The year 2013 bows out. In early August Bill McDonough was a speaker in the Leading Voices Lecture Series, the summer program inspired by the “Great Issues” course. Bill’s lecture, “The Upcycle: Designing for Abundance,” was part of the energy, sustainability and security series and is also the title of his most recent book. A short video of Bill can be found on the College website, in which he describes 1969-73 as “an amazing time of transformation” and how the freedom of exploration he experienced at Dartmouth and what he learned about human values has greatly influenced his work. Since 2011 each Leading Voices series has brought prominent experts and leaders to the College to speak on a theme. Other themes have been politics and policy, foreign policy and higher education.


Marty Lange is a vice president responsible for vendor contacts at Edge & Tinney Associates, a small but full-service architectural and design firm in Dayton, Ohio.


Even though there is no law school on the Hanover Plain, there is The Dartmouth Law Journal, which published in the spring issue “Eisenhower: The Forgotten President” by Mark Harty. Concise and well written, the article provides substantial information about and insights on the first president most of us are able to remember but whom most of us know little about. 


Jim Pocalyko works as a demand planning manager for Texas-based Celebrating Home, one of the top direct sales companies in the country, which provides a broad line of home décor, fashion and personalization products in the party-planning industry.


Dartmouth was awarded a $10-million, five-year grant from the secure and trustworthy cyberspace program of the National Science Foundation to support research into ways of safeguarding the confidentiality of personal health and medical information as these records transition from paper files to electronic systems. The trustworthy health and wellness project involves an interdisciplinary and multi-institution team of experts and is part of the College’s Institute for Security, Technology and Society’s research initiative on information systems and healthcare. Learn more at thaw.org.


Word was received that Michael Kaiser, who retired to Mesa, Arizona, in the late 1990s, died in June from injuries sustained last year after being hit by a car while crossing a street on his mobility scooter. Mike, who developed multiple sclerosis in recent years, was quite musical and among other activities taught music to a class of developmentally disabled adults. An obituary can be found online at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries. 


Many are hard at work on our class reunion, so while you are making entries in your new 2014 calendars (paper or electronic) be sure to include our 40th reunion June 13-15, 2014. Please, please be sure the College has your current contact information; an e-mail address would be particularly helpful to reunion organizers. For those who are concerned about too many messages, it is now possible to limit the e-mails you receive to topics of interest to you. Anyone willing to help plan festivities is encouraged to contact Mark Harty or Bob Barr.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org