JUNE 2011 Newsletter DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS of 1981
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JUNE 2011 NEwslEttEr DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 Newsletter Editors: Peter Oudheusden • [email protected] • Robert Goldbloom • [email protected] REVEL•REFLECT•RECONNECT DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1981 June 16-19, 2011 • Hanover, New Hampshire Beth Shapiro Lewyckyj ‘81 Steven Zales ‘81 Laurel Richie ‘81 Our 30th Reunion is a great long weekend filled with events, food and catching up. You don’t want to miss an event, a meal, a tent activity, or! Check out our free reunion dedicated smart phone app (found on the class website - www.alum.dartmouth. org/classes/81). It gives you instant access to: Gregory Slayton ‘81 Sharon Washington ‘81 Marty Cetron, MD ‘81 registration, housing, weekend schedule, who’s attending (updated daily), a countdown till 30th Reunion TEDartmouth important weekend events, hotel links, local up- to-the-minute weather, a reunion map with the key locations for our events, webcams to see the Highlighting our 30th Class Reunion, a distinguished panel of classmates share their College and the area, and a Dartmouth College experience and wisdom in a special one hour panel presentation. In the TED tradition, these Fund link so you can help us reach our goal men and women are thought-leaders in their chosen fields. TED strives to “bring together of 60%! With WiFi throughout campus, this the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their will be a great mini-website to already have lives.” They are tasked to give the audience the most important summation of their field in loaded on your smartphone, iPhone or iPad. just 10 minutes. Join them Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall to Check it out! (not available through iTunes) share in their passion & achievements. Marty Cetron, MD ‘81 Final push for 60% DCF giving! What do the recent Swine Flu epidemic and With only a few weeks to go before our 30th Yellow Book”, which provides disease the Anthrax terrorism of 10 years ago have Reunion, we are within striking distance prevention guidance to global travelers. of reaching our goal! If you have not in common? Our own Marty Cetron played After leaving the Green, Marty participated, then any amount gets you in: a key leadership role in our government’s earned his MD from Tufts in 1985 and the link is here - Please help! response to both! Joining the U.S. Centers went on to train in Internal Medicine http://www.tinyurl.com/81-Participation for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at UVA and Infectious Diseases at the in 1992, Marty Cetron is now the Director University of Washington. In 1992 for the Division of Global Migration and Marty joined CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Over 400 classmates have Quarantine (DGMQ). His program is given this year, and we need Service and became a Commissioned your help to do even better responsible for medical screening and disease Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. than last year! prevention of over 1 million immigrants His accomplishments include over 100 annually. DGMQ also publishes the “CDC Continued on page 2 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Continued from page 1 take action.” While there she used her publications and numerous awards. started the Spencer Stuart Talent Network, marketing background to launch initiatives a web-based recruitment business that to reposition and freshen the Girl Scout Sharon Washington ‘81 quickly became 5% of revenues for this brand. A star among D’81 stars, Sharon global executive search firm, and he played From Dartmouth Laurel joined the Washington shines as a leader in the a key role in several other entrepreneurial ad agency of Leo Burnett Worldwide, and dramatic arts. Her accomplish-ments on ventures. then in 1984 joined Ogilvy and Mather stage range from starring as Lady Anne Preferring the colder climates, after working with brands such as American opposite Denzel Washington in Richard Dartmouth Steve went on to earn his MBA Express, Pepperidge Farm and Unilever. III at the New York Shakespeare Festival, from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of to a prominent role in The Scottsboro Management. He started his career at HBO Gregory Slayton ‘81 Boys, with numerous regional theatre and in the non-theatrical home video area. Professor and venture capitalist, workshop roles between. Sharon also foreign diplomat and high tech business manages to share her leader, author and love of acting with photo: Joseph Mehling ‘69 philanthropist: Gregory aspiring New York City Slayton chose to do it all, thespians in the New and do it all extremely York Public Theatre well. Today he is an and the 52nd Street Adjunct Professor of Project. Her many Business Administration film credits include at Tuck, and a visiting Malcolm X, Michael lecturer at Harvard Clayton and Die Hard Business School, with a Vengeance and Stanford’s Graduate on the small(er) screen School of Business and we have seen Sharon Beijing’s UIBE School of in many of the Law & Business. Gregory started Order variants, Cosby, and is general manager and One Life to Live. The 1981 TEDartmouth event will take place at Filene Auditorium, in the basement of the new of venture capital firm Not yet committed Moore Hall (on right), right across the street from the ‘81 tent and on-campus housing. Slayton Capital. He served to a life pursuing her dream, Sharon as the US Consul General to Bermuda for majored in Government at Dartmouth. After Laurel Richie ‘81 five years under both the GW Bush and a stint in the business world of theatre, she As we look for role models among the Obama administrations, earning a went on to join the Yale School of Drama, us, none stands taller than Laurel Richie. Congressional Distinguished Foreign Service class of 1988, and has not paused since. How fitting, then, that she continues Award. Gregory served as President of to serve as a leader and role model for ParaGraph International, MySoftware.com, Steven Zales ‘81 our nation’s young women. This month and ClickAction.com and served on the Truly a pioneer in delivering the digital age Laurel embarks on a new mission as board or as an advisor to Borland Software, to the mainstream consumer, Steve Zales President of the Women’s National Google, SalesForce.com and others. He has helped forge the future for companies Basketball Association (WNBA), the and his wife wrote a book commemorating from Sports Illustrated to Time Inc., ESPN world’s premier sports league for female the 400th anniversary of US and Bermuda to Spencer Stuart. At Time, Steve and his athletes. NBA Commissioner David Stern relations, generating over $250,000 for team were responsible for twelve websites notes, “Laurel combines extraordinary local Bermuda charities. in the food, home, health and travel marketing and brand management skills, With his Dartmouth BA in Economics, categories, one WAP site and mobile apps. with a tremendous enthusiasm to help Gregory was a Fulbright Scholar in Asian Prior to that, Steve conceived of CNNSI evolve young women into leaders.” This Studies in the Philippines and then went on and negotiated the joint venture between impressive responsibility comes on the for his MBA from Harvard Business School. Time Inc. and Turner, launching the sports heels of three years with the Girl Scouts information web site in only four months, of the USA, where Laurel served as Senior Beth Shapiro Lewyckyj ‘81 and generating $8 million in revenues in Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Terrorism and global politics are the first full year of operation. Steve also in the organization that inspired her as a young girl to “discover, connect, and Continued on page 4 JUNE 2011 NEwslEttEr Page 2 1981 Class Officers Top 10 Reasons to Come to Our 30th Reunion - finale President Here it finally is. This is my last official appeal to come Greg Clow to Reunion -- and my last newsletter writing before a [email protected] new slate of officers is elected at Reunion. It’s been an honor to serve you. -- RG Vice President Pam Gehret REASON #1: Mystery June 16-19, 2011 [email protected] No, I’m not trying to prolong the suspense. The #1 Reason Treasurer isn’t a mystery. Mystery is the #1 Reason. You should come to Reunion because, otherwise, Molly Van Metre you won’t know what you’re missing. [email protected] Hear me out on this one. It’s at the top of my list for good reason. Too many people miss reunion because they think they know what it will be like, they already Secretary Abner Oakes have many commitments in their life, and they don’t think they’re going to miss [email protected] anything crucial. But… You need to show up for life. We’ve all heard that expression. You know it Secretary means that you can’t fully experience something without being present, that you Julie Koeninger don’t really grow without taking active intentional steps, and that you need to take a [email protected] chance to allow for possibilities. But, if you know all this, then you also should know it means that you need to show up for Reunion. Newsletter Editor That’s right, it does. Reunion is not something that your friends can just fill you in on. Peter Oudheusden You are going to have to make an intentional decision to spend the time, money and effort [email protected] to be there. But, most importantly, there are surprises waiting for you at Reunion. And isn’t it life’s surprises that make it worth living – that hold its lessons, joy and potential? Newsletter Editor Whether or not you believe in coincidences, there are certainly times when we Robert Goldbloom [email protected] notice unexpected things come together in time and space.