1979

Thirty years ago we were sending our Dartmouth applications to McNutt Hall hoping for thick envelopes in return. We received these along with other mail from Hanover over the years, including the AlumniMagazine. Since we often first turn to our Class Notes, I want to thank Tim Ehrsam for his tenure as class secretary and wordsmith of these notes. I hope to wield the pen with equal enthusiasm.

The final results are in! Many thanks to our reunion giving committee, quick callers, SWAT teams and all donors for orchestrating a 25 th reunion participation record to the Dartmouth Fund of 65.3 percent. Six hundred twenty-seven of us gave more than $4.6 million. A job well done!

Look in your bookstore for Peter Slovenski's new book Old School America, a compilation of pithy reflections on the traditional and patriotic values that best define and unite America. Just the tonic needed for election season recovery. Makes for a great gift. Peter is the head track coach at Bowdoin College. Robert Schrieber, an assistant clinical professor at Tufts Medical School and member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, recently joined the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Boston as the physician-in-chief, the sixth in the centers 101-year history. Earlier this year Stephen Schrieber, dean of the University of Southern Florida's School of Architecture, was elected president-elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He was also elected to the College of Fellows of the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, an honor reserved for less than 3 percent of the AIA members. I am sure that his wife, Jane, and daughter Kate are proud.

Debbie Sortor Parnon writes in her reunion follow-up: "Each reunion event was a success in its own right. From the porch-to-porch welcome receptions to the panel discussion moderated by Jim Cioban to the soccer game hosted by Dave Wilson to Giovan Venabie King's thoughtful service of remembrance." Thanks to you, Debbie, and your reunion committee for everything. You can still buy our 25 th reunion yearbook ("a yearbook worth owning"), reunion DVD and reunion class photo. Details can be found on our award- winning class Web site. Visit (and bookmark) this site at www.dartmouth.org/classes/79/.

Owen Dempsey sends along his best wishes to everyone. He couldn't make reunion because he was on a trip to Greece and the Greek islands with his wife, Lindsay (Frazier '80), and their three boys—Aidan, Andre and Nate. When not traveling, Owen keeps busy as CEO of SRU Biosystems. Anna Burack Wilson in Evergreen (and aren't we all?), Colorado, was also sorry to have missed reunion. Her whole family was meeting on the South Carolina beach to celebrate her parent's 50th anniversary. They saw much wildlife, including loggerhead turtles, dolphins, pelicans, osprey and alligators. While a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey by day, Anna enjoys the rest of the time with her husband, Mike, and their teenage kids, Colin and Sarah.

We are planning a New York City dinner and theater event in February around the off- Broadway opening of Phil Olsons musical comedy Don't Hug Me. This production is Fargo meets The Music Man without the blood or the trombones. The show first runs from September until November 14 at the Hennepin Stages in Minneapolis. Check out www.donthugme.com for more info. Details on our New York event to follow.

Take time to connect with your classmates. Make that call. Send that e-mail. Attend that mini-reunion. Drop me aline. Always, always err on the side of action. Fewer than 1,700 days left until our 30th reunion.

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