Bill Ryan ’70 wrote with news about his brother Charley Ryan.Charley and business partner Peter Shapiro opened Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn, New York, in 2009. Brooklyn Bowl is the successful combination of a 16-lane bowling alley, a 600-person performance venue with live music seven nights a week, an expansive bar with nine high-definition projection screens featuring popular sporting events and a kitchen operated by Blue Ribbon, a restaurant group known and appreciated by New Yorkers. The 2010 Zagat Survey ranked Brooklyn Bowl as New York City’s top music club and top bowling alley and Brooklyn’s top entertainment venue. Bill noted that the Clintons held their annual foundation event at Brooklyn Bowl in 2011 and Mayor Bloomberg had his staff party there.


Dick Spellman is a member of the committee to raise funds for, design and build the class of 1974 Moosilauke bunkhouse, our 40th reunion class project. In a recent e-mail exchange Dick explained that his support for the project is the product of his lifelong interest in the Ravine Lodge and Mount Moosilauke and his desire to see our class leave a memorable, meaningful and useful legacy to future Dartmouth classes. At Dartmouth Dick was an avid skier and DOC member. After graduation he returned to Maine, where he worked for Central Maine Power Co., earned a master’s in business and met his wife, Janis. They moved to Georgia in 1993, when Dick took a senior consulting position with GDS Associates, an engineering and management consulting firm that works on energy planning issues across North America. Dick became president of GDS in 2007 and specializes in strategic planning for electric and gas utilities and government agencies, focusing on the design, implementation and evaluation of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Away from work Dick and Janis enjoy nature from their cabin in the mountains of north Georgia and are active in outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking, sailing and canoeing. They have two daughters: Ashley, a second-year student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and Paige, a senior at Lee University in Tennessee. Dick and Janis are currently busy helping Paige plan her wedding for July 2012. Dick stays in touch with several classmates who were fellow members of Psi Upsilon, including Duncan Todd and his wife, Sarah Carothers; Jeff Scott and his wife, Anita; Don Bourassa ’73 and his wife, Eileen; and Denise Bettes, widow of Rick Bettes. The group has met for more than 25 years at Duncan and Sarah’s cottage in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for long weekends of surf, sand and fine dining.


As always, be safe and send news.


—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com