Class Note 1980
When Dartmouth’s history is next written, the class of 1980 will have a long entry. The latest chapter features Bruce Duthu, new dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. During his four-year term Bruce will oversee 41 departments and programs and some 450 faculty. Bruce vows to be a fierce advocate for the faculty, creating huge opportunities across the curriculum for faculty to become more engaged with each other and students. I have a vision of herding cats, albeit some very smart and talented cats. [Bruce later declined the appointment.]
The history of Dartmouth basketball includes Larry Lawrence. Nineteenth on the Big Green’s all-time scoring list with 1,122 points, Larry was twice named Dartmouth’s most valuable player. In his final year in Hanover Larry became the first of just two Dartmouth players to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year, averaging 21.8 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Larry went on to play in the U.S. Basketball League and the Continental Basketball Association. Larry retired from basketball in 2000. He lives in New York City, where he is the managing director and head of credit sales for the Americas for Societe Generale. As an aside, Larry is from Macon, Georgia, where he was high school classmates with the girl who would one day become my wife.
The history of the College includes Alpha Delta, established in the 1840s and located since 1920 in the house that we all knew across from the gym. That house now sits empty and boarded. This March AD lost its fight in the N.H. Supreme Court with the Town of Hanover. Both town and College had agreed that students could no longer live in the house. The College revoked AD’s recognition in 2015.
Chris Miller ’63, an AD alum, shares credit for the Animal House screenplay. That’s still a funny movie, I don’t care who you are. Miller’s later book, The Real Animal House, is laugh-out-loud funny, although if you voted for the losing presidential candidate last November, you will feel guilty about laughing. You can read more about AD in the September 1992 edition of Rolling Stone. AD’s decline and fall was a long-time coming. Branding 11 new pledges on the buttocks in late 2014 sealed the deal.
Still, when I remember AD I recall great parties and great friends, friends such as Steve Brooks, now CIO at ITT Industrial Process in Seneca Falls, New York; John Coco, an ophthalmologist in Rutland, Vermont; Jose Samson, an anesthesiologist, also in Rutland; Al Noyes, president at Walch Education in Portland, Maine; Mike Perella, a banker in Manchester, New Hampshire; Bill Goodspeed, former executive, purported author and humorist, drifting between Maine and Michigan; Steve Rutan, president of his consulting firm in Rochester, New York; Scott Zashin, a noted rheumatologist in Dallas; Roman Lipp, managing director at HSBC Global Banking and Markets in Chicago; the late Parker Small.
The list goes on, but these good men were frat boys once and young. No moral, just fact.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 242 River Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@gmail.com
