Class Note 1977
Issue
January-February 2023
Our 45th June reunion was a wonderful affair, sadly missed by many. Class chaplin Nancy Bird Pellegrini happily spent most of the weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, with hubby Vincent Pellegrini Jr. DMS’79 as he was awarded the 2022 Distinguished Clinician Educator Award given by the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA). The award is nominated by peers within the AOA and emphasizes the critical role that clinician-educators play within academic health centers. Pellegrini served as chair of academic orthopedic departments at Penn State, the University of Maryland, and the Medical University of South Carolina from 1992 to 2019. Since 2019 he has been professor and vice chair of education and research affairs in the department of orthopedics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and a professor in the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine. An avid mentor, Pellegrini has trained more than 100 orthopedic residents and 20 resident research fellows and has also been recognized as an AOA “Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession.” Way to go, Vin!
As you all know, Dartmouth is a unique but very identifiable state of being, and as such it is contingent on all of us to be on the lookout for potential ’77s and recruit them into our fold. Previous ’77 adoptees include Scott Thayer (enthusiastic exchange student from UCSD), Bambi Mosenthal Wood (sister of Scott ’75 and Toddy ’76 and wife to Sandy Wood), Gail Gentes (sister to Bill Gentes and much better half of Phil Hanlon) and Marcia Kelly (who’s kept spouse Barry Harwick on the run for years). In their duties as head class agents Betsy Fauver Stueber and John Ogden spotted another keeper in the form of Mark Harris,’77Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) liaison. Mark was ever-present at reunion and has helped John and Betsy overachieve their DCF goals for years. “My favorite thing about Dartmouth is not just getting to know incredible people, but also learning their stories and hearing the ways that Dartmouth is threaded through their personal and professional lives, even 45 years later! I spent two years working on Dartmouth friends groups alongside Gary ‘Hoss’ Rogers, Doug ‘6ix’ Ireland, A.P. ‘Duff’ Duffy, Pete ‘the Greek’ Volanakis, and other ’77 athletes. Competition breeds results (like 77 gifts in the first 77 days of the year) and the class of 1977 steps up!” A Hartford, Connecticut, native and Bucknell ’04, Mark and wife Jen (a Vermonter!) are raising the family (Merrine, 7 and George, 4) in Woodstock, Vermont. If you’d like to welcome Mark personally, ping him at mark.w.harris@dartmouth.edu.
From N.Y.C. Tom West shared that Kevin Rover’s wife, Kristin, hosted a memorial service for Kevin October 15 at Union Square Cafe. It was a lovely, sincere, therapeutic gathering attended by Alan Trefler, Tom Meyer, Richard Mark, Maura Haraway, Jon Uota, Tom, and son Thomas Rover ’16. Kevin died at the Silverado Memory Care Community in Virginia in July.
Mary Collins McDougall of California died in August following a courageous battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA), leaving husband Don, three sons, and six grandchildren.
—A.P. Duffy, 66 Saunders Drive, Wilton, CT 06897; (203) 979-2234; apduffy@optonline.net
As you all know, Dartmouth is a unique but very identifiable state of being, and as such it is contingent on all of us to be on the lookout for potential ’77s and recruit them into our fold. Previous ’77 adoptees include Scott Thayer (enthusiastic exchange student from UCSD), Bambi Mosenthal Wood (sister of Scott ’75 and Toddy ’76 and wife to Sandy Wood), Gail Gentes (sister to Bill Gentes and much better half of Phil Hanlon) and Marcia Kelly (who’s kept spouse Barry Harwick on the run for years). In their duties as head class agents Betsy Fauver Stueber and John Ogden spotted another keeper in the form of Mark Harris,’77Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) liaison. Mark was ever-present at reunion and has helped John and Betsy overachieve their DCF goals for years. “My favorite thing about Dartmouth is not just getting to know incredible people, but also learning their stories and hearing the ways that Dartmouth is threaded through their personal and professional lives, even 45 years later! I spent two years working on Dartmouth friends groups alongside Gary ‘Hoss’ Rogers, Doug ‘6ix’ Ireland, A.P. ‘Duff’ Duffy, Pete ‘the Greek’ Volanakis, and other ’77 athletes. Competition breeds results (like 77 gifts in the first 77 days of the year) and the class of 1977 steps up!” A Hartford, Connecticut, native and Bucknell ’04, Mark and wife Jen (a Vermonter!) are raising the family (Merrine, 7 and George, 4) in Woodstock, Vermont. If you’d like to welcome Mark personally, ping him at mark.w.harris@dartmouth.edu.
From N.Y.C. Tom West shared that Kevin Rover’s wife, Kristin, hosted a memorial service for Kevin October 15 at Union Square Cafe. It was a lovely, sincere, therapeutic gathering attended by Alan Trefler, Tom Meyer, Richard Mark, Maura Haraway, Jon Uota, Tom, and son Thomas Rover ’16. Kevin died at the Silverado Memory Care Community in Virginia in July.
Mary Collins McDougall of California died in August following a courageous battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA), leaving husband Don, three sons, and six grandchildren.
—A.P. Duffy, 66 Saunders Drive, Wilton, CT 06897; (203) 979-2234; apduffy@optonline.net