Rich Konsens is an orthopedic surgeonwith extraordinary credibility when he consults patients of our vintage on how to stay in shape. When he captained the Dartmouth track team Rich captured gold in the long jump at the Ivy League Championships. Three decades later, with encouragement from former teammate and current medical practice partner Reggie Tall, Rich began training for Masters competitions. He placed third in the USA Masters Championships, and at the Worlds in Lyon, France, he made the finals and finished 10th overall. Rich and wife Michelle live in Orlando, Florida, with their two teenaged sons.

Rich Ryerson has joined the alumni relations team as director of class activities. He comes back to the College after serving as admissions director for Kimball Union Academy. Do colleagues at Blunt know about Ryer’s two goals at the end of the 6-4 victory over Clarkson that earned the Big Green a trip to the 1980 Frozen Four?

Big Green sports appear on many a classmates’ list of reasons for loving Dartmouth. Will Hale responded to my Facebook post on the topic with a link to an interview with Buddy Teevens ’79. After witnessing the last-minute victory over Princeton that clinched the Ivy title, Greg Henry posed for a smiles-a-mile-wide photo with the coach and several other teammates from the 1978 championship team. A larger contingent of ’80s, including Cathy McGrath, Jay Weed, Kevin Boyle and Marc Lewis among many others, saw the Homecoming shellacking of Yale. If you are thinking about next fall’s Homecoming weekend already, we play Harvard on October 29.

How many of these appear on your list of reasons for loving Dartmouth: WDCR-WFRD, The D, the Outing Club, the Aires and Woodwinds, the Hop, Thayer, the mid-Mass stoop, the river, Moosilauke, language study abroad and foreign study programs, the Reserve Room, the Green, Main Street, Thompson, the largest Ivy League marching band north of Boston, ice sculptures, Spaulding, the Bema, Professor Rassias, Professor Slesnick, President Kemeny, the Baker bells, the class tent, roommates?

“Being around such high-quality people” is how Mark Webb eloquently summed up what many of us love so much about Dartmouth. Every reunion Mark, Brian Boyer and I pose for a 304 Mass roommate photo. I posted the most recent one on the class Facebook page.

We now have 172 Facebook ’80 members. Check out Mark Winkler’s terrific photo of Charlie Moore, Laura Murphy Moore, Scott Herman and David Hogan from the mini-reunion he hosted. You also will find announcements of class events and Dartmouth news and sports. The potential, however, is far greater. Please post both current and throwback photos, especially of roommates. Consider how many “likes” you will fetch with a shot of, say, Jon Snider and Bruce Collins from 310 South Mass or Marty Peterson and Caroline Coggeshall from 406 Mid-Mass. Carla Buckman Lipe and Page Polk Lipe could post both current photos with their husbands and brothers-in-law as well as classic photos from when they roomed together in 207 New Hamp with Tasha Taylor Garnett. Please join and post today!

—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 835-7722; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Wade Herring, 1 Verdell Drive, Savannah, GA 31406; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com