DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER
The countdown to 35th Reunion begins! June 18 - 21, 2015
Let The Games Begin...
Members of the class executive committee gathered at Class Officers Weekend in Hanover in September to share ideas and spark enthusi- asm as we work toward our 35th Reunion next June. Seated are Annette Gordon-Reed (trustee) Robert Goldbloom, Molly Sundberg VanMetre, Lynne Gaudet, and standing, Rick Silverman, Julie Koeninger, Pat Berry, Bill Burgess (trustee), and Bob Gaudet. Although the Class of ‘79 won Class of the Year, they had to acknowledge that with three class members on the Board of Trustees (Laurel Richie is our third) to their two, the ‘81s wield 33% more influence. ‘Nuff said.
What’s Wrong With This Picture!?
Well, they’re in...We all remember our ‘81 shirts, and in fact, many of us probably still have them tucked away somewhere. Can you still fit into yours? If not, may- be you can pick up an ‘18 shirt and wear it inside-out. If the freshmen were still able to storm the football field, you think they might recreate the ‘88 fiasco?
Google My Doodle By Beth Harris Artistic talent runs in the family: Kim was a visual studies ma- jor at Dartmouth, and Alys’ sister, Emma, was the 2013 Alaskan Thanks to the artistic talent of a 12-year-old Alaskan girl, a winner for the Doodle for Google contest. Kim is now the man- group of ’81s was recently reunited in San Francisco. Kim Dunn’s aging partner at an employment law firm in Anchorage, and her daughter, 6th grader Alys Korosei, was the Alaskan state winner husband Tom is an urban planner. for the Doodle for Google contest. Each year, school kids from all over the U.S. are asked to “doodle” their inventions to make Kim took advantage of the trip to reunite with several the world a better place. Alys thought up a fabulous machine Dartmouth classmates. Beth Harris ’81 and Tom Booher ’81 live that turns garbage into fuel. In recognition of her accomplish- in the Palo Alto area where they love to mountain bike and hike ment, Google brought Kim and Alys to Google headquarters in whenever possible. Tom is an executive vice president for PNC the Bay Area for the awards ceremony. Other than the special Real Estate, and Beth focuses on grant writing, governance, Google celebration, Alys was most excited about the opportunity and program work with a variety of educational non-profits. to shop in the many SF stores that they don’t have back home in They were joined by their daughters, Kat (23), who works with a Anchorage. Doodle continued on page 3
www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Freedom Fighter Internet to disrupt their grip on power. She Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe ’81 doubts the resolution would pass today.
Human rights advocate champions Internet freedom might seem an abstract internet access for all issue, but it keeps Donahoe up at night. ‘81s Are Listening “Many people in my life, even my husband by Abner Oakes By Andrea Useem [eBay president and CEO John Donahoe Taken from the Dartmouth Alumni ’82, a former Dartmouth trustee], are OK, it’s September 1 today, and you need some new music for the Magazine, available on-line at mystified by my passion on this issue,” fall, yes? Well, here’s what’s spinning at the Oakes/Jewett house http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/ar- she laughs. “But it became obvious to me these days. What’s spinning at yours? Alys Korosei’s trash converter. ticles/voices-wilderness-5 early on that Internet freedom is the new Doodle continued from page 1 battleground. If you don’t protect the plat- 1. Lake Street Dive, Bad Self Portraits (2014). I first got to know health technology company in San Franciso, and Sarah (13), An ambassadorship may seem like a plum form where people exercise their rights, this Boston-based band through their cover of The Jackson Five’s who spends her free time doing equestrian vaulting (essentially assignment, but the post President Obama then you’re not protecting their rights.” “I Want You Back,” filmed around a single mike on a Brighton, MA offered Donahoe in 2009 was anything street corner. Jazzy, bluesy, full of soul. Love Rachael Price’s voice. gymnastics on a cantering horse). Beth and Tom’s son Alex was still away finishing his second year at the University of St. but. The president tapped Donahoe to Donahoe has spent most of her adult As the review by NPR stated, “It’s a ringingly clear, strong voice, a Andrews in Scotland. Another ’81 couple, Cindy Stephens Bloch become the first-ever U.S. ambassador to life with John in Silicon Valley, raising sound that’s at once beseeching and in control.” and Roger Bloch, is now based in the Bay Area after spend- the United Nations Human Rights Council four children—including Thomas ’09 and (HRC)—a body previously boycotted by the ing many years in Texas. Cindy recently co-founded ForUs, a point, she says. When long-time leader Catherine ’15—and earning degrees from 2. St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Half the City (2014). My son United States and described as “highly technology company focused on helping people make financial Muammar el-Qaddafi responded to an Stanford (J.D. and a master’s in East Asian turned me on to this band. “Hey, Dad,” he said, “you need to listen dysfunctional” by The New York Times. planning decisions about their retirement, and Roger works for armed rebellion with a brutal crackdown, studies), Harvard (a master’s in theological to this cool neo-soul group. And they’re from Aalabama.” (Yeah, “Colleagues and friends I respect told me Exxon Mobil and regularly commutes back and forth to Calgary. the U.N. general assembly voted to revoke studies) and Cal-Berkeley (a Ph.D. in eth- we monitor neo-soul bands in this household.) As with Rachael not to take the job. They thought the HRC Their daughters, Alison, who lives and works in finance in San Libya’s membership in the council—the ics). “I’ve been infused with the tech cul- Price, the vocals of Paul Janeway set this band apart from others was hopeless and that I’d fail,” she says. Francisco, and Rebecca, who attends Stanford Law School, also first time a country had ever been ejected ture that exists here,” she says. Donahoe in the genre. Reminds me at times of Roland Gift from Fine Young But where others saw a bureaucratic bas- joined the ’81 group for several dinners. It wasn’t too hard to for human rights violations. Donahoe says sees “serious threats” to the free flow Cannibals. ket case, Donahoe saw opportunity. She convince Susie Nutt ‘81 to take a few days off from her work that while this move may seem obvious of information online and the ability of believed “principled pragmatic engage- with SLCE Architects in NYC to enjoy a weekend with old friends from afar, it represented a major step for people worldwide to exercise their rights 3. The Macrotones, Darvaza (2012). OK, more from Boston, this ment” could help build a more effective on the West Coast. the HRC. “In the past, countries protected online. time Afro-beat, another genre that we monitor. I think that I have institution. “To me, any opportunity to one another,” she says. “We consciously suggested the group Antibalas in this column before, and the move the dial on human rights globally A couple of us started the weekend with a long hike in the lo- worked to change those dysfunctional dy- From her new post at Human Rights Macrotones are a less well known but still pretty great purveyor of was worth the risk. It turned out to be cal hills. Susie knew she wasn’t in Manhattan anymore after namics.” Donahoe’s ambassadorship also Watch, Donahoe promotes a system of this style of music. Lots of rhythm, lots of horns, pretty danceable. a gold mine opportunity for the United first spotting the sign warning of mountain lions in the area gave her a chance to make progress on an Internet governance that stays the hand of Put this on while loading the dishwasher and move! States to exert influence and promote our and then being told not to worry because there was really a issue that’s become increasingly important authoritarian regimes. She seems invigo- values in a way that exceeded our expec- much higher probability of crossing rattlesnakes on the trail. to her: Internet freedom. During her tenure rated by the challenge. “Even when ev- 4. Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, Go Go Swing Live tations,” says Donahoe, who stepped down Fortunately we saw neither. she helped persuade council members to eryone else’s eyes glaze over, follow what (1986). Do you know the genre of music called go-go, a style of from her U.N. post at the end of last year pass a resolution affirming rights to free- speaks to your heart. That’s where you’ll funk created in and around DC in the ‘70s? Chuck Brown, who and now continues her advocacy work as Other highlights of the weekend included dining at some won- dom of expression and association online. have an impact,” she says. died in 2012, is called the Godfather of Go-go, and we had a director of global affairs for Human Rights derful restaurants, a historical walking tour of the parts of “We had a window of opportunity and chance to see the Chuck Brown All Stars play just a few weeks Watch. Chinatown that tourists rarely see, and plenty of Ghirardelli we acted,” says Donahoe, explaining that Andrea Useem has worked as a foreign cor- ago, at an outdoor show. Go-go is a great sound, with junior con- chocolate. We also visited the Cable Car Museum where we felt as recently as 2011 many governments respondent in East Africa and an editor at gas providing the signature syncopated rhythm. The 2011 crisis in Libya was a turning some kinship with the inventor of the cable car, Andrew Hallidie, had not yet grasped the potential of the The Washington Post. 5. Fleetwood Mac, Tusk (1979). I had this on the other night, for whom our fellow ’81 Hallidie Grant is named. Keep In Touch while cleaning up in the kitchen, and I have such fond memo- ries of this double album landing at WFRD my junior year at The College has finally come to its senses and will allow classmates to share e-mail addresses of “missing” alumni with Alumni Dartmouth. Yeah, it was a big departure from Rumours, their Records, which wasn’t permitted for many years. Of course, the best way to keep Dartmouth up to date is to visit the Alumni previous record, and it took a while for me to warm to it. But its Directory, where you can add new information about yourself. With our reunion year upon us, now is a great time to log in and quirkiness, Lindsey Buckingham’s manic playing, and the ballads make sure your information is up to date. You DO NOT want to miss out on any of the excitement! from Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks still make me smile.
http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/von/directory
Kim Dunn, Roger Bloch, Cindy Stevens, Susie Nutt, Beth Harris, and Tom Booher
SEPTEMBER 2014 newsletter DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 25th Reunion Redux
SEPTEMBER 2014 newsletter Page 4 Page 5 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 President’s Message From the World Wide Web John Mott and The Washington other. 1981 Class Officers Canoe Club By Abner Oakes Greetings, classmates! John was a paddler as an undergraduate Co-President and actually lived one winter at Ledyard Early this summer, classmate John Mott in- Julie Koeninger I am watching the birch tree outside my window turn yellow al- vited me and Lolly and our Charlie for din- Canoe Club; he joined the WCC about a [email protected] most before my eyes! Thirty-seven years ago I watched the trees ner one evening at the Washington Canoe year ago, and now that we are members, he outside my window turn yellow almost before my eyes, too, which and I run into each other on the weekends Co-President Club (WCC), which on the Potomac near the Molly Sundberg Van Metre down there, when he’s out on his paddle was a great way to avoid doing the readings for History 5 and the Key Bridge, and we have been smitten with [email protected] impossible calculus problems for Math 3. The other thing that I this place ever since. John and I have seen board and I am out in a kayak. The WCC has have watched almost before my eyes is the rapid passing of time each other from time to time during my 20 ample kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards Vice President Andrew Lewin since our freshman fall. I was back on campus in September and I years in the DC area. John is an associate to borrow; there’s also a small but always [email protected] still get a little of that pea-green feeling! judge for the Superior Court of the District full beer frig, for relaxing on the dock after time out on the Potomac. Secretary You may have heard that we’re having a reunion in June! Re- Becky Nyren Shepherdson and Suzy Sudikoff Weixel summiting Mt. Robert Goldbloom Lafayette before meeting up for a girl’s weekend (see next photo!) united with the ‘79s and ‘80s for the first time in 15 years, we will Sure, the Potomac River is not [email protected] as pristine as the Connecticut, be a force to be reckoned with as a group! Our reunion planning Secretary committee is up and running and as we continue to create and fi- with the heavy summer rains Brian Cusack nalize the agenda, we will make sure you all know what to expect bringing all sorts of stuff into [email protected] and when to expect it! it and downstream. Sure, the WCC’s club house is boarded Treasurer George Alexakos In the meantime, we want to start reuniting with the ‘80s and up right now, as the club and [email protected] ‘79s via mini-reunions. We are looking for volunteers to help co- the National Park Service try ordinate events with the two other classes, especially in places to figure out some ownership Newsletter Editor Pat Berry where having three classes together will actually help to create issues. But it’s darn cool to be [email protected] critical mass for an event! (Like, for example, here in Minnesota, out in a kayak, the Washington where we have scads of ‘80s but not so many of the other two Monument off in the distance, Newsletter Editor classes). Please, please con- the neighborhood heron fly- Lynne Gaudet The Washington Canoe Club sider helping, and we will ing overhead, one of the great [email protected] American rivers flowing beneath. Let me connect you with the right of Columbia, and we ran into each other Newsletter Editor and John know when you’re in town; we’ll people from the other two Photo op shared by Lynne Gaudet: It was a great weekend at the lake during Dartmouth gatherings, during oc- Abner Oakes classes. You may feel free with these five fabulous ladies (left to right: Barbie Anderson Gogan, casional lunches that a bunch of ‘81s have head out for a paddle and a beer or two af- [email protected] Anne Minnich, Cathy Haley Rost, Lynne Hamel Gaudet, Suzy Sudikoff to contact me, Julie, Rick or from time to time, and at our boys’ soc- terwards on the dock. Weixel and Becky Nyren Shepherdson) from the great Dartmouth Class Newsletter Editor Robert. Our email addresses of 1981. I have been friends with these amazing women for almost 40 cer games, when their teams crossed each Rick Silverman are listed below. years. Thank you, Dartmouth! Doug Harrison [email protected] Nano, Nano...Nano-Reunion! Cheers! Rocky Mount, North Carolina Webmaster Will Blanchard Molly Classmate Doug Harrison was in town re- [email protected] cently, and he and his family and Charlie Webmaster Homecoming 2014, October 17 & 18 and I went to have pizza one evening at 2 Jim Jankowski Amy’s in NW DC. (Yes, it is the best pizza in [email protected] Friday, October 17 the DC, hands down.) Parade at 7 (classes gather by stadium) Alumni Council Rep David Edelson Dartmouth Night Ceremonies & Bonfire at 8 They were in town as Doug’s oldest daugh- Doug and Jama Harrison [email protected] Saturday, October 18 ter Jordan was doing a sprint triathlon Pre-game gathering (& new banner reveal!!) with ‘79s and ‘80s that weekend in DC; Jordan is going into Both Doug and Jama continue to doctor in Co-Head Agent Martin Weinstein at 11 (by Sphinx) her sophomore year at Northwestern and the Rocky Mount, NC area. And Jordan’s [email protected] Football (v. Holy Cross) at 1:30 majoring in journalism, with an eye to race went well on Sunday, although the being a science writer. Doug and Jama’s swim portion was called off; it was sup- Co-Head Agent For the complete list of Dartmouth Night & Homecoming other daughter Mackenzie is busy at the posed to be in the Potomac, which had Lon Povich [email protected] Weekend activities visit http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/events/ North Carolina School of Science and become kind of yucky on race day, given the homecoming/events What is the definition of a “nano-reunion?” Pat Berry and Kirk Read rain run off the night before. ran into one another at the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity, Mathematics, a residential high school in Maine. Now, that’s a nano-reunion! Durham that is also Jordan’s alma mater. --Abner
SEPTEMBER 2014 newsletter Page 6 Page 7 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Mailing Panel
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER The countdown to 35th Reunion begins! June 18 - 21, 2015
A Banner Year
With our 35th Reunion less than a year away, we are kicking it into high gear for reunion planning. We will be clustered with the ‘79s and ‘80s, and some of our activities will be done jointly, some will be on our own. If you’d like to be involved in the planning process, please contact reunion chair, Rick Silverman, at [email protected], or let anyone in class leadership (see page 7) know of your interest, and they’ll steer you in the right direction.
June 18 - 21, 2015
Mark your calendars and save the dates, make travel arrangements, organize pet sitters, and get ready to drink the ‘80s beer. You’ll be hearing from us much more in the com- ing months. We’ll also be posting on Facebook, so now might be a good time to join the “Dartmouth Class of 1981” Facebook Group for lots of pictures and fun. See you in June!
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