Tuck Today – Fall 2015 Issue by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Real World ADVANTAGE

SPRING 2016 ALL-ALUMNI SURVEY Tuck is planning an all-alumni survey and we need your help! Your voice is important to us. Whether you are an avid volunteer and event attendee or have lost touch with Tuck, we want to hear from you. Dean Slaughter is eager to hear from alumni to:

UNDERSTAND alumni attitudes toward Tuck

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

ASSESS Tuck’s impact on your personal and career success

Scholarships are available!

IDENTIFY ways we can continue to refine what we do well and

2016 Tuck Business Bridge Program Session 1: June 13–July 8 Session 2: July 18–August 12

reach in new directions—in the MBA program and in our offerings for alumni

We will send email and snail-mail invites to participate this spring. In the meantime, please log on to mytuck.dartmouth.edu to update your contact information or email us at tuck.alumni.services@tuck.dartmouth.edu so we can be sure to reach you!

2016 Smith-Tuck Program May 23–June 10 at Smith College

2016 December Bridge Program November 27–December 16

TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT DARTMOUTH

CAREER ADVANTAGE. LIFE ADVANTAGE.

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CHRIS MILLIMAN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

BECOMING THE DIFFERENCE Fall is a special time at Tuck, with the change of seasons and the excitement that accompanies the start of another academic year. Campus is alive with new students and the energy they bring. It is a time of transition and of promise, fueled by the aspirations of students who have come to Tuck from around the world. Their challenge as young business leaders is to lead through transition. As you are aware, the world economy continues to experience rapid change. Broadly speaking, this change has been good. Market forces have been a powerful source of opportunity for many. But while this change has been very good for the world in general, it hasn’t benefited every worker and firm equally. When I speak with colleagues, students, and alumni about Tuck’s role in this remarkable time in the world, a common theme emerges. The world needs wise and capable leaders in business and beyond, and they believe Tuck is uniquely positioned to develop them. Tuck has a long history of developing leaders who have become the difference by doing well and doing good. Some of their stories can be found in these pages, including that of Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor Jr. T’88. Twenty-one years ago, he founded Intercorp with the ambitious goal to make Peru the best place in Latin America to live and raise a family. Rodriguez-Pastor was at the vanguard of the free-market revolution that has helped bring stability and prosperity to a country emerging from decades of economic hardship and political volatility. He built businesses catering to the needs of Peru’s booming middle class, and then he turned his energy and attention to fixing Peru’s education system. In 2010, Rodriguez-Pastor launched Innova Schools, an innovative, private educational network that emphasizes academic excellence and affordability. Less than five years later, his schools have grown quickly—there are now 29 schools in nine cities serving 19,000 students—and most importantly, they are delivering impressive results. Students at Innova Schools today test well above the Peruvian average. In Peru, children are getting ready for their summer break. But when they return to school in March they will carry with them the same sense of hope and opportunity our students bring to Tuck. That promise of education, fortunately, remains constant in our changing world.

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

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Editor Ed Winchester

Senior Editors Kirk Kardashian Catherine M. Melocik Class Notes Editor Catherine M. Melocik Photo Editor Laura DeCapua Tuck Today Advisory Board Paul A. Argenti Erin Tunnicliffe T’97 Matthew J. Slaughter Richard Sansing Punam Anand Keller Sydney Finkelstein Gina C. des Cognets T’01 Steven Lubrano T’87 Penny Paquette T’76 Design Flannel Published Twice a Year by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Office of Communications 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-9000 USA 603-646-3558 tuck.today@dartmouth.edu www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

OVERHEARD

@TuckSchool @saliltripathi 10/09 It was great to be in Hanover last week at our class reunion. @TuckSchool is very special!

@sydfinkelstein 09/30

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You rule Ema Pasic Reid! Wish I could live my Tuck experience all over again.”

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Managing Editor Patti Bacon

–PAULINA KELLY T’12, ON FACEBOOK

Congratulations to @TuckSchool first year students on wrapping up #agmsyd15, and soon all of Fall A. #Yellowtail to #Duplitrace

@ericspiegel 09/25 Proud to be back with @TuckSchool speaking on the #energy shift and its impact by policy and #innovation!

@cjspadafor 09/24 Met new @Dartmouth @TuckSchool Dean @MattSlaughter. Energized by his “big picture” thoughts + vision for innovation.

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Psyched for reunion weekend. @TuckSchool never disappoints. #greatminds #goodpeople

@dukecass 10/22

–GARY JACOBUS T’90

Some things never change. Was walking through freezing Hanover earlier today, @TuckSchool faculty member recognized me and gave me a ride!

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CONTENTS 42 07 DEPARTMENTS

NEWSROOM

THE GLOBALIST Matthew J. Slaughter, the 10th dean of Tuck, is seeking to expand the school’s leadership role in furthering business as a force for good in the world. BY JEFF MOAG

LEARNING BY LEAVING THE URGENCY OF NON-URGENT CARE A BRIDGE TO E-SHIP IN BRIEF

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SI PERU Twenty-one years ago, Carlos RodriguezPastor Jr. T’88 founded Intercorp with a lofty mission in mind: to make Peru the best place in Latin America to live and raise a family. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

AT THE EDGE OF DISCOVERY Solving the most important challenges of our time requires an approach that cuts across disciplines, departments, and schools. Meet four Tuck faculty members who are doing just that. BY MICHAEL BLANDING AND JONATHAN RIGGS

FIELD OF DREAMS Nike’s Andrea Perez T’08 is sharing the transformative power of athletics with anyone who has ever wanted the opportunity to play. Just like she did. BY KATE SIBER D’02

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR AN OPEN MIND 12 FACULTY Q&A: EESHA SHARMA 14 FACULTY NEWS 16 BUILDING UNSTOPPABLE NETWORKS OF TALENT 18

ALUMNI NEWS PROFILE: MINNESOTA LT. GOV. TINA SMITH T’84 48 ALUMNI INTERVIEW: BARRY HUME T’95 49 BEST PRACTICES: AMY HOUSTON T’97 50 NEWSMAKERS 51 CLASS NOTES 52 IN MEMORIAM 123

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NEWSROOM TuckGO, Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new global requirement, provides numerous ways for students to challenge themselves while being immersed in a foreign culture.

UP FRONT

BUSINESS BRIDGE

MASTER OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SCIENCE

IN BRIEF

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UPfront LEARNING BY LEAVING TuckGO, the new global learning requirement, gets going.

Sarah Reynolds T’15 was one of 18 Tuck students who traveled to India earlier this year on a faculty-led Global Insight Expedition.

BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

n a warm day in late August of this academic year, marketing professor and associate dean for the MBA program Praveen Kopalle introduced 286 T’17s to the new global learning requirement known as TuckGO. In addition to being one of the most diverse classes in Tuck’s history, they are also the first Tuck students who must leave the U.S. for some period of time to obtain their MBA degree. Kopalle could have explained TuckGO in terms of trends in the business world and the new demands they put on MBA graduates. Instead, he told a story. The story was about Gillette’s effort to gain a toehold in the men’s shaving market in India. In 2002, Gillette developed the two-bladed Vector razor for Indian men, Kopalle explained. It was equipped with a plastic bar below the blades that could slide down to unclog the razor. The company, which was based in Boston, tested the product with Indian students at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The students liked the new razor and considered it an improvement over the other available options. So Gillette went ahead and launched the razor in India, at a price of 72 cents. It was a massive failure. Why? Because men in India rinse their razors in a cup of water, not under a faucet like the MIT students, and the razors were staying clogged. It turned out that most Indian men

don’t have access to something that was key to the Vector’s design: running water. Procter & Gamble acquired Gillette in 2005 and, three years after that, made another attempt at the Indian shaving market. This time, however, they actually went to India to design the product. Executives talked with consumers there, observed their daily routines, and hosted small group discussions. They learned that Indian men used old-fashioned dual-sided razors, and spent a half-hour shaving because they were afraid of cutting themselves if they were sloppy. Out of that experience came the Gillette Guard, a single-bladed safety razor with a specially designed handle and a small comb. They priced it at 34 cents. The razor was a success, gaining P&G a 9 percent market share and exhibiting faster growth than any other P&G brand in India. “That taught us the importance that you really need to go where your consumers are,” Alberto Carvalho, a vice president at P&G, told The Daily Mail, “not just to talk to them, but observe and spend time with them to gather the key insight.” Kopalle heard the same sentiment two years ago, when he chaired the Tuck MBA Task Force, which was researching ways to improve Tuck’s curriculum. “We asked advisory board members and overseers to rate the importance of a global mindset, on a scale of 1 to 5,” Kopalle said. “They all gave it a 5.” In response, Kopalle and others spent a year designing TuckGO, and another year pilot-

ing the program. What they created fits the broad message to students that Tuck has advocated since Matthew Slaughter became dean: challenge yourself. TuckGO provides numerous ways for students to challenge themselves, while being immersed in a foreign culture. There are four different types of global experiences that fulfill the requirement: Global Insight Expeditions, OnSite Global Consulting trips, Global First-Year Projects, and exchange programs. Students must complete at least one of the programs, for which they receive course credit, in order to graduate. Although each experience is different, students completing a global program to fulfill the TuckGO requirement must write a paper reflecting on their trip, including thoughts about observations, insights, and teachable points of view. Much of the cost for one TuckGO course is included in the MBA tuition, and many students choose to go on multiple trips and cover the extra expense. “These experiences are about empathy,” Kopalle said, “where students can put themselves in the shoes of the person they’re observing and develop insights out of it.” Those insights, in turn, lead to actionable intelligence about how to do business in another culture—intelligence that has no domestic substitute. “Students are really excited about this opportunity to learn about a different culture,” said Kopalle, “and as a dean I’m excited that we can offer it to them.” FALL/WINTER 2015

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HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, THE URGENCY OF NON-URGENT CARE Physician Kevin Curtis is leveraging his Master of Health Care Delivery Science experience to help ED high utilizers. BY MICHAEL BLANDING

n his 20 years working as an emergency department (ED) doctor—13 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center—Kevin Curtis has seen a pattern: the same people coming into the ED time and time again, often for issues related to chronic pain, anxiety, and/or lack of social support. “There can be a lot of frustration in the emergency department from our inability to help these people,” says Curtis. At the same time, these so-called “superutilizers” can take valuable time and resources away from those with more life-threatening emergencies. Four years ago, Curtis decided to try to do something about it. Teaming up with two others from Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a practice manager and a leader working in quality and value improvement, he enrolled in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program at Dartmouth, a collaboration between Tuck and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Partnering with two additional students in the MHCDS program, Curtis and his team began their work by focusing on improving emergency department-primary care coordination, particularly for lower acuity ER patients, both at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and at St. Francis Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. As part of this initiative, the team created a novel registry of all ED patients to better understand the people themselves,

their patterns, their preferences, and their ED utilization. This quickly led them to appreciate the unique challenges of a cohort of ED superutilizers. The team has come to learn that many have complex and debilitating challenges with chronic pain, substance abuse, mental health, and/or childhood trauma that have made their lives chaotic. Surprisingly, more than 80 percent of the superutilizers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are already connected to a primary care team and many come to the ED during normal business hours. The challenge was how to embed them into a different team of professionals—social workers, mental health providers, substance abuse counselors, and community health workers—who they trust, who are easily accessible, and who could address their unique needs. “These people don’t need another prescription. They need a lot of patience and perseverance,” says Curtis. “This is high-touch, low-medicine work.” To address this challenge, Curtis has begun to develop an individualized action plan for each superutilizer that addresses their specific needs when considering going to the ED, while in the ED, and after they leave. Initially, Curtis planned on creating a bricksand-mortar superutilizer clinic. But after learning how difficult it can be for superutilizers to make regularly scheduled appointments or interviews, the team has decided to shift their focus and let the clinic come to the superutilizers. With a health care quality grant from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Curtis is developing a “virtual superutilizer clin-

Apple, Inc. Names MHCDS a “Distinguished Program” Apple, Inc. has selected the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program—a collaboration between Tuck and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI)—a “Distinguished Program” for 2015-17. The designation recognizes educational programs around the world that display outstanding innovation, leadership, and educational excellence, and it gives such programs a platform to share their insights and methodology with a broad audience of educators, technology specialists, and students. “This recognition from Apple highlights Dartmouth’s approach to distance education,” said Robert Shumsky, professor of operations management and co-faculty director of the MHCDS program. “We’re looking to provide an educational experience that immerses the student in the process, keeps them engaged, and makes sure that what they learn sticks with them and is used.” – Kirk Kardashian

ic” to treat these patients while they are in the emergency room. Now when one of these people comes into the ED, a real-time pop-up alert notifies the ED doctor, an automatic link directs the ED team to the individualized ED action plan, a care manager or social worker interviews the patient, including understanding ongoing challenges and needs, and the next step is coordinated for them—all while still in the ED. Curtis credits the MHCDS program with helping him understand the relevant health care delivery issues, developing an innovative strategy, designing the operation, and negotiating with stakeholders inside and outside the hospital to create something mutually beneficial for everyone. “Some programs only provide knowledge about health care delivery, but the MHCDS program also provides the tools to effect change,” he says. “It’s not just, ‘I have identified a problem and think I have a solution” but, ‘How do I build a team to take innovative ideas out into the busy world and make them successful.”

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A BRIDGE TO E-SHIP Tuck’s Business Bridge Program is providing undergraduate entrepreneurs with the skills and knowledge they need to successfully launch their own ventures. BY JULIE SLOANE D’99

t’s a trend the Tuck Business Bridge Program admissions committee couldn’t help but notice: a small but growing number of applicants running food-delivery or bike-rental businesses out of their dorm rooms, or dreaming of launching the next big tech startup. While Bridge graduates pursue a diverse array of career paths, its alumni most commonly head into consulting, banking, or other corporate roles. “In the last year, there’s definitely been an uptick in applicants who are saying, ‘I want to start my

own business and I think Bridge will help me do that,’” says Nicole Faherty, director of the Business Bridge Program. As students show more interest in entrepreneurship, the program itself has expanded to build those skills. Bridge now includes a session on entrepreneurship with Tom Naughton D’89, T’96, executive director of Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, and hosts guest speakers like John Pepper T’97, CEO and co-founder of the burrito chain Boloco, who can share their experiences in the trenches of a startup. Each Bridge session culminates with a team capstone project, and while traditionally that has been a company valuation

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Coach, Inc. is Tuck’s Newest Custom Client

oach was established in New York City in 1941 as the original American maker of leather goods and accessories. Today, almost 75 years later, the company has over $4 billion in revenue, and its products are available on five continents. Coach is already an admired global brand, and it has higher aspirations: “to become the company that defines global modern luxury.” To help it get there, Coach has chosen to partner with Tuck Executive Education to develop and deliver a custom executive development experience for the company’s top 100 leaders. Like many custom executive education clients, Coach partnered with Tuck because of its reputation and highly customized and personalized approach to business

education. In fact, Coach’s CEO, Victor Luis, was a participant in Tuck’s Global Leadership 2020 (now 2030) program when he was a senior executive at LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton). The Coach brand is about “authenticity, innovation, and relevance,” qualities that are shared by Tuck. “Coach is exactly the caliber of company with which Tuck aspires to partner, to do what we do best in executive education,” said Clark Callahan, executive director of executive education programs at Tuck, “accelerating the readiness of wise high-potential leaders to become the difference in the world of business and beyond.” – Kirk Kardashian

exercise, students now have the option to instead assess the potential of an emerging market or new product. Over the past year, Bridge teams have done market analyses for self-driving cars, 3D printing, concussion sensors in sports helmets, and a new pharmaceutical drug. Christine Souffrant D’11, who completed the Bridge Program in 2010, spent two years in banking before launching her own startup, Vendedy, a social enterprise that uses a mobile network to connect street vendors with shoppers in real time. Bridge, she says, helps boost the confidence of people with a liberal arts background who might otherwise second-guess their business skills. “By doing Bridge, you may not become an expert in finance or valuation, but you understand the fundamentals,” she says. “The program didn’t prepare me to be an entrepreneur, but it gave me the skillset to be a better entrepreneur.” Other recent Bridge alumni who have pursued entrepreneurial paths include 2005 alumnus Vasilios Alexiou T’12, co-founder of FirmPlay, a career website that helps companies showcase their workplace culture to applicants using video, photos, and other content, and Steve Dean, a 2011 Bridge graduate and co-founder of Jobsuitors, a website that uses online matchmaking technology to pair jobseekers with employers. “No matter what type of business our graduates want to pursue, Bridge provides a very good foundation based off the Tuck curriculum,” says Faherty. “And for those who want to start their own businesses, Bridge provides a foundation to create a marketing strategy and business plan, to know at least on a surface level what needs to get done to make their new venture succeed.”

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BY JUSTINE KOHR

hen Mary Munter arrived at Tuck in 1983, the school had half as many students and faculty as it does today, far fewer female professors, and the campus ended at Stell Hall. “And you could always find a parking space,” laughs Munter. In her 41 years as a management communication professor—Munter taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business for seven years prior to Tuck—she’s seen more than just the expansion of Tuck’s physical footprint and community. Munter has seen Tuck’s female faculty grow in both numbers and strength, and witnessed the evolution of a field in which she is an acknowledged expert. Munter, who retired earlier this year, was the first woman to teach in the core at Tuck long-term, the first to serve as associate dean, and the first female faculty member to teach in and direct programs for Tuck Executive Education. In every sense, Munter helped pave the way for future female faculty members at Tuck. “As of the late ‘90s, there were zero tenure-track women at Tuck. Today, there are 11,” she says. At Tuck, Munter co-taught the core Management Communication course for more than 25 years, as well as Advanced Management Communication, Advanced Presentation Skills, and several others. Along the way, she helped countless students become more confident and effective business communicators. And while the tools have changed— Munter recalls a time when presentations were delivered standing next to a flip chart—the fundamentals of the field have not. “You still have to keep your audience in

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mind and be clear and organized,” she says. “Good writing is good writing. Good speaking is good speaking.” Munter’s impact and influence extends beyond Tuck to the field of management communication itself. The Association for Business Communication, on whose board she served three terms, has recognized her contributions with multiple awards over the years. She co-founded the Management Communication Association, led seminars and workshops for more than 90 companies and organizations, and served as a visiting professor at four international universities. Munter’s scholarly work included synthesizing many business communication concepts that today are widely accepted and used in her field and in related areas such as organizational behavior. High Skim Value, for example, a concept and term Munter created, is now a widely accepted principle for formatting emails, slides, and memos so they can be more easily read. Munter’s influential “Guide to Managerial Communication,” a guidebook offer-

ing tips on business writing and speaking, was the first book to take a strategic rather than formulaic approach to management communication. Now in its 10th edition, it’s used at many leading business schools. Munter grew up in Southern California in a college town “very much like Hanover” and her California roots are what bring her back to the Golden State in retirement. She plans to audit courses in art history at a local college and travel as much as she can— to date, she has visited some 52 different countries. Munter also has a secret passion: blogging. At Delightful Reads (www.delightfulreads.com), she reviews novels that are a “pleasure to peruse.” And while Munter is looking forward to this next chapter, she admits that nothing can replace leading a classroom full of eager students. “You know what I’ll miss the most? Seeing lightbulbs go off above students’ heads. That’s when you know they get it. And when you’re teaching communication, you can literally see it when their behavior improves.”

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IN BRIEF PASSAGES

COURTESY OF THE VOORHEES FAMILY

A Lifetime of Support

Few professors have left a legacy at Tuck as large as that of Robert Macdonald. Devoted husband to the school’s longtime executive officer Mado Macdonald and a member of the faculty from 1959 to 1989, Macdonald was known for his charm, obsession with golf, and distinctive Scottish burr. “He truly loved life and laughter and being with people,” says Joel Barad T’76. “I think I was the worst student in his macroeconomics class, but he was still willing to write me a recommendation because he saw that I had the right attitude. In everything and every way, he was a cheerful, generous spirit.” Along with teaching Tuck’s second-year Industrial Relations course, Macdonald created and taught Political Economy and the Business System, and Public Management and Public Policy. Inside or out of the classroom, he was as instantly recognizable for his standard attire— blue blazer, striped tie, gray flannels—as he was for his wit and warmth. “When I arrived here, the faculty was very small, about 18-20 people,” remembers professor emeritus Richard Bower. “Robert was always one of its leading members. He was very strong, very principled, and very respected. He was a wonderful person who will be dearly missed.”

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he devotion displayed by DeForest (Don) Voorhees D’33, T’34 to his alma mater was nothing short of remarkable. Voorhees served as a class secretary from 1985 to 1999 and agent from 1982 to 2015, and gave to TAG during all 44 years of its existence. When he died this year at 103, Voorhees was the penultimate member of his Dartmouth class and the sole remaining member of Tuck’s class of 1934. He turned this into a running joke, since his TAG gift meant that his class would achieve the near-impossible feat of a 100-percent giving rate. “What was so amazing about Don wasn’t just that he was an incredibly vibrant and engaged lead volunteer right until the end,” says Andy Steele T’79, executive director of development and alumni services, “but that he never lost his wonderful personality or focus. Don embodied the spirit of Tuck and the connection and community we share as alumni.”

REMEMBERING KENT L. WOMACK

ormer Tuck finance professor Kent L. Womack was the kind of instructor who thought nothing of surprising students in a latenight study session to offer individualized coaching and encouragement. “I know his job description didn’t include those nighttime teaching sessions,” says Jason Lina T’03. “It was simply a selfless act that demonstrated Professor Womack’s care for his students. He was one of the reasons that Tuck is Tuck.” An expert on the role of equity analysts and underwriting, Womack, who passed away in his sleep on Aug. 4, served for 16 years on Tuck’s faculty before joining the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in 2010. “He exemplified the teacher-scholar aspirations of the Tuck School,” said

Tuck Dean Matthew J. Slaughter. “The great acclaim he achieved for his research and teaching were matched only by his prodigious talent and enthusiasm. We are all the richer for being touched by his full life.” To honor his life and dedication to scholarship, teaching, and academic excellence, his family has established the Kent L. Womack Student Scholarship at Rotman.

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“A Cheerful, Generous Spirit”

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ENERGY

Global Forum Takes a Fresh Look at Energy, Business, and Society

BON APPÉTIT Since joining Tuck two years ago, Director of Dining Services Jim Giberson has worked with Assistant Dean Steve Lubrano T’87 to improve Byrne Hall’s offerings and reduce the long lines that would form during peak periods. The latest enhancements, which wrapped earlier this year, include a more visually appealing servery, expanded menu, and more convenient serving stations. Among the dining hall’s newest grill offerings are gourmet burgers made from grass-fed beef from Shipley Farms, a three-generation business run by T’04 Gray Shipley’s family. Byrne now also offers grab-and-go hot sandwiches and side dishes and—at the new Paulie’s Deli—made-to-order sandwiches. Named for Dean Emeritus Paul Danos, the deli allows patrons to order and pay for New York-style deli sandwiches via app, then pick them up from a to-go window. “We’re looking forward to making dining at Tuck a better experience for everyone: visitors, friends, and family,” says Giberson. GIVING

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uck Annual Giving raised a record $6.4 million in the last fiscal year, with more than 70 percent of alumni participating. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Tuck’s alumni giving rate has surpassed 70 percent—a figure nearly triple the average giving rate of our peer business schools. Generating approximately 8 percent of the school’s operating revenues as well as providing discretionary funds to support innovation in Tuck’s curriculum, TAG has grown continuously in recent years, with

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very other year, Tuck and the five other business schools that comprise the Council on Business & Society put on a global forum to discuss and study a significant business issue from multiple perspectives. In 2012 and 2014, the forums addressed corporate governance and health care, respectively. This past September in Boston, the subject was energy and its place at the intersection of business and society. There are countless conferences about energy. What set this gathering apart was its three themes: the worldwide transitions away from coal, oil, and nuclear to gas and renewables; the capabilities companies need to thrive in the energy sector; and what business schools must do to educate future leaders of energy firms. Tuck brought a wealth of information and experience to the event. Daniel Revers T’89, a co-founder of ArcLight Capital Partners, gave a keynote address on investments in the energy sector. Alumni stressed more collaboration between Tuck and the Thayer School of Engineering as a way to enhance energy education at Tuck. And Neil “Dutch” Kuyper T’92 and Jonathan Mitchell T’12, who head the 130,000acre Parker Ranch in Hawaii, worked with students and professors on a case competition about renewable energy development on the Big Island. Eric Spiegel T’87, the CEO of Siemens USA, even met with the case competition teams to share his thoughts on the topic. Nell Achtmeyer T’16 wrote the Parker Ranch case with Kuyper and Mitchell, with supervision from Robert Hansen, the Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration, and Tuck corporate communications professor Paul Argenti. “Co-authoring the case with Tuck alumni gave me direct insight into how relevant these issues are in the real world and how the types of solutions can truly provide models for other business situations or industries,” she said.

this year’s revenue surpassing the $6.35 million raised in 2014 and 2013’s total of $6.3 million. “As always, this campaign’s success is as much a testament to the generosity of our alumni as it is to the thoughtfulness and dedication of our global network of volunteers and our Hanover-based giving team,” says Peter Lebovitz T’78, chair of the Tuck Annual Giving Executive Committee. “We all share the same vision of Tuck and our community reaching ever-greater heights.”

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IDEAS Tuck strategy professor Sydney Finkelsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest book examines how great bosses manage the flow of talent in their respective industries.

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FACULTY Q & A

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THE BUSINESS CASE FOR AN OPEN MIND TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES, MANAGERS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THEIR OWN COGNITIVE INERTIA. By GIOVANNI GAVETTI, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

recently gave a presentation at a summit for CEOs from the health care industry. They invited me, a strategy professor, because health care is undergoing a massive shift in the way providers interact with patients, and it’s something that could benefit from the insights of an outside thinker. For generations, the practice of medicine has focused on treatment, and a host of incentives have increased procedures, hospitalizations, and drug use. Now, owing to unsustainable costs and mediocre health outcomes, the industry is doing a bit of soul searching. It looks as if a new model is emerging: patient-centered care. This model is much more concerned with population health and value-based care. In this approach, patients’ preferences in deciding which treatment they receive are taken into fuller account, and value is a top consideration throughout the process. The CEOs at the summit were grappling with how to adapt to this emerging health care landscape. Their situation reminded me in many ways of what Polaroid and Kodak faced in the 1990s as they contemplated the proper response to the ongoing shift from analog to digital imaging. I studied this aspect of Polaroid’s story for a paper I co-authored with Mary Tripsas called “Capabilities, Cognition, And Inertia: Evidence From Digital Imaging,” which was published in Strategic Management Journal in 2000, and in a Kodak case study I co-authored with Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi. I based my presentation at the health care summit on these companies’ reaction to digital imaging paper, and the reactions from the CEOs proved that Polaroid’s and Kodak’s pitfalls are still extremely relevant to the challenges faced by modern businesses. Let me tell you the Polaroid story. When we think of Polaroid, we think of their iconic instant cameras that spit out square photos. The Polaroid

camera was a product of a unique, two-part corporate ethos. First was a belief in the primacy of technology—that new opportunities come from technological breakthroughs, which in turn create new markets. Second was a belief that in the photography business, all of the money is in the consumables: film, paper, chemicals. Polaroid sold cameras at or below their cost in order to maximize sales of high-margin film. The colloquial name for this strategy is the razor/razor-blade model. In the early 1980s, Polaroid’s fascination with technology manifested in R&D investments in digital imaging. For a few years, starting in the mid-1980s, the digital imaging group tried to make a digital version of the classic Polaroid camera. The project was code-named PIF, for “printing in the field.” PIF was an idea ahead of its time. The technology was simply not developed enough (both image capture and image print) to sustain a commercially viable consumer product. As a result, the digital imaging group quickly refocused its energies on the digital camera (as opposed to a PIF camera), and by 1993 it had a working prototype of a megapixel digital camera developed for the consumer market, arguably the first of its kind. Polaroid was at the technological frontier in the camera domain. There was just one problem. Making digital cameras defied Polaroid’s traditional business model of raking in profits on consumables. The digital imaging group, however, didn’t care about that. To them, digital cameras were the future of photography and they believed Polaroid needed to go in that direction. This belief clashed with the position of senior management, which was rigidly anchored to the razor/razor-blade model. The senior managers won, and the digital imaging

group was forced to turn its attention to a digital X-ray machine that ended up being a flop. In November 2001, with the digital revolution well underway, Polaroid declared bankruptcy. When fundamental changes occur in an industry, businesses are advised to develop the capabilities to exploit those changes. But, as Polaroid shows, it’s not enough to have cuttingedge capabilities. Polaroid failed because its management team refused to adapt its beliefs to the new reality. It couldn’t see beyond its mental model of photography, which had been reinforced by decades of unparalleled success. Inertia in capabilities is a form of “action inertia.” Inertia in a mental model is a form of “cognitive inertia.” In the past decade there have been striking cases of cognitive inertia, from the reaction of cell phone companies to the challenges posed by the iPhone, to the newspaper industry’s response to the digital revolution. In most of these cases the problem was not that companies were taken by surprise—indeed, they largely anticipated a major shift was about to happen—but that they made halfhearted investments in the new direction because the changes necessary to properly compete in this space were inconsistent with the top management’s core beliefs. At the health care summit, I could tell the CEOs were drawing lessons from Polaroid and Kodak. They discussed the difficulty of abandoning their traditional model, a difficulty rooted in the cognitive dissonance between the way of thinking they have known for years, and the new patient-centered model. Like Polaroid, I suspect their central challenge won’t be antiquated technology, but the subtly powerful effects of cognitive inertia.

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IN SEARCH OF WHY Q&A WITH EESHA SHARMA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Eesha Sharma moved rapidly from bachelor’s degree to Ph.D. at New York University’s Stern School, to investment banking at Goldman Sachs, to academia—where today she is focused on digging into and teaching what she calls “the findings of ‘why.’” Her current research involves how consumers assess and respond to states of deprivation in their own lives and others’ and the financial decisions they make as a result. Professor Sharma teaches the Consumer Insights marketing elective at Tuck and Introduction to Marketing in the Master of Engineering Management program at the Thayer School for Engineering.

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Can you describe your current research? I have several projects right now. A current project that I am excited about and that I recently presented at the North East Marketing Conference at Harvard Business School explores the drivers of consumers’ willingness to borrow for discretionary purchases. Previous research on borrowing has primarily examined how consumer characteristics (e.g., age, income, education) and loan characteristics (e.g., interest rates, time to repayment) affect borrowing. My research adds to a much smaller literature on how characteristics of the underlying purchase affect borrowing. Our findings demonstrate that the perceived time-sensitivity of a purchasing opportunity is a stronger driver of willingness to borrow than previously determined characteristics. Further, our findings suggest that this leads people to have a systematically higher willingness to borrow for experiences over physical products.

How does this relate specifically to discretionary purchases? As an example, previous research examined the following scenario. If a person wants to take a vacation and also wants to buy new furniture and they only have cash for one purchase, people would prefer to use cash to pay for the experience and borrowed funds (e.g., a loan) to pay for the furniture. This is because people like to receive benefits as they’re paying so they prefer to use borrowed funds for longer-lasting purchases. However, in my current research, which I’m working on with Stephanie Tully, from USC’s Marshall School of Business, what we have found is actually the opposite: people are more willing to borrow money to pay for the “experiences” they want. We show that this is not due to experiences being preferable in general but rather because experiences are inherently defined by a specific period of time, so it seems that the timeline for acquisition is

more important. We reconcile our results with previous research by showing that the perceived time-sensitivity is a stronger driver of borrowing decisions than is the desire to receive benefits while one is paying for a purchase. This work has many potential implications for managers and financiers since financing options are more commonly available for physical goods than for experiences.

So psychological factors are involved. Yes. Which can be a challenge in research—even when you can get actual data, you’re never going to get an exact proxy for psychological factors. This ties into another project on a charitablegiving phenomenon that I’m interested in. The basic idea is that people tend to give for what they think are emergencies, things that have just happened. There’s a present bias where people can more easily think about something that has recently happened (e.g., reactive charitable causes) than about things that have not happened yet (e.g., preventative charitable causes).

I understand you are working on another study related to consumer financial decisions? Punam Keller [associate dean for innovation and growth, and Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck] and I are working on a project on how consumers can increase their savings. There is some literature that suggests that when people feel poor, they may make worse financial decisions, including those related to savings. We’re finding that it isn’t always the case that people are actually worse about saving when they feel poor; they’re focused on something else, such as ways to earn more money. If given two choices between options that boost their financial well-being, one from saving and one from earning, people will

prefer the earning option. Even if the savings amount is actually greater. We demonstrate that by reframing offers—for example, an appeal to get a new credit card—from a focus on savings to one that seems focused on earnings, we can boost people’s participation and reduce that preference for earnings over savings.

Do you remember what made you want to move into academia? My interests evolved. I have a strong passion for data and analysis, and I realized that I wanted to be able to use these interests in a more creative function. And academia is the perfect fit for me. I can’t imagine doing anything else. I enjoy thinking about ways to bridge ideas and explore real-world phenomena and problems. I love exploring data and seeing what it has to say and uncovering things that I didn’t know before. It’s so interesting to be an investigator, to get your hands dirty with data and do heavy rigorous analysis and at the same time have the creativity to design a study that tests your ideas.

So it sounds like you have to have discipline for the analytical aspect but be open to what else might show up and what it relates to? Yes—you have to enjoy the challenge involved with data and be really good at thinking about experimental design, but also be open to what the data say. Often my projects have evolved as a function of the data. I learn that my initial ideas were incorrect, but sometimes that makes things more exciting. You then have to think through why the idea may not be there and try to make sense of the patterns of data that are there. And as a researcher and teacher, you have to enjoy digging through literature, and writing about and presenting your ideas. tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

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TUCK ANNOUNCES NEW ACADEMIC LEADERS

ean Matthew J. Slaughter announced changes to the academic leadership at Tuck with three new appointments: Punam Anand Keller, Praveen Kopalle, and Richard Sansing joined Tuck’s deanery, effective July 1. Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, will assume the new role of associate dean for innovation and growth; Professor of Marketing Praveen Kopalle has been named associate dean for the MBA program and the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management; and Richard Sansing, the Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of the Science of Administration, will serve as associate dean for faculty. “Teamwork among leaders is the hallmark of any successful organization,” said Slaughter. “Tuck is incredibly fortunate to have such talented and dedicated individuals helping lead the school into the future.” Keller is a world-renowned expert on decision-making and behavior change. In this new position, Keller will continue Tuck’s long tradition of innovation by helping foster new program ideas at the school. For her current research, which focuses on designing and implementing new consumer programs, Keller has collaborated with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Department of the Treasury, and with companies including CVS/Caremark.

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At Tuck, Keller teaches the MBA elective course Social Marketing and the Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations course in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program. Keller also teaches in a number of Tuck Executive Education open enrollment and custom programs, including the Minority Business Education programs. At Tuck since 1996, Praveen Kopalle is a respected scholar and educator, whose research into areas including marketing management, marketing research, pricing strategies, and new-product development is both rigorous and relevant. As associate dean for the MBA program, Kopalle will continue to help refine the MBA program at Tuck, which remains the hallmark of the school’s efforts to create a world-class business education. Richard Sansing, who joined Tuck in 1998, is a well-known and respected scholar in tax accounting who has developed and used rigorous models to investigate how taxes shape the accounting, operation, and structure of firms, and multinational firms in particular. At Tuck, Sansing has long taught the popular MBA elective course Managerial Accounting. In recent years he has also served as chair of the accounting group. As Tuck’s new associate dean for faculty, he brings to his role a clear commitment to faculty quality and development. tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

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FACULTY PROMOTIONS EMILY BLANCHARD was promoted to associate professor of business administration on July 1. Blanchard joined Tuck in 2011 after serving as assistant professor at the University of Virginia and previously as senior analyst for the Economics Resource Group. Her areas of expertise include international economics and policy, and her current research includes how FDI and global supply chains influence trade policy and the role of the WTO, human capital responses to globalization, and the role of trade intermediaries in shaping trade patterns and market access. Blanchard also holds the 2015 Paul E. Raether T’73 Fellowship at Tuck and currently teaches the Firms and Trade Policy Research-to-Practice Seminar.

ELLA L.J. BELL SMITH was promoted to professor of business administration, also on July 1. Smith joined Tuck as an associate professor of business administration in 2000 and teaches the popular Leading Organizations, Consulting: Dimensions of Change Agency, and Leadership Out of the Box courses. Her area of expertise is in organizational behavior, and her current research topics include race, gender, and social class in organizations; and organizational change. She is the president of the program ASCENT: Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, which she founded in 2004; and, with Stella Nkomo, she is the author of “Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity” (Harvard Business School Press).

JUDITH WHITE has been named faculty director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program. Professor White has taught core and elective courses at Tuck since 2001 and currently teaches Tuck’s Negotiations course with assistant professor Dan Feiler. She also teaches two popular undergraduate courses at Dartmouth: Psychology and Business, and Leadership. As Bridge faculty director, White succeeds professors Gail Taylor and Bob Hansen, who served as co-faculty directors of Bridge for the past several years, during which time the Bridge program expanded to include a December module and the SmithTuck Bridge program.

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NEW FACULTY On January 1, GORDON PHILLIPS will join Tuck as the C.V. Starr Foundation Professor and faculty director of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. As faculty director of the center, Phillips will work with center executive director Tom Naughton T’96 to enhance the academic and experiential learning of Tuck students interested in private equity and entrepreneurship and will teach Tuck’s Private Equity Finance course in the 2016-17 academic year. Phillips will succeed Professor Colin Blaydon, the founding faculty director of the center, who will continue his involvement at Tuck and the center in several research and coursedevelopment projects. Phillips joins Tuck from the University of Southern California, where he was the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Chair and Professor of Economics and Finance. He joined USC from the University of Maryland, where he taught corporate finance and private equity to MBA, Ph.D., and executive education students for 16 years and was the recipient of the Krowe and Wikler teaching awards for MBA teaching in both core and elective courses. His research on the interactions between a firm’s real

decisions and their financial ones has been published in many top finance, economics, and management journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. He also is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. LAURENS DEBO joined Tuck on July 1 as associate professor of business administration; Debo had served as a visiting associate professor at Tuck for the 2014-15 academic year and had taught previous to that at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. His areas of expertise include operations management, supply chain management, and operations strategy, and he currently researches economics-operation interfaces, queuing games, and global supply chain management. Debo earned his Ph.D. and an MSc from INSEAD and two additional MSc degrees, in operations management and electrical engineering, from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He will teach in the operations area at Tuck.

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BUILDING UNSTOPPABLE NETWORKS OF TALENT IN “SUPERBOSSES,” TUCK PROFESSOR SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN EXPLORES THE NATURE OF THE WORLD’S BEST NURTURERS OF TALENT.

One of Sydney Finkelstein’s earliest memories is of walking into a bakery in Montreal when he was four or five years old. He felt the warmth of the ovens. He smelled the fresh-baked bread. It was a powerful sensory experience. Years later, he went back to the spot that was the source of his fond feelings, and he was disappointed to see that the bakery was gone. “It really made me think, why is it that companies have to die?” said Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management. In a sense, that question has been behind much of Finkelstein’s writing and research. In his 2003 book, “Why Smart Executives Fail,” he analyzed why things go wrong in organizations, and how strategy and corporate culture could be part of the solution. Then came “Think Again” in 2009, which examined some common flaws of executive decision-making. In the course of writing those books, he gained an added appreciation for an unsung hero of the corporate world: the boss. Finkelstein was drawn to those truly great bosses out there who make a profound difference in the lives of those beneath them on the corporate ladder. These leaders, and their unconventional methods and approaches, are the subject of Finkelstein’s latest book, “Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent.” which will be published in February by Penguin/Portfolio. Why are such bosses worthy of an entire book? “Because, at the end of the day, the single best thing you can do to keep from dying as an organization is to generate and regenerate talent,” Finkelstein said. Superbosses, then,

are not just leaders, but teachers. They identify unusual talent and motivate, inspire, and transform them to achieve much more than they otherwise would. In a sense superbosses “create” high-potential people. Those lowerlevel employees then rise to become the next generation of corporate leaders, ably guiding the business through whatever challenges lie ahead. They act like a fountain of youth for the corporate body. Finkelstein is a self-avowed foodie, so when he began to investigate great bosses, he started with leaders in the organic, farm-to-table food industry. It wasn’t long before he realized that Alice Waters was a superboss: many of her acolytes have gone on to open acclaimed restaurants and bakeries, to be very influential in their own right. Then he examined the National Football League and discovered the outsized impact of former 49ers coach Bill Walsh. Finkelstein did a genealogical study of Super Bowl-winning coaches and found that more of them worked for Walsh than for anybody else, by far. In the fashion industry, the superboss is Ralph Lauren, for his ability to inspire his workers to greatness. George Lucas is another superboss: not only did he create dozens of companies, but he worked in an apprenticeship style with junior employees and taught them how to innovate. R2-D2 wouldn’t exist without Lucas guiding talented novices to a new place of creative accomplishment. Finkelstein studies these and other superbosses closely in the book, and then, in a series of chapters that make up a “Superboss

Playbook,” gives readers practical guidance on how to become a superboss themselves. “Everything superbosses do is teachable,” Finkelstein said, “which is a really big deal. Some people claim certain leaders are just good talent pickers. I don’t deny that, but I know you can teach anyone how to get better at finding and nurturing talent.” Along those lines, Finkelstein created a survey for readers to assess their own or their boss’ “superboss quotient.” By answering the questions in the survey, readers can get a deeper understanding of their leadership style and compare it to the winning characteristics of the superbosses in the book. After spending 10 years studying superbosses, Finkelstein has started to share their lessons with students in his elective course Strategic Leadership, and he is working to apply their examples to his own teaching style. “I’m trying to inspire my students rather than just impart knowledge,” said Finkelstein, who will also share “Superboss Playbook” lessons with participants in the Tuck Executive Program. “In my first class this term, I worked at it. I told them they are the chosen people to be here, and that they’re not only here to learn but to teach.” The first “Superbosses” book launch event takes place in New York City Feb. 10, followed by Boston on March 2. Visit Finkelstein’s website for future dates and news. HTTP: //FACULTY.TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU/ SYDNEY-FINKELSTEIN/

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MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER, THE 10TH DEAN OF TUCK, IS SEEKING TO EXPAND THE SCHOOLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LEADERSHIP ROLE IN FURTHERING BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE WORLD. PHOTO BY CHRIS MILLIMAN

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ate on a Monday afternoon three weeks into the first academic term of his deanship, Matthew J. Slaughter is going strong. The new dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has recently finished teaching a class of high-level executives in Tuck Executive Education’s Global Leadership 2030 program, and the exchange of ideas seems to have stoked his characteristic high energy. When our conversation turns to the role of business in an increasingly global economy, though, his enthusiasm rises to another pitch. “What is remarkable over the 20th century in particular is how market forces have been the primary driver of increasing standard of living and jobs and opportunity for literally billions of people on the planet,” he says, “especially more recently with the accession into the global economy of both India and China.” This is a favorite topic of Slaughter, a globalist who seeks to expand Tuck’s leadership role in furthering business as a force for good in the world. He continues in animated tones, with a baseline of scholarly reserve. After all, this is no ideological performance; Slaughter, a registered political independent, is simply describing trends that his research has documented over the last 20 years, and how they relate to the institution he’s served throughout his professional life.

The world is yearning for wise and effective business leaders, he says, and Tuck is uniquely suited to develop them. “We’ve been very fortunate with the strengths of Tuck over the years. We already have a number of inspiring graduates around the world who are doing well by doing good,” Slaughter says. “I’m very excited and honored by the prospect of continuing that at Tuck.”

MATT SLAUGHTER IS A SLENDER 46-YEAR-OLD, WITH A BOYISH FACE AND A WARM AND INVITING SMILE. He became a Dartmouth professor at 25 and was named to the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers at 35. Slaughter, who has been at Dartmouth since 1994 and at Tuck since 2002, was chosen to replace former Dean Paul Danos after an exhaustive worldwide search. He’s a leader whose first instinct is to listen, an internationalist with small-town roots in the American Midwest. Above all, he is a person grounded in community. The youngest of three boys, Slaughter grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities. His father was a sales executive at a metals wholesaler and his mother, who had worked as a nurse, ran a home often overflowing with guests.

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“AS WONDERFUL AS TUCK IS TODAY, WE AS AN INSTITUTION CANNOT BE COMPLACENT, AND I DID NOT ASSUME THIS NEW ROLE TO BE COMPLACENT. OUR OBLIGATION IS TO STRENGTHEN THE TUCK SCHOOL, TO ENGAGE WITH WHATEVER THE WORLD BRINGS NEXT.” “Our family life was very active and vibrant, our home a welcoming destination for lots of family and friends,” says Slaughter, who maintains close ties with a diverse group of those public high school friends. About half the group settled in Minnesota, while the careers of others have taken them to various parts of the United States and the world. Though no one planned it that way, the group has come together for an informal reunion each of the last 29 years. “Having that dynamism and variety among our friends reinforces what we academics should be aspiring to be, which is make sure our students are connecting with the real world,” he says. The group now gathers each summer in northern Minnesota, a region known for its stark beauty yet an economy scarred by the decline of the local mining industry. That, too, keeps Slaughter grounded. “A lot of my research and policy work has been on how we reconcile the reality that globalization, which is very good for the world on average, doesn’t benefit every single worker, firm, and community,” he says. In northern Minnesota, as in many other parts of the world, there’s a sense of ambivalence toward business. For that to change, and for business to fully deliver on its potential to make the world a better place, Slaughter believes the world needs business leaders who are not only skilled, but also wise and

empathetic. “I see this as an amazing opportunity for Tuck, because we have established ourselves as a school that takes values and integrity very seriously. We can articulate that even more clearly in the future and have even stronger offerings in and out of the classroom that prepare people to be the kind of leaders that the world is yearning for today.” Historically, Tuck has been more intentional than other schools in training what Slaughter calls leaders of wisdom—a term that encompasses not only technical skills, but also ethical orientation and humility about learning. Tuck has a proud tradition of producing such leaders, and their success attracts students who want to follow that path. Developing such leaders is a central component of Slaughter’s emerging vision for Tuck, which he has been crafting through an inclusive process grounded in conversations with Tuck faculty, students, and alumni, as well as leaders in the broader world. “Central to Tuck is our community—our space and our values,” Slaughter explains. “Tuck is a school, but that word alone does not capture the vibrancy of the people here.” Though Tuck’s size and location are often framed as challenges to an institution that aspires to be the best business school in the world, Slaughter prefers to focus on the unique advantage they confer.

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“Hanover is this lovely picture-postcard New England town, and yet when many people think of global business education they think of a global metropolis like London or Shanghai or New York. Our answer to that is that paradoxically, our community allows students to engage with the diversity and dynamism of the global economy in a richer way,” he says. “One of the reasons for that, among many, is that the sense of trust and support among students and faculty and staff is really unique.” As an example, Slaughter cites a popular elective course he taught, Leadership in the Global Economy. “It’s meant to be a really electrifying, engaging freefor-all,” Slaughter says of the class, which he organized around mock congressional hearings. “The students really push and probe and challenge each other. That intellectual risk-taking is supported by the relatively small scale at Tuck, where students can build a sense of trust among their classmates and faculty and staff that allows them to really stretch themselves and thus enrich their learning.”

Slaughter has found another favorite subject and his voice rises to a new pitch of enthusiasm. “When you’re teaching and you grasp that students have connected with an idea, and really understand it for the first time—as teachers it’s one of the most rewarding things that we do,” he says. Even in the frenetic first weeks of his deanship, Slaughter took an afternoon to teach in the Global Leadership 2030 program for senior executives. The course includes week-long modules in Hanover, Chennai, and Shanghai, with an emphasis on experiential learning. Most of the time in India and China is spent visiting local entrepreneurs, civil-society leaders, and executives of large multinationals. The program has helped Slaughter to better understand the global environment, and he wants to ensure that Tuck students have the opportunity to learn in the same way. “As terrific as the learning community is here on the Tuck campus in Hanover, we are increasingly taking our students physically and metaphorically

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around the world to learn firsthand what it is to be a leader in the global economy,” he says. The 2017 cohort, entering Tuck this fall term, is the first to have a degree requirement called TuckGO, in which every student will take at least one of a suite of immersive global courses that will put them on the ground in a country that is new to them.

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SLAUGHTER IS THE 10TH DEAN IN THE TUCK SCHOOL’S 115-YEAR HISTORY. His predecessor, Paul Danos, served for 20 years, expanding the full-time faculty from 34 to 55 members and filling the stable with influential thought leaders, Slaughter among them. He built world-class residence and lecture halls, increased enrollment by one-third and quintupled the endowment. It’s fair to say that Danos, who brought Slaughter to Tuck and mentored him, is the proverbial tough act to follow. “I can’t tell you the amount I’ve learned from Paul about Tuck, and about business schools and higher education more generally,” Slaughter says. “But perhaps most importantly, Paul taught me about being a leader with the utmost integrity and dedication to the institution that you’re serving.” As he begins his stewardship of one of the world’s great business schools, Slaughter acknowledges the gravity of responsibility that comes with the position. Still, it’s a weight he doesn’t bear alone; he has the Tuck community to rely on. “The support I have received from alumni, faculty, staff colleagues, and our students has been really remarkable and humbling,” he says. On Slaughter’s watch, Tuck will remain rooted in that community and its values, and will grow with its traditional strengths. “In no way do I think the new vision for the Tuck School will be a radical departure. When I think about Tuck in the future, we will continue to innovate as we have over the first 115 years. How exactly we meet our vision of being globally connected, diverse, and aspirational—how exactly we do that in the future will continue to evolve as it always has,” he says. The creation of the Tuck School in 1900—the world’s first graduate school of business—was itself a fundamental innovation in higher education. It arose because Edward Tuck recognized a dearth of trained managers in an emerging market called the United States, and asked his old college roommate,

Dartmouth President William Jewett Tucker, to help him create the new program at their alma mater. “Today we still adhere to the principles and values that Edward Tuck spelled out in his letters to president Tucker, particularly an ambition about principled business leaders,” Slaughter says. “We still adhere to that today, but how we do it in 2015 is fundamentally different than the way it was done here in 1900.” By way of perspective, Slaughter recalls that when Danos started as dean in 1995, he arrived on campus at the same time that Netscape floated its initial public offering. Danos had no way of anticipating what the information technology revolution would do to the world in general, and to higher education and business education in particular. He led and he innovated; Tuck thrived. As Slaughter began his deanship in July, the Greek Debt Crisis had the Eurozone teetering on the brink. That crisis is now in abeyance, just as a flood of refugees brings immediate and lasting change to European labor markets, and countries representing 40 percent of world GDP have negotiated the largest regional trade pact in history, the TransPacific Partnership. All of these things bring opportunity and challenge, Slaughter says. “As wonderful as Tuck is today, we as an institution can’t be complacent, and I did not assume this new role to be complacent. Our obligation is to strengthen the Tuck School, to engage with whatever the world brings next.”

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Twenty-one years ago, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor Jr. T’88 founded Intercorp with a lofty mission in mind: to make Peru the best place in Latin America to live and raise a family. Today, business is thriving and the future of Peru’s emerging middle class has never been brighter. Here’s how Rodriguez-Pastor is doing well by doing good. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

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ON A SUNNY DAY IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ-PASTOR T’88 DONNED ACADEMIC REGALIA AND DELIVERED THE INVESTITURE ADDRESS TO THE TUCK CLASS OF 2015. Rodriguez-Pastor talked a little about his days on Wall Street back in the early 1990s. It sounded like fun, and it was a formative time for Rodriguez-Pastor, but only in the sense that it made him yearn for something he couldn’t quite define. “It always made me feel empty and hollow,” he recounted, “hoping my career would become something more than just a way to earn money as fast and easily as I could.” For the past 21 years, Rodriguez-Pastor has poured that hope into Intercorp, a collection of businesses—supermarkets, pharmacies, retail banks, shopping malls, movie theaters—that cater to Peru’s growing middle class. The company’s mission is “to build a brighter future, day by day, for all Peruvian families.” In 2010, Intercorp took that mission one step further by starting Innova Schools, a system of affordable, high-quality K-12 schools around the country. Now Intercorp not only sells goods and services to the middle class, but gives more kids the opportunity to move up the economic ladder. In 2015, Fortune put Intercorp on its “Change the World” list, a group of companies that are doing well by doing good. “We focused on the emerging middle class, which has grown really rapidly over the last 15 years, and we’re trying to provide all the services they need and want, but within their constraints,” Rodriguez-Pastor said. “If we make these families stronger, I think we can have a longer-lasting democracy, where people own something and will thrive in a system that gives opportunity to all.”

Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor chooses his words carefully. So when he says he wants Peru to have a “longer lasting democracy,” he is referring to his country’s uneven history of representative government. For example, in Peru’s 194 years as an independent nation, it has had 109 presidents, meaning each president had an average term of 1.7 years. Only 22 of those presidents were elected, and just six were elected under a system of universal

suffrage. In Peru, the coup has been a common way to change leadership. The most recent one, in 1992 by Alberto Fujimori, is considered the 28th successful coup since independence, and the sixth since World War II. Like those of all Peruvians, Rodriguez-Pastor’s life has been disrupted by the high turnover of the country’s leadership, but his unique childhood gave him a more acute appreciation for stable government. In 1968, when Rodriguez-Pastor was nine years old, General Juan Velasco Alvarado led a military coup d’état, using Peru’s armed forces to seize power for himself, close Congress, and get rid of the democratically elected president and administration. At the time, Rodriguez-Pastor’s father was the general manager of Peru’s central bank, and he was considered a threat to the new regime. Velasco falsely accused Rodriguez-Pastor’s father of crimes against the state, and intended to put him in jail. Facing that hostile environment, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor Sr. escaped from Peru and fled to California. Six months later, Rodriguez-Pastor and his mother and five siblings joined him there. Once in California, the family had to start from scratch. “My father took a position with a bank, many rungs lower on the ladder than he’d been on in Peru,” Rodriguez-Pastor recalled. “I had to start a brand new school, and was forced to make new friends, convincing them the boy with the strange accent was someone worthy of acceptance.” But Rodriguez-Pastor persevered. Hard-working and intelligent, he got accepted at the University of California, Berkeley, and paid for much of his tuition by working as a bank teller at a Wells Fargo branch. In the summer of 1986, RodriguezPastor arrived at Tuck. He soon became friends with classmate and fellow sports enthusiast Peter Prophit T’88. “The thing that struck me is he was one of these guys who was competitive, but not in your face about it,” Prophit recalled. The following May, they went to San Francisco together to run in the annual Bay-to-Breakers race. They ran side by side for most of the 7.5-mile course, but near the end, Rodriguez-Pastor dropped back and disappeared into the crowd of other runners. “He used the group as a screen and then passed me,” Prophit said. “I chased him down and finished a half-step behind him. So out of about 10,000

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people, we’re like 461 and 462, and Carlos had that trademark grin on.” They stayed at RodriguezPastor’s parents’ house that night, and Prophit remembers waking up the next morning and hearing someone playing the piano beautifully. It was Rodriguez-Pastor. “He’s just a Renaissance man,” Prophit concluded. Tuck had a lasting influence on Rodriguez-Pastor. The most profound impact came from the school’s focus on teamwork. “That was really important, because to do anything big you have to be able to work on teams, and not just lead them,” he said. “Sometimes you’re just the guy taking notes, other times you’re a big contributor, sometimes you’re a leader.” That lesson is evident in many facets of Rodriguez-Pastor’s leadership style today, where he delegates to his trusted leaders of Intercorp’s subsidiaries, yet maintains close contact with them and is there to offer advice when needed. Tuck taught him a few other lessons too. One was the power of communication. “There’s an emphasis on being a great communicator, and that’s key, because if you have a great idea and can’t communicate it, it’s not heard,” he said. Rodriguez-Pastor also absorbed the community-

minded ethos of the Upper Valley, with its small towns and villages. “I think there was a sharedvalue approach,” he said. “Everyone is kind of concerned about the well-being of the community. Coming from the Bay Area, I thought that was a great experience.” Rodriguez-Pastor uses the same language when he talks about his hopes for Peru, and how business can play a role in improving society. “I’m proud to be called a businessperson because I think we can be a good example of how to make the economic pie bigger, create a shared value, where everybody benefits,” he said.

While Rodriguez-Pastor grew up and was educated in the U.S., his home country continued to experience political convulsions and economic turmoil. After 10 years of military rule under Velasco and others, Peru returned to democracy in 1980 with the election of Fernando Belaunde Terry. Belaunde was deposed by Velasco in 1968 and, now that he was back in power, he faced two main challenges: a failing economy and the rise of an armed insurgency. Peru’s per capita gross

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domestic product had fallen 12 percent since 1975, and inflation had risen from 24 to 70 percent. These trends continued throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, with inflation reaching fourdigit levels and GDP declining at the same time. As if those problems were not enough, 1980 witnessed the emergence of the Communist Party of Peru, also known as the Shining Path. Classified by the U.S. and other nations as a terrorist organization, the Shining Path began a revolutionary war against the Peruvian state, carrying out assassinations, detonating bombs in cities, and blowing up electric transmission facilities. By 1992, the war had led to more than 25,000 deaths. Peruvians lived in fear, and foreign investors stayed away. Numerous administrations had failed to correct the country’s economic and security crises, but in 1990 an alternative party candidate named Alberto Fujimori came out of nowhere to win the presidential election. Although Fujimori ultimately left a legacy of human rights violations and corruption, he managed to disable the Shining Path and implement fiscal and free-market reforms that stabilized the economy and opened Peru to global commerce. That same year, Rodriguez-Pastor’s father returned to Peru and, with a group of investors, acquired Bank of America’s Peruvian operations. It was the smallest bank in the country, but it was a start. Soon after, Carlos Sr. called Carlos Jr. in New York, where he was the co-head of emerging market trading at Citigroup. He wanted to know if Carlos wanted to come back to Peru and help him grow the bank. “I knew I wanted to, at some point, return to Peru and work alongside my father,” Rodriguez-Pastor recalled, “but on the smallest bank in the country? That didn’t sound like a great opportunity. My father, though, was never one to see adversity as simply a challenge. He saw it as an open door. He told me, ‘Carlos, don’t think of this bank as the smallest bank in Peru. Instead, think of it as the 25th largest bank in Peru!’” In 1994, Carlos Sr. and his colleagues bought a bigger bank: the state-owned Banco Internacional del Peru, and Carlos Jr. finally came back home to work with his father. One year later, Carlos Sr. died suddenly of a heart attack, and Carlos Jr. became the head of the organization, which had changed its name to Interbank.

With the economy improving, Rodriguez-Pastor made a critical strategic decision: to grow the bank by marketing to regular consumers, not the elite. In a deft move, Interbank put branches where its future customers already went every day: the supermarkets. The new branches, replete with balloons and tellers who were not behind bulletproof glass, were a breath of fresh air for Peruvians. The banks were open every day of the week, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Interbank built a network of more than 3,000 ATMs and was one of the first banks in Peru to offer Internet banking. Luis Felipe Castellanos T’98 is the CEO of Interbank today, which has become the fourthlargest bank in Peru, and also the most profitable bank in the country. Like Rodriguez-Pastor, Castellanos worked as an investment banker in New York before returning to Peru, where he was raised. When Castellanos decided to move back to Peru, he got many offers to handle corporate finance at Peruvian companies. “Carlos was the only one who told me, ‘What you have done in New York is not going to help you in Peru, because it’s a tiny market. But you have the opportunity to learn new things and develop your leadership skills.’” Castellanos liked that RodriguezPastor recognized his potential to grow in a different direction. He started out managing Intercorp’s mutual fund company, and worked his way up to the top office at Interbank, where he oversees about 7,000 employees.

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With the profits from the retail banking (PISA). Peru has ranked at or near the bottom of business, Intercorp began assembling a portfolio PISA every time it has been administered—in of companies that would serve other needs of the 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012. middle class. In 1999, Intercorp opened its first Peru’s performance on the PISA bothered non-financial business: a small movie theater Rodriguez-Pastor. He is a firm believer in the company. Today, it’s the largest movie exhibition growth mindset, where talent and intelligence company in Peru. “That gave us the confidence are not static qualities but launch pads for to get involved in other businesses,” Rodriguez- personal achievement. Education plays a huge Pastor said. Now Intercorp is an umbrella for at role in this philosophy, because it acts as a catalyst least 19 other separate businesses: a supermarket for betterment. Rodriguez-Pastor believes in chain with 103 stores, a retail development firm meritocracies and runs Intercorp in accordance with 20 shopping malls, a department store chain with that worldview: dedicated workers advance, with 19 locations, a home-improvement chain regardless of their background, while lackluster with 17 stores, and the leading pharmacy chain in performers are asked to leave. So when the sorry Peru, with 845 stores. state of Peru’s education was Rodriguez-Pastor’s idea to brought up at conferences serve the emerging middle year after year, RodriguezWHEN THE SORRY STATE OF PERU’S class was not only shrewd, Pastor found it frustrating EDUCATION WAS BROUGHT UP AT it also dovetailed with a and decided to see if Intercorp CONFERENCES YEAR AFTER YEAR, period of economic growth could help. RODRIGUEZ-PASTOR FOUND IT unprecedented in Peru’s “As we got involved, to our FRUSTRATING AND DECIDED TO SEE history. Peru is a mining surprise, we found that in country, rich with silver, Lima close to 50 percent of IF INTERCORP COULD HELP. gold, copper, and tin. As all kids were going to private China’s economy took off, schools,” Rodriguez-Pastor it needed those raw materials to build its cities said, “but most of these private schools were and factories, and the prices of minerals rose really lousy, just as bad as the public schools.” In steadily through the late 1990s and well into the other words, the government wasn’t doing a good next decade. As a result, Peru’s GDP grew by 6 to 8 job with public education, and the private sector percent every year, and its middle class doubled in was charging for an inferior product. That gave size, from 6 million to 12 million between the years Rodriguez-Pastor a new challenge to pursue: create 2000 and 2010. Mineral prices have since leveled high-quality schools with affordable tuition. off, but GDP growth in Peru is still strong, at 3 to Again, the demographics were calling him in this 4 percent, and the country is on a stable platform direction. Sixty percent of Peru’s population is 31 for continued prosperity. In fact, it’s considered years old or younger, and this represents a huge the darling of Latin America by investors and opportunity for the country’s continued growth. international economists. But if that generation is stuck with poor schools and bad teachers, they could stop Peru’s upward trend in its tracks. “That should create a sense of urgency,” Rodriguez-Pastor said. “We really have With all the good news about Peru’s economy— to do it now.” the expansion of its middle class, increased lifeRodriguez-Pastor and Intercorp started down expectancy, and more—it’s easy to overlook the this path carefully, consulting with the design country’s persistent problems. The poverty rate, at firm IDEO to devise a strategy for a big company to 25 percent, is falling but still very high. Organized enter a field not accustomed to multi-billion-dollar crime is rampant. But Peru’s most striking private enterprises. To gain trust among educators deficiency is in the quality of its education. Since and parents, Intercorp in 2007 created an award the year 2000, the Organisation for Economic for the “teacher who leaves a footprint,” which Co-operation and Development has evaluated gave a new car to the country’s best teacher. the reading and math proficiency of 15-yearRodriguez-Pastor’s next step was to find a old students in dozens of countries through its knowledgeable, passionate leader to help build a Programme for International Student Assessment new education company. He found such a person

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in Jorge Yzusqui Chessman. Yzusqui was an outsider—for most of his career, he worked in logistics, warehousing, and customs brokering— with a personal interest in education. In 2005, after he retired from his business career, he started three private schools that garnered acclaim. When Yzusqui first met Rodriguez-Pastor, he was puzzled that Rodriguez-Pastor thought Intercorp should play a role in primary education. “During the conversation, I quickly understood how important education was for him,” Yzusqui recalled. “He thinks that this is the purest way for our country to join the First World.” Intercorp purchased Yzusqui’s schools in 2010, and then proceeded to re-engineer them with the help of Yzusqui, IDEO, and managers from other Intercorp businesses. The new venture was named Innova Schools. Rodriguez-Pastor gave IDEO four mandates when designing the schools. They had to be affordable to the emerging middle class. Such families have a monthly income of about $1,500, so Innova set the tuition rate at around $100 per month. The schools had to offer high-quality

instruction, and that meant good teachers and an effective curriculum. So the IDEO team developed a blended-learning model, where students spend 70 percent of their time in group-learning, and 30 percent self-learning with the aid of laptops and programs like Khan Academy. To populate the schools with qualified teachers, which are in short supply in Peru, IDEO developed a teacher training system and Innova worked with experts at the University of California, Berkeley. The schools also had to be scalable. Yzusqui and IDEO deliberately focused on creating an education system, not just a collection of schools. Today, there are 29 schools in nine cities with 19,000 students. The goal is to have 70 schools with 65,000 students by 2021, which would cover roughly 1 percent of Peru’s student population. The last requirement was the most controversial, but perhaps the least surprising, given that a forprofit company was involved: the schools had to be profitable. Rodriguez-Pastor and Yzusqui joked that they should put that mandate in invisible ink, so it wouldn’t raise suspicion. But Rodriguez-

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THE PROFICIENCY LEVEL FOR SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS AT INNOVA SCHOOLS—71 PERCENT FOR MATH AND 86.6 PERCENT FOR READING COMPREHENSION— IS WELL ABOVE THE PERUVIAN AVERAGE.

Pastor saw profitability as essential. “Because if it’s not profitable, it’s not sustainable,” he said. “You may feel good about being a nonprofit, but then your donations run out and what will you do? If it’s profitable, you can have the returns to keep building more schools. It’s a virtuous cycle.” In less than five years, Innova Schools has grown quickly and shown impressive results. On Peru’s annual test of second-graders, the average level of proficiency for public and private schools combined is 26 percent for math and 45 percent for reading comprehension. The proficiency level for students at Innova Schools is 71 percent for math, and 86.6 percent for reading comprehension. And last year, Innova received its international accreditation from AdvancED, an American company that has accredited more than 30,000 schools around the world. “I think we are making a difference in private education in Peru,” Yzusqui said. “We are contributing to one of the most important areas of the country.”

If starting an education revolution seems like an unorthodox endeavor for a company like Intercorp, it helps to know that Rodriguez-Pastor runs the company according to his own values, and education just happened to be one of them. Another of Rodriguez-Pastor’s values is a sense of humor, and that too has become one of Intercorp’s values. The biggest example of that is Interbank’s annual costume party, where everybody, including Rodriguez-Pastor, dresses up and acts silly. The senior managers put on a show, and awards are given to employees who best represented the company’s values that year. It’s one of the highest honors among Interbank employees. “What it does is remind us that, at the end of the day, no matter what your business card says, you’re just a regular person,” Rodriguez-Pastor said. “Because if you take yourself too seriously in a country that still has 25 percent poverty, I think you’re missing the boat a little.”

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highly-acclaimed works, depicts nearly two dozen of ancient Greece’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and men of science clustered in small groups, deeply engaged in conversation or other activity. Collectively these figures are meant to represent the breadth of human knowledge and the classical, collaborative spirit of the Renaissance.

The idea that scholars of various disciplines can bring individual perspectives and

strengths to tackle a topic and yield unparalleled discovery is the inspiration for Dartmouth’s Cluster Initiative, a pillar of President Phil Hanlon’s academic vision for the college. It’s also a reason why Tuck faculty members regularly partner with fellow Dartmouth researchers to explore and expand the limits of their fields of expertise.

FUELING COLLA B O R A TI O N For Erin Mansur, Revers Professor of Business Administration, and his Dartmouth economics department colleagues James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote, collaboration begins informally. “Usually, we’ll talk about something we’ve read and chuckle, ‘Hey, we should write a paper about that,’” says Feyrer. “You know it’s a good idea when we start to get half-serious and say, ‘Well, if we were going to write a paper about that, what data would we need?’” That’s precisely how work began on their 2014 working paper, “Where’s My Fracking Job? Geographic Dispersions of Economic Shocks from Hydrofracturing.” The idea took shape as the three read and discussed a steady stream of news stories on the practice, which involves extracting natural gas via specialized drilling techniques. What sealed their interest in writing the paper, however, was the fact that it made use of each of their particular academic specialties. Mansur’s environmental and energy expertise meshed with Sacerdote’s interest in labor markets and Feyrer’s fascination with the macroeconomic issue of income. The researchers were also able to leverage data obtained by Feyrer and Sacerdote for a related project about the Obama stimulus package

that broke down county-level employment by industry. The resulting paper—one of the first comprehensive examinations of the effects of fracking on employment, wages, and crime— covers nearly every U.S. county from 2004 to 2012. It found that overall, fracking had an economically positive effect. For every new mining job, the authors discovered, two additional jobs are created: one in transportation and one in an indirectly-related industry. In addition, for every million dollars of oil and gas extracted from a well, the county in which it’s located generates approximately $77,000 in wage income and $64,000 in royalty payments. Widening this circle to within 100 miles of each well reveals around $263,000 in wages and $170,000 in royalty payments for every $1 million dollars of extracted resources. “This project was the perfect combination of our different but overlapping skill sets, and it was exciting to examine such a topical issue,” says Sacerdote. “This entire collaboration has been fun. I can’t imagine a better place to have made it happen.” Dartmouth, the three agree, is uniquely suited

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to such collaborations thanks to a receptive faculty who live and work in close proximity. This makes it all the easier to draw fresh parallels with, and inspiration from, each other’s work. “Friendships and interests cut across all fields here so that we have a general openness, open-door, open attitude that is ideal to spark collaborations across campus,” says Mansur.

HO W ID EA S SP R E A D Collaboration for Tuck associate professor of business administration Adam Kleinbaum and Dartmouth’s Thalia Wheatley, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, began in their respective children’s first-grade classroom. Perched on tiny plastic chairs during an open house, the two associate professors struck up a conversation about Kleinbaum’s research on how social networks form, evolve over time, and impact careers and organizations. For Wheatley, who studies social intelligence, the opportunity to join forces with Kleinbaum to approach the field of neuroscience through the lenses of interaction and social behavior was irresistible and long overdue. The Provost’s Office at Dartmouth agreed. The researchers’ joint project, “The Spread of Ideas from Brain to Network,” was one of 10 projects it approved to share in $450,000 of seed funding set aside for the 2014-15 year. “We know that at the macro level, information flows through networks,” Wheatley says. “That’s the social network analysis side. At the micro level—which is the neuroscientific side—there is some preliminary evidence that one person’s

brain activity will align with another person’s when those people talk or share experiences. So we wanted to connect the dots: How does the network affect how those brains align?” To determine this, the duo worked in conjunction with Kleinbaum’s core MBA course, Leading Individuals and Teams, collecting and analyzing data from students on their specific social networks. They then invite select students to participate in an fMRI study that allows them to link their network data to neuroimaging data of the participants’ actual brain processes. Under the aegis of this project, Wheatley and Kleinbaum are conducting multiple studies, but there are two sets they deem especially interesting. In the first, they found that the brain spontaneously encodes information about the networks around us in ways that haven’t been studied before. In the second, they are examining the extent to which people who are friends have more similar brain activity patterns than people who aren’t. While the researchers acknowledge an innate “friend selection” mechanism may be at work, they are even more intrigued by a second possibility: that the more time people spend together, the more their brains actually converge in terms of how they respond to stimuli on a neurological level. “There’s a lot of recent evidence of this kind of neuroplasticity over the last decade, so we can’t wait to explore this further,” Kleinbaum says. “What’s most exciting for both Thalia and myself is discovering how intrinsically our two fields— which have emerged largely independently—are really linked. To study them together like this is a remarkable opportunity.”

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TRAD ING PLA C ES When the U.S. imports products from other countries, those imports are rarely completely foreign. In a world of complex global supply chains, much of what we import is on the return leg of a global round trip journey. “When the U.S. imports, say, a car from Mexico, that vehicle embodies a slew of upstream components that were produced in the U.S.,” explain Dartmouth professors Emily Blanchard and Robert Johnson. “The U.S. makes auto parts that are exported to Mexico, then assembled and sent back to us in the form of a car.” Johnson, an assistant professor in the economics department, has spent years developing methods of measuring the “value-added” content embodied in final goods production in an effort to understand the complicated webs of modern trade. Blanchard, associate professor at Tuck, has in turn spent years studying the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and ownership—which often correspond to global supply chains—in shaping the way countries approach international trade policy. “But I had been focused on the question of how FDI influences tariff policies through a narrow lens,” says Blanchard, whose recent empirical work demonstrates that the U.S. offers preferentially lower tariffs to countries and industries where U.S. multinational firms have offshoring-type investments, especially in the developing world. “The implications of broader global supply chain trade are potentially much, much larger quantitatively.” If trade is about leveraging differences for mutual benefit, then Blanchard and Johnson are natural trading partners. The World Trade Organization asked Blanchard to reflect more broadly on how global supply chains and foreign investment affect trade policy on a larger scale. “But measuring global supply chains beyond just FDI is difficult in general, even more so if you want to come up with comparable numbers for a bunch of countries.” Consulting for the World Bank, Johnson was asked the same question Blanchard was thinking about—how the increasing decentralization of manufacturing and supply chains was changing the nature of international trade. “Little did I know, she had developed a theoretical framework that we could reinterpret and extend to give us an organizing structure for analyzing these questions with data,” says Johnson.

The two struck up conversation one day before the International Economics Seminar Series, run jointly by Tuck and Dartmouth’s economics department, and decided to pool their respective fields of knowledge on the issue. “I brought my specialization to the table and she brought her specialization to the table and together we’ve crafted a high-value good,” says Johnson. Pairing Blanchard’s theoretical tools and institutional knowledge of trade policy and Johnson’s valueadded measurements and careful empirical methods, the two, now in concert with policy expert Chad Bown of the World Bank, have developed measures that determine the extent to which countries’ supply chains are intertwined, and how those global supply chain relationships influence each country’s trade policy. They find that the more a country’s imports from a given trading partner embody its own domestic value-added content, the lower its tariffs will be against that country—and vice versa. Their findings have immediate practical and political implications, especially for trade agreements. “Part of the reason we don’t want to impose tariffs against Mexico is that if we hurt Mexican producers, we indirectly hurt our own [upstream] producers,” says Johnson. Likewise, Blanchard points out that “TPP can be seen partly as an outgrowth of global supply chains: lower tariffs against TPP partners that source a substantial share of their inputs from U.S. producers will help American firms and workers. Provisions like the so-called “yarn forward” initiative make plain the underlying motives. Textile and apparel products will qualify for free trade under TPP only if they use upstream yarns and fabrics that come from inside the TPP. So if the Vietnamese apparel industry ramps up its imports of fabric from the U.S. as many hope, this could be a major boon to U.S. textiles.” If we ignore the role of global supply chains in trade policy, we miss “a huge part of the story.” This past March, the researchers presented their working paper, “Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy,” at the meeting of the National Bureau of Economics Research Program on International Trade and Investment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “This paper never would have been written without both of us working together,” says Johnson. Moreover, adds Blanchard, the success of their partnership reflects the broader collaboration between Tuck and Dartmouth in

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BUILDING ON STRENGTH A NEW CLUSTER INITIATIVE CONCENTRATES DARTMOUTH’S STRONG SUITS.

ike a lens that focuses light from several different points at once, the effect of collaboration is multiplied exponentially when several faculty focus on an important global problem. That is the idea behind the Faculty Cluster Initiative, an ambitious program by the President and Provost’s Office at Dartmouth to hire new faculty to enhance the school’s areas of strength. “It’s a way to attract new talent to Dartmouth, but to do it in areas where we already have real strength and exciting collaborations that we would like to encourage,” says Denise Anthony, vice provost for academic initiatives and former chair of the sociology department. “Adding one person here or there, even if they are rock stars, isn’t enough—but hiring three heavy-hitters in one area can really make an impact.” The ideas for the initiatives come from faculty, who pitch subject areas where they would like to recruit colleagues to enhance an established area of strength or to build in an emerging field. After the proposals are vetted, the college goes out in search of donors to fund the initiatives and make them a reality. Making the initiative even more powerful is that donor contributions are met with a 50 percent match from the President’s Office to enhance the potential for the cluster. So far, four clusters have been funded, two of which will include new professors at Tuck—The Jack Byrne Academic Cluster in Decision Science and a cluster on The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization. The Byrne cluster, established with a $20-million gift from longtime Tuck benefactor and former overseer Jack Byrne Jr. and his wife Dorothy, is currently undergoing a search for the Jack Byrne Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics, and will begin a search for a new professor at Tuck next year. “Decision sciences is a broad field that covers a number of faculty at Tuck and across Dartmouth who study economic

decision-making,” says Anthony. “It is focused on interdisciplinary, high-impact research that has major global importance.” The Byrne Cluster is also unique in including funding for 32 Byrne Scholars, undergraduates who will receive grants to pursue independent studies in the field, and have rare access to Tuck faculty. The Globalization cluster, funded with a $10-million gift from an anonymous alumnus, will build on Dartmouth’s reputation as a leader in international economics, focusing on research on how democratic principles can foster economic development and growth around the world. A third cluster, The William H. Neukom Academic Cluster in Computational Science, has already made its first hire, Rahul Sarpehskar, a bioengineer who began as a tenured professor at the Thayer School this fall. Lastly, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy ’60 Academic Cluster in Health Care Delivery Science won’t include a direct hire at Tuck, but it builds on the growing international reputation of Dartmouth as a center for innovation in the health care arena with programs like the Master of Health Care Delivery Science pioneered by Tuck and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The possibilities for new clusters that have already been proposed for the future are a testament to the wide variety of areas in which Dartmouth is already a global leader—including a new cybersecurity cluster that would enhance the existing Institute for Security, Technology, and Society; and a new cluster on Ice, Climate, and Energy that would build on the work of faculty at Thayer, the Institute of Arctic Studies, and faculty from Environmental Studies. “The initiative is a little different than just building a department,” says Anthony. “This is a way to make a strategic investment in areas where Dartmouth has the potential for big impact if we add just the right mix of people.”

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international economics. “We have an incredible group of colleagues and mentors and a firstrate seminar series,” she says. “The simple act of getting together as a group every week to talk about research makes for a dynamic intellectual environment where everyone is just hugely productive.” As if to make the point, the two have already started work on their next project. They also now co-organize the seminar series that got the whole thing started.

AN EVOLVING DI SC IP L IN E Sometimes it seems like business follows the law of the jungle—only without so many rules. That’s particularly true when it comes to corporate brand and reputation. If it isn’t your customers deciding they’ve had enough of you, it’s your competitors actively working to bring you down or a crisis you could have anticipated but didn’t staring you in the face. So Tuck Professor of Corporate Communication Paul Argenti was particularly interested in hearing about Dartmouth Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Ryan Calsbeek’s research on evolutionary biology. Argenti’s son and Calsbeek’s daughter are friends from preschool and the two professors were chatting during a playdate at Argenti’s home. Calsbeek described how he and his wife Brittny, a lecturer in biology at Dartmouth and an expert in genomics, construct elaborate 3-D models of what is called the “adaptive landscape.” By creating hills and valleys representing different attributes of the environment, such as habitat and predators, and correlating it with traits of animals, such as body size and speed, they can predict how an animal will evolve over time and which combination of traits drive success in a given landscape. It seemed to Argenti to be the perfect analogy for corporate reputation, his own field of study for 20 years, where companies work to balance the needs and perceptions of multiple constituencies including customers, shareholders, and employees and decide where to put their resources. “Is it possible to work with other forms of data?” asked Argenti. Despite extensive work by social scientists, a model that will take in all of the various factors and the way they interact with each

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other in determining reputation has remained elusive. “A lot of people consider that the Holy Grail in marketing and communications,” says Argenti. “No one has really cracked the code on how to use measurement in a way that would be meaningful in the boardroom.” Calsbeek was sure there was an application to this challenge. “He was tenacious and really wanted to do something with the idea,” Argenti remembers. After more discussion, Argenti connected the Calsbeeks with data from the Reputation Institute, which measures companies along scales of corporate citizenship, employee satisfaction, governance, and other factors. The Calsbeeks were quickly able to grasp the ideas and work the data into their dynamic model. This afforded the advantage over other models of reputation by being able to predict how other companies may respond to changes a firm makes, rather than just showing a snapshot of the current state of communications. The model could also provide guidance to set strategic priorities, showing, for example, how the landscape might change if a company invested in a particular customer base, increased its focus on social responsibility, or reduced dollars to the ad budget. “What this model does is allow companies to think about the inter-relationship among variables,” says Argenti. “It’s kind of like playing chess in three dimensions.” When they presented the work to a group of executives at a conference last fall, they received ecstatic feedback about this potential new way to analyze and really leverage the vast and valuable data many companies work hard to collect but most fail to truly take advantage of. One Fortune 50 company approached them to

analyze data related to the strength of their brand. Argenti and the Calsbeeks modeled internal and external data spanning financials, PR and social media, results of customer and prospect surveys, brand, reputation, employee satisfaction, and social responsibility to provide insight into how it would change based on the company’s future moves. “Our model is able to tell them a much richer story,” says Argenti. “Having this outcome-based approach to measuring their reputation and their brand, we can use data to steer strategic decisions and investment, completely changing the way they think about this part of their business.” The company liked the analysis so much, they are considering expanding the collaboration to dive deeper into the data. Argenti and the Calsbeeks are now working on an article about their model, and are exploring commercializing it in the future given the response and interest generated to date. Argenti’s wife Jennifer Kaye Argenti D’99, T’05 is a veteran of both startups and strategy consulting and has been interested in reputation since her time at Tuck. She has joined the team to lead this exploration and figure out how to offer the value created by the model to companies around the world. Argenti credits the ingenuity and determination the Calsbeeks showed in developing a model that has the potential to transform the field of brand and reputation measurement. “How many scientists are willing to understand another field? And how many people in business have access to scientists like this?” he asks. “We are in a very lucky place where the stars have aligned in a way that gives us an incredible ability to predict the future.”

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AS GENERAL MANAGER, NORTH AMERICA SOCCER FOR NIKE, ANDREA PEREZ T’08 IS SHARING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ATHLETICS WITH ANYONE WHO HAS EVER WANTED THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY. JUST LIKE SHE DID.

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ndrea Perez still remembers watching the U.S. women’s national soccer team make history. It was July 10, 1999. The spectacular rise of these athletes had captured the world’s attention like no other women’s sport ever had, and all eyes were on the World Cup. In the final game, the American and Chinese teams battled fiercely for 90 minutes of regulation and another 30 minutes of overtime in front of more than 90,000 howling fans in a sold-out Rose Bowl stadium. But the game finally came down to penalty kicks—a moment of unimaginable pressure. An 18-year-old living in her hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico, Perez was glued to the television. She watched goalie Briana Scurry dive to make a game-altering save on the third penalty kick. Her idol Mia Hamm then nailed the ball square into the back right corner, and finally, Brandi Chastain made the game-winning goal, ripped off her shirt to reveal her sports bra, fell to her knees, and shook her fists in what is now an iconic image of victory and a milestone in the ascendance of women’s sports. Perez screamed and cheered. These women were heroes, and girls around the world like Perez now knew what they wanted to do. Sixteen years later, Perez has her dream job as general manager, North America soccer for Nike. And on a Wednesday in May, she was doing all the things she normally does: fly around the country, field calls, feverishly tap out text messages, and wolf down tacos between sprints to meetings. But that day was a little different, and she was nervous. With Perez’s help, Nike and the Mia Hamm Foundation provided grants allowing 250 girls from an underprivileged East Lost Angeles neighborhood to participate in Soccer for Success, a youth development program. And on a sunbleached California day, Perez and Hamm were slated to make the announcement to the girls and the media at a YMCA. “I was freaking out,” says Perez. “I told my team, ‘Hey, I’m going to try my best to keep my cool, but if not, then someone come and tell me to keep my cool.’” She laughs, remembering the day, meeting Hamm, and seeing the looks on those girls’ faces when they got to run around with Hamm and national team players Amy Rodriguez and Christen Press. “It was insane,” says Perez. “I was like, where am I?” This is a frequent refrain for Perez, who travels through the world in a whirlwind of

enthusiasm that seems to open doors to remarkable opportunities like this one. Barely topping five feet, she has a penchant for loud athletic footwear, a knack for disarmingly casual banter, and a warm, friendly personality, all of which make her both easy to be around and impossible to ignore. She is the consummate people person. Her easygoing air, however, belies a powerful intellect that has fueled her meteoric path from administrative assistant in the Nike offices in Guadalajara—offices she used to run past everyday and dream about—to the halls of Tuck, and eventually to the headquarters of the sports giant in Oregon, heading up branding for tennis, the World Cup, and, now, the entire soccer division for the continent. Along the way, she has become one of the rare marketing professionals who possesses both a deep understanding of business and strong insight into branding. From new apps to social media blitzes, her strategies are forward thinking in a company that is already a case study in innovative marketing. But for Perez, this is more than a job. It’s her dream, and not only because sports are what she loves, but because Nike is a place where she might actually have the power to do what she really wants to do— share the transformative power of athletics with every kid or grown-up who has ever wanted the opportunity to play, like she did. “I don’t see my job as selling shoes,” says Perez. “That’s not what we do. That’s a consequence of what we do. I want to make soccer massive in America.” That may seem like big rhetoric and a lofty goal, but those who know Perez know that she is not someone who sits on the sidelines. When Perez was growing up in central Mexico, girls didn’t really play sports. But in her neighborhood, all of the kids her age were boys. Those boys were always moving, so Perez and her sister moved too. They rode their bikes around and played soccer and shot hoops and threw balls in endless games of catch. They played sports all day and watched them on television at night. Perez and her dad, also a lifelong sports fan, would occasionally make the long drive north to watch the San Antonio Spurs. Young Perez was mesmerized. There was something about the lights, the emotion, and the energy of the crowd that moved her. She loved watching the dramas of triumph and defeat unfold on the court far below. Perez was not an exceptional high school or college soccer player, but she was good because she

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worked tremendously hard. And in return, she says, sports gave her everything. “Sport is a phenomenal way to reach a number of things in your life, from leadership skills to friendships to meditation and being more in your head to the ability to feel worthy and successful to having a great balance of life,” she says. “It’s the best hobby one could have.” She also learned, unlike many women in high school and college, that other women weren’t her competitors. She saw them as teammates. Even in college, Perez already knew where she wanted to work: Nike. In 2003, she signed on in Guadalajara as a marketing assistant and quickly rose to product line manager. In 2006, she traveled to the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, for the first time. This place, with its huge soccer field, gleaming basketball court, running trails, and bronzes of famous athletes, she knew, was her ideal habitat. As part of a special program, Nike arranged for Perez to go to the business school of her choosing on the condition that she would return to the company upon graduation. An inveterate question asker, Perez set about figuring out which would be best. “I started thinking about what is the experience I want and why am I doing this?” she says. “I started hearing these things that you can call anyone from Tuck and they’ll get back to you, and I’m like, that’s the kind of people I want. You have this assurance at Tuck that you will always know someone who knows someone who knows someone—or something. It’s about the quality of the people.” Tuck was a seminal experience for Perez. She acted as a visiting executives program fellow, hosting CEOs and entrepreneurs. She immersed herself in the late Professor Kent Womack’s Managerial Decision Making course. “It taught me so much about human behavior,” she says, “including my own.” And in Communicating with Presence, James Rice challenged her and her classmates to not only consider the direction of their careers but their lives. What kind of leaders did they want to be? How would they craft their own stories? “Everything that I’ve done right has been based on that course,” says Perez,” “leading with openness, vulnerability, presence.” Returning to Nike, however, was difficult. She wanted to be in brand marketing but was assigned to e-commerce sales, a division that, at the time, had

very little traction for the brand. It had nothing to do with her interests, but nonetheless, she learned. She gained an understanding of the complexity of the organization, a better grasp of the cultural nuances in the various countries where she worked, and she learned how to do a lot with a small budget. Within a year, she got the offer to leap to branding. Perez loves branding because it’s all about stories, the ways in which humans understand the world. And she’s good at branding because she understands and enjoys people. She is the sort of person who asks a personal question and listens intently to the answer. It’s not uncommon for her to unselfconsciously stop a surly teenager wearing an unusual outfit on the street, chat him up, and convince him to let her take his photo—for research purposes. She is constantly studying the ways in which we move through the world and relate to it— and those insights allow for a unique perspective in both branding and business. “She’s not thinking about profit margins and business dynamics,” says Dennis Lasko T’08, a friend of Perez’s and co-founder of Pantry, a new Boston retail shop that sells kits with the exact quantities of fresh ingredients needed to cook a meal at home. “She’s thinking about the person’s experience and the person’s interaction, and that shows through in the work that she does.” Over the years, Perez has built a series of innovative projects on her march through Nike’s ranks. As the global brand director for Nike Tennis, she was tasked with the ambitious goal of reaching a million social media followers with almost no

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SPORT IS A PHENOMENAL WAY TO REACH A NUMBER OF THINGS IN YOUR LIFE, FROM LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO FRIENDSHIPS TO MEDITATION AND BEING MORE IN YOUR HEAD TO THE ABILITY TO FEEL WORTHY AND SUCCESSFUL TO HAVING A GREAT BALANCE OF LIFE.” ANDREA PEREZ T’08

budget. Perez was able to see that there was no one out there speaking to tennis fans on an inspirational level. Most brands were simply reporting the news. She led a campaign to give tennis fans what they wanted—stories—in ways that didn’t break the bank. At Wimbledon, for example, Nike typically rents a house where the company’s sponsored athletes drop by to pick up their gear. On the spur of the moment, Perez had an idea: build a makeshift photo studio in one bedroom to grab behind-thescenes shots of the stars for social media—the kinds of images fans love. “It’s really classic Andrea. She just sees something that could happen and makes it happen,” says Kaia Davis T’16, one of Perez’s mentees at Nike. “Afterward, everyone is like, ‘Why had we never thought of that before?’” Under Perez’s watch, Nike Tennis became the company’s most popular Facebook page in terms of engagement. Later, she spearheaded the effort to roll out a special-edition Roger Federer shoe celebrating his 287 weeks as the No. 1 player in the world. Every person who bought a pair of the limited-edition shoe—only 287 pairs were made—received a card telling the story of that particular week in his run and an autograph by Federer. Now, the shoes cost as much as a retro Jordan on the secondary market. She developed the marketing plan for the Nike Training Club app, which now has more than 10 million users, and during her tenure as the senior brand director for Nike Football and the World Cup, the company’s marketing efforts broke viewership and engagement records for the industry. For the Women’s World Cup this past summer, she spearheaded Nike Underground, a cool pop-up space in which customers could try out new Nike technology on an indoor soccer pitch—all part of the #NoMaybes campaign, which released an

inspirational video of U.S. national team members and helped Nike’s content become 121 percent more associated with the tournament than even the title sponsor, Adidas, during that time. Perez thrives on the excitement of introducing the new U.S. women’s soccer team uniforms, meeting sports stars like Maria Sharapova and now, getting to sit courtside at games that she once dreamed about as a kid. But even more than all that, she loves to watch the looks on people’s faces when they connect with sport—and that is what motivates her. She has seen those looks at the Nike National Training Camp, where young soccer players come to play with national team coaches, players, and scouts. She has seen it on days like that Wednesday in May, when 250 East Los Angeles girls got the opportunity to play. And she has seen it at races like the extremely popular women’s half marathon in downtown San Francisco that Nike sponsors every October. Perez has never worked that event, but she has run it many times. After the race, she loves going over to the Nike store in San Francisco, where the company hangs a wall-size banner with every participant’s name listed there for the world to see. Sometimes Perez will just stand there after the race, in a rare moment of stillness, and watch. Women come up and peruse the names and eventually find their own. Often they’ll take a photo. Then they smile, because this is proof that they actually did this thing—they are athletes. Perhaps it’s so moving because this is what Perez does all of this for: the idea that if you have a body, you are an athlete. And if you are an athlete, you can learn and grow into a bigger person than you were before. Perhaps watching these women makes her tear up because she remembers that she too is an athlete. She too is part of the story.

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COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF LT. GOVERNOR TINA SMITH

ALUMNI Since assuming the role of Minnesota’s lieutenant governor in January, Tina Smith T’84 has worked tirelessly to reinvigorate the role.

TINA SMITH T’84

BARRY HUME T’95

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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith presents at the 2015 Governor’s International Trade Awards.

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RUNNING STRONG It’s 7:45 a.m. on a Friday in September, and Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith T’84 is already moving at a blistering pace. She’s en route to Bemidji, Minnesota, a northern fishing and forestry town, where she’ll talk to workers and compete in a log-loading contest. “We’re all still trying to figure out what all it takes to load a log, but we’ll see about that,” she says with her characteristically warm laugh. Later, she’ll travel back to Minneapolis, speak at a conference for state employees, and meet with a representative from the Minnesota Vikings to discuss the stadium they are building as a public-private partnership—a project that has generated an estimated $900 million in economic activity on the underdeveloped, but now booming, eastern edge of Minneapolis. Historically, many lieutenant governors and vice presidents have been left sitting on the sidelines. Tina Smith is not one of them. Since assuming the office—her first elected position—in January 2015, Smith has worked with Gov. Mark Dayton to redefine and reinvigorate the role. She has spearheaded major public-private partnerships, successfully brokered support for educational programs and workforce development, and, using her business background, led the charge to bring more useful data to legislative decision-making. Smith never imagined she would run for office. Growing up in a community-minded family in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in which her dad ran for school board and her mom volunteered for the League of Women Voters, Smith always fostered an interest in service. She majored in political science at Stanford but then veered toward business, attending Tuck and taking a job in marketing at General Mills. After three years, she heeded her entrepreneurial instincts, took a leap, and started her own consulting business, cultivating it into a 20-person organization. Meanwhile, for 30 years, Smith volunteered for Democratic campaigns, from city council and legislative races to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential

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MINNESOTA LT. GOV. TINA SMITH T’84 NEVER IMAGINED SHE WOULD RUN FOR OFFICE. ONE YEAR IN, IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE ANYONE BETTER FOR THE JOB.

Lt. Gov. Tina Smith T’84 meets with fairgoers at the Minnesota State Fair. bid. Eventually she took a position as chief of staff for Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and, in 2011, a role as chief of staff for Gov. Dayton. “Essentially what happened over the course of my career was my vocation in strategy and marketing traded places with my avocation, which was community service,” says Smith. “I’d like to say I had it all planned out but that wouldn’t be true.” In 2014, when Dayton needed a running mate for his second gubernatorial campaign, Smith’s name was top on the list, in no small part because of her ability to make friends across the aisle. While she moves fast—Smith keeps fit with a steady regimen of hiking and biking—she comes across as easygoing, authentic, and open-minded. Smith is currently leading Destination Medical Center, a partnership with the Mayo Clinic to position Rochester as a global center for health and wellness, an initiative expected to generate 35,000 to 40,000 jobs and attract $5.6 billion in private

development. She also has led the charge to bring broadband Internet access to rural areas, to develop a better-trained work force through partnerships between schools and corporations, and to bring early childhood education to every Minnesota fouryear-old. For most, this sort of motivation and energy smacks of a leader bent on bigger places—but don’t expect a juicy response when you ask the obvious question. “In the public sector, we spend too much time thinking about the next election and not enough time focusing on what it is we’re doing to improve people’s lives,” says Smith in her friendly, practical tone. “I’m spending almost all of my time thinking about how this state can be as great as it can be— and there will be plenty of time later to think about what’s next for me.”

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ALUMNI INTERVIEW

BARRY HUME T’95

Q: How would you describe what Package Concierge does? We provide a hardware and software solution to automate package management in the multifamily housing market. Our digital lockers fit elegantly into a wall and are accessible by a computerized kiosk, which adds aesthetic as well as practical value. In addition to being the first to market, Package Concierge is a high-end, U.S.manufactured product whose design really stands out. There are other competitive products on the market now, but if you put our product up against theirs, you know immediately where the quality is. Q:

How is the company doing? Our first installation was in November 2013 and we’ve grown to almost 150 installations in 19 states now. We’ve got a strong brand, a terrific team, and an enviable list of clients. It’s been a whirlwind and daunting at times, but I really enjoy building things from the ground up.

How did you get involved with Package Concierge? A college friend of mine put me in touch with the person who came up with the idea, Georgianna Oliver, and we hit it off. She and I share a sense of humor, even in the most stressful situations. That’s important, because so much rests on partnering with the right people who bring the right energy. I did some consulting initially, too, to test the waters, which went so well I ended up joining as co-founder and president.

What are the secrets of good leadership in an entrepreneurial environment? For us, focus has been a real driver. We’ve been so laser-focused on one market as we’ve started this business that we’ve walked away from opportunities that we felt would be distracting. I would also say discipline—you have to constantly demonstrate it so that it becomes part of your culture, both internally and externally. Finally, nothing is black and white when you’re starting out so you need to be able

to function in the gray. If that makes you uncomfortable, then starting a new business probably isn’t for you.

What future trends do you see in your field? We’re doing more and more work with student housing and it’s fascinating to walk into those apartment communities and to see what they are ordering online. It’s everything from books to shampoo to potato chips to things you’d never expect, like car tires. From a demographic perspective, it’s easy to see how the volume is going to continue to grow. This fall, we’re going to expand our services to include dry-cleaning storage and the ability to return packages via our software.

COURTESY OF BARRY HUME

After graduating from Tuck, Barry Hume T’95 joined PepsiCo’s Boston-area operations as finance director—a position that quickly provided the opportunity for advancement, but with a difficult choice to make. “I would’ve had to move, and everything—my roots, my family, my life—was in Boston,” he says. “So I decided to do something non-traditional instead.” Hume accepted and handily succeeded at the challenge of turning around local flooring company Mats Inc., where he spent 14 years as president and CEO. Ultimately, though, his passion for entrepreneurship led him onward. In 2013, he co-founded and was named president of Package Concierge, an innovative package management locker system that serves the residents of apartment buildings and student housing. “I’ve always had the entrepreneurial bug,” Hume says, laughing. “It’s what I’ve been looking for, even when I didn’t know it.”

Early in your career, what gave you the courage to break out of the traditional path? Looking back, leaving PepsiCo for Mats Inc. might have seemed a little crazy. I walked into a place that was so highly leveraged the big question every Friday was, “Can we meet payroll?” But I took it because I was a newly minted MBA and it was an opportunity to run something and pull all the levers. Ultimately, it ended up going really well—taking a chance turned into a new beginning.

How did Tuck prepare you for your career? Tuck provided such a great foundation: basic business skills, the ability to analyze situations from a strategic perspective, and a worldclass network of colleagues who I rely on frequently. I’m incredibly grateful for how helpful my fellow Tuckies have been, especially as I’ve taken a non-traditional route and started my own business. If I can ever return the favor, I’d be happy to.

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COURTESY OF AMY HOUSTON

BEST PRACTICES

ON THE REWARDS OF NONPROFIT BOARD SERVICE WITH AMY HOUSTON T’97

Seeing firsthand how a board of directors with for-profit management experience can help a nonprofit inspired Amy Houston T’97 to attend Tuck. She kept this lesson in mind when she joined the Robin Hood Foundation, New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization, in 2003 and rose through its ranks to become managing director, management assistance and administration. “Robin Hood is really the place where the time, talents, and resources of the for-profit sector meet the non-,” she says. “Our goal is to figure out how to do the most good in the social impact space.”

Robin Hood funds the 200 best poverty-fight-

have to really understand the industry and particular

I always like to point to one of my colleagues on

ing nonprofits in New York City. We’ve placed

space the nonprofit is working in.

Tuck’s MBA Advisory Board. Mike Koester T’99 is a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs.

more than 500 professionals on boards. For people who are interested in that space and live in

In many ways, the nonprofit space is actually

When Robin Hood placed him in a board seat, he already

this area, let’s have a conversation. Looking at

more complex than the for-profit. In the nonprof-

had a very big job. So he had to go from thinking about

it more globally, the No. 1 place I point people

it space, you make a great product, you have a de-

finance on a very macro scale to getting into the

to is Bridgespan, which posts all kinds of board

mand for it, and it doesn’t necessarily translate into

weeds and helping a nonprofit through some times

opportunities.

increased revenue because there’s a separation be-

of crisis. His story is emblematic of the lifelong im-

tween the people who are consuming your product

pact that individuals can make. We see those suc-

All of our boards are looking for a combination

and the people who are paying for it. It’s important to

cess stories every day.

of wealth, wisdom, and work. It’s in different

understand that difference from the beginning. Working at Robin Hood allows me to turn

portions for every organization. In general, you’re looking for the board that fits with the kind of com-

When you give of yourself or volunteer, you re-

New York City into a small town. Neighbor-

mitment you’re looking to make. For Robin Hood,

ceive far more than you give. That’s just the nature

hood by neighborhood, we really do see the differ-

our grantees right now are looking for people with

of service. From an emotional standpoint, you’ll get

ences individuals make for others. We get to see

10 years of experience and up.

incredible psychic benefits from board service by

heroes and innovation and the smartest, savviest,

contributing to a cause that’s greater than yourself.

most effective organizations in New York. We get to

People with for-profit smarts bring amazing

be a helping hand and a partner in service to some

skills to the nonprofit sector. Wherever your ex-

At the same time, you also get a real way to ex-

of the best and brightest solving some of the most

pertise lies—anything from finance to marketing to

pand your professional viewpoint and skills. On

important problems in our city today. It really is a

strategy to real estate to human capital to operations

a nonprofit board, you take the things you do on a

total privilege.

and beyond—you can make a critical impact by join-

daily basis for work and apply them in a complete-

ing a nonprofit’s board.

ly different industry, often at a completely different scale. You might be taking an idea and seeing it to

The trick is learning how to adapt your skills

its limitations, working with a team that’s very differ-

and experience for the realities of the nonprofit

ent from your own, or doing the kind of stakeholder

sector. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as just taking

alignment and buy-in that’s often really different in

your tools and adapting them straightaway. First, you

the nonprofit sector.

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NEWSMAKERS French investment banking group BNP Parabas has chosen Philippe Noirot T’99 to head its Korean operations. Noirot previously worked from Singapore as head of the bank’s business development for the Asia-Pacific region. SARAH IRVING T’14

Irving Oil, Canada’s largest oil refiner, has named Sarah Irving T’14 as executive vice president. The family owned, privately held company is headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick. JOHN MCCULLOUGH T’10

JONATHAN MOHRAZ T’09

Loews Hotels & Resorts has appointed Jonathan Mohraz T’09 vice president for acquisitions and development. Mohraz worked previously in JPMorgan’s gaming and lodging sector, and at Ernst & Young, where he worked with hotel owners, managers, and lenders. Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that provides emergency financial assistance to service members and their families, has appointed Spencer Hayman T’76 regional field director for a region comprising Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. More than 11,500 military families in the area received assistance from Operation Homefront last year.

John McCullough T’10 joined Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners as director of corporate development responsible for outreach to and engagement with strategic acquirers and partners, as well as execution of portfolio M&A. The company invests in B2B software companies.

WILLIAM J. STROMBERG T’87

The board of directors at T. Rowe Price has announced that William J. Stromberg T’87, a 28-year veteran of the organization, would succeed the company’s retiring president, CEO, and management committee chair effective Jan. 1, 2016. Stromberg has headed T. Rowe Price’s Global Equity sector since 2009.

NOREEN DOYLE T’74

SARA SPIVEY T’89

Sara Spivey T’89 has been appointed chief marketing officer for Bazaarvoice, an Internet marketing company that analyzes consumer ratings and reviews to help retailers better serve their customers. Spivey leads the company’s global marketing programs from Bazaarvoice’s offices in Austin, Texas.

The British Bankers’ Association has appointed Noreen Doyle T’74 as chair of its board of directors. Doyle is the first woman and first non-Briton to occupy the role. Doyle has four decades of banking experience and serves as chair of Credit Suisse’s two main UK-based entities and vice-chair of its main board.

Peter Shagory T’96 joined medical technology company CONMED Corporation as executive vice president for strategy and corporate development. He worked previously in a similar capacity for Cardinal Health’s Medical Products Group and previously led health care PETER J. GIORDANO T’11 and life sciences investment Marketing technology efforts at Baird Venture company Simulmedia, Partners. Inc. has promoted Peter J. Giordano T’11 to vice president of marketing. Simulmedia uses proprietary scientific algorithms, data, and software to target TV audiences at a national scale and drive certain business outcomes for advertisers. CHRISTOPHER J. WILLIAMS T’84

The Clorox Company has elected Tuck Board of Overseers chair Christopher J. Williams T’84 to its board of directors. Williams, the CEO and founder of The Williams Capital Group, served for a decade on WalMart’s board of directors, and currently serves on the boards of both Caesars Entertainment Corporation and Cox Enterprises. JC Renondin T’91 joined the Sovereign Fund of Oman as health care investment manager. Renondin has worked in the health care industry for the past 25 years, most recently as managing director of health care at investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co.

COLIN VAN OSTERN T’09

Colin Van Ostern T’09, an elected member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, has tossed his hat into the ring for governor of the Granite State. Van Ostern worked previously as a brand manager at Stonyfield Yogurt and chief marketing officer at Southern New Hampshire University’s nonprofit College for America. Rick Cote T’99 has returned to Dartmouth College as interim chief of staff for the school’s advancement division. Cote worked previously for the college for more than a decade, most recently as director of donor engagement and stewardship.

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CL ASS NOTES ’50 John Hatheway

Paul makes a habit of going to church daily, exercising regularly, and just enjoying the ambiance of Sea Island. What a life!!! Not surprisingly, Paul is planning to be in Hanover for the forthcoming Homecoming weekend and Yale football game.

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If there is anyone more deserving of thanks and recognition than Doug Thomson, our head class agent for 25 years, I don’t know who it is. Doug has been a very successful fundraiser. Witness raising $48,578 vs. a goal of $40,000 with 53.9% participation this past year. After a successful career at Uniroyal, Doug became the top officer at the Toy Manufacturers Association of America, which involved travel all over the world. Retirement prompted a move from Woodbury, Conn., to Eastman, just down the road from Hanover... with a challenging golf course he could play every day...which he did. But the call of warmer weather year round prompted a move to Skidaway, off the coast near Savannah, where he still manages a couple of games at least per week. Keep it up Doug!! Marvin Axelrod: The leisurewear market suffered a severe blow not too long ago when Marv decided to call it quits for Alps Sportswear. Alps had long been a highly successful fixture in that market... an organization to which Marv had been completely dedicated since graduation from Tuck. Marv continues to be a longtime member of Belmont Country Club, though he and Buzzy have moved from their home in Waban, Mass., to a wonderful retirement community in Dedham. They continue to spend six months or so at their condo in Palm Beach, which not only overlooks the ocean but also the Intracoastal Waterway. Recently had an exhilarating conversation with Paul Woodberry, now living most of the time at Sea Island, Georgia. Paul has sired a family that keeps the turnstiles at Dartmouth humming...four Dartmouth children long graduated plus two grandchildren already graduated and four other grandchildren currently enrolled at Dartmouth. And there are other Woodberry family members who have graced the Hanover Plain.

’51 Alex Hoffman twinksalex@comcast.net

No word from any of you in the past 6 months. Today (Sept. 15) I called Joan McIlwain and found that in addition to his long battle with cancer, Bob now has to deal with bleeding and blockages in arteries in his left leg. Nonetheless, they both hope to make it to Hanover for our Dartmouth 65th reunion on Sept. 25-27. Bob and Joan are friends of wonderful spirit and courage. I understand both Ken Clark and Clift Whiteman plan to attend the reunion. My lovely bride Twinks has suffered multiple strokes over the past 18 months and can no longer travel, but our daughter Sue will be visiting that weekend, and I plan to drive over to Hanover that Saturday for the class dinner, returning home that evening. In the continued absence of any communication from you, these notes have come to consist mostly of my fruitless attempts to provoke you into writing by giving you my opinion on current controversial issues, such as the bloated politically correct administrative bureaucracy at the college (now about three times larger than the faculty) and the ethical vacuum on Wall Street and the rest of the financial world. As I arrive at the laughable age of 90, this effort does not seem worth continuing, so this is my swan song. I think the rule of law in our country is often subverted by the obscene cost of seeking justice in our adversarial legal system, and will close by sharing with you my harrowing experience with it as a book publisher (Doubleday), serving as chairman of the board of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and chair of its copyright committee. This takes more explaining that I would like, but hope you may find it morbidly fascinating.

In the late sixties and early seventies the advent of the high-speed low-cost Xerox machine was eroding the economic underpinning of scientific, medical, and technical publishing (chiefly journals and reference books), most of which is done by professional societies such as the American Chemical Society, the rest by private publishers such as John Wiley. Millions of copies of journal articles made without permission or payment were replacing subscriptions, and this was first legally challenged by a medical publisher who maintained that such copying was not fair use (such as short quotes used in reviews, etc.) under existing judicial precedent. The copyright law had not been updated since 1909, and obviously made no mention of Xerox machines, so the end result of this case, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, was that the plaintiff could seek relief only after Congress updated the law to take the new reprographic technology into account. Working with the Authors League, it took us almost 5 years to get Congress to pass the Copyright Act of 1976, which took effect January 1, 1978. The new law codified fair use, and the intent of Congress concerning fair use and Xerox machines was made unusually clear in the legislative history: “Fair use does not extend to systematic copying which has either the intent or effect of substituting copies for what would otherwise be subscriptions or purchases.” Also, “Fair use does not apply to copying done for direct or indirect commercial advantage.” Since these were the very practices we needed to get under control, we thought we were nearly home free. In order not to impede constructive use of the new technology, by the time the new law took effect in 1978 we had created the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the equivalent of ASCAP for the printed word, which could license making copies with the payment of royalties proportionate to the average cost of articles under subscriptions or purchases from document delivery services. Everything needed seemed to be in place. To our astonishment, the major library associations, which view their mission to be the fostering of free access to knowledge and information, advised their members to ignore the new licensing agency. Most corporate R&D labs heeded the advice of the Special Libraries Association and kept their Xerox machines humming as if the new law did not exist.

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Clearly, legal action had to be taken. If corporations could openly break the law with impunity, copyright protection could not long survive. Working through the AAP so the industry could collectively fund the effort, and our copyright committee could manage it, we lined up 8 scientific publishers to bring suit against the Texaco Corporation for willful infringement of copyright (American Geophysical Union et al v. Texaco). (We chose Texaco because they had ignored repeated requests and warnings.) Given the clarity of the new law and its statement of Congressional intent, we naively thought we should succeed within a reasonable time and at reasonable expense. We were represented by the co-chair of the litigation division of a major New York law firm, who agreed to discount their regular fees because he saw that survival of meaningful copyright protection was at stake and knew from experience that Texaco would skillfully use the adversarial system to drag the case out and make it destructively expensive for the modestly funded AAP. Here’s how the adversarial system works. No matter how clearly a new law and its legislative history may be written, what the law means in practice is only established when someone first tries to enforce it in what is known as a landmark case. The judge must act as a referee in a fight between two sides and base his verdict on the record they produce in the trial. If the defendant is a large corporation, a veritable army of high-priced lawyers will seek to wear down the plaintiff and induce him/her to accept a relatively low-cost settlement (with no admission of guilt) before a verdict can be obtained. If this strategy succeeds, usefulness of the new law remains limited. Future plaintiffs must have considerable wealth, and confidence that their high-priced lawyers can out-obfuscate the defendants’. In our case, after almost 5 years of dealing with motions to dismiss and change jurisdiction, followed by seemingly endless briefs of numbing length full of factual distortions, sophistry, and legal technicalities, the CCC was heavily in debt, there was still no end in sight, our legal costs were in the millions, and the AAP had to withdraw from the case for lack of funds.

With our backs to the wall, we established the Association for Copyright Enforcement (ACE), with a board comprised of publishers, an intellectual property lawyer, and representatives of the Authors League, the AAP, and the CCC. I served as its chairman, and we funded it by getting the Register of Copyright at the Library of Congress to approve ACE receiving sizable non-title-specific royalties being collected for copying of American journals and books in Europe and Scandinavia, where progress in dealing with the Xerox phenomenon had not been impeded by adversarial legal systems. Our counsel agreed to accept delays in paying our bills but warned us that Texaco could and probably would drag the case out for many more years. As our hair continued to whiten, we decided to petition the court to rule first on the single question of whether or not systematic copying without permission or payment was fair use under the new law and said we would drop the rest of the suit (restitution, penalties etc.) if this were done. The case then proceeded on that basis. We won on the fair-use question in federal district court, and that decision was upheld in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. As we had hoped, all of the corporations that had refused to license their copying until they saw how the Texaco suit turned out finally joined the fold. CCC subsequently developed equitable systems to license systematic copying in most other fields of publishing. But consider that it took 10 years and many millions in legal fees to resolve a simple, obvious case of theft of intellectual property. It was something of a miracle that Texaco’s powerful effort to kill off the infant CCC in its crib did not succeed. The fruits of the adversarial legal system are costly and bitter. However, the CCC has so far distributed well over $1,000,000,000 in royalties to publishers, and in the small book and journal publishing world, such a sum is what Senator Dirksen used to call real money. Hail and farewell. I wish all of you well. This legal system seems a shame, Providing more a high priced game Than ready justice prompt and fair – This system truly needs repair!

’53 Edward J. Finerty Jr. efinerty@verizon.net

Continuing your habit of noncompliance with my standard pleading for news, only three of the forty-nine T’53s still alive sent a note and three spoke on the phone, all for which I am most grateful—and I also look forward to hearing from the forty-three other laggards, who I am confident will be sharing news of their vacation, hobbies, studies, outstanding grandchildren, etc. for inclusion in the next newsletter. In order to get you thinking of your classmate friends as you recall their appearance sixty-two years ago, I’ve included this picture of the Stell Hall serving crowd of the time (note that the maître d’ is the only one allowed a sport coat—and it was accompanied by a $200 bonus to go with the prestige). See how many of this stellar crew, in addition to yourself, that you can identify.

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A brief note from Dick Bressler reports he is in pretty good shape and traveling quite a bit, depending on the season, dividing his time between home in Seattle and time in Jackson, WY, and Indian Hills, CA. Dick’s “in pretty good shape,” is great for our being 84 or so, and reminds me of a friend who, when he is greeted with “Good to see you,” always replies “It’s good to be seen.”

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CL ASS NOTES Also had a nice note from Chuck Best, who resides in Dallas with wife Trudy. They just celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary, which raises the question of who in our class has celebrated the longest marriage. Chuck continues to be chairman and CEO of an investment management firm. He and Trudy have five grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. He continues to play tennis but at a “slower pace.” Chuck doesn’t say so, but I bet it places him in the “pretty good shape” class of Dick Bressler. Len Larrabee is one of many classmates who are living in a retirement community. Len and his wife Judith moved in five years ago when she was ill. She passed away last year, and Len is working on the adjustment after fifty-nine years of marriage. He likes community living and breaks it up with trips to a family cottage on Bustins Island in Casco Bay, Maine. It’s great for visits by children and grandchildren. As many of you know, Maine is beautiful and “The way life should be,” and living on an island can be fun if you like draining the pipes of water for the winter as Len and I know; I had a cabin in Oquossoc (Rangeley) for years. Alan Smith is continuing to take advantage of Florida weather and enjoying his longtime interest in running. As you who read this column will recall, Alan is very serious about his running, regularly training for meets where he travels to participate in national events, both indoor and outdoor. Alan is very competitive in the 800 meters and also does the 200 and 400, and some of these events take over three days—and he competes in the mile event also. Alan and Sharon are about to go on a planned cruise on the NE coast, beginning in Montreal and ending in Boston. I can attest to its beauty and fun as I did it in the reverse direction a few years ago and loved it. When not running or cruising, Alan is serving on the board of trustees of Florida Tech U, the MIT of the South. He is also busy as the chairman of the risk management committee. I think I better alert Alan to the fact that if Florida Tech achieves MIT status, he better apply his risk mgt. skills to coping with pranks like the MIT students pull, such as blowing up a hole on the 50 yd. line during an MIT/Harvard football game—“Boom,” and along with the noise and dirt, an American flag and the letters MIT arose from the hole. They have also raised a campus police car to the roof of the dome of their flagship building. Just think of the

challenge, Alan, and why you get the Big Bucks at Florida Tech! With some of you coming to Boston and perhaps with an interest in museums and possibly WWII memorabilia, I want to mention that my town of Natick has just had a museum open to the public that is unique and fascinating, called the Museum of World War II. It is privately owned by a man who has dedicated his life since the end of the war to collecting artifacts that made up life during the 1930s and ’40s in all the countries that engaged in the war and what they brought into the war and used on all fronts, from tiny spy gadgets to landing craft, tanks, etc. He has thousands of artifacts, documents (original) of Churchill, Eisenhower, Patton, Rommel, Montgomery, etc., and much more. The Imperial War Museum in London says it is “the most comprehensive display of original World War II artifacts on display anywhere.” If it’s of interest, go to the website http://www. museumofworldwarii.org—I spent 5 and 1/2 hours there nonstop and did not see over 50%. It’s privately owned and nonprofit—funded by donations as you enter ($25 is suggested); it is “a sacred mission to preserve the lives and heroic actions of the people who fought to destroy the evil of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.” Tom Loemker sent a very interesting note from his home in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the Headless Horseman town, as he calls it. Recapping some of his life since Hanover, Tom spent two years in the army after Tuck, some in Japan, which he obviously enjoyed. He married Marion in 1960 and has three daughters and six grandchildren, all of whom he is justly proud of. He spent over thirty years with Pitney Bowes, retired, and joined a small company as president and COO for 15 years. Like my own experience, Tom had more fun at the smaller company—and lots of success there, I might add, as he grew it from $35 million in sales to a billion. Retired, the Loemkers now live in a retirement community, are active in its operation, and enjoy basically good health “considering general wear and tear” of what’s been a good life.

The latter was the QB for the Tuck Tycoons cited in the great clipping Rosie and Bill Montgomery had in the last D’52 Crier—look it up if you missed it.

Messrs. Rosenwald, Davis, and Ringstad

Heard from Dick Kezer—who left Tuck after one year but remains on the roles of T’53 although not a Tuck graduate—that he had a full-time job in NYC with a Chicago investment firm and attended night school and graduated from the NYU Graduate School of Business Administration. He and Valerie, his wife of 60+ years, moved ten years ago from New Jersey to Brunswick, Maine, where he is now trying to figure out how to fill the humongous void left by her recent passing. Currently, Dick is in generally good health although recovering from a full right-knee replacement—but looking forward to visiting Cuba soon with his eldest daughter as part of a Dartmouth group. As a final note, Victor Trautwein and Ginny, Marcel Durot and Charlotte, and your secretary had a fun dinner/mini reunion in Portsmouth, RI, this summer. The Durots just returned from the annual trip to France to check on the relatives, and the Trautweins were enjoying their annual summer leave in God’s country. That’s all for now, folks. Please consider sending me some news when the mood strikes.

As you can see from the nearby photo, some of us still get dressed up and look executive-like. These folks need no ID but just in case, the Big Three at the annual NYC lunch are not Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Robert Redford but Messrs. Rosenwald, Davis, and Ringstad.

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’54 Editor’s note: We were so very saddened to learn of Fred Carleton’s passing. As you know, Fred served as class secretary for the T’54s for decades and had just recently stepped down. He is survived by his second wife, Mitzi Carleton, as well by his former wife, Mollie Carleton; his daughter, Meg Carleton; son Ted Carleton and his wife, Sabrina; and his granddaughters, Belle and Margaux. We offer our most sincere sympathy to Fred’s family and friends.

’56 Editor’s note: It is so difficult to note that we recently lost two beloved Tuck alums and class secretaries, Fred Carleton T’54 and Jack Wiseman T’56. Jack passed away peacefully in his sleep on September 15. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, and his daughters, Pamela Wiseman and Suzanne Marinaro, as well as two grandsons and a granddaughter. Our sincerest condolences go out to his family and friends.

’57 Richard Zock shanduthem@aol.com

Editor’s note: Dick, a.k.a. Z, sends his best to all, and he’d love to hear from you for the next class notes. Please zip him an email to send him an update to share amongst the great T’57s next time around!

’58 Barry Rotman

and have 6 children—all married with no major problems. That’s something to be thankful for. One went to Dartmouth and now works for Northern Trust. They have 23 grandchildren, three of whom have been married, and 3 great grandchildren.

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When I reached Jim Groebe in Denver, he was faced with a problem common to many of us. He was in the process of trying to get rid of “stuff” because he and his wife Martha are planning to move into a retirement community nearby. Two of their children live in Anchorage and Dallas, so getting them to take things is rather difficult. Also it seems that each of them has everything they need or if they want something their tastes are different. This presents a real challenge because Jim and Martha’s new space will be 25% smaller. They were planning to meet with a broker to sell their home in just a few days. He wants “to make things simple.” After Tuck Jim went to work for P & G for 9 years and then joined Frito-Lay in Texas for 10 years. Eventually Jim joined an old friend from P & G and formed a trust company, where he took charge of marketing and sales. He retired about 14 years ago in Denver. Although the current house is for sale , he will keep the house he has in the mountains. Jim has been enjoying his retirement. He’s served on several nonprofit boards and done quite a bit of traveling. Altogether he’s visited over 30 countries, with the most recent being a trip to Provence with friends. However, now that “he is feeling his age,” travel overseas will be a minimum for him and Martha unless it’s for family events. They had recently returned from their first grandchild’s wedding. Another grandchild is engaged and 2 others are thinking about marriage. Looks like there still may be more trips on the horizon. Bruce McAllister lives in Post Mills, a beautiful unincorporated small town just a few minutes north of where I live in Norwich, Vermont, and less than 20 miles from Tuck. Bruce is retired, having spent over 40 years working for Dartmouth College where he was director of auditing. His oldest son works for the college as director of computer operations. John McKenzie and Maria married in 1958

John retired in 1998 and now lives in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. After Tuck, John joined his father’s finance company in Appleton, about 100 miles away. In the mid-70s , he sold it and started a new bank in Appleton. John has been active in the Lions, but his two major projects were getting a new local church built and being involved in a nonprofit community center. John may get the award for being one of our most physically active classmates. Every Wednesday evening for the past 15-20 years, he and a group of friends go biking or skiing, depending on the weather. To top that each year John, together with a few friends, travels to a different part of the country and spends a week enjoying the scenery and biking. Last year they went to Vermont, and the year before that they biked from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh. They usually bike 300-500 miles on their yearly trip. Altogether John bikes several thousand miles each year. Although this sounds impressive, when John was 80—4 years ago—he participated in the American Birkebeiner, a 54-kilometer crosscountry ski race, part of a series of events in which almost 10,000 people participate. He still participates in some of the event’s challenges each year despite having had a knee replacement 30 years ago following a motorcycle accident. John is my inspiration when I’m hesitating to get on my treadmill in the morning! Robert Spencer moved from Ft Lauderdale to Fairfield County, Connecticut, to be closer to his family. There are advantages to having family close by. He has 3 of his sons living in Fairfield County, so he can easily get to see any of his 12 grandchildren playing lacrosse, hockey, or baseball. Bob had spent most of his life in banking. He started out with Chemical Bank, now JP Morgan Chase, for 20 years before he switched to savings banks. Last year I wrote about a book that Bill Hutchens had written called An Artist’s

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CL ASS NOTES Life: Frank Townsend Hutchens—American Impressionism. The book sounded so good that I ordered a prepublication copy. It is a fabulous book that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. I would definitely recommend it.

’59 Ben Reid gmibreidjr@aol.com

Hey, classmates! For those avid readers of “Notes of the Fifty-Niners,” I apologize for my sporadic performance. My cognitive jets are working at this red-hot moment. Following updates from our class mates, I offer two challenges to my classmates. The “challenges” are explained at the end of this newsletter. Please read and respond. Your answers to the challenge questions are critical for the chronicles of the “Tuck Product” as it passes through “performance time”! I do want to say that I truly enjoy my assignment as notes writer generally and in part because I have received very welcome inspiration from the doughty Dan Wilkes, who writes: “Ben: Having received the Tuck Today and seeing the class of ’58 with a long column and the class of ’59 with nothing, I felt compelled to write something!! However, I have the feeling that I have done this before and do not want to be known by classmates as someone seeking to see his name in print. “Lynda Wilkes and I continue to manage The Wilkes Group Inc. and market the Evian® Facial Spray in the U.S. as we have done since 1978. Our business is concentrated on some key retail groups like Nordstrom; Sephora; Bed, Bath & Beyond; and Ulta. We have had significant recent growth, even though the product has not changed in 37 years and Evian has never added a single new product (to the spray range). We attribute some of this to increased focus on social media and bloggers.

“We stay in touch with Dick Roth (my former Dartmouth and Tuck roommate), David Hoffman (my former Army buddy), Geof Picket (ditto), and Tom Green (former Army buddy and roommate in NYC), to name a few who come to mind.

Warehoused communications from Larry Hampton, which, though aged, may be helpful news to several or more of our classmates. Larry says:

“Dear friends: “We are being kept ‘up-to-date’ about business “Please note that my Portuguese email account thanks to our son Garrett (23), who recently hampton@mail.telepac.pt has been closed joined a very exciting company called Casper that is reinventing the way mattresses are sold— by Portuguese Telecom as a byproduct of the recent installation of an analogue cable this being done primarily online. to our house, meant to improve our Internet download speed (which it has). “Hope this helps and that it will not be the only item in the magazine. “Henceforth please use my gmail address, which is larry.hampton.37@gmail.com “Warm regards, Dan” Ben Reid says, I am very grateful to Dan for having renewed my sense of purpose. Ben Reid comments further: I am fascinated by reading Dan’s son Garrett’s new opportunity, in part because I have some knowledge about his business. (Now useless, I am sure.) Therefore I opened the Casper Mattress website and was very impressed with what I understand to be their business model. A few years back we, Global Manufacturing Industries, were in the business of importing spring steel, springs, engineered foam, laminated engineered foam, and memory foam parts from Vietnam and China for a home furnishings and mattress manufacturer. I found the business highly dependent on excellence in brand development and management, aggressive pricing policies, marketing potency, and high-spirited sales and strong supporting customer service. And on distribution and manufacturing strategy, intensive attention to controlling cost of goods, and in and out freight content. It was a tough business at the time. We were in and out of the business quickly! It is clear to me that I am now anachronistic on my knowledge of the mattress business. But, if I may, I would like to comment further that I am impressed at what Casper is doing to change the “rules” on how to think about and conduct the business. And now, not without shame, I offer Reid

Thank you, Larry.” And Larry Hampton also offers: “Dear friends: “It is March 16 and Helga and I are sitting by the pool, in shorts and sandals (or the feminine equivalent), soaking up the sun. And our thoughts turn to the summer. “As is our custom, we are going to be leaving the Algarve in late June and won’t be back until early to mid-September. We are anxious to find housesitters to live in our lovely old Portuguese farmhouse villa while we’re gone. “This is for two reasons: (1) we believe that houses are meant to be lived in, not closed up for months at a time; and (2) our house is on the market and, if by chance, someone wants to view it while we’re gone, our housesitters can take care of it for us. “Here’s the deal. We pay all the running expenses of the house—electricity, maid (3 hours twice a week), pool guy, etc. while we’re gone. Helga leaves her car (a Honda Insight hybrid automatic) for use by the sitters. In short, our sitters simply have to get themselves to Portugal and back and pay their own food, gas and other personal living expenses (which they would have no matter where they are). “And the Algarve is not expensive for food and restaurants. That’s it. “Not only does the Algarve feature Europe’s best beaches and some really fine golf courses

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(I will leave my clubs and equipment), [but] our house is just 30 miles from the Spanish border (Andalucía) and under two hours driving from Seville.

“The Algarve is alluring. Coastal Algarve receives much exposure for its (1) breathtaking cliffs, (2) golden beaches, (3) scalloped bays, and (4) sandy islands.”

“And there are lots of interesting places to see in Portugal north of the Algarve, including, of course, Lisbon, which is under 3 hours’ driving. We have noticed more and more Americans choosing the Algarve as a holiday destination in recent years.

A sojourn in the Algarve might well have been the best medicine for the peripatetic Tuckster. But I am too late making you aware of the opportunity. I am truly embarrassed and apologetic. I dearly hope I did not cost Helga and Larry their best opportunity to sell their Algarve property.

“We have a nice website so you can see the house. Just go to bit.ly/algarvefarmhouse. “If you think you might be interested, or know (and can vouch for) friends who might be interested, and you want more info, just email me. Or [I can connect you with ] Cack and Joanne Bittner—they house-sat for us two summers ago. “This will quite possibly be the last year we will be doing this, so it is a really unique opportunity to see, and immerse yourselves in, a part of the world you probably would not otherwise visit, and to live ‘chez vous’ at a very reasonable expense while you’re doing it. “Look forward to hearing from you. “Best regards, Helga and Larry Hampton” And Larry also reports: “Hi all: “Helga and I visited St Martin in the Caribbean in January and our local publication in the Algarve, the Algarve Resident, has just published our article about the trip. You can access it at http://portugalresident. com/a-caribbean-paradise. “The article’s appearance this week was rather timely, as the Algarve is currently undergoing a spell of rather cold, wet, windy weather. I hope our friends in Portugal won’t be too jealous! “All best wishes, Helga and Larry.” Ben Reid says: The closest I have been to the Algarve is Lisbon on one side and Malaga on the other, so, curious, I took a moment for research. The Internet iterates the following:

And Ben Reid adds: My life has changed. My sweet Patricia, wife of 61 years and friend and sweetheart for 64 years, is in her third year of Alzheimer’s and suffers from serious osteoarthritis, a separated spine, and three neuropathies. I am the enthusiastic homemaker in all respects, including my former least-liked activity, cooking. And part-time chauffeur extraordinaire. We have a great maid, gardener, and maintenance assistance. Pat is doing very well. Maintenance of an active social life, church groups (including making infant blankets), reading, once a week dementia repair therapy, and loving children who continue to share our lives. Plus a hardworking hour at the Mercy Fitness Center every other day. To be pedantic for a moment, I have learned that the three major assists for Alzheimer’s quality of life are plenty of sleep, strong exercise, and cognition exercises. They seem to be working for us. I have liquidated my investments in manufacturing in China with the exception of minor projects in research laboratory equipment. The “mobility” business operated in concert with charitable foundations designing and manufacturing assists and allterrain wheelchairs for challenged third-world villagers has, regrettably, been discontinued. Its “intrinsic value” filled the heart, not the wallet.

is to expedite the transition from governmentfunded medicine to private payer. The transition to private from public (Medicare) funding was forced by the additional and draconian cuts by Medicare to providers by the arguably inaptly named “Affordable Health Care Act.” Carol’s income from government funding through turtle-speed claims payout by insurance companies has been cut as much as 80% by Medicare from the early days in her career as a healer. And billing, accounts receivable, and cash management is a complex nightmare. Carol M. Reid was born in Mary Hitchcock Hospital (now Geisel Medical School) while we were at Tuck. And Ben also offers: I hope you do not mind that I would like to close with “editorial-like” comments and two challenges. They are as follows: (1) As an enthusiastic reader and thereby beneficiary of the challenging and very useful “how to think about” content of Tuck Today, I have, nevertheless been a silent critic of recent articles on strategic and strategy implementation thinking and practice and the brief bios of laudable Tuck entrepreneurs and their attendant “entrepreneuring.” Why critical? Well, fellow Fifty-Niners, if you did not graduate in the class of 1980 or later, you must not have been either a strategist or an entrepreneur. Though I applaud the excellent work of our very erudite faculty, I must ask myself if the old adage, “For many, history begins the day they are born,” is truly valid and useful. So, fellows, what are we? Chicken soup? Am I caustic and silly to the point of being a bore? I hope not. As editor in chief of my military college newspaper, my editorials were “anti-war.”” AAAAaaaarrggghhh! And now:

However, I remain the CEO of The Reid Clinic at Rose in Denver, CO, an ENT, ENT surgery, facial plastic surgery, and medical skin care clinic owned by our daughter, Carol.

(2) The two challenges that, if met, implemented, and “reported” herein, we can take our place in history as extraordinary strategists and entrepreneurs. They are:

My role, in addition to business management,

a. Please relate your experience(s) in detail as

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CL ASS NOTES strategy developers and performance. Include the failures and successes, please. b. Please relate your experience(s) in detail as entrepreneurs(s) and attendant performance. Include the failures and successes, please. (My record is two successes and four failures. Detail will follow in future class notes (if I am not fired as class secretary). Thanks for reading this far. —Bodacious Ben, a.k.a. Ben Reid, T’59

’60 Ed Russell edrussell2@embarqmail.com

Hal Klein shared an email from Trygve Kroepelien, who was “happy to report that we are still going strong, with no major health concerns, reading the daily newspaper, watching the follies of young people, worrying about the stock market, spending half the year on the Riviera and the other half in Norway. Our daughter (27) is gainfully employed with a leading pack of lawyers who specialize in getting innocent people out of jail (and getting short jail sentences for the not-so-innocent). Life could be worse, after all. Take care.” Tryg also thanked Hal “for taking the initiative” in trying to drum up interest in our reunion and expressed regret that a scheduled two-week trip to China would prevent his attendance. As this is written, it doesn’t look as if our class will be out in force at our 55th reunion, but yours truly got an enthusiastic response from the classmates he called to collect material for this column.

Ted Bachelder resides close to Dartmouth either at his condo in Lebanon or his home in Sugar Hill, NH. He worked in investment banking in Chicago and Boston before opting to start a real estate business in Maine. He’s proud of son Todd D’81, T’82, who is now CEO of Menck Windows, in Chicopee, MA. Bob Adler splits his time between Florida and Long Island. While in the NYC area, he still helps coach the baseball team at CCNY, where he did his undergraduate work. Bob says he’s satisfied with his tennis game, but his performance on the links is not what it used to be.

As for Frank Sr., he climbed all the way from his first job at Deloitte to their board. After retiring, he served another 15 years on the board of Pacific Life. He resides in Scarsdale, NY.

’61 Thomas C. Kirby t2golf@aol.com

John Owens writes: “Like most T’61s (who Ten years ago, Bob sold his company are well into retirement), worthwhile news is specializing in importing, manufacturing, and hard to find. Lots of routine, broken by the licensing specialty items to celebrities. However, occasional trip. I will say that I was fearful that he still keeps his hand in the game, consulting retirement would produce this kind of dullness. for a smaller company that pairs products with celebrities and places them on QVC. He cites “After 13 years living in NH and working at as his biggest deal the placing of the 24-item Tuck as an adjunct professor, I retired from the Kathy Lee Gifford line in Wal-Mart. Bob academic sector in 2014. My wife Janet and I attributes his success in marketing ventures to moved from the Upper Valley to Ojai, CA, a what he learned in the classroom of a man we small (pop. 7,500) town about 90 miles north all remember, Professor Ken Davis. of Los Angeles, and a WORLD apart from that crazy place. So I traded 5 1/2 months of The twin Gs of retirement, gardening and really cold winters for 5 1/2 months of very hot golf, are the favorite leisure pastimes of Dave summers. On balance, I think the trade is a Dennehy at his home in Los Gatos, CA. But fair one, although Janet still misses NH badly he’s still active from time to time. After retiring and all the friends we had in the Dartmouth from his position as president of Spreckels community there. Sugar, Dave studied for and qualified himself as an “enrolled IRS tax agent,” enabling him to “Ojai is divided about equally into 4 groups: represent taxpayers before the IRS. (1) entertainment types who have fled the Hollywood scene, because they are left No one has yet come forward to challenge completely alone here; (2) organic farmers—or Don Flagg’s position as reigning patriarch I should correct that to say militant organic by virtue of his two great grandchildren, but farmers; (3) mystics and New Age philosophers Frank Bruni presides with great pleasure who decided in the early 1900s that Ojai was over a “blended family” of 11 grandchildren the center of the New Age world; and, (4) just from his marriage to his late first wife and plain people like ourselves. Actually, I was another six acquired when he married his thinking of associating myself with the 3rd current wife. Each of Frank’s four children group, the Mystics, and changing my name has found success in a different field. Among from Professor Owens to Swami Owens, them, son Frank Jr. writes an op-ed column but my wife says it wouldn’t fit in with the for the Sunday NY Times (without the “Jr.” neighbors. Then again, I pass a drive-in psychic designation). Interestingly, one of his recent every morning on the way to the gym who columns reported on a major study of “How to advertises “psychic specials,” which I must try Measure a College’s Value,” conducted jointly sometime, so maybe there is some need for a by Gallup and Purdue. The results suggest second psychic in our neighborhood. Not sure five dimensions of graduates’ satisfaction: what the New Age business model looks like. their relationships, their physical health, their community, their economic situation, and their “I’m still on the board of RSG, a VT-based sense of purpose. national consulting firm, and get to return to

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the Upper Valley 4 times a year. We typically see Jim and Brooke Adler and Harry and Barbara Holland on our return trips. “Still looking at doing some interesting things with former private equity partners, mostly in overseas venues. For example, one of my former partners is currently the CEO of Ariana Afghan Airlines (at age 79), and he was doing his best to get me on board to privatize that air carrier, with the government’s blessing. Janet didn’t think a lot about my living in Kabul, however, so that opportunity is definitely on hold.” Jim Adler is looking for a partner in wine. He has come up with an exciting, highly entrepreneurial idea: “I want to use crowdfunding to raise the revenue needed to upgrade my wine cellar. I’m willing to go equal partners with any T’61 classmate who has the necessary financial background and computer expertise and is willing to do all the work. I will provide input on which wines we should purchase. Partnership applications should be sent to jim.adler@valley.net. Entries will be judged on random criteria to be announced at a later date.” Bruce Clark is still pedaling away, with a midfield finish in a senior bike race in Minnesota. Best—Tom Kirby D’60, T’61

’62 Editor’s note: The venerable class of ’62 still needs a class secretary! If you’d like to volunteer for this twice-a-year gig, please email tuck.class.notes@dartmouth.edu!

’63 Thomas F. Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

When last we saw Bill Sadd, he was standing confidently on top of Alberta Peak, high above the San Juan Mountain Range in Colorado. He reports he found his way home, only to return this past summer to Pagosa Springs, CO, for more Texas heat relief and more hiking. This time up to “V Rock” with a group from the Sadds’ “summer church.” In mentioning his climbing objective, Bill said, “I plan to hike up to “V Rock” (wherever that is)” and “am wondering how my legs will stand up at those altitudes?” With that kind of mapping detail and physical conditioning confidence, us landlubbers down at base camp might have been a bit nervous! We will just trust you had a great adventure, Bill, and completed the climb successfully, both up and down. Bill added that in March 2016 he would be taking a World War II in the Pacific tour with Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours and would send a picture from atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. There is no doubt about it. Bill has a way of getting “on top of it all.” Congratulations to John and Jill Schiffman who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Montreal, followed by a successful fishing trip to Saranac Lake. John’s definition of success is when Jill catches all the fish and the guide (John) is able to row the boat, thereby ensuring Jill does not terminate the relationship! John is keeping busy these days as the leadperson for the Whaleback Ski Area, a community owned (501(c)(3)) ski area in Enfield, NH. John indicates he is actually seeking advice and referral suggestions for development participants. If any of you have ideas on parties who would have interest in philanthropic support for a community ski area, John is your go-to guy. Contact John at jtschiffman@comcast.net. John also reports he sees Jay Pierson regularly and that Jay and Susan are enjoying life in Hanover. Jay is serving on several worthwhile community boards and projects and has been one of the community leaders behind the

building of a new performing arts theater and complex in White River Junction, VT, named Northern Stage. Branching out, John is in contact with Sonny Kabler, retired in Houston and keeping baseball alive in Texas, and with Gary Schwartz, who is still practicing the law in New Jersey. Going international on us as well, the Schiffmans had a wonderful visit with Jens and Putte Roede in Oslo. With his great wisdom, John closed his news with the observation that as we age, he is sure that all of us have many challenges to discuss, so he wishes all his fellow Tuckies good luck with their personal issues AND with the medical establishment! Lastly, I am saddened to report that I heard from Ursula Kobel, Richard Wright’s wife, that he passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Montreal on August 28, 2015, at age 76. In addition to Ursula, Richard is survived by sons Matthew in San Francisco and Justin in Montreal and other relatives. Richard was a professor and PhD at McGill University, where, over a period of 35 years, he significantly contributed to the building of the Department of International Business. For over 15 years he escorted students on summer study groups abroad, giving preference to students who had never had the opportunity to travel abroad or to experience the wonders of foreign cultures, lands, and people. Born and raised in Panama, Richard never lost his passion and enthusiasm for learning, teaching, and travel. In addition to his degrees from Dartmouth (BA’61) and Tuck, Richard earned degrees or taught at Indiana University; Willamette University, Salem, OR; University of Richmond in Virginia; and the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. The Wrights traveled extensively as a family for enjoyment or teaching opportunities in Germany, Austria, Greece, Columbia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, and particularly in Japan, a country for which Richard had a special fondness. Richard always harbored an intense love for classical music, especially that of Antonin Dvorak and Richard Wagner. One of the highlights of his nonprofessional life was attending performances at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and he also always made room in his schedule to attend operas in the cities he visited. A gifted and passionate teacher, Richard taught his last class two weeks before his death. A memorial celebration of Richard’s life was held in October in Montreal.

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CL ASS NOTES Donations to the Dr. Mark Rabinovitch Research Fund at the MGH Foundation, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, QC H3G 1A4 would be greatly appreciated by the family. Rest in peace, Richard. Stay well and keep the news coming. It is always great to hear from, and about, you!!

’64 Bill Ferguson bferguson@ix.netcom.com

Editor’s note: Just a reminder that Bill is taking a break as class secretary for this issue!

The McNamar wedding on K2

It is with sadness that we report the death of Fred Simmons. Fred passed away January 12, 2015. You will recall Fred came to Tuck from Tufts University. Fred spent thirty-four years at MFS Investments, where he was a senior vice president and mutual fund manager. What many of us did not know was that Fred was a lifelong competitive swimmer, starting in high school, through college, and finally competing in masters swimming. Our deepest sympathies go out Fred’s wife of thirty years, Mickail, and the entire Simmons family.

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

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50TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

John C.D. Bruno jcdbruno@gmail.com

From Steve Israel: “Dear wife Sheila has some health issues. Let us all keep her in our thoughts and prayers.” Bill Howland sang the National Anthem at Citi Field in chorus with the Melody Men of Greenwich, CT. “I reverted to a little boy in awe of the field, the stadium, and 20,000 fans. The Mets lost 7 to 3 to San Diego. Melody Men sing during the year for nursing homes and senior residences.” Tim McNamar writes that he moved to Scottsdale, met Brenda, who uses her single name of Brenda Shrader, and were married at the top of K2 in Pakistan this year. I found that John and Kathy Hedge live 1/2 hour from me. They are not going to Reunion, but my wife Nancy and I will try to hook up with them for a local reunion. See you at Reunion.

Tom Stanfield, one of our most loyal contributors, reminds us all that our 50th reunion will be celebrated on the weekend of October 7-9, 2016. Tom and Beth are already making plans. They will stay at the Woodstock Inn, and Tom is looking for a golf game. Tom mentioned George Baxter and Bill Busker and wives had dinner in Sarasota Florida last April and noted: “Really nice to look back 50 years and be able to enjoy each other after all the years.” Having just enjoyed the Dartmouth Class of 1965 50th reunion in June with Dick Avery, Derek Knudsen, Dave Mulliken, Joe Picken, Fred Smith, Dave Wagner, and Allen Zern—we urge everyone to put the 2016 reunion date on your calendar and try to come back to Hanover next October. It is a wonderful place made even more special when old classmates come together to renew bonds forged in our formative years at Tuck. Chuck Klotz dropped us a note in midSeptember asking about plans for Reunion. Chuck was closing up his Cape Cod house preparatory to the move back to Wellesley and then down to Naples for the winter. Chuck has a nice seasonal rotation following the sun and keeping busy running the Klotz Housing Authority.

Colette and Marc Passot

John Trauth forwarded an email from Marc Passot informing his friends that his wife Colette died suddenly on July 15, 2015. Marc writes: “It’s a terrible loss for me and our three daughters. I am fortunate to have them, plus brothers and sisters, to take good care of me. But the grief is enormous.” John suggests that those classmates who knew Marc send him a note. Marc’s email address is: marc.passot@ cegetel.net.

’67 Robert C. Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

Today is Labor Day 2015—summer over, football (Green Bay Packers, that is) begins for real on Saturday. Will this be the year I can add a third Super Bowl ring to my personal collection? Bonnie and I are gearing up for our almostannual travel to Scotland on our favorite small ship the Hebridean Princess—always a trip to

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As for the rest of my classmates who remain mute, how about your news? —Bob

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

Bob’s Super Bowl ring collection!

anticipate. Then off to South Florida for the winter. Arnold Kraft reported that his family was gearing up for their 14th Jimmy Fund walk to raise funds for cancer research in honor of their eldest son, who died of a brain tumor. Heard from Tony Milbank, who has set up a “modest” endowment at Tuck to further the discussion around business ethical issues. He has recently been appointed to two boards. The first is a China hedge fund, which has had its unique issues, as the Chinese government tries to grapple with the correct response to their market’s excesses. The second, he joined the international investment committee of a $45 billion Chilean pension fund. The important comment is, “If this is retirement, it is a blast….” Keep us up to date, Tony, good to hear from you. And from Alan Keiller—he celebrated his 70th birthday with a family trip to Jackson, Wyoming. He lives in Brownsville, Vermont—30 minutes from the green. He is deeply involved in his 50th Dartmouth reunion.

The Keiller family

Chuck Weil reports: “Started my career at General Mills in marketing, eventually becoming president of Yoplait USA. Left GMI after 18 years. Following stints as president of Friskies PetCare for Nestlé (in LA) and president of ConAgra Frozen Foods (in Omaha), I left big corporate America and ran a small customer service company (Young America Corporation) in Minneapolis with mostly Fortune 500 companies as clients. It was the most fun I had in business and we quadrupled the size of the company in 4½ years and then sold it. “Following that I consulted for a few years, then was asked to help turn around a 130-year-old regional food company in Minneapolis that was in bankruptcy. That assignment was the toughest in my career, but we were able to get it out of bankruptcy in 6 months. I was asked to stay on and run it, which I did for another eight years. Went into semi-retirement in 2011 with a few consulting assignments. Now, completely retired since 2014. “Married, two adopted boys (Will and Lukas), then divorced 3 years ago. Living in Calabasas, California (near LA), with my significant other (Sheila).” Fred Schauer, who teaches law at UVA Law School, writes: “Not really any news. Not dead. Not retired. Lots of professional/academic traveling, most recently to Santiago, Chile; São Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and a bunch of places in Europe, including Florence, Milan, Ankara, Zurich, and Vienna. Golf game is getting worse, but furniture making, serious cooking, and large-format film photography are holding steady.” Fred recently published The Force of Law (Harvard University Press, 2015). Francois emailed, “three of our children live now in Montpellier, and it may happen that the

fourth comes soon to Montpellier. This means 11 grandchildren around.... Keeping young and in good shape is then a duty. All our three sons are changing jobs, from big business to more risky and personal ventures in the ‘new technology’ area. This is of course very exciting to be around and share directly in their projects. Music, drawing, and painting occupy most of my time left after our grandparent duties.... Anne’s family estate ‘Château Chirac’ needs our care and this keeps me busy with farm management. The château has benefited from enormous repairs and modernization and is now comfortable all year long.... This is a magnificent place for large family gatherings (and receiving friends coming from the U.S....). And also a base to hiking weekends in the neighbouring mountains.” Barclay: “I had the best summer ever. We took all ten family members to Japan in August. The kids and grandkids got connected with their Japanese origins, culture, and Minako’s family. A bit pricey—yes. But after 50 years of marriage we were in a celebratory mood.” Speaking of Japan, Bill Seaver will be heading there in April 2016. Rod VanSciver writes: “On recent return trip from NYC to NH, my wife and I stopped by to see our classmate and old friend, George Trumbull. I am pleased to report that ‘Bull’ is fit and with the same twinkle in his eye and great sense of humor we all remember. “We talked about our shared interest in nonprofit work. I am most grateful for his offer to become involved in my nonprofit, Education For All Children. We talked about life’s passages and surprises, some great, others not so much. We both revere what we learned at Tuck. But Tuck was only the beginning of our learning. Much of our education came during the hard knocks in the following career years. We stand today, somewhat scarred, but still standing. “So what next? What do we do with this lifetime of experience and (hopefully) wisdom? George and I have decided to see if we can find a way to give back—to see if we can leave this world just a little better off than it would have been if we didn’t show up. One way to do that is to join the nonprofit world. There are a lot of problems out there being addressed by folks who don’t have a lot of life experience. You will be amazed at the obvious mistakes well-intentioned folks can make. I take that back. Why am I surprised?

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CL ASS NOTES We all made similar mistakes along the way. “Bill Clinton was recently asked why he is involved in philanthropy. He said, ‘Because I am selfish.’ Great answer. People may think George and I do what we do to be good guys; only partially—also because we are selfish. We love building stuff that works. We love watching others amaze themselves by going beyond where they thought possible. We love team building and execution. Why should we give this up just because we elected to exit the paycheck world? “I don’t write these thoughts because I think nonprofit work should necessarily be on your bucket list. I am only saying it is a possibility.” Nick Hayes and Hans Peter got together in September when Nick accompanied wife Sheila to a conference in Oslo. Sheila has recently become executive director of Child Helpline International, a global platform for over 170 helpline resources for young people around the globe. Tim Scott’s new book, Ben Hogan: The Myths Everyone Knows, the Man No One Knew, continues to get positive reviews, this from Amazon: “Ben Hogan’s accomplishments on the golf course are the stuff of legends, but his life off it was exceedingly private. In this biography, author Tim Scott demonstrates why such public perception was not representative of Hogan’s personality, offering a firsthand glimpse into the famous golfer’s humor and sensitivity. Hogan wasn’t perfect, and many of his fine qualities were never made public until now, as Tim Scott shares his personal experience with Hogan as well as Hogan’s friends, family, and acquaintances. Along the way, a clearer picture emerges of Hogan as a man, a golfer, a friend, and a husband.” You can read more at the Amazon website and, while there, why not buy a copy? Tim will be happy to autograph it at the next reunion. My singing group, the Apollo Club of Boston, sang the National Anthem at a Red Sox game in June. It’s great fun to look up at the massive scoreboard and see your face. —John Moynihan

’69 Robert M. Cohn bob.cohn@bonniercorp.com

Greetings and best wishes! Our class hit a new all-time participation record this year for the Tuck Annual Giving alumni fund. Head Agent Dick Schmitt reports that 67% of the members of our class participated in the fund—the highest rate ever—and we raised almost $94,000, one of the largest amounts we have contributed in a nonReunion year.

Mike Ryan married Elinor Hall on July 29th in Wilmington, NC

Bob Fitzgerald sent in a brief recap of his life and career since Tuck: “After Tuck, I went immediately to Navy OCS in Newport. Upon commissioning, I was stationed at the Pentagon for 2 years (mostly on the strength of my supposed expertise in online computing systems learned at Tuck). When President Nixon started to wind down the war, I was offered the opportunity to leave the service 2 years early—which I did. “We returned to my wife Ellen’s hometown of Rochester, NY, where I spent the next 28 years working for a variety of mediumsized corporations in the area, mostly in the accounting/finance arena. I never got rich, but lived comfortably, raised and put my two daughters through college, and generally enjoyed life very much. “In 2000, I had the opportunity to retire from the grind—and took it. Since my hobby was woodworking, I took a part-time job at a local woodworking retailer and found I enjoyed it greatly. I also started building houses for Habitat for Humanity one day a week. Ellen and I did a bit of traveling, enjoyed our two grandkids, and were looking forward to comfortable ‘golden’ years. “Then in April of ’10, Ellen started complaining of headaches. Seven weeks later, she passed away from liver cancer that had metastasized in her brain. It’s a bit trite to say that this was a life-altering event....

Mike Ryan, his new wife Ellie, and grandchildren celebrating at his wedding on July 29th

“Having had a wonderful marriage for 42 years, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that I wanted to find another life companion. The Internet was the obvious solution, and surprisingly quickly I found a widow who had lost her spouse to cancer a few years earlier. We hit it off immediately and dated for a couple of years by traveling the 80 miles between our homes. Then two years ago, I moved to the Buffalo area to avoid the commute. Then this past summer, we got married in the backyard of our new home before friends and family who thought they had come to a housewarming party. “My new wife, Sally, has given me the opening into my 3rd career. Her late husband had been in TV news but had a ministerial bent and so became an ordained minister. In 1995, he started the Falls Wedding Chapel in Niagara Falls. Upon his death, Sally took over the operation of the chapel. While she employs real ministers to perform the weddings, she takes care of all the planning. I help out in whatever way I can—my primary role being the videographer, if the couple elects this option.

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“We do anywhere from 350 to 500 weddings a year. People come from all over the country, and indeed the world, to get married at the Falls. It’s great fun and the variety of people we meet is just fascinating. The summers are particularly busy and keep us pretty close to home. She is hopeful that in a few years, one or more of her 4 daughters will be interested in taking the business over. But life is good again—something you never want to take for granted.” Mike Ryan got married to Ellie Hall in Wilmington, NC, on July 29th; pictures of the celebration accompany this column…. Bob Huxley writes, “Sally and I joined the alumni of empty nesters on the last weekend of August after depositing our daughter Haley at The Hartt School, a conservatory of musical theater, acting, and dance at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT.” In August, Bob Harrell celebrated his 70th birthday on Martha’s Vineyard, accompanied by daughter Courtney, who came up from Chile to attend, and classmates Al Ritter, Andy Nicoletta, and Bill Donnelly. (See picture.) Bob’s consulting firm continues tracking airline fares and is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal and other major media. Most recently, he noted that airlines are dropping first-class airfares to entice shoppers to buy more seats. Bob noted, “Airlines are recognizing that if they are going to have these seats, they should be using them for something other than upgrading frequent fliers.”

Steve Roehm writes, “Nothing earth-shattering going on up here on Cape Cod—tourist season is over, things slowing down.... Did lots of entertaining this summer as well as visiting some stunning Bauhaus architect–designed homes here on the Outer Cape, also visited grandchildren, and squeezed in some golf + kayaking.... More of the same planned for the fall.... Spending some time in NYC in January, and then off to India in February hoping we don’t have another ‘record snowfall’ winter up here in Massachusetts.” Rick Hubbard writes: “At 73, how many more years with quality do I have?... I’m definitely noticing the physical slowdown that comes with age plus lousy family heart health genetics. But through much of my life I’ve managed to live a physically active lifestyle…. With that in mind, and because I still can for at least a while more, I commenced an 11-week, self-supported bicycle ride through much of northern Europe this spring/summer. “From mid-May thru the end of July, I pedaled over 4,000 kilometers, beginning in Paris, north through Brussels and Amsterdam to Northern Holland, then east across north Germany to Bremen and Hamburg, then north to Copenhagen, then back south to Berlin, then west across most of north Germany to meet the Rhine at Wesel, then south along the Rhine to meet my life partner Sally in Frankfurt for 3 more weeks bicycling together, south along the Rhine toward Basel, then west into France to the Loire and then north back to Paris along the Loire.”

Bob Cohn and Dick Schmitt cruising in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, March 2015

He notes, “It was a wonderful adventure with lots of learning about many topics, including the causes and results of aggression among many neighboring countries…during WW II.” I just found out that Bruce Thompson passed away in Franklin, TN, in March 2013 after an extended illness. At his death, he was president and principal of Enterprise Companies. Messages and condolences can be sent to his wife Lynne at 573 Marigold Drive, Franklin, TN 37064. That’s all I have to report for now. Please keep your postcards and emails coming so that I have more news about more people for the next issue! Best wishes for a great winter!

’70 George Fulton georgerfulton@gmail.com

Gasper Kovach Jr. gap@hesco-fl.com

Bob Harrell celebrating his 70th birthday with Tuck friends in Martha’s Vineyard: Al Ritter, Bill Donnelly and friend, Courtney Harrell, Andy Nicoletta, Bob Harrell, and friend Michael Donnelly

Rick Hubbard and life partner Sally take a break from bicycle riding in Frankfurt, Germany

First, the bad news—don’t look for a crowded tent or a dining room filled with all of our classmates Reunion Weekend—try as Joe Rokus might, the 45th just doesn’t seem to be a sweet spot for most of us on our walk down Memory Lane—it doesn’t quite have the luster of “50,” when more of us might be motivated to attend just to see who’s still among us—early retirement travels, grandkids, and general aches and pains may be limiting factors—so as

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CL ASS NOTES it now stands, the Four, nay Three Horsemen, have canceled, Martha Fransson won’t make it, and several others are “indisposed.” Terry Bowmaster won’t be there as he and his wife will be doing a 28-day cruise to Hawaii and the South Pacific—next year they intend to do a 15-day cruise through the new Panama Canal—through the summer they spent six weeks at their condo in Isla Mujeres, Mexico— they’ll be “home” in Sierra Vista, AZ until the cruise. BUT, Tom Murdock will be there, racing home from a drive-yourself trip with Grig around the U.K. and Ireland—they are using Airbnbs to visit most of England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Wales—their trip will conclude in London, and they will then get back to participating in AARP workshops and other volunteer activities—knowing that the reunion turnout for the class of 1970 will be very sparse, Tom reports that Andy Steele has suggested that Tom join his son Brian’s class of 2005—NOT!...too much time alone, Andy!.... George Fulton, still looking for the perfect golf swing, apologizes for his likely absence because of a business boom at the Stone Hill B&B in Stowe, VT—he and his wife, Linda, have been hosts at one of the most highly rated inns in the country—check it out at www. stonehillinn.com—I [Gap Kovach] tried to get a (complimentary) room for the weekend, but they suggested Barre, VT, instead—hmmm. Doug Smith (the Shorter) will be another no-show as he will most likely be in Boca Grande, FL—ah, the life!... Doug reports that his “best-selling” book (10,000 copies in 18 months!) Happiness: The Art of Living With Peace, Love and Joy, generates lots of speaking engagements that keep him busy and well-compensated—all of which he donates to cancer research, almost $1.5MM!... He and Phyllis are most proud of their two sons: Gordon, who is a Special Olympian and has bagged groceries for Kroger for 18 years; and Greg, married now and living in Philly as the CEO of a real estate firm after finishing at Tuck in 2005 (Tom Murdock’s son’s class!)—Doug continues to teach “The Skills of Happiness” at DePauw—btw, he’s working on a sequel to his first book in time for the 50th!... We also heard from Pete Negri, still the CEO of Jamaica Bearings—check out that moneymaker at www.jamaicabearings.com—like

many of us, Pete brags more about his kids (and grandkids) than he does himself—they have 8 grandkids, with more likely more on the way. While the Negris have been lifelong New Yorkers, they have another home in Naples, FL, but as Pete reports, they’re finally starting to enjoy the cultural life in New York City. They celebrated their 44th anniversary with a trip to Vienna and Salzburg and just returned from a week in Pebble Beach, where Pete spent time looking for his old blue Camaro at the Grand Concourse Car Show—last we saw it, it was impounded in the Lebanon police compound! Me, you ask?... I’m married to a wonderful woman, have three great sons and daughtersin-law, 7 healthy grandkids, two dachshund puppies, and more additional blessings than I deserve. Still picking oranges and grapefruit here in Florida, trying to figure out Obamacare, wondering how we got to Donald Trump, and scared to death over how much “stuff” is still in our collective “closets,” if you catch my drift.... And one final serious note—last month George and I received a beautiful letter from Daiyu Suzuki, son of Katz Suzuki. He informed us Katz had passed away from liver cancer in mid-August. As Daiyu related, “In the end, he said he had no regrets because he was able to do all of the things he wanted to do because of his wife, and we were able to send him off in a beautiful way, in his favorite aloha shirt, lots of sunflowers, laughter, and tears. He lived a good life, building numerous communities. Tuck always stayed close to his heart, as it gave him so many friends and lasting memories. For that, my mother Yumiko, my sister Lisa, and I are grateful to you all. Thank you.” No need to report much more—let’s realize we’re closer to the end than the beginning, so do what you can to make it better.

’71 Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

45TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

We have had a wonderful summer in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, with clear weather extending well beyond Labor Day. Of course, the fall in New England is beautiful as well. As a reminder, our 45th reunion is coming up over the weekend of October 7 to 9, 2016. So mark your calendars now and plan to be there. As you will read in the notes that follow, certain of our international classmates are already in the planning stages to attend and enjoy the fall in Hanover. Please try to join us. As to the news, the few folks I heard from are definitely in retirement mode, which means chasing grandchildren (before they grow away from us) and also remaining active through travel and other endeavors that might include job and/or volunteer activity, but with schedules much more within our control. I ran into Kathy Taylor in a local breakfast/ lunch spot (Depot Diner) in Beverly, which is very popular for those of us having breakfast meetings as it opens at 6:00 a.m. Not that Kathy and I were there at that hour (the earliest I have done is 6:30 a.m.), but she was there without her good husband Kit. Upon inquiring as to his whereabouts, as I have seen them together at this spot before, I was informed he was off whitewater rafting in Maine, which (like my wife Bonny—the cold and wet are out, girl) is not her thing. They are traveling more and seeing their grandchildren whenever possible. Kit is on the board of his condominium association (still in real estate) and active in his church as a member of the finance committee. Ed Widness has retired from United Technologies Corp. (UTC) as of January 31, 2015, after what he describes as a rewarding 26-year career in the treasury group. His activity in that group from 1988 to 2000 spanned the globe from Singapore to Canada to Western Europe and Russia. His lasting

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mark was managing the expenditure of almost $17 billion in the repurchase of UTC shares from 2004 to 2014—which his boss wryly noted with a gift sweatshirt inscribed “I spent $16.0 billion...and all I got was this sweatshirt.” He sent me a picture of the sweatshirt—not very glamorous compared with the other pictures submitted, but a wry gift nonetheless. When asked about his retirement plans, he mentioned having three grandchildren nearby in CT and a 6-year-old grandson in Los Angeles, so more time has been spent with them since retirement, which has been great. He is hoping for a milder winter this year, like most of us from New England after last winter’s blast. Grey Emmons and wife Lurie in June sailed their boat from the Annapolis area up to Cape Cod and hung out in various places for two weeks. In early July they returned to that area to pick up their moored boat and sail back through Long Island Sound and New York Harbor, where they will spend a few nights before striking out to their home port. I believe Grey is still active in his construction business but only doing the jobs he would like to take on. Grey had been in touch with Alan Stedman on the TAG annual campaign, who emailed him back from Europe, where he was on a Viking River Cruise in Cologne with his wife Amy. He somehow connected up with Jean Rozwadowski and his sister Martine, who joined them for several weeks in Europe, including the 200th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo. From there, a two-week cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest on the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers. He sent a few pictures, but I like the one of him and Jean on the deck of a ship. [Look in the 1970 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth. edu to see the photo of Alan and Jean!] Kadita Tshibaka (KT) writes from the porch of their home in Spotsylvania, Virginia, while contemplating the calm lake waters and greenery surrounding this time of year. Priscilla and he moved there to be near the grandchildren, of which there are five. Son Niki and wife Kelly have five, aged 18 months to 11 years, two girls (oldest and youngest) with three boys in between. Spending time with them whenever possible is a joy—a picture of them with Priscilla as well as a lovely shot of her and KT were forwarded and hopefully will survive the editorial cut. Daughter Mara is living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband, Dariusz Cichocki. They met while studying

for their masters of global affairs at NYU. He works for Enbridge, and she is between jobs looking for something that would be a good fit for her. [Look for more pics from KT online in the 1971 class notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu!]

Priscilla Tshibaka with their five grandchildren

PT and KT in Ngorongoro Park in Tanzania

On the involvement front, he continues to keep himself mentally engaged by accepting a few directorships. After six years on the board of Opportunity International, he has rotated off but continues to play a role on the board of governors and as an advocate for the organization, in support of their povertyalleviation mission. He began contributing to this nonprofit in 2002 when it was serving about 350,000 people with small loans, starting as low as $50. Today Opportunity International serves more than 12 million people in some 28 countries with an expanded product line including loans, savings, and insurance products and services. He is also on the boards of Ecobank Transnational Inc., Citibank Kazakhstan, the Eleazar Wheelock Society, and the Tucker Foundation, the latter two organizations based at Dartmouth College. These involvements certainly bring him back to Hanover and to Africa a few times each year.

KT recently was in touch with Jean Rozwadowski and a few other classmates (five or six) to start to get organized with spouses to try to get to our 45-reunion in Hanover next year (October 7 to 9, 2016). They plan to be there, God willing, and look forward to seeing as many of our classmates as possible in attendance. He would appreciate any updates we might have on Don DiDio and Frank Orasin T’72. Don did update us a few years back, but I do not recall hearing from Frank. As to the Lorings, we are blessed as well with grandchildren, six from ages 14 to 3 years. Three (ages 14, 11, and 3—the caboose and only grandson) are my daughter’s and live next door to us in Prides Crossing. Her husband works for State Street Global with the management group on strategic planning and budgeting. Son Cabe is a clinical psychologist in Spartanburg, SC, with three girls ages 7, 5, and 3—Southern belles all with bows in their hair, etc.—it’s different in the South, as many of you know. His wife, Mary Stewart, is a Spartanburg native and an active volunteer, as well as an occasionally paid facilitator, for a number of events in that community. We are still trying to settle into my father’s house, which I bought from my siblings after his death in 2012—we have a ways to go as I wade through my father’s papers and look at a pile of family photographs that need to be organized. Bonny is still (23 years) on the board of Gordon College, her (1987) and my daughter’s (1994) alma mater—a small but wonderful Christian college a few miles down the road. I continue as a board member of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, which is also in the neighborhood and a fine institution training folks in graduate theological studies from different, largely Protestant denominations (but some Catholics as well) from all over the world, with large representations from Asia and Africa. The school has locations in Hamilton, MA (residential model); Charlotte, NC; Roxbury, MA; and Jacksonville, FL, the latter three with a nonresidential education-delivery model. I am also continuing on the local (Salem and Beverly) advisory board and Massachusetts board of the Salvation Army, a wonderful global ministry of dedicated people. My son Cabe is involved as the co-chair of the Spartanburg, SC, Army Corps advisory board. On the professional front, I am out of the day-to-day operations of the family office (The

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CL ASS NOTES ’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

This issue is blessed with a bit more news than the past few, and I am grateful for the classmates who made the effort to report in.

Jeff Hills on the fishing circuit

1911 Trust Company—dated to the setting up of a number of trusts by my great-grandfather) and only serve on its investment committee. However, I am still called in to help settle estates periodically, which I am happy to help with. I also maintain trustee relationships with other families outside my own, which is always interesting, and serve as a trustee on a large charitable fund based in Boston, which keeps me in touch with the broader nonprofit world beyond my involvements with the local community college, YMCA, local hospital (interesting times there), and other charitable endeavors—church, etc. Also on the professional front, I continue to serve on the boards of two Fidelity companies—working with a bunch of smart people helps keep me on my toes, particularly chairing audit committees. So life continues to be active, but I have some control over my schedule to make sure I am getting to know my grandchildren, which is a commitment made to my wife and myself in stepping back from the family operation. So have a wonderful fall/winter wherever you are and mark down the October 7-9, 2016, Reunion dates. Plan to join us with spouse or otherwise—it would be good to see you all again. —Caleb

Ramsay Merriss wrote that he is still very happily married to his wonderful wife Janet, and they are now coming up to their 42nd anniversary. Their son and only child, Ian, is now almost 33 and is the love of their lives. Ian is now the northeast sales manager for Copain wines, an excellent small California winery. He lives in his own home down the street from them. They enjoy their lovely house in Weston, CT, traveling, scuba diving, cooking, wine, and two Labs and three cats. Ramsey is still running 5 miles early in the morning but is now down to 5 days a week. He continues at JPMorgan Chase in New York (42 years!), as a managing director and a domestic credit executive for global wealth management, better known as the private bank, and plans to retire early next year around the end of January. Though he has enjoyed his long career at the bank, he is now looking forward to a lot more free time to spend with family and hobbies. Janet and Ian are very happy that this is finally happening.

Ramsey and Janet Merriss

In his own words, “I think Janet and I have been to almost all our Tuck reunions and I have really loved going to them and catching up with all our classmates and the Tuck School. I loved my two years at Tuck, and I can’t believe

it’s been 43 years since we graduated! I look forward to our next Tuck reunion in 2017, and I wish the best to all my fellow classmates and their partners in life.” Bob and Bonnie Gregson report that nothing much is prominent with them “save for three things this late summer: one, we’re really glad we got out of the stock market about ten years ago; two, we’re not glad to be in all this smoke that haunts us in Eastern Washington this late summer; and three, we’re really pleased to see the new lady Rangers in the Army. I went through Ranger school and have followed this closely. I’m proud to say that most old Rangers are happy to see these women make it and also reassured by those in the know (including one of the local kids I helped get to West Point, who was in the women’s class) that the standards are unchanged...and it’s actually harder than back in ’64.

Bob and Bonnie Gregson

“Back to the current smoke problem: they say it won’t be over until perhaps November after numerous heavy rains. Sad to see all those woodlands and open spaces and homes turned into cinders. Here in Spokane, we’ve bought a respirator mask so Bonnie or I can work outside in the garden and mow the lawn, etc. In smoke-free times we love to put our pontoon boat on the local lakes and Columbia River upstream of Grand Coulee Dam; boat-camping on the Columbia is popular with the grandkids and one of my Army pals. It’s 135 miles on the river from Grand Coulee to the Canadian border, including great scenery, virtually no civilization or towns, and very, very few other boats. It’s supposedly a place full of fish but some of us can’t seem to confirm that.” It was really nice to hear about such an active life in the great Northwest!

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David O’Steen sent in a profile from his 50th college reunion, highlights of which included: • Undergrad degree in French from Columbia, where he sacrificed baseball aspirations to row crew for 4 years. • Two years in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, then drafted into the Army the first week at Columbia Business School—opted for Officer Candidate School (OCS) and later got revenge as a tactical officer for other OCS participants. This was before airborne school and serving as a 101st Airborne infantry officer in Vietnam. • After Tuck, David worked for a number of fellow Tuck grads (Steve Whitman, Steve Wyle, and Tom Warren) in a variety of roles, also getting a private pilot’s license. • Possibly as a result of his Army experience (including the National Guard and Army Reserve, where he retired as a lt. colonel), David went to work as a civilian manager for the Army, first at CRREL in Hanover, then in Germany, and then at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), ending his career testing gear that soldiers wear, carry, and use in battle. • David retired from APG in 2011 and now lives (when not enjoying the freedom to travel) in Aberdeen, Maryland.

(twice), R.I. to speak at my alma mater, and multiple times to New Jersey, not to mention extensive explorations here in Virginia. My strategy is to maximize the travels while I am still healthy enough to enjoy them. And by the time this issue comes out, I will also have been (or be) in Australia and New Zealand. If time allows, I may even stop in at Bill Moyes’ fabled B & B on NZ’s Coromandel peninsula.

I learned that David and I are both active in our church life (we are both Presbyterians who like to study the Bible), as well as sports (riding his road bike for him, and golf for me). David and his wife Wendy have 2 children (from David’s first marriage) and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in Asheville, NC. My own news is mostly about extensive travels in the last 12 months or so. Brazil (twice—6 different cities), Panama, Nicaragua, Minnesota, Wisconsin (twice), Alabama, South Carolina

Here’s hoping that some of your New Year’s resolutions include dropping me a line and a photo for the next issue. One easy way to do that is to send any personal press releases of high school/college reunion write-ups, or even a link to your Facebook page. I can take it from there. John South and sponsored Compassion student in Fortaleza, Brazil

But the highlight of all the travels was to Fortaleza, Brazil, to meet two college students out of the notorious Brazilian favelas. Martha and I sponsored them and other children through Compassion International over the years, and to be there for the graduation of one of them was a privilege. The joy on one graduate’s face in the nearby photo says it all.

David and Wendy O’Steen

kids is that Laura (Sassi) has a second children’s picture book—Goodnight Manger—coming out in early October, so will have two versions of the first one (Goodnight Ark) along with the new one. She, her husband Jonathan, and two kids live in Cranford, NJ. Julie (born while I was at Tuck) and her husband, Matt Gerstle, and their 2 kids live in Appleton, WI, and are still pursuing Matt’s dream of starting a business based on an idea he developed while getting his degree in industrial design. As with most budding entrepreneurs, “it takes longer than it takes,” so Julie is also working off and on as a marketing consultant to other startup businesses.

In addition, I continue to audit courses at Washington & Lee University (currently my 4th one is in Latin America and Caribbean Studies), a weekly Bible study class, and to volunteer as a USGA golf course rater. The news about my

We do have a little surprise for the class of 1972—the nearby picture and caption were sent in to Tuck with the following note: “Greetings! I am a former Tuck faculty member (1970-4). While doing some spring cleaning this past weekend, my wife unearthed an interesting photo I acquired during that time. It’s a picture of several students in the class of 1972 on the steps of Tuck Hall, in humorous poses. I attach a scan of the photo for your amusement and possible use, along with a scan of the list of persons in the picture. Regards, John Bassler.” Thank you, Professor Bassler! Editor’s notes: We just received some sad news to report. Charlie Kellogg passed away on September 21. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

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CL ASS NOTES ’73 Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

Greetings from South Africa, where Eleanor and I are spending five weeks touring around Kruger National Park and points south, then the Okavango Delta in Botswana, then a week’s drive round the highlights of Namibia. We plan to catch up with some former Grace colleagues in Johannesburg and check in with my niece and her family from Zimbabwe, whom we have not seen since their wedding nine years ago. Fun and interesting trip. Johannesburg is as challenging as ever!! Had an unexpected shakedown meeting with some local cops on our way to see the hominid naledi fossils—real shakedown, but we persuaded them that we would only pay at the police station and they sent us on our merry way. Travel can be exciting.

their Virginia property, complete with horses, cattle, lake, and riding/hiking trails. It is in the country 70 miles west of DC in Rappahannock County, is very rural, and is John’s nirvana. They are planning to move there full time next year, so John’s staff will see even less of him in person. Congratulations to John, who completed the Charlottesville triathlon in August and had the dubious distinction of being the oldest of 300 competitors. Well done, John—triathlons are tough and they do not get easier with age. In April, John hosted a farewell reception for Paul Danos, which was well attended by our local Tuckies. Some nice news from Gene Hornsby, who has been keeping busy post-retirement. After being in semiconductors for 39 years, Gene has started a new career as a baseball executive and has finished his rookie year as president of the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL). The CCBL is the “go-to” place for elite college players, many of whom will go on to careers in professional baseball. The Firebirds finished the regular season in first place with 31 wins, 12 losses, and a tie. The 31 wins were a franchise record. The club was awarded the CCBL President’s Trophy for having the best record in 2015. Congratulations, Gene—the Red Sox next?? Nearby is a photo of Gene receiving the trophy from Judy Scarafile, the CCBL president. The photo is courtesy of Sports Pix and was taken by Jan Volk, the former GM of the Celtics!

It’s been a busy summer for John Jacquemin and wife Tracie, with trips to Alaska and the West Coast. John is making great progress on his goal of more play and less work and admires that many of our classmates are way ahead of him in that respect. John’s next steps in that direction will come next year, when he and Tracie plan to complete their new home on

My email managed to catch Chris Sinclair at the Hong Kong airport transiting to Delhi for board meetings for Reckitt Benckiser and then off to Shanghai. That is a lot of travel. Chris notes that he would much rather travel for pleasure than business!! Chris would also like to see some heavy toy shopping at Mattel from all T’73s for their grandkids for Christmas this year. Chris needs the sales.... Let’s see what we can do to help, Tuckies. Don Wilson keeps busy—he attended his 11th straight Open Championship with wife Lynn and son Rob, who is now a sophomore at Indiana University. This year the British Open was at St Andrews in good old Scotland. Don had the pleasure and privilege to marshal at the first tee and 18th green. Continuing on the golf front, Don has recently compiled, edited, and published three golf books, each in limited edition: A Journey through the Annals of The Golfing Annuals, 1888-1910; Rarities in the Library of Golf: Selections from the 19th Century; and Horace G. Hutchinson’s ‘Aspects of Golf,’ Together with a Biography and a Bibliography of his Books. Well done, Don. Don’s other son, James, is about to receive his MS in mechanical engineering at Miami University (Ohio), and daughter Charlotte just finished at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Ralph Harding reports in from Freeport, Maine, that he and his wife, Katherine, continue to enjoy their little slice of paradise in Freeport. Ralph retired from Spinnaker Trust last January and has finally adopted the circadian rhythms of retirement, especially having more time and flexibility for children and grandchildren in Colorado and Texas. Ralph claims that he stays busy with a not-forprofit board, woodworking, and ceramics, as well as the grandkids. Life is good, he notes.

Barry and Eleanor at the Three Rondavels in South Africa

Life back home in San Francisco continues to be very dry—still no rain, though we are promised an El Niño winter with lots of rain. Maybe by the time you read this we are already washed out. So far it has been a hot and dry year and, unfortunately, a very fiery year too.

that being a grandparent is wonderful. (I can second that, Gene). In January, Gene is looking forward to a second grandchild to son Eric and his wife, Manuella.

Gene Hornsby receiving the Cape Cod Baseball League’s President’s Trophy from Judy Scarafile, CCBL president

In addition, even more excitement as Gene and his wife, Mary, became grandparents on March 15, with the birth of Kinsley Fenton to daughter Lisa and her husband, Mike. Gene reports

Joining the ever-growing list of retirees, Jim Flaws announced at the end of July that he would retire from Corning Incorporated this fall after 42 years with the firm—must be a record for T’73. Jim will give up the CFO title first (17 years) and then the vice chairman and board seat at the end of November. It has been a great run with an amazing company. Jim’s wife, Marcia, is going to work a little

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while longer. They will continue to be based in Corning, NY, with a little more travel. Jim noted my trip to New Zealand last year and comments that it is on his list to visit soon. Jim will spend more time at their house on Nantucket but finds it too isolated to live there year-round. He is looking forward to the lack of stress and responsibility that comes with being CFO of a large public company. Jim is not planning any board seats, having always turned those down, but he will be putting some more time into community roles. Well it continues to be a busy time in Oakland, CA, with travel, house projects, and grandkids. Eleanor and I are happy that both of our children are doing well and are very happy with their lives. For some crazy reason, I am back into marathons and finished the Auckland marathon last November. I have signed up for the New York City Marathon on November 1, 2015, and the London marathon on April 24, 2016, and that will be my last marathon. Training for the NYC marathon is proving a bit challenging, as neither Joburg nor Kruger is conducive for long, safe runs—although a lion behind me should get my speed up!! That is all for now. Got to go feed those lions before they decide that I am lunch!! Appreciate any news—please, please send news.

’74 Paul Stupinski pstupinski@aol.com

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed the last issue of Tuck Today! Lots of news to catch up on! Larry Edgar celebrated his 40th anniversary with the IRS with a commemorative plaque and his retirement announcement! I’m pretty sure that qualifies him for the “Longest Tenure in One Firm Since Graduation” Award! Following retirement in February, he has been keeping busy with volunteer work at UCLA Medical Center, occasional consulting gigs in public accounting, writing his class column for the BC Alumni mag, and visiting with

his fellow class of ’74 buddies. Larry recently spent time with Cathy and Jack Harrington at their home in Brewster, NY. Jack is CFO for NYC-based Risk and Insurance Management Society, a nonprofit that advances the practice of risk management among industrial, service, nonprofits, charities, and government agencies worldwide. Larry also hosted a visit from Rita and John McQuiston. John and Rita’s twins (son and daughter) graduated last year from BC and starred on the golf team there. The kids are both living and working in NYC. Rita and John stay on the go, traveling between homes in Boston, Maine and Florida.

Rick Goldberg also seems to be filling up retirement with travel. He and Hilary have been taking trips to Palm Beach, Boston, Massachusetts’s South Shore and the Cape, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. I got tired just reading about it. Dan Clark and family were headed to Italy, just as I was putting this update to bed. I mentioned in a previous column that Dan and Deb planned on renting a house in Tuscany for a family reunion that Angie and I have rented twice before. We gave them the lowdown on where to shop, dine, buy wine, and sightsee. Hopefully there will be pictures for the next column.

Also loving retirement is HJ Markley. HJ and Denice divide their time between the Quad Cities and Hawaii, when HJ is not in NYC serving on the board of trustees of Goldman Sachs’ asset management group. HJ and Denice are enjoying the recent arrival(s) of 2 grandchildren—a 9-month-old granddaughter (living with Mom and Dad in Iowa City) and grandson (living in Indianapolis), who just turned 10 weeks old as I write this.

Congratulations to Carol and Jim Furneaux, who will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary about the time you read this. Carol and Jim live in Newburyport, MA, and winter in St. John, USVI. Scuba diving, boating, travel, chasing grandchildren, and working on several children-centered nonprofit charitable causes keep them both busy. Jim reports plans are well underway for a dive trip to Tahiti and the Cook Islands, now that he’s successfully dealt with a bout of cancer (congratulations, Jim!). The Furneaux were recently guests of their former Sachem Village neighbor, Twig MacArthur, at his beachfront home in Seabrook, NH. It was an especially fun reunion as Twig’s daughters, Laurie and Heather, and their families joined Jim, Carol, and their sons, Jim, Dave and Stephen, and their families for the day. The Furneaux and MacArthur kids were playmates in Sachem Village and hadn’t seen each other since then—how time flies! Twig also checked in for the column, offering up a reading recommendation (see below) AND inviting any and all ’74s to join the motorcycle gang he is organizing (and, no, I am not making this up!). Twig has not yet selected a name for the “gang” and is still soliciting suggestions, although “Sons of Arthritis” and “Ibuprofen’s Disciples” have garnered votes. Not sure how either of those will look in a tattoo or embroidered on a black leather biker’s jacket….

Nikki and Ron Lewis are firmly in retirement mode in the Twin Cities. Nikki is involved with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (or the “MIA,” as Minneapolitans refer to it!), singing with VocalEssence (a nationally renowned choral group—they recently debuted on NPR to rave reviews), cooking, gardening and, most recently, bridge. Ron confesses to missing the intellectual stimulation of working but is trying to compensate with coaching Porsche racing teams. His star pupil just won a second consecutive national championship, so he must be doing something right. Like many of us, Ron is trying to cheat Father Time by maintaining an aggressive exercise regimen— his includes swimming, walking, elliptical training, and weights. Ron says he weighs the same as he did at Tuck (I wonder how many of us can say that!?). Becky and Brad Stirn are using retirement to travel the world, with recent trips to Greece, Sicily, Cyprus, and British Columbia. BC is a favorite destination for heliskiing, which keeps Brad fit for his real love, chasing and collecting butterflies. Son Andrew is an electrical engineer and is in his third hi-tech startup, this one focused on the wearables market. Daughter Caroline recently completed a master’s degree in education from Stanford and teaches high school English, with a special interest in working with disadvantaged students.

Tom Dewson sends greetings …“like clockwork, Stuart, every 41 years!” saying that every time he travels north on 91 and spots the Baker Libe tower, he thinks of Tuck and all of us. Also with a quick “hello” was Roger Brown. Roger and Karen just celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary—they met and dated while Roger was at Tuck! Their daughter Lisa is a sophomore at RPI, where a mechanical engineering major and Naval ROTC are keeping her busy.

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CL ASS NOTES You may recall from a previous column that Linda and Blaine Gunther were in Jerusalem on a mission trip. They returned in late February, with many new friends and a greater appreciation for the multiple points of view to every issue in that part of the world. As Blaine’s wife Linda so aptly put it, “No matter how thin the pancake, there are still 2 sides!” On their return they took a well-deserved family vacation in Costa Rica, joined by their son, daughter-in-law, and 4 grandchildren. Beach time, zip-lining through the jungle, hiking, rappelling down a cliff through a waterfall, swimming in volcanic hot springs, and doing karaoke on their balcony with howler monkeys were just a few of the highlights. After returning to civilization, plans were underway for Blaine and Linda to teach English at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. BUT those plans went awry after Blaine fell off the roof of his home, breaking his hip socket. Surgery, 3 months of total inactivity, and rehab are now the order of the day, so Beijing will have to wait. The good news is that Blaine expects a full recovery, but a ball-and-socket hip replacement is likely in his future. Another ’74 recovering from surgery is Brian Landry. Bopper is fervently hoping that his knee replacement will translate to 20 extra yards on his drives and 10 strokes off his handicap—we’ll see. Brian’s golf buddies— Dave Bailey, John Kirby, and Connie Voldstad—went on to Ballybunion without him and I’m guessing they had little problem finding someone to fill their foursome. Brian’s daughter Katie is in her second year at Tuck, after a great summer in Boston working in consulting. Brian says she’s really “putting her old man to shame,” but I suspect he is more of a positive role model than he realizes! Another ’74 fortunately on the mend is Hank Hakewill. In February, Hank was diagnosed with bladder cancer and, after chemo and surgery, is keeping fingers crossed for a full recovery. None of that stopped the annual Hakewill Family Fishing Tournament, nor the wedding plans of Hank’s younger son, John, who was married this September. Jack Tankersley announces the happy news of a new grandson—Holt Thomas Tankersley, son of Jay and Lauren, both T’07s. Congrats! Tank is still running Meritage Funds in Denver and recently joined the board of directors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (cue the plug—www.savingplaces.org). Tank will also chair the investment committee for

their endowment. Todd Keiller continues working with students and faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to commercialize innovation and intellectual property. Twenty-two projects in the pipeline are keeping him busy. He has also been involved in entrepreneurial initiatives at Dartmouth and reports that the Green Fund is going through its second round of fundraising. Also in that same entrepreneurial space, Dave Potter is now operating partner at GGS Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that also provides consulting and advisory services to early-stage startups. Dave and Mary recently bought a condo in the Warren/Bristol, RI, area and are now neighbors of Kathy and Bob Twomey. Bob has recently transitioned into a new role at Webster Bank, managing special projects in the commercial banking group. Previously, he was the regional president for Webster’s SE Mass/RI Commercial Banking Unit and assumed this new role after hiring his successor. Bob emailed me from North Conway, where he and Kathy were vacationing with their 7 grandchildren (that’s a vacation???). Congratulations to Noreen Doyle, who was recently named chairman of the British Bankers’ Association. She is the first woman to chair BBA and the first executive to come from the wholesale banking side of BBA’s membership. Noreen continues to serve as chairman of the board of Credit Suisse International and Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd., and vice chairman of Credit Suisse Group. She asks that anyone contacting her at BBA refrain from making any mention of her Tuck nickname and the joke that prompted it (!)—“…no one here knows anything about that, Stuart, and I’d like to keep it that way.…” Congratulations again, Noreen!!! Bill Bohrer sends a big “thank you” to Hilary Miller for rekindling his interest in flying! Bill uses his plane constantly, mostly for business, visiting his commercial flooring offices throughout Idaho and Utah. Bill is still enjoying working and has no plans to retire. Sons Scott and Adam are both involved in the new business development side of the firm, Scott in California and Adam in Boise. Vandy VanWagener continues to fight the good fight with Flings Bins, with recent successes at Party City and Target. Vandy is also working with a former P&G colleague in a new area called Innovation Engineering, a process designed to dramatically accelerate time to market, risk mitigation, and cost optimization in launching

new products. An invitation to speak at Tuck coming, perhaps? Vandy also recently joined the board of Far Niente Group, which owns four high-end luxury wineries. Betty and Vandy get back east whenever they can, to spend time with their first grandchild, Oliver, who, at 18 months old, is already displaying an outrageous sense of humor (wonder where that came from?!). Vandy closed his update with a recap of a trip he and Betty made to Spain, where they enjoyed great wines in the Priorat region and the beauty (and food!) of San Sebastián and Barcelona. Menno VanWyk has been keeping busy rock climbing all along the West Coast and dodging forest fires along the way. Imagine his surprise, though, that while reading The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, he came across a reference to our own Steve Graves! In the book, Steve is called in by his former MIT student, Jeff Wilke (Amazon’s GM of worldwide operations), to help sort out some problems (Menno used more colorful and descriptive language, but my editors won’t allow that!) in Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Menno also thoroughly enjoyed reading some of Bezos’s legendary put-downs, directed to staff that failed to meet his expectations. Read the book and you’ll see what I mean. Steve is on the faculty at MIT and continues to support MIT’s collaboration with Singapore’s newly formed Singapore University of Technology and Design. Steve has spent the last two winters in Singapore as part of the curriculum development team and will be headed back over there again in 2016. Looks like everyone has been using their free time to catch up on their reading. Here are recommendations from your classmates. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone (see Menno’s comments above) The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt (This one came from Twig; he really enjoyed it. Based on the discovery by a papal secretary of a long-lost manuscript written by the Roman poet Lucretius.) Gumption, by Nick Offerman It’s a Long Story: My Life, by Willie Nelson The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough Red Notice, by Bill Browder The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi The Auschwitz Escape, by Joel Rosenberg All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins

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The Quartet, by Joseph Ellis Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City, by Paul Strathern (courtesy of Stuart Pinski; despite the title, it’s a real page-turner) Pretty eclectic mix here; hope you take advantage of your classmates’ tastes in reading material. Thanks again to all for staying in touch!

’75 Caren Calish Gagliano cgagliano@mac.com

Bill Kelly bkelley@snet.net

I’m submitting this column in advance of our 40th reunion October 2-4 but before the stories and photos from that get-together are available. So this is something of a no-man’s land. But there is this breaking news from Caren Calish Gagliano. She and Lou have sold her family’s home in Westport, Connecticut, and will be moving to an apartment in Washington, DC. Good luck in this new chapter of your life, Caren, and kudos to you for all your energy getting us ready for the reunion! By the time you read this I will have seen many of you at the reunion, but for those of you I don’t encounter, here is some family news of my own. Barbara and I will be in California in November to visit our older daughter, Alanna. She and husband Buck have just moved from Oakland to their first house in Alameda (don’t ask the price!). Alanna is expecting a girl in November in addition to our 2-year-old grandson, William. Younger daughter Keara has moved to Graz, Austria. Her husband Wöden is there as a post-doc after taking his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh. Barb and I have leased an apartment in Graz for the Christmas/New Year’s season and will see them then.

’76 Stuart Fishler stufis@roadrunner.com

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Is it just me, or are others among us being bombarded with breathless prose about entrepreneurs looking toward outer space for their next big gig? So many of the quasi-news outlets show these capitalist pigs donning their Captain Kirk unis as they prepare to either out-NASA NASA or studiously avoid the “big-box” approach to exploring the Final Frontier. As a mild restorative for this selfaggrandizing bloviating, I offer you our own Walt Lutz, who I teased you about in closing the last column. In 2012 Walt returned to his old hometown in the heart of coal country Pennsylvania, in part to tend to his ailing mother. It turns out that Walt’s devious plan was to establish the prototype of “Starbucks for Readers” in a region served by only two libraries covering a massive geographic footprint. The nearby photograph, which accompanied one of two articles in the local newspaper highlighting his endeavor, shows Walt standing amidst the first Kulpmont Lending Library, conveniently located leaning up against his garage. Note the classy uniform of the Librarian-in-Chief (shorts included). Walt commented that the two newspaper staff writers were kept ignorant of what was behind the green curtain, er, Walt’s garage door. In it were the blueprints and prototypes (yeah, right) of what will be a dozen or so book kiosks that he will roll out through the region this next spring. He has yet to decide whether they should either look like Elon Musk’s Tesla autos “…or more like big birdhouses; I think more like the latter.” Sounds to me more like the reincarnation of the Edsel, but Walt assured me that demand at his one site has so outstripped supply that he now has visions of developing his own space port there in his part of Appalachia once he sells this fast growing venture off to Amazon. “One time when I went to one of the local churches to make a pitch for book donations, I received more than 6,000 at my doorstep later in the afternoon.” Nicely

played! With COGS at almost zero, he must be rolling in dough, yet when I asked him to describe the monetization model he was employing, there must’ve been static on the phone line as he decided to change topics, no doubt hoping to exploit the massive readership of this column, by talking up his recent victory in the Kulpmont Town Council primary. His huge upset win this past spring sets him up to quite possibly become the first Republican elected to any office in the region in more than 50 years. He poo-poo’d his own research data, which points to the 20:1 blue bias in the area, stating that his candidacy is extremely controversial “in a positive way” and therefore he is destined for victory in the fall. As Walt’s self-appointed campaign manager, I would ask each of us to vote early and vote often for Walt in this upcoming election. Also, as it sez in my copy of Campaign Management for Dummies, “…attribution for photographs and articles is strongly encouraged.…” So a big shout out to the efforts of photographer Mike Staugaitis and the Kulpmont News-Item. There, done! Walt will be happy with that.

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As campaign manager, I think I should get Don Levis in touch with Walt concerning this issue of monetization and how he should account for all those book donations. Don is eminently qualified to do so, as he is now a full-time accounting professor at Merrimack College, a 3,000-student institution all of 10 minutes away from his home in Andover, MA. He teaches three courses a semester, with topics ranging from Accounting 101, Managerial Finance, and—up in the graduate program—Financial Management, Analysis & Reporting. I asked if he was emulating Len Morrissey’s teaching style and he, like Walt, also changed the topic: “Let me say this about my teaching load

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CL ASS NOTES and what we saw at Tuck.… It seems to me that the Tuck faculty members, at most, were teaching one course a semester, and in some cases one course a year. Here at Merrimack, three courses a semester is the norm, so what I want to know is how they did one a term and made any money?” I suggested that perhaps his research is a tad less renowned than that of his “colleagues” in Hanover, a point he thought might have some validity. He also acknowledged that he didn’t have the time to study the various academic models right now, what with him being in class all of 12 hours a week (!). “Maybe during my four months of summer vacation or one month of Christmas vacation I can look into that, but I assure you I am quite busy these days.” And with that, Don was off to look for his clubs so he could get in a quick nine before dinner. Surprisingly NOT on the golf course when I caught up with him was Dick Wallingford up in Napa. He and Delaine, who joined on the conference call, were both packing for a multiweek trip to Denmark and Ireland, so no doubt golf sticks were included in the trousseau. Dick is still running international exports for Rutherford Wine and is regularly out of country for up to four months a year. Delaine handles business operations at Bialla Vineyards, but its recent sale to Chinese investors allowed for this rare opportunity to accompany Dick. Over in New Jersey, Paul Mesches still harbors desires to dethrone Dick from his title as “Best Golfer—Class of 1976.” Paul acknowledged that Dick’s crown remained quite secure based on the last time they played many moons ago, “... but I have put in some quality time at my local club and I am sure that the outcome would be very different. All I have to do is to set it up, but he never returns my calls…er…I don’t seem to have his number…uh…well, I am still way too busy at work.” Uh huh. What Paul was actually too busy doing when I caught up with him was recovering from a weekend party he had thrown to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his son, the up-and-coming actor cum standup comic Jason. His claim to prepping, grilling, smoking, and flipping 53 pounds of various proteins was certainly more credible than his fantasies regarding his golf game.

Being married to a crackerjack librarian allows me to live on the bleeding edge of the publishing world. One of my regular habits is to log in to my local library’s e-Media site and check into my free account on Zinio.com. I must have 15 magazine subscriptions on Zinio, and as my paper-based subscriptions to Forbes, National Geographic, and others come up for renewal, I am simply ignoring them as I can read them free of charge through this service. I also get to subscribe to things I would never consider purchasing at the newsstand. Titles such as Surfer Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Car & Driver, Motor Trend, Saveur, Food & Wine, and Kiplinger’s will intermittently have things of interest, and Zinio allows me to print those articles for future reading if I don’t care to read them online. Imagine my surprise, then, when Kope VerSchure informed me recently that Arthur Becker has been serving as chairman and CEO of Zinio for the past several years. The website claims it is the largest digital magazine newsstand, in 39 countries with over 6,000 titles, and Arthur (and friends) has been at the forefront of arm-wrestling with the various magazine publishers as they deal with the challenges put forth by the various traffic portals and tablet and smart phone manufacturers. Only somewhat tongue-incheek, Art stated that the board chose him to serve as CEO because he was the youngest of the investor group (!) and therefore “might” be the best able to understand the company’s business model as it moves from serving as a simple digital newsstand into that of a more complex content aggregator. Sounds like that old monetization issue again! I fear, however, that this is putting a crimp in his artistic efforts. Perhaps next time we will have some digital evidence of Art’s newer artistic inspirations. Bill Malcolm claims inspiration of a different sort up in the Hanover area, that provided by his clientele in the IT and accounting software realm. He has a pretty sweet gig going, consulting to Fortune 500 (and slightly smaller) companies across the country. Thanks to the Interwebz, he is largely able to do this from a home office. This is important as he currently sits (or previously sat) on the boards of several entities in the Upper Valley, including Headrest (a substance abuse center where he has served as treasurer and president at times), the Upper Valley Snow Sport Foundation (this runs

the Whaleback ski resort just off 89 south of Lebanon), and the Dartmouth Skiway Advisory Board (20+ years, he claims). If this were not enough self-flagellating behavior, he also sits on the Lyme zoning board and its road committee, which not surprisingly is in charge of determining the proper depth of all potholes in the area. Bill was just over at Tuck last week, attending a session on “Making the Most of Leadership in Ego-Dominated and Otherwise Abusively Managed Not-For-Profits” or some such thing. He apparently took copious notes, ever the learner. At dinner last week, I tried to convey some of Bill’s virtual travel skills to Paul Garity, but to no avail. Since he and his Chicago-based partner spun off from KPMG’s consulting arm many moons ago, their consulting practice has shifted from more traditional real estate advisory work to outsourcing scenarios. Alas, his recent blue-chip clients, such as PG&E in San Francisco, Kellogg’s in Battle Creek, and a certain financial institution in the U.K. have insisted on seeing his baby blues up close, so he has been on the road almost as much as Mr. Wallingford. So Twentieth Century, Paul! Lastly, Bill Howard called from atop his mower down at his anagram-perfect adobe abode near the Mexican border in Hereford, AZ. While we in California are suffering from severe drought-itis, Willie claims that the monsoon season has led to a surfeit of the wet stuff (10 inches in the last few weeks), requiring his almost full-time attention. That he actually has the time to do so is probably the only upside to the fact that his employer got financially whacked by the State of Arizona this year, leading to a change in Bill’s employment status at the Pima Community College System from full-time to less-than-full-time. When he was in an exalted senior financial role there, he was perceived as adding some value. More recently he had switched hats and was spearheading several student-focused programs, no doubt seeking to monetize their class attendance. Alas, these are easier to whack with a budgetary axe, apparently. Finally, next October 7-9 brings us to our 40th reunion, so start your engines, tint your hair (or at least try a different combover), and plan to be there!

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Rich and Faye are also grandparents of the adorable Amelia, who is 3.5 years old. Rich says he is going to work one more year at the Small Business Development Program in Detroit before retiring.

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

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Dear folks, Mostly I have news from the next generation, since they are coming into their prime while we are fading away. My husband Arthur says that he had an epiphany one day as he watched some little kids in a playground. He saw them as the masters of the universe and was struck by how much we had to impart to them before we go. Dan Goessling reports that daughter Maura is starting a master’s program in earth sciences at Dartmouth. Dan’s reaction was WOOHOO! Lisa Roberts reports that son Trevor will be going to NYU and playing on their baseball team. Frits Riep’s daughter Alison, who graduated from Dartmouth, just got her MBA from MIT’s Sloan School and is working for Deloitte Consulting in Boston. Younger daughter Marisa just got her master’s in education and has been working as a school nurse in Watertown, MA. John Vogel, adjunct professor at Tuck, and Curt Welling, who is a senior fellow in Tuck’s Center for Business and Society and Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government, had an article in Nonprofit Quarterly about senior transitions in the nonprofit sector. “Undefined tenure seems to be the norm in the nonprofit world. In many cases, CEOs do not reveal their intention to leave until they have secured a new job. In such cases, the organization rarely has more than a few months to find a replacement. In the circumstance where the board pressures the CEO to resign, the transition time is often even shorter, more contentious, and potentially more damaging.” Steve Pytka continues his jet-set life. He spent time with Don and Maureen Weir in Kennebunkport, drove Jeff Gordon’s car at the New Hampshire Speedway, walked on hot

Steve Pytka on hot coals!

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coals (!?!), did a commercial for a NovaStar high-speed boat, did lots of surfing and skeet shooting, raised money for “The Donald” Trump, and spent plenty of time with his granddaughter Layla in NYC. He says he’s keeping involved with a few startups in his spare time. C’mon, Steve, you can do better than The Donald! Best of all, Rich and Faye King were visiting in the Bay Area, and they and Tom and Keiko Tanaka came over to my house for dinner. Tom brought over some fabulous wines from the winery he managed, Kenzo Estate Winery. We had a great time catching up. Tom just retired after 40 years as an investment banker and 3 years managing a winery. His new chosen career is as a professional baby-sitter for his grandson. He notes that he is being paid zero, which is considerably less than the California minimum wage. Meanwhile, Keiko is playing lots of golf at their country club, where Tom is known only as “Keiko’s husband.” Keiko is revered at the country club because she used some pull (and not with Peter Darbee) to get their new facilities hooked up immediately instead of the usual 7 months.

Keiko, Tom, Faye, Rich, Martha, and Arthur

Just wondering…how many of us are retired? How many are really retired, like no job, playing golf, drinking in the morning? And how many are retired but on to other endeavors, like nonprofit work, board seats, or greeting shoppers entering Walmart? Why don’t you take a minute and shoot me an email at jim. scardino@amtrustgroup.com to let me know. Carol Ach did just that. With this time warp I’m locked in, I always think back to our first term Managerial Economics project that Carol, David Greene, and Art Karlin carried me through almost 40 years ago. Now Carol has discovered retirement, having closed her tax preparation and consulting practice last year. Many of you will remember that Carol was married to Rusty Ach (T’77) until Rusty’s sad and untimely death nearly 20 years ago. She writes, “Never really thought about it, but I met my partner, Barry Trost, and started traveling with him around the world (London, South Korea, Boston/Maine, where we met up with Jim Middleton of T’77 and wife, and Hong Kong) just in the last 3 months! Have plans to visit South India for 6 weeks in November and December. I keep more than busy in between travels getting to know Barry’s two sons and three young grandsons, setting up a new household, and still getting used to a life without a fixed schedule. I thought I had found a way to be happy with my business, girlfriends, hiking, nice trip somewhere interesting once a year, but this is a whole lot better!” So here’s just one story of a happy and successful retirement. Whether you are retired or still employed, I wish you all good health and hope to hear from you. Please, put our 40th reunion on the calendar—October 2018.

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CL ASS NOTES ’79 Darrell Brown dbrown@aldenbrown.com

From an exotic part of the world no doubt, Peter Wolcott writes: “Greetings! The subtitle on the Tuck ‘send your news’ email caught my eye. As a kid, I was an endless summer devotee. Couldn’t get enough of the movie…or the surf safaris. We’re giving the other a try—Endless Winter—and it’s been a hoot as well (Sierra + French Polynesia)! Hope all is well with the remarkable class of ’79.” Donna Hinshaw is happy to report that “I’ve fully made the transition from looking out an office window down onto a downtown street filled with traffic to looking out an office window overlooking a lawn filled with birds, raccoons, and deer—with sailing boats beyond the bluff. Still busy days and fast pace, but lower stress. Dry-cleaning bill lower too. If anyone needs a waystation while going through the Pacific Northwest, look me up on Whidbey Island.” John Reed reports he was in Hanover earlier this month to pick up “my stepdaughter Haley (Amherst ’17), who had a great experience in Tuck Bridge. Had a chance to see Andy Steele, Paul Doscher, and other friends. My dad (Dartmouth ’47, Thayer ’48) also had a chance to be there the day after his 89th birthday. Andy was in search of people who could fog a mirror to be judges for the Bridge final presentations—so I was recruited—Haley was stunned to discover that I maybe understood a couple of things!” Dana Callow’s son, Brad, another Tuck grad, from 2013 and who married a classmate— Katie Gagne, same year—had their first child, Madison Alexandra, July 9th. Son Dane, a Tuck grad from 2010, and wife Jess are due in October with their second child. Daughter Liz— Tuck Bridge Program, head of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association in Boston, and VC associate at Boston Millennia Partners—is now a partner at Boston Millennia Partners Founders Fund. From Dana: “Lots of Tuck connections and tuitions in the family! Rob Jevon and I are now forming our ninth private investing fund at Boston Millennia in health

care IT investing.” Dana went to visit Larry Hagerty in Ann Arbor this summer and hopes to get to a Michigan football game soon. Oakes Ames writes that “after 30+ years of not playing golf,” he has joined a golf club in Prescott, AZ. “Increasing decrepitude seems to be offset by playing a course a mile high and using a driver with a head the size of a small cantaloupe. I’m as long (or short) as I was at Tuck. Anyone in the area, stop by.” Our dear Andy Steele continues to improve. He is working an 80% schedule for the good of Tuck and is getting into his rowing shell again!! After 21 years of enjoyable work as your class secretary, much of the skill learned from Prof. Bradley, I am turning over the pen to Dick Bowden. I am certain he will do a fabulous job, and if you do not send him a missive every six months, you may have Dog barking at your door. My best to all of you. Editor’s note: Thank you, Darrell, for your years of wonderful write-ups. And welcome to the world of class notes, Dick!

’80 Rick Kilbride kilbride@optonline.net

Our 35th reunion will have come and gone before this hits your mailbox. As about 30% of our class is signed up to attend, many will have better updates from that weekend than you will receive from this effort. I visited Tuck last spring. It had been years since I walked around there and, of course, now one needs a pass card to get in the buildings. The infrastructure is really amazing! The students are even more impressive. While my quick survey of our class is in no way statistically sound, a few trends emerge. There is some migration west, there is some re-shifting of priorities and there’s a bit of downshifting of pace. The settlers out west include the Rubins, who now call Utah home. I saw Jack a few times

before he decamped and was always amazed at all the investment ideas that poured from him. Joanne Dombrosky and Sherry Kernan were kind to write. Joanne is keeping up her skills at the Connecticut State pension, while Sherry reports that she has become a “lady of leisure.” She’s in London and, by all indications, is thriving and has every intention to stay there. John Reeve checked in and reports “[s]adly, I will miss our 35th reunion as I will be Down Under for a niece’s wedding. However, I will be in Hanover for the Princeton-Dartmouth football game later this fall so hope to catch up with any classmates in the area then. I am still doing a bit of maritime-sector consulting but seem to have more time to futz around than I used to. Steph and I are just back from Jackson Hole, where we caught up with our third grandchild, Alexander Ripps, a fine strapping lad. My son James and his lovely wife Shannon also have another on the way, so we will be able to boat a mixed four shortly. I am still very busy with masters rowing in an alumni eight from St. Andrews School. We win our share of medals but seem to be running out of competition in our age bracket. Planning on another trip to the Henley Regatta in a couple of years when our average age passes 70.” It was fun to hear from David Jeffrey, who is a winemaker in Sonoma County. He “went back to school for 2.5 years” to immerse himself in the tools of the trade and started producing wine in 2007. The wine has “been getting some good reviews and awards recently.” David says his Tuck skills were vital getting the whole thing going. He can ship about anywhere. www.callunavineyards.com Bill Barker is working on a project “to gather and synthesize behavioral data from the Internet along with a statistical forecasting process” predictive of investment decisionmaking. As capturing investor behavior is certainly an elusive missing piece of the puzzle, the project sounds exciting. Jerry Newman, Tony Ianuale, and I had some laughs at a reception for Dean Danos. Jerry was gracious as Tony and I embellished tales of the Snurfer he brought to class. It is fun to be in touch with several of you as I put this together. While I’m not sure what Roger Muller was thinking when my

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application was in his hand, you are all a great bunch. Editor’s note: Big thank-yous to Rick for taking on the role of T’80 class secretary and to Dave Womack for his many years as class scribe.

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

35TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Hello from Edinburgh, where Your Humble Correspondent is working for a few weeks. Ideal climate for me: the day’s high, low, and average temperatures are all the same, roughly 58. I hear it is slightly cooler in centigrade. Ida is here with me, practicing cello in the flat (that is, the apartment; her cello playing is NOT flat) while I write research reports on stray automotive topics. And then there are the class notes, which I had better get to. Today’s theme is “people standing in groups.” It’s not much of a theme, but we have to work with what we have…. Susan Woods reports that it is possible to graduate from Middlebury with a degree in environmental studies, with a focus in nonfiction writing, and a psychology minor. Sure, why not? She knows this because her daughter Anna graduated with this combo, sort of the “everything bagel” of college. She did the Tuck Bridge program this past summer (this is not to be confused with the Tuck Poker program) because “sending someone with that skill set into the business world borders on malpractice.” Because Anna is going to be a consultant at BTS Group in San Francisco. I had to look up BTS because

I thought it meant Be There Soon, but instead it is a consulting firm that “provides strategy alignment and execution consulting services and designs customized business simulations, digital technology, and assessments to develop business acumen, leadership, and sales capabilities.” This is kind of the corporate equivalent of environmental studies with a focus in nonfiction writing and a psychology minor, so it makes sense. Though I have to say “execution consulting” sounds painful. SW’s oldest is Martin, three years out of Middlebury, living in Boston. This is so the family will have someone in both of the most expensive cities in the USA. Veering close to TMI, we are told that Martin has moved in with “girlfriend” (pretty name!), who works at Parthenon. Not the Greek temple, but Bill Achtmeyer’s restaurant. I may have some of this confused. Which means I may have garbled this also: Susan tells us that she is back from a Bermuda wedding of a second cousin, the ring bearer for which wedding was Bill and Alli Achtmeyer’s son, as B&A knew SW’s cousin, but not through SW. I hope all of you are following along, because I am losing the thread. But I will conclude this section by noting that Sue’s husband Peter made a dining room table for Mary Ryan’s house on Cape Cod. That seems straightforward enough. Susan did not add whether Mary asked for said table, or whether Peter is sort of the Johnny Tableseed of New England, dropping them off wherever he goes, but we’ll figure that out later. (In case Our Readership is wondering, yes, I have been drinking a wee bit of Scotch, but that was to get ready for the Esposito Epic, which is gonna involve a heckuva lotta golf, I betcha!) Now on to Mike Esposito and, yes, a whole lotta golf! (Yesterday I actually walked across the Old Course at St Andrews, where I encountered golfers grinning like maniacs, but then again, there they were in the Mecca of the sport, can’t blame them.) (By the way further, if you are worried that the ’81 Class Notes are becoming The Golfers’ Nook, it’s your own fault; send in some news, people, that does not involve putting a ball in a hole, taking it out, and putting it back in again!)

Fifth Annual T’81 Golf Outing

So anyway, Mike & Company had the Fifth Annual T’81 Golf Outing, with Bill Achtmeyer (ring bearer), Drew Pace (Sam), Fran Allen (Frodo), and Spo (um…Pippin?). “Good time had by all with some good and bad golf shots to highlight the outing.” See picture of these people after they had put a lot of balls in holes, then taken them out, and put them back into other holes. Nice pants, Fran; glad the Goodwill store was open on the weekend! (Ha!) Speaking of Fran Allen, he is now GM for all of New Balance in Europe. So he and Cindy will be in the UK for a few more years. Congratulations, Fran; use the additional salary to get new pants. As for Drew Pace, Spo says he is nearing his personal goal of 10,000 hours on the golf course. At which time he will have himself bronzed and made into a statue and placed in front of Tuck Hall, to inspire new students. On the Bill “Ringbearer” Achtmeyer front, he had a 60th party on the roof terrace of the Taj Boston, and as a few of the beautiful people didn’t show, Drew and Mike got to go. Though they did not get parking validation. Then we learned how Bill got to be well off: Bill and Alli spent quite a bit of time packing up stuff from Beacon Hill House 1, to move to BHH 2…see, you can afford two BHHs if you do your own moving. Mike offered to help since he paid for college by working for United Van Lines (1974-1978), but Bill muttered something about “He’s not dropping my goddamn Limoges” or something like that and sent Mike off to see Avengers: Age of Ultron instead. (You’d be surprised how little of this I have to make up.)

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CL ASS NOTES Since so few of you wrote in this time (hint!), you’re gonna have to listen to more Spo Saga (hint, hint!). Because he wrote in twice, making him winner of our Correspondent of the Year Award, which entitles him to 10% off any entrée at the Golden Corral in Parma, Ohio. (Offer expires roughly…now.) However, Mike may have been beaned by too many golf balls since in his second message he apologized for not having a photo from the Fifth Annual T’81 Golf Outing…which he sent in earlier. Mike, let me explain email again: when you send an email, you do not send it really, it doesn’t really leave your computer, like a real letter leaves your house…never mind. In the second submission, Mike reported that he has been playing golf. Well, we get all the scoops here! I couldn’t keep the various tournaments straight so we’ll cut to the video and show a second photo, of Mike and George Parker shaking hands behind some glassware outdoors somewhere. They won something, maybe that hat Mike is wearing (sourced from the same place Fran got his pants).

Mike Esposito and George Parker

In between Putting Balls In Holes, Mike bought a house, “next door and on land that was originally part of our house,” I guess. He now owns 2/3 of Mattapoisett, sort of like having both Marven Gardens AND Ventnor Avenue. With the house came a pier, so now Mike has to consider buying a boat or “cultivating friends with boats.” Then he can maybe hitch a ride on a boat to a golf course by the water, beats me. Finally—do any of you people ever have kids that just marry some strangers?—“the eldest daughter of my sister is marrying my goddaughter.” Mike is looking forward to sitting around at the reception grousing about

Keeping with our theme of photos of People Standing in Groups, we mix it up a bit with Dick Cantwell, because some people here are sitting down. As he writes, “If retiring after 40 years since college is newsworthy, I have something to report to my fellow classmates.” Dick wrote a note eloquent enough for me to just mangl--- edit, it, a little bit. Here we are: The Johnston family at Erica’s Tuck graduation

young kids not realizing how great an artist Christopher Cross really was…. Now, for something completely different, on to Jeff Johnston! For those who were wondering, Jeff reports that you can still get a diploma from Tuck if you pay them enough money, as Jeff was in town to see daughter Erica graduate! “Graduation was long. No, make that very long. Not only are there twice the students we had, but twice the speakers, award after award, and of course everyone had to acknowledge the retiring dean, new dean, and the family dog. The student speaker needed Glenn’s CliffNotes. I don’t remember a thing Glenn said but I remember at least he was entertaining.” (Have we ever mentioned what a perceptive fellow this Jeff J is? We should mention that more often!) “And of course it was bright sunshine and mid-90s, thus my red ‘Martian’ face. The other two normal folks are Kris and my oldest daughter Heather.”

“Seeing history repeat itself in one’s own children is a special gift that also marks the passage of time. It makes you realize that you can retire. Having your first grandchild makes you realize you definitely should retire! Cathy and I celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary this year, reflected in three wonderful sons—Brian (33), Stephen (31) and Andrew (27), a lovely daughter-in-law, Liz, and a very special grandson, James (turns 1 in August)! The boys have followed their father, in one way or another, into business, specializing in innovation, marketing and advertising. However, given his size and strength, grandson James will most likely be a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. “Retiring from Cisco in October, and looking back on my 34 years since leaving Tuck, I couldn’t be more proud. My career has mirrored the Tuck experience, allowing me to continually stretch myself, learn new things, meet amazing people, and venture into areas of incredible opportunity. Who would have thought that a Tuck MBA would take me from marketing to management to operations to consulting to innovation and technology? It has been my privilege to work for great companies with great brands, built on a reputation for integrity, such as J&J, Gillette, P&G and, lastly, Cisco.

Also graduating was Jim and Becky Byrne’s daughter. (But did the Byrnes write in? Noooooooo. So no free Tuck souvenir tote bag for THEM at next Reunion!) Jeff and Kris hosted two different sets of graduates and parents at the house they rented, which made for an impressive group of Tuckies and families. “However, not wanting to be bored in retirement, I have recently received an His impression is that the school has a much appointment at MIT to teach and advise healthier work/life balance than it did in 1981, students, in order to give back some of what with lots of outside activities, the students I have learned and, perhaps, reinvent myself have more work experience, and the group as once more in the process. As the son of a a whole has more international representation. businessman and an educator, it seems only “The Tuckies I chatted with confirmed the only fitting that I am a little bit of both in what I reason Roger Muller admitted me was to put a have done and will continue to do in the future. pin in the U.S. map on Arkansas. It was either me or a real-life Razorback. I was told Beth Day “By the summer, Cathy and I will have flipped a coin and I won.” (grin) Well, we are completed our relocation from California to glad you won the coin toss. our home on the Rhode Island shore, coming back to our New England roots and coming Jeff wants to now pass on the Jimmy Olsen Boy closer as well to family, friends and, of course, Reporter press pass to Mr. Achtmeyer, who has grandchildren! We will miss we will miss a Tuck ’16 on deck for next year. our West Coast Tuck friends—Dan Taylor

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and Peter Johnson to name but two—but we are looking forward to being within driving distance of Amos Tuck!” And speaking of California Tuckies, here is a photo of the Tuck ’81 South Bay SF group that got together recently for dinner in San Carlos, CA. Here are Dan and Carol Taylor, Peter and Tanya Johnson, and Dick and Cathy Cantwell. And thanks, Dick—what a fine, fine letter you sent!

years, and something about how Susan Woods and Bill Achtmeyer are actually third cousins related through a Bermudan wedding singer. I think. Take care everyone, email us something or Pin a Tweet—we are trying to get savvy with this modern computer stuff, so you can even fax us a telegram! Remember, if you don’t send something in, we will make something up. Like about how Tony E has a “thing” for Carly Fiorina. But that’s for another column….

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I remember the winter of ’81-’82 on Hawk Pine Mountain that saw my 6-cylinder Chevy Nova (some knew her as the Corndog-mobile) stranded on the side of the road—tire chains and all—for weeks, after a particularly heavy snowfall. It seems those Hawk Pine experiences prepared this group well for challenges of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain. Another clan of T’82s (and leading—not trailing—spouses) met up at a recent Dartmouth reunion weekend. Kevin and Judy [T’83] Donnelly, Roman Lipp, and Keith P.R. and Barb Quinton all seemed to be enjoying themselves and behaving in the same picture. Could easily have been a photo taken at Tales on any given weekend “back in the day.”

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Greetings fellow T’82s (and onlookers)! T’81 South Bay dinner group in San Carlos

We’ll close with Chuck McElyea, also entering the Retirement Business. He is on his final posting in Singapore for General Motors, leading the company’s powertrain engineering activities in India, Korea, Australia, etc., before GM and he part ways amicably early next year—after close to 40 years in the company. He moved from Shanghai midyear to Singapore to focus on India and some of the other markets in the region and has been out of the US for 15 years. Repatriation to the U.S. will thus be quite an adventure (if we haven’t built any more walls on the borders!—Secty.). Chuck hasn’t decided where to settle down in the USA yet, but he & spouse would like to be closer to their two sons, one in med school at Tufts, the other in a master’s of commerce program at the University of Virginia. Chuck may take up some part-time work upon his return, so if you need your carbureted V8 converted to port fuel injection or something, he is your guy.

With Everest opening in theaters this week, I thought it only fitting to kick off our class notes with a picture of our own intrepid mountain climbers. Todd Bachelder, Pax Goodson, Peter Larkin, and Rick Leatherman held a One Hawk Pine reunion that included a trek up Tom Dick and Harry Mountain in Oregon. Rick and Mary Leatherman graciously hosted the crew. Apparently, there was a bit of a misadventure during a boat excursion on the Columbia River. Mary reportedly remarked, “I can’t let you boys out of my sight!” While there were no serious injuries, Todd observed that “…while we have certainly aged, I guess the consolation is we still haven’t grown up!” Some things never change.

Roger and Ann McNamee took time to write in about their latest endeavors in the world of touring and Broadway musicals. Roger shared, “All is well at my end. My time is increasingly devoted to music, in three forms. My main focus is still on Moonalice, which maintains a busy touring schedule, mostly on the West Coast. Over the past year, I added two other projects—a vocal harmony duo called Doobie Decibel System and a solo act. I am performing two to four shows a week from March through November, which is huge fun. Ann is writing a musical that we hope will find its way to the Big Apple one day.” Given the McNamees’ ability to turn most all pursuits into success, we all look forward to seeing Ann’s show in lights on the Great White Way.

We have no photo of Mr. McElyea standing with several other people. My bad. Okay, that is it for this time. Sorry for all the rambling, but we had a lot of content even though we had few correspondents. And we learned something about retirement, something about looking back at our Tuck

T’82s and spouses meet during a Dartmouth reunion weekend

T’82 mountain climbers in Oregon

Last we checked in on Gary and Meredith Savadove, they were in the process of returning to the States after an expat experience in Italy.

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CL ASS NOTES more, either here or other locales,” reports our overseas correspondent. “I was accepted into a volunteer program housed at Stanford’s SEED institute. The mission of the program is to develop jobs in developing environments, much like what I had done in 1991 when I left for Eastern Europe with the Enterprise Corps and stayed for 13 years.

Gary updates, “Not much in the ‘exciting news department,’ but life is great! Meredith and I remain knee deep in boxes and are slowly getting resettled back in the States. We miss life in Italy but are enjoying being back with family and friends. In May, we spent a couple of weeks in Portugal (needed our Europe ‘fix’). Had never been there before but thoroughly loved it. Highly recommended!”

“I will be working with 8-12 companies from Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Senegal for a minimum of 6 months. Over the six-month period, there are four one-week periods where senior Stanford faculty teach the equivalent of an executive MBA. I’m in the midst of the final week of training for one group and next week starts the initial training of another group.

I guess once you go Euro, you can’t get it out of your blood. Speaking of Euro…our family spent some time together in Germany and Austria celebrating graduations and birthdays. We happened to be in Munich on the day that Bayern Munchen won the Bundes Lige championship. Do you think the Hof Brau Haus was wild? I have videos to prove it! So…if this seems like a short column this time around, it’s because I only heard from a few of you. I’ve got to believe we T’82s have lots of interesting things to share. Don’t hesitate to send in your tidbits of news, updates on kids (and, now, grandkids), retirement plans, new jobs, travel exploits, favorite sporting stories, and so on. Until next time, “Stay thirsty, my friend.”

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Douglas Ross

Eric Evans lands a big one—and lets it go

Village and catching nothing but panfish—not big enough for the pan. Doing well in the Motor City as CFO for GST AutoLeather—one of the premier suppliers of the automotive leather you all have come to appreciate.” On the family front, Eric reports that “of the three sons, one married, father of our granddaughter, one engaged, one still wild and free. House still in Bucks County PA, apartment in Detroit suburbs. Blogging my adventures at http://morethanjustfishing. blogspot.com.”

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“Back three years now from my four-year stint in South Africa but still traveling the globe and loving every minute of it,” says our own Eric Evans. He is a man who doesn’t check in often enough, but when he does, there is a lot to proudly report. “A Tuck MBA can land you the fish of a lifetime…that is my story and I am sticking to it! 52 inches 32 lbs.” Don’t believe it? Take a look at the pic nearby. “I have become quite the serious fisherman since the days of hiking to the reservoir from Sachem

(For those of you curious of the details—and I [Doug Ross] was, so I had to ask—the fish was “a Muskellunge, known as The Fish of 10,000 Casts, caught on Lake St. Clair, the lake that did not quite qualify for Great Lake status but part of that maritime thoroughfare.” Oh, and by the way, in case there are any PETA members in the class, the fish was safely released for another day.) Back from Africa is Eric, off to Africa is our own George Holmes. Again, somebody we don’t hear from often enough. “I’m writing to you from Accra, Ghana, where I will be living for at least a year and more, likely

“The institute was funded by a Dartmouth undergraduate alum who made money in Silicon Valley and decided to give a grant for $150 million to start SEED. Besides funding the five volunteers in my group and the 15 sent so far, they fund academic research in these areas and the program is slated to expand into Kenya in the summer of next year. “If any of our classmates are interested in knowing more and/or volunteering themselves, I would enjoy speaking with them. I should have more information over time—I only arrived early last week. I can be reached at gholmes@stanford.edu.” Domestically, Bob MacIntosh and his wife, Linda, made their 18th consecutive annual trek to Nantucket in July for vacation. Although Bob did his usual manic bicycling all around the island while providing some free advertising for Tuck (see photo nearby), this trip was different from other years, as Bob, Linda, and Oscar (their rescue dog—see lower right of photo, and also notice the dog is included in the photo but not his wife, what’s up with that?) were alone for virtually the entire three weeks. Their daughter (Allison, age 23) was able to join her parents for only three days before heading to Turkey on a two-month archaeological dig as part of her master’s program in fine arts at NYU, while their son (Andrew, age 22) could not visit the island at all due his work obligations in Portland, Maine. As a result, this vacation was particularly relaxing, except for some concern about their daughter being in Turkey given all of the unsettling news coming from the Middle East

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for more than a decade, introducing dozens of kids to the joy of books. Maybe they knew also that in college, one of her short stories was published in an anthology by Ishmael Reed, and she later worked as a writer/researcher on several books by Pat Ross.

Tuck ’83 group in Hanover at the wedding of Cam Eldred’s daughter

Bob MacIntosh: a riding billboard

recently (a bit of fretting about Ally did help to take Bob’s mind off of the Red Sox’ dreadful season, he reports). BTW: Ally did arrive safely back in New York in late August! An interesting note: While taking a break during one of his bicycle rides near the end of vacation, Bob ran into Keith Day in a doughnut shop (Keith was dutifully buying breakfast for his family); they pledged to keep in touch over the upcoming winter so that they can organize a gathering next summer of all of the Tuck ’83ers who seem to gravitate to Nantucket every summer. Bob Hannah updates us on other New England developments by reporting that Cam and Heidi Eldred’s daughter Virginia was married in Hanover on August 22. The following ’83s attended the gala event (the reception was at the Eldreds’ house on the 18th green of the Hanover Golf Course): Bob and Linda MacIntosh, Peter and Colleen Boland, Joe and Andrea Kirchgessner, Paul and Donna Grand Pré, Bob and Ann Hannah (see photo nearby for this Tuck group and their spouses). Bob reports that a tremendously enjoyable time was had by all. It has been the great good fortune of Chris and me to report the significant developments in all of your lives over these many years. This has included everything from marriages to births, old jobs to new jobs, children who have moved on from high school to college to their own weddings and now, in the not too

Proud father Cam and daughter Virginia

distant future, to the prospect of making some of you grandparents (if you aren’t already). It is a life for all of us that moves relentlessly forward, whether we are ready for it or not, and with that relentless progress we are presented occasionally with more grief than joy. So it is for our classmate Chars Crane, who tells us that his wife, Leisa Crane, died on August 11. There is no way to convey adequately in a written passage what it must mean to lose, in Chars’ words, “my best friend.” Maybe it would help to know that it was in Mr. Smith’s English class as a senior in high school that Leisa spied the love of her life, Charlie Crane, asked him out on their first date—a movie and ice cream on his 18th birthday—and that they got married five years later and moved to Manhattan (where they lived for 32 years.) People who knew Leisa probably were aware that while in grade school, she added the exotic ‘e’ to her name as a tribute to her grandmothers and became Leisa. They knew that Leisa received her master’s in library science from Columbia and worked in libraries at Wheaton (her alma mater), Dartmouth, Harvard, Columbia, the Princeton Club of New York, and the Biddeford Pool Community Club, where she ran the summer reading program

But what they might not know is that in honor of her love of books and libraries, Leisa and Charlie endowed two libraries in Maine, both of which will be known as Leisa’s Place. The published obituary won’t say that Leisa was a frequent visitor to Tuck when we were students with Chars, or that she looked forward to seeing her Tuck friends whenever possible, or that she never missed a reunion. It won’t say that her name will live on in Hanover on a scholarship that Leisa and Chars endowed together, which is given each year to the youngest member of the incoming class who needs financial aid. And most assuredly her obituary won’t say what is probably most important to know. It was Leisa’s idea many years ago to put on her grave marker “She was funny”—and to have placed on Chars’ gravestone “He laughed.” “Those stones are already in place,” Chars told me. “And they bring a smile to my face every time I visit them.”

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

Now that we are more than 30 years postgraduation, class news has trickled to a slow drip. Fortunately Al Bembenek shared his exciting news. He retired from Fidelity Investments in July after 30 years of service. He most recently served as a portfolio manager but spent many years as an analyst covering structured finance in both the bond and money market realms. Al and his wife, Michelle LaPointe Bembenek, have two grown sons. Aaron is a graduate student at Harvard studying computer science. Tyler graduated from William & Mary in 2015 and works as a consultant in Washington, D.C. Al and Michele live nearby in Concord, MA, and look forward to spending time exploring New England and

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CL ASS NOTES borders.” Best wishes for you two fighting this!

reconnecting with old friends. Congratulations on a long career at Fidelity, Al!

I had a fun minireunion with Di Daych and Carol Sherwood Pettee this May, at Di’s home in Madison, CT. It was quick, but full of laughter, drinks, and fried clams! On this same trip to NY, Mark and Nancy [T’86] Davis treated me to a wonderful brunch, more laughter, and drinks!

In closing, here is a short lesson about how our class news works: • You submit news and/or photos to me → I write a great column. However no participation trophies are awarded. • You don’t submit news → I write a brief column or perhaps no column…. Let’s not be a class that fades away into the sunset. All news is welcome—a new job; family news, including grandchildren and weddings; moving; retirement; volunteer work; travel— whatever strikes your fancy. Hope to hear from more of you next time around.

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

Well it feels a bit moot to be writing news about classmates with just 3 weeks before I see most of them and we all catch up in person. But, it’s my job, so here goes. Joe Dixon and Rob Huntington got together recently at Heidelberg College in northern Ohio, where Rob is the president (see photo nearby). According to Joe, “Rob’s vision for campus and community and connection to staff and students was inspiring, and he has done an amazing job reinvigorating the school, amping up the endowment, the physical plant, the commitment to excellence in faculty and student experience…all the while keeping his sense of humor and humility intact.” On Joe’s side, he claims “No complaints.” Since his stepson is in high school in Viterbo, Italy, Joe and his wife, Sophie, decided to go join him to live there. So Joe now is “in Italy a month, and in the States a month on a rotating basis. Loving the food, wine, and culture in Italy. My work in corporate sustainability continues well. I’ve expanded the Sustainability Leadership Forums I facilitate to now include Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, London, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. I’m in those cities every other month and welcome connecting with Tuckies there! My son, David,

Rob Huntington and Joe Dixon at Heidelberg College

was a cross-country runner at college, and we’ve decided to do a marathon in one of the above forum cities each year. We did the NYC marathon last year and will do the Philadelphia marathon this year.” When I told him Spence and I were at the NYC Marathon to cheer on our son, he admitted he could have used some of our encouragement en route. Dow Wilson was in Hanover for his son Adam’s graduation this year and says “Place looked great” and that it was fun to see some of the “old crowd,” like Andy Steele and Dean Danos. He and Lynne are disappointed to miss Reunion, as Lynne was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and will be undergoing chemo then. “The long-term prognosis for her is positive, just have to get through the therapy.” Dow added “I’m fortunate to be in the business of cancer therapy…so we’ve been lucky to have some of the best people in the world weighing in on best treatment paths. Lynne’s attitude has been great.” For the past three years, Dow has been the CEO of Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, CA, whose mission, per their website, “is to focus energy on saving lives…we equip the world with new tools for fighting cancer, taking X-ray images, and protecting ports and

Dow Wilson and son Adam Wilson at Adam’s 2015 graduation from Tuck

Dan Towle sent in news, probably out of empathy for me since he is about to be his class secretary for Williams College Class of ’80. “After 35 years of corporate and consulting, mostly related to insurance industry, based in Hartford, CT, I have headed north and settled into Montpelier, VT, as of June. My heart has long been in northern New England, but now so is the rest of me. Biking the back roads, swimming in the river pools, and having coffee in the sleepy shadow of the VT’s state house is rejuvenating this fifty-something. And then there’s Mad River Glen.” He further facilitated my job by telling me about several classmates also in the Vermont area: “Kate Wiley Laud has settled into her role as CFO of the relatively new University of VT Foundation. We shared an always-exceptional lunch at Burlington’s Skinny Pancake. Jed Davis has picked up the sustainability flag after heading sales for Cabot Creamery for most of his career. He now is the VP of sustainability for Cabot, which is becoming ‘greener’ by the day under his leadership. Living within a half hour of Tuck, Gretchen Rittenhouse is giving back in leadership roles for not-for-profits, particularly in affordable housing. And last, but not least, I had the opportunity to visit Ed LeClair in his ‘corporate headquarters’ (a farmhouse in the quiet Northeast Kingdom). He took over the role of executive director of Circus Smirkus a number of years ago and has turned around a bankrupt NFP that trains young aspiring circus entertainers and assembles a show that travels throughout the Northeast during the summer. Ed hosted my visit to a performance in Montpelier and wow! They perform in every state in New England except RI (this year) so if you are in this neck of the woods, I strongly recommend you attend, particularly if you have young children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, etc.” When my follow-up question to Dan was whether this was a “retirement or a retrenchment,” he responded: “I would say I am semiretired. I don’t intend to ever fully retire unless I’m physically or mentally unable to do otherwise. I am, for example, on the list of potential ski patroller trainees at my home

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golfing boondoggles should look us up!”

Boston Tuck get-together hosted by Fred Maynard (far right)

area, Cannon Mountain. If I could patrol right up to my final days, I would be a happy geezer.” And being a “happy geezer” is the perfect way to end a short column! Next column will be all the reunion news!

’86 Tony Ehinger tonyehinger@gmail.com

Julia Rabkin juliamrabkin@gmail.com

30TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Heartfelt thanks to all who responded to our pleas for news. Julie Adie wrote, “feel free to let folks know I’m alive & well in the Norfolk/ Williamsburg area. I have a large house in Norfolk, which I’m always willing to share with anyone who might be in the area (I will probably not be there). And if anyone finds themselves in the Williamsburg area (which includes Yorktown & Jamestown), I’m happy to act as a non-perfect tour guide (I’m better at recommending restaurants!). AND I’m happy to provide advice about dealing with aging parents.” And in the event that your travels take you west, Terri Tierney Clark’s news is that “we have moved to the Phoenix area. Any Tuckies on

Jeff Sawyer penned a nice note describing “after retiring a second time, I’ve returned to the productive world, this time in higher ed (oxymoron). No, I’m not a professor but am nonetheless committed to corrupting the minds of youth. I am retooling the career development corner of the world using Middlebury College as my laboratory; you know, trying to connect a liberal arts education to productive life after graduating (and parents having spent a quarter million on that education). It’s too soon to tell whether the organ transplant will work or whether the higher ed body will succumb to tissue rejection. The career center can now use the word ‘career’ in the name, and faculty are beginning to not bring tar and feathers to our meetings. Progress. Stay tuned. I am available through my side consulting business to career coach anyone’s children to career success—for a small fee. “Steve Murphy married Karen Wojcik, with several friends and family objecting, I mean, heartily wishing them well. Exhibit A of the happy occasion, a picture of Steve and Karen along with Steve’s daughter Steph, who by the way did catch the bride’s bouquet (I made that up). I was a little confused, however, after the wedding when Steve seemed a bit standoffish when I informed him that Chris and I were joining them on their honeymoon to Hawaii (Exhibit B). As a special wedding gift, we did not join them on the all-expenses-paid trip; I think that made all the difference. Please all raise a glass to Steve and Karen. Steve works for SABIC in their plastics business; a small venture for the House of Saud’s main business, petroleum. He lives and works in the Chicago area.” Martha Dunbar Hall contributed the following happy news: “Tom and I have had an exciting year with both of his older children getting married. Baird was married in January and Maggie in May. Both were married and live in Charleston. We have vacationed on the beaches near there every year and I think after college they were drawn to the area. Luckily, each of them got a job there and are now off the payroll, as Tom says. Works out great for us so we can see both of them in one trip. Annie, our oldest, is a junior at Furman University but is spending this semester in Madrid on a program with St. Louis University. Another

Steve, Karen, and Steph

Jeff and Chris, Steve and Karen

example of why I want to come back in my next life as one of my kids. Sarah is a senior in high school, getting ready for that next step. As I write all of this I am amazed that we are approaching our 30th Tuck reunion. Wow— where did the time go?”

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CL ASS NOTES And from the West Coast, Heather Little King writes, “I’m embarking on a new chapter since kids are now pretty much launched: Hampton (23) is in Denver job hunting, and Jacqueline (20) is a junior at Columbia in NY. It’s empty nest, but also time to try new skies.

“Stayed with Ted for a couple of days in London and had a great time catching up with him and seeing his family—his boys are growing up fast!” [Look in the 1986 class notes on mytuck. dartmouth.edu to see a pic of Rod, Morgan, and Ted!]

“I left my consulting practice in March to run marketing and business development for Eight Inc., a global strategy design firm. We do experience design across physical | digital touch points. We are most known for Apple retail, Tesla, Virgin...it’s challenging and fun working with a range of industries in constant reinvention.

When he wasn’t hosting Rod in London, Ted Sotir recently named Gilman School’s centerpiece athletic stadium the Alexander Sotir Stadium in honor of his father, who served nine years at the School as Athletic director and head football coach. Ted enjoyed the dedication ceremonies at the Baltimore, Maryland, facility with his father and family. Ted announced he would become an advisory director at Goldman Sachs effective January 1, 2016. In this role, Ted will serve as chairman of the board of GSAM’s Luxembourg- and Dublin-based investment funds and chair GS’s International Pension Investment Committee. Based in London, Ted, Thea, Harrison, and Tarquin invite one and all to reach out when passing through the U.K.

“It’s also been a great excuse to reconnect with Tuckies—I’ve seen Petra Hansen, Jim Weber, and am hoping to see Alison Corcoran, Julia Rabkin, and Sherri Oberg next week. I also hope to see a cadre that Lee Geiger has organized for a Napa sojourn in October. Can’t wait. “A highlight of last year was a visit in Colorado from Uli Michel and her family. Lots of long hikes, a few aerobics classes, and lots of Uli’s very unique laughs. So fun. “We welcome any visitors. We are now in Sausalito.”

what we are really having fun with is we started flipping houses. Just like all the shows on TV. Our favorite is Flipping Boston with Pete and Dave. We actually met with them last week in Vegas. Flipping houses is so much fun because when you are done, you have taken something ugly and made it pretty again. It’s very tangible. And everybody wins. “As for things on the home front, we still live in Flagstaff and I am still racing bikes around whenever I can. Mountain or road, it doesn’t matter. I love both. Do any other classmates ride that you know of? It would be a blast to do a hundred miles around the Hanover area during the reunion. Our son James is on the road, long-haul trucking after his return from Iraq. Our daughter Lauren just graduated with an accounting degree and is currently studying some master’s course in prep for CPA exam. “Julie is getting all excited about this year’s El Niño effect in the Pacific. We are expected to get a ton of snow here and she works up at our local ski area in the winters. It is only halfway through September and it is already feeling like fall outside. So, maybe the predictions for a big and early winter are coming true. She is definitely looking forward to a big year on the slopes. “Well, that’s all I can think of. If anyone is ever traveling through Flagstaff, or Sedona, or hitting the Grand Canyon, give us a call.” And lastly, if you’re on Facebook, please seek out the Tuck ’86 Alums group. Mike Wyman is doing a great job of adding to the membership—the group has expanded from 25 members at the end of August to 49 members as of today. It is a great way for us to communicate, share news, photos, etc.—in anticipation of our reunion next year!

Heather and Uli Ted (Sotir Stadium) Rod Fletcher notes, “I made a trip to London to see my daughter Morgan, who was doing a summer program at the London School of Economics between her sophomore and junior years. She also did the Tuck Bridge program this summer in Hanover.

Please don’t wait for an invitation to send news—just send them!

And coming in just under the wire, Chuck Bruni sent in an update: “As for Julie and I, we are still doing commercial real estate investments, having bought two industrial buildings in Honolulu over the last year. But

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’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

I [Felicia Pfeiffer Angus] woke up today to a crispness in the air…leaves falling, folks dressed a bit warmer at the bus stop. With these early signs of fall my thoughts wandered north to Tuck, to good times and great classmates, and here I am…sharing all those thoughts and insights with you! OK, enough with the poetic. In reality it’s Rosh Hashanah and therefore so quiet in the markets that I have time to let you know what I do know about the comings and goings of our class (very little, in fact, but more than Lobrain anyway!). I was actually lucky enough to see lots of folks in the last few months, much of it because of Rick Yu’s good organization skills, but some I was actually able to do on my own. In the early spring, Mike Angus and I went with Lourdes and Milt Dingman and others to Hawaii for a week of exploration on The Big Island. None of us had been there before, and we loved the wildness of that island; lots of exploring and very little beach time, which was right up our collective alleys. The Dingmans also joined us in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada, at our family cottage to end the summer. There we honed skills in paella making and euchre playing. A very no-tech, yet high-calorie vacation! In the spring, while attending a graduation at Duke, Mike and I got to see Cynthia Frost and drop by her new palatial retirement home. (OK, I do find it a bit weird writing about folks in our class in terms of retirement. Weird, or am I just jealous? Not sure yet!) Most folks scale down as they retire…not Cynthia! In a house she designed herself, you can go straight from the master suite to the lap pool outside. Very convenient! And in her screened-in porch she hosted a little Tuck reunion of sorts, with Millie Tan and Blake Crews there to share a few glasses with us. Millie was just entering into college application hell with her daughter,

and Blake seemed to be enjoying the quieter life Durham offers. It was great seeing them all. To make it even more special, Cynthia served Rebecca Green Birdsall’s very own Black Kite wine. I know we had it at Reunion but I guess I was not paying as much attention to the finesse of libation up at Tuck (does anyone?). I’ll have to say it was delicious when had in NC…really hit the spot. I know we can order it online and I will do! Up in Boston on business this spring I had lunch with Andrea Ploss O’Neill. She is now working part-time (well, full-time really, just getting paid part-time) in Cambridge with OptumLabs. Noel was not there, but all reports were that he is still working at Cambridge Associates, keeping the home fires burning. Andrea and Noel just got back from a wedding in Milan…a friend of Noel’s from his preschool days was tying the knot. Imagine the sound of that, an Irishman speaking Italian...makes me smile.

Steve Socolof, Susie (Susan Blake Meaney T’86), and John Meaney at a Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara this summer

On his quest to take over Andy Steele’s job, Rick Yu organized several get-togethers both in NY and Boston. (Is there a prize for class agent who pulls in the most $ maybe?) In NYC our first lunch was attended by Ava Chien[Pliessnig], Grover Fitch, Steve Socolof, Rick, and me. I’m not sure when the last time I saw Ava was…I seem to recall she was headed off to the Far East on business, acting as a liaison of sorts for companies getting their sea legs there. Grover (OK, truth here…I did not learn this until the second lunch!) had some medical stuff going on with his heart. With perhaps some of the youngest kids (with an original wife ;) ) this

was extremely nerve-racking for him, to say the least. End of the story is that he’s great now and has learned it just doesn’t pay to be so thin! (Even though he still is.) Soco seemed to be making the rounds because I heard he was with John Meaney and Susie Blake Meaney T’86 at one final Grateful Dead concert in Santa Clara. They met up with Jeff Coleman there too. Bunch of old Deadheads they are!

Rick Yu, Felicia Angus, Ava Chien-Pliessnig, Grover Fitch, and Steve Socolof

The second lunch Rick organized was at the Yale Club. There I learned that Len Jardine is a first-time grandpa (say what???) and totally smitten w/ the new little addition. Could he be our youngest grandpa? Heck, some in our class are still in first-round production! (Maybe not with first-round wife, but hey, we don’t judge in this column!) Len is still happy as a clam at BNP. So happy, in fact, that Chas Chigas decided he needed some of that same French “je ne sais quoi” as well and is working in close proximity to Len at Natixis North America in debt capital markets origination. Peter Saulnier was fresh off having met Carly Fiorina at a meet-and-greet and was obviously more impressed than he was prepared to admit. He wasn’t quite speechless, but close! (Wouldn’t that be something?) David Oliver snuck out of Stone Harbor Investments to make it, as positive and cheerful as ever. (“I’ll have what he’s having!”) Grover, Rick, and I rounded out the table. Thanks go to Rick for organizing (of course!), Saulnier and Ollie for picking up the tab, and to Chas, who says the next one’s on him! ;) Rick Yu had a dinner in Boston in early August and was able to corral a good group of folks from all parts under the guise of free drinks and food. Apparently, Connor O’Brien flew

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CL ASS NOTES down from Montreal (again, see free drinks above). Martha Boyd Tecca and Peter Stern drove down from Hanover. Steve Frary drove up from Providence. Duncan McDougall was vacationing on the Cape and came up to join. Wow, almost 30 years later and they come in like flies to honey! Love that! Few of us have seen David Logozzo since graduation, when he went straight back to Michigan and GM. He is now retired with 3 grandkids. OK. So obviously Lenny is not the first granddad. Dave’s son (Michigan) is 33 with the 3 children and his daughter (Pepperdine) is not yet married. Logo is doing a bunch of charity work. Beth McCombs Westvold’s daughter is transferring from Wake Forest to Northeastern to join the nursing program there. She is a great equestrian…following in her mom’s footsteps! (hoof prints?) Her son will start as a freshman at Middlebury this fall. Again, following in his mom’s footsteps, and McC is thrilled about that. Beth is doing well at Payden & Rygel (where, coincidentally, Mike Salvay also works in LA). Peter Stern has 5 kids and happily resides in Hanover. He actually had bought the “pool house,” renovated it, and sold it recently. He needed 5 kids just to fill that thing! Hope they are all good swimmers in any case. Barb and Rod T’86 Fletcher were part of the gathering too. Their oldest is working in SLC for Goldman Sachs in equity research. (OK, at least 4 next-gens @ GS that I know of!) Their second is playing varsity soccer and lacrosse at Hamilton and was All-American lacrosse this year. (Would we expect anything less from this power-sport couple??) They have a daughter who is a senior in high school and a son who is a junior in HS following in his dad’s volleyball footsteps. Barb has been doing a ton of volunteer work for the Wayland board of ed. Duncan McDougall’s literary charity is doing well. A big part of the program is providing reading and books, not only to children but also prison inmates to help them get on the right track. Hendo (John Henderson) ran a construction business in Boston and was then selling proton-beam equipment to hospitals and health care centers for the treatment of cancer. His son is a junior at a private school in Delaware, St. Andrew’s, and is playing soccer, like his dad. Hendo’s wife is also very involved in health care. Noel and Andrea O’Neill’s oldest son recently graduated from Villanova and took a gap year in Hawaii. Their second son is a senior at Lafayette, and son #3 is a high school junior. When not in Milan, Noel is still playing soccer and Andrea recently hiked Mt.

Moosilauke. And in case any of you had not heard, Martha (and Mark T’93) Boyd Tecca’s house in Hanover burned down this past winter when they went out for a cross-country ski. Tuck (Lubrano) presented them with new replacement diplomas. They were presented with replacement undergraduate diplomas as well. Nicely done, Lobrain and Rick…what a great group assemblage in Boston! Back to California for a bit. Mr. Meaney also mentioned having bumped into Harry Bedell on the street in Los Altos. John said Harry is looking great and living the good life in Southern California. From Bill Buckingham we hear: “For starters…ALL IS WELL. I had my last scan on 7/31 at Stanford and it was clean, so I have another three months of freedom. I am on a hiatus from chemo to take a blood med that is an immunosuppressant. Side effects are not bad, so no complaints. Away from that boring stuff, Joey and I are doing the classic empty-nester move and downsizing. We bought a smaller house here in Ross (about 300 yards from our current house) and are trying to figure out how to purge all the crap we have accumulated over the last 25 years. It is at once heartbreaking and liberating to go through the exercise, and I am glad we only have to do it once! The new house is a ‘project,’ so we will be in a rental for 6-9 months while we do the work. In the end, all good and we will be in a great spot that is suited to where we are headed, rather than where we have been. A big family is moving into our old house so they can fill it the way it should be filled. That makes us feel good. Kids are all good and seem to be happy with what they are doing. Both girls out of college and living in NYC together. Both in ‘the business’ despite my warning. Ellie with GS and Grace with MS. Young, energetic, and in NY…what’s not to love? Henry is sophomore at Cal and really loving it. Likely to major in econ, playing on lacrosse team and having no shortage of fun. Joey and I go to the home football games, so we see him quite a bit. All in all, nothing to complain about.” Bill, you are an inspiration, not only in your positive attitude and zest for life, but for getting that downsizing done! An empty nester as well, I cannot even begin to think of the pain involved in moving all of Mike’s “collections”! (Others might use the word ”crap,” but I’m feeling charitable today!) Seriously, you go, Bill. You have the collective class’s prayers with you. Now on to the right coast! From North Carolina

we hear from Rick von Gnechten, who is CFO of Sapere Wealth Management. He writes: “An eventful year for the von G household. Our youngest daughter, Danielle, graduated from Wake Forest in December, got married in June, and just started her master’s at University of Virginia. Our oldest daughter, Jacque, will get married in November and is currently pursuing her MBA at the McColl School of Business in Charlotte. Our middle daughter, Rachel, lives and works in Macon, GA. We all attended a family reunion in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, where 90+ von Gnechten relatives gathered. Denice and I then took a side trip to New York City for an anniversary of sorts; the summer before Tuck (August 1985), we had gone to NYC, had dinner at Windows on the World and then took a carriage ride through Central Park… so 30 years later to the week, we took another ride through Central Park; a little older, a little grayer, but isn’t that true for all of us. [Look nearby for a Rick and Denice now and then photo and online in the 1987 class notes on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for the von Gnechten family reunion pic!] Blessings, Rick vG.”

Rick and Denice von Gnechten now and 30 years ago in Central Park. Getting in a carriage ride before Mayor de Blasio deports all the horses!

From our Philly region I heard from Tom Collett for the first time in…ever, maybe? Tom is retired from SAP after a 15-year stint and will be celebrating by walking a part of El Camino in Spain. He’ll be walking for 14 days starting at St. Jean. I have heard great things about the trail so cannot wait to have him report back. In the meantime he is volunteering for the UN and SCORE. Marda, on the other hand, is not retired. She is keeping the family afloat by doing college consulting for high

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school students. That will keep her busy and employed forever, I do believe! Their two children have flown the coop…one married and in her third year of med school in Philly, and the other working for Goldman Sachs in Dallas after having just graduated from Vanderbilt. That recalls the recent headline: “Goldman harder to get into than Harvard.” Good for your son, Tom, he’ll earn more at Goldman anyway! And on to NJ…finally. Peter Saulnier did mention that the highlight of his summer was hosting George and Annie Egan for a night as the latter couple traveled from Jacksonville to Maine, complete with a sailboat on the roof of their Suburban. (Anyone remember the Clampetts, perhaps? Power steering does exist now, George!) The Egans were en route to picking up one of their twin daughters from a summer program in New Haven. Peter remembers that their twin boys are doing well in college but finer points than that fell into the haze of too many bottles of wine combined with a well-aged imbiber…a lethal combination! What he does remember is that Annie, as well as being a pediatrician, apparently makes the best blueberry muffins and quiche that Peter has ever had. So I’m having a hard time understanding this…the Saulniers were hosting but Annie did the cooking? Peter, of course, would love to “host” anyone else as they pass thru our fine state! Just bring your best recipes! On to those getting out of Dodge.… Alison Joslyn left rural NJ and headed to a city of 20 million (that’s all of NJ and PA put together, jeez!) when she joined a fast-growing biotech company called Shire about a year ago. Alison took over the Latin America region, moved to São Paolo, and has been loving it. From spotting jaguars (those with legs, not wheels) and swimming with piranhas in Pantanal, to bouncing around in a beach buggy on the spectacular island of Fernando de Noronha, to kicking butt in the local triathlon circuit and learning to dance the samba (with and without the aid of caipirinhas!), it sounds as if life is one grand adventure for her. In her spare time, Alison works like crazy and loves her job, with all its inherent challenges. She too would love to see any Tuckies that may happen to be passing thru São Paolo… on their way to the Olympics this coming summer, perhaps?

Lastly, on our way to boat up the coast of Maine, Mike and I had a great visit at the Proom residence in Portland. Bill and his wife, Heidi Peterson T’01, are happily installed in a cool old house just steps from the ocean. Bill now works for the state doing alternative investments, and Heidi works for Bowdoin. They made the decision that Portland was where they wanted to live and were lucky to find great jobs after they moved up there. Cojones, but then, that’s Billy! Their beautiful little daughter Anna was very excited to tell us she has a baby brother due in November. Little does she know how her world will change! Proomer’s older daughters are both graduated from Cornell and Middlebury, and his son is now a freshman at Williams. (Hear that, Saulnier?) Life seems very good for Billy for sure. Thank you to those (Rick mostly!) who sent in info…it is always hugely appreciated. It would be great to hear from all the rest of you as well to see where life has taken you since the summer of ’87. I wish you all a happy and healthy end to 2015. All the best!

Charlie Ayres generously hosted the T’87 group at Deepdale Golf Club in New York to celebrate its wonderful success in once again surpassing 90% participation for its annual TAG efforts: Rick Yu (class participation chair), Steve Socolof, John Chapman, Charlie Ayres, Steve Frary (big Tuck supporters), and Peter Saulnier (TAG head agent).

’88 Laurie Marshall laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Howdy ’88s! Hope you all had time to revel in the summer months. Still summer in Boston, in mid-September, but school has begun and the leaves begin to show signs of fall.... There was lots of summer news and visiting activity among our classmates. Let’s hear it for that! Ted Twaalfhoven reports, “In August Nanci Gelb flew in from Boston and I flew in from Holland to the Cornew family in California for the 25th wedding anniversary of Dan & Rosalie Cornew. A wonderful Mexican-style party weekend with fresh Dartmouth stories from the Cornew sons, who are attending Dartmouth currently.”

Nanci Gelb, Ted Twaalfhoven, and Dan Cornew visit for Dan and Rosalie’s 25th wedding anniversary

Stefan Halldorsson sent an update from Iceland, “Lilja and I had the pleasure of inviting Dick Bower, professor emeritus, with his daughter Nancy and son-in-law Pat (three economics professors!), to dinner in our home in Reykjavik in May when they visited Iceland. Attached is a photo of Professor Bower standing between me and Lilja. “In July we had another Tuck-related visit when Abby, stepdaughter

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CL ASS NOTES poolside at their tennis club. He says, “If any Tuckies make it anywhere near central Virginia, give us a call & we’ll show u some Southern hospitality & a full assortment of Tuck ’Tails!”

Stefan and Lilja at their home in Iceland with Professor Bower

of Andy Steele, and her husband, Luke, had breakfast with us before heading out on their bike trip in Iceland. We would love to have more visitors from the Tuck family, especially from the class of ’88. Flying Icelandair between Europe and North America offers the possibility of a stopover in Reykjavik. Iceland has a lot to offer, as Professor Bower and his family can certainly vouch for. “I am slowly reducing my part-time consulting activities in order to increase my activities in music and writing. I am at present finishing a book on the entertainment scene in Iceland from 1966 to 1979, containing photographs made by an old colleague of mine from my journalism years, when I wrote about pop music and other interests of young people. After the book is published, I will work on other projects. I am trying to keep up with my wife, Lilja, who released her second CD, with relaxation and sleep-enhancing techniques, three months ago and my youngest daughter,

Rick Bertasi writes, “Sarah and I moved from London to Luxembourg this summer after 9 years in London. We are back and forth to CT quite a bit but can now host Tuck ’Tails in Lux if anyone passes through. And we did another Primal Quest race this summer—this one was hard and beat me up pretty good. We met the Keatings in VT for dinner this summer. Scott was there for a horse competition of some sort. He drove up from their bean farm (yes, bean farm) in TN. Other than that, life progresses without too much excitement!” Heidi Reichenbach Harring says, “We had a busy August. We started Aug 1-2 riding for the 13th time in the Pan-Mass Challenge—thank you to all who donated. But this year it was a family affair. Our two older girls rode with us, and the youngest volunteered for 5 hours in Bourne, where you sleep after day 1. In

Heidi Reichenbach Harring and family at the Pan-Mass Challenge

David Hawkins and David Holmes catch up poolside

Hildur Kristin, whose band Rökkurró has issued three CDs in recent years.” David Hawkins could be found hanging out by the pool this summer. He has purchased a new house in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and recently visited with David Holmes 88

Perry Boyle rides in the Pan-Mass Challenge

Bourne we ran into first-year riders John and Elizabeth Kilgallon. Where else but in the beer tent. [Look in the 1987 class notes on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Day 2 I saw frequent rider Perry Boyle at the Wellfleet water stop. And we saw quite a bit of Harry and Emily Hedison, family members of the famous Amy Seltzer Hedison. They were riding on the same team that we were on. Late in August we drove to OH to drop our eldest at Suni’s alma mater— Denison University. It is a bit strange being down one kid. Learning to buy fewer groceries.” Jennifer Jordan has pics of some of this summer fun! The first is a pic of Heidi and Kilgallon at PMC. Re the second, she says, “The Kilgallons and I hosted the Dickmans, Mongillos, and Pecks on Nantucket!! Quite fun! Lots of libations and laughs!!” [Look in the 1988 class notes on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for the photos!] Lots of good family and job news for our class too. Joe Horne reports, “Some 27 years and 2 months ago, shortly after graduation, Kristy and I were anxiously awaiting the arrival of our first child, Margeaux. Now we find ourselves anxiously awaiting the arrival of her first child, and our first grandchild, George Frederick Joseph Ebersohn, poised to ‘start trading’ around November 1. PS: Those of you lounging around at home watching The Price is Right last September may have seen her come THAT CLOSE to capturing substantial alpha as recounted here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=-okxm_oqlvw.” Larry Kaufmann says, “Lots of news! First of all, our daughter Lauren (an infant when we lived in Sachem Village) is getting married at the end of this month (26 September) in Providence, RI. Jeff and Natasha Garnett and Matt and Bev Thomas will be at the ceremony. “Secondly, as (almost) empty nesters, we have downsized houses and moved to a more urban location in the Eastport section of Annapolis, MD. Marilou continues to enjoy training and riding her horses at a nearby barn, and I have just bought a 35’ sailboat with which to explore the Chesapeake and, in future, possibly coastal and Caribbean destinations beyond. Our house is five minutes from the water in three directions. We look forward to visits from Tuckies. Annapolis is an amazing place to live and play.”

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Frank Hunnewell has shifted his job from operator to owner/operator! He “spent the last five years as COO of PI Worldwide, a behavioral science company helping 8,000 organizations around the world align the behavioral requirements of jobs with the behavioral assets of people. Totally fascinating. We sold the company in late 2014 and, in addition to now being a small part-owner, I have a license to use the IP with my own clients. Founded People Engines, LLC and working with an initial book of 20 clients and a vision of many more. Always love hearing from Tuck friends!” As the summer ended, a number of ’88s were depositing children at school. Perry Boyle reports that “the Boyle clan is in good shape. Just dropped off the middle one at Univ of Denver. His older sister is a junior at Colgate and youngest is a junior in high school. He is my last hope for Dartmouth. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Wife Lisa is part of the group that is developing a yoga-inspired exercise regime called Bowspring and teaching it (and yoga) in Fairfield County. The only Tuckie I have seen of late is Heidi Reichenbach. We ran into each other at a water stop in the Pan-Mass Challenge. Her team has the best jerseys. A Rolling Stone open mouth with large tongue and the motto ‘lick cancer.’ Love it. Hope everyone is healthy and happy. Pretty soon we are going to be hearing about retirements!”

Kelly and André Hunter and Steve and Camille Rutan get together as kids leave for school

Kelly Hunter shares “a very recent photo of 4 members of the great class of 1988—Kelly Fowler Hunter, Steve Rutan, André Hunter, and Camille Babineau Rutan. The four of us got together two weeks ago to celebrate our newly minted status as empty nesters. After 25 years of raising kids for the Rutans and 24 years for

us, we’ve each just sent off our youngest child to college (Carlie Rutan entering her first year at Bowdoin, Casey Hunter entering her first year at Dartmouth). Feeling like free spirits again—and looking forward to starting the next chapters of our lives!!! But, a little sad, too.…”

’89 Betsy Crill Robertson betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

Olivier Fainsilber related that “our plans to attend ‘Camp Tuck’ in August fell through, as the program didn’t have enough people signed up. As it turned out we wouldn’t have been able to attend due to Cécile’s health. She spent all summer in the hospital being treated for leukemia and should be released by October. She was given two 2-week breaks. We now know that she is in full remission, which is a great relief. The treatment has been amazing and Cécile has been very strong, patient and optimistic throughout. Hopefully, by the time of printing, this adventure will be a distant memory.” Olivier, the class of ’88 wishes Cécile the very, very best. Olivier also shared that earlier in the spring/ summer, “Our son Maurice and I escaped for three days to take a cooking course at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland. We got a glimpse of what Cécile experienced when she took the 3-week course a few years back. Maurice was in Colorado for an Outward Bound backpacking adventure. Peter Feer was a wonderful host and helped Maurice adjust to time and altitude differences before the course. Peter also organized a ‘3F Offspring’ reunion (Feer-Favaloro-Fainsilber), as Nick was visiting his sister Carey in Aspen. Funny how the alphabet links of our first-year/first-term ‘section’ lives on! Earlier, Nick Favaloro visited us in Paris after a canal barge trip with his grandfather, Dr. Judge [look in the 1988 class notes on mytuck.dartmouth.edu to see a photo!]. In May I swung by Hanover and got to see David Southwell, Anne and Chuck Davis, Susanne and Walther Schoeller, and Anne and George Favaloro. A week before that, on a separate U.S. visit, I got to spend time with Michael Cooper in NYC. I felt very fortunate to catch up with so many great friends.”

Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

Well clearly all of you are either so boring that you have nothing to share or so busy you don’t have time to send any news. Either one is a pretty sad state of affairs. Only Jon Adams and John Xoxacos were able to tap into their higher-level skill sets and send me [Sara Spivey] an email. From Jon: “It was great fun seeing everyone last fall at the reunion! After it ended, my older son, Elliot, joined me to tour campus, and I’m happy to report that he has now begun his Dartmouth experience! He hiked Mount Moosilauke for Orientation, and I vaguely recall scrambling up its rock face in the biting rain to be rewarded with 15-foot visibility. Fortunately his weather was better! All is well here in Chicago, with my other son, Jeremy, now a junior in high school and building a nuclear fusion reactor in our garage (engineering track seems likely).” And from John: “Last August I visited the island of Kefallonia in Greece. Gerassimos Vergottis’ family origin is from this island. And of course Gerassimos was there. So I visited his village (Kourkoumelata ) and had a great time. We had lunch, and he took me around the area. Ed Krawit has also a house in Gerassimos’ village.”

As for me, your class secretary, I am running a Boston/Dublin–based software company. Been at it about 5 months. It has pace, complexity, upside…great mix, great fun! Be in touch if you find yourself in Beantown! (But, no critique of Patriots/TB12, OK?)!! Be well, all. —Jill

John and Gerassimos in Greece

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CL ASS NOTES Only other news I have to report is my meet-up with Michael Sload, him playing the role of a big important executive at Colgate and me doing my best CMO imitation to try and get back in his good graces. It was fun and weird all at the same time. I had to keep blocking out images of him dressed as Gladys Knight, but other than that it was good. Hard to believe that it was my first Tuck-to-Tuck business meeting since leaving Hanover. I wish I had executive classmates at every customer—this job would be so much more fun! Well that’s it for news—except that Betsy Robertson wanted to publicly mea culpa for misidentifying Sandi Pocharski as the reunion coordinator instead of yours truly. Twenty-five years later, and I’m still standing in the shadow of the Gherz. Many thanks to everyone who came, and to those who didn’t make it, you’ll have another chance in 2019 at the 30th.

’90 Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

Mark Rooney mrooney@volny.cz

’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Mary-Ann Somers somersma@yahoo.com

25TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Greetings from Amish country. As many of you know, I (Mary-Ann) left Coke and joined the Hershey Company in the spring and moved to central Pennsylvania. I am loving the job (managing the U.S. confection business), 90

mainly because I get to eat chocolate all day long…some freshly made right off the factory line! Adjusting to rural life, as are the pups. Other Tuckies making career moves—Felipe Burgaz is returning to the land of carbonated soft drinks! Felipe left Kellogg’s and joined the AJE Group—a global beverage company operating in 20 countries and the 10th largest global beverage maker—as the chief marketing officer. The position takes Felipe and Mariana to Lima, Peru. Felipe is loving it and finding time to hike Machu Picchu with Mariana and Elena. I just wonder if he sneaks a Coke Zero every now and then. Felipe and Mariana will be in NYC for a belated 50th birthday celebration. I look forward to seeing Ferit Ferhanghil, who continues his jet-set life; Karen Blodgett, who seems to split her time between cycling trips and Giants games; and Brad Burde, who is busy connecting tech startups to companies like Coca-Cola. Speaking of startups, Langley Steinert is on his second successful startup…. CarGurus is getting a lot of press lately as it continues to grow. He outgrew his space and moved into fancy digs in Cambridge, MA. Marty Blue [T’92] has been working with Langley for last few years. I grabbed a drink with her when we were both in Las Vegas on business. I, fortunately, rarely go to Vegas—whereas she has many trips out there. It’s just one of my least favorite places. I almost made it out to Mike Tonneson and Gib Biddle’s Labor Day party in Park City… but I couldn’t get away. Based on the past stories, I am sure they had an epic time. We all look forward to pictures in the next Tuck Today (or at least on our Facebook class page). Gib’s Facebook page is filled with his constant activities and travel…the Life and Times of Gib Biddle. I see a movie in the making. He seems to have been an inspiration to a few folks—Trina Peterson is trying to top Gib with her latest East Coast couple-hundred-mile ride, canyon rafting, and skiing adventures. I think I want to die and come back as one of these guys. Well...truth be told, I’d rather come back as one of my pups. They have quite the life. Though I have no direct reporting, I did spot a picture on FB showing the Tuck Baseball Buddy Reunion continues. Dallas welcomed Mark Sherman, Erik Colberg, Brian Dettmann, and Jon Skinner. How awesome to see this foursome continues to meet up at a different baseball stadium each time. Tuck

friendships endure! Other minireunions include a strong showing at Stephen Langlois’ home, where Steve and Sally hosted Maggie Minnock, Martha Records, Donna Knight, Susan Richman Caraviello, and Lizzie and Jim Napier. Crew included Jeff Knight, Rich Rainaldi, Michael Caraviello and various kids. We’re told “food was awesome, anchored by Steve’s grilled salmon and steak tips.” Ferit seems to be seeing everyone—pictures of him have appeared with Ranjit Singh Malik and Brad in NYC, as well as a visit from Scott Barton. Pam Brennan [Carlson] was in Philly and visited Jon Myerow’s restaurant, Tria Café. On a more significant update, we all need to congratulate Lizzie Napier, who led a wonderful global expedition (GIX) to Georgia, thanks to Irakli Rukhadze T’92 (who flew to Tbilisi from London to tour 23 Tuck MBAs around his portfolio companies and host us at an extravagant 10+ course dinner) and Noreen Doyle T’74 (who facilitated briefings by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) directors in both Georgia and Armenia). The GIX opened up several new international development relationships for Tuck and new summerinternship opportunities for students with EBRD and OPIC. Tuck is the first MBA program to conduct an experiential-learning program in Georgia. [For more information, see blog entries at https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/ blog/the-best-trip-of-my-lifegeorgia-andarmenia-global-insight-expedition and http:// www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/blog/ how-tuck-helped-me-succeed-in-the-nonprofit-sector] I also heard from David Paradi, who shared that he celebrated the 10-year anniversary of starting his own business and would never go back to the 9-5 routine. He has started writing his next book, and Sheila continues to support the business and is active in their church. If you haven’t joined Facebook or our Tuck ’91 page, I encourage you to. I find it’s a great way to keep up with everyone—without waiting 6 months for the printing of our magazine. That’s it for now. I hope you all had a happy Halloween and supplied your neighbors with lots of Hershey candy!

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oversee the early stages of the preparation, and while there hasn’t been much free time, I managed to catch up with Sam a couple of times, which was really great. We also open up a charity cookery school and restaurant in Brownsville, Brooklyn; a bakery in Williamsburg; and invest in two restaurants in Williamsburg and Manhattan—so I’ll be back in NY quite often and hope to catch up with some more Tuckies! If not before, then at least when we open!

’92 Amy Feind Reeves amyfeind@gmail.com

Courtney [Simpson] Jane: “Had a wonderful time in NYC catching up with Anne O’Malley and Suzy Le Boutillier. We took a photo, but it did not capture how fabulous we ladies look. In the Uber back, I reflected on just what a good job Tuck did on picking amazing classmates, such quality people. “

Amy Feind Reeves, Glenn Millar, and Courtney [Simpson] Jane caught up in Boston last spring.

“In April Amy was in London and we managed to catch up for a quick coffee. Marwan had planned to be there but had a last minute conflict, and Kirsten was just around the corner, so it COULD have been quite a reunion. But it goes to show that everyone seems to pass through London at one point or another, so feel free to drop me a line. “Late July, for instance, John Marshall came to London and we had a great dinner, catching up on what had happened the last several years.

Mark Ranalli and Ben Pettersen in Finobboton, Norway

The Driscoll family in Versailles

Paul Driscoll: “Driscolls have lots of news after a busy first half of 2015. The biggest news is that Joe is engaged!! Yes, the little Joe who was born at Dartmouth. Amy was his first visitor! He was one of the last babies born at the hospital on campus (it closed down a week later when Dartmouth opened a new hospital in Lebanon). After both graduating from MIT, Joe and his fiancé, Caitlin, are now working at SpaceX in Los Angeles. Riley spent the first half of 2015 studying abroad in New Zealand. Kelly, Brian, and I were lucky enough to spend a week there visiting her. What a beautiful country!! If you ever get the opportunity to see Milford Sound, go! This fall, Riley is back at Boston Univ for her junior year. In July, we all went to Europe. We had a busy schedule visiting France and Italy, seeing as many sites as we could. My favorite places were the D-Day beaches, Mont Saint-Michel, Les Baux, and Pont du Gard (all in France), Florence, and all the ancient ruins in Rome. Rome was 100 degrees each day, so that was fun! And now our youngest, Brian, is a freshman in high school. How time flies by!”

“On the personal side, Inger is expanding her business in the difficult children’s-fashion market, Julius is now 20 years old and has one year left of his product design degree at Central Saint Martins in London, and Astrid (16) has another two years to go before finishing her A-Levels and heading off to university. Makes you feel old, writing that, doesn’t it? But luckily all the old Tuckies I’ve met over the past year or two look exactly the same as when we left (almost), so I guess we are doing OK….”

’93 Cathy Dishner Norwegian takeout (Ben Pettersen)

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Michael Ingemann: “How are things with you? I hope you’ve had a great summer. I went to France for a couple of weeks, so at least I had a bit of warm weather this year :-)

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Nancy Goodman Koefoed

“I think I have a bit more to report than normally this time.… I’m chairman of a group of Danish companies (founders of Noma—voted “world’s best restaurant” three times), and in the spring of 2016 we’ll be opening a restaurant and a food court in Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal in NY—the most wonderful location one could imagine. And a bit scary, too, as it is such an iconic place. I’ve been going to New York regularly to

Jeff Macher jeffrey.macher@georgetown.edu

Our opening news is from lovely Hanover, where our communal stories all began. Ron Bertasi wrote in to report that the “Bertasi, Pears, and Wright kids, born in our second year at Tuck and attending Dartmouth, all graduated on schedule. It was great to see the Pearses and the Wrights in Hanover. They all seemed to be doing well.” FALL/WINTER 2015

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CL ASS NOTES Nearby is a picture of the dads from graduation weekend in Hanover. Ron claims, “Jim and Chris are all smiles because they are done with Dartmouth tuition. I’m only half smiling because I am only half done. Our son Christopher is a D’19, so my wife and I are now empty nesters with four more years of college payments. I urge all our classmates to donate more to Dartmouth and specify that the money should be used for tuition relief for left-handed undergraduates from Georgia who are the children of T’93s.”

The Rathi and Bernstein families are excellent at staying in touch. This summer they spent a few days together in London during separate family vacations to Europe. Raj reports that “between sightseeing at Westminster Abbey, marching with the guards at Buckingham Palace, taking a pontoon boat up and down the Thames at 40 knots, and enjoying the views from the London Eye, the trip provided many great memories.”

The Rathi and Bernstein families in London

Dan Jacques and his Tuck crew continue to meet for reunions every year and just celebrated their 21st post-grad trip together. This time the gang of Leslie, Ellie Halevy, and Dan met up in Miami where they ran into Mary Ann Deignan and Laura Posten at dinner. The whole encounter was not planned, as Dan explains, “We walked into this restaurant and there they were. Small but lucky world.” As I (Cathy Dishner) write, the Girlz in the Hood will be gathering in one month for their annual reunion in New York City. Nancy Koefoed, Dana Macher, Gina Earles, and I have been good about staying connected despite geographical challenges! We missed last year and are looking forward to catching up soon.

Speaking of Alastair…. Kathleen Bacon writes in from the everpopular London, “Last time I tried to really outdo myself and included a visit with Prince Charles in my report, I was trumped by the Dishners, who enjoyed a whole dinner at Buckingham Palace, and by Alastair Borthwick, who sat next to the Duchess of Cambridge at dinner in NY! I’m not sure I can compete for real newsworthy events….

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The Dishners and Whittemores might like to get in on that relief fund as well. Jeff and Cathy’s daughter, Katie, will be a classmate of both Chris Bertasi and Eliza Whittemore, Laurence’s daughter, who joins her big brother on campus this year. There will be plenty of excuses for all them to get together on campus and share a beer or two at Murphy’s!

Raj continues, “TJ and the four girls humored us Tuckies as we recited old stories from our days at Hanover. The highlight of the trip was when Andy told the guards at Kensington Palace that we were there to see the Duchess of Cambridge and his name was Alastair Borthwick! The guards politely declined our request to enter as it appears Alastair may have worn out his welcome on his last visit!”

Raj notes that “Kim is still a picky eater and Andy can still figure out a way to insult someone without them knowing it.” Kim adds, “Raj is still as militaristic as ever when it comes to sticking to a schedule!”

“…Oh wait a minute! I do have something to add. I spent the whole of last Labor Day weekend with Justin Bieber in Clear Lake, Indiana. My cousin Rory is his media guy, and we had a big family celebration, which JB crashed. I think he wanted some ‘normality’ in his life so he decided to hang with me and 75 of my relatives for the weekend. No paparazzi in sight, but a lot of teenage girls driving up and down the country lanes trying to sneak a peak of the Biebs!”

Raj requested that I feel free to edit his submission and take creative license to find more ways to poke fun at Andy. Well, Andy got the last word (or last thousand words—as in a picture is worth…). It looks like Raj’s hyperactive militaristic schedule wears him out (see pic, compliments of Andy).

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Raj asleep

Continuing with news from across the pond, Dwight Poler celebrated a noteworthy birthday

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recently, inviting his clan of cronies to celebrate with him at Skibo Castle in Scotland. Over the weekend, the gang participated in Highland games that included haggis hurling. Better to hurl it than to eat it, I always say! And may I add that Dwight wears a kilt quite well and twirls his partners with zeal in traditional Highland dances (think Scottish squaredancing!). I think I’m still dizzy from my turn with him on the dance floor…or maybe that’s just the aftereffect of a wee bit of whiskey! George von Wyss wrote in after he received word of my threat to write a short story in the notes due to lack of news. He said, “I am a bit hesitant to send you the following bit of news as I don’t want to seem boastful, but since you’re desperate and the marketing devil is winning out over here: my business partner and I were among the few Europeans featured in the book The Great Minds of Investing, which includes some names that most everyone interested in the topic of value investing will know: Buffett, Munger, Kahn, Spears, Gabelli, Nygren, and Marks.” As the Brits say, Well done, you! He continues, “On the personal level, I enjoyed time with Dan Rosenbaum, who was here for a quick visit in the summer.”

something from the set of the bizarre Twin Peaks TV show…I was waiting for all the peculiar characters to appear at any moment on the bike route. We also learned that we don’t really like biking! Especially Abby Macher, Dana’s mini-me! (see pic) Alas, we have come to the end of the notes. A bit thin, I’d say. Please do write in more often or I may be forced to start treating the notes as a creative-writing exercise! All news is noteworthy so don’t be shy…. — Cathy Dishner

’94 David Link davidjklink@hotmail.com

Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

Hi, everyone! Where to begin? How about in Switzerland, where a one-time treasury minister for an almost-in-the-EU nation now drinks heavily. Yes, our man in Geneva, Madjid, is now a brewer, and behavior that he once euphemistically described as an alcohol “habit” is now “product testing.” (His brewmaster keeps telling Madjid to stop stomping on the mash/wort/barley/goop because “Ce n’est pas le vin.”) In all seriousness, Madjid runs The Battle Master brewery (he’s a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, apparently) which, according to Google Translate, “brews sensual craft beer tastes rich and affordable.” When he’s not producing the cause of—and solution to—all of life’s problems, Monsieur Pajic subsidizes the triplets’ education, since they’re now in university, and, geez, we’re old.

Abby and Dana Macher

This summer the Dishners and Machers (minus Jeff and Ben) all took a backroads biking trip through the Canadian Gulf Islands. We learned that a brochure can be misleading, as most of the territory we covered looked like

Master brewer Madjid Pajic builds a fort with some of his new brewing equipment.

This next paragraph is brought to you by the Northern Spain Tourism Authority. (“Northern Spain—because you’ve already been to Madrid and Barcelona”) I remember back in Hanover, maybe it was at Murphy’s, seeing Jesus Marcos sipping a beer and mumbling, “Cuando soy viejo, voy a usar zapatos blancos sin calcetines.” Only now do I truly understand. He and Chantal and the kids

Alejandra Martinez, Diego Martinez, and Jesus Marcos enjoying G&Ts in Northern Spain.

recently bought a vacation home in San Vicente de la Barquera (that’s Spanish for “Saint Vincent of the Barquera”) on España’s northern coast, a place to which they retire during the summer for surfing, fish eating, and gin-andtonic drinking with occasional visiting fellow Iberian Tuckies Diego y Alejandra Martinez. (Except for those Ironman triathlons he keeps doing, Señor Marcos has one enviable lifestyle.) “This summer, all four inhabitants of the 4L Ranch got together for a few awesome days of reconnecting in Rhode Island,” writes Lisa Koussis Lemire. The Kous, Kurtz, Costa, and Carey quartet connected in Cranston for a kaffeeklatsch of…uh…killer kelp…sorry, sorry…alliteration is a super slippery slope. The gals did get together in Rhode Island, a state known for its, um, “awesomeness,” if by “awesomeness,” you mean “not Delaware.” The former housemates lunched, dinnered, and reminisced over frozen lemonade, which Kous notes is “apparently a RI thing, like lawn tennis, proximity to Connecticut, or mob killings.” (I might have embellished that last quote a bit. Kinda escalated quickly.)

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The Krishna, Sasina, and Lemire clans after trekking. (Did you know Raymond is 7-ft tall?)

The 4L Ranch reunion-ed awesomely in Rhode Island.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Virginia, John Krotzer is bemoaning the fact that wife and U.S. State Department employee-of-the-month Tania Romanoff keeps getting promoted to assignments in locales like India and Indonesia not known for their ice-hockey traditions. He, Tania, and family are currently in Falls Church, Virginia, until they depart next summer for her posting to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, where I believe she’ll be in charge of pointing out American fast-food restaurants on the maps. “She’s totally not CIA,” explains Krotz. “And I’m not either.” (Second part’s believable.) In quotes I didn’t make up, Krotz really has “more or less given up on having any hockey players in the immediate family,” a situation that probably won’t improve, since Tania is rumored to be under consideration for a challenging post: ambassador to Mexico in the coming Trump administration. Staying in Virginia, Anand Krishna chronicles a recent outing with the Sasinas and Lemires. (Krotz, they were totally gonna call you, but you didn’t answer and they didn’t want to leave a message, and aren’t you in some foreign country anyway?) The Krishna, Sasina, and Lemire broods (Anand, Sonali T’96, Michael, Dianna, Lisa, Raymond, and “all the future Tuckies”) hit the trails along the James River in Richmond, then spent the rest of the day hanging out at the Sasina residence. (I envision an afternoon of Pictionary, mint juleps, and varmint-shootin’. You know, because it’s the South, and outdated stereotypes are all I’ve

got.) Back home in New Jersey (“New Jersey— because you’ve already been to Rhode Island”), Anand is VP of BD at the Smiths Group, a “British engineering mini-conglomerate.” Oh, and daughters Nina and Sonia are in seventh and fifth grades already, and, geez, we’re old. Speaking of my own narrow-minded outdated stereotypes of the American South, Chris Crosby reports in from Tennessee. He and wife Caroline are raising pre-tween daughters Kate and Campbell, who are now seven and five. (Oddly, it’s Kate whose nickname is “Soupy.”) On a recent trip to the Big Apple, or as Chris breathlessly calls it, “New! York! City!” Chris took the Crosbyettes to Broadway to see Aladdin. (In the several months since, Ma and Pa have been “treated” to nightly “mini-productions” of the show at home. A whole new world, indeed.) While on that same vacation, the Crosbys enjoyed “NYC Pizza” with Tyree. (I bet he eats it with a fork.) According to Chris, Tyree is now on “a big assignment for Morgan Stanley” which Crosby theorizes might “involve cleaning bathrooms on the executive floor—the boy has a future.” And in a few months (from right now, so back in time when you read this), Chris will be joined by Anil and son Aiden, who will travel to Memphis for an Ole Miss football game, which I think will actually be held in Mississippi. (“Mississippi—because you’ve already been to…ah hell, who are we kidding? You haven’t been anywhere.”) “Maybe I can convert him to being a Southerner, at least for his collegiate years,” concludes Crosby. Heading south—way south—our correspondent in the Pampas, Eduardo Dutrey,

emails in from Argentina, where his romantic ideals of political and economic stability remain a pipe dream. “As usual the country is a mess,” says Eduardo. “We, the Argentines, like the country to be in a permanent turmoil.” In spite of the normal abnormalities, the Dutrey familia enjoyed a snowy winter, with good skiing in Bariloche, and Eduardo is already planning the annual ski sojourn to Aspen with daughters Margarita and Candela. And at the recent wedding of a friend’s son, he shared a reception table with none other than Mariano Ansaldo. “Yes,” writes Eduardo, “we are at that age now where we participate as the old guys in weddings!” (Say it with me, “Geez.…”) And from the upper-left corner of a 50-state nation that we here in the Great White North refer to affectionately as “Canada’s Underpants,” John Dex writes in. “I’m training my puppy Theo to find Oregon blackand-white truffles,” says Dex, who I suspect may have some free time on his hands. “They can retail for $400/lb., but I will offer them to Tuck classmates on a friends-and-family discount.” John adds that his new truffleattack hound is a Lagotto Romagnolo, which is a totally real dog breed and not a name he made up after buying olive oil. So what did you do last summer? If you’re 11-year-old Charlotte Borthwick, you and a friend produced a commercially successful board game celebrating the island of Nantucket. (“Nantucket—because you’ve already been to the Cape”) Yes, Charlotte, a friend, and their parental middle management team designed, produced, and sold Nantucketopoly, a game that’s based loosely on checkers. Just kidding. Actually, the game differs quite a bit from that other “’opoly.” (Example Community Chest cards: “Townies crash your cocktail party. Pay $400 for more brie.” “Teresa Heinz slaps Martha Stewart at your cocktail party. Pay $400 for more brie.”) I mock, but Jeanine and Charlotte’s efforts raised more than $100K for charity, which is pretty damn awesome. (Not like Rhode Island awesome, but way past Delaware awesome.) Speaking of crazy-accomplished daughter pride, the next generation of the class of 1994 has arrived at Tuck. “I figure twenty-one years is long enough to wait for my first submission

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[to Tuck notes],” writes Kevin “No-Worries” Barry. Daughter Allie—a junior at Washington and Lee University—completed the Tuck Bridge program last July. (Geez, Kevin must be old. Like, my age.) Proud papa notes that Allie enjoyed both the teaching and the curriculum. In other Barry familial news, sons Willie and Kevin M. Jr. are at the Brooks School in North Andover, MA. “Amazing how time flies,” concludes KMB. Back to the ongoing travails of the Sasina clan, travails which occasionally extend beyond their home Commonwealth. In addition to trekking with the Krishnas and Lemires last summer, the Sasinas drove north to Lake Sunapee to hang out with Mitch “Michael” Reddy and family at the Reddy NH compound. The journey featured college visits along the way for daughter Amanda, and the Sunapee part of the trip included plenty of boating, fishing, and wine drinking (but disappointingly little varmint-shootin’). Adds Michael (S.), “Dianna is still working for Strategy&, and I’m still doing the not-working thing, which is nice.” Nice not-work if you can get it. Greg Littleton has a new gig: He makes fancy water bottles. Water not included. “Cuts down on the shipping costs,” does not really explain the new COO of S’well Bottle, a Manhattan company tasking itself with ridding the planet of plastic bottles, one $25 carafe at a time. (“If only I could remember all that good s__t Powell taught us,” says Greg, trying to recall the class that covered the stuff they think he’s good at.) I know S’well’s a hip company because the website features playful animated GIFs of employees. (“I’m Greg, and this is a baseball glove.”) In family news, daughter Amelia graduates college next year (geez…) with “a degree in environmental poetry and a minor in Malbec,” which might have something do with a junior year spent abroad in Argentina, where she visited the Dutreys. (I’m sure Eduardo really sold her on the place.) Notes Greg, “If you’re rich and have a son, please check her out: #helpmeimapoet.” Son Victor is now at Ohio State and in the ROTC program, leading Greg to question the influence of nature vs. nurture. And Greg and Nica have just returned from “an empty nest celebration tour” of Europe, which I’m not allowed to make fun of. Speaking of empty nests: “We are on week one of adjusting to zero children in the house,” writes Tara Oliver, who along with tall French

husband just dropped the youngest off at boarding school. “He is happy,” explains Tara, “but his mother is in withdrawal.” This summer, Tara took on a disciplined new triathlon training regimen, which specifically involved little-to-no training. The results? Impressive and validating of the new approach. “I ran the Dover-Sherborn Tri again as part of my bea-good-spouse effort,” notes Tara. “I was still within ten seconds of Christophe’s swim split and had more fun not getting into the pool.” “Mary and I are now empty nesters,” writes John Gannon, helping my segues write themselves. Son Jack is a lieutenant on the Nebraska, a nuclear submarine that I hope is different from the one Bill Townsend dented that one time. (“[Jack] runs the reactor,” explains John, which is kind of awesome and strangely reassuring, but why do they name sea-going vessels after land-locked states?) Son Nick graduated from Dartmouth and now works in international finance for KFC in Plano, Texas, but will soon leave for an international posting. (If it’s China, maybe he can help out Tania Romanoff Krotzer.) Daughter Lela is a Dartmouth sophomore and is working during fall semester at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. And to complete the scorecard, Mary’s still at Fidelity and John runs end-user computing for Sabre. In that role, he supports 9,000 users and manages a worldwide staff, responsibilities he describes as “a lot of fun.” (Like truffle-hunting fun? Or visit-toDelaware fun?) John offers “a few free beds and a good meal for anyone who wants to visit” down DFW way.

it’s awesome. (We’re talking Rhode Island awesome.) Up here, we’re currently enduring the longest Canadian federal election campaign in history: a whole two months. (So quaint!) I recently visited with Scott Baker, who met with me during a trip to Vancouver to meet with local billionaires. (See what I did there?) Work (tech marketing—yay!) is fine. Weather is damp. Metric system is a pain in the ass. Family is good: To fit in, we eat poutine, pretend to know French, and lumberjack on the weekends. My 11-year-old daughter is rehearsing for her first community “theatre” production, my 13-year-old daughter builds phone chargers out of recycled Altoids tins, and my wife is recovering from knee surgery. (It was free! Thanks, socialized medicine!) One daughter, a Napoleon Dynamite fan, brags of her “bow-hunting skills” and I beam with pride. The other shuts down my whines with a shake of her head and the words “first-world problems, Dad, first-world problems.” Oh, and did I mention it’s a 90-minute drive to Whistler? Just livin’ the expat dream here in beautiful British Columbia, baby. (Suck on that, Northern Spain Tourism Authority.) That’s all I got. Be good, be safe, be nice, be healthy, be inclusive, and be awesome.

’95 Kristin Sanborn ksanborn27@gmail.com

Just to recap, recovering Canuck Bill Kennish and family relocated to London some years ago. (“What can I say, I love the Queen,” does not explain Bill, adding helpfully that “she’s the one on the money.”) The Kennishes tend to summer in—where else—Newport, which I understand is pretty awesome. “I can confirm that there was a dinner in Rhode Island this summer that featured the Lemires, Kempers, and Kennishes,” writes Bill K. “There were no reported injuries.” Back in the U.K., Bill connected with classmates Ed Devlin and Dan Schrupp, probably at a pub, but that’s just a guess, since two of them are Canadian: “To be clear, there was no hugging,” claims Bill, “though beverages of an alcoholic nature may have been consumed.” Speaking of Canada, I live (t)here now. And

Rick Smith rasarizona@hotmail.com

We got out-scooped! If you saw the last T’96 column, you might’ve seen: Christy and Jay Orris … “became majority investors in Sun Cups, a premium chocolate company.…” And then, BOOM! “John Becker T’95 just joined as CEO.…” Rick Smith: This is a serious breakdown, Sanborn. We’re at DEFCON 4 here. Kristin Sanborn: Who do we blame? Rick: I’m blaming Snowden and Rupert Murdoch because we can no longer tap into embassy cables and we can’t break into

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CL ASS NOTES voicemails either. How are we supposed to get details from our classmates!?!? By asking them? THEY DON’T RESPOND! Kristin: I guess I’m most surprised it was the T’96s. Rick: Agreed. If it was the T’94s, I wouldn’t have been surprised at all. I wouldn’t leave my EuroCarryAll near Toph Whitmore for a second unless I consciously wanted someone to steal my Dentyne. Kristin: Do you mean your purse? Rick: It’s a EuroCarryAll, Sanborn. They’re very popular in Milan. I guess I’m also concerned the T’96s are becoming our overlords…uhhhh…I mean bosses. I thought Liam Donahue had cornered the market on hiring T’95s. How’d the T’96s weasel their way into the mix? Kristin: Exactly. What’s next? I’ll be cleaning T’96s’ houses? Okay, we’re at that funky point in time where (1) we send in column, (2) every one of you attends the reunion and catches up with each other, (3) you receive the column, and (4) you’re completely bored reading the column because you already caught up with everyone so there’s no new news to read here. Kristin: So you might claim in the column that you still look young and handsome, but people will have just come from the reunion so they’ll know that’s not true. And then they’ll start to question the content of this column, which, of course, they probably should’ve been questioning for the past 20 years. Rick: No comment…from this young and handsome gentleman. Kristin: Being a reunion coordinator … Rick: A very important position by the way. Kristin: Indeed. So as I was saying, being a reunion coordinator, one thing I noticed was when Paul Duske registered for the reunion, he listed his first name as “Doosk.” Rick: He is no longer merely a Paul. He has transcended.

Kristin: I think Doosk has become a brand. Rick: A global brand. Kristin: Definitely. Rick: Someone had to fill the gap left by Paul Hogan and Steve Irwin. Kristin: And that someone is Doosk. Ok, enough. Let’s get to you! First, Sig Muller stopped in to see ol’ Smitty here in Phoenix. My employer, EXOS, partners with the Mayo Clinic on some stuff, and it turns out that stuff reports in to Sig. Did I mention that Sig is a handsome man? Big news! Glenn Harper is now officially an American citizen. Rick: Glenn wasn’t American? Kristin: He’s British. Rick: I thought he was from the south or something. I could never pinpoint his accent. Kristin: Wasn’t he one of your roommates in Boston? Rick: Well…yeah. And he did watch a lot of Benny Hill and Fawlty Towers while drinking Pimms, so maybe you’re right. Maybe he is British. I guess it’s possible. Kristin: Rick, how exactly did you survive in Boston? Rick: Well the trains are color-coded, so that made things easy. When I got on a train, I had a 50/50 shot of going in the right direction. Kristin: Thank god for colors. Rick: I like red.

“I live in Oregon but actually saw some Tuckies live and in person in this summer!” wrote Ruth Burk. “Because of these exciting events, no chicken updates.” Rick: Whhaaat? No updates of The Real Coopwives of Portland? I am saddened. Kristin: As am I. I’ve been very curious to see if Big Red and Boots are still together. I’ve noticed Big Red’s been giving the eye to some cute little Cochin in the coop. Oh well, maybe we’ll learn more in the next column. Back to Ruth. “First, I got to see Kristin Sanborn and her mini-me, Cecelia, when they were doing college tours at the various Claremont McKenna colleges (alumna Kelly Douglas led the tour and I tagged along). Second, Kelly Douglas and I stormed the Portland Tuck ’Tails event in July and ran into Nada Wheelock! She looks exactly the same, and T’95s dominated the event: the three of us made up a whopping 25% of the attendees!”

Art McAleer let us know he joined Thomas H. Lee as an operating partner and that the family is doing well. “My son Ian, who is 16, is now considerably taller than me. I’m trying to convince myself that it’s probably driven more by my shrinking than his growing, but I have a feeling he’s benefiting from Annette’s tall Viking genes.” Ned Hill dropped us a line. “Tessa, Lia (kid 3), and I recently moved back to Atlanta to be closer to our extended family...and I am taking on a new challenge. I recently joined Square 1 Bank to launch and lead a new office opening in Atlanta. I’ll continue to work as an advisor to my venture fund, Mercury, and work with my portfolio companies...but am full-time on a new gig.” “I came back to Tokyo from London in February last year,” wrote Hiko Yasumatsu, “and now I am with Mitsubishi UFJ-Morgan Stanley

Securities (a joint venture of Mitsubishi and Morgan Stanley).”

Kristin Sanborn’s daughter doing college visits

And perusing our good friend LinkedIn…Eric Tetrault founded Buffalo Builders.

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’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

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Toshi Yoshida with his mother and brother in Arima Hot Spring in his hometown of Kobe

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Kristin: Please don’t say it. Rick: What? Kristin: That they build buffaloes. Rick: Okay. But…you know…I think that might be what they do. I’m envisioning some gene splicing … perhaps a really good 3-D printer. It could totally happen. Ron Will is now the CFO, chief compliance officer, and operating partner of Mainsail Partners. Rick: Sheesh, he’s got three jobs! He’s like an immigrant struggling to make it in this country, except he’s from here and getting paid bags of money. Kristin: They don’t call him Ron Will for nothing. Ron will do the books, Ron will do the compliance, Ron will throw four touchdowns in the SuperBowl. Moving on, John Shaw has switched to Merrill Lynch as a managing director. Noel Culberson is a VP with Morgan Stanley. Todd Clark is now a managing director with L.E.K. Consulting. Jan Faller is now portfolio risk manager at PIMCO, and Sara Higgins is now with Boeing. And what’s up with your authors? Kristin here. I write reminders to attend Reunion and take my daughter to visit colleges. It is a sad life. Rick here. I got nuthin’. I go to work. I help raise young kids. Every six months, Sanborn and I reconnect, have a few laughs, and write a column. And once every five years, I attend a reunion. Sadder than Sanborn’s life? It’s probably a toss-up. We’ll talk again in six months!

20TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Greetings from Cleveland! Hope this version of class notes finds everyone happy and healthy and enjoying the fall—and getting ready for winter. Jay Bartlett has channeled his inner Horace Greeley and gone west. In June, Jay, Julie, and Tessa moved to Salt Lake City. Julie will be general counsel for O.C. Tanner, an employee recognition and rewards company. Jay will be opening a Los Angeles office for Parthenon, exemplifying the technology/travel-enabled definition of modern work-life-location balance. In Salt Lake City, Jay has been able to reconnect with Anna Nakasone Topham T’97 and also noted that Rob Lynch just moved into his neighborhood. The SLC Tuckie population is booming! Jay Benson and family were able to visit in August and ensure that the ties to the Upper Valley remained. Toshi Yoshida also sent in some news of a move, along with a photo. The move was to Shanghai. He also was able to vacation in Japan this summer and return to his hometown of Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture and a famous natural hot spring called Arima Onsen. He had not been home in some time and the photo is of his mother, his brother and himself at their hotel in Arima Hot Spring. Laurie Lee, Barry Bonder, and Kathy Schaider Black had a minireunion in Portland, Oregon, this summer (see photo). Kathy’s husband, daughter, and 2 dogs proved to be great hosts,

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and Laurie noted how much things have changed while they haven’t aged at all. Have to agree with you, Laurie. Here in Cleveland, the news is generally the same with a few highlights. Last November, I [Trent Meyerhoefer] spent a week golfing at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. That was my first trip to Oregon, and it was amazing. Look forward to going back with less golf, more wine country, and getting to Portland this time. The other highlight was more bittersweet, along the lines of Laurie’s things-are-changing-but-wearen’t-aging theme. Irene and I spent a week all over New England visiting colleges with Braden, a high school senior. (Yes, we made Ellen, a high school sophomore, “suffer” along with us.) It included a trip to Hanover and an extra day in the Upper Valley, which was, as always, great. There was an undergrad reunion going on, which led to great conversations in the bar at the Hanover Inn—until a rowdy group of execs at some Tuck conference drained the kegs and made quiet conversation with a D’65 impossible. Hard to believe.… Bob Searle wanted everyone to be aware that the 2nd annual Nora Searle Memorial Fun Run was October 4, starting in Sherborn, Mass. The

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CL ASS NOTES run benefits the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. More information, including some great photos of Nora and her story, can be found at Nora Searle Fun Run. Hope the event continues to be a great success, Bob.

going through antitrust review with the DOJ— but one way or the other 2016 promises to be a pretty interesting year.” And on the family front, “The girls are now 10 and 8 and Alissa continues to lead development for a Chicago-based nonprofit.”

Lastly, mark your calendars. Reunion 2016 will be October 7-9, 2016. Look forward to seeing everyone in Hanover then!

Between Goldwasser’s new gig and Rob Gulliver running HR for the NFL, class of ’97 is kicking all kinds of HR a**. Nice work, dudes.

’97 Helen Kurtz helen.kurtz@genmills.com

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Lord and Lady Craver of Greenwich sent an update late on a Friday night: “…a couple of glasses of wine in (coping mechanism for a teenage sleepover) and feeling chatty—but Dave overshot.… (I don’t know what this means) and is answering in snippet form only. So, when I ask him what from our Africa trip could be distilled into lessons learned at B-school, he responds: ‘Dog eat dog.’” (see photo)

Hello, friends. This is Paul Ollinger, substitute writing for Helen and Judd who have the day off.

Lesson from Dave Craver

Becky Joffrey has fled chilly Hanover for the warmer clime of Ithaca, NY, where she is working in the education technology space at Cornell. Though she was warned “Hanover may be in the middle of nowhere, but Ithaca is on the edge of nowhere,” she still digs the food, lakes and wine. All Cornell alumni must look her up whilst back on campus.

While this looks like dinnertime at the Brown House c. 1996, these are actually African wild dogs eating a kudu, which Dave eloquently described as “a big antelope-looking mo[edit!].”

She also notes, “I’m getting together in October with Tuck alumni in Boston, including José Aberg Cobo and Sherri Oberg T’86, for dinner to talk about higher ed, talent, and technology.” It’s gonna be cuh-razy.

Let’s start things off with two of our favorite classmates. Here’s a neat picture of Charlie Newton and Peter Gladstone sharing a game at Fenway.

Charlie writes, “We got lucky with seats and ended up in the fifth row behind home plate. While the view of the game was great, it was a little distracting to have the players’ wives hitting on Peter all night.” Zing! Mike Goldwasser reports, “After 11 years with Nielsen, I joined Orbitz Worldwide in January. In February, we announced we were selling the company to Expedia. I’ve always had a knack for timing! The transaction hasn’t closed yet—we’re 98

nearby chart. I hope you find it useful. From the “holy crap we’re old” files, John Byun shares, “Our daughter Natalie just started her freshman year at UT Austin. Now I gotta get orange gear, on top of my green stuff!” Which’ll make a really nice outfit.

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Charlie Newton and Peter Gladstone at Fenway

Manisha chart

Vicki mentioned other benefits of a trip to Africa: “Our kids got more than one demonstration of the birds and bees in action thanks to the baboons.” (I am so turned on right now.) Manisha checked in to let everyone know that she has just finished reading Life of Pi and invites any who have read it to connect with her. She also says that she’s open to connecting with anyone who hasn’t read Life of Pi. To clarify, it is not necessary to have read Life of Pi to connect with Manisha. Okay, I know this may be a little confusing. Like, what if you’ve read only half of Life of Pi but didn’t finish it? So for all you visual learners out there, I have laid it out in the

Wendy Pease reports that a skiing accident left her with a spiral fracture of the fibula (of the leg-area fibulas). She is back running and crossing her fingers that she’ll be able to ski again. The good news from Camp Pease is that Wendy’s kids (starting high school and jr. high) are great and playing sports. Wendy’s company, Rapport International, just acquired a Nebraska firm that provides in-person language interpreters for hospitals and medical clinics. In New England, they specialize in written translation for companies. The plan is to introduce more services in both places. But wait—there’s more! Wendy visits Nebraska pretty often now and would love to meet up with Tuckies. So if you’ve

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been looking for an excuse to finally cross the Cornhusker State off your bucket list, here’s your chance. Speaking of bucket-list destinations, Gary Giles is loving Memphis, where the Gileses enjoyed an unseasonably mild summer (meaning five days with sub-90% humidity and using only 3 bottles of Gold Bond powder in August). Gary goes on (and on): “Jen and I are chasing two boys: Olin (almost 10) and Kellett (8). After 9 years at Juice Plus+, I took a new job working for a wholesale distributor in the nutrition industry, serving mostly gyms and health clubs. The fact I was allowed to stay here made it hard to say ‘no.’ This past summer was pretty quiet with the new job. The boys went to camp, then Jen and the boys spent the bulk of late June and July in North Carolina at my parents’ lake house.” Herr Doktor Goedde finally made it back into the mountains, moving last year from Chicago to Colorado to help McKinsey & Company open their new office in Denver. He moved to Boulder and continues to lead the agriculture and food efforts for McKinsey. Lutz is enjoying outdoor life with tons of mountain/road biking and skiing. Having Shannon and Matt and the Spruills close by is a big added bonus. Rumor has it that he is getting a cabin in the woods south of Breckenridge, so you should invite yourself for multiweek stays at his place. He is also super-excited to have his stepson Max nearby at University of Denver and his sister Sophie down the road in Eden, UT. John Pepper has lots going on and reports that “having a little guy in the house again has been

rejuvenating…reliving our early 30s, and it really is a lot easier than the first time around.” Pepp continues to wrock the wrap world. “After a 2-year hiatus, I bought back Boloco from our PE investors and returned to active duty. It’s an uphill battle, but the company still has a pretty solid foundation of 350 team members and 16 (of 19) strong restaurants. I am cautiously optimistic that good things will follow.” Most important—this means that all Tuck ’97s eat free at Boloco!* Yay! Pepper’s return to his company is like MacArthur returning to the Philippines or Steve Jobs’ return to Apple and has inspired me to re-write the lyrics to Run DMC’s King of Rock: The King of Wraps. There is none higher. Sucka wrap-makers should call him sire. To work at Boloco, you must get hired. Pepp won’t stop wrapping ’til he retires. Thank you. Thank you very much. Pepper did a lot of living during his 20-month hiatus. He shared, “I moved back to Norwich with the family, put the girls in school in Costa Rica for a month, drove for Uber, became a drone-flying maniac and can actually edit footage and music competently now, learned to kite surf, and started a new technology company that is moving along nicely.” He’s also good at writing run-on sentences. Rob Kain reports from Utah that he “joined Vivint Solar a little over a year ago. We went public last October, rode the roller coaster that is the public markets for nine months, and announced that we are being acquired by SunEdison in July. The solar industry is pretty fascinating. The best part was running into Stuart (Murray) earlier this year when we were out raising money. The look on his face was pretty priceless as he walked into the conference room to meet with our team.” I’m not sure what “Vivint” means, but I’m pretty sure Rob is misspelling it. There’s never a dull moment for Tom Stiles, who reports that he is “still in Cameroon working for Addax Petroleum—it’s year four now—but my wife and I have decided to move the family back to Melbourne, Australia, which is what we

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call home. Our daughters recently turned six and eight and both have now spent the majority of their lives living in Africa. While it’s been an amazing adventure that has provided them with plenty of unique experiences, it’s time for us to focus on their education and give them the chance to put down some roots. Andrea and I have now been expats for sixteen straight years (having lived in eight different countries during that time), so we’re also looking forward to a bit more stability. We have been preparing for this moment for well over a decade, so we have a wonderful life waiting for us—friends and family, several nice homes, good schools lined up, etc.” Did he just say “several nice homes”? Yep. “On the work front, it’s obviously troubling times in the oil patch. I’m finishing up with Addax at year-end and haven’t fully decided what’s next. I really can’t continue with what I’m doing now, because the parts of the world in which I have particular professional expertise (Africa, the Middle East, and Russia) are all experiencing extreme turmoil and disruption. I’m considering working in natural resources on the advisory side (e.g., consulting, banking, etc.) but also want to think outside the box and maybe look beyond the energy sector. Like the rest of the class of ’97, I’m not getting any younger.…” Speak for yourself, Tom—I’m still crazy virile. “…so the time to consider making a radical career change is probably now or never.” Tom also shares that he’s actually in great shape (unlike Yancey) and is planning a November climb of Mount Cameroon. No word from Haingo, so I’m just going to make it up. Here goes.… Haingo recently moved to Panama City Beach, Florida, where he bought northwest Florida’s largest chain of mattress shops. He appears in all the firm’s commercials and has become a bit of a local celebrity through the tagline that he darn near screams at the camera—“At Haingo’s Mattress Emporium, we’ll beat any price or my name isn’t Andriaka Jamalala Rasolofonjoa Haingo!” On the weekends, Haingo enjoys airboating through the swamps, gator ’rasslin, and boiling peanuts. In response to my request for updates, smarta** Greg Foster quipped that perhaps I should just pull details from Facebook.

*I just made this up.

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CL ASS NOTES So here are some gems I pulled from Greg’s FB activity: On August 29 at 10:51 p.m., Greg posted a video of him jumping off the Jaws bridge on Martha’s Vineyard. 90 minutes later, Wendy Pease replied with, “We were there earlier this summer too! Sorry we missed you.” (That’s some late-night FB’ing there, Wendy.) The next day, Mark Elliot chimed in, “Didn’t know you were a vineyard family. We are there July 4 and at times in August.” Everybody make a note of that. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better—one of Greg’s friends (who didn’t go to Tuck) commented on the Jaws video, “looks like you jumped the shark.” Get it? That freaking guy. What a nut. On July 8, Greg posted another video. This one was from Five Guys Burgers place and was him inserting then removing a straw into a soda (looks like Sprite) over and over because the straw made the soda change colors…as Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle” played in the background. I’m not kidding. So that is what Greg has been up to. Well that’s pretty much it for reports. “But wait, Paul—what about you? What have YOU been up to?” “Oh come on, I’m not that interesting.” “Yes you are—come on—please tell us about you.” “No, really, it’s nothing.” “Come on, Paul—we’re DYING to know.” “Okay, I mean…if you insist...” I am once again unemployed and seeking my path in the creative (writing/comedy) field. I fill my days writing semi-funny things that may someday turn into a book but serve as blog-type stuff in the meantime. I am also doing a few sets of stand-up here and there in Atlanta (which, yes, has both paved roads and comedy clubs).

It’s going okay+, but it’s an odd way to spend one’s days at 46 years old and makes for some interesting conversations with the other parents at our kids’ school. A few months back my wife and I went to dinner with some new friends, both of whom are doctors. I was talking to the dad and asked “So, what kind of medicine do you practice?”

’98 Doug Haar doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

He replied modestly (and I’m not making this up one bit), “I’m a pediatric oncologist and surgeon. I’m also doing research that uses microfibers to help slow the spread of cancer in the brains of infants.” “So...” he continued, “What do you do?” I cleared my throat, trying to muster confidence through my shame.

Editor’s note: We were so very sorry to hear of Ken Cohn’s passing on June 24, 2015. Our sincerest condolences go out to his family.

’99

“I am a blogger.” Silence. “So I blog, I guess, is what I do. With my days… err, life, I guess you could say.” He said nothing and just looked at me with most profound and sincere pity you can imagine. I could almost hear him thinking, “How in the hell did I get roped into dinner with this freaking loser?” So I did what I always do when I’m nervous and feeling totally inadequate—I kept talking. “I was going to do what you said you do with the medicine and research…but then there was that high school biology with meiosis and mitosis, and that stuff is hard, right?” Nothing. I kept digging and finally went for the easy joke, “Hey, at least I’m not a lawyer, right?” The rest of the night didn’t go so well.

Vince Trantolo vince_trantolo@hotmail.com

Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia_rosenzweig@yahoo.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

Look in the 1999 class notes section of mytuck. dartmouth.edu for 1999 news and photos!

’00 Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

There’s not much I can write here that won’t almost immediately become redundant with the reunion just around the corner. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this year and indeed neither will a bunch of other Australian-based T’00s. That didn’t stop us

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from doing our own little get-together with Sherilyn Butler, who was in town as part of her nearly two-month-long AU/NZ tour. The attached photo shows virtually the entire Sydney group: from top left back row, Alastair Bor, Ezra Bor, Kerry Shaz (Alastair’s wife), Sherilyn Butler, Caroline Wang, Arielle Bor, Amy (Duly) McKeough, Eric Wang, and Christy Wang. Then, in the front row, Katie McKeough, Emma McKeough, and Max Wang.

them “off the ledge.” Helen is still working like a dog as a nurse practitioner at The Hartford— where rumor has it she brought Carlos Feged back to life after a near-death exposure to poison ivy. Jamie’s sailing has taken a turn for the better with some Laser action last spring and plenty of keelboat work this summer. He commandeered a choice 35-year-old J/24, and rumor has it that he may be the proud owner by the time our reunion rolls around. Can you say booze cruise? Come on up, Joe Santos—and don’t forget the Brooklyn Gin! Sailing out of the Mystic area had many benefits, such as running across Tuck 1961 grad Robin Honiss. Robin started a small investment advisory business decades ago and is still as keen as during his days at our alma mater.

’01 Lloyd Baskin lloyd@aya.yale.edu

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AU/NZ get-together!

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Sherilyn will be going to Reunion, and she can fill you in on what’s going on Down Under. She also mentioned that she lives in the same apartment building as Parag Desai in Nashville. Will (17) and Henry (14) Rice struggling for control off of Noank, CT, on Father’s Day 2015

But where are the T’00s, you might ask? Jamie has seen nary a one for many moons. Perhaps they have been hibernating in order to “store” up their sleep in preparation for the onslaught of wings and things in early October. All he can say is, Where is Big Jon?

Rice boys (Henry, James, and Will) on Mother’s Day 2015

Jamie Rice has been busy this year launching his own registered investment advisory firm in Granby, CT. His clients either do not have access to modern technology—or are very well educated about the short-term nature of most market volatility. No recent panic calls to coax

After spending the last 4 years in Abu Dhabi, Tip and Shade Sanford have moved to Singapore. Living off of a steady diet of fresh fruits, chicken-rice, and chili crabs. They’re loving being back in Southeast Asia and are looking forward to reconnecting with T’00 friends as they travel there.

I’d like to start off with a big thank you to Sarah Millard for guest authoring our last installment of class notes; it was great to have a new voice in our column, and there is an open standing invitation for guest authors and/or co-conspirators! I’m happy to report a number of new contributors to class notes this time around, starting with Ben Cooper, who writes: “Back on May 22nd, I took over as the Coast Guard’s sector commander and captain of the port in Philadelphia for the three-state region surrounding the Delaware Bay (PA, NJ, DE). It’s a challenging assignment directing the Coast Guard’s maritime safety, security, and stewardship missions offshore and across the three-state region. I have about 750 active duty, reserve, and civilian personnel working for me.” Ben also sent along a few photos, including this one of him, Karen, Julia (13), and Nathaniel (10). A few other photos from his Change of Command ceremony can be found on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ Tuck2002?ref=aymt_homepage_panel. Ben, many thanks for your continued and successful service to the United States.

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The Kate (Ginevan) and Karl Mattsson-Bozé end-ofsummer BBQ group

wife and dog. Splitting time between our house in NJ, our apt in NYC, and travel for work investing in private equity funds. Looking forward to visiting Buenos Aires in December for Jacinto’s wedding and seeing Tuckies there. Had a great time when he visited in July. Between Patrick and Jacinto, our study group ties remain strong...2 of my favorite people!”

The Cooper family

First-time contributor Patrick Beauger writes in from Canada with a great familyand-friends update: “Back in August, MarieJosée, Guillaume (11), Béatrice (6), and I were fortunate to spend time with Jason Andris and his wife Julie, up (or down, depending on your perspective, I guess) on Martha’s Vineyard, on the lovely and famous Chappaquiddick Island. Obviously our respective dogs (Vanille and Auggie) made the memorable trip. We all enjoyed the outdoors and playing in the water, as well as the fabulous seafood the area offers. As a small testament to the fun we had on the water, here is a picture of Jason and me sipping away on wine while cruising on a boat. As an aside, you know how Tuck bonds are strong. On the ferry back to shore, we ran into Bill Tine and his family. I guess that is true serendipity.” A little farther to the southeast, Doug Anderson and Jeff Lessard ran into each other in Nantucket while on vacation with each of their respective families. Jason Andris followed up Patrick’s email with his own update: “All good on my end with my

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Serendipitous encounters are some of my favorites, and I had my own when I ran into Julie (Prince) and Chris Hojlo and son Teddy at the Squam Lake MarketPlace in Holderness, NH, over Labor Day weekend. Life in NYC seems to continue to treat the energetic trio well. I was sorry to miss Jacinto Peralta Ramos during his July visit to Boston and wish him all the best for his impending nuptials (which will have happened by the time these notes are published). Speaking of Boston gatherings, Kate (Ginevan) and Karl Mattsson-Bozé hosted a great end-of summer BBQ at their Westford home, bringing together Joe McKown and Diane Carr, Suzanne (Chudd) and John Greco, Holly (Thomas) and Mike Landsittel, and Carol Schuster, along with their respective gaggle of nine children! As Kate sends 5-year-old daughter Annika off to kindergarten this fall, Kate is starting a new job in marketing at global biotech giant Biogen. I had fun catching up for impromptu drinks in Back Bay early in the summer with Pat Donahue, Ed Ludwigson, Graham Brooks, Matt Fates, and surprise guest Tommy Crowley. Everyone is doing well in life and in work. Tommy Crowley would like to hear from Tuck roommates Rich Peden and Jason Harris.

Facebook trolling has also yielded a few fun and happy updates: on June 4th, Kelly Harmon and husband Sean welcomed the arrival of a baby daughter, Payton Ashley Collins, 7 lbs. 2 oz. As to be expected, baby Payton is keeping up with Kelly’s adventures and has already enjoyed her first USC football game. Tommy and Kara Crowley are founding members of the T’02 Five-Kids Club, having welcomed Colton Thomas to the Crowley brood in October. Weighing in at 10 lbs 6 oz, “Colt” joins siblings Jack (11), Dylan (9), Sophie (7), and Hannah (5). If you know of any classmates who are hiding five children from their class secretary, please advise. Congratulations to Tommy and Kara! [Look on myTUCK for a wonderful pic of the Crowley children!] Finally, Kelly (Mead) Leach shares some very personal news: “As many of you may know, I spent the last year battling cancer. I had 12 rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, 8 weeks of radiation and several surgeries. Fortunately, I tolerated these treatments well and they worked—I now am officially cancer free! “However, my cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma, is the kind that can come back. Instead of dwelling on those risks, Dave [Leach T’01] and I are focusing our energy on fundraising for rare cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (where I was treated) through a charity called Cycle for Survival (http://www. cycleforsurvival.org). “I have put together a national team, called Pedaling Sunshine. The name was inspired by the fact that I have been singing ‘You Are My Sunshine’ to Ryan (8) and Tyler (4) every night since the day they were born. Please join us and JOIN THE BATTLE against cancer. Team

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demonstrate their brands in meaningful ways. We’ve been hanging out with Victor Cai, Francesca, and their two kids recently and saw Jen Price T’04 the other week. That’s about the extent that I get out right now.”

Patty Russell, Alex Schwoerer, and Vanessa Dulman

Peter May’s cuties

Pedaling Sunshine will be riding in local spinclass-type events in 11 cities in February and March 2016.

we manage. Kids are 8, 6, and 3 (see photo), so the bathroom is really the only available private place. Other than the office, which is at investment manager Arrowstreet Capital, where I focus on business development. That’s right, they picked me to be the face of the firm. Must be my distinguished gray hair.” Peter, your kids are really flipping adorable!

“If you’d like to ride with us, or want to donate to our team, please go to http://bit.ly/ PedalingSunshineNatl. All of your support over this past year and now as part of this worthy cause means so much to me and Dave. Thank you!”

Some exciting news from Jason Trevisan: After twelve wonderful years at the VC/PE firm Polaris, he has recently left to become the CFO at CarGurus. CarGurus has quietly emerged as the second largest auto shopping site on the web. Hot category and a very cool company, Jason. To close out, I’m sharing the photo that Scott Harrison forwarded to me (with support from Barrett Rankin). He writes, “It’s great to see Jason Lina keeping up his enthusiasm for college hoops. Attached is a selfie he sent out as he rooted on the Badgers against Duke in

Whether you are a cyclist or not, please consider supporting Kelly’s Cycle for Survival efforts. We are all rooting for Kelly, Dave, Ryan, and Tyler. Finally, please remember to join our T’02 Facebook page if you haven’t already done so—it is a great source for sharing news and photos from across our class. We’d also love suggestions for other uses of social media for staying updated and connected with T’02 personal and professional news.

’03 Cathy Kim Walker cathy.walker@lancergroup.net

Hi, everyone! Here’s the latest from our classmates: Peter May dropped me a line to say, “The Mays are back in Boston after kicking around with the NYC crowd for a few years. We live in Winchester, which is a little closer to the Conlons than we are comfortable being, but

Heath Séverin Egenson and big sister Imogen (David Garrison’s cuties)

David Garrison shared the latest news from the Egenson (blending Garrison and Egenberger makes a pretty darn good last name) front: “It’s been an exciting spring and summer in our house. We welcomed Heath Séverin Egenson into the family (photo attached). Imogen’s a proud big sister, and Bayo’s convinced he saves us from ourselves on a daily basis (probably true). PROOF’s successfully launched Picture Justice, a new platform in partnership with the UN International School, to educate kids on social justice through photography. Brytemoore’s growing fast. With a recent set of big client wins, we’re quietly emerging as a unique hybrid of consulting firm and brand/communications agency focused on how companies in transition

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the national championship game. Better luck next year!” Last-minute addition! Happy to share that Heather Cole Smith, her husband, Mark, and son, Cole, just welcomed the newest addition to their beautiful family: a lovely little girl, Ella Smith. Well that’s it for now. Please keep the news coming!

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

Hi everyone. I hope everyone had a great summer. We have exciting updates from a handful of our classmates. Magdalena Baeva and her husband, Evžen, are very happy to announce the arrival of their baby girl, Sophia Luba Müller, who was born in London on December 15, 2014.

Magdalena’s baby girl, Sophia Luba Müller

Hunter Peterson reports that his wife, Sarah, delivered their second daughter, Johannah Stork Peterson, who is named after her maternal grandmother. “Big sister Banny, not yet two years old, is becoming accustomed to sharing the spotlight.” Hunter adds that he “is aware of the irony of his trying to raise two beautiful daughters in the modern world and recognizes that he deserves the challenges associated with such a task....” Andrew Ulmer writes, “Life is tremendously rewarding, challenging, and exhausting for me lately.” Andrew has been very busy helping grow a software startup, based in San Francisco, which provides data analytics and customer engagement to water utilities. “And yes, we’re doing a lot of work in California helping respond to the drought.” In his big news, Andrew relays that his wife, Emily, and he had a baby girl on July 22, 2015. “Eva Merritt has rocked our world!”

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The Ulmer family welcomes Eva Merritt

Carmen Maria Navarro updates, “So I left Heinz less than 2 years ago and came to Kraft and 3G seemed to have followed me... ha! After 13 years of snow, it was time for warmer weather (and a private company). Off we go to the Central Valley, and once this is published I will be working at Gallo. So if anyone wants a wine tour, let me know. On the personal side, our foster son left, he successfully went back to his parents, and after a bit of a mourning period, we should be resuming our Safe Families duties next year.” McCall Butler is still working at Fleishman Hillard, where she has been since leaving Tuck. “But [I] transferred to the Atlanta office in 2011, so living back ‘home’ after 18 years away. I lead financial communications for AT&T, my only client, which keeps me busy. Our daughter Meredith just started second grade. So in my spare time, I serve on the board of the PTA and this year also got roped into helping lead the school’s foundation annual fund campaign. We added to our family over the holidays when we adopted Cooper (aka Coop Dogg). He’s been a great addition and is the sweetest little boy. And Chris (D’97/Kellogg ’04) and I celebrated our 40th birthdays and 10-year wedding anniversary with a family vacation to South Africa this summer. It was an amazing trip, including a daylong tour of wine country and six days on safari where we saw the ‘Big Five’ several times over.” (Big Five is the name used by wildlife guides to refer to the African lion, the African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, and the black rhinoceros.) Signing off and wishing everyone a happy and successful close to 2015. As always, if you ever visit Austin, give me a shout. —Frank Arias T’04

The Butler family with its newest member

’05 Francis Barel francis.barel@gmail.com

Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

By the time you’re reading this, our 10th reunion in Hanover will have come and gone.… I’m sure we’ll have MANY updates for the next issue from Reunion, so enjoy this little walk through our classmates’ news. We’re most impressed with our T’05s in Asia, who independently organized a regional minireunion that took place in August 2015! Enjoy their pic, and hope to see many of you at reunion! Loyally, Dora and Francis TUCK GATHERINGS AND SIGHTINGS Asia T’05 mini-reunion in Taiwan! It all started from Te-Ling Nai’s idea. While sipping a cocktail with Korean Tuckies in Seoul in May, she proposed a 10-year reunion in Asia. “Wow, that would be nice,” everyone replied. And in three months, FIVE T’05 families from all over Asia got together in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 22. Why Taipei? Cause nobody is from Taiwan! There was the biggest typhoon ever coming to Taiwan but nothing could stop us getting together. Sung Chan Suh, Ik Jae Suh, and Min Kyu Park flew from Korea with not-so-tinyanymore Tuckies. Toshiya Yoshida represented

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Japan. And Tak Wai Chung and his little girl—she’s so adorable—made it from Hong Kong. (Sorry that Te-Ling, the originator of Asia Reunion, could not join Tak Wai and their girl.) And many Tuckies who couldn’t join sent their hellos. Five families had a nice, friendly dinner in a Chinese restaurant in downtown Taipei. Surprisingly enough, every T’05 looked the same as 10 years ago, at least in the eyes of ourselves. (You can check the picture.) The only thing (or people) that was showing the 10 years that passed by were the kids. That little toddler who walked on the Big Green is now a 7th grader in his adolescence. We were drinking like we did at Tuck ’Tails, laughing like at EBAs, and talked about other Tuckies and ourselves like at Byrne Hall. Geez…when is Asia Reunion’s next round? (this is so totally absolutely awesome that you guys took the initiative to create a regional event for those who can’t make it to Reunion…great pic!!! And we’ll miss you in Hanover.…)

Hong Kong! (it’s great, Dave, to get a pic, but a super fuzzy requires an Instagram filter to see your faces one, that we can only publish on the web and not in print…makes us sad that we don’t get to see what’s REALLY going on. wait, what *is* going on there? ☺ glad you two met up in HK!) [Look in the T’05 class notes pages of mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Desi Duncker and his famous biceps were spotted in Puerto Rico (oh Desi. one of the many reasons we love you. work it.)

(OVERHEARD) Ashlea Mittelstaedt is on a month-long Italian holiday…incl places like Positano, Florence, and Burano! (wow, I think we need a bunch-o-pics from this trip…!) Yali Hou and Yansong Xue celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary, and their son HaoTong is almost 8 years old! Yali is still at Bain and Yansong has worked a few jobs, but all in finance. (wow, where does the time go? great pic!)

Yali Hou and Yansong Xue and son HaoTong Desi Duncker: he’s still got it

SHORTER UPDATES (AND OVERHEARD…!)

Asia minireunion

Bay Area T’05 Tuck Fiesta Laurie Schrager and her husband James (and 2 kids) hosted a great Tuck BBQ at their Alameda, CA, home to welcome Andrea Stenger back to the Bay Area and to convince Dora Fang to move back from Utah. Ann Waterman Roy and Kanishka Bhattacharya Roy (and 2 kids), Steve Cassavant and his girlfriend, Fernando Castillo and his wife Shadia, Allan Chou and his wife Tatiana (and kids), Martin Chai T’06 and his partner Gray, and Henry Robinson T’07 all joined together for a great Tuck BBQ! (great time, Laurie, thanks so much for hosting and to you and James for those scientifically perfected super delicious burgers!) Hong Kong Get-Together Dave Gilbertson and Rahul Jain met up in

Bruno Pinasco’s family just got bigger. His second daughter, Michela, was born on June 26, 2015. The Pinascos are all very happy, including Arianna, their first daughter, who loves to play the big sister role. (congratulations!) [Look in the T’05 class notes pages of mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!]

Craig Dixon and his family took a trip to Jamaica in May 2015. Family pic includes Craig, Shartoyea, Joshua (age 4), Lauren (age 2). (ok, this pic is ridiculous. is this really a catalog cover photo shoot for some swanky lifestyle brand? LOVE it.)

(OVERHEARD) Trina Lorch just got engaged! (woohoo! more details please…?) Wojtek Wolski’s family also grew by one— their first baby, Jasmine Si-Ting Wolski, on March 31, 2015. Everyone is healthy and great and Jasmine is growing fast. (how wonderful!) [Look in the T’05 class notes pages of mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Lynette Fitzpatrick is still working at Vineyard Vines in CT, opening a lot of stores across the country this year—small company so they are always busy with something, even modeling the product when needed :) (that’s kinda awesome, “hey, did you know I’m a model?” how’s that line working for you at the supermarket?)

Craig Dixon, Shartoyea, and kids in Jamaica

After close to 16 amazing years at Bain, Amir Nahai has begun a new adventure at Accor Hotels, where he will be CEO of Global Food & Beverage and serve on the executive committee.

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CL ASS NOTES He looks forward to keeping in touch, seeing other Tuckies frequently, and welcoming them to Paris! (great news! please keep us posted on where to get the free pizza…would love a fuller update on this exciting-sounding gig next time!) (OVERHEARD) Emily Jacobsen Lavoie has 3 little ones now out in CA, and she and her husband are involved with a business he started! (tell us more! what’s the new biz?) Jason Cianchette is back at work starting a new technology startup. Carrie and the kids are all doing well. They missed the 5-year reunion and have been waiting 5 years for the 10-year reunion. Looking forward to seeing everyone who can make it. (woot! Can’t wait to hear about the new venture) LONGER UPDATES Jonathan Marr and his husband John spend most of their free time feeding, chasing, and cleaning up after Connor. He has managed to make it to the 1-year mark despite many humbling parental moments (e.g., near-miss falls from the changing table!), “and our new hobby is trying to make him laugh. He is a very active, squirmy, smiley (did I already say active?) kid who seems like he’ll be a class clown. Connor just started to walk and can take ~5 steps on his own. We have redoubled our efforts to lock down everything in the house that might kill him, but his newest obsession is trying to get into the fireplace. Thankfully it’s Indian summer in San Francisco, and the fireplace is unused.… The picture is from Connor’s 1st birthday party— the theme was bananas, his favorite food. [Look in the T’05 class notes pages of mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!] “I’m sorry I won’t be able to make the reunion, but we are saving up our plane flights with Connor for a Tuckie wedding in February. (I’ll let the Tuckie share the news with you in case they want to remain unmentioned.…) Connor proved himself to be a poor traveler when we went to Hawaii this summer. Yes, we were those people in first class with a screaming baby. “In non-baby news, I joined Sephora in January. It’s fun to be part of a luxury company (certainly very different than Walmart), and my female family and friends really appreciate the ton of free products that appear on my desk

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each week. Dora can testify firsthand to that :-) I did send some Sephora swag to Hanover, but I’ll miss you guys at the reunion!” (totally. my electric vivid eyeliner collection is now totally “on fleek” thanks to my dealer/supplier/friend Jon! Thank you ☺ ) Jorge Ontiveros and a friend from high school completed a training for ~250 professors and researchers of public Mexican universities and tech institutes on how to develop green energy and energy-efficiency projects. “This program led to the development of over 100 projects in green energy, energy efficiency, and climate change mitigation. Thus, we are in the process of working with 20+ teams helping them take their initial business plan into an actual project to be developed in the future: large-scale wind and solar projects, biomass energy co-generation, biofuels, even a hybrid hydrogen car is in the works. “It has been a very interesting and exciting ride.... I didn’t know much about energy after Tuck (even after BCG), so becoming a clean energy expert in Mexico has been extremely fun and interesting. “If any classmate is interested in learning more about what we are doing, or interested in energy in Mexico at all, by all means send me a line. “Life outside work is great, Analu (2.5 yrs old) is a blast, and Lucy is starting her dissertation at UT Austin, so things moving along quite nicely. I won’t be able to make it to the reunion.... I hope everyone makes it there and back safely and hope to catch up with y’all soon!” (thank you for saving the world! appreciate the update.) UPDATE FROM JOELLE SINCE 2005! …and an open invite to Oahu (see pic for view from deck…!) Aloha, Tuckies! Steve, Joelle Simonpietri, and both kids are still living in Hawaii and having a great time. She writes…“Sadly, I have traveled so much already this year that I just don’t have it in me to leave home again, even for something fun like the reunion. I will think of you all while surfing for my birthday with Steve and our girls.

“Current news: Living in Kailua, Hawaii, married, two daughters, Noelani age 8 and Solana age 4. I am a research, development, test, and evaluation program manager for the U.S. Pacific Command, part of the Department of Defense, where I focus on renewable fuels, clean energy, energy efficiency, and contingency-basing technology for U.S. military and government projects. If anyone has heard of the Navy’s Great Green Fleet initiative to start operating on up to 50% of bio-based jet and marine fuel starting in 2016, that is one of my projects. I’ve completed three trips to Sydney, two to Tokyo, and whole lot of travel to the ‘mainland’ U.S. working with military counterparts, petroleum refineries, commercial airlines like United, Alaska Air, and Qantas, and lots of startup companies encouraging supply chains to form in places where there is a lot of demand but just not a lot of petroleum supply (like Asia). Another project is a deployable waste-to-energy procurement initiative.… I started it to come up with ways for our troops to dispose of trash when in hostile locations without just chucking everything into what’s called a ‘burn pit,’ lighting it on fire, and then coming home a year later with Gulf War Syndrome. I expanded it starting in July to include other federal agencies, so now we’re working on mobile units for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Dept. of Agriculture, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). One of the guys from my team is flying to Canada next week to work with the Mounties to get his hands on 10 tons of narcotics DEA can chuck into a prototype in Ontario, another to New Jersey to write a plan to dispose of five football-field-sized warehouses packed to the ceiling with fake Nike sneakers and Gucci handbags for CBP. Another team member just returned from the Maldives, and my entire team of 30 people convened from across the U.S. to complete another prototype test on Marine Corps–type trash in July at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. We’re preparing tests for remote Pacific Islands like Diego Garcia, Pagan, and Midway Atoll next year. I proudly tell everyone that I use what I learned from Tuck EVERY DAY in my work life, and I enthusiastically hire whatever Dartmouth alums and students returning to Hawaii I can get my hands on. Go Green! “How we got here that you can’t glean from my LinkedIn profile: Steve and I married and moved back to Hawaii in 2006, which

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is also when we had our first daughter. I had to resign from my very fun post-Tuck job at Waste Management’s Organic Growth Group corporate venture fund because of the high amount of travel being incompatible with new mom-hood. I joined a local venture capital fund as a partner focused on clean energy in 2007, left it a year later resolving to do more due diligence next time because my senior partners had violated several investment covenants and our partnership equity-sharing agreement, performed as interim CEO for a local biotech firm for a short while, started my own company focused on finding funding for clean-tech startups and raised over $40 million for my clients which is no small feat in a small economy like Hawaii, and then was talked by my husband into getting a steady job, so I went back to the military but in a new role, energy technology development, starting in 2009. The steady paycheck allowed us to finally buy a house at Hawaii’s prices—a nice townhome on a saltwater lake that we can kayak to the beach from. Working at USPACOM J81 for six years is now the longest single time I have worked one job in one location my entire adult life. There are all of three Tuck alums in the entire state of Hawaii, including me, so I fill the void by hanging with Dartmouth’s very active alumni club.” (so you said “…and an open invite to Oahu” right? SIGN ME UP. Look at that view… thanks so much for the monster update, love reading the twists and turns and that you’re doing great!) And that, my friends, is it for this issue! See you in Hanover!

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

10 T H REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Nothing goes by faster than the six months between the late nights spent grasping for wit as we assemble the class notes. Fortunately, this time around we received a number of interesting updates, so we don’t need to make much up. Tommy “Tommy” Cho delivered what must be the first engagement announcement with the word “prostitution” in it: “Amazingly, I have convinced someone to not only date me, but to eventually marry me. Jessica Kimelman and I are looking to get hitched in the spring of 2016, so I can introduce her as my wife in time for Reunion. The proposal was truly romantic, like the end of Pretty Woman, sans the white horse, extreme wealth, and prostitution. I said some beautifully poetic words that would melt just about anyone’s heart. And as I got on my knee and asked her to marry me, Jessica literally responded with, ‘SHUT UP!!!’ Based on that answer, I’m pretty sure we belong together.” Congratulations, Mr. President.

Joelle Simonpietri’s Oahu deck view [look on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for another pic of Joelle and her daughters!]

Introducing our new T’06 First Lady

Nes has left New York. We can only assume that his last couple weeks were like Jeter’s final days as a Yankee, but the city misses him more: “I’m probably the worst in the class at sending updates, but just a note that Laura and I moved to London in January and are expecting a little girl in November. In addition to having the Shahs and EDBs nearby, we’ve been lucky enough to have a few Tuck visitors already—Langrick, Magnano, and Nelson have all passed through for a day each recently, and the Monroes came to see us for a long weekend in July, just in time to share a goodbye dinner for the Pozens, who, sadly, moved back to Boston just a few months after we arrived. It’s a semithin Tuck crew over here, but we love living here and hope to see a few more of you across the pond in 2016. Also, don’t forget to lock up some rooms for the early October Tuck reunion…I’ll be hitting the phones hard at the one-year-before deadline.”

We had a “no selfies” rule for Tuck Today but we can’t say no to Nes and Nelson

Mu Shin Kim reached out from 12 time zones away. “Hope you guys are doing well. It will be fantastic if we meet at the reunion next year. I am Hong Kong-based, but travel to Seoul, So. Korea, every month, so please let me know if you come to this part of the world. My wife Seung Mi and I celebrated the 20th anniversary in Europe last month: the 1st week in Paris and the 2nd week in Florence. We had been to Giverny and Étretat near Paris. Étretat was the best, as she kissed me, as you see in the photo. Florence offered a series of joy and happiness, so I gained some weight. At the end of the trip, Seung Mi and I agreed to celebrate the 40th anniversary in another 20 years together.” We can only hope that you don’t have to wait another 20 years for another kiss.

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CL ASS NOTES a dollar if you can help out. Just go to http:// heroes.stjude.org/newbodies. See you all at the 10th in a year!”

We’re documenting it here for Mu Shin Kim—next one’s scheduled in 2035

Cartoef offered some empathy to his secretaries: “You guys really are impressive going into year 9 of this generous but likely nolonger-so-fun job. Good thing you guys have Microsoft Wit Writer installed—that must help a lot. [Secretaries’ note: Not really.] So I really was about to tap delete when I saw this request. I mean, no weddings, no new babies, no moves, no new job, no debt workouts. What’s to tell? But then I realized I had a midlife crisis battle milestone that I wanted to share. I have relearned to swim. After accompanying my children to endless hours of swimming lessons, I thought maybe I should join in the action. So I found the one adult-swimming-lesson teacher in the Netherlands and learned how to do forward crawl without sinking to the bottom of the pool after 50 meters from exhaustion. Now I finally feel like Mike Larsen (top swimmer at Middlebury, huge biceps, dreadfully handsome, etc.)—though sadly that image is shattered when I look in the mirror.... Anyway, I did manage to do a 3.8km swim (2.4 miles for you anti-metric types), which is a long time to be staring down into the abyss of the Amsterdam canals.” In an ironic twist, Larsen has opted to “go dutch” with just about er’ry thing in his life: subsisting on a diet of mayonnaise-laden fries and wheels of cheese, making others pay half of everything, having selfies painted in dark brooding colors (while wearing all oranje) and consistently losing World Cup matches. Falchuk is staying in shape and on top of his updates: “So I thought I had sent something in because, well, I always do. Turns out, I didn’t. Two quick things: (1) I left my job and joined a startup…more on that later, perhaps. More importantly, (2) I’m running the 2015 Chicago Marathon for St. Jude. I have about 4 weeks to go as of writing this, and am aiming to raise $5,000 for St. Jude. I’ve gotten to just over $4,250 and would sincerely appreciate even

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Nelson got us a quick update from Mexico: “Maria and I have a new baby girl, Daniela. Good thing she takes after her mommy’s looks.… (She was born the same day as José Alvarez and Fanny’s baby.) My last business trip to London, was able to get some downtime and hang out with Nes and his lovely wife, Laura (picture attached of Nes showing me around the London ‘impossible-to-get-in-ifyou’re-not-with-Nes’ hot spots) and also caught up with Giovanni ‘The Italian Stallion’ Rivano and his wife, Anne Nguyen T’05, and their adorable little cuties. No news on the job side, probably one of the stats that becomes lower by the year of people hanging around the same job right out of Tuck—still at JPMorgan doing IB. I got my ‘10-year keychain’ last month (if you summer and accept full-time they count your original entry date from the summer internship). Wow—time flies.”

in CAPITAL LETTERS, with every third or fourth word bolded to remove all HSV. Kummell left Citadel in June and learned that they weren’t joking about that whole “12-month non-compete” thing. Three-and-ahalf months in and it’s been mostly enjoyable. It’s been a rare nonretirement opportunity to de-stress, travel, and spend a lot of time with the family. Of course, as of this writing it’s still September—we’ll see if Vicky lets him live through the winter. The worst part of Kummell’s unemployment is that there’s no longer a (to him) legitimate excuse to be fat anymore, so he’s slowly chiseling away at years of laziness and bad decisions. We’ll be the judge of that—@VickyKummell: we need before and after pictures.

’07 Leslie Hampel leslie_hampel@yahoo.com

Christopher Herbert christopher.m.herbert@gmail.com

While the volume of updates from the T’07 class continues to decline, it is offset by how exciting each update is becoming. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

Daniela, Nelson Ocampo’s daughter, can expect a shiny keychain on her 10th birthday

Chris Manning just spent the weekend at a Daddy-Daughter camp with Matt Libbey and his daughter near Deer Valley in Park City. It was great to catch up over a few days, enjoying the fall colors time with the kiddos. All is well with the Libbey family, still holding down the fort in Cleveland. Keeler is still at Groupon, offering everything half off, from cupcakes to male Brazilian waxing to GRPN stock (apparently). Manning and Kummell barely speak to Keeler anymore for talking them into this class secretary gig 9 years ago. All emails, texts, and faxes (Manning likes to keep it real real) are now

The company Errik Anderson started while we were second-years, Adimab LLC, is doing very well. He co-founded and launched Adimab, a drug discovery platform, in 2007 during our second year and was with the company as COO all the way through to their first liquidity event last fall. Ryan McGovern T’09 worked closely with him on finance and is now leading finance at Adimab. Ryan’s wife, Mary Schiavoni TP’09, actually joined the company first in the McGovern family and helped Errik convince Ryan to join Adimab when he graduated. Mary has also grown spectacularly with Adimab and is now the head of HR of a large, profitable and dynamic biotech company. After wrapping up Adimab’s first liquidity event (and 13th financing step since founding!), Errik transitioned full-time into Compass Therapeutics LLC, a drug development

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company he started in 2013 after another close family member died of cancer. Errik has started 6 biotech companies since graduation, including Compass, and all but one are still going strong. Compass is the biggest by far, with the challenging goal to facilitate cures for cancer in the next 30 years. At Compass they are building a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company from the ground up using the insights and perspective he’s gained over the last decade in biotech. They closed a $120mm financing earlier this year and already have 7 preclinical drug programs under way. The team is incredible and growing quickly. Alongside OrbiMed Advisors, Fidelity Biosciences and Google Ventures, they’re proud to have Hanover-based Borealis Ventures’ (Phil Ferneau D’84, T’96 and Matt Rightmire T’96) support since even before the seed financing. A number of awesome Tuckies are investors in Compass through an SPV that David Weisburd T’12 and his firm Growth Technology Partners and Errik put together to invest in Compass alongside the brand-name VCs. Emily and Errik are Hanover based with 4 kids: Catherine (6), Kastner (5), Elizabeth (3), and Eve (1). They celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary this summer and were kind enough to share their anniversary with Keith and Beth White. A host of Tuckies headed North to fete the couple in style!

developed lifetime friendships with stuck and he organized a Spring Break 2015 trip to Puerto Rico. The trip consisted of nothing but relaxing on beautiful beaches, exploration of tropical landscapes, kayaking in a pristine bioluminescent bay and, of course, eating and drinking. And they got to do this without using the bathroom in front of people or spooning with dudes to avoid hypothermia (hey, at least buy me a drink first). Supreet Ahluwalia would like to provide the following shout-outs from the trip: • Henry Robinson...our first dinner together and in no time my stomach was hurting, laughing from what one might consider rude/ offensive jokes and funny yesteryear stories from life • A fist pump to Desi T’06 for introducing me to the existence of the Tuck tattoo • Fay T’06 for that sweet suite upgrade • Mirla TP’07 I can’t wait to be in PR again! • Dorothy Moyer-Hoffman for the delight of seeing you sitting right in front me at the airport gate!

gathering, our “screw Deflategate and Chris Herbert, the Pats are amazing!” gathering, etc., etc....with the Flaims, the Kellys, and the Chaytorses. Everyone is amazing, and their tiny Tuckies are growing up! She also ran into Brian Walsh in an elevator in a hotel in the middle of the day downtown— “he was off to the gym and looking quite svelte. He was in town for work and practiced his elevator pitch by letting me know Fidelity, Dallas was completely under his control as was his family.” (Heather fully admits to making most of that up...except for the svelte part.) Heather also got to see the Tony Hanlon for a quick drink in the same hotel exactly one week earlier (she’s now a Hyatt groupie) and then in NYC with his fair bride Marisa 2 days later— they came across the pond for work and they got to see the O’Keeffes too. After enjoying a summer of leisure, Marc Aquila is back at Dartmouth...working! He’s now leading marketing and recruiting for The Dartmouth Institute’s education programs. He’s in charge of building partnerships and making sure Dartmouth can fill its Master’s in Public Health Program with students that are almost as awesome as Tuckies. If anyone has junior analysts who want to go into health care, send them his way. Alternately, if you want to hire a Dartmouth MPH student for an internship or more, give him a ring. They’re disrupting health care one student at a time!

Tuck spring break in Puerto Rico!

Tuckies celebrating Emily and Errik’s 10th anniversary

As you know, our class isn’t all work and no play! Back in 2005, when Henry Robinson first learned about Outward Bound (it has been 10 years since we all made that fateful trip), his first thought was noooope! Where Henry comes from, that sort of pain and suffering are more likely to result in homicide than bonding and friendship. But the idea of being on an island with people who we’ve

Supreet has also had a big year outside of her globe-trotting. She had her debut at Lincoln Center in New York City as part of a dance troupe celebrating International Yoga Day. She and her group did an interpretive dance of how the brain reacts to meditation. Fitting, since Supreet has also received her certification to teach meditation, all while maintaining an ever-growing role at Opera Solutions! Heather Onstott [Perrygo] reported that she just had the Boston T’07 crew over for their final “end of summer” gathering, which will immediately be followed by their “welcome fall”

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CL ASS NOTES In other way-more-important news, Christina and Marc had another daughter last December, so his two girls are Poppy (age 9 mos) and Violet (age 2.5). “In just the past few weeks I’ve run into Pat and Lindsay Fox (though not at the same time), Stephen Pidgeon, Katy Milligan, Errik Anderson, Casey McCullar, and maybe someone else in the Upper Valley, so if you are in town, send me a note! Joe Fletcher and Aki Matsunaga Fletcher announced that Elsie Akari Fletcher was born September 3, 2015, and came in at 7 lbs 2 oz (or as they say in Australia, “3.23 kg, mate”). Big sister Charlotte is delighted and shows no signs of jealousy (yet). They’re still living in Sydney and enjoying it a great deal. Turns out there are even some Tuckies in Australia—they spent much of Easter weekend with Nuno Carneiro and his family in Perth and earlier in the year had a quick visit from Penny Welsh and Amanda Young. There’s even the occasional Tuck ’Tails gathering! Quentin Reeve T’13 organized the most recent gathering—at the beach, as they do in Australia.

Charlotte and Elsie Fletcher

Maansi Gupta and Rohit Dugar continue to be the industrious couple we know and love—they’ve already started work on their second child, who is due in early November 2015. Maansi, of course, continues to work long banking hours and can’t wait for her brief maternity break, while Rohit and his Young Master Ales continues to brew beer and explore ways of expanding production capacity. They now have a small pub business and are looking to open more outlets in the near future. They wish more Tuckies would pass by Hong Kong

(other than Shobhit, who makes an appearance there, and pretty much everywhere else) so they could buy them a beer or two. I don’t think there is a stronger siren song to Tuckies than free beer, so please don’t all book your tickets at once! Jimmy Lee is still with Genentech and has been a division manager, managing a sales team up in the Northeast, for the past year and a half or so. They currently live in Cheshire, CT, where Jayden is 7, Charlotte is about to turn 4, and his wife Caroline just opened up a Facebook account. They had a great summer visiting Korea and seeing Joseph Lee (wife Eumi and two wonderful kids) and Joon Soo Ryu. He also got to see Ranjot Singh this summer in NYC (he wasn’t wearing a tie so we’re thinking he’s a pretty big deal at his investment bank now). It was great to see him as a baller, husband, and a dad. In late August, a group of intrepid and fun-loving Tuckies gathered on Bainbridge Island, WA, to celebrate the wedding of Linda Yu and Ben Brodsky (who wishes he could’ve been a Tuck Partner). The wedding celebration took place over the weekend of August 21 in a setting that can only be described as “summer camp for adults,” complete with activities, bunk beds, late-night obstacle courses and, of course, costumes. Judging by the smiling faces, a good time was had by all! Daniella Reichstetter, Patrick Thompson, Maija Aittola, Shobhit Gupta, Mark Pierson, Joe Pfeister, Maricar Pfeister, Megan Ulland, Andrew Ulland, Nancy Reid, Will Reid, and Ju-Yeon Park made the trip to celebrate with the happy couple! Lindsay (Bello) and Tim Martin welcomed Beatrix Miles Martin on March 30th. Baby Bea joins big brothers Ben and Archie. Everyone is in awe of the new girl in the house Lauren (Pastrich) and Ben King have been moving around quite a bit in the last six months. Ben started a new job (leaving Bain after 7.5 years) and is now at The Bridgespan Group. Lauren became an equity partner in her independent wealth advisory firm in January. Then the family moved to a new home (only 3 blocks away) within Port Washington, NY, and welcome any/all visitors. Chrissy (Quirolo)

Linda Yu and Ben Brodsky’s wedding celebration with Tuckies

Beatrix Miles Martin, with big brothers Ben and Archie

O’Keeffe and clan came by to check out the new house a few weeks ago and their Tiny Tuckies checked out every corner of the new place together. Chrissy has some pretty big news to share herself! After 7.5 years at Amex, she finally decided to pursue new opportunities a bit closer to the nest. She left Amex in January and enjoyed a fabulous 4 months of semiretirement before starting her next chapter in joining a CT-based company named Tauck, a high-end travel tour operator. She is the brand manager for their European River Cruises which is such a fun business to work on every day. Everyone should check it out and hit Chrissy up for the Tuck Family Discount! And, of course, being a Tuckie, she had to multitask and welcomed her second Tiny Tuckie in July. Benjamin Patrick O’Keeffe was born on July 11th, making a

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King and O’Keeffe Tiny Tuckies

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speedy arrival 30 minutes after they arrived at the hospital—cutting it a bit close! And despite Henry’s repeated request for a baby sister, he is thrilled and is taking his big brother role very seriously! Nancy (Block) Reid began a new position as Seattle director for a global-impact investing group called Toniic. She’s still the Seattle chair for her previous investing group, TIGER 21, so she’s now leading two local organizations and cooking up all kinds of interesting projects from her kitchen table! Melanie Mitchell and Dave Weiner were married in July in a perfectly picturesque ceremony in Vermont. While I’m sure the couple are truly happy, I think their hound, Twig, is the real winner here! And last, but certainly not least, I have some news of my own (Leslie writing here). In November, after 11 years of New York City living, I decided I needed fresher air and moved to Seattle. I joined the Starbucks strategy team and, if you can believe it, am far more caffeinated in my West Coast life than I was in my East Coast life! There are surprising number of Tuckies in Seattle these days, so if you think it’s time to head west, let us know— we’ve just about perfected our sales pitch!

Andres Gomez, Jana Swedburg, Oliver, and Alexa

’09 Patricia Henderson patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

Colin Van Ostern colin@washstreet.com

The whirlwind of fall is definitely in full effect in the lives of the T’09s, with lots of location changes, mergers, and babies to report. Hope you enjoy this edition! Change is in the Air

As of mid-September Allison Zeilinger will be putting what amounts to about a decade of brand strategy consulting to work at Twitter full-time. While this is a shift from consulting to in-house at a tech company, she won’t leave it all behind, as she continues to focus on brand strategy. As her second job ever (internships aside), it should be an exciting new chapter for her life! Igor Macura is now a bank supervisor at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and has not seen a T’09 for so long that he is starting to think that the whole thing was all in his head. So if anyone is in Frankfurt or has a layover there, he would be really happy to see them and prove his doctor wrong. Incidentally, he does share an office with Grégory Grellet, who was on exchange at Tuck from ESSEC in the winter term of our second year (“the coldest three months of my life,” he fondly recalls when relaying some misadventure with his then roommate Danny Rodriguez).

Jana Swedburg and Andres Gomez moved to the Toronto suburbs (minivan and all). Two little ones in a small condo downtown was getting very cramped. Andres continues to work with the BMO wealth management digital team, while Jana is innovating in snacks with Kellogg’s. Oliver (4 yrs old) started kindergarten this year and is doing great. Mom and dad are still in shock that their not-so-baby anymore takes the bus in the morning without them...crazy. The youngest one—Alexa (2 yrs old) is a ball of energy—chatting all day and a good dancer (unlike her dad).

As promised in the last edition, here is a photo of Mark Perez and Tamara Laine’s wedding from last November in Mexico. The couple is doing well and gearing up to celebrate their first anniversary!

Jason Wynegar is happy to report that he, his wife, Robin, and son, John, packed up and left Las Vegas in February, moving to Seattle for Jason to join Amazon. After four moves in six years, the Wynegars are planning on this being the last one for a long while.

In more recent news, Kristin Gaudino was married on September 19, 2015 in Bridgehampton, NY to Andrew Rowe. If the Internet can be trusted, it was a beautiful ceremony followed by a honeymoon in Bermuda.

Mergers…

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Tuck guests at the Tamara Laine-Mark Perez wedding

Mahek Rajdev

a daughter expected in February. Two-year-old Everett is excited to be a big brother!

Lily Olgiati

John Burnett had an exceptional proposal in Hawaii to future wife Anastasia Mills. The two moved to Boston, where John is working at State Street. Rob Pascal is planning to settle down after getting engaged to Kara Horton in July in Marblehead. Giacomo Sonnino proposed to his future fiancé, Vickie Alvo, and she said yes! Wedding details to follow.

T’09s at the wedding of Ella Witcher to Geoff McMillan

Your Class Secretaries

On June 20th, Ella Witcher married Geoff McMillan at The Lake House in Calgary. Fellow T’09s Lindsay Batastini, Kirstin Kalles, Mary Woodka, and Chelsea Rich joined Ella and Geoff in Calgary for the celebration. In April, Ludwig Reimmer married Rachna Chandiramani in a spectacular Jamaican wedding event dubbed #ludna2015.

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Oh Baby!

Jessica Liu and Grey Emmons (T’08) are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Dabney Liu Emmons, on March 10th. Dabney is already showing signs of future Tuck love!

Julia and Darius Matthews are happy to report that, by the time you read this, they will have added another baby boy to their family. Stay tuned to the next edition for an update on the name (and hopefully, a photo!).

After years representing a quarter-million NH citizens in the state government, Colin Van Ostern is now running for governor of New Hampshire in 2016—an exciting opportunity to be Tuck’s first publicly-elected chief executive. He promises to keep New Hampshire an amazing place for you to come visit on recruiting trips and reunions, send your kids to college in, move your business to, retire in. Catch up with his campaign at www. vanostern.com.

Unconfirmed Internet Reports

See you soon!

Shivam Rajdev and wife, Vineeta, were blessed with baby girl Mahek in June 2015. Mahek is

Teran Martin and wife Christine are getting ready to expand their crew with the addition of

Since the last class notes edition, Setareh and William Olgiati are happy to report the arrival of their second daughter, Lily. Lily was born on April 7th, 2015, and her proud sister, Mina, takes very good care of her and is mastering playing dolls with a newborn!

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It’s been a big year for your class secretaries. Patricia Henderson left Deloitte Consulting after a great six-year run to join AECOM in its corporate strategy group. The change will give her more time to renovate the new-to-her 1920s house she bought in Los Angeles (another six-year project, for sure!).

enjoying the free daily massages, short-lived Canadian summer, and is looking for her upcoming trip to Mexico in November.

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of those things you did at Burning Man, Oktoberfest, the Folsom Street Fair, or the basement of that club in Berlin. And what is this, Shark Tank? You’ve all become cutthroat, savvy capitalists:

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Jonathan Piques jonathan.piques@gmail.com

Matt Proch-Wilson mattprochwilson@hotmail.com

All, this is the five-year reunion edition of our class notes! Instead of updating you all on what’s happened over the past six months, we thought it would be better to put forth some highlights from the last five years. I [Matt Proch-Wilson] have been in consulting since 2010, so I treated this exercise in the only way I know how: I asked you all for the answers, and now I’m about to read back to you what you yourselves told me and call it a “current state assessment.” To whom should I send the invoice? So remember at our first day at Tuck, when we sat in the auditorium and Dawna Clarke from Admissions read off the list about our backgrounds, things we’d done before we enrolled? I remember being so intimidated by everything people had accomplished. Well, I’m happy to report that I was MUCH less intimidated by what you’ve all done SINCE we graduated. For example: on average, each of the graduates from our class ran across Australia only .004 times! That’s just, like, 9 miles per person. Put down the chips and take a walk, guys! Thank goodness James Brooman actually did run across Australia this past year; it would have been tremendously awkward if in five years not a single member of our class pushed a baby carriage across a continent. Name a corner of the globe and one of you has vacationed there: whether it’s Argentina, Bhutan, the Maldives, Romania, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, Morocco, or Grand Forks, North Dakota—Tuck, you have the map covered. You’ve cherished the photographs of yourselves on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, at the finish line of the Boston (or DC or Chicago or Paris or New York) Marathon, while speaking at Stanford University, and while scuba diving in Indonesia. You hope no one got photographs

• You go where the excitement is (one of you made the peculiar decision to winter in North Dakota) • You have nerves of steel (one of you has worked at Amazon for five years and managed to only cry once) • You don’t let boundaries stop you; you just plow right through them (one of you rode your bike from London to Paris) • You negotiate like a pro (one of you convinced Carolyn Maezes to marry Ryan Guest) • You use complex terminology others don’t understand (one of you made a 60’ double break downhill putt to make birdie) • You do or say what it takes to seal the deal (one of you hangover vomited while visiting a wastewater treatment plant and blamed it on the wastewater) • You step outside your comfort zone (one of you went to see Britney Spears in Las Vegas. That’s not that interesting. It was Tony Cape. Suddenly it’s interesting.) • You are empire builders. So many of you have started your own companies! (We’re going to do a deep dive on this in a future issue because we don’t want to miss anyone.) You’ve remained true to the causes about which you feel passionate. For example, two of you made sincere commitments to poverty. Marvena Edmond has been to Haiti a number of times to build houses with Habitat for Humanity. And Michael Garvey has made a commitment to his own lifelong poverty by having a sixth child. Fertile myrtle! And the environment is another hot-button topic: both Reed Bundy and Carey Schwaber Armstrong, two die-hard, tree-hugging environmentalists, did their part and purchased diesel Volkswagens. You’ve become less afraid of being true to yourself. Mike Stallworth stood up, loud and proud, and publicly admitted…that he’s obsessed with Rachel Bobruff’s Instagram posts from Burning Man. Mike, none of us has the courage to admit that. None of us. Some of you have had some seriously close calls. Bastian Latt almost got killed kite surfing.

Mariana Moreira was mugged by a thug with a Pepsi can cut in half. Wei Fu went to North Korea and is here to talk about it. Can she talk about it? Wei, are you allowed to talk about it? Our network is global, and we live across the world. To name a few countries: Mexico, Germany, South Korea, Australia, France, U.K., China, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Bolivia, San Mateo County, and 02468 (some of you were subpar at filling out the survey). Kevin Williams lives in the freaking Virgin Islands, and I’m sure he’d be more than happy to host you the next time you need a little sun. If you were given the chance, a lot of you would go back and do things a little differently at Tuck. More than one person mentioned the theme of less time studying, less time worrying about jobs, more time socializing, more time getting to know our professors, and, of course, more skiing. Some of you were more tactical in your hindsight: Chip Franklin would have changed his valuation class project recommendation for Tesla from a “sell” to a “buy.” Reed Bundy would have stopped the puck in the Tripod finals shootout. Paul Smart would have “abandoned [his] faith and become boozehounds like the rest of [us].” (“Just kidding,” he says, though it’s not totally clear which part he’s kidding about.) This one is actually really sweet: Helen Ding says, “I wish I spent less time in the library and more time getting to know my fellow Tuckies.” Right? Totally sweet, but also totally confusing. Did we have a library? Where is there a library? Oh, the big room with the copy machine! Sure, sure. Helen, why did you spend so much time making copies? Finally, we have to pause and remember that since graduation many of us lost a dear friend, and one of us lost his best friend. Micah’s poise throughout this time has been inspiring. You may know this already, but following Jess’s passing, her parents established a scholarship fund in her name. The Jessica L. Arnold T’10 Memorial Scholarship fund was slated to meet Tuck’s threshold amount for an endowed scholarship if gifts reached $100K or more by December 2018; but we’re happy to report that the $100K has already been reached, three years ahead of the goal! What a testament to our community and to the power of Jess’s spirit. If you’re interested in contributing, you can send a check made payable to the Tuck School

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CL ASS NOTES of Business to Deb Herndon, Development and Alumni Services, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH 03755. Please note “Jessica L. Arnold T’10 Memorial Scholarship Fund” on the memo line of your check. For other payment options or questions, please call Deb Herndon at 603-646-3934. It’s never easy to leave the notes on a heartwrenching note, so let’s just say this: we are resilient, we’ve made progress, and gosh darn it, people like us. For those that weren’t at Reunion this past October, we missed you. We hope to at least see you in 2020, and hopefully a whole lot sooner. Keep in touch. Editor’s note: With tremendous thanks to Michelle, Matt, and Jonathan for their class secretary-ing all these issues, we are also now pleased to welcome Carey Schwaber Armstrong as your new T’10 class secretary! You’ll be able to send Carey updates for class notes at the t10tuckupdates@yahoo.com email address still.

’11 Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

Shaun Mehtani

More than 25 Tuckies were in attendance at Genelle Bullert and Ari Kahan’s wedding on August 29th in California

Genelle Bullert and Ari Kahan got married in Carmel Valley, California, on August 29th, 2015. Presiding over the ceremony was fellow Tuck classmate Jeff Boyink. As some of you may recall, Genelle and Ari were in the same study group for Fall A and B. In attendance were over 25 Tuckies. Fabien Vives got married this year to Maryam Rabbanifard on April 4 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. At the time the notes were being submitted, he was enjoying swimming with the sharks on his honeymoon in Tahiti!

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5TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Dear Fellow T’11s, We think Lauren Nichols Romansky captured it best when she wrote in, “2015’s been busy.” Thanks for taking the time to check in and share your news. It’s been great hearing from all of you—congratulations on all of the moves, promotions, marriages, babies and life changes! Best, Amanda & Shaun [Look on the T’11 class notes page on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for more photos!] ...THEN COMES MARRIAGE

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Lauren Nichols Romansky writes, “As indicated via various social media outlets, I totally got married and had a kid. Carter Romansky and I were married in NH in February. I met him (as friends!) through the Education Pioneers fellowship I took between the two years at Tuck. We started dating in 2013 when I moved back to Boston. He’s just the most generous and thoughtful guy and we are very lucky and happy living in JP. While planning our wedding, we figured out our family was growing quickly, as we welcomed Julia Jane Romansky on July 27th. She’s already heard all about Hanover and is very excited to check it out.” Manuel Bedacarratz married his longtime girlfriend, Ana Maria Draghici, on March 22 in Bucharest, Romania (Ana is Romanian). While Manuel was at Tuck, Ana was pursuing her PhD in neuroscience at Dartmouth. They met at India Queen in 2009 and have been dating since March 2010. Writes Manuel, “So it took us exactly 5 years to get married! Couldn’t be happier with

Manuel Bedacarratz married Ana Maria Draghici on March 22 in Bucharest, Romania

Tuck and Dartmouth for making her and I meet!” Lauren Jean Peters and John O’Connor Radeck Jr. were married Saturday, October 11, 2014, in Aiken, South Carolina. Amy Hudson wed Nick Gaubinger T’10 this past summer in British Columbia. A special nod to Canada’s favorite son, Steve Kenning, because, according to Amy, “I get Canada now. I totally get it.” THEN COMES BABY IN THE BABY CARRIAGE… Ryan Vess says, “Meghan and I are excited to announce Benjamin Ryan Vess! Ben was born on April 3rd at 5:17 pm, weighing 7 lbs 7 oz. Meghan and Ben are both doing great and we can’t wait

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Joe Matula was promoted to managing director at my firm in July. He writes, “Chakrapani Mandava and I continue to carry the Tuck Club of Houston flag…70+ alumni here and growing!”

Ryan and Meghan Vess welcomed Benjamin Ryan Vess on April 3 Richard Smith and Jen welcomed baby girl Liza on August 14

and I had a baby recently—Aug 14—Elizabeth Victoria Margaret Smith. We’re calling her Liza for short. I would come up with something either heartfelt or witty to say about it but I’m just too tired. She is clearly nocturnal.” (AND LIFE CONTINUES)

Jacob Dennett (son of Zach and Annie Snodgrass Dennett) sports a Tuck Class of ’45 onesie handmade by Sara Glazer

for you to meet him!” Zach and Annie Snodgrass Dennett welcomed a baby boy, Jacob, on June 6th. Jacob has already met several Tuckies and looks forward to meeting the other new tiny Tuckies! Gauthier & Maggie Capelle welcomed Marion Juliette Capelle to the family on June 19th. Maggie writes, “I’m on maternity leave from Vulcan until October, and Gauthier just moved to the sports team at Amazon working on fishing, hunting, game room, and team sports. Sounds about right, no? :)” Andrew and Amanda Helming welcomed a baby boy on July 12—Teddy (William Edward Helming). They are enjoying being parents and spending time with Tuck friends, especially those in and around Boston! Jim and Molly Muchmore welcomed a baby boy, Luke Harrison Muchmore, on July 21. Richard Smith checked in with us to say, “Jen

Ali Connolly is still in Denver, but there are big changes on the job front! Ali reports that she’s gone out on her own and founded Spinnaker Consulting, which is currently engaged on 4 projects, focused on helping companies redesign their BD process. She writes, “Looking for more engagements in 2016, so let me know! Good news is I’m the boss now and am very lenient on ski days, so looking forward to another great CO ski season.” David Goldenheim writes, “Things continue to go well at Audax, where I spend most of my time on health-care services transactions. I’m feeling like one of very few people still in the same job 4 years after Tuck! Anna finished medical school at B.U. in May and started her residency in June at Mass General Hospital in pediatrics. Charlotte turned two in May and is a complete joy.” This past April, Juan Pablo Lankenau returned to the timber investment industry by joining Forest Investment Associates as an assistant director in their international team, focusing on LatAm deals. Although FIA is based out of Atlanta, he will continue to live and work remotely from Monterrey. Regarding family news, the twins (Juan Pablo and Lolyna, 8 years old) and José Andres (3 years old) are thrilled to be welcoming a brother who will be born early February 2016.

After one and a half years back in the States, Juston Johnson moved onto his third company this in September. Juston told us, “It’s been a very interesting journey leaving Samsung for Beats and then being acquired by Apple. Next, I will join i.am.plus, the tech company of will.i.am, as a lead product manager. I’ll be jumping into this startup at an early stage and attempting to do what Beats did for headphones with a variety of fashionable tech that Will wants to release into the world.”

’12 Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

Crap! Another new Tuck class is starting, which means we’re getting older and *gasp* more mature.… Nah. Let’s be real. It’s all a front. All this means is we’re two years away from a fun-filled (read pong) 5-year reunion with friends. Checking out the new and improved myTuck homepage, one will notice that there is a BIG welcome for the class of 2017. That certainly made us feel really, really old but also happy to see that others will get to share the same experiences we all did in the Upper Valley. We, your secretaries, can’t wait! However, let’s live in the now. Dean Slaughter is kicking off his first year as dean. Best of luck to him. While he’s making history at Tuck, our class continues to do its best to link up (read marriages and engagements) and churn out (read babies) future students for Dean Slaughter. Once again we are lacking our typical update from Ian Warthin to start. He’s too busy carrying one of the aforementioned babies

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CL ASS NOTES around as he sips his beer and thinks of witty social media responses. There are some returning members to the Tiny Tuckie club and also a few new members, including our very own Roman “I gave up smoking” Hughes. Babies Fabio Weiss and Dani Stefanelli have given up sleep for the remainder of the year. They welcomed twins Sophia and Julia on July 15th, joining Nina. Fabio’s new Ironman challenge is parenting 3 girls while not sleeping.... Jamie and Leslie Kanter—We’re not sure what’s going on, but Jamie and Leslie are also expecting twins…and will also then have 3 girls.... Vegas is already taking bets on whether this means Leslie will be on social media more or less. Sophie and David Leal happily welcomed Emma María Leal on August 6th. Wager on the first language spoken by baby Emma? We’re taking French. George Craft and his wife, Sarah, welcomed their third child, Thomas Casey, “Tommy,” on August 14. He joins big brother James, 3, and sister Mary, 1. We’ve already seen James with his clubs. Mary and Tommy will not be far behind. It seems that Georgie has really used his time wisely at Spencer Stuart.

The McFarlin family welcomes their new daughter, Jasmine

June 22nd and clocked in at 7 lbs 5 oz and 19 inches long. She joins brothers Jonathan and Joshua. Akhuemose Louise Oteze has been very busy. She has officially changed her name to Ose Oteze Parlee following her new U.S. citizenship, and she and her husband, Chris, welcomed baby Madeleine Iguehi Parlee. The new family is doing great! Jeff and Jennifer Millman welcomed baby Adam to the fam last August. No one is happier than little Daniel, who now has a friend to sing songs with! Francisco Giantaglia and his wife, Patty, welcomed baby Martina in August. Both mother and baby are doing great. Will and Julie Reimer Albright are expecting a baby little walby/jalby for February! Congratulations, guys!!! Weddings Rich and Koushi T’13 King had a lovely May wedding in Florida, bringing T’12s and T’13s together for an epic dance party. Thiago Vasconcelos made a surprise visit from Brazil. Oh, and there were dippin’ dots. Then the happy couple got their honeymoon on in Turkey and Greece.

George and Sarah Craft welcomed their third child, Thomas Casey—“Tommy”

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Hudson and Anna Evei tied the knot in Boston this summer at a fun-filled wedding with lots of Tuckies (see picture). Phil Lacombe married Devon Shapiro T’13 this August. They did some scenic honeymooning in Iceland. Look for Phil to have a PowerPoint deck ready to relay his findings to the class.

Hudson and Anna Evei surrounded by Tuckies at their Boston wedding

Geoff Mattei and Rebecca Drejet got hitched in Seattle, where they have also recently relocated to, at a Tuck-filled affair. Next stop was Hawaii— you can see their adventures on Drejet’s Instagram. She’s mostly screaming in front of the camera, while Geoff has his always-present “I will beat you in any Xbox game” grin on. Lisa Hochman married Seth Wolkoff in Cleveland, OH. The wedding was filled with cheer and love, with several Tuckies present. Perhaps one of the biggest highlights (aside from the nuptials and dancing, of course) was heading to the casino for some late-night gambling! Dan Linsalata got married to Donna Schaller at the Museum of Science in Boston at a magical affair, where we’re fairly sure things got weird (in a good way). There are rumors of a picture of a man in a tub being carried on people’s shoulders to illustrate what we mean. Engagements Daniel Bogomoltz sent us a lovely note (take pointers, everyone...seriously!) He got engaged to his girlfriend, Fernanda. The wedding will take place on Oct 18 in São Paulo. It will be a traditional Jewish celebration, including a lot of hora (Jewish wedding music) and the usual dance with the bride and groom on chairs. Hopefully, many Tuckies will attend, or at least the ones who live within a 1,000 mile radius. He and Fernanda will be honeymooning in Tahiti. They’re looking forward to great beach, scuba dives and paradisiacal scenery. As if that wasn’t enough, he also recently retired from the consulting lifestyle (smart move) and moved to the airline industry. He assumed a position at TAM on April 15th, and so far it’s going well! Alex Duff (Mr. Wiggles) recently got engaged.

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Hopefully, at his wedding Mr. Wiggles will show himself once more. We can only hope!

you can email us individually. We want to hear from you and what’s going on in your lives!

look forward to getting in the mail instead of student loan statements.”

Scott Goldstein is also engaged. His fiancée hopefully knows that she will likely never beat him in any sporting events, be it tennis, hockey, or beer pong. If she does, she will be sure to experience his wrath and also likely be forced to engage in a rematch.

Ben is loving life in New York and at MyHabit. After months of work, he has launched MyHabit’s ability to sell merchandise on Amazon. Get your shop on! After a summer of weddings, he’s excited for fall football (Go Bucks!) and his upcoming Central American vacation. If you find yourself passing through New York, let him know and he can gather a group.

Babies: People got busy. Was it from attending all those weddings last year that set the romantic mood? Or the snowstorm boredom? Either way, we got a serious bulk order for Tiny Tuckie onesies in to TuckStuff (or is it Tuck Things?)

Thiago Vasconcelos also got engaged, to Monica. The state of Rio de Janeiro has decreed a high-alert status until festivities are over. Very smart of them, if you ask us. Work After all, isn’t that why we went to Tuck in the first place? Sebastian Martinez was promoted to brand manager-Air Wick candles. Seems like this portfolio remains in the Tuck family. We’re looking forward to the new “Tuck” collection, which will include magnificent scents such as “Coop Garage,” “Hockey bag,” “Champagne toast,” “LNDP,” “Asado,” and “Killington.” Octavio Mendes—Another smart Brazilian leaves the consulting ranks for industry. Octavio will be a project manager for Bayer. John Douglas Boomgard—Boom has given up on the dream of saving the world for the more attainable one of achieving the milestone of $100B in sales with Amazon. Who will shoot mosquitos with lasers now? Christopher Malone—Rooster is another to bail from the consulting world to move to NYC. He’s been working with xAd on monetization for the past 3 months. Taco Bell sales have gone up 9% in the downtown area.

Roman is extremely sleep deprived and loving every second of it. Romancito, aka El Gringo, is getting more fun by the minute. From a work standpoint, things are going well. Another cold and flu season coming up and tons of work to be done, but it’s been a great work experience so far. Derrick continues to provide all your lawn and garden needs at Amazon. For some reason, the powers that be are allowing him to manage a team of folks these days. Derrick is finally going to be a part of one of the greatest clubs known to Tuck: the Married Men is (post) Business. He and Natalie recently got engaged and will be getting married in Seattle in July 2016. At this point in his life, he’s managing to keep his shirt on for the most part and bears some resemblance to an adult.

We missed John Lehman’s baby Jack back in January 8, so he gets a shout-out first. Swaroop S. Kumar and wife Madhu welcomed their baby son in February. Mukul Kumar welcomed Anika on March 23 with a handmade wood crib (and we aren’t talking Ikea, like the rest of us). Ross Templeton and wife Rebecca had their third child (and first girl), Esther Rose, on April 12. Ross writes, “We’re just trying to protect her from her overeager brothers, who tend to express their love with head butts and body slams. Josiah is now 4 and starts preschool in a few weeks, so he’s pumped for that (as is Rebecca, who will now have 1 less wild child to chase around during the day).”

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Julie Reimer Albright—with a double feature, promoted to brand manager, cleaners at Colgate. Fabuloso! Get it?

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People are DOIN STUFF (official term) in their personal and professional lives. It is crazy the news to provide. And I am not just talking about being the class with the highest giving rate of any class. Go us! Also, in a totally unself-serving piece of shout out, Pete wanted to say “Thank you to the class secretaries for their hard work and giving us something to

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Anshuman Bhatia and wife Jayati had their second child, Jaanvi, on April 23. Andy Friedman and wife Christie had their first child in April. Scott Reinig and wife Emily had their third child, Eve, on May 11. Niya Johnson and husband Adam welcomed Austin Peter into the world on May 13. Chris Davis had a second child, Emeline Reese, who “appears to have blue eyes and blond hair...and her mom’s dimples. Her big sister Adelaide (16 mos) is doing well and seems just fine with the new addition.” Yury and Anat Gimburg welcomed their second Tiny Tuckie, Matan Gimburg, on

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The Leveillee-Cornwall wedding, filled with Tuckies

“Tyler and Elliot love their new sister Emilia and are very attentive—they are quick to insert the pacifier if she’s crying!” On the same day, Rafael Romero Hidalgo and wife Lucia had their first child, Renata Romero Trejo, on June 17th, which seems like not the best timing to go back for another master’s, but that is what Rafael is doing at Thunderbird. Anirudh Goel and wife Shruti had baby Anika on July 2. I guess he really liked it when Mukul named his daughter that. Katie and Brad Callow had the first “met at Tuck” couple baby when Madison arrived on July 7. We assume the labor was slightly longer than the 9-minute intro video created in her honor. Jay Beckstoffer had baby #2 in July 2015. He has no excuse of a winter blizzard, so yea. Chris Halstedt and wife Lauren welcomed Blake Ellis, weighing 6 pounds 14 ounces and extending 20 inches, on September 14. Khalil Hooper and wife Ashley welcomed their first child, Miles Edward, at 8 pounds 7.6 ounces and 20 inches, on September 18. Engagements: You thought the wedding wave was over. HA!

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June 9th, 2015. He weighed 8 lbs 14 ozs and was 21 inches long. Bill Detlefsen and wife Kristin rounded out their two boys with baby girl Emilia Claire, born June 17. Bill writes,

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Luis “Wicho” Gonzalez and Elsy Villarreal got engaged on March 22 and will be tying the knot in Monterrey on October 31st. The jury is out on whether Wicho will DJ his own wedding, but we are all looking forward to those dance moves. Lacey Farrell and Scott Johnson T’12 decided they put in enough vertical feet together to get married, fittingly on the top of Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont on April

5. Matt Zepernick and Rachel Henry HBS’15 got engaged on April 1...PSYCH! Ha ha, April Fool’s. Joke’s on you, Matt, because we have had you on Engagement Watch since December 2014. See you next issue! Matt Grady asked Luz Ruiz to be his forever on July 22. We assume there was an epic poem. Luz and Matt met in Mexico City during his study-abroad time at Tuck and plan to wed in Mexico next year. Max Pinto asked Kate Stephens to be his forever in July. Rory Barratt asked longtime girlfriend Kathy to be his in July, and they plan to be married next May. Jamie Geraghty got engaged to longtime girlfriend Amanda this summer. Mimi Macauley and Dave Sibley are officially “engaging” as of September 12. Maybe this would be the time to spend Dave’s share of that giant First Place MLB 2013 First Pitch MBA Competition check. Has anyone seen that picture? Took me forever to find. Weddings: They are basically mini Tuck reunions, so enjoy them while they last. Countdown to real Tuck reunion: 3 years. Phil Kim and Se Won Park got married on May 9 in Korea. On the same day, Koushi Sunder wed T’12 Rich King in Florida. Alvin Choy and Jisun “Ashley” Jeong married on May 10 in beautiful Hawaii, the “in the middle” option for Michigan and Korean family members. Crystal Leveillee and Taylor Cornwall wed at Veritas Vineyards in Virginia on May 16 with 40-50 Tuckies and TPs, ranging from T’03 to T’14.

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Dan Esdorn wed Marla Menninger on June 13. Sabrina Hall-Little wed T’12 Jeremy Wertzer in Rhinebeck, NY, on June 20. Abigail Isaacson wed Zander Abbott on June 25 in the perfect Maine wedding at Bowdoin College. JP Cantos wed Hilda Thielen (yes, Henrique’s sister) in Xcaret, Playa del Carmen, on August 1. Devon Shapiro and T’12 Phil Lacombe wed at the Boston Museum of Science on Aug 15. Unclear if guests got VIP/drunk access to the Pixar exhibit. Tory O’Kane and John Lamberth wed on Aug 29 at the Montclair Country Club in Montclair, NJ (the nice part, everyone!). The Rose Club had an important pre-meeting to evaluate the wedding wine selection. Jobs & Moves: The Venn diagram of these two categories has high overlap, but not 100% (consulting joke). Colin Barclay left Wowza for Delta-v Capital. Paritosh Birla left L.E.K. and Boston for Lenskart.com and Delhi, India. Caitlin Pingree traded in her K-Cups for mutual funds when she left Keurig for Fidelity. Christel Bouvron left Thomson Reuters for GrabTaxi, a taxi-booking app, in Southeast Asia. Will Cornock said enough of the frozen ice caves and Post-its and hightailed it back to the center of the universe, NYC, and a new gig at BCG. In the reverse turn, Kaitie Donovan felt she had been away from her Packers for too long and moved from Boston to Wisconsin with a role at Northwestern Mutual’s internal private equity group. I am envisioning the best Tuck high-five between Will and Kaitie somewhere over Canada in the jet stream from their respective planes. Walker Fullerton has moved from Boston to NYC, though he remains at TripAdvisor. He is already missing TripAdvisor’s brand-new HQ renovations and its in-house bar. After last winter in New England, Bill Detlefsen threw his Bean boots at Cabot in Massachusetts and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to work with a T’99 as a product manager at Huber Engineered Materials. Matt Grady is switching it up, moving from Raymond James in Tampa to global strategy at Starbucks in Seattle. I guess he and Caitlin Pingree didn’t talk coffee beans or shadow banking (or did they? I guess he did run that Tuck coffee shop) before their respective moves. Matt says, “I couldn’t be more pleased to have the

opportunity to work for an organization that I’ve admired for many years and in an industry that I am (obviously to all of you!) passionate about.” Smita Gupta is moving to San Francisco, though she remains at Deloitte. John Lehman: “After having entirely too much fun working I-banking hours, I thought I’d let someone else enjoy the hours and went back on the government dole. I am working as a professional staff member for the Senate Armed Services Committee, responsible for the Naval Aviation, missiles, and munitions program portfolios.” John is now located in the D.C. area. Baj Mandhania left BMO Capital Markets for Citi’s real estate and lodging banking group. Meg Robinton was promoted to cereal buyer for Target. Please direct all requests for Lucky Charms, French Toast Crunch and Froot Loops to Meg. Jennifer Causton has moved from Joburg back to Seattle with BCG. Emily Chamberlain left the travel schedule of Kurt Salmon to be a business analyst in technology at Viking. Devon Shapiro left Manulife to be marketing manager at app HotelTonight. Make your reservations now and use code DSHAPIRO34 for $25 off your first booking. An An left Microsoft and the U.S. after successfully launching XBox One in China. He is now based in Beijing as the VP of global business development for the mobile gaming company Gaea Mobile Ltd. After 6 months at Tom’s of Maine, Hussein Nasreddin is once again back at Colgate in NYC and has just abandoned the island for a new pad in BK. Pete Gauthier moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh, and enjoys spending his weekends practicing his rickshaw-driving skills and chilling on secluded beaches. Pete has three passports, for those who are wondering. Tomas Garcia Moreno left A.T. Kearney for BCG in Madrid and was immediately sent to Angola on his first project. Looking forward to the updates! Nacho Gonzalez left JPMorgan and NYC to return to his supply chain roots with a new gig at Apple in the Bay Area. John Gardner left Bain for startup life as director of operations at BuildZoom, an online marketplace for remodeling and construction contractors. After less than a year in MA, Henrique Thielen is having a mysterious and sudden departure from his job and the state. He promises to reveal all soon! Equally as cryptic, Chris Pearson-Smith has left Deloitte

after a collective 10 years for an entrepreneurial endeavor. He leaked it has to do with education and has some relation to his speech at Tuck. Stay tuned! Some people felt like Dis-O was too long ago. After Mike Kuo left Microsoft for Google, he headed to Ecuador for “funployment.” Matt Zepernick did the same, traveling to multiple countries with a bunch of HBS grads after leaving L.E.K./Boston for sales strategy at InBev in NYC. Mike Lenon went on a classic Southeast Asia trip to Vietnam, Myanmar, and Taiwan, though wasn’t inspired to get a new job and remains at banker4life (who else will Yoel Kifle bring to DA CLUB?). Sarah Stern is having a 6-month stint in Amsterdam with Bain or #transferdam. She has encouraged Tuckies to go visit and we strongly encourage you to do the same! Not to be outdone, Justin Rodriguez is moving to Kuala Lumpur in January 2016 with BCG for a year in that region. Visitors welcome! People do some stuff outside of babies, each other, and jobs. Here are some highlights below! Hannah Yankelevich was named president of the board of Reaching Out. Less important but still interesting, Hannah is now a blonde. Did you know Shane Proch-Wilson is the secretary at Reaching Out? Man, so out of the loop on Reaching Out. Go Tuck pride! An An has been making the rounds in Europe, including an epic reunion with Maxime in Warsaw and Tara in London. Nishant Daruka and Hemant Sood played a mean game of badminton in Luxembourg over Memorial Day weekend. Eddie Ruhland went to Vanuatu post-cyclone with Doctors Without Borders to volunteer. He had previously done Peace Corps in that same location. Dave Sibley wants everyone to know the best part of Denver is “scootin.” And wearing his Tuck Carnival T-shirt at all social events. Tara Sukumar decided to ride 300 miles from London to Paris. Sounds long. Kevin Tay is taking back up the cello. Please send your song requests now. Pete isn’t the only Poets & Quants feature now, with Erin McCafferty being featured as a fierce, smart momma while in business school. Way to represent WIB, Erin! Chris Pearson-Smith was invited to speak at Tuck, providing the incoming T’17s (ugh, we are so old) with a speech on being a leader of principle.

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CL ASS NOTES Career Spotlight: This episode we bring you the craziest career story we have heard, from Christina Fanitzi, which includes a surprise teaching of accounting (LesRo would be proud!), teaching negotiations with help from Jeff Weiss and Aram Donigian T’08, creating an Iraqi training village and being a Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence finalist. Overall: “Teaching at West Point was a complete b***-breaker of an assignment. Regardless of how tough it was, I thanked God every day for Tuck and our academic experience. I far outpaced my peers and was a far better teacher because of the amazing faculty I observed at Tuck.” Year One: Expected to teach Military Leadership, but ‘Two weeks before my second term started, my boss came in my office and said, “Fanitzi, you’re teaching Accounting as well as Leadership next term.” I puked a bit in my mouth and then said, “Roger, Sir.” He said, “You took that far better than I expected.” I replied, “Well, it doesn’t seem like I have much of a choice...and I’m reacting better than my Tuck friends would if they heard I was now responsible for another human’s understanding of Accounting.” Year Two: Trained cadets on Wide Area Security, led the Faculty Development Workshop, became officer-in-charge of the West Point Negotiation Project, led a 40-hour course with the FBI on Crisis Negotiation, and then served as lead instructor on her Negotiation Mobile Training Team workshop for Navy SEAL teams. Up Next: Moving from West Point to Fort Hood, Texas, to join the 303rd Military Intelligence Battalion, a unit within the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (BfSB) as their Battalion S3 (Operations Officer). FINALLY, in honor of his engagement and move to his dream job, Matt Grady has graciously agreed to leave us with some parting deep thoughts (after emails from Anne every Tuck Notes deadline): “I’ll leave you with a few words that have occupied my mind for the past several weeks. They are an epitaph of a beloved former principal of my high school alma mater: ‘He wrought with tireless hand through crowded days like one who hastened lest the eternal sleep should steal upon him ere his work was done.’ My simple hope is that we all might lead lives of such quality and productivity that the same may be said of us after we are gone.”

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

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Whelp, it’s that time of year again. Some refer to it as the “humble brag” column, while others simply don’t refer to it. But regardless of what you call it, it’s time to discuss the status of T’14s and their ongoing attempts to pay lower taxes. Yup, that’s right; it’s tax write-off time! And you don’t need to be a CFA (like newly minted Josh Hawkins and Ryan Ferro) to know that tax write-offs are very important to short-term cash flow. And, yes, the columnists understand the difference between CPAs and CFAs: that was just a way to shoehorn in a Level III certification congratulations. Engagements: We’ll start with the folks who are still filing as single for the near term. There are almost too many to list, since it appears folks were attempting to coordinate their engagements. Candidates for class couple Chris Gomsak and Meg Nunn got engaged at the top of Mt. Philo in Vermont, paying homage to the Upper Valley. Also in contention are recently engaged Jared Small and Nell Ryder. Please note: no stuffed animals were harmed during their engagement. They got married somewhere in London? Promises of a write-up were not answered in time. Branching out from the Tuck umbrella were Ali Bachani and Alia Rehman, who were engaged in London over the summer. Not to be outdone, Alexis Kheir and Leland Robbins were engaged at the top of Lombard Street, thinking about “how rude” it would be if the random tourist assigned to capture the moment had failed. And, yes, that was a Full House reference. Jet-setting back to the East Coast for a second, Eric Rautiola and Erin Lawson got engaged. But the mile-high engagement of the season goes to Alice Lin and Helene Vincent, whose story involves flight attendants and pilots on a BOS->LAX flight on Alice’s 30th birthday.

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New Dependents: A number of classmates welcomed bright shining new faces into the world, though only Thierry Decembre managed a boy, with new son Benjamin being born on July 17th. Vying to date the young man are new additions Cora Elise Hagstrom (born to Pete and Rachel Hagstrom), Eleanor (Mike and Sara Parshley), and Leah Hargrove (Dixon and Lauren Hargrove). If it seems like this is a lot of girls, well, you’re right. Even second-born children were unable to break up the streak, as Cordelia “Cora” Yeoreum Pan (Michael and Stella Pan) was welcomed to the world. Marriages: Moving into the joint filing domain, a number of Tuckies tied the proverbial knot. Starting in the EU, Kiera (O’Brien) and Nils Jean-Mairet were married in Camden Town Hall in London, with many Tuckies in attendance to shut down the dance floor in the wee hours of the morning. Francesco and Rachele Marino took the plunge in Italy over the summer, celebrating not only America’s birthday but also their

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Cordelia “Cora” Yeoreum Pan

marriage under a (very hot) Tuscan sun in a castle over the Chianti hills surrounded by family and friends. The Tuck family was well represented, again dominating the dance floor. Are we sensing a theme yet? Tuckies and their partners included Nico Bayle, Eduardo Alexander and Claudia Gonzalez de Leon, Jeff Zhou, Alman Shibli, Difu Li, Miguel Andrés, Borja Rivero, Nashley Mascarenhas, Oyebode Fajobi, Neel Kumar, Martin Biely, and Ellen and Bryan Cory.

The Marino wedding in Tuscany

Transitioning back across the pond, Daniela Thions Meyer and Marco Vigato were married in Mexico, with Kiera, Ali, Evgeny Gonokhin, Avanti Maluste, Meghan Lodolo, Ralph Riedel, Juliet Horton, Andrew Graham, Ahmed Darwish, Bret Anderson, Joe Powers, Gary Aiello, and Andrew Miller in attendance to witness the nuptials. Meanwhile in Americaland, Robert Gallagher and Emily Morgan were married in Dedham, MA, with the last-minute help from Sally Jaeger. As much as I’d imagine she’d excel at it, the help was not in the form of wedding planning but sending the all-important Tuck banner for a Tuckie photo shoot! #LodgeLove was in attendance with Josh Mellen, Doug

The Milhiser wedding

London, Meri Carman, and Sprague Brodie in addition to Dani Mosse, Nancy Tam, Emile Santos, Jake Shapiro, Andrew and Emily (Dunn) Bye, Ted Offner, and Tracy Danner.

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Not submitting write-ups but with class secretaries stalking their Facebook walls, we also have photographic proof of Ben Duell and Nicki Parikh tying the knot, as well as Alejandro Lorenzo-Rojas and Ellen McKay.

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Ben Davis and Elena Weissman were married at Chelsea Piers in New York City, which included a brief performance by Ben and other alumni of his college’s a cappella group. The magic behind their love? Ben was her former boss. Tuckies again well attended, with Adam Kramer, Erin Schwarz, Harry Kahn, Ben Hall, Benjie Moll, Mike Nowak, Bryan and Ellen Cory, and Josh Mellen celebrating.

It’s been an exciting few months since we graduated in June! We have a number of updates—so let’s start with the big life events! As a modification of a game played by many of us during Cabin Nights and pre-formal festivities—we want to offer our biggest congratulations to those who recently were engaged, married, or became parents!

But the largest guest list spanned three classes, multiple countries, and was submitted from newly married Maggie Maranda Millhiser and Jamie Millhiser. Tuckies in attendance included T’13s Mason Duke and Justin Rodriguez, T’15 Caroline Mann, and T’14s Katie Lawrence, Emily Block, Mark and Andrea Devooght, Jess Glaser, Karilyn Anderson, Jed Talvacchia, Kate Cosgrove, Alena Harrison and Nate Vandergrift, Meg Moran, Nicole Bertucci, Lizzie Torkelson, Emile Santos, Meri Carman, Jeff F. Nitz, Jesse Colville, Tyler Grant, Maggie Misztal, Ashley Hovey, Varin Neitzel, Benjie Moll, Will Woodburn, Maureen and Josh Gartner, and Michael Caspani. Was that everyone? Was Sally there? It should be noted that I excluded multiple Caspani and Benjie’s mustache jokes from this write-up.

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Engaged: Jaimie Sarrault and Pascal Meyer, Peter Shively and Molly Hughes, Kirsten L’Orange and Tim Malcolm. Married: Michaela Leblanc and Chris Weber, (look on myTUCK for a pic!) Sarah Mahlab and Willy Kitzmiller, and Deirdre Garrahan and Patrick O’Connell. Parents: Robert and Erica Plimpton on the birth of Abigail Elizabeth Plimpton. While the personal lives of many of our classmates have changed drastically since leaving the woods of Hanover, many of us are just figuring out what we want to do with our lives. Sandy Chen never started that job at Amazon. In fact, she is the #1 employee of the app Dote—an app that helps you put a FALL/WINTER 2015

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CL ASS NOTES the Eastman Egg Company—a Chicago-based restaurant startup serving locally sourced breakfast fare. Out in Seattle, Arpitha Bharadwaj landed a role with startup Apptio, an enterprise SaaS company that helps manage IT like a business.

Pete Shively and Molly after their engagement

Deirdre Garrahan and fellow Tuckies at her wedding to Patrick O’Connell in August

Braden Pan is still living the dream in Hanover. He is a principal at entrepreneurial holding company Endurance Companies, where he is devoting the majority of his time helping to launch Endurance’s next startup, Vocate. Vocate is a tech-powered marketplace for student internships and entry-level jobs, providing curated matches for both students and employers. Braden, keep your eyes out for Meg Whitaker and Alex Rogalski, who will be visiting a bunch—as each of them has a brother in the T’17 class! Amelia Mann is founding her own startup, called vivify, to improve law enforcement management of sexual assault evidence. The federal government recently appropriated nearly $80M to reduce the rape-kit backlog, but nothing is currently being done to change the broken process that led to that backlog. Vivify is a step toward digitizing law-enforcement case management, a process currently managed largely on paper in many places, to create a process that is more victim-friendly and supportive. We think it sounds like a great use of both her HKS and Tuck degrees! Alex Russell (who is roommates with Tanya Gulnik in San Francisco) founded TownHound. They just finished working at an incubator in Palo Alto for the summer and moved into a swanky new office atop a factory in San Francisco. They are ramping up for their next round of funding with VCs in Silicon Valley.

Abigail Elizabeth Plimpton with parents Rob and Erica

personalized mall on your phone, shopping only the stores you like, all in one app, and making purchases with a single tap. Other T’15s who have entered the startup world: Erin Ruhf (who is #stilldating and living with Rob Franklin in Chicago) is starting as director of business development at

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And a big congratulations to Adam Gengler and his brother Aaron, who won second place for their startup Trusker at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum in San Francisco in September! Before diving into work, members of our class did get to have a few last adventures this summer. Andres Bernaciak, Juan Giovaneli, Tanya Gulnik, Guillermo Pacheco, Aneesha Patel, Pablo Segovia, John Wheelock and Lida Xu were all teaching assistants for the Bridge Program. They enjoyed some hiking, canoeing, golfing, and BBQing in Hanover after many of the rest of us had already left!

Bridge Program teaching assistants in Hanover

Chloe Hansen-Toone used her expert hiking skills acquired at Tuck to explore the fjords of Iceland and Norway before starting work at Thermo Fisher Scientific. It’s a shame she didn’t run into the #fivelads (Michael Needel, John Wheelock, Jefferson Shaw, Fredrik Schjoldager, and Ben Grant) who also went hiking in Iceland after graduation! Maryn Juergens, Zack Brewer, and Nick Stachler explored Portugal with their very own local tour guide, Frederico Bastos. Nick went on to join Mike Ryczkowski, Carolyn Meyer, Jackie Kossmann, Fredrik Schjoldager, and Jen Tietz in Greece, where they were shown around by Fanis Tigkas. Then it was Fredrik’s turn to host, and he entertained Charles Christianson, Zack Brewer, Curry Helton, Nick Stachler, and Mike Ryczkowski in Norway. Amanda Grosse and Fredrik Schjoldager joined members of the T’16 class for The Yacht Week in Croatia. Unfortunately, they just missed Ryan Golden, Erin Ruhf, and Phyllis Vena, who were there for Ultra Europe a few weeks earlier. Some of our international students got to explore the U.S. this summer. Santiago Gutierrez Zaldivar road-tripped down the East Coast to Miami with a U-Haul in June. Ewa Kisilewicz was right behind him, also roadtripping to Miami, where she now works at BDC Advisors with Mike Ryczkowski. Chris Sukenik works there too—but gets to work remotely from Concord, NH. One of our favorite Hanover Residences, the Bear Pit, has formed annexes in New York (Curry Helton and Hendrik Schroeder) and in Tokyo, Japan (Ken Yoshida). They reunited in September to celebrate Maryn Juergens’ birthday in New York City. Speaking of reunions, they happen all the time

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one more year at HKS before entering the real working world!

Tuckies get together to celebrate Maryn’s birthday in New York City

in Boston—and not always intentionally! One night, Caitlin Moore, Meg Whitaker, Devin Van Riper, Brooke Beatt, James Brennan, Nick Stachler, and Ashwin Gargeya and Elliot Gillerman all ran into each other when grabbing dinner at Five Horses Tavern in the South End. We’re all jealous of Elliot Gillerman—who still gets to go to class! Elliot, Wendy Zhao, Christine Hou, and Hanne Brynildsen have

Speaking of Hanne—she’s been visiting New York to see Fanis Tigkas, who is working at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and living with fellow classmates Andi Luka and Marshall Mentz. And speaking of bankers, even cutthroat finance jobs can’t stop Tuckies from working together! Ian Bomberg and Olaniyi Bajulaiye are both in the industrials group at BMO, in NYC and Chicago respectively. And Hendrik Schroeder and Duncan Kirby are both in the energy group at JPMorgan. We hear from Ian, who is roommates with Duncan, that Hendrik has been really carrying Duncan through the first few months. While there’s tons happening on the East Coast, the Midwest is bustling with Tuckies! In Minneapolis, Erica Johnston celebrated her birthday with fellow Tuckies Sarah Boole, Melissa Dolan, Carolyn Meyer, Ania Markiewicz, and Leslie McLauchlan. Even the Rockies has attracted a crew of Tuckies,

with Jane Shiverick, Jed McDonald, Graham Allen, and Adam Gengler all calling the greater Denver area home these days. We can’t wait to come visit you all this winter! And while we didn’t hear much from the Seattle crew directly, we can tell from Lindsey Windham’s Instagram that she is enjoying the great outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. As for us, Heather is all settled in the South End of Boston, just a few blocks from about half of our class. Between Flywheel classes, she has made time to rejoin Deloitte’s human capital consulting group. Kelsey is the CFO of Cissé Trading Company, a cocoa company whose allnatural products taste good and do good. Check out their new cookies, Super Thins, on Amazon! They must be good if they received a 5-star rating from Rob Plimpton; we all know he’s a tough judge of all things culinary! [Look on the T’15 class notes page on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a great photo of Tuck alums now at General Mills at a summer BBQ— including T’15s!]

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. De Forest B. Voorhees ‘34 June 9, 2015

Richard R. Hartman ‘48 March 8, 2015

Philip E. Benton Jr. ‘53 June 14, 2015

Stuart B. Freeman ‘60 January 3, 2015

Charles W. Kellogg II ‘72 September 21, 2015

Burrows Barstow Jr. ‘44 July 7, 2015

A. James Crawford ‘49 September 6, 2015

A. James Kreider Jr. ‘53 May 9, 2015

Richard W. Wright ‘63 August 28, 2015

George H. M. Rountree III ‘72 June 14, 2015

Calvin J. Osberg ‘46 May 19, 2015

Robert H. Snedaker Jr. ‘49 September 15, 2015

Quentin A. Squires ‘53 October 4, 2015

Charles E. Angle III ‘66 June 1, 2015

Carol A. Harris ‘81 June 13, 2014

John Stewart ‘46 May 2, 2015

Robert J. Bellemare ‘50 September 28, 2015

Fred Carleton ‘54 August 23, 2015

Donald Le R. Ellsworth ‘66 [Date of death unknown]

Karen L. Stefancic ‘86 June 12, 2015

Charles A. Cleveland ‘47 August 30, 2015

Albert C. Dickson Jr. ‘51 August 27, 2015

Theodore Ely Jr. ‘56 July 26, 2015

Fred J. Simmons ‘66 January 12, 2015

Kenneth H. Cohn MD ‘98 June 24, 2015

Edwin R. Johnson ‘47 September 17, 2015

Robert M. McIlwain ‘51 October 24, 2015

John T. Wiseman ‘56 September 15, 2015

Katsuhiko Suzuki ‘70 August 2015

Philip E. Penberthy ‘47 June 23, 2015

John O. Hastings ‘52 June 24, 2015

Harvey I. Epstein ‘58 September 17, 2015

John M. Dublanica ‘71 August 8, 2015

Gerald F. Phillips ‘47 October 19, 2015

Edmund F. Hunt ‘52 July 21, 2015

Arthur R. Johnson ‘58 May 19, 2015

Richard C. Flowers ‘72 March 14, 2015 FALL/WINTER 2015

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