Class activity is not only about fun, nostalgia and college giving. A great deal of time and money goes into helping current and future students through support of scholarship, athletic and internship programs. We call it “investing in people.” 


Under the stewardship of Marty Bowne, our scholarship fund annually helps deserving students including Jennifer Dalecki ’15, a government major and art history minor who studied in Rome and London and writes and edits for The Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Law Journal; James Verhagen ’16 from Johannesburg, South Africa, a computer science and economics major with plans to work in software development or finance; Carter Bastian ’17, Spokane, Washington, a computer science student and member of D-Style, a freestyle rap group; and Angela Liu ’17, who studies acting and is a Thursday night salsa enthusiast. 


Our class projects, managed by Bruce Baggaley, help to defray recruitment expenses for coaches and athletic prospects and sponsor and mentor student internships at community service and healthcare programs. At Bruce’s urging, the executive board voted to increase gifts to Dartmouth athletic sponsors and the Tucker Foundation from $4,000 to $8,000.


Bill Wellstead, who runs our class athletic sponsor program, introduced four recent ’63 recruits: Cody Fullerton ’16, defensive tackle (No. 52), a student of Japanese language from Seattle, Washington; Janine Leger ’15, a field hockey captain from Johannesburg, South Africa, who chose Dartmouth over Harvard and Princeton; Karen Chaw ’17, environmental studies major and softball player renowned for her scrappy at-bats; and Evan Key ’18, the all-time leading lacrosse point scorer from Pingry School, Short Hills, New Jersey, whose dad played football and lacrosse at Dartmouth.


Some of us have chosen investing in people as their life’s work, such as Chris and Sharon Ryan of Toms River, New Jersey, who for the past 20 years have served as chaplain, teacher and volunteer minister to thousands of male and female prison inmates from white collar criminals to gun dealers and sex offenders. Their volunteer program, Safe Harbor Ministries (www.safeharborministry.org), mentors and helps guide prisoners through re-entry to society, a rigorous, personal training program focusing on education, mental and emotional health, decision-making, non-specific spirituality, relationships, wellness, responsibility and, yes, leisure. A former teacher, Chris met Sharon in 1991, joined her in volunteer prison ministry work and has never looked back. Their ministry is sponsored by four churches and currently focuses on two federal prisons in New Jersey. “Former inmates love to visit and take us out,” says Chris who has three children. “Last week a family brought us homemade tortillas.” 


Bill Subin, Margate City, New Jersey, received the 2014 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. A sole practitioner, Bill was an assistant U.S. attorney, chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s committee on unauthorized practice and currently serves on the advisory board for paralegal education for Atlantic Cape Community College.


I am sorry to report the deaths of William Janes, Lee Tebbetts, Ted Aller, Steve Scott and Jim McAllister.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292, ext. 17; harry@zlokower.com