1986

Krista Thomas married Bart Corr on August 10, 2002, at her father's house in Norwich, Vermont. Bart is a commercial pilot who flies planes for corporate and private owners. The festivities began with a small rehearsal dinner at the Alden Inn in Lyme. This was followed by a big reception party at the DOC house. The following day they were married by the pond on her dads property. Shep Kopp's father, Quentin Kopp '49, performed the ceremony. The wedding was very well attended by numerous Dartmouth folks from many different classes. Between Krista's dads friends and her own, there were more than 50 Dartmouth alums there. Beth Riley St. Raymond was her maid of honor, and Beth's daughter, Emma (Krista's goddaughter), was the flower girl. Other classmate attendees included: Beth Kostman Cranston, Jeni Moyer George, Stephanie Semprevivo Ferguson, Sarah Sherwood, Amanda Reed, Burgie Howard, Sarah Page, Lalla Carothers, Neil Maher, Tony Stearns and Allison Strawn. Krista and Bart have since settled into married life in Boston; she is still working for the FBI. For the past school year Greg Nerland has served on the board of directors of the Walnut Creek Education Foundation. When he joined the board, they had an annual fundraising target of $50,000, which assisted the district in funding art, music, science and PE classes at the elementary and intermediate schools. This winter the California state budget crisis hit hard. They succeeded in raising more than $230,000, though, and saved a number of programs for another year. Greg and his wife, Lynn, have two sons, Zachary (11) and Matthew (7). Betsy Hildebrandt informed me that David Hess has been commissioned to create a massive sculpture for a new wing at BWI airport in Baltimore. The piece is—hold onto your hats—180 feet long, 35 feet tall, hangs 20 feet above the ground and weighs 12,000 pounds! Its not been installed yet, but there are lots of other wonderful things to see on Davids Web site at www.davidhess.net. David and his wife, Sally, have two children—Sophie (10) and Eli (8)—who are into school, baseball, lacrosse and drama. Phil Lessard and his wife, Jennifer Pasol Lessard '87, live in Framingham, Massachusetts, with their brood (Joe, Steve and Kate). Phil never liked leaving school in the first place, so he's now at MIT, where he's been teaching microbiology for the past nine years. One day at the local YMCA Jennifer ran into Stew Pierson's wife, Shannon. It turns out that she and Stew live just down the street and around the corner with their two young 'uns, Aspen and Grey. Stew is the head of the science department at the Rivers School, which is actually just a cover for his real identity as a soccer coach. Jim and Kathy Zimmerman Bennett used to live in Framingham, too, along with their four future Dartmouth students, Christian, Willy, Michael and Joanna. When they learned that the Piersons and the Lessards were in town, they loaded up the truck and moved to Maine. Now Jim has to commute across two states each morning just to get to work at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he is a recently tenured professor of finance. Bob Quickel also fled Massachusetts, mainly because the winters there are too warm. He now lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with his wife, Sarah, and their two kids, Lauren and Blake. Bob practices trauma surgery in Minneapolis under the premise that practice makes perfect. He's reportedly getting pretty good at it too. Congratulations to David Kotz, who was promoted to full professor of computer science at the Big Green.

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