Class Note 1985
Issue
Mar - Apr 2018
Happy March-April everyone! Say these two words and smile: spring break! Remember the sunscreen!
Watching sports on TV has certainly changed over the years, with programming often focused on many of our greatest two-sport heroes. Who can forget Bo Jackson (does Bo know beer pong?) and Deion “Prime Time” Sanders, still the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and World Series. Though some may include Michael in that group, despite his marginal baseball career, I think it’s time to pay homage to perhaps the greatest two-sport Jordan of our time, our own Glenn Jordan! Thanks to Glenn for sharing some much needed and very impressive updates.
Seems Glenn’s intramural success in Hanover as part of the Richardson Rapiers uniquely prepared him for dual success in the fields of checkers and pickleball, a likely unprecedented double. In November in Hartford, Connecticut, Glenn and his partner successfully defended their Atlantic Regional Men’s 50-plus doubles pickleball title in the 4.5 bracket. Emerging from Pool 2 and surviving five match points before winning their second game 21-20, Glenn beat a team from the 35-plus age group in the finals, making a statement for us baby boomers. Last year in Portland, Oregon, they won the 4.0 bracket. Can anyone (besides Pat Riley) say three-peat? As for checkers, here’s what happened in June: pressherald.com/2017/07/01/a-checkered-legacy.
Aside from pursuing sporting glory, Glenn has been a sports writer at the Press Herald for 23 years and worked at the Hartford Courant, Concord (N.H.) Monitor and Claremont (N.H.) Eagle Times previously. His youngest kids (twin boys) are at Midwest colleges, one playing right guard for the Grinnell (Iowa) Pioneers and the other a student manager for the Northwestern football team. His daughter, an MIT junior, plays intramural ice hockey, took pickleball for PE (at her dad’s behest) and squeezes in a little math on the side. As Gatorade should have said, be like Glenn!
Cool news arrived from the College about classmate Chris Hunt, who was in the media recently when he helped quadruplets who wrote in their college essays they wanted to go to the same college (accepted numerous places, they decided on Yale). Chris is now writing a book about the Wade quadruplets and their family and has been featured in stories appearing in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News and The Today Show. Chris previously worked at such publications as The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. Chris also works pro bonoon college essays for Access Opportunity, which helps low-income, high-potential students in the greater Denver area and was founded by Susie Hayes ’88. His career change began when another Dartmouth alum, Mimi Ward, asked him to help her son, who was applying to the Dartmouth class of ’20. He got in early decision, told his friends about Chris and things kind of took off. Chris has a website, CollegeEssayMentor.com. Well done, Chris! Any interest in helping write this column?
—John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com; Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Greenwich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com
Watching sports on TV has certainly changed over the years, with programming often focused on many of our greatest two-sport heroes. Who can forget Bo Jackson (does Bo know beer pong?) and Deion “Prime Time” Sanders, still the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and World Series. Though some may include Michael in that group, despite his marginal baseball career, I think it’s time to pay homage to perhaps the greatest two-sport Jordan of our time, our own Glenn Jordan! Thanks to Glenn for sharing some much needed and very impressive updates.
Seems Glenn’s intramural success in Hanover as part of the Richardson Rapiers uniquely prepared him for dual success in the fields of checkers and pickleball, a likely unprecedented double. In November in Hartford, Connecticut, Glenn and his partner successfully defended their Atlantic Regional Men’s 50-plus doubles pickleball title in the 4.5 bracket. Emerging from Pool 2 and surviving five match points before winning their second game 21-20, Glenn beat a team from the 35-plus age group in the finals, making a statement for us baby boomers. Last year in Portland, Oregon, they won the 4.0 bracket. Can anyone (besides Pat Riley) say three-peat? As for checkers, here’s what happened in June: pressherald.com/2017/07/01/a-checkered-legacy.
Aside from pursuing sporting glory, Glenn has been a sports writer at the Press Herald for 23 years and worked at the Hartford Courant, Concord (N.H.) Monitor and Claremont (N.H.) Eagle Times previously. His youngest kids (twin boys) are at Midwest colleges, one playing right guard for the Grinnell (Iowa) Pioneers and the other a student manager for the Northwestern football team. His daughter, an MIT junior, plays intramural ice hockey, took pickleball for PE (at her dad’s behest) and squeezes in a little math on the side. As Gatorade should have said, be like Glenn!
Cool news arrived from the College about classmate Chris Hunt, who was in the media recently when he helped quadruplets who wrote in their college essays they wanted to go to the same college (accepted numerous places, they decided on Yale). Chris is now writing a book about the Wade quadruplets and their family and has been featured in stories appearing in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News and The Today Show. Chris previously worked at such publications as The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. Chris also works pro bonoon college essays for Access Opportunity, which helps low-income, high-potential students in the greater Denver area and was founded by Susie Hayes ’88. His career change began when another Dartmouth alum, Mimi Ward, asked him to help her son, who was applying to the Dartmouth class of ’20. He got in early decision, told his friends about Chris and things kind of took off. Chris has a website, CollegeEssayMentor.com. Well done, Chris! Any interest in helping write this column?
—John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com; Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Greenwich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com