1989

Glorious weather greeted us in the Upper Valley forreunion in June.Theweekend started early for some of us, who explored the areas fun activities and natural beauty. Climbing Moosilauke is always a favorite, but was a bit too ambitious for those of us with young children. Woodstock, Vermont, was home base for our family, which now includes 7-month-old Leah as well as 3-year-old Julia, who found a friend in Maeve Patton, the 2-year-old daughter of Kathy Bender Patton, staying nearby with Maeve and 5-month-old Colin. The kids explored the Billings Dairy Farm and the new wild bird center in Quechee, which I heartily recommend for return visits to the Upper Valley. Kathy recently traded in her day job as a law partner for the full-time job of mom, and moved with her husband, Jim, and children from New York City to the Boston suburbs, where she grew up.

Many of us hadn't been to Hanover in the last five years or more, and driving up the hill into town felt strange and comfortable at the same time. (What were those giant bowling balls on the bridge?) Downtown looked more different than I expected—new shops and restaurants everywhere. Campus looked more similar than I expected, after hearing about all the construction the last fewyears. The main exception, of course, was the new library, which has a distinctly 21st century feeling. But mostly, Dartmouth looked the same, as we visited our old haunts with spouses and children in tow. Memories jumped out at us from many corners, but through a filtered lens. Those were our younger selves, before the responsibilities of careers, marriage and children. How different are we now? Only each of us can answer that for ourselves. But we certainly had fun remembering those earlier days and catching up with old friends. More than 200 classmates made the trek from near and far—Jonathan Burnham from Paris, Cliff Bernstein from Tokyo and many more of us from New England, New York, California, Washington, D.C., and the Midwest. One of the highlights was cocktails and dinner at the boathouse on the river. President Jim Wright took us on a little walk down memory lane and our class presented the College with a check for $510,089, a College record for a 15th reunion class. Hearty thanks to our hard-working reunion co-chairs Ellie Mahoney Loughlin and Jennifer Downs O'Shaughnessy, and to Todd Timmerman for handling our reunion finances. Jennifer and Ellie also deserve our thanks for serving as class president and newsletter editor, respectively, for the last five years. Katie Beierle Klinkenberg gets our gratitude for serving as vice president.

At lunch on Saturday our class approved a new slate of officers for the next five. Ellie and Laura Fitch Mattson will be our class co-presidents. Tom Beecher will continue as treasurer. Todd Timmerman and Bob Jaffe will be co-head agents. A nod of thanks to the outgoing head agent, John Drescher. Jamie Kershaw and Kristen von Summer will be the mini-reunion co-chairs. Jennifer Downs O'Shaughnessy and Kristen Daly Schneider will write the newsletter. And I'll stay on to write the column in this magazine. Our class still needs a Webmaster, so rushyour resumes to one of us.

Before we go, congratulations to Jamie Heller and her husband, Jed Weissberg, on the April birth of their son, Bix. He joins his 3-year-old brother, Chet, and the family in New York City. Lots more reunion news next time.

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