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The Ax Man Cometh | Faculty members (from left) Howard Tibbits, C.C. Stewart, and D.C. Wells have their work cut out for them as they chop wood in Pine Park, circa 1906. This year hundreds of diseased trees have been removed from the park, one of the College’s most cherished natural spaces. (See page 27 for more information.)Photograph courtesy Dartmouth College Library

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29 | CLASSROOM Is Dartmouth a religion? BY GEORGE M. SPENCER

32 | OUTSIDE Eight female climbers test their courage by scaling Italy’s highest peak. BY CATHERINE ROCCHI ’19

37 | COMMENCEMENT Fourteen alums offer new graduates advice to live by.

40 | PERSONAL HISTORYThe derring-do of Richard Kersting ’42 during the invasion of Normandy was recounted in a news account that’s hard to believe.BY GEORGE M. SPENCER

45 | UNDYING A look back at unlikely presidential candidate Paul Tsongas ’62.BY SUE SHOCK

Pursuits63 | VOICES IN THE WILDERNESSFraud fighter Mike Behn ’83, Sotheby’s executive Yin Zhao ’06, international foodie Steph Lawrence ’06, photographer Eric Hatch ’68, museum COO Brendan Connell ’87, and Pueblo engineer Phoebe Suina ’9868 | ALUMNI BOOKS

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104 | CONTINUING EDSharon Washington ’81 on acting and stagecraftBY LISA FURLONG

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State of the ArtThe new Hood Museum of Art (“The Art of Curation,” March/April) is beautiful, and no doubt its exhibit spaces are state-of-the-art. But $50 million seems an exorbitant amount to spend for “six new galleries and three large classrooms,” even more so at a time when the cost of a higher education is under attack and there are calls to tax wealthy colleges such as Dartmouth.

BOB ASBURY ’70, DMS’71Rochester, New York

The article about the $50-million museum transformation was very informative. I’m sure many will disagree, but it seems the money spent and the continuing cost to support a staff of 30 is excessive and might well have been spent elsewhere. According to the article, there are 6,000 student visits per year. Put another way, since there are slightly more than 6,500 students at Dart-mouth, each student visits the museum almost once a year! All that makes for a pretty costly visit.

PETER SCHENCK ’54Santa Barbara, California

A Special IssueAs an instructor in 1956-57 in “Great Is-sues,” John Sloan Dickey’s innovative, short-lived, senior year required program, I gave student journals the grades “Distinc-tion,” “Pass,” or “Fail,” so I feel qualified to judge your effort (January/February) to capture the special character of Dart-mouth’s first 250 years. I award you Dis-tinction for an artful distillation of the College’s history that captures its essence seasoned with wit. Required reading!

JOHN M. MORRIS ’53Old Greenwich, Connecticut

While I would have included one or two different names in “The 25 Most Influen-tial Alumni” list (January/February), the magazine did a fabulous job understanding

the meaning of “influential.” DAM avoided naming familiar people in entertainment and politics. It also avoided publishing a list of successful bankers and business people, even though Dartmouth has bene-fitted from their largesse through the years. Lastly, DAM avoided the diversity quota trap, in which such a list closely aligns with today’s campus demographics. The Dart-mouth of today is tripping over itself in the name of student and faculty diversity, but for its first 200 years, Dartmouth was all male and mostly white. We cannot change that, but we can recognize there has never been a shortage of alums who influenced Dartmouth and society. So good job and a great issue!

FRANK HERMES ’65Williamsburg, Virginia

Dartmouth is justly proud of Nobel Prize winners Owen Chamberlain ’41 and George Snell ’26, respectively, No. 8 and No. 15 in the top 25 list. The College should be equal-ly proud of K. Barry Sharpless ’63, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001.

LAWRENCE ZALCMAN ’65Jerusalem, Israel

I have long considered DAM outstanding. Through the years it has far surpassed other alumni magazines. The recent “Special Is-sue” is absolutely stunning. The downside of its success, however, is that it works against any attempt to sell alumni on a digital edi-tion. I would read less of a digital edition than I would of a print edition, and I would miss the tactile connection to Dartmouth the magazine gives me. The magazine quite literally tempts me to pick it up.

MICHAEL J. TAN CRETI ’62Omaha, Nebraska

Thank you for a fabulous sestercentennial issue. I eagerly looked forward to reading “Keep the Damn Women Out.” It’s a good piece, but there’s a glaring omission—no mention of female exchange students who paved the way for coeducation at Dart-mouth. I am an adopted—and proud—mem-ber of the class of 1971. I spent a year at Dartmouth as an exchange student from a historically black college. My story and those of my sisters who dared to travel to Hanover and learned in Big Green’s hal-lowed halls ought to be touted as part of Dartmouth’s history.

THERESA WILLIAMS BENNETT-WILKES ’71High Point, North Carolina

After years and years of the Big Green, the “Special Edition” cover was black. Dart-mouth green would have been a much more elegant, appropriate color. The implica-tions of black are negative, while Dart-mouth green is welcoming and joyous. When I saw the black cover, I wondered who died.

RICHARD HOLLERITH ’47Williamsburg, Virginia

I enjoyed “Dartmouth 2069.” It does, how-ever, have one glaring omission—the effect of global warming on the College. Carbon dioxide levels are on track to reach 530 ppm in 2069, levels last seen 20 million years ago, when sea levels were 50 feet higher. These are my predictions for Dartmouth in 2069.

1. All terms are summer terms. 2. There are now only three Ivy League

schools—Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cor-nell. Due to rising sea levels, Harvard, Brown, Yale, Columbia, and Penn are un-der water.

3. Harvard breaks ground on its new campus at the second College Grant. In 2068 Dartmouth sold the grant to the Crimson in exchange for its $2-trillion endowment.

4. Great demand for an Ivy League education persists. Dartmouth admits a freshman class of 10,000 students.

5. The crew team is disbanded, many of its members having been eaten by alligators in the Connecticut River.

6. Dartmouth’s dining halls serve an abundance of locally grown tropical fruit.

7. Hanover is a popular spring break destination for students from northern Canada.

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Fuelish Plan?A projected expenditure to change Dart-mouth’s heat and power source to another carbon-based system is being promoted (“Campus,” March/April). The proposed system will cause increased particulate pollution and significant CO2 emissions—hardly the improvement it is touted to be.

Bioenergy plants have been in New Hampshire for more than 30 years and still must be subsidized by rate payers. The wood chip supply for the proposed plant will re-quire that at least 15 immense diesel trucks travel local roads every day. Technological advancements will probably provide an eventual solution for the College. Given the brain power at the Thayer School, couldn’t a reasonable alternative to a $200-million, short-term step be found?

AUSTIN EATON ’62, TU’63New London, New Hampshire

Do the Right ThingIn a letter to the Dartmouth community posted to Dartmouth’s website on Decem-ber 12, 2018, President Phil Hanlon wrote: “I deeply regret that an environment existed on our campus that was so at odds with our values.” This sentence misses the point and cuts to the heart of the outrage against Dart-mouth. That is not what Dartmouth and its president should regret. They should regret permitting three men to resign or retire from Dartmouth after revolting al-legations against them had surfaced (even if they had yet to be confirmed by an internal investigation) rather than firing them im-mediately for cause.

This is not the first time Hanlon has released a carefully worded statement that sidesteps responsibility for the handling of the sexual assault cases. The December message promises reform. But reform can occur only when there is clear recognition and ownership of an underlying problem. The problem here is that Dartmouth and its president can’t bring themselves to ad-mit they were truly, egregiously wrong. And even after such wrongs were revealed to the world, they can’t stand up and do the right thing.

VICTORIA CORDER ’05New York City

CORRECTION: The story on Basil O’Connor, class of 1912 (January/February), mistak-enly reported his daughter’s cause of death. She died in 1961 from the effects of uterine cancer. We regret the error.

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Raleigh Nesbitt ’19 sang her way to victory in the 12th annual Dartmouth Idol competition, winning $500 and a two-song demo recording session. Idol founder and music director Walt Cunningham calls her one of the most gifted Idol singers he’s coached. “Not only is Raleigh incredibly talented and poised, she is a loving and giving per-son,” he says.

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A bevy of beautiful heels awaits performers backstage during the winter production of Into the Woods.

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62All-American skiers that Dartmouth

has produced since 2000

1:56:10Two-run time of Tanguy Nef ’20 of Switzerland to win the men’s NCAA

giant slalom title in early March

6Single-season team shutout record

set by Dartmouth men’s hockey goalie Adrian Clark ’20 this season

25Years since Dartmouth started its

softball program, which celebrated the anniversary at an April 12 event

5Ivy League titles won by

equestrian team coach Sally Batton, who retires in June

30Seasons baseball coach Bob Whalen has led the program

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How long have you been playing violin?Since third grade. I started off with piano, but there was this girl at my church who played violin, and I started begging my par-ents. For my birthday, they finally gave in and got me a cheap violin.How was the orchestra’s winter trip to Italy?I was nervous because I don’t speak Italian, but we had a lot of fun. We collaborated with conservatory students and held four performances in Florence. It was a pretty hectic schedule. It was really interesting to meet the mother of [conductor] Filippo Ciabatti, who is Italian. It’s also crazy to run into Dartmouth alumni. There are a lot of them all over the world.On the tour you served as concert mistress, tuning and helping to lead the orchestra. How difficult is the job?It’s an important position, stressful but worth it. There are also a lot of solos to play. Everyone’s following you, so you have to make sure you’re on top of it.Can you describe your feelings when you’re playing a piece you love?I’m completely immersed in the music and do my best to create a storyline that aligns with the character of the composition. When you finish playing a piece, there’s that moment that takes your breath away as you cling onto the last notes. It’s a great way to de-stress.How do people react when they learn you are a violinist?Many think that I must listen to only clas-sical music. I do listen to a lot of [Itzhak] Perlman and [Nathan] Milstein, but I defi-nitely like pop music, gospel, R&B. I like songs with clean lyrics. I don’t think many of our musicians listen to only classical music. We all come from different pockets of the campus, but we’re all connected by music. Do you have to treat your instrument with special care?Yes, especially in the winter. String instru-ments are very sensitive to temperature and humidity. You don’t want your bow to snap, so you have to keep everything clean and in pristine condition.

What are your plans after graduation?Two gap years, and then I want to go to medical school.

—Sean Plottner

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Time to CelebrateThe College has plenty of 250th anniversary events planned

for the remainder of the year. Here are a few.

DIGGING DARTMOUTH: This anthropology project in-vites guests to get dirty at an archaeological excavation

of an 18th-century house site on campus led by anthropology department chair Jesse Casana. Using old maps and modern technology, he hopes to locate a privy or well that hasn’t been affected by modern construction, and then the digging begins. June 3-16

RESTAGING THE TAKEOVER: Laura Edmondson, chair of the theater department, is writing a short script based on the 1969 student takeover of Parkhurst. She’ll be casting students for a performance during the 50th reunion of the class of 1969. “Production values such as costumes will be minimal,” she notes. The play will kick off a panel discussion about the protest. June 7, Moore Theater

DARTMOUTH’S 21ST CENTURY: Barbara Will, associate dean for the arts and humanities, moderates “an event that brings together senior leaders on campus to discuss the future of Dartmouth [and] the liberal arts university in the 21st century,” she says. June 15, Spaulding Auditorium

100 YEARS OF WOMEN ON THE FACULTY: “We are celebrating the role played by women faculty, [who] were not just profes-sional pioneers but, once Dartmouth became coeducational, crucial role models for the women who took their classes,” says conference co-organizer John Kopper, professor of Russian and comparative literature. November 8

DARTMOUTH AND THE MILITARY: Students will share their research from interviews with alumni veterans as part of a sym-posium on Dartmouth’s history with the military, led by Roberta Stewart, professor of classical studies. “The broad goal is to create a history of the campus experience of war and military service across time,” says Stewart. Veterans Day, November 11

ART FOR DARTMOUTH: The Hood Museum will exhibit recent gifts to the collection during the fall term, according to director John Stomberg. “Alumni are invited to consider donating signifi-cant works of art that will help take the Dartmouth collection to the next level,” he says.

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Order in the Court>>> Among the notable alums who participated in the “Dart-mouth College Case” symposium and reenactment in early March: Thomas Barnico ’77, James Bassett ’78, Thomas Burack ’82, Robert Cordy ’71, Gregg Costa ’94, Gregory Garre ’87, John Greabe ’85, Annette Gordon-Reed ’81, Abdul Kallon ’90, Neal Katyal ’91, Anne Murray Patterson ’80, Alex-andra Roberts ’02, Beth Robinson ’86, Kate Stith-Cabranes ’73, and Ernest Young ’90.

Future Vision>>> Dartmouth expects to prepare a new 20-year master plan to provide guidance as the College evolves. “Master planning can support our academic mission and create a roadmap for growth and change in a way that sustains and enriches the physical identity of our institution,” says President Phil Hanlon ’77. The effort will en-courage sustainability, protect the character of the campus, and pre-serve the architectural landscape, according to a press release. Two architectural firms will work on the plan with College officials.

Justice Is Served>>> Four Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award winners were honored on campus in late Janu-ary. The recipients include Ray Blackwell ’80, DMS’87, surgical director at Christiana Care Health Services in Newark, Delaware; Bruce Duthu ’80, a Dartmouth professor of Native American studies; author Michelle Duster ’85; and the class of 1959, which created Dartmouth Partners in Community Service.

Welcome Development>>> An alum has stepped in to fill the bookshop void created by the December closing of the Dartmouth Bookstore. Allie Levy ’11 signed a lease to take over the former store’s first floor. She plans to open Still North Books, which will feature a café—and a beer and wine bar—this fall.

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Conservative firebrand Dinesh D’Souza ’83 made a predictably raucous speak-ing appearance in February sponsored by Dartmouth Republicans and Young America’s Foundation.

NUTSWinter Carnival featured a squirrely scavenger hunt.

Students who found plastic acorns hidden around

campus could redeem them for prizes.

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICYThe Committee on

Standards heard only 17 academic honor principle

cases in 2017-18, the lowest number in a decade.

LOCAL EDGEYahoo ranked Hanover the fourth best hockey town in

the country.

BUT BARELYTuck is one of only two top-20 business schools that bucked the trend of declining M.B.A. applica-

tions last year.

BE MORE CHILLSophomore Summer just got a lot cooler: Students this year will be housed in air-conditioned dorms, un-

like previous years.

BIRTHDAY BLUESAt least four “Dartmouth 250” banners hanging on

campus were stolen during winter term. Two have been

returned.

FASTER FOODSeveral students launched

an app that lets users know how long the lines are at King Arthur Flour Café in

Baker Library.

EATING WELLTalk about long lines:

More than 2,300 people crammed into the Class of ’53 Commons for a dinner featuring menu items from

10 local eateries in late January.

HIGH NOTEComposer Oliver Caplan ’04 is working on a major symphony for winds that will include four move-

ments, each inspired by a beloved Dartmouth place.

The College Wind Ensemble will debut the work this fall.

BIG MEETProvost Joe Helble was part of a large group of

higher ed leaders who met recently with billionaire

Michael Bloomberg in New York City to discuss ways

to recruit more low-income students.

ACEHanover Country Club head

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VAPING?Last year’s health survey

results indicate students are not drinking more alcohol than in 2017, but the use of “nicotine delivery” systems

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VOTE FOR MEPresidential candidates for 2020 who’ve already made

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How to Tell a Joke L E W I S G L I N E R T | P R O F E S S O R O F H E B R E W

Humor serves many purposes, according to Glinert, who teaches “From Genesis to Seinfeld: Jewish Humor and Its Roots.” A good joke makes us smile, laugh, and create and release tension. It also allows people to play with words, safely refer to taboo topics, and even disparage others. But jokesters beware. “Telling a joke is a risk,” notes Glinert. “You’ve got to take precautions. One of the worst things that can happen is when a joke falls flat. I’d rather be thrown into a fiery furnace.” (His favorite joke: How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb? None, because if you ask her, she’ll reply, “I’ll just sit in the dark.”) Here are Glinert’s serious tips on how to succeed at joking around.

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TAILOR YOUR JOKE TO THE SETTING. “A set-piece joke to break the ice during an after-dinner speech has a different goal from one told hang-ing around with friends.”

FIND THE RIGHT MOMENT. “The best opportunity comes when people are waiting for someone to say something. I’ve been at memorial services where people were so uncomfortable—they were just waiting for someone to say something humorous.”

BE SURE THE AUDIENCE IS LISTENING. “You have to monitor its reactions as you go along. Be alert. What

matters is watching your audience to see whether the topic has caught its interest or seems to amuse. A good talker has to be a good listener. Otherwise, you might become that dreaded creature: the bore.”

PACE YOURSELF. “The way you tell a joke is like playing jazz. You must have perfect timing. It pays to practice—particularly the punch line.”

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE. “If you’re trying to use humor to make an impression on a prospec-tive boyfriend or girlfriend, think twice. Your self-confidence could be mistaken for insecurity. Other

times people tell jokes as a way of competing for attention. If your boss tells a joke, be sure to laugh. Don’t joke about politics or sensi-tive issues unless you’re sure of your audience.”

BE CHILL. “Avoid being overly dramatic. Be low-key. You might even start talking in a low-pitched voice or even a monotone to draw in your audience so it takes you seriously.”

END NATURALLY. “Don’t end the joke with a big emotional display. If the joke doesn’t go over well, you won’t lose face. And never laugh at your own jokes if you can help it.”

>>> Land-dwelling hermit crabs are drawn to the stench of their own dead, reports biology professor Mark Laidre in Ecology and Evolution. Laidre and coauthor Leah Valdes ’18 placed 20 plastic bottles filled with torn bits of hermit crab flesh on a beach in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. Within minutes, dozens of hermit crabs swarmed around the containers. “It’s almost like they were celebrating a funeral,” says Laidre. The macabre behavior is an evolu-tionary adaptation for hermit crabs, which rely on finding and occupying larger shells to grow. The smell of torn flesh indicates a fellow hermit crab may have been killed, leaving behind an empty shell for the taking. “Death, by releasing resources, can thus be a starting point for new life,” writes Laidre.

“False Hopes”Big Pharma spends big bucks on ads.

>>> Annual spending on healthcare advertising in the United States nearly doubled between 1997 and 2016 to $30 billion, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association coauthored by Dr. Steven Woloshin, DMS’96, and Dr. Lisa Schwartz, DMS’96, of the Dartmouth Institute. Their analy-sis found that direct-to-consumer advertising—specifically, television commercials for prescription drugs—accounted for the greatest increase in medical marketing. These types of ads, the authors note, are illegal everywhere except in New Zea-land and the United States, where healthcare spending topped $3.3 trillion, or 18 percent of GDP, in 2016. “While marketing may have positive effects like destigmatizing diseases or embarrassing symptoms, it can also raise false hopes by exaggerat-ing treatment effects. This can lead to overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and wasted resources,” says Woloshin. “It’s a big part of why healthcare is so expensive.”

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“Our review process of each application is rigorous, multifaceted,

and thorough. Dartmouth remains vigilant to the potential for fraud.”

—College statement regarding Operation Varsity Blues

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Circle of LifeDeath scent lures hermit crabs.

WHO PAYS?The logging project was a joint operation between the College and the town of Hanover, which share management respon-sibility for the park.

WHAT YOU’LL SEE NEXT VISITWalkers will see some logs and debris, large open areas, more sunlight, and less tree density.

WHAT’S NEXT?Some trails will remain closed for months. The park’s long-term future isn’t known. Evans, Rob-erts, Pine Park board members, and other experts hope to come up with a suitable for-est management plan that considers the entire park. Questions remain about restora-tion and replanting.

THE CULPRITSRhizosphaera (needle cast fungus) is an air-borne contagion that stripped the pines of all but their youngest needles. Root rot is another fungus, which attacked trees from underground. Weakened, the trees then became easy targets for red turpentine beetles, which “treat the trees like a smorgasbord,” says College forester Kevin Evans. He says increased summer moisture due to climate change only exacerbates the prob-lem: “It’s the perfect storm.”

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DEATH ZONEIn one five-acre section of the park, nearly 75 percent of the standing trees were dead.

WHY IT WAS HAZARDOUSWeak canopies and dead limbs increase the threat of trees falling or losing branches at any time, particularly in windy conditions.

CRITTER COMFORTSThe project left at least one dead tree standing per acre for wildlife habitat man-agement, according to Evans. A 50-foot buffer zone of trees remains in place at the river’s edge.

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Pining Away Loggers selectively removed hundreds of diseased trees—some 150 years old and 100-feet tall—from Pine Park this winter. A fungal attack affecting 12 of the park’s 96 acres led to dangerous conditions and the need for the intervention. “It’s a very sensitive environment,” says Frank Roberts, associate VP of facilities operations and manage-ment, “but we saved a lot of trees.” The trails will look different this summer, but the trees and land have been saved for the long run. Here’s a look at some of the details.

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True Believers“Is Dartmouth a religion?” That’s the question posed by a special 250th anniversary class. b y G E O R G E M . S P E N C E R

Religion is about community and how societies organize and structure themselves,” says reli-

gion professor Susan Ackerman ’80, who majored in religion and has taught in the department for 29 years. “Every human community we know of throughout his-tory has exhibited beliefs we would la-bel religious. All religions are concerned with fundamental questions about how to interpret and organize our world, but all come up with different answers.”

In the freshman seminar class, stu-dents look at elements she says are com-mon to all religions—founders, sacred spaces, rituals, and evolving philoso-phies—to see if these exist at Dartmouth.

“Even if you think you’re not religious, your life is infused with religion,” she says. “In this country we live according to a seven-day week determined by a biblical calendar, and we use money that says ‘In God We Trust.’ ”

Like Jesus, the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock went into the wilderness. Although he was not immaculately conceived, he is a leg-endary figure in a Dartmouth mythology that has many versions. Ackerman tells her class that early congregants saw him as a pious preacher with extraordinary charisma. Students later regarded him as a jovial partier who liked to lounge by a massive keg hoisting mugs of rum with Native Americans, as he is depicted in the Hovey murals.

“Wheelock obviously didn’t show up with 500 gallons of rum,” says Ackerman, who earned her master’s in theology and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard. “When people tell stories about founder figures, they tell them in a larger-than-life way. They tell the story of the founder they want, regard-less of the historical reality.”

The class visited Rauner Library to examine Wheelock’s letters. Students also read about Jesus, Moses, and the Buddha and considered how their disciples told accounts of their lives to fit certain nar-ratives. “I want students to think about how, through time, these stories took on

legendary qualities,” says Ackerman.Having a heroic founder isn’t enough

to make an institution a religion, she notes, and on the first day of class she has stu-dents do something some of them find surprisingly difficult—define the term “religion.” Amanda McIntyre ’22 called it a belief in “a single god and a single text you abide by that informs your life.” She now realizes her definition was inadequate.

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“When I learned about Buddhism and Hindu-ism, I understood my definition doesn’t even fit other religions.”

Religions help people relate to the world they inhabit, Ackerman explains, partly by helping them organize their lives around sa-cred centers such as churches. Dartmouth’s sacred center, she says, is Baker Library. She believes it is no coincidence the library domi-nates campus. In the 1800s Rollins Chapel

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and Wilson Library framed the College’s main classroom buildings on Dartmouth Row, balancing the needs of the soul and the mind. But Ackerman says that as the Col-lege became less focused on its Christian mission, as witnessed by the end of man-datory chapel attendance in 1925, Baker’s central location reflected Dartmouth’s shift toward more secular values.

Religions also use rituals such as baptism, communion, and bar mitzvah to mark initiation into the group. Dart-mouth’s bonfire serves the same function, according to Ackerman. Lucy Turnipseed ’22 felt disappointed her class was forbid-den to run laps around it. “We were so sad that we only got to walk one lap,” she says. Safety concerns won over age-old tradi-tion. At least that’s what many students and alumni believe.

“It’s so curious to me, because when I was an undergraduate there was no such thing as running around the bonfire,” says Ackerman, who notes that the annual ritual began in 1989. Students made the first bon-fire in 1888 to celebrate a baseball victory. The student-led sports tradition continued, and in 1895 the College first recognized these blazing pyres as a way to “initiate freshmen into the community,” according to President William Jewett Tucker. Many traditions meant to convey unchanging timelessness change all the time, she says, just as narratives about religious founders shift to fit storytellers’ agendas.

Religions also adapt to cultural change. Just as Dartmouth admitted women to ac-knowledge their larger role in society, so too have Christian denominations in the United States had to come to terms with gender equality.

Frankie Carr ’22 now sees that religion can be everywhere, even in science. When a chemistry professor discussed Amedeo Avogadro, the discoverer of laws that gov-ern behavior of gases, it occurred to Carr that Avogadro was chemistry’s mythologi-cal founder, just as Sir Isaac Newton is wor-shipped as the founder of physics. “Even when people think they are not religious, they follow religious patterns of behavior,” says Carr.

So, is Dartmouth a religion? If it is, Carr says he is a true believer.

After reading Wheelock’s letters in class, he says touching the originals in Rauner was like handling holy relics. “That trip to the library was almost a pilgrimage,” he says.

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UphillEight female climbers test their courage by scaling Italy’s highest peak. But will they survive the men on the mountain? b y C A T H E R I N E R O C C H I ’ 1 9

A sheer rock wall rises hundreds of feet above France’s Mer de Glace glacier. Jaquelin “Jaq” Hager ’21

was a speck on its face. She clipped the carabiner that tethered her and three oth-er Dartmouth women to ladders running up the cliff, then looked at the stunning scene below. The tongue of ice extended from the imposing Mont Blanc Massif down to a collection of quaint French villages in the lower valley.

“Wrong choice, man!” came a deep voice from below, startling her.

It was a French guide, impatient with her careful pace, sneering at members of his all-male team who had chosen the same route and were now blocked from climbing faster.

“It’s because they’re girls,” he shouted. Hager gritted her teeth, embarrassed

and angry all at once. We were indeed an all-female group—

to this day, a rare sight in the Alps. In June 2018 eight Dartmouth undergraduates em-barked on the Dartmouth Outing Club’s first mountaineering expedition to Chamo-nix, France. Six months before, Mallory Byrd ’19 had envisioned a trip focused on women’s leadership. The expedition would give female leaders in the DOC the opportunity to improve their technical mountaineering skills. What’s more, the absence of men would give us more free-dom to discuss the obstacles we face in outdoor leadership. We hoped to return to Dartmouth ready to bring other students—of both genders—into the mountains.

Leading our expedition were veteran climbers Margaret Wheeler ’97 and sis-ters Liz and Erin Smart, both members of the International Federation of Moun-tain Guides. It says something about the sport of mountaineering that of the 138 accredited American guides, only 12 are women. This revelation—and the French guide’s jeer—strengthened our resolve to hone our skills. Our rock wall climb done, we would tackle our main objective: Gran

Paradiso. First summited in 1860, the “Great Paradise” is the tallest mountain in Italy at 13,323 feet. Climbers must as-cend a whopping 4,300 feet on their last day to reach the iconic white statue of the Madonna at the summit.

FOUR DAYS LATER, EVENING LIGHT filtered through the curtained windows of Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele II, an avalanche- and wind-proof bunker located more than halfway up Gran Paradiso’s snowy slopes.

Eleven women huddled around a worn wooden table, clutching mugs of steaming tea. We had traveled from far and wide and brought a diverse set of skills and experi-ence to the expedition.

Reyn Hutten ’21, the daughter of two botanists, had lived in three national parks and hailed from remote Wrangell, Alaska. Isabel “Izzy” Boettcher ’20, from Wash-ington’s Cascades, spent the past summer researching glacier dynamics on the Ju-neau Icefield. Her best friend, Mary Tobin ’20, was a resourceful engineer and had been on the national champion women’s rugby team. The group’s true endurance athlete, Anna Ellis ’19, had run three mara-thons and done hundreds of Cabin & Trail hikes. Not to be outdone, Hager, a smiling Georgia blonde, had just returned from the indoor climbing national champion-ship. Our photographer, Bella Jacoby ’20, challenged us to think about our female experiences. Finally, our fearless leader Byrd grew up working as a raft guide and playing in the Rockies near her Colorado home. This journey was her brainchild, and we all felt grateful for her vision and determination. Thanks to her, we would attempt the summit the next day.

Erin slapped down a notebook, break-ing the reverie. “Our time plan,” she an-nounced. “The most important piece of safety equipment we have.” Many moun-taineering catastrophes are the products of ignored or forgotten time plans. Alpine weather is notoriously unpredictable, and

clear mornings often make way for perilous afternoon thunderstorms. Glacier travel is also far easier in the frigid predawn hours, when the snow is crusted over with a layer of ice. Late-afternoon slush means plung-ing thigh-deep with every step—sometimes into hidden crevasses.

We estimated our pace using the tried and true Munter system, developed by Swiss guide Werner Munter to calculate time for mountain travel: time = (distance + elevation/100)/rate.

Erin wrote the figures in her notebook. “If we want to be back at the hut by 1:30 p.m. we need to turn around at 10:30,” she said. She paused and added, “Even if we haven’t made the summit.”

She made pointed eye contact with each of us. This could be a matter of life or death. We grimly nodded in agreement. We would have five hours of uphill travel time to the rocky pinnacle marking Gran Paradiso’s peak. With a buffer, that meant waking up at 3:30 a.m. and being on the move by 4.

“Alpine start,” Hutten said, grinning.I drifted outside to the Rifugio’s wood-

en terrazza. Two rugged-looking men sat at a table, swigging a bottle of wine and conversing in rapid Italian. They couldn’t

have known that I spoke the language. “Tante ragazze!” one exclaimed,

amazed. “So many girls! They’re every-where. Are they all together?”

I smiled with amusement. Apparently, the 11 of us were making

quite a splash at the 120-bed Rifugio. We weren’t the only women on the mountain, but we were the only all- or mostly female group, while many groups were made up entirely of men. I turned to look at the mountains. Clouds haloed in gold flowed over the ragged pinnacles encircling the Rifugio. They created an ethereal scene of rock, snow, and light.

“Summits,” I thought, “look deceptively serene from afar.”

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grouped a few hundred meters from the summit. It was 9:32 a.m. In theory, we would have plenty of time to traverse the final 60 meters before our 10:30 cutoff.

However, the final stretch of Gran Paradiso bore little resemblance to the plodding, almost meditative glacier trek we’d experienced. The eight of us gazed up at the knife-edge ridge. It was only a few inches wide at some points and had sheer drop-offs on both sides.

“My God,” someone breathed.Several Dartmouth students had never

climbed before. Even the more experienced alpinists among us blanched at the prospect of scrambling over rocks in our crampons, the razor-sharp spikes we had attached to our boots. Crampons provide excellent traction on ice and snow, but skid uselessly over rock.

Our guides managed the danger with temporary “terrain belays,” or roped safety mechanisms, around sharp ridges and pro-truding boulders.

Boettcher felt a moment of terror when Liz tried to coax her onto a narrow ledge. “In the back of my mind I knew if I fell I wouldn’t go far,” she said, knowing the rope would save her. “But I was fixated on the 1,000-foot drop-off and the crampon situation.”

Throwing dignity to the wind, she dropped to all fours and slowly clambered over a boulder the size of a Mini Cooper.

As we drew closer to the summit, brightly colored jackets swarmed like ants over the ridge. They converged at pinch points in a high-altitude traffic jam, caus-ing delays. Every second was precious. The greatest danger arose not from our imper-fect skills or the technical terrain, but from other climbers.

At 10:07 a.m. a group of clumsy Brit-ish men started their descent, swearing loudly. Two of our three teams had already reached the Madonna statue marking Gran Paradiso’s summit.

However, our last team—composed of

Erin, Jacoby, Tobin, and me—had to wait for the British men to pass. The four of us were a mere 20 feet from the peak. Gusts of frigid wind ripped through Jacoby’s hair as she teetered on the edge of an icy precipice.

“I promise I won’t grab your ass!” one of the terrified Brits called to her. Another man’s crampon spikes whistled inches from her face as he descended from an icy boulder above her. Jacoby clutched the slip-pery rock and took deep breaths to calm the panic rising in her throat.

After many long minutes the Brits’ guide

finally descended, bringing up the rear. He winked at us. “You should have seen those guys before you girls showed up,” he con-fessed. “They were really insufferable.”

Finally, at 10:26 a.m., just four minutes from the turnaround deadline, our last team summited. We took in the 360-degree pan-orama of jagged mountaintops—the kind of view usually seen from airplane windows.

Tears came to Jacoby’s eyes. “I was hyper-focused on not dying—not slipping, not losing my grip on the rock—but I was also so in awe,” she said later. “It was the most scared I’d ever been, but it was also so beautiful. I was sitting in a vivid mix of fear and love for the world I was seeing.”

We’d reached the summit, but, in Byrd’s words, “A climb’s not over until you’re back to the car.”

Five hours later we reached the verdant valley floor. Crisp glacial air was replaced by the thick aroma of pine needles. We rel-ished the warm afternoon sun on our backs. I looked up and noticed a lone woman starting up the trail toward us. She was headed for the Rifugio, two skis strapped to her pack.

We made eye contact, and she offered a wry smile.

“Potere alle donne,” she whispered. Girl power.

CATHERINE ROCCHI, an environmental studies major and anthropology minor from Harrison, New York, is a triathlete who loves skiing and rock climbing.

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Don’t wait. This is your life. And your 20s is the best time to try. Fail. Experience. Live. That doesn’t mean don’t plan. But find the balance. And make memories.

TODD PIRO ’00Reporter, Fox News

New York CityGovernment major

Know your values. Make choices consistent with them. Values, when practiced, become virtues, and your virtues become your legacy.

MARY FLOUNDERS GREEN ’88, TU’95Asset management and

communications executiveStamford, Connecticut

Chinese Language and Asian Studies

i l l u s t r a t i o n b y TIM BOELAARS

Prestige and money are never sustainable motivations. To build a long, fulfilling career, strive for something more—a grand mission, a profound impact—so you can bring both your brains and your heart to work.

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BostonMathematics and Economics

Don’t be too eager to put down roots in a city or at a job. When opportunities come your way—and they will—you won’t want to be encumbered with more than a carful of belongings, a lease you can’t get out of, or a promise you made to stay. Be ready to move, and move as often as opportuni-ties arise. Otherwise you won’t know where you truly want to be.

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Associate social media editor, Outside magazine

Santa Fe, New MexicoGovernment

My advice comes straight from our own Dr. Seuss: “Don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along—you’ll start happening too!” This is the best moment in your lives for adventure and experimen-tation. When you return to the race, the risk-takers and story-tellers will stand out.

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Practice pragmatic idealism. Have an open mind to opportu-nities that will inevitably occur. Develop a sense of perspective. Idealistic for perhaps too long, I now accept that people’s appe-tites have not changed in thou-sands of years. To quote astro-naut John Young, “Single-planet species do not survive.” We need to become a space-faring species to ensure our survival. Earth will always be a special place, but if it remains our only place, we have no long-term future. Please help us to have a future.

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Pacific Grove, CaliforniaPhysics

won’t be successful creating new ideas on your own. Start or be a part of teams of five or fewer peo-ple. To make teams’ efforts more effective, have members start each sentence with the words “What happens if…?” When the team has landed on a new idea, don’t chat about it, start to im-mediately make a model.

REYN GUYER ’57Inventor of NERF ball and Twister

Boca Grande, FloridaEnglish

I love the instructions in Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese”: “You do not have to be good./You do not have to walk on your knees/for a hundred miles through the desert repenting./You only have to let the soft animal of your body/love what it loves.” You don’t have to do everything well or even be happy. You are already enough, just as you are. Now you need only ask yourself: What would be fun for me to do next? What would be meaning-ful? What am I still curious about? “The world offers itself to your imagination,/calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting.”

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You are already on the ascending path to personal success. The key to reaching your ultimate goal will ultimately be determined by the way you recover from life’s unavoidable stumbles on the way to reaching that goal.

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Senior Fellow in Music

Upon graduating from an institution such as Dartmouth, one might be tempted to think oneself as superior to the rest of humanity. My own life teaches me if I’ve gained any-thing from my education on the Hanover Plain it’s how to be plain myself. There is tre-mendous freedom and joy in claiming one’s own mere adequacy. If you learn to say, with integrity, the words of Armand Gamache from a Louise Penny novel, “I was wrong. I am sorry. I don’t know. I need help,” you will be forever truly green; that is, fully alive.

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Concord, New HampshireEnglish

There may be times you slog through work that doesn’t speak to you in order to serve long-term objectives. But that’s no way to spend years or, even worse, decades. Life is too short. It’s great to have goals, but you have to be fulfilled by your life along the way. The best path from here to your aspirations may not follow a straight line.

BETH ROBINSON ’86Associate justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Ferrisburgh, VermontPhilosophy and Government

My advice to the class of 2019 is the same as the advice my father shared with me when I left home to go to Dartmouth. “Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself,” he said. Oh, and love humanity in all its many manifestations.

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Behind Enemy LinesThe derring-do of Richard Kersting ’42 in Normandy was recounted in a news account that sounds like something out of a John Wayne movie.

b Y G E O R G E M . S P E N C E R

L ieutenant Richard Adam Kersting was a hero among heroes. A foot-ball player at Dartmouth, he en-

listed in the Army in April 1942, joining the vast majority of his classmates to serve in WW II.

A combat engineer, Kersting and his unit landed on Omaha Beach in France on June 10, 1944—just after D-Day—and supported infantry troops fighting to lib-erate the strategic town of Saint-Lô. His incredible story was chronicled by The Philadelphia Inquirer on July 23, 1944.

He told a reporter that he had not expected much action but was prepared, thanks to his Army and football train-ing. He had received Ranger training and played blocking halfback under coach Earl “Red” Blaik at Dartmouth.

“Coach Blaik taught us to think while in motion, to never leave an opening for the opponent, to keep an eye on the ball, and to cash in on the other guy’s mistakes,” he said. “With two-and-one-half years of Army training on top of that, plus an awful lot of good luck, we got by.”

The day the article ran, Kersting’s mother heard an interview with her son on Army Hour, a national radio show. The following is a condensed version of the In-quirer story that ran 75 years ago (the full account can be found on DAM’s website).

AT ABOUT 4 O’CLOCK ON THE AFTER- noon of July 11, near the broken Norman-dy village of Cavigny during an American southward drive to Saint-Lô, two combat engineers appeared at a medical aid sta-tion with 34 Nazi soldier prisoners be-tween them.

Nine more lay dead in the wrecked houses and the rubble-covered streets behind them. The German platoon head-quarters, a virtual fortress, was wrecked.

The senior Nazi officer, an ober lieu-tenant, turned to one of his captors and in good English said, “You’re mighty lucky to get away with this, you so-and-so,” and

proceeded to curse him. For a reply, Lt. Richard Kersting of

Oxford, Ohio, fetched the arrogant Hitler-ite a swift kick in the seat of his breeches, a fitting conclusion to one of the most dramatic incidents of the war thus far in France.

It had started as a routine mission for Kersting and his rifleman, Pfc. Max Nim-phie. They left their cargo-carrier and, under fire from Germans, reconnoitered on foot along the highway where a Ger-man platoon hidden in the hedgerows was holding up the advance of tanks and an American infantry regiment.

The two moved south along the road, drawing occasional rifle fire as they walked. The crew of an American tank nicknamed “Foudroyer” hailed them with the warning that a German tank was around the corner. At the same moment it fired on them. Kersting dashed across the road and circled behind the hedgerow toward the enemy.

He and Nimphie fired into the tank’s gun ports, forcing its crew to shut them. When an American bazooka squad ap-peared, Kersting ordered them to flank the tank. The bazooka boys put four rockets into the turret, blowing it apart.

Continuing along with Foudroyer covering them, Kersting saw something that enraged him. An American corpsman wearing a Red Cross armband lay dead by the roadside, two bullet holes in his back.

“That made me mad,” said Kersting. “I don’t mind the enemy shooting at me in a fair fight, but they don’t play fair. They tried to interfere with our way of think-ing. They’ve ruined the minds of a whole generation of Europe. They’ve dragged us into this dirty war—you, me, all of us Americans who don’t give a damn about soldiering and would rather play ball any day—and now, goddamn it, they’re going to pay.”

A German came out of the hedgerow, hands high. “I worked him over a little and

got him to tell the whereabouts of others,” Kersting said. The prisoner quickly sur-rendered, pointing to houses farther along where his comrades had holed up.

Kersting and Nimphie continued into the enemy’s stronghold while the bazoo-ka team took the German and two other prisoners away. From time to time the pair tossed a grenade into a house or shot a flee-ing German.

“I yelled ‘Ergebt euch!’ which means ‘Give up!’ They were running like hell, crossing the road toward two big build-ings,” said Kersting, who called for 75-mm fire from Foudroyer.

As shells burst inside the first struc-ture, it crumbled like a cakebox, and the enemy inside sped for the second build-ing. “We were making plenty of noise,” said Kersting. “The tank’s clatter must have con-vinced them we were a whole regiment.

“Just then somebody turned the cor-ner with a submachine gun in his hands. It was a German, and his mouth flew open when he saw me. The weapon was pointing directly at me, but I beat him on the trig-ger. It was Wild West stuff, only I didn’t think of it then. My mind was going like a flywheel. It was like grabbing a fumbled

ball in midair, seeing a hole, and streaking for a touchdown. Then I strode to the door, gave it a hell of a kick, yelling loudly, carbine pointing in, and stepped back. All I could see was faces, and they were white as paper. Those Heinies were scared stiff.

“It was a situation demanding bold-ness. When the first guy stepped forward, his machine gun stuck into my belly. I brushed it aside and didn’t shoot him. Something told me if I killed him they’d all begin shooting from inside and finish my run of luck, so I threw his gun aside and shouted ‘Hände hoch!’ [Hands up!] and they started out the door.”

The second man through the door-way was the ober lieutenant. Kersting demanded to know why he had not sur-rendered when it was obvious the Huns were surrounded.

“Dummkopf!” Kersting shouted and booted thehapless man’s backside.

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Three days after his mother heard him on the radio, Kersting died when he stepped on a mine.

“Dummkopf!” Kersting shouted and booted the hapless man’s backside.

One after another, 30 soldiers filed out, hands high. Each dropped a rifle, grenades, a machine pistol, or a gun at his captors’ feet. As the last obeyed the order to come out, Kersting saw a rifle muzzle, and a shot just missed him. He sprang forward and returned two shots. When soldiers revis-ited the place the next day, they found the dead sniper in the burning house with other dead Nazis.

The ober lieutenant became suspicious

and demanded to know where the rest of the American brigade was. But the Nazis had no weapons, and Kersting and Nimphie were in no mood to debate the issue.

The next day Kersting learned why no other Americans were nearby. Along the same road he found five American tanks smashed by enemy fire and the bodies of their crews. “I had only been in France a few days, and this had been my first com-bat experience, and then I saw something that made me cold inside,” said Kersting. “It was Foudroyer, the tank that had cov-ered us. I looked inside. The crew was still there. Damn the Germans. I hope we don’t let them up until we settle all these scores, and you can put it in the paper that that is how all our fellows up front feel.”

THREE DAYS AFTER HIS MOTHER heard him on the radio, Kersting died when he stepped on a mine during a night mission.He was 22. He was awarded a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Cross.

Theodore L. Bracken ’65 visited the graves of these five alums at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, in 2016. His research led to this article. He can be reached at [email protected].

Four more alums were awarded the Purple Heart for their deeds in Normandy 75 years ago.

BAND OF BROTHERS

FIRST CLASS SEAMAN FLETCHER P. BURTON JR. ’45U.S. Coast Guard“Fletch” Burton hit Omaha Beach early—in the second wave of attackers. He manned the pilothouse of landing craft 94, con-trolling its throttle. Artillery shells burst around his unwieldy vessel as it surged forward, dodging obstacles before it plowed into the sand. After its troops plunged ashore, the 94 struggled to free itself. At the same time, famed war photographer Robert

Capa waded out, requesting permission to come aboard. At that moment at least one artillery shell found the landing craft. Shock from the blast killed Burton. Capa’s picture of Burton’s injured crewmates appeared in Life magazine. Burton had left Dartmouth during his sophomore year to enlist. He previously made combat landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Salerno, Italy. As one of the first to die on D-Day, his name appears on the “First Fallen” plaque at the Pentagon that honors the first 30 men who were killed that day. He was 21.

SECOND LT. EDWARD TITUS JENKINS III ’37U.S. Army“Anything, Anytime, Anywhere—Bar—Nothing.” That was the motto of Jenkins’ outfit, the 39th Infantry Regiment, the Fighting Falcons. He enlisted in January 1941, rose to second lieutenant, and became an anti-tank officer. After landing on Utah Beach on June 10, Jenkins headed north to liberate Cherbourg, a major deep-water port near the tip of France’s Cotentin Peninsula.

Then his regiment pivoted south to attack Saint-Lô, a fortified town at a strategic cross-roads. Jenkins, 28, died on July 11 near Carentan, 18 miles north of the city. A native of Queens, New York, he was on the swim team and went to Tuck his senior year. Jenkins was also awarded a Bronze Star and a Divisional Citation.

STAFF SGT. JAMES AMBROSE O’HEARN JR. ’41U.S. ArmyO’Hearn had a great sense of humor. “The Army took me in tow in May 1942,” he wrote his class secretary in April 1944, “and before the leaves fell that year I was given a free ocean trip over here to England.” He joked in his letter that he earned his European Theater of Operations ribbon for courageously con-fronting Spam in the mess hall. A staff sergeant in an anti-tank

unit, O’Hearn dodged machine gun fire when he landed on the unsecured Omaha Beach the day after D-Day. His unit immediately marched inland. When it attacked the next night, the Germans counterattacked with artillery. He died in the barrage. O’Hearn, 24, was engaged to be married and was from South Orange, New Jersey.

PFC. JAMES ROBERT WHITCOMB ’38U.S. ArmyIn early 1941, Whitcomb saw the war coming and wanted to serve as a pilot. But the Army wouldn’t let him fly because he wore glasses. Whitcomb landed on Omaha Beach 30 days after D-Day. His regiment took heavy casualties as it fought in thick hedgerows on the way to Saint-Lô. He never saw the city, dying in a firefight on July 28. Whitcomb, 27, called Portland, Maine,

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Mr. TA look back at Paul Tsongas ’62, a most unlikely presidential candidate. b y S U E S H O C K

Paul Tsongas was a little-known U.S. repre-sentative (1975-79) and senator (1979-85) from Massachusetts who gained national

attention as the first Democrat to challenge George H.W. Bush in the 1992 presidential election. He was the first known cancer survivor to run, having previously battled non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A self-proclaimed “pro-business liberal,” he defeated Bill Clinton and other contenders to win several primary and caucus contests before bowing out due to a lack of funds and support. Tsongas died in 1997 from complications of cancer treatment at age 55.

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Q2ROnce a Century

In 1974 Tsongas became the first Democrat to win his district in 90 years. “We could not

have won if Watergate had not taken place,” he

admitted.

Q3R Ego Minimalist

Tsongas was known for his wry, self-deprecat-

ing humor. “When I ran for the Senate in 1978,

The Boston Globe called me an obscure first-

term congressman. The problem was, I was an obscure second-term

congressman,” he joked.

Q4R No Media Darling

The press pulled no punches when it came

to Tsongas’ public persona. After one

primary win a reporter quipped, “Even in

victory Paul Tsongas looks like somebody just ran over his dog.” One of his obituaries read: “On

a personal charisma scale of one to 10, he rated minus-three.”

Q5RSuited to a “T”

Dartmouth students known as “Tstudents

for Tsongas” supported his presidential bid.

Q6RPaul Who?

“I was really surprised that he was in politics,” says his freshman-year

roommate Stephen Weber ’62. “He was a bit of a social misfit.”

Tsongas the presiden-tial candidate acknowl-edged as much, saying,

“If you asked the people

Q1RSink or Swim

As a freshman Tsongas could barely swim. He took a beginner’s class

and worked so hard that he made the swim team as a junior. “Had it not been for [coach

Karl Michael ’29] nur-turing me on the swim

team, I never would have had the confi-

dence to...have chosen a career in public

service,” Tsongas said. The team still presents a Paul E. Tsongas most

improved swimmer award each year.

in my Dartmouth class who was the most likely to run, they would get to me on about the fourth

day of guessing.”

Q7RForeign Studies

An early Peace Corps volunteer, Tsongas spent

two years in Ethiopia (1962-64). “Nothing

before or after that time has shaped my view of

the world so deeply.”

Q8RLeaning Left

Americans for Demo-cratic Action ranked

him as one of the House’s most liberal

members with a perfect score of 100. Early in his

Senate career he was considered even more liberal than Bay State

colleague Sen. Edward Kennedy.

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As a boy, Tsongas worked with his twin

sister, Thaleia, in their Greek immigrant

father’s dry cleaning business, twisting wire for hangers and driving

the delivery truck in the mill town of Lowell,

Massachusetts.

Q10RCampaign Finances

Tsongas was one of the few senators

with limited financial resources. He didn’t pay back his student loans until he was in

Congress.

Q11RChemical Reaction

From Tsongas’ Dart-mouth application: “Intended vocation:

chemist.”

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hemlock stump makes a lowly altar. Weathered, covered with moss, riddled with ant colonies and the claw marks of bears, it’s slowly decaying into earth. Tiny seedlings sprout from its base.

Death. Resurrection.The Rev. Stephen Blackmer invites his tiny flock—today

just a pair of congregants—to wander from the stump and spend 15 or 20 minutes in the woods in contemplation. He charges them to notice what they hear, smell, and feel. He suggests they reflect on the day’s reading from 2 Corinthians:

So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day….For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The trees around them in the central New Hampshire town of Canterbury would not be confused with the Garden of Eden. Along with scattered young maples and red oaks, skinny, scrappy hemlocks dominate the hummocky stand. Ten years ago these woods were heavily logged. “It was f ****** hammered,” says Blackmer, who tends to be un-reverentially profane. “It will take decades to recover.” He bought the cutover land in 2013—106 acres with no buildings—a few months before he was ordained as an Episcopal priest.

He sends his parishioners into the woods with larger ques-tions to contemplate: “What do you do when the sacred grove gets cut down? How do we behave? We pray here with this land as it heals.”

As the trees themselves have done, he asks his followers to bear witness.

Kathryn Wallenstein drove up from Concord, New Hamp-shire, to be here this afternoon. She says “slowing down” is her favorite part of the service, indeed, of her week. Another of Blackmer’s regulars, a medical technologist named Andrea Chan, says space and quiet are the beauty of Blackmer’s minis-try. “I had been searching for a deeper connection to God since I was a girl,” she says. “A lot of us had been. I feel I have a better chance connecting in the woods than in any church I’ve gone to.”

The congregants return with humble offerings for the lowly altar: bits of fern, lichen, tender bright-green hemlock needles. Blackmer arranges them artfully on the stump. An observer

arriving at this moment might confuse the ritual for one that is pagan. Blackmer administers the holy sacrament of Commu-nion, pouring the wine from a Nalgene water bottle. He offers a piece of bread and the last splash of wine to the base of the stump, to the earth itself.

Blackmer’s chinstrap beard is trim, both austere and mis-chievous, like a leprechaun’s. His light-blue eyes, crow’s feet bunching at their corners, convey weariness and compassion. He wears a short-sleeved shirt, work pants, sandals. He drapes around his neck a handmade stole embroidered with a tree and other nature symbols, the only indication that he’s a man of the cloth.

His church is not a standard house of worship made with hands. It’s a scarred, recovering woodlot. He conducts his ser-vices outside, year-round, in all weather. He calls it the Church of the Woods.

The tiny turnout this afternoon recalls his first months in 2014, when he held services every other week and occasion-ally found himself alone on a Sunday, preaching to the birds. Attendance blossomed, boosted in part by fascination from the media, including a front-page article in the Concord Monitor, coverage in The Boston Globe, and a PBS documentary. A 2016 feature in Harper’s Magazine introduced the Church of the Woods to a national audience and positioned Blackmer not as an earth-worshipping druid, but as a leader solidly in a Christian faith tradition. Membership in the church swelled to 50 or 60 regular and semi-regular attendees, and curious visitors began showing up from out of state.

Still, afternoon services on warm summer days are a tough draw.

To those familiar with his life, the notion of Steve Blackmer wearing vestments and reading from the Bible would seem as far-fetched as a hundred-acre woods serving as an Episcopal church. An atheist for as long as he can remember, Blackmer has not only embraced Christianity but become a leader in a national spiritual movement. A career environmentalist, he has turned away from saving land toward the more difficult work of salvation. In those seeming contradictions, amid the escalating destruction of natural habitat and the irreversible extinction of species, Blackmer is attempting, in his words, “to

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WHEN HE GRADUATED FROM DARTMOUTH, BLACKMER felt called not to God but to conservation, though he had no clear map of what that looked like. He felt his way along a path of his own making, through summer work with the Maine Forest Service and a forestry degree from Yale, eventually becoming founding director of the Northern Forest Center, a nonprofit dedicated to sustaining the forests of northern New England and upstate New York.

He married a fellow environmentalist, Kelly Short, who became stepmother to his two children.

In his work he was patient—and good at recognizing when to quickly say yes. During a quarter-century of environmental activism, he built alliances and had a hand in improving forestry practices and preserving 3 million acres of North Country forest. But, increasingly, he had the unsettling feeling that the work he was so deeply engaged in—and that of the environmental move-ment as a whole—would never be enough. “I started to realize that direct advocacy was triage,” he says. “Maybe heroic surgery. But it wasn’t addressing underlying causes or getting at wellness.”

En route to a leadership workshop in Europe in the fall of 2007, Blackmer found himself in Belgium with time on his hands. A dome standing out among the angular Brussels roof-tops drew his attention. It was a Catholic church, funky, not fancy, with tapestries on the walls lettered in Arabic and He-brew. It housed a soup kitchen. Walking in, he had a mystical experience. “It was the first time in my life I had ever intention-ally entered a church,” he says. “I remember thinking, I need to be here. I want what happens here.”

Flying to a layover in Dublin on his way home, Blackmer looked out at the Irish Sea and noted that the cloud cover had given way to bright sunshine. On the approach he saw the tall tower of the airport chapel. What happened next upended his life. “I’d always had little use for righteous, anti-science Christians who stand in the way of saving our planet,” he says. “I’d grown up without religion. None. Zero. But coming into Dublin I heard a voice—heard it in my heart, as much as my head: You will be a priest.”

Disoriented, Blackmer walked outside to get some fresh air. He automatically headed toward the sunlit side of the terminal. Then he stopped, reconsidered, and meandered through the shade. He found himself at the building whose steeple he had seen. Our Lady Queen of Heaven. He entered the sanctuary and sat for more than an hour. “I thought, What the hell am I going to tell Kelly?”

Blackmer uses the Greek word kairos to help understand his life. “It means ‘time,’ ” he explains, “as in ‘the time has come’ or, put another way, ‘the opportune moment.’ ”

During the next few years Blackmer would recall experi-ences he couldn’t explain and hadn’t known what to do with. One of the earliest came during a foreign study abroad as a Dartmouth student. Visiting a ruined abbey in southern France, Blackmer sat in the middle of the cloister beneath an ancient cedar of Lebanon. Emotions rushed through him. He dismissed the feelings and mostly forgot about them, though he kept a cone from the tree. (It sits today on a windowsill near his writing desk.) He had subsequently experienced similar waves of inar-ticulate emotion during times he was alone in nature, including, powerfully, during a fast in the Inyo Mountains of California in 2005. But the voice over Dublin and the feelings in the churches

were too obvious to ignore. “I realized I was being called into the presence of the divine,” he says. “The time had come.”

He told his wife as soon as he got home from Brussels.“Oh, that makes sense,” she replied, surprising him. “You’ve

been preaching for years. But do you really have to quit your job?”He gave notice to his board of directors three weeks later

and stumbled, at 50, onto another, uncertain path of his own making. He walked away from work he cared about and was good at, at a time when he was finally earning a decent salary, toward some version of a Christian faith that he had disdained his entire life and whose followers had been taught for millen-nia that human beings should reign over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air, whose focus was not tending to a heaven on earth but achieving eternal life in the hereafter.

For the first time, Blackmer opened a Bible. He was sur-prised to see that nature and wilderness were recurring themes in scripture. Jesus regularly retreated into groves and orchards in contemplation. Trees played a central role. The Bible begins in the Garden of Eden with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It ends with the tree of life in the Book of Revelation. Deeply rooted, their branches outstretched to the sky, trees brought earthly and heavenly realms together. “Even the hinge in the understanding between Old and New Testaments is a tree,” says Blackmer. “Jesus on the cross, on a tree stripped of its healing leaves.”

Blackmer read widely and sought counsel with Christians who might find common ground. He had deep conversations with one of his closest friends, Mark Kutolowski ’99, a lay Benedic-tine oblate who leads spiritually focused retreats and wilder-ness trips from his home in the Upper Valley. He talked with Brendan Whittaker, an Episcopal pastor and retired forester who had served as Vermont’s first secretary of environmental conservation. He got to know the Rev. Robert Hirschfeld ’83, an Episcopal priest serving in western Massachusetts who is married to Polly Ingraham ’79.

In Blackmer’s mind, an overlapping understanding gradu-ally crystalized. It seemed to him that Christian tradition had lost its primal connection to the natural world. It had turned almost completely to artifice, art, music, man-made symbols, and sanctuaries as ways of finding God. Even as an “eco-spiri-tuality” movement had slowly gained traction during the past 40 years, messages of Christian environmentalism and stew-ardship remained the province of sermons and teachings, not physical places of worship.

At the same time, the environmental community had be-come skilled at communicating in scientific and technological terms, in political terms, in terms that provoked fear and de-spair, but lacked language that moved the spirit. “Environmental activists are really good at placing blame on others,” he says. “On polluters, on corporations, on government—but they don’t do a good job inspiring people to look deeply within themselves.”

In Blackmer a conviction took shape: For our world to be saved—for climate change to be slowed, the rates of extinc-tion slowed, the destruction of habitat slowed—human be-ings needed to reorient their relationship to the earth. People needed to believe in their souls that the earth itself was sacred. “Without that inward transformation,” Blackmer says, “no amount of politics, technology, economics, or conservation will ever be enough.”

Thinkers and religious leaders across many faiths had long talked about the importance of living in “right relationship”

with God’s creation. But the stakes, in Blackmer’s calculation, had become existential. Faith needed to make room for the earth to participate in eternity, not remain separate. For that transformation to take root, Blackmer began to sense that people needed to interact directly with the creation, needed to not only revere the outdoors but worship in it. “Change the space, and everything else shifts,” he says.

He edged closer to a comfort with the Episcopal tradition, one whose sacraments welcomed all people into its leadership. “The voice had clearly said I was to be a priest,” he notes. “It didn’t say, ‘Have you ever considered a career in the ministry?’ ”

His calling would integrate his first career with the one he now struggled to understand. He would be an Episcopal priest. Nature would be his church. He had no clear map of what that looked like.

In order to attend seminary, Blackmer first had to receive the blessing of an Episcopal bishop. (“I’m 53 years old and I need f ****** permission to go to graduate school! Can you believe that?” he says.) He turned to Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal priest. Meeting in 2009 in Robinson’s office in Concord, Blackmer said, “I’m called to be an eco-priest. I don’t know what that is.”

“That’s why we need you,” Robinson answered. “Your charge is to go figure that out.”

Blackmer chose to attend the Yale Divinity School because it was one of the few ordination-track options within driving distance of his New Hampshire home. The choice was a natural fit. He already had a master’s from Yale’s forestry school. The divinity school offered a concentration in religion and envi-ronment, with coursework in eco-theology; eco-spirituality; eco-feminism; theologies of embodiment, place, land, race, and indigeneity; environmental ethics; liturgy and creation; and cosmology and ecology.

In 2013, a year before he succeeded Gene Robinson as the bishop of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, Hirschfeld ordained Blackmer. The following year Blackmer started the Church of the Woods. His church would maintain an Episcopal affiliation, becoming one of the state’s 46 parishes. Hirschfeld called the new church a “missional community,” an apostolic church in the spirit of the wandering apostles, indeed, the wandering Christ, “sent outside the comfort of our own walls.” But the Church of the Woods would be legally and financially independent, nondenominational, open to all comers.

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hen the global recession hit in 2008, Galia Benartzi was in Bologna, Italy, studying for her master’s in international relations and economics. She listened to great economic minds lecture about the crumbling global economy, but something wasn’t making sense.

“I felt disillusioned by how volatile the system seemed to be and at the same time how entrenched it was,” recalls Benartzi, 36, of her time in the Johns Hop-kins School of Advanced International Studies program. “It was depressing to discover how overwhelmingly problematic the existing financial structure actually is. It creates a type of modern economic slavery. A system of great imbalance can lead to great oppression.”

This disheartening realization led Benartzi, a Cali-fornia native raised by Israeli immigrant parents, to become obsessed with money. Not so much with earning it, but understanding it—what it is, how it works, and how it’s issued. She believes the present system has led to growing income inequality across the globe that will get worse unless something is done to disrupt how governments and banks control the monetary system.

It dawned on her that ordinary people have no con-trol over their currency. Elite bankers and government officials call the shots about how money is allocated and controlled. “Every time you send money, whether via PayPal, credit card, or bank account, you are moving money in closed banking systems, which charge fees and approve and store transactions,” she says.

Benartzi took a big step in 2016 to help build what she calls a more “free and fair economy of the future” when she cofounded Bancor, a nonprofit cryptocurrency conversion company, with her brother. In a tip of their hats to economist John Maynard Keynes, they named their company after a term he used to describe a future global reserve currency.

Bancor allows one cryptocurrency—“crypto” as it’s called—to be automatically converted into another without fees.

Cryptocurrencies are not issued by governments—at least not yet. They have no physical manifestation, no coins or bills. They exist only in peer-to-peer online transactions between buyers and sellers, and they by-

pass banks, thereby eliminating fees and transaction delays. The first digital currency, Bitcoin, was issued in 2009. Since then, thousands of digital currencies have been created. “It is the first-ever people’s money,” says Benartzi, who calls crypto the first step to elimi-nating the hold traditional intermediaries have on the financial system.

Before Bancor, exchanging cryptocurrency required matching a buyer and a seller to make a trade, which would then be verified by an Internet-based record-keeping technology called blockchain. With Bancor’s automated method, “assets are pre-deposited in smart contracts, allowing users to execute trades against a robotic network, even if no one else is buying or selling what you want,” says Benartzi. “Prices are constantly calculated to reflect supply and demand, and many human-related abuses such as price collusion, fake trades, counter-party risk are averted, thanks to the immutability of blockchain and automated nature of this liquidity network mechanism.”

The Tel Aviv, Israel-based Bancor has already pro-cessed more than $1.5 billion in transactions between 140 types of crypto. Not surprisingly, its initial coin offering, the industry’s equivalent of a stock market initial public offering, raised $153 million, the largest in history. Fittingly, the $153 million was not in U.S. dollars but in ether, a type of cryptocurrency.

IN A BUSINESS COMMUNITY KNOWN FOR iconoclastic personalities, Benartzi stands out. She grew up in Silicon Valley, where her father was an en-gineer. She came of age thinking about things in new ways and with an eye to improving them. “The mentality was you’re allowed to question everything around you, and you’re allowed to be bold. It was a place of inven-tion,” she recalls.

Bancor is not the first cutting-edge company Ben-artzi and her brother, Guy, have founded. Two years after she graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in comparative literature, they started Mytopia, a cross-platform game developer in Palo Alto. After selling the company in 2010 for $48 million, they started Particle Code, a cross-platform development tool for mobile apps. Appcelerator purchased the company in 2011 for an undisclosed amount.

After Particle Code, Benartzi was entrepreneur-in-residence at Trinity Ventures, a Menlo Park, Cali-fornia, venture capital firm, and later a venture partner at Founders Fund, the venture capital firm of PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel.

“With Galia, nothing is ever totally normal or in the box,” says Dan Scholnick ’00, one of Trinity’s general partners. “While she was with us she taught us how to recycle and compost.” Benartzi’s going-away party was held at a local park. “She started the event by leading a meditation session with the entire Trinity partnership sitting on the ground in a circle,” Scholnick recalls. “This wasn’t something we’d done as a group before. It was uncomfortable. It was funny, and it was awesome.”

Longtime friend and occasional mentor Naval Ravi-kant ’95 says Benartzi can slip into any circle with ease, “like a chameleon.” A kindred spirit, Ravikant is a serial entrepreneur whose AngelList website matches start-ups with venture capital investors. “Galia is a hustler with tremendous drive and work ethic,” he says.

Benartzi’s casual California style has made her a cool, confident presence at world financial conferences and on cable TV financial shows. More important, she has a “brilliant mind,” according to the industry maga-zine Altcoin. It ranked her in 2018 among the world’s 10 most influential blockchain pioneers, and she was the only woman to earn a place on Altcoin’s top achievers list.

BEFORE LAUNCHING BANCOR, BENARTZI DID her due diligence on cryptocurrency—she created her own crypto marketplace. She gave the name “hearts” to her tokens (units of digital money), and they could be used only by Israeli mothers. A year-long trial convinced her cryptocurrencies were the future of money. Using her hearts, 40,000 mothers traded $24 million worth of baby clothes, toys, and handmade items, as well as services such as babysitting.

Today the promise of cryptocurrencies has lured governments and corporations to explore this new financial world. Fifteen central banks are studying whether to issue their own proprietary digital curren-cies, steps that would speed the extinction of paper money. In February JPMorgan issued JPM Coin for instant transactions between its international corpo-rate customers, and other banks are starting to explore issuing currencies for their internal transactions.

The new world of cryptocurrency has sometimes been a Wild West financial landscape. Hackers made off with almost $2 billion in tokens from digital exchanges in the past two years. Bancor has not been immune. Last summer hackers raided one of its digital wallets and stole $13.5 million. As a result, Benartzi is helping launch a crypto defenders alliance, an industry associa-tion devoted to preventing fraud and theft.

“Technology is always part of the problem and part

of the solution,” says Benartzi. She acknowledges that bad actors exist, but insists that protection mechanisms will thwart their nefarious goals. “The newness of blockchain-based systems is both its strength and vulnerability. Because everything is tracked on blockchains, the industry has the ability to be the safest financial system we’ve ever seen. For example, exchanges can adopt shared blacklists to prevent suspect accounts from liquidating stolen assets into cash. This is something we could never effectively do in real-time in the existing international financial system,” she says.

BENARTZI EVANGELIZES FOR HER CAUSE IN ways large and small. Last summer she convened and chaired a Global Economic Visioning Summit at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the site of the 1944 financial conference that set rules for the postwar international financial system and established the IMF, the World Bank, and the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. She will convene the event again this summer. Of the 150 thought leaders who attended last year, Benartzi made sure half the speakers and attendees were women. Few female delegates attended the first conference.

Revolutionizing the world of money isn’t her only goal—Benartzi wants gender equity in her industry. Forty percent of Bancor’s employees are women, and more than half of its executives are female. “I often put in extra effort to seek balance in teams—even if that means increased mentorship,” she says. “Gender balance in a company is essential, and yet if you don’t actively fight for it, especially in tech and crypto, it will easily elude you.”

The entrepreneur will settle for nothing less than converting the world—and the money it uses—to her way of thinking.

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PHOTOGRAPHER THERESA MENDERS ’88

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY THERESA MENDERS AND DANIEL FARBER HUANG

FACE TIMEMenders and her husband have photographed and distributed portraits to nearly 1,500 asylum seekers in Greece and Mexico. They include (left column from top) Rocio Montez, Josué Natanael and friend, Sami; (middle column) Ali Alkirwi and relatives, Amira Shihad and her granddaughter; (right column) Josè Saeli Argeta and friend, Jorge Alberto Godoy Ciron and Arlen Yoxaira Cruz Elias with their daughter.


THE GUARD MEANT BUSINESS. He pointed to Theresa Menders and her husband, Daniel Farber Huang, and told them to stand with a crowd of about 75 men, women, and children—all refugees.

The husband-and-wife photography ‘‘‘‘ team had little choice but to wait in the 90-degree heat. They were outside the gates of the Vial Reception and Identification Center on the Greek island of Chios. Littered with garbage, this desolate internment center has been dubbed “a vision of hell” by one journalist.

It was July 2017, when the couple was on its second visit to the Aegean Sea island to launch its homegrown humanitarian photo project, The Power of Faces. The camp, run by the Greek government, holds 1,200 migrants who have fled vio-lence and persecution in Syria, Iraq, Africa, and Afghanistan. The two had spent more than $10,000 of their own money to make the trek, stuffing a rental car with printers, paper, ink, and other photographic necessities.

Their vivid portraits have won praise from human rights groups and refugees. Menders’ signature moment comes when she gives her displaced subjects framed

GO WAIT OVER THERE.FACE TO FACE(top row, from left) Jorge Guzman, Batnsha Hashime and relative, Ahmad Abdo and relative, Ferman Quintanilla; (second row) Hassim Said Kasem, Ozan Adris and her children, Hazima Sido and her son, Amira Shihad and relatives, Sakend, Muhsan Shekh Saleh and relative.


‘‘color prints of themselves. “It shows they exist,” she says. “When you look at these photos you see the beauty and courage these people have.” But today the pair was stuck. Only a few relief organizations had access to this detention center, which is located in a remote part of the scenic island, far from its quaint villages and tourist sites. “They weren’t letting anybody in,” Mend-ers recalls.

A few months earlier a 29-year-old man had set himself on fire outside the camp’s tall, chainlink fence topped with razor wire. The couple approached the spot to find it hauntingly normal. “It wasn’t like there was a memorial or flowers,” says Huang. “There was no acknowledgment of his death.”

Unnerved, all they could do was wait. And sweat.

After they stood in the sweltering heat for almost an hour, a guard waved them in to see the camp’s manager. Menders and Huang explained their work and showed the manager framed photos they’d taken that past winter of refugees at Souda, another camp on the island.

“He was a little gruff, trying to scare us off,” Menders recalls. The manager re-fused to let them into his camp but allowed them to set up outside its gates. Under no circumstances were they to take photos of the camp, he warned them, or they’d be arrested.

“They were definitely watching us,” Menders says.

FAMILY MEANS EVERYTHING TO MENDERS. She was born and raised in Coventry, Rhode Island, the 11th of 12 kids. As part of a big brood that loved hiking and camping, she learned to be flexible, inde-pendent, and resourceful. “You have to be, in a family that size,” Menders says.

As a student she volunteered at Dart-mouth-Hitchcock’s mental health cen-ter and caught the travel bug studying in Morelia, Mexico, and at the University of California, San Diego. Her career trajectory turned toward business strategy and con-sulting, yet she always made time for oth-ers. “I always tried to do things on the side focused on social issues,” says Menders, who is director of information technology at Otsuka America Pharmaceutical.

Her husband of 23 years shares her spirit. Like his wife, Huang holds down a

full-time job, as CEO of a strategic consulting company. One of 10 kids, he loved photography since he could hold a camera. His passion sparked Menders to take it up as a hobby.

They were living in New York City on 9/11. Instinctively, Huang picked up his camera and started documenting what was happening. “It was like a safety blanket,” he recalls. “Holding it in my hands made me feel I had a purpose for going out.”

In the weeks after the attacks, prominent institutions took interest in their work, including the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New York City Fire Museum. “We realized from that initial experi-ence we had the ability to document history,” says Huang.

With a growing family, they traded Manhattan for a pastoral setting in Princeton in 2002. Two years later, they began using their capabilities to raise awareness for causes important to them, especially ones fighting for women’s and children’s issues in Haiti, Colombia, India, and Vanuatu.

“When the refugee crisis exploded in Syria in 2015, it was hard for us to keep up,” Menders recalls. “We talked about it incessantly. We couldn’t believe what was going on. We thought, ‘What could we do besides send money? We have to do something more.’ You have a responsibility, if you have a voice, to use it for others and to use it for good.”

They fought a months-long bureaucratic battle to visit Chios before their first trip in January 2017. “The red tape was by far the hardest part,” says Menders, who developed a strong relationship with Toula Kitromilidi, founder of Chios Eastern Shore Response Team, which provides humanitarian aid when boats land there.

When she and her husband arrived, the island was suffering its coldest winter in 40 years, with lows dipping to freezing. At Souda, wind whipped the thin walls of gray tents a few hundred yards from the coast. Families, single men and women, and unaccompanied children packed the makeshift shelters. They stored their food in crates set off the ground because rats prowled tent floors at night. A lack of plumbing and electricity made ordeals out of cooking, cleaning, and bathing.

Refugees told Menders and Huang they had crossed treacherous seas in inflat-able rafts crammed with as many as 60 people—some of whom wore inner tubes as life jackets. They told stories of harrowing escapes, beatings, deaths, and missing relatives. “They’re hoping to gain asylum in the European Union, Canada, the United States—anywhere that would be safe,” says Huang. As Menders and Huang walked around with their cameras, smiling, making eye contact, and offering a friendly hello, migrants kept asking them to take their pictures.

The couple had a revelation. They realized a simple snapshot could have great impact—globally and individually. “It’s validating. It shows these people exist. They’d say, ‘Please, tell other people,’ ” she recalls. “We thought giving people proper portraits of themselves and their families would be something they’d want. They’ve likely lost everything, including family photos.”

When she and her husband returned to Chios six months later they brought the

makings of a photo studio—bright-orange backdrops, high-speed portable printers, and other gear. A young guard led them to a dusty spot outside the fence at Vial next to putrid latrines and steps from a busy road where cars sped by. They strung a tarp to control the lighting, and for power they snaked a 100-foot extension cord into the camp.

Because so much of refugee life in-volves standing in line, Menders and Huang devised a workaround—a 300-ticket numbering system. They posted signs in English and Arabic. Migrants took num-bers, and instead of waiting, Menders made announcements when it was time for their sessions. As Huang took portrait after portrait, Menders printed photos from the open hatchback of their nearby rental car.

Soon the operation attracted the po-lice, who demanded to inspect their cam-eras and see their passports—which they had left at their hotel. “I thought we were going to be arrested,” Menders recalls. “I thought, ‘I’ll just smile and show them I mean no harm.’ ” The police warned them to keep their passports with them at all

times and not to photograph the camp. The couple worked nonstop for two days in blistering heat

to capture and print roughly 1,500 portraits. Since then Mend-ers and Huang have spoken about refugees and The Power of Faces at a TEDx talk in Wilmington, Delaware, and at Rutgers University and hosted a photojournalist meet-up at the 2019 SXSW Conference & Festival. Each of their largely self-funded trips costs between $10,000 and $18,000, and they returned to Vial last July. Last December the couple and two of their four children spent three days photographing in the Barretal Refugee

Camp, a former dance hall in Tijuana, Mexico, that houses thousands of migrants who traveled in caravans from Central America.

Menders and Huang have displayed their photos and other objects they’ve collected at refugee camps, including inner tubes, at several Amnesty Interna-tional conferences. Prachi Rao, innovation lab manager at Amnesty USA, recalls a picture from Barretal in which a woman with dyed-red hair kisses a young man wearing a red baseball cap. “It’s really beautiful,” Rao says. “It shows the power of their work.”

Kathy Bartels ’88, a friend since Menders’ middle school days, says she always thought Menders would have a big family. “I didn’t know they would keep making their family bigger and bigger. That’s what they’ve done with this project,” she says.

Menders and Huang were planning to visit camps in Bangladesh this April. Menders had worked for months to get visas, find a driver and translator, get help from an organization on the ground, and navigate bureaucratic hurdles. Little was coming together, and time was running out.

“We can do it,” she insists. “We’re pretty brave, so I guess that helps.”

STEVE GLEYDURA is a freelance writer who lives in Cleveland.

HAVING A PHYSICAL PHOTO OF FAMILY OR FRIENDS TO HOLD IN YOUR HANDS CAN BE A GREAT COMFORT IN

TIMES OF NEED.—DANIEL HUANG

ON LOCATIONTHE COUPLE MUST OVERCOME DAUNTING LOGISTICS—AND SUSPICIOUS GUARDS—TO SHOOT AND PRINT PHOTOS OF MIGRANTS, AS THEY DID LAST YEAR ON THIS DUSTY HILLSIDE NEAR VIAL REFUGEE CAMP.

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AFTER HIS SOPHOMORE SUMMER BEHN hitchhiked to San Francisco to work at an envi-ronmental law firm. When the job failed to mate-rialize, he scrambled for a couple of weeks before landing work as a paralegal on the defense team for a landmark asbestos trial. “It was a turning point,” he says. “I learned I didn’t want to repre-sent big companies that did bad things. I wanted to pursue big companies that did bad things.” As one of the nation’s premier whistleblower attorneys, he’s done just that.

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U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. “We were going after criminals who weren’t comfortable earning an honest seven-figure living,” he says. “They had to lie, cheat, and steal to get more.” Following a brief stint at a corporate law firm, Behn followed his heart: He switched firms, taking a salary cut, to represent plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. “I got assigned to this one case in 1994, and it changed my life.”

The case involved a whistleblower—an auditor for Northrop Grumman—who discovered the company was triple billing the government for parts. Behn eventually took over and put together a team of a dozen attorneys. They reviewed millions of documents as the case stretched on for 16 years. “I thought futures fraud was complicated until I got to defense contracting fraud,” says Behn. “That is fraud on a whole other level.”

Under the False Claims Act, a whistleblower with in-side knowledge of fraud can sue on behalf of the govern-ment and collect a percentage of the proceeds. The catch: These are contingency cases and can take more than a decade to resolve. “I was more than a million dollars in debt financing the Northrop Grumman case,” recalls Behn. “The house on the line, the kids’ college fund, against one of the biggest companies in the world.” In 2005 Northrop Grumman settled for $134 million.

To specialize in whistleblower cases, Behn started his own Chicago firm, Behn & Wyetzner, in 2005, the same year Taxpayers Against Fraud named him “Lawyer of the Year.” Other awards followed, and his work was featured on the CBS documentary series Whistleblower. Most whistle-blowers, says Behn, aren’t out to change the system. They are honest people shocked to discover they don’t work for honest companies. He estimates he has recovered nearly a billion dollars for federal and state governments.

For the most part Behn works out of his historic 1912 house in suburban Highland Park—on the deck when he can—although he also maintains a no-frills office in the Chi-cago Loop. Bearded and jovial, he comes across as anything but combative. Yet his passion is unmistakable. “I love to get the bad guys,” he says. “For me to have the ability to go after those people is the best thing in the world.”

On a brisk morning this past February an ebullient Behn emerged from a Chicago courtroom beaming from ear to ear. A judge had just refused to dismiss Behn’s case, which alleges eight major banks fixed prices on municipal bonds and bilked the State of Illinois out of hundreds of millions of dollars. “We kicked ass,” said Behn with a little fist pump. “It’s a critical milestone.” He stopped for a quick interview with Bloomberg News, then hurried across Daley Plaza toward his office to phone his client, savoring the victory. “You saw how many lawyers they had,” he laughed, referring to eight attorneys representing the big banks. “Lawyers from some of the biggest firms in Chicago, try-ing to pick apart our case.” He paused for a moment. “But sometimes, justice does prevail.”

RICK BEYER profiled Daniel Webster in DAM’s January/February issue.

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Big BidderSotheby’s executive wins mega-million auctions.

IT’S A NOVEMBER NIGHT INSIDE THE AUCTION HALL at Sotheby’s New York. The atmosphere is electric. Zhao surveys the buzzing crowd from one side of the room, a telephone pressed to her ear. It’s a familiar spot for her. A VP for Sotheby’s Asian business development division, Zhao is a native Mandarin speaker who advises private col-lectors in Asia. Her specialties are Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art. On this night in 2015 her eyes are on Lot 12, Amedeo Modigliani’s Portrait de Paulette Jourdain.

Auctions are the most stressful part of her job. “It’s like you are trading stocks or commodities, but you are trading art,” says Zhao. But there is more to her job than auctions. “It’s all about relationship managing. It can take years to understand a collector’s taste and deepen trust.” Zhao works to find clients a “tangible asset with an emotional attachment”—a good investment they will love.

On the night of the Modigliani auction, she acted as the eyes and ears of her client, describing who was in the room and how the bidding was shaping up. Valued at $25 million, the painting quickly blew past that mark. “You have to know the client well,” says Zhao, “because they have to make a decision on the spot.” Zhao and her client emerged victorious—she made the winning bid of $42.8 million, her largest successful bid to date.

Zhao finds balance by hiking with her husband in New Hampshire’s mountains. “One thing I found amazing is that people don’t ask each other what they do. You’re all just hikers.” You can’t put a price on that. —Rick Beyer ’78

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Kitchen Table DiplomatEntrée entrepreneur makes the world smaller, one meal at a time.

TRAVELING THROUGH CHINA AFTER GRADUATION, LAW-rence wondered why it was so hard to connect with local people. “We ate in huge hotel banquet halls but only with other tourists. I just wanted to eat where locals ate,” she says. In 2009 Lawrence tried again. With the support of a Dartmouth fellowship, she and her husband, Craig Rubens ’06, moved to China “to connect with the culture more deeply, with a vision of meeting a Chinese grand-mother and learning how to make dumplings. I was there for six months, and I couldn’t find that experience.”

Travelers today can easily find that experience and many more, thanks to Traveling Spoon, the online platform this San Francis-can cofounded in 2013 to connect travelers with home-cooked meals around the world. (Some of the company’s first capital came from Lawrence’s win in the 2014 San Francisco Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network startup competition.) Local hosts create authentic dining, cooking, and market-tour experiences to help

Foodies feast on home-cooked meals in more than 50 nations, thanks to Lawrence (right). <<<<

visitors, as the company motto says, “travel off the eaten path.” “We offer everything from learning to cook pasta from a

grandmother in Italy to learning how to grind curry from scratch on a farm in Thailand,” says Lawrence. “Our mission from day one was to make travel more meaningful. We offer more than 1,000 experiences in 150 cities in more than 50 countries.”

These dinners range from luxurious to down home. In a beautiful penthouse overlooking London’s Notting Hill, with a chef trained in a Michelin-starred kitchen, Lawrence learned to make classic British dishes—fish pie with fresh seafood and Eton mess with fresh berries and whipped cream.

Halfway around the world on a farm in northern Thailand, she learned to cook laap pla duk. “I hand-minced catfish with a machete for what seemed like hours—my arm is still sore think-ing about it—frying it with galangal, ginger, fresh coriander, and lemongrass. I can’t even tell you how delicious it was. It was so different from any Thai food I’d eaten. And the setting was so beautiful, to get outside of the city and see where people live their everyday lives.”

Lawrence, who has a toddler son and an infant daughter, describes the company as an intersection of three pillars im-portant to her: preserving food traditions, travel, and micro-enterprise—providing income to local members of the com-munity. “Eighty-five percent of our hosts are women, all doing something they love,” she says. —Sue Shock

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Star TurnHollywood taps Guggenheim exec.

WHEN HE WAS GROWING UP, CONNELL ADMIRED silver screen icons such as Barbra Streisand and Sophia Loren. Now he’s the new chief operating officer of the soon-to-open Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Stars look up to him, expecting him to oversee every aspect of the mu-seum’s management as it prepares to roll out its red carpet later this year. The feeling has been surreal for Connell. “Laura Dern is on our board, and she hugs me when she sees me. Sometimes I can’t believe that,” he says.

The 300,000-square-foot museum on Wilshire Boul-evard in Los Angeles will be the world’s largest museum devoted to the history of movies and moviemaking. “One of the pairs of the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz will be on display,” says Connell. “As someone who loves film history, that’s what I’m most excited about.” The sequined shoes will be part of the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Where Dreams Are Made, which will showcase some of the museum’s most famous objects, including the doors from Rick’s Café Américain in Casablanca and a life-sized shark used in the making of Jaws.

Connell took the helm last year, leaving New York’s Guggenheim Museum after an 18-year career as a deputy director. He earned a law degree at New York University in 1993, and his entertainment industry career began in 1998 when he worked pro bono to help low-income New York City artists, filmmakers, and actors.

Connell is putting in long hours to ensure the museum is ready for its opening later this year. “I am constantly running around the construction site,” says Connell. “I wear work boots with my suit. No time to change.” —Alex Brown ’19

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Undiluted PridePueblo engineer fights to protect tribal heritage.

SUINA LOOKS AT COCHITI LAKE DAM and knows it won’t crumble, at least not for another 300 years. A Cochiti and San Felipe Pueblo, she grew up near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the village of Cochiti, the farming community where her grandparents lived. Beside fields where corn, melons, squash, and beans grow looms one of the world’s longest earth-filled dams. More than five miles long, it was built by the Army Corps of Engineers 50 years ago to prevent flooding on the Rio Grande.

“During my lifetime I listened to many stories about how life was prior to the dam’s construction. As a child, it was just a big eye-sore and imposition,” says Suina, an environ-mental engineer and founder of High Water Mark, an engineering consulting company that focuses on water resource projects and was recently honored as one of northern New Mexico’s 20 fastest-growing companies.

Tribal leaders, after much controversy, accepted the need for the dam without un-derstanding its impact—its reservoir sprawls across the tribe’s ancestral land. Suina’s an-guish over this loss gives her an intense de-sire to protect villages and their connection to the past. “When I get tired with work, I return to the dam and read history to reignite my passion for implementing community projects and communicating Pueblo perspec-tives in a technical way,” she says.

Her female- and Native-owned company tackles projects that range from putting in a $36-million sewer line in southern New Mexico to infrastructure projects for a tribal community on the Rio Grande. She’s proud of High Water Mark’s ability to balance Pueblos’ need for cultural preservation with economic development in ways that weren’t possible when the dam was built.

Since 2011 her company has donated 3,000 hours of professional services to lo-cal Pueblos to ensure they will face the future with their heritage intact. “I remember my father and grandfather talking about the ac-tivities that would happen down in the fields every year,” says Suina. “Our fields are at the heart and root of carrying on our way of life.”

—Jimmy Nguyen ’21

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A Ministry of ImageryA photographer is called to help addicts.

A WOMAN AT HATCH’S NEW YEAR’S DAY PARTY IN 2018 buttonholed him. “You should be shooting addicts,” she said. Both were members of Cincinnati Friends Meet-ing, a Quaker congregation, and she had lost an adult child to an overdose. Hatch was taken aback. He was a photogra-pher known for his architectural and landscape work, not portraits. All he could think about was his upcoming ski trip to Hanover. The biggest religious donation Hatch had ever made, he recalls, was by singing Renaissance church music in choral groups.

But on the road to the slopes, he felt called to use his artistic gift to raise awareness of the addiction crisis. Today Hatch, 73, is well on the way to his goal of getting a half million people to view his stark black-and-white portraits of 50 men and women who are addicted to meth, opioids, or alcohol. His website, FacesofAddiction.net, has drawn more than 70,000 views. His book of the same name is about to get a second printing, and galleries at prominent Cincinnati churches and Columbus are exhibiting his work.

“If any one person sees these images, I want them to start thinking, ‘We’ve got to do something to help these folks,’ ” he says. The photographer works up to 60 hours a week on his project, and his congregation has recorded his efforts as a ministry, a rare commendation. “I’m supposed to be doing this. I didn’t think at the outset that what I was doing—and who I was being—would have this positive effect on people who need comfort. I need to let everyone on the planet see these images and read these stories. It seems to be working, and to be honest,” says Hatch, “I don’t think I’m driving this bus.” —George M. Spencer


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Princess of TidesTHE HEROINE OF DONOHUE’S COMPELLING NOVEL, YOU Me, and the Sea, is named Merrow, which means “mermaid” in Irish-English. In Celtic folklore, these seafaring seducers enchant men—often to their

doom. “I knew how far I was willing to go for love, how capable I was of blindly clinging to it,” she says.

Donohue’s tale of tortured love echoes Wuthering Heights, but with a twist. Emily Brontë’s classic has always been one of Donohue’s favorites, but she says the fates of star-crossed Heathcliff and Catherine leave her “vividly” disappointed. “I wanted to write the ending I wish I could have read and that I think a lot of readers wanted to see,” Donohue tells DAM.

In her neo-Gothic retelling, a manor on the moors becomes a farm on Horseshoe Cliff on northern Cali-fornia’s foggy coast in the 1990s. Merrow’s mother dies mysteriously, and after suffering Dickensian miseries, she finds true love—or at least thinks she has. You, Me, and the Sea’s tightly woven plot races

tsunami-like through her characters’ lives with suspense and surprises.With her fifth novel in seven years, Donohue has mastered the art of both

tickling—and tugging—readers’ heartstrings. The author, who lives in San Francisco with her husband and three daughters, has a keen grasp on how people, especially women, relate to each other. “I’m very fond of being a writer that women embrace,” she says. Yet she is uneasy with being labeled a writer of women’s fiction. “That’s what others classify my work as being. There’s no men’s fiction. When you write stories about women’s lives there’s this implica-tion they’re only going to be read by women,” she says. “I want to write fiction that is uplifting and entertaining, that brings readers joy and emotions, both happy and sad.” Is You, Me, and the Sea a “beach book,” a label some authors might shy from? “That is a complete compliment,” Donohue replies.

—George M. SpencerFor an excerpt from You, Me, and the Sea, visit our website.

R O B E R T C H R I S T G A U ’ 6 2Is It Still Good to Ya?Duke University Press

Dozens of music icons including Etta James, Willie Nelson, Sinatra, Bowie, Fela Kuti, and Eminem get insightful appraisals in 87 essays from The Village Voice’s longtime music critic. He also offers his “Ten-Step Program for Growing Better Ears,” which originally ap-peared in DAM. (No. 10: “Spend a week listening to James Brown’s ‘Star Time.’ ”)

D E N N Y E M E R S O N ’ 6 3Know Better to Do BetterTrafalgar Square Books

This “tool box for horse owners, riders, and trainers” offers insight from a world-class equestrian and Dartmouth athletic hall of fame member. Subtitled “Mistakes I Made with Horses (So You Don’t Have To),” the book offers advice on everything from horse selec-tion and management to how they are affected by riders’ character traits.

O M A R K H A N ’ 8 0Paper Jewels: Postcards from the RajMapin Publishing

Lovers of all things Indian will relish this 350-page coffee table tribute to romantic Edwardian-era postcards that showcases more than 500 images of reli-gious spectacles, palaces, ma-harajahs, and Himalayan vistas culled from 10,000 postcards amassed by the author through 30 years.

J E N N I F E R M . D I XO N ’ 9 9Dark PastsCornell University Press

The Armenian genocide and the Nanking massacre claimed hun-dreds of thousands of innocent lives. Dixon, a Villanova political scientist, untangles the evolving web of political pressures that led to official Japanese apologies and the “impunity” of Turkey’s stead-fast rejection of wrongdoing.

C A L N E W P O R T ’ 0 4Digital Minimalism Penguin

Ditch your phone. You’ll be hap-pier. That’s the advice from a computer science professor who offers digital decluttering tips and tales of people who turned off, tuned out, and dropped their blood pressure.

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38 “Dear Mom and Dad, I guess this is the dead season of the year—rainy weather and no hour exams to make

life worth living. The ice is still holding on in patches as a sort of reminder that this once was the winter season. Everybody seems to think that such weather is quite extraordinary. They say we should be wallowing to our classes knee-deep in powder snow—instead, it’s mud. Every freshman and sophomore is required to take some exercise three times a week, just to keep the frame in trim. My little efforts in bodybuild-ing have been in the classes given by dub skiers. Some upperclassman attempts to instruct us in skiing, particularly in the art of falling into the trees, with a maximum of damage to the trees. I’m going to try Hell’s Highway, which they claim is a sort of two-mile precipice where moss gath-ers and water drips during the summer. Still, if snow can fall on it, I ought to be able to.”

From this ’38 scholarship student, these are some of the emotions that might bring back similar memories and feelings from 80 years ago that will never be forgotten and always seem to rise to the top of our full life.

He continues: “It is hard to believe that I am in my final year at Dartmouth. My Dartmouth experience has been filled with a variety of un-expected events and experiences—I’ve joined a dance group, kayaked down the Connecticut River, rushed a fraternity, and changed majors three times. Some experiences are unique to college itself, but many of these were unique to Dartmouth specifically. Regardless, all of them have been unforgettable and have left a long-lasting impression on my life and char-acter that I am confident I will take with me long after I have graduated. My experience at Dartmouth has helped make me who I am today, and I would not trade my time at Dartmouth with time anywhere else. Thank you for your generous contributions that allowed me, and many similar students, to attend such a unique and special place for college.”—Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road O-139, Wil-braham, MA 01095

41 I received the following letter from Lee Grace, “To help you keep the ’41 column alive: I am soon to be 100,

and am vertical and in adequate health. After spending much of my life in Wyoming, I have moved to the Portland, Oregon, area to be near my daughter, Betsy Henningsen. It is impos-sible to sum up the past 100 years. It has been a helluva trip!”

I have also heard from Marty Welbourn Freeman, who writes the following on behalf of her dad, Ray Welbourn: “He celebrated his 99th birthday in October and still lives in Whitehorse Village in Pennsylvania. He always reads the alumni news.”

I am celebrating my 100th on March 27! I am hoping my son, Dean, and his wife are suc-

cessful with their plans to celebrate, but I have heard some threats. I give great thanks that I can celebrate with Dean and his wife. It has been a great ride! I’m glad I knew my husband, Don, in his college days because I love Dartmouth and Tuck School, too!

Dum vivimus vivamus!—Jane Hanks, 2630 Kings Crown, Fort Myers, FL 33908; [email protected]

42 You will be reading this column with the warm weather having arrived. However, I write as snow is falling

outside my window.I had lunch the other day with Jon Mendes,

who continues his daily walk around the res-ervoir—he even tried it at 2 degrees, though he admits he had to turn back. We shared WW II stories that he and Leo experienced—including an amusing tale after he joined the reserves and was courting his wife. He “borrowed” a corsair and flew three weekends into Provincetown, Massachusetts, where his wife was summer-ing—on the third he proposed. He has published a pamphlet on how he has enjoyed good health at 98 and how you can too. He remains true to his book. His lunch was right out of his book. If any of you are interested, you can get a copy by emailing Jon.

Other news I have for you are recent hap-penings from Dartmouth Today.

“Undergraduate Applications: A New Ad-missions Record,” says that Dartmouth has hit a new record for the number of undergraduate admissions applications, with a preliminary total of 23,641 students seeking admission to the class of 2023, an increase of 7.3 percent since last year. This happened in part because the admissions officers visited nearly 1,500 U.S. high schools and more than 50 countries to encour-age applicants.

Also in the news: “Tuck Ranks 12th World-wide for Highest M.B.A. Salaries for 2019.” The website BusinessBecause.com noted Tuck has the highest percentage (45 percent) of female students in the United States and some of the most generous graduates, with more than two-thirds of alumni donating to the school. Finally, “Gillibrand ’88 Returns as a Presidential Can-didate. The 2020 presidential campaign trail through Hanover brought Democratic candi-date Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 (D-N.Y.) to Alumni Hall in February for a town hall-style event that became a celebration of the women of Dartmouth.”

I have the sad duty to report the loss of Rob-ert Moser Campbell December 23, 2018, just seven weeks shy of his 100th birthday. The class of ’42 sends condolences to his family.—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; [email protected]

43 In mid-September 1939 Nobu Mitsui and I enjoyed the sights and sounds of the World’s Fair in New York City.

Two days later we were in Hanover.I took the train up, along with hundreds of

other undergraduates, to White River Junction, Vermont, five miles from campus. Nobu had

driven up the day before with friends who lived in Connecticut. Waiting to greet me was Larry Durgin ’40, who spotted me instantly when I stepped off the train; I was the only American of Japanese ancestry on the platform!

Larry was such a dear friend and mentor, and he truly looked out for Nobu and me. During Freshman Week he came by every night to 109 Middle Mass. He had earlier bought refurbished furniture for our room: two desks, two chairs, a sofa and easy chair, two rugs, and several lamps. The cost: $102. I paid Larry $51 in cash and Nobu said his father’s company would send a check. We would have been lost without Larry’s help and know-how. Later, when I would see him at Baker Library or on Main Street, he always had time for a short conversation. Larry went on to become a well-known and beloved pastor of an elite church on Riverside Drive in New York City.

I knew Larry because his father, Russell Durgin, headed the YMCA in the Kanda District of Tokyo. I also knew Larry’s siblings, Helen and Russell Jr. ’47, who were several classes behind me at the American School in Japan.

My kids and I had a wonderful dinner with Patty and Rob Lynn ’68 last month. Patty’s dad, Bob Ohama, and I were on the same WW II in-terrogation team that questioned POWs in the Allied Translators and Interpreters Section just outside of Brisbane, Australia, in 1944. We met Patty and Rob, a retired attorney, for the first time at the Congressional Gold Medal awards ceremony in November 2011 in Washington, D.C.

I write this column on Groundhog Day—and he did not see his shadow, so it will be an early spring! The paper shows the temperatures in Concord, New Hampshire, are a high of 20 and a low of minus 6. The high-low here in Walnut Creek, California, is 57-47. An acute deep freeze has sent temperatures plunging to minus 34 in the Midwest and Eastern regions of the country. Our class spent 40 months (September 1939 to December 1942) in Hanover. Never, to the best of my memory, did we endure this polar vortex of minus degrees.—George Shimizu, 2642 Saklan Indian Drive, Apt. 2, Walnut Creek, CA 94595

44 I’m writing a short column to inform class members about two subjects.

First, my status. My wife, Betty, has had to go live in North Carolina to be near her daughters because she has macular degeneration. Since my children are both here in New Jersey, I have moved into an assisted living facility. Address info follows at the bottom of this column.

Second, this year is the year for our 75th and most likely last reunion. And I need to know if there are any of you who feel you are able and hope to attend. You can reach me by phone, email, or regular mail.

Best wishes for a great and healthy 2019 to all of you. —Carlton P. Frost IV, Brighton Gardens, Apt. 363, 5 Boroline Road, Saddle River, NJ 07458; (201) 444-1569; [email protected]

45 VP Harry Hampton is standing in as guest columnist: “Bud Street was on a roll composing our Class Notes, but

he’s sidelined presently by severe sleep depriva-tion, and you are reading lines by his substitute. The other sad news is that John Halstead and John Jennings, roomies their last two years in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, died last year. They were two of DOC’s most avid chubbers.

“Halstead became a history professor at the University of Buffalo. His research efforts led him to find reasons to praise British colonialism in the Victorian era for its provision of good gov-ernment, public education, and sanitation. Jen-nings helped to introduce Brown-Boveri ski lifts to Colorado slopes and was president of Redfield Gun Sights before intentionally undertaking a hermit’s life on the Rockies’ western slopes. Dur-ing WW II Halstead rose from Marine private to captain. Jennings survived the 10th Mountain Division in Italy. Both were Tuck graduates.

“Did anyone ever give thought to how one’s Winter Carnival or Green Key date, arriving by train in White River Junction, Vermont, suffered on the rails? I’m reminded of Jean Gousha, Dick Fuller’s date for Green Key in April 1942. Luggage then was lugged, not rolled. She came from and returned to Chicago via Albany, then Boston, then White River. Dates from Wellesley, Skid-more, and Smith had it easy. Who remembers the dance band at Green Key that year?”—Bud Street, 1212 Heatherwood, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675; (774) 994-8463

46 Frank Guarini, former seven-term congressman from New Jersey, writes that he has been extremely

active with building the New Jersey waterfront rather than practicing law. Frank states he is more active with developing his hometown and community of Jersey City. He is also staying ac-tive with John Cabot University in Rome, which has grown the number of students studying abroad and is strengthening its entire program.

The Dartmouth Alumni Council has ex-panded its study of my recommendation of increasing senior class representation on the council from three delegates representing all classes following their 55th reunion. Classes before this 55th reunion currently are allowed one delegate for each class. The expanded study will include evaluation of the composition of the board, no doubt with the idea of streamlining it in size while seeking complete alumni repre-sentation to make it a more efficient working body. To assist in my endeavor to give voice to our wartime classes as well as all other classes, I have submitted my name for a nomination to fill a vacant council seat this fall.

Our class sympathy to the families of the following deceased classmates, starting with the death on July 4, 2018, of our executive commit-tee chairman Harvey White. Our condolences to Harvey’s wife, Judy, who accompanied Harvey at our many recent reunions. He had a wonderful sense of humor. When Jack Howard introduced our classmate as the Hon. Frank Guarini, Harvey quipped, “Does that mean that John Wolff and I are not honorable?” Another class leader, Thomas

Hugh Gillaugh, died February 2, 2017. Robert Merrill Koons, a member of the DOC and Navy V-12, died November 2, 2018. Henry Huson Bush Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and active on family farms in Wisconsin, died January 19. John Bringloe Hel-sell, Th’50, an Orcas Island, Washington, native and member of the 10th Mountain Division in the European theater, died May 16, 2018. There was a memorable photo of a huge log too large to be processed at his sawmill that appeared in the 65th reunion newsletter. Waverly J. Ellsworth Jr., DMS’47, died October 31, 2018. Leon Norman McKenzie Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and member of the Navy V-12 program and Gamma Delta Chi, died December 22, 2018. Robert “Bob” Winter, who served in the Air Force during WW II and was an architectural guru and longtime pro-fessor at Occidental College, died February 18.

I hope I will have met ’46 classmates at the 250th centennial celebration at Lincoln Center on April 2.—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); [email protected]

47 This is written in early February. It is 2 degrees above zero. We have a fire going in our woodstove and enough

wood stacked for many months to come, but our mind is set to the end of month, when we will be in the warmer clime of Anguilla, British West Indies.

How many remember the term “drop a dime”? When I asked my local bridge friends, only one had the right answer (but they’re all slightly younger than I am). So as not to keep you in suspense it means make a phone call.

I dropped a dime the other day to get an update on my old friend Hardy Handren and his wife, Eleanor. They’re alive and well and Hardy wanted to know when our 75th would take place. I really like his planning ahead. It’s 2022—and I told him to be there! After all, we were joined by five or six 75th reuners at our 70th and they were all in great shape.

Received a note from Dick Hollerith with his comment, “Hanging in there.” Aren’t we all. He is recovering from a compression fracture of his vertebrae and, with the help of his lovely wife, Romy, is on the mend. They’re enjoying their time at Windsor Meade apartments in Williams-burg, Virginia. Thanks for checking in.

Now I continue our discussion on where your class dues go. We have covered class con-tributions to the athletic sponsors program and the library, and now we highlight a program we support at the Dickey Center. I am indebted to Dickey associate directors Melody Burkins and Tom Candon for all the information they sent me on the center for information understand-ing. The mission is, as the title suggests, to have students travel overseas to engage the world through internships, fellowships, research, entrepreneurship, and policy. It also has more than 80 students in the Great Issues Scholars program, inspired by President Dickey’s “Great Issues” course. They also host multiple student internal organizations for international develop-ment, business, science, and policy. The visiting

>>> David Halpert ’77, Th’79, came in at No. 11 on The Washington Post’s recent list of “Notable Influential Inventions” of the past 180 years for his work on bitmap graphics. As an engineer with Creare in Hanover, Halpert was awarded a patent in 1984 for a method that was further developed into a type of graphics used for modern computer displays and storage of images such as jpegs.>>> David Frassinelli ’81 has earned the Dis-tinguished Faculty/Administrator Award from Fairfield University. Since 2008 he has served as vice president of facilities management, responsible for operations, capital planning, and construction on the 210-acre campus.>>> Erika Meitner ’96 has earned the National Jewish Book Award for Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018). In her fifth collection of poetry, Meit-ner explores what it means to be the only Jewish family in an Evangelical neighborhood in southern Appalachia.>>> Bloomberg senior editor Karen Toulon ’83 has earned the second annual Gwen Ifill Award from the International Women’s Me-dia Foundation. She was recognized for her work developing a diverse, global workforce as a member of the news service’s talent and diversity training team.>>> Baseball coach Mark Baldwin ’86 has been inducted into the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He is the all-time winningest coach at Northampton High School, where he has coached for 23 years in addition to teaching history and economics. >>> Timothy Chow ’96 made The Financial Times’ 2018 “OUTstanding Top 100 LGBT+ Executives” list. Chow, who is general counsel for global distillery giant Diageo PLC in New York City, sponsored the formation of the company’s Rainbow Network and its par-ticipation in a number of LGBT+ initiatives.>>> Mariya Rosberg ’96 was named “2018 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is a partner at man-agement consulting firm Oliver Wyman in New York City and mom to 6-year-old twins Redmond and Delia.>>> Nils Ericson ’00 is one of Fatherly maga-zine’s “100 Coolest Dads in America.” The Brooklyn-based photographer (profiled in the November/December 2017 issue of DAM)—and father of 2-year-old Emmett and 3-month-old Faye—“seems to work especially hard to capture muted but emo-tional images of people who seem to have drifted into a private world,” Fatherly noted.

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lecture series are designed to let students inter-act one-on-one with global leaders, scholars, and government officials.

In our past fall reunions, not only did we have the President’s intern speak to us, but we had students from the Dickey Center tell us of their travels to foreign lands. Our money is well spent.

We are saddened to report the death of Jo-seph W. Lovell Jr. in Schenectady, New York, on December 17, 2018.—Joseph D. Hayes, P.O. Box 697, Rye Beach, NH 03871; (603) 964-6503; [email protected]

48 Dartmouth athletics director Harry Sheehy sent the class a letter advis-ing that the 1948 Scholar Athlete

Award last year for athletic performance and academic achievement honored Remy Borin-sky ’19 (women’s soccer) and Jack Traynor ’19 (football).

Borinsky was selected to the All-Ivy League first team for two years and named All-New England. She is a neuroscience major with a 3.6 GPA. Traynor was second in the conference with 98 tackles and earned a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy League first team at linebacker. Historically, awardees have joined us for cock-tails and dinner at our reunions and given brief talks, which were much enjoyed and gave us a chance to meet the players and hear more about the College.

This is no longer feasible due to the dimin-ished size of our reunions, and we should give consideration about involving a younger class to carry this tradition forward. John Hatheway encouraged our annual gifting to Dartmouth athletics. Sheehy commented, “On the strength of endowment giving, Dartmouth can offer more competitive coaching salaries and bring in high-caliber teacher-coaches whose skills and expe-rience truly make a difference. In the last six years we have hired 16 new head coaches who have infused our department with renewed pas-sion, energy, and expertise. Thank you for being a game-changer for Dartmouth, our coaches, and our student-athletes.”

Hugh Ettinger notes that after selling his composting company he worked as a consultant studying the operations of the big material re-covery facilities (MRFs) that operate in virtually every county in California, processing as much as 3,000 tons of garbage a day. The Folsom prison has an MRF that processes the city’s garbage as well as its own and has the highest recyclables recovery rate in California. Why? If you are a prisoner who works in the MRF, you work in the picking lines and get special housing and meals outside the main prison.—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (781) 801-6716; [email protected]

49 Did you note the astounding miracle in your class dues notice that arrived in February? “I am writing to you as

your class president,” wrote George Hartmann from heaven, where he took up residence about a year ago. Ray Truncellito (George’s successor), please take note!

Flashback: Our original class had 271 mem-bers in 1945. Their average age was 17 years and 9 months, with 24 only 16 years old when they matriculated. Today’s “baby” is our dedicated newsletter scribe, Skip Unger, who turned 90 this past January. (Correction: Jay Urstadt, who got the appellation in my last column, is demoted to second-youngest.) No wonder Skip has so much energy playing music in retirement communities.

With our 70th reunion just five months away, on September 27-29, Paul Woodberry and Quent Kopp have joined the list of probably at-tendees. Paul checked in from his home in Sea Island, Georgia, and says he’s feeling good. He’s in touch with Ed Clogston, who won’t make it to Hanover because of severe eye problems.

Quent entertained me and my companion Olha at a pleasant lunch in San Francisco. He’s still actively involved in civic ventures such as an ethics committee and the local Korean War memorial, and relieved that the bullet train, which he sponsored almost 30 years ago, has been mostly aborted because of horrific political mismanagement in the interim.

Henry Leo Gutman died on November 12, 2018, in Baltimore, where he lived. Hank lettered in lacrosse at Dartmouth and spent most of his career at Broger-Gutman, his family’s depart-ment store. He is survived by his wife, Babette, daughter Carol, and son Ned.

Herman E. Muller Jr. died on February 10 in New York City, where he lived. “Skip” gradu-ated from Ithaca College, where he chaired the board for many years, but always considered himself a loyal ’49er. He was a certified profes-sional accountant by profession, but also was an inveterate musician, playing the upright bass in Greenwich Village for 50 years. Skip served on many boards, including the National Endow-ment for the Arts. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn.—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)

50 Members of “the touch of class” ’50, I come to you this issue with not much news, and urge all of you to contact

me with any news you have that I can relay to the rest of us!

Of more interesting note: Jack and Jilly Harned are over the top elated about the news that one of their many grandchildren, Jackson Battey from California, will be in this fall’s fresh-man class—this is the third generation for the Harneds. The skinny is that he was lured by three gorgeous, blonde cousins.

With California in mind we welcome news from “here come da judge” Lee Sarokin, who is not content with being a class percussionist and performing at the La Jolla Village. Lee is also a budding playwright, having written nine plays in eight years that have been staged at nearby North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach, California, as part of its New Works series.

News of a more personal nature: My third daughter, professor D. Fairchild Ruggles, who heads the University of Illinois College of Fine Arts, was honored with a chair in landscape ar-

chitecture last fall.I receive notice of deceased classmates (see

below) from time to time and I have access to some obits and information on same, which I would be happy to share with you if you write me. However, what I really want is some news of your doings or hearsay items about classmate friends!

I have to report that John Edwin Wulp of Rockport, Maine, died on November 27, 2018. We send condolences to his family.

Keep in mind that for our mini October 11-13 our president has lined up some good eatin’ sessions and, of course, this is Homecoming Weekend. Have ukulele, will travel!—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8 Concord Greene, Unit 5, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; [email protected]

51 Two of our especially active class-mates have died. Dave Krivitsky was captain of our track team 70 years

ago and never missed a class alumni gathering until the onset of dementia sidelined him in re-cent years. Jeff Hart, described in his New York Times obituary as an “influential and iconoclas-tic conservative,” taught English literature at Dartmouth for three decades.

Complete obituaries of Dave and Jeff will appear in the next issue of Fifty-One Fables.

The year 2019 is the year when most ’51s turn 90. A highlight of Eggert Benzon’s 90th cel-ebration was a collection of memories contrib-uted by old friends, including warm reminis-cences of days on the Dartmouth sailing team from Dick Eitel, Sandy McDonald, and Bill Merkle. Eggert, a successful entrepreneur, has settled in Greenville, South Carolina, after previously dividing his time between the United States and his native Denmark.

Among the many ’51s who have put down roots in the sunshine is Joe Sisson, who recalls: “After my Army service in Korea we came down to Winter Haven, Florida, for a visit and for-got to come home.” Joe describes himself as a frustrated farmer. He earned a degree in ani-mal sciences and worked in the feed business for many years. To his surprise and delight he later combined strong interests in horticulture and mental health by serving as a horticultural therapist in an innovative program at Winter Haven Hospital.

It was fun to catch up with Les Richard by phone. Les settled in Wisconsin after college and a stretch in Korea with the U.S. Army. He spent 40 years in senior research and development roles in the paper industry and is now retired in Appleton. A member of the Dartmouth Glee Club as an undergraduate, Les still sings in a men’s chorus and in his church choir.

Ken Smith still lives on Staten Island, New York, near where he grew up. He served in Korea as an officer on amphibious vessels. His amphibi-ous landing ship carried a small helicopter and was active in land and sea rescue operations. He earned a law degree at Columbia and practiced in New York City for 40 years.—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; [email protected]

52 While the College in 2019 continues to celebrate 250 years of providing an excellent education, we, in our late

80s, continue to celebrate being able to report our small part in the history of Dartmouth. It is interesting how we move about at this stage in our lives. For example, we have recently heard from Lyle Spalding, a longtime General Electric veteran based in Louisville, Kentucky, who has moved to Ames, Iowa, where his son, David Spalding ’76, lives. Another example is Bob Ringstad, a lifer from northern New Jersey who has moved to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to be near one of his sons. We also received a note from Donald Richardson, M.D., telling us he has moved from his home in North Carolina to a retirement community in Napa, California, near two daughters. All three classmates send positive comments about their moves.

David Adler, M.D., has also written that he and his wife, Gloria, are now living fulltime in Boynton Beach, Florida. They had been split-ting their time between Florida and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for some 22 years after he retired from practice in New Jersey. On the other hand, Ross Daniels and his wife, Fayne, for many years have been dividing their time between Siesta Key, Florida, and Pawling, New York, their home forever. They have given that up and Pawling wins. In the January 2019 issue of this publica-tion we asked if anyone remembered being at the Dartmouth-Princeton game in the hurricane of 1950. Jack Foster, writing from his home in Burr Ridge, Illinois, not only remembers, he provided us with details from a player’s perspective. The fascinating recap is in our class newsletter. Frank Logan, class president, and your class secretary recently had an opportunity to visit with Jay An-derson and have lunch with Charlie Curtis here in the Upper Valley. Both are doing well.

We regret to report the passing of several classmates, William “Tony” Quimby, Robert C. Thomas, M.D., Paul W. Kerr Jr., Henry D. Waters, Glendon “Don” Campbell, Roland Barker Jr., and Alfred W. Acker Jr. —William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Ha-nover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; [email protected]

53 One of the beautiful things about a liberating education is that when you no longer can ambulate with

the same dexterity as you did previously, and have time to ruminate when “retired,” you write to share your experiences. Through the years classmates who are amateur writers have pro-vided lessons of life, great adventure stories, and thoughtful discourses on society. Ambas-sador Peter Bridges has inspired a raft of young people with his experiences as an officer in the foreign service.

Dick Calkins, an attorney, has written a won-derful book, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. It is an important book to read if you have any interest in our system of justice. In fact, it is an impor-tant commentary on our entire social system. I enjoyed it and could not put it down. It read like a novel, yet it is a real-life drama. I recommend it enthusiastically. Donna Riley has written another

very important book, Learning the Hard Way: A Caregiver’s Struggle with Alzheimer’s. Ultimately this book is not exactly a blueprint of how to live when a spouse becomes an Alzheimer patient, because each person’s journey is somewhat dif-ferent. It is, however, a liberating document that lays it all on the line with a loving understanding of the patient and profound consideration of the welfare of the caring caregiver. It is a book that should be read by all, as we are all affected in some manner by this horrible disease. And Bruce Sherman has written How Grandparents Can Handle Grandkids’ Issues, From Cults to Visitations. Bruce writes that the book is a “re-flection of the increasing role being played by grandparents as a result of soaring divorce rates and dysfunctional families.” You can read my cri-tiques in full for the first two books on Amazon.

This has been a very tough two months for the class as we have lost classmates War-ren Babcock, Russ Cook, John Cunningham, Stanley Kimmel, David Martin, and David Stowe. They will be missed. We send our sincere condolences to their families.—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5066; [email protected]

54 At a ceremony of the unveiling of Da-vid Levine’s portrait, commissioned by the Hospital for Special Surgery,

classmates in attendance were Tony Kane, Dick Davidoff, and Jerry Goldstein. The hospital has been ranked No. 1 in orthopedics in our country by U.S. News & World Report for the ninth con-secutive year and is the oldest such institution in the United States, founded on 2nd Avenue in New York City in 1863—the middle of the Civil War. David started as an orthopedic resident in 1961 and never left until he retired from patient care in 1995, though he returned in 2003 to take on an administrative role. Dick Barker attended the New Black Eagles Jazz Band concert in mid February at the Cultural Center in South Yar-mouth, Massachusetts. More than 200 people enjoyed the show. It was the first show in which Pete Bullis was not featured on the banjo since his death in September.

Professor Colin Calloway was the winner of the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Our annual N.Y.C. luncheon was a great success. Attending were: Bob Adnopoz, Howie Aronson, Jerry Barton and Peg, Sue Bastian, Don Berlin and Barbara, Don Brief and Dottie, Lon Chai-ken, Lo-Yi Chan, John Cunningham, Dick Davidoff, Lyon Greenberg, Jerry Goldstein, Rick Hartman and Anne Gay, John Heyn and Sally, Tony Kane, David Levine, Dave Mandelbaum, Dan Neiditz and Arlene, Dick Pearl, Maureen Reeland Riggio, Art Rauch, and Wayne Weil.

Peter Kenyon received a thank-you letter from the College for the $15,000 gift to the great Class of 1954 Internship Fund in honor of our 65th reunion—“an outstanding legacy and a wonderful tribute to Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary.”

If you haven’t made your commitment to the College yet, now is the time. Remember all

monies are credited to our intern fund, which will make it self-sustaining as our numbers con-tinue to get smaller.

We sadly note the passing of John Merritt, Fleming LaFolette, Gibson Dyke, Robert Orchard, Richard Christophe, Joseph Mannion, Richard Le-derer, George O’Connor, Francisco “Paco” Romero, and William Cohen.—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouth graphics.com

55 Nick and Mary Lynn Kotz are spend-ing some of this winter on Long Boat Key, Florida. They report sev-

eral visits with Iris and Bob Fanger on occasion of Iris’ dance reviews for The Boston Globe. Nick is semiretired but continues to jot down fiction and fact. Mary Lynn has recently published her third volume on Robert Rauschenberg, who, with Joseph Albers, put together a powerhouse art faculty at Black Mountain College in North Caro-lina. Mary Lynn also reports her book, Upstairs at the White House, which was on the bestseller list in 1977, has been republished, is also on au-dio, and, after 41 years, is again a bestseller. Af-ter Dartmouth Nick was commissioned in the Marines. Upon attending his reunion at 559th Basic School, Mary Lynn observed, “I thought he was the only one I knew who was not only polite, but gracious, chivalrous, and smart, but I found amongst those young Marines they were everywhere.” At Gilmont Farm, Virginia, the Kotzes live next to Susan and Bill Lenderking. Nick remembers freshman year he, Bill, Jim Hall, and Jack Krumpe bought a derelict car to drive to Montreal for the weekend: Friday night at UVM, on to Montreal, back to class Monday despite a blizzard.

Audrey and Dick Gardner of Dover, Delaware, recently attended the induction ceremonies of their grandson at the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina. Addition-ally, they traveled to the Mormon genealogical library in Salt Lake City, Utah, for expanded re-search on their family trees. Audrey was able to trace through a distant relation back to another relative on the Mayflower. Dick stated that no rustlers or horse thieves were uncovered in his line. Stan Bergman and Jack Doyle and Marilyn are just back from a trip to Colombia. Jack reports a delightful, welcoming, and friendly experience. They planned the trip themselves and stayed at Cartagena on the north coast and enjoyed the spectacular views of the ocean and the moun-tains safely away from the troubled border areas.

Sadly, we report the passing of Jay Brooks and Bill Kofoed. —John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; [email protected]

56 My column regarding the 10 young-est members of the class generated quite a bit of feedback. Robert Mackay

emailed me from Germany (where he resides) that his birthday of December 3, 1934, makes him second youngest in the class after Lincoln Yu. Since Bob was not included on the list of the youngest 10 that I got from the College, I imme-


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diately forwarded his email to alumni records for clarification. I was informed that the College does not have official confirmation of his birth date and he would have to contact them person-ally to update the record. I then forwarded the College’s email address to Bob. Since I assume that Bob knows his own birthday, he unofficially makes the list. There are also individuals who would have made the list if they had gone on to graduate. Finally, it should be noted that the College states that the records are not complete, so there is no definitive list.

Now for some sad news. According to an obit in the Vermont Standard, Robert Walker French passed away November 26, 2018, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bob’s wife sent the obit to Robert Faulkner, who forwarded it to me. Next, I received an email from Stacey Keare in-dicating that his father, Douglas H. Keare, passed away on January 8. As you all know, Doug was very active in college and class affairs and had multiple children and grandkids graduate from Dartmouth—all this is too voluminous to fit into my limited column space but undoubtedly will be covered in the newsletter. Finally, I received an email from Jim Whitney indicating that his father, Dick Whitney, recently passed on. For all three of these newly deceased classmates, we, the surviving, bow our heads in silent tribute.

On the brighter side, I got an email from Andy Hurwitz stating that his father, Roger A. Hurwitz, was alive and well in Indianapolis, In-diana. I also received notice from the College indicating that Everett E. Briggs just published a memoir titled Honor to State: Reflections of a Reagan-Bush Era Ambassador.—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; [email protected]

57 Monthly class of ’57 luncheons at the Three Tomatoes restaurant in Leba-non, New Hampshire, are so well at-

tended they could be counted as mini-reunions. Classmates and spouses huddled for warmth at the most recent get-together included Marion and Bob Burton, Celeste and Dave Cook, Happy and Clark Griffith, Lucia and Rob Holland, Norma and Eric Lee, Jane and Al Rollins, Wendell Smith, Jean and Mike Smith, and Monk Bancroft’s spouse, Jane. Keep this monthly mini in mind. It’s the third Friday of every month.

Al Rollins, when not helping Clark chop down giant pine trees or attending lunch at Three Tomatoes, climbs mountains with his daughter, Barb ’84, plays basketball, flies his plane, or cuts and splits cords of firewood for those invigorating New Hampshire winters. Talk about men of Dartmouth. Granite everywhere!

Hope you received a copy of Dartmouth Medicine reporting the initiative funded by Eric Eichler enabling undergraduates to explore pressing healthcare issues. The inaugural class consisted of majors in everything from biology, physics, and statistics to sociology, economics, and Romance languages. “At the end of the day,” one student said, “it’s not about what kind of doctor I want to be, but what kind of person I want to be as a doctor.”

Publication date for Mike Lasser’s new book

will be June 17. Order your copy of City Songs and American Life 1900-1950 on Amazon.

John Roberts continues to host his radio broadcast, This Week in Palestine, every Sun-day morning. You can access any past broadcast online at truthandjusticeradio.org, then click on the This Week in Palestine archive.

The much-loved, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, who received an honorary degree along with Eric Kunzel during our 50th reunion, has died at 83. Her passing prompted re-actions from many classmates and even included favorite Oliver poems on our listserv from Bruce Bernstein, Mike Lasser, and Chris Wren. Let’s end with my own favorite words from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; [email protected]

58 But for the Herculean efforts of Frank Gould, turnout at the upcoming Oc-tober 11-13 fall mini-reunion in Ha-

nover figured to be quite light—coming so soon after our 60th, and with the Lyme Inn, our usual haunt, jacking its rates into the stratosphere. But Frank, reunion organizer extraordinaire, has met the challenge.

Frank presented his 2019 plan on a late win-ter class officer phone call. On the line were John Trimble in tropical Florida and Dave Bradley in minus-something Hanover. The others were Sam Smith, Mike Simberkoff, Jack Bennett, Gersh Abraham, Walt Vail, Hal Bernsen and yours truly.

This year we’ll shift to the Marriott Court-yard, near the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Frank has negotiated a block of rooms at special rates. The Saturday night banquet there will be served by five-star-rated Maple Street Catering of White River Junction, Ver-mont. Frank’s also arranged for frequent shuttle service to and from Hanover. We can also view Friday’s Dartmouth Night festivities from the Hanover Inn while munching snacks in a room just off the lobby. Saturday’s class meeting and pre-game tailgate party at Dave’s office are walk-ing distance from the football game against Yale.

Skip Coggin writes that he loved the colorful Hood Museum reopening photos in the Febru-ary Sound & Fury. He and Liz are wintering in Naples, Florida.

Ward Burian has published a second book, The Creation of the American States. Check out excerpts on Amazon. He and Martha alternate between residences on Cape Cod, Massachu-setts, and Virginia, where Betsy Jo and Jim Spence are Williamsburg neighbors.—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; [email protected]

59 The most recent column stated that our class would be receiving a lifetime social justice award from

the College for the class’s role in founding and continuing to support Dartmouth Partners in Community Service—our signature project. The

award ceremony was held at the end of January. Doug Wise accepted the award on behalf of the class. Karl Holtzschue, a founding and principal supporter, currently our representative on the project’s board of directors, participated on a panel of award winners. Michael Stern, who ini-tially proposed the concept to the class in the early 1990s and has continued to be a principal supporter, also participated in the event. The class was represented by a number of others, including Janice and Chris Cundey, Joanne Wise, Betsy and Jim Wooster, Joan and Wayne French, Debbie and Mike Nolen, and Mal Swenson.

This column, although prepared in late February, appears in May—the last column published prior to the celebration of our 60th reunion, which will take place in Hanover on June 10-13 under the chairmanship of Chris Cundey and Jim Wooster. They expect, based on expressions of intent which they have received, that a large, perhaps even record, turnout of well more than 150 classmates, spouses, widows, and others will attend.

John Ferries is chairman of communications for the reunion and has sent to the class several newsletters containing details. A recent letter contains, among other details, a list of those who have expressed an intention to attend and a ten-tative schedule of events, which includes dinners on the lawn of Baker Library and in the grand ballroom of the Hanover Inn, a reception in the newly reopened Hood Museum, several talks by College speakers (including President Phil Han-lon), and a memorial service in Rollins Chapel. Although active sports will not be on the formal agenda, some classmates and spouses plan to play golf in the New London, New Hampshire, area following the reunion. Those interested in participating should contact Chris Cundey or Dave Marshall, whose contact information is in the newsletter.—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-7194; [email protected]

60 Anthony Bottone has been living in Washington State for the past 40 years except for a few years in

Saipan, where he married Joan. Semiretired, practicing tele-psychiatry from home over the Internet in California and Washington states, Anthony enjoys working with teens and younger children. Joan still works as a nurse. “Humor can help get points across to recalcitrant patients who are perplexed. “When asked how many psy-chiatrists it takes to change a light bulb a dim light reminds me of my readings of the French physician, Rabelais. Only one psychiatrist is needed—but the light bulb has to really want to change.”

Bruce Clark and Carol were taking a three-month vacation in Folly Beach, South Caro-lina, and doing well, although Bruce was in the middle of a detoxification program where he took a DMSA pill for three days, drank one gal-lon of water for 14 days, and then repeated that program three times to rid himself of the lead he absorbed in applying bottom paint to their racing sailboat 30 years ago. All came out well.

Marty Budd is busier now than before retire-

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ment. He chairs the compensation committee of a public company (Atlantic Tele-Network Inc.), the investment committee of the Hart-ford Seminary, and the finance committee of the University Club in New York, and is also on the boards of two other nonprofits and the Connecticut Student Loan Authority. His wife says: “We used to work to get paid, now we pay to get work.”

Art Coburn spent the summer dealing with heart issues—atrial flutter—but is back in rhythm now and doing well. He goes to the gym several times a week and has been skiing regularly.

Geoff Moser retired to Montana from a 40-year career with West Coast fisheries to write poetry books (Dream Meadow Poems, available on Amazon) to keep his mind from going to gel. With all the talk of walls he was reminded of lines 32-34 from Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. And to whom I was like to give offence.”—Sid Goldman, 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040-6114; (305) 745-3645; [email protected]

61 In part to celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary and in part to celebrate the 80th birthday of most

of our classmates, an achievement in and of it-self, several of our classmates along with their spouses or significant others and a few widows of classmates are planning to be in London, Eng-land, for a class mini-reunion during May 15-18. Coordinating this dual event is classmate Frank Stephens along with his spouse, Dawn, long-term London residents who have done an outstand-ing job setting up an itinerary and providing for group hotel accommodations. In addition, Frank is actively engaged in trying to reach out to and convince the current earl of Dartmouth to attend one of our mini-reunion class func-tions in London. Those classmates who may still desire to attend the London mini should sign up quickly via the enrollment applications located on the class website or email Frank at [email protected].

Several classmates, at age 79, are still re-ceiving current accolades for superior services rendered to their profession or the public. John King was recently inducted into the Health Care Hall of Fame for his lifetime involvement and achievement in the medical area of public health administration. Sam Bell was recently awarded the prestigious University of South Florida Col-lege of Public Health Class of ’56 Award (one of the university’s five highest awards). The college was founded to a large extent as a result of Sam’s efforts and supported subsequently through the efforts of both Sam and his spouse, Betty Cas-tor. The college is now ranked No. 1 in Florida and No. 16 in the nation. Moe Banks recently re-ceived the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Lifetime Achievement Award for being at the forefront of mergers and acquisition activities, raising venture capital financing and providing tax ad-vice to his clients, and for a lifetime of service to the West Hartford, Connecticut, community, including numerous leadership positions in sev-

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eral Hartford area arts organizations.In closing, I leave you with an appropriate

quote from an unknown source: “I’m supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.”—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; [email protected]

62 Since our class 50th birthday celebra-tion in Washington, D.C., we have cel-ebrated our birthday year together

every five years. We will have a class 80th birthday celebration in San Antonio, Texas, from April 26 to 30, 2020. Features include the Alamo, River-walk, Spanish missions, LBJ Ranch, Fredericks-burg, and a gala 80th celebration dinner. Details to follow in the class listserv and newsletter. Contact class tripmeister Tom Komarek at [email protected].

This year’s mini-reunion will take place Oc-tober 4-6. While there is no football game, there are other sporting events, and arrangements will be made for attendees to sit in on a variety of classes Saturday afternoon. We won’t be staying at Dowd’s; instead we’ll each make our own arrange-ments. A couple of nearby Marriotts are likely choices, among many others. Best to reserve early as you will be competing with a Tuck reunion and leaf-peepers. Friday dinner and Saturday lunch will be at the Paganucci Lounge with your choice of food from the Commons. Saturday dinner is at Jesse’s Restaurant in Hanover. For informa-tion call Mike Schaefer (413) 221-7128 or [email protected].

From Ted Beal: “I traveled to Southeast Asia (India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Singa-pore) for 30 days in January. My niece, recently appointed the president of Target India, brought her family to visit and I asked to tag along. The spice market and traffic in Delhi were mesmeriz-ing. Meeting villagers in northern India who rarely see people of our skin color was a treasured expe-rience. Kind and hospitable, these people were defined by the generosity of their spirit and not the poverty of their place. Sitting in their one-room home made me wonder if America had lost its way. My niece began in college as a night manager for Target and now manages 3,000 employees in India who provide the technology, analytics, store design, and market analysis for Target America. In an area of the world where women are not as well regarded, she is a shining contrarian.”

Veteran journalist and former UPI CEO (among many other prominent posts) L. Brewster Jackson died recently. Send remembrances to Pe-ter Knight, [email protected].—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; [email protected]

63 Summer recalls youthful days of beaches, hiking, sports, travel, and communing with nature. For Pete

Brown, such memories are filled with the many family members and friends who taught and nurtured him through an at times rugged jour-ney from age 5 through adulthood. Pete’s nos-talgic, moving memoir, Dedicated to S.O.B., is available on Amazon and Kindle. S.O.B. are the

initials (and affectionate nickname) of Pete’s great-grandfather, S.O. Brown, a 19th-century Maine mill owner whose log cabin or camp pro-vided welcome retreat during Pete’s childhood in Philadelphia and in various placees in the Midwest and West, including Denver. His father, a geologist, was killed in a plane crash when Pete was just 9. As a result, the Brown Camp in the Maine woods, founded by S.O.B., became all the more central to Pete’s life. The book—a collection of essays for the benefit of Pete’s children, grandchildren, classmates, friends, and other readers—includes Dartmouth adventures and descriptions of Pete’s work after college as high school math teacher and gymnastics coach, his 26 years as a professional in college admissions, including at Dartmouth from 1968 to 1975, and his 15 years as proprietor of sports card and memorabilia stores in Idaho and the state of Washington.

For ’63s, consider our own collective annual mini-reunion retreat in Hanover, October 11-12, featuring dinners Friday and Saturday night, the annual executive committee meeting (all ’63s invited) followed by Yale football on Saturday, and breakfast at the Hanover Inn on Sunday. The class has booked a block of 16 rooms at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River Junction, Vermont, that will be held till Sep-tember 1. Call (802) 299-2700 to reserve. For further info, go to the Dartmouth ’63 website.

Thirty-four tickets were sold for the class block near the 50-yard line for Dartmouth vs. Princeton on Saturday, November 9, at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Although advance sales are closed, you can purchase tickets for general seating at DartmouthSports.com or by calling (603) 646-2466. Watch the class website for info about a possible get-together.

While you are on the site, check out the fact-filled summary and photos of the class trip last November to Cortona, the picturesque medieval hill town in the Tuscany region of central Italy known for its wine, scenery, and attractions. In addition, Claire S. “Deamie” Cabot, one of the or-ganizers and author of articles and books, shared with me personal impressions traveling with class president and husband Sam Cabot from the Florence, Italy, airport. “As we traveled closer to Cortona, in the Arezzo province of Tuscany, we began to see large plantations of olive trees,” De-amie wrote. “People were gathering the harvest with large nets on the ground. The locals seemed to be coaxing the olives out of the trees with long rakes. We passed a magnificent church on our climb to the old city: Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio, a High Renaissance church built between 1485 and 1513 by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. It was perfectly square covered with an impressive dome.”—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; [email protected]

64 This month three classmates share what they’ve been doing in recent decades.

Ed Brazil writes: “Jennifer and I have been

blessed with good health and the fact that our four children—none of whom had a date at our wedding 19 years ago—are now all happily mar-ried and have blessed us with seven beautiful grandchildren—now ages 10 to 14. Jennifer, who grew up in Hawaii, has a Washington license plate, Tutu7X.” (“Tutu” is “grandmother” in Hawaiian.)

“We are still following the sun—relocating twice a year from Seattle to Palm Desert, Califor-nia, with six months in each location—37 moves and counting. I continue to enjoy my business of the past 30 years of finding and managing the sending of administrative computer work to developing countries so that young English speakers with college degrees can have mean-ingful employment without having to leave their families and country. My passion for travel has given me a lot of enjoyment and understanding, including, for example, a 10-day trip to North Korea. However, after visiting 173 of the 193 United Nations member countries, problems such as ISIS, Ebola, and political chaos have made me consider replacing this bucket list item with one less dangerous and more easily achievable.”

Ed Gingras writes: “I am semi-retired, liv-ing in Seffner, Florida, in an RV park adjacent to a waterski lakes site that opened in 1978. I have one daughter, age 43, one grandson, age 5 3/4. I was divorced way back, both parents are deceased, and I have one cat.

“Before Florida I lived in Laconia, New Hampshire, and worked winters until 2011 at a ski area doing timing and calculations for school races, beer leagues, and a recreational ski and snowboard race program. I worked at a Vermont machine tool company from 1969 to 1980 and worked from 1984 to 2003 as the technical controller for the water ski pro tour—surveying-type stuff, jump distance measuring, etc. My health items: two fake hips, prostate cancer (cured 2002), and a bad back from years of water ski jumping.”

Harry Bartel lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife of 53 years—Scottie (Wellesley ’66). They have two sons: Christopher ’94, who is married with three children, and George, who is unmarried and lives in Taos, New Mexico, where Harry and Scottie have a second home. Harry still practices tax, corporate, and estate planning law full-time with his law firm in Fort Worth, Texas.

He has served on a bank board, the board of a publicly traded insurance company, and several foundations and as a trustee of Austin College. Scottie taught Spanish for 23 years and has been vice president of the Van Cliburn Foun-dation for 30-plus years. He and Scottie travel quite a bit out of the country, spend time in Taos and on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, where son Chris has a summer home.

A reminder that our 55th reunion is June 10-13 in Hanover. Please plan to visit with our classmates. Dave Hewitt is heading up the ’64 team planning a terrific event. —Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; [email protected]

65 Greetings, classmates. I write from the polar vortexed North, where staying indoors with a good book

and perhaps a glass of cheer is the best idea. For now. However, many of you are out in the world traveling, giving lectures and TED talks, climbing mountains, and doing good works. All of this activity no doubt leads to exhaustion and the concomitant dearth of notes about those interesting and exciting undertakings. For now, the cupboard (electronic) in which I store up stories is bare. As you recover from all your excellent adventures, let me know about them!

Speaking of undertakings, I reported in last column Dave Beattie and Mike Gonnerman scaled Moosilauke at the October mini-reunion. Beat-tie corrected me: Roger Hansen and Hank Amon climbed with Dave. (I should have known—I was stumping around the base of the moun-tain.) Gonnerman had done the climb before, otherwise he just does marathons.

Mike Gonnerman led the February class teleconference. He pioneered the idea, and it’s working well. Carl Boe, Beattie, Don Bradley, Peter Frederick, Gonnerman, Hansen, Dick Harris, Gary Herbst, Ward Hindman, Ken McGruther, Howard Mueller, Joel Sternman, Bruce Wagner, Bill Webster, George Wittreich, and Alan Zern attended. Any classmate can join the meeting—Mike sends a notification to those of you who have registered emails. (At last count, 434 of the 739 names on the class list had registered emails. In other words, we have 305 opportunities to expand the list if you email laggards contact Dartmouth alumni records.) Mike’s slides gave updates on class doings and a growing number of informal class meetings (Hanover, of course, but also New York, Lake George, and Florida). The next teleconference is scheduled for May 15. Mark your calendars.

I have had conversations with some of you over time about being, as we are by definition, entitled. After all, we graduated from an elite institution. I haven’t met many of those stuffy, overprivileged male classmates who seem to populate the imaginations of those who gen-eralize us as part of the problem of American malaise. I’d love to hear from you on the subject.

As for me, Dartmouth made an enormous difference. I arrived from an overcrowded Il-linois high school that had never sent a gradu-ate to the East Coast, much less Dartmouth. In my first year I mingled with classmates from fine public and private schools. They were two years ahead of me academically, farther than that socially. Valedictorians, Merit scholars, elite athletes; high-achievers and gentlemen all, it seemed to me. True, some got those gentle-man’s C’s the world speaks of dismissively (al-though back before grade inflation, they were C-minuses). I got several myself, not because I was a gentleman (in either the correct or the pejorative sense, I hope), but because I was be-fogged or lazy or both.

Finally, we have learned of the passing of Bill Stanton in Long Beach, California, and Ste-phen Hope in Pennsylvania. Obits will appear in the magazine and on the class website at www.biggreen65.com.

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—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Val-ley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; [email protected]

66 It is with great pride that the class of 1966 welcomes our new class adop-tee, Dr. James S. Jackson, a charter

trustee of the College since 2016. At the Univer-sity of Michigan, Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychol-ogy and Professor of Afro-American and African Studies. (Search “Dartmouth trustees” for the full CV of this distinguished academician). We look forward to engaging with Dr. Jackson in class activities in the years ahead.

As you read this there’s still time to sign up, as nearly 100 already have, for the class 75th birthday party in Newport, Rhode Island, June 17-20. Class president Jim Lustenader and the team have laid out a terrific weekend. Register at www.dartmouth66.org.

Jim, who lives in Hanover, sees near neighbors Marya and Paul Klee and Susan and Gus Southworth regularly, and recently watched Dartmouth’s 2-0 hockey victory over Yale with visiting Kathy and Wayne LoCurto.

George Trumbull has made it all the way back. After Lyn, his wife of 42 years, died in 2016, the retired insurance company chairman and CEO understandably “went through a period of self-pity.” But family, old and new friends, and an immersion into nonprofits that change lives have revived George’s spirits.

He joined the board of Education for All Children, an education-to-employment program for disadvantaged youth in Kenya, and has vis-ited Kenya four times. He’s also on the board of Malta House of Care, which provides healthcare to the uninsured in Hartford, Connecticut, via a mobile medical van; led a capital campaign for the Roaring Brook Nature Center; and volunteers at Bikes for Kids, which rehabs and donates bikes to inner-city kids.

Best of all, George found a new life partner in Connie, and his daughter, Melissa, gave birth to Victoria Lyn, first grandchild, last spring. George says, “I am now tremendously optimistic about what lies ahead.”

New York University Law School recently honored Rick Reiss and his family with the nam-ing of the Reiss Center on Law and Security. Rick, his late wife, Bonnie, and his dad are all NYU law grads. Check out the center at www.lawandsecurity.org.

During last November’s gubernatorial cam-paign in Georgia (yep, that one) Dick Bathrick was one of 250 participants in a “Count Every Vote” demonstration in the Georgia Capitol rotunda—and was one of 15 arrested. It’s no surprise that Dick was on the frontlines. As a consultant and trainer in gender, race, and class, he has spent his career promoting transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities.

Nelson Lichtenstein, an expert on labor his-tory and a distinguished professor at the Univer-sity of California Santa Barbara, has written 16 books and is still going strong. He’s now tackling issues from 21st-century populism to teacher strikes and the failure of elite universities to

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a Bostonian like me. Try Cold Service or Sixkill, just to name two.” Jim Gifford says that “by far, the best and most powerful book I have read in past few years is Factfulness by Hans Rosling, which makes the case that the world is considerably better than it was a century (or even 20 years) ago.” Don Garni recommends The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Bob Thurer offers Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, exploring the lives of the struggling underclass in India. Jack Ferraro likes Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. For more visit our new ’67 book club at www.1967.dartmouth.org!—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; [email protected]

68 Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, retired U.S. Navy chaplain, offered the opening prayer February 6 before the U.S.

House of Representatives. A week after the government shutdown end-

ed, Resnicoff prayed for a “more perfect union, less divided.” Standing before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Resnicoff said: “Let our nation never slumber. No closings, fits, and starts. No honest pay denied for honest work. No time out from efforts to improve our lives, achieve our dreams.” Resnicoff had also delivered the open-ing prayer on the floor of the House shortly after an anti-Semitic shooter killed 11 people in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Our next class mini-reunion is set for Sat-urday, May 25, in Hanover, and all classmates are invited. Besides an 11 a.m. class meeting in the Zimmerman Lounge at Blunt Alumni Cen-ter, we are touring the newly renovated Hood Museum, which has lots to offer, including a provocative collection of contemporary African art. And then, at 8 p.m., a cello concerto inspired by Dartmouth’s Orozco murals will premiere in Spaulding Auditorium.

The Orozco Concerto, which was composed by Noah Luna and will be performed by Gabriel Cabezos, was commissioned by Roger Anderson to honor the murals and the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth. NPR will broadcast this premiere on its program, From the Top. So if you can’t make it to Hanover, tune in.

Shiraz Kotadia, in Connecticut to visit his son and two 10-year-old grandchildren, and Dolph Highmark, who lives near Granby, Connecticut, where our class meeting convened, joined the meeting.

Now retired from a career in information technology, Shiraz serves as president of the Almaden Valley Community Association in San Jose, California, and as vice president of a family charitable foundation.

Dolph, an attorney, is doing a lot of satisfying pro bono work helping elderly clients manage their finances and lives. He enjoys time with three grandchildren, ages 5, 4, and 1, teaching them to call in owls. Fishing is one of Dolph’s passions. He once hauled in a sting ray after a two-hour battle. And he’d love to see a mini-reunion that chartered a boat off New England. Any other anglers?

Bob Havens, who now lives in Oakland, Cali-

fornia, is off visiting Bulgaria and Romania, two countries he’d never seen before though he has been to nearby Turkey 12 times. He managed to re-establish contact with a Turkish friend who had been an exchange student with his family in high school. In 2013 Bob visited Syria for a week. His travel plans were interrupted when his passport and visa were stolen, and he spent three days getting his visa renewed. But he lived to tell the story.

Class president Dave Peck wants to encour-age classmates from around the country to join our class meetings, so he’s moving some of them out of Hanover. We’re thinking about San Fran-cisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities.—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; [email protected]

69 The sad news: This is the last Class Notes column you will receive before our gathering in Hanover in June.

The good news: As of this date we have more than 300 classmates who will probably be present at our 50th reunion. If you are not among them, you still may have time to register, find housing, and enjoy the company of old friends and make new ones. By the time you read this the reunion book will be in the hands of the printer and, we hope, nearing a shipment date so you will all have a copy by May. Our ’69 Times editor, Allen Denison, will have sent you two new editions before June with updated information on all aspects of the reunion, including daily schedules. Check our class website, www.dartmouth69.org, for regu-lar updates on the reunion and class activities in general.

Remember, this is also the sestercentennial of the College and there will be many interesting events surrounding that milestone available dur-ing our reunion or any time you visit the campus this year. We are also celebrating the 200th an-niversary of the Dartmouth College case, when Daniel Webster helped successfully defend the College before the U.S. Supreme Court.

We are concluding our Class Connections program with the ’19s this spring and will join them during our reunion for their graduation. The program has been extremely successful for this year’s graduating class, thanks to the incredible efforts of Norman Jacobs and Dona Heller. These two have overseen panel discus-sions, social events, and the beloved Trivia Night each year since their matriculation in 2015. We will share a BBQ luncheon with them on Friday of our reunion weekend. Many classmates have benefitted by joining these various gatherings both to help and participate.

Our Dartmouth College Fund head agent John Myers reports the reunion giving commit-tee is making excellent progress toward our goal for this year, our 50th reunion, and our class gift—renovation of the DOC House. We still need additional participation, so please send in your contribution now. If you have already given, con-sider an additional amount to go toward the class gift or our reunion costs. Treasurer Rick Willets says our current class balance is in good shape,

but those of you who have not yet paid your class dues, please pony up.

When you receive the reunion book you will be amazed with the quality of the effort and the amount of information provided by your classmates. Many people have worked on this effort, but the leaders have been David Prentice, Dudley Kay, and Henry Allen. Please recognize these three and thank them for the prodigious efforts they put forth to make this the best re-union book in the College’s history. We also need to acknowledge the amazing work Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus have done to put the entire re-union together.

Sadly, another of our great professors has passed away. Jeffrey Hart ’51 died February 17, at age 88.

Please send Allen, webmaster Peter Elias, and me information about your lives.—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; [email protected]

70 Winter is waning as I prepare for this spring column. From this avid snow skier’s point of view, this winter has

been pretty disappointing in southern New Eng-land with less than 20 ski days, but golf season is not far away.

Wallace Ford brings greetings from New York City! He lives in Harlem and works as a college professor, teaching at Medgar Evers College School of Business. In addition to a birthday in January, he celebrated his 18th year in higher ed-ucation. Prior years were spent as an internation-al lawyer, government official, investment banker, venture capitalist, and management consultant. Two previously published novels (The Pride and What You Sow) were published as e-books at the beginning of this year. These books may become the basis for a TV series. Wallace hopes that our fellow alumnus, Shonda Rhimes ’91, finds this column. His Point of View contemporary com-mentary column—www.thewallaceford.com—is now read in more than 60 countries. The col-umns will be compiled into a book, The Eyes of Janus. Wallace plans a wedding in June at the Museum of Art in New Orleans.

Duncan Wood writes that he has agreed to organize a panel discussion at our 50th reunion on the thoughts and reflections of our classmates who served in the U.S. military after our time in Hanover. He would like to find a classmate from each of the three ROTC programs, plus folks who were drafted or entered the service in some role. Duncan also seeks anyone who left during our four years to serve and later returned to Dartmouth to graduate. During our time in Hanover there was a strong sentiment on the campus opposing the United States’ involvement in Vietnam and then in Cambodia. But many in our class had won ROTC scholarships to finance their Dartmouth education and owed the gov-ernment four years of active duty. In addition, a fair number of us had draft lottery numbers lower than 180 and were subject to the draft in the summer of 1970.

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increase their undergraduate enrollments in keeping with population growth, coeducation, foreign students, etc.

Jim Lenfestey met his wife, Susan, a blind date from Skidmore, in the Psi U house. And it’s still all about love. Jim’s fifth book of poems, A Marriage Book: 50 Years of Poems from a Mar-riage, is a finalist for two Midwest Book awards. Peruse all of Jim’s poetry and other writings at coyotepoet.com.

We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of four classmates who passed away recently—Dale Heckerling, Michael Juha, Arthur Lewis, and Stephen Martin. More about each classmate on the DAM website.—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; [email protected]

67 Responses were great to the question, “What’s the best book you’ve read in the last two years?” John Manopoli,

Steve Cheheyl, and Tom Moore each recommend Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, a provocative exploration of how we as a species became what we are. John Isaacs likes Doublecross by Ben McIntyre, about how the Allies fooled the Germans about the D-Day invasion. George Wood has “always been fascinated by accounts of the scientific breakthroughs that brought us victory during WW II and beyond,” and likes Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant (as does Ed Kern) and American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, about Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. Richard Chu likes Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Horne, “sort of like Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly, recounting various catastrophic battles in the last century (Nomonhan, Mid-way, Dien Bien Phu, etc.).” Bob Dormer likes On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides, about the Marines at the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War. Tom Maremaa says “This one is easy: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” which depicts the life of a young Czech doctor in the years before and after the 1968 invasion of Prague by the Soviets. Michael Gfroerer chooses Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, an inspiring book about lawyering and the practice of law for truly noble purposes. Ted Haynes, himself an author, likes for nonfiction, Grant by Ron Cher-now; fiction, The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook; poetry, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie; and for mys-tery, he rightfully likes his own work, Suspects, A Northwest Murder Mystery. Roy Benson says that although he is slowly plowing through the latest Winston Churchill biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts, “The best book I’ve read in the past couple years is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles” (also a choice of Steve Cheheyl’s). Carter Hall says his “favorite within the past two years (which, given my aver-sion to classics of any sort as an undergraduate, I cannot believe I just said that!) has been The Od-yssey, translated by Emily Wilson, a remarkable translation of the classic homecoming tale, mak-ing the story come alive.” Bill White says that “for sheer entertainment, you can’t beat the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, especially if you’re

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Duncan was drafted in August 1970 but managed to finish his fifth year at Thayer School. He was commissioned in the Navy’s Civil Engi-neer Corps. His military experience had nothing to do with Vietnam but was all about the Soviet nuclear threat.

David Aylward ’71 posted a note on Face-book in January about spending an hour with the “Genius of Joyce,” Peter Bien. They had corresponded, but not seen each other since graduation. Professor Bien’s freshman semi-nar on the “Ulysses Theme through Literature” was the intellectual highpoint of David’s time at Dartmouth. Peter was a wise and caring coun-selor during David’s struggles with war, fear, conscience, and religion. David reports that Professor Bien is as “with it” and delightful as ever at 89.

Save the date for our 50th reunion: June 11-16, 2020. —Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; [email protected]

71 On a frigid winter’s eve, Peter and Mar-sha Pratt, Malcolm Jones, Bob Cordy, Garret Rasmussen, Gene Elrod, and Bill

Kennedy attended the reenactment of the Dart-mouth College case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts played the Justice Marshall role. Distinguished Dartmouth alums former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal ’91 and former U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre ’87 presented oral arguments of the case. The College sponsored this special event in honor of its 250th anniversary. Daniel Web-ster’s peroration was performed: “It is, sir, as I have said, a small college and yet there are those who love it.” Wah hoo wah to Garret Rasmussen, who biked to the Supreme Court in 10-degree weather. Peter Pratt observed that he was “a true son of the North.” Bob and Lisa Lider joined Ted and Betsy Eismeier at the Little Bar Restaurant adjacent to Marco Island, Florida, to see son Tim’s performance. Tim is a talented guitarist and singer from Austin, Texas, with a repertoire of Texas ballads. Also attending were Tim’s wife, Rachel, son Townes, and many of Ted and Betsy’s friends from Marco Island.

David Aylward had a reunion with profes-sor Peter Bien, the “genius of Joyce.” David had corresponded with but had not seen Professor Bien in person since graduation. David reports that the professor’s “freshman seminar on the ‘Ulysses Theme through Literature’ was the in-tellectual highpoint of my time at Dartmouth, and he was a wise and caring counselor about my struggles with war, fear, conscience, and religion. He is very happy in retirement with his wife at Kendal. He is ‘with it’ and delightful as ever at 89 and teaching Ulysses to an adult education group on Wednesdays.” My expanded Class Note that’s posted on our class website, 1971.Dartmouth.org, includes photos of the aforementioned class events as well as other classmate postings. I am deeply saddened to report the death of Andy Har-vard. He was a world-renowned mountaineer, accomplished lawyer, and former Dartmouth

Outing Club director. At the age of 59 Andy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Faced with this in-curable disease, Andy confronted this challenge with the same dignity with which he conducted his extraordinary life. Our deepest and heartfelt sympathies go to his wife, Kathy, and her family. Andy left a legacy that will be documented in a film, The Final Climb, that is directed by our classmate, Dartmouth film and media professor Bill Phillips. Bill stated in The Dartmouth that “Andy’s can-do spirit—his willingness to let us see and walk with him at the end of his life—was admirable.” Numerous articles on Andy’s extraordinary life and accomplishments will be posted in our class website together with an expanded obit.—Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; [email protected]

72 It’s spring in Hanover, and some of our classmates are thinking back 50 years to the spring of our freshman

year. Some of the memories remain strong. Whatever your political leanings may have

been in 1969, most of us remember the occu-pation of Parkhurst Hall by protesters led by the Students for Democratic Society. Bob Nycz recalls that night in May when the State Police were called in to remove the protesters. He re-members one of our classmates “being carried out with tears in his eyes and guitar in hand.” Bill Roberts remembers that of the 56 demonstrators taken out by the authorities, several were women from Mount Holyoke. He recounts that in his-tory class the next day, “We voted on whether to discuss [the takeover] and the guy trying to start up the matter was outvoted! Whereupon he was roundly booed and he left!” Bill also re-calls President John Sloan Dickey addressing a campus-wide meeting after the takeover and saying, “I may be a lame duck, but I’m not a dead duck!” Exactly.

Campus unrest was widespread that spring, and Neal Traven remembers that a story about the takeover made the May 19, 1969, issue of Newsweek. But John de Regt points out that not all the occupations were political protests. He says, “There must have been 100 occupations that spring, all about Vietnam, except the occu-pation of Fort Ticonderoga by an intrepid band of Dartmouth students. That was just for fun.” Oh, those Dartmouth hooligans!

And there was other fun being pursued that spring. Joe Davis remembers playing in his very first rugby game in a driving rainstorm alongside the Charles River in Boston with Scott Snyder, Dave Engle, and the late Dave Wright. “I think Lawrie Lieberman was probably watching and laughing at our efforts. Let’s just say that there was a lot I didn’t understand about rugby at that point.”

Bill Roberts recalls Green Key Weekend and the concert on Saturday evening featuring Richie Havens and Laura Nyro. They were quite the draw for Hanover! Haven’s rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” was epic, and Nyro was one of the most talented female songwriters of her generation (“Wedding Bell Blues,” “Eli’s Comin’,” and “Stoney End” come to mind.)

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Zooming back to present time, our presi-dent, Bill Price has news from Seattle: “We held our first Seattle area ’72 lunch with six of us sharing stories: Barry Abbott, Brian Lawler, Thurm Lowans, Charles Breen, Neal Traven, and me. We remembered the unusual reverse alphabetical order when we received our diplomas, robbing Barry Abbott from getting up there first; com-pared Seattle’s snowy winter with those when we grew up, of course there was a lot more snow then; and talked about retirement, with Thurm endorsing it. We’re already planning our second get-together.” Well done, Bill!

Sadly, I must report the death of our class-mate Bruce Routman. Our heartfelt condolences are extended to his family and friends.

I’m hungry for news, so please drop me a note.—David Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; [email protected]

73 Reunion is upon us….Looking forward to seeing as

many of you as possible on the Ha-nover Plain June 13-16. If you have not yet reg-istered, do so ASAP! It is going to be a great prep for our 50th in a scant four years, and since the College is celebrating its 250th, there are unique activities and goodies. The class reached 44-per-cent participation in last year’s Alumni Fund; since it is a reunion year, class officers hope for an increase in that percentage.

Welcome to newly adopted class member Jennifer Arthur, a 1972-73 exchange student.

Leslie Macrae Rood and his architectural partner established Bast & Rood Architects in the Champlain Valley in 1994. They strive to strengthen communities and are active in sustainable construction with a goal of making buildings durable, useful, adaptable, appropri-ately scaled, and integrated into the community as well as beautiful. Mac helped Lakota Indians on the South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation by teaching a core group how to build with local materials, including mud bricks and logs cut and peeled on site. Rice hulls, normally a waste product, were used as insulation. State-of-the-art windows for solar heating and photovoltaic panels for lighting assist the community, which is completely off the grid and five miles from the nearest road.

The Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association did an extensive interview with Kelvin Chin, which can be found on its web-site, www.dapaaa.dartmouth.org, by typing in “Kelvin” as the search term. “I definitely did not start and end where I thought.”

The Dartmouth Lawyers Association held its annual continuing legal education and ski program at the Resort at Big Sky in Montana in February. Class participation was light but included John Goheen, Richard Merrill and Thea Fabio, Kathleen and Hilary Miller, and your scribe. Richard is assuming the post of alumni councilor this October, so look for his emails starting in the fall.

As part of the sestercentennial events, there was a re-enactment of the Dartmouth College

case in both Washington, D.C., and in Hanover. Kate Stith-Cabranes served on a panel at the con-voking event to provide historical context and later set the stage for the Hanover re-argument.

Dartmouth held a festive celebration for the Call to Lead campaign in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only ’73 in attendance, unfortunately, was me. If a similar event occurs near you, make an effort to attend, since it was enjoyable, with an engaging video review of the College’s 250 years; posters with quotations from notable alums; large cut-board replicas of the facades of Dart-mouth Hall, Baker Library, Tuck, Thayer, and Geisel; fabric backdrops of the New Hampshire woods; and a two-sided bar designed to evoke memories of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and Skiway. Cofounder and CEO of College Pulse, Terren Klein ’17, reported that the three big-gest undergraduate weekends now (in order) are Green Key, Homecoming, and Winter Carnival, with Green Key outstripping Carnival at least threefold! For four seconds of mirth, check out www.pickup.studiozphotobooths.com/2332/nhof83. —Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; [email protected]

74 Last year Mike Fonner returned to the United States after serving six years in Nairobi, Kenya, as pastor

of an international Lutheran congregation, the culmination of 38 years as a Lutheran pas-tor. After college Mike worked for a year as a student pastor at the oldest church in Harlem before completing his master of divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School. He joined the Peace Corps just before ordination and worked in the Philippines. Later Mike earned his doctor of theology degree in Buddhist-Christian studies at Harvard Divinity School and through time served as a pastor in Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia, as well as with the campus ministry congregation behind Leverone Field House in Hanover for seven years.

In his email to me, Mike humbly described himself as a Lutheran pastor who has been blessed with many extraordinary opportunities to learn and to serve. Mike and his wife, Leslie Weed-Fonner, now live in rural Vermont, an hour from Hanover. Mike is working as a substitute teacher in the local village elementary school and this summer will begin the M.A. program at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, concentrating on the novel. Leslie is a licensed, independent clinical social worker and coordinator of the outpatient adult clinic at the community mental health agency serving the greater Barre-Montpelier, Vermont, area. Mike and Leslie have three children, each with one child. Sophie is a hospital psychiatric social worker, Jess is a special education assistant at a public elementary school, and Zach works with an international nongovernmental organiza-tion with projects in the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Mozambique.

Shelley Kosisky, Bert Hubinger’s widow, wrote that Bert’s historical fiction trilogy about

the War of 1812 (1812: Rights of Passage, 1813: Reprisal, and 1814: Raze of Glory) has been ac-cepted posthumously into the library of the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore for staff research and de-velopment. Bert’s books are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Sadly, I must report that John Fisher passed away unexpectedly in December. Jim Miller kindly sent the following list of classmates who attended the memorial service for John in early January in Westport, Connecticut: Owen Wil-liams, Steve Allison, Dave Cranshaw, Alan King, Rick Clarke, Paul Lukeman, Chris Gates, Doug Lind, Steve Dietz, Judd Fitze, Mitch Sadar, John Elsenhans, Gary Kraemer, Simon Etzel, Marty Mehlberth, Toni Hop-kins (for Herb Hopkins), Don Casey, Joe Barnes, Bob Clymer, and Doug Peabody. After the service the group reconvened at John’s favorite lunch spot to share memories of John and to celebrate his life. Please see John’s obituary under the class of 1974 section at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

Please join in the fun and fellowship at our 45th reunion from Thursday, June 13, through Sunday, June 16, in Hanover. Also, please re-member to make your contribution to the Dart-mouth Fund by June 30.

Be safe and send news.—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; [email protected]

75 This month there is news from the four corners (the “girdled earth”) of our great country. First, Eliza and I

have just completed the first weekend of Mardi Gras here in Galveston, Texas, with Peter Castle and his wife, Deb. They came down to this tem-perate area from a cold and barren Connecticut. The sight of this crowd lunging for beads thrown from the floats must have been hysterical; thank-fully, no pictures.

And this from Bob “Action” Jackson in San Diego. “I am now officially retired from both my Navy and civilian careers, happily living in San Diego with my beautiful wife of 30 years, Bobbi. I am having lots of fun with my three young grand-kids, with a fourth on the way in a couple months. My five boys are doing well, some in San Diego and some in Illinois. My oldest made a radical career change out of engineering and construc-tion management to law enforcement, and is now a sergeant with the Illinois State Police.”

Bob retired from the Navy as a captain in the Civil Engineer Corps, where he was commo-dore of the First Naval Construction Regiment, responsible for all Pacific-based Seabees (ap-proximately 4,000 Seabees and 23 units) during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The man is a double retiree, now retired from Sempra Energy as the general manager and director of engineering and construction, responsible for the $1.8-billion Sun-rise Powerlink 230-500-kilovolt transmission line. Bob welcomes visitors to San Diego and hopes to make it to the 50th.

Back to the center of the country, and we find our newest Facebook page member Suzanne Metzel (which brings us to 105 members), who has

chucked the lawyer’s life and is an accomplished photographer. Check out her portfolio at www.suzannemetzel.com—there is some very interest-ing material. She has a truly interesting story and apparently a very talented gymnastic daughter.

Finally, I bumped into (not literally) Jeff Barndt at a local (Houston) gathering of Dart-mouth graduates celebrating Daniel Webster’s birthday. Our prior contact was on the golf course some time ago, during which I perfected my strip-mining techniques. As I recall, Jeff won the day. The most recent gathering was a fitting one in this year celebrating 250 years of Dartmouth College and the renewed interest in the Dartmouth Col-lege case. See you at reunion.

Vox clamantis in Tejas.—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; [email protected]

76 Santa Fe, New Mexico, here we come! Our dream birthday party is becom-ing a reality! In case you’ve missed

the class newsletter or emails and calls from friends or the last magazine column, here’s what’s happening: We’re celebrating our 65th birthdays on the 250th day of Dartmouth’s 250th year with camaraderie, conversation, culture, and catch-ups September 6-8 in scenic Santa Fe! The kick-off party is Friday night at La Posada de Santa Fe hotel, class headquarters for the weekend, where mini-reunion chair Jim Beat-tie has reserved discounted rooms through the following link, www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1549922126377&key=GRP (discount rate available September 3-11 for early arrivals and late lingerers). Reservations made by May 15 will be entered into a drawing for a king suite upgrade with fireplace! Email [email protected] if you have any problems reserving. Plans are underway for golf with Andy Shaw, art and architecture tours with Carol Vaughan Bemis and Julie Miner, cycling with Rick Hill, guided city tours coordinated by Naomi Baline Kleinman, a custom-ized shopping hot spot list from Santa Fe regular Julie Miller Shepherd, and an off-campus class din-ner Saturday night. Here’s hoping Craig Reininger will reprise his reunion hiking leader role too! Classmates coming so far: Carolyn Allenby, Mar-tha Johnson Beattie, Jamie Bergford, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Jack Brennan, Lynne Brooks, Brewer Doran, Kathy DeGioia Eastwood, Inky Ford, Nancy Steward Freidl, Bob Freidl, Amanda Green, Donna Humphrey, Sara Hoagland Hunter, Joe Jasinski, Jody Karp and Dave Magnus, Gretchen Kent Kerr, Andrea Lewis, Gary Love, Steve Melikian, Dave Robbins, Bill Saubert, Tom Souza, Annie Stockmar Upton, Steffi Valar, and Randy White. Kipp Barker, Anne Johnson, Paul Lazarus, and Tish O’Connor hope to make it as well. Amy Gillenson, who splits time between homes in New York City and Umbria, Italy, with her Italian-born husband, will skip the olive harvest this year to make it to the mini-reunion. How about a 2020 reunion in Umbria? Congratulations to Louise Er-drich, named one of the 25 most influential gradu-ates in the 250-year history of the College by a panel of Dartmouth faculty. Check out Peter Stark’s cool interview on NPR with Ari Shapiro about his enduring tale Frozen Alive, one of the most requested stories on Outside magazine’s website

for the last 20 years. My request for grandpar-ent names yielded two Grandpas (Kenneth Carr Wright, Mike Chapman), a Grandma (Beth Howard Wilkens), multiple Mimis, including Pat McClendon and Jim Burns’ wife, Marion. Bob Deason is Papa-bob. Bob Cline is soon to be Bob-Bob. Bob Freidl is PopPop and Kirk Barker is Bebop. Noel Kropf’s kids call his parents Sabba and Savta (Hebrew for grandparents). Both Marc Lacasse and Lois Gadway Tow honor their French Canadian roots. Marc’s kids called his parents Pépère and Mémère. Lois called her great-grandparents Mémé and Pépé. My favorites were Grumpy Moose (Bruce Wilkens) and Not Puppy (Joe Jasinski, whose grandson remains smitten by Joe’s puppy).—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; [email protected]

77 This month we focus on perform-ers, shows, and exhibitions. Richard Stillman is an actor, musician, singer,

tap dancer, and storyteller. Most weeks find him performing in a variety of venues from schools and senior centers to assorted theaters. In 2009 Richard returned to the Dartmouth stage as a guest artist in The Grapes of Wrath. In 2014 he won the Best Concert Award for his show, The Spirit of Vaudeville, at the United Solo Theater Festival in New York City. Last year Richard won the GigMasters Rising Star Award as top banjo player. He performed in a production of Mother Courage at the Nebraska Repertory Theater this past fall. Set in the Civil War, the show featured Richard as a nasty Irish sergeant in the Union Army, a lecherous colonel in the Confederate Army, and finally a banjo-picking rebel soldier. The last “seemed charming at first but turned out to be a rapist. I usually play kinder characters.” In January he played in a concert of storytelling and music from around the world with longtime partner Gerald Fierst. Richard accompanied the tales with guitar, mandolin, bagpipes, and a penta-tonic lyre he made in the woodshop at Dartmouth.

Jennifer Leigh Warren performed as the Blues Singer in the Broadway streaming of A Night with Janis Joplin, which began on January 19. Jennifer was also part of the cast of Fox Studios’ live tele-vision adaptation of Rent, broadcast on January 27. Jennifer played the roles of Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Jefferson, and the “Christmas Bells” homeless woman. She was “thrilled to have the opportunity to bring life to these characters and excited that a new generation is being drawn to the theater.” Jennifer is best known for originating the role of Crystal in the hit musical Little Shop of Hor-rors, her performance in the original cast of the musical Marie Christine, and her show-stopping performance as Alice’s Daughter in the original Broadway musical Big River with the song “How Blest We Are,” written especially for her by Roger Miller.

George Shackelford has organized an exhibit titled “Monet: The Late Years,” which will be at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from February 16 to May 27 and at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 16 to September 15.

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phase of the artist’s long career. “Boldly balancing representation and abstraction, Monet’s radical late works redefined the master of Impressionism as a forebear of modernism.”—Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; [email protected]; Eric Edmondson, Signal Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; [email protected]; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Wash-ington, DC 20037; [email protected]

78 In January Jim Bassett was elevated to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court—but only for a day. Jim sat in Justice Ste-

phen Breyer’s seat during an extraordinary 200th anniversary reargument of the Dartmouth College case that took place in the high court’s imposing courtroom, with Chief John Roberts presiding. An audience of 340 Dartmouth students, faculty, alumni, trustees, and friends watched former Act-ing U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal ’91 argue Daniel Webster’s case on behalf of the College. Former U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre ’87 took the part of Webster’s courtroom opponent, William Wirt.

Jim, who sits on the N.H. Supreme Court, chaired the planning committee for the bicen-tennial of the Dartmouth College case. He has devoted a big chunk of time and energy the last two years to organizing this and other events cel-ebrating the famous decision, including a March symposium in Hanover.

Oral arguments 200 years ago were simply lengthy speeches, but the re-argument was done modern style, with a “hot bench.” Roberts invited Jim, N.J. Supreme Court Justice Anne Patterson ’80, and Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton to sit with him. Together they peppered the advocates with questions. Jim said that the chief justice, a devoted Webster scholar, “couldn’t have been more gracious and invested in the proceedings.” He added that Roberts, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard law, “struck a perfect balance between scholarly inquiry and humor, often alluding to the relationship between Harvard and Dartmouth.” Kaytal closed with Webster’s famous peroration that included the oft-quoted line, “It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.” Sustained applause followed.

After oral arguments, Roberts summarized the verdict rendered by the court 200 years ago. Jim noted from the bench that while Webster gets the credit, “he was the Mariano Rivera of the case,” referring to the Hall of Fame Yankee closer. He gave credit to two lesser-known New Hampshire attorneys who worked on the case, Jeremiah Smith and Jeremiah Mason. Jim com-pared them to legendary starting pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, saying they created the legal arguments that proved the foundation of Webster’s courtroom victory.

A healthy delegation of ’78s was in atten-dance, including Steve Adnopoz, Chris Simpson Brent, Scott and Mary Brown, Jeff Crowe, Bart Dick-son, Tim Harrison, Jon Keeve, Rick Kimball, Kenny King, Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), Steve Mandel, Pierre Kirch, Chris Riley, Jon Walton, and Gerry Wid-dicome. Before the event, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) led some of the visiting ’78s on a private

subterranean tour of the capital that included the old Supreme Court chamber where the decision was announced in February 1819.

“Surreal” is the word Jim used to describe sitting on the Supreme Court bench alongside the chief justice. “To have that unique view of the courtroom where so much history has been made, to sit on a panel of judges with the chief justice presiding, was an extraordinary and unforgettable experience.”

Send news!—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chi-cago, IL 60605; [email protected]

79 John and I love serving as co-class secretaries on many levels. We get to establish new relationships, nurture

old friendships, promote inclusivity, and tell the interesting, often little-known stories of our amazing class. John surfaced one such story when he approached his old friend Barbara “Barb” Smiley Bula about penning a Class Notes guest column. The two were engineering majors with a special bond deeply rooted in Dartmouth history, as you’ll now find out. Enjoy!

“I was inspired to attend Dartmouth by my maternal grandfather, Dartmouth class of 1918. As namesake of the H.P. Hood & Sons dairy com-pany, he made many contributions to the College, including the Hood Museum of Art. My fresh-man year brought another, unexpected connec-tion from my grandfather. John Currier’s family farm in Vermont delivered milk to Hood & Sons creamery in Boston and our grandfathers were acquainted decades before we met. Our friendship at Dartmouth brought that family connection full circle. I spent most of the last three decades in Austin, Texas, practicing my chosen vocation of ‘stay-at-home-mom.’ Running alongside parent-ing duties, I used the problem-solving skills from my engineering studies at Dartmouth and the organizational and finance skills from my M.B.A. in a variety of educational and nonprofit volunteer activities. As my kids got older and needed me less, however, I wondered, what next?

“My dad had been a lifelong physician and medical researcher, and in 2004, following his death, I filled a board position for a healthcare software company that he and my brother had started. I dove into the healthcare arena, serving on that board for six years prior to its eventual sale. In 2007 I was invited to join the board of the Charles H. Hood Foundation, which has been part of my family since it was established in 1942 by my grandfather, Harvey P. Hood II, and named for his father, Charles. I have been honored to serve as a trustee for the Hood Foundation for the past 12 years and help continue this part of my family legacy. Charles H. Hood was a pioneer in the New England dairy industry who was passionate about science, education, innovation, and health. To-day the foundation (charleshoodfoundation.org) works with institutions throughout New Eng-land to support pediatric medical research aimed at transforming the quality of life for children. It has been amazing to learn about innovative breakthroughs in pediatric research and know that we make an impact that reaches around the country and the globe. Through relationships with

researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and work we supported through the Dartmouth Atlas Project, I have also been happily reconnected with Dartmouth.

“Now a grandmother, I find faith and fam-ily are still my mainstays. The Hood Foundation provides the chance to bring together many things that have impacted my life and the opportunity to contribute something meaningful through the next decade, as well as continue a legacy for my own children and grandchildren.”

And you thought “The Hood” was just about art! Many thanks, Barb. —Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; [email protected]; John Cur-rier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; [email protected]

80 With the advent of spring in Philadel-phia, I am seeing more green along the banks of the Schuylkill River than at

any point since the evening of January 12. That’s the night when our iconic Boathouse Row was lit up on “Greenlighting Night” to celebrate Dart-mouth’s 250th birthday. While soaking up the beauty of the lights, I realized that several tall buildings in Center City were also awash in green. This was so much bigger than expected; my Dart-mouth pride swelled! The spell was broken when a stranger walked up and said, “Don’t you love it when the whole city dresses up in green on the night before an Eagles playoff game? I think this is the first time they extended the lights all the way to Boathouse Row.”

Was I dreaming? I remember walking down a red carpet into a contemporary art museum somewhere in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. I arrived in a bus that included Paul Salafia, Lanny Vickery, Rob Ruocco, Mark Alperin, Chuck Blades, Rick Gemberling, Craig Lambdin, Earl Grossman, Bruce Reeves, and Chris Browne. During the course of the night I also spent time with Paul Elmlinger, Barksdale Penick, Emily Lisberger Vitale, and Bob Brown. There were performance artists dressed as famous rock stars and as much food and drink as we could handle. After dinner a wall opened up to reveal Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famer Chrissy Hynde and The Pretenders on a small private stage. Chrissy was so close I could touch her. And she never sounded better. Our thanks go to Hans Morris and his wife, Kate, for hosting a truly-unforgettable-and-certifiably-real 60th birthday celebration. Are there any plans to host a similar party for number 61?

Allen Chen ’79 and Bob Keefer ’79 indepen-dently identified the classmates grouped in Oc-tober’s column as stalwart members of Phi Tau. From our class I heard nothing but crickets. Hello? You can’t win if you don’t play! So here’s another chance to win. What’s the common thread that ties this group of classmates together: Jenni Prigge Buhl, Kaj Christenson, Jane Deskin, Steve Elder, Mark Fagan, Monica Williams Knox, Dennis Murphy, Virginia Taylor Picci, Douglas Reichert, Donald Skantze, Tom Vieth, and Stuart West.

The first reader to send an email with the correct answer will win a gift certificate. We will close with another tribute to the stages of life, presented in limerick form.

Being young is a gift. Yes, indeed!Grace and beauty like Rollins or ReedWith the onset of ageWe now face the stageWhen like frat row it all goes to seed.

—Frank Fesnak, 242 River Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035; (408) 859-9652; [email protected]; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; [email protected]; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; [email protected]

81 The “Big Questions” series responses revolve around gratitude, healthy in-trospection, and appreciation for the

thoughtful influences of our alma mater and each other. The latest installment focuses on an inter-est sparked at Dartmouth that has become a core part of one’s life.

Peter Oudheusden was clear: “Rowing. I first learned to row as part of the Dartmouth crew team, and during the last 10 years have raced on a team and solo in many different types of events, from 1,000 meters to 300 miles. I am always in preparation for some race.” Mike Steinharter used some of his patented pivot ability from the soccer pitch, recognizing that “one of my regrets was not going overseas. That has stayed with me, and when I had the opportunity to spend time travel-ing overseas and then living overseas, I embraced it with all I had. It is way too easy to get insulated in the United States and lack appreciation for the world at large, the cultural messiness that makes the world fun and all the cross-cultural skills that make us better world citizens. I have now lived on three continents, spent eight years overseas, and done business in more than 40 countries. Best of all, my kids have a greater appreciation for the world than I did at their age.” Linda Gundal had two answers! “I had my first experience with computers at Dartmouth, and became a software engineer because of it, majoring in math modified with computer science. President Kemeny and Scott Drysdale were my heroes. But I originally wanted to major in foreign languages, so I spent my sophomore fall foreign study program in Tou-louse, France, and winter language study abroad in Mainz, Germany. I loved my stay in Germany so much that I moved here in 1988 and am living here still. I would tell people that my decision to become a software engineer made it possible to fulfill my dream of really learning a foreign language and moving to Europe, where I am still working as a software engineer!” Anthony Desir responded, “Music—and in the strangest way. Jazz teacher Bill Cole announced to his rabble of disciples that if I ever dared to take his class he would fail me just to make a point. When I found that out, I signed up for his next class right away. The weird part: Despite our disdain for each other, I actually learned something about music, not just jazz, but all forms of music. Today I can listen, distinguish, and enjoy almost any kind of music, from classic and country to rock and jazz. I have to thank the challenge from Bill Cole for that.” Allen Smith has recognized his devotion to “running and regular exercise after running Rip Road many times at Dartmouth.” Grace Macomber Bird knew she was a “mountain girl,” but her time

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at Dartmouth expanded her interest to “spending time on the water. My time at Ledyard was new and wonderful.” Her spell on them remains.—Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Utica, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; [email protected]; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; [email protected]

82 Happy spring! I hope that you are enjoying longer days and warmer weather. It is hard to believe that

another summer will soon be here. Many of us have recently experienced the death of a parent. I wanted to dedicate this column to our parents, so I asked several classmates whose mother or father died this past year to share some thoughts regarding that parent and Dartmouth. Thanks to all of you who responded!

Beth Johnston Stephenson writes, “When my high school guidance counselor suggested that I consider applying to certain small Midwest-ern colleges, my dad, Thomas Watts Johnston, gave a metaphorical ‘hmphh’ and promptly took me east for visits to schools he considered more appropriate. He and Mom visited for Parents and Homecoming weekends, remembering the lectures by David Lagomarsino and Don Pease better than I did.”

Scott Simmons shared the following: “I first saw Dartmouth in the summer of 1966, age 5. My big sister, about to enter her senior year in high school, my dad and I were making the col-lege circuit. Although Dartmouth wasn’t coed yet, Hanover was our layover for a night. My one vivid memory of our stopover was standing in the middle of the football field, biggest thing I’d ever seen, holding my dad’s hand, saying, ‘Dad, I want to go to college here.’ ”

Winky Stearns Hussey writes the following about her father, John P. Stearns ’49: “When I was about 14 I told Dad I wanted to go to Dartmouth. He said they had only recently started admitting women and it might be a hard place to attend (es-pecially after going to an all-girls school in New York!). I replied, ‘Well, they have a couple of years to sort that all out.’ ”

Sam Carlson shared the following about his fa-ther: “We had some land up in Lyme, New Hamp-shire, so he was happy for me to go to the Big Green and be part of the great outdoors. He could come up from Boston to chainsaw and work on his little cabin, catching me on weekends for some free labor and cheap beer chilled in the spring. Three years ago, as part of a book project, I asked my father what his golden rule in life was. He sat for three minutes without speaking and then said, ‘Never speak under pressure until you have had time to think.’ ”

Amy Lederer Shapiro writes, “My dad (Rich-ard, class of ’54) was an incredibly proud and grateful alum. I recall two excellent pieces of advice he gave me about Dartmouth. First, he recommended that I talk to other students and get recommendations about which professors were the most engaging and dynamic and take any classes they taught, as opposed to choosing classes based solely on content. Second, he was a huge believer in the value of a liberal arts education.”

I am sad to report the death of our classmate, Ostap Kortschmaryk. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los An-geles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; [email protected]

83 Dartmouth’s commitment to the fine and performing arts is manifested in part through the college’s vibrant arts

district, including the recently reopened and much enlarged Hood Museum. Various class-mates are active members of creative communi-ties. The Falkirk Cultural Center in San Raphael, California, recently exhibited “This is Not a Book: Journals by Minna Towbin Pinger.” Minna’s journals are large mixed-media and written word works focused on home and family. No stranger to the creative spotlight, Jean Hanff Korelitz was pleased to learn that her novel, You Should Have Known, is being produced by David E. Kelley as a limited series for HBO. Renamed The Undoing, it will feature Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland. Jean’s son, Asher, is following her creative lead and has joined the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen. According to Jean, her son has forbidden her from following him during the year-long tour. Consistent with the creative theme of this issue’s Class Notes, Daniel Rodgers and his significant other, Cybele Gontar, recently bought a second home in New Orleans and own The Degas Gallery in the Warehouse District. Check it out online or stop by if you are in New Orleans. Con-gratulations are due to various classmates. Rick Baker recently married his longtime girlfriend, Anne Mork—who earned a master of healthcare delivery science through the Dartmouth Institute and Tuck in 2016—at a small wedding attended by family at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison. The newlyweds honeymooned in Morocco. Best wishes, Rick and Anne! Gail Wiedman Marcus was recently named a partner at the N.Y.C. law firm McLaughlin & Stern. She counsels individuals and families concerning trusts and estates. Con-gratulations, Gail! Following a successful career in finance, including as the head of high-grade capital markets at JPMorgan Chase, Melanie Law Shugart has retired. She is learning Italian and recently spent a few months living in Italy. Molti auguri, Melanie! Pat Lippoczy Hedley has written a book we’re going to buy the minute we finish writing these notes—Meet 100 People. In her book, as well as in her TedXDartmouth talk, “Meet 100 People,” available online, Pat shares her wisdom on networking to cultivate meaningful and long-lasting relationships. Jim Sterling writes that he is committed to running at least nine New York Road Runner races in 2019 to qualify for the 2020 New York City Marathon. Go, Jim! Dave Ellis continues to organize the very popular first Fri-day Dartmouth lunches in New York City—noon to 1:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. Classmates in the New York City area should join him! We would love to hear from or about any of our classmates living outside the country for an upcoming international-themed Class Note. Please continue to send us news and announce-

ments, international or domestic, creative or not, at [email protected].—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chi-cago, IL 60657; [email protected]

84 No one tells me anything. My class-mates all avoid me. Most class secre-taries would find this disconcerting,

but most class secretaries didn’t have my junior high school experience. I was built for this. Also, I understand your reluctance. No one wants to ap-pear in the “Eric Grubman Class Notes,” especially when the more factually accurate “Juliet Aires Giglio Class Notes” are available. I get that. You all send the information to Juliet. However, allow me to remind you all of a simple fact: Juliet and I alternate writing the column. So, if your timing is off by as little as a day or two, your message to Juliet ends up in my hands. Such is the misfortune that recently befell Willa Ridinger. Willa, who lives in my sleepy town of Woodbridge, Connecticut, is usually very clever. I never see her. To date, she has avoided running into me for almost 20 years. Until now. You see, Willa wanted to share some good news this past summer. Willa kept the news quiet while carefully studying the calendar. She waited until she thought the coast was clear, and then sent the good news to Juliet. Or so she thought.

It turns out that Willa is a teacher and a tutor and married her best friend back in August. I was not invited. I did find out that they registered for the wedding at Pottery Barn. I went online to get her a gift, but the registry has been picked clean. Anyway, Willa has started a new business, paint-ing and doing calligraphy on pottery. Her work is available on her website, willaware.org. It is not available at Pottery Barn. Go figure.

Anyway, the wedding sounds like it was quite an event. Carla Small and Bob Cronin were there. Now, these two are smart. They know enough to send my phone calls directly to voicemail. No matter. I did some research on the Internet and learned that both seem to have very complicated-sounding jobs somewhere near Boston. Neither works at a Pottery Barn. Tisa Hughes and Mary Fabio also played some role in the wedding. I would have been able to tell you more about the roles they played, however, as noted above, I was not invited. In my own town. Where I am a justice of the peace. Maybe this is a little more like junior high school than I care to admit.

Bill Hamlen recently moved back to Hanover from Singapore. Due to jet lag, Bill accidentally called me instead of Juliet. Before he realized his mistake, I learned that Bill is planning a two-week sailing trip up the coast of Japan. An avid fisher-man, Bill plans on landing a big one somewhere off the coast of Fukushima.

Finally, please stop sending all your informa-tion to Juliet. I’m very mature and can be trusted. Stop avoiding me. This isn’t junior high. Also, if anyone is free June 14 and wants to go to prom, I need a date.—Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; [email protected]; Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; [email protected]

85 Have you wondered how traditions begin, especially some of Dartmouth’s? In this year celebrating the College’s

sestercentennial, I was with a group of alumni from our graduation decade through the early 2000s. We were discussing the Winter Carnival Occom Pond plunge and the Homecoming bonfire. Several of the younger alums expressed outrage that the freshmen class run around the bonfire was transformed into more of a one-way jog. They were equally surprised when those of us from the 1980s commented that we had never actually undertaken a bonfire run. “What? But it is a Dartmouth tradi-tion!” No one from before the class of 1988 had ever run around the bonfire, and yet alums of the class of 1992 proudly recounted undertaking this fresh-men year run “lest the old traditions fail!” Anyone out there who actually knows when either of these so-called time-honored “traditions” began, give a rouse and let us know.

Dartmouth recognized the Valentine’s Day tradition with a tribute to Dartmouth couples. We actually have several classmate couples, includ-ing Sally Crane Goggin and Mark Goggin, Frances Gmur Osman and Andy Osman, Debbie Willing Carson and Dan Carson, Katie Harris Robbins and Kris Rob-bins, Mimi Reilly Eldridge and George Eldridge, Holly Andersen and Doug Hirsch, Amy Durno Harned and Peter Harned, Cindy Bergman MacManus and John MacManus. No doubt, there are more. Featured in this article were Pam Lower Bass and Barry Bass. With side-by-side photos from their days on the Hanover Plain and an equally timeless, yet more recent, pic from an overseas adventure, Pam and Barry shared their tale of meeting on a language study abroad trip to Mainz, Germany (presumably our sophomore year). Weaving their way through their undergraduate years, including meeting up (literally) with each other on graduation as the two lines came together in the processional, they married in 1988. Fast-forward to today—they are living in Potomac, Maryland, with three grown kids, having both pursued long careers in com-mercial real estate. More recently each has pivoted to the next phase professionally, in which, notably, Barry is currently CFO of Holistic Industries, the first medicinal cannabis cultivation center to open in D.C. Barry will be overseeing the extracurricular activities for our next reunion.

In case this column does not make it clear, news is thin. I have pulled out our 1985 Aegis—quite the walk down memory lane—in case there is little to report next column. I will randomly select a classmate to feature or I might resort to applauding our Cleveland-based lawyer classmate Jeff Healy, who continues, annually, to receive the honor of being named one of the best lawyers in America. I have been listening to the Serial Season 3 podcasts on ordinary cases in the justice system in Cleveland (trust me, nothing “ordinary” about any of them), so I have had Cleveland on my mind. Jeff does not practice criminal law but he deserves a rouse for practicing law in Cuyahoga County.

Send news. All the best to all of you!—Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Green-wich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; [email protected]; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; [email protected]

86 Not only has Liz McClintock served as a Dartmouth Partnership in Commu-nity Service mentor twice, but she has

also hosted a Burundian journalist who is in exile from his home and navigating the U.S. asylum process. I stole this summary from her applica-tion to be a mentor. Liz, you do so much for oth-ers. I want to acknowledge it. Janet Quigley Clay continues to serve as our class alumni councilor, so continue to send her a question, a kind word, a suggestion that she can deliver to faculty, trustees, and administrators in their meetings ( [email protected]). San Diego-based litigation attorney Jonathan Singer of Fish & Richardson was named the 2018 Life Sciences MVP of the year by Law360 for the third time. Sam Zales, chief operating of-ficer at CarGurus, announced its U.K. expansion through the purchase of motoring website Piston-Heads.com. Thank you to David Kotz, who shared the green-lighting of the Saraswati Temple in Hampi, India. He writes, “Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom, and learning, so it seemed appropriate.” I wanted to know which alum might live the farthest from Dartmouth, and David nominated Keith Noyes in Hong Kong. I estimate that he lives 7,847 miles from Hanover. Keith confirmed the estimate, and also sent a photo of his family skiing in Japan for the holidays. Gary Johnson took up my Haiku chal-lenge: “Teach high school seniors, physics with much algebra, they all go to sleep.” I received a wonderful note from Chris (Demos) Brown, who listened with his daughters to my daughter, Shea, interview me about Navajo culture, called Ki-naalda. Don’t miss his photos and the update on his successful Broadway play, American Son, in our class newsletter. Peter Arnold writes, “There was a huge ’86 turnout at the U.S. Supreme Court for the recent 200th anniversary re-argument of Dartmouth v. Woodward: Julie Mannes, Greg Mott, Heather Sawyer, Chris Lord, Beth Robinson, and yours truly.” John Hueston argued Nutraceutical v. Lambert in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2018. He was hoping that Justice Ginsberg would ask him a question, which she did. He was so thrilled to say her name and answer her. Eight of the nine justices asked him questions, which was a high point. In attendance were Seth Hendon and his daughter, who is a sophomore at Dartmouth. John just learned that he won in a unanimous decision. Mark Weiss writes: “After 53 years of bachelorhood, I married Terry Acebo Davis, the artist; we came to 2011 reunion. So now I say the three great privileges of my life are Dart-mouth, Palo Alto Unified School District public schools, my wife.” Join me in congratulating Jayne Daigle, who was honored by the College at the Ivy League Basketball Tournaments’ Ivy Madness. —Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; [email protected]

87 I have a soft spot in my heart for my across-the-hall freshman dorm neigh-bor Dawn “Bumble” Roberts. For count-

less hours in their small South Hinman living room, she and her roomie Nancy Wahls listened to my social woes, always with patience and quirky senses of humor. Bumble sent me her news from Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, where she

is evaluating advisory services the World Bank provides to Russia and Kazakhstan to promote policies that support economic development in those countries. “Modern technology has reduced the need to travel for work, so I am usually found living an idyllic life in South Portland, Maine, with my wife of 25 years, Alison,” Bumble said. “We’re highly amused and regularly outsmarted by our two kids, Valya (age 15) and Jeremy (age 12), along with our dog, cat, and rabbit.” Bumble admits she hasn’t done well at keeping in touch with old friends, so would be delighted to see any-one passing through the Portland area. Looking back on our college years, Bumble said she would “simply offer reassurance to my younger self. Life is a fascinating journey of ups and downs. Be kind, follow your heart, and worry a lot less about what others think.”

One way to stay connected to your classmates is through the new ’87 virtual book club, organized by our class mini-reunion team, Kathleen (Joyce) Kusiak, Allison (Obermann) Exall, and Pam Haer-ing. According to Kathleen, the February kick-off “was a blast.” Participants read Professor Don-ald Pease’s Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss. “Professor Pease was the perfect author for this first gathering, and could not have been more accommodating, gracious, and brilliant,” Kathleen said. “He had a lot of fun recognizing some of his past students and has of-fered to join us again. Several of us mentioned how much it made us miss our days at Dartmouth.” A video conference option allowed participants to see people they don’t normally get to see, “al-though there were plenty of classmates who opted to skip the live video—sort of like sitting in the back of the classroom,” Kathleen said.

In addition to the mini-reunion team, attend-ees included Abdhish Bhavsar, Karen (Wicke) Boyle, Liz (O’Connell) Burn, Cathy (Welch) Dinauer, Diane (DeLuca) Gabianelli, Jennifer (Lane) Hamlin, Beth-anne (Telford) Hinkle, Ken Hittleman, co-newsletter editor Julie (Park) Hubble, Sarah Katz, Sarah Man-chester, social media chair Hermann Mazard, Me-lissa Mikami, Gwen (Pearson) Noone, Tom Palisi, Meg (Crone) Ramsden, Betsy (Wall) Rutherford, president Tracey Salmon-Smith, Diane Shank, and Caroline Sobota. “Classmates asked great questions and received insightful answers,” Kathleen said. If you missed this inaugural virtual book club, a second one is planned for later this year.

On a final and very sad note, Steve Lough passed away on February 23. As Star Bailey wrote on our Facebook page, Steve had a “heart of gold” and brought much joy to those around him. An obituary will appear in the class newsletter or in DAM online.—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; [email protected]

88 Having started our journey together as members of the class of ’88 and the greater Dartmouth community nearly

35 years ago, it’s a good time to reflect on what it means to be part of a community and on what we have learned through the years about strong and lasting communities. It turns out our classmates have some fascinating perspectives and are doing much good in their local communities.


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Stephanie Welsch Lewin says serving as our class president was one of the most meaningful commitments she has ever made, and she has now transitioned her focus to leading the Kenwood Citizens Association as president, working to create a warm and welcoming community in her neighborhood. She stays active in the Dartmouth community through Dartmouth Partners in Com-munity Service, the Dartmouth Club of Washing-ton, D.C., and Women of Dartmouth, and regularly sees Heidi (Schwartz) Brotman, Sarah Jackson Han, David Magilner, and Jean Wulff. At a recent event Stephanie saw even more ’88s: Jonathan Altman, Alex Azar, Ruth Cserr, Bob Lasher, Derek McDowell, and Chris Schons.

For his part, Adam Rabiner feels strong ties to the “micro-communities” he created at Dart-mouth through dorm life or extracurriculars such as the Glee Club. Adam also notes the strength of communities of people with whom he shares common experiences and values, from the par-ent groups formed around kids’ activities to the Peace Corps volunteers, through which he met his wife, Dina.

Bob Victor is focused on public schools and education as key ingredients of a strong com-munity. He chairs the board of the largest charter school in Philadelphia, which serves thousands of inner-city students. In his capacity as a member of the board of advisors of the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, he is helping restart a program that helps Upper Valley high school students suc-ceed as first-generation college students. Thilo Semmelbauer has also led communities of people who share an interest, responsibility, or passion for a cause. He observes, “The strength of a com-munity is proportional to how much the members care about each other,” whether that mutual care is “grounded in shared space or environment, shared experiences, interests, and beliefs, or a shared sense of purpose or goals.” A part-time councilmember in Pasadena, California, Andy Wilson’s “day job” is running a new not-for-profit organization, the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, which works to strengthen the innovation and startup community in southern California. This group has identified critical ingredients for creat-ing a vibrant community, and Andy sees these ele-ments (and I agree) as translating well to our class of ’88 community: shared values, shared mission (or purpose), and opportunities to engage with each other to move the mission forward. So, ’88s, what draws you to our shared community, and what do you think makes the class of ’88 strong and getting stronger through the years? Please stay in touch, and let me know what is new in your life and community.—Victoria Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; [email protected]

89 Greetings from in-flight reunion writ-ing! It’s been a whirlwind two months and, by the time you read this, we’ll be

a month away from our 30th reunion! There’s still time to sign up, and the reunion committee has done an excellent job of working to make it the

most inclusive reunion we have had.I heard from Beth Frey, who wrote me about

herself and her husband, David Frey, who will both be at our reunion June 12! “We have lived in Corn-wall, New York, since 2004. I teach social studies (primarily AP U.S. history) in a public high school nearby and David is now a full professor of his-tory and the director of the West Point Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). David absolutely loves his job teaching and mentoring cadets at West Point and he is also very busy de-veloping educational programs and working on projects as director of the CHGS. His work on mass atrocity prevention has led him to make many meaningful connections at West Point, across the nation and around the world—it contin-ues to be an exciting journey. Our three children (ages 22, 20, and 17) are now all out of the house and we are at that empty-nest moment in time when we need to develop a new rhythm. I’m try-ing to embrace the situation, but I’ll admit it isn’t my favorite. After 22 years of focusing primarily on the kids, it has been interesting to take some time to ponder what I personally want out of this next phase of life. I’m trying some new activities both at work and in the community to see which direction I want to take—I hope I will have my ‘aha’ moment soon!”

Quick plug for Jan Brzeski, who manages the Bartlett Tower Society. We are just four people shy of our class setting a new record for Bartlett Tower Society membership before our 30th re-union. Joining is easy—it takes only five minutes when you log into your IRA or 401k account page. I’ve joined, and it was simple! If you have any questions, visit our class website for more info.

In reaching out to so many of our classmates to see if they’re coming to reunion, I know that many cannot make it—whether it’s timing, ex-pense, or other reasons—but I urge you to visit our class page, 1989.dartmouth.edu, to enjoy reunion from wherever you are. It may not be the same as being in Hanover, but I hope it sparks the idea to reconnect with old classmates. Hope to see many of you in Hanover—I’ll be the guy wearing something green!—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; [email protected]

90 First, a shout-out to Mike Kennealy, whom Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker recently named secretary of

housing and economic development! Next, here is Part IV of your responses to the question, “What are your salient memories of your freshman trip?” Jane Blum Demarchi: “Although I can’t remember our group number or a lot of names, I do remember that Karen Behling was the first person I met at Dartmouth, and I still treasure our friendship.”

Laura Van Wie McGrory: “Senior year, Bonnie Dickson convinced me to co-lead a hiking trip of ’93s. We volunteered for the easiest hiking level, not realizing that would guarantee us the least-experienced (and least-enthusiastic) hikers, cou-pled with still-challenging terrain. Add to that our inexperience reading hiking maps, and you had a recipe for missed turns and backtracking, 5-foot-3-inch Bonnie carrying a 6-foot freshman boy’s backpack in addition to her own, and a late-night

arrival at our cabin with no water. I can still see our whole group standing in a circle and staring at the jug of stream water, counting the minutes for the iodine to finish doing its thing. I also admit that when a freshman girl screamed in the night that there was a mouse caught in her hair, I re-sponded with no pity: ‘At least it’s not a skunk!’ ”

Cheryl Shepherd: “We were sick of eating the food in our packs and, contemplating the ‘Sticky Stew’ for dinner, a few in our group (I think Mark Campo and Richard Morris) left us on some country roadside and hitchhiked to a town. We dined on hot dogs and M&Ms that night and ate so much we felt ill. Another night we slept in a cabin above a field with cows. Kevin Luensmann, who hailed from Iowa, convinced the city slickers that you can cow tip, so we all snuck down to the field after dark. The ensuing chaos was hysterical (in retrospect). Someone shined a flashlight in the direction of a group of cows and we realized they were wide awake and tracking our approach. That was the fastest we climbed a hill the entire trip!”

Kyle Davis: “I recall the story of Ol’ Doc Ben-ton, having green eggs and ham for breakfast, and meeting my first real New Englandah. I literally followed her around to listen to an accent that I’d only ever heard in movies and on TV shows.” Timo-thy Douros: “I shared a canoe with Mason Sandell and gradually realized I had made a friend for life.”

Julia Weil Lazarus: “Preparing to be indepen-dent in college, I went to pick out hiking boots on my own, and I purchased a pair of gray boots that were cute, cheap—and woefully inadequate. I waited nervously for the bus in N.Y.C., unsure how to break the ice with all these sporty looking folks. Then, lo and behold, there was someone with the exact same boots! And that’s how I met Julie To-masz, one of my dearest lifelong friends. We both got lots of blisters on that trip, but making a best buddy made it worth it. Our two leaders, Boomer and Phil, carried watermelons in their backpacks so we could have a cool treat. We made instant pudding cheesecake in an icy stream. There wasn’t enough room in a shelter, so Julie and I braved the tent with a few other intrepid hikers (fun!), and I recall writing an ode to our leaders to the tune of the marching song from The Bridge on the River Kwai. This non-hiker will always be extraordinarily grateful for a perfect start to my Dartmouth experience!” —Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; [email protected]

91 Today I share the sad news of the pass-ing of Tim Reynolds. Back in the day I saw Tim daily in Robinson Hall, where

he was devoted to Dartmouth Broadcasting. He was also an integral member of the Marching Band and a huge supporter of the music scene, working with many campus musicians and bands. Priscilla Huff remembers her friend: “Tim loved the radio station. He happily shared his love of cheesy ’80s rock bands such as Journey and Styx (much to the chagrin of Eric “Big E” Wellman, the program director of 99 Rock). But he also un-derstood it wasn’t just another activity, this was a real business and we had to be professionals. He’s one of the reasons why working at WDCR and WFRD was a great training ground (and I’m

still a broadcast journalist today). Tim took that focus into a career that started in TV ad sales and expanded into the digital world of social media and consulting. I’ve heard from many of his colleagues from Rhode Island, New York and Tennessee, and they all miss him, saying he was wonderful to work with. I remember Tim’s dedi-cation and focus the most. Serving as the general manager—making sure the bills got paid and the shifts got filled—it’s honestly an immense job. Tim working with Neel Chatterjee, they just made it all happen. With several cups of terrible Folger’s cof-fee every day.” More Dartmouth memories about Tim can be found at www.wfrd.com/2019/19/rememberhing-tim-reynolds-91.

In much more joyful news, Dr. Aileen Yingst lives in Brunswick, Maine, is a senior scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, and part-ners with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars rovers. She was the associate principal investigator last year for the rover Opportunity, known as “Oppy,” which was deployed to Mars in 2004. Aileen analyzed data Oppy sent back and planned her next move. According to News Center Maine, “A global dust storm in June [2018] marked the beginning of the end for Oppy. The rover used solar power to survive, but the dust storm made conditions unbearable. On Wednes-day, February 13, NASA stopped its attempts to contact the rover, ending her mission. Dr. Yingst calls Oppy an overachiever for far surpassing her original 90 Martian-day mission.” Aileen is work-ing with the current rover, Curiosity, which is designed to explore the planet’s habitability. She’s having fun with the job, even naming parts of its travel path after places in Maine and at Dart-mouth. Yes, there is a Hanover Quad, Robert Frost Pass, and Moosilauke Basin on Mars!

I saw Beth Donovan Morin and Leslie Verkauf Cohen in February. Beth is teaching high school health and global health as a second career, and will be doing a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Science Ambassador fellowship related to teaching public health to high school students this summer. She is enjoying being an empty-nester, has a new puppy, and spends many weekends visiting her kids. “With five kids, we were literally at a college every weekend of the fall.” In February Leslie marked 25 years at HBO, where she is VP of film programming. She and her husband, Dan, have a freshman daughter at Tulane University and a son who is a sophomore in high school. Leslie said she “recently saw Dart-mouth alum Rashaad Ernesto Green ’00 and his film, Premature, at Sundance. I had licensed the short film on which the feature is based for HBO years ago.”

Finally, our class is having a collective 50th birthday party at Homecoming (October 11-12) and you’re all invited! Book your hotels now, and we’ll get the details out soon.—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; [email protected]

92 Our class funds three projects that nurture current students in body, mind, and soul.

The class of 1992 works with Dartmouth ath-letics to fund its Dartmouth athletic sponsors

(DAS) program, which is the sole source of funds for bringing more than 200 top athletic prospects to the campus each year (Scott Gardner and Kevin Kruse serve as project chairs). In turn, that depart-ment has assigned us one student-athlete per year, including Grace Rorke ’22, a soccer defender from Philadelphia; Brian Mass ’21, a cross-country run-ner from Perkasie, Pennsylvania; Morgan Ebow ’20, a softball pitcher from Northridge, California; and Sean White ’19, a heavyweight rower from Chicago. Since 2012 we’ve also sponsored vol-leyball, lacrosse, soccer, and basketball players.

“DAS is a key source of funds to keep Dart-mouth competitive in athletic recruiting,” Scott said. “We are proud that our class has made a contribution to the program for the past eight years, while also forming a closer alumni con-nection with some fantastic student-athletes.”

As a class we’ve also sponsored 10 of Dart-mouth’s Women in Science Project (WISP) research internships (Jenn Newsom serves as project chair). These are grants for first-year and sophomore women to conduct paid, part-time research in the sciences under the guid-ance of faculty mentors or research scientists. For 2018-19 (our fourth year of contributing) we sponsored three interns. Alison Dickstein ’22, from Washington, works with professor Bradley Duchaine in the psychological and brain sciences department. Sanjana Goli ’22, from California, works with professor Lori Loeb in the computer science department. Nandini Prasad ’22, from Hyderabad, India, works with professor Mary Lou Guerinot, a longtime WISP mentor, from the biological sciences department.

Throughout the year we also participate in Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), a vital and important program within the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact (Adrianna Bravo is our liaison to the program). DPCS pro-vides Dartmouth students with funding to partici-pate in domestic, community service internships with nonprofit agencies throughout the country, during terms off. In addition to supporting the funding of internships, members of sponsoring classes have the opportunity to serve as mentors for the students during their internship period. Mentors may or may not have experience or in-terest in the same field of study as the internship. Rather, the more important role of mentors is to serve as resources for students while they are away from campus, living and working during their internship period. Mentors will typically spend three to 10 hours during the course of a single Dartmouth term meeting with the student for coffee or a meal, talking by phone to check in, and communicating by email. Recent ’92 mentors include Alex Shepard Spiegel, Meredith Sopher, Julie Low, Doug Clapp, Julie Conner, Gloria Lopez, Caleb Nelson, Tina Mabley, Krista Klein, Cally Bybee, Brett Perryman, Michelle Davis, and Stephanie Haddad.

“Participation in the DPCS program as a mentor is a rewarding experience that draws the gratitude of the students and is oftentimes just as meaningful for the mentor as it is for the student!” said Adrianna. “Mentors often comment on the powerful effects this program has on the students and on the communities in which the students work during their internships.” The locations of

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each term’s internships vary, so if you’re inter-ested in serving as a mentor, email [email protected]. In addition, Adrianna may ask you to mentor an intern if she knows he or she is coming to the city where you live.

Your annual class dues fund all of these pro-grams, and you can learn more about them at 1992.dartmouth.org/projects.—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; [email protected]

93 Hello to everyone. I wanted you all to know that is this is my last regular Class Notes column; I need to step

aside because of family commitments. It has been a great joy to hear and talk to many of you dur-ing the last four years that I have served as class secretary. Please stay in touch. I’m sure whoever steps in will keep us all posted and entertained with news from our many great classmates. Best wishes.—Suzanne Spencer Rendahl, 224 Route 120, Plain-field, NH 03781; [email protected]

94 Do you remember walking across the Green on a beautiful late spring day and seeing alumni run into each

other? They would stop right there, hug and back-slap, and make up for lost time. Their huge smiles, wise eyes, and expressive faces hinted at their rich, interesting, and much-lived expe-riences. Their smile lines, gray hair, and class-of-60-something nametags screamed that they had graduated a few decades earlier. They looked happy to be home, they looked full of stories, and they looked old. Well, friends, we are the new set of old folks about to descend upon campus with our own connections to make and stories to tell. I can’t wait to see all of you old hags in just a couple of weeks at our epic reunion.

Class president Deme Navab Taleghani sends this update: “Please join us for our 25th reunion up in Hanover from Thursday, June 13, to Sun-day, June 16. If you haven’t registered yet, no problem. You can still register online at http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/reunions/class-1994 or in person at our class tent when you arrive.

“Reunion highlights will include a private group tour of the newly renovated Hood Museum just for ’94s, an architectural walking tour of cam-pus, navigating college admissions workshop for families, and panels featuring ’94 artists, writers, and entrepreneurs. We will cap off an amazing weekend with a class dinner on Baker lawn for the 250th celebration of Dartmouth.”

Not only is there time to register for reunion, but there is also time to contribute to our class gift. Every single gift, no matter the size, is a vote of confidence for the education we received and the experience we value. Our gift will support financial aid for Dartmouth students and support Dartmouth’s continued commitment to enroll brilliant students, talented athletes, visionary entrepreneurs, gifted artists and humanists, bridge-builders and change-makers, regardless

of their ability to pay tuition. Reunion head agent Beth Donohoe Cook shared that classmates have already contributed enough money to support more than 50 Dartmouth College Fund scholars at $50,000 each. How many more students can we support together with our gift before the end of reunion? If you’d like to make your commitment today, you can give at dartgo.org/D94.

In other news, I heard from Mike McClure. Mike and his wife, Valerie, are living the dream, as is their son, Ryan. Ryan will join the class of 2023 at Dartmouth! Mike writes, “It will be fun for me to relive my college years through Ryan’s eyes. Being the big skier that he is, it seemed that a nonnegotiable requirement in a college was that it owned its own ski mountain.”

Mike has lived in the Minneapolis area since graduating and has been at Verint Systems for close to 15 years, in sales of customer engagement solutions. His part-time “dad” jobs include shuttle driver to various sports practices and youth base-ball coach for 13 straight years. Though he claims his win-loss record isn’t stellar, he earns points for showing up.

He shared bits about classmates as well. He met up with Deb Connell Nagorka last year when he was in Tampa, Florida, on business. They enjoyed reliving the glory days of working at Thayer Din-ing Hall. He caught up with his freshman-year, South-Mass neighbor Chris Greene in December. Chris even showed up for lunch wearing his ’94 jersey. Chris, please wear your jersey to reunion! I’m impressed that you have it and that it still fits!

As always, I welcome your news and updates.—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; [email protected]

95 As promised, Peter Jolicoeur and Mi-chael Chen checked in from Asia. Mi-chael headed there after graduation

for a career in sales and trading. “I originally want-ed to come out to Hong Kong to see the handover to China and ended up staying here all this time! I’m married and have two kids who, if they are lucky with admission rates these days, may end up at the College on the Hill. We did a tour of the Northeast and Canada last summer and stayed in Hanover for a weekend. It was my first time back since I left the Hanover Plain. It was great to see all the upgrades to the campus! Hard to recognize Baker and the areas behind it, as Kiewit is no longer there and some other buildings have been massively changed! I’ve connected with a few alums through the years, including Keith Li, who is no longer with us; I attended his funeral in Hong Kong.”

Pete has lived in China for more than a dozen years, the past decade in Shanghai. “I initially was sent to Beijing to set up an office and have remained here ever since. My business is avia-tion development, so there is a great deal of work underway in the region. My busiest projects are in Xi’an and Beijing, China, and Bangalore, India—all airports expecting more than 100,000,000 annual passengers. Certainly China is a country that’s in the news a lot, so it is interesting living here and comparing daily life with what gets reported in the United States. My least favorite conversation by far is the one about what is going on with the

current U.S. administration, especially since I have been out of the country for so long that I have the same question! However, for the time being the United States is still seen as the premier destination for advanced education, and several of my clients have children studying there. We receive a flood of applications for Dartmouth, and there is no way we can interview them all. The Dartmouth Club of China is active, with one ’95 living in town, Gen Kanai. And there’s an annual Niseko Green weekend, where alumni from all over Asia gather in northern Japan for a Big Green weekend of skiing.”

To the Caribbean, where Angela (Hall) D’Antonio took part in her third medical mission in January: “I traveled with the nonprofit orga-nization, At Home and Afar to Barahona, Do-minican Republic. In five days of clinic we saw about 1,000 patients. We had a team of nurses, nurse practitioners, one pediatrician, an EMT, and seven volunteers who provided activities for children and clinic support. We also worked with an amazing group of Dominican volunteers who provided transportation, coordination of the clin-ics, and interpreter services. At Home and Afar has funded the building of two wells in the barrios around the city since I was last there. This has had a huge impact on health, with significantly fewer complaints of parasitic intestinal illness. I am hoping to bring my kids, Lila and Charles, with me next year—they will both be teenagers by then! Volunteering supports my professional goal of providing healthcare to underserved popu-lations. Since becoming a nurse practitioner in 2000 I have worked in a clinic at a women’s home-less shelter, spent 11 years in prison healthcare, worked at University of Massachusetts and Beth Israel in liver transplantation and hepatology clinics, and for the past three years have been at Tewksbury State Hospital, where I provide care to patients with acute medical issues directly related to substance use disorder.”

Keep your news coming!—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hing-ham, MA 02043; [email protected]

96 We have lots of exciting updates by way of social media and I am happy to convey some exciting developments

for members of our ’96 family.First, news from our own Suzanne Leonard,

who was informed in early February that she was promoted to full professorship! She has been an associate professor of English at Simmons University in Boston since 2005 (when it was Simmons College and until just last year when it became a university). Suzanne is also co-coordi-nator of the college’s interdisciplinary minor in cinema and media studies and an affiliate of the women’s and gender studies department. It was this time last year that Suzanne published her first book, Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century, a project that examines 21st-century wives in female-centered media culture. Hearty congratulations go out to Suzanne and all the students that will receive the benefit of her amazing teaching prowess!

Also received news from Dan Miller, who shared exciting career news for his wife, Kendra

Miller. “Congratulations to my amazing and now even more accomplished wife, who was promoted to executive vice president! Best thing I ever did was ask her to marry me.” Kendra is indeed now executive vice president and general counsel at BJ’s Restaurants Inc., a company with which she has worked for the past eight years based in the Huntington Beach, California, area.

Congratulations also go out to one of our class couples, as Jim Brennan and Katie (Shutzer) Brennan welcomed their daughter, Eloise, on January 21. Weighing in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 20 inches in length, Eloise joins older brothers Jack and William and big sister Charlotte. Congratula-tions to the now family of six and welcome to the Dartmouth family, Eloise!

In other happy news, congratulations also go out to Philip Hanaka and his new bride, Crystal; the lovely couple wed in a January ceremony marked by perfect weather in Palm Beach, Florida, and then honeymooned in the Bahamas. Philip is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he is a shareholder with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Congratulations and wishing you both many years of wedded bliss ahead!

Lastly, “welcome home” to Amy Peller, who went on a life-changing trip to Tanzania in late December. In her own words, “This was a true ad-venture, packed with so many new experiences—both in nature and in culture. I continue to think about one Tanzanian woman’s story that really left a mark on me, the story of a woman named Mama Anna. About 20 years ago she received a donation of a single cow from an international aid organization. Initially she milked the cow and engaged others to sell the milk. When Mama Anna learned some of the women were taking part of the milk for themselves, she felt she had to figure out a better solution to raise the overall welfare of the community. Recognizing cheese was more valu-able than milk, she spent a year going to a cheese trade school, walking and traveling a long dis-tance each day so she could learn to make cheese. From selling the cheese, she then built a broader women’s cooperative, employing women to make cheese, coffee, honey, and handicrafts. She saw the need for a local school and raised the money and organized to build it (the school will be opening this year). I am so inspired by how one person’s kindness, dedication, and action has made such an extraordinary difference. This trip has been a tremendous journey—while it was just a little more than two weeks, the intensity and richness made it feel so much longer.”—Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, Canton, GA 30115; [email protected]

97 Several Dartmouth undergrads had a warmer winter thanks to ’97 gen-erosity. Our class donated $1,000 in

winter gear for first-generation and low-income students. We plan to do this annually, and it’s en-tirely funded by class dues, which also support reunions, mini-reunions, and mailing our revital-ized ’97 Sweep newsletter. If you didn’t receive the latest Sweep, check it out at 1997.dartmouth.org. And while you’re there, please pay your class dues, now exclusively online, to keep all of these great things going.

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Feng Hsiung moved from New York to Hong Kong as a third-year Goldman Sachs analyst to be closer to his home of Taipei. After four years in Hong Kong, Feng spent three years in Tokyo, returned to New York for one year, and then came back to Hong Kong for good 10 years ago.

“Hong Kong is to some extent the intersec-tion of Chinese and Anglo-Saxon spheres, thus perspectives on current events differ greatly de-pending who you ask. More interaction, not less, will, I hope, bridge the gap between universal values and historical context.”

Feng last visited campus years ago. “I really miss Dartmouth and hope to bring my family there in the coming years. There is a great group of alumni and parents in this region, which I see with increasing regularity as the endowment of-fice now visits the region frequently. I also connect with classmates Will Taylor, Jimmy Franzone, and Ervin Tu on various travels.”

Lisa Hosokawa relocated to Tokyo in 2008 with husband Kenji Hosokawa ’98 and their two daughters for Kenji’s job with a law firm. “We were tired of moving around, and so we said, ‘Let’s stay for at least 10 years.’ Ten years have passed and we think we will stay here permanently.

“ ‘Race’ is built into all systems in the United States. In Japan the categories impossible to es-cape are ‘Japanese’ and ‘foreign.’ These categories are about more than legal status. They are part of a worldview that is starting to be challenged by increasing numbers of non-Japanese living, working, and studying here.

“We visit my parents in Massachusetts every summer. I was last in Hanover for the 2013 re-union. Kenji is president of the Dartmouth Club in Tokyo, and most of my connection to other Dartmouth alumni is through him. Alex Smith ’95 tutored me when I was taking Japanese at Dartmouth, and seeing him always brings back memories. I wish there were more Dartmouth women here. I enjoy occasionally connecting with Mayuka Kowaguchi ’11 and Yan Fan ’12.”

More international updates to come!—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; [email protected]

98 Hello, classmates! Sarah (Hood) Fraser wrote in from Cheshire, Connecticut, where she resides with her husband,

Drew, and their sons, ages 11 and 13. She wrote that her head hockey coach at Dartmouth, George Crowe, recently passed away. Sarah shared that George and his assistant coaches, Judy Parish Oberting ’91 and Patti Crowe, showed Sarah how rewarding a career in college athletics could be. Accordingly, she works as deputy athletic direc-tor at Quinnipiac University. Sarah also coaches her sons in hockey and is active on the board of directors for USA Hockey as chair of the women’s national team advisory committee. Also working in college athletics is Michelyne Pinard, who just completed her 17th season as head women’s soc-cer coach at Williams College. Michelyne and her squad are on a tear: In December they won their second straight Division III title and third in the last four years. On the family front, Michelyne added a third child. Her family roster now features three girls, ages 2, 6, and 8. Sticking with sports,

in January Matt Burke joined the National Foot-ball League’s Philadelphia Eagles as defensive special assistant.

Kenji Hosokawa emailed from Tokyo, where he lives with his wife, Lisa (O’Brien) Hosokawa ’97, and their daughters, ages 11 and 13. Kenji was about to head north to Niseko, Japan, for the fifth Niseko Green weekend. The gathering brings together Dartmouth alumni from across Asia to network and educate in Japan’s ski country. Back in Tokyo, Kenji and Lisa work with Third Space Tokyo, a startup that co-creates English content with Japanese clients. Kenji observed that the work has been a challenging but reward-ing journey.

Allison Abrahms wrote that her three children recently reached a milestone: skiing together for an entire day, as the youngest, age 6, kept up with siblings, ages 9 and 12. Their Vermont ski trip was also an opportunity for Allison to bring her family to an old College haunt, the Skunk Hollow Tavern in Hartland, Vermont. She reported that the Skunk remains the same as when she visited 20-plus years ago.

Former class secretary Jeffrey Beyer wrote in that he was happy to bump into Jessie Gabriel in Washington, D.C., back in November 2018, when both of them were sworn in—along with a handful of other Dartmouth graduates—as members of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. Jeffrey and Jessie enjoyed the experience, which was made possible through the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. Their admission to the Supreme Court Bar was sponsored by Greg Garre ’87, former U.S. solicitor general. After the admission ceremony, Jeffrey, Jessie, and the other newly admitted attorneys stayed to observe oral arguments before the jus-tices. Jeffrey lives in Morristown, New Jersey, with his wife and three kids, and is a partner with the firm of Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Per-retti. Jessie leads the investment funds team at BakerHostetler. She and her husband live in N.Y.C.

A quick update from newsletter editor Kate Gold. Kate recently attended a Vermont State-house Lobby Day to advocate for public higher ed-ucation funding. There she sat in on the Working Vermont Caucus meeting, which was co-chaired by none other than State Rep. Brian Cina. Kate also arranged a reception with two representa-tives from her corner of Vermont, the Northeast Kingdom. Kate’s newfound political involvement is belied by a self-professed aversion to crowds and conversing with strangers.

Well, if Kate can overcome her fear, surely you can drop me a quick update! I am amazed by what our class is up to, and I love hearing from you.—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; [email protected]

99 Hello, ’99s. I am in the midst of making summer plans and wondering if any of you have attended Camp Dartmouth?

Unfortunately, I had to miss our fantastic reunion last year, and I have been ready for a visit to Ha-nover. Perhaps a future ’99 mini-reunion at Camp Dartmouth is in order? If you want to check out what it’s all about, visit www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/events/hanover-camp-dartmouth.

David McCarthy, an assistant professor of his-

tory at the Richard Bland College of William and Mary, has written his first book, Selling the CIA. According to the publisher, University Press of Kansas, “Dubbed the ‘Year of Intelligence,’ 1975 was not a good year for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Caught spying on American citi-zens, the agency was under investigation, indicted in shocking headlines, its future covert operations at risk. Like so many others caught up in public scandal, the CIA turned to public relations. This book tells what happened next.”

A hearty congratulations to Kyle Roderick on the birth of his son, Logan, on February 19. Kyle writes, “His big brother, Tristan, is thrilled to have him home.” Kyle has recently moved to Duxbury, Massachusetts. He has also written a book, A Lonely Wonderful Walk: A Journey of Survival and Rebirth through Cancer, www.alone-lywonderfulwalk.com. Kyle continues to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and writes, “I hope to break $100,000 in total funds raised this year!”

In another move, after almost two years in Boston Jeff Fine has returned to Chicago and is working in digital marketing at Grainger. While in Boston Jeff was able to see many classmates, including Evan Walsh, Melissa Maggio, and me! We will miss him on the East Coast. Jeff represents the class at the Alumni Council and welcomes thoughts and ideas from all classmates. He can be contacted at [email protected].

We’re continuing to make it a priority to do our best to reach out to all the members of our class. Please take a minute to update your con-tact information at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni.

Finally, the annual Alumni Day of Service is coming up on May 4. For my next edition of the ’99 Class Notes, I hope to be able to share some great things that our classmates have done in the name of service. Please reach out and let me know. Until next time. —Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Do-ver, NH; (603) 834-0517; [email protected]

00 Hello, ’00s! Our class vice presi-dent, Athena Maikish, and her wife, Christine, welcomed their third

child, Amelia Grace, this winter. Amelia joins big brother Abram and big sister Anna, who are 5. Athena and her family live in Mamaroneck, New York, where Athena is currently advising startups, refining her family photography skills, and managing her twins’ modeling career (seri-ously!). You can spot Abram and Anna in ads for Ralph Lauren, Gap Inc., and Target, among other retailers. I was lucky enough to see some photos of them with their new little sister and they are all outrageously cute. —Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 6311; [email protected]

01 There is a lot going on in the ’01 world right now. In addition to many 40th birthday celebrations, people are on

the move in all sorts of ways. After winning a 2018 Grammy Award for Bluegrass Album of the Year, Chris Pandolfi is gearing up for a big year

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THE TRUMBULL HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST

Hanover’s first and finest B&B, just four miles eastof campus. Luxurious country lodgings with sixspacious rooms and sumptuous breakfasts. Free

high-speed wireless Internet plus a business center.Sixteen acres with swimming pond, trails andgardens. 40 Etna Road, Hanover, NH 03755.

(603) 643-2370; (800) 651-5141;[email protected];

www.trumbullhouse.com.

BREAKFAST ON THE CONNECTICUTSits on 23 acres in Lyme, just 12 miles from

Dartmouth and overlooking the tranquil Connecti-cut River. Completed in 1997, we have 15 spacious bedrooms replete with amenities, each with private bath, TV/VCR and thoughtfully appointed. Some bedrooms have gas fireplaces, skylights, romantic

Jacuzzi tubs and a stunning view of the river. Bicycles, canoes and kayaks are complimentary, as is the 8-person Jacuzzi spa. Open year-round. For

a virtual tour, see our website. Our gracious B&B is the perfect place to escape for a weekend, a vaca-tion, a retreat or reunion. A hearty New England breakfast with house specialties and real maple syrup makes getting up each morning a treat.

651 River Road, Lyme, NH 03768; (603) 353-4444; (888) 353-4440;

www.breakfastonthect.com.

THE JACKSON HOUSE INNLocated on the edge of one of Vermont’s most

beautiful villages, the Inn offers refined lodging with luxurious touches, and is the perfect setting

for a romantic getaway, get-together with friends, or intimate wedding or reunion. Set in lush perennial gardens, the Inn offers the service and amenities of a boutique hotel, including Frette linens, Anichini

bedcoverings, turndown service, free WiFi, and gourmet breakfasts. Our floor-to-ceiling fieldstone

fireplace is a delight in winter. (802) 457-2065, (800) 448-1890, jacksonhouse.com.

DOWDS’ COUNTRY INNHistoric New England home with modern comforts.

Family owned and operated, the Inn has served the Upper Valley for 30 years. Our 1780s home was carefully renovated to host 20 guest rooms and a

200-seat banquet facility. A full country breakfast is served with every stay. We also host weddings and events of all sizes. Only 10 miles north of Hanover.

Home of the Latham House Tavern. Enjoy the comforts of home while you explore the best that

the Upper Valley has to offer. “The Place to Gather, for Business or Pleasure.” 9 Main Street, Lyme, NH 03768; (603) 795-4712;

www.dowdscountryinn.com.

HILTON GARDEN INN HANOVER LEBANON Brand new hotel and event center near Dartmouth.

HGILebanon.com, (603) 448-3300.

THE NEW LONDON INNHistoric Main Street charm in the beautiful

Dartmouth Lake Sunapee region, we capture the spirit of yesterday with the luxuries of today. Our

inn-house fine dining restaurant, The Coach House, along with our beautifully renovated tavern

and charming 23 guest rooms are minutes from year-round events and venues. Complimentary breakfast, flat-screens, wi-fi, pet-friendly rooms,

private parking lot, Jacuzzi suites. (603) 526-2791; thenewlondoninn.com.

THE LYME INNThe Lyme Inn has welcomed travelers to the

Upper Valley for over 200 years. Just minutes from Dartmouth College, our 9 guest rooms and 5 suites reflect a careful harmony between historic elegance and contemporary luxury. Our restaurant tantalizes

your palate, while our warmth and hospitality invite you to return. 1 Market Street, Lyme NH;

(603) 795-4824; www.thelymeinn.com.

COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT HANOVER/LEBANON

Located just minutes from Dartmouth College. Shuttle service, high-speed Internet, fitness center,

breakfast café and dinner menu. 10 Morgan Drive, Lebanon, NH;

(603) 643-5600; www.courtyard-hanoverlebanon.com.

KILLINGTON TIMESHARESEnjoy a weeklong ski vacation at a Killington

timeshare resort located just under an hour from Dartmouth College! Rental rates start at

$103/night, units also available to buy for affordable annual trips.

www.sellmytimesharenow.com/destinations/killington-timeshare.

THE SUNSET MOTOR INNSerene. Most rooms have river view. Cable, Wi-Fi, a/c, free local calls, continental breakfast. AAA.

Two miles south on Main Street (Route 10); (603) 298-8721.

THE NORWICH INNExperience historic New England charm just 1.5 miles across the river from Dartmouth.

The Inn features 40 rooms and Jasper Murdock’s Alehouse Restaurant & Microbrewery offering a

variety of ales, hand-crafted on site. All free: Parking, Wi-Fi and Fitness Center.

325 Main Street, Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-1143; www.norwichinn.com.

RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTTThe preferred all-suite hotel in the Upper

Valley. Easy access off I-89 and just 3 miles from Dartmouth College with shuttle service to campus. Complimentary breakfast buffet. Guest access to the

River Valley Club and a pet-friendly hotel. (603) 643-4511;

www.residenceinn.com/lebri.

ELEMENT HANOVER-LEBANONDiscover the Upper Valley from the comfort of

Element Hanover-Lebanon. Our open-flow guest rooms meet all your needs with the signature

Heavenly Bed and fully equipped kitchens. State-of-the-art fitness center and healthy food

options help you be at your best. 260 Route 120, Lebanon, NH 03766.

(603) 448-5000; www.elementhanoverlebanon.com.

WOODSTOCK INN & RESORTLocated in idyllic Woodstock, Vermont, the

Woodstock Inn & Resort defines country sophistica-tion in one of New England’s most charming and

popular year-round vacation destinations. The 142-room, AAA Four Diamond Resort and member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, offers award-winning dining in two restaurants, a Robert Trent Jones Sr. 18-hole golf course, Suicide Six Family Ski Resort, Athletic Club and a LEED-certified Spa, creating a

luxury resort getaway. (844) 545-4178;

www.woodstockinn.com.

506 ON THE RIVER INNMinutes from Woodstock Village, this award-

winning boutique is recognized for its beautiful balance of casual elegance and rustic charm. The 45-room & suite hotel offers a country breakfast, indoor pool, hot tub & sauna, game rooms, spa-cious grounds, as well as the 506 Bistro & Bar,

serving a locally inspired & seasonal menu, and selection of microbrews and crafted cocktails. 1653 West Woodstock Road, Woodstock, VT;

(802) 457-5000; www.ontheriverwoodstock.com.

ENFIELD SHAKER MUSEUMStay in an 1841 Shaker dwelling house, 20 minutes

from Hanover. Included: private bath, free WiFi, Museum admission.

(603) 632-4346; [email protected].

LOCH LYME LODGERustic cabins with fireplaces, 1-3 bedrooms,

on Post Pond. 10 miles north of Dartmouth on Route 10. Seasonal restaurant using fresh

local ingredients. Perfect for family vacations/reunions/weddings.

(603) 795-2141; www.lochlymelodge.com.

On the international front, I asked classmates living abroad what took them there, what is in-teresting about the worldview where they live, and when they last visited the United States. This dispatch focuses on Asia.

Dickon Verey has called southeast Asia home since 2003. “I’m actually English, so moving outside of the United States was quite natural.

Initially I moved to do development work, but have moved into business since then. I have been living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for nearly three years. In all the southeast Asian countries I have lived there tends to be a singular feeling that their country is the center of things. One gets a very local feel in that respect. Interest in global occurrences tends to be a little more low-key, as

their immediate impact isn’t felt.“I haven’t been in Hanover in a long time,

unfortunately, but do hope to go back in the next few years. I’ll be getting married in April and one of my ushers will be Robert Rogers. Also in attendance will be Cristina (Hallenbeck) Rogers, Will Taylor, Micke Morn, Robert Leathern, and Torbjorn Dimblad.” Con-gratulations, Dickon!


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seen at graduation. Go check out the play if you have an opportunity, it was fantastic. I also caught up with Sonja (Tonnesen) Davies over brunch in the city. Always great to reconnect with classmates and see the amazing things they accomplish.

As always, please submit news to the email below. See you on the Green!—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; [email protected]

04 Our reunion is just two months away! Please check out the class website and Facebook pages for key updates,

and as always, please reach out to class officers if you’d like to help with any components of planning.

Here are a few updates from our awesome class.

As part of the College’s celebration of its 250th anniversary, the Hopkins Center commis-sioned composer Oliver Caplan to write a major symphony in four movements, each inspired by a beloved Dartmouth place. Congratulations, Oliver!

Untangling Emotions, a new book by Alasdair Groves, was released in March. Check it out!

Julie Mumford and her daughters (ages 2 and 4) finally moved back to Portland, Oregon. Julie started a new gig at Nike. Luckily, Susan Napier made the move a breeze by doing her best Marie Kondo impersonation at Julie’s Seattle house.

Daniel Olson and his wife, Case Hathaway-Zepeda ’09, welcomed their second child, August Ray Ohz, on August 25, 2018.

Mark Orsini and husband Joe Benarroch wel-comed daughter Marie Elizabeth on February 17! She came bursting into the world early with eyes wide open. They are so thankful to their carrier, who will forever be part of the family.

Rob Strong and his fiancée, Haynes, will be getting married at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in August. Haynes works in Hanover for Strava, a social network app for athletes, and Rob is a free-lance photographer around the area. The couple lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Ashley Massey married Josh Marks ’96 in No-vember in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in Tar-rytown, New York, surrounded by family, friends, and loads of Dartmouth classmates!

After residency and fellowship at the Univer-sity of California, San Francisco, Amanda Posner is now full-time faculty in the department of pediatrics. Amanda is also on the board of Bay Area Young Survivors, a support group for women diagnosed with breast cancer of any stage below the age of 45. If anyone in the area needs help with a recent breast cancer diagnosis, please reach out at baysnet.org. Amanda also serves as a mentor to women newly diagnosed with cancer all over the country. Amanda lives with her husband, Ben Neumann, in San Francisco and is happy to work in the same department as Pete Cooch ’07, Emily Frank ’08, and her officemate Meredith Laguna ’08.—Cliff Campbell, 10001 Venice Blvd., Apt. 215, Los Angeles, CA 90034; [email protected]

05 Well, ’05s, it’s almost reunion time! We look forward to seeing everyone in Hanover very soon.

First, congratulations to all of our newly ap-pointed class officers, and many thanks to those who have served us proudly as a class these past five years. Let’s keep the great 2005 momentum rolling through 2024!

In terms of classmate job updates, there were a few. Nicole Valco wrote in to let us know she made partner at her law firm, Latham & Watkins, at the start of 2019. She is based in San Francisco and is practicing complex commercial litigation. Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley also recently became a partner at Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP, a re-gional firm based in the Northwest and Alaska. In her role, she supports tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act corpora-tions, Alaska businesses, and others in achieving their missions, visions, and goals.

We also had a few personal updates. Kristin Schaefer and husband Mike welcomed son Hawk in December. Ollie Harker-Smith married Laura Julian in Adare, Ireland, in December, with Scott Darci, Justin Bain, Sam Porter, and Matt LaBarre ’04 in attendance. The couple went on a great honeymoon shortly thereafter and Ollie let us all know how great it was on social media.

Lastly, please continue to write us and fol-low the class on Facebook and Instagram for the latest and greatest.—Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, MD 20816; [email protected]

06 Hi, ’06s.Thanks to those who wrote in for

this issue. It was great to hear from everyone!

Amanda Prentice has been busy catching up with ’06 friends. She recently saw Sara (Friesen) Press and Cindy (Cao) Hustveit after they both had their first children, both boys and both born in October. Amanda, Sara, and Cindy all live in New York City. Amanda also caught up with Willa Rose Johnson, a.k.a. “Pastor Willa,” who is now the sole pastor of the Greenwood Baptist Church in Brook-lyn, New York. Willa started a group called ERA 2020, which stands for End Rape Altogether, and hosted an event to defend Title IX. Many of Willa’s parishioners were in attendance in support of her work, at her church and in the community, to advance social justice initiatives.

Matt Slaine sold his North Carolina-based media and marketing business to a large media conglomerate in November. He took the holidays off and is now searching for a good business to buy or start and would welcome any leads from the Dartmouth network! Matt’s daughter turned 2 years old in January, and he and his wife are having a great time with her and their dog Max.

Michael Mina was recently hired as an assis-tant professor in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and the depart-ment of pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His lab focuses on the intersection between immunology, infec-

tious diseases, vaccines, and epidemics.In December Lindsay Barnes and Kilsy (Torres)

Barnes welcomed their second child, Charlotte, who is little sister to 3-year-old Theodore. The family lives in Arlington, Virginia. Diana Bradford and her husband, Drew, welcomed their first child, Ada, at the end of January.

Bill Quirk played piano for the 2019 Oscar party hosted by the Rhode Island International Film Festival in Providence, Rhode Island, in Feb-ruary. Bill has been playing piano for decades and is a bit of a local celebrity, even making it into many local news stories and events. Bill is well known to play a Dartmouth song, both old and new, whenever he can.

I look forward to keeping in touch. To keep up with class news, you can follow us on social media on Instagram (@dartmouth06) and join our Facebook group (Dartmouth Class of 2006). As always, the Class Notes with photos are avail-able on our class website at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes.—Cindy Tsai, Synchrony Financial, 222 W Adams St., 27th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606; [email protected]

07 Babies, babies, babies, rockin’ every-where. Join me in welcoming some of the newest members to our extended

Dartmouth family.Marlene Labastida and her husband, Matt

Johnson (UCSD ’08, Princeton ’13), welcomed their son, Santiago, this past summer. They are enjoying being new parents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christina (Luccio) Sargent and her husband, Dave, welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Selena Grace, on August 22, 2018. Selena has loved meeting a few daughters and sons of Dart-mouth already, and she is hoping to make a trip to Hanover very soon!

I know it’s a busy time in our lives, with all of us juggling careers, families, social, and per-sonal lives. Sarah Szefi has taken it to the next level though: She set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon while juggling (female) at the Chicago Marathon in October 2018. For those in the back, that’s running 26.2 miles…while constantly juggling three balls in the air. And she did it all with a smile on her face! You have to see it to believe it, so (insert shameless plug) make sure to check out the photos on our Instagram account!

As for social lives, it never gets any better than a reunion with the Dartmouth besties, right?

Sam Routhier shares that he had a great time in November doing a quick reunion with his best ’07 buds—Nate Raines, Charlie Guthrie, Pete Cooch—as well as Tommy Dickie ’05, in and around the tennis courts of Darien, Connecticut. He writes, “Nate is starting his nephrology fellowship in Bos-ton, Charlie is working in tech in San Francisco, and Pete is working in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, primarily focusing on Latin American community health. I’m going strong in year nine of teaching world history with KIPP-NYC charter schools.”

Paul Durkee ’06, Mikey Sinnott, Danny Hundert, Petie Anderson ’06, Bing Knight ’05, G. Owen Cad-walader, Spencer Lawley ’06, Kristina Trygstad-

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dients and regional recipes inspire the seasonal menus at the Woodstock Inn & Resort’s distinct

restaurants. The talented culinary team prepares creative entrées and innovative cocktails, resulting in exceptional Northeastern cuisine that showcases

the essence of Vermont. Call (844) 545-4178 or visit www.woodstockinn.com.

LATHAM HOUSE TAVERN AT DOWDS’ COUNTRY INN

The Tavern hosts a rustic atmosphere with a seasonal menu featuring local ingredients,

tavern-inspired cocktails, and 18 draft beers on tap featuring the best craft beer from NH and abroad. Just minutes north of Hanover on Route 10. Visit

our website for full menu and hours. “Good Food. Good Beer. Good Times.”

9 Main Street, Lyme, NH 03768. (603) 795-9995. www.lathamhousetavern.com. www.dowdscountryinn.com.

RAMUNTO’S BRICK & BREWHanover’s only real New York pizza, featuring traditional, Sicilian and brick-oven specialty

pizzas, salads, subs, calzones, the biggest beer in town and much more. Casual atmosphere, deliveries.

Open ’til midnight 7 days. 9 East South Street, Hanover;

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with his band, The Infamous Stringdusters. Pat-rick Burleigh, Jeremy Robin, and Chris O’Connell ’04 recently joined him at the beach in Mexico for Strings & Sol, a music festival featuring the Stringdusters. Matt Shaffer wrote in to say that all is well in Chicago, where he continues to work in private clinical practice in the mental health field. He is staying busy chasing around his 4-year-old daughter, Reba, and gets to see Mike Levy and Jim Sitar from time to time.

We have some career changes afoot. Bradford McKeown recently started a job at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor in the firm’s Portland, Or-egon, office. Sasha Kraev started a new position as the chair of cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery at Billings Clinic in Montana and just had her first child. Paul Biggs has passed the one-year mark in Berlin. Paul reports, “My wife, Paige, and our two boys, Crosby, 4, and Hugo, 1 (and born in Berlin), moved to Germany from Portland, Oregon, last year, and have been enjoying every second of it. I’m working for a software startup based here, and we make it a point to travel somewhere new at least once a month ( just got back from Mal-lorca). While it takes most expats a while to get used to the rampant nudity, especially on the East German side of town, turns out my years of streaking the Green prepared me well for this chapter of life!”

The ’01 class has a lot going on in the world of academics. Boulat Bash left Raytheon BBN Tech-nologies last spring and moved to the warmer climes of the Southwest to work as an assistant professor at the electrical and computer engi-neering department in the University of Arizona. Jason Kelly recently took a new job as an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College in New-port, Rhode Island, after finishing up a postdoc at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jason, his wife, Rebecca, and daughter Abigail are loving their new digs in Jamestown, Rhode Island, right across the bay from Newport, and are spending lots of time outdoors, enjoying the beaches and exploring the local playground circuit: “I am happy to report that I recently wrapped up five weeks serving as the acting dean of the U.S. Military Academy and will be returning to my role as the vice dean for academic affairs at West Point. I am sure that Sylvanus Thayer would be very happy to know that the Dartmouth-U.S. Military Academy con-nection continues to this day.”

Have a great summer, ’01s near and far!—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; [email protected]

02 Hello, ’02s! From February 22 to 24 the fifth

annual Niseko Green (Niseko-green.com) was held in Niseko Hokkaido, Japan. With the support of Dartmouth alumni relations and the Dartmouth clubs of Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and China, Niseko Green seeks to bring together alumni from across Asia and across the globe to network, enjoy, educate and stay connected to Hanover in that quintessential Dartmouth way: frolicking in the snow. Organized by Roy Ogura and Cliff Bernstein ’89, the event was attended by 31 alumni, family and guests ranging from

the class of ’83 to the class of ’23 (two students matriculating this fall), including Tanya Hsu. The event was a success, and they look forward to holding it again in 2020. Roy lives in Menlo Park, California, with his wife and two daughters and recently cofounded a luxury custom winter travel company specializing in Japan.

Robin Globus Veldman’s first book, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Chris-tians Oppose Action on Climate Change, will be published in October. Robin recently moved to College Station, Texas, where she is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas A&M Uni-versity. She is slowly and somewhat reluctantly getting used to life in Aggieland.

Wishing you all a happy spring!—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; [email protected]

03 Salutations, ’03s.I hope to see you in Hanover in

just a few weeks! Reunion events are planned and the weekend is looking like a great time. A good bit of news this time, keep it coming!

Taylor Acosta reports that she and her hus-band have relocated to Omaha, Nebraska. She is now the associate curator of European art at the Joslyn Art Museum. If anyone is in the area, Taylor would love to hear from you. Congrats on the new gig, Taylor!

I heard from Katie (Lundquist) Swor, Th’04, who shares that she’s the coach of the U.S. wom-en’s university Olympics bandy team. (I had to look that up too, bandy is considered a form of ice hockey, but is played with a ball and sticks that look like a hybrid of ice hockey and field hockey). Her team will play in early March in Russia against Sweden, Norway, and Russia. She’s excited to be back in Russia for the first time since her foreign study program. Good luck to the team!

Lisa (Goodman) Marin reports that she mar-ried Jonathan Marin on December 22, 2018. Best wishes to the happy couple!

Abby Horowitz wrote in to relay the news that Sarah Stokes was honored by the Alabama State Bar as part of its pro bono celebration month. Sarah, who attended the University of Alabama School of Law after Dartmouth, is a senior at-torney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Birmingham, Alabama. She was also recently involved in a case in the D.C. Circuit Court regarding the Coosa River, which runs through Alabama and Georgia. Congrats on the accolade, Sarah!

Dr. Madhu Iyengar reported that he hosted Jay Kang ’22 for a shadow day as part of the new alumni shadowing program this winter break. Madhu is a gastroenterologist in Denver. Thanks for encouraging the next generation!

In January I headed up to N.Y.C. for a week-end, when I accompanied Barry Grove ’73 (execu-tive producer at the Manhattan Theatre Club) to see To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, where my freshman roomie Liv Rooth performed as Miss Stephanie and Dill’s Mother. Brava, Liv! Thanks to Barry, I was able to go backstage and spend a few minutes catching up with Liv, who I had last

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Saari ’06, Killarney Loufek, Cameron Houser, and James Austin V met on March 2 for a showdown at the Montucky Derby, this year’s Yellowstone Rendezvous 50k Nordic ski race. “After teasing the ‘nordorks’ for years about their foolish snow sport, we find ourselves forsaking ski lifts and coming out, spandex-clad, to go for glory. Mikey is going down.”

Until next time.—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; [email protected]

08 Thanks to everyone who sent in a note! No thanks to Sean Walsh, who noted the lack of notes last issue while

simultaneously declining to send in a note of his own. Your lack of support has been, ahem, noted.

Some professional updates from our class-mates around the world. Amelia Alvarez is a practicing civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. Liz Embick finally finished her residency and “got a big-girl job” as a general surgeon in Anchor-age, Alaska, starting this fall. And Erika Schneider shares that Emmy Frank is both teaching and doc-toring in Oakland, California, and published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about it. It’s great and you should read it—way to go, Emmy!

Yasmin Kothari (née Mandviwala) and her husband, Aamir, have moved from San Francisco to New York. She took a new job as VP of product at Domio, a hospitality startup. They’d love to hang out with any Dartmouth folks in the area! Daria Red Earth moved to southern California and is working on her Ph.D. in neuroeconomics at Cla-remont Graduate University. She also wouldn’t mind getting together with some fellow alums!

Brooks Smith and his wife are well-settled in their new home in Melbourne, Australia. They even adopted a rescue greyhound, named Stella, who is absolutely loving the idea of lying on couch-es rather than running on tracks. Brooks started a new job, which he really likes, as engineering development lead for a startup called ClearCalcs, which develops cloud-based structural engineer-ing design calculators for Australian and U.S. mar-kets. Lately, he’s also been spending some time introducing Vinny Ng ’03 to Melbourne after he made the move from Hong Kong.

Margaret Jacobs is one of the First Peoples Fund 2019 Artist in Business Fellows. She’ll be using her fellowship funds to custom build a pow-der-coating oven and spray booth that she started on in March when she returned from the Heard Indian Market and Fair in Phoenix, Arizona.

Josh Feder recently got engaged to Philip Montana, DMS’18, and is finishing the second year of his three-year M.F.A. in directing at Uni-versity of California, Irvine. Congratulations, Josh!

Last December Khiet Chhu stopped in D.C. with his wife, Katie, son Ty (3), and daughter Cora (9 months) on their way to visit family in North Carolina. They stayed with Dan Belkin and his family. Khiet was embarrassed because his kids’ sleep schedule was all thrown off and they must’ve kept the Belkins up all night. Neverthe-less, Dan still made breakfast in the morning and, perhaps as punishment, introduced Ty to “Baby Shark,” which Khiet now hears in his sleep. They

also got some museum time in with Klarisaa Ruiz, Kelly Cockerill, and Sarah Stern. There was a lunch-time tantrum over French fries (Ty, not Stern). For New Year’s, the Chhu crew saw Dave Lamb’s family and Devin Fallon’s bunch. Devin’s daughter taught Ty to sing “Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light.” It changed his life. Khiet sums it up: “I’m just try-ing to survive two kids, but life has been great.”

Kevin Tang found a single wilted Cheeto at the bottom of a Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pit and ate it with extreme gusto.

Enjoy your summer!—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; [email protected]

09 It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since we left Hanover! A decade out, we have lots of exciting moves,

marriages, and additions to ’09 families to report.The end of 2018 was a whirlwind for Nick

Brown and his wife, Adrienne Hoarfrost ’11. They welcomed Henry Hoarfrost Brown into the world on November 11, Adrienne finished her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, and they moved from Durham, North Carolina, to Pennington, New Jersey, with a 5-week-old Henry in Decem-ber. Whew! Come visit them if you need a pit stop in between Philly and N.Y.C. Suzanne Lehrer Du-maine is opening Three Owls Market, a market and all-day café in the West Village, this April. Dartmouth alums should stop in and say hi! Sander Duncan was married in September in northern California to Adrianne Nickerson, whom he met while working in N.Y.C. He shared, “She’s awe-some. Ben Beisswenger was one of my groomsman and Alan Shanoski, Alex Olshonsky, Anthony Arch, Zach Hyatt, Peter Keshtkar ’11, Miles Suter ’11, and Doug Hayes ’08 all attended.” Ayla Glass is an as-sociate producer on the film, Changeland (written and directed by Seth Green), which has its world premiere at the Thailand International Film Des-tination Festival on March 31. She also shared that Molly Hallam’s film The Mustang premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to rave reviews. Sophie Hood recently moved to Berkeley, Califor-nia, with her partner, Matt Mukerjee ’10. She’s currently doing theater work in the area (building costumes for Berkeley Repertory Theater and California Shakespeare Theater) and hoping to open her own sewing teaching studio in the near future. Eric Kaufman and his wife, Stephanie, are relocating from New York to Austin, Texas, and would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums in the Austin area. Eric is leaving private equity to pursue entrepreneurial investing and Stephanie runs sales for real estate startup Bungalo Homes. Anna Krigel and Ben Wiener ’10 welcomed a son, Leo Robert Wiener, on December 28, 2018. They can’t wait for his first trip to Hanover! Nell (Pascall) Mackenzie and her husband, Campbell, welcomed their little girl, Abigail Rose Mackenzie, into the world on the 4th of October. She’s keeping them on their toes, and they think their dog Oscar has finally accepted that she’s here to stay. Lilian Mehrel shares that her latest film, Water Melts, will premiere in the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Kareem Niazi will be starting an interventional cardiology fellowship at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York, in July 2020, and he and

his wife, Nadia, are expecting their first child this August! Virginia Deaton Ryan and C.J. Ryan ’08 report their second child, William Ives Ryan arrived on December 23 at 6 pounds, 12 ounces and 20.5 inches long. Big brother Ames, who just turned 2, is so proud of his “Baby Ives.” They are loving life in Rhode Island and happy to be closer to Hanover! Marcy (Van Arnam) Saltaformaggio and her husband, Robert, welcomed their baby girl, Hattie, into the world December 31—just in time for a tax deduction and champagne toast. On February 3 Lizzie Teague and Eric Klem ’08 welcomed Emma Harlow Klem into the world! Emma and parents are well and enjoying lots of winter walks around Boston. Bret Tenenhaus and Jenna Pfeffer ’12 welcomed their daughter, Sera, into the world on January 30. Dr. Seuss is already featured prominently in Sera’s growing library collection.—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; [email protected]

10 Kayla (Snyderman) Corbett and Billy Corbett welcomed their daughter, Nell, in November. Kayla writes: “We

are living in Vermont, where I am a resident in family medicine and Billy works as a high school social studies teacher. We are adjusting to life as new parents and loving it!”

Cate Goytisolo has been working at Under Armour for the last seven and a half years in Bal-timore. She was leading the women’s marketing team and recently transitioned to her new role as senior manager of cross-category tier-1 cam-paigns. She is focused on bringing to life Under Armour’s 2020 brand campaign using the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games as a platform for brand, ath-lete, and product storytelling.

Brita (Stepe) Brand and Evan Brand ’09 are expecting their third son in June. Brita teaches German at a Waldorf school in Maine and Evan is a data scientist at a local company on the seacoast of New Hampshire.

Peter Pidermann is moving to Denver. He’ll be working with the law firm Taylor Anderson.

T.J. Galiardi just closed a seed round for his company Beyond Food Inc., which makes plant-based supplements.

Madeline Kaye married Eric Weiner in February.

Sarah Alexander has been racing full-time on the International Triathlon Union world circuit for the last three years, working her way up to a peak ranking of top 60 in the world! Now she’s focused on the half-Ironman distance and is pur-suing a start at the world championships in Sep-tember. She just completed her first half-Ironman, finishing sixth. During the winter she trained in Geelong, Australia, and she’s continuing to build her portfolio of sponsors.

Eric Schwager moved to L.A. from N.Y.C. He’s been working on camera crews of TV shows such as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls, and 30 Rock, and is going to focus more on directing.

Evan Greulich writes, “Last May Claire Edelen (Middlebury alum) and I got married outside Bal-timore. Travis Green ’08 and Dan Leopold served as stellar groomsmen, and other alums in attendance

included Peter Greulich ’79, David Knight, Anastasia Miliano, Tyler Frisbee ’08, Greg Sokol, Rob Mercu-rio ’12, Julie Davenport, and Emma Nairn. While the ‘Salty Dog Rag’ didn’t make the playlist, there was nonetheless plenty of dancing had by all!”

Eric Sanabria took a three-month sabbatical in Mexico, where he was working on developing new music and taking some time to reset on the personal-spiritual front.

Marina Andreazi just launched XUA, a line of natural energy drinks inspired by her late grand-ma’s potent Amazonian concoctions.

Spotted on Facebook: Akosua Osei-Bobie, who is the principal at P.A. Shaw Elementary School in Boston, was awarded the 2019 Administrative Advocate Award by the Massachusetts School Library Association. The award honors admin-istrators for significant contributions to promote student learning through school library programs and services. “Fighting for her students to have the same amenities and opportunities as those in suburban districts, she has supported the library since the P.A. Shaw’s opening back in 2014. She sees the library as a valuable resource and equal-izer for her students,” said Shaw librarian Morgan VanClief. “She recognizes the value in reading and that students learn more when teachers and librarians collaborate. She has empowered me to continue creating engaging learning experi-ences in the library, giving me the flexibility to implement a makerspace as well as incorporate robotics and STEM challenges into library time. She promotes our book fair and roams the school wearing a giant Clifford suit. She makes all our guest authors feel welcome. She fought tirelessly to help me get shelving, adequate furniture, and books.” Way to go!—Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane, Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; jenniferashley [email protected]

11 Please welcome a guest column by Mag-gie Lin: “Like many, I have spent every year since graduation attempting to live

up to my Dartmouth education. As a philosophy major, that proved to be difficult as evidenced by my resume, which reflects a different job ev-ery single year in four different countries since our graduation in 2011. However, all the jobs I had around the world brought me closer to my Dartmouth family than I could possibly imag-ine. And perhaps that was always the intention behind the small College on the Hill. I reside in L.A., where I run a nonprofit called Foster Nation (www.fosternation.org) with a mission to support and empower foster youth as they age out of the foster care system. Our goal is to rally and engage millennials and young leaders to champion the foster care cause so that we can foster a nation of supporters, mentors, and future foster parents for the 400,000-plus children who are in the system today through no fault of their own. We have been fortunate enough to have the generous support of the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Founda-tion (led by Tony Pritzker ’81), which allows our organization to collaborate with the county and established nonprofits working in the foster care space because they are also part of the Pritzker foster care initiative.

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Finally, in general life news, Anupam Choud-hary is back in Seattle, where he grew up. He is enjoying time with old friends and would love to hear from you if you are in the area. Kelsey Byrd is finishing up her first year at the California College of the Arts M.B.A. in design strategy program. She is still living in San Luis Obispo, California, and welcomes catching up with anyone passing through. Ali Oberg wrote in that Luke Murphy, J. Michael Mentrek, Kelly Kugler and others visited her in Seattle in early February. She, Elizabeth Reynolds, and Kara Hedges ’14 got a group of 25 Dartmouth people together to celebrate. Great to see a Dartmouth contingency growing out in the Pacific Northwest! Last, but certainly not least, Jack Boger is settling into San Francisco with his fiancé, Thea Sutton ’10, and exploring northern California. He says his favorite part about living out there is listening to the foghorns complain out in the bay late at night. He is still getting used to microclimates, cold and foggy forecasts, and the rent being too damn high. Same, Jack, same.

Thank you again for all the life updates ev-eryone and have a great summer! —Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; [email protected]

14 Hello, dear classmates! I am so thrilled I get to see you in just a few weeks’ time at our five-year reunion! The reunion

planning committee, led by the wonderful Jen Weissbach, Kasey Boyd, and Sophia Vazquez, has been hard at work organizing a weekend to re-member. In the last column I asked you all to send in news along with your answers to the question, “What are you most excited to see or do at our reunion?” I got some lovely responses, so here they are!

Our incredible class president Holly Foster will kick us off with some news and anticipations. She wrote in, “After four years working at State Street Global Advisors in Boston, I moved over to Acadian Asset Management, where I work in business development and sales with Dartmouth ’05 Layne Finnerty, covering endowments and foundations. I am loving the new role so far and beginning to explore part-time business school options for next year. I’m so excited to bring our class back together again at the place where it all began. Can’t wait to see people who I haven’t seen in five years and feel the magic of Hanover and Dartmouth all over again!”

Ryan Toimil emailed, “I’ve been living in south Florida since graduation (my hometown is Boca Raton) and I currently live in Delray Beach with another former baseball alum Christopher Eng-land ’15. I’m currently an outside sales representa-tive for a roofing material distribution company called Beacon Roofing Supply and am thinking about business school in the next few years. I hope to attend our reunion and am most excited to see everyone and lose to them at pong just like when we were undergrads.”

Congrats to Nicola Segal and Jorge Rodriguez ’12, who got engaged during Thanksgiving in Paris. The happy couple feels so fortunate to have met at Dartmouth, which of course holds a special place in their hearts. Nicola is also looking forward to seeing everyone back at the College this summer and can’t wait for “that summer smell on campus.”

Emma McDermott will be graduating with a J.D. from Yale Law School this May and starting a Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard this fall. She would love to connect with classmates in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, and she’s excited to jump into the Connecticut River again in June.

Nina Montgomery reports from her Ph.D. pro-gram in anthropology and business at Oxford. Based on her academic research, she has edited two books, Perspectives on Impact and Perspec-tives on Purpose, that feature essays by 40 leaders from various sectors discussing social impact and corporate purpose. Both books came out in March and feature introductory essays by Nina.

Joseph Miller was promoted to assistant prin-cipal at Success Academy Charter School. As an ice skater, he’s excited to visit Thompson Arena, check in with figure skating club coach Jackie Smith, and eat Collis chocolate scones.

And that’s it for this column. See you in the 603.—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; [email protected]

15 Despite a legitimate offer to write a haiku about anyone who sent me news for this issue, we are light on updates.

On second thought, perhaps that offer was instead a disincentive. Let me know!

The news that we do have is quite lovely; thank you for sharing, Lily!

Lily Bowdler and her husband, Jonathan Bowdler, welcomed a baby daughter in Decem-ber. The three live in Seattle, where Lily works at Igneous and Jonathan is getting his Ph.D. in history at the University of Washington. —Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; [email protected]

16 Hi, ’16s! When you receive this issue, it

will be just about three years since we graduated and left the College on the Hill! Time really does fly! Within the next two years class council will be getting things ready for reunions, so feel free to reach out to any of the class council members to be involved in the planning process.

Here are a few updates from our classmates.Back in September 2018 Chris D’Angelo and

Bridget Shaia ’15, Th’16, were engaged on a ski lift at Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire. The wedding is set for October in Richmond, Virginia.

Pilar Brito and Tomoaki Takaki were engaged in January in New Zealand. The couple met dur-ing their first semester at Yale Law School.

In February Brad Plunkett moved from Brook-lyn to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is excited to connect with other alums in the Boston area. —Feyaad Allie, 144 Ayrshire Farm Lane, Apt. 104, Stanford, CA 94305; [email protected]

There’s winter wedding news all over the place. Carissa King and Jorge Ascui tied the knot in Miami, not long after Cassandra Siegel and Alex Neubauer were married in New York City in Janu-ary. And about 10 years after meeting one fateful Green Key, Molly Khalil and Dominik Kolodziejczyk ’08 made it official in a beautiful Carlsbad, Califor-nia, ceremony followed by an extended golf-filled honeymoon in Australia. Congratulations!

I’m also excited to see businesses helmed by ’12 ladies picking up loads of press coverage…and significant seed funding. Cheers to Faye Keegan and the Dipsea team on a successful launch, and we’re all looking forward to sipping some Bev on a rooftop this summer thanks to Alix Peabody.

Got any news to share, or memories of Sopho-more Summer you just can’t shake? Shoot me some snail mail, an email, a DM, or a smoke sig-nal…details below. Can’t wait to hear from you!—Liz Sullivan, 1811 Wyoming Ave. NW, Wash-ington, DC 20009; [email protected]

13 Hello, ’13s!Hope you are all enjoying the start

of summer; we have a lot of exciting announcements!

Daniel Jamokha and Courtney Brown got mar-ried in September 2017 and recently bought a house in Alexandria, Virginia, before welcoming their son, Jordan, in October 2018. Lexi Zavras and Eric Sussman ’12 got engaged in Bermuda! And, after striking up a Sophomore Summer romance more than seven years ago, Ginny Miller and Misha Gordon-Rowe finally made it official by getting engaged in December 2018. They are both cur-rently at Harvard Business School with no idea what they will do with their lives, but excited it will be together.

Next, we have some classmates doing great things in the world. Michael Burbank was recently elected as an at-large representative for all five counties in downtown Los Angeles. Ali Oberg just started a role marketing all the features in Microsoft’s products either designed with or for people with disabilities. She would love to connect with others working with this community. Remy Franklin launched his life coaching practice last fall. He coaches people who want to clarify their life vision and career goals, and you can learn more about his coaching on his website, remy-franklin.com.

Alice Liou wanted to share that she created Upstander, an app for teachers that is free for download on the Apple Store. It allows teachers to practice their high-stakes, in-the-moment re-sponses to microaggressions in classrooms and other learning spaces. She hopes it will reach all educators, so spread the word! Callista Womack writes in that she has a lot of art sitting around her studio that she would love to find homes for. Check out her collection at www.etsy.com/shop/Alack-aschmatz and let her know if you are interested in adopting anything! Finally, the final issue of The Weekly Standard, which folded late last year, featured two pieces by ’13s: Clare Coffey wrote on mythical creatures and Alice Lloyd closed out the issue with an essay on the last lines of novels.

In graduate school news, Melanie Wilcox is

“My journey to Foster Nation was not easy. I understand firsthand the vulnerability of sharing your life story with people who may possibly not understand. In my time at Dartmouth I may have shared with a few of my classmates, but not more than a handful, that I grew up in the foster care system. While this was a large part of my identity, having lived through eight different foster homes in 10 years, I was too ashamed and afraid to stand out from my classmates—many of whom had fam-ilies to return to during the winter and summer vacations. While I had a foster family that I was close to, I spent the majority of my breaks looking for opportunities. The reality is that the years I spent at Dartmouth were the most stable and the longest period of time I had spent anywhere. For the safe haven Dartmouth gave me, I have always felt an undying loyalty to serve and give back to the Dartmouth community.

“I overcame the fear of being seen as ‘differ-ent’ or ‘damaged’ by asking myself this question: How can anyone actually find a solution to a prob-lem they don’t know exists? The answer came in the form of cofounding Foster Nation and starting the Young Leaders Collective, a group of profes-sionals and change-makers who are successful in their careers and want to give back in some way. The launch of the L.A. chapter included Kyle Battle and Shayla Mars, and the New York chapter includes Amaris Galea-Orbe and previously Jane Cai ’13. We have had incredible supporters such as Tony Pritzker and his family, Jan Brzeski ’89 and his wife, the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, and many other alums from different years. When I realized that it was important to speak up and speak out about my experiences in foster care, the support and love I received from the people around me, especially the Dartmouth community, was unbelievable. This was when I understood what Daniel Webster meant when he uttered, ‘Sir, it is a small college, yet there are those who love it.’ It is precisely the smallness of Dartmouth, with the bigness of those who attend it, that reminds me why I loved and continue to love our College.”—Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, Unit 304, Tu-stin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; [email protected]

12 Hi, ’12s.Great to see you back here in

this space after a few months’ break. (Thanks for your patience!) With winter behind us and May flowers tantalizingly close, I can’t help but think back to spring in Hanover. After what felt like endless permafrost, the snow would melt and we’d spend a couple of weeks avoiding massive mud patches. And then, finally, the grass seed would come in and we’d swarm the newly green-again Green between classes. Naps, Col-lis picnics, reading, and dodging Frisbees—what could be better?

No surprises here—it’s love and marriage time in the column again. Our resident Olym-pian Sophie Caldwell got engaged this winter to her fellow U.S. ski team member Simi Hamilton. We’re also excited to celebrate the engagement of Jorge Rodriguez and Nicola Segal ’14, who were engaged in Paris during Thanksgiving. Sounds like a dream—best wishes to the happy couples!


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18 Spring is on its way! It’s hard to believe that one year ago we were enjoying our final term at Dartmouth. Though it’s

been a while since we were on campus, I enjoyed reading the memories and stories you submitted. Here are some highlights from your notes.

As a New Hampshire native, I’ve always loved a good snowy winter. After this year’s Win-ter Carnival, I wanted to learn about your favorite winter memories at Dartmouth.

Madeline Miller wrote, “My freshman year I had a friend who built a toboggan in the wood shop. It was a good winter for snow, so we took a group of people to the golf course to see how many of us could fit on the sled at once!”

Jessie Colin wrote, “Freshman year I felt that Hanover winter was so cold compared to the California temps I was used to, so naturally I decided to do a weekend mountaineering course up Mount Washington with the DOC to shift my frame of reference. Ninety-mile-an-hour winds, minus-40-degree temperatures, and a full heart were the summit conditions. My plan worked. Coming back on campus, low 20s didn’t feel so cold anymore and, despite the fact I had the be-ginnings of frostbite on my face, I couldn’t believe that this school in the icy, isolated woods could feel so much like home.”

Inspired by Valentine’s Day, I asked, “Did you ever send a Flitz while at Dartmouth?”

Jessie Colin wrote, “I developed a habit of sending Flitzes to new friends I thought were cool. As a freshman, I didn’t quite understand that you weren’t supposed to write, ‘This is a Flitz’ in the subject line of every single one.”

Finally, Ashley Zepeda wrote a heartfelt mes-sage to share with the class. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did. Ashley wrote, “Adjust-ing to life post-Dartmouth has been an adventure in and of itself. I guess you don’t realize the bubble you’re in until you finally leave it. Now that 2018 has come to a close I’ve found myself reminisc-ing quite a bit about my years at Dartmouth and how the relationships and experiences I fostered there impacted me. Moving to Mexico and living there for six months post-grad was a humbling experience that gave me incredibly valuable perspective. The class of 2018 is arguably in an extremely formative period of our lives right now, experiencing our first real exposure to the ‘real world’ in a particular time and setting brimming with political and environmental turmoil. It’ll be up to us and our generation to shape the world as we know it in the coming future.

“The biggest lesson I have learned since graduation is never to let age or circumstance distract you from your passions and purpose. Yes, Dartmouth helped prepare us with degrees and perhaps good jobs and stability, a network of close friends, and great memories, but I have found it even more enlightening to remember what got me into Dartmouth in the first place, before all the hustle and bustle and real-life expectations took a grip on me. As we navigate our new lives, perhaps

in new cities and countries, and continue to grow as adults on this changing planet, remember to keep your curiosity alive and seek knowledge and truth in all of your endeavors. Never doubt your brilliance and creativity, because Dartmouth saw it and fostered it, and the world will come to need it someday. I miss you all immensely!”

Thanks to everyone who submitted their funny, heartfelt, and touching stories! Don’t be a stranger!—Emily Choate, 172 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3, Boston, MA 02116; (603) 305-5346; [email protected]

GradsThis past January Judy Chypre (MALS’99), Maggie Montgomery (MALS’99), Joan Kersey (MALS’96), and I visited the art exhibition dis-played in the halls of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. While there we learned that one of the artists, Nan Darham, is a current MALS student from Montana. Since both Maggie and Joan grew up in the West, they were particularly mesmerized by her paintings, which reflected a strong influence of place.

On January 30 the MALS Alumni Chapter (MAC) held an evening mixer at Murphy’s on the Green for alumni and MALS students. This event was organized by Lyn Lord ’95 (MALS ’98), the MAC board president, who was not able to attend on that evening.

On my way to the mixer I was convinced that Lyn had chosen a night of the worst possible weather and that no participants would come out in the heavily falling snow and blasting wind. I was wrong on both counts. The weather has con-stantly been much worse for most of the winter, and we had a great and vibrant turnout. Among the crowd were Michael Beahan (MALS’97), our former board president, who drove down from Lyme, New Hampshire, in spite of the snow and wind; Ethan Woodard (MALS’16); and Maggie Montgomery.

Maggie almost immediately found Nan Dar-ham in the group. This resulted in an invitation from Nan to her fans Judy Chypre, Joan Kersey, Maggie, and myself to visit her Yellowstone ex-hibition at the Russo Gallery in the Dickey Cen-ter for International Understanding. Of course we went! A few weeks later we saw her vibrant paintings of bull bison and wolves, among others, while she pointed out different aspects of her technique. It was a marvelous afternoon. Some of her work can be found in the current edition of the MALS literary journal, Clematis, and in The Whitefish Review, which features art, literature, and photography. The magazine is edited by Brian Schott ’93 (MALS’13).

The annual MALS luncheon will be held this summer. We do not yet have a date, but if you have an idea of whom you would enjoy having as our speaker, please let me know.

One final note: Joan Kersey is currently liv-ing at the Genesis Senior Living Unit in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and she would very much enjoy hearing from her MALS friends.—Jane Welsh, 175 Greensboro Road, Hanover,

17 A big congrats to Alisa White, who has been making her mark out in rural Mexico. After graduation Alisa moved

to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work in envi-ronmental consulting. She valued this experi-ence because she strengthened her quantitative analytical skills and got to work on cool projects such as the examination of the impact of air pol-lution in Santiago, Chile. However, Alisa realized that she did not see herself at a desk long term and wanted to work in the field. She applied for a Dartmouth postgraduate project fellowship and is now conducting a research project in partnership with EcoLogic Development Fund and Fondo Ambiental Regional de la Chinantla, Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico. Alisa researches the viability of carbon-offset programs in rural, for-ested communities and assists with a National Geographic grant-funded project on commu-nity in the Chinantla region. During her time in Mexico she has been living in a home-stay and sharing a room with her 8-year-old host sister. It’s been an interesting change going from living on her own in Boston to living with a family, but she does enjoy getting to play with the kids.

Elise Wien has also taken advantage of the wonderful fellowship opportunities Dartmouth has to offer. Elise applied for a fellowship to con-tinue her play cycle, which will all be around the ’69s; her senior thesis was a play that took place in 1869, and she is working on plays to be set in 1969 and 2069. In order to create a measured oeuvre on life in 2069, Elise traveled to Seattle to research technology and modernity. While she was there, she of course visited her dear friend Daiana Petrova, who works at Amazon. Elise’s writing is not limited to her fellowship. She also has started her “Play-a-week Project,” where she writes a short play each week and posts them to her website. Elise enjoys this because she creates a new masterpiece every week and she can share them with the world. She also started a writing group in New York with Robert Leverett ’16 and Deby Xiadani ’15 to allow themselves and their artistic peers to share their work and provide constructive feedback.

Last but certainly not least is Scott Ortlip, who moved down south last summer. Scott was living in Chicago when a wonderful professional opportunity presented itself last August and led him to Atlanta. Scott now works as an analyst at Stonecutter Capital Management LLC. He loves his job because he wears many hats; his role enables him to work as a data analyst, as-set manager, and consultant at the same time. Scott finds it rewarding to make an impact at this Atlanta-based company. It also doesn’t hurt that his new home has some of the best food in the world. Scott loves to eat good meat, but eventually going to steakhouses became a bit too pricey. Consequently, Scott learned how to use a cast iron skillet and experiment with numerous recipes; now he’s an acclaimed cook and runs a food blog named Sear the Steer. When Scott is not at work or in the kitchen, he’s in the great out-doors. He traveled to Canada to summit Mount Eiffel and Mount Provincial Park and then to Colorado to climb the 14,000-footer Mount Holy Cross. Scott is also involved in George Bushcraft

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Clubs &GroupsMany Dartmouth clubs and groups shared fun updates from events ending 2018 as well as those kicking off 2019. It’s a great year to be a Dart-mouth alum!

In December the Dartmouth Club of Phila-delphia hosted its annual holiday party at Barra Rosa in Philadelphia. Dan O’Brien ’09 reported that it was an enormous success that included scores of alumni enjoying a sit-down meal and entertainment by the Aires. The club is grate-ful to Diahna James ’05 for all the work she put into organizing the event. Recently, the club has been working with other Ivy League alumni clubs in the region to organize intercollegiate alumni events. This included an all-Ivy holiday party at The Bourse, a newly renovated eatery and event space in Philadelphia, on January 16. The club will also co-organize an all-Ivy Quizzo night at the Racquet Club in March. The Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia will also host several get-togethers during the next couple of months and invites area alumni to attend. The first is a “Big Green Affair” party at Hale & True Cider on March 7. In addi-tion, the next monthly happy hour will be at The Post in University City, Philadelphia, on March 27. Several Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia members will likely also choose to participate in the Big Green celebration in New York City on April 2.

Shiv Chadha ’17 of the Dartmouth Club of the United Kingdom reported a very successful season of alumni interviewing. Alumni in the London area met with many eager applicants and re-ally enjoyed the opportunity to engage with the prospective students. Next, the club will hold an event for young alumni in London on February 28. Check the club’s Facebook page for more informa-tion about upcoming events.

Rachel Abendroth ’13, President of the Dart-mouth Club of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), shared that Donna Soave Weber ’91 put on a fantas-tic event at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) in February. For its 50th anniversary the PBT commissioned a new performance of the classic, The Great Gatsby. The performance featured new choreography, new score, new sets and costumes, full orchestra, and Pittsburgh’s very own world-class ballet company. All available tickets for the world premiere and special pre-show discussion were claimed. Not only did the event draw many local Dartmouth alumni, but it also included friends from the broader, all-Ivy network (Har-vard, Yale, and Brown were also represented) in the area. Donna received amazing feedback from attendees, who especially enjoyed the opportunity to chat with the ballet’s artistic staff before the show. Jud Porter ’76 attended and noted what an outstanding opportunity it was to be able to watch the dancers warm up before the show. John ’78 and Peg Lagnese agreed the warmup was a unique experience and raved about the fantastic seats

available to the alumni attendees. Everyone had a great time!

Tom Skilton ’89, vice president of the Dart-mouth Lawyers Association (DLA), provided an update on a recent event. On January 16 the DLA organized the admission of 12 of its members to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in Washington, D.C. Jim Hinds ’73, Gil Rosenthal ’90, Faith Knight Myers ’91, Terry Brady ’81, Michael Burke ’80, Antonia Ruti-gliano Nedder ’89, Sharyl Hirsh Reisman ’89, Zachary Vaughan ’05, Richard Guy ’73, George Whitley ’75, David Silke ’87, and Nicole Cameli ’07 were moved for admission to the bar by Donald Verrilli, parent of a ’14 and the 46th solicitor general of the United States. They were joined by family and friends for the occasion. Following the admission ceremony in the courtroom, the DLA members and their guests attended two oral arguments at the court.

Finally, Dartmouth alumni in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, got together for an informal gathering in late February. Organized by Liza Millet ’92, Li qiong He, Tu’13, and Bryan Jordan, it was held at Bryan and Li’s home in Wilson, Wyoming. Quite a few area alumni attended, including Bruce Morley ’68, Alexander Muromcew ’85, Sophia Schwartz ’16, Sean Stauth ’01, Dan Simons ’06, and several others. The potluck-style event was easy and fun. Jackson Hole alumni plan to gather again in a few months.

It is a great start to the year for Dartmouth alumni around the globe. Please keep sending me updates about the great events that your club, association, or affiliated group have organized.—Stina Brock ’01, P.O. Box 9274, Jackson, WY 83002; [email protected]

AlumniCouncilHappy 250th, Dartmouth alumni family! During my undergraduate days, the idea of celebrating Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary never crossed my mind, yet here we are. From a small group of stu-dents in 1769 to more than 82,000 of us scattered around the girdled earth today, our small College on the Hill has truly made its mark. During these 250 years we have accomplished great things and also experienced our share of hits and misses. All along the way, our amazing body of alumni, and especially the 125 councilors who represent you, forge ahead, remain engaged, and tell our stories to the world.

In my cultural heritage, we embrace a con-cept called “sankofa,” in which we look to and ac-knowledge our past in order to walk triumphantly into our future. Our 250th is indeed Dartmouth’s sankofa moment: a time when we can embrace moments of celebration alongside moments of reflection.

Our moments of celebration have included the 200th anniversary re-argument of the Dart-mouth College case at both the U.S. Supreme Court and on campus in March. We continue to gather throughout the country for celebra-tions of our robust campaign, the Call to Lead. Everyone is included in this campaign, and gifts of all sizes contribute to Dartmouth’s success.

Your council has put forth an inclusive slate for the board of trustees, including the first Native American alumna to be nominated to the board. And the council is especially excited about the Call to Serve initiative, Dartmouth’s unique and compelling invitation to all members of its com-munity to make an impact in the world by con-tributing 250,000 hours of service in honor of our 250th anniversary. Once again, Dartmouth leads. Or, if you are enthusiastic about social media, #DartmouthLeads.

During our moments of reflection, we have had to take a hard look, ask some hard questions, and do the hard work of addressing instances of sexual misconduct and racial harassment on campus. While we may not all agree on the best way forward, we do agree that establishing and maintaining a welcoming community—in which everyone feels safe, supported, and can learn and grow without fear—is our top priority. The Cam-pus Climate and Culture Initiative is an important step in this direction

Traveling extensively and engaging with so many of you, I have learned that we are truly a family. As with every family we have our joys and sorrows, points of agreement and difference, cohesion and discord. My challenge to each of you is that we remain a family—sticking together through thick and thin. When things go well, let’s celebrate in a big way. Where we miss the mark, don’t move further away, come closer. Take part in creating the kind of Dartmouth we envision—a place that is inclusive, safe, and relevant. Talk to your Alumni Council representative. We are here to receive and communicate your feedback. Engage with us, be part of the change and influ-ence that helps us move forward. If you have con-sistently been involved with Dartmouth, thank you—your efforts are appreciated. If you haven’t, there is no better time than our 250th year to come off the sidelines and join the team.

I cannot think of a more exciting time to be a part of this amazing community. As your Alumni Council president, it has been my mission and joy to make sure that each of you knows there is a place at the table for you because you are a valued member of the Dartmouth family. It has been an honor to serve you, and I look forward to the triumphant future that lies ahead.—Adrienne “Tee” Lotson ’82, president, 6068 Blunt Alumni Center, Hanover, NH 03755; [email protected]

DeathsThe following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually written by the class secretaries, may appear on the DAM website at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com, where friends and classmates may post their own remembrances of the deceased. Please contact alumni records at (603) 646-2253 to report an alumnus death.

James Bruce Espy ’40 • Aug. 31, 2018Richard Gordon Gray ’40 • March 5, 2014

Douglas Bertram Hunter ’40 • July 14, 2009Ned Levering Jacoby ’40 • Dec. 29, 2018Charles Ellison Smith ’41 • Dec. 26, 2018


sacred act. He would not only minister to wounded souls. He would also pray in the presence of the wounded earth.

Approaching his fifth year of ministry, Blackmer has no metrics for measuring the success of his new work. In a sense, he is preaching to the choir: Most of those drawn to the Church of the Woods are en-vironmentally aware, stewardship-minded people already committed to recycling and renewables and small carbon footprints. A few dozen parishioners standing around a hemlock stump in the New Hampshire woods is a small choir.

How much difference does Blackmer think he can really make?

“I am answering a deeply personal call,” he says. “Fulfilling that duty is suc-cess enough.” As it says in Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

In another sense, Blackmer is still the same ambitious environmentalist with stra-tegic planning, marketing, and networking skills. He has created a nonprofit to govern his church, Kairos Earth, with five full-time staff, a national board of directors, an an-nual operating budget of $378,000, and a website. He plans to build a meetinghouse in the woods—not for services, but for teach-ing space, to spread Church of the Woods concepts through workshops and seminars.

He travels around the country to meet with others interested in creating nature-focused churches. (Last year, he co-led a service among the Douglas firs and big-leaf maples of Forest Park in Portland, Oregon.) He is spearheading an alliance, the Wild Church Network, to engage people of all faiths at the intersection of religion and conservation. Twenty-five pastors have signed up for the network’s first conference, scheduled for June in Wisconsin. The stir-rings of a movement. Not 3 million acres at a time, but one soul at a time.

“Counting the number of people who show up on a Sunday in Canterbury isn’t the way to measure the reach of Steve’s minis-try anyway,” says Hirschfeld. “In fact, the kind of thinking that even worries about numbers is what Steve is trying to change. There are other ways to measure the work of the spirit. It’s not about the greening of the church. It’s about bringing a spiritual sense into the environmental movement. That’s where you’ll see Steve’s influence.”

JIM COLLINS, a former editor of this magazine, is a frequent contributor to DAM. He lives in the state of Washington.

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Career: More than 60 roles on stage and in television and films since 1983; recent films include the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018) and this year’s The Kitchen and The Joker Notable: Last year starred in her one-woman autobiographical play, Feeding the Dragon, based on her childhood living in an apartment over a branch of the New York Public Library, where her father was custodian; appears in recurring role on CBS series The Code; serves on the Hopkins Center board of overseersEducation: A.B, government and African American studies; M.F.A., Yale School of Drama, 1988 Personal: Lives with her husband, filmmaker Charles Schultz, in Millbrook, New York

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“I thought I would join the foreign service and work in a French-speaking African country. I never thought theater could be a career. You don’t watch your parents struggle to put you through college and then tell them you plan to be an actor.”

“What I got from Dartmouth was the ability to be comfortable in any environment. There were other students of color who felt dropped into a totally different culture. We supported each other and became a very tight-knit community. I was better prepared than some because I attended [the New York City prep school] Dalton.”

“When I started Dalton in third grade, I didn’t know how dif-ferent the other kids were from me. Much later I realized not everybody’s birthday party is at the Paramount Studios screening room. Not everyone can close down FAO Schwarz for an evening.”

“The summer before senior year I decided to see which alums were in the theater. It was all about finding a job with a steady paycheck. I talked to Barry Grove ’73, managing director of Manhattan Theatre Club, who gave me a job in the box office. Later I was his assistant for two years. It was incredibly useful to see what goes on behind the scenes.”

“Writing my play was terrifying. I discovered I’m more com-fortable being in scary places as an actor with someone else’s words.”

“My play began as a book that people suggested I should write because growing up in a library was like a fairy tale. I was my family’s storyteller. When I got to writing about painful parts of my family story, I turned it into a theater piece with more dialogue. Then I started wondering if anyone would want to sit in the theater for 90 minutes and hear me talk.”

“On stage, anything can happen. An audience member can come in late and distract you—or be on a phone, which makes you think, ‘You know I can see that, right?’ ”

“With film and television, acting is all behind the eyes. You have to trust that you’re being the character. The best directors will help you do that. Stage requires being larger than life, showing people who the character is, because most people in the theater can’t see your eyes.”

“There are a lot more television roles now for women of a certain age. I remember in 2007 when Glenn Close starred in Dam-ages. I thought it was so amazing to see a big star cross over. Now you see lots of great actresses doing it. As a woman of a certain age myself, it’s exciting to see the possibilities.”

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