Each year the Alumni Council presents the prestigious Dartmouth Alumni Award to a handful of alumni who graduated at least 25 years ago and have demonstrated extraordinary service to the College and to civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment. This year the six recipients included our very own Morris “Rocky” Whitaker. Rocky has served on the Alumni Council and in key class officer roles and provided leadership to the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association as treasurer, second vice president and president. After significant contributions during a 20-year career in social services, Rocky shifted gears in 1998 and entered the sports and entertainment industry. In 2004 he founded Millennia Solutions, a sports marketing firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is currently one of the managing partners. Since graduation Rocky has also been an active community volunteer. Rocky and his wife, Linda, are the proud parents of Manya ’06 and Clint. 


Our class officers and executive committee have studied and view favorably a proposal to fund and to construct a new bunkhouse at Moosilauke as a class project to be completed for our 40th reunion. Response cards enclosed with the October class newsletter have been coming in overwhelmingly in favor of the idea. Ninety-five percent of first-year students now participate in freshman trips and would be greeted by our bunkhouse at the Ravine Lodge complex.


If you have any comments, questions or concerns please forward them to me or to the project leader, Jim “Pork Roll” Taylor, at jntmerrnh @comcast.net. 


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