Hail, noble ’72s, far and wide!


The final countdown to our 40th reunion has begun: June 15-17. Your reunion committee under the able leadership of David “Fuzzy” Thurston is already hard at work making this a truly memorable experience for all. John Rockwell is coordinating what should be fabulous entertainment as well as working with us to get the word out to everyone. Bill “Bean” Anderson is in charge of fiscal housekeeping. Yours truly will be keeping us amply plied with food and drink. In addition to the ever-popular campus tours, reunion row, golf outing (thank you, Burkie!), Moosilauke day trip and excellent programs offered by the College, we have a few special surprises up our sleeves to make our 40th a “can’t miss” event. Keep watching the class website, this column, the class newsletter and your mailboxes (both snail and electronic) for details as they become more firm, but mark your calendars now. June isn’t that far off!


In other class news, I am very pleased to share that Marc Josephson has had a significant impact on the fiscal and environmental wellbeing of our alma mater. Marc and his son Kurt of J&F Labs (which currently has 11 Dartmouth alums among its ranks!) installed a high-tech lighting control system for the West Gym at Alumni Gymnasium that has reduced energy consumption in that area by a whopping 82 percent! In the words of the College’s energy program manager, “This project has been enjoyable, particularly because we were able to work with our own computer science department and also an exceptional Dartmouth alum, Marc Josephson ’72.” Marc is already looking at other areas on campus where significant energy savings may be attained. Nice work!


Spreading the wealth among the Ivies, Martin Cain and Jon Fauer have daughters who are roommates at Yale in the class of ’14. Marlena Fauer is on the Yale University sailing team and Emily Cain is goalie on the varsity field hockey team.


On September 30 Charlie Nearburg at the wheel of the Spirit of Rett increased his Federation Internationale de l’Automobile Category A, Group II, Class 10 speed record to 366.59 miles per hour. Charlie races in memory of his own son and all those children who fought cancer as well as those who are now fighting cancer. Our thoughts and prayers are with them, Charlie. As you said, “Godspeed!”


Bill Schur tells me he was able to spend some quality time with Chip Carstensen and Marc Josephson at Class Officers Weekend. They attended seminars, enjoyed a few drinks and discussed plans for our upcoming reunion. Bill also sends greetings from Wade Judge, whom he saw at the University Club recently. Wade is still at Jones Lange LaSalle, a major real estate company in Chicago. Bill also had lunch recently in Washington, D.C., with Chris Brewster. He’s a partner in the law firm of Kaye Scholer, where he specializes in trade matters.


See you soon in Hanover!


—Lauren “Duff” Cummings, P.O. Box 580, Hanover, NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu