Daniel Ernst has just published Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940. Daniel has been a professor at Georgetown Law since 1988. He teaches courses on legal history, including a seminar on the New Deal and the law.


Alumni Council representative Dan Zenkel recently provided an uplifting report on the state of the College. Dan took a bold approach to check current campus events: meeting with undergrads. Zenks contacted children of classmates, and next you know, Holly Raths Hart emailed a photo of Zenks linking arms with Holly’s daughter Annie ’14 and sons and daughters of Ben Zuraw (Lane ’14), Wade Herring (Kathleen ’14), Brian Boyer (Reed ’15) and Peter Boone (Christopher ’17). Without explaining why they gathered on the Hanover Inn porch rather than the Mid-Mass stoop, Zenks added that Bill Helman joined in for a lively and positive discussion of the issues du jour. Zenks also met the daughters of Joan Draper (Victoria Townsend ’14), Jim Wilson (Holly ’15 and Molly ’13) and Sean Wilson (Paige ’14). Zenks was more than impressed with these students and their love of the College. Regrettably, Bill insisted on editing Dan’s recollections, so the students were not quite as impressed with our late-1970s Mid-Mass legends. I will set the record straight on one matter: BurgerFest was not more popular than Woodstock, but it was Zenks’ idea and it exemplified how student-led social initiatives succeed.


Mark your calendars now: Our 35th reunion will take place the weekend of June 19, 2015. The ’79s and ’81s will be joining us. We will set an attendance record. If you want to help, please contact Cathy McGrath.


Chitown ’80s started the party early with a mini-reunion hosted by Todd Young. Andrea and Tom Ware traveled from Racine, Wisconsin, to join Todd and husband John Dally, Ed and Carla Sloan, Gretchen and Brian Boyer, Tara and Peter Lubin, Tom Maver, Andy Watson, Laura Zimmerman, Mike Carothers and Lenny Robinson. Lenny, who managed a premed course load while wearing No. 37 for the Big Green football team, continues to practice internal medicine in Matteson, Illinois. Todd continues to practice corporate and transactions law for Hinshaw & Culbertson. Rapidly approaching his 50-career-triathlons goal, Todd trained for his 45th Olympic-distance triathlon this summer; it would not surprise me if it turns out that Todd is actually just past halfway to 80 “tris.” Lenny and Todd are both in for the 35th.


Unfortunately, the class tent will miss the smiling face of Beth Ulrich Potter, who died in a snorkeling accident in the British Virgin Islands this past spring. At reunion we will salute Liz’s art, photography and fearlessly independent spirit, as well as all the many contributions to our Dartmouth family of our other fallen brothers and sisters. An underrated aspect of reunion is the celebration of the lives of those classmates whose records are now etched in the granite of New Hampshire.


Life is short and precious; book your tickets to Hanover now.


—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com