MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Feel the Power: Class of 1981 Women

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Feel the Power: Class of 1981 Women

Greenways Celebrates Coeducation

Documentary Filmmaker (and Storyteller) Laurel Richie Gives Keynote Address Pamela Mason Wagner Presents: Makers

For three days in April, alumnae/i, students, faculty and adminis- trators marked 40 years of a coeducational Dartmouth. As you’ll read on the following pages, several classmates played key roles in the weekend-long celebration: WNBA president Laurel Richie delivered a keynote address and award-winning thespian Sharon Washington and Pulitzer Prize winner and trustee Annette Gordon-Reed sat on career panels.

After a day of panels, receptions and presentations, Greenways attendees repaired to Alumni Hall to hear another of our classmates, documentary filmmaker Pamela Mason Wagner. Pam played an important role directing Part III of Makers: Women Who Make America, the three-hour PBS documentary that traces the history of the women’s movement in American, while focusing on some of the key players in 60s and 70s feminism.

Laurel Richie sharing her experiences at Greenways Weekend Pam opened her remarks by directing the audience to the Makers website. The entire documentary plus video biographies of 100 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) president groundbreaking women are available at http://www.makers. Laurel Richie was one of several ’81s appearing front and center com. Or visit Amazon.com or SHOP PBS to purchase DVDs. Below during Greenways Weekend, celebrating 40 years of coeduca- is an excerpt of Pam’s revealing remarks. tion at Dartmouth. After a touching introduction by her niece Kara Richie ’11, Laurel gave the keynote address Saturday morn- ing. She opened her remarks by reminding the audience that the weekend was about storytelling, laying claim to the powerful impact of co-education. “As with any transformative initiative,” Laurel said, “telling our stories provides an opportunity to affirm the rightness of the decision, to celebrate its positive and lasting impact, and to show appreciation for those who paved the way for generations to follow.” Laurel then shared the powerful story of her journey “to, through and from Dartmouth.”

Pamela Mason Wagner introducing Makers at Greenways Weekend

For me, Makers began in 1973 when I was my junior high school valedictorian speaker. My speech was about Billie Jean King beating Bobbie Riggs—an event that’s covered in the documen- Kara Richie ‘11 introduces her aunt, Laurel, the Greenways Keynote speaker Makers continued on Page 4

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1981 Class Officers 81s Are Listening fle. Where else does a movement from a Co-President Abner Oakes Bach cantata come just after Mel Tormé’s Julie Koeninger son and just before Jackson Browne, [email protected] For this column I and classmates have of- Götterdammerung, and John Cage?” Co-President fered up musical suggestions for others, Molly Sundberg Van Metre referencing artists and songs and CDs that Ed d’Agostino had this to say: “Personally, [email protected] people have been listening to the last sev- I love Radio Paradise. You need to give it Vice President eral months. But I realized the other night a fairly long ‘trial.’ Sometimes I turn it on Andrew Lewin that I was being pretty narrow: Nowadays, and don’t like anything that they play for a [email protected] we listen to music in all kinds of ways, not half hour or so. But then other times they play one really great song after another Secretary just through iTunes. Right now, in fact, I Robert Goldbloom have Pandora up and running, listening to a – not hits and often not from bands that [email protected] station that started with Trombone Shorty’s I’ve heard of. I find myself writing down record Backatown. I pay the annual $36 the names of artists. It’s available via your Secretary computer and TuneIn, and it has its own Brian Cusack to get Pandora One, that company’s com- [email protected] mercial free platform, and have assembled app.” 20 stations, which started with and high- Treasurer light, among others, Edith Piaf, classic And here is Mark Gheradi’s take: “Jane and George Alexakos I and the kids pretty much listen to music [email protected] soul, Antibalas, and the Talking Heads. Sure, there are times when Pandora can that we’ve downloaded from CDs and old Newsletter Editor be repetitious, playing the same songs in LPs to iTunes and play off of our iPods, Pat Berry certain stations, but I like the ease of the iPhones, and laptops. We’re an Apple fam- [email protected] service, its low cost, and the ability to find ily, so we share everything over a wireless network. We generally buy music from Newsletter Editor new music. I hear a song that I like, create Lynne Gaudet a station based on it, and then get it and iTunes, although I’m thinking of check- [email protected] songs like it, some of which are new to me. ing out MS Cloud Player as an alternative. When it comes to trolling for new music, Newsletter Editor I use various media to scan the market: Abner Oakes A free app that I have on my phone is [email protected] TuneIn, which connects to the internet (1) I listen to Sirius Radio. (2) I stream versions of terrestrial radio, lets me listen music from Pandora and have just begun Newsletter Editor to standalone NPR newscasts, and shares to explore Spotify. (3) Since I drink coffee Rick Silverman at Starbucks, I get new music suggestions [email protected] internet-only radio stations, like those from Sky and SomaFM. On the weekends I often there. (4) I also use Flipboard to aggregate Webmaster stream into the house New Orleans’ WWOZ, my newsfeeds. It’s a social-network ag- Will Blanchard WXPN from Philly, and KKJZ from Cal State gregation tool that collects the content [email protected] U. at Long Beach. As compared to Pandora’s of other social media and websites and Webmaster computer-generated playlists, there are presents it in magazine format, allowing Jim Jankowski times when I like to listen to real DJs. users to ‘flip’ through articles. When I run [email protected] a search for ‘music,’ I get suggestions for new music from various sites worth explor- Alumni Council Rep Classmate Laura Ackerman Smoller said ing (i.e. Indie Music Filter, Indie FM, NPR David Edelson that they do “a lot of iTunes on the iPhone [email protected] or iPad. We have Apple TV and like a sta- Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Death and Taxes, Spin Magazine, etc., ). (5) I also listen to tion called The Penthouse (not anythinghttp://www.musicgraphicsgalore.net/graphics/musicline10.gif like Page 1 of 1 Co-Head Agent Penthouse without the ‘The’), which plays TuneIn Radio, especially when I want to Martin Weinstein listen to foreign radio stations: Africa No. 1 [email protected] old jazz standards and the great American songbook. And we do a lot of iTunes shuf- (DRC), France Inter (France), and RAI Radio Co-Head Agent musicline10.gif 466×38 pixels 1 (Italy), to name a few.” 8/29/11 3:38 PM Lon Povich [email protected]

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http://www.musicgraphicsgalore.net/graphics/musicline10.gif Page 1 of 1 Makers continued from Page 1 tary. I’ve always felt, even when I was tion team rejected the idea outright, but quite young, that women were my constit- six weeks later he announced his brilliant uency and that I needed to use my voice idea that we interview Pat Schroeder. The on their behalf. younger women on the team looked at me, but I was just happy Pat made it into the Growing up in Southern California, I saw film. She would play an important role. women doing everything that men did: ed- iting our high school newspaper, heading While I am proud of Makers, there were the music programs I was involved with, a few things the film didn’t accomplish. winning elections for class president, and I regret that we didn’t show women like generally taking charge. Fast forward to our two female executive producers, Betsy 1977 when I arrived in Hanover fresh off West or Dyllan McGee or me, women Pam and Lynne Gaudet enjoying ‘81 camaraderie the plane from Southern California, hav- who have managed to raise children and ing never visited the campus. I came to Mary Daly. I read the foundational litera- pursue fulfilling careers without contort- Dartmouth because of a boy. He wasn’t ture of academic feminism as it was being ourselves into superwomen. Instead my boyfriend, but he was an older role ing written. At the time, of course, I was the film tells the story of a woman who model who I did theater with in high oblivious to how amazing that was. dropped out of the work force when she school. He praised the drama department had children. The “having it all” conver- at Dartmouth and said I needed to be part When I graduated I knew I wanted to sation still needs to happen. I saw that of it. use my interest in storytelling to help my Princeton professor and former White constituency, which I continued to see as House staffer Anne Marie Slaughter re- Hanover was so different from Southern women. I entered into a male dominated cently gave a lecture at Tuck entitled California. Here people asked me what my business, using the Dartmouth old boy “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” the father did for a living! And I was not pre- network to find work, only to have one same title on her well-circulated Atlantic pared for the degradations women faced: Dartmouth alum ask me: “Why does a nice Magazine article that appeared while boys sitting at the base of the Green rating girl like you want to go into a dirty busi- we were finishing Makers, in June 2012. girls with numbers on large cards (“she’s ness like this?” I think it’s the wrong title; it should be a one, she’s a ten”) and coeds referred called “Why Women and Men Need to to as co-hogs. The year I arrived, Anne It was always my intention to gain pro- Have It All.” Society ignores at its peril Bagamery ’78 was the first female editor fessional skills in this male field so that the imperative for productive and healthy in chief of The Dartmouth. I was friendly someday I could use them to tell a female family and work lives. with Mary Cleary Kiely ’79, but when she story. When my phone rang 30 years af- became a Rhodes Scholar in 1980, it didn’t ter college and I was invited to work on I haven’t read Lean In, but in her Makers occur to me she could be the first woman Makers, I felt like I had prepared my whole interview, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at Dartmouth to be so honored. life for that moment. said she advises younger women to “marry the right guy.” I would second that. I mar- I majored in Film Studies, but I wasn’t If this sounds like a fairy tale, of course it ried the right man—or, in more politically happy to be one of two or three women is. The production was full of compromis- correct terms, found the right partner in in most of my film classes. Then I discov- es, some of which mimicked the struggles Thom Wagner. No question parenting is ered Women’s Studies. When I told my depicted in the film. One woman we inter- challenging work, but it’s much easier mom I wanted to take a class on women viewed described her experience in the an- when raising children is not perceived as writers, she worried about D.H. Lawrence ti-war movement in the sixties. Whenever women’s work, but as a shared respon- and the writers she’d grown up reading a woman would voice an idea, she said, sibility. That notion highlights another as an English major and teacher. Studying the room would go silent. Thirty minutes limitation of the documentary: we did not these lesser-known women writers didn’t later, a man would propose the same idea have enough time to discuss the changing feel serious to her, and she worried I was and the room would erupt in agreement. I definition of masculinity. Gloria Steinem wasting my time with marginal topics. had a similar experience when I proposed often points to men like Michael Kimmel Professors Brenda Silver, Marissa Navarro, we interview former congresswoman Pat when she is asked who is active on behalf Mary Kelly, and Claudia Reeder introduced Schroeder. A male member of the produc- of feminism today. “Women have done me to the likes of Helene Cixous, Makers continued on Page 6 Adrienne Rich, Phyllis Chessler, Greenways Celebrates Coeducation

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Ellen Brout Lindsey at Greenways Weekend Trustee Annette Gordon-Reed on a panel at Greenways

Westport, CT Mini-Reunion on June 5 Cocktail hour and dinner at Saugatuck Rowing Club For details, contact: [email protected] Indianapolis 500 Mini-Reunion, May 25 Family Cookout at Chris Morrison’s For details, contact: [email protected]

Indianapolis 500 Mini-Reunion Chris Morrison wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming mini-reunion in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 25 starting at 3:00 PM.

We have a big family cookout on the Saturday before Memorial Day (the day before the Indy 500). The party runs from 3:00 till whenever. We provide meat, drinks and appetizers and ask others to bring sides. If folks are coming from far away, don’t worry about bringing much. The party is made up of friends from dif- Frank “Pancho” Ryan has offered to organize an ‘81 mini- ferent areas of our lives so all are welcome. It has been a great reunion at the Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport, way to get ready for the 500, and we would love to see any ‘81s Connecticut. in the area. We live at 5160 Bantry Court, Indianapolis (on the west side of town just south of Eagle Creek Park). There will be a We are expecting a good turnout because we haven’t had a number of us that will head to the 500 the next day and anyone mini-reunion in this area, and there are a lot of ‘81s in CT else attending the race, we can make plans on Saturday. and on the northeast side of NYC. Of course, all ‘81s and their significant others are invited. The race is something to experience at least once. I moved here 10 years ago, went the first year just because I lived in The event will basically be a cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvres Indianapolis, and have been every year since. followed by dinner at the acclaimed Boathouse Restaurant. A late afternoon rowing lesson is also available for those inter- If people are going to make it, if they could let us know that ested. would be great. Feel free to e-mail me at chrismarieolivia@ya- hoo.com with any questions. For more details contact: [email protected]

Page 5 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Higgins Honored...Repeatedly like a job that will keep him busy, but he’s used to that. After Dartmouth, Higgins Dr. Robert Higgins has been very busy got his medical degree at Yale, followed by with all sorts of honors lately. First surgical residency at the Hospitals of the off, we were informed in early April University Health Center of Pittsburgh. He that he had been awarded the 2013 returned to Yale for cardiothoracic train- Distinguished Citizen Award by the District ing, and he also earned a master’s degree 39 Educational Foundation in Wilmette, in health administration from Virginia Illinois, where he resides. According to Commonwealth University. On top of that, an article by Kathy Routliffe in Wilmette from 1989 to 2004, he also served as a Life (April 4), the award recognizes a major in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical “Distinguished Citizen who has made ‘an Corps. After finishing his training, he exceptional contribution to our commu- went to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, nity and our world,’” including previous where he was director of pediatric cardiac recipients such as Chicago Mayor, Rahm math and science…the community has to transplantation at the Children’s Hospital Emanuel and world-renowned Chef Charlie invest and that’s what I’m doing.” of Michigan, and he started a successful Trotter. In his response to the honor, lung transplant program. From 1999 to Higgins remarked, “Sometimes you do In addition to the local honors at home, 2003, he served as chair of cardiotho- things in life not because you have a spe- Higgins was just named chair of the racic surgery at the Medical College of cific goal but because you have a commit- Department of Surgery at the Ohio Virginia, after which is was the chair of ment, and education has been my commit- State University College of Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular-Thoracic ment and passion over the years.” He has Columbus, Ohio. He joined Ohio State Surgery at Rush University Medical Center lived up to this commitment, “volunteering in July of 2010 as the director of the in Chicago until moving to Ohio State in to speak at math and science events at Comprehensive Transplant Center and 2010. He also serves on many national his children’s schools and serving as co- chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, a boards within his area of specialty. chair of the district’s science development position that he will maintain in conjunc- and enrichment committee…The future is tion with his new appointment. It sounds Although his job is in Columbus, he still based on our having strong foundations in maintains his home in Wilmette, with his wife, Molly, and three children. We’re not Rites of Spring sure where he finds time for the commute!

Makers continued from Page 4 enough heavy lifting on their own behalf,” he said. “Now it’s time for men to change.” But that interview didn’t make the cut.

I think we need to tell the truth about the world: that women do an enormous amount of work keeping the world afloat, but much of the work is uncompensated and unrecognized. My daughter and her generation will need to continue to advo- cate on behalf of women to see women as a constituency in need of a voice, in need of action. We each have an obligation not to procrastinate. We are all incredibly busy, but life is short. We need to seize our individual opportunities to make a dif- ference, to tell our stories and shape our Photograph unearthed of strange spring ritual at New England college. Maypole dancing without the maypole. Many inhabitants wore very short pants, perhaps to allow less inhibited move- world in such a way that future genera- ment. Historians have identified several of the participants: Abner Oakes, Brian Hitchcock, Tom tions aren’t seeking equality. They’re living Whittington, Mike Steinharter, James Bynoe, and Alex Dmyterko. Help is needed to identify others. it.

MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Page 6 Presidents’ Message: ‘81 Legacy chairs, maintaining need blind admissions, artist in residence programs, service programs, low interest loans to allow students As the calendar turns to May, spring finally appears to have taken to buy laptops, etc. Other suggestions ranged from advocating hold, a welcome reprieve from the seemingly endless winter (es- for alternative social solutions to Dartmouth’s fraternity-oriented pecially in Minneapolis, as Molly can attest!). Here in Boston, social scene, to finding ways to redress issues of intolerance ex- we’re also hoping that spring brings a return to some level of perienced on campus during our time at the College, to tackling normalcy after the tragic marathon bombings. issues beyond Dartmouth. As one of you said, “We were taught that the world’s problems are our problems. What better legacy One project your class officers have been working on this win- can we leave than to honor that teaching by solving one of the ter is collecting and analyzing the results of a “legacy survey” world’s problems? As more of us retire from previous commit- we asked you to complete. In order to start thinking about what ments, but retain all our know-how, we could organize ourselves lasting legacy the Dartmouth Class of 1981might want to leave into a formidable force.” to the College, we are interested in learning what legacy might mean to you and what your thoughts were on the type of endur- The next step is to put a working group together to continue the ing contributions our class can and should make. Thank you to legacy discussion and narrow down the possibilities a bit, with all who completed the survey. A majority of those who completed the goal of bringing a proposal with two or three ideas forward the survey felt strongly that leaving a legacy was important and at our next (34th) reunion in 2015. If you’d be interested in serv- also felt strongly that they wanted to participate in the creation ing on the legacy working group, please let Molly or me know. We of a class legacy. encourage everyone to consider getting involved in this important project. The survey showed that we have many great ideas for Many of you also wrote thoughtful, detailed comments. Most legacy projects, but refining the ideas and their successful execu- felt that a legacy gift should be enduring and should involve the tion will depend on the collaboration of a broad range of class- broadest class participation possible. Some suggested concrete mates. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. ideas for a cabin, sculpture, statue, painting, tree, sports facility or even a piece of music, but many also advocated for programs Enjoy the spring! over physical memorials: scholarships and fellowships, endowed --Julie and Molly

Give a Rah! Give a Rouse!

On April 3, Dave Edelson was honored with induction into the Stephen F. Mandel ‘52 Society for his fund-raising work as Head Agent for the Class of ‘81 for the Dartmouth College Fund. He’s pictured with Bruce Miller ‘74, who presented the award. The citation follows.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING. As a sophomore, David Edelson received a citation in Math 3 for showing “most impressive work” in a class of 120 students. As an alumnus he has been equally impressive, volunteering for Dartmouth for 30 years, most recently as his 30th reunion giving co-chair. In defer- ence to David’s irrepressible sense of humor and love of limericks, a tribute: A strong-arming charmer named Dave, Did something both wondrous and brave: He raised three million dollars from 600* scholars, Give a rah! Give a rouse! Give a rave! *well, officially 578 With great gratitude Dartmouth welcomes David Bick Edelson ’81 into the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society, which recognizes alumni volunteers who provide vi- sionary leadership to Dartmouth through the Dartmouth College Fund. David Edelson receiving the Stephen F. Mandel Award from Bruce Miller ‘74, Chair of the Dartmouth College Fund Committee

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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Feel the Power: Class of 1981 Women

Greenways Celebrates Coeducation

Greenways: The Women of ‘81 Return in Force Over the weekend of April 5 to 7, Dartmouth women came back to campus to celebrate forty years of coeducation. As you can see, the ‘81 women made a strong showing, including powerful presentations by Pamela Mason Wagner and Laurel Ritchie. If you weren’t able to make it to the event, you can find out more about it and see a photo gallery by visiting http://dartmouth. org/greenways/. Visit our Facebook page and leave a comment or see what classmates have to say about the event.