Reunion Recap, Part 4: President Rick Routhier, fall 2023 recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award, led Saturday afternoon’s class meeting, a combination of thank-you’s to all involved with class operations during the past five years and a look ahead to the next five; most current leadership team members re-enlisted for their (lifelong?) assignments. Additional regional contacts include John Roberts in Arizona, Richard Guy in Virginia, Geoff Calhoun in Colorado, and Anne Derry Whidden in Maine.

Rod Thompson introduced Dean Daniel Rockmore who spoke on “The Digital Age at Dartmouth.” He noted John Kemeny’s 1972 book, Man and the Computer, was prescient about the role of computers, but Kemeny missed “distribution capacity,” believing the need to be tied to a mainframe. With cell phones, everyone today carries more computing power than in all of Kiewit! The field of artificial intelligence research was founded at a workshop held at the College in summer 1956, commemorated on a plaque outside Dartmouth Hall. Essentially an extended brainstorming session, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project brought together some of the brightest minds in computing and cognitive science.

During a break in omnipresent precipitation, classmates gathered for our reunion photo in front of renovated Dartmouth Hall. Dinner on Baker lawn followed, with more connections and reconnections. Greg Barry has worked for the IRS for more than a decade. His wife, Donna Sorkin, former exchange student and recent adoptee, is executive director for the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Foundation, having herself received an implant as an adult. Bill Jacobs retired three years ago and visited London and Paris in 2023. Still engaged in architecture, Tom Hotaling has worked on many campuses in New England. Harold Kurland retired from practicing law, and it was a pleasure to reconnect with former Bissell suite-mate exchange student Tina Rogers Kurland. Bruce Alexander also ceased practicing law and John Goheen is in the process of winding down his legal career. Kevin O’Shea moved to South Carolina full time in December 2022. After 40 years as a biology professor at Howard University, George Middendorf retired two years ago. Similarly, Steve Bolster retired after 39 years as professor of music at Berea College. Tom Wolfson uses his foreign service and state department experience as an independent government relations professional. Post-reunion, Lee Harris was planning a working session with Pilobolus on a new composition. West Virginia native John Bailey is still on the federal district court in his home state but is no longer chief justice. “On extended sabbatical” is how George Leach describes his status. Warren Heim engages in medical device research and development at his Team Medical company in Boulder, Colorado. Harrison Marks serves as executive director of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. George Bayrd has spent four decades in commercial real estate. Self-described “gadabout and gadfly” Richard Berlin now spends time fishing. Marvin Frankel’s Sentencing Reform Journey: 1970-1978, coauthored by Kate Stith-Cabranes, was published in June 2023. Sophocles Carinos has been with leading wholesale seafood processor and distributor Ipswich [Massachusetts] Shellfish Group for more than a decade.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu