1991

Howdy folks. I trust this note finds you all well. Glad so many of you have joined the 1991 Facebook page. It is fan- tastic reconnecting with everyone there—a vir- tual class reunion.

Several pleasantries to share. Erica Coles Jacobsen is a mama for the second time. She and husband Todd welcomed Anne (“Annie”) Elizabeth Jacobsen in October. Erica reports that Annie is sleeping and eating well and is adored by big brother Cole (3), who keeps hugging her to thank her for the camera she gave him when she was born. Only occasionally does he mention that he wanted a baby brother instead. Erica has recently returned to her marketing consulting practice part time. In January she started serving as president of the Newburyport (Massachusetts) Mothers Club.

This from our friend Ken Abrams, now a psychology professor at Carleton College: “I had been planning to send news to the alumni magazine as soon as I had a relatively stable existence. What I didn’t realize is that it would take me 17 years to get there (or at least close). So the first week of September was hectic. My wife (okay, fiancée of six years), Kari Tyne, and I had our second child, Piper, on September 3. The next day the movers came, we drove east out of Portland, Oregon, and two days later closed on a house in Northfield, Minnesota. Just a few days after that the new academic year began at Carleton. Finally, some stability but I never thought all the pieces would come together in the same week. Interestingly, the Carleton president is Robert Oden, who was a religion professor at Dartmouth. If anyone visits the Twin Cities area (unlikely in the winter, I realize) please get in touch: kabrams@ carleton.edu.”

Class of ’91s should be most proud to have one of our ranks serving in the Obama administration. Jodi Archambault Gillette is the first Native American deputy associate director of the intergovernmental affairs office, where she advises the government on issues pertaining to Indian affairs. Apparently the post had been empty for the past eight years. At Dartmouth Jodi majored in government and Native American studies. A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Gillette received a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the new administration Gillette campaigned for Obama as the North Dakota First American Vote director.

Our own Jake Tapper is also involved in the new administration—but working it from a different side. Jake, as many of you have probably seen, is the senior White House correspondent for ABC News. (As a former ABC News producer myself, I can attest to what an enormous—and stressful—honor this is.) It’s almost (but not quite) as exciting as Jake’s other role—dad to 20-month-old Alice Paul Tapper. Jake and wife Jennifer (they met in Des Moines during the 2004 Iowa caucuses) were engaged in 2005, married in 2006 and welcomed Alice in 2007.

Finally, word from Rob Malin, who is living in Short Hills, New Jersey, father to Olivia and twins Annabel and Hanes and working in N.Y.C. He traveled to San Francisco on business recently and caught up with Vic Parker, Sam Kingsland, John Callaghan, Jake ’90 and Robin Reynolds and Pete Chung ’92.

Thanks for the news everyone. Please keep it coming. You can contact me via Facebookor the old-fashioned e-mail way. Off to finish a divine day of spring skiing.

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