1983

Josh Bornstein is heading to New Jersey. He is assistant professor of educational leadership at Felician College. Joshis excited to help grow the pro- gram with a focus on social justice leadership for schools. He’s had a good 24 years in Ithaca, New York, raising kids, working for urban, suburban and rural schools in every capacity.

Patty Shepard had a “fantastic” visit to Moosi- lauke this summer, unexpectedly meeting up with Walter Foster at the lodge during a Sunday morning breakfast. Patty was able to introduce their dog Moosilauke (a.k.a. Moose) to his namesake!

Walter Foster followed Patty’s note by letting us know that he climbed Moosilauke with his son, Jack. They stayed in the brand new Class of ’65 Bunkhouse. There was “excellent grub and the lodge echoed the spirit of our freshman class trips.”

Rick Watts was in Chicago July 4th weekend for the final Grateful Dead shows. He didn’t see any ’83s but enjoyed the show with a couple of Gamma Delt ’84s. Rick and his wife embarked from France last year to begin a 490-mile hike on the Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. They made it past Pamplona and will return this fall to complete the rest of the journey, sharing pilgrim meals and staying in monasteries and pensions along the way.

Guy Rasco had a mini-reunion during July 4th weekend in Chicago, also attending the final shows of the Grateful Dead at Soldiers Field. “Sure brought back a lot of memories of seeing shows in the early 1980s with Dartmouth classmates.” Rick flew up from Miami, Chris Marquet flew in from Boston, Kurt Benkley drove down from Wisconsin and Mike Behn lives in Chicago. I put out a call on Facebook for news this morning and heard from several people. Most chatty was Cristina Poulter Carrier: “Robin Henning Rocchi’s daughter is a Dartmouth freshman, Jef- frey Teich married Nick Pratley in a wonderful celebration of their marriage and their new baby, Ava Grace in Central Park! Class of ’83s present included Walter Foster, Rob O’Neal, Bruce Red- man, Joel Reidenberg, April Cooper, Rich Goldman, Steve Brosnihan and me. Peter Barbur was relaxing on the Jersey shore, Kurt Bredenbeck was visiting family in Ohio, Ann Blanchard has a new tech job, Pam Nolan moved to Alabama, Jeff Tharp was doing the college tour with son Addison and Edie Shwalb Hotchkiss was sighted in western Massachusetts with her super fun family! Mark Gorman is traveling the world and has been visiting great steakhouses of late.” (Mark added that he has visited all seven continents at least twice. Wow!) Cristina her- self is working on long-distance swimming and remodeling her kitchen. She added that, “Libby Schmeltzer Hinson is fabulously crafty with the needlepoint—who knew?”

Dee Willis notes that she and her husband are moving to Alexandria, Virginia, but neglected to add that it’s for a great job.

Bob Roach is (eagerly) awaiting his first fall wine shipment! And Andy Thomas’ eldest daughter, Anneliese, will be wearing the pea green this fall. 

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