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Volume 26 Issue 1 January 2002
LINDA SPENCER STARS IN SURVIVOR: AFRICA
Blackpack, and is a former member when” photos and essays from the
78 Becomes of the Coalition of 100 Black
Women.
class members.
For the past few years, the task
National Icon Here’s hoping Linda, who
turned 45 on Jan. 1, becomes the
of assembling and producing these
books has been carried out by
on Survivor next Tina Wesson – and takes
home the big prize.
David Prentice, a Dartmouth ’69
who lives in Sheenboro, Quebec.
____________________________ He sent me the book he did for the
Life is tough as a career counselor Class of 1975. It’s yearbook-sized
at Harvard, but never this tough. (soft-cover), ¾ of an inch thick,
As a cast member of Survivor: and irresistible.
Africa, Linda Vincent Spencer
has taken her place among the truly
Looking To make this book a special
success, please give some thought
famous. Other contestants include a
goat farmer from Virginia, a soccer Ahead to 25th to what you might write in an essay
---maybe even do it in advance!
player living in New York and two Please fill out the questionnaire
bartenders---one from Texas, the
other from Tennessee.
Reunion 2003 when it comes to you in a year or
so (probably by e-mail) and send it
h
I
Linda lives in Boston with her t’s never too soon to plan along to David Prentice at either--
husband and two children, Jared, ahead. So make a note in ReunionBook@alum.dartmouth.org>
11, and Jenna, 9. your Palm Pilot that our class or
According to the Survivor web- davidprentice@renc.igs.net.
reunites from Thursday, June 12, to
site, Linda was born and raised on Sunday, June 15, 2003.
welfare in Boston’s inner city. She The 25th Reunion is a big deal, A Reunion Book will require
has an Med from Tufts and a and our class has every reason to some money up front---about
Master of Social Work from want to do it right. $10,000. Think good thoughts
Boston College. She has been a One key element of a major about contributing your money and
corporate account exec, director of league 25th Reunion is a Reunion time to the reunion effort.
African Adventures at an overseas Book. These generally include
adventure travel company and a
clinical social worker.
names, addresses, biographical
information, recent and “remember Pats on the
In December 1999 she was
diagnosed with thyroid cancer, but
after a thyroidectomy and radio- Inside This Issue
active iodine treatments is cancer
free. In fact, in September 2000 – 1 Doug Antaya Joins Sitara Networks
just eight months after being
diagnosed with cancer – she made 3 Peter Hirshberg Runs gloss.com
it to the top of Mt. Rainier.
Linda is a member of the
4 John Bird is Maz’es Dr. Johnson
Appalachian Mountain Club, Sierra
Club, American Alpine Club,
6 Quantek CEO Robert Williams
Career Counselors Consortium, 7 Will Yancey: Tax Tech Superstar
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contribution. Every gift directly the top end of Dartmouth classes.
Back for Our aids the education of students But with a little effort, we could
easily be in a class completely by
who might otherwise not be able
Giving to obtain such a high quality
education.
ourselves.
Your vote counts!
Our class, and our head agent, I would like to give my Brooks
Kevin T. Hoffman, won several special thanks to our Class ____________________________
Dartmouth College Fund awards leaders and agents who have
for the 2000-01 Fund Year: worked tirelessly to help
the Raymond J. Rasenberger
1949 Award for outstanding
achieve our goal. Let’s keep up
the good work on this year’s Have You
non-reunion achievement,
the John H. Davis 1925
Trophy for greatest non-
campaign.
For Dartmouth, Surfed to the
Kevin
reunion dollar total, and the
the Joshua A. Davis 1927
Class of ’78
Award for greatest dollar
improvement (non-reunion ____________________________ Web Page?
category).
Another Small Request http://www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/78/
Here’s a note from Kevin: page-meister:
From Newsletter Editor Brooks Owen Astrachan
“I just received word from Clark: 202 Longwood Dr.
Dartmouth College that the Chapel Hill, NC 27514
On behalf of the Class---Thank 919.419.4410 (h)
Class of 1978 has turned in
you, Kevin, for your tireless efforts. 919.660.6422 (w)
another extraordinary year ola@cs.duke.edu
supporting the Dartmouth Now, here’s another request.
College Fund. This is fairly pertinent to the
newsletter, since it involves paying
Our class continues to be a
solid leader in support of the
College. Here are some
for it.
To the 45% of us who don’t Doug Antaya
already do so, as we approach our
numbers for last year’s
campaign:
25th reunion, please consider
paying your class dues. (I believe
Joins Sitara
Our class raised $598,312
for the Alumni Fund.
the bill arrived a few weeks ago.)
These dues pay for our class
Networks
h
498 classmates contributed, subscriptions to the Alumni
resulting in 51%
participation,
Magazine, for printing and mailing
newsletters, and for our C WALTHAM, Mass.--
March 26, 2001--Sitara
Networks, Inc.(TM), a
sponsorship of Tucker interns on
Overall, a total of leading provider of solutions that
Indian Reservations. So it’s a nice
$23,040,316 was raised for idea to pay.
intelli-gently integrate applications
Dartmouth. and networks for enterprises and
But dues participation is also
We should be proud of our ser-vice providers, today
one of those quantitative measures
contribution to last year’s Fund. announced that Doug Antaya joins
by which people rate our class.
As we approach the new year, Sitara as vice president of Product
It’s also used by US News and
however, we must strive for Manage-ment. Doug has been in
World Report and other such
the networking industry for over 20
continued excellence and even rating gurus as a qualitative
years in various product manage-
greater class participation. As measure of the College. It’s no
ment and product marketing roles.
you know, every dollar counts, secret that Dartmouth is a national
Doug was previously VP of
and I urge you to make a leader in this kind of measure, and
Marketing for Ironbridge Net-
it’s true that our class is already on
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works, a developer of high perfor- announced today the appointment Estee Lauder Companies purchased
mance, next-generation terabit- of Peter Hirshberg as President, the Gloss.com site in April 2000.
routing solutions. Before that, he Gloss.com. Peter brings great The site is now co-owned by Estee
held similar positions at Sync depth of experience to Gloss.com Lauder Companies, Chanel Inc.
Research and Tylink Corporation. from a diverse career, during which and Group Clarins U.S.A. Inc.
He was a co-founder and director he was responsible for launching Peter is a Trustee of The Com-
of marketing at Corel Networks, some of the top Internet brands. puter Museum History Center, a
and has also held senior marketing Peter was instrumental in develop- new media advisor to National
positions at Proteon and Motorola/ ing AboutFace, Clinique's first Public Radio and a Henry Crown
Codex. Doug has an MBA from foray into the Internet. Fellow of the Aspen Institute. He
Northeastern University. His new-media strategy firm earned his MBA at the Wharton
____________________________ developed marketing strategies for School.
such icon brands as America On-
line, Microsoft, NBC Television
Network and Pacific Bell. He was Assorted
Who is founder/CEO of Elemental Soft-
ware, developer of the award-
Updates …
Annalise winning Drumbeat 2000 family of
e-business web software. His team
Like Robin Hood, Steve Palmer
led the development of Elemental's
Mayer? business-to-consumer direct
marketing and channel sales
lives in Sherwood Forest—
Maryland, that is, near Annapolis.
operations. Last April Steve was promoted to
Shades of Primary Colors, a senior VP in Mercantile Safe
classmate of ours has published a During a nine-year tenure at
Apple Computer, Peter served as Deposit & Trust Co.’s banking
psychological romance novel, The division, where he develops and
Story of S, under the pseudonym director of enterprise markets,
growing Apple's large business and manages corporate banking
Annalise Mayer. relationships in Maryland and the
Check it out at this website: government revenue to $1 billion
annually. While at Apple, he led mid-Atlantic market.
http://home.att.net/~annalisse.mayer/
many of Apple's consumer mer-
chandising and marketing efforts Christine Hayer Repasy was
From the flyleaf: promoted (a year ago) to Senior
WHO IS ANNALISSE MAYER? and spear-headed the company's
entry into the online service arena. Vice President and General
Annalisse Mayer is a part-time Counsel for The Hartford Financial
attorney and full-time wife, Mom Peter reports to the Gloss.com
Board of Managers and is launch- Services Group. Christine joined
& daughter of an Alzheimer's Hartford Life in 1991, became
victim. She writes under a ing what is expected to be the
industry's most compelling beauty director of litigation in 1997 and
pseudonym, to avoid having to vice president in 1999. Her law
discuss the racier parts of her site. "We are thrilled to have Peter
on board as part of the Gloss.com degree comes from UConn.
writings with her conservative
corporate legal clients. team," says William P. Lauder,
President of Clinique Laboratories, Tom Garden – whose daughter
(Key words: Kennedy JFK, JFK,
Inc. and a member of the once appeared in Sports Illustrated
Jr. Asperger’s Syndrome, abortion,
Gloss.com Board. "His forward as a member of football writer
home birth.)
thinking ability, deep Peter King’s softball team – last
Hirshberg understanding of the Internet and
technology business and
June became a senior VP in the
New York City offices of CB
Runs strong sense of marketing will be
valuable assets to Gloss.com."
Richard Ellis, where he is
responsible for consulting and
brokerage services to corporate
The multi-brand site will
Gloss.com include major cosmetic brands such
as Bobbi Brown, Chanel, Clarins,
clients throughout the country.
Tom was previously managing
Clinique, Estee Lauder, MAC, director with Kennedy-Wilson
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Origins, Prescriptives and Stila. Properties and has more than 20
April 12, 2001-- Gloss.com
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years’ experience in landlord and the best-fielding second baseman
tenant representation and office and
industrial development.
of all time, call 1-800-333-1636. Green Cards
Anne Barschall: Last April 22, on
the advice of my brother-in law,
In August Dr. Bruce Maslack who is trying to encourage my
joined the staff of St. Mary’s kids’ interest in technology, my
Hospital in Amsterdam, N.Y. family and I drove up to a robotics
Bruce, who did his residency at contest at Trinity College, in
Maine Medical Center, specializes Hartford, CT. While there, I was
in alcohol rehab services. surprised to run into classmate Nat
Goodspeed, who actually recog-
nized me. He was promoting his
Whit Johnson is VP of Global software "Mindrover,” sold by his
Sales for PlumRiver Technology, company, Cognitoy, a Dartmouth
“the global standard in private, alumni company. "Mindrover"
self-side channel performance for (cont’d next page)
large manufacturers.” With long- ___________________________
term relationships in the North
American marketplace and fluency
in French and German, Whit
commands a strong understanding
of e-commerce business models,
operations, sales, and marketing
from his work in the sporting goods
and apparel industries.
Since 1989, he founded and ran
several start-ups aimed at serving
the outdoor, sporting goods and
apparel markets. He began his
career with Karhu N.A. and helped
negotiate and implement the
acquisitions of Merrell Boots,
Koho, Canadian and Jofa hockey
brands and was instrumental in
growing North American sales
from $1.5 million to $88 million.
John Bird’s decade-long campaign
to get Pirate great Bill Mazeroski
voted into the Baseball Hall of
Fame came to fruition in 2001.
Your newsletter editor was
pleased to spend some time last
spring with John on the sidelines of
a soccer tournament near John’s
home in Mountain Brook, Ala.
I was doubly pleased to get a
signed copy of John’s authorized
biography, Twin Killing: The Bill
Mazeroski Story and a 20-minute
cassette tape of Pete Rose inter-
viewing John on his Las Vegas
radio show. To order John’s bio of
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allows the user to simulate building a seminar on "The Secret Life of
President
and operating robots. My son, the Brain" at the local Dartmouth
Curt Oberg
David, was enchanted with this Alumni Association. 157 Bristol Road
software and spent several hours Wellesley, MA 02181-2731
glued to it. 617-235-3316 (h)
On another note: Over spring 617-523-8000 (w) / 8001 (fax)
David W. Eisele
break, I took my kids, ages 7 and 35 S. Knoll Rd. Treasurer
10, to Old Sturbridge Village, Mill Valley, CA 94941 Patty Thompson Hickey
Mass. In the gift shop, I spotted 573 Crest Court
and purchased the book Sees Lake Forest, IL 60045-4005
847-295-3774 (h)
Behind Trees by the late Dartmouth Miguel Damien: My infertility
professor, Michael Dorris. practice, East Coast IVF, continues Class Secretary
Though this book was to do well. I am amazed at how Maggie Fellner Hunt
probably aimed at teenagers, my 14960 Altata Drive
much fun I still have going to
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-4447
younger son and I were very work. I am thankful to have 310-459-8871 (h)
impressed with it. My older son, discovered a medical field that 310-459-8170 (fax)
who is exceptionally squeamish, balances surgical intensity with mmfh@mindspring.com
did not listen in to my reading. delicate mental and scientific work.
Head Agent
The book is of a power and I still live to ski. Looking forward Kevin Hoffman
depth that one seldom sees in to having a home in Crested Butte, 9 Daffodil Lane
children's literature, or any Colo. Fellow ’78 Win Craven Cos Cob, CT 06807-1410
literature. Though the end of his also vacations there. Our families 203-862-9435 (h) / 622-4992 (w)
203-661-5717 (fax)
life was marred by tragedy and hope to have some good times. kth9@aol.com
scandal, Dorris was nevertheless a 3 Paag Lane
great writer. I recommend that Little Silver, NJ 07739 Alumni Council Representative
732-758-6511 Jon Walton
classmates check this book out. mdamien218@aol.com 57 Hawthorne Road
Grosse Point, MI 48236-1410
313-884-8938 (h) /963-8989 (w)
Glen Swartwout: I am so honored Mark Jacobson: Ophelie Jeanne
to be featured in the alumni mag- Class Project Committee
d'Arc Jacobson has arrived! Jim Bullion, Scott Brown, Todd Anderson
azine when they could have chosen Dominique and Ophelie - are
doctors like Koop or Whittaker. I doing very well, and came home Mini-Reunion Chairs
am putting up most of my writings from the hospital less than 2 days Jim & Anita Nolan
on my new website: 5188 Mountaintop Road
after the birth! New Hope, PA 18938-5439
www.wizardofeyez.com.
351 Wailuku Dr.
Here’s the hospital website 215-794-0506 (h) /968-3007 (w)
808-935-5086 with her picture : ulgz70a@prodigy.com
drglen@wizardofeyez.com http://www.webnursery.com/bidmedicalcent
er/baby.asp?babyrecord=072218303
Newsletter Editor
Brooks Clark
Ty Hilkert: I spent a few weeks 5317 White Horse Road
hobbling around in a walker after Michael Chandler: Hi! Take a Knoxville, TN 37919-9344
falling off myool new Xootr EX3 look at our website 865-558-8356 (h)
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d*** xootr and ordered a more safe which has links to one of my four
and stately folding bicycle instead. bands and also to my non-profit---
I’m working at Stanford on our the Haw River Assembly M.P.C. Chaplain
7922 Morrow Mill Rd. The Rev. Scott Axford
new PeopleSoft HR/Payroll Chapel Hill, NC 27516 155 Power St.
system. In my spare time I'm 919-304-5397 (h) Providence, RI 02906-2024
webmaster of http://buddhamandala.org. 919-812-7478 401-454-1636 (h) /751-1821 (
ChandlerDesign@mindspring.com
Also taking a continuing studies
class on Cognitive Neuroscience,
with a textbook by Dartmouth's Class Officers
own Professor Gazzaniga. He gave
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