Class Notes

1989

May/June 2004 Jennifer Avellino
Class Notes
1989
May/June 2004 Jennifer Avellino

If you need a massage during our upcoming reunion, Kevin Comeau is your man. He teaches massage through Miniversity at Dartmouth and does therapeutic massage in Norwich, Vermont. He also manages a local Japanese martial arts school in White River Junction. He writes, "Please, no jokes about whacking people at the martial arts school, then handing them my massage business card!"

Christopher DeFrancis lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Jennifer Gross (Brown '89), their daughter, Amelia, and son, Os- car. He's an in-house attorney at Mass Mutual do- ing securities/investments work and would love to hear from any classmates in western Massa- chusetts or the Pioneer Valley. Another western Massachusetts resident is Patrick Kendall, who lives in Wilbraham with his wife, Liane, and sons Michael and John. He was recently promoted to president and CEO of Diversified Actuarial Services Inc., a member of the Aegon Worldwide Retirement Group. His firm specializes in actuarial and benefit consulting for all types of retirement plans in both the United States and overseas.

Dina Hulsizer Galvin is an orthopedic hand sur- geon. She writes from Duxbury, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband Jamie, daugh- ter Casey and son Hobey. According to Dina, Kel- ly MacMillan is an ob/gyn in southern New Hampshire, having moved back east from Ore- gon. In other news from the Dartmouth Medical School grads in our class, Bonnie An Henderson, who lives in Dover, Massachusetts, recently was named Ophthalmology Teacher of the Year at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

There are authors among us as well. Fiona Bayly has written Fun on the Run:A Scholastic Peekat the New York City Marathon. The book combines rhymed verse with hand-drawn illustrations and is for everyone from children to adults. You can order your very own copy at www.istbooks.com.

James White, who played baseball at Dartmouth, has been inducted into the Millburn (New Jersey) High School Athletic Hall of Fame. At Milburn he played soccer and basketball, as well as baseball and compiled a high school career pitching record of 24-4. He's currently a portfolio manager and financial analyst at Deltec Asset Management in New York City. He lives in Chatham, New Jersey, with his wife, Marguerite, and their children, Teresa and Henry.

Scott Ellison was the subject of a recent profile in New Hampshire's Union Leader Sunday News. He grew up in New Hampshire and decided to move back to settle down after stints in Hartford, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. He practices business and tax law in Manchester and describes himself as a "political junkie." He's also a member of the 4,000-Footer Club, which means he's hiked all of the Granite State's 48 peaks more than 4,000 feet high. According to the newspaper, Scott's favorite place in New Hampshire is a tie between Mt. Moosilauke and Dartmouth's Second College Grant, a 27,000-acre wilderness in northern New Hampshire.

Finally, William Harjo Lone Fight, known dur- ing our under grad days as Bill Bray, is working hard to make higher education accessible to Na- tive Americans. He's the president of Sisseton Wahpeton College in South Dakota, one of 34 tribal colleges in the United States. He was recently awarded a scholarship to pursue his second Ph.D., this one in education. He is working to combine tribal educational practices with Western education systems.

See you all in June!

5912 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda,MD20817; jennifer.avellino.89@alum.dartmouth.org

REUNION June 18-20 2004