President Phil Hanlon ’77 recently visited the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C. Len Smith, Rick Ranger, Lex McCusker, Jim Miller, John Ward and I held a mini-reunion before the festivities. We met President Hanlon and his wife, Gail, at the reception and invited them personally to the dedication of the class of 1974 bunkhouse at Mount Moosilauke on Thursday, June 12, the kick-off to our 40th reunion. Please join in the fun. The reunion will include the ’73s and ’75s and provide a rare opportunity to catch up with many old friends. 


The crew that raised the bunkhouse last September included Fred Wearn and Dave Kruschwitz. Fred came from Portland, Oregon, where he and his wife, Maureen, live. Maureen is an elementary school literacy specialist. They have four children: Colleen ’06, formerly a Dartmouth admissions officer and now admissions director for the Mountain School in Vermont; Anna ’12, an outdoor educator in Colorado; Christopher, a graduate of Middlebury College who runs an enrichment program for at-risk youth in Portland; and Jeremy, a graduate of the University of Oregon and a medical student at Oregon Health and Science University. Fred also started out in medicine. He graduated from Case Medical School and practiced for more than 20 years in Ohio and Oregon. In 1998 he started volunteering at the Portland Development Commission, the city’s urban renewal and economic development agency. He went to work with them shortly thereafter and changed careers. He was central city manager and development manager before retiring from the commission in 2010. Fred’s current real estate activity is a major remodeling project on his family’s vacation home at Black Butte Ranch in central Oregon, which he describes as a “piece of heaven.” Fred noted that working on our bunkhouse project was an amazing experience and a unique opportunity to reconnect with classmates and to work with Dartmouth students and recent graduates. 


As past chairman of the Cabin & Trails division of the Dartmouth Outing Club, Dave was no stranger to Moosilauke. He traveled from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to join in the bunkhouse project. Dave moved to the D.C. area in 2008 after a storied, 30-year career in the railroad business with such wonderful railway names as the Boston and Maine, the Bangor and Aroostook, the Wisconsin Central and Canadian National. Dave started in the railroad business after earning a master’s in transportation from M.I.T. He works now as a transportation industry analyst with the Surface Transportation Board, assisting rail shippers who have complaints against the railroads and providing advice to board staff, many of whom are lawyers or economists without “boots on the ground” experience. Dave and his wife, Marie, will head back to the countryside in July when they move to their house in Limerick, Maine. Their son Jonathan is currently finishing a bachelor’s at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. 


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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com