Class Note 1971
Greetings from snowy Lake Tahoe, California (20 feet up to Christmas). Plans are moving into high gear for our 40th reunion under the capable leadership of Wayne Hobin. Wayne writes that plans are going smoothly for the reunion on October 20-24 (Homecoming Weekend). He will be looking for volunteers to call fellow frat and team members, social and club affiliates, etc., from our class to try to get as many attendees as possible. Lodging is getting tight. Go to the class website www.dartmouth.org/classes/71, click on the (very impressive) reunion logo at the top and then read down to click on a link for lodging options. See you in October!
Russ Adams sent along this summary of the 40th reunion of the baseball team. Fifteen members of the 1970 Dartmouth baseball team, including eight ’71s, gathered together in Hanover during the June 18-20, 2010, weekend to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their championship season that included a 26-game winning streak and Dartmouth’s only appearance in the NCAA College World Series. The occasion was a Dartmouth baseball alumni game organized by Coach Bob Whalen, who made the 40th anniversary of the 1970 team as the theme for the weekend. In addition to the alumni game the 1970 team gathered together on Saturday night at Jesse’s Restaurant for a reception and dinner with Coach Whalen and his wife, Kim, and with Millie Lupien, wife of the team’s coach, the late Ulysses J. “Tony” Lupien. Class of 1971s and spouses in attendance were Russ and Mary Lou Adams, Eileen and Jim Bell, Craig Conklin, Mary and Tim Hannigan, Kirsten and Oz Griebel, Elke and Tom Hanna, Camille and John Prado and Bill Saumsiegle.
The 40th 1970 football team reunion was also held during Homecoming Weekend. You’ll hear more about that in the next Class Notes.
Bobby Schnabel is the dean of the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He leads a multi-campus school of approximately 100 faculty members at the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses and is working on an ambitious program to build the largest computer-engineering-only school in the United States. When he has some free time he alternates between bike riding and running as well as traveling back to his home in Boulder, Colorado.
Michael Fay passed along an article in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly that summarized an impressive undertaking by Andrew Urban. Andy and another lawyer from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, et al., founded an organization (now) called Boston Lawyers Group in 1986 to attract recently graduated lawyers of color to stay in the Boston area. At that time Boston wasn’t perceived as an ideal place for a lawyer of color to start his or her career. The group has grown into a consortium of more than 45 members, including prominent law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies in Boston that is still successfully recruiting lawyers and Andy is still on the executive committee. Congratulations for taking the initiative and still following through 24 years later.
Keep the news coming.
—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com
