1994

Dartmouth, there is no music for our singing. No words to bear the burden of our praise. Yet how can we be silent and remember? So we came home for reunion, huddled under damp tents together and even sang a little. There is something inexplicably powerful about re-assembling bodies in a space we all helped inscribe with meaning, but one thing gets clearer as our "years out" increase: We can't recapture that expansive sense of time or the elusive luxury of simply standing still with one another. No more kicking off snowy boots in the balcony of Sanborn to wander down for afternoon tea; no more lazy spring Sundays "reading" on the Green. Just quick chitchat and hugs under tents and the hope that all stays happy and well in the lives that touched us for a moment. And the hope that EBA's chicken sandwiches, though surprisingly smaller than I remembered, will always taste exactly the same. Thanks to everyone on the reunion committee for bringing us together. As we welcome a new slate of officers for the next five years, we thank all the outgoing folks, especially Ken Bower, who has been a stellar class leader, and has worked hard to keep our ties to the College strong.

As you all know, I am handing over my post and pen to the eminently capable Suzie Fromer, our new class secretary. After Dartmouth Suzie moved to L.A., where she and Andrew Hyman both received their M.F.A.S in film production at USC's School of Cinema-Television. After a few years in Hollywood Suzie and Andrew were married and moved to Philadelphia. Andrew attended law school at Penn and Suzie became the director of publications and PR for Drexel's College of Engineering. They now live in New York, where Andrew works at Shearman & Sterling and Suzie works as a freelance food writer. Welcome, Suzie!

Now I must empty my mail folder before signing off: Mitch Jacobs married Samantha Ettus Jacobs in Palm Beach in January. Guests included Jeff and Eila Johnson, Mike and Ciara Thurlow, Jeff and Sandra Rebish, Ted and Elissa Kovas, David and Megan Zug, David Sobie and fiancee Emily O'Brien, Eric Goldfarb and fiancee Amy Clay, Michaela Leopold and Cathy Ross. Mitch and Samantha live in New York. Mitch recently sold his second company and now works as chief strategy officer with Tranvia, Inc. Samantha is the author of the Experts' Guide to 100 Things EveryoneShould Know How to Do and the upcoming Experts'Guide to Life at Home. I definitely need that book, since my own writing keeps me at home.

I had the rare pleasure of getting written news from Kim Bianchard, then having it confirmed in person by Eric Portland at reunion: Kim and Eric were married in Hanover in August 2002 and welcomed baby Alexander into the 'burbs of Short Hills, New Jersey, a year ago. Kim commutes to N.Y.C., where she is a psychologist/researcher at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia. Eric is a senior product manager at Pfizer. Kim reports that Kerry Whitacre married Steve Swarr in October and is expecting a baby girl in July! Kerry is an administrator with the Baltimore public schools and Steve is an en- vironmental engineer. Josh Heikkila was recently ordained as a Presbyterian minister and is now a pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Cari (Silberfein) Sobolewski and husband Matt welcomed daughter Brooke Ava in May. Brooke joins 4-year-old brother Connor, who keeps Cari on her toes "with all kinds of scientific' questions (e.g., 'what is plastic made of?' and 'why does the grass look green when the sun is shining?')." Cari is used to challenging questions, as she defended her dissertation in Chicago just a month before Brookes arrival. She now has her Ph.D. in clinical psych and will return to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in a few weeks to finish a post-doc in neuropsychology. During her brief Chicago visit Cari saw Beth (Breckenridge) Ottsen and her then-7-month-old son Christopher Jr.

Okay, out of room. Thank you all for sharing your successes with me, as they have become part of my own happiness and success for the past 11 years. I will miss hearing from you—please write me whenever you like! But please start Sending your "official" news to Suzie right away at suzanne.b.fromer.94@alum.dartmouth.org! Take care of yourselves and each other. See you 'round the girdled earth.

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