Class of 1973

The year 2025 has arrived!

In late October the American Bar Association (ABA) bestowed its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, or Resources Law and Policy on Ben Wilson, former chairman of Beveridge & Diamond, PC. “I am grateful for my family and friends and my talented clients and colleagues and everyone who helped make this recognition possible.” Sophomore-year Brown Hall roommate Bob Conway posted on LinkedIn: “Congratulations, Ben. I know your Dartmouth classmates and friends in the worldwide ‘Big Green’ community are proud of your recognition by the ABA and greatly appreciate your personal and professional efforts to promote environmental stewardship.”

For many years Richard Sholl practiced architecture in Southern California with notable design architects such as Frank Gehry. More recently Richard retired but now teaches elementary school students design and ceramics. Additionally, he paints and has exhibited his work in California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, and New York. “Influenced by the landscapes and seascapes from East and West coasts, my paintings are minimalist and move from realism toward abstract impressionism. My objective is to communicate feelings as opposed to literal recordation of objects and landscapes.”

James Wallace is a clinical psychologist in Hamilton, New York, with a long list of credentials, including training in mediation, crisis intervention, stress management, reporting of child abuse and neglect, diagnosis of learning disabilities, pain management, and sport psychology. He published On Target: Comparative Challenges of Sports & Games. Jim has been practicing and teaching aikido, the nonviolent art of self-defense, for decades. In his spare time he enjoys drumming, swimming, walking, golf, hiking, basketball, running, kayaking, skiing (alpine and Nordic), table tennis, yoga, Frisbee, juggling, fitness training, reading, and travel.

Lycoming College president Kent Trachte is retiring at the end of this academic year. Kent worked for a quarter-century at Franklin & Marshall College before taking office at Lycoming, where the Trachte Music Center is named for him and his wife due to their “leadership, contributions to the college and community and love and appreciation for music.” See the Lycoming College website for the article titled “President Trachte Announces Retirement.”

First-year factoid: Of the 1,184 students in the class of 2028, drawn from 1,003 high schools around the world, a record-setting 17 percent are the first generation in their families to go to college. The number of Pell Grant recipients increased by 5 percentage points to 19.4 percent, an all-time high for Dartmouth.

Video of the October dedication of the Buddy Teevens stadium may be found by searching for “Dartmouth Dedicates Football Stadium to Buddy Teevens ’79.”

Dartmouth will host the 2025 NCAA skiing championships in early March. The College first hosted the event in 1958, bringing home the title, and hosted it again in 2003, when it finished sixth. The Big Green finished in the top eight in every year dating back to 1998 and the top six 17 times in that span, including 2007, when it last won the crown.

Sadly, Sophocles Carinos died this past July from pancreatic cancer. Obituary is at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu