July 2010 NEWSLETTER DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS of 1981
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July 2010 NEWSLETTER DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 Newsletter Editors: Peter Oudheusden • [email protected] • Robert Goldbloom • [email protected] Alumni Fund Goal of 50% for our 50th 50% Birthday Surpassed! GOAL The theme of the July Class Newsletter is “‘81s Stepping Up.” And what can be more indicative of that theme, and more all incompassing than the effort our class agents, Hallidie Haid and David Edelson put in and the response they got from Alumni Council President our classmates. Our goal was to beat our 50% Janine Avner ’80 self-imposed level, but when the last dollar was presents the counted, we had pushed beyond that to go as high Alumni Award to Rick Silverman. as 52% Congratulations to all! photo Joseph Mehling ‘69 GOAL When asked to comment, David said, “All of us Rick Silverman Honored with Dartmouth Alumni Award should be proud of how our Class came together this year in support of the 2010 Dartmouth College At the May Alumni Council meeting, Rick Silverman was presented with the Alumni Fund Campaign. Our participation jumped by almost Award. The Award recognizes long-standing and meritorious service to Dartmouth, 10% over the prior year and our contributions with career achievement and community service as additional important dimensions. increased by more than $110,000. Our results were Only one other member of our class, Karen McKeel Calby, has received the Alumni truly exceptional and demonstrate the strength of Award, and no one in any class after ’81 has yet received it. • While Rick was our Class. Over 50 classmates devoted their time characteristically humble about the award, he still felt that, “It was such an awesome to reaching out to fellow classmates by phone, evening.” Friends and family were on hand to see the event. In his speech accepting email and US mail. We’d like to thank all of you the Award, Rick thanked several ’81 classmates, and also reflected back on how surreal who contributed your time and, of course, thanks to it seemed to him to have arrived at this point in his life. He quoted E.M. Forster: “We every member of the Class of ‘81 who supported the must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned to have the life that is waiting for College through the 2010 DCF Campaign.” • In this us.” • A copy of the text of the Alumni Award itself is follows, and touches on many time of economic malaise, it is gratifying to see our of Rick’s inspirational achievements and acts of service: classmates recognize “Richard T. Silverman ‘81 - You’ve noted grew and you enjoyed working as a drill the need of incoming FINAL - 52% that you are drawn to a world beyond our instructor, participating in the German and returning Goal 2010 - 50% borders and it was this sense of wanderlust Club, and spending two terms studying in undergraduates that attracted you to Hanover. Fascinated Berlin and Mainz. A liberal arts education who benefit from with the many options the Dartmouth was perfect for you as you modified a our help. Thanks Plan had to offer and the wide variety of German major with biology, enabling you once again to opportunities to study abroad, Dartmouth to eventually pursue a medical degree. No the whole Class was the place for you. • When attending less energetic outside the classroom, you of 1981. a foreign language performance, you had sang in the Dartmouth Aires and Glee Club; Total 2009 - 42% the opportunity to meet John Rassias and led admissions tours; rowed freshman thus commenced a lifelong friendship crew; joined Zeta Psi fraternity; wrote with this wonderful teacher. A passion for for the Jack-O-Lantern; volunteered for foreign languages (German in particular) Continued on page 2 www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Continued from page 1 winter sports; and participated in the NCAA Youth Danielle Dyer is President-Elect of the Alumni Council Big Brother program. • Upon graduation, it was off to Pennsylvania State University where you At this spring’s Council meeting, our own Danielle Dyer was elected President-elect of the received a medical degree followed by residencies Dartmouth Alumni Council. Congratulations Danielle!! We wish you all the best in this in general surgery and plastic surgery. During this critical role. • We asked Danielle to describe for us what all this means both in terms of the period you must have worked on cloning yourself Alumni Council and for her personally. The following is in her own words: because somehow you also found the time to spend “The mission of the AC is to sustain a fully informed, representative, and engaged exchange a summer conducting research in West Germany; of information and sentiment between alumni and their College, and to enhance and inspire work two months in a South African hospital; and alumni involvement that furthers the mission of the College. So what does that mean? It travel six months as a fellow in reconstructive means that twice a year, a group of Alumni Councilors come together to actively learn about microsurgery in Taiwan and Australia. The next the current state of the College and its future goals, and communicate that knowledge to few years were spent serving on the staffs of the all alumni via their constituency base. These Councilors are either elected or appointed by University of Massachusetts Medical Center and a particular constituency – class, club, affiliated group, graduate school, etc. – and serve on the Caritas Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center before 1-3 committees that are formally a part of the Council organization structure. One of those forming a private practice, New England Plastic Committees (and one of the ones of which I am a member) is the Trustee and Alumni Council Surgical Associates, in 2005. • You have credited Nominating Committee. As your parents with instilling in you the importance you might have guessed of volunteering at a young age. Lucky for us, from its name, its purpose Dartmouth has been the main recipient of your is to nominate competent, time and energy. You have served as an enrollment qualified, independent alumni interviewer since graduation and supported candidates to serve on the the Class of 1981 as assistant head agent, 15th Dartmouth Board of Trustees and 25th Reunion chair, executive committee (and on the Council for a member, co-secretary, president, Reunion giving few of the seats that are not committee member, and representative to the otherwise elected directly Alumni Council. While on the Alumni Council you by a specific constituency). were a member of the athletics, executive, alumni This committee nominated liaison, and nominating and alumni trustee search the two trustee candidates committees. Recognized for your strong leadership that the Alumni body just qualities you were elected president of the Alumni elected to the Board – John Council and served as the chair of the Alumni Replogle and Mort Kondracke Liaison Committee. • With what little spare time – after a detailed vetting process over the course of a multi-year period. We are now gearing you have, what do you decide to do? For almost up to start the process again in order to nominate two more candidates for the recently twenty years you have organized annual trips to announced two vacant seats on the Board. • Each year the Council elects a President-elect Ecuador with a team of physicians and nurses who serves in that role for one year and then becomes President the following year. I will to donate your medical services by conducting spend this year “in training” under the very able tutelage of Tom Peisch ’70 who will serve as reconstructive surgery on children with congenital President. In addition to providing general leadership to the Council group, the President’s deformities and burns. The extraordinary impact job is to facilitate the twice per year Council meetings, to serve on a couple of specific you have had on their lives is everlasting. • Committees and to work through any individual issues that arise and need to be addressed Recently commenting, “At Dartmouth I learned during the course of the one-year term. • I am thrilled to be serving in this role, but am that life plans should be flexible,” your life story humbled by the fact that I have really big ’81 shoes to fill as both Rick Silverman and Karen is a virtual blueprint of flexibility. Whether McKeel Calby have also served in this role. Thanks to Lynne Gaudet’s insufficiently applauded responding to alumni in your role as council expert leadership behind the scenes in Alumni Relations, I am hoping to carry off my duties president; organizing your 25th Reunion; or and responsibilities without too many blunders!! It is always such a pleasure and a real making a child in South America smile; your learning experience to play any role in Dartmouth activities and my involvement with the easygoing personality combined with a healthy Council certainly tops that list! My family – Alec Kloman ’80 DMS ’86 and kids Storey (15) dose of good humor sets a congenial tone and Will (11) also like to take advantage of any opportunity for a trip to Hanover! • As some for every occasion. • In appreciation of your of you know, I am a management consultant with a principle focus on health care provider outstanding commitment to your profession, strategic planning, operations and governance design. Hopefully, my facilitation skills honed society and alma mater, it is our honor to present working with hospital boards, physician and administrative leaders will also come in handy you with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.” with Council members!!” JULY 2010 NEWSLETTER Page 2 1981 Class Officers Top 10 Reasons to Come to Our 30th Reunion - continued We started our countdown in the last edition with: President REASON #10: Nostalgia 30th Reunion Greg Clow June 16-19, REASON #9: A Beautiful Place to be in June [email protected] 2011 And now we continue: Vice President Pam Gehret REASON #8: Support the College [email protected] Yes, it’s true that during a Reunion Year, alumni giving is especially encouraged, and as a class we try to sponsor a Reunion Gift.