Tuck Today – Summer 2016 Issue by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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

AS HEAD OF STRATEGY AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR BEATS ELECTRONICS,

Elisabeth Hartley Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;05

IS ON THE CUSP OF CREATING WHAT THE FUTURE OF MUSIC COULD LOOK LIKE

News. Ideas. People.

COMING SOON ALL-ALUMNI SURVEY

Real World ADVANTAGE Tuck Business Bridge is a total immersion business program designed to prepare top liberal arts, science, and engineering undergrads for challenging business careers.

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:

In just a few weeks, the Tuck Business Bridge Program®,

UNDERSTAND alumni attitudes toward Tuck

Scholarships are available!

ASSESS Tuck’s impact on your personal and career success

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

IDENTIFY ways we can continue to refine what we do well and reach in new directions—in the MBA program and in our offerings for alumni

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.

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

2016 December Bridge Program November 27–December 16

We will send email and snail-mail invites to participate later this year. 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! CAREER ADVANTAGE. LIFE ADVANTAGE.

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CHRIS MILLIMAN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

ON THE JOURNEY The academic journey of our students has many waypoints, plotted here in Hanover and increasingly across the globe. Graduation is one such milestone. It is a place to reflect and also to anticipate the future, and we at Tuck look forward to each year’s graduation as our students prepare to venture from our wonderful campus for that big next step. As I reflect on my first year as dean, I recall the many journeys I have taken to meet with Tuck alumni around the world. These conversations have been inspiring and energizing thanks to experiencing firsthand your enthusiasm for Tuck and optimism for what the future holds. I share that optimism, and I have been working with colleagues across Tuck on refining our mission and strategy to guide us enhancing what we as a school do so well while reaching in new directions. We greet the future from many strengths (see “Facts and Figures,” page 4), including our distinctly immersive MBA program. Learning at Tuck continues to thrive, thanks to innovations like our TuckGO global requirement and our new Dean’s Fellows Program, which gives students the opportunity to work with school leadership on projects central to the success of the MBA program. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond the MBA as well—to vital efforts in executive and continuing education and our pioneering Business Bridge Program. In 2015 we partnered with Smith College to offer Bridge to women undergraduates from across the country, and this year we will be growing our December offering to Dartmouth students from one to two sections. Accomplishments like these benefit all of Tuck and extend our reach to new and important constituencies. No constituency, however, is more important than our alumni, and we are excited to tap into your amazing experience in the future as we celebrate you and your success. And as you will read in this issue, there is much to celebrate. No matter the endeavor—whether helping envision the future of music or leading a marketing sea change in an industry that is ripe for it—the passion and creativity of our alumni is truly extraordinary. This summer, across the country and around the world, Tuck’s newest graduates are settling into their new jobs. Like you did, they will do so with the knowledge and wisdom acquired on a journey that began here at Tuck and will continue throughout their lives.

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

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EDITOR Ed Winchester

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MANAGING EDITOR Patti Bacon

SENIOR EDITORS

T’18s SHARE THEIR EXCITEMENT

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

@khgoulden Couldn’t be more excited to share that I’ll be headed to Tuck for my MBA! A huge thank you for all of the support, especially this Tuck-themed celebratory cake! #WeAreTuck #best coworkers

@jonathanwang48 I got in!!! Can’t wait for September gonna become a Tuckie! #WeAreTuck #Tuck

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Honored to deliver the keynote address at the @TuckSchool Initiative for Women Symposium in Hanover tonight. –GOV. MAGGIE HASSAN

Punam Anand Keller Gina C. des Cognets T’01 Steven Lubrano T’87 Penny Paquette T’76

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@ABManon18

@juliawinder

Ya me quiero ir a #Hanover! Can’t wait to start my MBA @Tuck School #dreamcometrue

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Congrats to the class of 2018! Can I join them for a second round?” –CRAIG DELLA PENNA, ON FACEBOOK

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Ella Bell @Makers Conference

StephXie: Ella was an amazing speaker! Matthew W. Smith: Special lady!

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I haven’t even gotten to campus and all of the staff at @TuckSchool have been so friendly and helpful! #soexcited @caitlingillooly @juliawinder @TuckSchool T’13 here. Had the same experience. Good luck, a bit jealous that you’re just starting 2 great years in Hanover! :) @juliawinder Thanks @caitlingillooly - I am super amped for the next 2 years and excited to join the awesome #Tuck community!

@khklipson: Such a fun Admitted Students Weekend! @dclippy and I enjoyed hosting a small group dinner at our place last night to welcome a few of the new T’18s and TP’18s last night. #WeAreTuck #dessertart

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CONTENTS 42 10 21

DEPARTMENTS

BRAND CHAMPION

FACTS and FIGURES 04 NEWSROOM

MassMutual CMO John Chandler’s data-driven approach to marketing has propelled the life insurance company to the industry’s upper echelon and transformed the way it tells its story. And he’s only getting started.

HOW INNOVATION HAPPENS AT TUCK 07 AN E-SHIP-FRIENDLY ECOSYSTEM 08 MHCDS SEMINAR SERIES 09 A NEW LEADER FOR BRIDGE 10 IN BRIEF 10

BY KATE SIBER D’02

IDEAS

As head of strategy and product development for Beats Electronics, Elisabeth Hartley T’05 is on the cusp of creating what the future of music could look like.

Looking to switch gears and start a new career? You’re not alone. Meet eight alumni who drew on their Tuck experience to pursue a new passion later in life.

BY MEGAN MICHELSON

BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

SECOND ACTS

WHY PROGRESSIVES SHOULD SUPPORT TPP 14 A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE 16 THE PROVIDER’S DILEMMA 18 FACULTY NEWS 19 STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU 20

ALUMNI NEWS

VISION AND SOUND

PROFILE: DENNIS LASKO T’08 42 ALUMNI INTERVIEW: AMY WATERMAN ROY T’05 43 PROFILE: LESLIE HAMPEL T’07 44 BEST PRACTICES: ROBERT GULLIVER T’97 45 PROFILE: CHRIS O’NEILL T’01 46 NEWSMAKERS 47 49 CLASS NOTES IN MEMORIAM

PARTING SHOT

121

122

CAREERS

AND

FIGURES FACULTY ACADEMIC

YEAR

ROUNDED AVERAGES

2015

INDUSTRY

Consulting 34 Financial services 24

124,000

Technology 18 Consumer goods/retail 10

STARTING SALARY

Health care/pharma/biotech 6

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[2015–16

COMPENSATION

EMPLOYMENT

STARTING

CLASS

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FACTS

[MBA

29,000

Manufacturing 2 Energy 2

SIGNING BONUS

Real estate 2 Media/entertainment/sports 1

MORE THAN

100 RESEARCH AND TEACHING AWARDS

HIGHEST NUMBER

of citations per author of any U.S. business school

Nonprofit/government 1

1,000

100%

active recruiting relationships

of first-year students found internships

99%

5TH

of 2015 graduates had job offers three months post graduation

in starting salary plus bonus in the 2015 US News ranking

in opening new career opportunities in the 2015 Economist ranking

EMPLOYERS SELECT COMPANIES

› Amazon › Analogic › Analysis Group › Bain & Company › Bank of America Merrill Lynch › Barclays › Boston Consulting Group › Citi › Colgate-Palmolive › Comcast › CVS Health › Danaher › DaVita › Deloitte › Disney/ESPN › Eli Lilly & Company › Fidelity › Genentech › General Mills › Goldman Sachs › Google › Harris Williams & Company › Hewlett-Packard › Innosight › J.P. Morgan › L.E.K. Consulting › Land O’ Lakes › Liberty Mutual › McKinsey & Company › Microsoft › Morgan Stanley › New Balance › Parthenon › PepsiCo Inc. › Prudential › Samsung › TripAdvisor › UBS › Under Armour › Unilever › Wayfair

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FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS

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TENURED

INTERNATIONAL ORIGIN

WOMEN 4

69 1 9,900 70

35% 22%

ALUMNI

70%

COUNTRIES OF RESIDENCE

IN THE 2015

ECONOMIST RANKING FOR ALUMNI-NETWORK EFFECTIVENESS

LIVING ALUMNI (APPROX.)

2015 ALUMNI PARTICIPATION

RATE IN TUCK ANNUAL GIVING

nearly triple the average of peer B-schools

STUDENTS CLASS

2017

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[ MBA

TUCK

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

32%

20%

42%

INTERNATIONAL

U.S. MINORITIES

WOMEN

286

3.5

717

STUDENTS

AVERAGE GPA

AVERAGE GMAT

1ST

MINORITY BUSINESS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

1,725

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PARTICIPANTS IN 2015

3 MODULES

GLOBAL

100%

of students participate in a global opportunity during their time at Tuck

TUCK

PROGRAMS

74 4,640

3 COUNTRIES FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 2030 CONSORTIUM PROGRAM

EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS BRIDGE PROGRAM

SUMMER BRIDGE DECEMBER BRIDGE SMITH-TUCK BRIDGE

SCHOOLS REPRESENTED IN 2015

MASTER OF

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SCIENCE APPLE, INC.

DISTINGUISHED PROGRAM FOR 2015-17

TOP

COACH CORNING DEERE GOODYEAR GOOGLE HASBRO ITG

C OMPA N IE S

KING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT MEDTRONIC NOVO NORDISK OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION QUINTILES SILICON VALLEY BANK

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CENTER FOR BUSINESS & SOCIETY CENTER FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP

OF STUDENTS HAVE ADVANCED DEGREES

CENTER FOR PRIVATE EQUITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(E.G., MD, PHD, MBA, MS, AND JD)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE GLASSMEYER/MCNAMEE CENTER FOR DIGITAL STRATEGIES

TOTAL BRIDGE ALUMNI

HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE

YEARS OF BRIDGE PROGRAMS

HYBRID RESIDENTIAL/ ONLINE PROGRAM between The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Tuck

INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN LINDENAUER CENTER FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REVERS ENERGY INITIATIVE

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UP FRONT / ENTREPRENEURSHIP /

09 09

EXECUTIVE EDUCATON / HEALTH CARE DELIVERY /

10 11

BUSINESS BRIDGE / PAGANUCCI FELLOWS PROGRAM /

NEWSROOM

ROB STRONG

PUNAM ANAND KELLER, Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new associate dean for innovation and growth, is leveraging her expertise in marketing and change behavior to help Tuck thrive in the increasingly competitive global MBA marketplace.

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UPfront HOW INNOVATION HAPPENS AT TUCK Marketing professor Punam Anand Keller is settling into her new role as associate dean for innovation and growth.

How does competition factor into your analysis of what Tuck should be doing?

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

hen Matt Slaughter became Dean of Tuck last summer, he and Punam Anand Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, discussed the scope and title for a new role for Keller. Given her expertise in marketing and change behavior, they landed on a job never before seen at Tuck: associate dean for innovation and growth. For Keller, there were a few reasons why Tuck needed a sharper focus on innovation. One is that competition among two-year residential MBA programs is fiercer than ever. Another reason is that students expect more of a business school these days, demanding new products and programs more frequently. Keller approaches this reality with a mindset of evaluation, innovation, and iteration. “My role is to constantly challenge what we do, continuously improve on things we already do, and challenge ourselves to come up with new and different ways of doing things in order to thrive in this new global and virtually competitive environment,” she says. Since becoming associate dean, Keller has undertaken an effort she calls “learn, lean, and leverage,” auditing the departments, centers, and initiatives under her purview; seeking guidance and advice from colleagues; and studying how Tuck can add to and improve upon what it already has.

few years of retirement. So you say, Is there an opportunity to provide some business literacy and financial literacy? I’m constantly looking at external sources to see where is there an unmet need or opportunity.

How are you bringing your expertise in marketing to bear on innovation at Tuck? I wanted to bring a market or external perspective to our strategy. I call it an outside-in perspective rather than an inside-out perspective. I wanted to make more salient the effects of market trends, target-audience needs, a consumer focus, and a stronger competitive focus in our decision making and strategy. I’m a marketing professor and that’s what we do. I felt that was a more proactive approach and a more sustainable approach for our investment strategy and new programs, versus a reactive approach where we made decisions about programs that came to us.

What are some examples of this “outside-in” perspective at work? I think there’s a huge unmet need for undergraduate business education, especially for liberal arts colleges. There was a big McKinsey report that said the unemployment crisis was not a function of lack of jobs but lack of skills. So that’s an example of seeing a big trend. Another example of customer-focus orientation is that professional athletes have a very short professional life—the average NFL player plays for three-anda-half years, and an NBA player for five years. And they amass very big fortunes during that time, and yet a significant number of them go bankrupt within a

I’ll give you one example: I look at our centers and try to find best practices for similar centers across universities or nonacademic institutions, like the Brookings Institution or the Hoover Institution, and say, What should a good center be? Are we competitive? Which target audiences should we be going after? How well do our centers work with each other, and what kinds of value do they provide to different stakeholders?

What are some new things at Tuck you’re excited about? I’m excited about some of our executive education custom programs we’re doing for the first time in the luxury market, with Coach as a client. We are also doing more work with companies in the health industry, which is another indication of our leveraging our MHCDS core capabilities. One of our new clients is Quintiles, the world’s largest provider of integrated health services. In Bridge, I’m very excited about some potential opportunities for strategic partnerships with liberal arts colleges; customizing programs so that we can actually increase the number of undergraduates willing to get a liberal arts degree. Then we have some really exciting programs for non-business audiences interested in learning more about business. We’ve made some good initial investments in a program for military vets and I’m looking forward to delivering a program hopefully early next year.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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From apps that bring people together to a sports content platform aimed at millennial women, T’16s balance academics with business planning and execution. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

or years, Tuck has had structures and programs in place to help students gain skills in entrepreneurship and start their own businesses. Between the Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, as well as through a curriculum rich with entrepreneurship courses and a close connection with the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, Tuck students have countless resources and experts they can rely on to learn how to launch and run a startup. The latest proof of the effectiveness of this entrepreneurshipfriendly ecosystem can be seen in the new businesses members of the class of 2016 launched during their two years at Tuck. Claire Galiette T’16 is the founder of The Playbook, a weekly e-newsletter and website targeted to millennial women who want to keep up with sports news without watching games or SportsCenter. The Playbook’s audience, says Galiette, “doesn’t know much about sports but recognizes it as a popular topic of conversation in their professional, social, and personal lives. They are interested in learning more about

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sports if it is easy and engaging so that they can participate in these conversations.” To prepare for The Playbook’s November 2015 launch, Galiette took courses such as Building Entrepreneurial Ventures, Consumer Insights, and Database Marketing. “I don’t think I would have had the skills or support to start The Playbook if I wasn’t at Tuck,” she says. In the summer between his first and second years at Tuck, Jay Boren T’16 was introduced by a classmate to the founder of LockNLube, a South African company with a patented line of industrial lubrication products. Since then, Boren has become the general manager of the business and has begun working to expand distribution into Canada and the U.S., and to improve the company website and product packaging. Boren leaned on the Tuck network to help negotiate the long-term distribution contract with the manufacturer, and he used the Building Entrepreneurial Ventures course to help refine the sales strategy and create a hypothetical buyout plan. After eight years in the United States

Air Force, Rob Thelen T’16 came to Tuck with dreams of starting his own business. With FliQ, a mobile app that makes it easier for people to connect with new friends and acquaintances, Thelen is making that dream a reality. The company started as a pitch at Dartmouth Startup Weekend, where it took second place. This winter, Thelen was named “Innovator of the Week” by Live Free and Start. “Having a venture is more than just trying to build a company,” he says. “It is a laboratory where I can apply classroom skills in the real world. I have used aspects of every class at Tuck in some way, from Global Economics for Managers to Strategy to Sustainability. There is no better way for me to learn what to do and apply the theory to the real world.” Justin Gerard T’16 started BAE, an African-American dating site, during his first year at Tuck, developing the idea during the First-Year Project entrepreneurship track in the spring. Gerard launched BAE at Howard University during his spring break in 2015, and elected to defer his second year at Tuck to pursue success with the startup.

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EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

MHCDS LAUNCHES VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES FOR ALUMNI Master of Health Care Delivery Science graduates reconnect over real-world learning in a new monthly online seminar. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

tudents in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program come to Hanover for a few weeks each year from all over the country. When they’re not on campus, they interact with professors, staff, and classmates through online portals such as Adobe Connect. Now students can continue learning from the program even after they graduate through a new series of virtual seminars. “We thought, ‘Why not take advantage of their technological familiarity and just continue our relationship with them?’” says Katy Milligan T’07, MHCDS program director. The seminars, which are free and offered monthly, allow alumni to stay connected to their classmates without traveling to Dartmouth. So far, the seminars have been popular, especially the ones featuring alumni speaking about the unique challenges they’re facing as leaders in health care. In the January seminar, for example, two alumni who recently began C-suite positions in new organizations discussed

what it was like to enter a new corporate culture and environment, and how they set the stage for accomplishing their goals. The session was moderated by management and organizations professor Pino Audia, who teaches in the MHCDS program. Another popular session featured Robin Lunge MHCDS’13. As director of health reform for the State of Vermont, she talked about the common legal and administrative barriers encountered by health care leaders seeking to change the delivery of care, and ways in which they might influence policy changes in order to achieve their goals. Milligan, who organizes the seminars, is consistently impressed by the real-world learning that happens in the sessions. But perhaps her favorite part is right at the beginning, when people are logging in and turning on their video feeds. “There’s a lot of chatter, people are happy to see each other, asking questions,” she says. “It feels a lot like getting back together, filing into a classroom and saying hello to your friends.”

If you’re a business owner, the digital revolution is a phenomenon you just can’t ignore. Regardless of what you’re offering to the world, using the Internet and social media for marketing, communication, and strategy is a necessity. With that in mind, Tuck Executive Education has recently launched the Digital Excellence Program for Minority Entrepreneurs, a three-day immersion in digital strategy and execution led by Tuck faculty members and Google experts. Begun in 2015 and first held at Google’s offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the program covers everything from social media and digital marketing to website optimization and digital communication. In addition to regular class sessions with Tuck professor Alva Taylor, the faculty director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, participants have multiple opportunities for one-on-one consultations with Taylor and Google employees to get hands-on experience with website design, search engine optimization, and digital business models. The program also features presentations from minority business owners on best practices and lessons from their own success with digital tools. “What makes this program unique and valuable is that it’s tailored to minority entrepreneurs to help them determine which digital investments to make in their business,” says Fred McKinney, the managing director of minority business programs at Tuck and the former president and CEO of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, “and how to use these tools to accomplish their business strategy.” In 2016, the Digital Excellence program will be offered at Google’s offices in Los Angeles and Chicago. For more information, contact Jade Melvin, business development and marketing coordinator for Tuck’s Minority Business Programs, at jade.a.melvin@tuck. dartmouth.edu.

CREDIT

ROB STRONG

Tuck and Google Team Up to Teach Digital Excellence

—Kirk Kardashian

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BUSINESS BRIDGE

A NEW LEADER FOR BRIDGE Business Bridge Program faculty director Judith White is excited to innovate and grow the nation’s first business bridge program for liberal arts students. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

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ate last year, Judith White, a visiting associate professor of management who has taught at Tuck since 2001, was appointed the faculty director of the Tuck Business Bridge program. Launched in 1997, Bridge is a residential immersive experience in business education for liberal arts students. White succeeded Robert Hansen, the Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration, and Gail Ayala Taylor, a visiting associate professor of business administration. Taylor stepped down after leading the Bridge program to national distinction and expanding it to include a women-only session at Smith College and a December session at Dartmouth. In addition to teaching Negotiations to MBA students at Tuck, White teaches courses in Leadership and Business Psychology to undergraduates at Dartmouth College. It is this experience, White said, that motivated her to take on a leadership role in Bridge. “The liberal arts majors I’ve taught are super smart and critical thinkers, and they have a depth in whatever they major in, but they don’t know much about business,” White explains. “They need to bridge their liberal arts education and a career in the business world. And this is the reason the Bridge program was established.” White, who holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale University, researches negotiations, conflict resolution, and group dynamics. When she looks at Bridge through the lens of her research, she finds a program that imparts not just technical competency in business skills and knowledge— Bridge students take courses in financial

accounting, corporate finance, marketing, managerial economics, and strategy, just to name a few—but also crucial experience in teamwork that prepares students for how projects get done in the real world. “When Bridge students work on a group project, it’s very much like what they will find on the job,” she says. “It’s a stretch— none of them know how to do it when they start the program—and they have to figure it out and present it before mock clients.” When Matthew Slaughter became Dean of Tuck in July of last year, the Bridge program came under the aegis of Punam Anand Keller, associate dean for innovation and growth. With that in mind, White has an expansive vision for Bridge and she’s been having conversations with staff, Bridge faculty, Bridge alumni (there are more

than 4,000), and Bridge students, to hear their thoughts on what’s valuable about Bridge and how it can be enhanced. One strategic direction that has emerged from those conversations is that Tuck and Bridge alumni should play a more prominent role in the program. “I want alumni to call me if they have suggestions about what Bridge should cover or how they can get involved,” White noted. While White is the faculty director of Bridge, she stresses that she is just one part of a team of Bridge staff, led by Program Director Nicole Faherty TP ’14. The Bridge staff are consistently rated by students as an outstanding component of the program. “It wouldn’t be so successful if it weren’t for the amazing people who run the program,” she says. “They go above and beyond.”

IN BRIEF

New Endowment Ensures Future of Tuck’s Paganucci Fellows Program

artmouth has received $3 million from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to permanently endow the Paganucci Fellows Program, an undergraduate leadership development program operated jointly with Tuck’s Center for Leadership and Dartmouth College. The Paganucci Fellows Program provides Dartmouth undergraduates with opportunities to participate in experiential learning that promotes the study of how businesses can create positive social and financial value—the “double bottom line.” The program is named in honor of the late Paul Paganucci D’53, T’54, who taught for many years at Tuck and also served as

associate dean at Tuck and vice president of finance and treasurer for Dartmouth. Paganucci’s impact on the Dartmouth community and the greater Upper Valley is hard to overstate. It was his idea for Dartmouth to purchase the 2,200 acres in Lebanon where Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Centerra Park are now located, and he was a driving force behind moving the medical center out of downtown Hanover. In the early 1980s, when interest rates skyrocketed, Paganucci worked with the State of New Hampshire to allow Dartmouth to issue tax-exempt bonds for making student loans more available and affordable, making Dartmouth the first private educational institution in

EVENTS

ON THE STUMP AT TUCK Tony Sampson T’16 worked in capital policy at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., for two years before coming to Tuck. So when Republican presidential hopeful George Pataki visited campus last fall, Sampson jumped at the opportunity to get into the weeds with the former governor of New York about Dodd-Frank and other financial regulatory topics. “Having this incredible back-and-forth discussion with a presidential candidate over dinner was an absolute highlight of my Tuck experience,” says Sampson, an MBA fellow at Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government. Pataki, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, were at Tuck last fall for the “America’s Economic Future Speaker Series,” co-sponsored by the Center for Global Business and Government (CGBG) and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Sciences. The speaker series was the idea of former New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, a CGBG senior fellow and senior lecturer at Tuck, who personally invited the candidates to campus. “Presidential candidates come to New Hampshire frequently,” says Lynch. “I felt it would be very educational for Tuck and Dartmouth

students to get these candidates and ask them questions as an extension of the classroom experience.” The formats differed from one candidate to the next, with Clinton participating in a town hall event moderated by Lynch and Kasich delivering a brief stump speech followed by a lively discussion on economic policy. Graham launched the series with a town hall meeting at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. All events were open to the public. Sampson and the MBA fellows had the added opportunity of escorting the candidates to and from venues, introducing them prior to their speeches, and spending time with them after the event, whether over dinner or in a private setting. The personal access was invaluable, says Sampson, whose experience was exactly what Gov. Lynch had envisioned for students when he created the series. “I know students got a lot out of it—not just U.S. students who can vote, but also international students,” he says. “The opportunity to see someone running for the highest position in this country is huge.” —Justine Kohr

the nation to do so. “He was very creative in finding ways to improve any situation,” recalls Bruce Dresner T’71, who worked with Paganucci for 10 years at Dartmouth. As a Dartmouth student, Dresner said Paganucci was almost as famous for his entrepreneurial acumen. He started a lucrative furniture business and was able to send money home to his parents in Maine. That led to a joke told around campus: most parents could barely afford to send their child to Dartmouth, but Paganucci’s parents couldn’t afford not to. It was a skill that made Paganucci a perfect choice to be the director of the Sherman Fairchild foundation, an organization founded by a serial entrepreneur. At the Foundation, Paganucci cultivated an extraordinary relationship as a confidant to its first president, Walter Burke D’44, Sherman Fairchild’s financial adviser, and a former chairman of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Paganucci served the foundation with his characteristic creativity, openness, and generosity. “He was just an amazing person in finding the time for so many things,” Dresner said, “whether it was his classmates, raising money for Dartmouth or Tuck, or as a trustee at Colby College. The Paganucci Fellows Program is a wonderful tribute.” “I am thrilled and inspired by the Paganucci program’s unparalleled success,” says Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. “It provides undergraduates with a dynamic educational platform to work with us here at Tuck today, in order to serve the emerging needs of the world tomorrow.” The Paganucci Fellows Program offers Dartmouth undergraduates an intensive eight-week education in personal leadership development and social entrepreneurship. The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has provided funding for the program since its establishment in 2006. “It has been a privilege to develop the Paganucci program almost a decade ago and to direct it since then,” says Richard McNulty, executive director of the Center for Leadership and director of the Paganucci Fellows Program. “It is an honor to know the program will reinforce Paul’s legacy— bearing his name as it serves to prepare our next generation of leaders.” SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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A BETTER QUESTION MIGHT BE, WHERE DIDN’T TUCK GO? In all, 330 MBA students traveled to 32 countries in the last academic year as part of the new TuckGO global requirement. The experiences were just as wide-ranging: a Global Insight Expedition exploring Brazil’s resilience amid ongoing economic and political turmoil; a First-Year Project to help a craft cooperative nonprofit expand sales outside of Armenia; an OnSite Global Consulting engagement for a Prague-based media company looking to increase digital revenue. (Students can also fulfill the requirement through a term exchange.) And while each was different, the benefits of being immersed in the business environment of a foreign country were the same. “Learning outside the traditional classroom in a global setting allows students to practice empathy and observational skills while promoting agility and inter-cultural awareness,” says Associate Dean for the MBA Program Praveen Kopalle, “thus expanding Tuck’s classroom experientially.” – Justine Kohr

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WHY PROGRESSIVES SHOULD SUPPORT TPP THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP IS NOT PERFECT, BUT IT IS THE BEST DEAL WE ARE LIKELY TO GET.

By EMILY J. BLANCHARD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND PAUL E. RAETHER T’73 FACULTY FELLOW

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he Trans-Pacific Partnership is under siege, with presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle voicing increasingly protectionist rhetoric. Progressives, however, are making a mistake. As late as last summer, there was ample reason to be skeptical of the stillsecret agreement. It seemed unlikely that the negotiations would protect workers’ rights and the environment, while not letting multinationals write the rules of the game. Surprisingly, this is what the final agreement delivers. TPP is not perfect, but it is a genuinely progressive agreement that takes unprecedented new steps in a major regional trade deal. It is therefore a disappointment that many of the nation’s leading progressive politicians continue to speak out against the pact. Bernie Sanders has decried TPP as a “disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multinational corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment, and the foundations of American democracy.” Hillary Clinton faults the agreement for disproportionately benefiting pharmaceutical companies and costing American jobs. Elizabeth Warren has voiced sharp opposition to the provision that allows companies to mount legal challenges to sovereign nations. To be clear: these are legitimate concerns. But it is not enough for progressive leaders to raise alarms. We need serious, sober consideration of exactly what TPP is—and what it is not—in order to understand whether its benefits outweigh its costs. At its core, TPP is about applying a consistent set of standards to global supply chains—rules that reflect American values.

Trade today is far more complex than ever before. Nearly every product that touches our lives has been conceived, designed, and assembled in multiple countries, tracing sinuous and sometimes murky paths that consumers have neither the time nor the information to unravel. No matter how vigilant and well-intentioned customers may be, there is no way to opt out of global commerce and the sometimes-questionable practices it embodies. The TPP is an attempt to address this modern dilemma, using free trade with the U.S. and other major markets as an incentive for signatory nations to follow a basic global code of conduct. Crucially, TPP’s rules would be enforced through a dispute settlement panel that aspires to be unusually transparent and expeditious. This “deep” agreement approach is in sharp contrast to the status quo of “shallow” trade agreements, which effectively take a pass on addressing difficult but vital environmental and labor issues. TPP’s promise of a new progressive rulebook—one that includes enforceable agreements against child labor and workplace discrimination; measures to punish illegal logging and trade in protected species; and protections against consumer fraud—would mark a substantial step forward in the progressive policy agenda on the global stage. Even TPP’s provision on Investor-State Dispute Settlement— Sen. Warren’s chief concern—offers substantial new protections relative to the existing measures it would supersede. There is no doubt that by cutting tariffs, TPP will create losers as well as winners, and the burden of job losses will likely be borne disproportionately by those workers already struggling from earlier waves of import competition and technological change. But

continuing mechanization and inevitable shifts in what America is best at making will cause far more job displacement than proposed tariff cuts ever could, especially from the U.S.’s already very low tariff rates. Progressives need to acknowledge this truth. Squabbling over a (relative) handful of specific job losses in TPP only delays an increasingly urgent national conversation about inequality, good jobs, and opportunity. American workers would be far better served if progressives focused instead on implementing comprehensive improvements in education, job search and relocation allowances, and income support that help everyone cope with rapidly evolving labor markets. The TPP is not a referendum on globalization. Rather, it is about what we want global trade to look like in the future. It is an agreement that aspires for a better way of doing business in the world. If ratified, TPP would bring enforceable, progressive standards of conduct into as-yet unpoliced policy areas that are currently the wild west of global trade. Add the well-recognized benefits of improved customs transparency, consumer protections, and improved market access, and the benefits of TPP are substantial. The agreement is not perfect—intellectual property rules are unarguably a compromise and some disciplines could be stronger—but we need to be pragmatic. Renegotiating the agreement is simply too risky—there is a very real prospect that our trading partners would refuse. And if TPP fails, there is every reason to expect that China would write the rules instead, with a far less progressive agenda. No, TPP is not perfect, but it is the best deal we are likely to get, and it is certainly better than nothing.

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A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN, COXE DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, ON HIS LATEST BOOK, “THE THREE BOX SOLUTION.”

verybody at Tuck knows Professor VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN—a.k.a. VG. At Tuck since 1985, and a consultant to companies including GE, Tata, IBM, Hasbro, and more, VG has taught thousands of students and executives about strategy and innovation. In his latest book, “The Three Box Solution,” he distills his research and teaching into an easy-tounderstand, three-box framework representing the present, the past, and the future. With this book, and as the first holder of the Coxe Distinguished Professorship of Management, a new Dartmouth-wide faculty chair, VG is teaching that for business leaders in their organizations—and for everyone in their daily lives—it’s all about balance.

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LEADERS ARE ABLE TO PAINT A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE AND TAKE THE ORGANIZATION THERE.”

—VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN

If you could distill the primary theme of this book into one lesson, what would it be? I think the most important lesson of the book is to realize that the future is now. The future is not about what you have to do in the future: it’s about what you have to do now to create the future. This is simple to understand but a hard lesson to practice. The book is about how to balance today and tomorrow every day.

Could you describe the three-box framework from your book? The three boxes represent the present, the past, and the future: in box 1, you manage the present; in box 2, you selectively forget the past; and in box 3, you create the future. A CEO has to make a deliberate, purposeful effort to achieve a balance among all three boxes—a balance of energy, time, and resources. The problem isn’t that CEOs lack focus on box 1; the problem is that they lack focus on boxes 2 and 3.

To what extent is the CEO, the person with the vision, of paramount importance in creating a structure so that everyone in the company understands that vision? They have a very important role in maintaining the three-box balance and in emphasizing to people why each box is important. But they alone cannot do it. Everyone in the organization has a role. It’s important for people to realize why they are all important and why they are interdependent parts of a whole. And I think once that clarity comes, everybody is excited. Nobody wants to be part of a declining empire.

How does a leader ensure that people who are employed as part of the different boxes all feel valued equally? It is the job of the CEO to keep emphasizing that box 1 is not a dinosaur, that it is the

foundation. The present is the performance engine, so it is critical to keep box 1 healthy. And it is the CEO’s job to emphasize that box 3 is the future, the unknown, and to ensure that box 3 people aren’t frustrated when they fail along the way. Failure is OK, as long as you’re building knowledge and adjusting your course. It is the CEO’s job to make the organization realize failures are not mistakes. Both boxes are important: today is important, tomorrow is important.

Is it fair to say that when a leader is working in box 3, it’s really a matter of casting a wide net when thinking of the future? Exactly. In fact the experimental testing I discuss as part of box 3 is a way to cast the net very widely. That is the fundamental difference between box 1 and box 3. Box 1 is very much about variance reduction, while box 3 is very much about variance expansion. In box 1, you give the manager a business plan and say, “Vary as little as possible from this plan.” You have to hit the revenue number, the cost number, and the profit number. In box 3, it is about casting the net very wide. You want to open up as many different paths as possible because you don’t know yet what the right path is. So you place a lot of bets—small bets, low-cost, low-risk experiments—in different areas. So you expand the variance, and at some stage you will understand what the right path is. Then you can galvanize behind it. And if an experiment fails, you go in a different direction—you pivot. The important point is that in box 3 you place smaller bets before placing bigger bets.

How does three-box thinking apply to teaching at Tuck? I would say that much of what we teach in the MBA program is in box 1. Because box 1 is where we can apply our analytical tools, our techniques; we can apply optimization and decision science. Box 1 is a known system. Box 3 is an unknown system. In

my Implementing Strategy course, I try to emphasize the three-box balance as a very important leadership attribute. And that students use it in their very first job and in their own personal lives, to drive their own personal strategy.

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Would you say there has to be a certain amount of confidence in taking the experimental steps you describe, in understanding that it’s part of a process, so that you don’t fear the future or change? Yes. When I meet with companies, I tell them there are three important things they should do. One is to pay attention to weak signals. In box 1 you respond to clear signals; in box 3 you’re responding to weak signals. You must spend time understanding the weak signals, and there are lots of them. The nature of weak signals is that they could be noise or they could be a real signal. That’s why they’re called weak. Second, you develop hypotheses about the future, based on the weak signals. And third, you conduct those low-cost, low-risk experiments to test these hypotheses. These three can be done in a disciplined way so that you are not afraid because you are moving with sufficient knowledge. You’re making a small step, understanding what that is, and taking another small step.

Finally, how do you select what in box 2 will be discarded? That must be very difficult. You have to understand, based on weak signals, how your industry will change in the future. The exercise has to start with imagining the future and then deciding whether things you are doing today are relevant and discarding those that aren’t. In a way, that’s the mark of leadership. Leaders are able to paint a picture of the future and take the organization there. John F. Kennedy is a great example. In 1962 he said, “We’ll put a man on the moon and bring him back before the end of this decade.” That was his box 3 vision. At that time he didn’t know all the steps to take. But in box 3 you experiment, test, learn, adjust, and then you get to your box 3 future. And what he was saying then was, Let’s remake America, let’s reinvent technology in the U.S., let’s reinvent education in the U.S. This is really about reinventing ourselves. That gets people pumped up. SPRING/SUMMER 2016

BOOKS

THE PROVIDER’S DILEMMA HOW CAN PHYSICIANS FIX HEALTH CARE? ONE INNOVATION AT A TIME, SAYS CHRIS TRIMBLE T’96 IN A NEW BOOK.

By MARCIE GOOD

n researching his latest book, Chris Trimble T’96 kept encountering the notion that innovation in health care typically involves new drugs or new procedures. But the model of change he advocates in “How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time” (American Association for Physician Leadership, 2015) actually has nothing to do with advances in medical science or technology. Trimble, an adjunct associate professor at Tuck, describes the transformative work of doctors who have formed small full-time clinical teams focused on a single patient population and managed to keep patients healthier and reduce costs. “We’re not talking about breakthrough science here,” he says. “We’re so wedded to that vision that we overlook the reality that there are all of these common-sense innovation opportunities out there, if we only knew how to invest in them.” Between 2000 and 2011, Trimble coauthored five books with Tuck strategy professor Vijay Govindarajan on the topic of innovation within established organizations, including The New York Times bestseller, “Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere.” In the fall of 2011, he was thinking about how to apply his work on innovation to a problem of social significance, such as health care or energy. Then Dr. Al Mulley, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, asked him to join a new research initiative on innovation in health care delivery focusing not on treatment, but care models.

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As he began his research, Trimble drew from his past work—in particular his focus on the managerial challenges that face small teams working on innovation initiatives. But health care is different in many ways from other industries. “I think the most interesting thing to me is that MDs are very different people than MBAs. They have very different aspirations and goals,” he says. “I felt from the beginning that the most important challenge that I had to overcome was figuring out how to communicate across professional boundaries.” To bridge that gap, he read a stack of memoirs written by doctors, and then spent many hours shadowing physicians. As he learned more about their work and saw examples of innovations, he became convinced that change was possible. The feefor-service model, which blocked innovation, was changing. The Affordable Care Act has catalyzed new contracts between payers and providers that move away from paying for each service delivered—that is, volume— to rewarding increased value. This model, in which health systems are measured on their outcomes and lower costs, is allowing innovation to thrive. While the notion of systemic change can be daunting, the innovations Trimble describes in the book are efforts led by individuals. One such innovator is Dr. Nancy Murphy, a rehab physician at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Murphy was frustrated by the way the system was failing her patients—children with complex medical conditions, such as a genetic defect, a spinal injury, or a brain

injury. Their families, overwhelmed by the demands of their care, were seeing many different specialists who might give them conflicting opinions, and the children were frequently in the hospital. Murphy formed a small team of practitioners and specialists to take care of 600 patients, and completely redesigned the way care was delivered. The families would visit the hospital for longer appointments, up to 90 minutes, and see all members of the team. The team would huddle briefly toward the end of each appointment to share insights and decide on what to recommend to the families. They would also leave a third of their schedule free for answering emails from the families. The results were greater satisfaction among the patients and their families, better health outcomes and fewer hospital visits, and a 10- to 20-percent decrease in care costs. “All we’re talking about,” Trimble says, “is more time, more careful care planning and care coordination, and more conversations with families. But despite the powerful results, you will not get nearly the fanfare around an advance like this as you will around a new pill.” The book supports Trimble’s effort to make sure ideas like Murphy’s spread. After its publication in the fall, he spent seven weeks on the road promoting it. Now he is trying to sustain interest by launching a seminar series that will put innovators like Murphy in front of a virtual audience of physicians. “The measure of success to me,” he says, “is the initiation of many more projects like hers.”

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES New Faculty at Tuck

n July 1, Joseph Gerakos will join Tuck as an associate professor of business administration in the accounting area. Gerakos comes to Tuck from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he served most recently as an associate professor of accounting and a David G. Booth faculty fellow. Gerakos also served as a visting associate in finance in spring 2016 at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and his AB from Dartmouth College. Gerakos studies the structure of markets for financial services, and his research focuses on hedge funds, securities regulation, and disclosure. He will teach the spring Managerial Accounting elective at Tuck.

KATHARINA LEWELLEN, an associate professor of business administration at Tuck who teaches Corporate Finance, is a winner of the 2016 Wharton-WRDS Best Paper Award in Empirical Finance by the Western Finance Association. Lewellen shared the award with Alex Edmans of the London Business School and Vivian W. Fang of the Carlson School of Management for a 2014 paper the trio coauthored called “Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia,” which examined the impact of CEO pay on longterm company investment. Tuck associate professor GIOVANNI GAVETTI and co-author Mary Tripsas of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management were awarded the Strategic Management Society’s best paper prize for 2015 for their influential study, “Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence From Digital Imaging.” The Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize is given annually to a paper published five or more years previously in the Strategic Management Journal and is based on the paper’s impact in terms of the number of citations it receives and its influence on teaching, research, and/or practice. “Engineering Reverse Innovations,” an article co-authored by Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN and Amos Winter of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is this year’s recipient of the prestigious McKinsey Award for best article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2015. The article builds Govindarajan’s longstanding work on reverse innovation—a concept he helped pioneer—by identifying five principles to guide firms when developing products for emerging markets that can be rolled out globally.

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RESEARCH

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU NEW RESEARCH BY RON ADNER DEFINES THE VARIABLES THAT DETERMINE WHETHER FIRMS WILL BE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OR SITTING IN A STRATEGIC SWEET SPOT.

By JEFF MOAG

n a seminal paper published 36 years ago, Michael E. Porter defined a central premise of competitive business positioning, that firms can compete successfully only if they establish themselves as cost leaders or differentiators based on their cost-quality tradeoffs. The worst fate, Porter wrote, is to be stuck in the middle. This notion of generic strategies has shaped thinking on strategic positioning ever since. For almost as long, the theory has been plagued by one inconvenient fact: the real world is full of firms that succeed from the middle. “The received wisdom is that if you try to serve the whole market from a single position, you’re going to get beaten up by the specialists,” explains Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Ron Adner. “There are certainly a lot of examples to suggest that’s the case, but at the same time we also have a lot of examples of firms that do quite well as generalists,” he says. Those examples have long implied that a crack exists in the conceptual foundation of strategic business thinking. Adner’s new research, with Francisco Ruiz Aliseda of Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile and Peter Zemsky of INSEAD, sheds light on the conditions under which firms can compete, and in some cases dominate, from a central position. The findings represent an important contribution to the foundational question of when it is better to be a specialist or a generalist. The paper, “Breaking Trade-Offs: When is Dominating

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from the Middle a Winning Generic Strategy?” is forthcoming in the journal Strategy Science. The key factor is the interplay between scalability of investment and variability in consumers’ preferences, Adner says. The more different consumers are, the harder it becomes to serve them from a single position. At the same time, as investments become more scalable, a generalist firm can more easily fill multiple market niches. Generalists lose when their investments to increase quality are not scalable. For example if you want to add leather trim to a Lexus, you have to buy new leather for every Lexus you sell. Developing a new hybrid motor, in contrast, is a scalable investment—the fixed costs are the same whether you produce three cars or 3 million. As scalable technologies such as cloud computing play increasingly larger roles in production, the middle ground may become more fertile in the future. The evolution of the bookselling business illustrates the power of scalability. Before the advent of superstores like Barnes & Noble in the 1990s, the book business broke down along classic lines. “You would have either high-end intellectual bookstores, or books by the pound,” Adner says. “Then the superstores entered with classic fixedcost technology—they introduced much bigger stores, with much bigger selections. That enabled them to serve both sides of the market, those interested in discount and those interested in high-end selection. Amazon’s online model then took this one step further.”

Adner and his colleagues built an equilibrium model that predicts how scalability and customer diversity influence the success of various generic strategies. It identifies the zones where specialists win and generalists are “stuck in the middle,” where generalists “dominate from the middle,” and zones in which either a generalist or a specialist strategy can prevail. The model also identifies the market conditions where generalist firms don’t merely thrive in the middle; they can dominate from above, offering a higher level of quality than specialized differentiators. Again, the book business provides a good example. “At some point the scalability of the superstore model became so high that they actually shift from serving both markets from the middle—which is still a compromise—to the point where today a Barnes & Noble superstore has a more eclectic variety than any of the intellectual specialty stores we had in the past,” Adner says. Adner and his colleagues offer new and compelling evidence that strategic sweet spots exist in the center of the strategic landscape. For Adner, who uses these research insights in his teaching and consulting, the paper is itself an example of impacting multiple segments from a single position. Pointing to how academic research can be meaningful and relevant for business practice, he says, “There is no better example of a scalable technology than a good idea.”

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MassMutual CMO John Chandler’s data-driven approach to marketing helped propel the life insurance company to the industry’s upper echelon and transformed the way it tells its story. And he’s only getting started. BY K ATE SIBER D’02

n a Tuesday in October 2012, John Chandler T’86 walked into a board of directors’ meeting in the MassMutual Learning and Conference Center in Chicopee, Massachusetts, with an audacious plan. Chandler, chief marketing officer of MassMutual, had built a strong track record at the life insurance and financial services company since joining in 2006. He had overseen winning advertising, social media, and public relations campaigns, but perhaps most important, he had built a program to track the effectiveness of MassMutual’s marketing efforts, showing that they had a very real impact on sales. Now he wanted to build on that success and make an even bigger investment. Chandler, dressed in a suit and a trademark bright blue tie, wasn’t nervous. He and his team had done their research, consulted with leadership, and refined their proposal. The board of directors listened intently as Chandler outlined a three-year marketing game plan, dubbed the Strategic Brand Investment, which would turbocharge advertising, revolutionize the MassMutual.com website, develop a retail-store concept, support an agency branding program, and better translate Internet traffic into leads for life insurance agents. The price tag was $100 million, a significant sum in an industry that rarely makes big bets on branding and marketing. When he gives a presentation, Chandler, a brilliant storyteller and a confident speaker, pays attention to subtle feedback—the occasional head nod, the light of curiosity in people’s eyes, thoughtful questions. The board was clearly interested, but he didn’t know how interested. By that Friday, Chandler had an answer: Not only would his team get $100 million, they had permission to move the funds between tracks and between years to see the Strategic Brand Investment program to completion. It was a tremendous responsibility—and a golden opportunity. Ten years ago, when John Chandler was hired at MassMutual, it would have been outrageous to ask for $100 million for a branding plan. The life insurance industry was still operating as it always had, treating agents, who sell life insurance directly to consumers, as their customers rather than their business partners. Increasingly, the industry was falling out of relevance as consumer demographics and habits changed, among many factors. MassMutual was emerging from a period of diversification, but the company’s leaders wanted to return to its core identity as a mutual company selling

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life insurance. To stay relevant, however, they had to think differently. With a background in marketing packaged goods at companies like Frito Lay and Hasbro and only two years of financial services experience, Chandler was an industry outsider. But unusual ideas were exactly what MassMutual was looking for in a marketing executive. Over nearly 10 years, Chandler has helped guide a sea change in the way the company approaches marketing, supporting the transformation of this financial stalwart into a nimble digital company. At the same time, MassMutual has soared from 14th in the life insurance industry to No. 5; to No. 2 in whole life insurance sales; and to the top 10 in retirement plans. This year marked the 10th year in a row of record sales. “I am a proud member of an incredible leadership team and I have the honor of leading a fantastic marketing organization, and all of us take pride in stretching and pushing ourselves to continuously improve our performance and our results. We’ve made great strides, and yet for most of us, our belief is this is just a plateau before we really go big,” says Chandler. “The simple message is that in two or three years, our hope is to become the top-selling life insurance company in the United States.” Chandler didn’t originally set out to work in financial services, but his past experience made him a uniquely good fit. After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, he worked as a wellhead service technician on land and offshore oil rigs, eventually working up to the engineering team. It wasn’t until he was asked to work on a strategy project that he realized there might be a professional field he could get passionate about. He still remembers asking one of the project’s consultants, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, for his advice. Porter sat back in his chair, looked at young Chandler, and said bluntly, “If you want to get into marketing, what are you doing here?” Porter advised him to go to a top10 business school and to get an internship at a leading packaged goods company. The next day, Chandler started studying for the GMAT. Tuck was precisely what he and his wife, Pam Chandler T’86, were looking for: an intimate setting with a high degree of rigor. The couple lived in Sachem Village, and John biked to Tuck every day, even in winter. Tuck not only stoked his passion for marketing, it also schooled him in the intricacies of data analysis, culture, and leadership, which would inform the rest of his career. “I had marketing professors who had a big influence on me. But interestingly enough, it was the management accounting professor, John Shank, who had the biggest influence on me of anybody because he was great at

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John Shank made me study harder for a case because I was terrified he was going to call on me, and that made me study harder for every case.” —J O H N C H A N DL E R

really challenging us,” says Chandler, laughing. “He made me study harder for a case because I was terrified he was going to call on me, and that made me study harder for every case.” After graduating, Chandler trucked off to Texas to work for Frito Lay, which, even in the ’80s, had the creative energy, work ethic, and playful irreverence of today’s startups. “Anywhere I’ve worked ever since, I’ve asked myself: Are we building that kind of culture or not?” says Chandler. “That was one of the big influences.” By his mid-40s, after stints at Cadbury and Holiday Inn Hotels, Chandler was working at Hasbro, leading marketing efforts for their board games unit, but he felt a calling toward more personally meaningful work. “I started networking, thinking, If I’m not having a good time working on products for kids, maybe I want to work on more serious things for adults, right?” says Chandler. He connected with Fred Eppinger T’85, who had just become the CEO of Allmerica, an insurance company, and hired Chandler as vice president and chief marketing officer. After Chandler completed a

two-year rebranding of the company as the Hanover Insurance Group, a recruiter from MassMutual called. “The interesting thing I like about financial services is it involves important decisions that people are making about protecting their families or businesses,” says Chandler. “At the same time, it plays a really important role in society because people who save for retirement, who have life insurance, are protected against life’s uncertainties and are prepared for changing life stages. So you’re doing an important service for people and societies.” Chandler believed in MassMutual’s mission and saw that it had a strong, time-tested brand. But like many similar firms, it was not marketing outside of financial services. There was a huge audience it could still reach. What, Chandler wondered, would happen if he applied marketing techniques from his packaged goods experience to this industry? One of Chandler’s biggest challenges was to prove the value of marketing. He knew he would need to speak a language the finance gurus would understand. So with his team, he set about establishing a marketing

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metrics program to track leads MassMutual was generating for agents through the website, marketing materials, and seminars—and reporting how those leads translate into purchases. “Too often, marketers fall into what I call the shiny object syndrome, which is they get very excited about their work product—I made this video, I made this commercial, I made this brochure—but what the business wants to know is what’s the business result produced by the shiny object?” asks Chandler. “Presenting marketing investments and returns in the language of the business, and not just the language of marketing, is a big cultural change to make, but done the right way, you build enough credibility with the business that you can ask for $100 million.” Chandler’s team also launched an acclaimed advertising effort, the Good Decisions Campaign, right into the headwinds of the recession in 2008. It presented MassMutual, a long-time stable company, as the sign of a good decision in times of uncertainty. The public relations team also published articles and supplements on how to manage for retirement in an unstable economy, giving agents reprints to share with customers, and Chandler’s product marketing team built a customized retirement supplement sales concept for whole life insurance, which accounted for almost 50 percent of MassMutual’s whole life product sales. Chandler realized he had made headway in 2012 and 2013 when the company launched the Brand Ambassador Program, one of the signature programs of the Strategic Brand Investment. MassMutual had been structured around a system of general agencies and career agents who operate under independent brand names but sell MassMutual financial products directly to the consumer. The new program allowed agencies to rebrand themselves as MassMutual agencies for the first time. Chandler figured that if they were lucky, 10 or 12 out of their over 80 agencies would go for it. In the first year, 40 signed on. Now, 65 percent are fully branded as MassMutual and the balance are co-branded with MassMutual. “I was stunned,” says Chandler. “It was one of those watershed moments because it meant the culture of the field organization was changing based on their belief in our marketing value proposition.” The early success of the Brand Ambassador Program empowered him to move ahead with confidence on the other tracks of the Strategic Brand Investment. As part of that effort, Chandler’s team revamped the website, listing 4,000 agents with photographs and profiles and allowing customers to reach out directly to them. They also put more

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effort than ever into driving traffic to the website through targeted and highly measurable advertising campaigns such as “Who Matters Most?” The message was that the people who matter most to you say the most about you, and it used real human-interest stories to illustrate how MassMutual can help policyholders navigate life’s challenges. Instead of running the ads during football or golf programs, MassMutual ran them on network news and CNN, when, Chandler presumed, viewers were thinking about serious issues. Tested head to head against their competitors’ ads, they were about twice as effective. The company also tackled new ideas to reach out to millennials, whom they knew wouldn’t embrace filling out forms in a stuffy office like their parents and grandparents. MassMutual partnered with Ideo, a design and innovation consulting firm, to develop a retail store devoted to financial education, not sales. In October 2014, The Society of Grownups opened in Brookline, Massachusetts. A hip, playful space with couches and a coffee bar, it offers classes, supper clubs, and events that pair topics like getting your first postcollege job with fun activities like wine tasting. The concept is so successful that The Society of Grownups will open 10 new locations over the next three years. MassMutual is also reaching out to other new demographics through creative social media efforts. After the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage, the firm released a video, “Vow to Protect,” showing committed gay couples talking about their love for each other and the value of marriage. (Marriage is one of the top three triggers for purchasing a life insurance policy.) “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” picked it up, and to date the video has garnered some 4.5 million views. It was not exactly what one might expect a well-established insurance company to do, but this is precisely, Chandler might argue, why it worked so well. “I call it disrupting ourselves,” he says. “Half the things we do will probably fail, but in the process of doing that, we’ll learn something really interesting that we can apply to another part of our business. Always have the courage to try something new, communicate, communicate, communicate, but don’t compromise because you think it might be disruptive to what you do today. Somebody could come in and disrupt you a lot worse and you won’t be prepared for it.” Not everyone, of course, could pull this off. Chandler owes part of his success to the fact that he is so focused on backing up successes—and failures—with data. (MassMutual is now supporting data science programs at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the

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University of Massachusetts in order to train the next generation of scientists.) But his success also owes to his personality. Over six feet tall with an athletic build from a passion for road cycling and a healthy crop of peppery hair, he has a charismatic presence. But his thoughtful, easygoing nature and a sincere interest in people make him uniquely relatable. “Even though he may be presenting to a group or talking to a larger audience, you still feel like he’s talking to you—just you,” says Marc Johnson T’86, a classmate of Chandler’s and a managing partner in finance for a private family. “He’s got that ability to really hone in and engage directly. It’s a talent. And it makes him very good at his profession.” Today, many of the initiatives that were part of the Strategic Brand Investment are permanent fixtures, simply because they work. And their success is encouraging MassMutual to think even more innovatively. One of the company’s current directions is something that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago: selling directly to the consumer. Chandler argues that there are certain consumers who simply won’t buy through an agent—and capturing that business makes the company stronger as a whole. Already, MassMutual launched Haven Life, a middlemarket online insurance company. And by 2017, Chandler and his team will transform MassMutual.com to include a direct-sales experience for consumers. At the same time, the company is bolstering its agency system. In March, they announced the intention to acquire the Premier Client Group, the retail sales force for MetLife, which will add as many as 4,000 agents to MassMutual’s 5,800. In light of these developments, Chandler believes they have a legitimate shot at becoming the best-selling life insurance company in the country. “What he’s been able to do as a marketing executive

is help this company think completely differently and do it in a way that has been quite successful,” says Jim Kerley, chief membership officer for LIMRA, a financial services trade organization. “He’s done a really good job of bringing the company’s key constituents together to demonstrate why they have to change and to create change that integrates with their core business.” This February, Chandler was invited to give one of the keynote speeches at the LIMRA Distribution Conference for Financial Services. Wearing jeans, an open-collared shirt, and a sport coat—his new uniform in line with MassMutual’s updated dress code—he stood on an imposing stage in a conference ballroom at the Miami Hilton and told the MassMutual story to 450 industry professionals. More than anything, he said, they had to be willing to disrupt themselves— or risk being disrupted. They had to approach new customers in dynamic ways. At the end, applause erupted, the attendees eventually shifted and bustled about, and John Chandler left to catch a plane to his next engagement. But his message didn’t leave their minds. Even the next day, they were still talking about how MassMutual is embracing the future with all of its uncertainties—and how they could too. Chandler, once an industry outsider, is transforming into a thought leader. “What John’s presentation was able to do was to illustrate what contemporary financial services companies have to do to reach out to today’s consumers. It is an amazing story in the context of a company that’s 165 years old,” says Kerley. “Certainly MassMutual is benefitting by his leadership in this category and I would say the industry is winning because he’s showing how to lead in a new way. That’s pretty cool, don’t you think?”

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lisabeth Hartley T’05 was living in New York City, working a highstakes job in consumer retail strategy for consulting firm Booz & Company, when she got the call that would change the direction of her life and her career. It was early 2014. Hartley had just bought a house in Brooklyn and was in the midst of unpacking boxes. She’d been with the same firm for more than seven years and had climbed the ranks into a senior position. Then the phone rang. It was Matthew Costello, a former client of Hartley’s and the recently appointed chief operating officer of Beats By Dre, the audio and consumer electronics company founded in 2006 by rapper Dr. Dre and former record producer Jimmy Iovine. “He called and said, ‘We need someone to run our direct retail business. We have e-commerce in 17 countries, a flagship retail store in New York, and a 30-person team. We want to grow that. What do you say?’” Hartley remembers. The job was based at Beats’ Los Angeles, California, headquarters, which would involve a cross-country move just weeks after Hartley had bought her first home in New York. She told Costello she’d come out to L.A. and consult for six weeks to design a plan for the business. “Sometimes an opportunity arises that you’d be a fool to pass up,” she says. But a few weeks after Hartley landed in California, there was more exciting news: Apple was bidding to acquire Beats, a first-of-its-kind brand acquisition for the tech giant—major news in the industry—and a mega deal for the audio company Hartley was now working for. “They asked me if I would run the Beats side of the merger,” Hartley, now 39, says. “So I went from having a dream job to having an even bigger dream job.” Beats got its start making premium headphones and had expanded to launch Beats Music, an online streaming music platform that was said to be a major draw for Apple, which bought Beats for $3 billion, the biggest acquisition in the company’s history. “Apple is known more for acquiring technology that they want to integrate into products, and Beats Music

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was key to unlocking that arena,” Hartley says. Nine months of high-intensity integration followed where Hartley was at the epicenter. “It was like riding a bicycle in the Tour de France, while simultaneously trying to change the tire,” she says. “How do we continue to scale while driving speed to market and product quality? Managing that balance was really the heart of the integration work. It took fine-tuning and testing. It was very much an agile, dynamic way of integrating.”

Elisabeth Hartley never intended a career in the entertainment or tech industries. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she majored in neuroscience and envisioned a move into medicine. But when she graduated in 1999, instead of going straight to medical school, she figured she’d try something different for a year. She got a consulting job in American Express’ strategic planning group, working in an incubator for emerging technologies. “That job exposed me to new types of thinking that piqued my excitement for strategy and picking apart really thorny problems,” she says. “The intersection of design and consumer technology that transform how we live our lives is something that’s always inspired and intrigued me.” After three-and-a-half years with American Express, Hartley was ready for the next move, and she knew it wasn’t going to be medical school. Instead, business school drew her in. “I knew I was passionate about strategy but not that passionate about the credit card business and financial services,” Hartley says. “So I chose business school knowing I wanted to do management consulting and apply all the tools I’d been acquiring.” Choosing Tuck was easy, she says. “Tuck is reputedly one of the most rigorous business schools, but it’s not competitive at the expense of someone else’s success,” she says. “That teamcentric environment is something I continue to look for in places where I work.” Tuck’s small scale and culture of collaboration,

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her professors’ wide-open office door policies, and the camaraderie she felt with her classmates exceeded her expectations. “I knew everyone in my class. I knew their families, their dogs,” she says. “It was a charming experience in such a magical setting. I absolutely loved it.” As a first-year, she helped bring in local yoga instructors to lead classes during lunchtime. After graduating from Tuck in 2005, Hartley did what most business school graduates don’t do: having already lined up a job upon her return, she bought a plane ticket to Southeast Asia and spent the next six months traveling the world. She knocked around Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam for a few weeks with friends from Tuck, then boarded a flight to Costa Rica, where she signed up for a 200-hour yoga teacher training. She spent the next month moving from downward dog to savasana, hopping on her longboard at lunch breaks to surf the crashing waves outside her door. She slept in a thatched-roof hut that she shared with iguanas and snacked on fresh papayas from a nearby tree. Hartley then traveled around Europe and India for the next few months. “My travels were the perfect counterpoint to having done more of the type-A business school thing,” she says. “Really, I just needed a break before diving into the next chapter of my career.” After half a year of traveling, in January 2006 she landed at the New York office of Booz & Company—where she had interned while at Tuck— and began climbing her way to associate partner, until the call came from Beats. Looking back on that transition, Hartley says she realizes she was itching for a new challenge. “I was ready to get my hands dirty in the operational aspects of a company,” she says. “I wanted to know firsthand what it was like to build a business. I wanted to work in a smaller, more entrepreneurial setting, a little less corporate. And I’ve had a longstanding passion for disruptive business models, brands that do things in a novel way.” Beats, it turned out, was exactly the disruption Hartley was looking for. “What is so fantastic about Beats is not just creating the market for mass premium headphones, which didn’t really exist before. The fashion and cultural aspects were instrumental and completely shaped by

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Beats,” she says. “They moved the company at the speed of culture, tying the brand in real time to iconic celebrities, be it in entertainment or sports. There have been copycat brands, but it’s been hard for others to replicate the magic of what Beats has done.” Beats tapped into popular culture to help accelerate the brand, getting musicians like Lady Gaga, designers like Alexander Wang, and athletes like LeBron James and Serena Williams to design their own headphones and become ambassadors of the Beats brand. It’s a move that helped propel Beats into the mainstream market in a way no audio company had done before.

It’s a typical Wednesday for Liz Hartley. She’s been to her sunrise yoga class, followed by a quick trip to the Santa Monica farmers’ market for fresh eggs and cauliflower from a nearby farm. Since she doesn’t own a car in L.A., she uses ride-sharing apps to commute to work. Hartley arrives at the Beats office by 8:30 a.m. and immediately dives in. Meetings with the COO to discuss operational measures or sales numbers. Regular check-ins with product developers to learn the status of a new headphone or speaker prototype. At day’s end, she may even hop on a plane to San Francisco to meet with design teams at Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Now that the merger with Apple is complete, she’s been working in product development and strategic planning to drive the success of Beats as a line of business within Apple—applying the critical thinking skills she cultivated while a student at Tuck. “The core curriculum at Tuck set the foundation for the real-time problem solving I’m doing now,” she says. “Very quickly you have to implement a plan or a course of action or align to a decision.” Her current role as the company’s head of strategy and product development is essentially the third job she’s held at Beats. Hartley’s first focus was direct retail and e-commerce, then the merger integration. This third chapter blends key aspects of strategy, business operations, and product development to create the vision for

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what future audio products should look like now that they’re part of Apple. “I work very closely with our product team, our engineers, and our operations staff as we design the next two-tothree-year pipeline of what innovation will look like,” she says. Innovation at Beats could mean many things and Hartley, of course, can only divulge so much about what products the company has in store. (In typical Apple style, product secrecy pre-launch is strongly upheld. “I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you,” she jokes.) She does offer a few hints, suggesting that the company intends to transform the way people experience audio, whether it’s in their homes, cars, or through wearables, important touch points that are getting more sophisticated in today’s tech-driven world. “There is a lot of ideation to design a vision for ‘next gen,’” she says. Apple and Beats are now one company, and Hartley says they’re actually not that different

from each other. “In many ways, Beats is reminiscent of the Apple of many years ago,” she explains. “They both had iconic and visionary leaders at the helm who were maniacal about imagining what the future could look like that isn’t based on what you’re seeing today. That disruptive trait is embedded into the organizational DNA.” That’s not to say combining the two brands was an easy task. It took months of negotiations and problem-solving, endless meetings with both sides, and hours of strategizing. But strategic thinking is what Hartley does best. That, and imagining a future that doesn’t yet exist. “Now that we have the two companies wired together and working together, there’s this exciting opportunity to unlock the full potential,” she says. “Rest assured, we’re not satisfied with the status quo.”

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LOOKING TO SWITCH GEARS AND START A NEW CAREER? YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RE NOT ALONE. MEET EIGHT ALUMNI WHO DREW ON THEIR TUCK EXPERIENCE TO PURSUE A NEW PASSION LATER IN LIFE.

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FIRST ACT: Curt Welling traded Hanover for a job on Wall Street with First Boston (now Credit Suisse) and within three years was leading the mortgage finance division, something he helped pioneer. “Because of my Tuck education, I understood capital asset pricing, volatility, option valuation theory,” he said, “and thanks to [professor] Brian Quinn I also had the strategy perspective, so I could think broadly about the business.”

SECOND (AND THIRD) ACTS: Welling always had his long-term sights set on work in the nonprofit sector, and after 9/11 he decided to leave finance and search for the right organization to lead. He found it in AmeriCares, a disaster relief and global health provider that was looking for a CEO to replace the organization’s founder. He spent 11 years there, growing the staff to 250, annual revenue to $30 million, and giving out $9 billion in pharmaceuticals to countries in need. After AmeriCares, Welling still had more to do. He became interested in what happens at the intersection of government, business, society, and markets. He had worked with the Allwin Initiative at Tuck (now the Center for Business & Society), so he inquired about other opportunities at his alma mater. Today, he’s a senior fellow in both the Center for Global Business and Government and the Center for Business & Society, and teaches a course on the evolving “social contract.”

ON TUCK: “Thinking about how to create and govern institutions to make them more effective, and strategies for bringing more capital to the table through impact investing or social entrepreneurship—Tuck has a great opportunity to bring disciplined analytical perspectives to students on these important concepts,” Welling said.

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KRISTEN BALDERSTON FIRST ACT: By the time Kristen Balderston had her first child, she had worked in marketing for Parker Brothers and James River Paper, and as an administrator at Cornell University. Then her job was to be a mom to her two kids for more than 20 years.

SECOND ACT: When Balderston decided to re-enter the workforce, she got a well-timed email from Tuck Alumni Services associate director Kate Barlow about a company called reacHIRE. The Boston-based firm offers a five-week boot camp for women who want to resume their career after an extended hiatus. Balderston parlayed the reacHIRE experience into a position in human resources with Fidelity, focusing on diversity and inclusion among the technology staff.

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ON TUCK: “I just think the skills Tuck gives you can be applied in so many different ways,” she said. “Like the discipline of how to approach a problem and find the answer—it comes back so quickly, it’s like second nature.”

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SCOTT FRANTZ FIRST ACT:

Scott Frantz came to Tuck hoping to enter the mergers and acquisitions industry after graduating. He got his wish, joining a new M&A team at Banker’s Trust. But after five years of 14-hour workdays, he needed to find something a little less intense. So Frantz and some friends put together a private equity and venture capital business, riding the growth in eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and capitalizing on the venture cycle from the dot-com boom.

SECOND ACT: In 1993, Frantz joined the Connecticut Economic Development Authority. He found the work fascinating, and served as its chairman for six years. Then he chaired the board of directors of Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport. In 2008, after some deep thought on his love of public service, he campaigned to be the

state senator for the 36th district, which includes the communities of Greenwich, New Canaan, and Stamford. He won the election, and Frantz is currently serving his fourth term in the state capitol, focusing on issues such as job creation and fiscal responsibility.

ON TUCK: “Tuck is not just a business school equipping students with all the tools they need to go out and become wildly successful business people,” Frantz said. “It also gives them all sorts of opportunities to work on the all important communications abilities everyone has to have, no matter what they’re doing. Being articulate, honest, reliable, trustworthy—those are values that Tuck defines. Tuck was an outstanding training ground for being a senator.”

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GENE HORNSBY FIRST ACT: Gene Hornsby worked in a variety of roles—finance, IT, and manufacturing— at Analog Devices for 39 years, helping the company grow from $23 million in annual sales to more than $3 billion. “It was a wonderful place to work, and I enjoyed every minute of it.”

SECOND ACT: A Red Sox season ticket holder for more than 40 years, Hornsby is an avid baseball fan. While at Analog, he had been advising the Orleans Firebirds, one of 10 teams in the Cape Cod Baseball League, where elite college players go in the summer to get noticed by Major League scouts. After Hornsby retired from Analog, the opportunity arose to be the Firebirds’ president, and he was more than happy to take it.

ON TUCK: “The preparation I got at Tuck, in terms of strategy, marketing, and finance—all those skills are crucial in this job,” Hornsby said.

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AMY FEIND REEVES FIRST ACT: After Tuck, Amy Feind Reeves spent 20 years as a consultant to a variety of industries, from telecom to educational publishing. “It was always a steep learning curve, and I loved the challenge,” she said. As a single mother in the late 2000s, Feind Reeves moved to an operating role so she could limit her travel, becoming chief operating officer for a $700 million community development bank. SECOND ACT: In 2013 she realized she could start a viable business on her own by focusing on her career-long passion for helping new graduates and young professionals transition into the business world.

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ON TUCK: “Tuck gave me the courage to start JobCoachAmy,” she said, “and I would not have known that it could really work had I not been able to do the market research, the business model, and the financial projections on my own.”

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CLAYTON SIMMERS FIRST ACT: Clayton Simmers tried a variety of jobs after Tuck. He started in media banking at Merrill Lynch in Manhattan, then moved to San Francisco to work for Excite@Home, where he saw the company’s fortunes rise and fall like so many other dot-com-era businesses. When the bubble burst, Simmers and his wife Susan C. Hamill Simmers T’96 moved back to the Upper Valley, and Simmers began working in Tuck’s Career Development Office. SECOND ACT: Working at Tuck, in the education field, reminded Simmers of his first and favorite job after college: teaching English in the Czech Republic. He decided to give teaching another shot

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and found he still enjoyed it immensely. After a year of training with the Upper Valley Educator’s Institute, Simmers obtained his teaching degree and landed a job teaching third grade at the Bernice A. Ray Elementary School in Hanover, where he has worked for the past six years. “What really drives me is making an impact on kids, helping them develop an interest in school, and seeing the light bulbs go off,” Simmers said.

ON TUCK: “What I draw on most in teaching is what I learned in Management Communications,” he says. “Before Tuck, I didn’t like public speaking very much, and now that’s what I do all day and it’s great.”

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VICKI CRAVER FIRST ACT: Vicki Craver, a chemistry major in college, arrived at Tuck planning to be a consultant to the chemical industry. Then she discovered Wall Street and was smitten by the combination of math and financial strategy. After a summer internship at Goldman Sachs’ fixed income department, Craver took a full-time job as a trader on Goldman’s corporate bond desk. “I wouldn’t have even known about that job if I hadn’t gone to Tuck, and I certainly wouldn’t have been a candidate for it,” she said. SECOND ACT: After four years, Craver left Goldman Sachs to start a family. Last year, she and a friend founded the grant-making nonprofit Impact Fairfield County, which allocates funds for worthy nonprofit projects in Fairfield County, Connecticut. When organizations apply for grants from Impact Fairfield County, it’s Craver’s job to help vet not only the proposed projects but also the financial strength of the applicants.

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ON TUCK: “In this role, I’ve gone back to so many of the courses at Tuck that I didn’t use as a bond trader, such as Management Communications and Organizational Behavior,” she said. “It’s amazing how I’m still reaping the benefits of my Tuck education.”

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CHRISTOPHER FOX FIRST ACT: When Christopher Fox graduated from Tuck, he went to work for Goldman Sachs in Boston. For about 10 years, he was in security sales as a research liaison, which involved selling the intellectual products of the investment team to institutional clients. SECOND ACT: Fox had a history of service in the public sector, most notably as a member of the Carter administration. He was drawn back to that realm because he wanted to serve his community and for the intellectual challenge. “It’s like playing three-dimensional chess,” he says, “combining policy, operations, and politics.” So Fox obtained a Master’s of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1993 and began a series of jobs for the City of Boston and the State of Massachusetts, including a stint as the chief of the Bureau of Administration and Technology for the Boston Police Department. For the past four years, Fox has been the associate court administrator for the Massachusetts Trial Court, a division with 6,400 employees and a budget of $650 million.

ON TUCK: “There are different accounting standards for government, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have an orientation to trying to improve cost efficiency and effectiveness, to strive for better service standards,” Fox says. “Many of the things I learned in business school have applicability here.”

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Now You’re Cooking

Pantry founder Dennis Lasko T’08 is offering hungry and time-starved patrons everything they need to make fresh, flavorful meals at home. / p. 42

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WHAT’S FOR DINNER? PANTRY, A NEW RETAILER FOUNDED BY DENNIS LASKO T’08, HAS THE ANSWER. / By KATE SIBER D’02

t’s 7 p.m. You’ve had a marathon day of meetings, and it dawns on you that there’s nothing in the fridge at home but some wilted parsley and a few lonely beers. How do you cook healthy, delicious meals when you’re short on time and energy? Dennis Lasko T’08 and Amanda Mayo, a gastronomy professor at Boston University, have a novel solution: Pantry. A new retail shop that opened in August in Brookline, Massachusetts, Pantry offers all of the pre-portioned ingredients you need—plus a recipe—to make a homecooked meal in less than 45 minutes. In a soothingly grey-hued room with wood floors and a vintage fireplace adorned with reclaimed wood, customers choose from about 20 recipes, from crispy-skin salmon with creamy barley and red-veined sorreland-dill salad to kimchi meatloaf with soy butter roasted potatoes, each for about $18 to $24 for two. Need a drink? The store offers paired wines and beers by the bottle. “We’re trying to take all the intimidation out of cooking—and drinking,” says Mayo, who signed on as chief gastronomic officer after she met Lasko through her husband, David Chin T’08, principal for Palladin Consumer Retail Partners. So far, Pantry has increased sales each month since it

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opened, has received only five-star reviews on Yelp (with the exception of one four-star review that requested more recipes), and recently launched delivery throughout the Boston area. While perfecting their concept in Brookline, Lasko and Mayo are asking the obvious question: Where to next? Lasko had an inkling that a concept like this would succeed because he had already seen it work elsewhere and in different forms. He was an enthusiastic customer of Blue Apron, an online retailer that sends a recipe and a box of fresh ingredients to your home. And he watched similar online subscription models and food-delivery services, such as Seattle-based Lish, founded by Aakhil Fardeen T’08, proliferate. On a 2014 trip to Munich to visit Alexander Koepnick T’08, co-founder of White Knight Capital, Lasko discovered Kochhaus, an attractive German chain that offers pre-portioned recipe kits, appealing to both aspiring cooks and harried professionals. “There is no Kochhaus in the U.S. market but it makes perfect sense,” says Koepnick. In two months, he raised enough funding for Lasko to launch Pantry. “It really is the right product for our time,” says Koepnick. “People more and more are enjoying cooking, and that’s why these companies like Blue Apron and Plated

have such tremendous growth rates—but we really believe we have the best offer in that market.” It took about a year—with plenty of challenges—to get Pantry’s doors open. Mayo painstakingly painted and sanded, made sure everything met code, and perfected the recipes in her home kitchen, using her husband as a taste-tester. “I made some real stinkers,” she jokes. “That’s why we test these recipes about 50 times.” Meanwhile, Lasko hand-built the store’s tables, organized the building contractors, and wrangled the paperwork, from the liquor permit to the certificate of occupancy. Now, after several months of business, more than 50 percent of their credit card sales are repeat customers. Mayo is constantly devising new meals with exotic, hard-to-source ingredients like ras el hanout, a Moroccan spice blend that’s delicious as a chicken rub, and the team hopes to open their next store in a year or two. “For me, what hits home is for busy people this really makes a difference,” says Lasko. “You can do that home-cooked meal in a reasonable amount of time—and it not only helps you be healthier, it helps your family be healthier too.”

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ALUMNI INTERVIEW

ANN WATERMAN ROY By KATE SIBER D’02

Innovate Public Schools is a three-year-old nonprofit based in San Jose, California. What problem is the organization trying to solve and how? The Bay Area has some of the best schools in the country, but it also has some really inadequate ones. And unfortunately access is often divided based on economics. Innovate is dedicated to creating access to great schools for every kid in the Bay Area, with a particular focus on low income and students of color. Part of our strategy is to build political will, organizing families and parents to advocate for change in their communities. We also do research and policy—putting out reports on what’s working well and what isn’t—to really empower those parents. And for the school support team, which I lead, our anchor program is a Start-Up Schools Fellowship, which is basically a planning year for principals and a small design team who are planning to launch a new public school within two years. That can be a charter school or a traditional district school. We also support teams who are planning to redesign an existing underperforming school.

Innovate sees research as a key ingredient for successful advocacy. Your 2013 report “Broken Promises” served as a wake-up call for educators and families. But you also see data and research as critical tools to improve leadership and instruction. How? Schools and school systems are complex organizations—being successful with all kids involves a tremendous amount of data and rapid decision-making by professionals at all levels—teachers, principals, and district

and network leaders. Teachers are in front of 25-30 kids who all come knowing different things; teachers have to be very clear what it is they want students to learn, and constantly gather data to see what kids have mastered. Strong teachers use that information to adapt their teaching strategy that day or week, and then repeat the process all year long. School leaders need to allocate their very limited time and resources to the initiatives they think will have the greatest impact. Good school leaders constantly review student data to check the impact of their strategic investments, and pivot if needed. I think there’s a ton of parallel in the private sector—the best organizations build in a sense of kaizen, where everyone takes ownership for the quality of the end product. And you can’t build that culture of continuous improvement unless you’re looking at data to see where you’re successful.

How has your Tuck education helped you in your role at Innovate? It’s been incredibly valuable. I get to tap into the skill set I have to help these really talented educators who often haven’t had formal training in management, operations, or leadership. Ella Bell Smith’s Leadership Out of the Box elective has been personally useful for me as I’ve developed my own leadership style, and it’s been really helpful as I coach leaders, many of whom don’t see themselves in the traditional dominant, charismatic leadership style. My marketing classes helped me guide new schools on positioning themselves in their educational market and effectively recruiting families. Also, building models

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Launching a new public school takes an entrepreneurial spirit, but many of the best educators have never been schooled in finance, management, and operations. Enter ANN WATERMAN ROY T’05. After 10 years in Boston leading schools and strategy in the district and partner organizations, she relocated to California and is now managing director of schools and operations for Innovate Public Schools. Today she trains teachers and administrators to start and lead the Bay Area’s next great public schools, helping “a team of passionate, smart, talented educational entrepreneurs figure out how to take something from an idea to actual fruition.”

and forecasting—I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing complex data sets to understand our market and the impact of our strategic investments. And in my current role, I help school leaders understand how their budget tells the story of their organization and where their resources are allocated. There were also several courses that emphasized accountability. That’s been a key concept that I come back to repeatedly.

Why is accountability a key ingredient in improving education? That you can still be accountable for something you can’t totally control—but that you can influence heavily—has been a recurring theme for me, even though it’s often hard for people to grasp. Sometimes people say, you know, “those kids have so many challenges, they come in with so many things holding them back, how can we expect them to do well?” And that drives me absolutely insane. As an educator, you don’t have control over students’ lives outside of school, but you have an immense amount of influence. Yes, poor students, non-English speakers, and students of color face real and often major challenges that other kids don’t. And there are any number of schools now that are proving that poor students can achieve at the same levels as more affluent kids if they are given the right support and held to the same high expectations. Our challenge is to say, “yes, and”—we see the challenges, and what can we do about it in our classrooms? The schools I get to work with are taking on these challenges every day and are proving what is possible. It’s incredibly inspiring. SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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ANSWERING STARBUCKS’ SIREN’S CALL

By MARCIE GOOD

or Leslie Hampel T’07, director of global strategy at Starbucks, a luxury handbag and a skinny latte aren’t that different. The decision to purchase either product, she asserts, is driven by the same consumer desire. “Why are consumers willing to spend $500 on a Coach handbag when there are much less expensive options?” she asks. “Coffee comes with a similar consideration when a customer decides, ‘I’m going to buy a $5 cup of coffee,’ rather than making it at home for a fraction of the cost. They are both premium retail experiences.” Hampel works as an internal strategist at Starbucks, helping the coffee chain define and execute its highest priorities. Among her many duties, she helps to articulate the five-year strategic vision for the company and leads cross-functional teams in enterprise transformation projects to drive revenue and cost reduction through the lens of humanity. “I enjoy being drawn into far bigger business problems than I had in my previous roles.” Hampel arrived at Starbucks after a two-year turn at strategy consulting firm Booz & Company (now PwC’s Strategy&) followed by five years at Coach, where she started out as an internal strategist as well. Coach, a company known for its premium leather goods and accessories, including

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DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL STRATEGY LESLIE HAMPEL T’07 IS HELPING CHART A BOLD FUTURE FOR THE COFFEE RETAILER.

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handbags, was entering new international markets and Hampel aided that effort by building consumer insights and market positioning for the brand. After two years, she transitioned to the international finance team, analyzing operations and establishing sales and inventory targets for stores. It was a move uniquely suited for Hampel, who graduated from Ohio University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She recalls the words of advice she got from her father when she was about to start her undergraduate studies: “Find a major you’re naturally good at,” he told her. For Hampel, that was accounting and finance. After college, Hampel took a job in the bankruptcy consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (now FTI Consulting) in New York City, where she helped companies navigate the procedures of a bankruptcy filing. The experience provided Hampel with a deep understanding of accounting and finance, but she longed for exposure to other parts of the enterprise, to “sales, operations, marketing—all the more optimistic, futurelooking functions,” she says. At Tuck, Hampel found the broad business education she was looking for. She recalls her two years in Hanover as a special time during which she met a lot of amazing people and developed a powerful

network. “One of the things I love about Tuck is it isn’t just about getting your degree and then getting a big job. It is a wonderful confluence of amazing people at the right time in your life.” Hampel eventually felt herself drawn to Seattle, home of several Tuck friends as well as several large retail companies. She applied to Starbucks, which impressed her with a corporate vision of not only healthy profits and growth, but also of social responsibility. “I come from a family of altruists,” she explains. “My mom was a school psychologist who worked with kids with learning disabilities and my dad teaches toddlers with developmental disabilities how to walk. So I love the idea of working for a company that sees its role as not only to be profitable and to deliver incredible growth, but also to leave the world a better place.” In November 2014 she moved to Seattle and began her job as director of global strategy. Recently, Hampel traveled to Chicago to interview prospective interns. She found herself wishing that she could give these young graduates a bit of advice. “We can plan as much as we want as we’re getting ready to graduate,” she says. “But the fact of the matter is, a lot of what happens in our career is out of our control. Just find something you like and do it well and let the promotions take care of themselves—the angst and worry will get you nowhere.”

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BEST PRACTICES

ROBERT GULLIVER T’97

ON INFLUENCING COMPANY CULTURE By JULIE SLOANE D’99

Prioritize diversity. While there are times to allow things to be organic, diversity is an area where it’s important for leadership to be intentional and vocal. We recently expanded the NFL’s “Rooney Rule”: when there’s a head coach or general manager opportunity, at least one diverse candidate has to be considered. Now for all executivelevel jobs at the NFL League Office, we must consider at least one woman. Create a “truth to power” environment. The NFL is very consensus driven, and we work to find common ground in driving change. But at the same time, it’s critical that the leadership of any company fosters an environment where employees feel comfortable putting their voices in the room, and it’s OK to respectfully disagree. Think of leaders as coaches. We talk a lot about our leaders throughout the organization as “coaches,” and coaches are essentially teachers. They provide those on the team with candid feedback, and they’re the people who can drive and effect change. Coaching is a literal part of football, but it’s a valuable metaphor for any business.

Win hearts and minds. Make the business case for change, but also work to win the hearts and minds of those who can help drive and influence change. Look for high EQ in your hires. I find the people who are most successful as leaders have the technical expertise and excellence required and combine that with good people skills. They have high emotional intelligence—EQ—as well as high IQ. Listen and understand. Our leadership team realizes that it doesn’t have all the answers. We’re doing a lot of listening. Two seasons ago, we had some challenges related to domestic violence and sexual assault, and we rolled out an enhanced personal conduct policy to better address these societal issues within our community. That wasn’t simply a top-down edict. We took a step back and listened, conducting focus groups, interviews, and discussions with players, owners, executives, employees, and experts in the field. In addition, we used this moment to rearticulate the NFL values from the vantage of the people who are living them.

ERIC ESPINO, NFL

In his six seasons as executive vice president and chief human resources officer for the National Football League, ROBERT GULLIVER T’97 has helped manage the NFL through some major cultural shifts: a push for more diverse head coaches, a re-thinking of NFL values in the wake of the Ray Rice domestic violence controversy, and most recently a major initiative to bring more women into executive roles. And this is just the latest chapter in his 20-year career in human resources at companies like Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Here he shares his tips on how to shape the culture in an organization.

There’s no one best source of ideas. We recently rolled out what we’re calling an “employee hack.” It’s a page out of the tech world’s hackathons where programmers get together for a short, intense period to find new ways to solve problems. We’re pulling together a bunch of our employees who have great ideas and asking them how we can move the needle on our culture. What are the “even better if...” opportunities to live the NFL values day in and day out? It’s a deliberate act to create a forum for dialogue, ideas, insights, and brainstorming. Value competitors’ ideas. One of the most important focuses for us is diversity, and five years ago I joined with a group of sports and media diversity experts with the goal of sharing best practices. Diversity is one of those areas where a rising tide lifts all boats. It’s been a productive forum, and we continue to meet annually.

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ALUMNI PROFILE

PRODUCTIVITY REDEFINED JOSH KIDWELL

EVERNOTE CEO CHRIS O’NEILL T’01 IS HELPING THE DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND NOTE-KEEPING COMPANY DO MORE BY FOCUSING ON WHAT IT DOES BEST. By JULIE SLOANE D’99

or much of the decade that Chris O’Neill T’01 worked at Google, his daily commute took him past a gleaming office building with a grey elephant-head logo: the headquarters of Evernote in Redwood City, California. O’Neill himself happened to be an Evernote customer, using the productivity and note-keeping software for meeting notes, travel agendas, and family goal-setting. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Evernote was approaching a textbook transition in the lifecycle of any successful startup: Its founding team had grown the company to 400 employees and 150 million users, raising $290 million and retaining a deep passion for the product. For the next phase of growth, however, it was time for a CEO with a different skillset. And that’s how the venture capitalists found O’Neill, who joined the company as CEO last August. He brought with him a different type of experience, which began with a consulting career at Oliver Wyman. There he met numerous Tuck alums who espoused a passionate enthusiasm for the school that was, as O’Neill puts it, “at first a little off-putting to my Canadian sensibilities.” Nevertheless, as an MBA candidate Tuck’s charms ultimately won him over and he set his hopes on joining the Bay Area tech scene upon graduation. The downturn of 2001 delayed those plans until 2005, when he joined Google’s sales and operations

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team, helping to, among other things, manage Google’s relationships with large retailers like Amazon, Target, Best Buy, and the Gap. From there he was tapped to lead Google’s Canadian operations. O’Neill describes that time as the three or four best years of his professional career. Under his leadership, Canadian operations grew from “hundreds of millions” in revenue to “billions” and his staff tripled. Amazing as that experience was, he says, he still felt he had a lot to learn. In 2014, O’Neill returned to California to run business operations for Google X, home to the company’s “moonshot” tech projects: self-driving cars, internet balloons, contact lenses that can read your glucose levels, and wearable tech like Google Glass. “It was an incredible run at an amazing company,” O’Neill says of his time at Google. “I talk a lot about strategic serendipity. My parents used to say, ‘You’ve got to be good to be lucky, and you’ve got to be lucky to be good.’” In thinking about his next challenge, O’Neill realized from his Google Canada experience that he loved scaling companies and building them—forming teams and cultures that can make a good company even better. In Evernote, he saw a fast-growing company that had begun to do too many things. It had, for example, opened an online store for Evernote-branded physical

merchandise like scanners, notepads, and even socks. The focus, O’Neill says, is now squarely on products that help knowledge workers save time on mundane tasks to free more time for creative, high-impact work. Its core product helps people organize their notes and internet clippings into digital “notebooks,” and provides collaboration tools to share that information with others. O’Neill finds himself thinking back to his time at Tuck a lot these days. “In the last three weeks, I’ve asked, ‘Where’s Herbie?” in two different meetings,” he says, laughing. And working through “gnarly multivariable regressions” as he thinks through pricing strategy, he’s reminded of his strategic communications classes. “As a leader, I’m communicating 80 percent of the time I’m awake.” Restructuring has necessarily brought some growing pains; just a month into his tenure, O’Neill announced layoffs and the closure of three global outposts. (And suffice it to say, Evernote socks are now collector’s items.) But already the company is back in hiring mode. O’Neill’s LinkedIn profile even lists his employer as “Evernote (we’re hiring!).” As we chat, O’Neill notes that his sevenmonth anniversary at Evernote will be the following day. How is he celebrating? “By interviewing six people,” he laughs. “Nothing happens without great teams.”

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NEWSMAKERS By PATTI BACON

as executive vice president of strategy and business ventures for the organization.

PHOTO COURTESY THE WHITE HOUSE

ROHAN PALEKAR T’91

PAMELA SCOTT T’75

Blue Hills Bank (BHBK) appointed PAMELA SCOTT T’75, president and CEO of LVCC, Inc., to its board of directors. Scott has more than 30 years of experience in financial services and founded her business consulting firm in 2003. She previously served as an independent director at the Beverly National Bank and Danversbank prior to their respective mergers.

RAMSEY JAY JR. T’05 Ramsey Jay Jr. T’05 joined a slate of high-profile speakers and popular entertainers paying tribute to legendary entertainer Ray Charles at the White House Feb. 24. The event, titled “Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House,” was hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. As a representative of The Ray Charles Foundation’s board of directors, Jay offered opening remarks about the philanthropic legacy of the singer, songwriter, and musician who—through his private foundation— worked to assist organizations and institutions in the advancement of social and educational programs for under-served youth and to provide financial support in the fields of visual and hearing disorders. Though he was blind, Jay noted, Charles always maintained that an inability to hear music would have been the real handicap for him. In offering his remarks, Jay also thanked the President, First Lady, and Smithsonian for hosting the performance tribute, which featured entertainers Usher, Demi Lovato, and gospel singer Yolanda Adams, among others. This was the second such commemorative event in which Jay represented The Ray Charles Foundation. In 2013, he delivered opening remarks for the national announcement of the Ray Charles Forever stamp at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. That event featured Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., Chaka Khan, and Michelle Williams, among other prominent participants.

Avanir Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in medicines for patients with central nervous system disorders, has named ROHAN PALEKAR T’91 its president and chief executive officer. Palekar has more than 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.

JAYNE HRDLICKA T’88

JASON TREVISAN T’03

JASON TREVISAN T’03 joined online automotive shopping enterprise CarGurus as chief financial officer. Named by Forbes as one of “America’s Most Promising Companies” and by Inc. 500 as among the fastest growing, CarGurus allows users to shop for, list, research, and share information about cars.

NAKISA BIDARIAN T’06

NAKISA BIDARIAN T’06 was promoted to chief financial officer at UFC, the world-leading mixed martial arts promotion company and global sports brand. He previously served

KATHRYN BAKER T’93

Norges Bank, the Central Bank of Norway, appointed KATHRYN BAKER T’93 a full member of its executive board following her recent service as an alternate member. The investor and professional board member based in Oslo, Norway, is the first non-Norwegian to sit on the board. In addition to the traditional role of a central bank, Norges Bank is also responsible for the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest fund of its kind. TOM CHRISTIE T’85 is Showtime’s new chief operating officer. Christie, who has been with the network for more than 25 years, most recently served as president, distribution, business development, and network operations.

Tennis Australia, the governing body for tennis in Australia and the Australian Open, named Jetstar CEO JAYNE HRDLICKA T’88 to its board of directors. Her appointment came as the organization sought to add more business depth and Asia expertise to its board.

JIM ESPOSITO T’95

Goldman Sachs appointed JIM ESPOSITO T’95 to its Management Committee, which comprises the most senior leaders of the firm. He also took on a new role as chief strategy officer of the securities division. Esposito previously served as co-head of the firm’s global financing group. SPRING/SUMMER 2016

REUNION 2016 EXCLUSIVE

TUCK ALUMNI

Leadership Program OCTOBER 6-7, 2016 Reunion is a chance to reconnect with classmates and Tuck. With the new Tuck Alumni Leadership Program, it’s also an opportunity to reacquaint yourself with some of Tuck’s renowned scholar-educators and explore cutting-edge business ideas and practices. Available to Reunion alumni only, and held prior to Reunion Weekend, this exclusive program puts you back in the classroom and in front of leading Tuck faculty for a unique, day-and-a-half-long learning experience designed to enhance your impact as a leader and equip you with new perspectives, knowledge, and frameworks. Dean Matthew Slaughter and professors Kevin Lane Keller, Paul Argenti, Richard D’Aveni, and Ron Adner will deliver substantive and thought-provoking sessions on topics of relevance to business leaders today: innovation ecosystems, strategy using 3D printing, brand management, global economics, and ethical leadership and personal responsibility. Program fee: $500 per person (meals not included). Each participant may bring one additional guest for an additional $100.

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FOR MORE INFORM ATION, PLE ASE CONTACT:

Kathleen Little Tuck Executive Education 100 Tuck Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755-9050 Tel: 603-646-3722 kathleen.B.little@tuck.dartmouth.edu

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CLASS NOTES SPRING/SUMMER 2016

CL ASS NOTES ’50 John Hatheway johnhath48@gmail.com

There is an oil man down Houston way.... That is certainly no news...but we do have some words about Francis Remington Drury, an illustrious member of Tuck ’50. Sonny, or Rem, as he is often called, grew up in Hanover, graduated from Hanover High, and entered Dartmouth in 1944. At the college, Sonny was into everything...member of Theta Delta Chi, Green Key, Sphinx, DOC, Cabin and Trail, Undergraduate Council...plus serving on several college committees. None of these activities impaired his ability to cut a very wide swath on eastern intercollegiate ski slopes as captain of the ski team or earning a Phi Beta Kappa key for academic excellence...and a Rhodes scholarship as well. After graduating from Tuck in 1950, Sonny attended Oxford University, graduating with a master of arts degree. After all that education, plus travel and skiing in Europe, Sonny returned to the states to join Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh in 1952. At Gulf, he held positions in the Crude Oil Department (sales), first in Rome, then Geneva, and ultimately as manager of the Crude Oil Department in London. Sonny next did a three-year stint in Tokyo, where he became director of crude oil in the Far East and later was promoted to vice president and manager of crude oil sales for Asia, Europe, and Africa. Sonny eventually returned to the States for a two-year assignment in oil allocation and sales in Brazil and later Peru. Following his retirement from Gulf, Sonny entered into a long-term consultant contract with Supra, a specialized Japanese petrochemical equipment manufacturer, plus several other petroleum companies. Sonny and his wonderful wife Joan now live in Houston, though their travel is restricted due to Sonny’s almost total blindness resulting from a diabetic condition in his early years.

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Sonny always enjoys telephone calls and the opportunity to reminisce about earlier days. Give him a call. 281 531 8608.

’51 Editor’s note: We didn’t get a chance to thank him in the last issue of Tuck Today, but we hereby officially thank Alex Hoffman for his many, many years of class notes and his fantastic work keeping T’51s up to date. It has been a pleasure for us to work with him.

’53 Edward J. Finerty Jr.

perfect weather, a great escape from the heat and humidity of home in Sarasota, FL. Larry is doing activity like that mentioned in my greeting above, playing golf with a somewhat broken body, “forgetting the score and getting out in the fresh air with friends—that counts.” A chat with Frank Heinemann focused on sea stories as two old Navy guys are wont to do, altho he’s a real sailor, as he told me of a great trip he had where he chartered a boat in the Caribbean—a “bare boat charter” to you sailors—with himself as captain, and he and friends sailed around, mostly in the British Virgin Islands. Sounds like fun as long as the “bare” is an experienced sailor, as Frank is. He has given up skiing except the cross-country kind, and his new challenge is rafting. Not much of the whitewater kind, as N.E. lacks the rivers of the U.S. West, although Maine has one, and his daughter and husband are guides and lead groups who are into team building—I’m sure this gives him an edge. Next he’ll be a “bare raft captain.”

efinerty@verizon.net

As we all know, the Golden Years we are part of can be a bit tarnished by a barrel of yucks as discussions with friends and family often seem to center around the latest pharmaceutical news, downsizing concerns, travel plans constrained by physical limitations, etc. But we need to focus on being here and staying involved with family and friends and turning our focus on the positive, relishing memories and chugging along—it beats the alternative. Speaking of friends, we have news from some as follows, which hopefully triggers some old and fun memories. John McCrillis writes to say that he enjoys D football a lot and gets to go annually to games, sitting with other seasonticket holders like Bill Montgomery and Roy Abbott. This last season was a gem as you know, featuring a stellar QB and a great winning season, with D missing the Ivy championship by a single point. John enjoyed a trip with D Alumni to tour national parks from Rapid City, So. Dakota, to Jackson, Wyoming, staying in old lodges built by the CCC—how many of you can tell us what the letters stand for? Larry Markin wrote to say that he and Sheila rented a house near Stowe this past fall and had a great visit spending quality time with their daughter Linda D’77, who lives nearby, and all had a great time exploring the area in

Chatted with Bob Ringstad, who enjoys bridge and watching sports on TV and planning a NY Dartmouth reunion with Bart Lombardi each year, as some of you know and attend. We got into a discussion of our Tuck Tycoon football team and the game with Harvard Business School. With three All-Americans on their team, no wonder they edged us out—I got a good evaluation of their QB, who was a Heisman winner and on the cover of Time (Kazmaier, for you of short memory). Who better to evaluate him than our QB? Marcel Durot and Charlotte managed to work in their annual trip to France to check on relatives—this year it was to attend the first wedding of a grandchild, Elizabeth, second oldest of his thirteen grandchildren. They then worked in a trip from Marcel’s “bucket list to be developed,” which was on the Orient Express across Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria to Istanbul. An outstanding trip, as we can all agree. Charlie Clough and Nancy enjoy an annual trip to Mexico near Cancun for a several-weeks stay in a condo and cram in lots of swimming, walking, and cycling, much of the latter which they do in R.I. in the summer. Charlie reports that skiing died a terrible death in N.E. this winter due to lack of snow. He also reports that he gets to Hanover and much of the changes at both Tuck and D seem to be working out

well, both admin and education-wise, such as nation-leading research at the medical school as well as physical ones such as new lights at the football stadium. Mendy Balkin and Laney are fine after some bouts with medical conditions. As some of you will recall they had a great rug business for 43 years on Newbury St. in Boston and are, of course, experts on rugs. Their reputation is extensive and well-known to say the least. Of particular interest to me, and I know you will find it also, is that although the business in Boston is over, they have kept a collection of rugs that is so unusual and noteworthy that the new director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts called and arranged to visit the Balkins so he could see the collection and express an interest in getting it into the museum—so we may all see it in the MFA one of these days! That’s about it—last issue I asked who had been married the longest and got the usual “no replies,” so I will limit this to (1) news of classmates, (2) a request that you consider if you’d like this job as secretary as I’d like to retire, and (3) urge you to get back to developing your bucket list! Editor’s note: If you’d like to volunteer to carry the class notes torch that Ed has so valiantly carried for so many years, please email tuck. class.notes@dartmouth.edu.

’57 Richard Zock shanduthem@aol.com

’58 Barry Rotman

for Christmas and fell in love with the climate. After experiencing cold and snowy winters in Maine, they decided that Naples was going to be home and moved there shortly after that. Tom has had a number of interesting jobs, such as being general manager of the Lake Winnipesaukee Steamship Company. The cruise line now has four vessels, the largest of which is the 230-ft. M/S Mount Washington. They offer cruises on the lake—the largest in New Hampshire, about 20 miles long and about 1-6 miles wide. Charles Schneider can’t say enough good things about Santa Barbara, California. He retired at 62 and moved there for both the good weather and the rich cultural life in the area. To him it’s “like paradise.” Situated 100 miles north of Los Angeles, it has water on one side, with lots of islands and mountains on the other. Living only 10 minutes from downtown, he easily takes advantage of the many cultural offerings, such as all kinds of music and theater, as well an active adult education program called Vistas Lifelong Learning. They offer 30 seminars per year and have a membership of 330. Charles is a past president of the organization. They try to keep the organization informal and decided not to affiliate with Osher (a national program), which the ILEAD (Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth) program at Dartmouth did. Charles has settled into a regular routine. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday he has lawn bowl. On Thursday he plays tennis, while on Saturday he bike rides. In between he plays golf. For many years Charles worked for Union Carbide and figured that on the average he moved every 2½ years. Charles was in charge of an international venture with Union Carbide that took him to Japan for 3 years, and he remembers those years very fondly. He has only had 2 employers. The second employer was Potters Industries, a company that would buy glass, grind it up, and create glass beads that are used in a myriad of products. After being in charge of international operations, Charles was made executive vice president.

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Tom Hayden has been living in Naples, Florida, since 2000. He and his wife were married in 1951 and have two children—a daughter in Maine and a son in California. In 1997 he and his wife came to Florida to visit his in-laws

On a personal note, Charles sings the praises of the Road Scholar program, formerly known as Elderhostel. After taking a number of his grandchildren on trips, he now takes intergenerational family trips with his sons and their children. The trips create a strong bond between the generations. It seems to have

worked because Tom’s two sons, aged 50 and 52, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet) together. Both went to Dartmouth, and Charles is proud of the fact that so far he has had 4 generations at the college. Tom’s youngest was the CEO of the Harlem Globetrotters organization, while his oldest is a physician in Charlotte. I had a delightful time recently renewing my relationship with Walter Barker. Although we both lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, the last time we met was in 1958 at our graduation. Walt was a member of the class of 1952 but left after his junior year to go in the Army on a 2-year program that started at Fort Dix. One day Walt was asked to take a test. Then through a series of events Walt was moved to the CIA and a stint in Germany at what had been Hitler’s headquarters and then Eisenhower’s in Frankfurt. Luckily for him, he met his future wife, Vivian, who was also involved with the CIA, at a party in Germany. After a whirlwind courtship they married, and the marriage lasted until her death 60 years later. Walt eventually came back to Washington with the CIA and then decided to finish his fourth year at Dartmouth and join our class in September of 1956. Not too many of us can say that while at Tuck they built a house to live in. After spending time at Sachem Village, Walt decided to build a Techbuilt house in Hanover. Tech, a company out of Acton, Massachusetts, provided the components for the contemporary house. He built it in the summer and moved in at the start of our second year. He eventually sold it to Professor Chamberlain, famous for writing The Dartmouth Bible in 1950, and the last Walt knew the house was still standing. After graduation, Walt’s work history included Touche Ross, then Springfield Memorial Hospital, and a term at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Massachusetts, as controller. He initially worked there in an attic office of an 1899 building while he looked out his window and saw the construction of a series of new buildings in the early seventies. Walter first retired at age 70 from Bay State Gas in Westborough, Massachusetts, but then came back to work for a company that made pocket pagers, before retiring for good in 2005. After living in Framingham for 35 years Walt moved to Worcester, where his son built an

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CL ASS NOTES addition on his home for Walt and his wife. It’s a self-contained unit with separate entrances. Unfortunately his wife took ill and passed away from Alzheimer’s in 2013. After the memorial service, Walt took his daughter, who had been born in Germany, to Frankfurt to see where she had been born. They took the trip to honor Vivian’s memory.

’59 Ben Reid gmibreidjr@aol.com

Walt’s daughter deserves a lot of credit. She encouraged her father to go on Match.com and to “just try it.” At 83, he met a woman who was a widow, and now they travel together and spend a lot of time together. They spend time at a condo in Sarasota on Pelican Cove and recently took a Windjammer cruise along the coast of Maine in the oldest wooden 3-masted schooner without an engine.

To my classmates, class of T’59: Recent news of a member our class is of interest to many classmates. It is the passing of Paul F. McGourty.

Walt is an avid photographer, takes advanced courses at the Worcester Art Museum, and still regularly takes long fast-paced walks.

Paul was a special friend of the Reid family. He and Madeleine were warm and friendly, “Aunt and Uncle” to our Joel and Carol (born in Hanover). And Steve, born across the Charles River from Harvard (darn). Madeleine and Paul were childless.

Since I last wrote, I have a few more deaths to report: Walt Lashar, Harvey Epstein, Arthur Johnson, and Jim Groebe. I had interviewed Jim for the last issue of Tuck Today and received a very touching note from his daughter. With her permission I’m including it. “Hi Barry You don’t know me but I was with my mom (Martha Groebe) yesterday and she showed me the Fall/Winter article in Tuck Today that you wrote up on my father. It was a great couple of paragraphs. Unfortunately I did want to let you know even though my Dad did move into the retirement community that he had planned, his leukemia also came back, not as planned. This time the leukemia was not nice and we lost my father to the battle December 16, 2015. He fought until the very end, did not want to leave this earth—as he had more things to accomplish. I am sorry to inform you this way but did want to make you aware. “Thank you, Lisa (Groebe) Haugan”

Many of you will remember Paul as the elected president of our class. Some will think fondly of their friend, the delightful Madeleine McGourty, Paul’s wife.

While controller of The Singer Company with headquarters at 30 Rock, Paul arranged a Christmas treat for the children. He secured excellent seats for the Rockettes Christmas Show and reservations at one of the two restaurants flanking the ice skating rink at the Plaza. Then on to Mamma Leone’s for dinner, the kids’ favorite. An unforgettable annual event was for Pat and Madeleine and Paul and me to meet at the YaleDartmouth game to cheer for Dartmouth. We would follow with a wet dinner to assuage our disappointment at losses each year. Football aficionados will remember that Yale won 14 Ivy League Championships starting in 1957. One featured running back was Calvin Hill, later of the NFL’s Cowboys, Redskins, and Browns. Paul retired after ten years of corporate life. He and Madeleine relocated to Cape Cod. Paul taught high school English for the rest of his career. He was a fixture at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. Among many other roles he was a favorite with the students in their extracurricular programs. Mourn with me. And celebrate Paul McGourty’s life.

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Larry Hampton sent us the following astute and refreshing insight established by his rigorous analysis: “Dear American family, friends, and classmates: “I have been watching the U.S. primaries from afar, and perhaps I am out of touch, but it seems to me that the public media, intelligent op-ed columnists included, have truly gotten carried away with fear and trepidation by the Trump candidacy and his ‘success’ to date. “I am very impressed by some figures I saw in this week’s Economist—to wit: “In the 18 Republican primaries to date (of which he has ‘won’ 13) Trump has received the votes of 20+% of the eligible Republican voters in just 1 state—Florida. His average seems to be about 10%—of the eligible Republican voters! “The deception comes from voter turnout— historically low in primaries. Only in Florida did more than 50% of registered Republicans vote in the primary. In Michigan it was just over 10%. The average turnout of registered Republicans in the 18 states so far has been about 33%. “There is no reason to assume that those who didn’t vote in the primary favor Trump to the same extent as those who did vote. In fact, to quote The Economist: ‘polls suggest that 25% of Republican voters definitely would not back Trump in a general election.’ “In short, to date Trump has gotten something like 10% of 33%—or certainly less than 5%—of registered Republicans voting for him. The last time I looked, registered Republicans were something well less than half of the nation’s voters. “My personal view is that Trump will not have a majority of delegates pledged to him before the convention. He would not, therefore, win on the first ballot. After that it becomes a free-forall. I think the nomination will eventually go to Kasich or, if the pragmatic powers that be need a dark horse, Paul Ryan. Republicans, and the country, will breathe a sigh of relief. There will not be major protests that the ‘winner’ of so many primaries didn’t get the nomination.

“My message is—don’t get carried away by the cries of an inevitable Trump nomination. The op-ed commentariat has been burned once by Trump (that he exists as a candidate at all) and they are in deadly fear of getting burned again. They are over-reacting.

in hopes of making Pyongyang’s elite feel some pain. If they feel pain at Masik Pass, it’s more likely because they’ve had a tumble on their French Rossignol skis.”

“We are all welcome to our opinions—that, after all, is American democracy in action. My feeling, and my message here, is—if you are worried about Trump, you don’t have reason to be.

“So I have sold a small apartment. It’s not bad for now. But I need to prepare for the worse. Best regards! (Your Partner)”

“With best regards, Larry” Ben says, Thanks a million Larry!

Masik Pass in North Korea

I do not have any other news from our classmates. So, please allow me to relate a recent experience of mine.

My partner/friend commented:

As some know, I spent many years in the manufacturing business in China. Quite unusually, Pat and I became part of several families there. We are foster grandparents to several bright and aspirational youngsters on the ascension in China. So, I cherish our many close friends there. And maintain constant communication. Not infrequently, we discuss the situation in North Korea and China’s presumably influential role in the DPRK. Noticing a recent article describing Kim Jong Un’s statesponsored investment in a luxury ski resort, I sent it to an anonymous business partner for comment. Here is an excerpt from the news report if you have not seen it: “MASIK PASS, North Korea (AP)—To view the humbling limits of round after round of international sanctions against North Korea, come to Masik Pass. It isn’t a secret military facility where Kim Jong Un’s best and brightest are hard at work developing nuclear warheads and long-range missiles. “It’s a ski resort. “The UN has been trying for years to punish North Korea for its nuclear program by barring trade not only in weapons but in luxury items,

“From 2009~2016 in (X City) China, the average wage was raised 50% RMB 4K in 2009 and 6K now. The average housing price was from 5K jumping to 20K (square meter). 400% in 7 years. The population of (X City) is 13 million. Then, China’s economy is slowing down. I think the housing price is on the edge.

Please send me some more news, good classmates. Your Class Notes Editor, Ben Reid T’59

[Editor’s note: With just a few typo exceptions, we stetted the language as provided.] “Hi Ben, I think N. Korean’s [nuclear] program is kind of self protection. Kim wants to be the king of N. Korean and he want to hand his crown to his children and children’s children. “His father has witness what happened on Saddam Hussein. Saddam’s failure is because of he did not have Atom bomb. With the Deterrence of Atom bomb, Kim can keep US and China away. China and N. Korean’s relationship are not as good as it looks like. Just like China and Soviet Union in 1960s. “N. Korean is China’s burden which China still can not let it go. The concern of (millions of) refugees (coming across our northern border to be fed, clothed and housed) and US military still force China to bear it. N. Korean is a bitter pill which China still have to take it. “I do hope China government can put their cold war Thinking mode away and work with US to give the naughty boy a ass kick. The N. Korean’s people are starving while Kim are playing (with) an expensive fireball. “I watch a movie last night. The name is The Big Short. It is a film about the subprime crisis in 2007. The crisis start with the real estate market. I think it is a little like China now.

’60 Ed Russell edrussell2@embarqmail.com

“I’m back!” said a jubilant Shelly London, speaking from his home in Bethesda, MD. Shelly was crowing after a reprieve from a health condition that turned out to have been caused by excessive medication, overprescribed to treat a relatively mild case of a potentially serious disease. Fortunately, Shelly’s wife, Margery, had learned to navigate the medical maze when she sought and achieved survivor status after suffering from an even more serious illness. She got Shelly enrolled in a study of his disease at NIH, where the physicians quickly figured out his problem and cut way back on his medications. Now the side effects he suffered are gone, and Shelly’s looking at a bright future, including scheduled trips to Cancun, London (“my namesake,” he says), and Israel. A word about Shelly’s career.... After graduating with us, he attended law school, where he met Margery. He found his niche, representing trade associations, and started his own law firm to handle his growing clientele. Good luck, Shelly, and bon voyage!

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CL ASS NOTES Perhaps only a few of us remember Joe Goldberg, who was in our class for just one semester, during which he was studying finance with the intention of joining his father’s accounting firm. When the sudden death of his father closed that door, Joe returned to Dartmouth to finish an economics degree. After service in Vietnam, Joe’s interests took another turn, and he enrolled in the U of Illinois Medical School and went on to a career as a pediatrician. Today, Joe lives in Florida near his kids and does pro bono work at a small regional med school nearby.

Steve Beguin is another classmate whose career took him far afield from the business world that most of us entered. While fulfilling an NROTC obligation after graduating from the Tuck-Thayer 3-2 program, he became so fond of the sea that he entered the merchant marine. “I grew up with containerized shipping,” said Steve, whose voyages began on a ship with six containers, and went on to ships designed to carry nothing but containers. While enjoying life in Clearwater, FL, Burt Binner is still active in a field whose development he shaped. He now works for a credit card agency, resolving service issues. The satisfaction he derives from helping others is also reflected in his involvement with youth ministries at his church. At the height of his career, Burt was a successful management consultant, later joining a financial services company as VP management and sales. Andy Hommeyer spent 20 years in marketing, followed by another 25 years in financial consulting. Andy’s still active but needs help getting around. He can no longer drive, since a rare eye condition has compromised his sight. Bob Faulkner started out in sales for IBM, but when our classmate Swifty Lawrence alerted him to an opportunity, Bob switched to financial services, eventually running an office for Kidder Peabody. Bob is still active 54

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managing portfolios for individuals and private institutions at UBS Financial Services. “As the fourth generation of my family in soft goods retail, my path was set even before I graduated,” said Mike Solzman when I chatted with him in the course of getting news for this issue of Tuck Today. At legendary department store retailers like Abraham & Straus and Saks Fifth Avenue, Mike handled major apparel lines, including the key department, women’s dresses. Eventually, retailing’s toll on his holiday and other leisure time got to Mike, and he switched to VP of an advertising specialties firm, a job he could manage from an office, rather than a retail floor. Mike and wife Donna have a retirement home in Redding, CA, north of Sacramento. Last year was a dry one, as it was all over the West Coast, but this winter has seen a reprieve in his area. Mike told me that the nearby reservoir, Shasta Lake, the state’s largest body of water, covering 30,000 acres, has risen an impressive 19 feet. Hartley Paul is an attorney by trade, having returned to the West Coast to get his law degree at the U. of Washington after graduating from Tuck, and feels he’s made good use of the business fundamentals he learned alongside us during 40 years as a business attorney in a large law firm, as well as in the succeeding 12 years as a corporate officer in a software startup. He spoke to me from his office, where his career is still in high gear. In fact, he’s working two jobs. The first is at Power Distributing, Inc., a family-owned firm that distributes diesel equipment and accessories throughout the Pacific Northwest. In his second job, Hartley serves as VP operations and general counsel for Intentional Software Corporation. The chief asset of this exciting venture is the remarkable brain of its principal, Charles Simonyi, who, while working for Bill Gates, headed the development team that created MS Word, MS Excel. The software system that Charles is creating at Intentional allows a business or other application to be created by nonprogrammers who simply describe the prospective user’s “intentions” in a WYSIWYG fashion. The software transforms these intentions to code. After each run of the resulting application, the user can again use simple English to modify or enhance the program. Nifty! John Perley has come full circle. Having grown up in Laconia, NH, on beautiful

Lake Winnipesaukee, he returned to his roots after retirement in ’06—and a busy retirement it is. John is active in Rotary and is a trustee or director of numerous community organizations, including the area’s library, historical society, a local cemetery, and the Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation. John entered banking after graduation, joining the senior training program at Chemical Bank in NYC, moved through various positions, including assistant to several senior executives. Despite succeeding in New York’s business world, John never grew comfortable getting in and out of it during the week and getting away from it on the weekends. To provide a better life for his growing family, John pulled up stakes and worked for a regional bank in Manchester, NH, for 20 years, followed by a stint at another bank in Plattsburgh, NY.

’61 Thomas C. Kirby t2golf@aol.com

Here are two members of the class of ’61 who are very active. Harry Holland is busy with all sorts of people and family and he is better than Page Six at keeping up with them. “Greetings to you from Vero Beach.... “Indeed, the news is pretty meager for the old ’61 crowd. We used to appear at or near the end of the Tuck Today mag. But keep gravitating toward the front page. Barb and I are still making the winter trip to the Sunshine State. No more driving I-95, by popular demand. “We still have the Hanover house on the practice golf course on east side of Lyme Rd. But have also taken a retirement unit in Kendal. Hope to procrastinate with the actual move there. “Sons Mike and Joe, in their fifties, are having their own grandchildren. Each has a Norwich house clamped on the side hill overlooking Hanover. Mike has a new young lady. Joe has two male heirs. These three toddlers visit us regularly. We now have great-grandchildren

that are older than these new grandchildren. “Rob Honiss and Dick Sameth are live and well here in Vero. Rob had a little gallbladder repair work recently. Dick is now a gym rat working on his fighting weight. Scott Gerrish is holding forth in Bonita. He’s been grounded for several years. But I sent him a video today on fighter drones now operating on aircraft carriers. He didn’t think pilots are enthused about all the automation. “I spent the month of May ’15 at Sibley Hospital in D.C. Lost 25 pounds while entertaining a bad infection in an 80-year-old knee. Can’t steal second base anymore. Walking not too bad. Sometimes need a cane. It comes in handy beating off the wild women out in public. “That’s some of the news from this old writer. I’ve forgotten all the rest of it.” Jon Cohen is one of our most active Dartmouth-Tuck members. He has made contributions of his time, money, and administrative ideas and is now taking retirement from Goldman Sachs. Timely. “I will retire on June 30th from Goldman Sachs after 47.5 years there. Counting my time in the USN, 5.5 years at the late Irving Trust, I will have worked 55 years. ‘For everything there is a season.’ More time for the Hood Museum, where we are raising $50 million for an expansion. We have $38[M] plus, but the end is always hardest. All the best.” And then I received a message from Al Roberts! “Hi Tom, “As you might imagine, I am particularly sympathetic to your problem of coaxing communications from our class, having labored in the Tuck Today news vineyard for a few years before you took it over. It’s a thankless task, I think mostly because such a huge percentage of our class were Dartmouth ’60s and therefore didn’t develop the same class identity that current Tuck classes probably do. So in an effort to be helpful, here’s a modest contribution. I don’t have any earthshaking news, but if the following is useful feel free to use it (or not, I won’t be offended!). “Pam and I have been splitting time between our Connecticut place and a Florida house (in the small town of Apollo Beach, south of Tampa) for about ten years, and last year after nearly 40 years in New Canaan we finally sold

our place there and are now year-round in Florida. So many of our friends had moved, and my business relationships and contacts had diminished to the point that there was little to hold us in CT. Mostly though, when Pam said she wanted to be full-time in FL, that was the deciding vote! I’m trying to develop civic and charitable connections here in FL, with some success, but it’s a little more difficult to do in a new setting without the benefit of business and longtime school and church contacts. On the other hand, I find I’m less interested in being as engaged as I used to be (gee, I wonder why that could be?), so it’s all good. Also, we are fortunate that our daughter and her family, including three lively teenage daughters, live here (in fact, that’s why we bought our house here) so we see them a lot. We were apprehensive about the feared Florida summer weather, but the first summer turned out to be not so bad (perhaps because our expectations were so low; another example of the famous expectation gap effect). “As far as interest in the outside world is concerned, of course we still have that. Politically, I spend my time alternating between hoping that our presidential candidate situation isn’t as bad as it appears to be and wondering how we will get through the lengthy seven months of name-calling and posturing until the November election. I try not to think about what might happen after that. “Best wishes to all our classmates! Al “PS: I have a new email address—alwrob111@ gmail.com—and the same Florida phone number, 813 649 9155.”

’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

Spent a number of weeks traveling between Minnetonka, MN, and Pinehurst, NC, this winter, and each time I returned home it was my wish that there would be emails or cards from members of the class with news that I could pass along in the spring/summer issue. No such luck, but I am falling back on the old adage that “No News Is Good News!” and that there will be lots of input and pictures for the 2016 fall/winter issue. Hope you are all well and will have a fun spring/summer season, wherever it takes you, and always remember that being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect; it just means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections!

’64 Bill Ferguson bferguson@ix.netcom.com

Well, I want to thank the classmates offering support for my recovery. Things seem to be going well. A note here: I put all classmates names in the “Send To:” line, so if any want to communicate with others, they don’t have to search for email addresses. Then, being a software guy, I checked the T’64 alumni roster to note that we have 63 classmates in the database of the 79 who graduated. If anyone knows of others, please pass the names and emails along. Then with comments from classmates, I thought I might name this column The Villages edition, as we have 3 classmates spending time or moving there. Bill Zani and Ann have left Miami; Rodney Plimpton and Geri are spending winters there; and Povl Jorgensen moved from Pittsburgh and invites any others to link up. As for Rod, he tells that he and Geri rented at The Villages in January as an experiment and SPRING/SUMMER 2016

CL ASS NOTES liked it well enough that they will rent again next year. He expects they will spend the next few years sorting out how to spend their time between FL, Red Hook, and their camp in Camden, ME; all lovely, but a lot of upkeep. He reports he had cataract surgery this winter, and between that and hearing aids he feels like a teenager again—ha ha! They get off to Tampa and Simi Valley to see his children, and they’re heading off on a Baltic cruise in June to see Scandinavian countries, St. Petersburg, and the Norwegian fjords. Life is good and we are trying to make the most of it...at a relaxed pace. I was glad to get the Pat Robins link updated as he had cashed out by selling his Burlington IT services business (with multiple locations in ME, NH, and VT) to Konica Minolta. He’s now enjoying his latest retirement.

motion. He requests that classmates gather their closest 10,000 friends to go to ST 2 when released. With all of that, his family is doing well after Gretchen’s passing. Then, we have the FL East coasters; Art Williams, Bob Humboldt, and Denis Eagle all chiming in and doing well. Art and Bob get together often, as can be seen in the picture with them and their wives (how do the wives stay looking so young?). Then they linked up with Ted Suess. This time they got together with Ted to discuss the forthcoming election and solving the world’s problems.

business. Tuck always emphasized that. If only our governmental officials in Washington and elsewhere could have gone to Tuck, maybe we would have a functioning government instead of the mess we have now. It was good to hear from Clif Smith again, and he sent along a family photo as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last summer in Italy, saying it was a once in a lifetime event.

Clif Smith and family in Italy

Williams and Humboldt with brides

Dick Weiss checked in again, noting he retired in 2007 but remains active as chairman of the board of Retire Safe, a senior advocacy organization focused on issues such as Social Security and Medicare maintenance. He’s also on the board of Grange Advocacy, the advocacy arm of the National Grange, the country’s oldest rural advocacy organization. He and Nancy still live in DC, “watching our grand kids entering the real world after college.” Dan Morrison writes that he and Roni are delighted to share that “our son David’s wife Jami just delivered a baby boy.” Parents and baby all doing well; he is their first grandchild and “a welcome surprise in our 70s!”

Kyo Hata and family

Humboldt, Suess, and Williams

It was so good to hear from Kyo Hata, telling us he had moved to Honolulu a few years ago and will settle in NYC this summer with his new young family. Linking him to Peter and Denis might help, so the links were made [and] Peter linked him to Barry Linsky for golf. Kyo tells that their children, Erika (8) and Gosuke (4) will start schools in the Upper East Side, Manhattan, in the fall. (See the pic nearby.)

Denis checked in, wishing me well and wanting me to come to FL to play golf. He’s playing a lot of pickleball, the hottest rage; looks like it’s for old people, but let me tell you if you play it the right way, you get some workout, and he said it reminds him of squash. He’s still golfing about 3 times a week but erratically. Denis also tells his eldest granddaughter is a freshman at Dartmouth, and it’s interesting to hear her take on things, with many things so different, as those who read Pres. Hanlon’s letters know. Denis reminded us all what we learned at Tuck: Teamwork is the most important thing in

Speaking of Peter Lengyel, his Super Troopers 2 funding is still progressing, with filming to start in June and he has 2 new TV pilots in

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It was good to have Jim Cutler check in from Houston again. Jim’s still involved with developing their downstream petrochemical and energy projects and certainly facing a sea change in hydrocarbon availability and pricing. He suspects that we ultimately will see fracking in the U.K. and other places that will alter current trading patterns. He sees some interesting emerging business opportunities for younger people. Then he’s trying to wind down some of his business activities in anticipation of wife Debbie’s retirement for more time at the gym and fly fishing. Jim tells that his son Charles is a freshman at Eckerd College in FL and is now a club rugby

player: a fascinating game with a lot more action than with American football. John Farnsworth tells that he’s still enjoying good health and a great lifestyle in Northern CA; skiing in Utah during the Sundance Film Festival in January; “perfect weather. Going to a family reunion in Ludlow, VT, in summer 2016, which might give us a chance to visit Hanover.” He unwound his recruiting business several years ago and retired from “work.” Says he finally quit golf, which seemed to take too much time; and said “I knew I would never catch up to Gifford. My main occupation these days is landscape painting in Sonoma Valley and surroundings.” He hopes all of us who have lasted this long will last for a few more years! Then we had a long email dialog with Dale Brookins. Dale was lobbying for the T’64 class to lead funding for a statue; commissioning George Lundeen D’61 to create a sculpture of Eleazar Wheelock. The net of that dialog was that the T’64 class was the first class with a smaller percentage of Dartmouth undergrads, so many classmates have no link to Wheelock to be the lead class for such a project. As for me, my health is improving. Any who have had cancer know the recovery period lasts months. Meds and CyberKnife treatments and frequent CT scans are the norm. Still not playing golf nor driving distances nor flying, yet, but let’s hope. Former associates reengaged me into the world of cyber security and that’s a hoot—things change but stay the same; and our data center site in Reno continues to attract named tenants. My former Marine son is active in a federal law-enforcement role, and my youngest daughter, who lives in Amsterdam, brought us a new granddaughter (Lilliana Marie) in September while I was hospitalized. Cheers, Bill Ferguson T’64

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our unsung hero, Cathy Melocik, who has been doing our class column notes so we all can stay in touch. Thanks to all. And this from George Gebhardt (cell 410-3715547, vndesign@comcast.net):

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“George attended his Tuck 50th Reunion October 2-4, 2015. Wife Joan Marie could not go, as laid up with Coumadin bleed and The 50th Reunion. hospitalization. George and Joan Marie hope to pass through Hanover on way to Ottawa, Who we were. John Bruno, Dick Chase, Richard and Susan Enholm, George Gebhardt, hopefully soon. Frank Herringer, Bob and Terry Hood, “At the reunion, George loved the karma Bill and Martha Howland, Joe and Judith at Tuck. Same as always, only better. The Kaminski, Neil Kleinman, Sandy McGinnes, physical expansion of the Tuck campus must Tim and Brenda McNamar, Hank and Mrs. be experienced to be appreciated. Saw many Picken, and Jack and Gail Potter. classmates and attended wonderful dinner at Hanover Inn. Saw Richard Bower yet again. What we did. Friday was a lecture by Prof. Andy Steele was, as usual, a great host. And Ella Smith, a diversity expert from the South there was even a great turnout for the Sunday Bronx. Afterwards, cocktails and heavy HDOs brunch. in Tuck Hall. Saturday, a lecture by Prof. Syd Finkelstein on his new book Superbosses. Great. “Attended three classes. The classes at Tuck are a Followed by a State of the School address 10. Dartmouth and Tuck should be very proud by the new dean, Matt Slaughter. Also great. of its workproduct. Also listened to Dean Tent lunch, and class photos. Afternoon was Slaughter’s enthusiastic talk. And the food was a panel discussion moderated by former NH great. Gov. Lynch on business and education. Then a panel discussion moderated by Finkelstein “Went to top of gondola at Killington. Visited on crashing companies, like Volkswagen. Orford HS (where first wife taught w/ Bev Van Then a dinner in the Hanover Inn. Kleinman Genderen (wife of Kurt, T’65) during 1963-65. showed old pics of the Bike Race, Potter and Old HS building abandoned. (It was old in Howland said grace, Enholm distributed 1963.) Replacement school has little charm bottles of Bruno’s wine, and Gebhardt held a and no history. Sachem Village seemed about moment of silence for those of our class who 10 times bigger than George remembers from went on to the big business model in the sky. 1965. Chase introduced Prof. Richard Bower, and he introduced our honored guest speaker, Frank “Down here in the Lower 48, George and Joan Herringer. Joe Kaminski, co-chair, distributed Marie continue to live in Pikesville, MD. flash drives of his magnum opus, the BIO Book George now in Pikesville 34 years; Joan Marie of T’65. Sunday we rested our livers and hoped 12 years. Cape Cod backs to large stream (lots to fight another day. of mature oak trees and extensive stone work). Ducks, deer, birds, groundhogs, turtles. And What we thought. (Based on our comments our 4 cats. during panel discussions and seminars.) Tuck is great, and a great part of our lives. Pride and “George served as trustee of his mom’s revocable confidence. We learned leadership through living trust. Mom gave a stipend to Tuck. It’s by example, motivation, and inspiration. We the mail room. Mom also gave George her 38learned honorable and ethical performance of year-old villa in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach our duty. We are a bit more conservative than County, FL. George took it over November the newer grads. 2010 and spent 2-3 years making it 100% new. Thanks. Andy Steele and his team—Kate Barlow, Mariah Farbotko, and Rachel Wilson— “On March 26, George and Joan Marie will be in Boynton Beach and stay until about April did an outstanding service to our class. Also,

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CL ASS NOTES 10. On the way south, George may visit George Berry T’65 and his wife Marianne. They live in Aiken, SC. Then baseball spring training, including Clearwater, Sarasota, and Ft. Myers. Near end of exhibition season, Mets in Pt. St. Lucie. “Then, on May 13, both fly to Frankfurt for 23 days. They will visit Paris and Normandy (Omaha Beach, D-Day, cemeteries, museums and all that). “In mid-October this year, George (and maybe Joan Marie) will again serve food at Oktoberfest at American-German Club of the Palm Beaches, in Lantana, FL. This will be the 28th year George will be at the outdoor kitchen. “George and Joan Marie will likely be in Boynton Beach December 16 through January 10, 2017. “Any of you Tuckies are welcome to visit or stay at either: 3629 Sussex Road, Pikesville, MD 21207-3818 (Baltimore County); or 10430-B Quailwood Road, Greentree Villas, Boynton Beach, FL 33436 (PB County).”

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Your scribe, David Wagner, and Allen Zern got together recently in Vero Beach for lunch and a round of golf at the beautiful John’s Island West Course. Having just finished unpacking after our move to Vero Beach, the outing was a great chance to relax with old friends. It is with sadness that we report the passing of Chuck Angle on June 1, 2015, and Pete Basquin on November 16, 2015.

’67 Robert C. Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

50TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

This will be the last class notes prior to the Class of 1966 50th Reunion, October 7-9, 2016. Bill Busker, John Catlett, John Trauth, and Tom Stanfield are spearheading the effort to inform everyone and encourage them to attend. Having worked on our Dartmouth Class of 1965 50th, I can attest to the time and effort that goes into making the reunion a success. The most important element is your attendance. Please consider putting the Class of 1966 50th Reunion on your calendar and coming to Hanover for a weekend full of fellowship, informative programs, and good food and drink with the golden New Hampshire fall foliage as a backdrop to all.

The glorious New Hampshire fall foliage

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Miracle of miracles, we received “news” from 6 of our classmates (out of a total of 90 living = 6.6%). The rest of us (84, that is) wonder what is going on. It would make your dedicated class secretary smile if the unheard-from 84 would take a few minutes to update us! Don Walker reports: “I’ve joined the part-time lecturer staff at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, teaching a short course in managerial accounting in the MBA program on Thursday nights, and I’m headquartered down the hall from Eliot Sherman’s office in the finance professors’ group at NEU. This makes for interesting weeks with a major litigation expert case running early in the week and the trip to Boston from Northern VA late in the week. I guess that makes up for the lack of daily commuting to D.C. from west of Manassas battlefield.” And, from Rick Herbert: “Carolyn and I have been somewhat retired in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for several years.

Carolyn tutors at the local elementary school and I teach part-time as a visiting professor at the business school at Washington and Lee University. Campus reminds me a bit of Dartmouth, but a whole lot warmer. I have the most fun with a seminar I created addressing the ethics of the financial sector. I also play with student music groups when they need an extra saxophone. I continue to enjoy my favorite sports of skiing and sailing, although perhaps with a little less aggressiveness than in past years. Regards to my Tuck classmates.” We received our regular report from Mark Roadarmel: “Not much to report from the Roadarmels. Our health is good, Florida is better in the winter than Syracuse, and the financial world may drive me to drink (not that I need an excuse). Lots of golf here at Sugar Mill but not a great deal of improvement in my game. Pat continues to be very competitive and is always in the hunt. Overall, LIFE IS GOOD!” After years of absence, Bob Verhey shares: “WOW, it has been a rapid 49 years since our wonderful times together at Tuck. My travels have taken me to California for 29 years (11 in Corporate America and 18 in Silicon Valley launching five new ventures). Then 9 years in WDC (strategic planning for the American Red Cross and executive director for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan). Followed with 8 years on Hilton Head Island as a professor and golfer, and the past 3 years now in Santa Barbara (two new ventures, veterans, professor; and lots of writing, golf and wine). “Personal life is two great kids, five wonderful grandkids, travel, skiing, sports, and politics. “Next year is our ‘Big 50.’ We will be back and hope to reconnect with all of you. My very best wishes to all until then, Bob Verhey.” And, into our lives comes Bill Hart with advice for those who shop at Costco: “A RETIREE’S LAST TRIP TO COSTCO” “Yesterday I was at Costco buying a large bag of Purina Dog Chow for my loyal pet, Necco, the Wonder Dog, which weighs 191 lbs. I was in the checkout line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. “What did she think I had, an elephant? “So because I’m retired and have little to do, on

impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. “I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and that the way that it works is to load your jacket pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well, and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) “Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stopped to pee on a fire hydrant and a car hit me. “I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. “Costco won’t let me shop there anymore. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.” Bonnie and I are enjoying Florida, almost ready to return to Wisconsin for summer and fall. An amazing thing happened…not one of you readers of the T’67 column commented on my 2 Super Bowl rings (from the Packers, and yes, they are real).

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

Nick Hayes is now residing “in Amsterdam for a year or so, where Sheila serves as executive director of Child Helpline International, the global platform for children’s helplines around the world, while I continue as European Region president for the Navy League. Back to Spain next year, or that at least is the plan. “As Hans Peter wrote last fall, we had a very pleasant mini-reunion in Oslo in September. He gave a fascinating overview of the family

business—and Oslo is one of the most attractive cities we’ve been in.” Conversely, Hans Peter reported: “Norway is seeing some dramatic challenges with the 70% drop in the oil prices, and our company’s business is hurting too. Trying to slow down a little, now that I am turning 72, was just a dream. The new CEO of Fuglesangs AS, my son Alexander, needs me to sell our pumps and I am continuing my 10 hours days. Funny, I like it and it keeps me young. The lessons learned at Tuck of how to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment are indeed useful—in a way the tuition was worth it after all.” Lee Marchildon reports that “all is well on Cape Cod and my wife Dory and I are still enjoying the real estate business at Kinlin Grover Real Estate, the firm that purchased my company in 2000. We are also enjoying visiting and babysitting for our 2 grandchildren in Hingham, which is only an hour away. Our son Ted takes the train or commuter boat in to Fidelity each day so that works great for him. He stayed in the Navy Reserve and is currently an LCDR drilling in Newport. He has been deployed for 7 months and leaves for Central Command in Tampa, FL, on March 27. I’m sure they will send him over to the Middle East a least a few times during the 7 months. Our other son, John, is very happy to be flying a 737 for United and lives in Ft. Lauderdale. Why didn’t I think of that? It’s also great for the parents as we can go back and forth on standby if we can find empty seats—not too easy these days. “We do a lot of business in second homes on the Cape, and if anyone needs any info or guidance on locations, etc. we’d be pleased to help with your search.” Barclay reports: “Don’t know how much my classmates want to hear about their new class agent, whose job it is to bug them about donations. Nevertheless, be assured all is well here in Cambridge. Same home, same wife, and the same plans for endless travel. Tuck did not prepare us for becoming ‘Bedouins’ in our retirement years, but here we are. I had the pleasure of playing oboe in the Arlington, MA, symphony last week together with, and at the invitation of, classmate David Schwartz. Dave is looking very well and is a big shot in the orchestra. For any of you ‘symphony musician wantabees,’ play your cards right with Dave and who knows.”

Tom Pisano wrote: “My one and only grandson, Zander, helped ‘Poppy’ celebrate his 71st birthday last October. My daughter Amie became a mom in July 2014, and great joy to our family.” Bill Seaver is “getting involved supporting local asylum seekers (pre-refugee stage). When the leader of my weekly Buddhist group moved on after eight years, I agreed to co-lead the group. (Lobsang, the monk who started this group with me, is now occupied full-time running a school for at-risk children in remote northeast India.) This has helped me realize how much Buddhism and the group are part of my life and has led to my focusing on strengthening the group. I continue to delight in the solace I receive every time I look at our Japanese garden. Even though the garden is a lot of work, I delight in its calming influence and watching the chipmunk TV (whereas Sherry is more fascinated with Where’s Waldo activity, counting and identifying the goldfish and frogs).” Charlie White wrote: “Your request for news coincided with the end of my appointment as port commissioner for the Port of Baltimore, so I must now admit that I have belatedly become an ‘R’ ...no, not what you think...Retired. “It has also led me to reflect on my rather odd ‘career’ in which, during its later stages, I deviated from our classmates’ good Tuck path to success...and on to an excursion into international consulting and individual ‘diplomacy.’ If nothing else, this path showed me the (underside) of the (third) world...i.e., posing as a ‘Canadian’ while working on the restructuring of Kenya’s Port of Mombasa, passing daily through ‘Murderers Row’ (full of Mogadishu, Somali, refugees and antiAmerican Yemeni Arabs); being in the Bolivian presidential palace advising the president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, while it was under ‘siege’ by Bolivia’s schoolteachers stirred up by Evo Morales, who later, as leader of that nation’s coca growers, took the presidency and allied with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez in an antiAmerican alliance; and, undoubtedly unique to Tuck grads, being deported from India...not back to the U.S. but to Sri Lanka, just as the Tamil Tigers ceasefire ended on the island....” Conversely, Cathy, who handles our class notes for Tuck Today sent me this report: “I had a space at the annual Orford, NH, Flea

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CL ASS NOTES Market in early August while I was on vacation for a bit. A very nice couple came up to admire some Baltimore-related things on my table. (I lived in Baltimore from ’83-’99.) We chatted about Baltimore, then somehow, as it so often happens, something clued me in—I think he mentioned the Port of Baltimore—and I asked the gentleman, ‘Did you happen to go to Tuck?’ He and his wife looked somewhat shocked, and he said, ‘Yes! How did you know that?’ I said, ‘Are you Charlie White?’ He looked even more shocked. I told him I worked for Tuck and had worked on class notes for *years* and remembered mention of him in your column a while ago when he left the port administration. “We had a very nice chat, I gave them a collectible Orioles World Series ’83 Coca-Cola bottle, and Charlie gave me what he called his now-collectible Port Commissioner of the Maryland Port Administration business card.” —John Moynihan

NC, for 31 years, where he was also heavily involved in youth soccer. He and Linda retired to Little River, SC, several years ago and, according to his obituary, “enjoyed travelling, watching the boats parading back and forth on the Intracoastal Waterway, and loved their many visits with Matthew, Keisha, Lilly, and Bryon.” Should you wish to send condolences, Linda’s address is 4760 Lightkeepers Way, #20H, Little River, SC 29566. Mike Vaughn let me know that Kathy and Bob Valleau have become seafaring merry wanderers. They are now the proud owners of a 68-foot Nordhavn oceangoing boat, Vesper. They took possession in the fall near San Diego (see picture) and have spent several months in “shake down” activities. In mid-March they and their captain, Mick, completed cruising 3,500 miles (80 days) down the Pacific Coast from San Diego to the Pacific mouth of the Panama Canal. Mike says, “It sounds like they are having the time of their lives.” To quote Kathy, “What an odyssey we are experiencing! It’s grand, wonderful, good and bad, frustrating, and different (real work) all happening at the same time.” Bob refers to “thousands of learning moments.”

Michel Klein writes that he is working on 2 professional projects—contributing to an online course in statistics and an initiative insuring that apps on mobile phones do not disclose their user’s personal information. Michel reminisces that the statistics course “reminded me of the course by the late Professor Victor McGee called (if I am not mistaken) Psychology 21, which I took in 1969 and was my first encounter with data analysis.” He recalls “...instead of psychology the course was mainly based on multi-factorial analysis and multi-dimensional scaling using computer programs written in FORTRAN, [which was] very exciting for somebody like me.” With respect to non-professional activities, Michel is concentrating on reading, drawing, gardening, and spending more and more time in Nice.

Michel Klein relaxing at the Blue Beach on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice The now-collectible business card of the now-retired Charlie White

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Kathy and Bob Valleau christening their new boat Vesper in November

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Greetings and best wishes! I am saddened to report that Greig Burdick passed away on Friday, March 18th, after a short illness. He is survived by Linda, his wife of 45 years, son Matthew, daughter-in-law Keisha, and grandchildren Lilly and Bryon. Greig was an entrepreneur in Winston-Salem,

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They went through the canal on Mar 23. Apparently this is a big production, involving a Panamanian pilot, a bunch of line handlers, and a lot of tricky maneuvering as Bob puts it, in their “dodgy little boat” sandwiched among 400’ freighters. From Panama, they headed out into the Caribbean and then up the east coast of the U.S.—planning to arrive home in Cape Cod, MA, by early summer.

Bob Huxley writes: “Sally and I spent a delightful evening at The Players club in New York at the end of February as guests of Bob Cohn [who joined the club’s board of directors last June]. The topic was a behind the scenes look at Broadway producers together with musical entertainment. We heartily recommend that New Yorkers who are interested in theater (or not) consider joining The Players. Bob will arrange guest passes for any of the club’s frequent monthly events.” (Secretary’s note: For background and a calendar of events, see The Players website at www.theplayersnyc.org.) George Cofran’s latest creation is running and editing a website called Hill Country Portal, described as “the ‘go-to’ site for Texas Hill Country information on businesses, non-profits, attractions, area information & what’s happening.” Check it out at www. HillCountryPortal.com.

Dabney and Dick Schmitt spent two weeks in Vietnam in March, where Dabney helped organize a fundraising cycling event for a nonprofit organization called Children of Vietnam, where she serves on the board of directors. On the way home, they stopped in Dubai to visit son Jonathan, daughter-in-law Maya, and grandchildren Dries and Lozen— and all three generations celebrated a long weekend in Abu Dhabi. (See picture.)

Personally I would have nominated Loretta Lynch and watched the Republican Party squirm as the Senate turned away the first black female Justice! Fortunately our President is bigger and smarter than that!”

NYC classmates at their quarterly lunch at the Yale Club, March 22, 2016. Left to right: seated, Harold Woolley, Earl Bahler, Bob Huxley, Meyrick Payne; standing, Ed Williams, Bob Simmons, Bob Harrell, Mike Vaughn, and Bob Cohn.

Please feel free to share your opinions and observations with your classmates through the medium of this column; just send me an email and we will publish it in the next issue. In closing, Class Agent Dick Schmitt asks me to remind you to send in your donations to Tuck Annual Giving if you haven’t done so already. Best wishes to all for a pleasant summer!

economies. Slower growth in China has had a ripple effect particularly on Africa and Eurasia. Nevertheless China is still growing faster than anywhere else and will be the dominant world economy by 2025. This will be tough for America to swallow.”

’70 George Fulton georgerfulton@gmail.com

Gasper Kovach Jr. Three generations of Schmitt boys gathered at the St. Regis Hotel in Abu Dhabi in March: Dries, Jonathan, and Dick Schmitt

Rick Hubbard writes that he believes fixing the way we finance and structure our political system is the most important public policy issue facing the country today, so he is devoting substantial amounts of his time and resources working to ensure “our Washington politicians will again properly represent the interests of the vast majority of American citizens.” In April, he spent 10 days marching 140 miles from Philadelphia to Washington with over 2,000 others as part of the Democracy Awakening movement. Meyrick Payne and his wife, Donna Tatroe, journeyed to South Africa for a few weeks in February. They visited vineyards, went on game drives and photo safaris, and toured the major cities. (See picture.) Meyrick also responded to my outreach in March to classmates to share their views about the U.S. economy and political scene. He responded as follows: “The world economy is turbulent to say the least. ISIS, deflation and unemployment are dragging down Europe, the Middle East and the BRIC

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’71 Caleb Loring Donna and Meyrick Payne on a wild game drive at Zulu Nyada Game Lodge in South Africa, February 2016

“The U.S. Presidential race is fascinating to watch. The debacle on the Republican side couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people! For years the Republicans have practiced supply side economics, which has enriched the 1% and hurt the lower income groups. At long last blue collar workers have rebelled and turned in fury to Donald Trump. The more establishment Republicans object to the Donald the stronger his chances of nomination. On the Democratic side, Hillary has been pushed to the left by Bernie. But she has a clear path to the Presidency.... The Supreme Court vacancy should be filled by Merrick Garland. His nomination just illustrates once again that we have a great President in Barack Obama; far better than Mitch McConnell deserves.

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45TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Hello all! Class reports coming in are a bit lean on this round, so much so that I have at last asked Tuck for your email addresses so a better pursuit of news on my part can occur in the future. Also, many of you may be like me, trying to figure out how to make things work in semi-retirement, financially and with family—a great but distracting task. I did hear from Pete Lindenfelser, who reported the following, in his own words with a few edits on my part, which I hope are acceptable:

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CL ASS NOTES “I am still running the company I own and still enjoy the challenge to design a new product. It is enjoyable to do things that an increasing number of customers want, especially as we have very few competitors. I am working on a way to get out without selling to some big company, having seen several companies similar to mine sell to big companies who in turn totally screwed the business. “I like you am now part of the ‘Old, Old,’ lacking the energy, concentration, or muscle mass that I had just a few years ago. Bummer. Coral had hoped I would retire and we would travel. To her disappointment one of the reasons I will retire is that I am soooo tired of traveling.” We all got a nice note from class agent Grey Emmons encouraging our attendance at the 45th reunion on the first weekend of October, as well as encouraging participation in this year’s TAG campaign. He is clearly looking forward to the 45th and was thoughtful to send me a copy of our 2013 Christmas card—a picture of our whole family. Interesting to see how we have changed even since then. As for the Lorings, this is the first year we have spent a full 8 weeks on Marco Island, Bonny’s favorite winter spot. Our six grandchildren are getting bigger fast (5 girls and 1 boy, ages 3 to 14). Exciting times! All of us are well, which is something to be truly thankful for. 2016 is a big year, with our 50th wedding anniversary, 50th reunion at Dartmouth, and 45th Tuck reunion. We hope to see as many of you as possible this fall at the 45th (October 7-9, 2016). —Caleb

’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

In November I attended a “Tuck Volunteers” conference in Hanover, which led to the theme for this issue of T’72 class notes. At the top of the class notes discussion was how to stimulate broader participation (the agenda item “Kill Class Notes!” got everyone’s attention). So in an effort to try a new approach that differs from what many Tuckies receive via social media, this issue will highlight how four

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classmates responded to two questions sent out by email in February: • W hat book(s) have you recently read that you found helpful or that opened new interests for you? How or why? • W hat volunteer activity have you found particularly meaningful (with a detail or two about why)? Hank Ricklefs wrote, “Thanks for not letting the younger ‘techies’ take away our class notes, which is the preferred means of learning about classmates for those of us who shun Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. I read both my D’71 notes and the T’72 edition regularly, while getting occasional email updates directly from folks we’ve stayed in touch with. Don’t let ’em force us to the social media side. “As for volunteer activities, I have found major enjoyment through serving on two local hospital boards over the past 15 years. After a long career in timber and wood products, the contrast in health care management and economics is quite a trip. This is also an area where business perspectives are sorely needed to contrast with bureaucratic governmental viewpoints and the ‘non-business-minded’ perspective of most physicians. We recently found a means of amalgamating the two hospitals (merged but with separate identities and areas of focus), which has been very satisfying. I have also spent time volunteering on the boards of (1) our local Whitefish Trail conservation/recreation organization, and (2) the science-based group that advocates for water quality at the Whitefish Lake Institute.” Andy Ambrose responded too: “Two books I read recently were quite insightful; Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel M. Klein (Nov. 2012), and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande (Oct. 2014). As I turned 69 and have witnessed the passing of many friends already, I question the purpose of our lives and how we should live it. When I rafted down the Colorado River several years ago, and the guides were pointing out cliff formations dating back 1 billion years, and at night when you could see the awesome number of stars in our galaxy and it is believed that there are as many galaxies as there are grains of sand on our planet, I began to wonder how significant is one’s life who lives on this planet for such a short period of time. So

anyway, these 2 books provided perspectives on our mortality and what is our purpose. I recommend both to fellow classmates.” I (John) have started reading Being Mortal, which is of special interest because of how it relates to aging :( , and to the continuing care retirement community where I live. I am finding it very thought-provoking and stimulating and plan to buy it for both my kids, as well as for the staff here at Kendal at Lexington. Next on my list is his other recommendation (Travels with Epicurus), which in a subsequent email Andy said he found even more meaningful. Bob Gregson chimed in: “Reading is a great joy to us and we chose to live within walking distance of our local library (Spokane Valley area). So I read about 20 books a month; more than half are fiction, thus it’s not a testament to scholarship and accruing great wisdom! Two recently read books jump out at me—Jimmy Carter’s latest, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (July 2015), which I like because I admire the quiet integrity, dignity and humility he has always displayed...unfortunately quite unlike what’s going on in this election year. Second is a 1920s book titled The Science of Mind: A Philosophy, A Faith, A Way of Life (1926), by Ernest Holmes. I’ve always been interested in metaphysics, and his description of the nature of being and how we relate to it is the clearest I’ve come across in that genre. OK, that one does require scholarship, but Bonnie and I and my local sister are slowly reading and discussing it together, which is a great way to ponder deep ideas. I don’t know about others, but as age gallops along so does my curiosity and interest in life and death issues. “Volunteering: It was a lot of fun working at a Salvation Army food bank for a couple of years, being a warehouseman, hauling pallets and boxes around and stocking shelves several days a week. That felt good because of the sense of helping those less fortunate. On kind of a flip side, I’m the West Point Admissions rep for the far eastern 1/3 of Washington State and greatly enjoy my interactions with some really outstanding young men and women candidates. It’s a pleasure to work with these high school kids and staff and gives one hope that our culture’s future is going to work out just fine. Interesting that I have been slightly active in the anti-war movement since the mid-70s but justify supporting West Point through trying to find the best and brightest.

Why? My experience in combat during two Vietnam tours indicated that the best leaders accomplished what they needed to do and yet saved lives on BOTH sides. And since our politicos wind up getting us into wars here and there, I want the best and most honorable to lead our armed forces in those unfortunate circumstances.” John South—My own list of valued books includes Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (Feb. 2010) by Lynne Olson; The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (June 2013) by Daniel James Brown; and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Aug. 2011) by Eric Metaxas. They provide a more “ground level” view and perspective of the era leading up to WW II, and I perceived some disturbing parallels in current economic and political trends. I continue to volunteer as a golf course rater and serve on the finance committee here. I am also part of a newly formed group to provide “hands-on” training in the myriad of electronic gizmos that are totally mysterious to many of my fellow retiree neighbors. Talk about the ‘blind leading the blind’! On a personal note, I will not bore you with photos and stories about my recent trip to the Antipodes—many of you have your own memories and photos of the beauties of Sydney and New Zealand. But if you have not been there, I strongly recommend you add it to your bucket list!

performance for T’73. We raised $162,000 with 59% participation. Our class was in the top ten of dollars raised and set a record for classes 42 years out. Unfortunately, our participation (while still stellar) is declining a bit and down from recent years. Let’s help Stan for this year’s TAG. Nice to hear from Ned Dearborn, who has retired and moved back out West. Ned and wife Cherrie and daughter Elise have moved to the San Diego area. Ned retired to the West in large part for the equable Mediterranean climate and has not been disappointed. Agree with that, Ned—we love the climate—outside all year. Ned and Cherrie have been in San Diego’s Mission Valley for about two and a half years. They get a great deal of pleasure from singing with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, ushering for the San Diego Symphony, walking their little rescue dog, and playing occasional games of Scrabble with friends. Sounds like a great life. Before Tuck, Ned lived in the Bay Area (on a hillside in Sausalito) for about two and a half years and has many happy memories of the Bay Area, where his office was in Oakland.

For the next issue, please let us know what you are reading and doing.

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Bob Goldsmith (one of the blurry white shirts in the back!) as part of Boston’s One City Choir

At last we are having a rainy winter in California and the reservoirs are getting full. With all this water we can now shower once a day instead of once a week! Lots of snow in the mountains so the ski folks are very happy.

All is well with Bob Goldsmith, who is now working part-time at MITRE, which is a systems company working on issues of national defense and operates seven FFRDCs (federally funded research and development centers). Bob notes that his hometown, Carlisle, MA, has several Tuck grads, with one sporting his Tuck T-shirt at the dump and another singing soprano in the community chorus.

Congratulations to Stan Gutkowski and the other TAG agents on another stellar

The picture nearby is from a performance with Boston’s One City Choir at the Hatch Shell

Barry Hotchkies bhotchkies@aol.com

Eleanor and Barry Hotchkies at the Dean Slaughter event, with Leela Srinivasan, a fellow Scot also transplanted to the Bay Area via Tuck

(Boston) last summer. Bob is one of the blurry white shirts in the back. The folks in costume are the DisOrchestra from some of the New England Honk! bands. OK, I must admit I had to look up HONK! And here it is: “Acoustic and mobile, these bands play at street level, usually for free, with no stages to elevate them above the crowd and no sound systems or speaker columns to separate performers from participants. These bands don’t just play for the people; they play among the people and invite them to join the fun. They are active, activist, and deeply engaged in their communities, at times alongside unions and grassroots groups in outright political protest, or in some form of community-building activity, routinely performing and conducting workshops for educational and social service organizations of all kinds. “At full power, these bands create an irresistible spectacle of creative movement and sonic selfexpression directed at making the world a better place. This is the movement we call HONK!” So now you know. We have had a couple of Tuck events in the San Francisco Bay Area. I attended one in San Francisco for the introduction of Dean Slaughter on December 3, 2015 (Envisioning Tuck’s Future—A global Conversation with Dean Matthew J. Slaughter). Hard to believe that Dean Slaughter is only Tuck’s tenth dean. The event was well attended, with over 150 attendees. I think I was the attendee from the oldest class represented (1973)—everyone looked soooo young. Dean Slaughter gave a great talk on his views on Tuck and the future plans for the school. It was great to see Andy

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CL ASS NOTES Alan, your work is much appreciated at all disasters—tell us more and let us know how we can help.

Steele walking around and recovering well. Also saw Dave Kapnick T’78 (we share reunion years) and Leela Srinivasan from T’06, which is also the class of our son Blair. Nice newsy email from Tom Wilberding, who has been retired since 2004. Prior to retiring, Tom had a successful career as a real estate developer—mainly residential condos and some speculative homes. It was a risky career, with the usual ups and downs and vagaries of the real estate cycle. Tom was lucky to liquidate at the peak of the cycle and move to Boulder, Colorado, well before the 2008 crash. Exquisite timing. Note to self—ask Tom next time we are in the market to buy or sell our home. Tom has followed the careers of many of our classmates and admires their outstanding contributions and successes, far exceeding his own. You are too modest, Tom. However, Tom feels grateful for his life—so privileged, lucky, and full of marvelous experiences, and a lovely wife, two excellent daughters, and two beautiful grandchildren. What more could you want, Tom? Tom continues enjoying life in retirement. He and wife Barb enjoy hiking, birding, skiing, and climbing Colorado mountains, as well as some volunteer activities. Barb and Tom both like adventure and travel but only in North America. Last year they were both fortunate to overcome some medical challenges and as a reward decided on, what else? a road trip. So Tom made reservations at 41 motels and off they went for 70 days by car on a big loop through Canada and the U.S. It was a blast, says Tom, and they hit all those motels on time. One stop was Hanover on October 8, 2015, where a big bonfire stack was under construction on the green for Homecoming. All bringing back great memories of Dartmouth and Tuck for Tom.

Tom and Barb Wilberding at Maroon Bells near Aspen, fall 2014

Had a nice chat with Mike LaRose, who retired from his own business about 18 months ago. Mike had a single-shingle CPA practice providing help to small businesses in trouble. He had built the business up from scratch to the point where it was self-sustaining with client referrals or occasional repeat business. Like all of us retirees, he keeps busy and wonders how he ever had time to work. He and Ginny, his wife, like to travel and help with local charitable organizations. Mike also keeps busy with house fix-up projects. Ginny retired from teaching almost two years ago. Their son is now back in the Boston area after a long stint in D.C. They have an 11-year-old grandson who is a joy. Yep, grandies are the best!! The Tuck Class of 1973 Memorial Scholarship Fund awarded the 2015-16 academic year scholarship to Keith Morancie T’16. Congratulations to Keith, who is from Brooklyn, NY, and received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 2008 (BA, history). Prior to Tuck, Keith worked at Columbia Business School as assistant director of reporting. In the absence of direct class input, I scoured LinkedIn, Facebook and all sorts of nefarious places for the dirt on the infamous class of 1973. So here we go:

Tom keeps in touch with Steve Ringlee and Harry Pfohl constantly by email. Tom is grateful that Tuck provided not only an inspiring business education but also some great, enduring friendships.

Alan Dobson (no longer Allen) is still in the Boston area and is now a national disaster response reservist (via DHA/FEMA). LinkedIn notes:

Tom notes that my trip to South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia sounded terrific and may tempt them out of their North American cloister! Highly recommended, Tom—Africa is just so different and an amazing adventure. Driving through Namibia is not for the fainthearted, though.

“We ARE Reservists, First in Disaster and Last in Line! We Build CAPACITY First and Foremost and, through our works and efforts, We benefit both those We serve and in a selfless manner, Ourselves! We ARE Reservists!”

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Joe Faron is listed as controller at a meat processing company south of Chicago and has been in that position for 13 years. Joe manages all accounting/finance, human resource, and administrative activity. Joe is also professor (senior faculty) at the Keller Graduate School of Management at their Tinley Park campus (Illinois). He has been teaching business planning (Capstone) and finance courses at Keller for 15 years. Sounds like you are still active and busy, Joe. Not sure what Lou Trotter is up to now, but he announced the sale of InfoSnap, where he was co-founder, president, and CEO. InfoSnap was the leading provider of online admission and registration solutions designed specifically for Pre K-12 for independent schools, public school districts, and charter schools. The sale was announced in November 2015. I think Lou is planning to remain in Bethesda, MD. “We are very excited to complete this sale and become part of the PowerSchool team,” said Lou Trotter, CEO of InfoSnap. “This deal is the culmination of a long, successful partnership and it allows PowerSchool to help thousands of schools streamline administrative processes and better connect administrators, teachers, parents and students by delivering technology that simplifies school registration and school choice.” Dave Gustin continues as CEO of IdeaVentures (3 years) in the Orange County area of Southern California. He is mentor, adviser, and investor in food and beverage startups, as well as innovative medical devices, medical diagnostics, and next-gen business software startups. Plenty to keep busy with, Dave. Life chez Hotchkies is much the same—lots of traveling, dancing, photography, hiking, grandkids, and running to keep the brain and body active. Our daughter, Lindsey, continues to enjoy working at Apple and with husband Karl (also at Apple) has a lot of fun with daughter, Piksel, who is now two and a half. They have just bought a house and moved to Monte Sereno (near San Jose), which is close enough for our visits and babysitting. Our son, Blair Hotchkies (T’06), lives near Seattle and continues at Amazon working with big data (whatever that is). He has three sons (6, 4, 2)— with lots of energy.

I ran (and finished) the NYC Marathon in November but in quite a slow time—my first 4+ marathon. Ah well, age catches up. Eleanor and I are off to the U.K. in April for visits to friends and family plus my last marathon. I will be running the London Marathon on April 24 with a sub-4 hour target, so wish me luck. One big plus to continuing to run as you get older— there is less competition!!

Providence-based ’74s who always attends our get-togethers, announced his retirement in March and celebrated with a trip to Florida— another Florida trip was planned for April, and it’s off to Ireland in May. Stealing a turn of phrase from “the Donald,” Bob plans to “make retirement great again!”

It is always great to hear from you. So, please, please help out with your news, photographs, and updates for next time. We all love to hear from you. Have a great summer, and don’t forget to call or send an update in the fall. The wedding of Sarah Buhrmaster and Ryan Maione

’74 Paul Stupinski

The annual T’74 Holiday Lunch at the Harvard Club in NYC

pstupinski@aol.com

Hi everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the last issue of Tuck Today. Many thanks to all of you for sending in news—there’s lots to report on! Kudos to Steve Bates and Brian Landry for organizing the annual T’74 Holiday Lunch at the Harvard Club of NYC. Despite unseasonably warm weather, everyone was in a festive spirit and enjoyed a wonderful event. Joining Brian (Bates had to cancel out at the last minute) were George Kelly, Jamie Higgins, Noreen Doyle, John Lathrop, H.J. Markley, Pat Martin, Twig MacArthur, Jim Spanos, Rick Goldberg, Danny Eng, Paul Stupinski, and T’75 John Murphy. T’73 Don Wilson did not join us for lunch but did make a brief appearance and offered holiday greetings to all. Lots of lively conversation and good news circulated around the table, but perhaps the best news was Pat Martin’s—he had recently been in a serious car accident but, thanks to some good luck and well-placed airbags, walked away unscathed. There should be a group photo from lunch nearby—if not here , check out the class page on the myTUCK website (http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu). This year, for a variety of reasons/excuses, I did not organize a holiday dinner in Providence, and heard about it! I promise to set something up later this year!! Bob Twomey, one of our

Deb and Dan Clark checked in after a September family reunion/vacation in Tuscany. You may remember from a previous column that the Clarks stayed in a house Angie and I have rented previously. Dan, Deb and family enjoyed a great week of chilling out by the pool, sightseeing, wine tasting, and exploring the area’s many great trattorias and restaurants. A return trip this September is planned.

Judy and Rich Andrews and Marnie and Jake Jacobsen at the Buhrmaster wedding

Maureen and Bob Buhrmaster celebrated the wedding of daughter Sarah to Ryan Maione this past summer at Lake George. Judging from the photos, Sarah was a beautiful bride, it was a picture-perfect setting, and the weather was great. Judy and Rich Andrews and Marnie and Jake Jacobsen were among those in attendance. There should be photos near the column or on our class page on myTUCK. Congratulations to Nancy T’75 and Phil Spokowski—they retired back in September and have moved to Venice, FL, enjoying a home they built at the Venetian Golf & River Club. Golf, biking, and kayaking are keeping Phil and Nancy busy in retirement, and the welcome mat is out for ’74s and ’75s who want to visit. Phil included their address in his update, so he must be serious about hosting us! Nancy & Phil Spokowski, 466 Padova Way, North Venice, FL 34275-6695, philnans@ verizon.net

Proud parents Maureen and Bob Buhrmaster

Bill Bohrer reports that retirement is definitely not in his future, what with his commercial-flooring business doing great and his sons involved with him in the business. Bill recently joined Connie Voldstad and Noreen Doyle for skiing at Park City and noted that he had not seen Noreen for 12 years, so it was a nice minireunion. When not chasing 4 grandchildren (see photo), caddying for Nancy, taking bridge lessons and collecting

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CL ASS NOTES vintage guitars (“I just collect ’em, I can’t play ’em, Stuart”), John Bello has found a new entrepreneurial project, Beso Del Sol Sangria— the ‘SoBe of sangria, Stuart.’ Check it out on Facebook. Bello also sent me a set of his golf scores in some sort of charity golf tournament, but I have no idea whether the 49 his team posted was for 18, 9, or 1. No updates on whether he has found a home for his mounted elk head, either.

John and Nancy Bello with 3 of their grandchildren

Carol and Jim Furneaux are dividing time between their homes in Newburyport, MA, and St. John in the USVI, and, like the Bellos, are keeping busy chasing grandchildren—8 in the Furneaux clan. Jim stays in touch with Twig MacArthur, with the good ol’ days (?) in Sachem Village being a regular topic of conversation. Jim continues to be cancer free after successfully dealing with a bout of tongue cancer in 2014. Hank Hakewill found retirement not to his liking and returned to work in October. The Hakewills recently enjoyed a week in the Great Smoky Mountains, where I’m guessing Hank got in some fishing. Like Jim, Hank is also a cancer survivor and is enjoying good health. It was great to hear from Charley Eddy after a long absence from the column! Charley retired in 2007 from Intevac, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer. He returned for three months as interim CFO in 2014 and enjoyed getting reacquainted with old colleagues and marveling at the changes and evolution of a high-tech company over the seven years he had been away. Charley and wife Mitzie live in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California, with volunteer work, travel, family time, and indulging his passion for sailing keeping them busy. One favorite sailing trip is from San Francisco to the Sea of Cortez—check out Charley’s blog, SailingOnSnugHarbor.wordpress.com, to keep

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track of his adventures. Larry Edgar reports that his BC posse—John McQuiston and Jack Harrington—continues to get together regularly, most recently in Chestnut Hill for a Boston College football game this past fall. As I write this, Larry and Jack are planning an April meeting in San Diego while Jack is out west for a convention of the risk management industry. A trip to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox is on tap for the guys this summer. Cathy Needham Grein checked in from Bermuda, where she and Fred T’73 were vacationing. We normally expect more exotic locales on their vacation itineraries, and Cathy promised her next update will include something a little more out of the ordinary. Congratulations to Chuck Lucas, who welcomed his first grandchild in January. Chuck continues as owner/CEO of Aria, a Twin Cities-based company that specializes in assisting nonprofits with fundraising, using nontraditional solicitation techniques. Dave Wilhoite is using retirement to enjoy his grandchildren, work on projects around the house and read. Several of his reading list suggestions are listed at the end of the column. Dave closed his update with a comment about our class that I thought I’d share with you—“I wish all of our classmates well. The older I get, the more I appreciate the quality and character of the members of our class. It was an honor and privilege to have shared the Tuck Experience with them.” You will recall from a previous column that Blaine Gunther suffered a nasty fall off his roof. Happy to report that Blaine is now getting around on crutches and doing well. The planned trip to China to teach English is on hold for the foreseeable future, but there is an August trip planned to Colesville, NY, where Blaine and his wife will serve as tour guides for the Newel Knight home. Blaine’s wife is a descendant of Newel Knight, who was one of the first branch presidents of the Latter-Day Saints movement. In addition to the family business, Blaine serves on the board of People’s Utah Bancorp and volunteers with a local addiction recovery program. Brad Stirn is keeping busy in retirement with heli-skiing, lots of travel and family time. In the past year, Brad and Becky have visited Ireland, Germany, France, Cyprus, Greece, and Sicily. A photo safari to shoot tigers in India is in the works, as is the planning for a family wedding in September. Brad sends best wishes to ’74s everywhere! Pat Martin took time off during a family ski

vacation in Sun Valley to say hi. His visit included breaking bread with Dan Hunt, who Pat characterized as the “Bionic Man” after watching him ski! Pat and Sandy’s daughter Sarah is expecting child #4 as I write this, with a June delivery date. Sarah and family live in North Palm Beach, FL, not far from Pat and Sandy’s winter getaway place. Son Philip has just launched a robo-investing firm, censible. co, that will permit customization based on individuals’ social values. Pat’s investment firm—Martin Investment Management LLC— continues to grow, and for the fifth consecutive year, its ten-year numbers have placed it in the top 10 performers for its domestic growth strategy.

Pat Martin’s two oldest grandsons, Hank Winter (4) and Ben Winter (3), in Sun Valley for their second time skiing

Paul Hogan is living in Milton, MA, just outside of Boston, which turns out to be a convenient location for visiting family and grandchildren in Falmouth and Hanover, NH. Paul gets back to Hanover regularly, as daughter Deb and her husband are on the med school faculty there. Falmouth turns out to be where Deb and husband George have their marine biology lab, so summers in Falmouth allow the Hogans to mix business with pleasure. Paul is doing a lot of travel in retirement and recommends Dartmouth Alumni-organized trips as especially worthwhile. Brian Landry echoed Paul’s endorsement during the holiday lunch. Fitness activities, dancing, painting, music, and reading round out Paul’s retirement regimen. Vandy VanWagener is staying busy with consulting gigs, the Swim With Mike foundation, and board work at the Far Niente Group and at the National Association of Corporate Directors. Grandchild #2 is due

about the time this column goes to press. Vandy and Betty headed to Lisbon this spring to celebrate Vandy’s 65th and their 40th wedding anniversary. From there it was off to Marbella for his annual golf junket with some old P&G buddies. Vandy hears occasionally from fellow Denver resident Tom Hardy, who has embarked on a second (third? fourth?) career as a writer. Dave Bailey recently returned from Ballybunion, where the weather did not cooperate for golf. For the first time in memory, the Old Course was closed as it was too wet to play. Gator has been keeping his doctors busy with some minor (fortunately!) health problems. He was a little disappointed in his neurologist, who pronounced his brain “normal” after some tests—‘I always considered my brain above normal, Stuart!” Dave closed his update with a riddle: “What do my golf game, love life, and the recent presidential candidate debates have in common? ANSWER: All of them leave me not knowing whether to laugh or cry!” Judy and Jim Keller just welcomed a new granddaughter, courtesy of their son, who lives in Jackson Hole. The Kellers still live in Washington but winter in La Quinta, great for the golf game! Jim continues to travel regularly to Hawaii to oversee the box-making plant he built there. An update from yours truly. I retired in January and am enjoying a new routine, which includes projects around the house, reading, and working out. I definitely do not miss the daily commute to Hopkinton, MA, nor the regular trips to Paris! Angie recently received her Independent Clinical Social Work License and works at Rhode Island Hospital. Our daughter has followed in Mom’s footsteps and is also in the social work field, working in the Boston area. Our son is in his third year at Weill Cornell Medical College and it looks like he wants to be a surgeon. I have been up to Hanover twice recently—once for Tuck’s Volunteer Conference, with a highlight being the opportunity to spend some time with Dean Slaughter. There was also an interesting breakout session for class secretaries, which included representatives from classes ranging from 1972 to 2013. As you might expect, more recent classes make extensive use of social media to stay in touch, virtually real time. Consequently those classes see limited value in Tuck Today class columns. That reflects a growing sentiment among publications similar to Tuck Today, that class columns could be

eliminated from alumni mags. I don’t think I’m in any imminent danger of losing my job as class secretary (!), but it did highlight the differences in perspective among Tuck’s increasingly diverse alumni. My second trip to Hanover involved accompanying my highschool-age nephew to Dartmouth baseball’s “Junior Day,” a daylong introduction to Big Green baseball and to Dartmouth. He is a talented pitcher and came away very impressed with the coaching staff, program, and the school. During a meeting with Bob Whalen, Dartmouth’s head coach, Coach Whalen mentioned that he’d just received an RSVP from Todd Keiller. Todd and Diane will be attending a dinner and ceremony celebrating Dartmouth’s 150th anniversary of playing collegiate baseball. While on campus I spotted Steve Bates from a distance but did not get a chance to visit with him. He and Susan had braved the subzero temps to cheer on the women’s ski team and to check out the Winter Carnival ice sculptures. Steve reminisced about Winter Carnival ’69, when Susan was his date for the weekend. He and Susan dined with Annabelle and Andy Steele, while in town. Here are some recommendations from your classmates’ reading lists; hope you find something interesting here. I’ve added comments or the name of who recommended the book as appropriate. Augustine of Hippo, by Peter Brown. Paul Hogan says it’s hard to find but worth the read. Gray Mountain, by John Grisham (from Dave Wilhoite) Out of Order, by Sandra Day O’Connor (from Dave Wilhoite) In Defense of a Liberal Education, by Fareed Zakaria (from Dave Wilhoite) Where the Bodies Were Buried, by T.J. English Into Oblivion: An Icelandic Thriller, by Arnaldur Indridason Team of Teams, by Stanley McChrystal. Interesting read on how General McChrystal organized his antiterrorist teams and activities while in Iraq City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg

’75 Caren Calish Gagliano cgagliano@mac.com

Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

Our 40th class reunion last October was great fun, and all of us owe a debt of thanks to Caren Calish Gagliano for the effort she and the team she assembled put into making it such a success. Caren says: “I want to thank the large number of our classmates whose efforts made our reunion so successful. James Veny and Ted Buerger organized our most unique, and I think most enjoyed, special event, a ‘Conversations’ session on Saturday afternoon that reshaped the conversations we had for the rest of the weekend. (See Becky’s comments below.) Pam Carrington [Scott], Becky Gillan, and Mark and Judy Thomas helped kick off the conversation with brief but insightful presentations.

T’75s in a classroom again at Reunion

Thanks again to everyone for staying in touch. Be well!

Evening get-together, with smiles!

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CL ASS NOTES happen. We had a great turnout and look forward to ongoing visits between classmates, thanks to the LinkedIn group that Ted is spearheading. Let the conversations continue!” Becky Gillan also shares her thoughts about the reunion:

T’75s enjoying the evening

“Ellen Lunn not only made sure our ‘Look Book’ photos were on our name tags so we might recognize each other, she also provided 40+ years of photos in a slide show that caused shouts of recognition from around the Saturday night dinner room at the Norwich Inn (a great location, thanks to Tuck and Andy Steele). Ellen, Randy, and Becky provided Tuck logo candies as party favors, which went along nicely with the class of ’75 baseball-style caps Nancy Bello contributed. Bunk Rosenblum could not attend but donated a lovely pair of Simon Pearce hurricane lamps, which Ken McPartlin and his wife were pleased to win. On Friday evening, along with cocktails, Mike Havern and his wife Gwen (just call me Vanna) broke us into study groups to compete in a round of Jeopardy on, of all subjects, geography. Anyone?

More Reunion get-together fun

“On Saturday Dan Ruml organized a guided tour that featured ‘what’s new on campus’ as well as ‘what’s wonderful and has been there for years’—like climbing to the top of Baker Tower, which was one of my favorite weekend events. GREAT view of campus and not at all easy to get access to, so thanks Dan! Janet Duchaine and I had a lot of fun helping with logistics. The Tuck staff, specifically Mariah Farbotko, helped make all our special requests

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“About 40 people, grads (29), spouses, and friends attended the reunion in October 2015. For me it was the best Reunion I have attended and I bet others in Hanover that weekend would agree. The activities that Tuck arranged were good, but a one-hour session ‘Conversations with Classmates’ Saturday afternoon was special. “Caren Gagliano, Jim Veny, and Ted Buerger arranged the topics and speakers. As each person spoke, I felt like they connected to me on a much more personal and deeper level than at just any reunion, where you pass around photos of the grandkids and trade travel tips. In some regards, I felt like I got to know my classmates better in that one hour than when I saw them every day at Tuck. It was learning about each other’s passions, especially as many of us approach retirement or at least are working in an area that we find rewarding for more than just the bucks. “Thanks to my work at AARP I addressed claiming Social Security, Medicare, cognitive aging etc., and I think it was an eye-opener. I always thought of Mike Havern and Mark Thomas as the ‘naughty’ boys of Dartmouth transferred to Tuck, but who knew Mike had teaching in his genes from his mother and really is excelling in the field? Mark and his wife Judy have a hydroponic green produce indoor farm (Garfield Produce) on the South Side of Chicago that helps create jobs. They brought lettuce samples and all tasted super fresh, but the radish flavored was ‘to die for.’ They have been successful with local restaurants and are opening a second indoor farm. “Pam Carrington [Scott] always speaks eloquently about volunteerism and the impact and gratification it can have. Jim Veny talked about his pursuit of music, both instrumental and singing, since his teenage years, and it is clear that is a passion he will continue to pursue. The hour passed too quickly. “We continued the conversation over dinner at the Norwich Inn. Ellen Lunn had a wonderful

T’75s in the McLaughlin Atrium at Reunion

T’75 ladies at Reunion

slide montage of all our reunions that was déjà vu and somewhat scary to watch as the decades passed. She also put together a great goodie bag for each of us. “In sum, Reunion was personal and about real stories that made me want to want to continue the conversation and connections.” Ellen Lunn shared the nearby photos from the reunion. Just prior to the reunion we all had a chance to fill out a survey re our life journeys since graduating from Tuck. Ted Buerger compiled our answers into a single PDF. We don’t have space to reproduce the entire document here, but it’s fascinating reading, and I [Bill Kelly] encourage you to download it. Email Caren or me for the link. Blue Hills Bank has appointed Pamela Scott, who is president and CEO of LVCC, Inc., to the bank’s board of directors. Scott has more than 30 years of experience in financial services; she founded her business consulting firm in 2003. She previously served as an independent director at Beverly National Bank and Danversbank prior to their respective mergers.

Caren Calish Gagliano and her husband Lou returned recently from a March 5-12 trip to Cuba, “Culture, Commerce and Cuisine,” put together by Dartmouth Alumni Travel. It was the first ever to be designed for Tuck grads. Andy Steele T’79 and his wife Anne were among the travelers. Caren writes: “The group reminded me of all the aspects of Tuck that I liked the best—the people and the learning opportunities. Great to have a ringside seat for a while in a country that under Raúl Castro has already undergone significant changes as it transitions from a totally State-controlled economy to one with many entrepreneurial opportunities, particularly in the agricultural and tourist/ visitor-related economies—with capital being the greatest near-term challenge. (If, like me, you thought Congress needed to repeal the Cuba embargo before major economic changes would come within Cuba, you were wrong.) We spent upwards of five hours a day at meals, and I would estimate we were served a record number of mojitos, con or sin rum. I would highly recommend a visit to Cuba; and Lou and I would do another Dartmouth/Tuck trip if the destination appealed to us.” Caren adds that she and Lou “sold our home in Connecticut and are now living in a fabulous apartment in Washington, DC, and welcome visits from classmates who pass through our nation’s capital (cgagliano@mac.com). Nothing like a big snowstorm when you don’t even have to buy salt or lift a snow shovel or pay a snow-plowing bill. Ah, the joys of NOT owning a home, and of riding a bicycle to meetings :)” The picture of Caren and Lou nearby was taken at Playa Girón, the landing site for the seaborne forces of armed Cuban exiles in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

Lou and Caren in Cuba

Mike Havern, who went with a Dartmouth group to Cuba a year ago, shares the following: “In March I was in Phoenix for the 29th (or so) consecutive year of a long spring-training weekend with a group of friends from many parts of my life, dating back to elementary school in upstate NY. (Tuck was represented by Dave Fernald last year.) Started out as a father-son thing with a friend and his son when the boys were very young, and morphed over the years to include daughters, in-laws, cousins, grandchildren, other friends, etc. We usually go to an NBA (Suns) game and NHL (Coyotes) match, and as many baseball games as we can fit in (at least four). If that sporting excess appeals to anyone, let me know for next year’s planning. Gwen is presently in Austin, TX, where she has spent a week every month working with the same client (leadership development and coaching) for over six years. (The staff of the W Hotel is like family to her now.) I occasionally go with her, for the opportunity to spend time with daughter Sarah and grandson Jac, who live in nearby Georgetown, TX.”

’76 Stuart Fishler stufis@roadrunner.com

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When last I pestered him, the San Franciscobased Ed Dean and I were chatting in a general sense about the legal software firm he cofounded in 2000, WealthCounsel. Simply stated, particularly for simple folk such as me, this is a drafting system used primarily by attorneys focused on trusts, estates, and tax planning. Although the phrase was not then in use, the company was one of the first to exploit crowd funding. Back in 1997, Ed and a couple of pals helping map it out concluded that full-on development would require several million, so they wrote some 300 attorneys to whom they had previously taught Estate Planning, and almost all responded favorably, ensuring the necessary funding for the

business. As he related, “only then did we look around the proverbial table and realize that we were then under the gun to actually go about creating the damn thing.” Even though Ed did not belabor the three-year birthing process (pun intended, thank you very much), I was immediately hit with painful flashbacks of late nights in the bowels of Woodbury trying to get any kind of positive response from the archaic BASIC terminals. To me at least, it seemed to take just about three years to get that first programming assignment done for Professor McGee. Digression finished, so fast forward to today and Ed’s business, where more than 1,800 law firms around the country use WealthCounsel, “a robust suite of products and services.” Ed remains a board member of the company, although headquarters have been relocated to Salt Lake City, where some 80 programmers seek to improve upon Ed’s skills at BASIC. Ed maintains his Trusts & Estates practice in San Francisco, and although he and I reviewed a couple of retirement scenarios (I am already there, Ed wishes he were), it sounds like he has no near-term plans to permanently enjoy his retirement pad in Puerto Vallarta. On the other hand, Tom Lake is one who has joined me in the retirement category, moving from the Boston area to the western end of Massachusetts, South Hadley to be specific. This is part of the “Five College” area, so he and Karen are flush with intellectual stimulation, to say nothing of hiking and biking around the Pioneer Valley. I told him to keep an eye out for John Dietel, who he was unaware also lives in the area. He told me he was pretty bummed out by the absence of snow in his area this past winter. “It was so bad I didn’t even feel any motivation to get my snowshoes out this season!” I suggested to him that Doug Cozad might have the right approach. A classic Snowbird, Doug is still living in Minneapolis but heads down to his winter home outside Phoenix for three months a year, thus not requiring the purchase of no steenkin’ snowshoes. His wealth-management practice is still going strong, although he has become more efficient over the years and now puts in no more than 30 hours a week grinding...er... interfacing with his client base. If you use your fave Interweb browser for “John J. Riccardo” and “Chrysler,” your first hit will be a New York Times article from February 16 of this year. Your strenuous clicking efforts will be amply rewarded with the accompanying photo, a priceless artifact (a nice shout out to

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CL ASS NOTES Alicia Cooney for this) that hearkens back to the days when well-credentialed wonks with all of three years of post-MBA experience helped guide the captains of industry. Said wonk is currently in his third career iteration, sitting on the board of the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education, a rather interesting not-for-profit that also expended some of my clicking energy. Only in his second career iteration is Paul Gardent, retired EVP of the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. He has a pretty much full-time work life comprised of teaching at The Dartmouth Institute in its Master of Public Health Program and also at Tuck, where he is an adjunct professor. The students keep him on his toes so much that he can only find relief from the studentinduced stress by prepping for triathlons and marathons, one of which was looming on the horizon when we spoke. I promised not to go searching for action photos of Paul, based on the feedback I received a few years ago from many of you whose monitors melted around the edges after clicking on the steamy, well, sweaty, photograph of “Mr. Marathoner” Rick Derr. A Twin Cities alum now finding true happiness in South Carolina is Tom Henderson, whose 3-year stint managing E&Y’s offices in the Russian region firmly implanted the travel bug in both Kathleen and him. They have both been covering the globe, sometimes together and, well...sometimes not! They are just back from a river cruise in Vietnam/Cambodia, with some land time in Hanoi, Saigon, and Phnom Penh, with Kathleen having earlier in the year ditched Tom in favor of an 18-day exploration of India with two gal pals. The Taj Mahal, a tiger sanctuary, elephant riding, Jaipur, yadda yadda. The highlight apparently was the Pushkar Camel Fair—riding camels, sleeping in tents, resisting the peddlers hawking their wares, all that kinda rough stuff. The nearby photo shows the distinguished couple in a “together moment.” Also in the photo department is another together couple, Dilip Advani and Rick Routhier, seen here in the somewhat more refined Manhattan bar scene. Dilip had recently returned from a trip to India, squeezed in between “board stuff,” per Rick.

Stu and Claudia Fishler in Rome

Kathleen and Tom Henderson at Angkor Wat

Dilip Advani and Rick Routhier, not in India

Also on the global front, Anthony Simpson recently was wooed by J.P. Morgan’s Asset Management unit to head up all Client Portfolio Management for the EMEA region. Everyone boarding an international flight these days should keep an eye out for Anthony as they pass through first class. Alas, I did not see him on our recent flights in Europe (Munich and Rome), but nearby is a photo of Claudia and me hangin’ at one of the more intimate sites in Rome, St. Peter’s (pretty chilly in early March). Lastly, Gail Tritle was toning up his bod for his 50th college reunion when I caught up with him. Like Doug Cozad, Gail still resides in Minneapolis, but he prefers Florida’s Panhandle for his winter excursions. He still

works in the beef subset of the agribusiness world, basically mentoring a young sidekick who has recently taken the reins of his Beef Brands, LLC. I mistakenly got him talking about food in general and in particular about restaurants in the Twin Cities. “There is too much of a Scandinavian influence in Minneapolis; they can’t cook a steak mediumrare at any restaurant that I have found.” Once he got over his ranting (Gail? Ranting?? Well, a bit), he segued into a discussion about his visit a couple of years ago to the beef farm of John Morosani in Litchfield, CT. “He has quite an impressive operation there. We walked around the entire property and then he fed me a sirloin that was the most flavorful and tender that I have ever had.” Gail was so psyched about his college reunion that he was easy prey when I mentioned that he should call for some of the other married students in our class to encourage a showing at our upcoming 40th. By the time we finished our discussion, he had in hand an Excel file of all of those characters, most of whom have no doubt been pestered telephonically by the time they read this. He finished up our discussion by saying, “I know we can get a better turnout of married students compared to last time, when it basically was me and Bill Malcolm. While you youngsters were talking about the goings on in the dorms, our eyes were all but glazing over.” Sounds like there might be a few more Sachem stories going around at our upcoming reunion.

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’78

Martha Luehrmann

Jim Scardino

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jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

Dear folks,

My inquiry in the last column as to who among us are retired drew a few interesting responses.

Not much gossip today. Y’all have to be better at getting me tidbits, AND PHOTOS! C’mon. How hard would it be for you to take a selfie with your iPhone and text a note to me??? Send it to my cell phone at 610-945-5937. Ken O’Brien has been found! He’s living in Southbridge, MA. He was a town councilor there and was a Massachusetts state rep. He has a blog—The O’Zone—which you can see at http://ozonesouthbridge.blogspot.com. Peter and Mary Fohlin report that they are retiring and moving to Martha’s Vineyard full-time. I assume they will be throwing big parties for us all, right, Peter? Bill Williams says he’s doubled his grandson count. Young Felix Schroder Williams T’39 was born in Chicago on February 5 to son Ben and his wife Keri. Mike O’Brien, Dan Goessling, Charlie Plimpton, Tate Preston, Page West, Lisa Roberts, Lindsay Welton McSweeney, MaryLou M. Whalen [McKenna], Carl Treleaven, and I have been indulging in a round-robin group of texts and emails reminiscing about the bands we loved when we were in high school and our first rock concerts. I’m afraid I predate them all, and my heartthrob was Elvis Presley. Are we all coming to Reunion??!

Jon Hayes wrote, “Actually, I’m not retired— I’m working full-time for my wife. And there are no days off! Other than that we do a lot of travel. Most memorable was three years ago. My wife was doing a language immersion course in Germany and, to join her, I flew to Vladivostok and went from there to Munich, all by train. For the first leg, from Vladivostok to Irkutsk, I was the only non-Russian on the train. Going from Moscow to Berlin, in transiting through Belarus, it turned out I didn’t have the proper visa papers and was arrested. Fortunately not as serious as it sounds, but still a bit of an adventure. Most recent travel was to Namibia and we’re planning a trip to Easter Island. I do manage to sneak out to the rifle range to shoot a flintlock musket. And the club’s annual machine gun shoot enabled me to channel my inner Al Capone by shooting a real ‘Chicago Typewriter!’ Living in Corvallis, Oregon, my wife’s hometown, doesn’t give much opportunity to see other Tuckies but always like to hear about the old school.” And Brian Ruder and I exchanged a few notes. Here’s what Brian’s up to: “After my 25-year career in big company consumer products and banking, I spent the 2000s doing consulting work, mostly with people who used to work for me and rose to high positions in various enterprises. But my new joy is teaching a second-year MBA seminar at NYU Stern School called Leadership Fellows. I work with 12 high-performing, dean-selected class leaders, honing their skills for their post-MBA ‘warrior years.’ They are impressive, and in the crazy world we live in, it’s great to see fresh, energetic and committed talent entering the ranks of future leaders.” Brian is taken with the intelligence, worldliness, and social responsibility of the students he works with, and we inevitably recalled the caliber of our own group. Here’s Brian’s take, with which I’m sure we would all concur: “I do strongly agree with you and believe that there were many in our time at Tuck who were the whole package

Jack Ryder, Charlie Johnston and Bob Lindberg after a round of golf last fall

of creating value in the world both financially and socially, no doubt about that. In fact, I recall being so impressed at our last reunion with all the rich things our classmates were doing both professionally and in their outside engagements to help others along. As a wise person once told me, ‘First they pay us for what we do, then they pay us for what we know, then they pay us for how we lead, then we pay them back.’ It is a nice circle.” Indeed, it is. Bill Schink is sorta more or less retired, but sounding busy: “We continue to enjoy being down here in Greensboro, NC. Big change for us this year, as we are doing a major downsizing—selling our house on the golf course and moving into a 1921 3BR in Fisher Park, downtown and the oldest section in Greensboro. We’ll be able to walk to restaurants, our church, the baseball park, downtown, and a good friend’s house...will still have to bike or drive to see Paul and Robin Timmins. Still taking on a few consulting projects, but more retired than not. Fortunately we’re all physically healthy and keeping active... taking things a day at a time.” Which is great advice for all of us! Now, given what has gone on in his life, Jon Baer is anything but retired: “After surviving 6 months of chemo I have to report that I am now fine, though I am glad to have been through it at age 61 and not 81. Post cancer therapy included climbing the Great Wall during a business trip to Beijing in August. Good news is that by the time you read this, my book, written with my business partner Michelle Messina, should be finished and shortly in print. Decoding Silicon Valley: The Insider’s Guide highlights how Silicon Valley is organized, its secret sauce, and why it is one of the most powerful and efficient environments for ideas and innovation. Decoding Silicon

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CL ASS NOTES Dana Callow was headed back to Tuck to do a private equity class with Professor Rogalski and is hoping that he doesn’t need to explain any of the professor’s equations. Dana is starting fund #8 this year with Boston Millennia Partners, focusing on mid-stage companies in health care IT and pharmaceutical services. He is also doing pro bono work for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Attaboy.

Jon Baer ascending the Great Wall (not Trump’s but China’s)

Valley is designed to be a helpful and resourcerich guide to the inner workings of the region and is full of stories, anecdotes, and helpful guidance for entrepreneurs around the world. Expected January 2016, e-book and hard copy.” Jon was scheduled to speak at Tuck about the book and the Valley. Check it out: www. DecodingSiliconValley.com. Here’s hoping health and happiness are yours. Please be well and stay in touch.

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

Greetings from your new Tuck ’79 correspondent. I hope I can keep up with Darrell Brown better than I could hiking the Milford Track. Speaking of Darrell (nice segue, eh?), he’s currently headed to Munich with his son Jud and others to explore the Silvretta range on the Swiss/Austrian border. He doesn’t specify hiking or skiing, but either way he’ll be intrepid. Then in September he’s off to hike Tour du Mont Blanc in September with a couple of sisters. His daughter, Anna, is engaged to be married in July 2017. Good luck on family trips, groom-to-be.

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I was perplexed to receive an e-mail from a “James Reynolds” until I noticed that it was signed “Buzz.” Who knew? Buzz is an empty nester and getting ready to move from Summit, NJ, to Morristown, NJ. Way to stretch out of your comfort zone, Buzz. His youngest daughter is now at Wake Forest, and his eldest son presented Buzz and Kim with a beautiful granddaughter in Nov. 2014. Buzz has left Siemens and is now working at Hamon Research-Cottrell (industrial air pollution control) and is wondering how a government major with an MBA is running an engineering company. A valid question. He still sails every summer and retells tired stories of Tuck days, as we all do. He informs me that Shan (sisterin-law) and Caleb T’80 Burchenal are doing well, but I’ll wait to hear from Shan herself. John Taylor has left National Venture Capital Association in D.C. after a run of nearly 20 years and has been traveling in the U.S. and Europe with wife Nanci. (It’s true, I’ve seen some of the pictures on Facebook.) He has been at Tuck twice in the past few months: to attend the Tuck Annual Giving conference and to be a panel member at their private equity conference. He continues to proudly serve on the board of advisers for Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. Joan and John de Regt’s son, Brian, received the 2015 Fan’s Choice Junior Coach of the Year award from USRowing. He coached his junior eight team to gold at the very competitive USRowing Youth National Championships in Sarasota, FL, June 2015. They were feted on Nov. 19th at the Golden Oars Awards Dinner at the New York Athletic Club. Congratulations to Brian and his proud parents. Walt Freese, formerly a top executive with Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm, and Celestial Seasonings, is the new president and chief executive of the Sterling-Rice Group. SterlingRice is a Boulder-based advertising firm, specializing in consumer insights, business

strategy, innovation, advertising, and design. Unlike Ben & Jerry’s, however, they will have nothing exciting to contribute to our goodie bags at the next reunion. Ben Butcher was the executive in residence at Tuck on October 14, 2015. Unsubstantiated rumors are that he booted out some unsuspecting first-floor residents of Woodbury for his accommodations. Ben is currently president and chairman of STAG Industrial and serves on the board of trustees of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust. Brooks Cutright lives in Mount Gretna, PA, retired in June 2015, but came right back to found P.B. Cutright, LLC in October. He is assisting small-to-medium size companies taking on large projects such as ERP implementations. (As a former partner in an ERP software business, I know how difficult those projects can be.) His wife Ann (Dartmouth ’76) continues to work full time. His son, Brooks Jr., just moved from Deutsche Bank to Merrill Lynch as director, Risk PT. Brooks Jr. and his wife, Nahema Mehta, both have MBAs from Columbia and are enjoying their life in Tribeca, NYC. Brooks’s daughter, Molly, is in her first year of residency as an ER physician at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Mark Olbert made his first contribution to class notes. Welcome back, Mark! Mark and his family currently reside in San Carlos, CA (30 miles south of San Francisco). He retired from the biotech world in 1999 after serving as CFO for a startup. He served a couple of terms on his city’s elementary school board before being elected to the city council. He was elected to his second term in 2016. A motorcycle accident in May knocked out a planned trip to Europe, but he was all patched up at Stanford. (My uncle was a surgeon and once claimed that motorcycle riders put all of his 10 children through college.) Clark Johnson runs a data business that allows him to work remotely from Florida and Massachusetts as the seasons change. His second granddaughter was born in March... congratulations! Every week in Florida he plays bass at a waterfront fish house in Florida (no location stated, so Kip Cleaver and I will need to do some investigating to crash that party). He claims to have resisted taking up golf, a decision with which I concur.

Andy Steele and Annabelle just returned from the first Tuck alumni trip organized by Dartmouth Alumni Travel. Thirty alumni and friends traveled to Cuba, and it was reported that Cathy Stephenson was with the group, her second trip to Cuba in the past year. Cathy reports that she is working a “flexible” schedule at Cushman & Wakefield to allow her to take these trips. One site visited was the Ernest Hemingway home outside of Havana.

Detroit, Wayne disappeared mid-afternoon to catch up with the alums of the old nursing school. It was news to me, but not a surprise, that he had married one of the nurses, then sad to hear that he had lost her some time ago to an accident. I remember during Tuck that Wayne volunteered at the hospital helping weigh patients in the cardiac care unit. Sherry Kernan came the furthest west, traveling from London, and Susan Bogert the furthest east, coming from Seattle. Jamie and Jack Rubin seemed to have had the most fun.

The Bowden clan!

’80 Rick Kilbride kilbride@optonline.net

Annabelle and Andy Steele in Cuba

I am currently writing this from our winter home in Sarasota, Florida. My wife, Dianne, and I are retired, although I still do a bit of consulting for my old software company. The remainder of the year is spent in Indianapolis, IN. Our oldest son, Craig, completed his MBA at Maryland and is currently employed at HighBank Advisors in Baltimore, Maryland. He lives there with his wife, Eleni, and our two beautiful grandchildren, William and Noelle. Our second son is a CPA and works for Pepsi in Chicago. He spends most of his free time attending weddings and bachelor parties. Our daughter, Emily, is selling solar energy contracts in Southern California. I continue to enjoy long bike rides (a fifty miler in September punctuated and punctured by a dog bite resulting in a series of rabies shots—fun) and golf, where I continue to demonstrate flashes of adequacy.

Charlie Kreter reports that “half” the class made it to the reunion in October 2015. As the publishing schedule for these notes goes, that weekend is no longer recent, but it had some fun information about our class to share. There is a photo of us all on the Tuck Hall steps that can be found in “mytuck” [http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu]. We admit to capturing two honorary classmates in that photo: Dick Bower and Roger Muller. Our own favorite “Dancing Bear” was warm, engaging, and lightly protested being lured into our photo. It was fun to watch our classmates share memories of times and places with him. Dick was all smiles, modest but taken by the appreciation shown. Roger may have let something like “favorite class” slip out of his mouth. He was surrounded by a scrum of well-wishers. Find him at stayfocused.org, a great endeavor Roger leads. I thought the guy most pinching himself for having too much amusement was Peter Reed. After what we expect he probably had to deal with during a long run at a turbulent global bank, Peter is now a branch manager at a small bank in Vermont. I thought he and Karen sported contagious “we can’t believe how lucky we are” smiles. The “wow look who’s here” award went to Wayne Chadwick. Driving to Tuck from

But there were smiles all around. Certainly there was a sense of the many successes achieved in intervening years. But there were no soapboxes, and underlying the camaraderie was an implicit understanding of the disappointments, downsizings, divorces, and deaths. None of any of that had been anybody’s strategy. What I saw was a remarkable resiliency, a sharing of good fortune and appreciation of each other, for what we had, and that we were there. Many of us went to a talk by new dean Matt Slaughter and came away very impressed with his intellect and his view of the goals and challenges for Tuck. The dinner at the DOC House seemed to be under the skilled organization of Katie Dolan, and Peter gave a fun address that honored almost everybody in the room and then some. In a salute to Brian Quinn, they passed out blue books and gave us an unscheduled exam. Peter’s questions were about the accolades and achievement of our classmates, things that nobody was self-promoting but he had somehow figured out. Who knew that Paul Parsons had a Boston radio show, or all the boards that Karen Beckvar serves on? Peter even found “ratemyprofessor.com” quotes that were praises to Professors Laurie Branch and Greg Winfield. Later, Errol Glasser gave a wonderful tribute, surprising us with the news that Ned Brooks had donated a kidney. Ned followed up with enlightening comments about the status of organ donorship and his self less motivations to participate. Check that out at donortodonor.com.

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CL ASS NOTES ’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

35TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Greetings to all. Okay, first things first: GO TO THE REUNION! October 7, 8, and 9. Info is here, or at least it was when I wrote this: http:// bit.ly/1XMPV5A. Reconnect with classmates you haven’t seen for years, steal Tuck logo pens, bore current students with stories about how we had to kill our own food! Sit in on a class and find out that, decades later, still nobody understands what a deferred tax liability is! Marvel that the dorms now have indoor plumbing! At least half of the 1981 class notes editorial team will be there, autographing copies of Tuck Today. (Now don’t go selling those on eBay!) We didn’t get a lot of input this time around so we are going to fall back on the dreaded Last Resort: Mercer is going to talk about himself. You have been warned. Time to put the magazine down...back slowly away from it. But first, from more interesting folks: Leigh and Susan Cruess updated us about their family, both 2- and 4-legged. As for the bipeds, offspring Jim (29) is an Ontario Assistant Crown Prosecutor, living in Toronto with his girlfriend, Kate, an attorney. “She is a most welcome addition to the family: we’ve long needed someone who could tell Jim when he’s wrong.” Wow, thank goodness that does not apply in my household! (I promise, dear readers, that if I am ever wrong, I will tell you. Oh by the way, Browns in the Super Bowl, 2017!) Andrew (26) is earning his BS in IT, which we are told is gonna be a growing field: did you know that we often write these class notes on a computer? True! And then we print it out and fax it. Susan (age redacted) continues to split time between the Junior League of Calgary and defending the family homestead

from their aptly named dog, Bandit. She has also been involved in the resuscitation efforts for her alma mater, Sweet Briar College, which nearly closed down this past summer (an event that made national headlines, for those of you not totally wrapped up in Downton Abbey). The alumnae rallied the SB community, and it seems on a solid footing to continue on: good work, SC! Leigh (age also redacted, but not so much) continues as Executive Wage Slave (these Canadians have different terms for everything), aka SVP of energy marketing and international at Enbridge. It has been an action-packed year in the energy business, some good and some bad. On the good side, Enbridge’s business is growing; on the bad side there is “the impact the challenging market is having on so many people we know. Just because we all know energy is cyclical doesn’t mean the down-cycles are any fun.” (I wouldn’t know anything about cyclical business, I stick with automotive.) The Elder Cruesses repeated a pattern I have seen increasingly among our classmates as they age (really redacted): they give us more detail about the pets than about the kids. The quadrupeds are Bandit and Arden, collectively 140 pounds, and apparently they let the humans live in the house only at their whim. Bandit I feel may have a lucrative career in the demolition business, as he recently dismantled a storage shed. Nice to see greater canine participation in the workforce, as we emerge from this recession.... Charles McElyea has indeed retired after four decades with GM (not everyone is in the “gig economy”) and returned with spouse Mary to the U.S.A. after 15 years abroad. Michigan weather, they note, is not like that of Singapore. Indeed. Please mail them blankets. Meanwhile, they visit son A at Tufts School of Medicine, and son B, who is working in a data analytics firm, near D.C. As Chuck writes, “Once I get more settled, I will look to see if there are projects I can work on to keep active and engaged.” Well, Leigh and Susan need a garden storage shed rebuilt.... (Down, Bandit! Sit, Bandit!) Wes Chapman and wife Martha have moved to Nashville, both for the country music and to build a company around “medical oncology care delivery.” (We are not aware of any C&W song using that phrase, but Wes may commission one. Lyrics along the lines of “My lady told me without apology, she wants a feller doin’ oncology...”—okay, that needs work.)

Thus Wes is out there buying medical oncology practices (are there non-medical oncology practices?1) with a large Nashville private equity firm (Flatt & Scruggs Real-Down-Home Private Equity and Chicken Shack), and also doing medical quality systems consulting. (“Ya see, doc, with this here Sharpie you write right on the patient a big arrow pointing to the correct kidney to take out....”) All is good except Mr. Chapman has stage fright about lectures he gives at Vanderbilt on oncology care: “I have nightmares of giving a lecture to a bunch of medical students with my fly open.” (For the VCs out there, we suggest someone come up with FlyChek©, an app that addresses this problem. Another Silicon Valley unicorn is born!) When not otherwise occupied, he has been making progress in his quest to climb the highest points in all 50 states but is stuck at 42 (bravo on bagging Denali last year!), though only two of the remainder will be tough (CO and UT): the rest can be driven or day-hiked. No, Wes, climbing the highest point in Florida 8 times will not do it. Okay, you didn’t put down the magazine, did you? Now you’re in for it. On to the Mercers. Glenn is still doing his automotive consulting thing (www.glennmercer.com), and is still trying to not be confused with Glenn Mercer the musician (https://myspace.com/ glennmercer 2). Ida is still performing on the cello, teaching a lot, working on the Cleveland Cello Society, and more. If you want to see her this August, check out the Britt Classical Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon: http://www. brittfest.org/brittorchestra. Music under the stars, unless the woods burn down again this year. Son Nik is working in Manhattan for Amp.Amsterdam (http://amp.amsterdam/), a music agency. I’ll let you figure it out, it is complicated for us old (highly, highly redacted) folks. Turns out you can use music in advertising. Daughter Whitney is an executive at GE (you may have heard of them) Aviation in Cincinnati: contact her for $250 off ANY commercial jet engine they sell. Her twin Natalie owns and runs a fabric, patterns, and all-things-sewing store on historic Charles Street on Beacon Hill in Boston: go there, buy things! (http://mercersfabric.com/) Note, incredibly conveniently, how a “mercer” in British English means “cloth merchant!” Local denizen Mike Esposito says: “Whenever I need a few yards of silk or voile, there is no place else I go!” Youngest son Ian is graduating We do not wish to know about these. MySpace? I mean, really?

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from Carleton College in June, with a degree in PoliSci (because we desperately need more politicians) and Music—he is an ace pianist. We got three quadrupeds, one of which is a cat. We had a fish in our garden pond but a heron ate it. Really. While still not fully adjusted to life in Ohio (we gotta unpack those last moving boxes from 1982 someday), we find that it is not all soybeans and corn...sometimes it is corn and soybeans. Can’t wait for the Republican Convention here in Cleveland this summer: we hope to sell them beads and wampum.3 They are sure selling us something.... So there you have it: this is what happens when you don’t write in! Next time we are upping the Threat Level: if you don’t write in, Mercer is going to start talking about his collection of hotel room keycards. And he has a lot of them. Think of this column as a reverse NPR telethon: write in with news or we will continue. See you at Reunion! We got a lot of tote bags just rarin’ to go! Take care, and may you and yours (2and 4-legged) be well. 3

No, we do not know what “wampum” is.

’82 Andy Rieth andy.rieth@hill-rom.com

’83 Christine Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Douglas Ross doug@ragnoassociates.com

Dear classmates, Peter Clay shared that a startup he had been working on for three years recently went live. Per Peter, “The team is all ex-Gillette friends and we are having a blast. This has the potential to be pretty disruptive. Here is the link: forceofnatureclean.com.” Peter spends the

Pete and Diane Kirven’s daughter’s wedding

rest of his time angel investing, which he also finds interesting. Last Halloween, 10/31/15, Diane and Pete Kirven’s only daughter and oldest child, Kailie, was married in Charleston. Pete wrote that Kailie “...is a graphic artist with Blackbaud, and my new son-in-law, Alex Holt, is a full-time pharmacy student at the Medical University of South Carolina and a part time crackerjack photographer. All the Washington Post pics you have seen of the South Carolina Republican primary were his.” As to the wedding, Pete reported, “It was a wonderful event full of joy.” Congratulations to the Kirven family! The headlines this past winter in the Palo Alto newspaper proclaimed that Masters swimmer Jim Levison exceeded his 2015 New Year’s resolution to swim one million meters. WOW!! Here is the rest of the story: “After swimming more than one million yards in 2014, Jim vowed to swim one million meters in 2015. One million meters is 622 miles, but Jim overshot his target and tallied 681 miles, almost 1.1 million meters. Given out-of-town travel demands, Jim was only able to swim for nine months last year. Resting two days each week, he had to average almost 3.5 miles on each of the other five days every swimming week of the year.” The article included a picture of Jim in his swimwear, but sadly the resolution wasn’t high enough to make the cut for Tuck Today. Jim continues to reside in Redwood City, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. When not swimming, Jim is a career CFO for startup companies and raises and shows Bernese mountain dogs. After teaching for two months in the WebsterUESTC (University of Electronic Science and Technology China) joint MBA program in Chengdu, China, Jane and Tom Binnings spent Christmas with Naoko and Minoru Tada

Christmas Eve sukiyaki dinner: left to right, Miki, Taka, Tom, Minoru

in Tokyo. Tom reports he had been trying to travel to Tokyo to visit our fellow Japanese Tuckies for years and the return trip from China was the perfect time. As Tom reported, “Minoru and Naoko were gracious hosts along with Miki Hirai and Taka Suneya, who joined us for a day of touring Tokyo and a dinner of sukiyaki on Christmas Eve. “Minoru is settled into active retirement serving on an audit committee while trying to keep up with Naoko and their grandchildren. Miki is still active with real estate investing, and Taka is running the family’s high-tech chip polishing company. The trip was filled with wonderful tours around Tokyo, including a visit to the fish market.” There was also adventure, as Jane got to experience the Japanese health care system firsthand, which Tom says is far more efficient and affordable than anything in America. He strongly encourages a Japan stopover for any Tuckies traveling in Asia. Thank you to those who sent in updates. Best wishes for a wonderful summer and fall. — Chris and Doug

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

Thankfully several classmates responded to my plea for news this spring—thank you! John Voltmer and his wife, Carole, split time between Dallas, Amelia Island, and Tallinn, Estonia. John’s consulting has included planning for U.S. Navy combat aviator training,

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CL ASS NOTES work on the Boeing 787, and work with various aircraft and surveillance drone manufacturers. He is active in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and goes on patrols regularly, sometimes escorting “boomers” to and from the Brunswick, GA, submarine base. Carole has retired from her civilian Department of Defense position (they juggled three residences when they lived in nearby Fairfax) and completed her master gardener training in Florida. She is turning their Florida house into a showplace—can Dallas be far behind? There’s a piano bar on the island, and John sits in for a set whenever he’s in town. Both John and Carole have obtained master bridge player status and play competitively when they’re not on the beach. Chever (oldest daughter) is deputy chief of mission (read: COO) at the U.S. embassy in Tallinn. She has a master’s degree from the U.S. Army War College. Sabra (middle daughter) has her MBA and is the executive vice president for a network of health care clinics in San Diego. She also manages grandson Nick’s baseball activities (he’s looking at colleges already!) Alicia (youngest) is partner in a law firm in Dallas and is the local Fox News channel’s “go-to gal” for on-camera interviews related to employment law. John and Carole will be in Estonia in April, where John will provide his specifications for a custommade piano. They are planning side trips to Latvia, Finland, and Sweden while in the neighborhood. It was great to hear from Rob and Kim Arnold. Per Rob, “Once IMS was bought by TPG, I was faced with the typical PE dilemma—get out now or wait five years. So I got out, and with an empty nest and grim European economic prospects, Kim and I decided to have an adventure. We moved to Singapore in 2012, where I started a consulting firm with a friend. Then an opportunity came up in software targeted at fast-moving fashion, so I am now also chairing a start-up at my advanced age! Guess we’ll call it experience. This may take me on trips to the U.S., especially to the West Coast, so I look forward to connecting with classmates, especially if they know anything about fashion. Singapore is a great place to live, and there are many wonderful places to visit in easy range. Kim is on the board of a land trust near our summer house in Grand Lake Stream, Maine. This keeps her fairly busy as she is responsible for finance, and there are lots of complex features like carbon credit trading. Both Joyce and Paulina went to Yale and have decided to take the legal path, Joyce in the U.K.

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as a barrister in a commercial law chambers via London, and Paulina in the U.S., focusing on public law at Harvard Law.” Meanwhile, Stuart Cornew writes, “I am the luckiest Tuckie alive! I am still married to the same foxy lady. Our two sons are nice guys and doing things that they are passionate about. Last year Daniel sold his high-altitude solar drone company to Google. Michael is in charge of youth sailing at the Chicago Yacht Club; this has got to be one of the top five jobs on the planet. He gets paid good money, has tons of responsibility between the boats, coaches, and kids—but what job do any of us know that relocates to nice weather? During the winter the whole operation is transplanted to Florida until the weather gets nice in Chicago. Barb is the district director for a congressman and killing it.

“Of course flying has always been a part of my core but it’s over now. I am clearly insane because I expected a different outcome when I bought a new identical airplane after my accident in 2001 (it had an inflight fire). Stemme #2 was shot down by a duck that took out the engine. I managed to get the airplane down but broke my neck, ribs, and ankle. When you do this stuff, you do it with an Irishman: my passenger was unscathed and only got poison ivy as he walked out of the field. My oncologist wagged her finger at me and reminded me that multiple myeloma weakens the skeleton. That explains why I am three inches shorter than I was at Tuck—and why I got shattered in the accident. There is a large flock of angels dancing in my cockpit. A marital grounding has been imposed, and I am reduced to airplane porn. Geezerhood is sneaking up on me and naps are a must, especially on heavy chemo days, but I can still get two feet on the deck most mornings and find some trouble.” Wow!

Stuart Cornew and family

“Then there is this little disease that I have, multiple myeloma. I am now the long-term survivor of my diagnostic class: it has 14 years, and my original prognosis was 29 months. The boys attribute it to cockroach DNA, but it really takes a team of friends, family, and doctors. There is no question that I am the pharmaceutical industry’s poster child for “chronic disease,” as my daily drug bill is about $1K. Professor Bower could give a nice lecture about the rational behavior of drug companies not wanting to cure patients. I am blessed to be involved in a series of very exciting life sciences companies that my best friend and I have curated at an institute we cofounded at Northwestern: Chemistry of Life Processes. Oncofertility was our first hit, and there is more coming. My data mining business is turning into the go-to approach to find the 50 million credits invisible in this country, and I have partnered with TransUnion.

Stuart Cornew plane crash #1

Stuart Cornew plane crash #2

Chris Kelley sent a brief note saying he is back buying major-size investment firms and hedge firms with sizable financial sponsors and says there are many opportunities in the U.S. and Europe. I attended the Tuck Volunteer Conference in Hanover last November. It was fun to learn about the amazing opportunities for the current Tuck classes, especially the global work/travel initiatives. I enjoyed catching up with Sabina Wu, who was representing the Tuck Club of New York. My delusions about not aging were pretty much shattered by the majority of the Tuck alumni attendees who are much younger than us!

Janet Rhodes Friedman and Sabina Wu

Finally, I am posting sad news from Kiyoshi Goto: “With deep sorrow, I regret to inform you that Hyozo (Mac) Watanabe passed away after his fight with pancreatic cancer. In October, Hiroshi Izawa and I were told that Mac had terminal cancer. Mac told us via email that he would fight. It’s too sad for words. His memorial service and funeral ceremony were held in Tokyo, Japan, in late January.” Mac will be missed dearly by all of us. Finally, please join the Tuck MBA Class of 1984 Facebook page—we currently have 24 members and would love to add more. You can update the page with your news and photos. Until next time....

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

T’85s in Panama Just a few months after our reunion and everyone must have been all talked out—we did not get much in the way of news. We had a great turnout and wonderful weather, and I completely enjoyed catching up with so many. One of the highlights was getting Andy Steele to pose for his first-ever “selfie”! [Look on the 1985 class notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu to see it!] But there have been a few other mini-reunions since October. Just after Reunion, Salil Tripathi visited with a handful of classmates. He started in NYC and saw Tom Christie (without his Trump paraphernalia) and Patrick Durkin (a no-show at Reunion, so the podium at dinner was empty). Then to Dallas, where Carol Sherwood Pettee hosted him for dinner, with me there as well. Carol was recovering from a bit of brain surgery and yet managed to rally and laugh all night. Salil was in Dallas to share his expertise on human rights at a business conference. Next stop for Salil was Oslo, Norway, and Tore Rynning-Nielsen. Eduardo Navarro hosted several friends in Panama. Kevin Holian shared: “Several of us made to visit Madeleine and Eduardo Navarro in Panama. In late January, Ann Beach and Pete McManus, Leslie and Andy Audet, Tracy and Steve Eskenazi, and Sue O’Leary and Kevin Holian all met in Panama for a fantastic four-day mini-vacation and mini-reunion. In addition, Pedro Vallenilla’s wife, Maria Dolores, came up from Caracas, Venezuela, to join the fun. And what fun we had. In addition to our daily re-enactments of ‘Tuck ’Tails, Panama-Style,’ we spent most of the time on or near the water, with plenty of boating, swimming, scuba diving, and jet skiing. No question that the old saying of ‘the mind is willing, but the body is weak’ was on full display! We all had a great time and can’t express our thanks enough to Eduardo and Madeleine for hosting everyone in their beautiful home and country.”

Kwame Asare posted on our Facebook “Tuck85” page that “within 24 hours, I had the pleasant opportunity to host two of my Tuck ’85 classmates in Accra, Ghana. What a coincidence! “First was Karin Holm, who I met on Thursday (March 24, 2016). Had not seen Karin since ’85 but quickly re-connected over painful discussions over learning to use the HP-12C and Decision Analysis. She was on a business trip and used Facebook to locate me while on ground. We had a blast. On March 25, 2016, I met my buddy Bob Evans and family at the airport. Bob will be in Accra for 5 days visiting an elementary school that he has been supporting over the years. Bob will also do a full story for Tuck Today class notes later [note: he hasn’t]. My question is who next? Jack Williams, Mark Davis, Grant Davis, Laura Brown [Fitzgibbons], Lisa Bush Hankin, Rick Speer, David Brown, George Alex, Andy Audet, Peter McManus, Eduardo, Steve Ezkenazi, Nori Kato and all—you are all invited.  I feel lucky and happy that I was able to reconnect with my Tuck ’85 gang in my own backyard.”

Kwame Asare with Bob Evans in Ghana

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CL ASS NOTES have been coordinating at the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), on vaccine safety in the developing world. Based in Geneva since 1998, my husband, son, and I became Swiss citizens a few years ago.”

Kwame Asare with Karin Holm in Ghana

Karin Holm sent in her own version of that trip and updates: “It was a thrill to be able to meet up with Kwame when I was in Ghana for a work meeting in March. After a career in finance and investments in the U.S. and Africa, Kwame is currently managing director of Ghana Airports Company Limited, to which he was appointed by invitation three years ago by the president of Ghana, John Mahama. Kwame is responsible for the planning, developing, managing and maintaining all airports and aerodromes in Ghana, namely Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and the regional airports of Kumasi, Tamale, and Sunyani, as well as various airstrips. He has brought all his Tuck skills and knowledge to bear in implementing a major capital expenditure program to expand airport facilities and negotiate new air routes, with the objective of becoming the preferred flight hub in West Africa. With typical Ghanaian hospitality, Kwame took time out of his busy schedule to take me to lunch on one of his planes and let me see his beautiful home! I also got to see behind the scenes at GACL how Kwame was proactively enhancing security procedures with commissioning sniffer dogs at Kotoka just days after the Brussels Airport attack. Earlier in the week, I visited the Kakum National Park and followed a guided tour along a 30-meter-high canopy walk in the Ghanaian rainforest! It was amazing! I can highly recommend Ghana as a tourist and business destination—just please give Kwame further notice ahead of time than I did—and I know he will welcome you and recommend to you a wonderful experience of his country. Also must-sees are the historical Cape Coast area and the Osu business and dining district in Accra! “I was in Accra for a meeting hosted by the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority, a member of the multistakeholder working group I

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In January, Mary Yamahiro Hutchison hosted several of us in Sonoma, California, at the house she and Hutch used to own (and now get to borrow). Mary is busy dealing with three teenagers (can’t share any more details on that!). Lisa Bush Hankin and her husband Steve moved to LA last year; she rather colorfully described why she enjoys not working just now and loves riding her horses and the sunshine. Judy Holmes told us all about her custom-built mobile home (OK, maybe more of an RV) in which she and husband Jim Progin T’62 travel the country. Di Daych is working hard as a partner at Apple Tree Partners in NYC, commuting from Madison, CT, weekly—though the view from her Park Avenue office mitigates spending so many nights in a hotel (note: that’s only my opinion, after being in her office). And Carol Sherwood Pettee arrived all banged up, black eye and all, from a fall she had taken just two days before. She looked just bad enough to garner us some better, VIP attention at our first winery. The copious amount of wine made the rest of us feel less guilty about Carol’s predicament!

Spence Fitzgibbons with the World Series trophy

assignment, I asked Spence to help me. At one point, in a panic, I gave him one of my cameras (he had never used one, ever), quickly told him which button to press, and off he went. Turns out he’s a rock star with a camera! A photo of him holding “The Trophy” is now enlarged and matted and proudly hanging in our living room!

’86 Tony Ehinger tonyehinger@gmail.com

Julia Rabkin juliamrabkin@gmail.com

30TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016 T’85s in Sonoma

And a final note is a huge shout-out to Spence Fitzgibbons. Shortly after our reunion, the Kansas City Royals won the World Series (sorry, New York Mets fans). The KC Sports Commission asked me to photograph the citywide celebration parade a few days later. Unable to get any of my photographer friends to help on the daylong, equipment-laden

Jack Callahan and Bill Fallon, our fundraising dynamic duo, kick off this summer note with a 30th Reunion Tuck Annual Giving reminder that our campaign “goal this year is 70+% participation and $400,000, and this memorable reunion is a great time to consider a gift to help us achieve this goal. Bill and I deeply appreciate the terrific support already received, but additional participation is needed

to take us over the top. You can give online at www.givetotuck.org or visit the ways-togive link on that same page for other ways to contribute. Thank you for your consideration, and Bill and I look forward to our reunion next October.” Jack went on to report, “April and I have now lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, for the last five years. We are adjusting to our children moving on to college—our son Ryan is a freshman at Notre Dame (which has really upgraded our fall football schedule) and Kate is a senior at New Canaan H.S. about to make her decision in the next week or two. Our youngest daughter, Carey, is a sophomore in high school, which still gives us the opportunity to go to volleyball and track & field matches. Work at McGraw Hill Financial remains quite dynamic as we are about to change the name of the company yet again to S&P Global.” Andy Graham checked in, writing, “My wife Jeneen (D’96) and I have lived in Orange County, CA, for the past 15 years. We’re blessed with two sons who are 9th and 6th graders. My wife is the academic dean at their school. I’d like to think my relatively young family also keeps me young, but that hasn’t stopped my hair from turning grey. For about the last 10 years, I’ve been working ‘without a net’ as an unfunded private equity investor and board member. I’ve had some investment success in the health care sector, and I’m currently working with two medical device companies and one health care services company. If I’ve learned anything over the past 25 years, it’s the importance of my investment partner(s), and I’m pleased to say that I feel great about my current partners.” Lisa DiMasi Howe has been involved with Community Consulting Teams of Boston for the past seven years. CCT provides pro bono management consulting services to nonprofits in the Greater Boston area. “CCT has given me a meaningful way to give back to the community while also engaging with fellow MBA alumni. Although CCT is not exclusively Tuck alumni, we constitute a large part of the volunteer pool and board, so it’s been fun connecting with Tuck alums across the generational divide.” To satisfy a latent entrepreneurial spirit, Lisa recently launched “LDH-Interiordesign, LLC”...website to follow soon! Last year Dave joined LogicSource, a sourcing and procurement services firm based in South Norwalk, Connecticut, as chief

client officer. “Our three children are all out of the nest—Christiana (25) is in operations management at EMC, Francesca (23) is in sales at athenahealth, and David (20) is a sophomore at Cornell.” To fill the void at home, Lisa has been providing fostering services for Beagles of New England States (B.O.N.E.S.). Aroo! We heard from Pete Clinton, who has recently returned to the United States after spending nearly 30 years overseas in Honolulu, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Paris. Pete is now working for J.P. Morgan Securities in San Francisco, providing wealth management services to ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Pete’s two boys are out in the working world, living in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, and Pete’s wife Christy is a producer of animated children’s television shows. Anyone visiting the Bay Area should look up the Clintons, as they are eager to reconnect with classmates now that they are back in the U.S. We received a nice note from Sheldon Crosby, who claims “not much happens in Hartford. There are a few of us still lingering here, but that’s mostly by accident. I see Tom Sargent regularly and had a fun dinner with Tom and his wife Sarael the other night. Coincidently, Amy de Rham came through town the same day and we caught up with her as well. Doug Russell seems to have found the big bucks in Boston and left last year about this time. I see Jeff Sawyer about every 5 years on a sports field somewhere (Julia—that’s like an outdoor stage, but with grass). I nearly forgot! The Zman (translated Dave Znamierowski) came by last summer for a night. Dave and his wife Kim are doing well and they live in Maine in a new house close to Brunswick. I spend most of my time designing restaurants and country clubs, playing squash and refereeing lacrosse—not much has changed in 30 years!” Jerry Bird and his wife Grace recently moved from Andover, Massachusetts, to the South End of Boston. The Birds are empty nesters, as their three kids have flown the coop. Jerry’s youngest continues the Dartmouth tradition as a sophomore, while his other two children have joined the working world. Jerry is president of MassVentures, a state-funded VC organization that invests locally in first time CEOs and startup enterprises. His VC effort provides funding to companies that traditional venture investors generally find too early or unproven to back. MassVentures bridges the gap between too-risky versus ready-for-VC-prime-time

in an effort to spur Massachusetts-based businesses while at the same time earning an appropriate return. The fund has been very successful, essentially self funding itself through the gains on their investments in fields such as robotics, health care, and green-tech. Jerry encounters Ned Goss on the startup circuit, and the entire Bird family remain avid skiers. Lee Geiger reported, “In October Anne and I hosted a mini-reunion of Sachem Village Tuckies in Napa Valley (St. Helena to be exact) for Jim and Mary Ellen Weber, Mike and Peggy Cleary, Greg and Beth McCrickard, John and Pam Chandler, and Doug Russell and his new wife Janet Herlihy (Doug and Janet got married in January). We ate too much good food, drank too much good wine, laughed and cried, and created memories that will last a lifetime. It was an unforgettable four days. “On our last night, we hired a private chef to prepare dinner at our rental home, and we were joined by Heather (Little) King and her husband Wade. Most of us had not seen her since graduation. Heather looks fantastic and is in good spirits. She lives in Sausalito, has two grown children, and is a director at a company called Eight Inc. (www.eightinc.com). I’ve included a link to my blog post about our reunion, called ‘Ten Questions.’ I hope you enjoy it: http://leegeiger.com/ten-questions/. “As far as job updates, the only change is with Mike Cleary, who in August left Citizens Bank and joined Santander Bank in Boston. My understanding is Santander Bank is in the midst of a major turnaround. Mike’s LinkedIn profile has all the details. Our group photo was taken during a Friday morning wine tasting at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. I’m assuming you’ll recognize everyone with the exception of Janet—she is on the far right.”

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CL ASS NOTES Susan Doherty updated us on her West Coast activities, writing, “My husband and I are very well and happily entering our 29th year of marriage. We both retired ages ago but invest in biotech companies, which keeps us humble. Our nonprofit work falls into two categories. The first is animal welfare, which for us includes (1) supporting efforts and organizations that improve conditions for farm animals, and (2) helping to fund and expand free and low-cost spay-neuter operations for companion animals. The second is in the area of American decorative arts. I chaired the program committee of the Greenwich Antiques Society when we lived there, and have run the programs for the American Decorative Arts Forum here in San Francisco for the last 15 years. Our collection of Federal furniture is well-known among those who care about such things, and has been published and much-visited. This led to invitations to lecture on the collection and American neoclassicism in general. Sadly, Goldman has yet to offer me anywhere near $650,000 for my speaking services. Clearly, they don’t know how interesting federal furniture is. “And now for the stuff of interest to Tuck alumni: My husband and I climb often, but not to extreme heights: just in the Marin Headlands, in the Wind River Range, and up a volcano in Bali. And of course we love skiing in Alta. I seldom ride anymore, since we prefer our semi-urban San Francisco life. Too much tennis led to five foot surgeries, but I am now back to hiking and heels when they’re called for. I reintroduced myself to swimming during my recovery periods and now swim four miles a week but w/o getting my hair wet, natch! I love gardening, especially here in SF, where one needn’t worry about Lyme and the deer and woodchucks that sabotage one’s efforts in Greenwich.” San San [Yu-San] Kan sent in a terrific picture of Mark and Ellen Floyd, Michael Lypka, Firman Leung T’85, and herself with her husband Lincoln Leong celebrating Chinese New Year in New York at her sister’s apartment. Mark states that it was a great evening, and he goes on to report, “I have now been at Citi 30 years, including my summer internship. My current team at Citi treated me to some celebratory cake and I got an extra week vacation, but the unfortunate part is that people are now asking me when I am going to retire, which I am not planning soon. Since the banking industry is not a growing sector, all

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the younger bankers are like wolves around the older folks’ offices waiting for them to leave.

T’86 Chinese New Year celebration in New York

“Other big news is that Ellen and I sold our house in Greenwich, Connecticut, of 20 years and we are moving to NYC on the west side. That will give me 2 hours a day more to sleep and enjoy hobbies. I play a lot of tennis, at least twice a week, and a few years ago I started playing the guitar again. I play classical guitar so it’s not the kind of thing you can do every once in a while. I have to play regularly or not at all. So I try to practice every night for at least 30 minutes. We are also planning to buy a small condo in Greenwich to maintain our summer sanity and roots, but we haven’t executed on that part yet, and as of writing, Ellen and I have one more week to move from our 3,300SF house to our 1,300SF apartment. It is a big adventure, both stressful and exciting. BTW, we will be living two blocks away from Mike Lypka, so we are looking forward to enjoying his outdoor patio and grill.” Collette deNevers Chilton penned a quick note saying, “Our news is we love living in Somerville, Massachusetts, after selling our house in 2015. We walk everywhere, take the T to work, and have so few house headaches...it’s awesome. Aside from that, Court is working hard at MIT’s Sloan School teaching in their IT for Non-IT Executives program and traveling to Turkey and London (staying with Ted Sotir and Thea). Our girls are living the dream in SF. Not much other news!” Steve Graham also added a snippet of content, “I am not sure I have any headlines for you that are headline-worthy, but I am still breaking at age 57, and breaking pretty well...the breakers call me Silverback. Silverback: https://vimeo. com/125938777.”

We were sorry to hear of the passing of our classmate Karen Stefancic. Her obituary spoke to the fondness she had for Tuck. “Karen Lynn, 57, passed away on June 11th after a brief and sudden illness.... Karen was a particularly dedicated student at Tuck, determined to master the mathematical challenges the curriculum posed to her liberal arts background whilst maintaining a busy social life in New York. An equally dedicated professional in the years that followed, she remained loyal to the Tuck School, never forgetting the very bridge to her financial career.... Karen will be fondly remembered for her glamorous style and active social life. Hence, whenever a song by Earth, Wind & Fire or Dionne Warwick emerges, one can envision Karen...dancing on the light fantastic toe....” Be well everyone, thank you again for sending in your news, and we’ll see you at the 30th.

’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

This is a bit rare for me [Steve Lubrano], but I am going to start with my own update. My oldest daughter, Georgia, is a junior at Colby, studying English writing and playing both lacrosse and soccer. After a summer at Tuck in the Bridge program, she took a stab at trying to land a job in NYC and secured one with Morgan Stanley PWM. Her younger sister, Sophie, is a freshman at Bowdoin and, like her older sister, walked onto the soccer and lacrosse teams. They’ve established a rivalry on and off the field that will keep them jarring for the rest of their lives. The youngest, Amelia, is a junior at Hanover High and just starting the college search. We plan to hold onto her for as long as we can, though. They say it’s a good thing to be an empty nester—I’m not convinced yet. Manton Copeland is heading to Peru in May for a trek, was away on business for a week, then 10 days on Tortola in February, but has been to the Lyme Inn 3 times in the last 2

weeks testing their new beer selection that is homebrewed in the manager’s garage. Danny Freihofer joined him for a beer one night. Dan’s daughter, Sarah, is getting married to her Dartmouth beau next summer. Manton’s Sarah will be her maid of honor. I am told that all T’87 Sarahs are invited to the wedding and will drink for free. Anybody named Yoshi has to pay double. Speaking of Yoshis. Yoshi’s daughter is finishing up her first year at Tuck and showing all the signs of being among the most dedicated, respectable, and responsible students in her class. Sometimes admissions just gets it right. She’s nabbed an internship at VMware in Palo Alto for her Tuck summer internship. Speaking of admissions getting it right. Make sure to let me know if your sons and daughters are looking at Tuck. Our team is always on the lookout for the next generation of awesome Tuckies, and I would love to be a resource as they enter the process. Speaking of mistakes. Boy did I ever make a doozy when I told Doug Heidt to stop by the pub when I was away. Doug was up to watch his son Billy play in Dartmouth’s first home lacrosse game of the season, and Doug called and asked if he could shower up at the house and maybe have a Guinness out at the pub in the barn. It makes me sad that I’ll now have to buy another keg before our reunion (don’t drink as much as I used to, during the week). Speaking of Guinness (I mean geniuses). Keith and Leeny Oberg were wrapping up their winter construction on their West Tisbury home when fire broke out as the guys were doing insulation work. Fire is a big event on the Vineyard, especially when there isn’t any water around—I know, kind of funny concept for an island. The brave work of the fire brigade volunteers took care of business over the ensuing 4 hours but what a mess. Keith wanted to ask Bitt and Chansoo if they could pitch a tent on the lawn of the Nantucket pad, but Leeny would have nothing of it. Will just have to stay at the Marriott, I figure. Speaking of Obergs. The Lubrano and Oberg families spent Christmas on some island down south. Leeny and Steve sat back and consumed little cocktails in little glasses with little umbrellas while Allegra and Keith negotiated every activity and payment and provided us with a full accounting for approval. Yup—some

people are simply bred for management. Do you recall who was voted most likely to be the BEST manager in our class? That’s right— Dave Logozzo. I caught up with Dave while dialing for dollars for TAG. The guy is kicking it. We’re in the process of swapping out desks in the Ankeny and Barclay classrooms, and I came across Dave’s signature underneath the seat in the second row. Really—a common vandal! And speaking of vandals. I took a little drive up memory lane to Bill Kitchel’s sugar shack— you recall, the one up in the hills of Vermont. The place is still erect and ready for action... just like Bill, who is doing exceptionally well managing his fund.

And speaking of new jobs, let’s talk about old jobs. Tom and Marda Collett had a terrific two weeks on the El Camino trail last October, starting in St Jean in France. It’s a highly recommended trip for those of you who like hiking, wine, and great food. Tom writes, “I did it the easy way, staying in small hotels and having a service take my luggage. I definitely want to return one day to complete the last section ending up in Santiago. Marda and I are now getting ready for a couple of weeks in Florence and Tuscany.” That’s what life after SAP looks like.

But maybe not as good as Sarah Ketterer, who is getting more air time in Barron’s than Randall W. Forsyth. I mean you can’t swing a cat in a room full of investors reading the financial pages and not see her smiling at you with that same “I-know-the-answer” look she had at Tuck. I had Georgia (Morgan Stanley) read up on Sarah. She put the paper down and said, “I want to be her.” “Georgia,” I said. “Hold on. You’ve really not gotten to know Jennifer Uhrig well enough yet.” And speaking of smart and pretty. Chris Gagnon is engaged. Speaking of engaged. Those lovebirds who met at Tuck, John and Susie (T’86) Meaney welcomed Jed and Jana Simmons and his boys to a visit at Lake Tahoe. John and Jed had both brought their supply of PROBARs for ski slope snacks—a shout-out to Jeff Coleman, who is the PROBAR founder and CEO. Susie writes, “It was great to see Jed, and his kids are great. John and I are empty nesters now living in the Bay Area and spending as much time as we can in Tahoe, so come visit.” The takeaway from Susie: Jana is awesome, but we all knew that already. Jed is teaching entrepreneurship at Chapel Hill. That news is just awesome. I’m told he’s the Indiana Jones of campus. Speaking of awesomeness. Rick Yu sent me a picture from a NYC luncheon. Saulnier, Grover, Alain, Landsberg, Chas, Ava, and Rick. There is a picture in the 1987 pages on myTUCK depicting three of our classmates— all three were recruited to join the same NYC firm in 1987 and managed to hold on for ½ year before things got tough. Who can name the firm that hired them?

Tom Collett

Speaking of staying in small hotels. A couple of Tuck kids are looking for a venue in Newport, RI, to tie the knot. I told them of this great house adjacent to the NY Yacht Club’s Newport outpost. I figured Santry would not mind the extra revenue. The access code is 666. Speaking of fancy neighborhoods. Charlie Hagedorn is still the JUNK King of New England. I’ve friended Lenny Jardine on Facebook—best source of entertainment a guy my age can ask for without suffering a coronary. When I enter “1987” and “Tuck” into Facebook I actually get a number of hits. They have nothing to do with our class, but it kept me cleanly occupied for an hour or so.

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CL ASS NOTES know Cone’s dad just finally stopped riding motorcycles and flying airplanes. He’s only like 89 years old. That’s true (kind of) by the way. Cone’s O’Leary funds are hot. Check it out.

Charlie Hagedorn

Speaking of rising heartbeats. CJ and Bitt have been riding bikes out in Teton Village, Wyoming, and that’s got to get the old boy huffing and puffing trying to keep up with Bitt—who still has a twinkle in her eye and looks genuinely happy to see you when we run into each other in Hanover. The population of Hanover has increased significantly with the infusion of their offspring, but the town is better off for it, and now that the police blotter has moved online, the chances of public humiliation is greatly reduced. It’s April (at the time of this writing), and we’re experiencing our largest snowstorm of the season—maybe four inches here in the hills of Hanover. I know, miserable season for skiing back east. It’s coming a few days before Admitted Students Weekend and with our luck will start to melt just as the kids arrive and start the comparison against Stanford, UVA, and points south. Next time you are in the gym and everybody is looking, try the Tuck-Planche pushup. I’m betting Gagnon can do one...maybe Cone. Speaking of Cone. He dropped by the other day with Lousie Anne and Mikaela and dragged his pop out of his Thetford cabin. We chowed down some feed at the Lyme Inn. Yup, Lyme Inn again. You see, it’s owned by a buddy of mine, so they get all my out-of-the-kitchen dining and drinking. Okay, so maybe that was six months ago, but it’s fresh in my mind as if it were yesterday. (The synapse ain’t working like it used to. I’m holding onto long-term memories and forgetting the recent stuff. That’s okay, right doc?) Mikaela is supposed to be a freshman at Dartmouth next year, but I expect her on some ski podium someplace. And would not be a bit surprised if she took more than one year off. And be careful not to confuse Mikaela O’Brien with the person of a similar name in Iowa City who does not like to be teased. You

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Speaking of being a great athlete. I’m getting this note in before I tee up at Turner Hill country club in May with Mark Clayton, Jon Uhrig, Steve Frary, Rich Coomber, Peter Saulnier, Rick Yu, and Smokey (Bill Weihs) all meeting for a round of golf. This is what I’m predicting.... Uhrig and Saulnier got into a row before the game even started on the format of the challenge and how money was going to change hands. It pissed off Jon so much that he was pulling left all day. Coomber came out steady because he’s been practicing but was outdriven by Clayts on every hole because Clayts has been playing like four or five times a week. Clayts might have gone all the way, but his short game sucks. Smokey was too distracted by Frary’s HONMA GOLF BERES S-02 clubs (starting at $17k) to hit a decent shot, and Steve didn’t want to get the clubs dirty, so every time he hit a trap he had to drop another ball. Lubrano, having been spotted three strokes a hole because he never plays golf, took the match walking away, and the guys had to buy him beer and pizza for the rest of the night. Speaking of pizza. I had a fun exchange with Joanie Hipp. She is (was?) an investor in a cool pizza business idea. Okay, so any investment that involves pizza is a good idea, right? Kind of like all chocolate is good for you. Speaking of all things good for you. Regina Familet wrote in that after fending off offers from guys around the world, including some of our classmates, I’ll suspect, she settled on a young man named Brian Bishop. They eloped in Napa Valley on back in December. Reg writes, “We’re happily juggling our Ocala farm and our home in San Francisco. Besides one of our horses, Willie (grandson of Foolish Pleasure), and my dog Bradley (both pictured someplace in these notes), my new family includes two amazing sons, precious daughters-in-law, two fabulous granddaughters, and a beautiful daughter who is varsity crew at OU and an accomplished equestrian.” Good on you Reg. (Man, I almost lost that little bit of truth in my oversized email inbox.) Anne Doremus and I traded yuks over the phone as we caught up around a student’s search for an investment management job in

Regina Familet and Brian Bishop

Burlington. Anne is a partner at Hanson & Doremus Investment Management Company, and I regularly read her blog at http://www. hansondoremus.com/blog. I went online to buy some wine from Sharon Bargetto’s winery at http://bargetto.com/. It’s great—they’ve got the good stuff ($16/bottle) and stuff that must only be for show, cause who would spend $80 on a bottle of wine? I learned you can create your own label and stick it on one of their bottles. I’m thinking. I’m thinking. I actually bought a case and sent it to a guy who knew a guy who had done me a favor. Nothing but the best for pals of mine! I was going to buy some from Wendy Brown’s vineyard, but our alumni database still has her working at AOL. Actually I did find it: Big Basin Vineyards. Their stuff looks awesome, but may be a little exclusive for this palate— you have to order early, get an allocation, and the prices are not even noted. I might not be their standard customer. Check out their site— it’s very cool. [www.bigbasinvineyards.com] You see, I like wine. I like it a lot, but I have no memory of it. They have a word for this when you can’t remember a face—prosopagnosia (prosopon = face, agnosia = not knowing). I might suffer from that, but I also suffer from not remembering wines—oinosagnosia. I figure the best way to beat this is by practicing. I’m hoping one day Santry will let me in to see his wine collection in his basement. I hear it is wicked big, but that might just be Art talkin’ smack. And some of you folks who have not logged onto myTUCK in a blue moon: Go in and tell us if you’re working or not. Our data is wicked old, and it’s making us look bad. [http:// mytuck.dartmouth.edu]

I ran into a good friend of Tom Barney’s at Bowdoin. He’s a respected physician, so I’m not going to mention his name. His daughter and my daughter are freshmen. Anyway we discovered that he’s pals with Barndog, so I went online and checked out the latest happenings at Osprey Packs. The company is kicking it, and our man is at the helm. Remember—Give to TAG. Just a little bit. Or a lot. But a little bit is good. We had some good times, right? And you learned something, right? And you’re reading these notes, right? That means you’re interested and you care. Right? Oberg is coaching wrestling or rugby or teaching home economics now that he has retired from AES. It’s a good career for him and lets him spend a lot of time at home taking care of his new puppies. That’s not code for anything. Speaking of hobbits. Shire Pharmaceuticals in Brazil is where Alison Joslyn calls home. She’s been down there a long time, but it seems to be suiting her. (And speaking of wicked fast. News in over the wire that Alison has competed her first Half Ironman triathlon in Brazil, and not only did she finish second in her age group, but she qualified for the world championships. Yup...a new hair style and an awesome finish.)

oxymoron aside, it’s a neat restaurant concept and the new place to hang out, listen to some cool local tunes (I’m expecting Danny Freihofer is going to be a regular), and chow down locally sourced food and beer. We are getting cosmopolitan here in Hanover . So Allegra and I have been sitting here at the pub for the past two hours plinking away at our computers after already putting in a full day at work. We’re watching the NCAA championship game. Why is it that we seem to be working a lot harder now than when our kids where filling up diapers and robbing us of our sleep? I guess you can’t really call what I’ve been doing “work” cause I’m not getting paid for it and the value it provides is intrinsic. She, on the other hand, IS working at one of her three jobs. I don’t know which one. I’m going to bed at the half because you don’t get to stay this young looking without sleep. I’ll leave a light on for her. I suspect she’ll stay up and watch the whole thing. What a woman!

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Jayne Hrdlicka and T’60 Alan Pesky at the Australian Open

Laith Ezzet in Vietnam

Laurie Marshall laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

I’m so very proud of Sean Joyce, who has successfully made the transition from the FBI to the land of what normal people do every day. I don’t know that it’s a good thing—I felt very safe with Sean in charge—but nobody deserves more than he does for all he’s done for this country. Sean, I’m sending you a bottle of wine from Black Kite Cellars—Rebecca Green’s winery. I don’t suspect the watchdogs at Tuck will notice the alcohol charge, what with the change in the deanery and all that. [blackkitecellars.com]

Jayne Hrdlicka shared a photo from the Australian Open. She had the great pleasure of having Wendy and Alan Pesky (T’60) join the last four days of the tournament. Was great fun. Tennis has become a big part of their family! She has just recently gone on to the board of Tennis Australia (like the USTA) and is looking forward to thinking about the “business” of sport and tennis in her spare time. She said, “Wishing you all the best! Come visit.”

I’m hearing nothing but high praise for the Children’s Literacy Foundation—Duncan McDougall has been running the CLiF show since he founded it in 1988, and they’ve delivered books and services to over 180,000 low-income rural children. Wicked awesome, Duncan.

Laith Ezzet visited the Tu Duc tomb in Vietnam last year. All the workers who built the tomb were later killed in order to keep the emperor’s actual burial spot elsewhere a secret. That was a long time ago. The people of Vietnam today that he met were kind, hardworking, humble, and gracious.

Speaking of skinny. A Skinny Pancake is opening in Hanover this spring. I know,

He also visited Japan in December to see the snow monkeys north of Nagano and the

Laith Ezzet with the snow monkeys near Nagano

bowing deer of Nara near Kyoto. If you bow to the deer, they bow back to you to get a deer cookie. He said, “Hope to get to Malta and the Seychelles in 2016.” Wishing you all a great summer.

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Betsy Crill Robertson

Mark Hosbein

betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

markhosbein@gmail.com

Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

Hello Class! I trust that everyone is busy yet having fun and things are going well. I, for one, cannot say that having the kids grow older, and even moving on to college, has reduced the craziness at our house. Our oldest daughter is a freshman in college this year and it’s going well. The transition was a bit harder than any of us anticipated, but we have worked through it and all is good! The two kids at home remind us often how nice it is to have a family of 4 as “the world is set up for families of 4, not 5!” But, deep down, I’m sure they miss their sister. Ha! The news has been quite sparse this winter, so it will be a short column (not to mention that I’m writing in 3 days late and luckily the folks at Tuck are nice and willing to accept late columns!). So—let’s start out with the big news. If you haven’t logged on to www.trailjournals. com/57ontheAT please do! This chronicles Don McNaughton’s thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. He is planning 6 months, starting in April and ending in October. It’s 2,189 miles, and Don’s plan is to start in Georgia, on the summit of Springer Mountain, on April 25. I read the pre-hike entries and I am now absolutely positive that I will not be doing this hike! There is clearly lots of preparation and Don is ready to go! Best of luck, Don—can’t wait to read the updates! Other news is nominal. Jack Zollinger sent a quick note checking in from Chattanooga, TN. If anyone is in the area, be sure to stop by and say hello. I usually have great info from Sue Dahling Sullivan, but she’s cruising the Caribbean right now, so nothing to report on that front. Hope all is well—I can’t wait to see everyone at the next reunion! Take care and write in so next edition the ’89 notes are not so lame! — Betsy Robertson

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Editor’s note: Big thanks to Mark Rooney for his years of service to the T’90 class notes! If you would like to volunteer as class secretary for the great class of 1990, please email tuck. class.notes@tuck.dartmouth.edu.

’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Mary-Ann Somers somersma@yahoo.com

25TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Hello from Springfield, Missouri! Summer is in full swing as you read this, while the forsythia and daffodils are blooming as I [Suzanne Shaw] write. It would be nice to know what’s actually happened between now and when you read this—like, has my house sold (I downsized in February) or who won the Final Four or the Kentucky Derby. And more importantly, how is my “class reunion” diet going, which, btw, is October 7, 8 and 9. Since I am stuck in March, I’ll update you with the life snapshots I received from fellow classmates. Thanks to all who wrote in. In her four years of going to Richmond, VA (Univ of Richmond), Peg Mayor had never been able to hook up with Scott and Mary Ellen Barton. But this year the stars aligned and they were actually able to schedule a visit. “So many of us are leading parallel lives with college visits, college tuitions, etc. Steve Langlois arrives Thursday with his HS junior.”

Peg, Mary Ellen, and Scott

Apparently Richmond is the place to be; although, I find the whole spider as a mascot a little creepy. This coming from a Purdue grad whose mascot, Purdue Pete, appears on the top ten list of creepiest mascots. It’s the vacant eyes. Now moving on to a different Mayer.... Tad Mayer has a lot going on. He recently had dinner with Barb Jones Marshall. They shared a lot of laughs and memories, as Tuckies are wont to do. Unfortunately, Kevin was out of town and unable to join in the fun. He also hooked up with Dave Danielsen in Boston to attend the Sydney Finkelstein Superbosses presentation, which apparently was very good. And, Tad, along with two co-authors, has a book coming out: End the Job Hunt (working title). It was going to be self-published, but their editor convinced them to submit it to publishers. He’s hoping it will be out by the end of the year. Tad’s firm is now Career Negotiations (official launch in April), offering coaching, training, and speaking. They assist people as they negotiate their careers and negotiate in their careers. They’ve been successful with clients and even scored a quote in U.S. News! On the family front, Betsy is reentering the workforce since exiting when their children were born. Annie is now a freshman at Colgate, and their son, Will, is a junior at St. Lawrence. Exciting times! Robert Douglass is settling into “ancient fatherhood” at 52 with Royal, his energetic and good-natured 27-month-old. “Must not have gotten the memo on how hard it is to keep up with little critters!” His business, Douglass Winthrop Advisors, continues to grow and prosper. They now have 20 employees after starting with 2 many years ago. He, Whitney, and Royal spend time “here and there in Florida across the winter with family and friends.” He’s hoping to take some time off in May to celebrate his tenth anniversary with

is Stephan Schambach, and he has taken two e-commerce companies public—Intershop and Demandware. “He’s actually referred to as the Bill Gates of Berlin in some circles. NewStore is a new e-commerce platform built entirely for a mobile world.”

Royal Douglass with mom, Whitney

Whitney. “Warm regards to all our classmates.” Clare Bonifant wrote in to say she was heading off to Park City for a few days of skiing and was planning to visit with Mike Tonneson & Co. while there. She was hoping to send a picture from the trip, but as we all know, tempus fugit—so we’ll just have to imagine the group shot on the slopes or at dinner (our two favorite Tuck photo shots—we eat, we ski). On a quick note, Doug Neil appeared on a panel at this year’s SXSW as an expert on the topic Big Box Office: Marketing Films in a Mobile World.

Doug Neil at SXSW

Phil Granof acknowledged that it’s been a while since he checked in with Tuck Notes, although he is an active contributor on the Tuck ’91 Facebook page (which you too can join by contacting me or Ferit via email). So he’s making up for a couple of years. He made the transition from CEO of his consulting firm Protobrand to chairman and is now living the CMO dream. He’s currently CMO at a General Catalyst-funded company called NewStore, founded by the man who is credited for having invented e-commerce (Al Gore?). His name

Nancy is also working for a startup called Iora Health, which is setting out to reinvent primary care medicine. “We have become a venture-backed family. A little scary, but YOLO.” Phil’s oldest son Cole is graduating from high school and will be pursuing a computer science engineering degree with a focus on game design at WPI. His youngest son is in high school and recently interned with a film company working on a documentary about Edgar Allan Poe. “He said he might want to go to film school, but I find that scarier than The Tell-Tale Heart.” Phil ran into Langley Steinert last year at a showing of Furious 7. “I figured he was doing some research for CarGurus. I was there because I like to see action heroes with worse hairlines than mine.” Jim Kean left NPGL, the professional sports league he had run for two seasons, last summer. He took it over when the league collapsed in the first season. Jim and company were able to get it back on its feet. “It was featured on NBC Sports, so it was cool to produce televised sports events and it generated a better rating than the Stanley Cup playoffs and NASCAR. It was a new experience, but I got really tired of the travel and dealing with media people and decided I was tired of being a CEO.” He most recently has been working as a product design consultant for venture-backed digital health companies. He’s very happy working on some really interesting projects with little responsibility. This has left him more time to catch up on skiing. “Family and kids are great— two in high school, and our little guy is in first grade.” Peter Henderson is living in Boston these days—his third and youngest daughter is heading to Dartmouth College in the fall. His second daughter graduated from Dartmouth last June. He just rejoined McKesson after leaving 15 years ago and he’s enjoying the challenge. “Best to our classmates—look me up if you are ever near the Pru or in the South End.”

The college theme continues. Harry Holt’s daughter, Nancy, will graduate in May from Brown University with a degree in biology— following in the steps of Mom and Dad. She is joining the Peace Corps and has been assigned to Mozambique to teach biology at a high school there. Harry and his son are heading to Tanzania during the summer of 2017 and plan to visit her then. Andy Schmit wrote in and started off with the magic words: “Sue and I are confirmed for the reunion in October, whoopee! Should be fun, can’t wait to catch up.” Andy and Sue both started new jobs late last year. Andy is with RSR, a battery-recycling company in Middletown, NY, and Sue took the plunge and accepted a controller job with a small technology company near Penn Station. “It’s been a crazy but fun change of direction for both of us—so far, so good.” Andy’s son Tim is finishing up his second year at Binghamton in mechanical engineering and has already lined up his 2nd summer internship with LeCroy. His daughter Alex is eagerly awaiting news from 6 colleges (mostly in NJ/NY/MA): “We have our fingers crossed.” Eric, their youngest, is almost halfway through his sophomore year and has been in numerous musicals and plays at school. “He’s big into percussion, so it’s nice we found a way to channel all his energy into something productive!” As for me, I have been working on a brand refresh for the university. That’s been a lot of fun. The travails at Mizzou have had a trickle-down effect, so we have had our share of student protests—all civil and respectful and a learning experience for everyone on campus. And, as noted earlier, I downsized to a smaller house in a friendlier neighborhood. Lots of kids out playing in their yards with assorted dogs, etc. Apparently it has quite the Halloween celebration that includes a parade and lots of trick-or-treaters. And critical after years of long commutes—I am a mere 5 minutes from campus/office. Don’t forget our 25th reunion—October 7, 8 and 9. There is still plenty of time to register. I’ll see you there!!

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CL ASS NOTES ’92 Amy Feind Reeves amyfeind@gmail.com

Editor’s note: Look on the 1992 class notes page on mytuck.dartmouth.edu to see more great T’92 photos! Hi T’92ers, I’ll start right off by noting that Greg Thompson (Tuck’s only Emmy-winning alumnus) wrote an entire episode of Bob’s Burgers focused on flatulence that aired recently. My daughter loved it. Gulce Cini [Sukal] and Kim Hoelting had a blast on the first Dartmouth Alumni Travel trip to Cuba recently—they highly recommend Dartmouth Travel. Kim said it was an amazing group of people including the ever amazing Andy Steele and his equally delightful wife, Annabelle. Saw via Facebook that Hans Dau and Kirsten Detrick got together in Zurich for breakfast recently—Kirsten is definitely enjoying the expat life. When things get tough here, the tough go to Target. Apparently when things get tough for Kirsten, she hops to Bali for the weekend. Looks like she and her family are really making the most of life in Switzerland. Thanks to Andrea Berti for writing in with the one piece of news I have for this column that is not Facebook-derivative or begged for last minute. Andrea was recently appointed chief financial officer of the University of Padua. Really fun stuff going on out west for Robin Frank and Glenn Millar, who find themselves in the same circle of fun friends that do things the rest of us (well, OK, maybe just me) only dream of being cool enough to do. Glenn wrote to tell me that “after not seeing each other for nearly 20 years, Robin and I discovered that we had many mutual close friends in the Burning Man community and were able to reconnect at the Pagan Bunny Burn.” Here’s Robin’s report: “Here in Northern California we do things a little differently in March. Pagan Bunny Burn 86

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is a festival campout on a gorgeous property with rolling hills and oak trees and a beautiful river. It was started 6 years ago as a small family-friendly Burning Man with art and interactive theme camps and a big bunny effigy that burns on Saturday night. Burn Bunny Burn! The vibe is super sweet, and for the second year in a row, Glenn Millar and Robin Frank attended as part of the same camp— dressing up as bunnies, dancing, hanging out with friends in the beautiful hills, enjoying interactive installations brought by other campers—art, food, bunny slingshots, music, and more! There is nothing for sale, and the event is volunteer participation—everyone brings art and gifts to share! This year Robin (aka DJ Robobunny) played electro swing for a fun crowd! While Robin and her husband and twin boys wore light-up mohawks, LED bunny ears, and bunny onesies, Glenn elected to adorn himself in a more understated way with LED bunny ears and a fur vest.” I had a chance to catch up with Glenn recently in Boston, where he spends about half his time opening an office for his London-based firm. Not only is he expecting his third grandchild (no, that’s not a typo), but he shared with me a story about his recent organ donation that he hopes motivates people to become organ donors. This is way more inspiring than anything I’ve been able to write about lo these many years (15? 20?). He originally volunteered to donate a kidney to a close friend of close friends, a woman he had never met, named Heather. Unfortunately, though he was a match, pre-surgery rejection tests indicated that Heather was likely to reject his kidney. So Glenn volunteered to be in the cross-match program where his kidney goes into a “pool” and Heather receives a kidney from another donor in that same “pool.” When it was all said and done, Heather got her kidney from a woman in Michigan named Bree. Glenn’s kidney went to a guy in San Diego named Mike. Mike’s donor, Emory, had her kidney sent to Colorado. The Colorado recipient’s husband (her donor) had his kidney go back to Michigan. It’s all enabled with modern technology and shared kidney-donor databases. Glenn was able to save several lives in the process and is back at full physical capacity in just a few months. There have been several articles written about these acts of selflessness that wound up crisscrossing the country, although I sadly cannot connect a link to them on this page. Per Glenn’s request: please think seriously about carrying an

organ-donor card and other ways to support the organ donation program. You could save a life. For anyone wondering what our spiritual Norwegian leader has been doing in the mountains besides killing only what he needs to survive, Ben Pettersen has been buying gold and wants the rest of us to do so as well. Those of us who do not wish to take his investment advice (and I guess anyone who has issues with the outcome of the election in November) will be welcome to live off the land with him only on a first-come, first-served basis. Mac Overton is still waiting for classmates to visit in Hong Kong, although he is looking forward to breakfast with Dean Slaughter in a few weeks.

Mac Overton’s kids Savannah and Taylor enjoying some poolside vacation in Phuket

Thanks to Steve Sklar for always responding to the call for notes: “The Sklar family is having a busy spring. Kenny, our middle child, is a senior in high school and will be headed to Elon in North Carolina in the fall. Younger brother Neal is a sophomore in high school and just shifted gears from hockey season to lacrosse. Our oldest Julie is a sophomore at Washington and Lee University and loving it. She has an internship this summer at the Cleveland Clinic. Betsy’s loving her job at Young Americans Center for Financial Education, where she is the VP of development & partnerships for this not-for-profit focused on financial literacy and entrepreneurship for kids. Young Americans also runs a one-of-a-kind bank just for kids in Denver. I am keeping busy building a new OTT video product. I had Hans Dau come by for a business meeting a few months back. It was great to catch up and to learn about the great

work that Hans and his team do at Mitchell Madison.” Not sure if I wrote about this last column, but seems like I get a press release through LinkedIn almost every week regarding Joe DePaulo’s growing company College Ave Student Loans. Congratulations to Joe. For those who may remember second year’s “killer case” about global shipping (tapioca?) through Dar es Salaam, I had a layover there a few months ago on the way home from a vacation. It took me a few minutes to figure out why the name of the stop gave me a vague sense of dread in the pit of my stomach, and it was even harder to explain to my family. Next year, I want to go to the bunny burning. Who’s with me?

the alcohol and maybe a few pounds as well. Kathleen confirmed, “There is no FUN in going alcohol free, I can assure you! I can also attest to a slightly slimmer tummy. So I am a slightly slimmer grumpy woman these days.” Days after considering this new weight-loss scheme, I was out with the Polers when Kirsten snapped this shot of Jeff and me in fine form slurping beers from a can like Tuckies hanging in the basement of Buchanan while our companions sipped wine like adults in our lovely London surroundings. So long slim tummy, hello beer belly!

Erik Eames and Steve Delaney

’93 Erik Eames and Stephen Conlin

Cathy Dishner cathy@dishners.com

Cathy and Jeff Dishner

Nancy Goodman Koefoed ngkoefoed@msn.com

Jeff Macher jeffrey.macher@georgetown.edu

Kathleen Bacon was a first responder to the call for news. She recognized her frequent participation with this opening remark: “I fear that you hear from me way too often, but I guess too much content is better than too little.” For the record, there is no such thing as too much news! She continued, “I have decided to go alcohol free in February to see if it would make me feel healthier. I actually drank milk with my dinner last night! I do feel slightly better physically, but my social life has taken a beating. March cannot come soon enough.” Jeff Macher quickly fired back a response to this ludicrous scheme: “You’re nuts. Good luck with that. I would have problems. I like my 1 to 1.5 glasses of wine every night. And I still drink milk...sometimes with wine!” I had another motive in mind and figured there must be some silver lining to dropping

Getting back to the Bacon clan, “Emily is a first year at Newcastle having a great time, but she really wants to be in the U.S. and is transferring (hopefully) to U. Michigan. Andrew is in fine form; his tennis and golf game are steady, and he has joined a choir on Monday nights, which is sort of groovy. He’s also got a serious role as chair of a local school governing board.” Steve Delaney sent news and some pics of the boys on bikes: “A couple of pictures from this fall: Erik Eames and Steve Delaney took a detour on a fall ride to drop in on Stephen Conlin, who was busy raking leaves before he took a bike for a spin.” Anxious to encourage more news, we called out to the former Tuck houses and unwittingly started a house contest for participation, learning that nothing motivates Tuckies like some good old competition! The Gin Mill sent news from the Colorado and West Coast Divisions. Tracy Earles wrote in, “This odd Colorado winter has provided equal doses of gnar gnar pow pow and springlike days in the 60s. So I have spent days

both with the family lifting up mountains to ski down them and riding my bike up them (albeit much more slowly and with much suffering). I have also kept the Gin Mill spirit strong in this Rocky Mountain winter with my Entrepreneur’s Martini Group, a modest gathering of startup junkies who, like myself, can’t seem to shake the itch to start or grow world-beating companies while fueled by the juniper-imbued wisdom-giver.” Mike Carusi represented the Gin Mill, West Coast Division, though he wrote in while currently camped out in Singapore for a week. “Truly living the dream. Just raised a new fund over here and opened an office. I’m about to go dig into a bowl of chili crab. Mary and the kids are well. Matthew is looking at colleges. Olivia is forcing me to open up offices all over the world in order to support her joy of horseback riding. I asked her why she couldn’t have taken up chess instead.” The A Frame had full participation! Cougar reported that “life is hectic but lots of fun for the Couig family in Southern CA. Spencer is now 13 and getting ready for high school soon. He plays lacrosse and volleyball for his school and is a yo-yo wizard. Czarina just turned 11 and spends most of her free time at dance class SPRING/SUMMER 2016

CL ASS NOTES and making musicly’s, an app, with her friends. Sebastian is 9 and is starting to play golf. “We just returned from ski week and everyone had a blast. The boys snowboard, and Czarina skis along with Mom and Dad, who wisely returned to skiing after trying snowboarding (fun but too painful!). We are all looking forward to our spring-break trip to Puerto Vallarta in April. “Center Street Lending continues to grow and now provides financing to residential investors in 11 states. Happy to host any Tuckies who find their way to Newport Beach!!” McIvor piped in: “I’m still working at Bank of America in M&A with an extended Tuck ’93 group at the bank (Al, Glenn, Mary Ann, Wynne, Evan, and Raj Rathi, who joined last year in wealth management). My wife, Merche, is still at Citi in private wealth. Our girls, Gabriela and Adriana, are 10 and 7, respectively, 4th and 1st grades, with their sights on Dartmouth. I’m setting off on June 16 for my 3rd straight Newport-to-Bermuda sailing race. “Carusi and I are slated to teach again our course Investing & Deal Making in Healthcare: Practitioners’ Perspective for the 4th consecutive year. We continue to win top marks in student surveys and are enjoying it immensely. New York-based Tuck ’93 reunions have slowed considerably, though we are looking forward to a partial (minus Dish) A-Frame reunion with both Macher and Cougar showing strong initiative to come to NYC April 15. We expect to be joined by Al, Glenn, Ruthard, Dimo, Tommy, and possibly even Roesset.” Macher, true to form, got straight to the facts: “Here is my update in dates and numbers. I have been at Georgetown University 15 years and was promoted to full professor last June. I ran my 8th marathon last October and placed in the top 7th percentile for all runners but missed qualifying for Boston by a few minutes. Dana and I celebrated our 20th anniversary last September with a trip to Madrid and Mallorca. Our oldest son, Ben, is heading to Georgetown in the fall and will join the ranks of Ed DiGeronimo, Evan Ladouceur, Peter Moon, and Jeremiah Sullivan as an alumnus on the Hilltop in 2020. Hoya Saxa! Our middle son, Eli, is pushing 6' (tall for a Macher) and runs cross-country and track. Our daughter, Abby, is pushing 5'3" (about right for a Macher)

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and runs track. All attend the same high school and generally get along with (i.e., do not outright despise) each other. Life is good.” Dish wanted me to fill in his facts, but I pushed him for his own words. This is what I got: “I have decided to get a hair transplant, moving my ample back hair to my receding head hair.” Next time I think I’ll provide the update! A frequent A-Frame couch potato and Hawk’s Nest resident, Ward Davis, announced the big news that his wife, Kristen, is pregnant and expecting in September, topping up Ward’s clan to six kids! He gasps, “Can you believe it?!” Let’s just say his current Hawk’s Nest is pretty full! He went on to say: “I merged my firm, Caerus Investors, into Cowen Group’s Ramius asset management division in October. Ramius gave us $100M to manage and the ability to leverage their back-office infrastructure and global sales team.” Wardo had several encounters with Dude Palace roomies. He had dinner with CT neighbor Jeff DiModica and his wife, Kay, at their place in Stamford. Ward succinctly says, “I raided his wine fridge.” He also met up with Alastair Borthwick at the Spence School annual modern dance event in which their daughters participated. The dudes from the Dude Palace made a good showing. Alastair reported, “I was in Texas last week for a series of meetings and had dinner with one of our important clients in Dallas— Steve Berger. Steve looks much like he did at Tuck and is clearly doing well. It was great to reconnect. I am prepared to travel anywhere in the United States to meet with other T’93s who may need commercial loans or need a place to stash their commercial deposits!” Crotty added, “I am doing well and am about to celebrate my good luck 13th year at BAML, where I regularly see other Tuck ’93s including Borthwick, Deignan, and McIvor. We have been working hard to initiate a Road Rally, but it has been difficult to get traction in the current regulatory environment.” You could probably field two teams with the Tuck crew at Bank of America! Amato kept it short and sweet. “You can report that a bloated, bald Amato is terrorizing the new moneyed tech elite in Seattle. Basically

scaring the hell out of the locals despite having roots to the region dating to the 1890s.” Maureen Capitolo got caught in the email crossfire and wisely got off the exchange. She wrote: “I’ll make sure that Greg submits something for Tuck. You know the Dude Palace all want to outdo each other!” Then she sent along her own update, noting that Greg’s would likely be “more obnoxious”: “The Capitolos are doing well and are keeping busy with our kids, who now span fourth grade through college freshman. With that age span, there is never a dull moment! Our kids all play competitive soccer that we travel a lot for and promise to look up Tuckies in the cities where they play (although most places are not all that desirable). We are planning a big trip to Italy this summer to celebrate a birthday milestone (gulp) and converse with people that can actually say Capitolo correctly! Time is flying and we vow to see more of our dear Tuck friends. Fortunately, Facebook and LinkedIn help a little bit on updates. Jack Petersen probably sees more of me than he wants, as I often end up on his doorstep during my quick East Coast trips! Our guest room is always open for those visiting the Bay Area. Looking forward to our next reunion!” Quechee House sent news as Bergie wrote, “We are (believe it or not) beginning the early stages of college tours and planning for Emily, who is now 16 and will be finishing her sophomore year in June. She also now has her driving permit, so we are bracing ourselves. The boys are in 8th grade, so hitting high school next year. Then we have three in high school, and the fun begins! “I started a new gig in November as a senior portfolio manager at Clarion Partners after 4.5 years at Allianz. I’m much happier to be out of the corporate environment and back into a partnership culture. “Donna is doing great, and she is obviously very busy with the kids. Most importantly, all of us are healthy!” Quechee roomie Jay Weiss wrote in that “AnnaMaria and I are very happy in Florida. It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 6 years. No really big news...which is good, I guess. We live in Indian Rocks Beach (just south of Clearwater) and try to play as much golf as is humanly possible. No kids, but we have Gisele,

a 4-year-old French bulldog. Roesset and I attempt to get together every once in a while down here.” The Brown House inspired each other (or more likely succumbed to group pressure) and got the ball rolling methodically, as emails trickled in within days of each other. Dwight kicked things off: “All is well with the Poler family, spread as we are across the Atlantic. Kirsten and I are still very happy in London after 16 years, now with only Elsa (8) in the house. She is still in a magical place in the United Kingdom, wearing princess dresses and talking about fairies and unicorns, while her two siblings are grappling with the realities of the New World in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Colin is a sophomore at MIT, studying mechanical engineering and focused on development of rocket engines. Seriously. Greta is a freshman at Amherst, and seems to be loving it. She’s studying psychology and environmental science, and I could imagine she will be a teacher one day. I’m relishing that neither is following into the finance world though now wishing one would go into politics, given how childish that has become. Really quite scary seen from afar, as it must be as well up close. Work continues well for me at Bain Capital—my European sphere has been interesting enough to keep me here 15 years longer than I ever expected. Adding all the cultural dynamics to every company investment has been fascinating, and it has become a big business for us. Inspired by my study-group guru, Professor Macher, I’m also enjoying my 10th year teaching private equity as an adjunct professor at London Business School on the side and will likely keep at that even longer. Hoping to get back and teach a class at Tuck sometime soon, as I stay in close touch with Matt Slaughter, whom I think is a great dean to guide Tuck into the future.” John Sory was the next to respond: “Great to hear the always amazing Poler story. From this side of the world, the Sory clan moved to south Florida nearly six years ago. I have been helping to lead the University of Miami health system and deeply engaged in the wild ride that is today’s health care and which is made more complex through the dynamics of an academic environment. I have had the chance to teach the occasional class on evolving health care models and health economics, but mostly I’m in the trenches working through waves of change. My son Jack

is fully enjoying his sophomore year at the University of Florida and has already started a couple entrepreneurial endeavors on campus to supplement his spending money. My daughter Kate finishes her senior year in high school in May and will soon make her decision from a few college options. I’ll share once she shares with me. I don’t see her choice taking her as far north as Hanover, but I hope to return for a visit soon. All the best to everyone, and to my Brown House team spread far and wide, time for our reunion!” Steve Signorelli (or Signo, in Macher parlance) felt the mounting roomie pressure and sent this along: “Still working at Mars & Co in Greenwich, CT, since Tuck (minus a 1-year boom/bust entrepreneurial venture in 2000), which is kind of crazy. I was recently in the late stages of a proposal with a new client when I was informed that the last step in the process required getting the approval of some hotshot finance exec: That hotshot happened to be our very own Christina Morrison! I figured out that seemingly obvious connection just 30 minutes before the meeting (she is always Takoudes from first year to me!), which left me just enough time to send a quick heads-up email. I will let you guess whether we got the work or not! And it was fun working together with Christina in the real world. “Recently, after a tour of Jack Petersen’s new office for the company he just started, we got together in the city for dinner to catch up on everything. We figured it was time to leave the restaurant when we noticed that all the other tables had been re-set for the next day and the kitchen and wait staff were glaring at us. Too much ground to cover, so we had to finish at the bar down the street (tough next day at the office). I felt compelled to order a couple of the Brown House’s traditional drinks, Mount Gay and Tonic, in honor of the rare occasion. “Other than that, Sharol, the kids and I are enjoying living in Ridgefield, CT, after developing a great network of friends over the last 13 years. We do spend the majority of our time shuttling Joseph (16), Chiara (13), and Luca (10) between numerous sports events, etc. I am practicing for a post-career as an Uber driver once they head out, as I won’t know what to do with myself on weekends then.” Jack Petersen blasted into my inbox with “Wow! Pressure is on! I can tell Laurence [Whittemore] is banging away on his JPM

laptop as the flight down to Houston reaches 10,000 feet on his way to work on another $30[b] oil restructuring, bailout or bankruptcy. It has been a long, long time since I have provided an update, but I do not want to be the last of the Brown House to submit his report. Following Poler, Sory, and Signorelli is tough enough.... “Kelly, Jack, Ryan and I still live in Ridgewood, NJ, in the same home we bought five days before Jack was born in 1997. He is now 6'3" and heading to Clemson after graduating from Bergen Catholic H.S. this June. Ryan is a sophomore at Delbarton School, where he plays on the golf team. We continue to spend summers in South Carolina and stay active as a family with golf, hunting, and fishing. Kelly looks really good in camo! As I get older, my Minnesota heritage continues to fade as I now prefer heat and humidity over snow and ice. Hockey on Occom Pond seems like a long time ago.... “After 22 years in wealth management, working for Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays, I have left the bank/broker dealer world to start an independent advisory firm called Summit Trail Advisors. We are an RIA with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco with 35 employees focused on ultra high net worth clients in the U.S. We launched our firm in July 2015 with three teams from Barclays and have since added two additional teams of advisors. It has been the most invigorating thing I have ever done professionally. Taking the best of my previous firms, we have started to build a strong culture with great people and loyal clients. I would love to see any of you in NYC, where I can give you the 30-second tour! Please check out our website, as I would welcome any feedback and/ or referrals: summittrail.com.” Not to be left out, Laurence was last but not least. “Like my Brown House brethren, writer’s cramp has afflicted yours truly when the Tuck Today update time has come. “Kathy, James, Eliza and I have lived in Greenwich, CT, since 2000 and in Rhode Island in the summers, with Kathy and me becoming empty nesters as of last September. Both James and Eliza chose to make the Hanover Plain their home for college, with James now a junior and Eliza a freshman. James is majoring in classics and spent ten weeks last spring in London, Greece, and Turkey. In his spare

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CL ASS NOTES time, he has started a club golf team with a classmate. This past December, he took the Bridge Program at Tuck and emerged with a new appreciation for the business world and a lot less sleep. According to the Tuck team, he “got his money’s worth.” Eliza is enjoying her freshman year and still deciding what she will study. She’s playing on the club tennis team and looking forward to a term abroad in Rome during her sophomore year. Kathy and I are getting used to our empty-nest status, which we hope includes lots of travel in the years ahead. For right now, we’re enjoying getting back to Hanover for homecomings and parents’ weekends. “On the professional side, I have been with JPMorgan since we graduated all those years ago and have long since outlasted our other classmates who joined with me. I oversee our M&A business for the oil and gas industry, so I’ve had to learn to speak Texan to survive. It’s been a bit of a challenging industry lately, but I hope all of you are enjoying your cheap gasoline.” The Hood finally held a reunion this fall in NYC after missing a year for the first (or maybe second) time since graduation in ’93. It was bittersweet because Nancy couldn’t join us at the last second, and it just wasn’t the same without her. However, a tequila-fueled phone call late at night in NY joined us all in uncontrollable giggle fits that define our friendships. The highlight of our weekend was our afternoon spent seeing the hot new musical Hamilton. With Nancy’s absence, we had to call upon another fellow Hoodie to take the fourth ticket, and Jeanine Borthwick T’94 joined us, ensuring that it remained a true Hood outing. It was a bonus to see her and catch up in between watching Thomas Jefferson rap! The Girlz in the Hood are all doing well. Gina happily announced, “Life is great. Tracy’s startup, SolidFire, was acquired by NetApp. He’s trying to get used to working for a huge company after working at young companies for the last 20 years—at least until his handcuffs expire.

toss in the volunteer towel and get a job. After working as a chauffeur, cook, cleaner and laundress for so many years, there was nowhere to go but up. I’m working at a women’s clothing store, so not exactly something that requires my Tuck degree, but it’s fun, part-time, I get as much time off as I want, and the people are great. Oh and did I mention the discounts?

T’93 Hood ladies, with T’94 Jeanine Borthwick in for Nancy

“The nonprofit that I run is going through a major expansion—building a new building and expanding programs. When construction is finished later this year, we will be adding therapy and medical exams for children who have been abused. I’ll be speaking at a national conference this summer about how nonprofits like ours can help staff to avoid and manage vicarious trauma.

“As far as the aches and pains go, let’s just say I think I financed my physical therapist’s last European cruise. He’s keeping me patched together, and I managed to ski 40+ days this season and play tennis a few times a week. My latest exploit was to ski with Jonny Moseley, gold medalist in freestyle skiing. I rocked the moguls with him, kind of.”

“Last summer we went to Maui to celebrate our 20th anniversary with the boys. On our way to Hana we stopped to find the Pukalani Superette. Why? To enjoy Ray Oen’s mom’s delicious lumpia (see photo).”

Nan and Johnny!

As I like to say, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.”—George Bernard Shaw

Gina and Tracy in Maui

Nan sent her update with specific instruction to me: “You have my permission to use any or none of this. No embellishing!” And so I quote her directly: “I’m finding that mid-life is a time of re-invention. After being home with my kids for 16 years and having my heart ripped out when my oldest went to college, I decided to

Dana chimed in, continuing with our theme of aches and pains. “Well, the original instructions were to talk about ailments, aches and pains, so I’m going to stick with that since the rest of our story is crazy boring. Jeff has been gimping around on a bad foot since the annual Turkey Bowl last November. Perhaps a 50-year-old should not be playing ball with teenagers. You decide. Anyway, this has

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thrown him onto his bike a bit more...woe are the peaceful daydreamers walking and riding along the Capital Crescent Trail. Dana has a perpetually bad knee, since launching off a mogul the size of Texas after a night of Tuck-style drinking. Then there’s the glutenfree fun and the dairy-free nightmare. This occasionally makes her grumpy, but then she remembers she can have the wine that is in her hand. The kids are relatively healthy, though Ben has suffered multiple concussions during his senior year. In one instance, he claims it was while WATCHING hockey. We think there may have been some pre-game activities that contributed to that one, but he’s sticking with his story. So we hope that everyone is faring similarly and transitioning to old age with only minor aches and pains. Be well Tuckies!” As for my own update, you may recall that before the House competition took over, these notes were themed on the aches and pains that seem to accompany daily life these days. “I feel I could fill the notes with the progression of my own physical woes: a niggling knee, a chronic tennis elbow, a weak back, a painful Achilles. I recently met with a personal trainer who asked me if I had any conditions she should be aware of. I asked her how much time she had....” And yet these are all so inconsequential when compared to real injury. Joanne Klein Hooker wrote in with a harrowing story that I will share in full: “As you probably remember, I am very competitive, and I dare any of our classmates to top my entry in the ‘aches and pains’ theme. Allow me to explain: I was in the midst of a four-day bike trip this past August with my youngest, Kyle, when I hit a pothole and went over my handlebars. My helmet was relatively unscathed but not me, as I was unresponsive and in a coma! Passersby in a car asked Kyle if he needed help, and he responded by saying, ‘I can’t wake up my mom...,’ which seemed to clarify the situation for them. Paramedics intubated me and airlifted me to the nearest trauma hospital in Worcester. Jane Stackpole [Vogel], who had just started a job at Fidelity and was staying with us during the summer, horrified my older children when she casually inquired about their days upon returning to our house the evening of August 12. Jane redeemed herself, of course, as she kindly took time off work to bring the kids to visit me at the hospital in Worcester the next day, as Mark was by my side 24/7. Tracey

Wyatt [Atkins] was wonderfully spontaneous and loving as she just showed up to the hospital (after driving 5 plus hours from Philadelphia) and texted Mark, ‘I’m here, where are you?’ “I would have to acknowledge that I didn’t really suffer traditional aches and pains, as the coma took care of that, after which they administered strong narcotics to help manage my care over the two weeks in the hospital and three at the rehab hospital. All kidding aside, I am regaining much of my strength, balance and cognitive function and am expected to make a ‘full’ recovery—although that may take more than a year. “It is so heartwarming to know of all the wonderful friends and family who dropped everything and who came running, or drove, or flew to see me. As I remarked at the hospital, ‘This is not what I would choose for a vacation, but it’s a great way to get family and friends together!’” Amen to families being together and to Joanne and the rest of the Tuckie ’93s staying in good health. Be well and stay in touch. —Cathy Dishner, London, England

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cannabis industry. I consider “picks and shovels” to be “equipment” and feel that focus and discipline are critical at this formative stage of the industry. I work directly with a Texas-based bank and other funding platforms. We also offer commercial real estate and working capital loans, as well as access to real estate investors. We solve banking issues for our clients and give them access to growth capital on reasonable terms. We are excited about the potential for attractive returns/yields while also effecting much-needed positive social and environmental change. With well over 25,000 applications, industrial hemp can be a very serious part of the climate change solution in this country—as part of what is called regenerative agriculture, which leverages many organic agriculture principles. The short story is bees love organically grown hemp and that is a big deal! I am absolutely convinced of hemp’s potential and the need for domestic supply through allowing farmers to plant and cultivate hemp. I have attached a photograph with Doug Fine, author of Hemp Bound and someone you might recognize from Conan O’Brien or elsewhere in the mass media. And we are not blind to the externalities associated with legalization, particularly as it relates to children with developing brains, or understanding population overgrowth in progressive regions of the country like Colorado. Consider a very well respected member of the local and international Jewish community who called Denver the “New Jerusalem” with all that is going on here. Call or stop by any time.

David Link davidjklink@hotmail.com

Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

Dear class, I [David Link] am writing from S Denver here in early April. It is Masters weekend and Jordan Spieth already has a commanding lead like Tiger Woods in 1997. I am recalling Jack Nicklaus’ historic and final Masters victory 30 years ago and it brings back a feeling of youthfulness from college days. First a quick update on me. I started a firm called JDB Advocates and our primary focus is mainly on equipment leases for the legal

David Link with Doug Fine

Also, I am attaching a picture of a BMW made nearly all from industrial hemp—plastics made from hemp filament, you name it. True stories. Pic from the NOCO Hemp Expo 2016 in Loveland, CO (where the picture with

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CL ASS NOTES Doug Fine was taken). And while I am at it, I will throw in a picture with Hunter Lovins, who started, among other things, Natural Capitalism Solutions and is an expert on climate change, regenerative ag, biomimicry, etc., and someone I’ve been connected to for over a decade. Trying to do my part out here!

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David Link with Hunter Lovins

John Dex: “As far as things go with me, I’ve just taken a position with a health analytics startup here in the Seattle area, running their product management efforts. MPIRICA grades health providers based upon outcomes at the physician and procedure level. Overlaying their quality scores with cost information allows patients and self-insured companies to make much more informed decisions about health care. I’m excited about this new opportunity and have begun the ‘drinking from the fire hose’ phase of the new job. Something Tuck prepared me for, no doubt.”

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John Krotzer: “I am now entering my sixth year of ‘trailing spouse’ and will be moving to Beijing in July 2016, where my wife Tania will be a consular manager at the U.S. Embassy. I will be working in the econ section, promoting U.S. business in China. We have spent the past year in northern Virginia, where Tania has been training in Chinese, though I make it up to NH quite a bit to work on our summer home at Lake Winnipesaukee. This fall, our daughters Agnieszka and Malina will be entering grades 12 and 10, respectively, at Milton Academy in Boston, while their brother Dominik will be joining us in Beijing. I have had the chance to catch up with both Nick Padgett (Chicago) and Nancy Volpert (Los Angeles) while visiting colleges with Agnieszka. I did not work this past year in Virginia but continue to play hockey regularly. I have ‘retired’ from goalie and now play forward, and Bill Kennish would be proud to know I led my team in goals, as well as led the league in shorthanded goals. I am already signed up for the league in Beijing.”

Eduardo Dutrey with his daughters Margarita and Candela in Aspen

Eduardo Dutrey: “Argentina had elections in October, and the opposition, to my delight and to everybody’s surprise, won the elections. Hopefully, this new government will place Argentina again in the radar of international investors and bring inflation down. For vacation, we choose to go from our summer to the cold of your winter with my daughters Margarita and Candela, twenty and seventeen respectively, and spent a wonderful twenty days, skiing for a full week in Aspen (see picture) and then moving to San Francisco, Napa, and Carmel. Business is difficult. As you know, working in the oil sector is not easy nowadays, but somehow we manage to survive and wait for better times. I frequently meet with the Ansaldos, as Mariano works for Lan airlines and uses the airline perks and travels to Bariloche quite often. Please find attached a photo of my daughters and me in Aspen.”

Steve Ng: “This spring I started teaching an undergraduate communications class at the business school of the University of Delaware. I found my ManCom book and doing my best to channel Mary Munter.”

Ranjeet Nabha: “Hi Dave. Met up with Simon [Eckersley] a few days ago when I was in Hong Kong. We are on Tuck’s Asian Advisory Board (along with John Kim and another 15 or so Tuckies from varying years) and got the opportunity to learn first hand from Dean Slaughter his vision for Tuck and discuss how we plan to get there. Simon and I also met up the next day for some amazing Hong Kong cuisine, where Simon gave me a crash course on what’s going on with the integration

I have noticed as time goes on that our generation is split into two major categories: Facebookers and Non-Facebookers. Those on FB get active information that each other share. Non-Facebookers, for better or worse, miss out. For the Non-FBers I would offer the following observations. I see quite a few posts from Andy Palmer and I admire everything he does for entrepreneurship and among other things rugby. Mitch Solomon and his family are serious skiers and it brings me back to the

Ranjeet Nabha and Simon Eckersley in Hong Kong

between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Back to reality in New York!”

days at Killington and Mad River Glen with Steve Pinado, Phil Marriott, Chach Curtis, and others. Christophe Oliver tirelessly sends me research and news articles and is a constant reminder to never quit, no matter what. Lisa Koussis Lemire and I have traded contacts since reconnecting at Reunion, and we had a long chat just a few months ago. As part of my work, I am very active on social media and have felt support from many, either through likes, comments, or private messages. Altaf Shamji puts up with my criticisms of the modern pharmaceutical industry, which is core to our health care mess. And folks like Bill Townsend have not unfriended me despite my concerns with the petroleum industry and my desire to consider hemp alternatives. Any classmates in the plastics industry? I aim to be friends with all.

’95 Kristin Sanborn ksanborn27@gmail.com

Rick Smith rasarizona@hotmail.com

Rick: At the reunion, a zillion people asked me, “How’s Ohio?” Yeah...ummm... I’ve been living in Phoenix for the past couple of years. Does no one read the column? Kristin: You live in Phoenix? ....Kidding. Maybe they’re just concerned about Ohio? Rick: Is anyone really all that concerned about Ohio? Kristin: Good point. Rick: So back to my original question: Does anyone actually read the column? Kristin: There are three possible answers. (1) No. (2) They read part of it but can’t make it to the end where you blab about yourself. (3) They read the whole thing but retain none of it because it’s like watching an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians: partly entertaining, often stupefying, makes you dumber, and not memorable at all. Rick: Fair enough. So which do you think it is? Kristin: Number 1. Totally. No one reads the column. Smitty, you and I are just punching a clock and getting paid for cranking out this drivel.

Rick (weepy): Kristin, I’ve been doing this for TWENTY YEARS. Have I impacted no one’s lives? Kristin: None. By the way, how is Ohio? Rick: Rainy, cold, and could use a coat of paint. Kristin: Exactly how I pictured it. So what’s changed in Hanover? Hanover is becoming sleek. There’s a sleek Starbucks that’s now the busiest place in town and a sleek new hotel, Six South St. The Hanover Inn built a bar/lounge that is definitely sleek. It’s a flannelfree zone. Ben & Jerry’s? Wasn’t sleek enough, so it’s gone. If you want ice cream, you’re going to the sleek gelato place by the movie theater. No Cherry Garcia there... you’ll get flavors like “spiced kaleberry” and “garlic wildrice.” So what hasn’t changed? Jack Sins still gets asked to leave bars. Seriously. Twenty years later and we’re still hearing the words, “Sir, we’re going to have to ask you to leave.” Anyway, enough about the reunion...let’s start with Lauren Adler’s Chocolopolis dominating the International Chocolate Awards, taking home a gold and two silver medals for three of its truffles. Rick: Remember when we won “Best Class Notes Column in Times New Roman”? Kristin: Never happened. Rick: Sorry. Sometimes I confuse reality with the fantasies I have in my head. Maybe someday we’ll win “Best Class Notes Column in Times New Roman”. Kristin: We can dream. While on the topic of Lauren’s company, in an article on artisan chocolates, ForbesLife named Chocolopolis their favorite. Rick: I remember when ForbesLife named our column their favorite column for MBA classes between 1990-1999. Kristin: Again, never happened. Rick: I know. As you said, we can dream. Kristin: Keep the dream alive, Smitty. Your positivity in the face of extreme headwinds never ceases to amaze me. Tucker and Charlotta Scott welcomed Edgerton “Edgie” Scott IV into this world in January, Tracy Dorsey married Richard Hughes in Exeter, NH, in December, and Bill DeRoche turned 54.

Liam Donahue, Peter Lawler, and Bill DeRoche in Boston

Rick: Holy crap! That’s old. Kristin: Very. Rick: Like, “I’ve fallen down and I can’t get up” old. Speaking of falling down, Paul Morrison fell off a horse but he did get up. Kristin: Just wait until he’s DeRoche’s age! Mark Peterson bought the historic St. James Hotel in Selma, Alabama, setting his sights on revitalizing the historic inn. Built in 1837, the hotel is believed to have hosted Frank and Jesse James in the 1880s, was taken over by Union troops when they took Selma, and is thought to be haunted. Rick: My favorite ghost is Casper because he’s friendly. Kristin: Why am I surprised you have a favorite ghost? Two weeks after the reunion (which we attended but Barry Hume did not), Rick ran into Barry in O’Hare Airport and was able to accost him in front of Gate E37 for not attending. We have a feeling that going forward Barry will avoid O’Hare Gate E37 and will probably be taking Greyhound. Jim Esposito was named to the Goldman Sachs Management Committee. Rick: I think it’s sad that Jim hasn’t amounted to much. Kristin: Yes, so much promise unfulfilled.... Rick: Maybe Liam Donohue can help him find a new, better gig. Kristin: I guess that means no more holiday cards for Jim from Bernie Sanders! Rick: I would expect he’ll get ten from Hillary!

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CL ASS NOTES (Note from Rick and Kristin: We equally offend and are offended by all politicians, so please do not be...umm...offended). Moving on, Glenn Harper, who always has the most awesome titles ever, is now the director, Adventures Afloat, at Road Scholar. Steve Ritchie moved from Atlanta to Seattle and joined Onvia as their SVP of sales. Vidu Kulkarni is VP of corporate strategy and development for United Technologies. Michelle Teillon is head of claims customer experience at Liberty Mutual. Noel Culberson is now with Trailhead Wealth Management. And Joanna Skoler Gilman is now director of communications at Thayer Academy. Rick: At Thayer? Kristin: Yes, Thayer Academy. Rick: Right, Thayer. Kristin: Thayer Academy. Not the Thayer next to Tuck. Rick: Exactly, Thayer. Kristin: I give up. And what’s up with your authors? Kristin here: I’m coming up on 4 straight years in the same house, which, believe it or not, I have not done since high school. Starting to feel a little itchy! My daughter graduates from high school in May, which is better than her not graduating but is also making me feel seriously ancient. She’ll be staying out on the West Coast for college, so I’ll be visiting a lot. I am sure that will not crimp her style at all! Rick here. Since moving to Arizona in June 2014, I haven’t needed to shovel my driveway or wear anything from REI, and I generally have a pretty good tan. Note that Arizona is not in Ohio. I’m nowhere near Ohio. Anyway, if any of you are ever in town, feel free to drop me a line. And to be perfectly clear, I’m not in Ohio. In all seriousness, my family is moving within Phoenix so our address has changed...but we’re still in Arizona. Not Ohio. We’ll talk again in six months!

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Barry Winer bmwiner@gmail.com

20TH REUNION OCTOBER 7-9, 2016

Twenty years! Wow! That’s a lot of time from the humanoid perspective. And it’s not just about reminiscing on our ’96 graduation and those two halcyon years that we all shared in the Upper Valley. It’s also how long Ewa Borowska, Trent Meyerhoefer, and I (Barry Winer) have been writing this dang column! OK, speaking at least for myself, “dang” really gives the wrong impression. Putting together a column with some decent content is work, to be sure. But it has also been fun and a real privilege to do. Among other things, it’s a way to keep in touch with many of you. And, maybe, the column facilitates a little connectedness among you. And those are good things, right? So on to the news, and some other surprises, with just a few brief pre-notes. The biggest challenge, by far, with doing a column like this, is that a good number of us are in occasional or perennial read-only mode. We think our news isn’t worthy or especially newsy. Well, hear me now or hear me later: that is just so frustratingly and totally hogwash, as I always tell or write anyone who I interact with... on email, over coffee, on the phone, dinner, or whatever. What I’ve long called the “Big 3” (work/career, family/kids, travel) are just tipof-iceberg in terms of worthiness. That’s not just an assertion. I know it from lots of face-toface convos with many of you over the twenty years. Everyone remains pretty fascinating and huge-hearted—and for lots of reasons beyond Big 3 stuff.

This 20th anniversary column will hopefully make that case more forcefully and motivate some of you more reticent types for future columns. You know who you are and WE know who you are! Next time. This column has plenty of Big 3 stuff, but it has more than that. It includes SEC sports, serious struggle, a bevy of column first-timers, animals, politics, education, toys, chocolate, and even beer. Hopefully something for everyone. So, let’s have at it! Finally, on the pre-notes, we got a bunch of photos this time. More than could be published in the column but all totally worthwhile and referenced herein. If you’ve never visited the mytuck.dartmouth.edu website, you really should for this. It’s straightforward and I’ve referenced some photos here in the column that you can see there with “myTUCK.” Again, you point to mytuck.dartmouth.edu online. Starting with a first-timer, we heard from Charles Kilby! The column database isn’t the most reliable but this may be the first time or first time in over a decade for a Kilby appearance? In full disclosure, Chuckie and I shared a bathroom in Buchanan back in ’94/95 and I may have used that historical bit to rouse him. Whatever it takes! Here’s Charles’ update in his own, unedited words: “Charles Kilby remains in the Boston area, seemingly oblivious to the fact that there are other states in the Union. He is working as director of research at Monster.com while helping his wife Sandra with her small business. Rounding out the day for their activities are 8-year-old Mirko (boy) and 1-year-old Nina (Yorkshire terrier).” We got a great update from Shiggy Tamura. Shiggy is “semi retired” as of last year from his gig leading a pharmaceutical service provider and now spends much of his time with family, golf, and, seemingly, travel too! Shiggy and his wife have two sons who are big tennis players. Great photo too from a Shiggy trip to Spain last year where he connected with another underrepresented column friend: Javier Rico! Shiggy’s wife, Rika, just moved to Spain to study pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu there while improving her Spanish to hopefully interpret at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Pretty cool, that. Also from Nippon, it was great fun to catch up virtually with Kenji Kondo! Kenji just finished a very rewarding decade helping to set

From right to left: Shiggy, Javier Rico, Shiggy’s wife, Rika, and Javier’s wife, Beatriz, in Spain last year

Cary (McMillan) Keller wrote with the exciting news of a new family addition, “a girl born on Oct 25...with a gorgeous head of golden, red hair who (amazingly has already completed) kindergarten...puppy kindergarten, that is.” “Lucy” is a Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever and has meshed with Cary, her husband John, son Mac (9), and daughter Avery (7) really well. See myTUCK for this impossibly cute photo of the kids with Lucy. Also, Becky Duseau wrote to report that all goes well with her and family, which now includes a Bernese mountain dog named “Albie.” Becky’s firm Adamas recently marked its 15th anniversary.

up Nagoya’s first boarding school, a venture sponsored by Toyota, Mitsubishi, Japan Rail, and other large companies. He served as a housemaster, teacher (English and Social Studies), and even badminton coach! He’s now setting up a new middle, co-ed school in Tokyo. Kenji is married, with a 16-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. For a truly great photo of Kenji, with pie on his face and surrounded by dozens of his students, check out myTUCK online. In addition to Kilby, we got a good bit from the Boston-area T’96 crew. In another possible “first time ever,” column scoop, an update from Kathia (Vandevenne) Lehman. Kathia and her husband have three amazing kids, Vivian (aka “the hurdler”), Connor (aka “the lacrosse aspirant”), and Avery (lax, tennis, and soccer). Kathia does a fair bit of running and cycling, often with her beautiful retriever named Panda, in her spare time.

Kathia Lehman out for a vigorous ride with Panda

Heard from Laurie Lee, who shared something beyond the “Big 3” stuff that I loved. Parking! We can all relate, right? Either that it can be a huge pain in cities or that we have amazing parking karma (my personal story, but I digress). Then there are the parking innovators among us, which a great photo of a Laurie parking accomplishment (see the myTUCK site!) makes clear. As she narrates “I actually pay for a parking spot. I snuggled into that little number so that Chris Carlsmith, Laura Fuller’s husband, could use my spot while taking their son to the Children’s Museum.” Innovative, tenacious, and with generous spirit; have to love all that. And beyond that, Laurie is doing very well in Boston. A big “whoo hoo” from here on doing well and being a great example of parking innovation and kindness! Quick sidebar to say that, virtually without exception, everyone cited in this column asked me to encourage all of you to reach out if you’re traveling in their neck of the woods. We’re a social and collegial bunch. I try to do this in my travels. You should too. Really. Tuck=Collegial. Remember?

Becky and Michael Duseau; photo by son Matthew (11)

And, five more Boston-area updates! The first, technically Connecticut, is from Mimi & Stephane Anglade. Mimi has been running a marketing agency/consultancy for five years, and Stephane is in his 7th year with Nokia. They have two daughters (12 and 14), who keep them busy with a “mix of field hockey, lacrosse, theater” and family skiing. Mimi coaches field hockey too. Finally, rounding out the Anglade clan are “Rusty the dog and Harry the cat.” Next up, Laura Fuller wrote to report that she and husband Chris are still based in Boston with son Peter (7) and daughter Margaret (9). In great Dartmouth style, Laura coaches, and plays, hockey. And, in big news, they’ll be moving to Northern California next year when Chris, a history professor, will be on sabbatical. Oh, and heard from Bob Calamari! But only his promise that he’d send an update “shortly” but that didn’t happen. Bob seems to be doing well? Next time for Bob! We’re watching YOU, Mr. Calamari.

Okay, time to talk a bit about beer. As in news regarding a new North Carolina brewery called Legion Brewing, which has to be in the top 5% of all U.S. craft breweries because they have a “Chief Morale Officer.” And that CMO is none other than Bill Craver! Bill has a great Labrador retriever (now 15 years) who got on well with mine a few years ago when they met in NC. For a great photo (of an original painting) of Bill and his lab in front of the brewery, check myTUCK. Sticking with the alcohol theme, we’ll switch to another classmate who may never before have appeared in this column: Jon Yusen! Jon has been in the spirits business for 15 years and currently heads U.S. and Canada for the Scottish distiller William Grant & Sons (makers of Glenfiddich, Hendrick’s, and others). Jon and his wife are based in NYC, where their three kids “... proudly wear any Boston sports gear they can get their hands on!” And must be something in the air...or the 20-year mark...but column first-timers (or firstin-a-long-timers) seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Biren Talati may be right about being a first-timer; I’m not sure. Has been at least 10 or 15 years. Biren shares the following: “...married with...kids Kailee (4.5) and Kaiden

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CL ASS NOTES (1.5). Regularly see Noelle [(Pyszka) Weyer] and Alison [(Harapat)] through our book club. Also see Amy [(Perkel) Madsen] although not as much as I would like! Been heading up a real estate investment fund for the last 12 years after a stint in high tech...[with] time for trips. Going to Taiwan/Vietnam, where I hope to catch up with David Huang in April.” On a more serious note, it struck me in this 20th year that this column—and virtually all alumni columns—tend to be about positive, celebratory things, whether career, family, or travel. As it should be, we all love that. But we all have lives more complicated than that too. We all experience setbacks and struggle and, given all the connections between T’96ers regionally and offline, we all tend to share that stuff with some but not so much for the column or social media. One form of setback that many of us have experienced is job loss. I can’t thank Brad and Jen Tobiason Martin enough for agreeing to share his inspiring story of an 18-month career “speed bump” and a tenacious search that transitioned from “numbers” (i.e., “340 networking coffees, a 7" tall stack of business cards, 30 or was it 40? 7:00 a.m. meetings”) to some great perspective and a happy ending. Perspective like a job search being the “hardest job for the worst pay that you will ever do” and using past struggles (for Brad, a scary experience growing up on the family farm) to drive current perseverance. Besides being a Tuck grad, Brad is an accountant and talented financial leader. Just as this column was going to press, Brad started his new gig as CFO for a PE-backed electronics testing company in the Minneapolis area. Just an awesome story in my humblest of opinions. Brad is a hero in my book for sharing it. Back closer to my home (D.C.), I was able to catch up with two local T’96ers recently. Dan Hurwitz is doing great with his “Mach V” automotive parts and service business, expanding from an impressive Virginia location to now include a trackside store at a nearby racetrack. Last year, Dan’s work took him to Japan, where he was able to catch up with some of the T’96 Japan/Korea branch, as shown here. And it was a too-rare treat to catch up with Barry Faulkner, who has

been working in real estate investment for the last bunch of years and lives in “...Northern Virginia with [wife] Lisa and kids Isabella and Aidan, along with Sage, a labradoodle. Enjoying D.C., with our weekends consumed by Ubering our kids to volleyball, soccer, and basketball.” Barry’s son, Aidan, recently won a Virginia statewide 6th-grade writing contest. Barry wrote that he “didn’t know how to write [about that] without sounding obnoxious,” to which I say, it’s always the kind and nice types who worry most (unnecessarily) about sounding obnoxious. Congrats to Aidan!

note: We could use someone like that here in D.C.) Rick had what sounds like some amazing experiences in Asia late last year for work and vacation. On the latter, he traveled in India with Chris Clifford, with “too many amazing things to mention, but the warm, welcoming people...were certainly a highlight.”

The Mayor and First Lady of Half Moon Bay, CA, at Rick Kowalczyk’s swearing in, December 2015

A fun Japan T’96 confab with, from left to right, Ataru Orihashi, Dan Hurwitz, Shiggy Tamura, Kenji Kondo, and Toshi Shirabe

On a totally different note, loyal readers of this column will remember that another T’96 couple, Jay and Christy (Bieber) Orris, have spent a good number of recent years on the high seas with the Semester at Sea program, which sounds incredibly cool and fulfilling for kids and parents alike. They wrote from somewhere between Myanmar and India (about halfway through an “around the world” itinerary). Also, continuing to be a very reliable source of very fun news, the Orrises have two new startups, one with building toy products for 3- to 8-year-olds and the other an allergenfriendly/-free chocolate company! Both companies’ wares will be in Target this year, and the toy company will also have its products on the shelves at Toys “R” Us. Loved the update I got from Rick Kowalczyk (aka “Mayor Ricko”), who was selected as mayor in Half Moon Bay, California, this past December. Rick is “driving the first infrastructure projects in decades, which include a new library that is being funded with no tax increase to the community.” (Secretary’s

Chris Clifford also wrote in, which we appreciate since the Deep South would otherwise be pretty underrepresented among our class. Chris and his wife Kim are about to celebrate 27 years of marriage [Secretary’s note: Wow! And, congrats, Chris and Kim!!] and are based in Birmingham, AL, where Chris runs business services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a “rapidly growing/leading academic university/medical center” that has also made real noise in the NCAA Basketball Tourney and in SEC football (by canceling, and then restarting, its football program). The Cliffords have three children. Courtney is a junior at UAB. Caroline will be starting at U of A (“roll tide!”) in the fall. And Carson is a freshman in high school. At the time this column is going to press (late March), the Cliffords are having a blast on a large ship roaming around the Caribbean. And moving naturally from Alabama to…Italy! An update from Giovanni Vacchi! Gio and his wife have two children, Riccardo (9) and Allegra (6), and live in Bologna. According to Gio, they “...can handle [him/Gio] only because [he] travels a lot!!” The last time Gio was in the column, I think, he was CEO of a yacht company in Miami called Bertram. Since then, he has “been CEO of Grandi Navi Veloci (a ferry operator in the Med) and during the

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level...traveling [from Chicago] to Minneapolis, Toronto, Detroit, Rochester, and Boston. Wow! Luiza must be a future, top-level Tripod! Or, scratch that, NHL player! For more in Santos/ Carroll news, you’ll need to come to Reunion!

A happy T’96 Alabaman, with his requisite new truck, in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium, home of the 16-time National Champion Crimson Tide football team

past year...[he led] a successful turnaround of Zucchi Bassetti Group, a publicly listed home textiles and decor company. Giovanni reports being about to transition to a “major Italian fashion house” (see next column) and owns a luxury womenswear and cashmere startup. Definitely give Gio a call if you’re in Italy or you will incur his wrath!

Yet another classmate, long absent from these pages (er, column) wrote in with a multi-year update. Raymond Yue, “starting in 2004...I was at eBay for 5 years...helped divest Skype... and then went to Microsoft when acquired by them...actually moved on to Beijing for 2 years with Microsoft with my family [before later moving] over to Intuit for a year.” Raymond’s tour of all the big names of Silicon Valley takes a pause now as he is “leaving to go to a SaaS private company as their next CFO.” Raymond and his wife have an 11-year-old boy and fraternal, 8-year-old twins. Raymond sees Amy (Perkel) Madsen “around town” and saw Bee (Rangsima Utarnkul Bhakdibhumi) in Beijing once. No pets, but we’ll give half-credit for the fact that he reported he “...promised the kids a dog (poodle mix) in 2 years.” And, staying with Raymond, this is the “saving lives” part I referenced at the start of this column. We usually try to avoid promoting businesses in the column just because enough of you have shared over the years that you value this column being about our lives and our news more than as a commercial platform. Still, this is different.

Now THIS is what a good-natured CEO looks like! Giovanni Vacchi

I did ping my former housemate, Matt Tritley, and his wife, Mary McDermott Tritley T’95. But, alas, only heard back from Mary, so can only tell you that their approximately 2-year-old yellow lab, Tucker (a cousin to my lab, Foster), is doing great in Chicago. For a great shot of Tucker on the night the Tritleys took him to a local “Fur Ball,” check myTUCK online. Gene Lowe is in his third year as CEO of SPX in Charlotte (NC). Gene writes: “Family is good. Son is a big soccer player. We are going skiing this month with [Alex and Tricia (Carroll) Santos] in Colorado.... Looking forward to the reunion.” And Tricia wrote in to report that she and Alex “are officially hockey...parents now.” Their daughter Luiza is now “playing at a higher

In much bigger news than anything work or travel related, Raymond has collaborated with family members to found and oversee an amazing organization called the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation (CCF). The CCF focuses on a pediatric heart disease that is very serious and affects more than 30,000 children in the U.S. each year, often with fatal consequences. The CCF, now 14 years old, funds and conducts research while supporting patients and physicians and spreading awareness about a very serious, but little understood, disease. Born of personal and tragic experience in the extended Yue family, the foundation is doing amazingly important work and can be found online at childrenscardiomyopathy.org. If interested to learn more, take a look. Their accomplishments since founding are truly awe inspiring. Just one example of a T’96 doing amazing stuff. Way to go, Raymond! Winding up this edition’s updates with another first-timer, we heard from Derrick

“D.J.” Johnson! D.J. unplugged: “Living in Atlanta. Wife Holly. Hannah (12) and Zane (9). Working at UPS. Vice president marketing strategy and customer insights. Kids attend school with Kevin Cohen’s and Mark Peterson’s T’95 so we see each other often. Paul Ollinger T’97 is a neighbor. Just bumped into him as I was heading to Singapore.... Weekends and evenings are filled with soccer and basketball...of course after the homework is done.” Finally, the traditional closing paragraph with humble scribe news. I’m still in D.C. and have become quite the coffee expert. There are booming independent coffee shop and restaurant scenes here so you can do the math—I’m expert on both, so please give a shout if down my way and I can make it worth your while! And, simply to quiet any rebellion, I’ve included a recent shot of myself with my lab (“Foster”) on myTUCK. Trent Meyerhoefer wrote in from Cleveland (just before a trip to Spain) to share: “...while life is good overall, we are on pins and needles waiting for college admittance news for Braden. Ellen just turned 16 and is focused on her driver’s license and heading to the Parsons School this summer. The formal affair [pictured] is an annual event to raise money for our school district’s foundation. The foundation provides for funding of special projects and classroom equipment that doesn’t make it through the public funding system... and is a big block party.” Really nice photo of Trent and Irene also at myTUCK. And, finally, my partner in authorship (more than crime but both have applied over the years), Ewa Borowska sent me a perfect update with which to end. So, Ewa unplugged: “We have enjoyed a wonderful fall and winter punctuated by lots of skiing (mostly for kids) and various sports events and school field trips. Ewa continues with her consulting gig and cannot believe how fun it is to be part of the (part-time) workforce. She looks forward to seeing everyone in October.” Indeed. Don’t incur the wrath of Laurie Lee, our newly-anointed Reunion Chair who can park circles around most of us! Be cool. Do it to mark 20 years! Or 50 years! Be at Reunion in October in Hanover! See you all there. Barry out.

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CL ASS NOTES ’97 Helen Kurtz helen.kurtz@genmills.com

Judd Liebman

with Stacey’s family for the last couple of years—think 5 kids, a fireplace, big fun dinner parties, and oh—some skiing. I’m grateful to all of my Tuck pals who have supported my fundraising for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation—my Cornell roommate is an MM patient, and this inspiring foundation is doing truly amazing work for MM and all cancers. Thank you!”

judd.liebman@gmail.com

I [Helen Kurtz] was reflecting on the changing themes of these columns over these last 19 years. What was once populated with marriage and baby announcements has evolved to news of homes, kids, and the occasional job move. In a world where it’s hard not to be connected through social media, we still are so grateful to hear your news and publish it here—and admit it, there’s a thrill to skimming for your name. The biggest news comes from Paul Ollinger (to whom Judd and I are eternally grateful for taking over last issue’s column). Paul has written an amazing book called You Should Totally Get an MBA: A Comedian’s Guide to Top U.S. Business Schools. It’s an incredible guide to navigating the application and selection process for those contemplating an MBA. Filled with Ollinger’s wit and wisdom, the book is well written and truly useful. I read it cover to cover and encourage you to also. And gift it to all the save-the-world millennials you work with. As Paul reports, “It’s available on Amazon or on PaulOllinger.com. You should totally order several copies and give them to the person you were 22 years ago.” Kim LaFontana shared a terrific and newsy update that “I’m still living in Melrose, MA (bucolic Mayberry-like suburb 7 miles north of Boston), with Dave and kids—Abby is 10 and Kate is 8. I’ve just made the big leap from the cushy corporate strategy world to a role at a brand-new startup, both exciting and terrifying. I’ll be the chief product officer at Docent Health in Cambridge, where we will attempt to fix the terrible customer experience that is health care in America today. I’ve done early stage but never this early! Just to make sure we never get bored, we bought a 1926 colonial house and are busy bringing it into the current century bit by bit. Come visit! Bring a paintbrush! I keep up with lots of Tuck friends—Spencer Adams, Andrew & T’98 Allison Hirsch, Jen & Teo Balbach, and my End Zone roomies Kristin Conneen, Jen Zervigon, Julie Moore, Vicki Craver, and Stacey Raiche. My family shared a ski house 98

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Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

Also on the early-stage side of things, Kelly Stuart launched a really cool product, Scrub Bugs, on Kickstarter and is eager for trial, repeat, and funding. A great idea to keep germs away and make it fun for kids to wash their hands better, Scrub Bugs is Kelly’s foray into entrepreneurship. Check it out on Kickstarter and order it for your germy kids! Kelly is such a star marketer that she is doing this in her “spare” time, on top of her job at Keurig; way to go, Kelly! I saw Erin Tunnicliffe, Yancey Spruill, and Karl Spielmann at our spring Tuck MBA Advisory Board meeting. Karl & Katherine continue to thrive in London, and Karl won the farthest-traveled award at the meeting. Yancey told a great story about skiing with Andrew Hirsch this winter, involving 7-yearolds bombing down black-diamond-mogulled Colorado mountains. Erin continues to keep Tuck thriving and still fits in teaching yoga monthly and climbing the trails of Vermont. I’ve had a great year, running the Yoplait business and getting paid to eat and hawk yogurt as a vocation. I’m such a fan and believer in my product that you can find me eating 4-5 a day—my biome has never been better. Stella (5) and Henry (8) are into Brazilian jujitsu, violin, and biking around our many lakes—I keep threatening to freeze time to prolong this adorable phase of getting off training wheels and wiggly teeth and reading Fudge and Ramona.

Vince Trantolo vince_trantolo@hotmail.com

As I write this column, the U.S. is in the midst of a bizarre presidential election cycle and Brussels has just experienced a pair of senseless and cowardly terrorist attacks. While news of our personal and professional lives is nowhere near as important, I suppose now more than ever is a good time to hear the news of old classmates. Major congratulations are in order for Rick Cardenas, who was just named CFO at Darden Restaurants! Before Rick was an accomplished financial executive, he began his career at Darden as an hourly employee back in 1984 before becoming an auditor there in 1992 and staying until coming to Tuck. After a 3-year stint in consulting post-Tuck, he rejoined Darden in 2001, moving up the ranks. An amazing success story. So raise a glass—or some Olive Garden breadsticks—in honor of Rick!

As for Judd, “We’ve moved back to the Boston area after five years in Switzerland, and after a bit of a sabbatical getting everyone adjusted back to life in the U.S., I joined Kaplan International English, where I’m helping manage a new North American head office in Boston. I’m happy to be still working with international education and am enjoying the challenges of another turnaround opportunity. Peter and Sophie somehow are 11 now and have been enjoying life back in Lexington, though like the rest of us, they missed Swiss skiing this past winter.”

While some are moving up, others are choosing to get away from it all. Dan Givens writes: “In mid-2015, I resigned from OpenTable, rented my house, and left the country, with the objective of finding something better to do with my life. I didn’t want to spend my next 15 years like I’ve spent my last 15 years—in the corporate grind. Since my journey began, I have lived and volunteered on small islands in Chile and Thailand, helping local families and businesses with a variety of projects. I specifically picked island opportunities because I am now certified with US Sailing as a coastal skipper, so I am always looking for a chance to volunteer on a passing sailboat. In fact, my next adventure takes me to New Zealand and will culminate in a 1,200-mile sailing trip to Fiji. I have set up a website to track my journey, www. dannyboytravels.com. In the fall of 2015, I also joined Ulf Michel and Adam Koval for a hiking trip and Oktoberfest in Germany.”

We are wishing you all the best and please keep us in the loop on all your news—big and small!

Also charting her own path is Jean Tsai. “My news is that I’m a finalist in the Tory Burch

EF College Break. Despite its name, College Break’s business is international group travel for anyone 18-28. So for all of you who had kids when we were at Tuck, I’m hoping we’ll see your kids on tour with us soon! The other fun part marketing to and traveling with 18-28 year olds is it definitely keeps me young and as culturally relevant as possible for a Gen Xer!!!”

Mystery man, Dan Givens, Ulf Michel, and Adam Koval hiking in Germany

Foundation Fellows Competition, which I would love to win! Tuckies can rock the vote by voting for me online (every day until April 22nd). The link is http://bit.ly/votejean. In other news, my little popcorn company, Pop Karma, opened its second store by the World Trade Center in NY. It’s easier to get to than the Lower East Side, and I’d love to see people there!” Other T’98 entrepreneurs report in too. David Nelson writes: “Mary Christy and I are working to grow our electronic restoration business. Who would have thought I would be a bathroom janitor after Tuck? My son and I are hiking the ten-day ‘Philmont’ trek in New Mexico with the Boy Scouts this summer.”

Over in the Colorado Rockies, Beth Diefenbacher Perez checks in. “Carlos and I can’t believe we have lived in Colorado now for nearly twelve years. I am still at DaVita and we are continuing to slowly build up the number of Tuckies working here. On the family front, our daughters continue to keep busy with seemingly endless dance classes and competitions. It’s kind of like Dance Moms, and I have learned more than I care to about putting on false eyelashes! Carlos and I had an opportunity to take our daughters to England and France this fall. It was great to experience international travel through their eyes. On the way home we had a layover in Iceland, which has now moved up on our list of places to visit.” Cindi FitzMaurice checked in from spring break. “Fitz and I are doing great! We are in the Caribbean. Actually, brings back memories of spring break our second year in St. Martin, though this year we are consuming a lot less alcohol. Most of the winter we have spent skiing in Stowe! Gracie Levy (of Vicky and Tucky Levy) just joined our girls ski team. Caitlin (12) and Coco (10) are both faster than mom and dad on any slope.”

Susan Hunt Stevens reports, “My start-up— WeSpire—continues to chug along nicely. The highlight of 2015 was a toss-up between winning Also reporting from the beach is Kevin Kuryla. “I am hiding from the sun under a tent in Turks our first U.K.-based customer, Marks and and Caicos. I am trying to maintain my title as Spencer, and being named EY Entrepreneur of the palest guy on the island, while my three sons the Year for New England. Enjoyed running into (12, 10, and 8) scramble around the water park, Jim Reinhart T’97 at the big national EY event. still defrosting from 7 months of hockey season. The kids are now 8 and 11 and enjoying sports Guys’ trip, as my wife Jen and daughter Ciara (my son) and art/hip-hop (my daughter). Peter (6) are back at home (different school vacations). [T’95] and I are surviving the demands of the two-CEO household—despite passing midair on We spent New Year’s Eve at the Chapmans’ house in Rye along with the Mike and Laura our way to/from Chicago at times and not seeing Miller clan. Surprisingly, Old Man Chaps made friends nearly enough. On that front, however, I did enjoy celebrating a birthday with Vicky Levy, it to midnight this year and wasn’t snoring in front of the fire for a change! Coming up on 13 Bry Roskoz, and Caroline Cannon last month, years at UBS. I know...everyone had me pegged along with a fun Stowe/Mad River weekend.” as most likely investment banker at graduation. Another slowdown coming, so maybe I’ll just Speaking of Bry Roskoz.... “After 8 years in the stay here and play bass in a reggae band.” crazy world of retail, I’ve made the leap to an industry I’m even more personally passionate Recently back in the U.S. is John Stephens. about than shopping—travel! In February 2015 “After 3+ extraordinary years in Hong Kong, I joined EF Education First in Boston as chief we returned to the States this past summer. I of staff for our tours business and this past remain with Pomona Capital, where I’ve taken January transitioned into a new role running

on the CFO role in New York. I also oversee our business in Asia and am back in the region about once per quarter. After briefly considering a move to the city, Sarah and Ray are back in Washington, D.C., among old friends, and I’ve become a fan of Amtrak for my weekly commute. Ray, now 11, had three ambitions for his return: a yard to play in, a dog to play with, and a promise that he would no longer have to study Mandarin. We’ve satisfied the first two demands and recently welcomed a chocolate lab named Dewey to our home.” Still in Hong Kong of course is the incomparable Jen Moyer. “All is well here, life is busy and chaotic as always. Kate is rounding 9 and disturbingly wise beyond her years. Will and Jane are 5 and really enjoy beating the crap out of each other. Dave [T’97] and I greatly enjoy shouting at the kids then looking at each other and confirming ‘yes, this is who we are now.’ Dave’s doing great, travelling a good deal for work. I changed roles at GS last year, moving into the executive office to become chief of staff for the region. I’m loving the new role—has a ton of variety, a new vantage point, a lot of strategy work and leadership focus. Last fall we managed a trip to Cambodia with the kids and enjoyed a great food tour in Siem Reap, sunrise over Angkor Wat, and shopping in Phnom Penh at the cool Central Market. We had a soulnourishing trip home to Vermont for Christmas and New Year’s where the snow was a bust but the company and fresh air were awesome. As always, would love to see anyone and everyone who may be heading our way this year!” Down in Charlotte, NC, is Lee Modesitt. “We have kids in high, middle, and elementary school, all engaged in the usual routines of the overscheduled, so life is often logistics, but fun. I’ve been with Teradata for two years now, still focused on the banking industry, but learning a new side to it. The buzzwords were ‘big data,’ but we seem to be moving to ‘advanced analytics.’ Anyone visiting Charlotte, please look me up!” Derek Calzini is “still at Bose after 11 years. I recently left my role managing product marketing for Asia/Australia/Middle East—and the sometimes fantastic and always exhausting travel that came with it. I’m now leading the consumer and market insights team for the company, having aggregated separate analytics teams from five different organizations. Influencing next-gen products is a great way to spend a workday. The kids keep growing. Carter is in sixth grade, Morgan in fourth. They keep me busy when I’m not at work.” SPRING/SUMMER 2016

CL ASS NOTES doing some pretty cool stuff. We just took a $100 million piece of a private company in Asia and are syndicating it to a bunch of wealthy Asian investors. I would love to help any of our classmates who need investment banking services or help those of you who have made it big and need some investment management assistance.” The beautiful Zug/Fair clan...and Marty too

Jon DeSimone notes, “Proving leveraged finance is a very small world, I walked into a meeting in our offices with Goldman Sachs last month only to discover that Paul Mutter was in that meeting as well. Things are good here at Sankaty, with the credit markets behaving like New England weather—if you don’t like them, wait a minute. Vicki and the kids are good with our oldest, Brendan, heading to college this fall. Christian is a sophomore at St. Johns Prep as well and Portia is finishing 8th grade, starring in a musical version of Back to the Future.” Good to hear that “the Zug/Fair clan is doing well. Maddie is loving her freshman year at Pomona College. Becky and I were just out in LA last weekend visiting her on the tail end of a business trip for both of us (our version of a ‘date weekend’). Becky is making great progress on her new software venture, and I am still busy collecting many of the payments you make to your kids’ private schools at Diamond Mind. It was very fun to catch up with Chris Covington, Adam Koval, and Dan Givens last summer in SF before a board meeting.” Gary Domoracki has been busy.... “On the personal front, Christie and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary earlier this year and we spent 8 days partying in the Dominican Republic with our six kids.... On the business front, after working for 5 years as a CEO for two different large family offices, I have gone back to the Wall Street world. I was running the old Lehman Brothers/Barclays wealth management office in Boston, which was recently bought by Stifel, a middle-market investment bank based in St. Louis. They have made a lot of acquisitions, including Thomas Weisel Partners. The firm and culture remind me of the old DLJ days. I am personally still working with a few family offices, and Stifel investment banking is buying and selling companies and bringing companies public. We are a very entrepreneurial firm and we are

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And no column is complete without the inspiring words of Tom Piper. “I’m up here in Burlington, VT. Home of Bernie S., the next president of the United States. Finally, I’m going to get some of that Wall St. money in the form of special entitlements. This is long overdue. Share the wealth, people!... As to my life, I’m working with T’14 Paul Turbeville up at Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs in Monroe, NH, a lot. I’m not sure Paul was made to suffer as much in Dec Sci, much less Man Ec, as I was, but he’s still a pretty good guy. Son Alex, who some of you may remember as a small child, will graduate this spring with a Poly Sci degree from Kenyon College. He would like a well-paying job at a prestigious think tank in D.C., so if any of you run one, please reach out. Younger son Zach is looking for an internship in sports management. Do any of you Wall St. guys own sports teams yet?” As for your humble class secretary, I [Doug Haar] recently hit the 5-year mark at Oliver Wyman leading talent management for their health care business. Michelle and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary this spring. Hannah, who was born at Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, NH, about 2 weeks after our Tuck graduation, is in the process of deciding what college to attend next fall. I may be selling a kidney to pay for it, but not sure what I’d do for her sophomore year. My other daughters, Rachel (almost 15) and Alexandra (almost 10), also keep me busy.” It is with a heavy heart that I end this column, as it is my first class notes update since the untimely passing of Ken Cohn. Ken’s intellectual curiosity and love of family and friends were second to none. His unfailing dedication to sending an update on his life for every column etched his face permanently on the T’98 Class Notes Mount Rushmore. We miss you, Ken!

’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia_rosenzweig@yahoo.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

’00 Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

With the reunion so recent in our memories I guess there was not much more to add for Tuck Today—so it’s a very short one this time around. If you haven’t signed up yet to our Facebook page, drop me a note and I’ll add you. There are a few interesting odds and ends in there, and the news there is always fresher than here. Lauren and Joe Santos are excited to announce “the birth of Mateo Maxwell Santos. The little guy was born on Wednesday, February 24, at 3:40 a.m. He weighed 7 lbs 9 oz and measured 20.5 inches long. Mateo, Mom, and Joe are doing great and Miles was excited to meet his little bro, snooze next to him and play with his hats.” They are updating their website with additional photos, check them out here: http://www.teamgeersantos. com/. It’s nice to see that new babies are still being added while some of the older alumni babies can now drive! After Sherilyn Butler’s trip down to Australia, she got a job at Amazon and also managed a trip to Japan to catch up with Ace Suzuki! This must be the year for Japan visits, because I’m going on a “spring break” holiday with my family to Tokyo and am planning to catch up with the full Japanese T’00 contingent. As far as Australia visits are concerned, Brian Foster will be making his annual pilgrimage in early April.

Hope all of you are well and look forward to getting more news for the fall issue!

’01 Lloyd Baskin lloyd@aya.yale.edu

Gina Clark des Cognets gina.des.cognets@tuck.dartmouth.edu

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Looking forward to seeing you all this fall for our FIFTEENTH reunion. Yes, let that settle in a bit as you kick back, relax, and hopefully enjoy a cold sip of something on your porch in the warm summer sun. Let’s head west to Seattle, where Peter Polson writes, “I’m neck deep in Tiller (tillerhq.com), a new company I’ve started to give people better tools to manage their personal finances. Our service pulls our customers’ transactions and balances into a live Google Sheet that’s updated every day. It’s designed for people who like to wrap their fingers around their data. It’s been a lot of fun, and we’re motivated to help people easily track and manage their finances. My wife Shannon (Tuck 2003) and I are living in the Methow Valley, a mountain town in the Cascades north of Seattle, and chasing around two boys ages 3 and 6.”

it gives her to spend time with her husband Bill and daughter Mackenna (4) in Miami. Liz Walles Duda and her family spent spring break in Belize. They “snorkeled, swam and fished, and caught our own dinner three times (the restaurant at our resort cooked the mackerels and snapper up for us). I liked being alone with my family on an uninhabited island but my three young kids were so loud I still don’t know the peace of a deserted island! I stay in touch with Gretchen Wallace (who continues to do amazing good in the world with Global Grassroots) and Marcela Huergo Dooley de Barakat. I reached my ten-year anniversary at the Federal Reserve this year.” The best part of Liz’s note was that she is willing to take over as an editor on this column, which made my [Gina’s] week! Liz’s North Carolina neighbor, Jason Copland, recently visited Hanover as part of a visit to “the not so snowy north for a few days over spring break, and we were able to visit Katrina [Veerman] in Stowe and see her new business (Katrina is rocking it in Stowe, VT, where she opened a coffee shop called PK Coffee, better known as the place for the best coffee in Vermont), as well as see Gina at Tuck. While I know I have aged, I am convinced that the ladies in our class look exactly the same.” (aw thanks, Jason, you always knew how to charm!) Ilsa Webeck is now an independent consultant and is working with medical technology companies of all types to address their marketing and strategic challenges. “It has been great fun and a wild ride to set up my company, MedTech Strategies. I have really enjoyed reconnecting with folks as I have had the opportunity to network more often and attend more Dartmouth and Tuck events.”

Todd Buechs shares they are returning to San Diego after 3 years in Marin (who else wishes they were the 5th Buechs baby? Marin? San Diego? Yes please!) Donovan (20) is a red-shirt freshman playing college baseball for the College of Marin. Todd has been back with AllianceBernstein for almost 4 years—“I am a senior portfolio manager in the private wealth business. I travel a lot and with the move will be in the SF area 2-3 days a week in perpetuity, but like what I do and think the family will thrive back home.”

Julie Ennis and her family moved to the Denver area late last summer. She shares “we live to the west of Denver, and I’m loving being surrounded by hills again after 14 years in the flatlands of MN. We recently caught up with Eoin and Emily Theobald when we went to see their three charming and talented girls perform with their Irish dance group in a pre-St Patrick’s Day performance at a local pub. And we are all looking forward to seeing Sach and Sonya here as well!”

On the East Coast, the lovely and amazing Mary Turso continues to run her consumer research business. She has been an entrepreneur for 5 years and loves the flexibility

On my end, I’ve been lucky enough to travel far and wide for Tuck this spring, seeing many friendly and fabulous faces all along the way. In March I made a whirlwind trip to Buenos

Lighting up Shanghai with Jie Lian

Hojlo’s in the house in Abu Dhabi, with Steve McNeil

Aires, where Ed Pokorny and I connected at our Latin American Advisory Board meeting. Then in April I visited Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. I had the dinner of a lifetime with Jie Lian in Shanghai, who is doing wonderful things in private equity in China. Junbo Xia and I met for a late bite another night in Shanghai—he was down from Beijing doing some recruiting for his new firm, which focuses on cross-border commerce. And Natsuki Miyata and I had a delicious catch-up over sushi, sake, and green tea ice cream sundaes on my last night of the Asia trip in Tokyo, where he is running his family’s business. It will be so wonderful to see all of you in October—fingers crossed, Archer and I will be hosting a cocktail party for our class on Saturday night before the big dinner at our house. I’m thrilled to share that I’ve recently transitioned to a new role at Tuck—Executive Director, Office of the Dean. My day-to-day responsibilities are to work with the Dean and senior leadership to create an environment in which the time, leadership, and influence of the Dean and senior leaders are used to the greatest possible effect in support of Tuck’s mission. #dreamjob Sending you all laughter, smiles, and G-rock hugs until I see you in October. —XO SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

A brief T’02 update this time around: Kicking off with baby news from Julie (Prince) and T’01 Chris Hojlo: “On Wednesday, November 25th, the eve of Thanksgiving, our son was born. Weighing in at 8 lbs, 9 oz, and 21 inches long, he made a lot of noise for several days and then got stage fright and took his time to show up!

Suzanne and Edgar’s twin boys, Luca and Mateo

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working to organize something with fellow NJ burb-ite Jeannie Gomez, as well as NYCers Lorri Hamilton Durbin, Beth Kite, and Karen Tsai. Please get in touch with Suzanne if you are in the NY/NJ region and would like to join the fun. T’02s also gathered across the country in 2016 to join in Kelly Mead Leach’s Cycle for Survival events. Boston participants included Cynthia (Richmond) Umscheid, Gretchen (Moore) Curry, and Lisa Cloitre, plus an impressive crowd of T’01s. NYC and Greenwich, CT, riders included Julie Hojlo, Lorri and Ted Durbin, Dave Phillipps, Steve and Martha Palmer, Beth Kite, and Leslie Read; and M.G. Thibaut [Vestner] rounded out the Palo Alto team. All together, Kelly’s Pedaling Sunshine team raised over $250,000 to support Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—congratulations, hugs, and continued good health to Kelly, Dave, and their boys!

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I had a sneaking suspicion that I might shake out some new T’02 contributors when I crowned Tommy and Kara Crowley as the first members of the Five Kids Club in my last column. Affirming my instincts, First-Time Contributor John Molloy was quick to point out my error and claimed the first-to-five-kids status (Molloy also extended a warm welcome and congratulations to Crowley for joining the club, after writing “Crowley might be a member, but I hit five before he did”). John’s latest family addition, Charlie, was born on May 19, 2015, and joins Jack (9), Lucy (7), Ellie (5), and Annie (3). The Molloys also have two dogs, two cats, a guinea pig, and fish, and they all reside in the

Chicago suburbs. Molloy recently caught up with Josh Berger in Nashville (I’m guessing a fun spot in between Chicago and Boston), but the promised photo never arrived. Instead, I present to you the Molloy-Five-Kids and Crowley-Five-Kids photos. Hopefully they will all make our fall 2017 reunion. Speaking of Reunion, mark your calendars for the weekend of October 13, 2017. Book your Hanover Inn or Airbnbs, book your flights, book your babysitters. We are going to have great fun and hopefully do some great fundraising for Tuck at the same time. ’Til the next time, be happy, healthy, and keep in touch with your T’02 peeps!

’03 Cathy Kim Walker

making the company an even more reliable global bank. O is general manager of Fukoku Mutual Life and responsible for marketing their products to institutional clients. In 2006 Kazu started up his own company, called StompStamp, which imports fashionable goods for children. He now owns 5+ shops in major cities in Japan and is making lots of money and often appears on YouTube (thus we can expect more Tuck Giving). Hiroshi is a consultant and occasionally teaches “how to ‘design’ effective manufacturing products” at the top university in Japan. Teru just came back from the U.S. and is now a category leader at Amazon Japan. I am working at PIMCO as account manager covering Japanese financial institutions and never changed my job since I graduated from Tuck. We discussed lots of things during the dinner, including the global economic outlook and business implications. And we recognized that because of the negative interest rate in Japan, everyone in Japan should put their money with PIMCO.”

cathy.walker@lancergroup.net

After 13 years in Los Angeles, my family and I are now officially back on the Tuck side of the country. Right after the holidays Colin and I packed up our two kids (our girl, Brady, is now 7, and our guy, John, is 5), dog, and goldfish and moved to Westport, CT (to be between Boston and NY). Excited to be reconnecting with friends from MA, CT, and NY. Looking forward to seeing many of you this year— please let me know if you are in the area!

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The Clarks, Ryans, and Comiskeys on the boardwalk T’03 classmates in Japan

I was thrilled to hear from Ichiro Takeuchi all the way from Japan. He shared a jam-packed update: “In February, Huey Sasada, O Kobayashi, Kazu Narumiya, Hiroshi Hashiguchi, Teru Tawara, and I had dinner at Omotesando, Tokyo. Huey is now a senior manager at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and

Thank you, Chris Clark, for the great photos and the latest update. “The Clark Family is doing well ‘north of the border’! Right now, it’s all about minor hockey it seems, as the Clarks do their best to prep young Zachary and Tyler to make the Tuck Men’s ‘A’ hockey squad, circa 2033-2037!! Chris and Andrea continue to embrace entrepreneurial life, as we are both

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hard at work building our empires in the adventure travel business (Terraficionados) and the personal fitness industry (AGC Fitness). We have also managed to find time for some travels, including a classic road trip down to New York and the Jersey Shore this past August to hook up with the Ryan and Comiskey families for a wonderful long weekend of revelry.” A highlight of my March was catching up with Laura Scott. Here’s her short and sweet update for our class notes: “Life in Boston is good. Kids are now 15 (!) and 10 yrs old. Dan is in 9th grade—high school!! Can’t believe it. Ella is in middle school. We got a second chocolate lab so now we have Jackson (13) and Leroy (7 months). Nick is doing well and our folks are all still healthy. Good news all around.” And finally, through some miraculous feat of coordination, a large contingent of 2003 golfers assembled a one-in-a-lifetime trip. Jason Lina reached out to share: “Before I say anything about the epic T’03 golf trip to Ireland in September that could get any of the participants into trouble, I need to start by thanking the eight wives who let us make the weeklong pilgrimage and stayed home to watch the 19 kids we collectively left behind. After over a year of planning, eight of us (Mike Conlon, Dave Rhodes, Collin Anderson, Wylie Peterson, Roderick Carmody, Jason Adair, Scott Lantzy, and me) made the trek across the Atlantic to play 6 rounds of golf in Southern Ireland. Fortunately or unfortunately, we experienced typical Irish conditions for most of the week, which meant our rain suits were put to good use as we chased golf balls through some combination of rain, clouds, cold, and steady 20-40 mph winds. Aside from spectacular golf courses and not-so-spectacular play, other highlights of the week included dinner in a castle, side trips to see the Cliffs of Moher, Dingle Peninsula, and Ring of Kerry, many SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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CL ASS NOTES ’05 Francis Barel francis.barel@gmail.com

Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

The Murphy Hotel Group

Nora Sanchez (3.75 years) and Jack Sanchez (2 years)

late nights in Irish pubs, a few too many pints of Guinness, and a historic race between Rhodes and Conlon that you’ll simply have to ask about at the next reunion. Although there were several hundred photos taken during the week, two are obvious candidates for submission—one of Wylie duffing a shot with the rainbow/ocean backdrop and another at the only hotel/bar combo in Ireland worthy of hosting a group from Tuck—Murphy’s.” After 13 years of Los Angeles perma-summer, it’s wondrous to have snow and springlike temperatures in the same week. Ah, New England weather! Please keep the news coming.—Cathy

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

Hi everyone. I hope you are having a great year and that your summer is off to a good start. This one is short but the updates are no less exciting. Francisco Tobias updates that he is now the CFO for Banamex, Mexico’s second-largest bank and a Citigroup subsidiary. Duncan Chapple just started a three-year appointment as alumni fellow at Nottingham Business School in the U.K. “I am focused on research that builds, among other things, on work that [Professor] Margaret Peteraf published during my semester studying with her in 2003. I am halfway though my PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh

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Happy summer from Frank and Paloma

business school, where I have been teaching master’s students for the last year.” Hunter Peterson has left Trinity Hunt Partners after ten years to start a new private equity firm, Renovation Capital. “I’ve invested in one company thus far, the nation’s leading car repo provider.” Bart Cornelissen has had a pretty happening year, with the arrival of his son last May and a new job back in the Netherlands, after seventeen years of working abroad. “Now we have a 3 1/2 year old girl and a 9 month old boy. It has been an interesting and challenging homecoming, and we are now slowly integrating again back home. Amazing how some things haven’t changed, and at the same time realizing how much you have changed yourself.” Be well and don’t miss your chance to tell us what you have been up to. —Frank Arias T’04

Hi T’05s—what a GREAT reunion; it was wonderful to see everyone in Hanover from all over the world! We had an impressive turnout of folks, though certainly not everyone we wanted to see could make it this time...special shout-out to those who trekked from Brazil, China, England, France, Hong Kong, Mexico, and Singapore!!! Francis Barel and Dora Fang, your ever loyal (and often lonely because you don’t write us!) class secretaries, with the help of awesome classmates—Carey Albertine, Dave Gilbertson, Jonathan Lewis, and Tom Felago—put together a little program for the class dinner, and we all had a lot of fun! Special thanks to these folks! For those of you who missed it, we gathered last October to meet with our classmates and relive some of our best Hanover memories. And even after all this time, we still remember so fondly and vividly those two years at Tuck like it happened yesterday. We still cherish our incredible 24 months when we got to make friends for life and learn skills that we would never forget. But even if it happened just “yesterday,” a lot has happened in 10 years. Some of us got married (and some got divorced...and a few got married again!) and had children. Others had more children. Many more children. Whether it’s finally having cell-phone reception—and something “new” called a smartphone—or having a coffee place on campus, or seeing Whittemore considered as the “old” dorm, Hanover has moved on, for the better. But Tuck remains so close to our heart, just like our classmates. And we wouldn’t have it any other way.... Some of the highlights from the class dinner were bottles of Brooklyn Gin (graciously donated by Emil Jattne, who didn’t even come but sent two jumbo bottles of delicious booze) for Bill Dering and wife Kate, who’ve had

FOUR KIDS since we graduated, and for Nik Shah and wife Jessica, who bravely brought their FOUR-WEEK-OLD BABY to Reunion. Notably, ONE of these bottles of Brooklyn Gin was finished at the table that night, and one of the bottles was safely brought back to the hotel. (Hint, it wasn’t the couple with the newborn...it was the other bottle winner and their table friends....) Honorable mentions to Wojtek Wolski and wife Samantha, who brought a 3-month-old baby, and Craig della Penna and wife Caroline, who brought a 6-month-old baby.... Farthest traveled—by a lot, at 9,375 miles— from Singapore was Arvind Singh and his wife Gunjali, who were rewarded by a lovely and stylish Gucci handbag (thanks to Carly Glassmeyer Rosenberg and her company Bluefly!). Speaking of traveling (and moving) a lot—Dora Fang and Yansong Xue tied for the most jobs post-Tuck with SEVEN JOBS (yes, Dora won this award at the 5th reunion as well, along with Jesse Sherman in 2010), and Rahul Jain has lived in FIVE CITIES since graduation. Lots of laughs and great memories, and we can’t wait to see you all again, in Hanover, at your place, at our place, or anywhere. Sorry, no pics this issue—we’re all exhausted from that reunion. ’Til next time!

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

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You didn’t listen to us. We kept promising an unedited submission from Bryan Falchuk if you didn’t send in your updates...so here

it is, 300+ words of plot twists in the last 6 months of Falchuk: “There’s quite a bit going on since my last update. I joined the advisory board of a start-up called GuardHat founded by T’05 Saikat Dey to create a smart hard hat that will literally save lives; then I joined them full time this summer to build their insurance partnerships, analytics strategy and help get funding; then I un-joined them full time and went back on the advisory board because of the next part of my update. I ran my first marathon (Chicago) in October, raising nearly $6,000 for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (thanks to many of you for pitching in and T’06 Adam Tyner for running with me during my training). Then a few days later, I started a new job as Chief Claims Officer for the U.S. business of a different British insurance company than the one I used to work for (it’s called Hiscox). I’m based in Atlanta, but still live outside of Boston at the moment and am just getting to know the staff at Delta really well. The job has been amazing so far, or at least insurance-amazing, which is probably ‘not amazing’ in other industries but I like it. On top of that, I’ve been using all of my flights to write a book to help inspire people to live better, healthier, happier lives. I just finished the manuscript, and hope to have it available for purchase before the end of the year - more to follow as it develops. Big thanks to several Tuckies for helping with editing (e.g. I just spoke to T’07/TP’06 Christine Schuldt about her editing on the book, so shout out to Matt and Christine). And a pre-emptive thanks to many more Tuckies to help get the word out when it’s available to buy. That’s all for now can’t wait for the 10-year reunion!” OK, so not totally unedited. Sharp-eyed readers will recognize that MS Word suggested we add hyphens to “start-up” and “10-year.” And, we’ll add, that we very greatly appreciate Bryan’s consistent submissions. Based on his recurring word-storm of updates, he’d win the Class Notes MVP. The rest of you, take note. And now that you’re fully briefed on all things Falchuk, you can enjoy staring blankly at him during the reunion with nothing left to say. It feels like ages since we’ve heard from Erik Cafarella—and he’s given us good reason to stay away from central Connecticut: “Thought I would write to announce that our third son, Sam, was born on September 8, 2015. He will undoubtedly do his best to aid his brothers, William, 5, and Colin, 3, in wreaking as much havoc as possible!” Likely nature and nurture.

We’re not really sure what this next update from Csaba means. We can only assume there’s a carefully encoded message to the some intelligent Tuck Today-reading alien species, so again, we’ll give it to you unedited: “Hello everyone, I never predicted that I would design my most complex spreadsheet decision model for an Android/iOS game. I designed the internal economy for the studio that launched Hello Kitty World of Friends. Best, Csaba.”

Cafarella needs a babysitter for his 3 boys—any volunteers?

Manuel proves that you can ski with a pocket full of berries.

While we definitely don’t know what it means, we do know that grown men shouldn’t be writing words like “Hello Kitty World of Friends.” Hoping a Siri auto-correct is to blame. Manuel de Tezanos Pinto sends in one of those updates that fills us with jealousy: “It’s been almost two years since I joined Driscoll’s Berries as a director of finance, leading global expansion. Yes, I get to enjoy berries every day! We live in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and we always have a good time when friends and family visit us. The whole family is enjoying the ocean, the mountains and many outdoors activities, including travel soccer for Manu Jr. and Santi. In April, Carol and I will be running the Big Sur Marathon, and I am considering a triathlon any time soon. This winter, we had a

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CL ASS NOTES great ski season, with plenty of snow in Squaw Valley. PS: Eat more Driscoll’s berries! ‘Only the finest berries.’” OK, we did 22 minutes on the elliptical last week.

Langrick is already teaching their latest Tiny Tuckie to raise the roof.

Rob Langrick writes: “With 2016 being an election year and immigration being a hot topic, in an abundance of caution Sara and I decided that two babies were better than one. Miles Tristan Langrick was born on 11th December 2015. His sister Isabelle is 54 weeks older, which in local vernacular makes them ‘Irish twins.’ But you won’t see either Irish twin at Reunion as Sara quite honestly needs a break after being pregnant for two years.”

doing great. Dad is planning to be a nervous wreck for a very long time.” Pop a few collars and relax, Daddy-O. Kummell is almost finished with his 12 months of not competing. He spent 5 months growing a pretty amazing beard, turned 40, built a 750-square-foot wood shop, lost some weight, gained some weight back, made a few school lunches, slept in a lot, went on vacation in an RV, and went to Tuck a few times. Not as epic as planned, but not a terrible way to spend almost a year. Back to the salt mines soon enough. Keeler continues to wander aimlessly through the halls of Groupon until kind strangers walk him into their offices and give him a new job. His most recent gig is running merchandising for Groupon. When he’s not googling “what is merchandising,” he’s spending his time teaching Quinn and Owen words and phrases that he quickly has to remind them are “not for school... just for home...and not in front of Mom.”

’07 Leslie Hampel leslie_hampel@yahoo.com

Christopher Herbert christopher.m.herbert@gmail.com

Lots to report this issue, including new Tuckie motorcycle gangs, attacks from children on our very way of life, and a new insider to the Icy Hot product that many of you are using to get through the aches and pains that plague your transition into your 40s and 50s. Ben Flaim wrote that he and Kate are enjoying life in Cambridge, Mass., with Tuck (5.5) and Ellie (3.5). Ben’s still at Goldman and Kate is still freelancing for Fortune magazine and others. They try to see Tuckies whenever possible. Ben caught up with Tim Hannan and Ania in London in October, then inadvertently insulted Burgamy and Eckert by not seeing them when he was in Vail in February. The Flaims got together with the Kellys, Onstott Perrygos, and Chaytorses for a weekend of fun this winter, complete with 7 children. It was loud but a great time, complete with Shawn Kelly serenading everyone with his exhaustive knowledge of all songs from the ’80s. As always, they’d love to see any and all classmates. (Pic attached, sorry no audio recordings.)

Manning and Danley fresh after watching the Lion King with Professor Bell

Penelope James Keys

Noah and Laura Keys welcomed a future finance professional into the world in March. “We are thrilled to welcome to the world Penelope James Keys. Poppy arrived on Friday, March 4th, at 2:33am weighing 7 pounds / 7 ounces. Mom and our brand new baby girl are

Manning kept his Facebook commitment by posting an intolerable number of ski pictures this season. A non-skiing highlight of the year was the Tuck Alumni / Dartmouth Travel trip to Cuba. Chris and Kelly Manning, along with Jeff and Kim Danley, did the trip in March with Andy Steele and 31 other Tuck alums. It was very interesting and informative, and fun to meet other Tuckies of all ages, including a special guest in the nearby picture!

The Flaim/Kelly/Onstott Perrygo/Chaytorse children

Sonali Aggarwal wrote, “Over the July 4th, 2015, weekend, I married the love of my life, Mukesh Vij (Kellogg ’09). We had a traditional

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multi-day Indian wedding filled with dancing and music. The wedding celebrations took place in my hometown of Princeton, New Jersey, and it was so wonderful to celebrate our nuptials with family and close friends (including Tuckies, of course!). Everyone had a great time joining in the festivities, and Tuckies in attendance to celebrate with the happy couple included Supreet Ahluwalia, Ben Flaim, Penny Welsh, Rohit Dugar, Maansi [Gupta] Dugar, Michael Galvez, Alex Lizcano, Gaurav Talwar, Ranjot Singh, and Lorell Tay (T’06).”

Tuckies at the Aggarwal/Vij wedding

Alan Operman wrote, “Been a while since I provided an update. I believe I am now the last T’07 still at Amex (in own defense this is my third gig since Tuck). There is this voice in my head telling me that being the last one here isn’t a good thing, and I kind of miss hanging out with Penny. I recently changed roles here. Having spent the previous few years in the alternative payments space, I am now in corporate development doing M&A and investments. I thought it was interesting, but then my kids commented that talking on the phone and making pictures on slides is not a real job. A sobering perspective on my life provided by six-year-olds who are not that far behind me in PPT skills. (Secty note: you should make some slides to explain to your children why talking on the phone and making slides is a real job. I think a few of us could help...we need to stick together against these hateful attacks.) “On the personal front not much new to report: still married (wife has high threshold for immaturity), three awesome kids (+1 from previous update, he’s almost three), house (unfortunately same house), minivan (embarrassingly the same one).” Audrey The-Dumas wrote with some very exciting news. Are you sitting down? She is

still in Singapore, still has 2 kids, and is still at Cambridge Associates. Is your jaw hanging open? Snap out of it. At least she took the time to write in!

actually hand lotion. Violet is 3 and likes to run around the house naked and farts like her Dad. [Secty note: TMI, dude, TMI] Pic attached of the mashed potatoes.”

Christian Koether wrote in to talk about his new motorcycle gang, and kitchens. First, he reports that Brian Stedman bought a new Harley-Davidson and is the 2nd member of the gang. Their territory is lower Fairfield County, including Westport and Weston, and they are actively recruiting. I’ve never been happier that I moved away from Connecticut 3 years ago.... Christian also reports that his company, Kitchen Brains, landed a new account, Pei Wei, part of P.F. Chang’s. “You can see our Tracker timers in their open layout kitchens over the fryer.” Scott Seiffert wrote “I moved to Chattanooga, TN, last year after 8 years at P&G and I’m working for Chattem on the Icy Hot brand. My wife (Caroline, from Cincy) and I have a 16-month-old son, Wells, and just found out we are expecting twins in the fall. Things are good. Turns out Chattanooga is a super cool town, having just been named best place in America by Outside magazine. We’d love visitors, as we might not be leaving our house much in the future w/ three kids under two. :)” Welcome to the South, Scott. Paul Atwood and his wife Jenna had their fourth “(and last!)” child on February 4th. Her name is Sibley Evelyn Atwood. Casey McCullar has exciting news but first I must publish his apology. “Sorry my update is not more hilarious, but I haven’t slept for eight hours in a row since Eliza joined the team. We’ve got a new baby update for the ‘acquisitions’ section: Eliza Jane McCullar was born at 8:43 PM on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Longmont, Colorado, weighing 6 pounds 15 ounces and 19.5 inches long.” Apology not accepted. As Sarah Palin would say, man up. Marc Aquila attached a picture of mashed potatoes to his update, which I’m really hoping (a) gets published, and (b) is a first for Tuck Today. He writes, “My update is a shameless plug to send me anyone you know who may want to get a master’s in public health from Dartmouth. I continue to live the dream in Norwich, VT, on my spacious estate with chickens and bees and my amazing wife and two perfect daughters. Poppy is 1 year old now and walking and thinks mashed potatoes are

Poppy Aquila, with mashed potatoes

Joe and Aki Matsunaga Fletcher are still living in Sydney and enjoying it. They recently visited NYC for a quick trip and dined with Melanie Mitchell. She attempted to catch him up on all the T’07 happenings she was aware of, but Joe is looking forward to a fabricated update from me. I would never do that; it would go against every instinct I have as a truth-telling journalist and frankly I’m insulted by his calling out of my integrity. Finally, Joe reported that he is suffering from a bizarre rash in his lower body area. Not sure what to make of that. He sent a pic but I decided not to publish it. Lauren King wrote in to report on her and Ben King’s recent trips to South Africa and the Poconos. Who does that? South Africa is exciting and projects an image of worldtraveling moguls. The Poconos is just so boring in comparison. I know, I’ve been there. Here it is: “Ben and I went to South Africa for vacation (sans kids) this past January. Ben had work in Cape Town so I joined and we went on safari in Sabi Sands/Kruger. While Ben was working, I met up with Johanna Kollar and her fiancé Henry Camp for lunch in Constantia. (Pic attached.) [Secty note: No details on lions, tigers, bears, giraffes. Gee thanks.] Finally, Ben got his wish of taking his kids to learn to ski. We took Tyler to Camelback in the Poconos. He had ski school and then Ben spent the days with him learning pizza. And we all went snow

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CL ASS NOTES tubing. This was the weekend after Winter Storm Jonas and it was 45 degrees, so Tyler thinks East Coast skiing is always full of fresh powder and warm sunny days. At least now he is 1 for 1.

’08 Allison Curran amc0501@hotmail.com

Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

Louisa Roberts louisabgoodlet@gmail.com

Lauren and Johanna

[Editor’s note: Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for T’08 class notes pics!] Alright T’08s, after a brief hiatus we are back. Themes for this update include BABIES (shocker) and relocations, packaged with communication brevity (i.e., each topic about two lines total, ManCom skim style).

Ty King skiing

Finally, an update from me (Christopher Hebert) from Atlanta. I left The Weather Channel after 3½ years and just started a new gig at CNN. I’m excited to be returning to the news business. Hopefully my mother-inlaw will stop blaming me every time it rains, though I guess this new gig introduces the risk that she starts blaming me if the election doesn’t go the way she wants. Greta and I are thrilled that we were able to find a great role that keeps us in Atlanta, which we are loving. Please visit if you find yourself in town.

We will start off with baby news. Charlie Schilling shared the news that “Lindsey and I welcomed Piper Andrews Schilling (Pippa) on October 13, 2015. She was 21 inches tall and weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces, but is now much bigger!” Arnaldo Romera welcomed Arthur Romera, born last December. “Now I have another reason not to come back to consulting. I am in São Paulo managing an investment/financial advisory boutique, and my office is one block away from my home to have enough time to handle my new challenges of changing diapers, putting Arthur to sleep, etc. :) ” Seth and Kirsten Walton welcomed their third girl, baby Louise. (Totally named after Louisa Roberts—heaven help them!) Ashley Martin-Golis also had an “awesome” baby girl. “I started a new job at 6 months pregnant and my company Sproutling got acquired by Mattel. Woo! Lucile has been organizing the Bay Area Tuckies to do stuff and Hughes is out here now too.” On to our baby/relocation two-fer news with Jennifer Lapovsky who shares that “in the last year I had a baby and moved to London with Amazon to manage their pan-European watch business. Loving it and adjusting!”

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Naman Baliga-Desikamani shared that “after spending a reasonable amount of time last year exploring opportunities that would allow me to stay in Colorado (corporate, consulting, etc.), I gave up. CO is not ideal for financial services, unfortunately. I began recruiting in the Tri-State area in Oct last year and accepted an offer with New York Life just before the holidays. On the homefront, Vatsa and I are figuring out our move back to the East Coast. I am temporarily subletting an apt in Gramercy.” Justin White shared his promotion to diversified PM at Trow. “I’ll be the manager of a 3.5 billion dollar fund, ‘New America Growth Fund,’ effective April 1 for multicap growth.” This makes him the youngest U.S. fund manager at the company, currently. Not bad. Andrea Perez headed into a sabbatical last October. Six blissful weeks off work. “I think in Europe they have this every year, go figure.” She MCed a wedding in Australia, surfed in Bali, and trekked around Bhutan. Sabbaticals sound like something we all need in our lives! That’s it for this update. Happy spring everyone, and please continue to send news (any news will do, we’re not picky) for the next update!

’09 Patricia Henderson patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

Colin Van Ostern colin@vanostern.com

An ode to Hanover Nine years ago, in the spring of 2007, many of us met face-to-face for the first time over a long weekend in Hanover, affectionately dubbed “ASW”—Admitted Students Weekend. Here’s the only picture we could find of that weekend in which no one is actually identifiable (so far as we can tell). You’re welcome. Before that weekend we had sized each other up on Tuck message boards, maybe over cocktails

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in a regional get-together, or through friends of friends. By and large, most of us were not yet on “the Facebook.” Almost no one was on Twitter. Well, actually that’s still true.

After 18 months of full-time search, Bart Van Nuffel finally closed on a company. BELBAL (short for Belgian Balloons), www.belbal.com, one of the leading latex balloon producers and printers in the world. Bought it with his brother-in-law and PE backing. As of October last year, he reports his life now revolves only around balloons. However, he has become a super-popular dad, as his kids got promoted to full time product-testers and they love it. Traveling a lot (50% of his time) between Belgium HQ and Polish factory (learning Polish...freaking hard; pic attached in the factory).

At ASW, we bonded nervously in Stell, with abandon in Buchanan, to the tunes of U2 and Jon Bon Jovi in Alumni Hall, and groggily over lunch at the Skiway the next day. One not-tobe-named dean visited the ice luge. We drank the Kool-Aid (literally). Then: Outward Bound or Habitat for Humanity or Math Camp or moving-in. Study groups, fall A, AGM, recruiting, aghhh! FYPs and LPs. Internships and relationships. Sachem and Tripod and so many Tuck ’Tails. Nearly a decade later, the Career Development office looks back at the spring of 2009 as “the low point”—an ominous downward spike in job placement data that sticks out on a 20-year graph like cautionary tale, coming after the Great Recession.

Bart Van Nuffel in his factory in Poland

Lucas Nelson got married on October 31st to Jeannie Lee (also a Dartmouth alum) in Bend, OR. It was a Hallowedding (not a trick but a treat) and a small family-only event. While the rehearsal dinner was lightly Star Wars themed, the actual wedding was traditional.

Eric and Jackie Yu with Tuck friends

Eric Yu is still doing healthcare VC investing in Beijing, with a different firm, Matrix China, though. Jackie has started her own marketing automation company, Lavector, which is growing healthily. Kyle is a third-grader now and has Eric’s big laughs. Attached is a picture taken when they were taking a vacation on the Big Island. Colin has realized he can use his campaign for governor of New Hampshire as an excuse for various Tuckie get-togethers: in Hanover with Caroline Kendall, Dan Weinstein, Ryan McGovern, and numerous faculty; in Boston with Michelle & Jon Edwards in December; in Boston with Carolyn Zern, Jenn Blazejewski, Ezra Gordon, Sara Mohan T’08, Julie & Rob Higgins T’08 in January; in New York with Josh Gould, the Matthewses, Kristin (Gaudino) Rowe; Rena Harper; Evan Konwiser T’08 and Jarek Berndt T’08, at the home of Charlie Schilling T’08 in March, and more coming!

But also nearly a decade later we can report: the kids are alright. Now we’re the ones forwarding on the Tuck resume, calling back an eager applicant to help them network, sponsoring an FYP, and returning to Hanover on recruiting trips. Tuck Love continues. And in news from your classmates: Darius and Julia Matthews welcomed their second son, Kostas Theodore Matthews on 10/19/15. They also made the inevitable migration—buying a house in the Princeton, NJ, area. All are welcome for bbqs and pong in the yard.

Governor-to-be Colin Van Ostern with Tuck supporters

Lucas Nelson and Jeannie Lee

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[Editor’s note: Please check out additional T’10 photos in the T’10 class notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu!] Time for an around-the-world tour of T’10s, starting at the center of the universe (Hanover, NH) and moving west. The T’10s lucky enough to live in Hanover were of course too busy enjoying the good life in the Upper Valley to report any news, so we’ll have to skip to the next city west of Hanover: New York. Vicki Chen and Milen Todorov welcomed daughter Isabelle Violet Todorov, who they report has her father’s long legs and her mother’s sneaky personality. The three are living in Brooklyn. Vicki recently returned to work at Deloitte, Milen continues at UBS, and Izzie is ideating on her next venture. Over in Manhattan, Christine Lio Capilouto recently co-founded a consulting firm working with governments and their stateowned entities in the field of extractives. She continues to represent the government of Afghanistan in negotiations for the construction of a pipeline transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Rumor also has it that Christine recently traveled to Namibia with her 3yo son Tristan! This makes me feel slightly less proud of having taken my son to the Gymboree today. Carolyn Chen was supposed to marry Philip Warner on Jan 23, but the tiny matter of 27 inches of snow in NYC caused the couple to delay the wedding to Jan 24. Somehow despite a 23-hour delay all of her guests and vendors managed to make it. Clearly someone was paying attention in operations management, because that is a serious feat of logistics. Dan Peterson and his wife Traci are both doing well in Northern Virginia. Dan writes, “With us being in a stable home and having a stable job, Traci and I are close to being in a

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Philip Warner and Carolyn Chen The Cape family place in our lives where we can realistically be ready for our first child. Which is great, because it appears that our third child will be coming in October.” We think this puts Dan ahead of his entire fall study group combined! Anyone traveling through DC/Northern Virginia is welcome to stay with the Petersons, who always love to see Tuckies. Up north in Toronto, Eaun Gray has quit his banking gig to become director of business development at Franco-Nevada. He is also engaged to be married to his longtime girlfriend Kim Horvath this coming August. We all knew these things would happen eventually—it just took some time! Robert and Anne Faber are loving life in Tampa, Florida, with their two boys (3.5yo Richard and 18mo Liles). Anne is OVP for corporate strategy and M&A at the Home Shopping Network, and Robert is a principal at Ballast Point Ventures, a Tampa-based growth equity firm. Robert shared the completely unsurprising news that Kevin Williams recently wowed Robert’s firm’s annual limited partner meeting with a kick-ass keynote on teamwork, perseverance, and culture. Before leaving town Kevin also built a homeless shelter out of kindling, administered CPR to a dolphin in distress, and sped up his flight’s departure by himself performing some necessary maintenance. All in a day’s work. Yeny Malaver’s employer recently awarded her with the 2015 Platinum Award for her role representing SunTrust with the Hispanic community in Atlanta. This award is the highest recognition given at SunTrust. Way to go, Yeny!

In Chicago, Tony Cape and wife Carly welcomed a new baby this past December: Margaret Susan Cape (Maggie) has joined forces with Will and Rosie to fill the Cape house with noise and banish sleep forever. Rodrigo De La Torre has left both New York City and banking, landing in Dallas at Pizza Hut. I want to say that he is VP of Pizza Innovation, responsible for coming up with new things to stuff into the crust, but the truth is that he’s working on driving international growth for the business. Before starting at Pizza Hut Rodrigo took a surf trip to Hawaii. Check out his picture with Carlos Burle, one of the top big-wave surfers in the world.

Rodrigo De La Torre and big-wave surfer Carlos Burle

Paul Snow and family are starting their sixth year in LA and Paul continues at YouTube, where he’s been since graduation. Paul uses his job to fulfill childhood dreams, like spending his birthday this year at a Star Wars screening with J.J. Abrams. If you are visiting LA and Travis Page is too busy to hang out, give Paul a ring. He’d love to see you, and it will make him

feel better about having missed Reunion. Scott Dalgleish and wife Alex have truly settled into Santa Monica, having acquired both a dog and a condo. Is their defection the cause of the Canadian dollar’s collapse? Only Dean Slaughter, armed with the login to Scott’s Mint.com account, could possibly answer this question. Scott is now director of finance at DaVita HealthCare Partners. Also in LA, James Brooman recently launched his custom-fit, style-focused, performance outdoorwear venture, Firefit. Inclined to make a purchase? Check out www.firefit.cc or back Firefit on Indiegogo. Seriously, please make a purchase so James doesn’t have to find another creative way to occupy himself—there are lots of continents wider than Australia. I knew San Francisco’s population was growing rapidly, but I had no idea that Tuck families were such a major driver of the growth. Adam Carson is happy to report from San Francisco that he and Anna welcomed a new son, Daniel Carson. Adam continues at JPMorgan Chase and reports that all is great at work. Also in SF, Robert Lariviere and Dorothy welcomed their second daughter, Taylor Alexandria, on their first daughter’s birthday. That will make for some serious birthday-party efficiencies. Igor Borojevic and family are also in SF and also now number four. After two years of effectively living apart (i.e., working for BCG), the Borojevics moved to sunny California, where Igor bikes to work instead of flying. Igor recently made a happy move from PayPal to a startup, and the family is relocating to San Mateo so they can hang out with more Tuckies.

Yasuhiro Osako and his wife Momoka T’11 had their first baby, known as Yuki, on January 29, 2015. Check out the adorable photo of Yuki at his six-month birthday.

Matt Proch-Wilson is still living in Boston but dropped a line from Denver, where he was temporarily sleeping on a sofa in a Tuck house rented out for CarniVail. According to Matt, he invited himself to join the festivities with Charlie Woolcott, Ryan Guest, Carolyn Maezes, and Meredith Giersch and then followed up with several reminder emails to the group until they finally agreed to let him tag along—provided he showed up with enough Coors Light for a heck of a lot of fog pong.

Harry Alverson has recently accepted a new role with IBM Market Intelligence and as part of the deal relocated to Singapore, where his adorable daughters Emmeline and Mirabelle are learning to appreciate all kinds of strange and awesome new things.

Some other news we’ve heard but been unable to verify: · A lex Figueroa is now CFO of a solar energy company in Connecticut. · John Kim bought a Porsche—unclear what kind, might just be a Boxster. · Juan Tomasini got married, so The Bachelor will have to look elsewhere next season. · Sam and Laura Stearns had a baby and like them their baby is completely perfect. · John and Amanda Hegge had a baby, Otto, who somehow manages to look exactly like both of them despite the fact that they look nothing like each other. Thank you all for sharing your updates. Keep them coming!

Over in Marseille, France, Lionel Lopez is pleased to report that there are now four members of his family, with Alexandre joining this past July 15.

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Yasuhiro, Momoka, and Yuki Osako

Steve Parks reports from Perth that all is good: he has three kids, a wonderful wife, and the same job. Sorry, forgot one important detail: Steve did mention that he has the SAME wonderful wife. Phew!

Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

Sylvie Liberman is still in Seattle—and NEVER leaving!—and is enjoying her work at a fast-growing machine-learning startup called Dato. She recently got engaged to a punk rock singer. Yes, you read that correctly. Worried she might have gone off the deep end? Calm yourselves, as he also has an MBA. In Sydney, Mike McFadden and his wife Shannon are the proud parents of a new son, James Stewart McFadden. Rumor has it that his mom was in labor for 38 hours—or a short day, according to the couple who met at Bain. Mike, mom Shannon, bossy big sister Emma, and James are all doing great.

sister Sophia, who is almost four years old.

Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

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The Lopez family

In London, Zlati Christov and wife Teddy welcomed their second daughter, Juliet Christova, this past August. Juliet joins big

Fellow T’11s, You’ve been busy! Thanks for keeping us updated. I can’t wait to see everyone in October at Reunion. —Amanda Fellow T’11s, It’s extremely difficult to track you down, and I am tired of begging

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CL ASS NOTES for updates. Please do think of us when something major happens in your life and shoot us an email. Your former classmates are still very interested in your lives. —Shaun Fellow T’11s, Shaun can’t wait to see you too. —Amanda ENGAGEMENTS Steve Bates got engaged last spring to his girlfriend, Liza Burke. Steve and Liza met in Boston in the fall of 2013 and quickly bonded over their shared love of cooking, spreadsheets, and hockey (Bates is working hard to convert her into a Sabres fan). Liza grew up in western Mass, in a town even smaller than Hanover. They look forward to their wedding this summer in the Berkshires. Julia Shaver got engaged to David Klema. Julia writes, “We’re both Minnesotans who spent 10 years on the East Coast prior to heading back home. We met online, just bought a house together, and are now in major house project mode. We’re both big-time MN cabin people who love being on the water...and since he’s a hockey player, I’ll be improving my Tuck Tripod skills over time now!” Villamor Asuncion proposed to Virginia Barb on September 9th, 2015 in Santa Monica, CA. The couple met at a training in March 2013 when Vill asked T’12 Terry Farmer, whom he was sitting next to at the time, to move over to make room for Virginia. Virginia and Vill will marry on October 15th in Cincinnati where both work for P&G in marketing. Danner Hickman got engaged to Dan Keeley on February 27th. He proposed on a run, which was quite appropriate. Danner almost missed the proposal because she thought he was being lazy and was asking for too many walk breaks. Clearly she was surprised. The couple was in Costa Rica on vacation to escape the winter. They ran into T’12 Abby Whitbeck, who was taking surfing lessons. The rumor mill also led us to believe that Lindsay Wilner and Jed Sturman are engaged to one another, and Joanie Taylor is engaged to restaurateur Drew Salmon. MARRIAGES John Cristando married Camilla Hilliges

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Rohan, Saumya, and Ari Shetty welcome baby girl Ira.

John Cristando married Camilla Hilliges on New Year’s Eve in New York.

on New Year’s Eve in New York City. She is Swedish and he is Italian, so a strong meatball game is expected.

Rohan Shetty, Saumya, and Ari write, “We wanted to share some joyous news in the new year: We were blessed with a baby girl on Monday January 18 at 11:57 pm. Both Mom and baby are doing fine. While big brother thought he dodged storm troopers on the way to see her (they were nurses), he could not be happier! Ira weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and is 20” in length. Her name is inspired from the Sanskrit word for earth.”

Alex Guffanti and Stacy Groll were married on February 26, 2016 at Gedney Farm, MA. TINY TUCKIES Juan Pablo Lankenau and his wife, Lolyna, welcomed their fourth child into the family on February 15th. The other Lankenau kids are very excited about their new baby brother, Sebastian Lankenau Maldonado. Ryu Iwase welcomed daughter Lynn to this world on Dec 18, 2015. Notes Ryu, “Now I don’t need to think twice to answer the common, “So, what keeps you up at night?” The start to a lifelong project! It’s tough, but I’m happy.” We’re happy for you too, Ryu!

Sarah Apgar Smith and Ben welcomed Emory on February 23.

Sarah Apgar (Smith) and Ben welcomed Emory Apgar-Smith on February 23. Sarah’s still at Warby Parker and writes, “We find out Ben’s residency location for plastic surgery in March. He starts in July.” Edgar Pastrana and Cata Quintero welcomed baby Elena Pastrana, born Friday, January 29, weighing in at a petite 5lb 15oz and measuring 19 inches.

Juan Pablo & Lolyna welcome baby number four, Sebastian Lankenau Maldonado.

Robert Reiling and Joelle welcomed Aya Grace Reiling. Igor Zamkovsky and Nisha welcomed baby Kiran.

LIFE UPDATES Wale Ayeni wasn’t totally sure what type of news to contribute, but told us, “I recently got an award for being one of the top corporate venture capitalists globally.... Is this the sort of thing that you guys need?” Yes, yes it is. Congrats, Wale! Ali Connolly is still calling Denver home, so much so she flies a Colorado flag daily in front of her house and roots for the Broncos. Ali says, “I went out on my own a year ago and formed Spinnaker Consulting LLC, focused on BD cultivation, customer acquisition, and marketing strategy and am always looking for new projects. Come visit anytime, ski season or otherwise, Denver is where it is at.” Not sure how we trade lives with Claus Eckbo, but we’re jealous of his exciting year. “According to TripIt,” Claus writes, “I spent time in 25 different countries on 5 continents last year (and several of those visited multiple times)—most of that was work-related, but definitely some fun mixed in too. Part of the fun was triathlons in Malaysia, Vancouver, Poland and Croatia (next up is one in Vietnam in May). I’ve spent a lot of 2016 in South Africa (still based out of London though) and actually met a whole crew of Tuckies (about 30 T’17s) in a random bar on a random Sunday night in Cape Town. I just came back from Hanover too, where I guest lectured a class on Impact Investing, and then was interviewed by Phil Ferneau in front of his VC class. A bit surreal! The PE fund I’ve been working for the past 4 years also just became the biggest equity impact investor in the world.” Sara Glazer left Bridgespan in December to join New York Collaborates for Autism, a small nonprofit that designs, launches, and incubates innovative programs for people with autism. Sara is their new director of program evaluation and strategy. Writes Sara, “It’s been strange to leave the world of consulting after 8 years but exciting to get to be part of the day-to-day operations of a nonprofit for a change.” David Goldenheim writes, “Things are great in Boston. I’m continuing to enjoy life at Audax, where I’m now a principal on the deal team. I have also recently joined the board of the South End Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Boston, and am serving as the treasurer. It’s been a lot

of fun and an eye-opening experience. Anna is finishing up her first year of pediatrics residency at Mass General Hospital, and Charlotte, at not yet 3 years old, has decided she is a big girl, not a little girl.” Small world, turns out that both Vera Guerreiro and Chaitanya Agarwal are currently living in Luxembourg, both working for Amazon. Thanks to Vera for shooting us a note from so far away!

(and hilariously different from Texas)—and [husband Ryan and I are] loving it. Life is great, traveling like crazy for work, and already made reservations for the reunion come October.” Lori Snyder joined Google Fiber as a principal in their operations group, helping scale Google Fiber across the U.S. and problem-solving challenges encountered when deploying the gigabit Internet service. Kate Strayer-Benton finally escaped the gilded grasp of consulting after nearly a decade. She transitioned to “industry” (of the biotechnology sort) as a director of strategy for Momenta Pharmaceuticals. Kate’s busy keeping the whiteboards in her office in Kendall Square full of strategery, on a quest to apply cool science and analytics to develop products that create value for patients, our healthcare system and our shareholders.

’12 Steve Hooper and family at the third Kigo Kitchen opening

Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Steve Hooper is opening the third Kigo Kitchen location and also working on a second little Hooper addition. Julien Kervella writes, “My little family and I have moved from Seoul to London in the last few weeks. We live in lovely Wimbledon, are planning to take tennis lessons, and enjoy occasional fish and chips.... In terms of job, I am now director of strategy for Samsung Europe, monitoring a $30b turnover in the region and answering to the regional CEO.” Alexandra Nee sends her thanks and gratitude to all of the Tuckies who came out to the 10th annual gala for the Dave Nee Foundation in NYC in November. In attendance were Shaun Mehtani and Maria TP’11, Brian Casebolt and James TP’11, Hector Arguelles, Sarah AustrinWillis, and Juan Tomasini T’10. Additionally, Alex writes, “Thank you also to the countless Tuckies who have attended the nonprofit’s gala over the years or donated to prevent suicide and raise awareness about treatments for depression.” Erin Schallhorn moved to Oregon but chimed in, “No but for real, Oregon is awesome

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

Your humble secretaries pondered a set of questions on the state of affairs for the class of 2012; are we getting too busy in our lives to actually send anything in to share, or are we so boring (but thought we weren’t) that we actually DON’T have anything to share? This chicken-or-the-egg question haunts us as we start growing grey hairs (Roman had them while at Tuck), moving to the suburbs, and raising families. Some of our classmates are neither of the above, and so we shall delve into their current state of affairs. We haven’t heard from some of our classmates in a while—as a result, we are going to provide our best guess of what they’ve been doing over the past 6 months (note these are totally made up for your entertainment).

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banking on at Wells Fargo. From a recent Facebook post (check out his page), he may be in that fatherhood stage that requires constraint from the idiocy of prepubescent boys. · Daniel Philp lives the Nomad life. Us in Seattle see him on occasion, but he always has a trip planned to go somewhere nice/exotic to work virtually. We’re simply waiting for him to show up on the next Bachelor and clean house. · If any of you have an Echo, you can thank Dean Hudson for his marketing efforts. We’ve yet to see him hiding in any trees here in Seattle. · The last we’ve heard of Will Schwarz was a recent Instagram post simply titled “seagull morning yoga,” preceded by a post with another seagull that said “I egret nothing” (we think this was supposed to be “regret”). We think he’s had some sort of epiphany in life that suggests either (a) he really likes seagulls and they represent him or (b) he’s really into bird watching. · In another bout of trolling by Boomgard, we came across a great LinkedIn feed from Ben Dower. The feed was from the SVP and general counsel of Chili’s. We think that Ben may be thinking about a transition from the security-services industry into food service; we all know his adoration for Chili’s.

We’d first like to send a huge shout-out to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Facebook (we mean Instagram). We feel like you’ve been our connection to the outside world—thank you for making stalking not seem as creepy so we can keep up with what everyone is doing. So far, we haven’t seen any major sightings on social networks. John Boomgard continues to be an excellent troll across all major platforms, specifically calling out Derrick for “good internet” usage on Instagram. We’re excited to see some of his upcoming commentary on the pending election and potential outcome for the field of candidates. You all may have seen that Jamie and Leslie Kanter added not one but TWO new additions to the family with the birth of Ruby Mai and Josephine Noah. Visiting them in Seattle has been a blast— Jamie walks around the house grunting things like “prom” and other things that teenage girls go through, while shrugging his shoulders in despair, only to see Leslie chuckle and continue being a super mom. Luckily, he has a good set of classmates (read quasi-babysitters)

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around Seattle to help out. If you didn’t see T’11 Anne Carrihill’s Instagram takeover at Amazon, you should check out some of the cameos from the T’12 class at Amazon Seattle, including Boomgard, Debbie Soon, Geoff Mattei, Colin, and honorary Tuckies Cecil the dog and Madeline Carrihill (probably closer to T’46). We got word on the job front that Shannon Mosier left the world of PowerPoints and fixing commas from Arial to Times New Roman to the fintech world. She’s at LendingHome, a company set out to redefine mortgages. She’s the director of product at the company—so for those looking to buy a house, support her salary by checking out LendingHome for your financing needs! Walter Patrick Burke has started a company to replace Styrofoam with eco-friendly packing materials. When reached out to comment, all he said was “a vote for TemperPack is a vote to eradicate styrofoam. Please vote for us.” Pablo Munoz: After getting married and building a family of six (2+4, can you believe that?), Pablo thought he really needed to do something with that much free time. Thus, on top of his and Flor’s regular jobs, they launched an American diner food truck in Buenos Aires last February. “Wolfie’s, the American street diner” is the first of its kind in the city. Its menu combines Lou’s, Four Aces’, and others’ menus from the venues we all know and love in Hanover and nearby. Despite its short life, it has already been present in major public events in BA: Lollapalooza, Ironman, and Formula E, among others. Attention all parents: Torlisa Jeffrey has co-founded My Muse Dolls (www. mymusedolls.com)—a children’s toy company that produces multicultural dolls and accessories to promote and celebrate diversity and inclusion. Supporting My Muse Dolls also supports social impact as they partner and invest in organizations dedicated to empowering youth worldwide. Sophie Leal started a new job as a VP at Guggenheim Securities and still has time to pick up Emma from the day care at a reasonable hour.... Don’t ask us how she does it!

Need a gift idea? Check out Torlisa’s My Muse Doll line!

Ken Blewett is brand manager oral care at Procter & Gamble, and Alina Flores is brand manager at Colgate-Palmolive. Courtney Keefe married Derek Farnung at a hilltop vineyard ceremony in Sonoma this October. Lots of Tuckies were in attendance (see photo), and Derek was so enthralled by the following LNDP that he has decided to join the class of 2018 (this is actually a true statement, he really will be a T’18!). Courtney has plans with Renata Ferraz [Watts] to be one of the best Tuck alum duos for a second stint in Hanover in Tuck history. See you back in Hanover! New jobs and babies seem to be a thing of the past. As many of you have seen (or haven’t seen, if you’re not on social media), a number of our classmates have started families, new businesses, or a mixture of both. We received word from three of our classmates about their children. We have a few wins for team Canada this go around (however, in hockey, USA still rules). Andrew Akers and his wife Rachel welcomed Kaelan Akers to the world on November 23, 2015. He’s a healthy and hungry little guy and plans on following in Dad’s footsteps to help Canadian banks manage their assets better.

Mike Cwalinski recently got engaged to Shil Patel. We see from Shil’s page that he apparently proposed back at where they first met, a classy establishment in Philly called Jon’s Bar & Grille, which apparently is also the birthplace of Larry Fine. Congrats to the both of them! Manuel Zegarra and Marie Munoz are engaged to be married in December in Colombia. Congratulations to the both of them!

Tuckies gathered en masse to celebrate Courtney and Derek.

Julie and Will Albright are thrilled to announce the arrival of Connor Treanor Albright. He was born early Feb 2nd and weighed in at 7 lbs 9 oz and 20 inches long. Julie was an absolute champ, and she and the baby are doing great! Julie and Will have also traded the city for the space of the suburbs in Westchester.

Phil and Kate [Libby] McDonnell had a baby this fall! Fiona was born on October 1st and weighed 7 lbs 11 oz. Kate felt very lucky during this childbirth; Phil weighed 12 lbs 3 oz when he was born, and at the time he was the largest baby to have been born at Stanford Hospital!! We’re glad Fiona didn’t break her daddy’s record. Congrats to both of you!

Fellow classmate Sergei Petrov is certainly not boring nor too busy to send his updates from Moscow. He’s currently head of strategy at Rosatom, the state nuclear-energy corporation. He also welcomed his third son, Alexei, into the world on Feb 12, 2016. The two older brothers are happy with their newest team member at home. Arina, Sergei’s wife, is happy and healthy!

Phil and Kate [Libby] McDonnell are loving life with their family of four!

Alejandro and Kirsten [Barnum] Sandoval are expecting a baby this coming July—no word on gender yet, but we will keep you posted. In the meantime, the parents-to-be have moved into a bigger place in Hoboken, where baby Sandoval will have room for his mariachi guitar and tequila collection.

Sergei and the Petrov family welcomed new son Alexei!

Erika Santos and Welbr are expecting a little brother/sister for Sammy! Now that the house in Nashville is complete, they won’t have any issues to accommodate the new baby. Congratulations!

Daniel Bogomoltz got married to Fernanda Kotujansky last October in São Paulo, surrounded by Tuckies from across the globe. They honeymooned in French Polynesia, Tahiti, and Bora Bora. Mazel tov! One plug for Tuck Annual Giving (TAG). If you haven’t already been annoyed I mean emailed by your TAG associates, please expect this to happen soon. As we all know, giving is a big part of continuing Tuck’s excellence both in and outside the classroom. Any gift will help and can be used for something, so if you haven’t already, make sure to visit www. givetotuck.org to make your donation. As for your secretaries, Derrick is still being harassed by Boomgard online, still working at Amazon, and still engaged to Natalie. For those of you with kids (or friends with kids), check out our clothing line Half Day Clothing (www.halfdayclothing.com). Natalie is the designer, and Derrick is just taking orders from her on what to do. Roman is happy to report he and Flo survived Romancito’s very intense and sleepless first year, which was celebrated last Sunday with attendees from 5 Tuck generations (and at least 5 future Tuck generations too!). Roman also got promoted to brand manager, where he is now marketing in the uber-exciting world of dishwasher detergent! Ben is still in New York, still at MyHabit.com by Amazon, and also still being harassed by Boomgard. Thank God Boom has Loki to occupy some of his time. Ben recently went on a lengthy business/holiday international trip. He got to spend a week in Munich working with BuyVIP and drinking beer, then a weekend with Simon, Morgan, and Camellia Fowles in London, and two weeks eating his way through Vietnam!

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Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

[Editor’s note: Look in the 2013 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for more photos!] Warning: this message contains information about six new jobs, four moves, seven weddings and engagements, and twelve entirely new human beings. If you are receiving this message in error, please forward it urgently to your study group, the ones that did the real work and actually cared, even the awkward member who to everyone’s shock came through in the end with all those Capital Markets problem sets. Lookin’ at you, Sandy Levine. Why do we read class notes? Don’t you have Facebook open in some metaphoric tab somewhere? Can’t you just follow classmates on the ’gram, Twitter, Hike, Line, WeChat, Path? At least those platforms support emojis so we can keep our real feelings non-verbal. Look, we admit it. We stay in touch with Tuck classmates on some other platforms. We multi-home, you could say. (@Professor King, Match.com isn’t working for some of us and we’d like to know if you have some, um, strategy advice? Asking for a friend.) Let us drop some truth on you: you need class notes. You need them for the same reason you needed Tuck. To get you OUT of your comfort zone, to hear about some people you might not have thought of in a while, to surprise yourself. Call it “networking” if it makes you feel fancy. But lean into this: reach out to these people who wanted to share—they’re truly doing amazing things. Wish them congrats. Or email your study group. Or your hall. We’ll have a special prize next round for class notes submitted by entire study groups, sponsored by EBAs and TuckStuff*. *Mostly lies. And this is why you gotta read aaaaaaaall the Exhibits. 116

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JOBS. Are you burnt out? Why not make some moves? Many Tuckies felt the 2-year itch and are doing incredible things. Some people’s incredible things are more, well, incredible than others.

operations & logistics manager at Uber in Rio.” Also, apparently Luis had a kid 2.5 years ago and told no one, so congrats on the terrible twos, Luis, with your son Tomas!

Brud Fogarty has left Colgate to go and produce an independent feature film, out this summer. We promise to negotiate a screening in Cohen from the Quality of Life chairs when it is ready—congrats Brud!

Jasmine Liqiong He moved to LA from Ohio and has a new job at Amgen in strategy consulting. Andy Friedman left the Northeast and Bridgewater for North Carolina and a new gig at 3S Ventures, where he is starting a new division of a digital marketing firm. Eddie Howard had enough bibimbap and moved from Korea to NYC, leaving Samsung for E*TRADE. Eben Pingree joined SessionM, which is headed by fellow Tuckie Lars Albright T’05. Kate Bante left Cargill for a new role at Target, where fellow Tuckie Meg Robinton has already been crushing it since we graduated. Abigail Abbott (née Isaacson) left a strategy job at MaineHealth to get into the belly of the beast as the senior director, system service line operations, at Maine Medical Center. JJ Gantt got a baller role as CFO (yes, C-SUITE POSITION HERE!) of a REIT named Condor Hospitality Trust, Inc. Check it on your Bloomberg terminal under NASDAQ: CDOR. Ashley Jeong left Amazon to work with PlayDog Soft, a mobile game developer in Korea. (Do you think Ashley and An swap gaming secrets??) She’s helping their business development and marketing, still based out of Seattle. Try their newest game, Monster Busters: Link Flash. Ask her for free in-game coins. It’s a good game on your commute or a bathroom break. Koushi King moved to a new job at Stemless, a marijuana distribution startup whose website neither Tara nor Liz are allowed to access from a Dubai airport.

In a perhaps-predictable bout of nationalism, Betsabeh Madani moved back to the “True North Strong and Free” (ahem, Canada) to work for a digital health startup—a software company that manages chronic care coordination for patients and the care coordinator in a hospital setting, with a focus on oncology, and is looking to help the company expand to new verticals. Vishnu Narayanasamy joins Karen Olson [Diehl] at Liberty as the director of something extremely complex/smart sounding [Advanced Analytics & Strategy] in Boston, where we hope he’ll get to travel as exotically as she does. Salome Jeune and husband Robby recently moved to Basel, Switzerland, for Salome’s work assignment with Colgate and are enjoying traveling through Europe. The duo also launched Knollegeguide, a college search app for high school students. On the Swiss workweek you even have time to launch companies on the side! Speaking of Switzerland, Mathieu Pluvinage moved back to Zurich with EY after a brief stint in Geneva. He has given up his “weekend pad in Chamonix,” since you asked, but he finds things much more orderly on the German side (Liz added this bit). [See Salome and Robby photo on mytuck!] Ryan and Anne Confer (née Timmins) have recently moved to London. Ryan is now head of EMEA portfolio and event driven trading at BAML, and Anne moved with Deloitte. They are looking forward to a few years of traveling around Europe, connecting with the European Tuckies, and learning to enjoy “football” and room-temperature beer. Luis Eduardo Blanco writes: “I’m writing to tell you that after 2 and half years in the alternative investments class (hedge fund PM and then PE advisor) I made the jump to the tech industry and am now working as an

After two and a half years in consulting, Snow Xue jumped ship and is now with Thomson Reuters, working on the commercial strategies for their financial-data services in New York City. Part of this update was redacted but please write to Snow if you’d like a good laugh— those of us who had the pleasure of being in the same Communicating with Presence class KNOW (and see the photo essay nearby!). From Snow: “Here’s a picture of me sporting a Tuck golf shirt at my desk. The weather is still chilly to go out to the greens, but I can already see myself out there soon enough. I took this pic on a Saturday, well, because the office is literally a ghost town on Fridays and I had to ask my wife to help me take this one the next day.”

Snow at work (see his essay in the text!)

The outflows from consulting (and Boston?) continue: JP Cantos and wife Hilda (and soon-to-arrive Julia) are moving from Boston to South Korea when JP goes from LEK for Samsung. Jesse Toronto and crew left Boston for Portland, ME, as Jesse switched from investor group services for The Beacon Group. (Abigail Isaacson’s Maine master plan continues en force we see.) Max Pinto left Parthenon for a role working on strategy and implementation within the portfolio companies at Parthenon Capital. Andres Bilbao left McKinsey to work on his startup Rappi.com and keeps it real with the ups and downs for entrepreneurs: “Things are going OK but it is way more stressful than I thought it could be. Most of the time I wish I was enjoying some of Koushi’s product instead of dealing with prima donna developers and designers. I also thought that after leaving beautiful Sydney I would spend some quality time in Bogota but found myself literally sleeping more on planes than on my bed. Having said that, I rented a big apartment specifically to host Tuckies and friends, and you are all welcomed to enjoy it.”

Executive Success Programs (“ESP,” www. executivesuccessprograms.com). CPS is working full-time with two Tuckies and three HBS alums to bring the program to top-tier schools so students can learn to build a stronger sense of self and be more successful. On June 3rd the team will launch the first-ever training center in San Francisco for people who want effective and practical tools for personal growth, critical thinking, and leadership. Feel free to reach out to CPS if you want to learn more. With all these HBS alums he’s looking for more Dartmouth Green to join the team! UNIONS. Pre-unions, unions, reunions, what’s not to celebrate? We’ll kick things off with our SECOND intraclass engagement—Dave Sibley and Mimi Macauley promised a lifetime of love and novelty cheques on September 12th in South Carolina. Reported in keeping with the Gregorian calendar: Blythe Chorn got engaged in November in Crested Butte, Colorado. Will Cornock got engaged to girlfriend Elizabeth Schweitzer at Christmas, and Smita Gupta and Neil Kapur got engaged on New Year’s Eve in Bali!

Morgan and Carter wedding

If you were waiting until the exchange of vows to click through to the registry, here goes: Morgan Ebeling and Carter Powers were wed September 26th in Annisquam, Massachusetts. Morgan did not wear New Balance but still works there, and we’re sure Carter sweated through his tux owning the dance floor. Wicho Gonzalez was wed in his hometown in Mexico, with many Tuckies present. Kuu Hagan and Tshidi Selokoma were wed in Franschhoek, South Africa, also with many Tuckies present and Professor Stocken—photos to follow. Gianmarco wed Besiana in Lima in November. BABIES! As promised, we deliver (get it?!) twelve new humans: Colin and Jessica Zofnass Barclay welcomed son James, born September 23rd. They write, “We are loving being parents and enjoying life in Denver!” Can’t wait to see baby J fill out those tiny ski shoes. [Look on mytuck for a photo!] Justine Modot-Traboulsi writes, “Still at Microsoft living the suburban American dream: Jade and I bought a house and welcome baby Georges in our life. After being upgraded from Woman in Business to Mum in Business, I am now figuring out for real the challenges of having it all and learning to juggle a new kind of the 4Ps: Puke, PowerPoint, Poop and Pinot.”

Henrique Thielen and family sold their car and moved from Boston to Monterrey, Mexico, where they are starting a baby food company called bellyfull (check it out at www.bellyfull. mx). bellyfull will produce 100% natural baby food, which is lacking in the Mexican market. “We moved to Monterrey, Mexico, to start a baby food business, which is about to officially launch the product. We are blessed to be closer to the family, to speak Spanish again, to the chaos of the developing world but most importantly to be back on the soccer field playing 3 times per week. I hope everything is well and that we see each other soon!”

Smita and Neil

Also with the entrepreneurial itch is Chris Pearson-Smith. He’s currently in upstate NY learning how to coach an applied emotional intelligence and ethics program called the

Jon MacKinnon and Sasha Kaplan T’14 got engaged Oct 31 in the Upper Valley on top of Mount Cardigan.

Meg Robinton gave birth to a baby boy, Cooper Thomas on January 8th. Ryan Layton and wife Maren welcomed baby Jane on February 6th and big sister Kate has warmed up to her role. Daniel Rosenzweig and wife Viviana welcomed their first child, baby Camila, on September 21st. As we shared last time, Chris Halstedt and wife Lauren met Blake Ellis Halstedt at 10:12

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CL ASS NOTES a.m. on September 14th, and now you can too! [Look for photo on mytuck!] Brent Dance welcomed a baby girl, Brielle, in California, making it a family of five Dances! She’s already showing her two brothers exactly who’s in charge in that household. Erin and Kevin McCafferty brought baby Caroline into the family in September—only three more before you’re an entire NHL lineup. [Photo on mytuck!] Anne Duggan and David Ranieri welcomed Matthew Duggan Ranieri on March 3. In Anne’s words, “the monogram potential is endless.”

That’s all for this issue! H+ this issue by actually reaching out and sending your congrats to these folks—looking forward to hearing what else you get up to. P.S. EBAs has increased their price of mozz sticks to $7. (What are we gonna do, Matteo??) Their phone number remains 603-643-6135. P.P.S. Dear Frank Kwok: Please send us an update from Wall Street. Please.

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

Gabriel Martinez gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

Nicholas Scarchilli nick.scarchilli@gmail.com

Baby Matthew Duggan Ranieri with mom and dad

Tomas Garcia Moreno and wife Fi welcomed baby Martin on March 7th. The parents are busy enjoying their bundle of joy, but exhausted from their first few weeks of parenthood.

Apologies to the T’14s and larger Tuck community who will note the conciseness of this class update. Please look forward to more sarcastic and longwinded updates in Tuck Todays to come. In the interim, our best excuse is “we’ve been busy”? Speaking of which, congratulations to Eduardo & Claudia Alexander (TP’14) who welcomed their second child, Susana Alexander, to the world. She is absolutely adorable and sure to keep Mom and Dad busy for quite some time.

William, to the world on March 26th. We can only assume the poutine and cross checking will be strong with him. Note: regardless of Province, poutine jokes are assumed to be relevant. Please don’t bother us with specifics. David & Heidi Garcia also had their first daughter, Mila, in February. She’s continuing to help build out Tuck’s Southern presence in Georgia and a “live look” would likely show her dressed head to tie in Falcons garb. We also had a few weddings since last update. First, a belated congratulations to T’14s Alex & Christine (Reny) Wright who tied the knot on Sept 26th in Boston at the Old South Church, followed by a reception at the Omni Parker House. Numerous Tuckies were in attendance all of which reported that everyone who remembered anything thought it they were likely to have had a good time. T’14s in attendance included: Benjie Moll, Ben Davis, Charlenne Gonzalez, Emile Santos, Meri Carman, Erin Schwarz, Ashley Hovey, Cara Lodigiani, Mustafa Ali, Danny Mosse, Jeff F. Nitz, Samer Sayigh, Rachael Tibolt, Jesse Colville, Andrew Miller, Bret Anderson, John Curran, Phyllis Vena (T’15), Meg Moran, Daniel Villone, Diego Villalobos, Diana Vaughn, Adam Kramer, and Caitlin Hodge. Don’t worry, Kyle Charters, we won’t forget you and your jazz hands. Try not ruining a picture once, please and thanks. MILLIE!!

Tuckies at Alex and Christine (Reny) Wright’s wedding Tomas and baby Martin

Jenny and Ankur Kumar announced Ariana will have a baby brother soon. Sabrina HallLittle, Spencer Bryan, JP Cantos, Crystal and Taylor Cornwall, Devon Lacombe, and Ksenia Kapoor have all announced they are expecting. Let the best baby footwear competition begin.

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Susana Alexander

Also congratulations to Mark and Andrea Devooght who welcomed their first son, Clark

And clawing her way into the wedding updates by nibbling away at the competition was resident frozen pizza lover Jess Glaser who has meow made it official with her longtime beau and cat Treehouse heartthrob Tommy Fennel. Looking absolutely purrty, Jess chose an idyllic Vermont setting for her ceremony, fur away from the big city. Among many others, in

attendance were fellow T’14 Winter Carnival co-chairs Gabe Martinez, Chris Gomsak, Rachel Amory, Jeff Wannop, and Kate Cosgrove, the Treehouse gaggle of Meg Moran, Nicole Bertucci, Maggie (Maranda) Millhiser, and Julia Tarnell plus Meg Nunn, Shreyas Mehta, Rory Murphy, Karilyn Anderson, Will Woodburn, Mike Caspani, Benjie Moll, Jack Kiley, Jason Oberg, Dan Nastou, John Curran, and Jed Talvacchia. Also, we are still looking for a Portuguese translator but it appears Gui Waetge also was married earlier this year, and boy did he look breathtaking.... Oh sorry, momentarily transfixed on that flowing Brazilian hair. Tuckies who appeared to have made the trip (again, we’re completely guessing that this is accurate information) included T’14s Ahmed Darwish, Paulo Caccese, Borja Rivero, Martin Biely, Juan Pablo (JP) Eiroa, Jason Bodewitz, & Adriana Coderch.

T’14s at Gui Waetge’s wedding

Deciding to follow their classmates’ lead, Ashley Hovey and Jesse Colville got engaged on February 8th. Unclear exactly how the deed was done, since we didn’t have time to ask. Ironic really, since Ashley’s response for details was simply “I was very surprised and you can make a joke if you want (not that it wasn’t going to happen already).” Less fun if you ask to make fun of.... Not to be outdone by the completely undescribed engagement, Sasha Kaplan & Jonathan MacKinnon (T’13) got engaged on the top of Mount Cardigan on Halloween, with plans to be married in early 2017. Unclear if part of the engagement involved Jonathan’s agreeing to salsa dance in any way shape or form… but one can hope.

’15 Kelsey Byrne kelsey.byrne@gmail.com

Heather Levy T’13 Jonathan MacKinnon and Sasha Kaplan

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Continuing the cross-class collaboration (CCCC), Dan Villone & Phyllis Vena (T’15) also agreed to tie the knot. Dan was described as “the strongest, kindest, smartest, most handsome and most humble man” Phyllis has ever met. What is unclear, is if Phyllis has met the T’14 class secretaries, since this would obviously be called into question. Dan allegedly put together quite the slide show and proposal, though that data point has yet to be triangulated (yay consulting jokes!).

Hard as it is to believe, it has only been a year since graduation. I think we can all relate to Ben Grant, who wrote in to tell us that after his first really long day at the office, he woke up the next morning and was convinced it was Friday because he had done so much work in the week already...it was Tuesday.

And.. we can’t even believe we’re writing this.... But it’s a few days after April Fool’s, so the thought is that this is accurate. But joining the ranks of the newly engaged is our own lovable class MC & resident real estate nerd Benjie Moll??!! We’d recommend going back and rereading that last sentence but allegedly it is accurate. He and his fiancé agreed to get hitched over what one can only assume is an overly elaborate and romantic engagement weekend (note: sarcasm font). There were a few move-ins as well, but we’ll likely keep those updates in our back pocket for future Tuck Todays (you know who you are) and to prevent the risk of any retractions (you also know who you are). Also in the ONLY pieces of career news that we were given, Erika Randolph has moved over into a new position at King Arthur Flour, and Matt Hanson has joined fellow T’14 Jack O’Toole at FreshAir Sensor. Congrats to you both on your moves and best wishes in the new roles. We’d LOVE to have more career news included, so be sure to add “alert your favorite Class Secretary” to your transition checklists.

In the months (yes, only months) since graduating, many of our classmates have gotten engaged or married, have gone from expectant parents to welcoming Tiny Tuckies, started at one job and moved to another—and the T’15s have even found time to meet all over the country (and world) to enjoy some precious time off. Sure makes us feel like slackers because we think we’re still recovering from Dis-O 2015. Let’s get to the updates: David Katzman, Joe Magdovitz, Pat Donaldson, Jeff Callahan, Ken Yoshida, and Sara Paccamonti all got engaged since our last update. Jorge Seldner was married in Hermosillo, Mexico, surrounded by a number of his T’15 and T’16 classmates. Mohit Sharda got #mohitched in India in February. Mikalai Martsul is off the market now too! Michael Perrin married Kristy (a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock) around Thanksgiving. In the last few months— two T’15s had their weddings officiated by classmates. Adam Wilson officiated Zac Yoffe’s wedding to Holly Giacolone on Valentine’s Day. While Adam Hewson and Avery LaChance’s wedding was officiated by Ashwin Gargeya. Rodrigo Frias and his wife Fer welcomed baby Emilio to their growing family. David Kamer and his wife, Tiffany, had their second daughter, Madeleine Elisabeth, in March. Nick Bazarian and Arpi had their first child, a girl name Seta. There are a number of expectant T’15 parents—we can’t wait to share their good news in next issue!

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Jorge Seldner’s wedding

T’15s are not only growing their families—but their real estate holdings! Katherine Gray and Jonathan Gray moved into their new home on Saint Patrick’s Day. Dan Calano and Lauren Calano settled into their new home in Boston. So did Ashwin Gargeya! On the opposite coast, Arpitha Bharadwaj bought a house in Seattle that she renovated with her husband. While down (further) south—Dan Bleicher and his family bought a house in Chevy Chase, MD, while Rob Plimpton and his family moved into a new home in Texas!

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and Tuck Winter Carnival XXXI. The alumni team, led by T’15s, beat the T’16s in a shoot-out after a 0-0 game. While at Winter Carnival, reigning T’15 champions Charles Christianson, Matt Prescottano, Jeph Shaw, Jane Shiverick, and Nick Ziemba took home the gold three years in a row in the ski race. Dressed as Peter Pan, they were cheered on by over 20 of their classmates who made the trek to Hanover for Winter Carnival.

Speaking of moving—Adam Gengler moved to the Bay Area to work for Facebook as an SMB operations process manager. Erin Wall is doing a rotation in Ireland as part of the development program at Liberty Mutual, while Roberto Gallardo is exploring “Down Under” while he is on a project with McKinsey in Australia. Chloe Hansen-Toone moved from the T’15-less city of Rochester to the T’15-less city of Pittsburgh for her second rotation at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Nell Kelleher moved to New York to join the fast growing, fin-tech start up Ellevest. Josh Hamilton joined the Seattle Tuckies and accepted a job at Amazon, while Dan Lee is now working for the Office of the Governor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Jeph Shaw missed the Upper Valley too much and has moved back to Hanover to rejoin his old firm, New Energy Capital.

Other reunions that have happened in the past few months: Bain had training in Miami, which led to a Tuck-like Asado with Rob Franklin, Mike Ryczkowski, Peter Shively, Felizia Bacall, Kirsten L’Orange and Ewa Kisilewicz, and Santiago Gutierrez Zaldivar.

Speaking of the Upper Valley, the T’15 class continued its #winning legacy this year in two important events: the Alumni Hockey Game

Some of the Monitor Deloitte folks—Caitlin Moore, Michael Walsh, Jefferson Shaw, John Wheelock, Pablo Segovia Smith, Deirdre

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(Garrahan) O’Connell, Dan Kleberg, and Annu Kayastha—were out in Park City for a weekend. Just a few weeks earlier, almost 20 T’15s and TP’15s gathered in Park City for a reunion of their own. It was only a slightly less corporate affair than the Deloitte weekend, we’re sure.

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T’15 Winter Carnival Race Team

As for us, Heather Levy just wrapped up a 5-month project in Dallas, Texas. With all the miles she racked up, she cashed in for tickets to Argentina in December. Kelsey Byrne is loving her job at Cissé Trading Company—she hopes all of you go out and buy Super Thins at your local BJ’s or on Amazon! Lastly, a hearty congratulations to the T’16s on their graduation. We look forward to you all joining us in the real world, if only so your Instagram adventures stop giving us such #fomo.

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 L. Ranger ’47 November 12, 2015

Kennon D. Heusinkveld ’53 April 19, 2016

George W. Carlson ’62 February 29, 2016

Robert M. Brown ’39 March 15, 2016

John S. Jenness ’48 April 8, 2016

Nathan K. Parker Jr. ’53 April 12, 2016

A. Mason Rascher ’62 December 21, 2015

The Honorable Beverly P. Smith ’39 March 24, 2009

Gilbert H. Jones ’48 March 20, 2016

John H. Dickason ’54 February 2, 2016

Robert S. Andrew ’63 January 30, 2016

Richard D. Hill ’42 March 8, 2016

John T. Bressler III ’49 December 2, 2015

Richard R. Kuhn ’54 May 23, 2014

Maurice H. Basquin ’66 November 16, 2015

Russell Hartranft Jr. ’43 October 15, 2015

William P. Campbell ’49 April 16, 2016

Donald R. Meltzer ’55 March 30, 2015

Tilden S. Engelman ’66 April 1, 2016

Roy H. Kirch Jr. ’44 March 13, 2016

John E. Clemence ’49 March 17, 2016

James D. Craig II ’57 February 1, 2016

Richard M. Herberich ’66 July 25, 2015

Hardwick Caldwell Jr. ’45 October 25, 2015

Lloyd C. Nintzel ’49 January 13, 2016

Jim Groebe ’58 December 16, 2015

Greig T. Burdick ’69 March 18, 2016

Herbert A. Brandt ’46 November 14, 2015

Martin L. Ullman ’49 March 6, 2016

Allen E. Ertel ’59 November 19, 2015

E. George Bellows Jr. ’72 December 25, 2015

Louis M. Heller ’46 February 17, 2016

Lee B. VanVoorhis ’49 May 18, 2015

George M. Morris ’59 October 29, 2015

Sue M. Woy ’75 December 29, 2015

Roger W. Butler ’47 November 16, 2015

John J. Kelly III ’51 January 10, 2016

Theodore E. Bachelder ’60 April 3, 2016

Kurt J. Lesker III ’76 October 24, 2015

William S. Clark ’47 October 19, 2015

Alfred E. Davidson III ’52 January 10, 2016

David L. Heine ’60 March 8, 2016

Robert B. Bresticker ’82 November 1, 2015

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Andy Steele T’79 Armed with his encyclopedic knowledge of alumni, passion for Tuck, and trusty point-andshoot camera, Andy Steele T’79 has been the face of Tuck for more than 30 years. Andy joined Tuck in July 1982 as director of alumni affairs and has worked tirelessly since to strengthen the connection between the school and its graduates, serving most recently as executive director of development and alumni services. Known for his warmth and personal touch—Andy famously keeps track of every birth, promotion, and move—there has been no better ambassador for Tuck. So why not make it official? This summer, Andy begins his new role as Tuck Ambassador, where he will continue to do what he does best: bring us all closer together. Congratulations, Andy!

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