1982

My summer kicked off on a high note when I attended a surprise birthday party in June for Gina Kunz Podlesak and Laura Murray Dobbin at Sharon Flynn McClymonds' wonderful home in New Canaan, Connecticut. Also in attendance were Crashy Zacher Brown, Corinne Heyes and Ann Macaffer. After all the other guests left we sat around until the wee hours just like old times and reminisced and brainstormed for our upcoming 25 th reunion in June 2007. Be sure to put it on your calendars now and e-mail me with any ideas you may have or if you would like to help out on a committee.

During the course of this hot summer I ran into Cort Felske on the beach here in Quogue on the south shore of Long Island, where I am writing this column. He is moving back to New York City after gallivanting around Europe for many years. Cort, a published author, tells me he has books three, four and five finished and awaiting publication. His good friend Charlie Winslow recently got married and lives in Columbus, Ohio. Sheila Kay Cooper recently visited them there while she was visiting with her daughter, Sally, who had a crew race nearby.

I also heard from Kate Pesek Sackman, who lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. She has wo sons, ages 13 and 15.They spend most of their vacation time in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they bought a place a couple of years ago. When there they are all busy hiking, mountain biking, fly fishing and skiing. Kate sold the radiology software and systems company she was running a few years ago and is now serving a term as president of the board of a land trust in Lake Forest and is busy buying, preserving and restoring land as well as running environmental education programs on it.

Karen and Bernard Thompson also wrote in after returning from a busy spring and summer of traveling, which began in Hanover for the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association reunion. Bernie has been serving as Webmaster for a couple of years and is now the vice president. Helsinki, Finland, was the next stop, where Karen was asked to speak at a conference of European pediatric specialists. Bernie and the kids tagged along for a week on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Next up was upstate New York, where Bernie spent a week taking singing lessons from Bobby McFerrin (the composer and singer of "Don't Worry, Be Happy" and former conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra). The last stop was Washington, D.C., where Karen was busy attending a calorimetry conference at the National Institute of Science and Technology.

David Eichman wrote in with the very sad news that our classmate, Tony Campbell, who matriculated as Tony Pasol, passed away in July after a lengthy illness. Tony worked for many years for the college in the off-campus programs office. There will be a memorial service for him in Hanover on October 6.

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