Class Note 1977
As you read this column the class of 2015 has been admitted and I’m sure many of you are excited that your child will be attending Dartmouth! I can’t lie and say I miss the drama and nervousness of waiting for that envelope. After interviewing some prospective candidates again this year I am continually amazed at the caliber of young people applying to Dartmouth these days. The College is in good hands for the future. We’re hoping Paul Donovan will be supplying the class of 2033—he has a new baby to join his 4-year-old!
Not too much to report this time around. I’m trying to dig up some class news, but no one is e-mailing me back to confirm some stories. Help me out, everyone! But here’s an interesting story from the Hanover Co-op newsletter. With spring around the corner, our own Mark Lansburgh has been providing the Co-op with early-season tulips since November from his Talking Well Farm in Post Mills, Vermont. Lansburgh started out as an organic vegetable and fruit grower in 1986 and now concentrates on flowers. In the 1990s he had a wholesale business selling not only his own flowers but others from all over the country to florists in New Hampshire and Vermont. Now Mark grows his own and sells locally to reduce his carbon footprint.
Did you know that this year Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival celebrated its 100th anniversary? As reported in an article in The Boston Globe, it was once known as “the Mardi Gras of the north” and inspired a Hollywood film. Apparently F. Scott Fitzgerald attended in 1939 to collect material for the movie’s screenplay. But he started drinking champagne on the plane from California, never sobered up and had to leave early! I’m still in awe of those of you who worked to sculpt those snow statues each year. Remember the ski jump on the golf course? Any of you daredevils out there ever attempt that jump?
Speaking of snow, my husband and I are flying up to New Hampshire tomorrow for a couple of days of skiing—I want to prolong my winter now that the snow has melted away here in the Philadelphia area. Hope you all survived your winters—write and tell me how it was!
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@comcast.net
