Class Note 1973
Issue
January-February 2022
The year 2022: Not through the pandemic but better!
Dale Garrett wrote, “I thought I’d finally submit an update! I recently retired from teaching high school language arts and world history and have immersed myself in writing my first thriller, The Peace Road. The novel draws on my eight years of experience living and teaching in South Korea and East Asia. As I contemplated plot and character development in my study, my wife, a New Mexico state legislator, has been conducting legislative business in the kitchen on Zoom. I have been amazed and delighted by the energy that my wife and I have generated by helping each other in our respective careers. Go, Big Green.”
Steve Toll reflects, “The pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench in everyone’s lives for the past two years. It certainly did for me, derailing my photography and show business. I’ve been hunkered down in my burrow, and even after getting my shots, I’ve been slow to get out of it. My job as executive director of Silicon Valley Visual Arts, the presenter of Silicon Valley Open Studios, has been both rewarding and difficult. The pandemic has been a big challenge for arts organizations, but I’ve enjoyed helping ours move into the virtual world and adapt to our changing environment. It has also given me little time for my own photography. Fires also curtailed my normal expeditions in the western United States. I’ve become keenly appreciative of the power of nature both to stir and to soothe us while I’ve been cooped up waiting for the smoke to clear. I find myself wondering when I’ll ever get to go camping and exploring with my kids and grandkids and how I’ll get to pass along my experiences and values of the natural world.”
Studies on warming winters and reduced snow cover are being conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, where they have clear, detailed long-term records of what air temperature and snow dynamics have done to trees across decades. Winter temperatures have warmed about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1950s, there are about 20 fewer days per year when snow covers the ground, and roughly 10 inches less snow annually.
The class extends condolences to Warren Montgomery on the death of Carla Westlund Montgomery, an exchange student from Wellesley who obtained her master’s in geology from Dartmouth and a doctorate from MIT. Carla received many awards for academic accomplishments and contributions to Northern Illinois University, including for excellence in teaching, for service to the university, and as an outstanding faculty member. A generous supporter of the arts, human services, animal welfare, medicine, and the environment, Carla was honored for her philanthropy. Her textbook, Environmental Geology, is in its 12th edition.
We’ve lost Weymoth Crowell, John Burns, and Jonathan Woods. T.W. succumbed to cardiac arrest in July, John died of natural causes in August, and Jon died from heart complications in September. Obituaries are at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Dale Garrett wrote, “I thought I’d finally submit an update! I recently retired from teaching high school language arts and world history and have immersed myself in writing my first thriller, The Peace Road. The novel draws on my eight years of experience living and teaching in South Korea and East Asia. As I contemplated plot and character development in my study, my wife, a New Mexico state legislator, has been conducting legislative business in the kitchen on Zoom. I have been amazed and delighted by the energy that my wife and I have generated by helping each other in our respective careers. Go, Big Green.”
Steve Toll reflects, “The pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench in everyone’s lives for the past two years. It certainly did for me, derailing my photography and show business. I’ve been hunkered down in my burrow, and even after getting my shots, I’ve been slow to get out of it. My job as executive director of Silicon Valley Visual Arts, the presenter of Silicon Valley Open Studios, has been both rewarding and difficult. The pandemic has been a big challenge for arts organizations, but I’ve enjoyed helping ours move into the virtual world and adapt to our changing environment. It has also given me little time for my own photography. Fires also curtailed my normal expeditions in the western United States. I’ve become keenly appreciative of the power of nature both to stir and to soothe us while I’ve been cooped up waiting for the smoke to clear. I find myself wondering when I’ll ever get to go camping and exploring with my kids and grandkids and how I’ll get to pass along my experiences and values of the natural world.”
Studies on warming winters and reduced snow cover are being conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, where they have clear, detailed long-term records of what air temperature and snow dynamics have done to trees across decades. Winter temperatures have warmed about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1950s, there are about 20 fewer days per year when snow covers the ground, and roughly 10 inches less snow annually.
The class extends condolences to Warren Montgomery on the death of Carla Westlund Montgomery, an exchange student from Wellesley who obtained her master’s in geology from Dartmouth and a doctorate from MIT. Carla received many awards for academic accomplishments and contributions to Northern Illinois University, including for excellence in teaching, for service to the university, and as an outstanding faculty member. A generous supporter of the arts, human services, animal welfare, medicine, and the environment, Carla was honored for her philanthropy. Her textbook, Environmental Geology, is in its 12th edition.
We’ve lost Weymoth Crowell, John Burns, and Jonathan Woods. T.W. succumbed to cardiac arrest in July, John died of natural causes in August, and Jon died from heart complications in September. Obituaries are at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu