1983

With all that can seem crazy and unsettled these days, let us try to take time to look around us.. .take time to "smell the roses." There is much for which we can be grateful.

Multiculturalism: Fact or Threat? You would have heard Dinesh D'Souza address this if you had attended a seminar last May at Hillsdale College (Boise, Idaho), where Dinesh is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Fact, definitely.. .threat? For the unabridged version: www.hillsdale.edu.

Lo and behold, a first-timer: After graduating, our classmate A. Robert Hirschfield spent a year teaching and coaching crew at the Berkshire School, worked as a loan officer for two years and then he entered Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. In 1992 he was ordained and became a pastor at St. Mark's, at the University of Connecticut. This September the reverend, wife Polly Ingraham, and their three children moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Robert is now minister at Grace Episcopal Church.

I am pleased to pass along first-hand news of Julie Keegan Reed. Truly a Canadian these days (she unknowingly speaks with an upward inflection at the end of all statements), Julie is settled in just outside of Toronto with daughter Alyssa, 13, and son Jameson, 11. Despite the demise of the last software company she was with Julie has landed at a new Web-based company and has been traveling between Toronto and corporate headquarters in glamorous Paris.

I received a note from Steve Brosnihan in which he passes along heartfelt thanks for the support of all his Dartmouth friends. Steve writes that following the death of his wife, Diana Golden Brosnihan '84, on August 25, he felt honored by the loving support of many of his closest Dartmouth friends. "Rich Goldman, Jeff Teich (both in from California) and Stu Downs (from Georgia) were invaluable in helping create a fitting and memorable memorial service for Diana, while also attending to Dianas and my family and friends. Dave Badger, Paul Efthim and Dan Veno were also at my side. In attendance at the memorial service were Chris Koller, Edie Schwalb Hotchkiss and Elizabeth Hovey Jiler." Also representative of the kind of support he received from Dartmouth classmates during this very difficult time, Bob Teeter visited from Dallas in the weeks before Diana's death. "I have always valued my Dartmouth education," writes Steve, "but nowhere near the level of the Dartmouth experience itself, which put me in the company of extraordinary people, many of whom have become exceptional, lifelong friends—one of whom became my wife. I take great pride in celebrating the friendship and love of these classmates, as well as that of other Dartmouth friends. I am profoundly grateful to all of them for what they have meant to me throughout the years, and most especially during the time of Dianas passing."

Best to all for now. Do drop a note when you have a minute. You know how to find us!

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