Class Note 1978
Issue
May-June 2021
My one-time WDCR colleague Peter Hirshberg has gone back into broadcasting, in a manner of speaking. The pandemic inspired him to launch a new video live cast: Quarantime. “When the lockdown started, it was really lonely. Ideas felt locked down. Yet at the same time, there was a burst of innovation.” He and a friend decided to seize the moment. “We thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to have an excuse to talk to the most interesting people in the world once or twice a week about innovation that was going on under the surface. That’s why I created this thing.”
As of this writing, Quarantime is nearly 70 episodes in and going strong. Peter has drawn on his experience as an Apple executive, a tech consultant, and founder of the Maker City Project to bring in a dazzling array of movers and shakers as guests. The show continues to evolve as they look to innovation in our post-pandemic future. The title will change to Endless Frontier, a phrase coined by F.D.R. science advisor Vannevar Bush in 1945. “Imagine today with synthetic biology, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. When you bring those together, you have the stuff out of which you can build a world that can grow sustainably.” I spoke to Peter in a video interview that is on the class of ’78 Facebook page—the first of what I hope will be many “D78 Conversations.” And you can check out his live cast at https://quarantime.today.
Speaking of WDCR, Jim Ancona, Barbara Moses, and I recently joined 50 other alums in a Dartmouth Broadcasting virtual gathering. We got to hear from the current student staff about how they carry on the tradition! I was particularly struck by an observation of Ginger Link ’24. As a first-year at Dartmouth during Covid, she said that Robinson Hall, home of the radio station, is one of only three or four buildings on the campus she has ever been inside of! I can’t imagine what the student experience has been like the last year—am hoping it will be on the upswing by the time you read this.
Sharon Lee Cowan checked in from Rome to say that she contributed a chapter to a new textbook on international marketing. Her daughter, Masha, is now in the final months of her international baccalaureate diploma program, looking forward to college in Switzerland or Austria to study luxury hotel management. “I carry on with my running, walking, studying Hungarian, filling in gaps in my reading of history and literature, and worrying about applied post-modernism.” We all have to worry about something
Jeff Krolik has retired from Fox Sports and is keeping busy with consulting work and family activities. “My wife, Christine, was just re-elected to our city council, so I’m once again the first gentleman. Jeff Crowe and Bob Shuman once saw me loping alongside my wife as she waved to the crowd from the back of a convertible during the Memorial Day Parade and their comments were…unkind.
Be kind—send news!
—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com
As of this writing, Quarantime is nearly 70 episodes in and going strong. Peter has drawn on his experience as an Apple executive, a tech consultant, and founder of the Maker City Project to bring in a dazzling array of movers and shakers as guests. The show continues to evolve as they look to innovation in our post-pandemic future. The title will change to Endless Frontier, a phrase coined by F.D.R. science advisor Vannevar Bush in 1945. “Imagine today with synthetic biology, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. When you bring those together, you have the stuff out of which you can build a world that can grow sustainably.” I spoke to Peter in a video interview that is on the class of ’78 Facebook page—the first of what I hope will be many “D78 Conversations.” And you can check out his live cast at https://quarantime.today.
Speaking of WDCR, Jim Ancona, Barbara Moses, and I recently joined 50 other alums in a Dartmouth Broadcasting virtual gathering. We got to hear from the current student staff about how they carry on the tradition! I was particularly struck by an observation of Ginger Link ’24. As a first-year at Dartmouth during Covid, she said that Robinson Hall, home of the radio station, is one of only three or four buildings on the campus she has ever been inside of! I can’t imagine what the student experience has been like the last year—am hoping it will be on the upswing by the time you read this.
Sharon Lee Cowan checked in from Rome to say that she contributed a chapter to a new textbook on international marketing. Her daughter, Masha, is now in the final months of her international baccalaureate diploma program, looking forward to college in Switzerland or Austria to study luxury hotel management. “I carry on with my running, walking, studying Hungarian, filling in gaps in my reading of history and literature, and worrying about applied post-modernism.” We all have to worry about something
Jeff Krolik has retired from Fox Sports and is keeping busy with consulting work and family activities. “My wife, Christine, was just re-elected to our city council, so I’m once again the first gentleman. Jeff Crowe and Bob Shuman once saw me loping alongside my wife as she waved to the crowd from the back of a convertible during the Memorial Day Parade and their comments were…unkind.
Be kind—send news!
—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com