Class Note 1973
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
The curtain falls on 2018.
David Barkey, Findlay High School alum, returned to Ohio to teach high school history at his alma mater. Immediately post-college, utilizing his German fluency, he traveled through much of Europe. His youthful escapades, including a stint as a garbage man, enable him to engage and enthrall his students; a few years ago they dubbed him “The Most Interesting Man at Findlay High School.” Students describe David as a man of wisdom and inspiration, with a deep and rich connection to history and on-point puns.
Gym Source, headquartered in New York City, is America’s largest distributor of fitness equipment. An undisputed leader in fitness expertise, it has built more gyms for more people and entities (including Dartmouth) than any other company in the world. None other than Bill Kemnitzer is vice president of sales.
Mark D’Andrea has been employed in the biotech-pharmaceutical industries for more than 30 years and for almost a decade as an independent consultant providing expert chemistry manufacturing and controls guidance and project management for the development of biotherapeutic and small molecule drug products. He also has been an instructor in the extension program at the University of California, San Diego. In his spare time Mark enjoys softball at an athletic club in Carlsbad, California.
Hard at work at Howard University is biology professor George Middendorf, a member of numerous scientific societies. His research focuses on reptilian and amphibian biology with emphases on behavior, ecology, evolution, and host-parasite interactions. His research has taken him from Bolivia to Arizona and Suriname. George has also been involved in examining environmental justice issues in urban areas, implementing the environmental justice section of the Ecological Society of America, and developing interdisciplinary and environmental studies programs at Howard.
Are classmates aware that Allin Tallmadge is a celebrated cheesemonger? He left computer consulting in 2006 and joined the American Cheese Society in 2007; now he possesses its certified cheese professional (CCP) designation. CCPs are an elite group of fewer than 1,000 individuals who have passed an exam demonstrating a high standard of comprehensive cheese knowledge and skills. A designated cheese educator, Allin has been in the Atlanta area since 2011 and holds cheese tastings and seminars. He likes to snack on alpine cheeses and doesn’t care if the cheese is French, Italian, Swiss, German, or Austrian. He likes to cook with cheddars and hard northern Italian cheeses; for family gatherings, he likes soft and stinky cheeses. “Cheeses in Europe are regional enterprises that drive the economies of those areas. In the United States trade organizations are formed to advance a region’s economic interest. Cheddar is a type of cheese, but Vermont cheddar is different from Wisconsin cheddar, which is different from California cheddar.”
Belatedly, word was received that recently adopted classmate and Mount Holyoke graduate Carol Spodobalski died unexpectedly of complications from cancer surgery and that Joseph Holmes succumbed after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Our condolences to both their families. Obituaries may be found in the online edition of this magazine at dartmouthalumnimagazine. com.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
David Barkey, Findlay High School alum, returned to Ohio to teach high school history at his alma mater. Immediately post-college, utilizing his German fluency, he traveled through much of Europe. His youthful escapades, including a stint as a garbage man, enable him to engage and enthrall his students; a few years ago they dubbed him “The Most Interesting Man at Findlay High School.” Students describe David as a man of wisdom and inspiration, with a deep and rich connection to history and on-point puns.
Gym Source, headquartered in New York City, is America’s largest distributor of fitness equipment. An undisputed leader in fitness expertise, it has built more gyms for more people and entities (including Dartmouth) than any other company in the world. None other than Bill Kemnitzer is vice president of sales.
Mark D’Andrea has been employed in the biotech-pharmaceutical industries for more than 30 years and for almost a decade as an independent consultant providing expert chemistry manufacturing and controls guidance and project management for the development of biotherapeutic and small molecule drug products. He also has been an instructor in the extension program at the University of California, San Diego. In his spare time Mark enjoys softball at an athletic club in Carlsbad, California.
Hard at work at Howard University is biology professor George Middendorf, a member of numerous scientific societies. His research focuses on reptilian and amphibian biology with emphases on behavior, ecology, evolution, and host-parasite interactions. His research has taken him from Bolivia to Arizona and Suriname. George has also been involved in examining environmental justice issues in urban areas, implementing the environmental justice section of the Ecological Society of America, and developing interdisciplinary and environmental studies programs at Howard.
Are classmates aware that Allin Tallmadge is a celebrated cheesemonger? He left computer consulting in 2006 and joined the American Cheese Society in 2007; now he possesses its certified cheese professional (CCP) designation. CCPs are an elite group of fewer than 1,000 individuals who have passed an exam demonstrating a high standard of comprehensive cheese knowledge and skills. A designated cheese educator, Allin has been in the Atlanta area since 2011 and holds cheese tastings and seminars. He likes to snack on alpine cheeses and doesn’t care if the cheese is French, Italian, Swiss, German, or Austrian. He likes to cook with cheddars and hard northern Italian cheeses; for family gatherings, he likes soft and stinky cheeses. “Cheeses in Europe are regional enterprises that drive the economies of those areas. In the United States trade organizations are formed to advance a region’s economic interest. Cheddar is a type of cheese, but Vermont cheddar is different from Wisconsin cheddar, which is different from California cheddar.”
Belatedly, word was received that recently adopted classmate and Mount Holyoke graduate Carol Spodobalski died unexpectedly of complications from cancer surgery and that Joseph Holmes succumbed after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Our condolences to both their families. Obituaries may be found in the online edition of this magazine at dartmouthalumnimagazine. com.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu