Class Note 1985
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
What comes to mind when you mix hockey and music? Maybe the Hanson Brothers and Maxine Nightingale? Cotton-Eye Joe or the national anthem? Perhaps the heavy organ music after a goal or maybe the pacifying hum of the Zamboni cleaning sheets of ice. Whatever sounds and images you conjure up, I think you’ll like this combo of Dartmouth ’85s (though, full disclosure, they’re only combined in the sense that they’re in this same column).
From the music side, comes our own Cat Dail, a singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer-independent record label owner. Cat has collaborated with many other Dartmouth alums and is currently releasing both a new, seven-song EP Fight for Love as well as a 25-year catalog double CD. For those in Hanover, Cat will be playing on the Green June 16. Go check it out, and also check out her website catdailmusic.com, including her bio: Awarded prizes from Billboard magazine, Musician magazine, and the Independent Music Awards, Cat Dail is an internationally touring singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. She has released five albums on the Lucky Magnet recording label she founded. Cat Dail has been a highlight of the national indie rock scene since she first hit in the 1990s. Leading her N.Y.C. band, Distant Cousins, Cat played all the legendary clubs in N.Y.C., including a Friday night residency at the Bitter End, and colleges and clubs all over the East and West. Most recently Cat has been joined by some of the best musicians in the world, featured regularly at SXSW and other festivals, with her music heard on TV (CBS Sports, PBS) and in films (independent and feature). In addition to a life in music, Cat has led important and long-lasting community efforts at libraries and food banks and as original board chair of the internationally acclaimed, female-led Strike Anywhere Theater Ensemble. Awesome stuff.
From the hockey world, “Merrimack College Names Scott Borek as Eighth Head Coach of Men’s Ice Hockey Program,” as announced by director of athletics Jeremy Gibson. “We are very excited to welcome Scott, Jill, and their family to Merrimack and for him to serve as the leader of our men’s ice hockey program. Scott quickly emerged as the top candidate in a very talented and deep applicant pool. I have full faith in his ability to recruit outstanding student-athletes, develop leaders, and guide our hockey program to a higher level of sustained success.” With 33 years of coaching experience, Scott’s resume includes serving as the associate head coach at Providence since 2015, 13 seasons as the associate head coach at the University of New Hampshire, head coach at New England College in 2001-02, and five seasons as the head coach of Lake Superior State. Check out his bio on the Merrimack College athletics page for more information on Scott’s individual awards and team successes—very impressive.
Far less awesome and impressive is my ability to play music or skate, though I did like Slap Shot.
—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
From the music side, comes our own Cat Dail, a singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer-independent record label owner. Cat has collaborated with many other Dartmouth alums and is currently releasing both a new, seven-song EP Fight for Love as well as a 25-year catalog double CD. For those in Hanover, Cat will be playing on the Green June 16. Go check it out, and also check out her website catdailmusic.com, including her bio: Awarded prizes from Billboard magazine, Musician magazine, and the Independent Music Awards, Cat Dail is an internationally touring singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. She has released five albums on the Lucky Magnet recording label she founded. Cat Dail has been a highlight of the national indie rock scene since she first hit in the 1990s. Leading her N.Y.C. band, Distant Cousins, Cat played all the legendary clubs in N.Y.C., including a Friday night residency at the Bitter End, and colleges and clubs all over the East and West. Most recently Cat has been joined by some of the best musicians in the world, featured regularly at SXSW and other festivals, with her music heard on TV (CBS Sports, PBS) and in films (independent and feature). In addition to a life in music, Cat has led important and long-lasting community efforts at libraries and food banks and as original board chair of the internationally acclaimed, female-led Strike Anywhere Theater Ensemble. Awesome stuff.
From the hockey world, “Merrimack College Names Scott Borek as Eighth Head Coach of Men’s Ice Hockey Program,” as announced by director of athletics Jeremy Gibson. “We are very excited to welcome Scott, Jill, and their family to Merrimack and for him to serve as the leader of our men’s ice hockey program. Scott quickly emerged as the top candidate in a very talented and deep applicant pool. I have full faith in his ability to recruit outstanding student-athletes, develop leaders, and guide our hockey program to a higher level of sustained success.” With 33 years of coaching experience, Scott’s resume includes serving as the associate head coach at Providence since 2015, 13 seasons as the associate head coach at the University of New Hampshire, head coach at New England College in 2001-02, and five seasons as the head coach of Lake Superior State. Check out his bio on the Merrimack College athletics page for more information on Scott’s individual awards and team successes—very impressive.
Far less awesome and impressive is my ability to play music or skate, though I did like Slap Shot.
—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