1983

Hello everyone. June breezes are around the corner, which means that it's two more years until our 25th! To gearup for this great event, reach out to classmates and stage gatherings now so we have something to talk about then. Martha Hartfiel, our illustrious class VP, and other class officers are looking for folks to host and organize mini-reunions around the landso get together with friends and start to plan.

We're in a slow news-cycle, but a few things came to my mailbox: Kathy Chasse Hanna reports that she married her hometown honey, Marshall Hanna, and then shanghaied him to...Shanghai. In 1989, after completing her masters degree in international business from Columbia, she moved to the Far East with her nature-loving husband, who had to adjust to an urban China. Currently, she divides her time between there and Down East—Round Pond, Maine, to be exact.

"Shanghai is indeed booming, unbelievable really. I try to find restaurants we used to go to and now it is part of a very tall office building. We have great friends there and it has been a place where you can do anything. Frankly, now it is getting a bit 'tame' as it becomes more mainstream and the 'place to be' for many getting international experience before going home, people from everywhere coming, setting up a business, etc. It is so competitive though. I recall when bowling was becoming a new recreation, first there was one bowling alley—and a week later is seems there were more than 200. In the end none of them can make any money—free enterprise to the maximum. It is fun, but China is very polluted and nature is tough to find."

Mike Golub writes: "Greetings. I wanted to drop a note for our class notes now that I'm back in civilization. After four years below the Mason Dixon line I'm now back again riding the 1,2,3 subway line in N.Y.C. I had been EVP of the NBAs Memphis Grizzlies for five years and just took a job running the business of the New York Rangers as SVP of business operations and marketing. My time playing pond hockey on Occom Pond and sometimes sober intramural hockey in Thompson Arena is paying off." Mike says if you are willing to sing "Men of Dartmouth" during pre-game in front of 18,000 people, he'll help get you a deal on tickets. He says the best thing about hockey is that the athletes aren't a foot and a half taller than him—he also likes the hockey ethos and culture. He loves living in a "blue state" again and eating good bagels. He and his wife, Sam Shelhorse, have been married for four years, have two dogs and recently visited the campus. See you back there in 2008, we hope.

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