Another year slips away.


In June the class of 1972 invited our junior year coeds to join in their reunion. Sue Gordon hosted a women’s reception at her North Balch Road summer home—the one-time residence of Corey Ford, humorist, author, outdoorsman and screenwriter, who left most of his estate, including his house, to the Dartmouth rugby club.


Head agent Rick Routhier is pleased to report that our class broke another Dartmouth College Fund giving record by raising $660,669 and breaking the 39-year-out record set by 1964!


Todd Stern was a featured speaker at the Hopkins Center “Leading Voices” lecture series (inspired by the “Great Issues” course) in August. Begun a year ago, the series is paired with “America and the World: Contemporary Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy,” a class for sophomores. Todd is special envoy for climate change at the State Department and plays a central role in developing international climate policy. He is the president’s chief climate negotiator, representing the United States internationally at the ministerial level in all bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding climate change. He also participates in the development of domestic climate and clean energy policy. Before joining the Obama administration he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a partner at the law firm WilmerHale. Todd has served in a number of governmental roles, including in the White House and Treasury. As staff secretary he played a central role in preparing the key issues of domestic, economic and national security policy; and acting as senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. Previously he was senior counsel to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), an adjunct lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.


In late May there was an article in The Huffington Post’s “New York Impact” on Steve Kessner’s camp at Horizon Farms. Launched in 2010, Horizon Farms is a nonprofit dedicated to providing a unique summer camp experience for New York City youth. Ninth- and tenth-graders facing poverty, gang violence and a dearth of support services get the chance to spend two weeks on a beautiful working farm in Livingston Manor, 100 miles northwest of the city. Generous contributions have provided full camperships to all participants.


Word came that “the other Wayne Davis,” Wayne Morrett Davis, the journalist with a national and international Associated Press career, died on May 16 after a long illness. An obituary can be found online at http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries. 


Sailors in the class of 1968 invite interested alums to join in a Dartmouth flotilla in the British Virgin Islands May 12-21 2013. “You don’t need to be an expert sailor—just enjoy adventure. Easy sailing in the best charter sail territory in the world. This is not a commercial operation, just a great party for Dartmouth friends.” For more information, contact Gerry Hills at stjohncaptain@aol.com.


Season’s greetings!


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