Class Note 1973
Issue
September-October 2023
A golden gathering commemorating 50 years out!
For Dan Crowley, John Wood, and your scribe, reunion began with dinner and overnight in a Moosilauke Ravine Lodge (MRL) bunkhouse, followed by Thursday’s hike to the 4,802-foot summit in on-and-off drizzle. Summiteers included Dan, John, Wayne Davis, Mike DeVries and Christine Stokes, Allen Kraus, Richard Merrill, Rick Routhier,and the undersigned. Despite ethereal mist and cold hands, they devoured lunch and descended to join Tracy and Dave Brown, Sarah and Jim Fleischer,Kathleen and Nils Johnson, Janette Talento-Ley and Chris Ley, Kathleen Kroll and Jonathon Low, George Wolohojian, and Allen’s wife, Lynn Parkerson, for MRL’s traditional “fine food.” Jim shared a 1951 bottle of Marques de Poley Amontillado Spanish sherry. “I have been saving this a long time, waiting for the right occasion, as it is the year most of us were born. I found the right occasion!” Dan, Kathleen and Jon, and Lynn and Allen then experienced a bunkhouse night while the rest departed.
Cheers to those attending reunion for the first time: Scott Anderson, Mark Blakeman, Steve Brown, Kelvin Chin, Jeanne Clinton, Walter Curran, Mark Field, Bruce Fredrickson, Doug Goodman, Bill Greenbaum, John Jenkins, John McBratney, Warren Montgomery, Fred Rankin, Tom Sherry, Roger Smith,and Bruce Williams. Reconnections and new connections amid familiar (and not familiar) haunts!
A reunion row failed to materialize—only Hod Fowler, Bob Haynes, and Paul Gross arrived at the boathouse. Golf drew a dozen players: John Grossman,Warren Montgomery, Phil Nelson, and Rick Routhier (first place); “Digger” Donahue, Bob Glovsky, Chet Homer,and Mike Neary (second place); and Connie Hallquist, Dick Gamper, Douglas Goodman, and Patrick Martin. Baker Tower was open for tours Friday morning and the first group up included Sue and Steve Brown, Debbie and Bob Jones, and this writer. There no longer is a logbook to record one’s ascent. Some have taken to scrawling on the rafters and walls; far less permanent. View is decidedly altered, especially down Tuck Mall with the Arthur L. Irving Institute and Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center as well as behind Baker since the demise of Kiewit and the “Shower Towers.”
Lunch with 2023s followed at Collis patio—a chance to mix and mingle with those who we hope will do the same with the class of 2073, when the hill winds are remembering all our names.
Friday afternoon included a panel on the “Letter to Dartmouth College and the Class of 2023,” which provided inspiration for our class project, “The Rise,” and resulted in an interesting, thought-provoking discussion with revelatory tidbits. Charles Box recounted how the first thing he did upon arriving in Hanover was call home collect and ask for himself, a tactic used by others as well. George Nixon commented he arrived at Dartmouth in a three-piece suit after taking his first airplane flight and that prior to starting college he did not know a single white person by name but was determined to succeed (and did).
To be continued….
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
For Dan Crowley, John Wood, and your scribe, reunion began with dinner and overnight in a Moosilauke Ravine Lodge (MRL) bunkhouse, followed by Thursday’s hike to the 4,802-foot summit in on-and-off drizzle. Summiteers included Dan, John, Wayne Davis, Mike DeVries and Christine Stokes, Allen Kraus, Richard Merrill, Rick Routhier,and the undersigned. Despite ethereal mist and cold hands, they devoured lunch and descended to join Tracy and Dave Brown, Sarah and Jim Fleischer,Kathleen and Nils Johnson, Janette Talento-Ley and Chris Ley, Kathleen Kroll and Jonathon Low, George Wolohojian, and Allen’s wife, Lynn Parkerson, for MRL’s traditional “fine food.” Jim shared a 1951 bottle of Marques de Poley Amontillado Spanish sherry. “I have been saving this a long time, waiting for the right occasion, as it is the year most of us were born. I found the right occasion!” Dan, Kathleen and Jon, and Lynn and Allen then experienced a bunkhouse night while the rest departed.
Cheers to those attending reunion for the first time: Scott Anderson, Mark Blakeman, Steve Brown, Kelvin Chin, Jeanne Clinton, Walter Curran, Mark Field, Bruce Fredrickson, Doug Goodman, Bill Greenbaum, John Jenkins, John McBratney, Warren Montgomery, Fred Rankin, Tom Sherry, Roger Smith,and Bruce Williams. Reconnections and new connections amid familiar (and not familiar) haunts!
A reunion row failed to materialize—only Hod Fowler, Bob Haynes, and Paul Gross arrived at the boathouse. Golf drew a dozen players: John Grossman,Warren Montgomery, Phil Nelson, and Rick Routhier (first place); “Digger” Donahue, Bob Glovsky, Chet Homer,and Mike Neary (second place); and Connie Hallquist, Dick Gamper, Douglas Goodman, and Patrick Martin. Baker Tower was open for tours Friday morning and the first group up included Sue and Steve Brown, Debbie and Bob Jones, and this writer. There no longer is a logbook to record one’s ascent. Some have taken to scrawling on the rafters and walls; far less permanent. View is decidedly altered, especially down Tuck Mall with the Arthur L. Irving Institute and Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center as well as behind Baker since the demise of Kiewit and the “Shower Towers.”
Lunch with 2023s followed at Collis patio—a chance to mix and mingle with those who we hope will do the same with the class of 2073, when the hill winds are remembering all our names.
Friday afternoon included a panel on the “Letter to Dartmouth College and the Class of 2023,” which provided inspiration for our class project, “The Rise,” and resulted in an interesting, thought-provoking discussion with revelatory tidbits. Charles Box recounted how the first thing he did upon arriving in Hanover was call home collect and ask for himself, a tactic used by others as well. George Nixon commented he arrived at Dartmouth in a three-piece suit after taking his first airplane flight and that prior to starting college he did not know a single white person by name but was determined to succeed (and did).
To be continued….
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu