Class Notes 1973

Summer in full swing!

First, back to winter. Richard Merrill chaired the Dartmouth Lawyers Association February meeting in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. Dan Crowley and Hilary Miller attended. Dan presented “What Does It Mean to Practice International Law.” Richard reported: “Although temps started off in the single digits a few of the days and never really got more than the low 20s, the skiers hit the slopes with great enthusiasm and had a wonderful time as snow conditions were quite good. The dinners each night were absolutely wonderful with all attendees raving about how the food was exceptional.” Afterward Richard and wife Thea stayed at the iconic Chateau Frontenac and visited the Hotel de Glace, the only ice hotel in North America. “It was a fascinating and beautiful place, albeit frigid. Thea made it quite clear that my life was forfeit if I should ever book us into an overnight stay in an ice hotel and I assured I wouldn’t.”

Brief report on the Vietnam and Cambodia trip, more of which will appear in a class newsletter. Michael DeVries and wife Christine Stokes, Jim Fleischer and wife Sarah, Michael Marohn, Phil Nelson and wife Anne Parten, and Richard Merrill and Thea Fabio journeyed with professor Gil Raz and others from Hanoi to Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. All classmates except Michael Marohn went on to Cambodia to explore Ankor Wat and Phnom Penh. Mike, Chris, Phil, and Anne arose at 5 a.m. to see the spring equinox at Ankor Wat!

In April Barry Grove hosted a mini-reunion at the Manhattan Theatre Center (MTC) in N.Y.C. attended by Rick Routhier, Sarah Kahn, and their daughter, Emma ’12, and friend Emilie Eisner ’14 as well as Mike DeVries and Chris Stokes, Anne Derry Whidden and husband Roger, Donna Ferretti Tihalas and sister Dianne Preston, Joel Barad, Tu’76, and Tobé Epstein. The group gathered in an intimate, sold-out setting to enjoy Joshua Harmon’s autobiographical play, We Had a World. Afterward they discussed themes and interpretations, facilitated by Amy Harris, arts education specialist. Donna observed: “Aside from the play itself, one takeaway was the clear esteem in which Barry is held by the MTC family. Amy quoted Barry frequently and referenced his success in establishing and expanding MTC facilities and programs. Barry noted that he now spends much of his time ‘sitting in theaters’ as a voter for the Tony Awards.”

About 25 people tuned into the April presentation by professor Jonathan Smolin, “Difficult Conversations on the Middle East,” based on his course. Jim Fleischer moderated. Can you be neutral if you believe something is immoral? This question is what the current generation of students struggle with. It is important to differentiate between opinion and learning. It was noted that inclusivity is not equal to political agreement. Especially probative questions were asked by Sam Livermore and George Woholojian. Professor Smolin recommended comparing two documentaries: One Day in September (1999) related to the Munich Olympics and No Other Land (2024) concerning the destruction of a Palestine community in the West Bank.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Spring!

Short note from Dick Rosston: “All is well in Anchorage, Alaska, where I have lived since 1977. I am a mostly retired business lawyer and keep busy with skiing, hiking, travel, theater, wine, and cooking.”

In June 2019 Tom Shiland retired from 35 years of teaching chemistry at Saratoga Springs (New York) High School. The following year he became the clinical supervisor of student teaching at SUNY Albany, where he also has been a part-time adjunct instructor since September 2016. You may recall Tom was a runner in college.

At the end of December Rick Routhier retired from Spencer Stuart, where he led the Stamford, Connecticut, office and was a member of the firm’s consumer and hospitality and leisure practices. He conducted senior-level assignments spanning boards, CEOs, and chief marketing officers for a wide range of clients. Now Rick will continue to be the fearless leader of the class of 1973.

Michael DeVries came out of retirement after his 10-year run in Wicked to reprise his role as Daddy Warbucks in Annie at the beautifully renovated historic Ellen Theatre in Bozeman, Montana. Top billing on the marquee, he was a crowd favorite during the two-week run. Otherwise, Mike notes he and Christine have been “enjoying the perks of having a place in N.Y.C. to take advantage of Broadway shows and the restaurants that the city has to offer.”

Progress has been made on Lee Harris’s commission of a new dance piece for Pilobolus. Lee spent a week with the company in November working with the directors and dancers, another week was planned before Christmas. The premier was scheduled for the end of January in Lake Worth, Florida. “Amusing aside: My daughter, Ashleigh, attended a Pilobolus performance in Berkeley, California. She mentioned to another person waiting in line to pick up tickets her personal connection to the company. They asked if Lee was still alive!”

Anyone involved in the Dartmouth Outing Club as a student engaged at some point with Earl Jette, who became the assistant to the executive director of the DOC in 1970 and later director of outdoor programs and executive director. Earl died on December 17. When he retired in 2000, this magazine profiled him in its September/October issue.

Graduation requirement update: Beginning with those who matriculated with the class of 2026, students must complete three wellness education credits. Credit is awarded dependent on participation and skill development and may be earned through a full-term course; participation in a full season of intercollegiate varsity or approved club sports, mini-courses, and workshops; or 12 single-session, drop-in experiences.

We belatedly received news of the passing of Richard Wilson in 2019 from colon cancer. Richard was raised in West Virginia as one of seven sons and became a genealogist. Due to the late receipt of notice of his death, per magazine policy, no obituary will be published in DAM, but editor Bob Conway will provide one in an upcoming newsletter. Please remind your heirs to promptly notify the College of your demise.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Another year slips away….

The essay “Singularity or Structure?” by Yuan Ha received an honorable mention in the 2024 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition. Yuan condensed (below) the original essay for classmates.

“Black holes are now real astrophysical bodies after a hundred years of scientific debate about their existence. They are objects of such powerful gravity that even light cannot escape from their surface. Many supermassive black holes have been found at centers of galaxies where they play an important role in galaxy formation and star evolution. Without stars, there is no life in the universe.

“A dominant view of black holes in the last 60 years is known as singularity in which all matter falling into a black hole is crushed into a point with infinite density. The singularity has no size and zero volume. Matter is simply crushed out of existence. While this sounds absolutely mind-boggling and sensational, it is scientifically repugnant. Many physicists do not believe this. They have tried to resolve this problem but without success.

“Over time, the singularity concept has become an established dogma. People just let it be.

“But a Man of Dartmouth would not let it be. He worked on this mystery for 50 years and the answer emerged eventually from his senior fellow thesis. Here is the secret.

“Black holes are rotating bodies. A rotating body has a rotational inertia which keeps it rotating at a steady rate. If one tries to speed up or slow down its rotation, one must apply a tangential force in order to do so. A singularity does not have a rotational inertia because it is a point.

“The rotational inertia also determines the structure of a body. Take an ordinary example. Two eggs have the same size, shape, and weight. They are indistinguishable. However, one egg is a raw egg and the other one hard-boiled. Now rotation will tell them apart. The hard-boiled egg rotates easily while the raw egg rotates sluggishly. They have different rotational inertia and internal structure. For black holes, Man of Dartmouth found that every black hole has a rotational inertia showing it has a structure. There is an effective radius which is the radius of gyration known in mechanics.

“So what is the significance if black holes have a structure? Is it that important for astrophysics? The significance is scientific because the theorem that proclaims the singularity was recognized for the Nobel Prize in 2020. However, the black hole structure contradicts the singularity. We notice that major progress and paradigm shift in a given field occurs once every 50 years and this has been the case in science for several hundred years. A paradigm shift for black holes is inevitable. A notable example of a paradigm shift is the continental drift theory which contradicts the previous immovable continent dogma. The dogma was vigorously defended by the then leading authorities in geophysics for decades until it finally faded away.”

An exuberant Yuan may be contacted at yha@ccp.edu.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Post-reunion tidbits follow.

Claus Hamann wrote to clarify comments in an earlier column: “I transitioned to healthcare consulting and accountable care leadership after 15 wonderful years on staff in geriatrics at Mass General in Boston and since retirement in 2018 enjoy growing fruit trees and improving migratory fish passage in Maine (apples and alewives).”

At the Delco Senior Games in July, Bob Jones was the only one in his age group to swim (and win) all seven events. Later in the month he participated in the National Senior Games in Pittsburgh and was pleased his times improved. In August the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists inducted Bob into its Hall of Fame in recognition of his volunteer efforts and dedication to the employee benefits industry. Bob mentioned he caught Bill Lehman, swim team member and fraternity brother, up on the reunion. Unfortunately, Bill has been wheelchair-bound for the past several years.

Class huntsman Texan Richard Merrill was in the Maine woods (near Canada) in October. “After 15 to 20 years of applying, this year I was drawn for a Maine moose permit, about a 1.5-percent chance when a nonresident, and then about a 50-percent chance of harvesting a moose. The bull was 240 yards from me when I shot it. Since I tagged out early on my moose hunt and had two free days left, I opted for a bear hunt using hounds the next day. This alternated between periods of low activity and then extremely intense activity, including running along roads, twice crossing cold, waist-deep water, and trying to keep up with a couple of guys at least 30 years younger as we all tried to reach where the hounds had treed the bear. All told, about 23 miles walking and 44 hours spent in the Maine woods. I’m very fortunate!” Richard estimates the moose he bagged was around 1,000 pounds while the bear was roughly 300 pounds.

Also, Richard summarized January’s Dartmouth Lawyers Association gathering at Snowbird, Utah: “John Goheen, Dan Crowley, Mike Ultee, Hilary Miller, and I were at the meeting. John has joined the ranks of the retired. Hilary still enjoys practicing law and does not have any plans to retire soon. Dan is still working. Mike is a brewer and beer judge, with his business, Ulteemit Brewing, which has been crafting fine homebrew since 1987, located in Hillsborough, New Jersey.”

In January Jim Sullivan reported “a team of Dartmouth ’73 golfing stalwarts, including ‘Digger’ Donahue, Bob Glovsky, John Lundgren, and Michael Neary, participated in a member-guest tournament at Bob’s club in Florida. Michael reported that the club is lovely and they had a great time together.”

While at dance class, Sarah Kahn responded to a call for medical assistance when an individual in another room fell off a steep treadmill. Sarah was instrumental in resuscitating heart attack victim Jack Gault.

News was received of the May 2023 death of former football player Tom Tarazevits. See https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits. Encourage heirs to timely report any demise.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Reunion Recap, Part 4: President Rick Routhier, fall 2023 recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award, led Saturday afternoon’s class meeting, a combination of thank-you’s to all involved with class operations during the past five years and a look ahead to the next five; most current leadership team members re-enlisted for their (lifelong?) assignments. Additional regional contacts include John Roberts in Arizona, Richard Guy in Virginia, Geoff Calhoun in Colorado, and Anne Derry Whidden in Maine.

Rod Thompson introduced Dean Daniel Rockmore who spoke on “The Digital Age at Dartmouth.” He noted John Kemeny’s 1972 book, Man and the Computer, was prescient about the role of computers, but Kemeny missed “distribution capacity,” believing the need to be tied to a mainframe. With cell phones, everyone today carries more computing power than in all of Kiewit! The field of artificial intelligence research was founded at a workshop held at the College in summer 1956, commemorated on a plaque outside Dartmouth Hall. Essentially an extended brainstorming session, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project brought together some of the brightest minds in computing and cognitive science.

During a break in omnipresent precipitation, classmates gathered for our reunion photo in front of renovated Dartmouth Hall. Dinner on Baker lawn followed, with more connections and reconnections. Greg Barry has worked for the IRS for more than a decade. His wife, Donna Sorkin, former exchange student and recent adoptee, is executive director for the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Foundation, having herself received an implant as an adult. Bill Jacobs retired three years ago and visited London and Paris in 2023. Still engaged in architecture, Tom Hotaling has worked on many campuses in New England. Harold Kurland retired from practicing law, and it was a pleasure to reconnect with former Bissell suite-mate exchange student Tina Rogers Kurland. Bruce Alexander also ceased practicing law and John Goheen is in the process of winding down his legal career. Kevin O’Shea moved to South Carolina full time in December 2022. After 40 years as a biology professor at Howard University, George Middendorf retired two years ago. Similarly, Steve Bolster retired after 39 years as professor of music at Berea College. Tom Wolfson uses his foreign service and state department experience as an independent government relations professional. Post-reunion, Lee Harris was planning a working session with Pilobolus on a new composition. West Virginia native John Bailey is still on the federal district court in his home state but is no longer chief justice. “On extended sabbatical” is how George Leach describes his status. Warren Heim engages in medical device research and development at his Team Medical company in Boulder, Colorado. Harrison Marks serves as executive director of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. George Bayrd has spent four decades in commercial real estate. Self-described “gadabout and gadfly” Richard Berlin now spends time fishing. Marvin Frankel’s Sentencing Reform Journey: 1970-1978, coauthored by Kate Stith-Cabranes, was published in June 2023. Sophocles Carinos has been with leading wholesale seafood processor and distributor Ipswich [Massachusetts] Shellfish Group for more than a decade.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Reunion recap, Part 2: Allen Kraus, mastermind behind the “Letter to Dartmouth College and the Class of 2023,” moderated an interviewee panel composed of Donna Bascom, Charles Box, Bob Haynes, Bunk Rosenblum, Karen Fagin White, George Wolohojian, and the undersigned. Much subsequent discussion focused on how our school years fostered community. As Tom Gibson noted, “We had each other to lean on; a community of great people.” This was echoed by Richard Merrill, “Dartmouth grads recognize each other in a variety of places. There are connections across classes and a sense of belonging.” Dan Smith pointed out that unlike some other institutions, Dartmouth does not admit a lot of students with the expectation they will leave. Quality education and the best foreign study program were lauded by Bill Symonds.

Following the panel, Mitch Kurz introduced dean of the faculty Elizabeth Smith, now an adopted ’73, who gave a presentation on the liberal arts and how programs and student interests have evolved. In our day there were 291 faculty; today there are 450. Most popular majors in 1973 were history, psychology, and English; today the top picks are economics, government, and computer science.

Allan Jayne, Gary Johnson, and Lou Kartsonis took one of the bus tours. “I enjoyed the tour. I saw Occom Pond, really, for the first time and was surprised at how large it was. I even heard some stories about it. I enjoyed seeing new campus athletic facilities,” said Gary.

Due to inclement weather, Friday’s reception and dinner were in the West Gym, with wall coverings simulating a New England forest. Abundant chatter: David Pelland and Howard Baum reminisced about road trips to Skidmore and Northampton in Howard’s Oldsmobile (“we weren’t bad, but we didn’t always behave”). Doug Bate is winding down corporate training. After 43 years teaching sociology and serving as honors director at Rutgers, Randy Smith retired. Richard Guy devotes substantial time to the law of scallop boats. Chip Hughes recalled how he was influenced by his Tucker Foundation internship in Compton, California, shortly after the Watts riots. Willie Koppenheffer is active with the Lebanon (New Hampshire) Rotary. Avid hiker Fred Rankin has trekked extensively, including Bhutan, and has his sights set on the Camino de Santiago. Mike Ultee still has a passion for chemistry. St. Albans alum and member of its governing board, Cal Bowie continues practicing architecture and assisting the school with renovations. Tom Sherry retired from teaching ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane and moved to White River Junction, Vermont. Mass General is still benefiting from Claus Hamann’s medical expertise. Doug Goodman enjoys his high-rise apartment with a great view near the Manhattan theater district. About four years ago Fred Skillern moved to Summit Sky Ranch in Silverthorne, Colorado. Thomas O’Neill is in Miramar, Florida, and Bill Greenbaum is moving to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Tom Gianis proudly disclosed that his daughter played lacrosse for the College. Employee recognition is a focus for Rob Miklas. Dana Johnson and Jake Johnston are proud Canadians still.

More next time.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Our 50th reunion has come and gone….

Rockford, Illinois, native Charles Box was honored in July 2020 by the naming of a scholarship program at Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution. The scholarships, financed by the Puri Foundation, are designed for Black students pursuing a degree in business at the university and allow students to complete their degree debt-free. Charles served in Rockford’s municipal government during the 1980s, was elected the first Black mayor of Illinois’ second largest city in 1989, and later became chair of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Charles has contributed his time and talents to numerous organizations for the benefit of the region.

John Wood has been practicing law in Colorado and was a partner in the venerable Denver law firm Holme Roberts & Owen until it was acquired by Bryan Cave at the beginning of 2012. John has wide-ranging experience in resort development and related land use, financing, construction, leasing, and sales issues as well as the acquisition or sale of office, industrial, and other commercial properties throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Most recently he is a consultant with the Alpert Corp. on real estate transactions, oil and gas, land use entitlements, and general business-related matters.

A certified professional geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists, Eric Struhsacker is vice president for exploration with Renaissance Gold Inc, a gold and silver exploration company with a large project portfolio in Nevada, Utah, Argentina, and Spain. Eric is experienced in exploration for gold and silver in the Great Basin, copper and molybdenum throughout the Western states, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in Maine and Arizona, and geothermal resources. He is a member and former vice president and president of the Geological Society of Nevada and has regularly been chair of its annual symposium. Eric also is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists, Geological Society of America, Nevada Petroleum Society, and other professional organizations and a frequent contributor to professional publications.

After the previous column, Bob Barr shared this recollection: “I was saddened to read Hervey Hauser’s obit. He and I drove for Kleen linen for several years delivering those green paper bundles of clean bedding and towels to all the dorms. Climbing the stairs to the third floor loaded down with bundles was grueling work, but the money was pretty good. Ah memories!”

Two death notices were recently received: Charles Dobroski, a football player who transferred to the University of Delaware after freshman year, died in late December 2022; and Charles Franz, a Hanover native, succumbed in late January. Obituaries are at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. Dr. Seth Guterman, president of People’s Choice Hospital who led the unsuccessful heart attack rescue effort, contacted the College in April to belatedly express his respect and appreciation for Chuck Thomas, mentioning his son’s middle name is Charl in honor of Chuck and that Chuck’s nickname was “Potato,” although he is unaware of its origin.

Since this column was due in advance of our gathering, reunion news will appear in coming months.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Only a few months until our 50th!

Despite rain, November’s 50th anniversary of coeducation was a festive occasion. Class of 1973 participants were Donna Ferretti Tihalas and Valerie Armento. Renovated Dartmouth Hall was bathed in green at night. “Dartmouth Class of 1973” leads the listing of class contributors and the slide display in the area adjacent to redesigned Dartmouth 105 includes a quote from Susan Gordon. Be sure to tour when next in Hanover.

At the Volunteer Officer Experience virtual gathering in December, the Class Officer Associations executive board and alumni relations recognized the classes of 1961 and 1973 “for collaborating together and maximizing impact to beautify a beloved space on campus for all community members,” referring to our reunion class gift, The Rise, near Bartlett Tower, and 1961’s refreshed Robert Frost statue. George Wolohojian accepted the award on our collective behalf and spoke eloquently about the project on track to be complete in June. Another must-see!

Happily retired George Heitz enjoys living on the sixth hole at the El Macero County Club just outside Davis, California, playing golf several times each week. With the exception of the county club and its facilities, there are no commercial properties within the neighborhood boundaries.

The next time you are in the Durham, Maine, area make a point to visit Chesley Meadows Preserve at Runaround Pond, named for the Duncan Chesley family and operated by the Royal River Conservation Trust. Duncan sold land to the trust so the diverse rural landscape could be preserved in perpetuity yet remain open for hunting and other activities, including a snowmobile trail. Stephen King fans may recall that Runaround Pond is central to several of his writings.

After 25 years as a banker at Lehman Brothers and then at Evercore Group as a senior advisor, Leslie Fabuss became an angel investor.

Michael Galica continues to practice medicine at UMass Memorial, where he is a primary care physician and an assistant professor at the medical school. “Dr. Galica knows how to connect with people, a trait of a true caregiver,” states UMass Memorial.

Also still practicing medicine and newly proficient at telehealth is internist Bob Mikelonis, who is affiliated with St. Vincent Hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania.

A partner at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrik in Toledo, Ohio, Joe Rideout focuses on all types of real estate financing and development transactions and projects. He was recognized in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, Joe serves on the Toledo-Lucas County Convention and Visitors Bureau board of trustees.

The College’s Call to Lead Campaign celebrated its successes at events in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco. Contributions still sought in an effort to reach 60-percent participation. At the culminating event in San Francisco, the new $100-million STEM-X program donation was announced.

Find reunion info at https://1973.dartmouth.org. If you have not yet registered, do so today!

Sadly, we’ve lost Kai Fun Yu and William Fitzharris. Kai died in July and Bill passed in October. Obituaries may be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Adieu, 2022.

Post-college Dick Rosston worked on avalanche control in Montana for a year, attended law school at University of California, Berkeley, and then moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where he has resided since 1977. He practiced with Dorsey & Whitney and remains active in ski patrol, carrying over that interest from the Dartmouth ski patrol. On the cultural side, Dick is a director of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts as well as the Anchorage Concert Association.

In Louisville, Kentucky, Dave Mann is a cardiac electrophysiologist specialist focused on adult cardiology. He is affiliated with several area hospitals and also is licensed to practice medicine in Indiana.

Stuart Pechter is a periodontics practitioner in Lantana, Florida, who receives high ratings from his patients for “his nimble, careful fingers and thorough, patient approach.” In addition, Stu is a member of the Palm Beach Masters who enjoys early morning swims, especially in open water.

As of June 30 Fred Haas officially retired from his position of adjunct assistant professor of music at the College. An August article listing all faculty and staff at least 55 years of age with at least 10 years of service can be found at “Honoring the 2022 Retirees” at dartmouth.edu.

Rick Saul served as the chief financial officer and director of operations at Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts, for more than 40 years before retiring in 2017. He continues his affiliations with the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the National Business Officers Association and currently serves on the board of trustees and finance committee of the Thacher Montessori School, the board of directors of the Massachusetts Association of Nonprofit Schools and Colleges, and the board of the Independent Schools Compensation Corp. Rick also is vice president of a chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.

After graduating from Smith and obtaining a master’s in education from Lesley College, adopted classmate Comfort Halsey-Cope spent her entire career at Park School in Brookline, first as a classroom teacher and later in various pivotal counselor and advisor roles, ultimately retiring a few years ago as the service-learning coordinator and secondary school counselor.

The natural environment in Harvard, Massachusetts, is in good hands with Peter Dorward as chair of the town’s open space committee. For many years he has been involved with the Harvard Conservation Trust as well.

Since 1988 Alfred Minor has been a chaplain with the D.C. Department of Corrections. In the introduction to A Correctional Institution’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the author thanks Alfred for the daylong tour he provided of the central facility in Lorton, Virginia.

One of a small number of international classmates, Chooi-Lye Ch’ng returned to Malaysia after graduation and had a successful career in financial services. He died in May. His obituary can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

As we turn the page to 2023 and our 50th reunion, please be sure to update your contact information at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

War or pandemic, neither good.

Baltimore resident Al Friehofer, who spent 20 years as a businessman before turning to teaching, retired. Last summer Al rowed 400 miles from Lake George to Keuka Lake (plus an 8-mile portage) in his Adirondack guide boat to promote environmental stewardship on the two lakes and raise awareness of New York State waterways. More on his adventure is available in the Finger Lake Times and his blog at lakertolaker.blogspot.com “What I have realized through the years is how enjoyable it is to see our waterways at 4 miles per hour under your own power and meeting people along the way.”

Our 50th reunion will be history by this time next year, so start planning to attend. Take a cue from Wayne Whippen: “I am looking forward to coming to the 50th in 2023 and catching up with everyone. That is right in the middle of my blue marlin season in Madeira, Portugal, where we live about six months of the year, but I may have to delay that for such a worthy occasion.” Wayne is a two-time International Master Angler, winning a multiple-day, multiple-hour event fishing for sailfish and white marlin with a trophy figure based on The Old Man and the Sea. See www.powerandmotoryacht.com/sportfishing/international-masters-angling-to....

In late April the class enjoyed a virtual screening of Early Daughters of Dartmouth: Blazing the Trail to Coeducation, 1969-1972, spotlighting adoptees Ann Tarbox Birchall and Cindy Saranec Livermore, followed by a panel moderated by president Rick Routhier and composed of astronomer Suzan Edwards, law professor Kate Stith, and commercial banker Donna Ferretti Tihalas sharing their journeys to Dartmouth and paths after graduation. Bill Nisen was instrumental in handling technology and is working on making a recording available. More than 80 classmates attended. Chat comments included: “I reviewed plays and movies for The Daily Dartmouth. I remember mentioning Meryl Streep’s performance in one of the three Frost competition plays I reviewed in spring ’72. I could see how serious she was but actually thought to myself she didn’t have the look to make it big,” recounted Scott Johnson. “I remember often vitriolic discussions in spring 1972 on where the first classes would be housed. There was a campus committee to determine how dorm space would be allocated (by room, floor, building) and how individuals displaced would be handled for new room allocations,” recalled Bruce Curran. Kudos to all, especially Suzan, Kate, and Donna! The movie can be watched free with password “Eleazar” at https://vimeo.com/366773751.

The class extends its condolences to Paul Feakins whose wife, former exchange Smith student and adopted classmate Anne Butterworth Feakins, died in May 2021. Anne was active in community service in the Norfolk, Virginia area. Her obituary can be found at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

Former Chinese language and history professor Jonathan Mirsky, whose notoriety arose from his frequent activist demonstrations against U.S. foreign policy, died last September in London, where he moved in 1975. He was memorialized in February; proceedings viewable at https://youtu.be/R6cE6tfu-TY with Dartmouth-related comments at 1:13.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Two years since life changed dramatically, but we move forward.

“A small, hearty, and mostly mobile contingent of 1973 players attended the reunion of the 1970 and 1971 Ivy League Championship football teams held during the Homecoming Weekend in October. Tyrone Byrd, Tom Gianis, Doug Jaeger, Mike Klupchak, Bob Norton, Kevin O’Shea, Fred Radke, Jim Ryan, Bob Soltess, and Tom Scholz made the trek to the Hanover Plain and were richly rewarded with an overtime victory against a very strong Yale team on a beautiful fall weekend as well as great fellowship. The teams were introduced to the crowd during halftime at midfield and received a terrific ovation. After the tremendous, come-from-behind victory, the entire team lined up on the sideline facing the crowd and led the assembled fans in singing a rousing ‘Men/Women of Dartmouth.’ Enough to almost choke up an old linebacker,” reports Bob Soltess.

ESPN noted later in October Dartmouth unveiled a new “simple but classy” helmet design, with the “Lone Pine Tree” on the right side. “When the team saw the new helmet design, players were ecstatic.”

In December The American Lawyer recognized Ben Wilson with its lifetime achievement award for his years of contributions to the legal profession in both environmental law and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ben is chair of Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, D.C. He also serves as chair of the Environmental Law Institute, secretary of the board of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and chair of the environmental, energy, and public utilities law section of the National Bar Association, which recently honored him with its Presidential Award. He is on the boards of PG&E Corp. and Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co. and is an adjunct professor of environmental law at the Howard University School of Law. He established the African American General Counsel and Managing Partner Networks in 2012 and founded the Diverse Partners Network in 2008. He is a past member of the Dartmouth board of trustees.

Dave Leuschen, a third-generation Montana native, spends as much time as possible with his family of eight on Switchback Ranch, his ranching business (commercial beef plus outfitting and dude ranch) in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming near the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park. Dave is a dedicated philanthropist. In 1998 he founded the David M. Leuschen Charitable Foundation to support local ranching communities and open space preservation and is an active supporter of the College. Through the years Dave has dedicated both his time and knowledge to the arts, supporting music and public radio and serving as a contributor and funder to a number of films and documentaries.

In September Jonathan Woods died from heart complications. Jon’s obituary is at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

Our 50th reunion is June 9-13, 2023. Note this is graduation weekend, with seniors remaining in the dorms and parents competing for hotel space. Start contacting and making plans with classmates you want to see in person. Look for a class message on lodging info soon.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Another long year bows out!

Michael McKinley is a Florida attorney based in Punta Gorda, having earned his J.D. at the University of Florida in 1978. Since 1981 he has served as attorney for the school board of Charlotte County and also represents the school boards of Glades and Hardee counties as well as the supervisor of elections for Charlotte County. Mike has developed extensive experience in local government, real estate, business and land development, and corporate law. He is active in the community and currently serves on the board of trustees of Goodwill Industries.

Lee Rosengard spent pandemic time teaching. “Although retired as a litigator from the firm where I spent my entire professional career, I continued as an adjunct professor at Penn Law School (year 10) and Villanova Law School (year 20), all on Zoom. The most fun was teaching nursery school with my wife, Andrea. Two of our three daughters and their families live in the Philly suburbs a few blocks apart, and both families have little girls who turned 3 years old in 2020. Their nursery school was closed for most of the 2020-21 school year, so we formed a Covid bubble. We spent three mornings a week teaching in one of their basement playrooms turned into a preschool. It’s hard to say who benefited more; two granddaughters, who learned their ABCs from adoring grandparents, or Andrea and I, who kept our sanity and sense of humor by being with little kids! Each of our preschoolers has a sister, one age 7 and one age 1, and we got to spend time with them as well. We resorted to FaceTime to stay connected to our Santa Monica daughter’s family with their two kids, ages 3 and 1.”

Ron Bast and Leslie “Mac” Rood operating as Bast & Rood Architects maintain architectural offices in Warren and Hinesburg, Vermont. Both have been involved with Yestermorrow Design Build School in Warren, where Mac is a teacher as well as on the board of directors. He is married to Bobbie Cohen Rood, a Wheaton exchange student our junior year. Mac collaborated with William McDonough on the Innovations for a Circular Economy House in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum. Bill serves on the advisory board at Yestermorrow. Ron has served on the Hinesburg planning commission, including a term as chair, as well as two stints on the Hinesburg selectboard, with multiple periods as chair. Ron also has been president and a board member of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and currently is chair of the board of directors at the Snelling Center for Government, which is dedicated to fostering responsible and ethical civic leadership, encouraging public service, and promoting informed citizen participation in shaping public policy in Vermont.

Weymoth Crowell succumbed to a pulmonary embolism in July. T.W., a key member of the 1970-1972 Ivy football championship teams, practiced anatomic pathology and family medicine in Louisiana and Mississippi.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Pandemic is easing up.

Since shortly after the spring 2020 pandemic shutdown, a decades-spanning group of DOC chubbers has been reading DOC-related tomes to while away Monday eves. Last year they made it through Reaching that Peak: 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club by David Hooke ’84 (more than 400 pages) and Language of the Forest by C. Ross McKenney (a mere 200 pages). Recently, they turned to The Moosilauke Reader, Vol. 1 by Bob Averill ’72, which commences with MaryAnn Love Malinconico’s 13-page essay, “Geology of Mt. Moosilauke and Environs.” MaryAnn obtained a master’s in geology from Dartmouth and a doctorate from Columbia; she is a research associate at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where her husband, Larry Malinconico ’74, is a rocks professor. They married in Oslo, Norway, in 1974, when MaryAnn was a foreign service diplomat; both joined the group for that evening and subsequent readings.

Sandra Cohen has been hunkered down in Silver Spring, Maryland, lo these many months. “My family and I are well. We’re zooming a lot, like everyone else, getting a little tired of it, and trying not to complain because we have it so much better than many. Fortunately, we had a beautiful spring and a nice long autumn, so were able to spend a lot of time outside, frequently taking walks on the C&O Canal towpath along the Potomac, only 10 minutes from our house, and enjoying our garden. An appreciation for being outdoors is a treasured and lasting gift that Dartmouth gave to me.”

Master of a unique combination, Jeff Miller is a practicing attorney working primarily in the areas of business law, employment matters, and alternative dispute resolution as well as a practicing psychologist, working with teenage and young adult males and high-functioning Silicon Valley professionals. “Many of my teenage patients are facing a combination of family, school, and social issues. My adult patients are often seeking assistance with personal and family issues, struggles in the workplace, and deeper issues relating to meaning, purpose, and spiritual direction.”

In January Steve Herzfeld (now Maharishi Ashram Gajoli), who left the College during first term sophomore year, provided an update: “I arrived in Hanover thinking I would do government major and then try law school. Winter term I took classes with artist in residence jazz composer-trumpeter Don Cherry. I decided I wanted to play music, dropped out, played music, came up short on both talent and dedication to a very demanding lifestyle. Eventually, I took a degree in human development at the State University of New York, learned transcendental meditation (TM), met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, trained under him, and became a TM teacher. I obtained an M.B.A. to better handle administrative work and taught TM and various other duties on every continent except South America. The pay was minimalist, but don’t underestimate the joy of being in an organization where nobody is in it for the money. Eventually, I retired and moved to India near the Tibetan border, where I am registered with the government as a student of vedic science.”

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

We just do not know how long the tunnel is.

Check out the alumni small business directory. Classmates include Chuck Appleby, Bob Jones, Richard Merrill, Hilary Miller, and Steve Toll. Appears Hilary used his college yearbook photo.

Bob Jones reported in late October “my wife and I zoomed with Tom Beckmann and his wife and Steve Quigley and his wife, and Dr. Jeff Adam (all former swimmers). I also see Mark Luning ’77, who works in Naples, Florida, and who has helped me reconnect with Craig Colberg. Early this year I enjoyed a lunch with Bunk Rosenblum at one of our favorite places here owned by fellow swimmer Mick Moore ’93. Dartmouth’s decision to cancel men’s and women’s swimming because the College has a higher percentage of entering athletes (as explained to me by the athletic department) compared to the entering class (because we are the smallest Ivy) makes no sense to me practically and experientially. Many of my clients tell me they hire only former athletes and a few clients focus on hiring only former swimmers or crew (rowing) members because of the demands of the sports.” Tom also rues the cancellation of swimming. “Unfortunately, I feel more disconnected than ever—with Dartmouth, not with my classmates. As a member of the swimming team for three years, I was disappointed to hear that the team was being cancelled, along with golf and rowing. And the reason? Because Dartmouth likes ‘other’ people better than it likes athletes—as if the two were mutually exclusive.” 

Those who listen to Marketplace Morning Report on NPR may have heard Bill McDonough speaking on eliminating the concept of waste from the economy. “What we’ve been doing is take, make, waste. That’s a linear economy. That’s why it’s known as ‘cradle to grave.’ What we’re saying is, materials and things, you can take them from nature, and then we make things with them. But when we’re finished with the use of it, we can start to imagine what its next use is and design it for its next use. That’s what’s so much fun. Then you end up with a circular economy. It’s for intergenerational benefit.”

Nick Chamousis reported, “I am particularly excited to be building another pod of Dartmouth lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trangender (mostly) mentees, including a kid from Hempstead High School, a ’20, Latino, who may be the first kid from Hempstead since me to make it to our beloved College on the Hill! It is so often said that college admissions at the highest levels is a crapshoot, but from what I have observed firsthand, the College has done an incredible job of ferreting out talented young people. Though most of ‘my kids’ came from nothing, each and every one of them is extraordinary and has done exceptionally well.”

Sadly, Jethon Sharrieff died in June, John Murray died in July, and Ken Swinski died in November. Obits can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

The year 2020 done and gone!

Never has the world been so happy to see a year end.

The class welcomes adoptee Bobbi Marchello Ritcheske, junior year exchange student and wife of George Ritcheske; both are enjoying Dallas.

Bill Nisen celebrated his sixth year as the associate director of the Institute for Security, Technology and Society at Dartmouth (ISTS), https://ists.dartmouth.edu. For the past five years ISTS has received funding from the National Security Agency to run a series of weeklong cybersecurity education programs for high school students. Not surprisingly, this summer’s program was canceled, but the funding got carried over to summer 2021 and the plan is to bring 50 high school students from around the country to learn about cybersecurity and digital privacy. “My early retirement plans have been thoroughly scuttled.”

Mid-summer Brian Dunn completed a move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Fountain Hills, Arizona, a small town northeast of Scottsdale. “I spent the past three weeks shoehorning a three-bedroom house with garage into a two-bedroom apartment without. It is the culmination of the past 15 months of effort to pack, prepare, and sell my property and then to transition everything to this great location. I have a top fourth-floor apartment with a 180-degree view of the mountains northeast of Scottsdale. It is my intention to use it as a base of operations from which to travel. I purchased a small Airstream trailer last year and intend to head north toward Idaho as soon as I can.”

Five years ago Charlie Gray retired to Hanover after 42 years in California as an engineer and mathematician. Charlie originally moved to Hanover in 1960 since his father was a professor. On a recent perambulation about town, he walked through the cemetery behind Massachusetts Row and found the Kemeny grave “in terrible shape and [it] looks like it is barely maintained while the other presidential sites look in good shape. I think I’m going to revisit with a rake and a brush to clean off the moss, so at least the carving is legible. I remember John from my days as a student programmer in the computer center. He knew me well, since I was the local math prodigy and almost finished the Dartmouth math major while in high school.” Thanks for taking that project on, Charlie.

The 100th anniversary of Dartmouth at Moosilauke was celebrated virtually in late June, noting the gift by the Woodworth brothers of the summit tract and Summit Hotel to the College. Anyone interested in a short photo slideshow blending past and present through old and new photos as well as a brief tour of the current lodge and bunkhouses should view https://dartoutclub.smugmug.com/Lodge/Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke-Centennial....

Sadly, two more classmates succumbed to cancer; Dick Roby in late May and in late June, Lorna Mills Hill. Obituaries are located at dartmouth alumnimagazine.com/obits. In addition to an article in the July 2020 Speaking of Dartmouth, articles about Lorna and her theater company, Ujima, can be found on The Buffalo News website. Celebration of life will be in June 2021.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

I hope the pandemic worst is over!

Last fall Barry Grove had knee replacement surgery, which slowed him down considerably for several months, but he was still able to participate in Tony voting for Broadway shows.

The Dartmouth Lawyers Association gathered in Lake Louise, Canada, this February and there was a strong showing of classmates. Jennifer Parser, who is of counsel with Poyner Spruill in Raleigh, North Carolina, spoke on business immigration issues, while John Goheen, John Harrington, Richard Merrill, Hilary Miller and your scribe took copious notes (not!). There were surprisingly robust month-old remnants of the local winter carnival ice sculptures, including the facade of a medieval castle. (Similar to the one pictured from 1924 in the March/April issue of this magazine.) One participant in the simultaneously occurring Lululemon outdoor classic pond hockey tournament was a young Dartmouth alum on Team USA.

Tyrone Byrd remains busy in the Houston area with the oil and gas business, as well as Dartmouth activities. He is working on the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association’s digital archive project in conjunction with Rauner Library as well as football recruiting and mentoring. Significant time recently has been devoted by TByrd and Bob Norton to the 50th anniversary celebration for the undefeated, untied, nationally ranked 1970 football team, considered the best football team in the College’s history, winning both the Lambert Trophy and Ivy League championship. A three-day celebration (October 2-4) is slated for Homecoming Weekend in conjunction with the Penn game in Hanover. For details, contact byrdtg@sbcglobal.net. The team is planning a memorial for deceased teammates such as Gregg Brown, Bob Henry, Jerry Thompson,and Chuck Thomas. While on the subject of football, I hope everyone caught the March/April feature article “A Fan’s Notes” recounting the 1971 Harvard game and Ted Perry’s winning field goal in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After graduation Chuck Appleby served as a division officer and department head on two nuclear submarines. He then pursued a master’s and Ph.D. in international relations at Johns Hopkins. Fast forward to 2000, when as a leadership and organization development consultant for government, industry and nonprofits, he founded Appleby & Associates in Vienna, Virginia. Chuck also is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington and Georgetown Universities.

The Rev. Robert Bachelder served as a United Church of Christ (UCC) minister for more than 40 years and for 34 years as president of the Worcester Area Mission Society (the successor corporation to Ichabod Washburn’s City Missionary Society) until his 2018 retirement from ordained ministry. In 2015 Bob authored the UCC general synod resolution on responsible stewardship of the outer space environment.

After providing IT manager and director services for a variety of companies, in 2005 David Rier established Data and Computer Resources in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, providing technical and end-user support to small- and medium-size companies, with particular expertise in Microsoft Office, database, and reporting projects.

Sadly, there have been two more classmate deaths. Paul Frangos succumbed in late January to multiple myeloma and Tim Cole suffered a fatal heart attack in February. Obituaries are at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Friday, March 13, is day 73 of 2020.

Bob Norton continues as an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland; he also serves as an emergency medical physician there. Ginger recounts fascinating stories about working in the admissions office during the early years of coeducation.

Staff physician-radiologist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in lower Manhattan, Harley Kaufman also is an alumnus of Brooklyn Law School and licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. He stays fit by swimming a half hour each day. In addition, Harley is a classically trained pianist.

Gary Johnson is a pediatric medicine specialist in Flint, Michigan, with more than 40 years of diverse experience and works in cooperation with other doctors and physicians in medical groups. Gary spoke fondly of Jerome Wade and Siddha Webber at our reunion memorial service.

In June 2018 Tom Helfrich retired from 34 years of civilian federal overseas service as a clinical child and school psychologist with the U.S. Department of Defense. Since then, he has divided time between his 1859 Plymouth, New Hampshire, home (“ho-vel”) and what he claims is a modest abode in Introdacqua, a medieval village near Sulmona, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. 

Europe’s first craft spirits tasting bar, Beavis Bar, in Berlin, Germany, is owned by Jon Cooper. The bar has a collection of more than 850 spirits, from small distillers around the world, all craft, no industrial or mass-market products. In 2019 it won best craft spirits bar in the world at Destille Berlin, Europe’s premier craft spirits event. Jon is hoping to assemble a section of Dartmouth-related spirits at the bar, so is interested in connecting with other alum distillers. He has permission from the German authorities to import directly and likes items of high quality that are under the radar of the big distribution networks. Of course, if anyone visits Berlin, he would like you to stop by.

Jack Gault worked in New York City for a number of years while associated with leading financial service firms in various roles. In 1995 he founded Hanover Associates, LLC, in Darien, Connecticut. Jack has long been interested in historic preservation and served as a presiding representative for the Talmadge Hill Historic Preservation Society in Darien and wrote a well-documented book, Historic Talmadge Hill, about the history of the Talmadge Hill area and its surrounding towns. Jack served as executive director of the Darien Historical Society from September 2010 to September 2017.

Chartered financial analyst Patrick Martin is a member of CFA Institute, a global association of chartered financial analysts, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and founded Martin Investment Management, LLC, in Evanston, Illinois. Since the company’s inception, he has been involved in day-to-day investing activities, including idea generation, position sizing, and risk management across domestic and international equity markets. Patrick also spends time in North Palm Beach, Florida.

Ledyard Canoe Club celebrates 100 years April 23-26 at the Explorer’s Symposium and Riverfest.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

The 250th celebrations wrap up.

Reunion coincided with the 250th anniversary of the College’s founding; 250th insignia and banners everywhere. December 13 is Charter Day, so celebrate, especially if you can make the final hurrah in Boston!

More on reunion: Classmates Andy Caffrey, Sheila and Bruce Foster, Richard Merrill and Thea Fabio, and Paul Sehl breakfasted with professor Edward Bradley to chat about their fall 1971 adventures while on their foreign study program (FSP). Per Paul, “We spent over an hour reminiscing about the travels we took while we were in Italy (separate one- to two-week jaunts in two Fiat microbuses to Etruria, Florence, and Naples, Pompeii, Capri), the unexpected events in Italy that since have turned into funny stories, the various people that we met along the way, the wonderful Italian cuisine (which we all agree is second to none) and the lessons of a lifetime that we learned. We also raised a glass of orange juice to those ’73s who were on the FSP but were not able to join us for breakfast: Reed Greene, Alexis “Luc” Oliveri, Trevor Rees-Jones.” Also noteworthy, Richard had an emergency appendectomy in Boston three days before arriving in Hanover.

Toward the end of President Hanlon’s panel, “Disrupted or Disruptor: Dartmouth in a Changing World,” some young alums interrupted with a request the College divest from fossil fuel entities. Subsequent to reunion, Bob Soltess sent an email to several class officers: “I wanted to share with you some thoughts I have related to the divestiture protest that occurred at the Spaulding Auditorium last Saturday. It sent a powerful message to everyone in the auditorium about the impending climate crisis and an important step Dartmouth could take to play a small but symbolically critical role in addressing the crisis. I know it makes folks uncomfortable to be in the midst of such a demonstration, but what better time to bring the issue forward? The auditorium was filled with intelligent, thoughtful, and frankly powerful people who have the resources and the capabilities to make a serious difference in the battle we all collectively face over the coming decades. Divestment is just one of many issues that need to be tackled to effectively meet the climate challenge. On a personal note, my avocation for the remainder of my active years will be working to mitigate the climate crisis in whatever ways I can. That said, I greatly admire the bravery and conviction of the young demonstrators who take action in order to save the world for all of us. I hope some of you and many others in the audience will be inspired to take actions as well.” Bob recently was appointed to the Gig Harbor, Washington, planning commission.

Calendar for 50th reunion: June 9-12, 2023, with Commencement June 11.

Word was received that in February, Edward Cooke died in his sleep at home in The Villages, Florida. Bob Conway spoke about Ed during the memorial service. His obituary may be found in the online edition of this magazine at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Many of us were just in Hanover!

Info gleaned at reunion will appear in the next issue, due to column timing.

A few classmates unable to attend reunion sent messages. The Paris Air Show presented a conflict for Jennifer Parser, who was a member of the North Carolina Department of Commerce delegation, since there is a large aviation-related industry in North Carolina; thanks, Wright Brothers! “Wishing you all the best, please extend my greetings to those who are there.”

Tom Parker sent word: “Regretfully, I will not make our class reunion. I have been elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and have just started my six-year term. I have my conference with all of my judges in the state at that time, so I am going to have to join all our classmates at the following reunion.” Tom was sworn in as chief justice in January, after serving as an associate justice since 2005. In his career Tom has served as the deputy administrative director of courts, general counsel for the trial courts, director of the Alabama Judicial College Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, and state assistant attorney general, and he is the founding executive director of the Alabama Family Alliance, now the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.

Also unable to participate, Trevor Rees-Jones, who along with his wife, Jan, established the private Rees-Jones Foundation in 2006 that works with nonprofit organizations primarily in north Texas to defend the welfare of children suffering from abuse or neglect, afford relief to those facing mental health challenges, provide youth with opportunities for enrichment and character development, encourage healthy families and communities, enhance the lives of those dealing with disabilities, and promote the humane treatment of companion animals. The foundation also selectively supports U.S.-based international projects, such as CURE Clubfoot Ethiopia, which provides treatment for infants and toddlers with clubfoot throughout Ethiopia. A chance meeting occurred between Trevor and Thad King, who was on a bike excursion with a group of friends. “A real coincidence, running into Thad in a place in northern Ethiopia that’s about as remote a place in the world as you can find! Thad was a good friend at Dartmouth, it was great to see him! But, wow, what an unbelievable circumstance to run into anyone you know in KorKor, northern Ethiopia!” As our alma mater notes, ’round the girdled earth they roam.

Handbook of Strategic 360 Feedback, coedited by Dave Bracken, professor of graduate studies at Keiser University and principal at DWBracken & Associates in Atlanta, was published recently and is a definitive work on strategic 360 feedback. This approach to performance management is characterized by having content derived from the organization’s strategy and values, creating data sufficiently reliable and valid to be used for decision-making, integration with talent management and development systems, and being inclusive of all candidates for assessment.

Still time to contribute to the Alumni Fund to help the class reach its 50-percent participation goal. Any amount gratefully accepted.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Make reunion reservations soon if you haven’t already….

June 13-16 we gather for our 45th (46th) reunion. Please be sure your email address is current (www.dartgo.org/update). The class officers hope to have a panel about “the road less traveled,” so anyone pursuing a less common profession or avocation, please volunteer to share your experience by promptly contacting one of the class officers.

After Dartmouth Kai Fun Yu received a doctorate in mathematical statistics from Columbia University. In 1990 he became a member of the biometry and mathematical statistics branch in the division of epidemiology, statistics, and prevention research at the National Institutes of Health and eventually rose to the position of branch chief. In 2007 Kai was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an award limited to no more than one-third of 1 percent of the membership. This honor recognizes members who made significant contributions in statistical work. Kai was recognized for outstanding contributions to mathematical statistics, sequential analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and other quantitative methods in biomedical research and his leadership in the field. Belated kudos!

Carl Tegtmeier attended the Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Dentistry and then served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps. For more than a quarter century he has practiced dentistry in Mount Kisco, New York. Carl is a trustee of the New York State Dental Foundation, a charitable organization committed to improving access to dental care and oral health. He is co-chair of the New York State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities task force on special dentistry and a member of several organizations focused upon dental care, including the Dental Lifeline Network New York Leadership Council, which oversees the donated dental services program for the elderly and disabled. In 2015 Carl was recognized as a Westchester Health Hero “in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to healthcare in Westchester County and unwavering dedication to improving the quality of life of others.” Congrats!

Who hasn’t seen an InMotion kiosk, wall unit, or store in an airport? For the seventh year in a row, InMotion Entertainment Group, the country’s largest airport-based electronics retailer, is the only airport retailer to appear in the top 101 consumer electronics retailer list in Dealerscope, the leading resource for consumer electronic trade-related news and analysis. “InMotion is honored to continue to be nationally recognized. Our employees are dedicated to continue to grow the business and providing excellent customer service and thought leadership in the quickly evolving consumer electronics space. Our rankings, which improve each year, are a testament to that dedication,” said Jeremy Smith, president and CEO.

After a decade running Virginia’s Wintergreen Resort, Bob Ashton served as president of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, Ragged Mountain Resort from 2010 to 2014 and now is president of Mountain Resort Solutions, guiding resorts to improved performance.

Sadly, Bill Graulty died in October of cancer-related heart disease. The class extends it condolences to his wife, LeVaun, an adopted member of the class. University of Hawaii lecturer Manly Kanoa died in November. Obituaries may be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

The curtain falls on 2018.

David Barkey, Findlay High School alum, returned to Ohio to teach high school history at his alma mater. Immediately post-college, utilizing his German fluency, he traveled through much of Europe. His youthful escapades, including a stint as a garbage man, enable him to engage and enthrall his students; a few years ago they dubbed him “The Most Interesting Man at Findlay High School.” Students describe David as a man of wisdom and inspiration, with a deep and rich connection to history and on-point puns.

Gym Source, headquartered in New York City, is America’s largest distributor of fitness equipment. An undisputed leader in fitness expertise, it has built more gyms for more people and entities (including Dartmouth) than any other company in the world. None other than Bill Kemnitzer is vice president of sales.

Mark D’Andrea has been employed in the biotech-pharmaceutical industries for more than 30 years and for almost a decade as an independent consultant providing expert chemistry manufacturing and controls guidance and project management for the development of biotherapeutic and small molecule drug products. He also has been an instructor in the extension program at the University of California, San Diego. In his spare time Mark enjoys softball at an athletic club in Carlsbad, California.

Hard at work at Howard University is biology professor George Middendorf, a member of numerous scientific societies. His research focuses on reptilian and amphibian biology with emphases on behavior, ecology, evolution, and host-parasite interactions. His research has taken him from Bolivia to Arizona and Suriname. George has also been involved in examining environmental justice issues in urban areas, implementing the environmental justice section of the Ecological Society of America, and developing interdisciplinary and environmental studies programs at Howard.

Are classmates aware that Allin Tallmadge is a celebrated cheesemonger? He left computer consulting in 2006 and joined the American Cheese Society in 2007; now he possesses its certified cheese professional (CCP) designation. CCPs are an elite group of fewer than 1,000 individuals who have passed an exam demonstrating a high standard of comprehensive cheese knowledge and skills. A designated cheese educator, Allin has been in the Atlanta area since 2011 and holds cheese tastings and seminars. He likes to snack on alpine cheeses and doesn’t care if the cheese is French, Italian, Swiss, German, or Austrian. He likes to cook with cheddars and hard northern Italian cheeses; for family gatherings, he likes soft and stinky cheeses. “Cheeses in Europe are regional enterprises that drive the economies of those areas. In the United States trade organizations are formed to advance a region’s economic interest. Cheddar is a type of cheese, but Vermont cheddar is different from Wisconsin cheddar, which is different from California cheddar.”

Belatedly, word was received that recently adopted classmate and Mount Holyoke graduate Carol Spodobalski died unexpectedly of complications from cancer surgery and that Joseph Holmes succumbed after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Our condolences to both their families. Obituaries may be found in the online edition of this magazine at dartmouthalumnimagazine. com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Summertime, and the living is easy (or so one hopes!)….

March mini-reunions were held in Washington, D.C., N.Y.C., and Boston with good turnouts. The gathering at the Capitol, orchestrated by Jim Fleischer and hosted by Congressman Mike Capuano, included alums from the classes of ’71 through ’76 who enjoyed an informative tour as well as discussion with Mike. Classmates present were Bruce Alexander, Dan Crowley, Dave Bracken, Mike DeVries,Jim Fleischer, MaryAnn Love Malinconico, Frank Munn, Jim Ryan, Tom Wolfson,and George Wolohojian. In New York, Jan Seidler Ramirez, chief curator of the 9/11 Museum, arranged for a group to convene at the museum and receive a background presentation and tour. Attendees included Donna Bascom, Nick Chamousis, Mike DeVries, Karen Fagin White, Jack Gault, Doug Goodman, Bob Jones, Allen Kraus, John Lundgren, MaryAnn Love Malinconico,Frank Munn, John Neff, Rick Routhier, Jim Ryan, and Kate Stith. Yes, several overachievers attended more than one event! Per Frank Munn, “It was truly miraculous to come from Oklahoma on a total coincidence with a preset visit to see my daughter and find not one, but two, Dartmouth roommates [Ryan and DeVries] in attendance. Both came down from New York just for this.” Jim’s photos from those two events can be found at www.dott.smugmug.com/Dartmouth. Further north, Wayne Davis hosted a group at the University Club in Boston “with fine food and spirits.” Much of New England was represented: Massachusetts residents Scott Anderson, Andy Caffrey, Digger Donahue, Bob Glovsky, Bill Mayer, in addition to Wayne; New Hampshire residents Bob Barr, Paul Gross and Chet Homer; and Vermont residents Clark Graf and Bob Haynes. Split-staters Claus Hamann, who divides his time between Boston and northern Maine, and Tom Hotaling, who divides his time between Boston and Pomfret, Vermont, also attended.

In 2015 Richard Shafer was named chief investment officer for the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS). Before joining OPERS in 2009 he served as the director of investment at the New Hampshire Retirement System and as CIO at the Alaska Permanent Fund. He also worked for 25 years in management positons at insurance companies including Hartford Financial Services Group, Aetna Life Insurance & Casualty and Lincoln National Corp.

Bill Partlan is associate professor and head of stage directing in the school of theater and film of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He is also artistic director of Triple Espresso LLC in Minneapolis. His highly caffeinated vaudeville style comedy Triple Espresso has been performed in 48 American cities, as well as in Canada, Ireland, London’s West End, Belgium (in Flemish), and Munich and Berlin (in German).

June 2019 reunion dates are June 13-16 (dates stated in Bob Barr’s recent newsletter are incorrect).

Great aerial views of the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and its outdoor spaces, along with comments by the architects who designed complex, can be found by visiting YouTube and searching for “Designing the New Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.”

On the alumni operations front, Cheryl Bascomb ’82 has been appointed vice president for alumni relations, succeeding retiring vice president Martha Beattie ’76.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento73@dartmouth.edu

March-ing on….

In November former class scribe Steve Quigley sent this missive from Marblehead, Massachusetts: “It’s been a long time since Captain Quigs communicated with his old alma mater. Not because he hasn’t been alive and well and living where he wants to be, but because he lost a little bit o’ faith in the place we call Dartmouth. I miss the place and the people, but I do not miss the politics. It is sad to see the institution drop in ranks. I also thought it sad to learn of Bill Slesnick’s and John Rassias’ passings. It has always—and will always—hold a special place in my heart, even though I have been a small contributor in money (not in spirit). I used to love the Big Green and the students who went (t)here. Today? Well, they are super bright, far beyond my level of street-smart and down-right educated. I just hope that they are well-rounded, as we used to call them/us in our day. I thought a few of my classmates might like to know what me, my wife and three children have been up to. I have retired from the educational publishing world, having served there for more than 40 years, and I am now a substitute teacher in just about every conceivable class and at all levels imaginable on the North Shore of Boston. I was voted Massachusetts Substitute Teacher of the Year after my first year of service. My wife just retired as a full-time teacher, and my children live across the globe. I am proud of them all. I can be found at stephen.h.quigley@gmail.com. My only advice would be for the College to continue to be small and exclusive, to engage in education and not politics, to value the alumni more than ever and to matriculate students who love the three E’s: environment, education and enlightenment. God bless to all. May the fair winds bring warm weather and calm seas! Wah who wah!”

Rick Sheppe lives in Post Mills, Vermont, where he is involved with the Post Mills Soaring Club. In January 2017 he served as the president of the jury at the 34th World Gliding Championships in Benalla, Australia, the highest level of sport competition for pilots of sailplanes. The Mount Washington Soaring Association recognized Rick for a flight above 25,000 feet. Suzanne and Thad King hosted the Dartmouth Club of Georgia’s 2017 holiday party at their Atlanta home. In November I visited a Half Moon Bay, California, art gallery where Steve Toll was displaying his stunning photography. Check out stevetoll.zenfolio.com.

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year, and class of ’73 celebrations are planned that week in major metropolitan areas such as New York and Boston. Check to see if there is an event near you! For history buffs, Dartmouth University co-existed with Dartmouth College from June 1816 to February 1819, so 200 years ago there were two Dartmouths. The university had a sordid, albeit short, history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_University

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento@alum.dartmouth.org

Fifteen years of columns by the undersigned with this issue!

Paul Johnson reported that Memorial Day Weekend provided the occasion for a micro-reunion in Chicago of Brown Hall and Alpha Theta compadres: himself, Harrison Marks and Ray Gottesfeld, “along with their better halves, respectively: Donna, Suzie and Sherri. Great times in the Windy City!” Harrison sold his home in New Bern, North Carolina, and moved onto his sailboat, so rumor has it he may have ventured to Bahamas in the fall and may turn up somewhere near Maine this coming spring. He is best reached at sailingmarks@gmail.com. Paul is interested in seeing how many ’73s he can talk into celebrating the 50th anniversary of Freshman Week in the fall of ’19. Paul can be reached at phjdart73@gmail.com.

This summer, as in years past, Fred Haas and his wife, Sabrina, conducted a very popular jazz camp in Woodstock, Vermont. Interplay Jazz and Arts is a holistic learning experience for musicians and artists of all ages and levels to explore and develop their art, creativity and confidence. Fred, who serves as distinguished senior lecturer in the College’s music department, has influenced and taught many members of the Dartmouth community. Check out https://interplayjazzandarts.org. Nils Johnson studied with Fred; when Nils is visiting his place in Lyme, New Hampshire, he can be found at the Lyme Inn, where he provides great piano background for dinner guests. Beware! Reportedly, if you stay over through Sunday morning Nils will recruit you (talent or not) into singing with the choir at the Lyme Congregational Church.

Recently adopted class members include exchange students Ann Tarbox Birchall and Rochelle Cabot. Welcome!

Tom Waggoner currently is with Community Solar Partners, an Arkansas mutual benefit corporation formed to develop community solar gardens and related financing for solar panel owners who wish to avail themselves of state net metering regulations to reduce their carbon footprints and save money on utility bills.

At the end of 2016 Brad Sande joined the ranks of the retired from his position as development director for New Directions Youth and Family Services, a collection of youth agencies running community residential and detention programs. Brad continues his position as secretary on the board of directors for the Salamanca Public Library. Salamanca is the only city in the United States almost completely on an Indian reservation. Allegany State Park, New York’s largest, lies immediately to the south.

Noteworthy article in the August 2 issue of Forbes: “2017 Grateful Grads Index: Top 200 Best Loved Colleges,” ranking Dartmouth No. 1. This year 46 percent of classmates participated in the annual fund drive.

Dartmouth plays Brown at Fenway Park on Friday, November 10, at 8 p.m. in a nationally televised game. Flashback: Our senior year Dartmouth clobbered Brown 49-20. It was only 30 degrees by game time in Hanover that day, and although we got off to a rocky start with two fumbles in the first quarter, Steve Stetson orchestrated a five-touchdown second quarter. Chuck Thomas scored twice that day and Steve once.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Trending toward fall….

David Bracken, professor of graduate studies at Florida’s Keiser University, was named a fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology of the American Psychological Association, in recognition of service as one of the foremost authorities in multisource feedback and 360-degree-feedback programs. He is coeditor and contributor to The Handbook of Multisource Feedback considered the most definitive topic resource.

George Wolohojian reminisced: “I recently spoke with Steve Bolster, who is thriving as the Mary McGaw Endowed Professor of Music at Berea College in Kentucky, where he has been on the faculty for 37 years. His wife, Sandy, is a professor of mathematics. We traded stories about our time as the tuba players in the Marching Band. Yes, they were heavy, but we got great seats for football games, where we were joined by our girlfriends (now wives), Sandy and Donna. Steve, the music major, was very talented. I was not. I moved on to become the announcer and voice of the band, reading the outlandish scripts carefully scrutinized by the athletic council during the week prior to each game. Steve’s talent was more crucial, because many of the songs we played were not in published form. Steve would listen to radio and records to learn the songs and then score the parts for each instrument. Every week the band members would run on to the field to form that glorious lopsided ‘M,’ while I announced, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the most mediocre band in the Ivy League, the Dartmouth College Marching Band!’ ”

In May the Dartmouth Lawyers Association presented a free webinar on immigration strategies for students and recent graduates to learn about the options available for business-related and other visas. Current trends in immigration enforcement and possible changes for highly skilled workers were discussed by a panel, including long-time immigration specialist Jennifer Parser, moderated by Hilary Miller.

At the conclusion of the May Alumni Council meeting, vice president for alumni relations Martha Beattie ’76 projected a photo of Mark Harty, informing councilors he passed away after a difficult, long illness. Martha explained Mark’s lifelong commitment to Dartmouth, from the Harty Family Scholarship Fund to his tireless alumni participation in many roles. Although some councilors would not have known Mark, in Hanover his service to the College is understood as a model and he is much missed. 

During the Hollins University commencement, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation posthumously awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award to Caren Diefenderfer, for having shown by daily living qualities that evince love of and helpfulness to others. A four-minute standing ovation ensued.

William A. Burks died in Chicago in March. Witt was one of the group of South Side Chicago inner-city men who matriculated with the class of 1973 as part of Foundation Years, an experimental program. Their story was in the May-June 2012 issue, available in the online archives: archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/issues. Belatedly, word was received that Richard Oliver Rutland III died in November 2016. Obituaries are at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

One-quarter plus!

Two classmates received sport honors in 2016. In late September the Kings County, Washington, Sammamish Rowing Association (SRA) dedicated the Hod Fowler Boathouse. Hod founded the SRA in 1995 as a community organization dedicated to providing access to rowing for people of all ages and abilities. When he retired from active involvement in the SRA, he helped form the community partnership grant program, a public-private partnership that leverages funding to help create new public recreation facilities. During Homecoming Weekend in October, John Lundgren was inducted into Wearers of the Green as an honorary member, in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the success of Dartmouth athletics. Criteria include making exceptionally generous contributions of time or financial resources to athletic programs. John serves on the athletic advisory board and endowed the men’s golf head coach position. Kudos to Hod and John!

John Kloppenberg has weighed in on the discourse on democracy with Toward Democracy, an almost-900-page opus. More than a set of political practices, he posits that democracy is an ethical ideal. John opines that democracy’s success in securing greater sovereignty, autonomy and equality threatens to erode the virtues on which the ethical ideal depends: a sense of pluralism and reciprocity, and a respect for deliberation, difference and the common good.

Here are reminiscences from two who went on foreign language study to Strasbourg, France, in 1971.

Harold Kurland and his French family became lifelong friends and have visited each other many times, on both sides of the Atlantic. Although his French parents died some years ago, on a visit one of his French brothers brought a ship’s lantern belonging to the father, who had been an executive of a Rhine shipping company; the lantern had been on one of its barges in the old days and now is at Harold’s lake house in the Finger Lakes, New York.

Mike Magill shared, “The experience planted seeds for a long-term sequence of events that have changed my life in more ways and more profoundly than I could ever have imagined. The benefit was not just for learning French, although I have been surprised to have occasion to use the language again in recent years. Rather, getting to know another culture, encountering history and art and people and places up close opened my eyes to a certain kind of joy. It gave me confidence that I could step out across national borders to learn, build deep connections and make a difference in lives, both professionally and personally. My experience in foreign study at Dartmouth made me a multinational citizen, both personally and professionally. It set in motion events that enriched my understanding, relationships, work and family.”

Sadly, three classmates passed in the fall: Thomas Spiliotis, Randal Mel Kirk and Robert Ryan. Tom, better known as Frankie the piano player with Bobby and the Corvairs, is recalled fondly by many. Randal was an alumni interviewer and active Mason. Bob was a consummate singer and actor.

Formal obituaries can be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org

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

It’s a long, hot, political summer.

Neuberger Berman senior vice president Dave Wilson has found an entertaining exercise outlet. Dave and his wife, Ann, took up competitive ballroom dancing a few years ago and have become so enamored with dance they have been to Argentina to take tango lessons. For photos, see myphotos.ryankennerphotography.com/p295046649/h3F74836A#h300051ab.

Nick Chamousis continues his incredible commitment to mentoring young people, especially Dartmouth students, including Jamal Brown ’08, who is now press secretary to Shaun Donovan, President Obama’s director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Radiologist Jim Gilley is with South Texas Radiology and specializes in musculoskeletal radiology. His imaging center works with the Spurs and other pro teams. Jim likes to fish and reportedly has a photo of a 10-pound plus bass he caught on a lake on his property near D’hanis, outside of San Antonio, Texas.

Seasoned trial lawyer John Lyons retired in late 2014 from the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins, where he was chair of the litigation department.

Doug Jaeger, who is living in Inver Grove Heights near St. Paul, Minnesota, is general manager for a manufacturing company based in Newcastle, Maine. He commutes at times to the Northeast as part of his work and, when possible, detours to Hanover. Doug has two youngsters, 8 and 10, so is advising retiring classmates he plans to work forever.

Kelvin Chin is the founder and executive director of the Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation, overcomingthefearofdeath.org, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people improve the quality of their present lives by overcoming their fear of death. The foundation’s objective is to help people reduce or eliminate their fear of death in order to free up otherwise wasted energy that can be refocused to better use in one’s daily life. Working with audiences on death and dying issues since the 1980s, Kelvin has taught numerous seminars for the legal and healthcare industries. Although he lives in Austin, Texas, he speaks internationally, has spoken at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and has been on TV. Kel is in the process of writing a book, Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems.

The Donor Network of Arizona honored organ donors from the past several years recently and included Mike Kaiser in its recognition. Mike was critically injured in 2012 when struck by a car while crossing a street in his handicapped scooter and fought for 13 months because “Dartmouth men don’t quit,” but ultimately died on June 27, 2013. Mike had previously registered as an organ donor on his driver’s license. Twenty patients received bone grafts and 15 received skin grafts from him. Donations of skin are so scarce, notice of availability is sent out nationwide, so the neediest patients receive the skin grafts. Mike’s donations of skin went to individuals in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Missouri. One does not often receive posthumous accolades; kudos to Mike. Your scribe has a donor dot on her license and hopes other classmates do also.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie. j.armento73@dartmouth.edu

Primavera!

Did everyone catch “Fire Works” in the Sept/Oct 2015 DAM issue about student volunteer firefighters featuring Garson Fields? About five years ago Garson sold his electric cable company and took up rowing, as both a competitor and coach. He rows in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at Holyoke Rows and drives 70 miles three days a week to coach about 30 high school students from the Bernardston area, just below the Vermont border. During the winter he repairs shells in Holyoke.

Will Hiltz serves as a senior managing director of Evercore Capital Partners II, L.P, in New York City. He focuses primarily on the firm’s corporate advisory business. Will has 39 years of experience in investment banking. He advised CVS on its acquisitions of Eckerd and Albertson’s free-standing drugstores and the CVS merger with Caremark, as well as CVS Health on its $13 billion acquisition of Omnicare. He served as chairman of the board of Lenox Hill Hospital from 2003 to 2014 and continues to serve as a trustee. Will also serves as a trustee and member of the executive committee of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and previously was a trustee of the Salisbury School.

A few years ago Phil Catchings retired from his position as senior vice president of the Boston Consulting Group, a worldwide business consulting group. In 2004 he joined the board of directors of the Empire State College Foundation and began a three-year term as chairman of the board in October 2009. In December 2012 Phil was presented with the presidential medal, the highest award the college bestows, for his outstanding leadership of the foundation board of directors. The presidential medal recognizes significant career achievement, scholarly excellence, leadership in the professions, noteworthy public service or humanitarian endeavors, societal impacts, innovation, courage, character and ability to inspire students. Phil led the board during the peak of the global financial crisis and by working diligently together the members of the board, college administration and foundation staff increased the college’s endowment by 25 percent. Belated kudos.

Eric Schwartz is a partner in King & Spalding’s New York and Paris offices and a member of the international arbitration practice group. He is a former secretary general and vice president of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration. During the last 35 years Eric has acted on behalf of some of the world’s largest companies, public authorities and sovereign states in international arbitration proceedings in all of the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Africa, Asia and the United States. He is considered one of the most highly regarded individuals in the world in his field. Chambers Global 2015 describes him as “truly one of the outstanding arbitration lawyers of a generation.”

Word came that in late November David Sullivan died. Many will recall his accomplishments in Davis Hockey Rink, where Sully was a standout player and earned a spot on the Dartmouth men’s hockey all-time roster of outstanding players. Find his obituary at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org

Another year ends.

Tyrone Byrd transitioned from Dartmouth to semi-pro football and a very brief stint with the NFL. After graduation T-Byrd worked as a Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. claims adjuster while honing his skills with the New England Colonials of the Atlantic Coast Football League. A free agent with the Green Bay Packers, he got waived after a career-ending eye injury during the second regular season game. T-Byrd earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in accounting, finance and marketing, then returned home to Texas and greater Houston and the “awl bidness.” Career highlights include corporate banking with Texas Commerce Bank and Citibank, senior finance executive with Texaco and chief financial officer and partner of an independent oil producer. Tyrone married Vickie Bridges of New Orleans; they have three children. He served six years on the Alumni Council and chaired its board of trustees nominating committee and athletic committee. He has been a class agent, alumni interviewer, student mentor and football recruiter. Now T-Byrd is a semi-retired energy industry consultant.

In Seattle, Hod Fowler has retired from H.D. Fowler Corp., which its website notes is the oldest and largest independent, family-owned distributor of waterworks, irrigation, pumps and wastewater treatment equipment in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest in America. He has successfully managed one of the most difficult challenges in a family business: handing over stewardship to his son and daughter. He and Steff travel often.

Sandy Goldstein retired recently from his post as head of San Francisco Kaiser’s dermatology division. A past president of his local synagogue, Sandy and his wife, Kathy Rabin, both do a lot of traveling.

This August Mike DeVries ended a lengthy run with the cast of Wicked. A long-standing member of the Broadway cast playing multiple roles, for the last year and a half he’s been with the nationwide touring company. He and Chris have sold their N.Y.C. apartment and are considering moving to Seattle, where Mike and Chris originally met.

Reed Moran teaches screenwriting at California State University, Long Beach, and is the author of the new textbook, Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart. A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, where he was editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law, the former Washington, D.C., litigator relocated to Los Angeles as a staff writer on a top 10 network drama. He sold several drama pilots, features, TV movie scripts and animation, as well as episodes for iconic series such as Simon & Simon, Star Trek Next Generation, Swamp Thing, Renegade, MacGyver and Baywatch. He wrote for the critically acclaimed A&E network drama series Hollywood Detective, for which he received a CableACE Award nomination for best writing on a dramatic series. Reed has been honored by a number of national screenwriting competitions for his original work.

Sadly, physician Tom Wilson died of cardiac arrest at his home in Roland Park, Maryland, in June. His obituary can be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.


Santiago Lopez, who earned an M.B.A. after Dartmouth from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, continues to reside and consult in Bogota. He recently published Value-based Marketing Strategy, which offers a new approach toward developing marketing strategies and setting optimal prices. The underlying thesis is that global competition requires managing value rather than individual products or brands, which fosters customer loyalty and provides a solid basis for relationship marketing.


Well known for his work with the Dartmouth Christian Fellowship in the 1970s, David Zelie is now the comptroller of Turbocam International in Barrington, New Hampshire. Turbocam, short for turbomachinery computer aided manufacturing, is a global turbomachinery and manufacturing company specializing in 5-axis machining of flowpath components. The company’s mission is to honor God, create wealth for its employees and support Christian service to God and people.


Anyone who watches Fox sports channels on a regular basis or who is a fan of auto racing undoubtedly has heard, and likely seen, Bob Varsha, broadcaster extraordinaire. He is leader of the FIA World Endurance Championship coverage, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Bob was the play-by-play announcer for the 2014 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, and is part of Focus on Racing Radio, a program that features interviews with top drivers from all forms of motorsports.


Benjamin Delancy is a shareholder in the Washington, D.C., office of Ogletree Deakins. His law practice focuses on executive compensation, disclosure requirements and corporate governance and he routinely advises clients on qualified retirement plans and health and welfare programs. Ben also has worked with officers and directors of companies engaged in corporate transactions regarding change-of-control agreements and excise tax mitigation strategies.


Last year President Hanlon created the Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary community supporting the integration of research and teaching excellence. The society is composed of faculty fellows, postdoctoral fellows and visiting fellows. In April the first five scholars were named as the inaugural members; their three-year fellowships will begin September 1. Fellows are expected to pursue research, teach one course annually and contribute to monthly events such as colloquia, dinners and lectures. Faculty members were selected previously. More detail can be found at www.dartmouth.edu/~provost/societyfellows.html.


The last weekend of April the Ledyard Canoe Club sponsored “Dartmouth Explorers Symposium: Adventure, Learning and Leadership on the World’s Rivers and Oceans.” The symposium, held in conjunction with Ledyard RiverFest, the annual weekend kayaking festival featuring a class IV whitewater race on the Wells River and the Mascoma slalom race, showcased alumni who have been part of historic journeys, from the 1964 National Geographic 1,700-mile Danube expedition to the first descent of Tibet’s Tsangpo River in 2002. Recall that John Ledyard was an adventurer who inspired the Lewis and Clark expedition by suggesting to Thomas Jefferson that traversing the American continent by water was feasible.


Right now is a perfect time to jot down your news and send it off to your scribe for a future column.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@dartmouth.edu


It’s spring!


Marie Shaffer is our new alumni councilor. For the next two years she is our “eyes and ears” in Hanover, so please let her know your ideas and questions. After her first meeting she sent a report to all with current email addresses (good reason to update) identifying the two hot button issues as Moving Dartmouth Forward—a complex initiative to reduce sexual assault, high-risk drinking, and non-inclusive behavior on campus—and living-learning communities, new housing opportunities students may choose. Under consideration is whether students should be able to live in dorms that are language or co-curricular-activity based. What do you think of this idea? Would this have enhanced your Dartmouth experience or not? Marie can be reached at marie.e.shaffer.73@dartmouth.edu.


The Laws of Attraction, Howard Reiss’ third novel, came out in October. The story is about a young woman’s fight over her elderly husband’s estate and her claim to be the reincarnation of his first wife, which leads to a rather unusual and somewhat comical trial to determine whether or not there is life after death. Howard’s Columbia Law School legal training is evident. The Midwest Book Review calls him “an especially gifted storyteller with a knack for creating fully developed characters and original storylines that engage the readers complete attention from first page to last.”


I was fortunate to receive a copy of the first book of poetry by Chips Hughes, titled The Gravediggers’ Art: Poems by Owen Hughes. A slim volume with varied verse, the cover notes, “He is a lawyer by trade, a poet at heart and lives under the spell of language.”


Another tome recently brought to my attention, not by any of us but about Ivy League fashion in the late 1960s, is Take Ivy. Originally published in Japan in 1965, it is a collection of candid photographs shot on Ivy League campuses, focusing on men and their clothes, perfectly encapsulating the unique academic fashion of the era.


President Hanlon was in San Francisco in early December, but Mike Havern was the only ’73 I spied across the room and we did not have an opportunity to chat. The event focused on the progress made during the first year of the new presidency toward the goals outlined at the beginning and the move toward increasing opportunities for experiential learning. Among the points made is the importance of Dartmouth students graduating not only with critical-thinking and analytical skills but also with the ability to think creatively. Also mentioned was the cluster initiative, which will involve interdisciplinary teams of faculty, in part by drawing on roughly half of a record $100-million anonymous donation announced last spring. Anyone interested in the range of topics and issues, large and small, on campus, should check www.improvedartmouth.com.


Due to the uncontested nature of the recent Association of Alumni election for executive committee members, Mark Harty will continue to serve in this capacity for 2015-16.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Reunion recap continued: At the class meeting officers and committee members until our next reunion were selected. Feel free to contact them with ideas or questions. They include president Rick Routhier; a new regional system for vice presidents, with Jim Sullivan (New England/New York), Bunk Rosenblum (Florida east), Steve Kessner (Florida west, Reed Green (Texas), Paul Sehl (Midwest), Fran Sparagna (California/West Coast south), Sam Livermore (California/West Coast north) and Jake Johnston (Canada/international); alumni councilor Jon Low; treasurer John Neff; secretary Val Armento; newsletter editor Bob Barr; necrologist Bob Conway; webmaster Bill Nisen; mini-reunions organizer Bob Haynes; Annual Fund lead Allen Kraus; gift planning chair Pat Kennedy. Executive committee, called upon as the president sees fit, consists of Thad King, Wayne Davis, Bob Glovsky, Chip Hughes, Digger Donahue, Chet Homer and Mark Harty.


On Saturday “A Celebration of 50 Years of the Rassias Method at Dartmouth” brought together alumni from across classes to toast professor John Rassias and to celebrate the past and future of the Rassias Center. A short video can be found at http://alumni.dartmouth.edu. Dartmouth’s aspiring vocalists performed Saturday night on a darkened Green while onlookers sported green glow-stick necklaces. Fireworks followed.


Sunday morning breakfast highlight occurred when masters swimmer Bob Jones, a member of the 1776 Colonials team in Philadelphia, pulled out of his pocket a fistful of gold medals won at the Senior Games in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He made sure to enjoy a swim in the 1919 pool while on campus and had a chance to catch up with coach Ron Keenhold and teammate Craig Colberg. 


Douglas “Digger” Donahue Jr. has been awarded a 2014-15 Alumni Award. Digger captained the squash team, served as president of Psi Upsilon and was a member of the Dragon senior society. He started Fayerweather Refrigerator Associates and went on to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard. His career has been with Brown Brothers Harriman, where he led the global securities business and was appointed managing partner in 2008. A past trustee of the American Textile History Museum and the Financial Accounting Foundation, Digger is active in numerous Boston area charities and received the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley Tocqueville Society’s Leadership Excellence Award in May. He continues to play competitive squash; recently he was runner-up in the Massachusetts State Over 60 Tournament. Digger has volunteered extensively for the College, serving for many years as class agent, leadership agent, leadership chair and on the Dartmouth College Fund’s major gift committee. He co-chaired the reunion giving committee and has served on the President’s Leadership Council since 2006 and on the athletics advisory board since 2011. A member of Friends of Squash, he endowed the Digger Donahue ’73 Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Squash and established a fund to support squash and equestrian programs. Digger has volunteered as an alumni interviewer and career counselor for 20 years.


Just before reunion we received word of the 2005 death of Daniel Sommers Clark and the April death of infectious disease physician Randy Goodwin. Obituaries may be found online at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu


Reunion has come and gone.


Since this column was due prior to our gathering, the reunion write-up will be in the next issue.


New York City’s GymSource, America’s largest commercial distributor of fitness equipment, with clientele (including Dartmouth) in all 50 states, has Bill Kemnitzer as its vice president of sales. For recreation, Bill runs half-marathons.


Stephen Slatter owns and operates both Slatter Park Bench Co. (www.slatterparkbench.com) and Vermont Iron Stove Works (www.vermont ironstove.com) in Montpelier, Vermont. He makes swings and clocks, as well as benches that can be found in locales as diverse as Battery Park in New York City and the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters visitor center at the Waterbury, Vermont, train station. Stephen’s elm wood stoves are now also available in Europe.


Another craftsman, goldsmith Doug Ostrander, is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his studio, d.h. Ostrander, is located in the Button Factory (www.dhostrander.com). Doug specializes in custom-design in 14- and 18-karat gold, platinum and sterling silver as well as repair, restoration and fine diamond and gemstone setting. Doug and his wife, Anne Rugg, also have a birdhouse business, Garden Path, known for its gaudily colored gothic-inspired houses (www.garden-path.com).


John Elias, a partner at Elias, Meginnes, Riffle & Seghetti in Peoria, Illinois, is a member of the bar in Illinois, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, tax and business matters. First named an Illinois super lawyer in 2007, John has been named one every year since 2009.


Concord, New Hampshire, orthopedic surgeon John Lambrukos, also serves as certification coordinator for the New Hampshire Health Facilities Administration. With regard to nursing home ratings, he provided this insight: The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services first ranks the relative performance of all certified facilities within a state based on unannounced health inspections the state conducts about once a year. The top 10 percent of homes receive five stars, the bottom 20 percent get one star and the remaining 70 percent is divided equally among the two-, three- and four-star categories. Those health inspection ratings are then modified up or down, based on how a home scores on staffing levels and a variety of quality measures to come up with an overall rating. A two-star home in one state might be a three-star home in another state. The data that goes into the ratings, including results of health inspections, are posted on medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare.


Mitch Whiteley obtained a master’s in education from Johns Hopkins and teaches upper school history at St. Paul’s in Baltimore. He is also involved in the college counseling program and the philanthropy department. St. Paul’s offers the international baccalaureate program. Previously, Mitch served as the dean of students, assistant headmaster of the upper school and director of college guidance.


Unfortunately, two classmate obituaries were in the March 16 New York Times. Anthropologist, traveler and lover of nature and the arts John Weatherly died in New Canaan, Connecticut. Flutist, skier and tennis player Scott Shedden died in New York City. 


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@dartmouth.edu


Class time again. A specialist in Victorian literature and colonial and post-colonial literature, John McBratney teaches at John Carroll University in Ohio, where he also is co-coordinator of the modern European studies program. This summer John was invited to write a chapter on “India and Empire” for The Cambridge Companion to Kipling. John has written extensively on Kipling’s white Creole figure, a product of British and Indian influences and Kipling’s conception of identity.


At Howard University in our nation’s capital George Middendorf is a professor of biology. His research focuses on reptilian and amphibian biology with emphases on behavior, ecology, evolution and host-parasite interactions. He has published more than 40 articles. George also has been involved in examining environmental justice issues in urban areas, in implementing the environmental justice section of the Ecological Society of America and in developing interdisciplinary and environmental studies programs at Howard. 


Jim Allmendinger is a staff attorney at the National Education Association of New Hampshire, where he represents public school employees in all aspects of employment and education law and litigation. Jim has been an adjunct professor of employment law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center and is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is past chair of the labor and employment law section of the New Hampshire Bar Association and served as a committee co-chair of the American Bar Association’s labor and employment law section.


Another lawyer, Lee Rosengard, was appointed in March to a panel of distinguished neutrals by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. He is serving on the employment and labor panel, providing alternative dispute resolution services in public and private cases. Lee is a court-annexed mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and serves on the American Arbitration Association commercial panel and large complex case panel. He also is a judge pro tempore for the Court of Common Pleas commerce program. 


A partner at Dirigo Partners in Maine, Dan D’Entremont uses his experience in accounting and reporting, risk management, financial analysis and budgeting to help companies define and accomplish tactical objectives and to assure that the objectives are consistent with and well-integrated into corporate strategy. “Dirigo” is from the Latin word “to lead” or “provide direction,” a contrast to vox clamantis in deserto.


While it may seem odd to mention ice fishing at this time of year, I recently learned Jim Kallestad is the 2008-09 president of the Kiwanis Club of Cloquet, Minnesota, and he spearheaded the Last Chance Ice Fishing Contest in February at Fish Lake in Duluth. This annual event, billed as “a sure cure for the midwinter doldrums,” is open to people of all ages. Proceeds go to local charities. Now would be a good time to start planning if you are interested in participating in 2010.


Unfortunately, news has come of the passing of two classmates, John Towers and Allister “Sandy” McCree. Obituaries will appear in this or a future issue.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Onward: After being employed for 26 years by JP Morgan Chase Claude Weir retired from his senior managing director/executive vice-president responsible for worldwide human resources position. A resident of Bonita Springs, Florida, he and his wife, Yvette, set up the Weir Family Foundation, which helps people with developmental disabilities, youth and the poor. In Claude’s words, “Essentially we dole out money where our heart leads us.” Claude is on the board of directors of Job Path, a program for those with learning disabilities and is involved with the Neighborhood Health Clinic in nearby Naples and with the United Negro College Fund. He and his family volunteer at Joanne’s House, a Florida hospice facility where Claude sings on the music therapy team and works directly with patients. He is also a serious competitive runner in his age group, an avid fisherman and a distance cyclist with the Bonita Bay Bicycle Club.


John Stinebaugh runs a real estate business primarily in Alpharetta, Roswell, and South Forsyth County north of Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in residential real estate. He’s been there since 1994, having relocated from Boston, and would be pleased to connect with old friends. 


Lowenstein Sandler announced that employment attorney Bill Greenbaum joined the law firm in its Roseland, New Jersey, office as a member of the firm’s employment and labor practice. Bill has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare law and in all aspects of employment and labor law and joins Lowenstein Sandler from WolfBlock’s Roseland office, where he had been a partner for the past eight years and headed the firm’s equal employment opportunity policy and complaint resolution process. He is a member of the legal affairs committee of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association and a member of the board of directors of Jersey Battered Women’s Service Inc. Bill has lectured and written extensively in the areas of labor and employment law, particularly on affirmative action compliance, sexual harassment investigations and workplace violence.


Deepak Kenkeremath has been working on a project funded by the Department of Energy on the impact of deregulation of the electric utility industry on rural America, specifically focused on rural electric cooperatives in Georgia. In addition to illustrating the need to educate all customers and stakeholders about the impacts associated with deregulation, the project also illustrated the opportunities that exist to educate customers and decision-makers on energy-efficient and renewable technologies as they ponder the long-term effects of utility restructuring. Deepak is with Technology Prospects in Falls Church, Virginia.


One of the nine alumni chosen to receive 2009-10 Dartmouth Alumni Awards by the Alumni Council is Bob Barr, immediate past class president and ongoing newsletter editor. The qualifications for the award, established in 1954, are longstanding and meritorious service to Dartmouth, career achievement and other community service. As every classmate should know Bob has overachieved in these areas. He received his award at Class Officers Weekend in September and I’m sure all join me in extending well-deserved kudos. 


Year-end best wishes!


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


In mid-2008 Stan Arend moved to Oregon for employment about 50 miles southwest of Portland with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. “This group of tribes is well-known for the Trail of Tears forced march up the Oregon coast to the Grand Ronde reservation in the mid-1800s. In addition to governmental service programs for tribal members, the tribe operates the successful Spirit Mountain Casino, which ranks as the No. 1 tourist and entertainment destination in Oregon based on visitor counts. I am the finance officer for the tribe, reporting directly to the tribal council. Been here 18 months and it is fascinating, a blend of general government and a closely held family corporation.”


Although he obtained both medical and law degrees and is licensed in both, Ken Sigelman has been a full-time practicing lawyer for the last 27 years, handling malpractice, catastrophic personal injury and other complex medical cases on behalf of plaintiffs. His major practice focus is childbirth injury cases; last summer he obtained both the largest medical malpractice award in the history of the state of Ohio in one case and the largest such award in the history of San Diego in another case. Ken was named the 2009 Outstanding Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, where his practice is based and where he is an avid Padres fan and marathoner. “I’m hopeful I can nudge my middle-aged bones through a few more marathons so I can run one fast enough to qualify for Boston.”


In March Boston University honored Bob Glovsky for his 28th year with the university and his 20th year as program director in financial planning at Metropolitan College’s Center for Professional Education, one of the nation’s original financial planning programs. This January Bob began duties as chair of the board of directors of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. and will lead the board’s efforts to establish a professional standards-setting oversight board for financial planners. This summer Bob will serve as director emeritus and adjunct assistant professor in financial planning. 


I caught up with Mike Havern at a breakfast where Peter Saccio, the Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies, was the guest speaker. Saccio, who retired at the end of the 2007 academic year, is busy on the Dartmouth speaking circuit. In conversation afterward, noting we were both ’73s, Saccio mentioned to us how generous and helpful Leon Black has been to him, separate and apart from establishing and funding the chair he held. Mike was fortunate enough to retire early and has spent the 2000s tutoring math and related subjects at Eastside Preparatory Academy in East Palo Alto, California, a small, mostly minority community adjacent to Palo Alto where Mike resides. Eastside Prep has an enviable track record of sending its graduates to four-year colleges throughout the country.


On February 2 Eugenio Salazar Pérez Jr. died at home in Quezon City, Philippines. An obituary can be found online at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


New school year: Jake Johnston retired from being the principal of McCrimmon Middle School in the Toronto, Canada, area and has been on an educational/administrative fellowship in Abu Dhabi.


Kent Trachte is dean of the College at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Kent holds a doctorate in political science and was a faculty member prior to his 2003 appointment as dean. He served as chair of the National Academic Advising Association’s Commission on Small Colleges and Universities from 1999 through 2002. Kent also serves on the Ephrata Community Hospital board of directors.


George Leach is at Analog Devices Inc. in Wilmington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in management and leadership training. Prior to joining Analog Devices George worked in various administrative capacities for Harvard Business School.


David Clark left Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was practicing with a law firm, and moved to the Big Apple to join the office of general counsel for the hedge fund Deerfield Associates.


Stuart Pechter has been actively engaged in periodontics and dental implant surgery in Palm Beach County, Florida. His passion is improving the quality of people’s lives by helping to restore their ability to chew and smile with confidence. Stuart regularly volunteers his time at the Caridad Health Clinic in Boynton Beach, where dentists donate services to provide dental care to migrant farm workers and their families. A masters swimmer, Stuart swims daily with the Palm Beach County masters program. He also is an avid bicycle rider and enjoys sea-kayaking off Delray Beach.


Jan Kirschner maintains a busy chiropractic practice in Boulder, Colorado, where he seems to have found his second calling as the auctioneer for charity events. Jan has been involved with Nevei Kodesh (Oasis of Holiness), the Jewish renewal community of Boulder, a spiritual community for those seeking to discover the modern meaning of Judaism as a spiritual practice.


In June Trevor D. Rees-Jones became a College trustee. Trevor, who lives in Dallas, Texas, is the founder and president of Chief Oil & Gas, an independent oil and natural gas company. He formerly served as president and on the boards of the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Wildcat Committee. Prior to entering the energy business, he was a partner at the Thompson & Knight law firm. Trevor and his wife, Jan, established the Rees-Jones Foundation, which provides support and funding for programs to improve medical care, housing, hunger, education and basic human services for the poor and underserved in north Texas. As a Dartmouth volunteer he has served as a fraternity/sorority coordinator, co-chair of the class reunion giving committee and member of the President’s Leadership Council. “Dartmouth and my Dartmouth education have meant a great deal to me and I have witnessed the tremendous impact the College continues to have on students’ lives today. I am thankful and humbled to have the opportunity to serve on the board of trustees and to continue giving back to Dartmouth and supporting its new president, Jim Yong Kim.”


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Reunion is upon us.


John Goheen promised to write a year ago and finally made good with the following report: “Mike Ultee and I enjoyed a fantastic ‘roommate rendezvous’ in France this past May. Mike (and wife Pat Dedert) and I (and wife Megan) traveled together for two weeks, the first in Paris and the second split between the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. The trip was especially delightful for Megan and me, since veteran European travelers Mike and Pat made all the arrangements and Mike is fluent in French. It was great fun to reminisce about Dartmouth days and to catch up on the intervening 40(!) years since graduation. During those intervening years Mike has become the chief scientific officer at Gallus BioPharmaceuticals (a.k.a. Laureate Biopharmaceutical Services), a contract testing and manufacturing firm in Princeton, New Jersey. I am a tax attorney at Ulmer & Berne LLP, a regional law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. Now we are looking forward to the ’73 class reunion in June. Who knows what trip adventures may be hatched then?”


The National Elder Law Foundation—the only organization approved by the American Bar Association to offer certification in the area of elder law—announced in January that Phil Murphy successfully completed its rigorous examination (only about 20 percent pass), leading to certification in elder law, one of the fastest growing fields in the legal profession. Phil has practiced law for more than 30 years and focuses his practice on elder and special needs law, including estate and Medicaid planning, probate, real estate and guardianships. He is past president and current member of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, a professional association of attorneys dedicated to improving the quality of legal services provided to seniors and people with special needs. He has actively served the town of Milton, Massachusetts, his lifelong home, as a town meeting member and as a chairman or member of various Milton committees. Phil is a frequent lecturer throughout the south shore and volunteers his time at the Milton Council on Aging Senior Center at its free once-a-month legal information clinic. He is on several subject-related boards, as well as chair of the Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) Hospital-Milton annual fund committee and is a member of the BID-Milton overseers, philanthropy committee and president’s council. For many years he worked for College admissions as a district director for alumni interviews in the South Shore, Massachusetts, district and as town coordinator in Weymouth and Milton.


The College recently learned of the January 2011 death of Louis Fernandez after a two-year battle with brain cancer. A full obituary can be found online at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.


Class reunion planners look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on the Hanover Plain June 12-15. If you have not yet registered please do so ASAP. The campus and the Upper Valley have changed a bit in the intervening years (as have at least some of us) so it is time for an in-person update.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


The year 2013 bows out. In early August Bill McDonough was a speaker in the Leading Voices Lecture Series, the summer program inspired by the “Great Issues” course. Bill’s lecture, “The Upcycle: Designing for Abundance,” was part of the energy, sustainability and security series and is also the title of his most recent book. A short video of Bill can be found on the College website, in which he describes 1969-73 as “an amazing time of transformation” and how the freedom of exploration he experienced at Dartmouth and what he learned about human values has greatly influenced his work. Since 2011 each Leading Voices series has brought prominent experts and leaders to the College to speak on a theme. Other themes have been politics and policy, foreign policy and higher education.


Marty Lange is a vice president responsible for vendor contacts at Edge & Tinney Associates, a small but full-service architectural and design firm in Dayton, Ohio.


Even though there is no law school on the Hanover Plain, there is The Dartmouth Law Journal, which published in the spring issue “Eisenhower: The Forgotten President” by Mark Harty. Concise and well written, the article provides substantial information about and insights on the first president most of us are able to remember but whom most of us know little about. 


Jim Pocalyko works as a demand planning manager for Texas-based Celebrating Home, one of the top direct sales companies in the country, which provides a broad line of home décor, fashion and personalization products in the party-planning industry.


Dartmouth was awarded a $10-million, five-year grant from the secure and trustworthy cyberspace program of the National Science Foundation to support research into ways of safeguarding the confidentiality of personal health and medical information as these records transition from paper files to electronic systems. The trustworthy health and wellness project involves an interdisciplinary and multi-institution team of experts and is part of the College’s Institute for Security, Technology and Society’s research initiative on information systems and healthcare. Learn more at thaw.org.


Word was received that Michael Kaiser, who retired to Mesa, Arizona, in the late 1990s, died in June from injuries sustained last year after being hit by a car while crossing a street on his mobility scooter. Mike, who developed multiple sclerosis in recent years, was quite musical and among other activities taught music to a class of developmentally disabled adults. An obituary can be found online at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries. 


Many are hard at work on our class reunion, so while you are making entries in your new 2014 calendars (paper or electronic) be sure to include our 40th reunion June 13-15, 2014. Please, please be sure the College has your current contact information; an e-mail address would be particularly helpful to reunion organizers. For those who are concerned about too many messages, it is now possible to limit the e-mails you receive to topics of interest to you. Anyone willing to help plan festivities is encouraged to contact Mark Harty or Bob Barr.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Campaigning cannot end soon enough.


In November 2010 Garson Fields sold his custom wire and cable manufacturing company, Berkshire Electric Cable Co., and retired. “I have taken up rowing. I row with a club in Northampton, Massachusetts, and am competing in a mixed double. The last time I rowed was in 1964 as a second former at the Kent School. I managed to get thrown out after the end of the spring season and hold the distinction of being the first thrown out in my class. I am thinking about a second career of some stripe. I would like to hear about classmates’ post-career activities.” Through Garson, the College learned of the death of bachelor Damon “Al” Wright in March 2011. “Al was diagnosed with lung cancer only days before he died. He was a gifted, wonderful man. He spent his life working for IBM. I think his passions were golf, flying and cigars.” An obituary can be found on the DAM website. 


A Family Institution, the first novel written by Howard Reiss, was published in late November 2011. The historical novel, based on an event from Howard’s life, is a story about a mid-life crisis triggered by the discovery of an aunt who was mistreated for mental illness in the 1940s and 1950s. At his grandmother’s funeral the main character notices a gravestone for his mother’s sister, a woman he never knew existed. He learns she was institutionalized at the age of 18 and spent her life hospitalized. He feels compelled to find out what happened and why. Coming to terms with family history leads to a journey of self-discovery that tests both current and new relationships. It is a novel about secrets and revenge, told with a comic touch, and offers historical insights into past treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. 


On April 25 Lee Rosengard received the Hineni (“Here I Am”) Award from Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia. The annual award is given to congregants for outstanding service to the synagogue. Lee was a two-term member of the board of trustees, served on two rabbinic search committees and taught in the religious school for 21 years.


Two sportsmen had a successful May. Joe Ryan, a nine-year member of the Weston (Massachusetts) Golf Club, made three eagles in one round, all by holing shots from well off the green. Joe, who plays to a nine handicap, made his first eagle on the sixth hole, his second on the seventh hole and his third on the 18th hole. Without benefit of a birdie, Joe shot 77. “It’s certainly exciting. You come off the course after a round like that and you can’t stop laughing. What are the odds?” Meanwhile, swim team alum Bob Jones was competing at the masters nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bob finished third in the country in his age group in the 200-yard butterfly (2:36.17), sixth in the 100-yard fly (1:04.83) and 13th in the 100 individual medley (1:09.36). Fly finishes garnered medals. 


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Another year slips away.


In June the class of 1972 invited our junior year coeds to join in their reunion. Sue Gordon hosted a women’s reception at her North Balch Road summer home—the one-time residence of Corey Ford, humorist, author, outdoorsman and screenwriter, who left most of his estate, including his house, to the Dartmouth rugby club.


Head agent Rick Routhier is pleased to report that our class broke another Dartmouth College Fund giving record by raising $660,669 and breaking the 39-year-out record set by 1964!


Todd Stern was a featured speaker at the Hopkins Center “Leading Voices” lecture series (inspired by the “Great Issues” course) in August. Begun a year ago, the series is paired with “America and the World: Contemporary Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy,” a class for sophomores. Todd is special envoy for climate change at the State Department and plays a central role in developing international climate policy. He is the president’s chief climate negotiator, representing the United States internationally at the ministerial level in all bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding climate change. He also participates in the development of domestic climate and clean energy policy. Before joining the Obama administration he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a partner at the law firm WilmerHale. Todd has served in a number of governmental roles, including in the White House and Treasury. As staff secretary he played a central role in preparing the key issues of domestic, economic and national security policy; and acting as senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. Previously he was senior counsel to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), an adjunct lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.


In late May there was an article in The Huffington Post’s “New York Impact” on Steve Kessner’s camp at Horizon Farms. Launched in 2010, Horizon Farms is a nonprofit dedicated to providing a unique summer camp experience for New York City youth. Ninth- and tenth-graders facing poverty, gang violence and a dearth of support services get the chance to spend two weeks on a beautiful working farm in Livingston Manor, 100 miles northwest of the city. Generous contributions have provided full camperships to all participants.


Word came that “the other Wayne Davis,” Wayne Morrett Davis, the journalist with a national and international Associated Press career, died on May 16 after a long illness. An obituary can be found online at http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries. 


Sailors in the class of 1968 invite interested alums to join in a Dartmouth flotilla in the British Virgin Islands May 12-21 2013. “You don’t need to be an expert sailor—just enjoy adventure. Easy sailing in the best charter sail territory in the world. This is not a commercial operation, just a great party for Dartmouth friends.” For more information, contact Gerry Hills at stjohncaptain@aol.com.


Season’s greetings!


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


’Tis a sporting life.


John Lundgren endowed the John F. Lundgren 1973 Head Coach of Men’s Golf. “I am a member of the recently formed Dartmouth College Athletic Council’s advisory board. I was two-time captain of men’s golf and enjoy great relationships with Bill Johnson, the now retired coach, as well as Rich Parker, the current coach. Bill’s numerous contributions to NCAA golf in general and his teams in particular made the Dartmouth experience a better one; he has been inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame. Rich Parker demonstrates the perfect balance of wanting his student athletes to have the capability of competing at the highest level while having fun. I learned Dartmouth trailed most of its Ivy League peers in endowed coach positions and was at a funding disadvantage in attracting and retaining the highest caliber coaches. My gift seems to be a great way to give back in a slightly unique manner.” John was named president and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker Inc. in 2010, when the Stanley Works, where he had been chairman and CEO since 2004, merged with Black & Decker. Previously John served in London as president of European consumer products for Georgia Pacific. He began his career with Gillette Corp. in 1975. In 1976 he joined the James River Corp. (acquired by Georgia Pacific in 2000) as director of strategic planning. He moved to Brussels in the mid-1990s to manage a $1.5-billion joint venture engaged in the production and sale of consumer products throughout Europe. John serves on the boards of Callaway Golf Co., the National Association of Manufacturers and Students in Free Enterprise and is a national trustee of the First Tee.


Former squash team captain Douglas “Digger” Donahue’s gift will endow the Digger Donahue 1973 Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Squash. “My athletic experience at Dartmouth was an important part of my four years and I am pleased to be able to help support the squash program to help keep it strong. I am still playing three to four times a week, considerably slower, but still enjoying it.” Digger decided to endow the team after attending a squash reunion commemorating 75 years of men’s squash and 40 years of women’s squash. “It was great fun and reminded me of how important Dartmouth athletics have been to the experience at the College.” Digger is the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which he joined in 1976. He has been recognized for contributions to the development and growth of the international securities processing industry. He is past treasurer and currently on the executive committee of the Commercial Club of Boston, a past trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation and has served on a number of other business and charitable boards, including, currently, the North and South Rivers Watershed Association and the Knights of Malta. In addition to membership on the athletics council advisory board, Digger is on the President’s Leadership Council.


The class salutes both John and Digger for their generosity. 


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Long winter ends.


Plains Cotton Cooperative Association president and CEO Wallace Darneille received the prestigious 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence in the small-to-medium enterprise category from the U.S. State Department. Wally was presented with the award to the subsidiary company Denimatrix by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Denimatrix, located in Guatemala City, is the cooperative’s denim apparel production company. The company, one of three awardees, was nominated by U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Stephen McFarland. The award recognized Denimatrix for contributing to the development of the local economy, for reaching out to the community to help disadvantaged youth and the homeless in Guatemala City and for environmental stewardship.


Founded in 2009, Denimatrix is a major manufacturer of high-fashion denim jeans with current capacity to produce 150,000 pairs of jeans per week. It is part of the cooperative’s fully vertically integrated business model from field to fashion that includes the American Cotton Growers denim mill in Littlefield, Texas. Headquartered in Lubbock, Plains Cotton also is the largest originator of U.S. cotton to textile mills around the world. 


“We are extremely proud that Denimatrix has been chosen for this award,” Wally said at the ceremony. “It is very fitting that they have been honored for their corporate social responsibility and their environmental stewardship. We believe that these values are critical to a company’s success. By providing a stable and desirable workplace, we can attract employees whose productivity will make them competitive in a global economy. This award means a great deal to us about the future as well as the past. It is recognition of the dedication of several generations of PCCA stockholders to doing the right thing for present and future generations. When our apparel customers come to visit Denimatrix, one of the strongest impressions they take away is the sense of teamwork and of family that pervades our facility.” 


Princeton University Press recently published James Kloppenberg’s Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition, an intellectual biography of President Barack Obama.


Before writing the book Jim interviewed the president’s former professors and classmates, combed through the president’s books, essays and speeches and even read every article published during the three years Obama was involved with the Harvard Law Review (“a superb cure for insomnia” asserts Jim). His conclusion: President Obama is a true intellectual, a kind of philosopher president, a rare breed that can be found only a handful of times in American history.


“There’s John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Quincy Adams, then Abraham Lincoln and in the 20th century just Woodrow Wilson,” he said at a recent lecture.


To Jim, the philosophy that has guided President Obama most consistently is pragmatism, a uniquely American system of thought developed at the end of the 19th century. Pragmatism maintains that people are constantly devising and updating ideas to navigate the world in which they live; it embraces open-minded experimentation and continuing debate. “It is a philosophy for skeptics, not true believers.”


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Just what season is it?


Although a few months have passed since TheSing-Off, weren’t The Aires terrific to watch? Incredibly talented young men! All the more exciting to realize Wayne Davis’ son Nate ’14 was one of them. The Davis family attended the grand finale, “our one brush with Hollywood.” In mid-December the group sang at the White House for nearly five hours as part of a series of private holiday parties held by President Obama.


One time class vice president Ben Wilson is a candidate for a trustee position on the Alumni Council. Ben was a member of the varsity football and track teams. After graduation he attended Harvard Law School and founded a mentoring program to foster academic success by minority college students. Ben is managing principal of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the nation’s largest environmental law firm. He litigates extensively in federal and state courts, advises clients in complex business negotiations and is lead counsel for major corporations and government agencies. Ben serves on the boards of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and the Environmental Law Institute. He is an adjunct professor at Howard University Law School. Trustee balloting will take place online and by mail from March 14 through April 11. Be sure to vote!


Campus facilities are rapidly changing. On October 1, 2011, the first-ever night game in the 130-year history of Dartmouth football was played under the new lights at Memorial Field. Thompson Arena has been renovated and ground has been broken for the construction of a new varsity softball facility in the southeast corner of the Chase Field complex. Adjacent to the Medical School, the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center housing a variety of research and teaching spaces opened this past fall. For many of us, however, the most startling change is that Thayer Dining Hall has been revamped into the Class of 1953 Commons, with seating for more than 1,000. Reportedly it offers “great tasting food, made to order, at eight state-of-the-art serving stations” as well as “a wide range of menu choices, including a fantastic salad bar, a Woodstone hearth oven, a broad selection of vegan and vegetarian options, kosher, halal, local, organic, international and specialty items.” Guess this generation will never know the charm of Blue Ladies or experience the mystery of chicken fingers.


The Dartmouth, as an independent organization, does not receive any funding from the College. The newspaper, in addition to its sales, is funded largely by contributions to the Vox Clamantis Fund. The fund has begun awarding need-based grants to staff members to assist students who are interested in committing time to the newspaper, but who may be restricted by their need to finance their education. The paper’s goal is to assist current staffers and to attract a broader group of students who may not have been previously able to devote time to The Dartmouth.


To report your news I need to hear from you. All types of mail welcome.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Summer!


“Greenways: Coming Home,” Dartmouth’s 40th anniversary celebration of coeducation, was well attended, and you are encouraged to look at the event website for photos and summary information. With Jan Seidler Ramirez and Kate Stith-Cabranes among the presenters, and Donna Bascom, Karen Fagin White, Marie Shaffer and your scribe in attendance, plus former exchange students Barbara Cox and Sarah Kahn, we made a strong contingent.


Jan is founding chief curator and director of collections for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, scheduled to open in 2014. The museum will tell the story of September 11 through the lens of September 12, emphasizing the remarkable generosity, caring and sharing manifested. Jan is an expert on the former World Trade Center site, having previously served as vice president and museum director of the New York Historical Society, developing its series of exhibitions, public programs and collection acquisition efforts focused on the broad historical context of the attacks. Jan noted all the memorial artifacts have to be tested for health and safety reasons.


Kate continues to hold the position of Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches and writes on criminal law and constitutional law. She is involved in numerous professional organizations and community activities. A book she wrote with her husband on the federal sentencing guidelines received an American Bar Association award and a law review article she co-wrote on sentencing reform politics was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in the text of an opinion striking down some federal criminal sentencing guidelines.


Donna operates a part-time solo law practice focusing on motion picture finance, production and distribution. Passionate about reproductive rights, in 2003 Donna founded One Voice to Save Choice, an interfaith coalition to defend reproductive choice, consisting of 40 faith-based organizations. In 2011 she was elected chair of the board of directors of NARAL Pro-Choice NY. Also active with the Red Cross, Donna worked in a shelter during Hurricane Sandy and on emergency communications afterward for those severely impacted. In her spare time she has taken up Zumba and, with her husband, is working on lowering her golf handicap.


Karen continues to practice law at Cohen Pollock Merlin & Small in Atlanta. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy and insolvency law and creditors’ rights, as well as general commercial litigation. She has been president and chair and currently is a director of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute. She is a trustee of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation–Georgia Network and lectures regularly on bankruptcy issues.


Marie retired from consulting and resides on a sustainable farm in Pittsford, New Hampshire, where she restored the 18th-century home and delights in horseback riding, taking ballet lessons, making bread from scratch using flour from King Arthur’s in Vermont and otherwise leading a quintessential New England life.


Unfortunately, Rich Crimma, a much-beloved Rensselaer County, New York, pediatrician, died from lung cancer in December. An obituary is at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. 


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Summer in full swing….


In March The Boston Globe ran an article about the Shawnee Peak ski resort (originally called Pleasant Mountain) in Bridgton, Maine, featuring a nice photo of owner Chet Homer, who purchased the resort in 1994. Chet is quoted as saying, “When I ski, I think I’m in a pretty cool place. I don’t think of myself as owning the mountain, but basically being a steward of the mountain and the people. I decided I just wanted to be my own boss and thought it would be interesting to own a sport and recreation type business.” The ski area opened with a rope tow in 1938 and was the home of Maine’s first T-bar and chair lift. Now there is a state-of-the art triple chair featuring a conveyor loading system where skiers slide onto a moving belt before sitting on the chair. Chet also is proud of a charity Moonlight Challenge, started in 1995, that’s raised more than $500,000 for children with life-threatening illnesses. 


Jon Dreazen sent a thought-provoking note, commenting “after reading month after month and year after year of 100-percent stories of accomplishments, etc.” that he felt another point of view was in order. “I had an epiphany three-and-a-half years ago when my older daughter developed advanced cervical cancer while working in London, where she lives. In the past the cancer from which my daughter suffered would have had a dismal cure rate. Fortunately, medicine has advanced and now she is free of cancer. I did not heed an earlier warning when my wife was treated for breast cancer seven years earlier. So I left the family medicine practice that I had started in the hands of a local hospital and spent three months pondering my future. I found a job in the area of occupational medicine, which was an easy transition and gives me an 8-to-5 job five days a week with no pager calls. Now I can work fixed hours and come home and spend quality time with my wife and younger daughter and grandson, who live with us. I can also more easily take time off of work to visit my older daughter in England without having to struggle to find coverage for my practice. I have written this update on my life as a balance to the many encomiums that I read in our class newsletter and in the Alumni Magazine that give one the impression that all of my classmates have had wonderful lives that have led to the acquisition of great wealth allowing them to have lifestyles that I will never achieve and to have the time and influence to serve on a variety of corporate and community entities for which I never had the time. I would encourage any and all of my classmates who are part of the silent majority to share stories of their lives no matter how unimpressive.”


Hope everyone caught John Grossmann’s “Personal History” article, “The ‘Happy’ Swindler,” in the May-June issue.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org


Time to delve into 2012!


Randy Lunn, some 400 miles to my south, provided the following update: “After more than 30 years of managing institutional capital, I retired last year from Palomar Ventures, which I started with a partner in 1998. To stay busy (and out of Ellen’s way) I have formed Catalina Ventures to make small personal investments in early-stage tech and life sciences companies. I have five startup investments in predictive analytics, cloud computing, coupons for publishers, molecular genetics and a drug development platform company. Somehow I have also gotten involved in a Calgary shale oil and gas firm, drawing on my experience at Texaco more than 30 years ago. I help out on the financial and governance issues. As usual I have gotten over-committed. My golf game is still mediocre but fun. The new equipment gives me extra yards and hope. A recent highlight was taking a week off to go rock hounding with my son in Colorado. What an amazingly beautiful state! I recommend the trip to all—especially Estes Park, headquarters for the Rocky Mountain National Park. The elk are literally walking around the streets, and we twice had to stop for bighorn sheep in the road.” 


Since August 2010 George Wolohojian has been the director of strategic learning services for the office of employee development and training for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in our nation’s capital. Prior to assuming this post, George served as the director of the regional office in Baltimore, dealing with veteran benefits. In 2007 he received the President Rank Award as a meritorious senior executive.


As of late fall Reed Greene is seeking the Republican nomination for judge for the 57th District in Bexar County (San Antonio), Texas, in the March election. “Texas may be unique as almost all our officials are elected. The current constitution was crafted during reconstruction to return popular control to the native Texan voter.” Reed has been doing family law in San Antonio and the surrounding areas since 1991 and general civil litigation, such as collections, deceptive trade practices cases, personal injury and products liability actions since receiving his license in 1986. “In south Texas we are ending a yearlong drought and sincerely wish you would have sent your hurricane our way. We desperately needed one as that is the typical end to droughts here. On the upside, if you like it warm and dry, south Texas is hard to beat! The falls and winters are much more moderate, with almost no snow. After years of thoughtful study I have concluded several things. The football team suffers from a lack or maldistribution of testosterone. When we matriculated, we were about 800 strong and about 100 of us turned out for freshman football. Yes, friends, I am living proof that slow white boys can play Ivy League football! We were untied and undefeated and it doesn’t get any better than that.” 


The Economist recently ranked Tuck the No. 1 business school in the country.


—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org