus Eckbo bought an island! Claus tells us, “Well, not really an island, but an eco-lodge on a small island with nothing else but raw nature on it. It’s an off-grid little spot with 20 beds and a full service kitchen called God’s Pocket Resort, about a 20 min boat ride from the northern tip of Vancouver Island, in Canada. Back in the early 1900s, the protected bay and docks were a shelter from the big storms that come through the area (hence the ‘God’s Pocket’ name). Boat builders moved in (building old wooden trawlers), were replaced by a fishing lodge, and now it’s a mecca for cold water scuba diving and kayaking. The idea is to mostly manage the business remotely (still doing impact investing, as well), but I’ve been spending a lot of time on the island swinging an axe (like a good Canadian), fixing, planning, and building some new additions—treehouses on the coastline, a big yoga and meditation shala, a workshop, a greenhouse, etc. And a

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Claus Eckbo’s eco-lodge, God’s Pocket Resort

pong table. Of course. Can’t wait to host some Tuckies!” WOW! Congrats, Claus—we can’t wait to visit. Sarah Apgar has been busy! She let us know, “As of Jan 1, I put my full energy into launching FitFighter, a fitness equipment and training company built by first responders and designed for elite athletes and the general public. We established a collaboration with the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation to contribute a % of revenues to support military and firefighter families. This started as a garage hobby/side hustle during my Warby Parker days and I always dreamed of scaling big. Appreciate Tuckie support of all kinds. www.fitfighter. com. I have 2 angels, Emory (3) and Arlyn (18 mos.), who keep me scurrying and smiling. Ben is in year 3 of 6 of his marathon residency at Northwell Health’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. We love Port Washington and happily take visitors fleeing the NYC rat race at any time, especially in summer....” Congrats to all of the Tiny Tuckies! Peter Giordano and Jessica Sobel welcomed a new Tiny Tuckie, Mollie Kay Giordano, on November 18th, 2018. Peter also started a new job as the COO of a tech start-up called Seva. He let us know that he started working 6 weeks before Molly was born! Ari Kahan and Genelle (Bullert) Kahan welcomed Aya Rose on September 25th. She came almost a month early and tipped the scales at 5 lbs 3 oz. Aya already has her dad wrapped around her finger and is becoming fast friends with her doggie, Norman. Jeff Wang has been a Boston resident for two years now and is the strategy officer for Philips Population Health Management, a health care technology and informatics business. When not working, he maintains a musical life, primarily with the Cantata Singers of Boston, and refuses to abandon his Oakland Raiders and Golden

Jeremy Grossas hosts a T’11 reunion in Korea with Angie Cho, Keith Kang, and Pepe Bueno Delgado

Peter Giordano and Jessica Sobel welcomed Tiny Tuckie Mollie Kay Giordano on November 18th

Amos Gonzalez. It has a nice ring to it. Sadly, Aileen 86ed that idea right out of the gate. We’re still in Orlando but will be moving back to Miami this summer.” Rob Reiling writes that he and Joelle moved to the scalding but surprising hospitable desert of Phoenix and he took a job with Opendoor (a real estate start-up). Rob writes, “ We now have 2 kids—John 5, Aya 3—and 2 dogs (still unnamed) and are just doing the crazy parenting/job/life thing. We’re happy.” And we’re happy for you guys! Savannah Ashley Schwarz was born on September 1, 2018 to Melissa (Vess) and Fred Schwarz T’12, making Hunter (2 yrs) a big brother. Congrats, Melissa & Fred!

Ari Kahan, Genelle (Bullert) Kahan, Aya (6 mos), and Norman (4 yrs)

State Warriors for the local riff-raff sports teams. Most importantly, Jeff is getting married this year to Erin Keefe and her son Liam and looks forward to celebrating with some Tuckies this fall. It is not clear whether Liam will be a Tuckie himself, because he is only eight. So you have at least 10-20 years to ensure he’s as obsessed with Tuck as we are.

Writes Julia (Shaver) Klema of her family update, “David and I welcomed our second daughter, Nell, on February 1st of this year. She and Cora (21 months) are becoming fast friends. Now a family of 6 (we also adopted a Great Pyrenees pup in November), we quickly realized a new vehicle will be needed for trips up north this summer (which we are anxiously awaiting now that mud season in MN has arrived).” Finally, our hats go off to Hector Arguelles, who recently announced that he is now running a nonprofit providing shelter (and excuses) for dads in separate need of a night out.

And sending happy thoughts to those who are expanding their families…. After two years in Korea, where Jeremy Grossas hosted a mini-T’11 reunion, the Grossas family recently moved back to Japan. We hope you can have more T’11 reunions there, Jeremy! Big congrats to Jesus Gonzalez and Aileen, who are expected their second child in April! Jesus writes, “I wish I could tell you his name will be

Hector Arguelles (far right) hosts and sponsors T’11 dads Peter Stosich, Harish Sarma, Ian Teh, John Cristando, Edgar Pastrana, Paul Kim, and Igor Zamkovsky SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES ’12 Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

It’s that time again for class notes, to discuss the happenings of our dear class. We find it hard to think that we graduated nearly 7 years ago at this point. And it seems that our lives just keep getting busier and busier, and also that we may be getting old. A few examples: • One of your faithful secretaries gets more excited about a fresh sponge in the kitchen than the potential to go out for a drink. • Your secretaries have to rely on WhatsApp to communicate. We just figured this out shortly before class notes were due and realized it’s 10x better than email. Apparently it’s what the “youth” use these days to communicate. We also discussed ways to change the way we report out to you. Since we all took Professor Kopalle’s statistics class in Fall A (or B)?, we think there’s probably a correlation between busy lives and the amount of Facebook posts (which is our typical source of information from classmates). As a result, for our next set of notes, we will have a different way to report on classnotes—so be on the lookout in your emails! What we do know is that members of our class continue to excel in life. Whether it’s jobs or families, everyone (at least from what we can tell) is doing well. • Matias Moral and his wife Tati are expecting their third child. Congrats in advance! • Alejandro and Kirsten Sandoval welcomed their second boy, David, in February. Daniel is super excited to be a big brother but not as excited as Alejandro, who is not the shortest in the household again. • Terry Farmer left his role as a brand manager at Mars and moved down south to the great state of Texas and is keeping Austin weird. We think he wanted to have a job that was closer to his own personal interests (and name) and hence took a job at Vital Farms. 132

• Katherine Kosman and Marco Castillo are expecting their second child in April (as we write, still waiting, but by the time you read this, their new addition will probably be here)! They had a great babymoon in the Netherlands too!• Emily (Shieh) and Lee Rosen are expecting a baby girl in May. They’ve been busy getting their house and nursery ready and sleeping in as much as possible (smart move). They did a babymoon to Europe (France/ Belgium) in January which was pretty cold, but the food made up for it! Congrats on the new addition to the family! • Rodrigo Guillen and family have now been to just about every single populated area of Europe (or at least we think so). There seems to be some competition between him and his wife and Tulio Marinho; our fellow classmate Gustavo posed the question: “I would like to check Rodriguito passport stamps against Tammi e Tulio Marinho.” We’re actually curious too—who has more stamps?? • Rich King and Koushi King (T’13) welcomed Sunder Theodore King on 1/4/19. There’s a race to see who will have their shirts off—so far Sunder is winning, although Rich is keeping him on his toes. • Divya Mani and Vicente Piedrahita took a temporary move to Louisville. • We have several classmates who are making moves in the health care space. Annie Garrigus was promoted to director of managed care growth at Illinois division of Oak Street Health, Johnny Kaye was promoted to chief product officer at Axial Healthcare, Alex Duff left his finance gig to join Blink Health as VP of strategy and planning. • Several colleagues continue to crush in the financial-services world. Ritesh Tanna was promoted to managing director at Black Diamond Capital. Daniel Linsalata traded in his pong skills for a director promotion at Harris Williams. Lastly, David Leal is now a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jeff Millman recently left JPMorgan to join BNY Mellon as a director. Congrats to all of you— we’ll be looking for financial advice in a few years once our student loans are paid off. • Kurt Zwald was promoted to director of business development for the Boston Red Sox. We think that was the main reason why the Sox won the World Series. As for your expert social-media-stalking class secretaries.... Ben started the year off right with an amazing trip to Mexico City with Megan. He highly recommends it. Hit him up for tips. He also

Sunder King showing us his best Zoolander “Blue Steel”

Kurt Zwald showing off yet another championship for the Red Sox

has said farewell to another job, moving on from home goods discount heaven WilliamsSonoma back to the grind of start-up life. He has joined New Stand as a SVP of operations. New Stand is building an ecosystem that merges an engaging app with a modern take on convenience stores, with over 30 locations in airports, office buildings, and the NYC ferries. The goal is to improve people’s days when and where they need it. As if that wasn’t enough, in the spirit of new adventures, he has also moved in with his girlfriend, Megan, on the UWS. They’re excited and have room for guests. Let him know when you’re in town!

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Roman has grayed more (he’s 5 years away from true silver fox, tops). The reason is that he’s now the proud parent of two fully mobile kids, as Joaquin started walking right around 10 months and dedicates every second of his day to either falling on sharp edges or hunting for wires. Romancito is more of a handful every week, and we’re trying to exhaust him through every activity imaginable—he’s currently attending martial arts, soccer, and drums classes (hopefully one pays off). Also, he’s been promoted and is now director of engagement & growth for the full Mercado Libre ecosystem. Recently, he had the opportunity to go to SXSW, where he had his mind blown on a daily basis and was fortunate enough to be able to catch up with Kat, Terry, and Sumant over ridiculously good barbecued meats. Flo is a saint to put up with all of this and has managed to take a 4-month course in baby sleep coaching at the same time. Let us know if you’d like to understand how it works (it can be done remotely!).

’13 Anne Duggan anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

First, we gotta apologize for a photo swap that plagued last issue’s notes. We’ve investigated and confirmed that Justin Rodriguez is in fact not Jasmine (Liqiong) He. Both did, however, get married recently—Jasmine’s photo from her Hawaii wedding is here; for Justin’s, see last issue. Labeled as Jasmine. It’s been a long week. Congrats to all, and apologies for the goof. [Editor’s note: And we sincerely apologize for our error here at Tuck Today.]

Yamini and Srikant

Farther east, in Singapore, Kevin Tay, Christel Bouvron, and Mike Kuo reunited in style—at the very night food hall (“hawker centre”) where Crazy Rich Asians was filmed! Kevin said “the running joke between Christel, Mike, and me was that our picture looked like an Egyptian god with a beard among 3 crazy not-rich Asians.” I hope Nishant and his regal beard are reading this....

Classmates enjoying a reprieve at SXSW in Austin Bryan Jordan and Jasmine (Liqiong) He Derrick and Natalie are enjoying Seattle and being new parents. Abram is keeping them on their toes and is becoming a mini-person. They’ve been busy this year with several trips, including celebrating Derrick’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary (Virginia), Thanksgiving with Natalie’s family (San Diego), and have some upcoming weddings in Arizona and Italy. Abram is already more well traveled than his dad and mom. Derrick still works at Amazon in video and was recently promoted to senior manager for original series marketing. He’s most excited about a few upcoming shows, including Good Omens. We really appreciate the people who wrote in to us this time. It makes the updates more personal and the writing more fun. Please keep sending us your news whenever it occurs. We’ll save it! Love you all!.

Tara Sukumar and Liz Yepsen are writing a first draft of this edition while sipping bourbon on a train to Davos, where we’ll meet Mathieu Pluvinage for a spot of skiing, as the Brits say, in what is obviously the most important reunion to have happened there recently. On Monday it’ll be back to the office, but not to fear—we’ll rendezvous with Swaroop Sampath Kumar, who just moved with his family to Zurich from California, still with YouTube. Later in the summer Tara and Mathieu are off to Poland to see Maxime Vincent wed Paulina Syzwczyk in a ceremony outside Warsaw. Dress code is cigarettes and scarves. Other recent congregations include Salome Jeune, Jamie Lippman and Tara at the wedding of Yamini Jagannadhan, who married Srikant Iyer in several ceremonies in Chennai.

Kevin Tay, Christel Bouvron, Nishant Daruka, and Mike Kuo in Singapore

And the biggest reunion of all, REUNION! If there were any LNDP, we weren’t invited, but we’re still carrying a bit of glow from the Tuck circle BBQ in the glorious Hanover fall sunshine. We mixed a fair amount of carbon into the air as Gonzalo Fernández-Castañeda and Tomas Garcia Moreno flew in from Spain, Daniel Peña from Mexico, An An from Beijing, Marc Giné Cabus from Korea, Andres Bilbao from Chile, and so many from out on the West Coast. S/o to those eco folks who packed it in SUMMER 2019

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CL ASS NOTES on the Dartmouth Coach, and Jeff Hluchyj, who commuted from Norwich and hosted an impromptu Spanish-speaking hostel pop-up. Thank you, thank you, to everyone who traveled from anywhere, especially those who brought their kids, to give us a new injection of that sweet #tuckfam drug. Leaving the rest of this edition to you and what you submitted or was brought to us by some grapevines—if your name has never appeared in the notes, stop reading and write us right now. Our contacts are below, and we can’t wait another 5 years to awkwardly catch up on Tuck Circle. Our Tuck family continues to grow, with a strong showing of new Tiny Tuckies across continents. Our King and Queen of Cabo, Daniel Peña and wife Cristina Aguilar Barceló welcomed Peñita 2, known to the world as baby Rebeca in November. Jonathan Wei and wife Yuan Wang (and two dogs) welcomed a new addition to the family, daughter Carina Wei, on February 6th. Gonzalo Fernández-Castañeda and Cris Prieto welcomed baby Iñigo, brother to Rodrigo, in March. An An and Mariah Zhao welcomed a new baby son Anton, also in March. “Anton’s Chinese name is 安有竹, which means he always has a lot of bamboos, just as a panda does, and always has a plan.” Meg Robinton writes: “Mark and I are expecting baby #3, a boy, in late April 2019. Ellie (6!) and Cooper (3) are excited for the new addition! Other than that—I am still at Target and recently took on a new position as sr. manager over enterprise space. So my team recommends how to allocate macro level space (think electronics vs. toys) for remodel stores.”

Kevin Tay left OCBC Bank and moved to NETS, a leading payments services group that is transforming digital payment for consumers, businesses, and banks, to head up the corporate planning and strategy division.

Ashley Conti Smith writes: “As I think you all know, this April I will be running the Boston Marathon in support of Operation Airway at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Operation Airway is (daughter) Abigail’s surgeon’s foundation, which supports mission trips outside of the US allowing him to perform airway reconstruction/intervention on children in need who would otherwise not have access to care. Training feels like an additional part-time job but has been going well so far! I hope to see some Tuckies on the course! The other noteworthy news with us is that Abigail had successful airway reconstruction surgery this summer and was able to get her tracheostomy removed. She still has one small airway problem to be resolved but is doing awesome otherwise!!”

Kevin McCafferty represented Yellow Wood Partners at Tuck’s 14th annual private equity conference. Kevin spoke on a panel on “Using Industry Expertise to Win Deals.” We think the dress code was fleece-vest formal.

Brud Fogarty writes: “I assumed a new role at Edgewell Personal Care—brand manager of growth initiatives; working across the full portfolio of brands to build growth strategies for key channels. As far as my side hustle—my

Rachel Moss left Seventh Generation to start Subject Swim, a company making feminist swimwear for real women in Burlington, Vermont.

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Pete Gauthier writes: “I’m still living in Bangladesh hoping the one and only Tuck visitor that has been to see me, Jamie Lippman, will come back this spring. All others are welcome. Enjoying the Deshi life and travel around the region. I’m currently enjoying the Bonvoy (new SPG/Marriott program) platinum happy hour in Bangkok before heading to Laos. Excited to share that I have received my next posting. I will be back in the USA for 8 months for some time off so the US government makes sure I’m still American and to learn Portuguese starting in January 2020 (this time, for those in the USA, your tax dollars are paying for me to go back to school). After that, I will be heading to Maputo, Mozambique, for four years. Plan on joining the SA learning trek every year for the next four years and drinking Castle beers with Phil Stocken. In case you were wondering, the answer is yes, ‘the #Trumpshutdown’ did affect me. I got to work for a month without a paycheck, but in the end I got paid and the week I took off wasn’t counted against my vacation days!! More importantly, I have two trips (thanks again to US taxpayers for funding the flight costs) over the next year to take and looking for places to go and people to visit (preferably not the USA). So let me know if you are willing to host a fellow Tuckie! It was great seeing everyone at Reunion and thanks for everyone making Sunny feel part of the Tuck family. Can’t wait to see everyone again.”

film No Alternative (starring Harry Hamlin and Kathryn Erbe), after a successful 2018/2019 festival run, will be distributed by Gravitas Ventures and have a US release in April (VOD, Hulu, Amazon, Streaming, DVD/Blu-ray) and worldwide shortly thereafter. Be sure to check it out! I’m now onto the next project. Early days, but a great script and some exciting talent attached. More to come on this in future updates.I should also include what people really care about, and, let’s face it, what’s truly important: Jennifer and Malia are doing awesome. Malia just turned 8 years old, if you can believe it!! She’s a Girl Scout and just crushed her cookie-sales quota (proud daddy here!) She has carried on the Tuck dance-party tradition and is now leading a dance team in the school talent show in the coming weeks. We miss everyone big time!”

Brud Fogarty and Harry Hamlin at the No Alternative world premiere

Mason Duke had two major life updates—he writes: “I was married to Maeve O’Meara on December 8 in Harbour Island in the Bahamas. We had a great destination wedding with lots of Tuckies in attendance! Walker Fullerton and Justin Rodriguez served as groomsmen. And in March I secured a role with a private equity firm in San Francisco so am moving back there to be with (most importantly) my wife and all the great Tuckies in the Bay Area—so it’s been a pretty great few months!” Thanks all for the submissions—fight FOMO and send your next one now!

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’15 Kelsey Byrne kelsey.byrne@gmail.com

Heather Levy heather.levy@gmail.com

T’15s, we are officially past the halfway point of our 5 years between reunions, so let the countdowns begin until October 9-11, 2020. What? Don’t act like you haven’t already marked that down in your calendars too.... In the meantime, we have a number of class updates to hold you over—so let’s start with the big life events!

The Mason/Maeve wedding (aka M&M dance party!)

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Ewa Kisilewicz got engaged to David MacIsaac in Whistler, BC. So thoughtful of him to wait to ask until they were in the Motherland!

Katherine Lawrence

Lots of weddings to share:

katie.b.lawrence@gmail.com

Annu (Kayastha) Batra wrote in to share that she recently married Kunal Batra in Jersey City with beautiful views of Manhattan and had their families travel from all over the world to attend!! She has also officially changed her last name to Batra! [Look at the 2015 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a photo!]

Gabriel Martinez gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

Nicholas Scarchilli nick.scarchilli@gmail.com

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Thomas John “TJ” MacKinnon

[Editor’s note: Look on the 2014 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for pics and news! We received the following from mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes.]

Ian Bomberg married Alexandra Delfiner at the Brooklyn Winery in February. Nell Kelleher married Michael Boches MEM’16 in Chevy Chase, MD, in December and was surrounded by a Tuck and Thayer crew large enough to rival the one at Brooke Beatt and T’10 Matt Hooks’s September wedding in Maine.

From Sasha MacKinnon: “Jonathan (T’13) and Sasha (T’14) MacKinnon are delighted to announce the arrival of their son, Thomas John, ‘TJ,’ on January 18th. Early signs point to the undeniable prophecy that he will be excellent at both pong and dancing.” From Charlenne Gonzalez: “Charlenne Gonzalez married Nick Balow in Indianapolis, IN, on September 29, 2018. As expected, Thierry Decembre and Mike Pierre were the center of attention on the dance floor. Laura Welch and Nancy Tam were bridesmaids.”

Pasy Govindarajan and Michael Mirandi were married in our very own Hanover, NH, in November and celebrated again with family in India in December.

Charlenne Gonzalez and Nick Balow

Brooke and Matt had a full contingent of Tuckies, including Jeff Davidson T’10, Matt Barber T’09, Micah Moreau T’10, Tim Carpenter T’08, Rob Pascal T’09, John Sullivan T’11, Ashleigh Sullivan T’10, Chip Franklin T’10, Jenn Coughlin T’10, Ali Connolly T’11, Charlie Schilling T’08, Karl Reichstetter T’10, Pasy Govindarajan, Katherine Amato Brown,

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Nell Kelleher’s wedding to Michael Boches drew a large Tuck and Thayer crowd

Fritz Franz T’10, Caroline Mann, Jessie Duncan T’12, Kenly Drake, Nell Kelleher, Katherine Gray, and Michael Boches. Not pictured and likely killing it on the dance floor were Mindy Barber T’09, Rose Carpenter T’09, Michael Mirandi, Heather Levy Sigel, and Shane Sigel TP’15.

Brooke Beatt’s wedding to Matt Hooks

are so happy for Ken and Mio and Uncle Curry. Ken also shared with us that he started his own company last September, Gozioki Inc.

Laura Ionita wrote in to share that she and husband Martin Wolff welcomed baby Eric Alexander Wolff in June 2018. Eric is a very curious baby, and just like his parents he already loves hikes and road trips. Congratulations Laura and Martin! Jaimie Meyer also has a curious and adventurous child, 1-year-old Liam Meyer! She sent in a picture of her Tiny Tuckie ascending Buck Mountain in the Adirondacks to enjoy a beautiful fall view. [Look for pics on the 2015 page at myTUCK!]

Nathan Nam shared that after 3 incredible years at MuleSoft in SF and Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has joined Confluent, located in Palo Alto, CA, in August as a product manager.

Erin and Rob Franklin and baby Virginia

Sayantani Nandi and her husband Chinmay wrote in to share: “Last year has been really eventful. Chinmay and I had a baby boy. We named him Daksh! He is now 6 months old, has got the most endearing smile and mischievous eyes. We are super excited for this new phase in our lives.” [Look for a photo on the 2015 page at myTUCK!] Other Tiny Tuckie arrivals we’d like to congratulate are: Ben Grant and Alex Clegg and daughter Catherine Clegg Grant, born on the same day as Finn William Brown, son of Pat and Kat (Amato) Brown. Charles Christianson and wife Courtney on the arrival of August Christianson. Jed McDonald and Jane [Shiverick] McDonald on the arrival of their son John Shiverick McDonald.

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Ken Yoshida’s daughter, Kurry

Edgar Aguilar Meza wrote to tell us that he is starting his own business accelerator in Mexico. He says, “After two years in Korea, I came back to the Americas to lead a startup in Colombia that was then launched (and closed down) in Mexico City. After a couple of months, I started helping the family business (a private school) and saw an opportunity in the education market to work with businesses in similar conditions and help them double or triple their value in preparation of the next wave of M&A transactions in the industry in LATAM. Stay tuned, and if you have worked on M&A or know someone in M&A for education, please let me know!” Other T’15 new jobs include: Caitlin Moore saying farewell to Deloitte after 4 years and starting a new role at Haven, the JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon healthcare JV.

Erin Ruhf Franklin and Rob Franklin on their lucky St. Patrick’s baby, Virginia Parker Franklin.

Jen Tietz is making us all jealous by returning to Hanover and Tuck full-time, working at the CDO overseeing consulting recruiting efforts.

In possibly the most heartwarming T’15 update, Ken Yoshida and his wife Mio welcomed their first child in December—a daughter named Kurry after our very own Curry Helton. We

Lindsey Windham is moving to Los Angeles with Amazon to work with Amazon Studios and the Prime Video Originals marketing team.

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single time! On a similar note, this is the actual first time that Goffy has not checked in with me regarding class notes. I’m trying not to be personally offended. Due to a full-class reply-all situation (so classic, and so underutilized), you all probably already know Jasmine Fei Qu’s good news regarding her move to the top Chinese mutual fund. She’s moved back to Guangzhou and started a new job with E Fund Management Company!

Kelsey (Byrne) Kelly’s wedding to Craig Kelly had T’15s, T’18s, and T’81s in attendance

Congratulations everyone! As for us, Heather is still loving her role at Applause and her life in the South End. Kelsey (Byrne) Kelly married Craig Kelly in October in their backyard in Park City, UT. She was thrilled to have so many Tuckies make the trip out to celebrate! And don’t forget to head online to see more pictures of all these exciting updates!

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

[Editor’s note: Look on the 2016 class-notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for fantastic photos to accompany the column!] Alright team, we’re back. I’m reporting in from the Mother’s Room at WeWork St. James in Boston. If you’ve never heard of a mother’s room, I’ll explain its core benefit: between the played-out open workspace trend and my new role as mother to an angel baby, it is the ONLY place I can be totally alone with the door locked behind me. It is also the only place I can get anything done. So here I am! Movers and shakers I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but we blew past that 2-year claw back period the consulting firms had on their sponsored MBAs. Completely unrelated, Lauren

Trombadore and Adam Klene have both moved on to new roles post-Deloitte. Lauren is doing trade marketing at Danone (which is a fancy way to say Dannon, like the yogurt). She suggests you buy Horizon milk, as it is better for you, the planet, and, frankly, for her. Adam Klene is also doing something bovinerelated upon his exit from Deloitte. He took a new job in a strategy and analytics role at the Chicago Bulls. Victor Alquicira made a terrible decision to leave Boston but a great decision to pursue an incredible new job at Danone, working in brand management for So Delicious Dairy Free. I suspect he and LT may go head to head in some sort of real dairy vs. plant-based dairy showdown in the near future. In other career moves, Fidel Agbor moved back to Atlanta, his favorite city ever, to accept a corporate strategy role at UPS. He claims the city is still reeling from their 2017 Super Bowl LI loss to the Patriots but that they shall overcome. I claim that we are now all welcome to communicate with him directly about all our package tracking. Tony Anyansi moved out to Austin, Texas, to start a new job at Dimensional Fund Advisors. Remember to help them stay weird, Tony! Chico (Francisco Riederer) has just moved back to New York after 20 months in Europe. He’s continuing as associate director of investment banking (consumer products & retail) at UBS. A curious fact he shared with me was that, during this whole time period in Europe, he managed to not see James Goff one

Guys, do you remember how good Kaitlyn Ramirez is at singing? I do. She’s still at Morgan Stanley in Tech IBD, but she’s somehow finding time to perform whenever she can. In December, she sang “All I Want for Christmas Is You” at a charity event at the historic Apollo Theater. I wasn’t there, but I hear she’s still got it! Speaking of Tuckies being good at things, Jared Pomerance and Chelsea Dodds Williamson were panelists at Tuck’s 14th annual PE conference in February. Chelsea sat on the energy private equity panel and also did a women in investing panel. She recommended that couples treat their dual careers as a portfolio and accidentally swore in front of the audience. She wants you all to know that she, Warren, and Charlie want to move to Boston and to please consider them for any of your private equity-related hiring needs. If you guys are willing to pivot your careers from PE to furniture, I’ve heard that some place called Wayfair is hiring. Other East Coast related stories: Vikram Dhindsa and Allyson are moving back to the best coast this summer! Also, Otto the Doodle currently has 11.5K Instagram followers. He’s also been featured a couple of times on the Bros Being Basic account (which I know, because I follow it). Otto’s mom, Molly Hinton married Brian Meyer in Vermont this past October. Engagements Parthi Duraisamy got engaged to his 2-year girlfriend Annalena under an old apple tree in a beautiful Alpine village close to Salzburg (apple-picking date = classic Tuckie move). He had to use his broken German to ask her father for his permission to propose but made it through and got the yes! They are planning not one but two weddings in the summer of 2020. There will be a “big fat Indian wedding” in South India and a “wheat beer-filled

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CL ASS NOTES Bavarian wedding” in the Alps. While we’re talking about Parthi, he moved to Dubai earlier this year! Fun fact: the Dubai Tuckies do their annual Global Tuck ’Tails in spring rather than summer because it’s too hot when everyone else does it during the summer. Shreya Srinivasan is still crushing life in Minneapolis. She got engaged to her boyfriend Jordan Richter in November. Neil Kulkarni got engaged to Neema Shah on December 30 in NYC. He proposed in a park with a scrapbook, which is too adorable for words. Everyone’s favorite corgi dad, Ryan Sweigart, got engaged to his girlfriend Emily Zhou. In case you’re confused, like I was, this is not our classmate, T’16 Emily Zhou. (It is also not any of the other Zhous that we hold dear, like Fan Zhou. Or the future Jenny Desrosier Zhou. Glad we cleared that up.) Dat Le got engaged to Amy Tran. From all of us on the India Fun Trek, we would collectively like to say “OMG, Dat! It’s about time!” (And congratulations!) By the way, if you think Otto the Doodle is Insta Famous, let’s talk for a moment about Amy. She’s a super famous manicurist who “taught” a bunch of us Tuck girls how to do some real cool manis for graduation. And by “taught us,” I actually mean she did them for us. I, for one, have never been cooler than I was the day Amy made my nails into art. Dat, don’t mess this up. Claire Galiette got engaged to her boyfriend, Billy Strunk (Dartmouth 2012, our year HBS). Billy, who had the good fortune to meet Claire in Ohio, proposed in Siesta Key at his parents’ house and surprised Claire by making sure that her parents were there too. (I’d make an MTV Siesta Key joke here but realize that I’m the only one watching that super garbage reality show.) They’re getting married in winter of 2020 in Florida. Niccolo Piombanti got married to Mahsa on February 2, 2019. They met in Milan, but she’s Persian. Niccolo now lives in Zug, Switzerland, where he started a new job in category management at a local tech company called ricardo.ch. Weddings Adam Klene married his girlfriend, Danielle on September 29th. Neil, Ankur, and HB 138

were all groomsmen. Allan Mendes married his fiancée, Mary, in La Jolla, CA, this past October. They spent the two weeks after the wedding honeymooning in Maui. Heather Clark and Nick Hall were married this winter in Woodstock, VT. The wedding took place at the Woodstock Inn, a place close to our T’16 formal-party-loving hearts. Ben Shore and Mariana Ferreccio got married on March 9 in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Total Tuckie attendance was 31! Mike Tarr married T’17 Samantha Webb in Charleston, SC, in March, as well! Family News I’m not sure if you guys can tell, but I’m now obsessed with babies. So this is my favorite section. Medha Pant and her husband, Gaurang, welcomed their baby girl, Myra, in August. She currently enjoys chilling with her friends at daycare and rolling around. In other family news, Medha and her husband are finally living in the same place! Gaurang moved out to Boston from Wisconsin and is working for Wayfair with the rest of our class. Anthony Ciepiel and his wife Chris are proud to introduce their first baby Antonio Joaquin Ciepiel, who was born on November 29, 2018. Antonio has already been such a blessing to their family, and they are so happy to have him. He takes after his dad and already enjoys eating a lot. Joel Soltman also had a baby girl, Nell. Mama Carly has become an adjunct professor at USC, and Joel is now working at Nike. He now owns 20+ pairs of kicks but “still doesn’t really get it.” Jim and Erika Harig had a second baby boy, William Henry, on December 12. Sergio Saffi Marques had a second child, a baby girl, on December 17. Sofia is a very happy, smiley baby, and big brother George is incredibly proud! Rob Thelen and his wife Sarah welcomed their first baby on January 17, 2019—Maren Ruby Joy Thelen! They want you guys to know that they kept it off of Facebook due to their marketing and data ownership practices. Instead, they now have a blog at www. ThelenAdventures.com (behind a firewall) if anyone wants to see baby photos and stay up to date with their family. They also moved into a new house, and Sarah got a new job at a

nonprofit after graduating from Duke with her Master of Public Policy. Rafael Kroeger’s daughter Erika arrived on March 4. While Rafael feels Tuck taught him a great deal, he’s continuing to develop a whole new set of relevant life skills as a dad. Changing diapers while asleep and singing lullabies are his current specialties. Felipe Martins reported in on the arrival of his identical twin baby boys on March 29. They were born in Dallas, Texas, and named Alfonso and Francisco. They and their mom, Naty are doing great! In other family news, the Wilson family is still in Seattle. Their three little girls are all sharing a bedroom now, so Rob and Shannan could get their office back. They report that it’s been a smashing success and that they highly recommend it. Via email, it’s impossible to tell if he’s kidding or not. The whole family misses hiking around the trails of Sachem Village, but the kids are enjoying a Pokémon craze, which makes up for it! Jeremy Reich welcomed a baby of a different kind. He adopted a “slightly nutty” poodle/ terrier rescue dog named Nugget! That’s all for now! Keep the stories coming my way and stay in touch!

’17 Monique Alves t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Jenny Djupedal t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Emma He t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Russ Walker: “We are thrilled to have welcomed our second daughter, Lucy, to our family this March. Emily is enjoying being a big sister but missing our full attention.” Russ left Bain in December to focus on his real estate company. Brian Cook: “I’ve been with Colgate-Palmolive since graduation and recently took an

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Eliza Joyce Fiore’s welcoming

Lucy Walker

McKenzie Cook and her great-grandmother

assignment leading product innovation on the personal care side of the business at Tom’s of Maine up in Kennebunk. Theodosia and I are living with our daughter in Manchester, NH, for the moment because it’s just about equidistant to work for both us. Theodosia is still at Dartmouth and recently was promoted and named director of the Campus Culture and Climate Initiative, out of the president’s office! McKenzie is now 16 months! Can’t believe how fast time flies. Here she is with her great-grandmother a couple of weeks ago (we celebrated her 85th!).” Ema Reid: “On 10/4/2018 Ema (T’17) and Elliott (T’18) Reid welcomed Finn Pasic Reid!” Melinda and Nic Fiore just had their third child, Eliza Joyce, and are moving to El Paso this summer. They hope to catch up with the T’17s who headed out west after graduation! Shawn and Julie Curley remain in Cambridge, MA, where they are enjoying their final months as a business-school couple. Julie graduates from HBS in May, while Shawn contemplates the ROI of getting a second MBA.... Kirstyn Lipson: “Dave and I were excited to welcome our son, Charles Knox Downes Lipson, this past September. Charlie has been a delight and we are so in love. I was thrilled to be able to take six months of maternity leave to spend as much time as possible with our happy little guy during the early months. The three of us (and Harley, our chocolate lab!) are settling into our new routine, still living in Shaker Heights, OH. I’m still working in brand management at Nestlé, and Dave continues to work remotely for Enel X (formerly EnerNOC). We always welcome visits from Tuckies passing through!” Rup and Ritu, who fondly refer to themselves

Anthony and Becca

Finn Pasic Reid

as soup snakes, got married in Chandigarh, India, on February 19, 2019. The celebrations spanned across 3 days, where many T’17s in attendance got to experience mehndi and bust a move for Bollywood dance performances during the Sangeet night. The happy couple were thrilled to be among family and friends for their big day and are now settling back to real life in New York.

Bernie and Nikki got engaged in Charleston!

Becca and Anthony got engaged on December 15, 2018, in Rocky Mountain National Park on a freezing but sunny day. Anthony hiked in with all his photo equipment so he could capture these moments right after the engagement. Shout-out to Outward Bound, Section 4, and skiing at Killington for bringing them together back in the first year of Tuck! Nikki and Bernie got engaged on December 29th, 2018, in Charleston, South Carolina, surrounded by the love and support of their families. Ashley and Alex Treco got engaged

Alex Treco and Ashley got engaged over the holidays

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CL ASS NOTES guide into the world of AI. In this journey we rely on a three-pronged approach: creation of a clear-cut taxonomy of the field, constant monitoring of recent developments, and focused deep dives into the key technologies, products, and players in AI. [Editor’s note: And received at mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes, we have the following.] Ashley Cahill married T’16 Matt Shofnos on September 29, 2018, in Chevy Case, MD.

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Rup and Ritu’s wedding

in Christopher Columbus Park in Boston over the Christmas holidays. “We’re now back to our lives in San Francisco, putting off wedding planning in favor of spending more time with our one-year-old golden retriever, Larry.” And Eddie and Goldie got engaged last winter on the beach at Maui!

Arushi Kumar arushi.kumar90@gmail.com

Sijia Li sijia.li2016@gmail.com

Rebecca Yi rebeccayi33@gmail.com

The Cahill/Shofnos wedding

Edward Warren: “Since I last checked in, I got engaged and will be having the ceremony at the cabin (NotchTop) later this year, so that’s pretty dang exciting. NotchTop has nearly doubled in size, so I won’t run out of construction activities any time soon. The Zippity entrepreneurial battle continues to rage on; we completed our series seed fund-raising round last year and have expanded operations to Dallas, Texas. Looking forward to more exciting things to come soon.”

[Editor’s note: We received the following at mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes.] From Jon Torbett, via Laura: “We welcomed a sweet baby girl into the world in August. Ashby Jane Torbett was born on August 21 and, thankfully, Jon made it home from deployment just in time! It was hard to see him go after a few short weeks, and we look forward to our little family being whole again in March.”

Kizzy moved to the Bay Area to work at the intersection of real estate, sustainability, and wellness. Julianne is an intelligence analyst for Intel in their customer support group focusing on big-data analytics. She continues to moonlight as an animal advocate, and her most recent investigation of Prop 2 violations received international coverage in The Intercept in October, including drone footage of California dairy farms.

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Evgenii Sidorin: “Recently, together with a friend, we have started a research project in artificial intelligence called Evolution One. The project is focused on industry, technology, and investment insights. Here’s a brief description of what the project does: The goal of Evolution One research is to build a comprehensive

Our little Colorado mountain mama loves being outside!

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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.

Charles E. Smith T’42 December 26, 2018

Glendon M. Campbell Jr. T’53 January 17, 2019

Ronald H. Kabot T’60 June 5, 2018

Stephen F. Lotterhand T’71 May 14, 2019

Robert M. Campbell T’43 December 23, 2018

Raymond F. Richard T’54 April 21, 2019

Edward D. Russell Jr. T’60 January 10, 2019

Richard C. Kreter T’72 March 8, 2019

Morton J. Davis T’46 December 1, 2018

Thomas E. Gorman T’54 December 15, 2017

John M. Mitchell T’61 March 28, 2019

Charles S. Kanach T’74 March 2, 2019

Bradford L. Jones T’47 July 18, 2018

Philip A. Christophe T’55 December 20, 2018

Allan H. Glick T’61 January 28, 2019

Robin J. Lindgren T’74 January 22, 2019

Richard A. Esperon T’47 February 6, 2019

Gibson V. Dyke T’55 August 28, 2018

Jerold H. Lane T’61 November 1, 2017

Herbert J. Markley T’74 May 22, 2019

Leon N. McKenzie Jr. T’47 December 22, 2018

James H. Westergaard T’57 March 6, 2019

Charles A. Mortensen T’62 April 24, 2019

Engin Kevenk T’78 [date unknown]

Thomas H. Gillaugh T’47 February 1, 2017

Russell A. Cook T’57 January 8, 2019

C. Bennett Brown Jr. T’62 December 15, 2018

Pamela Waleryszak Meyer T’79 February 7, 2019

John G. Jennings T’49 December 1, 2018

Douglas H. Keare T’57 January 8, 2019

Jay N. Torok T’62 January 1, 2019

Deven D. Hickingbotham T’80 April 19, 2019

G. Paul Denecke T’50 December 10, 2016

Donald M. Lehrer T’57 October 29, 2018

Mark R. Roadarmel T’67 December 15, 2019

David I. Cook T’01 September 16, 2018

Carl L. Glassberg T’52 February 28, 2019

Frank J. Mooney III T’58 December 14, 2018

Charles P. Morgan T’69 April 23, 2019

Christopher A. Batt T’03 May 7, 2019

Jonathan T. Walton T’53 March 16, 2019

Richard B. Osgood T’59 June 20, 2014

J. Robert Bonnemort T’70 March 12, 2019

Alfred W. Acker Jr. T’53 February 9, 2019

Robert J. Titterington T’60 February 6, 2019

Jeffrey R. Hills T’71 March 28, 2019

SUMMER 2019

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BRIDGE

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2019 December Bridge Program December 1–20 2020 Summer Bridge Program Session dates to be announced

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CITY SCOOTERS: For their First-Year Project, five Tuck students worked with Lime Italy in Rome to help the urban mobility company develop a partnership strategy.

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Summer

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TUCK EDUCATES WISE LEADERS TO BETTER THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.

STITCH FIX MARKETING CHIEF DEIRDRE FINDLAY T’00 IS CHANGING THE WAY WE SHOP FOR CLOTHES

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