I’m driving on Sunday, July 29, and tune into one of my favorite shows on NPR’s Weekend Edition, the Sunday puzzle with Will Shortz. And who is the guest player? Our classmate Jim Citron! When you’re in your car, the game seems easy. But when you’re on the air in front of thousands of people, the pressure mounts. Jim did a fantastic job unscrambling names of Olympic sports. If you missed it, here is the program: www.npr.org/2012/07/29/157540216/name-that-former-olympic-sport. I had also asked you to offer your favorite memory of fall at Dartmouth. Jim also offered a favorite and funny memory for fall term: “That scruffy reddish-brown dog that used to come like clockwork to our 8 a.m. calculus lecture freshman fall in Filene Auditorium (the old ‘Shower Tower’). I would pass him running the wrong way at 7:50 a.m. as we walked across the Green, but he always managed to get to class just in time to file into the auditorium with the pack. And about a minute before the class was scheduled to end he would get up, stretch and walk to the door, right up front and wait for class to end so he could go back out and play.” Or maybe he went to Professor Pease’s Shakespeare class? Chris Komarek said that his fondest memory of fall term is of apple smashers and donuts tailgate parties in front of Russell Sage. Dan Katzir looked back to freshman fall. “As we are packing up to go home for winter break Lisa Gathard and Jenn Hellman come into my room to box up all of my acrylic sweaters and moon from Miami (where I grew up) and give them to the Salvation Army. They then sat down with the L.L.Bean catalog and introduced me to wool sweaters and duck boots.” Mark Greenstein remembers canoeing with bright foliage lighting up both sides of the Connecticut River. Mary Frances Sabo said, “My best memory of fall was during sophomore year when I did the foreign study program in France. It was unusual for a returning sophomore to go off campus like that but it seemed the right thing to do. I made a lot of really great friends from the older classes (juniors and even seniors) and a term away from Dartmouth was what I needed to recharge.” I’ll end with an image I have of fall semester—the foliage from the tennis courts at Thompson Arena. At its height, those leaves burst out with stunning color. After almost 11 years practicing law, Bonnie Austin moved into healthcare policy and will soon mark 11 years at AcademyHealth in Washington, D.C. Her work includes managing a grant-making program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Bonnie said, “It’s an exciting time to be working in the healthcare field.” I received a nice note from Natalie Wilensky: “Summer 2012 has been wonderful, with many fabulous days in the Hamptons with our 2-year-old son Jacob; a trip to Cannes, France, to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary; and our now annual ‘Voyage to the Vineyard’ by boat from Long Island, New York. Yet a highlight of the summer was hosting the ladies of the Big Green Bus. We were ever so lucky to host the girls for two nights in our home in Washington, D.C. We were so sad when they left, taking with them an abundance of enthusiasm, excitement and love for the lives they are living. And it goes without saying that, for Jacob, it was love at first sight—smart kid!”


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