1983

At a holiday party hosted by Perry Butler '64 and Margie Butler '02 at the San Francisco restaurant Periy's, I ran into several classmates. Dan Baum, vice president of new business initiatives at Adobe Systems, is in the process of moving with his wife, Gail, and 2 1/2-year-old twins Josh and Mitch down to a ranch in the Paso Robles area. Lisa Tromovitch lives in Livermore, runs a theater group and is a professor in the department of theater arts at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Martha Gerhan (a.k.a. "the girl who broke her arm falling off the bonfire") organized the event for the Bay Area Dartmouth club. She lives in the hip Russian Hill section of San Francisco and enjoys hiking, swimming, skiing and backpacking in the Bay Area. Her work with Mainstay Partners, a boutique IT strategy consulting firm, allows her to enjoy her true passions: scuba and travel. She combines work with pleasure in "Iceland, the Tsing-Tao beer plant and most recently Baja, where I enjoyed hearing whales and seeing sharks and sea lions (not together) in the Sea of Cortez, though the most beautiful spot I've ever gone was Sipidan off the coast of Borneo! Maybe one day it will all lead to realizing my dream of figuring out how to put travel and scuba together and actually making a living out of it!" She reports that Maren Christensen is "finally in a renovated home in Portola Valley after going through five residences in 18 months—and ready to stop being a construction contractor and start playing a little more soccer." Proud father William H.H. Chapman II '49 sent me a newspaper clipping from The Daily Reflector of Greenville, North Carolina, announcing the appointment of William H.H. Chapman 111 as chief of bariatric and minimally invasive surgery for ECU Physicians at East Carolina University. The announcement lauds his technical expertise and leadership skills in the area of treatment options for obesity.

Massachusetts Super Lawyer named Walter Foster of the Boston office of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green a "super lawyer" in the category of employment litigation. He attended Columbia Law School and resides in Acton, Massachusetts. Less than 5 percent of Massachusetts attorneys were named "super lawyers."

Jenny Hanley Ross sent me a Boston Globe article reporting that Keith Moskow's firm beat out 40 other architects in a design competition for a 9/11 memorial at Logan Airport. Keith, his wife and two teenagers live in the Boston area.

On a very sad note, three of our classmates are no longer with us. The obituaries of Albert William Hastings, Robert Schreib and Grace Martha (Jepson) Brescia appear in this issue. Thank you to all who wrote in with memories for the class newsletter.

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