Class Note 1973
I hope the pandemic worst is over!
Last fall Barry Grove had knee replacement surgery, which slowed him down considerably for several months, but he was still able to participate in Tony voting for Broadway shows.
The Dartmouth Lawyers Association gathered in Lake Louise, Canada, this February and there was a strong showing of classmates. Jennifer Parser, who is of counsel with Poyner Spruill in Raleigh, North Carolina, spoke on business immigration issues, while John Goheen, John Harrington, Richard Merrill, Hilary Miller and your scribe took copious notes (not!). There were surprisingly robust month-old remnants of the local winter carnival ice sculptures, including the facade of a medieval castle. (Similar to the one pictured from 1924 in the March/April issue of this magazine.) One participant in the simultaneously occurring Lululemon outdoor classic pond hockey tournament was a young Dartmouth alum on Team USA.
Tyrone Byrd remains busy in the Houston area with the oil and gas business, as well as Dartmouth activities. He is working on the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association’s digital archive project in conjunction with Rauner Library as well as football recruiting and mentoring. Significant time recently has been devoted by TByrd and Bob Norton to the 50th anniversary celebration for the undefeated, untied, nationally ranked 1970 football team, considered the best football team in the College’s history, winning both the Lambert Trophy and Ivy League championship. A three-day celebration (October 2-4) is slated for Homecoming Weekend in conjunction with the Penn game in Hanover. For details, contact byrdtg@sbcglobal.net. The team is planning a memorial for deceased teammates such as Gregg Brown, Bob Henry, Jerry Thompson,and Chuck Thomas. While on the subject of football, I hope everyone caught the March/April feature article “A Fan’s Notes” recounting the 1971 Harvard game and Ted Perry’s winning field goal in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After graduation Chuck Appleby served as a division officer and department head on two nuclear submarines. He then pursued a master’s and Ph.D. in international relations at Johns Hopkins. Fast forward to 2000, when as a leadership and organization development consultant for government, industry and nonprofits, he founded Appleby & Associates in Vienna, Virginia. Chuck also is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington and Georgetown Universities.
The Rev. Robert Bachelder served as a United Church of Christ (UCC) minister for more than 40 years and for 34 years as president of the Worcester Area Mission Society (the successor corporation to Ichabod Washburn’s City Missionary Society) until his 2018 retirement from ordained ministry. In 2015 Bob authored the UCC general synod resolution on responsible stewardship of the outer space environment.
After providing IT manager and director services for a variety of companies, in 2005 David Rier established Data and Computer Resources in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, providing technical and end-user support to small- and medium-size companies, with particular expertise in Microsoft Office, database, and reporting projects.
Sadly, there have been two more classmate deaths. Paul Frangos succumbed in late January to multiple myeloma and Tim Cole suffered a fatal heart attack in February. Obituaries are at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
