1985

1985

Though ’round the girdled earth our classmates have roamed, her spell on them remains and continues to draw them back! Take our very own book designer and printer Clemente Orozco. Grandson of Jose Clemente Orozco (whose well-known mural cycle, The Epic of American Civilization, many of you will remember from your studious days in the Dartmouth library), returned to Hanover this fall to work alongside students in professor (and fellow classmate) Daniel Heyman’s studio art class. Clemente is the director of Impronta Casa Editora, an independent book publisher and cultural venue in Guadalajara. One ofDartmouth’s librarians was at a book fair in Guadalajara and was sporting apiece of Big Green merchandise. In seeing it quite unexpectedly, Clemente immediately put out his hand: “I’m class of ’85”—and the rest is history.

Homecoming brought unseasonably warm weather, a spectacular come-from-behind victory for the Big Green and many classmates in attendance. Friday night parade marchers included Sue Finegan, Valerie Hartman, Joe Riley, David Rosen, Lauren Sonstrom Rosen and Tim Woodward. Saturday’s mini-reuniongathered classmates Mark Caron, Laura Hicks Roberts, Katie Harris Robbins, Gabby Guise, Linda Cooper Marshall, Donna Fraser Gourdeau, many of whom were still dizzy having watched their offspring in the class of’21 run 121 laps around the bonfire—more than 14 miles! “Crazy impressive” was the description shared. I am thinking just plain “crazy”! Linda, Valerie and Donna delighted in a Sunday morning reunion with fellow Sargent Street senior year roommates Diana Shannon (living in Vermont) and Allison Shutz Moskow. Allison is writing a book, supporting Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, fundraising for therapeutic horseback riding and (in her spare time) shepherding a 10-year-old through fifth grade. Missing from this impromptu gathering were Sally Crane Goggin (living in Chicago with husband Mark Goggin; all three kids grown), Ellen Jennings (pastor in Maryland) and Sharon Matthews (would welcome any info on where in the world Sharon is these days).

Speaking of Elise Miller, she is embarking on a newprofessional chapter with Days for Girls International (DfG, www.daysforgirls.org), an organization at the forefront of a global movement to help break the cycle of poverty by making sustainable feminine hygiene solutions and health education widely available around the world. As Elise writes: “DfG is exactly the kind of organization I was envisioning when I left my 24 years of work in the environmental health field earlier this year with the intention of returning to the passion and focus ofmygraduate researchinthe 1990s—namely, understanding and improving the experience of girls in developing countries.” Elise is currently serving on the board and will transition to be fully on-staff in 2018. The organization is headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, but Elise will be able to continue to work from home in Freeland, Washington, where she and husband Dan Neumeyer are raising their son, Ravi.

Wishing each of you a happy and healthy new year. Please send news.

All the best to all of you!

—Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Greenwich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com