1983
It's amazing what you find in your own back yard. Like Hilleary Hoskinson! I recently learned that Hilleary lives practically around the corner from me in Woodside, California. Hilleary married his college sweetheart Barbara Garvin and they have three children, Sabine, 17 (and a junior at the Thatcher School in Santa Barbara), Caroline, 15, and Duncan, 11. They also have 17 pets. That's right, 17—a motley crew of dogs, cats, rabbits, a turtle, birds and a bunch of horses. "Barbara used to work for the World Wildlife Fund," Hilleary explains, and you can almost hear the resigned shrug over the phone line. "She's always loved animals." After 20-plus years (God, we're old) working in publishing and tech Hilleary started an executive coaching and leadership team development company called MVP Performance three years ago with an NBA sport psychologist and Joe Montana (I live for those celebrity mentions!), bringing a performance psychology approach to the corporate world. 'As for the Dartmouth connection," says Hilleary, "I am assistant coaching Duncans lacrosse team with Rob Ford '82 and last summer I took Duncan back to the lacrosse camp that Dud Hendrick, the Dartmouth lax coach who retired in 1983, still runs in Canaan, New Hampshire. Very fun." While back East Hilleary also caught up with Charlie Morrison in Sunapee, New Hampshire, and he occasionally sees Ken Bowers, who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, and whose son is a freshman at Dartmouth.
Other people's back yards also proved serendipitous. Dear classmates, despite how it sometimes appears, I am not one of those cheap tabloid writers and I really try to avoid repeating bold-faced names. But I have to mention Jean Korelitz again because it was in her Princeton, New Jersey, back meadow that I ran into Vicki Ritterband. The occasion was Jean's 20th wedding anniversary. Perhaps you've heard that Jean's husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, was recently named the new poetry editor at The New Yorker? I only mention this because Paul begged me to get the word out that he's looking for new talent and would particularly love to hear from '83s. Never been published? Don't be shy. But back to Vicki, who lives in Massachusetts, where she runs her own public relations firm focusing on health care and nonprofits. I also got to meet her charming husband, Stefano Kotsonis, a producer at On Point, a nationally aired NPR talk show. "We have two boys," Vicki filled me in. "Dionysios, 8, whom we call Gabriel, and Julian, 6, whom we call—Julian." (I couldn't help but be reminded of La Boheme. Come on, you know the opera with its famous aria: "My name is Lucia, but everyone calls me Mimi.") "There are many great things about being married to Stefano," Vicki continues, "but among them are that we get to go to Greece regularly to visit his family."
Speaking of family travels, Nick Thomey writes, "Looking forward to my first family adventure to the East Coast. John Donnelly and I are planning to caravan in RVs from Minnesota for reunion. Any info on RV parking/restrictions would be greatly appreciated." Trailing along with Nick (ha-ha, get it? And my husband says I can't tell a joke) will be wife Katie, daughters Lilly, 11, and Nora, 5, and son Joe, 9.
And is it only me, or was anyone else watching old episodes (torn Boston Legal's first season, only to notice Tucker Gate's name scrolling across the screen as a producer? Tucker, please write and tell us what you've been doing since. Or better yet, see you at reunion!
19 Preston Road, Woodside,CA 94062;dl.michel@gMail.com; Jim sterling 108 East4thSt.,#17,New york,NY10003;jimsteringnyc@yahoo.com
REUNIONJune 12-15 2008
