beyond the greenClass of 1998 Newsletter

In this issue:

• New Executive Officers • 20th Reunion: Records Broken • Dartmouth College Fund • Granite Coalition • Photos, Photos, Photos • And more

EARLY FALL 2018 2 SERVE KATE GOLD from the editor [email protected]

Hi all! I’m still here, at least for the foreseeable future, since I’ve committed to serving on the News- letter Editors Association, which supports all class newsletter editors, for three more years. I do promise to hunt down a new headshot at some point so you don’t have to see this one much longer.

Thank you to all who shared pictures with me and the other 20th Reunion organizers so we could print them in these pages. I regret that they mostly didn’t come with names or attributions, and I’m getting better at recognizing faces, but not quite that good. If you want to write in with stories about your time in Hanover this past June, I’d love to hear from you and I’m sure other classmates would as well.

On the subject of stories, never fear, as Lara Hoffman and Kim Rogers Leslie are lining up more classmates to write for A Few Words More in the coming issues. If you would like to contribute an essay, please contact them (see the members-at-large list on page 10 for email addresses). Likewise, if you have another idea for content you’d like to see or contribute, don’t be shy. I would welcome the assistance.

I would also love to get our own Class of 1998 StoryCorps going in these pages. Many of you are hopefully familiar with the short interviews between friends and family members that are regularly aired on NPR. I think it would be fun to have classmates pair up with former roommates, trippees, castmates, team members, etc. to talk and share their conversation with the rest of us. Admittedly, the idea is still in the half-baked stages, so if you have ideas about how this could work, want to take on managing the project, or simply want to volunteer folks you want to hear from, I would love love love to hear from you.

In any case, I hope you enjoy the news and pictures in these pages. Many thanks! —Kate

MARK FRANKLIN treasurer’s notes [email protected]

Hello everyone. I’m looking forward to attending Class Officers Weekend in Hanover at the end of September, where I hope to make connections with our new class officers and other class treasurers to learn how to best serve our Class over the next five years.

One thing that I would like to expand and support is the Class of 1998’s Granite Coalition, which enables our classmates to support each other in times of need. I’m a critical care physician, and a significant part of my job is supporting and guiding patients and their families with life-threatening and life-changing illnesses. I want to offer my experience and compassion for classmates and families who may find themselves in these difficult situations. We have a great and talented class with expertise in law, education, insurance, medicine, social and community services, and more. I want to engage fellow classmates to offer service in their areas of expertise, too. Additionally, I encourage classmates to ask for assistance when it is needed, as several already have.

This year we hope that you will consider making a dues payment to support our Class. Dues remain constant this year at $40. We are increasingly using Venmo, a fantastic mobile app, to accept dues; just send your payment to @Dartmouth98. Venmo is super easy to use, and if you link it to your checking account, there are no fees for you or the Class. You can also continue to use PayPal; just visit the class website and click on the PayPal button.

If you have any comments or questions, email me. Thank you! —Mark ROGER GRIESMEYER president’s corner [email protected]

Greetings, fellow ‘98s! I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. Before updating you on the Class and our plans, a few thanks are in order.

First, thanks to all of you! As you’ll see in the pages of this newsletter, reunion was a smashing success. We broke records. We showed up and participated. Most importantly, we had a blast in Hanover. None of this would have been possible without your participation and Dartmouth spirit. Second, tremendous thanks are owed to our reunion committee members and volunteers. A number of our classmates dedicated hours, weeks and months to making sure all of the events went smoothly. Finally, we owe a debt of gratitude to our outgoing class officers and executive committee members. They have served without (much) thanks or compensation other than a love for our class and our school. We greatly appreciate everything they’ve done, and the whole of our community is better for it.

And now, as a community, we move forward for the next five years toward our quarter century reunion. Hard to read? Believe me, it’s hard to write. But we’ve already begun working to bring you more events, programs and opportunities to stay connected to the Class and College.

As you read this, our Executive Committee has started planning the next round of mini-reunions and considering new ideas for a class project. Your Class officers are on their way to or from Class Officers Weekend in Hanover for two days of meetings designed to bring us up to speed and get more classmates involved. Our Granite Coalition is gathering even more resources to help fellow ‘98s when they need it most—and you can read more about this wonderful project in these pages. In the next month we will send a Class survey to get your opinions on all of these issues, as well as your new ideas. We hope you will choose to participate and make your voice heard so that everything we do can reflect the shared interests, goals and ideas of the Class of 1998.

On that note, I will ask one thing from each of you. Get involved! There are myriad opportunities to participate with the class, and you can decide the level of commitment that works for you. Join the Executive Committee, which meets monthly for a brief conference call to share ideas, hear updates on the College and Class and set the direction for the Class’s activities. Volunteer as a resource for the Granite Coalition and help improve the life of a classmate. Attend a mini-reunion in your local area— or help to host one, which only takes an hour or two to arrange—to catch up with friends old and new.

Whatever your interest or preference, we’d like to include you and your thoughts, interests, and opinions for the next five years. Whether you have an idea or an extra hour or two you’re willing to donate to Dartmouth, we welcome your input. Please feel free to reach out to me or any of your class officers, and we’ll get you to the right place. Thank you, and be well.

Yours in Granite and Green —Roger

3 photo credit: Courtney Cania photo credit: Jeff Woodward 4 ENGAGE

RACHEL BOGARDUS DREW [email protected] alumni council highlights Hello Classmates! Prior to our RECORD-BREAKING 20th reunion, I ventured to Hanover in May to attend the 216th meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. The weekend mostly revolved around The Call to Lead campaign, which is the most ambitious fundraising plan the College has ever attempted. You may be thinking, “Doesn’t Dartmouth fundraise every year? How is this different?”

Annual giving through the Dartmouth College Fund supports the College’s operating expenses, while this campaign is designed to be far-reaching and to drive distinction and differentiation for Dartmouth in the future. I encourage you to read more about what the campaign seeks to accomplish and follow the conversation on social media using #DartmouthLeads.

Other highlights of the meeting included:

• Dinner at one of the new House Centers—popularly known as “The Onion”—to learn about the House Communities which opened in 2016 (those at reunion may have seen and heard about these from students on campus). The goal of the communities is to provide more residential continuity for undergraduates as well as additional social opportunities beyond the classroom.

• Two faculty who embody the teacher-scholar model were awarded the Professor John Rassias Faculty Award. Susan Ackerman ’80, the Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion; and Vicki May, professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering received standing ovations for their exceptional commitment to maintaining strong ties with Dartmouth alumni. I hope you can join them for a future Dartmouth Alumni Travel trip or a Dartmouth on Location near you.

• ‘One Dartmouth’ was a theme of the weekend, illustrating how each of the five schools of Dartmouth are working to pull together the full intellectual assets of the community for the benefit of all students. And, while graduate programs at Dartmouth are not new, there is a new name joining Thayer, Geisel, and Tuck: Guarini. In case you missed it, Frank J. Guarini ’46, a former congressman, delegate to NATO, and U.S. Representative to the United Nations, made a historic gift in support of the College’s school of graduate and advanced studies.

Finally, I want to note that this year the Alumni Council will nominate two candidates for the Dartmouth Board of Trustees to replace Gail Koziara Boudreaux ’82 and R. William Burgess, Jr. ’81. We invite and encourage your recommendations.

Thanks for reading, and as always, please be in touch with any questions or thoughts.

For Dartmouth and the Class of 1998, —Rachel

Left to Right: Rachel with Ellen Halstead, our Reunion Catering Chair; Jon Drew and kids at Moosilauke while our Registration Guru worked the check-in tent; Joan Ai with Rachel at the Saturday night Class dinner. (If you can’t read the sash, Rachel’s reads: Registration Bad Ass & More— because you can’t really fit everything Rachel does for our class on a sash that small.) head agents report THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to the Dartmouth College Fund this past year in honor of our 20th Reunion! TRACY VAN DORPE [email protected] It was a banner year across the board for the Class of1998! We reached the highest dollar goal in our Class history: $1,117,339 with an all-time high of 42% class participation.

Some additional highlights from our 20th Reunion Gift Campaign:

• The Class of 1998 has raised more than $10 million as part of Dartmouth’s Call to Lead ABBY SMITH Campaign. This includes ALL giving [email protected] to Dartmouth – DCF, restricted funds, and bequest intentions.

• 76 classmates joined the 1769 Society with a gift of $2,500 or more to DCF.

• 51 classmates continue to be a Checks at the Reunion - though we raised even more member of the Hal Ripley Society, after that weekend! giving a gift to DCF every year since graduation.

Before stepping down after a long stint as one of our awesome head Abby Smith, Marene Jennings, and Tracy Van Dorpe present our DCF agents, Marene Jennings spoke at Reunion about how DCF made it accomplishments for the year at our 20th Reunion Saturday night 5 possible for her to attend Dartmouth as a member of the Class of 1998. class dinner. 6 IMAGINE

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reunion by the numbers: Classmates at Reunion: 326 (We broke the record for classmates at a 20th Reunion!)

Total attendees: 729 (Just shy of the all time record at a 20th! We did consider inventing infant septuplets to get us over the line, but ultimately decided that we were maybe taking the record too seriously. So tempting though!)

At our Saturday night Class dinner on Cummings Lawn. Jo recognized all the classmates who have worked for the Class over the last five years with a rhinestone beauty pageant sash commemorating our roles, whether as an elected officer or a crazy volunteer. Thank you to the bedazzled ones for writing Class Notes, managing our funds, organizing mini-reunions, raising money, planning our 20th, and starting new initiatives to launch us into the next five years. I think we’ve all gotten more from our service to the Class and College than we’ve given, so I hope you will consider joining the line up in the coming years.

photo credits: podium pictures pages 5 and 6—Jen Leahy ‘98; class officers in the crowd—Jeff Woodward. If you have had a health crisis… If you have suffered a loss… If you have lost a home… If you (or a parent or child) have struggled with illness… If you need advice… If you are suffering from depression or mental illness…

We are in this together, and we are here to help.

If you, or another member of the class is in need due to illness, loss, work or life transitions, we encourage you to reach out to a member of the Granite Coalition committee or complete the form on the ’98 class website (1998.dartmouth.org). A volunteer will then contact you and mobilize our dedicated network of classmates. The Granite Coalition was created to facilitate ’98s helping other ’98s, and we are in the process of building a team of volunteers around the globe to care better for one another as a community.

In our first official act as a class initiative, the Granite Coalition distributed over $2900 in the form of reunion assistance to fellow ‘98s so they could attend reunion in June. Throughout the summer, coalition volunteers have stepped up to provide advice and emotional support to classmates in need. In our first year, we have made great strides in building our volunteer network with almost 30 volunteers representing the diverse geography, life experience, and expertise of our class. If you are interested in knowing more about the Granite Coalition, or interested in joining the initiative, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of us. You can also navigate to the Granite Coalition section of our class webpage to fill out a volunteer form or request help of any kind for yourself or others.

To seek support, or volunteer to join the network, contact:

Peter Lanfer [email protected] Sarah Rainwater Ward [email protected] Brook Detterman [email protected] Jo Golub [email protected] or Class President Roger Griesmeyer [email protected]

All requests and related information will be treated as confidential among the committee and volunteers from whom you receive assistance.

7 8 IMAGINE So many folks shared their amazing photos from the weekend, giving us a glimpse of the people and places we know and miss. I couldn’t include them all here—some couldn’t make the transition to print, either because of file type or size—and others were too dark or just not quite in focus. (But I enjoyed looking through them all the same.)

Thank you for those who provided feedback about things dartmouth you’d like to see at the 25th. We will have music at the 20th reunion tent next time when we don’t have to compete with the 98 sheer noise of 3 classes under the tent. If you love music and want to make sure we get it right, please consider answering the call to volunteer four years from now! Unfortunately, most of the pictures made their way to me without captioning or crediting info included, but Joanna Borowski sent me these two with this note: “I thought it might be fun to send these “then and now” photos of me and freshman year roommates Heather Wells and Alex Reitman, from our triple in Streeter in fall ‘94, and reconnecting at reunion!” from the Class of ‘98 green gossip Classmates continue to join the Face- His wife Sara Rue was there representing book page (http://www.facebook.com/ the show A Series of Unfortunate Events which groups/Dartmouth1998). We’re up to 454 was nominated for an Emmy.” as of September 10th. Feel free to post Dartmouth-related news or events on the page—we love to hear from you informally between newsletters and DAM issues.

This issue will be very light on the quick updates. If you do get a minute, please above: Sarah and Sara at the Emmys share a few words with me, or with Gabe - from thesarahdrew instagram. left: Galletti for the Class Notes in the DAM. Photobombed by Ron Cephas Jones from This is Us. below: On the red ([email protected]) carpet - photo from Getceleb.com

Peter Lanfer took a break from organiz- ing the Granite Coalition’s update to share that he recently attended the Emmys with his wife Sarah Drew. “Sarah made her directorial debut this spring filming a series of short-form webisodes spun off of Grey’s “Not sure I’ve had an update in a while of my Anatomy called “the B-team.” The series own either to say that I’m now a lecturer in was nominated for an Emmy in the religious studies at Occidental College, spe- category of “Outstanding Short form cializing in early interpretations of the Bible in Comedy or Drama Series.” While there, Jewish and Christian writings.” Thanks for the they encountered another Dartmouth update—and congratulations to Sarah on the connection: “Kevin Price ‘97 – also a PsiU nomination! brother – was there at the Emmys as well. 9 10 SERVE

President Roger Griesmeyer our new executive committee [email protected] The executive committee consists of the elected officers – Vice President president, vice president, secretary and treasurer; the Kelly Wardwell Ryerson appointed/volunteer officers – newsletter editor, webmaster, [email protected] mini-reunion chair, alumni council representative, head agents, and Granite Coalition chairs; and the members-at-large. Treasurer Mark Franklin While the elected and appointed officers have more clearly [email protected] defined roles, the members-at-large provide essential contributions Secretary by supporting Class initiatives — whether by editing content for Gabe Galletti this newsletter, hosting mini-reunions, providing sound advice [email protected] based on their own past experience as officers, recruiting volunteers for the latest initiative, or by gearing up to step into Newsletter Editor officer roles during the next five year cycle. Kate Gold [email protected] If you have suggestions to share or questions to ask, feel free to reach out to any one of the folks on the list and they can bring Webmaster your ideas and concerns to the group. Or, of course, you could Jasson Walker always get in touch with Roger and join the committee yourself. [email protected] The more, the merrier! Mini-Reunion Chair Jo Golub [email protected] Members-at-Large Jeff Beyer [email protected] Head Agents Abby Smith Christie Buschmann [email protected] [email protected] Rodrego Byerly [email protected] Belinda Chiu [email protected] Tracy Van Dorpe Katey Ritrovato Dadakis [email protected] [email protected] Stu Davidson [email protected] Alumni Council Rep. Carline Durocher [email protected] Rachel Bogardus Drew Ellen Halstead [email protected] [email protected] Lara Hoffman [email protected] Granite Coalition Marene Jennings [email protected] Brook Detterman Kim Rogers Leslie [email protected] [email protected] Marc Lewinstein [email protected] Peter Lanfer Allison Malley [email protected] [email protected] Karen Thickman [email protected] Jamie Udler Koplan [email protected] Sarah Rainwater Ward [email protected] [email protected] David Walthall JO GOLUB [email protected] mini-reunions

Hi, everyone! I had so much fun being involved with the countdown-to-reunion mini-reunions last year, and I have always had a soft spot for the 98th Day of Service. So, I’m excited to be the new Mini-Reunion Chair. If you’d like to help plan something in your area—especially for the 98th Day in April—please feel free to reach out to me. I’m also looking for a handful of people who can be regional leaders to help coordinate events around the country, so please let me know if you are game! —Jo

from the Dartmouth Alumni Flickr pages BADA gathering at Reunion 2018 Entrepreneurs’ Event - DEN Innovation Center

photo credits: Jeff Woodward photo credits: Rob Strong 11 12 CONNECT

photo credits: Jeff Woodward (2nd row middle and right, 3rd row right, 4th row right) 9D8 Photo Gallery

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photo credit: Jeff Woodward 9D8 Photo Gallery (cont.)

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