Class Note 1970
Issue
November-December 2022
We’re approaching the season that reminds us of the importance of gratitude and caring about others.
So I start this column with a shout-out to a classmate most of us know for his successful technology career in Silicon Valley. What you probably don’t know is that he came to Dartmouth from the small town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
His gift to Oshkosh is building Tiny House Village, 31 homes to provide shelter for homeless families. The goal is to provide housing while residents gain life and work skills to secure permanent housing.
Thanks, T.J. Rodgers,for setting a fine example of philanthropy on the local level.
Further west and way further north, John Walsh writes from Fairbanks, Alaska, “It was junior year when Dartmouth brought in a famous Arctic Sea researcher, Bill Campbell, to teach meteorology. Campbell got me a summer job working with the sea ice branch of the Naval Oceanographic Office.”
Fast-forward 53 years and Dr. Walsh has been awarded the International Mohn Prize for outstanding research related to the Arctic. It’s scientists such as John who are tackling the challenges of global warming.
Denny Brown remembers his Dartmouth experience being filled with disorienting, fast-tempo turnabouts. (Hey, it was the 1960s!) From straight-arrow football player and “rocks jock,” Alpha Theta brother, Omer’s ski shop boot-fitter came some alternative lifestyles, including a nine-month MIT exchange program and Boston City Hall internship.
“My undergrad highlights include Professor Sterling’s personal attention, Professor Nutt getting me on a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker for an oceanographic expedition to Greenland, bartering with a ’68 for my first car (a 1953 Jaguar XK120) for only $300 plus an old set of skis, and meeting AnnMarie from Mount Holyoke, now my wife of 50 years.”
Denny’s practice lives continued postgraduation: work as cow poke, carpenter, urban archaeologist, Montessori teacher, public school resource room teacher, private school cofounder, waiter, chef, and restaurant owner. He writes, “In 1985 I found higher education fundraising, which was miraculously fulfilling for 32 years.”
In closing, let me wish you and all of your family a happy Thanksgiving. Be grateful for the friendships you still have with other classmates.
—Stu Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
So I start this column with a shout-out to a classmate most of us know for his successful technology career in Silicon Valley. What you probably don’t know is that he came to Dartmouth from the small town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
His gift to Oshkosh is building Tiny House Village, 31 homes to provide shelter for homeless families. The goal is to provide housing while residents gain life and work skills to secure permanent housing.
Thanks, T.J. Rodgers,for setting a fine example of philanthropy on the local level.
Further west and way further north, John Walsh writes from Fairbanks, Alaska, “It was junior year when Dartmouth brought in a famous Arctic Sea researcher, Bill Campbell, to teach meteorology. Campbell got me a summer job working with the sea ice branch of the Naval Oceanographic Office.”
Fast-forward 53 years and Dr. Walsh has been awarded the International Mohn Prize for outstanding research related to the Arctic. It’s scientists such as John who are tackling the challenges of global warming.
Denny Brown remembers his Dartmouth experience being filled with disorienting, fast-tempo turnabouts. (Hey, it was the 1960s!) From straight-arrow football player and “rocks jock,” Alpha Theta brother, Omer’s ski shop boot-fitter came some alternative lifestyles, including a nine-month MIT exchange program and Boston City Hall internship.
“My undergrad highlights include Professor Sterling’s personal attention, Professor Nutt getting me on a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker for an oceanographic expedition to Greenland, bartering with a ’68 for my first car (a 1953 Jaguar XK120) for only $300 plus an old set of skis, and meeting AnnMarie from Mount Holyoke, now my wife of 50 years.”
Denny’s practice lives continued postgraduation: work as cow poke, carpenter, urban archaeologist, Montessori teacher, public school resource room teacher, private school cofounder, waiter, chef, and restaurant owner. He writes, “In 1985 I found higher education fundraising, which was miraculously fulfilling for 32 years.”
In closing, let me wish you and all of your family a happy Thanksgiving. Be grateful for the friendships you still have with other classmates.
—Stu Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com