Skip To Content Skip To Menu Skip To Footer

Class Reunion Pages

Class of 1989

35th Reunion

Our 35th reunion will take place during Alumni Weekend: June 7-9, 2024. Keep checking this page as updates will be added throughout the year. The schedule and registration link will be available in mid-March.

35th Reunion Class Gift

We look forward to sharing more details about the reunion over the next few months. For now, we wanted to highlight an important part of our celebration—giving back to our alma mater. Dickinson brought us together more than three decades ago, and our experience as students had a profound impact on our lives. To honor these experiences, we are seeking to raise $250,000 $500,000 overall from at least 35% of our class to help support Dickinson students today and well into the future. As excited as we are for the opportunity to be together in June, we want to mark this important milestone with a truly meaningful gift. We are confident that the class of ’89 will rise to the occasion.

Make your gift now!

Goals

Overall Dollar Goal: $250,000 $500,000
Participation Goal: 35%
Multi-Year Pledges: 35
Class of 1989 Scholarship: $50,000 $100,000

Progress to Goals (as of 3/4/24)

Dollars: $393,843
Participation: 19.9%
Multi-Year Pledges: 12
Class of 1989 Scholarship: $70,000

Class of 1989 Scholarship Challenge

We are thrilled to launch an initiative this year to establish a Class of 1989 Scholarship at Dickinson. Our initial goal for the scholarship was to raise at least $50,000, which is the amount needed to endow the scholarship. We kicked off the initiative with the leadership of three very generous classmates, Amy Barefoot, Gretchen Ernest Brigden, and Ashley Brookes Richardson, who together pledged a total of $30,000 to the scholarship and invited classmates to help raise an additional $20,000. 

Within a short period this challenge has proved to be an astounding success as we have already raised $70,000 for the Class of 1989 Scholarship. We have no intention of stopping there and now challenge the class to help us reach $100,000!

This scholarship will create a legacy for our class, a legacy that we can celebrate year after year in the form of students who grow, thrive and help make this world a better place. With the news from President Jones that the college now has a $10 million scholarship challenge from Sam Rose ’58—all our gifts to the class scholarship will be doubled over this next year. 

Rise to the challenge and help us make the Class of 1989 Scholarship a reality! Every little bit will help and will also count toward our overall reunion goal.

To support this initiative:

  1. Go to the online gift form.
  2. Select “Other” as your gift designation
  3. Type in “Class of 1989 Scholarship"

You can also email our class liaison, Lindsay McCauslin ‘06 at mccausll@dickinson.edu, or contact your assigned gift officer.

Multi-Year Pledges

There’s another way that you can help us meet our fundraising goals. Are you already an annual donor? Or do you want to be? If you commit this year (before June 30) to a multi-year pledge, the full amount of your pledge will count toward our overall dollar goal. If you set up a 5-year pledge, that will take you through to the next reunion, and all five of the installments will count toward this year’s totals. We loved this option so much that we set a goal of securing at least 35 multi-year commitments from our class this year.

To set up a multi-year pledge:

  1. Go to the online gift form.
  2. Select the "recurring" gift type.
  3. Select your installment amount and your designation ("Other" and type in Class of 1989 Scholarship, or select any other designation of your choice).
  4. Confirm your start date and installment frequency.
  5. Set it to continue for a "limited time"
  6. Add an end date (for a 5-year pledge with annual installments, for example, we recommend setting the end date to June 30, 2028). 

You can also email our class liaison, Lindsay McCauslin ‘06 at mccausll@dickinson.edu, for assistance with your gift and/or multi-year pledge, or contact your assigned gift officer. 

Participation Matters!

We would like to reinforce that a donation of any amount is important to our class and Dickinson, and it represents another way we can show unity and support. Each and every contribution will have an impact and will count toward our overall reunion goals, regardless of the size. When we gather for Alumni Weekend, we will be recognized—as a class—for our combined gifts to the college and to the Class Scholarship, and it all adds up. We want you to be included in this collective effort, so please join us in giving back! 

Make your gift now

Reunion Programming

The full schedule of events during Alumni Weekend can be viewed here. Here are a few highlights specifically for the class of 1989:

Class Lounge
Morgan Hall, 1st floor (basement)

Friday, June 7

5 p.m.: Alumni Award Ceremony
Please join in as Dickinson bestows the Alumni Association’s highest honors on this year’s award recipients and celebrates Volunteer Award-winners. 

6 p.m.: Welcome Back Reception
Join President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11, in a toast to celebrate Distinguished Alumni Award recipients and kick off the weekend at the new John M. Paz ’78 Alumni & Family Center! 

7 p.m.: Celebration Dinner
Enjoy a delicious dinner buffet and great company at this year’s Celebration Dinner on Morgan Field.

8:30–10:30 p.m.: Dessert & Music on the Plaza
Catch up with friends while enjoying coffee, dessert and music on Britton Plaza.

Saturday, June 8

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Pickleball
Join alumni for some casual pickup games. All alumni are welcome. Please bring your own equipment.

11 a.m.–noon: Alumni College Activities
Join the yoga class led by classmate Felicia Graham Comisar ’89, or join the Green Devil Tour, a fun and informational tour of campus sustainability projects/initiatives led by AVP for Sustainability and Facilities Planning Ken Shultes ’89. These and other alumni college activities during this timeslot are open to all alumni. 

11 a.m.–3 p.m.: Alumni Food Truck Festival

1 - 3 p.m.: Class of 1989 Private Event (Goodyear Gallery)
Join the class of 1989 for a private event where the creativity of various class members will be on display, beginning with WDCV’s very own Joe George, who will DJ the event. The event will feature paintings by Sungmin Kim Bobyak, Jen Johnson and Mike Weiss. Laura Petrovich-Cheney will show her works of sculpture, and videos of several of George Staib’s dance productions will be screened as classmates reconnect and learn about how Dickinson helped foster the creative lives of these talented artists.

5:30–6:30 p.m.: All-Alumni Reception
Mix, mingle and network with alumni, faculty, staff and professors emeriti.

7 p.m.: 35th Reunion Class Dinner (Great Room, Marc & Eva Stern Foundation Center for Global Education)

9–11 p.m.: The Dickinson Dance Party
Keep the celebration going during Dickinson’s Dance Party with music from Downtown Sound. Stop in for dessert and/or a drink and catch up with friends.

Sunday, June 9

9 a.m.: Memorial Tribute
Honor the milestone alumni the Dickinson community has lost during the past five years and alumni from all classes who were lost during the past year. 

9-11 a.m.: Champagne Brunch

 

Hotel Accommodations

Town of Carlisle: Where to Stay

Class of 1989 Reunion Committee

Lynne Avdellas | lavdellas@comcast.net 
Cathy Bannigan | cathleenbannigan@icloud.com | 704-699-7007 
Amy Barefoot | amybarefoot@mindspring.com | 804-339-9950 
Tonia Bleecher | toniableecher@gmail.com | 240-606-5434 
Gretchen Ernest Brigden | gretchen@mi2partners.com | 917-297-5025 
Dave Carlson | davidjcarlson@mac.com  | 973-632-3485 
Sally Douglas | saldog111@gmail.com 
Jim Green | jameshgreen2@gmail.com | 443-690-7233 
Rachel Keen Hutchisson | rachelhutchisson@icloud.com | 843-270-5824 
Melissa Junior | mjr20008@gmail.com | 202-294-5729 
Laura Keys | laurakeys320@hotmail.com 
Lee Anne Atkins Mangone | leemangone@gmail.com | 828-230-0814 
Meg Beaver Martin | megmartin422@gmail.com | 301-266-3003 
Jenny Dotts Miller | jennifer.miller@renmatix.com | 610-585-4975 
Amy Murillo-Rangel | ameliarangel901@gmail.com | 201-937-7529 
Susi O'Meara | susiomeara@gmail.com | 484-802-6690 
Courtney Taylor Piron | cpiron@outlook.com | 202-716-3100 
Ashley Brookes Richardson | ashleyrichardson67@gmail.com | 410-868-1474 
Bruce Rychlik | brucerychlik@mac.com  | 781-820-9714 
Kathleen Sweeney Scheier | kathleenscheier@gmail.com | 973-590-9744 
Randi Silverberg | Resilverberg@icloud.com | 804-814-4689 
Dave Strouse | david@birchcp.com | 443-695-5441 
Molly Banks Talley | talleymolly@yahoo.com | 717-385-2495 
Dave Updike | davidupdike@verizon.net  | 410-274-7651 
Dave Wargo | dswargo@aol.com | 347-351-9570 
Ellen McGlinn Wilson | ellen.mcglinn.wilson@gmail.com | 267-872-1481 

Staff Liaison
Lindsay Powell McCauslin ’06
Associate Director of Annual Giving
E-mail: mccausll@dickinson.edu
Phone: 717-254-8981

Visit Carlisle

List of Carlisle Restaurants 
https://lovecarlisle.com/map#EA