Tuck Today – Summer 2017 Issue by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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TUCK EDUCATES WISE LEADERS TO BETTER THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.

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HOME AN EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF MISSISSIPPI

News. Ideas. People.

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BRIDGE Their Future

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

2017 December Bridge Program November 26–December 15 2017 Tuck Business Bridge Program Session 1: June 12–July 7 Session 2: July 17–August 11

parting shot Students visit a classroom in Xi’an, China on the China Global Insight Expedition led by marketing professor Peter Golder.

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CHRIS MILLIMAN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

OUR INVIGORATING PACE Life at Tuck has a special cadence. It is defined by the pulsing demands of coursework and the career search for students, the rhythms of research and teaching for faculty, and the ebb and flow of alumni returning to our base camp. In the spring its pace only increases as second-year students prepare to return to work to apply their wise leadership in a world that needs it. These are invigorating times at Tuck, and they will only become more so as we continue to implement the many exciting new endeavors to emerge from our refined mission, vision, and strategy. This momentum is carried through all of our offerings: from our new Next Step program for military veterans and elite athletes transitioning to careers in business, to our new Advanced Management Program, a two-week executive education program aimed at C-suite and VP-level leaders. Business Bridge, meanwhile, continues to bound forward, with interest in this pioneering program for undergraduates at record highs across all sessions. The sense of forward movement at Tuck is especially strong in the MBA, where enhancements continue apace across the entire program. Among the changes are exciting new electives that focus on technology—including a pair on web programming and data analytics, and another on design thinking—that are equipping students to thrive in today’s innovative world. It is also a world that an increasing number of our students are learning to navigate first-hand. Last academic year, 344 students ventured to 20 countries on immersive TuckGO courses. Among the most impactful was a new offering that put students on the ground in a business environment close to home. The idea for an experiential course on economic development in Mississippi originated, as things so often do at Tuck, from a student. A native of Jackson, Miss., Tom Allin T’17 had barely arrived in Hanover when he began laying the groundwork for the course, which he hoped would shed light on how the challenges of economic development relate to his home state’s unique history, resources, and institutions. Allin designed the course with award-winning professors Andy King and Emily Blanchard, and with support from the TuckGO team and the Center for Business, Government & Society. In March the three of them traveled to Mississippi with 19 students, visiting businesses and meeting with local leaders both private and public alike. To a person, those who made the journey said they came away transformed, with a deeper understanding of the complexities of how business can thrive in places so in need of opportunity. For Allin the experience was also a chance to explore the type of leader he aspires to become. It was, he said, the perfect example of what it means to have a personal education at Tuck. Happy summer, and happy reading.

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VOLUME XLVIII NUMBER 1

EDITOR Justine Kohr

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MANAGING EDITOR Patti Bacon

SENIOR EDITORS Kirk Kardashian Cathy Melocik

CLASS NOTES EDITOR

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T.U.C.K! Tuck students pose at Ayeyarwady River in Bagan, Myanmar during their Singapore/Myanmar Global Insight Expedition course led by Professor Paul Argenti. #TuckGO

#TuckNextStep Damali Rhett

Cathy Melocik

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Just another way #Tuck is using #innovation to change the face of business and #educatewiseleaders

PHOTO EDITOR Laura DeCapua

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

Brett H Sanborn @BrettHSanborn

Steven Lubrano T’87 Penny Paquette T’76 Richard Sansing Matthew J. Slaughter Erin Tunnicliffe T’97

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PUBLISHED TWICE A YEAR BY Ed Winchester

Kristalina Georgieva @KGeorgieva

Thanks to Matt Slaughter @TuckSchool for an invigorating convo this am to kick off a new series on development @WorldBank @paulmromer

Tim Burdick @Tim_Burdick

Great dinner with MD/MBA students from @GeiselMed @TuckSchool @dartmouth. Bright, inquisitive energy wanting to make world better. Uplifting

Senior Director, Marketing and Communications Office of Communications Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-9000 USA 603-646-3558 Tuck.Today@tuck.dartmouth.edu www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

Whitney Williamson @whitneygene

Thanks @karenfinerman @davidmwessel & @ TuckSchool's Matthew Slaughter for a spirited discussion on potential policy changes & their impacts

Rebecca Bellinger @GlobalRebecca

Was incredibly honored to hear Jim Craig, goalie for the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, speak. Thank you #TuckNextStep for inviting him.

Julien Bahain @JulienBahain

So honored today to listen to @Constantine_Jus. It fuels me with energy for whatever I'll be facing in the future. #tucknextstep @TuckSchool

Thanks to @TuckSchool and #TuckGO team for hosting me to lead a #globalmindset workshop last week. What a great #global community you have!

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With a great leader for women, Dr. Ella Bell Smith @MAKERSwomen – training next gen of women in business @TuckSchool Cecile Richards @CecileRichards

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NO ORDINARY NETWORK

Pay it forward. It’s the philosophy embedded within the heart of the Tuck alumni network.

BY KATE SIBER D'02

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ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM 12 MHCDS & TELEHEALTH

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

IDEAS WHAT IF FOREIGN IMPORTS CREATE U.S. JOBS?

A CONVERSATION WITH LEN GREENHALGH

GOING PUBLIC

FACULTY NEWS

ALUMNI NEWS

PROFILE: CHRISTOPH BÖHMER T’96 50 ALUMNI INTERVIEW: KRISTIANA HELMICK T’98 51 PROFILE: PETER RASKIND D’78, T’79 52

COMING HOME An experiential journey to the heart of Mississippi. BY JEFF MOAG

KEEPER OF THE CULTURE From behind the scenes, Penny Paquette T’76 has played an outsize role in the evolution of Tuck. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

BEST PRACTICES: SUZANNE SCHAEFER T’02 53 IN MEMORIAM, MICHAEL LORIG T’74

IN MEMORIAM, MARK BYRNE D’85, T’86 55 NEWSMAKERS 56 CLASS NOTES

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UPfront WHEN BUSINESS IS NEXT Tuck’s new certificate program, Next Step: Transition to Business, is customized for veterans and elite athletes.

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

JAN INGRAM SURFACE WARFARE OFFICER, U.S. NAVY

fter graduating from UCLA with a degree in math and economics, Jan Ingram joined the Navy, committed to learning naval operations at every echelon, from operating all the systems on a single ship in Japan, to coordinating exercises and training sessions for a squadron in Singapore, to her current position at the Pentagon as a surface warfare officer. “It’s been great for me to see this colossal organization from all these different levels,” she says. Still, Ingram is ready to transition out of the Navy and into health care administration. Next Step is serving as Ingram’s ramp to her future career, and she’s been struck by the richness of the curriculum and its ability to impart critical business skills in a short timeframe. But, most of all, Ingram has enjoyed meeting her colleagues in the program. “The initial day, all the military people clustered together and we used all this jargon and acronyms,” she recalls. “But when we started mingling with the athletes, it all clicked. We have a lot in common.”

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ulien Bahain is a three-time Olympian who won the bronze medal in rowing in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Like many elite athletes, Bahain has devoted most of his life to achieving a high level of performance in a very specific skill. As a member of the Canadian national team, Bahain trained three times per day, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and traveled to regattas during half of the year. The schedule left little room for anything else. In late March, Bahain decided to retire from rowing. “I was faced with the question, What do I do now?” he says. “I don’t have any connection to anything outside of rowing. I didn’t have time to create any link to the real world.” What Bahain did first, before officially retiring, was attend the Next Step: Transition to Business program at Tuck, a firstof-its-kind business education curriculum targeted at elite athletes and military personnel. The inaugural session of Next Step took place at Tuck during the first two and a half weeks of March, when the school welcomed 67 veterans, Olympians, and other professional athletes to Hanover CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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CONLIN MCCABE OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALIST, ROWING CANADA

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ntario native Conlin McCabe competed in the men’s eight at the 2012 London Olympics where he received a silver medal. Rowing competitively didn’t stop him, however, from graduating the following year from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in geography. He went on to compete in the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro where he placed sixth. Outside of his regular training sessions, he found himself intrigued by the world of business. Next Step presented the perfect opportunity to further explore that interest. It has also acted as an important transition tool for McCabe as he considers not only pursuing an MBA, but also a future in entrepreneurship. “As an athlete, you spend a lot of time working on yourself so you can contribute to a team,” he says. “I think I could have similar success in the entrepreneurial space. And I get excited thinking about creating my own business.” An intensive two-week immersion into the fundamentals of business, Next Step was a bit like drinking water from a fire hose, says McCabe—but in a good way. “What I enjoyed the most was how much I was able to absorb in such a short amount of time,” he says. “It speaks to the quality of professors at Tuck. Not only do they possess this great knowledge of what they’re teaching, but they’re also passionate about it. When they get in front of the classroom, it just flows out of them in a natural way, and it’s easy to understand.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 for an integrated experience designed to aid their transition to a new career in the business world. For Punam Anand Keller, the faculty director of the program and the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, the impetus for Next Step is straightforward and fits perfectly into Tuck’s mission. “Tuck trains management talent for the best companies,” she says, “and they’re looking for management trained military veterans and elite athletes.” Companies are seeking qualified people from these professions because they’ve proven themselves to be focused, disciplined team players driven to achieve goals. “When they’re given a task,” Keller says, “they can repeat it over and over again

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until they can beat anybody else doing it. They have great leadership skills, and they’re very competitive. And Tuck can provide them with the proper foundation in business.” That foundation comes from almost three weeks of classes, guest speakers, career coaching, and group activities, all coordinated to build on the participants’ backgrounds and equip them with the tools to land a job and excel in it. The courses cover a wide range of topics found in the MBA core curriculum, such as strategy, finance, marketing, communications, operations, and negotiation. The program’s opening speaker was Jim Craig, the goalie for the famed U.S. Olympic hockey team that beat the Soviet Union to win the gold

medal in the 1980 Winter Games. Additional guest speakers included General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal, JetBlue President and CEO Robin Hayes, and Paul Raether T’73, among others. The program was supported by organizations such as BlackRock, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, PowerAdvocate, Morgan Stanley, and the United States Olympic Committee, to name a few. An entire day, plus shorter sessions sprinkled through the program, was devoted to career development and coaching. The combination of academic rigor, networking, and career advice was attractive to Joan Serna Cardona, who retired last year from her position as a personnel security manager in the Army. She had been deployed to Afghanistan and Jordan,

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PILOT PROGRAMS

A new program helps bridge the gap between liberal arts students and high-tech careers.

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

he 20-year-old Business Bridge program has proven a successful formula for career advancement. Put bright, motivated liberal arts undergraduates through four weeks of intense, MBA-style business courses, and they will be ready to embark on a fulfilling job at a great company. The thing is, traditional firms in, say, finance, consumer products, and manufacturing aren’t the only ones looking for liberal arts majors. The companies of Silicon Valley are too. As David Kalt, the founder of Reverb.com, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2016, “If more tech hires held a philosophy or English degree with some programming on the side, we might in the end create better leaders in technology and life.” Tuck is heeding Kalt’s call by developing a pilot of the Tech Accelerator @ Dartmouth program, a unique collaboration with Dartmouth College and Thayer School of Engineering. For the first version of the program, a group of 20 to 25 liberal arts students will attend two weeks of classes on engineering and design thinking taught by Thayer faculty, computer science and coding taught by faculty from Dartmouth’s Department of Computer Science, and business essentials taught by Tuck faculty. Students will have lessons on topics such as human-centered design methodologies, engineering problemsolving methods, and computational thinking in science, engineering, and technology. ( Alumni feedback is welcome as Tuck continues to develop this pilot offering.) Students will also have an integrated project and presentation to

understand the process of developing a business plan and how to pitch a product. Overall, the program will not only endow students with business and technology skills, but teach them scientific literacy, how to think critically and creatively, and to be at ease working in teams. The demand for liberal arts graduates at technology firms is proof that the humanities and social sciences aren’t so different from the hard sciences. “The liberal arts teach us to question, explore broadly, and ask, ‘Why?’” says Joseph Helble, dean of Thayer. “Engineering complements that well by teaching us to ask, ‘Why not?’"

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and she enjoyed her time in the military, but was looking to enter a career that gave her more room for advancement. “I wanted a place that valued the time I put in, and to be recognized for what I did,” she says. The Army provided her with a week of transition training on the logistics of leaving the military, but she needed something more substantive. Next Step helped her figure out which of her skills were transferrable to business, and learn the language of civilian commerce. She was particularly struck by the session on leadership, with Professor of Management and Organizations Pino Audia. “He talked about different leadership techniques,” she says, “and I realized that in the military it’s not important for one to be likable, but it’s really important to connect with people in the civilian world.” Tony DeCenzo has a different perspective on the military. As a Navy SEAL who has seen combat all over the world, he has had to forge strong bonds with the other members of his unit—it was imperative to everyone’s safety. Recently, he’s been tasked with designing combat vehicles, a job that puts him out of harm’s way, but also doesn’t let him cultivate the camaraderie he was accustomed to. “I like leadership positions, but at the same time I like to lead by example,” he says. He’s planning on retiring from the Navy later this year, and Next Step is helping him transition into a job in sales. “I will continue to reach back to everything I’ve learned here,” he says, “but the part that I overlooked was the social experiment that took place here. This group bonded so quickly. There are so many people here who have phenomenal backgrounds and you’re humbled by everybody.” Bahain, who was able to leverage Next Step to land a project management position in British Columbia, echoed that sentiment. “The thing I’m really going to take away is the power of the group, and how putting people with an open mindset together releases so many ideas and good interactions,” he says. “We all have something to learn from each other.”

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STARTUP STORIES

AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT Some students build startups while at Tuck. Others, like Ken Martin T’17, join Tuck with an existing business they want to grow. By JUSTINE KOHR

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en Martin T’17 didn’t begin his career with a zeal for entrepreneurship. In fact, after studying finance at Georgetown and receiving his MSc from the London School of Economics in 2010, all signs pointed to investment banking—so he headed to Barclays where, working his way up to vice president, he spent four years in its London, New York, and Johannesburg offices. But a chance encounter with an aspiring entrepreneur in 2013 changed all that. Martin was having coffee in a café outside of the Barclays’ Johannesburg building when the barista behind the counter, Silas, approached him with an idea: He wanted to open a coffee shop in South Africa, and was seeking guidance before moving forward. A lightbulb went off. “I realized that, despite problems in Africa—so much poverty and struggle— there’s this entrepreneurial spirit there,” says Martin. “It got me excited to do what I could to help.” Without knowing it, Silas had planted the seed that led Martin to found Emerging Venture Labs in 2015 with the mission to help aspiring entrepreneurs around the world get off the ground and build new businesses. With Martin’s guidance, Silas eventually opened a food truck in Johannesburg that serves coffee and refreshments. Under the auspices of his venture, Martin consulted for entrepreneurs across the globe, opened

three Saxbys coffee shop locations in Washington, D.C., and, with the help of a former professional athlete, co-founded a health and wellness juice company called Simple Science Juices. While Saxbys, as a coffee shop chain, already possessed a strong business blueprint, Simple Science Juices was a brand new business with only a single

Hippocratean principle to guide the way: Let food be thy medicine, let medicine be thy food. Building a business from scratch presented a new challenge for Martin, who was forced to face a hard truth: If he wanted to give his businesses the attention they deserved, he needed to step away from his full-time career in investment banking. And beyond that, he needed to expand his

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skillset to ensure their success. Pursuing an MBA provided the perfect “pause button” for his career, he says—one that would help him grow as an entrepreneur. “I came to Tuck knowing I would have direct access to a broad range of resources, including advisers who were subject matter experts,” he says. “I knew the finance world very well, but topics like marketing, corporate communications, talent management, and strategy, I did not.” Through strategy and entrepreneurship courses like Building Entrepreneurial Ventures with professor Steve Kahl D’91 and Daniella Reichstetter T’07, executive director of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, Martin considered questions such as “What do you focus on in your business? What do you not focus on?” And through the core curriculum, he was able to take several lessons from the classroom and apply them directly to his businesses. In Managerial Economics with professor Joe Hall, for example, Martin recalls learning about different pricing strategies and how to segment customers. It was another aha moment for him. “I realized that with certain products we could do that same thing at our juice company—segment customers,” he says. “The day after that lecture, we made a pricing change and immediately saw the benefits.” Outside the classroom, Martin worked closely with the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), which supports budding engineers across the Dartmouth community, and frequently conferred with alumni in

the technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship spaces. In the fall of his second year, he acted as a teaching assistant in the DEN West Coast Experience course, coaching undergraduates interested in entrepreneurship. Over the summer he interned at private equity and venture capital firm GE Ventures in Silicon Valley. From his residence hall, Martin continues to manage his companies, applying practical business strategies in real-time whenever possible. The renewed focus has paid off. As Martin’s graduation date approaches, he is celebrating the

opening of the fifth and sixth locations of Simple Science Juices, spread across three different states. “During my time at Tuck, we’ve grown it from basically zero to a multimilliondollar business,” he says. “It’s been a ton of fun seeing it grow, and I look forward to continuing to see it grow.”

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BASE CAMP TO THE WORLD

A TRUSTED SOURCE Two Tuck alumni running a mission-focused company were faced with a global expansion opportunity. For help, they reached out to an organization they knew intimately: Tuck. By MICHAEL BLANDING

usiness as a force for good has become a bit of a buzz phrase across the business community. But if there’s one company living up to the phrase it prominently displays on its website, it’s Ingeus. The London-based organization’s mission is to help people in vulnerable situations around the world find jobs—that includes those coming off welfare or coming out of prison, as well as recently laid off workers searching for a new career. After a new contract in Asia, Ingeus experienced great success in South Korea, and as a result, hoped to explore the potential of expanding operations to Singapore’s thriving market. South Korea and Singapore are dramatically different markets in terms of who is responsible

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when a company wants to downsize. In South Korea, with its tradition of lifetime employment, it is the private sector that bears this responsibility. In Singapore, turnover is tolerated with the government playing a significant role in helping citizens who lose their jobs. For help navigating those relationships, the company turned to Tuck, engaging students through the TuckGO OnSite Global Consulting course to analyze a potential path for expansion. While the company regularly hires management consultants to address strategy questions, for this project, “We never really considered another agency,” says Matt Umscheid T’01, senior vice president of Strategic Services at Providence Service Corporation, which owns Ingeus. He and Providence CEO Jim

Lindstrom T’01 were roommates at Tuck and knew what to expect from a team of Tuck MBAs. “I thought back to the maturity, cooperation, and skills that my classmates had when I was at Tuck, and I knew they would bring both the soft skills and hard skills necessary to do a great job.” The faculty adviser for the project was John Vogel, associate faculty director of the Center for Business, Government & Society, who has taught courses in real estate and nonprofits at Tuck since 1992, and led 10 global consulting projects in 14 different countries. Vogel encouraged students to use the planning phase of the course to reach out to experts in outplacement in the U.S. and schedule interviews so they could take full advantage of their three weeks on the ground in South Korea and Singapore

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Vogel with students on the ground in South Korea and Singapore.

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last winter. Once there, the teams spent 12to 14-hour days performing several dozen interviews and analyzing the data. “We had to be focused every day on making sure we were using our time well and getting something of value from every conversation,” says Danielle Musa T’17, the project manager for the six-person team on the Ingeus project. The multicultural team, with students from the U.S., Korea, India, and China, frequently pooled knowledge about cultural differences to help inform their recommendations and leveraged their career backgrounds and experience with students. The team also applied lessons learned from their MBA coursework, including one lesson from Center for Business, Government & Society Senior Fellow John Lynch’s course “The CEO Experience” about defining quality in terms of customer needs. “In some areas they were over-delivering and incurring costs to deliver a service that wasn’t causing any noticeable increase in quality for their customers,” says Musa. With Vogel as a guide, the Tuck consulting team was able to provide several actionable recommendations to improve the business, but after considering the market, they also had to break the news that one of the company’s major expansion strategies was unlikely to bear fruit. That alone was incredibly helpful to the firm, says Umscheid. “They brought to light a clear view of what our customers needed and helped us deprioritize one of the options we were considering, saving us precious time and resources.” After 25 years at Tuck, Vogel will retire this year, following his passion for affordable housing by taking over as president of the board of a nonprofit housing developer in Vermont. Director of OnSite Kerry Laufer is one of many sad to see him go. “In addition to his incredible work in the classroom, John has been a driving force behind the success of OnSite Global Consulting teams since his first project in India 17 years ago.” Vogel considers advising the OnSite Global Consulting engagements a highlight of his experience at Tuck. “One of the best things about the course is watching how quickly our students go from novices to experts on a particular topic,” he says. “I am often amazed at their brilliance and insight. As an additional benefit, as was true in this case, the six students barely knew each other at the beginning of the trip. By the end, they seemed destined to be lifetime friends.”

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EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

HIGH STAKES, HIGHER LEARNING The new Advanced Management Program gives C-suite executives the skills to succeed at the highest level. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

or decades, Tuck Executive Education has taught senior managers the skills to lead, innovate, and communicate effectively. Along the way, participants acquire an edge that benefits their organization and boosts their career opportunities. This summer, Tuck is taking executive education to the next level with the new Advanced Management Program (AMP). Aimed at C-suite and VP-level business leaders, the AMP is a two-week immersion in the principles of steering a company to sustained success from the top of the corporate hierarchy. Tuck is taking on this challenge because, as faculty director Punam Anand

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Keller puts it, “We want to train the best managers with the highest leadership potential in the best companies.” Keller, associate dean for innovation and growth and the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, oversaw the creation of the program and built it specifically for the needs and time constraints of its target audience. While many executive education programs are four or more weeks long, AMP’s two-week length is a more realistic time commitment for the busiest senior leaders. Moreover, the program is divided into five distinct modules, so participants can absorb and apply the lessons before starting on the next topic.

The modules are taught by Tuck’s most experienced executive education professors and are designed to develop visionary leadership. They include lessons on strategy and innovation; securing competitive advantage; developing an enterprise-wide mindset; value generation through brand and reputation management; and the leadership challenge. “We identified the key challenges facing the most ambitious companies and put together a program tailored to address those challenges,” Keller explains. A prime example is the session on the interface between private and public organizations, which is taught by Dean Matthew J. Slaughter, former New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, and associate professor Emily Blanchard, an expert in trade policy. “In a lot of the biggest industries today,” Keller says, “working with multiple governments at the state, federal, and global levels is absolutely crucial. Our faculty expertise can give participants a competitive advantage in this and many other areas.” The Advanced Management Program takes place July 9 – 21, in Hanover, N.H. For more information, visit amp.tuck.dartmouth.edu.

When a Hotel Is Better Than a Hospital Solving a bed shortage with connected care / By

n any given day, hospital rooms are occupied by patients who don’t really need to be there. This is problematic for a host of reasons. Hospital beds, for one, are expensive—around $3,000 per night. Moreover, tertiary care beds are in short supply and should be saved for people with critical illnesses. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has had to turn away sick patients because its beds were occupied by patients recovering from minor cardiac procedures, so when it sent a group of doctors and administrators to participate in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) Program, they saw it as an opportunity to think deeply about a solution. MHCDS participants, in addition to their normal coursework on and off campus, must form groups and complete an Action

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Learning Project (ALP), which prompts them to address a real health care delivery problem using the tools they have just acquired. The ALP became the perfect vehicle to explore innovative ways to provide patients alternatives to a hospital stay, with the benefit of helping relieve bed capacity shortages at DHMC and other tertiary hospitals. For its ALP, team Skole (composed of DHMC staff along with a chief of cardiology from Community Heart and Vascular Hospital in Indianapolis, and a chief quality and population health officer from Baystate Health) chose to design a model for hospitals to care for low-risk recipients of heart stents and angioplasties in a nearby hotel with rooms equipped with telehealth technology. It might sound outlandish to put hospital patients in a hotel and call it health care,

but advances in communication technology and “connected-care” processes have made caring for patients remotely an almost routine practice. Sarah Pletcher, M.D., MHCDS’17, founded Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s telehealth center in 2012, starting with efforts that made it possible for specialist doctors at the main campus to see patients in their local primary care clinics dozens of miles away. Today, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Connected Care runs a dedicated 24/7 hub that supports care touching 50 specialties and serving patients in 100 locations across 10 states, all via video and internetconnected medical devices. Pletcher and her colleagues on team Skole looked at the clinical and financial implications of putting certain cardiology patients in an alternative setting and found an opportunity to reduce the cost of care by up to $11,000 per case, which could translate into $1 million per year for a hospital the size of DHMC, while simultaneously improving quality and the patient experience and reserving space at the hospital for the patients who need it most. “To some, this seems very ‘out there’ and disruptive,” Pletcher says. “But integrating telehealth tools into everyday practice is rapidly becoming the standard of care.”

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HEALTH CARE

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Luke Anthony Peña Named Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Luke Anthony Peña is Tuck’s new Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid. In this role, Peña will lead the school’s admissions and financial aid teams and develop and implement strategies for recruiting, selecting, and enrolling MBA candidates who possess the greatest potential to become tomorrow’s wise leaders. Peña previously served as director of MBA admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he led its marketing and recruitment teams, and managed all external outreach. At Stanford GSB, he introduced and implemented data analytics to enhance recruitment and yield efforts, and created digital resources to improve relationship management with both alumni ambassadors and prospective students. Peña was previously associate director of MBA admissions, and also worked as assistant director of admissions at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism prior to joining the Stanford admissions team. “As a community builder, you dream of partnering with alumni, students, staff, and faculty who invest in supporting and challenging one another, and in advancing Tuck’s mission,” said Peña. “I am enthusiastically looking forward to deepening relationships with current and future members of this community.”

Peña’s selection followed a three-month search chaired by Gina Clark des Cognets T’01, chief of staff and executive director of the Office of the Dean at Tuck. He succeeds Dawna Clarke, who stepped down in late 2016 after 11 years as director of admissions to start her own admissions consulting firm. “Achieving our mission of educating tomorrow’s wise leaders begins by attracting not only the best and brightest students, but those for whom our mission speaks the loudest,” says Dean of Tuck Matthew Slaughter, the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. “Luke’s expertise in MBA admissions— together with his wonderful warmth and creativity—will ensure Tuck is successful in welcoming even more of those students into our community.” Peña holds a joint MBA/MA Education degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Business Administration and BA in Public Relations from the University of Southern California. He begins his new appointment July 18.

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WHAT IF FOREIGN IMPORTS CREATE U.S. JOBS? AS A POPULIST BACKLASH AGAINST GLOBALISM FUELS CRIES FOR PROTECTIONISM, OUR RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT FOREIGN INPUTS BENEFIT DOMESTIC FIRMS, MAKING THEM MORE COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

By TERESA C. FORT, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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lobalization is under attack. The backlash was manifested most dramatically in the choice of British voters to leave the European Union last June and the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in November. Two days after Trump’s victory, Edward Alden wrote in Fortune magazine that “Wisconsin has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984. Pennsylvania and Michigan have not done so since 1988. Yet on Tuesday, all three voted for Donald Trump, blowing through the electoral ‘firewall’ that Hillary Clinton had thought would carry her to the White House.” Alden notes that voters in those states, and others that have endured prolonged declines in manufacturing, see themselves as losers in a global competition. Their disaffection is deeply felt and crosses party lines. Though Trump and Bernie Sanders occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum, opposition to NAFTA and the TPP was a reliable applause line for both men during the 2016 campaign. There’s no question that global trade has hurt some, even as it has benefited others. But that assessment paints an incomplete picture. My research with colleagues Pol Antràs of Harvard University and Felix Tintelnot of the University of Chicago focuses on a potentially positive effect of trade, namely the opportunity for firms to access cheaper inputs from foreign suppliers. Inputs are materials or components used to manufacture finished goods, such as sheet steel or windshield wiper blades in the automobile business.

We found that when companies reduced costs by sourcing inputs from China, they were able to use those savings to buy more components from other suppliers, not only in China and other countries, but also in the United States. Our research offers a counterpoint to the prevailing anti-globalization rhetoric, which is based on the false supposition that trade is a zero-sum game and that winners and losers are divided by nationality. Our data support a different viewpoint, in which trade typically benefits those who engage in it. The winners and losers in the global marketplace are determined less by the countries in which they are based than by their ability—or inability—to get the most value from an increasingly international supply chain. Larger firms are typically better able than smaller ones to take advantage of global sourcing because they can more easily cover the costs of opening new supply channels. The advantages from these new channels are significant. We calculate that an average U.S. firm sourcing from all 66 foreign countries in our sample faces around 9 percent lower input costs than a purely domestic firm, and consequently has sales that are approximately 32 percent larger. A firm in the 90th percentile of foreign sourcing in our data imports 47 percent of its inputs, implying a 30 percent cost savings and a 176 percent increase in its sales. So for companies with sufficient scale, international trade can be very good business indeed. But how does that affect

American workers? Our research suggests it benefits those who work for firms able to take advantage of global supply chains, or companies who supply those firms. To use our automobile analogy, a company that supplies its Michigan assembly plant with lower-cost headlights from China can use those savings to source more engine mounts from Ohio. While that benefits workers in China, it’s also good for folks in Michigan and Ohio. That brings us to the policy question. President Trump rode to the White House on a wave of populist anger stoked, among other things, by his promises to repeal NAFTA, scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and force China to deal with the United States on his terms. During the campaign, he invoked the possibility of a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports, and he continues to suggest that protectionist policies will level the playing field. In contrast, our work shows that shutting off foreign inputs for U.S. firms will reduce their competitiveness in the global marketplace, and will lead to higher prices for U.S. consumers. Our research points out a big potential cost of limiting international trade—the collateral damage it could inflict on U.S. firms, including not only those that benefit from low-cost foreign inputs, but also their domestic suppliers. Even if trade partners did not retaliate against U.S. protectionism with trade barriers of their own, higher domestic tariffs would decrease the competitiveness of U.S. firms, both at home and abroad and lead to higher prices for consumers. SUMMER 2017

BETTERING THE WORLD OF BUSINESS— AND NATURE A CONVERSATION WITH LEN GREENHALGH, PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT

By CATHY MELOCIK

rofessor of Management LEN GREENHALGH has been teaching the Managing Strategic Business Relationships course in the MBA program and is director of Native American business programs and programs for minority- and womenowned business enterprises at Tuck Executive Education. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce and, mostly recently, the 2017 Robert M. Stuart Leadership Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council. Sitting in his Maine home overlooking the 86-acre wildlife sanctuary he has spent decades creating, he reflects on his work at Tuck and on his great honor—the Dartmouth Lifetime Achievement Award he received earlier this year during the college’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.

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In the late ’70s, John Hennessey had just stepped down as dean of Tuck and was talking with the Small Business Administration (SBA) about the failure rate of minority-owned businesses. There was a historical disadvantage for certain groups that the SBA was trying to overcome, and they approached Tuck at a time when the school, and John Hennessey especially, was very interested in progressive values. John said, “We know how to teach business, and we’re willing to teach entrepreneurs who are minorities.” In 1980, I was a junior professor at Tuck, with some minoritygroup experience from my previous work at Cornell, and when Tuck Dean Dick West asked me whether I could teach in these programs, I said yes. And I have helped with curriculum design from day one on.

Can you explain the historical disadvantage you mentioned? Many minority groups—black and Hispanic people in particular—have largely been excluded from the economic system in the U.S. because of prior discrimination and segregation until the ’60s, when the civil rights movement began. And these populations didn’t have a long history of family businesses the way, for example, Cuban Americans in south Florida had, or Jewish families in the garment district of New York, or Caribbean cultures in this country. Mexican Americans, for example, came to the U.S. as agricultural workers, and black people from the South were brought in as plantation workers; they didn’t have an entrepreneurial history to draw on. So there is a large population of people who know how to do the task, how to manufacture the product or deliver the service, but who don’t necessarily have the skills to run the business itself: how to develop a strategy, how to manage people. And that’s where our programs come in. In just five days, we teach people the key things they need to know. Tuck created the first minority business executive (MBE) program and it’s the biggest in the world— with more than 7,000 program graduates.

Will the program continue to adapt and envelop other disadvantaged groups? In addition to minority groups, women, and Native Americans, there are other communities that have historically faced

discrimination in the U.S., primarily the LGBTQ, disabled, and veterans’ communities. We’ll increase our outreach to those communities in the future. And right now a lot of European countries are facing huge challenges integrating immigrant businesspeople into their national economies. This year we’re inviting people from Great Britain who are minorities there to come see what we’re doing in the program.

In this country, immigrants tend to be entrepreneurs at a much higher rate than native-born Americans. Why is that? Statistically, it’s about one out of every nine people who has the personality to be an entrepreneur, rather than work in some safe corporation or public-sector agency. And that’s true across racial groups and gender. It’s risk taking, it’s the need for achievement, and the need for control. I think some of the personality characteristics it takes to be a risk taker, to leave what is safe and known and go into the unknown, are the same in people who leave their countries, who become refugees or immigrants. They’re willing to take a chance—the same way entrepreneurs are—for a better life.

How did you feel when you learned you were going to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony at Dartmouth this year? You have to put this into context—I went through college in the ’60s, when Martin Luther King was a revered leader of the civil rights movement. And I have always focused on making a difference. When I teach a Tuck course, I ask myself, Did I make a difference in this individual person’s life? Are they better off having taken this? Are they better prepared for the C-suite? This award is about having made a difference in the lives of minorities; it’s truly the greatest honor of my life.

You were also recently honored with the Governor’s Excellence Award from Maine for your restoration of the wetlands at a former quarry site. Can you talk about your accidental discovery of the site for sale years ago?

Maine. I’m not even sure how—but I was following an osprey here, and it led me to this site.

Was the Governor’s Award a surprise? It was. They thought that I took on a task that was Herculean—I mean, it was a moonscape when I arrived. The teaching and minority programs and research at Tuck have always come first. But I simply don’t have any other hobbies. So who else would be crazy enough to spend 30 years of his life toiling away in his spare time at taking acres and acres of mining debris that’s 30 feet deep off a wetland for no personal benefit. I get nothing out of it other than the satisfaction of seeing the place come alive in terms of the species that return: the otters and the eagles and herons and all the animals that used to live here.

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How did you get involved with minority programs at Tuck?

What do you get back from your students and your program participants at Tuck? Everyone I work with increases my wisdom, my empathy, and my ability to teach. I spend a lot of time getting to know my MBA students and my executive-program participants. It all makes me a better, more well-rounded person. We come from all walks of life, and the people I work with constantly broaden my horizons.

What would you like readers to know about the MBE program at Tuck? That Tuck takes diversity and inclusion very seriously—that the school is a leader in these areas. We happen to be up in New Hampshire, so the local population isn’t very diverse, compared with, say, Washington, D.C., or New York City. But Tuck has an outreach program that is unmatched at any other business school. There’s nobody doing what Tuck is doing. For information on Tuck Minority Business Executive programs, visit Tuck Executive Education at exec.tuck.dartmouth.edu. And to learn more about Wheeler Bay Wildlife Sanctuary or arrange to visit the refuge, see wheelerbaywildlifesanctuary.org.

It was pure luck. I was taking a long drive to relax after a huge amount of work at Tuck finishing a manuscript I’d been working on for seven consecutive weeks, working 18-hour days, seven days a week. I was exhausted. And I just happened to come to

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GOING PUBLIC TUCK PROFESSORS COLIN BLAYDON AND STEVEN K AHL D’91 ARE CREATING THE FIRST STRATEGIC HISTORY OF THE VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY IN THE U.S.

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ntrepreneurship is often praised as an engine of economic growth. That’s because it’s a catalyst for a chain reaction that goes from startups to innovation to increased productivity—the true facilitator of greater prosperity. Entrepreneurs are, of course, important to this process. But lurking in the background are what some believe to be the true powerhouses of innovation: venture capital firms. VCs provide critical seed capital and later-stage funding to startups, so the new businesses have the time and resources to develop a product and become profitable. In return, the firm hopes to cash in on its

investment when the startup is acquired by a bigger company or goes public. In 2016, VCs had more assets under management than in any other year of their existence: $333 billion. And yet, because VCs are private companies, few people outside the industry know how they operate and what dictates their success. For a scholar in organziation and strategy, like Tuck associate professor Steven Kahl D’91, the venture capital industry presents an intriguing research opportunity. The challenge is to get behind the curtain and see how these businesses actually function. When Kahl told Tuck Dean Emeritus

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THE WAY IT HAPPENED WAS, YOU WENT IN AS A GENERALIST, YOU DID SOME DEALS, AND IF ONE WAS REALLY SUCCESSFUL YOU SORT OF BECAME KNOWN FOR THAT AND YOU KNEW HOW TO DO IT,” BLAYDON SAYS. “AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNEW, YOU WERE A SPECIALIST IN WHATEVER THAT WAS.”

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money in their fledgling company, venture capitalists would connect entrepreneurs with people in their Rolodex who could advise them on functional areas such as sales and marketing. Through their interviews with venture capitalists, Blaydon and Kahl are seeing how those strategies and models are evolving. Generalist firms have morphed into specialty practices that invest only in, say, biotech, telecommunications, or software. “The way it happened was, you went in as a generalist, you did some deals, and if one was really successful you sort of became known for that and you knew how to do it,” Blaydon says. “And the next thing you knew, you were a specialist in whatever that was.” On the operations side, the Rolodex model has been joined by full-service VC firms, such as Andreessen-Horowitz, that have people on staff who specialize in functions that startups need. “They have marketing experts, they have accounting experts,” Kahl

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Colin Blaydon about his desire to study venture capital, Blaydon said he could help. Blaydon is the founding director of the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, and a long-time participant in the venture capital industry as an executive, board member, and investor. Now they are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind project to create an oral history of the venture capital industry in the United States. The goal is to create a searchable archive of interviews with key members of the VC world, a series of research papers, and a book. The project has been endorsed by the board of the National Venture Capital Association, which is sharing its membership archives. And they hope to call on Tuck and Dartmouth alumni for insights along the way. For a variety of reasons, the timing is right for this endeavor. Venture capital firms are playing a bigger role in the economy than ever before. Successful startups—such as Uber—are staying private longer, and relying more on venture capital to fund their growth. And the founders of venerable VC firms that started in the early 1980s are getting into their later years—which means they have important knowledge that could be lost when they die. “There’s been some oral history of these guys in the heroic mold, telling their inspiring stories,” Blaydon says. “We’re anxious to hear their inspiring stories, but what we want to make sure they do is explain their strategies, what structures they put in place, how things changed, and what the forces at play were.” Most people agree the venture capital industry was born in the late 1950s and was financed predominantly by wealthy families with an appetite for high-risk investment. The landscape began changing in the 1970s with the passage of ERISA legislation which required retirement and pension programs to be fully funded so retirees wouldn’t lose their pension if their former employer went out of business. After that, employers stashed their retirement funds primarily in low-risk vehicles, such as bonds. But then economists found that if a company invested retirement funds in diverse places, they could include higher-risk investments in a portfolio with equities and bonds and still be considered prudent by regulators. By the early 1980s, the government had written regulations allowing pension funds, endowments, and foundations to invest in venture capital, and the industry expanded significantly. Back then, many VC firms were generalists—they provided startup capital to all sorts of businesses. They operated on the “Rolodex” model: along with investing

explains, “and they work with their portfolio companies to improve their organization.” Blaydon and Kahl have an advantage in this area of research: some of the largest VC firms today were founded or are run by Tuck alumni. For example, Edward Glassmeyer T’68 is the managing partner at Oak Investment Partners, and Peter Barris T’77 and Scott Sandel D’86 are the managing general partners at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Tony Florence D’92, T’97, also a partner at NEA, is part of the next generation. All have agreed to help the professors with their project. “We are reaching out to people from Dartmouth and Tuck first,” Blaydon says, “and we’d love to hear from alumni who have been part of firms from the early 1980s to today.” Colin Blaydon can be reached at: Colin.C.Blaydon@tuck.dartmouth.edu. Steven Kahl can be reached at: Steven.J.Kahl@tuck.dartmouth.edu. SUMMER 2017

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WILLIAM F. JOYCE AND JOHN H. VOGEL, JR. TUCK SAYS FAREWELL TO TWO FACULTY MEMBERS WHO HAVE MADE AN IMPACT IN WAYS BOTH SMALL AND LARGE IN THEIR NEARLY 60 COMBINED YEARS OF SERVICE FOR THE SCHOOL. By CATHY MELOCIK

rofessor of Strategy and Organizational Science WILLIAM F. JOYCE arrived at Tuck in 1983 from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had served as assistant professor and director of the school’s doctoral program in organization and management. Joyce received his BS from Pennsylvania State University and an MSBA from Bucknell University. He returned to Penn State for his PhD after working as an aerospace engineer for Piper Aircraft. He is recognized as an international authority in organizational design and change, organizational culture and performance, and strategy implementation. At Tuck, he was instrumental in creating the theory for practice perspective that is a cornerstone of Tuck’s unique research strategy. His research has focused on the management of high-performing organizations, using philosophy of science and sophisticated statistical methodology, while always emphasizing the usefulness of the work in practical problems of management. At Tuck, Joyce taught the core course in Business Policy with James Brian Quinn, the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management Emeritus, from 1980 until 1993, and the core course in Leading Organizations from 1993 until 2013. He also taught the popular elective Advanced Organizational Design throughout his 34-year career at Tuck. Due to his interest in the application of research to real problems of management, Professor Joyce has also had a distinguished career as a leading adviser to major corporations and government agencies, working with organizations including General Electric, General Motors, Allied-Signal, MetLife, and Citibank, as well as the highest levels of the U.S. government. 22

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A prolific author, Joyce has written and coauthored several books including Implementing Strategy with Lawrence Hrebiniak; Perspectives on Organizational Design and Performance with Andrew H. Vandeven; and MegaChange: How Today’s Leading Companies Have Transformed Their Workforces. As an emeritus professor, Joyce will continue to teach his Management of Organization Change course in Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, and will teach in Tuck’s Executive Education programs. Joyce and his wife of 50 years, Linda, will be dividing their retirement time between sailing at their home on the Sassafras River on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, and relaxing at their winter home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

JOHN H. VOGEL JR., adjunct professor of business administration and associate faculty director of the Center for Business, Government & Society, joined Tuck in 1992. Vogel arrived at Tuck after teaching at the Yale School of Management, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Harvard Business School. After receiving a BA from Carleton College and an MA from the University of Virginia, he earned his MBA at Harvard and later authored or coauthored over 100 Harvard Business School and Tuck case studies. At Tuck, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship in the social sector, nonprofit management, and real estate. Vogel co-founded and initially served as faculty director of Tuck’s corporatecitizenship initiative, which launched in 2004 and recently merged with the Center of International Business into today’s Center for Business, Government & Society. He is active with multiple nonprofit organizations, and his real-estate

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John H. Vogel Jr. expertise served him as the incoming chairman of Housing Vermont and his appointment by the Vermont legislature to the Commission on the Financing and Delivery of Affordable Housing. He has written extensively about real estate and nonprofit management including several articles predicting the housing collapse in 2008. In February, he contributed an online opinion piece on affordable housing and tax reform to The Hill. Area listeners are perhaps most familiar with his monthly commentaries on Vermont Public Radio. In August, Vogel plans to travel to Rawabi, Palestine, to teach a course on basic business practices; he has been involved in promoting this planned city in Palestine. He and wife Judy Music live in Vermont, where Vogel can enjoy more time skiing and playing tennis during his retirement.

Unlocking the Power of Integrated “ Marketing Communications: How Integrated is Your IMC Program?” JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, JULY 2016

KEVIN LANE KELLER, the E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, discusses how the future of advertising and marketing communications will be marked by an increasingly diverse collection of new digital options added to the traditional media and communication options already available. His paper describes seven choice criteria that marketers can use to judge how effectively and efficiently they have assembled their integrated marketing communications programs and outlines five priority areas for future research.

REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, AUGUST 2016 Research by TERESA FORT, assistant professor of business administration, analyzes the relation between technology and firms’ global sourcing strategies. Her findings suggest that technology lowers coordination costs, although its effect is disproportionately higher for domestic rather than foreign sourcing.

“Specialist versus Generalist Positioning: Demand Heterogeneity, Technology Scalability, and Endogenous Market Segmentation” STRATEGY SCIENCE, SEPTEMBER 2016 David T. McLaughlin D'54, T'55 Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship RON ADNER and coauthors Francisco RuizAliseda and Peter Zemsky examine competitive strategy and where firms choose to position themselves within an industry by characterizing when generalists desegment markets and when they are “stuck in the middle” because they are outcompeted by specialists.

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“Occupational Survival Through Field-Level Task Integration: Systems Men, Production Planners, and the Computer, 1940s-1990s”

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“Technology and Production Fragmentation: Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing”

ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2016 Associate Professor of Business Administration STEVEN KAHL D’91 and coauthors Brayden King and Greg Liegel examine how occupational groups survive the introduction of a new technology and associated jurisdictional changes. Their comparative historical analysis shows that taking an integrative approach with other occupations at the field level can help occupations survive long term.

“Inferring Quality from Wait Time” MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, OCTOBER 2016

LAURENS DEBO, associate professor of business administration, and coauthor Mirko Kremer studied the impact of wait time on consumers’ purchasing behavior when product quality is unknown to some consumers (“uninformed consumers”) but known to others (“informed consumers”). Debo’s research found that uninformed consumers’ purchasing probability during short wait times decreases in the presence of informed consumers, and relatively few informed consumers suffice to create this effect. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

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n July 1, PRASAD VANA will join Tuck as an assistant professor of business

administration. Vana received his PhD from London Business School, where he served as seminar instructor in the core marketing course for

the master’s in management program; his MS in transportation engineering from the University of Texas-Austin; and a BTech in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium fellowship in 2016 and a PhD award in 2015 from the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Vana also served as an analyst/consultant for AECOM in Columbus, Ohio, before beginning his doctoral studies. His research interests

include quantitative marketing, crowdfunding, online promotions, and product CONTINUED ON PAGE 28 reviews. Vana will join the marketing group at Tuck and will teach two sections of the core statistics course in the coming fall term.

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“Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation” JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, OCTOBER 2016 In their study, GORDON PHILLIPS, the C.V. Starr Foundation Professor, and coauthor Gerard Hoberg examine how firms differ from their competitors, using new time-varying measures of product similarity based on text-based analysis of firm 10-K product descriptions.

“The Necessity, Logic, and Forms of Replication” S TRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 2016

CONSTANCE HELFAT, the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy, and coauthors Richard Bettis and J. Myles Shaver discuss different types of replication studies, comparing replications with other approaches to cumulating knowledge and providing guidelines toward producing high-quality replication studies. Their work shows that replication studies can help to establish the range of applicability of prior studies and better support what implications can be drawn for managerial practice.

“Integrating Marketing Communications: New Findings, New Lessons, and New Ideas” JOURNAL OF MARKETING, NOVEMBER 2016

KEVIN LANE KELLER discusses how the optimal integration of marketing communications takes on increasing importance given the challenges presented by new media, shifting media patterns, and divided consumer attention. His paper provides insight and advice on how traditional and new media interact to affect consumer decision making.

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“Financing and New Product Decisions of Private and Publicly Traded Firms” THE REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES DECEMBER 2016, EARLY PUBLICATION In their study, GORDON PHILLIPS, the C.V. Starr Foundation Professor of Finance, and coauthor Giorgio Sertsios exploit Medicare national coverage reimbursement approvals as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate how the financing decisions of private and publicly traded firms respond to changes in investment oppor tunities. Phillips’ research finds that publicly traded companies increase their external financing, and their subsequent product introductions, by more than private companies in response to national coverage approvals.

“Managing Multi- and OmniChannel Distribution: Metrics and Research Directions” JOURNAL OF RETAILING JANUARY 2017, AVAIL ABLE ONLINE

KUSUM AILAWADI, the Charles Jordan 1911, TU’12 Professor of Marketing, and coauthor Paul Harris present a framework and the metrics—both old and new—that suppliers and retailers should monitor and that academic researchers should incorporate in their models. Their article lays out the important questions that multi- and omnichannel marketers are grappling with, refers the reader to what existing academic research has to say about them, and suggests how future research can build off this framework and metrics to supplement what is known and address what is not.

“A Penny Saved Is Not a Penny Earned: When Decisions to Earn and Save Compete for Consumer Resources” J OURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH, JANUARY 2017

PUNAM ANAND KELLER, associate dean for innovation and growth and the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, and EESHA SHARMA , associate professor of business administration, examine how people think about and decide between opportunities to earn and save. They also study whether perceived financial deprivation interacts with preferences for earning and saving opportunities.

“Extending Industry Specialization through CrossBorder Acquisitions” REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES, FEBRUARY 2017

GORDON PHILLIPS and coauthors Laurent Frésard and Ulrich Hege investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. They find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. Their results are consistent with an internalization motive for foreign acquisitions, through which acquirers can apply localized intangibles on foreign assets.

“The Effects of Advertised Quality Emphasis and Objective Quality on Sales” JOURNAL OF MARKETING, MARCH 2017

PRAVEEN KOPALLE, associate dean for the MBA program and the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, examines the effectiveness of quality-based advertising messages. He demonstrates that it is not beneficial for low-quality products to emphasize quality in their advertising, and that it is effective for high-quality products to do so.

NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOR, APRIL 2017

ADAM KLEINBAUM, associate professor of business administration, pairs network data with pattern analysis to show that social network position information is accurately perceived and spontaneously activated upon encountering familiar individuals. His findings explain how the human brain encodes the structure of its social world, and emphasize the importance of integrating an understanding of social networks into the study of social perception.

“Will Opendoor Revolutionize the Sale of Residential Real Estate?” THE REAL ESTATE FINANCE JOURNAL, SPRING 2017 Research by JOHN VOGEL, adjunct professor of business administration and associate faculty director for the Center for Business, Government & Society, analyzes Opendoor, a startup real-estate platform that offers sellers an alternative to listing their homes with brokers. Vogel discusses the challenges the company will confront in the housing market and what the impact will be if Opendoor and its imitators are successful.

“How Well Does Consumer-Based Brand Equity Align with SalesBased Brand Equity and Marketing Mix Response?” JOURNAL OF MARKETING, FORTHCOMING

KUSUM AILAWADI, the Charles Jordan 1911, TU’12 Professor of Marketing, and coauthors Hannes Datta and Harald van Heerde study the extent to which consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) manifests itself in salesbased brand equity (SBBE) and marketing mix response, using 10 years of data for 290 brands spanning 25 packaged good categories. Their work uncovers a fairly strong positive association of SBBE with three dimensions of CBBE—relevance, esteem, and knowledge—but a slight negative correspondence with the fourth dimension, energized differentiation.

Assistant Professor DIRK BLACK and coauthor Marshall Vance of the University of Southern California received the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award for their paper “Do First Impressions Last? The Impact of Initial Assessments and Subsequent Performance on Promotion Decisions.” According to the association, the award is made for the paper presented at the midyear meeting “that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and be of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.” In their paper, Black and Vance used data from Minor League Baseball pitchers to study the effects of initial assessments, confirmation bias, and objective performance measures over time in promotion decisions.

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

In June, the Lapeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Finland awarded CONSTANCE HELFAT, the James Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy, with an honorary doctorate at its doctoralconferment ceremony. Helfat has worked closely with strategy researchers at the LUT School of Business and Management over the years and was previously awarded the LUT’s biannual Viipuri prize for her work in modern strategy research. The award of an honorary doctorate—the school’s highest honor—recognizes Helfat’s thought leadership and influence on the teaching of economic sciences at LUT. In addition to her teaching at Tuck, she is a co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and an organizer of The FIVE Project, which aims to expand research on firm and industry evolution and related areas of entrepreneurship. Helfat’s current research topics focus on business and corporation strategy, especially firm capabilities and adaptation to change, with application to innovation, top management, and vertical integration. Coxe Distinguished Professor VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN and co-author Ravi Ramamurti of Northeastern University have been awarded the Strategic Management Society’s 2017 Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award for their study, “Reverse Innovation, Emerging Markets, and Global Strategy.” The 2011 paper explores cases in which innovations are adopted first in emerging economies and “trickle up” to rich countries. In their abstract, Govindarajan and Ramamurti note that although examples of reverse innovation are still rare, they “raise interesting theoretical questions, such as what kinds of innovation emerging economies are likely to spawn, why such innovations might diffuse to rich countries, what competitive advantages local and foreign firms enjoy in this process, and how it affects the global strategy and organization of established multinational enterprises.” Govindarajan pioneered the concept of reverse innovation in a 2009 Harvard Business Review article he co-authored with General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt D’78, “How GE Is Disrupting Itself.” “Rethinking Deindustrialization,” by ANDREW BERNARD, the Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics, and coauthored with Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski of Aarhus University in Denmark, was selected as the Editor’s Choice article in the January 2017 issue of the journal Economic Policy. Using measurements of the decline in manufacturing in Denmark from 1994 to 2007, the authors propose a different approach to analyze “deindustrialization” and examine workforce composition in firms that switch industries—in this case, from manufacturing to services.

Doug Asano T‘04

no ordinary PAY IT FORWARD. IT’S THE PHILOSOPHY EMBEDDED WITHIN THE HEART OF THE TUCK ALUMNI NETWORK—AND IT’S AN ADAGE THAT ALUMNI DO NOT TAKE LIGHTLY. BY K ATE SIBER D’02

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Alice Lin T‘14

Carolyn Zern T‘09

Erica Johnston T’15

fter Nick Luthwood T’01 received his acceptance letters from business schools, a daunting task lay before him: deciding where to go. From the United Kingdom, he didn’t know a whole lot about the American schools on his list, so he decided to visit. He ambled about the Tuck campus, went to a few classes, and eventually wandered into the dining hall. Feeling a bit intimidated, Luthwood sat down with his lunch. A nearby student immediately struck up a conversation with him. “He explained that all the top programs will get you towards the job you want, but you have to ask yourself where you want to spend two years and what type of people you want to be around for the rest of your life,” he says. “It was excellent advice.” And it was advice Luthwood, who is now the founder and CEO of LiqiDT—an innovative global finance business in illiquid assets, infrastructure and capital raising in Guildford, England—took to heart. At Tuck, he noticed a uniquely warm familiarity between students, faculty, and administrators. Students brought their dogs to class and had dinner with their lecturers. They left their wallets and computers on tables without hesitation and bonded over long nights, huddled in study groups. These were his people. “Maybe it’s being in a small town,” says Luthwood, “but you really appreciate each other. There’s an unspoken bond between Tuckies, and those relationships endure.” Tuck’s legendary network now includes about 10,000 living alumni from 74 countries and was ranked #1 by The Economist in alumni network effectiveness. For the tenth year in a row, more than two-thirds of Tuck alumni have given back, one of the highest alumni giving rates among American business schools. But what speaks loudest to the real-life value of the network are alumni experiences themselves. Before she even applied to business schools, Alice Lin T’14 had heard about Tuck from her boss, Sean Riley T’05, who waxed about activities in the Upper Valley and extolled the virtues of the Tuck alumni network, through which he found several jobs. Riley helped Lin with her application and wrote her a recommendation. Other alumni met up with Lin and exuded such enthusiasm— trekking through the rain to buy her drinks, the “highlight of their week”—that she made Tuck her first choice and applied early action.

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“Going in the door, you’re super excited about Tuck,” says Lin. “When you’re there, you have this amazing experience. Then afterwards you’re still in touch with a lot of your community and feel really positively, and that’s why alumni engagement is so high.” After Tuck, she secured a job at Liberty Mutual and all seven of the other alumni at the company— today there are nearly 40—were happy to take the time out to speak with her. “When you reach out to Tuckies, the expectation is they respond quickly and I’ve found that to be true,” says Lin. “When a prospective student reaches out to me, I always reply right away. It’s a pay-itforward mentality.”

The following alumni have also benefitted from the Tuck network in ways big and small. In their own words, they share stories of great advice, help received at a critical moment, and other ways their fellow alumni offer support that goes far beyond those two busy years spent in a small New Hampshire town.

Roman Hughes T‘12

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ROW WITH THE CURRENT ROM A N HUGHES T’12 SENIOR M A R K ETING M A NAGER, MERC A DO LIBR E BUENOS A IRES, A RGEN TINA

As I was going through the process of selecting an MBA, I was in Latin America, in Uruguay, where I’m from. Conversations about culture in a business sense don’t happen very often there, if at all. Milton Hahn, who is a T’07, started working at the same private equity firm as me. He started talking about culture and how I should keep it in mind when choosing a business school. When I got my acceptance letters, I really started to doubt which school was the right one for me. Milton suggested I go and visit Tuck in person, so I did. Right away, it became crystal clear that Tuck was an exceptional place and a phenomenal cultural fit. Tuckies are very capable people and are extremely hard working, but Tuck is also a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. It lends itself to having strong working business relationships but also friendships—people who really know who you are and your strengths. Culture is still something I take very much to heart when selecting jobs. I associate culture with the current in a river. If you are somewhere where there’s a right fit, it feels like rowing with the current—everything around you helps achieve your goals. However, if it’s the wrong fit, it’s more like rowing against the current—you have to work a lot harder to achieve some progress. It’s easier, and way more pleasant, to row with the river than against it. After Tuck, Milton said, “Hey, if you want to come back home, here are some people you might want to talk to and they’re really going to be the right cultural fit for you.” I met with one of his contacts over coffee. By the end of the conversation the guy said, “We’ve got an opening.” I didn’t even know it was a job interview! I’ve been working this new job for the last nine months now and it’s a great fit.

Alumni Survey Readout YOU SUCCEED, WE SUCCEED FR A NCISCO ORTEGO T’15 SENIOR CONSULTA N T, INNOSIGH T BOSTON, M A

When I was a prospective student, I asked a current student, a T’14, about tips for my admissions interview the next day. He said, “Make sure you highlight how you have helped your colleagues and direct reports become better at what they do, because that’s really what leadership is all about.” In a way, that’s something I already understood and did at my job, I just hadn’t articulated it clearly. Putting that notion of what leadership is in a simple phrase really struck a chord in me. It was a big aha moment. In the admissions interview, I made sure to explicitly call out how I had helped my employees succeed and how that shaped my leadership view. I have also really taken that advice to heart in my professional life. I’m a consultant right now. I’ve been in the job for about a year and a half. I get to interact with other junior consultants who are either straight out of college or just starting out after their MBA. I put a lot of weight into helping them navigate the first couple of months of the job, which can be pretty tough. But I’ve learned that if they succeed, then we will all succeed. This has been reflected in the work that I’ve done, which is consistently on time and delivered with the high quality that’s expected. I told the alum that his advice was probably some of the best I ever received—not only to get into Tuck but altogether. His advice helped me understand more deeply what being a leader means and interiorized the notion that altruism is the noblest form of egoism.

Last fall, Tuck conducted its first all-alumni survey in over 30 years. Consider this an amuse-bouche of what we learned, with more details to come—particularly around alumni engagement.

% RESPONSE RATE Response rates across age, gender, ethnicity, and geographic location were representative or very close to being representative of the overall alumni pool.

How satisfied are you with the value of your Tuck education in relation to your career and professional life?

66% 27% 3% 3%

VERY SATISFIED SATISFIED NEUTRAL DISSATISFIED OR VERY DISSATISFIED

Positive reasons cited: quality of education; opportunities created; strength of the community/network; and life skill development. Neutral/negative reasons cited: perceived value of the MBA; brand recognition.

NET PROMOTER SCORE

How we compare to MBA programs and companies: Fuqua (2015): 67% HBS (2015 score, from students): 41% Wharton (2015): 51%

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Andy Mims T’02, Carolyn Zern T’09, and Preble Jaques T’03 serve on the board of Boston nonprofit The Food Project together.

GIVING BACK TOGETHER IT WASN’T EXACTLY BY DESIGN THAT THREE TUCK ALUMNI ENDED UP ON THE BOARD OF THE FOOD

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PROJECT, A FARMING AND YOUTH-DEVELOPMENT NONPROFIT IN THE BOSTON AREA, BUT IT ALSO WASN’T ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL. Last year, Carolyn Zern T’09 volunteered to pick weeds with a group of Tuck alumni at one of the nonprofit’s farms and was so impressed with the operation that she applied to join the board. Several years earlier, Preble Jaques T’03 found out about The Food Project through Jay Harrison, a friend, farmer, and now-executive director of the organization, then roped in his friend Andy Mims T’02. “He was immediately my top draft pick because he knew a lot more about the issues we deal with,” says Jaques. Mims works in social and environmental investing at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge and serves on two other boards: the Environmental League of Massachusetts and Manomet, a sustainability nonprofit. “Preble’s been instrumental in me learning about it and joining,” says Mims. “What’s great is I can give him or Carolyn a call anytime and ask them all kinds of questions.” Jaques and Zern are on the development committee while Mims serves on the finance committee, but it’s not uncommon for the trio to collaborate. Numerous other Tuckies have also contributed to The Food Project. Dave Adams T’08, president of AFC Urgent Care, sponsored a fundraising event in April; Jenn Blazejewski T’09 and Brinda Sen T’09 donated to The Food Project’s Ride for Food; and Jon Pearson T’09 rode 50 miles for The Food Project team and raised over $1,000. “We’re incredibly lucky to have been able to go to a place like Tuck and learn, and I think we have a real obligation to give back where we can,” says Mims. “There are a lot of different ways you can give back, but being on a board and rolling up your sleeves can be a meaningful way to do it, and it feels good to be a part of it.”

In my second year at Tuck, we lost my mom to cancer at Christmas, then my first daughter was born nine weeks prematurely that spring. It was not the way I envisioned finishing the year. But I was really close to Assistant Dean Sally Jaeger and also to current Dean and then Professor Matthew Slaughter, who both told me, look, take care of your family first, don’t worry about the rest of it. You taking care of your wife and daughter is much more important than one problem set or any single academic commitment. It was so helpful to know that two of the more senior people at Tuck were not just advocating for me but working to make sure they could do whatever they could to help. The whole Tuck community was amazing. I would come home and my wife would have spent the whole day at the hospital. Friends of ours would have just shown up and taken the dog for a walk and made us dinner and cleaned the house. I still look back at that as the ultimate reflection or true test of the Tuck community. I still try to remember Matt and Sally’s advice today in my career. It’s one of the pieces of advice I try to give others too—and I’ve got about 100 people who work for me. Your career can consume you. You can always spend an extra hour at work. You can respond to email and text messages 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When my employees go on vacation, I tell them, I don’t want to see any emails or text messages from you. It’s not that Sally and Matt were saying to blow things off; they meant, take care of your family first and everything else will take care of itself.

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Alli Henry T‘06

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It was a good life lesson that people can open their rolodexes for you, but you need to know what you need first.”

When I was applying to Tuck, Doug Asano T’04 interviewed me to be admitted. We still keep in touch. He's been really helpful teaching me about networking, for example. He always told me to end any networking interview with, “Thank you so much for your advice. Can you think of two colleagues who might also be helpful to meet with?” This has always led to more doors opening, additional interviews, contacts, and friendly introductions to helpful connections. If you can get a warm intro from someone who says, “I recently chatted with this bright young person,” it’s so incredibly helpful to stand out from an enormous pile of applicants. It’s also helpful if you’re looking for referrals for services or professionals. I also got great advice from Jim Butterworth T’91. He took me out to a breakfast when I was 27 and between jobs. I was very young, a little confused about next steps, and he was blunt: “I can open lots of doors for you, but you need to lay out what your ask is. If you ask, I can help. If you’re not sure, I don’t know exactly who I need to call in my network to get you where you need to go.” It made a huge impression. It was a good life lesson that people can open their rolodexes for you, but you need to know what you need first. There’s sort of an adage that you can pick up the phone and call anyone in the Tuck network and they really will take your call—if not immediately, they will respond. It’s true. That’s crazy and it’s real and it’s awesome.

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DEFINE YOUR BOTTOM LINE KEN T COVINGTON T’86 M A NAGING DIRECTOR A ND PR INCIPA L BROK ER, COV INGTON COMMERCI A L NEW YOR K, N Y

In 1980, I began my first job out of college at Bankers Trust. Shortly thereafter, I met Jack Rubin (T’80), a recent Tuck graduate working in the corporate finance area. He became a friend and mentor. One day a head hunter approached Jack and offered him a new opportunity. He was frustrated by some developments in his current role, so he interviewed and got the offer. He was shown his new desk in their office on Park Avenue then went back to resign. But after hearing him out, his department head said, “Well Jack, what would it take for you to stay?” Jack told him it would take a $10,000 raise and a $5,000 bonus. The department head responded, “I can’t guarantee anything, but will you give me 24 hours to see what I can do?” Jack answered, “Of course, just don’t come back with 9 and 4.” The numbers may seem tame today, but the chutzpah still registers. Jack ended up receiving exactly what he asked for. His entire MBA class— his peers who had been hired out of business school at the same time—also received the raise. There are several valuable takeaways: 1. Any business discussion can become a negotiation— have your bottom line defined. 2. Some managers will do right by their people once provided with relevant information. 3. Your bargaining position is never stronger than when you’ve developed real alternatives for which you would walk away. Over the past 35 years, this story has informed my decisions more than once. He would later play a large factor in my decision to attend Tuck. And we’re still friends to this day.

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Any business discussion can become a negotiation.”

PAYING IT FORWARD LOVE THYSELF AVA N TI M A LUSTE T’14 CEO, L AC A DI VES MUMBA I, INDI A

Each year, Professor of Corporate Communications Paul Argenti leads a discussion with first-year students on managing their business school experience replete with competing priorities—academics, socializing, recruiting, and health. It was against this backdrop that my classmate Maggie Misztal T’14 and I discussed how strenuous environments (we were both consultants in our pre-Tuck careers) inevitably relegate self-care to the very bottom of a long list of priorities, spawning a general malaise that all too often spirals into a vicious cycle of lethargy. Breaking that cycle is an existential imperative. Maggie, I remember, recounted how she started running because “you can run anywhere,” and it’s a convenient physical activity in a role that involves extensive travel. It’s also worth noting that Maggie is a triathlete and taught spin classes at Tuck. Which is why I took it seriously when she told me to look after myself and heed my body’s admonishments. Not that I wouldn’t, but hearing it from another made it more potent. At Tuck, I used that advice as a guiding principle to stop and think when I felt overwhelmed. Am I eating right? Have I exercised adequately this week? Have I spoken to my best friend from college lately? And it did help me focus—and sometimes re-focus—on the most overarching priority: my mental and physical health. Now I know if I’ve let it slip. I know that when I’m really tired I stop paying attention to details. My memory suffers. I am less organized and somewhat uncertain about what I need to do and far less efficient. I now work in a company where the buck stops at me, so making mistakes is not an option. I still check in on myself, not obsessively or maniacally, but I make it a point to eat healthy, exercise, get enough rest—and watch bad TV!

hen Sue Ellis Allon T’89 was considering business school, Brad Creswell T’87, a friend and colleague, invited her to stay with him and his wife at Sachem Village. She expected a ho-hum experience of attending classes and strolling around campus. But the first night, her hosts threw a lively dinner party. Allon still remembers people filtering into the tiny apartment constantly, bringing steaming plates of food. They stayed up until the tiny hours of morning, laughing and talking. She already felt surrounded by friends. “It was being welcomed into a home, and I do not mean just the Sachem Village apartment they lived in,” says Allon. “It was the larger home of Tuck. I couldn’t believe how wonderful it was.” Now, Allon has made a point of sharing the support and warmth of the Tuck network with a new generation of Tuckies. “I’m an overseer at Tuck because I care so much and I want to give back and make sure more people in the world have the opportunities that I had or even better,” she says. “It’s a round-world thing.” In 2014, for example, she contacted the Career Development Office to let them know that she, her husband, and her daughter had an extra room available in their Denver home for any Tuck student working in the city for the summer. Meanwhile, Erica Johnston T’15 was wondering how she would find and afford housing for her internship at Denver-based WhiteWave Foods that summer. “I got a call from Sue out of the blue,” says Johnston. “She didn’t know anything about me other than I was a Tuck student, yet she offered to let me live with her. I thought it was too good to be true. I thought there had to be a catch, but that was just Sue giving back to the Tuck community.” Johnston lived with the Allon family for 10 weeks. Allon arranged lunch with the CEO, a Dartmouth alum, and offered career advice and support, while Johnston helped Allon in the garden and housesat when the family traveled. Johnston now lives in Minneapolis and works for General Mills. She keeps in touch with Allon and, in turn, is inspired to give back to the Tuck community herself. She is part of a weekly dinner-party group in Minneapolis with eight other T’15s that has been going strong for a year and a half. She is a mentor through Tuck Connections which helps connect prospective students with members of the Tuck community who have similar backgrounds. She’s also a Tuck marketing mentor and acts as an adviser to a current student interested in marketing and has sponsored Tuck summer interns at General Mills. “The Tuck network has been very supportive professionally but also personally,” says Johnston. “I try to pay it forward as much as I can.”

AN EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF MISSISSIPPI BY JEFF MOAG

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It was a pretty important realization that there was so much left to know and so much left to explore about the place I call home.” TOM ALLIN T'17

om Allin didn’t realize how much a part of him Mississippi was until he left home. As one of the few (if not the only) Mississippians in his class at the University of North Carolina, he became a proud and popular ambassador of his home state. He fielded frequent questions about the state, and whatever form they took their substance followed a common theme: What is wrong with Mississippi? Over time, Allin began to ask himself a related question: What can I do to help? He wrote his senior thesis at UNC on the experiences of Mississippi expatriates and after graduation returned to the state with Teach for America (TFA). He worked in the Delta, a swath of northwestern Mississippi best known for its economic challenges and a form of musical lament called the blues. Allin, who is white, ran a school drama program focused on black history for public school students who were almost all African American and came from underprivileged backgrounds. “That experience taught me just how little I knew about Mississippi,” says Allin, a slender 30-year-old with an earnest demeanor and easy smile. “It was a pretty important realization that there was so much left to know and so much left to explore about the place I call home.” He spent two years in the Delta with TFA before going to work with an ad agency in his hometown of Jackson. Part of his job there was to improve Mississippi’s image outside the state, a role to which he seems genetically predisposed. His Delta experience had left him feeling more deeply rooted than ever in Mississippi, and he was determined to contribute to the state in a more substantive way. Part of that plan involved pursuing his MBA at Tuck. Allin began laying the groundwork for what would become the Mississippi Global Insight Expedition

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(GIX) before his first-year classes even started. “I remember very clearly sitting with Sally Jaeger in front of Tuck Hall on a beautiful fall day, saying ‘I have this idea,’” he says. While it’s not unusual for Tuck students to pitch exchange courses focused on their home country or region, not all come to fruition. Allin made his case with quiet persistence and an enthusiasm that set him apart. “It’s hard to be at Tuck and not know Tom,” says Courtney Miller T’17. “And if you know Tom you know he’s from Mississippi.” Allin says he loves telling people about the state, and admits that friends jokingly call him The Governor. “I love the state’s historical significance, and the contributions it’s made to our nation’s culture,” says Allin. “To have a single place be the home of B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Elvis Presley, is just astonishing.” When he arrived at Tuck, he was thrilled to find his classmates genuinely curious about his home state. The idea of a Mississippi GIX became an ongoing conversation with faculty and administrators. “To Tuck’s credit, nobody ever told me no,” he says. “Nobody said yes right away either, but nobody said no.” The turning point came in a conversation with Tuck professors Emily J. Blanchard, who specializes in global economics, and Andrew A. King, who teaches strategy. Recalls King, “Tom walked into my office and said ‘I think we should run a trip to Mississippi. It’s got a distinctive economy and it’s a distinctive region of the United States and it could be a valuable experience for students.’” King, who believes his biggest impact has been as a mentor and adviser, immediately asked Allin what he could do to help. Other than a green light for the course, Allin didn’t need much assistance. “If I said Tom did 90 percent

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The state of Mississippi grapples with issues of poverty, education and health disparities, and racial division.

of the work I’d be giving at least myself too much credit,” King says. Allin and King then drafted Blanchard, who remembers being struck by Tom’s energy, passion, and demonstrated commitment. “Tom showed up at our first meeting with a draft itinerary and a set of deep questions about how to think about Mississippi’s economic development.” The ideas and the setting were too important to pass up. “Tom’s vision for the Mississippi GIX embodies the heart of Tuck’s widelens approach to understanding business. I was honored to play a part.” Once professors Blanchard and King signed onto the project, Tom was able to recruit TuckGO and the Tuck Center for Business, Government, & Society to handle the operations and funding. With Blanchard and King guiding the academic component, Allin poured himself into the project, using his network and knowledge of the state to craft an itinerary that

would foster a deep understanding of Mississippi’s complex history and unique challenges. He spent nearly a year organizing visits to manufacturing facilities, farms, and retailers in every region of the state. He arranged meetings with Mississippi’s governor Phil Bryant, philanthropist Jim Barksdale, and a broad cross-section of educators and entrepreneurs working to change the state from within. Allin and the professors designed the course to shed light on how regional economic development relates to an area’s unique history, geography, resources, and institutions. That the Mississippi GIX took place in the U.S. heartland is particularly meaningful. While we often think about economic development on a national level, enormous variation exists within countries. In the United States, Mississippi is often held up as an example of social and economic under-performance.

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The Tuck team tours Egypt Plantation in the Mississippi Delta.

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enroll their children in private schools. Through his Teach for America (TFA) network, Allin arranged to give the Tuck group an insider’s view of Mississippi’s stagnant public education system, as well as the surprising points of light within it. There were three such meetings during the course but the first, in the Delta town of Clarksdale, was particularly powerful. The group of 20 Tuck students and two faculty sat in a semicircle with Allin and two accomplished educators, Sanford Johnson and Courtney Van Cleve, at one end. “To have two incredibly talented people who could really be anywhere in the world if they wanted to, both sharing their stories of why they chose to come back not only to Mississippi but to live in a town like Clarksdale—I think that made an impact,” says Allin. Johnson and Van Cleve are both from Mississippi and both chose to continue working as educators in Clarksdale after their TFA commitments ended. “They’re both young, Sanford is black, and Courtney is a woman,” Allin says. “Up to that point we had met with a lot of older white males—which I, too, one day will be an older white male—but in some ways they represented a different face of leadership in the state.” In the meeting, Allin says, “they were

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n an early March morning, Allin and his wife Sarah, a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School who has worked in the state, welcomed the GIX group to Jackson. That first day the group met with members of the Mississippi Development Authority, who described an economic plan designed to attract large-scale manufacturing to the state. They also stopped at Two Sisters Kitchen in downtown Jackson for what Allin describes as “the best fried chicken in the world.” That evening Allin’s parents John and Betty hosted the group in their home. The notion of Southern hospitality may be cliché, but course participants all remarked on the warm welcome they received from almost everyone they met in Mississippi. Allin confesses to feeling like a harried host, introducing his professors and classmates to some of the things he loves best about his home state. The itinerary he crafted, however, also pulled the curtain from Mississippi’s deepest problems. Segregation remains a defining feature in many Mississippi schools, though the mechanism is no longer the law, but rather white families choosing to

able to acknowledge the state’s great challenges but also do so with humor, humility, and a sense of resiliency, or grounded optimism.” The group got another boost that afternoon when they met Steve Iwanski in Greenwood, Miss., where commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer Viking Range is headquartered. The objective was to discuss spillover effects from a company like Viking, whose founder and former CEO Fred Carl Jr., is a silent partner in Turnrow Book Co., the independent bookstore Iwanski runs in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. The conversation turned to the Shakespeare program Iwanski organizes, in which students from Greenwood’s private and public schools worked together to design costumes, build a set, and perform a scene from one of Shakespeare’s plays. For some of Iwanski’s students, this program offers the first opportunity for meaningful interaction with students of another race. The students now hang out together in the bookstore, and the program has a 100 percent return rate, says King. “That’s pretty inspiring, and what you realize is, it’s people like Iwanski who are pulling these things together,” he says. “It’s not just him; there are a lot of great people trying to make a difference, so that’s when you are very hopeful. It’s a sort of low-level, grassroots effort of great people doing remarkable things.” At times the GIX bus felt like a roller coaster, with the group’s mood swinging from inspiration to frustration and back again. The group had discovered Mississippi to be far more complex than any of them expected. Blanchard says that is a sign of a successful course. Lively conversations about difficult and nuanced challenges improved everyone’s understanding of Mississippi and the broader global economy, Blanchard says, including her own. The state has been relentless in its efforts to attract manufacturing facilities, such as the Nissan assembly plant in Canton, Miss., which employs roughly 6,400 people. Lawmakers have provided large tax incentives, infrastructure support, and regulatory relief to attract industry to Mississippi, with some success. The state boasts excellent transportation corridors, unfettered access to the U.S. market, and some of the lowest labor costs in the United States. Given these factors, it’s perhaps surprising that Mississippi has not attracted more manufacturing. “Mississippi’s development agencies have been relentless in their pursuit of major investments,” notes Blanchard, whose research includes the eco-

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Tom Allin T’17 with Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant.

nomics of foreign direct investment. While these efforts are often successful in attracting new firms, they’re not cheap. At least in the near term, tax incentives can come at the cost of school funding. “New jobs or new schools? The tradeoffs aren’t trivial.” Public schools are chronically underfunded and because so many families have moved their children to private schools, educational funding initiatives are frequently voted down. While it’s true that labor costs are low in Mississippi, companies there still struggle to staff their factories with qualified people. The state seems caught in an economic development catch-22, trading away potential tax revenues to attract companies like Nissan and Airbus, and then being unable to make the investments in infrastructure and education required to sustain growth. But without those incentives, companies would simply locate their factories in areas offering attractive tax breaks of their own. When is it worth it to spend tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars on attracting a manufacturing plant to the state? Economics research points to the potential for major investments to bring positive

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spillovers to the local economy, but in many parts of the state, these benefits have yet to materialize. “The Nissan facility is spectacular and it employs thousands of workers, but outside the plant, we saw few signs of renaissance in the local economy,” says Blanchard. Inside the Nissan building there’s

Like other businesses in Mississippi, Ingalls has struggled to find qualified workers. The shipyard’s solution has been to cultivate its own talent. The Tuck group was particularly impressed by Ingalls’ apprenticeship program. Their tour was led by a man who came up through the apprenticeship

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There are a lot of great people trying to make a difference, so that’s when you are very hopeful. It’s a sort of low-level, grassroots effort of great people doing remarkable things.” ANDREW KING, PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

a Chik-fil-A, a bank branch, and a medical clinic, but in nearby Canton there’s scant evidence of entrepreneurial businesses springing up to serve the needs of Nissan and its employees. In a state where jobs in general are in short supply, and good jobs particularly so, companies like Nissan, Airbus, and the Ingalls Shipyard have their pick of potential employees. This leads to two related phenomena. First, these plants attract workers from all over the state and, particularly in the case of Ingalls which lies less than 10 miles from the Alabama line, neighboring states as well. The simple explanation is market-driven: people without good opportunity close to home will travel to get it. King sees another dimension as well. In Mississippi, more than in other parts of United States, people seem rooted to their home places. In small rural communities across the state people are connected to their support networks, families, sense of community. It’s an intangible concept that is hard to measure, but on the ground in Mississippi, it feels very real. These threads seemed to come together at the Ingalls Shipyard during the group’s final day in Mississippi. The Tuck group toured the 800-acre facility, where the USS Delbert D. Black, a $1.8-billion Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is rising through its scaffolding. Ingalls is a paragon of the large-scale manufacturing businesses the state has worked so hard to attract. Founded in 1938, Ingalls employed more than 27,000 workers at its peak in 1977. Today about 12,000 people work in the Gulf Coast shipyard, which anchors the local economy.

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program, became a pipefitter, and went on to earn two degrees. “Ingalls really seemed to have cornered the market on the workforce within that region,” says Courtney Miller, who before coming to Tuck led a U.S. Army maintenance platoon. “We talk a lot about innovation as business school students, and some of the most remarkable innovation I’ve seen was by the mechanics I had in Afghanistan and Iraq when they were working to accomplish a mission. At Ingalls, it felt like the leadership is leveraging that same kind of innovation.” In other words, the secret sauce at Ingalls combines the sort of large-scale manufacturing the Mississippi Development Authority is working to attract with the kind of grass-roots talent that is making a difference in the Clarksdale schools and Steve Iwanski’s Shakespeare program. The subject of how to contribute had been the hot topic on the bus and over meals. For Eduardo Gonzalez T’17, that question became a deeper lesson of a course ostensibly focused on questions of labor, trade, and development. Gonzalez was born and raised in Puerto Rico, which like Mississippi is a part of the U.S. facing distinct and stubborn challenges. People like Gonzalez and Allin, who come from such places and have attractive opportunities elsewhere, face a kind of existential question at this time in their lives. They must decide whether to pursue a career in the wider world and later bring their expertise home, or work within the smaller pond where they are more likely to make an impact right away.

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“You don’t have to wait in line to make a contribution to this community,” says Allin.

During the course, the group met with individuals who had chosen both paths. Jim Barksdale’s philanthropic efforts in Mississippi are only possible because he made his fortune at Netscape and FedEx. Johnson and Van Cleve are inspiring examples of the opposite approach. Connie Moran, energetic mayor of Ocean Springs, Miss., has taken both paths during her career, first working as an economist in continental Europe before choosing to return home to Ocean Springs to serve in public office. Allin has given a lot of thought to where he will settle after Tuck. For all the talk of an underqualified workforce, Mississippi has produced its share of luminary talents, from William Faulkner to Jim Henson. FedEx founder Fred Smith hails from Mississippi, as does Oprah Winfrey. Other than Faulkner, all of them left the state. Allin, who wrote about the Mississippi brain drain in his UNC thesis, doesn’t begrudge their decision

to leave. He takes issue with the state’s inability to hold on to talented people. After graduation, most of Allin’s Tuck classmates will end up in one of five cities. Talented Mississippians like Johnson and Van Cleave pay a very real opportunity cost to stay close to home, he says, but they also have the chance to make an immediate difference. “There’s just an opportunity to contribute. You don’t have to wait in line to make a contribution to this community. You might not be able to do that in a larger city or a larger state or a different country,” Allin says. He and his wife still marvel at the professional opportunities they had in Mississippi as new college graduates. “There’s no way that if we had gone to New York or D.C. or Atlanta that we would have been given the responsibilities and afforded the opportunities we had in Mississippi,” he says. The answer to the question of how he can help came to Allin long ago. Sooner or later, he's coming home to Mississippi.

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FROM BEHIND THE SCENES,

PENNY PAQUETTE Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;76 HAS PLAYED AN OUTSIZE ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF TUCK.

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IN 2010, DEAN PAUL DANOS WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO EXPAND TUCK’S GLOBAL PRESENCE. Hiring staff members in dozens of countries seemed impractical, and against the spirit of the close-knit Tuck community. So he dreamed up what would become the regional boards—groups of alumni living abroad who wanted to help the school in discrete ways. “My idea was to make these boards directly tied to operations, like admissions, communications, and PR,” he says. The school’s other alumni boards—the overseers and the MBA Advisory Board—had a broad, strategic purview. The regional boards would be much different, and Danos knew it would be challenging to coordinate high-powered alumni around the world to accomplish quantifiable objectives. There was only one person who could get this done: Penny Paquette T’76. “Penny understood the culture and the people well enough to know what they could practically do,” he says. “I just made it up and turned it over to her.” Paquette, the assistant dean for strategic initiatives, approached the task with her characteristic tact, precision, and attention to detail. She got to know the board members, established a process for engaging with them, and worked with them to advance Tuck’s agenda in the region. In Latin America, for example, Paquette worked with the regional board to choose which countries to focus on, and to get the best applicants from those countries to apply to Tuck. Using each board member’s knowledge of their own local business environments, they came up with a limited set of companies in each country with whom to build relationships. On June 30 of this year, after working at Tuck for 33 years, Paquette is retiring. She has played a bigger role in the school and its continuous evolution than she ever expected when she arrived as a first-year student in 1974. Her work has encompassed areas as disparate as international initiatives, strategic planning, institutional research and competitive benchmarking, and building and renovating the campus, among many others. As she looked back recently, she realized why she stayed for so long: she never had time to get bored. And, like most alumni, she loves Tuck fiercely and feels honored to have helped curate its culture and have a say in its development.

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PENNY UNDERSTOOD THE CULTURE AND THE PEOPLE WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY COULD PRACTICALLY DO.” Paul Danos, Dean Emeritus

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SHE WORKS INCREDIBLY HARD, IS VERY TALENTED, AND VERY COMMITTED TO HER JOB AND SUCCESS, AND YET SHE CAN TAKE A STEP BACK, LOOK AT THE SITUATION, FIND SOME HUMOR, AND LAUGH ABOUT IT.” — Lisa

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PAQUETTE, 69, calls Worcester, Mass. her hometown, but she didn’t spend much time there. She left as a teenager to attend boarding school, and then Smith College. After earning her B.A. in history, and unsure of what kind of career best suited her, she began working for a consulting firm in Cambridge. When she looked around, she noticed that all the consultants she worked for had MBAs. “I said, OK, I should get one of those,” Paquette says. She ended up at Tuck because it was a familiar place—her father is a Dartmouth alumnus and her brother-in-law went to Tuck—and because it seemed to her like a place where being a history major wasn’t a severe disadvantage. While other business schools at the time were exclusively using the case method, Tuck was known to be more practical. “I knew that at Tuck, yes, we’d discuss cases, but I’d also learn how to do accounting, do models, calculate ROIs. I knew I’d learn the skills that I needed.” In some ways, Tuck in 1974 was almost comically different from Tuck today. Paquette was one of 15 women in a class of 135, and “stood out like a sore thumb,” she recalls. Moreover, the school didn’t organize first-year study groups, and the men and women formed groups of their own gender. Still, Paquette threw herself into campus life. She ran (unsuccessfully) for first-year class president, and worked as a research assistant for associate dean Paul Paganucci D’53, T’54. One of her favorite courses was Business Environment, taught by Wayne Broehl, which studied the relationship between business and society. Another high point was James Brian Quinn’s Business Policy course (the precursor to the core Strategy course), and its Tycoon game, a simulation where groups of students each run a company in a particular industry and compete with other teams of students.

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TUCK fulfilled its promise to give Paquette a highquality business education. And yet, her experience in business school didn’t help her figure out what she wanted to do with her degree. That would come later. In the meantime, Paquette experimented with careers. She worked for Massachusetts General Hospital for six months, then went back to the consulting firm where she worked after college. They didn’t have a consulting job for her, but asked her to establish a human resources department at the firm. She recruited consultants, set up training, and specified criteria to get promoted. Like consulting work, it was project-based. “It was fascinating,” she remembers. “I’m not somebody who can do something over and over again. I just get bored.” In 1984, Paquette got a chance to do something even better. She and her husband had moved back to Hanover, just down the street from Quinn. Paquette

was home caring for her infant daughter and Quinn asked her if she wanted to write cases with him. Her answer? “God, yes! Definitely!” For the next five years, they researched, drafted cases, and published articles in Scientific American, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business Review. Paquette was a co-author on each. “He didn’t just thank me in the notes,” she says. “He was a very kind and generous person, and was incredibly smart.” Paquette’s next job at Tuck would introduce her to the administrative side of the school. Tuck had agreed to help the International University of Japan (IUJ) start an English-language MBA program on its campus. Quinn was the first dean of the program, and Paquette became the liaison between the two schools. She recruited students, lined up visiting faculty, ran a three-week summer immersion program at Tuck for Japanese students, and helped the students find jobs. But by 1995, IUJ had learned enough that it decided it could run its own MBA program, without Tuck’s help. And because the IUJ paid Paquette’s salary, that meant she was going to be let go. It was a good time for a transition, because Tuck was welcoming Paul Danos as its new dean. Danos arrived in Hanover with many ideas and initiatives, and wanted to get started on them right away. The problem was, Tuck was a lean organization and didn’t have someone to help Danos implement his plans. “Mado MacDonald, who was the equivalent of the COO at the time, advised me to get someone who really knew the culture and knew everyone here,” Danos says. “I needed someone like that to help me make progress.” Paquette, an alumna who had experience in virtually every department (acquired while working for IUJ), was the perfect fit. Danos hired her as his assistant for special projects. One of Paquette’s first tasks was to build up Tuck’s administrative structure. It had been so thinly staffed that it was hard for anyone to find the time for new initiatives. So they worked together to create or augment functions such as public relations, IT, communications, facilities, and the centers and initiatives. At the same time, the school was undergoing a strategic review, and Paquette helped Danos organize that effort, convene committees, and articulate the strategy internally and externally. It was a job she would do a few times in her 20-year tenure with Danos. The strategy work turned out to be good training for her next big project: renovating and building the campus. Because Paquette was intimately familiar with the rationale for these capital improvements, she could segue into planning and construction with confidence. First, Danos wanted to improve Tuck’s technology, so Paquette oversaw the complete overhaul of the third floor of Murdough (a brand new building when she came to Tuck as a student)

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into the Whittemore Lab. Paquette’s role in this and future construction was, essentially, the end user’s representative—she made sure the final product would serve Tuck best. Paquette attended weekly project meetings with architects and contractors, and was involved in nearly every detail of construction. Every so often, she’d hear something in a meeting that didn’t sound right. One time, a contractor had proposed to put drop-panel ceilings in Whittemore Hall, to make it easier to re-wire the building in the future. “I said, ‘No. When you lie in bed at night, do you look up at a grid or do you have a solid ceiling in your own home? You need to consider that these rooms are somebody’s home for nine months,’” she recalls. She brought that level of scrutiny to every project she touched: including the Bosworth renovation, and the new construction of Whittemore Hall and Achtmeyer/ Raether/Pineau-Valencienne. They occupied her time for more than 10 years. Meanwhile, Paquette was also mentoring new staff members. Lisa Miller, who is now a director in the TuckGO office, was hired in 2006 to help professor Joe Massey run the Center for International Business. She had attended Wharton, worked for Ford Motor Company, and worked with many MBA graduates from other top business schools at various startups. “I was used to a very hard-charging, super competitive, very direct, almost confrontational culture,” Miller says. That experience didn’t mesh well with what she found at Tuck, and this resulted in some culture shock. Luckily, Paquette was assigned to be Miller’s mentor. They talked about some specific work situations that Miller had encountered, and these discussions helped Miller understand Tuck’s culture and style of interaction. “She helped me see things from my colleagues’ perspectives and ultimately sent me down a path through which I became a more effective colleague and leader,” Miller explains. Ever since then, Miller has gone to Paquette for advice about navigating Tuck culturally. And they’ve become good friends. “She has a sense of humor about life. She works incredibly hard, is very talented, and very committed to her job and success, and yet she can take a step back, look at the situation, find some humor, and laugh about it. I’m going to try to pass what I learned from Penny about mentorship to others, because it was really helpful personally and professionally.”

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SINCE 2008, when Achtmeyer/Raether/PineauValencienne opened, Paquette has focused on strategic planning, communication, and institutional research. She spearheaded the creation and management of an official set of school statistics, analyzed the methodologies used by various media outlets to rank business schools, and worked to present Tuck honestly in the best light possible. Most recently, Paquette has been building an “Ask Penny” wiki on the various aspects of the schools with which she has been involved over the years. Basically, she’s downloading 33 years of institutional knowledge. “I’ve been asking myself a question I think someone would like to know the answer to,” she says, “and answering it and attaching documents I have that are a record of it. It’s not a small task, but it’s worth doing.” None of Paquette’s work at Tuck has been a small task, but it’s all been worth doing. And she will be missed.

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Three Careers, One Company After leaving Time Inc. in 2008, Kristiana Helmick T’98 was hungry for a challenge. All signs pointed to Amazon. / p. 51

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FOR REFUGEES, A HELPING HAND CHRISTOPH BÖHMER T’96 HELPS LEAD A 500-STRONG VOLUNTEER EFFORT TO RESETTLE AFGHAN, IRANIAN, AND SYRIAN REFUGEES IN GERMANY / By KIRK KARDASHIAN

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hroughout his career, Christoph Böhmer has worked in industries in the midst of drastic change. At McKinsey in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he consulted with defense electronics companies as a wave of peace decimated their business models, and with telecommunications firms adapting to deregulation. Later, as a managing director at Biotronik, a maker of stents, pacemakers, and defibrillators, he witnessed the commoditization of medical devices and their markets. After Böhmer retired in 2014, the drastic change happened much closer to home. As the war in Syria raged, violence in Afghanistan increased, and religious persecution in Iran intensified, millions of people fled these countries and arrived in Europe seeking asylum. Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders and the country handled the influx in an orderly and technocratic way: it used an algorithm to distribute the refugees among cities and towns across the country. Böhmer’s town of Falkensee, a rural suburb on the western outskirts of Berlin, was slated to welcome 800 refugees. Böhmer saw this news for what it was: a chance to be on the good side of a historic

(From left) Böhmer with Mohammad, 17, and Milad, 16, refugees from Afghanistan.

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migration of vulnerable humans. “I said to myself, ‘In five or 10 years from now, I want to be able to say I’ve been an integral part in welcoming refugees to my hometown,’” he recalls. In part, he was motivated by cases where refugees in Germany had been attacked and killed by xenophobic citizens—he wanted to do his best to make sure that didn’t happen in his hometown. In mid-2015, Böhmer joined the nascent volunteer effort to resettle the 50 or 60 refugees in Falkensee. Two months later, as it became clear that hundreds more refugees would be arriving soon, Böhmer was asked to help lead a reorganization of the volunteer group, which became known as Welcome to Falkensee. The name of the group was deliberately vague, because the initial organizers agreed that it should serve anyone who needed help, not just refugees. In addition to providing assistance to a broader population, the openness of the organization preempted any criticism about helping foreigners at the expense of local residents. As one of the leaders of the group, Böhmer approached the reorganization project as if he were leading a business unit, creating working groups on medical care, local customs and resources, education, trans-

portation, and a half-dozen other topics. Overlaid on those groups was a non-authoritarian decision-making and coordination structure suitable for a grassroots entity. Eventually, the group grew to 500 volunteers—the largest citizens' movement in town. Together, they serve the 400 refugees currently living in Falkensee and neighboring towns. The town expects to welcome more refugees in the coming months, but the rate of arrival has slowed. While the reasons for fleeing Syria are as numerous as ever, the refugees are largely being held on the African continent or in Turkey and Greece—fewer and fewer are making it to Europe. Those who have made it to Falkensee, Böhmer says, face at least a year of adjusting to their new environment, both physically and mentally. Today, many of the refugees are on the other side of that transition, going to work or attending school—a hard won normality. Hundreds of refugees have Böhmer to thank, indirectly, for their new life. But for three young men, that connection is more obvious. One is an Iranian who had converted from Islam to Christianity and was being persecuted in the temporary camp in Falkensee. Another is a Syrian who was being passed back and forth between two German counties that didn’t want him. And the third is an Afghan who fled Afghanistan without his parents and needed a legal guardian. Böhmer and his wife and three children (and three dogs) welcomed them all into their home starting in January. “They have been with us for almost a year,” Böhmer says. “We have this community in our house: Sunni, Shia, Christian, Afghan, Syrian, Iranian, and we co-exist where the experts said it could never work.”

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GROWING IN PLACE By JULIE SLOANE D’99

What were you hired to do at Amazon? My first job at Amazon was focused on the physical magazine business. After about a year, I started getting a lot of questions from former colleagues throughout the magazine industry saying, “The Kindle is really taking off at Amazon. We’d like to be part of it. Do you know who I could talk to?” At the time Kindle was growing exponentially, but it was book-focused. I raised my hand and said, “I don’t know much about the Kindle, but would you like me to work on the magazine and newspaper content?” What I’ve learned at Amazon is, if you raise your hand, three seconds later, that’s your new job. There’s so much opportunity, especially if you volunteer. I then spent the next five years with Kindle building the digital reading and shopping experiences for the e-reader and the first tablets.

How did you transition from media into pet supplies? Early in my time at Amazon, one of my bosses said to me, “I haven’t heard you have an opinion about business outside of magazines.” I was surprised by the comment. Magazines were my job, after all. But when I thought about it, he was asking me to grow. He was validating that I was a smart person and could have an opinion about businesses beyond my scope. When we recruit at Amazon, we offer as a selling point that you can have a variety of careers without leaving. I decided to take the company up on that. I spent six months

exploring what might be interesting. I chose to work in the retail division because I felt like that was what made Amazon what it is today—it’s the beating heart of the company. I didn’t know what job I was going to be offered within retail, and it came out to be a very happy surprise when I was asked to be the general manager of the pet supplies team. I’ve always loved animals.

How did you negotiate diving into a leadership position in a new sector? You have to start really humble and be confident in your humility. When I interviewed for the job, I was asked to rate myself on my readiness for the new job on a scale of 1 to 10. I gave myself a good grade on “working with external parties” because I’d done a good job on that at Kindle. But on supply chain, I gave myself a grade of 1. My interviewer nodded and said, “Well, how would you learn?” I responded that I would ask my team to walk me through all the information they use for their job. And that’s what I did. You have to learn from your team and not pretend you know when you don’t.

What prompted the jump to Amazon’s home innovation team? I could have spent a lot more time on the Pets team, building and learning about the business, but I was driven by curiosity to explore new verticals and opportunities. That vertical learning curve was speaking to me again, saying, “Boy, how much could you learn there!”

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KRISTIANA HELMICK T’98 has had three very different jobs in the last decade. She conceived of and launched digital magazines, helped feed and care for America’s pets, and now envisions futuristic ways to furnish your home. And all of it at a single company: Amazon. Helmick, who is now director of Amazon’s Home Innovation Team, spent her early career in media, as a cub reporter for the Christian Science Monitor before Tuck, and after in consumer marketing at Time Inc., where she helped launch Real Simple and later worked with its biggest title, People. She left Time Inc. in 2008 at a moment of great technology-driven disruption in the publishing world, wanting to be at a company driving that change. She was also hungry to create, as she puts it, a vertical learning curve for herself. All signs, she says, pointed to Amazon.

What is “home innovation”? When a customer is looking to buy a piece of furniture they may have for decades, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars, it’s a big decision. There’s a lot of opportunity to invent a great shopping experience for them. Think about what it would take for you to feel great to remodel your home or refresh your living room style, shopping only at Amazon—that’s what we aspire to. Our home businesses are successful today, but we are just getting started. Now, a lot of those decisions are done in physical brick and mortar stores, but the millennials who grew up as digital natives expect also to be able to research and get great information online.

What’s the culture at Amazon like? It’s certainly intense, but anyone who’s graduated from Tuck knows what that’s like. My sense is that people who go to Tuck are seeking a challenge and want to learn and have fun and be collaborative at the same time. That has been my experience at Amazon. When I graduated from Tuck, a close friend asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We both agreed we wanted to change the world. At Amazon, we all want to make the world a little bit better for customers. I feel like I work for something a little bigger than me, and I love that. That’s what keeps me here and excited.

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THE VOLUNTEER AFTER GUIDING NATIONAL CITY CORP THROUGH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, PETER RASKIND D’78, T’79 FOUND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN CONFRONTING TWO OF CLEVELAND’S PUBLIC CRISES—FOR THE SUM TOTAL OF $2. / By JEFF MOAG

eter Raskind D’78, T’79, DP’11 never intended to become a crisis specialist. He attended Dartmouth and Tuck on the 3/2 program, graduating in five years with his bachelor’s and an MBA, and went into banking. By July 2007, he had risen to become chairman, president, and CEO of National City Corporation, one of the biggest banks in the United States and a venerable institution in the city of Cleveland. The following week the subprime mortgage crisis struck in earnest. “From that point forward it was just a wild ride,” says Raskind, who found himself in the very center of the financial hurricane. National City was vulnerable due to some of its real-estate exposures. Though many of the details remain confidential to this day, one thing became clear early on: there would be no federal bailout for National City. Through months of fraught meetings and complex negotiations, Raskind and his leadership team pursued their only viable option, the merger of the 163-year-old bank with a competitor. As they worked, storied institutions fell like dominoes, sending pulses of panic through the world’s financial markets. Every day, Raskind went to work knowing that National City’s shareholders, depositors, and employees were depending on his leadership.

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“We had 33,000 employees, and they were counting on us to do what was right,” Raskind says. “I took that very seriously because I knew that whatever decisions we made, we would all have to live with them for the rest of our lives.” Raskind ultimately negotiated the merger of National City with PNC Financial Services Group for $5.6 billion, a fraction of the bank’s pre-crisis valuation. When the deal closed on the last day of 2008, Raskind left the bank. He was 52 years old and facing an unplanned early retirement. Then, early in 2009, a scandal splashed across the pages of Cleveland’s newspapers. The CEO of the city’s Port Authority had been dismissed amid questions about the grandiose port relocation plan he had championed. Shortly after, Raskind received a call from the PA board of directors asking if he’d be interested in taking on the role of interim CEO. He floated the idea by his wife. “She said, ‘I can’t believe you’re even considering this. For the last 14 months you’ve been fantasizing about getting your name out of the newspapers.’” But for Raskind, it made sense. Bringing order from the chaos of the Port Authority would allow him to use the skills he’d honed in 30 years of business. It also appealed to his sense of civic duty. He offered to do the job for $1. Refusing a salary gave him the freedom

to make hard choices. “No one could say I was doing it for anything other than reasons of citizenship,” he says. The previous CEO had outlined a lavish scheme to make Cleveland the number-one container port in the Great Lakes region. It was Raskind’s job to pull back the curtain. “When I arrived I didn’t know anything about ports. I started asking questions like, ‘What’s the total container volume today in the Great Lakes?’ The answer was virtually zero. Big container ships can’t get down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes. They’re too big.” Raskind determined that the plan was “Swiss cheese”—full of holes. He killed the relocation scheme and spent the next few months re-establishing financial order before handing the reins to the new permanent CEO. About a year later, when the superintendent of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District announced his resignation three months into the school year, leaving behind a $47.5 million budget shortfall, Raskind was again approached for help. Again he said yes, asking only $1. “Public schools have always been sort of the foundational avenue for upward mobility in this country, and I have always felt like a walking example of that,” says Raskind, whose mother was a homemaker and father had worked as a union dress cutter in a garment factory. Neither had gone to college, but with the help of loans and generous financial aid, Raskind had gone from Medford Public Schools in Massachusetts to Dartmouth and to Tuck. “If I felt some citizenship responsibility with respect to the Port Authority, with the schools I felt it 10 times as strongly,” he says. Raskind says through his business career, he’s learned that while layoffs are never ideal, there is a right way to approach them, “with good process and with respect for the human beings who are involved,” he says. The roots of that philosophy reach all the way back to Tuck. “I have a vivid memory of my Organizational Behavior professor, Mariann Jelinek, saying, ‘If you end up managing and leading people, you may think that you can just employ their skills and their experiences, but that’s not the way it works. These are whole human beings and you need to think of them as whole human beings, and if you don’t, it’s at your peril.’ That made a huge impression on me.” Today Raskind sits on a handful of forprofit and nonprofit boards, including the Cleveland Museum of Art. His schedule now includes time to travel with his wife and play as much bad golf as he can stand.

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HOW TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND NURTURE TALENT As told to Julie Sloane D’99

After Tuck, SUZANNE SCHAEFER T’02 went into management consulting with Bain & Company, figuring that with such a broad exposure to business, eventually she might connect with a particular industry. To her surprise, she instead felt a strong pull to a practice area, finding a passion for recruiting and talent development that has taken her on a 10-year career in human resources. As the vice president of Global Campus Recruiting at American Express, Schaefer centralized the company’s global recruiting structure before shifting to a leadership role in global diversity and inclusion. Now, she is newly back at Bain as a senior manager for Global Human Capital, where she continues to think broadly about how to foster a diverse work force, as well as how to create pathways to success for incoming talent.

Invest in diversity and inclusion. Too many companies think of diversity as simply representation. They need to create an environment where all employees can bring their full selves to work. If you’re trying to hire more women, are the hallways of your company filled with pictures of men? Are the conference rooms all named for men? Do your town hall meetings have women on the stage? These are the subtlebut-important cues that employees notice, and they should reflect the culture you’re trying to create.

Understand your talent's values and motivators. Get to know what drives your employees. What do they value? If they are driven by personal economics and money, know that up front, and be very direct about how their results will link to firm performance and their own earning potential. If they care about social good, these are the employees you can tap when pro bono projects come up. When you can align work with what motivates your people, you can deliver fantastic work to your clients.

Think in verticals. Culture change that aims to promote inclusivity and mitigate bias has to run all the way through an organization. You can’t simply run the leaders through a training session, or punt new policies to junior employees. The employee-manager relationship is the basis of loyalty. At every level, employees need to know that their leaders embrace diversity.

Connect the dots through the talent lifecycle. Through the recruiting process, we learn so much about people’s strengths, weaknesses, motivators, and preferences. But so often that vital data gets filed away as soon as new employees walk through the door. Rising stars often meet with coaches, but do we ever debrief those people so that the company can benefit too? Don’t drop the insights your HR team gains about

employees. Fold those touchpoints in an employee’s lifecycle into their talent development plans. Don’t always turn to the “expert.” If you have someone who’s great at Excel spreadsheets and loves doing them, you’re likely to turn to her each time you need an Excel spreadsheet made. But there’s also a good chance that someone else on your team can do it too. Giving new people a chance can increase the usability of your team. Plus roles can sometimes be rooted in stereotypes when in fact the usual go-to guy is not best suited to his recurring role.

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Be conscious about unconscious bias. We are drawn to those like us, but that’s a recipe for homogeneity. Instead of evaluating a job candidate based on gut feeling or what you may have in common, make a list in advance of the key attributes that would make a candidate successful in the role. In interviews, take notes on how each person matches up to the job’s critical criteria. 30 days to create stickiness. Culture change doesn’t happen via one-day workshops. For example, there are differences in the way that men and women communicate. If you’re trying to make sure women’s ideas are being heard and they’re not being interrupted, teams should meet weekly to give each other candid and respectful feedback, and it can’t simply be the women giving feedback to the men. Research shows that new group norms need at least 30 days to take hold.

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IN MEMORIAM

MICHAEL LORIG T’74 REMEMBERING MICHAEL LORIG T’74, A FORMER OVERSEER AND A “GREAT FRIEND TO TUCK,” WHO DIED JANUARY 22 AT THE AGE OF 66.

Lorig with his daughter, Elizabeth Daly T’09, at her Tuck graduation.

By PATTI BACON

he details of former Tuck overseer Michael Lorig’s long and successful career are well-known: 30 years at global investment bank Bear Stearns, ultimately rising to the rank of senior managing director; and a savvy early investor in fellow T’74 John Bello’s company SoBe Beverages, later sold to Pepsi in what remains one of the largest private beverage buyouts in history. But it was the lives he touched, as illustrated by the turnout for his memorial service in Greenwich, Connecticut, where close to 400 gathered to remember him, that Lorig had his greatest impact. Lorig, friends say, was an extrovert— funny, thoughtful, outgoing, and kind. He was a proud dad, helping his two sons, Matthew and Andrew, each achieve the top rank—Eagle Scout—of the Boy Scouts of America, and steering his daughter Elizabeth Daly T’09 to Tuck for an MBA of her own. And he was an enthusiastic athlete who wrestled on his high school and college teams, ran marathons, skied, and played tennis and golf. “Mike was larger than life,” said friend and classmate Conrad Voldstad T’74,

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“always throwing his energy into whatever task was at hand.” Of his many athletic pursuits, however, cycling was perhaps his favorite. It provided him with yet one more way to stay active while spending time with family and friends. Lorig participated multiple times in the Pan Mass Challenge, an annual bikea-thon benefiting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, and the RAGBRAI 500, a 500-mile ride across Iowa for which he teamed with some of his oldest friends. One summer, he and one of his sons rode across the country, from west to east. “Mike Lorig was a great friend to Tuck: loyal, generous, and enthusiastic,” added Paul Danos, Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and Dean Emeritus, who worked with Lorig closely during his nine years on Tuck’s Board of Overseers. “He stayed close to Tuck in many ways, particularly by regularly visiting campus, by serving as an overseer, and by consistently supporting our activities. He was a unique and priceless part of the vast and wonderful tapestry of Tuck alumni, and I will miss him a great deal.” In the online guest book for his family,

MIKE LORIG WAS A GREAT FRIEND TO TUCK: LOYAL, GENEROUS, AND ENTHUSIASTIC. ... HE WAS A UNIQUE AND PRICELESS PART OF THE VAST AND WONDERFUL TAPESTRY OF TUCK ALUMNI, AND I WILL MISS HIM A GREAT DEAL.” —PAU L DA NOS, DE A N EMER I T US

Lorig’s colleagues remembered his personal side as well. “I always admired your work ethic, discipline, energy, and your helpful approach to your clients, but most of all your kindly ways,” wrote one. “Always smiling,” wrote another. “A man who will be remembered as “the bigger than life Bear Stearns salesman.”

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IN MEMORIAM

MARK J. BYRNE D’85, T’86 BYRNE, A FORMER OVERSEER, WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A “GRACIOUS AND GENEROUS” PERSON WITH DEEP CONNECTIONS TO TUCK AND DARTMOUTH.

By PATTI BACON

ark J. Byrne D’85, T’86, a member of the Tuck Board of Overseers and the European Advisory Board, passed away unexpectedly on April 6. He was 55. In announcing his death to the Tuck community, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter remembered Byrne for his special bond with the school. “A gracious and generous person,” Slaughter observed, “Mark was part of a family with deep connections to Dartmouth and Tuck. Mark’s father, Jack, was a Tuck overseer from 1982 to 2000 who—together with his wife, Dorothy, and their sons John D’81, Patrick D’85, and Mark—endowed Byrne Hall, as well as a professorship in economics, and made many other contributions as well.” After Tuck, Byrne achieved quick and lasting success in business. Beginning his career as an FX options trader, he spent a decade in the industry, working from offices around the world—first for Salomon Inc. and later for Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse. Thereafter he devoted himself to the reinsurance business, founding several successful companies—including Haverford (Bermuda) Limited, Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Limited, and St. Bernard Assure Limited—as well as serving on the boards of several others. Outside of work, Byrne was passionate about family—wife Rebecca, children Sophie, Jacqueline, Matthew, and Christopher, and his mother and brothers and their families—as well as flying, sailing, and charitable giving. He obtained his pilot’s license while still a teenager and flew planes recreationally throughout his life. He also flew many relief missions in the Caribbean, including during the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief effort. In his Bermuda business hub, where emergency air transportation services were not readily available, he established

an air charter service named Longtail Aviation that operates today as a highly successful global executive air carrier. Sailing was a similar source of joy for Byrne. He participated in many regattas and spent a year sailing around the world with his family. When not engaged in these pursuits, Byrne lent time and resources to

charitable causes, and in 2002 initiated the establishment, with his wife, of the Byrne Charitable Trust. Tuck and Dartmouth were among the many recipients of Mark Byrne’s generosity, support, and leadership. We extend our condolences to his family—he will be greatly missed.

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NEWSMAKERS By PATTI BACON

CEO and Nexus Group General Partner CARLOS RODRIGUEZPASTOR T’88, a Tuck overseer and Dartmouth trustee, is featured in Fortune’s fourth annual ranking of the World’s Greatest Leaders. The list highlights leaders in business, government, philanthropy, and the arts around the globe “who are transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same.”

DANIEL REVERS T’89

Via its affiliate Great River Hydro, T’89 DANIEL REVERS’s company ArcLight Capital Partners has acquired TransCanada’s 13 New England hydroelectric power stations, including the Wilder dam located just south of Dartmouth College. Revers, a member of Tuck’s Board of Overseers and the benefactor of Tuck’s Revers Center for Energy, is managing partner and co-founder of ArcLight, a leading renewable energy investor in the U.S.

notes that Andy is “the grower behind many of Napa Valley’s elite Cabernets” and that “his vineyard empire makes him one of the most influential people in California wine today.”

DAMALI RHETT D’99, T’06

CHRISTIAN FONG T’05

DAMALI RHETT D’99, T’06 has been named executive director for The Energy Co-op, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that provides clean energy options for Pennsylvania residents and businesses. Rhett will lead the co-op’s efforts in promoting sustainability and increasing membership, in part through community-focused education programs.

TerraForm Power, Inc., a public owner and operator of clean energy power plants, has elected CHRISTIAN FONG T’05 as an independent director to its board of directors. Fong completed a tenure as the chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Renewable Energy Trust, a clean energy finance firm based in San Francisco, in 2016.

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In honor of Black History Month, PitchBook.com’s News and Analysis section compiled a list of 28 black founders and venture capitalists who are making an impact in the tech industry. Among them were OLAWALE AYENI T’11, a senior investment officer at the IFC, who leads venture capital efforts in emerging markets, particularly Africa.

RON MILLER T’79 LAIN ANDERSON T’12

Global management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting has promoted LAIN ANDERSON T’12 to partner. Anderson, based in L.E.K’s Boston office, focuses on biopharma and life sciences clients. Anderson was also honored in March with a 2017 Rising Stars of the Profession: 35 Under 35 Award by Consulting magazine.

STEVEN ROTH T’63

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that U.S. President Donald Trump had appointed New York developers STEVEN ROTH T’63 of Vornado Trust Realty and Richard LeFrak of LeFrak Organisation to lead his proposed $1 trillion infrastructure plan. The two longtime friends and business associates of the president are expected to head a council of around two dozen builders and engineers.

OLAWALE AYENI T’11

ANDY BECKSTOFFER T’66

ANDY BECKSTOFFER T’66, chairman and CEO of Beckstoffer Vineyards, is featured in the cover article of the June 15, 2017 issue of Wine Spectator magazine. The eight-page spread

PETER JACHYM T’81

Veteran investment banker, strategic adviser, and private equity investor PETER JACHYM T’81 has been named to the board of directors of Ringler, the nation’s largest settlement planning company. Jachym is managing director of strategic capital markets at Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, an integrated solutions provider to the (re) insurance industry.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has appointed RON MILLER T’79 to serve as its public director. Miller, who is vice president of innovation for BlueScope Buildings North America, a manufacturer of engineered building systems, will provide guidance in his areas of professional expertise, including marketing, innovation, and factory-based design and manufacturing technologies.

MARCELO PRADO T’02

Brazil native MARCELO PRADO T’02, CMO for GE O&G Digital Solutions, was among 25 Latino business leaders featured in The Alumni Society magazine’s “Class

of 2016” issue. Prado discussed how the move with his family from Brazil to attend Tuck was a risky and daunting decision that ultimately “changed all of us”…“for the better,” and how gaining an education in a top U.S. MBA program gives Latin American-based professionals career opportunities they would not otherwise have.

TIM MOXEY T’01 & CHRIS ABBOT T’01

T’01’S TIM MOXEY and CHRIS ABBOT’s successful foray into the marijuana edibles market was the focus of a recent article in Quartz. A year after founding BotanicaSEATTLE in 2015, the article reports, the entrepreneurs sold $3 million of goods in Washington State alone and now employ 50 people in their growing enterprise.

MICHAEL CLEARY T’86

The Consumer Bankers Association has elected MICHAEL CLEARY T’86 to its board of directors. Cleary is head of Santander Bank’s consumer and business banking unit and has decades of experience in those fields of expertise.

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CLASS NOTES

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CL ASS NOTES across the street from my family business. Many of us in Worcester are proud that Holy Cross, as a Catholic college, is ranked nationally second only to Notre Dame.

’50 Editor’s note: While Tuck Today was in production, we were deeply saddened to hear that John Hatheway passed away. John died peacefully at his home in Hanover on Monday, April 24. He had jumped in to serve as class secretary for several T’50 class notes columns, and we will miss working with him a great deal.

’51 Editor’s note: Interested in catching up with your T’51 classmates? Contact tuck.class. notes@dartmouth.edu to volunteer as class secretary!

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Andy Steele T’79, T’55s Dick Lewis, Bob Levine, and Peter Kenyon, and Tuck Associate Director, Major Giving, Christopher Jacobsen at lunch in Naples in March

’57 Richard Zock shanduthem@aol.com

’58 Barry Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

Editor’s note: We will so miss working with Ed Finerty on the T’53 class notes. Interested in picking up the column now that Ed has retired? Email tuck.class.notes@tuck.dartmouth.edu to volunteer as class secretary!

’55 From Andy Steele, a “nice-looking young group of T’55s at the Naples lunch! With a couple of crashers!”

Save the Date: Our 60th Tuck Reunion will be October 5-7, 2018—a great time to reconnect with friends and the school and to see New England’s beautiful fall foliage. I had an interesting chat with Bob Andrews, who lives in the Hartford area and has a vacation home on Otis Reservoir in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Once the weather gets warmer, Bob spends a lot of time in Otis and the location becomes a gathering place for the family. Otis Reservoir is a great place for boating, and several boats are available for family members to use. My wife Arline and I recently spent a few days nearby in the Williamstown area visiting the MASS MoCA museum and the Clark museum and touring the area. It was part 1 of 3 road trips we are taking to celebrate her 80th birthday. Bob’s grandson is attending Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, which is directly

Bob retired after working for Travelers Insurance for over 30 years. He then did some consulting and was involved with his local United Way. I like to think that I am only semiretired because I go into work each week, commuting from Norwich to Worcester for a 2-day visit, which includes dinner with my 103-year-old mother. However, I measure my time at work in hours, and I don’t think the business would be drastically affected if I didn’t show up for a few weeks. In fact, we were gone for one month in November on a fabulous trip to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and we spent January in Saint Martin. Dan Searby and I both worked for a summer at IBM when we were at Tuck. I worked out of the IBM office in Worcester, dividing my time between helping the local IBM sales reps and assisting in IBM’s Service Bureau. I remember carrying a salesperson’s briefcase a lot as we made sales calls together and then going back to the Service Bureau doing orders for customers. I learned to be pretty good at the 026 keypunch, the 082 sorter, the 402 printer, and the 604 calculator. This was at a time when IBM owned the Service Bureau before it was forced to divest itself of all the bureaus. Dan’s experience was a little different and more sophisticated. He did some training in Poughkeepsie and then was given his choice of going to any city in the U.S. to finish his summer training. He chose Portland, Maine, because he had family there. He worked in the district office and enjoyed meeting people and learning about the difficulties in managing a number of branch offices. After graduate school, Dan decided to turn IBM down and joined Procter & Gamble, where he did brand work. This was followed by a stint as deputy assistant secretary of state, where he was in charge of commercial affairs and intellectual property during the Nixon years. At one time he worked for Bill Casey before Casey headed the CIA. Eventually Dan became a venture capitalist and an angel fund investor. Now that Dan is retired, he moved from

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his large house in Atherton to a 16th-floor penthouse apartment in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco. This area is similar to the Back Bay area of Boston. The Boston area was a marsh until filled in during the 1860s. Now the Mission Bay area has hotels, a college, and a stadium. His life there is less complicated without worrying about maintaining a large house. Dan has cut down on his worldly travels but still travels east regularly to visit his 3 sons; two live in Washington and one lives in New York City. His daughter is getting married in early 2018 in Jamaica, so he will travel there as well. We both remembered Martin Anderson as a very bright and talented individual. Marty, now deceased, was an authority on President Reagan and wrote several books on his political and economic philosophy. I knew Marty because we traveled together. We used to hitchhike home from Hanover to see our families. I lived in Worcester, and he lived in the next town, Shrewsbury. As I write this, we’re having a March blizzard in New England, so I assumed that any classmates in the area would be at home. I reached Jay Trepp in his home outside of Boston because his flight to Iceland was canceled. Unfortunately he and his wife Karen could not get another flight until the end of the week, so they had to cancel their trip. They were taking their granddaughter with them during her school vacation. Although they had been to Iceland before, they were going back because Karen especially wanted to see the Northern Lights, and they were looking forward to spending special time with their granddaughter. Karen and Jay have 12 grandchildren, and taking a grandchild on a vacation trip has been an excellent way for them to bond with the child. Having destinations like Italy, San Diego, Iceland, and Hawaii is very appealing. They both enjoy traveling, and if Jay is working in a vacation area like Hawaii, San Diego, Seattle, or Florida, Karen will go along. Jay still works for an exposition services company traveling around the country 2-3 times a month doing shows. When doing a show he works all the time, but when in Massachusetts he’ll sometimes work a “short”

10-3 day. Put this all together and I still say it averages out to a full-time-plus job. I wonder how many of our classmates have a valid unexpired truck driver’s license. Jay does because occasionally he has to drive a truck loaded with staging for a show. When I complained to Jay that I now had to take an eye exam in Massachusetts to renew my 5-year license, he told me that he now had to have both an eye exam and a physical exam for his license. He must be in very good physical shape.

have been to places such as Asheville, Lake Tahoe, and the Finger Lakes. What a wonderful way to keep your whole family together. Makes a nice legacy.

’59 Ben Reid gmibreidjr@aol.com

During vacation time, Jay and Karen occasionally get to Arezzo, Italy, where their daughter has a vacation home. They enjoy Viking Cruises and have traveled to Russia, Egypt, China, Vietnam, and Tibet with them. Since Arline and I had been to Vietnam just a few months ago, we compared our feelings about the Vietnamese people. All four of us found them to be very friendly, warm, and welcoming. This was surprising to all of us. We would have thought that because of the war and the bombings, they would harbor resentment towards Americans. None of us detected any animosity. In fact Jay’s native guide has a sister who was seriously injured by napalm and, according to Jay, the guide could not have been nicer. Perhaps it’s because of their Buddhist philosophy. Randy Aires still lives in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area with his wife Ginny. Although no longer on the board of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra because of term limits, he is director emeritus and still very active with the organization. Also he is still very involved with the Market Square Concerts board, which brings chamber music groups to the area for a series of concerts. I’m very impressed with Randy’s successful efforts to create circumstances that help his family to bond with one another. He and Ginny started taking each of their seven grandchildren on a Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) trip to exotic places. The last trip was a few years ago to South Africa. They did a separate trip with each of their seven grandchildren. In addition the whole family, with spouses and in-laws—all 16 of them—go to a resort area, where they rent a large home with 6 to 8 bedrooms every other year. They

Dear classmates: I enjoyed the following from Tom G in Miami: “Hi Ben — I enjoyed your comments in the winter edition of Tuck Today and particularly the pic of Larry with Per Fossum. Please send me Larry and Per’s email addresses. Per was my roommate at Tuck, and I would like to get in touch with him. Thanks! “As for me, I am enjoying life with Carol; we’re celebrating our 55th anniversary shortly. “I retired 8 months ago from Playbill and have been keeping busy as chairman of The Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, one of the largest in the country, vice chairman for Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties for ESGR (Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program initiated in 1972 to foster cooperation between employers and their members of the National Guard and Reserve Forces), and a number of other activities. “Our son, Spencer, is a writer in L.A., and his show Bumpersticker: The Musical was recently named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top 10 theatrical productions in L.A. for 2016. “Keep the class news coming. It’s much appreciated. —Tom” As for me, I am nearly repaired from my open-heart surgery to replace an aortic valve at the Mayo Rochester. Very Best Regards, Ben Reid T59, Class Notes Guy

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CL ASS NOTES ’60 Ed Russell edrussell2@embarqmail.com

I’m sure that our entire class has been saddened by the passing of Wally May. As my predecessor at the editor’s desk, Wally wrote this column for decades before contracting a rare and inexorable blood disease. In our many phone chats, Wally remained brave and philosophical, as he was during our last conversation, only six months ago. Actually, writing this column was the only thing I know for certain that he gave up completely because of his illness. He kept active and productive in his workshop and bravely ventured regularly onto the golf course (“trying to shoot my age”) despite his declining stamina. Yes, Wally was and still is an inspiring member of the Tuck class of 1960. “Stay active.... Stay involved!” That’s the message of encouragement to his fellow classmates from Mike Stern, who is still actively involved in a nonprofit foundation that awards funds to veterans organizations and charter schools. Mike loves living in New York, where he enjoys the theater and the city’s many other amenities. He’s still playing tennis and taking ski trips.

“Who else in the class of T’60 can match my record of 54 years in the same organization?” asks Harry Davis. After graduating with our class, Harry got his PhD from Northwestern. He then joined the faculty at the University of Chicago’s B-school, where he’s been ever since. Teaching marketing initially, Harry now presides over several classes in strategy and leadership. For ten years Harry served as the school’s dean, plus a brief stint later as interim dean. When I reached Harry, he was at home,

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grading 140 fifteen-page papers, the final semester task he assigns each of his students. Perhaps you remember our account two years ago of a chat with Frank Bruni, who takes pride in his son’s N.Y. Times columns despite the omission of “Jr.” in his bylines. Now, son Frank “has a plan to reunite America, but he’s going to need some bread crumbs,” says Bloomberg.com. Young Frank has coauthored A Meatloaf in Every Oven, with recipes by such luminaries as Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. “I don’t think meatloaf can save the world,” says young Frank, “but...there will be a healthier appetite for comfort.”

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Jim Adler said, “Brooke and I are just back from a great visit with Walter Freedman and Karen Harrison at their wonderful place in Steamboat Springs. Enjoyed three days of earlier than normal spring skiing. Walter has come back strong after some knee surgery, but happily he was willing to stick to the blues and single blacks, rather than trying to coax me down the ‘easy’ doubles.” Denny Goodman sent in an update. “Still see a number of Tuck classmates and their wives here in the Uppah Valley fairly frequently. Jack and Cilla Benson and Rick and Linda Roesch are smart enough to be here pretty much yearround, while Dave and Gail Hiley and Old Hatch and Barbara can be spotted once the snow is gone and they’re back from their winter self-exile in FL. Sadly (for us), John and Janet Owens have decamped to Ojai, but they send back word that all is well in CA.”

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Allan Glick never tires of a good thing. Like most accountants, he won’t quit until he is unable to see. “After almost 50 years at First Manhattan, we are about to set out on a search to add a millennial or millennial-plus to our team. The investment advisory business is far from the simple business that we built on in the 1960s and requires skill sets that never occurred to us then. Women and CFPs now play an important role in the business. Of course some things never change, such as integrity, interpersonal skills, maturity, and motivation, to name a few. Meanwhile the challenge of trying to play my ‘A’ game is always present and great fun. If anyone knows a solid candidate, preferably in their 30s or 40s, email me at aglick@firstmanhattan.com.” Jon Cohen wrote in, “I remain active at the college, particularly with the Hopkins Center for the Arts. I had lunch with the new HOP director, Mary Lou Aleskie, and she is a crackerjack. All is well at this end, and I am looking forward to the ’60 birthday party next year. We had at least three Tuckies at our class luncheon at the Norwich Inn today, Adler, Mitchell, and me (did Roesch or Faulkner go to Tuck?) but no talk of business or the economy. Plenty of other conversation, however, a lot of it on Washington politics. No Trump lovers in the group. Don’t give up hope.”

’62 Editor’s note: If you’d like to volunteer as class secretary for the class of 1962—and highlight/ report on Reunion 2017 next year for the class’s 55th!—please email tuck.class.notes@ dartmouth.edu to do so. We’d love to hear from you!

’63 Thomas F. Keating keatingtf@comcast.net

When last we saw Bill Sadd, he was standing confidently on top of Alberta Peak, high above the San Juan Mountain range in Colorado. He reports he found his way home, only to return this past summer to Pagosa Springs, CO, for more Texas heat relief and more hiking. This time up to “V Rock” with a group from the Sadds’ “summer church.” In mentioning his climbing objective, Bill said, “I plan to hike up to “V Rock” (wherever that is) and “am wondering how my legs will stand up at those altitudes?” With that kind of mapping detail and physical conditioning confidence, us

landlubbers down at base camp might have been a bit nervous! We will just trust you had a great adventure, Bill, and completed the climb successfully, both up and down. Bill added that in March of 2016 he was taking a World War II in the Pacific tour with Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours and would send a picture from atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. There is no doubt about it. Bill has a way of getting “on top of it all.” Congratulations to John and Jill Schiffman, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Montreal, followed by a successful fishing trip to Saranac Lake. John’s definition of success is when Jill catches all the fish and the guide (John) is able to row the boat, thereby insuring Jill does not terminate the relationship! John is keeping busy these days as the lead person for the Whaleback Mountain ski area, a community-owned [501(c) (3)] ski area in Enfield, NH. John indicates he is actually seeking advice and referral suggestions for development participants. If any of you have ideas on parties who would have interest in philanthropic support for a community ski area, John is your go-to guy. Contact John at jtschiffman@comcast.net. John also reports he sees Jay Pierson regularly and that Jay and Susan are enjoying life in Hanover. Jay is serving on several worthwhile community boards and projects and has been one of the community leaders behind the building of a new performing arts theater and complex in White River Junction, VT, named Northern Stage. Branching out, John is in contact with Sonny Kabler, retired in Houston and keeping baseball alive in Texas, and with Gary Schwartz, who is still practicing the law in New Jersey. Going international on us as well, the Schiffmans had a wonderful visit with Jens and Putte Roede in Oslo. With his great wisdom, John closed his news with the observation that as we age, he is sure that all of us have many challenges to discuss, so he wishes all his fellow Tuckies good luck with their personal issues AND with the medical establishment! Lastly, I am saddened to report that I heard from Ursula Kobel, Richard Wright’s wife, that he passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Montreal on August 28, 2015, at age 76. In addition to Ursula, Richard is survived by sons Matthew in San Francisco and Justin in Montreal and other relatives. Richard was a professor and PhD at McGill

University where, over a period of 35 years, he significantly contributed to the building of the Department of International Business. For over 15 years he escorted students on summer study groups abroad, giving preference to students who had never had the opportunity to travel abroad or to experience the wonders of foreign cultures, lands, and people. Born and raised in Panama, Richard never lost his passion and enthusiasm for learning, teaching, and travel. In addition to his degrees from Dartmouth (AB ’61) and Tuck, Richard earned degrees or taught at Indiana University; Willamette University, Salem, OR; the University of Richmond in Virginia; and the John Molson School of Business in Montreal. The Wrights traveled extensively as a family for enjoyment or teaching opportunities in Germany, Austria, Greece, Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, and particularly in Japan, a country for which Richard had a special fondness. Richard always harbored an intense love for classical music, especially that of Antonín Dvořák and Richard Wagner. One of the highlights of his nonprofessional life was attending performances at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and he also always made room in his schedule to attend operas in the cities he visited. A gifted and passionate teacher, Richard taught his last class two weeks before his death. A memorial celebration of Richard’s life was held in October in Montreal. Donations to the Dr. Mark Rabinovitch Research Fund at the MGH Foundation, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, OC H3G 1A4 would be greatly appreciated by the family. Rest in peace, Richard. Stay well and keep the news coming. It is always great to hear from, and about, you!!

’64 Bill Ferguson bferguson@ix.netcom.com

So, let’s start off with a note from our class’s latest author! Always cool to hear the adventures of Dan Morrison: he writes that he and Roni were delighted to become grandparents for the first time in March 2016. This was unexpected in our mid-70s, but all the more appreciated. Now they have to tell

their two-year-old dog that she really is not a grandchild nor is she heiress to the family fortune. —Then tada! As an author Dan has self-published a book on the U.S. Enfield bayonet. An effort that took more than 25 years and he hustled the last 2 years. It is 450 pages designed as a reference source for museums, collectors, dealers, military schools, etc. Tuck training has contributed to Dan’s estimating global sales breaking 75 copies. Breaking even, well that’s another story. —Take a look at www. usm1917.com: it’s a great stocking stuffer :-) Dan also told that they stopped by to see Pete Lengyel in NY.

See Dan standing tall and selling; sell, Dan, sell!

Then, speaking of Pete Lengyel, he needs an assist from all of T’64 classmates and their herds of close friends: “Super Troopers 2 is in the can. The distributor loves it. They’re waiting for an opening date to be picked. A test preview audience saw it in late March.” When it opens, Pete will get the word to me and I’m tasked to get all classmates to show up en masse that opening weekend. Then, T’64ers, we all remember Pete’s obtuse humor, right; well, his fun new news is that he’s back to stand-up comedy at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York (did he ever leave?). Packed house? Probably to see the two best comedians working...Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, who were on the same bill. “A highlight in my life.” Lastly one of Pete’s grandboys, Sebastian, who is 13, takes stand-up classes at Gotham. Pete said that he had a graduation show that he saw, and Sebastian was great. (My comment: Following in Pete’s shoes? Those are hard shoes to fill, Pete.)

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CL ASS NOTES Then another regular contributor is Rod Plimpton. He likes that I treat my medical adventures with a light touch. Rod writes that somewhat impulsively, he and Geri turned themselves into snowbirds this winter, buying a place in The Villages, FL. One of many pleasant results has been getting together with Paul and Barbara Jorgensen, and Bill and Ann Zani, who also live in The Villages. “Conversation seems to be nonstop whenever we meet, and all of us seem to be really enjoying this rather unusual place.” Rod tells that it is a big change from Red Hook, where the day’s excitement in winter was watching deer in the backyard. Here they find so much to do that scheduling seems more like the old working life calendar, except that they can choose to “chill in our own home or sun by the pool any time we want if we have had enough activity.” It remains to be seen whether Rod’s golf game will ever progress beyond a random shot generator or whether he’ll ever get good enough at pickleball to score more than three points in a game...but his body definitely knows that he’s using more muscles than he’s used to. Rather than giving advice, Rod and Geri took friends’ advice and brought relatively little stuff with them when they moved south in January. That turned out well, and they have enjoyed having less clutter and less to take care of. But in May they will return to Red Hook to clear out three generations of accumulated stuff that they have moved too many times, and hopefully the combination of enjoying the lighter life style, and having no basement or attic for storage, will provide the motivation to finally toss the stuff that has followed them, but that they are not using. Anybody want a Walkman, or a portable CD player? Rod tells that Geri’s daughter and family are taking on the house in Red Hook, and “we will be able to return for holidays and visits, and they’re keeping our summer camp in Camden, Maine.” Rod’s adapted to a migratory life, wherein email, texting, and electronic bill pay are a blessing. He hopes everyone is doing well and avoiding political fistfights! Dick Weiss told me he was glad to hear my spare parts are working well; then that he, Nancy, and Dewey their dog, are enjoying

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a couple months in Arizona. Dick’s still chairman of the board of RetireSafe, with main areas of focus being Social Security and Medicare. Did you know that part of the Affordable Care Act funding was $70 billion out of Medicare over 10 years? RetireSafe is working to get that back into any replacement plan. Dick is also on the board of Grange Advocacy Inc., the advocacy division of the National Grange. The Grange is the nation’s oldest rural advocacy organization. He adds, “The new administration has us busy with lots of challenges.” In FL, another NY transplant, Denis Eagle, writes that he is basically healthy except for a small tumor in his ear that was “nothing,” but the plastic surgeon took it out and a biopsy showed no cancer but doc had to take a graft from behind his other ear; ugh, he realized how sensitive ears are. Denis is still playing lots of pickleball and golf. Lately his golf has been much better, but he never knows which golfers will show up. Speaking of biopsies, when they took 2 from my L2, it led to a minor fracture, which keeps me from playing golf and left a pinched nerve. But, then, here we are in the spring of 2017, and winter was supposed to be behind us, right? If you follow the weather as I do, you’d know that as I write these notes, Mt. Rose, just 14 miles west of Reno, has had over 790" of snow this winter, and it’s still snowing. As I traveled south to my son’s place in Oceanside, I’m reminded of that song from my undergrad days at UMaine, “70 miles of Bad Road”; on the recent trip, as I drove route 395, it was just that and with an ugly 30 mph+ wind to boot—icy tracks over that 70 miles made for a hard drive. As a personal note to classmates, I have appreciated all of the notes about my health— thank you. With humor, I tell all that from the neck up I’m a teenager, but from the neck down, it’s like my SUV; needs regular maintenance. BTW, if you’re into these new social network environments, you can track me at fergusoncw on LinkedIn.com. Enjoy the summer and stay healthy! Now, it’s back to watching the Masters! —Bill Ferguson T’64, Class Secretary

’65 John C.D. Bruno jcdbruno@gmail.com

From Tom Richardson: “Max qualified for the Far West Regional Ski Championships at Alpine, CA. The 65 best 14-and-under kids in the West. I was the designated Sherpa since Max has 4 pairs of skis. Max finished 22 in Super-G and 5th in the skills competition. Maybe he’ll be a fourth generation Tuckie.”

Amy O’Reilly T’99; her son Max O’Reilly, 13; and Grandpa Tom Richardson T’65. All live in Park City, UT.

“While there Amy and I skied High Yellow Face courtesy of the Alpine Meadows Ski Patrol Director.” [See the pic nearby!]

Tom Richardson: “Started at red line. From the top it looked like a parachute would be a better option than skis.”

I and wife Nancy are fine here in FL and see John and Kathy Hedge often for lunch. Bill and Valerie Barnett are flying in for a short

Bill Barnett and John Bruno

visit with us tomorrow. Here’s Bill and me. Two old men, but cool dudes. Hope all of you are well.

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

The class of 1966 celebrated our 50th Reunion October 7-9 on a beautiful fall weekend in Hanover. Thank you to our class organizers Bill Busker, John Catlett, John Trauth, and Tom Stanfield for a job well done. They were ably assisted by the Tuck staff who were on hand to smooth the way from check-in on Friday through the final brunch on Sunday. As always, Andy Steele T’79 was everywhere meeting and greeting with his encyclopedic recall of names and the stories behind them. The highlight of the classroom sessions was Dean Matthew Slaughter’s talk, “Tuck: The Year Ahead.” Dean Slaughter gave an inspiring recap of where Tuck is today and plans for the future. Matt Slaughter is a dynamic speaker with a passion for excellence. Tuck has achieved a seamless succession with Slaughter in full charge to build on the tremendous success of Dean Emeritus Paul Danos. A cookout with all the reunion classes was held in front of the Tuck complex with pictures on the steps of Tuck Hall in between the hamburgers and hotdogs. This gave everyone a chance to move around and socialize informally with classmates and wives. Saturday afternoon was filled by a full menu of hiking, bike riding, golf, and panel discussions.

The class of ’66 at Reunion

All the ’66s gathered at the Woodstock Country Club for cocktails and dinner Saturday evening. It was a great venue with a warm and friendly room that just fit our group. Andy Beckstoffer did a fabulous job as MC, with Professor Dick Bower providing the musical entertainment with a lyrical rendition of his hilarious spoof on Tuck. Andy was able to coax several of our classmates to relate personal vignettes drawn from their life experiences.

looking back over fifty-year careers that transcended business success to a life well lived, providing for family and serving the community at large.

’67 Robert Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

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Professor Dick Bower

We will relate the life stories gathered at Reunion in future columns. For now, just a few words from the classmate who always topped our alphabetical lists, Frank Abella: “Looking back, I can honestly say that living a principled life and being in service to others have been among my proudest accomplishments.” Many of our classmates expressed similar sentiments

Steve and Linda Waterhouse sent in the nearby snapshot in response to the news/photo request. He says, “Linda and I wish to salute all our Tuck 1967 classmates with this amusing photo from London’s American Society T-Giving Dinner of 3+ months ago! We will hope to clink glasses with everybody in a few months at our upcoming 50th Reunion!” Jay Gronlund sent a note saying, “Had a fun mini-reunion in January at Pelican Bay, Naples, FL with Arne Rovick (he organized it), John Arnold, and Jay Johnston. All are hoping to come to the reunion in fall.”

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CL ASS NOTES Club, we enjoyed entertaining friends and family at the 2016 PGA Championship when it returned to NJ this past summer. Our three grandsons from Maine—Stewart, Grant and Lochlan—had a wonderful time running around gathering signatures and Jim looks forward to taking them around the course, for the first time, this spring.

Linda and Steve Waterhouse

John Holley reports that he is “looking forward to our 50th Reunion and seeing everyone again. Just returned from a week in Cuba—not a vacation. We were on a humanitarian trip, which included visits to schools, art studios, dance studios, museums, Hemingway’s estate, old coffee plantation, and other sites designed to sell the Cuban revolution. However, the country froze in 1959 and shows the lack of investment, lack of incentives, lack of resources (80% of all food is imported). Infrastructure is falling apart except where foreign money has been allowed (embassies, foreign 49% owned hotels, and government construction to keep important buildings ‘up-to-date,’ like the Capitol). “Having spent years trading with [countries] behind the Iron Curtain (USSR, Bulgaria, Romania), it was all very familiar. Now it is off our bucket list. See you in October.” It was great to hear from Stephen White, who shares, “My wife (Gina) and I are loving retired life, traveling widely (most recently China, India, Tahiti, Africa, Patagonia), sailing our sloop out of Marion, skiing, and bad golf anywhere! I have recently taken on a trustee role at Historic New England, which fits well with my interest in historic houses and farms in Maine, Mass, NH, and CT. Also participate in the trustees of reservations, Dover Land Trust, and selecting grant recipients for the Massachusetts Charitable Society, which I serve as a trustee. We are enjoying being grandparents and visits to and from our children living in the Rockies. Would love to hear from any of my classmates in the Boston Metro area!” Jim and Helen Heggie share the following update: “Longtime members at Baltusrol Golf 64

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“Both of us had a parent born in Scotland and we are proud members of the Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York, the oldest charity in the state, founded in 1756. Jim was elected the 101st president this past May. Andrew Carnegie was the 45th. A major fund raising effort, conceived and chaired by Jim, is the Gala Awards Dinner, honoring the most notable Scots, from this country, and the world. Two children’s hospitals, one in New York City and the other in Glasgow Scotland, are the beneficiaries. April 2017 brings NYC Tartan Week and we will be busy hosting the First Minister of Scotland and a delegation of Scottish elected representatives to the UK Parliament. “Jim remains with Merrill Lynch, although for some years now he has been less active and is currently a consultant to the company.” Regular column participant Dick Bankart shares, “I’m looking forward to Reunion. Fall in the Upper Valley is a wondrous thing. Even better when I don’t have a JBQ presentation to prepare. “I’ve been enjoying life and seeing the world. In the past year I’ve traveled to Chile, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Indonesia, Tobago, Jamaica, San Andrés. By Reunion I’ll have checked off the Philippines and Alaska, as well. In the summer I travel to the Berkshires on a few weekends to be a volunteer at my old boys’ camp—Camp Becket. Top down on the ’72 Eldo Conv and up the Taconic State Parkway from NJ. Nice summer ride.” Art Peabody is “planning to make the reunion, and looking forward to it. Happily retired and enjoying a beautiful spring here in Houston. Betty Sue and I continue to split our time between Houston and our summer place in Colorado. Always something to do to keep them up—and amazed at how fast the weeks and months go by.” Do not forget that our 50th Reunion will take place in October. Registration will be available in May. Sign up and enjoy the company of your

classmates and their spouses/partners. As of the end of March, we have over 20 members who have indicated they will be in Hanover for the celebration. We have been promised to have name tags...just in case!

’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

The Seavers celebrated Christmas with their daughter Abbey’s birth mother. This was Mama Flor’s first trip outside of Colombia. Bill is still co-leading the weekly Buddhist group as well as helping asylees (asylum seekers) and refugees. The Hayes family has been living in Amsterdam. Sheila has been serving as interim executive director of Child Helpline International, the global platform for children’s helplines, based there. Nick continues his work as president of the European Region of the Navy League of the United States. Hans Peter reported that he flunked retirement. Instead he went back to work and now reports to son Alexander, who apparently is no slouch. Alexander has created a new company that produces disruptive-technology subsea pumps for the oil industry. These pumps will take away much of the need for topside weight and umbilicals to support pumps thousands of meters below sea level. Fuglesangs Subsea AS is supported with millions of dollars from oil companies and oilservice companies. They are now getting into the build-up phase. Barkley reports: “Minako and I are still traveling (Portugal as I write). I’m not doing startups nowadays, but my son Eric has a new company and it is a great pleasure helping him get going.” Judy and I were hosted last Christmas time at the Barrington, IL, lakeside home of Anna and “Charley” Anderson. We were in Chicago to celebrate Christmas with daughter Lauren and family.

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

On March 31st, Jon Shafmaster was visiting New York from his home in New Hampshire and joined the quarterly class lunch that Bob Harrell hosts at the Yale Club. Also attending were Bob Simmons, Bob Cohn, Harold Woolley, and Earl Bahler. It was an enjoyable chance to share views and catch up with each other.

Mike and Ellie Ryan traveled to the Bordeaux and Dordogne regions of France.

Al Ritter’s book The 100/0 Principle: The Secret of Great Relationships was published in 2010 and has now sold over 150,000 copies. He is currently writing another book titled Put Self on the Shelf—The Power of Being OtherFocused, which he is aiming to have published by the end of this year. Al is still working as a leadership coach and consultant, mostly to mid-size and large businesses, plus he is giving many talks on leadership and related topics.

Dave Downes skiing with his daughter’s family in Slovenia, near the Austrian border, December 2016

Quarterly class lunch in NY, March 31, 2017. Left to right: Bob Simmons, Jon Shafmaster, Bob Harrell, Bob Cohn, Harold Woolley, Earl Bahler.

In June, Mike Ryan completed a 6-year term on the board of directors of the Cape Fear (NC) Museum. Unable to relax, he became a trustee of the Lower Cape Fear Hospice where his wife Ellie has volunteered for five years. She works in the care center caring for families of hospice patients. Mike and Ellie also traveled to France, where they spent one week in Bordeaux, one week on a river cruise, and one week in Beynac, a charming little village on the Dordogne River. Dave Downes writes, “My older daughter now lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with her husband and our only grandsons, so we spent much of last December visiting them and exploring Slovenia. We even got in a few days of skiing at a resort near the Austrian border. They love Slovenia and so do we—we hope they are there for many more years so we can visit often (and thoroughly spoil our grandsons).” Seth French writes that he and Betty split their time between Venice, FL, and West Chester, PA,

Dick Schmitt and friends celebrating Valentine’s Day in Big Sky, Montana

with an increase in travel and visits to their 10 grandchildren. In February, Dick Schmitt and several old friends went to Big Sky, Montana, for their annual “all guys” ski week. After that, he met up with a former colleague from A.T. Kearney to visit Yellowstone National Park. Dick says they encountered “lots of wildlife and lots of snow.”

Dick Schmitt visited Yellowstone National Park in February with a former colleague from A.T. Kearney.

Meyrick Payne writes: “At the end of November 2016, I had a kidney transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian. My wife Donna very generously gave me one of her kidneys. It was quite a love story! And of course, there is no way that I can afford to reject her kidney; very bad domestic politics! Rather amazing that we were compatible; especially because we can’t agree on how to best pack the dishwasher! NY-Presbyterian is a magnificent hospital with some of the best docs in the world—and the rooms have a spectacular view of the GW bridge! The parking and traffic are of course awful.” He adds that they are both well on the way to total recovery and notes “A transplant, for the recipient, is not an event but rather a process which takes many months of anti-rejection meds. All well worthwhile, however.” Bob Harrell writes, “My daughter, Courtney, has returned from 4 years at Ernst & Young in Chile and 6 months in Paris, where she was studying French. She has now begun work as the operations manager at Two Blind Brothers, an apparel company where profits go toward research programs that are developing therapies for eye disease. Check it out at www. twoblindbrothers.com.” Talking about his own business, Bob adds, “Harrell Associates, LLC is alive and well and I SUMMER 2017

CL ASS NOTES continue to work there 2-3 days per week. Still traveling and enjoying life, which is good! Was in Bolivia, Belgium, and Paris in the last few months and have a planned trip to Bordeaux next month.” Sally and Bob Huxley traveled to a private game reserve called Tswalu in the southern Kalahari region of the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which is owned by the Oppenheimer family. Among other wildlife, they observed the meerkats. Bob notes, “A relative of the mongoose, these little critters hang out in matriarchal groups of up to 40 and emerge from their burrows to catch some rays before heading off to forage. You can get quite close to them before they race off.” He adds, “the experience [at Tswalu] is hard to beat.”

Spartanburg for a brief visit with son Cabe and family before returning to Prides Crossing and a packed schedule of meetings, both professional and volunteer. I am still moving toward retirement, but the five-year plan looks more like ten.

’70 George Fulton georgerfulton@gmail.com

Gasper Kovach Jr. gap@hesco-fl.com

George reports that he and Linda have sold their Stowe inn and relocated back to Pennsylvania. However, because they enjoy the hospitality business, they are accepting innsitting assignments that take them to lovely locations during the right time of the year. First up is this summer from late May to the end of August in Falmouth, MA (Cape Cod) at the Captain Tom Lawrence House Inn. In the process, they turned down similar assignments in the Berkshires and Colorado during the same time period. They are hoping that the retired Mr. & Mrs. Kovach will come and stay at the inn for a long weekend. Of course, this applies to all reading this note—but note we no longer have control of the pricing!! Send more info! —George

Bob Huxley took this picture of meerkats while visiting a private game reserve in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

That’s the news for the class of 1969 for this issue!

For this semiannual class column, the definition of news is very broad—the latest on your work, career, volunteer activities, hobbies, family, travel, observations, etc. We always need pictures; please forward any you would care to share! I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Best wishes! —Bob

“Here is some fresh news, following the great time we had at our T’71 Tuck Reunion last October. “Remember at the end of the Norwich Inn dinner, Peter Lindenfelser proposed to all of us to climb with him and Coral to the top of Mount Cardigan (about 20 miles east from Hanover, 3121 feet above sea level, the parking lot being at about 1950 feet) the day after in the afternoon. “Claudine and I were the only volunteers.

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“Until the last minute, we did not know if we would be able to do it, because it was raining when we got to the bottom. Then the rain miraculously stopped when we were about to make the decision to retreat.

Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

Please send me emails, notes, and pictures of your various activities to include in my next column.

Many of you at our 45th mentioned trying to arrange another get-together before our 50th reunion in 2021. The general consensus seemed to favor a return to Hanover, but I am open to other thoughts and ideas (cloringiii@1911trust. com). Also, a number of you have managed to try to stay in personal touch with each other as you travel the globe, a practice I hope you will continue. Below is some “fresh news” from Daniel Viard on our 45th and a related reflection on his time at Tuck in 1969-1971. In Daniel’s own words accompanied by a great picture:

Greetings to all Tuck 1971 classmates from our time share on Marco Island, Florida, where Bonny and I have been enjoying the escape from New England winter weather for the last seven weeks. We have had our children and grandchildren flowing through at different times during their respective school-vacation weeks and just saw the last group off yesterday, April 8. Good times were had by all. We have a few more days to ourselves before starting the journey north, first to Sarasota for Easter with close friends, and then on to

“After a nice walk under the trees and a steep part at the top on nude rocks, the four of us discovered a magnificent vista 360 degrees around, with marvelous foliage all over, as you can see on the photo attached. The wind was impressive. We have been quite happy to make it in the good company of our mountain guides Peter and Coral. “Almost 25 years before, in 1993, I attended a Tuck seminar on Leveraging Core Competencies, in which James Bryan Quinn was a speaker. At the end of his talk, he offered everyone to climb to the top of Mount Cardigan in the afternoon:

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’72 John South johnsouth@mac.com

Mount Cardigan, NH, October 9, 2016. Left to right: Daniel, Claudine, Coral, Peter

I was the only one to volunteer, but for reasons I do not understand, we missed each other at the Hanover Inn, and he and his wife went on their own. “I was totally disappointed; instead, I decided to visit the Montshire Museum of Science, located in Norwich along the Connecticut River. While walking along the road from Hanover to Norwich, I met Prof. Vic McGee! I was quite glad to visit the museum very much; it is one of the best science museums in the U.S.A. It was a very nice compensation for missing Prof. Quinn in the parking lot, since he was among the founders of the Montshire Museum, and since his wife was also very active in it. “Back to our T’71 class reunion of last October: 5 days after Mount Cardigan, we were in Portland (Maine) with some friends visiting the Portland Museum of Art, where we met Pete and Marie Butler (briefly). “At last and recently, Claudine and I spent 3 days in Copenhagen (Denmark), with a group of friends from our home city with whom Claudine ran a bunch of unsuccessful local political campaigns. On that occasion, I tried to meet John Lucas, but he was out of town for business in Oslo, while Lisbeth could not move due to flu; too bad for that. But we enjoyed our visit very much. We recommend the town to all potential sightseers. “Thank you so much for your involvement in our class, by helping us keep highly valuable ties. “Hi to Bonny. Cheers, Daniel.” Best wishes to you all, and stay in touch. —Caleb

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Mark your calendars for the 45th Reunion— October 13-15! And make your reservations now if you have not already done so. As of this writing (late March) we already have indications from about ten classmates that they will try to be there. Be sure join us for a good time catching up. We plan to have a list and current photos on a Tuck website by the time the official registration process begins, so send us a current photo and take a look at pics of the other T’72ers. Stay tuned (email, myTUCK page, or Reunion website) for more Reunion information as it becomes available. Bob Gregson writes: “John, I have always felt sorry for those who took on administering the ‘what am I doing now’ class notes, so will contribute a little just to keep you earning your literary big bucks. We’re heading off for a 3-week RV trip to Alabama next week, visiting two college classmates and not catching fish, though that is the reputed purpose. We’re lousy fishermen but have a lot of fun telling stories about ‘the old Army’ and shaking our heads at the newly enthroned federal administration. That’s trip 1, and then there will be trip 2 with the RV in October to honor the 45th. Lots of miles this year!” Ben Shields, in addition to helping coordinate our reunion, is traveling to the “Antipodes,” the latest T’72er to check out things “down under.” It will be fun to compare New Zealand and Australia notes when we see each other in Hanover in October. Victor Ugolyn is also a busy traveler, racking up the miles to the Southwest, Northeast, and points between. We are hoping to get in a round of golf together at the reunion, if not before.

Mark Blanchard plans to be at Reunion, and we are grateful to him for encouraging his daughter, Professor Emily Blanchard, to make a presentation (possibly an update on “Brexit”) while we are there. In any event, we will invite her to join us for our class dinner. Mark writes: “Kathy and I are planning to attend the October reunion whatever transpires. We’re pondering a short car trip to the Maritimes in early Oct but be back by mid-month.” Of course Don Conway will be there, and Rick Kreter is planning to come to the reunion too, so we will have a chance to catch up with his recent doings. As for me, this is another busy travel year, with lots of family trips, including to England with my older daughter Laura and her daughter, to meet the illustrator of her two children’s picture books (Goodnight, Ark and Goodnight, Manger). Then on to Brazil with my “baby”— Julie (born while we were at Tuck)—to see where her dad grew up in Rio de Janeiro. And speaking of Brazil, one of the pluses of living in Lexington, VA, is the chance to participate in interesting events at Washington and Lee University. The photo is of yours truly with former environment minister for Brazil, two-time presidential candidate, and, some say, the likely next president of Brazil, Marina Silva. I helped interpret a short conversation between her and a Nigerian politician. More on that whole adventure when we meet at Reunion!

Brazilian environmentalist Marina Silva and John South at a February seminar in Lexington, VA

That’s it for now. All the Reunion communications spared you having to hear my golf stories. Send me news for the next issue to avoid golf stories again!

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

Spring is finally appearing in the San Francisco Bay Area after a very very very wet winter. The record-setting drought is over (at least for now), and we now suffer from floods, mudslides, and 20+ feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada. Water rationing over and we can now take showers daily instead of weekly!! The wet weather has given us some wonderful wildflowers in the Bay Area and, especially, down south in the desert. I am writing this from Bellevue, Washington, on a visit to see our son, Blair Hotchkies T’06, and to help his wife, Kathy, with their three boys (ages 7, 5, 3) during spring break while Blair is on an Amazon business trip to Romania. Quite exhausting, as you can imagine. Gary Fradkin writes that he and his wife, Carol, are enjoying visits with their first granddaughter, Quinn Noelle, born on December 23, 2016 in Atlanta. While officially retired, Gary continues to do contract work for Hentzen Coatings in Milwaukee but has cut back his schedule since October and is enjoying more time at home in Nashville. In 2016, Gary won a WSJ+ contest for a trip to a fantastic resort (Qamea Resort and Spa) in Fiji—first significant thing Gary has ever won. I checked the resort and it is off the scale on tripadvisor.com (presumably with prices to match)—congratulations Gary. They spent a few days in Sydney on the way to Fiji and had a great time. Gary highly recommends Qamea for the friendly and excellent service but notes that it is a long journey to get there! Gary also cruised in Europe in the fall and continues to enjoy time to travel. I agree with Gary that travel is a huge plus to retirement. Had a nice chat with Rich Hovey, who retired just over a year ago, early in 2016. Rich is happy to report that one of the best parts about retiring from the FCC is not having to look at the president’s picture in the elevator lobby every morning. Like all of us retirees, Rich is keeping very busy with travels, working on house projects, and some culinary projects, such as bread making. Rich did manage a week skiing in Aspen this winter, which was his first time out to Aspen since Tuck, when he took a ski trip with Dick Carbeau (more about Dick 68

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later). Also spending time (maybe 6 weeks last year) in their lovely vacation home on Stinson Lake in New Hampshire. Jane, Rich’s wife, is now retired 5 years from her government service. I tried unsuccessfully to reach Dick Carbeau but did find some indication that he and his wife, Donna, may have moved to Naples, Florida. I did leave a voice message at their number in Naples and swear that Donna had the same voice as at Tuck. If you read this, Dick, please give me a call—love to catch up. Retirement continues to be great for Ev Schenk. He notes that the fall of 2012 was a great time to step away from financial services. Ev volunteers in the nonprofit space and has become pretty involved with Social Venture Partners in Connecticut. For sport, Ev enjoys some very good cross-country skiing in the Catskills. He is preparing to move houses but not too far—from Stamford to Darien, where he is building a home more accommodating for old age, including an elevator—come on, Ev, you have many years before that. Ev and his wife, Sally, managed a couple of weeks visiting the glorious national parks in Utah, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and ending up in Santa Fe, New Mexico—wow, quite a trip. This summer’s travel plans are for sailing in May in Croatia with a former colleague from BNP Paribas. One of Ev’s sons was married in the fall of 2015, with the other son remaining single. Ev and Sally send their best wishes to all T’73s. The news from Steve Halstedt is that he has termed off the boards of the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) and OpenWorld Learning (OWL). He was chair of both for many years. DSST is a seven-campus public charter network serving 5,000 6- to 12-year-old students in Denver public schools. For nine years since the first graduating class, all graduates have been accepted to four-year colleges, and average ACT scores equal the best suburban Denver area schools. Yet 70% are minority students and 60% are low income—fantastic. OWL teaches computer programming and robotics to students in grades 3-8 in Title 1 schools in the Denver school district. To keep out of trouble, Steve has joined the board of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Steve became a beekeeper back in 2011 when he harvested his first honey. Unfortunately the bees suffered a bit of a setback when they

experienced hive collapse this year, but Steve plans to get a new swarm this spring. Centennial Ventures has one last portfolio company, and Steve is in the midst of evaluating “strategic alternatives”—must admit that always sounds ominous. Once this investment is liquidated, Centennial Ventures will be officially closed down after 35 years and nine venture funds with total committed capital of just over $1B. Great run, Steve. Steve and his wife, Susan, visited Napa Valley this winter on a golf trip organized by Colorado’s Castle Pines Golf Club, where they are members. They stayed at Calistoga Ranch and played Silverado and Mayacamas courses— given our wet winter, this must have been a rainy trip, but I guess that is how golf should be played!! They have a grandson at the University of Oregon and will visit him there this fall. Their daughter is opening a high-intensity interval training facility called TruHIT Fitness in Phoenix in April—go visit if you are in the Phoenix area and mention Steve for a discount. It is always a delight to talk to Al Curtis and wife Beth, our neighbors in Sunny Sachem Village. Al continues working at Moneta Group and has two of his three sons also in the business. He is not working full-time and takes time off for travels—he and Beth are just back from a month in Naples, Florida. Al notes that he still enjoys working and it is still fun. Al complains that living in a fly-over state, he rarely sees Tuck visitors so let’s try to remedy that. Noticed that Vic Drury’s name popped up on my LinkedIn feed with a quote regarding the retirement of the Westmount City (Montreal area) mayor. That prompted me to call Vic—we had a short chat. Vic continues healthy and active and is a council member for the City of Westmount. Vic—I am hoping for a longer update for the next newsletter!! Jack Steinkrauss is almost fully retired now from his last gigs as contract/interim CFO for startups. He keeps busy with three granddaughters in the Boston area. Jack notes that he is spending less and less time on house and yard projects. He stopped skiing a few years back after many years of fun with the kids on the slopes. He is in touch with Gene Hornsby, who is still active with his softball team—the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod

Baseball League. Jack also is in contact with Don Nigbor in Texas who, Jack reports, is retired with eight grandchildren.

Lorig’s memory, you can contact Andy Steele T’79 at 603-646-3279 or andrew.r.steele@tuck. dartmouth.edu.]

All is well with the Hotchkies family. I had a heart-valve repair job last fall, which does not seem to have made any difference short-term but will help over the long-term, I am assured by the docs!! However my run times are off by 10-15%!! Our son Blair Hotchkies T’06 continues at Amazon, while daughter Lindsey has just returned to Apple after her maternity leave. Their second daughter and our fifth grandee, Paisley Freia Schramm, was born on September 28, 2016—always smiling and a delight.

Thanks and congrats to Steve Bates and Brian Landry for organizing another great holiday get-together at the Harvard Club of NYC in December. It was especially gratifying to see so many “out of towners” make the effort to come in for the event. Joining Steve and Brian were George Kelly, Lloyd Ucko, Danny Eng, Twig MacArthur, Jim Spanos, Rick Goldberg, Mike Caulfield, Noreen Doyle, Jack Tankersley, John Lathrop, Connie Voldstad, Pat Martin, Stuart Pinski, and ’74-for-a-day John Murphy (T’75). HJ Markley was a late scratch, as his flight to NY was canceled due to bad weather in the Midwest. As usual, the conversation around the table was lively and touched on topics that ranged from golf to grandchildren to speculation on what stocks would benefit from the Trump presidency. If you want to attend in ’17, get in touch with me, and I’ll see that you get on the invitation list for what is a fun event! After lunch, I shared a train ride home with Twig, who was in the midst of a major renovation of the former world HQ of GenesisSolutions. Fortunately the desk-side beer tap will remain untouched and in place! After the holiday lunch, Twig was headed to Baltimore for a consulting project and a tour of Irish pubs in the Fell’s Point neighborhood. He also shared some book suggestions, which I’ve included below. Angie and I got together with Diane and Todd Keiller, and Mary and Dave Potter for the annual Providence Christmas dinner. Marnie and Jake Jacobsen sent regrets from the Florida Keys, their winter address now that Avalanche has been sold. Diane and Todd spent a lot of time in Florida this past winter. Todd joined brothers Al and Stu in playing the 16th Annual Keiller Golf Classic, an invitation-only event where Todd says he has a 1 in 3 chance of winning each year (with only 3 players, I guess that makes sense...). He continues working at WPI, where he marvels at the creativity and skills of the students there. He and Potter have been collaborating on a series of projects at the intersection of health care and cutting-edge application of information technologies.

Cheers all. Let’s keep the cards, calls, pics and emails coming. Call 510-918-5901 or email bhotchkies@aol.com. —Barry Hotchkies

’74 Paul Stupinski pstupinski@aol.com

Hi Everyone – We were all shocked and saddened to learn of Mike Lorig’s passing in January. “Pinhead” (as he always insisted on being called) was a devoted member of the Tuck community and considered his Tuck friendships to be among the most valued in his life. Over 400 family, friends, business colleagues, and Tuckies attended his memorial service in Greenwich, in a touching and, at times, humorous tribute to a life welllived. Andy Steele (T’79), Tuck’s ambassador for advancement, officially represented the school at the service. Don Wilson (T’73) and members of the class of ’75 were also in attendance. From our own class, Susan and Steve Bates, Monica and Connie Voldstad, Nancy (T’75) and John Bello, Danny Eng, Rick Goldberg, Brian Landry, Hilary Miller, Jim Spanos, Lloyd Ucko, and Paul Stupinski were there to pay their respects. Rest in peace, Michael...On to happier news.... [Editor’s note: We’ve just heard that Caroline Lorig has endowed a scholarship in Mike’s name at Tuck—what a wonderful way to remember him and his love for Tuck. If you’d like to contribute to the fund in Michael

Hank Hakewill says his consulting gigs will take a back seat to fishing as the weather warms up this summer! Must be nice to have such understanding clients. Hank exchanges Christmas cards with Steve Graves but laments that he has not seen or heard anything from Doug Greenlaw since graduation, all the more puzzling since Hank says, “I don’t think I owe him any money, Stuart.” If anyone has any info

Bob Buhrmaster and Jake Jacobsen in Florida

on Greenie, please reply to the column. Graves has just returned to MIT after a sabbatical, which included travel to Australia and New Zealand. Dave Bailey is living in Bluffton, SC, near Hilton Head, and reports that “sleepy little Bluffton” is no longer that, after TV’s The Bachelorette recently came to town. He avoided the temptation to head downtown to watch the filming and did not accept an invitation to join the cast of bachelors/suitors. Gator has been doing a lot of entertaining recently. Eight of his Irish golf buddies came into town for a reunion/ golf excursion that included rounds at TPC Sawgrass, Harbour Town, Berkeley Hall, and Chechessee Creek, before his guests headed off to Augusta and the Masters. He no sooner got the sheets washed before 3 of his old Bankers Trust colleagues and spouses arrived for golf and Low Country hospitality, followed by a visit from one of his Dartmouth undergrad pals. Gator then “volunteered” his home and grounds to host a rehearsal dinner for 90 people, for the niece of a friend. After the wedding, Dave is taking a breather before going to Ireland for an extended golf getaway. Dan Clark and family returned to Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, and once again stayed in the same house where Angie and I have vacationed before. Dan reports that they found lots of new small towns and villages to explore, along with great places to dine. By the time you read this, Dan and Deb will have moved into a new home with all the best and latest technology and gizmos, but no word on the date for the housewarming. The Clarks have just taken delivery on a new horse, which is helping the grandchildren clean up blue ribbons in local riding competitions. Trips to Prince Edward Island and Ireland are on their upcoming travel itineraries. You’ll recall from the last column that Rich Andrews was recuperating from burns sustained while racing his Porsche. Happy to say that he’s fully recovered and back to flying and playing golf. He’s especially pleased to have recovered in time for his 50th USGA reunion, which takes place this summer. Alas, however, SUMMER 2017

CL ASS NOTES Judy put her foot down, and Rich has retired from racing. The class of ’74’s other motorhead, Ron Lewis, was best known during our time at Tuck for his yellow ’68 Corvette. Ron moved on from ’Vettes to Porsches, ultimately driving a 966 GT3, which is a racing-only version of the classic 911. After tiring of racing himself, he coached for awhile (my brother-in-law was one of his students) and when all of his students quit racing too, Ron decided to look for something ‘stunningly handsome, fun to drive and unusual’. Drum roll, Ron is now the proud owner of an Aston Martin, aka the “James Bond-mobile.” Congratulations to Lyn and Dave Wilhoite, who just doubled the Wilhoite grandchildren portfolio with twins (girl and boy) from their daughter and a new grandson from their son and his wife, all in the space of 3 months. “If only our investment portfolio grew that fast,” he lamented. John Bello has broken his routine of “golfgrandkids-golf-grandkids” and is now chairman of the board at Reed’s, Inc., a bottler of specialty soft drinks, including my favorite ginger beer. Fingers crossed that he’ll apply some of that SoBe magic. Bello is still looking for a taker for his elk’s head, by the way. It was great to see Hilary Miller at Mike Lorig’s memorial service, but we wished it was under different circumstances. Hilary continues to practice law full-time but is also making time for working out, honing his golf game and biking. Bob Buhrmaster has sold his Beechcraft King Air 300 and just acquired a share in a Citation V jet. Maureen reported that after several weeks of studying and practice flying, he passed his flight exam, so Air Buhrmaster is back in business. Rick Goldberg was recently in Palm Beach, where he got stuck in traffic waiting for “the Donald” to arrive on Air Force One. From there it was on to Atlanta for Rick and Hilary, as they continue to crisscross the country traveling and sightseeing. Vandy Van Wagener sent a great photo of him staring down his tee shot on #7 at Pebble Beach—it should be near the column. Vandy was playing in the Mizuno Pro-Am during the week after the AT&T. Following the Pro-Am, he immediately ordered new clubs at the insistence of his pro playing partner, so we’ll see if the old golf adage, “...it’s the archer, not the arrows!” holds true. Vandy continues to do consulting on innovation processes, board work, and spinal cord research philanthropy. Swim With Mike is a passion for Vandy, with that foundation having raised $18 million and funded 199 scholarships. Son David was a beneficiary of Swim With Mike while at Bucknell. David is now working in 70

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R&D at Phillips 66 and living in Bartlesville, OK. Congratulations to Jack Harrington, who recently retired from the Risk and Insurance Management Society, where he served as CFO. He celebrated with a vacation trip to Puerto Rico. Larry Edgar just returned from a visit with Rita and John McQuiston at their winter home in Bradenton, FL. John and Rita’s twins are both living and working in NYC. Rita travels back and forth to Italy regularly, where she manages a family business providing cameras and other equipment to the film industry. Larry, John, and Jack are making plans to meet up and attend their Boston College reunion in June. Blaine Gunther is now in Cyprus for an 18-month volunteer stint with the Latter-day Saints. Blaine and his wife will be working at a refugee camp and plan to get involved in other humanitarian projects while in Cyprus. Blaine has enjoyed a full recovery from the previously reported fall at his home. Noreen Doyle just returned from a golf vacation in Bermuda, where, on Lloyd Ucko’s recommendation, she played Tucker’s Point. She is now turning her attention to life in England with Brexit. John Graham has spent the last 14 years living in the mountains of western North Carolina. Wife Jan remains in the recruiting/outplacement business in Greensboro. Daughter Jamie is a lab manager at UVM in Burlington, VT, doing things with proteins and DNA that leaves Grahamsby tongue-tied and baffled. Daughter Jenna is with Gaia Herbs, the nation’s largest producer of organic food supplements. John recently played the Old Course at the Homestead (cross that one off the bucket list!), and has deployed a foolproof strategy for lowering his golf scores. Don’t know why no one thought of this before—keep moving to the most forward tees! John and Jan are planning a trip this summer to West Virginia to explore her family’s ancestral home and roots. Fred T’73 and Cathy Grein sent along some photos of their recent trip to Switzerland, where they hiked through the Alps and especially enjoyed their time near the Matterhorn. Our other intrepid traveler, Debbie Elcock, just returned from Mexico City, where she savored the city’s architecture, much of which dates as far back as the 16th century. Deb-O and Sy also extensively sampled the local cuisine and became big fans of edible insects, a particular favorite being “tacos de saltamontes.” Judy and Jim Keller celebrated Judy’s (and her twin sister’s!) birthday with a Caribbean cruise—see photo nearby. Jim is staying very busy—in April he became chairman of the University of Vermont Foundation. He recently completed

Vandy on #7 at Pebble Beach

the relocation of the Barons Winery (he is managing partner) to Walla Walla, WA. Barons makes Barones, Cabernet Sauvignons, and Sauvignon Blancs from red and white Bordeaux varietals. Jim still travels regularly to Hawaii to run a box-making plant he built there. The Kellers are headed to Tuscany this summer for a family wedding, and from there it’s off to Nairobi, Kenya, to visit daughter Jen and her family. Jen and her husband are working at the International Livestock Research Institute. On their return from Kenya, Jim and Judy will spend the rest of the summer on their boat cruising in the Pacific Northwest, before heading to Arizona for the winter.

Fred and Cathy Grein in Switzerland

The Matterhorn

Keeshan, and Connor’s two sons, Matthew and Andrew, gave warm and touching remembrances.

Judy and Jim Keller, with Judy’s sister and her husband, celebrating the twin sisters’ birthday on a Caribbean Cruise

Nancy Bello T’75, Rick Routhier T’76, and John Bello reunite at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale on Masters Sunday

Dan Hunt and wife Jodie checked in—we normally hear about Dan tearing up the ski trails in Idaho, but the Hunts now divide their time between Sun Valley and Florida. Pat Martin reported skiing with the Hunts this past winter. Pat and Sandy stay busy with Martin Investment Management, their 4 grandchildren, and the renovation of their winter home in Florida, but not necessarily in that order. Paul Hogan vacationed with his grandchildren on Captiva Island this past February, a family tradition. The Hogans are now preparing for a summer Alaskan cruise. Paul is winding up the last of his board responsibilities and will then turn his attention full-time to enjoying family, retirement and hobbies, particularly painting and drawing.

Scots and Irish shaped American culture and history (per Twig) A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles, a novel about a Tsarist nobleman under house arrest in Moscow following the Communist revolution (senior moment—I don’t remember who gave me this one!) Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, a thoughtprovoking study of the potential merger of man and machines (per Stuart) Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas Friedman, an interesting take on how to cope with the breathtaking speed at which change is occurring in our society (per Stuart)

An update from the Stupinskis. Our son Jack graduates from medical school in June and heads to the University of Arizona, Tucson for his surgical residency. I am still enjoying a relaxing retirement, with reading, working out, biking, and yard work keeping me busy. Angie is at Rhode Island Hospital, as the clinical social worker for the Outpatient Dialysis Unit. Our daughter Clare is living in Malden, MA, and is also in the social-work field. This summer will be a busy one for us, with several graduations, weddings, Angie’s high school reunion in Great Falls, MT, and Jack’s move to Arizona all on the docket. The Class of ’74 Book Club offers the following suggestions for your reading enjoyment: A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman (per Dave Wilhoite) Jacob’s Ladder, by Donald McCaig, a novel of the Civil War (per Twig) Grant Comes East, by Newt Gingrich, also a novel about the Civil War (per Twig) Born Fighting, by Jim Webb, a history of how the

That’s it for now. Thanks to all for staying in touch!

’75 Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

Some sad news first. We lost our classmate Bradford Booth last December. We also lost our friend Michael Lorig T’74, former husband of our classmate Eleanor Applebee Lorig. Besides Eleanor, our classmates Becky Gillan, Lynn Keeshan, and Nancy Bello attended the memorial service last January for Michael, along with Andy Steele T’79 and his wife from Tuck, and many from Michael’s class. See the 1974 class notes. Becky relates that the service was a great celebration of Michael’s unique life. Connor Keeshan, son of our late classmate Michael

At the reception afterward, Nancy introduced Becky to a grade-school friend of Michael Lorig’s, Charlie Grosjean, who related a funny. It seems there was a bike ride in Iowa and all the bikers were at a bar at the end of the day except one. Michael asked where that person was and was told he was being questioned by the police down the block as he had “peed” on a woman’s lawn and she had called the police. The police did not want to arrest him and were standing around not knowing what to do. Michael said he would take care of it. “Ma’am, there may be a situation, but will this solve it?” he asked and offered her a $100 bill. She accepted. Michael then told the other bikers he was not buying any more drinks that night as he had spent all his money. Becky recalls she had seen Michael last fall at a local Italian restaurant, just five days after he had had a hip operation. She says he walked over to her table with only a slight limp and no cane or assistance. He told her the key is to walk as much as you can asap. In more positive developments, Becky reports that she has retired after almost six years with AARP as SVP of research. With a department of over 50 staff, she oversaw the consumer, policy, state, tracking, and competitive insights analysis for the entire organization. Becky says the research was really interesting and varied, as the needs and wants of Boomers are ever changing. However, the weekly commute to DC took its toll. AARP Services has asked her to work on a project that kicked off in January 2017. It will require a few days a week remote work with an occasional trip to DC. So far, she says, she is enjoying retirement, which at this point still seems like an extended vacation. She spent her first month going through every drawer, closet, and cabinet in her house and ended up taking 400 outfits to Dress for Success in Bridgeport, CT. She says it turns out you tend to save items five years or newer, and she had clothes back to 1986. Ellen Lunn sends us greetings from sunny La Quinta, CA. When we see Tuck friends from 40+ years ago, she says, the years just melt away. We do not see gray hair, wrinkles, or a few extra pounds; we see a very special part

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Last February Becky Gillan and Caren Gagliano were in New York City for some shopping and a “fabulous” tea at the Baccarat Hotel.

of lives that is forever young and vital. We see the best of our young adulthood and reach out and enjoy the memories and the making of new ones. Ellen says that this winter she and Randy enjoyed several visitors to La Quinta. They played golf and had dinner with John and Christina Zacamy, Randy had a quick visit with Ted Buerger, and Ellen had breakfast with Hilary Miller T’74. Ellen says to be sure to let her know if you are ever in the area. Dick Gregerson reports that he is still working full-time running Janas Associates, an M&Aoriented consulting and investment banking firm for lower-middle-market companies. In addition, he is now a part-time lecturer teaching Corporate Responsibility and Business Ethics at California State University, Los Angeles. He finds that this is a good way to give back to the next generation while reminiscing about his adventures in business! He says this is a particularly interesting time to talk about ethical norms in our polarized country and the potential impact of rising nationalism on our multinational corporations. Sandy Cutler reports that he has retired from Eaton after 42 years. Last year, Sandy says, he had the opportunity to cochair a committee responsible for bringing the RNC to Cleveland—a huge success for the city. He and Sally are proud grandparents of three (including a set of twins) and are enjoying being grandparents. Together with their son Bill, they are busy building and opening a new restaurant.

Sandy Cutler’s restaurant venture Cru Uncorked was scheduled to open in April 2017. It is a fine-dining venue featuring French cuisine and, Sandy says, a terrific wine list.

’76 Stuart Fishler stufis@roadrunner.com

The nearby photos from Reunion pale in comparison to what actually went on over three days last October. For those of you who missed the event, the weather was great and the school put on a flawless program. In particular, Dean Slaughter was quite exceptional in his ability to consolidate several questions from the “State of the School” audience into powerful, multilevel responses, and later commentary from classmates suggests that the school is being helmed by exceptional leadership these days. Of perhaps even more interest for those of you reading this column, the high level of enthusiasm has prompted some early-stage planning for a Pacific Northwest minireunion during the summer of 2018. With a decent quorum of full- and part-time residents from the class (Brent Walker, John Chamberlain, Peter Hoover, Bill Howard, and Bill Pickard), to say nothing of the caliber of attractions in and around Seattle and the San Juan Islands, those of us who are already retired or getting a better handle on the concept will have plenty of opportunity to convene in a part of the country that probably hasn’t received its fair share of T’76-ers over the years. You will read about this in a few months via an email blast from the school, so get your party-planning hats dusted off and ready. Joel Barad arrived at Reunion to inform us all that he had just retired from the global ad

John and Carolyn Dietel, Stu Fishler, Randy and Myra MacCuaig, and Brent and Cherie Walker at the Saturday BBQ

agency WPP in New York (Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam, etc.), where he had been SVP-global knowledge leader when last I checked. A subsequent conversation with him yielded the not-too-surprising information that he had picked up a major consulting relationship with a sizable CPG company, where he is deeply enmeshed in the marketing strategy and rollout of a substantial new product. Apparently the company is interested in something OTHER than a Millennial/Gen X orientation, and Joel acknowledged that he is very good at providing a “mature” perspective on inducements, with or without an Irish accent. Joel and Tobe also have joined us in the downsizing category, having sold their digs in Pelham for a place in Scarsdale that allows him to spend all of that gardening and maintenance time on golf. Randy MacCuaig needed to spend more time with Joel at Reunion. That was evident from my subsequent discussion with him. He is still heavily involved in real estate development in the Baltimore/DC area and admitted to having relatively high anxiety over how he would allocate his expanded slothful idleness, other than doing whatever Myra commands. As a result, he has decided to introduce some new product lines into the company, including apartments and self-storage. The core business will remain the refurbishing of industrial structures, but these other areas are apparently much more profitable. The good news about being in his current markets is that political turnover is always a good thing, so these development opportunities will always find their way to his office! How he will balance this with an increasing desire for fishing is beyond me, but maybe he plans to check in with Captain Bob Manchester for some advice.

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Were they to chat, I suspect he would hear Bob’s view on maintaining a robust marriage after retirement: “She married me for better or worse, but not for lunch.” Bob and Shirley still have a place in Killington, an excuse he used to lamely rationalize why he did not find the time to get to Hanover for Reunion. Oh, such gall! He still has his investment firm (and his partner, which is helpful) in Barrington, Rhode Island, which is very convenient for when they care to go sailing down to the Virgin Islands, as they did this past January. On the drawing boards is a nice lengthy cruise this summer up to Halifax, which, he stated unequivocally, is the busiest seaport in North America during the summer months (oh really?). Diane “Kope” VerSchure seemed a bit anxious at Reunion when discussing the future of her company, Alpack, a regional plastics distributor that she runs from intergalactic headquarters on Cape Cod (tough duty). Something about the Internet and the rapid consolidation of suppliers wreaking havoc upon America’s supply chain. Well, as befits someone who clearly took some dubious second-year courses at Stanford, she has decided to kick the can down the road; she has brought daughter Kari on board to worry about the “what’s next?” issues while she and Michael now devote more time to arm-wrestling with the Town of Mashpee planners over a significant remodel of one of their properties. That sounds like a nice segue into retirement.

John Salek, Walt Lutz, Michael Cusak, and Kope VerSchure awaiting the class picture

Down in Arizona, Bill Howard is doing an interesting segue, one that is NOT retirement related, at least not yet. He has returned for round two as director of finance at Cochise College. The education model in Arizona is essentially busted, with Bill thinking that the

state probably ranks 49th on the intangible scale of “quality of education.” As such, his departmental responsibilities of Purchasing, Controllership, Budgeting, Grants Management and the Bursar’s Office (i.e., tuition) have him on the firing line almost daily at this two-campus community. When asked if he was having fun yet, he responded that it is tons more than he had at his prior gig at a much more substantial community college system where the problems, a la Spinal Tap, “went to 11! Plus, I had to put up with a 70-minute commute each way.” Bill’s wife Kathy grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and in our discussion he mentioned that she was then up in Seattle looking over real estate for their planned retirement. I suspect they may well be part-time residents by the time our minireunion takes place next year. Someone who never had to worry about a career segue, since he worked for Analog Devices forever, is Goodloe Suttler, currently enjoying his role as El Presidente of his Homeowners Association in Chapel Hill. Actually he is not...enjoying, that is: “Because I am the only trained engineer in my small community of nine homes, and because we own a road that is nearing the end of its design life, the other homeowners elected me (while I was out of the room) to head up our very own Department of Transportation, created expressly to figure out how to maintain and/or remediate our small inter-house highway. Two years later, I now can’t stop talking about sub-grade load bearing ratings, base compositions, and asphalt mixes... my understanding wife lovingly calls me Dr. Asphalt when she hears another road spew building up during cocktail hour. I designed our road to be as ‘green’ a road as possible for a post-petroleum society 100 years out. Unfortunately, my neighbors said they would all be dead in well under 40 years, so they didn’t much care about any green-ness other than how I planned to lower my projected reconstruction cost.” Sounds like he’s been demoted! So how does our hero handle his frustrations these days? “I’ve been experimenting with a way to apply an esoteric electronic technique, originally developed for digitizing analog waveforms, to the high-frequency trading of derivatives. This algorithmic tinkering has been more time consuming than I originally expected, but highly volatile market days are a lot of fun to watch now. It turns out that the market is not all that efficient, as I have learned, and through performance metrics I

continue to spot small inefficiencies begging for exploitation. While my adapted method is certainly not applicable to all types of markets, I’m happy to have developed an edge that works for one market better than I thought it would.” The phrase “...not applicable to all types of markets...” probably means that no one else in the swing trading segment of the professional trading world will touch it with a 10-foot pole. Meanwhile, attentive readers of this column will recall that Goodloe and a coauthor have a book in the offing on Utah rock art paintings. Alas, while the book’s photographic content is finished, his collaborator is in high demand in archaeological circles, or at least enough so that he has been unable to live up to his part of the bargain. So, it will probably be 2019 before we can find this exciting book on the shelves of the National Park Service bookstore in Canyonlands, Utah, where many of the rock panels are located. It is sure to be a top seller, at least for that store. Now, while on the subject of books, Walt Lutz’s handsome visage is front and center in one of the nearby pictures, looking very much like the proper librarian he now is down in Kulpmont, PA. Expansion plans for his lending library progress, and at this point he is thinking of a half-size shipping container dressed up with a doorway, windows, skylight, welcome mat, etc. This would suffice as a permanent structure to replace his current operation which is, er, limited to sunny days. By the time you read this column, his future as a continuing member of the Kulpmont Borough Council will have been decided. I hope we have all voted early and often. I suspect his fate will, in part, have been determined by his recent acquisition of a decommissioned church, which he is thinking of turning into a B&B. Regardless of the business model he embraces, he informed me that it is now on the tax rolls of the city. Of course, in this age of astonishing political theater, this maneuver may be described by some of his opponents as crass, cynical, and an out-and-out bribe. Lawdy, lawdy! I “love” how this job provides some excruciatingly awkward moments. Case in point my call down to Texas, where Joanne Martin Walden was sitting at a memorial mass for her father. Ack! She graciously called back later, talked about downsizing (“if the nest is really empty, why is all of this stuff still here?”) and how retiring after 35 years with the successor companies to GTE was actually an auspicious event. It has resulted in the

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CL ASS NOTES publication and staging of her first dinnertheater musical, entitled Christmas in the Alt-Universe. I imagine this must at least involve a Ziggy Stardust character, but she would only admit to such characters as the Three Wise Women, the Swing Shift Shepherds, and the Little Saxophone Boy. Can’t wait to see it on the big screen! A few weeks ago, Don Kendall was in Los Angeles, and it was an occasion for Paul Garity, John Chamberlain, Frank Commons T’77, and me to hear about his global trotting. He missed Reunion because he was in Botswana at a board meeting for one of his Jane Goodall-related charities. Following our dinner, he was en route to Singapore to hear daughter Corrine, the assistant director of conservation and research at the North Carolina Zoo, provide a lecture on her favorite topic, the African vulture, for which she did her PhD thesis. Interestingly, none of us at the table realized until halfway through the meal that said vulture is known as the “Soap of the Savannah,” since it removes every last shred of decaying matter from carcasses. Oh really??? Well, all I can say is that doctoral candidates are much more creative than I had expected! Almost as humorous was Don’s subsequent description of the events surrounding his multimonth chairmanship of the special committee that considered the, er, arms-length acquisition of SolarCity (he was a board member) by Tesla. Well-played, Don! That’s all—now let the minireunion planning commence!

Jona has another piece of news. His son-in-law is starting Tuck this fall! Is he the first in our class to have a kid at Tuck? Scott Fossel continues to rave about his place in Jackson Hole, WY, where he has moose (mooses? meece?) and bears for neighbors.

Neighbor borrowing a cup of sugar at Scott Fossel’s house

On September 23, 2016, Carl Treleaven reported, “I’m almost in shock. Barring the Second Coming occurring in the next 72 hours, the Chicago Cubs are going to be playing in the World Series! I seriously thought I would never live to see this day.” Peter Barris does him one better. He and Adrienne went to that historic game where the Cubs won.

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In these tumultuous times, we shouldn’t let our preconceived notions keep us from relating to others who think differently. In 2012 Charles Murray wrote Coming Apart, a book that shows by many different yardsticks how people in the U.S. have splintered into groups that don’t interrelate at all. Read it. I was impressed. Technology isn’t helping at all. We gravitate to online communities that mirror our views and get our news from sources that generally agree with us. Let’s try something different. When we talk to someone who doesn’t share our views, let’s try to really listen to them. People are pretty much alike and have more or less the same needs and concerns. Besides, there is nothing like a good conversation with someone on the other side to hone your own arguments. I am reminded of the time Milton Friedman said that he always tried to have a communist on the economics faculty at the University of Chicago. He said you should always be in close contact with your adversaries.

’78 Jim Scardino jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

Jim will be back with your news in the next issue’s column and is looking forward to next year’s 40th reunion! October 5-7, 2018.

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Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

Dick Bowden richard.k.bowden@gmail.com

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 13-15, 2017

Dear folks, The big news of the day is our upcoming 40th Reunion this fall. Arthur and I are coming. So are Jona and Nancy Donaldson. Are you coming?

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Otherwise, I have no gossip for this issue of Tuck Today. You all have to be much better at sending me news.

Ron Miller, currently the vice president of innovation for BlueScope Buildings North America in Kansas City, Missouri, has been selected to be a director of the AIA (American Institute of Architects). This is quite an honor, and I’m very proud of my peanut butter sniffing roommate.

So I am going to use this space for some philosophical musings:

Roger Berman sent in a note from his compound on Cape Cod. They just returned

Adrienne and Peter Barris at the historic Cubs World Series

actual curriculum. Expectation is to enroll our first class in July 2018 if all goes as planned. Family remains well. Oldest youngest child now looking at colleges and older kids are well. Can’t believe it is over 30 years since we walked in the doors of NJMS!”

from Mardi Gras. It appears that their son, Sam, lives in New Orleans, and Roger and Anne have purchased a condominium there to stay warm during the winter months and stay close to Sam and several of Anne’s family members in Baton Rouge. Their younger son, Lee, is a registered architect working in Boston and thus, indirectly, working under the guidance of Ron Miller. Buzz Reynolds briefly denied that he is taking a painting class. Apparently he wants to focus on his pen and ink skills. He also reports that he never read my most recent update. Please don’t tell him, as I may have gone too far. Brooks Cutright reports that he is now retired from fulfilling everyone’s expectations that he would be the epitome of managerial mediocrity. But instead of taking up painting, drawing, or golf, he is going back to school in August at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster, PA, to earn his associate’s degree in furniture making and cabinetry. “I’ve been a woodworking hobbyist for many years and want to get to the next level so I can make more complex heirloom-quality furniture for my home and my kids. I figure all of my decisions, proposals, projections, analyses, computer programs, etc., have already turned to dust, so by making some nice things out of wood I’ll actually have a legacy. Thaddeus Stevens was a Dartmouth grad who earned enough money to endow a college, now part of Pennsylvania’s university system. I’m not sure if he would be proud of me or not. I would like to hear from long-lost classmates at brooks.cutright@ comcast.net, especially Mark Wolfinger, who never writes or calls even though I’m responsible for him meeting his wife and a few other cool things.” Mark? Mark? Jim Campbell has added a new radio show. In addition to Business Talk with Jim Campbell he has added Forensic Talk with Jim Campbell. We can only hope for a third: Tuck Tales with Jim Campbell. Jim also has been blessed with his first grandchild, Rory James Canniff...picture below. A second is due in July from Tara (one of his twins) and her husband, Patrick. Jim’s daughter Sasha is graduating from the Annenberg School at USC with a master’s in communication. Perhaps she will provide some advice for Jim’s vast broadcasting enterprise. Jim also reports that he has returned to golf after a 40-year layoff and has not yet been banished from Saratoga National Golf Club in Sarasota Springs, NY.

Darrell Brown sent a picture of a Tuck gettogether from last spring, with Suzanne McNitt T’78 and Jay and Anne Kolyer. Rory James Canniff, Jim Campbell’s grandson

pfamail@aol.com reports that they enjoyed the last class notes but had nothing to contribute. I guess I should have tried a bit harder to find out who pfamail is. Brian (Dapper) McNeill, ever the gentleman, sent in the following update on his fellow classmates (OK, cesspool mates). “How bout 3 things we never thought we’d see...even now almost 40 years later: (1) even though he certainly wasn’t when we were at Tuck, Pilcher might be the most accomplished athlete in our class now at age 60...world-class over-60 marathoner...look it up! (2) Ben is CEO of a public company...that is not (yet) under SEC investigation. (3) the most surprising of all, a woman agreed to marry Ben!!!! Saw it with my own eyes.” Michael Stern remains determined to keep his news close to his vest. However, he mistakenly left a clue that he is still living in the Bay Area, so if anyone can track him down.... About 8 months ago, Steve Percy was asked to assume the role of interim chairman, Department of Pediatrics, at Hackensack University Medical Center. “It has been a challenging but rewarding period that has allowed me to go back a few years and put my business-school training to good use. A search committee will be formed and a decision made in the next few months about a permanent chair. Stepped out of intensive care about 5 years ago and have been running our inpatient hospitalist program since then as well as acting as the site coordinator for the NJMS pediatric residency and medical students. Have been actively involved, as are many of my colleagues, in helping with creation of a new medical school in partnership with Seton Hall University. Sat on a committee helping with the application preparation and now part of a committee working on one part of the

Jay and Anne Kolyer with Darrell Brown and Suzanne McNitt T’78

John Reed says that he was “honored to participate as a speaker and panelist March 12-13 at Tuck in their new program for returning veterans and elite athletes called Next Step. Appreciated and was especially proud that my daughter Elisabeth (Lis) (Univ of Texas MBA ’15) also participated as a speaker and panelist—we’re Navy veterans.” Andy Steele reports that he attended a Tuck event in LA and met up with Larry Bridges and his lovely wife, Betsy. It was held at a bar in Santa Monica, but some untimely fog blocked the beach view. At least he missed a snowstorm in Hanover. Cathy Stephenson is all agog that a Chicago Cub is moving into her building in Chicago in a week or so. She won’t say who it is but won’t say that she won’t be hanging around outside his door at all hours either. She “just returned from 2 weeks in Aruba, where I have a timeshare. The weather is always perfect. I have been working with Cushman & Wakefield, one of the largest real estate services firms, for the past 2 years with large, corporate clients on optimizing their real estate operations. Fortunately, I have a very flexible schedule and often work remotely so am able to travel a great deal. Traveled to

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CL ASS NOTES many different countries (19) last year, both for business and pleasure (Croatia and down the Danube to visit Christmas markets in Austria and Germany). Both of the trips were fabulous and rich with culture, history and beautiful villages & buildings. I was only able to get a little bit of sightseeing in in Dublin, Warsaw, and Dubai when in those cities on business and none in the other cities I visited. Oh well. I get to the Upper Valley at least three times a year to see my family and check in to see what’s new at Tuck and Dartmouth. And I spend as much time as possible in northern Michigan from Memorial Day through Labor Day and then some. When I am in Chicago, I am very involved in all the wonderful performing arts the city offers and in developing leadership programs for a real estate organization.” Sounds awesome to me.

initiative, Ned can trace 40 altruistically motivated transplants “over the last 14 months.” He has a fabulous, heartfelt TEDx talk describing his donor experience. Give it a look at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nhht9kslq04&t=6s online. From Bob Burlando came a precious Tuck document, dug from a sedimentary layer of his desk drawer. The “Class of 1980—Highlights of the Placement Season” is a remarkable relic. Based on 98 of the 128 of us responding, we reported an average base salary of $27,900 with a range of $20-40,000. Apparently these numbers were some 11-12% above the similar report of the class of 1979. Given that Mado Macdonald’s TELCO loans, at prime +1, were costing us ~19% at that stretch, inflation was certainly part of the times. Apparently, 46% of us accepted less than our highest offer and 24% of us returned to our previous summer employer.

Your diligent class notes secretary is preparing his submission from a condo in Myrtle Beach, For “type of position,” 21% of us went into where I just finished up a week of golfing with two of my brothers and a bunch of their friends. “Industrial Finance & Control,” 20% into “Advertising, Marketing, Sales,” 16% into A nice annual event, and I actually had the low “Consulting,” and 14% into “Investments.” 20% net score for the week. Really not that hard of us went to New York City, 12% to Boston, and with a handicap as high as mine. There was one 22% to elsewhere in New England. 15% went hole that I refused to finish out, and the photo to the Midwest. Where did we go? The list of of my ball on the green explains everything. firms included Wheelabrator-Frye; Inland Steel; Coopers & Lybrand; Chemical Bank; Champion International; Richardson-Merrell; Conrail; Blyth Eastman Paine Webber; Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust; Union Camp; General Foods; First Boston; AT&T; Arthur D. Little; Dean Witter Reynolds; Atlantic Richfield; TWA; Temple, Barker & Sloane; and Bankers Trust. Extra credit will be given for submissions of a complete list identifying where the corpus of these firms might lie today. Write to Bob or me for the whole document; it’s a treasure.

Dick Bowden’s abandoned shot in Myrtle Beach

’80 Rick Kilbride kilbride@optonline.net

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Bob reports that he and Debbie are doing well, have lived in Charlotte for 22 years, and have a couple granddaughters. Since there seems to be a lot of that going around, we all must be getting very old. Errol Glasser also checked in, bless you, Errol. He reports that “Winfield, Brooks, Sillars, Roesch, and me” get together every few months. Winfield drafted him to teach a class at Temple, which Errol reports was an “eye opener.” (I agree, encourage you all to try it, and highly recommend—if visiting Greg in Philly is too far—a visit to me at UNH on the New Hampshire seacoast.) In February, Charlie and Kelli Kreter hosted a

few Tuckies at their house in Breckenridge, CO, ostensibly to ski. Yes, some skiing took place, but the main attractions were Scott and Sarah Wilson. As you may know, Scott sustained a pretty severe brain injury last October as the result of a car accident. Scott spent months in a hospital and rehab facility with an unsure path to recovery. Rick Hill, Alec Macmillan, the Kreters and the Rubins were all glad to see Scott in Colorado. While he did not join us on the slopes (Sarah did!), Scott feels incredibly fortunate. He is swimming a mile a day, back to full physical activity and full brain recovery. Now neurologists are meeting with him to figure out the keys to his miraculous recovery. And of note, his bartending skills were untouched by his misfortunes and remain outstanding!

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer mercer.glenn@gmail.com

Greetings. Two major events have taken place since we last wrote: our 35th Reunion and the presidential election. While these events were similar in many ways (e.g., neither affected sales of pork hocks at Dan & Whit’s in Norwich*), only one was covered by Fox News, so we here at Tuck Today will pick up the slack and fill you in on the other one, the Reunion. First, the obligatory class photo. Given our collectively fading visual acuity, you may need to look at the online version at the alumni website to distinguish Wym Portman from the pillar behind him, but trust us, it’s about four dozen of us, including significant others. Pretty good turnout, I think. A few observations, most you can guess in advance. First, most of the attendees were more or less depressingly fit, though we suspect some infiltration by Spanx. Second, while many of the males were fighting hairlines receding across the top of the head, some were * Yes, Dan & Whit’s does carry Pork Hocks. I do not know what these are. Don’t write in and tell me: some things are best left mysteries.

Peter Breu and Chris Fox

to print a representative sample. So we’ll just go with the timeless one of Peter Breu and Chris Fox nearby.

T’81s at Reunion 2016

battling back by adding hair elsewhere: beard growth is well under way. Third, between the last Reunion and this one, those of us facing encroaching grayness decided to all throw in the towel at the same time (Grecian Formula may want to provide samples in the swag bags next time around). Fourth, no, I don’t know what secret potion Mo Kelly and Bill Berkley are taking, but they have each aged about eight months since 1981. Maybe there is something to Kansas City barbecue, I don’t know.

buffet lunches, golf, hiking, tours of facilities, etc., all very nice. And then there was...the Scam Bus. Yes, thrown out of their respective houses by spouses who had just had enough, the loose collective known as the Scam has taken to life together on the road, in a sort of mobile frat house. And despite desperate attempts to put the wrong coordinates in their GPS, the boys found their way to Reunion and parked out front.

Note the pink flamingos next to a relaxed Sean Austin. For those of you thinking “But a full-sized bus can’t possibly fit on the circle drive!”—you’re right, it really can’t. Took out a few fence posts. After panicky consultations, some Tuck admin types lured the boys away with a case of PBR, and Reunion resumed. If this bus pulls up in front of your house, rest quietly in a darkened basement till the coast is clear.

Saturday night of the weekend was the big event, of course, the Class Dinner. Apparently we didn’t as a group give enough to TAG last year, because we were exiled to the Thayer School of Engineering for our event. The room was nice enough, but I think because Thayer is trying to earn historical monument credits for its buildings or something, we had no projector, and so yours truly had to make do with miniature monitors for his nostalgic keynote presentation. A step up from doing shadow puppets by firelight I guess. I kinda lost it a bit and threatened to cancel my annual $4.17 donation, but George Parker calmed me down by patting my head and telling me Gert Assmus anecdotes (“Boy zooey look at this cost curve!”) until I was settled. We remembered absent friends, shared moving missives from Lee Arbuckle and Dave Martin (who are both fighting cancer), and had many laughs about our collective antics on the Hanover Plain 35 years ago. It was a very nice time. And some great gifts were provided for the class, including from Bill and Martha McLaughlin industrial-strength Orvis tote bags that put the traditional Prairie Home Companion items to shame. I have heard that in some pricier parts of San Francisco these bags serve as low-cost housing stock.

Many many photos were taken during the weekend, of course, and there is really no way

Unfortunately, we have no gossipy reports of Reunion hijinks to report. We had a camera

On the other hand, all kidding about hairlines aside, one does have to agree that the class has acquired a certain gravitas that comes with age. Recall the nearby photo from 1981, which sums up the dignity and decorum that distinguished our years in Hanover.

The Scam Bus

T’81s in ’81 The Reunion itself enjoyed pretty good weather (no downpours or surprise snowstorms), and the usual round of events were laid on by the Tuck team. Speeches by deans (summary: apparently the school’s future lies ahead of it),

I do not know how many times I saw this scene repeated between 1979 and 1981: someone has asked Chris a question, and in reply he has assumed the classic Chris Fox Answer Pose: arms crossed, head slightly tilted down, concerned expression in place. Good advice almost always ensued, though from Peter Breu’s look he may be getting a more detailed answer than his question had called for (“Chris, do I need a key for the men’s room?”). Anyway, as they say, this takes me back!

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CL ASS NOTES crew standing by to record the next DVD in the series Alumni Gone Wild! but we didn’t get enough footage. No one passed out in the punch bowl or fell into the ravine behind the school. (Well, I don’t think so: we didn’t check.) Of course, no one really knows what goes in inside the Scam Bus, and they are not telling. Good. While we have set aside most other news to focus on the Reunion (yes, yes, golf will be back next time!), we do need to include one amazing submission. Much like Forrest Gump and his run across America, Brenda Born Conklin can’t stop—hiking. The story so far: April 2016, 150 miles on the Camino trail starting in Portugal and ending in Santiago, Spain; May 2016, a one-day 32-mile circumnavigation** of Manhattan; later in the year, the 280-mile Long Trail down from Canada to Massachusetts (she may have walked right through Reunion, and we missed her...). Then 2017 started with a 100-mile trek in Morocco with a group from the Appalachian Mountain Club (obviously deeply confused as to the precise location of the Appalachians). This fall she will be in Wisconsin hiking “300 miles to finish the 1000-mile Ice Age Trail” (the math of which eludes me). Brenda hastens to stress that this is not an addiction and that she can stop any time (grin). Regardless, it is always gratifying to see someone find something they like to do and then doing it, with full commitment. That is it for now. No one gets chastised this time around for not sending in stuff, since we had Reunion to cover, but we’d love to see plenty of input next time. Send in career changes, retirement notices, arrival of new offspring, new hobbies taken on (is there no model train enthusiast out there except for Spo?), felony convictions overturned, etc. Meanwhile, stay safe, stay well, and maybe we will see you at the next Reunion...sponsored by Grecian Formula and Spanx. ** That was her word; we, nitpickers, prefer circumambulation. This may be the first and last time that word appears in Tuck Today.

no excuse. Visit http://mytuck.dartmouth. edu/reunion_2017 for hotel and Tuck block information and Tuck Reunion contact information. Our class’s coordinator at Tuck is Rachel Logan, tel: 603-646-6477 or email: rachel.logan@tuck.dartmouth.edu.

’82 Andy Rieth brieth11@gmail.com

35TH REUNION OCTOBER 13-15, 2017

FLASH! (This is NOT Fake News!) The class of ’82 will be gathering October 13-15 in Hanover to celebrate our 35th reunion!!! Can it possibly have been that long ago? We’re fortunate to have Jim and Ellen Bullion serving as co-CFOs (Chief Fun Officers) for what is sure to be a great weekend. They are looking for more volunteers, so let them know if you want to pitch in. Ellen and Sarge asked me to send along the following: Our 35th reunion is coming! Join the Tuck Class of 1982 Facebook page and check out some old pictures and see who’s planning to attend. Help us spread the word, reach out to three or four people you haven’t seen in a long time—encourage them to come. Tuck is putting together the schedule, and registration will open in late May or early June, but you may want to reserve hotel rooms now since this will be the height of leaf season. We are always looking for ideas and volunteers, let us know if you would like to help. We hope to see you in Hanover! Now how can anyone miss the opportunity to find out what’s become of all those special people we shared 2 years of Blue Eagles, ManEc Panic, The Dancing Bear, Roger McNamee and the Corn Dog playing guitar, Amos Truck Shirts, Mount Moosilauke, weekly Tuck ’Tails, Occom Pond skating, Tycoon Game, etc. ...? Remember, if you don’t show up, there will be nobody there to counter any misguided recollections. Again, OCTOBER 13-15, 2017, IS THE DATE FOR THE 35TH REUNION OF THE CLASS OF 1982. GOOD IDEA TO MAKE HOTEL RESERVATIONS NOW. Most hotels have reasonable cancellation policies, so there’s

So, I know that all of you have been saving your updates for the reunion. As a result, we have limited news to report. However, we do have a ski report from our intrepid travelers, Gary and Meredith Savadove: “The winter of 2017 has been an incredible one for anyone who enjoys skiing and winter sports. My goal is 40 days on the slopes...while I may fall a little short, it’s been a record year. Meredith and I spent a week in Lake Tahoe in January as the snow fell by the foot. Then we were in Colorado for a week with equally great conditions. In February, we spent two weeks skiing in Austria (Sölden and Mayrhofen), which were both fabulous. Plus a bunch of “fill in” days with family and friends at our local Mt. Bachelor. One might think my skiing form would have improved after all that, but not so much. Oh well...it’s fun nonetheless. Can’t wait to see everyone at Reunion in October.” Sounds like an awesome winter for the Savadoves! Here on Klinger Lake, the winter was pretty mild. The lake closed up during December and early January. (Usually iced over from late November through March.) The skating was awesome. Through some quirk of nature, the ice froze as smooth as if the Zamboni machine had just run over it. It was fantastic. The other—more ominous— occurrence was the feeding frenzy the bald eagles had! While the lake was closing over, it concentrated the remaining water fowl in what was left of the open water. The eagles would pick off the luckless birds on the fringe of the flock. It was actually pretty cool to watch. Just so you don’t think I now live in a yurt on the edge of our lake, we do have running water, electricity, and indoor plumbing out here in Michigan! I hope to see a BUNCH of you in October. How, you say? AT OUR 35TH REUNION IN HANOVER, OCTOBER 13-15...that’s how. See you there.

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boards also keep me busy, the newest being The Flea, an off-off-Broadway theater in Lower Manhattan. I’m also getting more involved in the for-profit HussGroup in Pittsburgh, a PR/ communications consulting firm. If any of our classmates have businesses that could use a marketing checkup, give me a shout!”

’83 Christine Cahn chriscahn@verizon.net

Douglas Ross doug@ragnoassociates.com

Renny Smith with sons Camden and Trace—a Dartmouth trifecta! Last fall, Betsy and Paul Shiverick traveled to Amsterdam (on a trip that also took them to Copenhagen, Denmark, and San Sebastián, Spain) and visited with Louise van Deth and Sander. Paul notes that, “We had a splendid time enjoying their super hospitality that included a boat trip through the canals and a culinary feast at their home.” Louise is the executive director of STOP AIDS NOW!, a position that involves managing around 150 people! Paul observed firsthand one of Louise’s best perks, a view of the Keizersgracht (Emperor’s Canal) from her office.

View from Louise’s office—Louise van Deth and Paul Shiverick

Congratulations to Renny Smith, whose younger of two sons, Camden Smith, recently graduated from the Marine Corps Officer Basic School at Quantico, VA. “He’s now a second lieutenant—marine combat engineer based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Before reporting for duty at Quantico, he completed the Tuck Business Bridge Program in July 2016, shortly on the heels of my older son (Trace), who graduated from Dartmouth in June 2016.” The Smith boys have hit the Dartmouth trifecta: they include a Tuck ’83, a Dartmouth ’16, and a Tuck Bridge ’16! Gary and Chris Cahn joined Gibbs Roddy and his family in Palm Springs in March for

a hiking and tennis adventure. Both families got photographs alongside superstar tennis professionals Bob and Mike Bryan at the Indian Wells tournament. Gary added, “We watched Gibbs’ son, Gil, play superbly in a few college matches as his Bowdoin team had traveled west for a spring tournament. Gil was part of the Bowdoin team that was Division 3 National Champions last year. We enjoyed some great hikes at Joshua Tree National Park with Gibbs, Sue, and their two lovely daughters, Kate and Annie.”

The Roddys and Cahns in California

Diana Calligan wrote to update us on her new job. Diana works part-time at REI. “It is a great company, and the people who work here all have interesting outdoor experiences. I am loving it. I still make time to attend gardening trade shows with my friend who owns Womanswork gardening gloves.” Diana’s work with Womanswork takes her to Cleveland once a year. “During my last trip I had a chance to see Claudia and Dave Fulton and Grosvie and Charlie Cooley.” As of January 1, Chars Crane officially retired from day-to-day responsibilities at Douglass Winthrop, though he remains involved as the firm’s chairman. Per Chars, “Four nonprofit

Taking advantage of his new semiemployed status, Chars hit the road in early February and circled the globe for seven weeks, including stops in the British Virgin Islands (sailing with Becky and Clint Marshall), Paris, Vietnam, Cambodia, and New Zealand, as well as several cities in the U.S. “Life is really good, and I am truly joyful.” From Pennsylvania, we received the following report from Jeff Murphy. “Contrary to popular belief, no, I have not dropped off the face of the earth (although life in Lancaster, PA, provides pretty good cover). After spending most of my career in either the high-tech or automotive industries, for the past three years I have been testing the waters of the agricultural world as COO of Dutchland Farms, LLC, the egg/ poultry side of The Wenger Group (a large midAtlantic feed company based in the area). “On the personal side, life is fantastic! My wife Kelly is head coach for women’s softball at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD, and I’m looking forward to becoming the ‘trailing spouse’ in the years ahead as she continues to pursue her career. My daughter Alison is a high school junior and is really beginning to excel as a musician (pianist/ singer/songwriter). She has a number of steady gigs in the area (with one of the fringe benefits being that she hasn’t asked Dad for money in months!). She’s been accepted into the Contemporary Songwriting Program at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami this summer, one of several schools with outstanding music programs on Ali’s post-high school radar. Needless to say, Dad is very proud and is having a ball living vicariously through the two amazing women in his life.” From our literary critic and reviewer in Minnesota, Rich Lee: “All I can offer is this: read A Secret Gift by Ted Gup. It traces the effects of one man’s simple generosity during the Depression. The book is compelling and provocative in many ways.” Based on Rich’s recommendation, I have ordered it from our library.

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CL ASS NOTES Skip Irving relayed some happy family news. “Our first grandchild was born March 29th. Jameson David Moyer Irving arrived 5 weeks early at 8 lbs. 6 oz. and 21” long. Both mom and baby are doing very well. They came home yesterday.” Best wishes and congratulations to all the Irvings! As part of a college buddies’ weekend, Bob MacIntosh and friends traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, for a long weekend of baseball and golf. They attended a Red Sox spring training game where Bob caught up with Eliot Powell (who lives nearby and is a long-time spring training “season ticket” holder of the Red Sox). While enjoying a spectacular cloudless, 79-degree afternoon at the ballpark, the two Tuck ’83ers spent several innings discussing their respective lives/families, reminiscing about their Tuck experiences, and, most importantly, critiquing the state of the current team. Bob is quick to admit that he is a bit jealous of Eliot’s lifestyle in southern Florida (no Nor’easters, no ice dams, etc.). A few weeks earlier, Bob had the pleasure of sharing a couple of beverages with Rich Lee when Rich was in the Boston area. Among the topics discussed were their first-term Management Economics projects (remember that one?) and, of course, the Red Sox upcoming season. It is always great fun to read about all the Tuck connections as I assemble the class notes. We hope for many more Tuck gatherings in the years ahead.

Czerwonka also joined us but missed the photo opportunity. We hope to make this an annual event, and all agreed that “what happens in Bocado, stays in Bocado!”

Kim and Ernie Parizeau, celebrating a shared 60th birthday with a rowing and CrossFit party

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Jennie Martzloff wrote, “This has been the year of the Tuck roomie reunions. It’s been great! In July Kristen Angrist Balderston traveled to San Francisco to visit her daughter Anna, who was working at a startup for the summer. We had a terrific time drinking wine, eating, and catching up on all the news. The photo was taken at the Embarcadero with the Bay Bridge in the background. Kathy Butler Hill (KB) and husband Ray surprised us in February while vacationing in Napa. We had a great time: drinking wine, eating, and catching up (do you see a theme here?). My husband, Gary, and I traveled to Phoenix in March. While he was working, Rebel Rice Chodorow and I spent the time (you guessed it) eating, drinking wine from Rebel and Adam’s prized cellar, and going for massages. It was so fun.

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Many of my former colleagues were devastated to learn of what was going on. Most of us feel that the things that went on don’t represent the bank or the culture that we knew. As one friend said, there are about 85 divisions in Wells, only one was involved, and the rest of the team feels pretty awful. I joined Rabobank, a Dutch international bank, to build their business relationship management function and build the partnerships and strategically align the business side of the bank with the IT side. The role allowed me to leverage my marketing/ business skillsets along with my knowledge of and prior work with technology. It was an interesting challenge and gave me more exposure to the role of a business consultant. After leaving Rabobank last spring, I decided to launch my own marketing consulting practice. I’m only a few months into it now, but I see great benefits of the consulting lifestyle— flexibility of schedule and workplace, variety of interesting work, and freedom from at least some of the politics of the corporate workplace. I do miss having a team of people to work with, but the flexibility has allowed me to be able to spend time with my former roomies. That seems pretty good to me. Please let me know if you are ever in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’d love to see you.”

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“You might ask, what is Jennie doing these days that allows her all this time? I left Wells Fargo’s student lending division in 2013. Fortunately I had no knowledge of the practices that were taking place in some of the WF branches.

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Tuck Professor John Vogel was recently in Boston at a Tuck alumni gathering. Wilbur Kim, Johanna Bergmans Musselman, and Kristen Angrist Balderston enjoyed catching up with him and with each other at the Liberty Hotel. After 18 months of semiretirement after leaving HP, Morris Wallack rejoined the full-time working world in January. He is VP of global sales operations for 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), one of the largest 3D printer manufacturers in the world. 3D Systems’ headquarters is Rock Hill, SC; Morris works in Cary, NC. He enjoys working at a much smaller, focused technology company and helping grow the company and scale profitably. He reported the only downside to returning to full-time work is that his project to visit 60 new restaurants in Durham during his 60th year is now behind pace. You can follow him as mwallack on Instagram, where he posts a haiku after each meal. Older daughter, Grace, is a first-year law student at Harvard and is recently engaged. Younger daughter, Eve, is a freshman art student at Washington University in St. Louis. His wife, Sue, continues marketing branding and strategy work for both local and remote companies. They are now fully ensconced in a new home in Durham and enjoy walking to downtown for ball games, shows and dining. IN MEMORIAM Sadly, we lost our classmate Sarah Miller Caldicott on January 24, 2017. Yanna and I traveled to Chicago for Sarah’s memorial on February 3, 2017. It was a beautiful service in Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, the church she attended while living in Oak Park, IL, and where she met her husband, the Reverend Wayne Myers. He was the pastor of this church for many years before accepting a call to a new church in Boca Raton, FL, in 2015. Her sons, Nick and Connor, gave a powerful eulogy – she would be very proud of them. Nick, Connor, Wayne, her stepsons Daniel and Taylor, ex-husband Brian Caldicott, and other family members very much appreciated our presence and extension of sympathy from our Tuck class. She touched so many lives. Here is her online obituary: http://www. drechslerbrownwilliams.com/obituaries/ Sarah-Miller-Caldicott?obId=1321647#/ obituaryInfo

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Until next time....

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

What better way to open this column than with a dispatch from first-time contributor Kevin Wenck! “I guess I am feeling negligent about never sending in any news, and so here is something to publish. Dementia may have set in and I think I am 20 again as my summer plans are to pack up a big backpack and wander around Europe for 2 1/2 months. Stumbling around Europe may be a more accurate description, as a lot of the trip will be exploring all the main wine regions in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. Other highlights will include hiking in the Cinque Terre, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and Iceland, six days in Siena during the Palio, hopefully enjoying some great classical music in Budapest, Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, and visiting as many pubs as possible in that very dangerous Midsomer district west of London while trying to help solve some of the mysterious murders that happen there. Since not working gives me way too much free time, I also decided to learn Italian, French, and

Spanish prior to the trip (reading newspaper articles on Italian news websites can be hilarious!).” When pressed, Kevin elaborated that he “actually retired in April 2008 from managing small-cap growth stock funds and a hedge fund but unfortunately very quickly realized that I was very bored and also really missed the social interaction from working. My girlfriend also has a professional career where she will probably continue working for at least the next 15 years, and so since that would result in me having way too much free time, I’ve occasionally looked for some sort of job to keep me busy, but I think I have finally given up thinking about that at this point. Deciding to learn the languages that I mentioned also seems to be great for me in providing a huge amount of intellectual stimulation and using up a lot of free time. I guess everyone’s life is very different, but my own experience makes me think that a lot of people with professional careers will find it challenging to transition to being retired and then having to find a new set of activities, and I now think learning a new language would be great for a lot of people, as it is something that I have really enjoyed.” When peppered with a follow-up question (too much CNN on my side!), he admitted that his girlfriend of 11 years “will also be joining me for two weeks in the middle of the Europe trip, and we’ll get to enjoy Paris, the U.K., Ireland, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, and northern Spain together. In one sort of funny aspect of our relationship, she is very allergic to pollen and so I can’t send her any roses!” Best way to end that interview! Kate Wiley Laud tells us that she left the UVM Foundation last year and while she is looking she is “being picky.” She recently reconnected with Donna Schmiedel Stockman, “going to dinner, a comedy show, and just sat and talked. It’s been really fun to find out that we’ve been living parallel lives in so many respects.” She has also seen Judy Holmes a few times in Burlington. Judy “is on the UVM Foundation Leadership Council, so she visits for important weekends.” As Hanover is about halfway between her home in Shelburne and her daughter’s place in Boston, she visits Tuck often, noting “I used to think the students all looked so young, but now I think their parents look so young!” She ended sharing that Paul Laud T’84 is working in private equity in NYC and has an apartment in Greenwich, commuting to their

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CL ASS NOTES “base camp” in Vermont. “Life is complicated but so fun.” Giles Chance sent a terse note: “I’m in China, staying with my wife and her old dad. I was in Hanover, NH, in the fall, where I taught a Tuck class, played some golf, and saw Craig Froelich, who has made out big from selling his aircraft equipment company in OK and has moved to upstate NY. In fact, Craig came to Tuck to attend my class, which he said he liked (it was polite of him).” Giles and his wife will spend the summer in France and then hope to make it back to the U.S. in September. Speaking of Craig Froelich and his abovementioned move, he wrote in to say it’s “great fun! Son Matthew is at Colgate. Son Jake was accepted at grad school so now has a plan for next year. I am still loafing but looking for something to do.” Pat Maloney wrote in from “snowy DC” to share awesome news that she “will be one of three individuals given, by my undergraduate institution, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), the Distinguished Alumni Award. I told one of my staff, a PhD physicist, that I didn’t feel very ‘distinguished,’ and he replied, ‘...Pat, you work at Aerospace. We set a high bar.’ Then I said that 3 years ago they honored David Benoit, the jazz musician. And he replied, ‘...Pat, fame does not equal distinguished!’ Anyway the first of four GOES satellites was launched in November; it is the latest weather and environmental satellite for the U.S. The first pictures were released publicly at the end of Jan. So it is a busy time. In addition, I ran the search committee seeking a new president for In Trust, one of the notfor-profit boards I sit on, between last March and December.” Pat’s job title at The Aerospace Corporation is pretty impressive: principal director, systems development, operations and protection. Finally, we need to close this column with the sad news that Jack Redmond died at his home in Bernardsville, NJ, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017, after a courageous four-year battle with brain cancer. His wife, “the love of his life,” Nancy Fagan Redmond, shared this with us: “He fought his disease in the same manner in which he lived his life: with indefatigable courage, dignity, and grace. [He and Nancy] have three children, John III, Matthew, and Kate, all of whom live in Brooklyn, NY. Jack had a 26-year career in finance, and while the capital markets

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and the broad field of investments captured Jack’s professional interests, it was his lifelong love of music that truly defined him.” Nancy wrote, “I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of Jack’s classmates who reached out to me with notes of comfort. The Tuck School was and continues to be a very special place. As the wife of a Tuck student, I remember being surrounded by talented and interesting people at a point in our lives when anything seemed possible and the future could not be brighter.” In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his memory to the Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research & Information. Please visit www.virtualtrials.com for details. Keep sending updates, and I’ll keep writing them up!

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providing tours in all the museum’s permanent collections, as well as serving as chair for all the weekday tour guides in the associates program. Who knew I would be so passionate about art? If you are in town, feel free to book a tour with me. Locally, I am president of the Wellesley Scholarship Foundation. Both jobs provide enough work to keep me out of trouble and hopefully to keep my brain fine-tuned.” Janet Weimann checked in, advising that “I fall in the not-that-fascinating but great category of ‘no news is good news’! Life is good in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. I continue to work in marketing at Nestlé, where I have been for about 27 years (do I hold the record?); but I’ve worked part-time for them since the birth of our daughter—who is now a freshman at Lafayette College. Our son will attend Lehigh Univ. in the fall to continue their sibling rivalry at rival schools. So Gerry and I are bracing for the empty nest next year with a mixture of dread and excitement. Our lives have revolved around school and soccer and swimming schedules for the past several years. We’ll miss the games and meets but are looking forward to more travel. And we’ll have plenty of room for any Tuckies who stop by Cleveland on their travels!

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Our 30th class reunion took place on a blustery October Hanover weekend. Forty-five classmates made the trek, and, including their partners, we had a nice group of attendees and a very successful reunion. Friday night’s dinner was generously hosted at the new home of Sherri Carroll Oberg and her husband, Curt Oberg. Kent Covington provided period music throughout the evening. Saturday’s lunch took place outdoors at Tuck, and our class dinner was once again held at the Dartmouth Outing Club adjacent to Occom Pond. A good time was had by all thanks to the efforts of Reunion Chair Mike Wyman and wife Janet. Dean Slaughter expressed his gratitude to the Class of ’86 at Saturday’s dinner, noting our high giving participation rate and record annual gift. Well done to all. We heard from Beverly Keyes Donovan who wrote, “Dana (T’85) and I are now empty nesters, still living in Wellesley; our youngest is a sophomore at Boston College. I am back to work, as a full-time volunteer! Many of my days are spent in the beautiful setting at the Museum of Fine Arts. I am a docent,

“We visited Hanover last year on the college tour circuit. We had a hard time convincing our kids that Sachem Village looked very different when we lived there! All the Tuck facilities improvements are amazing! Visiting reminded me of what a wonderful experience Tuck was for me, and I am so grateful that my education at Tuck enabled me to balance a fun and fulfilling career with ample stay-athome mom time. I feel very blessed. I hope that my next update will include more travel adventures, but for now I remain happy in the CLE (go Cavs!).” From the West Coast, Rob Winans put a “plug in for my business—I was just named to Coldwell Banker’s International President’s Elite, for the top 2% of agents worldwide. LA real estate is the new M&A! Anyone coming out here to retire in the sun, please check in—I’ll be happy to find a nice spot for you and to buy you an umbrella drink! On the home front, son Kimball is a freshman at Trinity College, where as a long-kicker on the football team they went undefeated and won the NESCAC Championship. If anyone goes to NESCAC games, or has kids at Trinity, please give a shout and we will connect this fall!”

Osamu Ueda provided an update from Tokyo: “It has been a long time since I reported what I was doing. Maybe 30 years??? I am practicing law as a lawyer in Tokyo. Prior to that, I worked for three American companies, Booz Allen, LexisNexis, and AlixPartners. In 2006, when I was a MD of LexisNexis and meeting lawyers every day, I decided to go to night law school and become a lawyer myself. I passed the bar in 2008 and finally decided to start up a law practice in 2012. I have a small law firm in Aoyama, Tokyo, and one associate. Most of my clients are small/medium Japanese companies, but now starting to develop foreign clients looking for help in Japanese law.

University, pursuing a dual degree in computer engineering and management. Chris will be in Boston this summer working on an internship with Amazon Robotics and would love to connect with the next generation of Tuck students. Katy is a sophomore at St. Olaf College, where she is studying exercise science and plays Division III ice hockey. She is planning on spending the summer or fall on an international program, details of which are being finalized. My wife Lisa has started her own business selling cabi women’s clothing and is living the entrepreneurial dream. “We see Jane (Castle) Fraleigh, her husband CJ, and their family periodically, as they live only three houses away from us. We hope to get back to Hanover this summer when we visit Chris. Hope all is well with everyone in the class!”

“In addition to law practice, I am a professor of a Nagoya University of Commerce and Father and son, Mike Hoffman and Sam, with Yurei in Business MBA course and teach 6-7 classes the White Mountains per year. We have 50-60 foreign students from Alison Corcoran sent in the following news: “I many countries and sometimes I teach them just started a new adventure in healthcare as you have a nice view of the river with barges English. I am also fairly active in writing books EVP and chief marketing officer at DentaQuest. and colorful long-tail boats still plying their on management and law. My achievements DentaQuest is a purpose-driven company trade. Tuckies passing by are welcome! are not as impressive as Kaz Komiya’s. So whose mission is to improve the oral health of far, 13 books published. Privately, I have a son all. I have responsibility for marketing, product, “My eldest daughter got admitted to Williams and a daughter. My son currently works for a College last fall, so we are all very happy for her. digital transformation, and a small P&L Japanese trading company in Shanghai and growing the direct to consumer business. She recently sent a video of the big snowstorm my daughter is an architect. My wife, Emi is on the East Coast. I haven’t seen snow like that teaching Japanese to foreign students in Tokyo. “I am really excited: the role is great, the since leaving Tuck! These days, we play golf quite often together, people are fun and smart, and the company is even though our scores are 90s and 100s. If equally committed to improving lives and to “This year my big project is to complete a anybody of you are visiting Tokyo, please let improving the bottom line!” me know. I will take you to the best sushi place.” book commemorating 160 years of the family business history. It’s mostly about Old World Our 30th reunion recap wouldn’t be complete trading in niche markets! Natural resins that Mike Hoffman sent in a terrific picture and if we didn’t mention that Julia and I signed we export; industrial supplies imported like update, claiming, “I’m well and enjoying life. up for another stint as your class secretaries. ferro-alloys for foundries, ball mills lining After a career as entrepreneur with/advisor We thank all of you who’ve helped us cobble and grinding media for ceramic companies; to marketing and natural health & food together our last eleven Tuck Today issues. and some end-of-line packaging machinery. firms, I’m semiretired. I live in Cambridge Out of a graduating class of about 165 people, Originally the family business started in and Marblehead, dividing time in the city we have mentioned 120 individuals during textiles. Yes, happy to send anyone a copy of and on the coast. In Cambridge, I’ve been a the last five plus years. So there’s a bunch of the book when it is out!” long-time host and frequent guest with Airbnb. fellow ’86ers out there we’re eager to include My two sons are well into their careers: Sam in future Tuck Today editions, and we’ll Pete Shadek has been enjoying “lots of travel, (now 31 and born in Hanover) is a doctor continue reaching out to classmates we haven’t kids in college, my wife starting a business, and practicing family health in Rhode Island, while highlighted during our tenure. Thanks in getting older! You know the drill. Gregor (28) is a key part of the exec team for advance for assisting us, and we wish everyone a health-tech firm pioneering telemedicine a wonderful five years until our 35th. “Since leaving A.T. Kearney after twelve years, I in New York and Seattle. I’m active with was part of a team that started several strategy aikido, cycling, swimming, and yoga and have consulting firms, and I focus primarily on taken part in several triathlons. I also paint supply chain and profitability improvement. I and sculpt. When not traveling, I volunteer love working with small to mid-size companies, with community nonprofits, especially my and many of my clients are privately owned (or synagogues.” private equity owned). Ateeb Maskati admits that he is “guilty of not “Our children, Chris (22) and Katy (19), are staying in touch for a long time! I will have deep into their college careers. Chris is completed 30 years in Bangkok this fall. It’s finishing his fourth of five years at Bucknell completely home for me now. From my home

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

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

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Thanks to Felicia Angus, who basically wrote these notes with a submission of her own version of War and Peace—acknowledged by many scholars to be the longest book ever published. “So this group of 1987 women who got together was a bit of a last-minute fluke,” writes Felicia. “11 of us were able to meet up in Durham, NC, where Millie Tan and Cynthia Frost live (in separate houses about 20 minutes away from each other.) Blake Crews also lives down there and was allowed to join us for Saturday night dinner. After last weekend I am totally sure of at least one thing: Millie Tan should be writing class notes. She knows a little bit about everybody and is one of the best networkers I’ve ever met. She knows a ton about a lot of people! Whenever we were thinking of someone and what they were up to, Millie most often had the answer. “Attendees were Mary Barcus, who lives in Boston and still works for Bank of America 30 years on. Anne Doremus, who is in VT and still with Hanson & Doremus Investment Management (I guess when your name is on the door you sort of have to stick with them!). Martha Tecca lives up in Orford, NH, along the CT River. Martha was sporting a pair of Brian Nash’s signature PJs, and I’ll have to say they looked very comfy! Gail Goodman, who with her husband, has sold their house in the ’burbs and are happily renting an apartment in downtown Boston and loving it. Gail is no longer with Constant Contact and thinking that life out of the fast lane definitely has its perks. “Georgia Mavrinac [Lindfors] also joined us. Georgia lives out in Whitefish Bay, WI, and is working for a personal/professional branding company. Martha Frey, with her husband, also 84

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lives in WI (though Madison). She is spending loads of time with her elderly mom, and might I say how lucky both she and her mom are to have that time and ability and support for each other. Makes me jealous! Gail Sullivan is working at BCG and has a freshman daughter at Dartmouth who may be swimming against my daughter at the end of the month at the Ivy League Swim Championships. Gail recounted that hubby Scott Page has been working out regularly and has become a lean mean I-banking machine. Mary Rumowicz Strickland drove 9 hours up from Jacksonville, Florida, where she lives with her ex-Navy husband. She is working in the public sector, trying to overhaul the healthcare system there. Millie, as stated, lives in Chapel Hill and is now an empty nester. She recently started a new job that finds her in Morristown, NJ, for most of each week, so I am hoping to see more of her going forward. Cynthia Frost has retired down in Durham and had a great house built to her specs (great lap pool, screened-in porch, and wine fridge to be exact!). Cynthia is a trustee on the Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust, which keeps her quite busy with very frequent trips to Boston. Not a bad gig really, but not exactly retirement either. “I would say an overriding theme of the small gathering was ‘What next?’ This reunion is marking 30 years since we departed the Hanover plain, and many of us find ourselves still willing to work but also willing to work less for money (’cept Santry, of course) and more for the better good somehow. It would be interesting to hear from the classes that are 45-50 years out to ask them how they filled the balance of their years. We know Mark Clayton will still be paying off wedding bills.” Felicia also reports that Steve Socolof has become something of a yoga savant, and we are trying to convince him to run a HOT YOGA class at reunion. I, for one, have purchased some lululemon just for the occasion. Most importantly, October 14th, the weekend of our Tuck Reunion, is actually Mike and Felicia’s wedding anniversary, which is great b/c normally Mike escapes up to Canada for a guys’ weekend at the cottage on that weekend to close it up for the winter. This will be one of the few times in their 28 years that they will actually be together on the proper date. Mark and Jenny Clayton are still living in Hingham right next to the house where Jenny and I grew up. They have three outstanding

children: Zach, 2012 St. Lawrence graduate; teaching at Dexter Southfield; getting married to Emma Obernesser in October, another 2012 St. Lawrence graduate. Ellie, 2013 Dartmouth; marrying Robbie Hoffman, another 2013 Dartmouth guy; forgiven for being from NJ and a Packers fan; getting married July of 2018; Ellie is living and working in NYC Analytic Marketing at Grey Group and ran the Boston Marathon this year. Matt, “who looms over all of us, keeping us young and on our toes”; sophomore at Union. The extended Clayton family just had a great week of skiing at Deer Valley! Art and Trina Santry are still living in Virginia. Their kid report: “Alexa is a jr. at Dartmouth and completed the Tuck Business Bridge Program over the winter, and it was fantastic but challenging. Art (Jr.) is a recent Dartmouth graduate and working at Bain & Company in Boston and travels a ton. Our youngest, Richard, is still at Groton and is rowing on the crew team, and we are hoping that Dartmouth might have interest in pursuing him for the class of ’22.” As an aside, Art (Sr.) came up to be a panelist on Bridge. You should have seen those kids drooling over his wisdom—like Apollo pontificating from on high. George and Jane Liddle can also boast about three remarkable offspring. “My middle child (William) ended his senior HS football season as a top 10 passing QB for California. He’ll be attending George Fox University (near Portland, OR) next fall and continuing his football activities. Youngest child (Alexander) recently got a letter from the Yale football coach, expressing interest (looking to Charlie Manuel for guidance on that one!). Oldest child (Caroline) is rockin’ it at the Cronkite School at ASU.” Chas Chigas has a consulting practice as a side business in addition to his banking day job. First, before I forget, there was a big shindig put on by BNP for Lenny’s “retirement” party. Ghosts of Christmas past and all that...folks from all over the Street from years back. Very fun, and a great tribute/send off to him. Two of his kids did crash the party, but it was after last call so I’m sure they didn’t drink much! Yea ok. Kathy, wisely, stayed away. So start losing weight. See you in October.

’88 Laurie Marshall laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

Jonathan Adams, Cuong Do, and Jim Lang

’89 Betsy Crill Robertson

It is great to be home in Utah full-time with Jim and our dog Cayenne. We would love to see any classmates who are in Utah and share our favorite spots.” Congrats, Ariel—that is so awesome!

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Hello! I [Betsy] can’t believe that it’s already April and time for another column. Thank you to those who wrote in! It’s great to hear from people and usually folks have talked to other Tuckies, so that’s always fun! Here’s the news as I know it! First, an email from Jonathan Adams. For those of you looking for a stock tip—this is for you! “Cuong Do, Jim Lang, and I enjoyed a very fine dinner together at the JPMorgan biotech conference in January. They are both directors of my emerging biotech company, BioVie, which trades OTC (‘BIVI’ if you want to look us up). How fortunate I am to have recruited two of the smartest members of the class of ’89! They provide outstanding support to BioVie, and it’s a pleasure to work with them.” Honestly, I agree with Jonathan—Cuong and Jim are two of the smartest folks in our class—who wouldn’t invest in a company with these guys guiding the show? It’s a real-life study group! Other news from Jonathan: “I’m still playing ice hockey and haven’t broken any more bones since the ankle a few years ago. Also, my younger son will be attending Pomona College, which we’re very excited about.” Ariel Blair is “happy to report that I finished the PhD and am finally Dr. Blair. While looking for a full-time position, I am teaching organizational behavior and management at Weber State University as an adjunct professor.

Ariel Blair, PhD, and friend

Lora Louise Broady is also a professor, at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Last August LL went to Harvard and connected with Professor Deshpande. There are some great pictures on Facebook if you look up Lora Louise. Lora Louise and Bob’s daughters are juniors this year, and we were fortunate enough to have them stop by during their college visits to Washington. Carly and Ellie are beautiful young ladies. It was a pleasure to meet them and spend a few hours with the Broady family!

LL and Professor Deshpande

There is always fun and exciting news from Sue Dahling Sullivan. Despite Sue’s best efforts to scale back, she is still entrenched as the chief strategic officer at the Boch Center in Boston. One of her many projects is ArtWeek. It has taken off and her “hope to leave a small legacy” has clearly exceeded expectations! This spring ArtWeek broke a record with 250+ events throughout eastern Massachusetts! If you haven’t been to an ArtWeek event and you are in the Boston/Massachusetts area, I highly recommend it. Sue has taken her passion for sharing art and become very involved in the local art scene on Cape Cod. She is currently working on a 24-foot-long mural (6 inches in height) titled Taking the Long View, which will be displayed from May to October at the Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA. Over 100,000 people visit the museum each year and they are building a weekend around the installation: “Artists in Action.” So—check it out, Sue will be there! Here’s a link: https://heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/ exhibits/points-of-view-special-outdoor-artinstallation/. When I told Sue I wanted to write about this in the column, she said “now it will be crystal clear to our classmates that I wasn’t paying attention in Finance class!” To top it off, Sue was also selected to be part of a big installation of 150 artists where each artist is given a 2”x2” square to translate into a 15”x15” piece. The large squares will be reassembled to mirror the assembly of the 2x2 squares. Here is more info on this project: http://artsonthecape. org/experience-art/june-july-2017-exhibits/. I’m so excited for Sue and feeling a bit like my carpooling skills and ability to organize a graduation party and hold fundraisers for my kids’ events just isn’t all that life altering.... But, I guess there is something for everyone! Apparently, Adam Inselbuch is also getting involved in the arts. I don’t know the details, but I figure I’ll print what I know; feel free to contact Adam for the real scoop! The story I heard is that Adam is supporting (already has?) a recording by some musicians from Jazz at Lincoln Center, and it won a Grammy! I hope this is true, because if I start printing false information, this column could become very interesting very quickly! As for travel—I know that Jim Stern has recently been to Morocco, a side trip while visiting his daughter in Spain. I saw some of his photos, and they looked amazing. Our family is going to Morocco this summer, so I’m

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CL ASS NOTES excited to take advantage of Jim and Debbe’s recommendations! Sue and Marty Sullivan spent 3 weeks traveling the Hawaiian Islands this winter and had an amazing experience (no surprise there!). Of course, they folded in a Tuck connection. “On our trip we made a stop at Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaii, which is headed by a Tuckie (Neil “Dutch” Kuyper T’92, who left a huge career in finance for this— http://parkerranch.com/business-operations/) and two other younger Tuckies (Jonathan Mitchell T’12 and Nell Achtmeyer T’16), and where we got an amazing pickup-truck tour of the 130,000 acre cattle ranch (once the largest in the U.S.), which has been the subject of 2 Tuck case studies on sustainability. It was fascinating!” Gary Hayes wrote in with his update as well. “It’s been a couple of years since our last email exchange, but I have news that’s kind of worth reporting: I’m a retired person now, since March 1st. You may remember that I already had retirement vaguely in my sights. Well, my employer for the last 21 years, Sempra Energy, put some focus on it with a generous early-retirement package. I guess they finally discovered that I was making way too much money and having too much fun at the same time. I’m still a little disoriented, but undaunted. This is going to be a great new chapter. Last crazy thought—in September it will be 30 years since you and I became neighbors on the third floor of Woodbury Hall. Whew!” It really is hard to believe that Tuck was 30 years ago—seems like yesterday and yet, not! The opportunities from Tuck have been life changing for all of us, and the friendships are definitely forever. I love hearing from all of you and yet I am just as guilty for not sending in my news when I don’t write the column. I hope everyone is healthy and happy, and if you do have a few minutes, let us know how you are! Enquiring minds want to know!

’90 Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Mary-Ann Somers somersma@yahoo.com

Hello from Springfield. It’s me, Suzanne, trying to figure out the weather during this crazy spring. I am writing with the help of one of my furry friends, who is insistent on sitting on my lap as I write. Of course, better there than on the keyboard.

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My second favorite memory is the Tuck ’91 kids who were present throughout the weekend. We had some who were Dartmouth undergrads, some who tagged along to see Dartmouth and other schools, and some who just tagged along. So many mini-me’s and, of course, all were brilliant, charming, and talented—as we would expect. Speaking of children, Mikio Hidaka visited his 16-year-old daughter, Saki, in New York, where she attends high school. He went to see her for Parents Day, and they took a trip to Manhattan, where he took a photo of her in front of Trump Tower, “which is the tourists’ favorite photo spot now. I hope he behaves himself until he leaves the White House!”

Sooooo, we just had Reunion in October—yes, a mere 9 months ago. And it was fabulous. We had so many Tuck Reunion newbies that I’m sure I won’t remember them all, but off the top of my head—Lance Portland, Jack Bohn, and Ranjit Malik. We had between 80 and 90 class members, which is pretty amazing. So many classmates and so little time to talk and catch up with everyone—but there was not a lack of effort. As you may recall, I sent out two requests for information. The first was the uzhe—please send me updates to your life or news to share. The second, which was a little more inspired—send me a favorite Reunion memory/ conversation—resulted in quite a few responses. So I will be sprinkling them throughout this column. I’ll start with a few of mine. First, is the Reunion “roar,” which I would like to think is unique to Tuck, and maybe our class. You know what I am talking about: the roar of voices and laughter that you can hear a block away from the tent or patio or wherever we are gathered. You always know you are in the right place. And because we are the cool class with the

best classmates ever, we had a special tent with our own wine and beer tasting brought to us by Jon Myerow. I am wondering if he realized that something he started at Stell Hall—was it second year?—would still be in great demand 25 years later? Thank you, Jon!

Saki Hidaka getting the perfect tourist shot

Driek Desmet wrote in that Shannon McKeen “came to London in December with a Tuck entrepreneurship class he coaches, so we went out for pancakes at my daughter’s favourite place, called ‘Old Dutch.’ (And no photos were taken of any socks.)” This is an inside FB joke which I won’t explain.

From Liz Sigler Mather: “I have many great memories from our Reunion. When I spent time with Will Hicks, Richard O’Reagan, Mark Sherman, and many other people I have not seen in ages, I felt like no time had passed. Dave Sheehan reminded me that we spent much of our two years laughing. We had a great class at Tuck.” From Harry Holt: “For me the memory was sitting in the lecture hall with the professor doing the discussion about child labor around the world and listening to my brilliant classmates (Driek and Arun) debate the merits of child labor in different parts of the world depending on the culture and the economic circumstance. Then my son raises his hand and makes some comment about the tragedies of the commons, and the professor tells him he has a valid point. He is sixteen and bright, but I can’t get him to take out the trash, comb his hair, or do any chores.” From first-timer Ranjit: “It was fantastic to have caught up with so many people, some of them after 25 years, during Reunion. This was the first time I was able to make it to a Reunion, but you can be sure that I will try and come to every one from now on. I do hope to catch up with those who did not make it this time at future Reunions. Till 2021 then!” From Steve Murray: “Great seeing everyone who made it back to Reunion. The whole weekend was a blast, and it was wonderful catching up with so many from our class. Special thanks to Ferit Ferhangil for the leadership on the whole weekend and to Jon Myerow for the curated beer, wine, and music on Friday evening. A perfect welcoming to the weekend.” From Susan Tredwell Kuruvilla: • Being in Hanover for four days • Being in the classroom for 1½ days (really enjoyed the class thing they offered—free of charge too) • Talking about our upcoming election with Andreu Ylla, Jim Kean, and others • Breakfast at our hotel with whoever was up each morning—Pam Brennan Carlson, Brad Burde, Ferit, and Eduard Biekens • Catching up with so many of our amazing classmates—too many to name • Seeing my old roommate Kristen Hoag Krohg for the first time in over 18 years! • Feeling like it was yesterday that we were all

in our 20s and clueless about our respective futures—okay, so maybe it was just me that was clueless 25 years ago. From Michael Keller: “Given it had been 25 years since graduation, for me, reconnecting and rekindling friendships and filling in blank or fuzzy spots in my middle-aged memory with warm faces and colorful stories all added up to a very good vibe.” From Jock McClees: “I think everyone was jealous of the new facilities they have now.” I suppose, Jock. But Stell Hall will be forever in my heart as a great dining room and where the “roar” originated. (smile) From Peg Juran Mayor: • Talking with Lance Portland. He said it was his first Reunion with our class and wondered if anyone would recognize him. I told him that I recognized him the second that I saw him but, of course, he was standing next to Jack Bohn, so it was easy. • Donna Malone [Knight]’s work on the slide show. So grateful to her for her time and care. • Ranjit running around taking millions of pictures of everyone. • Steve Murray and Stu. That is all. Bruce Cohen wrote in to share that “after being harassed for being the only one in our house to attend, our Ompompanoosuc house reconnected digitally (Deanna Helmig, Al Flohr, Carol Lim). I also wrangled Deanna into several drinks during a recent business trip to catch up in person—like we never left. They all promised better attendance!

fall sunshine. The view was spectacular, with all the trees turning their marvelous colors. All the way up and down through the New England hardwood forest and across the granite boulders, we chattered merrily about what each of us was going through in life, love, work, and as parents. The morning was such a reminder of how lucky we all were to have gone to school in such a beautiful place and with such engaging, fun, funny, and inspiring people!” Raise your hand if you remember or still have your “Trina Chair.” From Mark Magers: “We did not make it to Reunion; we were in Mexico diving in caves and drinking Pacifico. We did hear from Janine Nicklin recently; they apparently had a Bill’s Day (I think I got that right) a while back, and tons of people showed up. The photo was quite grand with all the attendees. Made me feel happy knowing they are continuing the tradition. “No great stories, but we may actually move to Mexico by the end of the year; if we do then I am sure we will have some kind of story about being attacked by a pack of Chihuahuas or something.” Richard O’Reagan has been whisking around— skiing here, sunning there, and squeezing work in every now and then. “This summer should be fun. We rented a barge and are going to wine taste our way through southern Burgundy—100’ long, with hot tub and lounge on top for 5 of us. We have a van that follows us so we can go sightseeing inland. Can’t wait.”

“Reunion gave me a chance to reconnect and remember what really talented and genuinely good people everyone was. Pretty damn cool all the way around!” From Leslie Kennedy: “I loved that Ranjit sheepishly asked if my husband could ‘slip out’ and play a round of golf with him. Some things never change...!” From Trina Sorenson Peterson, a favorite reunion experience: “Early Saturday of Reunion weekend, the Colbergs, Martha Records, Mark Sherman, the Dettmans, and I hiked up a mountain a little way south of Lyme. We climbed up through the Connecticut River morning fog bank and topped out in glorious

Daniel Klausner’s adorable daughters

Back to the kids. Daniel Klausner sent in an update and a picture that can only be described as adorable. “My daughters—Brooke 11, Grace

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CL ASS NOTES 9, and Mary Lee—are doing well. They spent the winter ice skating and playing squash. They are looking forward to the summer when they will participate in golf, tennis, sailing and swimming.” I think Andy Schmit (another first-timer) says it best: “Not much new since the Reunion, but that was a great get-together. It brought back many fond memories and was really hard to leave.”

’92 Amy Feind Reeves amyfeind@gmail.com

Petter Barreng (second from right)

So for those who weren’t able to attend, our dinner was at the Hanover Inn. Ferit was the official Reunion cheerleader and organizer, prodding us to get our reservations in and coordinating behind-the-scenes activities. Donna Malone Knight put together a wonderful slide show, and Stu Richards and Steve Murray presented the results of the class survey, which were highly entertaining!! And, of course, the weekend was filled with talking, laughter, eating, and drinking—the uzhe. A couple of other memories include 1:30 a.m. EBAs pizza on Saturday night (oh yes we did—I believe Eliza Hibben Royal and Joe Stabnick were the instigators.) And it wouldn’t be Tuck without a group nap. As you can see in the picture nearby, some of us are a little more serious than others when it comes to an afternoon nap.

Another event during Reunion was the transition of the class co-secretary mantle from Mary-Ann Somers to a lucky winner. First, a huge thank you to Mary-Ann who has been doing this since we graduated—thank you, thank you, thank you. 88

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Hi everyone, Am guessing that most of you were too busy preparing travel arrangements and hijinx for this fall’s Reunion to send in much news this round. Many thanks to Andrea Berti and Courtney Jane [Simpson] for doing both!

Peg and Jeff Rose, spring 1990

And now, the moment you have been waiting for—the new co-secretary is.........Joe Stabnick!!! Thank you to everyone who volunteered. I think it might have been the 1:30 a.m. EBAs that clinched it for Joe. You’ll be hearing from him for the next round, so be sure to send him some good stuff. Cheers!! I am ending this on a more somber note. For those who attended Reunion, you know we were mourning Petter Barreng, who died in July of 2016. We also took time during our lunch on Saturday to write messages to Jeff Rose, who was battling cancer. Sadly, Jeff died in April. I know we have reached “that” age, but knowing that does not make it any easier when we lose dear classmates who were critical pieces of our crazy Tuck family puzzle. A toast to Jeff, Petter, Jack, and Bill. You are missed.

Joe Stabnick is ready for his nap

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From Andrea: “On February 11, I met with Ichiro Ando and Steve Conway in London. I enclose a picture of the three of us. I’m sure there will be more meetings, because my daughter Laura is working in London at the Design Museum, Ichiro’s daughter Yuki is going to study in London, and Steve lives there.” [Look in the 1992 class notes on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a great photo!] And from Courtney: “Greetings from California. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion as much as possible. The big new for us is that my daughter Cece will start as a freshman at Brown in the fall. Coincidentally, parents’ weekend is the same weekend as our Tuck reunion, so I will be back and forth hoping to get as much time at the reunion as possible, while also seeing my son Jamie, who will be a senior. Time flies! #emptynest” If you haven’t already, please join the Tuck Class of 1992 Facebook page, which will have Reunion updates as October draws closer. If you are feeling guilty about not sending news in, please post something pre-October: favorite memory, party, case blooper, Brad Carlson story...it’s a private group. Right now posting where your kids are either going to college or where you are college touring can be really worthwhile—I’ve gotten so many stories of classmates running into each other unexpectedly, and I know I’ve benefited from seeing people come in and out of Boston. Scott Russell let me know that Andy Steele

T’79 came to Buckhead in Atlanta to host a Tuck ’Tails that was attended by five fellow UGA undergrads and Tuck MBAs: Andrew Stith T’94, Alex Oliver T’14, me, and Whit McClung T’16. Alan Jones welcomed his first grandchild recently: “The best things in life are free! Our first grandchild has been an extraordinary joy, and we get to enjoy her living with us while our son finishes his degree this year.” [Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a great pic!] Many thanks to Brad Carlson, Joe DePaulo, Mac Overton, and Steve Sklar for leading TAG efforts this year. How diabolical is the alumni office for picking the four nicest guys in our class whose calls you would always want to take even if you know they are going to hit you up for money? Also, a huge shout-out to Hilary Rochelle and Samar Malik, who are cochairing Reunion this year. Hilary has tapped Bob Rochelle and Jim Rideout to emcee Saturday night’s festivities, and here’s hoping that Sam will be planning some throwback Indian Viking antics. There will be some interesting life and career transition small group discussions planned, and classmates will also be participating in those. Lastly, I am hoping to turn over the reins of this column after Reunion and am sure everyone is ready for a new class voice. Please reach out if you are interested! And see you in October.

’93 Cathy Dishner cathy@dishners.com

Nancy Goodman Koefoed ngkoefoed@msn.com

Jeff Macher jeffrey.macher@georgetown.edu

Wikipedia defines Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon as a “parlour game based on the ‘six degrees of separation’ concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.”

In the Six Degrees of Tuckies edition, Jeff and I reduced that six degrees down to about one in a recent encounter. We were in Jackson Hole, WY, to enjoy some March spring skiing and the country songs of the Zac Brown Band, who were doing a benefit concert at the mountain. We met up with Shaun Andrikopoulos (T’92) and his wife Betty. We then bumped into C.J. and Elisabeth Joung (T’87) who met at Tuck. But it gets better: C.J. and Elisabeth were friends of ours in Greenwich, CT, where our children went to elementary school together and are now in the same class at Dartmouth. Even better: Elisabeth grew up in the same New Jersey town as Jeff and was friends with his older sister. Six Degrees of Tuckies...JACKPOT!

C.J. and Elizabeth Joung (T’87s), Jeff and Cathy Dishner, and Shaun Andrikopoulos (T’92)

Jackson Hole is a common meeting place to catch up with Shaun A., who has lived there for as long as I can remember. He claims that mountain living is a “lifesaver,” and it’s hard not to agree with him. Having recently switched our U.S. residency to WY, Jeff and I look forward to officially being Jackson Hole neighbors, though our home base remains in London, England. In the meantime we continue to enjoy December reunions with the Machers in which I excel at the après activities while everyone else tackles the steep slopes. [Look in the 1993 class-notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!] Sometimes our Tuck connections feel more like a game of Connect the Dots as our travels often provide a chance to meet up with former classmates. Connecting several dots, Jeff Macher visited with Evan Ladouceur in December while his daughter was touring campus at Georgetown and he was guest lecturing in a real estate

class. Macher also skied with Glenn Crotty in late January in Vail/Beaver Creek. Macher writes, “Glenn and I skied three days in Vail/ Beaver Creek and stayed at his awesome house just a stone’s throw from the lifts. Glenn, while far older and fatter, is still very nimble on the slopes. It was a great time, and something we (I) hope to do next year.” Crotty joined in the game as well. He and Alastair Borthwick went to London in the fall. Crotty explains, “Al guaranteed me that Scotland was going to defeat England in their World Cup qualifying match. Unfortunately he was disappointed again, but on the bright side we were able to catch up with some London Tuckies, including Jeff and Cathy Dishner and Dwight and Kirsten Poler.”

London T’93 mini-reunion

Alastair added his own spin to the London jaunt: “With the Dishners and Polers we enjoyed a late night and some ‘Flaming Vikings’ that would have been a welcome addition to our cocktail repertoire circa 1993. Glenn’s favorite moment of the trip came on the golf course when his caddy proclaimed one of his shots ‘Majestic!’. I thought to include that here because I have not seen any other sports journalists pick up that coverage.” Al had more Tuck sightings to report. “In November, I saw Scott Johnston at Tuck’s Diversity Conference. The conference was established in 1994, and with over 200+ people in attendance, its continued success stands as a strong tribute to Scott’s sustained effort over time. Great stuff.” Apparently Dwight and Evan feature again as Al notes, “As chance would have it, I was also lucky to see Dwight and his family in Nantucket at Thanksgiving. Beyond Dwight’s progeny, I have also met Evan Ladouceur’s and Bob Crocco’s daughters and Jerry Sullivan’s SUMMER 2017

CL ASS NOTES son—all in an informal university- or job-search help capacity. I have to conclude that version 2.0 of each has worked out many of the bugs from the earlier versions with whom I went to school. Wonderful kids!” Speaking of kids, Ward is enduring a “crazy amount of sleep deprivation most nights” with his young brood at home, where Hailey is now 26 months and Bowie is 6 months. [Look on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic!] On the business side, Ward was proud that his fund, Caerus Investors, “wrote a letter to the board of Kate Spade in November urging them to maximize shareholder value by contemplating a sale of the company. The board followed Caerus’s recommendation, triggering a 60%+ move in the shares.” Ward was a pinch hitter in a recent A Frame reunion of sorts. Jeff Macher reports, “Three out of four from the A Frame (Dishner, Macher, McIvor) got together in New York City in early October. Stephen Couig was MIA, so Ward Davis came in to pinch hit (about a month after having his fifth child). The trip was originally scheduled for Sea Island, GA, but Hurricane Matthew had other ideas. Festivities included a little drinking, some running in Central Park, a little more drinking, a few good meals, etc. It was so much fun that the entire A Frame is hoping for a repeat in 2017.” Next time Cougar has to post!!

A Frame reunion in NYC: Jeff Macher, Ward Davis, Jeff Dishner, and Mike McGivor

Dwight and Kirsten Poler have likely had their share of sleepless nights with a very full house... of puppies! They bred their lab and produced 6 adorable puppies who have taken over run of the house for the past 8 weeks. I was fortunate to randomly run into Dwight in Hampstead Heath on a weekend walk with our old springer Lucy. Jackie and I could not resist the 90

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invitation to stop by the house and visit with the pups. Thankfully they were all spoken for or I’m sure Jackie would have convinced me to bring one home. While there, Dwight made the shocking observation that this spring marks the 25th anniversary since our last Road Rally, an event that most of us likely want to forget! We got some great family news from Ingrid Geis, who spent time with her son, Ryan, who is now 18, in Colombia over February break. Ingrid writes, “Ryan and I spent time in Colombia’s coffee growing region. We also did some great hiking in the Andes, including exploring the Andean cloud forest and discovering palm trees 200 feet tall in the Valle de Cocora. It was really nice to spend time traveling with him alone before he heads off to college.”

Ingrid Geis and son Ryan in Colombia

The college tour is a trip most of us seem to have embarked in the last several years as many of our kids are nearing that age. Gina and Tracy Earles took their son Ryan out to look at schools in Southern California last summer. Gina explains, “Our senior, Ryan, was born in Huntington Beach, CA, and has always wondered what he missed out on by growing up in Boulder, CO. While we were in the area, it was so much fun to catch up with Hank and Rachel and their amazing kids.” [Pic on mytuck.dartmouth.edu.] Mike McIvor has a few more years before he hits the college trail with his daughters, but he notes that his 11-year-old Gabriela is “mature beyond her years” and already thinking ahead to that (distant) next step. She is a chip off the old block, and Mike writes that she is already “saving money for business school since we told her we won’t pay for grad school!” There must be something to the whole birth order influence on personality. Those firstborns

always seem so directed, while the second and subsequent offspring are often so much more carefree. At least that has been our experience with our two girls. McIvor supports it with his summary of his daughters. Gabriella, the oldest, “is in her 8th year of ballet and her 5th in a preprofessional program.” And as noted above, she is clearly industrious and responsible. Mike goes on to explain, “Adriana, our 8-yearold, is an exuberant little social monkey who is always making people laugh or cracking herself up. She’s thinking about becoming a farmer so she can feed the less fortunate and ‘make the world a better place.’” Christina and Andrew Morrison also have two daughters with whom they recently enjoyed a great family adventure. Andrew explains that Christina coerced him into sending news so he writes, “We enjoyed a fantastic trip to Antarctica in January. If you look carefully at the photo you will see that Aly (on the left, 13) and Stef (16) are both sporting Tuck hats. Now that I think of it, we should have brought a copy of The Goal for a photo op. I was the only one in the family bold/ crazy enough to do the polar plunge. It was definitely invigorating! Our girls really enjoy traveling and so do we. I celebrated my 50th birthday last year, and my big present to myself was a trip to North Korea in August, although Christina thought it best for me to go solo on that adventure. Sadly, I never got to visit with Kim Jong-un, but I did get to see his dead father and grandfather. The Hermit Kingdom is one bizarre place, and I highly recommend the trip for anyone who might be interested. I have now seen 4 of the 5 ‘great’ Communist leaders—the two Kims, Chairman Mao, and Ho Chi Minh. All I have to do is visit Lenin’s tomb, and I will be a dead Communist ace.”

Christine and Andrew Morrison’s daughters

I’ll end with this tidbit. Regardless of your political affiliation, it is fair to say that it has

been a bit of a circus in the U.S., giving new meaning to the phrase “political theater.” At least that is the view from London, where people see the Trump presidency as “America’s Brexit.” To this point, Jeff and I recently attended a charity event at Buckingham Palace, where we had a chance to meet Prince Charles. Upon hearing our accent, the prince asked us, eyebrows raised in exasperation, what we thought of “our president and all his tweets.” I said that we were relieved to be living abroad at the moment. Jeff chimed in, “Well at the very least, Trump makes Brexit look good,” to which the prince literally guffawed! Quite a surreal moment.

DL: It turns out horse manure makes a fabulous medium for growing mushrooms when combined with soiled hemp hurd. The only way you would know this is if you worked at the racetracks like Annie did. Keep ahold of that day job. Wax on, wax off! “Attached is the picture of Paul and me and four students of mine at Keio Business School. I brought them to visit VC firms in Silicon Valley and met Paul (at a barbecue restaurant in Sunnyvale), first time after we graduated! Katsuhiko Shimizu, Ph.D.”

Steve Prod, Andreas Schack, Nathan Wright, and Ulrik Schack in Utah

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They say laughter is the best medicine, so maintain your good humor, keep connecting the dots, and please stay in touch. —Cathy Dishner, London, England

Kristin Sanborn ksanborn27@gmail.com

Rick Smith

’94 David Link

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Katsu, Paul, and four of Katsu’s Keio B-school students in Silicon Valley

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Toph Whitmore toph@whitmorefamily.org

Well, it’s springtime in the Rockies. In my continued efforts to set the agenda on counterculture news, I have decided to provide a Facebook summary for our less than social social media classmates. It starts with Arnaud Tesson. Due to quantity and nature of postings, Arnaud has now had a bounty taken out on him by the new administration. They’ve identified a set of accomplices tied to Arnaud who are relentlessly in pursuit of the truth, including Michael Perera, Christophe Oliver, and yours truly. It was later revealed that Bill Reich turned us in to the authorities in the Office of the Attorney General’s former office in his home state of Alabama. Notes from classmates: “Hi David. Well, you (DL: David Link) and I (DL: Annie) (and others) are slowly combining forces at Old Dominion Hemp in Charlottesville, a premium animal bedding/ hemp company while Annie continues to drive shareholder value (!) at Comcast : - ). Annie Jensen Allman”

“With both kids at boarding school, we’ve started to have a bit more time available for our own interests. With that in mind: Christophe is training for his first half-iron triathlon this summer. Per Christophe, ‘I’m in the best shape in my life!’ (If only he could stop waking me up on the way to train before the crack of dawn.) By the time this goes to print, I will have finished participating in our local community theater production of Guys and Dolls. Singing, dancing, tap shoes, and a tambourine. Way more than I expected at the onset, but fun. Tara and Christophe Oliver” “I hope all is well. A quick photo hello from Copenhagen. My son, Andreas, and I went to visit Nathan in his and his family’s beautiful new Utah home in Park City in early February. And we had an absolutely wonderful time. Skiing, snowmobiling, airplane flying, and firing big arms at the shooting range. Priceless stuff for my son (and me). Steve Prod joined us for some of the days, incl. for the snowmobile trip in the High Uintas. Ulrik Schack”

Rick: We had some visitors to the Tuck Today T’95 western headquarters. Kristin: Do tell. Rick: Paul and Maree Duske and their boys Angus and Alex met the Smith Family for a week at a dude ranch in southern Arizona, they then went skiing for a few days, and they finished up their trip with a barbecue at our house in Scottsdale. Kristin: I’m envisioning Doosk destroying the ranch, getting hog-tied by some ornery wranglers, and spending a few nights in the stockade. Rick: Actually, he’s pretty tame these days. He’s learned his limitations with alcohol. He avoids red wine, stays away from hard liquor, and caps how much beer he drinks. I even saw him drinking an O’Doul’s. Kristin: So no hand dryers ripped off walls? No public displays of nudity? He didn’t try to climb the ranch’s Christmas tree? Rick: Nope. Just...you know...horseback riding plus a little bit of country line dancing tossed in. Kristin: I guess the Hanover PD’s rehabilitation program works. Rick: That and aging and being a parent. Anyway, the Duskes are doing well. Their boys Angus and Alex are nearing high school age and closing in on being taller than Rick. Alex is very much into baseball while Angus prefers to hit the links and the books. Alex even spent time teaching Rick’s 4-year-old son Brady the SUMMER 2017

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The Smiths and the Duskes at the dude ranch

basics of playing cricket, so Rick has stopped saving for Brady’s college and is counting on him to become the first American cricket champion. Kristin: Sounds like a wise plan, Smitty. Rick: Kristin, it’s all about focusing on niches. So to summarize—if there’s one takeaway from this column, it’s that Doosk has been rehabilitated. On to the column! Ron Will was CFO of TubeMogul, an advertising media-buying software company, for all of 7 months when it was sold. Per Ron, “In 2016 I left Mainsail Partners for TubeMogul...and we promptly sold the company to Adobe for $540 million. I am now unemployed, playing chauffeur and spending weekends in Tahoe chasing my sons down the slopes....” Elizabeth Sutherland Loar is the corporate controller for SnapLogic, a VC-backed company that “helps companies connect legacy applications to the cloud or a centralized internal data lake.”

Rick: Seriously, I have no idea what Truex’s company does. Back to my Atari. Kristin: Do we have room in the budget for a biotechnology editor? Rick: Is there enough room in the rustic cabin by Data Lake for both a tech editor and a biotech editor? We heard from Charles Merritt. “I am leaving my position as a ‘pretend academic’ to go back to being a ‘pretend investor’ (my old job). I have been at UNC over four years, it has been tons of fun, but I took on a part-time role with a lifescience VC firm here in the RTP area last fall, Hatteras Ventures, and that is becoming more of my time. I decided over the holidays it was time to give it another go back in the world of private enterprise, so I am transitioning out of my role in the entrepreneurship program here at UNC by the end of June.” Charles also let us know that he and Val just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

patio of a tiny café on a lightly traveled street roughly 2,800 miles from the Northeast when Marc LaMagna came walking by. Kristin: No way. Rick: Way. Although Marc is based out of Connecticut, he apparently works with a company that’s based in Newport Beach. So while the Northeast was getting pummeled with snow, Marc was chillin’ by the shore. Well played, Marc...well-played. We’ll talk again in six months!

’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

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Rick: So I’m confused. Is he getting paid to pretend? Because I’m really good at pretending. Kristin: I think he was pretending about pretending. Tracy Dorsey Hughes and husband Richard celebrated the birth of their daughter, Indigo, in March. And what’s up with your authors? Kristin here: I have recently started working on a friend’s campaign for the NJ State Assembly. Knowing the rate that political advisers get sent to jail in New Jersey, I should be writing our next column from the big house. And I don’t mean the BIG HOUSE that Deanna Smeltz just built behind me. Which is fantastic. Make your reservations now.

Kristin: Where is Data Lake? Can you sail on it? Is there a spa there? Rick: Seriously, I have no idea what Loar’s company does. I’m going to go play on my Atari. Kristin: Do we have room in the budget for a technology editor? Rick: Perhaps the tech editor can work from a rustic cabin on the shores of Data Lake.

Rick: Do they have it listed on VRBO.com? If so, I’m willing to pay up to $120/night. Manhattan rates shouldn’t apply...it is—ahem— in New Jersey after all....

Sam Truex is now the COO and head of corporate development of Synlogic, a biotech company that develops “novel medicines

Rick here. I have a funny story. My wife Amy and I were on vacation in Newport Beach, CA. We were innocently eating breakfast on the

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Trent here. It may seem like a long time ago, but this is actually the first class notes since our 20th reunion. We had a great weekend in the greater Hanover megalopolis and a strong turnout. Great to see everyone who was able to make it and share stories and catch up on those in attendance and in absentia. In addition to some great “school” sessions, including a rousing vision for Tuck session with Dean Slaughter, we had many great moments. The Hanover Country Club was able to claw back some of the large loss to Andrew Schwedel from the fall of 1995. (Pic nearby.) The Glen Tuck Society rechristened Stell Hall with a fine scotch and a few appropriate words from Reverend J. Thomas Gignac. (Pic nearby.) By the way, despite his disguise as a lay Tuckie, “Reverend” is an official title, with Tom having been ordained in May 2016 and now a priest with a parish in Duxbury, Mass. Lastly, because you have all been wondering, Matt Tritley discovered that you can easily Uber

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Reunion golf, with Trent, Jean-Yves’s son, Jean-Yves Lagarde, and Andrew Schwedel

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from Boston to Hanover when the rental car company has no record of your reservation... but it will cost you...a lot. Again, great to see everyone and look forward to seeing many more for our 25th reunion in the fall of 2021. On to the T’96 updates!

Rick Kowalczyk with Bee in Bangkok on his birthday trip to Thailand Rick Kowalczyk continues to be a busy man and prodigious Facebook poster for those of us who have friended him: “I have three things for you. First, I planned a getaway vacation for my 50th birthday and mentioned that on Facebook to Bee (Rangsima Bhakdibhumi, formerly Utarnkul). She was hugely generous with her time and suggestions when I hinted at going to Thailand. I ended up spending 10 days in Thailand and had an amazing experience, due, in part, to Bee’s advice and suggestions, which included the requisite stop in Bangkok so that we could connect over dinner. It turns out that the impression that we all have that Bee is gracious and kind is a significant understatement.

Christine Amirian reports: “Life since Reunion has been full. In November, my daughter Arpi and I visited Cyril Courbage and family in London, and had a wonderful time. Currently, we have rented a place at Killington and were delighted to ski with Chris Trimble one weekend. I’ve moved into media from tech and now work at Disney-ABC in New York, which has been great.”

“Second, I was attending some meetings in LA to lobby the California legislature on behalf of California cities and was able to connect with Charley Demonet. Charley hasn’t been in the pages of Tuck Today very often so I thought I’d pass along an update and pic. Charley basically lives at the beach, is working at Boeing, and for fun occasionally takes on acting roles as an extra and even small parts. His most noteworthy stint was as a background zombie in an episode of The Walking Dead in 2016. That must explain the sunglasses.

Brent Phillips chimes in from Idaho: “Phillips family doing well here in Boise. Carla and I celebrated our 20th anniversary during the last year, our oldest headed off to college (Colby), and I’ve changed jobs to a local, private company with family values and a wonderful work/life balance. We enjoyed a great ski year out west this year and got in our share of powder days. Our younger two are now both in high school with college right around the corner for them, too...*sigh*, where did those 20 years go? Hope you are doing well, and hello and best wishes to Tuck ’96 friends and family. :)”

“Third, just an update on my latest stuff. I’m still running the consulting business I started 10 years ago but am pivoting to take advantage of my position as an elected official and relationships with government officials in China to help both Chinese investors and companies get a foothold in Silicon Valley. As part of this, I’ve been giving regular presentations on the economics of Silicon Valley at various conferences in China as a way to build additional relationships. The attached pic is with the leader at an investor conference in Shenzhen; clearly I need to learn not to smile so much. No poker face.”

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Rick with the leader of an investor conference in Shenzhen

Jay Orris has the Colorado Report: “Nothing new to report here. Our chocolate and toy businesses are still growing and are still in the ‘investment’ stage! Our elder son Luke made it to the finals of the state geographic bee and placed 7th, so we think all the travel we’ve done is having some benefit! Christy is back on the bike regaining her (insane) fitness level after our trip on SAS last spring put her off her schedule, and Jay is back on the golf course and planning to play a bunch of tournaments this summer and fall. Our blog lists all our travels, if anyone is looking for information on where to travel and what to do! www.orriscope. blogspot.com” William Paiva waxes nostalgic for us (Paiva is also a great Facebook connection...): “Our 9th-grade son decided to apply to one boarding school, Phillips Academy Andover, and much to our surprise he got in. The irony of this turn of events is that in 1994 I was assigned Perry Hall to review his resume. I remember

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CL ASS NOTES telling Perry ‘it was probably time to take the ole high school off the resume.’ Perry, in a very nice way, gave me a quick overview of Andover whereupon I said ‘ok...leave it on, but I am not putting Claremore High School on my resume.’ The best I can conclude is our house is such a dumpster fire that Gordon decides ‘forget leaving home at 18...I am going now at 14.’ In all seriousness, we are excited he gets to experience this opportunity, and our daughter is flourishing because she is getting 100% of Daddy’s time. And you can’t put a price on that.” Jeff Tripaldi is about to have a big 25th event this year: “Jeff and Betsy Tripaldi will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this summer. Holy smokes [smile]. Mike, their oldest, who was often seen hanging around Tuck as a toddler, will be graduating from the University of Southern California in May. The other three boys are making their way (albeit slowly) through school. Jeff took a new role at Intel running the sales force for the New Technology Group. He gets to play around with drones and VR/AR glasses at work.” Bill Craver has the most classic of Craver news: “Bill Craver, combining two of his favorite things (beer and exercise), completed the Annual St. Patty’s Day Beer Mile in 8:15. The race involves consuming 4 beers over the course of a mile.”

Bill Craver winning the Beer Mile race

Tim Bohdan with the latest from Houston, in bullet points of the classic Argenti style: • Tim and Fernanda are empty-nesters now that Jonathan (24) has graduated from Georgia Southern University (IT degree, working in

corporate HQ of YMCA of Greater Houston) and Patrick (21), who was born at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center during second year, is in college, a junior at Texas A&M University, and also in Navy ROTC and the Corps of Cadets. • Still living in Greater Houston in the westernmost suburb of Katy. • Although not Texans by birth, Tim and family have adopted the state. Jonathan speaks with a Texas twang and he drives a heavily modified Dodge Ram pickup truck with a supercharger and a tire-smoking 500+ horsepower engine. Patrick is part of a Texas two-step dance club in college, and his two-step club performs for local events. Fernanda spends her days shopping, doing yardwork, and experimenting with new ways of cooking based on things she learned from watching cooking shows on TV. • Tim adopted a hobby six years ago of officiating the sport of lacrosse. He rose quickly through the ranks to become certified to officiate all levels of lacrosse from kindergarten through high school and even NCAA college games. Tim is actively involved with the national training and rules-writing committees of US Lacrosse, the governing body of the sport. Tim was featured in the 2015 US Lacrosse annual report (pages 10-11, look it up). As a side benefit, Tim’s body weight has not changed since his junior year of high school. • Tim is still working in the consulting industry (21 years and counting), although as an independent consultant since 2009. He had prior gigs with Booz Allen & Hamilton (4 years) and IBM Global Services (8 years). David Lenhardt heeded the call to report: “David is enjoying time off in Phoenix after his time at PetSmart, which ended in his selling the company to private equity in his role as CEO. He is busy shuttling his 5-year old Cole to kindergarten and back and has also been back to Tuck to teach in Professor Finkelstein’s class. His newest venture is as a co-owner in Phoenix Rising FC, Phoenix’s only professional soccer team in the USL. Let him know if you are ever in town for a drink.” Kevin McCuistion has the latest: “Sorry I missed the reunion...crazy times right now in the Microsoft cloud business and I’m in the center of it leading the U.S. partner team for Azure. Our CEO, Satya Nadella, is reinventing

Microsoft and it’s as energizing a time to be incubating a new business at Microsoft as it was 20 years ago when I first joined and helped accelerate Windows Server and Exchange Server into enterprise leaders. All is well here in Seattle, and we’re just a year away from being empty-nesters, with a son at University of Washington in the Foster School of Business and a daughter looking at how to translate her DECA prowess into a marketing career. Hope all is well with all of you. Ping me for coffee if you’re in the Seattle area.” Matt Jochim brings it home from long distance: “No big news here, except that our expat adventure continues. Typing this from Cape Town, South Africa, where we started our Easter break. So a few days in Cape Town, a city I’ve always wanted to visit, then off to Safari and Madikwe park, and finally on to Mauritius for some time in the sun and sand.” For me, Irene and I enjoyed the reunion and marked time with a photo by the sign. We also are enjoying the transition toward empty nesters. Braden is at The George Washington University in DC, and we have discovered that visiting a child in college involves watching baseball and buying dinner. That’s all you get—actually, not much different from his high school experience. Ellen is a high school junior, so it is high season for college visits for us. Life at Eaton is going well under new leadership and me continuing my role in finance as treasurer. Looking forward to again leading a session in Professor Rogalski’s pension class in May. All the best, Trent.

Trent and Irene at Reunion

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Philadelphia. And if José Aberg doesn’t write in, I’ll out him—he’s a grandfather!”

’97 Helen Kurtz helenwkurtz@gmail.com

Judd Liebman judd.liebman@gmail.com

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Yep, we get it. You are updating on a daily—nay, moment-by-moment basis on social media... so it’s no surprise that the 4-month lag of this news, through a proxy no less, has caused responding to Tuck Today’s pleas for news to fall to the bottom of your endless to-do list. And we’re not going to try to convince you that seeing your name in bold holds the appeal that it once did. At lo, these 20 years out, we are busy, we are making things happen, we are dealing with big issues! So no guilt will be doled out here. Our guilt will instead be saved for use on coming to our fall Reunion. We hope to see many of you there, and what a great chance to connect and catch up in person. Thanks to Paul Whiting for his note that “a half dozen of us ’97s definitely couldn’t wait until Reunion. Yancey “Sky” Spruill, Scott “Scooter” Schneiderman, Ken “Wiz” Wisdom, Jonathan “JP” Perl, Eddy “EZ” Zervigon, and I are getting together in Tampa during the Masters weekend to tee it up. On the home front, our oldest son, Jack, is heading to Northwestern in the fall. Austin, who will be a high school junior, is undoubtedly dreading the extra “quality time” with Dana and me. And it’s a bittersweet time for us too, as we think about this next chapter in parenting (Road Rally II, anyone?!). See you all in October!” From Becky Joffrey comes news that her move to Cornell has gone great, but she’s looking forward to Reunion and the “chance to go ‘home’. “I do like Ithaca (though it is no Hanover). As for news, I’ve had a bucket list of a year—Alan and I drove in Joe Biden’s motorcade, I got hacked by WikiLeaks (long story), and my daughter Elizabeth (14) caught Bruce Springsteen’s harmonica at a concert in

As for me (Helen), I left General Mills this winter, after almost 20 years, and am networking and interviewing up a storm. Because I’m loath to put that positive FB sheen on everything, I will say there was a bit of a sting to leaving...but it has been incredibly energizing to reconnect with so many (including many of you!) and see what’s out there and reflect on what is next. They say finding a job is 90% networking, so I figure I may as well use this forum to have you all keep your eyes and ears out for great consumer brand marketing roles.... I know this is entirely gratuitous, but I’ve got a column to fill and a job to find! In other news, I’ve loved getting to see Erin Tunnicliffe, Yancey Spruill, Charlie Newton, Karl Spielmann, and Amy Houston at Tuck MBA Advisory Board meetings...an amazing way to stay connected to the school and see the inspiring progress being made. Wishing you all the best, and we hope to see you this fall at Reunion!

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teaching high school math, and I loved it. I’m now thrilled to be a teacher again. My job, though, is only 5-10 days a month, so I will still have plenty of time to continue traveling and volunteering elsewhere (hopefully in less expensive locations). I’m also working toward my U.S. Coast Guard Captain license, which is another building block of my future career in sailing. Meanwhile, I’ve rented out my house for another year, so I’ll continue to bounce around between hotels, boats, and friends’ houses.” Make sure to tune in to the next class notes to find out Dan’s latest adventure. We have news from some classmates who have not checked in for years. Santi Dirube writes, “Still here in Toronto, still working for the same bank I have worked for the last 10+ years. Family is doing great. Can you believe our son Lucas (8 months old when we arrived at Tuck) and our daughter Josefina (born the summer between years 1 and 2) are in college? What the hell happened? Wasn’t yesterday we were drinking at EBAs and playing this totally weird game called ice hockey with the Tuck Tripods? Speaking of which, being a Canadian now, I obviously adopted the national game. The best game ever (well, maybe after football—or soccer, as some like to call it). I still have the Tuck Tripods jersey with my nickname: Penalty Box. Not sure why they gave me that name.... Anyway, miss you all. Hope to see you at the next Reunion, or here in Toronto if you happen to be here.”

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Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

Vince Trantolo vince_trantolo@hotmail.com

Not a plethora of news from T’98 this cycle, but we will make up in quality what we lack in quantity. We’ll start our tour with the next episode of Where in the World Is Dan Givens? When we last checked in, our hero had quit the corporate life to sail, travel, and volunteer in distant lands. Let’s see what hijinks Dan has gotten himself into now.... “After two years of traveling, volunteering, and sailing, I’ve decided to return to the working world. Sort of. I’ve been hired on as a part-time sailing instructor at the OCSC sailing club here in San Francisco! My first job out of college was

Santi “Penalty Box” Dirube channeling his inner Tuck Tripod

Myrna Laine-Hyppolite also surfaced with an update. “What have I been up to? Life, work, a husband, and 2 kids definitely keep me busy! My daughter, Aryanna, is now 12 and turning 13 soon. My son Philippe is now 8. Time flies with the little ones! Professionally, I am still in finance, heading the financial planning

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CL ASS NOTES & analysis team for an awesome company called Charter Schools USA, an education management firm with a mission to put students first. Love being able to do finance for a good cause and being based in sunny south Florida!!! I am hoping/planning to see Anosha and family in July...so excited! The loquacious Carolyn Jones writes, “New job ...director, business and client communications, UBS Wealth Management Americas. Started last week!” UBS can look forward to short memos and 5-minute meetings with Carolyn on board. Let’s jump to Europe and Alex Nieberding. “On the personal front, I am still happily residing in Frankfurt, Germany, with my wife and son. Any classmates travelling in my area are always welcome to look me up. On the professional front, I’ve started an investment firm with a former colleague of mine from the private equity world. Our new firm, Conduction Capital Advisers, is launching a European mutual fund in June. It will invest in small to mid-sized European equities. Our USP is our unique investment approach: we take the best practices from private equity investing and apply them in the public arena.” Out in the Rockies, Beth Perez announces, “I had a chance to spend a little time with Rachael Hannah and her darling daughter Tillie this fall when they came to Colorado to campaign for Hillary. In October I traveled out to Hanover to do some recruiting for Tuck. It was the perfect time of year to be there. However, I was a little surprised at the gourmet coffee offerings now at Byrne Hall. Carlos and I are planning a trip out to Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine this summer with our daughters, and we are looking forward to taking them over to see Dartmouth. Our oldest will be a sophomore next year and I can’t believe it is time to start looking at colleges soon.” Staying out west, let’s hear from Cameron Steele: “We moved back to San Francisco last fall after a great year in Amsterdam (from 2015-16) and fantastic four years in Seattle in 2011-15. Living and working in Europe was great, and we did a ton of traveling as a family—it was tough for Mary and me to get our two daughters (15 and 12) to move back to the U.S. After working for Amsterdambased Booking.com for the past two years (the acquirer of our software company), I took some time off to get settled back in California 96

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but recently joined OpenTable in a general management role. I guess I can’t seem to get enough of Internet marketplace businesses. Since I’ve been back, I’ve reconnected with Adam Koval, Todd Stern, John La Voie, and Paul Miller (when he came through town); hopefully I’ll catch Dan Givens when he’s not globetrotting or sailing.”

for the museum industry. If any Tuckies are connected into museums or history centers, please contact me. Wendi and I recently celebrated our 30th with a nice trip to Tuscany and seriously thought about never coming back!”

Down in Texas, Dave Nelson and Mary Christy are “are about to complete our third year as owners of a small business in electronics restoration in Austin. Based on the trials and tribulations, I’ve drafted several unpublished chapters on the things that business school cannot teach you. (To be clear, I loved the Tuck experience and the education I received.) Outside of work, David is still active in Boy Scouts and the school board, and Mary Christy leads a troop of American Heritage Girls.” Over in Atlanta is Mark Russell: “Had a good time reconnecting with Tuckies in the Atlanta area at the Tuck ’Tails event on March 29th. It was great to catch up with Michelle Gosselin Halsey, who I think I hadn’t seen since graduation.... We’re still living at the beach in our former vacation home on Fripp Island and yes, it still feels weird, like we ought to be constantly on vacation yet we have to work every day.... The two little girls we had at Tuck are now grown women. Meg is 27, and after a brief couple years in investment banking after GA Tech, she’s now doing what she loves—running the equestrian program at the gorgeous Middleton plantation in Charleston. She’s now married to an attorney. Madison, who was about 5 at Tuck, is graduating in May from the honors program at the University of South Carolina, which is surprisingly now a legit basketball school. She’ll receive majors in biology and religion and is planning to enter Teach For America. Michaela, our Tuck baby (one of the 20+ babies in our class), is a freshman in early childhood education at Clemson and loving it there, still basking in the glory of the national championship. Lastly, the boy, Mitchell, is a sophomore in high school. I’m still partnered with Mark Hess doing strategy consulting with Maven Associates. We do strategy for midmarket companies with teams of ex-Bain and ex-McKinsey folks who want to work independently on great projects. In addition to the strategy work, Wendi and I recently opened a wide-format printing and graphics company in our town of Beaufort, SC. We are focused on high-end graphics, particularly

Michelle Gosselin Halsey and Mark Russell at Tuck ’Tails Atlanta

Two reports from Vermont. First Marty Zug is happy to report that the Zug/Fair clan is returning to our Tuck roots in Thetford, VT. “We bought a house on Lake Fairlee this fall and spent Christmas painting and renovating. Renovation is coming along well and we hope to have a Tuck ’Tails on the dock sometime this summer. The house needs some visitors— let us know if you get back to the Upper Valley and want to stay there! Everything else is good. Becky’s software business is still alive. As the true brains of the Zug/Fair clan, I have full confidence she will make it fly. After a sale and a recap at my old gig, I recently left to take the CFO position at Symplicity, a H.I.G. Capital backed SaaS company.” And of course Tom Piper: “We’re holding up and hunkering down up in here the People’s Republic of Vermont in the age of Trump. We are stocking the cellar with mason jars full of GMO-free organic tomatoes and free-range squirrel. I’ve got enough cat litter laid in to last at least until we have to eat them. No guns, as we don’t believe that is what the framers had in mind with the Second Amendment, but I do have an old Louisville Slugger and a Swiss Army knife, both at the ready. Approach with caution. Other than that, same old. I work. Lori works. We pay bills and send money to Washington so they can turn on my Mac’s camera without me knowing. Kids are fine. Zach is one tuition bill shy of a degree

from UMass. He will spend the summer in Yellowstone working for the park, though I just saw in the news this morning that Trump put a freeze on national park employee hiring, so maybe not. Alex just started March 13th as a legislative correspondent in Senator Leahy’s office. So he is taking the fight straight to the Hill. Cats are good, but look slightly nervous.”

Chicago Cubs World Series trophy came to Glencoe, their hometown north of Chicago. Jack, Will, and Benjamin could not have had bigger or brighter smiles, and it’s lovely to see how much being part of a community (in this case long-suffering Cubs fans) matters.

Steve Meade sent word that “in order to stay relevant in his ever more hipster neighborhood, he is considering a neck tattoo and can’t decide between ‘Tazmanian Devil’ and ‘Yosemite Sam’—he is open to his classmates’ input. Peace through naps....” And as for me, Doug Haar, I’m watching my kids grow older. Oldest Hannah, born right after Tuck graduation, started Syracuse last fall. Rachel is 16 and Alexandra almost 11. I’m pondering what organs I can sell to pay for this much college. Michelle has a busy private practice as a therapist working with individuals, couples, and families. That’s all until next time!

’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

Felicia Rosenzweig felicia.rosenzweig@gmail.com

Jen Sayer jensayer@yahoo.com

It’s hard to believe that it was twenty years ago (!) that many of us had recently attended Admitted Students Weekend in Hanover and were winding down at our jobs in preparation for coming to Tuck. Our lives were getting ready to change dramatically, whether from relocating ourselves (and families) to a small town in the Upper Valley, to being without steady income and taking on massive debt, to anticipating the raft of new friends we’d make, and to adjusting to being back in school again. Sometimes it feels like it’s been no time at all, but then we are reminded.... Jane (Ngo) and Thomas Chiang’s three sons were featured in their local paper when the

Jack, Will, and Benjamin Chiang with the Cubs World Series Trophy

Beth (McBride) DiLauri visited London for work and caught up with Cindy Varga and Felicia Rosenzweig. Beth is the T’99 queen of career continuity, having been with Becton, Dickinson and Company since we graduated, albeit in a variety of increasingly impressive and impactful roles, in addition to being a mom and wife. While it was a brief gettogether, it was reassuring to know that Tuck friends can easily pick up wherever they last left off and still giggle about things like Beer Pong and dancing in Buchanan Lounge. That never seems to get old. Felicia also caught up with Alex Smith in Hartford, Connecticut, where they reminisced and indulged in some seriously messy barbecue. Alex is a proper and passionate Hockey Dad (son Arthur sounds seriously skilled), and the family now lives on the campus of the all-girls Miss Porter’s School (founded way back in 1843), where Alex’s wife, Christine Pina, is the chief advancement officer. We take note that the alumnae of Miss Porter’s are called “Ancients” (fondly, it seems). Should we adopt a similar moniker for T’99s at some point (e.g., when we collectively decide that we’re actually old)?

Margo (Ellis) Christou and her family have ping-ponged back to the West Coast from New Jersey, though this time they’ve traded up to much better weather in Southern California. They’ve landed in a beach town called San Clemente, which sits in Orange County. For those who care about such things, Orange County was the original location (11 seasons and counting) of The Real Housewives of... reality show franchise, and there was another memorable TV show called The O.C. which was similarly colorful. Of course, Margo doesn’t fit the profile of either show, but we are hoping she at least gets some good stories for us. Speaking of stories, Asli Erkanli Olcay, Sue Wheeler, Jen Sayer, Megan (LaBant) Abrahamsen, and Felicia took to the streets of Madrid within days after Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president. Regardless of political affiliations, it was a much-needed lemon sorbet of a trip after a crazy election and numerous life-shakingly scary events around the world. To be fair, there was no lemon sorbet consumed, but there was copious wine, decadent churros and chocolate, and a relatively obscene quantity of cheese and meat on boards. Oh, and museums. Seriously. Cultured women.

Felicia Rosenzweig, Sue Wheeler, Asli Erkanli Olcay, Jen Sayer, and Megan LaBant Abrahamsen dining in Madrid together

Julie Meyer is still playing (sort of—piano with one hand) in her rock band and is hoping someday to put together a tour with Amy Richardson [O’Reilly]’s band. They call themselves a “mom band” but we’re pretty sure they can crank out a mean Pat Benatar. Rumor has it that Pete Petitt is still shredding his guitar from time to time for some lucky fans. Anyone else out there have gigs we should put on the T’99 radar screen? Maybe we can all gather in the Buchanan Lounge for a dance party? Is that lounge still there? Can we still dance? SUMMER 2017

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Annual T’99 Australia Thanksgiving tradition group

An oldie but a goodie!

Well, if we can’t all be artistically talented, the children among us seem to be making up for any deficit. Cesar Marti Garro’s kids are exhibit A. They have been singing in operas and playing violin concertos! So cool! A talented crew they have there. And Vipul Vyas’s son appears to be a Picasso in the making. This Vyas talent is perhaps not shocking given Vipul’s “eye” for the nuances of the restrooms on campus, which, you may recall, were chronicled in our very own Tuck Times. We also should give a shout-out to Gary Cohen’s daughter, who appears to be headed for a Tony award. And we’re sure there are many more talented and kind (anyone rescued any turtles crossing the road?) brethren among us, so please keep us posted. Julie also had a few chances to catch up with Karin Stawarky on her visits to San Francisco. While Karin is now rooted in Massachusetts, it is great that she is able to pop over to the West Coast from time to time. Julie is still working on making her Jamba fruit snack startup a success, which is probably why she has not had time to heckle our classmates for not sending in some scoop! It has been serious crickets. And speaking of success, a big congratulations is due to Dave Gross. Dave’s company, MATCHCo, was purchased by Shiseido in early 2017. MATCHCo lets customers get

a personalized, matching foundation by scanning their skin tone, using an app. Go Dave! It could not happen to a nicer guy, and all of us can use a little help to look our best! At the time of this writing, the NHL playoffs have just started. So it seemed as good a reason as any to be a little nostalgic and throw in an oldie but goodie photo of our favorite hockey players. Those were the days! Anyway, we miss everyone and hope the crickets start chirping soon! —Jen, Felicia, and Julie

’00 Alastair Bor bor@tuck2000.com

After more than three years of research, education, and teaming with experts in the footwear world, Isabel Scharmer and her business partner/cousin launched Divadend Footwear. Check out their web site at https:// www.divadend.com, which has the whole backstory and shows their line of comfortable shoes for everyday wear.

Antwane Owens and wife Katrina visiting with Alastair We had a bunch of Tuckies coming through Australia since the last article. First was Tom Fry, who came through Sydney on a tour of the Antipodes prior to switching jobs and moving to New York. He managed to join us on our annual (Eric) Wang/(Amy) Duly McKeough/ (Alastair) Bor Thanksgiving tradition. In December, Antwane Owens and his lovely new bride Katrina came through on their honeymoon. As Antwane is a keen BBQer with excellent skills honed in Texas, he gave some of the local fauna a try on Alastair’s Weber. A bit of kangaroo, crocodile, and locally raised Wagyu resulted in an amazing Australo-Texan feast. On their return to the U.S., they moved to Seattle, where Antwane started a new job at Amazon. In February, Potoula Chresomales came through Sydney on a two-day business trip in her new job as sr. VP of product management at Skillsoft. To segue back to U.S. news, you may recall that Eric Wang has joined the cannabis industry. Since the last news, he has developed his company quite a bit. Still based in Australia,

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but with a large U.S. operation, Ecofibre (his holding company) is one of a very small group of companies in the U.S. that is allowed to grow, process, sell, and distribute a CBD product at a national level. Eric got involved in this business as an investor first and then quit his job a month later to work on this full-time. His very close family friend has a granddaughter with epilepsy, and medicinal cannabis literally saved her life when she was two years old, as she was having multiple seizures a day shutting her brain down for up to two hours at a time. His company uses hemp, the non-narcotic version of cannabis, to grow their product as opposed to marijuana (the narcotic version of cannabis) and therefore are licensed under the protection of federal law, which is something very few companies have (who grow medical marijuana). Anyway, CBD (as well as other cannabinoids) have a tremendous amount of benefit across a range of ailments (anxiety, depression, insomnia, arthritis, MS, PTSD, epilepsy, and, most importantly, general health and well-being). If any of you are interested in this product for yourselves, family, or friends, he has set up a promo code at www.anandahemp. com (promo code “Tuck2000” that will give you a 20% discount). And with that...I can’t believe that I’m pushing drugs in Tuck Today! In other Wang news.... 10 LONG years ago, Kelly McMenamin Wang decided to throw caution to the wind, left finance, and started an organizing business with her sister Katie called PixiesDidIt! They had a hunch that different personality types organized in different ways and therefore needed different solutions. Lo and behold, after a few years of backbreaking anthropological work studying busy, stressed-out human primates in their homes in the jungle of Manhattan, they discovered that their hunch was right. While folding people’s clothes, organizing their homes, and wondering why she got an MBA just to fold people’s clothes, she also developed organizational solutions and systems for eight different personality types and then ALMOST like magic, they found a publisher and wrote a book called Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality. If you haven’t had a chance to order a copy yet, she would be forever indebted if you bought a copy and then eternally grateful if you bought one AND wrote a solid review on Amazon. Matt Pope, Tetsuji Ichimori, Anil D’Souza, Meghan Schwartz, she expects a

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review on par with what you guys gave her dad’s book Milking the Public way back in 1999! I had a nice text chat interchange with Katya Troitskaya, who has settled back in Belgium with her family. Her son, Vadim, is close in age to our son, Ezra, and so we were comparing notes on what 3-year-old boys get up to. Katya has taken on a new profession (HR management), and as soon as Vadim goes to school this September she will restart working. Alisa is 18, Alina 16, and her husband’s daughter Celena is 23 and already living in her own household. Alina is studying sea biology. She also sent through the above photo with their son. Craig Urch wrote in to say that things there are going well. His wife Lindsay and he moved to a small town on the Massachusetts North Shore two and half years ago, and they are finally starting to feel settled in. Their son Colin is now 6 and their son Owen is now 3. They are total goofballs and are a lot of fun, although he secretly believes they are conspiring to kill him through lack of sleep. Colin plays on the local mite hockey team and just finished a fun season. Both boys are big Patriots fans, although Owen is too young to really understand what is happening—they let them watch the first half of the Super Bowl, and he kept asking “Is Tom Brady winning?” Craig is still working for the energy research group at IHS Markit and has been there now for five and a half years. He is the commercial manager for

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their power and renewables research, although he works with their upstream and downstream oil and gas teams from time to time as well. They just held their annual CERAWeek conference down in Houston, and he was able to work with the Revers Center to arrange for a current Tuck student and a Dartmouth undergrad to attend the conference this year. This is the second year they had current Tuck students attend, and they are hoping to make it an annual occurrence. Kamran Pasha’s career as a writer is going well, with the screen shot nearby of his credit in an episode of CW’s Reign. It’s gotten great reviews from groups such as Entertainment Weekly. Hope all of you are well—look forward to hearing about your news for the fall issue!

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Prince Hojlo, and MG Vestner. T’01s also came out in force, including Matt Whitney, Bo and Kathleen Crowell, Sheelah and Dan Sullivan, Paul Behar, Kerry and Ed Pokorny, Chris Hojlo, Ginny and Drew Snow, and Jenna and Derek Swaim. Kelly and Dave’s efforts with Cycle for Survival are an inspiration to all. Amrit Ray writes: “Our 11-year-old son, Arjun, has a passion for cooking! He was a national finalist on Food Network’s Chopped Junior. Arjun is busy writing his blog http://www. theexquisitepalate.com. If Tuckies want him to advertise restaurants or frying pans, he’s open! It’s been a blast for Lisa, the kids, and me to be his cooking ‘quality control’ and see him do what he loves.” I can’t wait to have dinner at the Rays’ house!

welcomed by big brothers Paul, Brit, and Hugh. Congratulations to Doug and Melissa! Also, in mid-2016, Doug sold the company he cofounded, Bisnow, and has moved on to new ventures in the education space with his startup, GEN Z Connect, which helps college students engage with professionals for informational interviews and career guidance. Check out their website and consider signing up as a coach.

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By the time these class notes arrive, T’02 should be planning to convene in Hanover for our 15th-year Reunion—the best way to catch up with classmates! Some things have changed—many more babies (read below), new jobs, and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series (!)—while some things are unchanged: the Patriots are still Super Bowl Champions— woot woot! We’ve come a long way since John Greco scraped his knuckles on the ceiling at the Upper Deck during his celebratory dancing at the end of Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002. And now on to the real news.... Kelly and David T’01 Leach had another successful year of participating in Cycle for Survival events around the country, joined by dozens of Tuckies celebrating Kelly and her advocacy efforts. Kelly’s Pedaling Sunshine team continues to be a leading national fundraiser, with tremendous support from T’02s and T’01s who hopped on the bikes with Kelly, Dave, and team at events across the U.S. T’02 riders included Leslie Read, Suzanne Schaefer, Lorri Durbin, Cynthia Umscheid, Matt Fates, Steve and Martha Palmer, Julie

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Julie Prince Hojlo writes that she caught up with Jeff Lessard, Jason Andris, and Anissa Kelly at an NYC event where Dean Slaughter spoke. Jeff moved up from the DC area to Bedford, NH, and still works in real estate. Anissa just started two or three weeks ago with Morgan Stanley through their program aimed at professionals reentering the workforce after a hiatus. In case people missed this in prior class notes, Anissa has triplet daughters. I think that might catapult her into her own category beyond the Five Kids Club (John Molloy, Tommy Crowley). Doug Anderson is slowly moving toward the Five Kids Club but claims they are done, with the joyful arrival of daughter Catherine Frances Anderson on March 26th,

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Facebook tipped me off to what must have been a very fun T’02 reunion in Tokyo, with Luis Gomez joining Japanese classmates Satoshi Minamoto, Yasu Watanabe, Junichi Shimizu, and Shin Mizuno for dinner. In case you missed this in the past, I highly recommend visiting our Japanese classmates in Japan—they absolutely know how to show visitors a good time!

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Sarah Millard writes from China that travels continue to take her to fun places—“Sri Lanka in January, Nepal last month, Italy next month, then 5 weeks this summer in NH. Really looking forward to that!” She’s not sure she can make Reunion, so if you get the chance to give Sarah a nudge, she can use it! Liz (Murray) Gasman writes that she and her husband Steve “live in Needham (MA) with Evan, who is a year and a half and pretty much wreaks havoc—but always with a big sweet smile that lets him get away with anything!” Liz still works at IGS in Boston, along with Pat Donahue.

Carol, Emily, Jack), the Mattsson-Bozes (Kate, Karl, Annika, Aiden), the Gasmans (Liz, Steve, Evan), and the Cloitres (Lisa and Christophe), we celebrated a beautiful multidenominational and internationally flavored holiday among friends, reminding ourselves of the important gift of friendship to both friends and strangers alike. Josh and Jennifer continue to be very active in the support of refugees through the nonprofit Eyes on Refugees, of which Jennifer is a co-founder. Finally, in the awkward category of selfreporting news, I welcomed a happy and healthy baby boy—Christophe YvesAlexandre—into the world on October 2nd, after a long personal journey to become a Single Mother by Choice (following in the steps of Julia Soukhareva!). Little C is keeping me busy, and we are both grateful beyond words for the love and support from so many Tuck classmates and the broader Tuck community. It certainly does take a village, and I’m looking forward to introducing Little C to many of you in Hanover in October. Until then, best of health and happiness to all.

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Caryn Greene [Nightengale] caught up with Vanessa Dulman on the Left Coast while she was attending a Boeing women’s leadership conference. “Vanessa was kind enough to drive almost two hours each way to meet me for dinner. She’s back to her old stomping grounds in the financial services industry with a new position leading the marketing team for a large credit union near Olympia. Antwane Owens T’00 also joined the gathering.” Josh and Jennifer Silverstone picked up the Tuck Thanksgiving torch in 2016, continuing a long-standing tradition that started in 2001 at the Sugar Shack (Mike Landsittel, Paul Schuster, Patty Russell, and Christina Reyes). This year’s Thanksgiving was extra special, as Josh and Jennifer had opened their home to a Syrian refugee family of four for over two months during their resettlement process in the United States. Together with the Parlikars (Rajeev, Urmila, Rohan), the Schusters (Paul,

’03 Cathy Kim Walker cathy.walker@breitlane.com

Was thrilled to hear from Brian Feltz, who just made an exciting career leap. Brian shared, “I’ve decided to trade in the security and stability of corporate employment for a shot at entrepreneurial grandeur! Last fall, I founded 3D Research Partners, LLC, a quantitative market research consultancy where I partner with clients to develop, field, and report on quantitative research projects (online surveys, generally), leveraging the voice of the customer to inform data-driven decisions (that’s three D’s—see what I did there?). It’s early days yet, but it’s been an exciting and rewarding ride so far. I just wish I’d paid a little more attention in Professor Horvath’s Entrepreneurship class instead of cramming for those Shank cases— but if you told me back then that someday I’d be starting my own business, I would have called you crazy! Well, turns out I’m the crazy one. Oh, and since one major life change wasn’t quite enough to ward off my midlife crisis, Katy and I also decided to trade in the comfort and convenience of suburbia to try our hands at life on the prairie (relatively speaking) out in Harvard, MA. Okay, it’s only an hour from Boston, but as far as I’m concerned we might as well have moved to Wyoming. We keep chickens now, that about sums it up. Eleven of those little cluckers and counting. What can I say? Chicks dig me.”

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CL ASS NOTES I was thrilled to hear from Ali Dorf, who has some very exciting news to share about her expanding family (she also let me know she grew up minutes away from my new home in Connecticut!). Ali wrote: “The big news from us is that we welcomed Walter Frederick Dorf Knight to our family on February 27th. Walter is a very amenable little guy thus far and has taken it easy on us. His big brother Henry (4yo) is taking Walter’s arrival in stride and plans to teach him to ride a bike this summer and to skate in the fall. Henry is not swayed by Walter’s current inability to hold up his own head....” Please keep the news coming!

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

Greetings T’04s. I hope this update finds you all well and thriving. Since the last one, my family and I have settled more in the Sacramento metro area and are doing all we can to take in as much of the beautiful northern California region. Unfortunately, we don’t make it down to the Bay Area as much as we would like yet. Mostly because we live less than two hours from Lake Tahoe and two hours from wine country, the latter of which we have shamelessly shown the most bias toward thus far, whenever I get a little time to unplug. And time certainly has been in short supply. I am taking on some new responsibilities with my new company and learning by leaps and bounds about the differences between starting and growing a business from scratch, and managing said business as a PE-owned investment. A great experience at this stage.

Perfect combination of exploratory craft beer hunting and reconnecting with a Tuck friend. There was also a well-done Tuck Marketing Symposium in November, where we ran into Kenny Mitchell, who was on a panel focused on managing a brand in a multichannel ecosystem. Was nice to catch up briefly with Kenny too.”

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Herman Sanchez and his family—Erin, Nora (4), and Jack (3)—recently moved to Princeton, NJ. Herman is still with Trinity Partners and has recently opened Trinity’s fourth US office in Princeton. “Come by and say hi!” Alexandra Ollinger and her sister Shawna Huffman Owen (T’98) went on safari in Tanzania in March. “We saw amazing animals, stayed in fantastic lodging due to her travel connections though Huffman Travel, and caught up just being two Tuckies traveling without husbands or kids! As for me, I’ve celebrated my 10-year wedding anniversary with my husband Cole, marked my kids’ 5th and 6th birthdays, and coming up on my 14th year with Truepoint Wealth Counsel. All is good in Cincinnati!” Jack Lee, Erik Brine, and Gonzalo Martin met up for a few drinks at the Canoe Club in Hanover last October. “I had a work trip that took me from Detroit to Chicago, and while there, looked up and met up with Pat Murray.

Kristin (Kilbourne) O’Day wrote in to update that she married Patrick O’Day last September. “People may remember him as the tall guy who joined me at the last reunion. It was a fabulous celebration and included Tuckies Amy Bruhn, McCall Butler, Nate Chang, Frederick Echeverria, Andrew Haggard ’03, Elizabeth Jackson, Sylvia Lee, and Emily Wilcox.”

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Jack finished the summer by running the Reach the Beach event. “200+ miles team event from NH mountains to sea over a 30-hour period. Highly recommended, events across the US, it was a lot of fun. By the time this is published, the snow will seem long gone but we’re now in the spring thaw, in that dead zone between missing the ice/snow and wishing for warmer weather. We had a volatile but decent winter with most of the snow on the back-end. Though most of our winter was taken up by hockey, with Maggie’s high school team winning their state championship and Maeve’s highlight playing on Miracle ice in Lake Placid with her co-ed team (she being the only one to make it co-ed), we did get in some early and late season skiing.” David Kressel reports some exciting news: “NotaryCam continues to grow, and so does my family: Baby Boy Kressel is due in June. I’m guessing he’ll have a better name by the time folks read this....” Congratulations David. Send a pic. More baby news. The out-of-office reply I received from Emily Wilcox read, “I’m out on maternity leave and won’t be checking email.” Congratulations Emily!

’05 Francis Barel francis.barel@gmail.com

Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

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At the Marketing Symposium Thanks for the support when we asked for updates! We LOVE LOVE LOVE getting them! Apologies for sitting the last issue out, but your class secretaries sometimes need a break.... Anyway, here goes for our (no longer semi) annual update for T’05! Allan Chou and Tatiana (and kids), Kanishka Roy and Ann Roy (and kids), Ashlea Mittelstaedt and Omid, Jonathan Marr and John (and kiddo and pup) went on a group Tuck getaway to Marin County north of San Francisco (what a wonderful trip and so much fun to see the Tuck family grow by little feet, new big feet, and furry/dreadlocky paws)

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Meredith Taylor van de Water welcomed a little girl, Rowan, in August. “Waverly just turned 3 and loves being a big sister. She continues to find creative ways to manhandle Rowan, who fortunately takes it all in stride.” Meredith and family are still in Brooklyn, so give them a shout when you’re in town. Occasionally, we are still graced by a first-time update. This time, Michael Murray chimes in. This summer Mike will be competing in Ironman Lake Placid. “As part of this journey, I’ve decided to raise money for a few Alzheimer’s-related charities. This will actually be my third Ironman, but it’s a special one because I’m dedicating it to my parents— and my mom, as she has been struck by this terrible disease. I’ve put together a website that summarizes what I’m up to, and I’m going to try to post regular updates there as a progress toward the race. The campaign is called ‘Racing for Memories’ and the site is www.

racingformemories.com. I’d love for people to check it out and send me a shout-out along the way. Beyond that, things are going well. Heather and I are still in Toronto, and I’m in to my 12th year at Teachers’ running the private equity program focused on direct investments in the financial services industry. Heather has recently changed careers and she’s now well on her way to becoming a certified dog behaviorist. We recently added a new puppy to the family—a black lab named Brody—so her new skills are coming in handy!” Thank you for sending your updates. Regardless of what is going on in our lives and in the world, the exercise of hearing about your journeys and of sharing that with our community remains a very enjoyable constant for me. Have an awesome summer! —Frank Arias T’04

Tuck couples and kiddos on a California getaway

After a short stint in Bentonville, Arkansas, Pauke Corstens is now living in Mexico City. An amazing place, other than the air quality, that is very kid friendly. Sebastian (2) loves his tortillas, and Olivier (1) just started walking. Wal-Mart is keeping Pauke busy and Mexico is too, with many wonderful holiday destinations, an abundance of great restaurants, and culture. Several months ago Pauke bumped into Tim Grein at her favorite brunch place. Apologies to the Mexican Tuckies for not having been in touch. The kids are keeping Pauke very busy.

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CL ASS NOTES (Mexican Tuckies—get in touch with Pauke! Here is her email :) paukecorstens@gmail.com) [Look in the 2005 class notes pages on mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!] The Van Dorns (Melanie & David) are “officially a party of 5 (well, really, 6 with our black Lab pup, Buddy, who we adopted back in September!). On Feb 20, 2017, we welcomed Ranger Van Dorn into our family. Big sisters Dakota & Acadia (and Mom & Dad) are overjoyed!” (five! six! What an adventure— welcome and congrats on the (additional!) kiddo and new dog!)

Ranger Van Dorn

Lee Johnson and Christian Fong cofounded Renewable Energy Trust in 2010, and in classic Bay Area fashion came THIS CLOSE to IPO before the markets turned south. Bummer! After the sale of RET was completed, Jenelle Fong and Christian took a sabbatical, homeschooling kids around four continents and a couple islands. Thanks to Nahshon Davidai, and Alona, for hosting the Fongs during their week in Tel Aviv in December! Happy to report that all the (formerly tiny) Tiny Tuckies still enjoy each other, a dozen years after Sachem Village. Christian said, “As of March, while I’m still ‘on the beach,’ I’ve joined my first public company board at TerraForm Power. (woot! Nice job Christian! And what an amazing trip for your family—congrats on your 1st board position too) [See mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a photo of Nahshon and Christian!] Ed Franowicz and Ramsey Jay Jr. are harnessing their “Tuck brains” and launching a new business venture, 21st Century Thinking. They specialize in delivering innovative social and emotional learning (SEL) programs to teach critical thinking and decision-making skills to adolescents and industry professionals.

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Their two flagship programs were developed in conjunction with the head of the Western Australia Psychological Society, Lidia Genovese. Life Theater teaches emotional regulation to those suffering the effects of trauma through a variety of theater-based exercises and mindfulness activities. New Directions teaches emotional intelligence to adolescents and similarly utilizes a holistic, integrated approach to learning. Ramsey and Ed would be delighted to speak with anyone who is interested in what they are doing. They can be reached at edf@21stcenturythinking. com, rjjr@21stcenturythinking.com. (super interesting work and congrats on the new venture!)

E&Y winner Dana Ehrlich

Bill Dering and Joe Newsum met up at Beaver Creek, Colorado, for some 60-degree spring skiing. Including a pic of their (not so) Tiny Tuckies on the mountain [Look for it on myTUCK!] Hailey and Andrew Newsum, along with Riley and Tommy Dering. Bill says Joe skis in 5th gear like he plays bball and soccer. (Go Bill and Joe—and the next generation of bomb skiers and Tuckies!)

graduating Tuck. Sunil is taking a job covering the power and utilities sector for investment bank SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, and Anita will continue working in the regional strategy group at Pfizer. “Uncle” Rocky Cho is easing the transition and showing the Mosers the best of his hometown of Atlanta. (hope you’re liking the new town and Uncle Rocky is showing you a good time!)

Short and sweet update from Wojtek Wolski— he’s switched jobs and is now at JPMorgan Chase in their Intelligent Solutions group. (nice, hope you like the new job!)

In other news, we heard Rocky Cho married a lovely lady named Leah! Some Facebook sleuthing netted us a fun and gorgeous pic! [Look on myTUCK to see it!] (congratulations!)

Tak Wai Chung and Te-Ling Nai moved from Hong Kong to Singapore in November last year. Tak Wai shared, “It’s homecoming for Te-Ling and a new challenge for me, now in my 7th year with EQT. Added on top was baby boy Chun Hoi in March this year!” The Chungs are enjoying the diaper changes, laksa, sunshine, and the first Olympic Gold medal for Singapore! (wow, lots of exciting changes and adventures—welcome to Chun Hoi!)

Dave Gilbertson was able to get a number of Boston Tuckies out to support him as he brought a little Frosty Jester spirit to The Wilbur theater in Boston, where he opened for Louie Anderson in front of a packed house. It was thrilling to feel the Tuck love from that stage. [Look for a pic on myTUCK!]

Dana Ehrlich won an E&Y Entrepreneur Award! He was also featured in Well Done magazine as the co-founder and CEO of Verde Farms. The Well Done Man is a biographical interview with a Bostonian who is doing exceptional things, and Dana certainly fits the bill! Here is the link—http://welldoneboston. com/well-done-man-dana-ehrlich/. (what else can we add to an E&Y Award and a fancy magazine interview? Not much. GREAT JOB!) Sunil Moser and Anita, along with 2.5 year-old daughter Annika, are moving to Atlanta from New York City, where he has lived since

Kanishka Roy, John Choe, Dana Ehrlich, Dave Gilbertson, Adam Von Reyn, and Chris Sims (not shown in picture) were able to escape up to northern New Hampshire for a few days of reminiscing and hiking the Dartmouth land grant together! Lots of great memories created deep in the woods. (that sounds amazing and what a great pic! Why is Chris missing, is he the photog? You’re inspiring all of us to do stuff like this....) [Look on myTUCK for a pic...of everyone but Chris!] Rahul Jain got married to May Trakulmechokchai during July 8-10, 2016. The celebrations took place in Bangkok and Hua Hin, Thailand. Rahul and May hope to welcome some of the Tuckies to their home

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

Rahul Jain wedding in Thailand

in Hong Kong soon. (congratulations, what a beautiful pic! Many years of happiness to you and May!) And to close, updates from your class secretaries, Francis and Dora! After 1.5 years as the head of business development for PayPal France, Francis Barel will take over large enterprise sales to become the head of merchant services for PayPal France. His kids are growing like crazy! Chloé is already 8, a real chatterbox in both French and English, and now she’s adding Mandarin as well (Asia-based Tuckies, be ready to welcome her for a full immersion one of those summers :-); Hugo is now 5, and a real torpedo of a boy, swearing also in French and English. Things are still great in Paris, and the whole Barel family can’t wait to welcome more ’05s after the Roys and the Neginskys! [Look on myTUCK for a pic of the Neginsky and Barel families!] Dora Fang is (still!) living in Park City, Utah... and Tuck dog/pet/partner “Anna Belle” the black lab went to doggie heaven at age 15 and 11/12ths in February 2017. The sweet crazy black dog is dearly missed by all who knew her in the 8 states she got to live in with Dora. Living in a ski town does have some advantages—getting to see lots of people and having lots of visitors! There’s been a string of wonderful Tuck folks who’ve been through Park City. Kanishka Roy and Ann Roy were in town for a conference and were able to have a drink. Nima Krodel and Dave were also able to pop by for a drink. Dana Ehrlich stopped by for a few days of skiing, catching up, and eating/drinking after his meetings in Idaho.

Dora Fang and Brian Safyan in Park City, Utah

Lee Johnson stopped by for a quick visit while visiting family. Brian Safyan was also able to have a lovely drink and dinner during a family ski trip. Fernando Castillo and Shadia came in 2015 and 2016 to ski but unfortunately had to cancel in 2017! In other news, since moving to Park City in 2013, Dora picked up tennis again (after a looooong hiatus) and is loving competitive singles. Her team went to USTA Nationals in 2016, after winning state and regional levels! Trying to be an athlete in midlife means a lot of knee/ankle/elbow/ wrist/shoulder injuries, supportive braces, anti-inflammatory creams/potions/pills, sports massage, and sheer grit. Oh, and as an aspiring snowboarder, she fractured her ribs. Sigh. Youth is truly wasted on the young. To close, we KNOW you love reading these. Here’s the trick: in order for us to write, YOU have to send us material! Also, send us the BIG PICS (highest resolution) so we have more choices for what goes in the fancy print magazine. Whether you think the news is big or small, professional or personal, geographic or athletic or new pet, send it in! We love hearing from you. Seriously. Til next time, Francis and Dora. 2005tuckies@ gmail.com

This edition of Tuck Today is being written from Spring Break. Which, like this very edition of Tuck Today, will mean (1.) you’ve already seen the pictures on Instagram, (2.) everything seems funny after a pitcher of margaritas, (3.) not everything is actually that funny. Ok, let’s get this one out of the way up top.... And when YOU write YOUR book, we’ll put you at the top, too. Bryan Falchuk now gets to refer to himself as “Best Selling Author Bryan Falchuk”: “As many of you know, I wrote a book called Do a Day that launched on March 30th. It ended up having a huge debut, hitting #1 in all of its categories on Amazon, making their Hot Seller list, and earning the coveted orange ‘Best Seller’ flag. It was also picked up on major media outlets like NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and other fake news sites. The book teaches a philosophy I’ve developed over the years to get through tough times, achieve goals, and succeed in life. I’ve been really floored by the positive response and support for the book from so many in the Tuck community (though not surprised at all. Tuckies always help Tuckies. We’re weird like that). Be sure to check out doadaybook.com for more info or to pick up a copy. Special shout out to Christine Schuldt T’07/TP’06 for being one of the editors.” Keeler tried doing a day, realized he sucked at it, and went back to bed. But he’ll leave that off his Amazon review. Sarah Heaslip Whitelaw recently spent a weekend in Nashville with Erin Lifeso, Lorelei Wall, Jocelyn Olsen, Sienna Rogers, and Michelle Duke for Lifeso’s “bachelorette extravaganza.” Guns were involved, photographic proof provided. Erin is getting married May 13 in Beacon, NY.

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CL ASS NOTES Evgeny Shatskih’s still happy in Southern California: “Our journey in SoCal since we moved there in 2012 has been pretty good. I have been connecting and reconnecting with Tuckies from LA to San Diego. Our kids Marina and Oleg are doing great and enjoying their time together, and she visits us in Irvine during her breaks at UC Davis.”

Glad we were all states and time zones away from this

Both Covahne Michaels and Meg Nichols wrote in about a recent bareboat sailing adventure they took with some other Tuckies in the British Virgin Islands (Jon Michaels, Matt Nichols, Doug and Heather T’07 Perrygo, and Whitney and Peter Chiu T’07s). We’re not sure what “bareboat” means, but pretty sure it involves Matt Nichols and the stuff of nightmares. Covahne’s update was pretty straightforward, but Meg gave us the real dirt: “It was a fairly uneventful trip bobbing around in crystal clear blue water with only a little wind, getting lots of sun, drinking copious amounts of alcohol, and celebrating some life milestones, including some very round birthdays. There’s a tie for the highlight of the trip—it was either the beer can regatta we raced in against each other or when Captain Perrygo charged for a mooring and let’s just say...there was a somewhat loud thud when we and another boat both got there at the same time. We’re planning another one for 10 years from now—who’s in?!” Awkwardly, Covahne’s planning on going back in 5 years.... Don’t tell Meg.

Tuck crew sailing in the BVIs—we’re glad “bareboating” didn’t mean what we thought it meant

us! Other than that I’m having a good time.” Juan Carlos Salem missed the chance to spend Reunion with Kummell at DHMC: “Hi guys, missed you all in October given that I had to miss the Reunion. For the ones that wondered why, I had a back injury and was only out of the hospital a week before the trip to Tuck. Thanks to the ones that wrote...on the bright side lost 22 pounds and problem solved! Hope to see you soon.” Writing “back injury” under “food poisoning” in our medical journals. James Greene was the first to satisfy Keeler’s need for a quote from Jodeci: “Here’s some good news: Jessie is pregnant with #3, a boy, due June 13th. Our oldest, Zoe, is nonplussed about getting ANOTHER brother. Quinn, our soon-to-be middle child is pumped. Jodeci had it right: ‘So you’re having my baby, and it means so much to me. There’s nothing more precious than to raise a family....’” The kids today and their ’90s R&B references.

Evgeny’s little ones are getting big!

Melanie Sheerr missed Reunion but it’s ok; she had a doctor’s note: “So sad I missed the reunion, but hope you provide some recap in the notes for those of us who weren’t there! As for why I missed it: on October 28th, Erik and I welcomed twin Tiny Tuckies—Sawyer Griffin and Parker Drew Sheerr Backlund (yes, it’s a mouthful). The twins are keeping us on our toes—they’re growing like weeds, finally sleeping a little bit more consistently, and just starting to experiment with solid food, giggles, and acknowledging each other’s presence. I returned to work at Pinnacle Foods in midFebruary, where I continue to enjoy my Dec Sci-inspired role in network optimization/ supply chain strategy, though balancing work and babies continues to be a challenge.” Nothing a Tornado Chart and Solver can’t figure out, in our experience. Damali Rhett moved from DC to Philadelphia, taking a new job at The Energy Co-op. (Not sure if it’s pronounced “co-op” or “coop.”) We received a press release that said “New Executive Director Well-Regarded in Field of Renewable Energy, Infrastructure”—so we had to reach out for more info.... Damali was coy, just telling us: “I moved. I’m getting involved in the Tuck Club of Philly. Also, I’m co-leading up the Tuck Association of Diverse Alumni (TADA), which is open to everyone, and I invite everyone to find us on Facebook and join

And Ricardo Ortiz mentioned James in an update from Dallas. “Come to find out Abbas moved back to TX from the UAE. He dropped by Dallas for a squash tournament, and so James and I decided to go show some Tuck support...which it quickly became clear he didn’t need; he crushed everyone on his way to 1st pl. in straight sets.”

James, Abbas, and Ricardo in Dallas

Rodrigo Becerra has returned to Mexico after 12 years abroad in the U.S.A. and Singapore to take over as chief information officer of Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos), one of the largest companies in Latin America. In other words, Rodrigo has gas. Lots and lots of gas. Stay upwind.

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The Mannings are still in Park City and still figuring out how to pronounce the word that indicates you live in Utah. (It’s “Utahn.” You try it.) It was a great ski season this year, and we welcomed Tommy Cho and Mike Larsen for ski weekends. Look us up if you come to town! Welcoming the newest Medina, Lorenzo

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Vishala and her daughter Akshara experimenting with some new Snapchat filter

Charles Godin checks in with some news from Canada: “After a grueling selection process and a lot of training, my son Etienne and I are near Barcelona for the Mundialito 2017 Soccer Junior World Cup. Although Etienne was born at Tuck and is therefore American, he is playing under a Canadian selection. Win or lose (and since this is not hockey a Canadian win would be a shocker) it will be a week of fun matches, beautiful weather, beach time and father-son bonding!” That sounds fantastic and is making much of the class reconsider playing under a Canadian selection, as they did on 11/9/16. Reunion ended up being a whole lot more interesting for the Kummells than expected. As many of you know, Matt was on crutches with a broken leg from playing Fat Old Man Soccer—what nobody knew is that he’d collected a bunch of blood clots in his leg and they decided to migrate to his lungs as a pair of severe pulmonary emboli. We’ll spare you more details, but Matt spent the next 4 days at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and felt lucky to have so many visitors...oh, and lucky to survive, that, too. Recovery’s been a bit slow but he’s almost bounced back. Vicky blames Fat Old Man Soccer. Keeler has been spending most of his time in DC, running LivingSocial after Groupon bought it. When not figuring out how to integrate it back into the mothership back in Chicago, Keeler’s been spending most of this free time listening to Jodeci records and pretending to be a Russian oligarch to score a tour of the White House.

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Not much news to report this time around. The older we get, the less we care about showing up our classmates with our amazing accomplishments? Or is the bar higher now? Speaking for myself (Chris), I’m too busy to even get through my emails. The only things I have time for are work (publishing fake news at CNN), parenting (“Do X right now or I’ll take away your iPad for a week!”), and Pokémon Go. Maybe y’all are too busy as well. That may be a decent excuse for not sending in an update to class notes, but it’d be tragic if you let life get in the way of our 10-year Reunion. Yes, you read that correctly...it’s been 10 years since we left Hanover all fresh-faced, optimistic, and ready to map the world! Oh wait, that was Casey McCullar. The rest of you lot were all leathery, old, and cranky before we even graduated. Still, you should come back to Hanover, if for no other reason than to live like Stephen Pidgeon for a weekend. October 13-15. Hanover. Get there. Ok, on to the prolific updates. Lalo (Eduardo Medina) reproduced. Lorenzo Medina was born on February 10, 2017. Jimmy Lee sent in an update from the land of chocolate clocks: “Lee family is doing well

in Basel, Switzerland. We moved here in September 2016 and settled in nicely. I’m still with Genentech/Roche and currently working in the Roche headquarters. Jayden (8) and Charlotte (5) are both doing well, making lots of friends and having a good time exploring Europe. Caroline is busy settling us into the Swiss life and learning German. That’s about it!” Melanie Mitchell wrote: “In September a crew of T’07s (Shaheen, Susan, Mirla & Henry, Hilary, Galvez, Enrique and Dave & Mari) descended upon Fraueninsel in Bavaria to celebrate Johanna Kollar’s wedding to Henry Camp. It was a fun weekend complete with lederhosen and dirndls, an ode to Leo, aggressive log sawing (apparently a German tradition), Tour de France-like cycling through the countryside, and a speedboat ride off the island with the band. Congrats Joh and Henry!”

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Lauren King wrote: “Ben started this past summer at The Atlantic Philanthropies as their chief strategy officer (http://www. atlanticphilanthropies.org/management). He is traveling quite a lot—from South Africa to Vietnam, Dublin, London, and Australia— fulfilling the founders’ Giving While Living mission by 2020. The focus is on areas of global, health, racial, social, and economic equity. His work gives me a hope amidst the current political climate.... “On a personal note, we will be adding to our clan this summer! Expecting twins in the SUMMER 2017

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CL ASS NOTES beginning of August (boy and girl). Tyler and Zachary are still not totally aware of what’s in store. Never a dull moment around here. Any recommendations for a full-time live-in Superhero nanny are appreciated. Especially since I don’t get maternity leave ;-) “We are planning on heading to Reunion, just may have a newborn or 2 in tow....” Kate and Ben Flaim are expecting the arrival of their third child any day now. They’ve found that attending reunions with newborns is a fun pastime and couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Ben is still pounding the pavement at Goldman and Kate continues to freelance for Fortune and others. Tuck is now 6 and loving first grade, and Ellie (4) is about to graduate from pre-school. They’ve enjoyed skiing this year and running into Adam Marcus at Stowe. The Flaims revived the mini-Tuck reunion again with the Onstott/Perrygo, Chaytors, and Kelly families. “Many s’mores were consumed, and there were wall-to-wall children and a sledding luge, compliments of the trusty Canadian in the group. Please let us know if you’re in the area—we’d love to see you and get free childcare.”

[Editor’s Note: If you’re interested in volunteering as class secretary/-ies to carry on Leslie and Chris’s fantastic T’07 tradition, please send an email to tuck.class.notes@ dartmouth.edu to let us know! It’s easy and fun (and only twice a year!).]

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Aaron Mihaly is living in Mumbai, India, in the middle of a yearlong office transfer with his social sector consulting firm, FSG. Aaron’s wife, Anita, and 15-month-old son, Nathan, are having a blast, doing all sorts of travel around the country and exploring the delights of Indian cuisine. Last month, Aaron ran into a group of current Tuckies in the hotel across the street from his house on a Global Insight Expedition, identified by the bright green Tuck attire. We’re taking over! Our most faithful European correspondent, Bart Van Nuffel, says that he and Marie have finally emerged from their 7-year long “diaper phase”: twin boys Jack & Maxime are 3 by now, and the 2 girls, Juliette and Louise, are, respectively, aged 5 and 7. Outside the home, Bart has been taking a crash course in management in leadership: on the seventh of January, a very significant chunk of his balloon factory in Poland burned to the ground. “Right now, back at around 70% of capacity but before further increases, the building is the bottleneck. Reconstruction works won’t be finished before August. So going to be pretty dismal year for Belbal.” We’re pulling for you, Bart!

Allison Curran amc0501@hotmail.com

Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

Louisa Roberts louisabgoodlet@gmail.com

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On this side of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, Canada, Shivam Rajdev reports he sold his business Analyze Re (analyzere.com) late last year to Verisk Analytics. He continues to work with Verisk to scale the business globally.

Patricia Henderson patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

Colin Van Ostern colin@vanostern.com

Tuck children at a mini-Tuck reunion in winter

On a bittersweet note, Leslie and I are stepping down as class secretaries. We lasted 10 years, but the pay was minimal and the benefits sucked. They don’t even provide a 401(k) match. It’s time for someone else to pick up the torch and carry it for awhile.

One of the many unique and special things about Tuck is the study group. With all respect to Professor Stocken, it really was Vivek Raval who taught one of your faithful class secretaries accounting, in fall A study group— so it is only appropriate that *Doctor* Vivek is now researching, teaching, and generally professoring about credits and debits at the University of Illinois. Congratulations! While we’re on the subject, we hear Fong is now Doctor Fong and moved to Singapore, where rumor has it she is a professor as well. We have reports from Tuckies all across the world for you in this edition, so with no further ado...from East to West:

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In Maine, Lindsay (McPherson) Batastini and husband Matt welcomed Addison Grace on 1/11, weighing 6 lb, 6 oz, and measuring 21 inches—exactly the same as her big brother Jack. Evidently, Lindsay has standardized babies. [Look for a photo of Jack and Addison nearby...and another on the 2009 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] In the Live Free or Die state we all know and love, Dan Weinstein successfully made the return to Hanover, building a house in rural Hanover less than 10 minutes from Tuck. The three Weinstein kids (Grace - 8, Sophie - 5, and Levi - 2) have plenty of room to play, and he has less time to commute. This winter, he joined as VP of operations leading Edare, an Upper Valley firm focused on transitioning highly engineered products from R&D to production. Group Tuck reunions welcome! Also in New Hampshire, Colin owes a deep debt of thanks to classmates, alumni, and faculty across the country who supported him in his campaign to serve as governor of New Hampshire. After winning the Democratic Party’s nomination in a competitive primary last fall, Colin narrowly lost the second-closest governor’s race in the country, ending up on the wrong side of an unfriendly election wave in November. Postelection, he returned to the private sector, where he now helps large employers across the country upskill their employees as vice president of Workforce Solutions at Southern New Hampshire University. Wife Kristyn T’08 and sons Peter (6) and Patrick (3) and dog Moses (9 now!) say they are happy to have him around a bit more than last year, and they join in on return trips to Hanover frequently. Chuck Toye moved down the road to Sherborn, MA, with the whole family: 3 kids, 2 dogs, 6 chickens, 8 ducks, 4 goats, and a never-ending honey-do list. Visitors are invited to come on down, bring your overalls, and help him figure out what to do when he grows up. Yeechin Harvey is still at P&G. Currently a brand manager on the CVS customer team. Mike and Yeechin have moved to Andover, MA. Big brother Jacob is loving their second baby, Sarah Harvey, to pieces—she turns one this summer. Mike Giordano and wife Sam Ceppos welcomed Anna Madeline Ceppos Giordano

adore her. She says life is good (and exhausting). Isn’t it, though?? Seemingly, Chicago has drawn a disproportionate share of T’09s—or at least, the ones who write: Nitesh Dixit managed to round up T’09s for a Chicago Tuck ’Tails when Murarka was in town, with Mike Parker and Kathrin [Naumann] Raval, and is eager to find more excuses for Windy City Tuck gatherings.

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on October 5, 2016, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Mike and Sam are utterly in awe of their little girl. Sam is back at work now after 3 months at home with Anna, but Mike is taking advantage of Google’s great leave policies to spend another 2 months at home with her—so Mike spent the winter recreating the ’80s classic Mr. Mom.

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Cindy Landrebe has a growing family—a 9-week-old bernedoodle puppy named Keats, and new digs on the north side of Chicago with her boyfriend. They moved in the day before Thanksgiving and, yes, still hosted the next day (catered, she admits). Kathrin and Vivek have big updates from Chicago, where they moved in 2016: baby girl Raval is due to arrive July 1! Kathrin is still with the same company, now as COO for a new business unit. Somehow, she never thought to take that “entrepreneurship within an established organization” class at Tuck.

Anna Madeline Ceppos Giordano

Last fall, Danny Rodriguez’s nuptials drew Tuckies near and far: Julia, Darius, Rena, Lud (+ his wife Rachna), Anish, Tiago, Nick Thorndike, and Vivek Raval and Kathrin [Naumann] Raval. Also last fall, Jess Redding was wed in a beautiful ceremony in early November, with many many Georgians and a good group of Tuckies in attendance. In Florida, Sarah and Anthony Albert welcomed their fourth baby, Caroline Reid, on March 28th. So far, big sisters and big brother

Kathrin and Vivek hosted the most badass Tuck reunion yet, at a Guns N’ Roses concert in Chicago with Nykia, Nitesh, and his wife, Shilpi. From Minnesota, Kate Reiling contributes by haiku: “I Fear Donald Trump / Love baby Acadia / Missing Tuck in spring.” In Seattle, Alex Armstrong got too comfortable with one, so he and Carey decided to throw a second into the mix. Josephine Armstrong joined the family in February and is already giving her older brother a run for his money. (Speaking of money, if you are curious what you are worth on the job market, check out PayScale,

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CL ASS NOTES where he has been working on new product development for the last year). And for those of you who still haven’t ever been to Seattle, now is the time. Make it happen! In the Bay Area, Saba Deyhim passed her one-year mark at Slalom Consulting, successfully growing both the Security and Cloud Enablement teams. Lots of work with Bay Area clients (no travel—whohoo!). She had the chance to connect with Lucas Nelson last fall and to appreciate his experience in cybersecurity (hacker turned VC!). Last fall, Saba also met the Tuck Tech trek and gave a talk—and is hoping to see lots of Tuckies pursuing technology careers and moving to the Bay Area. South of the Border, Fabian Rivera reports a 3rd baby born last fall—a girl named Emiliea. On his heels, George Gordon had a baby as well—named George—and Fabian says that the lack of political correctness in Mexico has empowered them to nickname George “Chicanito.”

’10 Carey Schwaber Armstrong t10tuckupdates@yahoo.com

Starting off with my own news, Carey Armstrong and husband Alex (T’09) had a daughter, Josephine Grey, on February 28. Josephine is consistently clocking in at 10th percentile on weight, while two-year-old big brother Ben continues to rock the 90th percentile. I think this means that they are the same number of standard deviations from the mean in opposite directions, but Stats was a while ago so maybe not.

And finally, Tom Harris keeps the PBR Society Hanalei chapter going (Harris, Iwancio, and Morse) via its second annual spring meeting. Women and children (wisely?) stayed on the mainland. Josephine Grey Armstrong

Michelle [Mejia] McAuliffe welcomed a son, Luke Vincent McAuliffe, on February 6. Luke is, in Michelle’s words, “quickly gaining the fine motor skills required to crush Excel shortcuts.” Michelle recently joined Jet.com, where she gets to hang out with Micah Moreau from time to time—an over-the-top perk that literally no other tech company offers. The PBR Society Hanalei chapter

Rebekah (Hildreth) Crane writes with a whole slew of news. She and husband Jeff Crane (T’09) welcomed a son, Parker, on December 19. He was 7 lb, 9 oz, and 21.5 inches long. Parker arrived just a few months after Rebekah and Jeff bought a new house—nothing like a new baby to make a house feel like home. For those of you who missed it, Rebekah and Jeff were married in Woodstock, VT, in September of 2014. Jeff left Deloitte last fall and is working for Hollingsworth & Vose, a manufacturing firm run by a fellow Tuckie. Rebekah is still at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, doing manager research for sub-advised investment strategies. Derek Nowak has relocated from San Francisco to Seattle along with wife Katie O’Brien Nowak (T’09) and toddler son William. Derek will be continuing in business development with DocuSign, which is headquartered in Seattle. Katie and I ran into each other at a preschool open house back in January—we hang out in all the coolest places these days. Rafael Teixeira was promoted to president of a joint venture his company is part of down in Brazil, assuming responsibility for three different business units. His family— wife Eveline and daughters Mariana and Julia—joined him last July and will stay until December, when everyone returns to Texas. In the meantime, Rafael is enjoying being an expat in his native land. He’s also had fun reminiscing about his time at Tuck with Deepak Kadambi when he visited Brazil back in April. Jonathan TranPham has founded a wellness startup that helps busy professionals connect with talk therapists to deal with stress. The startup, called reflect, makes it easier to find the right person for you—an algorithm matches you with three therapists, who you can try for free by video before starting in-person sessions. They’re currently piloting in San Francisco. Check it out at www.joinreflect.com. Travis Page took a job at Sony Pictures last year in television business development. To be closer to the studios, he and his wife Amanda moved to Culver City, where they bought their first house. Their son Jackson entered preschool, and the whole family is doing great.

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called ConcertoHealth as VP finance. He’s now working farther south in Orange County, where spray tans are available on every corner. He and wife Alex will continue living in Santa Monica “until [Scott’s] 5am commute becomes unbearable.” Their door remains open to visiting Tuckies looking for a place to crash. Matt Proch-Wilson reports that he and Nathan Brookshire took Scott to brunch in West Hollywood recently, where Scott made quite a stir, as he has been working out a lot lately and is “looking fine.” Nathan is apparently keeping a lot of balls in the air, operating businesses in multiple disparate industries from interior design to the nonprofit sector. Hope to have more to report on that front next time around. Matt had a smashing time at CarniVail with Ryan Guest, Carolyn Maezes, Charlie Woolcott, Laura [Miller] Larson, and Meredith Giersch. His highlights included “visiting a dispensary for the first time, clamming up because I couldn’t figure out what was going on, buying way too much stuff, and being confused when none of the Colorado folks wanted any of it.” He reported that the experience was similar to “being a senior in high school and not understanding why your 21-year-old brother doesn’t want any of your clandestine peppermint schnapps.” If you scratched your head over Matt’s Facebook post about dryer settings, just know that came from around this same time period. Word on the street is that Hans Reichstetter took a sabbatical from Griz Coat and traveled the world, making his way to destinations as exotic as Mozambique while leaving the reins in the capable hands (paws?) of Karl Reichstetter. And finally, at press time James Brooman was hanging out at Everest base camp preparing to attempt a summit without supplemental oxygen. Because James Brooman. He has been sharing some stunning stuff on Instagram— perhaps elevation unleashes James’s hidden talents as a photographer? In any case, I know we all wish best of luck to James for a safe and successful expedition!

’11 Amanda Knappman aknappman@gmail.com

Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

Vera Guerreiro is still working for Amazon but took a new job working on the international expansion team. She’s packing up to leave Luxembourg and immigrating back to the U.S. Vera will be moving the whole family to Seattle in April! While Vera writes “we’re looking forward to the adventure and to joining the big Tuck community over there,” I don’t think she realized just how big the (Tiny) Tuck community has gotten recently.... Melissa (Vess) and Frederick Schwarz T’12 report that baby Hunter is a “happy & energetic little boy who has already been on many outdoor adventures.” [Look on the 2011 class notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a great pic!] Peter and Marje (TP’11) Lacaillade and Rose welcomed Peter Reid Lacaillade (Reid) on February 9th. He is a big boy, 8 lb, 10 oz at birth and growing fast! [Look on myTUCK for photo of Reid!] Betsy Nesbitt got married in June and then took a few weeks off to go trail running in France with her husband, Bert Johnson. After vacation, Betsy finished at Deloitte and decided to start an on-site yoga business. “Flyway Yoga offers convenient, smart on-site yoga to workplaces, hotels, resorts, and schools anywhere in the world. We’ve gotten started at a local Vermont ski area and several workplaces, and we’d love to help Tuckies bring yoga, fitness, and wellness to their workplaces. Check us out, www.flywayyoga.com.” [Look on myTUCK for two great photos from Betsy and Bert!]

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Drew and Noelle (Navas) Brinkman had a baby boy in October, Luke Navas Brinkman. Writes Noelle, “I’m obsessed with him. He’s a lot of fun, and I love being his mom. We bought a house about a year and a half ago here in DC on Capitol Hill. Cena Maxfield Smith and her family live right around the corner! Living in DC has been great...and interesting. This morning on my way to work, I had to wait for the Donald’s motorcade to pass by in order to get Luke to his daycare. As you can imagine, his motorcade is very long! I’ve never seen so many up-armored vans before. As far as work, I’m still at Siemens in our Siemens Government Technologies business and will be hitting 6 years in June. I’m the director of our channel business for our product lifecycle management software and the director of defense offsets. Being a mom and working full-time is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Sometimes I feel like a headless chicken running around. If you find yourself in DC, please let me know!”

Sara Glazer writes, “We welcomed our son Griffin to the world in September! It’s been a life-changing and very fun 6 months. He’s a bundle of energy. Pong training will begin shortly :) ”

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CL ASS NOTES Justin and Nadine Graham missed Reunion because they were busy welcoming beautiful daughter Calista, born on October 13th. Her awesome head of hair is already rivaling her father’s!

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John Lautemann and Leigh welcomed son, James, on October 24th. James was 6 lb, 10 oz, and 20.5 inches long. Notes John, “He has his mother’s good looks and his father’s hairline.” [Look for a photo on myTUCK!] Jonathan Lewis writes, “Jack Lewis was born on October 31st, plenty of costumes in his future. You can follow him on Instagram (@ Jackmewisleier).”

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Jeremy Grossas writes, “Kiku and An have a little sister, Yuzu, born November 2nd... and after 3 years in Japan with Sanofi, we are moving to Korea this April; still with Sanofi.” [For a pic of Yuzu, visit myTUCK!] Daniel Reed had another son in November, James Chase Reed, which puts the Reeds up to three! Writes Dan, “We also have now been in the same town for over two years, the first time my wife and I can say that since high school, which is kind of nice but also a bit shocking when I actually realized it. Overall everything is good in suburban Philadelphia.” [Great pic of the Reed kids on myTUCK!] José and Stephanie (White) Tolosa had a baby! Welcome Maxwell Carlos Tolosa, born weighing 7 lb, 4 oz, on December 6th at 4:51 p.m.

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Jake and Ashley [Colognesi] Pickard welcomed a baby boy to the world on January 24th—Griffin Sparks Colognesi. Ashley writes, “We are hoping to get him on skis next winter!” (We need Griffin Colognesi to meet Griffin Glazer.) The final bit of expanding family news we received hailed from Austin, TX. Per Steve Kenning, “We got a kitten. Her name is Mary. That’s about it from us.” [To see Mary, visit myTUCK!]

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Andrew Brown wrote in, “Caroline and I were lucky enough to have had a baby girl, Eleanor Susan Brown, born this past New Year’s Eve here in NYC. (Wow!)

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Five years? Five years?! We’re not talking about practice. We’re talking about five years! Cue Googling of “Allen Iverson, practice, video.” If you haven’t seen it from back in the day, do it. Anywaaayyysss, we don’t know about you, but contemplating the fact that we’ve been out of Tuck for five years is downright mind blowing. Are we that old? Nah. What this does mean is we all get to go back to Hanover and pretend we never left. So, BOOK YOUR TRAVEL, RESERVE YOUR LODGING, and get ready to see everyone! Your secretaries will be there and hope you will too! It seems like we’re either all getting busier or boring. As the update flow slows, our guts tell us that we’re actually just ruthlessly prioritizing our time and efforts (in a positive way, of course). Even your faithful secretaries have eased on our social-media stalking. So, the more you send, the more we’ll share. In any case, many of us have lives to handle, significant others to attend to, and kids to play with. We hope that everyone we haven’t heard from is doing well! In Winter 2016-17 news.... Daniel Bogomoltz and his wife, Fernanda, welcomed their daughter, Gabriela (see photo), to the world December 16, 2016. They are totally in love with their little baby, who so far is very calm and lovely. Bogo is working hard and flying a lot at LATAM Airlines. He’s hoping to be able to enjoy more the discounted tickets once the baby gets a little older. He also was pumped to see a bunch of Tuckies at Thiago’s wedding and can’t wait to see everyone at the reunion!

Hudson Evei, Associate at TCW Direct Lending Annie Garrigus - Director, Investor Relations at TransUnion Congratulations and best of luck to all of them in their new roles! As for our secretaries…

’13 Anne Duggan anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Bogo and his lovely wife, Fernanda, with daughter Gabriela

David Leal and Sophie Roux Leal are still at the same jobs (BAML-Corp banking and Guggenheim Partners finance and ops). Their lovely daughter, Emma, is loving laughing, eating, and swimming. AND they are expecting her little brother to join the family in July. They too are looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion. Our Tuck-chanting, loveable friend Fred Schwarz has left the world of consulting and joined New Heritage Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, as a vice president on the firm’s investment team. He and Melissa T’11 are crushing life, and their son, Hunter, is trying to walk and talk. He is at his max cuteness and sleeps like a babe. Another former Boat house resident, Mike Cwalinski, got married to Shil Patel on April 15th in New Jersey. His former roommates, Ben Tilton, Fred, and Boom cheered him on as he entered on a white stallion in true Cwalinski fashion. Ask Mike about Repisodic and the future of health care. Divya Mani and Vicente Piedrahita had their second child, Ana Lucía, born 3/19/17. Her big brother, Nico, is already bonding with his new sister. Some LinkedIn stalking has revealed the following work-related updates: Saurabh Sharma - Digital Marketing Manager at Quovantis Technologies Azhar Karachi - VP and Manager, National Insurance Analytics, Liberty Mutual Kat O’Leary - Associate Editor at McKinsey Jessica Decembrele (a.k.a. J-Pow) - Global Product Lead, YouTube

Ben is loving life in NYC, and now he gets to pair it with a trip to SF every two months. He started yet another new job in February. His new role is director of product management for all Williams Sonoma, West Elm, and Pottery Barn stores. He’s hoping this one’s a keeper. And, yes, the discount is awesome. Outside of work, he took a long trip to Nicaragua in January, attended Mike Cwalinski’s wedding in April, and is planning a trip for the summer. He can’t wait to see everyone in October at the reunion! Derrick remains in Seattle and is currently the head of partner marketing for Prime Video— basically getting people to stream Prime Video through a mix of co-marketing, paid media, and affiliates. He and Natalie are still enjoying the PacNW and did their honeymoon over the holidays in Thailand and Cambodia, which they loved. They’re planning a few trips this year, one of which is coming to Hanover for our five-year! Roman is writing this note from the beach in northern Brazil, so it wouldn’t be fair to say anything less than how awesome life is. Yes, there’s a lot of hard work and it gets stressful at times, and the weather is starting to get slightly worse in Buenos Aires, but overall, things are great. Flo has found a job—part-time and from home, which allows for her to keep little Román company. He, on the other hand, has started pre-K and has adapted really well, which gives Mom some much-needed quiet time. We’re also extremely excited about the next trip—REUNION!!!!! I will probably be bringing my own paddle so I don’t waste any time up there trying to procure one.

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

Wow, it feels like a whirlwind since the last class notes. So many new administrations, in the form of new babies, spouses, cities, jobs, travels. And with the news cycles as cray as they are, it’s an even greater challenge to keep a pulse on all of our lives—and you know, facts— but we tried our best. If we missed you, please send us your updates for the next edition! So to start, here are a set of non*-alternate facts: 1. Baby Renee Jeune has in her short life seen more Alps than most of us. 2. Hana Hassan is meeting (THE) Oprah, for the third time in the last year (#blessed). 3. Tuck Annual Giving (that is what those TAG emails are) helps Tuck thrive for four more years and beyond—search your inbox. Babies: Laura (née French) and Sam Rigby welcomed Sloane Grace Rigby on Saturday, November 5th.

See you at the five-year REUNION! October 13-15, 2017! Sloane Grace Rigby (aka Baby Björk)

Vijai Krishnan and wife welcomed Devyani Indira Krishnan on October 1st. The whole family expressed delight and love for all things

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CL ASS NOTES California: “We love it here in SF, I wouldn’t move anywhere else.” Vijai’s older daughter Ammu is friends with fellow tiny Tuckie in the ’hood Sachit Swaroop (of Swaroop Kumar). Do we see a T’2040 class forming?

doctor advised her to drink a mix of Rivella, a Swiss soda made from milk whey, and beer, and all of us approve. Crossing continents again, Rafa Romero and wife Lucia Trejo welcomed their second baby, Rafael, brother to Renata, in Mexico City in December. We’re still pretty sure Renata runs the show.

Devyani Indira Krishnan

Blythe [Chorn] Cohen and husband Ross welcomed baby Wesley Drummond Cohen on December 10th at 12:43 a.m., weighing 6lb, 9oz. The newlyweds recently bought a house in Denver! David Polebaum and wife Rebecca welcomed their first child, a boy. Three Tuck power couples welcomed tiny Tuckies: Hillary and Kerr Mone and their pup Fred welcomed baby Quinn on December 26th. “Quinn Evelyn Mone arrived 12/26 at 3:14am 8lbs, 20.5in of perfection.” Ashley Conti Smith and Chris Smith welcomed baby Abigail Rose Smith a few days ago: “Introducing Abigail Rose Smith, born 3/7/2017 at 9:43am weighing in at 6lbs 11oz and measuring 18 inches long. Mom and Dad are so in love and filled with joy” and Tory O’Kane and John Lamberth welcomed baby boy Haynes. Quick request...pleeeease buy all your babies those Patagonia onesies. Yes, the ones that make your baby look like a waddling cocoon. And take pics. And check if they have our size. KTHANX On the international-baby segment of this section, Salome (née Katwiwa) and Robby Jeune welcomed their daughter Renee Wanjiru Jeune on November 29th in Basel, Switzerland. “Renee was born on Nov 29th at 6:46 am, weighing 5lbs 14oz and measuring 18 inches long. Our hearts are so filled with love for our new family and for all that continue to support us.” Liz would like to add that Salome’s Swiss

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Rafa Romero and Lucia Trejo with Renata and Rafael

And just to give some read-bait of the next edition.... Oliver and Kinnon Foley are expecting a baby girl Tenley, and Graham and Hillary Lincoln are expecting. This feels like a good time to congratulate the couples and remind you that Graham’s middle name is Cloud. Engagements: Peter Kruger proposed to Emily Hunnicutt in the most Kruger-esque way possible. On a hike, in the PNW, in the woods, with their adorable/ famous instapup Aldo. Peter was even able to capture the engagement on his tripod, and the gif is pretty epic (check Facebook). Pablo Navarro got engaged to girlfriend Brittany on “Taco Tuesday.” Pablo posted an epic engagement photo shoot, which involved burritos. If you are think we are lying, we have receipts. Justin “JRod” Rodriguez proposed to ladyfriend Renee in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. In full #tucklove spirit, Justin met Renee at Walker Fullerton’s wedding, as Renee is a friend of Jess’s. Taylor Collison got engaged to Catherine Vincenti, a British lawyer in New York, and Matt Zepernick and Rachel Henry got engaged Sept 26, 2016. The Engagement Watch List

really had a hold out on this couple. Also keeping it in the Tuck family, Kate Pare got engaged to T’14 Nick Lefeber. Dan “Dr. Dan” Gologorsky got engaged to longtime friend Rebecca, a Penn alum who is now finishing her endocrinology fellowship at Weill Cornell in Manhattan. Sounds like whirlwind romance, as the two reconnected after years of friendship and Dan finally made it out of the friend zone! In addition, Dan will be completing ophthalmology residency in June. If anyone needs eye help, first contact Catherine Jonash to understand the administration of eye care, then contact Dan to be the one to poke you in the eye with a needle. Weddings: Matt Grady and Luz Ruiz tied the knot on Feb 4th in style at a beautiful ceremony in Mexico City. TBC whether Starbucks was served along with the cake. Keeping it in the Tuckie family, Daniel Bilbao and T’15 Vivian Alvarez in Bogotá, Colombia, October 16, 2016 at the Museo Naval del Caribe, and Jonathan MacKinnon married T’14 Sasha Kaplan close to where the romance began, in Manchester, Vermont. Moves and Documents: Crystal and Taylor Cornwall moved to Dallas, Luis Gomez and family moved to Boston, and Vishnu Narayanasamy followed Kate and Niya and became a U.S. citizen! Jobs: Isn’t this what LinkedIn is for? TL;DR: Christel Bouvron left GrabTaxi for head of business intelligence at Sephora South East Asia. Sounds like Neslin would be proud. Jon MacKinnon left EnerNOC for director of corporate development at CarGurus. I wonder if he and Daniel Bilbao at Beepi can even speak for fear of trade secrets leaking. Joyce Cadesca started her own career consulting firm. Mason Duke became vice president at Bernhard Capital Partners in Baton Rouge. Mike Friedman left Amici Capital for Wiborg Capital.

Yamini Jagannadhan left JPMorgan for the CEO’s office - strategy and corporate development at Bloomberg. Matt Zepernick left A-B InBev for a new role as vice president of business and corporate development at TabbedOut, an app designed to help you manage your bar tab. Jess (née Zofnass) Barclay left JPMorgan for Black Creek Group as senior vice president of institutional sales. Azi Fathi is joining the ever-growing T’13 crew at Liberty Mutual as director, marketing learning and development. Jon Ryder has a post-wedding job at Adage Capital Management.

February. They returned with the best souvenir ever: Caroline Margaret Confer was born on Sept 12th in London. Caroline has the equivalent of a green card, so she can freely return to get her fix of meat pies. Ryan left his job as head of EMEA portfolio and event driven trading at BAML to join Centiva Capital, a startup multistrategy hedge fund where he is in charge of index strategies. Ryan finally gets to quench his entrepreneurship thirst and invest unhindered by bulge bracket investment banking rules. You can send your monies to him via PayPal, Venmo, or gold brick. Anne moved back to Deloitte’s New York office. They are settling back in to the Upper West Side and look forward to driving on the right side of the road again and calling their stroller a stroller instead of a “pram.”

Phil Kim left Bain for Grainger, a Fortune 500 industrial supply company, doing strategy. Dave Macauley Sibley returned to his hospitality roots as senior director, finance, at Inspirato, a private vacation club. Please pm Dave directly for your hook-up.

Tuckie Spotlight #3. João and the Brazilians Well, things have moved really fast after graduation. Patricia and João Felipe Viana have 2 beautiful kids now. Gabriel is the “new entrant,” cute boy that just turned 5 months old. Big sister Luiza is growing very fast—at almost 3 years she can’t stop talking and messing all over the place. Every second in a weekend is spent with kids now, preferably with outdoor activities that fully drain their energy and make night sleep possible for the happy parents. Workwise, after 9 years at Itaú Unibanco, João left the company last year and joined Zurich Santander Insurance America (Liz confirmed that this sadly isn’t actually in Zurich), to lead the sales support team. It’s a joint venture that sells insurance products through Santander Bank branches in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico. João never thought he’d work in the insurance industry again, but the FinTechs are pushing other players and creating a challenging and exciting environment for everyone. Congrats, João.

Sean Puri left Bain for business operations & analytics at Carbon. Peter Kruger left Microsoft for senior product manager, education software, at SMART Technologies. Yury Gimburg is now a project finance manager at Exelon, a utility company.

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Baby Gabriel with big sister Luiza Campos Viana

Ying Zhao left Vornado Realty Trust for Fosun Property Holdings to focus on real estate acquisitions in NY and the tri-state area.

Tuckie Spotlight #2. Shane Proch-Wilson— Dudley, soon to meet his new brother!

As for your secretaries, Tara is switching from news to YouTube videos about cute animals and continues to hop around Europe, recently visiting Liz to enjoy some of that alpen air, sunshine, and cheese. Liz is spellchecking these notes while drinking margaritas in Austin with Mathieu Pluvinage and waiting for Jamie Lippman’s wedding to start, so please excuse any splng mstks.

Walker Fullerton left TripAdvisor to join Blue Apron. Max and Andy, please send key insights from Raw Foundry to Walker. To make this authentic, we profiled a few Tuckies who have made some serious moves in the past few years. Tuckie Spotlight #1. Ryan and Anne Confer— London, Baby and back to NYC in a year! After living in the U.K. for a little over a year, Ryan and Anne Confer conducted their own Brexit and moved back to New York in late

Dudley Aubuchon-Wilson is super excited to have a little brother this coming August. He has shown his excitement by repeatedly jumping up on the belly of his brother’s surrogate carrier—so much so that he is often mistaken for an ill-trained stray dog (can you believe it???!). Proud fathers Shane Proch-Wilson and Michael Aubuchon have set a high bar for parenting. First goal is to not have the child run away the day after arriving home—the way Dudley did in Hanover (thanks to Carreau Mueller and Jon Ryder for finding him!). Let’s all wish them luck in achieving this goal!

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CL ASS NOTES ’14 Katherine Lawrence katie.b.lawrence@gmail.com

Gabriel Martinez gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

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Nicholas Scarchilli nick.scarchilli@gmail.com

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Tuckies from the great class of 2014: here’s an update!

the best weekend of their lives, and they capped it off with a weeklong honeymoon in Italy (split between Lake Como & Tuscany).

First, and most importantly, an update regarding Dan Villone and his declining pong skills: we are sad to announce that he has yet to win a game of pong in 2017, and that Benjamin Hall has a perfect record against him. More on this breaking story when next we report. Not nearly as important as pong...but a few job and move updates: Clancy Cashion has relocated to Miami with Danaher to support his search for eternal spring break. He is looking for all of us to relive our spring breaks of our college days (or, err, Japan LE) and visit him in Miami. Katherine Hunter is excited to have moved back to her home state of Virginia; she is still with Goldman Sachs but has transferred from investment banking to private wealth management in Washington, DC. Sanjay Arora, Pete Hagstrom, Matt Hanson, and Nick Scarchilli found the opportunity to jet down to Florida recently and spend some quality time together on the golf course (Kyle Charters participated through FaceTime while hosting a birthday party for his daughter, Finley). Not to be shown up by this crowd, Nick managed to shoot the highest score, both rounds; notwithstanding, Nick did manage to defy the odds and make one uncharacteristically skilled shot from the edge of a pond (which he later found out contained a congregation of alligators). While a bad golfer, Nick proved to be an even worse negotiator after he sent a poorly aimed tee shot through the window of a geriatric couple. One stern look from the couple led Nick to quickly empty his pockets. He emerged from the situation with a diminished ego but with his character intact. For that, we commend him.

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Jesse Colville and Ashley Hovey also tied the knot on a beautiful beach in Santa Monica, surrounded by fellow Tuckies. They are happily enjoying newlywed bliss!

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Next, engagements, marriages, and TINY TUCKIES! Hilary and Ryan Ferro are excited to announce the birth of Carson William Ferro, born on September 8, 2016. Attached is a picture of Carson at 5 months old. Double Tuckie engagement and weddings alert! From fall A study group romance to a lifetime of happiness! On a hike in Big Sur with the sun filtering in through the redwoods, Varin Neitzel got on one knee and proposed to Maggie Misztal, who responded with “Of course!” Who knew that studygroup assignment algorithm was so good at matchmaking? Chris Gomsak and Meg Nunn got married over Labor Day weekend (Sept 4, 2016), in Dorset, VT. The weather was perfect, and in rather Tuck fashion the weekend was filled with outdoor activities and events (a group hike, swimming/diving at the local rock quarry, BBQ with bluegrass band, and a 5k run the morning of the wedding). It was, hands down,

Ashley and Jesse’s wedding

Carlos Mendonca and now-wife Tania got married on November 26th in São Paulo, Brazil. They felt very, very fortunate to have their Brazilian Tuck friends with them. In attendance was a slew of T/TP ’14s, ’15s, and ’18s, including his older brother, Richardo (T’18), who’s graduating from Tuck soon! Also, one of your very own secretaries, Katie Lawrence, said “Yes!” to her now-fiancé Simon on the beach in Carmel at sunset after a beautiful tandem bike ride along Pebble Beach. Don’t worry, triathletes—he goes to Katie’s spin classes. They are getting married this August in California wine country (and getting a puppy in May!). Until next time, your faithful secretaries (Nick, Gabe, and Katie).

First comes love: The last 6 months has been full of celebrations of life and love as many of our classmates got engaged! Long time TP Jordan Scott proposed to Sarah Reynolds! Rob Franklin and Erin Ruhf are officially more than #stilldating, as he popped the question in Hanover in front of Tuck Hall. (Secretaries’ note: Kelsey’s sister Alison T’18 called her to tell her that all the T’18s were swooning about the T’15s who returned to campus for a proposal! Well done Rob!) We loved that one of their first engagement photos featured Zac Yoffe, who happened to be on campus. Ben Grant made Alex Clegg his #worstweatherbestfriend forever on a hike in Montana and has since moved to Chicago, where Alex has been living. We love that these three engagements not only happened in the same weekend—but Ben, Erin, and Sarah were all in the same fall study group. Way to Represent Study Group 47!

Meg and Chris’s wedding

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’15 Kelsey Byrne kelsey.byrne@gmail.com

Heather Levy heather.levy@gmail.com

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Well, it’s officially been 2 years since we graduated, and everyone is full-fledged adulting. We thought we should resist. As a result—we are taking some cues from an old nursery rhyme for this update!

In addition to Study Group 47—there have been a number of other engagements in our class! Alison Wheeler and Paul Vom Eigen celebrated their engagement at Coney Island. We heard about Ankit Sood’s engagement to Malika on Facebook! A special congratulations to two of our class couples who met at Tuck: Jed McDonald and Jane Shiverick and Greg Miller T’14 and Mollie Evans! Then comes marriage: We can’t wait to write about all of these engagements in our future marriage section! In the meantime—we’re so excited to share the news about our classmates who have tied the knot! Jenny Chen and Caesar Shih were married. He posted a wedding photo in the Tuck Class of 2015 Facebook Group and said, “Sally, I hope it’s not too late to answer my ‘Why SUMMER 2017

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CL ASS NOTES from New York last summer for Yifei’s job with the international mobility program at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Beyond work, Yifei and his family took advantage of the opportunity to explore Southeast Asia and the Southern Hemisphere and connected with the Tuck alumni in the region. Felizia Bacall has left Boston and moved to Washington, DC, to become an investment officer at USAID. Nell Kelleher’s new role with Brown Advisory brought her to Boston, where she now lives in Brooke Beatt’s old apartment! James Davermann seems to be loving life at PepsiCo—and has a new role as a finance manager. Dan Lee is one year into working for Gov. Charlie Baker in MA and loving every minute of it. He wrote in to remind us that in its inaugural Best States list, USNWR ranked MA #1! Guess all those Tuckies living in Boston are really living the dream!

Jeff and Ellen’s wedding

Speaking of living the dream—it’s great to see the class of 2015 keeping busy and finding time to spend together! Pablo Segovia Smith provided us with an alumni hockey update. He wrote in, “The Tripod Alumni team was up at Tuck in January to play against a very strong T’17 Tripod (more like B) team. After a hard fought game, they beat us 5-2...that reminds me that we need fresh legs, so any Tripodenthusiasts in the Boston area who want to join the Tuck Tripod team, we will be starting up next fall playing every Sunday at 6 p.m.!”

Tuck’ essay question! Congratulations to Jeff Callahan and Ellen [Griffin] Callahan TP’15 on their marriage in Lenox, Massachusetts, and to Lida Xu and his beautiful bride. Congratulations are also in order for Kirsten L’Orange and Tim Malcolm’s wedding and same-week move to San Francisco! Then comes the baby in the baby carriage: We have 4 new Tiny Tuckies to celebrate since our last update! Kendall and Trevor Forbes on the birth of Cecilia Lyn Forbes in November. Mohan Pichika and wife Ammani welcomed daughter Thea Arul-Pichika. Francisco Ortego, who had his first child on Tuck Graduation Day, welcomed his second child, Fernando, in March. And a final congratulation to Sara Kirsch and her husband Dan on the birth of their new son (and a big thank-you for submitting an update!)! Jack Eli Kirsch was born on February 9th. He was 6 lbs, 5 oz, at birth and 20.75 inches long. We’re glad to see his Tuck pride already! Now that our nursery-rhyme framework has run its course—time to share the rest of the good news!

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Christina Pluta changed roles and is now working in corporate strategy at Microsoft. She’s not the only T’15 to join Microsoft recently. Congratulations to Rodrigo Frias for moving with his family to Redmond, WA, to join Microsoft as a finance manager. Congrats on the new roles (and thanks to LinkedIn for the updates!) to Jun Jiang, who joined Dyal Partners as an associate, and Russ Barnes, who has joined Levi’s. One of our other banker classmates, Yifei Zhang, and his family relocated to Singapore

Nicholas Bazarian spent March re-living the Tuck Spring Break experience by leading a 2nd GIX to Armenia with twenty-four T’18s and two T’17s, plus Professor Steve Powell. Most impressive with this group was their willingness to eat and drink just about anything, sleep through long bus rides, and their heroic act of planting an elderly village woman’s pomegranate field in time for spring. While they return to Tuck for spring mini-league, Nick returns back to Pantone to convince the world that it needs more colors. In addition to the hockey game—over the last few months, members of our class reunited across the country. There was a group in Park City for the inaugural ski trip, a reunion at Clery’s in Boston with some T’16s and a small get-together in Maine to celebrate Brooke Beatt’s 30th birthday! We can’t wait to see the pictures from our class’s next adventure!

didn’t like most Tuckies and people in general, other than James Davermann. He also thought that Alex Clegg was okay. Shortly before his death, he assisted brothers Milad and Pants in the hunt and murder of a large Chicago rat. He is deeply missed.” As to not end on such a sad note—and to stay true to how we sign off on every class notes— here’s an update on your class secretaries! Heather Levy got engaged to Shane Sigel in October 2016 in Boston, MA, and Kelsey Byrne is living in New York and simply thrilled that former treehouse roommate, Ewa Kisilewicz, has moved only a short subway ride away!

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Tripod alum/T’17 hockey in January

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

Hi T’16s! You’ve been super busy. Collectively, there have been six career moves, four weddings, six engagements, two new Tuck Dogs, and an incredible 15 new Tiny Tuckies. Let’s get started! [And look for lots more fantastic wedding, engagement, party, and baby photos on the 2016 class notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] The T’16 Race to the Bottom: I know you are all wondering—who won the classic post-MBA race to the bottom (aka, which of us quit our jobs first?). I sort of thought I was winning this race and was mildly disappointed when I discovered that I wasn’t even close. It is with deep pride that I announce the official quitter rankings:

T’15 minireunion in Maine

On a more somber note, we received an update from Lyusha Goldberger. She wrote, “I’m writing in regards to the class notes email to let you know with the deepest regret that Bulgakov ‘Bagel’ Acropolis Goldberger, my three-legged cat, formerly mascot for Group 3 during Section Wars and elusive star of

numerous #peopleholdingmycats photo shoots (for which we won best Tuck hashtag during Frosty Jester 2015, before it was brutally taken away from us by Ben Grant and unfairly granted to ‘puppies’), passed away on December 30, 2016, after a 15-month battle with lymphoma, intestinal cancer, and kidney failure. He loved New Hampshire and the Tuck spirit, though he

In first place, we have Brant Swidler. He crushed the rest of us quitters by realizing he was in the wrong job in a record-breaking four DAYS. Days! He started his new role as customer success manager for SparkCognition in Austin, Texas, in November. Coming in a hot second, we have Sarah Wooden. Sarah started at Wayfair in Boston in November. She’s a sr. manager of operations,

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CL ASS NOTES adding to the awesomely huge group of T’16s taking over the company. A close third, Yosuke Aoyama started his new role in December. He’s now sr. manager, business analysis and project, at Gucci in Tokyo. I always knew he was the most glamorous person in our class.

Emily Putze married Reid Snyder on November 5, 2016, at the Racquet Club of Chicago. I personally couldn’t handle how beautiful her wedding pictures were, so proceed in viewing them with extreme caution.

Chris and Brooke Hogan welcomed a baby girl on September 26, 2016. Virginia Blair Hogan “Ginny” came into the world at 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and loves hanging out in the South End of Boston with her dad.

Not to be outdone by another Sarah, I also quit my job. I locked up a solid fourth place when I moved to Boston to work for Solaria Labs, a Liberty Mutual endeavor. I’m assistant director of trends and insights for the innovation lab, and I super love it. In keeping with the Boston theme, Mike Tarr also made a move. He earned the number five spot in our race when he took a new job as a consultant at Altman Vilandrie & Company in Boston in March. Rounding out the pack, Bryan Crowe made the move from Portland to Seattle to work for Amazon. He’s now a product manager in supply chain. Wedding Watch! While some of us were really busy correcting our poor decisions, others were making really great ones! Four of our classmates got married: congratulations!

Tak and Yumi Katsura welcomed their second baby, a boy, in October! Baby George was born in the Upper Valley and made two-year-old Lily an adorable big sister! The new family of four has since moved back to Tokyo.

Tuckies celebrating Emily and Reid!

Apurva Sacheti married Nidha Jain in November in Jaipur, India. Check out this amazing photo of their dance at their sangeet!

Dance-night magic with Apurva and Nidha!

Sid Prasad married Rachael Kandath at The Tamarind Tree in Bangalore on January 18 and 19, yielding some of the coolest-ever wedding pictures. Ben Shore and Will Silton made the trip over to India to celebrate with them!

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Tony and Mitzi Sampson welcomed Guy Anthony Flade Sampson on October 30, 2016, in Boston, MA. Baby Guy weighed in at 9 lb, 8 oz, 21.5 inches long. He gave his mom a real run for her money on his way into the world with 29 hours of labor! What a champ! Baby Guy has a full head of blonde hair and is quite the charmer with his endless smiles and adorable little laugh. Sean and Aubrey Flood’s son Aidan Patrick Flood was born on November 2, 2016, in Falls Church, VA. Aidan enjoys eating, reading The Little Engine That Could, and playing with his dog brother Riley! Sergio Saffi Marques and Tainara Cruvinel welcomed their first baby, George Cruvinel Saffi, to the world on November 6, 2016, in New York City. He weighed in at 8.2 lbs and 20.8 inches (or 3.74 kg and 53 cm for those used to the metric system). He’s a smart, smiley baby who looks just like his dad (according to Mom!). He’s growing up super fast, wearing 9-month clothes before he’s even at the 5-month mark!

Chris O’Brien married Emily Patch on October 1, 2016. Sadly, Reagan, their adorable yellow lab puppy declined to be flower girl, leaving Teddy O’Neil and Andrew Dunn no choice but to step in.

Chris and Emily, married!

Kemper and Marcie Wagner’s baby girl, Noelle Gianna Wagner, arrived on July 28, 2016, in Chapel Hill, NC. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces, 18.75 inches long. She’s got the world’s cutest cheeks!

The Babies that Second Year Made: Welcoming 15 New Tiny Tuckies! That’s right, friends. A grand total of 15 new babies were born to T’16s (9 baby girls and 6 baby boys). In the words of Jay Boren, “Holy s**t, it’s a baby tsunami!” Without further adieu, I’d like to introduce the newest members of the T’16 family:

Ashish and Jaydeepa Sharma welcomed their first baby, a little girl! They’re hanging out as a new family of three and holding down the fort in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tom and Ericka Martin welcomed 2016’s final new Tiny Tuckie on December 11. Avery Noelle Martin was born in Winchester, MA. She weighed in at 7 lbs 15 oz and 22 inches. Rob and Shannon Wilson welcomed their third baby girl on January 3, 2017 in Seattle. Teresa Rose Marie Wilson was born at 9 pounds, 3 ounces. Teresa’s favorite activities are smiling and snuggling. Adorable.

Baby time! 1, Wagner family; 2, Hogan and Ginny; 3, Aidan Patrick Flood; 4, George; 5, Avery Noelle Martin; 6, Dylan Paige Eggbeer; 7, Garnet; 8, Cami; 9, Jay Boren and Baby Felix; 10, Blue Steel Crandall; 11, Accurso family; 12, Francesca Olivia.

Will and Lauren Eggbeer welcomed the second Tiny Tuckie of 2017! Dylan Paige Eggbeer was born on January 10 in Boston. Baby girl was 20.5 inches long and 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Lauren miraculously guessed the birth weight to the ounce! Lauren also reports the following hilarious story regarding how they decided on her name: “We had two middle names and couldn’t choose, so we let her choose! Sloan or Paige. Will suggested if her first poop came closer to the half-hour, she’d be Paige; to the hour, Sloan. Dylan Paige it was!” Mark and Randi Parton welcomed their third adorable baby into the world on February 5, 2017, in Beverly, MA. This was a huge night in Massachusetts, not only because baby Garnet Virginia Parton entered the world but also because the Pats also won the Super Bowl that night! I think we can all agree that Garnet was the reason they were able to turn things around. Garnet weighed in at 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 18 inches long. Just five days later on the other side of the country, Vince and Erin Accurso welcomed Francesca Olivia Accurso! Born on February 10, she shares a birthday with her dad! Baby Francesca weighed in at 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 20 inches long.

Diego Zuazo and Carla Quevedo welcomed Camila Zuazo to the world on March 5, 2017, in New York. Cami weighed in at 7.3 pounds and is already gearing up for her first visit to Tuck at the end of April. Dad says a portion of the visit will be spent preparing her for her admissions interview. It’s never too early! Jay Boren and Emily Adler Boren welcomed Felix Adler Boren to the world in Lebanon, NH, on March 20, 2017. Felix arrived at 7 pounds, 4 ounces. His very first outdoor adventure was a walk across the river to Tuck!

Jacob and Alana Crandall welcomed Liam Keith Crandall on March 23, 2017, in Chicago. He weighed in at 7 lbs, 15 oz, and is already into posing for pictures. We see a robust modeling career in his future. Even more Tiny Tuckies are on their way! Vivek Chandwani and Niharika Thakwani report that are expecting a baby girl in July! Congratulations, everyone! Hugs to your little ones!

InstaDogs! Molly Hinton and Camila Gonzales are the proud owners of new Tuck Dogs! Camila’s dog, SUMMER 2017

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CL ASS NOTES Boise, is an adorable clone of the dog emoji. Molly’s dog, Otto, has about 45 pounds on Boise and is really crushing the social-media game. During ASW, the two dogs met for the first time when their dog moms made a trip up to Tuck to rep Colgate for early recruiting, yielding the greatest photos ever. Follow Otto’s Instagram @ottothedoodle and Boise’s Instagram @boisethecav. Locking it down, T’16 Edition As if the rest of the Tuck boys didn’t already feel enough pressure from that email referring them all to a great engagement-ring-makingjeweler-friend, feast your eyes on the follow 6 dudes from our class who recently popped the question: Henrique Bahr asked Molly O’Hara T’17, proving once and for all that love at first sight is actually a thing. HB met Molly at her ASW and was hooked right away. HB proposed to Molly on October 22, 2016, in Taylors Falls, MN. In true Tuck fashion, it was during a hike on a beautiful fall day by the Mississippi River! Bouncy Castle couple Stephen Normandin and Eugene Florendo got engaged in December. Executing on the whole engagement thing with

HB and Molly are engaged!

Congrats, Vikram and Allyson!

astonishing efficiency, they’ll be married in July in Maine! Way to get it done!

the Chinese New Year. Cue the adorable desert proposal pictures, complete with camel in the background!

In December, Aditya Shah finally asked his longtime girlfriend Anvitaa Pattani to marry him. At this point, it is unclear whether a decorative throw pillow of the two of them together has been made for his childhood bedroom in Mumbai. In January, Matt Shofnos and Ashley Cahill T’17 got engaged in North India near Jodhpur. Due to the epic long-distance nature of their relationship, they had decided to meet up in India as the “halfway point” between China and Hanover. Ashley was on winter break from Tuck, and Shof was on vacation due to

Vikram Dhindsa and Allyson Himelstein got engaged in January in the U.K. Congratulations! I mean look at these cuties, they’re even wearing matching Tuck Hockey sweatshirts. The best. Erik Johnson got engaged to Jaclyn Johnson in March. It is currently TBD whether they’ll choose to hyphenate their last names or simply merge their two last names to form the plural of Johnson, which is obviously Johnsi. And that’s all she wrote, folks. Keep in touch, and keep the great stories coming! —Sarah

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.

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Henry Gunst Jr. ’42 December 16, 2016

Thomas F. Swick ’48 November 15, 2016

William H. Garland ’55 January 6, 2017

John B. Spring ’61 January 14, 2017

Bradford Munroe Booth ’75 December 31, 2016

Roy Rowan ’42 September 13, 2016

John H. Hatheway ’50 April 24, 2017

Rollin F. Haynes ’55 August 12, 2016

Leonard P. DiSavino ’62 October 30, 2016

Sarah Miller Caldicott ’84 January 24, 2017

Murray J. Latz ’43 February 27, 2017

Wayne G. Whittemore ’50 December 21, 2016

D. Kennedy Fesenmyer ’57 December 4, 2016

Dwight M. Hayward ’63 December 10, 2016

Carol N. Sherwood Pettee ’85 May 5, 2017

D. Joseph Hurley ’44 November 8, 2016

Sherman M. Clough Jr. ’51 November 12, 2016

Leo C. McKenna ’57 March 6, 2017

Eugene H. Bauer ’66 May 1, 2017

John R. Redmond Jr. ’85 February 5, 2017

William T. Wolf ’46 September 9, 2016

Edward A. Weisenfeld ’52 January 3, 2017

Charles P. Jones ’58 September 22, 2016

Walfrid G. Lundborg Jr. ’66 December 27, 2016

Mark J. Byrne ’86 April 6, 2017

De Witt C. Baker III ’47 February 13, 2017

Roy T. Abbott ’53 April 25, 2017

John O. Parker ’59 December 8, 2016

Douglas W. Bonner Jr. ’67 March 23, 2015

Jeffrey Rose ’91 April 8, 2017

Robert J. Fieldsteel ’47 September 25, 2016

John S. North ’53 December 14, 2016

David G. Campbell Jr. ’60 March 5, 2017

Theodore C. Kausel ’69 November 24, 2016

William Cary Miller ’47 January 15, 2014

John F. Mitchell ’54 October 19, 2016

Walter H. May Jr. ’60 February 16, 2017

Michael A. Lorig ’74 January 22, 2017

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