The question for this issue’s column was: “What is your favorite Dartmouth sports (or Baker library) story?” As this is the July/August issue, allow me to share my favorite sports story from Sophomore Summer. That year Rob Summers, Ute Bowman Otley and myself formed an intramural three-on-three basketball team called Tall, Dark and Beautiful. We won the championship against some ’89 football players who threatened to crush us because they played football. Of course the game we were playing was basketball and, in basketball, the smart take from the strong. We won by posting Ute up against a linebacker and watching her go to work. You go, girl! Andy Affleck (Williams) had me going with this story: “I played Kazoo in Marching Band with my girlfriend Katie Davis. Early freshman year at the Dartmouth-U Penn game we did the Hawaii 5-0 dance with our arms around each other all cute and freshman “couply.” That night in my dorm I got a call from my high school girlfriend asking, “Who’s the girl?” That’s how I learned that (a) we had not, in fact, broken up like I had thought and (b) the game that day had been televised on SportsChannel for some reason.”


Do you have a story about rushing the field as a ’shman? I bet Roth Herrlinger can top it: “It’s the first Saturday of freshman year and I’m torn between wanting to rush the stands with the rest of my classmates and wanting to be in the half-time show with the Marching Band. Determined to do both I stand arm-in-arm with my classmates at the top of the opposing stand, then run down several paces in front of the class…straight into the hands of the Campus Po’. The next morning, in the spirit of all the great social movements of the time, I launch ’Shmen Aid on the steps of Thayer Dining Hall. I collect $400 in voluntary donations toward the fines of the 30 students who got caught, appear on the front page of The Dartmouth, launch my political career and don’t look back.” Great stuff. 


An anonymous alumnus wrote: “Crap, I wrote something interesting when it occurred to me that there might be a statute of limitations issue. It turns out the statute could cause me trouble since it is six years, but it appears that the clock stops if you aren’t in New Hampshire. So never mind. It was nothing dangerous, no one was injured or even embarrassed, it was just a benign prank, but given how overboard folks can get about things, I think I’ll leave it in the vault of history.” Chrissy (Kirkmire) Mazzola sent the following: “My best Baker story is easy: A year after we graduated Rich (Mazzola) flew me back east for Thanksgiving. When I arrived at the airport he had a limo waiting to go to Montreal for the weekend. We ended up at Dartmouth in the middle of the Green in the snow, and as Baker Tower struck midnight he got down on one knee, pulled out a ring and asked me to marry him. I said no, thanks. Just kidding! We have been married 18 years now and always make it back to that special spot with our kids when we are in the area.” To leave you with a bit of news, Angela C. McConney reports that she attended the Massachusetts Black Lawyers gala on April 22 with classmates Gwen Pointer and Kevin Hayden. Angela is the former president of the organization. Rob C. is up next time. Enjoy the summer!


—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford@yahoo.com