Tuck Today – Fall 2014 Issue by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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STRATEGISTS Inside the winning ideas and game-changing theories of Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned strategy faculty.

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THE VIRTUE OF LEADERSHIP All that we do at Tuck revolves around providing students with the world’s best leadership education. This belief has motivated our community for more than a century, and as our world-leading career placement statistics demonstrate, it is something the market for young leaders believes more than ever. Everything we do moves students closer to taking the reins of leadership. Firstyear courses like Leading Individuals & Teams, Leading Organizations, and Personal Leadership give direction and guidance along that path. The latter helps students develop an understanding of their leadership strengths and weaknesses and how to use that knowledge to advance their leadership potential. Our commitment to students’ leadership development also extends beyond the classroom. From the early efforts of the Cohen Leadership Development Program to the comprehensive programming—workshops, MBA fellows, and more—of today’s Center for Leadership, Tuck is dedicated to ensuring every student realizes his or her potential to lead. You, our alumni, are another important resource in Tuck’s leadership offerings. Your willingness to share your wisdom and experience, gained from leading so many amazing and diverse organizations, enriches our community and is yet one more example of how the Tuck network benefits both students and your fellow graduates. As you will read in this issue, our graduates define leadership in many ways, and draw a variety of lessons from their own personal journeys. What is consistent, however, is their belief that every good leader must—at their core—care about people. As I reflect on my time at Tuck and all that we have accomplished together, I believe this focus on the human element in leadership—on developing leaders who genuinely understand and care about others—has been a major key to our success and to the success of our graduates. Tuck has long benefited from this virtue, and I am confident the world will continue to benefit from it too. With talented alumni as our faithful partners, Tuck will remain at the forefront of leadership education.

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MARK WASHBURN

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

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TUCK360: MBA BLOG Find Your Calling, Not Just Your Career BY ERIC GILES T’16

You have likely heard that Tuckies help Tuckies, and I can’t stress enough how true this statement is. Just last week, I met with two alumni from two different companies, the director of the Center for Business & Society, the CEO of the St. Jude’s Ranch, two T’15s about their internship, and a representative in the Career Development Office. After each meeting, I learned more about what opportunities excite me. I can say that after four weeks of meeting within the Tuck network, I have identified the space of health care that gets me fired up. Read more: http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/blog/find-your-callingnot-your-career The Tuck 360: MBA blog combines candid insight about life at Tuck from students and partners with helpful insider tips and advice from Tuck staff.

COMING SOON: AN EVEN BETTER MYTUCK We’ve spent a lot of time under the hood of myTUCK recently in an effort to enhance the user experience of the school’s alumni web portal. The first of these enhancements—a new-look profile directory—is live now, with more changes, including a new mobile-friendly design and navigation, slated for Spring 2015.

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CONTENTS 42 10 DEPARTMENTS

NEWSROOM FOR UNDERGRADUATES, AN INTRO TO LEADERSHIP IN BRIEF

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IDEAS

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THE STRATEGISTS There are many paths to the top. Tuck’s renowned strategy professors know them all, and are learning new ones every day. BY KIRK KARDASHIAN

ROGER MCNAMEE T’82 Investor. Philanthropist. Entrepreneur. Roger McNamee is all of these and more in a career that has taken him to the top of the tech industry. BY KATE SIBER D’02

ON LEADERSHIP For more than a century, Tuck has prepared students for a career in business leadership. Here, 10 alumni share lessons learned on their own personal leadership journeys.

THE LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP 12 THE SIMPLICITY OF COMPLEXITY 14 FOR RESERVATIONS, A NEW APPROACH 16 FACULTY NEWS 17

ALUMNI NEWS INTO THE WILD ALAIN KARAOGLAN T’87 OPEN FOR BUSINESS BEST PRACTICES NEWSMAKERS CLASS NOTES IN MEMORIAM

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BY JONATHAN RIGGS

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FIGURES Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management in the country and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world’s great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation. Tuck focuses on the full-time MBA and offers additional programs, including the Master of Health Care Delivery Science, Business Bridge, executive education, and other non-degree programs.

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2014 alumni participation rate in Tuck Annual Giving nearly triple the average of peer B-schools

› Amazon › Bain & Company › Bank of America Merrill Lynch › Barclays Capital › Biogen Idec › BlackRock › The Boston Consulting Group › Cargill › Colgate Palmolive › Corning › Deloitte Consulting › Eli Lilly and Company › Fidelity › General Electric › General Mills › Goldman Sachs

65 countries of residence

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most entrepreneurial business school (LinkedIn)

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Google Hewlett Packard J.P. Morgan Johnson & Johnson Liberty Mutual L.E.K. Consulting McKinsey & Company Microsoft Morgan Stanley The Parthenon Group PepsiCo Samsung Corporation Sanofi & Genzyme TripAdvisor Uber UBS

achieve(d) top management positions in their respective fields

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Consumer goods/retail

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Health care/pharma/biotech

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Energy

Media/entertainment

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NEWSROOM Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paganucci Fellows Program sent six Dartmouth undergraduates to Peru for an eight-week education in global experiential learning, personal leadership development, and social entrepreneurship.

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FOR UNDERGRADUATES, AN INTRO TO LEADERSHIP SINCE 2007, TUCK’S PAGANUCCI FELLOWS PROGRAM HAS PROVIDED DARTMOUTH STUDENTS WITH VALUABLE LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP—AND A HANDS-ON APPRECIATION FOR THE POWER OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING. BY JONATHAN RIGGS

urrounded by the snow-capped Andes in the Huancavelica region of Peru, William Hirschfeld D’14 and five Dartmouth undergraduates spent two weeks last summer consulting for a social entrepreneurship nonprofit working to empower local farmers. As part of their research, the students—participants in Tuck’s Paganucci Fellows Program—spent a day observing a dairy farmer making goat cheese. Using ancient artisanal methods, the farmer curdled the milk via an unweaned-goat’s stomach, removed the whey, and molded the drained cheese with handwoven baskets. While the cheese dried, the farmer’s wife treated the students to choclo con queso, an Andean culinary favorite. “That visit gave us a real appreciation for the culture of the farmers whom our project was meant to help,” says Hirschfeld. “As we formulated our business plan, it made us realize how important it is for us as consultants to consider the cultural practices that these farmers have used for generations.” Directed by Tuck’s Center for Leadership, the Paganucci Fellows Program offers Dartmouth undergraduates and recent graduates an intensive eight-week education in global experiential learning, personal leadership development, and social entrepreneurship. Named in honor of Paul Paganucci D’53, T’54—former investment banker, associate dean at Tuck, and chief financial officer and treasurer at Dartmouth—the idea for the program originated with Dean Paul Danos and has received continuous support from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation since 2006.

To prepare for their field work, this year’s Paganucci fellows—Hirschfeld; Juhi Kalra D’16; Shinri Kamei D’16; Thabo Matse D’14; Ha Nguyen D’15; and Gurkaran Singh D’15—participated in a curriculum comprising leadership, teamwork, and personal growth programs run by Richard McNulty, Paganucci faculty director and executive director of the Center for Leadership, Paganucci faculty adviser Courtney Hurley Pierson T’01, and Tuck administrator and adjunct faculty member Betsy Winslow. “We’ve structured the program so that this leadership component—assessing personal strengths and weaknesses, increasing selfawareness and emotional intelligence—is a crucial part of their journey,” explains McNulty. “We give the students access to the same tools we use at Tuck so that they can get a sense of their leadership and teamwork style and learn what they can do to continue growing personally and professionally.” One of these experiences, a “Learning to Look” session at the Hood Museum of Art, is frequently a component of Tuck’s executive education programs. During the session, the Paganucci fellows participated in a series of exercises facilitated by museum educators to help them hone their skills of observation, analysis, collaboration, and reflection—individually and as a cohesive team. Previous Paganucci projects included creating an e-learning tool in Liberia and prototyping a financial-inclusion product in Ghana. This year’s project focused on helping Peruvian alpaca and dairy farmers take greater control of their livelihoods. Currently, the farmers

sell their raw materials (alpaca fiber or milk) to intermediaries at low profit margins. According to ProSynergy, the nonprofit for whom the students consulted, farmers could boost their income by processing these raw materials into value-added products (yarn or cheese) and selling it directly to the nonprofit’s “yachaywasis,” or eco-technology farms, at a higher profit margin. The problem is that this requires the farmers to use complicated, costly technologies they have no experience with. Because many local farmers have limited formal education and little reason for marketplace loyalty, the fellows were charged with developing a business plan to make this opportunity as universally attractive and feasible as possible. After extensive research and interviews with community members, the students came up with a three-phase model. First, they proposed that the yachaywasis should spend a year building stronger relationships with the farmers. In addition to selling them supplies, such as more nutritious goat and alpaca feed, the yachaywasis should then buy the farmers’ raw materials at a higher price than the intermediaries’. Once trust has been established, the fellows recommended that the yachaywasis then offer training workshops and rental opportunities for the farmers to familiarize themselves with the technology. Finally, when the farmers fully understand the process and equipment, they can purchase it for use themselves or by multifamily cooperatives. During the program’s eight weeks, the fellows also met with Dartmouth College president Philip Hanlon D’77 and board members of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and participated in a Tuck Executive Program lunch and class led by Professor Sydney Finkelstein, associate dean for executive education and faculty director of the Center for Leadership. “During that lunch, I got the chance to speak with many CEOs, leaders, and experts, but what shocked me was that they weren’t talking to me as a student—they were talking to me as if I were the minister of energy and power in my native Swaziland,” Matse remembers. “It might sound simple, but it really got me thinking about what I can bring to the table. It was so inspiring how they engaged me.” tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

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NEWSROOM

CURRICULUM

NEW GLOBAL REQUIREMENT

At the apex of the Tuck Hall portico is an oval window with decorative grilles resembling latitude and longitude demarcations. Suggestive of a globe, the window is a reminder that Tuck students and alumni learn and work all over the world. Tuck’s distinctive curriculum has long reflected that truth, offering

rich global experiences of all kinds. Now Tuck is taking it up a notch. Starting with the class of 2017, all students must complete a new Global Insight Requirement. “The globalization of firms in the last decade has been explosive,” said Phillip C. Stocken, associate dean for the MBA Program. “Our

students are going to hold leadership positions in these firms and we want to provide them with the tools and background they’ll need to more capably lead in the global environment in which we find ourselves.” Students will choose from a far-ranging menu of global experiences, including affordable options as well as alternatives for those who come to Tuck from another country. Before their immersive experience, participants will complete background readings to develop their global sensitivity; afterward, they’ll reflect on a business aspect of their experience in an essay. “We want to stress the importance of a key leadership characteristic: empathy,” Stocken says. “When students visit a new country, they quickly realize that if they’re going to be effective, they must be empathetic, sensitive, and culturally inclusive—skills so important for leadership in a modern corporation.”

DEAN SEARCH

TUCK’S NEXT LEADER On June 30, 2015, Paul Danos will complete his 20th and final year as dean of the Tuck School, a tenure marked by unprecedented growth and success. To ensure a smooth transition to the next leader of Tuck, the school has joined forces with the executive consulting firm Spencer Stuart to form a search committee. Chaired by senior associate dean Robert Hansen, the committee’s members include assistant dean Sally Jaeger; professors Kusum Ailawadi, Brian Tomlin, Jonathan Lewellen, and Giovanni Gavetti; Joseph Helble, dean

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of Thayer School of Engineering; Tuck overseers Jennifer Uhrig T’87 and Paul Raether T’73; and current Tuck student Sarah Mahlab T’15. The committee began work in early July and reports excellent progress. “Tuck is a great institution, and potential dean candidates understand just what a gem it is,” Hansen said. “We have had great interest in the deanship and are excited about our prospects. As we proceed, I trust that the Tuck community is wishing us the best in this most important task.” TO SEE THE POSITION DESCRIPTION, MAKE NOMINATIONS, AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SEARCH PROCESS, PLEASE VISIT HTTP: // WWW.TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU/ ABOUT/DEAN-SEARCH.

IN BRIEF

A SERIES OF CELEBRATIONS Although Paul Danos will be stepping down as dean of Tuck in June 2015, he’ll never be far from the school he led for two transformative decades. Danos will continue to serve as an adviser and ambassador to both Tuck and Dartmouth, and is also considering a return to teaching in the MBA classroom. To commemorate the ongoing impact of his leadership and vision, Tuck is honoring Danos’ final year as dean with a series of events across the United States and world that began in London Oct. 1 and will run throughout the spring. Fittingly, the final celebration will occur in Hanover. “Along the way, we hope to bring together as many members of the Tuck community as possible,” says Jennifer Harris Brown D’86, T’90, senior associate director, major giving, development and alumni services. “This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate where we’ve been, where we’re going, and the dean who’s led the way.”

CENTERS AND INITIATIVES

A PLATFORM FOR LEADERSHIP L AURA DECAPUA PHOTOGRAPHY

EVENTS

A FULL LIST OF EVENTS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT MYTUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU.

COURBAGE T’96 AND LIKER T’00 FUND A NEW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Benjie Moll T’14 had found the perfect place to work for his summer internship—at the New York-based Atlas Real Estate Partners, a forward-thinking investment group founded by alumni of his undergraduate alma mater, Tufts University. There was just one problem: they had never considered bringing on an MBA intern. Other Tuck students have gotten around this issue by appealing to employers using matching stipend grants from Tuck, through programs like the Maynard Entrepreneurial Internship Program (for internships at startups) and Tuck GIVES (for nonprofit internships). Moll recalled wondering why there wasn’t a similar program for real estate. Then he set about building one. In typical Tuck fashion, the new Tuck Real Estate Internship Program was a team effort. Help came from Tuck’s Development and Alumni Services Office, the Career Development Office, adjunct professor John Vogel, and Cyril Courbage T’96, who generously funded the first year of the program. Moll was the first recipient of the grant. He worked with Atlas for the summer and continued to work with them throughout his remaining time at Tuck. He has now spun off his own real estate investment platform in Boston, Arx Urban Capital, with their backing. Based on the success of the program, Courbage and Todd Liker T’00 funded two more real estate internships this past summer. HEARD

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With more than 25 years of experience studying strategic leadership, Sydney Finkelstein was a natural choice to assume the role of faculty director for Tuck’s Center for Leadership. Finkelstein, Tuck’s associate dean for executive education and Steven Roth Professor of Management, got the nod after founding faculty director Pino Audia stepped down to focus on research and teaching. While the mission of the center— supporting and creating leadership-building curricula, activities, and research at Tuck and Dartmouth—remains the same, Finkelstein hopes to expand and innovate upon this foundation, including further engagement with Tuck’s Initiative for Women, the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, and students with military experience. “My vision for the center is for it to serve as a platform that will have an even bigger impact on leadership opportunities and development for students, alumni, and faculty members,” Finkelstein says. “In addition to our courses, we’ll have a greater number and variety of visitors, panels, and research. I want the center to be a resource for all.”

Tuck helped me understand my potential before I could see it in myself. – MICHAEL SNEED T’83

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NEWSROOM

GIVING

CAMPUS

SAY HELLO TO JOE

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TAG BREAKS A RECORD, AGAIN

WITH THE SEPTEMBER OPENING OF JOE, A PURVEYOR OF PEET’S PREMIUM ESPRESSO- AND TEA-BASED BEVERAGES, MEMBERS OF THE TUCK COMMUNITY NEED NO LONGER TRUDGE INTO TOWN FOR A SUPERIOR CUP OF COFFEE OR TEA. Located in Byrne Hall adjacent to the Pepsico dining room, Joe is operated by Dartmouth Dining Services (DDS) under the supervision of Jim Giberson, Tuck’s director of dining. It replaces a small, student-run business named Project Coffee that operated part-time out of Stell Hall in 2013 and 2014, and confirms Tuck’s strong support for top-shelf coffee on campus. Along with employing DDS workers, Giberson said Joe will add Tuck students and Dartmouth undergraduates to its staff. The business will also promote entrepreneurial Tuck partnerships— starting with two current pairings that showcase quality baked goods by Leah Goldberger T’15 and premium teas courtesy of Aditya Shah T’16, whose family owns MK Jokai, a Mumbai-based tea

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exporter. As with Tuck’s other successful retail entities—TuckStuff, the retailer of Tuck-branded clothing, gear, and accessories; and The Box food truck—the school’s goals for Joe, Giberson says, are that it be “sustainable, local, and profitable as a standalone business.” The coffee bar is part of a larger effort to bring a food court dining experience to Tuck. “Byrne was constructed to serve around 150 people, but it’s now serving considerably more,” Giberson says. “We have plans to give it a whole new feel and to improve traffic flow. Carrying forward the concept of the Fresh Zone (which opened last year) and Joe, we’ll be introducing a New York-style deli soon.”

The Tuck community is famous for giving back, but this year its generous members have outdone themselves. In the last fiscal year, Tuck Annual Giving (TAG) raised a record $6.35 million with 70.9 percent of alumni participating, a figure more than double the average giving rate of other business schools. “This is so much more than just a number,” says Dean Paul Danos. “It speaks to our graduates’ satisfaction with Tuck and to their continued confidence in our approach to management education. It is also something we never take for granted.” The effort surpassed the $6.3 million raised in 2013 and the $5.7 million raised in 2012. This year’s campaign got an extra boost from a $43,000 challenge gift—for the annual fund’s 43rd year—from the TAG Executive Committee and an anonymous donor that helped send participation and revenue figures into record territory. TAG, a fundraising vehicle for unrestricted giving, provides approximately 8 percent of the school’s operating revenues along with direct support for innovation. “Alumni loyalty and generosity connected with the extraordinary diligence and care of our annual giving team in Hanover and our volunteers around the globe help make Tuck strong and unique,” says Don M. Wilson, III T’73, chair of the Tuck Annual Giving Executive Committee for the past 10 years. CAREERS

PERCENTAGE OF THE CLASS OF 2014 WITH JOB OFFERS THREE MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION.

IDEAS Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing Scott Neslin surveys the new multichannel marketing environment and considers the implications for retailers.

FACULTY OPINION FACULTY RESEARCH

FACULTY Q&A

FACULTY NEWS

BY KATHLEEN DOOHER

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FACULTY OPINION

THE LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP AS A LEADER, YOU CAN’T DEVELOP OTHERS UNTIL YOU DEVELOP YOURSELF. By ELLA L.J. BELL SMITH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

ately, I have been thinking quite lot about the meaning of legacy, especially as it relates to leadership. Perhaps it is because I just turned 65 years old. At this stage of my life, I am more concerned about what I have built rather than what I am building in my career. But I was also struck by the power of legacy with the passing of poet, author, actress, and professor Maya Angelou, the unexpected and tragic deaths of comedians Robin Williams and Joan Rivers, and the loss of jazz musician Joe Sample. Maya Angelou was one of my sheroes. The lyrical rhythm, meaning, and power of “And Still I Rise” kept me sane while I was working on my doctoral degree in organizational behavior. “Phenomenal Woman” reminded me of the beauty, grace, wisdom, sexiness, and sass black women possessed. In Angelou’s world, black women weren’t angry or hostile; we were simply phenomenal. And she gave me insight into one of the cornerstones of leadership: courage. She wrote, “Courage is the most important of all virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” When my husband told me that Robin Williams was dead, I was dumbfounded. Yes, I had read he struggled with addiction. Yes, I knew his television show had been cancelled. But I couldn’t believe that a man with such comedic gifts had taken his own life. Joan Rivers’ death closely followed Williams. As a feminist, I loved all the ways she reinvented herself, and her take-no-prisoners New York City comic style strongly resonated with me. In September, piano jazz legend Joe Sample died after losing a battle with cancer. In my 20s,

I developed my jazz chops listening to the Jazz Crusaders, featuring Sample on the keyboards. I always tried to catch his live performances. In fact, I saw him two summers ago in Charlotte, N.C. He had aged, but his performance was timeless. Angelou, Williams, Rivers, and Sample’s passing give us teachable lessons about the power of legacy and leadership. At its simplest; legacy is not what you do, but how you do it—writing a poem that builds a young woman’s self-esteem or gives her courage, making people laugh, being a humanitarian, being a role model, going through closed doors, or performing a musical piece that “charms to soothe a savage breast,” as William Congreve once wrote. Legacy is cultivating your gifts and mining treasures. Building a legacy starts early in one’s career. It is about doing what you are passionate about, no matter how challenging or what others tell you to do. It is also about building relationships throughout your career. Legacy is about how you treat the people in your life. Legacy is about the way you both support and develop your employees. It is all about the ways you show love to your loved ones. It is about opening doors for the generation behind you, like Joan Rivers did for younger female comedians. Thinking beyond you and contributing to a greater purpose creates legacy. This is what leadership should be about. Still there is another takeaway. Your legacy touches people you do not know and may never meet. I was touched by the outpouring of love and sympathy shown after the passing of Angelou, Williams, Rivers, and Sample. While never meeting any of these celebrities, I was

touched by their lives. Four individuals I never knew, who were not members of any of my networks, yet each one made my life richer. This is the power of legacy. So do you know your gifts? Leaders need to know their strengths. How are you mining your treasures? Another way to put this is, What ways are you developing yourself? As a leader, you can’t develop others without first developing yourself. What treasures are you sharing with your loved ones? Work-life balance is rarely possible, but having a full and loving life is critical to feeling fulfilled. Have you assessed the state of your relationships? Is there a relationship needing forgiveness? Are there relationships requiring more attention? How would your children describe their relationship with you? This question gives us food for thought. How would you describe your relationships with colleagues? A good leader knows it is not about him or her, but rather one’s employees. Your workers are your best assets, but only if you make time to build relationships with them. These are all important questions we should think about throughout our careers and in our lives. The answers to these questions can tell you if the current state of your legacy is rich or impoverished. Maya Angelou summed it up best: “I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

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FACULTY Q&A

THE SIMPLICITY OF COMPLEXITY Q&A WITH SCOTT NESLIN ALBERT WESLEY FREY PROFESSOR OF MARKETING

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By CATHERINE M. MELOCIK

The stamp lamp—an old coin-op stamp dispenser now electrified— sits on a table next to a window in Scott Neslin’s office. When visitors comment on it, Professor Neslin will take the dispenser apart to show them how simple and basic its operation is for dispensing the stamps to the buyer. Neslin does something similar in his core Statistics for Managers, Database Marketing, and Sales Promotion courses, distilling complicated analysis methods into foundational concepts for students.

Could you talk a bit about your current research? Right now, I’m focusing on customer relationship management (CRM)—using customer data to improve marketing efficiency and effectiveness. Within CRM, I’ve been studying one subarea, called multichannel customer management. A channel is, most generally, a touchpoint between a firm and its customers. For retailers, they are ways that customers purchase and ways that they gather information—the Internet, catalogs, bricks and mortar stores, call centers, and so on. This multichannel environment has become a very, very big business issue.

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What specifics are you studying in multichannel marketing? Several things. One is called cross effects: how marketing in channel A affects channel B. In a recent study, we examined the impact of online advertising on offline sales. We focused on two kinds of online advertising: banner ads, which you see on websites you visit, and search advertising, which are ads that show up on your searchresults page based on your search terms. Both forms are growing very rapidly—they currently account for about 22 percent of all advertising. Ten years ago, it was about 5 percent. We found that online advertising had just as big, if not a bigger impact on store sales than it did on online sales. That is an example of a cross effect. And it’s important because it shows that you have to integrate online and offline channels and think holistically about your marketing.

What is it about how consumers shop that produces cross effects? I published an earlier study about research shopping, which means getting information from channel A but buying in channel B: for example, clicking on a search ad to go to a retailer’s website but ultimately going to that retailer’s store to buy the item. This shopping behavior generates cross effects. In fact, we found that the most common form of research shopping was searching online and buying offline. However, the reverse effect, known as showrooming, has recently gained attention. Showrooming is when you go to a store to look at something but you end up buying it online, even sometimes right in the store using your smartphone. My colleagues and I hypothesize that what drives showrooming is a personality trait called reciprocity. Some people are reciprocators. They feel that if the retailer does a good turn for them, they’ll in turn buy from that retailer. Others—and this is not a value judgment—don’t necessarily reciprocate. My new research paper will relate the reciprocity personality trait to the propensity to do showrooming.

So how do you decide which customers to focus your marketing and promotions on? We and several others have found that multichannel shoppers are more profitable to the firm than non-multichannel shoppers. That seems to suggest retailers should try to create multichannel shoppers because they’re more valuable. However, correlation does not mean causality. It might be that a retailer’s more valuable customers just naturally become multichannel shoppers: if they really like a store, they’re going to buy through all its channels. And it might be that the causality goes in the reverse and that you really want to create loyal customers, who will then naturally become multichannel shoppers. This is why my latest research in this area uses a field experiment where we randomly encourage some customers to become multichannel and some (the control) are not encouraged. Indeed we find that the multichannel “treatment” produces more multichannel customers and increases average customer profitability.

Is there anything in multichannel marketing that has backfired in increasing overall sales? One issue is what I call the “multichannel prisoner’s dilemma.” Let’s say two retailers have a website presence but aren’t doing much with mobile. One makes a heavy investment in mobile and gets a lot more customers and sales. The other has to do the same thing. So all that’s happened is that both have expanded their channel investments, at nontrivial cost, and kind of canceled each other out. They’re each left with the same market share, but with higher expenses, and they’ve lost money. My concern is that this whole multichannel scene is one big prisoner’s dilemma.

Are there any other channels you’re studying now as part of this? In fact, we’re studying the mobile channel, which is different from the Internet channel and has its

own subchannels: different platforms, different versions of each platform, and so on. There are also mobile apps, and we’re analyzing whether a customer’s accessing a retailer’s app actually generates incremental sales. So far we’ve found that it does. So apps could be a good way to increase loyalty or “engagement” with a retailer.

And ads for these apps or other retailer ads might show up on your Facebook or Twitter page. Yes. In fact, the big issue, the elephant in the room, is privacy. In general, I find it’s being totally ignored. Because so much about CRM and database marketing now is a stimulus-response thing—advertise, promote, and track consumerresponse data and sales—big-picture issues such as the prisoner’s dilemma or privacy are easily put aside, for now.

You won the 2013 Teaching Excellence award, and the citation mentioned your “amazing ability to make the most complicated issues understandable.” How do you communicate these issues to students? Statistical analysis can get incredibly complicated. But what’s fun is that the most important issues are simple, like my stamp lamp. Issues such as causality, the need to control for alternative explanations, etc., are pretty easy to appreciate and, when all is said and done, determine the validity of the most complicated statistical analysis. The other thing is that I live and breathe all this every day with my research and consulting. The Tuck model is you do research, research makes you an expert, then you teach your expertise. Under that model, students are getting the content they should be getting because Tuck makes sure that the professor who lives and breathes the material is the one who’s teaching it. I think that’s one of the many things that makes Tuck a special place.

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FOR RESERVATIONS, A NEW APPROACH NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED BY THE OUTSIDE WORLD FOR MORE THAN 500 YEARS. TUCK PROFESSOR LEN GREENHALGH SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. By MICHAEL BLANDING

magine a Caribbean island—azure seas, white-sand beaches, green-forested volcanic peaks. In short, paradise. Such a place has all of the resources it needs to thrive as a tourist destination, and many islands did just that for decades, sprouting hotels, restaurants, and tour operators who injected money and life into the local economy and led to prosperity for all of their inhabitants. Until the cruise ships came. As islands became more popular, more and more tourists wanted to visit them. The cruise ships exploited that need by transporting thousands of tourists at once, developing the infrastructure of a floating city to do so. And that was the problem. Visitors started eating and sleeping on board, and even taking tours run by the ships. That left the islands with T-shirt and souvenir sales during the few hours tourists spent on land. “You have a vibrant local economy and suddenly it’s dominated by cruise ships that are taking all the wealth away,” says Len Greenhalgh, professor of management at Tuck and director of Native American Business Programs. In a recent paper presented at the American Economic Association, “Fostering Local Economies of Native American Communities,” Greenhalgh used the analogy to describe exploitation occurring in a different place: Native American reservations. The only difference is that it’s often casinos rather than cruise ships undermining the local economy. “Casinos seem like a license to print money, but more often than not they are a net loss to the

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tribe,” he says. While Native American tribes may have the sovereign right to operate a casino, most have no experience in how to do it. “These big Las Vegas companies come in and say we’ll do it for you and give you a royalty, and they walk away with most of the money,” says Greenhalgh. Like the cruise ship, the outside companies take the resource and abscond with most of the profits. And it’s not just casinos. “Native Americans often end up in the wrong part of the value chain,” says Greenhalgh. “If they have timber resources, a non-native timber company will pay them a stumpage fee and take away all the added value. Whether it’s coal or oil or water rights, someone else makes all the money, and the tribes are left with crumbs on the table.” Over the past 10 years, Greenhalgh has consulted with dozens of tribes on economic development to help turn around the cycle of poverty that plagues many reservations. At the same time, he’s advocated for public policy changes in Washington to reverse this exploitation. Too often, he says, well-meaning federal programs simply offer assistance to individual Native American business owners. “Federal agencies look at a particular business, and ask, How can we help this business? But businesses exist in an economic context. You need an industry cluster around it; you need the repair shops and gas stations to support it.” Without that more systemic approach to development, says Greenhalgh, a tribe will likely fail to develop the infrastructure needed to support local businesses and stop resources from leaving the reservation. First, a tribe must

assess what resources it has—whether it’s timber, water, or fish—and then assess the skills of the workforce to develop those resources. Then it has to look at the infrastructure and the wider economic context. A wind farm in North Dakota can’t work without a connection to the national energy grid; a water bottling operation in rural Oklahoma is worthless if all of the profits are spent on transportation. While Greenhalgh says that federal officials have shown interest in his approach, they are necessarily cautious. “Federal officials are not used to thinking in system-level terms,” says Greenhalgh. “They say, ‘This makes sense, but you’ve got to show me how it works.’” Greenhalgh has taken up that challenge, and is now in the process of doing just that in a native community on an Alaskan island with the assistance of Sam Alexander T’14. “The island gets tremendous rainfall—it’s a boreal rain forest with up to 20 feet of rain a year. The question is, How do they use all that water?” says Greenhalgh. His team has proposed using a combination of hydroelectric power and water bottling. “There is also a tremendous opportunity for ecotourism,” says Greenhalgh. By thinking more broadly, Greenhalgh and Alexander are hoping they can systematically develop the island into a sustainable economy and turn around the fortunes of the tribe. “If people have jobs and income stability in their lives to keep them gainfully occupied and focused, then they don’t turn to destructive things,” says Greenhalgh. tuck.dartmouth.edu/today

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ERIN MANSUR Erin Mansur joined Tuck as the Revers Professor of Business Administration. Mansur most recently served as an associate professor in the economics department at Dartmouth and, prior to that, as an associate professor at the Yale School of Management, and a visiting research associate at the University of California Energy Institute. He received his BA from Colby College and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include industrial organization and environmental economics, focusing primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. He will teach in the economics area. Mansur continues to serve as a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he previously served as a faculty research fellow from 2006 to 2011. BRIAN TOMLIN Brian Tomlin, an associate professor of business administration, was promoted to full professor of business administration with tenure. Tomlin joined Tuck in 2009 from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where he was a tenured faculty member. Tomlin’s research focuses primarily on supply-chain risk management, with particular attention to methods for managing disruptions in the supply chain. At Tuck, Tomlin teaches the Operations Management core course and the elective, Operations Strategy.

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The Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance is an endowed fund established in 1999 by Diane Heidt Steinberg T’83 in honor of her parents. Its new holder, finance professor Jonathan Lewellen, joined Tuck in 2005 as a tenured associate professor before receiving his promotion to full professor in 2012. He came to Dartmouth after spending several years on the faculty of MIT of Massachusetts Sloan School of Management after receiving his PhD from the University of Rochester in 2000. A leading scholar in asset pricing, Lewellen has twice won the prestigious Fama/DFA best-paper prize from The Journal of Financial Economics and has reached the most senior associate level of the National Bureau of Economic Research in its program on asset pricing. At Tuck, Lewellen teaches the MBA core course, Capital Markets, and the Tuck Business Bridge Program course, Corporate Finance.

The Benjamin Ames Kimball Professorship of the Science of Administration was established as a Dartmouth chair in 1926. Its new holder, accounting professor and group coordinator Richard Sansing, joined Tuck in 1998 as a tenured associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 2006. Prior to Tuck, Sansing spent several years on the faculty at the Yale School of Management after receiving his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Texas, Austin. In the field of tax accounting, Sansing has long been renowned for investigating how tax policies shape the accounting, operation, and structure of companies. At Tuck, Sansing teaches his signature elective, Managerial Accounting.

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KATHARINA LEWELLEN Katharina Lewellen, an associate professor of business administration, was promoted to associate professor of business administration with tenure. Lewellen joined Tuck in 2005 after spending two years as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology upon the completion of her dissertation at the University of Rochester in 2003. Lewellen’s research focuses on classic issues in the field of finance, including corporate investment, security issuance, and the role of CEOs in company performance. Lewellen’s teaching portfolio at Tuck has included the MBA core course Corporate Finance, and a required course on finance as part of Thayer School of Engineering’s Master of Engineering Management curriculum.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN Tuck strategy professor Vijay Govindarajan has been named the inaugural holder of the Coxe Distinguished Professorship of Management, a new Dartmouth-wide faculty chair dedicated to bringing the tools of scientific management to nonprofit and non-governmental organizations focused on social goals such as improving health, education, humanitarian care, and the environment. It was established in 2012 by Tench Coxe D’80, managing director at Silicon Valley technology venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures.

DANIEL FEILER Daniel Feiler, a visiting assistant professor at Tuck since 2012, is now assistant professor of business administration and a Revers Fellow at Tuck. Feiler received his BS from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. His research explores managerial decision making at the intersection of organizational behavior, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics. Feiler will teach the popular Negotiations elective. LESLIE ROBINSON Assistant professor Leslie Robinson was promoted to associate professor of business administration with tenure. Robinson joined Tuck in 2006 upon completing her dissertation that year at the University of North Carolina. Her research focuses on the two main areas of accountancy: the interaction between tax and financial reporting issues, and the organization of multinational companies. At Tuck, Robinson teaches the core course Financial Measurement, Reporting, and Analysis. She also teaches a similar set of topics in the Tuck Business Bridge Program for undergraduates.

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STRATEGISTS There are many paths to the top. Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned strategy professors know them all, and are learning new ones every day. X

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trategy is an old word but a modern phenomenon. Its etymology is traced back to the Greek strategia, which is best translated as “generalship.” The military connotation is strong and intentional, because for most of history strategy meant the “art of war.” Militaries still have strategies today, of course, but the difference is that everyone else does too. We have career strategies, parenting strategies, weight-loss strategies. The term has been co-opted so often that we barely know what it means anymore. But if you peel back the layers of interpretation, you can still find its core. The British military historian Sir Lawrence Freedman calls it the “art of creating power,” and reminds us that strategy needs conflict like fire needs air. Strategy is therefore imbued with drama. It is the story of the leader trying to hold on to the lead, or of the underdog scratching its way to the top. Strategy is about figuring out how to win. So it’s surprising that strategy wasn’t applied to the business world—a cauldron of competition—until the 1960s, with the publication of Igor Ansoff’s book, “Corporate Strategy,” and Boston Consulting Group’s offer of strategic consulting. Ansoff, who is now called the “father of modern strategic thinking,” had recognized like many others that the business environment had become stunningly complex, creating the need for rational decision-making processes that could guide corporations. Business schools agreed, but didn’t immediately adopt Ansoff’s vocabulary. At Tuck, the course on how to lead an organization through a difficult, dynamic, competitive landscape was called Business Policy, and it was developed and taught by the legendary professor James Brian Quinn. Quinn was the ideal person for the task; he was a Renaissance man, a generalist who could teach a case where the issue was operations, finance, or marketing. He taught at Tuck from 1957 to 1993, a time of revolutionary technological change, and became a leading thinker on the intersection of strategy and technology. Quinn’s era, when strategy meant a broad application of business principles at high levels of management, has since transformed into an era of increased strategic specialization. That’s true at Tuck, but the mission of the school is the same as it has always been: to be the best leadership education program in the world, with a faculty of thought leaders. So when it comes to strategy, Tuck’s mission is reflected in the strength and diversity of the professors in the strategy group. “Tuck has a strong general management reputation,” says Dean Paul Danos. “Our students become CEOs, business owners, leading consultants, and part of that has to do with our strategy group, which is very eclectic. Students get a variety of perspectives on this complex topic so they can create their own approach to business strategy.

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or Vijay Govindarajan, the Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management, strategy is always bound up with innovation. Govindarajan grew up in a lower-middle class neighborhood in India, in a one-bedroom house he shared with his parents and five siblings. Electricity wasn’t a 24-hour-a-day presence. The experience made an impression on him. “It told me that India has lots of problems and little resources,” he says. “Finding creative ways to move up in life requires innovative thinking. The only way to succeed is innovation.” Govindarajan got his first chance to test that theory when he was hired to teach at Harvard Business School. He had attended HBS on a Ford Foundation fellowship, which stipulated that he spend two full years in India after he graduated. The job offer from Harvard required him to start in Cambridge just one week shy of the end of the twoyear commitment. He took the job anyway, which meant he had to reimburse the Ford Foundation the money it spent on his education. The debt didn’t sit well in his mind. He and his wife made sacrifices. They lived in a third-floor walkup, didn’t buy a car, bought used furniture. Then the dean of the business school gave him an idea to make some extra income: try consulting. His first client was BF Goodrich, and he enjoyed the opportunity to get inside a company, learn their struggle, and help them think it through. “It made me a better professor and it gave me ideas for research,” he says. “Other academics lacked that access, and I liked it.” For the past 35 years, Govindarajan has worked with leading companies to learn how they’re solving problems nobody else has figured out, and he’s written best-selling books that share their wisdom. This is what is known as the “next practice”—a procedure or approach that only 10 percent of companies have adopted, but which gives them a strategic advantage. As a researcher and author, Govindarajan’s task is to find the “next practices” out there, test if they really are significant, and then show how other companies can implement them in their own businesses. The most profound “next practice” that Govindarajan has discovered is something he calls reverse innovation, which is also the title of his 2012 book. Reverse innovation is the process of developing new products for the needs of underdeveloped and emerging economies, and then bringing those lessons and innovations back to the wealthier parts of the world. He made this discovery while consulting closely with General Electric, noticing that it had developed a $5,000 portable ultrasound machine for poor areas in China (in the United States, a similar machine costs $300,000), and then sold it to scores of other, richer countries. GE had done a brilliant thing, but its lesson was lost in the enormity of the organization. Govindarajan shared his insight with GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt D’78, who made reverse innovation a top priority for the company the following year. “I am inspired by practitioners,” Govindarajan says. “I live in the world of ideas, but for me, ideas come from practitioners.”

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hile Govindarajan found strategy in innovation, Richard D’Aveni, the Bakala Professor of Strategy, found it in competition. D’Aveni is considered one of the top five thinkers in competitive strategy in the world. And it all started with a hurricane. Hurricane Bob, to be precise, the Category 2 storm that destroyed parts of coastal New England in August 1991. D’Aveni was on vacation with his family at the time, on Cape Cod, and then, suddenly, the vacation was pretty much over. The power went out, trees were uprooted and blown across the nearby golf course, and the D’Avenis were stranded in their rental house for four days. When the storm had passed and the electricity returned, D’Aveni turned on the TV and saw, to his surprise, that the Soviet Union had collapsed. “Here was a four-day window and I couldn’t predict the most

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significant economic and political event in my lifetime,” he says. “I was working on fiveyear strategic plans for corporations. It was at this moment, I realized that what we were doing, as a field, was quasi-fraud.” So D’Aveni set out to write a book about what happens in highly disruptive environments with constant changes, where competitive advantages disappear overnight and new ones take their place. To begin he set up four card tables in his basement, each one representing a different competitive advantage—product positioning, resourced-based (know-how and timing), barriers to entry, and size. Then, like a grand chess master, he made an opening move, and followed with counter moves. He realized that each new competitive advantage would destroy the prior ones, if firms were playing to win. At the end of the process he discovered something he called “escalation ladders.” Rather than trying to decrease rivalries (as suggested by Michael Porter’s Five Forces Theory), the successful strategy was to continually trump the previous move—through things like redefining quality, circumventing barriers to entry, revolutionary new resources, and building war-chests to destroy the strongholds and advantages of rivals. D’Aveni describes these strategies, and how companies can use them, in his now classic, global best-seller “Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of Strategic Maneuvering” (1994). In recent years, D’Aveni has widened his focus on hypercompetition from domestic firms trying to disrupt the status quo to multinational businesses competing for turf and, ultimately, nations competing for world economic dominance. In 2001, he published “Strategic Supremacy: How Industry Leaders Create Growth, Wealth, and Power Through Spheres of Influence,” which explained how established firms could restructure their global portfolios around core markets, and then create buffer zones and forward positions that would disrupt rival spheres of influence and affect the balance of power among global competitors. Continuing to expand his application of hypercompetitive strategy, D’Aveni published “Strategic Capitalism: The New Economic Strategy For Winning the Capitalist Cold War” in 2012. This book argued that China’s economic strategy was based on hypercompetitive principles leading to the disruption of the national advantages of the U.S. economy, and it set out economic and geopolitical strategies designed to turn the tables in favor of U.S. economic preeminence. Using the principles from his three books, D’Aveni teaches two electives in the MBA program: Advanced Competitive Strategy and Global Strategy. He brings 10 to 12 Fortune 500 CEOs to Tuck every year as guest lecturers talking about the core concepts of hypercompetitive strategy: market disruption and the use of temporary competitive advantages. D’Aveni has recently turned to applying his hypercompetitive notions to what he considers to be the next big move available to manufacturers: 3D printing, which he calls “the perfect hypercompetitive device.” Why? Because it could destroy China’s competitive advantage by doing away with the need for assembly plants based on low-cost labor. Instead of products being made in China and shipped around the world, they could be 3D-printed in the countries where they’ll be used. “It will change the balance of trade,” D’Aveni says. “The faster 3D printing comes into place, the better off we’ll be.”

echnologies like 3D printing have always been strategic bombshells because they seem to change the rules of the game. They’re easy to identify after the fact—the microchip, the PC, the Internet—because each one represents a revolution that spawns other revolutions, creating opportunities for new businesses while catching some established firms off guard. James Brian Quinn was one of the first strategy professors to deeply investigate the role of technology in strategic management. Quinn passed away in 2013 but his spirit lives on at Tuck in the research and teaching of Constance Helfat, the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology

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showed that most of Christensen’s claims didn’t stand up: Incumbent firms were not late to enter new markets, they were more likely to be successful than entrants, and strong firms survived and even dominated across multiple markets. In a second, more theoretical paper published in 2001 in Management Science, King and Tucci developed and tested a rival theory that the choice to enter new markets was based on production experience: those with greater experience tended to enter new markets, while those with lesser experience tended to play out their hand. Based on a quantitative study of 200 firms, they showed that this normal process of strategic choice and competitive selection explained the history of the industry. Andrew King is an unusual scholar to be taking on Christensen’s theory, because it is quite far from his main research interests in sustainability and industry self-regulation. It was only when the theory of disruption expended into these realms that his curiosity was piqued. In the late 1990s, scholars and pundits began to argue that firms should pour money into products for the poorest people in the world—the so called “base of the pyramid”—because this represented the next disruptive market. Such investments were supposed to be the ultimate triple win: increasing first-world profits, CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

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and Strategy. Helfat teaches some of the most popular electives at Tuck: the Research-toPractice Seminar Deconstructing Apple, and Strategic Principles for Internet Businesses. Some strategy thinkers latch on to the fact that technological change can spell failure for established firms, and they examine the reasons for those failures. Helfat, who’s been teaching at Tuck since 1998, is broadly interested in discovering and understanding the capabilities that make firms successful. “Instead of focusing on the problems, I focus on solutions, and how firms create opportunities for themselves,” she says. “It’s a glass-halffull strategy.” And why do firms succeed? Through her research, Helfat has come up with quite a few factors, but a major one is a firm’s dynamic capabilities, or how well it accomplishes strategic change. In 2007, Helfat collaborated with Tuck professors Margaret Peteraf and Sydney Finkelstein, and others at other institutions, to write the book, “Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations.” The authors define “capability” as the “ability to perform a particular task or activity.” A dynamic capability is oriented toward changing the current condition of a business, or, as they state, to “purposefully create, extend, or modify its resource base.” Basically, how to grow or survive in a constantly changing world. While sketching out the contours of dynamic capabilities in general, Helfat has spent a lot of time researching the building blocks of those capabilities, from superior R&D to integrative skills like communication and coordination, which allow companies to pursue strategies such as vertical integration, product diversification, and joint ventures. Along this line, in a 2009 paper she wrote with Alva Taylor, an associate professor of business administration at Tuck and the faculty director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Helfat developed a conceptual model that explains why some firms survive technological transitions well. They identified four influences—economic, structural, social, and cognitive—that allow a company to shift to a new technology while using “valuable preexisting capabilities,” focusing on the critical role of middle managers in linking the old with the new. More recently, Helfat has been digging even deeper—into the “microfoundations” of dynamic capabilities. In a forthcoming journal article, Helfat and Peteraf examine the cognitive underpinnings of skills that make managers adept at handling change. They focus on several managerial cognitive capabilities: sensing and seizing opportunities, which requires perception, attention, and problem-solving; and reconfiguring and orchestrating assets, which necessitates skills in language, communication, and social interaction. “The mental processing of information has been underemphasized in strategic management, but managers’ cognition is very important,” Helfat said. “The way you think about things affects what you do.”

ydney Finkelstein couldn’t agree more with Helfat’s opinion on the importance of managerial thinking. For one reason or another, he’s always been interested in why people do what they do—the psychology of decision-making. He’s also always been drawn to the worldchangers, the heads of corporations and governments, whose decisions, good or bad, have significant consequences. When you combine these interests you get a people-centric view of an environment where organizations tend to cloud agency. “Companies don’t decide anything,” he says. “People decide to do or not to do.” All his teaching, all his research, is based on that insight: the critical role of people in leading organizations. Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management, faculty director for the Center for Leadership, and associate dean for Tuck Executive Education, started his academic career with traditional research for peer-reviewed journals on topics such as executive

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compensation, top management team tenure, corporate governance, and the role of the CEO in a firm’s success. About 15 years ago, he felt the desire to speak to a much bigger audience and to take on messier questions, such as why people do stupid things and why organizations fail. For these questions, Finkelstein had no hypothesis. It was inductive research, which involved interviewing many people, collecting loads of data, then trying to find the patterns and tell the story. “It’s hard to do, but it’s the most fun,” he says. The first product of that new method was the 2003 best-selling book, “Why Smart Executives Fail,” the most in-depth investigation to-date on the phenomenon of corporate failure and managerial mistakes. Through 51 corporate case studies, Finkelstein found that all corporate failures fit into four categories: new business breakdowns, choosing not to cope with change, misguided mergers and acquisitions, and new competitive threats. Six years later, Finkelstein followed up that book with “Think Again” (co-authored by Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell), which used research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and management to take a closer look at managerial decision-making. They discovered that bad decisions have two parents: a judgment error by someone in power, and the failure of others to identify the error and correct it before it’s too late. These flaws, in turn, were traced back to cognitive biases that trick our brains into making false judgments, and the lack of a system to help executives slow down and think through complex decisions. “We’re funny,” Finkelstein says. “We don’t like to be criticized, we procrastinate, we don’t want to try new things. These human tendencies can get you into a lot of trouble when you’re a CEO.” Finkelstein brings these lessons into his classrooms—he teaches the core course, Analysis for General Manager, and the elective, Strategic Leadership, and serves as faculty director for the Tuck Executive Program—and gives students the opportunity to put themselves in the position of a CEO making a decision. “We focus a lot on diversity and self-awareness,” he said. “Are you ignoring an emotional bias? Do you have a diverse team that deliberates and makes careful decisions?” If strategy comes from people, and not amalgams known as corporations, then it makes sense that a firm’s longevity is based on finding and training the right leaders. This topic—talent development—is the subject of Finkelstein’s next book, which will be published later next year. He’s not saying much about it yet, but expect the same hard-won insights from Finkelstein’s previous books, and the opportunity to assess whether your boss is really interested in developing your career.

f it was easy, everyone would do it. That’s what kids are told sometimes, when they’re sick of practicing the piano or hitting backhands. The idea being that the struggle for excellence is worth it, because with enough effort you become special, or at least really good. The same applies to an efficient market in the business world: the obvious opportunities are the most contested, because they’re the easiest to see. To rise above the scrum of competitors fighting for pennies of profit, you have to, as the Apple slogan went, “think different.” This belief is central to the research and teaching of Giovanni Gavetti, an associate professor of business administration at Tuck and pioneer in the field of “behavioral strategy.” That managers manage firms is a given. To Gavetti, managers must also “manage” their own and other’s mental processes. In the vein of Helfat and Finkelstein, Gavetti sees the manager’s mind as one of the true keys to strategic success. The paper that best lays out Gavetti’s theoretical approach is “Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy,” which appeared in the journal, Organization Science, in the beginning of 2012, when Gavetti was an associate professor at Harvard Business School. In it, he explores the idea that superior business opportunities are “cognitively distant.” That is, they are not found in the familiar places with familiar patterns of thought. Instead, to grasp the truly innovative ideas, managers must go beyond the bounds of rationality to a place where metaphor and associative thinking can

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raising living standards, and simultaneously alleviating pressure on the natural environment. “I was skeptical of such a magic bullet,” King said, “and so I decided to look into the theory on which it was based.” King and Tucci’s papers made a stir among academics, but popular ideas about the abundance of disruptions and win-win opportunities proved too well ingrained to be debunked by inconvenient facts. “We convinced most top scholars of industry evolution, and that helped me get a job at Tuck,” King said, “but most people remained infatuated with idea of marvelous disruptive innovations. Perhaps that is finally changing. Jill Lepore has a large following, and her article may cause to people reconsider the evidence. My job as a scholar, as I saw it, was to test the predictive power of the theory. Once I had an answer, I went back to my main area of research.” X

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happen. This is challenging because, as Gavetti writes, “it is necessary to deal with substantial ambiguity in order to spot [superior opportunities] and grasp their nature.” One solution, Gavetti believes, is to deploy the reasoning mechanism of analogy, something well-suited to “decision-making when ambiguity and complexity are high.” Gavetti’s favorite example of innovation by analogy is the origin story of Merrill Lynch, which he touches on in his 2005 Harvard Business Review article, “How Strategists Really Think.” Merrill Lynch, one of the biggest banks for most of the 20th century, grew out of a time, before the Great Depression, when banks were only for the rich. But Charlie Merrill had an experience that allowed him to envision something much more democratic. He had been an executive at a large grocery store, and then began to wonder why a bank couldn’t be more like a supermarket, offering a wide range of products for everyone. Merrill had performed a feat of associative thinking: He recalled a situation in his past, paid attention to select features of it, and used those patterns to understand the present. One of Gavetti’s goals is to show managers how to use associative thinking in a disciplined, systematic way, so it can be deployed on a regular basis to find new opportunities. He is also working to understand the cognitive underpinnings of persuasion. If a strategist spots a business model that is truly cognitively distant and cannot be seen by most competitors, she will also have a hard time getting her own people to see it, and perhaps the capital market to see it. How to get critical audiences on board is therefore critical to the pursuit of strategic opportunities that are cognitively distant. Gavetti, who won the Class of 2011 Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, introduces students to these topics in his elective course, Psychology of Strategic Leadership. “If we really want to understand and control mental processes, we must go through them firsthand,” he says. “So I create an environment where people experience their own biases, see what it’s like to control someone, and feel psychological safety.” Ron Adner, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck, has pioneered his own form of associative thinking. But unlike Gavetti’s focus on the association between new and old ideas, Adner studies associations between firms—the critical partnerships companies need to cultivate to thrive. In short, it’s the ecosystem approach to strategy. A vivid example comes from his critically acclaimed book, “The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.” In the early 1990s, Michelin invented the run-flat tire, and it was supposed to revolutionize the automobile industry and the driving experience. No more dangerous blow-outs, no more roadside despair. Michelin struck agreements with the likes of Audi, Honda, and Mercedes to include the tires as standard equipment on certain models. All was shaping up spectacularly, except for one thing: most tire service centers were not equipped to change or repair run-flats, leaving customers with little choice but to replace the tires at great expense. Lawsuits and other problems mounted. “What had started as an ‘inevitable success’ ended as a massive corporate writeoff,” Adner writes. Michelin’s key failure: not understanding the importance of other players in the success of its innovation. Before Adner created a framework and a grammar for the nature of innovation ecosystems, traditional strategic principles paid partnerships little mind. The resource-based view instructed companies to learn what they did best, and focus on that. The positioning theory centered on understanding the competition. Another school of thought said to cater to customer needs. “The problem,” Adner says, “is that you can do well with all three of those, but if you don’t align your partners, you could still fail.” At Tuck, Adner is a popular teacher and mentor, and the winner of the Class of 2011 Teaching Award in 2011. He teaches the electives, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy, and Strategy in Innovation Ecosystems, a research-to-practice seminar. He also consults with corporations on ecosystem strategy and regularly melds his research, teaching, and advising together. “What I do in one I can bring to the other,” he says. The ecosystem approach works there, too. X

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INVESTOR. PHILANTHROPIST. ENTREPRENEUR. ROGER MCNAMEE IS ALL OF THESE AND MORE IN A CAREER THAT HAS TAKEN HIM TO THE TOP OF THE TECH INDUSTRY. BY KATE SIBER Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;02

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oger McNamee T’82 walks onto the stage in jeans and a hooded purple sweatshirt. The theater is packed and dimly lit. The audience is a sea of expectant eyes. McNamee is used to being on stage—he is a guitarist for the prolific rock band Moonalice—but today, a calm, mostly overcast day in June 2011, he is on stage for a different reason. Today, he is the hyper-successful Silicon Valley investor, and he is about to let the audience in on a secret—or maybe a few. McNamee may not look like a stereotypical finance guy. His shoulder-length gray hair flops as he speaks. His flyaway eyebrows rise and fall with enthusiasm. From behind round wire-rim glasses that make him look like an eccentric savant, he gazes intensely at the audience. McNamee has always been different, but that doesn’t bother him. After all, it is his ability to think differently that has gained him the sort of success that landed him here, at the inaugural TEDx Santa Cruz conference. “Have you ever been in the position of watching Silicon Valley take off and wish that you had known what was about to happen?” he says slowly, emphatically. The audience chuckles. Over the last few years, McNamee has noticed a shift, so he devised several hypotheses about the tech market and ran them by an inordinate number of people in the industry to see if anyone could refine them. This is what McNamee does best: He is a tireless observer and a brilliant analyst, but he is also unfailingly open-minded and a steadfast believer in open-source ideas. McNamee shares with the audience a list of hypotheses: Microsoft’s Windows no longer matters as smartphones overtake desktops; Google’s ultra-profitable index search business faces an existential threat from mobile apps; and next-generation web technology is everyone’s best protection against domination by Apple and Google. He hypothesizes that mobile changes everything in tech and that social media is Facebook, not fertile ground for new Facebooks. They are bold postulations in 2011 and hard to argue with. But underlying all of them, someone looking closely might notice something about McNamee himself. They might see an inherent, unfailing optimism about the world, a belief that these changes will democratize the Internet and empower regular people like you and me. “I think creativity is coming back,” he says, gesticulating enthusiastically. “I think tech is finally going to do us a favor.” Roger McNamee is the first to tell you he has been wrong, both often and spectacularly, such as with his attempt to dislodge the iPhone with the Palm Pre in 2009. But he has also been profoundly prescient, and he very well could be right again. At the end of the talk, the audience claps and hoots and even stands on their feet. Perhaps they think his ideas are spot on or they recognize the courage it takes to stand in front of an audience. Maybe they can simply sense that there’s something different, something

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valuable, in the worldview of the quirky investor loping off the stage. Or maybe they are just being polite.

Roger McNamee considers himself very lucky. Over the past three decades, he has worked at T. Rowe Price, the large mutual fund manager, and three investment firms that he cofounded, building an astonishingly successful track record as the tech industry grew up. Along the way, he gained a reputation for being a gifted strategist, seemingly able to see around corners and predict the future. And he has befriended and advised some of the greatest luminaries of the tech world—Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are examples—as they’ve made their names. Now, McNamee enjoys a high profile as the co-founder, with rock star Bono and others, of Elevation Partners, a web and media private-equity firm that is wrapping up its successful $1.6-billion fund. But he considers himself lucky for even deeper reasons. McNamee has always been an unfailing optimist, a dogged social liberal, a self-described nerd, and a hippie at heart. Now, in his late 50s, his success allows him to not only indulge his myriad interests—music, baseball, conservation—it affords him the opportunity, through new philanthropic endeavors, to make at least some small part of the world a better place. Roger McNamee hasn’t always been lucky. Growing up in Albany, N.Y., McNamee was the second youngest in a family of eight children and didn’t receive a lot of prodding or guidance from his mom, a retired journalist among many other roles; or his dad, a lawyer and the founder of First Albany Corporation, a regional brokerage business. As a child, McNamee was afflicted with an extreme variant of celiac disease and, while other kids were eating cake and cookies, had to learn the art of self-control at a very young age. At age 10, he suffered a near-fatal accident while at summer camp, underwent emergency surgery all alone, and endured a long, lonely convalescence period. “Experiences like that would shape anyone’s personality—they make you a stronger person,” he says. “And in my case, they undeniably led to my success as an investor. I don’t mind having everybody disagree with me. I don’t mind being different because I spent my whole childhood being different.” In his late teens, McNamee headed off to Yale, but dropped out after his second year to follow a girlfriend to California. His parents were unhappy with the choice, so he cut ties with them, becoming financially independent at the age of 20. “That experience was the beginning of me figuring it out,” he says. “Having to support myself with no safety net wound up being enormously helpful.” About a year later, his father died, knowing only that his son Roger was a college dropout with a strong-willed girlfriend. Eventually, McNamee realized that he and his girlfriend were a bad match and he reapplied to college, where he studied history. He also met his future wife, Ann, who was then a young doctoral candidate in music theory and fellow

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nerd with a voracious curiosity. When McNamee graduated from college, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: play music. But he also craved financial security, so in 1980, he arrived at Tuck, which would set his life on a new path. “Without Tuck, there is no chance that I would have gotten into investing, let alone be successful at it. There’s just no way to overstate the significance of Tuck for me,” says McNamee, who along with Ed Glassmeyer T’68, provided the initial funding for Tuck’s Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies in 2001. It was as a student at Tuck that McNamee learned about investing and began exploring the ideas that would lay the groundwork for his innovative investment strategy. “Roger had the most unique perspective on every issue and was one of the most interesting people in my class,” says Scott Hambley T’82, a Massachusetts-based tech investor and a classmate of McNamee’s. “It was always provocative and it was always interesting and unique.” McNamee’s career is a tribute to good luck and good timing. Two weeks after McNamee sent his resume to T. Rowe Price in 1982, the technology team there departed. At the time, the company was the largest investor in emerging growth companies and was heavily involved in technology. They needed a tech team—quickly. Amid their stack of cold-call letters was McNamee’s. They were initially reluctant to hire him, but McNamee talked his way into a job offer. He started his career on the first day of the bull market of 1982. McNamee felt he was behind his peers and worked doggedly to catch up. He knew only the most rudimentary things about technology, but he was enthusiastic and worked really hard. In retrospect, McNamee recognizes that technology was possibly the only sector of investing dynamic enough to allow his idiosyncratic approach to succeed. Besides luck, McNamee attributes his success to a great marriage and a really long commute. T. Rowe Price was in Baltimore, but McNamee’s home was outside Philadelphia, where Ann was a professor at Swarthmore College. Realizing he had the flexibility to work longer hours and travel much more than his peers, McNamee “made lemonade from the lemons” of a crazy commute. “The great insight I had was that in technology, the threat never came from big companies, it always came from startups, which you could only learn about by hanging out in Silicon Valley,” he says. And as giants like IBM declined, hundreds of players vied to fill the void. McNamee used

his time to visit companies and learn the business from the people who were doing it. For example, during calendar year 1990, he had 400 face-to-face meetings with tech companies—at a time when top ranked analysts typically did fewer than 40. This eventually led not only to a deep understanding of the zeitgeist of the tech industry, but also to an inspiration. “Microsoft introduced Windows 3.0 in May of 1990,” he says. “People stood in line to buy an operating system. I went, ‘Whoa, if people are standing in line to buy a PC operating system at midnight— to be the first guys to have it—something really powerful is going on here.’ And what I need is a better platform.” That’s when he decided to start a new kind of fund that invested in late-stage private, as well as and public, companies. T. Rowe Price thought it was a good idea but eventually passed. So in 1991, he and a colleague, John Powell, left amicably and partnered with the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to establish Integral Capital Partners, the first crossover fund. Kleiner Perkins was in Palo Alto, Calif., to which McNamee commuted nearly every week for 10 years. Just before Integral Capital Partners started, another stroke of luck arrived: the tech bull market began. Over the ensuing decade, McNamee was able to watch—and participate—from the offices of Kleiner Perkins, ground zero for the World Wide Web. He remembers when Marc Andreessen walked into the office with the original Netscape idea, Jeff Bezos with Amazon.com, and eventually Martha Stewart with her lifestyle company. By 1997, things were getting crazy, and McNamee realized that if Martha Stewart could get a billion-dollar valuation just by adding the Kleiner Perkins name, then a crash was inevitable. Investors like him would get crushed. So McNamee spent two years figuring out how to protect his investors from the inevitable collapse. With underwriting from Morgan Stanley, he and three partners founded Silver Lake Partners, the first tech-focused privateequity fund. It was designed to buy companies, such as Seagate, the world’s largest disk drive manufacturer, the online brokerage house Datek (now Ameritrade), and Gartner Group, a consulting firm; build them; and grow them during a bear market. For their first fund, Silver Lake raised $2.4 billion in 1999. At the same time, Integral cashed out its core fund and returned the money to investors in March 2000, right before the market tanked.

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possessions he and Ann carted around. When Moonalice Countless people have asked McNamee for his advice started, the band decided to commission a poster for every and have tried to parse what about him is the key to his show, and now they have over 750 original works of art. prodigious success. He is charismatic and outspoken and, He is also a stalwart champion of the underdog, and poster in many ways, enigmatic. He’s also intensely loyal and artists, who contributed so much to the music scene of the holds not only very high standards for himself but also for ‘60s and ‘70s, were chronically underpaid and exploited. others. As a result, he is not the easiest person to work with. Now, he and Ann are currently funding the Haight Street Art His ability to observe patterns and to analyze very deeply Center. The 12,000-square-foot space, located in a historic contribute to his success, but there are two things that are 1930s University of California Extension building in San even more elemental: curiosity and an earnest desire to be Francisco, will be completed in early 2015. It will be run as a involved in some good in the world. co-op, and the artists will have access to a fine art print shop “He’s a very intense person. He immerses himself in what as well as exhibition space. he does and what he finds interesting,” says John Powell, coAnother project McNamee has in the works is the founder of Integral Capital Partners. “Silicon Valley tech in the Tembo Preserve, a 5,000-acre protected area for African time that he and I worked together most was a great match for elephants in northern California’s Tehama County. The goal him because there was some idealism and optimism inherent in is to build a herd of elephants from scratch over the next 100 it that I think appeals to Roger.” years, enabling them to live a “near wild” life in a climate McNamee’s life, like most, is marked by strokes of good comparable to southern Africa. In luck and strokes of bad luck. In 2001, partnership with the Oakland Zoo and a birth defect in his heart caused two several elephant conservation groups, the strokes, and McNamee underwent preserve—which the McNamees hope open-heart surgery. As he recovered, will be approved by government agencies stress mounted as his partners at Silver and built in the next three to five years— Lake edged him out of the company will house elephants from zoos and run he founded, even though he had the studies and test technology to aid in their opportunity from Steve Jobs to buy conservation. “Zoos are for the benefit an 18 percent stake in Apple when it of humans; Tembo will be optimized was trading for cash. The stress from for the elephants who live there,” says surgery and the heartbreak of losing McNamee. the company, however, motivated But perhaps the area of his life that McNamee to make some big changes. McNamee enjoys the most is still music. He changed his diet, exercised more, With Moonalice, he travels all over the and systematically minimized stress. country, playing up to 100 shows a year. With U2’s Bono and former Apple CFO ANOTHER PROJECT MCNAMEE HAS IN THE The band’s single, “It’s 4:20 Somewhere,” Fred Anderson as his partners, he then WORKS: A 5,000-ACRE PROTECTED AREA FOR AFRICAN ELEPHANTS. has been downloaded more than 4.6 started Elevation Partners. million times. McNamee also uses the McNamee now has the freedom to group as a laboratory for tech ideas; Moonalice invented the indulge his many interests and, without kids or a golf habit, idea of the Twittercast concert and the use of a satellite-based plenty of time to follow them to all sorts of unusual places, broadcast system that allows fans to tune into live concerts often at the expense of his own time or money. After Jerry for free. These suggest an essential truth, not only about Garcia’s death, for example, he helped the Grateful Dead, the band, but about McNamee: he believes deeply in the one of his favorite bands, stay afloat through direct sales to importance of personal creativity as well as democratizing fans. Observing the post-bubble depression in Silicon Valley access to ideas and information. during his recovery from heart surgery, he wrote a book, On a Sunday evening this past September at the “The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, Calif., the men of Risk.” The book was an attempt to help people make the Moonalice take the stage. The theater lights are low and most of the disruptions in our economy. Because he believed the audience mills about. Tonight, McNamee wears his for-profit media companies were no longer practicing signature purple T-shirt, a button-down, and a salmon vest. good journalism, in 2004 he volunteered at Wikipedia and This, right here, is what he has always known he wanted to National Geographic to help them improve the distribution be involved in: the transformative power of music. “There’s of facts and hard science. He helped raise more than $8 almost no greater joy,” he has said, than creating, recording, million to start the Wikimedia Foundation that enabled performing, and distributing music. This is plain to see as he Wikipedia to be financially secure, while helping National strums his guitar, bobs his head to the beat, and closes his Geographic use technology to improve access to the sciences eyes, singing a ’60s-inspired rock version of “It’s a Wonderful and discovery. World.” The band backs him up and the audience listens Nowadays, two philanthropic passions dominate intently. 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Leadership For more than a century, Tuck has prepared students for a career in business leadership. And while the world has changed considerably since 1900, the leadership traits and attributes that distinguish our graduates have not. Here, 10 alumni share lessons learned on their own personal leadership journeys. By JONATHAN RIGGS

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JAYNE HRDLICKA T’88

Group CEO, Jetstar Airways Member, Tuck Asian Advisory Board

MICHAEL SNEED T’83 Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson

Leadership means inspiring people individually and as a team—to be the very best they can be to achieve the goals we’ve set. Leadership also means being prepared to do the right thing, even though it might not be the most popular path to take. Get to know the people you are responsible for leading. There are lots of ways of doing the same thing. And “different” is not bad. “Different” needs to be understood and respected. Many times, “different” is better. I am very passionate about the importance of diversity of thought, which comes through diverse teams. If you walk into a new situation ready to listen, learn, and truly understand where others are coming from, you get much further, faster. Tuck was a really healthy place to learn humility, build confidence, and understand the importance of relationships.

Leadership means setting a vision, communicating a purpose, and getting people invested in achieving it. The higher you go in organizations, the more time you should spend listening and asking questions. It keeps you curious, engaged, and humble. I like to use sports analogies. Whether it’s a baseball, football, or basketball team, success comes from each uniquely talented player working together, complementing each other’s strengths, and pursuing a goal of shared success. That’s true for business, too. Leaders coach people to succeed. Understanding the way leaders in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere look at the world and tackle problems has been invaluable to my growth. Viewing the 30,000-foot and ground levels simultaneously is the biggest leadership challenge. But it’s crucial in a crisis. This can be difficult, but if you do it well, you can reap a tremendous reward. At Tuck, I learned the value of collaboration, which is where most leadership happens.

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Founder and CEO, cargurus.com Member, Tuck MBA Advisory Board

Chairman and CEO, Beckstoffer Vineyards, Member, Tuck Board of Overseers Leadership means setting an example. I don’t expect anyone to do anything I wouldn’t.

Leadership means motivating and innovating. During my years in the Army, I got assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco running the motor pool, which had three or four general drivers—the guys who had run Vietnam and Korea—working for me. Earning their respect was tough. I’ll never forget, there was a sergeant who was in the Rainbow Division—a major-league division in World War II—who wouldn’t salute me. On the day I left, he stood right in the middle of the road and saluted me. That was big. I’m an entrepreneur who believes my people are the most important thing. I’m responsible for them and want them to feel good working here. Leadership is about being willing to take risks, make decisions, and be a team player. Genuinely liking people is important too. When I came to Tuck, I had two children and was a little bit older than my classmates, but the experience was exactly what I needed. It gave me a bag of tricks to help me understand how people work and how I could compete at the highest levels with intelligence, drive, and aggressiveness. Take the time to understand, develop, and trust your intuition.

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Whether you’re a startup or a bigger company, you survive and grow by being flexible. At both TripAdvisor and CarGurus, we had to throw out the business plan, the product, and the revenue model and start completely all over again. Anyone in the organization—from the lowestranked to the highest—can have an idea for a new product or a new business plan. There are no sacred cows, either. The only requirement is that I want hard, cold data that proves or disproves whether something has merit. Twice a month, I take five randomly selected employees out to lunch. I ask them to give me suggestions for improvements we can make: everything from office hours to what we serve for meals to our product direction. I can’t promise I’ll change anything, but I usually get one or two cool ideas. It’s easy to hire people with good-looking resumes. It’s harder to hire really smart people who think outside the box and come up with unconventional solutions. Tuck does a remarkable job of preparing leaders who are well-rounded, good people who don’t take themselves too seriously.

BOB SEARLE T’96 Partner, New Profit, Inc.

LIAM KERR T’12

Massachusetts State Director, Democrats for Education Reform Leadership means getting people to follow when you don’t have to.

Leadership means inspiring and enabling people to be motivated and creative to achieve great things. Leadership in the political arena requires creativity, a focus on other people, and the desire to knock down existing societal barriers to success. Never forget that public policy can have a big impact on us all. You don’t have to be a certain age to be a leader. Just ask anybody on a high school sports team.

When I was a professional musician, I played in a lot of brass quintets. In a circumstance like that, a high-performing team creates something remarkable by working together and emphasizing each other’s strengths. As a leader, I’ve never forgotten that lesson. Operate from a place of integrity. The nonprofit sector doesn’t have the same kind of market signals and motivations as in the business world. A leader trying to make a change must use an enormous amount of soft power and will. You have to help people understand how your vision upholds and enhances the organization’s mission.

Know yourself first, then focus on other people. I love how personalized the Tuck experience is. You’re able to take stock of who you are, where you want to go, and how you can get there surrounded by supportive, trusting mentors and colleagues.

I want to apply the things I learned at Tuck and in the business world in a thoughtful way to the nonprofit context to increase impact. That’s the theme for my career. I’m glad to see that creativity and altruism are still thriving at Tuck. It’s on display in programs like TuckBuilds, which partners incoming students with local Upper Valley nonprofits.

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President and CEO, Williams Capital Group Chair, Tuck Board of Overseers

SANDY CUTLER T’75 CEO, Eaton

Leadership means the ability to articulate a clear message and inspire others to help execute a plan. I am very in tune with the individuals with whom I work. I appreciate how important it is to make sure they feel informed and empowered. I believe everyone is most comfortable when the goals are clearly defined and the steps that are needed to succeed are outlined. Don’t assume that the leader has all the answers. A leader has to empower and rely on his or her team. During the financial crisis in 2008, our company had a wide range of near-death events in a very short period of time. I heard later that my colleagues derived a great deal of confidence from my handson and attentive approach. One even told me that whenever I walked through the trading floor, it meant that everything was going to be OK. While not necessarily accurate, I was pleased to hear the sentiment. Tuck shapes leaders who not only understand people, but like them as well.

Leadership means opportunity. It’s an opportunity to set priorities to mobilize people. Most fundamentally, it’s an opportunity to help people demonstrate their commitment to their values. The power of our entire institution comes from having a values-based culture. When people are comfortable with the values that surround them, they’re willing to reach and grow. That’s where true power, imagination, and creativity come from. Making sustainability a priority is an opportunity for employees to feel good about beneficially impacting the environment in which they live. Leaders never have a bad day. Learning does not stop when you leave school. You’re just beginning a lifetime of continuous learning. We’ve created an environment committed to ensuring all of our associates have the opportunity to learn new things as well as from mistakes we’ve all made and want to help others avoid. Tuck’s collegial, teamwork-oriented structure is one of the reasons we’re so happy to recruit there.

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DARCI DARNELL BOLENBAUGH T’00 Partner, Bain Member, Tuck MBA Advisory Board

GUILLERMO ANSALDO T’89

Chief Global Resource Officer, Telefónica Member, Tuck European Advisory Board

Leadership is different and distinct from management. Managers allocate resources in a highquality way against priorities. Leaders inspire a group of people against a particular mission. They’re consistent in defining that mission and how activities, energy, and passion are put against it. Let yourself shine through. Know people, understand who they are, and align your message and motivation to the individual through empathy and articulation. It’s important to remember that we’re all human—it’s hard to be inspired by someone who mistakenly believes they’re infallible. Find your personal passions and align them to value that can be added to your organization. For me, that’s exploring what can be done to get more women into leadership teams so I help lead our Global Women’s Leadership Council. My Tuck takeaway is self-discovery.

Leadership describes the way you command yourself and your teams, whatever your responsibility or task. The macroeconomic crises in Argentina and in Spain were hugely challenging. In situations like that, leaders have to make decisions with very little time, trust their team, and keep moving. Focus on what you have to do, but also on the way you do it. I feel very proud when people whom I hired or coached become successful. When someone lets me know that I contributed to his or her career, there’s no better feeling. Balance is the key to everything. In and out of class, Tuck shaped my leadership philosophy. Being surrounded by so many diverse, talented, and successful people, I learned you can accomplish demanding goals while taking care of your team and that you can lead by inspiring rather than by ordering.

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ALUMNI PayPal’s Francis Barel T’05 sees great opportunity for the company in the Middle East and North Africa, where reliable cashless online transactions can open people’s lives to the world.

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By Kate Siber D’02

Into the Wild

Mary Humphrey T’99, CEO of the Jane Goodall Institute, still remembers the first time she met a chimpanzee. It was May 2012 and she was visiting Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, a sanctuary in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, for young chimps orphaned by bushmeat hunters. One new arrival, a baby girl named Anzac, had a severed left arm and weighed barely six pounds. Looking into her large eyes, Humphrey saw something that surprised her. Anzac’s personality and heart shone through. At that moment, Mary realized the same thing that her boss, the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall, discovered so many years ago. In Anzac, Humphrey saw a sentient being who she could relate to. “Chimps are profoundly intelligent and cute and dangerous all at once,” she says. “It’s really easy to think of endangered species from a detached, clinical point of view, but then you see one for real and you get a deep sense of just how much like us they are. We need to protect them.” Since her childhood in Ohio and London, Humphrey always loved animals and the outdoors, so to those who know her, it’s hardly surprising that she ended up running a conservation nonprofit dedicated to protecting great apes. But her path there, she says, was something you could never plan. After Tuck, Humphrey pursued a career in technology, spending more than four years as executive director of e-commerce strategy and development at AOL. As she learned invaluable lessons about the field, a question lingered in her mind: How do you take a deep understanding of business and technology and use it for public good? Over the following years, that question guided Humphrey toward work in program strategy and development, project management, and marketing for companies with an increasingly social ethos: Third Age, a healthy-living media company; Revolution Health, which offers online health-information services; and ePals’ In2Books, a childhood literacy program. After consulting for the Jane Goodall Institute, she took a full-time

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JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE CEO MARY HUMPHREY T’99 IS HELPING THE GLOBAL NONPROFIT APPLY TECHNOLOGY TO ADVANCE ON-THE-GROUND CONSERVATION.

Mary Humphrey T’99 position there as vice president of strategic marketing in 2011. About a year and a half later, she stepped up as CEO. Since then, Humphrey’s tech background has helped her guide the organization to become a leader in applying technology to take conservation to scale. (One of the nonprofit’s geodesign programs is helping African villagers map their lands and manage their resources.) And her business experience has helped her establish a sustainable financial platform, which allows staffers to focus on what they do best: develop successful field programs. “It’s a great gift to have the chance to use all the things I learned at Tuck—and the career it set me up for—for something I really care about,” she says. One of the initiatives her work makes possible is Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, a global youthengagement program that inspires young people to take action in their local communities. These activities take place in environments as different as New York or the Republic of Congo, where children walk miles each day to water trees for chimpanzee

habitat and others film a wildly popular television show about an animal-saving superhero. Another positive development: At Jane Goodall’s 80th birthday party in 2014, the organization raised enough money to complete construction at Tchimpounga, which will allow orphaned chimps to live in a larger, wilder landscape. In conservation, the news isn’t always encouraging, but Humphrey’s natural optimism and the organization’s victories along the way sustain her devotion to what she calls the unglamorous but critical strategic and operational management of the organization. This past summer, Humphrey returned to Congo to survey progress at the rehab center, where she again spotted Anzac, the orphan who had once struggled to survive. “I’m here to tell you I went and visited that chimp, and she is climbing and healthy,” says Humphrey from her office in Washington, D.C. She then pauses to reflect. “You know what? It is all so worth it.”

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By Jonathan Riggs

Alain Karaoglan T’87 Alain Karaoglan T’87 never could have predicted he would one day be chief operating officer of Voya Financial, a top-tier retirement plan provider with more than $500 billion in assets under management and administration. His career began with 10 years in investment banking at The First Boston Corporation and Bear Stearns, followed by 10 years at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Deutsche Bank Securities, and Banc of America Securities as an equity research analyst.

HOW ARE YOU TRANSFORMING VOYA FINANCIAL’S BUSINESSES?

Voya Financial is the former U.S. retirement, investments, and insurance businesses of ING Group. We went public in 2013 and, in order to get there, needed to prepare the company both inside and out—not only the “plumbing,” but also our operating performance. Our overall goal is to be the most transparent financial services company in the industry and so we outlined more than 30 specific margin, growth, and capital initiatives to improve our return on equity. Since we went public, we’ve made strong progress and our stock has appreciated roughly 100 percent. However, we need to continue to execute on our initiatives so that we can further improve our business performance.

What inspires your leadership, especially during this time of change? Transparency. The only way a team achieves success is by trusting each other, which means being honest and even vulnerable. I define leadership success as having the right team that knows how to face problems as soon as they come up and works together to solve them.

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This experience, however, made him perfectly suited to join AIG as senior vice president, divestiture at a time when the company was facing financial-crisis-related challenges. At AIG, Karaoglan helped with the plan to repay the government by divesting assets through an IPO or sale. Karaoglan proved to be the perfect fit for shepherding the spinoff of Voya Financial from ING Group last year, a massive undertaking that called on Karaoglan’s broad industry expertise.

How are you increasing awareness of the new Voya Financial brand? We expect to spend approximately $100 million on advertising over the next two-and-a-half years. We want Americans to know that Voya Financial is the company that can help you with your retirement readiness, both financially and emotionally. Ultimately, the success of what Voya stands for will come from how—both individually and companywide—we treat our customers, our employees, and our investors.

How did Tuck prepare you for your career? Even though I majored in economics and business as an undergraduate, it wasn’t until Tuck that I truly internalized so many of the underlying concepts. What was very important, too, was the way people behaved and interacted—you do not get that emphasis on camaraderie at other business schools. On a personal note, my first son was born while I was at Tuck, so my time there was even more special and transformative. When I look back at Tuck, I see that it helped me grow—

Alain Karaoglan T’87 not only as a businessperson, but as a human being.

Over the years, how have you kept your professional balance? My career path isn’t typical, but what I’ve always focused on is the journey and growing and learning along the way. So many fields have changed so much over the past 30 years, but one thing I learned early in life and in my career is to be openminded. Yes, you set a course and are dogged in terms of achieving it, but when other opportunities present themselves, you want to evalu-

ate them. The most important thing is to establish your principles and they will carry you through anything.

What is the outlook for the course you’ve charted for Voya? I’m very excited because our plans are ambitious, but achievable. We’re on track to achieve our vision of being “America’s retirement company.” Our challenge is to continue to focus on the metrics that matter and on our mission to make a secure financial future: one person, one institution, one family at a time.

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By Julie Sloane D’99

Open for Business

Over the last 15 years, we’ve come to take for granted that we can buy something online, pay digitally, and retrieve it from our doorsteps days later. But across the Middle East and North Africa, it’s a very different story. There, 80 percent of local purchases are done with cash—even if the transaction began online. Place an order for, say, a television, and a delivery guy will come to your door, take your cash, and hand you a box. It’s not that people don’t have bank accounts or access to the Internet, but cash is still king. For Francis Barel T’05, PayPal’s business development manager for the Middle East and North Africa—a region often abbreviated MENA— those customers are a great opportunity. The ability to make reliable cashless online transactions can quite literally open people’s lives to the world. Based in his native France, Barel focuses on the 12 MENA countries between Morocco and the Persian Gulf. “Although PayPal is already a 16-year-old Internet company, it has been able to retain its startup sense, especially in the MENA region,” says Barel. “It feels like Silicon Valley of 1998. The whole ecosystem needs to be built.” For Barel, that means not only enrolling merchants to accept PayPal, but also convincing consumers to use it. The education component involves many interviews with local media about how and where to buy safely online. “There’s still a lot of

fear around e-commerce and buying internationally,” says Barel. He also develops partnerships with banks in order to broaden PayPal’s range of services and keeps an open dialogue with the nations’ central banks. While there are other online payment firms targeting the MENA countries, PayPal remains the market leader. In comparison to the mature markets of Europe or the United States, Barel finds the rapid development of e-commerce in MENA countries particularly gratifying. For example, when PayPal launched in Egypt last year, Barel watched social media light up with the news. Before, Egyptians could not buy much online— internationally, their credit cards would be declined. PayPal’s availability meant they could buy books, games, music, and imported goods. Even during periods of political instability and demonstrations, Egypt’s use of PayPal continued to grow rapidly. While it simply may have been the pent-up demand for PayPal driving growth, Barel also wonders if it was a byproduct of people staying off the streets. “People at home still have a bit of money to spend and enjoy, especially on digital goods like Internet services, music, movies, and Skype credits,” he says. “The delivery guy is not going to take his scooter through the tanks, but with digital delivery, that’s not an issue.” A payments expert by day, Barel also has what some might consider a second career. While he’s on the road opening the world to digital

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IN MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, CASH IS STILL KING. PAYPAL’S FRANCIS BAREL T’05 WANTS TO CHANGE THAT.

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payments, Barel spends late nights in far-flung hotels and spare hours on planes designing fictional worlds. A prolific writer since childhood, he has written screenplays, short stories, poetry, and four novels, including Saving Kennedy (2013) his first in English. Before joining PayPal in 2013, Barel’s career in banking and strategy consulting took him to as many as 30 countries all over the world. Having spent his childhood summers with a close family friend in Boston, he considers himself “the most American French guy there is.” When

it came time to choose a business school, the U.S. seemed a natural choice, and not only was Tuck the most personal of the top business schools, but between professors and students, Barel found dozens of nationalities there, “I met friends for life there who are both my sounding boards and a professional network,” he says. “Tuck also taught me so many different skills in terms of finance, strategy, and marketing that I still use today. It’s an incredible brand that opened up a lot of doors.”

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Tips for Transforming Your Career, with Kate Grussing T’91 After positions of increasing seniority at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, and JPMorgan, Kate Grussing T’91 decided she wanted to transform her career by helping others transform theirs. Drawing on her international experience in strategic consulting, corporate finance, and executive management, in 2005 Grussing founded Sapphire Partners (www.sapphirepartners.co.uk), a London-based executive search firm helping exceptional businesswomen and men attain their professional goals. “I’m proud to have built a business that punches above its weight and has helped spotlight the vast pipeline of high-potential, off-the-radar talent,” she says. “Never underestimate the impact that one voice—or one firm—can have.”

Know thyself. The decision to transform your career is very personal: Some individuals want to keep going 100 miles per hour while others consciously want to take advantage of a plateau. You’ll need a combination of luck, good judgment, good advice, and balanced risk-taking. Your goal should be to find a role you fundamentally enjoy and are good at. Benchmark. You can’t transform your career without external input. Take incoming headhunter calls, discover what the market compensation levels are for your skill set, and develop an understanding of what different avenues might be feasible based on where you are in your career or your company. You won’t get the full picture if you’re in a vacuum. Establish your own independent board of directors. I recommend a combination of colleagues, business school classmates, and people you may have started your career with. One of my best advisers is a pioneering Tuck alum much wiser than me. Your boss and spouse have important perspectives too, but it’s harder for them to be objective. I am also a big supporter of using an executive coach—a good one won’t tell you what to do, but will give you an unvarnished view of your strengths and weakness. 46

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Don’t undersell your potential. Women, for example, can sometimes be too cautious in making a change and less confident than they should be in leveraging their network or applying for roles. Companies are working hard to do a better job of recruiting and retaining women, but women have to join the fray and put their head above the parapet: have a CV ready, create and update your LinkedIn profile, and network, network, network. Be ambitious but realistic. Think of your career like sailing: you can tack from A to B, to C to D, but it’s pretty exceptional for people to go directly from A to D. Set yourself up for a successful transformation by building your skills, your experience, and your client relationships. If a company’s offer seems too good to be true or too big a leap, weigh it carefully. After all, you—not the headhunter or recruiter or the company hiring you—are the one with the most at stake. Not every transformation will be successful. Companies go bust, projects run out of funding, roles are over- or undersold— everyone is unlucky at times. The challenge is to learn from those hiccups. If you’ve transformed your career and you realize very quickly that it’s absolutely the wrong job, plan

your next move thoughtfully. It’s not a good idea to stay somewhere you’re miserable, but remember: To get back on track, you’re going to have to understand and explain why you made a bad decision. Don’t view your career as a sprint. It’s a marathon, so make the most of your talents and don’t take anything for granted. If you truly want to transform your career, seize the opportunities. Remember, very few individuals are fortunate enough to have things fall in their laps with no professional setbacks. You have to be resilient and persevere. Be the author of your own success. You’re never too old or established to transform your career. No matter how difficult a transformation seems, if you want to make one, have confidence and the courage of your convictions. We’re all going to be working longer and there are a lot of careers today that didn’t even exist a few years ago. For someone with a strong MBA from somewhere like Tuck and sufficient prudence and networks, you have the tools. I’m a big believer in not having regrets—just make sure that any risks you take are calculated.

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Newsmakers

ELYSE ALLAN D’79, T’84

Elyse Allan D’79, T’84, president and CEO of GE Canada, has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. The country’s highest civilian honor, the appointment recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community, and service to the nation.

ANN MERRIFIELD T’79

Sachin Sankpal T’01 has been promoted to president of Honeywell Safety Products. Sankpal joined Honeywell in 2010 as vice president of strategy and marketing for its life safety division, and most recently led the company’s Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India operations.

GEORGE STILL JR. T’84

George Still Jr. T’84, partner emeritus and retired managing partner at Norwest Ventures Partners, was appointed to the United States Golf Association’s 15-member executive committee for 2014. An active USGA committee member, Still also volunteers as a rules official at tournaments.

Flexion Therapeutics, a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company that develops pain therapies, has appointed Ann Merrifield T’79 to its board of directors. Merrifield is actively engaged as a board member, adviser, and investor in life sciences companies with roots in the Boston area, and formerly JIM ZIERICK D’78, T’80 served as president and CEO of PathoGenetix and Jim Zierick D’78, T’80 has as president of Genzyme been named chief executive Biosurgery and Genzyme officer of SCALABLE NetGenetics. work Technologies, Inc. The company develops high-performance communications simulation software used by governmental and military organizations, educational institutions, and commercial enterprises around the world.

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JEFF HIRSCH T’99

Forbes magazine has named Jeff Hirsch T’99, CMO of Time Warner Cable, one of the most influential CMOs on Twitter. “A CMO’s activity and engagement on Twitter builds specific awareness of what a company is doing,” the article says. “It might help spur partnerships or stimulate interest from prospective employees.”

JEFFREY DIMODICA T’93

Global real estate investment firm Starwood Capital Group has named Jeffrey DiModica T’93 president of Starwood Property Trust, the nation’s largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust. DiModica served previously as head of asset-backed and mortgagebacked securities sales and strategy for the Americas at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Harvard Business Review has named Eaton CEO Sandy Cutler T’75 one of the “bestperforming CEOs in the world.” Cutler came in at No. 34 on the publication’s 2014 list, which ranks top-performing executives according to total increases in shareholder return and market capitalization delivered during their tenures.

Greg Thompson T’92 won an Emmy Award this year for Outstanding Animated Program for his work on Fox’s “Bob’s Burgers.” Thompson, who serves as the show’s co-executive producer, is a longtime television writer whose credits include “King of the Hill,” “3rd Rock from the SARAH KETTERER T’87 Sun,” and “Everybody Hates In an article in Forbes magaChris.” zine, Causeway Capital Management CEO Sarah Ketterer T’87 was praised as “probably the most successful female money manager in the business.” Forbes cited Ketterer’s success in establishing a “kumbaya equilibrium between managers who practice the art of deep value investing and math nerds who DAVID SOUTHWELL are immersed in the science T’88 of quantitative analysis.” Inotek Pharmaceuticals has named David Southwell T’88 president and chief executive officer. Southwell, formerly an executive vice president and chief financial officer of Human Genome Sciences, will also join the company’s board of directors.

PETER BARRIS T’77

JANE KIRKLAND T’88

Jane Kirkland T’88 has joined State Street Global Services as a senior vice president in the firm’s Global Services Americas (GSA) group, with responsibility for serving mid-size and specialized asset managers.

Washingtonian magazine has named Peter Barris T’77 to the Washington Business Hall of Fame’s class of 2014. The magazine, which founded the award with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and Junior Achievement of Greater Washington, cited Barris’ accomplishments as managing general partner of venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates, including growing the company’s assets from $1 billion to $13 billion through investments in tech companies such as CareerBuilder, Groupon, and TiVo.

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CL ASS NOTES ’47-’49 Saul Nirenberg 160 West 66th Street New York, NY 10023 saulnir@aol.com

Editor’s note: After giving us all some fabulous reading, Saul Nirenberg is putting down the class-scribe pen. If you’d like to send him a note, you can reach him at saulnir@aol.com. Thank you, Saul.

’50 John Hatheway 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 1016 Kendal at Hanover Hanover, NH 03755 johnhath48@gmail.com

Carll Tracy’s death represents a great loss not only to his family and close associates but also to Tuck. Carll’s informative Tuck ’50 columns have gone on for years, and both he and his efforts will be sorely missed. How an aging ex-advertising agency man can possibly be chosen to fill Carll’s shoes is a mystery...though, with a little help via short notes as to your status and activities from everyone, perhaps we can muddle through. My thanks to our first responders. Now from south of the border: “It is a little tough to come up with new gnus at age 88. Especially when nothing much is really happening. “We have moved—completely—4 times in the past 14 months. It is NOT cheaper than paying the rent, but circumstances do alter as tempus fugits. The last move, 4 months ago, was just across the street. “Nancy and I have now been south of the border for 42 years, which is a long time and tends to rank us as Early Settlers. In general, life

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here is some better than the States and there’s certainly little argument about the climate differential. The same 3 things that made us settle here remain the same: (1) the climate, (2) inexpensive household help, and (3) people that choose to live outside the U.S. are a bit off the wall, although I must admit that there are fewer of those, and more Big Butter and Egg Men from Peoria. “I have gotten pretty blind and find that I make typos that would horrify me in days of old. “My greetings to any and all continuing denizens of Hanover Plain.” —Bollie Bollenbach D’49, T’50 And from our chief fundraiser, Doug Thompson: “BJ and I moved to a facility here in Savannah that’s very comparable to Kendal, though the number of men here is lower without the Dartmouth connection. All in all it has worked out pretty well. “I have joined the Savannah Golf Club (check it out on your computer), an old, traditional club with really tough putting issues. But I am getting two or three rounds a week and playing quite well. I have also joined a group of about 60 from various clubs who travel to local clubs the first Wednesday of every month—gives some variety and a chance to meet new people. My GHIN card says I have put in 58 rounds this year. “The class of ’50 again made a good contribution to the Tuck Annual Giving Campaign of 2013-14. Twenty-one classmates and two widows contributed $38,699. This represented a 60% participation rate—the highest we have ever achieved. Unfortunately, the base continues to decline, and we lost three classmates during the summer alone. As always, I do hope for a good response as we go into the 2014-15 campaign. “John, the World Trade Tower anniversary comes up shortly, and how well I remember that day with you at Eastman....” From our NH politician...Gil Shattuck: “Thanks for taking over for Carll. Sad—a real nice guy. “Not too much to report—running for

re-election to the NH House. Fifth term, fourth on Ways & Means Committee—if I get reelected, I hope that we can keep the Tea Party out. “Just opened historic NH photography exhibit at the State Library in Concord—exhibition runs September 2 through October 31. Preparation kept me busy for most of July and August. “Primary tomorrow—I am not opposed in primary but still need to show up.” —Gil

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Both Randall Limber (398 North Applegate Road, Ithaca, NY 14850) and Judge Quentin Kopp D’49, T’50, who regularly reads our notes, wrote in support of my idea that we suggest to Phil Hanlon, the new president of the college, that he invite Dean Paul Danos to join him in designing a rigorous cost/benefit analysis of the bloated nonfaculty staff of the college, which is now about triple the size of the faculty. This vast administrative and academic bureaucracy, much of which appears to be driven by political correctness, is still growing apace, while the student body and the faculty remain more or less constant. I have been unable to follow up on this idea since last writing but hope to get to it soon. It simply should not be that it costs around $63,000 per year to attend Dartmouth, a fact that must inevitably distort the makeup of the student body. Reducing the nonfaculty bloat could be a good first step in turning this around. Joan and Bob McIlwain (230 Mt. Harmony Road, Bernardsville, NJ 07924; 908-766-3181) paid us a most welcome visit a month or so ago, and Joan’s cousin Judy Colton joined us for a long pleasant dinner at a good local watering hole. Bob continues his long, courageous battle with cancer. Over the years he has helped many, including our son Peter, by sharing knowledge gained from his own experience. He is a good man. I have not heard lately from Clift Whiteman (770 Goodlette Road N, Homewood Residence,

Apt. 324, Naples, FL 34102; 516-965-5179), who usually calls fairly regularly. He and Joan recently moved to Naples from Vero Beach, so I called him today but could only leave a message on his answering machine. Last week I came across still more discouraging news concerning the apparent dearth of moral fiber in today’s financial world. While the bylaws of most other banks clearly state which employees will have their legal fees covered should they become entangled in an investigation or legal proceeding, Goldman Sachs, a firm that sold their clients nearworthless packages of subprime mortgages that they themselves had shorted, leaves this question ambiguous in their bylaws, so the firm can decide after the fact whose bills they will pay and whose they won’t—a good way to discourage whistleblowers. I’ll close with a description of a good cartoon concerning memory entitled “Momentary Lapse of Identity.” A man in a bathrobe with a cup of coffee in each hand approaches a kitchen table at which sits a woman, also attired in a bathrobe. He says, “Hi, my name is Larry, and I’ll be your waiter this morning.” She says, “But you’re my husband.” Please let me hear from you! It would make these notes much more interesting.

’53 Edward J. Finerty Jr. 6 Roundwood Road Natick, MA 01760-2119 efinerty@verizon.net

Dear T’53ers: Although I don’t hear from many of you, those I do write in good spirit and keep us posted. Hats off to them. One of the first to write was Chuck Liddle, who included a little most welcome humor. While mentioning that he, too, participates in the Lifelong Learning classes similar to the ones I have mentioned that I attend at Brandeis Univ.—his are at a local to him (Albany) humanities institute—he recounted a funny Tuck story. Seems Chuck

signed up last year for our 60th Tuck reunion as a chance to get back to Hanover. They called to tell him he was the only one to sign up. He said if he came he wanted a class picture—then at the last moment he decided not to attend. I’m sure that both he and Tuck got a chuckle from the whole episode. On a more serious note, Tuck sent me a great notice about Chuck Queenan, as follows: “Charles J. Queenan, Chairman Emeritus of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, has been recognized by The American Lawyer magazine as recipient of the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. Queenan joined Gates in the mid-50s and served as Chairman from 1975 to 1990, guiding it to what is today a global law firm with 2,000 lawyers and offices worldwide. Queenan served as Chairman of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, among many other professional, charitable, and civic endeavors.” Needless to say—but I will anyway— CONGRATS, Chuck! Jon Walton sent an informative note saying that my USS Missouri story in the last issue reminded him that he learned while visiting Omaha Beach in Normandy that the USS Nevada, also sunk at Pearl Harbor, was resurrected and in the bombardment fleet off the beach on D-Day. Jon visited there with his son, Jon Jr., at the invitation of his grandnephew, an Army officer stationed in Italy who had rented a house on one of the Britishinvasion beaches in Normandy. It was a great and memorable military experience as Jon was there during the weeklong 70th anniversary of D-Day events and heard returning survivors speak of their experiences. Also, the 82nd Airborne Division did a mass parachute drop late in the week. Needless to say—but again I will anyway—Jon urges any and all to visit Normandy, preferably with their children or grandchildren. Marcel Durot sent a note saying that he and Charlotte had just returned from visiting his family in Paris, Lille, and Beauvais and also mentioned that it is “hard to find a bad meal in France, to which his bathroom scales can attest.” He also reminds me that the Durots, Trautweins, and your scribe met in R.I. in July when the Durots were vacationing and visiting

relatives in the Boston area. Much Tuck and Dartmouth talk from such a wordy group, greased with a libation or two. Since you put up with my USS Missouri escapade last issue, I am emboldened to tell another Navy one, under the guise of my civic responsibility to keep you posted on all important Navy events. This one revolves around a ship a tad older than the Missouri— the USS Constitution, still in commission since its launch in October 1797, one of the six original frigates authorized by the Naval Act of 1794 and larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period. She gained her fame in the War of 1812 and earned the nickname “Old Ironsides.” She was saved from scrapping many times by public adoration, circled the world in 1840, and served as a training ship for the U.S. Naval Academy during the Civil War. She was retired from active service in 1881 and designated a museum ship in 1907. In 1934 she completed a three-year, 90-port tour of the nation and sailed under her own power for her 200th birthday in 1997 and again in 2012, the anniversary of her victory over the Guerrière, when she earned the Old Ironsides moniker. I was fortunate to sail out on it in August this year, as I am a member of a club of old navy farts and we present a sword and plaque to the top navy enlisted active duty sailor—the George Sirian award, named for a distinguished sailor who served 50 years on the ship. We do it aboard the Constitution and this year was special, as it sailed under its own power (top sails only) for a short while—the tugs were released and steamed alongside for obvious security/safety of the oldest commissioned ship in the world. It is also significant as the ship is going into dry dock in March 2015 for three years, and we were lucky to be on board. It also fired a cannon salute as we passed Castle Island fort—fun and noisy. You may not know and be interested to learn that the cannons are original but the two used have had their barrels rebored to fire 50-mm powder-filled shells to give off the noise and smoke—which it does well. The dry docking is to refit the hull—it is subject to excessive hogging and sagging when at sea. They will be using wood as much as they can like the original pine and Southern live oak from St. Simons, Georgia. The hull was built 21” thick. For those who like statistics, here are

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54 Fred Carleton 80 Lyme Road, Apt 158 Kendal at Hanover Hanover, NH 03755 fred.p.carleton@gmail.com

’56 Jack Wiseman 226 Bay View Avenue East Greenwich, RI 02818-4068 johntw56@aol.com

Alas, alack! No notes in the mag for the hardy still pining for news from the dwindling band. Well...with your help (and inputs), we’ll be back with words for the hardy crew in the next issue. Best to all. —Dick Zock

’58 Barry Rotman 95 Douglas Road P.O. Box 1235 Norwich, VT 05055 Tel: 802-649-2046 bsrotman@gmail.com

Bill Bullen divides his time between his summer home in Madison, New Hampshire— very close to Conway and the Maine border—and his primary home in Peabody, Massachusetts. Bill considers himself lucky to be alive and still enjoying life. In May 2008, he suffered a very serious motorcycle accident. As he approached the local transfer station, carrying several items in a box on the back of his motorcycle, he noticed the gates were open about the width of a car and a half. What he did not notice was a cable across the opening that yanked him off his bike; he broke his neck and upper and lower back. Fortunately, a friend saw him lying on the ground and called for an ambulance, which led to a medic-flight and three months in the hospital. Medical science is amazing. Bill can now drive, run his lawnmower and a weed whacker, and play with his 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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Although he can’t play tennis, Bill can help pitch tennis balls to youngsters who are learning. Bill lives near a boys’ camp that eventually becomes a family camp at the end of the summer. For the first time in years he was able to help take an active role in tennis, even though he didn’t play.

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Bill’s first wife was secretary to Bob Monahan (1897-1991), the Dartmouth College forester

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who introduced Bill and his wife to the Dartmouth College grant in the northern part of New Hampshire. It’s 27,000 acres in Coos County. For the past 40 years, Bill and an old friend have taken their combined 6 children on a camping trip to the grant. The eight of them fish, watch wildlife, and enjoy each other’s company. They even get to do some target shooting. It’s a great family experience that Bill looks forward to every year. Bill Hutchens spent 10 years with Price Waterhouse in New York City before transferring to Syracuse, New York, in 1969 as a managing partner. He retired in 1987. According to Bill, “You have to love snow to live in Syracuse because there are very few places in the East that get more snow.” He handles the weather by spending 3-4 months in Florida, near Sarasota, where he occasionally sees Lee Hirschey, who also lives in the same part of Florida. That state is nice, but Bill is in love with the Adirondacks. Fifteen years ago, he helped start the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, a notfor-profit organization located on a 31-acre site in the town of Tupper Lake, NY, near the geographic center of the Adirondacks. It was established to help individuals “discover the story of the Adirondacks and to explore ways we can better build bridges between us and the world of nature.” He also wrote a book, titled Livingston Lake: 1901–2001, a history of the lake in Saratoga County, NY. More recently, he wrote a book about the artist Frank Townsend Hutchens (1867-1937), who did a number of paintings of the Adirondack Mountains. It’s called An Artist’s Life: Frank Townsend Hutchens—American Impressionism. The reviews were so positive that I ordered a prepublication copy for myself. Hutchens was Bill’s father’s brother’s son, or his great-uncle. During his life Hutchens lived in an art colony near Norwalk, Connecticut. For years, Bill collected his paintings and looked though a scrapbook that his father had kept on his nephew. For many years, Bill’s family encouraged him to publish a book on the artist, and after 8 years of work it’s finally available on Amazon. Bill’s daughter, Nancy, an art teacher for specialneeds children, lives in Woodstock, Connecticut. His son, William, is in investment management and spends part of the year in Florida.

Bill’s major passion besides family and the Adirondacks is big-game hunting. He has hunted most big-game animals, with the exception of polar bears, traveling to such places as Alaska, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Argentina for white stags. If Bill does write another book, it will probably be on big-game hunting. When I reached Jim Groebe, he was vacationing at his summer home in Estes Park at Rocky Mountain National Park, a popular summer resort northwest of Boulder, Colorado. Jim’s home at an altitude of 8,500 feet gets plenty of use between him and his extended family. Last August 29, family members from as far away as Alaska, Texas, Connecticut, and Maine gathered there for an annual reunion. Jim spent 20 years in the corporate world as a marketing and sales manager, working with both large and private companies. In 1995, a close friend who was president of First Trust convinced Jim to move to Denver and become director of marketing at First Trust and Jim remained in Denver after retiring 15 years ago. Jim is now vice president of his condominium’s homeowners association and very involved in the Marion Downs Hearing Center, a nonprofit organization that is recognized worldwide for progressive innovations in the realm of hearing and deafness. Considered a marketing expert, Jim has taught marketing at the University of Denver as an adjunct professor. Recently, Jim had a fabulous 10-day vacation in Provence, dining at three-Michelin-starred restaurants and generally enjoying the food and wines of France. Each summer, Chris Van Curan gets away from his home in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, to go to a vacation cabin in Maine that has been in his family since 1839. Although there have many improvements and additions to the cabin, Chris still refers to the house as his “cabin.” His sister has 3 camps next to the cabin, so the location presents an excellent place for all sorts of family gettogethers and reunions. Chris is frequently up there without his wife, who still works at British Airways. He is trying to convince her to retire and get away from that hectic corporate world. I remember entertaining weekend

guests at our getaway house in Norwich while my wife was stuck in the Friday rush-hour traffic from Boston to Vermont. After too many weekends like that, my wife didn’t need too much convincing to retire. During the school year, Chris teaches at the graduate business school at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, a liberal arts school of 2,500 students. He told me that during his lifetime, he has had four successful careers and that he has enjoyed every one—banking, insurance, consulting, and teaching. He did, however, have one additional career. In 1959, after graduating from Tuck School, Chris, Dick Perkins, and Bill Butler started a company called Lincoln Canoe. They had canoed a lot and were tired of lugging around an 18-foot, 80-pound canoe. They came up with the idea of manufacturing a high-end canoe out of fiberglass and resin and then created the first important fiberglass canoe in the United States. Their first manufacturing plant was in Watertown on the Charles River. Chris sold his interest in 1962. Dick sold his share a few years later, and Bill stayed with the company until 1974. The company, still in existence today, is called Lincoln Canoe & Kayak and headquartered in Freeport, Maine. In over fifty years, the company has only had 3 sets of owners. Their current website pays tribute to the contributions of their original founders. In 1996 Chris joined the Executive Service Corps, an organization of senior-level professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to help nonprofits with management issues. Originally started in the 1970s by Frank Pace Jr. and David Rockefeller, it now has sections that cover the United States. Chris is active in the group that covers Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Assignments are conducted by teams of 2-3 consultants in the belief that because nonprofits usually have limited staff and resources, the Corps can help the board and the executive director do a better job. Taking advantage of the fact that Chris’s wife, Sandra, works for a major airline, they have visited Turkey 7 times, done a safari in Kenya last March, and plan to visit Berlin, Copenhagen, and Stockholm in the fall of 2014. Chris’s oldest daughter, Annie, one of the early women graduates of Dartmouth in 1977, had

been co-captain of the ski team, married a hockey player, and has been living in Calgary for over 30 years. A grandson, captain of the hockey team, graduated from Dartmouth in 2008, went on to play professional hockey, and played for the Boston Bruins. He now plays for a Swedish team, which gives Chris and his wife another excuse to visit Sweden.

’59 Ben Reid 1900 Wellington Way Fort Smith, AR 72908-9044 breidjr@aol.com

Dear classmates: We hope you and yours are alive, well and productive! I have not received any news from our class for notes this month. If you have written me and I have missed your communication, please resend. In the absence of hearing from you, I am constrained to talk about me! To preface again: Several months ago, Skip Coggin asked me to relate my experiences in Mainland China, also known as the People’s Republic of China (PRC). I have been doing business in the PRC since Richard Nixon opened the country to commerce with the USA. My first travels there were a corollary to my work with Fuqua World Trade. Fuqua, Inc., a former NYSE firm, was founded by J.B. Fuqua, former governor of Georgia. Fuqua endowed the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. The Fuqua organization was a major importer and had established trading offices throughout Southeast Asia. I worked with these organizations in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and more. In my last Class Notes I related my first trip into a dark PRC shortly after Deng Xiaoping opened “Mainland” China to commerce with the USA. I flew from Hong Kong to Beijing on a CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) flight in a Russian prop jet, CAAC

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to Taipei, we stopped at an airport bar to “get up to speed.” There we observed a Taiwanese gentleman dressed in sequined cowboy clothing and a ten-gallon hat. Considering ourselves to be seasoned world travelers who had “seen it all,” we glanced at each other with wry faces and moved back to the buying-trip planning conversation. Once aboard our fourteen-hour flight to Taipei, we settled in to our mode of travel. The mode was to stay awake until our bodies were in the new time zone and sleep there to quickly acclimate to the new time zone. As a congenial team, we gathered in the “stewardess lounge,” the kitchen in the tail section. Our avowed purpose was to apply ourselves diligently to planning the mission at hand. However, the endless supply of mindbending alcohol altered our industriousness in several hours. The conversation turned to the Taiwanese gentlemen and his distinctive cowboy attire. One member of the group commented that perhaps he fit the description of “Big Hat No Cattle.” Another began to hum the then popular Oscar Mayer Jingle, “I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener.” That deteriorated to “I wish I was a Taipei Cowboy.” Mean-spirited bunch! We laughed and went back to work. Several days later, we visited the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung to visit motorcycle-battery manufacturers. We were accompanied by the engineers from the Fuqua World Trade office in Taipei. We were hosted by the local chamber of commerce. They were an unusually relaxed group! Following dinner, we tried the classic Mao Tai rice wine, also known as “jet fuel” or “white lightning.” We asked our hosts whether cowboy attire was popular in Taiwan. We related our experience in the D/FW airport and the flight to Taipei. Several of us struck up a new version of our mangled Oscar Mayer jingle, “I wish I was a Kaohsiung Cowboy.” We placed orders for several containers of batteries. The next morning we flew to Taichung City to review lighting products. Fast forward to days later at home in my office; I received a Telex request addressed to me to invite the minister of the People’s Commerce— my new friend, Mr. Guo Min Yang—to visit the USA. He asked that the invitation extend to a delegation to include his committee and a group of factory managers and engineers. Minister Min Yang further advised me that he and his delegation would like to tour as many

bicycle and motorcycle factories as possible, including ours. He specifically asked that I arrange an invitation to visit the vast Huffy Bicycle facilities in Dayton, Ohio. Done! Perhaps a month later, the minister and his delegation landed in New York. In those days, officials and representatives the PRC central government were required to spend two weeks in the PRC Embassy’s transition facility in New York City for orientation and planning. Two weeks later, the delegation arrived in Columbus, OH in busloads! Nonstop from New York! We lodged them on the top floors of the local Hilton Hotel, with the request from Minister Yang that no persons other than their delegation be assigned rooms on that floor. They had brought their own food supplies and requested access to the kitchen to finish preparing their meals. Several hours following their arrival, we sent baskets of fruit to the top floors. Within minutes the senior minder of the group appeared in the lobby with several PRC “guests” to return the fruit. The minder emphatically asserted that we were not to make an further attempts to influence the Delegation with gifts. He got our attention! NO GIFTS! So much for being intentioned hosts. I would observe that, without personal discipline, time and circumstance change attitudes, personal identity, and values. I will explain as follows: To celebrate a successful review of selected industries, Fuqua hosted a celebration banquet at the historical, prestigious Scioto Country Club in Upper Arlington, OH, a suburb northwest of Columbus. Minister Yang and his group were surprised at the tasteful opulence of the clubhouse and grounds. The USA was dogmatically defined as a poor and troubled country by the Mao regime. We walked the premises around the clubhouse. The delegation marveled at the landscaping and particularly the luxurious greens. Understandable! During the ten-year Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, grass was banned from the country. Political prisoners were required to pull the grass out by its roots. By hand. Following the meal and the sonorous toasts, I received an unexpected gift from my welllubricated collegial teammates. Sitting at the left hand of the minister, I was presented

with a magnificent example of embroidered wall decor. The decor depicted me and my traveling companions leaning dangerously on the outer rails of a Chinese junk, singing, “I wish I was a Kaohsiung Cowboy.” A gift from the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Kaohsiung. Aaarrgghh! Kaohsiung is situated on the embattled Taiwan Straits facing The Mainland (PRC). I returned the article to the gift wrap and placed it to my right hand. Shortly thereafter we adjourned. As we rose, I was thunderstruck! Minister Yang had tucked MY gift under his arm and departed. Did he misunderstand and decide it was his? I will not ever know. However, as the years roll by, I have envisioned my wall decor hanging somewhere in Beijing. Perhaps in the Forbidden City? Back to the business at hand. Following hard negotiations at the best-equipped and mostproductive tire factories on the eastern plains of the PRC, we left without placing an order for tires. The reason? The Mainland Chinese refused to manufacture our product to our specifications, despite the quality requirements that were significantly more demanding than theirs. They took the position that they would not lower themselves to manufacturing to Taiwanese standards! Next move? Offer liu mianzi 留面子 “grant face; give (someone) a chance to regain lost honor.” We wrote a Sight Letter of Credit for a container of lightly oiled bulk bicycle chain in burlap sacks. Truly we did not know when and if we would ever see delivery. But, if we did, the price was so low that it would be worth the wait. IF the chain had not rusted in transit. The foregoing took place during the beginning of a nearly forty-year personal Sino-American friendship. I have been in business in China on a very different basis than any other Caucasian I know. I now own several PRC patents and have interests in several factories in the PRC. If I am not discouraged from doing so, I will tell more of my PRC stories in the next edition of class notes. My very best to my classmates. —Ben Reid T’59

’60 Ed Russell 1616 Saint Annes Road Charlottesville, VA 22901 edrussell2@embarqmail.com

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Our first classmate responding to the call for news was Peter Richmond, who writes that he and wife Tamara “continue to enjoy life in Monterey” (who wouldn’t?), where they’ve resided since moving from Germany in ’07. Tamara is a professor of Russian, and Peter teaches a couple of accounting courses at Cal State U of Monterey Bay. “I have greatly enjoyed my second career as a university instructor for the past 17 years,” says Peter, who still looks forward to the start of each semester. He also continues to play golf frequently, “with moderate success, but great enthusiasm.” Having lived and worked in Russia for three years and married a native-born Russian woman (now a U.S. citizen), Peter is distressed with our media reporting and public discussion of the situation in Ukraine. Peter feels that it should have come as no surprise that Russia has long felt its security seriously threatened by the ever-eastward movement of NATO [and the EU – Ed] toward its borders. You’ll remember from our previous letter George Powell’s concern with “crony capitalism”—the alliances that are forged between businesses and our elected officials, alliances that all too often defy the will of the American electorate. I’m reminded of this subject by an ugly trial playing out in front-page headlines every day throughout Virginia, where the former governor and his wife are on trial, charged with having given quid pro quo to a businessman by promoting his diet supplement while accepting $177k in cash and gifts. Regardless of the outcome, the man who was once on the short list for Romney’s running mate is already ruined politically, and his marriage is reportedly in tatters.

Dix Davis is having an interesting and productive retirement. One of his activities reminds me of the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer had an acting job playing patients with various illnesses (“I’m livin’ it, Jerry!”). Some years ago, Dix’s daughter, a physician, recruited Dix and his wife, Sarah, into a program in which “standardized patients” meet with medical students at the four Massachusetts medical schools—Harvard, Boston U, Tufts, and U Mass. They are trained in how to describe disease symptoms to the students. Afterwards, they grade the students on professional demeanor, empathy, etc. Sarah has become a trainer of standardized patients and Dix is one of them. “There are very few diseases I haven’t endured and survived,” says Dix. He actually gets a stipend for his role-playing (I suspect it’s below Actors’ Equity minimum). Dix has some really heavyweight volunteer jobs as well. Serving as an appointee of the governor of Massachusetts, Dix sits on a commission that has been overseeing the transition of Fort Devens from its closure as an active military installation almost 20 years ago to its current status as a major commercial and residential development area. Dix’s group holds authority over new developments, zoning, building codes, and inspections. Dix also serves on the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, making grants to various area agencies. Among these, one that he finds particularly interesting is NEADS, which trains and places service dogs with the deaf and disabled, including autistic children. Sad news from Peggy Koucky, who writes that her husband, our classmate, Joe, passed away in April. Peggy seems to be bearing up. When asked if she wanted to stay in the loop, she said, “Yes!” Keep on keeping on, Peggy! Life here in Charlottesville continues to abound with cultural and intellectual stimulation. The newest activity I’ve taken on is the Oliver Stansfield Turner Society, a monthly luncheon discussion group of 12, composed of a management consultant, a retired military officer, an Episcopal priest, a former university president, two physicians, a political scientist/ syndicated newspaper columnist, four professors emeriti (two from Darden, one from UVA’s undergraduate B-school, and a recognized authority on the Supreme Court), and a retired businessman, yours truly. Each

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CL ASS NOTES month a different member picks the topic and pays the lunch bill for the members, each of whom prepares a paper. I’m preparing a paper now for next week’s topic, “Are Europe and the U.S. Pursuing Conflicting National Interests?” and planning the subject for my next turn as host in November, “Genetically Modified Food Ingredients.” I hope many of you were able to be at one of the Second Annual Tuck ’Tails events that took place in 27 locations around the globe on July 24th. Wife Alice and I joined a small but congenial group of Tuckies in one of the many watering holes along our Main Street pedestrian mall here in Charlottesville, VA. It was organized by Caroline Mann T’15, who was down here on a summer internship with an organization that manages endowments for schools and other institutions. Great job, Caroline!

’61 Thomas C. Kirby 67 Osborne Road Garden City, NY 11530 t2golf@aol.com

We found quite a few members of the class are out there doing things. Steve Gell retired from the practice of law and is having a gas. “I have only the stress that I create for myself by taking on volunteer responsibilities, some teaching, planning social engagements, and navigating the shoals of grandparenthood. Four book clubs keep me reading in a broad class of subject matter. Local university courses and working out fill out my days. What’s not to like? I remember a talk at Dartmouth by Morris Ernst, the lawyer who defended D.H. Lawrence’s book Lady Chatterley’s Lover from obscenity charges. He had taken on some responsibilities apart from his law practice at an advanced age and said, ‘I believe a man should change careers once every 50 years.’ Well, retirement is the new career I have embarked on and it suits me.” Robin Honiss is advancing in the realms of grandfatherhood. He became a grandfather in

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June with the birth of his grandson Jameson (his fifth grandchild) and in July became a great-grandfather with the birth of twins Orion and Amora. How does this work? It’s a long story. Jon Cohen is still working—45 years at Goldman Sachs as of last January. He has also traveled a lot for business—3 times to Asia, 3 times to Europe, and once to Australia. He is very involved with Dartmouth at the Hood Museum, where he serves as chairman—“We are doing an expansion and, with the director, have raised $30 million toward a $50 million goal.” His life is fine. Jim Adler let us keep up with John Owens, who is always busy. John and his wife, Janet, just moved from the Upper Valley back to Ojai, CA. John recently retired from Tuck, where he ran the student-manned international consulting program for a number of years. John’s new email is john.b.owens@me.com. Jim has a new email: jimadlernorwich@gmail.com. The irrepressible Harry Holland has been busy on numerous fronts. He has a Friday cocktail group with 7 old boys who are mostly Hanover deans and docs. He says they have much to say about everything but don’t seem to have answers for the mess our planet is presently in. He and a few friends plan to be going to the college grant for hunting and fishing, which Harry is as skilled at as he is with sailing. Harry is still marking his hands when sailing so that he knows which is port and which is starboard. He had a 3½-hour operation on his back and received the family discount since the surgeon was his son-in-law. He is also keeping up with the grandfathers, with two new grandchildren, the second of whom was conceived and delivered using all the skills of modern science. His oldest granddaughter is 32. Cuba is a new destination for Allan Glick and Bob Boye, who made separate trips.

’62 Editor’s note: If you would like to volunteer to carry on Hank Gerfen’s legacy as T’62 class secretary, please email tuck.class.notes@ dartmouth.edu.

’63 Thomas F. Keating 5128 Stoney Bridge Court Minnetonka, MN 55345 Tel: 952-474-1535 keatingtf@comcast.net

Labor Day has passed, October is fast approaching, and lots of signs indicate we are heading toward white weather or sun-and-fun weather, all depending on where you are or where you are going. Hope your months ahead are great either way! Whatever the climate, I know that Stu MacKay will update us on how ’63 performed in the yearly TAG campaign. We continue to perform well! Stu reports that our class participation was 45%, which is a bit above where it has been in past years. This represents only 36 members of our class, so there is good potential to keep moving that bar upwards. We raised 103% of our goal, which might sound better. However, when you introduce the subject of probable increasing goals versus fixed incomes for the “senior groups,” a lively debate is sure to break out! Either way, the class of ’63 continues to do a good job and we always appreciate Stu’s efforts, along with those of his TAG team associates. Rand Garbacz indicated he lives in Cordillera, CO, retired as a director with Deloitte but now is an adjunct professor at the Daniels College of Business, connected to the University of Denver. Frank Thomas forwarded another of his passionate writings to me in late 2013. The subject of this paper is “The Mad Momentum of CO2/CH4 Emissions and Climate Change.” If you have an interest in the subject of global warming, I suggest you contact Frank for further insights. I can guarantee you an energetic conversation. I am saddened to belatedly report the death of Walt “Fogs” Fogarty. Walt passed away peacefully in his home on Shelter Island, NY, on April 10, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Betty; two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie; a son, Walt “Brud,” who is a fellow Tuckie [T’13]; and five grandchildren.

Walt was originally from Springfield, MA, and a graduate of Cathedral High School, where he starred in football and basketball. Earning a scholarship to Dartmouth, Walt received his BA in business administration in 1958, also completing his first year at Tuck as well as earning All Ivy and All East Honors as a hard-nosed, two-way center on the Big Green football team. Fogs was also a member of Theta Delta fraternity. After 4 years in the U.S. Marine Corps serving as a captain with the elite Marines Underwater Demolition Team on Okinawa, Walt returned to Hanover to complete his MBA in 1963. Upon graduation, Fogs joined the Colgate-Palmolive Company in New York City, with whom he would spend his entire business career. After a period in NYC that included meeting, courting, and marrying Betty, Walt was promoted to the position of director of marketing in Bangkok, Thailand, and subsequently to the general manager position in the Philippines and Japan offices. In 1976, Walt returned to the New York headquarters, where he assumed increasingly greater responsibilities in a succession of positions, including director of marketing for the Western Hemisphere; marketing director in Paris, France; vice president of the Far East division, again in New York. Finally, in 1990 Walt returned again to Paris as vice president of worldwide sales. Could one ask for a more perfect location to end his 34-year career with Colgate-Palmolive?

Walt was successful in his business career, accomplished in many things, left a fine family legacy, and enjoyed a full life. As a classmate at Tuck he was a study mate, a weekend traveling companion, someone to compare military tales with, a lover of sports, and a friend to share laughs with. In simplest terms, Fogs was definitely “one of the good guys”! Our thoughts and prayers will remain with Betty and the family, and we will miss The Fogs. After almost a year, we finally sourced a picture in which we could see the smiling faces of our classmates who could make it to the class of 1963 50th reunion in Hanover in October 2013. Assists go to Rand Garbacz and Stu MacKay in making this happen. The photo, on the familiar Tuck front steps, verifies that the weekend was enjoyable and that this is, indeed, a distinguished group!! The nearby photograph features the following: front, Gill Butler; first row (l to r), Bonnie Stoloski, Tornie MacKay, Jane Butler, John Schiffman, Pete Hager, Sandy Van Doren; second row (l to r), Stu MacKay, Ingrid Roede, Penny Obenshain, Anneliese Simpson, Pat Giles, Bill Stoloski, Charlie Van Doren; third row (l to r): Alex Woolcott (Garbacz), Tango, Rand Garbacz, Bill Obenshain, Jens Roede, Chuck Simpson, and Gordy McKean.

Walt was quoted as saying, “I must say that my family and I loved our life’s journey. We were in a continual geography class. We learned languages other than English. We became multicultural. We appreciate the differences in people that we grew to love, and we note that the similarities between these people far outweigh their differences.” Walt lived in Darien, CT, but Shelter Island, NY, was the place he best loved to be. In addition to being “Pop-Pop” to his grandchildren, the retirement time of Fogs was taken up by golf (a passion taken up late in life!), tennis, morning coffee with other residents, debating and solving the world’s problems, fishing, and watching THE New York Giants football games. He contributed his time and talents to the Gardiner’s Bay Golf Club as president, even overseeing the construction of a new clubhouse. Walt always had a passion for reading, including French literature, and in later days spent hours building his home library.

Class of 1963 50th reunion, October 2013

In closing, with lots of holidays coming up and many warm- and cold-weather vacations being planned, always remember that photographs are simple and a fun way to communicate with your friends and classmates. How about everyone send just one picture for the 2015 spring issue? These photographs could say so much!! Be well!

’64 Bill Ferguson 323 Riverview Way Oceanside, CA 92057 bferguson@ix.netcom.com

Well, by the time you’re reading this, the 50th Reunion is in the rearview mirror. As I write these notes, some have already experienced summer snowfall and the ice continues to thicken in the Arctic. Meanwhile, we’re having a blistering late summer. By the time you read this, I’ll probably have emails from those who attended Reunion. I continue to hear from JP Naz from Switzerland, and it seems that his wife’s health is improving. Then another voice was heard from up on the coast of Maine...Charlie Pugh says that all is OK up there. Short notes from both, but it’s always good to hear from classmates. Dave Dickert writes: “Nancy and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in Conwy, Wales, UK. Some classmates may remember that I met Nancy on a blind date at Wellesley two weeks before Green Key our first year at Tuck. She was at Tuck every weekend during the remainder of that trimester and our senior year at Tuck. We were married in June shortly after Tuck graduation and have been on a grand adventure ever since. “Nancy’s heritage in part originates in Wales so we decided to poke around there to see what we could see. Why not celebrate our 50th in Wales? So that’s what we decided to do. The big surprise at the party was Pavarotti’s chef, Dai Chef. He arrived with his 12-yr-old daughter as his assistant, prepared our food for each course, and served it with local wine. It was served with a flair that only a father and daughter could bring. As each course arrived, the party conversation became more boisterous. You don’t suppose it was the wine, do you? It was fun!”

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Nancy and Dave Dickert in Conwy, Wales

Then I heard again from Dick Weiss, telling that in 2007 he retired as COO of the National Grange, the country’s oldest rural advocacy organization. Dick still does some consulting for them and serves on the Board of Grange Advocacy, their lobbying division. He’s also chairman of the board of RetireSafe, a seniors’ advocacy organization; it doesn’t sell insurance or promote hotels, just advocates in a rather conservative manner. Check them out at www. retiresafe.org. Dick and his partner Nancy split their time between Washington, DC; Arizona; and Vermont. Life is good. It’s always good to hear from Jim Cutler, who, like many of us, is still active in business ventures. He writes he’s still developing projects based upon natural gas liquids derived from the shale gas boom. But he’s gravitated away from the technical and supply chain aspects of these types of projects to now spending considerable time on putting together projects’ financing arrangements and coordinating the activities of several entrepreneurial groups. He’s also been an active speaker at industry trade group meetings and seminars, obviously the subject being hydrocarbon-oriented business development. Jim’s son is now a senior in high school and a wrestler. Jim is now exposed to a sport that I never followed before. Wrestling tournaments are long all-day affairs. Wife Debbie is still a practicing pediatrician in Houston and is getting ready to go on a medical mission to El Salvador. Now that’s a busy family. Jim and I share an interest in the country of Georgia, where Jim had petro interests and my Marine son trained the Georgian military in preparation to deploy to Afghanistan; my son even learned their language (Kartuli) as a morale booster in his role with them.

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Just as I submitted this column to the Tuck Today people, I received the very sad word that Peter Lengyel’s wife, Gretchen, had passed away. Our thoughts are with Peter and his family. Then quickly we heard from Mike Emerson, telling of the first meeting of Gretchen and Peter: “Jane and I met at Green Key Weekend of my first year at Tuck. Jane soon became known as ‘The Coach,’ based on her ability to field a team of Mount Holyoke dates on a day’s notice and herd them to Hanover. One of her ‘string’ was Gretchen, a dorm mate at Mount Holyoke. Gretchen stayed on the available list only until Peter met her, and he was smitten. Peter and Dan Morrison and I roomed together in Manhattan the summer of ’63, and this was when Peter and Gretchen really got serious. One of my best memories of the time was when Gretchen came into Manhattan from Connecticut for a beauty makeover and a date with Peter. Peter was working all day and for some reason I was available to escort Gretchen to the beauty salon. The results were spectacular, and I did not even recognize Gretchen until she spoke to me on the street. Apparently Peter appreciated the result as well.” Earlier, for posting in this edition of class notes, Peter had written about their family; their son Roger and wife Kate were expecting a boy. “That makes 6 grand boys and 1 grand girl. One of our grand boys, age 9, knows already he wants to be a banker. Plans to go to Harvard and has a backup... Brown. His twin brother says his college will be online.” The tireless media-guy is raising monies for Super Troopers 2 and has a North American distributer—for those not familiar with this industry, that’s work! And late in the notes process I heard from John Gerrish. John apologized for his late input, saying, “Bill, my dear wife Almut (that I met on Tuck Mall in the spring of ’64) contracted ALS in January 2012 and is about to finish her time on earth these days in a hospiz near Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart. She worked for Posy and Dick Fowler, living in their house opposite Tuck Mall as a children’s nurse for them prior to 1964. Posy has been most active for Dartmouth, to say the least, but Dick passed away a few years ago. The previous dean at Tuck bought the Fowler house. “We’ve been back to Dartmouth several times since we were married in December 1964, and

she’s been a trooper since that date. Despite this end for Almut, we have enjoyed over 50 years together since 1964; we were married in December 1964 in Wetzlar, Germany—her birthplace. “Be well, and thanks for all the work you all have done over the years, Bill. Our best to you and your team, and I hope to see you again some day. Have a great Reunion, and all the best!” —John W. Gerrish, D’61, Tuck ’64. Like many of us, Pat Robins is still active. Pat’s up there in Burlington, VT, telling us that nothing ever happens here in the “best small city in the US”! But his “nice little company,” SymQuest Group, continues to grow and prosper; check out the website at symquest. com. So I visited their website to discover it’s a growing and aggressive player in Northern New England office and business services, with strong web credentials. Pat’s in the background as his name’s nowhere in sight. As for me, our data center site in Reno has Apple building more facilities on their 350-acre plot where they house all of their iCloud and iTunes operations. Like so much in today’s economy, funds are always needed and we never stop trying to raise funds. I’m also advising a web-based business focusing on the cancer-recovery community; and that’s a real learning curve for me, and trying to raise funds for that kind of a web-based for-profit is challenging, so if you know anyone looking to invest in an emerging social networking and entertainment enterprise, send them our way. My USMC SNCO son returned from Afghanistan and now trains MARSOC Marines in helicopter and cliff ops at Camp Pendleton, and I split my time between Reno and Oceanside, CA. Now, this isn’t a plea, but hearing from so many classmates is an interesting pastime, so keep your classmates up-to-date on what you’re doing and enjoying. ’Til next time... —Bill Ferguson T’64

any time...so I fish, drink wine, and hug Cindy, simultaneously. Pic is at the Mendenhall Lake and Glacier near Juneau this past June.”

’65 John C.D. Bruno Oak Summit Vineyard 372 Oak Summit Road PO Box 1284 Millbrook, NY 12545 jcdbruno@gmail.com

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CLASSMATES—Our Last Hurrah—The 50th10/2, 3, 4/2015. Book a room and please email me with ideas. BIKE RACE? TOGA? Heard from Bruce Keller. Definitely worth the read. “So far, so good here...got by a bit of kidney cancer successfully last year, and Cindy is well. I am in the ‘final’ stages of executing part of the family-business succession plan. After many decades, several well-qualified third generation offspring (one from each of us four brothers) are involved and working hard to overcome some legacy challenges as regards both product offerings and business operations (some of our grapes are a bit beyond producing vintage wine). Outlook for surviving the thirdgeneration syndrome is very bright, however, as we have established markets and customers in N. America and growing areas overseas and a variety of products, from drum shells to building cladding systems, which are viable and really just need rebranding and renewed energy... now underway. I had to give up my sailing, as some old-age parts don’t work as well as they need to for maximum safety under the stress the wind and waves of the Atlantic can drum up at

And from Bill Howland: “On August 12, I sang, with the Melody Men of Greenwich, the National Anthem, to open the Mets game against the Washington Nationals, at Citi Stadium in NY. Attendance was 14,000. I must say it was a thrill to sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ in public but also to be on the first-base line looking up at the stands and into the Mets dugout. The Melody Men sing primarily for nursing homes and senior residences, with 15 performances in the fall through the holiday season and then another 15 performances in the spring through June. Our repertoire is drawn from show tunes from the ’30 into the ’60s.” I am battling a little prostate cancer myself, but it’s under control. Nancy and I just returned from a Russian river trip. Pic nearby is us having lunch on the Volga.

Nancy and John Bruno lunching in Otapia

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’66 Stu Keiller 714 Penny Drive Stevensville, MD 21666-3730 keiller@toad.net

Andy and Betty Beckstoffer were presented the Land Trust of Napa County’s Acre by Acre Award honoring the significant landconservation achievements of individuals and organizations. “The Beckstoffers have donated more conservation easements than any other landowner in Napa County,” said Doug Parker, CEO of the Land Trust. U.S. Representative Mike Thompson added, “Because of their generosity and their commitment to [Napa County], more than 400 acres of land will be protected forever.” Andy responded, “We started as farmers, then became grape growers, and now are stewards of the land.” Congratulations to Andy and Betty on this well-deserved recognition and award. John and Astrid Trauth made their annual pilgrimage to Paris this summer and visited with Marc and Colette Passot. John mentioned that Marc and Colette’s daughter lives in Palo Alto with husband and kids and they visit on occasion. Stu and Diane Keiller also have a daughter and family living in Palo Alto. We’ll have to have a minireunion, to include Derek Knudson, who lives in the Bay Area. For all the three-two Dartmouth ’65s, we can report good progress on the ’65 Bunkhouse Project to build a post-and-beam bunkhouse at Dartmouth’s Ravine Lodge complex at Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountain National Forest. Over forty volunteers worked for six days in September to fabricate and raise the frame. See the photo nearby. Lead donors from Tuck ’66 are David Mulliken, David Wagner, and Al Zern. Dick Avery and Stu Keiller also made donations. Your scribe served as project committee chair and can report it has been an honor and a thoroughly enjoyable experience to lead a project that has the enthusiastic support of these men and over 125 other classmates. Dedication will be on June 11, 2015, at 5 pm as the kickoff event of the class of 1965

Cindy and Bruce Keller in Alaska

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CL ASS NOTES 50th reunion. Please mark your calendar and join us for a celebration of this significant gift to the college.

’68 John Moynihan 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907-2540 moynihan_john@hotmail.com

Frame up, tree up

’67 Robert C. Buchanan 5A Country Road East Village of Golf, FL 33436 bobbuchanan@att.net

Other than hearing Steve Waterhouse’s great news that A Passion for Skiing was nominated for an Emmy for best TV documentary in 2013 (congratulations to Steve and everyone involved in the project!), no news arrived for the class of ’67. Please send an update about whatever, whenever, and from wherever so that we can have a solid column to share with each other for the next issue. By then, we will have made it through yet another winter and can compare notes about it.

Rod Van Sciver writes: “My wife Nancy and I continue to enjoy working on our nonprofit, educationforallchildren.org, where we provide scholarships, mentoring, and career planning to very bright, underprivileged Kenyan primaryschool graduates. We currently support 150 kids in high school and 100 in university or community college. An impressive 70% of this year’s graduating class qualified for government assistance to university versus 5% of the overall population. We are very proud of them. “We have learned that just because we have created the world best nonprofit (in our minds), the world does not beat a path to our door. Funding is a constant effort and probably the least fun part of the job. So we hired a development director this year in the hope of attracting some foundations to help us share the load. We will see how that goes. “EFAC has played a special role in our lives. After running separate businesses and raising the kids together (Nancy still thinks she did that all by herself), it is great fun to sink our teeth into a joint project. It is wonderful that we have a lot to talk about, because after 6 years of fundraising, we have no friends left. We have no exit strategy. I suspect we will do it until we either run out of money or stop having fun. “I don’t want to give the impression that life is all work and no play. Last year I skied 32 days, sailed 28 days, and played two rounds of golf. Given that I seem incapable of hitting two good golf shots in a row, the mix seems about right.” Darryl Fisher wrote: “Retirement agrees with me. I am playing golf and poker regularly and enjoying life. Every day is ‘Saturday’ for me.” The Fishers are living in Wilmington, NC, where his son is a radiologist. Barclay Henderson: “Visited my son Eric at his new office in the Kendall Square Innovation Center here in Cambridge. It was

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exciting to see hundreds of young guys and gals launching their companies under the shadow and guidance of MIT. Made me wish I was starting again. Meanwhile we will join the Biggers on a Dartmouth alum trip to Tanzania this fall. Dick and Sue are great to travel with.” Jeff Campbell celebrated his 70th birthday with a surprise party in Potomac, MD. The Andersons, the Ochsenschlagers, and the Moynihans were in attendance. Nick Hayes is president - European region of the Navy League of the United States and continuing to relish his Spanish lifestyle. In October, the Bundys took a 3-1/2 week trip around the world, and the Bowens toured Ireland. In November, the Andersons, the Campbells and the Moynihans gathered in Williamsburg, VA, for a minireunion.

’69 Robert M. Cohn 44 Gramercy Park North New York, NY 10010 (212) 473-0350 bob.cohn@bonniercorp.com

Greetings and best wishes! I’m pleased to share the latest news and pictures from many of our classmates; in the next issue of Tuck Today, we will feature pictures from our 45th reunion, which occurred in Hanover on October 10th and 11th. Mike Ryan enjoyed two weeks in France this spring, including a six-day cruise on the barge canals of Burgundy. He was accompanied by Ellie Hall, who he has been seeing for almost a year. Mike writes, “Talk about being pampered and seeing France at five miles per hour. What a treat!” Ellie is originally from Boston and joined Mike at the reunion. After Hanover, they spent a few days on Cape Cod visiting with her old friends and spending some time with Mike’s late wife Phyllis’s sister and brother-in-law. He adds, “Life is good!”

Ellie Hall and Mike Ryan on a barge trip through Burgundy Another foreign traveler was Meyrick Payne. He and wife Donna went to Denmark in July for a trip with the North American Station of the Royal Scandinavian Yacht Clubs. When they arrived for the trip, they were surprised to be joined by another Tuckie, Nick Orem T’71 (and wife Phyllis), who started out with us at Tuck in 1967. Nick subsequently got drafted but finished at Tuck in 1971. T’71 Frank Connard had been traveling with the Orems too. Meyrick writes, “We had a fabulous time drinking aquavit and swallowing herrings!”

Sailing in Denmark: Phyllis Orem, T’71 Nick Orem, Meyrick Payne, and T’71 Frank Connard

Sunny and Harold Krivan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary twice this summer. With their sons and daughter and their spouses—and eight of their nine grandchildren—they traveled to Italy for sightseeing and fun in Tuscany. On the way back home, Harold and Sunny stopped in London to visit with friends from working days at Rockwell International. Harold writes, “Upon returning home we celebrated the big five-o with a dozen of our closest friends. Our next goal is to make it to sixty years and do it in the company of some great grandkids.” They were sorry to miss the reunion in Hanover but will definitely be there for number fifty in five years.

Charlie Mead writes that he recently sold the little business, Reading Group Choices, which he and his late wife Barbara ran together for almost ten years. He notes, “I found a woman in Wisconsin who had the same passion for literature that Barbara had, so I’m sure that the new owner will have fun taking it to the next level. So I guess that means that I’m finally officially retired, although volunteer work is already filling much of my time. Mostly, though, I’ve adopted a more leisurely pace, as I ponder what to do when I grow up.” Charlie Atwood writes, “Six grandkids keep us busy all the time.” Rick Hubbard celebrated the 70th birthday of his life-partner Sally by hiking the 200-mile John Muir Trail between Tuolumne Meadows (near Yosemite) and Mt. Whitney. He adds, “Twenty hiking days later, the last 11 fully loaded with no breaks, we arrived at Mt. Whitney, fatigued, famished, and filthy.” Alejandro Reynal sent a picture with him and his wife, Silke Bayer, whom he married 8 years ago, and their two children, Andina (5), and Tassilo (2). He found it impractical to bring them along to Reunion, but he was glad to join us all in Hanover. His older children with his late ex-wife Matilda are Marina (39), Cecilia (37), Alex Jr. (34), and Violeta (29). To complete the family, he has four grandchildren who are either the same age as or younger than Andina and Tassilo. He adds that they are all very friendly and getting along beautifully. He adds, “I shall be 70 next January but am still kicking around my investment bank. I had given up being the CEO three years ago so I can relax and travel a lot more. But [am] still full-time active, since nobody decided to fire me yet.”

The Reynal family in Argentina: Andina, Alex, Tassilo, and Silke

Dave Downes notes that his Berkeley email account “died” at the end of May; his new email address is dhdownes@gmail.com. Dave writes, “Once again, northern AZ is on fire but it is only directly affecting us with some very smoky, dirty air.” Michel Klein regrets that he was unable to attend to the reunion; his obligation to care for his mother (now 98 years old) keeps him from journeying far from France. Michel writes that he was sad to learn of the death of former Professor Victor McGee, with whom he had stayed in touch over the years. As he has for many years, Bob Harrell organized an annual weeklong August getaway for a group of classmates in Martha’s Vineyard. Among those attending were Andy Nicoletta, Bill Donnelly, and Al Ritter, along with various spouses, significant others, and children. Bob regretted that his daughter Courtney could not join them this year, but she was busy working for Ernst & Young in Chile, where she just received a promotion after less than a year of employment. Steve Roehm writes, “Diane & I are settling into life on Cape Cod—great weather this summer. I am playing golf again after many years away from the game and really enjoying it. Diane is just relaxing and getting used to retirement. And we have been to NYC a couple of times over the summer to babysit for our grandson Luke in Brooklyn and made a trip to DC to babysit our granddaughter.... Also spent a couple of long weekends in Boston with old friends. Planning to resume international traveling (for pleasure, not work) over the winter but nothing definite yet.” Steve adds that Luke was named after his late father, who passed away at age 102 in 2013. Grandson Luke was born 39 days later and is now 17½ months old.

Steve & Diane Roehm celebrating the birthday of their grandson Luke

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CL ASS NOTES Finally, Dick Schmitt contributed his 4 guidelines for a fulfilling retirement: 1. Establish a meaningful daily routine to replace the workaday routine. Structure is vital. 2. Keep in touch with former colleagues, always aware that you, not they, will be doing most of the work of remaining in touch—and it is a lot of work. 3. Find meaningful volunteer work and, once you have found the “perfect fit” with the right organization, stick with it despite ups and downs (like not being fully appreciated). Compassionate outreach nourishes the soul. 4. Find and develop a personal interest. (I studiously avoid the word “hobby.” Ugh!) If volunteer work is outreach, then indulging a strong personal interest, which could be golf or record collecting or taking up an academic interest, qualifies as “inreach.” That’s it for now. For those who were unable to attend our 45th reunion in October, we missed you—and will share Reunion pictures in the next Tuck Today column. Best wishes!

his own consulting firm. Doug is yet another Florida “wannabe,” like...

’70 George Fulton Stone Hill Inn 89 Houston Farm Road Stowe, VT 05672 georgerfulton@gmail.com

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On the last day of summer, greetings from the sunny South once again...here’s hoping you were able to enjoy your family and friends in good health and good cheer! We were pleased to hear from John Antil, who is still teaching at the University of Delaware. Interesting, and sad, that he reports “our entitled students want/expect great grades but many just simply are not willing to work for them.” John also reports that Don Smith passed away August 26 near his home in Wayland, MA. Don had spent his entire career in banking as a commercial lender and was an avid Red Sox fan. He and his wife, Gail, were married 40 years.

Enjoying the 1969 quarterly class lunch at the rooftop dining room of the Yale Club in NYC: Harold Woolley, Dave McKane, Bob Harrell, Bob Simmons, and Mike Vaughn

We also heard from John Yahres, who lost his first wife, Cathy, to Alzheimer’s. He subsequently remarried and then retired before moving to a cottage community in Westford, MA. He now serves on the board of trustees there as their treasurer, and, like many of our classmates, he also intends to spend time in Florida during the winter months! We’re again glad to have heard from Doug Smith (the short one), who is likewise still teaching (at DePauw University) and writing. His book Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy is available on Amazon and with your purchase may help get him above breakeven! Doug, Phyllis, and their son Gordon still live in Columbus, OH, while their son Greg (Tuck ’05) lives in Philly and has

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Pete Negri, who spends most of his free time in Naples, FL, now. He reports that he often sees Bill Martin on streets and beaches as well. Pete made his son president of Jamaica Bearings in February, giving him (Pete) much-needed time to trim down and tighten up (no photos available, sorry). He and Kaye now have seven grandchildren, with more likely. George Fulton and his wife, Linda, are still lord and lady of the manor at their B&B in Stowe, VT. Close your eyes and picture Downton Abbey for the visual! They’re offering significant discounts to any classmates, but for some reason I [Gap] just can’t find that number for you! As for Craig Tanner, an APB has been issued, so if he’s on your radar screen, let us know. And finally, from Joe Rokus comes the request to mark your calendars for the class of 1970’s 45th reunion on October 2-4, 2015!! Where did the past 5 years go?! Joe is working as Andy Steele’s assistant to update the contact list for the entire class, just as he did in 2012. At this early date, Andy and Joe are missing 22 classmates’ email addresses, so any that you can share with them should be sent to rokus@ comcast.net. Until we meet again, take care of yourselves, do good things, ask for less and give more, and count your blessings. xoxox from Gap and Karen.

’71 Caleb Loring 567 Hale Street PO Box 181 Prides Crossing, MA 01965 cloringiii@1911trust.com

Greeting from Prides Crossing, where the Lorings have moved to a new home some 200 yards from the old one (of 38 years and designed by Bonny). Sorting through 38 years of stuff was a chore, but we did it (four dumpsters helped), but more on that later after news from other classmates.

The news is a bit slim but always interesting. I guess a number of us are settled into the next chapter of life, be it retirement or otherwise. For me, it is still trying to retire, but having worked for my mother’s family as well as with other families most of my career, it seems to take some time and is a gradual process. But there is always the excitement of the next chapter we are in or are entering. I hope you will share with me and other classmates where you are on this journey. Our friends Kit and Kathy Taylor write that son Keith is finally getting married to Erica Englund on October 24, 2014 in New Orleans—a destination wedding. They are traveling quite a bit (“while we can,” as Kathy notes) with a spring river cruise in Holland— flowers were beyond Kathy’s expectation. A two-week trip to Italy with Keith and Erica— great fun, sites, food, and wine. This fall, prior to the wedding, they are scheduled for another river cruise on the Rhine with 5 other couples who are good friends. Certainly a traveling and exciting year. Nick Orem and wife Phyllis took grandson Dan to Sweden in June. They spent a couple of weeks exploring Sweden with him and then took the train to Copenhagen, where they met Frank Connard. The four of them spent two weeks sailing the Belts around the island of Fyn with several other small boats from a sailing club—The Northern American Station of the Royal Scandinavian Yacht Clubs. To their surprise, one of the other skippers was Meyrick Payne T’69, who was a former classmate of Nick’s. Nick had his Tuck education interrupted by two years in the Army. They had a great time with Meyrick and his wife Donna. At the conclusion of the cruise, Dan went home, but the Orems and Frank flew on to Bergen, Norway, for a visit with Hendrick and Tone Fasmer. The five of them then flew on to Kirkenes, way up north on the border between Russia and Norway, where they boarded the MS Finnmarken to sail back to Bergen—beautiful Norwegian scenery and some 30 stops along the way. Final note, a great time was had by all, but Nick feels he may need a liver transplant. Jean Rozwadowski reports that long-lost classmate Drew Skowrup resurfaced in Portugal at the Rozwadowskis’ residence. Drew had spent 35 days hiking the Santiago de Compostela trails in Spain. After stints

growing avocados in New Zealand and managing athletic facilities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious Tuck fellow travelers to Alcácer do Sal in Portugal. In Évora he observed firsthand the tiny back alleys that Pete (and Leli) Simpson enjoyed navigating with a limousinelike Mercedes. Peter and Marie Butler, Alan and Amy Stedman, the Tshibakas, Dennis and Sharon McGuckian had already laid the groundwork for this historic visit. Drew is very fit. He rides a bike around 150 kms a week and did over 20 kms/day on the “Camino.” They also played a game of golf and decided it was time to follow up on a 40-year-old business idea that they had concocted at Tuck—to sell frisbees on the beaches of Europe. Do you think it might still work? On the personal front, Jean and Ana are back to being full-time residents of Portugal. After Jean retired from MasterCard-Latin America and they settled in Portugal in 2007, they relocated to Paris for Jean’s new job heading up the International Chamber of Commerce in 2009. That assignment lasted less than 2 years, and they decided that Portugal, halfway psychologically (certainly not geographically) between France and Brazil (where Ana is from) was more sunny and economical. Some people call it the Florida of Europe.

Jean Rozwadowski and Drew Skowrup

Jean and Drew’s work session on the beach

For my part I am glad to know that the Rozwadowskis have landed for the moment in Portugal, as that is one place (along with Spain) that I would like to visit—a bucket-list item. We have some relatives in Malaga, Spain (yes, their surnames are Loring), due to an ancestor who many years ago decided to go into the wine business, moved to Spain to do so, married a Spanish lady, and so it goes. Bonny and I also, like the Orems, enjoyed taking our oldest granddaughter Alayna Thomas to Greece for 6 days this past August. We are trying to intentionally travel with each grandchild as they come through the pipeline. We have a ways to go with the other five, who range in age from 10 to 2 years. The highlight of our trip was a visit to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where a friend had said we should make and helped us to make a connection. Yes, my great-great-uncle William Caleb Loring was president of the school’s board from 1911 to 1928 and very instrumental in a number of ways. He was an attorney and Superior Court judge in Massachusetts but also a classics scholar and Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. We were given a tour of the school, which acts as a coordinating body between the Greek government and many colleges and universities around the globe when it comes to archaeological digs in Greece. When the head of the school learned we were going to the ruins at the Agora and at Corinth, he placed us in touch with the school person overseeing each of those digs. We got to see a lot more than tourists do, with behind-the-scenes looks at their offices on those sites as well as some of the areas where they store the artifacts found there. Finally, we got to see Loring Hall, named in honor of my great-great-uncle who had done so much for the school; folks were kind enough to copy out of their history of his period what he had done for the school. So we are now settling into our new home in Prides Crossing. Many boxes to unpack, including a number from my father’s estate that followed him around to his final resting spot at 567 Hale, oddly enough the address of our original home before the City of Beverly made us change the number. We are living in a basement apartment while renovations are being done on the rest of the house. I deeply appreciate my wife’s ability to oversee such things. We are thankful to be in good health, as are our children and grandchildren. We are trying to intentionally connect with the grandchildren going forward as they are

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CL ASS NOTES growing up and away from us fast. With three next door, it is a reasonably easy task, but the group in Spartanburg, SC, is more of a challenge. Our best to all classmates for the coming holiday season, and I look forward to hearing from more of you in the future about this chapter in your respective lives and any news you might have of other classmates. —Caleb

’72 John South 160 Kendal Drive, Apt. 1024 Lexington, VA 24450 johnsouth@mac.com

We had several loyal correspondents, so you will have to wait for the golf stories. I had a good time catching up with Terrie and Tom O’Connor in their new retirement digs in Saddle River, NJ. They had only recently moved in, but you would never know it. Terrie continues her entrepreneurial activities and owns the second-largest real estate agency in the served segment, with many brokers working for her. It is somewhat of a family effort, not only with their kids working there, but some occasional support from Tom. Tom is fully retired and continues to support his alma mater, Columbia, especially keeping up with his football teammates. He also reports that he is becoming an expert chauffeur for grandkids’ activities.

Charlie Kellogg continues to be a faithful correspondent. He reports from Manchester, Mass.: “What could be better than a New England summer! I have divested myself of a good deal of business operations and substituted volunteer tasks here and there. They do take a lot of attention. We are working on setting up a base for skiing in Jackson, NH, and hope to use it for multiple activities. Four grandchildren are keeping us busy, and Gillian took one to Peru this past month. All is well, but I run a whole lot slower.” Bill Moyes checked in with a report on his newfound love—a lodge on the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island in New Zealand. In Bill’s own words: “I fell in love with a small luxury lodge in New Zealand last year and wound up buying it. It’s called Poets Corner Lodge (www.poetscornerlodge.co.nz) and it’s on the east coast of the North Island overlooking the Pacific. I have attached a photo of what it looks like from the ocean side of the lodge. Sleeps 8 and has become quite popular with Kiwis and Americans. It’s a little bit of heaven!” Martha and I traveled in this area twice on our NZ trips, and I highly recommend it for both beauty and tranquility.

(see the photo in the 1972 pages on myTUCK. dartmouth.edu). The other photo is clearly the more enervating one (not sure which of the whitewater daredevils is John).

John Morris whitewater rafting in Montana (is that him right up front?)

In John’s words: “We returned to Montana for our fifth year. We found a terrific home to rent close to fun stuff but remote enough for wildlife and hiking. This year we were near Glacier Park in the region northeast of Flathead Lake. We have two grandkids and lots of nephews with their kids. What fun to be together in Big Sky country!” Finally, I have recently started on a series of trips to “restart” after settling all the details following Martha’s death. My first trip, just completed, was two weeks in Rio de Janeiro (some of you may remember that I lived there as a child), where I did what Brazilians call “matar saudades” and Americans interpret as reliving memories.

View of the Bay of Plenty from Poets Corner Lodge

On a sadder note, several classmates alerted me to the death of classmate Glenn Britt. Tuck Alumni Services sent a broadcast email with a link to his obituary posted on WestportNOW. com. If you would like the full details, please email me and I will forward them.

Terrie and Tom O’Connor at home in June 2014

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John Morris wrote to tell of his fifth summer vacation in Montana. I got excited about one of the pictures he sent (of a huge bluff) because I was sure I could see a tiny flag on a golf course

John South across the Bay in Rio de Janeiro

I had a wonderful time reconnecting with old high school friends and refreshing my Portuguese, as well as confirming that Rio is still a place of spectacular beauty. I came away energized by the progress they have made—so much so that I am preparing a “Palestra— Brasil: Ôntem, Hoje e Amanhã” (Lecture— Brazil: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow). My goal is to inspire my fellow retirement community “inmates” to travel to Rio and to dig deeper into the story of Brazil. I encourage you to do the same; there are great things under way there.

João, Katia, and yours truly

Of course, while there, I got together with João Paes de Carvalho and Katia Chalita (those at the 40th reunion met Katia) for dinner. If you catch my enthusiasm for Brazil, João is your man, as he is very active in all kinds of business development around the country. My travels will continue later this fall and again next March. To Nicaragua in October to meet a young girl Martha and I have sponsored for several years but only communicated with through letters. Then back to Brazil in March to attend the graduation of a college student we have sponsored and corresponded with since 2011 but never met face-to-face. I hope also to meet a new college student I just began to sponsor in August. All these sponsorships though Compassion International, an organization committed to bring young people out of poverty. See their website, www. compassion.com, for more info. For the next issue, please let your classmates know what’s happening in your life.

’73 Barry Hotchkies 7 Wood Court Oakland, CA 94611-3101 bhotchkies@aol.com

Greetings to all. The news always seems to be due when I am traveling, or maybe we are just traveling too much. This time in the Seattle area, where we spent the weekend at a Scottish Dance Camp in Fort Worden, a state park in Port Townsend. Then a week with son Blair Hotchkies T’06; his wife, Kathy; and their three sons, all under 6—fun but tiring!! How many times can you read The Very Hungry Caterpillar? We had amazingly good weather and enjoyed Seattle at its best. Sad news from Gloria Campbell that Tim Campbell passed away on November 2, 2013, after a very short illness. Tim appeared to be quite healthy, but he experienced a sudden episode of chest pain on October 27th. Tests in the ER revealed a dissected (torn) aorta. Despite emergency heart surgery and excellent post-op care, he passed away six days later from complications. Gloria noted that she is thankful for their 43 years of marriage, four children, and four grandchildren. She has fond memories of their time at Tuck and passes on her best wishes to Tim’s Tuck School classmates. Our thoughts go out to Gloria and her children and grandchildren. Finally met up with Steve Ringlee on one of his visits to the Bay Area. Steve is a regular visitor to the Bay Area, where one of his brothers lives. This visit with his wife, Connie, was for the high school graduation of one of his nephews. With another nephew graduating next year, Steve will be back. Steve and Connie’s sons are in New York and Chapel Hill—liberal arts students. Steve continues to develop his new nonprofit health insurance company for Iowa and Nebraska—CoOportunity Health, a nonprofit health insurance provider built by members for members. The business is doing very well and will keep Steve active for another year or two. For recreation, Steve continues to enjoy cycling. Nice to hear from Bill March, who writes that he and his wife, Shirley, are very well. They now have five grandchildren, with two

in California and three in Western New York. All were with Bill for extended visits in Connecticut this summer. Bill and Shirley had a great trip to Ireland in May. They drove from Dublin south, and west to Galway, and back to Dublin. Bill notes that navigating the roundabouts in the “wrong” direction was a bit hairy at first but they completed the trip in one piece. One good thing about the roundabouts is that you can keep going round and round and round until you find the right exit!! Bill keeps himself busy with sailing, biking, keeping his bonsai collection alive, and some home-brewing. Nice newsy email from Gary Fradkin: “In 2011, my division of Akzo Nobel made a major acquisition and I wound up on the wrong side of it. I helped manage the integration, and then headed off with a nice severance package to consult in the coatings industry. That led to a full-time position with Hentzen Coatings, a family-owned industrial paint company based in Milwaukee. For two years now, I’ve spent lots of time in Milwaukee and not so much at home in Nashville. Carol joins me often, and with a married daughter in Milwaukee and my son (who got married this March) in Chicago, we are enjoying the chance to see them more. I find the work in a smaller company immensely rewarding and much more fun than my late career at Akzo and may well do this for a few more years. Carol just published her second book, What Brings You JOY?, developed through her interviews with hundreds of people asking that question. I’m biased, but I think it is a great read (at Amazon, or go to http://www. carolmillerfradkin.com/). Our main leisure vice is traveling, which we got to enjoy a lot in my later career with Akzo and, in fact, we plan to spend a month next spring in Spain and Italy. “Thankfully, we’ve stayed healthy and try to take advantage of the opportunities to travel widely. I know lots of people who’ve been in a rush to retire but I figure as long as I feel good, don’t mind the running back and forth, and am enjoying what I’m doing (and, of course, as long as the Hentzens like what I’m doing for them), I am in no rush to be done with work. In a perfect world, I may at some point be able to dial back what I do with Hentzen to part-time, which would be especially nice in the winters!”

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CL ASS NOTES Don Peterson has been enjoying retirement for several years now and has settled between Naples, FL, and Annapolis, MD. He has two children and three grandchildren, who are all in the DC area, so he enjoys being close to them. Come winter, particularly last winter, Florida has an irresistible pull that seems to increase as the years pass. Since retirement, Don has confirmed why he stayed out of venture investing except as an expensive hobby—I can agree with that, Don. To keep his mind active, Don does some board work, all in financial services, although his career was all telecom— go figure. On balance, life is good to Don. If the winter gets you down, Don would welcome T’73 visitors to the Naples or Annapolis areas. Had nice newsy couple of emails from Frank Pusateri, who writes: “We left New York City almost 20 years ago to move to the mountains of upstate New York. I have since cut way back on working and now only run a business I established by mistake that offers four conferences a year in New York, London, Chicago, and Miami for Emerging Traders in the Alternative Investment Space. “I fill in the rest of my time with hiking, 200-250 miles a year; scuba diving; traveling; two grandchildren; and one nonprofit board. Last year our travel included 31 days in the western Pacific, where we island hopped and I dived. “See if you can recognize me in the attached picture.” (hint: back row, third from the right, blue hat)

Where in the world is Frank Pusateri? Frank also notes that “Rosemary does not hike or dive, which makes her a saint in that she lets me do it. Today I am into my third day hiking in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming.”

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Ralph Harding emailed from Freeport, Maine. He and his wife, Katherine, have just passed the ten-year mark in Freeport and find that living there is still just as exciting as it was on Day 1. For the last six years, Ralph has been working (and having fun) with Dick Curran at Spinnaker Trust as director of private equity. Ralph recently began a phased retirement and is looking forward to spending more time traveling and visiting grandkids in Texas and Colorado. Another recent retiree who is enjoying retired life is Gene Hornsby. Gene retired in June 2013 after 39 years with Analog Devices. To keep busy, he volunteers as vice president of the Orleans Firebirds, one of the ten Cape Cod Baseball teams composed of elite college ball players. Baseball and the Cape are a great combination. Gene’s daughter Lisa married Mike Fenton in August 2013 on a beautiful Cape Cod day. They settled in Walpole, MA, close by the Hornsby home. Son Eric married Manuella Batista de Oliveira in April 2014 in Recife, Brazil. Gene and his wife, Mary, had a wonderful time at the wedding and were able to take a side trip to Iguazú Falls on the Brazilian/Argentine border. The falls were spectacular, covering several kilometers (I second that, having flown over them in my Grace Latin America days). As Eric and his new bride settled in Recife, which, as Gene succinctly points out, is not close to Massachusetts, it looks like Gene and Mary will be visiting South America on a regular basis. Life chez Hotchkies is much the same—lots of traveling, dancing, photography, hiking, grandkids, and running to keep the brain and body active. Our daughter, Lindsey, continues to enjoy working at Apple and with husband Karl (also at Apple) has a lot of fun with daughter Piksel, who will be one on October 4. They live in San Jose, which is close enough for our visits and babysitting. Our son, Blair Hotchkies T’06, as noted earlier, lives near Seattle and continues at Amazon. Great to hear from our classmates. So please, please help out with your news and updates for next time. We all love to hear from you.

’74 Paul Stupinski 142 Torrie Lane North Kingstown, RI 02852 pstupinski@aol.com

Hi everyone! As I write this, preparations are well under way for our 40th reunion, so the next column should be full of updates and stories from a great weekend! As I gathered news for this column, everyone’s responses seemed to include “can you believe it, Stuart, 40 years!?” In July, Honorary ’74 Don Wilson [T’73] hosted a golf outing at Sand Hills Golf Club in Mullen, NE. SHGC is rated #12 on Golf Magazine’s “Top 100 Courses in the World,” so this was something special. Dave Bailey, Brian Landry, Connie Voldstad, Mike Lorig, Stuart Pinski, and Lloyd Ucko joined “Mr. Don” for great golf and fellowship at a truly beautiful and special venue for golf. We were treated to great weather, warm Midwestern hospitality, and terrific food during our stay, and Don’s meticulous planning and organization covered every detail. From the “small world” department: while standing on the practice range, we met a former Tuck faculty member who is now at the University of Wisconsin. The caliber of the golf was a little uneven (mostly due to yours truly!), but there were some great memories: Connie holing out from a greenside bunker on #10; Lloyd reaching a 500+ yd par 5 with driver & 8 iron after finding “the slot”; Gator playing 45 consecutive holes with the same golf ball—no small achievement on a course this tough; Stuart scoring a net eagle on #1; and Pinhead winning “most improved golfer” during our stay after a stretch of 5 consecutive pars in one round. Pinhead also won SHGC’s Nacho Eating Contest 2 nights in a row at the club’s award-winning 19th Hole: “no olives or jalapenos, triple cheese, please....” Plans are already under way for the next outing! Other news that came up during the trip: Pinhead is looking for someone to join him next summer for a bike trip across the USA. You may recall he did this several years ago with his son, and he has the itch to do it again. If you’ve got 40 days to spare and have a bike, call him. After Sand Hills, Lloyd was headed to Weekapaug, RI, and Fenway

Beach for a short vacation with the family. Don was going to Glacier National Park for some sightseeing and fishing. Gator was off to Ballybunion for more golf, as if 36 holes a day at Sand Hills wasn’t enough! One of those who sent regrets for the trip was Bill Bohrer. Bill had played Bandon Dunes with Connie and John Kirby shortly before the Sand Hills trip and couldn’t join us. Several big projects in Southern California are keeping him very busy. His commercial flooring firm represents Mondo athletic flooring and he has several jobs under way in California doing outdoor tracks and university fitness and weight rooms. Bill’s son, Jack, is his onsite manager in SoCal and recently presented Bill and Deb with their first grandchild, Sophia.

at Reunion, don’t you think? He and Jennifer made a weeklong trip to Cuba with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, an experience Tank said “reaffirmed my confidence in the free enterprise system.” On the work front, he continues building and managing Meritage’s Fund III portfolio and is actively involved in overseeing some personal investments as well. Jack and Jennifer have 4 kids between them and enjoy getting together with all of them regularly. Jack’s son, Jay, and his wife, Lauren, both T’07s, have 2 kids—Jackson, 3, and Carter, 20 months— and are nearby, so Tank sees them often. Tank and Jennifer also see Betty and Vandy Van Wagener frequently and mentioned seeing their son, David, when he was in town for a visit. Vandy and Betty recently celebrated the arrival of a new grandson, Oliver Van Wagener. Vandy is in the process of winding down the Evergreen IP Fund after 8 great years and is using his newfound free time to work on his golf game.

Messrs. Stupinski, Wilson, Ucko, Voldstad, Bailey, and Lorig at the 1st tee at Sand Hills Golf Club. Brian Landry was camera-shy.

Jack Tankersley with new wife Jennifer on their wedding day, June 21

The same golf group at the 19th hole

2014 has shaped up as a memorable year for Jack Tankersley. In June, Jack and Jennifer married in front of close friends and family at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. There was an abbreviated honeymoon at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur; the real deal will occur in October, as Tank and Jennifer take a month to trek through Bhutan and Bali. That’s a legitimate excuse for not being

Congratulations to Todd Keiller, who achieved both of his goals at the 2014 Boston Marathon— (1) finishing and (2) finishing! Along the way, he stopped at every water station, took lots of pictures, got kissed by 20 or 30 Wellesley coeds (a Marathon tradition)—“I lost count, Stuart”—and had a beer at mile 24. On finishing, he met the family at Cheers, where the bartender bought him his first beer and gave him a bag of ice for his foot. You may recall from a previous column that Todd had his marathon training interrupted with a bout of tendinitis; that same tendinitis has convinced him it’s time to retire from marathons and stick to 5 and 10K races from now on. Todd is at WPI and recently launched an “accelerator” fund to invest in projects that bridge the gap between academic research and fundable

projects. He is also doing some consulting work at Dartmouth’s newly established Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator. In that vein, he’s trying to enlist Dave Potter’s assistance. In November of last year, Dave joined the Business Strategy Group as SVP and partner. The firm specializes in consulting with and supporting business startups. Dave and Mary recently enjoyed a vacation in Tortola, which included a day sail with Jim Becker and Mimi Macksoud, both T’75s. Todd really is excited about Dartmouth’s expanding commitment to support entrepreneurial activity. Beyond the new facilities on campus, there are now 5 E-ship courses offered at Tuck, and shortly Tuck will begin offering an undergrad curriculum in the field. Speaking of vacations, by the time you read this, Dan Clark will have booked a September 2015 family vacation in Tuscany and will be staying in the same house Angie and I have rented several times before. Bob Twomey checked in from Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where he and Kathy were vacationing with 5 of their grandchildren. Bob is at Webster Bank and stays in shape by playing lots of tennis. He and Kathy attended the National Tennis Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year in Newport, joined by Mary and Dave Potter. Sounds like Judy and Jim Keller had a great summer up in the Pacific Northwest. Taking advantage of the best summer weather in years, the Kellers spent 6 weeks cruising around the north end of Vancouver Island. Cod, halibut, salmon, and prawns made up the daily menu, all caught by Jim and Judy. When not on the boat, Jim is chairman of a paper company based in Newark and has been consulting on the construction of a corrugated-cardboard factory in Hawaii; the plant opened in July. Not bad getting to commute to work in Hawaii for 2 years! Daughter Jen lives in Ithaca with her husband and 2 children, Coraline and Silas. Jen’s husband, Nate, recently earned his PhD and is working at Cornell. Jim and Judy’s son James is living a life we all dream about; he’s running a hedge fund based in Jackson, WY, and manages to “squeeze in” a little fishing, biking, skiing, and hiking on the side. Before Reunion, Jim is planning a trip to play some golf in Scotland and Ireland and will then head to Gleneagles to root for the U.S. team at the Ryder Cup. Steve Graves is at MIT as a professor, specializing in operations management. Steve’s wife has retired from her practice as an optometrist. The kids have both completed school, have jobs, and are living in the Boston

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CL ASS NOTES area (yea!). Last winter, Steve spent 3 months in Singapore as part of an MIT development initiative to start up a new university there. He’s expecting to be back there in ’15 and ’16 as well. For those of you who doubted my report that Rick Goldberg and Zooey Deschanel were BFFs, Rick sent a pic of them hanging out recently. It should be somewhere near the column or on our class page on the Tuck website. Although Rick is enjoying retirement, he does miss the glitz and glamour of the fashion and cosmetics business. For those of you going to reunion, Rick will be there, dishing out juicy gossip on all the celebrities he used to hobnob with.

Rick Goldberg and Zooey Deschanel

Rich Andrews sent greetings from the Texas hill country, where he recently retired from the money management business, and has started a second career as a contract pilot, doing something he really loves—flying Citations and King Airs around the country. Rich and Judy sent regrets for Reunion, as they will be in Sicily while Rich plays in an International Seniors Amateur Golf Society tournament. The Andrews hosted Maureen and Bob Buhrmaster over the Memorial Day weekend, where a little rain did nothing to keep them off the golf course. There had to be some downtime, though, as Rich managed to find the opportunity to convince Bob what a great “investment” it would be to buy and race a vintage Porsche. As this column goes to press, Maureen and Bob are off on the “trip of a lifetime”—a safari through Kenya and Tanzania. There should be photos of the trip nearby; if not, check out our page on the Tuck website. John Graham is not only celebrating our 40th from Tuck but also his 50th high school reunion this year. Grahamsby graduated from the last class of Milwaukee Country

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attends the College of Charleston), which is either near the column or on our class page on the Tuck website. He asked me to point out that the “puffiness” around his waist in the photo is due to the shirt bunching up, and nothing else!

The Buhrmasters and Andrews in the hill country of Texas

Day School and he reports that 24 of his 28 classmates will be in attendance—nice turnout! Pete Moseley’s latest “contribution” to professional bull riding made his debut on this year’s PBR circuit. “Mean Mr. Mustard” (with apologies to the Beatles) is off to a great start; no one has yet managed to ride him for the full 8 seconds. Mose’s ranch is in Gering, NE, about a 2-hour drive northeast of Cheyenne, WY. In addition to bad-tempered rodeo bulls, Mose raises horses and miniature ponies. Chuck Lucas celebrated (?) turning 65 this year and tells me he is seriously starting to think about retirement. He has sold his hydroelectric-power interests and is winding down his involvement in Aria, which helps nonprofits with fund raising, using novel solicitation approaches. Looks like travel is going to be a major retirement priority, with Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, and Greece being on his “must see” list. Dave Wilhoite has been keeping a hectic schedule in retirement; Florida, New York City, Washington, DC, and rural Pennsylvania are just a few of the spots he and Lyn have visited this year. Book clubs, workout sessions, golf, and home projects are also keeping him busy. Dave is one of those who appreciates the book recommendations we include in the column, and in this issue, he’s offering some of his recent favorite reads. Bill Garfield sends greetings from Hanover, where he continues to roll out the welcome mat and the offer of a place to crash for anyone visiting the Upper Valley. These days, Gar summers on a small island off the Massachusetts coast and “goes native,” letting his hair and beard grow out while wearing shirts that would make Jimmy Buffett proud. He sent a photo with one of his daughters (she

Jack Pansegrau is alive and well in the Palm Springs area, still doing deals in commercial real estate when he’s not hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, and mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He’s keeping fingers crossed for a big winter snow season so he can climb up and glissade (I think that means sliding down without skis) 3,000’ down Mt. Shasta. The only drawback in Jack’s life is that the kids—Jenn, Jessica, and Andrew—have yet to give him any grandchildren. Lots to celebrate this year in the Penny and Jim Spanos household. The first grandchild, Penny Christine, arrived in March, the daughter of son Robert and his wife, Vasso. Son Alexander has graduated from Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. While waiting for the results of the bar exam, Alexander is completing a master’s in medical ethics at Penn. Jim happily reports that the political situation in Greece has improved to the point where he and Penny can enjoy their lovely home near Corinth. An update from yours truly.... Angie is the social worker at RI Hospital’s outpatient dialysis unit and is finding the work challenging and fulfilling. I admire her for taking on this kind of challenge at this stage in our lives. Our daughter, Clare, completed her master’s in social work in May and is studying for her licensing exam. Our son, Jack, is in his 2nd year at Weill Cornell Medical College and has become an avid runner. This spring he completed his second Ragnar race, a 24-hour team running competition, starting in Hull, MA, and finishing in Provincetown. We hosted his team before and after the race, and it felt like old times having a house full of kids sleeping everywhere and eating us out of house and home! Other than the trip to Sand Hills, my summer was pretty quiet. I am still at Hutchinson, with regular trips to Paris being a nice benefit of the job. Prior to Reunion, Angie and I will be heading to Nantucket for some R&R. The Class of ’74 Reading List includes interesting stuff as always, along with some

editorial comments by those who suggested them: One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (Babe Ruth, Calvin Coolidge, and Charles Lindbergh all featured in this look back on the summer of 1927: “great beach read, Stuart!”) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (“true story about nine workingclass Americans’ quest for gold in the 1936 Olympics as a rowing team...best book I read all year.”) Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (several people recommended this one) A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (“the best of his five novels, Stuart”) Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous Light of the World by James Lee Burke (“best American mystery writer today, Stuart”) The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling’s second mystery novel, after The Cuckoo’s Calling) Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris Gulp by Mary Roach (“Interesting book about what and how we eat...”) Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (“Very clever novel about reincarnation, without being ‘gimmicky’”) Please keep your suggestions and feedback coming on books to read. There are a number of ’74s who look forward to seeing what’s on the list. Interesting that no one brought up Hilary Clinton’s memoir; what do you make of that?? That’s about it for now. Thanks to all for staying in touch!

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40TH REUNION OCTOBER 2-4, 2015

Last June Caren Calish Gagliano, her husband Lou, and their 24-year-old son Daniel began a three-week trip that took them to Russia, Greece, and Turkey. (Greece replaced their original plans to visit Ukraine. As it was, they flew over Ukraine only ten days before the Malaysian Air flight was shot down there.) “It was an amazing trip,” Caren reports. “We all share a deep interest in geopolitical events and Daniel is our family’s history and geography guy. He had just finished two years with Teach for America teaching high school social studies and so was able to give me remedial tutoring throughout our trip. In January of 2011 we made a trip to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. Egypt exploded days after we returned to the U.S. The trip previous to that started in Singapore, and included Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China. Days after our return to the U.S. rioting broke out in Bangkok. “Stay tuned for our next destinations—you may not want to make plans to go there!” (Stay tuned for a phone call or email from Caren, new T’75 co-class secretary, about Reunion!)

Caren Calish Gagliano, husband Lou, and son Daniel at the Acropolis

Hello, gang. Here I am refreshed from a couple of weeks in Wales, where we saw only a single day of rain. Our neighbor is a retired history professor at UCLA who grew up in Wales, and when she heard we were toying with the notion of going to Ireland she put on a full-court press to have us shift our focus. Suffice to say that it is a beautiful land and well worth the time. I have plenty of photographic evidence should any of you have an interest. When I returned, Rick Routhier was quick to report that he has photographic evidence of a somewhat different kind, that of Bob Spears, Dilip Advani, and Rick at some Manhattan dive. These are available for purchase, he claims, but the price is a bit steep. “We got together when Bob and Ann were visiting to see the Stanford-Army game. Bob’s youngest is at Stanford, so they get to vicariously enjoy the life the two of them never had while students there. Their oldest is in LA and a writer for the hit Fox series Sleepy Hollow. Dilip looks terrific and is living on the Upper East Side enjoying the good life of an urbane man about town. It was great to get together and catch up.” Up in Rhode Island, Tom Rooney is still involved in his post-retirement activities with the Brown Community for Learning in Retirement (BCLIR), since renamed LifelongLearningCollaborative.org. When we spoke, he was feverishly pulling together notes for an upcoming lecture for the online course The Politics of the Polar Regions. In addition to having spent some quality time “up North” during his Navy days, one of his roles during his lengthy tenure with Pratt & Whitney involved developing a joint venture with a Russian helicopter company to support an Exxon/BP/Gazprom drilling venture in the region. Once a certain guy named Putin took control, he kicked out both Exxon and BP, effectively shutting down Tom’s JV activities. The upcoming talk is focused more on the national-security ramifications of expanded economic development in the region, a topic I thought could be of interest if it were being

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CL ASS NOTES streamed. Alas, Tom informed me that it required face-to-face participation. Even though the course would be free, the travel costs quickly dampened my enthusiasm. So sad. Tom did indicate that the travel costs from Rhode Island to Cape Cod are by comparison nominal, so he and Martha have had occasion to head over and share oysters and clam chowdah with Kope VerSchure and Michael Cusack. A little further west and just east of Worcester is where Wayne Ushman continues to manage money at Assabet Advisors. While he was happy to talk about the fact that the firm’s assets are still growing (“although we are still available for new investors!”), he really wanted to regale me about his recent trip to Tuscany. It turns out that his wife’s brother is Jeff Shapiro, a McGrawHill fiction writer who has penned six books and is also happy to play host at his Tuscan villa. Claudia and I had gone off to Venice and Florence a few years ago with Judy and Jim Schultze, and hearing about the wilds of Tuscany made me itch to get back there. His enthusiasm was such that I did not have the heart to turn the tables regarding our trip to Wales. I suspect that were any of us to have been sitting on a long plane ride next to Roland LaPlante when he was working at Heublein, Citibank, or McGraw-Hill, the conversation would have proven quite interesting and insightful. I, for one, would have been keenly interested in hearing about his efforts peddling Smirnoff on a global basis. Today, I fear that the flight would result in quality sack time. If you want to see what 10 years in the extremes of the tech sector can do to a guy, you might watch Roland here: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6Qxcg7cYzPE. For lo these many years, Roland has been the CMO at Afilias, one of the major players in the domain industry, the truly esoteric world that controls things like .com, .info, .mobi, maybe even .vodka! When you watch the video of Roland being interviewed at one of the many international conferences he attends, you may want to cover the ears of any nearby young ’uns, as he really gets into it, talking about gTLDs, strings, IDNs, contention sets, corporate designators, and “discussions with the GAC.” Huh? Is that like a Death Star or Skynet or something? Er, that’s all well and good, Roland, but do you know when we land? I’m pretty confident that all of this jet-setting (Durban, Buenos Aires, London, etc.) has been deleterious to Roland’s marathon times, which were hovering around the 4-hour range when we last chatted a couple of years

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ago. There is online evidence of someone with that name in the 60-65 age group participating in running events in such locales as Honolulu and British Columbia! Well, if ya gotta tire yourself out, those are nice places to do so. A bit less esoteric but still in the tech sector is Paul Gorup, still toiling away as chief innovation officer for the Kansas City–based Cerner, one of the preeminent health-care IT companies. He has also been exploited by YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cns8Gf2jcjA, but this time in the relatively more sedate settings of Hanover, where he discusses the company’s involvement in mhealth (health care supported by mobile technology) with former Tuck professor Eric Johnson. Now this I get...smart rooms, wireless devices, enhanced patient outcomes. A nice talk on some meaty topics, and I enjoyed the viewing. Paul was a lot less forthcoming when I asked about their recent $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens’s IT businesses. In fact, when we spoke, Paul was in San Diego beating up on some of his newly acquired minions over their expenditures for sunscreen, mai tai mix, and the other necessities to successfully manage entrepreneurial businesses in California. Further up the coast in Seattle, the ever entrepreneurial Bill Pickard continues to find himself in multihour (and multiweek) meetings with entrepreneurs seeking managerial talent for their blue-sky dreams. One of his recent efforts provided a cautionary tale as he recounted the emotional roller coaster: “I was beginning to feel truly upbeat about this deal; it had a real shot....” After way too many meetings, Bill concluded that his potential partner was “an egotistical lemming... the luxury/benefit of getting older, of course, is that you can recognize when someone is heading off a cliff and decline to follow. It’s a good idea and he may yet succeed, but he’ll have to hit the bottom and then recover. I’d rather skip the drama.” Since he probably doesn’t get much sympathy on the home front (he has been married to an exceptionally pragmatic transaction-oriented lawyer since 1980), Bill finds himself recovering his emotional stability through a rowing foundation he and several pals started several years ago. This was mentioned in a previous column when it was in its early stages. Now Bill reports that the program is firmly embedded in the public school PE programs of several Seattle schools. At last count, there were some 10,000 students learning the wonders of

rowing. Maybe one or two will even make the Dartmouth rowing team, eh, Bill? Over on the other coast, Bob Bingham reports that there remains some life in the old workout/bankruptcy sector. He is just coming off the substantial Patton Boggs reorganization/sale to Squire Sanders, which provided the opportunity for Bob to do more than simply rub shoulders with such Washington luminaries as former senators Trent Lott and John Breaux. Zolfo Cooper’s prior success in handling the Dewey LeBoeuf bankruptcy led to this work, much of which Bob was able to handle out of his New York City offices. This made it easy for him to be available for dinner with Don Kendall, who was visiting clients in New York City prior to leaving for the World Cup in Brazil. My follow-up discussion with Don was typically eclectic but illuminating, although this time he had nothing to offer about Jane Goodall. It turns out that he and son Linc had so enjoyed the World Cup matches they had attended four years earlier in South Africa that the trip to Brazil was a foregone conclusion. Over a span of three weeks, they saw five matches in five cities, including the U.S. versus Portugal. They also spent some time doing tourist-type things and spent a few days assisting a couple of field researchers studying armadillos and tapirs in the Pantanal region near the border with Bolivia. I wouldn’t be surprised if this last activity came about via connections from Don’s daughter, Corinne, a Princeton-trained PhD researching scavenging raptors (eew... vultures) who probably had “friends of friends” studying these equally ugly creatures. And from the home base at Tuck, Penny Paquette sent a note: “Each fall as new students arrive at Tuck, I think back on when we all arrived. Do you realize that it was 40 years ago!? 30 of those years I have been working at Tuck—first with Brian Quinn and for the last 20 years with Dean Danos. It was extremely gratifying to have my years of service to Tuck acknowledged with the receipt of the Overseers’ Medal at Investiture last June. Although I plan to hang around for some amount of time (not sure how long) after Dean Danos steps down, I am actively trying to figure out what the next stage of my life will entail. I attended the Tuck Leadership Experience program this summer and it was a good chance to reflect as well as learn new things. Our daughter, Devon T’12, is happily living in Portland, Maine, working for L.L. Bean. I am spending more time in Naples,

Florida, where my sister and her husband, Prentiss T’70, winter and my mother still lives. Although I get to see a few of you when you visit Tuck, I hope to see many more of you at our reunion in 2016!” Finally, Goodloe Suttler reports in from North Carolina that he actually hasn’t been spending much time there, what with his geographic and time travel (more on that later). “Last year I spent 10 days in Cuba photographing the streets of Havana; the trip was very intense and eye-opening. Also, for 10 years I have been shooting all the major New Jersey boardwalks during summer trips up to see family; I have another 10 years to go before I complete this series. Hurricane Sandy did such damage to some of the boardwalks and towns that a lot of the character I was interested in capturing disappeared when rebuilt; the NJ people remain the same so there are no shortages of characters that want to be photographed.” Goodloe continues, “Most of my time has been spent working on developing digital-process workflows to recover very faint Indian rock art paintings and restore them in photo form to what they might have looked like when painted 3,000-8,000 years ago. I presented some of my image-restoration work to the Utah Rock Art Research Association last year and got a lot of oohs and aahhhs from the senior audience, since most of them don’t know much about digital-imaging technology. The rock art expert who hiked with me for several weeks is the world expert on this subject, and evidently I am the only photographer so far to try digital paint restoration, so the two of us are actively working on a book on this particular genre of rock painting, due out sometime in 2016 if all goes well.” The photos Goodloe provided certainly show the power of the image-enhancement techniques that he utilizes in these “time travel” efforts. Some of these techniques were developed by NASA, others conveyed to him in studies with such luminaries as John Sexton, Ansel Adams’ last associate. One of the marketing hooks for this book will be the fact that most of these images come from Type 3 sites in Utah, which are kept private by rock art researchers and national park rangers in a concerted effort to preserve these vulnerable panels. You can read more at the following link to a 2012 gallery showing of Goodloe’s work: http://www.theframerscorner.com/archive/ gallery-goodloeSuttler.html.

’77 Martha Luehrmann 1466 Grizzly Peak Boulevard Berkeley, CA 94708 marthaluehrmann@comcast.net

Buckhorn Shaman Dear folks,

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Mary Pierson is now senior advisor at Viceroy Hotel Group and just celebrated her 6th year there. Frans Eelkman Rooda is now the chairman of the board of trustees at the Centre for Human Drug Research. Jim Middleton is now executive director at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth. And David (Goodbar) Goodman is the business valuation and litigation support services at Gosule, Butkus & Jesson. C’mon, Goodbar, Butkus?! Peter Darbee writes, “Melinda and I have had a lot going on this year. Our son Curtis and his wife, Caitlin, welcomed into the world their second child, Keegan, in March. We are currently in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the wedding of our oldest son, Jonathan...our youngest, Sarah, is expecting a baby girl October 7th, who will be our third grandchild. I have one thing to say about grandparenting; it is one of the few jobs that is actually better than advertised! We are truly thankful for our many blessings. One last note, it was great to see Curt Welling when I was last in Hanover for the overseers meeting.” Page West reports he was just named the “BB&T Professor in Capitalism and Free Enterprise” at Wake Forest University. [We] subscribe to desirable outcomes, such as clean environment, more equality, broader access to medical care, etc., and there is much evidence that markets work toward those outcomes. Elinor Ostrom (who coined the phrase “tragedy of the commons”) revealed that even she believed in markets-based solutions to environmental issues. In any case, this is sort of the agenda he will examine and teach about in his new role at Wake Forest. “I sometimes think we now forget how dis-enamored we all were of bigger Nixonian-style government in the 1970s!” Page was also appointed to lead the Wake Forest program in London in 2015, where he will teach about Adam Smith, John Locke, and other original thinkers about free-markets systems, and lead tours of industrial districts, such as

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Dave Rousse and his wife moved to Raleigh, NC, where he was recruited to lead the INDA Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. It seems to be working out well. They are enjoying the nice southern climate AND he gets to appoint his own board! John Korab says he survived another tax season. He can still do 10-12 hours per day, 7 days per week, but he finds that the recovery period is a lot longer than it was 30 years ago. He is unwinding with a visit to his granddaughter in Texas and some time at Sarah’s family vacation home in Sandwich, NH, at the base of the White Mountains. Tate Preston’s oldest son got married at Dartmouth last summer. His bride was his classmate there and her dad is Ross Virginia—a prof in Environmental Studies at Dartmouth (and a Deadhead!) [Editor’s note: Look for more pics on the 1977 page at mytuck.dartmouth.edu!]

’78 Jim Scardino 14 Aberdeen Road Wellesley, MA 02482-6028 jim.scardino@amtrustgroup.com

So here we are, a year after our 35th reunion. The “S” I earned in Statistics equips me to say that we are now 36 years removed.

T’77 minireunion in Wisconsin, summer 2014

Martin Karl went to New Zealand this summer to visit his son, who has lived there for eight years. It’s a gorgeous place (even though it’s winter there). Charlie Plimpton’s middle son, Rob, was married this summer in Cornish, NH. Mayhem prevailed. Rob just completed his first year at Tuck. He reports that “our alma mater still challenges its students to be the best they can be. It has been incredible to witness.”

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And here’s Brian Ruder’s take on life at this stage: “I have just hit the big 6-0!!! So it is bucket list time for me. I studied piano for the past 18 months and gave a recital earlier this year. That was a frightening thing, tougher than getting called on in Tuck class on a business case, but very rewarding. I bought a Tesla as my midlife (or beyond) crisis and I am off to climb Mt. Rainier in a week. Became a grandfather and now preparing for the second one to arrive shortly. Some big checkmarks for my list. Life is good and Tuck is a sweet memory that certainly helped prepare me for all sorts of things in business and life!”

Our unofficial social chairman, Mr. Bill Schink, continues to shine in his role. It’s just who he is, not just what he does, as we hear: “Leslie and Helm Dobbins, Paul and Robin Timmins, and Cindy and I met at our house to have dinner together earlier this month. All of us are in good health and good spirits. I was able to provide Paul with a bag of golf balls picked up from our backyard, which is on the approach to the 9th hole at Sedgefield Country Club; he hits them out of his back yard, I think. Helm brought some old albums from our Tuck days to play on my turntable (remember those!). So of course I had the dubious pleasure of listening to ‘the Fruitman,’ which, fortunately, I haven’t heard for years. We had a fabulous Mexican dinner at Il Gordo, complete with their signature ‘Gordoritas.’ A fun night was had by all, and we’re getting together again on Sept. 5th to see the O’Jays.” The SchinkMan, spinning the vinyl! O’Jays! Love Train! Back Stabbers! Use ta be My Girl! Can you imagine if there had been rap music in 1976-78?... And how about Peter and Janet (Lindholm) Lebovitz? Between the two of them they’re on about 7 boards and Peter is the chairman of TAG. Janet’s a full-time volunteer, working with Wheaton College, the Fairfield County Community Foundation, the Fund for Women and Girls, and the local Visiting Nurse and Hospice Service. Meanwhile, Peter met up with Charlie Johnston, Jack Ryder, and Bob Lindberg on the links. After they beat up the course, Lindy had to go into the witnessprotection program and Peter denied playing with them. Sounds like it was a good day! Jim Reilly recently joined Consero Global Solutions as managing director, starting the Boston office. In a couple of earlier incarnations, Jim was a client of Consero Global for six years. In a parallel to Victor Kiam, he learned firsthand about the high-quality service that Consero Global provides to clients, so he joined them! Jim’s role in the company is to offer high-growth companies in the Boston area a modern alternative to the traditional in-house accounting function. Good stuff, James! And the Native Son returns home: I told you last time about Dave Kapnick joining WTAS as CFO. So now the mask comes off and WTAS is officially known as Andersen Tax. Redemption! All the best, Dave!

’80 David Womack 597 Fourth Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 dmw597@yahoo.com

Don Derrick with T’16s for the TuckBuilds program

Jim and Mary Campbell with daughter Sasha

And I save the best for last. For each of the past ten years Don Derrick has been an integral part of the TuckBuilds program, sponsored by the Center for Business & Society at Tuck. Here’s Don’s story: “Students come to town for the week before Orientation and engage in community service activities. Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity usually takes in about 8 students for a week of work on one or two of our projects. The photo shows us at the job site for an elderly couple in West Hartford, VT. This was our tenth year, and once again it was very enjoyable and stimulating to meet a number of new Tuckies, just as they are beginning their Tuck experience. As usual, this year’s crop was smart, motivated, nice, and hard working. Full of enthusiasm and maybe a little bit of jitters. Seeing these ‘kids’ once a year certainly dissipates the cynicism that has been rumored to pop up in old men.” No cynics need apply!

Bryan Houlihan in Greenwich on August 2nd.

Take care, fellow ’78ers!

Andy Steele bumped into a group of about 15 folks in a circle outside of Tuck Hall. It turned out it was Dana Callow’s son, Dane T’10. Dana’s other son, Brad T’13, was marrying a T’13 classmate [Katie Gagne] in front of Tuck Hall. It was the rehearsal before the rehearsal dinner.

Jim Campbell walking Sasha down the aisle

35TH REUNION OCTOBER 2-4, 2015

Greetings from the epicenter of the world of climate change. As I write this, some 400,000 people have descended upon the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the People’s Climate Change March. Your loyal scribe did not attend. He was playing golf. If the world is going to turn into a french fry, one might as well get those last few rounds in. In response to the lack of news last time around, Rob Morris took it upon himself to organize a Flight Deck (3rd Floor Woodbury) Reunion, NYC/Connecticut chapter. In attendance were Mike Klehm, Mary Woods, Rob Morris, Tom Beneville, Helen Savage, Peter Reed, and Errol Glasser. Peter was ending his work with UBS in Stamford. According to Rob, they “had a delightful dinner reliving everything from the first Tuck Halloween Party we attended, to finger

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I only received wedding news this go around. The tall Tuck tales apparently will be shared at Reunion. Jim Campbell and family had the second summer wedding in two years. Sasha married

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“A lot of folks report that they are in some form of transition. Some are glad for it though one called it ‘too old to hire and too young to retire.’ It’s clear that some see the energy for another effort and are trying to do it in a way that can make a difference.”

Margaret Abbott, Anne Berg, Gary Shanley, Ginny Shanley, Helen Savage

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George Gorman, recently retired (lucky him) was appointed to the board of Eaton Vance mutual funds. He has also been doing some consulting to investment management companies and has started doing some executive coaching with people interested in obtaining board positions. His daughter Meggie is a junior at Colgate, son Jack a senior and Grace a sophomore in high school. Cliff Krauss still works at Eaton Vance, as the director of M&A at Eaton Vance Management. Cliff also remains active in outdoor activities as treasurer of the Appalachian Mountain Club, which is the oldest conservation organization in the United States. Some sad news that didn’t make it into the spring column: Anne Berg’s husband, Gil Preston, ended his long battle with a degenerative brain disease in September 2013. Anne celebrated his life with a wonderful gathering including all of their children and a number of Tuck friends. Anne, Helen Savage and Margaret Abbott ventured south to Naples, Florida to escape last year’s brutal Northeastern winter (remember that climate change thing?) at the invitation of Gary and Ginny Shanley. Anne said “Not sure we would have made it through the deep freeze without that break.” Rick Kilbride sent in a great collection of news. “I had the pleasure of recently meeting with Roger Muller, who we all know was responsible for us being at Tuck to begin with. Roger runs a great charity called Stay-Focused, where he mentors ‘teens with with disabilities through SCUBA certification and leadership

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development programs.’ This isn’t news to all of us, as he mentioned Alec Macmillan, Errol Glasser, and Jack Rubin, plus Mark Hamlin is on his board. But for those unaware, the group has made a huge difference in many lives. Imagine a wheelchair-bound kid liberated by the ability to swim freely underwater. Roger looked great, is giving the NYC Marathon a try, and remembers our class in detail. We seem to have been a sweet spot in his career. He certainly enabled ours. Check out his work at stay-focused.org and send him some support. “Sherry Kernan checked in from London. She’s had some great gigs, including CEO of a tea company. She reports that she returned to financial services, sorted out her division, and then told them she was done. She looks forward to retirement and will probably stay in London, as it’s been her home longer than anywhere else. “Charlie Kreter reports that with good health and a wealth of friends, there is little left to desire. He’s looking forward to introducing his 3-year-old granddaughter to Breck’s slopes this winter and then some time skiing with Rubins, Wilsons and Hamlins! ‘And then of course, we have our 35th reunion—October 2-4, 2015—can’t wait to see everyone!’ “I ran into George Gorman at Colgate; we both have daughters there. I’ve also been able to spend time in the White Mountains; a lot of that touches AMC facilities and programs and noted Cliff Krauss’ name on some things. He’s a long-time AMC board member and now their treasurer. I recently took a faculty position at University of New Hampshire. I got some great advice from Greg Winfield, who has taught at Temple for six plus years now. Jack Rubin and Drennan Lowell each taught in my class, far better than the ones I did.

As for myself, the Womack family went from a household of four to empty nest in the space of a week. Our eldest daughter, Eleanor, just started her freshman year at Yale, while her sister, Claire, a high school junior, transferred to the Madeira School, an all-girls boarding school in McLean, Virginia. Retirement is a long way off for me, I’m afraid.

’81 Tony Ettinger 101 Paulding Drive Chappaqua, NY 10514-2818 tony.ettinger@verizon.net

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Greetings from San Diego, where I am giving a speech about cars to some car people. Now that that’s out of the way, over to my partner in journalistic crime, Tony Ettinger. If you’re reading this, you probably also have read Tony’s update (which he sent along with his exhortation for you to write to us). So to reprint it here would be redundant. And repetitive. As well as saying the same thing again. But paragraphs like this only come along every few decades or so, so here it is: “Boris the Basset Hound just had a $10,000 surgery to remove a peach pit that would not pass. All is now well. We have the pit if anyone is interested. Thinking of putting it on eBay.” There are just so many questions in there, Agatha Christie would go nuts. Why give a French breed a Russian name? Why feed it fruit? Why pay $10,000 to remove it? Do some vets specialize in pit removal? How much did the pit go for on eBay? These are questions inquiring minds want answered!

Contact Tony for details. Onward.... And thanks to all who wrote in!

really into to the local culture. Please keep an eye out for Sean’s entries in Rick Steves’ latest Guide to the Best Insurgencies and Failed States (Special Warlord Edition). Mention Sean’s name and get 10% off a subscription to Soldier of Fortune!

Susan Woods reports that her daughter has “gone Norwegian.” I thought this a slang term for switching to some sort of salmon-anddill-based Nordic paleo diet, but it turns out she just really loves the culture after spending a college summer there as an intern. As Susan wonders, “Where did we go wrong? No Norwegian connection in our family other than my British ancestors, who were probably pillaged by Vikings.” Oh sure, there were the little signs...a fascination with old a-ha records...an urge to collect different crosscountry ski waxes...always wearing sweaters with reindeer on them. But Susan, when your child comes out of the Scandinavian closet, all you can do is support them, accept them...and get them their own Ikea charge card.

“Hello classmates: literally ‘long time no see.’ After spending 37 years working for financial companies in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and New York, I retired two years ago at the age of 59, a bit earlier for an average Japanese salaryman, and this year I decided to start my own investment company specialized in both equities and real estate. But that’s not the purpose of this email.

Also, really, there is very little pillaging going on nowadays in Oslo. On the other hand, if you had to eat lutefisk all the time, you’d probably get the urge to pillage too!

“Please take a look at the photo below, taken last June with my son Yoshihiro, Tuck class of 2014. Some of you already knew the following, but please allow me to repeat the story here.

Okay, enough attempts at humor; here is a wonderful letter from Hideki Iwakami, which I will only slightly mangle, as in its entirety it is a spectacular submission!

“Yoshi now works for WiL in Palo Alto. His main responsibility is to build a bridge over the Pacific, between Tokyo and Silicon Valley, for startup companies both in Japan and in the US. “Back to myself. Upon retirement, I inadvertently promised Atsuko that she was also entitled to declare her retirement. The biggest trouble resulting was I now had to learn how to cook! How could I miss those delicious dishes she made for me during close to 40 years of our marriage! For the past two years she has been teaching me, but I admit I am a slow learner. This was my biggest mistake, but anyway a promise is a promise. If you visit, please be ready to be kind regarding my cooking. (I do know that sashimi does not count!)” Congratulations on retirement, graduation, and the rest, Hideki! And we will look for you on Iron Chef! Nancy Stanesco is finally finished bailing out of the Colorado floods of 2013. It is not everyone who writes to us with enclosed news bulletins from the “Elk Ridge Consulting and Flood Rehabilitation of Big Elk Meadows” board, but hey, we will print anything. (Especially the Water Boil Order. That was fun to read.) They have been without a water supply for about a year but, as far as I can tell, the taps will be turned on again soon. The area is building some dams to better manage future pranks by Mother Nature. Ah well, spending a year on mold removal, waterdamage rectification, and water hauling builds character, I guess.

Susan adds, as do many of you, that parents now seem to be the big issue in our lives. Just as we got the kids off to dorms, now we have to get them off to assisted living. And neither is an easy move. Stubbornness seems to be a hallmark of both teens and seniors. Will we make it any easier on our own kids? (Of course not...!) Other child Martin is in Cambridge, working for “The Investment Fund for Foundations (a mini-Common Fund).” Cool...not a single concrete noun anywhere in there; beats me what it does. Reminds me of George Costanza’s “Human Fund.” Anyway, send it money. Martin is into the real (non-Nordic) paleo diet, apparently hunts down and eats squirrels he captures on the Boston Common. (Home of the Common Fund? Not sure.) From Sean Austin, our own Hunter S. Thompson, who has managed to combine his oil-exploration firm with a travel agency, check out this tour pitch: “Go Big Oil! Onward with drilling and fracking in Colombia. Anyone feeling like getting bombed, shot, and/or kidnapped should join me on a trip to Bogota.” Well, that is hard to resist, and frankly a breath of fresh air after reading about most of the rest of you endlessly biking through the bucolic south of France. Sean is offering a trip that gets

of this and wanted to report this achievement with my friends, with whom I shared both good times and hard work at Tuck.

Hideki Iwakami and T’14 son Yoshihiro

“It was in June 1981, just one day before our Commencement, when my wife, Atsuko, and I were informed by a doctor at Mary Hitchcock that she was pregnant. Yes, it was a boy...and now, all these years later, that boy is standing my side in front of Tuck Hall! I feel very proud

Nancy and Jack, not taking a hint from aforementioned Mother Nature (“Stay away from the water! Away!”) took a boat trip this past summer on down the lower Salmon River into the Snake River in Idaho. It was good, no mold. Now let’s focus on the main character in the Stanesco Saga: The Dog. Quoth Nancy: “Our dog has become a Being of Elevated Stature in our home. She is a year-old Australian Cattle Dog (tricolor, split face). In June we organized a reunion party with four of her sisters, which was a hoot. We find that what is good for her is good for us. She gets us out on walks and to dog parks regularly, and she enjoys her play dates

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CL ASS NOTES with her best friend in the neighborhood (a year-old Spanish Water Dog [again, Nance: stay away from the water!]), plus her time at doggie day care. Ridiculous, but all fun.” Nancy also updated us about her kids, etc., but much more briefly. I mean, none of the kids are tricolored, and I bet they don’t have split faces. Which I am not sure is good or bad. Wasn’t Split Face in a Batman movie?

It’s up to you, classmates. You can affect the course of justice in Boston by (depending on your view of Mike’s judgment) selecting for him the outfit most or least likely to get him barred from the jury. Just tweet your vote to @ mikeyswardrobe. (See, we are trying to keep up with the times here at Tuck Today. If you don’t believe me, you can check out our Second Life hangout or our GeoCities page!)

Mike Esposito took all the ribbing in the last issue in good stride, which we much appreciate. (Tuck Today’s legal fund for defense of libel suits has been gravely depleted by past antics of this column.) All is well at Casa Esposita (“fish tacos half-price on Tuesdays”), but Mike asked me to turn to our classmates, who, in their assembled wisdom, represent the greatest concentration of IQ outside...outside...well, outside the Elk Meadows dog park. Anyway, Mike has been selected for grand-jury duty (which should really put the fear of God in the Boston criminal community). And, understandably nervous about such an awesome responsibility, he asks this key question of us all: “What should I wear?” Let’s face it, while handing down indictments and stonings and time in the stocks (they still do that in Boston) and such, ya gotta look the part of Concerned Citizen. Mike rummaged through the closet and narrowed his choices down to these:

Fran Allen has, as you know, been rampaging around Britain trying to find a pub that carries Bruins games. Anyway, most recently he has gone a-roamin’ through the heather and heath of missed-independence-by-thatmuch Scotland: “Cindy and I enjoyed many a glen, especially Glen Nevis. Or was that Glenmorangie? Anyway, we did a little hiking by the River Nevis, taking in the spectacular scenery at the base of the British Isles’ highest peak, Ben Nevis.” Demonstrating how frugal the Scots are, liberally reusing names. “Things are really good for the Allens; not sure why we deserve so much joy and excitement in our lives. Have 4 grandchildren now, having recently added a fourth this summer. We get back to the States a fair bit, every couple of months or so. Big news is that we have a golf game set up for 15th September—Mike Espo, Bill Achtmeyer, and Drew Pace. It will surely be splendid (that’s British for wicked awesome).” Funny, I checked the Boston Minigolf Association tournament schedule and did not see this take place. The guys must have gone to an unsanctioned course, like maybe Lundquist’s World O’ Balls on Nahant.... It’s near Nevis, Mass.

1. The “power suit” (no, not Iron Man’s): “I dust off the blue or gray pinstripes, white shirt, cufflinks, suspenders, black wingtips, red tie: for that 1% look. Will this look ‘rub the wrong way and look too slick’?” [I’d say blue shirt with white collar for the full Gordon Gekko] 2. Blue blazer and khakis: “For that casual but professional look?” [add captain’s cap for the full Thurston Howell thing] 3. Jeans and an old Grateful Dead T-shirt: “Or would a Tom Brady jersey go better with the jeans?” [depends a lot on how one defines “go better”] 4. “My sister has one of my late father’s leisure suits in the attic from the ’70s. The John Travolta Saturday Night Fever look. But I don’t have any gold chains, so if you think this is the way to go, can you lend me yours?” [happy to, but you can also select from my Giant Chain with Mercedes TriStar Hood Ornament on it, or my False-Turtleneck Dickie for that Timothy Leary scene]

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Fran invites everyone to visit him and Cindy in the UK. (Does Cindy know this?) When you clear customs at Heathrow, just look for Fran in the hall outside, holding up his “Mr. Amos Tuck” sign. We will close with Dan Taylor. Good news: the danger of guinea pigs multiplying and overrunning the U.S. has passed...both of the Taylor GPs moved on to the Big Cedar Shavings Nest in the Sky. No longer on the treadmill of life. (Moment of silence.) In other news, twin daughters Annie (Middlebury) and Maddie (Williams) are both in Spain for fall semester abroad. “Once again, they managed to do the same thing without doing exactly the same thing: Annie’s in Madrid, Maddie’s in Barcelona. Carol and I are planning a trip in December to visit

them before they return home poorer (us) but wiser (them).” Sons Greg and Kevin continue to live and work in the Bay Area. Greg is an aeronautical engineer, building commercial satellites for Space Systems/Loral, and Kevin works in Google’s robotics lab, doing... “well, he can’t really tell us.” Aw c’mon, Dan, you don’t worry about that, do you? I mean, do you think that Google is so all powerful and all seeing that it can control anything that someone might write abou---

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Hello once again to arguably Tuck’s greatest class! (Nobody will edit this, so I can say virtually anything I want....) [Editor’s note: (waves hello to Andy...!)] Who knew 34 years ago when we arrived on the Hanover Plain what an accomplished and FUN group the class of ’82 would turn out to be? Let’s dive right into the latest update: Gail and Victor Khosla are reporting in from a new beat—London! “I have been settling into my role of making investments. We moved to London this summer both because it’s great for Victor and his work but also because of our wanderlusting urge to live in Europe! Our twins graduated high school this past year and are off to U Chicago and Dartmouth for their freshman years. It’s going to be great to have yet more reasons to return to Hanover (plus Chicago will be a fun city to get to know better as well). Our youngest, Duncan, is a sophomore at the American School in London and learning to play rugby. Three boys, three new schools, three different time zones, I think I have a lot of traveling this year!” It sounds like the majority of Gail’s “investments” will be in transatlantic airfare. When I read Gail’s email, I could just hear her voice brimming with enthusiasm...just like during those Hawk Pine parties. Enjoy your time in London, and keep us informed of the fallout from the Scottish independence vote. As

I’m writing, the votes have been cast but not yet counted. It’s a toss-up! Marc Johnson wrote on behalf of himself and the Al Dragone clan, as these two proud fathers watched their daughters graduate from Deerfield Academy as classmates. Marc said his and Al’s families enjoyed the very happy occasion. While pondering what’s next for their girls, they wondered what it would be like heading off to college again. Look out! I’m not sure academia could handle that! To cope, Marc reported that the Tuck Twilight League still lives! Over the summer, Marc enjoyed rounds with Scott Quackenbush and Tom Reinhart. Some things never change...nor should they. And what would a Tuck Notes column be without a report on the exciting developments of Gary and Meredith Savadove? As you recall, Meredith has been supporting Gary’s travel bug by working diligently in an expat assignment in Italy. When not traveling to Indonesia, Croatia, Seychelles, or some other exotic location, Gary found time to write: “Meredith and I continue to love life in Italy, however, we’ll be returning to the U.S. in January. While we’d rather stay longer, we feel so fortunate to have had this amazing opportunity and experience. In July, we spent a day in Venice with Barb Schechter and her daughter, Elizabeth. We had a blast and it sure was fun to see them! Just returned from a couple of weeks (love the way Europe does summer vacations!) in Indonesia, enjoying several of the 17,000 islands, diving, snorkeling, sightseeing, enjoying the food and incredible warmth of the people.” See the nearby photo of Gary and Barb dodging pigeons in San Marco Square in Venice.

So look out, America, the Savadoves are coming home. I’m so relieved that Gary was able to spend so much time outside the U.S. without causing an international incident (of which we’re aware)! Well, that’s a wrap on the latest installment. Keep those emails coming and don’t rely on Facebook to tell your story. I only use Facebook to stalk my kids, so I have no idea what’s going on with our class unless you drop me an email. ~ ;-)

’83 Christine Cahn 8613 Fenway Drive Bethesda, MD 20817-2709 chriscahn@verizon.net

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Dave Fulton, Jill Weatherhead, and Diana Lane Calligan enjoy dinner together in Cleveland. Diana was in town for a gardening trade show, and used the opportunity for a minireunion. Sadly, the Cooleys were not available to join in the fun.

’84 Janet Rhodes Friedman 230 Old Pickard Road Concord, MA 01742-4728 jrhodesfriedman@comcast.net

This may be the shortest update since I started writing the class column in 1999. News is scarce, perhaps because most classmates look forward to sharing their updates in person at our reunion in a few weeks? I hope we have a terrific turnout. Several classmates who cannot attend sent their regards, including Tom Ley in San Francisco. He enjoyed catching up with David McGarry over dinner in Washington, DC, recently. Tom and Lynette have four children; their youngest son just started college this fall. Bill McAdams and wife Kristin will miss the reunion for the first time but promise to make the next one! Susy Wenz Prosapio is doing well “out here in Little Falls, MN. I recently completed my 7th Susan G. Komen 3-Day breast cancer event, this time in Michigan. While a bit of a challenge on the body, the event is always great for the spirit! Back here at home I’m working on starting up a consumer food co-op that focuses on providing local producers with a retail market for their food. While we don’t have the typical demographics that are linked to success for most co-ops, we seem to have some real enthusiasm for the project. I also continue to work the development side of several local projects, the largest being an educational art project being installed at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery. You can go to www.vetsart. org to see photos of the paintings (note they are 8 feet x 10 feet in size). Our children, Luci and Philip, have both graduated from college and work for the same company (Epic, an electronic medical records software company) in Madison, WI. This means the kids are launched and off our payroll! Phil and I are just enjoying a slowed-down lifestyle.” Hope we see all of you at the 35th! Back on the East Coast, Johanna “Yanna” Bergmans Musselman completed her internship at Fidelity Investments in Smithfield, RI, and Boston. She worked on several “business enablement” projects in support of Fidelity’s Professional Services Group. Yanna

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CL ASS NOTES and husband Dave completed their move to Princeton, NJ, where “we are adjusting to being ‘empty nesters’ and exploring the beautiful area around Princeton. I plan to seek employment near our new home and look forward to connecting with Tuck friends in the area.” Yanna will attend the reunion, along with Rod Watson. Since the last column, Rod has three more grandsons (total of five), including identical twins born to Kristen. You may recall that Kristen was born while we were at Tuck.

I look forward to seeing many of you in October. If you cannot make the reunion, drop me an update about your work or retirement (!), family, travel, hobbies, etc. Until next time....

’85 Laura Fitzgibbons 3701 West 63rd Street Mission Hills, KS 66208-1756 lbfitzgibbons1@mac.com

Judy Holmes PO Box 44 Avon, CO 86120 (May-December) judy@judyholmes.com PO Box 444 Seal Harbor, ME 04675-0444 (January-April)

Rod Watson with identical twin grandsons

Finally, David Plants and Doug Holmes spent part of July working as “lumberjacks” at David’s farm in Jamaica, VT, near Stratton Mountain and deep in the woods. They had assistance from T’13 Jon Ryder and his partner, Carreau Mueller.

Tuck lumberjacks David Plants and Doug Holmes

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I [Laura Fitzgibbons] am going to start with a comment about how many people email me with great information and updates but tell me NOT to put it into our class notes as “it’s not very MBA-ish.” My response to that classmate was to list all of us doing non-MBA-ish things, like photography, community service, caring for aging parents, nursing, flying airplanes, retirement, bronze sculptures, etc. Perhaps our next column can be all about the non-MBA things we are involved in! But on to the MBA-ish updates. Jon Pundyk didn’t write in, but when LinkedIn reminded me to congratulate him for his 24th anniversary at Glamorise, I had to follow up. He then shared that “nothing too exciting to report here—3 boys, two in college (Dartmouth, Cornell), one in high school. Sneaking up on 25 years of marriage, and still running one of the few independent innerwear manufacturers in the US.”

Also from LinkedIn, I learned that Phil Giudice was mentioned in the news (peHUB). As the CEO of Ambri, “developer of the novel Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology,” he was quoted commenting on the company’s recent Series C equity funding. Kate Wiley Laud is living in Vermont, mostly posting beautiful photos from her backyard view. But when pressed, she said she loves her job at the UVM Foundation, where she is the associate VP for finance and administration. At a recent NYC conference, she “ran into some Tuckies, and glad to see admissions still is consistently admitting bright and friendly students.” She says all visitors are welcome! Now, on to the non-MBA items. Eduardo Navarro sent me something in Spanish. When begged, he responded in broken English for us. Paraphrasing, he recently inaugurated an exhibition of his second series of bronze sculptures, called Centauri, at the Latin American headquarters of UBS. It consisted of 9 pieces measuring “2.4 mts” and weighing 200 pounds each! “It was wonderful!! Very powerful work!” It took him almost 9 months of working with a foundry in Bogotá, Colombia, but the reviews have been fantastic! He also inaugurated a painting exhibition at Galería Habitante in Panama, “mainly horses but am beginning to study sea horses.” Nina Simpson Boyd just became a registered nurse, graduating in May. She promptly flew off to Africa to volunteer at a birthing clinic. You can find great photos of her time there on her Facebook page! Also on Facebook, you’ll see amazing photos of Barbara Tormondsen, who has been participating in dance competitions—and winning! Those of us who tried to keep up with her aerobics class at Tuck will not be surprised at her grace and beauty in this! Dow Wilson says, “Things are great in Palo Alto.” He sent a few photos, one of him and Lynne with their son, Adam, from 1984. Adam is now at Tuck (class of 2015) with his wife, Katie (see photo). Dow’s daughter, Jane, “is hoping to disrupt the prison system with a new model in a similar way to how the charter education system has disrupted public education. Read about some of the amazing

Finally, congratulations to Salil Tripathi for the wonderful profile in the most recent Tuck Today on his great work, globally addressing human rights in a variety of countries and circumstances. If you haven’t read the article yet, please do. Proud to call him a classmate!

stuff she’s doing at theresetfoundation.org.” He ended with, “Lynne and I are just trying to keep up!”

And late-breaking news: Salil has written a book, to be released in November: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy. Congratulations!

The Fitzgibbons and Grants at Middlebury

Adam Wilson T’15, wife Katie, and their daughters

Kevin Holian, Steve Eskenazi, Andy Audet, and Pete McManus recently had a minireunion weekend at Kevin’s house. While there was much “laughing and ribbing,” that’s all he’ll let me say here. But promises something next time. Hmmmm. Emily Rubin Jennewein and her husband, Chris, just celebrated both daughters’ college graduations in May, just six days apart: Penny from U Penn and Maddy from Brown. Penny is continuing her work as a labor organizer in Philly. Maddy is studying for a PhD in virology at Harvard. “We are so proud of both of them. Back in Del Mar, I’m chairing the board of Hillel of San Diego. Chris has a new startup: he’s publishing an online news website, TimesofSanDiego.com.” She added, “I feel very fortunate to live in a gorgeous place where I can see the ocean during the day and hear it as I’m falling asleep at night.” OK, just a little bit jealous.

Recently, Spence and I were in NYC to see Teddy in his new job (Simulmedia; his boss is a Tuck grad) and apartment in NYC. While there, we had bloody marys with Mark and Nancy T’86 Davis at their home in Bronxville, NY. Mark describes his life as living “in urban splendor with a crazed dog with dreadlocks.” And that’s all he’ll let me share. Grant Davis shared the awesome news not only that his daughter Caroline was just married, but that Lauren (a baby with us at Tuck) just had a baby of her own! Congrats Grant on all the great news!

The Davis family at youngest daughter Caroline’s wedding to Geof Legg

And speaking of graduation, Spence and I saw Zander and Carol Grant at Middlebury’s graduation in May, where both our kids were graduating! Our son, Teddy, is off to NYC; their daughter, Audrey, is going to Boston. We sat with them for the ceremony, caught up, and saw Patrick Durkin as well! Of course, I had my camera; of course, we took a picture (thanks, Carol!).

’86 Tony Ehinger 6 Hartley Farms Road Morristown, NJ 07960 tonyehinger@gmail.com

Julia Rabkin 52 High Street Charlestown, MA 02129 rabkin4@aol.com

We enjoyed hearing from a number of classmates from near and far. Einar Gruner-Hegge answers the question, “So what have I been up to during the past 28 years. I met my Swedish wife, Anna, just after leaving Tuck and we have spent a somewhat nomadic existence together, which started in NY and took us to Miami, India, Norway, Mauritius (a.k.a. Africa for wimps), Sweden, Holland, and now Curaçao (Dutch Caribbean). On the way, we had three kids; the two oldest are attending university in England and Scotland and we are still debating whether our 11-year-old was a surprise or planned; either way, we are (so far) enjoying parenthood tremendously! Career-wise since Tuck, I spent the first third of it in banking, the second third in passenger shipping (cruise and ferry), and I am now back in banking for a German institution specializing in the aviation, maritime, and offshore oil and gas sectors. So, enjoying the extracurricular activities that island living has to offer, as well as the occasional holiday back to Europe or someplace new, most recently the Galapagos.”

Caroline Davis and Geof Legg at Shelburne Farms, Vermont

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CL ASS NOTES Also enjoying island living is Mori Morishita, who has reached the ripe young age of 60, or which the Japanese call “kanreki.” Mori writes, “I am now doing management consulting business as managing partner of M&M Partners. Most of my time is now spent for saving medium- and small-sized financially troubled companies as turnaround manager. I visit many companies all over Japan and give lectures on revitalizing companies to many financial and governmental institutions. As for my private life, my wife and I have been enjoying playing with our three grandsons. They are very cute but very mischievous. We often play golf, and after golf we enjoy refreshment at [the] hot springs”; great activities for an island dweller. On the island of Nantucket, Scott Frantz, his family, and Captain Nat competed in the Opera House Cup, an annual boat race that features classic older boats. Scott’s Ticonderoga finished respectably in the middle of the pack, a fine achievement for a 1936-era vessel that is a lasting example of elegance and excellence in sailing yachts. A more decisive victory awaits Scott in November when he runs for a fourth term as state senator for Connecticut’s 36th senate district, which includes the communities of Greenwich, New Canaan, and Stamford.

Scott and Allison Frantz

Moving onshore, Bob Bass indicates “all quiet on the Eastern Front. After 8 years as a commercial lender, I had a midlife thing and decided to start a business to import & distribute European technical outerwear. Well, that was 2008 (remember?). After a few SLOW years trying to fight a conservative retail environment, I told my wife that we

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would make more money if I did nothing! Other than a seasonal test market of a Swiss base-layer line, I am basically Mr. Mom and a community volunteer. Our girls are 12 and 15 (not grandparents yet), and now a 17-yearold AFS student from the Netherlands. Even our dog is female! For sanity, I sneak off to The Country for some fishing or bird hunting. Winter months we are all busy skiing, one way or another.” Moving westward to the Chicago area, Jane Castle Fraleigh checked in with the following update: “Our oldest, Ryan, decided he wanted to attend university in the U.K. Over spring break of this year, he visited the schools he’d applied to, along with his brother, Casey, who is 2 years behind. They stopped in to see Ted Sotir at Goldman in London, who was very gracious with his time. “In Paris, we had a fun time seeing Andrew Farnsworth, his wife, Tessa Rowland, and their delightful sons, Dylan and Phillip—both at their home and at a wonderful favorite restaurant of theirs; it’s always great to dine with the locals!! Ultimately, our son Ryan chose the University of Surrey, outside London, where he will be studying law with international studies. I should mention that Jane Musser Nelson was a great resource to me regarding studying oversees, since their daughter is at St. Andrews. “In NYC, Mike Lypka was nice enough to host Ryan to a BBQ, an event also attended by Mark Floyd. Our son Casey is now a junior, so he’ll be entering his college visiting phase once again very soon. Our daughter, Kerry, is entering her last year before high school, and our youngest, Liam, is going into 6th grade. My husband, CJ, continues his job in Ohio, and we see him on weekends, vacations, or when he’s back in Chicago for various meetings. Busy, crazy, fun, and all going too quickly. Blink and you’ll miss it!” On the opposite coast resides Rick Ambros, who confirms “all is well here in Los Angeles. I am still in the entertainment business and am working with a Chinese media company as COO, overseeing their film, television, music, and digital businesses outside of China. My daughter is in college at Tufts in Boston so, luckily, I have a good excuse to come back east more often in the future. I think the last

person I saw from Tuck was Bob Benner, who I had dinner with a couple of years ago. He was happily retired and remarried, dabbling in investments and raising twins!” Dabbling in a bit of card playing, John Fontana tells us, “in May, Katie and I moved back to the U.S. from the U.K. after four years there with Yankee Candle, which was sold to a public company last year, and I stayed for the six-month term of my parachute. Katie found a great house on the New Hampshire coast and we are enjoying the summer, waiting for the next turnaround opportunity, wherever that may be. “Our kids include our son Chris, 24, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf for Rowan Cos., our daughter Nicole, 24, who is working in Pharma marketing in NJ, and our “baby” Tom, 20 and a rising junior in ChemE at Ga. Tech, who is working in a refinery and living with his brother this summer. Health, life, family are all good. “On a fun note, as an unemployed person, I decided, like so many in my situation, to head to Vegas for a vacation with Katie. I have been playing poker for a while now and, hey, sometimes the dog does catch the bus—finaltabled at a World Series of Poker event for winnings of US$100,000. And, yes, we each kept a stack of $100s and used the cash for kids, cars, tuition, and fun. http://www.pokernews. com/tags/john-fontana/.”

John and Katie Fontana in Vegas

Also shifting careers is Linda Bornhuetter Gridley, who writes of “exciting news on the job front. After running my own boutique investment bank focused on digital media

for 13 years, I am merging my business with a Boston-based firm called AGC Partners. They have a small NY office, where I will join a classmate of ours, Doug Hurst [T’84]. Small world. And on the kids front, my oldest son is a senior this fall, so I’m hoping he’ll end up at the Big Green. Fingers crossed.”

me that Bakersfield was like Texas but with a better wine list! My kids are growing up fast; Savannah is 11, and Alex is 14 and a basketball nut (he’s a 5’10” ninth grader and can almost dunk it!). I don’t see any Tuckies down here on ‘the streets of Bakersfield’ but that’s understandable.”

Speaking of navigating careers, Terri Tierney Clark has “written a book that will be released on October 7. It’s a career guide for women in the first stages of their careers, called Work, Learn, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You, and has some sexually explicit stories (oh wait, no, that’s Lee Geiger’s book). I mean, it has some insightful professional tips and even features some Tuck ’86 classmates who you never realized had talents beyond shooting tequila. The book would be a perfect stocking stuffer for the 20-something daughter or niece, so feel free to look for it on Amazon.”

Alain Leray bids us bonjour and announces, “In February of 2012, I was appointed president and CEO of SNCF America Inc. My wife, Sophie; our daughter, Clotilde; and I have been living in Bethesda, MD, for now more than 2 years. SNCF are the French national railroads. If you want to know what I have been doing in America (besides trying to convince you guys to build high-speed tracks), I suggest you Google my name followed by either SNCF or Maryland. As they say in the Marines, not only an experience, an adventure.”

Dave Dumouchel’s oldest daughter, Amy, appears to fit Terri’s target market, as she just got married a month ago. David tells us, “we sold 2/3 of the company to Walgreens 5 years ago. We’ve opened or bought more stores since then, so we’re actually bigger than we were pre-sale. We’re now 100% private, which eliminates a lot of the government regulations. I’ve learned to hate bankers, lawyers, accountants, the government, regulation, and most formal structure. In general, old, tired, and more bald—but grateful for having a great life. “Matt (born just after graduation) just got engaged. I’ll probably be a grandfather soon. I also have Luke (9 years old) and Jocelyn (8 years old). I probably have the distinction of having two of the oldest kids in the class and probably the 2 youngest. I still coach Little League, lead a Cub Scout troop (no idea what the hell I’m doing), and drive kids whenever I’m not working. We have a summer home in the middle of Lake Winnipesaukee (NH) and try to spend all of our free time there.” Charles Honea “moved from the last frontier (Alaska) down here to the land of fruits & nuts (California) a few years ago and all are doing fine. I’m still with Chevron and, yes, we’re getting into fracking more and more—it gets the juices flowing!! We’re in Bakersfield in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley desert, which I think is the only part of CA that is mostly conservative (i.e., Republican). A friend told

Experiencing an adventurous mountain climb was Gordon Davenport. Gordy shared, “my wife, Kristy, and I spent a day with Christy [T’87] and Dave DiPietro in Telluride, CO, last month. We have a house there, and the DiPietros’ daughter is doing a summer internship at a local art museum. We had a tough, fun day hike, followed by a beer, with plenty of catching up. As always, it was terrific to see them. Suffice it to say that the kids are doing great, and we Davenports feel blessed here in Chattanooga, Tennessee.” Thanks for all of your great updates; they makes us proud to be your ever-diligent scribes.

’87 Felicia Pfeiffer Angus 82 Fairmount Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450-1510 angusfm@optimum.net

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I (Felicia) can think of no better person to start this column with than Rick Yu. Rick,

who is currently in Asia at a conference with his new employer CLSA, is in many ways more the Andy Steele of our class than we all thought Grover Fitch was. (OK, Grover looks a lot more like Andy, though....) He’s so good at keeping in touch with everyone, corralling us to luncheons and golf games and arranging smaller Tuck get-togethers. In fact, in August Rick was part of a little Tuck gathering in Boston attended by Cynthia Frost, Jonathan and Jennifer Uhrig, Gail Sullivan and Scott Page, Mary Barcus (who was fresh back from a trip to Kilimanjaro), Gail Goodman (who was on her way to Myanmar with her husband to visit his son there), Rich Coomber, and Patrick Kennedy. Not ones to miss a good party, Steve Lubrano and Martha Boyd Tecca drove down from Hanover to attend as well. It sounded like a great group, and I’m sure the night was lots of fun. However, the main reason to start the column with Rick is that he has been so great about keeping so many of us up-to-date with news on Bill Buckingham and Bill’s fight with pancreatic cancer. As Bill himself said in an update letter to many of us: “Pancreatic cancer is not a disease associated with a high percentage of good outcomes...one that demands our respect and our undying efforts to defeat.” From his last update, Bill had mostly good news in terms of PET-CT results and was in a good routine on the home/exercise/ outlook front, but it is a fight fought one day at a time. Bill has one daughter, Ellie, who works w/ Goldman Sachs in NY; Grace, his next daughter, will start working for the competition (Morgan Stanley) upon graduation from Northwestern next spring; and he has a son, Henry, who has now just started at UC Berkeley. His wife, Joey, has been his rock throughout this tough journey of theirs. I know I speak for us all, Bill, in sending you our prayers and love and anything that could magically make this all go away for you. For anyone who has not been in touch with him recently but would like to do so, Bill’s email is billbuckingham@comcast.net. And thank you, Rick, for being such a good communicator in this regard. In fact, I think you are so good that maybe you should think about that evercoveted and exalted position of class secretary, or at least take up a guest-writing role.... News such as Bill’s makes you realize just how precious each day is, what a struggle we

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CL ASS NOTES face sometimes, and how great life can really be too. It hasn’t been easy for Crystal Curry either, who informed me that her husband, Chris, passed away early this May after a 4+ year battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Many of us knew Chris from Tuck, as Chris and Crystal had been married for 31 years, and can only extend our sincere condolences. Any man to be so supportive while you went through those two years of angst in Hanover was worth more than his weight in gold. As we look to the preciousness in life, we often look toward our kids. While they themselves can often be such great causes of grief and heartache in their own right (especially as teens!), they can also end up being God’s way of helping us see the forest for the trees. Crystal’s are no exception. Her son, Scott, graduated early from U. Mich with an engineering degree (saving some nice $$$ there!) and is working at JP Morgan in NY. (Yes, our class is singlehandedly populating Wall Street all over again!) Her daughter, Abigail, is a sophomore at University of North Carolina, where she is applying to the business school this year and playing smashingly on the volleyball team. UNC finished last year ranked 24th in the country and is, at this writing, ranked 17th, so she must be awesome! Wowza. Chris had arranged for Crystal and the two kids to make it over to see the men’s and women’s indoor Olympic volleyball bronze, silver, and gold matches in London, which must have been really cool to see. Crystal herself is still with Frito-Lay in Plano, Texas, and has a big house with plenty of guest rooms for anyone in town to stop by and visit. You know how on the back of your driver’s license there is a thing to check off to be an organ donor? Or how in your living will, you can do the same? Well, here’s why. Patrick Kennedy had been struggling with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and was in need of a lung transplant. Two years ago, he got that transplant and has been doing great ever since. He was in touch with the donor’s family and found out the donor had been a Ravens fan, having been from the Baltimore area. Having grown up in the San Fran area, Patrick was a dyed-in-the-wool 49ers fan and his boys Patriots fans. However, as protocol would have it, they all rallied behind the Ravens that year as they sped past both other teams to win the Super Bowl. Kismet. As Patrick said, “Charlie

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(the donor) gets first toast whenever we sit down to dinner. And he always will.” Patrick is obviously feeling much better as he spent most of this summer with his wife, Jessie, traveling pretty much everywhere you’d want to go within the contiguous United States. His 90-year-old dad and 86-year-old mom live in the San Fran area, and he is out there every couple of months checking on them. Of his two boys, the eldest graduated with an engineering degree from Olin (where Saulnier’s son and Margaret Patterson Goddard’s son both go) and is now at Stanford. His younger son graduated and is working in Chicago, where he is the complete Renaissance man: he’s singing, playing and composing music, is a published poet, and, oh yes, just got signed on by Chicago’s second-largest modeling agency as a male model! (Chippendales here we come!!) As Patrick so aptly put it, “It is amazing, you just get a roll at the genetic dice. Never know what you are going to get.” So true. Congrats, Patrick, on your great set of lungs! (How often does a woman get a chance to say that to a guy, huh?) I was lucky enough to also hear from Janet Frohnmayer. She and David (Marquez) have been living in the Seattle area (Mercer Island) for 21 years now. She is on the local school board and also very active in the boards of Educurious (www.educurious.org) and the Diabesity Research Foundation (www. diabesityresearchfoundation.org), where she recently got to work with Bart Henderson. (I always felt Bart was like the Where’s Waldo guy...he shows up in the most unusual places... last I think I saw him was in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere England at a rock concert....) David is a court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for kids in the foster-care system. They have a daughter in her sophomore year at Stanford and an older son doing sound design for theater in Seattle. Janet said they did see Jon and Hendy Dayton in San Fran recently, which was a treat. Like Janet and David and so many others (OK, not Proom with his 2-year-old toddler... long time till empty nesthood there!), Mike (Angus) and I just became empty nesters. Our son is a junior in engineering at Cornell and our daughter just started at Princeton, having agonized between going there or to Dartmouth for a good while. Mike is still happily ensconced at MasterCard Advisors,

traveling the world like a crazy man. (So, often the nest is even emptier!) As for me, I was able to see my lonely future staring me in the eyes and got my butt back to Wall Street just before our last flew the coop, knowing I would drive myself and anyone in my vicinity crazy if I just stayed in this big empty house with just the dog. Until I find out what that passion is I’m now old enough to follow, I’m happy trying to still sling a few more bonds here and there. I have been in touch with Dave Oliver, who is at Stone Harbor Investment Partners and doing well. (Yes, named after the very same Stone Harbor where Mike and I got married.) Still at my old firm, BNP, is Len Jardine. Those employees who haven’t been fired have mostly left, so Lenny might just end up running the whole shindig there before we know it! (All these years and he still can’t speak a lick of French.) This summer I had the good fortune of being able to get together with Chip Conner and his partner, Richard, for lunch in NYC. They live outside of Boston and were in the City for a couple of days of downtime. Chip has taken over his dad’s consulting business and works from his home for the most part. He hasn’t seemed to age a bit, which makes me think that kids, while our very own little darlings, may also be the prime contributors to the rise in Botox and hair-dye usage by a certain parental subset. Mike and I also spent a week with Lourdes and Milt Dingman at our cottage in Algonquin Park, Canada, this summer. It is a yearly tradition that got side-railed last year by the death of Lourdes’s dad. So getting away to the middle of nowhere was a bit of a good thing for all. Milt and Lourdes recently welcomed in grandchild number two and hosted the voluminous DeLaTorre family at their house on Lake Champlain this summer. They needed to come to Canada just for a breather after that! Lastly, for those who did not know, Charlie Ayres is a new member of the Tuck board of overseers! In celebration of that and a great TAG effort by all this year (again over 90% participation!), Charlie hosted a little golf outing at the Deepdale Golf Club in New York. Nearby is a photo of those attending in front of the clubhouse. [In the photo: Charlie Ayres, TAG head agent Peter Saulnier, class participation chair Rick Yu, and big-time Tuck supporters John Chapman, Steve Socolof, and Steve Frary.] Per Peter Saulnier, “We had a

great lunch before the golf game. Socolof’s car broke down on Route 78 in NJ and his wife came to his rescue and lent him her car so he could continue to Manhasset, where he met us for the back nine. Charlie left after golf and had his annual dinner in NYC with a widow of 9/11 (what a sweet guy). Rick went home to bed in CT to rest up for a business trip the next day, while Steve Frary, Socco, and John Chapman and I had dinner at Peter Luger in Great Neck! Huge steaks and red wine.” Love the photo, and I have to say you guys all look pretty great for a bunch of AARP candidates!

Tuck ’87 gathers to celebrate its wonderful success in once again surpassing 90% participation for the annual TAG efforts

I think that about does it for me. As we move on into the winter, let’s not forget those who need our thoughts and prayers. (And, Rick, about the next column....)

reach out to the Tuck/Dartmouth community and campus as a touchstone, through participation in various Tuck programs, staying in touch with professors, and sending our kids to Hanover. Gives us reason to go to Hanover too! Perry Boyle was recently at Tuck. “I spent a July Saturday at Tuck giving a career talk at the Tuck [Business] Bridge Program and interviewing kids in the program. A pretty impressive lot. While there, I happened to meet Owen Cooper, son of our classmate Michael Cooper. We are indeed getting old! In August, I rode in the Pan-Mass Challenge for my 9th consecutive year and was gratified to receive support from several of our friends, including Michael Cooper, Peter Feer, and Jim Bob Freeman.” Michael Cooper added, “In July/August, my son Owen, a rising senior at Sewanee, participated in Tuck’s extremely excellent Bridge Program. The Bridgies learn a helluva lot in one action-packed month. Kudos to Paul Doscher and the team. Prof. Hansen kindly made good on his friendly threat to call on the boy on the first day of class. (Merci, Bob!) Send your offspring! Don’t have any? Send someone else’s! David Southwell’s son is going for the winter session. We also dropped in on Professor Rassias to say hello. The lion has not lost his roar!”

Rob Freeman, wife Julie, and Olivier Fainsilber in Paris

Olivier Fainsilber and Duncan McDougall T’87 in the South of France

’88 Laurie Marshall 4633 Wendrick Drive West Bloomfield, MI 48323-3650 laurieamarshall@gmail.com

Dartmouth Professor John Rassias with Owen Cooper

Owen Cooper with friends at the Tuck Business Bridge Program

Jill Ward PO Box 170112 Boston, MA 02117 jwcalif@yahoo.com

Hi, everyone. I [Jill Ward] hope your second half of 2014 has been wonderful! As always, our class is on the move... traveling, changing jobs, taking adventurous vacations, and visiting one another all over the world! We also frequently

Olivier Fainsilber saw quite a bit of Tuckies and their families this summer. “Rob Freeman and his wife, Julie, visited Paris and toured France this summer. Had a great visit with them that started by a 2-hour lunch, as things usually do over here. It was a great reunion. Later in the summer, Duncan McDougall T’87 came to see us with his family in the South of France. His son, Jesse, spent 10 days with us practicing his French. We had a fun time introducing him to the locals as coming from near Montpelier (VT), as Montpellier (two l’s) is the nearest big city to us in the South. In the meantime, my son Maurice followed in my footsteps and attended a Hurricane Island Outward Bound sailing course. Unlike the short one we did before Tuck, he sailed (rowed mostly) for two weeks. It was

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CL ASS NOTES clearly a transformative experience, just as I remembered it.” Heidi Reichenbach Harring did NOT run into Tuckies on her trip this summer...what, none of the rest of us were atop Mt. Kilimanjaro!? We need some exercise! She says, “Had a great family trip this summer going to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. Vaughn and I climbed it in 1995, but this time we wanted to do it as a family. Weather for the final ascent was brutal and much windier than last time. There will not be a third ascent. That said, riding the Pan-Mass Challenge in the pouring rain and 60 degrees may have been harder. Thank you to all who donated. Otherwise, when not in the office I have been driving all over the Northeast looking at colleges with my eldest. I have been told it all works out in the end....” Plenty of us are “on the move” careerwise too. As of June, Ted Niedermayer has a new job. Ted was appointed EVP and CFO of Fitch Ratings. Fitch is dual-headquartered in New York and London, is a leader in financial information services, and includes the credit rating and analysis groups of Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, Business Monitor International, and Fitch Learning. Ted’s many years of investment banking at Goldman, Lehman, and Salomon will serve him well! Congrats, Ted! And it seems that everyone wants I-bankers/ financiers as CFOs these days! Donald Notman was recently appointed as Thrasos Therapeutics senior vice president and chief financial officer. Thrasos is a private clinicalstage biotherapeutic company that focuses on delivering new solutions to individuals affected by kidney disease. Cool space, Don, congrats! Rick Bertasi has a great new position in London. He “started a new job at Regus as managing director, group network development, running global expansion and rollout programs. Sarah and I will be in London for a while longer, with all the kids now gone and out of the house.” Great news, Rick, and may you guys have time to truly enjoy London! Tom Rich reports that his business continues to grow and change...and he credits Professor Vic McGee for helping! “My marketing strategy and qualitative research consulting practice continues to grow—been doing it 18 years now. In addition to all the traditional focus

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groups and innovation work, I’m increasingly employing new technologies. Technology is rapidly transforming the qualitative research business by allowing us to interact with research participants through online platforms. In particular, mobile devices allow us to do things we never could do the past. I’ve also been increasingly making use of behavioral economics (having been originally introduced to it by none other than Vic McGee); in fact, in October I’ll be speaking at the Qualitative Research Consultants Association annual conference about applying principles of behavioral economics to the conduct and analysis of market research.” Suni Pedersen Harford, in addition to her work at Citi, has been busy “giving back.” She’s been on the forefront of support for veterans (and she’ll forgive me for sharing quite a bit here, given the multiple generations of veterans in my family). Suni is being awarded the Department of the Army Outstanding Civilian Service Award, a very high honor from the DoD to a civilian! She has worked with the White House on their Joining Forces initiative and helped start Citi’s veterans initiative years ago. She was also a founder of Veterans on Wall Street, which is a coalition of Street firms that get together to raise awareness, push for the recruiting and employment of returning veterans, share best practices, drive individual firm efforts, and raise money for veterans charities. An inspiring thing that Suni shared was, “Everyone I meet, regardless of their thoughts on the various wars or the U.S. military, wants to support the veterans. It’s really gratifying to see so many people, at all levels, step up to help.” Suni, wow, congratulations on the recognition for such important work! On the home and family front, Suni says, “Devon is now looking at colleges, and I dream that she’ll end up at Dartmouth so I have an excuse to get to Hanover more often. Thankfully, Jenna and Liam are years away yet, so I’ll have time to recover from the application process.” In other “kid” news, John Sughrue harkens back to Tuck with “It’s back to the future for me. Coaching my son’s Squirt hockey team and enjoying every minute. Drawing on my coaching depth of knowledge developed while coaching the Women’s Tuck team with Peck

and Brown. Needless to say, the kids will need some luck!” Jen Jordan’s kids are coast to coast. Jen and Fred Jordan’s oldest, Jake, graduated from USC in May. He has started work for Charity Brands in LA. Jen says, “He is off the payroll!! Yahoo!!” : ) Their second, Sam, is at Trinity in Hartford and playing baseball. Their third, Ali, is a high school sophomore and “living at home with Mom and the 2 fabulous dogs!!” Speaking of coast to coast, news for me is that I finally decided to return to the East Coast last spring after 13 great years at Intuit. Time to come home to Boston! I’ve been playing and taking care of family...and it has been an awesome moment in time for me. Yet we’ll see how long I last before I fall in love with some operating gig! : ) Hope you all are well. Best, Jill.

’89 Betsy Crill Robertson 6401 82nd Avenue SE Mercer Island, WA 98040 betsyrobertson@hotmail.com

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The kids are back in school, the dog days of summer are behind us (unless you are in Texas where it is still in the 90s in mid-September), and the falling leaves are just around the corner, which can only mean one thing...REUNION weekend is upon us. By the time you all read this, the hearty among us will still be telling tales from our 25th reunion gathering in October— as reunion coordinator, I [Sara Spivey] have enjoyed the email banter of people making their plans and preparing for the pilgrimage and can’t wait to see everybody in a few weeks. My alter ego, Betsy Robertson, will have the honor of writing Reunion summary notes in the next edition of class notes, so for now, I’ll share what little news I did receive—I guess all of you are storing it up for Reunion weekend....

WOW! Danielle Dyer is one of the three 2014-15 Dartmouth Alumni Award recipients! The award will be presented during the Dartmouth Alumni Council’s meeting on October 24 in Hanover. It’s the 60th anniversary of the Dartmouth Alumni Award this year. Congratulations, Danielle! John Xoxacos reported in whilst vacationing in the Greek Isles with his family—sounds heavenly—he says he stays in frequent communication with Gerassimos Vergottis, who is now living and working in Romania. He also caught up recently with Peter ter Kuile, who has left Amsterdam for the warmer environs of Ibiza, Spain. OLÉ! Dave Morse spent 5 days at Tuck in early August attending the Tuck Leadership Experience, along with JC “Carlos” Jove. Dave says that JC is still the very fun “Carlos” that he was at school. Adam Inselbuch spent a few days in Vail, Colorado, but doesn’t remember too much, between altitude sickness, food poisoning, and a mild concussion—he’ll be spending next August in Litchfield, CT, where he’s safer. Lee Caswell has a made a job change and is now the VP of product marketing at SanDisk, which, according to their website, is “driving the future of storage.” I am sure Lee is driving it the right direction! I met up with Brian and Allegra Griffiths in July in Stonington, CT. Brian is now working for Guggenheim Partners in New York. He also has become quite the salty seadog apparently— acquiring an array of seagoing vessels (kayaks, big motor boats, etc.). I guess if you live on Water Street in Stonington, you need water toys. Lastly, our class is well represented on the various Tuck boards that are playing a role in determining Tuck’s future. On the board of overseers are Sue Ellis Allon, Zdenek Bakala, and Dan Revers; on the European Advisory Board are Guillermo Ansaldo and Zdenek; on the Latin American Advisory Board are Patricio Carmody and JC Jove, and Dave Morse is serving on the TAG Executive Committee. Thanks to all of you for your service to Tuck and your dedication to continually making it a better place!

’90 Mark Hosbein 172 Lafayette Avenue Chatham, NJ 07928 markhosbein@aol.com

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25TH REUNION OCTOBER 2-4, 2015

Happy Fall T’90s! I (Mark Rooney) am on solo duty as Mark Hosbein crisscrosses the Italian countryside with his wife, Stephanie. While Hose has been serving up a slice of l’esperienza de questa dolce vita via Facebook posts, I find myself sitting here with not too much to report—just three posts. Should I assume you’re all saving the good stuff up for our big 25th next year? Time flies, and, as a class, we’ve accomplished incredible feats in so many pursuits—both business and otherwise. Look no further than Richard Westerfield. Since graduating from Tuck, he worked his way up the rungs in both banking and orchestral music. For a time, Rick worked by day in JP Morgan’s Sovereign Debt Group and, by night (sometimes very quietly), conducting some of the world’s most prestigious symphonies. One of his high points was filling in for the famed conductor Erich Leinsdorf with the New York Philharmonic. His performance drew accolades from all corners of the music (and banking), worlds and the cat was out of the bag. Today, Rick lives in southern California and devotes his talents entirely to music, serving as artistic director and conductor for the Pacific Bach Project, a baroque orchestra and choir founded by him and his wife, Helen. The orchestra, whose mission is to bring out the best of Johann Sebastian Bach, comprises 44 top musicians from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Washington DC.

Another spousal duo, Virginia Rhoads and husband John McConnell have brought to life their vision of a leadership-development sanctuary called Jempe Center on an island in Puget Sound. I asked Virginia to encapsulate in a few paragraphs what inspired her and John take the leap: “Many of you have noticed my Facebook posts looking a little different over this most recent year—with tales of owl sightings in the back woods, neighbor sheep escaping their pasture and finding their way into our barn, baby chicks—now chickens— laying their first eggs, honeybees working hard, peaches and raspberries and plums and apples and blueberries ripening, and then, in early September, a beautiful horse joining our growing family (and staff). After almost 20 years in the leadership- and life-development field, John and I had some extended moments of clarity and courage and carpe diem while leading a group of executives down in the wilds of Chilean Patagonia. We decided we could no longer wait until ‘maybe some day’ (especially while we still had strong and able bodies!) and took a big leap last December into a stunningly new lifestyle and work style. We bought the so-called ranch, a magical piece of land with house and forest and pasture and barn on south Whidbey Island off the coast of Seattle. We live and work here full-time and are building out the place so as to be able to host equine-facilitated personal development and ‘soul-whispering’ experiences for clients. Mark Rooney suggested I explain a little about what that work is, but I’d rather just share with you all that we have found a way to integrate our love of wildlife, my particular love of horses, the natural rhythms of nature, campfires, an affinity for coaching and cajoling leaders who are up to big things in the world, and being able to share this, personally and professionally, with all for whom this resonates. I recall with such clarity the Outward Bound trip 18 of us did pre-Orientation Week 26 years ago (what?!) and how enlivening that and many other similar adventures have been in my life. This integrates that experience into our daily rhythm. Carpe diem for sure.” Charlie Garland sends his regards and continues to achieve new milestones in his career focused on fostering innovation: “I was recently named a senior fellow with Columbia University Medical Center’s HITLAB (Health Innovation & Technology Laboratory), and will be helping them both develop internal growth strategy as well as deliver innovation

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CL ASS NOTES solutions to their grant sponsors throughout the healthcare ecosystem.” And from Carl Rashad Jaeger: “I am working on getting The Tao of Surfing produced, a film directed by Lou Diamond Phillips based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Michael Allen, and am in the process of writing a film based on John Denver’s music. Leo and I visited the Mediterranean this summer for some much needed rest, food, and wine. Starting in Spain, we visited the coast of Italy, Malta, and Monte Carlo [look for the pic on myTUCK]. My youngest Jayson had his Junior Senior prom this past June and is starting his SENIOR year in high school. Time flies. Hopefully I am not the first grandfather in the class, but my daughter Juliana has a 13-month-old who is too adorable for worlds. I am GP, as I am not really ready for Grandpa, Popops, or Pappy or anything like that.” So that wraps it up for another half year. It also marks the end of my seventh year as official T’90 class notes guy. I’m thinking that it’s time to hand the pen over to a new fresh hand—one that can reach out to classmates from whom we have not heard over the years. If anyone is interested in taking over starting spring ’15, let me know.

’92 Amy Feind Reeves 100 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02116-1569 amyfeind@gmail.com

Hi, everybody; not too much news this time, but it is of high quality. The coolest news is that Greg Thompson won an Emmy as executive producer of Bob’s Burgers. Check it out if you have not already; it’s very funny.

“I changed firms back in February, joining the Midtown Consulting Group as a principal. I’ve been working on a project for Bank of America in New York, where I got the chance to catch up with Alastair Borthwick T’93. In May, my band, The Fiascos, finished 2nd in the Technology Association of Georgia’s Battle of the Bands (see attached photo; I’m 2nd from the left). Since the band that won used to open for Dave Matthews, I like to think we won the amateur category!

Also: Courtney (Simpson) Jane and James Taylor’s son, Jamie, will be a starting player for Harvard football this fall. Should be a fun excuse to see a game for us Boston ’92s. Andrea Berti wrote to let us know of a reunion he had with Gulce Cini in Istanbul in August. “Here is your decoder to the photo: Yusuf (Gulce’s husband); Omer and Yasemin (Gulce’s kids, 8 and 11); Gulce; myself; my wife, Cristina; and my daughter, Laura (22).”

Wishing you all the best. —Mark Rooney

Scott Russell (second from left) and his prize-winning band, The Fiascos

“My girls continue to do well. Caitlin’s slowly building her nutritional consulting business so she can continue to spend the majority of her time being a mommy. Eva turned 9 this summer and started the 4th grade in August, while Julia turned 6 and started the 1st grade.”

’91 Suzanne Shaw 940 E. Portland St. Springfield, MO 65807 msuzanne_bethesda@yahoo.com

Andrea Berti and Gulce Cini got their families together in Istanbul in August.

Mary-Ann Somers 1092 McLynn Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 somersma@yahoo.com

[Editor’s note: Note Suzanne’s new address!]

Alan Jones and family in Guatemala Brian Skiba recently moved down to Austin, Texas, in June from the Bay Area. His company was bought by a Swedish firm and has U.S. headquarters in Austin. He says he is getting used to the Texas heat, which has got to make his frequent Tough Mudders all the more difficult. I was really happy to have an update from Scott Russell, who sent the following:

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From the always interesting Alan Jones, who has recently started a very worthwhile website: “Alan, Pam, and Andrus Jones visited Guatemala to pick up our son, Adam, after he spent two years there. Richard was missing, as he is headed to Italy for two years—rough

duty! Our visit to Guatemala cemented the motivation for what may be a major purpose in the second half of my life. We now personally know a lot of people who live on $1 per day. Although they are happy, we want to motivate and facilitate Americans and others living in the wealthiest nations in the history of the world to sacrifice a little to double the standard of living of someone else. SaveADollarADay. org is our first experiment to see if we can make a difference in the lives of the poor and also in the lives of those who donate. In one photo, we are in a one-roomed house that sleeps nine. In the other photo, the matriarch next to Pam asked my wife to choose one of the girls to take home with us to give her the opportunities she cannot provide. Interestingly, the matriarch and Pam are seven days apart in age. We could not experience this without being changed.” I saw via Facebook that Christoph Braun was in Hanover this past summer and I asked him for an update: “This August, we travelled through New England to drop off our elder son, Max (15), for his sophomore year as an exchange student at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH. We also passed by Dartmouth on our way there and spend some days in a beautiful summer house at Eastman Lake. Before, we had rented a serious 31 ft. RV and traveled along the coast up to Acadia National Park in Maine. Truly a very special and intense family experience! Now we are back to Munich and still coping with the adjustment to being a single-child family with Lily (12), who is still undecided if the new setup is a net benefit or not for her. We’ll be back for parents weekend in October and are really looking forward to being back so soon. During our trip, we briefly met with Bob and Christina Mann and their lovely kids in Cambridge. And now will you please excuse me; I have to get ready for the big event, which is upon us as every year: Oktoberfest—with lederhosen and all. Prost!”

“The whole experience was surreal—the security, the sightings of business and government leaders, and a few celebrities. The best part was the women’s leadership dinner, led by Sheryl Sandberg. There were about 100 women from all over the world, all inspiring in their own way but probably none more than the young Syrian woman I met who is risking her life every day to ensure NGOs get the information and access they need. Couldn’t believe I was in the same room with these people.” From the “Stuff I Know” category: I had the great pleasure this summer of hosting Robin Frank and her two hilarious boys on a trip to Boston. Robin is very much still Robin, juggling her professional life as a digital media coach with being a (great) Mom and finding time to do super-cool stuff, like regularly attend Burning Man. As she says, “This year was my 14th Burning Man! It’s where I go to feel creative and inspired by art and music and sunrises....” While on the East Coast, she also visited Eliza Royal T’91 at the Cape and Bill and Kathy Reiland at their new home on Nantucket. Robin is kicking off a new business this fall: Reboot Camp: The Fastest Way for Moms to Re-enter the Workforce (http://www. gorebootcamp.com/). Mark Ranalli is starting a new career at Tufts University, where he was recently appointed

Robin Frank and Kathy Reiland on Nantucket this past summer

executive director and associate dean, Tufts Gordon Institute. While cool, I am personally more interested in the company he recently funded that has predictive information about parking availability in Boston (as well as other cities). Paul and Kelly Driscoll now have two kids in Boston—their son Joe at MIT (born our second year in Hanover) and daughter Riley at BU. Steve Ott’s family is going to be moving to New Jersey, where Steve has already started a new role. If you want to visit them in beautiful Saratoga Springs, do it quickly! As seen on Facebook: Joe and Kelly DePaulo’s son is starting his second year at their alma

Similarly, saw that Anne Seibold Drapeau attended the Davos World Economic Forum in January and strong-armed her into sharing some of the experience. She went to facilitate a conversation with global leaders about trust in business:

Robin Frank’s art car at Burning Man

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CL ASS NOTES mater, Georgetown University, and Mike McGinn and Deborah Scott’s oldest just started at Gonzaga University. Jim and Diane Rideout’s oldest, Hunter, is starting this fall at Carnegie Mellon. My JobCoachAmy practice is slowly growing from hobby to small business. I recently became the New Grad Expert on www. job-hunt.org and am really enjoying it.

Mike adds, “...at the soccer tournament, Ray’s kids kicked butt.” They all enjoyed a great evening filled with lots of food, drinks, and catching up with old friends. Mike agrees: “Fun was had by all, including several riveting games of Pictionary at the end of the evening (the adults won). Guess which kids are mine in the attached picture.... As you can also tell from Ray’s ruddy complexion, he had a glass (or two) of wine! The attached picture shows our collective 9 children (Sammy’s 3 boys, Mike’s son and daughter, and Ray’s gang of 4).”

’93 Cathy Dishner 42 Shore Road Old Greenwich, CT 06870 cathy@dishners.com

Nancy Goodman Koefoed 9254 Points Drive NE Yarrow Point, WA 98004 ngkoefoed@msn.com

Jeff Macher 4725 Cumberland Avenue Chevy Chase, MD 20815 jtm4@georgetown.edu

We opened this edition of the notes with a simple question: What was the highlight of your summer? In sum, we spent the summer meeting up, teeing off, starting up, partying on, and breaking down. Cameron Clough went “back to the future.” He explains: “I played volumes of golf that I had not experienced since the lazy days of our time at Tuck—35 rounds over the past 10 weeks and counting. Just like the good old days. The highlight was a trip to Scotland for eight rounds in four days, including two on one of the world’s most delightful courses, the Old Course at St. Andrews.” Mike Carusi and Ray Oen both wrote in with highlights from their reunion. Ray reports, “My family was in the Bay Area for a soccer tournament our boys were playing in and, fortunately, Mike and Sammy’s families were both in town that weekend, so we were able to get together at the Ohs’ home in Palo Alto.

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Carusi/Oen/Ohs family get-together in Palo Alto

As you may recall from previous issues of Tuck Today, Mike Carusi has been busy taking on the role of “professor” in the Tuck classroom. He and Mike McIvor are a Dream Team. Carusi explains: “The whole Tuck thing has been fun. McIvor has been the banker on a couple of my deals (including a big one), so we get to work together on and off. Teaching together was an extension of that.” Apparently, the two of them have come to love “cold calling” because, as Carusi points out, “Who knew it could be so much fun to watch the future business leaders of tomorrow squirm?!” Jeff Macher knows a thing or two about this, as he continues his illustrious career as a professor at Georgetown’s business school. Both Mikes don’t dare compare themselves to Professor Macher. In fact, McIvor joked that “we will not get the same reviews of our physical attributes as Macher does from his students!” Hmmmm.

The Tuck Dream Team: Mike McIvor and Mike Carusi

Kathryn Baker has been busy over the summer. She writes, “In addition to my day job in private equity, I’ve been involved recently as executive chairman in a Norwegian startup called Kuddle. Kuddle is a family-friendly picture-sharing app that aims to introduce children to the world of social media in an educational, entertaining way without compromising their safety. We are off to a great start, with kids and adults all over the world signing up. It’s available in three languages now, and we’ll be introducing ten new languages over the next few weeks. Classmates can check it out on www.kuddle.com and, of course, download the app and add me as their first friend!” Steve Delaney and Ingrid Geis were intrepid explorers this summer, taking a trip to Iceland with their boys in August (see photo from an ice cave that is part of the Vatnajökull ice cap). They shared, “We had a fabulous week hiking several of the national parks, both on and off ice, and soaking in hot springs. We saw icebergs floating out to sea, puffins flying over a black sand beach, and savored bread baked with geothermal steam. Ryan (16) and Conor (18) enjoyed exploring the bright lights of Reykjavik on their own. As for Tuck encounters, we met up with Dan and Clive Jacques at a Lyle Lovett concert toward the end of the summer. It was a perfect summer evening of great music and great company. All of the Jacques clan are doing well.”

Steve Delaney, Ingrid Geis, and their sons Ryan and Conor in Iceland

For those of us who married the year after graduation, we all marked a big milestone this summer. Alastair Borthwick comments, “Over the summer, Jeanine and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. That was also my summer highlight.” I can say the same. This summer, we celebrated many family milestones: Jackie turned 16, Jeff and I were

married 20 years, my parents were married 50 years, and Katie turned 18! We Dishners had several Tuckie sightings while we were stateside over the summer. While strolling around town in Old Greenwich, I heard my name called out as I waited at the stoplight crossing. There was Ward Davis, with his signature wide grin, in town to look at real estate! With any luck, we will be neighbors next summer. Then there was the morning I was making coffee in my kitchen when I heard a rap on the window. Looking out, I came face to face with Jeff DiModica, who had “ridden” his electric bike over. Yes, that’s right, an electric bike! Just to be clear, I think we live less than one mile apart! I had multiple visits with the Macher clan, but I most enjoyed borrowing their son, Ben, and bringing him along with my daughter, Katie, on a college tour. I loved watching our two oldest kids be at once serious and silly during this milestone in their lives.

you can rest assured that your words won’t end up in my next column. (Maybe the one after that. Kidding!) On to the good stuff, now with 33% more fabrication. First some quick hits: • Anju popped back to the homeland from new base in Japan and—according to one social scenester—threw a big “ta-da bash” at her house, where she hobnobbed with Altaf and Winnie. • The Wolff and Borthwick kids got together for an August beach barbecue in Nantucket. (Not sure where the parents were.)

Speaking of being both serious and silly, just remember that growing old has nothing to do with growing up! —Cathy Dishner

’94 David Link 720 39th Street Boulder, CO 80303 davidjklink@hotmail.com

Toph Whitmore 4577 Raeburn Street North Vancouver, BC V7G 1K3 Canada toph@whitmorefamily.org

Welcome to the T’94 class notes. I [Toph Whitmore] write this a mere two weeks before Reunion weekend, so when you’re reading this, you’ll have already heard most of it direct from the source(s). So to avoid staleness, and as a favor to you, my loyal readers, I promise that the priceless news nuggets below are considerably more made up than usual. (Ever play Three Truths and a Lie? I don’t always bother with the truthy bits.) And at Reunion,

Altaf shows Anju and Winnie how to take a selfie

Next time you see John Dex, ask: “Who won the Super Bowl last year? [Pause for reply.] Haha! That’s great. No, really.” The class of 1994’s remaining Washingtonian writes in: “Winding up the summer and the Dex family is happily cruising along.” (Not that kind of “cruising,” Peter.) Dex continues, “My startup launched our first mobile app Group GPS, ‘the location-sharing app for group activities.’” I am always happy to promote classmates’ endeavors, and Dex’s company’s novel mobile app enables others—say, immediate friends, or perhaps an extended circle of not-at-all-totalitarian overlords—to know exactly where you are at all times. You know, for “group activities.” (Fine print: “May include monitoring, eavesdropping, and occasional reeducation.”) Sounds awesome! Can I get it in Canada? “Yes, you can!” says Dex, anticipating my creampuff interview question from the dry creek bed that is my stream of consciousness. “We are worldwide in English and Japanese through the App Store, [with] Android on the way!” (Not available in North Korea. As far as you will ever know.) In all sincerity, go to the App Store and buy it now. John needs the cash flow and I gotta hit quota.

“It was a great Tuck summer for me!” emails Lisa Lemire. Over the course of the warmer months, Kous connected with Bob and Marianne and family for biking in Manhattan (“Seven drops and only three lost packages!” did not say the novice bike mule), then met up with Annie for canoeing (not sure where— possibly the Nile), and also reunited with Laureen for a “fun weekend” at Ms. LeptinskyCosta’s Rhode Island retreat: “We brought all our old photos, yearbooks, and picture directories from our Tuck days and had a great time remembering everyone,” reports Lisa. So when you’re at Reunion and forget the name of the dude who resembles the Trivago guy, make eye contact with Kous and scratch your nose demonstrably. (“Oh, that’s Toph. Perhaps he forgot his belt.”) Speaking of Rhode Island (first time those words may have ever been written), Marianne provides an update from the Jacobson clan (or “BoMaZaMi” in Zamboni Shorthand™): The Kemper, Kennish, and Jacobson families (“KKJ”) got together in America’s tiniest state for a weekend at the Kemper/Kennish summer compound. (Next-door neighbor? Taylor Swift. They were so noisy there’ll be an angry song about them on her next album.) Bill couldn’t make it—according to Marianne, excuse was “something about brushing his polo ponies.” The “two perfect days in Weekapaug, RI, included surfing, eating, laughing, playing cards, ladies lounging by the pool, boogie boarding, and eating ice cream,” highlighted by a big oyster dinner. (The oysters were normal size, the dinner party was big.) “Kids and adults all picked up right where we left off two years ago,” says Marianne. “It is wonderful to have special ‘old’ family friends.”

Play “Spot the Jacobson!”(Give up? L to R, that’s Julia Kennish, Max Kemper, Miranda Jacobson, Zoe Kemper, Zac Jacobson, and Trevor Kennish.)

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CL ASS NOTES Which Gannon would you trust with a nuclear reactor? (Okay, after Mary?) John emails from America’s heartland that he and the missus are now “officially empty nesters.” Two of the three Gannonites are matriculating at Johnny’s alma mater: Lela’s a freshman and Nick’s a senior at Dartmouth [Mary’s alma mater]. And Annapolis grad Jack (yes, little “Harvard-Sucks” Jack) is—as of writing—awaiting posting to run a reactor on a nuclear submarine. (Former nuke submariner Bill “Double-0-Fabulous” Townsend offers this advice: “Don’t hit the big red button by accident. Lots of paperwork.”) “Hayley and I are enjoying life as empty nesters,” writes John Barrett, who suffers a similar malady to Gannon. The Barrett kids attend schools you think are going to be “Tuck” when you start reading them but then turn out to be different: “Rose graduated from Tufts this year and is doing a teaching fellowship [and] young John is a sophomore at Tulane studying engineering.” John is still headhunting (let’s hope he finds one soon) and wife Hayley is “reinventing herself as a writer of children’s picture books and middle-grade novels.” After twenty years, Spanky is done “working for the man.” Yep, that’s right. Mr. Goering has chucked corporate life and now lives the glamorous hermit lifestyle with his wife and twin 10-year-old daughters in a small cave, halfway up a cliff face on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “The girls love foraging,” writes Mike, maybe. “And I’ve become quite adept at berry picking, scratching images of bison into the rock wall, and barbecuing pigeons.” In real real news, Spanky and family are “thriving,” and he has reevaluated what he wants to do “on the back nine of life.” (Try not to think of that uplifting metaphor the next time you tee off at 18. Next hole? Yeah. Death.) Mike is now “actively driving a startup” called Buttonwood Group Advisors. (Yes, Krotz, it starts with “Butt.” Stop giggling.) Ladies and gentlemen, the unexpurgated Mr. Gregoire Bordier: “A summer holiday in a camping car has shown the whole family the beautiful landscapes of Canada. We stayed in Quebec so we could both enjoy the French culture and the slight influence of the nearby U.S. We loved the lobsters, the pancakes, the canoes, and the bear-seeing thing.” You’re welcome.

Katsu Shimizu and Jesús Marcos both sent updates. (Well, Chantal did the email-sending thing, since Jesús was off doing the Ironmancompeting thing.) On an upcoming business trip, the Tokyoite who used to live in San Antonio will visit Madrid to meet up with the Spaniard who went to college in Dallas to reminisce about their time in New Hampshire. Chantal writes that si, Jesús really does do those monster tris every once in a while. Jesús “is now CFO with a Spanish company [Gestamp] in the industrial and renewables sector.” Hijos Ignacio and Koke are 24 and 20— Ignacio works for Ernst & Young in Spain and Koke is entering his third year of university. The Marcoses connect frequently with Diego and the Martinez familia. And the occasional visiting Japanese dignitary.

La Familia Marcos practice bungee-jump poses during a recent trip to Canada

Speaking of triathlons (those are words I’ve actually heard before): “Participating in first triathlon in September as part of ‘be-a-goodspouse-be-my-training-partner summer,’” writes Tara Oliver. Two weeks later, her husband—unsolicited—thoughtfully sent me a screenshot of his results. (Hey…thanks.) Mr. Hargraves’ ranking improved when several competitors ahead of him aged into an older bracket during the race. In the summer, Mrs. O says she bumped into Jeff Schlachtenhaufen in Needham, Massachusetts, “where neither of us live.” And she and family hosted a “Reunion warm-up” summer cookout with Pete Bishop, Steve Kemper, Kirk Jackisch, and Chris Heckscher stopping by for burgers, beers, and uncomfortably desperate pleadings for TAG donations. Michael Sasina emails to pitch practicing capitalist Andy Palmer: “Other companies

clean your pool only once a week. We clean your pool when it needs it. Seriously, talk about massive potential for growth.” He’s referring, of course, to Custom Pool Care, a service company he started with daughter Amanda. According to Mike, the business offers tremendous “franchising potential.” (TV jingle: “Call Custom Pool Care. That’s our name. That name again is Custom Pool Care.”) Back in the home office, Dianna telecommutes for Strategy& (nickname = “The Firm Formerly Known as Booz Allen”) while Mike continues rehearsing for retirement. (His “back nine of life” includes driving a minivan, chopping wood, and fishing dead mice out of pool filters.) The Mandel family has returned from its three-year expedition in the—for now—United Kingdom. “We miss the great food, weather, and efficiency in Britain, is something I would not say,” does say Mark, kindly making my job easier. Back here in the States, the Mandel boys are in 10th, 8th, and 6th grades and are re-acclimating to “the routine of suburbia.” Their parents? Not so much. “We [really] miss the excitement of city living, the diversity of London, our good friends overseas, and the travel—our 11-year old visited 25 countries and is eager to continue collecting stamps in his passport.” Mark’s still (still!) with Wellington, where he canoodles with Drew Shilling, Kevin Married-Second Barry, Steve Gorman, and Jenn “Don’t-Call-Me-Rudy-I-Didn’t-Even-LikeThat-Movie-Anyway” Sneath. Mark points out that with the exception of SteveG, none of them have had to update a résumé since Tuck. He also made reference to a meeting in which Drew Shilling made reverential reference to the Herfindahl index. No joke here, it’s just fun to say “Herfindahl.” “I saw Tim Geithner,” brags Doug Whitman, who writes from Nashville to describe a New York City restaurant run-in with the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury who—rather famously—couldn’t figure out TurboTax and always sent markets into a tailspin when he spoke. Doug was responding to my inquiry about classmate “brushes with greatness.” In addition to Tim G., Mr. Whitman also saw Charles Pepin on a recent trip to Baltimore. (“I’ll let you decide which is ‘greatness,’” says Doug.) He and family are comfortably settled on Ol’ Rocky Top. Doug describes his

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daughter’s recent group project work for her high school history class. He waxed nostalgic to her about the romantic ideals of team collaboration that he learned in B-school, only to discover that her group contained one Whitman and many Vals. The more things change, the more they stay the same. At Reunion, after you troll John Dex about the Seahawks, ask Eduardo to tell you about the current Argentine political regime (or for that matter, his home nation’s decades-long economic malaise). Then sit back, buckle up, and hang on. “Argentina [is] a mess as usual,” reports the inflation-weary Señor Dutrey. “I am counting days, minutes, and seconds for this government to go. Quite an exhausting task.” (Secty. note: Rant abridged for brevity.) Down on the globe underside, the Dutreys are making the most of the end of their winter and “enjoying the last days on the slopes.” Every once in a while they connect with Mariano, who lives in Buenos Aires and works for LAN Airlines, an employment arrangement that Eduardo somewhat enviously observes includes free travel for all Ansaldos. Eduardo also met up with Moray Vincent on an August business trip to Sydney and comments that “after twenty years we were able to recognize each other.” “Looking forward to catching up with the gang in Hanover,” writes Bill Townsend from his secret lair in Western Australia. To get to and from reunion, he and Belinda will in fact circumnavigate the globe, traveling from Perth to Brisbane to Hong Kong to New York to Hanover to Boston to Singapore to Dubai to Singapore to Perth. (At Microsoft, we called that itinerary the “single Amelia.”) Not sure if those last four connections are the most direct return to Oz, but when you’re redeeming air miles, you get what you get. Bill’s just back from a “junket” to Norway, where he was part of the “official Australian Delegation to the Offshore Northern Seas conference.” (Fake accent the whole trip.) In Norway, Bill ate whale for the first—and probably last—time: “I don’t generally favor eating whales, and quite frankly, they don’t taste that good. And not politically correct, either!” (Bill, you work in the extraction industry. I’m not sure you get to be conflicted about anything.) On the home front, “kids are doing well—Sophia is six and in first grade, and young Benjamin just turned two.”

That’s it from the B.C. Lower Mainland. I’m looking forward to Reunion, and I apologize in advance to anyone I offend during one of my drunken stupors. I’d love to write more, but this is Canada. I gotta go do the bear-seeing thing.

’95 Kristin Sanborn 9 Rowan Road Summit, NJ 07901 ksanborn27@gmail.com

Rick Smith 21729 N. 37th Street Phoenix, AZ 85050 rasmith@resource.com

20TH REUNION OCTOBER 2-4, 2015

Taco-Eating Challenge for its highly acclaimed “30 for 30” docu-series. Rick: Oh my God, that would be awesome! A taco-by-taco breakdown of the competition’s two final teams, Mike Pelzar/Mary McDermott [Tritley] vs. Tariq Khan/Rebecca Adams [Renner], as they closed in on a tie for the ages! • “As I took my third bite into my 18th taco, I knew something had to give. And that something was the lower portion of my colon.” • “I wasn’t going to lose, even if it meant death. Which was possible both from the volume of tacos plus the massive consumption of the questionable ingredients of a Del Taco taco.” • “At one point, I was sweating like crazy until I realized it wasn’t sweat: my body was excreting grease.” • “I often ask myself if it was worth it. But when I tell my kids stories from the competition, they get to see their parent in a new way: as a champion.” And on that note, let’s get to you!

When we get a first submission from someone— it has been 19 years—we have to lead with it! Kristin Sanborn: Let’s start off with some big, “This is my first time to submit to Tuck Today,” big news in the equity markets. wrote Nori Kakita. “I hadn’t done this before, Rick Smith: Mmmmm... sounds gripping just because I didn’t have any relevant topics, already. but I do now: I visited Tuck in last August Kristin: Our beloved Del Taco is considering a for the first time since we graduated. I had a sale that could fetch north of $500 million! chance to travel with my first daughter (among Rick: I’m sure a big part of the plan to justify three daughters), Shiori, and I decided to bring that valuation is to bring back the Coed Tacoher to the place where she was born in 1994. Eating Challenge. It’s a PR masterpiece, plus That’s all, but I have to say I had a wonderful it sells quite a few tacos too. That’s got to be worth at least half of the $500 million valuation. time there and Bill, of Admissions, was kind enough to show us around newly added Kristin: As a former participant in that fine facilities in Tuck.” event, I put it on par with other widely watched competitions, such as the Super Bowl, World Cup, and Olympics. Rick: I’d actually say it’s more exciting than those second-rate competitions. You don’t see a lot of vomiting from competitors at the Super Bowl, but I clearly remember Eric Tetrault stumbling around the parking lot in a taco-induced haze ready to spew at any second. Now that’s gripping viewing! Given today’s technology, Eric could’ve been wearing a GoPro “spew cam” camera. How awesome would that be?!?! Nori Kakita with daughter Shiori Kristin: ESPN should do an episode on the

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CL ASS NOTES In national news, in case you missed it, a story about James Beach went viral (“Knee Defender Passenger Speaks: I’m Pretty Ashamed and Embarrassed”). To summarize: (1) Beach was en route to Colorado from Russia. (2) Beach is 6’1” tall. (3) Beach needed to work on his laptop. (4) Beach put a gadget called a Knee Defender on the seat in front of him, which prevents the passenger from leaning their seat back. (5) The person in front of him complained to the flight attendant that their seat was broken. (6) Beach fessed up about the Knee Defender, which he then removed. (7) As he was removing it, the person jacked their seat back, throwing Beach’s laptop onto him. (8) An argument ensued, resulting in the person throwing a soda at Beach, and (9) the flight was diverted to Chicago and both passengers were kicked off the plane, causing James to fly home on Spirit (which, as he said, does not feature seats that recline). Discuss. Kristin: James, you are my 6'5" tall husband’s hero! Rick: I guess I don’t see what his beef was. Kristin: That’s because you have the legs of Yoda. Rick: Mean, you are. In a Yahoo survey, despite the passenger certainly having the right to recline their seat, almost half of the respondents supported Beach, mostly blaming airlines for not providing enough room for seats to recline. This controversy and the debate surrounding it caused the story to get picked up by many outlets, including the Today show (which interviewed James about the story).

Kristin: The funny thing about this whole story is that at Tuck, he would have been voted Least Likely to Cause Airplane Diversion Post a Leg Room Argument. Do we think personal contact with Putin is making him more aggressive? Is this James Beach’s Ukraine? Rick: I think James should jump on his newfound fame. He’s the William Hung of our era. I’m already penning his autobiography, The James Beach Story: Standing Up While Sitting Down. Kristin: My God, it’s amazing to me you’ve found your way to the reunions. Rick: Well that requires lots of planning. And the kindness of strangers. Kristin: Yeah, well don’t expect any kindness from James if you recline in his vicinity. Rick: Noted. My soda is holstered. On a more calm note, “I am leading a yoga and meditation journey to India and Nepal in March 2015,” wrote Mary Flounders Green. “It is my 7th trip to India, but first time going as a teacher instead of a student, and my first time bringing my husband. I’ll also be bringing my gong. Check it out at http://www.insighttravels. com/kundalini-yoga-retreat-india-nepal-2015/. In terms of being the most stable Tuck ’95, I am still on my second job since Tuck, having been a client portfolio manager at GE Asset Management for almost 10 years.” “After a few hiccups along the way,” wrote Paul Duske, “I’m still hoping to retire next year. Maybe I’ll do a little gardening and golfing.” Rick: Maybe we can use a little help around the Tuck Today T’95 column office? We can always use someone to do some filing. And it’s probably a good thing to keep a Doosk off of the streets. Kristin: Especially the streets in Hanover.... I think there still may be a warrant out for his arrest. We heard from Vince King! “Hah! I recently celebrated my 7-year anniversary of working for Cars.com in Santa Monica, so I guess you could say that’s a huge milestone (remember? I think I held the record for changing jobs the most post-Tuck—10 jobs in 12 years—pretty much par for the course in the heady days of the Internet bubble).” Rick: I bet he stuck around there just to prove a point with us.

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Kristin: Ummm...right.... I’m sure that was his motivation for keeping a good, stable job. John Ohman asked, “Why don’t any Tuckies visit Minnesota?” Responses in no particular order: It’s cold, Prince is weird, the Minnesota Timberwolves are terrible and just lost their only good player, it’s expensive to fly there, that funny accent, and you stick out if you have dark hair and/or a slight tan (both of which each of us has). Point proven? “Was invited to a conference,” said Don LeBlanc, “and ran into Roger Lynch. There’s no greater validation of professional success than being invited to the same conference as Roger! I finally feel like I’ve made it!” “Please don’t put my update near the Pooping/ Puking section,” wrote in Lindsey Forsythe. Rick: Do we have a Pooping/Puking section? Kristin: Not a formal one, per se, but we did start off talking about a spew-cam. Rick: Fair enough. I think this section is a good one for Lindsey. No pooping or puking mentioned within several paragraphs. Lindsey is still with McKinsey after 15 years but has relocated to the Tampa/St. Pete area, taking on a global role with plenty of international travel. “Personally, I’ve retired from playing soccer and have taken up running, given that Florida is nice and flat. I’m running a marathon in a few months.” “Life in my 50s has now become very routine,” said Greg Maxwell. “Spring: get the boat ready. Summer: cruise the Chesapeake. Fall: Navy football games. Winter: push TAG. On that note, thanks to the 124 donors who got us to the 70% participation rate! As a class we raised $145K last year. The T’94s had an 87% participation rate and raised $222K, so we collectively have to step up!” “After 19 years in biotech working for large companies, I’m leaving Biogen to find a great startup to join,” wrote Sam Truex. “For a while, I was crisscrossing Cambridge on the startup hunt, but now I’m down to more of a hobble. While skiing in Chile with the husband, I tried to relive my youth by doing 360s off of jumps. I said to a guy, ‘I haven’t done this since I was a teenager because I was always afraid of getting

Rick: That’s not a knife! Kristin: Really? Did you have to quote Crocodile Dundee? Rick: Dundee is Australia’s finest ambassador, next to our own Paul Duske, of course. Want to take a swig of my Foster’s?

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Ned and Tess Hill in China

Unilever. Inaki Aguirre is the CFO of Volotea. And Wilbur Swan is now the vice president of enterprise metadata services at Thompson Reuters.

Tena Melfi with family finishing the Sprint triathlon

hurt,’ and then I tore my ACL and meniscus on what I imagine will be the last 360 I’ll ever do. Surgery is in a few weeks!” Per Peter Stevens, “I am still alive and can confirm the same for Jack Sins, Mike Pelzar, Peter Lawler, Wilbur Swan, Jim Catudal, Glenn Harper, and both Klaus and Pam Jensen.” Needless to say, we were glad to hear that. Tena Melfi let us know “In January, Deb Kemper graciously hosted a Tuck gathering while I was visiting Boston. It was awesome to catch up with so many Tuckies. None of us has aged one single bit, and Steve Kemper made the best pancakes I’ve ever had. So the highlight of my year has been catching up with Tuckies and eating pancakes.” Ned Hill’s family continued their globetrotting. “Wife Tessa and daughter Lia went to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then took the Trans-Siberian Railway to Siberia and the Trans-Mongolian Railway to Mongolia, and then I met them in China. Meanwhile, my other two kids spent time volunteering in Peru.” And perusing our good friend LinkedIn.... Maurice Russel is now the director of operations at Metalfrio Solutions in Brazil. Rob Masinter is the COO of Main Street Power. Joseph Villa is an entrepreneur in residence at

Kristin: What does that mean? Rick: I was just combing through the metadata to try to figure that out. I think it means he can pull up a list of your cell phone calls. Kristin: Oh my. He’ll see a lot of calls to QVC! Rick: The Bea Arthur collection? Kristin: Heck, yeah! She’s one classy dame with some style! Love me a multicolored floral muumuu! Continuing on. Charles Merritt is now managing director of Fahrenheit Advisors. Rick: I’m more of a Celsius guy myself. Kristin: I figured. Rick: What’s that supposed to mean? Kristin: Nothing. I just figured. Rod Coelho is now the chief people officer at AbilTo. Per the press release, “I’m looking forward to bringing my skills and experience to AbilTo and working closely with people on all levels of the organization.” Rick: I just hope he’s not bringing his Speedo to all levels of the organization. Kristin: I just hope he’s not bringing his Road Rally diaper to all levels of the organization. Rod, we advise you to bring clothes to all levels of the organization. And don’t try to pull that, “I’m Brazilian...we don’t believe in clothes” thing.... Andy Sheehan is in Australia with Experian. Rick: Oy! I hope he’s having big mob, ripper of a time! Kristin: You Googled Australian phrases, didn’t you. Rick: London to a brick, I did! Kristin: Stop it. Please.

Meg Devine Aronsohn is now a managing director with Mitra Capital. Rick: So she’s now working for or with Mitra Morgan? Kristin: Ummm...maybe? Not sure. Rick: Either way, it seems a bit stalker-ish. Kristin: Potentially. If she takes on a simultaneous gig with JP Morgan, I’d start locking some doors in the Morgan household. And wait a second...didn’t you name your daughter Morgan? Rick: Yeah, I did. And I can confirm without a doubt that was definitely stalker-ish. Hi, Mitra! I miss you! Maybe I’ll come to Boston one of these days! Barry Hume is co-founder and president of Package Concierge, an idea that’s so obviously awesome that when we saw it, we said, “That’s obviously awesome.” Barry, if you need some VC funding, Tuck Today T’95 LLC has our checkbooks open. Which would mean Kristin has her checkbook open. Because Rick has spent his fortune on Funyuns simply because he likes the name. Rick: It’s like fun and onions combined! They’re the original Brangelina! And what’s up with your authors? Kristin: Still no paychecks from my startup. I am beginning to get seriously P.O.’d. I’ve been reading some articles about how women are discriminated against when it comes to raising capital from VCs and I’m pretty sure I have a lawsuit. If I only knew who to sue.... Seriously, my oldest is in boarding school in California and so I work on a lot of excuses about how homesick she is and how I need to be a supportive parent and go and visit. So far, so good. My husband has not caught on. Although the change of address forms for our bank statements might get his neurons firing. Rick here. After yet another crappy Ohio winter, the wife and I decided to raise our three young kids someplace warm and ended up back

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CL ASS NOTES in my homeland of Phoenix. I’m the CFO of EXOS (formerly Athletes’ Performance), which owns physical-training facilities in sunny states and trains professional athletes, elite military, etc., plus runs corporate gyms and develops gym-related technologies. Which means I have to majorly step up my own fitness game because the current Smitty is oozing his way up and down the stairwells here, usually stopping to take a breather every 6 to 7 steps, causing people to pass him and glare incredulously. Heck, I got tired out typing this column. We will talk to you again in six more months. By then Kristin will have filed her lawsuit and started surfing lessons, and Rick will have reduced his oozing by 20%.

’96 Ewa Borowska 627 Pine Street Boulder, CO 80302 ewa.borowska@comcast.net

Trent Meyerhoefer 22226 Douglas Road Shaker Heights, OH 44122-2039 trentmmeyerhoefer@eaton.com

’97 Helen Kurtz 2423 West 22nd Street Minneapolis, MN 55405 helen.kurtz@genmills.com

Judd Liebman Dreilindenstrasse 21 6006 Luzern Switzerland judd.liebman@gmail.com

A small but mighty news turnout this month. The ongoing theme of our class could be captured as procreation, promotion, productivity, and purpose. It may not be the next 4Ps, but I for one am proud to be part of this great group of friends. On the procreation front, Jim Reinhart shares the news that “Jackie gave birth to our second son, James Thomas Reinhart on July 18th, 2014. He’s named after two Tuck grads—me of course and his Uncle Tom (T’82). Jack is very happy to be a big brother and is treating James so well, at least for now. Once Jack realizes James is not a toy, but competition, his attitude may change!”

spending tons of time on her photography and has several pictures selected for exhibition, including a couple at a gallery in Vermont. Katherine’s great love is dancing—obviously gets her creative genes from Sharon. Jeffrey is still playing hockey. As well as his normal travel team, he has started playing for his high school. Outside of the normal family stuff, I recently switched jobs and am now at Vivint Solar. It is a rapidly growing residential solar company. It’s not something I would have expected doing, but the business has a fascinating business model and the opportunity to jump to a small, rapidly growing company was just too intriguing to pass up. If anyone is passing through Salt Lake and has a bit of time, Sharon and I would love to catch up!” Jack Herrick brought the pack back together when he visited New York in April. Ron Dostal, Remie Christ, Mark Elliot, Greg Foster, Amy Houston, Heather and Keith Espinosa, Eddy and Jen (Geissel) Zervigon, Graham Ackerman, and Stu Murray reunited for a rollicking dinner.

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Gone fishing. See you in the next issue.

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Jack and new baby James Reinhart greet the world

Rob Kain is on to both purpose and promotion. He wrote that “everyone here is doing well—just getting older. Sharon has been

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As for your fair secretaries, all is well. I (Helen) have moved to running our Yoplait business— an incredible role on a brand and category that I love. I’ve had the pleasure of getting up to Tuck a few times lately. Great to see Yancey Spruill, Dave Craver, Amy Houston, and Karl Spielmann on the Tuck MBA Advisory Board and always a treat to connect with Erin (Cochrane) Tunnicliffe, who makes Tuck hum and keeps the T’97 representation strong. We are wishing you all the best and please keep us in the loop on all your news—big and small!

’98 Doug Haar 7 Village Circle Westfield, NJ 07090-3626 doug.haar@gmail.com

Steve Meade 281 Summer Street Somerville, MA 02144 srmeade@yahoo.com

Vince Trantolo 14 East 17th Street #7 New York, NY 10003 vince_trantolo@hotmail.com

We are now 16 years since graduation. Yet despite passing years, thinning hairlines, bulging waistlines, and busier lives, our classmates continue to find ways to connect with each other. Jon DeSimone reports that he, “Ralph Heidrich, Didier Damoiseaux, and Derek Sharp (T’97) caught up in Bordeaux, France, in May of this year, converging on the unsuspecting French countryside from 3 countries for a weekend of wine tasting. Both we and the French people survived the experience.”

Ralph Heidrich, Jon DeSimone, Derek Sharp, and Didier Damoiseaux in Bordeaux

Lee Modesitt had a surprise reunion: “Last month we were doing a small hike in New Hampshire near Squam Lake, and I hear someone calling my name. It’s John McCormick, with his wife, daughter, and father-in-law. The

world is so small. Things are good—everyone in the family is happy and healthy.” Tony Diep and family took a memorable trip to the U.S. “We took the family to the U.S. for 18 days in June. During this time, we put around 2,500 miles on our rental car. We started in New York and headed up to New England, including Tuck, before heading south to Philly, Washington, Williamsburg, and then back to New York to head home. The absolute highlight of our trip was the mini-Tuck ’98 reunion in Boston. We got together with Elizabeth McCarthy, Jon DeSimone, Scott Fisher, Dave Finley, and their families at the Rainforest Café in Burlington, MA (sorry to miss Marni Kirousis, who could not join as she was moving houses that day). The next day we saw Jon Levine and Mark Hamel in Boston (sorry to miss Peter Mooradian, who had to tend to his newborn). Congrats to both Marni and Pete. [Look on the 1998 page on mytuck.dartmouth. edu for the Diepapalooza tour photo!] “The reunion only reinforces the power of the Tuck network and how true friendship knows no time or distance. Everyone looked like they did back in 1998 (except with more or older children), and everyone is doing well. We are so fortunate to have such wonderful lifelong friends. “After our U.S. trip, the family completed its move from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). The company moved me down to Saigon after 7½ years in Hanoi as there are more commercial activities in Saigon. Thus, for any Tuckies who are passing through Saigon, please let me know so we can get together. We also own some wonderful properties such as GHM’s The Nam Hai, Six Senses Con Dao, Hyatt Danang, and the Montgomerie golf course so I can offer my friends the friends and family rates at our properties. Hope to see everyone in Vietnam!” Scott Wielar has been busy. “The Wielar family spent the last several years living in Europe (Luxembourg) where I was running a startup (Hubzu). Think E-bay & Amazon for homes. We had a blast (or as much as you can have working 90+ hours a week)—but after a couple of years, the family decided they would prefer to do their high school years back in the States. So we packed everything up and returned to Virginia.

“I recently took a role running all things ‘revenue’ (sales, marketing, strategy, business development, etc.) for a high-growth startup in the smart-grid technology space. Only 3 weeks in—but things are looking good. Thanks to all the Tuckies who helped me network this past year as I was looking for the next opportunity. On a final note—we recently bought a house close to our kid’s school, and it turns out we back up to Peter and Jakie Bowles. It’s been good reconnecting.” Speaking of Peter Bowles.... “All good on my end, as I officially hung up my investment banking spurs a few years ago and have settled in less green but calmer pastures of managing money for small foundations and charitable trusts. Jakie is still smitten by my devilish good looks and charm, which perhaps speaks poorly of her judgment and eyesight.” Tom Leverton checks in from Dallas: “Things are great here—celebrated 14 years of marriage and 4 years since adopting my son and daughter. Not sure who has the record for most jobs since Tuck, but I’d be in the running. I just changed to join Chuck E. Cheese—so was instantly popular with my kids at least. As part of that change, I was able to reconnect with Tom Christenson, who does business with CEC.” The passage of time has not dimmed the charmed life of Dan Givens. “After 13 years, 5 different roles, and 2 sabbaticals, I finally left Electronic Arts. I now head up the financial planning team at OpenTable. So instead of spending my time playing video games, I spend my time exploring new restaurants—perfect since I don’t really cook anyway. The job change also means I now work in downtown San Francisco but still live in the quiet suburb of San Carlos. On the personal side, over the last 18 months I have taken on a new hobby— sailing. After hundreds of hours of training, I’ve reached my third level of certification, qualifying me to charter boats internationally. I’m out on the SF Bay pretty much every weekend and am looking forward to my first trip to Croatia or Virgin Islands for some sun, not fog.” Video Game Player, Restaurant Frequenter, Charter Boat Captain. Dan Givens = T’98’s very own Peter Pan.

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CL ASS NOTES And as for me, your humble class notes scribe? I [Doug Haar] am soldiering on. About to hit the 4-year mark leading talent management for the Health & Life Sciences practice at Oliver Wyman. Michelle broke her leg during our August family vacation in the Outer Banks, which has made our lives a bit hectic since she can’t drive. And with Hannah (16) in high school, Rachel (13) in middle school (fun bat mitzvah in April), and Alexandra (8) in elementary school, there is plenty to keep us busy. Usually the class notes rep would close this column with his news. But as my life—and all of our lives—pales in comparison to that of Eric and Rebekah Stemm, I was not going to follow their report. It is heart-warming to have them drastically raise the class average on living a meaningful life.

Dan Givens is cooler than all of us

Also in California is Mike DiFilippo: “All good here. Emma entering her senior year at UCLA and taking MCATs (medical school tuition, yay!). Allison is a sophomore at NYU, and living the part of an urban hipster in her Chinatown dorm. Sophia and Olivia are both at Santa Barbara High School and play on the school soccer team. We are coming down the empty-nester home stretch! Stacy loves Santa Barbara, recently joined the C team at our little tennis club. Work for me is great, been 2+ year at Citrix in the SaaS Division. Happy to take visitors out to dinner if you end up in Santa Barbara! Oh and here’s a good one: Stacy won a car on The Price Is Right back in May!” He’s not kidding. The video is classic. No truth to the rumor that Stacy and Drew Carey were seen canoodling in the back of a brand-new Mazda on the streets of Santa Barbara. Kim McCormack made a big decision: “Last fall I spontaneously decided to take an ‘early retirement’ from my director of marketing role at Merck, where I had been for the last 10 years. Since then, I’ve picked up lots of hobbies, including playing on a local women’s hockey team (average age about 55), knitting (average age also about 55), painting (actually sold something

on Etsy!), shoveling endless piles of snow off our backyard ice rink, driving my kids crazy with ‘homework help,’ and driving many miles to all the kids’ hockey games and practices I had been missing for years. We enjoyed an awesome laid-back summer in East Hampton and Maine with family and friends, and now I’m slowly getting my feet back in the working world as a marketing consultant, working independently. So far so good! We’ll see what happens going forward but for now, I’m loving it.” And what would a T’98 class notes column be without an update from the irrepressible Tom Piper? “The kids have left. Alex is off in Germany, studying, going to Oktoberfest and meeting wealthy California girls, I hope. After the new year he’ll be back to Kenyon College to finish off his junior year. PoliSci guy, so all the big Silicon Valley firms are knocking on his door as they are really into that major. Zach left for UMass Amherst this fall to study sports management. Does Zug still work for the Redskins? No, not for 10 years or so? Darn. Could have been an internship in that. Lori and I toil on, paying tuition bills and dreaming of a day when we can tow an Airstream throughout the West behind a Porsche 911.”

“Times are changing at the Stemm house. As school starts up again, we now have our four oldest kids doing college work at various local colleges and even online. Rebekah should get an award for homeschooling them and getting them successfully launched out. We couldn’t be more proud of them all. As many of you may know, Rebekah and I have a heart for kids, especially kids in poverty around the world. For the past few years we have been dabbling as a family with filling shoeboxes in partnership with Operation Christmas Child, but last year we began to reach out to our friends to chip in and help out, and the response has been more than expected. “Encouraged by that success, we have just completed the process of setting up our own nonprofit organization dedicated to helping needy children. RIFKA (Radically In For Kids Always), is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization, so we can accept tax-deductible donations. Future project ideas include everything from a clothing room for local foster youth, to a blanket-distribution team, and, of course, continued shoeboxes filled with supplies to go out around the world. Stay tuned for info on social media (once our teenagers help us figure out how it works).” Until next time!

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’99 Julie Meyer 1800 Pacific Street #507 San Francisco, CA 94109 julesmeyer@yahoo.com

Felicia Rosenzweig Flat 59 Melcombe Regis Court 50 Weymouth Street London W1G 8NT United Kingdom felicia_rosenzweig@yahoo.com

Jen Sayer 44 Beach Street Cohasset, MA 02025 jensayer@yahoo.com

’00 Alastair Bor PO Box A2206 Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia bor@tuck2000.com

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I’ll take secretarial privilege and talk about my family first. We were delighted to greet a new arrival to the family, our son Ezra, in late May. With the growing family, our time in our apartment was going to eventually come to an end, although we were not actively in the property market. In June I fell ill with a flu that had me out of work for two days. With lots of idle time in quarantine from the newborn and doped up on flu meds, I had some time to scan the online real estate section, and next thing you know we’ve gone “all in” on an amazing 5-bedroom house in the center of Sydney. Plenty of room for Tuckie visitors down under! Even though we’re all getting on in years, Ezra

isn’t the only baby born this period. Jessica Salazar Luna gave birth to a son named Tadeo in August, and Amy Duly [McKeough] gave birth to their second daughter, Emma, a few days later. As I was writing this article in September, I learned that Ed Diffendal’s wife, Jenn, gave birth to their second daughter Adeline just a few hours ago! Back in March, Joe Santos had his first appearance in national print with GQ Magazine. GQ reports, “Brooklyn Gin distills their clear stuff with all the reverence of a single malt scotch. The result is an 80-proof argument for drinking gin neat...another example of Americans outdoing the Brits at their own game.” That was followed up with some exposure on the Tonight Show—here is the clip: http://bkgin.com/TTSWJFNBC. In May, Devin Mathews wrote an article in PE Hub titled “The Secrets to a Successful Career in Private Equity,” which he says summarizes pretty much what he learned at Tuck—don’t be a d*ck. You can read the article here: http:// www.pehub.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-asuccessful-career-in-private-equity/. He also joined with a few partners and launched a technology buyout fund called ParkerGale (parkergale.com and Twitter @parkergalecap). They also host a podcast about technology and private equity called the Private Equity FunCast with their own theme song and everything! You can subscribe on iTunes. In July, Jerry Newton and his wife Jeannie met up with Parag Desai in Santa Monica while they were in LA attending the CrossFit Games.

Parag Desai and Jerry Newton

David Levy wrote in that his family is picking up and moving to London at the end of August. His wife, Caroline, is making a career switch

and is enrolled in a postgraduate program at the London School of Economics. They’ve rented a house in Highbury, so it looks like they’ll be Arsenal fans. They will be there for two years and welcome any visitors. Jay Altizer has been busy meeting fellow alumni. In September, Jay Mellen met him at his hotel in Minneapolis for a drink. They swapped stories about fishing adventures (Jay M in Argentina, Jay A in Alaska) and shared pictures of their kids. They also committed to a fly-fishing trip in the next year or so. On the subject of fly-fishing, Chris Hunter and he have been trading notes for a year or so in an attempt to schedule a fishing trip. Chris kindly invited him along to a trip in Slovenia last year, though was unable to attend due to other travel. Chris is still in Beijing with Cambridge Associates. In about August, Jay managed to grab a cup of coffee with Steve Moster in Chicago when they were both there for business. It sounds like Steve has a lot of interesting things going on at GES, a trade-show and event-management company he now runs. Amy and Jay still reside in Dallas, where they have lived since moving back from Chicago in 2007. Amy teaches accounting at SMU, and they have two children: Mary Grace (10) and James (7). They made it to Hanover last year for Amy’s Dartmouth class reunion, and Jay promises to get his act together and make ours next year. Antwane Owens hasn’t written in a while, so I was pleased to hear that he got engaged in December 2013 by having a dolphin deliver the engagement ring in a cooler while they were in Mexico. Wedding is in April 2015. He took a brief stint (November 2012-November 2013) from running his consulting firm to go back and work for the private equity arm of a $1B publicly traded financial services company—where he spent almost a year in the U.K. overseeing the turnaround of one of their international acquisitions. He then went back to running his consulting firm again and is now working with a contract food-services company in Charlotte on implementing their strategic reorganization. In late 2013, he was named to the board of advisors for the business school at the University of Tulsa (his alma mater). Also, he and his fiancé were extras in the recent Veronica Mars movie and appeared in a few scenes that made the movie. He met up with Ramon Suazo at this year’s US Open for the quarterfinals match.

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CL ASS NOTES Miguel Iribarne, Mariana, and their three youngest spent about 10 days in Hanover this summer, enjoying a rental home along the Connecticut River. While in town, they were wonderful hosts and invited Jun Jong and his wife, Sumi, up from the Hartford area, as well as John Torget and Sandy, to join them for an Argentinian asado.

’01 Lloyd Baskin 747 Robinhood Road Rosemont, PA 19010 lloyd@aya.yale.edu

Gina Clark des Cognets Tuck School of Business 100 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH 03755-9000 gina.des.cognets@tuck.dartmouth.edu

Girl power: the Pokorny and des Cognets sisters, plus the littlest Snow

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Dear class of 2001,

The Iribarnes, Jongs, and Torgets in Hanover

After three very busy years at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Jeff Allen and family picked up and moved to Cape Town, South Africa. On their third African assignment with the State Department, they’ve finally managed to get as far south, and as far nice, as diplomatic life gets on the continent. Officially, he’s in charge of the consular section at the U.S. Consulate General, but that’s just the cover story. He intends to spend as much time as possible on the running, hiking, and mountain bike trails above their home in the Constantia Valley, in their new sea kayak exploring the waters of False Bay, on the beaches of the Cape Peninsula, or on safari with Beth and their three kids— Molly (13), Corinne (8), and Toby (5). If you can make it to Cape Town over the next three years, look them up. (And if you find yourself in trouble at 3 a.m. on your visit, there’s a decent chance that either Beth or he will be the groggy consulate duty officer who answers your call.)

Greetings classmates! Just one quick ditty for today. Liz Walles writes with news from the Carolinas: “I have arranged for the president of my bank (Fed Richmond) to speak at a Tuck alumni event for the Charlotte Business School Alliance.... Had to arrange for four babysitters to enable my husband and me to attend, given kids’ activities scheduled. I am excited that I will be able to introduce Professor Bell, who will introduce President Lacker.” And a nice picture from the Tuck Maine alumni reception this summer: shown in the pic are Gary Grunewald, Heidi Peterson and husband Bill Proom [T’87], and Michael Burgmaier.

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Lisa Cloitre 191 St. Botolph Street #1 Boston, MA 02115 lcloitre@gmail.com

Greetings T’02s. Much of this installment’s news is courtesy of the stork and cupid! The T’02 contingent continues to grow, with significant growth coming from merger and acquisition.... As always, I’m grateful for the FB, which tips me off on some good potential news, which many of you then confirm. Starting in California, Canadian native Dennis Hands got engaged to Kasey Oliver while vacationing in Costa Rica this past winter. Plans for an April 2015 wedding are underway. Congratulations!

T’01s represented at the Tuck alumni reception in Maine

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Kelly Harmon also shares happy news from California, having tied the knot with fellow USCer, Sean Collins. Following a small private family-only wedding ceremony in Beverly Hills, Kelly and Sean took off on a six-country honeymoon that would make any passport green with envy, hitting London,

Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, the Seychelles, and South Africa. Check out their photo on the edge (gulp) of Victoria Falls....

we can tell he is a Tuckie all the way, given his always-active legs, preference for bundling up, and a great sense of humor. We can’t wait to bring him to Hanover! Here is a photo of him on his one-week birthday.”

Kelly Harmon, Sean Collins, and friend at Victoria Falls

Dylan Austin Camp Fellow Californians Ray and Maryam Doucette (D’02) welcomed Raymond Sebastian Doucette to this world on August 22, at 9:28 a.m. Ray writes that his little guy arrived “a little bit early, but both he and his momma are healthy and doing great!” Ray submitted this last note to me at 4:30 a.m. PT, where he was dutifully managing night duty.

Stork news from São Paulo comes from Marcel Vieira and Cátia Schreiner, who welcomed baby Alice, also a member of the August 2014 Tuck Baby Club! Alice joins older siblings Vicente (7), Olivia (5), and Santiago (2). Párabens to Marcel and Cátia!

Ray and little Raymond Sebastian Doucette

The Vieira family with newest member Alice

More from the stork.... President Matt Camp sends in a joyous update with Melanie: “Dylan Austin Camp was born early morning on Aug 28, coming in at 7 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches. We enjoy all his little noises, expressions, and movements. Well not ALL movements. His insatiable appetite and ability to quickly deplete our diaper supply has us baffled. But

In other news, Alex Schwoerer is the first member of the class of 2002 to join the Tuck board of overseers. Gratulation to Alex, as we look forward to his role in helping inform Tuck’s continued success. Some news comes to me across the wires (literally), so it was great to see a September

press release announcing Graham Brooks’ promotion to partner at Boston-based venture capital firm .406 Ventures, which invests in early-stage breakthrough Enterprise IT companies. It’s great to see the continued growth of VC and entrepreneurship in Boston— glad for Graham to be in the thick of it. (Note: “.406 Ventures” will be the only baseball reference in this installment of notes—2014 has been a sad baseball season for Boston.) Jamie Hirsch Pitt Miller and I had an unusual encounter at the US Open earlier this fall. Jamie sighted me in my seat at an evening session. We started a fun text exchange with visual contact but never actually made it back out to the concourse to see each other (perhaps because we had different alliances in the Murray (Jamie)-Djokovic (Lisa) match that was underway?). In any case, it was great to “see” you Jamie, and hopefully our next catch-up is a bit more substantive. Anthony Haralson continues to be on the move, with numerous trips to China, Hong Kong, and other fun places this year. I’m submitting a recent photo favorite, compliments of Facebook. Posts of Anthony’s smiling face (with or without his lobster dinner in Hong Kong) always make me smile, and I’m sure that I’m not alone in this sentiment.

Anthony Haralson

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CL ASS NOTES Sarah Millard continues to send dispatches from China, where she recently joined forces with husband Louie Cheng (T’03), founder and president of PureLiving China, an indoor environmental health and safety consulting firm with offices in Shanghai and Beijing, China. Sarah and Louie also continue to live an idyllic expat life, commuting to work together on Louie’s scooter with home-packed lunches. Sarah coordinates a very popular monthly Tuck/ Dartmouth dinner in Shanghai. I’ve said this before and will say it again: anyone traveling through China or Asia or other parts of the world should absolutely reconnect with Tuckies—they are the greatest hosts, hands down. Sarah has also graciously volunteered to be a guest columnist for our next installment of class notes (thank you, Sarah!). Please let me know if you would also like to be a guest contributor—I’m guessing that I’m not alone in yearning for some different voices and perspectives in our class notes. : ) I wish you all well in 2015.

’03 Cathy Kim Walker cathy.walker@lancergroup.net

Things have quieted down on the news front after the stream of updates following the reunion. Very happy to have met up with Shannon and Peter Polson—amidst their move to a new home in Washington with tons of wide open space to roam! They and their new home survived a close encounter with a forest fire that burned within sight. Here’s some filler from me: My husband and I stumbled on a log cabin in the remote San Bernardino mountains that reminded me of the very rustic and woefully undermaintained Norwich log cabin that I shared with Dave Garrison and Stephane Gayraud second-year. Well, I am now the proud owner of this cabin, and by the time this is printed it will be open for guests. Let me know if your travels bring you to Southern California! Please keep the news coming! Warmly, Cathy.

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is going great. I invite everyone to check it out and maybe sponsor a kid.”

The Polson Clan (Shannon Huffman Polson, Peter Polson, kids Sam and Jude) and Cathy Walker

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Katherine Greig updated that, one year ago, she joined the New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. “I’ve stayed on with the administration change, and I am now in the newly created Office of Recovery and Resiliency. I work as a senior adviser on climate change and flood insurance, an area of great uncertainty and interesting policy questions. It is a pleasure to be back in public service after a good run at BCG. In addition to work, I learn a ton and stay on my feet caring for three energetic boys: Elliot (3), Alex (5), and David (older and wiser than me).” Guess who is back in school? Duncan Chapple is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh (founded in 1583). “I’m part of the innovation and entrepreneurship group in the business school, which was recently accredited by the AACSB.”

208 Westhaven Drive Austin, TX 78746 frank.arias.97@alum.dartmouth.org

Hello T04s. I wish that timing would have been such that I could have included news and updates from our up and coming 10-year reunion. At this point, we are three weeks from our gathering in Hanover and it will be great to catch up with many of you. For the moment, there are a few updates about new Tiny Tuckies and new undertakings by some of our classmates. On October 24, 2014, Debbie Atuk will receive the Dartmouth Alumni Distinguished Service Award at the annual alumni awards gala. Additionally, Debbie took a new position in September as the treasurer of the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina. After almost 10 years of working in management consulting in New York City, Alberto De Cardenas moved back to Peru to work for a private equity company called Nexus (founded by a T’88). In parallel, Alberto started a foundation to help talented poor kids gain access to a world-class education. “The name is Peru Champs (www.peruchamps. org) and, so far, the foundation is helping 232 children develop their skills. Hopefully, they will become future leaders of their families, communities, and country. Next year, the foundation aims to serve 1,000 kids. So far it

Future professor Duncan Chapple

Jack Lee reports that (big surprise) he and his family had another great summer in Hanover. They enjoyed another visit from Fabrice Daguet, Martha, and the not-so-Tiny Tuckies, who seemed to pick up right where we all left off ten years ago. “We headed down to Mt. Sunapee to take on their ropes course. The kids made it look easy, but it was Fabrice who completed all 4 sections of the challenging course, overcoming his fear of heights—that was the most impressive. We had dinner with the Erik Brine, Shay, and their kids. The kids played a little post-dinner street hockey while the adults kicked back over a few bottles of fine French wine and Vermont craft beer. We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone back to Hanover next month and seeing everyone— hopefully you’re all planning on coming back!”

’05 Francis Barel 12 Place du General Koenig Paris 75017 France francis.barel@gmail.com

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The Daguet and the Lee families on the ropes

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10 T H REUNION The Madden and Levy families on the slopes

as I cannot imagine driving up to Hanover with these two in the back seat!”

No, these are not the new first-years. Not yet, anyway. The Lee, Brine, and Daguet kids.

Reese Madden, who is also in the Upper Valley, writes that he, Katie, and their two girls will soon complete their eighth year in Norwich. “It is definitely home and we expect to be here for the long run. Katie works for Dartmouth admissions, and I’m head of corporate marketing for Hypertherm, where we just hired our sixth Tuck alum. The 2004 Tuck Mafia, as we have sometimes been called, consisting of me, Jack Lee, Erik Brine, and Jenny Levy, has remained intact. We continue to find success in various interesting positions throughout the company. If anyone ever wants to return to this area, we are growing and hiring! For now, the leaves are just starting to turn, and we are looking forward to seeing folks at Reunion.” Speaking of Jenny Levy, she will now be the vice president of corporate responsibility at Hypertherm, which she joined in 2004. Kajal Janssen and her husband, Volker, welcomed twin girls, Maya Karina and Mila Selina. “I can’t believe it has already been six months. The girls were born on March 2, 2014, 7 weeks earlier than expected, but are growing really well. We just started solids this week! Unfortunately, we won’t make it to the reunion,

And Aura Greenberg and her family also welcomed their second baby, Noam Ariel, on May 9, 2014. He joins his sister Izzy Paz, who is now 2 years old. I wish you all well and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at Reunion. —Frank Arias T’04

What do you call twin Tuckies? [see the Janssen news!]

OCTOBER 2-4, 2015

People—a year from now, we (hopefully, lots of us) will be in Hanover reminiscing and regaling each other with tales from our time at Tuck TEN YEARS AGO; holy moly, where in the world did the time go? All the official details are not yet out, but start thinking about arranging your life/travel/work/family/ obligations so that you can come to TUCK TUCK TUCK fall 2015! Open invites to ski/visit Richard Williams at Cannon in NH; visit Rahul Jain in Hong Kong; visit Bruno Pinasco in Peru; visit Nahshon Davidai in Israel; watch a Giants game w/ Greg Hintz in SF; visit Yevgeny Neginsky in Princeton, NJ; ski/visit Dora Fang in Park City (the Vail Epic Pass now good at 2 resorts in town); or play soccer in NYC w/ Desi Duncker! Pretty cool stuff. Look up a Tuckie when you travel; it’s always fun to reconnect! And in other class-lovin’ news, THANK YOU so very much for the updates this time. The one-two punch of targeted asks and a general request generated LOTS of news...so, without further ado, please enjoy! Loyally, Dora and Francis [Look for more pics in the 2005 pages of mytuck.dartmouth.edu!] General Updates and Goings On Tak Wai Chung and Te-Ling Nai visited Seoul for a weekend trip and were taken out for

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Sung Chan, Tak Wai, Te-Ling, and Minkyu

delicious Korean BBQ by Sung Chan Suh and Minkyu Park. “We reminisced the wonderful Tuck days and couldn’t believe that was almost a decade ago! As we savored soju and bulgogi, we thought of each of you and hope to see you all again soon.” (wow, a multicountry gettogether! very cool. and yes, looking forward to seeing y’all at Tuck soon; could you bring the soju and bulgogi...?)

2015. We’re looking forward to see you and everyone at the 10th reunion! Are we all really getting that old?!” DVD and Melanie recently got together in NYC with fellow T’05s Mati Adler and his wife, Perle, and Atabak Mokari, and his wife, Kristen. (thanks, Melanie, it might be your 1st update and great pic, but hopefully we’ll hear from you and DVD more often! The marathons you’re running are amazing and inspiring!) Brian Safyan still has a busy and enjoyable live in Colorado. He launched two new medical-device product families this year with Spectranetics. During his product-launchrelated travels, he managed a side trip to London, where Tom Groves coerced him to help him move into a very unique new home. Brian and family also got to take a vacation in southern France in mid-June. Meanwhile, back at home, they were glad that forest fires didn’t threaten Colorado Springs for a third year in a row this year. Michael and Emily started first grade this fall, and Katie’s market research consulting business provides both a flexible schedule and the always beneficial second income. (two launches! that’s impressive! and you managed to coax Tom Groves out of hiding, which might be even more impressive...tell us more about this “very unique new home.”) Even though Dora Fang lives in Park City, Edwin Lau lives in Seattle, Kanishka Roy live(d) in Boston, and Fernando Castillo is back and forth from Peru, all were able to get together for dim sum in the East Bay in June!

Mati, DVD, Atabak, and Melanie

The Van Dorns are finally coming out of the woodwork! Melanie (Escopete) Van Dorn believes this is their first-ever update (only took them almost 10 yrs!). So she probably has to rewind a bit so her update will make sense! David Van Dorn and Melanie got married back in 2009 and they will be celebrating their 5th-year anniversary this month. They have two girls—Dakota, 3 yrs, and Acadia (a.k.a. Ace), 23 months. Aside from trying to catch up with their girls and their lives on the weekends, Melanie managed to pick up running and got hooked. She ran her first marathon last October on Mt. Desert Island in Maine “and am planning(!) to run the NYC Marathon in

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Bill Rice was named successor chief investment officer of Anchor Capital, overseeing management of the firm’s $9bn of assets under management. He will also be leading the firm’s mid-cap value and dividend strategies. (NINE BILLION, that’s a lot. congrats!) Greetings from Duxbury, MA. It’s been a great summer for Tom Felago between family (Heidi T’04; Luke, 7; Minna, 4) and running into T’05s. Highlights included seeing Steve Fahy in NY, where he lamented Italy’s loss in the World Cup; Matt Plante in SF, where he’s racing to break 90 before his baby arrives (this would also require Rocky Cho to pay one of our classmates a large sum of money); Bryce Fraser, whose recent marriage likely triggered another Rocky payout; and Sean Riley (via voicemail),

who we’re hoping to see again in 2020 given his recent twins. (thanks for the great update, peer pressure, and gambling antics!) Tom Collin launched GEMS Education’s first pilot school in Malaysia, a kindergarten located in Penang, and is gearing up to start five K-12 schools in the next 24 months. His son, Carl (3), is attending the newly opened GEMS World Academy in Singapore, while Eugénie is attending a local pre-K. The commute and family responsibilities take a toll on keeping in touch with the Tuck community; nevertheless, Tom was able to bring Vanessa Campion Alvarez T’15 on board for a summer internship (she rocked) and helped send a number of school principals to Hanover for a pilot Education Management course. (good job hiring a Tuckie and keeping Hanover connections! oh...and changing the face of education in Asia!) Richard Williams wants to give an update with high skim value: “—Leslie and Richard are still in Boston (since ’05), with our 2 girls: Ainslie (6) and Graeme (2) “—we escape the city to our house in NH mountains (about an hour from Hanover) “—we welcome all Tuckies to come ski with us at Cannon or visit any other time of year “—Leslie works in SaaS, currently at Oracle by way of acquisition “—Richard working in investment management, trying to banish the voice of Ken French in my head saying ‘I told you so’” (oh, Richard—great work, High Skim Value!) Christian Fong and his family were lucky to host at their home in Mill Valley, CA, some of the most committed Bostonian T’05s, Kanishka and Ann, and couldn’t be more pleased to welcome them to the Bay Area this summer! “Renewable Energy Trust is growing quickly, and we got to hire our 2nd Tuckie, Yury Gimburg T’13.” (woohoo, more Tuckies!) We’re apparently a charitable bunch—and lots of folks did the ALS ice bucket challenge. Captured in their AAGGHHHHH moment (see pic online!) were Phil Drapeau (looking very sporty with some adorable helpers) and Matthew Goldfine (almost inexplicably dressed in a royal blue T-shirt and some pink/purple/fuchsia zebra-print drawstring

pants...???). Honorable mentions for creativity (and water conservation, since California is in a severe drought): Andy Chun and Erin, doing the challenge under a waterfall (in Hawaii?), and Dave Hoverman and Abby Smith, doing the challenge with their kids while on stand-up paddleboards. New Jobs and Moving Around to New Places Carly (Glassmeyer) Rosenberg is living in New York City with her three kids—Harper, 8; Jack, 5; and Madeleine, 2. Carly just started a new role this spring as the CMO at Bluefly, a leading online fashion retailer. Her husband, Dan, is also in the digital world, at MediaMath, a digital marketing platform. Both are working hard but find as much time to be with their 3 kids and to escape the city whenever possible. They are VERY much looking forward to the TUCK 10-year reunion in 2015 to visit beautiful Hanover and to catch up with old friends. (whew! big jobs, city living, and 3 kids. kudos!) After almost three years in internal M&A/ corporate development at CertusBank (a bank that was recently formed to acquire failed banks), the last two of which he lived in Greenville, SC, Desi Duncker resigned in March. He moved back to the New York area in mid-April, living in Harlem. His kids, Desiree (14 yr) and Deshawn (13 yr), live nearby in suburban NJ, so he’s thrilled to be back. Although they’re teenagers now, so he doesn’t know if he’s cool enough to hang out with them in public anymore. Desi will be working in the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) within investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch starting in mid-July. He’s looking forward to getting plugged back into the scene in the City. Also, last year, while he was in SC, he caught the soccer bug and has been playing in pickup games throughout the job search. So if any Tuckies in NY want to play soccer on weekends or are looking for another player for their team, please let Desi know. (in the future, we definitely need pics/ anecdotes about how TOTALLY UNCOOL AND EMBARRASSING you are to these teenage kids) Rahul Jain moved to Hong Kong in December 2013 to start a new location for his family’s diamond, gemstone, and jewelry business. The move so far has been really good. Hong Kong is a fun place to live and very easy to do business in. Andrew Oliver and Rahul try to meet up

as often as they can. Unfortunately, they don’t have a large alumni base there, so Rahul hasn’t really had the chance to meet many other Tuckies. If you visit Hong Kong, please do give Rahul a call. He’s reachable at +852 5511 6188. (Hong Kong! super exciting!) Anu, Sunny, and Seth Green moved back to the Twin Cities from NC. They sold High Country Waste Solutions last year to Republic Services, and he joined the crew of Tuckies at 3M. Things are going great and they’re super excited to be starting something new. (congrats and welcome back to the Midwest! check out the happy family pic online!) Ann and Kanishka Roy are excited to share that Kanishka, Lilia (4), Sylvie (2), and Ann are moving to the Bay Area (just south of San Francisco) this summer. Kanishka has already started a new job with Morgan Stanley in Menlo Park, and the girls and Ann will move out in late July after she wraps up her work. “I’ll keep you posted on my next career move after I get to know the Bay Area education reform landscape a little better.” The Roys continue to seek out Tuckies wherever they are. Kanishka, in particular, has had the most amazing luck running into their classmates on flights. In the past year, he has seen at an airport, flown with, or often sat right next to Christian Oberle, Nate Chang T’04, Atabak, Julia Dan, Gordon Dai, Anne Nguyen, Giovanni Rivano T’06, and Rebecca Millman, and Ann is sure there are others she can’t remember. To Tuckies in Northern California: the Roys would love to reconnect, though preferably not on a flight. Feel free to send them advice on where to live, eat, send kids to school, and navigate the California lifestyle. They have so many questions... do they have to buy a hybrid car right away, or do they get a six-month grace period? Do they buy sunscreen in bulk or does it go bad? (does Kanishka wear a Tuckie magnet when he flies? that’s an uncanny amount of Tuck encounters while traveling! and WELCOME to the West Coast!) After 6 years in London, Pauke Cortens moved back to San Francisco mid-March for love, leaving a nice flat, her job at Groupon which she very much enjoyed, many friends...and her favorite weather behind. Philip and Pauke met whilst doing their internship at the Gap 10 years ago. Can you believe it has been that long? Phil applied to Tuck but chose HBS. To

make up for such a big miss, Phil decided to date a Tuckie. Soon after landing in San Fran, Pauke got pregnant and they are expecting a little baby boy mid-December. At the moment, Pauke is doing yoga with the mummies in Nappy Valley. She managed to connect with some classmates in the Bay Area and is looking forward to reconnecting with others. (so glad Philip came to his senses, and congrats on the move/job/soon-to-be kiddo!) Hank Kessler and his wife, Rachel; their two boys, Noah and Reed; and their daughter, Ellie, moved from Princeton, NJ, to Thousand Oaks, CA. Hank had a great opportunity to help build a cardiovascular franchise at Amgen so, after almost 9 years at BMS, they decided to make the move. (another new West Coaster! cool, congrats!) Bruno Pinasco and Sandra moved back to Peru last month! They are very excited to start this new chapter and want to invite anyone who is planning a trip to reach out. (ooohhh, an invite to Peru. nice!) After 11 years in the States (first two—at Tuck—obviously the best of them), Nahshon Davidai and his family decided to go back to Israel. Quite the transition, especially arriving during a war into what was supposed to be a finished house but ended up a construction site...but, considering, everything’s great; kids are acclimating to school, Nahshon is at a new and exciting job, Alona is PMing this transition like an agile dev project, and the temperature has even dipped below 90 a couple of times since they arrived. New email nahshon. davidai@naturalint.com. Keep in touch! When are you in Israel?? 972-54-941-9132. Call!! (that is QUITE the adventure—hope you’re settled in, and looking forward to hearing about your “new and exciting” job!) Mergers and Acquisitions Fernando Castillo married Shadia in Lima, Peru, in April, and Tuckie couples Daniel Bernard and Hannah, as well as Tom Kilroy and Betsy, were in attendance. (awww, what a great pic! congrats!)

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Tom Kilroy, Fernando Castillo, and Dan Bernard with spouses For about 8 yrs, Wojtek Wolski hasn’t provided any updates to Tuck Today, and here he is sending an update for the second consecutive time. On July 8, 2014, Wojtek got married to his wife, Samantha, in a small and intimate ceremony with immediate family in Mauritius. They celebrated their honeymoon on a Safari and visited the Victoria Falls in Africa. (what a gorgeous pic, thanks for sharing. and, YES, keep up this new pace of Tuck Today updates; we’re lonely when you don’t write....)

many lawyers, counselors, agencies, and a wonderful surrogate mother), John and I are pleased to introduce Connor Marr Mack to the world. Connor was born on August 18, 2014, weighing 7 lbs. 7oz., and he is looking forward to meeting everyone at the next Tuck reunion.” Jon is taking three months off from his job in operations at AAA Northern California, Nevada, and Utah to take care of Connor. He completely understands now why everyone told them to bank sleep. At 4:30 a.m. during the first night home from the hospital, Jon hit a point where he realized he was the most exhausted he had ever been in his life. He knows it’s old news to all the parents out there, but nothing quite prepares you for it until it’s there. Jon and his husband learned quickly, though, to divide nighttime feedings and are feeling (slightly) more rested as of Connor’s one-week mark. “Thank you to everyone for their kind thoughts and support over the course of this journey!” (this is the coolest update. thanks for showing us the wonders of what science and love can do. congratulations and welcome, Connor!)

welcomed their second boy, Gabriel, who arrived in late July at a solid 9 pounds and 2 ounces. They are very happy, “including Grisha, who is thrilled to be a big brother. We are living in Princeton, NJ, so if you are going to be in town for the Princeton reunion or any other reason, please let [Yev] know.” (aww, the sibling pic is darling, check it out online!) Sunil Moser and Anita are still living and working in New York City, but they’ve made a small family expansion. Annika Kumari Moser was born on March 21st and is amazing. “Look forward to bringing her to Hanover for the 10-year reunion!” (so precious! congrats! love the pic, check it out online!) That’s it for this edition. Seems most folks are doing well, personally and professionally. Be sure to keep your loving (and lonely) class secretaries up to date with your happenings and goings-on. You know you love to read these, but (as much as we’d like to) we can’t make up content...so send it in! 2005tuckies@ gmail.com

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Greg Hintz got married on August 9th in Cape May, NJ, to Lindsay. They took a couple days in NYC, where they met, prior to spending a couple weeks in Tahiti for their honeymoon... snorkeling, trekking, and eating delicious French food. They are living in SF, and Greg is currently heading up marketing for Solazyme (clean energy/industrial biotech) and Lindsay has found a clever way to stay at Johnson & Johnson while out there in SF at BabyCenter. com. If you are ever in SF, come out for a Giants game with them. They live right across the street! (Tahiti sounds amazing, congrats!)

Elizabeth Bride and Jay were thrilled to add a second daughter, Louisa McHenry Bride, to their family in November 2013. Their older daughter, Frances (3), loves being a big sister, and they have (mostly) survived the mayhem of the first year of two kids. Liz switched into a new role within Bain Capital at the start of the year and is now leading investor relations and marketing efforts for Bain Capital Ventures. “Excited for the 10th! Although a little disturbed that it’s been that long.” (congrats! love that you’re calling Louisa “Weezie”! check out the lovely sibling pic online)

Jonathan Marr is a father! “Thanks to the wonders of science and technology (and

“Hello T’05s! It’s been a busy and joyful summer.” Laurence and Yevgeny Neginsky

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If video killed the radio star, then Mark Zuckerberg (or the Winklevii) killed the alumni class notes. We’ve reached a new low and are hoping that it’s just a local minima (that’s a deep cut from the DecSci playlist, for those of you paying attention). Five measly updates for this installment of Tuck Today, signaling that everything cool that could have happened has already happened.

But let’s give some airtime to the folks who put in the effort and faxed in an update.

Charlie Pringle and family have been traveling the world watching trees grow

Starting with “whoa, that was fast” news, Charlie Pringle’s already back from New Zealand. “Hello all! 2014 has proved notable for the Pringle clan. My company sent me to New Zealand in March for six months to watch pine trees grow, which turned out to be a great family adventure. Our home base was Auckland, and we fell in love with the city, people, and country. We arrived as a family of four and returned to Florida as five. Ellen was born on the 4th of July in Auckland. We’re moving to Houston in early 2015 so I can mind some trees in the Gulf States region. Sending good cheer along with hopes to see more of you soon.” Jon Michaels wants to know “what’s in your wallet?” “Nothing too exciting from San Francisco, other than the fact that I have agreed to be our new class head agent (taking over from the lovely Sarah and Meagan). What does that mean? I’m still trying to figure it out exactly myself. However, if you get a letter from Hanover with my name on it, this may be the reason. Giving to Tuck is not different than voting in Keeler’s beloved hometown of Chicago...give early and often!” For the record, Keeler never votes. Wait, you’re allowed to pawn off elected responsibilities? We’ve been slaving away under the presumption that irrelevant student elections from 2006 were legally binding and last until death. Unfortunately, given our class size, we doubt there’s another sucker out there like Jon Michaels.

Big kudos to Bryan Falchuk, Dave Roberts, and Cristina Tejeda for raising money for cancer research in honor of our classmate Ben Petrunov. Bryan, Dave, and Cristina will be riding in the Canary Challenge in late September. I’m sure they’ll be happy for your donations even months in the future when this finally gets published: http://www. newbodi.es/canary. In other Falchuk news: “I started a new job in June running product development, strategy, M&A, analytics, and project management for a medical malpractice insurer based in Boston.” And in our final submission, yet another entry into the “how few words can I use to announce a new child?” Adam Bernstein writes, “Andrea and Adam Bernstein are thrilled to announce baby Nicholas Anthony, born March 20th, 2014, joining big bro Benjamin.”

but Matt and Vicky are still figuring it out. We suggest you come visit, and may we recommend a scenic tour of Mianus Gorge? The Keelers have finally settled permanently in the Roscoe Village ’hood of Chicago. It’s basically where everyone moves because they feel that moving to the suburbs would be soul crushing...before eventually moving to the suburbs. As for the Mannings, we’re never going to fully unpack. It’s just not going to happen. Park City is great as long as the family doesn’t go broke buying gear. Scooters, bikes, skis, snowboards, and a helmet for every occasion clutter up the garage. When all you fancypants classmates come to Deer Valley for conferences this winter, you better look me up.

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Nicholas Bernstein—the latest addition to the Bernstein clan

Darin Souza checked in via phone to tell us that they added a little girl to the Souza family. Baby Alex was born on a certain date, at a specific size and weight. She and Mom are doing great, according to Dad. “Bats left, throws right.” Brother Thomas Souza has taken to only eating cheddar cheese, reports Dad, who called from the grocery store, buying a brick of Tillamook. News from your class secretaries: 100% have moved. And, NO, Mr. Michaels, we won’t be giving you our new addresses. The Kummells moved to Greenwich, CT, to shorten Matt’s commute into the city. Their postcode is “Riverside, CT” but all the Facebook posts get tagged to “North Mianus, CT.” The locals don’t pronounce it quite like it’s written,

349 Mountain Road Wilton, CT 06897 christopher.m.herbert@gmail.com

Well heelllllooooooooo, T’07s! I [Heather Onstott] am more excited about taking a turn at the wheel of Tuck Today than Tony Portera is cruising the In-N-Out drive-thru. I have shamelessly used this throne of colossal power to be the nosiest being on the planet and wow, I now know what it’s like to be on Facebook all day. And I didn’t even have to ignore all living objects around me to do so! What a concept. Like the vintage classmate I am, I’ve talked to a LOT of us. And visited a lot of us. (I know, right? So old-fashioned.) But my statistically significant (Prof Kopalle would be proud), slightly confirmation-biased (OK, maybe not) yet thorough research has confirmed that we are all still amazing people—good enough, smart enough, and, doggone it, people like us! OK, I know, time to quit blathering and spill the beans. Sharing is caring, after all....

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First, with me holding the deadline door open to Tuck Today, we have Jay Scanlan sliding in with news of his perfectly on-time beautiful daughter (see pic!) with a perfect “J” addition: “Right on time on Friday afternoon Sept 12th, Juliette Needham Scanlan arrived. She weighed in at around 8.5 lbs. Jen and Jules are both happy and healthy. Josie is thrilled to be a big sister. Dad is surrounded by pink.” When your daughters start dressing you in tutus and lipstick, please remember your friends over here at Tuck Today with a picture. WINNING.

And everyone brace yourselves for this one: Melanie Mitchell is really and truly tying the knot. In her words: “My big news is that Dave and I are finally (emphasis added) getting married! Date and location still TBD. I hope we’re not rushing into this....” I don’t know, Melanie. I highly recommend the 2-year engagement to make sure. Another HUGE BLAST—and incoming from another source of all knowledge outside of Aaron Cohn, Ju-Yeon Park: “This is really a timely perfect email as we (not only me but also other Tuckies in Japan) found out last night that our forever-bachelor Mitsu Saito finally tied the knot in April this year. You may want to talk to him for more details. Definitely one of the most significant updates, isn’t it?!” Ummmm...YES PLEASE! Mitsu—hello? Hello? We need details on this lucky woman! I expect a full update by the next edition, if not before. Feel free to respond to my original request for information. Finally, *SOME* of us think Cincinnati is apparently the new Hollywood. Scott Seiffert will be updating in multiple sections since he’s been so quiet for the past 7 years: “Scott Seiffert will be getting married to Caroline Welling in Oct 2015 and...[wait for it...wait for it...]” Version 2.0: T’37 Even cuter than us as a class? Our progeny— the next Tuck generation. What a good-looking group of kiddos!

(very tall) baby, named Margo. She’s already a pretty good cook and has impeccable grammar. :)” I know this comes as a great shock to all who know Nancy and Will. Ummm...NOT. Nancy, Will, and Margo are enjoying Seattle, where Nancy works from home as a consultant to her old firm in New York. This is work I highly recommend! We also, kind of, heard that there was a Wolf baby about. Joe Pfeister wrote in that his son is smitten with the new daughter of Matt Wolf and Natalia Garcia-Wolf-Nigaglioni (Secty: apologies for any name disorders, Natalia— blame Pfeister!) Nearby is a photo of Jameson Danger Pfeister making eyes at Arianna Isabella Wolf. Check out the exploding cartoon hearts between the two. Look out, Arianna—he didn’t earn his name capriciously.

Juliette Needham Scanlan

And because I can’t keep you hanging forever, more news from Seiffert: “...having a son in November 2014 (note with the same woman).” Yes, the reference to the same woman is his words, not mine, for those of you who know me too well. Seiffert, please be sure to send along a pic of your bundle of joy. And be grateful that Scanlan’s tutus are less likely to be in your future. A child designed to take over the world by the time he’s 2, if I ever knew one, is the combination of Rohit Dugar and Maansi Gupta. Answering my public demand: “Little Tuckie Rian Dugar was born on March 27, 2014. He is an adorable baby and looks like Rohit 100%. If he didn’t come out of me I would refuse to believe he is my baby!”

Jameson and wee wolf

Shawn Kelly wrote in to remind me that I already knew he and Kate had another little boy, Reid. He promised a picture but I didn’t get it so I’ll describe him in my best Irish accent: Shawn Joseph Kelly an’ Katherine Murphy Kelly ’ad a wee’un. (You should now have a perfect image of ginger Reid!)

Hmmmm...nothing witty here reads well. So, moving on...more important info from the Gupta/Dugar camp under “As the T’07 World Turns” section...keep going, loves!

And, finally, from Lauren Pastrich King, who I’m pretty sure with Ben King and their gorgeous kiddos is posing for a magazine in the attached picture: “We had our 2nd baby boy on April 11, 2014, Zachary Spencer King. Tyler is a wonderful big brother. Attached is a pic of our family.”

Also heard from Nancy Block Reid in the great Pacific Northwest: “In May, Will and I had a

I can personally attest that this little guy is adorable, so with all the wee ones shown here,

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Maansi also coughed up some more details on life in Hong Kong: “Rohit quit his stupid I-banking job and is now pursuing his dream of getting people drunk on his awesome beer. A few Tuckies have visited our brewery in Hong Kong but the invitation is wide open to all Tuckies! The brewery is called Young Master Ales and has already been featured in The Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. So in all we have 2 kids—the baby and the brewery. I am still sucking up and doing I-banking with JP Morgan in Hong Kong. I thought I would be the first one out of this industry but 7 years post-Tuck and still going strong.” Rohit, please know that you are now on the hook for 10-yr reunion beverage committee. Cheers.

The King family

I’m definitely right on the whole T’37 crew. If I learned anything in consulting, it’s that a single data point is an outlier, but two is a trend. Right, Scanlan? Proof of Life The following people were so surprised/ amused/automated by my intrusion into their inbox that I know they are alive. Patrick Fox (rumor is that he and his beloved, Lindsay Eichelberger Fox, are back in NH; they have clearly figured it out earlier than the rest of us): “Effective August 18th I am no longer with Hannon Armstrong. For general questions, please email....” David Browne: still amazeballs. Kim Eckert: convinced I can hijack this gig for good. Ahhh...such faith that the powers that be somehow overlook this drivel. As the T’07 World Turns In addition to keeping us updated on Mitsu’s life, Ju-Yeon wrote in to say that she has no more exciting news—she was on a business trip to Asia and normally lives life happily amongst many T’07s in Seattle. Hmmmm...I may know of a New Yorker who’s interested in your life, Ju-Yeon! Soooooooo excited to get this update from Tom Wooton! “Here’s a quick update for me and Andrea. We recently moved back to Boulder, Colorado. We have a 1-year-old Shar Pei named Gracie and we’re in the process of adopting from Ethiopia. On the work front, I’m still in consulting at Deloitte. Most recently I’ve been working on a merger integration project with a client in Tokyo, so I’ve been enjoying some great sushi.” Adopting internationally is such a long complex process that I am in awe.

The Hashimoto girls

We always knew you were the bomb diggity, Tom, but wow. Your classmates are all keeping fingers crossed for smooth sailing from here to Ethiopia. Also thrilled that Shintaro Hashimoto responded to my shout-out with a hello from Tokyo: “Attaching a pic of the girls when they visited my office. Taking a picture with ‘Starman’!”

Another tiny dynamite wrote in looking EXACTLY like she did the day we graduated (check out the pic!)—Lindsay Bello Martin. Lindsay writes that neighbor Christian Koether finally got off his duff and chopped down enough trees for a proper T’07 gathering: “Thanks for reaching out. I thought I’d share that Koether finally cut down enough trees and built his firepit so he could have a nice end of the summer BBQ. Chrissy, B. Stedman, Supreet, Bello, Koether (who is expecting, btw) all roasted marshmallows and enjoyed the evening at his new abode in Weston. It was great catching up.”

For those whose ignorance on the subject matches mine – hit up myTuck for the hyperlink. And in case you’re slow and haven’t figured it out through Ju-Yeon, Tom, and Shintaro—sure looks to me like Tokyo is the place to be! With a little prodding, Pfeister came up with a little more color around the trip to Mexico: “I was in South America with Maricar and the boys as part of her sabbatical. The trip was 3 weeks long and included skiing in Chile, beach in Peru, Machu Pichu, Cusco, and Lima. We topped it all off with some fine dining in Mexico City, where Natalia made me eat ants and worms. The lesson learned is that vacationing with small children is not actually a vacation. Normally I’d direct you to my large cache of photos from the trip, but I feel like I already make enough appearances in the Tuck Today. Also I don’t really trust what you’ll do with that much information.” I have no idea what you’re talking about. But the links you sent didn’t limit me to just those photos.... (mwa ha ha ha).

The Koether party

In case you didn’t catch that spilling of the beans, Christian and Christina are having a mini-Koether. If you’ve not yet met his wife, let me set your collective minds at ease: there’s a good amount of positive dilutive forces going on there! Looks like it was quite a crowd, and this T’07 is fairly envious she lived too far away to invite herself.

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CL ASS NOTES Lauren King also let us know that freedom can be had for a select few: “And in 3 weeks we are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary and taking our first vacation together sans kids—to Chicago—and we have a reservation at Alinea!” Lauren, we don’t want an update on your anniversary details, but we do want to know how to escape our children. Even to Chicago, at the time we’re all reading this. Tony Portera was in fact shamed into a quick note after an unsuccessful mere proof of life: “Ha! I will have so much more info for the NEXT one. We are expecting baby #5 in December, and by then I will have more to tell about the classic car the older kids and I are restoring in between all my BCG travel, yet still making use of the $5 co-pay babies on consulting firm insurance...just save me a spot in that update, stay tuned.” Tony, stay tuned for the next Tuck update yourself. You’ll want to pay close attention to Lauren’s instructions. Lisa Wang wrote in to say that she’s still carrying the Wang family brainpower, as she has the best commute of all of us. And to pull it off in San Francisco? Brilliant...just brilliant. Only Uber is more ticked off than your classmates, Lisa: “I actually have news this time and your email has reminded me to pipe up. I left Schwab after 5 great years and joined the corporate strategy group at Wells Fargo. I tripled my commute time from a 5-minute to a 15-minute walk! My first day at Wells was last week. Grant started kindergarten and Sophie started preschool. We’re still enjoying living the city life in SF.” And you wondered where in the world Nuno Soares Carneiro was? Well, we now know. Seems he’s stayed put for a while Down Under: “After 4 years in Dubai and almost two years in Mozambique, Toni and I have been living in Perth, Australia, for the last 2+ years. Our son Theo turns 4 this month and we are currently vacationing in Portugal, where we will spend his birthday. I’m missing all my Tuckies dearly and extend a warm welcome to any willing to make the trek to Perth. Come hide from North Hemisphere winter in Australia....” Scott Seiffert finished off with a scintillating invite, in case Nuno’s Perth summers aren’t your cup of tea (and you are clearly insane): “Still in Cincinnati, still at P&G, until my Tuck friends come up with a lucrative option that

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would move me to New England (or anywhere else). Until then, buy lots of Metamucil! Look me up if you are ever in Cincy. scott.a.seiffert@ gmail.com or 607-351-6162.” And this segues nicely into the next section with an update from Ben Flaim, who is a regular attendee Chez Perrygo but rarely speaks in the third person. Which we are herewith changing: “Ben, Kate, Tuck (4), and Ellie (2) Flaim are wrapping up what’s been a very busy summer. They started by surprising Ben’s mom with a trip to Ireland in June, followed by a week in Provence relaxing by the pool. In July, they went to their beloved Rockywold Deephaven Camps in New Hampshire and ran into Andrew Smith at the next dock (a happy coincidence!). Ask Tuck about Andrew’s niece.

Leslie still freaks me out at how smart AND funny she is. At the same time! She’s kicking around some major changes that will have to save for her own Tuck Today update...but in the meantime is keeping Coach in line financially and still training for a marathon after a foot injury sidelined the last attempt. Not too long after NY, Doug Perrygo T’06, Jake, and I tested the limits of international and East-West relations by vacationing up on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire with Tony Hanlon’s family and Whitney and Peter Chiu. I’m pleased to say we all had a blast and, surprisingly, Whitney and Peter still got some sleep. Occasionally. We are now planning next summer in Italy!

“Ben and Kate then hosted Brian, Liz and Luke Fairweather for a whirlwind trip, where they celebrated Ben’s, Kate’s, and Ellie’s birthdays (7/31, 8/1, and 8/2, respectively). They’re rounding out their summer with visits from Ben’s mom and Kate’s parents, then getting ready for Tuck and Ellie to go back to preschool in the fall. They’ve loved seeing so many friends but will be taking some time in Rome to actually see each other for their 15th anniversary in October. Please let them know if you’re in the Cambridge area at some point. Once they’ve recovered from revolving-door syndrome, they’d love to see you.” Visitations and Coffee Talks What a great summer seeing so many of you. A “decent-for-the-Northeast” Mexican dinner was had in the Big Apple with Sonali Aggarwal, Leslie Hampel, and Mariela Martinez Murphy: Mariela and Ryan are excited about welcoming their first little one sometime about the time you’re reading this. They both work for Citibank and are living the dream in New York. Sonali has big news she swore me to secrecy over but then published it on Facebook—so if you want to know, you need to be her “friend.” Phhbbbbth. She also works with Citibank and is one of the rare grads who actually really likes what she’s doing.

The Perrygos at Fenway

Hanlon has taken on a “real” job with Brewin Dolphin, driving that Tuck-owned position of strategy. He and Marisa just bought a new home in Seven Oaks, living the British version of the ’burbs dreams. He also had a quick flyby after Labor Day, where he and his brother-inlaw, Simon Ling, sailed Team RABF Spitfire to a spectacular finish (beating several all-pro teams) at the J/70 World Championship in Newport, RI. Peter is loving the Google, and Whitney was recently promoted to director at Wedding Paper Divas (part of Shutterfly) and likes it too.

However, I’m pretty sure after this update, Lisa Wang has a target on her back for her commute time! The Perrygos almost have the Chius convinced that NH is in their very near future for permanent residency...can you help us out, Fox family? Also helping out on that front and dropping by was Marc Aquila, with Christina and Violet. He was missing the orange crocs but otherwise thoroughly enjoying his beekeeping life on a farm in Vermont and awaiting their second small Aquila. Cute as ever. Shortly after our lake vacation, we headed down to Westport, CT, to visit with the Kings and Chrissy Quirolo O’Keeffe, Jon, and Henry. All the little boys had a field day—and Ben has identified his second profession as a children’s band leader! But Ben’s still at Bain as the right-hand man to someone important, while Lauren continues to lead her investment firm Compass Financial Group. Chrissy is still at American Express and loves the people she works with, even if not the commute. With the Flaims saw FBI Special Agent Brian Fairweather and his wife Liz and son Luke. If you want to know what Brian is up to—well, he’s famous. I’m pretty sure a CSI episode will be created out of his latest adventure! Not kidding, give Peter’s gig a boost and Google it. Somewhere in there we ran by Christine and Matt T’06 Schuldt out in Wellesley. They hosted the Seiffert crew, and I got to sit on their back patio for a catch-up. Christine is staying busy chasing two very industrious kiddos around and still running the college stats website she and Matt started before Tuck. All summer long I see Jill Branca at the Red Sox games. She’s no longer in China every other week, her golf handicap is still better than my retired father’s, and she recently bought her parents’ ski condo up in Sugarbush (since she used it more than they). I got lucky enough to tag Errik Anderson right after his latest baby girl addition. Yes, Emily looked like Miss America 23 seconds after giving birth! And Andrew Smith’s Emily is not to be outdone and is due with their third by the time you’re reading this. I see ATDynamics EVERYWHERE, and the Smiths are on the list to convince moving into our growing NH commune.

I did also get in a quick chat with Hilary Halper, who remains across the pond in London. She is pretty excited to have a life outside of work for the first time, well, ever. Since starting with GSK, she finds herself having so much time on her hands to do things during the week that she’s exhausted by the time Friday rolls around. Maansi, pay attention. This could be you. Elizabeth Chaytors and her family are regular visitors too, even though they recently moved to Winchester. She continues to direct the marketing strategy over at our favorite Boston Beer Company and has even developed a discerning palate for it! Perhaps she and Rohit can compare notes.... Winding Down And thus concludes my turn at the wheel! If you’ve made it this far, good heavens. I hope it was with a healthy slug of adult beverage at the ready as I’m 50 words away from the max. Just remember, my friends, the secret to life is “t”....make it count!

’08 Allison Curran 2920 Aldrich Avenue S, Unit 537 Minneapolis, MN 55408 amc0501@hotmail.com

Dennis Lasko PO Box 4668 #8167 New York, NY 10163-4668 dennislasko@gmail.com

’09 Patricia Henderson 1807 South Genessee Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019 patricia.henderson09@gmail.com

Colin Van Ostern 21 Tremont Street Concord, NH 03301 colin@washstreet.com

More than 100 of our classmates made plans to visit Hanover for our fifth reunion in the fall of 2014, braving air delays, traffic, and juggling hotel reservations to eventually find themselves in the paradise on earth that is Hanover, New Hampshire. So we thought we’d take a minute in this edition of your faithful class notes to put the spotlight on a few of our fellow T’09s whose schedules, spouses, wallets, children, bosses, or other worldly forces kept them from visiting Dartmouth in the fall. Mike Parker reports that the Parkers are doing great in Silicon Valley. Mike works for SuccessFactors/SAP and reports he is angling to take control of the world...or at least take control of his calendar! Rachelle has gone back to nurse practitioner school (her turn!) and will graduate at the end of the year. Michael III (11) and David (9) are doing great in school and spending their free time playing for the Jr. San Jose Sharks, doing some golfing and playing in the school band.

Louisa Roberts 310 West 52nd Street #24A New York, NY 10019 louisa.roberts@ideapharma.com

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CL ASS NOTES Eric Yu, of course, sends a perfectly structured class notes update from China: “Class notes are all about marriage, kids, Reunion, and work, ranked from most important to least. My status is still the same for nos. 1, 2, and 4 for past two years—sorry for being unexciting. I did have many reunions with Tuckies as more and more of them choose to come back to China to work making the China Tuck group keep getting bigger. I am able to keep abreast of Tuck through current students. For example the class size has hit ~280; the downtown Yama is gone; and NH’s former governor, John Lynch, now teaches at Tuck.” In lieu of any new news on the marriage or kids front, Eric sends a picture taken near the Yonghe Lama Temple, of him, Jackie, and Ray Luan T’10 with T’15s who were taking a break in Beijing after summer internships in U.S. and China. Meg (Kibbee) Weltzer offered the best excuse for missing Reunion (well, except for living in China, I guess): she was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Baby Girl Weltzer in December (no flying after September). Meg has been busily preparing by taking several mini-babymoons and getting lots of ironic onesies (and, knowing her, basically breaking all the rules about what you are and aren’t supposed to eat while pregnant. Toro, marrow and sake are all good for the baby, right?) Neill Hunt and wife Nicola are living in Reading, just outside of London. Son Benjamin has started school and both he and their daughter Emily are doing well. In December Neill started as head of strategy at Element Six, an independent subsidiary of De Beers that synthesizes artificial diamonds for industrial use. There is likely no truth to the rumor that he secretly marshaled the No vote on Scottish independence this fall from a classified bunker under the River Thames. Bart Van Nuffel and wife Marie have successfully squired four children into the world in the past four years (yes, twins were involved, last April!). He promises a stateside visit before our 10-year reunion. (Anyone else terrified by the idea of 2019? When do the jetpacks arrive??) Marie remains key account manager wines for Pernod-Ricard but she now travels less. Which is probably actually somewhat unfortunate for her, because her work travel mainly consists of visiting her vineyards around the world. Any management

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Hayden Victoria McConathy

The Van Nuffel Clan

consultants out there jealous? Bart left investment banking pre-twins, and reports in what seems to not be a joke: “Am looking to acquire a medium-sized company...hopefully I can close a transaction by end of 1H 2015.” For the record, some of us are still hoping to acquire a medium-sized house. Or, you know, a positive net worth. Weimin Ni started a kitchen-appliances company when coming back to China in 2009. He could not make it to Hanover for the reunion due to...um, wait, the last sentence in his update is, “I am not sure whether this update should go to class notes.” OK, we’ll err on the side of discretion here, but let’s just say that anyone who says China isn’t serious about IP laws hasn’t talked with Weimin lately. (We’re sure it’s not as bad as that makes it sound!) And of course, we have great news from several of our classmates who were in fact on the Reunion list but whose news was too great to skip. Sydney (Johnston) McConathy and husband Chad welcomed daughter Hayden Victoria McConathy on her due date, May 29, 2014. She was delivered in a very quick 5 hours and her stats were 8 lbs, 3 oz and 20’’. Her older brother,

Declan, is taking very nicely to his new role! Hayden has already enjoyed playing with other Tiny Tuckies in Denver, such as Alexandra Galemba (Dan and Rebecca) and Hayden and Harvey Russell (Ben and Chelsey Russell T’10). Nitesh Dixit has had an eventful 2014: Tiny Tuckie Kabir was born a Canadian on the 5th of March in beautiful British Columbia, where Nitesh and Shilpi have been living the last 2 years on temporary assignment. He was finally able to do a mini-reunion with Zeeb Dutton, the other Tuckie on island a few weeks before the 5-year reunion! While working full time, Nitesh has also started investing in a crowdfunding venture capital firm, GlobeVestor, and through that in Flinto, a T’11 startup. This fall, he one-up’d Tuck class notes editor Colin Van Ostern by hijacking Teguh Situmorang’s 200+ person cc’d Reunion email invite to welcome his classmates to invest in angel funds in India via his new platform. And Huishan Park, Shantanu Mathur, Aaron Mihaly, and Ivy Jia couldn’t help themselves before they replied-to-all, prompting fond memories of Safe Rides emails and sectionwide OneNote sessions. Lindsay McPherson [Batastini] and husband Matt welcomed son Jack McPherson Batastini on April 30th at 8:36 a.m. He was quite the little peanut, weighing 6 lbs, 6oz and measuring 21 inches long. Lindsay and Matt are loving parenthood, appreciate that he is a good sleeper, and look forward to his first trip

’11 Amanda Knappman 951 Fell Street, #331 Baltimore, MD 21231 aknappman@gmail.com

Shaun Mehtani Kabir Dixit

to Tuck for Reunion (a short drive from Maine, where Lindsay is working as a brand manager at Tom’s of Maine). Otto Krusius and wife Lauren had their first child last spring, a lovely little girl named Anna Elise Krusius, at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA: “She is off to a great start, giving us a new set of challenges, and looking forward to her Hanover visits.” Otto and Lauren are still living on the Peninsula in the Bay Area and enjoyed taking some time off work to get to know Anna after ~70 weeks of straight travel.

10 West Street, #17C New York, NY 10004 shaun.mehtani@gmail.com

Katie, Ted, and Teddy Wilson

Natick, Massachusetts - Amanda and John Moran’s daughter, Avery, was born on February 20. Dad reluctantly reported that big brother Jackson isn’t great at pong yet.

’10 Michelle Mejia 401 1st Street South #121 Minneapolis, MN 55401 michellemejia02@gmail.com

Jonathan Piques 5112 Evergreen Drive Wilmington, MA 01887 jonathan.piques@gmail.com

Matt Proch-Wilson 29 Worcester Square #2 Boston, MA 01890 mattprochwilson@hotmail.com

Benjamin Allen

Hadley Fuller Allen and Brian Allen [T’08] report the arrival of Benjamin Allen on August 4th! And finally, a bit late but never too late, Ted Wilson and wife Katie welcomed a son, Theodore Dolan Wilson Jr., “Teddy,” on October 15, 2013! Tuck Love, Colin & Patricia

Chile - Fernanda and Federica and Francisco Dondo left New York in December 2013 and moved to Chile, where ’Sco is working for a local consulting firm.

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Westwood, Massachusetts - Joan and Bryan Head welcomed second son William to the family on March 20 (joins big brother James). Bryan is now a project leader at BCG. Boston, Massachusetts - Erika and Jaime Alders welcomed Marshall into their lives on April 19. The couple was unable to provide an update since they’re too busy telling Parker all about science (per demands), rescuing Charlotte from getting pushed around by her big brother, and attending to Marshall being an infant. Rochester, New York - Danner Hickman joined Broadstone Real Estate as the director of research and analysis in May. She confirms a Tuck community does exist in Rochester and that all 10 of them are very excited to have found one another. Minneapolis, MN - Nicole Dotts-Wright was appointed senior associate marketing manager, Food Should Taste Good, at General Mills. Nicole should note that her class secretaries would like to request some Annie’s Shells & White Cheddar macaroni and cheese, please. Luxembourg - Vera Guerreiro welcomed smiling baby Olivia to the family on May 19 and will be back at work at Amazon on

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Erika Wool and John Shea were married at Billings Farm on May 31.

September 1. Xavier, who just turned 2, is enjoying his new role as big brother. Morristown, New Jersey - Caitlin and Dan Yacey had a baby named Jane Marie on May 29. Woodstock, Vermont - Erika Wool and John Shea married close to Tuck, the birthplace of their love, at Billings Farm on May 31. The bride reports that there were more sheep and cows present than people. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France - Shaun Mehtani and Maria Nateva were wed by former roommate Matt Stoner on June 15 at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. The couple had an Indian celebration in New Jersey a few days prior to appease the groom’s demanding parents. Cinque Terre, Italy - Amanda Knappman nearly fell off a mountain on June 17 while

Shaun Mehtani and Maria Nateva with Tuckies and their plus ones at the welcome reception prior to the wedding

trying to keep up the pace with aggressive hikers Paul Kim, Christine Ahn, Matt Stoner, Allison Webb, Ian Teh, Fay Gosiengfiao, Sean Heikkila, Sara Glazer, and Noelle Navas. The group enjoyed recuperating in nearby Genova. Reykjavik, Iceland - James Hay and Maren Osp Hauksdottir wed on July 12 in the bride’s home country. The groom wore a kilt as is tradition in his Scottish heritage. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Kerry and Daniel Reed welcomed son Owen Waring Reed on July 18. Hopefully, this is their last move for a while (5th state since Tuck...)! Seattle, Washington - Laura and Steve Hooper welcomed a daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Hooper, into their home on July 23. She’s long and lean like her dad, but fortunately for everyone she has her mother’s features. San Francisco, California - One day later, Christen Ardus and Nick Blum welcomed James Theodore in their lives. The couple writes that he already has great Tripod League hockey hair - long in the back and short/balding up top. San Francisco, California - Jessi England placed quite well in the SF marathon on July 27. The enthusiastic runner was all smiles on the outside (not so much on the inside) at mile 21.

James Hay married Maren Osp Hauksdottir on July 12 in Iceland.

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Vail, Colorado - Erin Schallhorn and Ryan Powers said their vows on August 2 at a breathtaking outdoor ceremony. They currently reside in Fort Worth, Texas, and note that the

best part of being married is not planning a wedding. Los Olivos, CA - Serena Kuo married Jon Koegler at Firestone Vineyard on August 2. The bride and groom are still unsure how many guests incorrectly congratulated Jon’s twin brother during the reception. Toronto, Canada - Jordan Barnett, Laura, and Hunter (big brother) said hello to Dylan Alexander on August 13. Hunter is starting to warm up to his little brother. Jordan did his part by being there. County Clare, Ireland - Julian Nemirovsky married Michelle Oliver in her home country on August 16. The bride was happy that it didn’t rain. The groom was ecstatic that everyone was sufficiently inebriated. Greenville, DE – Richard Smith and Jen Novak had a lovely wedding at the Christ Church on August 23. Richard noted that the most remarkable aspect of the wedding was the number of separate stories of British people coming into the country who were extensively grilled by U.S. immigration agents as to why on earth they would be coming to the U.S. to visit Delaware. Apparently, it’s not a common thing. Bangalore, India - Kaushik Mohan married Sheetal Ramdas on August 31. The couple is moving from Bombay, India, to Singapore, where the groom has taken an offer to join the new Parthenon office.

Mount Hood, Oregon - Melissa Vess and Fred Schwarz T’12 tied the knot on September 6 at a stunning farm surrounded by golden fields. A fitting setting considering the fact that they met at a lodge in the woods on a big starry night. Santa Barbara, California - Grady Snyder married Lori Rice on September 13 at Ranchos Dos Pueblos. The venue is part ranch and part barn. The groom’s second-year house’s name was The Ranch and the bride’s was The Barn. How truly fitting! Grady joined Audentes Therapeutics, a gene therapy startup in San Francisco, shortly before the wedding. Newport, Rhode Island - Matt Stoner and Allison Webb tied the knot on September 19 at the Castle Hill Inn. The stunning bride was dressed in a gown by her former employer Oscar de la Renta. Washington, D.C. - Noelle Navas and Drew Brinkman said their “I Dos” on September 19. The beautiful couple later strolled through the National Arboretum to pose for wedding photos before heading out of town to continue the celebration. Los Angeles, California - Shortly after leaving Samsung and moving stateside, Juston Johnson became a full-fledged Apple employee after the company’s acquisition of Beats Electronics. He currently uses either an Apple phone or a Samsung phone but probably won’t tell us which one for sure.

Grady Snyder gets a hand from Lori Rice at their September 13th wedding, with the help of some fellow T’11 Tuckies

As the T’16 class begins its journey in Hanover, I’m sure we (your secretaries) are not alone in wishing we could do it all again. Our class is now two years removed from graduation, but we have seen no slowdown in the large number of huge life events generated by our classmates. Weddings, engagements, births, new jobs, and a new startup continue to change our lives. Every excuse for a Tuck reunion is met with excitement. NOTE: We are giving Ian a brief respite from his usual guest intro in this issue. Ian—consider this your baby gift and part of your paternity leave. Congratulations!

’12 Derrick Deese 929 Portland Avenue, Apt. 712 Minneapolis, MN 55404 derrick.deese@gmail.com

Roman Hughes 1 Harborside Place, Apt. 345 Jersey City, NJ 07311 romanhughes@gmail.com

Ben Tilton 11 Milford Street, Apt. 1 Boston, MA 02118 benjamin.tilton@gmail.com

Startups: T’12s continue to say goodbye to their jobs with “The Man” to set off on their own business ventures. Earlier this year, Jason Rivas and Vasilios Alexiou left their positions at Citigroup and Accenture, respectively, to form a new company, FirmPlay (www.firmplay.com). FirmPlay is a new website that gives job seekers a behindthe-scenes look at awesome companies, using videos and photos. The website allows for a more visual job search to augment the typically stale, text-based job descriptions that have dominated online job searching for nearly two decades. The goal: help people find a job they’ll love, while helping companies showcase their culture to hire the right talent. FirmPlay currently features technology companies based in Boston and is in the process of opening its platform to companies based in other major U.S. cities. The company plans to grow from its current 40 featured employers to 100+ in the next few months. In addition, Jason and Vasilios are actively looking for a technical lead/CTO to further develop the company’s product and aim to secure seed investment to support continued expansion of the business. Nate Sharp and Greg Kimball are continuing in the entrepreneurial space. Nate has moved to NYC and is working on a new project called Cinch, a visual polling app. Shoot him a note to test it out, and Tuckies across the country can begin helping you make decisions. Please join us in congratulating them! Gents— know that we and your Tuck classmates are here to help you whenever you need it.

Melissa Vess and Fred Schwarz (T’12) tied the knot on September 6th, surrounded by Tuckies!

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Sophie Roux and David Leal’s wedding

Grace Chan and Eric Markus

Kirsten Barnum and Alejandro Sandoval

Weddings & Engagements: When they say Tuckies love each other, they aren’t kidding. Our class has celebrated a number of weddings and engagements over the last several months.

references/other spontaneous tie-dye karaoke nights. • Dan Linsalata got engaged to Donna Schaller. We’re especially happy with this one, as we thought DFL was virtually unmarriable. • Cal Arnold and Addison Lanier are slated for fall weddings (not together, obviously).

Mother and baby are both doing well, and the Hanover couple is enjoying getting to know their bundle of love. They’ve also moved to a gorgeous new house across from the golf course, so be extra careful on the 8th hole from now on. • Alicia and Aman Bajwa are expecting their first child!

• Fred Schwarz and Melissa Vess T’11 were married at the foot of Mt. Hood in Portland, Oregon. • Sophie Roux and David Leal got hitched in Smithtown, NY. • Erik Kankainen and Jacqueline O’Brien were married in Maine. • Ose Oteze married Chris Parlee on Cape Cod, and they immediately moved to scenic Detroit. Visitors are welcome! • Justin Bain and Lauren McCullough were married in New England. • Katie Witman and Taylor Bowman got hitched at Woodstock. • Eric Markus and Grace Chan got married on June 7th in Napa Valley, California, at the Auberge du Soleil hotel. Both Eric and Grace are doing great. To top off getting married to the topic of the 2011 Frosty Jester, Grace also got a new job, brand manager at LVMH in New York. Drinks on Grace next time you’re out with her! • Alejandro Sandoval and Kirsten Barnum were married in Morristown, NJ, in a beautiful bilingual ceremony. • Jordan Esten and Kelly Sennatt were married in Greenwich, CT. • Tam Ngo married Michael Benjamin in Boston. • Erin Wilson married Amelia Manderscheid in Brooklyn. • Jason Gannett married Kaitie Donovan T’13 in Wisconsin. • Debbie Soon married Art Sadovsky in Seattle, WA . • Lisa Hochman got engaged to Seth Wolkoff and they are living happily in Chi-town. • Rich King and Koushi Sunder T’13 are engaged. We’re looking forward to Koushi’s posts of wedding planning/Oregon football

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Oh Baby: T’12 families are expanding left and right, quickly filling spots in the 2040 Tuck Class. • Ian Warthin—“Laura and I hope you will join us in welcoming Owen Patrick Warthin into our world. Owen was born at 4:01 p.m. EST on Thursday, August 21st, weighing in at 8 lbs, 6.4 oz and at a length of 21 inches. Both mother and baby are healthy and, in my eyes, Laura is the strongest person I know. Owen is a sleepy Leo during these first few days, but in the coming months we are very excited to have him meet all of you! Much love from our growing family. ~Owen, Laura, Ian & Zucca” • Maca and Seba welcomed son number two, Bautista. • Lee Taylor and Andrea T’11 are expecting their first (a boy). While they don’t have a name just yet, they are tentatively calling him “Cinco” in respect of Lee’s longstanding name and also Andrea’s love for Chipotle. • Gardiner and Jen welcomed their first child, a beautiful daughter, Lydie. • Wade “Baby Maker” Barnes and his wife, Stephanie, welcomed their first girl, Zoe Rose. • Meredith and Chris Lapointe welcomed Connor Christopher Lapointe into the family on August 18th. He’s already got applications filled out for both Dartmouth and Tuck. • Liam Kerry & Kyle are expecting TWINS. • Simon Fowles and his wife, Morgan, are loving life in London and are expecting their first child, a girl, at the end of September. • Renata and Topher Watts T’11 welcomed beautiful Phoebe. She arrived September 7, Brazilian Independence Day, at 6:28 p.m., weighing 6 lbs, 15 oz and measuring 19 inches.

Job Changes and Moves: the post-business school first job exodus has continued. T’12s have begun job searches left and right as they hit their two-year anniversaries in banking, consulting, and marketing. • Tanya Thomas wrote in about her crazy journey. “4 years (in the U.S.) and 4 states later, I now find myself in the wonderful city of Chicago. It was a summer filled with change— new city, new job. And I love that 2 years after graduating, I keenly feel the strong bond with Tuck. I work in a firm run by a couple of T’03s, and I (finally) live in a city that actually has Tuckies! I will say this—change has never been this exhilarating for me. I look forward to reconnecting with friends and classmates in The Windy City. And here’s to hoping there are no more moves in the (immediate) future. :)” • Jeff Millman started a new role in September with JP Morgan. • David Leal made an internal move at BoA Merrill that has him you are allowed to have a life in NYC. • Tulio Landin took a new job as CFO at Track&Field. Still holds the torch for coolest job(s) post-Tuck. • Abdullah Wright, Fred Schwarz, Ose Oteze, Vivek Narasimhan, and Ellen [Regennitter] Pubal were all promoted to manager at Monitor Deloitte. • Lauren Bain was promoted to manager of professional development and Andrew Akers and Bryan Gelnett to engagement manager at McKinsey. • Megh Umekar was promoted to project leader at BCG.

WRONG. This edition, like others, basically wrote itself. As we get further and further into adulthood, moving on up in life, making it rain, etc., we wanted to organize the recap with songs that graced* our youth/Tuck experience. (*some may disagree with this adjective)

Bienvenue to Owen Patrick Warthin, future Tuck Follies star

Meredith, Chris, and baby Connor Lapointe

• Jackie Kankainen took a new job as senior manager of brand strategy at Reebok.

Ben just completed a move from Boston back to New York’s Upper West Side, his second stint in the city. He also left behind the constant travel and long hours of consulting and started a job as senior product manager at MyHabit.com, an Amazon.com subsidiary. He’ll be leading new strategic projects and initiatives aimed at growth. He hopes you will all use your lunch breaks efficiently and get your flash-sale fix on MyHabit. He’s also excited to be actually sleeping regularly in the apartment that he’s paying to rent. Let him and Roman know as you plan trips to NYC so they can gather a crowd!

Also, we continue to excel at scouring all the social media for your updates, however, Derrick is still slowly adjusting to Foursquare’s new Swarm. He thinks he has finally figured it out but also continues to use Path while getting harassed by Boomgard about this. Despite our social media prowess, we know we miss major life events. So, please help us by sending in your own creative updates. They’re more fun to read and no one knows you better than you...we think.... As for your faithful secretaries, the last several months have brought some large life changes as well.... Derrick was really tired of being so cold in Minneapolis. So tired that he actually moved to Seattle and took a job at Amazon, where he joins a growing army of Amazonians in the Seattle area. He lives with his girlfriend, Natalie, and has been enjoying the West Coast so far. Natalie is keeping him in check and documenting their time in Seattle since he’s too busy figuring out Swarm. He’s been enjoying the dogs at work and the kegs in the office. He’s managed to keep his shirt on at work thus far even though there’s beer around, but that may change during the fourth quarter when things get hectic. Roman has moved to a new role in RB as ABM Digital, where he’ll be working on brand equity for the healthcare portfolio. On the household front, the Hughes B&B is still going strong with a year-to-date occupancy rate of 35% (the price of $0 a night is pretty appealing, it seems). Flo should probably be getting a master’s degree in hotel management at this point. In other news, Roman’s cousin Felipe has just started in the T’16 class, which we’re very excited about, as we now have an excuse to go up often for the next 2 years!

“Got Your Money” — ODB (1999) Thanks to everyone who gave last year, and please continue to donate!

’13 Anne Duggan 133 Saint Botolph St., Apt 3 Boston, MA 02115 anneboydduggan@gmail.com

Uttara Sukumar 84b St. John’s Wood High Street London NW8 7SH England uttasuka@gmail.com

Liz Yepsen Brandschenkestrasse 110 8002 Zurich Switzerland elizabeth.yepsen@gmail.com

Hello, dear Tuckies. We thought that we would have to get a bit creative for this third edition of our class notes, because surely there will be a lull in WEBs (weddings-engagements-babies), right?

“Baby-Baby-Baby” — TLC (1992) This edition did not have a shortage of Tiny Tuckies welcomed into this world. Our resident German Felix Schmid welcomed baby Ella Louise in April. All the way in São Paulo, Joao Felipe Viana and wife Patricia Magalhaes had a beloved baby daughter, Luizia, on May 7th. Mike Friedman and wife Liza welcomed baby Meyer to the world on June 1, 2014—who Liza described as a 6 pound, 19 inch “clone” of Mike. Betsabeh Madani and husband Markus welcomed a summer baby, Adelinde Persis Saxon Hermann, on August 26th. “Baby One More Time” — Britney (1999) A few Tuckies also added to their growing families with some additional cuteness. Jesse Toronto and wife Tiffany also welcomed Taylor Christine on April 24th, 6 lbs, 15 oz: “Tiffany and I welcomed our fourth tax credit (daughter) Taylor Christine in April. She is super-happy and healthy.” Henrique Thielen and wife Natalia welcomed their third child, daughter Valentina, on September 9th in Seoul, Korea. Be prepared for 100+ likes on Instagram. “Crazy In Love” — Beyoncé, feat. Jay Z (2003) There is no better way to prove the full networking power of Tuck than to see how many Tuckie-on-Tuckie engagements happened. First off is Phil Kim and Se Won Park in May 18, 2014, whose love is strong enough to survive walking barefoot on the street in Chennai during the India LE. A floor-3-of-Whit friendship has blossomed in lifelong cohabitation for Alvin Choy and Ashley Jisun Jeong, who got engaged in April 2014. Also engaged in April were Tory O’Kane and John Lamberth, whose relationship has clearly gone beyond PB4 and

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Adelinde joins the Tuck family.

a yellow bucket. Koushi Sunder got engaged to Rich King T’12 during an “epic” day, which included closing a deal AND Aladdin the musical on Aug. 6, 2014, in NYC. We are also including JP Cantos’s engagement to Hilda Elena Thielen, Henrique’s sister, in this category, really showing the friendly nature of Tuckies. Following JP and Hilda’s introduction at Tuck graduation, Natalia Gaitan spent three weeks making sure both parties were aware of mutual interest, and JP made an expensive long-distance phone call to Korea to tell Henrique of his noble intentions of a dinner request. The rest is history. (Look for the photo on myTUCK!) But we’re not finished here. Love was in the air this summer, and engagements that expand the Tuck family were Kuu Hagan and Tshidi Selokoma (July 2014), Dan Esdorn to Marla Menninger (July 2014), Gianmarco Franco Paurinotto to Besiana Besler (August 2014), and Francis Lee to someone* (September 2014). (*Francis was too busy proposing, going to Alaska, and closing deals to respond to emails. Please see end of notes for related banker topic.) “All My Life” — K-Ci and Jojo (1999 — DAMN, how is every song from 1999?) We couldn’t be happier for the Tuckies who said “I do” in style.

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Dan Kane married Sharon Tully in the Presidio of San Francisco, CA, April 25, where rain couldn’t dampen their big day, only produce adorable photos with umbrellas. (check out myTUCK for photo) Salome Katwiwa wed Robby Jeune, June 6, 2014, Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Attendees included Bridesmaids Hana Hassan, Yamini Jagannadhan, Joyce Cadesca, and Jamie Lippman. Kaitie Donovan married Jason Gannett T’12 August 23, 2014, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, cementing their love of golf (and each other) with signature place holders and a honeymoon in Hawaii...to play golf. No cheeseheads were spotted at the wedding, which seems like a loss of a perfectly good trip to Green Bay.

T’13 Kaitie and T’12 Jason wed in WI

his 9th-grade crush, marrying Janelle Laudone on September 13 at Blithewold Mansion in Bristol, Rhode Island, the same stunning location as Anne Duggan’s wedding (keeping the Tuck networking strong); 17 Tuckies and TPs attended. “Hustlin’” — Rick Ross (2006)

Brad Callow and Katie Gagne wed at Tuck

Graham Lincoln married Hillary Rose in July, and Hot Thayer Dan Harburg married Natalia Wrobel August 2014 in Hanover, NH. Let’s just assume it wasn’t as Tuck-amazing as our next wedding that was also held in Hanover: our first intra-T’13 engagement of Katie Gagne and Brad Callow is also our first intra-T’13 wedding, fittingly held in the Southwell Courtyard at Tuck on August 30, 2014. Other Tuck-appropriate accoutrements included a reception at the Hanover Inn, a semi-T’13 band reunion (Catherine Jonash sang a rendition of Sugarland’s “Want To” and Brad entertained the crowd with his own rendition of “Wagon Wheel”), a slew of Tuckies in attendance and part of the wedding party, including brother Dane Callow T’10 and Tuck mom Sally Jaeger, and, of course, an after-party at Murphy’s. Walker Fullerton and Jess Harrison, a couple who got engaged on a mountain, decided to upgrade their mountain trend from their engagement on Snake Mtn. and wed literally on the top of Aspen Mountain in CO on September 6, 2014. Dave Rader finally captured

Shout-outs to our entrepreneurs making it rain. Walker Fullerton didn’t think that getting married was enough this year and started a business, PowderHunter, which gives skiers and snowboarders access to the best powder and on-mountain experience (leaving from Boston, New York, and San Francisco). No further explanation needed. Sign us up: www. skipowderhunter.com. Keyen Farrell started Consistent Conversion, a digital advertising consultancy specializing in Google AdWords. Working with a few others, Keyen spent a few months developing some software that will automatically access an AdWords account and search for ways to improve performance. “Using this technology as a foundation, we provide monthly account management services to Google advertisers looking to improve their AdWords ROI.” www.consistentconversion. com. Carmen Linares submitted her own update: “Since we left Tuck, there have been many changes in my life. In the career side, I jumped in the pool of entrepreneurship and started a real estate business called West Wheelock, as a tribute to the hours playing pong at Tomas and Pablo’s house, with Tony Ettinger T’81 and two other partners. We work with PE firms sourcing and managing

residential real estate investments on the coast of Spain. So if you aren’t too overwhelmed by your MBA loans and you are in the market for a holiday apartment, give me a call! This business also brought me back to Spain in May, ending my 3-year adventure in the U.S. And even though it’s nice to be back, I miss Tuck a lot and I am looking forward to our first reunion.” Carmen also suggests moving the reunion to Spain, especially because she is based in Marbella, well known for its parties and its 300 sunny days per year, tons of Ibérico ham, and Rioja wine. And there’s Quentin Reeve’s private wealth management firm in Australia—we suggest the tagline be “where the surf and your portfolio are always up.” “Shiny Happy People” — R.E.M. (1991) (I can’t find a reunion song—any ideas?) Let’s face it—we can’t go 6 months without at least a couple of reunions. Too much FOMO. A few to note are the following: Betsabeh Madani: “During my trip to Tokyo in March as part of the Business and Society Conference, I got to enjoy a mini-reunion with T’13s and T’14s. Definitely a larger crowd of Tuckies there than we have in Vancouver or Kansas City.” Chris Pearson-Smith had a #wunderbar gathering with Mathieu Pluvinage and Jenn Causton in Berlin, filled with patios, parties, and currywurst. The ladies of #teammoose reunited in London at Uttara Sukumar’s place. The group, which included Hannah Yankelevich, Elizabeth Trenkle, Kelsey Ayres, and Joya Zuber, also travelled to Paris in style, experiencing an epic night of dancing under the Tour Eiffel until the sun came up. The Igoes, McCaffertys, and the Fogartys and their brood of adorable Tiny Tuckies met up on Shelter Island, NY, for a weekend of summer fun, hoping to make it an annual event.

“I Heard It Through The Grapevine” — Marvin Gaye (1968) (OK, so sometimes it is Facebook, Instagram, or other social media. We admit it!) Transportation-related: For those living in Boston and living near Whole Foods, you may have seen Dave Sibley on his new scooter, which has been purchased in order to drive to Whole Foods to buy organic foods to cook for his lady while getting 99 miles per 1 gallon. An anonymous source described this new ride: “kinda looks like a Power Wheels.” (check myTUCK for a frameworthy photo) An An has decided to moonlight as a taxi driver, signing up for Sidecar, another version of Lyft or Uber. For those in the Seattle area, An’s code is AN24. Adventure: Mukul Kumar and Jesse Toronto made it up to hike the Presidential traverse in NH in July, enjoying some time out of the office. (check myTUCK) Not to be outdone by himself, Jesse and Sam Pond completed the North Country Endurance Challenge (67 miles total) in Pittsburgh, NH, with 9 miles of kayaking, 17 miles of trail and mountain running, and 41 miles of mountain biking deep in the NH woods, in just 11 short hours! Reminds us of the time Quentin ran to Moosilauke while Max and Chuck walked. April GentileMiserandino: Never one to waste a perfectly good summer, April did some canyoneering in Zion National Park, backpacked in the Tetons, and did a solo summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48. Vishnu Narayanasamy has taken his time in Hanover and the rural landscape to heart, becoming an “urban farmer,” producing about 140 lbs of tomatoes, 20 lbs of green peppers, a dozen pumpkins, and several dozen pattypan squash. He is taking orders for a 2015 CSA from his Boston farm plot now. Strengthening our Tuck Ties:

Kevin, Brud, and Brennan enjoy the beach with their daughters

Betsabeh Madani: Sponsored a Tuck FYP project with the class of T’15 on Global Healthcare Predictive Analytics. “It was an impressive work they put together and I certainly recommend FYP sponsorship...also a great excuse to visit Tuck. :) ”

“Red Red Wine” — UB40 (1983) For those of you still dealing with the fallout of the rosé shortage in the Hamptons over the summer, Rosé Club member Justin Purnell has some words on how to deal with the tragedy: “As I’m sure you all know, the biggest and worst news this summer came out of the Hamptons, where toward the end of summer their stock of rosé was down to levels not seen since last year around the end of the summer. Disaster. “While the Rosé Club’s official summer headquarters is based in Mantoloking, one of our members, Taylor Collison, opened an embassy in Montauk, and when one of us is at risk, we are all at risk. We sprang into action. “Our approach was threefold. Most important was our membership. We arranged for weekly deliveries, with our humanitarian missions led by our membership. Kate Head and I made the first trip, escorting Taylor to the Wölffer Estate, where we secured more than sufficient stock for Taylor’s compound. Our second priority was the overall market. Thus, our trip was followed by Koushi Sunder and Rick King TP’13, who evaluated the stock at several local bars, introducing the locals to survivalist skills, like the Broangina, in the event of an emergency. Tom McAndrews and Sandy Levine followed up and distracted would-be rosé drinkers with an explosion of color in a successful attempt to slow overall consumption. Our third and most important goal was making sure that this would never happen again. Tory O’Kane and John Lamberth did a final trip, leading a comprehensive 10-minute seminar on 4 + 2 for local shopkeepers and arranging for an off-season News Vendor Simulation to be run by Dave Sibley (under supervision by Mimi Macauley). “The Rosé Club is vigilantly monitoring the situation and stands ready to help any and all Tuckies in their moments of rosé need.” “I Like To Move It” — Reel 2 Real (1993) Hussein Nasreddin moved to Portland, Maine, for a 6-month assignment with Tom’s of Maine (owned by Colgate). For his move, Justin Purnell offered to lend Hus any of his Patagonia jackets (seriously). Kate Bante rejoined the world urban populous after finishing her Cargill rotation in Nebraska. She

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The debate continues; send us your thoughts or life updates and we’ll include them in the next round!

’14 Katherine Lawrence 2939A Webster Street San Francisco, CA 94123 katie.b.lawrence@gmail.com Gabriel Martinez 884 Charles Allen Drive N.E., Apt. 3 Atlanta, GA 30308 gabriel.j.martinez@gmail.com

Jessica and Rich’s wedding

Nicholas Scarchilli 636 Moody Street, Unit 3 Waltham, MA 02453 nick.scarchilli@gmail.com

Gary Aiello: “August and September were big life months.... I moved to Chicago, got married to my beautiful wife, went to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Moorea for my honeymoon and started a new job at Bain & Company. I feel very blessed to have had these experiences and am happy to have shared many of them with great friends from Tuck (all except the honeymoon, obviously, although Ahmed tried to come). Reuniting with my study group and absolutely crushing the dance floor with Pete Wing, Benjie Moll, and Ben Hall as Taylor Swift’s ‘22’ played at my wedding (looked exactly like a Raether dance party) were other big highlights. Kasia and I are hoping to make it out to Boston and NYC soon to experience some much overdue #friendship. If anyone is ever in Chicago, I bought the first decent piece of furniture of my life this year (which is something married people do, I suppose), so you have a new couch and Goose Island beer if you need a place to crash. Best of luck to all the other Tuckies who got hitched this summer; it’s too bad we missed the window on Married Men in Business.” Jessica Ji: “Rich and I were married on June 27, 2014, at the Crane Estate in Ipswich, MA. Andrew Wong officiated the ceremony, while several other Tuckies, including Nick Jameson [T’13], Lorea Barturen, Jennifer Ferrigan, and Hilary and Ryan Ferro were in attendance. After spending the summer in

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Seattle, I’ve recently moved to NYC to begin my next chapter with H&M while Rich enters his second year at Sloan. We are very much looking forward to seeing more of all of you in either Boston or NYC!” Ralph Riedel got married: On August 30th, he married Emily Cheston at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, PA, with about a dozen Tuckies in attendance. Prior to the wedding, Ralph spent the summer traveling domestically and abroad, including snorkeling off the coast of Belize and hiking through Mayan ruins in Guatemala. As of this writing, Ralph and Emily are in week two of their honeymoon, in which they are road tripping down the Pacific Northwest. The trip began with oysters and whiskey with Jake Shapiro in Seattle. Ralph begins works in McKinsey’s Philadelphia office starting September 25th.

Newly married John Kneeland

The Aiello wedding

Carolyn Redley [Crampton] had a baby! Both mama and baby are doing well. Kennedy Lana Jean Crampton, born Friday, July 11th, at 8:25 p.m., 8 lbs, 5 oz, 19.25 inches long.

John Kneeland: “I spent the summer on Cape Cod getting tanner than Roy Gibbs, then got married in Kennebunkport, Maine. Tuckies in attendance included Jeff Wannop, Rory

Murphy, Shreyas Mehta, Peter Lefeber, Roy Gibbs, Jack Kiley and significant others. We honeymooned on St. John and it was beautiful. I just started working at OC&C in Boston.”

IN MEMORIAM The Tuck School of Business offers its condolences to the families of the following alumni whose deaths have been reported to us in the past six months.

Fred E. Huntley T’46 August 6, 2014

John E. Taylor T’50 June 15, 2013

Peter M. Jebsen T’56 July 10, 2014

Walter A. Fogarty T’63 April 10, 2014

Harry F. Grieger T’47 [Date of death unknown]

Carll K. Tracy T’50 June 22, 2014

Bernard R. Siskind T’56 June 16, 2014

John H. Wyman T’65 February 20, 2014

F. Edward Molina T’47 September 27, 2014

Charles L. Abbe T’51 May 24, 2014

David K. Page T’57 July 1, 2014

Donald A. Smith T’70 August 26, 2014

Joseph C. Arborio T’38 May 31, 2014

Miles L. Lasser T’44 July 15, 2014

Harold S. Simon T’48 April 7, 2014

William E. Frenzel T’51 November 17, 2014

Ronald E. Thompson T’57 May 11, 2014

Glenn A. Britt T’72 June 11, 2014

Robert Alpert T’40 June 13, 2014

Paul F. Young T’44 August 30, 2014

Alan W. Zeller MD T’48 May 4, 2014

R. Paige O’Brien T’52 August 1, 2014

Ron Fraser T’58 February 13, 2014

William B. Hyde T’40 July 4, 2014

Ross H. Higier T’45 April 27, 2014

Andrew R. Cay T’50 July 25, 2014

Earl W. Reynolds T’52 December 24, 2012

Robert E. Lee T’58 April 4, 2014

Julianne Kepler Meurice T’78 October 8, 2014

Ernest E. Ball II T’44 December 3, 2013

Edwin B. Blatt T’46 May 11, 2014

Maurice Y. Cole Jr. T’50 April 22, 2014

James G.H. Meredith T’53 August 10, 2014

Joseph P. Koucky T’60 April 1, 2014

Ralph H. Dushame T’44 January 13, 2014

William H. Coleman Jr. T’46 July 18, 2011

Ray R. Grinold T’50 September 27, 2014

Charles E. Acker Jr. T’55 September 13, 2014

N. Peter Nieman T’60 February 14, 2014

G. Richard Lezius T’50 September 21, 2014

William G. Barker Jr. T’55 June 16, 2014

Henry J. Gerfen T’62 April 27, 2014

Larrabee M. Johnson T’44 Crawford L. Elder Jr. T’46 August 26, 2014 June 1, 2014

Alan M. Elkins MD T’99 June 9, 2005

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Charlie McGill T’69 and Art Williams T’64 lead Tuck alumni in a standing ovation for Dean Danos following his state of the school address at Reunion 2014.

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For T’94s Russell and Patricia Wolff, Tuck didn’t just change the trajectory of their careers. It changed everything. What does Tuck mean to you? PATRICIA WOLFF T’94: We met each other here so it’s a pretty special place for us. Tuck is the most welcoming community you will ever find. It’s a place where you can find a new dream and make it happen. Coming to Tuck really changed who I am and how I look at the world. RUSSELL WOLFF T’94: Tuck is a special place, made more so by the people. I’ll never forget how I met my wife here and how we put our careers on very different trajectories than they were before.

What are your favorite things to do when you return to Hanover? PW: Go for a run up Balch Hill and eat breakfast at Lou’s. I also love to walk around Tuck and pop into a class to see what students are up to. I’m always amazed at how much this place is changing. RW: Grab a chicken sandwich from EBAs and ice skate on Occom Pond in the winter. I also love to spend time with students, talking about where their careers could go and helping them realize their dreams.

you give back and help current students. For me, it’s important to continue that tradition to ensure that Tuck truly remains special and different from all other business schools. RW: It’s what classes from years before did for us. It’s what we should do for the classes after us. And it’s what the classes here now will do for the next generation of Tuckies. This place changed our lives. We owe a lot to Tuck.

Why do you give back to Tuck? PW: One of the true strengths of Tuck is its alumni network. Part of being a Tuck alum is that

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