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Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 1 Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Where Did Summer Go? Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 2 Presidents’ Letter So, reserve now at Reservation page for Class of 1980 Sixtieth Birthday . Here’s a quick update from co-presidents Finally, we encourage you to visit our Susan Fagerstrom and Mark Alperin: Class website (www.1980.dartmouth.org) Hello Fellow Eighties! to keep abreast of our Class activities, such as the above two terrific mini- We have some exciting reunions, as well as our Class Memoriam plans for getting page and our new page, Eighty Creates, together for good which highlights the creative endeavors of fellowship this year! our talented class. The first will be this Your Class Executive Committee meets via Mark Alperin coming Homecoming conference calls every month from Weekend, October 6-7th . September to June to help bring all this to Our second annual you. We are an inclusive group so anyone Homecoming Dinner who would like to contribute may by will take place at the simply emailing one of us. Dartmouth Outing Club house on Best, Saturday October 7th at 5:30pm. Last year 40 Mark Alperin and Susan Fagerstrom classmates and guests Co-Presidents Susan Fagerstrom attended the first dinner. So come to Hanover to enjoy a full Emails: [email protected] weekend of festivities capped off by our [email protected] class dinner at this premier Dartmouth venue. Click here to register and see who is attending. Don’t forget to visit our new class website And, how about a fun-filled weekend in at 1980.dartmouth.org Scottsdale, Arizona at the beautiful Marriott Camelback Resort to celebrate our 60 th Birthday together? Spend the last weekend in April relaxing with some of your closest friends whom you have known for most of those sixty years. There promises to be a wealth of group and individual activities taking full advantage of this incredible location. There will be hiking, biking, golf, tennis, museums, spas, ballooning and more, including a special dinner at Taliesin West, the western studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 3 Homecoming Weekend - Crosby Street, between Topliff and the tennis courts - hope to see lots of ‘80’s October 6 - 8, 2017 marching - look for the ‘80 banner! Homecoming comes early this year, right DARTMOUTH NIGHT PARADE – 7:30- at the peak of the fall foliage season, on 8:00 pm Columbus Day weekend, in Hanover. Will Along Lebanon and Main Streets, and you be coming to Hanover for around the Dartmouth Green Homecoming? If so, please be sure to reach out to your fellow ‘80’s. For your DARTMOUTH NIGHT CEREMONIES – convenience, here’s a quick overview of 8:00 pm the weekend’s planned events: Steps of Dartmouth Hall FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6th BONFIRE ON THE GREEN – 8:30 pm NAVIGATING COLLEGE ADMISSIONS – 2:00–4:30 pm Location T.B.D. - A workshop for alumni and their children. Registration Required: (603) 646-2258. BAKER BELL TOWER TOURS - 2:00– 4:30 pm Self-guided - directions and information available at front desk, main hall of Baker- Berry Library. Tours may be canceled due to weather. BACK TO CLASS: “ENDURING GATHERING FOR ALUMNI, FAMILIES, VIETNAM” : SOME REFLECTIONS - AND FRIENDS 4:00-5:00 pm Post Glow Dartmouth Green - stay warm Room 003, Rockefeller Center - James with the spark of the Dartmouth spirit - Wright provides a close look at the combat enjoy refreshments with alumni from experience, what drove the young people around the globe . who served, how Washington-based policy affected them, and the cold welcome so SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 th many experienced when they came home. STEAM TUNNEL & POWER PLANT DARTOBERFEST – 5:00 - 7:00 pm TOUR - 9:30 am Tent, Alumni Gym Lawn - Get warm and Meet at the heating plant entrance, facing enjoy some food, drink and fun. New Hampshire Hall - Limited to the first 35 people, this tour takes participants into ALUMNI AND UPPER CLASS the power plant and the steam tunnel. STUDENTS GATHER FOR PARADE – Starting at 6:15 pm Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 4 BAKER BELL TOWER TOURS - 10:00 am Memorial Field - hope to see everyone in –12:30 pm the Class of 1980 section of the stands! Self-guided - directions and information available at front desk, main hall of Baker- HOMECOMING DINNER - 5:30 pm Berry Library. Tours may be canceled due DOC Clubhouse - join us for our 2nd to weather. annual Class Homecoming Dinner! SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th MEN’S HOCKEY VS. THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR – 1:00 pm Thompson Arena Notes On Classmates Marsha McNair shared this update shortly after the last newsletter went out: “I'd like to share this with '80. I’m producing a revival of Sistas on Fire! A Newsical , the play I co-wrote with one BACK TO CLASS: LECTURE SERIES - of my colleagues at DARTMOUTH’S ENTREPRENEURIAL Nassau Community MINDSET—BRINGING RESEARCH TO LIFE College. In 2010, the – 10:30-11:30 am play was a semi- Dartmouth 105 - presented by Joe Helble, finalist in the Long Dean Of The Thayer School. Island Fringe Marsha McNair Festival and a finalist in the Notes From a MEN’S RUGBY VS. YALE - 11:00 am Page/Illuminating Artists New Works Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse Festival. We have a new director, cast, and score. I’ve enjoyed updating the BARTLETT TOWER OPEN HOURS - script. This is a photo of me (second from 11:30 am –1:00 pm the right) and the cast. Climb the 86 steps to the top of the 71- foot-tall stone structure built between BTW, love the newsletter!“ Thanks, 1885 and 1895. Marsha - glad to hear the feedback. PRE-GAME TAILGATE - 11:30-ish am – Jandel Allen-Davis shares this update on 1:30 pm some of her many happenings since Sphinx AD lawn across from Memorial graduation: “I have been relatively radio Gym - look for the 1980 banner silent over these many years. Thank you for taking on the task of herding us FOOTBALL VS. YALE - 1:30 pm cats! What's news and what's new Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 5 regarding my last near 36 years ? • Healthy, happy, beginning to think about more travel (recently back from • Married to a fellow Dartmouth guy from tens days in Belize and a seven day the class of '82 for 32 years, who trek through the Canadian Rockies; we works for Oracle dive and hike and I walk practically everyday and lift weights a couple of days a week: TMI?) I work hard on behalf of communities, laugh daily and love Dartmouth for all the obvious reasons and, as one of the early women to attend the College, for those less obvious! Indeed, life is good, in spite of its normal and expected/unexpected goods and bads!” Jandel Allen -Davis and husband Anthony Davis • Had two kids who both live in NYC and Editor’s note - Sorry, Jandel, but my fear one of whom graduated from The of snakes prevented me from including College on the Hill in 2009 (Courtney the picture of you holding one :-) Davis: she is at the New York Times) Check out this article in The Dartmouth • Practiced Ob/Gyn for 25 of those years from earlier in the year on our own and became a full time "dark side" Pamela Katz . Since health plan executive in 2009. My graduation, she has responsibilities include health services been involved in film, research, community benefit, as a camera community relations, integrated assistant and as a marketing, integrated communications, screenwriter. She’s issues management, stakeholder also an accomplished engagement, and government novelist and in her relations. I say I live in my car. “spare time” is a • I do my fiber art (OMG! I have a show professor of in a real gallery in November here in screenwriting at New Denver with a glass artist: "When Fiber York University’s Meet Glass: A Dialogue") Tisch School Of The Arts. You can read • Did I mention how much I love being Pam Katz outdoors? I take pics and have a FB the entire article/ page full of quite safe photography of interview at http:// birds, snakes, flowers and the natural www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/01/ world in transition, along with an alumna-qa-pamela-katz-80-screenwriter- occasional NYT article novelist-professor . Dartmouth Class of 1980 - Autumn 2017 Newsletter Page 6 Bennett Samson shared a video from the in Chichester, NH, and run a physical Liberty Hill Foundation on our class health and wellness program at a Facebook page, back community mental in late February. health center in Bennett writes: Concord. I also teach “Proud, especially at several yoga classes this moment in time, each week and teach to be working with skiing at Wildcat the Liberty Hill Mountain in the Foundation to winter, so I am support their frequently on Wildcat Bennett Samson investments in looking across to Marsha Rich grassroots organizations working to Mount Washington, or the other way strengthen social, economic and around. environmental justice in LA. For those unfamiliar, here's just a taste of In other news, both my kids the work: https://www.facebook.com/ are done with college and living out west - bennett.samson/ my son worked this winter making snow posts/10154981934615138 .” and grooming at Beaver Creek, CO, and my daughter skis, kayaks and works at a Maria Basescu winery in White Salmon, Washington. offers “Just Must have been something in the Hanover completed a nearly climate that turned me (as well as my $2 million DNA) into a winter fanatic.” renovation of an historic building, Following is the link to the Wall Street now Next Stage Arts Journal article, although the entire article Project Performing is available to subscribers only, sadly - Arts Center, in https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-mountain Putney, VT of which -getawayin-minus-50-degrees- I am the executive Maria Basescu 1492010857 .