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From the Presidents ‘97 Sweep

Dear 1997 Family,

The ‘97 Sweep

Nearly 365 days have passed since reunions! The excitement from that special moment has
activated new connections and continues to propel us forward. We’re thrilled to have more
classmates than ever before involved in creating our D’97 story.

Because 1997 is better together, we invite each of you to take an active role in strengthen-
ing our Class community. Get in touch if you have any interest in hosting a class get together
(perhaps you could host a family picnic or happy hour in your town) or share an update in our
newsletter—we promise it doesn’t take too much effort and it makes a difference.

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Since our last correspondence, we’ve had more mini-reunions, launched a class project and
even elected a new alumni councilor. We’ve also made progress in our Dartmouth College
Fund class campaign. Read on to find out more.

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Wishing you and yours a wonderful spring and summer—we look forward to hearing from you
soon!

Warm regards,
Lindsey Noecker & Blaire Bernard
Co-Presidents

In this issue:
• DUES, DUES, DUES! • Meet Your Class Execs: New Alumni
Councilor Lynne Soutter
• Up in Hanover
• Classmate Updates
• Featured Interview: Jennifer Kuhle
• Event Updates
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DUES, DUES, DUES!
The following classmates have paid dues. This
includes everyone from July 1, 2018 - May 21, Got news? Let us know what is going on
dartmouth97.org

2019. at d97news@gmail.com or share on the

• Jeanne Altberger Dartmouth College Class of 1997 group page
• Camille Barreto on Facebook.
• Ingrid Bateman
• Blaire Bernard
• Jason Casell Up in Hanover
• Heidi Conner
In case you’re headed to
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• Lynn Dengel Mars

• Martin Dengler
• Anthony Field Dartmouth students won the top
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prize in NASA’s 2019 Big Idea

• Karin Field
Challenge. They designed a system
• Ronald Gregush that can grow food and sustain a
• Amy Henry four person-crew on a 600-day
• Lea Kelley mission to Mars.
• Jay Lavender
• Matthew Leder Now Open
• Lauren Levy The Hood Museum reopened
• Heather Magnan its doors to the community on
• Lauren McQuade January 26th. Worth the long wait,
• Lindsey Noecker the beautifully revamped museum
• Natasha O’Rourke includes the Bernstein Center for
• Christina Rogers Object Study, where students can engage with
art in three cutting edge classrooms, and new-
• Robert Rogers
ly expanded galleries with 50 percent more
• Nathan Rugg space than before.
• Jessica Russo Revand
• Amy Schneeberger Speak Up!
• Nina Shaw Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is returning to
• Margo Shenbaga campus to give the commencement address
• Alejandro Soto for the Class of 2019. Commencement is June
• Michael Sunwoo 9th.
• Benjamin Sweetser
Call to Lead Update
• Danielle Thompson
• Jennifer Tudder Walus The Dartmouth community has come to-
• Barbara Wentworth gether to raise over $2B in the Call to Lead
Campaign—we have $1B more to go! Incredible
• Chris Winship
accomplishments to date include the renova-
Many thanks to those who have paid. If you tion of the Hood museum, breaking ground on
have not, the process is easy. Just head to the Thayer school expansion, the renovation of
http://dartmouth97.org and click the Donate the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, the hiring of in-
button at the top right of the page. credibly talented faculty and much more. Read
more at: www.calltolead.dartmouth.edu.
Call to Serve News from
In honor of Dartmouth’s 250th birthday, all the Dartmouth
Dartmouth alumni are encouraged to partici- class of 1997
pate in acts of service in their community. The
goal is to complete 250,000 hours in 2019.
To date, the alumni community has tracked

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101,892 hours. Find or organize a project
and track your hours at www.dartgo.org/
calltoserve.
This will warm your heart
In January, the Hanover average low tempera-
ture was 10 degrees and the average high was
The thing I miss most from Dartmouth is:
Relaxing on the Green on those first warm
days of spring after the snow has melted.
Where did you spend most of your time at
Dartmouth, outside of classes?
Sanborn Library
Was this because you were extra studious, en-

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29. Can you imagine bopping around without
joyed the social aspect, or both?
a warm coat in that weather? To help take the
Life would be just a little bit better if wherever
chill off, our Class donated $1,000 to support
you were at 4:00 pm, everything would stop

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students with limited means purchase winter
for a little tea and cookies.
clothing to stay warm. We encourage you to
pay class dues so that we can continue this
project going forward.

Dartmouth College Fund

We’re aiming for a record-setting participation
in the DCF this year and need about 150 more
classmates to donate to accomplish this feat.
If everyone who made a gift last year, renews
their support, we will set a record. Nearly 50%
of students receive aid to attend the College
and our support of the DCF helps make their
experiences possible. Lend a hand and give
what you can. www.dartgo.org/give . The fiscal
year closes on June 30, 2019.

Pictured: Jenny Kuhle, Dartmouth College Fund

Featured Interview:
Jennifer Kuhle
For the third ‘97 interview in our series, we’re
chatting with Jennifer Kuhle. If Jennifer’s name
sounds familiar, it might be because you’ve re- How do you spend your time now?
ceived a note from her. Find out why and what Life is a blur. I spend my days teaching my
else she’s been up to since leaving the college class of 23 energetic first graders and my eve-
on the hill. nings tending to my five beautiful children at
Stewardship Chair

home: my kids, Emily (9) and Kevin (7), and my

Major: History
stepkids, Nicola (11), Chloe (9) and Walter (9). I
Favorite place at Dartmouth: The Tower Room also have two grown stepchildren: Lorenzo (21)
and Chiara (20).
Favorite Dartmouth memory: Running around
the bonfire as a freshman.
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‘97 Sweep From left to right: Chloe, Chiara, Emily,
Walter, Jenny, Kevin, Jenny’s husband
Lawrence, Nicola, and Lorenzo.

What do you do for fun? class on the Iliad during my freshman fall. I was
For fun, my husband and I steal away for a working at my computer in my dorm room in
couple of hours of adult time. Topliff, in the midst of one of the many all–night-
dartmouth97.org

ers I was to pull at Dartmouth. When 5:00 am

Tell us about your current role with the
Dartmouth College Fund and how that
came about:
My parents instilled in me the value of ed-
ucation and the importance of being loyal
to one’s alma mater. I have made it a point
to donate to the Dartmouth College Fund
each year since graduation. It was an honor
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came around, I had finally finished, and somehow
through copying and pasting and saving and no
doubt exhaustion and delirium taking their toll, I
lost the whole thing. I cried for about 30 seconds,
horrified at the blank white screen staring back at
me and aghast at my carelessness. Then I stopped,
allowed the realization that crying was going to
get me nowhere wash over me, pulled myself

to accept the role of Stewardship Chair last together, and redid my paper. It wasn’t as strong
year. I am grateful for the opportunity to as the original, but I completed it by the 9:00 am
reconnect with Dartmouth College and to
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deadline.
contribute in this small way. Any
time someone donates to the
DCF, they’ll get a personal thank
you letter signed by yours truly.

Besides getting a one-of-a-kind

note from Jennifer Kuhle, why
should people donate to the
Dartmouth Fund?
Dartmouth College is a very
special place. Not only has my
Dartmouth degree opened
doors for me profession-
ally, but my experience at
Dartmouth has made me a
better person. What a gift to
receive the world-class educa-
tion that Dartmouth has pro-
vided me, and what an honor
it is to give back to a place
that has had such a lasting
impact on my life.

How are you the same person you were at

Dartmouth and how are you different?
I am wiser now than I was when I was at
Dartmouth. I am more hardened, and less
naïve. I have more confidence now than I
did then. I have a greater sense of who I
am and who I hope to be. At Dartmouth I
learned how to think. I learned how to chal-
lenge myself and how to persevere when it
felt like the climb was too steep.
I’ll never forget when I inadvertently erased
the paper I was writing for my Humanities
I think about that night
often, and how I am so proud that I somehow
worked it out. I have thought about that night
when I was a single mother wondering how I was
going to prepare my lessons for school and mow
the lawn and wash the clothes and then soothe
my then toddler son who was up at all hours of
the night. Somehow it all gets done. You don’t
fall apart. You do what you need to do, even if it
means less sleep, even if you think you’re never
going to get where you need to be. You get there.
I credit my experience at Dartmouth with teaching

me how to dig deep, how to face and overcome
challenges that at first seemed insurmountable. I
will forever be grateful to Dartmouth College for
how it prepared me for life.
Anything you’d like to tell your fellow ‘97s?
It is true what the Alma Mater says. “Though
‘round the girdled earth they roam, Her spell on
them remains.” Though it has been a couple of
decades since I have spent considerable time in
Hanover, I am as captivated by the granite of New
Hampshire as I ever was. What a gift it is to be
part of the Dartmouth community.
Know someone we should interview for a
future newsletter? Email Natasha O’Rourke at
natashaorourke@gmail.com.
News from
the Dartmouth
class of 1997
Meet Your Class Execs
The ‘97 Sweep
Lynne Soutter, New Alumni
Councilor
I went to Dartmouth because: I went to
Dartmouth because: I wanted a small
college experience with big university re-
sources. Dartmouth’s outstanding faculty,
public-service and term-abroad programs,
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connection to the outdoors, and overall
sense of place exceeded my expectations.
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5 things I’m passionate about:
1. Skiing
2. Old houses
3. Ladies’ hoops
4. Movies by Phil and Chris (Lord Miller
Productions!)
5. Democratic institutions and the rule
of law
My favorite place at Dartmouth is: The
river. We still like to stop by in sum-
mer to swim from NH to VT and back
again.
The thing I miss most from Dartmouth
is: Rugby practice in the mud at
Sachem Field with the Dartmouth
Women’s Rugby Club. Ah, Spring in
New Hampshire.
Lynne with her husband, Morgan
(also a ‘97) and their kids outside
the Louvre in Paris.
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Event Updates
Classmate Updates
Call to Lead (CTL) New York City
dartmouth97.org

Stranger Things have happened to

Lego Ten ‘97s attended the Call to Lead event in
NYC, hosted by Chris Winship and Cai Boldt
Despite Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s success Pandolfino.
with multiple Lego Movies, David Harbour as
Jim Hopper became our classmate (first?) im-
mortalized in a commercial Lego set.
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Spring 2019

Liz Boone may be the first classmate to see

the Stranger Things The Upside Down set in In the canoe, from left to right: Chris Winship,
person. The set number is 75810 if you want to Amy Semet, Heidi Conner, Lindsey Noecker,
pick up your own. Kristin Brennemen Eno, and Russ Stidolph.

Update from the last newsletter:

Congratulations to Henry Broaddus for win-
ning Dancing with the Williamsburg Stars. See
him show off his moves at https://tinyurl.com/
y4hdva2s.

Mornings are for coffee

and contemplation.

Lindsey Noecker, Marc Lewinstein ‘98,

Amy Semet, Brian Sung, Cai Boldt Pandolfino,
and David Bruder at the New York Call to Lead
event.
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News from
the Dartmouth
David Bruder, Kristin Brenneman Eno, Laura class of 1997
DuPont, Heidi Conner, Lindsey Noecker, Cai
Boldt Pandolfino, and Chris Winship at the Call

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to Lead in New York City.

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At the Boston 97th Day event, from left to

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right (kids excluded): Dave Zipkin, Abigail
Klingbeil, Jess Hughes, Kat Williams, Karin
Kelley Sloan, Natasha Lam O’Rourke, Julia
Vacek Wilde, Mark Abel, Michelle Stern,
Lindsey Noecker.
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‘97 Sweep Pop Quiz!
Pop Quiz results In retrospect, would you have chosen a different
major?
Which was your favorite theme weekend at
dartmouth97.org

Dartmouth? ❍❍ Yes

Tubestock: 50% ❍❍ No
Green Key: 25%
Winter Carnival: 25% Share your answer here:
https://tinyurl.com/d97spring
Talk Back!
We want to hear from you. Whether you
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have a simple statement to make, a story to

share, art work to contribute, news of births
or marriage... let us know at
Spring 2019

d97news@gmail.com

Class Executives DCF Volunteers

Lindsey Noecker, Co-President Ranjit Ahluwalia
Brian M. Boynton
Blaire Bernard, Co-President
Henry R. Broaddus
Amy Henry, Vice President & Major Reunion Lynn Thacher Dengel, M.D.
Co-Chair
William D. Drehkoff, Jr.
Alejandro Soto, Treasurer Sara B. Greenberg
Jason Casell, Secretary Amy R. Henry
Nakul Krishnaswamy
Tony Field, Digital Content Manager
Lauren B. Levy (Co-Chair)
Jenn Tudder Walus, Social Media
Padraic M. Malinowski
Chris Winship, Co-Head Agent Jessica Mordas Masella

Lauren Levy, Co-Head Agent David E. Melaugh

Lindsey L. Noecker
Natasha O’Rourke, Newsletter Editor
Adam J. Ruedig
Ben Sweetser, Newsletter Editor Stephen M. Moncarz Schmidt, J.D.
Heidi Conner (97a), Newsletter Editor & DCF Amy L. Schneeberger
Liaison Matthew J. Shafer
Stephanie Yu, Alumni Council Rep Margo Shenbaga
Jennifer Tudder Walus
Danielle Thompson, Major Reunion Co-Chair
Christopher H. Winship (Co-Chair)
Jessica Russo Revand, Mini Reunion Co-Chair
Cynthia G. Winship