Class Note 1973
Issue
May - Jun 2019
Reunion is upon us….
Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on the Hanover Plain June 13-16. If you have not yet registered, do so ASAP! It is going to be a great prep for our 50th in a scant four years, and since the College is celebrating its 250th, there are unique activities and goodies. The class reached 44-percent participation in last year’s Alumni Fund; since it is a reunion year, class officers hope for an increase in that percentage.
Welcome to newly adopted class member Jennifer Arthur, a 1972-73 exchange student.
Leslie Macrae Rood and his architectural partner established Bast & Rood Architects in the Champlain Valley in 1994. They strive to strengthen communities and are active in sustainable construction with a goal of making buildings durable, useful, adaptable, appropriately scaled, and integrated into the community as well as beautiful. Mac helped Lakota Indians on the South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation by teaching a core group how to build with local materials, including mud bricks and logs cut and peeled on site. Rice hulls, normally a waste product, were used as insulation. State-of-the-art windows for solar heating and photovoltaic panels for lighting assist the community, which is completely off the grid and five miles from the nearest road.
The Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association did an extensive interview with Kelvin Chin, which can be found on its website, www.dapaaa.dartmouth.org, by typing in “Kelvin” as the search term. “I definitely did not start and end where I thought.”
The Dartmouth Lawyers Association held its annual continuing legal education and ski program at the Resort at Big Sky in Montana in February. Class participation was light but included John Goheen, Richard Merrill and Thea Fabio, Kathleen and Hilary Miller, and your scribe. Richard is assuming the post of alumni councilor this October, so look for his emails starting in the fall.
As part of the sestercentennial events, there was a re-enactment of the Dartmouth College case in both Washington, D.C., and in Hanover. Kate Stith-Cabranes served on a panel at the convoking event to provide historical context and later set the stage for the Hanover re-argument.
Dartmouth held a festive celebration for the Call to Lead campaign in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only ’73 in attendance, unfortunately, was me. If a similar event occurs near you, make an effort to attend, since it was enjoyable, with an engaging video review of the College’s 250 years; posters with quotations from notable alums; large cut-board replicas of the facades of Dartmouth Hall, Baker Library, Tuck, Thayer, and Geisel; fabric backdrops of the New Hampshire woods; and a two-sided bar designed to evoke memories of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and Skiway. Cofounder and CEO of College Pulse, Terren Klein ’17, reported that the three biggest undergraduate weekends now (in order) are Green Key, Homecoming, and Winter Carnival, with Green Key outstripping Carnival at least threefold! For four seconds of mirth, check out www.pickup.studiozphotobooths.com/2332/nhof83.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on the Hanover Plain June 13-16. If you have not yet registered, do so ASAP! It is going to be a great prep for our 50th in a scant four years, and since the College is celebrating its 250th, there are unique activities and goodies. The class reached 44-percent participation in last year’s Alumni Fund; since it is a reunion year, class officers hope for an increase in that percentage.
Welcome to newly adopted class member Jennifer Arthur, a 1972-73 exchange student.
Leslie Macrae Rood and his architectural partner established Bast & Rood Architects in the Champlain Valley in 1994. They strive to strengthen communities and are active in sustainable construction with a goal of making buildings durable, useful, adaptable, appropriately scaled, and integrated into the community as well as beautiful. Mac helped Lakota Indians on the South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation by teaching a core group how to build with local materials, including mud bricks and logs cut and peeled on site. Rice hulls, normally a waste product, were used as insulation. State-of-the-art windows for solar heating and photovoltaic panels for lighting assist the community, which is completely off the grid and five miles from the nearest road.
The Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association did an extensive interview with Kelvin Chin, which can be found on its website, www.dapaaa.dartmouth.org, by typing in “Kelvin” as the search term. “I definitely did not start and end where I thought.”
The Dartmouth Lawyers Association held its annual continuing legal education and ski program at the Resort at Big Sky in Montana in February. Class participation was light but included John Goheen, Richard Merrill and Thea Fabio, Kathleen and Hilary Miller, and your scribe. Richard is assuming the post of alumni councilor this October, so look for his emails starting in the fall.
As part of the sestercentennial events, there was a re-enactment of the Dartmouth College case in both Washington, D.C., and in Hanover. Kate Stith-Cabranes served on a panel at the convoking event to provide historical context and later set the stage for the Hanover re-argument.
Dartmouth held a festive celebration for the Call to Lead campaign in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only ’73 in attendance, unfortunately, was me. If a similar event occurs near you, make an effort to attend, since it was enjoyable, with an engaging video review of the College’s 250 years; posters with quotations from notable alums; large cut-board replicas of the facades of Dartmouth Hall, Baker Library, Tuck, Thayer, and Geisel; fabric backdrops of the New Hampshire woods; and a two-sided bar designed to evoke memories of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and Skiway. Cofounder and CEO of College Pulse, Terren Klein ’17, reported that the three biggest undergraduate weekends now (in order) are Green Key, Homecoming, and Winter Carnival, with Green Key outstripping Carnival at least threefold! For four seconds of mirth, check out www.pickup.studiozphotobooths.com/2332/nhof83.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu