Class Note 1974
Issue
Jan - Feb 2016
The first football game this season against Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., was a rare opportunity for alumni from the mid-Atlantic region and beyond to gather and to celebrate Dartmouth. Local area alumni clubs, the Friends of Dartmouth Football and the office of alumni relations sponsored a pre-game reception that attracted 800 Dartmouth friends and family. The Dartmouth crowd clearly outnumbered Georgetown supporters at the game. Our class was well represented by Chris Nicholson, Rick Ranger, Jim Miller, Jim Regan and Lex McCuster from the D.C. metro area,me from Richmond, Virginia, Tom Csatari from New Hampshire, Rick Escherich from New York, Rocky Whitaker from North Carolina and Ben Bridges from Illinois. We were also delighted to meet Kirk Hinman’s daughter, Kristen Hinman ’98, a local resident and editor of Washingtonian Magazine, and her husband, Tim.
Ben joined us in D.C. from Chicago, where he established and operates Rembrandt Building Services, a residential kitchen and bathroom remodeling and plumbing company. After college Ben worked as a banker and real estate broker, but he always had a love for construction. His father had been an old-school concrete man, and Ben picked up construction skills from him and developed a passion for tile work. That led to painting, home decorating and the founding of his company. Outside of work Ben is busy as a church elder and as a mobile disc jockey for weddings, family reunions, retirement parties and other events, drawing on his undergraduate experience at WDCR. Ben also enjoys traveling, participating in church mission trips to support an orphanage in Mexico and in Habitat for Humanity projects in South Africa.
A Dartmouth alumni travel brochure arrived in the mail recently for a trip to Greece in May led by Eric Frank. Eric is professor of art history and visual arts at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where, in addition to his teaching responsibilities, he has served as department chairman, college dean and vice president of academic affairs. Eric earned a Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in Italian Renaissance art. He has a special interest in the history of the classical tradition in Western art from Greece to Rome and into the Middle Ages. Eric is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Eric has led alumni trips before, coordinating with a former student of his at Occidental College who is now the travel manager for the Santa Barbara Art Museum and a co-sponsor. Eric met his wife, Penni Montalbano, an artist, when they were fellows in the Syracuse University master’s program in Renaissance art in Florence, Italy. Their elder son, Adam ’09, was an English major, theater minor and member of the Dartmouth Aires. He is currently studying at the Yale University School of Drama. Younger son Daniel graduated from Santa Clara University and works as a soccer trainer and coach in the Los Angeles area.
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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com
Ben joined us in D.C. from Chicago, where he established and operates Rembrandt Building Services, a residential kitchen and bathroom remodeling and plumbing company. After college Ben worked as a banker and real estate broker, but he always had a love for construction. His father had been an old-school concrete man, and Ben picked up construction skills from him and developed a passion for tile work. That led to painting, home decorating and the founding of his company. Outside of work Ben is busy as a church elder and as a mobile disc jockey for weddings, family reunions, retirement parties and other events, drawing on his undergraduate experience at WDCR. Ben also enjoys traveling, participating in church mission trips to support an orphanage in Mexico and in Habitat for Humanity projects in South Africa.
A Dartmouth alumni travel brochure arrived in the mail recently for a trip to Greece in May led by Eric Frank. Eric is professor of art history and visual arts at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where, in addition to his teaching responsibilities, he has served as department chairman, college dean and vice president of academic affairs. Eric earned a Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in Italian Renaissance art. He has a special interest in the history of the classical tradition in Western art from Greece to Rome and into the Middle Ages. Eric is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Eric has led alumni trips before, coordinating with a former student of his at Occidental College who is now the travel manager for the Santa Barbara Art Museum and a co-sponsor. Eric met his wife, Penni Montalbano, an artist, when they were fellows in the Syracuse University master’s program in Renaissance art in Florence, Italy. Their elder son, Adam ’09, was an English major, theater minor and member of the Dartmouth Aires. He is currently studying at the Yale University School of Drama. Younger son Daniel graduated from Santa Clara University and works as a soccer trainer and coach in the Los Angeles area.
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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com