1981

1981

1978-1983

Thank you to classmates who respond to the thought-and memory-provoking “Big Questions.” You make the class communications officers’ jobs easy, edifying, and entertaining. A few more language study abroad and foreign study program (LSA/FSP) stories beg to be shared before we turn to new inquiries.

Phillip Gibbs and Mike Steinharter wrote in to confess that they regretted not doing a study abroad term. Who doesn’t have an undergraduate opportunity or two we now wish we’d taken advantage of?

Greg Clow could have said the same since his LSA France term invitation was actually rescinded. He writes, “Through a series of monumental mix-ups the French department decided that I was a fraternity miscreant (I had been abducted for rush in the middle of class). It sent a letter explaining the decision to California. Unfortunately, I was working in New York, so I never got it...or got to plead my case.” Greg went to Paris anyway and enrolled at the Alliance Franqaise. He lived with a Parisian family, resulting in French fluency and “a lifetime of cocktail stories...but without the promised ‘gut’ grades for the term.”

Conversely, of his term in Blois, France, Ben Pierce recalls “not really learning French.” It may have had something to do with his French mom “serving red wine at every single lunch,” a tradition he has “tried to maintain.”

Rick Silverman’s LSA experience in Mainz, Germany led to a quick Dartmouth plan adjustment and a subsequent FSP term there, a German major, a job as a German AT (and a deep bond with professor John Rassias), lifetime contact with his German family, and branching out into Spanish for his charitable medical work in Ecuador.

In the same vein Rick has teamed up with Ellen Brout Lindsey to chair our 45th reunion committee. That’s coming up next June 19-22,2025, in Hanover! This is our first reunion in 10 years, since our 45th was canceled due to Covid. As usual, we’re teaming up with the ’79s and ’80s, so take solace that it’s numerically only our 44th year out.

If you would be interested in helping with the reunion, contact Rick, Ellen, or your class secretaries at the email addresses below and we’ll pass it on. Never been involved with reunion planning? No problem! The committee is also “looking for suggestions for reunion activities. Pickleball tournament? Panel on getting back in shape after you destroy your knees or wrists playing pickleball? Rick’s Botox-mobile? Send us your ideas!”

Last but not least, for female ’81s: Gayle Gilman ’85 is one of the project leaders for the Women of Dartmouth Inspire project (https:// inspire.host.dartmouth.edu/share-your-story), which aims to collect the stories of every single Dartmouth woman. She is requesting our anecdotes, artwork, videos, etc., to build connections to one another and to the College.

With best wishes for a great summer.

—Ann Jacobus Kordahl, P.O. Box 470443, San Francisco, CA 94147; ann@annjacobus.com; Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH, 03860; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com