Class Note 1973

Another year ends.

Tyrone Byrd transitioned from Dartmouth to semi-pro football and a very brief stint with the NFL. After graduation T-Byrd worked as a Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. claims adjuster while honing his skills with the New England Colonials of the Atlantic Coast Football League. A free agent with the Green Bay Packers, he got waived after a career-ending eye injury during the second regular season game. T-Byrd earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in accounting, finance and marketing, then returned home to Texas and greater Houston and the “awl bidness.” Career highlights include corporate banking with Texas Commerce Bank and Citibank, senior finance executive with Texaco and chief financial officer and partner of an independent oil producer. Tyrone married Vickie Bridges of New Orleans; they have three children. He served six years on the Alumni Council and chaired its board of trustees nominating committee and athletic committee. He has been a class agent, alumni interviewer, student mentor and football recruiter. Now T-Byrd is a semi-retired energy industry consultant.

In Seattle, Hod Fowler has retired from H.D. Fowler Corp., which its website notes is the oldest and largest independent, family-owned distributor of waterworks, irrigation, pumps and wastewater treatment equipment in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest in America. He has successfully managed one of the most difficult challenges in a family business: handing over stewardship to his son and daughter. He and Steff travel often.

Sandy Goldstein retired recently from his post as head of San Francisco Kaiser’s dermatology division. A past president of his local synagogue, Sandy and his wife, Kathy Rabin, both do a lot of traveling.

This August Mike DeVries ended a lengthy run with the cast of Wicked. A long-standing member of the Broadway cast playing multiple roles, for the last year and a half he’s been with the nationwide touring company. He and Chris have sold their N.Y.C. apartment and are considering moving to Seattle, where Mike and Chris originally met.

Reed Moran teaches screenwriting at California State University, Long Beach, and is the author of the new textbook, Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart. A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, where he was editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law, the former Washington, D.C., litigator relocated to Los Angeles as a staff writer on a top 10 network drama. He sold several drama pilots, features, TV movie scripts and animation, as well as episodes for iconic series such as Simon & Simon, Star Trek Next Generation, Swamp Thing, Renegade, MacGyver and Baywatch. He wrote for the critically acclaimed A&E network drama series Hollywood Detective, for which he received a CableACE Award nomination for best writing on a dramatic series. Reed has been honored by a number of national screenwriting competitions for his original work.

Sadly, physician Tom Wilson died of cardiac arrest at his home in Roland Park, Maryland, in June. His obituary can be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu