A good time was had by all at our gala 40th reunion on June 15-17, with ideal weather (sunny in the high 70s) and much reminiscing. Our best-ever attendance (more than 160 classmates and 80 spouses, significant others and kids)! Congrats to Fuzzy Thurston and the ’72 planning squad!


Among the best memories: the Aires serenading SigEp alums from all reunion classes including Peter Heed and Tricia; outgoing President Jim Yong Kim’s address to us during dinner, relating how President Obama told Kim’s son, “I owe you one!” after drafting him to lead the World Bank and leave the plains of Hanover; Friday night’s dinner at the 1953 Commons (formerly known to us as Thayer Hall, with a framed tray adorning the walls but this time offering wine and shrimp cocktail); and Bill “B-Man” Schur taking the reins as class president for the next four years from John “Burkie” Burke. (We will celebrate in 2016 our 45th with classes of 1970 and 1971. Thanks to Burkie’s lobbying efforts, we’ll be with adjacent classes and again over a fine June weekend.) Also, Fred Crossman sharing how he is closing in scaling the seven top peaks in the world; Stomp performing on the Green; Chip Carstensen telling us that with this alum magazine becoming free we can add lots to our next big contribution to the College; “Men of Dartmouth” playing on the hour from Baker Tower; Charles Nearburg telling us about his 414-mile-per-hour world record two years ago and nearly outrunning the Bonneville salt flats; the South Fayerweather mini-reunion with Jon Eidsidler (whose teenage triplets continue to excel), Richard Kayne (who’s added to his endocrinology practice helping the Newman’s Own Foundation), Frank Sullivan and Buddy Lynch (still looking like he could tackle all 160 of us without breaking a sweat); Bill Roberts leading the 1972 memorial service on Sunday at Rollins Chapel; the Hanover Inn’s makeover (many years overdue!); and catching up and sharing stories with Thurm Lowans and Suz Clarke (we had to travel to Hanover to see each other, living 20 miles away on other sides of Seattle), Don Fennessey (still teaching at the Naval War College), Joe Davis (thanks for advocating me for class secretary and citing my diary in case I fall short of content), Dan Cooperman (semi-retired from Apple as its senior vice president and general counsel and busier than ever with Second Harvest Food Bank and many other good causes), Laurie and Moira Lieberman (Stanford and Lake Tahoe, California, my oh my!), Craig Bentley (who came up from Wellesley, Massachusetts, to hear classmate Charles Nearburg, before winging off to China the next morning), John de Regt (now an executive coach with prestige clientele) and Jeff Pulis (like me a proud papa, his daughter way out in Silicon Valley, mine both in L.A., with Erika moving back to Washington for her master’s).


Let me close by thanking Duff Cummings for his past 10 years as class secretary. Having served in this role once before, I’m already recruiting my replacement to head us into our 50th in 2022! 


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue, WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com