Class Note 1973
Issue
May-June 2023
Time to gather in Hanover! If you have not registered for our 50th reunion in June, do so today!
In January the Manhattan Theater Club (MTC) executive producer, Barry Grove, announced his June 30 retirement, after 48 years of working with artistic director Lynne Meadow, who recounted: “He has sustained MTC with dedication and vision, executing growth, working as a force in creating our reputation for excellence, and fostering integrity in every aspect of our work. In 1973, when I offered him the job of managing director, he turned me down. I’ve never been one to take no for an answer, so I went back and asked him again a year later. From the moment he said yes, he has organized, supervised, led, and inspired. He has led us through our triumphs and our crises and has been by my side for decades as a believer, advisor, and executive. His impact was a gift, making my dream a reality and creating opportunities for hundreds of gifted artists. I am forever grateful to him for the starring role he has played to help place MTC at the forefront of American theater.” Noted Barry: “MTC and the theater world have been my village, my Anatevka, my Grover’s Corners, and my Brigadoon.”
Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education by Bruce Kimball and Sarah Iler was published in early 2023. The book reveals how trends begun 150 years ago have intensified in recent decades and discusses the shifting public perception of higher education and its correlation with rising costs, stagnating wages, and explosive student debt.
Out this month is Abe Allen’s An Unfinished Odyssey on the Appalachian Trail: A Memoir, the saga of a young man’s journey of discovery. Abe knows whereof he writes, having hiked more than 7,000 miles in the Northeast, including the Appalachian Trail, Finger Lakes Trail, Long Path, and Long Trail, as well as summitting the 111 4,000-foot peaks in New England and New York and the hundred highest peaks in New England. Whew!
Roger Bermingham, a geriatrician in Fort Collins, Colorado, is active with a neo-monastic group, the Society of Aidan and Hilda, a dispersed ecumenical body drawing inspiration from the lives of the Celtic saints.
Former swim teammates Bob Jones, Jeff Adam, Steve Quigley, and Tom Beckmann and their wives gathered in Naples, Florida for four days of “reminiscing, sunset dinners, playing pickleball, bocce and other games, swimming, and long walks on the beaches and palm-shrouded walkways” per Bob.
The 2021-22 annual report for the Sponsors Recruiting Fund (formerly Dartmouth Athletic Sponsors) lists 1973 as one of the top 10 classes in number of sponsors. Though not close to 1959’s record 45 sponsors, classmates responsible for the ranking include “Digger” Donahue, Don Fowls, Val Armento, Bob Haynes, Bill Nisen, Sarah Kahn and Rick Routhier, Bruce Stuart, Bruce Douglas, James Hinds, Bill Kellogg, and Fred Riggall.
We belatedly learned of the early 2022 death of Hervey Houser. See www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits for obituary.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
In January the Manhattan Theater Club (MTC) executive producer, Barry Grove, announced his June 30 retirement, after 48 years of working with artistic director Lynne Meadow, who recounted: “He has sustained MTC with dedication and vision, executing growth, working as a force in creating our reputation for excellence, and fostering integrity in every aspect of our work. In 1973, when I offered him the job of managing director, he turned me down. I’ve never been one to take no for an answer, so I went back and asked him again a year later. From the moment he said yes, he has organized, supervised, led, and inspired. He has led us through our triumphs and our crises and has been by my side for decades as a believer, advisor, and executive. His impact was a gift, making my dream a reality and creating opportunities for hundreds of gifted artists. I am forever grateful to him for the starring role he has played to help place MTC at the forefront of American theater.” Noted Barry: “MTC and the theater world have been my village, my Anatevka, my Grover’s Corners, and my Brigadoon.”
Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education by Bruce Kimball and Sarah Iler was published in early 2023. The book reveals how trends begun 150 years ago have intensified in recent decades and discusses the shifting public perception of higher education and its correlation with rising costs, stagnating wages, and explosive student debt.
Out this month is Abe Allen’s An Unfinished Odyssey on the Appalachian Trail: A Memoir, the saga of a young man’s journey of discovery. Abe knows whereof he writes, having hiked more than 7,000 miles in the Northeast, including the Appalachian Trail, Finger Lakes Trail, Long Path, and Long Trail, as well as summitting the 111 4,000-foot peaks in New England and New York and the hundred highest peaks in New England. Whew!
Roger Bermingham, a geriatrician in Fort Collins, Colorado, is active with a neo-monastic group, the Society of Aidan and Hilda, a dispersed ecumenical body drawing inspiration from the lives of the Celtic saints.
Former swim teammates Bob Jones, Jeff Adam, Steve Quigley, and Tom Beckmann and their wives gathered in Naples, Florida for four days of “reminiscing, sunset dinners, playing pickleball, bocce and other games, swimming, and long walks on the beaches and palm-shrouded walkways” per Bob.
The 2021-22 annual report for the Sponsors Recruiting Fund (formerly Dartmouth Athletic Sponsors) lists 1973 as one of the top 10 classes in number of sponsors. Though not close to 1959’s record 45 sponsors, classmates responsible for the ranking include “Digger” Donahue, Don Fowls, Val Armento, Bob Haynes, Bill Nisen, Sarah Kahn and Rick Routhier, Bruce Stuart, Bruce Douglas, James Hinds, Bill Kellogg, and Fred Riggall.
We belatedly learned of the early 2022 death of Hervey Houser. See www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits for obituary.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu