1984
Hello, classmates. At the time you are reading this you are probably still enjoying the memory of our recent reunion! Remember that I submit my column two months in advance (I am writing this in April) so it will not have any reunion news. Hold on for all the exciting news, I will try to get it in the next Alumni Magazine column.
In the hype about the reunion I have been getting many e-mails from classmates representing different teams, groups, etc., that I was involved in while at Dartmouth. It has been really nice to hear from people. I capitalized on this to get information to share. Carol Radack Lev contacted me as a representative from the women’s soccer team. She is living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, Mark, and three kids (Phoebe, 16, Sophie, 14, and Cooper, 12). She is a lawyer although not practicing law per se. She works four days a week for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as coordinator of program and policy development. When asked if she has been playing any soccer she replied, “I have not played soccer for years!” But, to carry on the family tradition, her daughters both play.
I heard from Elizabeth “Liffie” Sopher, the rugby team representative encouraging reunion attendance. She forwarded a picture of the women’s rugby team, wow! And I also got an e-mail from Nora Bianchi, from my freshman-year dorm, North Mass. She is planning on attending the reunion as well.
Henry Nodarse sent me an update. Since he said it so well I will leave it in Henry’s words. “I haven’t submitted any news in several years so I will try to sum up last the 10 years in one paragraph. Ten years ago I moved from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Evansville, Indiana, with my wife, Wendy, and our 1-year-old son Micheal to advance Wendy’s career as a radiologist. I have worked as a civil engineer in Evansville ever since, primarily serving as the company’s drainage design and hydraulic modeling guru. Those long nights at Dartmouth’s computer center running traffic models on the massive mainframe computer proved to be worthwhile, if nothing else but learning to run computer models all night. My 11-year-old son has turned into quite an athlete. He plays baseball and soccer fairly well and he is an outstanding ice hockey player. He competed in a national speed-skating competition for hockey players in Boston last summer. Maybe he can play for the Big Green someday. We are a hockey family (although my wife and I are quite reserved during games), as our entire week for most of the year revolves around Micheal’s hockey schedule and, being in the Midwest, I find myself driving Micheal all over the eastern half of the United States to hockey events and camps. That’s why we bought an RV three years ago. The RV is quite unobtrusive; at least as much as it can be since it is 40 feet long and weighs more than 40,000 pounds. Other than working in my engineering office and driving my son I enjoy dabbling in my basement workshop and I am very active in the American Society of Civil Engineers, where I currently serve as the chairman of the trenchless installation of pipelines technical committee. I keep frequent contact with Roger Goodman, who is a state representative from Kirkland, Washington.” Thanks, Henry!
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