MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Feel the Power: Class of 1981 Women
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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 class- mates, 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 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Science and Skiing in Utah. 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The product turned out well, but is the human connection be- the foil pouches could not be sealed to our tween the foundation and Haiti. specifications. In 2011, we tried a factory He has performed free surger- ies for years at the Hopital Chris Mullery: Got Jump Gel? From the Top of Telluride “Okie” Jim Randolph (center) shared this photo on our Facebook page, and he described his chance meeting with cousins Gordy (left) and Bobby (right) Davenport while having a beer: “The amazing thing to me is that I had not seen either of them since graduation and heard just snippets about them in the alumni news and at the few reunions that I have attended. Despite that I recognized Gordie from his profile and hairline which has been receding the same way for all of this time. The other thing was it felt like we were meeting as long lost brothers but not 30 years long. It was great catching up and hearing the various trails our lives had taken. But the best was just being back together with very close friends who knew me way back…back when I had hair.” MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER Page 2 musicline10.gif 466×38 pixels 8/29/11 3:38 PM 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.