It was July 1, 1776, and in Philadelphia’s hot, stuffy Pennsylvania statehouse, members of the Second Continental Congress—including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams—were discussing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of what would become the Declaration of Independence.
Lawyer, environmentalist, and river rat Dan Reicher ’78 steered a disparate group of stakeholders toward common ground—and an unlikely treaty for America’s hydroelectric future.
When pilot Nathaniel Johansson ’18 had to ditch in the Pacific, no problem. The real nightmare came during a frantic rescue operation to pluck him from the ocean.
