Class Note 1973
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Class of ’73 at 75: The class communal birthday celebration is May 12-15 in Asheville, North Carolina, with a welcome reception, class dinners, and optional outings and activities. If you have not yet signed up, do so today.
Elizabeth Smith is the professor leading the alumni travel trip to the “mystical Azores archipelago 879 miles off Portugal’s coast” May 4-15.
After 20 years on the bench and six years as chief justice, Tom Parker retired in January 2025 from the Alabama Supreme Court because he was constitutionally barred from running for another term. After obtaining a J.D. from Vanderbilt, Tom was awarded a Rotary International fellowship to study law at the University of São Paulo School of Law in Brazil, where he was the first foreign student in Brazil’s most prestigious law school. After stints with a law firm that handled high-profile constitutional cases and service as an assistant attorney general, he served as deputy administrative director of courts and as general counsel for the Alabama court system, as well as the director of the Alabama Judicial College, before being elected as an associate justice to the state Supreme Court in 2004.
Now practicing independently as an international arbitration lawyer, Eric Schwartz has acted as counsel or arbitrator in more than 100 arbitrations throughout the world during the course of four decades. His expertise is in disputes concerning large infrastructure projects as well as investment treaties and complex cross-border transactions in the energy, intellectual property and information technology, and pharmaceutical sectors. From 1992 to 1996 he served as secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration and in that capacity oversaw the administration of approximately 2,500 ICC arbitrations. Based in N.Y.C., Eric is the author and editor of several books and the author of dozens of articles on international arbitration; he is recognized by his peers as one of the world’s leading international arbitration practitioners and authorities.
Nick Miller is founder and president of Clarity Advantage, a consulting firm that helps commercial banks generate more profitable relationships faster with small- and medium-sized companies, their owners, and employees. The company uses custom-built and ready-to-use classroom and virtual training for client-facing bankers and their managers. You can see and hear Nick in action on numerous YouTube videos.
Dartmouth Courage, an independent effort standing up for academic freedom and constitutional rights in higher education (not affiliated with or endorsed by the College), was created by members of the Dartmouth alumni from every class from the 1950s to the present community. It has collected articles and information on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education put forward by the Trump administration (https://dartmouthcourage.org).
Just in time for the 250th anniversary, a newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the country is being published June 2. Sing the 50 United States is the first full manuscript written by Theodor Geisel, class of 1925, to be discovered since the 2015 posthumous release of What Pet Should I Get? The manuscript was found in archives at the UCSD Geisel Library.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
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Class of ’73 at 75: The class communal birthday celebration is May 12-15 in Asheville, North Carolina, with a welcome reception, class dinners, and optional outings and activities. If you have not yet signed up, do so today.
Elizabeth Smith is the professor leading the alumni travel trip to the “mystical Azores archipelago 879 miles off Portugal’s coast” May 4-15.
After 20 years on the bench and six years as chief justice, Tom Parker retired in January 2025 from the Alabama Supreme Court because he was constitutionally barred from running for another term. After obtaining a J.D. from Vanderbilt, Tom was awarded a Rotary International fellowship to study law at the University of São Paulo School of Law in Brazil, where he was the first foreign student in Brazil’s most prestigious law school. After stints with a law firm that handled high-profile constitutional cases and service as an assistant attorney general, he served as deputy administrative director of courts and as general counsel for the Alabama court system, as well as the director of the Alabama Judicial College, before being elected as an associate justice to the state Supreme Court in 2004.
Now practicing independently as an international arbitration lawyer, Eric Schwartz has acted as counsel or arbitrator in more than 100 arbitrations throughout the world during the course of four decades. His expertise is in disputes concerning large infrastructure projects as well as investment treaties and complex cross-border transactions in the energy, intellectual property and information technology, and pharmaceutical sectors. From 1992 to 1996 he served as secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration and in that capacity oversaw the administration of approximately 2,500 ICC arbitrations. Based in N.Y.C., Eric is the author and editor of several books and the author of dozens of articles on international arbitration; he is recognized by his peers as one of the world’s leading international arbitration practitioners and authorities.
Nick Miller is founder and president of Clarity Advantage, a consulting firm that helps commercial banks generate more profitable relationships faster with small- and medium-sized companies, their owners, and employees. The company uses custom-built and ready-to-use classroom and virtual training for client-facing bankers and their managers. You can see and hear Nick in action on numerous YouTube videos.
Dartmouth Courage, an independent effort standing up for academic freedom and constitutional rights in higher education (not affiliated with or endorsed by the College), was created by members of the Dartmouth alumni from every class from the 1950s to the present community. It has collected articles and information on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education put forward by the Trump administration (https://dartmouthcourage.org).
Just in time for the 250th anniversary, a newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the country is being published June 2. Sing the 50 United States is the first full manuscript written by Theodor Geisel, class of 1925, to be discovered since the 2015 posthumous release of What Pet Should I Get? The manuscript was found in archives at the UCSD Geisel Library.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu