1981

Our class was honored this spring to have two members involved in the Tucker Foundation's 50th anniversary weekend celebration titled "Leadership For Social Change and Responsibility".This was a major three-day College event held in Hanover that included keynote speaker Maya Angelou. Our classmate Marc Belton, senior vice president of General Mills, opened the weekend by addressing the participants at the "Leadership and Character" luncheon. He spoke again, the next day, on "Making the Right Choices." Greg Slayton, chairman of Click Action, also spoke on "Faith-Based Ideas and Initiatives: Does Anybody Really Care...And If So, Why?"

If you were at the Boston Marathon this spring you probably saw Doug Schwarz whizzing by. Doug completed the race and raised more than $3,000 for Children's Hospital by doing so.

Fascinating news trickled in from London where Justin Monjo's adaptation of Tim Winton's novel, Cloudstreet, was being performed. Justin, a native New Yorker, had formed a small theater group and acquired the rights to Cloudstreet. He approached a larger company to stage the performance and it has received rave reviews performing in Melbourne, Zurich, Dublin, Brooklyn, The Royal National Theater in London and the Kennedy Center. Way to go Justin!

Doug Tyson was honored in the January issue of The Washingtonian for his coaching of the "It's Academic" team at Benjamin Banneker Model Academic High School. Doug started teaching there and coaching an inexperienced team in 1990. Under his guidance the improvement in the team has been dramatic. This year a combined Banneker-Georgetown Day School team, representing the district, beat 40 squads from around the country to win the Panasonic Academic Challenge and $17,500 in scholarship money.

From the world of finance we have learned that Todd Bachelder was named senior vice president for corporate banking in KeyBank N.A.'s Maine district. Todd is responsible for developing and maintaining overall client relationships in the southern part of the Maine district. He is based in Portland and resides in Farmingdale with his family.

We were very saddened to receive the following news. Libby (Myers) Brakeley, our classmate and spouse of our other classmate, Harry (Hap) Brakeley, died on February 24 due to injuries suffered from an automobile accident. Everybody who knew Libby remembers how intelligent, beautiful, kind and generous a person she was. Libby was a senior engineer with General Electric and lived in North Andover, Massachusetts, with Hap and their three sons. Hap has established the Elizabeth "Libby" Myers Brakeley '81 Memorial Scholarship at Dartmouth College in Libby's memory. The scholarship is designed with preference for female students majoring in engineering sciences like Libby. If you would like to make a donation, checks should be made payable to Dartmouth College, earmarked for the Brakeley Fund (either on the check or in the cover letter) and mailed to the Stewardship Office, 63 South Main St., Suite 6066, Hanover, NH 03755. In addition Libby's friends are organizing a 5K road race tentatively planned for her birthday weekend on September 22nd in North Andover, Massachusetts. It will begin at noon at the center of town and money raised will be donated to a scholarship fund in Libby's name at North Andover High School. For further details please contact Mark and Joan Kerble at (978) 681-1194. The world was a brighter place because of Libby and we all miss her dearly.

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