Tuck Today – Winter 2018 Issue by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Winter

Purpose

BUILT HOW CHRISTOPHER J. WILLIAMS Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;84 GREW THE FIRM HE FOUNDED INTO ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MID-SIZED INVESTMENT BANKS IN THE WORLD

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!

2018 Tuck Business Bridge Program Session 1: June 11–July 6 Session 2: July 16–August 10 2018 December Bridge Program November 25–December 14

Dartmouth College . Hanover, NH . 603-646-6459 tuck.biz.bridge@dartmouth.edu bridge.tuck.dartmouth.edu

CHRIS MILLIMAN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

LOOKING OUTWARD Often, the best ideas come from where we least expect them. We see this time and again at Tuck—in research breakthroughs that first take root in another discipline and in industry-shaping actions that originate in an altogether different industry. The challenge for leaders and learners is not where to look for these ideas, but how. Increasingly this means looking outward for inspiration. No longer are the answers we seek confined to a specific area. More and more in today’s world they are found in unexpected places—in new and different industries and companies with new ways of thinking that can fundamentally impact ours. By looking outward, we learn—and see—more. The ability to look outward is a trait all visionary leaders share and one we aspire to develop in our students, together with the question-asking, teambuilding, and risk-taking aptitudes that drive better business outcomes. An outward focus also provides the critical inputs required to build an MBA program of the future, one that meets the needs of both tomorrow’s wise leaders and the companies that hire them. Of course, the best leaders do more than just look outward. They are also able to see figuratively around corners, to anticipate what’s next. Christopher J. Williams T’84 has spent an entire career doing just that, growing a financial services firm focused on personal service into one of the most successful mid-sized investment banks in the world. We at Tuck have also benefitted from Chris’s foresight through his decadelong service on our Board of Overseers. After six years as chair, he will be stepping down in 2018, but plans to stay in close contact with our community. We are deeply grateful to Chris for his wisdom and counsel, and for inspiring us to look outward—to an exciting future he helped create.

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

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EDITOR Justine Kohr

MANAGING EDITOR Patti Bacon

SENIOR EDITORS Kirk Kardashian Cathy Melocik

CLASS NOTES EDITOR

OVERHEARD @TuckSchool

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation @nhcfoundation

Some parting wisdom from our intern Zoltan Czinkoczky, an MBA student at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He spent the last 10 weeks with us helping our CFO Michael Wilson and senior program officer Kevin A. Peterson further develop our impact investment program. Thank you, Zoltan, for spending your summer with us and best of luck to you with your future endeavors!

Cathy Melocik

Paul Costello @paulfcostello

Thrilled to be part of such an awesome event w/ great #marketing minds. Thanks for the inspiration @TuckSchool

PHOTO EDITOR SustBenefits

Laura DeCapua

@sustbenefits

TUCK TODAY ADVISORY BOARD

Grateful to @TuckSchool at @Dartmouth for invite to #AllwinDay. We engaged w/ students on #DesignThinking. Fresh perspectives always welcome

Gina C. des Cognets T’01 Punam Anand Keller Steven Lubrano T’87 Richard Sansing Matthew J. Slaughter Erin Tunnicliffe T’97

DESIGN Flannel

PUBLISHED TWICE A YEAR BY Ed Winchester Senior Director, Marketing and Communications Office of Communications Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH

Andrew Grimson

Cassie L-Young

Thanks to the great team who showed up to help at one of our Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity homes. We really appreciate your service to our mission of improving home affordability across the entire Upper Valley.

Thrilled to be part of first ever WOMEN in tech event as part of @TuckSchool's annual tech conference. Dartmouth's engineering school now more than 50% women - wow!

Nestle USA Careers @NestleUSACareers

Thanks to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth for hosting our very own Claire Galiette at the third annual Marketing Symposium! Claire, a Tuck alum herself, shared her insights on brand management that she uses each day at Nestlé USA. http://bit.ly/2muMAAI

November 15 at 4:34am

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Appreciate opportunity to give @TEDxWomen talk at @TuckSchool on ending sexual violence. We can create a better future. #ShatteringTheSilence Ann McLane Kuster @RepAnnieKuster

@dukecass

AllianceVermont @alliancevermont

Thank you to the @TuckSchool for hosting the Upper Valley nonprofit exchange this morning. It’s inspiring to see so many organizations making an impact in our region and beyond. A great learning experience for us!

Doug Baker @CEOEcolab

Enjoyed talking with MBA students at @TuckSchool earlier this week; glad that one of their grads, Nicole Dotts-Wright, is on our team.

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TUCK’S ENERGY BOOM Meet six alumni working to transform the energy industry. BY JEFF MOAG

DEPARTMENTS

NEWSROOM A SOUPED-UP TYCOON

JODINE GORDON T'18

KEEPING THE CONNECTION

GLOBAL BUSINESS LEADERS CONVERGE AT TUCK

THE VALUE OF LEARNING VALUATION

SAVING LIVES WITH MOBILE PHONES

IDEAS WHEN TO SAY SOMETHING

THE FUTURE IN 3-D

BETTING ON PEOPLE

WHEN IT'S OK TO BE BOLD

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

FACULTY NEWS

ALUMNI NEWS PROFILE: KATRINA VEERMAN T’01

PROFILE: KINYA SETO T’96 50 BEST PRACTICES: KATE JHAVERI T’03 AND MICHAEL ARAGON T’01 52 ALUMNI ESSAY: FROM HANOVER TO HOLLYWOOD

NEWSMAKERS 55

28 THE BUILDER How Chris Williams T’84 cultivated design-thinking and friendships to create The Williams Capital Group. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

128

PARTING SHOT

129

CAREERS

FIGURES

COMPENSATION $

ROUNDED AVERAGES

[

YEAR

INDUSTRY

Financial services 20

128,000

Technology 20 Consumer goods/retail 11 Health care/pharma/biotech 5

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2017

Consulting 33

STARTING SALARY

[2017–18

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STARTING

AND

CLASS

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FACTS

[MBA

30,000

Manufacturing 4 Energy

SIGNING BONUS

Nonprofit/government 2 Media/entertainment 1 Real estate 1

MORE THAN

Other

100

1,000

RESEARCH AND TEACHING AWARDS

in percentage employed at 3 months post graduation among top 20 schools in the 2017 US News ranking

active recruiting relationships

95%

100%

of 2017 graduates had job offers three months post graduation

of first-year students found internships

TOPFIVE in citations per author among U.S. business schools

(SSRN)

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EMPLOYERS SELECT

COMPANIES

› Amazon › Analysis Group › Anheuser-Busch InBev › Apple › Athenahealth › Bain & Company › Bank of America Merrill Lynch › Barclays › Boston Consulting Group › Cargill › Citi › Colgate-Palmolive › Corning › CVS Health › Danaher › Deloitte Consulting › Eli Lilly and Company › Evercore › General Mills › Goldman Sachs › Google › Harris Williams & Co. › Innosight › Intel › JPMorgan Chase & Co. › Land O’Lakes › L.E.K. Consulting › Liberty Mutual › McKinsey & Company › Microsoft › MillerCoors › Morgan Stanley › Parthenon-EY › QuintilesIMS › TripAdvisor › Uber › Under Armour › VMware › Walmart › Wayfair › Zynga

ALUMNI

96%

WOMEN

21%

INTERNATIONAL ORIGIN

36%

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TENURED/TENURE TRACK

FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS

1 10,300 74

IN THE 2017

ECONOMIST RANKING FOR ALUMNI-NETWORK EFFECTIVENESS

LIVING ALUMNI

COUNTRIES

(APPROX.)

OF RESIDENCE

MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF ALUMNI HAVE GIVEN BACK TO TUCK FOR THE 11TH YEAR IN A ROW (TAG 2017)

STUDENTS CLASS

2019

[

[ MBA

TUCK

BUSINESS BRIDGE PROGRAM

37%

23%

44% WOMEN

U.S. MINORITIES

INTERNATIONAL

293

722

STUDENTS

AVERAGE MONTHS WORKED

AVERAGE GMAT

100%

GLOBAL

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

MINORITY BUSINESS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

1996-2017

MASTER OF

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SCIENCE

90%

OF STUDENTS HAVE ADVANCED DEGREES

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

CO M PAN I ES

ITG MEDTRONIC ROLLS-ROYCE SILICON VALLEY BANK TAPESTRY [formerly Coach]

21 YEARS OF BRIDGE PROGRAMS

2017

INAUGURAL YEAR

1ST

business-education program targeted at military veterans and elite athletes

veterans, Olympians, and professional athletes in inaugural program

CENTERS &

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CENTER FOR BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT & SOCIETY

FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM PROGRAM

TOTAL BRIDGE ALUMNI (AS OF DECEMBER 2017)

NEXT STEP

EXPERIENCE

3 MODULES 3 COUNTRIES

TRANSITION TO BUSINESS

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

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMCAST CORNING DEERE FITCH GROUP GOOGLE

5,400

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

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SCHOOLS REPRESENTED IN 2017

CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR PRIVATE EQUITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP GLASSMEYER/MCNAMEE CENTER FOR DIGITAL STRATEGIES HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE

LINDENAUER CENTER FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

AVERAGE YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

REVERS CENTER FOR ENERGY TUCK INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN

SPRING/SUMMER 2016

07 UP FRONT / 09 M EET JODINE GORDON T'18

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NEWSROOM Into the Deep

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Bridge students analyze one of the most difficult processes in business: valuing a company. / p. 12

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UPfront A SOUPED-UP TYCOON TuckINTEL is a new integrative mini-course designed to mimic real-world corporate decision making. By KIRK KARDASHIAN

ILLUSTR ATION BY ABAGAIL GOH

n 1974, Tuck professor James Brian Quinn, the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management Emeritus, came up with an idea that would challenge students for the next 26 years. He called it Tycoon: the Tuck Management Game. The idea was fairly simple: students formed teams and simulated the process of acquiring and running a business in the clock-making industry. At the end of the week-long exercise, teams were evaluated on metrics such as productivity, return on investment, and market penetration. The game was phased out in the early 2000s, but it is remembered by many Tuck alumni as their first chance to think like a senior-level businessperson. This fall, Tycoon returned to Tuck, reincarnated, reimagined, and renamed as TuckINTEL, a customized experience delivered as a mini-course to second-year students. INTEL stands for Integrative Experiential Learning, and the idea behind it is as straightforward as Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea in Tycoon: to offer an experience that helps students integrate the key insights from the first-year core curriculum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;TuckINTEL is Tycoon for the 21st century. In other CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 WINTER 2018

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words it is a souped-up version of Tycoon,” says Praveen Kopalle, associate dean of the MBA Program and the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management. “Tycoon was strategy-focused, while INTEL is much more directed, and a broader effort to integrate as much of our core curriculum as we can.” Kopalle developed the course with Richard Sansing, associate dean for faculty and the Noble Foundation Professor of Accounting, and their first step was to interview all the faculty who teach core courses. They compiled the most important lessons from the courses and then worked with John Thomas T’80 of the Regis Company to build a four-day, computer-aided exercise that incorporates key elements of finance, accounting, marketing, communications, statistics, economics, decision science, strategy and management, and operations. Thomas came back with three possible business scenarios. Kopalle discussed one of them, based on developing a market for urban wind power generation, with Erin Mansur, the Revers Professor of Business Administration and the faculty director of the Revers Center for Energy. Mansur then connected Kopalle with Jeph Shaw T’15 of Hanover-based New Energy Capital. With Shaw’s help, Kopalle and Sansing created a realistic case study where students are

running companies competing to bring the fictional Twists & Undulates Currents Kinetically (TUCK) NextGen Turbine (TNT) to market. Kopalle and Sansing ran two pilots of the simulation in April and May, then revised it and ran the real mini-course at the end of November. During the course, teams of four or five students run a company for an accelerated multi-year timeframe. Each year constitutes a period of decision making about such areas as marketing and communication, strategic priorities, timely production, economic analysis, cash requirements and funding, presentations to the board, team excellence, and personal leadership impacts. Students evaluate relevant data and input their decisions into the Regis online platform by a given deadline. The algorithm then computes the impacts of the decisions of each team and delivers results in the form of performance metrics. At the same time, Kopalle and Sansing, along with a few other core faculty, are monitoring team dynamics and discussions, answering questions, and debriefing with students about their results. For Ankitha Rajendra Kartha T’18, who participated in the May pilot, TuckINTEL provided a valuable reminder of what she had learned in her first year. It was also the

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INTEL is much more directed, and a broader effort to integrate as much of our core curriculum as we can.” PRAVEEN KOPALLE

first time she was asked to solve a complex business problem without a lot of specific guidance. “We’ve looked at a lot of cases and were given perfect data in the core,” she says. “In this, we had to evaluate for ourselves and say, OK, maybe we should do a net-present-value, or maybe we should suggest a capital expenditure for the next year. I needed to figure out what concept to use, and how to use it.” Like Tycoon, TuckINTEL is custom creation for Tuck students, and thus different from anything offered at other business schools. Kopalle explains why. “At Tuck, we have a unique combination of scale, focus, and community to pull this off,” he says. ”

arlier this year, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SANTIAGO GALLINO launched Tuck’s first edX online courses. Gallino, an expert in retail operations management, partnered with colleague Antonio Moreno-Garcia of the Kellogg School of Management to create the courses Retail Fundamentals and Omnichannel Strategy and Management. Retail Fundamentals is an introductory-level course designed to teach the four key components of retailing: demand forecasting, inventory management, assortment planning, and pricing. Omnichannel Strategy and Management, meanwhile, helps participants understand how to operate a retail business in both the brick-and-mortar and online spheres. Both were designed for a wide variety of participants, from retail owners and store managers to undergraduate business majors and specialists in retail. Participants who complete both levels receive a professional certificate from edX. Gallino is happy with the first run of these courses: 7,300 people signed up for Retail Fundamentals, and 3,000 signed up for Omnichannel Strategy and Management. Initially, the courses were open for a limited time and ran in a weekly format, but now they are both available anytime to alumni looking to brush up on retail operations, or those looking for a self-paced introduction to retail strategy.

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STUDENT stories

Meet

JODINE GORDON

T’18

By BETSY VERECKEY

HOMETOWN

Teaneck, New Jersey

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n her time at Tuck, Jodine Gordon T’18 has partnered with professors on in-depth research projects, interned at Adobe in Silicon Valley and with a venture capital fund in Africa, and worked on an independent study exploring the design of platform business models. As an MBA fellow with the Center for Digital Strategies, she is working on a research project on product innovation in consumer hardware. Mentored by two faculty advisers, she is designing a framework that companies can use when inventing new product categories. She’s also been able to further her financial acumen with plenty of business courses, like Statistics. “It was the hardest class that I loved the most,” says Gordon. “When I was taking the midterm and reading the problems, I thought they were fascinating and relevant. The examples reflected real world statistical problems, where theory meets application.” Helped by a Tuck connection, Gordon interned the summer before she started her MBA with a Nigeria-based venture capital fund that invests in emerging technology companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The experience was especially meaningful to Gordon, who has always wanted to help underserved populations and level the playing field. Born in Jamaica, she came to the U.S. when she was three years old. While in Nigeria, she worked directly with the firm’s founders and was able to gain perspective that gave her more insight on what she wanted to do at Tuck. “I’ve learned how world-class firms bring products to market and build market-leading companies,” says Gordon. “I have also had the opportunity to learn firsthand from investors about how they evaluate investment opportunities. Experiential learning at Tuck has been a game changer for me.”

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania BA, Political Science, 2009 PREVIOUS WORK

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newsroom Q: WHAT EXCITES YOU MOST ABOUT THIS ROLE? Tuck is very well known in the business school world as having the number one alumni network. Being able to come to this beautiful place to work with the most loyal alumni is a dream come true. I’m incredibly excited to talk with alumni, hear their stories, and experience what makes this network so strong and cherished. I’ve already seen its strength firsthand, even in the short time I’ve been here. In addition to the unparalleled philanthropic support of our alumni, I am looking forward to finding new and exciting avenues for alumni to volunteer and engage with the school both here in Hanover, and wherever they are around the world. We want them to feel as connected to Hanover and Tuck as they did when they were here attending classes.

Q: SINCE JOINING US IN JULY, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN HEARING FROM ALUMNI? I’ve been reaching out to and

KEEPING THE CONNECTION Renee Hirschberg, Tuck’s new director of Alumni Engagement, is looking for creative ways to make sure alumni are more connected than ever—to the school and to each other. By JUSTINE KOHR

very June, around 285 Tuck students leave Hanover as new members of Tuck’s 10,000-strong global alumni network, prepared to lead and eager to better the world of business. And when they depart from campus, they are anything but forgotten. Tuck’s Alumni Engagement office is dedicated to supporting them over the many years that follow their time in the classroom. Now the newly named office has a leader tasked with envisioning and executing ways in which alumni can continue to engage with each other and the school. Renee Hirschberg came to Tuck from the MIT Sloan School of Management where, as the senior associate director of alumni relations, she created meaningful strategic engagement opportunities for the school’s approximately 24,000 alumni. Since joining Tuck on July 17, she has been busy reaching out to alumni, getting to know them on the road and as they visit Hanover, in order to discover the strength behind what she calls, “the best and strongest alumni network in the world.”

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meeting with many alumni to get to know them and ask for their input on how we can create additional engagement opportunities. However, what I’m hearing in return is, “What more can we be doing for the school?” It’s this circle of everybody wanting to help everybody, and no one is asking “What’s in it for me?” they’re asking “What is best for the network?” I think that’s incredibly powerful and it speaks volumes to the quality of this network.

Q: WHAT DO YOU WANT ALUMNI TO KNOW ABOUT THE ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT OFFICE? We’re thinking very strategically about alumni engagement and looking closely at what alumni need and want. In order to create new opportunities, we need to continue to hear from alumni. So my top priority right now is getting to know alumni, understanding their needs, and what meaningful engagement means to them, and developing a strategy to address those needs. I want people to feel comfortable sharing their stories and experiences with me and offering their insights.

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JULY 8-20, 2018

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

GLOBAL BUSINESS LEADERS CONVERGE AT TUCK

REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW.

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THE NEXT ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WILL TAKE PLACE

By KIRK KARDASHIAN

Participants of the Advanced Management Program talk strategy during a breakout session.

professors Vijay Govindarajan and Ron Adner, executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter, former New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, and Associate Dean Punam Anand Keller, just to name a few. Keller, the associate dean for innovation and growth and the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, designed and initiated the program, and was inspired by the way the first session unfolded. “I observed how the relationships strengthened during the program and evolved from ‘you could be an interesting person to get to know’ to ‘we are going to get

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hen C-Suite and VP-level executives from around the world gather at Tuck for a unique educational experience, the lessons and takeaways are abundant. Case in point: the new Advanced Management Program, which was held this past July. Twenty-eight participants came to Hanover from across the U.S., Italy, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Luxembourg. And they represented organizations as diverse as Seventh Generation, the U.S. Navy, Blackrock, Inc., Comcast, Mitsui & Co. Steel Ltd., along with many others. What did they learn from this program designed to advance the strategic and management skills of executives at the top of the org chart? That great leaders are also great teachers. To create an environment that lets others shine. To intentionally incorporate reflection and reading time into the day. To begin actively coaching on a daily basis. And that sustaining advantages can distract you from developing new ones. A comment from one participant sums it up nicely: “Without a doubt, a fantastic two weeks of reflection, learning with participants, and sharing with world-class faculty.” The Advanced Management Program consists of five distinct modules that cover strategy and innovation; securing competitive advantage; developing an enterprise-wide mindset; value generation through brand and reputation management; and the leadership challenge. The highly interactive sessions are taught by Tuck’s leading faculty, including strategy

together in Europe or India for work and fun,’” she says. While the participants spent most of their time engaged in classroom and breakout sessions, they also took the opportunity to relax and recharge. A few executives and some of their family members went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail, which runs through Hanover. Others jogged to a famous barbeque joint in nearby White River Junction and piled into, a pickup truck for the ride back. That experience spawned one more lesson: “Eat more BBQ.” FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT AMP.TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU

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I felt it was everything I needed to know in order to succeed.”

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JAMES PEDERSON, BRIDGE ’17

BUSINESS BRIDGE

THE VALUE OF LEARNING VALUATION In the principal project for the Business Bridge program, students acquire skills for life. By MICHAEL BLANDING

aluing a company is one of the most difficult processes in business, requiring an in-depth analysis of finances, marketing, strategy, and the economic environment. For that reason, it is the perfect capstone for Tuck Business Bridge, a program that immerses liberal arts and science undergraduates in all aspects of business. The four-week program is structured in a way that helps students gradually make sense of the data, building a model layer by layer, until they have created a complete picture. “Some of these students are English majors who have spent the last four

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years reading Milton, and have never seen a balance sheet,” says Clinical Professor of Business Administration Bill Martin D’87 and faculty lead on Bridge valuation projects. “Suddenly they are being forced into the deep end.” Martin, who ran JP Morgan’s bond option business in London before coming to Tuck, came up with the idea for the project 10 years ago alongside Bob Hansen, the Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration. Now, a decade later, the project is routinely cited by students as the most meaningful part of the experience. At the beginning of the program, each

group of a half-dozen students picks a company to analyze—often one undergoing dramatic change. One group this past summer, for example, analyzed Whole Foods, endeavoring to determine whether Amazon paid a fair price in its acquisition of the company. The group, says team member Theo Minerva D’18, a geography major, determined that due to competitors with cheaper organic food such as Target and Walmart, the company wasn’t worth what Amazon paid for it—which implies Amazon might see something in the company beyond its fundamentals. “That they are willing to pay a premium and not apologize for it tells you they are planning something exciting,” he says. Another group took on Tiffany & Co, the 180-year-old jewelry company that has just shaken up its executive leadership. The team initially faced data overload, says James Pederson, Vassar ’17, an English major. Eventually, they determined that the company was poised for a surge due to its big bet on new stores in Asia. Sure enough, over the summer, its share price rose from 89 to 96. The most rewarding aspect for Pederson was learning to work in a group. “Early on, our team made a pact that everyone would stay in the room until the last person was done with their work,” he says. While some students will go on to pursue an MBA, the overall experience the project offers can help them in whatever they choose to do, says Martin. “It’s really a framework they can apply in any situation, whether it’s in business, or serving on a nonprofit board, working in government, or trying to decide what job to take or what city to live in.” Pederson, for one, has already used the training in his current job working in film financing in New York, as he’s analyzed how to add value to the company. “I felt it was everything I needed to know in order to succeed.”

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HEALTH CARE

SAVING LIVES WITH MOBILE PHONES A team of students in the Tuck-Dartmouth led Master of Health Care Delivery Science program is using mobile technology to address a serious health care need in Nepal. By KIRK KARDASHIAN model medical supply chain for rural villages throughout the world. For Bhatta, whose mother suffered terribly during the birth of his older sister in central Nepal, MOM is much more than a learning project. It’s bringing him one step closer to his longtime goal of making sure other mothers don’t need to endure the same thing. “Research on newborn interventions in Nepal specifically identified poor supply chain management as one of the challenges in every single category for newborn care and treatment where there is a need for medication,” he says. “While other maternal health programs in Nepal do address related maternal and neonatal health topics, not one has approached this particular gap.”

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hen he said an “army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon Bonaparte proved he understood the importance of supply chain management. He knew he could have thousands of welltrained troops, but without a way to get food to the front lines, they didn’t stand a chance. In the same way, a hospital is only as good as the medicine and supplies on its shelves. Those words are no truer than in Nepal, where hundreds of babies and mothers die during childbirth every year because medical supply orders don’t get fulfilled on time. Now, thanks to an action-learning project in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program at Tuck, remote villages in Nepal may finally have a solution. The connection between Hanover and Nepal begins with Surya Bhatta MHCDS’18, the country office program director for One Heart Worldwide (OHW), a nonprofit organization based in Kathmandu that works to prevent maternal and neonatal mortality in rural areas of the country. Since its founding in Nepal seven years ago, OHW has helped 60,000 pregnant women in the country. Bhatta has specialized in technology integration at OHW, so he recognized the role technology could play in modernizing health care delivery. When he came to Tuck and explained the acute need in Nepal for a system that supplies remote health care centers with medications, five other MHCDS participants quickly signed up to help. Together they have started Maternal Outcomes Modernization (MOM), a student group that plans to revolutionize

the medical supply chain through the use of mobile phones. Currently, community health workers and medical clinics in rural villages order supplies with paper forms. The orders travel to Kathmandu, a 12-hour drive away. The three key medicines that prevent postpartum hemorrhaging and infection arrive only every three to four months, and sometimes the orders take so long that the medicine has expired by the time it reaches its destination. MOM is working to equip those health care providers with mobile phones so they can order supplies via text messages, and it’s building a software platform to receive and translate the orders and keep track of inventory. As of September, the group was beginning to train local health care workers on how to use the mobile order system. If the system is effective, it could become a

MHCDS students started a group that plans to revolutionize the medical supply chain with mobile phones.

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WHEN TO SAY SOMETHING WHAT COMPANIES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENGAGING WITH POLITICAL EVENTS AND SENSITIVE ISSUES By PAUL ARGENTI, PROFESSOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

lack Lives Matter. Immigration. Gun violence. There’s no shortage of important issues making headlines. CEOs and companies are under intense pressure, maybe now more than ever, to take a stand. But should they? And what message should they convey? Silence used to be a prudent and viable option. Until recently, most corporations practiced neutrality on controversial social issues, in fear of alienating some of their customers. Today, however, many employees and consumers—especially millennials—expect, and even sometimes demand, that corporate leaders speak up. Recent research found that 47 percent of millennials want CEOs to voice their opinions on important issues. If done right, CEO activism can be incredibly effective with far-reaching influence that can translate to the bottom line. In fact, one study showed that around 51 percent of millennials are more likely to buy from companies led by activist CEOs. Companies, however, should not speak out on everything that makes the front page. Here are some factors to consider about deciding when and how to take a stand.

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IS THE ISSUE AT HAND CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPANY’S VALUES? As your True North, values are always important but especially so during challenging times. They should align directly to your mission and serve as guidelines for how your company and employees should behave. Values do not have to be complicated. In fact, they should be straightforward and simple. Uber has 14—that’s far too many. A lot of companies, surprisingly, either do not have values, or have values that are too generic. If you don’t have values, how can you decide if an issue matters to

your company? You can’t. Making tough decisions becomes a lot easier when you have them. When Johnson & Johnson, for instance, recalled millions of bottles of Tylenol after several poisoning deaths in 1982, they did so based on their credo. For years, Johnson & Johnson has said that their primary responsibility was to serve and take care of consumers—the people who use their products every day. Management handled the Tylenol crisis so well that the overall perception of the company was actually strengthened by the crisis. Within three months, Johnson & Johnson regained 95 percent of its previous market share. Companies have a better chance of success when taking a stand if they establish a narrative that connects the issue at hand to their values, employees, and customers.

WHAT ARE THE RISKS FOR YOUR COMPANY? Should executives and companies respond when news and current events provoke their employees and customers? The risks are different for every company and should be explored accordingly. In general, if the event is not connected to your company, does not align with your core values, and is high risk, do not engage. In the last few years, Starbucks has made a series of high-risk moves. In 2015, the company aimed to spark a national conversation about race by having baristas write “Race Together” on cups. The reaction was hostile. The campaign was unaligned with the company’s values and an exceptionally high-risk, difficult topic. Executives at Starbucks, which has only two African Americans in its upper echelon, failed to anticipate the reaction that would follow when engaging in such a tense social issue. On the flip side, Starbucks had more success with another high-risk topic—

immigration—when the company said it would hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years in response to President Donald Trump’s travel bans. This effort was well received, in part because it aligned with several of the company’s strategic values, including “everyone is welcome.”

HOW SHOULD YOUR COMPANY COMMUNICATE ITS MESSAGE? Once you’ve decided to engage, you need to choose the right channel. With so many channels and audiences, this can get confusing pretty quickly. Twitter, of course, is a dominant social media tool for sharing ideas, but it should only be used if a CEO or a company has a strong following on the platform. Social media is a great approach overall, but is really only as good as the relationships you have established and the connections you have in the networks. Inside an organization, a company’s corporate communication team plays a valuable role in helping execute the strategy by nudging senior executives to participate when appropriate and giving them solid material to work with. Companies can get into trouble when they are inconsistent in their messaging, or when they expect their communication team to manufacture stories about them that aren’t true or are vague. Companies often say they want “to make more money” or “have more market share.” This might be true, but any company can say this. To be successful, a company’s strategy must be truly differentiated. So, with a strong set of values that are broadly understood among employees, a clear strategy overall, and an understanding of the risks involved, any company can figure out when to speak up and when to say nothing, which is itself a communication strategy.

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THE FUTURE IN 3-D A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD D'AVENI, BAK ALA PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY By CATHY MELOCIK

ROFESSOR RICHARD D'AVENI has been teaching strategy at Tuck since 1988, with a blend of theory, history, and futuristic concepts. Tuck alums might remember his bringing Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz, and Mao Tse-Tung into the classroom and his use of The Godfather as a tool to illustrate different approaches to strategic thinking. Currently, as part of his Advanced Competitive Strategy elective, D'Aveni brings in CEOs from differing industries to talk strategy from today's front lines. Why the mix? A Financial Times quote featured on his web page perhaps best encapsulates his teaching goal: "Once executives realize there are no set rules, they might be more willing to discard conventional ways of thinking." Now he sees a new, unconventional futureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one whose linchpin is 3-D printing.

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My current research is about how strategy and the economy will change with the advent of 3-D printing and industrial platforms that are being used to coordinate 3-D printing with the supply chain and ecosystem.

What made you focus on 3-D printing? Three moments really enlightened me. The first was when I went to Barcelona to visit HP Inc. and saw what they could do with their MJF [Multi Jet Fusion] printing system: for example, a bar that sprays out 350 million dots of plastic per second per square inch. The next happened when I visited the Jabil Blue Sky Center in San Jose, California. They showed me a giant electronic screen that displayed how their entire supply-chain system worked: literally the entire company’s workflow and supply chain and supplier assessments on several dimensions, all instantly up on a huge wall. I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s Skynet.’ And a third was my visit to Desktop Metal, in Burlington, Massachusetts. They are doing for metal 3-D printing what HP Inc. is doing for plastics. The methodology was slightly different but included something that sped up metal production by a hundredfold.

How did what those three companies do come together for you? Between the technology that HP Inc. and Desktop Metal have and the incredible experience in manufacturing that Jabil has—it’s the third largest contract manufacturer in the world—you can see an entirely new world developing. Whereas traditional manufacturing would result in a product comprised of thousands of parts, 3-D printing can combine parts into a single complex part that couldn’t be made by traditional methods. So assembly may involve only 50 complex parts, rather than thousands, hence reducing labor costs. The 3-D printing industry is working toward printing an entirely integrated, customizable product of just one part. And this is just the beginning: there are now printers capable of mass production of standardized parts and products at costs lower than conventional manufacturing, and others that can work at the atomic level, printing one atom at a time. It’s like a science-fiction movie.

How do you see this changing the economy? In my forthcoming book, I’m predicting that 3-D printing and industrial platforms will enable very large, highly diversified companies that are much more widely diversified than conglomerates and that have operational synergies—which conglomerates, by definition, don’t have. These megaliths will take control of a significant portion of the economy. Hence the title, When Titans Rule the World. Coupled together with software platforms, 3-D printing is going to allow both scale and scope, with no trade-off anymore between the two. A platform owner will be capable of offering all kinds of services—manufacturing software, additive-manufacturing services, as well as financing and data not available to the public—to members of wide collectives. This will mean the rise of firms I call pan-industrials. These pan-industrials will use 3-D printing to blur product boundaries. And as the boundaries between products start to disappear, so too will industries disappear.

Will these pan-industrials develop their own platforms? Some already are. General Electric is developing its own with Predix, Jabil is already controlling its own manufacturing processes with its platform, and Siemens is developing its own additive manufacturing platform, Siemens NX. IBM Watson also has something called the Industrial Internet of Things platform. This is laden with artificial intelligence, but they don’t have the manufacturing knowledge that a GE or Jabil or Siemens has. My prediction is that the software houses are not going to win unless they have some way of bringing in tremendous manufacturing knowledge.

You’ve written elsewhere* that companies in this pan-industrial future will be organizing more around geography. Why is that? With 3-D printing, you can get low cost without economies of scale, through reduced waste and because the cost of the 3-D printing equipment is much less than that in traditional manufacturing. And the low capital intensity of 3-D printing,

combined with having everything monitored by a central platform around the world, will mean companies can have micro- or mini-factories in locations they couldn’t serve before, which also lowers shipping costs. And people will not only be able to produce something locally, they will be able to modify the product for local needs.

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You’re working on a new book, based on your current research—can you tell us a bit about that research?

How is all this changing the world of MBAs? We’re at the same moment in time now as when the Tuck School started in 1900. And why did we need a Tuck School then? Because an agrarian economy was becoming an industrial economy. The same three things that came about at the beginning of the 20th century—industrial and transportation and communications changes—are going through radical revolution right now. And we have a tremendous opportunity to prepare MBAs for this future world of technology.

You’ve brought some of this into your Advanced Competitive Strategy elective, which is quite popular. Much of what is touched on in strategy is economics based, but I’m teaching students that strategy can also be an art form. You make a move, I make a move; you make a countermove, I make a countermove. And through that dynamism, you end up breaking the rules of economic-based strategy. The purpose of my course is to develop students’ minds for strategic flexibility and different kinds of strategic thinking. The goal is to differentiate them from other MBAs. But the course is controversial, because I make students get outside the box, and I often take a perspective opposite to others.

And in the business world, they’re going to meet a lot of disruptive people. That’s right. Look at the people who are founding today’s breakthrough companies. For the new paradigm, it’s going to take people who don’t fit the old norms.

* Richard D’Aveni, “Choosing Scope Over Focus,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2017 (volume 58, issue 4) Richard D’Aveni, “The 3-D Revolution,” Harvard Business Review, May 2015

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BETTING ON PEOPLE MARKETING PROFESSOR ELLIE J. KYUNG TOOK AN UNCONVENTIONAL PATH TO TUCK, GUIDED BY A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE: FOLLOW THE PEOPLE YOU TRUST By JEFF MOAG

LLIE J. KYUNG teaches the MBA marketing core at Tuck as well as the elective research-to-practice seminar Time in the Consumer Mind, which examines how the psychology of time influences consumer decision-making. Time and perception are central to Kyung’s research, which focuses on the ways that memory (how people think about the past) and mental representation (how people think in the present) influence consumer behavior. Her research is ultimately about how people mentally represent their choices, so it’s fascinating to hear her speak about the unconventional choices that led her to Tuck. “Many times I will make a spreadsheet listing all the pros and cons of a decision, and then I’ll make a decision different from what is suggested by the spreadsheet,” she says. “I’ve made my major career decisions based on the people—people who have a genuine interest in others and could help me grow.” Kyung’s father was a PhD chemist and MBA, and her mother was a nurse. Both came from Korea, her father first and then, after a long-distance courtship, her mother. The two had never met in person when they agreed to marry. “It was like a very old-school version of online dating with snail mail,” says Kyung, who grew up in Ohio and Wisconsin. Hers was a traditional immigrant household, in which education was prized and career expectations were at once ambitious and narrowly proscribed: medicine, law, perhaps engineering. Kyung excelled in school and music. When she was four, she attended a family friend’s performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor. Kyung was entranced and

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begged her parents for piano lessons. Before she finished high school she was performing with professional symphonies. In spite of her interest in music, from a young age, Kyung planned to become a doctor. But when she got to Yale freshman year, she struggled with its rigorous pre-med curriculum. “I was one of those kids who were classically weeded out freshman year through introductory courses,” Kyung says. “But it was probably one of the best things to happen to me—that experience really led me to rethink my interests.” At 19, she began charting a new course for her life. Kyung then changed to a double major in economics and international studies as a way to apply her interest in mathematics. An internship with the Monitor Group led to a full-time offer at the iconic Boston-based management consultancy after graduation. There she focused on marketing and multi-channel strategy with an emphasis on interface design. She chose to work in these areas based on key mentors—Victoria Levy T98 who introduced her to marketing strategy and later senior partners and lauded academics Jeffrey Rayport (currently on the faculty at Harvard Business School) and Bernie Jaworski (currently on the faculty at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University) who introduced her to the world of research. She contributed research to the duo’s prescient 2005 book Best Face Forward. Published long before omni-channel marketing became a buzzword, the book made the case for using both technology and people to manage the customer experience.

Kyung had never experienced an MBAstyle classroom before, particularly one conducted with the virtuosity of Rayport and Jaworski who had honed their respective teaching chops at Harvard Business School and the University of Southern California. Sitting in on executive education sessions they led, Kyung gained a new appreciation for discussion-based learning. But most importantly, through Rayport and Jaworski, she discovered a particular affinity for deep inquiry—she wasn’t satisfied with knowing what consumers would do in a particular circumstance; she wanted to understand why. Recognizing her inquisitiveness, Rayport and Jaworski suggested she pursue a PhD in marketing. Kyung briefly considered first attending an MBA program before pursuing a PhD. She applied and was accepted at Harvard Business School, but couldn’t see herself fitting in as a student there. The decision not to go to Harvard was another departure for the immigrants’ daughter. Kyung said, “My parents asked, ‘How can you not go to Harvard?’” Instead she applied to several leading PhD programs, and ultimately made the decision to attend New York University. “NYU is where I really felt that I fit in,” she says. She forged an immediate connection with Geeta Menon, current dean of the NYU Stern Undergraduate College, who would become her adviser, mentor, and close friend. “It was an amazing group of faculty, and one of the reasons I chose NYU is that from the very beginning, Geeta always treated me like an equal, even in my first year when I’m sure I must have been asking the most ridiculous questions,” Kyung says. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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Much of her early research focused on memory and Construal Level Theory (CLT), which relates to the way people think about things that are not in the here and now. She was introduced to the concept in the classroom of NYU psychology professor Yaacov Trope, who is one of the theory’s principal architects. “I had always had an interest in science fiction and historical fiction, because I liked the idea of picturing an alternative future or putting yourself in the shoes of someone in the past,” Kyung says. “When I learned about Construal Level Theory I realized this is exactly what I love about the fiction I read—the idea of mentally traversing a distance and picturing something that’s not where you are now. It is fascinating how differences in mental representation can influence our decisions.” Trope, too, became a mentor. Kyung has published several papers with him and Menon. While most CLT research focuses on how people think about the future, Kyung’s work concentrates on how it influences thinking about the past. For example, she has found that asking people to think about how something happened rather than why it happened can influence their perception of the event and who is responsible for it. “That’s a more abstract way of thinking about it—thinking about the reasons as opposed to the actual sequence of events,” she says. “That can shape consumer perceptions about negative events, such as product recalls.” She has continued to publish work developing theories on how CLT influences memory with collaborators Manoj Thomas at Cornell University and Aradhna Krishna at University of Michigan, fellow NYU alums, and now close friends who she connected with while on the academic job market. Her more recent research focuses on how simple changes in the format of questions or their responses can shape how consumers mentally represent their decisions and how speed, in addition to time, can influence mental representation. For example, how physically moving fast or slow, or merely feeling that one is moving fast or slow, can materially change people’s choices and preferences. The intersection of memory and time is the focus of the research-to-practice seminar she teaches at Tuck, Time in the Consumer Mind. The course is capped at

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14 students, selected from more than fifty students who elect for the course, which facilitates a style of learning based on discussion and inquiry. She also teaches two sections of 75 students each in the marketing core, which calls for a different approach rooted in her memory research. She designed the course using the spreading activation model of memory, with each session built around a strategic question, a framework and quantitative tool designed to trigger the recall of related concepts. Kyung co-teaches the marketing core course with Professor of Marketing Peter Golder, who was coordinator of the PhD program at NYU and came to Tuck a year before she arrived in 2010. With several offers in hand, Kyung, who has always bet on people, chose Tuck. With Golder and the other senior colleagues in the marketing area—Kusum Ailawadi, Kevin Lane Keller, Punam Anand Keller, Praveen Kopalle, and Scott Neslin—Kyung found an inspiring set of mentors, not only as researchers, but also as people.

Another reason she choose Tuck is that her very first mentor and case team leader, Victoria Levy T’98, now a senior partner at Monitor Deloitte, always spoke glowingly about her Tuck experience—both in terms of her fellow students and faculty. “I had no idea at that time that I would go into academia or that I would have the opportunity to come to Tuck, but Vicky’s enthusiasm for Tuck really stuck with me,” she says. Hanover was another selling point for Tuck. Kyung’s husband has based his software company in Boston and the Upper Valley is an idyllic place to raise their two daughters. As Kyung reflects on her unconventional path to academia, critically shaped by key mentors who took time and interest in her as an individual, she looks for ways to “pay it forward” and do the same—with students, co-authors, other faculty. “Recognize the important people who helped shape your path and try to help others in the same way. This is a hallmark of the Tuck community.”

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PUNAM KELLER STUDIES THE ROLE OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN RISK-TAKING By KIRK KARDASHIAN

hen Dean Matthew J. Slaughter asked PUNAM ANAND KELLER, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, if she would consider taking a role as an academic dean, Keller could have thought about the offer in two general ways. She might have been worried that an administrative job wouldn’t allow her the time to do the scholarly research she loves—on behavior change in health and financial settings. Or, she may have considered the offer an opportunity to try something totally different, help Tuck chart its course, and learn about herself and the nature of higher education. Keller chose to be bold, and today she spends most of her work time as the associate dean for innovation and growth, while fitting in teaching and researching when she can. Keller reflected on that decision recently as she worked on a new paper titled “Gender and Risk: Emotional Fluctuations,” forthcoming in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Specifically, she had noticed how, in previous studies, women were more risk averse than men when it came to decisions about their health and finances. “It made me wonder why,” she says, “and I started trying to figure it out, because I want women to take good risks.” For Keller, taking on a new role was a good risk—the consequences weren’t dire, and the odds were in her favor—and she set out to help women identify such opportunities in their own lives.

Prior studies in this area have revealed three broad factors that contribute to the gender difference in risk taking. One is basic evolutionary theory, which dictates that men evolved to engage in riskier behavior because they had to go out and hunt for food. Another is cultural: many boys are brought up thinking they shouldn’t show fear or weakness, while girls are raised to be more nurturing. The third is power and status: historically, women couldn’t take risks because they just weren’t offered the same opportunities or agency as men. Those factors caused Keller to reflect on how she could make a difference. “What can I change?” she asked herself. “I looked for factors I could have some impact on, and when I started searching the literature I came upon the role of negative emotions in risk seeking.” In this study, Keller focused on anxiety and sadness and how those emotions impact risk seeking in adolescents (10-13 years old) and adults over 21. In the field study on adolescents, Keller distributed questionnaires to children that probed how often they felt sad or anxious in the previous two weeks. Then the respondents completed the Tolerance for Deviance Scale, a survey that’s been found to “predict a variety of risky behaviors such as unhealthy diet, poor dental hygiene, seat belt usage, and substance abuse,” Keller writes. She found that emotions have a stronger effect on risk assessment for girls than boys, that sadness increases risk seeking for girls but not boys, and

that risk aversion is the strongest when girls are very anxious and very sad. In the study on adults, Keller recruited 390 subjects (the average age was 36), and asked them to read a scenario that evoked a state of anxiety or sadness. Then the participants completed the Domain-Specific-RiskTaking scale. Afterward, Keller asked them if they used their emotions when completing the scale. As she expected, Keller found males to be more risk seeking than females. But the cause was something not documented before this study: anxiety. More precisely, Keller found that anxiety, which is triggered by a sense of uncertainty, causes women to forego risk in an effort to add certainty back into their life. Sadness, on the other hand, is a response to loss. That emotion makes women seek more risk, as a chance to offset the loss with a reward. In sum, the gender gap in risk seeking widens when women are anxious, and shrinks when the dominant emotion is sadness. Importantly, Keller isn’t saying that men don’t feel anxiety or sadness. “They just don’t act on it, especially when it comes to risk-related decisions,” she explains. That could be a benefit or a mistake, depending on the situation. What does Keller want women to take away from this study? In general, the importance of self-awareness. “Don’t let anxiety hold you back from taking good risks,” she says. For men, the message is similar but the result will be different: listen to your anxiety, because it might prevent you from taking a bad risk.

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM TUCK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DANIEL FEILER STUDIES THE BEHAVIORAL ROOTS OF OVERINFLATED EXPECTATIONS By KIRK KARDASHIAN

onsider the following scenario: a manager is looking to launch a new product and analyzes five uncertain alternatives. For the five potential products, the manager estimates customer demand ranging from 35,000 units to 58,000 units. Because she wants to maximize her sales, she chooses the product with the highest estimated demand. Later, she makes production, financing, and marketing decisions for this product with the expectation customers will demand 58,000 units. Tuck assistant professor DANIEL FEILER says that this manager is probably overoptimistic about the product she chose. Although choosing the product is an intelligent choice, demand for that product will likely be less than her expectation, and all of her business decisions are likely to be biased as a result of this erroneous overoptimism. Feiler bases this prediction on an incredibly simple premise: the more we overestimate the value of an alternative, the more likely we are to choose it. Therefore, when

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we choose the alternatives that we expect to do the best, we tend to have selected alternatives that we have overestimated. Feiler warns, “In some ways it’s extremely intuitive, and in other ways it’s a bit of a mindbender.” In “Good Choice, Bad Judgment: How Choice Under Uncertainty Generates Overoptimism,” a forthcoming paper in Psychological Science, Feiler writes, “If people fail to account for this structural feature of choice that gravitates them towards overestimated alternatives, then they will be predictably overoptimistic in their chosen alternatives…. [G]ood choice operates as a selection process— from a pool of unbiased beliefs about alternatives, it selects a subset for which one has biased judgments.” Choosing the alternative that we expect to do the best is the right move, but maintaining the overinflated expectation for the chosen alternative is the mistake. Using carefully designed experiments, Feiler, along with co-authors Jordan Tong and Anastasia Ivantsova of the Wisconsin School of Business,

demonstrate that people tend to be naive to this structural challenge, causing them to overestimate their chosen alternatives. In one experiment, they showed six people listing sheets from recent home sales and asked them to choose the house they think sold for the highest price. Then the researchers asked the subjects to estimate the price of the house they chose. The subjects significantly overestimated the actual sale price of their chosen house, as compared with estimates they made about single houses randomly assigned to them. In a subsequent experiment, they found that people overestimated the houses that they ultimately chose even before making the choice. There are a few instances when overestimation is more likely to occur: when the true values of the options are close together; when there is heightened uncertainty about their values; and when there are many alternatives to choose from. Either way, Feiler’s advice is the same: “Pick the one that looks best, then curb your expectations for it.”

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FACULTY NEWS Constance Helfat Receives Honorary Doctorate CONSTANCE HELFAT, the James Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy, has been recognized for her leading research on strategy with an honorary doctorate degree from Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Finland. Helfat has forged a close relationship with the school over the years, regularly collaborating with strategy researchers at the university’s School of Business and Management. At the doctorate conferral ceremony in Finland, Helfat also received a sword. “The doctoral sword symbolizes an intellectual weapon in the quest for and defense of truth,” a history on the school’s website explains. To bring the metaphor to life, Helfat sharpened the sword on a grindstone during the conferral, while someone poured sparkling wine over the blade. “It was a wonderful honor to be part of this academic tradition in Finland,” she says. “I’m going to hang the sword on a wall at home to remind me of the importance of searching for truth in my research.”

JOHN LYNCH HONORED WITH 2017 UNH PETTEE MEDAL Former NH governor JOHN LYNCH, a clinical professor, was honored with the 2017 University of New Hampshire Charles Holmes Pettee Medal, given by the university to former or current state residents to recognize outstanding service and accomplishment. “My time at the university prepared me well for a career in business,” says Lynch, who was president of his fraternity and played intramural sports. “If it hadn’t been for UNH—the education, the extra-curriculars, the leadership opportunities—I wouldn’t have been elected governor of New Hampshire.”

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NAMED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EESHA SHARMA has been promoted to associate professor (without tenure). Sharma joined Tuck’s Marketing group in 2013. She has taught the Consumer Insights elective course in Tuck’s MBA program, Introduction to Marketing in Thayer’s Masters in Engineering Management program, and Principles of Marketing to undergraduates at Dartmouth College. Sharma’s research examines the interplay between consumer spending and real or perceived financial resource scarcity. This research explores topics such as how and why people give to charity, and what factors improve or worsen consumer financial decision making.

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Anup Srivastava Wins Best Paper Award ANUP SRIVASTAVA, assistant professor of business administration, was one of three co-authors of a working paper to receive the Larry Lang Corporate Finance Best Paper Award from the European Financial Management Association (EFMA). Srivastava, along with Hyun Hong and Ji Woo Ryou, received the award in June at the EFMA conference in Athens, Greece. The award recognizes “the research paper that has the most potential to advance our understanding in the field of corporate finance,” according to the EFMA announcement. The co-authors won the award for their Tuck working paper “You Blinked: The role and incentives of managers in increasing corporate risks following the inception of credit default swap trade.”

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Adam Kleinbaum Awarded Tenure ADAM KLEINBAUM , associate professor of business administration, has been awarded tenure by the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. Kleinbaum’s research investigates the origins and implications of social networks. His research has clarified several determinants of social networks: how organizational structure (both formal and informal) shapes and constrains network formation, how career history influences network structure, how personality affects network formation and decay, and how the brain stores and processes information about networks. At Tuck, Kleinbaum teaches the core MBA course, Leading Individuals and Teams, and a Research-to-Practice Seminar, Social Networks in Organizations.

NAMED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SANTIAGO GALLINO has been promoted to associate professor (without tenure). Gallino joined Tuck’s Operations and Management Science group in 2013. He teaches the core MBA Decision Science course and a Research-toPractice Seminar, Retail Operations. Gallino conducts empirical research on retail operations. His work has improved our understanding of omnichannel retail, in which a retailer uses multiple channels—such as physical stores and on-line stores—to sell its products.

Teresa Fort NAMED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TERESA FORT has been promoted to associate professor (without tenure). Fort joined Tuck’s Economics group in 2012. She teaches the core MBA Managerial Economics course and a Research-to-Practice Seminar, The Global Structure and Conduct of Firms. Fort’s research examines firm organization in global markets, spanning topics such as offshoring, production fragmentation, and factory-less goods producers. Her research helps us understand how the global fragmentation of production affects economic growth and welfare.

ANDREW BERNARD AND PHILLIP STOCKEN RECEIVE NEW ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS Professor ANDY BERNARD has been named the Kadas T’90 Distinguished Professor. Established through the generosity of Peter Kadas, a 1990 Tuck graduate and Tuck Overseer, the inaugural Kadas Distinguished Professorship is intended for one of the world’s most elite scholars in the global political economy. It is designed to further Tuck’s commitment to maintaining an excellent faculty and interdisciplinary learning environment. Bernard is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prolific and creative scholars in international economics. His elective course, Countries and Companies in the International Economy, has long been one of the most popular electives in the Tuck MBA program.

PHILLIP STOCKEN has been named the Jack Byrne Professor of Accounting. Established in 2003, the Byrne Professorship is intended for a top scholar in finance, accounting, or economics. Stocken’s research explores the financialreporting environment for companies—in particular, how this environment influences the actions of company leaders. A distinguishing feature of Stocken’s research is his ability to analyze accounting issues using tools and frameworks from economics, above and beyond his home discipline of accounting. This cross-discipline perspective is quite unusual, as it requires facility with multiple literatures. Stocken sets the standard for excellence in Tuck’s core course on financial accounting. FOR RESE ARCH HIGHLIGHTS, VISIT TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU / FACULT Y/ RESE ARCH-HIGHLIGHTS

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CHRISTOPHER J. WILLIAMS Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;84 HARNESSED HIS ARCHITECTURAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS TO GROW THE WILLIAMS CAPITAL GROUP INTO ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MID-SIZED INVESTMENT BANKS IN THE WORLD. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

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HRISTOPHER J. WILLIAMS T’84 is the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Williams Capital Group and Williams Capital Management, one of the most active co-managers of U.S. investment-grade new issue debt financings. In 2002, Williams was selected by Fortune as one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in Corporate America. Crain’s New York Business, in 2003, listed him as one of the top 100 minority business leaders. Williams has also been the subject of numerous articles on management in both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. What most people don’t know about Williams is that, at heart, he’s a gifted artist and designer who can bring a sense of craftsmanship to a profession known more by its numbers than its creativity. Williams was raised in New Milford, Connecticut, a rural town on the western side of the state. He grew up in a modest single-family home on 40 acres and enjoyed hiking, trail-biking, and camping on the surrounding terrain. There was a stream that ran through his family’s property, and he would spend hours playing in it, catching fish and frogs, and sometimes just observing how the water changed from day to day. As he kept observing, he began drawing what he saw. He discovered he could re-create on paper, with technical precision, the trees and rocks and other elements of the landscape, but he also knew early on that some of his classmates were better artists—they could draw anything beautifully. Williams was more limited to angular things, so he thought architecture would be a good fit. He took an architecture course in high school, and then pursued that subject at Howard University.

After college, Williams was hired by the Architects Environmental Collaborative, an architecture firm in New Haven, Connecticut, and that’s where he found one of the keys to his later financial success. As he worked with the more senior architects and their clients, he discerned “a certain sequential thought process one follows in architecture, and it’s true of virtually any profession,” he says. “It’s the process of listening to what a client wants, accounting for the many constraints (budgetary, regulatory, topographical, engineering), and then going back and forth with a client to come up with something they will love.” He uses the same process today when he meets with large corporations who want to discuss financing options. “Every time we meet with clients, they have unique objectives,” he says. “In capital markets, the goal is to structure the transaction in the manner that provides the lowest possible cost of financing by generating the greatest possible demand among investors.” There are cheaper structures that have additional risks (such as the risk of rising interest rates). There are different markets that attract specific investors. There’s a wide range of financing tools that come with varying degrees of flexibility. “Just as in architecture we have all these constraints that must be taken into account when designing a building,” Williams explains, “in finance I find a creative approach is also important.”

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illiams ended up in the finance industry because he didn’t have great timing for a career in architecture. While working as an architect, interest rates remained extremely high and construction projects began drying up. Williams looked around. Firms in the Northeast were reducing their staff sizes. He was at the bottom of the hierarchy. After talking to some friends and associates, he decided to apply to business schools. “I knew very little about what I wanted to do, other than obtaining a broader set of skills beyond the ability to design,” he says. When Williams first visited Tuck, it was mostly just to take a look. He didn’t think it would be a good fit for him. But the school and its setting charmed him. He immediately felt the warmth and cohesion among the student body. He saw that the level of interaction between the students and the faculty, during the few days he was there, was deeper than what he saw when he visited other schools that were larger and located in cities. “As a student, it felt very good to be part of that type of community,” he recalls. “Very quickly, I felt at home and met people who ended up being good and lasting friends.” Many of those friendships took root in his firstyear study group, which Williams formed with fellow T’84s James Bradley, Michael Goulder, Wilbur Kim, Robert Wallace, and sometimes Peter Grieve as an honorary member (although he was in a another study group). Other friendships—with Robin Arnold, Kimberly Borden, and Sabina Wu Lusardi—were built at the occasional meetings of the wine tasting club. Some of Williams’s T’84 classmates also ended up becoming business associates: Edward Wiese, Caleb Aldrich, Nancy Corsiglia, Peter Grieve, Errol Harris, Colin Kerwin, and Williams’s first-year roommate, David Plants. Wiese remembers meeting Williams at a Tuck ’Tails event early in their first year. “He’s tall like a basketball player, and very striking when you first meet him,” he says. “He’s always got a smile and a glimmer in his eye, and a very positive attitude. From the day I met him he was cheerful, friendly and outgoing, and he continues to be that way.” Bradley, a professor of operations management and business analytics at the College of William and Mary, immediately liked Williams because he was “down to earth and very easy to get along with,” Bradley says.

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And Williams happened to be the perfect study group partner because of his patience and open-mindedness. “He respects you and is willing to listen to and seriously consider your point of view,” he says. “He has opinions, but he’s not someone who has made up their mind about everything and is just going to do it. There’s give and take, honest exchange.” Wallace, the president and CEO of BITHGROUP Technologies, a systems engineering consulting firm, has similar memories of Williams. “When we had Tuck ’Tails, Chris was like a magnet. People were naturally drawn to him because he was sincere, blessed with an infectious personality, and just fun to be around,” he says. As fellow African Americans in a mostly white community, Wallace and Williams naturally gravitated to each other. But they had other things in common, too. They both had backgrounds in the physical sciences (Wallace has a degree in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania), and they shared a love of basketball and tennis. Their friendship deepened in their second year when Wallace, who had two children and a third on the way, became severely ill and couldn’t attend class. He hadn’t secured a job yet and was worried about providing for his growing family. “Chris is one of the main reasons I was able to manage my way through that time,” Wallace recounts. “Chris encouraged me. He would bring me the course work we had to do. He would keep me abreast of what was happening in our classes. He was a friend, and one of the anchors that kept me stable during that time.” Wilbur Kim, a managing director at Cambridge Associates, got to know Williams as a thoughtful, analytical person with a quiet demeanor. But that impression was complicated a bit after Kim visited Williams at his apartment in the Village, in Manhattan, during the summer between their first and second years. Williams had an internship at Morgan Guaranty Trust (now J.P. Morgan), and it was his first time living the high-energy Wall Street lifestyle. Kim walked into Williams’s apartment and “here’s my friend with the TV on, the stereo on, and the windows open letting in a cacophony of noise, and Chris is completely energized by this whole thing,” Kim remembers. “And I’m saying to myself, ‘Who is this guy?’” Kim’s observation is that Williams found a different side of himself in New York. He discovered he could work and socialize with that crowd and still be true to himself. “I saw my friend hit another gear in the most competitive finance realm in the world, and yet deal with the whole social piece and still be able to come back to who he was,” Kim says. “He found a way to work with it to get what he wanted, as opposed to letting it work him.”

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Williams’s Tuck classmates describe him as “down to earth,” “cheerful,” and “outgoing.”

n 1984, Wall Street was booming, and Williams had proven to himself that he could thrive in that environment. After graduation, he joined Lehman Brothers and in a few years was running its structured derivatives group. The rhythm of the business was unique: every day, Williams and his team examined the economy, looked at the relationship of various interest rates, currencies, and commodity prices, and then came up with a thesis that, if correct, would enable an investor to benefit significantly. At the same time, they tried to limit the downside if they were wrong. They accomplished this task through the use of financial derivatives, which were often packaged into securities. For example, if an investor expected U.S. interest rates to rise and European rates to stay low, Williams would build a security that earned an additional yield if the spread between the two interest rates widened. In 1992, having learned a great deal about how to put together complex derivatives trades, Williams left Lehman to start a division of Jeffries and Company. Just two years later, Williams took the biggest risk of his life and launched Williams Capital Management with three colleagues from Lehman. Within weeks, he hired two more people, creating a core staff of five. Williams’s wife, Janice, joined the firm a year later. One of the first team members, a smart and technical trader

from Lehman, was skeptical that the business plan—a high-value-added, high-margin firm that focused on personal service—was viable. “I remember he said, ‘I don’t think it’s going to work. But I don’t think you’re crazy, and therefore I’ll come with you,’” Williams says. “I guess that was a compliment that someone, despite the fact that they didn’t think it was going to work, had sufficient confidence in me that they were willing to take the leap.” His confidence in Williams was well founded. Throughout his career at Lehman, Williams had focused on building relationships with clients. So when he started his own business, he could call on those relationships to grow his business. That’s how Williams Capital landed its first transaction, a $100 million financing deal for Sallie Mae (Student Loan Marketing Association), a government-sponsored enterprise that, at that time, was the industry’s most prolific issuer of bonds. Williams recalls sitting down with the executive vice president of finance at Sallie Mae and telling him he was leaving Lehman. “He said something to me that was so critical, and I didn’t realize how important it would be at that time,” Williams says. “He told me that if you can bring me the same quality of transactions on CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

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your own that you brought to us while at Lehman, then I’ll make sure that we cut through any red tape that might exist at Sallie Mae to do business with you.” That one transaction gave Williams the credibility to seek out other large corporations that couldn’t say that they were too big for his firm, because Sallie Mae was bigger. In the following years, Williams reconnected with his classmate Ted Wiese, who was running the money market desk at T. Rowe Price. They chatted about bringing together debt issuers, such as large public corporations, with T. Rowe’s money market traders, and have been working together ever since. “He has invested in building relationships with debt issuers, working with the GMs, the Toyotas, and others,” Wiese says. “He doesn’t like to go in and put a gloss on things and put the best sales case in front of you. He really lays a strong foundation, and upon that builds a conservative structure for managing his enterprise. He has a solid base, and the walls are probably thicker than they need to be, but his house has withstood a couple of earthquakes.” That house has grown considerably since its early days. Williams Capital now has about 90 employees and stacks up well, in terms of trading volume, with the firms that are one level down from the likes of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. But even with all that

success, Williams retains a sense of humility about the financial business. “Whenever I look at our business and tell the story of how long we’ve been around, I feel good about it, but I’m never past the point of having a certain level of paranoia and caution,” Williams says. Williams credits his Tuck education for shaping his skills in business and leadership. The rigorous curriculum gave him confidence in his technical business training, and he recalls reading case studies with nightmarish management stories about bad bosses, which have given him guideposts along his own path of management. “I think the training was certainly important in the sense that it made sure I could clearly understand what types of classic things can go wrong as a manager.” he says.

illiams’s steady hand, equanimity, and financial acumen eventually started attracting attention from corporate boards. First, Caesars Entertainment approached him, through Williams’s friend who is an attorney with a practice that represented independent board members. Then Williams joined the board of Walmart, a company he got to know closely through his work at Williams Capital. He served on the Walmart board

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for 10 years and worked as the chairman of its audit committee for the last four years of his term. Next he joined the board of Cox Enterprises, a private company that owns businesses in the cable, automotive, and media (television, radio, and newspaper) sectors. Today, Williams also serves on the boards of Clorox and Ameriprise Financial. In each case, although he was vetted by a search firm, it was Williams’s personal relationships that led to board invitations. “It is a lot of work,” Williams says. “It’s something you juggle along with your day-to-day management responsibilities. It gives you a view into different management styles, challenges, and exposure to ways in which various issues and strategic plans are implemented and addressed. It has educated me as a manager, given me a broader perspective.” Williams brought that broad perspective to the Tuck Board of Overseers in 2008, and he’s served as the chair since 2012. Jennifer Uhrig T’87 was on the board when Williams joined and has appreciated his easy-going style. “He’s willing to offer constructive criticism in a palatable way, which is critical,” she says. “He’s willing to step up and say something, but he always does it in a way that everybody’s comfortable with. That’s a talent: offering criticism in a way that doesn’t make people feel bad.” Williams was the chair during an especially important time at Tuck: the transition from Paul Danos to Matthew Slaughter as dean. Williams acted as the bridge for the board. “He did a good job of keeping the board included, soliciting opinions, and making it an open process,” Uhrig says. “It’s a delicate balance because you have a committee charged with doing the work, but you also want everybody to feel like they can

contribute, and that their voice is being heard, without having all 30 of us on the committee.” Once officially in his new role, Dean Slaughter worked closely with Williams to help refine the board’s processes and engagement—starting with his generous willingness to extend his term as board chair. “Chris’s counsel has been amazing,” Slaughter says. “Our regularly scheduled conversations have ranged from the highest levels of strategy formulation to the most detailed questions of day-to-day operations. I have learned so much about leadership from Chris—and, not surprisingly given who he is, have had the chance to do so with optimism and good cheer all along the way.” Williams is stepping down from the board in 2018, but he plans to stay in close contact with the school and its community, to continue those relationships he has built over the past 36 years. Indeed, it’s a habit he honed at Tuck. “Business is about people,” says Robert Wallace. “Professor James Quinn made it very clear to me. It’s not about technology, or business processes and procedures. All those things are important, but at the end of the day it’s about relationships. I think Chris understands that. He learned that lesson very quickly.”

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BOOM Improving the efficiency and availability of energy is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. It’s also an area in which Tuck is thriving.

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HESE ARE EXCITING TIMES IN THE prominent Tuck alumni in the sector and, perhaps most ENERGY SECTOR, a $6 trillion economic importantly, taps the initiative of students themselves. juggernaut that touches every aspect “Students told us ‘this is an area that we feel of modern life. With surging demand, passionate about.’ It’s a growth industry and it’s an fickle commodity prices and a technology industry that requires MBA skills,” Salas says. That revolution in full swing, the energy business groundswell has been building since at least 2009, is hurtling headlong into a future that is when Tuck students helped form the Dartmouth Energy both full of promise and muddled with uncertainty. Collaborative with students from Dartmouth, Thayer, In these volatile times the energy industry is crying and Vermont Law School. “That really cemented our out for wise leadership, and is seemingly short of view of the relevance and importance of having a center executives with top MBA training. That’s an irresistible focused on the sector at the business school,” Salas says. combination for many Tuck students, who relish the Daniel Revers T’89, managing partner and cofield’s challenge and opportunity to lead businesses founder of ArcLight Capital Partners and a member through this transition. Leaders are adapting to of Tuck’s board of overseers, supported the Revers changing business models, technology innovation, Energy Initiative since 2012, and endowed the Revers consolidation, and growth in Energy Center last year. The various sub-sectors, as well as Center complements the core meaningful growth in areas MBA curriculum by supporting such as renewable energies and student pathways across the a strategic corporate focus on industry. In addition to energyON THE INDUSTRY climate and sustainability. specific elective courses and a opportunities first-ever Energy GIX in Morocco, “We have right now to disrupt some of the the center hosts campus speaker Wise business leaders must be largest, most profitable, and most series, sends students to key deeply entrenched industries industry conferences, oversees responsible stewards of our planet’s on planet Earth,” says Mike student projects and more. energy resources. One of the goals Miskovsky T’89, a solar pioneer “The number of opportuof the Energy Center at Tuck is to now leading an electric vehicle nities for Tuck students to learn battery startup. “If that doesn’t about the energy sector and the give students the tools needed to get a business person excited, I related career paths has been utilize energy in an efficient, socially don’t know what does.” growing substantially,” says Erin responsible, and environmentally Mansur, the Revers Professor of There is increasing focus Business Administration and the on renewable energy, which friendly manner.” center's faculty director. currently accounts for about 15 percent of the U.S. energy gener About a third of all Tuck students take Mansur’s energy ation mix but is projected to claim DANIEL REVERS T’89 86 percent of new generation economics course. In September, managing partner and co-founder, investment from now to 2040, Stephiney Foley T’18 and Alen ArcLight Capital Partners; Tuck Overseer according to Bloomberg New Amini T’18 spearheaded a Tesla Energy Finance. Novel technolocase competition, one of many gies have also upended traditionenergy-oriented initiatives inal markets. Hydraulic fracturing, for example, ignited cubated in the center. A cornerstone of that work is the a boom in oil and natural gas, taking the United States mentorship program pairing center student fellows from an import to a net export of energy. with Tuck alumni who are leaders in the energy indus “There’s no better time to take part in the business try, including former Siemens CEO Eric Spiegel T’87 and transformation of energy,” says April Salas, executive Elyse Allan D’79 , T’84, the CEO of GE Canada. director of Tuck’s Revers Center for Energy. The center Tuck alumni are active across the energy sector, was endowed in 2016 to inspire and shape tomorrow’s from energy startups, to consulting and banking, from leaders in energy. We also have an opportunity, Salas potentially disruptive new technologies like liquid says, to construct an energy ecosystem around the metal batteries and cleaner fuel for oceangoing ships broader Dartmouth community, including the Thayer to the daunting challenge of mitigating risk in this School of Engineering and the new Arthur L. Irving dynamic industry that is so essential to modern life Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth, which and commerce. These are the stories of six Tuck alumni also was established in 2016. This ecosystem engages working to transform the energy industry.

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While the disruption in the energy industry is creating demanding challenges and exciting opportunities, the constant is its critical role as an enabler to a better quality of life for millions around the world.” ELYSE ALLAN D’79, T’84 CEO, GE Canada

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ace Ralli was on a ski lift when he and an old friend hatched a plan to transform the shipping industry. Ralli had been working in energy finance, helping to launch an energy-efficiency financing fund for real estate; his friend Volckert van Reesema was in the shipping business. “Volckert had a ship that was facing new emissions regulations and asked if he could use the fund I was working on to invest in efficiency of the ship,” says Ralli, who soon recognized the tremendous opportunity in cleaning up one of the world’s most polluting industries. The friends are now partners in Clean Marine Energy, which Ralli describes as a one-stop shop for financing the conversion of oceangoing cargo ships to run on Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) rather than heavy fuel oil, which is highly polluting. “Nitrous oxide emissions from the top 15 of the world’s 100,000 ships equal the emissions from every car on the planet,” Ralli says, and childhood asthma rates in U.S. port cities are three times the national average. A new global emissions-limiting protocol that goes into effect in 2020 will force shipping companies to switch from heavy fuel oil to cleaner-burning fuels. Low-sulfur diesel meets the new standard but it’s expensive. Natural gas is cleaner, cheaper and more abundant than ever. Existing ship engines run just fine on LNG, but there’s a catch: It has to be stored at -270 degrees Fahrenheit. Converting ships to run on LNG will save ship owners money in the long term, but the up-front costs are substantial and fueling infrastructure will have to be developed in hundreds of ports around the world. “It’s a huge undertaking,” Ralli says. “It involves not only creating a market, but the infrastructure to service it.” Ralli came to Tuck after the 2003 blackout inspired a career change from corporate finance to energy. “The entire eastern seaboard was without power for three days,” he says. “I didn’t know exactly what solution I wanted to be a part of, but I knew there was one out there that I could have a big impact on.” At Tuck he helped start the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative, a student-led precursor to the Revers Center, then went to work at PG&E to gain a broad overview of the energy industry. He followed a mentor to the efficiency startup, where he built financial instruments to mitigate risk and drive energy efficiency investment in the real estate sector. When he and Van Reesema spoke that day on the ski lift, the basic model was established. Still, it’s not easy to sell change in the conservative shipping industry. “Our strategy is to remove the risk by applying our financial engineering, our technical expertise, and our shipbuilding background, so that LNG fueling looks like something a traditional infrastructure fund normally invests in,” Ralli says. “That enables us to attract the very large dollars that are needed.”

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t’s hard to put Robert Wallace T’84 in a box. The Baltimore-born entrepreneur has written six books and runs three companies focusing on information technology, executive coaching, and most recently, renewable energy. He serves on several boards and travels extensively for global missions, while delivering dozens of speeches every year. It’s fair to ask how he does it all. “I don’t sleep,” he laughs. Wallace grew up in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill housing projects and attended segregated schools until the 10th grade, when he was admitted to an engineering and science magnet school that had been integrated after a landmark case argued by Thurgood Marshall. Wallace thrived at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, and one day during his junior year two teachers pulled him aside and told him he should attend an Ivy League university. “I had no idea what an Ivy League school was, but those men saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself,” says Wallace, who earned an academic scholarship to study mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. While studying at Penn, Robert met Carolyn Green, a biomedical engineering student, and his soon to be wife. During his senior year at Penn Robert researched renewable energy, with a focus on solar generation. It was 1978, and Jimmy Carter had famously installed solar panels on the White House roof. Wallace recognized the technology’s potential, but also realized the business environment was not yet right for renewables. Consequently, he and Carolyn decided to accept employment at DuPont, where they both focused on honing their engineering skills. However, Robert’s passion was with business so he began applying to business schools. “When I visited Tuck and felt the soul of the school, I knew it was the place for me,” Wallace says. He and Carolyn moved with their two young boys to Hanover. She pursued her masters at Dartmouth, he earned his MBA, and they welcomed the third of their five children. Neither of them slept much in those days. Wallace worked in numerous engineering jobs for IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Westinghouse before founding his IT company, BITHGROUP Technologies, in 1992. He wrote bestselling books on minority and female entrepreneurship and founded an executive coaching consultancy, Entre Teach Learning Systems. In 2009 he founded BITHENERGY, feeling the time finally was

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right for sustainable energy advanced technologies. “We’ve seen the innovation increase, the operational efficiency improve, and we’ve seen costs decrease significantly,” he says. As with everything in Wallace’s career, his approach to energy is multifaceted and nimble. While BITHENERGY has had success in what he calls ‘big iron’ projects, including utility-scale solar generation, the company also is pursuing opportunities at the intersection of renewable energy and information technology. Two of the most promising veins relate to cybersecurity and networks of integrated devices, the so-called Internet of Things. “We see additional innovation on the horizon that’s not mainstream but soon will be, and we are positioning ourselves to be a part of that,” Wallace says. “There’s a great deal of commonality between our efforts in IT and energy, and that has given us the ability to become one of the swift players in that space.”

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arah Barpoulis wants to get one thing out of the way. “I’m not inventing the next solar panel,” the independent director says. That’s not to say she hasn’t been a pioneer throughout her career. In her first job after Tuck she participated in deregulating the wholesale energy markets, eventually building the energy commodities trading floor at PG&E Corporation’s non-utility subsidiary, then led it through the California and Enron crises. The experience gave her an appreciation for risk management and transparent corporate governance, which are more important than ever in today’s rapidly changing energy industry. “Where I have been successful is looking at things from a risk-management perspective and thinking through a range of scenarios,” she says. “That means not looking for one solution but rather a suite of possible solutions.” Barpoulis and her husband, Tuck classmate John Barpoulis, T’91 have three children. When their youngest was diagnosed with autism, she chose to stay home and work as an asset-management and risk consultant, which soon led to a seat on the board of Reliant Energy. She was 41; many of her peers were in their 70s. “I think it was a little intimidating to be both young and female but I think being opinionated was probably the more difficult thing,” says Barpoulis, who now sits on the boards of publicly traded energy companies SemGroup Corporation and South Jersey Industries, as well as Educare, DC, an early childhood education nonprofit. “From a board perspective I believe diversity is important, and not just in gender and race. Generational diversity is important too and having fresh thoughts on a board—if you have a board member with the right decorum—can really be powerful.” Barpoulis credits Tuck for a style that lends itself to constructive debate, consensus building, and empowering others, which she sees as the key attributes of successful board members. “Joining a board at a young age tested all of those skills,” she says. “I think a lot of Tuck graduates find that their strengths rise to the top when they manage change or confront a crisis.” She likes what she sees at the Revers Center, where students are learning not just to navigate the fast-changing energy industry, but also how to be wise leaders. “If I look back over my career and someone asked me what I consider my greatest success, I would say it was positioning others for success,” she says. “Even in the boardroom you’re not there to run the company. You’re there to create shareholder value by positioning the management team for long-term success.”

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amali Rhett is executive director of The Energy Co-op, a unique green power purchasing collective in Philadelphia and surrounding counties. When the energy industry veteran took on the role late last year, she confronted a classic MBA problem. Membership was declining, causing prices to rise and membership to decline further. Her solution is to reverse the spiral—to spin up rather than down. Increasing the nonprofit’s buying power puts downward pressure on the pricing the Co-op can offer the community, says Rhett, who wants to quintuple the Co-op’s membership from 5,000 to 25,000. Ultimately it’s a way for consumers to express their values through the marketplace. “I’m an energy person first, who is also an environmentalist,” Rhett says. “All utilities now have renewables in their portfolio. That’s one of the drivers in lowering costs and we take advantage of that.” Members pay a slight premium for clean and sometimes locally produced electricity, which The Energy Coop provides through tradable renewable energy certificates. This creates a market-based incentive for companies to invest in wind and solar generation, even with the price of natural gas at historic lows. “The price drops for renewables year-over-year have been huge and in some cases producers have been able to generate renewable energy at parity, or even below traditional brown sources,” she says. Rhett began her career in management consulting, specializing in post-merger integration at Deloitte, where she also led a team studying electric vehicle infrastructure. Her fascination with the energy business grew out of an OnSite Global Consulting project during her second year at Tuck, analyzing power-generation opportunities in the Caribbean for a global client. “Several islands were using diesel which is expensive and dirty, while Costa Rica at that point was 90-plus percent renewable,” says Rhett, who recognized the dramatic impact energy can have on quality of life. “I like to look at energy as a means of economic justice and social justice,” she says. A chance meeting in the Philadelphia public library galvanized that connection. “I was at a green event at the local library in Philadelphia and I spoke to a woman who hadn’t had heat for 20 years,” she says. “Last year, she did not have electricity. Think about what that does to a child. How can I empower that child to be the next president of the United States if she can’t even read at night? My mission is to make sure energy is available to everyone.”

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“By 2030, the way the world produces and uses energy will be massively transformed. There will be daunting challenges and ample opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs who are ready to act on this energy shift.” ERIC SPIEGEL T’87, former CEO, Siemens USA; author, The Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future

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battery management system, and techniques that enable standard lithium ion cells to safely be packed more tightly together. InEVit plans to freely license the system design and manufacturing processes, while selling proprietary controller chips that make the system work. The trick will be to convince carmakers to build their vehicles around InEVit’s battery design, which Miskovsky likens to a standard D-cell for the electric vehicle industry. “If you have a flashlight and you haven’t put batteries in it for 20 years, you can drop by any drug store and buy new ones—and the flashlight will still work,” he says. “It should be the same for electric vehicles.” Miskovsky has a talent for disruption. After Tuck he went to work in new business development at Time Warner, where he launched SI Television, Sports Illustrated’s first foray into digital media. “I sat in meetings in Silicon Valley with kids who were just out of college, some with blue hair, and they were having the time of their lives,” Miskovsky says. “It was one of those moments when a big transition was occurring and I realized I had to be out here.” A succession of startups followed, notably Zep Solar, which became a U.S. standard for mounting hardware for rooftop solar installations. The key was convincing 16 of the world’s top 20 solar panel manufacturers to redesign their product to mate with Zep’s standards and hardware. “Our system allowed crews on the roof to be up to five times faster, allowing the entire installer community to finally make money reliably,” says Miskovsky. Now he wants to repeat the formula with electric vehicles. “I’ve already run this play once,” Miskovsky says. “And what it showed is that if you get it right, you can convince otherwise competitive companies to adopt a standard in the interest of something greater: dramatic reductions in costs, allowing everyone in the industry to succeed.”

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nergy entrepreneur Mike Miskovsky is bullish on the future of electric vehicles even though he doesn’t think much of today’s electric cars. “They don’t have enough range, they cost way too much, and they don’t last long enough,” he says, and that’s because the batteries aren’t good enough. “The battery is the most expensive part of the vehicle, and in order to service it you basically have to destroy the car.” The solution is a better battery system, comprised of slide-in “modules” that can be easily serviced and replaced, and Miskovsky thinks he has it. “Our systems are designed in a very clever way to be 30 to 100 percent more energy dense, 30 times faster to manufacture, and easy to replace or upgrade over the vehicle’s life,” says Miskovsky, who has partnered with original Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard in the venture, called InEVit (the first three syllables of “inevitable”). Miskovsky is CEO and Eberhard is chief technology officer. The company’s 26 patents include an improved

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hil Giudice is CEO of AMBRI, a Boston-based startup chasing the Holy Grail of renewable energy: cheap, reliable, and massively scalable electricity storage. The company’s solution is a new liquid-metal battery technology developed in the MIT laboratory of co-founder Donald Sadoway, who was inspired by an industry where scale makes all the difference. “Don looked at the electrochemical process of an aluminum smelter, which takes tremendous amounts of electricity off the grid and turns dirt—bauxite—into pure metal at 50 cents a pound,” Giudice says. Sadoway and his team found a way to reverse that process, unlocking the potential for a new type of battery that stores energy in layers of molten metal and salt. The batteries have no moving parts, the ingredients are abundant and cheap, and the design is immune from the capacity fade that plagues competing technologies such as lithium-ion. Those qualities attracted great interest from the U.S. Department of Energy and heavy-hitting technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates, who learned of the technology after anonymously auditing one of Sadoway’s courses online. When Giudice joined AMBRI as CEO in 2011, the going rate for grid-level storage was about $1,000 per kilowatt-hour. That number has since plummeted to $273 for lithium-ion, eroding the venture’s initial cost advantage and forcing the team to develop an even lower-cost chemistry. The new ingredients are a close-held secret, though Giudice allows that they are abundant and cheap, in keeping with an observation Sadoway makes in a TED Talk viewed 1.2 million times. “If you want to make something dirt cheap,” he says, “make it out of dirt.” Giudice knows plenty about dirt. He started as an energy geologist, earning a master’s in the field before coming to Tuck “to get my union card to do more than just geology.” He spent 17 years as an energy consultant, until the September morning in New York when he watched the World Trade Center's twin towers

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come down. His firm, Marsh & McLennan, lost 295 people that day. “I was ready to try something different and instead of advising people on how to run a business, I wanted to roll my sleeves up and do it myself,” says Giudice, who did a turn as board member and SVP at EnerNOC and later as energy undersecretary for the state of Massachusetts before joining AMBRI, where his mission is nothing less than transforming one of the most deeply entrenched industries on the planet. The cost of wind and solar has fallen through the floor in recent years, with no end in sight. The problem is that the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. Intermittency exacerbates the long-standing challenge of matching electricity generation to demand using a grid that Giudice likens to a supply chain without any warehouses. “It’s been that way since the time of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse,” he says, “but batteries we intend to deliver will change all of that.”

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THE RIGHT KIND OF GRIND WITH PK COFFEE IN STOWE, VERMONT, K ATRINA VEERMAN T’01 TURNED A PASSION INTO A LIVELIHOOD.

By JULIE SLOANE D’99

t sounds like a daydream: Move to a quaint small town in Vermont and open a coffee shop. The coffee would be perfectly on point, the food Instagram-worthy, the cafe light and airy—modern, but accented with warm hardwoods. But then the phone vibrates, the kids demand attention, thoughts of work deadlines intrude: back to reality. Not for KATRINA VEERMAN T’01. The cofounder and CEO of PK Coffee in Stowe, Vermont, Veerman is indeed living the dream. Veerman had spent more than a decade post-Tuck bouncing around the alternative energy sector, launching a green building practice for a property developer, doing solar project development in the Bay Area, and working in sales for a fuel cell manufacturer. Like anyone in sales and business development, Veerman spent lots of time traveling and taking meetings. “You figure out pretty quickly that coffee shops are the best places to do that,” she says. San Francisco in the early- to mid2000s saw the birth of third wave coffee, a movement that built upon the ubiquity of high-quality coffee by treating it as a craft to be mastered, the coffee itself an artisanal product with its own terroir. Blue Bottle Coffee, a chain of more than 50 shops which recently sold a majority stake to Nestle for a reported $425 million, got started in Veerman’s friend’s garage in Hayes Valley. The idea for her own shop was still percolating in 2011 when Veerman was driving east from California and got word

that her employer, solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, had declared bankruptcy. “I thought, ‘Well OK! I now have some more free time,’” she laughs. “I’d always wanted to live in Vermont, so I’m going to go live in Vermont!” Veerman had briefly lived in the Green Mountain State post-college as a rowing coach for Middlebury College, and a few years prior, she had connected with her birth father, who lived in Vermont. She’d also long had entrepreneurial ambitions, inspired by family—particularly her beloved great uncle Pierre Ketellapper, who had a coffee business in Belgium before and after World War II—and another brief postcollege stint working for a nonprofit that supports women entrepreneurs. New York and Boston were just starting to catch the third wave buzz, and Veerman saw the gap in the Vermont market. “There were only a few places in Vermont that understood that coffee is a product like wine,” she explains. “Vermont also has some of the best milk on the planet.” Veerman worked on consulting projects while she waited for the coffee stars to align. She put out feelers for a business partner and eventually found Matt Carrell, a former teacher who she describes as “the most amazing human with the most amazing taste buds.” Together, they found a coffee supplier in Counter Culture and a small Vermont family dairy, Sweet Rowan Farms. (Even today with one coffee shop, PK Coffee is the dairy’s largest customer.) The duo spent

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two years doing coffee pop-ups around Stowe as they waited for a space with the right combo of feel, price, and location, and then ultimately built out their shop. While the pop-ups didn’t really make a profit, they served an invaluable marketing and research function. “We learned how much evangelists help,” says Veerman. “We built a network of visitors and locals who just fell in love with what we were trying to do and got it. We also learned it’s hard to make good coffee. Coffee’s influenced by humidity, temperature, age, how fresh it is. We needed a consistent product in a convenient location.” Their shop opened in 2016, at a good crossroads to attract locals, but also the skiers and tourists who frequent the area. Carrell focuses on service, spending a lot of time managing and nurturing the staff at PK Coffee—which is named after Veerman’s great uncle—while Veerman handles the business side of the house and scouts additional locations for future shops, perhaps elsewhere in New England. She recently also became director of business development at a startup called PatientWisdom, an online platform that is improving health and care by listening to patients and focusing on what really matters to them and providers as people. It gives her the flexibility to work part time while continuing to build PK. How does the reality of owning a coffee shop line up with the fantasy? “It is a dream,” insists Veerman. “It’s amazing to have created a physical location that I know has had a positive impact on me and on the town.” But she is also quick to point out the reality that few like to talk about—the need to do whatever it takes to get things going: taking out garbage, bussing tables, cleaning sinks—and the challenges of being in the service industry. She’s grateful that her Tuck network has been so supportive. “You’re not going to make the money you think you’re going to make, at least not right away,” says Veerman. “But it’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve done. My goal is that PK Coffee is a space where people can come together and just connect as human beings. Every time I walk in, it’s awesome. In that way for me, it’s totally lived up to the fantasy.”

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A GLOBAL PROBLEM, A GLOBAL LEADER CEO OF LIXIL CORPORATION KINYA SETO T’96 IS LEVERAGING HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL SMARTS TO TACKLE THE GLOBAL SANITATION CRISIS.

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ast year KINYA SETO T’96 took the helm of one of the world’s biggest housing and building companies, Tokyo-based LIXIL Group Corporation. It was a different type of challenge for the 57-year-old entrepreneur, who has started more than 10 successful companies around the world and would now lead a traditional Japanese company with more than 70,000 employees in 150 different countries. As if the change in venue isn’t challenge enough, Seto is positioning the company, which includes water technology products such as toilets and faucets at its core, to address the global sanitation crisis that claims the lives of 800 children every single day. The centerpiece of this effort is a line of low-cost toilets that cost less than $10 and require less than half a liter of water to flush. First developed by LIXIL’s American Standard Brands with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the SATO lineup of products is central to the company’s commitment to provide better sanitation to 100 million people by 2020. “LIXIL is in a unique position in that we have the innovation and experience to make a major contribution to the global sanitation challenge,” Seto says. “This motivates us, but it also means we have a certain responsibility to play our part. As CEO it is important for me to be a leader on this issue.” The effort also will help Seto inject an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of purpose into a firm that had little shared culture

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when he took the helm. LIXIL was formed in a 2011 merger of five Japanese firms, and had recently scooped up U.S. rival American Standard and German bathroom fixtures giant Grohe Group when an accounting scandal surfaced in one of the German firm’s Chinese subsidiaries. LIXIL inherited the problem, which resulted in an approximately $600-million write-down and the ouster of Seto’s predecessor. When Seto assumed the role of President and CEO in June 2016, his first order of business was to set the house in order. After its acquisition spree, LIXIL was rife with redundancies, yet Japanese labor laws limited Seto’s ability to streamline his workforce. One solution is simply to bring in more business, and with his entrepreneurial track record, Seto seemed just the man for the job. Under his leadership LIXIL is working to expand the home-remodeling market in Japan with a suite of easy-to-install new products and leveraging its worldwide reach to introduce existing products to new markets, such as a stain-resistant ceramic that could keep a toilet looking new for 100 years. But one of the company’s most revolutionary and socially impactful innovations is its approach to sanitation in developing countries. The first SATO toilet was introduced in Bangladesh in 2013, and more than 1.2 million are now in place in 14 countries throughout South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. LIXIL is also developing new toilets tailored to the unique challenges

of undeveloped rural areas, dense urban slums, and regions where water is scarce. The immediate goal is to help people in need, Seto says, but other benefits will accrue over time, including market share in regions poised for growth and a sense of pride and purpose for LIXIL employees. “I think that doing the right thing, respecting each other, the value of experimentation—these things are all central to building the culture of LIXIL as one company,” Seto says. “And SATO represents all of those things.” Seto attended a small private high school and earned his undergraduate degree at Tokyo University. He much preferred the smaller setting and felt that Tuck was a place where a young man who still struggled with English could make his mark while earning an MBA. “I would rather be Kinya Seto than an anonymous Japanese businessman, and I thought that at Tuck I would be appreciated for who I am and what I contributed,” he says. Tuck’s reputation as a top general management school sealed his decision. “There were many good classes at Tuck, but one in particular really changed my life,” Seto says, recalling a case study in Sydney Finkelstein’s Strategic Leadership course. The case involved the acquisition of a chocolate business in England. Closing the plant was the only option that made good business sense, and Seto remembers the class being uncharacteristically quiet because everyone was already in agreement. “Then all of a sudden the door opened

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and an English guy came to the podium,” Seto recalls. The man introduced himself as a worker at the plant in question, and told the class that his sick sister and elderly parents relied on his support. “He asked us to consider what would happen to his sister and his parents if we closed the plant, and no one had an answer for that question,” Seto says. “That class gave me a profound understanding of how the decisions we make as managers affect people’s lives.” Tuck’s cultural emphasis on treating each person as an individual also shaped Seto’s career path and leadership style. “It is what led me to become an entrepreneur,” says Seto, who has worked to

foster similar cultures in the companies he’s started. It’s been a successful model. In 2000 he founded MonotaRO, a direct marketer of maintenance, repair, and operating supplies, and grew it into a $3.3 billion company. He’s determined to apply the same approach to LIXIL, though he acknowledges that building an entrepreneurial culture in such a large conglomerate will take perseverance and some tweaking of the formula. With its potential to unite the company behind a good cause, SATO has an important role to play in the effort. Though Seto has put the full weight of his multinational behind the new brand, it

remains a quintessentially entrepreneurial play. That means if it is to succeed, SATO must be sustainable from the outset. “If you want to do lasting good, the effort must be sustainable,” says Seto, who feels a sense of personal responsibility for the program. “Sanitation is a big problem, and if you are able to do something to improve it, you have to do it. Over 800 children die of diarrhea every day because they have no access to a toilet,” he says. “If you can change that one thing, you might be able to change the world.”

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When you’re building and preserving an innovative brand, you have to try innovative things, even if not everyone around the table is convinced. If everyone had to agree on everything, nothing would get done.” MICHAEL ARAGON T’01

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MARKETING A DISRUPTIVE BRAND with TWITCH’S KATE JHAVERI T’03 AND MICHAEL ARAGON T’01 As told to JULIE SLOANE D’99

ince its founding in 2011, the popular social live streaming platform Twitch.tv has been fielding the same question over and over: “Why would anyone watch online videos of people playing video games?” But the reason why users view video gaming content is almost beside the point because, they are. And they’re watching a lot of it. Twitch, which was bought by Amazon in 2014, boasts 15 million daily active users, and is the world’s leading social video platform. According to Alexa, it is the 17th most popular website in America and 44th in the world. And leading the marketing and innovation of Twitch’s growing global brand are two Tuck alumni: Kate Jhaveri T’03, senior vice president of global marketing, and Michael Aragon T’01, senior vice president for content. Though Aragon and Jhaveri graduated from Tuck just two years apart, they didn’t meet until early 2017 in the Twitch offices. Jhaveri, who has been head of consumer marketing for Twitter, head of brand and mobile marketing for Facebook, and director of marketing for Microsoft, joined Twitch seeking an exciting new opportunity. And Aragon, who was a vice president and general manager for global digital video at PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment for more than a decade, was hired as senior vice president for content at Twitch in February 2017. Jhaveri and Aragon took a break from innovating the world of digital video to share their tips on building and marketing a disruptive brand.

Content is only as good as the marketing that goes with it. We each run our own teams—Mike’s creates partnerships to bring new content to the network, while Kate’s focuses on the brand and how to tell interesting stories—but we work closely together: content is marketing and marketing is content. Twitch has e-sports events that get one– to two– million concurrent viewers, but also newer verticals adjacent to that core audience, like anime, sci-fi, cosplay, and artists. Even the best content is a tree falling in the woods without a modern marketing team who can amplify and attract new audiences.

Cultivate community. When we think about the power of Twitch, it’s not just what we do on the site or the mobile apps, it’s about the living, breathing community that is using it. It’s critical that any brand understands its community members, talks to them in a language they understand, addresses their needs, and gets them excited. We recently held a three-day TwitchCon which drew over 20,000 people —the power of community is astonishing in person. It’s a chance for them to hear about new features and initiatives, but just as importantly, for them to know that they’re part of something big.

Focus on the right customer. Twitch is a two-sided marketplace with both content creators and viewers. We’ve always had the mantra “creators first,” which means thinking about how we can help creators make a better living and create a deeper audience connection. If creators are inspired and do well, they’ll want to make more content, which brings more viewers, which helps creators earn more money. People always say “know your customer,” but also consider which customers to focus on. Align your vision, but empower your staff. We’ve written a six-page memo outlining where we want to go in the next 18 months, and we prioritize that shared vision over day-to-day coordination. The idea is to make sure everyone is on the same page with what we’re trying to accomplish, and then unleash everyone to run as fast as they can at different opportunities. The key is that everyone is running at the same point on the horizon. You don’t have to be at every meeting if you have a shared vision. Experiment to decide. One of Twitch’s core values is to go to market quickly and iterate fast. Plan thoughtfully and ensure you can measure success, but don’t get bogged down in overthinking. Sometimes you don’t get things quite right, but it’s better to get a product or feature to market with 80 percent of what you want, and let customers tell you what works and what doesn’t. Accept that you’re not going to be 100 percent right all the time, but you can always pivot based on customer feedback. Disagree, but then commit. As aligned as we are, we don’t always agree with each other’s ideas. Rather than allow disagreement to be paralyzing, our guiding light is that it’s okay to disagree, but then we quickly commit to a path forward. We often say, “I don’t agree, but let’s try it.” When you’re building and preserving an innovative brand, you have to try innovative things, even if not everyone around the table is convinced. If everyone had to agree on everything, nothing would get done.

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FROM HANOVER TO HOLLYWOOD HOW TUCK HELPED ME COMMUNICATE AND EXECUTE MY VISION IN HOLLYWOOD. By KAMRAN PASHA D’93, T’00

ew Tuck students enter the MBA program with expectations that their degree will become a springboard into the entertainment industry. And yet, that is exactly the path I took. And I credit Tuck with guiding me on “the road less taken.” I graduated from Tuck in 2000 and have since gone on to become an established screenwriter and novelist. I have worked as a writer and producer on TV shows such as the Emmy-nominated terrorism series Sleeper Cell, the spy thriller Nikita, and even historical dramas such as Reign, set during the life of Mary Queen of Scots. I am currently serving as a writerproducer on an upcoming Showtime drama about Guantanamo Bay prison. In the 17 years since I left Hanover, I have been contacted many times by students and alumni seeking to know how I broke into the Hollywood system. And I tell them all the same thing: it all began at Tuck. When I arrived in Hanover in 1998, I was already an unusual student. Like many of my colleagues, I had worked on Wall Street, but not in a financial or management position. I had been a journalist, covering the international markets for news groups such as Institutional Investor and Knight Ridder. And I had gone on to law school at Cornell, focusing more on fascinating theories of constitutional law than on the practical legal concerns of businesses. So, when I looked down at my first business school case, I remember thinking “What have I gotten myself into?” As class began and my fellow students shared profound insights from their years at Goldman Sachs, I began to panic that I was in way over my head. And yet I stuck it out. And I’m glad that I did, as my two years at Tuck gave me lifelong friends—and provided me direct training that launched and sustained my career in Hollywood. At its core, to be a filmmaker is to be an entrepreneur. We begin with an idea, a vision for a finished product (the movie), and then have to work out the steps necessary to design (write), finance, and ultimately produce and distribute the product for public consumption. As entrepreneurs, filmmakers must not only have an instinct for what the public needs, we must also have an intuition about what the public does not yet even know it needs. And in order to bring our vision to reality, we must have a level of persistence that can border on fanaticism—and strong communication skills. Which brings me to Tuck’s greatest gift to me as a filmmaker. When I was a student, frankly I did not do very well in traditional

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business courses such as Corporate Finance, and I barely eked past Cost Accounting. But I excelled in the corporate communications courses taught by Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication. It was Argenti’s guidance and mentorship that gave me the confidence to turn my innate gift of the gab into my strongest professional advantage. Alumni who visited and spoke to our classes consistently named communication as the number one skill needed in order to become a successful leader. And they were right. I discovered that most of the decision makers in the film industry, whose jobs were to say “No” a hundred times a day, were longing to be seduced by an idea. I saw how people who had few skills beyond brilliant salesmanship were able to leap over those who were talented and competent, but lacked the ability to inspire others by communicating their vision. Because of Tuck, I felt prepared to pitch to Hollywood studios, the venture capitalists of film. I also knew how to communicate effectively with a staff of hundreds of crew members—ranging from the director of photography to hair and makeup—who were critical to producing a film. I quickly realized the need to create a positive work environment where people feel affirmed for their contributions and inspired by a collective vision of success. Not everyone is meant to be a filmmaker. But I do believe we all have a purpose in life, what novelist and lyricist Paulo Coelho famously called our “personal legend” in his inspiring novel The Alchemist. That personal legend can be found in our hearts, in what makes us passionate, and in the work we would dedicate our lives to if we never had to worry about money or social status again. Some of us are indeed meant to be Wall Street titans, and we will make the world a better place while establishing ourselves as leaders in finance and management. But others are meant to take the road less traveled. That is the path I have chosen, and Tuck is a major reason why I have traveled that road through strange forests and dark valleys and up into majestic peaks. And it’s been the adventure of my life.

Kamran Pasha is a Hollywood screenwriter, director, and novelist. He served as a writer and producer for NBC's television series Kings, as well as a writer on NBC's remake of Bionic Woman, and on Showtime Network's Golden Globe-nominated series Sleeper Cell. He is author of Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam.

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Major League Soccer team Atlanta United named CATIE GRIGGS D’03, T’09 vice president of business operations. She worked previously for Futures Sport & Entertainment, a cross-platform media and sponsorships analytics consultancy, and at Turner Broadcasting.

Post-manufacturing and aftermarket medical device services provider Millstone Medical Outsourcing named KARL NEUBERGER T’89 its new CEO. Neuberger joined the company in 2011 and has since served on Millstone’s executive team in various capacities, most recently as chief operating officer.

ALAIN KARAOGLAN T’87

ROGER LYNCH T’95

THOMAS PARK T’10

KARL NEUBERGER T’89

DANIELLA REICHSTETTER T’07

Genome editing company Editas Medicine named ANDREW HIRSCH T’97 to its board of directors. Hirsch is the chief financial officer for Agios Pharmaceuticals.

Streaming music provider Pandora appointed ROGER LYNCH T’95 as its new president and CEO. Lynch, who also joins Pandora’s board of directors, was the founding CEO of Sling TV.

Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, an annual recognition of exceptional leadership and achievements by 40 Canadians under the age of 40, this year included THOMAS PARK T’10. Park is assistant vice president of operations and strategy for the Business Development Bank of Canada.

ANDREW HIRSCH T’97

MICHAEL DIFILIPPO T’98 joined AppDirect’s leadership team as chief financial officer responsible for the company’s finance, legal, human resources, corporate development, and IT functions. The San Francisco-based company sells, distributes, and manages cloud-based products and services.

NYKIA WRIGHT T’09

NYKIA WRIGHT T’09 has joined Sun-Times Media—publisher of daily newspaper the Chicago Sun Times and alternative weekly the Chicago Reader—as chief operating officer. Her duties include overseeing the circulation, information-technology, and finance departments for the news organization, as well as helping transform the two news sources into fullfledged multimedia companies that deliver premium content both online and in print.

PHIL GIUDICE T’85

PHIL GIUDICE T’85 has joined energy demand response provider Voltus Inc.’s strategic advisory board. Giudice is the CEO of energy storage company Ambri, board member of First Fuel Software, and a former undersecretary of energy as well as commissioner of the Department of Energy Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Scholarship America, a nonprofit scholarship and educational support organization that works to engage the private sector in programs and policies that help more students gain access to postsecondary education, elected ALAIN KARAOGLAN T’87 to its board of trustees. Karaoglan is COO of Voya Financial.

PATRICIA MALONEY T’85

MICHAEL DIFILIPPO T’98

California State University honored undergraduate alumna PATRICIA MALONEY T’85 as one of three “globally impactful alumni whose influential work has left an indelible footprint on their respective fields.” Maloney is principal director for Systems Development, Operations, and Protection in the NASA Programs Division at the Aerospace Corporation.

CURT WELLING D’71, T’77

DANIELLA REICHSTETTER T’07, executive director of entrepreneurship at Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, joined Tuck Clinical Professor CURT WELLING D'71, T'77 and long-time bartender Daniel Levitt in purchasing the Hanover restaurant Canoe Club. Reichstetter previously ran various divisions of early-stage companies including Gyrobike, a children’s bicycle company whose technology was invented by Thayer students. Welling is former president and chief executive officer of AmeriCares, a health-focused relief and development organization. LAUREN HIRSCH T’12 joined CNBC.com as a retail and consumer reporter. She worked previously at Reuters, where her focus was on breaking deals in the consumer and retail sectors, and at Mergermarket, where she covered consumer and retail M&A, first as a reporter and later as an editor.

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This summer, James Brooman Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;10, CEO of Firefit Inc., climbed Mount Everest without bottled oxygen.

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Editor’s note: Cathy here! Putting some notes in on Dick’s behalf. Enjoy! John Parke had sent a note in spring, which we are quite belatedly relaying here…while hoping he’s all healed now! “My only news is that while enjoying the 60-degree weather in Vero Beach I pulled a hamstring which kept me dry and happy. [I took a picture] just prior to the event while reading about all the spring snow in Hanover, perhaps somewhat more than Rochester. Best regards to all ’57s, JP.” From Bill Loyer: “Dear Dick—It has been 60 years since we graduated from Tuck. A handful of us attended our 50th Tuck reunion, but this time I heard no mention of a class reunion. I for one would be interested in knowing what our Tuck classmates are doing as we move into our twilight years. Like most in the class, I am retired, but my Tuck roommate Phil Hackbarth still practices law although on a limited basis. I talk with Phil regularly, as well as a few additional Tuck grads. Phil splits time between Chicago, Michigan in the summer, and Key Largo in the winter. He told me that it would be a miracle if his Key Largo home survived with less than major damage [from the hurricanes—see photos Phil sent Bill after Irma]. “On a sad note, I need to report that our classmate Frank Strong passed away on June 20th in Rochester, New York, but you likely know that. He worked for Eastman Kodak for a number of years, becoming group vicepresident. I also worked for Kodak after serving in the Air Force but left Kodak after only six years. I met my wife Carol when I was a traveling sales rep for Kodak. “Since Carol passed away back in 2013, I have been able to keep my wits and sanity with the great help that I have received and continue to receive from family and friends. Much of my activity centers around my daughter and her

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family, who live in Laramie. I attend school functions, ballgames, and time at our Virginia Dale, Colorado, ranch. Each of the past few years I have treated them to vacations at Disney World, Universal City in Florida, as well as the Fiesta in San Antonio. These are fun trips, and we have a great time together. This year they took me along with them to Kauai, Hawaii. For next March, I have us booked at the beach at Cancun as well as Mexico City. The two bridesmaids at our wedding live in Mexico City. “My activities to keep my mind active and to keep me involved include Rotary, Masons, bridge, several Western-history groups, an investment club, and meeting each month for lunch with a group of Dartmouth classmates. Jim Groebe, Tuck ’58, was part of this group until he passed away. In addition to visiting Hawaii this year, I have enjoyed traveling around Wyoming, including Jackson Hole and Dubois. One special highlight was spending two days visiting with renowned trial lawyer Gerry Spence and his wife Imaging at their Thunderhead Ranch. He is a captivating storyteller if there ever was one, as well as a gifted photographer. My wife Carol attended high school with his younger sister. “I hope all is well with you and that you are continuing to enjoy living in beautiful state of California.”

’58 Barry Rotman bsrotman@gmail.com

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. Wally Ackley and his wife Ethel are taking great advantage of the good things life has to offer after retiring. They divide their time between Fox Hill Village, a retirement community in Westwood, Massachusetts, and a beachfront home on Squam Lake, New Hampshire. They go to the lake in early June and return to Massachusetts in early October. Wally just finished his sixth year as treasurer of the Fox Hill Association and is very proud that they were able to build an Alzheimer’s care unit on the property during his term. He recently returned from a Road Scholar trip to Washington, DC, which focused on the ins and outs of the State Department, including a visit to the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. government’s premier foreign affairs training

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provider. The institute trains people in foreign languages and teaches the cultural differences of other countries. Back in Westwood, Wally and Ethel participate in the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions program. The nonpartisan FPA is an organization committed to increasing awareness, understanding, and informed opinion about U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Typically there are study groups of about 10 people each studying issues through readings, videos, and discussion, and Fox Hill has 5 separate groups. Sounds like a wonderful way to be better informed on national issues, and I’m sure it encourages spirited discussions at local get-togethers. Life at Squam Lake includes Sunday races with his 19-foot Lightning sailboat. He’s had a special crew for the last 12 years—2 women, ages 58 and 64. After each race they relax on the deck of the Ackley home and have a drink of Pusser’s British Navy Rum—the official rum—with the caveat that if they won their race they get 2 shots. If you mix the rum with water you create grog , a drink given to British sailors since the mid 1700s. Although the Ackleys’ travels have slowed down, there are a few very memorable trips. A Road Scholar trip to Phoenix included a visit to the Musical Instrument Museum, which exhibits instruments from all over the world, with videos allowing you to see and hear the instrument being played. TripAdvisor ranks the museum 5 out of 5 with almost 5,000 reviews. Google gives it a 4.8. It must be outstanding. A Mountain Travel trip to western China and the Silk Road was fascinating, as was a trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg. To celebrate a big wedding anniversary, they sailed from New York to England on the Queen Mary with luxurious accommodations. Of course Wally had his tuxedo, and they had a string quartet to entertain them during dinner. As Wally put it, “I expected Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr to appear at any moment.” Received a nice note from Cary Sokolec. Cary and Marlene spent one and one-half weeks in Aspen, Colorado, a summer destination for

them since 2002. They enjoyed the interesting sites; the music festival (orchestra, piano, and violin), art fair, theatre, film, lectures (presentation about Israel, Palestine, and a two-state solution), range of restaurants, and hiking the Rio Grande Trail. Each year they try to walk the same distance they did the preceding year. It presents a challenge, which they are determined to meet. Tom Macy is a wonderful role model. He has taken on the job of president of the Dartmouth Class of 1957, and he is also chairman of the board of Continuum of Care Inc., a Connecticut not-for-profit corporation. Continuum of Care’s mission is to empower people who are challenged with mental illness, intellectual or other disabilities, and/ or addiction to rebuild a meaningful life and thrive in the community. I’m very impressed that at our age Tom has undertaken this responsibility. Continuum has 700 employees, 48 group homes, and 2,000 client/patients. They operate on a budget of 30-34 million dollars a year, with about $25 million coming from the State of Connecticut. They also get some funding from Medicaid, but most patients are without any resources. Many people have a combination of problems: mental illness combined with drug or alcohol addiction, aggravated by a lifetime of poor health care with untreated illnesses such as diabetes. Many have been living on the streets or in the gutter. The organization started 55 years ago by 3 Yale graduates in the New Haven area. It now covers a large area of Connecticut, spreading east to Norwich and north to West Hartford. This nonprofit organization is very dependent on state funding. Unfortunately, Connecticut has declared publicly that it is broke and is moving to cut funding across the board. Yet the organization has grown 15% a year for the last 15 years to meet the needs of the community. Tom has a real challenge to maintain the level of service on a diminished budget. I wish him well.

are too many interesting things to do around Chappaqua, even in the winter. Their children, however, take advantage of Naples on a regular basis. Between 4 children and 10 grandchildren, the house is well used. Dave, as many of you may know, has peripheral neuropathy, requiring him to use a walker or two canes to get around. The good news is that it is not getting any worse—it just takes him a little longer to get where he is going—but he has no complaints. Lots of reading has replaced tennis and golf. Betsey is still very active in her local Planned Parenthood. Not long ago she had a major role working for the national organization. Dave still speaks very fondly of Chip Corley, who introduced him to Betsey 60 years ago when she came to Hanover as a guest of Chip’s Aunt Julia. After 60 years, 4 children and 7 grandchildren, the couple is still inseparable. We spoke of our upcoming reunion, and even with mobility problems Dave is going to try to make it. Hope many of you can come to our Tuck 60th Reunion, October 5-7, 2018. Remember to mark the date in your calendars!

’59 Ben Reid gmibreidjr@aol.com

’60 Ed Russell edrussell2@embarqmail.com

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today. Heard last night from Scott Gerrish in Bonita. He seems to be OK. But he’s a tall guy. Guys of my stature come up a little short in high water. Saw Walt Freedman yesterday on Facebook. Last day I saw him was June ’61. Keep up the good work. —Harry Holland

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From Jon Cohen: “I spent 2 days in midSeptember at Tuck and Dartmouth. Tuck continues to thrive in admissions, placement, and general reputation. I attended a class in leadership taught by Prof. Syd Finkelstein. It reminded me how powerful the case method can be with a great teacher, well prepared students, and a strong case. Because the average student is about 27 in the first year, the quality of discussion is better than in our day because nearly all have had prior meaningful work experience.

“Tom: Where does ‘resent from Dennis.c.Goodman.60...’ come from? I am giving up the [D]’60 newsletter editor position. Rory Mullett is taking over. You might want to contact him. Good luck with your struggles to get Tuckies to provide some materials. I’ve tried to help, but I doubt with much if any success. —Denny Goodman” “Hi Tom. Reporting in from the gym! Waiting for first wife, Barb, to exit the pool. Don’t know if we have or had a house near beach in Vero

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And forwarded by Kate Barlow in the Tuck alum office, we have a note and photo about a Tuck encounter! From Johanna “Yanna” Bergmans Musselman T’84: “Dave & I just returned from an amazing National Geographic/Lindblad Expedition to the Canadian Maritimes, including 3 nights on Fogo Island at the unique Fogo Island Inn. On the cruise we learned that there were a handful of Dartmouth & Tuck connections among the 148 passengers.” [Look nearby for the photo of Yanna and Dave with Bob Boye and his wife, Nancy!]

Looking forward to returning in the next issue (Summer 2018) with YOUR news. No news, no column!! Be well!

’64 Bill Ferguson

“At Dartmouth I toured the expanding Hood Museum of Art, which will reopen in about a year. Gallery space will be up by 45 percent, allowing the museum to show more of its great collection. Three new smart classrooms will improve the Hood’s ability to assist faculty in using the collection in teaching students, an area in which it is a national leader already.” From Bruce Clark: “Hello Tom: Things are going well here in Connecticut. Presently watching the NY Open semi between Nadel and del Potro. Still biking regularly but not doing quite as well as previously. Age is getting to me as we come up to our 80th Birthday Reunion. Will you be there, assuming Key West survives Irma? Recently Carol and I started some cognitive testing to deal with our weekly hourlong talk issues of my inattention and her sharpness. More in the future. Hope all is well with you. —Bruce”

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Dave and T’84 Johanna Bergmans Musselman with Nancy and D’60, T’61 Bob Boye

[Editor’s note: Tom has been doing yeoman’s work with T’61 class notes for more than 15 years and is ready to hand over the column to someone else. If you’d like to volunteer as T’61 class secretary, please email tuck.class.notes@ dartmouth.edu to let us know. It’s only twice a year…and it’s fun!]

Well, Pete Lengyel reports that Super Troopers 2 is in the can. Release date is now set for 4/20/2018, and as they did with Super Troopers I, they’re looking at maybe opening as a PR stunt at Sundance Film Festival in Park City and at Sundance, Utah, on January 18-28, where we got ST I ~15 years ago. Fox distribution loves the film. To fund the movie, Pete did a GoFundMe appeal, which generated a record $4.7 million in funding, using imaginative methods. The Eagles of Death Metal finished scoring ST 2! For those who forget, the EODM is the band that was on the stage at the Bataclan in 2015 when 89 were killed at the Paris nightclub. You can watch the ST 2 teaser here: https:// youtu.be/viUpckGruMU. Early ST 2 ticket sales can be purchased on the Indiegogo web site: https://www.indiegogo. com/projects/super-troopers-2-film#/. Andy Steele told me he was trying to get Tuck Today interested in doing a story about our cult movie classmates (Pete and Chris Miller), but so far they’re not biting.... He asked about what Pete was doing now, and I told him to check the comedy clubs in NY, where Pete was currently

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doing stand-up comedy on the same bill as Jerry Seinfeld. Pete also reports his 6 grandboys and 1 grandgirl had a fun at summer away camps and day camps. And now school has started for all. OK, enough about Pete. And speaking of Chris Miller, it was interesting to learn that Denis Eagle and Chris were classmates at Roslyn High School, Dartmouth, and Tuck. And Denis does remember just about all the scenes in Animal House, which is what we called his fraternity. A looney tooney place. Denis also said he went to a Tuck event in Florida, and he was the only one who had not graduated within the last 20 years. Then Denis reported that with Hurricane Irma that they didn’t evacuate as their home had hurricane-proof windows and a full-house generator with an underground tank with 500 gallons of fuel. And they survived with no damage. Regular contributor Rod Plimpton tells that it was a tumultuous year for them, but their health is good and their Villages FL house was spared any serious damage from the hurricanes (and they were safely in the Hudson Valley, having just come down from Maine. They were fortunate all around. Rod says they enjoyed seeing Bill Zani and Paul Jorgensen, who both have places there. Rod still has his home in Red Hook until his daughter’s home sells, then they will be snowbirds, with homes in Florida and Maine. Our Houston-based classmate Jim Cutler’s neighborhood in Houston escaped flooding problems due to Hurricane Harvey. However,

just north and west of their place is a real disaster. But his son’s travel plans got disrupted, as getting back and forth to Florida meant cars and airplanes, as they flew him back to school. Just in time to be evacuated from school due to Irma. His school, Eckerd, is sited on a small peninsula jutting into Tampa Bay. He hunkered down at the home of a rugby-club friend’s grandparents who live near Tampa. Eckerd received no major storm damage. Jim said that with all of the small boats pressed into rescue service, it looked like Dunkirk. Many houses were still flooded. Some residential areas have drywall, carpeting, and other waterlogged household goods stacked in piles on both sides of the street. Because of the heat and humidity, there was a strong odor. Standing water was starting to breed mosquitos. Jim’s wife Debbie is still practicing medicine, and he’s trying to wind down. Retirement doesn’t fit him. It was good to hear from Dick Weiss again. They still live in DC, and he has been retired for 10 years but still remains active with the with the farm-related organizations of his career, just lobbying on Social Security and Medicare issues. They enjoy spending February/March in Arizona and August in Vermont. This spring they visited family and friends in Spain and Germany. Still healthy. It is always neat to hear from Jean-Pierre Naz. He reports from beautiful Suisse that they are still alive and kicking. No more skiing, travel limited because his wife cannot travel by air, so it’s train, boat, bus, and car for them. JP did spend time in South Korea; it was very very interesting, but he will not return there, telling of the political unrest and that it was really cold in Seoul. More recently they went to the Verbier music festival (classical). As his wife is in a wheelchair and wants to attend all concerts, and the driver he had also likes to attend all concerts, he tells that he had to do so and hear modern composers he doesn’t like. (For me composers after 1850 are too modern!!) Recently they went to a “Désalpe.” Something very Swiss. In summer, cows go to the mountain, and they come back down now. Very quaint and picturesque, just the same as it has been going for centuries. JP sends greetings to all.

OK, it’s my time. Well, I went to a Tuck alumni event in LA...100 miles of bad driving, ugh.... There was one T’72 and a T’74 grad there, but clearly I was the oldest grad, and I played the role. I got up and asked if Tuck initiatives still foster innovation. That was JBQ’s byline.... Then I asked for the group of about 60 to show by hands how many had seen Animal House, then same for Super Troopers...have to admit only one or two hands weren’t raised. Then I asked how many knew the role Tuck grads played in the films—none knew. So I told them; Miller and Lengyel.... Then I asked how many would like to see ST 2, and again most hands were raised. So I told them it was in the can and to watch for the release and asked that they go to Indiegogo and buy ST 2 memorabilia. They all laughed.... At the event I met a young retired Marine captain (T’18) who had served with my son in Iraq. I asked if he knew of my son reporting his platoon commander unfit for combat. YES! And without his own awareness, my son was considered a courageous SSgt. throughout the battalion for taking the action. The Lt. sat behind a desk for the rest of that deployment. As for me, I’m hanging in there. I had an angioplasty in July to repair the results of an infection in my heart and to add a few stents in my right aorta, and that was after stents in my abdominal aorta were inserted in January to correct an aneurysm. I’m funding 7 different doctors. And on the business front, I’ve been contacted about a contract to identify clients for a data center site on the U.S./Mexican border, and our data center site in Reno has been purchased by Apple to expand their data center to the full site. Until the next time, you all take care, and I look forward to hearing more news from our classmates. —Bill Ferguson T’64, Class Secretary, 775-303-5810 bferguson@ix.netcom.com

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Dear Classmates, I have been your class secretary for 50 years. I have been honored, and have enjoyed my duties tremendously. However, I wish to step down, and am asking for someone to take up the mantle. Please rsvp. From Sandy McGinnes: “I enjoyed the picture of you and Bill in the current issue of Tuck Today. Here is one of Carlee and Chip Noecker and Louise and yours truly watching the Boston Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins (6-3) on a beautiful summer night at Fenway Park. The date of the game and photo was June 29, 2017, and it happened to be the Noeckers’ 49th wedding anniversary!

Groom and ushers at the wedding of Janet Yeaton and Geoff Pitchford, December 2, 1967.

at the Mount Sunapee resort after 19 years! Husband R. Geoffrey W. Pitchford is retired now. They have lived in Sunapee for 22 years. Hope all of you are well.

’66 Stu Keiller keiller@toad.net

Bill Busker put together some interesting information on the Tuck Class of 1966 for our 50th Reunion:

Carlee and Chip Noecker with Louise and Sandy McGinnes at Fenway in June

And Geoff and Janet Pitchford are coming up on their 50th wedding anniversary! December 2, 1967, was the big day. Janet sent in the nearby photo from their wedding album. Left to right in the photo: George Roth D’64, T’65; John Bruno T’65; John Lehman D’63; Richard Chase D’60, T’65; and groom Geoff Pitchford D’64, T’65. Janet (Yeaton) Pitchford graduated from Colby Junior College in ’64 and still works 62

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• We matriculated 115 in September 1964. We represented 46 colleges and universities, with Dartmouth accounting for 36.5% of the class. Twenty-nine of us were members of the Dartmouth Class of 1965 or “3/2s.” • On the first day, Dean Hill explained the “curve” grading system, and we were told to expect only the top 80% to graduate. In fact 95, or 82.6%, graduated in June 1966. • Tuition for the class of 1966 was $1,800, compared to $66,390 for the class of 2016, an increase of 3,688%. That is five times the increase in the Consumer Price Index over the same period. • Bill reports the average starting salary for the class of 1966 was estimated at $9,500. The average starting salary for the class of 2016 was $124,000, plus a signing bonus of $29,000, for a total of $153,000. That is about two times the increase in the CPI. Frank Abella came to Tuck as a Stevens Institute of Technology trained engineer with three years’ work experience at Union Carbide. Three years out from graduation Frank left engineering for Wall Street and the start of

a serial entrepreneurial career that ranged across the aerospace, soft drinks, and medical equipment industries. Over the last two decades Frank has built a wealth management business, with his two sons joining in managing a nationwide client base. See: www. investmentpartners.com In his 50th essay, Frank describes his career as a balance between family and business, personal and corporate goals; and being true to one’s personal values. Bam Alling lives a beautiful part of coastal North Carolina three miles from the ocean and near the Intracoastal Waterway. He describes himself as a “beach grandparent” with 12 offspring of two marriages visiting for beaching and boating. After a career in accounting and corporate finance, Bam spent the last ten years of his career as a CFO helping rescue a small N.C. private college. He is still a licensed CPA and treasurer of his church. Dick Macartney and Doug MacDonald live nearby, and they get together a few times a year. Dick Avery lives in coastal Massachusetts, where he enjoys ocean kayaking and accompanying wife Sally on bird watching trips. Dick had a long and varied carrier at Scott Paper Company with increasing responsibilities that included division CEO and chief information technology officer. As Dick put it: “A sea change in corporate management in the early 1990s prompted me to take early retirement in 1994.” He has kept busy as a volunteer in nonprofits. Dick says, “One of the most long lasting and useful skills in my kit bag is how to run a meeting effectively and efficiently without stepping on toes. This helped get our corporation out of the ditch back in the 1970s and kept our conversation trust on topic last week for a quarterly meeting. Dr. Edwards Deming taught us that the folks closest to the process needing improvement are the ones that hold the answers. I have learned to listen to the workers rather than get them to listen to me. To be their leader, I have to be their agent.” Sound advice for any of us still active in organizations. George Baxter started his career with Coopers & Lybrand in Philadelphia and transferred to Tampa in 1971. Two years later George joined a real estate development company as VP Finance and in 1980 formed his own real estate investment and development company. In 1990 George and his wife volunteered to start the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay. After raising more than $150 million and spearheading many creative grants that have improved the community, he retired in 2004.

George spends his time volunteering as the Community Foundation’s president-emeritus and a member of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College. He also serves on the Tampa Bay Area Committee on Foreign Relations. George was recently approached to write a book about the CEO and trustee and leadership programs that he co-leads. It is clear George is a pillar of the Tampa community. His life lesson: “It is in helping others that we receive a deep, satisfying and worthwhile meaning to life.” Andy Beckstoffer has been a frequent subject of these notes over the years. Andy went to work for Heublein, Inc. in 1966, moved to California in 1969, and set up a farming company to produce grapes. In 1973 Andy purchased the farming company and founded Beckstoffer Vineyards. Today Beckstoffer Vineyards owns and farms over 3,600 acres of highest-quality grape-growing properties in three Northern California wine-growing regions—the Napa Valley, Mendocino County, and the Red Hills of Lake County. Andy is a founding director and second president of the Napa Valley Grapegrowers Association. He forged an early and historic agreement on grape pricing that tied the price of grapes to the retail bottle price. This enabled growers to focus on quality and land preservation and brought the grape growers to the forefront of the wine industry. Napa Valley became synonymous with quality American wine. Andy and Beckstoffer Vineyards have won numerous industry and community awards, but reading between the lines of all the press releases and websites one comes away with the feeling that what Andy, Betty, and the entire Beckstoffer family are most proud is their enduring legacy as stewards of the land. Bill Busker started his career at Kimberly-Clark and, like many of our classmates, gravitated to small business and a more entrepreneurial environment. After turning around the OEM manufacturing division of his hometown Muskegon Piston Ring Co., Bill was equity partner and president of Enginetech, an offshore manufacturer of precision engine parts located in Dallas. Since 1998 he has been consulting and lobbying for the auto industry but “mostly retired.” When asked about life lessons, Bill said: “If I could succeed at Tuck, I could get through anything. This knowledge helped me get through a lot of stuff I didn’t enjoy.” E. Bruce “Woody” Campbell went to work for Kodak in 1966 and spent thirty years with the

company in a variety of jobs ranging across market research, accounting, logistics, and sales management. “Woody” grew up forty miles north of Hanover in Woodsville, N.H. Hence the nickname. After retiring in 2005, Woody and Mary-Lou moved to Durham, N.H., to be close to their children and grandchildren. A varsity basketball player while at Dartmouth (class of 1964), Woody stays fit skiing, biking, and playing tennis, pickleball, and basketball. He looks fit enough to do them all every day. Woody closes with, “In summary, Mary-Lou and I are very fortunate. We are healthy and our lives are busy and good.” John Catlett had a long and varied career in radio broadcasting. Starting out with traditional assignments at King Broadcasting in Portland, Oregon, and CBS in Chicago and New York, John moved on to what became a twenty-five year odyssey working offshore. His first foreign assignment was literally offshore, managing a “pirate” radio station broadcasting from a ship anchored in the North Sea. Laser 558 operated without a license with a signal strength that could be heard as far away as Russia and the Middle East. The venture came to its demise when a storm forced the ship into an English port and it was seized by British authorities. John decided to remain an expat managing startup stations operating in places like Luxembourg, Moscow, Sochi, Budapest, and Riga, Latvia. John writes: “Perhaps my biggest adventure came with an invitation to create the very first privately owned radio stations for a division of Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group in India.” Based in Mumbai, John built the station from transmitters and towers to programming and on-air talent and along the way introduced commercial radio as an entertainment and advertising medium to the people of India. John’s final assignment was managing the U.S.-run Radio Free Europe, broadcasting in 28 languages from Prague. John retired in 2009, lives in New York City, and last year celebrated thirty-five years of sobriety. This is a first in a series of Notes garnered from the biographies submitted by twentynine of our classmates submitted for our 50th reunion. The vignettes do not do justice to the rich and varied forty-plus-year careers. Please drop me an email if you like the full biography of a classmate.

’67 Robert Buchanan bobbuchanan@att.net

The best of times pass so quickly, and that was what happened this past weekend. Our FIFTIETH REUNION (October 13-15) was an outstanding success: great weather; FANTASTIC planning from the Tuck staff, with a terrific mix of Tuck learning, story time (old and new tales), area tours by foot and bus, social events, limited relaxation time; and did I mention great weather?!! Here are some quick highlights: 38 classmates in attendance (our class enrolled about 100); eight members have died; four widows joined us: Karin Campia, Jamie Dance, Lorraine Morse, and Di Spurdle. Grand to reconnect with everyone.

Jamie Dance, Di Spurdle, Lorraine Morse, and Karen Campia

We commend Bill Hart and his excellent idea to award honorary 1967 class membership to Richard Bower and Brian Quinn. Dick and Allie [Quinn] joined us for Saturday’s dinner and received well-deserved recognition from the class. Twenty-five of those attending the reunion wrote personal profiles. If nonattendees would like a copy of them, please contact Julie Hinman at julie.a.hinman@tuck.dartmouth.edu. More numbers: Sixty-five members of T’67 participated in TAG last year. Thanks to each of you from our co-head agents Joe Hafner and John Weslar. During the reunion dinner, Boz Bosworth gave $25,000 to the fund: thank you, Boz. Keith Kuhlman, in a moment of WINTER 2018

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’68 John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com

Honorary T’67s Professor Dick Bower and Allie Quinn, on behalf of Professor Brian Quinn

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As I write this in October ’17, everyone seems to be looking forward to October ’18 and our Golden Anniversary Reunion. Hans Peter has gotten the jump on us. He attended a dress rehearsal by going to the class of ’67 festivities this fall.

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pure commitment, said he would give $25,000 if classmates would match his gift. We love a challenge, and, with a small amount of arm twisting, we DID reach that goal! Thus $25,000 turned into $75,000!! WOW! Terrific! Thank you to everyone who participated. It was a rewarding, wonderful reunion. Let’s all stay well, and plan to attend our fifty-fifth!

“I spent most of my time with my friend Tony Milbank of the class of ’67. Walked around, played golf, and pretended I again was in my early twenties. Tony and I went to 5 of the classes offered; fantastic—good advice; we should not miss the classes when we come to Hanover for our fiftieth. “My room at the Hanover Inn is already reserved for Berit and myself from the 4th through the 7th of October next year. Certainly hope to see as many of you as possible there! “The class of ’67 did a bang-up job—it was great to join them, and I was so happy to be invited to all arrangements. Richard Bower, 89 and in good health, joined us for the big dinner on Saturday. The weather and thus all of Hanover was beautiful! “Otherwise, I am working full time and I do not have much to complain about.” I hope that’s a promise, Hans Peter, because we won’t put up with any of your normal bitching next year. Nick Hayes wrote from Holland: “I’ll be moving back to Spain at year end, after some skiing in Austria with granddaughters, who will be in race camp there. I have been elected to the Navy League equivalent of the Supervisory Board of Directors—more work and (even) less money. Sheila (now retired, except for a couple of board positions) and I hope to be at our fiftieth (gulp...).”

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Barkley wrote from the Democratic Republic of Cambridge: “I’m sure hoping to see a good turnout at our 50th reunion next fall. Meanwhile I have written and published a book of some 38 humorous essays on career, marriage, and funny guys I met along the way. (http://bungalowofsurprises.com).” Barkley describes the book: “A treasury of colorful personalities. They are old and young, rich and poor, domestic and foreign, with lessons of audacity, living life on your own terms. We will enter the desert tent and the mind of a nomadic Bedouin woman, spend a year with a geisha, and learn the power of risk from a third-degree black belt whose secret teaching weapon is strudel. We’ll venture back in time to the Renaissance, the Viking era, and the heyday of the Silk Road. Along the way we’ll confront enchanting ideas and insights from animals, microorganisms, sperm cells, and sphincters. This is a life’s voyage without a dress rehearsal. Most experience is new to us, an adventure in surprise and irony. The secret is to embrace those surprises as our most powerful teachers. So buckle up and expect the unexpected as you careen into these pages. They contain the surprises that have filled my own bungalow of stories and life’s lessons.” You can find the book on Amazon by searching for Bungalow of Surprises and I advise you to buy it. It’s cheap and there will probably be a test. Bring it to the Golden Geezer Fest next October and Barkley will autograph it for you. I am happy to report that Judy and I, our brilliant offspring (and even our dog Soxie) are all boringly happy, healthy, and wise. Life is good! —John Moynihan T’68

’69 Robert M. Cohn robertmarkcohn@gmail.com

Greetings classmates! My major news is that I retired at the end of August, after 10½ years at Bonnier Corporation

and over 47 years in the publishing industry. This move was not completely voluntary, since my company had to initiate a downsizing and restructuring in the wake of significantly declining print advertising revenue—but I knew that my time to retire was going to occur soon in any event. I intend to continue to do part-time consulting work, as well as expand my volunteer activities. Moving into this new role was an adjustment, so—as I have so often during my working career—I decided to reach out to my Tuck classmates for guidance and perspective. First, I decided to take a survey of our class to see how many were still working full-time, how many were working part-time, and how many were fully retired. Of the responses I received, the results were as follows: • 32% of our classmates are still working full-time • 14% are semi-retired and working part-time • 54% are fully retired Of the 46% who are still working full- or part-time: • 23% are self-employed • 54% work for a company that they own, in whole or in part 23% work for a company or organization they do not own The respondents who had fully retired seem to be enjoying their retirement and keeping busy. Seth French wrote, “I should have retired sooner. Betty and I just returned from a European Viking River Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest.” (see picture)… Dave Downes wrote, “Welcome to the world of retirement—hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I volunteer a lot and find it more enjoyable than work. I get to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants me to do.” Charlie Mead added, “I’m not working, but it kind of feels like it running the business affairs of my church as their lay leader.” David McKane wrote, “Where did forty-eight years go?”

Betty and Seth French in Prague after their European river cruise

Mike Vaughn provided some additional perspective: “Welcome to the ranks of the formerly employed. It is actually a pretty good place to be. My advice—do enough ‘consulting’ to keep the synapses firing. Otherwise you will become an old man. But not any more than that.” Mike keeps busy as a marketing consultant and running training programs. He added, “I do generate enough revenue to cover my caddy fees at the golf club so Patty can’t complain about how much golf I play, plus pay for the gas I burn up in my boat on Lake George.” Steve Roehm shared his experience: “I am retired but on two boards (and lots of committees for those boards), a town committee, a local volunteer organization, still mentor a couple of small business owners, and many times find I am as busy as if I was working full-time. However, since I am not getting paid, if I need to take a vacation, I go— no questions asked...PS: I do play some golf in the summer when the boards + committees slow down.” Pat and Jon Page wrote: “We both enjoy retirement since we are able to spend time with our children and grandchildren. We also go for walks and we play golf and bridge together and Jon plays tennis. Our summer was fun in Lords Valley, Pa., and it went very fast. We plan to spend the autumn, winter, and early spring months in Palm City, Florida.” Peter Hofman notes that he is very busy with volunteer work and remodeling his new home in the Berkshires. Michel Lebas also shared his perspective: “In July of 2016, I finally retired (for good this time, after 4 attempts at quitting at earlier junctions in my life) after working in academia and consulting for 46 years. Believe me, it is fun to be retired. At first, I missed traveling all over

the world, but I have to admit that as I got older all that traveling and jet lags became quite a burden, unless I could take my wife along and we would discover a new country for a week or so after an assignment. I love having the time now to care for my two grandchildren (boy 4 and girl 2) on our frequent trips to see them in Portland, Ore. Alas, health issues keep me away from spending as much time as I would like in my tiny (overly shaded) urban garden.” I also heard from Russ McNeill, who notes, “Your letter/questions regarding work status are thought provoking. While I am fully retired, which I define as no longer drawing a paycheck, I am fully employed working as a volunteer. I usually spend a couple of days a week at the California State Railroad Museum working in our shops maintaining, restoring, and operating the museum’s rolling stock. Yes, we have a real railroad, the Sacramento Southern Railroad. Additionally, I have been treasurer of the Rocklin Historical Society for the past six years. Rocklin history involves granite mining and railroading. Further, I am a board member and treasurer of my local homeowner’s association. Combine that with four married children and nine grandchildren, and the McNeills of Sacramento are a busy couple. So, what’s the difference between working full-time and being retired full-time? I seem to be busier in retirement than during those ‘paycheck’ days.” Among those still working, Carl Hanson is working mostly full-time as a registered investment advisor in his own firm, with clients in New England and Florida. He divides his time in both places, obviously choosing Florida (Naples) in the winter. John Pearson is doing consulting in the short-line railroad industry, owns his own bulk road-salt supply company, and is doing marketing for another company in the same industry. Ken Euske is still teaching at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, but plans to retire in January 2018. In other news, Inda and John Gage sold their longtime home in Stamford, Conn., and moved to the Las Vegas, Nevada, area in October— midway between their daughters Malen in Hawaii and Marla in Vermont. Jack notes the attraction is that there are no income or estate taxes in Nevada and there is a lower cost of living. Their new address is 26 Anthem Creek Circle, Henderson, NV 89052.

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Over Labor Day weekend, Dick Schmitt treaded water for 92 minutes—28% longer than his goal of 72 minutes—to raise money for the Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund honoring his late son. He ended up raising $15,000—double his goal of $ 7,500. He writes, “Helping others is one of the highest callings. While the ninety-two minutes I treaded water in Landon’s memory provided me with time to think about our son, the real benefit it provided is to those who don’t have a voice or an advocate, especially children in Vietnam, people who Landon always thought about, talked about, and helped.” In October, Dick and Dabney began a five-week trip to Asia, including a week in Vietnam (see picture nearby) and several weeks touring the Himalayas.

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Dick and Dabney Schmitt hosting the TV4 documentary film crew at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam

Dick also provided a report on the results of Tuck Annual Giving for our class. In the 2016-17 fiscal year, our class contributed $70,500 to the fund and increased our participation from 65% to 70%. That was the best percentage of contributors amongst all Tuck classes who graduated between 1942 and 1975. A final reminder to all of you—our 50th Reunion will be held in Hanover from October 4 to 6, 2019. At our 45th Reunion, we came up with the slogan “50/50.” Our goal is to have 50 members of our class attend our 50th Reunion. I hope to see you there!

Kathy and Bob Valleau in Scotland

Michel Klein celebrating his mother’s 100th birthday in Nice in September 2017

In the meantime, please keep the email and postcards coming so that I can share more news of our class in the next issue of Tuck Today!

George and I don’t want you to think this is a “paid political announcement,” but we wholeheartedly suggest you read Doug (A.) Smith’s website material on the topic of his passion, leadership. His articles, books, and seminars have gained wide acceptance, and they offer a refreshing distillation of all we were supposed to learn at Tuck! Visit http:// whitepinemountain.com/writing.php. To the rest of you news-lethargic classmates, we wonder what you’ve been doing with yourselves. Either it’s illegal, boring, or unprintable. But yet at three years out from our 50th, we’d like to hear from you. In the meantime, count your money, count your friends, and surely count your blessings! My best from not-so-sunny Florida. [Editor’s note: Check in with Gap and look at the nearby photos of what he had to deal with during Class Notes season—the Kovach home, built in 1925, after Hurricane Irma’s 120-mph winds blew through their neighborhood for about 6-8 hours.]

haven—beach, wonderful meals, interesting visits, and excellent company. Reminiscences on Tuck included discussions of Professor Tom Volman’s production class.

Damage to the Kovach home, courtesy of Irma

Daniel sent in some additional details written by Claudine: “Alan has initiated a tradition among the group: early walking. 7 o’clock is the ideal time for departure. No mercy for latecomers. Distance is adjusted to the plans of the day and is under the scrutiny of those with an electronic device to count steps. Around the dinner table, Pete will announce the achievements of the day. Of course, catching up on all subjects, including Tuck and keeping in good shape, is what everyone is after. But when a good donut shop is on the way, it is part of it all. No worry for latesleepers (one or two at the most). They get their share.” In the photo, front row, left to right, Sharon Sellstrom, Claudine Viard, Amy Stedman, Leli Simpson, Priscilla Tshibaka; second row, left to right, Dennis McGuckian, Daniel Viard, Athanase Tshibaka, Jean Rozwadowski; last row, left to right, Pete Simpson, Alan Stedman.

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T’71 minireunion at the Stedman beach house

Caleb Loring cloringiii@1911trust.com

The request for Class Notes went out in September 2017, just in time to capture a minireunion of 6 of our fellow classmates and wives; a picture should be part of this column. Jean Rozwadowski reported that Alan Stedman and wife Amy invited several Tuck 1971s to join them at their magnificent family beach house for an extended weekend. Present were Athanase and Priscilla Tshibaka, Daniel and Claudine Viard, Pete and Leli Simpson, Dennis McGuckian and Sharon, and Jean. They all enjoyed the restful

Received no reporting from other classmates. We all must be busy with our own lives— retirement, chasing grandchildren, travel, or otherwise. It is great that classmates find a way to get together on an independent basis. There may be other minireunions I am not aware of. Please in the future let me know of such events, as well as any personal news you wish to share with the class. In the meantime I will bore you with some Loring family news. We have had a very active summer, starting with a June trip with our oldest granddaughter Alayna Thomas (age 16) to Italy. Bonny booked us with a Road Scholar trip designed

for grandparents and grandchildren. We were initially concerned because our granddaughter’s diet is gluten free, sugar free, and dairy free. As fortune (or Providence) would have it, our Italian tour guide was also gluten free and knew exactly how to navigate the meals for her. Also, the fresh vegetables and some cold cuts were available in open and other markets, so we all survived the trip, which had excellent education content and was well organized—the bags traveled in a separate van between the cities, so no struggling with the same. While Bonny and I have traveled to Italy several times in the past, this was a twelveday, well-organized experience, with 4 days in each of the major cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice—an excellent overview for our granddaughter. There were 21 people in our group, with only one other grandfather besides me—we were from different parts of the U.S. The teenagers with us all got along well, so the trip was enjoyable for them; in fact after the first night, they had a tendency to sit for dinner together, ex the grandparents. After returning from Italy, we entertained Bonny’s extended family in what has become an annual beach event at our home—we call it the Evans Family Olympic Games, for all ages from 5 to upper 70s. The weather was great and all had a good time, particularly when the ice cream truck showed up in the afternoon. Once we survived that activity, we got in gear for a trip with my Dartmouth classmates (1966) and other Dartmouth friends to chase the solar eclipse. One classmate had seen a total eclipse in the Caribbean and suggested we all needed to share this experience. Working with another classmate who is an astrophysicist at Harvard, they felt the best place for us to meet for clear skies and viewing was in Ketchum, Idaho, near Sun Valley—a ski resort. He was able to rent a bunch of condominiums to house us all, as well as a house on a lovely river where we gathered for comradeship and great meals. As for preparing the meals, we had another classmate who is a river/rafting boat captain on the Snake and Colorado rivers. He lives in Ketchum and is used to cooking for groups of 20 or more, so guess who did all the cooking and purchasing of supplies (with his wife’s help and a few of us acting as volunteers in the effort). Because a good number of us in college were dating and ultimately married our current wives (and are still married to them), the women had a good experience as well, catching up and

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CL ASS NOTES reconnecting—we try to get together every 2 to 4 years, particularly now that we are getting older. So the weather was clear, and the total eclipse was a unique experience for us all. The next such eclipse crossing the U.S. is in 2024. So now the lovely New England fall is upon us. The six grandchildren are back in school; with three next door, we have periodic carpool and other duties, particularly with 5-year-old grandson Adam. At the end of October we will travel to Spartanburg, South Carolina, to visit our son and his family (the three Southern belle grandchildren) for a few days. My corporate board schedule and volunteer life is still pretty active as is wife Bonny’s work— trustee of Gordon College, grandmother, and organizer of the family. She has recently joined the board of a global peace movement called Global Unites, which is aimed at developing peace in countries that are war-torn and violent countries due to tribal and other ethnic rivalries and a lack of education and economic opportunities. Its founder begins by starting a dialogue between the young people from different factions and then trying to introduce economic and education opportunities to the group. It started in Sri Lanka, where its founder, Prashan De Visser, is native. He has been asked to take the concept to other countries and is doing so working with local young people in the Congo and other states in Africa and the Middle East. He is an amazing young man and a graduate of Gordon College, where Bonny first took note of him as president of the student body. She just ran off a major event for him two weeks ago from which we are all recovering.

T’72s at Reunion

Ramsay and Janet Merriss, Bob and Bonnie Gregson, Mark and Kathy Blanchard, Marcia and Rocky Nagel, Joan Bechtel and Peter Morgan, Dianne Herrick and John South, Bill Moyes, Ron Yates, and Don Conway. Because several of us had to leave early, we took our own group snapshot (see nearby). Photos of Ron and Don, who were not there for the group photo are also nearby. Be sure to check out the myTuck Class Notes 1972 link (http://mytuck. dartmouth.edu/) for other snapshots.

All is well with us, and we hope and trust it is the same with all of you. Have a blessed balance of the year and holiday season. —Caleb

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John South, Ron Yates, and Bill Moyes back in the classroom!

John South johnsouth@mac.com

I am writing this while flying over Ohio, after a great 2017 Tuck reunion. Our class representatives were fewer in quantity than many other classes, but no one had better quality! Those attending included Victor and Diane Ugolyn, Ben and Barbara Shields, 68

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No doubt Tuck Today will be providing in-depth coverage of the weekend, but highlights for the T’72ers had to include: 1. Professor Emily Blanchard’s comprehensive presentation on the current state of international trade initiatives and challenges (Emily is the daughter of our very own Mark Blanchard); 2. Professor Don Conway’s reflections on Tuck over the years since we

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were there; 3. Professor and former associate dean Gert Assmus’s comments during a tasty dinner and mixer at the Norwich Inn; 4. how we were all inspired by the initiatives described by Dean Matt Slaughter, if not by the current annual “all in” cost of over $100,000; and 5. stimulating talks by several others faculty members. We were especially interested in Professor Ron Adner’s talk (based on his book The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss), expanding on the lessons of H.C. Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Professor Adner stressed the need for innovators to always ask “What Else?” That book will be on many of our reading lists, for sure. Mark and Kathy Blanchard had to be the proudest parents at the reunion. Their daughter Emily, making a presentation with her mother in the audience for the first time, skillfully presented “the numbers” that illustrate and confirm the challenges facing anyone who relies on the benefits that international trade

has brought to the world. The Blanchards were leaving on a trip to explore the Snake River, and I hope they will provide a recap in a future edition of Class Notes. For those who did not attend, you missed the rich experience of catching up with old friends, learning what their path has been since Tuck, and the diverse interests that enrich their current lives. Some of their histories are on line at the reunion website (http://bit.ly/2x2s6zV), and I encourage you to add an update of your own there, or in a future edition of Class Notes. Examples of catching up include learning about current projects like the ones of Ron Yates and Peter Morgan. More details on those below. Over the two days, most of us listened with great interest about the initiative Peter Morgan began a couple of years ago. He is launching the Morgan Franklin Fellowship Foundation for teaching financial literacy. Peter described a creative approach to engage young people (ages 12 to 20) and teach them basic financial skills, through investing real money with faceto-face participation of a mentor. Space does not permit a complete description here, and a website is under construction, so when it is ready, I hope Peter will share it with us through a future edition of Class Notes. As an example of how his initiative works, imagine yourself saying to your own child or grandchild, “Becky, how would you like to invest $1,000 in the stock market? I will put up the cash, and help you with the process, and you will make the investments, provide a quarterly report about how your investments are doing and what is happening in your life.” An imaginative way to help her or him learn about researching, deciding, and reporting—and a way to mentor him or her on the path to financial independence. For more details about Peter’s trajectory since Tuck, see the profile he submitted on the Reunion website at http://bit.ly/2x2s6zV. Ron Yates and I had a great time catching up. We were neighbors in Sachem Village and were part of a study group that also included Jeff Rosen, Peter Hoffman, and Tom O’Connor (we called it the HORSY group). Ron and Barbara have lived in Massachusetts all the years since Tuck, except for 4 years immediately after Tuck, where Ron worked in a variety of senior management jobs. He reports the most satisfying were the final twenty-five years with Walchem, Iwaki America Inc. as CEO, where the fun was the diversity of

challenges that he was able to address using both his engineering training at Trinity and the business skills gained at Tuck. Barbara spent many years in management with Habitat for Humanity, where she retired after leading the Northeast office. Both Ron and Barbara are now deeply engaged in a not-for-profit furniture bank they founded with another friend—NewLife Home Refurnishing. The website (www.newlifehr.org), describes the mission as, “Serving clients who come to us through referrals from social service and government agencies, as well as area clergy. We expect to serve people overcoming difficult circumstances, such as victims of fires or floods, those who have been homeless, veterans of war, and recent refugees. Our goal is to treat our clients with dignity, provide them basic necessities from our inventory, and, hopefully, ease their burden in life. We accept most basic furniture and household items, although they must be in relatively good condition. We aim to provide an easy option for those who are downsizing or redecorating to ‘recycle,’ knowing their donations will be put to good use and kept out of landfills. NewLife is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit.” This new organization is growing at an explosive rate, so in addition to the 12,000-square-foot storage facility and about 600 volunteers, next steps will be to expand with a salaried executive director to replace Ron as the volunteer president, drivers for pickup and delivery, and strategies to address the growing need for this service. I hope Ron will keep us up to date through future Class Notes. Ron and Barbara’s kids and 5 grandkids are all doing well. Heather lives in Medfield, Ma., is married with 3 children, and currently directs physical therapy for the Boston Ballet. John (born our second year at Tuck) is married and lives in Portland, Maine, where he teaches special-needs children. Christy also lives in Medfield, is married with 2 children, and is the communications director for a private school. Ron and Barbara are blessed with all 5 grandchildren living in the same town they do. On a personal note, the trips mentioned in the last issue were great fun, especially meeting daughter Laura’s book illustrator in rural Dorset, England. An added bonus was ten days spent in Rio de Janeiro with our younger daughter Julie (born in Hanover during the second Tuck year). It was fun for me and revealing for her to see the place where her dad

John South with daughter Julie Gerstle in Rio

spent his formative years. And we were lucky to hook up with Katia and João Paes de Carvalho for a couple of dinners to get fully caught up. In closing, if you enjoyed learning about the interesting initiatives Ron Yates and Peter Morgan have launched after retiring, please send us a recap of the new challenges you are pursuing, and share them through the next edition of Class Notes.

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Not a lot of news to report from T’73s, so many thanks to those who sent in their news. What is happening out there everyone? I cannot believe we are all newsless! What is happening to that high-achieving class of 1973?? Sad news to start the newsletter. Byron Wheeler III passed away in July at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Mass. I am sure you will join me in sending our condolences and sympathy to his family. His wonderful and interesting life legacy is at http://www.dyer-lakefuneralhome.com/ memsol.cgi?user_id=1982801. Dave Atiyeh continues his travels and he and his wife, Darlene, enjoyed a special three-week trip in May/June to Amsterdam; the French Normandy coast, including visits to various WW II sites (which awed Dave as a former U.S. WINTER 2018

CL ASS NOTES Army officer); and a weeklong canal barge trip in the Loire Valley. They were well and truly spoiled on the barge by the personal service (six guests and six crew), gourmet food, and wines.

off-the-beaten-track restaurants and food shops had better food than the big tourist places. Must admit that we thought it was much cleaner on our visit this year than when we were there in 2009!!

Dave and Darlene also hit Paris and came across this street sign! (See nearby pic!)

Short note from Judi Tandon to let us know that she is fine and also updated her email address. Come on Judi—need news!!

Dave and Darlene in the Loire Valley

Steve Fulton is on the move—short term, Steve is leaving for Florida next week (October) for the winter. Long term, he is in the process of selling out of Indiana so that he and his wife (Sue) can spend more time in their place in Florida (eight months) with summers in the Chicago area, where they will be closer to their kids and grandkids. Steve’s oldest son is in the Chicago suburbs, and his youngest son is in Dayton, Ohio. On the health front, Steve was fortunate to receive a liver transplant in January 2011 following liver failure (genetic causes). It took the doctors four years to get his new liver settled down. Fortunately, the last two years have been great for Steve.

including hiking, biking, skiing, fishing, and traveling. He and Marcia travel frequently to Boston to visit kids and grandkids. Cathy Grein (T’74) sent a note in for the ’74 Class Notes and we repost them here as per Fred T’73! “Here are a couple of photos from our Rockies trip in July. The first part of it was a minireunion of several of the guys Fred knew from the Army in the Vietnam years (and several spouses came along)—it included stays in Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and Glacier National Park in Montana. Then Fred and I spent a few additional days in the Lake Louise area in Banff National Park sightseeing and hiking. We were blessed with great weather for taking in the scenery. The photo of Fred was taken near Wild Goose Island along the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The other photo is at Moraine Lake near Lake Louise—a truly photogenic spot. (We did see a few bears along the way, but none close enough to be threatening.) —Cathy”

Nice newsy update from Al Connor. Al noted several major changes in his life since he retired in 2006. He has divorced and remarried (Marcia); sold his houses in Connecticut and Nantucket; added on to their house in Jackson Hole, WY, which is now their permanent residence; and purchased a second home in Santa Fe to escape the mud seasons in Wyoming. And they say retirement is boring!!

Dave in Paris

Sounds like a great trip, Dave—don’t you just love the food and wine? Leo Welsh keeps busy in the real estate business in Austin, Tex., with his wife, Linda. He notes that their daughter, Katie, and her husband were in Haifa, Israel, in July for 10 days and said it was beautiful. Kate thought the cities in Israel were dirty, lots of trash around, etc., and found that the small 70

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Al notes that he thought of yours truly when he and Marcia were riding the train from Kings Cross station in London to Waverly station in Edinburgh—glad you were thinking of me and glad to hear you visited Scotland. They spent a fabulous 10-day vacation in Scotland. Starting with a car in Edinburgh and then driving to Oban, Glencoe, Skye, Inverness, and Stirling, with many stops along the way. Al notes that driving along the narrow roads in the Highlands was a challenge, particularly with the tour buses hogging the road. He bounced off a few curbs, and found the single track on the high road from Skye to Inverness to be quite exciting—must admit I have returned a few rental cars with missing hub caps and scrapes along the side from the bushes. Al stayed at some great manor houses (Cromlix in Dunblane, owned by Andy Murray, particularly notable) and got deeply immersed in Clan history. Al is really enjoying life with plenty to do,

Fred Grein in Glacier National Park

All is well with the Hotchkies family. It has been a busy year for travel for us, with 3 weeks in the U.K. visiting family and friends plus a few days in Orkney (an island north of the Scottish mainland)—our first visit and hopefully not our last—very interesting to see the history at Skara Brae and other sites. We also had trips to San Diego and Maui. Big trip was three weeks in Israel and a week in Jordan—we were there in 2009 and liked it so much that we made a return visit. Israel was fascinating and illuminating with so much history—you get a much better understanding of the issues in the area close up. The Dead Sea was hot (110+ degrees) and, yes, you really do float. We swam in the Dead Sea, Med Sea, and Red Sea and have the T-shirt to prove it!! We also went into Jordan (quite an experience crossing that border on foot) to Wadi Rum

Barry and Eleanor in Petra

in the Jordan desert and then to the amazing Petra. The pic nearby shows Eleanor and me in Petra. Our son Blair Hotchkies T’06 continues at Amazon, while daughter Lindsey continues at Apple. We very much enjoy our five grandchildren—three boys in Seattle and two girls in Monte Sereno, Calif. Cheers all. Let’s keep the cards, calls, pics and e-mails coming. Even though many of us are retired, our class would still love to hear from you—vacations, family, health issues, volunteer activities, and work (if anybody is still working!!). Call 510-918-5901 or email bhotchkies@aol.com. —Barry Hotchkies

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condition of their property—just some minor flooding, roof and siding damage, and downed limbs and palm trees. Jim Furneaux was safe in Newburyport when the storms hit St. John. His home came through the bad weather with no damage, and he has joined neighbors Michael Bloomberg and Kenny Chesney in a fundraising effort to rebuild the island. Houston residents Rich Andrews and George Kelly reported that other than a loss of power, they too got through the stormy weather safely. Good news all around! In August, Steve Bates, Brian Landry, Brad Stirn, Lloyd Ucko, Connie Voldstad, and Paul Stupinski got together in New York for a memorial dinner to celebrate the life of our good friend, golfing buddy, and classmate Mike Lorig. Don Wilson T’73 and Bill Bohrer would have joined us, but the travel gods conspired against them with flight delays, mechanical problems, etc., etc. As the venue for our dinner, we chose The Palm Too Restaurant in NYC. The original Palm in New York (now closed) was a favorite hangout of Pinhead’s, so much so that his caricature had graced the walls. However, when we booked the reservation at Palm Too and explained why we were dining there, The Palm Too management thoughtfully reproduced Mike’s picture on the wall above our table—how’s that for great customer service?! The evening was filled with laughter, great Pinhead stories, and emotional toasts. If you ever find yourself in NYC, stop by The Palm Too on Second Avenue and say “hello” to Mike!

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Hi everyone! We were all shocked to see the devastation caused by the hurricanes that struck the Southeast, Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, and the Caribbean. A number of our classmates who checked in reported that they came through the bad weather in relatively good shape. Dave Bailey was playing golf in Ireland when the hurricane blew through the Carolinas, but he reported just a few downed tree limbs and a power outage in Bluffton. Phil Spokowski lost but one hibiscus tree on his property. Pat Martin, Geoff Clear, and Bob Twomey all had similar stories. Marnie and Jake Jacobsen had recently bought a winter home in the Florida Keys and, thanks to the NOAA website, were able to monitor the

Mike Lorig re-honored at the The Palm Too in New York

Bob Twomey, Dave Potter, and I took advantage of a beautiful fall morning for coffee in Providence. Bob was taking a break from wedding planning—one of his daughters is getting married this winter atop Mont Tremblant in Quebec. Looks like skiing, snowshoeing, and fondue will be on the reception agenda! Dave has just started a new position at Brown University, helping to jump-start efforts to commercialize student and faculty innovation and research. This is the same kind of work Todd Keiller is doing at WPI, and Dave has already started tapping into Todd’s experience, contacts, and expertise. Diane and Todd recently announced that daughter Chelsea is engaged, so there is wedding planning in the Keiller household as well. John McQuiston and Larry Edgar attended their 45th reunion at BC this summer. From there, John and his wife Rita were off to Rome before returning to spend the winter in Florida (...“assuming our house is still there, Paul!”). Betty and Vandy Van Wagener are in the midst of a major home-renovation project, which despite Vandy’s formidable planning and project management skills will not be completed until well into 2018! Twig MacArthur is debating whether to surrender to the advice of his orthopedic surgeon and get a knee replacement, so he is a “maybe” for this year’s Holiday Lunch. Regardless, Twig says he can still reach the desk-mounted beer tap in his office at the former world HQ of GenesisSolutions, so things could be worse! John Bello continues to stay busy in the beverage industry with his sangria, Beso Del Sol, and Reed’s, makers of my favorite ginger beer. Connecticut Magazine recently ran a feature interview of John—it’s available online and very entertaining (no surprise there!). At this writing, John and Nancy T’75 were vacationing in Yellowstone and the Tetons. On their return, Bello will get back to his newest hobby and latest passion—pottery. After buying a potter’s wheel and kiln, Bello’s friends and associates are being inundated with vases, ashtrays, pots, bowls, and candlesticks. The problem, though, appears to be that you can’t tell one from the other.... In a previous column, I reported that Deb and Dan Clark were in the midst of a major home-renovation project—they are now fully moved in and loving it. They are still trying to sell their former home, an 1830 vintage farm house. Don Wallace divides his time between Winnetka, Ill., and Longboat Key, Fla., while continuing his practice as a financial advisor with R.W. Baird. Don has been with Baird for WINTER 2018

CL ASS NOTES 24 years; prior to that he was with Goldman Sachs. He completed his update with news of 4 children and 3 grandchildren. Menno Van Wyk recently returned to Swarthmore for his 50th college reunion and combined the reunion with a trip to Ottawa to catch up with some old friends. Menno spends his time these days with lots of outdoor activities, yoga, checking out farmers’ markets, gardening, and exploring the beautiful Seattle area—Orcas Island and Mt. Washington being particular favorites. Blaine Gunther and wife Linda are in Larnaca, Cyprus, with the Latter-day Saints. Blaine is the leader of the local congregation and handles a variety of projects—whatever is assigned by the mission president. Blaine and Linda are also helping out at a nearby refugee camp. The Gunthers recently welcomed a new grandchild to the family—congratulations! Congrats too to Helen and Mike Caulfield— new grandson Logan joins year-old Lily in the Caulfield family portfolio! Cathy [Needham] Grein just returned from a trip through Canada and Montana. The itinerary included a mini reunion with some of Fred’s (T’73) Vietnam army buddies, and stays at Waterton Lakes National Park, Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, all in Banff National Park, and Glacier National Park in Montana. Congratulations to Margie and Geoff Clear, celebrating the arrival of grandson #2—Lucas Jacob Fastow. Margie and Geoff’s son Michael is in Hollywood, cranking out movies for Atomic Monster, his film production company—Annabelle: Creation was his latest release; anybody see it? Geoff and Margie divide their time between Connecticut and a home on Amelia Island. They lost a few trees but fortunately no other damage to the house or property during this summer’s storm season. Dan Hunt and wife Jodie will be dividing their time between their homes in Sun Valley and a new place at The Moorings in Vero Beach—with Dan being such an avid skier, does that mean they’ll be in Florida for the summer??? Dave Wilhoite and wife Lyn just returned from a visit to Washington, D.C., and time with their daughter and new grandchild. Dave’s wife Lyn is very busy as Ohio State President for the Philanthropic Educational Organization, which provides college financial assistance and operates a women’s college. Dave continues to make thoughtful suggestions to the class reading list—see below. Congratulations to Jack Tankersley, whose son Andy recently wed his longtime partner, Anna, in West Glacier, Montana. The entire

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Tankersley clan attended, and there was a bit of a stir at the airline check-in—United had a hard time believing that one flight had 3 G.J. Tankersleys trying to board! Hank Hakewill gathered up the entire family—2 sons, wives, 3 grandchildren—for a vacation/solar eclipse viewing party in northern Wisconsin. Okay, there was some fishing too! As I write this column, Hank is assisting one of his clients, XA Investments, with the launch of its first closed-end fund. A listing on the New York Stock Exchange is planned for later this year. Jim Coakley is living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, enjoying retirement after a career in advertising, which culminated in a corporate position as CMO for Kumon North America. He and his bride recently celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary, which Coakley proclaims is his most lasting achievement. I hope his wife reads this column—she’ll be thrilled he said that! And a quick addition: Jeff James and wife Susan recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary with a trip to Athens, Crete, and Malta. Both Susan and Jeff are enjoying retirement and are living in Shrewsbury, MA. Daughters Amanda (McManus) and Victoria, along with granddaughters Jane (4) and Ida (1), live close by. Rick Goldberg recently returned to Brandeis for his 45th college reunion and noticed with some concern that some of his college buddies are starting to look old! Rick and Hilary maintain a hectic travel schedule, with recent excursions to Atlanta, Palm Beach, and day trips throughout Connecticut. He has also developed an interest in art and goes into NYC frequently to check out the 7 museums of which he is a member. Paul Hogan just returned from an Alaskan cruise to celebrate completion of his final board membership. Earlier this year, he took the family to Captiva Island for their annual winter getaway. Among his many leisure activities, Paul paints using pastels. Noreen Doyle is eating some crow after Bello’s Tufts Men’s Soccer Team demolished her Mt. St. Vincent’s Dolphins 10-0. I had to double-check that it wasn’t a football score!

Vermont for some leaf-peeping. Jim combined the trip with the semiannual meeting he leads as head of the UVM Foundation. Thanksgiving will be spent at Jackson Hole with their son and his family, with Christmas planned in Nairobi to visit their daughter and her family. Somewhere in there, Jim took the Harley down to the Kellers’ winter home in Arizona. Check out what your classmates have been reading: A Fine Mess, by T.R. Reid. A thoughtful discussion of the issues surrounding tax reform. A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré. A reminder that le Carré is still the master of the spy novel genre. A Sovereign People, by Carol Berkin. There were 4 major crises that occurred in the United States in the 1790s, and how the government handled them shaped American nationalism into the 21st century. You’ll notice in this column that we received news from classmates that we had not heard from in awhile. Many thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply. The column is so much more interesting when we get news from everyone!

’75 Bill Kelly bkelly@snet.net

I went down to La Paz in Baja Sur in September and saw some friends who work at CIBNOR, the marine-biology institute in a neighboring town. (The waters of Baja Sur are whale-mating territory par excellence.)

The town has quite a lively expat retirement community, many Canadians as well as Americans, and the occasional German or Frenchman. There’s a good bit of new construction going on, both of individual Just another boring summer for Judy and “casitas” and more elaborate homes in gated Jim Keller! 80 Days of great summer weather communities. Homes are built of concrete block meant terrific boating, crabbing, and fishing rather than wood, due to termites, then finished along the NW Pacific coast! Lots of travel, too— with a stucco-like spray. the Kellers made it back to Happy Valley for a Penn State football game before heading to La Paz itself is quite peaceful and “authentic,”

compared with the more touristy Los Cabos farther down the peninsula. As for commercial infrastructure, there is a multilevel Sears downtown set up like a traditional department store and a big shopping center just out of town anchored by a Walmart and a Home Depot. Compared to many Walmarts I’ve seen in the U.S., the one in La Paz was lively, friendly, and clean, with an outstanding grocery section that many locals seemed to prefer to the nearby Mexican chain-store supermarket.

To read a wonderful anecdote about Tom and President Kennedy, visit https://archive1. jfklibrary.org/JFKOH/Bilodeau,%20Thomas %20H/JFKOH-TB-01/JFKOH-TB-01-TR.pdf.

The Home Depot is just what you would expect to see in the U.S., except that the big letters are in Spanish and the small ones in English, instead of the other way around. And the local store has a much larger stock of ceiling fans! It was hot during my September visit, north of 95 degrees. For a while there was a hurricane warning, but the storm turned out into the Pacific before it reached La Paz. (Is “Pacific hurricane” a contradiction in terms?). The big earthquake in Mexico took place while I was there, but it didn’t affect La Paz, and I was able to change planes in Mexico City on my flight back without any problems. Now that many of us are in well-earned retirement, we have more time for travel and hobbies. Feel free to let me know what you’re up to, and I’ll share with our classmates.

’76 Editor’s note: The marvelous Stu Fishler has turned in his quill as T’76 class secretary. And we thank him for his years and years of work in keeping the class of 1976 informed and together. If you’d like to volunteer as class scribe, please email tuck.class.notes@dartmouth.edu. Stu did forward the obituary for Tom Bilodeau’s obit, saying it “is quite impressive, given his Vietnam War record...and the dashing photo (both attached). He was probably the most beloved of our class while we were there; while he was 10 years older than most of us, he was more of a peer than anything else. The entire class received this already, but it might make an impressive read for those in the surrounding classes who knew him...as well as the Tuck community at large.”

Tom Bilodeau

Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr. 1942 - 2017 Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr. passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 15, 2017 in Rockland, MA. He was 75 years old. He enjoyed an eventful and impactful life, always living each moment to the fullest. A powerful intellect and gifted athlete, Tom was a force to be reckoned with on and off the field. Born in Boston in 1942, Tom grew up in Milton and summered in Hull. He graduated from Boston Latin in 1960 having left his mark as one of the more storied New England athletes of his era. He later would be inducted into the Boston Latin Hall of Fame and the Boston Park League Hall of Fame. After a post-graduate year at Exeter, Tom entered Harvard College, where he became a threesport athlete and set several Harvard records in baseball and football. Upon graduating from college, Tom married Marilyn Moon, his bride for life. Shortly thereafter he was swept into the Vietnam War. He attended Navy OCS graduating as Regimental Commander at the top of his class. During the war, Tom flew A7 fighter jets for the 86th Attack Squadron aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. He flew 232 combat missions, survived being shot down twice, and was awarded numerous medals, ribbons and commendations.

Following his naval service, Tom entered the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1976. Thereafter, he settled his family in St. Louis, Missouri and embarked on a series of successful entrepreneurial ventures including several companies and real estate developments. During this time, Tom also served as a director of multiple public companies, including Corning Natural Gas and Fall River Gas. In 1987, Tom and Marilyn moved to Florida, residing there (with many summers in Hull) for the next 30 years. Tom led a rich life filled with adventure and accomplishment. The extraordinary stories that emerge from his life are Tom’s legacy and will be treasured by all who knew and loved him. Most of all, he cherished his family and the time he spent with them. In addition to his wife Marilyn, Tom’s immediate family includes three children, Kathy Varney, Kerry Humes and Tom Bilodeau, III, their spouses, and seven grandchildren. Tom also had two sisters, Jane Heggie and Nancy Bilodeau, and a brother Timothy Bilodeau. All save Jane Heggie survive him together with a host of nieces, nephews and extended family and friends. Tom requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Medicines for Humanity, 800 Hingham Street, Rockland MA 02370. www.medicinesforhumanity.org Please visit http://www.downingchapel.com/ listings for more information concerning arrangements to celebrate Tom’s life.

’77 Martha Luehrmann marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

Special Reunion Issue! What a GREAT time! 47 of us, plus spouses and kids made it to Hanover for a wonderful weekend with early fall color and clear warm days. Maureen Lynch was a special guest. Gert Assmus was a special guest for the Saturday dinner. PJ Areson, Peter and Adrienne Barris,

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CL ASS NOTES Mark and Lynn Beasman, Peter Brundage, Ev Cook, Tom Cullen, Rick Daniels, Peter and Melinda Darbee, Tom Denison, Jona Donaldson, Pierre Dupont and his guest, Frans Rooda, Scott and Petria Fossel, Al and Peg Freihofer, Dan Goessling, Roger and Barbara Hamada, Sandy Helve and Doug Joseph, Bill and Lynne Hoyt, Brooks Jackson, George and Mary Beth Jones, Dave Kemp, Nancy King, John Korab, Martha Luehrmann, Charlie McClaskey, Wally and Lynn McCloskey, Paul and Betsy McCormack, Mark McDonald, MaryLou McKenna, Lindsay (Welton) and Joseph McSweeney, Jim Middleton, Mike O’Brien, Tom and Laurie Ortolf, Charlie and Barbara Plimpton, Nancy Friberg and Bob Pope, Bob Probert, Frits and Gail Riep, Lisa Roberts and Tom Francesconi, Mark Rohman, Joanne Scott and John Rubright, Chris (Steiner) Shea, Judy Walke, Borden and Michelle Walker, Bob Wallace, Curt Welling, Page and Linda West, and Bill Williams all came. Please forgive me. I may have missed some of the spouses. We had a fabulous time! Bill Williams got his very first senior discount. Welcome to the club, Bill. Page and Linda West are happily ensconced in their North Carolina home while keeping their historic Colorado cabin. Tom Ortolf is brown as a berry from hiking with Laurie out of their Sarasota, Florida, home. Mark McDonald has a son, Kevin McDonald T’19, at Tuck for his first year. He joined us a couple of times during the weekend. I was prepared to see someone sleep deprived and overworked like the rest of us were the first year, but Kevin was relaxed, doing well, and admitted to not having cracked a textbook. Oy! There was a bit of a kerfuffle when, during the Saturday class sessions, someone from another reunion class fainted. Amidst calls to dial 911, Dr. Doug Joseph, Sandy Helve’s husband, went right over to help out and declared the patient OK. Yay, Doug! Pierre Dupont came from Paris, looking as suave and chic as only the French can do. He is running a vineyard in the south of France and brought a bottle of 15-year-old Armagnac to give as a raffle prize at the Saturday night dinner at the Canoe Club restaurant. Curt Welling just bought the Canoe Club, and he donated dinner for 4 there as another raffle prize. The Canoe Club is a Tuck effort, since 74

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Curt is partnered by Daniella Reichstetter T’07, who is herself the daughter of a T’74. Tom Ortolf offered a year’s worth of Dish’s Sling TV as a third raffle prize. Chris (Steiner) Shea was there. She is always beautiful, but I think she is more beautiful than ever. She has retired from General Mills and is spending time with a host of volunteer efforts, children, and grandchildren. Dan Goessling publicly apologizes to Mike O’Brien for not inviting him (and many others) to his wedding last year. Between Dan and his new wife they have 6 children and 4 grandchildren. Dan also reports that Jim Logan should return his phone calls. Tom Tanaka required surgery for advanced cervical spondylosis in July but reports that he seems to have fully recovered and promises to come to the next reunion. Late-breaking news from Ned Harding! “I have recently published a book, Sketches in Quantitative Finance, a translation of Bachelier’s Le Jeu, la chance et le hasard.” My own big news is that Arthur and I have moved to a retirement community in Oakland. Our new address is 100 Bay Place, Apt 917, Oakland, CA 94610. Our emails remain the same: Martha@Luehrmann.com and Arthur@ Luehrmann.com, and our telephones remain the same—home: 510-548-7239, Martha cell: 610-945-5937, Arthur cell: 610-945-6686. We are loving our new life and welcome visitors. Except for a few days of bad air, we have been unaffected by the fires up north, but our retirement home has temporarily taken in about 65 refugees from the fire areas.

’78 Jim Scardino jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

40TH REUNION OCTOBER 5-7, 2018

I start this note with a reminder to all to mark your calendars for the upcoming (October 5-7, 2018) 40-year reunion of the class of 1978. The

beauty of the season is a perfect backdrop for seeing old friends, enjoying good times, and being reminded of how fortunate we are to have the experiences, accomplishments, relationships, and perspicacity engendered by our years at Tuck. Please do make it back! There are already plans in place for cool events, such as golf. The chairman of the Class of ‘78 Golf Committee, Peter Lebovitz, is organizing a championship outing that will be the envy of the PGA’s senior circuit. Open to all, probably on Thursday the 5th or Friday the 6th. (The only downside is that Bob Lindberg has already won low gross, low net, closest to the pin, and longest drive. But the rest of us can compete for the coveted “First to the 19th Hole Cup.”) The aforementioned Messrs. Lebovitz and Lindberg were part of a crew hosted by Tom Flanagan in Darien, Conn., October 20th. Also sighted were Jack Ryder, Russ Robertson, and your faithful correspondent. I can attest to how much fun and how many laughs were enjoyed for 18 +/- holes. Missing from the links was Charlie Johnston, who returned to his high school alma mater, Xaverian High in Brooklyn, as a member of the faculty teaching religion. Welcome Back, Kotter has nothing on “Welcome Back, CJ!” And speaking of reunions, Astrid and Arne Nielsen went back to Hanover for Arne’s 40-year Dartmouth reunion. They went together with Bibbi and Gabriel Smith T’77 and two other Norwegian Dartmouth classmates. In August they met up in Oslo with Luisa Hunnewell and Larry Newman, who were on a quick tour to take in the beauty of Norway. “Our youngest son is becoming father to a boy in October. This will be our 8th grandchild. Not bad?” I’ll say! Larry and Luisa’s son Mark married the daughter of another Tuckie, Malcolm Persen T’81. In addition to visiting with Arne and Astrid, Larry and Luisa bumped into Susan and Tom Stenovec in Chautauqua, N.Y. They have built a house and plan to spend summers there. (Geez, I didn’t think SLO Town was too bad in the summer!) They had brunch with Robin and Paul Timmins, who are proud and busy grandparents, as well as parents of Tuck grads. Word is that Bill Cook was planning to move to Massachusetts—Cookie, any truth to this? Larry was planning to sit in on a class or two being taught by CJ—no heckling, Larry. Whatever happened in Hanover stays in Hanover! “It was also good to catch up with Peter and Janet (and their son and his new wife), Tom Flanagan, Mark Kimak (who is everywhere these days), and Russ at a Tuck

next? Nancy and I are in trouble if there is anything to this epigenetics stuff.” Wow, and I thought there could be only one JG Bouchard!

Larry Newman, Luisa Hunnewell, Susan Stenovec, and Tom Stenovec

function this summer. Luisa and I are still working but one day soon looking forward to retiring to Wellesley—hopefully Mary Scardino will have convinced Jim to slow down a bit by then to spend more time there as well.” Some days it wouldn’t take much convincing! And here is a travelogue from Jon Hayes: “My wife, Susan, and I have been traveling. Patagonia, Ushuaia (El Fin del Mundo—the edge of the world—there are signs warning you not to stand too close to the edge; you might fall off), a landing on Cape Horn and Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island—a truly amazing place. We also visited Panama. A good business case study could be written on what the Panamanians have done with the canal. It is really something to warm the cockles of any MBA’s heart. It is quite remarkable; a lesson on how to run a business properly.” Brian Ruder is entering his fourth year as program chair of the Leadership Fellows program at NYU Stern. This is an MBA seminar for 24 select fellows that runs the entire second year, focusing on intensive exercises for leadership skills development, small private briefings with C-level guests each month, and one-on-one mentoring. As executive-in-residence, Brian also gets an opportunity to participate in some broader lecturing and program work at Stern. Ginny has been attending some cooking classes at King Arthur in Norwich, where Ralph Carlton is the co-CEO! And John Bouchard writes, “If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. I went up Mt. Hood and skied off last June while the girls were training on the lower glacier. I hobbled for the next week. Daughter Alice, who finished the season ranked #1 in slalom for the Pacific Northwest for girls born in 2002 and later, was on the beach in Hood River and bored. So she and her friends swam to Washington. Once there, she didn’t want to hitch home (because Dad would yell at her) so she and her pals swam back. Oh my! What’s

Sandy and Tom Doyle split time between Concord, Mass., and Naples, Fla., which has been their primary residence since 2006. Thankfully, their house suffered relatively minor damage from Irma, although the general area was under duress. Tom went on a salmonfishing expedition to Canada with Jeff Sherer T’77, Tom Merrick D’70, and several other good pals. Fly fishing is a passion for Sandy as well! Rem Laan reports he is now semiretired, but read this: “I am a non-executive board member of ViCentra B.V., a new Dutch insulin pump company. I am also advising a couple of other start-ups in the diabetes device space—one in Germany and in the LA area. For the rest I am learning to play the ukulele, spending time bicycling, volunteering (1) at our church, (2) the local maritime museum, (3) the new Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and (4) the Santa Barbara Region of the Porsche Club of America.” Not sure which is less accurate: the “semi” part or the “retired” part. Whatever, Rem and Sally are planning to attend the reunion. Gary Penna is coming to the reunion, and I would like all of you to hear his story. He described the serious health challenge he had with typical humor: “...would not recommend this weight loss program to anyone...” “...enjoying life again—went 28 years between holes-in-one before making two in the last year....” But it is his final sentence: “I am a living example of getting a second chance... family and friends....” And here’s to your health, with the hope we will see each other there, then!

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

It seems that my attempt to embarrass Buzz Reynolds in my previous columns in order to solicit an update from him was successful. He sent me a lengthy note about his family, his career, his hobbies, etc. It was so astoundingly boring that I will spare all of you any of the details. Now, on to more inspiring classmates.

M.K. Beach reports that she and her husband, Terry Osborne, had a lovely poolside lunch with Margaret Heffernan at her home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. “It has become a wonderful annual tradition, as we get to the Hamptons every August. I caught up with Andy Steele and his wife Annabelle at the Global Tuck ’Tails in Hanover at Murphy’s this summer. There was a huge and lively crowd of local Tuckies. The views from our deck are getting more colorful with the leaves turning more vibrant every day—though it has felt more like summer than fall with really high temperatures these past few weeks.” M.K. supplied the beautiful photograph nearby, which will make you all long for those beautiful fall days in New Hampshire. Following M.K. on Facebook will allow you a regular viewing of amazing photographs from her home and from her travels.

Fall In New Hampshire, courtesy of M.K. Beach

John Taylor reported in from his home at Wintergreen, “a golf/tennis/ski resort right on the Appalachian Trail, where our favorite season is midweek. Our son is a doctor in Burlington, Vt., so going to see the granddaughters is a good excuse to pass through Hanover a few times a year. We might have to buy a Vail pass this year and ski at Stowe!! I’ve remained quite active with the Tuck Private Equity and Entrepreneurship research center, having gone out to San Francisco for the recent advisory board meeting. The following day was the Dartmouth/Tuck/ Thayer/Geisel Entrepreneurship Forum in SF, where the Hanover ex-pat community put on an impressive daylong confab of several hundred people. Who knew there were so many of us in, or orbiting, that world? [Dean] Matt Slaughter was among the speakers both days. The buzz is the reimaging of the west end of Tuck Mall as an innovation hub, with Tuck, Thayer, and computer sciences as anchors. Now WINTER 2018

CL ASS NOTES if they could just use AI to create some real, not virtual, parking.... Just a friendly reminder that our class has been hugely supportive of Tuck’s fundraising efforts, so please be generous when you hear from your class Tuck TAG team: John, Andy, Cathy, and Dana.” John also wanted me to remind folks of our next reunion 10/4-6/2019. “Let’s go for 100% for our 45th and even higher for our 50th!! (Okay, so I’m a retired quant.)” http://mytuck.dartmouth.edu/ reunion_2019 José Antonio Rosa provided an update on his professorship at Iowa State University. He was named a John and Deborah Ganoe Faculty Fellow. “These appointments are typically based on research and teaching performance, although institution building also helps. For the last few years I have been conducting research that focuses on consumer well-being, be it the well-being of the bottom-of-thepyramid poor in places like Fiji, India, or Colombia, or that of people with serious health conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes. I work mostly with current doctoral students, past-doctoral students who are now assistant professors at various universities, or young assistant professors at ISU and elsewhere with whom I have a quasi mentoring relationship.” A couple of José’s current projects are a study of women market traders— the women who operate the fruit and vegetable stands—in developing economies, and a study to better predict which patients are more likely to give up on their prescribed medical regimen. José was also asked by his dean to develop a strategic and operational plan a sales program and center at the College of Business at Iowa State. He has two adult children (one born at Tuck) who are married and “doing well. Linda and I have four grandchildren, three living in the Champaign, Illinois, area and one in Germany. For our 40th anniversary, Linda and I went to the Galápagos Islands for 15 days. We did not find Russell Crowe (Master and Commander) but were nevertheless changed by the experience. Nature is awesome.” José is one busy guy! Jean Butler [Serenbetz] provided a brief update and a nice group photo: “Don’t know if you can see the rainbow in the upper left hand corner of this picture, but that’s what happens when Tuckies get together to party. Gary and Jody Peterson hosted a cookout at Fairfield Beach Club to celebrate Barney and Liz Ireland passing through on their way to Maine in June. Life is good!”

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Now that I’ve finally figured out how to download and attach Joan’s photo, I’ve had time to reflect on my harsh comments. I apologize, Joan, I really do care. Someday I will mature enough to realize that not everything is fair game for a quick laugh.

T’79 minireunion at the Fairfield Beach Club (look for the rainbow in the upper left!)

For those of you who just can’t get enough of Stuart Serenbetz, you are in luck, as his smiling face will appear a bit further along in these notes! Oakes Ames sent this Twitter-length update: “Golf, guns, Grand Canyon—living and loving life in rural Arizona. Putting my liberal arts education to use 1 day a week building trails in the Prescott National Forest. Alcohol is sometimes consumed before noon with this group....” That comment is probably also apropos to the group in Jean’s photo. Joan de Regt claimed to be taking pity on me by sending a note. Memo to Joan—I personally don’t care what’s going on in your life, but I have a job to do. “We spent two months cruising Maine and spent a night on Barney and Liz Ireland’s mooring at their beautiful summer home. Bonus was an all-terrain bocce game (don’t ask), which they were gracious enough to let John win. We had a great dinner in Falmouth Foreside with Anne Berg T’80. And then lucky to have both kids join us for a few days. Kip and Kathi Cleaver were brave enough to meet our clan for dinner at the Happy Clam in Tenants Harbor—see photo nearby. Note that all de Regts are wearing Happy Clam T-shirts haha.”

T’79s at the Happy Clam. Left to right: Kevin de Regt and girlfriend Libby Pendery, both T’17, Kip and Kathi, Joan and John, and Brian de Regt.

Cathy Stephenson states that “I have some upcoming business travel to Minneapolis and am looking forward to seeing MO in the land o’ lakes. [How she expects to see Missouri by traveling to Minnesota is perplexing.] I spent most of the summer in Michigan, which was wonderful. Am off to Iceland in November for a week.” Cathy even provided me with updates on other Tuckies in her circle. Barney Ireland’s wife, Liz, has retired and they are both now residing at their home in Georgia? I recall being over the state line north of Tallahassee. And Gretchen Teichgraeber is retired and is living the life of leisure. Gretchen’s daughter, Abby, is being married in December. And finally Cathy submits the nearby photograph of Lisa Perreault Ireland taken while visiting Cathy in Carlsbad, Calif. Thanks, Cathy for a multifaceted update!

Lisa Perrault Ireland

Dana Callow now has four grandchildren, two each from his two Tuck graduate sons. Even one of those son’s wives is a Tuck graduate— Katie Gagne (T’13). Dana is teaching them tennis as best he can, although I believe they would be better served with contributions to their 529 plans. Imagine the Tuck tuition in twenty years! Dana’s wife, Becky, is “is working with the Leukemia Society as a public policy and patient advocate in addition to other volunteer efforts. Vacationing in Charleston, S.C., and Kiawah when no hurricanes are there.” On the business side, Dana states that “after 30 years of building PAREXEL International, beginning soon after Tuck, we are taking the company back private. Very exciting times, with an activist or two hanging

around the company also. We will continue investing in the pharma clinical trials services business with our current private investment team. Learning about precision medicine and breakthrough cancer research from work with the Leukemia Society as well. 2017 has been an extraordinary year in cancer research and treatment. I need to get a molecular biology degree!”

’80 Rick Kilbride kilbride@optonline.net

Donna Hinshaw provided a “snippet.” “Active retirement is a busy time, as I’m sure many of you are finding out. Today I’m enjoying the first day of fall and doing the last preparations for a trip to Colorado Springs for a Ham Radio convention, followed by a half-marathon foot race. And a visit with an old friend in Denver. So a 3-in-1 trip. It takes about that much productivity to get me on a plane and away from my home/paradise. Living on a big island in the Pacific Northwest and loving the quality of life and quality of environment. Still not enough time to do everything I want to do, but what is new about that?” See, now this makes me feel good about myself again. Also being a retiree, I was feeling a little inadequate after reading about how active some of our classmates are. Not Buzz, though. I’m sure he’s up to nothing of interest. Ben Butcher reports that he’s catching up on some things that most of us did in our younger days. Married at 63 and his first dog at 64. Perhaps at 65 he will try his first alcoholic beverage. Careful, Ben, it burns, it burns.

Stuart Serenbetz and “The Claw Stroke”

Darrell Brown just completed a hiking adventure in the Grand Canyon with his sister. I know because I was supposed to go with him. My plan was to have my knee replacement done in May so that I’d be all recovered by September for the hike. Surprisingly, my recovery time was as if I was an old man and not the 40-year-old man who lives in my brain.

This edition of Tuck Notes has the best ever picture of one of our classmates. John Reeve has a new career as an oyster farmer. His first crop, to be harvested in Yarmouth Port on Cape Cod, won’t be ready for another two years. I’m thinking that John is on to something here and the rest of us are going to be his customers. John joins winemaker David Jeffrey, our classmates reaping the abundance of the earth.

Ron Miller was on his annual summer trek to Maine with his lovely wife, Ginny, and two of his three children when he stopped over in Indianapolis. We all had dinner at our country club, and raised a toast to all of you.

John Reeve and his oyster crop

Rob Morris reports that Bill Gentes, Tony Ianuale, and he attended Tom Beneville’s daughter’s wedding. Rob sent along a photo indicating that they all had much fun. These guys were basically always inseparable; glad to see that is still the case. Ron Miller and Dick Bowden, toasting the class of ’79

The rest of the Ben Butcher clan now!

Royden Goodson is the reason for the return of Stuart Serenbetz to the photos in these notes. He supplied the nearby photograph, supposedly taken by Gary Peterson, and captioned by Buck Parson as “the Claw Stroke.”

In closing I’ve decided to add a new feature to my notes—a song suggestion for those of you who might recall dog tunes. Ray LaMontagne— “Old Before Your Time.”

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CL ASS NOTES Dave Womack, who was kind to write this column for many years, was reported seen in both London and Hartford. Both Sherry Kernan, our longtime London correspondent, and Joanne Dombrosky reported sightings. Joanne is working for the Connecticut State Treasurer, certainly a tough place to be these days. Joanne also gets together with George Gorman and Jim Dawson with some regularity. For our last issue, Jack Rubin has sent along news about Scott Wilson, indicating that he was on the mend. Here, from Scott, is his great story: “I am doing very well and am damn lucky. How many people can say that after a car crash? “From being paralyzed on the left side for two weeks, I have been swimming a mile a day for the last five months. From no memory of the first two months, I am back this fall teaching my usual drill of Micro, Macro, Stats, Precalc, and Entrepreneurship. My wife Sarah has been unbelievable. Was out in Wyoming this summer and stayed at the new Hamlin Ranch and saw Jack Rubin. Great to hang out with them. And did a Backroads bike trip with Sarah and my little boys. “The neurologists at Mass General are now meeting with me to try to understand how I have recovered such a range of function so quickly. So I am VERY fortunate.” I also have a report from Suzy F. Calzone. She’s done so well and has always been modest about her roles. She reports: “2017 has been a challenging year. My husband passed away this winter and my mother passed away a few weeks ago. Fortunately, my 16-year-old twins and I have a great support network at their school, my colleagues at work, and dear friends in our community besides our family. We are still living in Fairfield County, Connecticut. So, while most of our classmates are busy being grandparents, I am busy doing the college tours with my children. I must say, colleges have come a long way since we were students! “I am thoroughly enjoying work at Foundation Source, where we help start and manage private foundations for individuals and families, providing comprehensive support including administrative services, online tools, and

expert philanthropic, tax, and legal guidance. I joined the firm as COO in January of 2016 and became CEO in May of 2016. Many clients use a private foundation as a way to build a family legacy, and our team is passionate about helping our clients achieve their philanthropic mission. “While 2017 has been rough, I am so grateful for my children and dear friends and to be working with such a dedicated and compassionate team.” Thanks to those who sent in their news. We all have much to be grateful for.

made a dozen or so pies in lieu of wedding cake. So, in MBA terms, this was a vertically integrated wedding! The honeymoon was in Napa, which had to be explained to “gearhead” Glenn was not the local auto parts store. A great event, went off without a hitch, and Dad even managed enough of a box step to not permanently embarrass his lovely daughter. In a remarkable development, Ida’s hair, which had been going somewhat gray in the months leading up to June (I can’t imagine why...), has since then reversed course and has gotten less gray since, moving back to black. If we could only patent this....

’81 Tony Ettinger tony.ettinger@verizon.net

Glenn Mercer Whitney Mercer and Gary Dagres wedding party

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Greetings. This will be a short column as we didn’t get a lot of news input, beyond that from The Usual Suspects, for whom I am grateful, but whom I am giving a break this time around. Golf will return soon, along with biking in France. The rest of you, step up, or I will give your email address to some Bitcoin ICO “marketers” I know! I will now abuse the privileges of my position (they are legion! I get a free Tuck Today pencil every 3 years) and insert a news item about the Mercers, as we had our first Offspring Wedding. In June our daughter Whitney married, here in Cleveland, Gary Dagres (who is also employed by GE Aviation). See relevant photo, of youngest son Ian, Whitney’s (twin) sister Natalie, yours truly, Whitney, Gary, Ida, and oldest son Nik. Please note that Natalie made her dress, Ida made hers, and the two together created Whitney’s wedding gown, in amazing feats of the seamstress’s art. (I rented my tux, all by myself, I’ll have you know!) Ida and her three brothers provided cello quartet accompaniment, her brother Ethan made the flower arrangements, and the two families

While I am on the topic of my family, I will add that Natalie has closed her fabric store in Boston, in order to gain more skills, via a master’s program in the fabric business, at Sapienza University of Rome. She will miss the Red Sox but not, as she is at pains to point out, having to sing every g*****n verse of “Sweet Caroline” in the eighth inning. Ida, after some time off, has resumed her position as chair of the string department at the local music school, and Glenn—due to some horrible lapse of judgment by the governors of Coventry University (in the U.K.)—has been appointed visiting professor there, where he can warp young minds about all things automotive. On a much more somber note, also in June, our friend and classmate Lee Arbuckle lost his struggle with cancer and rode on from the prairies of his beloved Montana to more distant vistas. I won’t attempt an obituary, as an excellent one is found at https://goo.gl/ pdKJfS, but I will say that Lee was one of the finer humans in our midst at Tuck, always willing to lend a hand, provide sound advice, and just generally be a really, really good guy.

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I think we all knew he was from the land of the Big Sky, and since New Hampshire might have been a bit cramped for his large frame and larger heart, here’s a photo of a younger Lee in his native habitat. We’ll miss him.

Lee Arbuckle

(Thanks to Susan Woods for pointing me to the remembrance of Lee where I found this photo.) On a very, very different note, Russ Greenberg achieved his lifelong goal of summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. We have only a low-res photo to show you, but we are assured it is indeed Russ, who is chairman of GED Integrated Solutions. (GED makes windows and doors, in case you didn’t know.) Never one to pass up a marketing opportunity, Russ’s official communiqué from the summit read (and I kid you not): “Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro was a lifetime goal. Like any task, it is much easier with the proper preparation and equipment. This is a position I believe GED takes with their customers, so I wanted to spread the word that GED will go to any height to assist their customers’ needs.” No word as to whether Russ left a ceremonial door knob at the summit. Congratulations Russ!

on a business trip to Saint-Tropez for a week....” Rrrright. Yup. And I am going to Trenton for yoga camp. Anyway, I checked S-T out on Google Maps, and the biggest local business on this part of the Riviera is the Lacoste shop. Nice try, Tony, but we expected nothing less from a Scam Alum. (I was intrigued, however, by the nearby Gandhi restaurant: I mean, that guy barely cracked 90 pounds, so I’m not sure he’s a good endorsement for a dining establishment....) Okay, for more weirdness, on to Tom Phillips. Now, some of us are thinking about some form of retirement or semiretirement, and Tom indeed hung up the HP 12c a couple of years ago. But like many of the recently idled, he still wanted to do something, and so he started a new, um...career. So we’ll make you guess his choice. Volunteer at local animal shelter? Nope. Lecturer at the community college? Nope. Counselor to young entrepreneurs? Nope. Mailman. Letter carrier. Postal worker. “I worked as a mailman for 4 months earlier this year. The 10+ miles of walking per day was great. I lost 15 pounds and liked being outside (even during the ice storms we had). New mail carriers work 6 days per week including every Sunday (Amazon deliveries). You only learn your day off at 6pm the night before. This made life hard to schedule so I quit before working the 15 months needed to become a regular. I then hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with my son for 3 weeks....” (Tom did not mention if he dropped off packages along the PCT.) I was so staggered by this amazing career move that I figured for the first time in three decades or more of writing these notes I would try my inept hand at photo editing: see the photo nearby. Here’s the question: would you open your door to this man?

So now, to close on a less odd note, involving neither Going Postal nor Marketing from Mountaintops, Dan Taylor weighed in with a reassuringly normal update: “Our kids have all moved out and are living on their own, albeit in close-enough-for-laundry-anddinner proximity. That’s fine with us, since we enjoy seeing them and making our aging Odyssey minivan available for the numerous apartment moves that seem to define young adulthood. One of our daughters, Madelynn, is living in D.C. and applying to medical school. Our other daughter, Annalise, is living in San Francisco and working for an environmental non-profit in Palo Alto. Our sons Greg and Kevin continue to toil away as engineers for Space Systems Loral and Google, respectively. Carol and I are starting to smell the finish line, probably in the next 2-3 years. [ I hear there are postal positions available....] [ Hey wait: there is a smell to a finish line? ] We took several wonderful trips this summer to Provence (wine and biking), Idaho (whitewater rafting), and Block Island (family reunion). Next year, we’re heading to Machu Picchu, and possibly other adventures in Peru.” Sounds great, Dan...and if you see Russ on an Andes mountaintop, say hi for us...and buy a skylight or something from him. Please. Well you can see what happens when more people don’t write in: I start playing with photos. So unless you want to glimpse yourself cropped into a cat video or something, send news! Meanwhile, stay safe and happy—or at least content. Best wishes from Shaker Heights....

’82 Andy Rieth brieth11@gmail.com

Editor’s note: Look on the 1982 Class Notes page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for Andy’s awesome photos and Reunion write-up! And from Andy’s write-up: “PLEEEASE send the stories I missed. We’ll include them in the next issue. I want to hear from as many of you as I can. “

Russ Greenberg atop Mt. Kilimanjaro

I was going to give you an update on Tony Ettinger, but when I got to this sentence in his submission I reversed gear: “Patti is joining me

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35TH REUNION OCTOBER 5-7, 2018

We have some great Tuck stories for you this issue, so pull up a seat and get a cocktail. As Pete Kirven says, “Let’s call it Tuck Tales, not Tuck ’Tails.” Here is his report: “I get a call. A fellow I met at a neighbor’s. Can I sell his home? Sure, let’s talk. Somehow it comes out that I went to Tuck. He, Larry Caruso, graduated from Tuck before we were there. Two weeks later, I’m walking home from the bike shop. A couple is standing in front of another home I have for sale. I start to say hello and they turn around and lo and behold, it is Russ Maney, with whom I worked at a high-tech startup in 2000. Tuck Class of ‘After Us.’ He buys it a day later. All within three blocks of my home. Then just last week, I go to a gathering of the local Occom Club on a downtown rooftop. Meet a guy, Kenneth Butler, Tuck 2007. We have coffee two days later and are now scheming. All of this happened in the last two months. In Louisville, Kentucky.” Small world, Louisville. Also in the small-world category, this time from Mike Sneed. “ I ran into Professor Argenti earlier this year in NYC. We then reconnected in Martha’s Vineyard this summer. Paul is an avid cyclist. Let’s just say that I am not. I hope to come up to Tuck next winter to be part of his class. It was as if I spoke with him yesterday even though it was many, many years ago. Big influence for me and glad to see he is doing well.” More news, this time from Chars Crane, who recommends the Class Notes ’83 column for business networking (and we don’t even charge for this service!). “In our last class notes, you [and Chris] were kind enough to include my invitation to our classmates whose organizations might be in need of a marketing 80

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tune-up. Well, that squib in Tuck Today produced a great lead that has turned into great business for Huss Group! Client confidentiality suggests that I not reveal who it is that called, but I could not be happier at the result. “Since the last edition, I have continued to travel...a lot. I recently took my 73rd individual plane ride since the beginning of the year, and the pile of tickets on my desk points to more in the remaining months of 2017. The highlight of the summer was a trip to Paris to see Coldplay in concert with two of my dear friends and my 18-year-old goddaughter (graduation present). “I have also recently provided the seed funding to a startup in Pittsburgh that has developed a creative solution for gig workers and independent contractors to pay their taxes as if they were W-2 employees instead of 1099 payees. I am also providing strategic counsel to the company, which is called Sabius. Stay tuned. To say I am un-retired is an understatement. Some days I am lucky to get 4 hours sleep. And I am loving every minute.” Classmate Brent West just can’t shake his Tuck connection (not that he would want to). “I’ve been thinking a lot about the Tuck School lately,” writes Brent. “Our daughter Molly is a member of the class of 2019, and I am now reliving our experiences from 36 years ago. It appears that sleep is still at a premium for first-year Tuckies. Best I can tell, that culture of academic intensity and strong personal bonding is alive and well. Yesterday, as I walked through the shipyard, I received a text from Molly: ‘When did you graduate from Tuck?’ I quickly texted back: ‘1983.’ Then, minutes later, she returned the text with our graduation picture on the steps of hall. It took a few minutes, but I found myself and had a little fun identifying various classmates. I just can’t stop thinking how fortunate I am to have been a part of this wonderful school. Hope this finds you and all of our fellow ’83s well and enjoying life.” Mike Lauber wanted to make sure we got in the news about “Good Golly Ms. Molly West” with a little fun ribbing of his classmate. “Perhaps she can lay to rest the bad taste her father left [at Tuck]. If Brent hasn’t offered up this news for the Class Notes, please insist on it being added. Maybe you should call Tina (Brent’s wife)...Brent’s probably misplaced his phone.” Mike also reports that he is still raising four daughters and now two sons-in-law and is still tolerated by the long-suffering Elizabeth

(most days). “We welcomed a grandson— Graham Michael Mozena—to the Lauber tribe on June 7,” Mike reports. “Though they live in Salt Lake City (where Elissa is finishing her Ph.D. in social psychology), we FaceTime frequently and enjoy seeing them in-person, just not often enough.” Bob MacIntosh is kind enough to update us on the by now-famous gatherings of the extended Tuck ’83 Boston Area Men’s Club. “Cam Eldred proved—yet again—to be a most gracious host when six other Tuck ’83ers descended upon his breathtaking cabin on Lac Papineau in Quebec, Canada, in mid-September,” Bob reports. “In addition to a number of spirited cribbage games, the spectacular weather enabled the gang to paddleboard completely around Cam’s island, peruse virtually the entire length of the lake by pontoon boat, compete vigorously at ‘bocce golf’ along the contours of the cabin grounds, and gobble down delicious meals prepared by both Bob Hannah (dinners) and Peter Boland (breakfasts). Also on the island for the gathering were Steve Clark, Paul Grand Pré, Joe Kirchgessner, and Bob MacIntosh. Topics of conversation included baseball, football, family, retirement, and doctor’s appointments. The camaraderie was not dampened in the least by a minor power outage and a shortage of propane, as Cam displayed his burgeoning engineering skills to keep the cabin humming.”

The Boston Area Men’s Club group at Cam Eldred’s Canadian island

This mid-September retreat was of course preceded by the 2nd annual Men’s Club baseball outing. “We gathered at Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox play a midsummer baseball game in the historic stadium,” writes Bob, who is fervently hoping the Red Sox advance once again to the World Series. “The group consisted of Peter Boland (event captain), Steve Clark, Paul Grand Pré, Joe Kirchgessner, and Bob MacIntosh. Unfortunately, the

weather did not cooperate this time and—after waiting outside the park in the rain for an hour or so—the group took a vote and decided to retreat indoors to a nearby restaurant for some refreshments. Although the gang would rather have been outside observing a crucial major league baseball game, a fun time was had nonetheless as everyone laughed and moaned while reliving a number of stories from the early ’80s (over burgers, fries, and microbrews, of course). Despite the uncooperative weather this year, the group unanimously agreed to try again next season.” Deb Forrester had a chance to catch up with Kit O’Connor last May on her way to a Cape Cod vacation. “I stopped off in Falmouth,’ reports Deb. “Although we have been keeping in touch through Christmas cards, we figured we had not actually seen each other for almost 30 years! Had a great time catching up during a walk around Woods Hole and then enjoyed a lovely lunch with Kit, her husband Matt, and her mom. Later in the summer, Deb attended the Williamstown Theatre Festival for the 20th consecutive year—and for the 2nd year in a row saw Mary Kaczmarek’s sister Jane perform there. “I recommend the festival (and yes, its acronym is indeed WTF) to any Tuckies interested in theatre,” she says.

Deb Forrester and Kit O’Connor

Marian White checks in from the lovely Southwest. “I am still enjoying living in Taos, N.M., where I moved after my nearly three years in the U.S. Peace Corps (Vanuatu). I am making wool felt pieces [that serve as] ‘functional art.’ Tuckies heading to northern New Mexico are very welcome to call and come by. Taos is a great place all year ’round. Skiing, hiking, mountain biking, ballooning, rafting... sounds a bit like Hanover!”

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

The Newtons and Shivericks ran into each other at Telluride! (Sarah Newton behind the camera.) Apologies for the email transmission lines...!

Beth Tilney reports they made it through the hurricane season. “All is safe and sound in Houston,” says Beth. The “Tilneys are safe and dry, despite the wrath of Harvey in much of Houston. Schuyler and I are enjoying our last year with our ‘baby’ Merritt, who is a senior in high school next year, and worrying about what the ‘empty nest’ will bring. Our son Baker is in NYC, and pursuing entrepreneurial ventures after his 2 years in investment banking at BAML. Our daughter Lawren just started HBS and is fussing about all the work. (Tell us about it, right!?).” And finally, from Richard Lee, we hear about his travels in Latin America. “Had the good luck to spend a couple weeks with one of my children recently on a trip to Peru and Ecuador. When in Quito, we had a lovely visit with Guillermo Salas’s sister-in-law and her husband, both physicians there.” Speaking of Guillermo, our fellow classmate and Mexican national, by now you have received information on how you can contribute to a charity specified by Guillermo to help fund Mexico City relief efforts. It is an effort promoted (and contributions matched) by Richard, Skip Irving, and Doug Ross. We think it’s a very small but symbolically significant way to show solidarity with Guillermo and to contribute personally to his country’s rebuilding. We hope you agree.

As I write this on a chilly October morning, I reflect that that most members of our class have now crossed the daunting age 60 threshold. Somehow my mind often prevents me from believing this is true, especially when asked for my birthdate or when answering a survey with age group categories. To the few classmates still clinging to their 50s, I feel fortunate to say that turning 60 has been good overall. I hope the same holds true for everyone in our class. Speaking of time passing by, after 33 years, the Lyme Road Athletic Club (established 1983) gathered in August for a “Lost Weekend” on the shores of Lake Champlain in South Hero, Vt. The “Lost Weekend” was organized by Paul Laud and his wife, Kate Wiley Laud T’85, who was a most gracious and wonderful co-host. Ribald revelry abounded and a splendid time was had by all (but we won’t mention the remarkable hair loss; see photo). Paul has launched a consulting practice for Gordian Group in New York where he helps private equity firms deal with “exit-resistant” investments. Henry Perretta lives in Falls Church, Va., with his fiancée, Betsy McBride, and consults with healthcare companies across the country. Ron Locklin is “living the dream” in Boston and watches many, many Red Sox games. He is already mentally preparing for the next presidential election. Tom Huber manages logistics for DHL in Switzerland. He wants classmates to know that when fondue runs out, a long spoon and a jar of peanut butter is almost as good. Morris Wallack helps the printer company (3D Systems) grow revenue as the VP of global sales operations. Meanwhile Morris and his wife, Sue, enjoy living in Durham, N.C., within walking distance of downtown. (I was in Durham last month for Duke Homecoming; Durham has been truly transformed.) Cort Bishop is doing fine (by his standards). He retired from AT&T over three years ago, and then went to work for Cushman & Wakefield, finally retiring again last year. He is now busy driving his wife

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insane (she foolishly decided not to retire) and spoiling his granddaughter. He stays in shape by skimming the pool and by never sleeping past midday.

Yanna and Dave Musselman with Bob and Nancy Boye

All those had funny stories to go with them (I hope). Carol was someone for whom being a friend was an honor. My words that day were inadequate, but the love she shared with her friends and family never were.

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

Lyme Road Athletic Club: 1984 vs. 2017

In August, Johanna (Yanna) Bergmans Musselman and husband Dave moved from Cambridge into downtown Boston. Dave has a new job with the City of Boston. Yanna recently started a new position with the Asperger/ Autism Network (AANE), a nonprofit offering training and education services. She will manage the business end of AANE’s LifeMAP coaching program. Before starting her new job, Yanna and Dave had a marvelous 7-day cruise in the Canadian Maritimes, which included three nights at the amazing Fogo Island Inn, a very special place! They met Bob (D’60, T’61) and Nancy Boye on their adventure. Hope to hear from more of you next time around.

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Well, the news was skimpy from our classmates this issue. I often comb LinkedIn, FB, and other sources to fill in. But instead of doing that now, I will use the space to talk about Carol Sherwood Pettee, who died on May 5 after surviving almost 7 years with breast cancer, which eventually metastasized to her brain. I used “surviving” as she hated the term “battling.” She and her husband, Jon Pettee, lived in Weston, Mass., and more recently in Dallas. She raised two great kids: Mariel Pettee (25), who is a PhD student in astrophysics at Yale, and William Pettee, who graduated last year from Cornell and is working in Boston in health care research. Many of our classmates came to her service in Dallas (photo nearby; left to right, Spence Fitzgibbons, Laura Brown Fitzgibbons, Lisa Bush Hankin, Mary Yamahiro Hutchison, Steve Hankin, Di Daych, Leonora Jungerwirth Polonsky, Mark Davis, Jack Williams, and Craig Froelich), sharing stories and memories of our years of friendship with Carol. She would have loved the gathering and fussed over all of us. Carol was a lot of awesome things, and we would all have lovely things to say about her. But—and just offering “executive summary” bullet points here—the ones I talked about in her eulogy were: 1. Everyone felt she was her best friend 2. Spence used to call her “SB squared” for skinny, blonde, smart, and beautiful” 3. Problem solver 4. Exceptional hostess 5. Grit and determination 6. Exceptional Mom

T’85s at the service for Carol Sherwood Pettee

So, in other news, Reed Bergwall sent me a photo (included) from Mark Shwert’s wedding a year ago. “Barry Miller and I reconnected at Mark Shwert’s wedding to his high school sweetheart, Elaine, in Framingham, Mass., with lots of family and high school friends. And grown-up kids on both sides; it was a lot of fun. Mark and Elaine live outside LA, and Barry and his wife Edith live in Bethesda. I still split time between N.H. and Boston and lots of other fun places like Kansas City. [Secretary note: Reed and Sarah Maynard came to KC for the eclipse!] Still bummed that we did not get a Tuck photo op with you on our visit. I am managing the construction of the Klarman Hall at HBS—a new convening center with 1000 seats. And I have been with my partner, Sarah Maynard, for 8 years. Sarah has a summer place in Conn., and I was lucky enough to sail twice this summer with Di Daych. We also see Mike and Barbara McQueeney a few times a year and Maynard and Betsy Southard more than that now that they have moved to N.H. Neil and Bridget Moses and I reconnected in Boston in the last year as well. And I see Fred Maynard too.” Mark Shwert added more to the story of his May 2016 wedding to high school sweetheart, and prom date, Elaine. They now live in LA, and “feel fortunate to have found each other again. We learned that life’s twists and downturns can be overcome by a faith in

Barry Miller, Mark Schwert, and Reed Bergwall at Mark’s wedding

hope and love. We are grateful to have each other to grow old together. We finally found time last month to take a honeymoon and went to southern France to Barry and Edith Miller’s house there to explore the Provençal countryside and as many Rhône Valley vineyards as we could.” Mike Murphy visited Kansas City a few weeks ago, and the three of us had a great dinner together. Mike says he and Barb and are doing well and still living in the greater D.C. area. He is now working for NACHA, which is the National Automated Clearing House Association. “When you get paid via direct deposit, that would be us. Our son Patrick moved to Manhattan last year and works for HBO. Patrick will actually be getting together with Nori over in Tokyo later this month, so my son will end up visiting Nori in Tokyo before I do. I’ll in Memphis on business later this month and hope to get together with Bill Wells.” Thanks for the great news!

’86 Tony Ehinger tonyehinger@gmail.com

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August 19 was a happy day for Lisa DiMasi Howe and David Howe—their daughter Christiana (T’19) married Gibson Donohue (T’18) in Wellesley, Mass. Lisa sent a fabulous photo from the event, explaining that in addition to the happy couple, the group

Christiana Howe-Gibson Donohue wedding

includes the groom’s T’18 classmates, the bride’s parents, and Stewart Cutler T’83. Dave Coss answered the call for news, writing “since it’s in my DNA to check in every 30 years or so, here I am! I’m alive and well and once again happily living in Virginia Beach, VA. Some may remember that I was stationed here while flying for the Navy just prior to Tuck, so I’ve come full circle. In the post-Tuck interim, I spent 20+ years at just one firm, retiring from Morgan Stanley in 2006. I then went to work for one of my customers (a power company in Atlanta) where I still serve as treasurer, with main ongoing focus as the manager of their $4 billion investment portfolio. I’m splitting time between VA Beach and the ATL, and though I’m piling up frequent flier miles, I still really enjoy the work. “Most of my free time now is spent as a lacrosse dad/bum traveling to tournaments up and down the East Coast watching both of my younger daughters play. One is a high school senior and will be attending Loyola University Maryland next fall on a lacrosse scholarship, while the youngest just started 8th grade (NOT a typo!) The good news is that I’m already mentally prepared to be mistaken as these kids’ grandfather, and amazingly this hasn’t happened yet (at least not to my face!) :-) ” Rick Ambros checked in, reporting, “Over the summer I had lunch in Beverly Hills with Dean Matt Slaughter and classmate Steve Schoch. We were also joined by fellow LA-based Media and Entertainment Tuckies Doug Neil (T’91), Michael Montgomery (T’77), Paul Snow (T’10),

and Kamran Pasha (T’00). It was great to meet the dean and hear about future plans for Tuck, as well as increasing the school’s West Coast presence with the help of Kyle Polite, who is heading West Coast Development. I’m working primarily with Asia (China, India, and Vietnam) in film financing, co-production, and consulting, and I am an empty nester!” Rich Ross is “still living in Mill Valley, Calif. Same house, same wife, new car. I’m the portfolio manager for a multifamily investment fund partnered with a large U.S. pension plan. Wife, three kids, all doing well. One in college in Colorado and two still in high school in Mill Valley. We had a visit with Clemente Micara this summer at our house in the Sierra Nevada mountains and crossed paths with a large bear. We got out of its way.” Tony Posawatz is based in suburban Detroit, although he spends a lot of time at his northern Michigan cabin. When he’s not chilling at the cabin, he engages in “a bit too much time traveling.” Tony is president and CEO of Invictus iCAR (Innovation Consulting Advisory Resources), a firm focused on automotive-tech company advancement. Married 29 years to MaryAnn, whom he met at GM in the summer of ’86, they have two sons in their twenties “to carry on the rare ‘Posawatz’ name.” Gordon Nelson hosted Ted Sotir, Chris McInerney, Scott Kozak, Rod Fletcher, Mike Wyman, and Tony Ehinger at his new home on Block Island this summer. Gordon intends to work the six-acre hillside property on his

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CL ASS NOTES own. Pictured nearby, Gordon is attempting to start his new tractor. The Tuck Scholar is seen reading the John Deere owner’s manual, absorbing the nuances of the vehicle and demonstrating a keen academic approach as he endeavors to operate farm equipment.

It’s never easy ending our column on a down note, so we look forward to better days and brighter news from all of you when once again we reconvene on these pages. Until then, be well.

’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus angusfm@optimum.net

Steven Lubrano steven.lubrano@tuck.dartmouth.edu

Gordon seated on tractor as Mike and Ted look on

Bill Talbot also answered the call for news, writing “I am working in Chicago as a small cap portfolio manager these days. My team was placed by a woman named Amy de Rham. I will be in New England next month, though not for leaf peeping. My daughter, Hope, committed the two of us to the Gilmore Girls Fan Fest (!).... Will have to watch an episode or two before the Fest.” Sadly, since our last Tuck Today note was written, Mark Byrne passed away. Mark’s obituary read in part, “Mark was much loved and admired by all his family and friends, and his charitable nature and influencing presence left a lasting impact on all who had the pleasure of knowing him. His enthusiasm for business was matched by his ardour for flying, sailing, and cooking, as well as golfing, scuba diving, and skiing, which ensured he led a full and adventurous life. However, his overriding passion was as a husband and father. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca, and four children, Sophie, Jacqueline, Matthew, and Christopher.” Mark’s memorial service took place on April 18, 2017 in Hanover. Steve Graham attended the event, and he was kind enough to record and share the following Vimeo links of eulogies given by Rich McArdle and Scott Frantz. • R ich McArdle comments: https://vimeo. com/220026059 • Scott Frantz comments: https://vimeo. com/220024624 • Password: Mark86-Perseus

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Just got home from our 30th reunion on this warm October weekend. What an incredible couple of days it was! It was so great to see all the folks who were able to attend. This year we had some first-timers (Chip Conner and Lourdes Dingman) and holder-outers (Hilary Holbrook Holden, who had not been back in 25 years!). Amongst them they claimed a 90 to 95 % recognition rate, Not bad...says something about how good everyone looks! I wish I could ask them to reach out to those of you who did not/have not come and convey to you the great sense of camaraderie they rediscovered up there.

the time! I don’t remember who asked, “Jeez Christy, don’t you have any other friends?” but we might all have been thinking along those lines. I met Chris Gagnon’s new wife of a few months, Donna. She seemed to be holding her own quite comfortably as Chris strutted his guns around hoisting his beverage of choice... and generously serving others. (thank you!) Lenny Jardine was looking way too happy and rested in his retired life. He and Kathy have their daughter’s wedding to plan for next summer. In the meantime they thought hurricane season was a good time to build a new house and in doing so have moved to a trailer home on some island close by. Needless to say, Kathy was very happy to be in their Reunion Rental so she could have a real shower. She does have a thing for outhouses it seems though, so the sooner that house is finished the better. A lucky group of folks got to make it to the seminar “Better The World” on Friday afternoon. I was told that Duncan McDougall’s presentation on his Children’s Literacy Foundation was by far and away the best of all those given. No doubt a product of all those great Argenti skills burned in our brains from 30 years ago. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=0-mJRkh_S44&feature=youtu. be to catch up to what miracles Duncan is tackling now. Inspiring to say the least. Speaking of Duncan, I learned that he and Steve Frary were roommates following graduation from Tuck. Steve is father to an 11and a 10-year-old and living the good life (read retired) in Rhode Island. I did enlighten him to the fact that Lenny actually grew up in Rhode Island (just so he knows that could happen to his kids too!).

Chip Conner, Anne Doremus, Graeme Deans, Mike Angus, and Lourdes Dingman at Reunion

Mike Angus and I got to Hanover a bit late on Friday night. However, we did make it to the “dessert” at the Inn. Many who made it to both the dinner at Tuck beforehand and the drinks said that those events alone provided them with great entertainment. That night I learned that Christy and Dave T’86 DiPietro had been to their daughter’s parents’ weekend the prior week, even though their daughter was not at school, much less even in the country, at

Martha Boyd Tecca and husband Mark T’93 hosted a Tuck ’Tails type gathering at their new house after the class photo on Saturday. The Class Photo. 80 degrees and everyone staring into the sun. Except Steve Lubrano that is... because he got there 10 minutes too late. (Can you say Photoshop?) But I digress. Martha and Mark’s place...holy cow! There were probably 25 or so folks who made it over to Orford. The Teccas are right on the river w/ a spectacular rock face across the water from them. Mark was shuttling some folks on their pontoon boat up and down the river while Melissa Zales Koller was getting stung on the lips by a bee in her beer. Yup it’s true. (She swears the swollen lips weren’t Botox!) Andrea and Noel O’Neill

were there, as was George Liddle, whom I almost didn’t recognize (maybe I haven’t seen him at past reunions for a bit?). Charlie Hagedorn, Scott Page and Gail Sullivan, and Laura and Michael Salvay made their way there too. We all enjoyed lollygagging about before the big night. Hard not to be jealous of Martha and Mark’s awesome digs. Happy, though, that a place this cool became theirs after having lost everything in a house fire a few years back. Lucky house guests at the Teccas that night were Gail Goodman, Lourdes, and Annie Doremus. Not only is the scenery from their house spectacular, but apparently the omelets were worth going back for too! Mentioning Gail, she was one of the few who put her hand up when George Egan was polling the crowd and asked if anyone was retired. She’s at least taking a year to detox after her home run at Constant Contact. Lenny was another, and Millie Tan is currently (though maybe not permanently) taking time to herself. Ditto Lourdes. Some folks spent Saturday afternoon attending the seminars on offer (Chip went to the Rauner Special Collections tour) while still others (Jennifer and Jonathan Uhrig) hit the golf course...which btw, we understand could be under consideration to be put up for sale. Investors anyone?

Chansoo Joung and Elisabeth [Bittner] Joung. Who knew talent like that lurked in some of our progeny? Neither CJ & Bit nor Cynthia Frost were able to make it to Reunion at the last minute. We were sorry to miss them and hope all is well.

Some folks enjoying a pontoon ride at the Teccas’

Saturday night at Allegra and Steve’s was a storybook kind of thing, and huge kudos to them for pulling it off. (Perhaps a dry run for wedding receptions to come?) Steve was late for the class photo because he was busy chopping down trees to decorate the tent in his back yard. (flowers in the port-o-potty were a nice touch too...though made it a wee bit crowded ;) !) The tent, which flowed right into the infamous man cave, was a great venue for this event, complemented by a nice fire pit outside. The night started out with some great music by Dan Freihofer and his band. Mike Angus compiled photos received from Yoshi Maruyama, John Ehlers (who was not there but had supplied many of the photos), and others into a funny 15-minute video that we will try to provide a link for. (problem w/some pesky copyright issues on the music is keeping it under wraps on YouTube!) Unfortunately, John Henderson, who seemed to be heavily featured, was a no-show at reunion. By the “end” of the night Christy was handing out autographs for her starring roles in some of the racier pics.

In the Teccas’ backyard

Chez Lubrano: our Reunion extravaganza

The view from the Teccas’ new home

The Dodecaphonics, a Dartmouth a cappella group, entertained us with several great songs. One was an out-of-the-park rendition of Adele’s “Hello” in which Tom McGonagle’s daughter had the solo. Others who had children singing were: Gary Levine and

We loved hearing Carl Haessler’s story of his dad’s Mercedes 600 and his contact w/ The Jay Leno Show. Stay tuned, Carl may get a feature yet! Then there was Connor O’Brien with his Shark Tank acquisition of Beanstox (not Jack and the ___). Connor says you can do a stock purchase in the time it takes to stop at a red light, millennial style I guess. As if texters aren’t already messing up traffic! Mark Clayton and Jenny have 2 weddings coming up. I can’t remember last they were at Reunion but they looked great. Getting the kids off the payroll can do that to you I guess! Bill Stromberg was one of the few of us who have been with the same employer since graduating from Tuck. He’s doing well at T. Rowe, to say the least, being two years into his stint at the helm there. I believe Mary Barcus is another who has been with her same company since Tuck, though her original company has had many morphs so is now a horse of another name. We had great wines donated to us by both Wendy Brown (Big Basin Vineyards) and Rebecca Green Birdsall (Black Kite Cellars). Rebecca unfortunately wasn’t able to be there this year. I was never great at geography, but our fingers are crossed for all of you with the wildfires ravaging thru Northern California now. Out w/the oak-y and in w/the smoke-y, the new marketing slogan? (No Bill Weihs jokes at a time like this!) These fires have been devastating, and our thoughts are with you all. We are hoping you can weather this and are hugely appreciative of your generous donations yet again. Jeff Coleman (Probar) and Crystal Curry (Frito-Lay) provided the sustenance to go along w/the libation. Thanks to all! From above the border Graeme Deans (a man of many professional hats) and wife Julia made it down from Toronto, while Connor and Louise Anne O’Brien came from Montreal. Connor and LA have a daughter who is a freshman at Dartmouth and, not surprisingly, on the ski team. In fact we last saw Connor and his wife at an assisted-living home on Sunday and it got us wondering just how bad their post partying had been the night before.

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CL ASS NOTES Farthest traveler was most likely Wendy Brown coming in from Germany. Mary [Rumowicz] Strickland and Crystal Curry from our southern, not-yet-walled borders. Yoshi, Doug Holden and wife Stacey, as well as Hilary and Tom Holden came from California. Gary Levine and Carl Haessler were in from Portland, Ore. I’ve probably just offended lots of folks because there were about 60 of us there and from all parts of the world no doubt. Recently I did see Sarah Hotchkis Ketterer being interviewed on CNBC, I believe it was, but being on TV is not the same as “being there.” And rumor had it Eric Spiegel was at Reunion, though I never actually spotted him. Not an easy guy to miss, so he must have been keeping a low profile! Some classmates brought their children. Michael Sheldon had his 10th-grade son with him in the hopes of showing him “what it could all be about.” Michael, if he finds out, please let me know too, ok? Still searching. Others, like the Pages, have children at Dartmouth too (our daughters swim against each other) so didn’t have to bring them per se. In fact it seems as if there are really quite a few who are in attendance now (I counted 11 currently there) or have recently graduated. Keith Oberg’s son, being one of those, will be doing a 3rd year at Goldman Sachs, where Keith and I both started life. It seems like just yesterday that we were sweating over our own Series 7 exams, so it’s crazy to think that the next gen is already there and deeply ensconced. Where did the time go? Other people at Reunion who I might have seen but unfortunately didn’t get a chance to really speak with were Ava Chien-Pliessnig and her husband, Chas Chigas, John Chapman, Tom Barney, Tom and Marda Collett, Rich Coomber, Mant Copeland, the Daytons, Hendy and Jon (who I don’t recall seeing for a long long time!), Bill Kitchel, Dave McCary, Mark Meyer, Tom Moore, Peter Saulnier, Reg Shiverick and Mary Strickland. Just goes to show that we will have to get to Reunion earlier next time...too many conversations missed! Ideas were tossed around for future gatherings. One was having some kind of permanent photo Dropbox. That way as people move and dig thru their photos they can send them off to the box right away to share and make next Reunion less stressful on the photo-collection front. Another idea: create a Facebook page

(dare I say it!) for our year. Steve says Millie “volunteered” to spearhead that initiative. And, lastly, Lobrain’s suggestion: Let’s have this party every year!! I know some missed Reunion because of college visits (see above comment) or just basic kid stuff. I was heartsick to not see Bill Buckingham at Reunion, though it turned out he did have a wedding conflict that couldn’t be helped. Bill still gets chemo two weeks a month but has been feeling great and staying active. The kids are on the move: graduating college/working at MS/going to Stanford B-school (say what???). Bill has gotten back to sailing and is still biking lots (recently in southern Spain). While it would have been better to see him, it was good to hear things are well by him and his family. He is a fighter but can still use our prayers! I will fortunately be at a charity dinner (PreSchoolAdvantage. org) with Bob and Beth Sharbaugh and Steve and Cristina Socolof in the next couple of days so will be able to share reunion stories with them, as they too were not able to partake of the best party of the year. Perhaps by our 35th most will be done the kid stuff (ok, maybe not Frary and Bill Proom!) and more free to attend. We had over 60 classmates at Reunion, but we were a class of 165 or so (btw, classes now are nearly at 300!), and it would be lovely to see and hear from some of the other 100 not present and accounted for. We miss you!! With that thought, I close by first thanking Steve Lubrano et al for the great efforts put into making this weekend so special. And, in the immortal words of our very own Carl Haessler, in a quote taken from this weekend, “I can’t thank everyone enough for reminding me why I went to Tuck in the first place.” That, in a nutshell, is what Reunion was all about. All the best, Felicia.

’88 Laurie Marshall laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Jill Ward jwcalif@yahoo.com

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Hello ’88s! Hard to believe, but our 30th reunion is coming up in the fall of ’18! Make your reservations now! Show up! And as Ward Urban reminds us, contribute to our reunionyear TAG campaign! As for our news, a common refrain from you is about empty-nest status...along the spectrum of truly empty, nearly empty, or not nearly empty at all...and all the joys and changes that entails for your personal and business lives. Best, of course, is if you can follow the kid as he leaves the nest... to Hanover, NH! Larry Van Meter may be able to do just that! “Our younger son, Luke, is now a Tuckie. He was born at the old Mary Hitchcock, just a couple of blocks from Tuck Hall, in November 1986. Luke was delivered by C-section, and an annoyed Gert Assmus asked, “If you could chose the delivery date, why did you schedule it to conflict with my class?” Luke spent his first two years at Sachem Village. He was an economics major at Haverford College and participated in the Tuck Business Bridge Program back in 2008. He also has a degree in industrial design. Margaret and I are happy to have an excuse to get back to Hanover!” Tom Rich and his wife Nancy have hit the road for work and play, given their newfound flexibility...Tom shares, “Life’s good in our empty suburban nest. I continue to travel a fair amount for business, but now, with the kids out of our hair, Nancy comes with me. I work, she plays. Good deal for everybody. Of course, it’s not always the most glamorous destinations; last week we went to Pittsburgh. My qualitative research business continues to grow. I seem to be spending a lot of time these days speaking at market research conferences and giving master classes. In addition, I was

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still making a half-hearted futile effort to remain conversationally literate in this crazed politically correct and politically charged world. Connor tells me his teammates just ignore me—story of my life! More things change, the more they stay the same!”

Olivier Fainsilber and Duncan McDougall T’87

Luke Van Meter T’19

just named vice president of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association. Next year, by the organization’s rules of succession, I will be president. So please feel free to think of me as America’s Qualitative Research Czar.” Olivier and Cecile have downsized and moved close to Notre Dame...how “city sexy” is that!?!..as their son goes to school. They are also regaining a healthy footing for Cecile... wonderful! “We were thrilled to have the visit of Duncan McDougall T’87 and his wife, Belle, who came to France to meet up with their son, Jesse, who spent 6 months here in a host family. We are entering the empty-nest stage with our son, Maurice, heading to Potsdam (near Berlin) to study German law. We are thus moving to our new apartment in a 17th-century building near Notre Dame. We are down to one big living/ piano/cooking/dining area and a small bedroom. We are surrounded by great restaurants and look forward to Tuck classmates’ visits. I have completed a 1-1/2 year stint on secondment at La Poste, where I headed the new Strategy and Programmes function for the Postal, Parcels and Services division. They face a huge challenge to replace the declining mail business with valuable residential and community services. It was a great experience sitting on the management committee to transform a big French enterprise. I’m now back full-time in my partnership at Oliver Wyman and thoroughly enjoying it too. Cecile is recovering steadily from leukemia thanks to a bone marrow transplant from her brother this spring. 2017 has been challenging, but we are now looking forward to a normal life.”

Laurie Marshall is in the “teenager in the nest” phase! “We have had an Indian summer here in Michigan. Was in Boston a few months ago and had a terrific visit with Frank and Emily Hunnewell. Ben Dawson stopped by for a quick visit. See the pic. At the moment, the biggest challenge is trying to help our daughter make it through junior year of high school without a meltdown every week. Can’t wait to see everyone next fall. Love to all!”

Ben Dawson, Frank Hunnewell, and Laurie Marshall

Also in the “not quite yet empty nest” phase is Regina Carlo Church. “Currently, Andy and I are splitting our time between Cazenovia, N.Y., where our daughter, Rebecca, is a junior in high school, and Lititz, Pa., where Andy is working. Our two sons are in college. Gerrit is a junior at Johns Hopkins University and plays soccer for them. Bryce is a sophomore at American University in DC and can be seen skateboarding all over town when he is not studying. I am home and keep busy with all that goes along with that!!!” John Sughrue updates us on his son’s Peewee hockey (he’s got a fledgling deeply “in the nest”!). “Traded my pathetic efforts at wry sardonic comments directed at the best-andbrightest professors for coaching i.e. yelling and screaming at Peewee youth hockey participants including my son, Connor. Wish I could refer to them as ‘dogs’ like our coaches did back in my youth hockey day but

Jennifer Jacobsen Jordan and Amy Seltzer Hedison are sending their respective youngest of three off to college this year. Earlier this spring, Jen, Amy, Jill Edwards Paul, Suni Pedersen Harford, Heidi Reichenbach Harring, and Jill Ward all met in Boston for dinner. At dinner, the group was responding to Jill Ward’s question about her niece’s college options (wait, parents can’t, um, strongly suggest to the kids where to go to college!? What!?!). Every one of them has three children, so they should know! Jill W was roundly hollered down. Rudely, she adds! :-) Other ’88 news includes new projects and past reminisces. As far as extremely cool projects go, Michael Cooper has a big one, and with personal significance. He says, “So, have spent the past several months working on a fantastic project. https://thebha.org/news/brooklynheights-designer-showhouse-comingspring-2017/ “Have organized and worked very hard with the Brooklyn Heights Association to host the first Designer Showcase in my childhood home, an 1867 brownstone townhouse that’s been in our family since 1962. Sorry to say you’ve all missed the preview parties that were yesterday and today, but the show runs from 9/29 to 11/5. So come all, come many to 32 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights (where else?). It’s a fabulous collection of top designers who have inflicted their wonderful and creative visions on this extremely intact Victorian Italianate manse. “I must say, I’ve learned a heckuva lot about design, restoration, and dealing with an orchestra of egos of every description. Makes the movie business seem as easy as...as easy as... well, let’s not exaggerate!” A recent big project for this class secretary (yours truly, Jill) was the sale of my Boston software company to Verizon and, even bigger, the integration efforts post-sale! Then I was celebrating, “on the beach,” literally, with friends and family for the summer...and had a blast. It is hard to let go of summer...can I go to board meetings in Croc flip-flops...in December!? Haven’t decided what’s next, and am enjoying the discovery process. WINTER 2018

CL ASS NOTES As for past reminisces (and what better way to close a column, with our 30th reunion approaching), we must all recall those most colorful and memorable moments from our Tuck days...and then share them at Reunion! In my recent email (begging for news from you), I mentioned memories of ’88s’ commentary in class. Several of you responded with additional stories. Here’s a snippet of one, from Ward Urban, as we kick off our Reunion drive: “How about that famous first-year marketing class about Hood College?” As many of you may recall, a classmate, disagreeing with a decision described in the case, exclaimed, “This is BUUUULLSH**!” Well, we always did have strong opinions...made for lively classes, right? So bring yourselves, and your memories to share, to Reunion next fall. Best to all. Jill W.

’89 Betsy Crill Robertson betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

Sara Spivey sspiveyus@yahoo.com

Hello fellow classmates! Hope that all of you are well and enjoying the transition to fall. Not much news this time around, but will share what I [Sara] have. Adam Inselbuch (our most consistent contributor) shared that he and wife Kate Milano were up in Boston for a long weekend with friends from Cincinnati. Saw the Sox at Fenway, played golf at The Country Club (got one birdie), visited some historic sites, and ate a lot of ice cream. The unexpected surprise was on Saturday night. Kate bought tickets for a play at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. Who sits next to Adam? Professor Deshpandé! What a small world. He has been at HBS for twenty years, and through Adam’s awesome math skills he was able to calculate that we had him in marketing thirty years ago! Adam reports they had a fun catch-up before the performance. Adam was also lucky enough to be hosted by Renee George McColl this past spring for the

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Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, where husband Hugh is a member. Adam includes the fabulous cartoon below which summarizes his trip. And for those of you who still can’t read Adam’s writing—Adam: “I’ve been playing a lot. My index is down to a 20!” Renee: “You suck! Everyone I know is a scratch!”

’90 Mark Hosbein markhosbein@gmail.com

’91 Suzanne Shaw msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Joe Stabnick The Inselbuch-created cartoon Renee George McColl and Adam Inselbuch at the Masters

Got a great note from infrequent writer Margaret Trevisani Erbe, who has relocated to London. She had just left Hanover, NH, after dropping her son Sumner for his sophomore (class 2020) year. She reports it was great to be up there and Sumner is loving Dartmouth. She is still running her private art advisory business but now from London, where she and her husband moved last spring with their daughter Siena. Lots of travel, lots of art, lots of fun. Fellow Tuckies she has been keeping in touch with are Tricia Roberts Winton and Laura Poler Ward. She reports that “both are awesome!” She invites fellow Tuckies to look her up when they get to London—she can be found at 10-14 Old Church Street, 14 Painters Yard, London England SW35DQ. I (Sara) also dropped my youngest off for her second year at college at UCLA a few weeks back, whilst graduating my oldest from the University of Texas last spring. I’m happy to report I finally have one off the payroll! That’s all for this time, and remember to send in your notes and photos when you get the email from Tuck. This column is only as good as the content submitted—I am sure you are all leading fascinating lives—please share all details!!

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Hello T’91s, it’s Joe, your new class secretary. Congratulations, you topped the highest number of responses by 7…I’m not going to say it was my clever appeals for replies, but you be the judge. I do wish to thank everyone who sent me updates; it was great to learn about your lives and what is new with you and your families. I think Joe Gammal said it best: “It’s funny how we, rightly so, focus on our families—kids especially—and our work for so many years, that cultivating friendships takes a back seat.” I know that I am guilty of that. Joe G and I have agreed to meet up for dinner and invite all of the local area Tuckies. On to what you really want—the news. Before I start, I wanted to share an update from Felipe Burgaz. He and his family are fine after the earthquakes in Mexico City. He reports, “We were reminded of how lucky we are to still be in good health with a roof over our heads.” He is working at Amazon in Mexico, where online shopping is just being introduced. He extends an invite to visit, “now that things don’t seem to be shaking any more.” The most humorous update came from Mark Magers, who shared, “This is not a deep thought, nor bon mot, but we found an old Stell Hall dining card—the one with dollar amounts in 5 cent increments which Patty would cross off as you paid for your bagel, etc. My immediate thought was that it was a bearer instrument with cash value, and I should send it to Scott Barton next time he TAG’d me.” Speaking of which, Scott shared that their

daughter, Hannah (in the middle in the nearby pic), just graduated college and works in India. Ranjit Malik was kind enough to host her during her first week there.

Scott Barton’s daughter Hannah, center, with Ranjit, during her first week in India

As I received and read each of the replies, I couldn’t help but start to organize them into categories. I landed on 4 groupings, which I’ve called, 1. New Job or No Job—which would you choose? 2. Honey, where are the kids? 3. Wow, that’s scary! and 4. Tuck encounters. New Job or No Job—which would you choose? A good number of us have made career changes over the last year, some into their new “ideal” job and others still exploring. Andy Schmit started a new job with Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. “We make power supplies and generators for the semiconductor, medical, and test instrument markets. Fun stuff!” I’m sure it is, Andy. Jon Gilbert wants everyone to know he’s alive, he is on Job #3 as CFO of a health-care startup. He said, “My last day of Job #2 was the Friday of Reunion—sorry to miss it.” He did ask if I could verify if Brandon Burnette wore spats to the Saturday evening event. I will need third-party verification of that...or an incriminating photo; please forward if anyone has one. Jim Kean made a big move: “After an adult working life of thinking of breakthrough tech ideas in health care, I decided last November to take a job with a Blue Cross insurance carrier.... I actively considered quitting every day the first four months...I decided that I was going to suck it up.” Well Jim, welcome to corporate America. There was another big move for Phil Martin, but this one was physical. After 6 years in Seattle, he and Pam are now in Boston. He reports, “I have a new role as group president of a Boston-based company called Novanta.” Their youngest, Lily (15), attends

school in Boston, while their two sons are in school in the Pacific NW. Quinn (23) is at Southern Oregon University, and Chris (20) is at Gonzaga. “I have already gotten Dave Danielsen and Peter Henderson to reply to my long-overdue correspondence, and we will definitely make it to some reunions in Hanover now that the long-distance excuse is gone!” In the “you make us proud” category, Tom Arnold shared that while serving as deputy global head of real estate & head of Americas of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, he earned his doctorate of business administration with a concentration in finance (private equity). He graduated in August and published one article on the Taxation of Carried Interests and has another to be published in The Journal of Portfolio Management. Way to go, Dr. Arnold. Wen Shiau shared that “I retired 11 years ago to manage my family office. I split my time 2/3 in Los Altos and 1/3 in NYC.” I’m not sure that is really retirement; however, he did add that after a year of golf lessons, he is finally enjoying the game more. OK, that is more like retirement, in my book. On the job search front, Robert Young is looking for a technical marketing position, but in his downtime, he shared that “he is self-publishing Catching the Accusers on Amazon, a true-life detective story proving that a $100m scandal that was frequently in the national news was inverted: only the accusers were guilty in Deflategate.” As all of us New Englanders know, TB was innocent. Eliza Hibben Royal reports that nothing too exciting is happening. “I’ve been between jobs (conveniently) over the summer, which has worked out well as we are renovating our house in Chatham, doing a lot of it ourselves. It’s right on Main St., a stone’s throw from the Squire. So if any of you are there, stop on by.” She is back in Andover, N.H., where Julia (junior) and Sam (senior) attend Proctor Academy. She hopes to run into Mike Tonneson or his daughter Izzy this fall. I think Eliza wins the prize, not working, but happy as a clam...get the Cape Cod pun?? Honey, where are the kids? Topping job updates, changes to the family situation seems to be the news du jour. Harry Holt shared that his daughter, Nancy, is in the Peace Corps teaching chemistry at a high school in Mozambique. Harry, his wife, and his son, Harry III, visited her this past summer.

He wrote, “She teaches 10 classes with 70 kids per class. I had a great deal of respect for her serving there prior to my trip, but after seeing what she is doing, my respect went to the moon and beyond.” Mark Lymbery proudly reported that his daughter, Margot, started 6th grade, and her school is across the street from their apartment! He continues to do turnaround consulting and playing golf when he can.

Harry Holt and his family in Mozambique

Many are in college-search mode or dropping them off for freshman year. Will Hicks wrote that “things are great in Seattle. Kids are now 16, 14 & 11. Looking at colleges for my eldest, which is wonderful, terrifying and poignant at the same time.” Bruce La Fetra and his wife, Debbie, sent their oldest, Brian, off to EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University, and Pam Carlson’s oldest just started at Bates College. Bruce Cohen shared that he is “going through the college athletics recruiting for a second time but a bit more savvy this time.” I assume he is referring to his second child and not his second attempt at going back to college...I never considered him super-athletic. Liz Sigler Mather and husband, Charlie, saw their son, Charlie, off to Emory for his freshman year, while their daughter, Libby, is in high school at Horace Mann in the Bronx. Liz wrote, “Sometimes I worry for them, as their elbows are not sharp even though they grew up in a city of sharp elbows. That makes me really proud of them though.” Doug Neil’s oldest daughter, Erin, just started her freshman year at Barnard College in N.Y. Her sisters, Kerry and Tara, are still in high school (9th and 11th grades) keeping busy with soccer. Doug wrote, “I’m still at Universal Pictures running digital marketing for their movies. This past June, I was fortunate to have been admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which means I get to vote for the Oscars now.” I smell invitations for the class secretaries, huh, Suzanne?

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CL ASS NOTES Some are adding to their families. Caitlin Mitchell Pappas shared that they have a new addition: a cat. I know what you were thinking...I thought they were dog people too. She wrote, “His name is Romeo, he’s very cute. Even Nick likes him. Other than that, normal boring life in New Jersey continues. Zoe (junior at Amherst) was an intern in investment banking this past summer, and George is 16 and just entering into the myparents-are-idiots phase.” Michael Keller’s family is getting a little bigger as well. He shared, “We have our first-ever dog (a rescue), an Australian shepherd—black Lab mix with White Walker blue eyes...one is actually halfbrown, so we called her Ziggy, in honor of David Bowie.” OK, now I know what you are really thinking...I thought he was a cat person. BTW, I had to look up “White Walker blue eyes”: I’m pretty sure it is a reference to Game of Thrones; confirmation needed. Seeing the little ones off to college and becoming an “empty nester” is becoming more and more popular. Anyone on Facebook has seen that Steve Langlois and Sally are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary in style in the CA sun after dropping their daughter Sophie off at Colby, Dad must be so proud. Steve states, “We’re not empty nesting but rather are dating with money.” To this new demographic in our class, we must add Mark Sherman, who wrote, “Our kids are both now gone—one to NYC for work and the other to California for college. While many like to call this ‘The Empty Nest’ phase, I’m hoping for something more like ‘Being 25 Again.’” Personally, I’d take 45 again. Peg Juran Mayor shared that, “The Mayors are 33% of the way toward a truly empty nest. Son #1 out of college and into the workforce. Son #2 in college. Son #3 enjoys his ‘suite of bedrooms’ and seems hell-bent on spending his final 2 years of high school grunting a few words at dinner before escaping to his room for homework and, presumably, Netflix. In other words, living the dream in Ohio.” Experienced empty nesters Dave Paradi and his wife, Sheila, divulged that they have taken the opportunity to do some more traveling—East Coast (N.H., Vt., Mass., N.Y.), Germany, Paris, London, Orlando, and Nashville, all without any kids. Dave published his ninth book this year and continues to do customized training workshops for corporate professionals on how to visually present the messages in their data.

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Just earning elite “near empty-nester” status is Suzanne Hoff Hadley. She announced, “This Midwest native finally calls California ‘home’ after 21 years here.” Her and David’s oldest, Jack, graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point last May. Suzanne shared, “He’s now in Ankara for two years, earning his master’s in philosophy on a Fulbright fellowship. Ferit Ferhangil was very helpful in helping him choose Bilkent University. After getting his master’s, Jack will attend officer school and Ranger School for the infantry and then be posted for active duty as a first lieutenant. Second-born Claire is a junior at the College of William & Mary majoring in Spanish and business. Third-born Ellen is a freshman at University of Michigan in the School of Nursing. Youngest Faith is a junior in high school, enjoying being an only child and having the extra car—and our attention— (finally) all to herself.”

Tuck encounters This is really not as nefarious as it sounds, but that could be much more interesting if you are willing to share. There was a Tuckie in London extravaganza. The Who’s Who of our class were at the Henley Royal Regatta. John and Sarah Barpoulis traveled to England in June to see their son, Nick, and the team from Bucknell compete at the regatta. Also in attendance were Donna Malone Knight and family (supporting Tufts) and the Grussings. Apparently, the dress code at the Henley is akin to Kentucky Derby meets Downton Abbey, thus the hats.

Wow, that’s scary! In this category, there are two submissions: one funny, and the other very serious but with a positive outcome. For the funny one, Tim Stephens reported, “Life is good, despite being in recovery from my 4th hip replacement.” Who thought that was possible? I figured you only had one chance for a replacement and a “do over” was not possible. You know that he will be the one dancing up a storm at the next reunion. On a serious note, Trina Sorenson Peterson was in a very bad cycling accident at the end of June. She was left with a fractured skull and a traumatic brain injury. Miraculously, her cognitive and physical recovery has far outpaced what was expected. She reports, “I am nearly 100% healed from the TBI and have never felt more lucky or more grateful for life, friends and family!” She shared, “I have even been back at work in a new part-time job as policy director for the Colorado Forum, a group of business and civic leaders from around the state who work in a bipartisan, consensus manner to further the best outcomes for Colorado on an array of economic, social, and environmental issues. So, truly, life has been remarkably sweet, and I was deeply moved at the outreach from so many Tuck pals. Martha Records and I are planning to hike a 14er in a few weeks to celebrate life, and we will be sure to send a summit salute eastward toward Hanover.” Only Trina could recuperate with a hike up a 14,000 foot mountain...I know I speak for the entire class when I say that we are all so thankful that you are OK.

Sarah Barpoulis, Donna Malone Knight, and John Barpoulis at the Henley

Continuing the London theme, Driek Desmet and Kate Woj Grussing had a “bus encounter.” As Driek wrote, “Kate and I found ourselves sitting behind each other on one of the red double-decker buses on our way into work. That was really quite something. Who would have thought we would both be on the same bus and not Ubering it around. So we had a ‘proper breakfast,’ as the Brits would say, with real coffee.” Kate shared that her search firm, Sapphire Partners, won a national award this year in the U.K. as Recruiter of the Year, so she is enjoying the recognition of her firm’s impact after 12 years trying to change the world of executive search. London is the place to be and be seen. Lisa Segre Fuchs and her family were visiting before Lisa begins a new role at Airbnb. Suzie, we’ll have to hit her up when we travel to LA for the Oscars. What can compare to London in the U.S.— Baltimore. Jock McClees wrote that he and Carol have seen a lot of Brian and Kelly Dettmann since they moved into a house a few blocks away. Jock reports “Carol has gotten over her Bell’s palsy, so we can go sailing again. She couldn’t close one eyelid all the way for a while, so the wind really

bothered her. That is a problem when sailing since you kind of want wind.” Closer to home, I had a very frightening moment when I heard from Daniel Klausner. He said that he met up with Dave Sheehan and his wife in East Boston. Somehow I got the impression that he, Daniel, was now living in Boston. After picking my jaw up off the floor, I emailed him back, to learn that he was in Boston on business and at a Sox game, where he contacted Dave to razz him about the team only to find that Dave and Laurie were in Boston. So he left the game and they met up. Dave was in town for a biotech conference. I should have known: Daniel could barely survive 2 years out of “the city” while at Tuck. He will never move. Continuing the bromance theme, Gib Biddle wrote in that he, Kristen, Kelsey (21), and Britney (19) backpacked for seven of their 21-day backpacking vacation, with Michael Tonneson and his daughter, Isabel (16), in the Ansel Adams Wilderness (just south of Yosemite). Anne, you can never complain about a Super 8 again. Tuck connections are happening in the next generation as well. There are a number of our “youngings” that have gotten a “taste of Tuck” via the summer Tuck Business Bridge Program. There were five in this past summer’s two sessions. John and Sarah Barpoulis’s son, Nick, and Susan Richman Caraviello’s son, John, were in the same session. Jim and Lizzie Napier hosted John and Sarah’s Hanover visits (Sarah beginning of program, John at end). Lizzie joined John for the project presentations. Tad Mayer’s daughter, Annie, a junior at Colgate, Joanne Woolf Parker’s son, Brooks, and my son, Peter, attended the other session. They loved it. Like John B, I was asked to judge the final presentations. I was wowed by the sophisticated thinking, detailed analyses, and quality of their slides. Dave Paradi, you would have been proud. A close second to seeing my Peter ensconced in all things Tuck was my overnight stay in the Executive-in-Residence housing, aka Buchanan. My very thoughtful son worked with the Tuck staff to ensure I got to stay in room #301, my room from first year. Wow, unlike everything else in life, where when you go back it looks a lot smaller, room #301 grew...my room and John McAuliffe’s had become one. There was a huge desk, sitting area, cable TV, a queen-sized bed, what appeared to be an almost walk-in closet, and a bathroom that I’d love to have in my own

in the midst of college applications and trying to stay focused on school. Oh, the pressures of youth...I’d go back in a heartbeat, only much cooler than I was the first time around.

Tad Mayer and his daughter, Annie

In closing, I will warn you that there is a mini off-season reunion planned for Hanover in two weeks. Attending will be Richard O’Reagan, his husband Rich, Eliza Hibben Royal, Deanna Helmig, Suzanne Shaw, and Anne and me. We are hoping to meet up with Wendy Hamilton and the Napiers. I am certain that his one weekend will provide all the material Suzanne needs for the next column, but I urge you to send in your news. Until next time.

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Peter Stabnick and Catherine McNamara at St Andrews, Scotland

home. I’m certain I’d have failed first year if I’d had a room like that. And now for what I’m sure you have all been awaiting…an update from the Stabnicks. Anne and I remain gainfully (and sometimes happily) employed, she at Panera and me at TIAA. Anne is in charge of new product development for Panera’s grocery line...please go out and buy some so we can afford college for our youngest. I am leading the client segmentation team for our retail businesses at TIAA...I’m only about a week into the role, so I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad thing just yet. Our daughter, Emily, graduated from Colgate this past spring. She has applied to medical school and is working at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia while she waits to hear back from schools. Peter, our middle son, is a junior at Tufts and is studying at St Andrews in Scotland this fall, along with Mary Hickey McNamara’s daughter, Catherine. He is interested in finance, asset management, and consulting—watch out fellow classmates in those disciplines...I may be begging you for an internship for him. Our youngest, Ned, is a senior in high school and is

Editor’s note: As you may have read, and after years of wonderful news-sharing for you all, Amy Feind Reeves has handed the class-secretary baton to...you? If you’d like to volunteer as secretary, or as a team of two or three secretaries, please email tuck.class. notes@dartmouth.edu to let us know! We’d love to hear from you. Meanwhile, keep an eye on mytuck.dartmouth.edu for news.

’93 Cathy Dishner cathy@dishners.com

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Thank you to Evan Ladouceur for answering the call for news. He, ALONE, wrote in for this edition of the Notes: “At NSO weekend at Georgetown, I ran into Lisa Buchan dropping off her daughter Haley, who just transferred in as a sophomore. My daughter, Emma, now a Georgetown freshman, knew Haley from the Brearley School in New York, so it was a multigenerational reunion.”

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CL ASS NOTES Reunions among friends are always a good thing. The Girls in the Hood reunited in Jackson, Wyo., for a long weekend in late September. Despite the passage of time, Dana Macher, Nancy Koefoed, Gina Earles, and I all came together with ease as if we had just seen each other yesterday in the halls of Buchanan. We seamlessly slipped right back into familiar patterns, catching up on the trials and triumphs of life in middle age. Just like in the basement of Buch, we found that a good margarita (or two...okay, three!) is the preferred elixir to kick off an evening...and we learned it can still lead to ridiculous behavior, such as dancing with wild abandon, playing pong with even wilder abandon, and singing to past favorites, such as C+C Music Factory’s greatest hits and the one-hit wonder “I’m Too Sexy,” throwing abandon completely to the wind!

’94 David Link davidjklink@hotmail.com

Toph Whitmore Ward Davis on bass and Kay DiModica with lead vocals

from London after 6 years of expat exploits. Maybe we should all start hosting Thursday night “taps” with the mantra Serve beer and they will come. I’m just afraid that Bergie and Jay Weiss might wind up spending the night on my couch again, scaring me to death as I wander bleary-eyed toward my coffee machine in the morning. I wonder if they each still have enough hair to be standing on end in a frightening bed head! I hope you will all start planning to make your way back to Hanover for the 25th Reunion in fall 2018. As we Girls of the Hood proved in our last reunion: “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gina Earles, Dana Macher, Cathy Dishner, and Nancy Koefoed

We were missing Andy Bernstein’s brawn to hoist us up for ceiling pushups...we remembered that Steve Signorelli’s moves would have perfectly accompanied our early ’90s soundtrack...we debated playing “Greased Lightnin’” for old time’s sake, but without Ron Mirro, it just isn’t as much fun. We might have sent an ill-advised “audition tape” to Ward Davis in hopes that he will consider us for background singers in his band The Clams. That would mean accompanying Jeff DiModica’s wife, Kay, who is the band’s lead vocalist. Both Ward and Dimo are neighbors with Jeff and me, as we just moved back to Connecticut

And if you want to avoid my rambling and reminiscing in the future, please contribute to the Notes so I don’t have to create any “fake news”! —Cathy Dishner, Old Greenwich, CT

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the winter ’17/’18 edition of the T’94 class notes. It’s the “retro” edition, a throwback to a simpler time when the conceit of “fake news” carried with it much less hostility. (Like moving to Canada, I like to think I was ahead of the curve on making stuff up.) Anyway, on to the mostlytrue scoops.... Jesús and Chantal Marcos write in from Spain with the happy announcement that hijo Ignacio (sí, el “Ignacito” que tenía dos años en Tuck) got married this last July. Apart from wedding planning/celebrating, la familia Marcos spent much of the summer at their retreat in northern Spain, where, in what has become an annual tradition, they welcomed Diego and Alejandra Martínez, as well as T’95 Iñaki Aguirre and his wife Cristina, for sangria, tapas, and many tense games of Boggle. “It’s much harder in Spanish,” said Jesús (maybe), “what with all the accents and tildes and stuff.”

Editor’s note: Thank you, Nancy Goodman Koefoed and Jeff Macher, for your years of class secretary-ing and keeping the T’93s together. And anyone who would like to share the co-secretary gig with Cathy, please email her at cathy@dishners.com.

The Marcos family

On the topic of Tuck toddlers who are no longer toddlers, remember “little” Jack Gannon? Well, he’s now an Annapolis grad,

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a USN lieutenant on the Nebraska (that’s a submarine named after a land-locked state, which is cool), and, as far as I know, potentially our first legacy student. Proud papa John notes that Jack won a “Navy Junior Officer Scholarship” for biz school and is considering “Harvard, Stanford, and Tuck.” (That first one is tough to swallow. I mean, I never grasped the extent to which “Harvard sucks” until Jack explained it to me at a 1992 Dartmouth hockey game.) In news of other Gannons, Mary and John recently visited Nick and Jane Hall at their English manor in “Berwick-upon-Tweed.” (That’s a British town named after a sportcoat, which is less cool than a nuclear submarine.) The Halls are apparently under the mistaken impression that they are appearing on a home renovation show (“This Old Hospital”), though John and Mary didn’t see any actual cameras and found Nick’s constant narration wearying. Lastly, John is looking forward to this fall’s dedication of a rebuilt Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, construction of which was also not featured on HGTV. “Twenty years was enough,” says Greg “MoreBrooklyn-Than-You” Littleton, justifying his 2015 departure from Smart Design, while stroking his beard and sipping artisanal beet juice from a mason jar. “Actually, so was ten. And fifteen.” After a stint at maker of fancy water bottles S’well—a professional engagement where success hinged on knowledge of Chinese patent law—Greg says he’s “back to professional services where I belong” and aiming for a “five-year exit.” Nica is making websites for the NYC Department of Education (“More politics than in Washington”), daughter Amelia has moved west to work in the food business, and son Victor (“our little Alex Keaton”) is a junior at Ohio State, where he is “deeply embedded” with the ROTC. “Please remind folks we met 25 years ago,” emails Christophe Oliver, who is “totally not” afraid of being remembered for nothing more than solicitation emails. (“BTW, have you made your contribution to the TAG’18 campaign?” inquires the Frenchman, helpfully reinforcing the point.) Monsieur Oliver is—at the time of writing—in Hong Kong with Jeff Starr, where both are working to deploy software from Jeff’s company at Christophe’s company, and Christophe is “totally not” getting a cut or anything. He shares a funny

story about the two of them going jogging and Jeff falling and suffering serious injury. Ah, good times. (Adds Jeff, also helpfully, “You left off, ‘Went up to hotel room, washed off blood, came back down, and finished run.’”) Christophe is training for three (!) halfIronperson triathlons this year and has signed up for a “full” one next summer. (To be clear, he’s “totally not” having a midlife crisis or anything.)

Jeff Starr and Christophe Oliver in Hong Kong

Annie sends in a report of an exciting upcoming event. “Sporting Gents from the Tuck Class of ’94 would do well to run a panty raid at a certain inn in Round Top, New York, in a few weekends,” writes the Alaskan. After I Googled “panty raid” (Annie, once again, you’ve made me uncomfortable), I learned that Ms. Allman is describing a weekend minireunion organized by Lisa Lemire and Kathy Schaller, and though it technically hasn’t yet occurred, I’m going to pretend otherwise. This last October, a whole buncha T’94 women got together in the Catskills to, as Annie puts it, “mingle, drink, laugh, and generally talk [their] heads off!” In between imbibing and heated games of, oh, let’s say Boggle, the gals admired Schweitzer’s winebottle juggling, admonished Laureen for (yet again) bow-hunting without a permit, and participated in an arm-wrestling tournament, the winner of which I will not divulge. (Ah, who am I kidding? We all know it was Pam.) Plus, they might have plotted a revolution. (I’m hoping that last one is true.) Our reporter in the Pampas writes in from Argentina. Eduardo and the Dutreyettes are well and just finished up a winter (yeah, opposite land when it comes to seasons) on the slopes. Eduardo bumps into classmate Mariano frequently, at least when they’re both in Buenos Aires. Señor Ansaldo is now

advising the government on “air-travel-related issues.” Notes Eduardo, “If you happen to have any delays flying in Argentina, now you know who to blame.” Eduardo recently returned from a business trip to Australia, where he connected with Moray Vincent, who took Eduardo on a jog. No serious injuries (Christophe was not there), but according to Eduardo, “The problem was when he told me to swim after the running!” (Yep, winter.) “Just because of my Argentine pride, I joined him for the [open-air] swim,” rationalizes Eduardo, who “somehow survived the experience.” Back in the Northern Hemisphere, Vivina Berla writes in from the Netherlands, where she and her team of minions are working tirelessly to build Sarona, a fund management firm that “channels investors’ money towards high-growth, entrepreneurial companies across frontier and emerging markets for development, positive impact, and profit!” (You should see the mission statement! Because it’s long, I mean.) “Alessia and Chiara are all grown up and working in London,” adds Vivina, and “Peter is shuttling between his three women.” Speaking of changing the world, Doug Turner writes in with typical humility. “My life has gotten a bit odd for a few months,” explains the Birmingham native, who’s now working to get another Doug (Jones) elected to the Alabama Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jones—a longtime friend of our Doug’s—is a former U.S. attorney who, among other notable prosecutions, put the two Klansmen responsible for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing behind bars 38 years later. The special election will have been held by the time you read this. (I’m crossing my fingers and saying some prayers. Maybe this time that’ll work.) “Oh yeah, I do still have a family,” adds Doug. “Connie is in her third year as CEO of Girls Inc. of Central Alabama [and] Emma just started her freshman year at Georgetown.” Just as notably, explains Doug, “Aubrey is in sixth grade—young enough to still give me an excuse to buy Legos.” Altaf Shamji is just back from a trip to the British capital. He met up with Kim Schweitzer and spent “an entire afternoon in her ’hood—Barnes.” (That’s a London suburb named for half of a bookstore, I

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CL ASS NOTES believe. Would be a less-than-great name for a submarine.) Mr. Shamji (I can’t stop saying it aloud in Gert Assmus’s voice) also saw Sophia Ansar[-Mueller], who frequently jets over to the U.K. from Switzerland to visit her son, who studies in London. “Europe’s great and all, but I’m really glad to be back in New Jersey,” concludes Altaf, maybe.

Sophia and Altaf

“All’s well with the T’94 Seattle contingent,” writes John Dex, adding helpfully, “that’s me.” (As a former charter member, I can say that’s a cool club in which to be.) Dex on being a proud alum: “[Attended a local Tuck event and] saw lots of bright shiny new Tuckies, as well as a few dingy old ones.” Dex on life in (another) startup: “Rollercoaster on upswing as MPIRICA secured Series A this spring and continues to battle for true quality transparency in U.S. healthcare.” Dex on parenting: “My teenage daughters have perfected an eye roll I haven’t seen since I was cold-called in Professor Shank’s class.” Jeanine Borthwick had an eventful summer, and yeah, that’s an understatement. “Thespian daughter” Catherine trod the summer boards in a Nantucket production of The Tempest. “I struggled to follow along from the audience,” notes her Shakespearean scholar mother. Jeanine and other daughter Charlotte then headed to Rome to meet the Pope, you know, as you do. At the last minute, her group was joined by none other than Tony Blair. (Yes, the “have they found the WMDs yet?” one.) Unfortunately, former PM Blair’s presence complicated things by raising the level of requisite security. (Plenty of questions as to why Blair needs more security than the Pope, but we’re not going there.) Subsequent delays

led to Blair’s receiving a private audience with Pope Francis, leaving Jeanine and delegation out in the hot sun and earning the former British Labour Party leader the Charlotte-ascribed nickname “Pope Stealer.” (He’s been called worse.) Happy ending, as Jeanine reports: “We went back the next day and got a wonderful meeting with the Holy Father. It was well worth the wait! I will let you embellish this story as you see fit.” (Jeanine, normally I would, but my eternal damnation is pretty much assured at this point, and I’d rather not speed things up. Ah, what the hell. “Call me ‘Frankie,’” winked the pontiff, producing a box from under his robes. “Boggle?”) Oh, and the “Hood” gals are planning a birthday extravaganza in Morocco. You know, as you do. In personal news, I popped back to the homeland (California, people), where Leahi and I visited Anju at her newish home in Menlo Park. (Mark Zuckerberg’s a neighbor and Sheryl Sandberg’s in the PTA. Seriously.) It was wonderful to reconnect, and of course, to hear about that time I did that thing that I forgot about but now get to regret all over again. In other Whitmore news, Sherry and I visited Edmonton, Alberta, this summer to participate in the 2017 Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. (Next year’s JRCWP build? South Bend, Indiana. Who’s in? Looking your way, Notre Damers.) This year, HfH is building 150 homes for Canada’s sesquicentennial—How cool is that? Not like nuclear-submarine cool, but throw in Justin and it’s close. Plus, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that someday, somewhere, in a very special home, a very special person will look up and say, “Jesus Christ, who hung this drywall? It’s not to code!”

Sherry and Toph at JRCWP 2017 in Edmonton

Finally, I write at a point in time characterized—at least in America—by unrecognizable division and brutality. Amid all the dissonance, I (again) find comfort and purpose in the words of Dartmouth grad Dr. Seuss, who wrote in The Lorax, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” In that spirit, I challenge all who read this: Hug someone with whom you disagree. Burst your insular bubble. Embrace, preach, and practice respect. And for the love of whatever you consider holy, go out and make a f***ing difference. Ted Geisel would have wanted it that way.

’95 Kristin Sanborn ksanborn27@gmail.com

Rick Smith rasarizona@hotmail.com

First, let’s pour a little out for our fallen homie, EBAs pizza, which closed after 38 years of awesomeness.

Leahi, Toph, and Anju

Rick: I blame Amazon.

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Kristin: Amazon had nothing to do with this. Supposedly Domino’s opened in West Leb and crowded them out for late-night deliveries. Rick: That’s your theory. Kristin: It’s not a theory. People aren’t Priming hot pizzas. Rick: Amazon’s behind this. Domino’s may be a front for those thugs at Amazon, but this reeks of Amazon. Kristin: And...after 22 years of journalistic excellent we’ve become fake news. Rick: We’re fake news? I’m stunned. Being fake never felt so real.

helping people—perhaps teaching, mentoring, counseling or some other volunteer work.” Rod Coelho is now the head of People & Performance for Kraft Heinz Company. He’s based out of Melbourne, Australia (“Dooskland”), and covers Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and—of course—Papua New Guinea.

Greg and Tracey Maxwell, with daughter Katie on her wedding day

On to the column! Steve Hedlund is now the executive vice president and president of International Welding for Lincoln Electric. Rick: So he’s both the EVP and president? Two jobs? Very efficient of him. Kristin: Steve handles international welding. I wonder who I see for my domestic welding needs? Rick: Probably Amazon. As a part of the new role the Hedlunds are moving to London for at least the next few years. Greg Maxwell got stuck in a hotel elevator. Kristin: Is he out now? Rick: I hope so. By the time people read this it will have happened eons ago. GMAX would be GMIN by now. Anyway, the elevator’s call button didn’t work and no one was responding to the alarm, so Greg used his cell phone to call the front desk. Well played, Mr. Maxwell. Kristin: He should’ve ordered room service to the elevator. That would’ve solved two problems at the same time. Speaking of GMAX, he must be out by now because Greg dropped by the T’95 Tuck Today West Coast Headquarters in sunny Scottsdale. Kristin: Was he visiting to give you his elevator pitch? Rick: Ummmm...no. But I can confirm we took the stairs to the rooftop bar we met at. Kristin: Safe call. Anyway, Greg and Tracey’s daughter

Katie—who was 5 years old when we were at Tuck—got married. Steve Ritchie moved from Seattle to Portland and is now a global sales leader for FlightStats. P.A. Weiner is now a managing director of Financial Technology with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Larry Medina is still in Singapore and is now with INSEAD, where he’ll be doing career coaching in the executive MBA program. Art McAleer is running Federal Street Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded T.H. Lee-backed vehicle for acquiring companies. And Tena Melfi is now chief revenue officer with Journey.com.

Rick: Paul Duske and Rod Coelho on the same continent seems foolhardy and is potentially a violation of UN protocols. I’m envisioning bashed-in drywall and adults strolling around in diapers. And here’s a stock tip: short Aussie property and casualty insurers. With those two on the same continent this is an easy call. Kristin: Dude. It’s not 1995 and they’re not participating in the Road Rally. Rick: To me it’s always 1995 and there’s no better time than now for another Road Rally. Kristin: If it’s still 1995 then give EBAs a call on your landline and place an order. Rick: That was cruel. Even for you. Now that he’s conveniently located in the South Pacific, Rod and wife Catia also made a trip over to Japan and met up with Hiko Yasumatsu (and wife Keiko), who they hadn’t seen since graduation.

Rick: Please tell me that’s the band’s website. Kristin: I’m actually not sure. Maybe. Don’t stop believing. Rick: I’ll hold onto that feeling. Jeff Saunders has joined insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. as an area president for their Private Client and Personal Lines division. Rick: I actually deal with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. on a professional level. No joke. William Gallagher Associates had been a vendor of mine and then they merged with Arthur J. Gallagher. Kristin: I’m sure the investment bankers who put this deal together collected their massive fees, looked at each other, high-fived, and said, “Duh.” Vince King has retired. “It’s been a goal of mine to retire when I turned 50, and I was able to do so this year. I left Cars.com after almost 10 years, and I’m now enjoying my free time. I intend to look into doing some part-time work that makes me feel good about

Hiko and Keiko with Rod and Catia in Tokyo

Rick: Is there a ticker symbol for “short Japanese property and casualty insurers”? Kristin: Yes, it’s H-E-L-P-M-E. Rick: Thanks. I’m going all-in on my macro investing theme of “Doosk and Rod cause global destruction.” Kristin: Good luck with that. Anyway, per Rod, “Hiko and Keiko spent the whole day walking with Catia and me around Tokyo. It was a wonderful time, and the Meiji

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someone’s back to check if they are wearing a wire. Ah.......Abscam. Good times. Rick here. I got nothing. I go to work. I help with the kids. I load and unload the dishwasher at home. I’m dish guy. And bug-killer guy—I handle that too. Dish and bug guy. If you have dish or bug needs, feel free to reach out to me. We’ll talk again in six months!

’96 Ewa Borowska ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Rick: Professor Syd says mergers usually fail to generate value. Kristin: Syd shouldn’t bet against Roger. Rick: True dat. Kristin: I wonder if he took the Pandora gig so Pandora can solely play his band’s music? Rick: Ingenious! Vertical integration at its finest! “At the end of July I moved Chocolopolis to a new location,” wrote Lauren Adler. “It’s not a traditional retail space, but we still have a retail store with the same chocolate collection with one exception: we’re not currently making our own confections. It was a tough decision but it was the right one for now. This will enable me to get back to curating products, creating experiences and building community around craft chocolate.” And what’s up with your authors? Kristin here: I’m still working on that N.J. State Assembly campaign. My political training includes learning the “Jersey hug,” which involves running your hand up and down

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I [Ewa] am here to tell you that begging works. As a matter of fact, if mixed with some guilt (a fine Judeo-Christian tradition), it can be a very powerful tool to solicit responses. And I got plenty of news and advice to share in this column. Thank you all for not making me look like a complete idiot with nothing to say. Advice was primarily aimed at me and ranged from “most would have thrown in the towel a decade or so ago” (Courbage) to “thanks for doing this” (a few) to “read obits before you get to class news” (Foley). Some of you also engaged in name calling: “Dotard” and “Lawyer Boy” come to mind. You know who you are. Overall, it was a pretty clean run with a few trends emerging as I looked at the data. I was amazed how many of you claimed to

have “not much to report” (Orris), “mundane news” (Searle), “not a lot of news” (Feenstra), “life is too boring” (Keller), “seriously nothing exciting going on” (Martin), “not sure what news I really have” (Wimmer), “made up stuff makes it more interesting than the life we are leading” (Jobe), “no real news to share” (Bonder), “don’t have a lot to report” (Weyer). You get the drift. On a normal distribution most of you fell along the “there is nothing to get exited about” mean. I will let you all judge for yourselves. To facilitate that, I designed a quiz: guess which one of the above was actually engaged in the following: 1. Did a Leadville 100, won Club Golf Championship, and in their free time developed leadership programs that are being implemented in independent and public schools. Hint: they are also the people that are running toy and chocolate companies. (Note to self: if this is what a boring life looks like, I really need to get out more); 2. Raised a record amount of money for DanaFarber Cancer Institute by organizing a road race while leading a capacity-building program for direct service nonprofits in multiple cities. Extra credit: has a son who is applying to colleges and, as some of you know, that is a particularly stress-free and relaxing time in the life of parents and their offspring; 3. Has a 19-year-old daughter who is studying at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute in London (note: while Theresa May is deliberating if the British part should be separate) and an 11-year-old who plans to stay home for a while. Was elected chairman of the board of representatives of NLS De Witte (no clue what it is, but it sounds really important). He generously invited all of us to visit to see this fine institution for ourselves; 4. Left one city for another and cannot make the transition because calling oneself “New... Newww...Newww Yorr” seems to cause an allergic reaction. Finding a charming New England look-alike house in a New England look-alike town has softened the blow. Regularly forces her kids to wear Boston team gear and has not noticed increased bullying activity in school; 5. Has been working, getting kids ready for college, continuing home renovations, and preparing for the winter (which, given the location, probably starts sometime in April) while checking up on Bette Bankston, who came through Hurricane Harvey unscathed; 6. Has been at Medtronic for 15 years and

raising two kids (high school and seventh grade). Well, actually, just raising one because the other just joined Paiva’s son at Phillips Academy in Andover; 7. Has three kids and sent the second one to college last month. Claims that the lad chose his alma mater, but I heard that the beatings were continuing until the right decision was made. That is what happened to his older sister as well. He is inviting all of us to come down to Richmond, Virginia, and he has taken his company public within the last two years (I think that means he is buying); 8. Has three sons who live with him and who can fill and empty dishwashers when he is on business trips. We should all be so lucky. 9. Is taking her daughter on a multicultural feast (extra bonus for representing the Polish cuisine), has three kids, is an educational docent at a local farm/wilderness area teaching students about sustainable farming. In her spare time, she has been building chicken coops and organizing bicycle races amply called “Tour de Coop.” How cool is that!; 10. A fter 19 years of city life and adamant insistence that pets don’t belong in urban settings, he bought a Norfolk terrier. With a self-image problem. Initially named “Twig,” she is now called “Trunk,” and he oversees her strict diet. He plans to spend more time exploring the island on which he lives while managing his real estate work obligations and taking care of two kids. He has recently pulled them out of the English system and sent them to an American school. There, 72 nationalities are represented and 50 languages are spoken. I think the expectation is that the kids graduate with at least 5 languages under their belts. Citizens of the world just like their father. I will print the answers at the very bottom of this column. If you got 10/10 right, you will never have to take another Len Greenhalgh course; you were clearly paying attention to the organizational behavior of your peers. If you are below 6 correct answers, you will have looped and there is no hope for you. I also got plenty of wonderful news from faraway places. Mimi and Stephane Anglade had a “fantastic trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos this last summer.” They snorkeled with sea lions, penguins, and marine iguanas. Apparently, the Orrises are opening a travel agency, since they were behind some of the planning. [Speaking of the Orrises, look for a

pic of Christy on the ’96 Notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu!] Javier Rico’s first-ever contribution from a beautiful Madrid deserves a very special “thank you” for his writing in. His oldest daughter started university and “brings a lot of fresh and strong opinions about everything.” I think it is safe to say that we know who the dad is. His second daughter is in her last year of school and “would like to know what she will do when she grows up.” Wouldn’t we all? His oldest son is in Dublin at a boarding school “discovering rugby and Gaelic sports.” To me, that sounds like he is drinking a lot of Guinness and hanging out with pretty Irish girls. Finally, his other son is living at home “like a king.” Maybe he can figure out that Catalan secession thing. Matt Jochim is also on the other side of the pond and has been there for the last 4 years. He reports that there are “a lot of Tuckies at the McKinsey offices in London.” Toshi Yoshida is “still working as a corporate banker at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.” He has a 19year-old son and a daughter who is 17. His wife, Tomoko, is also working at the bank. They all find comfort in a new family member, Ribbon, who happens to be a rabbit. [Look on the 1996 Class Notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of Ribbon!] Dr. Paiva seems to have defied the aging process but expressed deep concern for the rest of us. That is why he starts his Tuck Notes perusal with the obit pages. Since I am not on the hook to write those, I could not comment. Ed Steffelin, however, did and made us all laugh. Ed is another one who thinks that raising two boys (14 and 12) in New York and working in real estate (see the quiz above) is pretty boring. I don’t buy it. Prof. Chris Trimble retired from his Dartmouth gig and decided to go back to school. He is working toward a degree in guitar from Berklee College of Music. Apparently, he had to take an algebra test to place out of the math requirement. If I were a betting woman (and he was in my study group), I would say that he probably squeaked by. He did join a band and is having a blast. At the time of the writing, the tour schedule included White River Junction, Hanover, and Norwich. Who knew you actually needed a music diploma to go on the road? The Upper Valley is really upping its game. It stands to reason that if he goes global, he will most likely need a PhD.

Steve Trent is at Citi Research. He has been married for 10 years and has three kids. He had dinner with Daryl Michalik and “still bothers Chang Choi about having the highest grade on the GDP forecast paper.” Time to let it go, Steve. Phil Ferneau was trying to stir up the pot by getting Foley riled up and almost succeeded. He is still in venture capital in Hanover at Borealis Ventures with Matt Rightmire. In his spare time, he is an “adjunct prof at Tuck teaching venture capital.” He and Lisa are empty nesters, with one daughter a senior at Dartmouth and another in her second year at St Andrews in Scotland. He claims to have won the record for “domestic inertia” because he is still in the same house he had while at Tuck. Chris Clifford is another classmate with an academic résumé. He is in his “8th year on the senior administration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.” His oldest daughter just graduated from UAB, and the other is a sophomore there. (Was there a discount? Two for one special?) His son is still in high school but leaning toward UAB. Chris became a concert promoter and has been peddling UAB house parties with Sam Hunt and entertaining 25,000 people at a shot. He wants to get Sam (an ex-UAB quarterback) to play at our next reunion. A grand idea! But I also think he should take Trimble (an ex-submarine officer, author, and Tuck professor) and his band for his next gig and watch the crowd go wild. Gene Lowe reports that “Karl Siebrecht is the CEO of FLEXE and recently raised $14 million for growth.” Gene’s company, SPX Corp. just celebrated its second anniversary as a standalone entity. He also saw Bill Craver win a race where “you had to run a few miles and drink several beers at the same time.” I think that might be a requirement if one is going to be a CEO of a tasty microbrewery in Charlotte. Alex Santos has been so busy that he forgot to mention that he just made partner at Egon Zehnder. Congratulations, Alex! He has been seen (briefly) visiting the D.C. Tuck contingent. Pete Shagory writes that, like Alex, he is still in Chicago in “the flyover state”: “After the bulk of my post-Tuck career in healthcare venture capital, I moved to the corporate world, where I’ve been in strategy and M&A. I’ve been heading up strategy and M&A for a small cap public MedTech company, CONMED. It’s a turnaround of sorts, going through a ‘transformation’ both through organic and

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CL ASS NOTES inorganic means. I’m doing my best to channel my inner D’Aveni to help the company become more competitive in a rapidly changing MedTech industry (and doing acquisitions along the way).” He is married to Sheri with a 14-year-old son, Ty, and a 12-year-old daughter, Alexa. “Any Tuckie stuck at O’Hare should look us up!” Rob Lynch’s daughter, Jasmine, who was 9 months old when we came to Tuck, graduated college, got married, and is working in Seattle. “She foolishly followed her father into retail.” Her 2 younger sisters, Sophia and Sydney, are both in college at the University of Utah (Sydney was born at DartmouthHitchcock hospital our second year; luckily she waited until after our intramural softball championship game...).” After a recent trip to Ireland, Rob decided to have more kids. He is now the proud father of 2 Irish wolfhound pups, “Fionn mac Cumhaill (eng. MacCool) and Strongbow (named after the Norman invader, not the adult beverage).” He will have his hands full. The dogs will be around 200 lbs. He loves them because they remind him of Craver and Schwedel (see the picture on the T’96 Notes pages at mytuckdartmouth.edu). Jay Benson is improving the world one hand-blown glass at a time. He is leading Simon Pearce into the 21st century. Get your graduation, birthday, and wedding presents from him (N.B., he did not ask me, pay me, or entice me in any way to say this). Another one of the “Killer Bees,” Chris Boehmer, at the time of this writing was heading to Hanover to speak about his recent career change. As some of you may know, Chris shifted gears and has been working with refugees and refugee camps in Germany. I could not have been more moved at our reunion by his stories of resilience and perseverance in the face of terrible adversity. These people could not be in better hands. Finally, a shout-out to all who supported the Nora Searle Memorial Fun Run. Bob Searle writes that “in less than 24 hours, the class of ’96 has come up big. As a result, we have met our goal, and we’ll definitely raise the most money that we’ve raised in the four years we’ve been doing this. I’m not surprised by this reaction from my classmates, and we are deeply grateful.”

Have a wonderful winter everyone! Thank you for staying in touch, and take good care. P.S. Answers to the quiz: the Orrises, Bob Searle, Marcel Feenstra, Cary Keller, Jen Martin, Steph Wimmer, Doug Jobe, Barry Bonder, Noelle Weyer, and Cyril Courbage.

’97 Helen Kurtz helenwkurtz@gmail.com

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bounce you off of every %&*#$^%& wall in this room if you don’t let me speak”; Jeremy Lagomarsino yelling at T’98s, “Listen people, get your s&&&t together” at Orientation; and Jen Geissel Zervigon emailing Professor Powell that he was a “modeling stud.” • O ur favorite professors were Professor Shank (“uncompromising process on cold calls, cases and tactics on how businesses really make businesses...” Ringo Rags, anyone?); Professor Powell (see above from Jen...and “because he brought a pretty dry subject to life”); Professor Deshpandé (“incredible control of the room and impeccable case method”); and Professor Logue (who “told us we could always go into marketing if we didn’t get finance”).

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While Judd and I were incredibly disappointed not to make it to our 20th Reunion, it was by all accounts, an amazing time. With 75-degree weather (who remembers our snowy 5th Reunion in October of 2002?), it was a glorious backdrop for lots of connecting and revelry. Kudos to the Reunion organizing team for the stimulating TuckTalks and opportunities to connect with the faculty & career center. Between hikes, catching up, and puppy parties, it was a lot of fun jammed into two days. Paul Ollinger was in fine form as he toasted (ok, mostly roasted) all of us, and it was clear from Stacey Raiche’s slide show that we all have aged well and lost our beer guts (not a Dad bod in sight...). Huge thanks to Stacey & Paul for stepping up to rally the class into reporting what we’ve all been up to. Maggie and John Pepper set up a huge tent in their backyard to contain the party, and there was toasting, dancing, and fun galore. To recap the results of the survey, the headlines are: on Dostal and his lost diaper at Road Rally • R was most people’s answer to funniest memory at Tuck. But others meriting mention are “Joe Delaney screaming like a 2-year-old girl in Stell Hall when a bat flew over his head”; Celia Chase threatening Jim Andelman in study group—“Andelman, I am going to

ost are spending time with nonprofits—in • M some cases leading them (Amy Houston!) and in some cases being recognized by them for all they do (looking at you Jen Geissel Zervigon!)—and many volunteering and on boards at schools, Boy Scouts, missions, museums, soccer, and overall community efforts (“As head of the Parent Association, I get to water the plants in the lobby and run the book fair; I’m drunk with power!”). • L et’s be honest, and 3 of us together as CEO, CFO, and CMO would make a dream team. There were diverse entries in each, but my favorite (submitted to SurveyMonkey at 4am) was for George Peinado (huh? didn’t Dave Craver teach him all he knows?!) and for CFO (“Rhino... eventually to be fired by Weas...and Vicki Craver if you want it done for reals”) and a suspicious amount of entries for Paul Ollinger in all categories. All in all, a bang-up time at Reunion and can’t wait for our 25th (in the survey, most replied that they can’t believe how old we are). We did get some non-Reunion news that I want to be sure to share: Manisha Shahane wrote that, “Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in Austin, Tex., with my folks, who moved to Texas from Virginia to be closer to my sister and her family. We just celebrated my father’s 80th birthday this past weekend. Also, since last week was SXSW, my stepson (age 21) happened to come through Austin on tour

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with a band in which he was playing drums— it was fun to watch him play and also have him join in for the family birthday gathering. Somehow (and yet not surprisingly) the Tuck folks managed to track me down in Austin. So at the last minute I popped by the Fireside Chat, where I ran into Steve Wilson from our class. While there, I also met some other area Dartmouth grads and Tuckies, including Matt McQuinn T’03, who apparently knows my sister and her family through some mutual friends—small world!” From Becky Joffrey (who was also at Reunion), a report that, “Having moved away from Hanover after 17 years, I’m looking forward to Reunion as a 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 Philadelphia. And if José Aberg Cobo doesn’t write in, I’ll out him— he’s a grandfather!” From the women of the End Zone, a great effort to celebrate Jen Geissel Zervigon: “We are asking for your help in honoring Jen’s contributions to an amazing nonprofit called Upwardly Global. UpGlo has an inspiring mission to help legal, highly skilled immigrants and refugees find employment in the United States. Like the good Tuckie that she is, Jen has helped triple the organization’s revenues. But, more importantly, because of her there are now doctors, engineers, and others who are able to work in the U.S. in their chosen professions. Jen’s being honored at a gala in New York on November 1 for her leadership!” Thanks to Pat Mahoney, who wrote his first TT entry (Helen Lam, I’m talking to you—it’s never too late!): “I am the managing director and market leader for J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Minnesota and the surrounding states. Angela and I recently remodeled our home in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and have plenty of extra room for visiting Tuckies. All are welcome spring, summer, and fall. Only the most hearty are welcome during the winter months.” And a last message from Paul Whiting: “A half-dozen of us ’97s definitely couldn’t wait until Reunion. Yancey ‘Sky’ Spruill, Scott

‘Scooter’ Schneiderman, Ken ‘Wiz’ Wisdom, Jonathan ‘JP’ Perl, Eddie ‘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?!).” As for me (Helen), I started a new job as CMO of Foster Farms, a poultry company in the Bay Area. My thanks to all the Tuckies who helped in my job search; it was every Tuck promise brought to life. I’ve loved the exhilaration of learning (after 20 years at Mills!); the people; and the opportunity to rebuild the brand. I can attest to our ‘good people, good chicken’ claim and now know all there is to know about chickens and turkeys. I’m excited to be back in the Bay Area, too, and will hold Geoff Beard to his promise of bringing the NoCal Tuckies together. I also was invited to be on the Tuck Board of Overseers by Dean Slaughter; a great honor and truly something I had on my list of hopes and dreams. Judd and I are wishing you the best and were so glad to hear of the fun at Reunion....

’98 Doug Haar doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade srmeade@yahoo.com

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’99 Julie Meyer julesmeyer@yahoo.com

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Editor’s note: Look on the 1999 Class Notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for news and pics!

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Cecilia Stewart has been through quite the whirlwind of changes and events. After 10 years at Western Union, she moved to CCI, Inc., a firm that brings together peer groups of board and committee chairs, CEOs, CFOs, and other C-level executives to learn from each other’s experiences (CEO.net). In the transition, she took off a month to spend time with her children on true vacation mode (no computer!) and get things sorted out before starting with CCI (PixiesDidIt! co-founder Kelly McMenamin [Wang] would be proud). Cecilia will continue to live in Denver but will travel extensively through the U.S. and is committed to reach out to Tuckies for catch-ups over dinner and drinks. She also reports that after competing against 5,000 kids across the U.S., Pablo, her son, has been selected to spend a week training with FC Barcelona, in Camp Nou! As for Paloma, she is a budding gymnast and has taken horseback riding as her new passion, so surely you will soon see her on stadium jumping competitions around the world! She also reports that she and Marcio have bought a ski-in/ski-out condo in Breckenridge, where they have already hosted Marco Bongiovanni and his adorable wife

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The other Wang in our class, Kelly McMenamin Wang, recently published a book, Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality, which is available on Amazon. Wishing you all the best until the next exciting episode of our Tuck Today article!

Beauger (Canada). Last-minute attendees also included New England natives Carissa Gagne [Gaborow] (she left Rich and her two kids at home in New Jersey!) and Jeff Lessard, both of whom registered the day before or day of—we were so glad they (and Jeff’s family) could join us! Can I also just say how happy it makes me to see Vanessa Dulman (Seattle) at reunions, looking fantastic, as always!

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Marco and Cecilia in Breckenridge

David Shapiro contacted me to reset his Tuck2000.com password, but I used the opportunity to extract a bit of goss from him. All is good with Julianne Woo and him with the kids and juggling two careers, etc. He’s back in venture capital, which has allowed him a bit more flexibility. They also managed to catch up with Xili Wu over the summer, which was great. For those of you not following along on the Tuck2000 Facebook page, there are a few interesting items on there since the last Tuck Today. The Facebook page is a private one and has over 130 members, so if you have a bit of FOMO, send me a note and I’ll send you an invite. Sherilyn Butler caught up with Ace Suzuki in Tokyo while she was there on a business trip. There is a photo posted there. There is a cool video posted with Alexei Sidnev explaining to Vladimir Putin what he’s doing to make things better for senior citizens in Russia. Eric Wang has a bunch of activity on there relating to Ananda Hemp, his company that is trying to alleviate suffering of those with seizures, joint pain, sleeping problems, and anxiety.

Editor’s note: We thank Gina des Cognets for all her Class Notes work with Lloyd Baskin on behalf of the T’01s all this time. And look online in the 2001 Class Notes pages at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for some notes from Gina, as she and Lloyd both retire as secretaries after years of Notes-ing. If you’d like to volunteer as a new T’01 scribe—solo or as part of a team of up to three secretaries—please email tuck.class. notes@dartmouth.edu to let us know.

Matt Camp and Frank Yao

’02 Lisa Cloitre lcloitre@gmail.com

This installment of Class Notes is our REUNION class notes, with a few updates from folks who generously shared news even though they were unable to join us in Hanover. Ironically, while I had a great time catching up with many of you, I’m not sure I was as strategic as I could have been in soliciting Class Notes news, but here goes.... Reunion was a great success, aided by amazing summer-like weather in the Upper Valley. 64 classmates plus 24 guests gathered in Hanover over October 13-15, with many classmates traveling from all over the globe: Sergey Mokroussov (Malaysia), Ignacio Goni (Argentina), Pablo Valeriano (Brazil), Misael Shimizu with Mildreth Maldonado T’03 (Peru), Akiko Maeda (Japan), Hervé Mouneyrac (France/Spain), Frank Yao (Shanghai/Mountain View, Calif.), and Patrick

Liz Poggi with husband Scott Murphy (left) and Sergey Mokroussov T’02

While traveling from NYC may not seem like a big deal, Anissa Kelly joined us with her fiveyear-old triplet daughters. Yes, you read that correctly. TRIPLETS. Driving from NYC. Had we known this, we would have given her some sort of superhuman-momma award, which she has already earned a million times over. Triplets. Josh Silverstone, Matt Camp, and Kelly Leach were featured panelists and speakers over the weekend, speaking about their involvement— both professionally and personally—in nonprofit and social-justice endeavors. Josh and Kelly were featured TuckTalks speakers, and both shared extremely personal and

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compelling accounts of their work to support the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. and rare cancer research, respectively. All three make us proud. I urge you to learn more about their efforts. Bill Tine and his wife Michele generously hosted our class dinner in their backyard on Saturday night. They probably need to start Rock-Paper-Scissoring with fellow Norwich residents George and Mary Newcomb for our 20th reunion class dinner. Dinner highlights included guest speaker Sally Jaeger, who recounted the welcome speech that she delivered to our class in fall of 2000, as well as classmates who participated from abroad by GoToMeeting (they were LIVE!) or prerecorded videos. Many thanks to Tomas Perez-Barraza (and four kids?!), Satoshi Minamoto, Yoshi Nishimura, Yasu Watanabe, and Chris Stemple for their virtual participation, and for Hervé and Anthony Haralson for making the technology side of things work. Anthony Haralson and Christina Reyes. Superstars. Mega Superstars. They organized and provided all of Saturday night’s entertainment, including speakers, an incredible slide show, a rousing game of T’02 Jeopardy, and then a leave-it-all-on-the-dancefloor playlist that kept Bill’s neighbors awake until the wee hours (well, actually, 11 p.m). Murphy’s was an active late-night watering hole on both Friday and Saturday (is Liam still behind the bar? Join us at our 20th to find out). Julia Soukhareva was unable to join us this year, but she submitted her famous holiday cards for the slide show and also noted that she receives many of her holiday cards back as undeliverable. If you would like to receive her holiday cards, please send her (or me) your current mailing address. And if you are not on her mailing list, you want to be. Trust me! Some other interesting highlights from reunion: many of our classmates have started their own businesses. Zoe Vlachos and Ignacio Goni in investment management and equity research, respectively; Patty Russell recently joined me in the ranks of starting her own consulting firm. Others have started new (and seemingly awesome) jobs: Caryn [Greene] Nightengale recently started as CFO for a Silicon Valley company called Liquid Robotics.

Lorri Hamilton (we missed you!) and Ted Durbin relocated to San Francisco this past summer for Lorri’s new job as head of school for Town School for Boys. Chris Stemple wrote in that Deanne and the three boys are all doing well, and Chris was recently promoted to managing director for Biogen in Australia and New Zealand. Mary Burns travels to Japan for one week every month (!!) as part of her job as EVP for Brand & Product for John Masters Organics. I reiterated to her (as I will to all of you) that you need to contact Shin Mizuno when you travel to Japan—he will organize the greatest T’02 reunion. Akiko Maeda is president/managing director for Bacardi Japan, and she generously donated table nips for everyone, plus three bottles of tequila for the top three finishers in Reunion Jeopardy (thank you, Akiko!). The Greasons (Jess Schlather and husband Steve Greason) made a guest appearance at Reunion, but Jess and I lost each other just as she was starting to tell me about her recent efforts to recruit and prepare more women to run for public office (are you listening, T’02 women?!).

Carissa Gagne Gaborow, Patty Russell, and Alex Schwoerer

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Speaking of Zoe, she wrote in to send “a shout-out to our T’02 Reunion class coordinators Lisa, Anthony, Kelly, Caryn, Julie, Christina, Alex, and Josh, and our Saturday-night hosts, Bill and Michele, for a fabulous weekend at Tuck. The class slides how, T’02 Jeopardy, and dance tunes in the Tine’s backyard were a blast, and the intimate TuckTalks with Kelly and Josh moving and inspiring. It was great to see all those who could attend in person and those who ‘remoted’ in (great idea Ignacio!). Thank you!” I failed on the photo front over Reunion weekend, so snapshots from Reunion are courtesy of your public Facebook posts (with a special shout out to Rebecca Siegel Burstein, social media documenter extraordinaire!). Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and loving 2018, and hoping to see many of you before our 20th in 2022.

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Hey, whatsup y’all! Super psyched to assume the role of your new class secretary. When Cathy Kim Walker approached me about the opportunity, she thought I’d be the perfect candidate because my “social media posts are always so clever.” I tried to explain to her that I’m only Facebook funny—not, like, real funny. What she doesn’t realize is that I labor over those two-sentence Facebook posts for like an hour—which is about 50 minutes longer than I have to write this article. Anyway, Cathy was unconvinced. So, here I am. But enough about me, let’s see what our esteemed classmates have been up to.... First up, Mildreth Maldonado just couldn’t wait for our 15-year next fall, she had to beat us to it, and apparently she wasn’t the only T’03 getting in a Reunion dry run: “This past weekend, the Tuck Class of 2002 15-year reunion was held. I visited Hanover with my husband, Misael Shimizu T’02, and ran into Joe Bachman during the T’02 dinner party at Bill Tine’s home in Norwich. Joe promises to be back next year for our reunion. It’s really good to be back in Hanover and catch up with friends!! Hope most of T’03s can make it next year... miss you all! So many good memories!!”

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For our next update, we head even farther north* to hear from one of my all-time favorite Canadians, Chris Clark: “Hello from the Great White North! Andrea and I are just barely managing to keep up with young Zachary and Tyler—putting many miles on the car in shuttle-service duty for their various hockey and soccer and whatever-else commitments. I continue to work hard at growing Terraficionados Travel Society & Journeymakers, which has now unbelievably eclipsed the 7-year mark and has been proud to do business with Tuck on a number of pre-term International Adventure Trips and Study Tours! We hope you will call us up the next time you visit Toronto, though you’ll likely have to find your way to a local arena to spend a bit of time with us!!” *Fact Check: Toronto is actually slightly south of Hanover. Whatever, I’m running with it. Moving on.... We continue our tour of the Americas with some exciting news from Ignacio Sorrosal and Louise McKerrow: “We made the big move! After 9 years in London, and 15 since I left Argentina, we moved to Buenos Aires. Everything happened quite quickly. I was offered to be CFO of an Argentinean-based company.... So I finally left banking. All quite entertaining and exciting as we have very ambitious growth plans.... Outside work, things are going well although adjusting to a new country, and a new language in Lou’s case, is never easy. Nico, Santi, and Mateo are enjoying their new school, which happens to be very Scottish. Nico is learning to play the pipes, and Santi is the only boy in the whole school learning Scottish dancing. Granny McKerrow is very happy that they are maintaining their Celtic roots.... We have plenty of room in our new house, so if anyone is planning to travel down south, we would love to host you and show you around.” So here’s a funny story.... Last spring, my girls Lucy and Eliza decided to set up a lemonade stand in our driveway. First car that stops by, out pops none other than...Alan Bunce! Turns out his brother lives three houses up the road from me. Crazy. Anyway, here’s the latest from Alan: “I’m still in the Boston area plugging away in enterprise software as a marketer. I was acquired into Salesforce last year, stayed for an action-packed year, then moved on earlier this year. My daughters keep growing, now ages eight and ten. As one of our classmates with

Nico, Santi, and Mateo (in that order...maybe?)

older kids said recently, ‘Congratulations, the easy half of parenting is over.’ Yikes!” I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that (says a fellow father of two daughters aged 8 and 10). Yikes indeed. Last but not least, we’re rolling out a new feature in this issue: Caption Contest! Our first submission comes from Tom Comiskey, with perhaps the best-looking selfie since Ellen snapped that shot at the 2014 Oscars—taken at Little Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, where these fourteen fine fellows convened for a most important undertaking: the annual fantasy football draft auction. Last year was in Vegas. This year was...different. Equally awesome. Very different. Anyway, send in those captions! The winner will be announced next issue and will receive 100 wallet-size copies of this pic to hand out to friends and strangers.

Andrew Haggard, Bill Madden, Sean Ruhmann, Brian Feltz, Mike Conlon, Barrett Rankin, Jeff Pearson, Tom Comiskey, Chris Plecs, Scott Ising, Peter May, Prescott Taylor, Chris Batt, and...???

Until next time—keep those updates coming! Over and out.... Editor’s note: Many, many thanks to Cathy Walker for keeping the T’03s up to date!

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

The time to once again share a bit of uplifting news and updates from our class is here. For a few minutes, we get to pause and rekindle some memories. As usual, we hear of new ventures, big moves, and, well, more tiny ones (love it!). David Kressel gets to the point with his bit of news, “We made another baby. Cute and sweet just like the first” On the business front, David is still in LA, growing NotaryCam. “Let me know if any of you need a notary!”

It leaves enough time drive around the kids and manage house and family while I work the other 230% at my new venture Loanboox, the European platform for public-sector debt. One year after we launched, we crossed the four billion threshold and are now expanding into other European countries, new customer segments, and new financing products. Hey, Tuckies! We need talent! And investment! Come to Loanboox! It’s thrilling. And tiring. Gosh, pension is still 20 years away.” It is great to hear from Geoff Wilson, who relays that he and Lindsay are having a lot of fun as their kids get older. “With four kids and a variety of animals in the house, we keep things lively. I’ve just celebrated the three-year anniversary of founding Wilson Growth Partners LLC, and we’ve had a steady stream of fun and interesting strategy-related consulting work with a variety of client types. I know Lindsay and I are looking forward to the next Reunion to see everyone.”

The Butterfields enjoying the great outdoors

are her biggest fans and we are all doing well. On the work front, we remain busy with Pete as a partner at BCG and I now at Indigo, a startup in the agriculture tech space, where I’m head of people. Last year we made the move from Boston’s South End to the suburbs in Winchester. We’ve run into lots of Tuckies in Winchester, although we do miss living around the corner from Adam and Kim Borchert!”

Kjetil Birkeland and Anna Burdin joined Vil Ramos at his place for a minireunion BBQ.

Vil, Kjetil, and Anna representing at their own minireunion

New Baby Kressel!

Stefan Muehlemann updates that “Sonya (D’Souza) is head of communications at Oetiker, the global market leader for clamps (glad I checked that spelling—as I first wrote clams), and very happy with her 70% job there.

It was great to hear from Colin Butterfield, who writes, “Colin, Renata, Julia, and Marco have now completed their first year living in Newton, Mass. Colin is working for Harvard Management Company after having spent over 10 years back in Brazil. The family has taken full advantage of the great outdoors activities, where they can be found constantly either camping, biking or hiking the great spots in the NE region.” Katie Czerepak and Pete Czerepak welcomed baby #3—Juliet Anna Czerepak arrived on May 18. “Big sister Lila (6) and big brother Luke (4)

Lila and Luke Czerepak show off their new baby sister, Juliet

Andrew Schut updates that, “Andrew Schut, his wife Katie, their three kids, and newish rottie, Zoe, all recently moved to the U.K. They’re posted with the embassy in London and living near Cambridge. They’re all adjusting well to life in England despite the school uniforms and flat beer!” Well.... “Ildar Fazulyanov’s WELL continues

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his mission of providing timely healthcare to everyone. WELL is building the world’s first widely-used decentralized marketplace for healthcare. WELL is globalizing healthcare and eliminating country borders to directly connect healthcare specialists and patients worldwide. We are creating a token of on-demand healthcare that solves the current problems of cross-border payments, data accessibility, and payment risk. WELL is on a mission to provide it to EVERYONE, even those who cannot afford it. Accordingly, WELL pledges to donate a visit for every paid visit (similar to Warby Parker’s buy a pair give a pair). Please learn more about WELL token crowdsale at JoinWell.io.” Well, that’s that. Marina, the girls, and I made it down to the city (San Fran) on Labor Day and caught up with Nate Chang, Jen, and their sweet kiddos, who invited us over for a great meal. After our first summer in the Sacramento metro area, we find any excuse to escape to the Bay, and I can’t wait to reconnect with those of you in the area. That does it for this edition. I wish you all health, happiness, success, and sanity. (Peace! I meant to say peace.) —Frank Arias T’04

Tuck 2005 Fenway game

’05 Francis Barel francis.barel@gmail.com

Dora Fang dorafang@gmail.com

T’05 friends and family—thanks for responding to the call for updates! And an extra big hooray for first-timer updates; looking forward to more! And just in this short(er) update, we’ve got invites to Vail, Hong Kong, and Mexico! Stuart Logan doesn’t think he has ever submitted an update but figured now would be as good a time as any. He recently moved to Vail, Colo., for the year (until August ’18) for his wife Catherine’s orthopedic surgery sports medicine fellowship and would enjoy seeing any classmates who come through while they are here. Catherine decided at the end of our second year in Hanover that she wanted to go medical school and here they are, 12 years

later, in her final year of training. Also joining them are their two boys, Carter (4 yrs) and Hudson (almost 2 yrs), and their first-born, Knuckles, their eight-year-old Labrador. If you find yourself out here with free time, or in need of someone to fix a broken limb, let him know! (hey Stu, you’ll find it *very* curious how many classmates get back in touch when you live in a desirable ski location—trust me, Park City has received LOTS of Tuckie visits and it’s awesome! congrats to Catherine and welcome to the intermountain west!) [Look on the T’05 Class Notes pages at mytuck.dartmouth.edu for a pic of the Logan boys!] Adam Von Reyn, Dave Gilbertson, Kanishka Roy, John Choe, Alex Wigder, Dana Ehrlich, and Chris Sims met up in May and went to a Red Sox game at Fenway! (what a handsome set of fellas! so glad you guys got a great pic of your adventure—your class secretaries appreciate these pics!) Jorge Ontiveros moved back to Mexico to develop renewable-energy projects. He did the pre-development and permitting for a 90mw DC solar farm in my home city of Hermosillo and left that project to start a biorefinery to

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produce biodiesel in the city of Mazatlán (great spring break spot, by the way, all Tuckies welcome, as soon as he gets properly installed in a couple of months). Apart from this biodiesel project, they are developing other opportunities, mainly biofuels (bioethanol, biodiesel using other vegetable feeds, etc.). And they will also start a project to identify profitable-growth/cost-saving opportunities at Pemex. So, if there are any colleagues involved in biofuels or even oil/gas interested in Mexico, please reach back to Jorge!

Wojtek Wolski welcomed his second daughter, Emily Wolski, on May 14. Emily’s big sister Jasmine loves to play with her younger sibling and is already very helpful and protective of her little sister. And she already has an obsession with Disney (as per pic; look at mytuck. dartmouth.edu) similar to their parents’...and so the Wolskis are planning their first family vacation to Disney in November. (5 days after the Smiths...along comes a Wolski! Jasmine looks like a great big sister, congrats to the family! please send us a pic of the Disney trip!)

Also, as you may know, Tim Grein bought a company in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico (about an hour south of Hermosillo, where Jorge lives), and Jorge and Tim caught up the other day, they (Tim and his wife Luisanna) kindly invited Jorge to spend the day at their place in San Carlos. If Tim still has that place, Jorge and Tim definitely need to organize a Tuck ’Tails on Tim’s patio...look at the view! (that’s such a cool story, and congrats to both Jorge and Tim on their new ventures in Mexico! But...the REAL STORY is Jorge’s beard! wow, we had no idea. are you taking hairy-man pills? working a lumberjack side gig? j/k we love it! And YES to Tuck ’Tails in Mexico!) [Look at mytuck. dartmouth.edu for a pic!]

Rahul Jain is doing well in Hong Kong. He has been there for 3.5 years. His wife May joined him in HK last July after their wedding in Thailand. They work together in their jewelry business and have been growing their bespoke jewelry segment over the past year. For those of you curious about jewelry, feel free to check out their Instagram page at Caramgems. If you pass through Hong Kong, please look them up! (wow, the pic is *fabulous*, thanks for sending! and oooohhhh shiny sparkly objects (literally) to follow on Insta...done! so wonderful to hear from Tuckies from all over the world!)

Greg Smith and his wife, Nicole, had a beautiful daughter, Elaine Elizabeth Smith, on May 9, 2017. Her proud grandpa is Douglas Smith T’70. The family is doing well and lives in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia. Greg is the CFO at Shift Capital, a real estate private equity group, and Nicole is an attorney recruiter at Dechert LLP, an international law firm. (awwwww, we love welcoming new tiny Tuckies! hello, Elaine! congrats Greg and Nicole!)

Rahul Jain and his wife May

Tom Collin spent a year in Cambridge, Mass., as a stay-at-home dad (of two) while Amelia completed an accelerated 12-month MBA at the MIT’s Sloan School. He nonetheless remained busy throughout the year. Fresh from opening a network of for-profit K-12 schools in Malaysia for GEMS Education, he advised EQT Partners and Partners Group in several education-related acquisitions in Asia, while developing an edTech app and supporting an early-childhood startup backed by TH Lee Partners. He is now back in Singapore combining advisory, board, and entrepreneurial roles. PE-supported education has moved from the margins to

become a mainstream interest—long gone are the days when classmates inquired whether his new job was even legal. (wait, is your job, actually, legal?! or have you just gotten better at making it sound legit? you have always been an international man of mystery....) Rocky Cho and Leah Overstreet welcomed Emmie Sue in August 2017! (we heard that Emmie Sue was truly a teeeeeny weeeeeny tiny Tuckie—and are so glad she’s healthy and home, congrats!!!) [Look for a pic at mytuck. dartmouth.edu!] Francis Barel is close to celebrating his 5th year at PayPal and has now started his fourth job at the payments company. After two jobs in the Middle East & North Africa region, and doing business development for France, Francis is now the head of merchant services for France, managing the large team handling existing large merchants and onboarding new ones for PayPal. Francis was in New York this summer and got to spend time with Yevgeny Neginsky and Mati Adler and his lovely family. In the spring, he got to welcome Tim Grein and his lovely wife, who were visiting Paris, and Edwin Lau, who was participating in the same tech conference as Francis. (like Dora having lots of guests/visitors in Park City, Francis gets to see lots of Tuckies in Paris too! we, obviously, think it’s our charming wit and sparkling personalities that attract visitors...but will allow that our geographic attractiveness may have something to do with it! 5 years and 4 jobs—that still doesn’t put you in the running for the “most jobs” award—Dora is aiming to be a three-peat winner!) Dora Fang loves to socialize and see Tuckies all over the place (and it’s certainly easier while fun-employed!), including birthday celebrations in San Francisco with Jon Marr and Ashlea Mittelstaedt (as well as T’06s Cristina Tejeda and Martin Chai, Henry Robinson T’07, Ashley Martin-Golis T’08, and Jess Gunter T’09!) and Park City cocktails/ brunch with Kanishka and Ann Roy several times because Morgan Stanley has developed an affinity for St. Regis Deer Valley meetings (also, the Roys and their 2 lovely daughters graciously took care of Dora’s (new-to-her) dog Contessa during the summer for a long weekend. notable souvenir from the dog visit—a card with a drawing of dog “Tessa with a Tesla” awwww, so sweet...and only in Silicon Valley)!

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CL ASS NOTES And lastly, Carolyn Ball did this amazing thing! A gargantuan digital version of her showed up in New York! and alas, we don’t get the juicy details because, well, it’s a mystery! something about a Nasdaq bell...(tee hee, hi Carolyn! we’d love to hear the backstory and publish it next issue. however, it does seem like we should say CONGRATS!) [Check out the pic at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] Until next time, Dora and Francis. 2005tuckies@gmail.com

’06 Matt Keeler keelermc@gmail.com

Matt Kummell kummell@yahoo.com

Chris Manning ctmanning@hotmail.com

We’ve talked before about the class notes humor algorithm we use to write our semiannual update. But the algorithm isn’t perfect yet, and there’s still a surprising amount of manual labor—copying, pasting, maybe some formatting. Once that’s done, we pull the starter cord on the Class Notez 2001 and let the machine do its thing. We have a nice PowerPoint with chevrons for our value chain if you’d like to see it. The value add isn’t much. #obvi

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That’s a long, meandering introduction to our first existential question for the Tuck Today community.... Is Csaba Nagy trolling Class Notes? Looking back across Csaba’s Class Notes submissions...they start completely vanilla and then just get confusing. Spring 2007, working in medical devices. Fall 2007, got engaged. Spring 2008, got married. August 2008, had a second wedding (to the same woman as far as we know). Fall 2008, moves in with his wife (yeah, we double-checked the sequencing). 2009 visits Peru. 2011 visits Texas. Spring 2015,

worked for a cake company, consulted for a kale chip company. Spring 2016, designed an internal economy for a mobile phone video game. Fall 2016, worked on a business focused on a shared commercial kitchen. Then it was tattoo parlors. Now it’s fall 2017 and he’s starting a tattoo removal business....

sure how to interpret that, but the photo she sent of Hamish’s beard/mustache/face sweater thing was enough to scare us out of our long johns. We’re hoping it’s an early start to Movember.

What does it all mean? How can you go from a tattoo parlor to tattoo removal? Medical devices to cake to kale? Hello Kitty video games...is Csaba really Keyser Söze? Are these all a bunch of hints to find some buried treasure? Is this whole thing going to end with Keeler shouting “What’s in the box? What’s in the _____ box...?!” We don’t have the answer yet, but the only way to have a chance of finding the answer is to keep reading Class Notes.

We have no words for whatever that is on Hamish’s face

In more serious news, it’s been a crummy last few months leading up to these Class Notes, with both natural and man-made disasters. We’re hoping this doesn’t become a regular segment of the notes, but we’re glad to see our immediate community of classmates making it through the challenges with perspective intact. Some highlights:

Leah, on the other hand, is running sourcing for a health care company called Mediq. (Yeah, we can’t look at the company name without thinking of Zoolander’s “Derelicte,” either.) Leah is filling her work day by managing 60 people purchasing catheters and ostomy bags. We just shifted in our chairs too.

Ethan Brown posted on Facebook about their boys’ reaction to the “dirty” water coming up their street (ok fine, he called it “poo water”). We told Ethan to cut the crap and quit farting around with Facebook when he should be sending the good...stuff...to the team here at Class Notes Central.

And, of course, they’re both biking like crazy, including a 6-day mountain bike race in Mongolia this year. Yeah, mountain biking in Mongolia. Crank up the FOMO! Kummell’s pedaling away on the Peloton in the basement now looks that much wimpier.

Rodrigo Becerra chimed in from Mexico City: “I can tell you I just survived a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on floor 28 of Mexico’s Pemex tower, supposedly the safest in Latin America.... When the sucker was swinging over 6 feet in each direction, it sure didn’t feel that safe! By the way, wasn’t the Titanic the safest ship at the time?” In a related note, we have a charcoal drawing of a nude Rodrigo, lounging on a chaise and sporting a lovely jeweled necklace that we’ll be auctioning off for Tuckies doing summer internships for nonprofits. Leah Bayer checked in from Amsterdam. Hamish is working for a company called Armadillo Merino and according to Leah, “Hamish’s customers are the scariest guys in any conflict corner of the world.” We’re not

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Adam Bernstein is obviously exhausted from being outnumbered by kids now...his submission came in half written in thirdperson, half in first-person: “Adam and Andrea Bernstein are thrilled to welcome Alexander Marcus Bernstein to their family, born May 4 2017. Big brothers Benjamin (5) and Nicholas (3) haven’t left him alone for a minute. We have a frontcourt!” Manning says: “Bern, the one time we played 1:1 I skunked you, so they’re starting from a bad place.” Bryan Falchuk claimed that he was going to abstain from a Class Notes submission—did he really think we’d believe that? He’s running claims for an insurer: “I’m pretty embroiled in trying to help people after the hurricanes. Pretty horrible situation. I hope everyone is safe. It’s been good to see some folks in Texas and Florida posting on social media that they’re ok.” Oh, and he wrote a book. You didn’t think you’d really get through Class Notes without hearing about it, did you? You’ll be hearing about this book until the next book comes out, and there’s no point in fighting it. “On the book front, I’ve been doing podcast and radio interviews like a madman and have been writing a weekly column for Inc. magazine, which has been fun. I just got confirmed to do a TEDx event in N.J. in March and I’m in the running for a couple more. Fingers crossed. We all know I’ll post too much about it on Facebook, so just watch my feed if you’re interested in going.” Massive success—clearly Bryan has read Do a Day.

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arrival).” Great update. Our only comment to that is that we think “Class Historians” should be capitalized. Boy, this superhero movie thing is getting out of hand, as Manuel de Tezanos Pinto is now referring to himself as “Grapeman.” No, maybe we read that wrong...he’s the CFO of Grapeman, “a table grape company with presence in California and Latin America and owned by Teays River Investments private equity firm.”

We’re going to quote Charlie Pringle verbatim because finally someone has addressed us with the proper honorific: “Esteemed class historians—The Pringles recently completed another move, landing in Birmingham this summer. Quick synopsis: Florida > New Zealand > Florida > Arkansas > Alabama. “Our time in Hot Springs, Arkansas (surprisingly beautiful...The Spa City), came about when I went to work for Weyerhaeuser. It turned out to be a short stay. A chance popped up for me to go work at a timber investment firm in Anne’s hometown of Birmingham, so we packed up the wagon again and headed back east. So far so good. We love it. Fortunately, we got in a nice visit with the Greenes while we were in Arkansas. What a treat it was for Betsy, William, and Ellen to have some time with Zoe and Quinn (this was before Hugo Greene’s

Manu and family visiting the Carmel Mission

Manuel and Carola have moved with their boys Manu Jr. (13) and Santi (11) from Carmel

to California, and they’re still adjusting to the traffic. “Honoring their Argentinean blood, the kids joined a soccer team and they are so much better players than I ever was.” That’s the American Dream, Manuel—each generation surpassing the previous one. Just imagine how salty Keeler’s grandkids are going to be. It feels like we haven’t heard from Juan Carlos Salem in ages, and he sent in an update: “Still in healthcare, 8 years now. I missed the 10-year reunion because of a back injury, but fortunately Zal got married exactly a year later and I’ll be able to go and catch up with some Tuckies. I’ve seen Julián a couple of times in Chile and had some great Chilean wines and I’ve lost some pounds due to mountain biking. It’s a fun and painful sport but I love it.” We presume he’s talking about mountain biking, not hanging out with Julián, but if we find out we’re wrong, we’ll update you in six months. Michelle Duke is making us glad that our kids are well beyond the toddler years: “The biggest update on our end is our twins (Audrey & Eleanor) have been crushing the terrible twos, and not in a good way. Lots of strong opinions, tantrums, and normal twin fighting, but on a positive note, we have successfully converted them to big-girl beds and have (partially) potty trained them. We still rely on the baby straightjacket PJs that we created for Eleanor, which are full-length PJs worn backwards with the feet cut out and the zipper in the back (i.e., in order to avoid escape). These PJs are essential in keeping Eleanor from taking her clothes and Pull-Ups off and making a complete ‘mess’ of the carpet/walls in their room, which happened AGAIN just the other week. Audrey

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figured out how to unzip her sister’s pajamas and the subsequent mess was real.... These girls are turning 3 in November and we are having so much more fun with them as they get older, which helps offset how the craziness of raising twins! Big sister Camille is in 2nd grade and loves to dance, sing, swim, and crush doubles on the softball field.”

Many thanks to Joe Pfeister for heavy lifting on the reunion planning, to Matt Wolf for exercising a surprising amount of restraint when putting together the slide show, and to Supreet Ahluwalia and Andrew Smith for leading a TuckTalks on Saturday afternoon. Their slides should already be available on myTUCK by the time you read this.

As class secretaries, we’re so glad to memorialize this here to be pulled up in ~25 years when the Duke kids are applying to Tuck. Our final update is from Nakisa Bidarian, who, according to the Class Notez 2001 database, is sending in his first Class Notes submission. Nakisa, we’ve already penciled you in for another update in fall 2028. “Moved to LA from Las Vegas in May to start a single LP investment fund. Set up our office in West Hollywood, which we started out subleasing from Britney Spears and her management company before moving to a direct lease. The fund is $500 million, but we have the ability to do deals up to $2.5 billion with the single LP as a co-investor.” Those are real dollars, holmes.

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Keeler is still trucking as the guy who fixes broken crap at Groupon (job security...? hey-oh!). He’s currently running the company’s LivingSocial acquisition and living the dream of rebranded group coupons. He hired a fellow Tuckie, Mandy Grosse T’15, who he learned actually ran Barleycorn while she was in school. Since joining the team, she’s been slowly chipping away at his morale through constant reminders of his advancing age. Like he needed a reminder. The Kummells had a busy spring with two Tuck weddings (Lifeso, Kozack) in three weeks. Great to catch up with so many Tuck friends! Vicky danced so much at Kat’s wedding that she lost a toenail. Now that is dedication to gettin’ your groove on...or she needs to invest in shoes that fit better. I guess that’s one of life’s eternal questions that no one really knows the answer to.... And finally, at the time of writing these notes, Matt is about to celebrate his 1-year anniversary of not dying at Reunion—hooray! Manning has all three kids are at the same elementary school, which is next door, which is great and keeps the family very involved. Other than that, no real updates. The minivan is still running great, we’re thinking of buying some new organic sheets, I splurged on fancy sneakers and don’t know how I feel about that, I still haven’t downloaded Instagram, 108

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Kummell with daughter Bryn at Hamilton in NYC

I’m thinking about getting back into golf but realize I was never as good as I thought I was, and I’ll never be as good as I was before, so I’ll be way worse than I thought I was, if that makes sense.

’07 Marc Aquila marc.aquila@gmail.com

Whitney Chiu whitney.s.chiu@gmail.com

Post-Reunion edition. In case you didn’t hear, our 10th reunion was phenomenal. We had record-breaking attendance, with 116 of our class back (that’s almost 50% of our class!). Strong contenders for “Most Dedicated Tuckie” Johanna Kollar, Peng Zhang and Kei Watanabe came from across the globe, traveling back to Hanover from Cape Town (7,800 miles), Shanghai (7,200 miles), and Tokyo (6,600 miles) respectively. Since Kei also sent in not just a photo, but a photo collage, we’re awarding the crown to him. Also proving their commitment, Chrissy O’Brien and Melissa Mendenhall came up from Boston just for the day, since they both had to fly out the next day for work. Ben Flaim and Melanie Mitchell, TAG leaders extraordinaire, want to make sure we mention that the class of 2007 (that’s us!)

Daniella Reichstetter is back working at Tuck as the executive director of Entrepreneurship and, more importantly to most of us, is now a part-owner of Canoe Club. I know—dreams really do come true. She bravely hosted our class for a reception Friday night, where Benjamin Farmer showed off his bartending techniques. Saturday night was the highlight of Reunion. Huge thanks to Errik and Emily Anderson for hosting. The food was amazing (still dreaming about that cheese plate), the drinks plentiful, and we hear the pong tables were going until 2:30 a.m. Rohit Dugar didn’t want to miss out on the fun and overnighted several cases of his fine barrel-aged 10% stout to the party—just one of the many perks of owning your own microbrewery. As you may recall, we sent out a pre-Reunion survey, and 112 of you brave souls answered. Thanks for ignoring your better instincts and sending in your updates! Here’s what we learned: Jordan Karp is still living in Boulder and now owns four coffee shops there. It might be the constant stream of caffeine in his system, but he managed to submit the survey 3 minutes after we sent it out. Maybe it’s time to start a fifth coffee shop?

JP at Burning Man

Mike Dovorany on the podium

Mini reunions in Tokyo, San Francisco, and more…!

Jacques-Philippe Piverger took a week away from his latest company and went to Burning Man this year. Lauren Pastrich King and Ben King are now a party of 6 and welcomed twins Ryan and Ellie in July. They join big brothers Zachary and Tyler. This explains the minivan Ben got for his 40th birthday. Heather Onstott Perrygo joined the evergrowing crew of Tuckies in the Upper Valley last year when she and Doug (T’06) bought a beautiful place on Little Lake Sunapee. They spend weekends and vacations there with their son Jake and their dog Biscuit until they can figure out how to make the move up full time. Speaking of pets named Biscuit (now there’s a sentence we didn’t know we’d ever write...), Jenna Hutchins is living in London with the family and their feline tyrant, Biscuit. She wasn’t able to make it to Reunion, but LinkedIn tells us she’s the “VP, Digital Marketing and Sales Systems” for S&P Global Platts. It sounds very fancy and must require her to be on a plane quite a bit because she said she’s achieved “God, her again?” airline status. Mike Dovorany learned how to cook dinner with a blowtorch and, perhaps just as exciting, is using his Tuck education as it was intended— to come in 3rd place in the 2016 NASA Western States Championships. I was bummed to learn that NASA is also the acronym for the National Auto Sport Association and not the space agency, but it still seems legit.

Sudarshan Rajan joins the increasing number of our classmates who decided that one advanced degree wasn’t enough and went back from more. He’s currently getting his PhD in industrial engineering at Texas A&M.

Ski crew!

We asked folks what the most unusual way you’ve used your Tuck education since graduation was, and you guys really delivered. Brian Stedman is doing strategic things at WWE, which he describes as “surreal.” Given that he routinely “talks scenario planning & creating strategic optionality” with Vince McMahon and Triple H, we’d have to agree. Shaheen Robinson is in Washington, D.C., where she uses her Tuck learnings to “forecast and price numismatic coins.” I will have to Google numismatic coins, I bet they are shiny. Hey, that reminds me of a song that is so Shiny.... Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck. Scrub the deck and make it look...Shiny. Brian Fairweather is an FBI agent (yes, really) based in Chicago and “uses a lot of Excel modeling of big data sets to identify criminal enterprises/financial crimes.” Tim Tehan’s also making our class look good and “used his Tuck education to train former Iraqi insurgents.” (We’re not sure on what—HSV? Proper modeling? The right way to build a PowerPoint presentation?) Andrew Ulland took his DecSi skills to another level and built an Excel spreadsheet to track his wife’s contractions, and programmed it to send

Heather, Doug, and Jake

a “big red flashing alert” when it was time to go to the hospital. Andrew and Megan have 2 kids now. Matt Wolf set up an LLC in Montana to avoid paying taxes on a used car, which seems brilliant. Katherine Birnie developed a spreadsheet to optimize calories per ounce for her expedition to Greenland. Speaking of modeling, Henry Robinson is building an intricate financial model for a “medical” marijuana dispensary. For a “client.” Definitely for a “client.”

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CL ASS NOTES A shocking number of our classmates are still at their first post-Tuck job: 11! The tenure awards go to Mark and Maija Aittola Pierson, McLean, Patrick Redmond, Andrew Smith, Benjamin Farmer, Lindsay Fox, Alex Boyd, Mark Daoust, John Maletis, and Christian Koether. On the other end of the spectrum, we have a 4-way tie for 3rd place of “Most Jobs.” Tied for 5 jobs in 10 years are Marc Schegerin, Natalia Garcia-Nigaglioni, Nancy Block Reid, and Breton Aulick. In second place with 6 is Casey McCullar, and the winner with “too many” is Kenneth Butler. In this case, a qualitative answer wins out over the quantitative one, though the standard deviation is pretty small, and I’m not sure the T-stat on that. Finally, you may notice new names at the top of the column...which means a huge thank-you to Leslie Hampel and Chris Herbert for running the class notes for TEN YEARS! We haven’t done anything consistently for 10 years, except maybe pour a drink. One new thing we learned taking over the job: we are “limited” to only 3,500 words per column (somehow I don’t think this is going to be a problem for us), and despite begging and pleading, our editors refuse to let us use 4pt font. Despite these challenges, we are very excited to dust off our WOT-writing skills and take on Class Notes for the foreseeable future. Please don’t be strangers—we’d love to hear from you. Editor’s note: And we also thank Leslie and Chris for their wonderful class notes-ing all these years!

Tony and family

thankful to all who made it possible, especially Alex Koepnick, who was an investor and advisor beyond what any first-time CEO could have hoped for, and Amanda Mayo (TP’08), without whom the amazing customer loyalty we built would not have been possible.”

’08 Allison Curran amc0501@hotmail.com

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Dennis Lasko dennislasko@gmail.com

Louisa Roberts louisabgoodlet@gmail.com

10 T H REUNION OCTOBER 5-7, 2018

Guess who’s back, back again...it’s your T’08 class secretaries. After a crazy hiatus, we are back and resolved to get back on track. Keep sending us your updates as you have them, and we will make the next update a whopper. Hope you all had a great summer and are getting prepped for the winter! New Beginnings Jeremiah Palmer’s news is that he’s starting his own leadership and transition coaching organization, Sparking Transformation. He, Amber, and the boys continue to enjoy the warmer weather of Nashville. Katherine Errecart wrote to tell us that she has “transitioned to painting full-time last year when Mike and the kids and I moved to NH. Since then, I’ve been working to strengthen my technical ability and to develop my artistic style and voice. I became a juried member of the New Hampshire Art Association last December and have exhibited in their Portsmouth gallery twice this year. A major highlight for me was winning 1st place in their Lassonde exhibition this past April—it’s hard to describe how blown away I was by that experience! I’m working now to gain some exposure and to get the word out about my art. To that end, I wanted to share my website with you—www.katherineerrecart.com.” Because he has been slacking on reporting the Tuck news, Dennis Lasko thought he could at least generate some. “In October of 2016. I closed Pantry. It was a great run, but the fundamentals just could not get there. I am

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Two days after closing Pantry, Dennis Lasko married the lovely and talented Marina Smirnova, on October 8, 2016. They are very happy in their first year enjoying wedded bliss. In an attempt to prove the mathematical principle that if you extend a “career arc” far enough you will eventually complete the circle, Martin Keck rejoined Needham & Company in Boston a few years ago and has been leading the firm’s investment banking efforts in the education technology and online travel sectors—and enjoying being on the other side of the grind, for the most part. Martin also recently capitulated on his long-held short position on marriage. With David Chin, Jeff Young, Kent Leung, Neeraj Mahajan, and Scott Orleck procreating at astonishing rates, it was getting too expensive to fight the tape, so Martin got engaged over Labor Day weekend 2016; he popped the question on the Gile Mountain fire tower outside Hanover—what a romantic, right? Also, once Edmond Griffin got married, the whole single thing started to get old, so the writing was on the wall.

Martin Keck and Allison Feckner on Gile Mountain

Babies Laura Tufts and her husband Brad welcomed a new baby boy on June 5, 2016. “John Edward Tufts (we call him Jack) was born at 12:01 p.m., weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and 20 inches long. He is such a sweet baby, and Addy is absolutely loving being a big sister.”

’09 Patricia Henderson patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

Colin Van Ostern colin@vanostern.com

If you haven’t been back to Hanover since we all descended there (ten years ago this fall!), here are the key things you need to know about town:

John Edward Tufts

James Benedict Mattis was born 12/27/2016, a healthy and happy 8 pounds, 2 ounces. Daria, James, and Brent are doing very well and share that “we can’t wait to see you all at next year’s Reunion.”

The Hanover Inn got a nice renovation, has a good restaurant with great drinks, and you can bring a dog with you. And the new hotel (as of a few years back), Six South St., is pretty nice too. Tuck looks the same except Buchanan is nice and full of faculty offices, and all the students somehow got way younger. Also, with all the dorms on the “river” side of campus, the center of gravity of Tuck feels like it has moved from Stell over to Byrne or maybe even farther.

And apparently all of us are less loquacious than when we were kids, because your updates have gotten shorter. Here they are: Hannes Schill reports from Bochum, Germany, that he is now co-owner of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners—the VC firm he has been with since 2014. It is one of only a few independent VC firms in Germany and is focused on technology startups in the areas of software/IT, industry 4.0, cleantech, and new materials. Aure Pichon and family have been enjoying the tropical Singaporean life for the last 5 years, exploring amazing and secluded paradise beaches. He wants you to visit.

Happy T’08 family!

Cori Ring and husband Charlie had a baby— William Lewis Ring—born last spring on Pi Day. He and big brother Sawyer are doing great. Mindy (Mraz) Barber had her 2nd baby a week later—Amelia Grace Barber—and they are buds, as the picture nearby proves.

There is a mind-blowingly amazing gelato place near the movie theater. No, it’s not “Hanover good”—it’s really good.

Sally Jaeger is still amazing, Matt Slaughter is still super smart.

James Benedict Mattis

welcomed Eleanor “Ellie” Arisa Cunningham last spring. Work and the baby keep them busy, but they love bumping into Tuckies in Boston’s South End when they venture into the neighborhood.

Patrick Cunningham started 2017 by joining Onduo, a healthcare technology startup based in Newton, Mass. He and his wife, Molly,

Will Ring and Millie

Eric and Jackie Yu fear a looming midlife crisis (somehow, we doubt they are the only ones...). Still at Matrix Partners China, Eric has been endeavoring with the alums in China to improve Tuck’s presence, including a visit from Dean Slaughter in May and new admissions director Luke Anthony Peña in October. Pictured nearby: T’10 Wei Fu, T’13 An An, T’10 Ray Luan, Eric, Dean Slaughter, T’06 Li Chen, Lisa Miller from TuckGO, T’01 & Tuck Chief of Staff Gina des Cognets, and T’01 Jie Lian. From the suburbs in New Jersey, Julia & Darius welcomed Felix Alexander Matthews in August. In New York, Kristin (Gaudino) Rowe gets the late-is-better-than-never award for her picture of 1-year-old James Michael Rowe! Rob and Darcy Levy took a mid-career hiatus. They left their jobs and traveled with their 2 year old, Blythe, from January to August. Surfing was a recurring theme in their adventures— favorite spots were Hanalei, Ahipara, Sydney, and Biarritz. They’re now back in Colorado contemplating this workforce re-entry thing... (don’t do it!). Phil DeGisi and Alanna welcomed son Jack to

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Tuckies with Dean Slaughter and admin in China

the world on August 10th. Mom and baby are both doing great, and his parents are looking forward to bringing him up to Hanover soon so he can see the architectural splendor of Buch Lounge, where his parents met 9 years ago!

Jessica Redding and family in DC

Curtis didn’t have anything interesting to update us about, but he and his wife Carolyn inadvertently both wore their Tuck gear on the day of the Tuck Today deadline, so their picture makes the cut!

edition. Want to write something fun or have an excuse to reconnect with your classmates? Send an email, right now, to Colin or Patricia, and you can take the wheel for a turn in the next edition.

Carolyn and Curtis

The Ring family

Rachel and Greg T’10 Barbiaux have claimed the title of most-metal Tuck baby names, with the birth of twin boys on May 2. Babies Thorsten and Ronin are doing great, and their son Hawken loves being a big brother. Can we call them Thor, Ronin, and Hawk? Rock on! Aaron Mihaly and wife Anita moved back to the U.S. (Washington, D.C.) after a yearlong stint in Mumbai, India, with FSG. While there, they found out they’re expecting twins (1 boy and 1 girl), coming this fall. They say they miss a lot about India (including very affordable child care!) but are enjoying the peace and greenery of their house and backyard back in the States. In true Tuck style, he’s trying to get as much grilling in as possible before the weather gets too cold. Ramesh Karpagavinayagam left Capital One after six years and joined JPMorgan Chase in their Jersey City location, leading Workforce Analytics Advisory Services. Jessica Redding tore herself from college football this fall to root on her cousin Billy Ray II in his U.S. Senate confirmation as U.S. District Court judge, as sharp-eyed C-SPAN viewers can attest.

And an overwhelming outpouring of Tuck Love for Mary Woodka, who you may know from her social media and blog, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer in early August. More than 70 (!!) of our classmates have adopted Mary for a Tuck Love day this fall, as she battles chemo and radiation with “optimism, a sense of humor, and a little pink and green,” as Lindsay McPherson Batastini said. And finally—inspired by an idea of some of our elder classes, we’re opening up the Class Notes for a special celebrity guest author Future fireman James Michael Rowe

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Ali Robbins Hyatt reports that Ethan Jared Hyatt joined the fam on Sept 20th at 4:28 p.m., conveniently making it just in time for happy hour. He weighed in at 7lbs 2oz and measured 19 inches. Big sister Jordan is especially excited about “her new baby.” Ethan is working on his hand-eye coordination, as the Hyatts have a regulation-sized pong table stored in their garage.

Felix Alexander Matthews

’10 Carey Schwaber Armstrong t10tuckupdates@yahoo.com

Babies Drew Wilkins and wife Linda welcomed their daughter Eliza on April 27th. Drew says everyone is doing great and that Eliza is already studying up to be part of the Dartmouth class of 2039, where she hopes to join Josephine Armstrong on the “Dartmouth Greening Committee.”

Eliza Wilkins

The Hyatt family with new baby Ethan

Greg Barbiaux and wife Rachel (T’09) welcomed twin boys Thorsten and Ronin on May 2nd. They are doing well, and the Barbiauxs’ oldest, Hawken, is ecstatic to be a big brother.

Amazon here and he works for Amazon there. Careers Andy Naporano’s wife Lindsay turned him in! Andy was recently promoted to vice president, chief sustainability officer of Schnitzer Steel Industries. Lindsay shared that CSO is a new role for the company and that Andy will be in charge of developing and launching their sustainability program. Pretty sure that this was the 10-year goal in at least a few of our admissions essays. Matt Proch-Wilson has moved from Boston to Phoenix to head up Corporate Strategy for PetSmart. Matt, do you know that in the Phoenix summer people drive with oven mitts on like it’s no big deal? And that Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time? And that the governor of Arizona doesn’t believe in the “theory” of gravity? (Ok made that last one up.) Manoj Sahoo left Cargill after seven years for a sweet new gig as chief commercial officer at Calyxt. Calyxt is a Minnesota-based company “developing healthier food products to benefit both consumers and growers.” Sounds good to me!

All of these kids who are excited to get siblings are such great team players! It’s almost like their parents went to a school that emphasized collaboration.

And Laura Miller Larson has a cool new job doing real estate for Wayfair.

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The Tony Giberti, Eaun Gray, Drew Wilkins, and Ryan Krouskop families had a gathering in October at the new Giberti household in North Carolina. Tony and Julia decamped for NC from DC to be closer to family and to gain a bit more space. Tony continues to travel for Accenture Strategy.

The official Class Notes report hasn’t come in, but social media seems to indicate that Kathryn Doherty got married. Your intrepid secretary checked out their wedding website and learned from the “Our Story” section that Kathryn and her new husband Andy enjoy sailing, kayaking, dancing, running, skiing, hiking—the kinds of things that many of us have recently realized we probably ought to remove from the “Personal” section of our resume. Many congrats, Kathryn! Prashant Hegde, who moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2016, showed up with a class update in the coffee shop two doors down from my house. Who else among you shows this kind of dedication to Class Notes!? Prashant and holy-cow-what-a-catch fiancée Alison were up in Seattle checking out wedding venues. Prashant reports that life in SF is much like life in Seattle, largely because he worked at

Other

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Shaun Mehtani shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

Meghan Foley and Ryan Vess are thrilled to announce Ben’s new baby sister, Abigail Catherine! Abby was born June 27 at 8:25 a.m., weighing 6 lbs 14 oz. Meghan, Abby, and big brother Ben are all doing great!

Baby Abby with big brother Ben Vess

Maria and Shaun Mehtani welcomed Antoine Suraj into their lives three days later on June 30, weighing in at the same 6 lbs 14 oz. He seems to have Shaun’s personality, which is very concerning for us all.

The Giordano-Sobel wedding

The Taylor-Kiely wedding

know that both “Party In The U.S.A.” and “I Gotta Feeling” were on the groom’s “Must Play” list. And the Best Man (Michael Giordano T’09) didn’t shy away from including several Tuck anecdotes in his speech, all at Peter’s expense.

Sarah Apgar had another baby girl, Arlyn, on August 1, and joined another startup, Groups, started by a Tuck MD/MBA; Groups is a medical practice providing treatment for opiate addiction. Ben is in year 2 of 6 for his residency. Life in Port Washington is good, although they never thought they would be Long Islanders for 10 years.

David and Julia Klema welcomed Cora Ashley Klema into the world on July 11. Cora will be attending her first Tuck wedding in Austin at the end of October and is quite excited to meet several other new members of the Tiny Tuckie crew there. Cora, David, and Julia are all doing great!

Lindsey Taylor and Brian Kiely were married near their home in Dickerson, Md., on August 5. They are delaying their honeymoon until after the foxhunting season is over and Brian has some time off. Much to Lindsey’s mother’s horror, the couple went hunting at 7:00 a.m. on the morning of the wedding. Luckily nobody fell off their horse. Jon Gilman and his wife Cara welcomed Madelyn Marie on Aug 15th. They couldn’t be more in love (and tired)!

Cora Ashley Klema

Antoine Suraj Mehtani

Peter Giordano got married on July 8 to Jessica Sobel, Colgate ’07 and HBS ’12. The festivities took place at the Gramercy Park Hotel terrace in New York City. All T’11s will be happy to

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Danner Hickman and Dan Keeley tied the knot on July 22 in Rochester, N.Y. The bride was ecstatic that everything went perfectly and that there was such much Tuck love at her wedding. The happy couple cannot wait for their honeymoon in November to Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Madelyn Marie Gilman

’12 Derrick Deese derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

The Hickman-Keeley wedding party

’13 Anne Duggan anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar uttasuka@gmail.com

Liz Yepsen elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

The Brothers Dennett

Avery Anne Synder

Annie Snodgrass and Zack Dennett welcomed their second child on August 16th. Jacob, their older son, is a phenomenal big brother and already is showing him how to do tummy time and hold a ping pong paddle.

Entwine program, working to engage young Jews in the humanitarian mission of JDC. In other news, her son Griffin turned 1! He had his Dol (Korean ceremony) and picked Thor’s hammer, so apparently he will be a Norse god!

Grady and Lori Snyder welcomed their first child. Their daughter, Avery Anne, was born in San Francisco on August 19th weighing in at 6 lbs 7 oz and 19 inches long. She’d easily make the Kneissel Cup team if milk was involved.

Amanda Knappman finally moved to New York City and is thrilled to be able to work on Class Notes with Shaun Mehtani in person over copious amounts of bellinis. Some things never change.

After 4 years in San Francisco, Peter Stosich, along with wife Elizabeth and daughter Helena, is back in NYC! They moved for Elizabeth to join the faculty of Fordham University in Manhattan, and now Pete is bicoastal for Origami Logic. One-year-old Helena loves her new (very kid friendly) neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Pete is looking forward to Tuck events at the Yale Club! Sara Glazer got a new job as director of planning and evaluation at JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) in their

5TH REUNION OCTOBER 5-7, 2018

This issue has us feeling nostalgic for the glory days of Hanover—the sound of fall leaves, the smell of hockey pads, the arduous coffee scene before there was an on-campus cafe serving two kinds of nut milks. As days grow shorter and nights grow longer and toilet water swirls clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere at least, we’re left with time to wonder: how do you milk a nut—and how is everyone in the @ tuckschool Insta account always looking so fresh? Please write to us with your thoughts on these mysteries—in the meantime, here’s some things we know a bit more about: On the Move

Griffin Glazer on his birthday

Jamie Lippman was promoted to director of social and environmental responsibility at JCPenney and will be moving to back to Texas with her husband to lead the program. She recently sent Liz a book (a real book!) in the mail (the real mail!) called The Tacos of Texas,

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CL ASS NOTES so we suspect it isn’t just ethically sourced casual wear that’s motivating that cowgirl’s move—congrats Jamie! Brennan Igoe moved with his family to Ohio, leaving Harris Williams for Western Reserve Partners. They will keep rooting for That Sports Team. Go Sports. Sam Pond moved to Memphis, Tennessee, for a new role at TruGreen. And Matt Grady ditched his Pike Place blend in favor of a move to director of investor relations at Alaska Airlines. I really can’t say it was a move based on the inflight coffee options. Pablo Navarro had to move to Colombia, at least until June of next year, while he waits for his green card to come through, and there he’ll continue to work for Code2040, a tech nonprofit that supports blacks and Latinxs in the tech industry. “It was definitely hard to leave the U.S. after 13 years later, but in a way it ends up being a pretty unique opportunity. I get to live back in Colombia with a U.S. salary and job while enjoying my country as a digital nomad.” In a move that narrows our small remaining consultant pool, Sarah Stern left Bain for InVisionApp Inc., a leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform. And in healthcare, Kate Purnell left Chartis for the Hospital for Special Surgery. Maybe Kate, Christina Kavanagh, and Catherine Jonash can trade hospital secrets. Eddie Ruhland and wife executed their 5-year plan to move back to Hawaii to be brand ambassadors for lifestyle drones...we mean ER doctors. Eben Pingree left SessionM and moved to EverTrue, a cloud software group that helps advancement teams engage alumni, raise support, and measure team progress, which, by the way, is founded by a Brown alum. Trivia moment: Brown’s fight song is called “Ever True to Brown.” Also Anne graduated from Brown. Connection. Speaking of Anne Duggan, she moved to Partners Capital, an outsourced investment office, from Fidelity Investments. You all will have to find someone else to send your millions of emails about HSAs vs. Roth IRAs vs. 529s. Oh wait, no one sent those emails. Your loss, friends. Lacey Johnson joined Green D Ventures, now a sister venture fund to Erin McCafferty’s The Yard Ventures. Also, everyone can sign up to participate for Lacey to invest your money

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because it’s investing in Dartmouth alums by Dartmouth alums! Any of our entrepreneurs need any investing? (Looking at you Daniel, Andres Andrew—wait, can we get some lady entrepreneurs up in here?) Anshuman Bhatia moved to Brussels, still with Cargill. “Brussels is the de facto HQ of our Foods Ingredient business, where over last 3 months I was working on a business development opportunity for our Malt business (=[beer emoji!]). As of last week I moved on to a new project for our aquafeed business based out of Norway (hence the travel). One of the primary draws for me to join Cargill was international mobility, which is possible due to our global footprint and participation in global agricultural supply chains.” Sounds like Anshuman should be the poster child for Tuck’s global leadership tenet. Ivan Ardemagni moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, playing the doting trailing spouse as his wife Emily Williams T’12 takes on a new job teaching at HBS [secretary note: has anyone heard of this school? Bueller?]. When he isn’t “lunching” or planning charity events, like a dog fashion show, he is opening Milan-based VC firm ACM Capital’s East Coast office. Taylor Collison moved to London and to a new job at Consortium Capital, which originates direct equity opportunities throughout the Southeast U.S. Rafael Romero Hidalgo joined Seadrill, a deepwater drilling contractor that provides drilling services to the oil and gas industry, as tax manager, from Cotemar. Jay Beckstoffer and family are currently living in Richmond, Va. His home in St. Croix no longer has a roof after Hurricane Maria, the one that also hit Puerto Rico. Luckily his family is safe and thriving. Pete Gauthier writes: “I am doing great and enjoying Bangladesh, although it is a lot tougher nowadays with the U.S. government’s security restrictions (otherwise my Instagram would be way cooler if I had freedom). It is a fascinating country with great people. Still waiting for my first visitor. Since we cannot do much in Dhaka, I have been trying to get out a fair amount. In my first nine months here, I have been to Thailand, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Belgium, Czech Republic, and once to the U.S. I will be heading back to NYC for Zep’s wedding

weekend and then a week in Germany. The job is going okay but I would encourage everyone in the U.S. to call their congressperson and tell them not to cut foreign assistance and diplomacy spending.” Thanks Pete for your service! Mike Lenon went on a 5-week-long National Geographic tour after getting promoted at Morgan Stanley. Peruse through his Instagram and you will see features on the tribes on Papua New Guinea, a tour of the Ganges, and the sheeps of New Zealand. And finally, Christina Fanitzi has been deployed to Afghanistan. We all wish Christina a safe trip back home (and to the Tuck Reunion, fall 2018). Entrepreneurs We still have new ideas coming out of our class. From the ashes of Beepi, Daniel Bilbao has started Paladin (www.meetpaladin.com), a cybersecurity company that protects businesses from getting hacked. Sounds like something Equifax could have used. “My co-founder and I [believe] hacking as a business problem is here to stay, and small businesses are both unprepared and unaddressed as a market. We decided to build a company that actually solved that problem for customers. The first product, Paladin Shield, is a phishing simulation and training platform that assesses and trains employees so they don’t fall prey to hackers.” Mergers and Weddings They may have slowed down, but we Tuckies can stop swiping permanent right. Paritosh Birla married Kanika Aurora on April 27 in India. Katie Pare married Nick Lefeber T’14 in at the Harvard Club in Boston on September 2. Smita Gupta wed Neil Kapur on May 20 at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay in California, with plenty of Tuckies in tow. It was the full Indian wedding, complete with three days of events and Neil on a white horse! I guess The Ritz was fresh out of the white elephants; one star on Yelp for them. Jamie Lippman ate tacos and rode a bull and got married to Steve Dansky at a glorious ceremony under the big Texan sky, officiated by the inestimable Jonathan Gantt. The marriage was briefly contested by Yamini Jagannadhan, who

Oliver Foley and wife Kinnon welcomed daughter Tenley in April 16. Oliver ran the Boston Marathon in 3:18 on 2 hours of sleep after Tenley arrived early. “Shortly after learning that she would be born with Down syndrome, I was given the opportunity to run the Boston Marathon in support of the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. In the end, we were able to raise close to $70,000 in her honor and to support the MDSC’s mission to improve the lives of individuals with Down syndrome. Over the past five months, Tenley has brought us more joy than we ever could have imagined. We were overwhelmed by the amount of support that came from fellow T’13s, reminding us once again how lucky we are to be a part of the Tuck family.” The Gupta-Kapur wedding in Half Moon Bay

The Callow family

conceded the bride in favor of enjoying cornhole and the beer buro with Sam Rigby, Laura Rigby, Mathieu Pluvinage, and Liz Yepsen. Brad DeMay married Meredith Milnes, and Stephen Abbott wed Stephanie Gold. Sarah Hughes wed Mike Cafaro on August 5 in Newport at the New York Yacht Club, and Nick Jameson wed Melanie Leinbach on Sept 2, and the two have been making us thirsty gallivanting around Greece and drinking up some minerally splendor. Max Lefranc got engaged to Carolyn Angeles on June 26. “We share a passion for whiskey and for planning/organization,” which is why they have already scheduled a baby for January 2018. Kevin Tay got engaged to girlfriend Amanda. Acquisitions The Midwestern life is bountiful—Niya Johnson and husband Adam welcomed their second son, Colin Walter, on July 7. Brad and Katie Callow welcomed their fourth bandmate, er, second daughter, Taylor Anne, on July 23. “Brad and I are embracing the chaos being parents of two and Madison is loving being a big sister so far and helping out around the house.” Shane Proch-Wilson and Michael Aubuchon welcomed Henry David Aubuchon-Wilson into the world at 9:33 a.m. on August 4th. Henry already has said that he likes long walks on

Ksenia Kapoor celebrated the arrival of their second son, Remy August Kapoor, on August 18. “We are all doing great now, big brother Ari is adjusting to his new role, and so are all of us as we embrace on a journey of two under two for exactly 7 months.” Dave Rader and his wife Janelle welcomed their first child, Gideon Eric Rader, on August 23rd. Gideon is doing great and already has more hair than his father. The whole family is happy, healthy, and looking forward to his Tuck graduation in ~2045.

Shane and Michael welcome Henry David

the beach, Tuck ’Tails, and is considering strategies for Yellow Tail. He truly is a Tuck baby though—“Hannah Yankelevich was the egg donor who helped us start our family!” You know what they say—Tuckies are known for great teamwork. “See y’all at the reunion—I’m practicing my pong skills”, says Henry. Walker and Jess Fullerton welcomed Everett Paul Fullerton promptly on his due date on August 10th. “We found ‘Everett’ in the Fullerton family tree from a distant relative. Popular in the 1910s, the name Everett is of English origin and means ‘hardy’ and ‘brave.’ ‘Paul’ is Jess’s mother’s maiden name.” Graham Lincoln and wife Hillary had a baby, and Matt Webster and wife welcomed Caroline Madeleine (aka Maddie) on April 5. Older sister Sally has been very good about wanting to interact and play with Maddie.

Gonzalo Casteneda and Cris Prieto welcome Rodrigo May 25th. “We returned to Madrid from London in 2016 and welcomed a baby boy (Rodrigo) in May this year. We are doing very well and enjoying the Spanish lifestyle. I am now working as head of investments for a real estate developer owned by a private equity fund. If things go well, the company will IPO in 2018. Cris will start working in an NGO upon finishing maternity leave!” Baby Miles and wife Amy helped Brian Carlisle celebrate his first Father’s Day. Vishnu Narayanasamy and Mike Rooney welcome Shriya Rooney. From Vishnu: “Mike and I settled down in Boston post-graduation and life has been pretty good to us. After a few years at Bain, I joined Liberty Mutual, where I get to work with more T’13s. Mike finished his Ph.D. and now works at a biotech startup in Cambridge. This summer, we welcomed our daughter, Shriya Yashoda Rooney (named after my paternal and maternal grandmothers), to the world. Shriya is another name for Hindu

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CL ASS NOTES goddess Lakshmi—the goddess of prosperity and wealth. She’s looking forward to meeting you all at the reunion next year. Lots of love— Vishnu, Mike & Shriya.”

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Not ever to be outdone, Alejendro LorenzoRojas and wife Ellen Mckay Lorenzo had a baby boy as well. Eliah turned 3 months this past September and is rumored to have already asked the tower to do a flyby. For those not getting the Top Gun reference, please go back to your own Class Notes section and leave the ’80s to us. Not seeing your baby mentioned? Don’t let the FAKE NEWS get your do; email us a pic and we’ll get the little rascal in here!

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A Strong Pipeline Several Tuckies announced impending arrivals of tiny Tuckies—we look forward to sharing more news later: Dave and Mimi Sibley, Karen and Casey Diehl, Morgan Ebeling and Carter Powers, Francis Lee and Younsoo Kim, Michael and Eileen Kuo, Jess and Colin Barclay, Will and Elizabeth Cornock, Max Lefranc and fiancée Carolyn. Thankfully, a Recovery

Jordan and Alyson Melcon had a baby QUITE some time ago, but it was never mentioned in these hallowed pages. The secretaries would feel bad about this, if literally anyone in the class whose name rhymes with “Gordan” were to have proactively reached out with a picture of Evelyn. She is cute and also, like, 3 years old already. Speaking of babies, Jesse Colville and Ashley Hovey had one of their own. Callum Alexander Colville was born September 2, 2017. Nearby is a picture of Callum sleeping, which every parent currently reading this knows is likely what he does all day long, continuously, without any crying whatsoever.

Kaitie Gannett is cancer free. She finished her treatment the Friday before Labor Day and went back to work on that Tues. She had been working full-time from home since the diagnosis. AKA Bosslady. “I am feeling great and Teddy is keeping us on our toes for sure!”

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Business Moves After 3 years at Amazon, Juliet Horton has struck out on her own to start running her own business (shameless plug: everlywedding. co). She is building a platform for streamlining and automating wedding planning, possibly informed by her Tuck Social Chair roots. Beta testers requested. Still early, but look for big updates soon. Kathy Buck left D.C. and her job at Deloitte to move to Chicago and start as director of strategy and account management for GoHealthInsurance. I have no idea what this means or what she does, but hopefully someone can come up with a CPA joke quick. Continuing on her trend of taking over this news cycle, Katie Lawrence had a big #tuckpdate this time around (foreshadowing). She became the CEO of her company, ESM Prep, an educational services company.

With Deepest Sympathies Finally, our hearts are broken following the death of Maureen Ellinwood Pluvinage D’03, wife of Mathieu Pluvinage and friend to many. Mathieu and Maureen were wed in May in Biarritz, France, with many Tuckies in attendance, and we stood again by his side at her services in Zürich and New Jersey. Maureen’s family has set up a website where you can leave a note at www. maureenellinwoodpluvinage.org, or you can write to Liz for Mathieu’s address in Zürich.

Speaking of last-minute additions, Kyle and Lauren Charters welcomed two beautiful little baby girls to the world. Kyle refuses to even tell me their names, but Fin and Millie must be through the roof excited to continue the female Charters tradition.

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Cedric “Cedygomeslice” Gomes got engaged. Quoth the raven: “We’re all really excited for it. We went down to Hanover for the weekend in March and I proposed by Quechee Gorge. Then we celebrated at Murphy’s, Stella’s, Sugarbush Farm, and pretty much all the other Tuck landmarks :).” You know you’re running out of time on your #tuckpdate when you literally quote verbatim from what you received.

“z” in their last name decided it was time to get hitched. Maggie (Misztal) and Varin Neitzel got married at a beautiful farm wedding in Sonoma. We believe that’s in California. They both looked great and had an assortment of baked goods that both included and excluded gluten, probably. Our resident Air Force member, Sam Alexander, also got married this past July in Talkeetna, Alaska, to the amazing Kimberly Mcginnis (Haas MBA 2015). Friends and family from around the globe made the trek to Alaska and helped them celebrate the big day. Nearby is a photo of the bride and groom and the mandatory Tuck photo of the event! Left to right in the photo: T’14s Ben Hall, Ryan McDonald, Jordan Melcon, Jack and Eileen O’Toole, Tyler Batman Grant, Sam, Mustafa Ali, Will Woodburn, Jake Shapiro, Erin Schwarz, Ari Shaanan, and Adam Kramer.

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That’s all the news for new. Keep ’em coming!

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Tuckies at the wedding of Sam Alexander and Kimberly Mcginnis in Alaska

Weddings The #tuckpdate secretaries regret to inform the class that one of the best and brightest amongst us, Katie Lawrence, is now officially off the market. Contrary to her Facebook status (“Engaged”), she and new hubby Simon Levy tied the knot prior to heading off to Tahiti for a little R&R. Pictured in the photo nearby, left to right: T’14s Katie Lawrence Levy, Simon Levy, Kathy Buck, Alice Lin, Lorea Barturen, Caitlin Hodge,

and Caroline Bressan, plus some T’15 (Chris White) and T’13 love sprinkled in. Greg TT Miller got married on September 23, 2017, to T’15 Mollie Evans in Atlanta, Ga. They spent their time honeymooning in Seychelles, where, if LGM taught us anything, Greg read the NY Times and drank his coffee while Mollie tried to teach him about leadership. Also, shout-out to one of the better wedding hashtags: #millerhighlife. The only two dating Tuckies who both have a

Time has flown. We feel like it was just yesterday that we were just finishing up Fall B. While we all miss our days in the Upper Valley—there is so much exciting news to celebrate among our class! Let’s dive right into the details. To honor our tradition—let’s start by offering some congratulations and mazels to our recent list of engagements, weddings, and births! Engaged: A big congratulations to Jan Tomaszewski to Melissa Wyble while at Burning Man. Shout-out to both Jan and Chloe Hansen-Toone, who went to college with Melissa, to make sure we shared the news with our classmates. Our other two engagements include Brooke Beatt, who is engaged to Matthew Hooks T’10, and to Nancy Walton,

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CL ASS NOTES who is engaged to Richard Scioli. In addition to their engagement news—they both recently left Bain to pursue new career opportunities. Brooke has joined Wayfair as a senior account manager (Le Creuset, anyone?), and Nancy has joined Ollie, a consumer-grade pet food startup in NYC. Married: It was certainly wedding season for the T’15s this year. Tommy Li was married to Christina Kong in April. Also in April, Ankit Sood got married in Chandigarh, India, to Malika. He wrote in to say, “We were especially lucky to have a bunch of Tuckies join us, including Amelia Mann, Emily Chen, Ahmed Darwish T’14, Braden Pan and Lauren, Graham Allen and Cathleen, Fredrik Schjoldager and Maren, Todd Levy and Sarah, and Michaela Leblanc and Chris Weber. Many of them had learned crucial survival tips from the 2015 India Fun Trek, but we still had 1-2 repeat casualties (ahem, Graham). All of them, joined by friends from New York and McKinsey, had their paparazzi moment when they performed to a Bollywood number in front of 500+ guests. Both Malika and I feel blessed by the love showered on us by all the Tuckies who came and those who wished us well via different forms of communication. The big fat Indian wedding lasted three days, but the memories will last forever.” In May, Erin Ruhf and Rob Franklin were married in a surprise ceremony in Chicago,

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surrounded by Heather Levy, Shane Sigel TP’15, Devin Van Riper, Ben Grant, Alex Clegg, Joe DeBonis, James Brennan, Kelsey Byrne, Ewa Kisilewicz, Phyllis Vena, Dan Villone T’14, Sandy Chen [Fedor], Michael Fedor TP’15, Pablo Segovia Smith, Fanis Tigkas, Hanne Brynildsen, Reed Gilbert, and Lissy Hill. Also in May, Courtney and Charles Christianson were married in Alaska over Memorial Day weekend. In June, Phyllis Vena and Dan Villone T’14 got married in front of 19 Tuckies and 20 Dartmouth attendees! Unfortunately they couldn’t get all the Tuckies into one shot, so

you’ll just have to trust us. They’re headed to Japan and Thailand for their honeymoon in November. Jeph Shaw and Katie TP’15 got married at Lake Sunapee. Elliot Gillerman and Caitlin Sullivan TP’15 were married in Massachusetts. In July, Sarah Reynolds and Jordan Scott were married in California. Jane Shiverick and Jed McDonald were married in August at Jane’s family’s house in Redding, Conn. Though some non-Tuckies snuck in, their T’15 classmates were joined by Paul Shiverick T’83 and Reg Shiverick T’87. Two additional class couples were married this summer! Ben Grant and Alex Clegg were married. Then, in September, Lissy and Reed were married by Lake Tahoe on Labor Day weekend. The T’15 Band got back together to see Matt Prescottano shred at the celebration! Lastly: On one weekend in September, Mike Cacchio and Louisa were married in Vermont, and Alison Wheeler and Paul Vom Eigen were married. At the same time, Mollie Evans and Greg Miller T’14 were married in Atlanta. We can’t wait to see more pictures! And, lastly, Chris Blaine and his wife, Arianna, welcomed baby girl Madeleine in June! Now that that’s all out of the way, let’s get to the interesting stuff. A big congratulation to Anna Liu on becoming a U.S. citizen and Amanda Grosse on running the Boston Marathon. A big thanks to Mark Etchin who wrote to us just to say hi! It’s always fun to hear from you guys!

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The Gillerman-Sullivan wedding

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Big moves were made by pretty much everyone, and they all headed to Boston: Chloe HansenToone is still with Thermo Fisher but back in their corporate HQ running CSR initiatives. Duncan Kirby is working for Devonshire Investors. Lyusha Goldberger moved back to her hometown to work for Wayfair. James Davermann stayed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area but is now working for TPG. Amanda Grosse moved to Chicago to do strategy and operations for Groupon. Nathan Nam and his family had the biggest change: after an unforgettable year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they are moving back to San Francisco Bay Area! While they don’t know exactly where they will live at the moment, he cannot wait to be back in the States and to see SF Tuckies!

And we received word that Andres Bernaciak was promoted to senior consultant at Mars & Co this year; congratulations, Andres! He’s based in NYC and has been involved in recruitment for Mars, in addition to consulting. As for us, Kelsey Byrne moved to Salt Lake City to work for Overstock.com. Heather Levy had a great time celebrating her bachelorette with Kelsey Byrne, Caitlin Moore, Ewa Kisilewicz, and Chloe Hansen-Toone in Philly! She’s looking forward to her wedding in October! And that’s a wrap—until next time!

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Dearest T’16s, As usual, you’ve been off making moves and generally being super impressive. So, let’s get right into it!

Tiny Tuckies First and most importantly, we have a brand new set of Tiny Tuckies to get excited about! Dan and Stephanie Rosen had a baby boy named Eli on March 6, 2017. Dan notes that his son is developing much faster than Jim Harig’s son, largely due to superior parenting from the father figure. Your move, Jim. Speaking of the Harigs, Jim and Erika Harig welcomed Patrick Francis into their family on April 11, 2017. He weighed in at 7 lb, 7 oz. Enrique Aguilar and Andrea Marina welcomed the tiniest-ever Minnesota Vikings fan on July 15. Olivia Aguilar Marina clearly inherited her dad’s great head of hair. I mean look at her, she’s basically a baby-shampoo model. The new family of three also decided to move back home to Mexico City, taking their incredible hair genes with them. Enrique wrapped up at Cargill in Minneapolis and moved on to a role at PayPal. He’s leading small and medium business development in their Mexico City office. Vivek Chandwani and Niharika Thakwani welcomed their adorable daughter Kyra on July 19, 2017. Vivek is hanging out in New York, and loving being a dad! Alicia and Larry Dagrosa had a little boy on August 17, 2017, in the glorious Upper Valley. We trust that Rowan True Dagrosa will learn to ski before he learns to walk. What a lucky guy! Doug and Angela DeMartin had a baby boy, Theodore Lawrence DeMartin, on August 30, 2017. What a cutie! Since there’s still about 4 years before our five-year reunion (WHAT!?), we can look forward to meeting these babies in Hanover 122

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when they are in pre-K. Wild. In the meantime, welcome to the T’16 family! Wedding Season In another active Tuck wedding season, we had seven marriages to celebrate! Congratulations to these newly married T’16s and TPs! Ted Newhouse and Brittany Berry were married on June 17, 2017, in New York State. On the same day, just a few thousand miles away, Dominic Yau and Gemma Brock were also married! Their celebration was held at Grove House in London and was attended by 13 Tuckies and TPs! Holly Huo was married not once but twice in June to Mikael Pessa. They had a wedding in China, which was attended by most of our fellow T’16s who are currently living in China. They had a second wedding in Sweden later that month!

Stephen Normandin and Eugene Florendo were married on July 22, 2017, in Lewiston, Maine. Vikram Dhindsa and Allyson Himelstein were married in late July. They had a traditional Indian wedding in Indiana! Eric Fiegoli and Maeve Conneighton were married at The Garrison in Garrison, N.Y., on September 2, 2017.

Jack and Tally popping bottles to celebrate their Savannah engagement

Tuckies and TPs join Dom and Gemma for their London wedding

Adam and Danielle, engaged on the Amalfi Coast!

Holly and Mikael at their China wedding this past June

Andy Bralver and Dana Hansen were also married on September 2 on the opposite coast! Their wedding gave Goffy and Emeka an opportunity to pose for this incredible photo. Engagements Congratulations to the five latest Tuckies to pop the big question to their girlfriends! Jack Swain got engaged to Tally Wolff in February while visiting Savannah, Ga.

Goffy and Emeka celebrate Andy Bralver’s marriage with parasol accessories

Andres and Genevieve’s super epic and magical engagement photo!

Jeff Clark got engaged to Allison Stein in late April. They’re planning on getting married in Boston in fall of 2018!

Also in June, Andres Valdivieso Arispe got engaged to Genevieve Wenger on the Awa’awapuhi Trail in Kauai, Hawaii.

In June, Adam Klene got engaged to Danielle Tannenbaum while they were traveling the Amalfi Coast in Italy. Adam sweated it out the entire trip, nervous that he would lose the ring, but he managed to keep track of it long enough to hand it over to its rightful owner.

In September, on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, Justin Barrett asked Meghan Kelley to marry him. Justin is looking forward to taking the next step, but first will be spending some time putting together the best-ever Wayfair wedding registry.

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CL ASS NOTES This summer, Karthik Krishnan moved from Baltimore to Barcelona. This was an easy transition for Karthik, as Barcelona is basically the exact same city as Baltimore. He’s still with Amazon and now has the opportunity to launch their new operations in Barcelona! He’s working diligently on his Spanish language skills, so he’ll be ready for visitors ASAP.

Justin and Meghan on the Charles River Esplanade

While we’re on the subject of putting a ring on it, Sasha Kenyon decided to roll off her rotational leadership program at Tiffany & Co. early in order to take an awesome new full-time position. Guess what her new role is? Bridal strategy and marketing for engagement rings and wedding bands! She says she’s looking forward to consulting with any Tuckies in need of some advice in the diamond department. We now have an official bling expert in the T’16 family. Yay, Sasha! On the Move Because Dr. Isabella Zhang wins the prize for most chaotic postgraduation move schedule, we’ll start with her. Since graduation, Dr. Isabella has managed to move 8 times. And no, that is not a typo. If that isn’t enough, her visa status has changed 5 times since graduation. If you want to be super impressed, she got the O-1 visa. For those who don’t know, “the O-1 nonimmigrant visa is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.” This means she is basically a supermodel/Olympic athlete. Isabella finally has settled down full-time in Boston, which is obviously an incredible choice. After moving in, she got even more good news: her EB-1A green card self-petition got approved! Yet another special visa for people with extraordinary abilities. Congratulations, Isabella! We’re all super proud of you!

Juan Iriarte has left us high and dry in New England in favor of moving home to Bogotá. We miss him already but trust that he will bring time-honored, high-class American traditions like frosé to Colombia. We also have not one but two bankers who moved from New York City to London. Chico Riederer moved to the U.K. in July and is still working at UBS Investment Bank. Dhruv Gupta is also in London and is still working for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. That’s a T’16 London population increase of 66% year-over-year for you bankers keeping track. Pilar Olaechea has also made a big move to Europe! She’s in Edinburgh, still working for InterGen. While she was sad to leave Boston, her boyfriend is pursuing his MBA in Paris, so the move actually makes their long-distance relationship that much more manageable! Solid silver lining, Pili! Jasmine Fei Qu is taking a gap year from finishing her degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is a truly inspired strategy, since being a student is way more fun than adulting. She just wrapped up some APAC strategy work for a Swedish snow and cycling protective gear brand (POC) and is now their China entry advisor. This fall, she’s going to make a move to Abuja, Nigeria. She will be working for the Federal Ministry of Transport of Nigeria, doing a performance-audit project related to their maritime sector. Matt Shofnos is moving back stateside! He will be in NYC in October, leaving the recently bolstered Tuck community in Hangzhou, China, behind. In the nearby photo: Jack Zhang T’10, Alibaba CEO’s Office; Lu Fang TP’16 (Andy Wang’s wife); Andy Wang T’16, Alibaba Research; Dave Sun T’12, [early-stage FinTech startup]; Matt Shofnos T’16, Alibaba Global Initiatives.

The Hangzhou Tuck Crew!

Pedro Paiola has moved from New Jersey to Connecticut as part of his rotational program with Prudential. He’s working in New England’s rising star, Hartford. In case people don’t know this, it’s the insurance capital of the world and I sometimes secretly miss living there. He’s a product manager in the retirement business, focused on retiree medical liability de-risking, which sounds like a potentially impossible task. Robin Daley has made the very difficult decision to relocate from North Cambridge to the South End neighborhood of Boston, which I like to refer to as “Tuck South.” The Red Line already misses seeing him for two hours each day. And from Pete Mathias, lots of news and moving—and best regards from Berlin! “Now that I have graduated from the Tuck/HKS program, I thought I’d share some updates! Filligar toured the Russian Far East and Mexico in early August as part of our appointment as cultural ambassadors for the U.S. State Department. We also are finishing up a new record, which we will be excited to share. At the request of U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA), I built a financial model estimating the cost of a large Boston infrastructure project; the paper, co-published with Harvard Kennedy School peers, was recently published and got some regional press (Boston Business Journal, Harvard Gazette, and Boston Globe). And I headed to Europe in early October to kick off the ~12 month Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, a highly selective and special program designed to ‘train participants into executives’ by taking on roles across their global portfolio. My first post will be in Berlin with BMG Music,

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one of the most exciting music labels out there today. I mean it that I would in no way be in this exciting position without my learnings at Tuck.”

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Our New Entrepreneurs! Emma Zhang decided to leave MetLife in Charlotte, N.C., after a year. She is now spending the majority of her time in Beijing, while fitting in frequent visits to see Yawei in San Jose. She’s working on launching her new business, which will bring globally inspired, high-end stationery products to China. She is on track to launch her online store in on Taobao (Alibaba’s B2C platform) in late October and will keep us updated on the official name of the business once she decides on one! Even though she’s still working full time at Walmart, Sara McGuigan has also started a business of her own—a clothing line! Love, Zelda is her high-end leisurewear brand inspired by vintage sleepwear silhouettes but reenvisioned to allow the versatility to dress both in and out, from day to night. Sara is secretly an extremely talented costume designer, and now she’s designing things people can wear offstage! Check out her line at lovezelda.com. Secret Promotions

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Meet Violet Beastly!

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Wedding Chapter Nat Smith and Danise got married on 9/9, and Danise (TP’17) is starting at Stanford’s School of Education this fall to get a master’s in policy, organization and leadership!

Because Sarah Wooden’s parents are apparently extremely trusting saints, 11 Tuckies were able to take a trip out to their home in Vail, Colo., this past April. Check out the awesome picture nearby of some of our favorite ski bunnies looking sharp! In the pic: Katy Graham, Katrina Jensen, Katie Soja, Claire Galiette, Molly Hinton, Katie Lynch, Anushka Nadarajah, Sarah Wooden, Ale Jochum, Katie Landry, Ellen Pratt, and Nicole Daniele.

Shawn and Julia Curley were married in July of this year in Rye, N.Y. A number of Tuckies were in attendance, as were several of Julia’s future HBS classmates. They kicked off married life in style with a honeymoon trip to Greece, where they enjoyed lots of sun and tzatziki. They are happy to report that they have officially moved into their new apartment in Cambridge, Mass.

T’16s show off their Winter Carnival finest in Vail

Shawn and Julia Curley

It’s come to my attention that Fan Zhou and Justin Holzwarth got awesome promotions at work. Fan is now manager at Bain and Justin is now senior program manager evangelist at Microsoft. Those are really all the details I have, as they are both being aggressively humble about their accomplishments. Congratulations to you both, obviously well-deserved! (Everyone please remember to email me and sell out our other aggressively humble classmates on their promotions so that we can celebrate their success as well!) Tuck Pets! I, for one, would like to see some more action in this particular segment. Luckily, our own Ale Jochum has saved the day this time. She just adopted a super cuddly little kitten! Meet Violet Beastly, the newest addition to the Tuck South family!

That’s it for this time! Keep doing great things and stay in touch! Love and hugs from Boston, Sarah.

Katelyn Baldwin married Myles Matteson on June 24, 2017, in Epsom, N.H., in a beautiful outdoor garden ceremony, surrounded by family and friends. They did a quick honeymoon in Mexico and then newlywed life took them to Pa., where Kate has started work with Vanguard in their MBA Development Program.

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Katelyn Baldwin and Myles Matteson on their wedding day

The McVey-Goggin wedding party

Sarah Kohn [Flynn] got married on 7/15/17 in Gloucester. It is just around the north shore of Mass. They were super lucky with weather, with sun that came out after a couple of days of rain. Sarah and Charlie Flynn have been together for 5 years. They had their honeymoon in Croatia and Slovenia for 2 weeks.

George Cook and Elizabeth Fu got married on September 23rd at the Glessner House Museum in Chicago. Lane McVey [Goggin] and Connor Goggin were married on June 24th in Rhode Island. Also married: Kelly Thompson [Trott] in late July, Daniela Murillo in late July, Madeline Dufour [Scheve] in late August, Annie McCarthy [Ott] in late August, Megan Farrell [Amarante] in late September. Tiny Tuckie Chapter The Tuck family has grown over the summer. The Humphreys family had a new baby girl in early September.

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From Tscharner Hunter: “Brannen Marie Tonelli arrived at 3:18am on September 2 weighing 6 lbs 10 oz and measuring 19".”

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Daniel Di Cecco and Suzie had baby Elena on August 13th at DHMC. From the Fiore family: “We are enjoying Kansas City. The Midwest is friendly in the way that Hanover is cozy, but as a big city KC has a lot to offer, and the Fiore family enjoyed the change to run downtown for drinks and dinner, see a baseball game, and drive 3 minutes to pick people up from the airport. The big news is obviously the arrival of Samuel Willard Fiore, born July 5th. Sophie is so much in love with him already.” From Andy Kaestle: “Howdy from Texas! As you know, it’s hot down here, so our son has completely eliminated his wardrobe. His parents are happy because there’s less laundry to do, and the dog appreciates not being the only naked thing in the house all the time. Incriminating photo [nearby] (wouldn’t it be funny if Will’s naked butt got published in a magazine...).” Startup Chapter Honeycomb Update If you have not heard about Honeycomb, it is a fintech platform that allows locally owned businesses to borrow expansion loans directly from their own loyal customers. Think of it as the next step after Kickstarter but before a large, traditional bank loan. Since graduation, George and Ken have been working furiously on Honeycomb at AlphaLab, a top-ranked accelerator that grew out of the Carnegie Mellon startup ecosystem. “We closed an investment round in July and will be launching in November. Email george@honeycombcredit.com if you’d like to stay up to date!”

Tuck and Dartmouth alums joined prospective students at a reception in Santiago, Chile, in November, and Tuck Ambassador Andy Steele T’79 was there to capture the occasion.

and improved trailers. We are hiring too! If anyone knows any good head of operations or software developer candidates, send them our way!” [Russ Walker and Ed Warren] Yuki’s Update From Yuki Aoyama: “I am excited to announce that Splink was awarded an ICT grant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. We will obtain financial support for two years and enhance our AI technology.” Lastly, the Tuck Fabric Fund raised $3,700. They would like to thank everyone who has donated.

Zippity Update Zippity is zippin’ along! “We have been successfully fundraising this summer and are expanding to Boston this fall with two new

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IN MEMORIAM The Tuck School of Business offers its condolences to the families of the following alumni whose deaths have been reported to us in the past six months.

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Richard L. Clarke ’43 August 5, 2017

Frederick J. England Jr. ’54 July 4, 2017

Walter E. Busker Jr. ’59 February 28, 2017

Charles E. Dorkey Jr. ’44 August 25, 2017

John W. Newton ’54 August 21, 2017

Alan L. Greener ’59 October 6, 2017

Benjamin F. Moats Jr. ’46 May 17, 2017

Christopher G. R. Buxton ’55 August 12, 2017

Jerome R. Chambless ’60 July 3, 2017

Frederick M. Daley Jr. ’47 August 31, 2017

William W. Rooke ’56 July 31, 2017

Herbert A. Grant Jr. ’60 July 5, 2017

Melvin J. Nelson ’48 July 10, 2017

C. Jerome Underwood ’56 May 1, 2017

Frank R. Budetti ’63 April 18, 2017

C. James Schaefer III ’49 July 20, 2017

Glendon R. Wathen ’56 June 25, 2017

Paul Belliveau ’67 July 2, 2017

David L. Auld ’49 October 1, 2017

Thomas C. Fead ’57 November 6, 2017

William R. Jevne ’67 April 1, 2017

C. Reed Parker ’50 May 11, 2017

Robert K. Gluek ’57 June 13, 2017

Robert J. Haubrich ’73 June 17, 2017

Joseph S. Caldwell III ’52 October 21, 2017

Frank P. Strong Jr. ’57 July 20, 2017

Thomas H. Bilodeau ’76 October 15, 2017

Wilson W. Cross ’52 September 6, 2017

Robert N. Andrews ’58 August 19, 2017

Albert L. Katz Jr. ’52 August 23, 2017

Walter K. Prindle ’58 May 3, 2017

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parting shot CASE IN POINT. Tuck hosted a case competition this fall that welcomed MBA students from around the world to share their solutions to a theoretical Tesla business challenge with a panel of Tesla judges.

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