Class Note 1973
Issue
November-December 2020
The year 2020 done and gone!
Never has the world been so happy to see a year end.
The class welcomes adoptee Bobbi Marchello Ritcheske, junior year exchange student and wife of George Ritcheske; both are enjoying Dallas.
Bill Nisen celebrated his sixth year as the associate director of the Institute for Security, Technology and Society at Dartmouth (ISTS), https://ists.dartmouth.edu. For the past five years ISTS has received funding from the National Security Agency to run a series of weeklong cybersecurity education programs for high school students. Not surprisingly, this summer’s program was canceled, but the funding got carried over to summer 2021 and the plan is to bring 50 high school students from around the country to learn about cybersecurity and digital privacy. “My early retirement plans have been thoroughly scuttled.”
Mid-summer Brian Dunn completed a move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Fountain Hills, Arizona, a small town northeast of Scottsdale. “I spent the past three weeks shoehorning a three-bedroom house with garage into a two-bedroom apartment without. It is the culmination of the past 15 months of effort to pack, prepare, and sell my property and then to transition everything to this great location. I have a top fourth-floor apartment with a 180-degree view of the mountains northeast of Scottsdale. It is my intention to use it as a base of operations from which to travel. I purchased a small Airstream trailer last year and intend to head north toward Idaho as soon as I can.”
Five years ago Charlie Gray retired to Hanover after 42 years in California as an engineer and mathematician. Charlie originally moved to Hanover in 1960 since his father was a professor. On a recent perambulation about town, he walked through the cemetery behind Massachusetts Row and found the Kemeny grave “in terrible shape and [it] looks like it is barely maintained while the other presidential sites look in good shape. I think I’m going to revisit with a rake and a brush to clean off the moss, so at least the carving is legible. I remember John from my days as a student programmer in the computer center. He knew me well, since I was the local math prodigy and almost finished the Dartmouth math major while in high school.” Thanks for taking that project on, Charlie.
The 100th anniversary of Dartmouth at Moosilauke was celebrated virtually in late June, noting the gift by the Woodworth brothers of the summit tract and Summit Hotel to the College. Anyone interested in a short photo slideshow blending past and present through old and new photos as well as a brief tour of the current lodge and bunkhouses should view https://dartoutclub.smugmug.com/Lodge/Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke-Centennia….
Sadly, two more classmates succumbed to cancer; Dick Roby in late May and in late June, Lorna Mills Hill. Obituaries are located at dartmouth alumnimagazine.com/obits. In addition to an article in the July 2020 Speaking of Dartmouth, articles about Lorna and her theater company, Ujima, can be found on The Buffalo News website. Celebration of life will be in June 2021.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Never has the world been so happy to see a year end.
The class welcomes adoptee Bobbi Marchello Ritcheske, junior year exchange student and wife of George Ritcheske; both are enjoying Dallas.
Bill Nisen celebrated his sixth year as the associate director of the Institute for Security, Technology and Society at Dartmouth (ISTS), https://ists.dartmouth.edu. For the past five years ISTS has received funding from the National Security Agency to run a series of weeklong cybersecurity education programs for high school students. Not surprisingly, this summer’s program was canceled, but the funding got carried over to summer 2021 and the plan is to bring 50 high school students from around the country to learn about cybersecurity and digital privacy. “My early retirement plans have been thoroughly scuttled.”
Mid-summer Brian Dunn completed a move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Fountain Hills, Arizona, a small town northeast of Scottsdale. “I spent the past three weeks shoehorning a three-bedroom house with garage into a two-bedroom apartment without. It is the culmination of the past 15 months of effort to pack, prepare, and sell my property and then to transition everything to this great location. I have a top fourth-floor apartment with a 180-degree view of the mountains northeast of Scottsdale. It is my intention to use it as a base of operations from which to travel. I purchased a small Airstream trailer last year and intend to head north toward Idaho as soon as I can.”
Five years ago Charlie Gray retired to Hanover after 42 years in California as an engineer and mathematician. Charlie originally moved to Hanover in 1960 since his father was a professor. On a recent perambulation about town, he walked through the cemetery behind Massachusetts Row and found the Kemeny grave “in terrible shape and [it] looks like it is barely maintained while the other presidential sites look in good shape. I think I’m going to revisit with a rake and a brush to clean off the moss, so at least the carving is legible. I remember John from my days as a student programmer in the computer center. He knew me well, since I was the local math prodigy and almost finished the Dartmouth math major while in high school.” Thanks for taking that project on, Charlie.
The 100th anniversary of Dartmouth at Moosilauke was celebrated virtually in late June, noting the gift by the Woodworth brothers of the summit tract and Summit Hotel to the College. Anyone interested in a short photo slideshow blending past and present through old and new photos as well as a brief tour of the current lodge and bunkhouses should view https://dartoutclub.smugmug.com/Lodge/Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke-Centennia….
Sadly, two more classmates succumbed to cancer; Dick Roby in late May and in late June, Lorna Mills Hill. Obituaries are located at dartmouth alumnimagazine.com/obits. In addition to an article in the July 2020 Speaking of Dartmouth, articles about Lorna and her theater company, Ujima, can be found on The Buffalo News website. Celebration of life will be in June 2021.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu