Greetings, fellow ’70s. A recent email from LinkedIn instructed me to congratulate Bill Koening on his new job. While many of us are retired or contemplating retirement, Bill is adding another chapter to a career that may be as diverse as any in our class. Bill has joined Cambridge Management Group, a healthcare management consultancy, as senior advisor. A check of their website revealed that the firm’s co-founder is none other than our classmate Bob Harrington.


Another non-retiring type is Jim Nachtwey. His latest exploit covering disputed elections in Bangkok earned him a bullet in the leg. Thankfully, the projectile missed bone and arteries and Jim was patched up by medics at the scene and kept on working. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power tweeted that her thoughts were with the “living legend.” Before heading for Thailand Jim was in Jordan photographing Syrian refugees. The result is a photographic essay that appeared in Time magazine’s January 23 edition.


Denis O’Neill’s book prompted Alan Tuck to share his experiences with early coeducation at Dartmouth and the New Hampshire draft board. Alan’s wife, Susan, was, like Denis’s Julie Cathcart, among the first female exchange students. Alan relates that, “As the only woman in each of her classes she did experience the joy of educating many sexist students and professors.” Susan and Alan married in 1969 and are looking forward to their 45th anniversary this summer. For the full text of Alan’s email see the most recent class of 1970 newsletter.


The City University of New York recently announced that Wallace Ford has been appointed interim chair of the public administration department at Medgar Evers College. Wallace, among his many other professional endeavors, has taught several business courses at the college. He continues in his role as founder and owner of Fordworks Associates, a management consulting and advisory firm based in New York. As one of the youngest members of our class it doesn’t sound as if Wallace is anywhere near ready for retirement.


While I can’t recall ever having seen Tom Kenworthy at the Dartmouth Skiway there is obviously a snow sport gene somewhere in his family. Tom’s nephew Gus won a silver medal in slopestyle skiing at the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.


And speaking of skiing: As I wrap up this column at the end of February Ann and I are on our way to Colorado for Dartmouth Winter CarniVail where a half dozen or so classmates are planning to be in attendance. More on that in my next column. For now, I hope that the polar vortex has retreated from your neighborhood and you are enjoying spring.


—Bill Wilson, 304 Highlands Bluffs Drive, Cary, NC 27518; wilson8689@aol.com