Congratulations to Scott Blackmun, chief executive of the U.S. Olympic Committee and Sports Business Journal/Daily 2013 Sports Executive of the Year, on a stellar showing by the American contingent at the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The squad finished second in the medal count and included 12 Big Green athletes, the most of any Ivy League school! In keeping with the Olympic spirit, here’s news from several generous ’79 members of the Dartmouth Athletic Sponsor Program, which provides vital support to the College’s athletic teams.


Jim Boldt writes, “I’ve lived and worked in northeast Ohio the past 33 years and look forward to two nice anniversaries in 2014. My wife, Ginger, and I will celebrate our 30th in May with our first-ever visit to Paris. I’ll also be celebrating my 20th year with the Austin Powder Co., where I work as CFO. We manufacture commercial explosives and provide blasting services to the mining, quarrying, construction, and oil and gas industries. Ginger and I have had the pleasure of raising three great kids, all now young adults. Kate ’08 is about to receive a Ph.D. in marine geology and will wed in October. Helen, our middle child, lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin, home to her alma mater. And Jimmy ’15 just finished a fascinating internship with Morgan Stanley in N.Y.C. (thank you Nigel Key, leader, mentor, barkeep!). On the home front we see Steve Terrell and his wife, Sally, regularly and look forward to catching up with Laurie (Laidlaw) Roulston at our 79th-day celebration.”


From the suburbs of Philadelphia comes word from Larry Wolf, now in his 24th year practicing orthopedic surgery: “Life is good. My wife, Barbara (Smith ’79), and I have three boys. Our oldest son, William, is finishing a two-year around-the-world journey. Jordan, our middle son, is a senior at Duke playing on the university’s Division I champion men’s lacrosse team. And Evan, our youngest, will be attending Amherst College in the fall. I continue to be an avid skier and rabid fly fisherman but no longer play tennis, as I did at Dartmouth. I spent a few days skiing with Jim Feuille and his oldest son, Colin, in Utah in January and recently enjoyed catching up with Dave Wilson by phone.”


And from London Jon Zehner reports: “After 28 years at JPMorgan I am now responsible for clients and raising capital on a global basis at LaSalle Investment Management. I feel privileged to have lived in London and Johannesburg for the last 16 years and remain active in various nonprofit causes focused on education. These include the University of Cambridge land economy program and the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg. Most recently I joined Dartmouth’s board of visitors of the Dickey Center for International Understanding. The 32-year-old institution, featuring the ever-popular ‘Great Issues’ lectures modeled on President Dickey’s ‘Great Issues’ course, exists to train tomorrow’s global leaders on complex problems, such as global climate change, world health crises and war and conflict resolution.” 


—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com