The first women of Dartmouth arrived at a campus that was not quite ready for them. In the fall of 1972, 177 first-year women and 74 female transfer students joined 3,030 male undergraduates to make history. Each found their own way through it.
Janice Tanaka Tower ’84 and her brother, Matt Tanaka ’81, bike over the Alaska Range, across the subarctic interior, down the mighty frozen Yukon, and on to the Bering Sea during the 2025 Iditarod…