Class Note 1973
Issue
July-August 2021
Pandemic is easing up.
Since shortly after the spring 2020 pandemic shutdown, a decades-spanning group of DOC chubbers has been reading DOC-related tomes to while away Monday eves. Last year they made it through Reaching that Peak: 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club by David Hooke ’84 (more than 400 pages) and Language of the Forest by C. Ross McKenney (a mere 200 pages). Recently, they turned to The Moosilauke Reader, Vol. 1 by Bob Averill ’72, which commences with MaryAnn Love Malinconico’s 13-page essay, “Geology of Mt. Moosilauke and Environs.” MaryAnn obtained a master’s in geology from Dartmouth and a doctorate from Columbia; she is a research associate at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where her husband, Larry Malinconico ’74, is a rocks professor. They married in Oslo, Norway, in 1974, when MaryAnn was a foreign service diplomat; both joined the group for that evening and subsequent readings.
Sandra Cohen has been hunkered down in Silver Spring, Maryland, lo these many months. “My family and I are well. We’re zooming a lot, like everyone else, getting a little tired of it, and trying not to complain because we have it so much better than many. Fortunately, we had a beautiful spring and a nice long autumn, so were able to spend a lot of time outside, frequently taking walks on the C&O Canal towpath along the Potomac, only 10 minutes from our house, and enjoying our garden. An appreciation for being outdoors is a treasured and lasting gift that Dartmouth gave to me.”
Master of a unique combination, Jeff Miller is a practicing attorney working primarily in the areas of business law, employment matters, and alternative dispute resolution as well as a practicing psychologist, working with teenage and young adult males and high-functioning Silicon Valley professionals. “Many of my teenage patients are facing a combination of family, school, and social issues. My adult patients are often seeking assistance with personal and family issues, struggles in the workplace, and deeper issues relating to meaning, purpose, and spiritual direction.”
In January Steve Herzfeld (now Maharishi Ashram Gajoli), who left the College during first term sophomore year, provided an update: “I arrived in Hanover thinking I would do government major and then try law school. Winter term I took classes with artist in residence jazz composer-trumpeter Don Cherry. I decided I wanted to play music, dropped out, played music, came up short on both talent and dedication to a very demanding lifestyle. Eventually, I took a degree in human development at the State University of New York, learned transcendental meditation (TM), met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, trained under him, and became a TM teacher. I obtained an M.B.A. to better handle administrative work and taught TM and various other duties on every continent except South America. The pay was minimalist, but don’t underestimate the joy of being in an organization where nobody is in it for the money. Eventually, I retired and moved to India near the Tibetan border, where I am registered with the government as a student of vedic science.”
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Since shortly after the spring 2020 pandemic shutdown, a decades-spanning group of DOC chubbers has been reading DOC-related tomes to while away Monday eves. Last year they made it through Reaching that Peak: 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club by David Hooke ’84 (more than 400 pages) and Language of the Forest by C. Ross McKenney (a mere 200 pages). Recently, they turned to The Moosilauke Reader, Vol. 1 by Bob Averill ’72, which commences with MaryAnn Love Malinconico’s 13-page essay, “Geology of Mt. Moosilauke and Environs.” MaryAnn obtained a master’s in geology from Dartmouth and a doctorate from Columbia; she is a research associate at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where her husband, Larry Malinconico ’74, is a rocks professor. They married in Oslo, Norway, in 1974, when MaryAnn was a foreign service diplomat; both joined the group for that evening and subsequent readings.
Sandra Cohen has been hunkered down in Silver Spring, Maryland, lo these many months. “My family and I are well. We’re zooming a lot, like everyone else, getting a little tired of it, and trying not to complain because we have it so much better than many. Fortunately, we had a beautiful spring and a nice long autumn, so were able to spend a lot of time outside, frequently taking walks on the C&O Canal towpath along the Potomac, only 10 minutes from our house, and enjoying our garden. An appreciation for being outdoors is a treasured and lasting gift that Dartmouth gave to me.”
Master of a unique combination, Jeff Miller is a practicing attorney working primarily in the areas of business law, employment matters, and alternative dispute resolution as well as a practicing psychologist, working with teenage and young adult males and high-functioning Silicon Valley professionals. “Many of my teenage patients are facing a combination of family, school, and social issues. My adult patients are often seeking assistance with personal and family issues, struggles in the workplace, and deeper issues relating to meaning, purpose, and spiritual direction.”
In January Steve Herzfeld (now Maharishi Ashram Gajoli), who left the College during first term sophomore year, provided an update: “I arrived in Hanover thinking I would do government major and then try law school. Winter term I took classes with artist in residence jazz composer-trumpeter Don Cherry. I decided I wanted to play music, dropped out, played music, came up short on both talent and dedication to a very demanding lifestyle. Eventually, I took a degree in human development at the State University of New York, learned transcendental meditation (TM), met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, trained under him, and became a TM teacher. I obtained an M.B.A. to better handle administrative work and taught TM and various other duties on every continent except South America. The pay was minimalist, but don’t underestimate the joy of being in an organization where nobody is in it for the money. Eventually, I retired and moved to India near the Tibetan border, where I am registered with the government as a student of vedic science.”
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu