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

Winter

THE

IMPACT ISSUE Ken French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance, is one of the most cited business school professors in the world.

F E AT U RIN G

INVENTING THE EDGE

Ten Tuck professors on the front lines of research and business impact

LOOKING OUTWARD, LISTENING CLOSELY An interview with Dean Matthew J. Slaughter on his second term as dean

Plus: Timely & Timeless: Inside Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-year experience

What Does It Take To Network Effectively?

What does it take?

JANUARY 29, 2020 – BOSTON, MA

Tuck Alumni Retreat At Kripalu APRIL 1-3, 2020 – BERKSHIRES, MA

Join us for a year-long series of events, programming,

Tuck Women’s Symposium

and engagement in honor of Tuck’s milestone of

APRIL 24, 2020 – HANOVER, NH

coeducation and in celebration of the diverse community of accomplished leaders that has since followed.

Learn more about the celebration and the events at

www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/w50/

What Does It Take To Lead An Organization? APRIL 29, 2020 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA

What Does It Take To Make An Impact? MAY 14, 2020 – BROOKLYN, NY

#TuckW50

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LETTER FROM THE DEAN

OUR RESEARCH IMPACT Tuck’s impact manifests in many ways, from the impact of a Tuck education on the lives of our students and alumni to the impact they themselves will have as leaders bettering the world through business. Equally impactful is the rigorous and relevant research of our acclaimed faculty. These two dimensions—analytical rigor and relevance to the world— characterize the Tuck approach to research. Although some schools may emphasize one aspect over the other, the greatest impact comes from blending the two: high-quality research that is held to the highest scientific standards and that addresses an important business problem or policy challenge. Such ideas advance both human understanding and our understanding of how business works. They are also vital to our educational mission. That’s because our faculty research that is published in top peer-reviewed journals and textbooks is also deeply integrated into the MBA classroom at Tuck. These ideas inform the timely and timeless character of our core and elective curricula, and they equip students with the knowledge needed to succeed at the highest level, right now and in the future. Just as important, the process and discoveries of research also show our students how to think critically. In curricular innovations like our small-scale Research to Practice Seminars, for example, students get to see how leading researchers create new knowledge—a unique opportunity that allows students to hone their own analytic and decision-making skills. Students also see in our Tuck scholar-educators a powerful example of lifelong learning, which may inspire them to keep on the cutting edge themselves at and far beyond Tuck. In this issue we celebrate 10 faculty members whose ideas are shaping business practice and theory. As you will read, their influence—and that of many others of our faculty—is far-reaching and profound. Tuck thought leaders have launched entirely new sub-fields of inquiry, and they have developed models, frameworks, and findings that have been validated time and again by academics and practitioners alike. We at Tuck are rightly proud of this important research and of its essential contributions to how our faculty help develop tomorrow’s wise, decisive leaders.

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

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EDITOR Justine Kohr

SENIOR EDITORS Kirk Kardashian Cathy Melocik

CLASS NOTES EDITOR Cathy Melocik

OVERHEARD

@TuckSchool Cassie Young

LISTEN Community Services

@dukecass

@LISTENCS

LISTEN Community Services: It was a busy weekend for volunteers! On Sunday we had a Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth crew sorting in our donation center. Thank you for all of your hard work!

PHOTO EDITOR Laura DeCapua

11 years later, just re-read my mba admission essay (yep, was part of the “wall st refugee camp” class)– such a humbling and refreshing awakening to realize that @TuckSchool has helped me to fulfill all of the aspirations I had in 2008 – thank you!!

TUCK TODAY ADVISORY BOARD Renee Hirschberg Julie Brill

Sally Jaeger

@JulieSBrill

Punam Anand Keller Kevin Lane Keller

My hosts at @Dartmouth @centerdigital really know how to put the “fire” in a fireside chat! It was a pleasure to share my perspective with @Tuckschool students & @dralvataylor & learn what they think about the future of privacy, the tech industry, & global regulation

Matthew J. Slaughter Brian Tomlin Erin Tunnicliffe T’97

DESIGN Flannel, Inc.

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TJ Galiardi

MLSPA

@TJGaliardi

@mlspa

Almost exactly 13 years after I first stepped foot on campus at @dartmouth, I returned on Monday as a panelist at @TuckSchool for their Next Step program. It was an honor to speak in front of so many accomplished athletes and military veterans.

“This truly served as the preseason for my life and career after the game. It was exactly what I needed.” @tonybeltran23 reflects on life after soccer and how his time at @TuckSchool has assisted with the transition.

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drrobertlwallace @drrobertlwallace

Incredibly honored for this recent recognition at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth!

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CONTENTS

DEPARTMENTS

NEWSROOM

LOOKING OUTWARD, LISTENING CLOSELY

UPFRONT: TIMELY & TIMELESS

NEW COURSES AT TUCK

VIEW FROM THE TOP

FURTHER READING: Vijay Govindarajan.

V I J AY G OV I N DA R A J A N

The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation. Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.

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KEVIN LANE KELLER E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing

The goal of any academic is to become synonymous with a rich, important research area. In the world of business research, Kevin Lane Keller has become inextricably linked with brands and branding. Keller wrote the first comprehensive paper on customer-based brand equity, in 1993, and five years later came out with Strategic Brand Management, the number-one selling textbook on branding, which is now in its fifth edition and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Keller’s interest in branding began in the mid-1980s, when he had just finished his Ph.D. and teamed up with David Aaker at the Haas School of Business to write about brand extensions, the process of a well-known brand moving into new territory. It was becoming a more common practice at that time, and as the go-go 1980s fueled many mergers and acquisitions, companies began thinking more carefully about the value of their brands. A successful set of brand extensions could turn a leading brand into a mega brand and thus substantially increase a company’s worth. However, there was remarkably little academic knowledge about the nature of brand equity, so having moved to Stanford, Keller took an early sabbatical and spent a year in Australia doing in-depth research and thinking about the concept. The outcome was “Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity,” which was published in 36

1993 in the Journal of Marketing. As of August 2019, it has been cited more than 4,000 times in other journal articles, and is considered the foundational document of modern brand knowledge. Over the years, Keller has built out robust models for more specific branding considerations, such as brand positioning, brand resonance, and brand value chains, and he has consulted with many companies on brand strategy, including Accenture, American Express, Disney, Ford, Intel, Levi Strauss, L.L. Bean, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and Samsung. He continues to explore the different ways companies can build, measure and manage brand equity, and is working on new papers about how social initiatives can create value, the consumer effects of sponsorships, and the importance of brand credibility. “There are so many things a company can do to affect what people know, think and feel about their brand,” Keller says. “Branding is a pretty rich arena that has allowed me to go into depth on a lot of different important and intriguing issues, and I’m grateful for that.”

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Customer-based brand equity is the differential effect that knowledge about a brand has on a consumer’s response to marketing activity.” KEVIN LANE KELLER

FURTHER READING: Kevin Lane Keller and Vanitha Swaminathan. Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity. 5th ed., Pearson, 2019.

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GIOVANNI GAVETTI Professor of Business Administration

One of Professor Gavetti’s lines of work suggests that strategists often use analogies when facing problems that are both complex and novel. Through analogies, a present problem is viewed through the lens of a situation experienced before. If the similarity between a new and a known situation is strong, a solution (e.g., a fullfledged strategy or business model) that worked well in the past is likely to work well in the current situation. Thus, analogy can be a powerful source of creative insight and foresight in any situation that is novel and/or hard to understand. But there is a catch: human beings are often seduced by superficial similarities. This challenge must be overcome for analogy to be a reliable tool for the strategist. To tackle this challenge, in a recent paper Gavetti conducted a historical study of one of the biggest strategic innovations to ever hit Wall Street: Charles Merrill’s “financial supermarket” business model, which in the early 1940s brought Wall Street to Main Street. What enabled Merrill to see a new and radical departure from the status quo was his decade-long expertise as chairman of Safeway, one of the first supermarket chains in history. Essentially, Merrill adapted his so-called “theory of merchandising”—how to perform well in supermarkets—to banking. Two things are remarkable and generalizable in this story. First, Merrill had deep expertise of supermarkets. He knew the business inside out and in excruciating detail. This knowledge allowed him to envision a strategy for Merrill Lynch that was detailed and precise. Second, Merrill conducted several studies to “test” whether his groundbreaking strategy

was viable in banking. In other words, he tested whether the supermarket and the banking businesses were deeply similar. And they were. The general point this study makes is that a strategist’s ability to foresee great strategies that depart significantly from conventional models is not a matter of innate creativity or magic, but a matter of discipline and expertise. More broadly, Gavetti’s work focuses on the cognitive foundations of strategy making. The word “cognitive” has existed in the psychology literature since at least the 1950s, when the discipline of cognitive science was founded. Cognitive scientists want to know how the mind thinks—how we solve problems, for example, or remember, or learn language. Gavetti was one of the first if not the first academic to couple cognitive science with strategy. He had learned all the standard econometric models and tools for strategy, but found them lacking in one crucial element: the idiosyncratic thought processes of decision makers. None of them delved into the black box of the brain. “Mapping out the sources of variation in this cognitive process is what I brought to the field,” he says. “My current obsession is with the expertise of the strategist. The modern science of expertise offers precise suggestions on what constitutes expertise and how such expertise can be developed in ways that hold true in many other professional fields,” he says. “I think it is prime time to use the science of expertise to also help businesses.”

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Foreseeing innovative strategies that depart significantly from the status quo and their likely outcomes is possible and disciplinable within bounds that can be defined with some precision.” G I OVA N N I GAV E T T I

FURTHER READING: Giovanni Gavetti and Anoop Menon. “Evolution Cum Agency: Toward a Model of Strategic Foresight.” Strategy Science, vol. 1, no. 3, 2016, pp. 207-233.

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Promotions are all about incrementality. Are you really expanding your sales, or just getting people to stockpile?” SCOT T NESLIN

SCOTT NESLIN Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing

Around 1985, Scott Neslin and his colleague Robert Blattberg set out to do something about an incongruity hobbling the field of marketing. Consumer products firms were starting to spend more on promotions than they did on advertising, yet advertising was far more studied and taught. With the increasing availability of scanner data—which provided highly detailed information on the products consumers purchased, and under what conditions— Neslin and Blattberg figured the time was right to craft a research-based foundation on promotions. The outcome was their 1990 book Sales Promotion: Concepts, Methods, and Strategies. It became the definitive resource on the promotions field, and helped launch a cornucopia of research papers that expanded our understanding of promotions-related phenomena. “We published this book in the midst of a perfect storm: an explosion of data, managerial relevance, and new econometric models,” says Neslin. “We tried to capture all that in the book.” Neslin co-authored several papers on promotions, partnering with co-authors such as Tuck professors Kusum Ailawadi, Caroline Henderson, and Praveen Kopalle. His paper with Henderson measured the prevalence of stockpiling as a major constituent of a promotion’s impact, while 38

his work with Ailawadi showed that one of the consequences of stockpiling was to increase consumption—the idea that if you’ve loaded up on yogurt in the refrigerator, you eat more yogurt. Neslin soon turned his attention to customer relationship management (CRM), and then internet marketing. Within CRM, he has researched loyalty programs with Kopalle as well as Tuck professor Gail Taylor. He has also devoted much attention to multichannel marketing, a fertile topic in the entangled arenas of online and offline ecommerce. His most well-known papers in this area explore showrooming and webrooming (when consumers research in the store and buy online, or do the reverse), how consumers migrate their purchases from one channel to another over time, and the impact online marketing on offline sales as well as offline marketing on online sales, known as “cross effects.” That last one was a finalist for the William F. O’Dell Award from the Journal of Marketing Research, which honors the article published in the last five years that has made the most significant long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice. Internet marketing continues to inspire Neslin, for its sheer influence on the marketplace and the many unknowns

surrounding the practices of online retailers. These include the impact of free shipping promotions on product returns, the impact of Facebook advertising on app downloads, and most recently work with Tuck co-authors Prasad Vana and Deepti Poluru on the factors that inspire consumers to watch promotional videos. He’s fully engaged in the machine learning revolution that’s sweeping the academic as well as practitioner arenas. For a career that began firmly in the analog era, Neslin has had no trouble impacting the digital world we find ourselves in. It fits with his approach of identifying key phenomena and opening the door for others to explore further. “Other academics may come to different conclusions than I do about a certain concept, and that’s fine with me,” he says. “The point is that they’re looking at the concept and going deeper. That’s how we truly build the research base that increases our expertise and provides us with material to share with our students.”

FURTHER READING: Robert C. Blattberg and Scott A. Neslin. Sales Promotion: Concepts, Methods, and Strategies. Prentice Hall, 1990.

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CONSTANCE E. HELFAT J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy

Why do some firms perform better than others? It’s a simple question with myriad complicated answers. In the academic context, finding those answers is the quest of business strategy professors. One prominent framework for deciphering the factors of high performance is the resourced-based view, a theory that originated in the 1980s which holds that firms exploit their unique tangible and intangible assets to succeed—such as brand names, factories, or skilled personnel. But firms have something more than resources at their disposal. They also have routines and processes, which in the parlance of strategy are called “capabilities.” Two professors at Yale— Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter—pioneered the study of capabilities. They also happened to be some of Constance Helfat’s favorite teachers during her graduate work. Helfat’s dissertation adviser at Yale, Richard Levin (the president of the institution from 1993-2013), introduced her to David Teece, a professor at Berkeley who put a spin on the capability theory. Teece studied the particular capabilities that allowed firms to deal with a changing environment, such as sensing and seizing opportunities and threats, and then reconfiguring the firm to take

advantage of them. Teece called these “dynamic capabilities.” Helfat, who had always been interested in the challenges of change, saw in dynamic capabilities the path forward for her own research interests, which had to do with the role of innovation in strategic change. It became her life’s work. Fast forward thirty years. Dynamic capabilities, as an approach to strategy, now coexists alongside the resourcebased view. And Helfat is one of a handful of authoritative voices in the dynamic capabilities literature, having published many highly-cited journal articles and the definitive book on the topic (co-authored with Teece, Winter, and others including Tuck colleagues Sydney Finkelstein and Margaret Peteraf). “Before, people thought firms couldn’t cope with strategic change, and that incumbents were always at a disadvantage when something changes in the competitive environment or with technology,” Helfat explains. “Dynamic capabilities says, Wait a minute, some firms do better than others at promulgating and reacting to strategic change, so maybe we can think carefully about what enables them to do it. That was just a home-run idea.”

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A firm’s dynamic capabilities are assets that facilitate strategic change.” C O N S TA N C E E . H E L FAT

FURTHER READING: Constance E. Helfat et al. Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

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LOOKING OUTWARD,

LISTENING CLOSELY A conversation with Dean Matthew J. Slaughter

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n June 2019, Dartmouth Provost Joseph Helble announced Matthew J. Slaughter’s appointment to a second term as dean of the Tuck School of Business. Since then, Slaughter has been busy building on the momentum established during his first four-year term, which included the successful

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changes to the MBA program’s first-year core curriculum and the strategic expansion of Tuck’s portfolio of non-degree programs. Slaughter also strengthened the school’s administrative

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enhancements to Career Services. Under Slaughter’s leadership, Tuck continued to make strides in building a faculty of the future, with multiple strategic additions to the faculty across a range of ranks and disciplines. His first term also saw the launch of The Tuck Difference campaign, along with the largestever gift commitment in school history: a $25-million donation from the American family foundation of Michaela and Zdenek Bakala T’89 in support of the TuckGO program, which became a curricular requirement at Tuck starting with the class of 2017.

We sat down with Dean Slaughter midway

through the current academic year to learn more about his first term as dean, his priorities for his second term, and his take on the current business education landscape.

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Q. There is a lot happening at Tuck these days— from the recent broadscale changes to the firstyear core curriculum, to enhancements to Career Services, to the largest gift in Tuck’s history. How is Tuck building on this momentum? The curriculum review really allowed us to think deeply about the school as a whole—not only about our first-year curriculum, but also the overall student experience and our unique mission and strategy. As part of this process, we spent considerable time listening even more intentionally to prospective students and the organizations that hire them to ensure our learning environment keeps pace with our dynamic and changing world. That has been one of the guiding principles for these refinements—to look outward and listen closely to key stakeholders— and it has created a new process for innovation that is allowing us to build to a future in which Tuck has an even more distinct and valued place in it. We have also made great progress in recent years building our faculty of the future—bringing in faculty who are committed to the kind of rigorous and relevant research, teaching, and knowledge creation that has long set Tuck apart. These additions to our acclaimed faculty, together with the continued quality of our students, contribute in very real ways to our current momentum. As they have been since our founding, people are Tuck’s greatest asset and they remain central to the success of our future endeavors.

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o matter where someone stands N in our school, I want them to see clearly their role in our mission of educating wise, decisive leaders who better the world through business.”

Q. Looking ahead, what are some of your top priorities for the next four years? When I think about priorities as dean, it always starts with the heart of what we do, which is the MBA program. Making near- and longer-term investments that enable the MBA program and our other offerings to thrive in a way that is distinctive to Tuck and that resonates with our ever-changing world is absolutely critical to our success. Simply put, no other school can do what we do at Tuck. Our personal scale allows students to develop capabilities and forge connections within our community and with the outside world in a way that allows them to transform themselves, their organizations, and even the world itself. This is what we mean by “personal, connected, and transformative.” It all adds up to an experience I firmly believe no other MBA program in the world can match. Another priority for Tuck will be to continue developing new business education programs in the pre- and post-MBA space. These programs help advance our unique mission, they contribute to the school’s finances, and they broaden our reach and impact in the world. A third priority is continuing the momentum of The Tuck Difference campaign. I am thrilled with the progress we have made so far; to date alumni and friends have raised more than $184.5 million toward our goal of $250 million. Included in this Tuck’s largest-ever gift to endow our vibrant TuckGO program. This support is more important than ever given the pace and scope of change in the world, and I am excited to build on our collective success.

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Q. The needs of MBA students continue to evolve. How are today’s MBA students different from learners in previous generations? For our current generation of students, their world has been shaped by 9/11, by the financial crisis and Great Recession, by the sweeping technology revolution, and by global warming and climate change. Out of this has emerged a set of interconnected global, social, and technological forces that is more salient in the minds and experiences of students today than with any previous generation. Also top of mind for these students is the expectation that they will have the opportunity to apply what they learn in the classroom in experiential settings. We are living in a world today in which people have access to truly infinite amounts of information. So, while we at Tuck must continue to ensure that our students develop the functional expertise, analytical skills, and personal leadership capabilities that are essential to their success, the way we deliver these ideas and how students interact with them continues to evolve dramatically. Both today’s learners and companies rightly expect that there won’t just be an intellectual hearing of ideas among students, but rather a synthesis, application, and experience with them. This underscores the importance of programs like TuckGO, the First-Year Project, and our six co-curricular centers of learning and application. Finally, we are seeing that students today have an even greater entrepreneurial aspiration for their learning and career journey than previous generations. They also have an earnest desire to make a difference in the world—and they want it to happen yesterday. This again connects to the global, social, and technological forces that are driving business today and that are so central to our students’ lives. That’s something we want to honor by delivering a personal, connected, and transformative educational experience for them. We want them to feel empowered.

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hat we repeatedly hear from global W businesses and organizations is that they need leaders who can harness information to articulate different points of view in environments of disruptive ambiguity. These are the leaders that Tuck has long developed.” – DEAN MATTHEW SLAUGHTER

Q. In this rapidly evolving world, what role do you see Tuck and its graduates playing? Again, I go back to why we exist as a school: to develop wise, decisive leaders who better the world through business. What we repeatedly hear from global businesses and organizations is that they need leaders who can harness information to articulate different points of view in environments of disruptive ambiguity. These are the leaders that Tuck has long developed. We are living in a time of great innovation, but also of great complexity and uncertainty. In recent years this uncertainty has extended to the MBA marketplace, which has experienced a decrease in application volume. As many know, we at Tuck have not been immune to these forces. Our response to the challenging market conditions has been to redouble our efforts to enhance the fundamental qualities that distinguish Tuck from other business schools—to be even better at what we know we do so well and what we know the world values. Our performance in several recent MBA program rankings—2nd in Bloomberg Businessweek, 6th in Forbes, and 10th nationally in The Economist—suggests we are on the right track. While it is gratifying for Tuck to be seen as doing well in the eyes of the world, I was especially encouraged by how we ranked on specific criteria that are hallmarks of what distinguishes Tuck, including placing 1st in Businessweek for the effectiveness of our alumni network and 3rd in The Economist for our immersive learning experience. These are just two of many qualities that set Tuck apart and that we plan to continue strengthening in the months and years to come.

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Q. What has been the most gratifying part of your work so far as dean? Time and again during my time as dean, I have been inspired by how members of our community become empowered to be their best selves as part of Tuck’s mission. This really starts with our students and faculty, who are at the heart of our learning enterprise, and then extends to our entire community—to staff and to our loyal and supportive alumni. No matter where someone stands in our school, I want them to see clearly their role in our mission of educating wise, decisive leaders who better the world through business. And every day I see our entire community taking tangible steps to contribute to this Tuck aspiration. Seeing so many people flourish through Tuck’s mission is intensely gratifying to witness.

Q. Learning at Tuck is a lifelong journey. What has been your greatest learning to date as dean? I have learned that the fundamental role of the dean of the Tuck School is to steward the institution toward its infinite future. As dean, I am continually thinking about building new capabilities through great students, faculty, staff, and administrative leaders—all to steward the school’s ability to thrive for the many years beyond my time here. Despite the world of late being more bracingly invigorating than most of us expected, I am confident that Tuck can play an even more central role in this world —not just in business education, but in higher education and across the globe for decades to come.

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52 THE SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR Meet Peter Sisson T’94, CEO and founder of Yaza, a social mapping company.

48 PROFILE: MARIANA GARAVAGLIA T’08 / 50 B EST PRACTICES:

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54 ESSAY: SUSAN HUNT STEVENS T’98 / 56 NEWSMAKERS /

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alumni

Peloton is a kind, collaborative, highperformance culture where we believe that success is best when it’s shared.”

KRISANNE JOHNSON

MARIANA GARAVAGLIA T'08

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE AT PELOTON, CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER MARIANA GARAVAGLIA T’08, IS PUTTING PEOPLE, AND CULTURE, FIRST. By JEFF MOAG

efore she came to Peloton as the interactive exercise startup’s chief people officer, Mariana Garavaglia T’08 spent 11 years with Amazon, working in a variety of roles as the company grew from about 21,000 employees to more than 640,000. However, shortly after she joined Amazon as an HR business partner at its Reno fulfillment center in 2008, the company implemented a hiring freeze. The country was in the depths of the financial crisis, and Amazon’s meteoric growth was on pause. Weeks after Garavaglia started, the night shift manager at the sprawling fulfillment center abruptly quit. The absence threatened to significantly hinder operations during the makeor-break holiday season, and Garavaglia was powerless to hire a replacement. So she did the job herself. “It was terrible hours, starting at 5 p.m. and finishing at 6:30 a.m. the next morning, six days a week. It wasn’t a job anyone was volunteering for, but at that point the team needed a warehouse manager more than an HR partner,” she says. “So I raised my hand.” Tuck gave her the confidence to fill the void, and the general management skills to excel in the position. “One of the key things I took from Tuck is that you’re not incapable of doing something just because you’ve never done it before,” says Garavaglia, whose roles at Amazon included leading HR and recruiting for the company’s worldwide advertising businesses and managing the online giant’s entry to brick-and-mortar retailing. Quite a career for a person who had never opened a spreadsheet before coming to Tuck. Garavaglia was born in Connecticut and spent her childhood in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Her parents were educators and economic policy would necessarily become a regular topic of dinner-table conversation when Garavaglia was in fifth grade and

a bout of hyperinflation rippled through Argentina which ultimately led the family to return to the United States. She went on to study international relations at the University of Oklahoma and started her career as a bilingual teacher in an atrisk school near Dallas. “I was interested in opportunities to teach and lead and thought it was a role in which I could add a lot of value and make significant impact,” she says. Garavaglia quickly identified as a natural leader with an aptitude for mentoring colleagues and managing programs. The school district recognized her talent, nominating her Teacher of the Year and pressing her to pursue a master's in education and become an administrator. “That was a good opportunity for me to pause and really understand what had given me the most joy in terms of the work that I’d done,” she says, adding that the answer aligned with her skill for bringing out the best in people and programs. She began to think about an MBA and a career in general management. Tuck’s reputation for collaboration and teamwork, coupled with its rigorous general management curriculum, made it her first choice. Upon arriving in Hanover, she was energized by the culture of collaboration and performance at Tuck, and the school’s embrace of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. “When I arrived on campus, it was immediately evident that Tuck is committed to creating a learning environment with incredible depth and breadth, where the diversity of backgrounds and experiences makes the entire class stronger.” Recalling an economics course in which professor Andrew Bernard asked who in the class came from a country that had experienced rapid inflation, Garavaglia raised her hand, expecting to be the only one. However, a surprising number of classmates from all

over the world also raised their hands as well, leading to a rich discussion and analysis of myriad factors and circumstances that could lead to similar economic conditions in different countries. “It was just one of many moments where classmates who hadn’t come from traditional backgrounds got to share their unique experiences,” she says. She strives to replicate that dynamic in her work as chief people officer at Peloton, a job she started in June after Peloton president and CEO John Foley brought her on board to build and scale a global people function. The job encompasses core human resources disciplines with a strategic emphasis on talent acquisition, engagement, development, and retention, says Garavaglia. Talent is everything in technology-driven companies like Peloton, and the company has given Garavaglia the tools to put people and culture first. For example, workspace design falls into her purview because it plays a significant role in teamwork and employee satisfaction.   Peloton’s business model is built around a virtual community, in which customers buy the company’s innovative and interactive bicycles and treadmills, as well as a monthly membership providing access to world class content and a like-minded community of fitness enthusiasts. Even the name reflects the power of cooperative effort. In cycling, parlance a peloton is a group of riders that, working together, can outpace even the strongest of individuals. That emphasis on teamwork and performance is baked in to the company culture, Garavaglia says, and it has a great deal in common with the culture at Tuck. “Peloton is a kind, collaborative, highperformance culture where we believe that success is best when it’s shared,” she says. “That’s something I took from Tuck, and it’s what attracted me to Peloton as a company.” WINTER 2020

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HOW TO BUILD YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE with DAVID LENHARDT T’96

By RACHEL LEVIN

HERE’S HOW, ACCORDING TO LENHARDT: nlike many consultants and MBA graduates, David Lenhardt’s non-linear career journey includes just three companies. His work as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch inspired him to broaden his skill set and pursue an MBA at Tuck, and upon graduating, he joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Tasked with turning around PetSmart’s business as a consultant, he went on to become CEO of PetSmart 12 years later. He considers leadership a

concrete and tangible skill that requires practice, regular maintenance, and sharpening. He has a passion for developing leaders, and since stepping down as CEO of PetSmart in 2015, he’s reengaging the Tuck community by creating the Lenhardt Family Leadership Fund to support leadership-related curricular and co-curricular programs and initiatives that help develop wise, decisive leaders on campus. As a believer in personal engagement in philanthropy, his involvement with the leadership fund goes beyond an endowment—he’s offering decades of personal experience and lessons learned in collaboration with Dean Matthew Slaughter and Tuck professors to adapt a curriculum and program to support Tuck students to become authentic and genuine leaders. Lenhardt admits developing leaders isn’t a science, and there is no one-size-fitsall formula, but there are concrete steps to developing a personal leadership toolbox that feels genuine and true to you. Lenhardt is the first to recognize the challenges of leadership—he experienced feelings of isolation as CEO and struggled with relinquishing responsibility to his team. The goal of successful leadership is to develop and surround oneself with an “independent, high performing, and committed team,” he says. But to do that, one must develop an authentic and personal leadership style.

Do what you fundamentally enjoy. Knowing he was on track to become a consultant during his time at Tuck, Lenhardt saw the summer internship as an opportunity to amplify his experiences and gain exposure to the corporate world. He followed his passion for sports and accepted an internship in Dallas testing the viability of a new product at Pinnacle Brands, a baseball card company, in Dallas in ’95. Upon Tuck graduation, between his internship experience in Dallas, a fluency in Spanish from living in Mexico City from ages six to ten, and a diploma from Tuck, he was hired to join Bain Dallas as a consultant, where they managed all Latin American clients. Realizing he genuinely enjoyed working in retail through his involvement with PetSmart, he stayed for the tenure of his career—he loved watching customers see and feel a service and product. Take risks, collect diverse experiences, and choose the unexpected route. “You never know how your choices will affect your path later on.” Lenhardt’s decision to join the senior team at PetSmart wasn’t without risk—in October 2000,

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the stock at PetSmart fell to $2 a share right before he joined, in comparison to $40 a share several years prior, and many people felt the company was headed toward bankruptcy. “As a 31-year-old, you don’t get the opportunity to jump into a well-run business in a senior leadership role. You need to look for a business with opportunity,” he says. Step out of your comfort zone. After working on the turnaround strategy with Bain, Lenhardt was offered a role on the senior team at PetSmart in 2000, with the opportunity to lead their grooming and pet training businesses. “As a consultant, you get to advise and develop strategies, but I was excited to take ownership and execute,” he says. After doing this for six years, he embarked on a store development experience. This entailed being a store manager for several months, then a district manager; overseeing eight stores. His initial reaction to this was “abject fear,” as he had no previous experience working in retail. “I wondered if I could do it,” he says. This experience stretched him. “It was completely different, and therefore scary. It exposed me to new experiences and allowed me to continue to grow at PetSmart.”

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Practice every day—leadership is a contact sport. “There are opportunities to engage in leadership each and every day, regardless of what you do. Look for opportunities to inspire and engage with your team,” Lenhardt says. He credits his strengths in collaboration and his teambased approach to his time at Tuck, and encourages students to take leadership roles in class and team projects. Like any skill, leadership weakens without practice. Ask for feedback to build self-awareness. The more responsibilities he gained, the harder it was to receive honest insights. “As CEO, people often tell you what you want to hear. Develop an inner circle, personally and professionally, of individuals who share truthful feedback.”

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FOR SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR PETER SISSON T’94, NAMED ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL LGBTQ PEOPLE IN TECH, LIFE HAS BEEN ONE BIG ADVENTURE. By MEGAN MICHELSON

ETER SISSON T’94 always knew he’d

become an entrepreneur. When he was a student at Tuck, he took a Myers Briggs test which told him entrepreneurship was an integral part of his personality. “I’m a very creative person. I like the idea of creating something from nothing,” Sisson says. “Tuck not only reinforced that I could do that, but it also prepared me to do that by teaching me how to write a coherent pitch deck.” Since Tuck, Sisson, who lives in San Francisco, has launched five—and

counting—companies. In 2019, Business Insider named Sisson one of the most powerful LGBTQ people in tech. His latest company is called Yaza, which he founded in 2018 and recently went live in the app store. Yaza enables its users to explore an interactive, searchable map of the world through the experiences of people they know. So, if you’re visiting say, Barcelona, you can watch videos of friends who’ve been to the area’s best cafes and art galleries and build and save an itinerary based on your findings. “For someone with a travel bug, you want to be able to experience what

another place is like through the eyes of people you trust—your friends, influencers, travel experts,” Sisson says. “You want to get that content from them, and get it pure, ideally in video, since that communicates so much about an experience.” The app weaves together a visual history of specific places, whether they’re hiking trails or exploring museums. “It’s a tool to satisfy my wanderlust; to answer the question that I see inefficiently answered all the time on social media. People say, ‘I’m going to Berlin—where should I go?’ Then you see an endless stream,” Sisson

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says. “Other sites host reviews, but they’re from strangers. As someone who likes to get off the beaten track, I want to open it up to everyone’s explorations, not just guidebooks and travel experts.” Sisson has been obsessed with travel since his first plane ride at age five. Since then, he’s been to 40 countries and accrued 4 million airline miles. “I believe if you can travel, it makes for a complete and rich life,” he says. His tendency is to avoid the well-traveled, pricier countries and instead go to uncharted places in more developing countries. In his twenties, he bought an open-ended, around-the-world plane ticket. He spent six weeks in Bali, visited monasteries in Tibet, and traveled to the center of Borneo, where he stayed in a village with Dayak tribesmen, camping in lean-tos and eating monkey meat they’d shot with poisoned darts. He’s been 150 feet below sea level in Palau and topped out at 18,000 feet above sea level on a peak in the Himalaya. “Everything has been an adventure,” Sisson says. After studying computer science in undergraduate at Cornell University, Sisson earned a master’s degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from Stanford University. He got a job writing programming code for AT&T Bell Labs, before leaving to do volunteer work in Micronesia. “I realized very quickly that I wanted to have a bigger sandbox to play in,” he says. “I knew that business school would be the key to transitioning from a science and engineering background to learning more about management and business.” He chose Tuck for its small class size and approachable professors. “The best thing about Tuck for me was the people I met. To this day, we keep in touch. They’re accessible. You can reach out to anyone,” he says. “I had come from engineering, so I was taught to be data driven—that there was one right answer and you had to be exhaustive to make sure you got every detail right. At Tuck, you unlearn that. You learn about what’s important, what’s salient, so

To create sustainable competitive advantage, you’ve got to solve hard problems and get way ahead. The hallmark of what I tried to do with my companies is to fix something that’s broken.” PETER SISSON T'94

you can make decisions without data, with incomplete information. That’s not a skill that’s taught to an engineer.” Post Tuck, he worked in management consulting during the era when the Internet was just getting started, before transferring to banking as a research analyst at a financial security firm, covering the mobile and telecom equipment industries. But in the back of his mind, he still had the idea that he wanted to create something himself. He had moved to California’s Bay Area, where he became interested in the area’s wine scene in Napa and Sonoma counties. When he realized it was next to impossible to order and ship wine across state lines, the idea for his first startup came to him. “I knew shipping wine would be challenging and not just from a regulatory point of view,” he says. “It was a hard problem, but I always like to solve problems. To create sustainable competitive advantage, you’ve got to solve hard problems and get way ahead. The hallmark of what I tried to do with my companies is to fix something that’s broken. It’s harder to win but if you do win, the rewards are greater.” So, he spent six months talking to customers, wholesales, retailers, and winemakers to understand the challenges.

Then he wrote a business plan straight from the structure he learned in Tuck’s entrepreneurship class. His company, then called Wine Shopper, partnered with 200 licensed wine distributers across the country and became the first to legally ship wine to more than 11 states. After raising $46 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins and Amazon, Wine Shopper was purchased within two years by Wine.com. Sisson launched three subsequent companies after that—a media production company called Mixonic that was acquired in 2017, a click-to-call technology company called Teleo that was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, and Line2, the first company to get a full-service phone app approved by Apple, which was acquired in 2018. After that, he came up with the idea for Yaza. Mentorship has been a key part of Sisson’s identity through his career. He’s mentored startup founders at the European Innovation Academy and StartOut Growth Lab, where he’s helped 25 companies close on more than $30 million in funding and created more than 140 new jobs. “Having had 20 years of starting companies and making mistakes along the way, I have a lot to offer as a mentor,” he says.

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3 Ways to Encourage People to Bring Their Whole Self to Work By SUSAN HUNT STEVENS T’98, FOUNDER & CEO, WESPIRE

“Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.” —Sheryl Sandberg

ecently, I’ve been reading Michelle Obama’s autobiography to my daughter before bed. It’s been fascinating reading a book that frequently addresses the struggles that working mothers face to the child of a working mother. At points she has laughed and said, “that sounds JUST like you.” Other times she’s noticed that my eyes are welling up and I’ve had to stop reading for a minute to catch my breath … and she’s just quietly snuggled closer. One of the stories in the book that has stuck with me most occurred earlier in her working life, when Sasha was a three-month old. She had been considering staying home full-time, but was asked to interview for an executive director position with the new president at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She can’t remember whether her childcare fell through or she just didn’t even bother arranging it, but she showed up with Sasha for the interview. She and Michael Riordan, the new president, spoke while she bounced Sasha on her lap, hoping her diaper wouldn’t leak. As she says, “I wasn’t going to try to hide the messiness of my existence, from the breastfeeding baby and the three-year-old in preschool to the fact that with my husband’s topsy-turvy political schedule I was in charge of more or less every aspect of life at home.” She got the job. Had I been in the same situation, I don’t think I would even consider doing a job interview with a newborn on my lap. I never would been brave enough to try. It made me wonder how often we walk away from an opportunity because of a presumption that something about our “whole self” will be unacceptable or get in the way of success? When, in fact, if we brought our “whole self” to the situation, it might actually be an opportunity for an organization or an individual to shine or to grow. As an example, a student at Morehouse College, Wayne Heynor, created an opportunity for his professor, Nathan Alexander, to shine. Heynor’s childcare fell through and he had an important class to go to in order to prepare for midterms. His only choice was to bring his infant daughter in a carrier. When he explained the situation to Professor Alexander, the Professor offered to teach the class while holding the baby so Heynor could take good notes. The photo of Professor Alexander went viral with over 300,000 likes and 80,000 comments, including one from the President of Morehouse who tweeted, “This is about #love and #commitment. Loving our students and being committed to removing any barrier to their pursuit of excellence.”

One of the seven questions to assess the psychological safety of an organization asks if you agree or disagree that, “People on this team sometimes reject others for being different.” Think about where you work or go to school. As a leader, you want people to strongly disagree with that statement. So what can you do to foster people being comfortable bringing their whole self to work? 1. FIRST, bring YOUR whole self to work. Be open about the good, but also share the tough parts and struggles you have. That will encourage everyone else to as well. 2. S ECOND, when you notice someone sharing something unique or different, particularly if any social risk is incurred by sharing it, commend them for sharing. To the extent that they excelled as a result of that difference, or in spite of that difference, recognize them for it. 3. FINALLY, be as agile and adaptable as possible, particularly when team members are facing challenges that aren’t technically work-related, but that affect their ability to work. When people see a leader, and an organization, adapt to support a team member, they are more likely to be open when and if they have a difficult situation of their own.

What is Saturday Spark? As the leader of a purpose-driven company, I’m challenged daily to ensure our company is “walking the walk” and that I’m personally leading with purpose and impact at the forefront. The result is that I read, think, and learn a lot about the intersection of purpose, impact and leadership and have a few successes and a lot more “lessons learned.” I realized that my own insights may be helpful to other purpose-driven professionals if I took the time to reflect each week. If you find this inspiring, practical or helpful, I’d be honored if you shared it with your colleagues, your families and your friends. Originally published on wespire.com. For more from Susan Hunt Stevens, visit wespire.com/Saturday-spark

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PAUL OLLINGER T’97 LAUNCHES FINANCE PODCAST Comedian PAUL OLLINGER T’97 recently began producing the podcast Crazy Money, which “promotes financial wisdom and better living through no-holds-barred conversations about the role of money in our lives.” Ollinger interviews highprofile guests including entrepreneurs, celebrities, authors, academics, and others with a unique perspective on money, wealth, and careers. Thus far, he has hosted several New York Times best-selling authors, prominent broadcasters, a rock star (Ed Roland, lead singer of Collective Soul), and most importantly, he notes, his Tuck roommate, Yancey Spruill T’97, who discussed growing up poor, then earning his way into the highest level of the corporate world. Prior to embracing his comedic destiny, Ollinger worked at Yahoo! and was VP, West Coast sales at Facebook.

BOB BATT T’06 received tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an associate professor of operations management at the Wisconsin School of Business.

DEIRDRE FINDLAY T’00, CMO at Stitch Fix, and KENNY MITCHELL T’04, CMO at Snap, were named to Forbes’ CMO Next 2019 list. The list compiles 50 gamechanging marketing leaders who are redefining the chief marketing officer role. Findlay was also honored in November as one of Adweek’s Brand Genius award winners. The annual list highlights 10 marketing executives at the top of their field.

SARA SPIVEY T’89 joined mobile marketing company Braze as chief marketing officer. She previously held the same role at Bazaarvoice.

JOSE MINAYA T’00 was named president of Nuveen, a global investment manager. Minaya will retain his current title as chief investment officer as well.

Maze Therapeutics, a company focused on translating genetic insights into new medicines, announced that JASON COLOMA T’07 has been appointed CEO. Coloma was previously the company’s COO.

AGL Credit Management appointed WYNNE COMER T’93 as its chief operating officer. She had previously served as a managing director and global head of CLO primary at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

ALAIN KARAOGLAN T’87 joined New York Life as senior vice president overseeing a portfolio of strategic insurance businesses. Karaoglan was previously COO of Voya Financial.

CHRIS HOJLO T’01 joined Apollo Global Management’s London office as a partner in Apollo’s European Principal Finance Funds. Prior to joining Apollo he was global head of capital solutions for CVC Credit Partners, focusing on financial services private equity, structured equity, and private debt transactions in the U.S. and Europe.

Gail Goodman T’87 Joins Pepperlane GAIL GOODMAN T’87, the former CEO of online marketing company Constant Contact (which she sold for $1.1b), joined Pepperlane, a startup that helps stay-at-home moms who mean business build one for themselves but not by themselves. In an article for the Boston Business Journal, Goodman explained she will serve as chief product officer for the company rather than as CEO, saying that Pepperlane founder Sharon Kan “is the evangelical leader the company needs,” while Goodman will focus on building great products. “All of my experience with Constant Contact will be available to Pepperlane,” she assured, along with “the power of our unique partnership. This is what women supporting women looks like.” 56

KATE JHAVERI T’03 was named chief marketing officer for the National Basketball Association (NBA). She brings extensive digital experience to the position, having headed marketing at Amazon.com’s video live-streaming service Twitch, as well as having lead marketing functions for Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft.

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Mike Ryan D’68, T’69 shares a laugh with wife Ellie Ryan on a beautiful autumn day during Tuck Reunion.

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Send me some info, including pictures re you and your doings. We’ll include it in the next edition! Our Naples address is 412 Bentley Drive, Naples, FL 34110.

’55 Charles A. Morrison

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65TH REUNION Editor’s note: Tuck’s alumni office received the following from Robert Rooke D’49, T’50!

OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

“Happy to say I’m alive and well—Natalie, my wife, and I spend five months at Newfound Lake here in NH and continue to winter in Morristown, NJ. Have slowed down a bit due to age but still manage several investment funds. Sorry to say I have given up fishing and hunting but continue to ‘tinker’ with a collection of antique autos, ranging from a 1907 IHC to a ’59 Mercedes 190 SL. Planning to attend my 70th reunion at Dartmouth this September. Best wishes to all. Bob.”

Finally back in Naples, FL, until next spring. Frannie and I left for Florida on October 1, the day after my 65th Dartmouth reunion at Dartmouth ended!! A great time enjoyed by all! Our next 65th—from Tuck—is next year: how long will this ride go on? There were a number of Tuck classmates in attendance at the Dartmouth 65th, including Pete and Jill Kenyon (full-time residents of Naples from whom you will hear more later); Pete and Margie Ankeny, accompanied by daughter Sally D’81; Mort and Judy Galper (fellow Floridians); Dick Lewis (hope to see him in Naples); Art and Lynn Rauch; Bob and Barbara Levine (who also spend the season in Naples); Bob and Marlinda Woodberry (came east from California for the festivities); Mike and Elin-Marie Papantones; and Jim Clark and friend. We were especially pleased to see Kit Dean, who joined us accompanied by son Bill D’89. I must say that our group looked exceptionally well!!

’51 Editor’s note: In the last issue, your wonderful classmate Tom Swartz D’49, T’51 penned a column noting that he was asked to volunteer as class secretary. He accepted the request, which is typical of his decades of terrific dedication to Dartmouth and Tuck. We are especially sad now to have to share the news that Tom passed away on October 18. His obituary is online at https://madisonmemorialhome.com/tribute/ details/628/Thomas-Swartz-Jr/obituary.html. Tom’s family requested that anyone who wished to make a charitable contribution on Tom’s behalf do so to the “Tuck School of Business in Memory of Thomas J. Swartz Jr.” and send it to the following address: Gift Planning Office at Dartmouth College, 6066 Development Office, Hanover, NH 03755. If you have any questions, please email the Tuck Alumni Engagement Office at tuck.alumni.engagement@tuck.dartmouth. edu or call (603) 646-3214.

’58 Barry S. Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

Now on to Peter and his reflections: “Reflections on the generation somewhat behind us: Daughter Sasha (formal name Alexandra). Currently 33. After graduating from Colby, Sasha joined Merrill Lynch in their foreignwealth department, having majored in French and spending her junior in Paris attending Sciences Po (University/Ecole?) and living with a French family. After 6 years she decided to leave (male domination?). To decide what is next, she enrolled at Tuck, graduating in the class of 2016. She was recruited by Tiffany as one of 12 nationwide graduates (out of 2200 applicants) in their corporate rotational program introducing them to their three major functions. She is now their North America Brand Manager. She also is the co-lead of the Tuck Club of New York. To be married in Bermuda next June. Reflection: very much like my storied past. There years after my graduation from Tuck I was working for a supermarket company in N.J. —Peter”

How many of us have been surprised at what we find when cleaning out the family home to simplify our lives. I found the lineups for our freshman class 1956-1957. Our class was divided into 3 sections, and we had classes from 7:55 AM to mostly 11:20 AM. During our first semester, ROTC was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Great Issues was Tuesday and Thursday, all at 11:20. Great Issues was also taught Monday night at 8:30. The only afternoon classes were for section 1, and the schedule had Administration on Wednesday and Friday at 1:20. What did we do with our afternoons? Test your memory. Do you remember? First semester, the course listing showed Accounting Principles with Foster and Morrissey. Olsen taught Business Economics. Bodenhorn was scheduled to teach Statistics, and Davis had Marketing. Logan was lined up to teach Administration, and Van Blarcom was to do Production. Second semester had a few changes. For some reason the 10:20 and 11:20 classes were changed to 10:15 and 11:15. Anyone know why?? The lineup showed Morrissey teaching Accounting, Olsen did Finance. Davis did Marketing. Angelo did Business Law. Hennessey taught Administration, and Schleifer taught Statistics. Our day began at 7:55, and classes were over by 11:15. However Great Issues was Monday night at 7:30 PM and Tuesday and Thursday at 11:15 AM. Then on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:15 we had NS402, AS302, and MS62. Anybody remember what these sessions were? Needless to say our curriculum was far different from what is taught at Tuck today! If anyone would like a copy of the class schedules for our first year, just drop me a note.

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Robert Spencer moved from Ft. Lauderdale to Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2014 after he lost his wife Pat. Fortunately for Bob, three of his sons live within 20 minutes of him, so he gets to watch a lot of youth and high school lacrosse hockey and baseball games. This keeps him quite busy. Son number 4 is still lives on Long Island, where they all grew up. Collectively Bob has 12 grandchildren, nine of whom are boys. Now he has one great-grandchild, who is also a boy. One of Bob’s favorite pastimes is reading, especially classics. He is well into Ulysses, having covered over 400 pages this late summer day. Bob has not had any contact with our classmates in a number of years since Jim Groebe and his wife Martha visited them in Florida a few years before Jim passed away. He does miss Hanover but only in the warmer weather. Cary Sokolec sold his family home in Northbrook, Illinois, that he and Marlene had lived in for over 50 years. They are now renting an apartment in Highland Park, a neighboring community. In fact they live on the street that separates the 2 cities. Their home is very close to a botanical garden, where they both regularly take walks. They still try to get away for parts of each year: Aspen in the summer and Scottsdale in the winter. In Aspen they enjoy the hiking trails, music festival, theatrical presentations, and the Aspen Institute. This past June they traveled to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City and took a boat trip viewing Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands. Years ago when they did more walking, they enjoyed Backroads Adventures, a travel company that offers varied hiking trips. They especially liked the trip to Yellowstone National Park and to the beautiful Banff Region. We both commented that we start our days reading the New York Times, although we do find the state of national politics a bit depressing. Walter Barker still lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, which is my hometown also. He spends each January to April in Sarasota, where the temperature is more to his liking. After his wife passed away a number of years ago, Walter met Ellen, a widow. For the past 5 years they have been traveling together. They will be going on a Road Scholar trip to Utah in May

of 2020, visiting the Grand Circle of Parks and Monuments, as well as a trip on Lake Powell and a visit to Navajo country. This summer Walter will be entertaining his daughter, who has an RV and is traveling from California to Maine and then to Worcester. In all likelihood Walter is the oldest member of our class. He graduated from Dartmouth as a member of the class of 1952 and will turn 89 on September 9, 2019. Here’s a wish for continued good health. Karen and Jay Trepp do the most traveling of any couple around our age that I know. Jay still works almost full-time but does take a lot of vacations. In May 2019 they went to Machu Picchu, and in August of 2019 they traveled to the Baltic States and Helsinki. In September 2019 they are planning to go to Bulgaria and then hire a car to go to Bucharest. If all goes well they will continue on a river cruise to Budapest. Safe travels!! Heard from Randy Aires: “Ginny and I recently passed the 61-year anniversary mark. Life here in the fruit belt of south central PA is quite pleasant, particularly in the fall. Our seven grandchildren are all doing interesting things. Some highlights: Our oldest grandchild, Sabrina, is a Wellesley graduate and an employee of William Morris Endeavor in NYC as a literary assistant, soon to be an agent. We just came home from her wedding on Martha’s Vineyard to Eric Taitz, an MBA graduate from Wharton. Our grandchild, Ava, graduated from Dartmouth in June as part of the class of 2019. Our whole family was in Hanover for the Commencement weekend, which featured Yo-Yo Ma as the Commencement speaker. Ava is now working for Warner Media in L.A. in the Analytics department. Warner Media is now part of ATT and competing with the likes of Disney, Netflix, Amazon, et al for streaming services. An exciting time for the media and entertainment industries. “The other grandchildren are coming along and doing great things as well. Max is a math and computer science whiz as a junior at Carnegie Mellon, and Potter is planning a business career as a freshman at Tulane. Natalie and Naomi are high school seniors (I call them our 20-20 girls) who are hoping to get into their top-choice schools. The caboose is Trevor, a ninth grader and maybe the best prospect of them all.

“Our daughter Juliet D’84, a professor at SUNY Oswego and a screenwriter, and her husband, Keith, a professor at Syracuse Univ. and a screenwriter, have ventured into the Christmas movie business. Last Christmas, their movie, A Very Nutty Christmas, ran on the Lifetime channel for several months. For this coming Christmas season, their new movie, Christmas Reservations, will begin running on the Lifetime channel in early November. And now they are working on two new Christmas movies for the following season. It has become quite a cottage industry. “I had heart (aortic valve replacement) surgery last fall that went well and I remain active by serving as a volunteer on three performing-arts organization boards.” Notes from your class secretary, Barry Rotman: I’m settling in to an almost full-time lifestyle here in Norwich. I parted company with the family business in Worcester, Mass., August 1st, and now I’m finally going to live full-time in Norwich. I’ve been attempting to clean out the Worcester house filled with 52 years of accumulated history, and I’m actually enjoying the process. I’ve been finding pictures and notes that go back to my youth. I’m not in a rush to clear out the house, so I stop regularly to enjoy what I’m finding and to put it in a save pile. It may take many months to go through everything, but I regularly smile, laugh, and rush to call Arline in Vermont about what I found. Hopefully I’ll be able to put the house on the market next summer. Dave Cudlip went through a similar downsizing experience earlier in 2019. He moved from his family home of 5,000+ square feet into a fairly large condominium in the same small North Carolina town. It’s in a small 8-unit complex, but he still has 2 bedrooms, an office, a screened porch, and lots of closet space. He was able to donate a lot of the furniture and get his 2 children to take a lot of things. Fortunately he has a daughter about 2 hours away and a son 2 ½ hours away, each in large homes. He was able to be firmer than me. They were told to take their stuff. I have 3 sons. One lives in a small apartment, one lives in Israel, and one is 3,000 miles away in California. Fortunately I have a large cellar in my Vermont house and I can store a lot of their “favorite” things.

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CL ASS NOTES Dave has one travel record that I find amazing. During his working years he made frequent trips to Europe. In fact he made over 200 of these trips. He knows because he is able to authenticate the number in a work diary that he kept. Cynthia and Dick Perkins are taking a Dartmouth trip to France this fall. They’ll be traveling along the Seine, visiting the Normandy beaches, and then end up in Paris to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary. Thomas W. Hayden [D’57, T’58, Th’58] of Naples, Florida, passed away on June 8, 2019. After his Tuck-Thayer degree, Tom entered the corporate world and then married Dory in 1961. In 1963, desiring a slower-paced life, they settled in Laconia, New Hampshire, where their son and daughter were born. In 1969 the family moved to Maine, and Tom joined his father and brother in a 3M Company distributorship. For the next 31 years, Tom, representing the company, drove about 35,000 miles a year, usually with a shotgun and fly rod in the car. In 2000 they moved to Florida. Tom is survived by his wife Doris (Dory), son Stephen, and daughter Lisa.

’59 Myles Slosberg mjs145@yahoo.com

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was written by a Harvard professor named Robert Schlaifer. This added to the confusion.

’60 David Ward davidwardsr@aol.com

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’61 Walt Freedman wfreedman@mac.com

Greetings to you from Chicago! It is the beginning of autumn. In my request for news for this column, I noted that we started our Tuck journey exactly 60 years ago and asked for perspectives on our Tuck experience. I received a number of most interesting responses. Since Joe McHugh addressed me as Walt the Great, I will allow him to lead oﬀ. He writes that he chose Tuck because it had an excellent reputation and he could get an MBA in five years instead of six. Had Tuck imposed all the requirements of today, such as at least two full years of work experience and a qualifying degree, he would not have done it. Joe states that the Tuck experience was worthwhile because it provided a “broad perspective” of corporate management versus a narrow task-specific perspective. Joe identifies James Brian Quinn, who taught us Production Management, and Louis Foster, who presented accounting to us in his unique way, as professors who impacted him. He also mentions Art Schleifer, who taught us Probability and Statistics. While Joe received the lowest grade in his life in this course, he did gain skills that helped him in programming early in his career. Memorably, Professor Schleifer’s textbook, titled Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions,

Al Roberts writes that the choice of Tuck was simply another step in an option-narrowing process that began when he applied to colleges. Through preference tests, Al had arrived at the conclusion that his most likely career choice would be accounting/finance or law. Dartmouth offered a liberal arts orientation with the attraction of the 3/2 program option to attend Tuck as a senior. While he loved his English major, Al decided on Tuck after his junior year to save a year, learn some business, and then still be able to go to law school “on time.” Al writes, “My Tuck experience was more than worthwhile and even better than my high expectations. Despite the frustration of what was then a serious speech impediment that limited my classroom participation, I loved the work, the pressure, and the environment. When the first year was over, I dismissed any thought of law school and happily returned for my second Tuck year. After graduation I was eager to go to work with my new toolkit, had no interest in another three years of study, and charged into the world of commerce.” What has been most meaningful to Al has been the degree to which things we learned at Tuck have continued to prove so useful over many years. He notes all the “hard” content courses— such as marketing, production, accounting, etc.—were brand-new to him and veritable gold mines of information. But he puts great emphasis on the Case Analysis and Written Expression course in writing. “Remember Zero Words? I’ll bet I’ve eliminated a million of them in the past 50 plus years!” He also highlights John Hennessey’s Administration course as being years ahead of its time. “Remember diagnosis? Don’t blame; ask why.” He finishes by stating that Tuck may be operating at a different and more esoteric level today. But for what we needed in 1961, it was a rich and varied knowledge infusion. Bruce Clark summarizes his experiences of 60 years into a few short paragraphs. I sense his humor, humility, and understatement of the following in his own words: “60 years it is! After ’61 I got married and had no acceptable job offers. So I went west to the University of Washington’s Ph.D. program, where I taught Business Statistics for several years and graduated with a Ph.D. three years later. I then joined McKinsey & Co and started traveling.

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After not making partner, I left that place and started working as a financial consultant, which I did for 9 years. Part of that was serving as a parttime CFO for a number of firms. “I then joined a client, a consulting firm, where I was a senior VP and traveled some more. I must have enjoyed traveling. “After being fired from the consulting job, I joined 3 other guys and built a new-wave executive recruiting company where we placed out-of-work executives in interim assignments. We built this company in a way that we could sell it. When the selling time approached, I got fired again. But because of our stockholder agreement’s supermajority provisions, and my stockholdings, I became chairman. When the selling time approached, the supermajority provisions allowed many things to move more smoothly.” Since then, Bruce has been retired and cycling a lot. He has participated in the cycling time-trial races of the last 7 National Senior Games and done well, as high as 10th in the San Francisco version of the National games. Bruce says that he is now on his eighth Senior Games time-trials program, and “I hope to continue until I am 90!” Gordie Haw, happily retired in Pittsburgh, speaks up. “I chose Tuck since the 3/2 program was so attractive to a Dartmouth graduate. I never felt I cheated by getting two degrees in five years. I believe that Tuck gave us a state-of-theart business education. The accounting courses, highlighted by the memorable Louis Foster, were of particular help to me in my banking career. In general, I felt that just about every business problem I approached during my life I had experienced previously somewhere in my coursework at Tuck. My Tuck roommate, Bill Watson, directed me to the principal job of my career. That wasn’t bad either!” Steve Gell provides a lawyer’s perspective of his first-year-only experience at Tuck. Steve states, “I was a history major, and I was not oblivious to the casual attitude many of the senior history majors took to the rigors of learning. I was convinced that I would waste a year at Dartmouth learning little but having lots of fun. I admit it was an attractive proposition but hardly fair to my parents, who were footing the bill for my education. Tuck was a wonderful option. Lawyers need to know something about the businesses they are serving, how businessmen think, something about economics, administration, marketing, production, and even finance. And

who knows, a spark of interest in the corporate life might be kindled in the process. Dean Hill probably suspected something when he approved my application because he told me that I was the first entering Tuck student who had not had a course in economics. He gave me a copy of Samuelson to read during the summer, which I did, much to his surprise. “I enjoyed and gained enormously from the Tuck experience and toyed with the idea of staying at Tuck another year. But I was determined to go to law school and knew that if I stayed and then received a good oﬀer from a corporation, it would be hard to justify another three years after the MBA. I have never regretted my decision to go to Tuck, and I think it made me a better-rounded lawyer. My law career began in government service, both federal and local. It lasted 28 years. Then I spent the next 20 years in private practice, concentrating in zoning law.” Steve testifies that he has also enjoyed the last ten years of retirement, but that is another story. There you have it from roughly ten percent of Tuck’s great class of 1961. The Tuck experience is of immense value, and many classmates have fond, vivid memories—even after sixty years!

’62 Judy Holmes judy@judyholmes.com

Hello from Seal Harbor, Maine, in October. Lots of color, reds are peaking as I write this on October 10, but it also means it’s time to pack the Winnebago for points west and somewhat south! Jim and I will work our way from Jackson, NH, to the Greenbrier before ski season. I don’t care what season it is, I’d love to hear from you. I know you get the reminders from me and Renee from the alumni office—how about sending in a line or two before you put it on the back burner? Dick Noel wrote a fascinating note about the afterlife, and I encourage you to look at the YouTube! He says, “I have recently done some research into near-death experiences. I find the subject fascinating and have made a video on YouTube regarding what I discovered and what I have learned from my research. With most of my classmates hitting 80, I think they might enjoy my video entitled Afterlife and Faith Noel Testimony. All one has to do is type that title on

their computer’s search line and the video will come up.” It’s very interesting and I encourage you to look at it. Thanks, Dick. Continuing with the YouTube theme, Vin Godleski sent an update with a completely different topic for his YouTube! “After Tuck, I started out in the spacecraft business with RCA and NASA. That got me involved in broadcast television transmission and delivery (satellite and cable). I retired from Cisco Systems a few years ago after having been able to contribute to the development and implementation of advanced video transmission technology. That’s enabled us to go from snowy black and white images to ultra high definition TV programs, live from around the world. “This year I also retired from the NHL after a long run as an off-ice official. The NHL sendoff was impressive (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rt7JzzNxcqU). I took up refereeing while at Tuck to help pay the rent at Sachem Village. After graduating I continued it as a hobby job. It got me to some interesting countries and cities and kept me in touch with a lot of old hockey friends and many new ones. “Bobbi and I are still enjoying rural NJ, with some time in Hilton Head. It gives us more time now to cheer on our 6 grandkids—4 undergrads, an astrophysicist designing advanced weaponry, and a practicing neurologist PA.” Rod and Robin MacLennan were on a road trip to visit daughter Susan D’90 and MED’94 in Burlington in late September. His notes: “Robin and I were visiting daughter Susan ’90 and MED’94 in Burlington a couple days ago. Dropping in to Hanover en route back to Nova Scotia, Andy Steele showed me the new offices on the second floor of the Dartmouth Bookstore (now defunct), which house several Tuck groups, viz. Advancement, Communications, Dartmouth Bridge, and I think Exec Ed. They all had to move from Tuck premises due to the disruption of new Thayer buildings, Irving Energy Institute, Murdough renovations, etc. Andy retains a small space at Tuck as well. Offices not quite finished yet, but close. They expect to be there at least two years. Quite convenient, really. being right downtown.” John King sent a note I appreciated: “My daughter Sara and I are shown in Zambia dedicating a clean water well in a rural village. World Vision is one of the world’s leaders in bringing clean water to villages where women and children spend hours each day hauling WINTER 2020

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John King with daughter Sara dedicating a new well in Zambia water by hand from water sources miles away from their homes. My wife Jane and I are residents of Vi Silverstone, a retirement community in Scottsdale.” I’ll end this column with wishes for you and yours to have safe, healthy, and fun holidays. If you find yourselves in the Montana area the next four months, look us up!

’63 Tom Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

Some thoughts in October 2019.... FACT: There has been a distinct lack of contributions of news, photographs, or comments for the 1963 Class Notes feature in recent editions of Tuck Today. FACT: We are rapidly moving into fall and winter with the usual prospects of regular or unannounced unfavorable weather and climate situations, movement to seasonal homes, and planned or unplanned times when “inside and unused” periods of time will occur. Each of these situations offers the potential for some quiet think time or unplanned activity. FACT: In our respective worlds, the computer and emails, small notes, photographs, greeting cards, phone messages, and periodic face-toface meetings continue to offer the opportunity, and are commonly used by us, to communicate with family, friends, or various groupings of associates. As we move into the new year, I am proposing we openly acknowledge and endorse these facts above, then change our patterns to undertake an easy and simple concept of action: 62

In 2020, if each of us took 20 minutes a couple of times a year to share, in any of the mediums we use frequently, a few positive or happy words or photographs about our activities, families, experiences, or just any thoughts or ideas that may be floating around in our minds, we will have Class Notes columns that will be interesting for all to read and will bring us up to date with former ’63 classmates. Please give it some thought. It is pretty simple. Start the habit! Think 20 in 20 for ’63 and be well!

’64 Art Williams artwill3@aol.com

On Sept 12th I attended the Fall Fling of the Tuck Chapter of New York City. An excellent and buoyant turnout made for a lively evening. Having attended an all-male college and ditto for business school, and thinking of my wife, Sandra, whose career options were largely limited to nurse, secretary and teacher, I was particularly pleased to engage with several women in the classes of 2018 and 2019. They have experience in a wide variety of careers. As expected, they are sharp as a tack. And, so pleasing to me, they share the same love and enthusiasm for Tuck that I do. Putting aside the news headlines and talking to recent graduates is great therapy for improving one’s faith in the future. FROM OUR CLASSMATES Jean-Pierre Naz writes: “OK Art I am sure you are not kidding! [about wanting to hear from us.] But when you are retired and your wife is in a wheelchair, nothing that much is happening. However this does not mean that I am sitting on my hands. Last week I went to see and hear the opera Einstein on the Beach from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. An opera very very rarely performed! The music of the hypnotic and repetitive type, you can forget it, but the setup and scenery simply extraordinary. So if it is performed in your area, keep in mind my comments. Greetings to all. Jean-Pierre Naz.”

Barry Linsky reports that he and Jane “recently concluded a short cruise along the Atlantic coast from Lisbon to Southampton, including stops in Oporto, Coruna (for Bilbao and Santiago de Compostela), Bordeaux, St Malo, and Normandy. Mostly familiar territory but underscoring again the joy of reacquainting with history in situ and experiencing different cultures. Other recent trips include Iceland, Finland, and Estonia, and we continue to strongly endorse the value of travel as a broadening experience and finding ways to encourage younger people to experience same. As part of this effort, Jane has underwritten a modest grant to enable Michigan students engaged in foreign study to have access to some discretionary funds for non-academic cultural enrichment, and I am exploring doing the same with Dartmouth. After traveling to seven continents, and with my glacierclimbing days now behind me, this seems like a worthwhile endeavor.” Joyce and Bob Humboldt write: “We took a September cruise on the Seine from Paris to the beaches at Normandy. The memorials and the historical museums at the Normandy beaches reinforced what a momentous undertaking happened 75 years ago. Seeing the 9317 crosses at Omaha Beach American Cemetery was very touching...the average age of these heroes was just 24 years old. How much we and our children owe these courageous men is beyond words. The ceremony at the Omaha Beach Memorial reinforced our debt to the ‘Greatest Generation.’ Or to quote Winston Churchill, ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’” I asked Bob about the open-air statue shown in a photo he sent [look on the 1964 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu]. “Art, the statue and the background are part of a very beautiful memorial to the fallen American heroes. It is very large and quite impressive. It is about 100 yards from the cemetery. We had a very impressive ceremony where seven veterans from our Viking cruise laid a wreath honoring the fallen.” Geoff Murphy writes: “Karyn and I got back in the US on September 11 after a cruise around the Baltic. We spent three days in St. Petersburg...magnificent (the tsars lived very well until they didn’t). There is a new museum there for Faberge eggs; it has 9 of the 23 (I believe) ‘imperial eggs’ (those made to order for the tsars from Alexander II to Nicholas— including the last one in 1916—portentous).

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Purportedly, Putin put the strong arm on several oligarchs and told them Mother Russia should have these; they kicked in several hundred million (dollars, not rubles) to meet his request. “At least as educational, however, were our stops along the trade routes from the Middle Ages— Tallinn, Riga, Ghent, and a Swedish island/ town named Visby. I had known of trade that went on, but they traveled routes that ran from London to the Black Sea/Afghanistan/ Turkmenistan via the Baltic. High risk and high reward resulting in significant wealth (if one came back alive) by the standard of 1,000 years ago. Great trip with three other couples from Naples. “Too warm in Illinois—the first day of October is like August! However, we will head for Naples in about three weeks. K asks why, if we are already too hot here.” BIOS Peter Lengyel: “My Life Story—I was born and raised in Queens, but forget that part, I’m a hard-core New Yorker after living here for 60 years. My career pattern is a bit strange. I went to NYU engineering school (after graduating from Stuyvesant High School—I’m showing off). Never had an intent to be an engineer but chose the course because it had no foreign language requirement and my father was a professor at NYU, so it was free. “Since I never wanted to be an engineer, I needed to change my stripes, so I went to good ole Tuck School, where my greatest achievement was being the MC of the yearly bike race, and I learned to write. With that achievement behind me I went off to banking. First to Chase Manhattan Bank—where I got fired. Easily, I got a job at Bankers Trust due to knowing the top people there after having worked with them on the biggest bankruptcy of its day—the Penn Central Co. After 20 or so years there, I retired and went into the business I always wanted to be in—making movies. With spectacular luck, my first investment in a movie was financing Super Troopers 1. And then (with a few bombs in between) helped finance Super Troopers 2. “In between all of this good stuff, my wife of close to 50 years, Gretchen, passed away due to cancer. Now I spend a lot of my time with my three children (Monica, Cricket, and Roger) and my seven grandchildren. I also continue in show biz—now backing an animated potential

show and a soon-to-be announced feature film. Rounding out my portfolio of things I do, I invest in venture capital stuff, and as an aside I did standup comedy after taking a class in standup and did shows at Carolines and The Gotham Comedy Club. The reality of it all, Tuck got me started in my fun business life.”

We also talked about Peter’s family history. His father, Emil Lengyel, was born in 1895 in Hungary. Now this was interesting to me as the three of my grandparents whom I knew were born in the early 1890s. But this was Pete’s father. Emil Lengyel fought in World War I (as in ONE) and was captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Through guile he was able to get out of captivity and return to Hungary. He then emigrated to the US, becoming a secretary to executives at the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and later becoming a professor at NYU. Peter is an active jogger in Central Park and also a frequenter of New York’s modern dance shows and Broadway comedies.

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Art and Pete, Central Park and skyline in background

From Art: On Sept 12, 2019, I met with Peter at his beautiful, spacious apartment overlooking Central Park and skyline on New York City’s Upper West Side. Peter first wanted to update his My Life, above, by making the point about how important it was that he learned to write while at Tuck. As an engineering student, writing was not a skill he developed. But it was necessary as a banker, especially in order to communicate with higher level executives.

Bill Zani: “My career started with a coach preference swimming admission and scholarship to Brown. Brown was a transformative education with a major in math and economics. After graduation and 6 months of active duty in the Coast Guard, GE hired and trained me in computer programming and systems analysis. I worked two years at GE as a systems engineer prior to enrolling at Tuck. “During the first year at Tuck, Professor Kemeny and Kurtz received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the BASIC language and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System. John Kemeny hired me the summer of 1962 as his research assistant to help program and debug the BASIC language. My claim to fame is that I was the first person to see BASIC compile and run a computer program. “In my second year at Tuck, I continued to work on the project to help design the Time Sharing System with Kemeny and Kurtz. After graduation, I stayed on one year, full-time, as manager of the Dartmouth Computer Center to complete the implementation of the Time Sharing System. “As you know, the Dartmouth Time Sharing System with the BASIC language was very successful. My involvement in its development led to a fellowship at the Harvard Business School, a doctorate, and an appointment on the Harvard faculty. “In the financially lean years as a doctoral student, Professor Bower asked me to help him develop an online program to analyze lease versus buy decisions for his client, Paine Webber. The program we developed was similar to a financial model needed to analyze real WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES estate investment decisions. I thus modified the model to be applicable to real estate investing. This led to my consulting specialty of computer-assisted financial analysis. “As a professor at the Harvard Business School, it was a busy time of teaching, research, writing, and consulting. I taught management information systems to MBAs and the use of computers in research to doctoral candidates. Also, I coauthored an Irwin text book, Managing Computer Based Information Systems, which was translated into Japanese and Spanish. I wrote several articles for journals. The most referenced article was “Blueprint for MIS,” which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. “Consulting led to a change in my career path. I continued as a consultant for Paine Webber and several other investment banks, analyzing real estate investment decisions. Eventually I realized, after analyzing numerous real estate transactions, that I may be on the wrong side of the real estate business. I became seriously interested in getting deeper into the real estate business. “After 8 years at Harvard, I accepted a position as senior VP and chief financial officer at Forest City Enterprise, a publicly held real estate company. The company hired me to develop computer systems, budgeting and long-range planning systems, and to provide financial analysis. In return they would teach me the real estate business. This arrangement worked out fine. For the first five years we worked diligently implementing systems and, as a member of the executive committee, I was involved in the major real estate decisions, enabling me to learn the business. “In the late 1970s many of the publicly held real estate investment trusts collapsed, and a large opportunity opened dealing with distressed properties. I was able to take advantage of this opportunity by forming a company, The Phoenix Company, with Forest City as a 50% partner. I had to resign my employment position with Forest City. For several years we did real estate workouts throughout the country. At the end of the workout business, I could either go back to Forest City or continue The Phoenix Company with a new business direction. I elected to continue with Phoenix and started developing commercial real estate projects in Florida.

“Life was humming along pretty well until short-term interest rates spiked to 18+ percent. I was caught long on real estate and short on financing. Fortunately I was able to bail out early enough to prevent total financial disaster. However, after sharing 50% with Uncle Sam, 50% with partners, 50% with spiking interest rates, and 50% with divorce, there was not much left. Professor Art Schleifer would say ½ x ½ x ½ x ½ or 1/16 is the wrong side of a healthy arithmetic progression. “At that point in my life, I took a year off and sailed away in my 37-foot sloop Vixen, with my new partner and wife, Ann. Upon our return we went back to work. I continued in real estate as a consultant on a fee basis rather than taking equity positions. It provided a good living, preserved capital, and allowed substantial opportunity for recreation and travel. Ann had the more stressful job as manager of Miami-Dade County hurricane shelters. “In the late 1980s, Colin Blaydon, dean of the Tuck School, whom I had worked with at Harvard, asked me to teach real estate at Tuck. I spent the next five autumns and one full year in Hanover. “In the early 1990s, another real estate crash occurred. Many commercial banks were in dire trouble with problem real estate loans. I joined Carl Palmer, Tuck ’63, and a friend, Martin Taplin, in a new company to chase this opportunity. We developed strategic alliances with Bank One, Mellon Bank, and JP Morgan to do real estate workouts. “In 2000, Ann and I retired. We lived six months in Miami and spent six months of the year cruising in our boat or in an RV traveling the U.S. and Europe. In 2017 we moved to The Villages, a retirement community of 130,000 people. It is one hour north of Orlando. The move opened up another chapter for us. Ann is involved with aerobic dancing, and I joined the swimming team and started to compete in the US Masters Swimming meets. “To my surprise, I have a really good 2018 and 2019 record in U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) events in the 80- to 84-year-old category. I was named an All-American Swimmer by the USMS for both individual and relay events. The criteria for All-American is to have the number one time in the country for one year in a sanctioned event. I was fortunate to be number one in the following individual events:

Bill Zani finishing race

Bill Zani, senior champion

200 Meter Breaststroke Long Course (50 Meter pool), 50 Meter, 100 Meter and 200 Meter Breaststroke, Short Course (25 Meter pool), and the 200 Yard Breaststroke, Short Course (25 Yard pool). Our relay team was number one in the 200 Meter Freestyle Relay and the 200 Meter Medley Relay. The Freestyle Relay time is a U.S. record. I was named a World Top Ten Swimmer by FINA, the international governing body for swimming. Not bad for an old man.” From Art: Some comments on career placement: Amazon and McKinsey & Company employ the largest number of Tuck graduates, at about 125 each. Bain & Company is a close third with 115. Tuck has about 10,500 alumni, so each of these firms employs about 1% of living alumni. The Amazon employees are mostly in either web-based retail, marketing or product management, or on the technical side at AWS (Amazon Web Services), cloud-based services, or in video. Overall, technical jobs are about 20% of the class, up from 10% 10 years ago. As to consulting, the general nature of the services is offered probably not much different from what it was 55 years ago. Those firms offer excellent careers but are still also wonderful springboards to many other industries and positions. As to technical—perhaps slightly different from what it was in 1964. Ha!

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Don’t forget to write. And we need one or two more biographies for the summer 2020 edition of Tuck Notes. Thanks—Art (artwill3@aol.com).

’65 George Weller gweller@ctq2.org

55TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

From Jack Potter: “Hi George—Many thanks for taking up the role that Fuzzy has had for many years. No special news from my end—my wife, Gail, have lived in Franklin MA for just over 20 years, the longest place we have lived during our 55 years of marriage. I am retired, but still pretty actively involved with pastoral responsibilities at the Anglican Church of the Redeemer in Franklin. I was the initial pastor of the parish when we formed it in 2008 and ‘retired’ in 2014. We just returned from an interesting visit to the Azores. I hope all is well with you. Best regards, Jack Potter.” Doug Smith: “George—I am sending an insertion. In an extraordinary coincidence, Bob Hood, Al Doherty, and I, who went from Bates College to Tuck in 1963, showed up at the Bates class reunion. Here are the photos. Still appraising real estate in Montana with three associate appraisers. Despite a new left hip, finished third in my age group in the Missoula Half Marathon this last summer. Just returned from two weeks back east at my 60th high school reunion with side trips to Maine and a a day on Nantucket. Fried clams are the only food I ever dream about so made a pilgrimage to Woodman’s in Essex. Still in touch with Bob Hood. Thanks for everything you do for the class. You have big shoes to fill.” [Look on the 1965 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth. edu to see the photos!] John Bruno: “Hi George—Glad that you have taken up the mantle. Wife Nancy and I are living on Amelia Island, Florida, and loving it. No NYS taxes. Hope all goes well with all my brothers.”

Jerry Greenfield: “Got your note ... and no, there’s nothing new with me. I, too, am above ground. However, I hope to have all my body parts replaced by 90! Then I can start over. But I’m going to skip those early teenage years!” Pete Makowski: “Hi George—Failed to mention last night that I have been in contact with Bruce Keller and John Stanton for a long time. I got to know them closely at Tuck as we all lived in the Dartmouth married residences. Also, Bill Cogbill and I became friends again the during the eight years. He and I belong to the Bird Key Yacht Club in Sarasota FL. We were both amazed to run into each other when I first joined the club in 2011. I have lost contact with Al Rikkola lately but believe he still resides in Williamsburg VA after a long stint with Exxon-Mobil. Kind regards.” Ted Morehouse: “Hi George—I retired about 100 years ago and we re-located from the east coast (NYC & Connecticut) to Marina Del Rey, California. My wife was concerned that I would simply lie on the couch, drink beer, and watch sports, so she declared, ‘You need an outlet.’ To shorten this tale, I am now an actor. My best skills seem to be stand-up comedy. So that is what I am doing in Hollywood area clubs. And, as added benefits, the weather is perfect here, we have healthy grandchildren, and drugs are legal. This is likely a lot different than most of our classmates who are probably still CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, or dictators in some foreign country. Best regards.”

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

Steve Shapiro spent two years in the Army Medical Services Corps after graduating Tuck. Following a four-year assignment at P&G, Steve joined Gillette and had a 30-year career in global business management. He retired in 2003 after visiting 106 countries, helping country managers write their marketing plans. Steve enjoyed a 14-year second career as a full-time professionally qualified professor at Babson College. Lisa and Steve celebrated 50 years of marriage in 2016. They split their time between Boston and Newport, with

frequent visits with family in San Francisco and New Jersey. Tom Stanfield came to Tuck from Nova Scotia. He and Beth were married the summer of 1964 and headed south to Hanover, where they made their home in Sachem Village. Immediately after graduation Tom was thrust into the leadership of the family business when his father died suddenly in 1967. Tom navigated the tricky apparel business for forty years and passed the reins to his son, the fifth generation to run Stanfield’s. Founded in 1870, the company continues to be a leader in base layer (underwear) products. Tom was awarded the Order of Canada for his civic involvement in the economic development of Nova Scotia. He and Beth split their time between homes in Nova Scotia and Florida. John Trauth had a career in consulting that took him down many paths. He has consulted in the maritime industry, for nonprofits, and in the public sector. He served as executive director of the Development Fund, a nonprofit that arranged financing for affordable housing. John’s work help fund over $3 billion in projects. He received a letter of commendation from Alan Greenspan. John and Astrid have been married since 1972. As John said, “She has been a major force in making my life happy and successful.” John and Astrid lived in France in 1995-96. John went back to school to study French and civilization at the Sorbonne. Coming back in 1997, he reinvented himself as a consultant to nonprofits and wrote a book on retirement that became a best seller. That launched an encore career as a public speaker and seminar leader. John continues to be active skiing and as a competitive tennis player representing the Olympic Club. Dave Wagner “retired” as Northwestern University’s chief investment officer in 2002 to found Evanston Capital with three colleagues. EC’s focus is on alternative (principally hedge) strategies with an original target of endowments, foundations, and high-net-worth families. The firm grew to 35 employees serving 400 clients. Along the way Dave sold just under 50% of the firm and has transferred most of the day-to-day responsibilities to the next generation of managers while retaining the title of chairman. Dave married his high school sweetheart, Ellen, immediately after graduation from Tuck. Following four years as a US Navy supply officer, he embarked on a financial WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES management career in the nonprofit sector, culminating with his assignment at Northwestern. They have two children and two grandchildren. A new multigenerational activity for Dave and Ellen is helping their son develop an organic farm in Westport, MA. They have a home nearby in Little Compton, RI. With homes in Lake George, NY, and Vero Beach, FL, the Wagners are on the move following the seasons to these beautiful spots. Dave and Ellen “bet the farm” at age 59 to start EC and are now enjoying the fruits of their labor.

’67 Robert Buchanan  bobbuchanan@att.net

It appears the class of T’67 still grapples with the “new” system for submitting column information, and I am in that group. Please take a few minutes to become familiar with the system so your loyal scribe doesn’t have to send emergency requests of you. But thanks for responding. Arnold Kraft has recently completed his eighteenth “Jimmy Walk” in memory of his son Will, who succumbed to a brain tumor. All funds are used to speed up research that will help cure brain tumors: certainly a worthy endeavor. Sadly, we learned that Jack Bucholz passed away on June 2, 2019. Jack had been dealing with neuroendocrine cancer. John Holley reports he has a plan to downsize his residence through a move to “Mary’s Woods” in Lake Oswego...within the next two years. They are continuing to pursue an active travel schedule. Speaking of travel, Art Peabody recently returned from a two-week trip to western Canada. It included a three-day train adventure of the Rocky Mountains and ten days hiking around Jasper, Lake Louise, and Banff. Tony Millbank continues a full-to-overflowing plate of activities, including serving on ELEVEN investment committees: this must be a challenge for one’s calendar. Tony also shared 66

some very interesting remarks he made at a board meeting earlier this year; you can send him an email if you’d like to read them. Our household news: Bonnie has published a book!! Its title is Words, Women and Wednesdays: Twelve Women Who Influenced a Town on the Frontier. The “frontier” being the settlement of Appleton, WI, in the mid-1800s and the women those who founded a literary study club in 1881 and contributed to the city’s civic culture. She has a deep respect for writers and their hard work to produce literature: no golf on her calendar. The family is proud of her accomplishment: contact me for a signed $24 copy. Thanks for your support. —Bob Buchanan

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

The mailbox was pretty empty this time. Judy tells me that I shouldn’t be surprised. After over 50 years of writing these columns, I suppose that this sort of thing is bound to happen. Perhaps I should be grateful that this old guy is still collecting them and that we are all still vital enough to enjoy reading them. Barkley muses about old age: “Some days I just get older, spend my kids’ inheritance and take more pills. Other days are damn good fun. I learned that at 15 a grandkid is good company on a trip to Europe. Old enough to carry bags, carry on a discussion of history but not obsessed with dating. “I also learned that Jay Atlas has assembled a ’68ers Luncheon Club. They kibbitz, boast, and lie all through lunch every few months. Give Jay a call; you meet the rigorous admissions qualifications. “At one of the meetings I even got a good post for my blog (barclayhenderson.com). Now back to my pills. What did I use that blue one for?” Bundy as well: “I took about half my family for a 10-day Iceland excursion run by National Geographic. Fabulous, especially the West Fjords, where the 1.5-lane gravel mountain roads and oncoming tour buses made for more

exciting driving than I would prefer—1,000foot drops and no guard rail. For any bird watchers in the class, the puffins were so close that you could almost touch them. Now at 11 grandchildren, with number 12 expected in March (2020).”

’69 Robert M. Cohn robertmarkcohn@gmail.com

On October 4th and 5th—a crisp fall weekend in New England—many of us gathered in Hanover to celebrate the 50th reunion after our graduation from Tuck. Those who joined us enjoyed a wide variety of activities and, more importantly, connecting with each other. About 5 or 6 classmates had to cancel their attendance for personal reasons in the few weeks right before the event—but we ended up with 34 members of the class of 1969 and one class widow participating, along with spouses and guests. We had hoped to set an attendance record for a 50th reunion class, but we fell just short after the last-minute cancellations; the record is 37 attendees. However, we did set a record for contributions of a 50th reunion class for Tuck Annual Giving—raising almost $230,000 in contributions with a participation rate of 77%, both new records for a class 50 years out of Tuck. Classmates attending included Bill Blakey, Jim Casey, Bob Cohn, Dave Downes, Jack Gage, Wally Grimm, Bob Harrell, Walter Harrison, Bard Heroy, Paul Johnson, Bruce Jones, John Kornet, Dudley Ladd, Michel Lebas, Charles McGill, David McKane, Charlie Mead, Jon Page, Meyrick Payne, Jerry Petitt, Ben Powell, John Preotle, Alec Reynal, Steve Roehm, Mike Ryan, Rich Seigel, Dick Schmitt, Jon Shafmaster, John Stahler, Peter Stern, Bob Valleau, Mike Vaughn, Ed Williams, Harold Woolley, and Marti Webster, widow of Allen Webster. Among the highlights of the weekend was a special class lunch on Friday with Dean Matt Slaughter, at which he discussed how much Tuck—and the business world—had changed since 1969 but also how its basic values and culture had remained the same. After the dean’s remarks, our classmates engaged him

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Dick Schmitt introduces Dean Slaughter at our 50th reunion lunch

Meyrick Payne leading the WARM discussion session on Saturday morning

in an active, and lively, question-and-answer session. In addition, we distributed copies of a class profile book—based on the questionnaires that many of you completed. (Tuck distributed electronic copies to those of you who didn’t attend; let me know if you didn’t receive it and would like a copy.) I was pleased to receive an award from the dean honoring my service as class secretary for the past 50 years.

and another opportunity to converse with classmates who arrived on Saturday morning.

On Friday afternoon, there were presentations by several Tuck academic centers, outstanding talks by 3 current professors, and a presentation outlining the changes in the Tuck campus over the years (it’s much bigger!) and the master plan for future development. That evening, we gathered for a cocktail reception and a ham and beef buffet dinner in the Hayward Room at the Hanover Inn.

Cocktails at Jon Shafmaster’s home—Jon Shafmaster, Ed and Gail Hollister Williams, Jack and Inda Gage

On Saturday, there were several memorable events. Saturday morning, Meyrick Payne moderated a lively and meaningful discussion session about the societal changes and events that were going on during the years we were at Tuck, including W (war), A (assassinations), R (racism), and M (misogyny). Many of us—and our spouses and guests—shared memories, and current perspectives, on those issues. After taking a class photo on the steps of Tuck Hall, we enjoyed a cookout lunch in Tuck Circle

In the late afternoon, Jon Shafmaster hosted us at his beautiful hilltop home in Quechee, VT— with spectacular views over the fall foliage, the Vermont hills, and the hot-air balloons cruising the sky. We started with outdoor cocktails on the lawn at 5:00 PM, accompanied by 3 varieties of freshly shucked oysters (Wellfleet, Pemaquid, and Duxbury), shrimp, smoked salmon, and crab cakes. This was followed by a sit-down dinner in his dining room, living room, and porch featuring delicious grilled lobster tails and sliced beef tenderloin. Professor Dick Bower joined us for dinner— and we presented him with a certificate making him an honorary member of class. Professor Bower, who is alive and vibrant at 91 years old, was pleased to accept the honor— and to reminisce with many of us about the years we studied Managerial Economics and Environmental Economics with him. At Saturday’s class discussion session, we attempted to initiate a group telephone call to Bill Donnelly, who was unable to attend Reunion because of his recent medical disabilities (reported in the last issue of Tuck Today). Bob Harrell updated the group on his situation— Bill is still wheelchair-bound and has difficulties standing and walking due to the injuries to his spinal cord—but he is mentally astute and active. Since our writeup in the last issue of this magazine, he has been transferred to a different medical facility, which is better able to provide the physical therapy he needs to be able to walk again. He really likes hearing from classmates, even though he is frequently unable to physically pick up his cell phone. His contact information is Care One Lexington, 178 Lowell St., Lexington MA 02420; cell: (617) 797-7940

Dinner at Jon Shafmaster’s home—Mike Vaughn, Bill Blakey, Patty Vaughn, Ellie Ryan, Kathy Valleau, Bob Valleau, and Mike Ryan

Dick Bower, honorary member of the class of 1969

(may get voice mail but leave message); email: billdonnellygroupinc@gmail.com. His medical care has drained his financial resources and he is going on Medicaid, which will not pay for many of the resources he needs. After studying the legal situation about Medicaid funding, his friends have set up a trust fund for his future physical therapy and support needs. At our discussion session, several classmates suggested that our Tuck class fund the purchase of an electric wheelchair for him; the projected cost is $50,000. The suggestion was enthusiastically received by many of the attendees. If you wish to participate in this effort to support Bill, please make checks out to “The William Donnelly 2019 Irrevocable Trust” and send to his sister Jane Donnelly at 11 Valley View Road, Weston MA 02493. Among the classmates who were unable to attend the reunion were Minda and John-Paul Danon. They sent us the following update about their lives since graduation: “We’re sorry we can’t make it but here is a recent photograph at our 54th wedding anniversary. (See photo nearby.) After spells in Detroit and London, we switched to Paris 45 years ago and haven’t moved since. Our Hanoverborn son Mark died aged 24 from leukemia, but we still have David, who lives and works WINTER 2020

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Minda & John-Paul Danon celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary

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George Fulton

Caleb Loring

georgerfulton@gmail.com

cloringiii@1911trust.com

Gap Kovach

Everyone seems to be pretty busy (or trying to keep a low profile), as I heard from very few folks (0–zero) until the Tuck Today folks sent out an email blast on my behalf looking for news. Were it not for that blast, I would have had a column just telling what the Loring family was up to, which seems a bit tedious for folks to read. Thanks to those folks who responded.

g.kovach.jr@gmail.com

50TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Mark Diskin in Kazakhstan

in Manhattan, and daughter Carole, who is in Shanghai with her husband Renaud and 17-year-old Jonathan. Her 20-year-old son Ilan has just started ESSEC, one of the top two business schools in Paris, so at least we see him regularly. Both David and Carole will be here in a couple of weeks for the holidays so you may get another picture of us then. “I worked for Chrysler, Avis, GE and Amex, running their French subsidiaries. Since retirement I have been busy looking after my investments, playing competitive bridge, running a stamp club, and traveling the world. The last trip was a cruise in August to Saint Petersburg—absolutely magnificent. “I was once a 17-handicap golfer, but after losing my swing I chucked my golf bag into the pond at the 14th. Unfortunately, my car keys were in the bag—so I had to get wet to retrieve them. Best regards to all!” Please let us know what is happening with all of you—big news, small news, or observations on the world around us—so that we can share them in the next issue of Tuck Today. Best wishes for the New Year!

Our 50th (can you believe it?) reunion is (almost!) just around the corner! Specifically, the BIG event will be held on the weekend of October 9-11, 2020. Mark your calendars! That may seem like an eternity away right now, but you can never start too early planning for such a once-in-a-lifetime, fun time for us to reconnect with each other and share what we’ve been up to. Joe Rokus has again volunteered to help the Tuck alumni office spread the word to get as many of us back to Hanover for the best-attended 50th reunion that Tuck has seen recently. Consequently, in early October he sent an email to all of our classmates for whom we thought we had valid email addresses. As expected, some of them came back as undeliverable. Therefore, right now we have about fifteen “missing” classmates, meaning that we don’t have valid email or regular mail addresses for them. If you did not receive Joe’s email, you are probably one of those fifteen! To make Joe’s job easier, please drop him an email at rokus@comcast.net so that you can be added to the all-important “FOUND” list! Not only is it our 50th reunion, but Tuck is now organizing a series of events titled “50 Years of Women at Tuck” in conjunction with the reunion. See www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/w50/. Of course, Martha and Dean Hennessey and, very indirectly, our class played a key role in that dramatic turn in the history of our favorite business school. As we look forward to October, Joe will be sending out emails periodically about the plans for the reunion, as well as about the “50 Years of Women at Tuck” program. Don’t miss out!

Before getting to the news, a reminder that our 50th reunion is coming up with the dates of October 1-3, 2021; not too soon to think about blocking off that time frame and planning how to approach it, particularly for our international and traveling contingents. Paul Clark enjoyed golf and hiking this past summer. In August he and his wife were on a cruise to Venice and Rome. They leave later this month (October) for some time in London, followed by a cruise from Athens to Barcelona with a few stops along the way, I am sure. He is down to two boards: Agilent (13 years) and Keysight (5 years), the latter where he serves as chairman of the board. With one daughter in Chicago and another in New York, they have some good times visiting each. In the summer/fall they live in Beaver Creek, CO, and winter in Indian Wells, CA. Daniel Viard writes that he and Claudine in mid-September spent some good time in Burgundy and in the Jura “departmement” with Dennis McGuckian and Sharon Shellstron, who came from Los Angeles via Philadelphia. Apparently Dennis took a good picture of the four of them on a bridge over a nice river. This was to come to Tuck Today, but I have not seen it yet. So perhaps it will appear for the next issue. Dave Irwin and his wife are in France for a while and will be lunching with Daniel and Claudine, as well as with Jean Rozwadowski later in the month (October). So, again, more news later from that quadrant.

mytuck.dartmouth.edu

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Jim Rappport continues with his wife to enjoy living in the Back Bay of Boston after 40 years in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Much of their time is spent staying physically fit at the local YMCA, as well as volunteering efforts and visits to the five grandchildren in NYC and the Chicago suburbs. He just went through his 50th reunion at Boston College (class of 1969). Looking forward to his Tuck 50th. The Loring family continues to be quite active in the professional and volunteer arenas, as well as keeping track of our six grandchildren—three next door in Prides Crossing and three in Spartanburg, SC. My seven-year-old grandson has been playing chess since he was four, and I have the continuing challenge of trying to best him at that game. Playing against the computer has sharpened his skills against his grandfather. His older sisters will not play chess with him— too good. Wife Bonny enjoys teaching him piano, and he is a soccer and tennis player as well—tough to keep up with it all. We have the pleasure locally in being the emergency backup for carpools for my daughter. Next week we head to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the balloon festival with a group of my Dartmouth classmates and their wives. Most of the wives were there as dates in our undergraduate days. It’s nice that the ladies know one another fairly well. Returning the end of the week for a weekend then turning around for a quick visit to the grandchildren (three girls, ages 7 to 13) in Spartanburg. My son married into a Georgia bulldog family, so SEC conference football and Georgia are always high on the agenda. I am still on three corporate boards: one with Fidelity, another with a hedge fund company, and a third family-controlled company that holds traditional stock and bond assets. The 1911 Trust company and another family entity still has me engaged as a trustee and on its investment committees. My most interesting board is with the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund, which makes charitable grants in Massachusetts aimed at medical research, historic preservation, social and youth services, and land preservation/ conservation. We review over 160 grant requests in two cycles in a given year. The site visits to the entities themselves keep me informed and appreciative of how important the nonprofit sector and volunteerism is to

our social-service net, something I believe is unique to the United States. My nonprofit boards include GordonConwell Theological Seminary and the Salvation Army, both local corps and Massachusetts Advisory Board. Also serve on a number of other committees at my church and at local organizations that I believe enhance the quality of life in our community—YMCA, United Way of MA Bay, etc. Bonny continues her long service (now 29 years) on the Gordon College board and has joined the board of Global Unites, a global peace movement carried out by young people in war-torn third-world countries. The peace movement was started as Sri Lanka Unites by a Gordon College graduate, Prashan De Visser. This past summer we travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend his once in four years Global Unites Summit, which pulls together delegates from 15 different countries where the movement is operating. Our oldest granddaughter Alayna (now a senior at Exeter) was able to join us in Kenya, flying in from a mission trip in Rwanda. She is studying this term in South Africa at the African Leadership Academy. So, the Lorings are all well and thankful for our many blessings. My wife is counting the days until we head for her Florida timeshare in the middle of February. Our best wishes to you all wherever you might be. —Caleb

’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

’73 Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

Greetings from a dark and blacked-out San Francisco Bay Area. Electrical power was cut for almost 24 hours as our local power

company tried to prevent wildfires caused by their electrical grid shorting out in the high winds. Seems to have been successful as we had no wildfires, at least in Northern California. The power outage was kind of a wake-up call for our earthquake preparedness efforts—hard to live without electricity!! It is exciting to live in California!! Thanks to all T’73s for the letters, emails, and calls. Your news is much appreciated. Corrected post from the last issue of TT— mistakenly attributed to Scott Fitzsimmons instead of Gene: “Noted on LinkedIn that Gene Hornsby is now the vice president of the Orleans Firebirds in the Cape Cod Baseball league. Gene 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 at a reduced 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, Gene. Hope the rotator cuff is mending nicely.” Apologies to both Scott and Gene for the fake news. Nice to hear from one of our few remaining nonretirees, Chris Sinclair. Chris is still serving as chairman of Reckitt Benckiser (RB), which has just gone through a CEO transition and numerous other challenges that keep Chris hopping and interested. Chris notes that it is a great company with powerful brands (Lysol, Clearasil, Strepsils, etc.) and terrific people, so the future looks bright. One small downside is Chris feels he is a bit old for the travel grind to the UK but notes that London is a wonderful city to visit, so not all bad! I agree with that—love London too. Interesting that RB is headquartered in Slough on the west side of London—a town I used to visit in my WR Grace days right after Tuck. Chris has a daughter in the Bay Area near Berkeley, so I am hoping we can get together

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CL ASS NOTES for coffee or drinks at some point in the not too distant future. Ralph Harding writes from beautiful Maine that he has been following the planned power outages in California “—bankrupted utility, not safe when it is dry and windy. It kind of boggles the mind. I hope you have a generator in good working order—it’s a necessity here on the coast of Maine. And remember all you need to do is add an ‘R’ to outage and it becomes outrage. We are enjoying life here in our little slice of paradise. Right now the view from my window is a riot of color with the red maples, orange oaks, and yellow birches.” So jealous of those fall colors, Ralph. Eleanor and I need to take an East Coast trip to catch some of that beauty. Ralph has four grandkids aged 10 to almost 16—two boys, two girls—who are all lovely. When not busy with the grandies, Ralph manages to get in some biking and kayaking and working in his ceramics studio. Steve Ringlee has tried retirement but seems to be a chronic recidivist. He is on a couple of corporate boards, doing volunteer work on two nonprofit boards, and advising/investing in a new technology startup in Ames focused on nitrate management for farmers to prevent water quality concerns. Steve’s wife (Connie) is in her last year as a faculty member at Iowa State. They are just back from a worldwide family reunion in Oslo, Norway, and now planning a bicycle tour down the Loire Valley in France next May on their tandem bike. Their children (and, presumably, grandchildren) are in New York and Washington, so they do a lot of flying around to see them. Steve is looking forward to the Tuck 1973 50th reunion, where the class will probably trundle in on walkers to feebly wave to the assembled luminaries. Steve notes that he has not been to the Bay Area in a while but will plan on coffee and catchup conversation during his next visit. Steve is in regular contact with Harry Pfohl, Tom Wilberding, and John Jacquemin. It has been a busy travel year for Gary Fradkin. He and his wife, Carol, had a week in Dublin, Ireland, in March. Then a two-week drive from Seattle to Los Angeles in May mostly on the coast and visiting family in Berkeley— unfortunately Gary and I did not overlap, as we were in the UK in at that time. Finally, Gary had a fantastic river trip from Budapest to Amsterdam (starting with three nights 70

on their own in Prague before the cruise). The river cruise with Uniworld was simply awesome, he notes. Gary has family visits planned to Phoenix and Baltimore this fall, followed by a December wedding in Portland. Next January will be a big trip to Chile, their first trip there. That will be followed by a cruise in Alaska and a visit to the Canadian Rockies in the summer of 2020. Wow, Gary, that will be one fantastic travel year!! Like Gary and Carol, Eleanor and I have had a busy travel year, with a UK friends and family visit in May, including our first visit to the Outer Hebrides, which are way out on the far northwest of Scotland. We had four weeks in Greece in September—ten days in Athens, a week cruising round the Greek Islands, then five days on Crete and three days on Mykonos. It was a great trip—loved the Greek food and the history of the area. One big surprise was how consistently windy it was, especially on the islands. The cruise was with Celestyal Cruises, a Greek line specializing in island cruises—we can highly recommend them. Nearby is a pic of us at Little Venice on Mykonos.

Barry and Eleanor in Greece

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. We do get to see Lindsey, her husband Karl, and their two daughters most weekends. Thanks again for all the news, have a great winter, and please write or call. Would love to see any T’73s visiting the Bay Area. —Barry (cell: 510-918-5901 or email: bhotchkies@aol. com)

’74 Paul Stupinski pstupinski@aol.com

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed the last issue of Tuck Today! The focus of this column will be a recap of our 45th reunion—if you didn’t attend, all I can say is, “You shoulda been there!” A total of 21 ’74s and 16 guests, spouses, and significant others returned to Hanover October 4-6, with the Upper Valley treating us to a spectacular show of fall foliage, and crisp, cool, sunny weather. Tuck staff told me our attendance was a record for the 45th, which is considered an “off year” reunion! Registration was at Stell Hall, where we encountered all manner of construction underway around both Tuck and Thayer. We left Stell with Tuck tote bag, filled with Tuck-branded merch, candy, popcorn, and other goodies. Our Reunion festivities kicked off with a reception and buffet dinner at the Hanover Inn. We used this opportunity to toast Brian Landry’s new grandchild and Bill Bohrer’s recent marriage to Penny. After Reunion, Bill and Penny were headed to Paris and Barcelona for their honeymoon. We were also joined at the opening reception by Dean Matt Slaughter, who made it a point to get around the room and say hi to everyone. Early risers Saturday morning were treated to coffee and doughnuts at Tuck Circle, courtesy of Lou’s Restaurant—Lou’s is now owned and operated by a Tuckie, by the way. From there it was on to a variety of Tuck-sponsored activities. Most of us opted to spend the morning at Cook Auditorium. First, we heard Syd Finkelstein speak on his latest book and research into Superbosses. Drawing on examples of leaders as diverse as Alice Waters, Bill Walsh, and Ralph Lauren, Professor Finkelstein highlighted 8 management principles practiced by these and other great bosses that make them the kind of leaders people want to work for. We lamented that for most ’74s, this insight unfortunately comes too late in our careers! Next on the docket was a panel discussion that kicked off Tuck’s yearlong celebration of “50 Years of Women at Tuck”—it was in 1968

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Larry Edgar and friend Suthy, John and Rita McQuiston, Kathy and Jack Harry at Reunion

that Tuck admitted a woman for the first time, Martha Fransson T’70. From that beginning, Tuck now has women constituting over 40% of the last 5 incoming classes! Participating in that panel was our own Noreen Doyle, who discussed her experience in rising to leadership positions in 2 traditionally maledominated industries, banking and mining. Dean Matthew Slaughter then delivered his annual “State of Tuck” address. From my point of view, his message could best be summed up as, “Nothing has changed, and everything has changed!” Tuck continues to strive to provide students with an experience that is “personal, connected, and transformative.” Matt noted that Tuck applications were down 22% this past year, consistent with other top-tier MBA programs. In light of this new reality, Tuck continues its focus on an MBA education that prepares students to deal with rapid technological change; functioning in the global business environment; meeting the social responsibilities of business leaders; leveraging experiential-learning situations, and preparing for entrepreneurial opportunities. Matt noted a number of new initiatives underway at Tuck, including a complete overhaul of the first-year curriculum and numerous brick-and-mortar projects. Construction just started on the new Irving Energy Institute, to be built just outside of Murdough Center, and a 3-level underground parking garage, where the Tuck/ Thayer tennis courts used to be. We then adjourned for lunch and class pictures before heading out for a full afternoon of golf, campus art and architectural tours, fun runs, bike trips, and classes. A highlight of every Reunion weekend is the class dinner, and this year was no exception. Once again, Dwight Sargent was our gracious host at his Pompanoosuc Mills showroom in East Thetford. Judy and Jim Keller graciously provided his 93-point-rated Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Chardonnay wines from Barons Winery, where he is

managing partner. Jim and Judy also provided gift bags of those wines for everyone to take home. Jack Tankersley served as the evening’s emcee, keeping us (more or less!) on schedule and entertained, with his witty observations and thought-provoking analysis (!) of the ROI of a Tuck education, then and now. Tank also donated Cakebread Wine to be raffled off—he is about to retire from the board there, after serving for 12 years. John Bello provided T’74 baseball caps, t-shirts, Reed’s copper mugs (“... only for use drinking Reed’s Moscow Mules, Stuart!”), and Reed’s beverages. Unfortunately, John and Nancy could not join us for dinner; he left Reunion early to be inducted into his high school’s athletic hall of fame. Congrats, John! Jim, Tank, and Bello’s generosity made us the talk of Reunion weekend, among other classes as well as the Tuck staff—I got an excited call from Tuck the week before Reunion telling me there were 11 CASES of wine and 5 boxes of swag waiting for us! On each table at dinner were copies of a class survey we had done for our 10th reunion, provided by Sandy and Pat Martin—a fun way to look back and see ourselves 35 years ago! Over dessert, we reminisced with a PowerPoint presentation featuring photos taken during and after our 2 years at Tuck. Special thanks to Debbie Elcock and Nick North, who dug through their archives of old photos and slides for this slideshow. Special thanks too to my wife Angie, who helped me put the PowerPoint together and also served as Reunion photographer! Sunday morning, we said our “goodbyes,” and promised each other to be back for our 50th. You’ll be hearing more about that soon.

Twig MacArthur, Pat Martin, Sandy Martin, Bill Bohrer and new wife Penny and Dan Hunt at Reunion

’74s in attendance at Reunion were Steve Bates, John Bello, Bill Bohrer, Noreen Doyle, Larry Edgar, Debbie Elcock, Bill Garfield, Jack Harrington, Dan Hunt, Todd Keiller, Jim Keller, Brian Landry, Pat Martin, Twig Macarthur, John McQuiston,

Cathy Needham-Grein, Dwight Sargent, Jack Tankersley, Menno Van Wyk, Connie Voldstad, and Paul Stupinski. We also enjoyed having a special guest with us—Dave Evans, who served as dean of admissions and student affairs while we were at Tuck, joined us for Saturday’s festivities, including the class dinner—it was wonderful to see him, and very kind of him to make the trip up to Hanover to join us. Another great example of the people that make Tuck the special place that it is! There were lots of pictures taken over the weekend—go to our Tuck Facebook page to see them! Now on to other news.... Jan and John Graham have moved to the Pisgah Valley Retirement Community in Candler, NC. Jan’s mother lives nearby, the Graham kids are thrilled that John and Jan are in a great living arrangement, and Grahamsby is happy to leave the household chores, maintenance, and landscaping to someone else! It’s a win-win-win. Congratulations to Penny and Jim Spanos—normally reliable Reunion attendees, this year they were in Philadelphia, looking after their new grandchild, their son’s first! Rick Friedman is on the mend after a quadruple bypass, with thrice-weekly gym visits for rehab. Rick reports that he is meeting the most interesting people at the gym. New acquaintances include a Potomac riverboat captain and a career diplomat who regales him with stories of his adventures in India and Nepal. Rick’s health issues notwithstanding, he and Eileen have taken advantage of retirement to travel, visiting Spain, France, the Pyrenees, Alaska, the Southwest US, Peru, and El Salvador. The El Salvador trip coincided with one of the Friedman kids serving in the Peace Corps there. Rick stays busy with golf and courses at Johns Hopkins; Eileen volunteers with Head Start in the DC area. Marnie and Jake Jacobsen spent most of the summer at their newly acquired cabin on Canyon Ferry Lake, near Helena, MT. Rebuilding the Jacobsen Montana flotilla, winterizing the cabin, and entertaining family kept them hopping. Jake is planning a trip back to RI as this issue goes to press, and then it’s back to the Keys for the winter. Dave Potter is now at Brown University, overseeing the technology transfer/commercialization activities of both students and faculty. Recent feedback is that Dave is really tearing it up in this role, and Brown is thrilled to have him there—nice going, Dave! WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES Finally, some sad news...we lost four of our classmates in the last year. Rob Lindgren, Chuck Kanach, HJ Markley, and Ron Lewis all passed away. If you go to our class page on Facebook, you can find additional information and obituaries. Please join me in keeping them and their families in your thoughts and prayers.

Rich and Judy Andrews cheering on their hometown Houston Astros during the MLB playoffs

That’s it for now. Thanks to all for staying in touch! Don’t forget to join Facebook (if you’re not already “on”) and sign up for our Facebook page: Tuck School Class of 1974. It’s easy, and it’s the best and most timely way to keep in contact with your classmates, to share news and photos.

’76 Joel Barad joelibarad@gmail.com

Rick Routhier had a great summer. Enjoyed a really fun college reunion in Hanover in June. Sarah and Rick hiked the Dolomites together with a National Geographic group in July. (Picture nearby of the happy couple). Other good news is that their son Sam and his wife are expecting grandchild #1 in late October. Work continues apace at Spencer Stuart. Rick just stepped down from leading the hospitality practice for the last five years. Gives him a little more flexibility to balance work and the joys of gliding into the next phase.

’75 Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

45TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Larry Edgar and his friend Suthy aboard an elephant during a vacation in Cambodia

From the Stupinski household.... This summer, we returned to the Chianti region of Tuscany for an extended vacation, staying in the same house we have rented before. Dan Clark and his family have also stayed there, and Dan thoughtfully sent us a number of suggestions on where to visit and eat in the area. We were joined by our kids and their fiancées and boyfriends, as well as close friends from here in RI. We found new places to explore, wineries to check out, and restaurants to enjoy. We never tire of this beautiful part of Italy! Our son Jack married Dr. Olivia Love in September, at a beautiful outdoor ceremony in Santa Fe, Olivia’s hometown. Jack continues his surgical residency at U of AZ in Tucson; Olivia practices veterinary medicine in Taos, NM. They will finally conclude their long-distance relationship sometime in 2020 and live in the same place!

The retirement years. Time to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. And time to travel, whether to visit our children, or to visit new lands and people. Barb and I had a refreshing visit to Stockholm last July, a pleasant ten days in cool, dry weather while it was hot and humid back home on the Connecticut shoreline. Although there is much to see and do in Sweden’s capital city, the highlight for us was our cruise through the archipelago that stretches east from the city into the Baltic Sea. If you watch the Swedish detective shows, as we do, on Netflix or MHz you will have an idea of the great maritime scenery we witnessed, capped off by great seafood meals in classic settings. But what are you up to in retirement? Or have you never “retired” at all. (There are so many ways to grow old—and to keep young.) Drop us a line, and we’ll let your classmates know in the next issue!

Rick Routhier, Dilip Advani, and Bob Spears at Manzo in NYC April 2019 planning a trip to India in 2020

Rick and Sarah Routhier

Roland La Plante writes that he and Anne are still in Frazer, PA, outside Philadelphia. After 18 years he is still CMO at Afilias, a startup from 2000 that provides technology to support all the internet addresses ending in .org, .info, .pro, and over 200 other extensions.

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He was in Maine this past summer with all 9 grandchildren up there (ages 5-14) for a few glorious days. He is still running—did the Ragnar Niagara with other team members in June and scheduled for the Barkley Fall Classic on September 21. “Not fast...just steady,” he says. “Greetings and best wishes to all ’76ers wherever you may be.” [Look on the 1976 classnotes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of Anne and Roland!] Mary Sexton writes that she spoke with Peggy Harmatz, whose husband Paul wrote an article in the Washington Post entitled, “Immigrants Help Us Find Treatments for Rare Diseases.” Paul is a pediatric gastroenterologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. I read the article from the Washington Post, September 15, 2019, edition. It is eye opening, and I encourage you all to read it. Mary will have spent the autumn on Kiawah Island, where she has a vacation place for two months. May I come visit with my golf clubs? In April, Craig Benedetti and Pablo’s home was included in Floral Park’s home and garden tour. He reports that “the highlight of the tour was meeting a 70-year-old woman who recounted that her grandparents built the house in 1939. She remembers as a child sliding down the banister of the house.” In June, Craig and Pablo began returning to their home in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. They are just a 30-minute drive to the Valley of Guadeloupe, which is the largest wine production area in Mexico. [See a pic of Craig and his prize roses at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] Leckie Reeves is still selling high-end residential and commercial real estate with Sotheby’s International Realty out of their office in Cashiers, NC. He has the listing for a 5-bedroom, 5-bath home with 6200 square feet on 2.5 acres, with an ocean view. (But how much is the flood insurance?) He also has for sale an award-winning vineyard and winery in northeast Georgia. It would be crass of me to mention the prices, but you can always call Leckie. I have his number if you would like to call him, if even just to say hello. Gail Hegarty Fell got together for dinner at Art Becker’s “fabulous” place in SoHo. Also attending the dinner were Alicia Cooney, Anthony Simpson, Bob Lassiter, Roger Taylor, Fritz Meyer, Dilip Advani, and Bob Spears. Gail reports that “Art was a great host and put on a wonderful spread.”

Dinner at Arthur Becker’s Soho home in early summer

In September, Gerry Bowe returned from a 300+ mile weeklong bike ride in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. 30 riders raised over $200,000 for the MS Global Can Do foundation. He says: “Muscles a little sore but otherwise I feel great, although we are now all of an age when doing such things get harder and harder. Not sure I will do it next year. The photo below from left to right: a friend who roped me into this, Tyler Hamilton, former Tour de France racer, and me. Longest ride was 75 miles, and the overall amount of climbing was about 25,000 feet.” Funny that Joel Barad’s wife’s parents both were born and raised on Cape Breton Island: her mother in Sydney, her father in New Waterford. Her mother was the first person from Cape Breton to go to Wellesley College. [Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of Gerry with his friend and Tyler Hamilton!] Joel Barad’s son Gordon graduated from McGill in June. Tobe and I were up there for the convocation. In July, he attended the Tuck Business Bridge Program for undergrads or recent grads who did not major in business, finance, or accounting: liberal arts types. He loved it. Wished it lasted longer. Now he is looking for an entry-level job as a baby analyst in management consulting or strategic planning. Any leads?

Gordon and Joel Barad at McGill University

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

’78 Jim Scardino  jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

As you are reading this, golf season in the Northeast is a faint memory and a distant hope for the future. But back on August 29, Tom Flanagan hosted a group of our ’78ers for a round in Darien, CT. Present reportedly were the Messrs. Lebovitz, Ryder, Robertson, Johnston, Lindberg, and Hynes. No pictorial evidence was produced, nor even a scorecard. But apparently Tom remains a member in good standing, so all in all a successful and enjoyable day was had by all. My travels brought me to Denver in September, and I was very happy to meet up with Jack Sullivan and Brian Deevy. Brian hosted us for dinner, and the reminiscences and stories (both old and previously unheard) flowed as freely as the IPA. Carol and the aforementioned Bob Lindberg also visited Normandy and Brittany as part of a WWII Museum Tour group last fall. Note the Tuck baseball cap Bob is wearing in the photo of Carol and him at Mont Saint-Michel. I don’t believe Bob brought his clubs on this particular excursion.

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CL ASS NOTES ’80 Rick Kilbride richardckilbride@gmail.com

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Bob and Carol Lindberg

Editor’s note: Look on the 1980 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for your classnotes column!

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

Jim Scardino’s new and first grandchild, Isabel Caroline Scardino, a.k.a. “Izzy”

And finally, meet Isabel Caroline Scardino, more commonly called “Izzy,” Mary’s and my first grandchild, born July 20, the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing. If life progresses as it should, Izzy will surely be around for the 100th anniversary, as will her parents. However, dear classmates, none of us will be. So please: be healthy, take good care, live each day, and stay in touch. —Jim

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

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Hello all. Well, we knocked it out of the park last time, in terms of quantity. (Quality, well...let’s move on.) This was thanks to the efforts of our ace three-person team, recently incorporated as WeTuck, and we expect an IPO in the billion range. This time, we—regressed to the mean, as they say. Golf photos returned like mosquitos to New Hampshire in the spring. Did you know EVERY GOLF PHOTO IS THE SAME? People standing, holding clubs, maybe a trophy. A special prize will be awarded to someone sending in a DIFFERENT golf photo. Maybe Nye driving his cart into a water hazard. Think Caddyshack, people! Fran “Call me Francois” Allen and spouse Cindy “Long Suffering” Allen received a visit in Amsterdam from Jim and Becky Byrne. They ate some food. See photo. But take a closer look, Sherlocks. See how there is actually no food visible, just a lot of wine (4 bottles for 4 people, seems about right). Examine the picture on the wall, of some miniature Dutch pervert snapping a photo of a femme fatale. Are there no moral standards in this “restaurant”? Apparently not—most crucially, notice that the credit card reader is in front of Jim, not Fran. Well played, Francois!

The Allens and Byrnes in Amsterdam

Tony Ettinger did something so massively great that we’ll drop our usual modesty and Blow Our Own Class Secretary horns. For those of you who did not read Tony’s message nagging for requesting input, he included this incredible story: “I had a big event occur in July of this year in Las Vegas. After many years trying, I finally became a U.S. National Champion at something. Not all of you may know, but I played a lot of ping pong (and other racket sports) growing up. I always wanted to be a national champion at one of these sports. At this year’s National Championships of the United States Association of Table Tennis held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, there were around 1,000 participants, across many categories of play (Men’s Open, Women’s Open, seniors, etc.) One category is Hard-bat Doubles. Hard-bat requires participants to use wooden paddles with pimpled rubber (these are probably the paddles that you grew up with). Most modern paddles today have thick layers of sponge, which allows you to impart high rates of spin, but Hard-bats remain a viable category on their own. And now I am the United States National Champion in Hard-bat Doubles Table Tennis.” Astonishing. Bravo to Tony and his partner Tahl Leibowitz. We didn’t believe We wanted to celebrate Tony’s victory, so we used Al Gore’s internet tubes to locate photographic proof. This achievement deserves recognition—I am thinking of a remake of Dodgeball, maybe Hardbat. But who to play Tony? Brad Pitt, sure, but let’s think out of the box—Michael Fassbender? Tony also reported on a Tuck mini-reunion held at the Igoe House of Parties (IHOP) in Biddeford, Maine. (Cuz when I think party, I think MAINE!) It was billed as a weekend filled with lobsters, beer and foosball (no pancakes?) and it did not disappoint. In attendance were Brian Igoe, Jim Miller, Chip Howard, Tom Blais, Tony, and for the first time in a long time, Jim Suslavich. Unfortunately, Sean Austin and John Ashburne had to be no-shows. (Secretary’s note: In the case of Sean Austin,

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Tony Ettinger and partner Tahl Leibowitz, National Champions in Hard-bat Doubles Table Tennis

T’81 mini-reunion at the IHOP in Biddeford

count your blessings—intact damage deposit.) Partial photographic record attached. Such a shame that so many of our classmates invested in the Beanie Babies bubble and now don’t even have enough money to buy long pants.... Not to be outdone on the party scene, Mike Esposito and Cynthia hosted Tuck ’Tails at their house in July. They had a couple of dozen Tuckies and also Significant Others, including among others Paul McMahon, Susan Woods, Bill Moylan, and George Parker. See photo, they’re all in there somewhere.

Mattapoisett. Really.

”William Michaels” on Amazon

Just a geographic note here, folks. For those of you masochistic or bored enough to read this column regularly (finished binging Veep, eh?), you would know, from the number of mentions Mattapoisett receives here, that this burg is actually the leading town in Massachusetts. Others, benighted as they are, think that would be Boston. Ha! Please memorize the corrective map nearby.

Verrryy clever anonymization there, eh what? Gonna slide right past those facial recognition algo’s, no doubt!

Leigh and Susan Cruess were sitting around, thinking, “Hey, we’re pretty much retired, what can we do now that will take a lot of time and money, for minimal gain? I know, let’s move to a new house, but one really close by, so we have all the negatives of a move, without any pesky positives!” So, in Leigh’s own words (on which we cannot improve): “The move will run us about $4,000 per 100 meters (400 meters’ distance between old and new houses), which is sobering.” Well put. For those of you who think the metric system is for Commies, 400 meters is about 437 yards. Our English system is so much better than what they use in Canada! For example, can you say in metric that 400 meters is not just 437 yards, but 79.5 rods, or 2 furlongs? I thought not! More seriously, it is a bigger better and better-situated house (I think they can see Russia from there*), so congrats! (Hey, you know what Canadians call Miles Davis? Kilometers Davis! I love (repeating) that.)

Tuck ’Tails at the Esposito home in Mattapoisett

Bill Moylan spilled the beans on secretive classmate Bill Pursche, who has quite a writing career going, as you may know. “He’s authored a series of mystery novels featuring Detective Robert Winter, written under the pen name William Michaels. The first novel in the series is Random Revenge, and the second is Random Melody.” Bill M is a big fan and encourages us all to pick up a copy or two. We can’t really blame Mr. Moylan for outing Mr. Pursche, since the Amazon author page for him is that shown nearby.

To close, Glenn and Ida Mercer just hosted Ellen Remmer and Chris Fox here in flyover land (Ohio). Apparently weary of tried-andtrue Tuck Alum fun spots like Tuscany, Napa, and Bali, these two rented theirselves a Kia, got the visas that allow New England Liberals to cross the Pennsylvania and Ohio borders, and set out to visit...Seneca Falls, Ithaca, Buffalo, Erie, and Cleveland (on their way to Cincinnati eventually, to see some guy there, Portman I think). Not often us Clevelanders get on a list where we feel kinda superior, so we’ll take it. We watered the Kia, loaded their saddlebags with supplies, and expect they will be safely back across the Appalachians before winter comes, Lake Erie freezes, and the Canadians send (metric) wolves over to eat us. See you next time, enjoy life, stay safe, and please send in your info, especially those of you who are not...reading this.... Whatever. Anyway, remember, what may seem very boring news to you is probably only slightly boring to the rest of us, so type away, and hit that Send button!

’82 Andy Rieth riethba@welchpkg.com

James Taylor penned: Well the sun is surely sinking down/But the moon is slowly rising/So this old world must still be spinning ’round/And I still love you.

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CL ASS NOTES then joined Price Waterhouse’s NYC real estate group. He later worked at Strategic Value Partners, an international hedge fund based in Greenwich, CT, before joining Keystone Realty Capital in Stamford, CT.

So close your eyes/You can close your eyes, it’s alright/I don’t know no love songs/And I can’t sing the blues anymore/But I can sing this song/And you can sing this song/When I’m gone. Sadly, I devote our class notes primarily to the untimely passing of two of our classmates, Chris Brennen and Bruce Kiley. Both left behind loving families, successful careers, and close friends in our class. Chris passed June 18 after suffering a devastating heart attack while he was swimming and is survived by his wife, Cindy “Sippy,” and twins, Ryan and Jamie, among other family members. From Chris’s obituary, he was a native of Old Westbury, New York, and attended Tabor Academy (’72), Lehigh University (’76) and The Tuck School of Business (’82). His investment career began as an analyst at First Boston Corporation. After attending Tuck, Chris joined Merrill Lynch and moved to Manhattan Beach, California. He finished his career at J.P. Morgan Securities. Chris was an original thinker, loved investing, and remained highly engaged in the market, enjoying daily bantering with his family and friends on any topic of the moment. Roman Lipp, who remained a close friend of Chris’s and his family eulogized Chris at the memorial service. Several of our classmates were able to attend the service and reported Roman did a great job in remembering our friend. Chris was a great man, a wonderful husband, father, son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, cousin, and best friend to so many. He lived life to the fullest and brought everyone along for the ride. An avid golfer, Chris was a member of the Los Angeles Country Club. His early years at Camp Hawthorne in Raymond, Maine, remained a major part of his life. He and his family vacationed there every year and enjoyed all water-sport activities on Panther Pond. He loved baseball playing catcher, loved the Yankees and Giants, and skiing at Mammoth Mountain. There is a photo of our classmates after Chris’s service and more photos of Chris on the ’82 class-notes pages at myTUCK. Memorial donations in memory of Chris can be made to the James and Margaret Brennan Scholarship Fund at Tabor Academy or the Chadwick School Outdoor Education Program in Palos Verdes, California.

Chris Brennan reading

Chris at Tuck

Bruce was thrilled to be father to twins, Nicholas and Alicia. The family moved to Greenwich, CT, and acquired multiple pets, including his much beloved English springer spaniel, Ollie. In addition to animals, Bruce’s other great love was sailing, and he joined Indian Harbor Yacht Club. He enjoyed taking the twins and Ollie out on his Boston Whaler each weekend and was a regular presence at IHYC’s Wednesday night racing. Bruce is survived by his children, Nick and Alicia Kiley, and his former wife, Fenella Kiley, as well as his two brothers, Mark and Richard Kiley, and their respective wives, Marsha and Lynn Kiley, three nieces, and one nephew. Bruce was a proud father right up until his untimely passing. His dog never left his side. Tuck friends, life is precious, and the premature passing of such vibrant and fun guys reminds us to hug our kids and others you love. Don’t go to bed angry, and strive each day to find a way to make the world a better place. Tuck was a great place to see servant leadership in action and in formation.

Chris Brennan

A month before Chris left us, Bruce Kiley passed on May 22. Bruce grew up in Cohasset, MA, and attained his bachelor of arts degree in architecture from Yale University and his MBA from Tuck. (How many of us remember Bruce was an architect?) Bruce’s first job was with General Electric, specializing in international real estate. After receiving his MBA, he became an associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. He later joined GE Capital, as a managing director in real estate, in Stamford, CT, and London, UK. While in England, Bruce met and married Fenella S. Bacon; they returned to NYC, and Bruce continued to work for GE Capital and

So the Tuck class of ’19 included a couple of recently minted Tuckies ready to conquer the world who are progeny of our own Terry Kavanaugh and Marc Johnson. Marc wrote as a proud father: “Tuck is still the special place we all remember but even better. The travel opportunities are incredible, the students bright and enthusiastic, and the teachers very engaging. Despite the increase in class sizes (now roughly 290 students per class), Tuck still maintains that special cohesiveness no other B-school can match.” I received photos and glowing comments from Terry and Marc almost simultaneously after Investiture...so we know they were delighted to see their daughters successfully navigate the curriculum—and the tunnels—of Tuck. To close, I’ll send along the latest from Gary and Meredith Savadove: “All is well with the Savadoves. After getting a new hip last year, I [Gary] was able to again enjoy skiing this past year. It truly is wonderful to live in a time when this sort of thing is possible. Now,

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Terry Kavanagh, Allison Kavanagh ’19, Annie Johnson ’19, and Marc Johnson

The Savadoves and Ballous

unfortunately, I have no excuses for my form or lack thereof. Meredith and I continue to pursue our passion for travel and seeing the world. This year, we were fortunate enough to enjoy a ski trip to Switzerland, return trip to Italy for business and visiting friends, a wonderful visit to Israel, exploring the Costa Brava in Spain, summer skiing in Chile, and best of all, a week with Steve and Mary Ballou biking in Provence, France, which included a climb up Mont Ventoux. During and between trips, I continue to fill in the gaps with my wine export business and a few consulting gigs.” Keep Chris and Bruce’s families in your thoughts and prayers in the coming months.

’83 Chris Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Doug Ross doug@ragnoassociates.com

It has been great to hear from some people we haven’t talked to in quite a while. Like Dave von Loesecke, for example.

“This feels like a time warp. Despite my best intentions, I haven’t written in regularly with news about my career, family, and vacations. So I am now writing in as a retiree with 3 grown kids. I am enjoying a permanent vacation while my wife works part-time so we don’t drive each other nuts. Fortunately, the situation has not evolved into being grandparents or being in assisted living. “I actually did have a career spanning 36 years since Tuck and prefer to believe I improved the state of mankind while enriching shareholder value. On the latter, you will have to defer to the opinion of fellow classmate Val Hollingsworth, for whom I devoted the last 21 years of my career at Hollingsworth & Vose Co (H&V). Those were in various senior management positions of inflated title and questionable qualification, considering my documented role in the crew of ‘Tailwind’ during spring break of our second year. If you don’t get a clear report from Val, you can always go to Gibbs Roddy, who serves on H&V’s board and doesn’t know what Val knows about me. The ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy works well.

volunteer work. I think this is what defines a good retirement.” Keith Day also checked in recently with some updates on his family. His daughter Allison graduated magna from the University of Pennsylvania in May. “Cynthia and I as alumni carried our respective class flags into the commencement ceremony on May 20, 2019,” writes Keith. Allison was very busy at Penn. “She is one of the best natural leaders I’ve ever seen. She ran an a capella group, a theater performance group, a light-opera group, and was president of the Penn squash club. At Penn, she was inducted into two honor societies for leadership. I am hopeful that she will be a strong candidate for Tuck in the near future.”

Keith and Cynthia’s son Alexander graduated from high school in June and will be a freshman at George Washington University starting this fall. Son Rob is a sophomore studying engineering and artificial intelligence at Thomas Jefferson University. “He has developed prototypes for AI games and has sold a few. In late August, he exhibited at the Lego brick fair in Chantilly, Virginia/Dulles Expo Center a Lego model “On the topic of improving the state of mankind, with artificial intelligence,” reports Keith. His creations have earned him top prizes I prefer to believe I have become a staunch in technology. On a career note, Keith says ‘globalist’ after traveling to 40 countries on while “I thought the synthetic turf would be business, including 33 trips to India alone to originally a short term venture...after 18 years, acquire and integrate a new business for H&V. the turf business has become long-term. We I can’t quite agree with Trump’s emphasis on have become one of the top vendors to the city being a ‘patriot’ (if I may stray into politics) of New York.... I am frequently in Manhattan, while iconoclastic and unilateral isolationist Brooklyn, and Queens.” policies melt down a world order sustained by a fabric of Western business culture. From Boston, we have this update from Bob MacIntosh about the Boston Men’s Club: “On “On the family front my wife Karen and I have an idyllic midsummer evening, the Greater raised two daughters and a son—gainfully Boston Tuck Men’s Club gathered for their employed I might add—and even more annual outing at a Red Sox game. In attendance globalist than their father at their age. The were Steve Clark, Joe Kirchgessner, Paul oldest works with a software platform Grand Pre, and Bob MacIntosh—as well as provider, the second in financial services, Steve’s son, Ted, who lives and works in Boston. and my youngest in a startup to exercise his While the game was a bit disappointing, there mechanical-engineering acumen. They are were some highlights. First, the group observed rapidly catching up to me on my 40-country the game from the Fenway Park bleachers (first benchmark. I will never catch up or be as row, of course) to have a different perspective proficient as they are in social media despite on the game. In addition, the group ‘dined’ my feeble attempts to start Facebook and Instagram accounts to chronicle my retirement. beneath—and within—the iconic left-field wall at Fenway Park (picture attached). (Note: Peter Boland was unable to join the group due “As Karen and I look to convert my globalist to his daughter’s pending wedding in Maine.) perspectives into travel vacations to off-theAlthough the faltering Red Sox lost to the beaten-path destinations, we continue to enjoy surging Tampa Bay Rays, a good time was had good health and remain active skiing, boating, by all!” hiking, and doing church and community

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Steve Clark, Bob MacIntosh, Paul Grand Pre, and Joe Kirchgessner at Fenway

Bob also added this: “On a philosophical footnote, over the past couple of years we have been joined at various sites by the sons and daughters of some of our classmates, and I am always impressed to see them developing into successful young men and women who—in their own ways—are making their own meaningful contributions to the world. Congratulations to our classmates for their parenting skills!” Brent West sent us this update regarding his daughter Molly’s recent nuptials. “Our daughter Molly (T’19) and Danny Dearing were married on 7 September in Kennebunkport. Some may find it surprising that the wedding was officiated by our classmate Scott Pattullo, who did a great job. We think that Scott, after stints as a management consultant and CEO, may have found his true calling! Attending the wedding was a strong contingent of ’83s— including Scott and his wife Jenny, Mike and Elizabeth Lauber, and Gary and Chris Cahn. Alas, however, members from the class of ’19 greatly outnumbered us.”

Jan Rosenfeld, Mike Goulder, Rob Lusardi, and Chandler at Reunion

Meg VanDeWeghe, husband Rick, and granddaughter Ginny Jeff Plank, Diane Jones Schmidt-Fellner, and Mark Davis at Reunion and granddaughter (Virginia ‘Ginny’ Mosley Hughes) live only a few minutes away from us, so we see them often. I have attached a picture of my husband and me with Ginny. We already are talking to her about the benefits of getting a Tuck education!”

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for Christmas. It was released last summer by Onion River Press in Burlington, VT, made its premiere at Bookstock in Woodstock, and now sells briskly in New England. It is a perfect gift for classmates with grandchildren. Check it out at www.ahwooo.com (the sound that the dog in the story makes *grin*).

Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

Gathering in Maine of Scott and Jenny Pattullo, Brent and Tina West, Mike and Elizabeth Lauber, and Chris and Gary Cahn, as well as other friends and family

I am writing this just a few days after returning from Reunion. What a terrific time with 44 classmates along with partners and children who ventured back to Hanover. A shout-out to Johanna Bermans Musselman, Kristen Angrist Balderston, Jennie Martzloff, Lincoln Spoor and Jan Rosenfeld for organizing the Hanover Inn dinner and latest TAG campaign. We were very pleased to welcome one of our two Tuck 1984 Scholars, Sarah Blatt T’21, and her husband at dinner. Our other Scholar, Teo Gonzales Collazo T’21, was away on fall break.

Speaking of children, how about grandchildren? This from Meg VanDeWeghe: “The happy news in my life is that our daughter Hollis recently had a baby. Our daughter, son-in-law,

The best raffle prize was a signed copy of The House that Santa (Almost) Missed by the humble creator of Amos Duck (aka Paul Laud). Paul turned his designs to writing and illustrating a rhyming children’s picture book

Paul Laud sample cover

Ted Wiese retired earlier this year after 35 years with T. Rowe Price (the last 4 as head of the firm’s fixed income business). He is now doing angel and venture investing in the MidAtlantic area and mentoring social enterprise start-ups in Baltimore City. Ted and Mary Jo still enjoy traveling, but now strictly for pleasure—no more business trips to London, Europe, and Asia! They spent half the summer

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sailing in Maine and plan to return next summer to escape the heat and humidity in Baltimore. Son Robert (32) develops business for a travel-related digital marketing company and works from home in Loma Linda, CA, where his wife Krista is in the 2nd year of her ER residency. Son Edward (29) is a producer for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. Edward and wife Mia live in Manhattan and expect a baby boy in February.

am wrestling with two hospitals, two drug companies, and an insurance company. One of my brothers got diagnosed with myeloma last winter and had a very rough stem cell transplant; he almost died from a hospitalborne infection. I am still doing my data mining stuff, signed a new client last week, and just had one of my life sciences companies go public. Son number one got married two weeks ago. Overall life is pretty damn good.”

Receiving recognition for greatest distance traveled to Reunion is Hiroshi Izawa and his wife, Kaori. He enjoyed catch-up up with everyone and looks forward to a minireunion in Tokyo with Kiyoshi Goto on October 21. John England welcomed 3 new grandsons into his family, one born in April and twin boys in May. He now has 6 grandsons! His kids somehow ignore him when he says he is too young to be a grandfather, let alone six times over. David Plants reports he is happy as a ski instructor and snowboard instructor at Stratton. If you happen to be at Stratton this winter, consider signing up for a few lessons with David. Jim Knight reports, “Our kids are launched, work continues, and Hilary is going for her 4th Olympics. Come visit us in Sun Valley—plenty of room now that the kids have flown the coop. I think maybe this winter Cynthia and I will take a vacation—it’s been a long time since we did that. One thing that amazed me at Reunion was how good everyone looks.”

Rod Jones wasn’t able to attend Reunion but sent in an update: “Hi Janet. I hope all is well. Regret Joanne and I won’t be able to make the reunion. John Wright put the pressure on, but we will be out of the country. Here is a short update with some of our big news.

Ernie Parizeau and Kim Collins Parizeau “just finished up a cool adventure at Stanford University in a year-long program where old people go back to college to figure out how to design the rest of our lives. It’s called DCI, and we moved to Palo Alto for the academic year with our dog and became undergraduates again. There were 40 of us ‘old folks’ in the program and we had a few classes together. But most classes were with undergraduate and graduate students. We had the ‘keys to the castle’ and could take any class at any school at Stanford. Our favorite was “Rock, Sex, and Rebellion—The History of Rock and Roll.” I tell people it was just like freshman year of college except the parties started at 6 pm and ended by 9! We’ve had so much fun we are heading back for winter and spring terms and would love to connect with any Tuckies out there or passing through!” Morris Wallack reports, “After leaving HP and taking a small hiatus from work, I returned to work at 3D Systems in 2017 and departed in

Kim Collins Parizeau and Ernie Parizeau in fall 2019

April 2019 declaring I’m now really trying to retire. We took a whirlwind trip to Italy in May and are now settled in Durham, NC. Oldest daughter Grace got married in 2018, graduated from law school in June, and now works as an attorney in Washington, DC, where her husband Tom is a new associate at BCG after getting his MBA in Cambridge at some tech school (MIT). Daughter Eve is a senior visual design/art major at Washington University in St. Louis. My wife, Sue, continues strategic marketing/branding/positioning work as an independent consultant. I hope to serve on small tech company boards, so if you know any companies needing an experienced retired tech executive, let me know. I see two Tuckies in the Triangle area: Rick Rosenberg Tuck ’93 and Jed Simmons Tuck ’87 (who teaches entrepreneurship at Duke).”

The Wallack family in Scopello, Italy

Stuart Cornew was unable to make it to the reunion: “Health bologna has my attention. After 19 years and 26 protocols, I am clearly one of the hardiest cockroaches in the myeloma community. I am in the midst of getting into a clinical trial for a CarT transplant, and

“I retired from Canada Steamship Lines after 32 years in 2017, and Joanne and I moved from Montreal to New Castle, NH. We spend the winters there and we summer at our cottage on Georgian Bay in Ontario. Near Parry Sound. We love it up here! “Our eldest daughter Kim, who was born when I was at Tuck, married an Irish man and they now live in Amsterdam. We were thrilled with the birth of our first grandchild in June this year. Her name is Clodagh Frances Young. Middle daughter Emma is a lawyer in DC and is engaged to be married next April. Son Trevor just moved from London back to Connecticut and was married last month! Our family is expanding rapidly. All three kids work in some form of shipping—ship finance, maritime law, and chartering! Thrilled to see classmate Tina trying to bring some sense to the Senate! Otherwise, find the current political world very disturbing. All the best to my Tuck friends.” Kevin Stone “officially” retired and now resides full-time at Cape Cod. “Although I am retired, I may do some consulting through my old firm, Helms & Company. I sold my ownership stock; while I am no longer be a partner in the firm, the remaining owners agreed to let me do a project or two during the ‘slower’ winter months. My last year of work was extremely hectic until retirement date. I had been involved in the state of VT health care payment reform efforts for the last decade. I became the board chair of a statewide accountable care organization—OneCare VT. It was formed as part of a unique five year pilot program with the federal government. Last December our CEO resigned to take a job as a chair at Mayo Clinic, and I stepped in as interim CEO until August, traveling weekly up to Burlington. WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES My wife, Joyce, was often able to join me and enjoyed hiking, biking, and visiting craft breweries while I worked. Now at the Cape, I look forward to reading many more books, biking (we have easy access to the Cape Cod Bike Rail Trail from our house), and puttering in my workshop. I’ve enrolled in lifelong learning classes—it will be fun to be a student again. Oldest son Nate (in Washington, DC) is expecting a baby boy (our first grandchild!); we plan to help with childcare to reduce daycare costs down. We look forward to a trip to the Grand Canyon and Reno, NV. This trip conflicts with Reunion so I will miss catching up with everyone.”

since I touched base so I thought I would send some news from Arizona. John Casesa and I have gotten together twice in Scottsdale over the past year. My wife and I also saw John and Kate Fontana about eighteen months ago when they were in town. “I’ve been keeping pretty busy with my wife, kids, and you can also find more info about me and my homebuilding business on our website at www.rosewoodhomes.com. “I’ve also attached a recent photo showing the grey hair that I’ve earned since graduation.”

Check out more Reunion 2019 photos on our Tuck MBA class of 1984 Facebook page!

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons

hiking, skiing, biking, and the great outdoors. We are looking for recruits—come visit!” Steve Voigt is “still living in Norwich in the house we built in 1992 with a view of Baker Tower. Oldest son is married, living outside Boston, and with Bose since getting a master of engineering management degree at Thayer/ Tuck. Youngest son is working on a master’s thesis in environmental economics at the University of Maine. Still road biking a good bit, and now getting out on our sailboat that’s kept primarily in Connecticut.” Steve also included an informative Forbes magazine article published on June 10, 2019, entitled “The Triple Crown: Why Three CEOs Is 200-Year-Old King Arthur Flour’s Radical Plan to Maintain Its Reign.” The publication highlights Steve’s appointment as the company’s first nonfamily CEO in 1999, a position he held for 15 years. Norwich, Vermont–based King Arthur Flour continues to thrive and grow nicely, thanks to their high quality, all-natural product suite and a seamless leadership handoff, courtesy of Steve’s successful succession planning.

lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

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David Kitnick

OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

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Julia Rabkin

Linda Bornhuetter Gridley lives in New York City, and she continues to succeed on Wall Street transacting digital-media deals. A recent empty nester, Linda’s youngest son just started as a freshman at the Big Green, and her oldest just graduated from there and is in San Francisco “with all the other millennials.” A sports fanatic in her free time, Linda pursues golf, tennis, and triathlons “with lots of fun ladies.” Could the women be so enjoyable because Linda always finishes first?

juliamrabkin@gmail.com

We received solid submissions from an assortment of classmates not heard from in quite some time. We appreciate everyone’s assistance, as finding time to write to Tuck Today isn’t always an easy thing to do. David Kitnick’s Rosewood Homes was honored as “Small Builder of the Year” at Arizona’s foremost home-building awards gala. Rosewood is currently building homes in four exclusive neighborhoods in the greater Phoenix area. David writes, “It has been a few years

Chip Whitman’s job in software brought him to Denver in January, where Jane and he both now work. Jane comments that “it is remarkable just how many friends are passing through—we have had more visitors here in six months than in our twenty years in Concord, Massachusetts. Of our Tuck friends, we have been happy to see both Julia Rabkin and Sheldon Crosby. We are strategically located between our kids in NYC and LA, and since we live in vacationland, they have actually visited when they break free from being chained to their desks. We’re enjoying the sunshine,

We received a nice note from Ulrike Michel, who reported that “important cornerstones have not changed: I am still living in the mountains near Kitzbühel, Austria, I am still married to Konrad, who I met at McKinsey more than 30 years ago, and I continue to work in real estate development. Konrad and I have a 27-year-old daughter, Katharina. “I have a couple of regular contact points with Tuck/the Tuck community: Foremost there is my friendship with Heather King and her family. We have been meeting more or less once a year since we met at Tuck. Since my daughter is currently studying in Palo Alto, we have seen Heather, her husband Wade, and her children even more frequently in California but also in Europe. In March 2019 we traveled to Sausalito/Point Reyes to celebrate Heather’s birthday, and in July 2019 the whole King family visited us in Austria and were guests at my ‘Bergfest.’ This weekend Katharina and her boyfriend David are spending a weekend with Heather in Sausalito. “Also I am connected to Tuck via my brother, Ulf , who is currently visiting the October-Fest in Munich and hiking in Bavaria with his MBA pals Dan and Adam from Tuck. If you are in the Alps, come by to visit us in Tyrol!”

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Mike Wyman spent a Tuck Boyz weekend at Gordon and Jane Nelson’s Block Island home during the summer. The wild outing culminated in “Gordie getting pulled over for transporting four Tuckies in the bed of his pickup truck with no one wearing seatbelts. The Harley-Davidson–riding Rhode Island state trooper was apparently in a forgiving mood and opted not to issue a ticket. Thank goodness the encounter wasn’t after dinner because we were all toasted!” Word has it Jane was less understanding.

Rod Fletcher, Mike Wyman, Ted Sotir, Gordon Nelson, Scott Kozak, and Court Chilton

Bob Bass sends “greetings from the same ol’ place, Orono, Maine. Life is going well. I am now working part-time for the Town of Orono in the Finance Department (yeah, who would have guessed it, right?) chasing around debits and credits. Life outside of work includes some boating, skiing (mostly Nordic), and fishing (occasionally with the Durkin brothers). I’ve been Nordic-ski-coaching middle-school-aged kids for the past 4-5 years. Good fun! And, luckily for us all, Gretchen has held down a full-time position for the past 25 years in hospital administration. “We have two daughters. Our oldest is a sophomore at St. Lawrence University delayed by a gap year farming in Europe (WWOOF’ing), and our youngest is a senior in high school now scrambling with college applications. “The accompanying photo is from the 2018 New England Ski Museum’s function honoring the Caldwell family of Putney, VT—a threegeneration US Ski Team family. In the center is Peter Caldwell, a good friend from the Bowdoin Ski Team, and hopefully you recognize the handsome Dartmouth couple to the left (Jerry and Gay Bird).”

young president is finding out—the hard way: you must have heard about the yellow vests— that the French, unlike Americans, have a very moderate appetite for change.” C’est la vie.

The Birds, Peter Caldwell, and the Basses

Petra Hansen writes that “for the past eight years I have been living and working in New York City, where I currently head private equity (and VC) investments at Spring Mountain Capital. SMC is a private investment firm that seeks to take advantage of investment opportunities in the gaps where larger investors do not focus. I spend much time evaluating new investments in the health care and technology space. I am very interested in the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Bob Hansen is still at Tuck and currently teaches in the health care economics area. Our two sons, Axel and Luke Hansen, are working in New York City. Our daughter, Martina Hansen, is based in the Bay Area. “Outside of work, I like to spend time with my family and friends and to reconnect with Tuck friends. We love to travel, ski, and hike and continue to explore exciting New York City.”

Petra Hansen and family at son Axel’s wedding

Petra’s family photo is from the April 12, 2019, wedding when her son Axel got married at New York City Hall. Petra’s daughter-in-law is Patricia Esconda, and she is from Barcelona, Spain. Alain Leray continues to keep the trains running on time as president and CEO of SNCF America, Inc., and he has “nothing special to report. France remains difficult to reform. Our

Good posting from Scott O’Hare, who says “while Kacy and I have kept a place in Austin, Texas, we are spending most of our time these days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’ve also joined the foundation board of National Public Radio so am in DC a few times a year—which is more than enough time spent in that town! Our boys are both back in school. Jake is at UCLA working on a master’s in fine art in documentary film making, and Patrick just started law school at ‘UT’ —University of Texas. We happened to be in London last December and ran into the Johnsons. Hope all is well with you guys.”

Scott and Kacy O’Hare bowling with Marc and Janice Johnson

Terri Tierney and crew have been incredibly active as “Jon and I, and the occasional recycled offspring, have been living in the Phoenix/ Scottsdale area for four years. Jon is CFO of a company in the financial services industry and I have been alternating between a few different roles. The role that brings money in occasionally is as a leadership and diversity consultant to corporations. Much more money goes out, though, if you include my nonprofit and free advisory work. I’m on the board of a transitioning-veteran nonprofit called ACP that some of our Tuck classmates have generously contributed to. Rod Fletcher has even mentored veterans with the program and apparently throws in free volleyball skill drills as a bonus. “I’m spending the most time, though, on a coding academy I founded in central Maine. Somehow I thought starting a coding school across the country, despite having no software skills beyond college FORTRAN, was a good idea. The idea came about as a result of

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CL ASS NOTES watching the Maine town that I often visit begin to decline economically. A few of us decided to bring technology to the community and offer a tuition-free, 9-month coding school to economically disadvantaged high school grads. We formed a partnership with a local community college and started our inaugural class on Oct. 10.

here temporarily from February until August because of her husband’s job. She got in touch and we had a wonderful time discussing all the ways Tuck and working after Tuck have changed but also how her experience and mine were in many ways quite similar. In the 26 years between us, much has changed and much has stayed the same.

“The other activity I spend a lot of time on is my daughter’s startup in the travel business. It’s an app/website that provides interest-based day plans for city travelers. I am an ‘advisor,’ but the target market is Millennials. I think my daughter asks me for advice so she can tell me that’s not the way her market thinks. Kind of an interesting juxtaposition of the parent-child relationship. Regardless, it’s been a lot of fun working with her. My other two children are in school, one studying medicine and the other in college. That’s about it for an update. There aren’t enough Tuckies out here, so please get in touch if anyone comes this way!”

“Personally, Tom brought two children to our marriage, and we now have one grandchild and one on the way. We have two children together, and one is working in Washington, DC, and the other is in her last year at Washington & Lee University. I still have such fond memories of Tuck and it was an experience I am so glad I had.”

Steve Murphy has surfaced by the waters near Newport, RI, where he was recently visited by Jeff Sawyer and his wife Chris. Steve and his wife Karen moved from the Chicago area to their home on the beach as Steve contemplates a retirement date after a combined 36 years with GE Plastics and SABIC, the Saudi company that bought GEP. Jeff, on the other hand, has jumped back into the full employment pool after several years of semiretirement. Jeff is in the Career Services office at Middlebury College, where he counsels undergrads on how and where to get a job to pay off their sizable student loans!

Steve Murphy, wife Karen, Jeff’s wife Chris, and Jeff Sawyer with some bay and bridge in the background.

Martha Dunbar is “living in Louisville, Kentucky, where there aren’t many Tuckies that I run across, but Divya Mani T’12 lived

Kathy Kamerschen Streator filled us in regarding Kathleen Priest Galvin, mentioning that “Kathleen and Dick bought a beautiful house in Newport this summer. She’s also still a golfing fool...and plays at the Newport Country Club as much as possible. She had a killer birthday party last summer that a bunch of Tuckies attended. I hung with Sherri and Kurt Oberg (and their daughter, Alison T’18) this summer at our cottages in Cape Cod—we had a blast biking, kayaking, and drinking.” Anne Sacknitz offers “I’m afraid my life is pretty boring lately, after living in Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2016. I did have a chance to do a video class on women working in the MidEast last spring with the Tuck international business class. I made sure to wear my best abaya and scarf! “The only mildly exciting recent activity was being called to audition for Jeopardy after taking the online test, but I’m still on the waitlist. They may call anytime within 18 months—or I may not get on the show at all. At least I had a great long weekend in Napa after the tryout in San Francisco. I make sure to go to Freemark Abbey for some botrytis late harvest wine on each visit, in homage to the Tuck statistics case! “As far as Tuckies go, I will have an opportunity to visit with Debi Brooks next week, as she is staying with me while in town for Michael J. Fox Foundation business. I am looking forward to seeing Andy Steele and others from Hanover in a few weeks at the Seattle celebration of 50 years of women at Tuck. That’s it from Bellevue, Washington.”

Lisa and her daughter Christiana

Lisa and David Howe reported that their “daughter, Christiana Howe Donohue, graduated from Tuck this past June, joining the alumni ranks with Mom, Dad and husband Gibs Donohue T’18. Christiana is excited about working for TripAdvisor and volunteering on the marketing committee for Community Consulting Teams, Boston, alongside her mom, who is on the board.” In order to strategize on how best to elicit more submissions, we participated in a class notes summit in late summer. Weighty matters were discussed by your two class scribes at this summit, which was graciously hosted by none other than Tony and Marianne Ehinger at their beautiful Nantucket home.

Marianne Ehinger, Julia Rabkin, and Tony Ehinger

Terrific updates everyone! Have a great winter and stay well.

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Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

July 25th, 2019. Mike Angus, our kids, and I had just landed from a great trip to Alaska (more on that later). Strolling thru the airport I grab a WSJ (yes, I paid for it!) to bring myself back to reality. Lo and behold, who do I see? None other than the distinguished-looking, quite silvery-haired, Mr. William Stromberg gracing the Money & Investing Section. The article was lauding T. Rowe’s great earnings, bucking the trend amongst its competitors. Bill extoled the rock-solid balance sheet. And I quote: “According to Mr. Stromberg and stock analysts, T. Rowe has had more traction with customers in part because of its suite of retirement products.” Yup, that about sums up where many of us are or may be soon enough! That Bill, always thinking of his classmates!! As they say, “ships sail well under the guide of a good captain, and I think Bill has proved to be just that. Congrats Bill...and about those retirement assets.... Then, 9/21/19, I’m gerbilling around from here to there when, on Bloomberg radio, I hear a very familiar voice. I was just pulling up to a storage facility (less sexy than having just arrived from Alaska, I will admit) when I realize it’s none other than Sarah Hotchkis Ketterer being interviewed on Bloomberg’s “Masters In Business” program. I sat and listened. Sarah spoke about her trajectory in money management from Hotchkis & Wiley to MLIM to Causeway Capital. What I loved learning was that Causeway is partners in an organization, Girls Who Invest (girlswhoinvest. org), whose mission is to get 30% of the world’s investable capital managed by women by 2030. The stats are compelling. Currently in North America, less than 10% of mutual fund portfolio managers are women, only 6% are CIOs of large money managers, 6% are senior leaders in private equity, 4% in real estate, and 3% in hedge funds. Yet women make up 33% of doctors and 35% of lawyers. Interesting. What’s happening at B-schools these days anyway? Where are all the women going? I have to admit

that I was impressed w/Sarah’s interview and I loved learning about this worthy organization. Made me proud to be her classmate! As if I were not feeling like the total underachiever in life already, queue in Gail Goodman to really nail my coffin shut. Since leaving the helm of Constant Contact I knew she had been sitting on several boards in her “spare” time. Now I find out she is cofounder and CPO (chief product officer) of Pepperlane, an online employment marketplace for stayat-home moms. In Gail’s words, “Pepperlane helps moms who mean business create one for themselves but not by themselves. We are unlocking $150b in economic potential and creating a new form of entrepreneurship.” I love that. A bit late for our generation perhaps, but great for those to follow. Between what Sarah is doing in helping to build the base with Girlswhoinvest to Gail helping on the other end, women are getting some great expertise and advice from our classmates. The world as it should be...us helping them. On the entrepreneurship topic, I learned that Jed Simmons is into his 5th year of teaching undergrad Entrepreneurship and Media, Entertainment & Technology at eternal rivals UNC and Duke. In Jed’s words, “VG remains a big inspiration for me as his tools and insights around innovation are built into my classes!” He says he has yet to fail any students but has given out some well-deserved Ds and plenty of As, while helping his kids get some great internships and jobs. He and wife Jana split their time between Durham and Atlanta where Jana works. Their three kids are “almost” out of the house, w/one living in NOLA working for LaunchPad, his son Streeter is in LA in his junior year of college and their youngest, Zander, is finishing up high school in Atlanta. Having a high schooler sounds young to me. However, postings from Steve Frary remind us that there are still younger prodigy out there. His kids look to be maybe middle school at best...but obviously home schooled. He and his family arrived back in RI in Sept on their gorgeous sailboat after 18 months at sea sailing the Lesser Antilles. (I’m assuming they weren’t lost but wanted to be away all that time you see!). The boat is a beauty. Couldn’t read its name...could it be called Oriental Trading perhaps? (Is that even PC anymore to say Oriental Trading??) In any case Steve proves yet again that it’s good to be king!

The Courageous (Art Santry’s on there somewhere!)

We received a note and a great pic from Art Santry, who wrote, “Spent the summer goofing off in Newport, RI, sailing 12-metre boats in the world championships, had a blast driving Courageous!!!” In moving news of a different sort, we hear the following from John Clevenger: “I recently got tired of big company life and left Acosta to join Denneen & Company, a boutique growth strategy consulting firm. It’s a real diamond in the rough and I look forward to building the business. And since Boston is where my wife Terri and I planned on relocating eventually, the change works out well and accelerates our plans a couple of years. It also has allowed me to reconnect with John Hendo Henderson, my housemate from ‘the A Frame.’ You may recall we shared that house with Randy Billhardt, Sean Joyce, and Steve Frary. “We won’t be selling our home in CT for a while, so I’m keeping an apartment in Back Bay and splitting weekends between the two residences. Once the sad Red Sox end our misery, I expect there will be fewer Boston weekends. The apartment is small and very quiet during the week, so any excuses for socializing with fellow Tuckies are welcome! “It’s been a long time since I’ve been up to campus, but I’ve been kept up to date by my good friend Rick Bertasi ’88 and his daughter Reilly, who will be class of ’21. It’s reassuring to see all the effort spent in keeping the school among the elite.” Thanks, John, for the update. Good to know there will be yet one more of our class in the Boston area! Talking of the class of ’21 got me thinking of Steve Socolof’s daughter. She was torn between Dartmouth and Stanford and ended up on the “dark side/Left Coast/Stanford” side in the end. Bill Kitchel’s daughter Isabelle however, made the wise decision to apply early

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Bill Kitchel with his daughter Isabelle enjoying the first days of her freshman year at Dartmouth

to Dartmouth and got in. Bill is, of course, happy as a clam as it gives him every excuse to make his way back up to Hanover. His daughter is pretty darn happy too! In fact, if it weren’t for a bit of a later start time, Kitch might have run into Rick Yu lurking around at the end of the summer. Rick was hiking around the White Mountains and decided to pop into Hanover on the way. In his words, he “had a fantastic round of golf with Dan (Freihofer) and Mant Copeland on a gorgeous day at the Hanover CC. On the 19th hole, we shared a drink with Lobes and Peter Stern, who were kind enough to run over and join us. That same morning, had a fun chance catch-up with Bitt, at Lou’s, as she and C.J. were celebrating their eldest son Nick’s wedding in Hanover [Secretary’s note: There’s a chance there were other Tuckies at the wedding, yet to be confirmed. In order to avoid any “fake news” we won’t identify those who have yet to be identified.] I [this is Rick talking still...btw, did I mention yet he should be the one writing this column??] popped in to see the beautiful home that Mant and Nancy have in Lyme. Beautiful setting/beautiful views. [But does it beat Martha and Mark Tecca’s?) Was also playing in a charity golf outing at Myopia Hunt Club (north of Boston) recently. Fun to have a chance encounter to see Charlie (Tree Tops) Manuel.” Rick, being the Andy Steele of our era, is great about arranging lunches in any and every city...keeping us all together, and getting others to pay his bill! In our NYC group Alain Karaoglan has been an avid participant, telling us each time we met that he is patiently waiting for the next right job to come along. Well, on October 1st, New York Life announced that Alain had joined them as a senior VP with oversight of a portfolio of strategic insurance businesses. Alain had previously been COO for Voya Financial. Congratulations Alain! Glad the wait was worth it! 84

Back to the opening bit about Alaska. Way back when. Len and Kathy Jardine had taken a small boat trip through the Inside Passage of Alaska on a boat called the Sikumi. Len described it as one of their best trips to date. Years later my choice in vacation finally prevailed, and this past July we boarded the Sikumi with our two kids and 5 others for what was truly the trip of a lifetime. It’s all about the small passenger boat with its ability to change course when desired and the attention to every detail by the crew. On board with us as well were Lourdes and Milt Dingman, who are always up for a small boat adventure. Worth checking out if you don’t know what to do next! Speaking of adventures, Mike and I are due to have dinner with the Sharbaughs and Socolofs at a fundraiser for a nonprofit I am affiliated with: PreSchool Advantage. Unfortunately, the dinner is just a week after these notes are due so I cannot give any better updates on them at this point. But missing the dinner this year will be Peter Saulnier and his wife, who will be trekking the mountains of Bhutan. Mike and I went there after Tuck, pre-kids, and I will always remember it as the first country I had ever been to where the wives were allowed to have more than one husband. Not surprising perhaps, we found it a very welcoming and calming place. I think this trip for Peter is part of his trying to “be happier with less” mantra. We can’t wait for his show-and-tell at our next lunch. As I finish off notes that are way too short, I would like to remind all about the Bill Buckingham Scholarship Fund. We made a good start with it but need to get it to be over $250K for it to be in perpetuity. Think of perhaps channeling much of what you might normally donate to TAG to Bill’s fund and perhaps a smaller portion to the Tuck fund itself. The smaller % will still count toward class participation numbers, while the larger sum will go a long way toward helping fund particular students at Tuck to win the Bill Buckingham Scholarship and keep Bill’s memory alive. Thanks and all the best to you for the holidays and into 2020! —F

’88 Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Howdy, ’88s! Wherever you are, I hope the summer is fun and the winter is kind. Our class has done a fair amount of wandering around of late. Let’s begin with Rick Bertasi! He and his wife Sarah went to Linz, Austria, to watch their daughter row in the 2019 World Championships...where Margaret Bertasi won a gold medal! Press coverage described the race. “The lightweight women’s pair of Cara Stawicki (Wall, N.J.) and Margaret Bertasi (London, England) won gold, grabbing the lead over Italy just past the midway point of the race and then holding off a late move from the Italians. Italy took a half-length advantage over the U.S. in the first 500 meters before the Americans began to slowly close the margin. Stawicki and Bertasi used a strong move in the third 500 to establish about a length lead on Italy going into the final quarter of the race. The Italians tried to close the gap, but the U.S. crew won by a half-length. Stawicki and Bertasi finished in a 7:32.64, with Italy winning silver in a 7:34.20. Germany won the bronze medal.” Rick said the World Championship race was very cool to watch, including the national anthem part!! His daughter rows full-time while also running her own online training business, creating custom training plans for clients. Olivier Fainsilber, as always, is connecting with Tuckies during his travels. He reports, “Cécile’s health keeps improving and we had a wonderful summer. It started with a mini Tuck reunion hosted on the Island of Jersey by Andrew and Map Black. Tommy and Suzanne Holderried flew in and we took the ferry from Brittany. The summer ended with same group assembling in London for the Dartmouth 250 celebration that brought together many Tuckies as well. It was a grand event. In between we traveled to the South of France to see family, attend a piano festival, and visit Le Corbusier’s cabana on the riviera. Later in the summer we took a wonderful weeklong river cruise on the Fainsilber yacht. Our son, Maurice, is studying real-estate and family law to become a ‘Notaire.’ He is very much into hunting and we will

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Olivier, Cécile, Tom, Suzanne, Andrew, and Map

soon head south to Cécile’s family property, where we are counting on him to bring back interesting game to cook. Ward Urban has decamped for Maine! “FYI, this summer I started as the CFO of a Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity software company based in Maine. The company is a “new paradigm” security application that addresses institutional “insider risk” and device-to-device security threats that are amongst the most challenging cyberthreats. The company has a large hospital management group as its first customer. Looking to work with Tuck and Dartmouth’s ISTS Cybersecurity Center on the effort!” Close to Dartmouth just has to be good!! Congrats, Ward! Speaking of Maine and New Hampshire, Jill Edwards Paul and family have been cruising around both. In early October (think colors of fall!), Jill noted, “I’m currently cooling my heels in NH for a couple of weeks enjoying the scenery. Chris (youngest) has a week off and has been leading trips in Maine for Backroads so hanging with him and then entertaining a bunch of family leaf peepers next week. Great time of year to be up here as we all know!” Perry Boyle is off to Bahrain, while juggling the 11 careers he currently has! Ain’t no takin’ it easy for the ’88s! Perry says, “I’m focused on pivoting from finance to policy. Getting a master’s degree at the Fletcher School. In September I was named chair of The BOMA Project, a poverty graduation program for women in East Africa. We are applying to the Tuck consulting program to get some free services! Dabbling with some think tanks and going to Bahrain as a delegate of the IISS to the Manama Dialogue in November. We have been spending more time in Ketchum, Idaho, and welcome visitors!” Amy Seltzer Hedison recently traveled to Rome to visit her daughter Ellie, who is in

Amy, Jennifer Jacobsen Jordan, and I (Jill) had lunch near Boston recently. However, Amy’s work commitments meant that she took us to a restaurant at a convenient location...basically, it shared space with the breakdown lane of Route 128 North. Jennifer ordered up an Uber helicopter to come rescue us, but none were available. *smile* Kelly and Andre Hunter and family visited Steve and Camille Rutan on Cape Cod, to celebrate the wedding of the Rutans’ son John (D’12) to Hannah Weber (D’13). Kelly shared, “It was a beautiful wedding on an equally beautiful day in Chatham, MA, on September 14. The perfect weather allowed John and Hannah’s beach-wedding dream to come true—bare feet for everyone! And to complete the feeling of being in a Hollywood movie, the evening ended in fireworks. Camille and Steve looked absolutely stunning, and they were the perfect hosts.” See a couple of Kelly’s pictures nearby.

Suni Pedersen Harford

Suni Pedersen Harford was recently promoted to president, asset management, at UBS. Suni doesn’t mention these things, so I discovered it from press coverage! Suni has been at UBS since 2017. Way to go, Suni! Press coverage also highlighted that Suni again made American Banker’s “Most Powerful Women in Finance” this year. Some pretty rarified company there! As for me, no big news to report here. Enjoying the boards and the growth equity work I do. Attended a couple of HBS classes as a guest speaker recently. Much like Tuck ’88s, the students were bright and active and very good. However, I found them more exceedingly polite than we were! No, there was no one such as you-know-who in his crimson sweater, slouched sideways along his desk...pointing at the professor! *smile* Beyond that, I hosted a kick-off-spring get together of my Tuck study group this past April. We hadn’t seen each other in forever, and it was so incredibly fun to catch up. Jim Vahey, Suzanne Tolmach (Schoeller), David Southwell, and I...and we were accompanied by a few other Tuck ’88s as well!!

The Hunter family at the Rutan wedding

Michael Hjerpe T’89, Walther Schoeller, Amy Seltzer Hedison, Regina Carlo, Suzanne, Jill, David, and Jim

Camille Rutan dancing with her son John

I’ll close our news with a comment from Stacie Soule Waring that is just so true! And we know this from last year’s Reunion! Stacie says, “I’m still living and working in Manhattan and had WINTER 2020

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’89 Betsy Robertson betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

Not one shred of news came in this time around (I [Sara] am sure everyone was waiting for reunion weekend to share), but fortunately, Sue Allon sent in a great summary of Reunion events, which I will share below. “Reunion 30 was a blast! 47 attended, a few with brave spouses. The weekend opened with a reception at the Hanover Inn, where we all pretended like we weren’t looking at name tags with really big letters to figure out who we were talking to. Some, of course, were still recognizable but, what can I say, silver hair can throw you off. “We were all excited about Zdenek’s $25 mil gift. Holy s***! [Editor’s note: Ask Sue or Jed Aber about their very impressed—and jocular!— theories about this! :) ] I’m really glad Tuck is the beneficiary. Maybe they can use it to restore the dance and party room at Buchanan and get rid of the boring conference room that’s installed there now. The students, for sure, need more access to beer and talent-show space like we had so that they can develop properly and become as successful as the class of ’89. “We had a barbeque lunch and class photo. LLB and Bob, Spoon Dickey, plus my entire house (Karen Niehaus, Sandi Pocharski, and Colleen Gilmour) minus Dave Vogel, were predictably late. Andy Steele got them into the photo nonetheless, because that’s what Andy does. Speaking of Spoon, we met for breakfast at Hanover’s favorite greasy spoon, Lou’s. We sat next to Adam Inselbuch and his wife Katherine. She was all smiles, but he was himself, so, no smiles there.

be working with the alumni office to send instructions (again) to everyone on how to access the Tuck alumni database for contact information. I have faith that this group of super-achievers will be able to figure it out. “Many also asked for a copy of the photos shown at the party. I’ll send everyone (including those who couldn’t make it to Reunion) a Dropbox link with those photos, plus many more that Jed Aber, Inga, Sue Allon, and Karen Niehaus have never been revealed publicly. Should be fun. You might even want to open that up with “Dinner was at the science museum in Norwich. your spouse or employer nearby, just to keep The curator played eighties tunes in honor of us. things exciting. After appetizers and free-flowing cocktails, we sat down to an elegant dinner. When I got there That’s all for news this time around—be sure just before six, they told me we could have the to keep the updates coming to Betsy and me, place until eleven, and I laughed out loud at and hope to see you at Reunion 35 in 2024. that, telling them I thought it would be over by nine. Well, the place began to empty not long before eleven. Everybody talked and talked, hopping from one table to another all night. “We were all happy to see Sylvia Martinowsky, Alex’s wife, and his daughter Valerie. Alex passed away suddenly, after a brief illness, a few months ago. It was truly special to have his wife and daughter there. I’m sure it was healing for them to hear about Alex back in the day—I mentioned he liked to dance, and for some reason that totally cracked them up. Jukka was there, with his extraordinarily beautiful and charming wife. I had set up the slide show with music timed to play ‘My Name is Luka’ right when a picture of Jukka showed up, but, alas, the audio wasn’t working. This was Lora Louise’s idea; you’ll have to imagine how funny that would have been. Professor Bower made a guest appearance, as did Dean Matt Slaughter. Mitchan was there with his wife, who giggled behind her hand again and again while he remained straight-faced, as we’d expect, when we recounted old stories. Marianne had to dash to get to another party, which was totally in character for our class social butterfly. Uli and Hamish sent a photo of themselves in Switzerland having a very scaled-down Reunion dinner of their own. Appreciated, but we’d rather have you with us in New Hampshire next time, and that goes for every one of you who didn’t come to this one! “Kent Arnold shared his vast photo collection with me. We merged his with mine to produce a slide show that was a sweet reminder of our time in Hanover. “Many at the reunion asked for a list of emails so they could get in touch with each other. I’ll

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Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

30TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Hello Tuck-meisters! It’s a Sunday morning in late September here in New Jersey. After the “calling all cars” email, we have multiple updates. Fittingly, the first one was from New Jersey as well, as Kate Morgan up bright and early shot back a note within the hour of my request. She reports: “Careerwise, I am having a great time. I lead the Global Media and Entertainment Group at Magid, where I am also the chief product officer running a cool product called EmotionalDNA. We are a 60-year-old market research and consulting company and are smack dab in the middle of the disruptive streaming-wars space. We do consumer research and provide consulting around content strategy and valuation, positioning, pricing, ad sales. and one of my favorites, rec engines fed by emotional data not just behavioral. Imagine a rec engine to surprise and delight rather than bore! My team is split between NYC and LA, so I travel between both places from home in Princeton,

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NJ. Would love to see anyone in LA or NYC.” Quick reflection: great indication that the world has gotten much more interesting than we thought it would, and the challenges in our work are probably more interesting than we ever imagined. On the family front, Kate writes: “My oldest, Sarah, is in her third year of med school and working all hours on her rotations. My youngest, Annie, is a freshman in college after a travel-round-the-world-by-herself gap year. My middle two, Jasper and Lucy, are both finishing up college while doing organic farming. I am finding the sandwich generation pretty intense but gratifying in its own right with my father and his caregiver living with me.” Kate, the family has a lot going on—must make for lively holiday conversations! And now for a first-timer in the Tuck Today column, here’s Kenny Graham. He writes: “My first update since graduating. Oops! My wife Nicki and I just dropped daughter Celeste at college—thought I’d be all cool about it but I was not, ha (#missingdarlingdaughter)! Celeste is a freshman at Dartmouth, so gives me easy reason to get back to Hanover area to ski etc., which is great. My identical twin boys—Ewan and Thane—are 10th graders and about to start to drive. Yikes.” Others can chime in here, but I would just assume, Kenny, each will have one accident at some point, so be prepared. “On the work front, formed Inverness Graham Investments in 2001 and just raised IGI-IV. Tech buyouts is our focus. All good and can’t wait to reconnect at 30th!” Great to hear from you, we’ll look for an update from you and State Farm at the reunion. Kenny lives in the greater Philly area and welcomes any and all visitors. You gotta love the updates from Betsy Benning, who wins the award for staying connected and real even after 29 years. Her updates includes bonus news: “Herb (Fellman), Dennis (Shah), Audrey (Kania), and I just enjoyed brunch together at Herb’s house in Huntington Beach (California). Dennis brought an autographed book for each of us from the Judy Chicago show he was somehow connected with (cc’d him for details). Audrey brought bubbles to share. Herb gave us parting gifts of some of his one of a kind, words escape me badass handmade pottery. And, I brought a smile. “Herb and I still have a kid each in high school, so tips about getting that very first job at the local ice cream store are welcome. My daughter

does not seem too motivated to apply any places other than the new bakery and new juice spots.” From my own experience, having your kids work at a places where they get free food is not bad. Ah yes, the inimitable Gifford West. “I’m in Burlington, Vermont, on a boys weekend and just stopped a guy who looked 20 on the street that was wearing a Tuck polo. Turns out the Tuck Formal is here tonight. And then I opened your note.” So this says a something how the world has changed in 30 years as well—I don’t know what it says, but it says something. Back to Gifford and his update: “Anyone who wants a laugh should put ‘Gifford West’ into Google (https://youtu.be/EqcwVltdg7w) to see a press conference I held in Kyiv.” Hunter Biden in tow? “I am making Eastern Europe safe for distressed debt sales! Eldest child is at the University of Chicago and wants to teach Latin. Middle child applying to college and wants to be a musician. Youngest wants to be a screenwriter. I will be the only one of our class working at our 50th! Anyone in the Boston area should come and see Myriam’s next play on the witch trial in October. More info at https://www.punctuate4.org/.” So thanks to the miracle of the printed word, by the time we read this the play will be over. Forsooth, I did click on the link and it looked pretty interesting and relevant, as the concept of a witch hunt is getting a lot of contemporary press. We will look for the upcoming spinoff as a musical in Latin that becomes a major motion picture debuting in the Ukraine as the next iteration when it becomes a total family affair. Picture of Gifford in action.

I are now splitting our time now between the Adirondacks and Florida—enjoying every minute of this new phase of our lives. Retirement, in our opinion, is highly underrated when ‘every day is Saturday.’ However, we’ve been busier than when we were working so far with both our sons getting married this year. Dylan, our oldest son, tied the knot in June. Connor, our youngest son, will marry in November. Can’t wait for grandkids! “We were delighted to see Higgy, Westy, and Kirk at Richie Zogheb’s beautiful wedding last October in NY, and we hope to attend our upcoming 30th Tuck reunion.” In a follow-up note, Appy said his location of choice in Florida is St. Augustine; I looked at it online and it looks really nice. Leon and Peggy Sharyon are taking it all in as, yes, believe it or note, grandparents: “Hi Mark, quick update for you.... You might recall that I came to Tuck with a daughter, Sam, in tow and then had a son Robert born at Mary Hitchcock. Well...Sam has (2) boys; a 3-year-old & a 4-month-old. Robert’s wife just had twin girls. Peggy (now known as Nana) and I (Pappy) are rocking the grandkids!!” They are really lucky to have such great grandparents, and sounds like you are very blessed. And best part is Leon’s sign-off in his note: “Beer Speaks.People Mumble. Lah-goo-knee-tuss.” If it weren’t 10:40 am on a Sunday morning I might just go grab one out of the fridge right now.

Sale of the Illichivsk port along with the oil and fat factories: Gifford West in action

Another update from the Adam’s Family in Colorado, courtesy of Kirk: “update from Sally and me. Still living outside of Denver. Sally keeps busy running the place and volunteering. I’m working for a fast-growing cybersecurity company in Boulder and trying to fish and ski as much as possible. The kids are doing well. The older two girls are on their own, one working in Denver and the other in LA. Our son is a senior at Cornell, and our youngest daughter is a junior at Montana, both playing on the soccer team. Looking forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion next year.” We had a lot of great people in our class, nice to see them now leading great families. Go Sally and Kirk!

A nice note from Geoff Apthorp with a career and family update: “I retired this past May from Dover Corporation’s Environmental Solutions Group after 35 years in the manufacturing sector. Tammy and

And from the heartland again, this time just to the east of Denver, a note from Mary Giunta Malecki: “Hi Mark, I’m still in Kansas City, still working in the health care industry, still married to John (23 years). Our son, Joey, started K-State this year (go Cats!). I went to WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES Tuck ’Tails in July and caught up with several people from different classes. It was organized by Karen Loggia (T’02), who’s a wonderful person (in center of photo with me). [Look on myTUCK for the pic] Note that we were ‘Roonless’ unfortunately, as Mark was nowhere to be found.” I just checked Facebook, and Roon has been posting as recently as September 1, making the world safe for social media. Back to Mary: “I hope to make it to the reunion next year. I also have a high school 40-year reunion next year (who, me??) and they only do them every 10 years, so we’ll see if I can make both happen.” Kolstad alert: Dave and Diana are in the house—and the Tuck Today column: “Life is great for the Kolstads. Our three daughters are launching...Anna, the eldest, graduated from Princeton and now working in NYC, studying more and doing medical research at Rockefeller University and Mt. Sinai. Number two, Laura, graduated last year from Bucknell and working for a UK business analytics consulting firm in Philadelphia. Our youngest Josie returned as a sophomore at Bucknell. All finding their way. Diana and I continue in Carlisle and enjoy our endeavors—Diana, volunteering, and me, working away on new medical technologies. I have been meeting up on occasion with other classmates as I travel (most recently salmon fishing with Harald) and hope that all of you might give Diana and me a shout should your travels bring you to the Boston area—we would love to see you!” Blair LaCorte provides rapid-fire updates on classmates and himself. “Berner has a new girlfriend that he really likes, Gary J keeps raising the bar for all of us in relationships by public ally saying how much he loves his wife. I am still in CA faking I understand technology at an autonomous car/robotic vision startup. I am happy and a little fat (not to be confused with the fat and happy cliche). I have two boys in boarding school in New Hampton, NH, and one in college at Seattle Univ so officially empty nest (wow I just felt like I was talking like an old person, have to cancel that Viking cruise before it sets in, but hard because TPG just bought them and I get a killer discount, my god, I can’t stop, going to Soul Cycle right now.” That Viking cruise sounds pretty good to the Hoser, so can you bring the discount code to the reunion?

broke my foot last year, it sucks to get heart. Glad recovery is going well, and I hope you got the guy who did it! More from Rashad: “Leo and I now have a dual city and country life as we have bought a home in Occidental, right in the heart of Russian River wine country.

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Charlie Garland, whose pic you can see on myTUCK, is pushing the edge and making things happen: “Hey Hose—hope all’s well, and thanks for the perennial outreach! I have a couple of updates for this year: I was asked to (and did) join the advisory board for the Rutgers University Center for Innovation Education. And I designed a new innovation tool (CubieDx.org) for physicians, which will be released at the annual convention of SIDM (Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine) this November in WDC.” Again, think of how the world has changed in 30 years and all the opportunities it has presented to us to change it. Final note from Charlie: “I got married (in 2016). My wife and I actually had 3 weddings: first in Ireland (where she’s from); second in Cape Cod (where I’m from); third in NYC (where we both live).” Again, with bonus classmate news: “p.s. If you don’t/ haven’t heard from Todd Stevenson, he was instrumental in growing/selling Lagunitas Brewery from a $160m to a $1B business (bought by Heineken), retiring from there about a year or two ago, I think. Leon Sharyon was their CFO throughout, and they wound up doing an awesome collaborative deal with David (Skippy) Perkins where they created a new SKU by fermenting beer/ale in his High West whiskey barrels. Not sure if you’d heard from any of them lately, but very cool story(ies) indeed.” Great stuff. Two more updates, one celebrating the family life, one from Northern California from none other than Carl Rashad Jaeger: “The Jaeger family is doing very well in the San Francisco. I am recovering well from being mowed down by a Prius while walking home after dropping my granddaughter Jazmyne at school. Tons of physical therapy, a heap of grit and hard work and I am doing very well. Jazmyne’s smile keeps me energized and engaged.” Ouch! I

“We joined Green Valley Community Farm for the year and now have access to all of the organic vegetables, fruits, and flowers that we could possibly want. We go to the farm weekly to get our allotment and catch up with the other member families. We love to cook weekly with local ingredients and this gives us the opportunity to do so. It is a beautiful place. “For those looking for some of the best pinot noir in the world, please come visit us at Vineyard’s End and we can all go wine tasting together at neighbors’ wineries and tasting rooms. We have kept the house on Scott Street and spend some weekends in the city to see family and friends. Leo has taken a position in Sonoma County government and really seems to be in his element. I am back to work with TV and video. Covering the fires for one of CBS’ shows was likely the most challenging and thought-provoking producing I have ever done. It was like a war zone that had been bombed completely.” In all seriousness, maybe you can share the stories via a talk at the reunion, having seen the damage done firsthand it must have been amazing to be on site. Final info from Rashad, again with bonus info on classmates: “My daughter Juliana has started college and is studying art. It is wonderful to see her talent blossom in this way. “A recent trip to NYC had a Tom Casesa sighting, whose wit is as sharp as ever. Joel and Kate Margolese are doing well with life, switching between Andover, Mass, and their place in Maine on the lake. Leslie and Adrienne have visited SF and are lured part of the year out west to Palm Springs. “This past year I have written two feature films that I am currently rewriting to spin out to whichever producers I can attract. “We invite all to come visit wine country and look forward to seeing any of you who wish to come. Happy to host a mini Bay Area West Coast Reunion at any time.”

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...And another from family life in the East Coast, courtesy of Tammy Sload: “Headed up to Michael’s (T’89) reunion next weekend, which makes me look forward to ours. This summer my daughters, Amanda (22) and Evelyn (18), and I did a portion of the Camino de Santiago—the Camino Portugues coastal route from Porto, Portugal, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. We walked the 170 miles, carrying our packs, over 13 days. It was fabulous, and I would highly recommend it—a great way to spend time together, gorgeous scenery, and sort of an athletic challenge (for me anyway!). From the festival in Porto we happened to attend (where everyone hits each other with toy plastic hammers, really) to our arrival at the stunning cathedral in Santiago, the people we met were so great. Incredible kindness. Back in Connecticut, everyone is scattering except for me and Layla, our dog. Michael has a new job as president of Prestone in Chicago—he’ll commute, and I’ll be able to spend time there because we are now empty nesters. Our youngest, Evelyn, is off to Emory University in Atlanta. Amanda, who just graduated from Dartmouth, will be at Bain in Boston, while our oldest, Jeffrey, who just finished a master’s program at Oxford, will be at Bain in NYC. By the way, both Jeffrey and Amanda did Tuck Bridge, which was great. I will focus on the Darien Library, where I am on the board. Looking forward to seeing you all at the reunion!” Great update, and also I have heard nothing but great things about the Bridge program. And one final note with a focus on not where we have all been but where the world is going, from classmate Hiro Shiokawa. “Long time not communicating with Tuck friends. My sort of inspirational note is as follows: As a freelance management consultant, I’m curious of AI theme. Ray Kurzweil and other AI study geniuses say that the singularity comes in

2045, but I don’t believe in it. AI as is today can never make the judgement of ‘let’s bet on this guy though he is still immature.’ Bet on something unknown is what only the human intelligence can make. For AI to get to that intelligence level, it will need a quantum leap in algorithm away from the current neuralnetwork–based deep learning. Having said this, a far more critical issue is when the singularity does come true in 100 years or so, how can human beings make a living as AI is much smarter and capable than humans? As long as I know, nobody including AI study geniuses and politicians have answered this question. Anyhow, we are lucky that we won’t have to worry about this serious problem.” Again, another reminder of how the world has presented all of us with great challenges. As I said in my email looking for updates, my son, a junior in college, went up to have lunch with Pres and his partner who are at UBS running private wealth management portfolios, seeking insights on internships. By the time we all read this, he will hopefully have a summer job. Thanks Pres in advance. So what did we hear from, maybe 25 people all told? There are a ton more stories, and all best told in person over beer and wine with glowing colors of autumn in Hanover in the background. Make plans now —Reunion Fall 2020. We had a huge turnout last time, let’s go for the same. 30 years out is Mega (not to be confused with MAGA). It promises to be a great time. We are amazing group of people, in an amazing world, and it’s so nice to hear how everyone is doing. Thanks for taking the time and best to you all. —Hose

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“I will be swimming in shark-infested waters. I don’t have to outswim the sharks, just the slowest swimmer.” And this is how Steve Sylwester answered my question, “What are you doing today that you couldn’t have possibly imagined 27 years ago when we graduated.” By the time you read this, Steve will have completed a half Ironman, having previously completed 14 sprint and Olympic distance triathlons. You’re a better man than me Steve. I only compete in IronStomach events. Dutch Kuyper spent his second year at Tuck living in a house fondly called “the Dude Ranch.” Twenty-seven years later Dutch is living on the Big Island of Hawaii running... wait for it...a dude ranch. OK, it’s technically a cattle ranch, but Dutch is a cool dude so we are going with it. It’s called Parker Ranch and is owned by a trust with 4 nonprofit beneficiaries: a hospital, two schools, and a community foundation. Dutch has worked with Paul Argenti, Bob Hansen, and Ken French on developing several business school cases covering Parker Ranch. The B-school cases cover renewable energy, local grass-fed beef, forestry, and endowment investing. Dutch says he makes it back to Tuck yearly and is grateful for the support and collaboration from the professors. He’s even taught a few classes with Paul in his CSR/ESG class, which has been a lot of fun. Amy Feind Reeves and her family recently visited Dutch. He invites all of us to come visit his ranch and say hi. I’m buying my cowboy hat and boots right now. Mark Ranalli says hello from his home in... Montana. Montana? Is that a typo? He reports that there is snow until June, and winter starts in October, so it’s pretty much like being back in Hanover without the habitrails.

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CL ASS NOTES Courtney Jane Simpson, but when you are that cool, who needs last names.) Courtney raised two great kids and then went back to school and got her doctorate. She teaches MBA classes at Fullerton College and has developed a curriculum called “Why U?” She says that Why U dates back to the time she found herself walking through the underground tunnel at Tuck crying. “Our classmate, (the late) John Mora, stopped me to ask what was wrong. I told him that I was so intimidated in my interviews and ill-prepared. John and I were not particularly friends, but he brought me in to his room and proceeded to invest about 10-20 hours in me teaching me how to interview. Since that time I have never not got an offer after interviewing and I have had the privilege of paying it forward to thousands of kids teaching them how to interview.” You made a difference, John Mora.

When I first met Robin Frank at Tuck, I thought she was insane. Thus we hit it off immediately. After graduation, I lost track of her for over 20 years, when somehow the universe figured out that we both lived in the Bay Area and we should run into each other again. Two years ago, Robin and her husband Hans sold their belongings, rented their house, left their jobs, and headed out for a two-year, round-the-world trip with their pre-teen twin boys, whom they home-schooled along the way. They called the trip Dried Mango World Tour. Thirty-two countries later, they recently returned to the Bay Area just in time for Burning Man, something the family has attended many times. Robin Frank—Still Crazy After All These Years.

built an underground drainage system. “Little did I know that I would acquire expertise in expansive clay, soil percolation, designing for likely field condition failures, and Zoeller pumps.” Phil and I will soon be writing a Harvard Business School case together titled, “The Sadhu on the Side of the Mountain and How He Prevents Erosion with a Good French Drain.” Scott Russell has joined the “handyman challenge” as well and recently installed new electrical in his house by himself, along with some other home-improvement projects. Nearby is a pic of Scott in a construction gear. Now if I can just find a cop and an Indian, I can put together the rest of my cover band.

Since Tuck, I think a number of us have taken the road less traveled and ended up at a destination we didn’t expect, but were glad we did. Grace Saturnia writes a great reflection of this path: “When I graduated in ’92, I had big visions of breaking barriers and doing great things in business, but then life happened! I’m not a SVP or MD running some multinational division or business or founder of an amazing start-up, which some of my peers have achieved in the last 27 years, and at times, I felt I may have not put my Tuck MBA to more exciting use. But actually I have been all along. The principles of business, management, finance, and marketing I learned and was exposed to through my Tuck professors and classmates have all been put to good use in my many noncorporate roles over the years. I still possess the curiosity and passion for learning all the new frontiers in businesses, and I think there are still opportunities as I move into the next stage of my life: the Empty Nest. It’s taken me some time to realize the impact I’ve made in organizations I’ve committed to, and I’m proud of that. The best part of the journey has been mom to 3 young men (22, 19, 17). No regrets. Grace also reports that her husband Joe has recently opened a restaurant in Hawaii called “Fish Honolulu,” and Grace is handling the social media. Sounds like a great place to eat after I’m done riding horses with Dutch.

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Amy Reeves simply writes: “I never thought I would have an 11-pound dog, a second husband, or a business monetizing what Jim Rideout called my ‘gobbling.’ They all make me happier than I would have thought possible back in the analog days.” (Amy—We really want to know what gobbling is and how you make money doing it.) I mentioned in my letter to you guys asking for stories that I now work as a handyman in Point Loma, San Diego, where I talk to my clients about economic policy while I’m installing their new toilets. I’ve never been happier, and I realize I have no desire to go back to the corporate world. Part of that is I work less than a mile from the beach and spend much of the time outside. Bruce Doneff wants me to come to South Carolina, and Gerry Moore needs me in Boston. Hmmm, Handyman and World Traveler. They may be on to something. Upon reading my story, Philip Gillespie was not to be outdone and reports that he recently

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It’s pretty widely known by now that Greg Thompson won an Emmy. It was for best supporting actor in a study group. No, actually it was for Outstanding Animated Program, for Bob’s Burgers, for which he is a writer and executive producer. Greg writes that he was recently visited by Bill Bannister-Parker (who

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I understand lives in England with his wife Charlotte, their four kids, two pugs, and a cat.)

friendship of Suren and Sam.” Got to love the Tuck bromances.

When you’re in Dallas next, look up Jay Henry. He and Pilar have just celebrated their 25th anniversary. Pretty impressive! They have a daughter at Dartmouth and twin teenage boys. Don’t we have other classmates with children at Dartmouth right now? Talk amongst yourselves. In Dallas, Jay runs not one, but two real estate firms. He also says he doesn’t see other Tuckies nearly often enough, so next time you’re in Texas....

Christoph Braun reports that he got together with Roswitha Mueller and her husband AJ, Pedro Beroy, and Alex Fuchs for dinner. (I wish Roswitha had sent in that information because then this line would have started “Mueller Reports.”) Christoph also tells me that in answer to my question, “What are you doing today that you never thought you would do?” he spent three weeks in Sri Lanka doing ayurveda and yoga. For the sake of the question, please tell me you were wearing Lululemon tights.

Finally, I never thought I would end up in San Diego. It is paradise. If you are ever here, let me know in advance. We would love to host you in our Tiki Oasis.

Eileen Shapiro of Greater Boston got a visit recently from Glen Buchanan. And early next year I’m expecting a visit from the lovely Ms. Shapiro in San Diego.

Joe DePaulo recently got together with his close friends Suren Pai and Sam Malik. Joe writes, “Our recent Tuck reunion motivated me to reconnect with Tuckies when I’m traveling on business, and I’m forever grateful for the

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Pedro Beroy, Chris Braun, Roswitha Mueller, and Alex Fuchs

Eileen Shapiro and Glen Buchanan

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From the SF Bay Area, we hear from my old friend Dan Chan, who gets together with Kel Phoon on a semiregular basis. Dan says although he has taken a fairly traditional route, he is starting to think about the next phase once the kids are grown. The dream now, he says, is to leave tech and head toward a nonprofit and impacting the community and the next generation. Mathis Dreher is living in Brazil with his wife and 7-year-old twins. He had a visit from Sam Malik (who apparently gets around) and just missed Robin Frank, who really gets around.

I [Dwight] snuck away for a foliage-filled fall weekend in New Hampshire to piece together your inputs, out-takes, updates, and downloads. I really appreciate getting updated—particularly from many who have not written in for a while—we love hearing from you! Chris Pears sends word from Tokyo while attending the rugby World Cup in Japan. (Is it just like our rugby tournament at Duke??). “...Still living in Minneapolis, though (as the thick winter skin earned at Tuck wears off) I find I am spending increasing time in South Carolina. With only 2 of 5(!) children left in high school (relishing having even more college tuitions due), I am enjoying coaching soccer, going fishing in Canada, and generally enjoying life. Feeling blessed and still with great, fond memories of my time at Tuck!” The upside, he notes, is “I bump into Tuckies at various events around the Twin Cities”; the downside is “they are young enough to be my kids!” (But can’t be having as much fun as we did....)

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CL ASS NOTES Moving east, and conversely trading warm for cold, our West Coast girl Nancy Koefoed is relocating to Michigan at the beginning of 2020. Her husband, Bill, has taken a new job outside Detroit, so a new chapter begins. With her only true winter experience at Tuck, it should be an interesting move. (Get those hockey skates out!) The only person she knows in the state is Ann McTaggart [Kalass].... She immediately called and got reconnected like they were in school together yesterday. Nancy begs any Tuckies traveling to Michigan to call! Also seeking visitors, is Vinit Bhatia, writing “Like a handful of people from our class, I’ve been at the same firm since graduation—still at Bain and Company. (Impressive!!) We’ve now been living in Asia for 16 years: 3 in Seoul and 13 in Hong Kong. We used to see a few classmates who came through HK but unfortunately haven’t seen any lately. If you’re ever in the area, please let me know. We are a year away from being empty-nesters so plan to be in the US a bit more after that and hopefully will be able to make it to future reunions.” We look forward to see you Vinit! Serkan Bektas writes that he and Jackie “just reached our 20-year milestone in London after arriving with a plan to stay ‘a year or two’. We have two sons, and my older son headed back to the US for college in the fall. We are hoping to spend more time in the US in the future and hope to connect with more classmates. On that note, it was very nice to everyone at our 25th reunion.” Interestingly, Ann is everywhere! Serkan sent a pic, having run into her on a college tour. (Nancy: Note Ann’s warm scarf... California is a distant dream!) Tracey “the Hat” Wyatt [Atkins] is also working the college tour circuit—with an invite to the whole class to “Come and visit! Swarthmore and the surrounding area have great schools, and empty-nesters will find history and great music scene! PS: Hello Crocco and Mirro! Come visit Swarthmore and we can go on a haunted house tour, a beer tour, and a ‘where did Kathryn Baker’ grow up tour!” And, speaking of Crocco...the next generation is similarly getting connected!! Evan Ladouceur sends photo evidence (and thanks!) that “Colette Crocco, a full-time student at Trinity College, Dublin, showed Emma

Ladouceur, studying at University College Dublin for the semester, the joys of Dublin’s nightlife.” (Good to see the Tuck way of life continues, across generations and oceans.) Further chance meetings out west: Cathy Dishner walked to lunch with friends in Jackson Hole and ran right into John Amato. She hadn’t realized he was in fact there to meet with (her husband) Jeff to discuss real estate business! 25 years of strong marriage; still weak on communication! (I’m sure she is the only one in that situation....) Cathy ran into another Tuckie in the most unlikely of places: the US Open. While walking among the throngs of people crowding in around the concession stands, Cathy literally locked eyes with Nancy Koefoed, who was sitting on a bar stool (of course!) watching the action on the big screen. Nan was both out of context and out of her usual West Coast domain. It must have been fate that brought the former roomies together for a fun impromptu visit with their husbands. Alec Murray writes in from the warm part of the country, having just returned from a two-week business trip to Mexico City, Miami, and Houston. In need of a (quite regular) haircut, he sends in this excellent use of his Tuck Learnings: “I went to a barber shop and they wanted to charge me $32, but would also shampoo and condition my hair. Remember the marketing class we had first-year together, and the need to stress ‘relevant features and benefits’? Well, those weren’t features and benefits to me! So I went down the street for a $20 cut. Unfortunately, they only spoke Spanish and my Spanish (not offered at Tuck) isn’t good, and understood ‘tight trim’ as ‘head shaved.’ So now I am completely bald!” Whoops! Freed of the weight of hair, he continues.... “My boys are both teenagers, which means they volunteer as little information as possible and their tastes have become more expensive (they want nice clothes and a car instead of Legos). I took my oldest, who has a 3 handicap versus my 20, to the PGA Tournament at Bethpage this summer, and we followed around his favorite golfer, Dustin Justin, and then the eventual winner, Koepka. We also bought a new house in Wellesley this summer to be

closer to town and spent the summer moving and unpacking. Generally, everything is good. I can’t believe I’m 55!” Alastair Borthwick sends “greetings from New York, where I am delighted to share that I had the great pleasure of seeing Mary Ann Deignan recently. Now that we work at different employers, we have to arrange times to see each other! It was far more convenient when half of our class worked at Bank of America. But now that Mary Ann, Michael, and Wynne have left, it’s more difficult to recreate magical moments from 1993. I was also fortunate enough to enjoy lunch recently with Ezana Bocresion. Most days I dine ‘solo, al desko’ so it was fun to eat lunch like grown-ups, and spend time catching up. Otherwise, Jeanine and I are happy and well and trying to squeeze out every last drop of time spent with our children before Catherine (our eldest) heads to college next year.... I am at my happiest in denial!” And I’m happy to be able to continue the Ezana Bocresion thread with a wonderful note and (very cool) family picture... Ezana lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his his wife Daniela and two boys Jack, 14, and Luca, 11. “Here is a pic of the family from our RV trip out west to [the] Four Corners region during spring break of 2019. I have been in touch with several Tuckies over the last year, including Brett Rome, Raj Rathi, and Wynne Comer. I was also with the large group of Tuckies at the memorial for Chris Andrysiak’s son David. It was sad to meet under such circumstances, but it was a true celebration of his life and the impact he had on others. It was great to see Tuckies supporting Chris and Sarah. “On the professional front, I have spent the better part of the last 10 years working with institutional investors in Africa, advising them on strategy, investing, and restructuring.” Great to hear from, and see, you Ezana! Mark Tecca and Martha also headed west, recently completing “12 fantastic days RV camping and day-hiking in the Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park; a gift to ourselves to celebrate our anniversary. We also spent a great week with our kids at the lake in the Adirondacks in July. Chris moved

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out to LA in March, so now we have two West Coast kids. Mike and his fiancee Colleen live in Brooklyn, and we’re still waiting on a wedding date. Work remains interesting and challenging for both Martha and me, the nights are getting noticeably chilly, and hockey season starts in two weeks. But God willing and the river don’t rise, our boat will be in the water until Thanksgiving.” Luis Blaquier sends “greetings from the Deep South—i.e. Argentina. After a short period working for the government, I’m back working in the ever-emerging markets of Latin America. This year Solana and I celebrated our 28th anniversary with our three kids, Dominique (26), an environmental scientist, Luis Jr. (25), working for a local hedge fund and already applying to business school, and Silvestre (19), our youngest still in college.... I would like to think that I’m not getting older, just wiser! Still practicing some sports and, for a few years now, battling to learn how to play the piano.” Thanks Luis! Rohit Kapur writes in, “Frankly I love reading all the notes and have been too lazy to contribute. Let me take a stab at updating everyone with all that is going on with me/ us.... Greetings from Mumbai, cannot believe that I have spent 12 years here in a city that started as an experiment when we moved here in 2007 from New York. Things have been great for us—my daughter (Anoushka, now 15) started high school and is a big reason that I still feel young. After a seven-year stint with McKinsey, I recently decided to take a pause from my 25 years of investment banking/ consulting life to explore opportunities in the adventure travel space. In case anyone is looking to spend sometime hiking/climbing in the Himalayas, please do reach out—I can help put together some nice trips.” Thank you for writing in, Rohit! Like Rohit, I (Dwight) am enjoying “The Transition” after 24 years of private equity—a welcome opportunity to open my eyes to what else is going on in the world. We moved back from London after 18 years (like Serkan and Rohit, I expected that to have been only 2-4 years) just before Reunion last year, and resettled outside Boston, where our older two kids, Colin and Greta, are already working and attending grad school. We moved onto a farm in Medfield, MA, where, with animals aplenty—4 horses, 2 dogs, a cat, and 16 chickens—so far.... Kirsten and Elsa

are in heaven. In January, I began a year as an “Advanced Leadership Fellow” (whatever that means) at Harvard to study “the system economics of philanthropy.” Alongside this timely topic, I have also taken the opportunity to squeeze in a bunch of classes like “Reimagining Capitalism,” “Humanity and Its Challenges,” and “Current Challenges in US National Security and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism”.... Needless to say, it is a fascinating (read frightening) time to be a student again. With many of our class starting, or considering, a “next phase,” I will add that it is really energizing. PS: Kirsten and I celebrated our 25th anniversary last week—a milestone many in our class have recently reached, or soon will. Congratulations to all! It is a feat (on our spouses part!)! Please keep writing in, particularly if you have not updated in the last couple years! —Dwight & Cathy

’94 David Link bearcap08@gmail.com

Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

Hello again everyone. I [Toph] write this shortly after visiting Hanover for our 25th reunion. A few “highlights” and things I learned: • During our luncheon, Dean Slaughter suggested that Russell Wolff believes the sky is pink. (Empathy!) Actually, Russell admitted to color-blindness, which made things awkward but certainly explains his pre-Patty wardrobe. • J et lag awards go to Vivina, Schweitzer, Ulrik (“Mr. Redpants”) Schack, and of course the Townsends. • Two-and-a-half decades later, I still can’t understand a damn thing Nick Hall says. (I keep hoping his now-grown daughters will teach him how to enunciate.) • Kevin “Worried” Barry is now Kevin “Worried-About-the-Red-Menace” Barry. At our luncheon, Kevin commented on the creeping scourge of socialist millennials, an observation that led Dean Slaughter to repeatedly point at Kevin whenever he

mentioned flawed economic models, failed nation-states, and, of course, Communism. • The estimated cost of a single year at Tuck is now $115,000. Average starting Tuck-grad salary is $180k. I don’t have a joke here, I’m just doing math in my head. • I can’t decipher my handwriting and I’ve forgotten the context, but my napkin note appears to read “Arnaud loves him some cream puffs.” • You can’t go home again: CBGs is no more. Ben & Jerry’s is no more. The bookstore closed. But there’s a J. Crew. And a Starbucks (in the bank, of course). And Lou’s lives on. Maybe I’ll drown my sorrows in a pizza from EBAs. • Tuck has a 30-year “master plan” to eminentdomain the hell out of the space between Buch and Ledyard. “Parking is overrated,” said Steve Lubrano. (Well, maybe. I wasn’t paying close attention because I was still arguing with Schweitzer and Immel about the previous session.) Christophe Oliver recently completed yet another Ironman, this time competing with (against, really) former roommate Tom Loring. (“He passed me on the run,” said Christophe, before launching into an under-his-breath litany of French curse words.) We all cope with aging in different ways. Mr. Hargraves does triathlons and makes “Tri-it” jam. (Get it?) If you were fortunate enough to receive a jar, you might also have been fortunate enough to enjoy a La Guardia TSA bag search triggered by said condiment. Perhaps Christophe should rebrand it “Security-risk Jelly.” (Not to be confused with “Security-risk Jerry,” which is my new hockey nickname.) John Dex attended Reunion sans better half Yenii, who was home in Washington State supporting SAT-taking daughter Sophia. John apparently reconnected with a classmate the rest of us missed, noting that he shared a “particularly inspirational conversation” with Robert Tan, who Dex claims is “now CFO of [Western-Canada insurance cooperative] ICBC. “I always knew he could become anything he put his mind to,” concludes Dex. “Peter and Maureen visited us in Richmond,” writes Anand Krishna, who with wife Sonali entertained them as they were on their way to Atlanta to drop daughter Guinevere off at Emory. In one regard, the Krishnas have almost kept up with the Joneses, who convincingly lead the “next-gen of Tuckies” contest against the Krishnas three (Liam, WINTER 2020

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The Krishnas recently welcomed the Joneses for a visit to Virginia.

Guinivere, and Aidan) to two (Nina and Sonia). Sachem water, indeed. Our man in Yokohama reports of a recent trip to Beantown. “I met Arnaud,” says Katsu, who was visiting Boston for an academic conference. Jump ahead two weeks, and Shimizu-san’s undergoing laparoscopic surgery, but—he explains—“not because I met Arnaud.” (Wouldn’t be the first time a chance meeting with Monsieur Tesson resulted in an abdominal medical procedure.) There’s an outbreak of surgery in the family: Maki recently underwent a shoulder operation, and Lynn needed a broken jaw reassembled. Funny story: When Lynn broke his jaw, Katsu leapt in to action, jeopardizing his son’s future ability to eat anything other than pudding. “You’re not that kind of doctor!” shouted Maki at her PhD husband, “get those ‘healing’ crystals out of his mouth and take him to the hospital!” (Okay, I made that up. But I’m using it in my next sitcom pilot script, Dr. Katz, Medicine Man.) “We as a family are in the process of recovery this year!” concludes our classmate and Keio University B-school prof. Speaking of French New Englanders (“Nouveau Englanders?” “New Francers?” No, that’s 19th-century Quebec), Arnaud writes that “all [is] good here in Boston.” (He now employs verbs only when he feels like it. I don’t know if that makes him more fluent, or less.) Arnaud is in his 14th year with exec search firm Egon Zehnder (that’s what happens when they can’t place you) and celebrating empty-nester life with wife Kim. Son Alex has started at Andy Palmer’s alma mater, Bowdoin. “[I]t still feels like he’s just gone to summer camp,” says Monsieur Tesson. “Sooner or later the reality of it will hit us. Maybe.” Arnaud is looking forward to his annual dinner with Gregoire in Geneva this winter. (Shame they don’t share a common language.)

Transplanted Southerner Michael LaRoche has launched an exciting new career of which I am insanely envious. After a corporate reorg last year, Michael’s company offered him a bone, and he bit. After chewing things over, he and wife Kim unleashed a new entrepreneurial venture and now operate “Pampered Pups LLC,” a full-service “puppy business” in Wellesley, MA. “I traded in my business suits, frequentflyer status, conference calls, and boardroom presentations to play with puppies everyday,” emails Michael. “I love it!” The LaRoches— experienced with “Belgian Tervurens,” which I believe are a kind of waffle—started the business in their garage. (“Just like Google and Hewlett-Packard,” does not say Mr. LaRoche.) Rapid growth has enabled them to upgrade to the space that formerly housed “Miss Michelle’s Dance Academy.” (Really. Not sure what happened to Miss Michelle, but hey, Darwin.) You can learn more at the LaRoches’ website ppups.com and read glowing reviews on Yelp. (I’d like to take credit for that last pun, but he went there first. Comedy gold, baby.) “I have been working in Asia for the past year,” writes occasional Texan John Gannon, who then casually name-drops work and holiday visits to Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia, Korea, and Vietnam. His work as an “international IT transformation” consultant has sent him abroad, where he has enjoyed “working internationally with people from many countries, living alone and far from home, finding adventure almost daily, meeting new people, eating amazing local food, taking a lot of photos, and wondering what is around the corner personally and professionally.” Meanwhile, son Nick lives in London, where he analyzes Central and Eastern European markets for KFC; USN Lieutenant Jack will soon take command of an attack sub; and daughter Lela sells real estate and acts in NYC. (You may recognize her from the new season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, in which she plays “woman sitting in the front row at the club smoking a cigarette.”) “Mary and I travel as much as possible to see each other, the kids, and the world,” reports the globe-trotter. Oh, and last year John spent a week with Jack under the waters of the Pacific on the USS Nebraska. “I got to drive the sub,” says John, who notes that it was “an incredible experience as a father” (though presumably a serious violation of U.S. Navy command-and-control policies).

In personal news, my charming lady wife and I departed the Reunion comforts of our Dowds’ Inn dinner to drive to Quebec so we could fly out early the next morning to Nashville to build a Habitat for Humanity home with President Carter. (Phew.) Though we weren’t technically working on Jimmy’s and Rosalynn’s house, we were close enough that we had to jump out of the way of the high-speed, official United States Secret Service golf cart. (Yes, it’s a thing.) Music City build highlights included lifting trusses with a helpfully tall country singer whose name I forget, eating nachos at the Opry while listening to Emmylou Harris cover Neil Young (Canadian!), and accidentally touching Garth Brooks on the shoulder. (I know, right?) Finally, some sad news. Earlier this year, we lost Craig Scarborough, who—after a long fight—succumbed to the cancer that overtook him. He passed surrounded by family and friends, including partner Annie Bauer (T’93). In emails, classmates recalled Craig’s friendliness, sense of humor, generosity, genuineness, approachability, and even piloting skills. There’s a photo in our second-year yearbook—it’s how I’ll choose to remember him. The picture was taken at a wine-tasting event he hosted in Stell. Craig is leaning back in a chair, holding a bottle of wine in each hand, and smiling. In that photo, at least for a moment, all is as it should be. Take care and hug the people you love (and even some you don’t).

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

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Hello, my dear T’95s. I made it through my first update without any “episodes,” so it looks like you may be stuck with my nefarious update-demanding threats for a while. Deanna

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Smeltz smartly exclaimed that I’m a scary person (thank you) and that Liam must sleep with a bat under his pillow. Ron Will foolishly declared that my threats aren’t super-effective. Most of you just laughed at me (oh, you know who you are.) Still waters.... Let us see where this goes.... The general headline of this update is that everyone is doing well, but most of us think our lives are boring. But nothing is boring if you look carefully (I’m plagiarizing, so don’t credit me with that quote.) Vanessa (Chin) Cheshire is loving the weather in San Francisco and just sent her son to kindergarten. She is now a soccer mom, and if I may offer one bit of advice from my own experience in this role—don’t call Otto when he is playing. He will stop running and wave. In fact, we should all give Vanessa pointers so she can be that badass soccer mom in the Tuck hoodie. Karen (Schneider) Parker just sent her daughter to college and is enjoying her adorable one-and-a-half-yearold grandson, although she’s not sure about being called Grandma. Can’t give any advice here, but would love to receive some on how she coped when her daughter went away. Both Vanessa and Karen are happy that their children seem to be adjusting well to their new environments, and at the end of the day that is all that matters. Tena Melfi is enjoying Northern California (do I see a pattern here re: loving CA?) and is now heading the marketing team at AAA. She’s hoping to leverage this experience into something exciting and new. She is mulling over leading cycling tours, and I must say I am all for that. Greg Maxwell is now the sector VP of global supply chain for the Mission Systems sector at Northrop Grumman. His sector is a “technology leader in open, cyber-secure, software-defined systems for defense and intelligence applications across multiple domains.” I kind of feel like “Q” in the James Bond movies when I say that. On a personal front, he and Tracey will be celebrating their 33rd wedding anniversary with a long weekend in New Orleans. Wilbur Swan took a new role at Fidelity Labs in June, working on a new start-up. Wilbur says he first checked with Jim Catudal, who gave

it a thumbs-up. I know someone who I may or may not be married to who would be jealous, as he is still waiting for a thumbs-up from Jim. Actually, aren’t we all? Mary (Flounders) Green went to the Himalayas to lead a yoga and meditation retreat. This was her 12th trip to India. She unfortunately got sick for the first time this time around (she is better now), but I’m sure she is still the most peaceful of all of us. Namaste, Mary. T’95s still remain a social bunch and we like to see each other as much as we can. Rick Smith was in Portland for business and saw Kevin Vassily for Wednesday-afternoon cocktails and sliders. Rick asks, “Who doesn’t like afternoon cocktails on a Wednesday?” Jeff Goodman, my new font of T’95 knowledge, wrote to say that he celebrated 13 years at his PE firm and ran into a few Tuckies along the way. I am paraphrasing, but here is what Jeff says: a. Caught up with Tony DiSimone and called him Tony Guns. b. Ran into Ned Hill when he was looking for “a sucker...I mean a lender...to loan us money.” c. Spoke to Art McAleer and pretended to know what he was talking about when Art asked questions. d. W orked with Steve Ritchie as he introduced Steve to one of his companies. Steve is killing it at the company, as if anyone had any doubt. Peter Stevens, I’m sure, does many important things but seems to golf only with fellow classmates, because he wrote to tell me that he played golf with Mark LaMagna in June, Klaus Jensen and Peter Lawler in August, and Mike Pelzar in September in Scotland. Peter also sees Jack Sins regularly and recently met up with Mike and Thad Hill. All this is good for our souls, folks—fresh air, exercise, travel, and friends. PA Weiner wrote that he had a nice lunch with Vaho Khoutsishvili. (Listen, Vaho. Your last name is really hard to spell. Have you thought about just going with one name/title, like Beyonce?) PA and Wallis are empty nesters now, and PA is using some of that free time to train for the reunion soccer match. (BTW, is everyone making their reunion reservations?). Whatever game there is, I’m making sure that I’m betting on PA and Hiko Yasumatsu.

The amazing Hiko completed his fourth (yes, fourth!!) 100-km ultramarathon in late June. Then in August he took part in the Olympic distance triathlon in Kisarazu in the Chiba prefecture. These are times I do wish couchpotato-ing was a sport, because I would be at Olympic level.

Hiko, not even looking winded after a triathlon

Andrea (Setian) Lukens, Tanya (Schuler) Sharman, and Sam (Scollard) Truex got together in Lake Bluff to celebrate Tanya’s 50th birthday. Sam is still working at her rewarding job in biotech, bringing medicines to patients who need them. Sam also hosted a Tuck Women of Boston brunch at her place—Deb (Gerardi) Kemper, Anne Sullivan, Rebecca Adams [Renner], and Amy Kennedy attended and got a chance to catch up. Sam also bought a cottage on Lake Sunapee, so I will just wait for my invitation, which I know is in the mail.

Sam, Tanya, and Andrea celebrating Tanya’s birthday

Rodolfo and Catia Coelho are now US citizens (“we love our new country!”) and are working together on their stealth project. As part of their project, they visited Lauren Adler and Martha McElroy-Rojas and experienced a miraculous three straight days of sunshine in Seattle.

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CL ASS NOTES around Korea through a nasty typhoon (travel + typhoon = not recommended). Then Liam took a trip to Montana with our daughter and learned how to paraglide. On a side note, our daughter came back home in one piece, but Liam came back with lots of scratches (due to paragliding) and a double-dislocated finger (due to hiking—don’t ask). Peter, Lauren, Rodolfo, Catia, and Martha at Snoqualmie Falls

And now some news on my brand-new “come on over to my place any time” BFFs Ned and Tessa Hill. They purchased a home on the island of Terceira in the Azores (Google-map this paradise, everyone) and will complete renovations next year. And my dear besties said they would welcome their Tuck friends to their new home anytime. Michelle Teillon hosted Anne Sullivan, Mitra Morgan, and yours truly at her beautiful cottage in the Berkshires for a weekend. Michelle is literally Chip and Joanna Gaines combined into one person—she fixes her cottage (hammer, nail, paint) and decorates it (pillows, flowers, drapes). Anne is busy with her role as chief business officer at a start-up biotech discovering treatments for neurologic disorders. She also fearlessly flew into Hurricane Dorian to enjoy one glorious day at the beach, before she was evacuated. Mitra is getting ready to renovate her home. She also just dropped off her daughter at college and had a chance to visit with Brendt Stallings and John Harpole. Mitra says John is a gentleman farmer when he is not busy with his day job. She also reports that John’s pickles were delicious. John has taken farm-to-table to its epitome.

Brendt, Mitra, and John, enjoying pickles and catching up

Deb, So-June, Anne, Liam and Lizzie before closing down the house

Elizabeth (Sutherland) and Matt Loar visited Boston to see their son, who is a senior in college. We were lucky enough to help Lizzie celebrate her 39th birthday (or was it her 38th? Age is so meaningless...). Deb Kemper, Anne Sullivan, and Liam Donohue and I joined, and we caught up, had fun, and CLOSED. DOWN. THE. HOUSE. Seriously folks, that’s how we still roll. Deb is currently out fundraising for her venture fund and had just returned from her husband T’94 Steve Kemper’s Tuck reunion. She recommends making lodging recommendations. (Yes, yes, nag, nag....)

Finally, for those of you who don’t get my cajoling requests for updates because I have incorrect email addresses, please send me your correct ones and I will make sure that I bother you as much as I bother everyone else—equal opportunity annoyance. Until next time then.

’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Trent Meyerhoefer tmeyerho@gmail.com

Peter Lawler sold his clearing firm and retired, then unretired and joined a wealth management firm called Grey Street Capital in Chicago. This allows him to summer on Cape Cod and winter in Chicago and South Carolina. He and Catherine will be turning 60 soon. (See above re: age, meaningless.) Speaking of retiring, Vince King is enjoying retirement—traveling, going to the gym, and volunteering for AARP. Liam got scared when he was first offered AARP membership, but I can’t wait. This is an organization that loves my maturity. Plus AARP has great benefits, including twenty percent off at the Popcorn Factory! Rob Hoyt has semiretired and is enjoying more time with family and helping at Mil Milagros, an organization that is building more selfsufficient communities in rural Guatemala by empowering female leaders and significantly improving children’s health and educational outcomes. If anyone is interested in helping or tired of the cynical narratives associated with Latin America, please check out the organization’s website [www.milmilagros.org]. On the Donohue front, we had a great summer. We visited Korea to see my parents and travel

Now tell me, was that so boring?

Barry Winer bmwiner@zoho.com

Hey there! Another year, another column for Tuck Today. It worth noting that this column marks the 23rd anniversary of the 1st column that we, your humble scribes (Ewa, Trent, and me, Barry), first wrote way back before any of us were that wise or impressive. Wow, things have surely changed a bit since ’96, eh? But not your class secretary team, damnit! I ran behind with this column since there was a small snafu with the email appeal, but, given my tenacious effort to harass all of you to come to DC (it has changed a ton for the better since longer ago), I occasionally have a bit of success, so let’s dive in with the news. We’ll go with the sun. So, first, Asia/Oceania! ASIA/OCEANIA In news from Thailand, Rangsima (Utarnkul) Bhakdibhumi (“Bee”) has been gradually sending all of her boys to school here in the States. With two sons now in college here and another in prep school, along with other family members who are already here, we’re hoping we’ll be seeing a lot more of Bee in the US in 2020 and beyond!

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A great update from Shigeru “Shiggy” Tamura, who wrote to tell us about his son, Taiga, who is an excellent tennis player and spent the summer working with junior players from all over the world at Rafa Nadal’s tennis academy in Mallorca, Spain. (For a funny pic of Shiggy “with” Rafa himself, repping Dartmouth, please check myTUCK online.) An, it was wonderful to hear from Bette Ann Bankston down under. Bette Ann is roughly midway through a roughly two-year gig in Melbourne “working temporarily with ExxonMobil.” Among other news from the other side of the world, Bette Ann reports on a bucolic and interesting-sounding town not too far from Melbourne called Bendigo. Having spent time in Oz myself, that was new to me! Moving further west (with the sun, dontcha know?), we go now to: EUROPE We received two updates from “across the pond.” That’d be the Atlantic pond, of course. Matt Jochim wrote to report all’s well in London and his family’s recent attendance at the Dartmouth Global Summit, where they received a behind-the-scenes tour of Churchill’s war rooms. (See myTUCK online for a funny photo.) Matt and family also connected with Phil Ferneau at the event and met his “fantastic daughter, Meredith, who is attending college at St Andrews in Scotland.” Matt and Julia are starting to think about college, with their two kids now 14 and 16. Finally, the family has another new member, a Cockapoo puppy named Georgia. As best I can tell, and despite Matt’s years abroad, he didn’t type his update in an English accent. Moving a bit south, Marcel Feenstra sent in this fun update and offer for all: “...our eldest daughter (Laura) has recently been admitted to the honors program at Utrecht Law College, which makes her parents very proud.... And earlier this year, yours truly got re-elected as chairman of the board of overseers at Sociëteit De Witte, one of the oldest (and, IMHO, clearly most prestigious) gentlemen’s clubs in the Netherlands—T’96s visiting The Hague should give me a call so that we can have lunch/dinner/drinks there!” As a matter of policy, your scribes neither endorse nor discourage offers such as Marcel’s, but man! Great to hear from you! Next, the...

AMERICAN EAST COAST Christine Amirian, Greater NYC–area based, is traveling a bit more for her work at ABC now. I loved the anecdote about how she was in Boston in August and connected with Becky Duseau for a “quick 45 minute lunch...[which] was the best part of the 3-day trip.” Chris took a trip to Costa Rica and, while I can personally vouch for the country’s fabulousness, Chris and her family seem to have really enjoyed it: “... white-water rafting, ziplines, monkeys, coffee, chocolate. What’s not to like?” Exactly. Chris and her family also hosted Chris Trimble for a night recently. As an editorial aside, this writer knows that Becky Duseau and her family near Boston have a fantastic and gorgeous “Berner” (inside baseball lingo for “Bernese Mountain Dog”) named Alvie. As just two examples of my efforts to goad you all to ping me when in the DC area, I was able to catch up with two other classmates recently here in the Mid-Atlantic. First, I had a very nice catchup with Sonali Krishna, her husband Anand (T’94), and their family. The Krishnas are all doing very well and are based in Virginia. And earlier this summer, it was a thrill to reconnect with Toshi Shirabe when he was in the area on his way to Europe as CEO of a new smaller industrial company. Toshi was able to also have coffee with Dan Hurwitz, also based here in the Mid-Atlantic, though Dan and I didn’t manage to see each other despite this all happening in the same five-or-so–hour period one afternoon! (For the official “Dan/Toshi” photo, log into myTUCK online. Likewise for a photo of me (Barry) with the Krishnas.)

A serendipitous lunch connection between flights— Barry Winer and Toshi Shirabe

Peter Bauert wrote us from Naples, Florida, where he is “giving retirement a chance.” After 18 years in corporate roles, and another half dozen in VC, Peter now works for himself, doing the occasional investment deal, “just not out of a fund.” Peter invites anyone down his way interested in investments or golf to given him a shout. Thanks for writing in, Peter! And, no worries on the recollective powers; our records show this isn’t a first for you, but it has been a long while so good to hear from you. I was very excited to get a ping from Jay Odell this past August. Jay is still with software company Blackbaud, and the family remains based in South Carolina. But this ping was about Jay (and Kristen Odell!) moving their younger son, Dylan, up to college in my area (Hopkins). It was a blast to spent an hour or two with Jay, Kristen, and both of their boys (older son, JJ, is at Rice, Jay and Kristen’s alma mater) over some good coffee. (NB: For those of you who may ping me in DC in the future, one “value add” I can offer is a fairly deep sense for DC’s booming coffee and food scenes!)

Some transformative DC joe as the excuse for a great reconnect with Dylan, JJ, Jay and Kristen Odell; your humble scribe there on the right

Up Hanover (actually Norwich) way, Jay Benson was seen recently on a tractor mowing a large field. As you may understand, I was confused, thinking Jay is now pretty established at glass purveyor Simon Pearce doing more white-collar stuff. So we investigated and learned that the company is adding a 500 kW solar farm in Windsor to complement the 400 kW hydro turbine in Quechee at the Mill (aka the bomb for brunch with family when they come to Hanover to visit students or as alums!) to more fully meet all of Simon Pearce’s electricity needs. Pretty cool that! (For a bucolic pic of Jay mowing the new solar farm field, log into myTUCK online.)

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CL ASS NOTES In other college, next-generation news, Jodi Campbell recently connected with Doug and Lori Jobe at Furman University. Jodi’s daughter, Rachel, is a senior at Furman and helped to onboard the Jobes’ daughter, Katie, who is starting as a freshman there. May I just say, the idea of some of us with college kids who are helping others’ college kids on campus is a bit head spinning. Didn’t we all just graduate ourselves only a few years ago?!?!

Jodi Campbell and Doug and Lori Jobe back on campus moving in their daughters at Furman University in SC

Laurie Lee sent in an update that might be the highest impact-to-word-count message we’ve ever gotten. It merely read “I got married *smile*.” Of course, we followed up, and this fantastic news of Laurie’s new husband, Keith, comes also with a professional shift. Laurie is now working with what sounds like a fabulous Massachusetts land-preservation organization. Congratulations, Laurie!! Another classmate wrote speculating that it may be a first for the column. Karen Devine hasn’t been in our pages in quite awhile, but I’m not sure never is technically correct? In any event, great to hear from Karen, who lives near Boston, leads customer operations for a cybersecurity software company, travels globally, and spends as much time as possible with her husband (Rudie) and three daughters (Ally, a sophomore at UNH; Sarina, a high schooler; and Hailey, a middle schooler) on the Cape.

Heard from Gene Lowe with two updates. First, Gene connected with Kevin Loome recently up in Philadelphia. And, second, Gene is still at the helm of the publicly traded SPX and, in late September, got to ring the NYSE closing bell in celebration of the company’s 4th anniversary as a public entity. (For two cool pics of Gene and Kevin, along with one from the NYSE, please see myTUCK online, where they are posted.) Finally, in addition to encouraging all of you to visit DC (and let me know when you do!), I recently got back from my annual pilgrimage to the Telluride Film Festival, where I saw all of the great films premiered that you’ll be getting in your towns over the next few months. And, just helped Reid and Amanda Jackson celebrate a notable (read into that what you will) birthday at a lovely dinner party held at their home not far from me. I know everyone always kindly says this to each other, but you be the judge: I say Amanda and Reid look exactly the same as when we finished up at Tuck in ’96! Reid also reported on a recent work/pleasure trip: “Reid Jackson and Jay Bartlett recently met up in Park City for an afternoon of mountain biking and dinner, adding to the speculation that Unison, Inc.’s (where Reid is CEO) acquisition of an Ogden, UT–based company was perhaps not solely economically driven.”

T’96 kids doing so many fantastic things, this family shows that even someone from Brazil can end up raising some serious ice hockey players! Doing the Tuck Tripod lineage proud! We hear from another Midwesterner (I think?), John Foley, so infrequently, I feel obligated to post his update here mostly unedited: “I am still in my original job after leaving Tuck. I went to work with Chris Pears ’93 (a good man) at Cargill, and our group ultimately became Wayzata Investment Partners. ...On the side, I am the chair of a pediatric cancer organization called Beat Nb Cancer Foundation that focuses on helping families dealing with childhood cancer—in particular, a devastating cancer called neuroblastoma. If you run into families dealing with this, you should know to get in touch with me. I can and will help. And yes, more than anyone, I understand the irony of Foley helping other people. If it makes you feel better, I admit that I open my Tuck semiannual magazine and flip to the obituaries to see if any of you are dead yet! And yes [Matt] Rightmire—I mean you.”

Keeping with this rising-sun theme (a decent metaphor maybe?), we move to the serendipitously productive:

Sticking with the interior theme before we go west/coastal, I’ll report also on my dear friend and partner in crime, Ewa Borowska. Ewa, Chris, and family are still headquartered in Colorado, though, with all the miles so many of us travel, this family may be in contention for the annual travel-mileage trophy (you know, if we had such a thing)! Ewa has a super-cool new gig as executive director of Peak to Peak Leadership, an initiative founded by Christy and Jay Orris in 2013. Peak to Peak creates and delivers programs using a text-based seminar model that enables students of all ages to explore and identify their core values and the tensions inherent between those values. Ewa had been moderating for Peak to Peak over the last year and will now lead growth and all aspects of the program to impact more students at the University of Colorado and in the Boulder Valley. There are so many of us increasingly involved with making the world a truly better place, with three to four new ones just in this column with Ewa, Laurie, and John Foley. That, my friends, is Tuck.

MIDWEST Heard just before deadline from the Alex Santos/Tricia Carroll clan. Still in Chicago and Alex still doing high-brow executive search with an industrials (aka manufacturing and factory/utility stuff) focus. And, with so many

Christy Orris also shared a fun update apart from the new formalized collaboration with Ewa. Close readers of this column will recall that the Orrises have taken a few “Semester at Sea” cruises, ’round the world, with their two boys, in recent years. Well, they just returned

Amanda (Halbert) Jackson, Reid Jackson, and Reid’s sister, Andrea

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from their fourth, but for this one, Shauna Thompson Simmonds accompanied them for half of the trip with her daughter. (For a great photo of the Orrises with Shauna and the kids, please check myTUCK online!) In other Colorado news, it was great to hear from Christine Iozza-Lukkes. Christine has been “doing some consulting for a plant-based food start-up in Boulder, CO.” She and her family just sent daughter Grace off to Eckerd College on Florida’s west coast. Meanwhile, just north in Utah, several classmates gathered to celebrate the nuptials of Rob Lynch in Park City. Attendees included Bill Craver and his girlfriend Theresa Rosa, Rick Kowalczyk and his wife Jennifer Zhang, Mark (and Lisa) Morse, Jay Bartlett and John Beasley. Ricko described the few-days soiree as including “brunch with the bride and groom, hiking, and funiculating” (Secty’s note: Google “funiculating” if unsure about that term, and godspeed!) and the wedding itself “elegant in every way.”

Rob Lynch and bride surrounded by (l-r) Rick Kowalczyk, John Beasley, Mark Morse, Bill Craver, and Jay Bartlett

Bill Craver wrote separately to also report that “Sophie Craver (child of Bill and Dana) accepted an invitation to attend Yale University as a member of the women’s crew team in 2020.” In throwback news, heard (for the first in a long time, if ever) from Paul Davey who, based in Texas, recently started a real estate development company called Balcara Group with his former dorm neighbor across the hall in ’94, Ed Steffelin. Aside from work, Paul is a fellow Labrador retriever owner (Charlie is Paul’s chocolate lab), has a 3-year-old son, and rallied with Cyril Courbage, John Studdiford, Joe Tannehill, Craig LeGrande, and Ed this

past March for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Ed lives in New York, where he and his wife have two teenage sons and a “six-pound Havanese guard dog” who, while small, “has big, sharp, pointy teeth.” Word. Mark Kovac sent a very succinct update to share that he is “still in Dallas, still with Bain” and has been chosen as a Top 25 Consultant by Consulting Magazine. Thanks Mark! And, congrats! Another quick update came in from Erik Young, who wrote, “Hi! I’ll be visiting Dartmouth with my daughters Oct 10-11. Looking forward to the trip.” How we all look forward to that trip.... In still more news from Texas, Chris Clifford wrote us about a big career move, a big physical move, and to update us on family: “After 9 years in Birmingham, I embarked on a new adventure this year—serving as vice president of finance at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, TX. We are loving life under the dark starry skies and high mountains of far-west Texas. Sul Ross State is the smallest public university in Texas, changing lives of its students, many of who are the first in their family to go to college. The area is spectacular, and we are loving Big Bend National Park, Marfa, Marathon, El Paso, rodeo, and all the antelope, javelina, roadrunners, and endless deer. Come see us if you find yourself out this way. Kim and I just had our 30th wedding anniversary and are headed to the Big Island of Hawaii in October to celebrate. Courtney, born while we were at Tuck, is now 24 and living in Hoover, AL; Caroline is 21 and an education student at the University of Alabama (Roll Tide); and Carson is 19 and a sophomore business student at Mississippi State (Hail State). Chris also saw Rick Kowalcyzk and took him to his first Dave Matthews Band concert in California.

Rick Kowalcyzk and Chris Clifford outside the Chase Center in San Francisco before a rocking Dave Matthews Band concert

Jen (Tobiason) Martin checked in with an update from Minnesota on her and Brad Martin’s family. Jen has taken a new job in corporate strategy at Land O’Lakes, where there is a “decent sized Tuck contingent” spanning several class years. Jen and Brad just sent their oldest (of three) off to college at Washington University (St. Louis), which is becoming a bit of a theme with our class. My other partner in crime, Trent Meyerhoefer had a big update for this edition. Another hit to our small number of classmates still with their original employer from ’96. Trent has left Eaton after 24 years to become SVP & CFO at Ranpak. Ranpak, founded and HQed in Cleveland, is a $300M paper packaging company. The company, which sells globally and is paper-only—no plastic like air pillows or bubble wrap—was taken public earlier this summer. Of course, exciting new opportunities notwithstanding, I sense that Trent may actually be angling for a special gig with Jay Benson at Simon Pearce!

Trent auditioning for a new career

And, finally, the sun sets last on the: WEST COAST In the “you think you know/knew someone and then boom!” department, we received a great photo from Melanie Dunn, who connected in New York this summer with Californian Raymond Yue and his family. Raymond and his wife, Evelyn, have three children, with the oldest (Madison) a high school freshman and two younger twins (Allison and James) just beginning 6th grade. Anyway, I never knew that Melanie and Evelyn were college roommates and that Melanie had set Raymond and Evelyn up in 2001. And now you all know that too! Very cool stuff! (Please check myTUCK for a lovely photo of Melanie, Raymond, Evelyn, and the kids.)

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CL ASS NOTES Other West Coast news came in from Jeff Tripaldi, another T’96er who has finally left an original, postgraduate employer. Jeff recently joined his family’s real estate business after “23 years and too much travel” at Intel. Jeff and his wife, Betsy, “...now have two college graduates under their belt [who] remarkably...both have jobs and are off the payroll. [So now just] ‘two more to go!” Signing off, will just say (because I’m not sure I’ve already mentioned it?), come visit DC and ping me when you do! I can provide excellent resources as requested. In the meantime, the team at your Tuck Today column wishes you all a wonderful winter and holiday season.

’97 Helen Kurtz helenwkurtz@gmail.com

My thanks to the response to my plea for news; it was great to get news from so many, and to hear of all the fantastic things you are all up to. Starting off with George Peinado, who writes that we are “still living in Winnetka, IL, and we just launched our oldest, Jake, off to college for his freshman year. He sought out warmer weather and is studying business at SMU in Dallas. He’s off to a strong start and thanks to the Life 360 app, we can see that he is always at the library or his dorm studying...NOT!...he is certainly enjoying himself and everything Dallas has to offer but has yet to miss a class.... Our second oldest, Luke, is in his second year at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Luke plays hockey at SPS in the winter and club team in the fall. He will actually be playing on the Deaflympic men’s hockey team in Italy in December. He is the youngest player on the team, which includes many college and postcollege hockey players. Luke was born with moderate hearing loss in both ears and has been wearing hearing aids since he was two years old. All this hockey gives me many excuses to visit Luke and drive him around to various tournaments. It has been great to be back in New England from time to time to visit. On trips over the last year, we have been able to see the Peppers, Wiemeyers, and Marshmans a handful of times. On the last trip, in late August, Luke and I stayed at Pepper’s house in Norwich, had dinner at the Norwich Inn, and played golf at Hanover Country Club. John 100

Pepper also gave us a tour of Sand Hills of Hanover, the newly renovated (or at least cleaned up) AD house, where he and several other start-ups office. Sweetie and I continue to chase Colt around, our 4.5-yr-old boy...and he has become harder to catch. Yes...we have a 4.5-year-old. He is awesome and keeps us young. He has been skating for a few years already and will be on his first hockey team this year. If you are ever in the Chicago area, look us up!” (Secretary’s note: Another— anonymous—Tuckie reported that, in a later golf game with Todd Marshman, George was soundly beaten, on his own course. To which George responded and set the record straight:...) “Yes, Todd did beat me on my own course. After a few holes, looking back 55 yards (ironically Todd’s age), to see his drive vs mine and feeling his age was starting to show, I pulled back and let him win. Since he gloated so much, I beat him the next day.” Coincidentally, and not at all placed next due to the above-referenced anonymous source, Vicki Craver wrote in with news of others. Peter Denious has a new job as president & CEO of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, and Julie Moore sold her company (Rocaton) to Goldman Sachs. Way to go to you both! In other news of T’97s slaying at the workplace, Rob Gulliver moved from the NFL to being chief human resource officer at Hain Celestial North America. Rob and I exchanged emails about the joys of CPG. And Erin Tunnicliffe continues to wow in her leadership of the Tuck Difference campaign, driving Tuck forward with the generous gifts of so many grateful Tuckies. Gary Giles shared that “after 12 years in Memphis, Tenn, Jen and I moved to Dallas with our two boys, now 13 and 12. I’m still working in the health food industry and leading a [group] co-owned by a Dallas family office (Hunts), called Innovations in Nutrition and Wellness (INW). We are an R&D/contract manufacturing partner to brands, helping enable their success in the category. Last year I was actually able to take my family to Hanover—did a swing through the campus.” Bill Benton shared a photo and update from the UK. “We had a great weekend of meeting a lot of other Tuck and Dartmouth alums—several even with Chicago roots—at the Dartmouth 250 events hosted in London recently. One alum who is even going off to do stand-up as a second career—I pointed him to our own successful Paul Ollinger and ensured

another angle of growth for Crazy Money— which no kidding I have gotten a bunch of people to listen to, as I’m a huge fan. And we got to spend some time with Ann Marie Halsted. Rewind—I guess I forgot to say we are living in London now for a few years—my daughter is going to the American School. I had no idea that Ann-Marie also had two kids who have graduated from the school and was a wealth of helpful information for us newbies. We also took the opportunity to catch up with Dean Slaughter and got a nice pic—well, nice of them—I am appearing older and balder upon review. The dean hosted an awesome panel on the trade wars—obviously very timely and valuable.”

Bill Benton, Dean Slaughter, and Ann Marie Halstead at the UK Tuck Difference event

Congratulations to Lutz Goedde, who this spring “had all three kids graduating from college—the youngest finished undergrad at the University of Denver, while the older two got their graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and UC Davis respectively. With this newfound freedom, I’m optimizing outdoor lifestyle (primarily skiing and biking) in Utah between Park City and Moab, while still balancing global travel at McKinsey & Company. If you come to Park City ping me for a few ski turns or a mountain bike ride!” Rob Rakowski writes: “I was in Boulder, CO walking down Pearl Street with my son and boasting to him about my Tuck entrepreneurship class project as we walked past a Fjällräven Kånken store. George Peinado, Geoff Beard, Skip Wiemeyer, and I were going to buy out an obscure Norwegian outdoor clothing company and then grow the business by expanding it to the US. The brilliant idea that telemark skiing was the ‘next big thing,’ the LBO, and overall concept was of course all George Peinado’s brilliance, with the three of us along for the ride. The company was called Norrøna and had vowels way cooler

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than Mötley Crüe, so we knew it was gonna be huge. So, there I was utterly blown away to actually stumble across the brand new, first in America, one and only actual US Norrøna store—George was so right and 22 years ahead of his time! Clearly, we all should have been selling overpriced Scandinavian ski clothes for the past two decades instead of taking ‘real jobs’ in finance, investments and consulting.” Amy Houston shared a newsy NYC update: “I ran into Ying Shiau at the Park Avenue Armory, where Target was re-releasing their designer collections and we were both on the hunt. Valerie Wilson [McCarthy] has joined the NYC crew and joined my book club; we are focused on somewhat challenging nonfiction and Valerie—of course—makes us actually talk about the books. We had dinner with Stu Murray, his awesome wife Becky, and their four insanely adorable kids. They write the book on good parenting; it almost makes me want to go back for another round. Our oldest just started college this fall and we’re clinging fiercely to our high school junior. And finally, after 15 years at Robin Hood, I took a six-month sabbatical and then signed on to run the Thompson Family Foundation, which funds historic preservation, arts, medical research and education in New York.” Finally, all is well from me (Helen). California has been a great change for our family, with baseball, soccer, mountain biking, basketball, coding, guitar, and horses keeping us busy... as well as a new pooch, who is messy and entertaining. I continue to love my post at Foster Farms, with clean protein for all (gobble-gobble-bawk-bawk). A few days a week, I have a long commute to California’s Central Valley, and I feel like I should be able to use the commuter lane because I so frequently have Paul Ollinger’s Crazy Money podcast going. Paul’s mellifluous voice, fantastic guests, and hilarious banter pass the hour quickly. If you haven’t listened, start with Paul’s interview with fellow brown-houser Yancey Spruill...you

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

Greetings wizened ones, it is time to hear tales from your classmates. Forsooth, lo these many moons since our last column hath brought forth great adventures. Verily, read further to be informed and I (Steve) daresay entertained. Jon DeSimone has some big news: “The Tuck Roto league is finishing up its 23rd season with Cameron Steele’s Hough Luck coming out on top by a mile, while my team (the Pro Formas) is battling for 3rd with Scott Andrews (Horn High Yos) as I type this note. It is still very much a global league, with owners in Asia and, periodically, Europe. We are always open to expansion if anyone is interested. Scott returns the favor running a fantasy football league whose Tuck participation is growing. I’ve finally left Bain Capital Credit after 17 years and am taking some time off before deciding what to do next. If you are looking for someone to ski with out west this winter, let me know! Meanwhile, the kids are nearly out of the house, giving us more time for other diversions. Vicki and I had the chance to hang out with Chad and Gloria Johnston in Columbus this June at Origins Game Fair, the largest game convention in America. We’ve also been able to go to London a few times this summer and see Ralph and Annette Heidrich, who celebrated their 100th (2 times 50, get it?) back in June. Didier and Ann Damoiseaux were spotted in the crowd there, as well as Derek and Missy Sharp. Fortunately, all the videos of participants riding the bucking bronco rented for the event have been deleted from iCloud.”

some great tats!” Thanks Brian, I wish I looked as good as that guy. Peggy Reid sent news! “I’ve been working for Nike in their sustainability group since 2013. I lead their recycling program called Nike Grind (www.nikegrind.com). Loving life in the Pacific Northwest with hubby and two teens. Well, most of the time we love life with the teens. Travel too much for work, but it gets me to cool spots. If any of you live in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, or the UK, let me know! Would be fun to connect. peggy.reid@nike.com.” My man Fernando Chaddad checked in from a new geolocation: “We have moved to Toronto earlier this year and are loving it. Still with Accenture after so many years, helping build analytics and AI in Canada. Wife Jasmine, as well as Julia (7) and Tommy (4), are very happy to report that yes, the cliche on Canadians being nice is accurate. In the meantime, I got to catch up with Jon DeSimone (who was on a business trip), as well as Santi Dirube, who has been in Toronto for many years now. Looking forward to catching up with any Tuckies swinging by.” The class notes would not be class notes without the latest chapter in my favorite story, the Dan Givens story. “My biggest news is I’m now licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard with a 50-ton Master credential, which means I’m officially ‘Captain Dan’ and can work as a private captain-for-hire. Other than that, my vagabond lifestyle continues: I began the summer in the South Pacific Ocean, completing my sixth 1,200-mile sail from New Zealand to Fiji; I returned to San Francisco in July, and spent the summer teaching sailing on the Bay; and I’m writing this from Germany, where I’ll rendezvous with Adam Koval and Ulf Michel in a few days for hiking in the Alps and a beer at Oktoberfest!’

We heard a short but sweet message from Chris Kibarian: “We are enjoying the weather in sunny California. Kids are both in high school now. All good.” Terse and reassuring. Brian Thonn continues to think that I am a car-stereo enthusiast. “Steve, I never knew you were into audio equipment. BTW, You’ve got

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CL ASS NOTES The lovely and talented Jean Tsai sends word from the Midwest—“I’m in Chicago, still working on introducing Pop Karma as a CPG product and I swear I’m gaining momentum (to start working hard). The La Voies stopped by during their college tour during St. Patty’s Day, and we had awesome green beer. I’d love any other visitors coming through Chicago!’

Jean Tsai with the La Voies on St. Patrick’s Day

Anosha Subasinghe sends “a big hi and hugs from Sri Lanka! We were in USA over the summer to drop our son at University of California, Berkeley, where he started as a freshman this fall. Was fun to meet up with Michelle in Berkeley and hope to catch up with others when I visit the Bay Area next year. These days, Sharm and I are learning how to be empty nesters. Am busy with work, charity activities, etc. Was sad to miss the reunion, and I hope to make it for the 25th! In political news from this side of the world, Sri Lanka will choose a president this November, so exciting times ahead of us. If any of you are planning a trip to Asia or passing by, please get in touch with me if you like to get a glimpse of paradise. Sri Lanka was selected as Lonely Planet’s No. 1 destination for 2019! So hope to see some of you in the near future. Take care....’ Thanks Anosha, perhaps you could choose one for us while you are at it. Kim Melchionda has coined an excellent term: she writes “I’m really loving working as a consultant for Market Performance Group. We specialize in go-to-market strategies for consumer product companies looking to expand into new distribution channels or new product categories. Recently I’ve had several projects in the nutritional supplements industry, especially CBD, which is growing exponentially. Many of our clients are PE firms hiring us to assist with due diligence on CBD companies as potential investments. It’s really interesting work on a hot new category.

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So...if anyone wants to buy a CBD company... or needs a product recommendation, give me a call. We’ve amassed a large knowledge base in this area. Other than that, I’m still a hockey mom driving all over the Northeast for hockey games from Toronto to DC, although my daughter Sydney will be getting her license soon so in theory I can be the passenger and let her drive if my heart can handle it. We’re kind of in the thick of teenageryness, which should totally be a word. This past summer we went to Kenya and the Seychelles, which was epic family bonding, especially since they 100% gave up their phones for the entire trip—in exchange for cold, hard cash of course. Our son Grant really knows how to negotiate. Scott is doing great at Seaport Capital, where he has been since 2003, and plays in a couple men’s hockey leagues. That’s it for us.” Elizabeth (Harris) McCarthy writes, “Believe it or not, I finally have a submission for our next class notes! Yes, I guess I submit at the blistering pace of once every 6-7 years. Anyway, Kiki Li came to Boston for a brief visit back in June, and we were fortunate to be joined by Marni Kirousis, Susan and Roger Mann for dinner in Needham, MA. I’m including this picture as proof that I’m not making this stuff up!” Thanks Elizabeth, you have better cadence than many.

Elizabeth McCarthy with Kiki Li, Marni Kirousis, and Susan and Roger Mann

getting trampled, I suffered a very severely fractured pelvis. 3 weeks in 2 hospitals on 2 continents, one harrowing 20-hour air ambulance trip from Dubai to New York, 2 surgeries back-to-back, 5 plates, 17 screws, and 2 large scars later, I finally returned home. 6+ months later, I’m now walking, though still with a limp, and continuing to recover, including PT 3x/week and doing a lot of work from home. Also had 1 bat mitzvah of my youngest daughter Alexandra in April (while I was still on crutches), daughter Rachel graduating from high school in June, and now Hannah (senior, Syracuse) and Rachel (freshman, Bloomsburg University) in college. Let’s just say I’m looking forward to 2020.” And finally, your class secretary for this edition has been fortunate to see all kids of Tuckies this year: Derek and Jeff Enright from time to time all around MA and RI; Vicky Levy at the best brewery in the world; Caroline Cannon all over New England with her merry band of boys, as well as at Susan Hunt Stevens’ house for a lovely gathering that included Laura Miller, Cristen Herlihy Tabors and Bry Roskoz, and Tom Piper up in the wilds of VT; and Johnny Mac in Wellesley and at Bukowski poetry readings. By the time you have read, this a team of Tuck men—including John Smith, Scott Andrews, Pete Chapman, Greg Jones, Kevin Kuryla, Johnny Mac, Frank Knapp, John La Voie, Matt Iorio, Fitzy, Greg Elliott, and your scribe—will have competed in the 14th annual American Senior Men’s American Hurling National Tournament. Hope we bring home the gold! Or at least don’t get too badly hurt.

’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

My partner, Doug Haar, has an amazing and harrowing tale: “2019 has been an eventful year for the much less interesting T’98 class secretary. Back in February I was in Dubai for some work meetings for Oliver Wyman. As a team event, we were to take a camel ride in the desert. Unfortunately my Dubai camel either hated Americans, Jews, American Jews, or just me. I was suddenly and unexpectedly catapulted off the beast high into the air and onto the desert sand below. Besides almost

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia.rosenzweig@gmail.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

The 20th reunion was SO much fun! Has our class always been so awesome or are we just getting better with age, like wine, or maybe a stinky cheese? Thanks very much to

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Kara (Rocheleau) Lazarus and Jen (Watt) Wilson for leading the charge and taking on the thankless job of Reunion organizers. It seems appropriate to also thank the spouses and partners who witnessed the antics and happily listened to jokes that are never not funny even 20 years later. Attendance was good at around a third of the class, but the more the merrier with these things; so here’s to hoping that those of you who were not able to make it this time around (we MISSED you) can be there for the 25th reunion! The weekend truly overdelivered—the weather was perfect Hanover fall weather, the campus looked beautiful, and there was a spirit of merriment in the air. The ladies of the class definitely showed up strong on a % basis (half of the T’99 women made appearances) so consider the gauntlet thrown, gentlemen. And if the gauntlet is not incentive enough, Pete Petitt has already promised some band entertainment—perhaps incorporating the musical talents of some other T’99s—calling Sean Kearns and.... While we couldn’t possibly capture all of the updates exchanged during Reunion, here’s a bit of the recent T’99 flavor.... After coming in hot to Friday night’s event then hitting Pine for a few after-event libations, Jen Sayer, Julie Meyer, and John Rudge found themselves foraging for food at 1 AM. Since EBAs is no longer, and was locking their doors, the hungry bunch discovered late-night cuisine at Collis Hall. Nothing like chicken nuggets, fried rice, and a side order of college kids to keep you on your toes after midnight. Who knew this was even an option when we were at Tuck? The place was jam-packed with students who did their best to guess who the trio was and why they were there at that hour (parents? people off the street? professors, perhaps?). One well-meaning student even addressed Julie as “Ma’am.” Yup, we’re there already. A strong California contingent was in attendance (including Pete, Julie, Jen (Watt) Wilson, Kevin Collins, Susan Yung, Sam Hayes, and Luis Canales), although a San Francisco minireunion the week before seems to have somewhat undercut others coming to Hanover. Kevin is a total badass at Accenture Webscale Services, and his ever-twirling young daughters, in particular, seem to have charmed everyone who even looked their way throughout the Reunion weekend. Jen started a new job earlier this year as a strategic

marketing consultant at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. From an international perspective, Buenos Aires was gloriously represented by German Silva and Dolores Felgueras (both making their first-ever Reunion appearances) and Santi Alsina, who has been highly involved in advising Tuck on LatAm–related topics. Lukwa Phornwises made the long trip from Bangkok, combining Reunion with a full-on foliage tour, lobster rolls, and a visit to a yarn mill (she is a knitter/crocheter extraordinaire), among other activities. Lukwa visited Nhai Cao outside Boston while making her way to Hanover, although she couldn’t coax him into making the trip (harrumph). Nhai’s house also ended up attracting Janice Chiu, who was on a college tour (it’s definitely that time for so many of our classmates), in addition to Alex Smith, Jane (Ngo) and Thomas Chiang, Katherine Rivet and Cesar Galan (T’05), and Susan Yung and Luis for some post-Reunion shenanigans. There was some photographic evidence of lobster shared with Nhai after the reunion with some of this gang. While we are a bit miffed that we did not have the pleasure of seeing Nhai ourselves, we’re glad that the Reunion spirit found him anyway.

for the NYC marathon in November. Felicia has been traveling and rejuvenating while in the midst of a job transition after 14+ years consulting at Prophet. One of Felicia’s summer ports of call was the legendary Varga homestead in Thunder Bay, Ontario. To say it was fascinating and insightful would not remotely do it justice. Felicia got to spend the Sunday night after Reunion outside Boston with the lovely and brilliant Karin Stawarky, who always manages to outdo herself as both an entrepreneur and a hostess.

Cliff Gilman was the surprise guest for Thomas Gerster’s 50th birthday in Switzerland

Beth (McBride) DiLauri, Kara (Rocheleau) Lazarus, Kathy (Valade) MacDonald, and Cindy Varga at Reunion Thomas Chiang, Jane (Ngo) Chiang, Lukwa Phornwises, Sanjay Vyas, Lucien Lui, Luis Canales, Mico Perales, and Susan Yung at Reunion

An always engaging Thomas Gerster left his playground equipment company and new-ish baby at home in Switzerland to come hang out with us, and he shared how much it meant to him that Cliff Gilman had surprised him with a visit on his 50th birthday in August. Cindy Varga and Felicia Rosenzweig came over from London—Cindy is just starting a new job at British Telecom (BT) as the managing director of strategy and transformation for the Consumer Division, but of course, that’s not enough, so she and Hollis are also training

A family-oriented Chicago group sent Jane (Ngo) and Thomas Chiang, Sebastian Bacchus and Tom Sherwood; we were sad that they couldn’t coax Sam Awuah along. Jane and Thomas have added a much-adored puppy to their boisterous group of three boys, and Tom and his wife Liz added twins to their brood about a year ago. Seb and his wife Emily have two teenage daughters (who actually seem to smile in pictures with their parents). Seb and Gary Cohen punctuated Reunion with a very early and chilly golf game at the Hanover Country Club and peeled out Saturday night after the dinner to make it back for one of his daughter’s sporting events. Love the effort, Gary!

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CL ASS NOTES We’ve already mentioned many of the New England folks, but others at Reunion included Caitlin (Staunton) Appleton, Beth Merle, Kathy (Valade) MacDonald, Joe Donze, Lucien Lui, and Rick Cote. Caitlin was doing double duty over the weekend participating in a milestone celebratory event for women’s soccer at Dartmouth. Rick was a participant in the Tuck Talks panel during Reunion, sharing his personal story of climbing the highest peak in every US state with a couple of college friends (and sometimes Greg Pesky). It was amazing to hear of this dedication to a personal challenge, and while every peak was not treacherous (ahem, Florida at 345 feet), we can’t wait to hear about the two remaining peaks and how Rick will feel afterwards.

Jen Sayer, Caitlin Appleton, and Felicia Rosenzweig during Reunion revelry

Like New England, the NY area is always a great Reunion feeder, and this year was no exception. John Rudge, Megan (LaBant) Abrahamsen, Alex (Galston) Murray, Chris (CJ) Johnson, Hollis (Boggs) and Thomas O’Rorke, Mike Koester, Ellen Federman, Dan Neuwirth, Joanne and Michael Hogan, Scott Card, and Kyle and Liz Keogh all made appearances. When not loitering in the lobby of the Hanover Inn looking for rides, Mike is the same happy baby-faced guy as always. Megan put together a fun little trunk show for some of her female classmates at her hotel room at the Hanover Inn—bubbly was sipped, and all sorts of stylish clothing and accessories were available from Blue Star Bazaar, her hip boutique in Connecticut. Joanne has a new job at the makers of the Swiss Army Knife, which seems perfect for her outdoorsy ways, and Michael is still kicking ass and taking names later.

Specific New Jersey love was brought by luminaries including Cliff Gilman, Beth (McBride) DiLauri, Chris Vowells, and Ben Wright. Some of Cliff and Karen’s kids go to the Lawrence Brook School, where Ben teaches math and coaches rowing, and Cliff is very much a gentleman farmer of late (alongside working in private equity)— growing all sorts of stuff and wanting to start growing ancient grains. T’99s are also farming in the Upper Valley, with a joyful Steve Kelly having recently bought farm property (now habitable with running water!) near Hanover. Jeff Dodge visited and got to ride a tractor during Reunion weekend, and we would love to see those pictures. There is also reportedly an entertaining photo series with Steve and others with one of the portraits in Cohen Hall.... Other Upper Valley permanent residents at Reunion included Justine Wruble [Fahey], E.G. Woods, Stephanie (Wilkerson) McCaull, Peter Milliken, and Clay Adams. Notable rest-of-country Reunion attendees included Sanjay Vyas from Cleveland; Laura (Foster) Whitaker from Washington, DC; Amy (Richardson) O’Reilly from Utah; John (Jonas) Zimmerman from North Dakota; and Mico Perales from Oberlin, Ohio. Jonas picked up about 100 tabs at Pine restaurant, and we’re still trying to figure out how to make it to North Dakota so we can make sure “it all comes out in the wash!” Thanks, Jonas. The SoCal T’99s had a minireunion in early October since Julie was the only one of the group able to represent in Hanover. Julie, Margo (Ellis) Christou, Richard Carriere, Karen (Haus) Moran and her hubby met up for dinner in Orange County and plan to make it a quarterly outing. Richard is living a very SoCal lifestyle in the hills of LA, where he frequently hosts fabulous pool parties. Maybe our next quarterly outing will be at his pool. Karen spends a lot of her time in Newport Beach but also makes frequent trips back up to the Bay Area, where she still has her very cool and rustic Woodside home. Margo has fully embraced the California lifestyle and knows a ton about surfing now since her son, Nate, is becoming a full-fledged surfer. Just a few weeks before the minireunion, Felicia made a visit to SoCal for another minireunion, where she

and Margo and Julie got to do some extreme paddle boarding, amongst other activities. Elsewhere in LA, media mogul Jeff Hirsch has become the CEO of Starz, Inc.; can a juicy and/ or heartwarming miniseries about our class be far off???

Karen (Haus) Moran, Richard Carriere, Margo Christou, and Julie Meyer have a T’99 minireunion in Southern California

Grant Walter and Sean Kearns both made the trip from Colorado. Grant brought along his delightful wife Erin (in her first visit to Hanover), and we hope she comes back again and gives us more updates on the bug project! Big kudos to Erin for acting as roving photographer and capturing some of the silliness of the weekend. Sadly, we lost one of our dear Colorado Tuckies when Zane Heninger unexpectedly passed away in June. Sean did a heartfelt tribute to Zane at our Saturday event, and we all appreciated the loving thoughts about our classmate. Zane leaves behind his wife Kerry and two young children—Emily and Nolan—as well as a lifetime of treasured memories with family and friends. Zane’s hugs are legendary, as is his massive capacity to help and take care of people. So many of the iconic memories of our time at Tuck were captured in the thousands of photos Zane took while we were at school, and we encourage everyone to similarly keep his memory alive. An educational fund has been set up for Zane’s kids at Ugift529.com; code: 937-V14. As we are all increasingly recognizing how truly precious time is, perhaps one of the most exciting recent T’99 developments is that James LaRowe is fully embracing a new adventure and starting a career as a novelist! He has visions of Big Little Lies meets Wall

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Street and we can’t wait to see what he writes. With his keen observation skills, wit, and overall insight, we think whatever he creates will be amazing. Good luck James, and let us know when we can find it on Amazon. We see people lining up for film option rights too....

his wife Christine and son Arthur, since they had things to do in Cambridge. Even after a long drive and humid weather Alex had his signature smile!

’00 Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

John Rudge, a.k.a. Ruggles/Snuggles/Big Daddy, had the forethought to assemble a T’99 time capsule for our perusal at the Saturday evening dinner. Interesting artifacts included our original class Facebook, the list of first postgraduation jobs, and an ad from the Tuck Times sponsored by the now defunct Salomon Brothers. The prize item was a 30-year-old bottle of scotch that was awarded to Seb for his acumen on the trivia quiz. This particular bottle of scotch was contributed by Hoyt Gier 20 years ago when it was already 10 years old. Bold move, Hoyt!

Tom Sherwood and John Rudge at the Reunion Saturday night dinner

Overall, the reunion was a truly affirming experience—it reinforced how lucky we are to have lifetime friends who will always share a history together. It seems everyone had a few of those laugh-so-hard-you-cry-or-pee moments that make all the trains, planes and automobiles required to attend 100 percent worth the effort. Until the 25, keep us in the loop and we miss you all!

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As I write this, it’s quite startling to realize that our 20th reunion is soon upon us. I remember Jon Farley and I once tried to predict what it would be like at the 20th reunion when it seemed so far away. While some things, such as the trajectory of technological progress, mean that we knew that Blitzmail over dial-up wasn’t going to be how we would communicate in the future, other aspects of the intervening years—such as the lasting echoes of the September 11 attacks, the GFC, and climate change—mean that the world is quite different here on the other side of the tipping point of middle age. Before this gets too sentimental, I thought I’d mention that if you want to experience a bit of a blast from the past to get you into the Reunion mood, check out www.tuck2000. com, which is still chugging away in largely the same form as when it was launched. In particular, if you navigate to the Interesting Links section you will find the actual archived personal pages from the old W: drive untouched in 20 years! As for the class notes.... Antwane Owens is the new operations CFO for the Middle East and North Africa for Amazon. He will be based in Dubai for 18-24 months starting in November. Leslie Fong wrote in to say that life has been busy keeping up with her 3-yr-old son (Matthew Fong-Mustard). This summer, she got to catch up with Grant Beggs and his family for a fun day at Disneyland. Matthew looks up to Grant’s daughter Gigi (Georgina Beggs-Garcia) like a big sister and was always asking where she was so he could hold her hand! Also got to see Alex Smith (T’99) when she and her husband took Matthew to visit her family in Boston. Unfortunately, they missed

Leslie Fong with Alex Smith T’99

Georgina Beggs-Garcia and Matthew Fong-Mustard

James Q. Rice had a great time sailing with Big John Struthers and his family off Fishers Island, New York, this past August. The first photo shows James leaving Morgan Point Light in his wake on the way to pick up their motley crew. Big John’s long-lost relatives owned the gray shingled house in the background on Clay Point up until about a decade ago. It may be the most modest and traditional house on the island after the invasion of the megamansions. Big Jon claims they were NOT the family responsible for shooting professional-grade fireworks back at the Dupont compound across West Harbor on Hawks Nest under the cloak of darkness many a July 4th. The third photo shows Big John’s two daughters up on deck while their cousin (Dash) stayed down below. WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES Ironically, Daughter #1 knew her stuff and drank all the ginger ale while Daughter #2— and Dash—became seasick after going down below to babysit their respective smartphones for most of the trip. It is truly a dog-eat-dog world out on the high seas! Mary Struthers transformed from a worried mom into an old salt within minutes of crawling aboard James’ J/24 sailboat, named Sparky. Looking forward to their next sail scheduled for 2030 (family pattern is to visit Fishers Island every 11 years).

as COO, it’s a Tuck dream team to take on the industrial hemp industry. The photo nearby shows Jerry on his last day of training before the big urinalysis test.

’01 Gail Perreault gperreault7@gmail.com

[Editor’s note: Look on the 2001 class-notes pages at myTUCK for more pics!] Hi T’01s, Just when I thought we might have relatively little to share this issue, the updates came flowing in. Career changes, babies, moves, marriages—we’ve got it all.

James Q. Rice leaving Morgan Point Light near Fishers Island, New York

The crew of the Sparky

Jerry Newton, newest Tuck Ecofibre executive

For those of you not on Facebook, there is some news you would have missed on the Tuck2000 wall. Markus Koch and Xili Wu celebrated Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary in London with the London Eye illuminated in green. Sherilyn Butler ran into Beth Smith on the streets of Seattle. There is a cute picture with Sherilyn’s newest corgi on the page. Kiran Mishra Smith, David Shapiro, and Allen Gove met up randomly on a street corner somewhere with no geo-tag. David Menko, Mark Permann, David Ehrich, and Big John Struthers caught up in NYC with their families. Separately, David Menko met up with Phong Nguyen and their whole families as well. Ace Suzuki played host to Jeff Stern and also visited Anil D’Souza. Word on the street is that Ace is also planning a trip Down Under later this year too. Although I’m writing this in October, by the time you read this it will probably be time to wish you happy holidays and new year!

The Struthers daughters

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Let’s start with Gina Clark des Cognets, who reported a big change in her professional life: “After 13 wonderful years, I ended my working career at Tuck in early July. Dean Slaughter has a strong team in place for his second term, so when all the signs were telling me it was time to find new challenges and growth opportunities, I decided to move on. I took the summer off to spend time with Archer, the girls, and with myself to do some deep reflection on how I wanted to ‘live my why’ in my next chapter. I am thrilled to share I am in the process of starting a company with two incredible women cofounders. Connection 101 is about helping human beings do what they are hardwired to do—connect. We combine communications skills with character strengths in a dynamic and engaging program, and we are currently piloting our offering with teens in schools and on athletic teams, as well as planning pilots with teams of business people. I’m doing some strategic project work and business coaching on the side, as well as continuing my studies at Vanderbilt in the online EdD program. We are staying in Norwich and have a cozy guest room, so please give me a shout if you are coming through town.” Jason Copland also faced some big changes on the career front: “This winter we made the tough decision to close my family business of 78 years and sell the facilities. Our two largest customers informed us that they would be moving their business to China at the end of the year, and it made no sense to lose tons of money. We elected to pay all of our vendors and treat our employees like the family they are and pay them until the end of the year and help them all find jobs. It has been a whirlwind, but I came through it on my

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live in London, still love this city (hate Brexit though), and can’t wait for our farm to be ready late spring 2020. We will have a heaven to look forward to every school holiday—it’s a stunning region—though we may have a few long passport queues to get in and out of UK. Open invite to any T’01s to come and stay with us in Brittany.”

feet and with my honor and dignity. I began pursuing my MA from Southeastern Baptist Seminary three weeks ago and needless to say I have made some big life changes. This is something I have been wanting to do for many years, and I even remember talking to Dav [Aaron Davenport] about it at our fifth reunion many moons ago. I still am not sure where the road will take me, but I am enjoying the trip. I also like to remind myself of Tolkien’s quote, ‘Not all who wander are lost.’ All of my contact info will remain the same, and please look me up if any of you are in NC.” We have two new marriages to report, including Katrina Veerman’s: “A lot has happened for me in the last year, but most importantly Mike and I got married. We eloped on Sunset Rock in Warren, Vermont, in May. Snow on the ground, wind in my hair, and joy in our hearts. I’ve been spending a lot of time in Connecticut and Rhode Island and was lucky enough to see Amy and Chris Lund this summer. I am seeing Shelley Huchel Guiley on Tuesday and can’t wait. Otherwise, PK Coffee is doing well. We have a wonderful team, and we were set to open our second location in Waterbury, VT, this December. Come say hi in Rhode Island, New York, or Vermont. (Yes—I seem to be living in my car!!)”

Gretchen Ki Steidle at her June wedding to Daniel Ellis

returned to the US after seven years in Asia. We are in Alexandria, VA to start, but final location will depend on the next job.” Steve Bonz and John Selkrig took fellow Hawk’s Nester Asi out in a celebratory send-off in Singapore, with Asi noting that they “raised many a glass.”

Steve Bonz and John Selkrig give fellow Hawk’s Nester Asi de Silva a warm send-off in Singapore

Katrina Veerman and husband Mike Warburg at their elopement (along with their officiant)

Wedding bells were also ringing for Gretchen Ki Steidle: “I got married on June 21st to Daniel Ellis on our land in Ashland, Oregon. Isobel Shih Cox (who officiated) and Cristina Stadler Ljungberg were there with their amazing families! We are happily living in the mountains above Ashland with our 7-monthold son Will, 8-year-old daughter Avery, three dogs, two cats, and a dozen chickens.” Asi de Silva won the biggest move award this issue, reporting that “the de Silvas have

Providing a birth announcement and so much more, Candice Handrick wrote in with an update on all that she and Greg Handrick have been up to: “So much to write about.... 2019 has maybe topped up all previous years in terms of madness! In January Greg started a new job at Lippincott as managing director of Europe & Middle East. He’s super happy, and it’s a joy to see him thriving like this! Since we can’t do things in small measures, I gave birth at home to our fifth (!) baby 10 days into his new job. And to make it even more fun, especially since we don’t get many invites with so many children, we started the massive restoration project of the farm we bought in Brittany (north of France). So really this has been a crazy year, nothing boring about it. We still

Photo montage of the Handricks given that “it’s impossible to get all of us in one frame,” with Sienna (13), Kaspar (11), Felix (9), Lexie (5), and Torben (8 months old).

Ilsa Webeck has been busy in and outside of work, too: “While there have been ups and downs, in November I am happy to be celebrating my fifth anniversary running a boutique consulting firm focusing on strategic marketing and market research for medical technology companies. It has been fun to be involved in a wide range of projects and technologies. I am still singing and saw Kristen Eble [Maynard] in Belmont for a performance. And, I’m still playing basketball, but now also coaching. The MA Miracles is a 50+-year-old women’s team that is part of the senior national games (think senior Olympics, and no I am not old enough to play with them yet), and our team won gold in our division this past summer! We are looking for more singers and ballers so Boston-area folks should get in touch if you are interested!” Liz Walles Duda and her family continue to work in their community to advance healthy lifestyles: “Representing Eat Smart Move More York County (which I chair), my children and I were interviewed by a local TV station on preparing healthy lunches and after-school snacks as kids headed back to school. My son

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CL ASS NOTES loves to perform and is a natural, whereas my daughter is more like me, wanting to do well but having to work at it. After the interview, my son said, ‘That was so much fun!’ and my daughter said, ‘I didn’t burst into tears!’” There were also some fun catch-ups with fellow classmates. Kristen Eble Maynard met up with Kelly Johnson in mid-September, when he trekked up from Orange County to meet her for lunch while she was briefly in LA. Mike Ewald hosted Aaron Davenport, Ross DeMont, Ray Faust, Michael Sullivan, and Jed Turner for a weekend golf getaway on Cape Cod. And Brook Potter and Meredith Lincoln Petitjean took in the US Open tennis tournament together. I’ll close with highlights from this year’s Mighty Moose. In late September, several of us gathered in Concord, MA, for the second annual Mighty Moose 5K Fun Run/ Walk—an event to raise funds for ovarian cancer research at Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and to honor the life of our dear friend Jenna Hoge Swaim. The Mighty Moose—a name inspired by Jenna’s Alaskan roots, love for fun, and strength—was once again a huge success. Over 1,200 people registered, and the donations, taken together with related fundraising activities, totaled over $250,000. Derek Swaim shared that if ovarian cancer is detected in stage 1 or 2, the survival rate is roughly 90 percent. That rate plunges to 20 to 25 percent with stage 3 or 4 detection. Yet only 15 percent of women with ovarian cancer are detected in the early stages. To increase early detection, researchers at Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have recently developed a blood test that accurately detects ovarian cancer in the early stages. They have already started using the test with women who are at high risk of ovarian cancer and are focusing on expanding its use to the general population. This means that research the Mighty Moose helps to support is already saving lives, in line with Jenna’s vision.

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

’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

Amy Gillin amygillin01@gmail.com

Greetings all! I [Amy] hope these notes find you and your families healthy and happy and enjoying your winter (or maybe your summer?) wherever you may be! Out of the gate, I want to first thank Lisa for shouldering the T’02 class notes solo for a number of years now. She is obviously a natural at staying in touch and connecting the dots for everyone, not only in our class, but as an ambassador for both Dartmouth and Tuck...so Lisa, from me, from Tuck, and from all of your T’02 friends and classmates—a sincere and heartfelt thank you! My first installment of our class notes begins with a long-distance submission from Sarah Millard: “Louie (Cheng T’03) and I met Josh Silverstone and Ying Zhang in Shanghai for their annual Shanghai dinner, joined by (baby) Colby Cheng. We went for Xinjiang food, which was a first for Josh—lamb, lamb, and more lamb! Had a good time catching up on China and US politics and ended up shutting down the restaurant after spending so long talking & trying multiple dishes. Josh braved the Shanghai subway system back to his hotel across the river—good job Josh!”

Shanghai dinner with Josh, Ying, and the Millard/Cheng family

Lisa and I also received a timely update from Jeff Lessard, who has recently made a significant career change and who appears to be taking advantage of all that New Hampshire has to offer (including time at Tuck!). “After 12+ years at Cushman & Wakefield I’m taking on a new challenge as global head of real estate and facilities at Analog Devices. I’m looking forward to working with John Greco! My wife Kate and I live in Bedford, NH with our sons Connor (10) and Alexander (4.5). We ski every weekend in the winter, and it was fun to run into Cynthia and Matt Umscheid (T’01) at Sunapee and to help Eric Knapp track his son’s times while I was working a race at Pat’s Peak. “In May, I was a visiting executive for Professor Brian Melzer’s Real Estate class. Having dinner with students, co-teaching two sections, and having office hours was surreal and a lot of fun. I only wish I had the professor’s prerogative to cold-call! Perhaps next year. The campus looks beautiful, the students super impressive (as always), and it was wonderful to visit with Sally Jaeger, Steve Lubrano, Becky Rice-Mesec, Andy Steele, and Bill Tine.” In our back-and-forth about the sharing of secretary duties, Lisa hinted at a T’02 summer get-together. In reaching out to Matt Fates for a few more details, Matt indicated that he and Katie hosted approximately 35 people— including T’02s, spouses, and kids—at an August BBQ at their home in Boxford, MA. In attendance were Boston-centric Tuckies including Lisa, Matt Camp, Christina Reyes, Gretchen Curry, John Sweeney, Alexis McLaughlin, Eric Knapp, Rebecca Burstein, Rajeev Parlikar, and Rob Roth.” A picture of this gaggle would be outstanding, but it sounds like there was more running after kids as opposed to posing with kids, so no group photo

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was taken. That said, if anyone finds a random Fates BBQ photo between now and summer notes submission, feel free to send it in—we would love to see you all! Matt Camp reached out shortly after the BBQ with an exciting update: “After 13 wonderful years at ICIC (icic.org), and thanks to my college roommate’s amazing wife Michele Gay, I started a new role this week overseeing two separate initiatives for LimeLife by Alcone: the Brighter Together Foundation and an impact equity fund focused on empowering women entrepreneurs. “The Brighter Together Foundation’s mission is to foster the innate entrepreneurial spirit of women in the most impoverished societies around the world. Its primary work is around a savings-led micro-financing program that teaches women about entrepreneurship and financial security. We will also set up a separate private equity impact fund targeting women entrepreneurs who need resources to grow. The fund will look for portfolio companies that are profitable and have forward momentum, are female headed/managed, and have a product or service that elevates confidence and income earning potential in women. We will leverage LimeLife’s extensive global network of over 40,000 sales reps. “This role gives me some exciting new challenges that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I can build something from the ground up, be more heavily involved with capital deployment, and work directly with small businesses. I will also get exposure to international economic development. I will continue to advise ICIC through 2019. My plan is to tap into my network for support in the coming weeks, so please reach out if you have any advice to give!”

A snuggly Camp family photo

Matt also shared a sweet family photo of him, his wife Melanie, and his children Dylan (5) and Cece (who will be 2 in January). Matt, I hope you have enough energy to keep up with both the new role and the little ones! I received two additional updates from classmates who have ventured across the pond only to find themselves immersed in a political situation even more convoluted than ours here in the United States! Who knew that was possible? From Julie Prince Hojlo: “We do have news to share. Chris (Hojlo T’01) & I and our three children (Teddy, 11, and Philip and Leigh, both 3) just moved to London this summer. Chris took a job last November at Apollo, and I moved with our kids this summer. Chris & I also just made plans to see Alex Schwoerer in 2 days! Alex is here for the Dartmouth Global Summit, which we forgot to sign up for but may try to squeeze into. Life has been crazy with our two 3-year-olds and we realize why traditionally parenting was done in one’s 20s and 30s—sleep has definitely been lacking for both of us this 18 months. I am going to continue my break from work for a while to get through this latest life transition but am already starting up running again and hope to have time to submerge myself in all that the UK and Europe has to offer. Make America Great Britain Again!” And from Kate Thunnissen, who is also now in London: “After many years of living and working in NYC, a couple months ago I took a new job as chief marketing officer for Trint, a fast-growth start-up in London. It’s nice to be back, I always enjoyed living in London in my past, and of course it’s great being closer to family in France. Granted, I also thought it would be nice to get away from the insanity of US politics, but I walked right into the insanity of Brexit...!”

Thanks again to Lisa for all of her efforts these many years, thanks to all of you who provided updates—and to all other T’02s, keep the news coming and let us know what (and more importantly, how...) you’re doing! Submit your updates online via the class notes submission form (http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/submit_ class_notes) or you can continue to send them to Lisa and me at our email addresses above. We really would love to hear from you. Take care all! —Amy

’03 Brian Feltz feltz.brian@gmail.com

Hello, friends. This edition of class notes will be a little light on volume, but definitely not substance. As you’ve likely heard by now, we lost our classmate Christopher Batt this past May. He was deeply loved by many and will be sorely missed. I don’t know anyone who loved life more than Batty, and he lived it to the fullest every day. Many Tuckies traveled from near and far to attend his memorial service—and while of course it was a somber day, it was also a day of heartwarming celebration. Chris’s brother Martin and his family hosted a wonderful reception, and we gave our friend a right and proper send-off, with plenty of tears but also lots of laughter.

Good luck to both Julie and Kate as they navigate their new lives in London. We’ll be waiting for first-person accounts from you and other T’02 Londonites as the politics play out!

The shirts helped set the festive mood, and while it felt a little awkward wearing a Hawaiian shirt to a funeral, I’m sure Batty wouldn’t have had it any other way. And to see the smile on little Eamonn’s face—who had started the trend by asking Lena if he could wear a Hawaiian shirt (like he and his dad would often enjoy wearing together to parties) instead of a suit, it all felt very right.

Last but not least, thanks to everyone who reached out just to say “Hi” and to catch up a bit after I sent out my late-in-the-game request/ appeal/plea for additional updates. It was fantastic to hear from so many of you—and I look forward to re-connecting with more friends and classmates in the months to come!

Over the summer, a few of us got to pay further tribute to Batty while in Nashville for our annual fantasy football draft (i.e., excuse to get away for the weekend and act like idiots for a couple days). Ryan Mayhugh managed to capture the absolute essence of Batty, and we all honored his memory—both with the t-shirts

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Nice candid shot from Tuck reunion submitted by Nate Chang

Batt Celebration

That about does it for this edition. It wasn’t quite my intention to make this write-up exclusively a reflection on Batty—but as it happens, there weren’t any other updates from T’03 Nation this time around, and for once I wasn’t too bothered about that if it meant giving Batty the spotlight. But I’d love to change that in time for the next edition, so please keep those updates coming! Nashville 2019

Until next time.... Be well! —Feltzy

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able to find my CEO successor for Loanboox yet (applications welcome!), so I’m hanging on to my double-mandate CEO and chairman. That plus ten advisory roles in start-ups I invested in makes quite a work schedule. Most importantly though, I’m able to spend many evenings a week with the kids and Sonya. And since I’ve read Why We Sleep from Matthew Walker (a must!) I strictly sleep eight hours. Well, almost strictly. Plus, I started a fitness program in order to reverse my age. Now, at 47, it’s time to get younger again.” Our Hanover correspondent, Jack Lee, connected with Brian and Natalie Wallace when they passed through town during their family trip to Boston and Maine. Jack writes that he “didn’t get to see their full hockey line of kids but was great to catch up with them about their moves to and from the South.”

Frank Arias frankarias97@gmail.com

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in his likeness and by living it up as much as he would have...or doing our best to try—he set a pretty high bar! A GoFundMe account has been established to provide financial assistance and support services to Lena and the boys (Eamonn, 7, and Ciaran, 4). If you’re interested, head to www. gofundme.com/chris-batt-memorial-fund.

Hello everyone. This column was submitted a few days after class reunion. I hope that those of you who attended had a wonderful time reconnecting and reminiscing with classmates, Tuck staff, and loved ones. As is often the case, the column coinciding with a reunion tends to be quite brief. We do have updates from a couple of our usual suspects. Stefan Muehlemann excitedly reports that Loanboox has hit hypergrowth mode. “Six countries, 30 billion in financing requests, 50 employees, and rapidly growing. I haven’t been

Brian and Natalie Wallace catch up with Jack Lee in Hanover

From their part, the Lees had a great summer, which kicked off with the high school graduation of one of our early Tiny Tuckies, Maggie Lee, who graduated from Hanover High School. Jack writes, “Next, our annual

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’05 Shawn Card shawn.d.card.tu05@dartmouth.edu

Dora Fang Jack Lee and family celebrating Maggie’s high school graduation

hut-to-hut in the White Mountains—hiking up to elevation and then staying in the mountains in the AMC huts. Next year, we will hit our last and then will have to figure out next move, maybe Alps (any suggestions welcome). Spent time at the Cape and then Jersey Shore before the big event of dropping off Maggie at college. She will be attending the University of Vermont in their nursing program and playing on their club hockey team. Maeve is (not so much) missing her sister and started 8th grade in the fall, following in her big sister’s footprints in soccer, ice hockey, and lacrosse in the spring.” I will close with an update from my end. After an eight-month break, I finally figured out what I wanted to do next. I switched industries and have joined an early SaaS start-up in Oakland. I am excited to be back in business-building mode, in an interesting space, and with a solid team. I work from home, but I expect to be making it down to the Bay Area more often, so I hope to meet up with Tuckies from the area for a bite or a drink some time. That is the end of this update edition. I wish you all a great rest of 2019. Please note that you can now send a note via the new class-notes submission form (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/submit_class_notes), or you can also continue to send your updates to my email address (frankarias97@gmail.com). Hope to hear from as many of you as possible. —Frank Arias T’04

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Greetings from Dora and Shawn—we’re really enjoying this new format, which both reduces the work on us (yay efficiency!) and increases connection/intimacy by going a little deeper with fewer classmates (double yay!). Somehow, last time we accidentally put in a (5year-old!) 2014 wedding pic/caption of Wojtek, rather than the announcement of his lovely 3rd child, daughter Ariella, born in February. Apologies, and happy 5th anniversary and 3rd child! *smile* [Look on the 2005 myTUCK notes pages for a pic of Ariella!] We already have 2 nominations for next issue, Joe Newsum and Julien Bradley, so we’ll definitely be in touch with them, as well as promises from Anna Vichniakova (who just had her 4th (!!!) child) and Guilherme Steagall to respond in time for the next one.... Otherwise, if you hear from us, or want to send an update, please do! We will, of course, ALWAYS, happily publish the news you submit to us at 2005tuckies@gmail.com.

saw Professor King working out there as well. In the middle of the workout, he came up to us and, in a really sheepish voice, he asked if that day’s lecture was OK, if it wasn’t too boring, and if the class was OK. Really surprising. Super introspective of him. (And his class was great, BTW.) 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional). I recently got married, and my wife is expecting (due date is January 28th). It’s been a whirlwind relationship, as we only met this past February. But when you know, you know. And, in a reference to my answer to Question #1, she lived a couple of blocks from me and we were introduced by a mutual friend, who also lived a couple of blocks away. I love Harlem! 4. Any surprising twists after school? I’ve had a few twists and turns on the career front since school. This includes working for the government (in the Treasury Dept under the Obama Administration) and living in South Carolina for a couple of years, which was a great experience. Here’s a surprise twist: I picked up soccer while living in South Carolina, the heart of the Bible Belt and football country, of all places. I was invited to sub in a rec league game, because they knew I was a runner. I had an absolute ball, having not had that much fun since I was a kid. I started watching soccer games with the surprisingly large European expat community in Greenville, SC. And now I’m obsessed with soccer, playing it whenever I can and watching no other sports except for track.

Loyally, Dora and Shawn. Desi Duncker 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? I’m living in Harlem, NY, now and I love it. I love the culture, the people, and the neighborhood environment. 2. Tell us a Tuck story. So many choices. Well, here’s a quick story from my time at Tuck that comes to mind, for some reason. Cem Sibay and I had just finished a class with Professor Andrew King and we went to the Dartmouth gym afterwards. We

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CL ASS NOTES Pauke Corstens 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? In summer 2018 we completed our San Francisco, Arkansas, Mexico City, San Francisco triangle and added two little boys along the way. Mexico was a ton of fun. Had a chance to work with Tom Kilroy again, which was a nice coincidence. After two years in Mexico, which felt like living in London with great weather, we decided to not return to Arkansas. It has been over a year now with Walmart.com in San Bruno running the home improvement category, and we are living again in our old house in Bernal Heights, although doing a major remodel. [Look on myTUCK for a picture of Pauke and family!] 2. Tell us a Tuck story. Fortunately, on occasion I run into Tuckies. Javier and Rony in Mexico. Fernando anywhere in the world! Not too long ago, Philip and I ran into Kate and Chase as we went out for dinner. Of course it has been wonderful to see Laurie and the girls and Vielcka’s little one, Annika, in NYC this summer. Looking forward to seeing Bonnie and Mark in a couple of weeks when visiting Chicago. The most difficult thing about having little ones is staying in touch with friends. Can’t wait for our reunion. 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional). As a proper Dutch, I will focus on our biking achievements. The best recent achievement is that Sebastian, our oldest, just started biking without needing help. It’s an very important milestone for a Dutch kid!! My mom will turn 80 next year and is still going strong biking around town on an old fashioned nonmotorized bike. The eBike trend here in SF is fascinating, not sure when I will get one. 4. Any surprising twists after school? This June, it was 15 years ago that Philip and I had our intro day for the Gap internship on San Bruno Avenue. Same street as were I work again these days. Just hired my favorite Gap colleague from those days again. It’s fun to be back in SF, but I miss Mexico and Europe. Soon travel with two very active little boys will hopefully become easier. Dima Mantsov 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? I am in between two places, Moscow (Russia) 112

and UNESCO Heritage [Centre] Bath (UK), where my two kids and wife Natalia live. 2. Tell us a Tuck story. I remember we together with Lee Johnson just after the last day at Tuck went on a heroic *smile* canoe trip on the Connecticut River and almost sunk on a small rapid. 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional). I sold half of the company (Blesk Incare) I started to French publicly traded company Elis. The company rents [textiles] to the clients (workwear, dust control mats, and other unexciting stuff ). I still own the other half and have become a CEO of ELIS Russia. If I am not mistaken, one of our classmates had worked for them after school. 4. Any surprising twists after school? I liked my experience at Tuck so much that I had become a student again. I [am going] to Skolkovo business school in Moscow for 18 months for an executive MBA and hope to graduate next May. It is the best business school in Russia.

Francis, Mati, and Yevgeny arm of PayPal Unity (the affinity group representing women at PayPal and striving to increase women inclusion in the corporate and e-commerce worlds). As part of Unity, I recently organized a negotiation training for the women in our Paris office that was conducted by a former hostage negotiator! 4. Who would you like to hear from next? I’d love to hear from Julien Bradley.

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5. Who would you like to hear from next? I never heard about Joe Newsum since Tuck.... We were neighbors at Sachem Village. Say hello to him if you have contacts. *smile* Francis Barel 1. Where are you living now and what do you like about it? I’ve been back in France for 10 years now, after having spent 4 years in NY City out of Tuck. I miss NY (and being closer to all the US-based ’05s), but living in Paris is great because the quality of life is unmatched (the food, the skiing, the friends) despite the long work hours (we do work 35 hours, but over 2 days *smile*). 2. Tell us a Tuck story. I got to spend an amazing Sunday in July cooking s’mores with Yevgeny and Mati and see our children run around the Neginsky gardens together. 3. Describe a recent achievement (can also be family, volunteer, vacation, athletic, neighborhood, church, etc. in addition to professional). Ever since my daughter was born, I’ve become an even stronger feminist! So I’m very proud to say I was the first man to join the European

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Seriously. Didn’t we just write one of these? We recently saw some article—OK, we read some headline—that as you age, time actually goes faster. Or maybe it was how you experience time? Bah, something to do with proportions or fractions; is it because we’re the lowest common denominator? What is this, DecSci? Whatever. Forget all of that, we’re just happy to have another chance to bring you some semi-stale, quasi-reliable news and humblebrags from your treasured business school classmates. In fact, let’s start with some really stale news— news that came in after the deadline for our last Tuck Today. We’ll call this section “Vintage Tuck.” Leah Bayer and Hamish Morrin have some big news from early 2019: “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

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managed to round up quite an international and Tuck contingent on basically no info and at short notice. Half the small group knew we were getting married, and other half, including Hamish’s parents, found out as they arrived.” Unfortunately, the short timing meant that Hamish didn’t receive Kummell’s “Wedding Night 101” PowerPoint presentation. High skim value, low practical value. “Hamish is still with Armadillo and learning German much faster than anyone expected. I bizarrely am running Mediq Germany—700 team and I’m the only native English speaker (read, my whole day is back to auf Deutsch). Four locations across Germany, and plenty of daily challenges. We’re enjoying it more than expected and split our time between Frankfurt and Saarburg, a small town near Luxembourg, in two of the four office locations.” (Kummell is somehow connected to Hamish on an exercise app called Strava and watches with awe as he and Leah cycle something like 50 miles a day.) Mark Seaton wrote in late last time around, too—so we’re probably not reliable on ages of children, but here you go: “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. You were so right in your email below when you suggested we write back quickly before school emails came flowing in. Guilty. 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.”

this year seemed to fly by, as the days sometimes feel like crawling through molasses. Balancing work and family is a never-ending challenge.” “I continue to gain more responsibility at work, now leading a larger team that covers for more and more industries. As many of our classmates have mentioned, the learnings from the softerskill classes are used more and more. Granted, dealing with negative interest rates weren’t really part of our textbooks.” They were, Tommy.... Suffering from your own negative interest rate in Womack’s class? “Personally, the family has been able to visit friends and see some sights. I visited Iowa for the first time. Much of Jessica’s family are organic farmers, so we visited the Heartland and our extended family. I had the opportunity to feed pigs, gather eggs, and milk a cow. It was confirmed that my ‘office hands’ aren’t as useful on the farm. Those folks really work.” “In July. I was able to lean on a business trip to bring the entire family to Europe. During our London leg, we were fortunate to stay with the Shahs, who are wonderful hosts. It was great to spend time with them, sharing our days at a dinner every night when we all returned from our respective days. And Audra and Leo were great helping with Isla, everyone breaking into song when the kiddo was upset. It felt like we were in a modified version of Mary Poppins.” Wait, who’s Isla? I think you skipped an update, Tommy. Either that, or we’re not even reading Tuck Today ourselves. Coin toss, really.

Tommy Cho seems to have read the same article on how fast time is moving: “As the saying goes, the days are long, the years are short. For me,

Csaba did the whole “writing about yourself in the third person to make our life easier” thing for us: “Csaba Nagy married Valerie Krampac on May 4th, 2019, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. They were joined by Martin Chai and Alison Sekikawa. (And yes, we did have lightsabers during the entrance song *smile* .)” We can only imagine that marriage-straining debates were had on the color of said lightsabers.

Csaba and Valerie’s Canadian wedding—we’re disappointed by the lack of Canadian tuxedos.

OK, now for some less stale news! Manning turned 45 this past summer, which made him realize clearly for the first time that he’s middle-aged. And, duh, he’s been middleaged for 5-7 years but has somehow lived happily as if he was not. But who was he kidding? Everything revolves around the kids, he needs his kids to get the TV to work, and all new clothing comes from the casual section of a golf pro shop. Oh well, let’s enjoy the back nine.

Melanie Sheer and family are still in Philadelphia but recently changed their part of town: “We moved across town in May to the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia in search of a bit more space. We are enjoying exploring our new neighborhood, and Parker and Sawyer love taking the SEPTA bus to school. They will turn three in October and are changing from toddlers into ‘big boys’ in front of our eyes! I started a new job at Estee Lauder last fall, still doing network modeling and supply chain strategy. I am kicking off a project that is going to involve some travel to Switzerland and Singapore, so I am excited to see some new parts of the world. If any of you are passing through Philadelphia, let us know!”

Chos and Shahs hanging out in London

“We also were able to enjoy time with other Tuckies at the Kummells. They fed us some amazing home-smoked meats, we got in some swimming at the end of the summer and got caught up with Lifeso, Geets, Kat, Hilary Daly, and their families. What a great end to the summer!”

Sounds like soon after, Chris Allen saw Csaba: “Csaba Nagy (+TP Valerie Krampac), Chris Allen (+TP Cindy Allen) and Song Yin (+TP Ted Harnell) all got together for a backyard BBQ in Toronto in July in honour of Csaba and Val. Song and family were visiting from Shanghai, while Chris and family had just come back from an Asia trip. Good times!” And yes, we’re leaving that “U” in honor—feels fancier that way! Speaking of extraneous vowels making an appearance: Cartoef fired over one of his irregular but appreciated updates from the Netherlands: “I can’t remember when I last provided an update but presumably before I really entered middle-age—undeniable balding, up early Saturday morning to coach daughter’s WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES field hockey, and very little flip cup. Selina and I have moved to Haarlem, a minicity just outside the minicity of Amsterdam. When I mention Haarlem to Americans, it seems to first conjure an image of us roughing it next to the Metro North line and second to raise the question of why the Dutch would name something after a New York City borough. But the Dutch Haarlem is a friendly old city-town where my middle-aged self is happy to see kids biking themselves to school.” “On the work front, I have also had some geographic shift by investing and managing a French food ingredient factory. In the past it’s always been Dutch SMEs that I have focused on. I’ve had to dig deep into my Mary Munter notes on cultural differences and try to reignite the six years of French I had in school. Here too the unions have a strong voice, but so far I haven’t been chucked out! Thanks, and come visit the Dutchies!” Ben Magnano. Ben Magnano! Ben and Effie recently celebrated their 16th anniversary, “thankfully with zero of our four children, with a hike on Mt. Blackmore near our home in Big Sky. Speaking of Big Sky, if anyone finds themselves in the area we’d love to host skiing/ reminiscing/drinking. Please send us a text or email. We’re there often January–March and June–August. We were also lucky to spend a couple days with Nes, Laura, and Nes Sr. in London.” Don’t tell Ben, but Keeler is now planning on living in Big Sky from September to December and April to May.

Magnanos and Weigands taking in some tennis

Nelson Ocampo chimes in from Mexico: “All good down in Mexico! A few weeks ago I hosted the Tuck Latin American Council in Mexico, and it was good fun. Dean Slaughter was down here with part of his Tuck crew. Good times with some pretty cool peeps! Family doing well. Adrián is now 6 and

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Nelson and family at the beach

Craig Whitmer fired in what he believes to be his first-ever submission. Honestly, Kummell once wanted to make a spreadsheet about who wrote in when, whether we included it in the class notes...because data. And then we could nag you because you never wrote in.... But now there are, like, 30 of these, and that just sounds like too much effort. Back to Whitmer: “On the career front, after a few planned and then unplanned ‘sabbaticals,’ I managed to get out of ad tech but failed to find a job actually based in Seattle. So, I’m once again working remotely and ‘commuting’ to San Francisco a few times a month and elsewhere across the country. Got a gig at Postmates, so I guess I’m actually in the gig economy these days. Running enterprise sales for the top restaurant and retail chains. You’d be shocked to know that this country still had over 700 Long John Silver’s and we spend nearly half a billion dollars a year on fast-food fried fish!” (Kummell: Not surprised. Guilty.) “Now they can get it delivered to their doorstep with Postmates. So I’m clearly aiding the health of America. Ironically, on the personal front, we just moved about an hour outside of Seattle to a small horse farm where Postmates doesn’t yet deliver! By we, I mean Francesca (wife of 8 years), our two wiener dogs, a very large horse, and a 45-year-old box turtle). And the most exciting coming addition of our first child, due

just before Thanksgiving. We are waiting on gender, and apparently a woodland creature– themed baby room is gender-neutral enough. Life is busy with the move, coming baby, and a busy work travel schedule. But all good things. I even learned to use a rider mower the other day and was embarrassingly proud of myself for not breaking or crashing it.” Here’s hoping that the baby doesn’t come out beer-battered and fried, Long John Whitmer. Little known fact: Keeler has been conspiring to take Craig Whitmer down for years. (Please don’t tell Craig). Something about “not liking the cut of his jib” or “smells like wiener dogs.” Who knows. In response to Craig’s new gig, Keeler left Groupon for Postmates’ rival Grubhub. He’s in charge of running the overall marketplace, which for those of you not in the “delivery biz” means “getting’ sh!t done” and “making Craig’s RSUs worthless.” Other than that, things are great in Keeler-town. Quinn and Owen just started 6th and 5th grades and are almost as tall as their dad—which for the record is just stupid, not that Keeler is sensitive about it or anything. Have you noticed how omnichannel Falchuk is? Every time we open LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Myspace, Google+, Friendster, WeChat, Whatsapp, Classmates. com, Reddit, Strava, Quora, Untappd, Yelp, WebMD, we’re being admonished to Do A Day. Seriously, Kummell witnessed an email argument between Falchuk and Mark Nuckols and Bryan told Mark “just do a day, man.” Or maybe it was “just ‘do a day™,’ man.” We’ll have to go back into the archive to double-check. But we’re here to warn you that it’s about to get even REALER—it’s coming around Thanksgiving and it’s hidden in this update from Bryan: “So, I’ve been busy across two major fronts. First, I’ve been running sales for a start-up that provides text messaging solutions for insurance companies to serve customers better. It’s been fun, busy, crazy, and fun. We have Hawaiian Shirt Thursday and Nerf dart guns but don’t have a foosball table or other start-up-y things like free kombucha, unfortunately. I’ve also seen Kate MacLeay Crespo a couple of times and Jeff Blecher once, which were also fun but not crazy. Second, I’ve been working to get my second book published, which looks like it’ll be released in November. It’s called The 50 75 100 Solution: Build Better Relationships and is about how to solve relationship dysfunction. It’s based on

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the idea I shared in my second TEDx talk last year. I’m really excited and am hoping to score another best seller with it, so I’d love any help and support people can give. You can check out bryanfalchuk.com for more info on the release date and preordering info. I’ll have it available in all formats and at pretty much every place you can get books, ebooks, audiobooks, etc., so keep an eye out for it! Oh yeah, Kummell and I emailed about running shoes a bit, so I was busy on three fronts.”

Miami not to see me.” Sounds like you should count yourself lucky, Cheche!

Thanks Bryan, we’re looking forward to “just 50 75 100™” blasting across our social medias.

Andrew Grimson is turning (turned?) 60 at the end of October. He writes: “I am doing a fundraiser on Facebook for the next Habitat house. I am actually going to officially retire at year-end, but I am staying heavily involved in the organization. You are welcome to come spend a weekend working on a house.” Not sure if that “you are welcome” is just for your loyal class secretaries or for everyone—there are certainly some classmates we’d rather not see with a hammer in their hand.

Barry Bhola has moved to Jacksonville, Florida. JAX! “My son had a great 4th grade, his first in the US, and is now onto the 5th. I’m doing a consulting gig while having launched a start-up with a group based in the Bay Area that is focused on helping scientific, technology, and medical researchers seek out collaboration and feedback early on in data they are cultivating. Planning to be in the Bay Area for a few weeks in October.”

Leela Srinivasan is another one of those Falchuk-like omnipresent entities in our social media feeds—hard to believe she hasn’t sent class notes in in the twenty-teens, but according to Kummell’s ultra-accurate Class Notes Database™—it appears true! “Guys, look out of the window! Pigs are flying and I’m submitting class notes for the first time...in maybe a decade? Are we really so far distanced from the Hanover glory days?”

Karlston Nasser has hit the finish line in the “kids at home” race: “It is NOT hard to believe, because time marches on, but I may be an exception in our class. I am preparing to be an empty nester next fall. Breno, 22, has been out of the house for a few years, and Liebe, 17, will go to college at the same time. I am looking forward to some strange years without progeny around and more time in the evenings. After 13 years in my only job after Tuck, I will leave Hines and Houston (finally!!!) sometime before year-end. My plan is to try to feel young again by starting a student-housing real estate fund, initially in Boulder, CO, where I will be based, then replicating it in other cities. More to come.”

“Anyway, I’m super-sorry to have been off the radar, all while still somehow popping up every 15 seconds in your LinkedIn feed (what can I say, they trained me well in my 4.5 years at the big IN). Joel and I have been back in the Bay Area since 2014 and are pretty settled in the lovely town of Orinda, home to uniformly excellent K-12 schools and several 3.5-star restaurants. Our girls are now 10, 8, and 8 and doing all the things. I get semiregular sightings of ‘Auntie Sienna’ as the girls call her, and grab the occasional beer with Dan Meyer (I work in his ’hood). I also just had my first glimpse of Covahne since her amazing ‘round-the-world’ trip with her boys, as well as of Alli Henry, Martin and Gray, Matt Nichols, and all my favorite T’07s at a Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum event last week.

Thanks for Ezequiel Strachan for the update! Cheche writes: “We are still living in Miami, and the girls are growing fast. Abril (13, the tiny Tuckie back in 2006), Mia (10), and Amelie (7) are doing great. Valeria is also doing great, always finding something for me to do whenever I take a quick 6-hour nap. I recently changed jobs, after 11 years working for the Brazilian bank Itau, I switched over to Deutsche Bank. Still in wealth management for LatAm, but it was good to change companies and take on a new challenge. I haven’t seen many Tuckies lately; I almost met with Julian in Chile. And Juan Carlos ‘Gordo’ Salem comes to Florida but will purposely avoid

“Work is going well—I guess at this point I’ve become a proper marketer and am now CMO at SurveyMonkey. At the time of writing, it’s been a fun first 18 months there—we IPOed, acquired a couple of companies, and then most notably of all (?) I performed a number from Hamilton with my awesome CEO at our sales kickoff. I also somehow weaseled my way onto Tuck’s MBA Advisory Council, so I have an excuse to get back to Hanover once a year— spent a splendid evening chez Perrygo on my last trip back. Other than my commute, which is horrific, life is really good.”

Michi Okabe sent in a photo from a family trip to Karuizawa, Japan. “Miho, two sons (Sota, 14 years old, and Yuta, 12), and I are all doing fine in Japan. Also attached is two of my employee IDs, one from 2006 and the other one recently renewed. I have been wearing and watching the old one for the past 15 years, thinking I myself maintain the same look, and now suddenly the new one. I am now that old!? Shocked!” Friends, we’ll share the beautiful family photo, but keep the documentation that Father Time marches on tucked away in the class notes database. To us, you all look exactly as you did when we first met back in 2004. We’ll see you all next week, because we’re sure there’s another class notes due date just over the horizon. We think you look young, Michi. Of course, we’re old AF.

Michi, other than the gray hair, you’re totally unchanged!

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Happy fall! At least it’s fall now while we’re writing this. Writing the class notes is a little like time travel, which still confuses us. So in the dimension where we’re writing this from, the leaves are turning in Hanover, firstyears just are finishing their last final exam (accounting) of fall A and will be directed to Stell for some bubbly, and it has been exactly two years since our last Tuck Reunion and that awesome cheese plate at Errik’s house. Can you remember that first crisp autumn morning on campus when you walked outside and said, “I am not a vest person, however I think now is definitely the time for me to buy

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CL ASS NOTES a North Face vest!”? In world events, there is a typhoon threatening the Rugby World Cup, which is being played in Japan, and the hosts are currently leading group A with 3 wins, including a stunner over 4th ranked Ireland. The final won’t be played until Nov 2—we’re sure you’ll all be watching. Speaking of things that confuse us...our “bonus” question in this edition’s survey was about the economy, inspired by Christian Koether’s recommendation last time around. Before we dive into the sophisticated analysis of the ever-shifting geopolitical situation, underlying economic fundamentals, and salient analysis of the impact of the house of Jupiter on the 2nd rising moon you all shared, we thought we’d start with some life updates from y’all. First up is Ravi Raj, who gets top billing because this is the first time he’s written in since graduation. We love to hear from those of you who’ve been laying a bit low since we left Hanover. Ravi runs an experiential learning company (authentica.com) that “designs and delivers transformational travel-learning experiences.” They have survived the start-up stage and are now focused on growth—so “welcome ideas and leads from my peeps *smile*!” Helping them with growth was the FYP-GO team from Tuck they had recently working with them. The Tuckies got to visit Authentica’s office in Pune, India, and Ravi was also able to make it to their final presentation on campus.

Words with Friends? We know a great company thanks to my wife stepping on course to help that specializes in transformational travelme through the last 7 miles (in jeans).” Lots of learning experiences if you’re looking for some exciting updates there, but honestly we can’t postretirement adventures.... get past the marathon in jeans story. We’re not sure if it got cold and jeans were then required Definitely not retiring any time soon, for Benjamin to stay warm, or if she brought Christian Koether was promoted to the CEO Benjamin a pair of special jeans that gave him of Kitchen Brains. CEO. A company called stamina for the last seven miles (“Brotherhood “Kitchen Brains.” It all sounds very impressive, of the Marathon-Running Jeans” anyone?), Christian. Is this why you wanted us to ask or even if she carried him the rest of the way folks about their prognostications about the while wearing jeans, but in every scenario this state of the economy? is deeply impressive and you are a lucky man. We’ve not run a combined seven miles this year. Jimmy Lee moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area from Switzerland after being away for Chris Selden and his wife Claire welcomed a 5 years. We’re imagining there’s some serious baby girl in April and she’s now “a five-monthculture shock going on. Doesn’t Switzerland old beautiful, bouncy, and babbling babe.” Chris have a reputation for being, say, neutral? reports her name is Adeline Amos Selden (did Welcome home Jimmy! I say Amos?! I meant Ames) and she’s a total sweetheart. We are absolutely loving the Father’s Day get-up Chris and, by the time this column is published, a very happy first birthday to her!

The Lee family

Chris with Addy Selden

Ravi Raj and the Tuck FYP-GO team he worked with

Also first (to respond to our survey) is Benjamin Farmer, who is “still living in Boston within a 10-minute walk from the office. Bought my first house, which is way more work than renting. Ran my first marathon,

Staying on the Chris train, Chris Martens checked in with this very brief yet very intriguing update: “I’m retiring at the end of the month! This time I mean it!! And I’m probably going to buy my first smartphone soon.” Chris—we need details! Retiring from what? How? Where? Whatcha going to do besides get hopelessly addicted to TikTok and

Also moving back to California, Wendy (Fung) and Tony Driscoll have found themselves back in LA. Tony is working at Warner Bros after spending the last couple of years on the Time Warner acquisition from the AT&T side. Wendy is channeling Katniss Everdeen and has taken up archery after “impulse-purchasing a recurve bow at L.L. Bean while we visited Maine this summer.” As one does. One of your authors did the same on his 40th birthday, just not in Maine. The Driscoll young ones—Emma (6), Erinn (4), and Ellie (4)—are all budding equestrians, modeled after their adopted Aunt Caroline (Allen) Kwiatkowski. Conveniently for us and the narrative flow of this column, Caroline also responded to our survey. In addition to inspiring the equestrian dreams of the Driscoll kids, she’s started a new job as head of strategy for a $15B alternative firm called Varde Partners.

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Speaking of strategery, we were also thrilled to hear from world-famous, record-setting Casey “McSuper-Handsomeous” McCullar. While some parts of that last sentence might be a wee bit of hyperbole, the record-setting part is 100% accurate. Casey’s team made it into the Guiness Book of World Records for detecting the closest lightning strike to the North Pole since the last ice age. I mean, some people take cooking classes as a team event—Casey and his team set world records. Such overachievers. Time for a run with the Farmers. Also giving off some seriously awesome overachiever vibes is Jason Coloma. He took on the CEO role of a new biotech that launched with a $200M round in Feb 2019, while he also keeping his venture partner role at a biotech VC firm. Jason also “gets to” work with a guy named Errik Anderson at Anderson’s new company, Alloy Therapeutics, where he is a board member. Jason—that sounds like an awful lot of work. Have you considered a vacation? We know a great travel company based in India...you could take your not-so-tiny Tuckies with you. Jason says his oldest is a junior in high school and one is an 8th grader, which is obviously impossible since we just graduated last year and time doesn’t work that way because if it does then that means many of us are in our 40s and that just seems impossible. Also impossible.... Lauren (Pastrich) and Ben King are keeping it super chill just “trying to function as a family with 4 young kids and 2 careers, HA!” So—thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Speaking of thoughts & prayers, Heather (Onstott) Perrygo reports they hosted 52 people in 52 days at “Chez Perrygo” in NH this summer. Whew. We are exhausted just thinking about that. Apparently that’s not enough of a challenge for her, so she added “you’re invited” to her update. We’re pretty sure she meant all of you are invited and not just us. But on the off chance we’re wrong, our apologies Heather & Doug. We know someone with a nice lakefront house you could go visit to get away from it all! Oh wait.... Nuno Soares Carneiro is still in SW Australia “watching the kids grow up as outdoor Rugrats. Taking my oldest boy (9) on a boys surf trip to Indonesia in December and looking forward to watching Theo get better waves than his dad. *laugh*)”

Laetitia Veleba checked in from London with this update: “Yes, I did start a diet: eating less. And I’ve learnt to cook: moussaka and chicken korma. Reading Harry Potter to the boys, and one of them has reached a reasonable age to watch his first Star Wars movie! (Which one should I start with??)” We don’t know about this “eating less” business (next you’ll be telling us we are also supposed to “exercise more”), but we can firmly get behind reading Harry Potter, watching Star Wars (start with A New Hope), and eating homemade moussaka and chicken korma with the family. Sounds like the perfect weekend. Closer to home, Daniella Reichstetter is back in Hanover as the executive director for the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship. One of the many perks of the job is that she gets to work with our very own Marc Aquila and Stephen Pidgeon. You too can work with a tall, goofy T’07 in career services. We’re here all day! One of the things we most love about class notes and asking the question “What’s new?” is that it elicits such a range of answers, in the best possible way. If you didn’t respond to the survey this time around because you felt like you didn’t have something “epic” to share, know that brief answers are also welcome. We really just want to hear from you— Marianna Fassinotti and David Browne “just completed their second year in London.” Paul Atwood is “becoming a professional hurricane survivor in Houston.” Stay safe Paul!!! Both of Andrew Ulland’s kids are in middle school now, and Patrick Redmond’s bernedoodle “is now 1.5 years old and is no longer taste-testing everything in her path.” Patrick—what have we told you? If you don’t send us several adorable photos of your dog, we’re going to start believing she’s fictitious. We all know dog owners can’t go more than 5 minutes without showing you a photo (says the person whose dog has his own Instagram account...). Sue Feury is “looking to get back into biotech—preferably cell or gene therapy”— where are all of our biotech classmates at? Ben Flaim is “building out a new team at Goldman and enjoying my family and travel,” and Christopher Ebe is still “living the dream after 4 years in Mexico!” And now for the piercing economic analysis you all look to your class notes for. The question was, “What do you think of the global economic outlook for the next 6 months?”

The Ebe family

(i.e., when you will receive the next Tuck Today magazine). Of course, the question was provided over a year ago, your answers were tallied back in September 2019, and now you get to see if all your bets paid off. So, very timely. As we’re writing this “masterpiece,” the S&P 500 is at 2,893; the Dow at 26,164; crude oil is at 52.42; and the euro is trading at $1.09. Sorry to be so US-centric, folks—we can look up rugby scores (what’s up awesome callback to the first paragraph of this column), but someone else will have to explain the best global economic indicators to us. Is it good that interest rates in the EU are negative?

T’07 global economic outlook poll results

This was a very scientific poll, so please definitely use this to guide all of your investment decisions from here on out. Do you find the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee a scintillating read? If so, carry on for detailed explanations of your classmates’ outlooks: “Reactive and antagonistic political actions unsettling global economy, inhibiting corporate and governmental ability to execute mid-/ long-term economic strategies” “Stable” to me means moderate volatility around the same—nearly zero—global growth rate we’ve been living with for the past decade. Trade will stabilize because the key actors have too much to lose.”

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CL ASS NOTES “Consumers seem to continue spending what they make and companies have a lot of cash on hand.” “Central banks are still injecting a lot of cash into an artificial credit market so I expect it will remain ‘artificially’ stable for the next 6 months....” “According to my horoscope, Pluto will sextile my decan, bringing self confidence, power, and influence. Also, Jupiter will be traveling through my 11th house and conjunct the South Node around January, which is a good thing, as we all know.” “I haven’t any idea, that’s why I asked the question in the first place *grin*” And finally: “Who cares...get a nice plot of land, go off-grid, grow your own veggies, barter with your neighbors for other essentials...simplify life!” So there you have it. Economic analysis courtesy of your peers, and some escapism offthe-grid advice. That’s it for this time around. We love hearing from you all, especially those who haven’t written in a while and those of you who still read the tiny four-point font in our emails and indulge our silliness. Hoping to see you soon. —Whitney, Marc, and Snuffleupagus

’08 Allison Curran

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

Colin Van Ostern

Rama was at Tuck this past April to talk about 3D at HP for the Britt Tech Series organized by the Center for Digital Strategies. It reiterated how special the place is “and how much I miss it!” Multiple Tuckies have worked as interns in his teams over the past few years, with a couple now full-time. Certainly the best people to be around and helped him stay in touch with campus developments.

colin@vanostern.com

Lots of people made it to Hanover for Reunion! Lots didn’t! Here is what you sent in for updates, with the procrastinators first— Whitney and Jess Gunter welcomed identical twin girls in March. Big sis is three and is definitely ready for some direct reports. Because they definitely can no longer fit in their two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco (and because the skiing is better in Colorado), they will be relocating to Boulder later this year. Jess will continue to lead product marketing for Google Nest energy hardware and services, just from Google’s Boulder office. Jackpot!!

Rama does run into T’09s from time to time at Dartmouth/Tuck events, although he would like to attend more often than he does! He was sad to miss Reunion. Rob Pascal and wife Kara just had a baby girl in July, Claire Eleanor Pascal (their first). She is healthy and doing great! On the work front, Rob is now at Bank of America, leading the Digital for Small Business segment. Fabian Rivera reports a fourth kid (Pablo), born on September 13th—that makes 2 boys and 2 girls.

After a couple of years in the Midwest and South Africa, Rama Oruganti moved to the SF Bay Area in 2011. Currently, he is the general manager of the 3D scanning business at HP. Having lots of fun working on new tech and growing teams and businesses.

Manish Tangri offered a great Reunion recap: “Nostalgia was overwhelming at the Tuck reunion. The sweetest and most popular quote heard everywhere—“You haven’t changed.” Yet, in the midst of the forever-T’09 looks, the strong bonds of T’09 friendships, the everlasting Tuck love, the steadfast ambition to do well while doing good, one change stood out in spades: Vivek Raval was now ‘Vibek Raeal.’ (See attached picture.) In other memorable moments, Nykia Wright’s presentation on “What it will take to lead?” was an inspiring and proud T’09 moment. The excitement to meet Tuckies was also accompanied by the feelings of missing people who didn’t make it. One of the topics heard on a dinner

The new Gunter twins!

Anna Kendall

Caroline Kendall moved back home to Maine with Jason and Anna. She says it’s great to be a part of the Maine Tuck Crew again. Baby Anna turned one and she pretty much does what her parents do—swim, run, read, play, and gymnastics. (OK, well maybe that last one is something Caroline retired from..,.) “Come visit!”

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Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

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table: Where is our class president, Andy? I remembered how my family and I had taken the scenic 36-hour Amtrak train ride from San Francisco to Denver, CO, late last year, to see the countryside and then had an amazing time meeting Brad Lang and Meg for breakfast. Indeed, would have been great to see them and others who couldn’t be there. Subsequently, in Tuck spirits, since Andrew Bunton couldn’t come to the reunion, I decided to take the reunion to him on my way back to Boston. We had lunch together and got him signed up for the 15-year reunion already! Andrew’s talented daughter May (11 years old now) performed an impromptu tap dance to a song I had released on YouTube earlier this year. Lien’s click got the view count to clock 57001 views. Once back home, I’ve been recounting one story after the other to my wife Arti and daughters Isha (10 years) and Siyona (6 years). Isha already has a favorite T’09—Yeechin Harvey—the brand manager for Lindt. ‘Tell her she is awesome and that Lindt is treasure!’ said Isha today.”

love...Kate Ryan Reiling at home base with her in Minneapolis, and Kelly Cutler every August for a family beach vacation at the Jersey shore. Lindsay McPherson Batastini claims nothing new to share but she was feeling guilty about not replying so she sent in a cute picture of Addison Batastini and Dabney Emmons enjoying cupcakes outside of Buch while their parents reminisced about the many pong games and danced parties that happened on the sticky floor of the old lounge.

Papa Sekyiamah with wife Malusi and daughter Krofaa Sani

Addison Batastini and Dabney Emmons near Buch during Reunion

From Manish’s Reunion recap—clockwise from top left: “Vibek Raeal” at Reunion; the Manish/Bunton crew; Manish with Andrew Bunton; and Manish with the Lang crew.

Anne Thompson didn’t make it but loved seeing all the T’09 photos hit FB. Professionally, things are moving at the speed of hemp and CBD for her (and that’s fast!). She’s been VP of marketing for Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods since May of 2017 and last February they were bought by Tilray, a global leader in cannabis. Navigating the emerging space of hemp and cannabis is equal parts exhausting and exhilarating, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Luckily, she is surrounded by Tuck

Professionally, the general management skills and teamwork imbued at Tuck has helped him navigate the corporate world and take on a myriad of unrelated but exciting roles, from heading up a small bank to driving transformation of a business. Papa looks forward to connecting for our 15th reunion!

Andrea Eaton had a thoroughly eventful summer, celebrating T’10 Claudia Carbonelli’s birthday in Italy with Katherine Loarie and T’10 Jonathan Tran Pham and riding the 186-mile Pan-Mass Challenge. Capping it all off was 10 days in South Africa for her own birthday, spent in Cape Town and on safari; and 10 days in Tanzania with Anja Veckenstedt, where they spent 7 days climbing Kilimanjaro and then a few more on safari in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater region—because you can never see too many elephants, giraffes, lions, and horny baboons living their best lives in the wild. While Andrea bailed mid-summit ascent (realizing that sub-zero temps on the side of a mountain at 5000m at 3am just wasn’t her cup of tea), Anja successfully bagged Uhuru Peak and officially stood on the top of Africa! Papa Sekyiamah sadly missed Reunion, despite the best-laid plans, but the “thought of seeing so many of you has kept a broad smile on my face. Wishing those who can attend a fantastic time! Wow, 10 years since drinks at Tuck Hall and hanging out at Murphy’s.” He reports that the last 10 years have been good, with marriage to Malusi and the blessing of a precocious 4-year-old daughter, Krofaa Sani.

Alex Armstrong says life feels like it is speeding up. Benjamin and Josephine are 4.5 and 2.5, respectively. The former started pre-k this year, and the latter wishes she was ‘more big’ so she could start pre-k as well. Alex joined a real estate tech start-up in August, called Modus, as its VP of product. Goal: make buying/selling a home not suck. So far, so good. “Turns out Carey followed in my footsteps to real estate, only six years in advance.” Mike Giordano and Sam Ceppos (and big sister Anna) welcomed identical twin girls Katherine Olivia Ceppos Giordano and Zoe Amelia Ceppos Giordano on July 7, 2019, at Beth Israel in Boston. The Ceppordano family is adjusting to life as a family of five, but all are thrilled to have Katherine and Zoe along for the ride. This jump in family size also necessitated a move to the suburbs, so they now call Needham, MA, home. In the nearby picture, Katherine is on the left and Zoe is on the right: “We sometimes have trouble telling them apart—hence the alphabetical positioning (left to right) and the colored ankle bracelets.” And from Tuck, wonderful news from Ted and Katie Wilson from back in August 2019—Katie wrote that “we are a bit behind as our daughter is 9 months old now” but that she and Ted welcomed a daughter, Pauline “Polly” Emery Wilson on 11/8/18: “she joins big brothers Teddy and Clark, and the family of 5 is loving life in Portola Valley, CA!”

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CL ASS NOTES As for your intrepid class secretaries, Colin Van Ostern is still in NH and has joined Andy Ervin at Alumni Ventures Group, which broadly offers smart, simple venture investing (including via its first fund, the Green D fund, which is geared to Dartmouth alumni...but not affiliated with the college, of course). AVG has offices in Boston, NYC, Chicago, and the Bay Area, so you may see him skipping across the country.

Katherine Olivia and Zoe Amelia Ceppos Giordano

Maia Victoria Krusius with big sister Anna

Tom Harris says “alums living closest together award would have to go to Iwancio and The Godfather—same street, 4 blocks apart, with goldens from the same breeder & a quiver of surfboards second only to Ted & Morse... also, Iceman’s wife and mine are BFFs and super-tolerant.” Chuck Toye: “New job (#6 post-Tuck). Banking again, but in a start-up. What could go wrong? Moved in down the street from Bagby, then he moved out. Was it me?” Bart Van Nuffel reports a busy year—“still the proud owner of a Belgian latex balloon factory, based in Poland. As always, going through the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial lifestyle. On the menu this year was Europe’s ban on ‘single use of plastics,’ like coffee-stirrers, soda-straws, etc. Somehow, balloons ended up on the draft ban-list, even though not plastic at all. So, as an industry, we got a crash course in lobbying to try to change EU legislation. Luckily, I live in Brussels and the trip to our local ‘Capitol Hill’ isn’t too long. Final regulation didn’t mention balloons, but now we’re fighting public perception.... It would be great if you could spread the word that balloons are NOT plastic, that they are a fully natural product made of the sap of the rubber tree and that they biodegrade entirely in a few years. *smile* “Earlier this year, Tuck made it to my HQ in Belgium, where we hosted operations professor Laurens Debo and the students of the Global Insights Expedition (GIX) course. We had a factory tour, a class discussion, and ended up introducing the team to Belgian beer culture. Other alums showed up—we’re a whopping 5 in Belgium—and it turned out Diane Noyes T’04 just moved to Belgium as an expatriate and lives

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literally on my street.... What are the odds. “Finally, on a personal front, all is well. The Tour de France departed from Brussels this year and was just an amazing feast. We got to see Eddy Merckx, all the teams, etc. Kids loved it.” Otto Krusius and wife Lauren recently added another Tiny Tuckie to our family this past summer. Baby Maia Victoria was born on June 24th at Stanford Children’s Hospital. She joins brother Mark (3) and sister Anna (5). Maia enjoys naps, drinking milk, and cuddling. “We are scaling our parenting skills to deal with the expansion, while seeking innovative ways to earn more money (without working more) to defray the costs of a 5-member household here in the Bay Area.” Otto traveled to Reunion cross-country with Tiago Calheiros in tow, as they both temporarily escaped their hectic day jobs at Intuit. Carolyn and Curtis Gasser were really looking forward to joining everyone in Hanover, but late in June Curtis was offered a yearlong assignment with AWS in London, and they jumped at the chance to move the family for a European adventure. “We’ll miss everyone at the reunion, but please give us a shout if you come to the UK!”

And Patricia Henderson was spotted at Reunion but dodges Colin’s phone calls whenever class notes are due—so, Patricia: you’re it! Next one is on you. Everyone send her your next updates. *smile*

’10 Carey Schwaber Armstrong t10tuckupdates@yahoo.com

10 T H REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

Our 10-year reunion is one year away! Hope you are planning either your travel to Hanover or a very lengthy class-notes update to send in your stead. Suggestions for how to top the awesome survey our previous class secretaries did before the last Reunion are very welcome. First, a few major milestones: Marvena Edmond got engaged on the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of August. Many congratulations, Marvena! Drew Wilkins and wife Linda now have two kids! They welcomed Aiden Santiago Wilkins into the world on February 22—8lbs 7oz on his 19-inch frame, even though a week and a half early! Big sister Eliza is so far excited to have a baby brother, and Lucy the dog is hoping that she’ll still get fed and walked regularly.

The Gasser family

Sylvie Liberman Vernick and husband Adam welcome their second daughter, June Goldie Vernick. June is a beautiful little peanut and was born 5lbs 11oz on September 24. Big sister

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after Tuck—including Quizlet, which most classmates with middle/high school kids have heard of—I’ve spent the last two years writing books on web development. Book #3 was published this summer, and I also co-host a weekly podcast on the topic. I live in Brookline, MA, now and have two daughters, with a son on the way in February.” The Wilkins family

John Lojek is back in London full-time after working in SE Asia for a few years. Tired of being apart from his UK-based wife, Jon joined Google earlier this year and is loving it. He and Bella live in Central London, where they have a big backyard that their sausage dog Taco really digs. John (and presumably also Bella and Taco) had an awesome time hosting Paul Granada in London in July while he was in Europe on business. The two managed to hit a festival featuring The National and Florence and the Machine. Jon is hoping to be at our 10-year reunion, assuming he makes it through Brexit in one piece.

Big sister Este with new little June Goldie Vernick

Este is melting her parents’ hearts with her affection toward little June. Sylvie has been at Tableau Software for some time, where the work is great and the walking commute is even better. And Laura Miller Larson caught up to Drew and Sylvie in one fell swoop, welcoming twins Addison and Parker on March 27. Laura is head of the industrial real estate team at Wayfair in Boston. Finally, a number of you turned 40, and there were lots of celebrations, but let’s be honest and admit that there may also have been a bit of despair. What else is going on? The Connecticut winters just weren’t cold and snowy enough for Amy Florentino, Bob Barton, and their two munchkins, so as part of a new Northern Great Lakes gig for Amy, they’ve moved to Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan. Will Vincent shared the following update: “After several years working in startups

Some LinkedIn snooping revealed T’10s working on some fascinating stuff: • Kyle Khasigian is in finance at AllBirds; thanks for your work keeping my dogs cozy. • Abhinav Rastogi has been at Smilepoint, a “rapidly expanding dental group with multiple offices in Texas and plans to add future offices in Texas and other states,” for almost 5 years now. • Sudeep Deshpande is running ops for Google Assistant and is our only hope for keeping the robot overlords in check. And your humble class secretary, Carey Armstrong, had a blast joining Alex Armstrong T’09 at his 10-year this fall. There she spotted Greg Barbiaux (who’s been chilling in Columbus, OH, with wife Rachel T’09 and some beautiful babies) and Rebekah Crane (still in the Boston area with husband Jeff T’09 and toddler son Parker).

’11 Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

Congratulations to our fellow ASW co-chair, Kate Strayer-Benton, on her appointment as senior director of business development at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute! Kate shares, “I joined this spring to build and lead a business development team in Dana-Farber’s Innovation Office. It’s been a rollercoaster of a transition from biotech into the nonprofit world of academia and working to build out a new function! But even on the most challenging days, the opportunity to work for such a mission-driven organization—and visit with friends and family receiving life-saving treatment at my workplace, in between my meetings with researchers and companies dedicated to advancing cancer care—provides an incredible reality check. I am actively engaging industry partners looking to innovate in oncology therapeutics, technology, and clinical care with an eye toward creative and strategic alliances based on Dana-Farber’s research and care delivery. I would love to connect/reconnect and discuss how we might be able to work together in this new capacity!”

Shaun Mehtani and Maria welcomed their second son, Sebastian Sajaan, on April 25th

Congratulations to all of the Tiny Tuckies! I (Amanda) am looking forward to my wedding invitation for the Teh-Mehtani event. Shaun and Maria Mehtani welcomed their second son, Sebastian Sajaan, on April 25th. The name honors Maria’s maternal grandfather

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Amelia Fay Teh

Ian and Isabelle

and Shaun’s maternal grandmother. Fun fact: Seb made it to Italy for a wedding two weeks later! He loves sleeping on planes, but nowhere else. Fay and Ian Teh welcomed their second daughter, Amelia, on March 4th, and she looks just like Ian. Save the Date: Amelia Teh & Sebastian Mehtani (son of Shaun & Maria) are set to be married on October 9, 2049. (And note in the pic above: Isabelle ‘Fay Teh’ was the flower girl at Matt Stoner and Marguerite Kleinheinz’s wedding on April 27th.) Shauna Ferguson and husband Tony are getting used to sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and lots of baby cuddles. They’re thrilled to welcome their first Tiny Tuckie, Arianna Luciano, who was born on May 8th.

Jose Carlos Tolosa, Stephanie (White) Tolosa, and big brother Maxwell welcomed Oliver Parkman on September 18th

Jose Carlos Tolosa and Stephanie (White) Tolosa welcomed their second child, Oliver Parkman Tolosa, on September 18th. Jose writes, “Big brother Maxwell is still on the fence regarding this new development, but he finds the baby’s behavior amusing. This is probably age-related, but we are happy that we live in the ’burbs (Bay Area) at this stage in our lives. We will always miss NYC though....” (NYC will always miss you, too) Elissa Kline shares, “On February 17, and only 6 weeks too early, Homer Kalman Laska was born. Jason (my partner in crime) and I are overjoyed and overwhelmed. Homer is working on holding cups in preparation to steal his dad’s beer and, since he is already a fantastic boss, is contemplating going straight to Tuck’s Advanced Management Program. While I was out on maternity leave, my company, Point, grew from ~25 people to ~50 people, so clearly I’m considering having another child to really accelerate growth. And, in case you are wondering, we’re hiring!”

Jake and Ashley Colognesi (and big brother Griff) welcomed their second son, Jack Robert, on June 18th

Laura Manoogian and Alex Meditz welcomed Maya Elizabeth Meditz on June 16th (Father’s Day). Laura’s water broke in Times Square, which made it very easy for her to just walk to the hospital. Jake Colognesi and Ashley (Pickard) Colognesi welcomed their second son, Jack Robert, on June 18th. Ashley writes, “For the most part Griff (2.5 yrs) is loving his new role as big bro but occasionally wants to ‘throw baby Jack.’ Jack seems unfazed by this so far. We also made a big move from Boston to Greenwich, CT—if you’re in the area, let us know!” Steve Kenning and Dr. Sarah Brayne welcomed Charlotte Brayne Kenning on May 28th. They have been too busy to write us, but they did manage to post on Facebook.

’12 Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

Shauna Ferguson and husband Tony welcomed baby girl Arianna on May 8th

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LONG break we had second year, which we wish was still a thing. Who really wants to work through late November/December anyways vs. having trips to South America? Since leaving, we’ve traded in all of these, we can only hope for cool Instagram captions from Will Schwarz (a personal favorite is the “velvety texture for a marvelous sandalwood” one, living vicariously through Rodrigo via his travels, or seeing Kurt Zwald post about the Red Sox. (Selfishly, two class secretaries are glad the Nationals are in the race vs. the Red Sox. When will Boston sports become bad again!?!) We said that we would have a new format of interviews where we force people to answer our questions. That has still yet come to pass because, you know, life. Some people still diligently write to us, so thank you for those who do! If you all have any Tuck sightings, run-ins, or just general news, we always love to hear. Things continue to move in the lives of our fellow classmates. Let’s start with new jobs and promos as our classmates continue to move onward and upward. • Torlisa Jeffrey made as big a move as one can make. She left behind New York City and Williams Sonoma to live abroad in Singapore. She is working as a product manager at Grab. Hit her up if you find yourself in Singapore. • Terry Farmer has made the move to senior product manager at Cerebri AI in Austin, teaming up with Sumant Kawale, who is VP of customer success there. • Rumor has it Seba Martinez was promoted.... We can’t confirm or deny because his LinkedIn isn’t updated and people rarely write in. *sad face* • Bogo (Daniel Bogomoltz) has welcomed his second baby (Gustavo) and has left LATAM Airlines and started as country manager for GOintegro, a human-resources platform in Latin America. • Because we miss him dearly, and wish he would write us, we wanted to congratulate Colin Carrihill on his 1-year anniversary of serving as product manager at Pro.com. • Geoff Mattei is kicking ass and taking names, as he was promoted to principal product manager for Amazon Music. What everyone’s dying to know though is what will he, Becca, Elin, and Maja dress up as for Halloween... what we do know is that Elin is very into Frozen and would like Dad to dress as a character with her. Who wants to see Geoff as either Anna or Elsa?

• Becca is crushing jobs alongside Colin at Pro. com. She was recently promoted to head of new market expansion. •R obert Avila Garcia continues his climb up the ranks within American Express with his recent promotion to vice president of corporate planning & analysis. • Pablo Muñoz was promoted to regional director of business development at RG/A. Rumor has it he rides a motorcycle to all client meetings, resulting in a 90% hit rate. • Erika Santos was promoted to head of aftersales for West and Northwest regions [at Nissan] and recently named one of the salespeople of the year! • Megan Shackleton was promoted to chief program officer at One Love Foundation. • Nathan Sharp, while happily married, led product for a dating feature at Facebook. • Shannon Mosier continues to reimagine money as co-founder and COO of Novi Money. • Camille Ashley and Rodrigo Guillen continue to make us all jealous as they globe trot with their families. • Vibhuti Nayar was recently promoted to emerging business finance at Republic Services. • Prashanth Rao continues in the ranks of Tuck alums joining Wayfair as he joins as director of product management. •M anuel Zegarra has left McKinsey behind for a job as manager of vendor management– lifestyle for Amazon in Mexico City. • Divya and VP are back in Boston after a stint in Louisville, and Nico is starting kindergarten and Analu’s starting in toddler school. Welcome back, you two! • Fred Spagnol de Miranda was promoted to head of B2B at 99. • Ben Coeffic was promoted to commercial operations director, Asia at Corning. • Parul Shah was promoted to associate director, organizational design and agile at BCG. • Brian Meyers in other Wayfair news was promoted to associate director. • Saurabh Sharma has transitioned to a new role as senior manager in a multidisciplinary research center aimed at fostering rigorous and relevant ICT-centric research at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. • Justin and Lauren just had a baby, Nora, and the Bain clan has has grown yet again. • Luciana and Gustavo are growing their family as baby #3 is on the way!!! • Addison Lanier, Jane, and Emery made a big family move, leaving the mean streets of Boston and trading them for sun and southern hospitality in Atlanta, GA. • Andres Brito and Ashley Holofcener are

expecting a baby girl around Christmas time. He is trading in his gym membership + Arepa maker since he is unlikely to get much sleep or have time to make breakfast. OHHHHHHHH!!!! •D avid and Sophie are loving family life but holding back tears as Nico Leal started school. •A ndrew Benson and his wife Malika celebrated their five-year anniversary in August. Congrats to a big milestone in your marriage! Also, if you haven’t seen his son on the basketball court on Facebook, you should, because it will light up your day. • Joe Badgame a.k.a. Jose Malpartida is newly engaged! Based on our trusty sleuthing abilities, it looks like it happened in Peru. On a boat. Of course that makes sense for Joe Badgame. Congrats! •R ich and Koushi King continue to raise Sunder to be the next Zoolander. Naturally, he can already turn left. •E mily and Lee Rosen had a kid! Avery was born on May 2nd. They’re smitten. Pic attached. She eats, sleeps, plays, poops...you know, baby stuff. Or Tuck stuff? •E ric and Grace Markus joined the ranks of Tuckies abroad with a big move to Amsterdam in early July, when Grace was 7 months pregnant. Eric took on a new assignment as global brand lead for Amstel!! They also just had an Amsterdam baby (Gavin) on September 10th, and per Dutch custom, Grace and Gavin were sent home just 5 hours after delivery!!! Their daughter Olivia just turned 3 and is now starting “school” for the first time—at a proper British school. They would love to meet up with anyone who’ll be “in the neighborhood” of Amsterdam over the next 3 years or so. Eric and Grace are MVP of this notes for actually writing in a detailed update! We love you for that!

Like every good (future?) Tuckie, Avery Rosen has mastered the art of eating, sleeping, playing, and pooping.

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CL ASS NOTES ’13 Anne Duggan anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Alvin and Grace Hsu expecting a baby girl in October (maybe by the time you read this she will be here!)

The Kings, Deeses, and Matteis having a playdate

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

Phil Lacombe’s kids must get their looks from their mother, Devon. Sure isn’t Phil’s.

As for your very busy, less-frequently-socialnetwork-stalking class secretaries.... Ben and Megan made the big move and are now living together on the Upper West Side. Ben is loving life at New Stand, the start-up he is running operations at in Soho. Download the app and visit one of our stores. If you’re around Soho, stop by 306 Bowery and say hi. Drinks or coffee on him. The headquarters is behind the store there. Travel for leisure and work is picking up in the latter half of 2019. He and Megan escaped to Ireland over Labor Day, which was incredible. So green and beautiful. He’ll be heading down to Bogota, Colombia, to visit New Stand’s development team in October. Then, to cap it off, he and Megan are heading to Morocco in November for a proper holiday! They’re excited to visit Marrakech, the Atlas Mountains, and the Sahara Desert. The Hughes family took advantage of winter break in Argentina to go to Spain to visit family—both Roman’s brother as well as Flo’s nieces live there, which was a great excuse to cross the pond. The three weeks were

a whirlwind of tapas and tintos de verano, walking in gorgeous cities, and visiting unbelievably gorgeous beaches and calas. Already looking forward to the next visit. On the job front, everything remains the same on Roman’s side, and it’s Flo who’s the news—she started her own baby-sleep consulting firm after struggling with our own kids, reading every book on the subject, and finally getting certified in sleep training. Fortunately, it seems that this one will not be taken over by machine learning anytime soon. *smile* It works remotely, so feel free to reach out if you’re desperately struggling with your baby sleeping. Derrick and Natalie have had a busy spring/ summer. They’ve both had work/personal travel and have been bringing Abram along for most of it. The biggest experience was going to Italy with not only Abram but also Derrick’s parents. While at times it felt like it was taking care of three children as opposed to one, it was great to see Abram hang out with his grandparents and also explore a new city (and country). While our nanny-share with the Drejet-Matteis has come to a close, Abram and Maja still enjoy each other’s company and are starting their applications for the Tuck class of 2045. If you need any good TV recommendations, check out The Boys or Fleabag on Amazon—both are phenomenal. We really appreciate the people who wrote to us this time. It makes the updates more personal and the writing more fun. Please keep sending us your news whenever it occurs. We’ll save it! Love you all!

We will keep it short on the introduction because we have a few special topics (Entrepreneurs Update! Letter from Ying who moved to India to volunteer at a yoga ashram!) We also plead for you to send your notes. Going forward, we will not include anything we see in passing on social media unless you submit it, to ensure we aren’t encroaching anyone’s privacy rights. This is a policy from Tuck. There Is a Lot of Tuck Love Tuck’s best fundraising technique of creating prolific power Tuck couples is really in full steam. Lacey and T’12 Scott Johnson welcomed Finn on July 24. Crystal and Taylor Cornwall welcomed another daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Cornwall, into their family on April 12. A little farther northeast, Haley and Alex Nadas also welcomed their second daughter, Stella Rose Nadas, on the same day. Devon Lacombe: “[T’12] Phil and I welcomed a baby girl, Paige, this May. She’s doing great, and our three-year old, Jordan, is loving being a big sister!” Erin and Kevin McCafferty: “Jack Walter McCafferty made the final cut to the McCafferty team on September 6th weighing in at 8 lbs 9 ounces. We are all doing well so far.” Dave and Mimi Sibley: “Dave and Mimi had another kid in June. His name is Will. They think he’s cute and stuff.” This message was not approved by Mimi. Koushi and T’12 Rich King welcomed Sunder Theodore King earlier, on January 4.

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be staying in Memphis, Tennessee, you might also find me at Disney World during one of our seven national-championship weekends. With the mission of elevating student experience at high schools across the country, if we raise school spirit to even a fraction of Tuck’s spirit, then we’ll have succeeded wildly.”

The McCafferty family

Penelope Rodriguez

Se Won Park and Phil Kim welcomed Zoe (소이) on September 9.

in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. If anyone is interested in connecting with any innocence organizations, let Justin know.

Jon and T’14 Sasha MacKinnon welcomed a baby in April. Ivan Ardemagni and T’12 wife Emily Williams welcomed Ella on June 30. And even those who found love beyond alums kept the Tuck fam close—20 minutes apart on the same day as Ivan and Emily, Justine Modot-Traboulsi welcomed a baby girl, Joanne. Big brother George is very proud and helping a lot! Meg and Mark Robinton welcomed a third child into their family in April. “Only big update is that we welcomed our third kiddo, William, in April. Ellie, 6, and Cooper, 3, love their new little brother!”

The Robinton family

Sarah Cafaro and husband Mike welcomed Evelyn “Evie” Constance Cafaro on April 25th. Justin Rodriguez and wife Renee welcomed baby Penelope Emilia Rodriguez on September 6th. In addition, Justin recently joined the board of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, which is dedicated to correcting and preventing the conviction of innocent people

Catherine Jonash and her husband Eric welcomed their first daughter, Sienna, last year, born in October 2018. After returning from maternity leave, Catherine transitioned from her role as director of regional operations for Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a specialty hospital system in Boston, to a mobile teledentistry start-up based in the Boston area. She joined Virtudent as the vice president and general manager of New England, responsible for overseeing all aspects of Virtudent’s operations and growing access to the company’s highquality, preventive dental care throughout the states of MA, NH, RI, and CT. Not to be left out of the baby pandemonium, Max Lefranc and wife Carolyn are expecting a baby girl. It hasn’t sunk in to brother Nate, even though he received a crib eviction notice. Weddings This section used to be bigger, but Maxime Vincent makes up for it, rolling deep in Tuckies as he married Paulina in her hometown, Warsaw, on May 17th. Tuckies present included Veronica Jubera, Taylor Collison, Mathieu Pluvinage, Adrien Germain-Thomas, Carmen Linares, Gonzalo Fernández-Castañeda, and Tara Sukumar, all who were able to witness the Frenchman’s incredible dance moves! Thanks for the good times and delightful vodkainduced hangover, Max. *smile* Keeping It Profesh If any of you have Bring It On nostalgia, Sam Pond is now your guy for spirit fingers, face glitter, and the bedazzled spirit stick. Sam writes, “I started a new position as director of strategy for Varsity Spirit, the worldwide leader in all things cheerleading and dance, from apparel, to camps, to competitions (yes, just like Bring It On!). While this means I’ll

Joyce Cadesca: “I am taking on a new role this fall at Morgan Stanley after spending the last 3 years in a finance (planning & analysis) function. The position is on a newly formed strategy & execution team focusing on post-M&A integration of wealth-management investment products and digital platforms. Also, I am serving as the new chair of TADA (Tuck Association of Diverse Alumni)—contact me to get involved!” Pete Gauthier: “I am finishing my final few months in Dhaka and still accepting visitors until December 23rd. It has been a great 2.5 years but excited to get back to the US for 7 months and then start a new journey enjoying the beaches of Mozambique. Summer was a blast. I had tons of fun hanging out with Liz Yepsen in Zurich (including a late night of polishing off some of her best scotch), jumping off cliffs in Croatia, and relaxing on the beaches of Turkey (check out Cesme/ Alacati for a cheap and fun beach vacation). In September I am heading to Kosovo for a week of work and then a week in Bavaria (with my last night being the first night of Oktoberfest in Munich). This October, I am planning a trip to Australia and New Zealand. Other than that, keeping busy with work, learning tennis, wedding planning, and having fun!” Pete also got engaged to Imran Sunny, who he met in Dhaka, in Paris during a dinner picnic under the Eiffel Tower. If you have been living under a rock and not checking out James Valdes’s Instastories of his many NFL exploits, James has been transforming John Stamos’s favorite yogurt brand, Oikos, to a performance nutrition brand. This includes launching a high-protein clean-energy drink, Oikos Pro Fuel. He also partners with the NFL and other leading media properties, influencers, and creators to connect with consumers and launch innovation that reinvents the yogurt and adjacent categories. Christina Fanitzi continues her musical chair of roles in the Army, which apparently is how it works there “unless you get fired.” Christina tells us: “I finished the White House Fellowship last month; to serve on the National Economic WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES Council was a fantastic experience and an opportunity of a lifetime. I am so grateful to Tuck, especially Dean Slaughter and my classmates, for their support. I reported a week later to the Pentagon, where I serve General James C. McConville, the 40th chief of staff of the Army. (This is the Army service chief on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and most senior officer in the US Army.) I serve as his special assistant, where I advise him on family programs and support him as secondary aide. It’s an absolute honor to serve the chief, even if he is a Boston fan. *smile* ” We also have had some international moves, with Jon MacKinnon now in London and Spencer Bryan now in Japan. Unclear what Spencer’s role on the Tuck Japan trek will be at this point. Betsabeh Madani: “The past 1.5 years have been an immersion in deep sciences and tough tech—...think enzymes, robotic arms, AI, cosmic rays (muons)...workwise, I have been representing Borealis Ventures in Canada within the life-sciences sector and working as an EiR with ‘BC Innovation’ incubators on the environment side. For the more hands-on start-up activities, helped cofound an autonomous fruit-picking startup...we are in very early days (fingers crossed), but the Wall-E–like robot can recognize ripe fruit and pick enough for a fruit salad made with two fruits...currently awaiting a recipe from Bigelow Street Bites (Hi Catherine!).... Planning on raising a seed round in early 2020.” Entrepreneur Spotlight Did you know the T’13s are really killing the start-up scene? We thought we would highlight all the hard work our daring classmates have been doing, in case they want to throw us some equity as thanks. Although we have two physical goods (swimsuits and healthy foods), every other company is based on utilizing digital stuff to transform...something. Check out below for some of our amazing classmates taking risks by starting something! Andres Bilbao: “Rappi.com (Doordash + Instacart for LatAm). Overall Latin America is blowing up in terms of funding and investor optimism in the region. Rappi raised an F round from Softbank back in June. Top milestone is that against all odds, we haven’t f****d it up. Key challenge is to grow in a cutthroat environment.

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Kudos is a daily personal-training service that whips clients into the best shape of their lives. They pair individuals with a certified trainer while leveraging technology to keep costs down and enable daily coaching. See open roles at angel.co/company/kudosfit or sign up at www. kudos.fit.

Daniel Bilbao: “Truora provides safe and reliable background checks in Latin America. It turned 1 year old in July. Recent milestones include raising a seed and it now has a little over 30 employees throughout LatAm and headquartered in Colombia. We’re also operating in 4 countries now and hired the 1st Dartmouth alum. So far so good!” www.truora.com Brad Callow: “6AM Health is building out a platform of unmanned retail kiosks for healthy food options. Essentially, fresh food vending machines full of salads, bowls, juices, proteins, and other healthy options. We place them in high-foot-traffic locations, mini-food deserts, and corporate offices. We’ve opened up a convertible note and have been working off of our first close. We pivoted from home deliveries to Fresh Fridges in the first quarter of 2019. Our first Fresh Fridge pilot was at Tuck this past March. We’re already up to 27 active Fresh Fridges & are hoping to have 100 locations by the end of the year. Between the office team, logistics team, and kitchen team, we’re up to 28 people. Most importantly though, I definitely couldn’t do this without the support of Katie holding it down on the homefront & being a badass at Deloitte.” www.6amhealth.com

Rob Hillas: “PlainVanilla is a platform that takes the friction out of negotiating, signing, analyzing, and archiving NDAs, so companies and people can get to important conversations more quickly. We’ve had great feedback from LPs, PE groups, and investment banks.” plainvanilla.co Koushi King: “Stemless is a mobile marijuana ordering service founded in 2015. Stemless raised its seed round last year (led by VC firm Quake Capital) to continue our expansion to other recreational and medical use states. This year we’ve expanded into Arizona and New Jersey (our first medical states), and we’re still in Oregon, Washington, and California (all recreational states). We’re hopeful about nationwide legalization in the next few years.” www.stemless.co Ryan Miller: “Repisodic is a technology platform that helps patients find the best follow-up care when they leave the hospital. Started in 2017 with T’12 Michael Cwalinski, with a small grant from an economicdevelopment agency in Pennsylvania, Repisodic is now used by leading health systems on the East Coast and is currently closing a seed round of institutional financing to expand nationwide.” www.repisodic.com

Keyen Farrell’s “Consistent Conversion passed five years this spring and ranks among the top 2% of all Google Partners. One of the things we’ve learned is that many of our best clients have been referrals from friends and existing clients. We formalized a referral program for new clients recently, so if any Tuckies know someone in their network who uses Google Ads (formerly AdWords) for their business and might be interested in the management of their account, please reach out to me for details!” www.consistentconversion.com

Rachel Moss is working on launching her new feminist swimwear brand, Subject Swim. What makes swimwear feminist? The suits are designed with more coverage in mind but are still stylish for women of all sizes. They will be ethically manufactured at a women-owned factory here in the US. And the brand will be donating 1% of sales to nonprofit organizations that build confidence in women and girls. Right now, Rachel is focused on product development, consumer insights research, and raising capital for launch. She’s so excited to bring this to market in 2020 and hopes you’ll follow along on social media @subjectswim!” www.subjectswim.com

John Gardner’s fitness startup Kudos has been growing quickly, raised a $1.2 million seed round in July, and is hiring for a variety of roles.

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teacher appears. Naturally, I found Isha yoga, a complete system and a scientific tool for inner well-being, and fully dived in.

customer loyalty. Chatdesk raised a $3M seed financing from the likes of Susa Ventures and others. The team has grown to close to 70 people across three offices (NYC, Nigeria, Colombia). We recently launched the vision of the company, Chatdesk Teams, a solution where e-commerce and retail brands can find US freelancers who are fans of their brand and can provide on-demand customer support (e.g., after hours, holidays).” www.chatdesk.com Yvan Stern: In his free time, Yvan has multiple irons in the start-up fire. “I’m still maintaining Tchipr (www.tchipr.com), a messaging platform that targets users in Africa, but I have not updated it in a while. I’m looking to do some PMing to determine if there is still a market fit. I’m building Turfz, a social platform for people to connect through sports. I’m an advisor at Breathing.ai, a start-up that uses cameras and AI to help create minimal-stress UIs. The first product is an app that determines what color and font will make you less stressed. I’m also advising Interface Communications, a start-up that is trying to revolutionize the way you organize your contacts and messages on your phone.” Ricardo Montes de Souza: “Light Wave Capital is an investment vehicle that started in June 2019 buying fiber optics in Brazil. There is large unmet demand for broadband connectivity across outskirt regions in Brazil, which has grown faster than the rest of the country. However, these regions and their respective B2B and B2C markets have been poorly served by the telecom incumbents (Oi, Telefônica, and Claro). There is a lot of pent-up demand as the Brazilian big telcos lack capital to cover a continental area (Brazil) and the small SMEs are filling the gap and growing at 37% p.a. (this is the fiber SME niche average).” www. lightwavecap.com In Other News David Sibley and Tom McAndrews recently met up for a workout in Denver, CO. While the primary goal of the session was to “keep it lean in 2019,” they also reminisced about their time together at the Tuck School. They encourage classmates to reach out if they’re in the Denver area and looking for an upper-echelon pump. On a more meaningful note, the elusive Mike Lenon sent this message “Allah will provide.” We are glad to see between his “banking so hard” and worldwide trips, he remains grounded.

“I undocked from everything I had in NYC and flew myself to India, a land I had never imagined to visit. In the past year, I completed a five-month, 1750-hour-long hatha yoga teacher training and subsequently worked as a hatha yoga teacher at the Isha Rejuvenation Center.... The immensity of this experience and the way it has touched me in my innermost core made it a natural decision for me to apply to become a full-time volunteer at the Isha Yoga Center. To my fortune, I was accepted very soon. It takes many people up to 10 years to be accepted. Viewed in this light, I guess I was a swift horse. The Sibley-McAndrews Tuck update

Closing Note from Ying Zhao We would like to close with a personal letter from Ying Zhao, who left New York City and real estate to move to India to work at a yoga ashram—it’s edited here for space, but get in touch with Ying to know more! “About a year ago I was living in NYC having a job in commercial real estate, a life that many might desire. A year later, I am in India, as a full-time hatha yoga teacher in the Isha Yoga Center, a complete shift that many might not understand. I cannot help but to submit myself to the universal law that CHANGE is the only constant in the world. “When I take a stock check of my life after Tuck, I remember that the day when we had the graduation ceremony, I took a photo with Mr. Steve Roth, to whom I am extremely obliged. In Chinese we have a saying that swift horses are usually found but not the same as ‘Pak Lok.’ Whether I am a swift horse, let us see, but Mr. Roth is definitely my ‘Pak Lok.’ He saw something in me and gave me an opportunity to interview at his publicly traded company, which led to a new job and life in New York City. I would like to say thank-you to Mr. Roth and to Tuck. “However, the excitement of a new job and a new city, something that I strived for through my time at Tuck, did not settle me for long. I had to find the answer to this burning question— why do we live? Time like this prompts you to turn inward. When the student is ready, the

“This past year feels like 3-5 years content packed into one. I see myself evolving, becoming a little more at ease and steady, a little less compulsive, a little more selfsustained, a little less dependent upon external situations to make me happy or unhappy. Experience of life is becoming sweeter, more vibrant and intense. I received a set of tools, keys to unlock the very mystics of life. If I hold myself right and do the right things, right things will happen to me. My ultimate well-being is in my own hands. If I make it, it’s me; if I don’t make it, it’s also completely on me. To me, that is freedom. “Worry not that I might have become a caveman and care nothing about the real world. I have not and will not. In the contrary, incorporating spiritual processes into your life equips you with the tools to sustain inner well-being so that your body, your mind, and your emotion cause no issues to you, which can in turn free you up to surf the waves of life in full stride. On a busy day, I will spend 5-6 hours on teaching and teaching-related matters, another 5-6 hours on my own Sadhana (yogic practices), another 5 hours on sleeping and then the rest is for taking two yummy vegetarian meals and other activities. From the moment I open my eyes before 4am in the morning until I hit the bed at 10:30pm at night, I’m on the whole day without feeling drained or drowsy. I am more productive, alert, and exuberant than before, and my sleep quota has gone down significantly. “I hope you are intrigued and encourage you to learn more about Inner Engineering. As for me, I will enjoy being a full-time volunteer at the Isha Yoga Center for an extended period

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CL ASS NOTES of time. How long? I honestly don’t know. It is a privilege to be able to touch the lives of others. More importantly, with what has been bestowed onto my hands, I would like to dive into myself and see how deep I can go. I would like to keep on evolving, continue to serve the well-being of all, and give myself in raising human consciousness in whatever capacity I can.”

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Gabriel Martinez gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

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First off, let’s start with an apology. I failed to get our class’s write-up into Tuck Today in time to get them incorporated into the last edition. I take full anonymous responsibility for my (lack) of actions. Boom—see, that’s how you take full responsibility when you underperform. Now on to the write-up! [Editor’s note: Look on the 2014 class-notes pages on myTUCK for this column’s photos!] Maggie and Varin Neitzel welcomed to the world their beautiful daughter to add to their family of 4 (furry friend included). Maggie currently enjoys the sass of Lucy Clara Neitzel. “As you can see by her faces and head control, she is a determined little girl who wants to move.” While Lizzie Torkelson [Schaeppi] did not respond to comment, Maggie also wanted to ensure that everyone know about the multiple future members of the flat rack pack between their two babes! We don’t know who she looks like more (feel free to weigh in), but she definitely seems to have more Maggie’s temperament.... Varin is still at Bain, with Maggie in innovation at Blue Shield. On the plus side (for some of us), they are deep in the tank debating when they actually make our move back East. In more family news, Daniela Thions Meyer and her husband welcomed baby #2 this spring and are now a happy family of 4!! The new 128

baby’s name is Elsa Marie (5 months) and joins Alexander John (2 years). They also recently bought a new house and are looking forward to host any Tuckies travelling to Mexico City. Ashley Hovey and Jesse Colville also “had another kid.” But Ashley did not want to keep the class in the dark about another important life update—she and Jesse recently acquired new dining room chairs. No further details were provided, but I think we can all agree on the significance of these two events, especially if they are non-Ikea. Alejandro Lorenzo also recently went down the multiple baby path, now with two boys—a 2-yr-old and a 1-month-old. He and his wife moved to Oakland from San Fran, and he has been at LinkedIn for two years now. Avanti Maluste’s updates were a little less watered down—getting engaged underwater to a gym owner she met on Hinge (we just report, you decide). This has allegedly led to an increase in her working out, which she offsets through a recent interest in donuts, specifically of the brioche varietal. In her words, “it’s called balance.” She also said some crazy stuff about fuchsia being her favorite color and blah blah but we stopped listening/believing in her following the brioche piece. She also lives in Mumbai, should that be of consequence to anyone, and enjoys TSwift and her cats, though not as much as some T’15s (SHOTS FIRED!). She is currently wedding planning, which she describes as a “full-time job”—no word on whether she is contemplating helping Juliet Horton’s company with its Mumbai expansion (the next logical market expansion for the start-up, per my consulting experience). In other news likely not fit for print, following the league merger in 2014, fantasy football still lives in in the form of the originally named “Tuck League 2.” The league remains from those fall A “overcommit underperform” days of yore. In the combined NewCo, former Tuck League 1 commissioner Aman Kedir lost his throne, and the resultant league is now led by the steady hand of Nashley “Easy Money” Mascarenhas. The league is celebrating its 7th year (yes, I did that #publicmath for you), which means we’ve wasted donated $350 to the TuckGIVES “charity.” And while players have come and gone (RIPIP Tyler Hull, Josh Feng, Samer Sayigh, Mark Devooght, Adam Kramer, Sam Thacker, Ben Davis, and Matt Woodward), the league is still comprised of T’14 and TP’14s Meghan “Tinkerbelles” Lodolo, Merrill

“Goats” Matthews, Christopher “Dolan” Dolan, Bret “TD=Triple Dartmouth” Anderson, Jesse “Wentz or Go Home” Colville, Luke “12th Place 12” Michener, Selemon “Motown Magic” Asfaw, Jennifer “Rookie Mistakes” Ferrigan, Aman “I’m not good at fantasy football” Kedir, and yours truly (#freebrady) continue to hold down the fort. But not really, since of the 14 managers who have made it to the finals, 11 of those have been named Aman, Nashley, or nickyscars, and 4 of the 7 finals have been two of those three. Prettttyyy pretttyyy good (for us). What was that about the rich getting richer or something? Insert SJW TPOV. Turning back to the news that people care about, on April 20th Craig and Lynsay Silverman happily welcomed Parker Aaron to the world. It has been a wild ride filled with diaper explosions, projectile spit-up, and middle of the night wake-ups, but allegedly they couldn’t be happier. As you can see from the photo nearby, they appear to have everything under control. Love, Craig and Lynsay. (Secretary’s note: Are we not going to talk about that beard or that Craig is unnecessarily shirtless and I’ve obviously prioritized this picture over cute pictures of babies? No? No one from Burrito Barn willing to step in here? Bueller? Cool bye.) Ryan and Hilary Ferro are also expecting an addition to the clan, with as yet unnamed but affectionately referred to as “boy #2” on Nov 16th. While some of us were not present at the reunion (womp womp), my guess is that that those in attendance are not surprised by this news. Ryan also wanted to highlight a mini–beach vaca with the Kedirs and Asfaws from 4th of July in Minneapolis. Not in attendance were TP’14 (Tuck Pups) Tyrion and #LuckyTheCityPup, as she was too busy prepping Aman’s TL2 football draft charts. Turning now to the job front, Sara Malcolm left Amazon (source: Facebook messenger) after 4 years and 7 months to take a new role as director of strategy at REI (source: LinkedIn). The new role hasn’t stopped her, Luke, and Miles from exploring the great outdoors in great detail (source: Instagram). Continuing with work news, Front Office Sports recently released an article on the great success that the Atlanta Hawks have achieved with fan service, including hiring our very own David Garcia as vice president of guest experience, bringing an “innovative service-focused” approach. Alerting your class

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secretaries to the article and the write-up was definitely not David’s wife (and TP’14) Heidi. Definitely not. And you can trust the class secretaries to keep your secrets. Check your personal Rocketmail accounts for the URL. In more work-related news, Zach Hogan has been active on the job market, switching jobs a couple of times, but is now at ServiceNow and “seems happy” doing “strategy stuff” at a fastgrowing SaaS company after his tour of duty at Bain. (Secretary’s note: I have no idea what that means.) Marcy is currently homeschooling Donovan (now 11) and Quinn (now 8). The animal menagerie has grown from cats to include a few rabbits, and the young people in the house are loudly requesting a dog to join the tribe. Lots of fun California adventures that seem to revolve around the mountains mostly, and the whole crew was excited about the East Coast road trip. If you’re ever in the SF area, look Zach up! Note that, ironically, the secretary writing this is currently on a JetBlue flight to SF but unfortunately, it’s a quick turnaround and thus the dude is unable to abide this time around. Going across the narrow sea, Michael Seohyun Pan has moved to Shanghai, China, where he is on ExPat (expat?) assignment with his family. He moved there last April and will be staying there for the foreseeable future while he continues his tour of duty with Vanguard. Unfortunately, his Facebook access is limited, so be patient if you reach out! That likely goes for everyone at this point though, save **insert T’14 name here who never posts and thus is an ironic reference**.

there working too hard. Unless it’s to find a way to insert references to the Big Lebowski and Blink182, in which case carry on. Kisses —T’14 class secretaries

’15 Kelsey Byrne kelsey.byrne@gmail.com

Heather Levy heather.levy@gmail.com

5TH REUNION OCTOBER 9-11, 2020

We can’t believe we’re less than 1 year away from our 5-year reunion. Time has flown by since we were all last together in the Upper Valley! We love hearing from you all and sharing your news!

baked my own wedding cake and both cats attended. Tuckies sat at the Goldratt table, named for the author of The Goal. Ms. Ellie Tietz, daughter of Jen Tietz, was an all-star flower girl. It really rocked.” Mazel Tov!!

Ashwin Gargeya welcomed New England’s cold weather by heating things up in his personal life—congrats on his engagement to Lauren!

Alex Rogalski married Mika TP’15 in a beautiful summer wedding in Sweden— teaching all the Tuckies in attendance the Swedish toasting tradition. Former Skybox roommates also celebrated their weddings this summer! Alex Russell got married this past year. Nate Isaacson married Alison Hiler T’16 in a beautiful ceremony in Wyoming.

And last and certainly least, I’d like to throw a quick shout-out to the members of CFr, a cross-class Collaborative Friendship with hand-picked T’15 alumni (names redacted). It is a dark and mysterious GroupMe, and we continue to debate whether Dan Nastou should be included or not. Or, was this an elaborate way to tag Dan Nastou in something in Tuck Today? As always, we report, you decide. And the last update comes from late-breaking, post-Reunion feedback from one Peter Hagstrom (currently working in operations strategy for Juul). His synopsis of the weekend was what you’d expect from such an optimistic upbeat guy, but the highlight of his thoughts was the fact that “everyone looked tired.” Whether we can’t do back-to-back nights anymore, kids are eating our brains, or “work sucks, I know,” we hope everyone isn’t out

Sasha Zaltsman and Lyusha Goldberger, with cats, at their wedding

A few other Tuck couples tied the knot this summer—Joshua Brough and Hilary Modjeska T’16 got married in Washington, DC, in June! Christina Vottero and Spencer Vaughn got married in the Upper Valley, where they started dating!

Pablo’s Vineyard Vines modeling debut

Pablo Segovia Smith also had some big news! He not only got engaged but was featured as a model in a Vineyard Vines campaign! Lyusha Goldberger wrote in to share her news! She married Sasha Zaltsman in a Russian backyard party at her parents’ house in Falmouth, MA. Lyusha wrote in and said, “I

In addition to all the new families that formed—many of our Tuck families grew since our last update! Sara Kirsch and her husband, Dan, welcomed their second son, Jack Eli Kirsch, in February. Nick Ziemba and TP’15 Emily Ziemba welcomed their second son— Daniel Alexander—in September! Mollie Evans and her husband, Greg Miller T’14, welcomed their first child in September. Lissy and Reed Gilbert also welcomed a son. Sandy Chen Fedor and her husband WINTER 2020

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CL ASS NOTES As for us, Heather is still loving her role at Applause and exploring her neighborhood with her husband, Shane. Kelsey (Byrne) Kelly moved back to NYC, where she now lives with her husband Craig and their two (formerly outdoor) cats. Hard to tell whether the cats or the humans miss Utah more.

The Kirsch brothers

Michael welcomed baby Sophie in March! Luis Mendoza and his wife also welcomed a baby girl this year. Gibb Ranson and Tyler TP’15 welcomed a son in August. Jeph Shaw and Katie TP’15 welcomed a daughter in May. In addition to welcoming new family members, our Tuck classmates met each other’s families for the first time. Ken Yoshida and Curry Helton reunited in Japan last month and traveled to Okinawa Islands. Curry was able to meet Little Kurry on their adventure.

Curry and Little Kurry

A number of our classmates also took on new opportunities. Charles Christianson moved to Colorado to be near the mountains and take on the role of chief of staff at Alterra Mountain Company. Meg Whitaker took on a new role at Reebok doing strategic planning for APAC. She’s getting some serious airline points going between Asia and Boston! Katherine (Amato) Brown left Pandora to join Framebridge as the director of retail operations.

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

Team: What a year. We’re closing down 2019, and now it’s only two more years until we reunite in Hanover. We’ll need to start an official countdown to reunion ASAP. Until then, it looks like everyone is doing a great job of staying busy— Engagements Sasha Kenyon is engaged to “Tuck Enthusiast” Ted Sullivan, who has designated himself as TP’16/CBS’13. The soon-to-be Sullivans will be married next June in Bermuda at the Coral Beach Club. I’m sure Sasha has even single detail ironed out and that being our social chair trained her incredibly well for this very moment. Sasha is still very much enjoying her role as North America brand manager for Tiffany & Co. and unofficial T’16 engagement ring consultant. Also, next time you see Sasha, make sure you aggressively demand to scope out her engagement ring; it’s amazing. Parents to Instagram celebrity dog Ranger, Giuliana Vetrano and Ben Hartwell (T’18) are engaged! They’re planning a wedding in Vermont in 2020.

Francisco Riederer (Chico) got engaged in August to Ji Suh, who he has been dating almost 3 years. They’re planning on getting married in a chateau in Burgundy in 2020. Winning for most ridiculous engagement story is our own Sharon Dauson. Sharon met her fiancé Chris Johnson the summer she was interning at JP Morgan in NYC, because he was visiting her roommate and crashing on their couch. Apparently, the roommate and Chris were high school friends or something. Whatever, cut to present day. Liz Jin happens to be in town visiting and sleeping on Sharon’s couch (omg with this couch again!). Chris and Sharon take a walk in Central Park, Sharon is wearing a fanny pack. He pops the question, they get engaged and are photographed by a random stranger. They return to the apartment, where Liz is waiting, totally in the know on the engagement, and armed with diamond facts. She escorts them to Tiffany’s for some ring shopping. Anyway, Sharon and Chris are getting married in Pittsburgh in October 2019. Sharon expects great Tuckie attendance but remains super-disappointed that Josh Fuhrmann has RSVP’d no. Babies Erik Johnson and his wife Jaclyn welcomed their son, Benjamin Edward, on July 24. They’re looking forward to taking Ben on his first trip to the Upper Valley and introducing him to the game of pong at the next Barn reunion. I predict the team of Benjamin Johnson, paired with Uncle Benjamin Shore, will dominate the scene. Please report back. Michael Gallagher and his wife Erin had a baby girl, Virginia. She is now five months old and living the Tiny Tuckie dream with her parents in Pittsburgh. Mike recently left

Congratulations everyone!

Left to right: Sasha and Ted; Chico and Ji; Ben and Giuliana; and Chris and Sharon.

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McKinsey and joined PNC in their corporate and institutional banking business. Erin and Mike would love to hear from Tuckies if they’re ever passing through Pittsburgh. For example, maybe for Sharon’s wedding? Also on the family front, Whitney Flynn has pulled together all of the T’16 moms for a little quarterly support group. I know what you’re thinking: “Being a working mom. What, like it’s hard?” Well listen, it turns out that it sort of is, so reach out to me or Whitney if you’re a current or aspiring mom who wants to join the group.

Top: Shreya and Jordan; Hilary and Josh; Fan and Jenny. Bottom: Katie and Will’s wedding party.

Hilary Modjeska married Josh Brough (T’15) at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, also on June 1st.

Moves Nicole Daniele made a terrible choice to leave Boston. She’s setting up back in New York City and is working for PWC. Boston will miss you! Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, James Goff moved to Sydney. He’s still with McKinsey and had our other Australiadwelling, McKinsey-employed classmates Beth Deichmann and Siddhartha Agarwal over for his housewarming. I think Sydney makes a lot of sense, since its closer to the Thailand-based fight-club vacation locations Goffy frequents. Kevin Minpyo Kim and his family moved to South Korea. Kevin started working for a Korean fintech start-up called Toss. He’s now leading its insurtech business and has been working even harder there than when he was at McKinsey. His wife and the twins are doing great in South Korea and have adjusted really well to their new home. Matt Shofnos started a new job in July, working on client partnerships at BounceX. He’s still in NYC.

The Kim family Bryan Seelagy and Katie (Soja) Seelagy moved from one South End, Boston, apartment to another. The new apartment just so happens to be on the same floor, in the same building as our apartment. This incredibly joyous turn of events was celebrated in the Hayes household by listing the Seelagys as our daughter’s emergency pickup contact at daycare without their knowledge or consent. Weddings Pilar Olaechea was married on June 1 in Peru. She and her husband Nicholas moved back home to Peru from Europe and are both kicking off married life with brand new jobs.

Jenny Desrosier and Fan Zhou were married on June 8th at Winvian Farm in Morris, CT. Omar Abdelsamad served as officiant, in the world’s most thoughtfully written ceremony. (Seriously, consider Omar for all your marriage officiating needs.) Also, Ting Khaw and Dismas Widita were in attendance at this wedding, all the way from Singapore. And no, they did not prepare a choreographed dance number, but yes, they did ask me very detailed questions about childbirth during dinner. And because weird fall A study-group dynamics never totally die, there is a claim that the bride may have slapped Dismas for sassing her at the after party. Who says Connecticut isn’t fun? Katie Landry and Will Collins got married on August 14th in Manchester, VT. It was a wonderful celebration, with perfect Vermont summer weather and a huge crew of Tuckies who kept the dance floor going all night long. Katie and Will are going to head to New Zealand for their honeymoon in November. Shreya Srinivasan married Jordan Richter on August 17th in Minneapolis, MN.

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CL ASS NOTES Alright friends! Those are all the updates I have this time. Keep them coming, and let me know if you’re ever in Boston. I may be a mom now, but I can still hang. Until like 9 PM at the latest. —Sarah

’17 Monique Alves t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Jenny Djupedal t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Emma He t17.classnotes@gmail.com

Love Is in the Air! Anna Mac and Mitesh Patel celebrated with friends and family in a wonderfully public affair, a year after originally eloping. Dayne Jervis and Julie Lindenman got married on 06.29.19 in Hudson Valley, NY. Ken Martin and Lindsey Carlin were married on 08.07.19 in San Francisco! Travis, Bailey and Ashley Cousins are doing well! They relocated back to the ATL and love being closer to family. They got married 08.17.19 at the vineyard. Married life is fabulous, but they do miss the Tuck family. Julie Zisfein and Ben Chandler got married on 09.07.19 on Shelter Island, NY. Claire Laudone got married to Greg Thonsen on her family’s apple orchard on 09.21.19 and had some great Tuckies in attendance! Laura Goytizolo and Eric Flanagan got engaged in February over breakfast in bed to avoid the near-arctic conditions of Minneapolis. They’re planning to get married in much-warmer Peru in April 2020. Welcome Tiny Tuckies! Gabrielle Hoffman’s Cobalt is now a big brother! Madeleine Rose Hoffman (named after Gaby’s beloved Swiss Grandmother) was born on Saturday, August 10th in Greenwich, CT.

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Top: Mitesh and Anna; Julie and Dayne; Ken and Lindsey. Middle: Travis and Ashley; Julie and Ben; Eric and Laura. Bottom: Claire and Greg with a great Tuck group!

Zsombor Vincze and Julie welcomed their baby girl, Maggie (Margaret) Liao Vincze, in April of 2019. Grace Yang delivered the most important project in her life in 2018—baby Alain.

Sealand was named after his great-great grandfather. He’s an active, joyful, and adventurous little boy and brings much happiness into their lives! Please reach out to them if you’re ever going through the Philly area—they would love to reconnect!

Kate Matteson welcomed a new Tiny Tuckie! On October 18th, Myles and Kate welcomed their son Sealand Atlas Matteson into the world. Sealand was born in West Chester, PA, where Kate continues to work for Vanguard as a senior manager for offer development in their financial advisor services business.

Life Moves Thiago Alday, Thais, and baby Nick have been enjoying London and Europe as much as they can! Nick is trying his first steps and looking forward to winter and a possible snow season. Nick can’t wait for the class reunion to meet us all!

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T’17s in London

’18 Arushi Kumar arushi.kumar90@gmail.com

Roger Li sijia.li2016@gmail.com

Fernando G with former CEO Fernando Gallego

Rebecca Yi rebeccayi33@gmail.com

Top: Cobalt and Madeleine Rose Hoffman; Zsombor, Julie, and Maggie Vincze. Middle: Grace Yang’s baby Alain; Myles, Kate, and Sealand Matteson. Bottom: Thiago, Thais, and baby Nick.

Career Leo De Cara started a 1-year assignment with J.P. Morgan in his hometown of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as of September 2019 and looks forward to hearing from classmates or welcoming them in person! Fernando Guillem and Daniel Di Cecco completed the acquisition of Lanaccess last November 2018, so it’s already been close to a year managing the company. To manage the company, Fernando moved from Madrid to Barcelona, where they have the HQ. They also have an office in Madrid, where Daniel is. Lanaccess develops technology, both hardware and software, for video surveillance. Shawn Curley continues to spend a lot of time in Texas, but Boston remains home. He was happy and grateful to see a number of Tuckies

through wedding celebrations, birthday parties, and quarterly meetings. Kiz has moved to Boston to work in commercial real estate development—he’s going to be the next Trump! Kittah was not able to join this final journey. She rests under the fog of Santa Cruz mountains in a narrow bed, where she continues to look upon the world on silent haunches. T’17s Take Over London! Jeremy was wrapping up his 4 months of study in London when Caitlin and Emma were traveling there semi for work and semi for fun. On Oct 6th, they got together with the London Tuckies before Angela’s move back to the US late October! In the photo, you have Stephane and his fiancé Ana, Radim and his fiancé Sandra, Thiago, Dale, Angela, Caitlin, Jeremy and his son Benji, Emma and her boyfriend John.

T’18s braved Chicago weather on the weekend of September 28th for their first reunion since graduation. The weekend kicked off with a Murphy-esque Happy Hour at Ballast Point brewery, where Tuckies caught up over a few beers and bites. Saturday started with “pick-your-own-adventure” style activities, ranging from an architecture kayak tour to indoor bouldering. The weekend culminated in a boat tour with unbeatable views of the Chicago skyline and nightlights. Cheers to the organizing committee—Sravya, Steph B., Adam, Blair, Jon, Charley A., Kelcey, Dipti, Courtney W., and Geraldo!

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The T’18 contingent at Courtney’s wedding

Jason and Courtney

Other news from T’18s: On September 7th, 2019, Courtney Wehling married Jason Holman at the University Club of Chicago, surrounded by many T’18 and TP’18 friends. The gorgeous Dipti Badrinath and Emily Martens were bridesmaids, and the dashing Jon Ou was an usher. No surprises that Sravya Yeleswarapu and Mark-Emmanuel slayed on the dance floor all night. Baby Cecelia Henderson!

Joe and Joanna Henderson are thrilled to announce the birth of their first child, a daughter named Cecilia Mary, on June 14, 2019 (look left for a pic!). Cece is already looking forward to being a member of the Tuck Class of 2047!

’19 [Editor’s note: We received the following at Tuck from Darryn Lee (congratulations, Darryn and Ayisha!). If you’d like to help celebrate T’19 special occasions and news for Tuck Today and on myTUCK for the eminent class of 2019, please contact tuck.alumni. engagement@tuck.dartmouth.edu to volunteer as class secretary!] From Darryn Lee: “I was married on June 15, 2019 outside Raleigh, NC. My bride’s name is Ayisha Lee. Attached is a photo from the wedding of us with some Tuckie classmates.”

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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.

Russell B. Tompkins T’38 March 14, 2011

George G. Eaves T’50 October 14, 2010

Jerome P. Daniels T’57 July 11, 2017

Robert H. Devlin, Jr. T’67 May 15, 2019

Charles F. Putnam T’42 August 27, 2010

Conrad R. Bohuslav T’51 December 11, 2011

Alexander C. MacIntyre T’57 October 18, 2019

Peter J. Gillespie T’67 May 17, 2019

James J. Mulligan T’43 July 3, 2011

Paul A. Keetz T’51 August 27, 2011

George M. Yeager T’57 December 31, 2017

Robert S. Verhey T’67 September 8, 2018

William S. Richards T’43 April 10, 2019

James L. Myers T’51 April 29, 2019

Thomas W. Hayden T’58 June 8, 2019

Michael W. Neal T’70 September 11, 2019

Robert G. Taylor T’44 November 21, 2010

Thomas J. Swartz Jr. T’51 October 18, 2019

Frank R. Joslin Jr. T’58 November 11, 2018

Morgan W. Nields T’70 June 18, 2019

Carl J. Batter Jr. T’46 January 7, 2012

Frank J. Lee T’53 August 26, 2017

William E. Myers T’59 April 30, 2019

Christopher J. Scott T’73 June 7, 2019

Allen N. Hooker T’46 March 8, 2011

Joe Novak T’53 October 23, 2019

Nicholas W. Fenney Jr. T’60 July 29, 2019

Ronald E. Lewis T’74 July 7, 2019

Richard C. Crabtree T’47 February 18, 2012

Victor R. Trautwein Jr. T’53 June 29, 2019

Robert A. Hickin T’60 September 18, 2018

Christopher N. Brennan T’82 June 18, 2019

Walter S. Nylund T’48 September 10, 2019

Robert P. Henderson T’54 October 6, 2019

William S. White T’60 October 9, 2019

Bruce E. Kiley T’82 May 22, 2019

Kennard P. Perry T’48 October 13, 2019

John R. Rogers T’54 October 27, 2018

L. William Katz T’61 July 11, 2019

Alexander J. Martinowsky T’89 May 13, 2019

J. Howard Schneider Jr. T’48 May 25, 2012

Stanley R. Westberg T’54 October 22, 2013

Edward J. Johanson T’62 April 24, 2019

Craig A. Scarborough T’94 April 16, 2019

Leonard Robinson Jr. T’49 August 31, 2010

T. James Adams T’55 June 30, 2019

William A. Gunn T’65 June 13, 2019

Zane R. Heninger T’99 June 17, 2019

Joseph G. Wierschem T’49 May 14, 2019

S. Toulmin Greer T’56 October 13, 2019

John E. Bucholz T’67 June 2, 2019

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