1983

1983

REUNION | JUNE 15-18

A reporter for NPR’s Morning Edition recently interviewed Mario Cohn-Haft. a staff scientist and curator of birds at the Brazil National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), based in Amazonas, a state in northern Brazil. During the interview Mario and his team were on athree-day trek to survey birds throughout the Amazonian rainforest, which hosts the most species of birds on earth. Meanwhile, the reporter bravely follows Mario and his team while dodging venomous snakes and sleeping on hammocks in a jungle so dark and lush with vegetation, Mario and his team must identify birds by ear. Mario explains, “You know, in a dark, tall, complexly layered rainforest, it’s very hard to see creatures. The real window into what’s going on is sound.” By listening, Mario and his team recently discovered two new species of potoo birds and possibly the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, which we’re told has a deafening song! Since the 1980s Mario has discovered and named several Amazonian birds and knows about 1,000 bird calls. His perfect pitch—he was a lead singer for the Aires in 1982-83—allows him to imitate and attract many birds. Mario lives on the edge of the rainforest, Manaus, Amazonas, at the junction of the Amazon and Rio Negra rivers with his Brazilian wife, Rita Nesquita, a well-known ecologist with the INPA. While at Dartmouth Mario wrote the birder field guide for the Dartmouth Grant and led birding outings from campus. Supporting animals stateside, Caryn Ginsberg continues her work in visuals and strategy in the animal protection field. “I serve as board president for Faunalytics, a nonprofit that collects research for animal advocates on animal protection issues.” Some weekends Caryn and her husband, Michael Levitin, leave D.C. to go birding in Cape May, New Jersey. Caryn’s Dartmouth women’s hockey teammate and cocaptain of Dartmouth’s women’s hockey (198283) Heather Roulston Ettinger, chairman of Luma Wealth Advisors, recently led a virtual financial wellness workshop for Women of Dartmouth. An expert on infectious disease research and HIV/ AIDS prevention, Peter Kilmarx, M.D., has been named acting director of the Fogarty International Center and acting associate director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Global Health Research. Recently Peter co-led an initiative to transform African health professional education and research, formingthe African Association for Health Professions Education and Research (AFREHealth) and the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI), which brings African postdoctoral fellows to NIH. Reunion registration is open, as you’ve probably heard! We are designing a reunion experience this year that we hope will appeal to everyone. Whether you’ve never attended a reunion before or attended several through the years, we want everyone in the class of’83 to feel included and welcome. We hope you will come back to see your old friends and to make some new ones. If you have any questions, please direct them to Maren (marenjc@yahoo. com) or Mike (michael.e.hjerpe@gmail.com). If you need financial assistance to attend, please contact Joe Dempsey (joseph.f.dempsey.jr.83@ dartmouth.edu) for a confidential discussion. Together, forever green!

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail. com; Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo. com

Shanta Sullivan