Class Note 1976
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March - April 2026
Class Note 1976. Hello, classmates.
This may be the last Class Notes you’ll read before our 50th reunion June 12-14. It’s not too late to sign up, and please follow the BrightCrowd invites to our reunion yearbook and fill in your page. By the time you read this, I trust we’ll have close to 350 classmates entered. It will be open through reunion, but please add your page ASAP. And please remember when you do, and you reference classmates, to put an @ before their name. That way the book cross references everyone and it’s more complete.
From our early adopters: Did you know that Julie Schuetz Lowe spent the last 40 years in North Carolina or that Chris Bjelland chairs his own company and lives in Oslo, Norway? How about that Major Jordan retired from AT&T after 27 years and Securus Technologies after 16 years or that his daughter received her medical degree and his son a Ph.D.?
What about Andrew Goldberg becoming a neuroradiologist in Cleveland or that Donna and Debbie Humphrey were the first female twins to graduate from Dartmouth? Bruce Pfaff is a lawyer outside Chicago and Cindy Shannon moved back to the Upper Valley, living in Norwich, Vermont.
Paul Lazarus directed theater and TV shows since college in New York City and Los Angeles.And Laurie Prothro is a retired librarian living in Guerneville, California. These and other stories and catch-ups on your friends and classmates may be found in our reunion book. Please add your page if you have not already.
One last note about the book: Loved ones of deceased classmates can have an “In Memoriam” page in the book if they wish. If you know someone who has passed whose survivors may want to do that, please have them reach out to me or Fern.
In news from Portland, Maine, Scott Simons retired at the end of March after an incredible 48-year career in architecture.
His partners wrote: “Scott helped shape some of the most meaningful civic and cultural spaces in Maine and northern New England, and his leadership had a lasting impact on his firm and the broader design community. As a cofounder of the Portland Society for Architecture, an American Institute of Architects fellow, and a mentor to many, his contributions go far beyond buildings—he’s helped build a community.”
Steffi Valar received Dartmouth’s Ford Whelden ’25 and Robert Kaiser ’39 Award for serving as the gift planning chair who introduced the greatest number of new Bartlett Tower (legacy) Society members in fiscal year 2025. We can be proud that our 50th reunion will be the seventh reunion in a row for which our class sets a new Bartlett Tower membership record. And thank you to all of you out there who signed up. It’s a stirring compliment to our class and the College.
Ciao for now. Please send news of yourself or classmates to me at steve@stevebell communications.com.
—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com
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This may be the last Class Notes you’ll read before our 50th reunion June 12-14. It’s not too late to sign up, and please follow the BrightCrowd invites to our reunion yearbook and fill in your page. By the time you read this, I trust we’ll have close to 350 classmates entered. It will be open through reunion, but please add your page ASAP. And please remember when you do, and you reference classmates, to put an @ before their name. That way the book cross references everyone and it’s more complete.
From our early adopters: Did you know that Julie Schuetz Lowe spent the last 40 years in North Carolina or that Chris Bjelland chairs his own company and lives in Oslo, Norway? How about that Major Jordan retired from AT&T after 27 years and Securus Technologies after 16 years or that his daughter received her medical degree and his son a Ph.D.?
What about Andrew Goldberg becoming a neuroradiologist in Cleveland or that Donna and Debbie Humphrey were the first female twins to graduate from Dartmouth? Bruce Pfaff is a lawyer outside Chicago and Cindy Shannon moved back to the Upper Valley, living in Norwich, Vermont.
Paul Lazarus directed theater and TV shows since college in New York City and Los Angeles.And Laurie Prothro is a retired librarian living in Guerneville, California. These and other stories and catch-ups on your friends and classmates may be found in our reunion book. Please add your page if you have not already.
One last note about the book: Loved ones of deceased classmates can have an “In Memoriam” page in the book if they wish. If you know someone who has passed whose survivors may want to do that, please have them reach out to me or Fern.
In news from Portland, Maine, Scott Simons retired at the end of March after an incredible 48-year career in architecture.
His partners wrote: “Scott helped shape some of the most meaningful civic and cultural spaces in Maine and northern New England, and his leadership had a lasting impact on his firm and the broader design community. As a cofounder of the Portland Society for Architecture, an American Institute of Architects fellow, and a mentor to many, his contributions go far beyond buildings—he’s helped build a community.”
Steffi Valar received Dartmouth’s Ford Whelden ’25 and Robert Kaiser ’39 Award for serving as the gift planning chair who introduced the greatest number of new Bartlett Tower (legacy) Society members in fiscal year 2025. We can be proud that our 50th reunion will be the seventh reunion in a row for which our class sets a new Bartlett Tower membership record. And thank you to all of you out there who signed up. It’s a stirring compliment to our class and the College.
Ciao for now. Please send news of yourself or classmates to me at steve@stevebell communications.com.
—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com