1989

Just one year from now, in June, we'll be marking the 15th anniversary of our graduation—a good time to take stock of our lives and recall some fond memories that don't really seem that distant. As you read this, spring-time flowers will be everywhere, but as I write this column, the snow is falling, yet again. I'm transported back to frosty days, crossing the Green on the way to early morning classes, LL Bean boots and woolen hats protecting us from the slush and bitter wind. I remember sledding down the hill at the golf course, skating across Occom Pond, cross- country skiing through the woods edging the golf course, the enormous pines heavy with fresh snow. I remember watching the ski jumpers one Winter Carnival weekend, when I wondered if I would ever be warm again. I remember watching Robert Redford scale the snow sculpture in the middle of the Green, keg jumpers flying through the air at Psi U, starry skies on cold, cold nights during long walks home. I remember wondering if winter would ever end, the same thought that I'm having now, as the snow piles high outside my suburban window. There must be plenty of snow in South Dakota, where Bill Bray is the new president of Sisseton Wahpeton Community College, which was chartered in 1979 by the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. Stacy Higgins writes with a reminder that we're a little older and maybe a little wiser. Last September Sharon Geary Barnes organized a 35th birthday celebration and spa vacation for 14 women at Spa Miraval in Tucson, Arizona. Besides Stacy and Sharon, the group included Cortney Worrell, Robin Byrd Winters and Tanya Timms Egenolf. Other Dartmouth women on the trip were Kelly Green-Kahn '90, Luzmilla Johnson Robinson '88 and Lisa Getter '88. Stacy says, "We had an amazing time. It was really a chance for us to reconnect with each other and ourselves outside of the context of being a wife/mothei/professional woman." Stacy also shares the good news that last fall, following their dreamy days in Arizona, Tanya and Bill Egenolf delivered a baby girl, Gabriella Sky Egenolf, who is quite adorable. In other news, Martin Fackler has left Shanghai and the Associated Press for the Tokyo bureau of The Wall Street Journal. Martin invites any classmates visiting Tokyo to look him up. That's all for now. Please send news, oryou'll be subjected to more misty memories from your class secretary.

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