Class Note 1972
Issue
Hail, noble ’72s far and wide!
Fresh from Homecoming weekend your humble scribe greets you from the Hanover Plain, where our football team handily drubbed Columbia in the middle of a monsoon and restored much gladness to the hearts of our brotherhood of all classes!
New from the hinterlands: The Hon. Charles B. Schudson, a.k.a. Charlie to us, has been awarded a five-year Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for law teaching abroad. Charlie is a Wisconsin reserve judge, president of KeynoteSeminars, LLC, and an adjunct professor of law at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin. He thanks professor Robert Russell and the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program for their inspiration. Way to go, Charlie!
This in by business wire from Santa Monica, California: “Gary Dicovitsky, a 26-year veteran in philanthropic fundraising, has joined the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) as executive vice president of development. In his new position he is in charge of leading the PCF’s major gifts program and other development efforts. Dicovitsky has led successful campaigns at some of the nation’s leading organizations, including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the California Institute of Technology and Pomona College. He has also managed fundraising efforts at Princeton University, University of Virginia and Dartmouth.” Kudos to you as well, Dico!
Bill Schur sent me some very interesting news about our classmate Jesse Spikes, who was running for mayor of Atlanta (he was defeated in November). For those who, like me, didn’t know Jesse during our years in Hanover together, I quote from his biography: “I’m the son of a sharecropper. I grew up on a farm in Henry County, the last of 13 children. In my sophomore year I left Georgia to attend Hanover High School in New Hampshire in a special program called A Better Chance. That opportunity catapulted me to Dartmouth, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School. Instead of taking work in another city I returned to Atlanta and started a rewarding 30-plus-year legal career supporting corporate business and financial transactions in Atlanta, the United States and abroad.” Our best wishes to you, Jesse, in your next endeavor, and I look forward to meeting you!
Your executive committee has voted to support as a class project the admirable efforts of our classmate Mick Sack’s daughter Myra ’10 and her soccer teammate Becky Poskin ’09 in their creation and promotion of Athletes United. From her interview with ESPN I quote Myra: “If I had to say what our mission was it would be to spread sports and all its benefits to everyone in the Upper Valley free of cost.” The program is geared toward connecting Dartmouth’s varsity athletes with school-aged children from the Upper Valley region around Hanover who might not otherwise be able to participate in or afford sports clinics and camps. A worthy, successful and much appreciated pursuit, ladies!
As always, be well and please be in touch with your news, views, accomplishments, opinions or simply to say, “Hi!”
Warmest wishes from Hanover.
—Lauren “Duff” Cummings, P.O. Box 580, Hanover, NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu
Jan - Feb 2010
Hail, noble ’72s far and wide!
Fresh from Homecoming weekend your humble scribe greets you from the Hanover Plain, where our football team handily drubbed Columbia in the middle of a monsoon and restored much gladness to the hearts of our brotherhood of all classes!
New from the hinterlands: The Hon. Charles B. Schudson, a.k.a. Charlie to us, has been awarded a five-year Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for law teaching abroad. Charlie is a Wisconsin reserve judge, president of KeynoteSeminars, LLC, and an adjunct professor of law at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin. He thanks professor Robert Russell and the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program for their inspiration. Way to go, Charlie!
This in by business wire from Santa Monica, California: “Gary Dicovitsky, a 26-year veteran in philanthropic fundraising, has joined the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) as executive vice president of development. In his new position he is in charge of leading the PCF’s major gifts program and other development efforts. Dicovitsky has led successful campaigns at some of the nation’s leading organizations, including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the California Institute of Technology and Pomona College. He has also managed fundraising efforts at Princeton University, University of Virginia and Dartmouth.” Kudos to you as well, Dico!
Bill Schur sent me some very interesting news about our classmate Jesse Spikes, who was running for mayor of Atlanta (he was defeated in November). For those who, like me, didn’t know Jesse during our years in Hanover together, I quote from his biography: “I’m the son of a sharecropper. I grew up on a farm in Henry County, the last of 13 children. In my sophomore year I left Georgia to attend Hanover High School in New Hampshire in a special program called A Better Chance. That opportunity catapulted me to Dartmouth, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School. Instead of taking work in another city I returned to Atlanta and started a rewarding 30-plus-year legal career supporting corporate business and financial transactions in Atlanta, the United States and abroad.” Our best wishes to you, Jesse, in your next endeavor, and I look forward to meeting you!
Your executive committee has voted to support as a class project the admirable efforts of our classmate Mick Sack’s daughter Myra ’10 and her soccer teammate Becky Poskin ’09 in their creation and promotion of Athletes United. From her interview with ESPN I quote Myra: “If I had to say what our mission was it would be to spread sports and all its benefits to everyone in the Upper Valley free of cost.” The program is geared toward connecting Dartmouth’s varsity athletes with school-aged children from the Upper Valley region around Hanover who might not otherwise be able to participate in or afford sports clinics and camps. A worthy, successful and much appreciated pursuit, ladies!
As always, be well and please be in touch with your news, views, accomplishments, opinions or simply to say, “Hi!”
Warmest wishes from Hanover.
—Lauren “Duff” Cummings, P.O. Box 580, Hanover, NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu