Class Notes 1976

Hello, classmates. Great rowers celebrated the 50th anniversary of women’s crew at Dartmouth October 5, 2024, when 250 people attended a dinner on Saturday night after having a “Boys in the Boat” moment as a train ran along the Connecticut River following the morning’s Gardner Cup races. The class of ’76 was represented by Diana Robeck Todd, Hope Stevens Poor, Jan Murphy, and Martha Johnson Beattie, with Thad Bennett cheering. Our first female crew Olympian, Judy Geer ’75, attended. Class of ’77s included Olympians Bets Kent and Nancy Vespoli, along with Maud Welles, Diana Taylor, Marianne Walsh, Susan Farnsworth, Terrie Alafat, Nancy Fisher-Allison, and Edy Ullman. In another triumphant reunion that weekend, dozens of classmates attended the Buddy Teevens Stadium at Memorial Field dedication and were recognized the following day at the Penn game, celebrating the 50th year of the 1973 Ivy League Championship. Teammates included Dave Allman, Dr. Brian Bachelder, Kipp Barker, Kirk Barker, Mike Brait, Skip Cummins, Blair Dickerson, Kevin Downing, Mike Fitzgerald, Bob Freidl, John “Goose” Gleason, Seamus Hourihan, Laurie Jones, standing in for husband Dan Jones, Shoun Kerbaugh, Bill Kobokovich, Tom McConnell, Dan Murphy, Tom Parnon, Jud Porter, Charlie Potts, John Reidy, Reggie Williams, and Frank Wilson. Kipp said ’76ers represented the largest contingent of former players from one class. On Sunday Kipp and Andy Gettinger hosted a breakfast at the Class of ’53 Commons (Thayer Hall), where 26 classmates enjoyed each other’s company for more than two hours. Those attending were Kipp, Kirk, Rich Auletta, M.K. Beach, Caroline Ballard, Bob Bertrand, Judy Burrows Csatari, Charlie Kern, Steve Melikian with wife Sylvia, Adrienne Mally, John Sherman, Dave Dobson, Diane Martin Court, Kevin Downing, Jud Porter, Rich Horan, Shoun Kerbaugh, John Reidy, Rick Zimmerman, Charlie Potts,and Tom McConnell.Two amazing team showings.

Craig Stone and his artist wife, Terra Robles, turned in an epic cross-continent jaunt last summer. Starting at home in Seattle, they checked in at their former home in San Diego, then picked up a tear-drop camper in Arizona in early July. They drove through Tahoe and across the northern tier, visiting friends and Dartmouth alumni in Montana, Wisconsin (Dick Cates ’74), and New York (Steve Bell), on their way through Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick to a week-long bike trip around Newfoundland. They returned to the United States, visiting Scott Simons in Maine, Tim Miner ’74 in New Hampshire, and stopping in the Catskills for Bruce York’s daughter Casey’s wedding (which of course included Kim York ’77). They took a southern route back west, stopping in Louisville, Kentucky, to see Tom Delancey ’75. They arrived back in San Diego on September 12, having covered 11,500 miles, to host six Psi U brothers for five days.

Speaking of travel, if you have a bucket list, please consider adding a visit to the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. The depth of the history lessons is profound. Ciao for now. Please send news of yourself and classmates to me and update those email addresses in the class listings.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello, classmates. Without giving away the surprise, your class officers—led in this case by Kipp Barker and Rick Zimmerman—are rolling out a fun exercise to connect you more to the College as we ramp up for our 50th. You’ll know it when you see it. As that singular reunion moves closer, Judy Csatari offered a look ahead, having attended her husband Tom’s: The class of ’74 50th reunion was a joyous occasion in which 400-plus classmates and guests came together for a celebration to remember. There were several ’74-’76 couples in attendance, including Susan Stine Felter and Joan Tyler Marable. Martha Hennessey and Lois Gadway Tow planned to attend but were unable to join at the last minute. And Nic Cols scoped out the inner workings of a 50th reunion. Unlike other reunions, there is no other class gathered at the College during the landmark celebration. There is less College programming, less carousing (the tent was empty by 11 p.m.), and less competition for meeting and meal venues, to name just a few noticeable differences. There was remarkable programming, including a panel discussing the importance of developing dialogue of differing opinions fostered by colleagues in the Jewish studies and Arab studies departments; a memorial service that went deep into memories of deceased classmates; a jazz concert that rocked the rafters of the Church of Christ, to name just a few. The 50th reunion class is a featured participant in Commencement as well. The ’74s marched onto the Green and sat together for the ceremony—or for as long as they could endure the steady rain and chilly temps. Traditionally, one of the honorary degree recipients is a member of the returning class, in this case Richard Ranger. In short, it was “different at Dartmouth” (a nod to Jean Kemeny’s 1979 memoir) for the ’74s’ 50th. It was a wonderful weekend of deep conversation, reconnection, and reminiscing. Our 50th is scheduled for June 12-14, 2026. Recent outreach to ask classmates to update their contacts resulted in news from Tish O’Connor: “I have lived in Santa Barbara, California, since 2001 and [lived in] Los Angeles for 20 years prior to moving there. I was active for a decade in alumni interviewing in Santa Barbara, which allowed me to meet other local alums. It would be fun to have a Dartmouth chapter on the Central Coast, which would also be a lovely location for a mini-reunion: I’d be willing to participate in organizing either or both. I enjoyed a 40-year career editing art books. I have volunteered for many summers at Music Academy of the West, which is essentially summer camp for 150 young professional musicians. I get to Europe and back to the East Coast in fall and spring and often enjoy California road trips. I have plans to visit Sicily in October; I will look at the alumni cruise to Croatia, as I have not exhausted my interest in that part of the world.” Jim and Martha Johnson Beattie’schildren surprised them at the Moosilauke Lodge in June to honor their birthdays. Among the classmates who joined the party were Cathy and Jack Brennan, Rick Hill, Julie Miner, and Hope Stevens Poor. If you haven’t seen Lynne Brooks’ pen, ink, and watercolor drawings and paintings, do check them out on Instagram—delightful. Please send news of yourselves and classmates to steve@stevebellcommunications.com. Ciao for now.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello ’76ers. Your class officers hope you acknowledged Kipp Barker’semail about Project Reconnect: “During the coming months 28 classmates will reach out to those we’ve lost touch with through the years. Our intent is to reconnect to fellow classmates with whom we share a common bond.” There’s a video to watch and it gave me chills just seeing all the friends in it with ties back to our college times.

Kipp writes: “This class project is not a solicitation for donations. We miss you and want to get back in touch. I would personally love to get your feedback about what we are doing, so feel free to contact me at kippbarker@yahoo.com or call me at 425-219-0971.” This effort is aimed at our 50th reunion, which everyone wants to make sure is a record-breaking success, just as we ’76ers were in September 1972.

As many of us slow down, John Glover, as he often did on the squash court, is speeding up. John, who has long experience in the high-end spirits sector, late last year founded Avalon Spirits Corp. based in Miami. A distilled spirits marketing and sales company, it quickly acquired TSS Brands, owners of Whiskey Row Bourbon. Avalon’s goal is to acquire and build an elite portfolio of super premium spirits brands. John, Avalon’s CEO, was chief operating officer of Castle Brands until it was acquired by Pernod Ricard in 2019.

President and adopted classmate Sian Leah Beilock continued to show the leadership we’re coming to expect from her in the first year of her administration by making Dartmouth the first Ivy to reinstate the admissions requirement of SAT or ACT tests. These were dropped or made optional at most colleges and universities during Covid. But Dartmouth researchers found that data showed these tests could advantage students who might not think to include them in their application. National media took note.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, saw a class mini-reunion in February, with powder lovers Jim Naylor, Bruce York, Bud Stacy, Scott Simons, Eric Copenhaver, and Rick Hill getting the best of the mountains for a week. Kudos to Sharon Ali for serving her term as Alumni Council member from our class. We will have elected a successor in March, and we can all hope our next class representative brings as much wisdom and experience as Sharon did.

We’ve all benefitted reading Sara Hoagland Hunter’sClass Notes through the years, and now we can enjoy her take on marriage: Married Days: Stories From Home Series. As critiqued by Wellesley Books: “In this comic, comforting sequel to her well-loved Stories from Home: Dover Days, the author tackles the challenges and triumphs of courtship and marriage. Hop on this relationship roller coaster ride through a near-disastrous blind date, a horrifying ‘meet the parents’ moment, a string of domestic disasters, and the white-knuckle twists and turns of family life.”

Ciao for now. Please remember Jim Burns’ newsletter. Send news of yourself or classmates to steve@stevebellcommunications.com.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello classmates, I trust your holidays were joyful. Our class was represented well at the inauguration of our adopted classmate, President Sian Leah Beilock, in September. Present to cheer her on were Martha Hennessey, Jim and Martha Beattie, class president Naomi Kleinman, Jenny Kemeny, Steve Melikian, and M.K. Beach. Ann Fritz Hackett marched in the procession as a trustee emerita. As The Dartmouth reported, President Beilock “made an impassioned case for the necessity and vitality of higher education in general—and Dartmouth’s dual mission of fostering discovery and leadership in particular—at a time when ‘the complex problems facing the world today demand urgent, sophisticated solutions.’ ”

Dr. Brita S. Reed writes that she and Dan Lucey ’77 married in October 2022 in Norwich, Vermont. They met in 2021 as members of the Geisel School of Medicine’s reunion committee. At the wedding were classmates Carolyn Johnson Allenby asbest womanand John Lawrence as best man. Cindy Shannon and her husband, Jim Antal, officiated the service. Brita and Dan live in Atlanta, where she continues to work with patients with infertility.

Jeff Thayer wrote that he lives with his family at the southern end of Lake Winnipesaukee near Laconia, New Hampshire. After Dartmouth Jeff moved to Timmins, Ontario, near the Arctic watershed, where he worked for a mining company. Law school in Los Angeles followed, with work on white-collar defense and mergers of Las Vegas casinos. After going into private practice, he studied and spoke on fundamental rights covering the Bible, rabbinical writings, Greek, and Roman primary sources. Jeff wrote a number of self-published books now up at Lulu, Amazon, and other sites. A father of seven, he retired after five years at Walmart in construction and remodeling stores on the East Coast. He invested the last three years in research of primary sources for the writing of a historical novel spanning the period of 1700 to 1871 and a nonfiction analysis of “what is the law?”

A pitch from treasurer John Pancoast to contribute to class finances through the class dues appeal, as the fund we build up helps pay for our 50th. Also, as we re-build our participation—we hit 62 percent for our 30th—you should know that it is measured in what we give to the Dartmouth College Fund only, although gifts to other college areas, the so-called “Friends of” funds, do count in the class’s overall totals. You’ll hear about this regularly in our class newsletter and in this space as we build toward June 2026.

Kipp Barker reminds us that the class “Project Reconnect” initiative is underway to encourage more of our classmates to get involved and engaged with the College and among ourselves—especially leading up to our 50th reunion in June 2026. A number of classmates will reach out, primarily by phone, to classmates who we’ve lost touch with through the years to reestablish bonds. We’ll also leverage our newsletter, Class Notes columns, and email messages asking classmates to share memories and stories of people, places, and events from your undergraduate days. Please feel free to contact Kipp at kippbarker@yahoo.com or (425) 219-0971. And continue to send news to me at steve@stevebellcommunications.com and to Jim Burns for the newsletter. Ciao for now.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello, classmates. As we move inexorably toward our 50th it’s worth savoring what our class has done through the decades through its scholarship efforts. We’ve received several letters of gratitude from current students our class helps support. Betel Koc ’25 reflected on how she watched a doctor she interned with “diagnose and treat patients with compassion and expertise”; Lucinda Gullisaon ’26 is happy to be at the College with “others [who] are also engaged and eager to learn”; and Mahin “May” Alam ’26 won the prestigious Gilman scholarship and plans to study abroad next fall in Berlin. Sara Hoagland Hunter writes that she attended a moving celebration of the life of Polly Hill, mother of Rick Hill and Jody Hill Simpson ’74, and wife of the late Richard Hill ’41, a member of the board of trustees from 1973 to 1983. Sara also noted the September launch of her newest book, Married Days. She describes it as “more I Love Lucy than spiritual guide.” Nationally syndicated writer David Shribman calls the book “a witty and wise look at the madcap madness of marriage.” Our class VP of communications Kipp Barker has an appeal we hope you will pay attention to: “It is amazing to think that it has been more than 50 years since our class finished its freshman year. Some of us have done a great job keeping in touch with these friends, while many others have lost touch with classmates. It is time to reconnect with our college friends as well as make new friends among those folks we did not get to know. I am leading an initiative called ‘Project Reconnect’ with the purpose of reaching out to members of our class who we’ve lost touch with through the years, hoping to rekindle friendships that were so important to us. In the next several months a team of your peers will reach out to hundreds of classmates to rekindle old friendships and create new ones. If you would like to participate in this initiative, feel free to reach out to me at kippbarker@yahoo.com or call me at (425) 219-0971.” In a proposal in the Journal of the American Medical Association, two distinguished informaticians outlined what they called “essential electronic health reforms for this decade.” Don E. Detmer, M.D., M.A., is professor emeritus and professor of medical education at the University of Virginia. Andy Gettinger, M.D., is a professor of anesthesiology emeritus at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Detmer and Gettinger noted that despite distinct advantages that electronic health records (EHR) bring, the structure of healthcare services in the United States “has made it difficult to exploit their most desirable features. Instead of supporting clinicians seeking to deliver care more effectively and efficiently, current EHR design and configurations attempt to manage clinicians and how they do their work.” Please send news of yourself or classmates to steve@stevebellcommunications.com. Don’t be shy. If your news is more extensive and comes with pictures, don’t forget Jim Burns’class newsletter. Ciao for now.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello, ’76 classmates. Your class leaders are working to involve as many of you as we can as we work toward our 50th. Through the years many people helped keep records of where you are and what you do. We need to update those records. If you’re even possibly maybe perhaps considering coming to the 50th, please email Kipp Barker with your basic contact information (address, phone, email) at kippbarker@yahoo.com. Kipp alsoreports that Reggie Williams informed him that freshman football head coach, and later varsity coach, Jerry Berndt, died December 4, 2022, at 84 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. His obituary states: “Jerry’s family, friends, players, and fellow coaches will remember him as a man with an unshakable, positive spirit, belief in good things to come, and unique ability to make people feel special. They will remember his devotion to his family and his goals, and his admirably infectious pride in his story. He will always be profoundly missed and loved in death as he was in life.” Kipp adds: “I have extremely fond memories of Jerry, who recruited Kirk and me to come to Dartmouth from Orange County, California. He was such an upbeat and authentic man who clearly loved and respected his team.” Blair Dickerson remembers that when he addressed the team, he’d always start with calling us “Gentlemen.” Kirk Barker remembers his rousing pregame and halftime speeches intended to “jack us up” to do their best on the field. Jerry Berndt touched the lives of more than 120 students who came out to play on the football team our freshmen year, more than 10 percent of the class. Kim Conroy continues as global career advisor at the Lauder Institute, a 24-month program whose students receive an M.B.A. from Wharton and a master’s in international studies from Penn. At any given time there are roughly 150 students in the program and Kim regularly counsels them one on one. She also travels extensively to meet with the institute’s 3,000 alumni across the globe, as they actively mentor the Lauder students. Kim was scheduled to travel to Singapore for a Wharton Global Forum in March, to South America in April, and to Europe in June to meet with Lauder alumni. Her great joy is visiting her son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter in Seattle and having them visit her in New York City. The College’s Rockefeller Center in November presented a program on 50 years of women at Dartmouth that featured our own Martha Hennessy and Jenny Kemeny. Starting in 2022, our class began providing significant financial support for the annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium, an offshoot of the Women in Science Program Wetterhahn began in the early 1990s. Wetterhahn, who died in 1997, began her Dartmouth career in 1976 and was the first female tenure-track professor in the chemistry department. The lecture was scheduled for May 24 at the Hanover Inn. The symposium provides an opportunity for undergraduates to present their STEM-focused research projects, and more than 2,300 students have participated. More information about the program and the lecture are available on multiple websites. Please send news of yourself or classmates to steve@stevebellcommunications.com.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Hello, ’76 classmates. A quick note about the passing of history professor and former College President Jim Wright, someone many ’76ers regarded fondly and with much respect. His history courses opened many eyes to the facts about how Native people are treated in this country. Please google David Shribman’sremembrance column. The September-October Dartmouth Alumni Magazine made us proud, featuring three (only three and no women?!) among the top 100 athletes in Dartmouth history: Reggie Williams (No. 1), Jim Beattie (with action photo), and four-time Olympic skier Tim Caldwell. Kudos as well to Martha Johnson Beattie,named one of the 2022 Wearers of the Green. Best of all, our Class of 1976 Award to each year’s best female athlete was cited multiple times in the bios of Dartmouth’s top female athletes of all time. Coke McClure, serving as guest minister at the Wood River Valley, Idaho, Emmanuel Church, posted a beautiful photo of Ernest Hemingway’s favorite fishing spot nearby accompanied by a moving Hemingway quote from a eulogy: “Best of all he loved the fall, the leaves yellow in the cottonwoods. Leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills. The high blue windless skies, now he will be part of them forever.” We are so fortunate to have some among us maintain the lasting traditions that make Dartmouth so special. M.K. Beach and Judy Burrows Csatari passed on the details of forging a relationship with the class of 2026. From matriculation to Commencement, there is a special connection between the Dartmouth classes that enroll and graduate 50 years apart. On September 11, 2022, members of the ’76-’26 Connection Committee greeted every member of Dartmouth’s incoming class of 2026. In addition to Judy and M.K., the committee includes Jeff Reed, John Sherman, Martha Hennessey, Randy White,and Susan Stine Felter.New members joining to support future activities include Cynthia “Inky” Ford, Spencer Kubo,and Viola Allen. Each ’26 received a flower and a letter from our class. At the time of our matriculation the ’76 women received a letter of welcome and encouragement and a flower from the class of 1926. Our letter to the first years was an invitation to connect with the class of ’76 during the next four years. Committee members imparted some history to the class of 2026, including anecdotes about changes that occurred during our time in Hanover—coeducation and year-round operation, of course, a recommitment to Native Americans at Dartmouth, awareness of 50 years of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association, encouragement for the College experience they would create for themselves, and wisdom about being agents of change. We surely have many classmates among the 4 million Americans who play pickleball, invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. That might be why Seattle’s Eric Copenhaver adopted the sport early. He’s now a coach with great personal success in the game, even as he evangelizes for it around the country—when he’s not fly-fishing, skiing, or baking pizza in his hand-built oven in his backyard. Please send news of yourself or classmates to steve@stevebellcommunications.com.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

Dear classmates, we’re officially now on the road to our 50th, as staggering and exciting an acknowledgement as that is. We’ll soon have a new College president, and we look forward to her addressing our class at the 50th. Welcome to our class president Naomi Baline Kleinman, whose experience and wisdom will help the class generate a memorable 50th. Joining Naomi as your class officers are Sharon Ali (VP, operations), Kipp Barker (VP, communications and official 45th reunion bear hugger)and John Pancoast (treasurer).Thank you for approving me as your class secretary. I will try to make this space as fun and informative as Sara Hoagland Hunter did so consistently. As a former newspaper and wire service editor, it’s all about the news. So here we go from the 45th reunion in June: Outgoing class president Stephen Melikian reports that the class panel moderated by David Shribman was excellent. Gary Love, Fern Bennett Phillips, and Andy Gettinger spokeabout their professional pivots. Gary [he of the amazing Gary Love ’76 Prize] went from being an entrepreneur to government service in San Francisco; Fern moved from corporate America to starting her own company, Little Big Farm Foods; and Andy jumped from anesthesiologist and professor at Dartmouth Hitchcock to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The meal highlight was Friday night at the dining hall formerly known as Thayer and now called Class of ’53 Commons. There was universal shock at how good the food was. The class memorial service, organized by Cindy Shannon led by Judy Burrows Csatari and Sharon Ali, was moving and important. In May Jennifer Kemeny gave a fab mini-reunion Zoom address with outstanding reminiscences of President Kemeny and our era delivered with affection, humor, and style. Jim Beattie planned this as a warmup to the June reunion and the 50-plus classmates who attended enjoyed a total treat. Jim and Martha Johnson Beattie were also giants at the reunion, hosting a breakfast for all the women of our class. In non-reunion news, Portland, Maine, architect and American Institute of Architects fellow Scott Simons travelled to Egypt last spring to help plan a campus from scratch for a new Egyptian Leadership Academy in El Gouna, a resort city on the Red Sea. As crotchety 60-somethings, we can all wonder about social media’s worth, but it is joyful to see active classmates such as Lynne Brooks skiing in Michigan and hiking the White Mountains, while Bruce York and his wife, Kim ’77, take on Whistler, Jackson Hole, and about every trail in the Cascades. Bruce also skied at least once in 91 consecutive months as of June. And in May they traveled to Scotland and Iceland. Please send me news at steve@stevebellcommunications.com and know that it doesn’t have to be a report on you conquering Everest or running through Death Valley with only a Kind bar and a beer. We’re interested in you and your lives because we’re classmates and friends. Reminder: For comprehensive reunion photos and general information, please go to our class Facebook page, “Dartmouth Class of 1976,” or class website, https://1976.dartmouth.org.

—Steve Bell, 15 Harbour Pointe, Buffalo, NY 14202; steve@stevebellcommunications.com

The class of ’76 is poised to set a 45th reunion attendance record thanks to the creative efforts of co-chairs Rick Zimmerman and Stephen Melikian and their impressive committee: Sharon Ali, Mary Kay Beach, Jim Beattie, Martha Johnson Beattie, Judy Burrows Csatari, Andy Gettinger, Rick Hill, Rich Horan, Joe Jasinski, Andrea Lewis, Jeff Reed, Tom Reinhart, Cindy Shannon, Andy Shaw, John Sherman, Steffi Valar, Neil Van Dyke, Paul Windrath, Bruce York,and Kipp Barker. Kipp has recruited a greeting team guaranteed to make the most reticent returning classmate or spouse feel welcome. His team of bear huggers (fist bumpers, if you prefer) is an all-star lineup: Adrienne Alexander, Brian Bachelder, Kirk Barker, Fern Bennett Phillips, Lynne Brooks, George Chimiklis, David Clark, Michael Fried, Ann Fritz Hackett, Jamey Hampton, Martha Hennessey, Rick Hill, Seamus Hourihan, Art Howe, Bert Ifill, Fred Jaccarino, Joe Jasinski, Anne Johnson, Gretchen Kent Kerr, Nancy Kepes Jeton, Parker MacDonell, Adrienne Mally, Fraser Marcus, Tom McConnell, Julie Miner, Cheryl Newman, Steve Parker-Feld, Charlie Potts, Melanie Renchner Kaminetsky, Rob Saltzman, Gus Sauter, John Sherman, MaryEllen Treadway, Steffi Valar, Randy White, Ken Wright and Bruce York.Join the fun June 15 at Moosilauke Lodge for hikes, chats, eats, and entertainment. Official kick-off is June 16 in the Beatties’ backyard and the celebration continues through June 19 with dinners, conversations with friends new and old, and a panel moderated by David Shribman. In this 50th anniversary year of coeducation, I’m celebrating classmate Susan Corderman Clifford, the first woman to matriculate at Dartmouth. Due to orientation logistics, our class was divided into groups on that historic September day in 1972. The “C’s” matriculated first and Susan’s photo with Dean Manuel was immortalized. Asked what she remembers, she writes, “It wasn’t until Dean Manuel was signing my certificate and someone from the paper started taking pictures that I realized I was the first woman.” A career certified public accountant, she says the moment has served as a conversation starter in every job interview since she graduated from Tuck. She also reminded me that she was third in line that day. First to matriculate was our four-time Olympian Tim Caldwell. Tim remembers his “delight” at having been accepted to Dartmouth so he could take winter terms off to continue Nordic ski training, including freshman year, when President Kemeny gave him special dispensation. He also remembers how huge the upperclassmen looked. “I felt like a little kid!” And that from a guy who competed in the ’72, ’76, ’80, and ’84 Olympics! Imagine how the rest of us felt! Congrats to Peter Dakin’swife, Kelly, national women’s doubles pickleball champion, who was cheered on in Palm Springs, California, by a distinguished entourage including Pete, Kevin Downing,and renowned class cheerleader, Shoun Kerbaugh. Congrats to Ted Scheu and Peter Gergely for their collaboration on a new children’s picture book, Night-night, Body, with Peter’s exquisite art and Ted’s trademark verses loved by kids. Ted continues his popular school visits. Peter, who can still make me laugh ’til I cry, continues as the beloved pediatrician of generations of children and parents in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@gmail.com

I’m celebrating the 50th year of coeducation by interviewing trailblazer, Ann Fritz Hackett, first alumna trustee of the College. Ann served from 1982 to 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995 to fill an unexpired term. Asked about her historical appointment, she writes, “I was asked to fly to Boston to be interviewed by the whole board. I was seated at the end of a very long conference table. At 27, that was pretty intimidating! I was deeply honored to have the opportunity to give back to Dartmouth in an important way but also a bit nervous, since I was the first alumna and by far the youngest member of the board—the next youngest being about 15 years older and most others much older and more experienced. This turned out to be a tremendous growth experience. I learned at a very early age to find my voice, be courageous and authentic, express my opinion, and ask questions that turned out to be important to the deliberations and discussions.” She says the experience provided “an incredible foundation in governance” that has served her well in a career that has included investment banking, management consulting, tech startups, and nonprofit and Fortune 500 boards. She cites the 1987 trustees’ statement on achieving more substantial parity between men and women as one of the most memorable decisions made during her tenure. “We, along with most of the Ivies, had been stuck at 39-percent female. That statement and intent helped propel us forward and continue to attract the most exceptional male and female students. We understood that greater parity would also help Dartmouth become truly coeducational and advance the undergraduate experience for all students in all kinds of ways.” What does she hope future Dartmouth classes know about our experience in the first matriculated class of women? “I hope they know that in spite of the many challenges we faced, I felt incredibly fortunate to be part of that first class and loved my Dartmouth experience. Dartmouth took me outside of my comfort zone, but in doing so it expanded it and helped prepare me for the rest of my life. I threw myself into the academic experiences, sports teams, and my dorm; embraced the abundance of new opportunities; learned to face challenges head on; and formed extraordinary lifelong friendships. We had a unique opportunity to see an institution up close in the midst of transformation and be part of that change—and that has served me well in other parts of my career and life. Even in those early days, I think many of us felt we were helping to forge a path for what would one day be an even better Dartmouth. The bonds we shared as women in those early days are deep. But what is often not mentioned is the importance of the male friends we had and how they stood beside us and with us through the challenging times. Together, men and women in those early classes did their part to help lay the foundation for what is the Dartmouth of today.” Thank you, Ann!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Foiled again! As fast and furiously as Jim Burns, Joe Jasinski, and I work to broaden coverage of our 900-plus cool classmates in the newsletter and on the class Facebook page and website, Louise Erdrich wins another award—this time the Pulitzer! Congratulations, Louise! The Night Watchman wasnamed America’s top work of literature this year, described as “a majestic, polyphonic novel.” (You know you’re not in the same league when you have to look up even the word used to describe a classmate’s Pulitzer!) I love that Louise publicly thanked professors Richard Corum, A.B. Paulson, and Brenda Silver. I also love that her Pulitzer for literature added to David Shribman’s for journalism may make us the first double-Pulitzer class in Dartmouth history. Go, ’76! A shoutout as well to Carol Vaughan Bemis, longtime board member of Graywolf Publishing, whose poet Natalie Diaz won this year’s Pulitzer for poetry.News comes from several we haven’t heard from in a while. Bill Kobokovich practices law in his native Maryland, leading the group that manages bad-faith litigation at Travelers Insurance. His wife, Carla, also a lawyer, works for Erickson Living, which develops and manages continuing care communities. Their daughter, Amanda, works for the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security helping countries prepare for and respond to pandemics. Their son, Zack, is a second-year law student at George Mason University. Rob Erickson is a pastor at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Virginia, his fifth church in 35 years of ministry. He sent a beautiful photo of his family, including his wife, Joan, and three sons from their son’s “micro-wedding,” featured and feted on Martha Stewart’s blog for its creativity during the time of Covid. My Cape Cod buddy Ben Ayres has retired from a teaching career that took him to Vermont, Fiji, Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, in that order. In addition to a daily discipline of writing, reading, and walking his chocolate lab, Tobias, Ben has been called back into action by his wife, Amanda, a school administrator, to assist with field trips and a library redesign. Rick Zimmerman and Steve Melikian,our intrepid and effervescent reunion chairs, are plotting a warm and welcoming 45th. Save the dates: June 16-19! No diets, depilation, tucks, or toupees allowed. We love you just the way you are! As I write, we have had a rugged stretch, losing four stellar classmates: Peter Jeton, our North Star of character, compassion, and gratitude and the husband and soulmate of our own Nancy Kepes Jeton; Tom Souza,our wise, witty wordsmith and class historian; Dabney Hofammann, larger than life, affable outdoorsman and accomplished surgeon in his native Alabama; and Mark Stebbins, philanthropist, successful business owner, record-breaking All-American swimmer, two-year team captain, and beloved son of New Hampshire. You may read more about our shining stars on our class website or the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website. If you would like to write their wonderful families, just let me know.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@gmail.com

I’m thrilled to announce that Rick Zimmerman and class president Steve Melikian will co-chair our 45th reunion June 16-19, 2022. The reunion will launch quite a year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our arrival on campus, the 50th anniversary of coeducation, the 50th anniversary of the Native American studies program, and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA). Let’s kick it off with a terrific 45th! Rick and Steve welcome your ideas and volunteer skills. Contact them via email: rick@rickzman.com and stevem@joneshall.com. Our amazing webmaster Joe Jasinski has reworked the class webpage (1976.dartmouth.org) so we can access all of our newsletters since graduation. It’s a treasure trove of classmate names and history thanks to the work of our nine distinguished editors of the last 45 years (in chronological order): Jay Josselyn, Judy Burrows Csatari (twice!), Nancy Kepes Jeton, the late Pam Gile, Bill Schillhammer, Steve Bell, Lynne Brooks, Martha Hennessey, and Jim Burns. Ted Scheu checked in with news that after 30-plus years he recently reconnected with John Britton ’75 and hopes to continue connecting with long-lost friends and classmates. Ted’s in Middlebury, Vermont, where he continues happily writing for kids and teaching writing in elementary schools. Ted’s teaching, hospice volunteering, travel to France, and grandparenting are all virtual at the moment. He and wife Robin enjoyed a “marvelous visit” with John Olsen and wife Kristie two summers ago in Seattle. He is collaborating with the mega-talented Peter Gergely on a picture book about bedtime. Our ever-dedicated gift planning (bequests) chair, Steffi Valar, reports that she has been traveling virtually with Road Scholar and the Smithsonian and non-virtually on snowshoes while exercising her new hip. She reads a lot and highly recommends Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman. Michael Shnayerson’s eighth book, Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, received praise from The New York Times (“fast paced and absorbing”) and The Wall Street Journal. Ken Mickens lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he spent more than 26 years as a lawyer for the Public Utility Commission. He writes, “I have been in private practice for about 12 years, focusing on public utility law and wills and estates. I get back to Hanover on a regular basis to attend BADA events.” He says the flexibility of private practice has allowed for quality time with his two grandkids as well as work on a $2.6-million church building project. David Lockard, who was married to my friend and dormmate, the late Katy Lebowitz, now lives in a world-renowned one-person house designed by architect Robert Venturi, known as Mother’s House or the Vanna Venturi house, in Philadelphia. The constant flow of curious visitors ebbed during Covid but David says the return of his and Katy’s adult kids has made up for any lull in activity. Read expanded versions of David’s and others’ news in Jim Burns’ next fabulous class newsletter. This 500-word limit is killing me, but do send news!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@gmail.com

I’m always on the hunt for news stories of those we haven’t heard from in this amazing class. This month, I lucked into two! On an otherwise bleak news day, I spotted a front-page photo in The Boston Globe of students at desks in a lovely New England field. The lead sentence of the article by Zoe Greenberg was a breath of fresh, crisp fall air: “In a cleared patch of forest in the shadow of the Holyoke Range, where birds chirp and chipmunks scamper and sunlight dapples the dirt floor, Ms. Baudendistel’s seventh-grade class is learning about the night sky.” Yes! Our Jan Baudendistel! The article went on to describe the joys of outdoor learning at the Hartsbrook School in western Massachusetts, where Jan has taught for 33 years. The story concluded with her delight at the classroom distraction of two pileated woodpeckers pecking away on a nearby tree. I tracked her down to discover she is as youthful, modest, and energetic as ever. She invited me to visit the log cabin her seventh-graders are building in the woods. Not only will I visit; I’d like to enroll in the school! I then unearthed news online of our distinguished classmate Eric Madison and his remarkable career with the U.S. State Department. Eric and I overlapped in the exuberant, creative classroom atmosphere of Professor John Rassias,where putting on plays and sharing classic Rassias moments made friends of us all. After majoring in French and receiving a Fulbright scholarship, Eric began a multi-decade, multi-continent career with the State Department, serving in Asia, Europe, and Africa. He served as deputy chief of mission in Kinshasa, chargé d’affaires from 2012 to 2016. I hope I get to write his story before Peter Stark or our other class nonfiction adventure writers clinch the deal! After all this aggressive digging, I got lazy and began asking questions of anyone who happened to email. Shoun Kerbaugh was probably sorry he wrote for info on my new book (shameless plug). I asked the man from Kentucky what he remembered about winters at Dartmouth. His answer: “Gorgeous, but too long!” But he did love the first snowball fight, writing, “The heavy snow finally came and all the dorms emptied simultaneously and the snowballs started flying! I remember pelting Middle Fayerweather as all of us in South Fayerweather were simply ‘protecting our turf.’ ” My next victim was executive committee member Andy Shaw. I badgered him for news until he admitted winning the men’s senior golf championship for the second straight year at his Winnetka, Illinois, golf course—the very course where he and Jeff Hillebrand once sunk holes-in-one on the same day. Finally, the class extends heartfelt hugs of condolence to Mary Kay Walkush Beach,whose heroic husband and beloved Dartmouth faculty member, Terry Osborne, died in September. We also mourn the loss of the ever warm and welcoming Marty Doyle, whose humor, storytelling, and loyalty to Dartmouth and his countless friends remain legendary.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Forty-eight falls ago we converged on Hanover from various vantage points and life experiences, each with a story, each wondering what college would be like and how we would fit in. I am asked more often than I could ever have expected what it was like to be in the first class of coeducation. Mine is just one of 177 answers to that question, the one commonality being that it required strength. In our chrysalis state of developing identity, we, like our male counterparts, sought safety in the comfort of what the College now refers to as affinity groups. Although a natural inclination and justifiable survival tactic, this comfort-clustering reduced our range of social interactions. Fortunately, I continue to meet new friends and learn their stories at reunions, mini-reunions, and in researching this column. I am increasingly awed by the strength of our approximately 20 intrepid Black female classmates. I knew a few and am grateful to be connecting with others. I first met Donna Humphrey, Debbie Humphrey, and Andrea Lewis in our North Mass enclave, one of two all- female dorms. Donna’s warmth, humanity, and humor continue to inform me. Debbie’s goodness and serenity remain an anchor. Andrea’s unwavering sense of principle and fearlessness made her the perfect unofficial first-floor sentry during that crazy fall of 1972. Her verbal reaming of an unwitting, inebriated football player who wandered in to harass one of our dormmates late one night made her my instant hero. Decades later, she is elegant and eloquent regaling me with tales of her travels with Sharon Ali, Cynthia Taylor, Karen Evans,and the Humphreys. I recently learned about Juneteenth in Amanda Green’s rich reminiscences of multi-generational family celebrations published in the PBS publication Rewire. Professor Karen Turner shared her historical perspective on Juneteenth in an interview with Kay Angrum of New York’s NBC affiliate. Karen has dedicated her career to teaching, explaining, researching, and sharing as a journalist, radio reporter, mayoral press secretary, Temple University professor, and director of the university’s academic center on research in diversity. J.B. Redding (coauthor with Monica Hargrove and Eileen Cave of the 1974 report on institutional racism at Dartmouth) recentlyopened up about a lifetime of humiliating, scary, and exhausting experiences with the police. Her pain was made even more poignant when I read J.B.’s mission as founder of Caring Hands, a Maryland organization committed to providing homes for adults with disabilities: to “honor the wishes of the individual, accept people as they are, give opportunity for full lives in the community, maximize healthy outcomes, and preserve dignity.” Deep gratitude for these friends is the magnifying glass that brings the term “systemic racism” into sharp focus, revealing the life-and-death urgency of this hour. Understanding our classmates’ stories and generational history precludes any arms-length observation of injustice. The burden to explain, prove, educate, and take action can no longer be borne solely by our Black classmates who have been doing it for too long. It is the responsibility of all of us.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

The view from the Hanover Inn to Baker Tower still stirs the excitement of possibility I felt one snowy night in 1971 at dinner with my parents after my admissions tour and interview. Admissions officer Sam Smith ’49, a pioneering Dartmouth alum himself, had told me I was the first woman he had ever interviewed and encouraged me to apply. I couldn’t wait! To this day, that quintessential campus view across the Green pinpoints my coordinates of place and affection. I asked classmates their own memorable spots. Former lightweight crew team member David Slade chose the Connecticut River and the boathouse because they helped him “stay mentally connected” with his family’s summer place on Lake Winnipesaukee. Dave and wife Marilyn have now restored his grandparents’ lake home. He is hoping for extended stays when he “finally manages to retire” from duties as general counsel of the U.S. Export-Import Bank in Washington, D.C. Rip Fisher cites Occom Pond, where he and Noreen Quinn Fisher took their first stroll freshman fall. He writes: “Trying to be the gentleman, I walked along the muddy outside edge so Noreen could be on higher, dryer ground. Much to my surprise she looked at me with a mischievous grin and pushed me into the pond. Reacting quickly, I grabbed her hand and pulled her in with me.” They emerged mud-covered and smitten, a fitting prequel to one of the first and longest-running double Dartmouth marriages, now in its 47th happy year. A recent, random confluence of classmates involved Martha Johnson Beattie, Jim Beattie, and I running into the ebullient Jack Boyles at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Jack is Boston’s best ambassador, a fixture at Red Sox games and ever-enthusiastic at cultural events. We then happened upon Rick Hill’s wife, Sue, who reported Rick was away skiing even after just finishing a major ski adventure in Japan with Jim Beattie, Bruce York, Eric Copenhaver, Craig Reininger, Craig Stone,Kim York ’77, and Gary Schillhammer ’77. Condolences are due Dave Clark for the loss of his mother, Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling suspense novelist. When Dave’s dad died in 1964, she persevered in earning not only her own college degree but in working to send to college five children, including Dave. Her first big hit, Where Are the Children? debuted our junior year and is now in its 75th printing. We mourn the passing of Jeff Shiffrin,beloved by family, friends, and a devastated world skiing community. Tributes can be found on this magazine’s website, our class website 1976.dartmouth.org, and multiple media outlets, including The New York Times and Sports Illustrated. Look for a class newsletter tribute by Steve Bell gathered from heartfelt reminiscences of longtime friend Jeff Long and multiple Psi U brothers, including Chris Daniell and Scott Simons. Jeff’s daughter, Mikaela, Olympic and World Cup alpine ski champion, called him “our ocean, our sunrise, our heart, our soul, our everything.” Contributions may be made to “Friends of Dartmouth Skiing.”

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

The Dr. Seuss cover story in the November/December issue of this magazine renewed my gratitude for his influence in my life. We struck up a correspondence when, in middle school, I sent him a lengthy, Seussian-style saga about a chagrined alien whose desperate attempts to frighten earthlings are perpetually dismissed as swamp gas by the government. Dr. Seuss’ subsequent encouragement set me on a course of writing nonsense poems while sparking my desire to attend his then all-male alma mater. I treasure the congratulatory letter he sent upon my acceptance five years later and a career in children’s books nurtured at Dartmouth. Speaking of those early years of coeducation, Michael Aylward alerted me to a documentary that premiered Homecoming Weekend about the College’s first female exchange students. The film, Early Daughters of Dartmouth, Blazing the Trail to Coeducation, 1969 to 1972, is narrated by Connie Britton ’89 and features the long neglected pioneers who have now officially been adopted into the classes of 1969-73. Michael’s brother, David ’71, and Martha Johnson Beattie are interviewed. Classmates spotted during Homecoming were Chris Davis, David Englehart, Charles Kern, Bill Sinclair, Neil Tarzy, Anne White Katlic, Neil Van Dyke, and Rick Zimmerman along with executive committee members Joe Jasinski, Steve Melikian, Dana Rowan,and Cindy Shannon. Martha and Jim Beattie graciously hosted our class meeting and mini-reunion before joining a group of classmates to climb Bartlett Tower. The stories of Winter Carnival in this issue reminded me of the carnival sculptures during our four years, each eerily representative of my experiences at the time. First, there was that damn Cheshire Cat leering from the middle of the Green as I took a major wipeout while running to a lecture class where I was one of the only women and already felt like I’d fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole. Sophomore year, the theme was Disney. My advisor’s warnings about wasting time on “Mickey Mouse” activities haunted me as I passed that giant Mickey on my way to go canoe-sledding on the golf course. Junior year was a puzzlement all the way around—from debating the relevance of my major to debating which term to take off to pondering the relevance of a Viking ship emerging in front of Baker. Senior year, a gleaming Statue of Liberty signaled the freedom looming a few short months away. But would dreams untethered from the structure and friendships of Dartmouth glisten this brightly in reality or melt into a muddy heap? A feature in an upcoming issue of the alumni magazine focuses on siblings in the Dartmouth family. To the siblings previously mentioned in this column, I add my buddy Jack Brennan and Tom ’79. Another sibling pair, the late Katy Lebowitz Lockard and the late Mark Lebowitz ’77, deserve special mention. Mark, a gifted singer and pianist who performed with the Aires, died eight years after graduation. His brilliant and ebullient sister, Katy, died in 2006. Katy’s husband, our classmate David Lockard,established the Katy Lebowitz 1976 Academic Enrichment Fund inher honor.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

If you’re reading this on the way to our Santa Fe, New Mexico, mini-reunion September 6-8, I can’t wait to see you there! Jim Beattie and a crew of classmates have planned a great weekend of activities, chatting, chilling, and eating. If you’re interested in coming last minute, we’re headquartered at La Posada de Santa Fe hotel. Our class website, 1976.dartmouth.org, has the details. I’m high on Dartmouth trips, having just returned from our family’s first alumni travel adventure in the Galapagos. Whoa! Besides the mind-boggling critters, turquoise sea, and white sand beaches, the alumni of all ages were a blast. We didn’t know any of the group before the trip but bonded with many, including one of the first female Tuck grads and a gung-ho octogenarian who led the pack in snorkeling with sea lions and early morning beach yoga. The huge bonus was history professor Darrin McMahon and his wife, Courtney, who were brilliant, personable, and closer to our kids’ ages than ours, providing great company for all. We’re already planning our next trip. Can’t decide between northern lights, Bhutan, Vietnam, Canadian Rockies, or the Paris African-American history trips!

Another fun Dartmouth project was trying to remember names of classmates who had Dartmouth siblings for a photo essay for this magazine. Here’s who I remember: Michael Aylward, Kipp Barker and Kirk Barker, Carol Vaughan Bemis, Lori Radke Bessette, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Jim Burns, Jeff Colt, John “Goose” Gleason, Rick Hill, Debby Humphrey and Donna Humphrey, Jenny Kemeny, Nancy Kepes Jeton, Pam Kneisel, Sandy Maeck, Steve Melikian, Dan Murphy, Tom Ruegger, Ted Scheu, Beth Howard Wilkens and, of course, the illustrious brother-sister team of John Gile and the late Pam Gile.Both sets of ’76 twins did us proud submitting photos. Let me know if I missed anybody. I promise to print additions. Meanwhile, look for a priceless photo of the pajama-clad Barkers plus classic sibling photos from Tom Ruegger and Michael Aylward in Jim Burns’s next class newsletter. Jim has added a fun feature about “Life’s next chapter” and is inviting all of us to write him at 1976peakbagger@gmail.com with our latest schemes and plans. Don’t miss his and wife Marion’s cross-country sight-seeing adventures (the world’s largest golf tee?! Harold Warp’s Pioneer Village?!) and retired physician Bob Tibolt’s reinvention as a custom mapmaker. Working from his studio and showroom in Las Vegas, Bob says this chapter was inspired by beloved geography professor Van English. His current top sellers are custom travel and honeymoon maps plus prints from his “Great American Cities” series. Michael Shnayerson’s next chapter is the continuation of his literary hit parade with a new book: Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers and the Rise of Contemporary Art. Along with his Vanity Fair writing, Michael has managed to research and write seven nonfiction books. This latest examines how a few passionate New York City art dealers created a high-stakes global market for contemporary art. Send your news!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Santa Fe, New Mexico, here we come! Our dream birthday party is becoming a reality! In case you’ve missed the class newsletter or emails and calls from friends or the last magazine column, here’s what’s happening: We’re celebrating our 65th birthdays on the 250th day of Dartmouth’s 250th year with camaraderie, conversation, culture, and catch-ups September 6-8 in scenic Santa Fe! The kick-off party is Friday night at La Posada de Santa Fe hotel, class headquarters for the weekend, where mini-reunion chair Jim Beattie has reserved discounted rooms through the following link, www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1549922126377&key=GRP (discount rate available September 3-11 for early arrivals and late lingerers). Reservations made by May 15 will be entered into a drawing for a king suite upgrade with fireplace! Email jbeattie45@gmail.com if you have any problems reserving. Plans are underway for golf with Andy Shaw, art and architecture tours with Carol Vaughan Bemis and Julie Miner, cycling with Rick Hill, guided city tours coordinated by Naomi Baline Kleinman, a customized shopping hot spot list from Santa Fe regular Julie Miller Shepherd,and an off-campus class dinner Saturday night. Here’s hoping Craig Reininger will reprise his reunion hiking leader role too! Classmates coming so far: Carolyn Allenby, Martha Johnson Beattie, Jamie Bergford, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Jack Brennan, Lynne Brooks, Brewer Doran, Kathy DeGioia Eastwood, Inky Ford, Nancy Steward Freidl, Bob Freidl, Amanda Green, Donna Humphrey, Sara Hoagland Hunter, Joe Jasinski, Jody Karp and Dave Magnus, Gretchen Kent Kerr, Andrea Lewis, Gary Love, Steve Melikian, Dave Robbins, Bill Saubert, Tom Souza, Annie Stockmar Upton, Steffi Valar, and Randy White. Kipp Barker, Anne Johnson, Paul Lazarus,and Tish O’Connor hope to make it as well. Amy Gillenson, who splits time between homes in New York City and Umbria, Italy, with her Italian-born husband, will skip the olive harvest this year to make it to the mini-reunion. How about a 2020 reunion in Umbria? Congratulations to Louise Erdrich, named one of the 25 most influential graduates in the 250-year history of the College by a panel of Dartmouth faculty. Check out Peter Stark’scool interviewon NPR with Ari Shapiro about his enduring tale Frozen Alive, one of the most requested stories on Outside magazine’s website for the last 20 years. My request for grandparent names yielded two Grandpas (Kenneth Carr Wright, Mike Chapman), aGrandma (Beth Howard Wilkens), multiple Mimis, including Pat McClendon and Jim Burns’ wife, Marion. Bob Deason is Papabob. Bob Cline is soon to be Bob-Bob. Bob Freidl is PopPop and Kirk Barker is Bebop. Noel Kropf’skids call his parents Sabba and Savta (Hebrew for grandparents). Both Marc Lacasse and Lois Gadway Tow honor their French Canadian roots. Marc’s kids called his parents Pépère and Mémère. Lois called her great-grandparents Mémé and Pépé. My favorites were Grumpy Moose (Bruce Wilkens) and Not Puppy (Joe Jasinski, whose grandson remains smitten by Joe’s puppy).

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

The tidal wave of ’76 grandchildren has begun. This month I’m reaching out for good grandparent names. I’m not in need yet myself but want to be ready with ’76-level creativity when the time comes. I’ve invited a few classmates we haven’t heard from in a while to submit Granny-Gramps alternatives they used as kids or are called now. Please email your suggestions for the next issue. Of course, being tradition-defying ’76ers, we have glorious outliers such as Joe Dempsey,whose two adorable children (ages 4 and 7) you may have met at reunion last year. Joe and his wife, Beverly, served as foster parents in the New Jersey child welfare system prior to adopting their two and are a wonderful, enthusiastic resource for those seeking state care adoption information. Caroline Ballard,who with her husband has sold their veterinary practice and retired to Vermont, comes by her quirky humor naturally. Her grandmother was called “Ogie” (short for ogre) and her great-grandmother was “Th’other Nanny.” The ever-effervescent Peter Friedensohn and sparkly wife Pat Hopkins are aptly known as “Poppop” and “Glamma” to grandsons Robby (5) and Cody (3). Steve Bell reports his newest grandchild, Henry, born in Cambodia, will most likely follow the lead of his older cousin, Cara, of Los Angeles, who calls Steve “Papa.” Another “Papa” is the husband of Lori Radke Bessette, whois “Mimi” to their two sons’ kids born within five days of each other last spring. Lori, a former obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband, an orthopedic surgeon. I bet those lucky grandkids will grow up sailing in the Bessette family sailboat on Lake Ontario. Coke McClure is Father McClure to his congregation but Grandpa Coke (or sometimes Pepsi!) to his 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Coke’s thoughtful correspondence detailed his career chapters, including Presbyterian pastor, stockbroker, and Episcopal priest. For the last 10 years he has served congregations in Idaho, California, Kentucky, and Nebraska. Our new mini-reunion chair Jim Beattie (begged, wheedled, whined, and cajoled into service by a cadre of convincers) will be inviting you soon to a mini-reunion not to be missed! Get ready for a fabulous fiesta to welcome the onslaught of 65th birthdays as well as Dartmouth’s 250th. We’re enlisting a whole new crop of bear-huggers (plus some repeat champs) to greet you for a weekend of fun, food, hikes, bikes, shops, spas, and, per your request from the last reunion, more time to just catch up with each other. Meanwhile, treat yourself to our class website updated by tech guru Joe Jasinski. In addition to our Freshman Book and reunion photos, there are links to current Dartmouth news and sports and, my favorite, a webcam on Baker Library (www.1976.dartmouth.org). Huge thanks to Jim Burns, who has graciously agreed to carry on the mighty editorial tradition of Judy Csatari as newsletter editor. We are so lucky to have so many talented and willing classmates!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

I’m pleased to announce our first poet laureate (unless I’ve somehow missed someone—you’ll recollect I got burned when I announced we had only one knight in the class). Congratulations Dr. Henry Hart, recently namedpoet laureate of Virginia!

Hats off to Henry Hart! Hurray!

Named poet laureate VA.

Distinguished prof at William/Mary

Wrote at Dartmouth where he

Started as a soccer star

But in Bob Siegel’s seminar

Found bigger kicks from poems than soccer,

Diversified and locked his locker,

Redefined what goals to score,

Our World Cup poet evermore!

I recently ran into a fit and youthful looking Bill Nimmo and his wife, Joanne, and learned that both their kids graduated from Dartmouth. Bill plays lots of squash and mentors early-stage entrepreneurs—a stimulating challenge after his lengthy and successful investment management career. Jack Fidler just finished his 10th year of middle school English teaching at Maimonides, a leading Orthodox Jewish day school outside of Boston. Jack says, “This was quite a change for me after three decades in the banking industry. Teaching is the hardest job you’ll ever love, as the saying goes.” He has started a theater program, which plays into a major family interest. One of his kids is an aspiring actor-playwright at Emerson College, while the other landed the lead in her high school production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Our beloved, adopted class member, the late Professor John Rassias, would be proud that so many of us have continued our love of the French connection he kindled. I am always on the lookout for Chris Daniell,who, like us, visits Provence every summer seeking hidden gems of the French countryside. He and jazz musician Margaret Herlehy report enjoying oysters in Marennes, canoeing the Dordogne, hiking Mount Sainte-Victoire, and biking along the Canal du Midi. His last email was from their rooftop deck in Uzes. How about co-leading a mini-reunion trip through France next summer, Chris and Margaret? With so many Francophiles in the class, we’d have a mob scene!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

With characteristic panache, venture dynamo Cheryl Newman is well into her latest yummy food launch as director of strategy at No Evil Foods, an Asheville, North Carolina, company already winning awards and carried by more than 250 retailers. If her coffee, gelato and Honest Tea ventures are any test, this one’s a winner. And to think it all may have started during those early morning Thayer Hall shifts! After a star-studded career with American Express, Barry Arnold now manages an association of 2,000 realtors in Atlanta. He recently vacationed with his daughters and wife in Central America, where she is fulfilling a dream of teaching English to women in Nicaragua. Kathy Van Weelden, professor emeritus New England College (NEC), retired after 33 years as library director and full professor and quickly joined the ranks of trustee and volunteer at her local library while still helping as college reference librarian at NEC. Once a book lover, always a book lover. Tish O’Connor, who for three decades partnered with husband Dana Levy in their renowned book-production company Perpetua Press, reports that since Dana’s death last year she has been focusing her energy on her admissions counseling company College Consult and reimagining her next chapter. On the Dartmouth admissions front, Elise Erler runs Utah’s alumni interviewing. Maybe she’ll bring us future Olympians from Park City to join our classmate Jeff Shiffrin’s gold and silver medal-winning daughter Mikaela on the podium in 2022. Congrats to Jeff, Mikaela and family! Extra shoutout to Mel Treadway, whose son, Will (nephew of our esteemed classmate Jeff Colt), pitched in with Mikaela’s pre-Olympic training in Europe and elsewhere. Back at Dartmouth, another proud dad, Paul Cane, cheered his son, Paul ’19, and daughter, Katherine ’21, as they competed on the swim team. I recently spotted the name of my old pal, distinguished Massachusetts M.D. John Gandolfo on the ballot for our Naples, Florida, vacation community board. Meanwhile, an impressive number of you are hitting the slopes instead of the beach, proving we’re not over the hill but on top of it. I saw pictures or heard ski tales from Craig Stone, Martha and Jim Beattie, Bruce York, Rick Hill, John Lord, Bede Wellford, Beth and Bruce Wilkens, Annie Stockmar Upton, Lynne Brooks, Julie Miner, Cynthia “Inky” Ford, Noel Kropf,Kathy Van Weelden, Adrienne Mally and Jeff Kirchhoff (our able Facebook correspondent during the Olympics). Michael Aylward reports a great effort by his brother, David ’71, and others in that class to track down and recognize exchange students from their era. We’d like to do the same for ’76. Please email me any names of exchanges you remember. We mourn the passing of Ron Shores,remembered by Cabin & Trail friends as a larger-than-life outdoorsman who could carry a canoe up Mount Washington with ease. Our hearts go out to Florentine Thomas and family with the loss of her husband and our cherished classmate, Chet Wood (dartmouthalumnimagazine/obits).

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

The surprising news that Chris Bjelland was not the only classmate to have achieved knighthood led to the following note from Ken “K.C.” Cohen, knighted in France: “I’m often asked what it confers, and it’s like those credit card ads: buying (yes, you have to buy it) the medal…$20; framing the diplôme…$175; buying the champagne…$50; telling people you’re a ‘chevalier’…priceless! The funny thing is that this all came from business and community engagement, made easier because of my language study abroad family from Bourges. Forty-three years and our relationship remains closer than ever. Another of the many ways Dartmouth shaped my life for the better.”

Sir K.C. lives in La Jolla, California, with his wife of 32 years, Elena, a professor at San Diego State University. His career in the life sciences and animal medicine led to his trusteeship with the San Diego Humane Society. “This year,” he says, “we’ll take care of nearly 20,000 pets and 10,000 wildlife. A couple of years ago, we reached our goal of zero euthanasia.”

On the human medicine front,Dr. Spencer Kubo is a well-known cardiologist in Minnesota’s twin cities. He was bummed to have to cancel his June reunion trip last minute and remains committed to Dartmouth and to our class, currently serving as an alumni interviewer. Now married 38 years, he and wife Adele had their first official date at Winter Carnival in 1974. Says Spencer, “She had no chance—just too great a weekend!”

Our man from Alabama Milton Harsh is as cheerful and friendly as ever. He reports that life in Birmingham, where he runs Harsh Realty Capital, is good. He is married to best friend Allison, who owns a commercial design company. He says, “One of the most joyful aspects of my life is still having my parents with us at 93 and almost 90. How lucky is that!”

Stu Gasner recently took a quick break from trying big cases in San Francisco to raft and hike in the Grand Canyon with his wife, Kate. (I bet she complained less than I did struggling behind Stu on our freshman trip.)

In one of the longest, best-deserved tributes I’ve seen, Dartmouth announced the retirement of VP of alumni relations Martha Beattie.Tasked with strengthening the ties of Dartmouth’s 70,000 alumni, Martha welcomed record numbers of alumni to reunions and campus events, spearheaded new continuing education and admissions programs, strengthened regional women’s gatherings and remained and remains an untiring cheerleader and ambassador of our college during her six-year tenure. There may be just one alum who is happy she is moving on, our classmate Jim Beattie.

We mourn the passing of Alton “Al” Chapman, who truly was his “brother’s and sister’s keeper.” In his 40-year career caring block by block for his Chattanooga, Tennessee, neighbors, he galvanized the community and devoted his life to ministering to the youth, the elderly and the needy of his hometown. Please see dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits for the complete obituary.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Loyal classmate Gary Love, who can rouse a room to hum “Dartmouth Undying” faster than anyone I know, presided at a beautiful Baker-Berry Library reception to celebrate the Duane Gibbs ’76 and William Rice ’76 Memorial Book Fund and corollary exhibit. Since he established the fund with Reginald Thomas ’75 in 1989, more than 750 books, journals and reference materials by African American authors have been added to the library’s collection—each with a book plate honoring our two deceased classmates.

Dr. Jackie Bello, ever the most focused powerhouse among us, received the New York Roentgen Society’s Distinguished Radiologist Award. She was also recognized by Montefiore Medical Center for her two terms of service as president of the medical staff. As if that weren’t enough, she is president-elect of the American Society of Neuroradiology and chair of the commission on quality and safety for the American College of Radiology’s board of chancellors.

Dr. Jeff Long, cardiologist and retired Air Force colonel, is a gold mine of info on food, fun and music if you’re lucky enough to visit his hometown of New Orleans. The TriKap alum has lived all over the United States and Europe and says New Orleans is his favorite city (that despite the fact he and his wife lost everything in Hurricane Katrina). For 10 years he commuted from Louisiana to Connecticut four days a month as state air surgeon for the Connecticut Air Guard, often side-tripping to Hanover for a quick hike or a float down the Connecticut. He still attends the ski team reunion at Vail, Colorado, each year.

Dr. Ken Monteiro, who earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, is dean of the college of ethnic studies at San Francisco State. He leads a 70-person faculty, 6,000 students and a pioneering community-based research center.

Film and TV documentarian Barry Braverman continues to conduct camera workshops in East Africa and Asia under a USAID grant to developing nations, “not making money or living it up but I like to think of it as my humanitarian calling.”

Other service-minded classmates include Nick Aponte, running for public office in Pittsburgh; Martha Hennessey serving as N.H. state senator; Will Davison,whose fundraising consulting firm NonSibi translates “Not for Oneself”; and Chattanooga, Tennessee’s star citizen, Al Chapman.Al, who is battling cancer, was recently honored for his 40-year commitment to Chattanooga youth. More than 500 attended the celebration of his achievements as cofounder and president of the Front Porch Alliance, fulfilling the needs of the city’s families. Chapman was cited for his modesty, courage, effectiveness and fundraising ability. He cited his father, who “taught us to work,” and his mother, who “never saw a church service she didn’t like—she kept us in there and the ones of us who went turned out pretty decent.”

Amen! I am continually awed by the quiet heroics of our classmates.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

The highlight of reunion planning has been the quasi-daily, often hilarious communication with Cathy Joyce Brennan and Martha Johnson Beattie, reminiscent of our shifts at the Hanover Inn Tavern, where we struggled to appear organized and in control. Speaking of the tavern, two of our favorite entertainers from those days, Parker MacDonell and Guy Van Syckle, will play acoustic sets in our reunion tent you won’t want to miss. Thanks to the efforts of acclaimed Beta playwright Tom Souza and art major/designer/Blue Jays scout Jim Beattie, our tent will be comfy and convo-friendly. As I write, registration is about to go live online. Be sure to sign up! We’re making great strides toward our “All In” goal with the following classmates either serving as volunteers or having said they’re coming: Viola Allen, Byron Anderson, Nick Aponte, Fred Arand, Steve Askey, Michael Aylward, Ben Ayres, Brian Bachelder, David Bandfield, Kipp Barker, M.K. Walkush Beach, Tim Beasley, Carol Vaughan Bemis, Jamie Bergford, Christian Berggrav, Chris Bjelland, Kim Staggers Blanchard, Steven Bolton, Mike Brait, Lynne Brooks, Tim Caldwell, Paul Cane, Joseph Cassidy, Michael Chapman, Allen Church, Dave Clark, Richard Clark, Eric Copenhaver, Stewart Crawford, Judy Burrows Csatari, Pete Dakin, Chris Daniell, Chris Davis, Marty Doyle, Lee Englebardt, Mike Feasel, Gary Fernandez, Jack Fidler, Mike Fitzgerald, Brad Fletcher, Cynthia “Inky” Ford, Nancy Steward Freidl, Bob Freidl, Emily Geoghegan, Andy Gettinger, Kevin Gillis, Amanda Green, Steve Green, Ann Fritz Hackett, John Haffenreffer, Jamey Hampton, Melinda Hungerford Harder, Milton Harsh, Martha Hennessey, Rick Hill, Stark Holecamp, Seamus Hourihan, Art Howe, Debbie Humphrey, Scott Hunter, Robert Hurst, Bill Hutchinson, Fred Jaccarino, Joe Jasinski, Nancy Kepes Jeton, Peter Jeton, Anne Johnson, Carolyn Johnson, Jody Karp, Dave Magnuson, Anne White Katlic, Kevin Keyes, Naomi Baline Kleinman, J.T. Knight, Carolyn Kohn, Spencer Kubo, Geoff Lamb, Paul Lazarus, Wayne Lindsey, Jeff Long, Wayne MacDonald, Tony Magro, Joan Tyler Marable, Fraser Marcus, Chuck McCann, Steve Melikian, Julie Miner, Dick Monkman, Mike Montgomery, Todd Mosenthal, Philip Moy, Rich Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Arne Nielsen, Hank Ostwald, Tom Parnon, Hope Stevens Poor, King Poor, Jud Porter, Tom Potter, Dick Prentice, Brita Reed, Jeff Reed, Tom Reinhart, Craig Reininger, Melanie Renchner Kaminetsky, Doug Rice, Dana Rowan, Tom Ruegger, Rob Saltzman, Gus Sauter, Steve Shmanske, Cindy Shannon, Andy Shaw, Marian Shelton, John Shepherd, Julie Miller Shepherd, John Sherman, Dave Shribman, Pete Siebert, John Slaby, David Slade, Wendy Simila Snickenberger, David Spalding, Paul Stockton, Neil Tarzy, Frank Tezak, Charlie Thayer, Robert Tibolt, Mel Treadway, Annie Stockmar Upton, Steffi Valar, Neil Van Dyke, Susan Walter, Simon Ward, Stu Watson, Mark Weld, Randy White, Beth Howard Wilkens, Bruce Wilkens, Reggie Williams, Paul Windrath, Ken Wright, Bruce York. Please urge those whose names you don’t see to join you in Hanover for a wonderful weekend. We’re pleased with the great response from first-time returnees along with an excellent showing of our original 177 female classmates (photo to be taken at Saturday alumnae breakfast!). More news on your “Dartmouth Class of 1976” Facebook page.

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

This month I reached out to our stellar host of classmates in the realm of higher education. I felt a little like Kathy (DeGioia) Eastwood, world-renowned astronomer and longtime faculty member of Northern Arizona State University, who measures the most massive stars in the universe. Their galactic achievements outstripped my column length. Read more about how they shine at our class website, 1976.dartmouth.org. Myron Allen, former provost at the University of Wyoming, returned to his full-time position in the math department and received the university’s highest teaching award. Henry Hart, esteemed William & Mary English professor, has published a new biography, The Life of Robert Frost. David Plane shines in his 36th year (10 as department head) in the school of geography and development at the University of Arizona. Steve Shmanske,emeritus professor of economics at Cal State, East Bay, and a pioneer in sports economics, wrote the popular Golfonomics and the 2014 sequel, Super Golfonomics.

David Spalding is enjoying his fourth career as dean of the college of business at Iowa State. Bill New teaches in the education and youth studies department at Beloit College and is dedicated to bringing “mindfulness, laughter and art” to the classroom. Lucky graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute benefit from the networking and nurturing of Kim Conroy, global career advisor. Our beloved, adopted class memberprofessor John Rassias was the inspiration for many of our career educators. Fairfield University French professor Joel Goldfield continues as managing editor of the Rassias Center journal, The Ram’s Horn, as well as teaching in Rassias programs in Hanover and abroad. Cesar Munoz writes from Colorado Mountain College, “Professor Rassias would have liked the wardrobe I have assembled over 16 years of teaching Spanish at this little community college in the Colorado Rockies. My students range from AP high schoolers to retirees in their 70s.” Also lighting up the west is Cynthia Ford, law school professor at the University of Montana, who writes that she “chose this school because it is the closest to the Dartmouth experience in the law school world.” She is often cited for articles on Indian law and serves part-time as a tribal court judge. Jamie Angell teaches theater at Occidental and loves his summer stints as artistic director of the Occidental Children’s Theater. Ed Bever is director of the school of professional studies at SUNY, Old Westbury. His prior claim to fame was creation of a video game simulation of the Civil War. Finally, our north star is physicist Ursula Gibson, longtime Dartmouth professor, now teaching full-time at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and serving as vice president of the prestigious Optical Society. Speaking of Norway, Arne Nielsen writes that he and Christian Berggrav, Christian Bjelland and Gabriel Smith will all trek to reunion from the Land of the Midnight Sun! Join the Norwegian invasion June 15-18!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Huge thanks to my awesome predecessor as class secretary, the ever-loyal Jay Josselyn, for his decades of mining for nuggets from us non-communicants and for his demonstrated affection for our class. We love you, Jay!

Since it will take two of us to fill your shoes, Steve Melikian has kindly signed on for the toughest part of the job that you gracefully fulfilled, posting tributes to deceased classmates at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

A poem to my classmates: “Ode to June 15-18, 2017!”

Who knew co-chairing 41 could be a blast and so much fun?

When Martha Beattie, star VP, sighed longingly and looked at me,

I knew I had no other choice but to join up with Cathy Joyce

(Now Cathy Brennan), husband Jack and Jim Beattie. No turning back!

We co-chairs chose a “Greet Elite” with open arms and hugs to meet

Each classmate who will join the throng as they return where they belong.

So every hour in our tent you’ll find a classmate heaven-sent

To ask you how the heck you’ve been, pretend to know you, yank you in,

Make sure each name tag’s extra large. And here’s who we have put in charge:

Rich Nichols, U.S. Soccer rep; Rich Horan still with hair and pep;

Ann(e)s Upton, Johnson and Fritz Hackett,who traded in her tennis racket,

Serving biz and Dartmouth College. Clam will come to share his knowledge.

Join Julie Miner, Julie Shepherd setting our attendance record,

Coming from the Northwest coast, our Jamey Hampton helps us host.

Check out his dance troupe, Body Vox, and you will see the guy still rocks.

Bruce York and Eric Copenhaver will import Seattle flavor,

Joined by Jamie Bergford Parkins annoyingly free of wrinkle markin’s.

Paul Lazarus and Amanda Green will greet with drama. What a scene!

Tom Ruegger’sshow The 7D, an animated hit Disney

Won’t keep him from our midst…Yippee! And lots of locals you will see.

There’s Mel Treadway and Mary Beach, Judy Csatari favorite teach.

Jeff Reed will run our shuttle vans and for you classmate football fans,

Our bear hug team includes a crew that may just gently tackle you.

Tom Parnon and our Reggie Williams will be there, our classmates thrillin’.

We’ve got Kipp Barker,maybe Kirk. Tom Souza will be hard at work

Ensuring we are immature and laughing till we beg, “No more!”

Brad Agry, job coach, will bring grins. And two who’ve managed country inns

Will run our menu operation. Sorry, Dick Prentice, no vacation.

Dick owns the Chebeague Island Inn. And Neil Van Dyke will help with din.

Although a search and rescue dude, Neil’s former inn served awesome food.

Joan Tyler Marable said yes. With her calm presence we’ll be blessed.

Good thing, since Seamus Hourihan and Mike Feasel will be on hand.

Kim Windrath will still cook the books. Our registrar is Lynnie Brooks.

She’ll be helped out by Nick Aponte. While Charlie Thayer,our surgeon jaunty,

Helps the huggers. And Art Howe, a fire safety expert now,

May dowse our bonfire flames with water. Hope he doesn’t drench Gus Sauter.

And to New England roots he’s spurned, John Haffenreffer will return!

And what reunion is complete without the Jetons, Nance and Pete?

On Sunday Cindy Shannon reads as class memorial she leads.

And lest you think that it’s too late for you to help out at this date,

Just try us! Email Cath, Marth, me. You’ll have a job as you will see!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

Greetings! I hope at this point folks are on their way out of the winter doldrums and well into spring. Jumping right in, I have news that, “For the second year the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs sponsored a contest written by a foreign journalist about ‘the Best of France.’ The judges came from Le Figaro, Radio France, Le Montagne and the Associated Press.” This year’s prize was awarded to Corinne Labalme, who has been a journalist in France for more than 20 years, for an article written about an obscure chateau in the Loire Valley. It was published in English in France Revisited. Congratulations to Corinne.

The College also received news that, “Scott Simons, founder of Scott Simons Architects in Portland, Maine, has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for making a significant contribution to design excellence in the profession at both the state and national level. One of only three fellows in Maine and only the seventh in the state’s history to receive this honor, Simons has practiced architecture for more than 30 years. His firm created the award-winning design for the Portland Public Library, Casco Bay Ferry Terminal and Waynflete Arts Center.” Scott was a founder and president of the Portland Society of Architects and is a member of the board of Maine American Institute of Architects (AIA). A resident of Freeport, Maine, Scott will be honored in Philadelphia in May at the national AIA convention. Congratulations, Simz. Based on your Facebook posts, it also looks like you may be attacking the 4,000-footers in New England.

I also received news that, “The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board of directors appointed Monica Hargrove the airports authority’s vice president and secretary.” She joined the airports authority in 2013 as deputy general counsel. A veteran aviation attorney, she previously served as general counsel at Airports Council International, North America, and associate counsel at US Airways Inc. Prior to that she was a trial attorney in the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Hargrove chairs the forum on air and space law of the American Bar Association. The press release went on to report that, “The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority operates Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, the Dulles Airport Access Highway and the Dulles Toll Road and also manages construction of the Silver Line project, a 23-mile extension of the Washington region’s Metrorail public transit system through Fairfax County and into Loudoun County, Virginia. More than 44 million passengers a year pass through the two airports. The airports authority generates more than 387,000 jobs in the national capital region.” Congratulations to Monica.

If you haven’t taken a look, go onto the class of ’76 Facebook page to keep up with classmates. The information there is more current than what you get to see in the DAM, given the lead time necessary here. You never know what is going to turn up there. Check it out.

—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com

Happy holidays! It seems strange to be saying this as I’m sitting here at the end of October. I hope you were able to enjoy Thanksgiving and the December holidays with family and friends. I actually got my first taste of snow in northern Vermont visiting in mid-October and later in northern-northwestern Maine. I was able to do some bird hunting with friends up on the Canadian border, and it turns out that another of the guests was the nephew of Seamus and Amy Hourihan.

I received a note from Kip Hall, who came up for air after not communicating or revisiting Hanover for 39 years. We’ll forgive you, Kip, since you provided so much information. He spent his career with DLA Piper in N.Y.C. as a Wall Street litigator. He remains as senior counsel while pursuing teaching and public service. He’s been teaching at the University of Connecticut School of Law for the last five years, gets to lecture at Oxford every other year, finishes as chair of a state commission this month (where he interacts with George Jepsen, the Connecticut attorney general) and next month finishes as selectman for Darien, Connecticut. If the next appointment comes through, he’ll move from the state executive to the legislative branch. He also just started his first assignment for the Aspen Institute’s Middle East investment initiative to develop small businesses in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He re-entered the world of competitive ski racing in the masters class. Kip also is a sailor and says, “I double hand a J-122 sailboat, and with my sailing partner we are preparing for the Grand Prix 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. Having done five Bermuda races for owners of much larger boats with crews of up to 28, we decided this year to race a 40-foot boat with just two people. It’s been scary at times, but we like the challenge and just got second place in the 2015 Vineyard Race, covering 278 miles in 43 sleep-deprived hours.” He and his wife, Britt, will winter in Crested Butte, Colorado, returning East as necessary. Thanks for the news, Kip.

The College reported that Marty Doyle’s son Riley, Th’08, has founded Desktop Genetics, a bioinformatics company that aims to revolutionize the way genetic researchers work. They recently received more than $2 million from venture capitalists and angel investors to accelerate development of the startup’s Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) genome editing software platform. Riley said, “To date the DeskGen platform has enabled more than 4,000 gene editing experiments and assisted thousands of users in designing and accessing the best reagents for their research.” Congratulations and good luck going forward to Riley.

I mentioned last month that there was a benefit in September for the Michael Brigham ’77 Cancer Fund. It was well attended by Dartmouth folk, although Todd Morris, Paul McCarthy and I were the only ’76s. We hope that Mark Mullan has recovered from the injury that kept him off the course. All in all, it was a successful event, generating a significant sum for cancer research.

—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com

Greetings! We’ve just passed the summer solstice as I’m writing this, and by the time you get this it will be close to the summer’s end. Thanks to a few of you for helping me out with news. I was able to put together a few bits and pieces, so here they are. Nessa Flax is writing and editing in the Upper Valley. She has a regular column in a local newspaper the Journal Opinion in Bradford, Vermont, titled “Rambling Reflections.” She is also involved in writing and editing projects, including copyediting a novel by a lawyer, playwright and professor at UMass Boston. Nessa reached out to Nils Rosenquist, who has his own law firm in San Francisco, where he lives with wife Sally, who works at Gumps. Nils has taken up fencing again at the Halberstadt Fencing Club, the oldest in the city. He says that there are not many older sabre fencers and it is taking a toll on him. He says he is “buying ibuprofen by the caseload.” He and Sally head to England to visit Sally’s family as much as possible.

I spoke with Wendy Simila Snickenberger, who is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her three children are all out of college. Her oldest son, Alex, is in N.Y.C., son Mark is in Boston and daughter Sally is teaching in the Boston area and working on her master’s in education. Wendy pointed me in the direction of Jan Hudson Cubbison, who spent multiple terms in Hanover on exchange from University of California, San Diego. Wendy mentioned that Jan’s husband, Gene, had received a breaking news Emmy for his coverage of the Cocos fire last year in southern California. When I checked up on that Jan let me know that she had also received Emmys in 2004 and 2007 for world news and breaking news. (We know what they use for bookends.) Jan has had her hand in various facets of broadcast news over the years and is now an executive recruiter in the high-tech industry. Jan and Gene have lived in the San Diego area for 28 years. Jan mentioned that she managed to get together with Fern Bennett Phillips and her niece when Fern was in San Diego for a conference.

Brad Agry is in N.Y.C. and passed along news that last fall he ran into Ted Scheu, who was in New York doing a series of presentations to increase kids’ enjoyment and appreciation of poetry. Ted lives in Middlebury, Vermont. In Ted’s words, “I write poetry for kids (humorous, but dealing with real kid issues) and I spend about 100 days each year as a visiting author and teacher in elementary schools around the country helping kids find their own writers’ voices. I’d do this job for nothin’, it’s that much fun. I finally found what I want to be when I grow up, and I don’t even have to. If any classmates have grandkids (I was too late for the ’76 kid cycle) who’d like to have a bunch of fun at their school, get in touch. My books (six collections, two dozen anthologies) are available on Amazon. More info: www.poetryguy.com.”

I contacted Dave C. Clark in St. Louis, Missouri, who told me that he now has two grandchildren and John Haffenreffer, also in the St. Louis area, has three. Clarkie reports that in September he will be performing the ceremony at his nephew’s wedding in Napa, California. I know Clarkie didn’t go to divinity school, so I believe he may have sent in three box tops and received his certification from the Cleaver online divinity program. I believe that Jerry Mathers will be the ring bearer. Clarkie also mentioned that he’d like Howard Lay and Greg Cronin to at least raise their hand and let people know what they’re up to or contact him.

I appreciate the help of everyone who contributed information and look forward to hearing from more of you before my next deadline on August 28. Take care and enjoy what is left of the summer.

—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com

Greetings!


I sincerely hope that by the time you are reading this in April that the Northeast has seen the snow melt and the temperatures have returned to seasonal norms. I’m sure that the ski areas have taken advantage of the temperatures and conditions to extend their seasons, so I hope you folks have been able to at least take advantage of that. Fortunately, we have some news to report. Again, I ask you to be patient with timing when you send me information. Keep in mind that these columns are written six weeks prior to publication. Your best sources for quicker news can generally be found on the class of ’76 Facebook page, the class of ’76 website accessed through the College website or Judy Csatari’s class of ’76 newsletter. 


Congratulations are in order for Kenneth L. Mickens, Esq. He has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF), a nonprofit corporation based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that promotes energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation. Kenneth is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and maintains a private legal practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the SEF board since 2010.


Neil Van Dyke passed along news that he and his wife, Carol Hillman ’78, sold their business, the Golden Eagle Resort in Stowe, Vermont. Neil and Carol had operated the hotel since 1979. Rather than retire, Neil has found what he calls a “dream job.” For more than 35 years Neil has been involved as a founding member and volunteer with Stowe Mountain Rescue and served as president of the national Mountain Rescue Association from 2010 to 2012. His new job encompasses what he has loved about his volunteer work. He has been appointed the Vermont Department of Public Safety coordinator for all backcountry rescue activities in the state. This involves working with state and federal agencies, local fire, police and EMS departments, as well as ski patrols and other volunteer search and rescue groups. 


The College passed along an article published in Georgetown Features (georgetownfeatures.com/from-aids-to-ebola-georgetown-doctor-treats-epidemics-all-over-the-globe) that outlines the contributions of Dr. Daniel Lucey, who has worked all over the world helping fight against the ravages of the deadly diseases that we have seen develop in our lifetimes—Ebola, SARS, MERS and others. Dan is an infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor with Georgetown University Medical Center. The article does more justice to his contributions than I can do here in the space allotted.


Finally, I’d like to thank all of our classmates who have helped me with the obituaries that we’ve had to deal with during the past six months. Without their assistance there would have been less detailed information passed along about the lives and contributions of our classmates who have passed. Please take a look at the obituaries that are accessible through the DAM website. Also there are opportunities to pass along remembrances and anecdotes about our classmates.


Take care, stay healthy and enjoy your families.


—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings! As I sit here in North Carolina at the end of October on a day that approached 80 degrees, I wonder what kind of weather we’ll all be looking at when this issue comes out near the holidays. A few weeks ago I passed through the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport on the Sunday following Homecoming after bird hunting in northern Maine, and by the Dartmouth green I saw in the airport it looks like the weekend was well attended in Hanover. I’m sure that we’ll hear stories of the class of ’76 attendees and their meetings and gatherings over the weekend from the bonfire through the game and beyond. Since Judy and Tom Csatari generously opened their home and she now writes the class newsletter, we should hear more details from the weekend.


As far as news goes, you had to go to law school to make the cut for this issue. Dan Forsyth, managing member of Bond, Schoenek & King PLLC’s Buffalo, New York, office has been named Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America for labor law-management for 2015. Congratulations to Dan.


From Portland, Maine, comes news from Bernstein Shur that they have added Richard D. Prentice as a shareholder in their Portland office in their real estate practice, bringing with him 35 years (he must be much older than the rest of us!) of experience. His focus is on structuring complex projects and strategy as well as commercial leasing of all kinds. Congratulations to the pride of Vermont.


Well, we moved to North Carolina to be closer to children and grandchildren. Our first grandchild arrived on October 13 and our next is expected in April, so things are working out as planned. We enjoyed living on the Morse Lake in Indiana so much that our boat made the trip to North Carolina before we even bought a house. We’re looking forward to spending time on Lake Gaston next summer.


Best wishes and good health to you and your families and happy 60th birthday to those of you who haven’t hit that milestone yet.


Send news!


—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Pkwy., Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings! I hope that you and your families are enjoying summer in your respective parts of the world. Here in Indiana we’re finally into the long days of summer. Having spent most of my life within a couple of hundred miles of the East Coast on the extreme eastern edge of the time zone, I’m constantly amazed at how much daylight we get here on the western side of the eastern time zone. Sunset at 9:30 around the summer solstice is pretty nice!


Much of the news has to do with Sarah Hoagland Hunter and her current and past works. The alumni magazine I just received had a blurb about her most recent work, Every Turtle Counts, which is her 10th children’s book. It revolves around a 7-year-old’s efforts to save a wounded young Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle and incorporates aspects of the very real international efforts to save the species. The book received a glowing review from the Huffington Post. Sarah also sent out a letter about the passing of the last of the original 29 Navajo code talkers who were the subject of Sarah’s book, The Unbreakable Code, which chronicled the involvement of the Navajo servicemen who played an integral part in our country’s success in the Pacific in WW II. Sarah said, “Eighteen years later The Unbreakable Code is still in print and going strong. I visit multiple classrooms each year, speaking of the heroic inventors of the code and teaching the children how to use the English version of it when they want to keep a secret. In 2006 the governor of Arizona made it the state’s literacy book of the year and, through sponsors, awarded a copy to all 88,000 Arizona fourth-graders. The gifted illustrator of the book, Julia Miner, and I had the press tour of a lifetime, accompanying the governor as she distributed books into the hands of waiting students.” Congratulations to Sarah and Julia. As a soon-to-be-first-time grandfather I’ll have to track down Sarah’s books as a start for a collection of stories for grandchildren. 


As class secretary I get frequent notices from the College of the passing of alumni. I have felt fortunate that most of the lists I receive have been free of classmates. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine no longer publishes the obituaries in each issue but makes them available online at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. Unfortunately, within the past two weeks I have received news of the passing of two of our classmates, Tim Sullivan and Bruce Bokor. While the obituaries are typically written by the class secretary, I have asked that some of their closer friends come forward and provide a more personal remembrance that can be posted. In the future, should we lose a classmate with whom you shared a special bond and would like to provide an obituary, please let me know. 


Best wishes to you and your families. 


—Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings! From famine to feast! Someone finally answered my pleas. After reading news of Michael Montgomery, maybe others will follow suit. Michael says that after working all these years it’s tough getting up and not having to go to work. He’s still in L.A. after having merged the investment bank he started with his brother, Montgomery & Co., with Signal Hill. He didn’t join them. They started the company in 1999 and developed it into one of the best known banks in digital media over the past 10 years despite the timing of its inception. Allen Morgan was on the board for a number of years. Prior to banking Michael had been a “deal maker” for Disney and Dreamworks. When not in L.A. looking for classmates coming through town, he and his wife can be found in their house in the French Alps in Megeve.
Fraser Marcus wrote that he and wife Rhonda are settled in Dallas with children settling in various schools. His younger two are in Dallas and his oldest is to graduate from Carnegie Mellon next spring. He’s still back and forth to Europe and the Middle East, and he and Rhonda participated in Dartmouth Peak Performance. Martha will have more in the newsletter.
The weekend of September 20-22 was terrific here in Indianapolis, Indiana. The football team came to town to play Butler on Saturday and was victorious. Better than that was the celebration here in Circle City. I believe a total of more than 400 celebrated before and during the game, compliments of the College, the Friends of Dartmouth Football and the class of ’75. There were at least five other ’76s, four of whom I got a chance to speak to: Fred Arand, Phil Moy, Todd Morris and Parker “Speedy” MacDonell. I saw Rick Choate but did not get a chance to speak to him.
Bob Hittle ’75 was instrumental in getting things moving for the entire weekend, and on Friday evening he and his wife, Rosita, hosted a ’75 60th birthday party. The weekend brought in lots of alumni including ’75s Dan Kenslea, Al Markman, Glenn Reed, Lon Cross, Jim Evans, Dave Robertson, Kevin McGillicuddy, Joe Brennan, Eric Martin and probably others I left out (sorry). There were plenty of other contemporaries there (apologies if I “mis-class” anyone). Class of ’74s Fritz Ledbetter, Dick Ellsworth, John Fisher, Marty Mehlberth and Mike Draznik with son Bill ’03, ’77s Chris Jenny and Martha and Wes Chapman and Chris Morris ’78.
The weekend should be viewed as a rousing success. I hope it showed the College that finding I-AA teams to play outside of New England makes it a win-win situation all the way around. Students and alums in the area (in this case from as far as Texas, Alaska and Boston) get the opportunity to come together and see representatives of the College, which in turn gets people thinking about the College and connections developed during four years in Hanover and beyond.
—Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 804-2349; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 



Greetings! Thanks to the College, I’ve received news that Bruce Pfaff’s daughter Emily ’99 of Loveland, Colorado, will be marrying Richard Walter O’Donnell of Stoke-on-Kent, England, at a Mad Hatter’s tea party at the home of her parents in Barrington, Illinois, on October 31. The couple will live in Loveland while Emily finishes her veterinary and biology studies at Colorado State U. Also from the College, a clipping from the Valley News dated October 2 indicated that Paul Stockton, Department of Defense’s assistant secretary for homeland defense and American security, spoke to a Dartmouth audience on October 1 about emergency preparedness.


As things start to get cooler I think back to what the advent of winter was like in Hanover. I remember our first snowfall in the late fall of 1972. I was living in Richardson, along with 23 other freshmen in the oldest dorm on campus. The first snowfall brought out the Thayer trays that were used to slide down the sidewalk in front of Dartmouth Hall onto College Street. That degraded into an all-out snowball fight inside and outside of the dorm. A lot of the freshmen hadn’t seen a lot of snow and the fight continued with some on the inside and some on the outside. We had an assorted crew. Jeff Brodrick was on the ground floor, trying to make it through the winter without wearing an overcoat. On the first floor we had a triple made up of Kevin Gartner, Mike Reagan and Dave Benedict, and a double of Jim Lockyer and Jeff Kirchoff. On the second floor we had Dick Maas, a triple with Byron Anderson, Dave Lidstone and Sheldon Mirowitz, another triple of Bob Lindberg, Gary Slack and Andy Walker and my double with Wayne Lindsey. The third floor had three doubles with Steve Kirsh and Mark Brann, Bill Charters and Bob Piela and the last with Paul Cane and Bill Sinclair. The last room full of freshmen on the third floor was the triple consisting of Jack Graham, Paul Hollingsworth and the infamous, late Mark Landsberger. Richardson had our stairway, nicknamed the “bombsight.” That snowball fight degenerated into a free-for-all that culminated with Dave Lidstone miraculously following a bucket of water from the second to the first floor by way of the bombsight, unscathed. I’m sure he wouldn’t want to repeat the move, and it became the stuff of legend. We were a varied group that learned a lot about ourselves and each other and it formed the basis for our four years on campus and beyond. It doesn’t seem like that long ago, but in my kids’ minds it’s practically prehistoric. 


I’m sure with electronic media, folks are reconnecting left and right. Throw a guy a bone and send me some news so I don’t have to manufacture anything else. Everyone figures what they have won’t be of interest to anyone, but you’d be surprised how those college connections work. Your Hanover acquaintances want to know.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Happy New Year! I’d like to first thank a number of classmates who responded to this scribe, who had nothing, while facing the deadline. Quick responses from Martha Johnson Beattie, Peter Cowan, Rob Swenson, Marty Doyle, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Fern Bennett Phillips and Wendy Simila Snickenberger helped me out immeasurably. Of primary importance from Martha is word that the voting period for the College trustee position will be from March 10 to April 7 and will be available online. Information is available at www.voxthevote.org to learn about the candidates, John Replogle ’88 and Morton Kondracke ’60. Historically, our class has had poor showings in such votes, so let’s be heard!


Cathy Brennan relayed that she had dinner with Martha and Jim Beattie and Peter and Nancy Kepes Jeton in Boston. She also has contact with Sara Hoagland Hunter, who is still writing prolifically. Cathy and Jack Brennan’s oldest son Will is getting married in May to a fellow Notre Dame classmate. 


Fern is still in Maine and her oldest daughter is doing graduate work in public health at UConn and her other daughter is at UVM, where she captained the lacrosse team. She reports that Steve Papai and his wife, Cameron, bought a house in Cooperstown, New York, so they may be spending more time in the East. They won’t be far from Oneonta, where John Gleason is the proud owner of the Oneonta Tigers (per Pistol, the only team in the minor leagues in which beer isn’t sold in the ballpark—go figure). Also from Fern, Steve Routhier was seen in the Bay Area and Peter Dawkins has retired from the investment analyst line and is still in the Mississauga, Ontario, area. 


Wendy reports that she has had some contact with the former Jan Hudson, who spent several terms at Dartmouth on exchange from UCSD, and that Jan has one son in college and another who will be off to college next fall. 


Marty recently had dinner on the north side of Chicago with Jeff “Craz” Hillebrand and King Poor. Craz continues as a senior executive at a north shore hospital while King is a partner in a major Loop law firm. They discussed families (King is married to Hope Stevens Poor), dodgy class acquaintances, raised a glass to toast the “Grabber,” the late Mark Landsberger, while King told of his efforts to sustain a tree planted in Mark’s name on Tuck Mall. 


Pistol’s response generated contact from Rob Swenson, who is retired from 20 years in the airline business. He splits time between Anchorage, Alaska, where he is active in an airport business along with another Alaskan business with his sons, and south Florida, where he manages to catch up with Bob Hurst and wife Cornelia. They split time between Massachusetts and Florida since Bob’s retirement from the Coast Guard.


There will be more as both Martha and Pistol filled my pouch. Please don’t leave the job to others. Your friends do care and are interested. Please write.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings, ’76ers, from Slim Pickings. I sit here in mid-April with not much to report. By now most of you should have received President Kim’s letter to the College explaining his reorganization plans to address the critical issues confronting the College. Most notable from our standpoint is the appointment of David Spalding to the position of chief of staff for President Kim’s administration. Congratulations, David. I’m sure that will help keep us in the know. The information has started to flow regarding our 35th reunion next year. Keep an eye open for information coming from co-presidents Judy Csatari and Andy Gettinger. As always, head agent J.T. Knight will appreciate your participation and generosity as the Alumni Fund comes to a head. When his team of volunteers approaches you, give some thought and dig deep. Even though for most our time in Hanover was only four years, the College and our friendships made there have had a great deal to do with whom we’ve become.


I did receive a nice note from Tom Parnon, along with a picture of the Parnon clan, giving me an update as to their goings-on. Tom has been married to Debbie Sortor Parnon ’79 for 30 years. Tom has been heading up a small computer firm while Debbie is involved in several volunteer projects after having been the director of Darien Revitalization. They have three sons. Their oldest, Russell, is a freshman at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He’s enjoying their liberal arts focus, and is singing in two college groups and involved in dramatics. Their second, Eric, is a junior at Darien (Connecticut) High School and, apparently having inherited his mother’s athletic genes, is a lacrosse star. Their youngest, Geoffrey, is in sixth grade and enjoys school, basketball and baseball. Since Tom is a charter member of Hair Club for Men, all of their sons are hoping they didn’t inherit Tom’s (lack of) hair genes. While in Collegeville to watch one of Russell’s performances Tom managed to connect with Glenn “Golden Wheels” Reed ’75. I’m sure they were able to brush off some Marty Doyle stories while they tossed back a few beers.


If anyone has a chance to catch any Atlanta Braves games this year, keep an eye on Jason Heyward, son of Laura ’79 and Eugene Heyward ’81. He’s the 20-year-old rookie right fielder who will be fun to watch and follow.


Sorry for the lack of news, but I can’t write it and send it along if you don’t send it to me first. Don’t be bashful.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings! By the time you are reading this I hope you will have had your summer vacation and are enjoying the fall. Try to let your own fall memories of Hanover, like the brisk mornings, changing leaves, bonfires, football games, etc., stimulate you to send some news to your poor class secretary.


Don’t keel over! I’ve actually received some news! I heard from Steve Shmanske, who was intrigued by the featuring of “Freakonomics” on the cover of the June/July issue of the Alumni Magazine. He felt that despite the fact that the attention was deserved, there may have been some coattail riding, given the title of his book published a year earlier, Golfonomics. Steve has been a professor in the department of economics at Cal State University, East Bay in Hayward, California. As he says, according to the president of the university he was recently “promoted” to professor emeritus, thereby giving him time to work on his handicap. As Steve has proved it’s not that hard to throw me a bit of news now and then. If only we could get some of the other soccer connection (Bruce Bokor, Steve Papai, Steve Shoemaker, Scott Specht, Dave Lidstone, et al.) to send some news it would make my job easier.


David C. Clark has passed along news that he will have a game on the shelves toward the Christmas season. It’s called Letter Rip! It’s a word game similar to a game played on the baseball team bus using newspapers and periodicals, if my understanding is correct. Clarkie, you need to be sure your legal foundation is strong as Gordie Nye, Walt Arbuckle and Brian Graf may be looking to you for royalties. 


Kenneth L. Mickens, Esq., has been elected to the board of directors of the Sustainable Energy Fund, a private nonprofit corporation based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that promotes energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation. Kenneth is a 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and maintains a private legal practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 


Keep your eyes and e-mail open for information regarding our upcoming 35th reunion next June. Co-presidents Judy Burrows Csatari and Andy Gettinger started working a while ago to get things in place. Reunion chairman Bob Wetzel is hard at work getting his staff in place to ensure that everything will be in order and enjoyable upon our arrival in Hanover next June. You’ll be receiving more information from Bob, Judy and Andy as we get closer. If you’re contacted by any of the three, please help where you can to make the reunion another success.


As a sad conclusion to this issue, I have to inform you of the death of Jay Hambrick who passed away on June 29. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. His obituary will be available online through the DAM site (www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com).


Best wishes to you and your families until the next issue.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@ hotmail.com


Greetings! I hope you were able to enjoy the holidays with your loved ones and that you’re making it through the winter successfully. I was down to the wire with no news and help came from the College and my other Hanover connections, Martha Hennessey and Marty Doyle. They all kept me from being shut out. First, from the College comes news they received from Pomegranate that Carl Little has written the introductory essay in Pomegranate’s Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: Closer to Wildness, titled “Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: The Mysterious Workshop of Nature.” Carl has followed and written about her works for years.


Martha sent news of Jamey Hampton’s continuing work with Bodyvox and their recent collaboration with the Portland Opera, as well as news of Parker MacDonell’s work as manager of Invergarry Partners LLC. She passed along a recent article from Columbus Business First explaining how venture capital firms congregate for the Founders Factory production of Columbus 10X business accelerator, where fledgling startups make presentations for their first round of funding, with the venture capital funds getting in on the ground floor of what they hope is the next big startup.


Marty was able to connect me with Seamus Hourihan, who retired in October when Oracle bought Acme Packet, where Seamus had worked for the last 12-plus years after 35 years in computers and networks. Seamus’ wife, Amy, had already retired after a career as a nurse practitioner in hospice and palliative care. Seamus passed along news that he was able to connect with Jack Brennan, Peter Jeton, Peter Friedensohn, Matt Dwyer ’75, Kevin Young ’77 and host Gary Rogers ’77 in November at a fundraising event for Boston MetroLacrosse. He also plays “pond hockey” (no goalies) inside on a regular basis with Gary Rogers, Dick Searles ’74, and Bob “the Head” Grant ’78. As Seamus says, the postgame “swigging” and the camaraderie are probably the biggest attractions. He still skis at Sugarbush, as he has for the past 20 years, where he recently spent a half-day with Rick Hill, and regularly spots Leland “Bud” Stacy. He also stays active in sailing after having moved back to his hometown of Marblehead, Massachusetts. He races/sails one-design and “big boats,” and is planning on heading to the Caribbean next winter.


Marty also passed along an online article about Cambridge based Horizon Discovery’s partnering with U.K.-based startup Desktop Genetics to develop gene editing technology recently licensed from Harvard. Desktop Genetics, whose CEO is Riley Doyle, proves that a parent’s past behavior doesn’t necessarily hinder a child’s chance for success. 


Pat and I continue to enjoy Indiana and our blood is thickening after 15 years in North Carolina, where our three daughters still live. We’re in the midst of our first “winter” in 15 years and looking forward to a summer on the lake and on the golf course. Look us up if you’re traveling through the Circle City. Wishing you all a safe, healthy and happy 2014. Send news!


—Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings! The first day of summer has come and by the time you read this it will be more than half over. So far my first spring in the Midwest has been pleasant and I haven’t missed the North Carolina humidity, although March Madness was different for me in this basketball hotbed than it has been in ACC territory during the past 14 years.


I explained in the last column that Nessa Flax had made some inquiries on my behalf, but the results came in after the deadline. She gently nudged Nils Rosenquest into relating some of his post-Dartmouth path. Nils currently is an attorney and has a “business, housing and real estate trial practice peppered with an occasional case that hits my social justice nerve” in San Francisco. His route post-Dartmouth has been interesting, but most active in the past 10 years. He explains that, “El Cerrito [California] High School was the first West Coast school to apply to the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program, and the initiating school board member thought a Dartmouth graduate on the team (or several) would help the school’s chances.” As Nils says, once El Cerrito was accepted, he ceased to be a “lost alum.” That experience helped him become involved as an alumni interviewer, which he’s done for the past three years. He’s observed that the application/acceptance process has become that much more stressful, as the competition for a spot in the freshman class becomes more intense. He has interviewed 18 candidates and he finally was fortunate enough to have one accepted. He shares my observation that had we applied now, chances are I would be writing this column for another alumni magazine or he may have taken a different road. The applicant pool becomes larger every year, making the odds of acceptance that much more difficult to overcome, but he’s happy with the results: “Still I have met several younger alumni in the past few years at one gathering or another, and it would be fun to start college all over again. Even if I have to tell them that I first programmed a computer with paper tape and the Internet was not invented until after I started law practice.” 


I appreciate Nils’ efforts (thanks, Nessa), and urge others to pass along the same type of info. I know a lot of us stay connected via social media, but there are plenty more out there who would be interested in our version of “Where are they now?” which used to be a Sports Illustrated feature. 


I know I’m looking forward to Dartmouth football’s venture into the Midwest to play Butler on September 21. If you’re within a few hundred miles, please try to make it. We’re looking forward to closing on our Noblesville, Indiana, house on June 28 and spending the summer on Morse Reservoir. Please contact us if you’re in the area. For something new, please send news!


—Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings,’76ers! Our 35th reunion is behind us and what a great job was done by Bob Wetzel and his reunion committee! Bob’s appointment by co-presidents Andy Gettinger and Judy Csatari was one of the best moves of their administration. Bob was assisted by M.K. Beach (treasurer and beverage), Paul Windrath (registration), Sandy Fitchet (communications), Martha Hennessey (entertainment), Dana Rowan (housing), Tim Beasley (programming), Cindy Shannon (memorial service) and Carol Bemis (faculty reception). Many thanks also to the spouses and significant others of these committee members who assisted and put up with all the reunion buildup. I left with the feeling that this was one of our best reunions, not only because we set an attendance record for the 35th (157 classmates), but also because we were joined by a number of first-timers. 


I always complain about not having enough news, but no worries as I have enough for several issues. More detailed information will have to come from Martha in the newsletter. One of the big items to start the weekend was a firsthand view of the transition from ’76 to ’76 in Martha Beattie’s appointment to follow David Spalding as VP of alumni affairs. David is now President Kim’s chief of staff. Congratulations to both.


Pat and I started out Friday by meeting a new face in Adrienne Mally, in from San Francisco. Also there in the early afternoon were Shaun Kerbaugh and Jud and Greta Porter,all from the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. Friday dinner we were able to share a table with Grant Huber (in the Annapolis, Maryland, area in marine sales and custom marine work), Nessa Flax (writing for an independent newspaper in the Upper Valley), Matt and Ann Neary (in Connecticut) and Mike Fitzgerald (in paper/ textiles down the road from us in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area). This was a first reunion for Nessa and Grant, and I believe it was a positive experience for both.


Friday night concluded at the Canoe Club, a watering hole in part of the space previously occupied by two of the three storefronts of the Dartmouth Co-op. Martha Hennessey organized some of the music, most of which was provided by Parker “Speedy” MacDonnell. Also in attendance at the Canoe Club were, among many others, Rich Horan, Dick Carroll, Tom Reinhart, Wendy Snickenberger, Cathy Brennan and Peter and Nancy Jeton.Also there in his best Don Rickles form was Marty Doyle and wife Kathleen.


For Saturday night’s dinner at Collis (the old College Hall) we were able to spend time with Wendy, David and Marilyn Slade, Chuck Reach, Bob “Boris” Fisher and David Allman (whose quiet PR man, Frank Wilson, was at another table). I was also able to catch up with my freshman roommate from Richardson, Wayne Lindsey,and wife Deborah (Las Cruces, New Mexico), who are not far from Dave Magnus and Jody Karp in Corrales, New Mexico.


Finally, at the class meeting, your new officers were elected; Andy continues as president; Steve Melikian,VP; Melanie Fisher Matte, treasurer; Steffi Valar, bequests; Paul Windrath, Webmaster; Martha Hennessey, newsletter; Judy Csatari, mini-reunions; Sandy Fitchet, Alumni Council; J.T. Knight, Naomi Baline and Andy Shaw, head agents; and you’re stuck with me again as secretary. 


Again, thanks to all who made this a success. 


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings! As you’re reading this, our 35th reunion is retreating in time but not fading from our memories. Thanks to all involved in preparing and pulling it off successfully. Fall is here and on an historic note, the football team is planning on playing its first game under the lights at Memorial Field on October 1. 


The College has sent me a copy of the latest children’s book by Sara Hoagland Hunter and illustrated by Julia Miner, The Lighthouse Santa. For those of you with young grandchildren (and some with young children) it will be a nice choice for a holiday present. Also on the literary front, David Spalding has passed along that Gregg Fairbrother, adjunct professor of business administration at Tuck and director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, has published his first book, From Idea to Success: The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Guide to Startups, co-authored by Tessa Winter ’09. The College also forwarded news about a November 11-12 conference of the Vermont Humanities Council (VHC), “The Power of Humanities: Why They Matter,” which will be held at Stowe, Vermont. One of the breakout sessions will be hosted by Peter Gilbert, VHC executive director. Information is available at www.vermonthumanities.org. 


I received a number of pictures from Mark Friedman from time he spent in Latvia. I forwarded them to Martha Hennessey and hope she may be able to include some of them in one of the future class newsletters. Also, I’ve heard from Greg Cronin that he is venturing into the real estate world in the greater Boston metro area. I believe he’s connected with one of the Coldwell Banker franchises in the western suburbs. 


Even for those classmates who are not actively involved in Facebook, I urge you to stay connected to the class page as information can be passed along much faster than can be relayed through the Alumni Magazine or the class newsletter. The issue you are reading right now is being written in August, so the delay is significant. Both Martha Beattie and Andy Gettinger have been able to get pertinent information out very quickly. The two issues that affect us are both very important.


Andy brought to our attention that we have classmates with ties to the military. Dan and Lee Murphy havea son Jake, who graduated from West Point and was seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Information on how to offer your support and thanks to Jake and his comrades can be found on the class of ’76 Facebook site.


Another other issue Martha highlighted hits close to home. As we get longer in the tooth, we’re frequently in the crosshairs as companies downsize and re-tool. Although we may not think of ourselves as “older,” others may not always appreciate the attributes that our worlds of experience bring to the table. Check the Facebook page to see if there are any classmates who either have opportunities to offer or may be looking for opportunities. Keep the Dartmouth ’76 network alive and use it!


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings! I hope the emergence of spring is treating everyone well. It’s been a mild winter so far in North Carolina, and I hope everyone else has fared well. 


One of the benefits of being the class secretary is that every time a classmate publishes something that the College is aware of, I get a copy. The most recent work I received is Carl Little’sEric Hopkins: Above and Beyond. The book relates the story of native Maine artist Eric Hopkins and his development as an artist using different media. Carl’s description and narrative provide insight into the artist’s creativity and style and his use of Maine geographical influence in his art. Carl has been a prolific author and is currently the director of communications and marketing at the Maine Community Foundation. In 2000 he was awarded the Acadia Arts Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the arts on Mount Desert Island, Maine, where he lives.


Martha Beattie passed along news of Dave Magnus’induction into Marquette University High School’s Hall of Fame for his swimming exploits during his time there. The press release outlined his accomplishments both at Marquette and at Dartmouth. 


For those of you who haven’t viewed the Dartmouth ’76 Facebook page, you may want to check it out from time to time. From the look of things and the timeliness of the distribution of information, it may at some point make our class column obsolete. This month there have been postings by Kipp Barker showing an antique Dartmouth ID card from 1972 as well as pictures from Andy Gettinger of the ’76 Winter Carnival chili cook-off. Another posting by Lois Tow shows a picture of what appear to be freshman giveaways from the Hanover merchants, one of which is a beer mug that probably wouldn’t pass muster in 2012–hardly politically correct given the current drinking age. In the beer mug is a ruler from Hanover Hardware. Another souvenir is a sewing kit offered by Ward’s Department Store, which I believe is long gone. I wonder how many of the give-a-ways actually boosted sales in those stores.


Between Facebook and the “Speaking of Dartmouth” e-mails with all the links, there is never a shortage of reminders of our experiences there and what the students are currently experiencing. I’m not sure I would have been a big fan of the polar bear swim in Occom Pond during Winter Carnival, but it appeared that the students had a good time after the ice had been sawn through and the area cleared out. No thanks.


If you’re not going to correspond via Facebook, don’t hesitate to send news of travels and old friends met, etc. I’m sure that there are more of us out there than Judy Csatari with grandchildren. Let everyone know where you’re traveling. Send me something to share with the class.


That’s it for now. Enjoy as spring turns to summer and let me know what you’re up to.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings, ’76!


I’m sitting here the day after Christmas 2012 and hope that you and your families were able to enjoy time together through the holidays. I wonder, what with the advances in social media and the instantaneous availability of information, if my columns, viewed eight weeks after being written, are even relevant any more. In any event, if you are not subscribing to the online class of 1976 newsletter, make sure that you do. Martha Hennessey is doing a terrific job of putting more detailed, timely information out to the class than I can put into 500 words every two months. Between the Newsletter and the Class of 1976 Facebook page you can access almost everything that I put in this column much sooner than you’ll see it in the alumni magazine.


The only piece of news that I didn’t see in the most recent 1976 newsletter actually comes from The Norwich Times in Norwich, Vermont. In its fall 2012 issue was a long article about a project undertaken by Bill Nutt involving sculpture for an Oxford University alumnus that has been presented as a gift to his college within the university, Linacre. The gift was a sundial sculpted from granite. The actual sundial was built on a base that was a book the same size as a 15th-century manuscript of the Nuremburg Chronicle, a book of the early Renaissance written by a medieval scholar. The finished product was truly international. It was made in Vermont right in the Upper Valley from granite imported from Africa and now resides in Oxford in Great Britain. The entire project involved considerable collaboration between Bill and the donor, Frank Manasek.


I had hoped to pass along “new” news of two other classmates, Brian Matimore and Louise Erdrich, all of which was literary, but I was scooped by Martha. Brian had his book published, Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs. It recounts actual examples of new ideation and innovation processes in companies ranging from “smaller” companies up through Fortune 500 companies. Brian’s company, Growth Engine, in Norwalk, Connecticut, is the link between what he does and the actual examples used in the book. (You can read more about him in the back-page profile in the Jan-Feb issue of DAM.)


Congratulations to Louise, who won the 2012 National Book Award for her novel, The Round House.


Martha has additional information about both books in the latest class of ’76 newsletter. If you’re not receiving the newsletter online, you will want to check it out and add your name to the list so that you can receive it electronically. Here is the address for the most recent newsletter: http://issuu.com/dartmouth1976/docs/1976newsletter.december2012.


That’s the news that’s fit to print for now. Send me news when you can or news of yourself or other classmates that you think will be of interest to other classes and I’ll pass it on. In the meantime, a safe and healthy 2013 to you and yours.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com


Greetings. I hope you all enjoyed time with your families over the holidays and are enjoying the winter wherever you are. Once again, news is sparse, but there is some. The College received a press release regarding Daniel P. Forsyth, an attorney with Bond, Schoeneck & King in Buffalo, who has been named to the Best Lawyers in America 2011 in labor and employment law. Dan represents employers in National Labor Relations Board proceedings, labor arbitrations, collective bargaining, union organizing campaigns and labor proceedings before various state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Wage and Hour Division and New York State Department of Labor. Congratulations to Dan. I hope people will be able to congratulate him in person at the reunion in June. 


In other news, in a brief string of e-mails with Peter Jeton I found that he and Nancy Kepes Jeton have a daughter in the class of 2012. I’m sure that they’ll be able to share stories with you at the reunion in June. Did I mention that we’re having a reunion in June (June 17-19)? Bob Wetzel and crew will be sending out more information as the year progresses, but save the date. 


Finally, if there are any retired Dartmouth buildings and grounds employees looking to work in an advisory capacity, the State of North Carolina and various municipalities in the triangle area are in need of someone who has some expertise in snow removal and remediation. We always took it for granted that we would be able to reasonably navigate the campus despite the amount of snow we received. All that good work went unnoticed until you see how bad weather can be mishandled or misunderstood.


That’s it for now. Send news, and by the way, did I mention that we have a reunion June 17-19?


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Hello, ’76ers! Is anyone out there? Thanks to Nessa Flax, I have some news to pass along. I received an e-mail from Nessa last night celebrating, and rightfully so, the publishing of her book Voices in the Hills: Collected Ramblings from a Rural Life. The book is published by Bunker Hill Publishing and should be available now. The book recounts life in the North Country or the Northeast Kingdom and New Hampshire north of Dartmouth. Nessa lives in Ryegate Corner, Vermont, and has written about the people and the land where she has lived for the past several years. Quite a change from her work as a columnist for the Journal Opinion, a local newspaper. She has written, taught and coached in the area for many years and has truly made it her home. That’s quite a change from Virginia, Pennsylvania and California, where she grew up. This is just a guess, but it looks like the cover photograph may actually be looking east from Vermont toward Mount Moosilauke, but that’s just a guess. If it’s not, it’s still a picture that will remind all of us of fall in Hanover.


When she wrote, Nessa was looking forward to the book’s launch party, which was to be held in The Happy Hour restaurant (aptly named) in Wells River, Vermont. Congrats to Nessa. She also wrote that she tried to shame Grant Huber into passing along information, but so far I haven’t seen any results. I do have to thank Nessa as I really had nothing to pass along when it came time to write this.


I can normally count on information to come from other class officers, an occasional e-mail or random phone call, but I have nothing to report at this time. I went to the class of ’76 Facebook page and still came up empty. I can only assume that people are busy with children and grandchildren. Here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we’re preparing for the wedding of our youngest daughter, Pamela, in early August. We’re looking forward to being joined by Todd Morris, Mark Berthiaume ’77, Fred Kramer ’77 and Chris Morris ’78. In years past that has been a dangerous combination, but I’m counting on (or at least hoping for) age and better judgment to keep things in line. 


Seriously folks. Please send me some news. As I’ve said before, what you may think is mundane will probably be of interest to classmates who haven’t heard of or from you in years. Drop me an e-mail, call me or even use the mail (does anyone use the USPS any more?). Here’s wishing you and your families a safe and healthy summer. If you didn’t get the message above, please send news!


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com 


Greetings! As I sit here putting this issue’s column together I don’t have the results of the Homecoming game vs. Harvard as it’s a night game later tonight, but I did see Mary Kay Beach’sbonfire picture from Friday night (on the class of ’76 Facebook page) and receive reports from Andy Gettinger that the class of ’76 was well represented at the Homecoming festivities, so I at least know that part of the weekend went well. Martha Beattie, VP of alumni affairs, greeted alumni and families of all classes, and later in the weekend after a class meeting at Tom and Judy Csatari’shouse there was also a reunion of our classmates attending as well as other ’70s classes.


That being said, happy holidays to all of our classmates and families. The timing of the deadline for the issue and your receiving it is such that although you are receiving the issue during the holidays, I’m writing it here at the end of October. Again, news is slim, but I did hear from Taze Shepard that he “has been elected president of the Huntsville-Madison (Alabama) County Bar Association, whose 700 members are private-practice attorneys, corporate counsel, district attorneys and judges throughout the greater Huntsville area. Shepard is also a member of the Huntsville Committee of 100 and a graduate of Leadership Huntsville Class 25.” Congratulations to Taze for that honor.


While I don’t receive much news, at least the reports are going to Martha Hennessey so she can continue with her periodic newsletters, which are available online, as well as in print. Martha’s done a terrific job of putting out several newsletters a year. Between the class of ’76 newsletter and our Facebook page, there is no shortage of information available to the class. Nessa Flax has been a frequent contributor to the Facebook page and has had the good fortune to be in the Upper Valley through fall and was able to see what foliage there was earlier in October. I managed to get to northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine around the middle of October and by the time I got there the trees were bare. So much for timing.


Another frequent contributor to the Facebook page has been David Fuller, keeping the Facebook crew up to date with his thespian pursuits in N.Y.C. Most recently he has been playing the “Old Duke” in Dukus by Alter Kacyzne at the Brick Theatre in Brooklyn. Check the Facebook page for more information about upcoming productions. It looked like this was playing through October 28. I’m sure he’ll be involved in other productions, as well.


Keep the news flowing either to Martha, the Facebook page or to me. One way or another we’ll get it out to you. Again, happy and safe holidays to you and your families. Be safe and enjoy.


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com