DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLASS OF 1981 DECEMBER 2019 NEWSLETTER Ready to Reunion! Class of 1981 Reunion Schedule Snapshot The official reunion begins on Thursday, June 18, but we also have some fun planned for early arrivals! Registration is open all weekend at our class tent Wednesday, June 17 Saturday, June 20 • Arrive early to relive your first-year trip packed into one overnight • Breakfast at ’53 Commons (former Thayer Dining Hall) with our classmates at the Dartmouth Outing Club’s Class of ’66 • Yoga on the Green Lodge (former Harris Cabin), located in Hanover, only 9 miles from campus. Ready for Smores? • Joint luncheon with the ‘79’s and ‘80’s on Baker Lawn Thursday, June 18 • Walking Tour of Public Art on Campus • Welcome Reception and Dinner: At the ’81 tent in front of Alumni • 1981 Class Panel: LifeChanges, moderated by Peter Bogin ‘81 Gym (located near the tents of classes of ’79 and ’80). A variety of food trucks will provide many options of delicious food. • Baker Bell Tower Tours Friday, June 19 • On the Green! A Dartmouth Alumni Celebration • Breakfast at ’53 Commons (former Thayer Dining Hall) • Class Photo, Reception and Dinner • Underground Steam Tunnel Tour (Did you always dream of walking • Dartmouth College concert and fireworks display on the Green for under the Green?) all reunion classes • Joint luncheon with the ‘79’s and ‘80’s Sunday, June 21 • Bartlett Tower Open Hours • Fun Run led by Sally Reiley ‘81 • Enjoy an excerpt performance of Feeding the Dragon by our own • Brunch: Farewell Breakfast in Smoyer Lounge, Thompson Arena Sharon Washington ’81 followed by Q & A in Bentley Theater Lynne Gaudet - Co-chair Your 2020 • Class Memorial Service in Rollins Chapel, led by Jeff Kemp ’81, to Rick Silverman - Co-Chair remember our lost classmates Claudia Weed - Treasurer Reunion Robert Goldbloom - Registration Committee • Class Reception and Dinner on Tuck Drive Ellen Brout Lindsey - Registration Molly Van Metre - Souvenirs/Memorial Service Julie Koeninger - Souvenirs Gail Chen - Communications Danielle Dyer - Outdoor Activities Kevin Kerin - Outdoor Activities Cathy Haley Rost - Tent Decor Veronica Wessels - Communications/Registration Chip Bettencourt - Beverage Chair Vaughn Halyard - Entertainment Su-Moon Paik - Entertainment Emil Miskovsky - Memorial Service Jeff Kemp - Memorial Service Peter Bogin - Indoor Activities Sally Reiley - Fun Run Pat Berry Martin Weinstein 40th Reunion: Anne Scott-Putney Kim Young Bob Gaudet JUNE 18 - 21, 2020 Sephen Godchaux Sharon Washington SAVE THE DATE! Karen McKeel Calby The D.O.C. Class of ‘66 Lodge. Come for ‘smores! Dave Shula GET INVOLVED!! Join the ‘81 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dartmouth81/ www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/81 Coming Home: Why I’m Coming Back for Reunion 2020 Reunions mean different things for different people at various stages in life. Here are a few classmates’ thoughts on why they’re planning to return to our reunion next summer. Jeff Beil for years. But it probably doesn’t mat- ter much, since the spirit of camaraderie It’s hard to believe it has been nearly four among my Dartmouth peers will overcome decades since we left the Hanover plain the awkwardness. I look forward to get- for the wide, wide world beyond. Though ting reacquainted with my fellow alums, time and distance have weakened the the ones I knew back then and the ones I ties, I still often think of Dartmouth, the didn’t, sharing memories and details of our place and the people. Living on the west lives, making small talk or even perhaps coast, I have returned to Hanover only a getting into some deeper conversations. Jeff Beil and wife Conny few times and not in over a decade. I have There are many events and gatherings am a practicing physician. I’m sure this never attended a class reunion. Though I planned, so it should be a lot of fun. It will has many psychoanalytic interpretations, very much wanted to attend our 25 year be great to walk around the campus with but one of them is a subconscious sense reunion in 2006, that week my medical my wife Conny, explore my old haunts and of incompleteness regarding my time group was converting over to using elec- see the new buildings and changes which at Dartmouth. I finished my course tronic medical records, and I could not get have occurred. away. Now comes our 40 year reunion (ac- requirements at the end of fall term tually 39 years, but who’s counting?) and I senior year and was off campus for the I’m retiring at the end of January, and don’t want to miss this chance. remainder of the year, coming back only one of my goals in retirement is to widen for graduation weekend. It ended a bit my social circles. I’ve had my nose to the Over the years I’ve had recurrent dreams abruptly. Going to the reunion in a way grindstone, focusing on work and family. in which I am back at Dartmouth and will fill in some of that void and I look Now I would like to rekindle friendships find out I am signed up for classes I forward to reconnecting. and make new ones. This is a great way to didn’t know I was taking. Feeling old to start. So I hope to see as many 81s (and I can’t say that I’m not at least a little be a college student and out of place, I 79s and 80s) as possible in June. Let’s nervous. Will anybody remember me? I’ve wonder why I’m back in college if I have make this a great one! already graduated medical school and only kept in touch with a couple of class- mates and haven’t corresponded with them Lynette Eubanks Marshall who attended will agree.) real time, person-to-person, social media removed, face-to-face. When my illustrious friend My hesitancy was largely based and classmate, Keith upon feelings of inadequacy, Full disclosure: Having suffered the loss of Hammonds, asked me to given the global recognition of a sister to cancer, along with far too many co-chair our twentieth re- Dartmouth’s high standards for friends and other family members, many of union, my initial response reunions and all things alumni. whom were gone too soon, mortality has was to suggest that But I hoped that my participation become a motivating factor in my desire Keith had possibly lost wouldn’t prove pure joy just for to be with people whom I love, who I do his marbles. After further me; I had this unique opportunity not see frequently. At Dartmouth reunions, consideration, I told Keith to help create a shared space and we pause to remember those who are no that I would join him in moment in time. What I cherish longer here. Those of us who remainon this endeavor. I saw it as a about that experience, and why I this earthly plane gather because we way in which I could give attend class reunions, is US. This can. Mini-reunions, mega, multi-class back to the College and, restorative,cathartic thing called reunions such as this one being planned most importantly, to you Lynette Eubanks Marshall reunion is a celebration of us, of for June 2020, whether near or far, we amazing members of the who we are, of the way we were, and gather because we have each other, bound Class of 1981. That was one of the best of what we carry away with us; the swag together by destiny and fortune to be the decisions I’ve ever made. (I hope those is fun, but the renewal of friendships, the Dartmouth Class of 1981. See you in June! establishing of new connections, all in DECEMBER 2019 NEWSLETTER Page 2 Reunion Planning Timeline JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL-MAY JUN March Mailings: Online Pre-Reunion June 17, Reunion Registration. Early-Bird Registration early arrivals and 40th Reunion with '79s Book Hotels and Flights NOW! Separately Mailed Date to be Determined overnight at Class of and '80s Reunion Housing '66 Lodge Registration. As members of the Reunion Committee are working their way through the organization of the upcoming 40th Reunion next June, there is a constant awareness of the time rushing past, and before you know it, June will be here. With that in mind, here are a few recom- mendations for your reunion planning. HOUSING ACCESSIBILITY If you are planning to stay at any of the inns or hotels There are many reasons why classmates may not be able to attend re- in the Upper Valley during reunion, be aware that you’re union, but we would like to think that cost alone should not be a fac- not alone and many other alumni are returning with the tor. Though fewer of us will come with an entire family in tow, travel, same idea. So now is the time to make those reserva- registration and housing fees can still be a stretch for classmates. If tions. You can find listings of Upper Valley lodging op- you’re finding yourself wanting to attend but having concerns over tions at your budget, please reach out to Reunion Treasurer, Claudia Weed, or to Lynne Gaudet or Rick Silverman, and we will work with you in the https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/upper-valley-lodging strictest confidence to help you attend the reunion. Additionally, if If you’re planning to stay on campus, make sure you you have any issues with accessibilty or need special facilities or other watch for the Reunion Housing application which is a arrangements, please advise us as early as possible so that we can help separate mailing from the Reunion Registration mailing.