A Class Notes column prompted Parker Sando to write from New Mexico. Parker came to Dartmouth from Albuquerque. After graduation he returned home to marry Virginia and to earn a law degree at the University of New Mexico. Parker and Virginia had started dating in the summer of 1969 and celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in July. Virginia has been an operating room nurse and nursing instructor. Their daughter Dorothy, 32, earned a master’s in education and teaches at a charter middle school in Albuquerque. Following law school Parker worked for the American Indian Law Center at the University of New Mexico before joining the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA.) He retired from the BIA in May 2013 after 35 years of service. During his last seven years there Parker served as a trust reform liaison officer working from Albuquerque with programmers and accountants to bill lease transactions for Indian lands and to distribute the receipts to the landowners. This work gained importance following the federal trust reform in the way Indian lands, assets and funds are handled and the surge in transactions as a result of the significantly increased oil production from under Indian lands in North Dakota’s Bakken formation. Parker now enjoys his new free time doing photography and traveling.


At our reunion I was delighted to catch up with Candy Neville. At Dartmouth Candy was a member of the first field hockey team and the squash team. A few years later while working in Connecticut, she met her husband, Bob Scanlon, a Wharton graduate, playing squash. Following graduation Candy lived in Boston with Jody Hill Simpson and worked for two years at the First National Bank of Boston. After earning an M.B.A. at Stanford Business School, Candy joined the Bank of Bermuda. In Bermuda she took the opportunity to learn windsurfing and represented Bermuda at the Windsurfer World Championships. Today Candy and Bob live in Cleveland, Ohio, where she put her undergraduate degree in psychology and education to good use while they raised their five children. Sons Will and Charlie attended Allegheny College and St. Lawrence University, respectively. Their third son, Tim ’12, was on the Dartmouth sailing team and sails competitively in his spare time. Daughter Maggie ’14, a field hockey player, was twice named Dartmouth female athlete of the week. Daughter Becky ’16, an engineering major, is on the Dartmouth ski patrol and plays club lacrosse and rugby. In September 2013 Candy participated in the celebration of 40 years of Dartmouth field hockey with her daughter, Maggie, a senior on the team and the first field hockey legacy. Candy was the oldest player in the alumnae game that was part of the celebration activities. Candy continues to play squash and to windsurf, and she is involved in Urban Squash Cleveland, a national program that promotes squash and academics with inner-city children.


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