February 2014 Newsletter Inauguration of President Hanlon ‘77

DARTMOUTH 1987 February 2014 Newsletter Inauguration of President Hanlon ‘77

he weekend of September 20- er last year, we were treated to front College Fund (DCF) participation, 21, 2013 was a glorious week- row seats when the awards were dues participation and class proj- Tend in Hanover. More than presented to the Class of ’55 and ’88. ects. Our class did fine under this 350 alumni and their guests were on s another special treat we were new system; however, we need to campus for the 2013 Class Officers also given prime reserved seat- increase the number of classmates Weekend (COW) and the inaugura- Aing at Convocation and the In- who pay dues and who contribute to tion of president Philip J. Hanlon auguration of Philip J. Hanlon ’77 as the DCF. We can all understand that ‘77. During this annual weekend, the 18th President in the Wheelock contribution towards the DCF helps volunteers for the classes gather Succession. Both Presidents Jim Dartmouth to continue to provide a to get up-to-the date information Kim and James Wright took part in wonderful education, fund financial about the College and her initiatives, the ceremonies. Prior to the ceremo- aid and attract and keep outstand- as well as the opportunity to meet ny, President Hanlon hosted a cook- ing faculty. Your annual Class Dues with representatives from the Alum- out for the Dartmouth community helps to cover expenses associat- ni Relations office and other class on Tuck Mall. Live music was provid- ed with producing our paper class leaders to find ways to add value to ed by the Barbary Coast Brass Band newsletters, planning and preparing the alumni experience and to con- and the Dartmouth Idol All-Stars. for mini-reunions, class activities, nect with our classmates. Several uring COW, we learned about a class projects and various other class of our class officers were able to -at new system for measuring the expenses. Do your part by paying tend the weekend festivities, includ- Dperformances of the various your class dues, so we can raise our ing Tracey Salmon-Smith, Karyn classes so that comparisons amongst participation rate, as well as improve Calcano and Raffiq Nathoo. As re- classes would be fair. The new class class activities for the next year. cipient of the 2012 Class of the Year “metric” systems looks at things such Award for 25 Years Out and Young- as mini-reunion activity, Dartmouth www.dartmouth87.org Dartmouth1987 Dartmouth1987

The Great Class of 1987 - - February 2014 I ‘87s Take St. Louis by Storm newsletter reporter intheMidwest, Conrad newsletter Smith reporter andpickup all around thecountry ‘87s interested inattending. Ihopeyou’re withthat Dave! okay - Your loyal ’87 works for future of the country. events time, in other parts Next I think Dave Wiser has offered privateto fly his plane our classes25threunion inHanover theprevious summer. Afuntimewas hadby allandplansare already inthe Panagos (St. Louis, MO). The ideafor thegettogether was hatched alate during night brainstorming sessionduring waukee, WI), - EricNelsen (Mil (Saratoga Springs, NY), Darr Keiger FL),Andy McGrath (Miami, more, MD), Steve Conlin (Boston, MA), tendees includedJohnCampbell (Balti- baseball game(seeattached photo). At and aSt. Louis Cardinals vs. ChicagoCubs boating,ing aconcert, waterskiing, pong weekend offunandreminiscing includ- Olympics in1904. The ‘87s gathered for a hosted both the World’s Fair and Summer been thebiggestevent since thecity Louis Mayor, Francis Slay, itmay have nagos, andhisfamily. According to St. ofhost, Pete hospitality wonderful Pa - West” dueto itscentral location andthe who converged onthe “Gateway to the if you have any similargatheringswithclassmates! group, butonlyifhehadfulleditorial control ofthecontent. Ithinkhewas withthedetails!Please quite letusknow kind Editor’s note: ran Betsy into Conrad inHanover and hesaidagreed to write ofthe inlate thisuponbehalf October by a bunch of wayward Dartmouth by abunch ofwayward Dartmouth ‘87s, August,n early St. Louis was “stormed” ‘86 tailgate. TraceyHill Salt Erhmann at the Pub.Martha Mead and Jeff Salmon-Smith, crashTracey the McIlwain Matt and Conrad MN),JohnWalsh Smith(Minneapolis, (Boston, MA); Dave Wiser - 2 www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 (Cincinnati, OH)andhostPete Dartmouth1987 2013 Dartmouth Night The Great Class of 1987 - February 2014

Callum McDonald, 8 year old son of Jock McDonald and Alison Bleyler McDonald was the Class of ‘87 Flag Bearer this year. Because we received the “Class of the Year” award after our 25th Reunion, we were at the front of the Dartmouth Night Parade! In addition to the McDonald family, the Great Class of ‘87 was represented by Tracey Salmon-Smith, Martha Ehrmann, Jeff Mead, and Mark Putter and family. Also spotted over the weekend were Holly Taylor and Tom Palisi. Great showing 87’s! Homecoming 2014 will be Oct 17 - 19, 2014.

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Occum PondOccum during2014Winter Carnival. This year’s themewas “Carnival ofThrones: Winter isComing”.The Great Class of 1987 - - February 2014 87th Night isHERE! 87th Night MA, Boston, Hanover, Hartford in thefollowing cities:Amherst, mini-reunions were heldlastyear and web site asdates are set. Nine the classof1987Facebook page mini-reunions will be posted on cific area. Alistingofupcoming licized to allclassmates inaspe or more ‘87’s that hasbeenpub twois defined by agathering of March andApril. A mini-reunion see many mini-reunions held in tofalls onMarch 28thsoexpect you! 87th night Our oftheyear by attending amini-reunion near brating our87th night oftheyear aboutcele thinking time to start With theholidays behindus, it’s winners onSunday night too. non Finnegan, me, LizaMacKinnon, DebSeaver, andStephanie Mullins. We caught oneoftheSundance vened at DebJayne Seaver’s houseinPark weekend. for City attendance: alongski In Laura Kennedy, Shan- holidays.Christmas Onlyimmediate familywere there (thoughShannon Finnegan officiated!) so weall con- From Mary SmyersMary Kaufman: We had a belated celebration ofLaura Kennedy’s wedding inSun Valley over The girls inSun Valley. - - - Mini-reunions can also be Mini-reunions held different city. welcome to attend iftraveling to a attention to thefulllistasallare an area viaemail. However, pay will reach outto thoselivingin chairs in each Mini-reunion city locations. again andexpand to afew other is to repeat reunions intheseareas aswell! goal Our an Mini-Reunion to arrange forare aEuope trying California/Los Angeles. And we City, Francisco San andSouthern New Jersey/Fairfield County, Park Paul,Minneapolis/St New York/ 4 Hermann Mazard with Cuba ,Jr. Gooding - participation againin2014. participation mini-reunionprior chairsto askfor Liz willbereaching outsoonto ordinating orhave any questions. mini-reunion, are interested in co comcast.net if you have ideas for a Chairat lizdeakin@ Mini-Reunion Deakin, Please LizSpear contact visiting professor, etc) intheirarea. event (footballDartmouth game, ganize amini-reunion around a Classmates are encouraged to or tion TBD (suggestionswelcome). 17, 2014 at a loca- on October union will take place in Hanover A homecoming weekend mini-re throughout the rest oftheyear. www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 - - - ‘87 Mini-Reunion at Alumni Council Weekend Dartmouth1987 e had an unofficial mini-reunion in Hanover over WAlumni Council weekend. Ginny Wise was in Ha- nover for a meeting of the Dartmouth College Fund Board, Betsy Rutherford was there for work and to see her daughter and they joined up with four of the six ‘87s in town for the council meeting: Anne Schnader, Conrad Smith, Jenn Tisdel Schorsch and Christen Fitzpatrick O’Connor. Brendan Connell and Meg Crone Ramsden didn’t make the post Alumni Council dinner gathering at the Canoe Club. Probably smart, as the other six of us where there long past final call.

enn, Ginny and Betsy even managed to sneak in a Jreturn to the Canoe Club for lunch the following day and a long talk about life, careers and family. They agreed that the bonds formed during our time on the Hanover plain can be so easily re-formed and renewed. The Great Class of 1987 - February 2014 DPCS 2013 Post-Grads

A big THANK YOU to all those who paid your Class Dues and included a donation to our Class Project. Our class gave $7,100 to DPCS last year, which represents 10% of all the funds con- tributed by the 16 DPCS supporting classes. Thanks especially to those ‘87s who served as mentors: Pam Haering, Timothy Schmidt, Thomas Rossant, Lisa Horowitz, Meg Frazier, Ali- cia Altman Southwell, Dave Roccaforte, Jessica Benjamin and Ricki Stern.

Please continue to support our Class Project — Dartmouth Partners in Community Service — through our class dues check off. We need your participation!

• It costs DPCS an average of $3,000 to support a Dartmouth undergrad who wants to work in a community service non-profit internship during an off term. Generally DPCS places 35-40 interns per year. It varies greatly by term (this past summer we had 22; this fall we have 2!) • The Class of ‘87 is one of 16 classes to officially support DPCS. • Matching an undergrad with an alumni mentor is a BIG part of the DPCS mission and program. If you are interested in mentoring for a 10-week term, please contact us and we will get you involved!

The DPCS Post-Graduate Program is in its 4th year in NYC. These are one-year post fellowships for recent graduates. We currently have 8 members of the class of 2013 (all women!) working in in community service organizations ranging from Big Brothers/Big Sisters to Children’s Aid Society to The Manhattan D.A.’s Office. David Roccaforte is a mentor to Gabby Mezochow ‘13 at Montefiore Hospital and Jessica Benjamin is a mentor for Kate Kranenburg ‘13 at Harlem Chidlren’s Zone. We are looking to expand our “PG” program to Boston so please let us know if you’d like to know more or can get involved. Contact Jessica at [email protected].

To learn more about DPCS go to www.dartmouth.edu/~dpcs or send an email to: [email protected] 5 www.dartmouth87.org www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 www.dartmouth87.org Dartmouth1987 Dartmouth1987 tion’s Emerging Athletes Program National Training Congrats Session. to all theDreschers! plished equestrians. This pastNovember, Sunny top earned honors at theUS Hunter Jumper Associa- On theright: Chrissie andMike Drescher withtheir2daughters Sunny andCarrie, whoare accom- Tucker ‘15, whodiedFeb event. 1competing for ski Amoving tribute. theCollege in across-country theopeningof During On theleft: Winter Ski Carnival, theDartmouth Team litcandlesto honor Torin The Great Class of 1987 - - February 2014 Salmon-Smith, Hermann MazardSalmon-Smith, andBrendan Connell. February 7&8,2014. ‘87 Picture at thesameevent: Evan Lomazzo, Azriliant, Nancy Tracey MoynihanTim andBen at theClubandGroup Officers’ Hartigan Weekend atDartmouth, Individual sweatersIndividual cost $195. people to qualifyfor agroup order. [email protected]. hillflint.com. Please contact Tracey to see if we have enough to bulkorderhave theopportunity “1987” sweaters from www. class sweater, it does not fit as orperhaps well anymore, we Class Sweaters If, forSale: by chance, you cannot find your 6 www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 87’s in the News Dartmouth1987 Keep an eye on the Governor’s race in Rhode Island. That’s our classmate, Ken Block, vying for the Republican nomination for Governor. Ken ran in the last election as a third party can- didate (Moderate Party). When not running for Governor, Ken is the President of Simpatico Software Systems, a software engineering firm and Cross Alert Systems, a manufacturer of specialized traffic signals for recreational trail/public road intersections.

In a BET opinion piece published on 12/6/13, Keith Boykin, a CNBC contributor who has appeared on numerous broadcast shows, describes the positive impact visionary, activist, philanthropist, and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela had on his life. He recalls the first time he ever felt connected to Mandela while he was at the College. “I first learned about him when I was a young reporter covering campus protests for divestment during the anti-apartheid movement at Dartmouth College in the 1980s. I remember danc- ing to the song ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ at frat parties on campus. The fight against apartheid Tim Hartigan and Ben Moynihan at the Club and Group Officers’ Weekend at Dartmouth, was the defining social justice issue of our college careers,” he writes.

February 7 & 8, 2014. ‘87 Picture at the same event: Evan Azriliant, Nancy Lomazzo, Tracey The Great Class of 1987 - February 2014 Salmon-Smith, Hermann Mazard and Brendan Connell. US Biathlon President and CEO Max Cobb is currently at the Sochi Olympic Games serving as the Technical Delegate for the biathlon events. “I am very pleased with the progress the athletes on the team have made. It’s the result of their focused training with some of the world’s best coaches and high performance staff,” said Cobb. With four athletes who have had top-six World Cup finishes this is the strongest and deepest team we have ever sent to the Games. All of them will be working together with the great team of coaches and ski technicians to try and win America’s first ever Olympic biathlon medal.”

From the Editors... HOT TOPICS In our last newsletter, we listed Class of ‘87 Offspring currently at

The Great Class of 1987 - - March 2013 Class of 1987 - March Great The Dartmouth. How impressed we were to find out that Lisa Schwartz Weiss and husband Sam ‘89 have a second child in Hanover! “Our son, Jacob, is indeed a member of the class of ‘16. But you missed acknowledging our daughter, Talia Weiss ‘14, who will be graduat- ing in June with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in Digital Arts. This is a big year for the Dartmouth Col- Both our kids are having an amazing experience at Dartmouth, just lege Fund as we celebrate the Fund’s as Sam and I did.” Apologies, Talia. Congratulations, Lisa and Sam! 100th anniversary. We are currently looking for additional volunteers who From Joyce Han (now Gardner): I always enjoy seeing the class would be willing to call a few classmates newsletter and am finally sending my own info. I live in Rockville, MD, on behalf of the College. It’s easy, and outside of Washington, DC. I have two children - one girl (a senior) you have an excuse to call old friends Amanda and one boy (a sophomore) Randall. My husband is Randy and re-connect with others in the class! Gardner. After many years as the founding program director of How- We’ll give you everything you need to ard University’s Language institute, I became a full time realtor in 2000. be successful. Whether you have time to call only a few or a larger list, please let Along with being managing partner of some real estate LLC’s, I keep busy either of us know if you are interested with all of the kids’ stuff. I’ve also been a Dartmouth interviewer for local in joining our DCF Agent team! Karyn seniors for the past few years. We went to Hanover last spring break to Wienski Calcano karyn@calcanocapi- see if my daughter wants to apply -- my first time back since graduation! tal.com and Raffiq Nathoo raffiq@live. com, Co-Head Agents. (continued on page 8.) 7 www.dartmouth87.org www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 www.dartmouth87.org The Great Class of 1987 - - February 2014 Dartmouth1987 Anne Schnader ALUMNI COUNCIL REP John Gannon SOCIAL MEDIACHAIR Jenifer Holcombe Soykan WEBMASTER Nathoo Raffiq Calcano Wienski Karyn HEAD ALUMNI FUNDAGENTS Liz SpearDeakin MINI REUNIONCHAIR Rutherford WallBetsy Julie Park Hubble EDITORS NEWSLETTER Evan Azriliant TREASURER Allison BleylerMcDonald Lisa Damon CO-SECRETARIES LopesLaurie Laura Gasser CO-VICE PRESIDENTS Tracey Salmon-Smith PRESIDENT Class of1987Officers http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/events/presidentevents

President PhilHanlon ‘77 Alumni Receptions unions! gmail.com. forward Looking to from seeing pictures all the Mini-Re We love gettingemails!Please keep themcoming to betsyrutherford@ or so. ashram nearUbud, I’ll Bali;maybe get backto southern California inayear decided to move on.I’m currently doingalotofyoga andmeditationatan From (continued from page7.) [email protected] [email protected] Betsy & Julie For more information: - Denver, CO: - Seattle, WA: - Chicago, IL: - Philadelphia, PA: - Stamford, CT: - Washington, DC: John Schmeeckle: 8 After teaching EnglishinKorea forfouryears, I Tuesday, May 20 Tuesday, May 6 Tuesday, 29 April Wednesday, March 19 Wednesday, March 5 Wednesday, February 19 www.facebook.com/Dartmouth87 Dartmouth1987 Dartmouth1987 -