Class Note 1971

Being back in the Upper Valley the past three years has given me the pleasure of frequently running into an old Psi U brother and Hanover native, Chuck Bent. Chuck has returned to the area, living down in New London, New Hampshire, working as an independent contractor. You may remember Chuck was co-captain of the ski team our junior year (along with Dan Gibson) and senior year he was in Europe racing. Heard from another ’Uie Tom Loucks,now living in the Denver area. Tom has been working with mining companies since 1999 in the areas of corporate development, investor relations, strategic planning and capital raising. Much of this work has taken him overseas (e.g. Latin America and West Africa), where he has frequently relied on his Dartmouth training in French and Spanish. Tom writes that “job enlargement” has brought new skills such as interviewing security firms. Assignments have involved creating a corporation in Mauritania from scratch, being driven to a congressional meeting by a presidential candidate in Central America and using bodyguards to avoid terrorists in the Sahara. “It has been a blast (no pun). I love the diversity, and 2012 should bring more of the same.” The latest edition of CarniVail was a huge success, growing each year since our class got involved with this event about five years ago—17 classmates, some 32 total, including class prez Peter Pratt, wife Marcia, son Justin ’06 and friend Greg ’06; past prez Greg Fell,wife Gail and daughter; Barry Brink and wife Leila; Sam and Jane Webster; Jeff, Judy and Joanna McElnea; Dave Merritt; Don O’Neill, wife Sally and sons Donny and Max; Bob Cushman; Dave Krakoff; Tom Oxman with wife Judy; Rod Morgan; Wayne Hobin and Candace Setzer; Malcolm Jones and wife Karen; John Eaton; Buck Allen; Rod and Dolly Fleet Corlin. Another gathering of classmates that we hope will become an annual event occurred the first Sunday in April and revolves around Dartmouth ’71 Team Zrike and the Boston MS Walk. We had 16 classmates in addition to a large number of family and friends of Steve Zrike and wife Sarah. Team Zrike contributed more than $16,000 of the eventual $600,000 raised during the walk. Participating in the five-mile walk along the Charles River were Steve and Sarah Zrike, Michael Maynard (who rallied our Boston-area classmates to become involved) and wife Ilene, Peter and Marcia Pratt, Dave Brooks and wife Pat, Tony Fitzpatrick and wife Julie, Pete Webster and oldest daughter Maggie, Charlie Collier, Andrew Hodgdon, Garrett Orazem, and Janet Rosa from the College. We had a wonderful time during the walk, with a great brunch afterward in Harvard Square. This is an event to grow for future years. I apologize if I’ve missed anyone from these two great gatherings. We have another mini-reunion being planned for mid-June, about when this issue of the DAM hits the mailboxes, out in San Francisco. A Bay Area gathering is being organized by Malcolm Jones and Willis Newton, June 14-17, including a San Francisco Giants game, class dinner at the Olympic Club, sailing on the bay (being arranged by Anthony Sandberg), possible U.S. Open golf at the Olympic Club. More details coming in the mail. 


—Pete Webster, 164 Route 5 South, #7, Norwich, VT 05055; weebs71@gmail.com