Class Note 1973
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Into the record books goes 2016.
In July Buffalo, New York, honored Lorna Hill as a community role model in an eye-catching manner: a billboard in downtown by Niagara Square with a larger-than-life picture and the words, “Lorna is 100% artist, movement builder, Buffalonian.” Lorna founded the theater company, Ujima, 38 years ago and uses the theater framework to teach about social justice, including economic justice and climate justice. Nightly news clip where you can see and hear Lorna being surprised: wgrz.com/news/wny-heroes-surprised-with-big-billboards/267989286.
Classmate and trustee Ben Wilson is the Washington Bar Association’s 2016 Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit honoree. The award is presented annually to an individual who demonstrates a commitment to the betterment of the legal profession during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s awards gala, held this year at the historic Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
Retirements abound. At the end of June Karen Fagin White wrapped up her practice with Cohen, Pollock, Merlin & Small in Atlanta. In 2015 Karen was the recipient of the Atlanta Bar’s bankruptcy section’s David W. Pollard Achievement Award and in 2016 she was named one of two lawyers of the year in the area of bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law by Best Lawyers in America. Now Karen has more time to devote to volunteer work teaching adult literacy and to her role as a trustee of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia.
Effective July 31 John Lundgren retired after more than 12 years as CEO of Stanley, Black & Decker, but continues as chairman of the board until the end of December and will serve as a special advisor through April 2017. Under his direction the company underwent an historic transformation, evolving from a small cap building products company focused on tools and doors to a large cap global diversified industrial with franchises in the tools and storage, security and industrial sectors. John is on several boards of directors, as well as being a member of the president’s advisory council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Dartmouth athletics advisory board. He also is a national trustee of the First Tee, an organization dedicated to the development of life-enhancing values for young people through character education and golf.
Bob Barr passed along that he retired from his position as director of gift planning at St. Paul’s School in August. Emails with news for our class newsletter should be sent to rabarr73@gmail.com. Bob notes he has already picked up fundraising consulting jobs that he hopes will keep his mind from turning to mush. Visitors are welcome at his and Tricia’s home on Lake Mascoma in Enfield, New Hampshire.
October 1 marked Judge Daniel Petre’s retirement from the ninth judicial district in Colorado. A Glenwood Springs native, Daniel returned home after law school at Southern Methodist University and was in private practice for 24 years before being appointed to the bench in 2002. Previously, he served as a district magistrate and as a division water referee.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
In July Buffalo, New York, honored Lorna Hill as a community role model in an eye-catching manner: a billboard in downtown by Niagara Square with a larger-than-life picture and the words, “Lorna is 100% artist, movement builder, Buffalonian.” Lorna founded the theater company, Ujima, 38 years ago and uses the theater framework to teach about social justice, including economic justice and climate justice. Nightly news clip where you can see and hear Lorna being surprised: wgrz.com/news/wny-heroes-surprised-with-big-billboards/267989286.
Classmate and trustee Ben Wilson is the Washington Bar Association’s 2016 Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit honoree. The award is presented annually to an individual who demonstrates a commitment to the betterment of the legal profession during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s awards gala, held this year at the historic Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
Retirements abound. At the end of June Karen Fagin White wrapped up her practice with Cohen, Pollock, Merlin & Small in Atlanta. In 2015 Karen was the recipient of the Atlanta Bar’s bankruptcy section’s David W. Pollard Achievement Award and in 2016 she was named one of two lawyers of the year in the area of bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law by Best Lawyers in America. Now Karen has more time to devote to volunteer work teaching adult literacy and to her role as a trustee of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia.
Effective July 31 John Lundgren retired after more than 12 years as CEO of Stanley, Black & Decker, but continues as chairman of the board until the end of December and will serve as a special advisor through April 2017. Under his direction the company underwent an historic transformation, evolving from a small cap building products company focused on tools and doors to a large cap global diversified industrial with franchises in the tools and storage, security and industrial sectors. John is on several boards of directors, as well as being a member of the president’s advisory council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Dartmouth athletics advisory board. He also is a national trustee of the First Tee, an organization dedicated to the development of life-enhancing values for young people through character education and golf.
Bob Barr passed along that he retired from his position as director of gift planning at St. Paul’s School in August. Emails with news for our class newsletter should be sent to rabarr73@gmail.com. Bob notes he has already picked up fundraising consulting jobs that he hopes will keep his mind from turning to mush. Visitors are welcome at his and Tricia’s home on Lake Mascoma in Enfield, New Hampshire.
October 1 marked Judge Daniel Petre’s retirement from the ninth judicial district in Colorado. A Glenwood Springs native, Daniel returned home after law school at Southern Methodist University and was in private practice for 24 years before being appointed to the bench in 2002. Previously, he served as a district magistrate and as a division water referee.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu