The Dartmouth College Fund recently recognized volunteers and classes that did outstanding work this year. Thanks to Roger Baumann, our class received two awards: the Charles F. Moore ’25 Award for the greatest reunion percent improvement in donors and the Harvey P. Hood 1918 Award for new reunion participation percentage. A dinner was held in New York City that was attended by Roger with support from Mac Gardner, Andre Hunter, Kelly Fowler Hunter, Jim Gregg, Jim Maguire, Sam Reckford and Alice Ruth. Congrats to Roger and to all of us!


Andre and Kelly are very social. They got together with several classmates in New York to see Queen of the Night. Kate Drislane Howe and Melanie Law Shugart joined Kelly and Andre as well as Max Hunter ’13 and Lexi Kellison ’13. Andre said that it was “a great experience, and one that [he’d] highly recommend to anyone coming through N.Y.C.. The queen did not disappoint.”


Walter Ellis received the Modern-Day Technology Leader Award at the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year Awards. Walter works for the Mitre Corp., a nonprofit organization that operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government. He has nearly 30 years of experience working with federal clients and brought his expertise to Mitre in 2008. (Yes, we are that old!) He is currently supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he helped develop the award-winning veteran homelessness analytics model to track future homeless levels among veterans. Most recently Walter’s other projects included serving as the team lead for the Census Bureau’s electronic census operations center program management website and as an acquisition analyst for the Internal Revenue Service’s customer account data engine initiative. In his free time Ellis volunteers at the D.C. Central Kitchen and Baltimore Station, an innovative therapeutic residential treatment program supporting veterans. Ellis received a bachelor’s in computer science from Dartmouth and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University. Do you think we could have him work on the Obamacare website? Congrats, Walter!


David Hartzell co-hosted a mini-reunion with the ’82s and ’84s following President Hanlon’s speech in Philadelphia. Dave reports about 15 people were in attendance, including Dave Neslund and Fran Manning. Dave reports having a nice time and a few drinks but gives no other details. He also met Greg Cerveny, Kip’s younger brother, who works in development for the College.


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