The winter of 2014-15 left New England with unusually heavy snow as widely publicized earlier this year. Therefore, it seems appropriate to report that one of our classmates, Joe Cushing of Franconia, New Hampshire, was honored with a lifetime achievement award and he was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Hall of Fame in ceremonies on April 11 at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The hall of fame is located in Ishpeming, Michigan, and the official enshrinement will take place there on September 18. Ishpeming is considered the birthplace of organized skiing in America. We should also note that Joe is our second classmate to receive this honor. In 1994 the late Jim Branch was posthumously honored. He passed away in 1991. The recognition to Joe reads, in part, “Joe Cushing (New Hampshire) was a pioneer in ski area planning and design. Working with the legendary Sel Hannah he designed over 400 ski areas in North America and the world. Among those areas where his impact can be seen are Loon Mountain and Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, Sugarbush and Stratton in Vermont, Copper Mountain and Keystone in Colorado and Deer Valley in Utah.” In other class news, plans are under way as this is written to hold a class lunch in very early March in Norwich, Vermont, and the response has been very good. Class president Alden Fiertz plans to announce details of a major class project to assist the College in the restoration and renovation of Bartlett Tower, named for Dartmouth President Samuel Colcord Bartlett, class of 1836, and great-grandfather of our late classmate John Bartlett. We are also pleased to offer personal congratulations to Alden and Mary Peck. They were married at his home in Woodstock, Vermont, on December 27, 2014. Finally, we do not usually report on the loss of classmates in these Class Notes, but we call your attention to seven obituaries in the online edition of this issue. They are David Chamberlain, George Pandaleon, Jim Fowler, Dick Watt, Chris Wilson, Bill Nichols and Clay Cogswell. They all passed away in very early 2015.


— William Montgomery , 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com