Class Note 1973
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
It’s the political silly season.
Since July 1, 2013, Kent Trachte has been president of Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Lycoming, which dates back to 1812, is a Tier 1, four-year, private liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students, with a rigorous academic program and a vibrant residential community. Kent represents Lycoming as chair of the president’s council of the Middle Atlantic Athletic Conference and on the board of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania.
Howard Reiss recently published his fourth novel, P Town, about four individuals brought together one summer at the tip of Cape Cod by a street musician who changes their lives forever. The book is available in paperback and electronically at Amazon and as an e-book at Barnes & Noble and iTunes.
This past summer Jake Johnston relocated from his home in Mississauga, by Lake Ontario, to Collingwood, Canada, near Georgian Bay. He describes his new environs as a place with “a year-round lifestyle of activities, from skiing in the winter to water sports, biking and hiking in the summer. Something like a place dear to our hearts!”
David Weld Stevens died suddenly in April in Boston, where he was active at Trinity Church. David did not keep in touch with the College or many former classmates, so little is known about his significant life events or professional accomplishments. An online obituary highlighting his younger years can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.
Dartmouth is increasingly focusing on being global. The class of 2020 has 9 percent international students, representing 40 countries. Global programs are robust and sought after. Off-campus program participation continues to increase along with Dickey Center international internships, with many students indicating global health as their main area of interest in an incoming student survey.
Now I digress. As the deadline for this column approached, my father died, age 101. The only one of his siblings to obtain a post-high school education, he was not a Dartmouth alum; the most he could afford as the son of immigrant parents with seven children was tuition-free City College of New York, relying on an annual $100 scholarship to pay for his books. I have two significant Dartmouth-related memories of him, however. One was during our junior year, when there was a major February snowstorm and he had a business trip to the Northeast. He made the treacherous drive to visit campus and the next day, which was gloriously crisp and clear, we enjoyed snowshoeing along the river and at the golf course on snowshoes I made in the Robinson Hall basement under the tutelage of Earl Jette. Another occurred post-graduation, when he accompanied me to my first alumni dinner in San Francisco. While gathering for the dinner, various fellows approached him saying “I’m so-and-so, class of X,” and when a sufficient number had assembled, he smiled broadly, nodded his head in my direction and said, “I’m Bill Armento, CCNY ’35. I’m not the alum. She is.”
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Since July 1, 2013, Kent Trachte has been president of Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Lycoming, which dates back to 1812, is a Tier 1, four-year, private liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students, with a rigorous academic program and a vibrant residential community. Kent represents Lycoming as chair of the president’s council of the Middle Atlantic Athletic Conference and on the board of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania.
Howard Reiss recently published his fourth novel, P Town, about four individuals brought together one summer at the tip of Cape Cod by a street musician who changes their lives forever. The book is available in paperback and electronically at Amazon and as an e-book at Barnes & Noble and iTunes.
This past summer Jake Johnston relocated from his home in Mississauga, by Lake Ontario, to Collingwood, Canada, near Georgian Bay. He describes his new environs as a place with “a year-round lifestyle of activities, from skiing in the winter to water sports, biking and hiking in the summer. Something like a place dear to our hearts!”
David Weld Stevens died suddenly in April in Boston, where he was active at Trinity Church. David did not keep in touch with the College or many former classmates, so little is known about his significant life events or professional accomplishments. An online obituary highlighting his younger years can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.
Dartmouth is increasingly focusing on being global. The class of 2020 has 9 percent international students, representing 40 countries. Global programs are robust and sought after. Off-campus program participation continues to increase along with Dickey Center international internships, with many students indicating global health as their main area of interest in an incoming student survey.
Now I digress. As the deadline for this column approached, my father died, age 101. The only one of his siblings to obtain a post-high school education, he was not a Dartmouth alum; the most he could afford as the son of immigrant parents with seven children was tuition-free City College of New York, relying on an annual $100 scholarship to pay for his books. I have two significant Dartmouth-related memories of him, however. One was during our junior year, when there was a major February snowstorm and he had a business trip to the Northeast. He made the treacherous drive to visit campus and the next day, which was gloriously crisp and clear, we enjoyed snowshoeing along the river and at the golf course on snowshoes I made in the Robinson Hall basement under the tutelage of Earl Jette. Another occurred post-graduation, when he accompanied me to my first alumni dinner in San Francisco. While gathering for the dinner, various fellows approached him saying “I’m so-and-so, class of X,” and when a sufficient number had assembled, he smiled broadly, nodded his head in my direction and said, “I’m Bill Armento, CCNY ’35. I’m not the alum. She is.”
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu