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Nature Takes
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Since closing down last year,
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SHE’S
GOT MIKE MOSHER ’77
GAME
BIANCA SMITH ’12
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BLACK FEMALE COACH.
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perseverance, and wisdom (read her reply subject. Keep up the interesting work!
to Joey Votto) to reach at a young age what GRANT REEHER ’82
may very well be her ideal career position. Manlius, New York
And yet I hope during the coming decades
we’ll hear and read more of her. Anyone Radio Silence?
associated with Dartmouth can take great Your recent two-sentence squib in Campus
pride in her accomplishments, regardless Confidential [“Over and Out,” September/
of their level of interest in baseball. Kudos October] about the sale of WFRD-FM de-
to author Jim Collins ’84—he’s written the served more space. WFRD-FM is just one
best DAM article of the past 48 years or so. branch of the student activity known as
TOM DEWLAND ’73 Dartmouth Broadcasting. But Dartmouth
Vero Beach, Florida Broadcasting is not dead. Recognizing the
global trend toward streaming and digi-
While not a big fan of baseball, I was cap- tal media in general, the flagship outlet of
tivated by Collins’ portrait of Smith—her Dartmouth Broadcasting is now webDCR.
enthusiasm, positivity, and energy—so Dartmouth Broadcasting gave many of us
uplifting in these troubled times. Thanks the opportunity to learn skills—all in a real-
so much. world environment where there were no
NICHOLAS ROWE ’64 excuses. I call on the College to transfer the
Peterborough, New Hampshire resources it devoted to previous Dartmouth
Broadcasting outlets toward webDCR, giv-
Congratulations on the wonderful picture ing undergraduates the highly educational
of Smith on the cover of the September/ and richly rewarding experience that we
October issue. The article artfully de- alumni had.
scribes her Dartmouth and professional CARL STRATHMEYER ’70
baseball careers. Both reaffirm my long- Lunenburg, Massachusetts
held belief that Dartmouth knows how to
spot and attract super-talented people, as Difference Maker
do the Red Sox. I freely admit my bias regarding Rob
JIM HARRIS ’64 Portman ’78 [“Homeward Bound,” July/
Nashville, Tennessee August]—he is my classmate and long-
standing friend. I further freely admit there
“She’s Got Game” by Collins was outstand- are times when we agree—his support for
ing. And Smith? What an awesome lady! the integrity of the 2020 presidential elec-
Thanks for a great story about an admirable tion, his position on marriage equality, his
subject. groundbreaking work on the opioid crisis
FRANK STECH ’68 and on human trafficking—and there are
Glenn Dale, Maryland times (like the Trump impeachment) when
we strongly disagree. I have always believed
Reading the story about Smith, I remember that, unlike Trump, Rob approaches his
how shocked I was freshman year to hear a public service with thoughtfulness and
’76 on the team tell our dorm unequivocally, with a commitment, as he says, to making
“Baseball is a white man’s game.” I look a difference in people’s lives.
forward to DAM’s story about her future JEFF KROLIK ’78
career successes as coach, then manager Hillsborough, California
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Framework for the Future
College unveils a new master plan.
“A guide for our physical campus on a
30-year horizon,” reads the intro to a full-
color, 64-page booklet that depicts an ar-
ray of possibilities for how Dartmouth’s
campus may evolve during coming de-
cades. Numerous maps and illustrations
bring life to the ideas: a bridge that spans
the cemetery (above) and runs from the
Class of 1953 Commons to the West End,
student housing on what is now golf
course property, and a riverfront park.
There’s more: apartments on Lebanon
Street, enhancements to the Bema and
College Park, and a “comprehensive
FROM THE ARCHIVES
“An admitted weakness of the present schedule is the
problem faced by the teacher who finds his Saturday
classes more than decimated by absenteeism.
Many of the faculty have found this situation well-
nigh insupportable and have come to the conclusion
that the situation must change radically either one
way or the other.”
—ASSOCIATE REGISTRAR
AND PROFESSOR ROBIN
ROBINSON, CLASS OF
1924, THE FACULTY
COMMITTEE’S EXPERT
ON CLASS SCHEDULING,
IN THE DECEMBER 1957 DAM
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notes from around the gree n “Competitive LOOK WHO’S TALKING
AT A G L A N C E
cheerleading was
the foundation > ARIANA RAMSEY ’22 | Member of U.S. Olympic women’s rugby sevens team
of my sports
career.”
▲ Class of 2025
90
CLASS OF 2025
How did you react when you
Percentage of class that made the team?
participated in I was super shocked. I almost
first-year trips at the start
of fall term cried, but I didn’t because I
was videoing myself. I felt
Enrolled *
really accomplished—I had 1,229
13th
LISTS reached my goal at 21, and it
validated my decision to take
the 2020-21 academic year off Admitted
to train. What a huge relief. 1,749
APPLICANTS
Dartmouth’s place in What’s your next goal? 28,357
The Wall Street Journal’s To graduate from Dartmouth—
2021 ranking of colleges
I’m interested in working on
Wall Street. And I hope to go to
the next Olympics, in Paris.
Was it tough to win three games Home-schooled
1%
in Tokyo yet still not medal?
Sure, but I also tore my ACL. I
just had surgery and won’t be Private
33%
able to play for Dartmouth this
rethinking of Dartmouth’s approach to year.
HIGH SCHOOLS Public
parking and transportation.” Any other highs and lows from REPRESENTED 54%
Nearly two years in the making, the the Games?
plan reflects input from a wide variety of Because of the pandemic, I
constituencies, including local municipal- never really got to see Tokyo. Religious
ities. Director of campus planning Joanna But a highlight was getting a 12%
Whitcomb worked with consultants and selfie with [NBA star] Kevin
a large team of College officials to solicit Durant. After I noticed it was
ideas and create the final result. Archi- blurry, I asked for another one,
tect and former College master planning and he was fine with that.
consultant Lo-Yi Chan ’54, who grew up
in Hanover and completed the last mas- What did you do for fun in the
ter plan, in 1998, also participated. The Olympic village? SCHOLARSHIP
history of master planning at Dartmouth I met a lot of other athletes RECIPIENTS
dates to the late 1800s. and made TikTok videos with Average Amount
them. $62,988
Sustainability is one of several key 45%
principles that run throughout the plan. You wrestled in high school. Did
“That’s why we’re going to change the you compete against boys?
heating system to hot water,” says Whit- Yes. Some of them would for-
comb. Accessibility is another important feit because they didn’t want to
aspect, with the porch at the Collis Cen- wrestle a girl. WHERE THEY’RE FROM
ter a prime candidate for improvement.
Other “opportunities” presented in the What do you love about rugby?
plan include at least 1,150 new under- It’s not overly structured, and New England 17%
West 23%
grad housing units, 680 housing units it’s a game where I can use my Mid-Atlantic 19.5%
within walking distance of campus, and free will. I like that. Midwest 8%
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE; AT RIGHT: COURTESY ARIANA RAMSEY
more than 55 acres of new or improved Got any training tips? South 16.5%
open spaces. Drink water. No sugary drinks!
“Nothing is cast in stone,” says Whit- —Sean Plottner
comb. “This is only a guide to what could Non U.S. 16%
happen.”
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The strategic master plan is available ACCEPTANCE FROM LAST YEAR
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CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
AT LAST
The class of 2020 will finally
celebrate its Commence-
ment with a weekend of
activities August 5-7, 2022.
KUDOS
Professor Peter Orner,
director of the creative
writing program, had a new
short story published by
The New Yorker.
“Barbara, Detroit, 1966”
ran in August.
PRANKED!
Somehow a mounted deer
head found its way from
Zeta Psi into a third-floor
room at Bones Gate during
the summer.
GONE TOO SOON
Engineering professor
Stuart Trembly, Th’83, died
in July following a stroke.
He was 67.
BACKLASH
Some alumni, students,
and faculty have called
for the College to change
the name of the Black
Family Visual Arts Center,
namesake of former trustee
Leon Black ’78. The investor
is embroiled in contro-
versy regarding his ties to
Jeffrey Epstein and faces
a defamation and sexual
harassment lawsuit from a
former mistress.
Q U OT E / U N Q U OT E
“Being a Dartmouth
student is really
difficult, period.”
—Scott Brown, interim dean of the College
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TOP DOC
Duane Compton has been
reappointed to another
four-year term as dean
of the Geisel School of
Medicine.
WAITLISTED
Three of the most popular
courses during Sophomore
Summer were “Classical
Mythology,” “Exploration
of the Solar System,” and
“Ecological Agriculture.”
CHRISTENED
The giant athletics building
near the Boss Tennis Center
has a new name: Graham
Indoor Practice Facility.
FOOD SWIPES
Thieves continue to target
takeout orders left near the
entrance of Tuk Tuk Thai
Cuisine in Hanover.
GROUNDED
Climbing team members
have expressed frustration at
the continued closure of the
climbing gym. The facility is
expected to remain closed
this fall as officials assess the
need for renovations.
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Thayer School of Engineer-
ing nabbed $1.25 million in
grants to study icy planets
in our solar system.
FOR ART’S SAKE
The Hood Museum finally
reopened on August 4.
1,229 $2.9
CLASS OF 2025
Number of students
in the class,
the largest ever
FIT TO PRINT
Matthew Olzmann, a senior
lecturer in the English
department, had his poem,
“Letter to a Bridge Made
of Rope,” published in The
New York Times in July.
Olzmann is releasing a new
collection of poems
in 2022.
MUNCHIES
Dining services has expand-
ed its offerings and hours.
Some snack bar locations
are now open until 2 a.m.
HIS AIM IS TRUE
Placekicker Connor
Davis ’22 converted 49
consecutive extra points
before missing one early
this season.
FACING FACTS
Students didn’t care for
the return of the College’s
indoor-mask-wearing
mandate prior to the start
of the fall term. Professors,
on the other hand, didn’t
mind at all.
BACKGROUND CHECK
The class of 2024 had its
photo taken—but not in
front of Dartmouth Hall,
which is under renovation.
Students struck their pose
instead on Baker lawn.
ROMAN MURADOV
PHILANTHROPY
Amount, in billions,
raised so far in the
Call to Lead campaign
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New Deans Appointed
>>> Scott Brown was named interim
dean of the College in August fol-
lowing the resignation of Kathryn
Lively. He was most recently interim
associate vice president and dean
of students at Northern Arizona
University. Marianne Huger Thomson,
formerly of Syracuse University, is
the new interim associate dean of
student affairs. Brown and Thomson
will each serve two years. “It’s up to
me to really get to know students,
understand the student experience,
and work with students,” says Brown,
the seventh person to fill this position
at Dartmouth in the past 10 years.
“Part of that is making sure that I’ve
got student input hardwired into as
many places as possible.” Lively, a so-
ciology professor, has embarked on a
two-year sabbatical.
Fellows Announced
>>> The Montgomery fellows pro-
gram has returned with a promising
lineup of visiting scholars. Each of
five fellows, who specialize in anthro-
pology and archaeology, spent two
weeks on campus in the fall teaching
around the theme “Who Owns the
Past?” For the winter, three more
fellows—a jewelry maker, a furniture
maker, and a ceramicist—will partici-
pate in “A Celebration of Making.”
Authors Louise Erdrich ’76 and Phil
Klay ’05 are expected to be fellows
next spring and summer, respectively.
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Stormy Weather
Cleaner air means more rain.

MEMORIES ARE MADE...

>>> The Northeast has endured the

sharpest increase in rainfall since
1958 among U.S. climate regions,
ASK THE EXPERT and storms have become more ex-

The Future of Maps

treme as temperatures in the North
Atlantic have increased, according
to a study published in Weather and
Climate Extremes. The researchers
J O N A T H A N C H I P M A N ’ 9 0 | G E O G R A P H Y D E P A R T M E N T  attribute rising sea temperatures to
increased greenhouse gases—and to
The flood of real-time big data, including information from smartphone GPS and high-resolution an unintended consequence of the
remote-sensing imagery, will greatly affect our maps, according to Chipman, an expert on ap- decreased use of industrial aerosols,
plied spatial analysis and mapmaking. “It’s challenging to make sense of the volume of raw data which reflect sunlight and help
generated by 21st-century society,” he says, “and geography is one of the tools people are most cool the earth’s surface. “It’s ironic
that cleaning up the environment
comfortable using to organize all that information.” Chipman, who leads the applied spatial
actually made global warming and
analysis lab and teaches courses on topics such as geovisualization and remote sensing, says extreme precipitation a little worse,”
these factors will shape the evolving world of data mapping. —Maud McCole ’23 says earth sciences prof Erich Os-
terberg, one of the study’s authors.
SPATI A L DATA interactions change at provides systematic algorithms for the fully “It’s super important to clean up the
In the next decade data the onset or the end of imagery worldwide at automated extraction air, but this means carbon dioxide
science will be spatial a pandemic?”  a range of resolutions of information from raw
science. Beyond the use down to the decimeter, aerial imagery. That’s
warming isn’t offset as much.”
of imagery for mapping D RO NES across a wider spectrum an area where there
purposes, the torrent
of geotagged data
Drones, or uninhabited
aerial systems (UASs),
of wavelengths of light
than most UAS cameras,
will be huge progress
in the next decade. The
A Final Toast
Ancient brew did the trick.
from mobile phones, provide a revolutionary and with an accessible second hurdle is that
cameras, vehicles, platform for advanced historical archive that most UAS mapping
>>> A burial site discovered in
and other devices will mapping technolo- includes the Landsat projects are targeted southern China suggests that people
facilitate the growth of gies. They can rapidly global archive of ap- at a particular area for drank alcoholic beverages in rituals
spatially aware artificial collect vast amounts proximately 9 million a particular purpose, to honor the dead at least 9,000
intelligence. These of imagery and 3-D images and more than with no mechanism for years ago. Anthropology prof Jiajing
systems will draw infer- topographic data at 6 million gigabytes. sharing or archiving Wang led a team that analyzed
ences about people, spatial resolutions In recent years this data and no attempt residues in painted pots and jars
places, and phenomena much sharper than any information has become to provide systematic buried in the same pit with two
by analyzing their spa- other tool can provide. much easier to access coverage over larger
human skeletons. The researchers

tial interactions. Privacy
concerns have been
somewhat discussed
in the media—prob-
ably far less than they
deserve—but there are
also remarkable op-
portunities to improve
our understanding of
the world and answer
questions such as
“Where do people go
who are displaced by a
wildfire or a flood?” or
“How do people’s social
Now a researcher can
go through a fairly
straightforward flight
certification process,
take a lightweight UAS
out into the field, and
rapidly map any study
region at centimeter
resolution.
SAT EL L IT ES
Drones get all the at-
tention, but the growing
constellation of earth
observation satellites
and use for long-term
studies of social and
environmental systems.
It’s now free, available in
real time, and easier to
analyze.
OB STAC L E
RECO G NITI ON
UAS-based mapping
projects face three hur-
dles. One is the sheer
volume of information
produced and a desper-
ate need for better
HOME.
areas. The third hurdle
is that the historical found traces of starches, fossilized
record is very short—we plants, and mold, which indicate the
can keep revisiting pots once held alcohol made in a
and re-imaging places two-step fermentation process. “We
with drones to look for would call it beer—but it’s not really
changes in the future, a beer,” says Wang. “The pots were
but we can’t go back used to hold fermented beverages
to see what’s changed
in the past, because
made of mainly rice, tubers, and
low-cost commercial- grains.” The discovery marks the
grade drones available earliest record of “beer” crafted
for scientific mapping that way, according to the report
use began to proliferate published in PLOS One. 
only in the past decade. —Julia Robitaille ’23

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THE ARTS
Moving Pictures
Photo aficionado Robert Dance ’77 keeps his eye
on old Hollywood. by R I C H A R D B A B C O C K ’ 6 9
R
obert Dance was just a few years
out of Dartmouth and starting to
put together a photography col-
lection when he wandered into the Witkin
Gallery in Manhattan. Thumbing through
a bin, he came across a striking, 11-by-14,
black-and-white photo of Greta Garbo
wrapping herself in a satin robe. The pho-
tographer’s name was stamped on the back:
Ruth Harriet Louise.
“How much?” Dance asked the propri-
etor, Lee Witkin.
A hundred dollars.
Who is Ruth Harriet Louise?
Don’t know.
How can you charge $100 for a photo-
graph by someone you don’t know?
Because it’s beautiful.
So Dance bought it, launching a life-
long excursion into the world of old Hol-
lywood that’s about to have two resounding
payoffs. This February the Hood Museum
will mount an exhibition of prized old
Hollywood photographs acquired from a
collection amassed by the late movie his-
torian John Kobal. Dance, a former chair
of the Hood board, served as impresario
behind the acquisition, which totals more
than 6,000 pieces. “There is an art to these
photographs,” says the Hood’s grateful di-
rector, John R. Stomberg. “Some are just
astoundingly beautifully composed, com-
plicated, rich images that are both aestheti-
cally charged and contextual to the film.”
In November, Dance will publish his
latest book, The Savvy Sphinx: How Garbo
Conquered Hollywood. “It’s the story of how
someone becomes the biggest star ever and
then leaves at 36,” Dance says. The book
STA R S A LIGN will include photos of Garbo from Dance’s
“We grew up in an own 1,500-piece collection of old Holly-
era when everybody
went to movies,” wood photos.
says the art history Both the exhibit and the book reflect
major, who recently
helped the Hood
a Hollywood that has long passed away,
Museum acquire a an era when the major studios dominated
collection of classic all aspects of the business and employed
studio images. “The
common currency in photographers to promote the stars and
America was motion their movies. “They were great photogra-
pictures.” phers who had the best cameras, the best
22 D A R T M O U T H A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E p h otog rap h by L AUR A B A RI S O N Z I
papers, the biggest budgets,” Dance says.
“They were able to do things quite spec-
tacularly.” The huge cameras used 8-by-
10 negatives, yielding oversized 11-by-14
images that were distributed throughout
the world and reprinted in reduced size in
magazines, newspapers, and promotional
flyers. Most of the iconic photos of stars
of that era—Joan Crawford, Clark Gable,
Bette Davis, and countless others—came
from this arrangement.
By the time the studio system broke up
in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of photog-
raphers had declined and the studios cared
little about the bulky archives. Some were
sold, others literally dumped. Works by top-
tier photographers—Louise, George Hurrell,
“There is an art to
these photographs.”
Clarence Sinclair Bull among them—began
to disappear. Kobal recognized the art and
history in these images and began collect-
ing them in the mid-1960s. When he died
in 1991, the John Kobal Foundation owned
thousands of photographs.
A few years ago, when the foundation
decided to focus on supporting young pho-
tographers, it decided to sell the archive in
bulk. Through his work as a movie historian
and collector, Dance had joined the Kobal
Foundation board in 2005 and helped bro-
ker the deal that brought the bulk of the
collection to the Hood at a steep discount.
(Hood officials will not comment on the
value of the collection, but individual vin-
tage Hollywood prints can sell for upwards
of $5,000.) The history embedded in the
photographs should be a trove for the film
studies department as well as students in
other fields, Dance points out.
Photography historian Colin Wester-
beck maintains that vintage Hollywood
photos lack the “friendly tension” between
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photographer and subject that marks much A

of the most celebrated portrait photogra-
phy. The studio photographers were “not
seeking the inner truth of someone’s char-
acter,” says Westerbeck, a former curator of
photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Still, they created otherworldly beauty.
Fiction—or at least legend—is at the
heart of Dance’s new book about Garbo.
STAR GAZING
His take is startling: “There was nothing
about her that was interesting. Absolutely The studio photographers who
nothing—except the fact that she was the captured the iconic Hollywood
most beautiful woman who ever lived and studio shots of yesteryear were
maybe the greatest actress.” masters at creating “a fiction from
Dance’s book is not a biography but a world that hovers somewhere
an examination of the creation of her im- above the rest of us masses,” says
age. From a lower working-class family in photo historian Colin Westerbeck.
Stockholm, poorly educated, discovered Jazz Age actress Louise Brooks
in a Swedish movie, Garbo landed in Hol- (opposite page) certainly looked
lywood intensely introverted and unable the part in 1929. This image,
to speak English. But from the start she along with the others shown, is
had a relationship “with the camera that part of the collection of vintage
can only be described as magic,” Dance
photographs that Robert Dance
says. She refused to do the contractually
helped the Hood Museum
obligated publicity, but “studios figured out
acquire earlier this year. Many
pretty quickly that they could turn this into
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a gimmick. Her personality then became a

of the photos will be part of an
marketing ploy.” MGM worked the iconic exhibition, Photographs from
Garbo line into the script for Grand Hotel: Hollywood’s Golden Era, that will
“I want to be alone.” run from February 12 to May 22.
Dance’s Hollywood connections go Dance will also join Dartmouth
back to his days at Dartmouth, when he professor of media and film
took courses with the film studies profes- studies Mary Desjardins for a
sor Maurice Rapf ’35, son of Harry Rapf, a Zoom talk in May titled “Shooting
founding producer at MGM. “I was sort of Stars: Hollywood Photography
a disciple of Maury’s, I took all his classes,” from the John Kobal Foundation.”
says Dance. This was well before film stud-
ies grew into its own department. In those
days film classes functioned as “sort of an
interesting enrichment,” says Dance, who
majored in art history.
After college Dance earned a master’s
in religion at Yale, then moved to New York
and soon set up a business as a private art
dealer specializing in Old Master drawings.
Today he’s largely retired from art dealing
and divides his time between Manhattan
and rural Connecticut—with occasional
visits to Hanover to help organize the Kobal
photographs.
Dance, 66, remains immersed in old
Hollywood by working on another book, a
biography of Joan Crawford. Unlike Gar-
bo, Crawford led a life full of interesting
moments. “She arrived in Hollywood and
couldn’t dance, couldn’t act, a little over-
weight, not very attractive,” Dance says. SCREEN GEM S
“And the rest is history.” This page, top: Unknown photographer, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan for The Kid,
Charlie Chaplin Productions, 1921, gelatin silver print. This page, bottom: Russell Ball, Dolores
del Rio for The Trial of ’98, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1928, gelatin silver print. Opposite page:
RICHARD BABCOCK is a novelist and former Eugene Robert Richee, Louise Brooks, for Paramount Pictures, 1929, platinum print.
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SPORTS
Moneyball
With the changes to NCAA endorsement rules,
will student-athletes cash in? b y J I M C O L L I N S ’ 8 4
T
his past July, following the U.S. Su-
preme Court decision that NCAA
restrictions on “education-related
benefits” violate antitrust laws, the NCAA
adopted a new policy that allows incoming
and current student-athletes to profit from
the use of their “name, image, and like-
ness” (NIL). A day after the policy change,
Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral began
advertising his speaking and appearance
fee—through Dreamfield, a startup colle-
giate athlete booking agency—of $10,000
per hour. Within weeks University of Ala-
bama quarterback Bryce Young, a 19-year-
old sophomore who threw all of 22 passes
last year as a backup, had signed endorse-
ment deals totaling close to $1 million.
Fresno State’s twin basketball players,
Haley and Hanna Cavinder, were on their
way to parlaying their massive social me-
dia presence into a projected six-figure
income.
In response to the NCAA’s move, the
Ivy League quickly adjusted its own policy
to allow student-athletes at Dartmouth and
the other Ivies to engage in NIL activities.
“It’s a new world,” says Chelsea Goss, Dart-
mouth associate athletic director for com-
pliance. “We’re just trying to start out doing
things correctly.”
The rule change had been in the works
for some time. While online monetizing
platforms, big-time sports agencies, and
corporate marketing departments all geared
up in anticipation, interim athletics direc-
tor Peter Roby ’79 was regularly meeting
with other conference ADs and representa-
tives from the Ivy League. A few days after
the rule change went into effect, Roby told
the Concord Monitor that Dartmouth would
follow the Ivy guidelines as well as Dart-
mouth’s own rules and restrictions on intel-
lectual property, trademarks, and product
promotion. “It’s all kind of fluid right now,”
he said. “It is a work in progress.”
Just how new the world will be at Dart-
mouth remains to be seen. Athletes here
lack the celebrity platform and ESPN ca-
chet of the Big Ten or Southeastern Confer-
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athletes and make sure they remain eligible
to compete on their teams,” Goss says, “and
to understand that any agreements they
sign may affect their financial aid pack-
ages—or impact their visa status if they’re
international students. We’re not allowed
ence. Football players Ben Keeter ’22 and to advise them on how to profit from the
Griff Lehman ’22 were two of the first Dart- new rules. We tell them to talk with their
mouth students to test the waters, sign- parents. Get a lawyer. Get an agent.”
ing on as “Barstool Athletes,” essentially A former Junior Olympic skier, Goss
agreeing to associate their Twitter feeds joined the athletics department last January
with the irreverent sports and pop culture after stints at Eastern Washington Univer-
blog, Barstool Sports, in exchange for free sity, University of Minnesota, and Univer-
merch such as sweatpants and hoodies. sity of Vermont. “I started getting to know
Each of them has fewer than a thousand athletes here, and I was like ‘Wow,’ ” she
Instagram followers. (The Cavinder twins, says. “These aren’t typical athletes. They’re
by comparison, have about 600,000 Insta- well-rounded. They’re focused on academ-
gram followers and 3.6 million followers ics, they’re premed, they’re running family
on TikTok.) Linebacker Macklin Ayers ’24 companies, they’re entrepreneurs, they’re
signed a modest contract endorsing the savvy. I hate to say they’re not like football
gym where he worked out back in central players in the SEC—but they aren’t. They’ll
Pennsylvania. “I got a few T-shirts,” he says, figure out different ways to take advantage
“but mostly I wanted to promote the work of this.” She wonders how the new rules
of my trainer there.” will affect Olympic-level athletes who play
According to Goss, that type of small- sports in which Dartmouth has a nationally
recognized name—such as rugby, rowing,
and squash.
Not long after the NCAA announced
the policy change, Jonathan Jensen, an
“They’ll figure out assistant professor of sport administration
different ways to take at University of North Carolina who spent a
dozen years crafting sponsorship deals for
advantage of this.” professional athletes, told USA Today that
college athletes at certain small-market
schools or playing selected nontelevised
scale, local-pride endorsement is typical, so sports may stand to profit. “If you’re a two-
far, of the deals that the compliance office time national female lacrosse player of the
is helping student-athletes navigate. The year,” he said, “you may have higher earning
two-person staff has put together Q&A and potential because you’ve excelled on the
guideline documents intended to clarify field and the following for lacrosse is a big
what is and isn’t allowed under the Col- market sport on the East Coast and you can
lege’s name, image, and likeness policy. For reach a consumer that has a great deal of
instance, students aren’t allowed to incor- disposable income.”
porate Dartmouth logos, appear wearing Forget selling autographs. What kinds
Dartmouth uniforms, or be filmed or pho- of opportunities might emerge from bou-
tographed using College athletics facilities. tique businesses owned by Dartmouth
Alpine ski team member Hanna Utter ’21 alumni or from partnerships with luxury
had to turn down endorsement offers from brands such as Rolex, J. Crew, Ralph Lau-
a craft brewery and a pot shop in her home ren, Land Rover, Goldman Sachs?
state of Vermont because of College prohi- “I would think there’s some potential
bitions against promoting the sale or use of there,” Goss says.
alcohol or cannabinoid products. (Other
categories on that list include firearms, to- JIM COLLINS wrote about Bianca Smith
bacco, and pornography.) ’12 in the September/October 2021 issue
“We’re here to support our student- of DAM.
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INTERVIEW
“I Love Telling Stories”
Actor Sarah Wayne Callies ’99 takes a deep dive into audio
with her new podcast drama.
by S E A N P L O T T N E R
T
he star of movies and shows such
as The Walking Dead and Prison
Break, Sarah Wayne Callies knows
the world of film. This summer she flexed
her versatility with the debut of Aftershock,
a scripted, 10-episode podcast she created,
wrote, produced, and directed. She also stars
in the apocalyptic story about a mysterious
island that rises off the coast of California
following a mega-earthquake—and the odd-
balls and other shaken survivors who find
their way there. DAM recently dialed up
Callies at her home in British Columbia to
talk about producing a podcast during the
pandemic with a little help from her friends,
including a fellow Dartmouth alum.
How did this podcast come about?
Maybe two years ago a producer friend of
mine, Ben Haber, brought an idea to me.
The kernel of the idea was that a new island
rises up out of the ocean. It immediately
got my head running. Rather than trying
to convince somebody to finance it for the
screen, we decided to test the concept in
the audio space. With a podcast it basically
costs the same to generate an earthquake
as a birthday party. Because we wanted to
try and do something very big and a little
new, we needed a certain amount of cre-
ative independence. When there’s a ton of
money at stake, there are a lot of people who
understandably have to get their fingers in
there—and tell you how to do it.
And you wanted to write the script?
Yes, and I’ve got a few other writing proj-
ects in the works. I love telling stories. It
comes from spending the first 20 years of
my career speaking someone else’s words
and wanting to have a go at being the one to
write those words.
How did it go?
I wrote the pilot on a plane to London from
Vancouver. I find the process of putting
your fingers on the keys, if you’ve done the
homework, is pretty straightforward and
fun. And the homework is similar to the
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homework of an actor: Who are these char-
acters and what do they want? Character,
character, character. Once those questions
were answered, it flowed pretty naturally.
How did you finance the project?
We did it as though it were an independent
film. We financed the pilot, then we took
that as a proof of concept to an independent
financier, who listened and said, “Okay. I’ll
pay for the next nine episodes.” They let us
take the story from there. When we had
all 10 episodes, we shopped it around and
iHeart Radio bought it.
What makes the story unique?
I’ve spent a lot of time in my career in the
chaos and apocalypse and human-nature-
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on-the-brink space. We’ve done a pretty
great job of writing female characters
during the last dozen years, but they’re
still articulating a male outlook. We tell
these stories that seem to sort of make it
SHAKE I T UP sound inevitable that violence and domi-
“Excellent writing, nation are the way to get your way. So the
combined with
superb acting and first thing I did was take out all the guns.
sound design,” Whether it’s men or women holding those
gushes one reviewer
of Aftershock, which
guns, I just lost interest because it’s an es-
premiered in July. calation of violence.
How did you get David Harbour ’97 involved?
I sent him a text and said, “Please.” He was
super gracious about it. You’d be surprised
by the generosity of actors, writers, and
directors to get behind each other’s little
passion projects.
You met Harbour in a directing class?
Yes. He already had this reputation on
campus as a beast of an actor. There was
no question in my mind that Dave would
have a brilliant career. When I saw Stranger
Things, I thought, “Well, Dave, what took
you so long?” He has such a distinctive
voice. I wrote his character, Wayne, with
David’s voice in mind.
How did Covid-19 affect production?
When I wrote to all these brilliant actors
I said, “Listen, it’ll be one day at a stu-
dio and you’ll never hear from me again.”
Then the pandemic hit. We had recorded
the first few episodes, but now we had to
FedEx microphones and headphones to
everyone, and we worked on SquadCast—
software that allows you to record four
or five people at the same time. Each of
us had to create a sound booth wherever
we were. At one point Dave was in rural
England, and he had to put a quilt on the
ground, surround himself with pillows,
and put a duvet over his head. It became
a much bigger pain than anyone could
have known going into it. I felt terrible
about that.
What do you think of the reaction to
Aftershock?
The fact that people are listening makes
me irrationally happy. What I hadn’t ex-
pected out of this entire experience was
the abject terror I would feel the day we
launched. With my previous roles, I’ve al-
ways been able to say, “Well, I didn’t write
it. It’s not my show.” This one was squarely
on my shoulders. Every time somebody
reaches out on social media or a colleague
takes the time to listen, it means the world
to me.
You’re married to an alum. Correct?
Yes. My husband is Josh Winterhalt ’97.
We met two weeks before he graduated.
He became a teacher, and now he runs our
household. He makes sure the kids are alive
and fed and educated.
And you have two children?
I do. Sometimes it feels like there are six
or seven of them, but as it turns out, there
are only two. One is 8 and our oldest just
turned 14.
“The fact that
people are listening
makes me
irrationally happy.”
What impact has Dartmouth had on you?
Well, I was a senior fellow, and I ended
up with a major in drama and a minor in
women’s studies. My classes were phenom-
enal. I had some extraordinary teachers.
But Dartmouth was a confusing place for
me. Coming from Hawaii, it was my first
exposure to whiteness on the mainland.
And I found it very disorienting and a little
brutal. On the other hand, New Hampshire
was a source of joy: spending time in the
woods, the beauty. My first fall, I don’t think
I closed my mouth. I was drunk on leaves.
And I ended up with an incredible group
of friends. It took me a little while to figure
out that you don’t receive an education, you
seek an education, and I found things such
as a grant that allowed me to study Hawai-
ian mythology at home for a term and the
jewelry shop at the Hop.
Will there be a sequel to Aftershock or
perhaps a movie?
I’m hoping we get to do another season. I’m
kicking around ideas in my head, but right
now I’m more focused on the present and
enjoying this first season.
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 THE NEW
COUNTER
CULTURE
West Coast entrepreneur Lauren Fontein ’02
takes cannabis commerce to a new high.
I T ’ S A L L L EG A L
Fontein left a law firm in
2009 to bake edibles for
marijuana dispensaries.
When California
legalized recreational
BY RAND RICHARDS COOPER marijuana six years later,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER BOHLER ’03 she and her partners saw
a business opportunity
and opened their first
Artist Tree store in West
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d
uring the past decade 19 states have
legalized recreational marijuana, with
more waiting in line. No longer a shad-
owy world of illicit transactions, deal-
ing marijuana has gone mainstream
and been transformed into a modern—
and legal—marketplace.
On the cutting edge of cannabis
retail is Lauren Fontein, co-owner of
The Artist Tree, a rapidly expanding
network of posh stores in the Los An-
geles area. California, the first state to
legalize medical marijuana—in 1996—
is the epicenter of the U.S. marijuana
retail industry, with more than 700 retailers and a market
that’s projected to reach $5 billion next year. Fontein’s
business sheds light on an intriguing question: What hap-
pens when a black-market commodity leaps into the light
of normal daily commerce?
On a recent day Fontein was busy in the company’s
office, working on licensing applications. Trim and en-
ergetic at 41, she comes off as more corner office than
countercultural. After graduating with a degree in psy-
chology, Fontein went to law school at UCLA, then joined
Latham & Watkins, a big L.A. law firm. She quickly found
the career unrewarding. “It was very corporate and not
very personal,” she says. “I wanted to feel passionate about
what I was doing.”
She dreamed of opening a cookie shop and in 2009 quit
her job and took a professional baking and pastry course.
Her boyfriend, Avi Kahan—the two met in law school—had
a brother who had opened a medical marijuana dispensary.
Mitch Kahan asked Fontein if she could make pot cookies
for him. She did. “The cookies were amazing,” he says.
A reliable edible was very much in need. “The industry
back then was unregulated, and there were unscrupulous
characters,” Mitch Kahan adds. “Companies selling edibles
would just make up the numbers. You’d have this big piece
of cake advertised as having 400 milligrams of THC, and
we’d get it tested and it might have only 20 milligrams. I
told Lauren there was a huge space in the industry for a
brand that can actually be trusted.”
Fontein spent most of the next decade making mari-
juana cookies, candies, and brownies, which she sold to
dozens of dispensaries. She hired help and baked in a
commercial kitchen. When California approved recre-
ational pot in 2016, she naturally segued into the retail
business. In 2018 she and Avi—now the father of her three
children—joined Mitch and a friend, Aviv Halimi, to open
The Artist Tree in a former West Hollywood shoe store
and fitness studio. More branches followed in Beverly
Hills and Koreatown, and they now have six locations.
Their state-of-the-art cannabis emporiums offer an
astonishing array of offerings. Smoking remains central,
and the budtender at The Artist Tree can recommend a
wide range of flower. Shoppers can also find extracts, sub-
lingual tablets, topical creams, tinctures, drinks, and a huge
range of edibles—from fleur de sel cannabis chocolates and
passionfruit guava gummies to ginger lemongrass chai.
“When cannabis became legal for recreational use in Cali-
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fornia the market totally blossomed,” Fontein says. “We
have 700 unique products in our store at any given time.”
The vast range mirrors the different types of consum-
ers. “There’s still your traditional marijuana user,” she
says, “but maybe you’re an older person looking for pain
relief, maybe you don’t want to get high at all but just
want to sleep better or feel relaxed, or maybe you want
the strongest thing we carry, our flower with the highest
THC percentage. There’s so many things you can do now.”
Los Angeles hosts hundreds of dispensaries, and the
competition is fierce. “We needed to make our place a
destination,” Fontein says. “Any retail business that wants
to succeed nowadays, cannabis or anything else, has to
provide an experience.”
Retail outlets in the Los Angeles area push a wide
variety of themes for the cannabis shopping experience.
Some store names suggest relaxation and nature (Calma,
Serra). Others appeal to luxe travel and shopping (Bou-
tiq Venice). Customers at a Culver City dispensary, The
High Note, enter via a waiting-room door hidden in a
faux bookcase—a speakeasy approach that nods to pot’s
illicit history.
To distinguish The Artist Tree, Fontein and her part-
ners elected to have their stores double as art galleries.
“There’s a natural synergy between the arts and cannabis,”
Fontein says. “We thought it would be cool to highlight
that.” The Artist Tree’s website opens with a video loop
of colorful paints swirling together in vivid psychedelic
patterns. The website invites prospective visitors to enjoy
“immersive experiences and one-of-a-kind destinations
for cannabis learning, shopping, art, and—dare we say—
getting high.” The vision for the business and its future
is expansive: dining experiences crafted around edibles,
live music, yoga and wellness classes, artwork and plants
on display and for sale.
During the summer the West Hollywood store show-
cased the work of eight artists, including Scott Lewal-
len, who works under the name Sküt. (He also cofounded
Grindr, the social networking app). Lewallen got involved
with The Artist Tree when it put out an open call for a
Pride Month exhibit. What sets The Artist Tree apart, he
says, is the beauty of the stores—he calls the West Hol-
lywood flagship “surreal and stunning, like you’ve been T HE A RT O F
transported into some other reality”—and the carefully SA L E S
curated experience it offers. “You are greeted by sincere “There’s a
natural synergy
and lovely humans who personally guide you through between the arts
the space, know every detail about each product, provide and cannabis,”
recommendations based on your taste, and allow you to says Fontein,
here checking
appreciate unique art that’s craftily woven into your retail out a purple
experience,” Lewallen says. citrus strain of
With black-painted ductwork, whitewashed walls, and Tree, her house
flower brand. Art
gleaming display cases, each Artist Tree shop also evokes the exhibits enhance
ambiance of an art venue, café, jewelry store, or parfumerie. the shopping
experience in
Pristine by design, it’s the Apple Store of weed. all Artist Tree
“There’s still a stigma against cannabis use, and some stores, including
people worry that it’s not safe to have a dispensary nearby,” the shop in West
Hollywood (left).
Fontein says. Successfully countering those concerns
helped The Artist Tree win the first cannabis retail li-
cense in Riverside County, which ranked the company first
among 119 applicants that bid to open marijuana stores
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 or cultivation businesses there. County planning director
John Hildebrand calls the expansion of cannabis outlets
“a sensitive issue” in his community, citing the illegal
operators that have plagued the county for years. “They
are awful, they’re completely unregulated, and they create
all sorts of problems—garbage, noise, things happening at
all hours of the night. For law enforcement it’s like whack-
a-mole.” Fontein’s group was the perfect antidote, he says.
“They showed exactly the sensitivity, professionalism,
and cooperation we were looking for.” Such sensitivity is
central to The Artist Tree’s business plan. “We want to
have a bright, welcoming vibe in our stores,” says Fontein.
“We’re trying to break down stereotypes about what a
weed dispensary is.”
This fall at its West Hollywood flagship, The Artist
Tree is opening the first of its smoking lounges, which
will incorporate music, relaxation, and performance. The
city chose The Artist Tree from more than 100 applicants
for the highly coveted license. Given lingering wariness
among the public, the owners’ decision to orient their store
around art meshed well with the community’s priorities.
“West Hollywood is a very art-centric city,” Fontein says.
“It’s vibrant, and colorful and diverse, and civic leaders
really want to promote it as a destination for art. They
liked that we were going to highlight that.”
The Artist Tree homepage announces the smoking
lounge with a phantasmagorical slew of images. Marijuana
plants bathed in purple light. A swanky, 1960s-futuristic
living room. Assorted packaged edibles. Truffle fries and
artisanal pizza. And, finally, a carefully composed photo
of a guy with a man bun lying on a yoga mat in an outdoor
SoCal surrounding (semi-arid hillside, cacti in the garden),
holding aloft on his bare raised feet a woman in an exercise
outfit who stretches out horizontally while smoking a joint.
Funky, hippie, healthy, upscale, and foodie all at once, it is a
a
vision of the good life in the new age of cannabis. “Finally,”
the website coyly purrs, “your kind of joint.”
big seller at The Artist Tree is a strain of flower
called Cereal Milk. “Its high is a mix of the stoniest
stone to the happiest high,” Fontein enthused in a
recent issue of Los Angeles Magazine, “making it
ROYAL perfect for any occasion.” Could she be the Martha
TREATME N T Stewart of pot? Fontein chuckles but says she
Uniformed guides sometimes tires of having to justify weed by point-
such as Nick
Pagan (above)
ing out its health and medicinal benefits. “With
offer “education alcohol, no one is trying to convince you that it’s healthy
and insight” to to drink,” she says. “People just accept it. We’re not there
browsing Artist
Tree customers, with cannabis yet, but we will be. My kids are little now,
says Fontein. but by the time they’re 18 it will be completely normal.”
Succulents (left) As for her personal pot CV, the first time she inhaled
take the place
of real cannabis was at Dartmouth. “We’d go down to the river at night, go
in one brand’s for walks on the golf course. It was a great place for get-
display for its
“cannabis of a
ting high,” she admits. Living in New York City and later
higher standard.” in Los Angeles, she came to view sharing the occasional
joint as “a normal staple of social life.”
But as a staple of professional life? Fontein’s parents
initially expressed skepticism about their daughter’s ca-
reer change. “It was definitely a shock to them,” she says.
“My mother was like, ‘What are you doing? What happened
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to being a corporate lawyer?’ She was worried about what
people would think.” In time her parents came to embrace
the move. “They see how beautiful our stores are,” says
Fontein. “They appreciate our hard work.”
Her law training hasn’t gone to waste. Fontein spends
much of her time doing legal work: writing licensing appli-
cations, drafting leases and provider contracts, and dealing
with the intricacies of a fledgling and highly regulated
industry. She recently crafted a 200-page application
for a license in Chico, near Sacramento. “The cannabis
industry here has become extremely complicated, and
the requirements to get licenses are onerous,” she says.
“You actually really need a lawyer.”
Fontein also provides legal help to minority entre-
preneurs trying to enter the retail market. As the country
reckons with the draconian drug laws of past decades and
the mass incarceration that resulted, there’s a broad move
to build equity into the nascent industry to balance the
ledger. “There’s a lot to make up for,” Fontein says. “Doing
right by groups disproportionately impacted by prior laws
is a really important part of the industry now. Everyone in
it has a responsibility to foster ownership opportunities.”
To that end, The Artist Tree’s Koreatown outlet is owned
jointly with a partner who had a prior marijuana convic-
tion. Fontein also does pro bono legal work for people
applying for social-equity licenses and sometimes helps
them secure loans.
The Artist Tree, with a dozen new locations in vari-
ous stages of planning, currently boasts more than 50
employees, a thousand customers a day, and a projected
$42 million in sales for this year. Lewallen, the artist,
isn’t surprised the company is flourishing. “Los Angeles
is the capital of the cannabis industry in the state and
there are a lot of players,” he points out. “The Artist Tree
is really different from everyone else. They’re the best.
Lauren in particular has been a dream. She is a savvy
businessperson who values art and understands the value
of company culture.”
Mitch Kahan enjoys recalling Fontein’s start in the
industry, when she was his star baker. “Every year at
Christmas she would bake cookies that were not infused
with cannabis and bring them to the different stores,” he
says. “Our employees would beg her to bring more. Lauren
is a fantastic chef. She bakes, she cooks. She does it all.”
The April 20 holiday that celebrates pot, known as
4/20 Day, reminds Fontein why she delights in her curi-
ous career change. “It’s our busiest day of the year,” she
says. “I always work at the store on that day—answer the
phones, help put orders together, work with the staff. It’s
a blast.” The work experience at The Artist Tree stands
in stark contrast to her years at the law firm, which she
found competitive and cutthroat. “I love the weed com-
munity,” she says. “Everyone is helpful and friendly and
wants to work together. I feel fortunate that this is what I
get to do as my job. Honestly, I sometimes wish I could just
be a budtender. It’s not stressful. It’s just a fun industry.
People are happy when they come into your store.”
RAND RICHARDS COOPER wrote about Isalys Quiñones ’19,
Th’20, in the July/August issue of DAM.
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 ENGLISH PROFFESSOR AND POET
ENJOYS A BREAKOUT YEAR.
B Y N A N C Y S C H O E F F L E R
I
n the space of less than a week last April, Joshua Bennett
won both a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Award.
“His poetry is piercingly intelligent—there is so much
yearning and emotion alongside a mesmerizing musical
craft,” according to the Whiting judges.
Bennett, 33, an English and creative writing professor,
marvels at all that he has experienced in the past 18 months.
In addition to winning the two awards, he’s had two books
published, gained tenure, and become a full professor. He and
his wife, Pam, bought their first home, and last fall their son,
August Galileo, was born. “It’s been that kind of year,” he says.
“My life has completely changed.”
Paul Slovak, vice president and executive editor at Viking
who has handled the Penguin Poets imprint for two decades,
edited Bennett’s first book, The Sobbing School, one of five win-
ners of the 2015 National Poetry Series. “I’m amazed at how
much he’s accomplished. His poetry is very accessible, with
rhythm and humor, and so anchored in his personal experi-
ence. It speaks to people very smoothly and beautifully,” says
Slovak, who also edited Bennett’s second book of poetry, Owed.
Dedicated to “the unheralded” and centered around Ben-
nett’s experiences growing up in Yonkers, New York, Owed is
a joyful, tender, but often sobering series of elegies and odes to
touchstones, from his barber to long johns (“like skin for my
skin”) to the plastic cover on his grandmother’s couch. Other
poems give unflinching but eloquent voice to the harsh reali-
ties of poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline, police violence.
Owed ends with a moving poem about Bennett’s father, a
postal worker and former Marine pictured on the cover holding
Bennett as a baby. Once when the family was locked out of their
house, his father scaled the building, broke through an upstairs
bathroom window, then casually opened the front door. “He
was Superman,” says Bennett. “If he saw someone getting beat
up in the street, he’d jump out of the car and break up the fight.
That’s why I became a poet. I had to do something different. I
had to switch it up.”
A line, an idea, or an image usually helps Bennett start a
poem. Lately he’s been using paint color cards—those strips of
color samples you find in hardware stores—as writing prompts,
playing with evocative paint color names such as Ginger Jar,
Ever Blooming, Venom, Monologue, and Moxie. His collections
typically take shape once he can find “the obsession or center
point,” as he calls it. His third book of poetry, The Study of Hu-
man Life, which Penguin is releasing next year, starts with the
idea of trash and disposability—of objects, people, even poems.
“It’s much more experimental than anything I’ve done before,”
he says, “and much more ambitious.”
Bennett roots his poetry in the cadences and dramatic
delivery of spoken word performances. As a freshman at the
University of Pennsylvania, he joined the Excelano Project, a
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JOSHUA BENNETT
spoken word collective, and began competing in poetry slams
around the country. The following year, in May 2009, he per-
formed at the White House, speaking—and signing—his impas-
sioned poem about his deaf sister, Tamara. He had an agent
and toured regularly, sometimes up to 40 gigs a year. “It was a
weird way to do college,” he says, “but I wouldn’t have done it
any other way.”
BRAVE
BENNETT EARNED A MASTER’S IN THEATER PERFORMANCE
at the University of Warwick in England, followed by a master’s
and doctorate from Princeton and three years with the Harvard
Society of Fellows. He started working at the College in January
2019. During the pandemic Bennett taught classes via Zoom,
NEW
including Modern Black American Literature—a department
staple to which he gave his own spin, “Education, Abolition,
Exodus!”—and codirected the seniors honors seminar. “My
students are the best,” he says. “They’re intellectually curi-
ous. Thoughtful. There really is a moral center to most of the
questions they ask. They come to literature to learn how to be
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more decent people.”
In addition to a fourth book of poetry for Penguin and a
second book of literary criticism (a sequel to his 2020 Being
Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man), Bennett
is completing Spoken Word: A Cultural History for Knopf. He
describes it as a 50-year narrative nonfiction about mostly
Black and Latino spoken word poets.
Spoken word performances can be fiercely competitive.
“Some poets can be super loud, apocalyptic,” Bennett says.
“Then there are poets who are quite quiet, barely above a whis-
per. Those are the poems that can crack a slam open, those
are the people on any given night who will take the win, who
completely shift the tone of the night.”
Bennett first performed in a slam at 13—and won. He was
terrified, but his mother insisted that he get on stage at the pub-
lic library. “She reminded me that I have gifts that are meant to
be shared. Yeah, that’s my mom: You’ve got a gift, you share it.”
Earlier, at age 4, Bennett had already started to hone his
performance chops. At home on Sundays after services at the
Messiah Baptist Church, his family listened to him improvise
recaps of the sermons. “He was the little preacher,” says his
sister, LaToya, who is eight years older. “Even then he had real
stage presence.”
Bennett most recently performed at an open-air show dur-
ing Juneteenth this year at Longwood Gardens near Phila-
delphia. Though it was not the kind of intimate, indoor venue
where he is in his element, he says, “It felt electric and good.”
“He’s a trailblazer and a big inspiration,” says Sam Van Cook,
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a former National Poetry Slam champion. “He’s got confident
charm. He knows how to get a hold of people’s heartstrings. He
takes you somewhere you’ve never been before.”
T RUE VE R S E
“Poetry is about
telling the truth,”
says Bennett.
 Missing Links
“A n organization called the Hanover Country Club
has been formed composed of the professors,
students, and residents of Hanover for the pur-
pose of promoting all forms of recognized sports,” reported
The Dartmouth on October 2, 1896. “A fine golf links has
been laid out and some very interesting matches will soon
be played thereon.”
Originally, Sunday play was forbidden. Memberships
cost $12. An old barn became the clubhouse. Years passed
40 D A R T M O U T H A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
and rounds accumulated. Golf greats such as Ouimet,
Sarazen, and Nicklaus came and conquered. Motorized
carts arrived in 1971, tee times in 1981, and larger-than-life
coaches named Keane and Johnson carefully watched over
the swings—and lives—of their charges. Putts were sunk,
records set, balls lost. A ski jump (what other golf course
had a ski jump?) was dismantled. The layout evolved and
grew, as detailed in David Cornwell’s Hanover Country Club
booklet published in 1999.
ph oto g ra ph s DA RT M O U T H C O L L EG E L I B RA RY
Hanover Country Club, R.I.P. | A PHOTO PORTFOLIO |
And then, suddenly, no more. After the course didn’t
open in 2020 because of Covid-19, President Phil Hanlon ’77
shut it down permanently that July, citing financial distress.
The joyful—and agonizing—memories of thousands
of golfers remain. So do those lost balls. It’s not hard to
imagine students and professors of a not-too-distant future
unearthing these artifacts—on a bustling north campus that
birdies, bogeys, strikers, and duffers called home for more
than a century.
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President [Woodrow]
Wilson found the
Hanover course…a
test for his skill
AND POSSIBLY KNOWS NOW WHY THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
TEAM OCCASIONALLY PROVES SUCH A TOUGH CUSTOMER
FOR THE PRINCETON (HIS ALMA MATER) REPRESENTATIVES IN
INTERCOLLEGIATE PLAY. THE PRESIDENT…FOUND NO CADDIES
AVAILABLE AT HANOVER, BUT A SECRET SERVICE MAN AND A
CHAUFFEUR WERE PRESSED INTO SERVICE.

”
—THE AMERICAN GOLFER, AUGUST 1913

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Every hole had real
character, every hole
was different.

”
—BILL MOSENTHAL ’38

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“
Country Club
is a lush
New England
antique.

”
—FORMER DARTMOUTH GOLF COACH
AND HEAD PRO BILL JOHNSON

EVOLVING
LANDSCAPE

The layout changed

numerous times. In
1933 a new nine-hole
course opened and
included land east of
Rope Ferry Road that
became a set of
practice holes in 1970.

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COLLEEN KELLER ’85 | BRIAN MANN ’02 | LEXI KRUPP ’15 | LESLIE JENNINGS ROWLEY ’96

voices in the wilderness

<<<< “I do like to
fly upside down
now and then,”
says Keller.

Charles ’72 and Karen ’71a

Schudson are enjoying
outdoor activities in their
retirement and have
included Dartmouth in
their estate plans.

SPOTLIGHT

COLLEEN KELLER ’85

Thrill Seeker
THE PERFECT TIME IS Aerobatic pilot’s future is up in the air.
KELLER STUMBLED ACROSS AVIATION BY ACCIDENT.

RIGHT NOW.
After graduation and a yearlong stint at the Johns Hopkins Ap-
plied Physics Lab, the physics major got a job at the Center for
Naval Analyses, an Arlington, Virginia-based think tank that does
operations research analysis for the U.S. Navy.
She soon got the bug to fly, but when she learned she couldn’t
go through aviation training with the Navy, she decided to get her
NEW JOB. MARRIAGE. STARTING A FAMILY. REUNIONS. RETIREMENT. private pilot’s license. She now owns two planes—a vintage Cessna
RG 177 Cardinal and a biplane—and has logged 4,500 hours of
Life is full of milestones. Each is a perfect time to create your Dartmouth legacy. total flight time. On her decision to buy the second plane, Keller
jokes, “If you can afford it, it’s nice to have two cars, right? As long
The Dartmouth Gift Planning team can help maximize your tax and estate benefits while as they’re really different.”
you help future generations. Contact our team today to learn how you can use your 401(k), The daredevil now works from San Diego County as a senior
analyst at Metron, a small business that provides operations
life insurance policy, will, or other plan to pay it forward. And Dartmouth recognizes
research, mathematical analysis, and software development for
all planned gifts, including bequests, in The Call to Lead campaign. the U.S. Department of Defense. She races cross-country in the
Cessna and pylon style—which she calls “NASCAR for the air”—in
the 31-year-old biplane. She shares this passion for air racing
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with her husband, Dave Sterling, a 787 pilot for United Airlines.
For more information, contact Rolly Balbuena in the Gift Planning office. “It’s not a particularly safe sport,” Keller admits, “but it’s totally
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voices in the wilderness
Rowley gets classmates
to share their journeys
on Roads Taken. >>>>

LEXI KRUPP ’15

Mountain Air
Radio reporter covers rural Vermont.
KRUPP GIVES GOOD CHASE. THE BIOLOGY MAJOR
spent one college summer bounding after mountain goats
in Washington’s Olympic National Forest. Working for the
U.S. Forest Service, she was making sure the salt-crazed
animals weren’t munching on the sweaty backpack straps
hikers left on the ground.
Now the Long Island native pursues different targets:
hesitant vaccine-takers, crime-worried homeowners, and
babysitter-deprived parents. Krupp, a general assignment
reporter with Vermont Public Radio as of June, covers
BRIAN MANN ’02
the remote Northeast Kingdom region. In solidly sourced

Sporting Life
Former quarterback scores AD job
at William & Mary.
MANN FERVENTLY BELIEVES IN THE POWER OF
athletic competition to shape young people’s lives. Sports
galvanized his own career and created many opportuni-
ties for the student-athletes he has worked with at four
schools, including William & Mary, where he took the
reins as athletic director in August.
“Being a student athlete put me in close contact with
some of the best people I’ve ever met,” the history major
says. “It put me on the path to try different jobs, to have
different life experiences and adventures.”
Growing up with four siblings in an Irish-Catholic
family in Canton, Massachusetts, Mann wanted to play
every sport he could. His parents were supportive, with
one caveat, he says: “First I had to take care of what went
stories that can run to seven minutes, she explores the
daily challenges rural towns face. “I wanted to go outside
my comfort zone,” says Krupp, who has created podcasts
for Gimlet Media and reported on the environment for a
small Michigan public radio station. “This is sort of a dream
job.” It’s one that comes with an honor. Report for America,
a not-for-profit that helps depleted newsrooms by hiring
young reporters to repopulate them, selected Krupp for the
gig. “She has a really keen ear for what makes good radio,”
says Brittany Patterson, VPR’s deputy managing editor
for news, “in addition to having great reporting chops.”
Small-town newspapers may be in a death spiral, but
radio’s future looks bright to Krupp, who lives in Norwich,
Vermont, with her fiancé, Mark Kaufman, a journalist she
met when they attended New York University graduate
school. “We may be in a podcast bubble,” she says, “but there
are jobs in audio, and it’s the direction media consumption
is headed in.” —C.J. Hughes ’92
Krupp: A keen ear LESLIE JENNINGS ROWLEY ’96

on in the classroom.”
Mann holds the Dartmouth record for passing yardage
in a season. He also started in the Arena Football League
for four seasons. He was Adam Sandler’s stunt double in
the 2005 film The Longest Yard. The last professional pass
he threw was a 15-yard completion to Lady Gaga during
the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show.
After a stint in healthcare, Mann worked for athletic
directors at three institutions, beginning at Dartmouth in
2009. Berkeley AD Jim Knowlton credits him as instru-
mental in overcoming fiscal issues there. “Our develop-
ment office had a lot of instability in the past,” he says,
“and Brian helped to steady the waters and reorganize
the department.”
Mann, who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with wife
Hilary and son Russell, aims to reverse a downward trend
in philanthropy for athletics at William & Mary. “I’m here
to help young people in the same way people helped me in
college,” he says, “to make sure they have the skills to go
on and be the best version of themselves.”
Class Act
for what makes
good radio. >>>>
Podcast airs alumni twists and turns.
“WHEN WE WERE IN COLLEGE, WHO WERE YOU? WHEN
we were getting ready to leave, who did you think you would be-
come?” Rowley begins every episode of Roads Taken, her podcast
EGAN JIMENEZ/PRINCETON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
that features interviews with members of the class of 1996 about
their post-college journeys, with these probing questions. Instead
of fixating on the accolades, she seeks out what she calls their
“normal, yet extraordinary stories.”
Rowley, an economics and geography major who has spent the
past 17 years working at Princeton University in various content
development and strategy roles, started the podcast in June 2020
to engage classmates ahead of their 25th reunion. The series now
has a growing base of younger alumni listeners, including some
who reach out to her guests to discuss their own career paths. “It’s
so important for high-achieving Dartmouth alums to hear that the
first step out of college is not the only step you’re going to make,”
LEXI KRUPP
The 60-plus episodes of Roads Taken examine what success
really means and the value in wandering and changing course.
“It’s such a breath of fresh air to hear from classmates we looked
at with admiration, who admit that not only did they have inse-
curities while at Dartmouth, but that even after all these years
they are still finding their way,” says Sansea Jacobson ’96, who
spoke on the show about her journey from information technology
consulting to psychiatry.
Each week Rowley spends up to seven hours working on the
podcast. It’s become a family affair, with her husband moonlight-
ing as her sound engineer and her 13-year-old son as an occasional
editor. She had planned to make 52 episodes ahead of the 2021 re-
union, but after Covid postponed it, her goal is to reach 96 episodes
before the class is able to reconvene in summer 2022. “One of the
reasons I’ve loved doing this is because I’m still trying to figure out

—David Holahan Rowley says. who I want to be when I grow up,” she says. —Lauren Vespoli ’13

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alumni books

EDITOR’S PICKS
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Live virtual programming
LO U I S E E R D R I C H ’ 76
The Sentence that looks at the world’s great
HarperCollins challenges with fresh eyes.
The tissue-thin separation between
the living and the dead lies at the
heart of this Pulitzer Prize-winning
author’s latest novel. What starts
as a gritty tale of a woman sen-
tenced to 60 years in prison for
absconding with a dead body un-
folds into a slyly funny story. She
gets out of prison early and happily
marries the tribal cop who arrested OCTOBER 21
her. But she must contend with a

Maxwell Anderson ’77

recently deceased woman who
haunts her.

WILLIAM MEYER ’02

Healing Breath: A Guided Medi-
with Kimberly Juanita
PETER HELLER ’82
Brown on THE ARTS
Something Fishy
tation through Nature for Kids

AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

New World Library

A longtime teacher playfully intro-

duces young readers to mindful
breathing and meditation by taking
KINGFISHER LODGE, THE RUSTIC BUT HIGH-END them on an adventure around the
fishing resort that is the setting for Heller’s entertain- planet’s colorful landscapes, which
ing new thriller The Guide, seems like a paradise at connects them with the beauty of
the natural world. With illustrations
first, if you can afford it. The fenced-in compound, by Brittany R. Jacobs, this charm-
owned by a famous biotech entrepreneur, features ing book will appeal to adults as
gourmet meals and a mile and a half of one of the well as children.
finest trout streams in the Rocky Mountains. It is the BARTOW J. ELMORE ’04 NOVEMBER 18
perfect escape for the celebrities and billionaires who Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past
frequent it—a refuge from the prying public and the and Our Food Future
coronavirus pandemic brewing just outside the gates. Norton Robert K. Watson ’84
The Guide
But a few paragraphs in, the hero, Jack—a Monsanto genetically engineered
seeds and transformed agriculture
with Alexis Abramson
25-year-old Colorado rancher, fishing guide, and
ALFRED A. KNOPF
Dartmouth alumnus still reeling from twin traumas
worldwide. It also produced the
widely used but cancer-causing
on ENERGY AND
272 PP. $27 in his life—smells something fishy. During his orienta- herbicide Roundup, as well as PCBs
and Agent Orange. This sweeping
GREEN BUILDING
tion as the replacement for a fishing guide said to have quit, Jack is told that
investigation details how the firm
a special code is required to get in or out of the heavy metal gates. “Why do suppressed evidence about the
you need a code,” he wants to know, “to open it from the inside?” toxins, resulting in an avalanche
It’s the first of several clues that the compound is far more sinister than of lawsuits and continuing conse-
quences for public health and the
the placid vacation hideaway it appears. After a day or two of blissful nature- food we eat.
communing and a budding romance with his first fishing-guide client, a
country music star named Alison K, Jack becomes increasingly aware of the R E B ECCA SAC KS ’ 0 8
City of a Thousand Gates
constant video surveillance, black-clad security agents, strange comings and HarperCollins
goings at the property next door, occasional gunfire (supposedly from an over-
protective neighbor), and menacing mastiffs (another neighbor’s, allegedly).
This debut novel plumbs the tur-
bulent Israel-Palestine conflict
JANUARY 20
That, regrettably, is the maximum plot summary allowable without spoil- through a collage of vivid charac-
ers, except to say that Jack and Alison, who becomes his partner in figuring out ters whose lives intersect in unex-
pected ways. They each find them-
John Rich ’80 H’07
what’s really going on, proceed to take matters into their surprisingly capable,
necessarily violent hands. It’s a neck-craning arc, for Jack in particular. One
selves at a checkpoint—including a
college student who enters Israeli
with Amber Barnato
minute he’s waxing poetic about the glories of nature, quoting Bashō from territory illegally for work, a profes-
sor who fears she will die a lonely
on PUBLIC HEALTH
memory, and recalling a conversation he once had at college with novelist
spinster, a social media influencer
Marilynne Robinson. A few fast-paced chapters later, he’s proving himself and her Israeli army reservist hus-
handy with an assault rifle. Now that’s versatility! band struggling with parenthood,
AARON JOHNSON & JOEL ANDERSON

What begins as high-quality popular fiction with literary leanings— a journalist covering the story of a
Palestinian boy beaten into a coma,
Heller’s early chapters are full of richly detailed, almost ecstatic descriptions and a soccer star who was in the
of the arcane world of fly fishing, along with some aching, elegantly handled crowd that attacked the boy.
reveries about Jack’s troubled past—finishes as a solid genre exercise in the Presented by
Additional titles and excerpts can be found
bone-crunching mode of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. It’s tough out there.
—Kevin Nance
on the DAM website. to learn more or register
next.dartmouth.edu
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SEAN O’KEEFE ’80
Phantom Money
LA attorney Declan Collins has five months
within which to launder $100 million dollars for
a powerful and utterly merciless drug cartel.
He must execute this complex scheme while
under investigation by a covert FBI strike team
assigned to thwart this crime. Staying alive is
job one. Staying out of prison is a close second.
DICK DURRANCE ’65
In the Spirit of Hope:
The Power of Storytelling Photographs
In The Spirit of Hope showcases photographs
from Dick Durrance’s 58-year career in
photography: combat in Vietnam, the
National Geographic, corporate photography,
advertising photography, landscape
photography, and golf course photography.
ERIC DEZENHALL ’84
False Light
False Light is a thrilling tale of revenge set
against the vibrant backdrop of sensationalist
modern media. A seasoned reporter embarks
on an entertaining and complex plan to exact
revenge on a predatory media star in the court
of public opinion.
Special Advertising Section
JEFF DUTREMBLE ’01
Find a Lost Smile
Jen, a born writer, loses her smile after trying
on the hats of a doctor, chef, and firefighter.
Will her smile be lost forever? This children’s
book will inspire the kids in your life to wear
the “hat” that they were born to wear. Order
your autographed copy at drjeffsbooks.com.
D O N N A G R A N T R E I L LY
Defined by a Disease:
How We Think About Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s doesn’t erase one’s ability to
think, and believing so can be destructive.
The author’s husband, Chuck Reilly ’53, has
Alzheimer’s. This book examines the stigma
that surrounds the disease, shows us where it
exists, and tells us why we need to change it.
ERIC DEZENHALL ’84
Best of Enemies
The exhilarating true story of Cold War spies,
(CIA) Jack Platt and (KGB) Gennady Vasilenko,
who form an improbable friendship, become
key behind-the-scenes players in the crucial
discovery of Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, and
how Robert De Niro plays a part.
S A R A H M C C R AW C R O W ’ 8 7
The Wrong Kind of Woman
“A beautifully written exploration of loss, the
novel captures its characters at the cusp of
personal and social change. Sarah McCraw
Crow deftly navigates the campus and national
politics of the ’70s in a powerful, thought-
provoking debut.” —Amy Meyerson, bestselling
author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays
H O WA R D R E I S S ’ 7 3
The ’60s Diary
Rose was born on Jan. 1, 1950. At the age of 10, her
mother gave her The ’60s Diary for those next ten
pivotal years of her life. Rose finds the diary fifty
years later and travels thru time with her younger
self from her first love to Woodstock . . . from self-
discovery and happiness to tragedy and rebirth.
P R O F. J E R E M Y D E S I LVA
First Steps: How Upright Walking
Made Us Human
Blending history, science, and culture, First
Steps is a stunning and highly engaging
evolutionary story exploring how walking on
two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s
dominant species. “…Popular science at its best.”
–Science News
J A S O N M . K E L LY ’ 0 1
Market Maoists: The Communist
Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent
Long before Deng Xiaoping’s market-based
reforms, commercial relationships bound the
Chinese Communist Party to international
capitalism and left lasting marks on China’s
trade and diplomacy. Jason Kelly unearths this
hidden history of global commerce.
W E N DY TA M I S R O B B I N S ’ 9 4
The Box
An Invitation to Freedom from Anxiety
The Box is a triumphant memoir and irresistible
invitation, portraying the courageous journey
of an all-star athlete, Ivy League-graduate,
and successful lawyer to find freedom from
her debilitating anxiety disorders.
KELLEY J. SMITH ’02
40 and Waiting
Morgan desperately wants to be married, but
with no prospects in sight, Morgan’s faith is
tested. Does she truly believe that God will
send her the husband He intended just for
her, or is she destined to be single forever?
Available at welldonepublishing.com &
Amazon.
BOOKSHELF
GIL HAHN ’75
Campaign for the Confederate Coast
The single best survey of the conflict for the
Confederacy’s coastlines on offer, and its
conclusions will surprise both the skeptics and
the advocates of the blockade’s effectiveness.
—Allen C. Guelzo, Princeton University, author
of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
H . S TA C Y M I L L E R L A B A R E ’ 7 7
Appalachian Grouse Dog:
A Boomer’s Memoir
A shared story of a girl, a guy, a friend, and a
remarkable English Setter they called “Puppy.”
A tapestry of discovery, amazement, joy, and
heartache with that “dog of a life time,” this book
celebrates the traditional outdoors, a pursuit
often lost in the cacophony of modern America.
DENIS O’NEILL ’70
Pandemic Musings
A musing man’s social media smoothie of
progressive, political commentary, limericks,
name dropping, doggerel, insurrection, Irish
literary legends, musical do-overs, nature
observations, good trouble, bad Republicans,
Throbbing Gristle, Yogi Berra, lost friends,
fishing wisdom, baseball, Moms, 007.
M.R.E. THEODORE BAEHR ’69
Reel to Real:
45 Movie Devotions for Families
Reel to Real looks at important biblical
principles using great uplifting entertaining
popular movies to illustrate those principles,
featuring movies that build up families and
youth and give you a more abundant life.
EVERETT E. (TED) BRIGGS ’56
Ambassador’s Apprentice:
A Foreign Service Memoir
A revealing account of life and work in the
Foreign Service, on three continents, told with
candor, insight and humor. The nuts and bolts
of diplomacy, description of issues, policies
and personalities, make this a must-read for
anyone interested in foreign affairs.
DENIS O’NEILL ’70
The River Wild
This high stakes thriller is both a testament
to the power of mother nature and a classic
adventure story. Denis O’Neill, the screenwriter
for the movie that inspired it, brings the
striking beauty of the film to his writing and
ratchets up the danger that races toward a
breathtaking conclusion.
SUZANNE LEONARD ’96
Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in
the Twenty-First Century
Contemporary America has reconfigured
dating, romance, and marriage. Saturated in
discourses of individuality, marriage markets
view salability as a key metric. This is the first
major study to focus on wifedom as a lucrative
business proposition.
EVERETT E. (TED) BRIGGS ’56
Honor to State: Reflections of a
Reagan-Bush Era Ambassador
The unvarnished story of how the Reagan and
Bush administrations, beset by rivalries among
State, Defense, CIA and Justice, dealt with
Noriega, drug traffickers, Sandinistas, domestic
critics, and evolving ties to Europe.
WILLIAM SHAFFER ’72
Shifting Gears: One Family’s Journey
Through the Automobile Age
Shifting Gears interweaves the story of the
automobile with its effect on four generations
of one Midwestern farm family. Beginning with
the first motorcar in Europe, the journey takes
on automotive history with real experiences and
all-encompassing impact.
PA U L TAY L O R ’ 7 8
Grid
What began as a senior thesis for Professor
James Cox in 1978, morphed into a never-
submitted Ph.D. dissertation and finally
emerged 30 years later as a book of text to be
written by non-existent readers. Grid is a story
about roads in a world without roads, a fusion
of Henry Adams, Thoreau, Tolkien and Star Trek.
ALAN PESKY T’60
More To Life Than More: A Memoir Of
Misunderstanding, Loss, And Learning
Alan Pesky’s conception of more crumbles after
his son’s death. He keeps Lee’s memory alive by
helping kids in a way he wasn’t able to help his own
son and created something positive from his loss:
Lee Pesky Learning Center, a non-profit dedicated
to helping those with learning differences.
H E AT H E R R O U L S T O N ’ 8 3
Lumination: Shining a Light on a
Woman’s Journey to Financial Wellness
Through personal stories and practical
applications, Lumination takes readers
on a journey to explore their past and
present, examining thoughts, emotions and
conditioning around money and life choices,
and helping to design intentional futures.
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Remembrance of Things Present:
Making Peace with Dementia
With lyrical prose, rhymed couplets, and his own
photographs, Peter Maeck celebrates the brave,
good-humored journey of his father, William Maeck
’43, through Alzheimer’s Disease, while tracking his
own response to his dad’s condition, from shock to
ultimate embrace. www.petermaeck.com.
FREDERIC C. CRAIGIE ’72
Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on
Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living
Drawing on words of affirmation from
theologians, journalists, artists, activists,
and others, Weekly Soul offers spiritually
and psychologically-informed reflections on
resilience and well-being. Foreword INDIES
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In this richly imagined retelling of Shakespeare’s This rich volume explores art across time and
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The God Who Speaks
God has spoken through His creation and through
those inspired to write the Old and New Testament
scriptures in Hebrew and Greek respectively
(Psalm 19). And in these last days He has spoken
to us by His Son (Hebrews 1). Only His words are
adequate to express the beauty of His Holiness.
(cdudleyb@gmail.com).
Your Retirement, Your Way
Rated one of the best retirement books by
Consumer Reports, YRYW (Amazon) combines
self-analysis, strategic and financial planning
to help you create a personally satisfying
retirement. Also available as an on-line CPD
learning course. Use link for 20% discount:
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Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion
and Other Uncommon Tales
An alumni collaboration between author and Big
Apple Circus Founder Paul Binder ’63 Hon ’88
parent ’89 and narrator Max Samuels ’15, Never
Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion is now available
for listening on Audible and iTunes! Featuring
a Foreword written and voiced by Glenn Close.
Making Race
In Making Race, Jacqueline Francis explores
“racial art” rhetoric applied to the work of
artists of color in the 1920s and 1930s. In those
decades, Romare Bearden launched his artistic
career, which is the subject of an eponymous
collection of scholarly essays, co-edited by
Francis and Ruth Fine.

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than 10,000 attended the
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The Classes
42
I asked Jon Mendes what contributed to
his choice of Dartmouth and did it play
out? His answer in his own words: “At
11 I was fortunate to acquire a pair of toe strapper
skis that I would carry to the top of the golf course
hill and then slide down. By age 17, in high school in
New Rochelle, New York, I became a ski instructor.
When the alumni interviewing committee came
to my high school, the alumni thought they had
the next captain of the Dartmouth ski team and
admitted me to the class of ’42. However, the prep
school boys were so good I did not make the fresh-
man team. I did win the four-event intramural
ski trophy, which on my 70th reunion I placed in
the trophy cabinet of the Dartmouth Outing Club.
“During the course of my life from age 11 to
93 I skied in more than 80 places winter and sum-
mer—even was flown to a snow field at the top of a
glacier in New Zealand and skied down.
“While at Dartmouth I had intended to apply
to Harvard Business School; however, WW II in-
tervened so I spent four years flying for the Marine
Corps. At the end of WW II I was able to apply to
the Harvard Business School’s class of 1947 and
was accepted.”
Stu Finch reports that his two daughters and
one son helped him celebrate his 100th birthday on
August 6—with a party of 30 of his friends brought
by bus from his retirement home. Stu used to do
magic, so a magician was hired to entertain. The
menu was surf and turf. There were two signifi-
cant gifts. Stu never officially graduated from Dart-
mouth due to the fact that he left after three years
to start medical school and then WW II started.
His daughter wrote to the College, which looked up
his records: Indeed, he had enough credits, and so
Dartmouth granted him his official diploma in time
for his 100th birthday. The second daughter looked
up six generations of Stu’s and his wife’s ancestors
to create a family tree in beautiful calligraphy and
presented it to him as the second significant gift.
Stu was thrilled.
Please send me news for the next column.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New
York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com
43
Christmas 1945: We were on the high
seas, en route to San Francisco, more
than 4,000 happy and giddy GIs, all
survivors of months and months in the Southwest
theater of operations. I had been discharged (fi-
nally) earlier in the month from the 42nd Army
General Hospital on Leyte. I returned to my outfit
and didn’t recognize anyone except my captain and
a first lieutenant; all my buddies had long gone. Sev-
eral days later I was at the replacement depot and
lo and behold, the USS President Monroe arrived in
Leyte Gulf. We boarded immediately and left—the
last time I would see any part of the Philippines.
I spent four Christmases in the U.S. Army. The
best Christmas of all was on the President Monroe.
World War II had ended on August 15, 1945. We
were headed for home. We were on the winning
side. No more nightmares about the invasion of
60 D A R T M O U T H A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
Japan, rumored to have been set for October 1,
1945. No more zigzagging across the Pacific Ocean.
No more blackouts at night. California is our des-
tination—full speed ahead. We were all counting
our blessings. Life was good.
Special notice: Waldo “Doc” Fielding hits the
century mark! (Did you know Doc was ping pong
champion during his campus days?) A heads-up
email from Dick Fleming ’53 alerted me to send a
nice happy 100th birthday greeting from his bud-
dies in the ’43 family. Doc’s wife, Anita Mackinnon,
engineered a surprise gala celebration. More than
100 guests turned out on July 25 and enthusiasti-
cally sang “As the backs go tearing by….” The get-
together was held at Linden Palms Retirement
Center in Hingham, Massachusetts, where Doc
and Anita live. As usual, Doc delivered. A huge
wah-hoo-wah to all!
A hearty farewell to secretary Jean Francis,
widow of Richard Francis ’38. I read her sentimen-
tal swan song in the July/August DAM. I always
enjoyed her column from afar—and her Richard
was one lucky fellow. Jean, take care and stay safe.
—George Shimizu, 2140 Sepulvida Ave., Milpitas, CA
94595; (408) 930-2488; marymariko@comcast.net
45
Dear ’45s, I am writing to you from
Hanover as the summer heat has just
broken and the first scent of fall is
in the air. As you read this, the glorious colors of
fall are done, the leaves have fallen, and the first
snow is coming soon. The change of seasons is
a big part of the powerful sense of place that we
all take away from our days in Hanover. Please
let me know what your favorite place on campus
was! Speaking of seasons, the baseball postseason
will have just ended as you read this. I hope you
all saw the cover story in the September/October
issue of DAM. I found Bianca Smith ’12, who steps
up as Major League Baseball’s first Black female
coach, inspiring. She’s “got game” indeed! The San
Francisco Chronicle of July 6 shared the news that
classmate Edward Harlan Wilson passed away on
May 22 in Greenbrae, California. After Dartmouth,
Ted attended Ohio State Medical School. He com-
pleted a surgical residency at Mass General and
in 1953 went to the Hospital of Special Surgery in
New York City, after serving in the U.S. Army in
Germany as chief of orthopedic surgery. He mar-
ried Ruth Sams in 1954 and three years later moved
to San Francisco, where he continued his practice
for more than 40 years. Well into his 80s, Ted was
known to walk from his home in Pacific Heights to
the Golden Gate Bridge and back, six miles, reflect-
ing the love of the outdoors he shared with his fam-
ily throughout his life. Preceded in death by Ruth,
Ted is survived by his four children, to whom we
send our heartfelt condolences. News came to the
College that Frank Nourse Youngman Jr. died in June.
Following a year at Dartmouth, he transferred to
the University of Washington for the U.S. Navy’s
V12 program. He and his wife, Marilyn, settled
in Portland, Oregon, and raised seven children. I
send best wishes for a joyful holiday season to all
’45s. I sincerely hope this will be unlike last year
and we can be with the ones we love in person. I’ll
raise an eggnog to that!
—Martha J. Beattie ’76, 6 North Balch St., Hanover,
NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; mbeattie76@gmail.com
47
I received a reminder from the Col-
lege a while back that our 75th reunion
will take place in the fall of 2022. My
memory of our 70th is pretty good and I remem-
ber that four members of ’42 were there. Put it on
your calendar, maybe we can equal or better that.
Thanks should go to Liz Sistare, our newsletter
editor. She put together an edition without the
help of any Green cards. Next time around, surprise
her with one—she would love it. I’ve mentioned
before that I enjoy the PBS show, Windows to the
Wild. One of the more recent episodes mentioned
the building of the Dartmouth Road. It seems that
to attend the first Dartmouth graduation in 1774,
Gov. Wentworth, who owned a summer house on
Lake Winnipesaukee, had a road built to join the
Concord/Hanover Road. It’s still there! Today it’s
a well-maintained hiking trail and still called the
Dartmouth Road. When Wentworth traveled to
Hanover, he presented to the College a prized heir-
loom, a beautiful silver punch bowl. I’m quoting
from the Dartmouth Chronicle: “It seems to have
overflowed in the wrong direction and never more
freely than the first three commencements. An ox
was roasted on the Green and rum was served to
the multitudes. And thus the chief cook and his
assistants were so far gone as to be unable to serve
the guests. President Wheelock was hard-pressed
to feed them, but he did. In 1776 the cooks defaulted
again and he recorded—‘Deliver us from the plague
of unskillful, deceitful, and unfaithful cooks, two
of whom were ordered to the whipping post for
stealing.’ And the subject of unpalatable food had
occurred with the monotony of a metronome.”
Sounds like the first “Animal House.” Stay well
and keep in touch when you can.
—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; (603)
964-6503
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I was able to reach John VanRaalte at
the Becher Nursing Home in Ossin-
ing, New York (914-941-730), where
he is recovering from a broken hip. He is doing well
but will be there for some time. John’s probably
our most versatile athlete lettering in squash and
tennis at Dartmouth, best golfer at our reunions,
and most remarkably an accomplished polo player.
Bobo Russell’s widow, Barbara, called to send the
class a film she had just found of our 10th reunion
that she had been asked for years ago. She is still
living in the same old house and enjoying the view
over the Hudson River. Her daughter lives nearby
and does all her shopping and her two sons visit
occasionally. She is doing well and walks every day.
Bud Munson, Ellie Huke, and Judy Cross, who
was John Hatheway’s companion for a number of
years, are the last Hanover area residents involved
with our class and still get together for an occa-
sional monthly lunch. Judy broke her hip this year
but sounds fine and is handling this and her balance
problem with “lots of physical therapy.” The best
way to reach her is using Kendal’s base number,
603-643-8900.
Ronald I. Spiers died June 24 in Exeter, New
Hampshire. He was a distinguished career diplo-
mat who had a long involvement with the Dickey
Center. He retired in 1992 with two Presidential
Distinguished Executive Service awards and the
honorary rank of career ambassador awarded by
the president and the U.S. Senate that is reserved
for a small number of career officers who have
served with distinction in the highest positions
of the foreign service. He was the highest-ranking
American citizen in the UN secretariat. I covered
his remarkable career in more detail in recent
Class Notes.
Gordon K. Mann died July 1 in Meredith, New
Hampshire. He graduated from Milton (New
Hampshire) High School, received an A.B. from
Dartmouth and an M.Ed. from Boston University.
He also studied mathematics at the University
of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and
Louisiana State University. He served in the U.S.
Army in 1945 and 1946. Gordon came to Conway,
New Hampshire, in 1950 and taught mathematics
at Kennett High School for some 30 years. He also
coached baseball, football, basketball, and softball
and was inducted into the N.H. Coaching Hall of
Fame. Hiking, travel, and photography became
his hobbies and during his lifetime he visited 73
countries.
—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New
Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@
verizon.net
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This column will start with a little
fluff—Marshmallow Fluff. Don Durkee,
who retired as CEO of Durkee-Mower
Inc. a few years ago, lives in Marblehead, Mas-
sachusetts, and still plays golf regularly, although
he is down to nine holes. Don’s son is the third
generation to run the business, and two grand-
sons will continue the family tradition. Its primary
market is the Northeast. I asked Don how a small
food company could survive and prosper in today’s
environment; he said a family business can thrive
on lower margins than large companies will accept.
Bob Goetz is still living with his wife in a pri-
vate home in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where he
retired 26 years ago. Bob spent his career with Led-
erle Labs, owned by American Cyanamid when
he arrived and now by Pfizer. Bob’s specialty was
material management, overseeing pharmaceutical
product production from beginning to end.
Bob Fitch is doing well in El Prado, New Mexico
(eight miles from Taos). After Dartmouth Bob re-
ceived his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univer-
sity of Michigan and joined DuPont as a research
chemist. He switched to academia, teaching for
five years at North Dakota State and 15 as a ten-
ured professor (with a lab and postdocs), as well
as consulting, at the University of Connecticut.
S.C. Johnson, a client, enticed him to move to Ra-
cine, Wisconsin, where he waxed well, ultimately
becoming senior vice president for research and
development worldwide. After vacationing in New
Mexico for years, Bob moved there full time when
he retired so he could apply his polymers to his skis
on a steadier basis and enjoy the majesty of New
Mexico’s mountains.
After making it to 98, Abraham Shalo died on
July 18 in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where he re-
tired after a 62-year career practicing estate and
probate law in New York City. (Coincidentally,
Abe’s retirement facility was across the way from
Bob Goetz’s home, although they didn’t know each
other.) Abe received his law degree from NYU. He
achieved a lifetime goal by becoming chief counsel
of the New York City Department of Investigation.
He is survived by his wife, Roxana, and daughter
Sibyl.
—John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, Sara-
sota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966-2943
(fax)
50
I’m afraid that when you read this col-
umn you have either been to our mini
(October 8-10) or missed it for sure.
Rebecca (my oldest) and I are looking forward to
staying at the wonderful “lodge” Doug and Mer-
edith Smith have on the lake over in Enfield, New
Hampshire, and, of course, meeting up with all
those who took president Bob Kirby’s many sugges-
tions in previous issues to come to the mini. (We
were “Covid-ed” out of our 70th and what was to be
our 71st!) The College is offering us our 75th—yah
sure! Jilly Harned sent a perfectly lovely glowing
description of Jack’s service on Squam Lake with
21 family, granddaughter Clare playing the Lord’s
Prayer on her violin, and the Aires singing “Dart-
mouth Undying.” (I’ll send you a copy of same).
Great note from Dave Steinberg on his essay on the
“longevity of military rule in Myanmar (Burma),”
published by the Institute of Southeastern Stud-
ies in Singapore in April after the coup. He is also
wishing good health and pleasant memories to
all. Bill “Carp” Carpenter’s note tells of spending
five days with his family (all 22.5 of them!) at their
shore house in Rochester, New York. His great-
grandson will apply to Dartmouth this year and
Carp’s son, Bill, plans to join us at the mini. Still
getting some good notes from “Nob” Hovde, living
the good life in Florida, one with a query about Pete
Nottage out in Hawaii. Prez Kirby writes of college
plans for a “proposed terrace in front of Dartmouth
Hall. Can this be? It serves no apparent purpose.” I
concur. Joel Leavitt (a good news contributor) has
sent along some great sayings and pictures when
he isn’t working on his memoirs! A late memo from
Joe Medlicott says that Stephanie (“Toots”) is plan-
ning another reception at chez Elle for our mini. I
have a note on the passing of Allen Barnard Wrisley III.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Con-
cord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.
com
51
Our 70th reunion marked Jack Giegerich’s
retirement as our class president. With
the careful planning that has charac-
terized his very productive five-year term, Jack
orchestrated a seamless hand-off to Al Brout, who
now takes over.
Jack and Al have been at the heart of class of
’51 affairs for many years. With in-person contact
among classmates severely limited by the Covid
pandemic, they initiated Zoom meetings that at-
tracted an enthusiastic following. Al has been our
webmaster since most of us wondered what that
word meant. He launched and maintained our class
website as well as Zoom meetings.
Al will retain the excellent support team that
has served us so well. Included are vice president
Jack Weingarten, newsletter editor Charlie Russell,
mini-reunion chair and scholarship chair Henry
Nachman, bequest chair Herb Knight, head Alumni
Fund agent Bill Leffler, assistant treasurer Jack
Giegerich, and yours truly as secretary. They are
1942-1952
supported and advised by our 24-person executive
committee.
Looking ahead, Al highlights two areas of spe-
cial emphasis for the class: strengthened connec-
tions among ’51 classmates, spouses, and widows
by means of Zoom meetings, regional get-togethers,
and our ’51 Cares program of reaching out to class-
mates in need; and an expanded role for widows in
class activities. Four women currently serve on our
executive committee: Marcia Clayton, Barbara Hall,
Dotty Mori, and Lu Martin, an honorary member of
our class and wife of Pete Martin. Women constitute
a growing percentage of the ’51 family, of which
146 class members, 109 spouses, and 179 widows
are still living.
Jim Cavanagh and Howard Glickstein have been
honored with “Spirit of ’51” awards, making a total
of 40 classmates who have been so recognized.
Jim is a distinguished doctor and teacher (still at
it!) and head of our Dartmouth Medical School
alumni group. Howard is a lifelong advocate for
human rights (former staff director for the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights) and retired dean of
two law schools.
The College has only recently learned of the
deaths of Bob Capps, Igor Mead, Art Moulton, Bob
Rugen, and Clint Washburn. Barry Spiegel died in
August.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201;
(847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
52
Thinking ahead, September 2022, we
will be celebrating our 70th reunion of
the class, our 14th such gathering—and
possibly “our last hurrah.” We nonagenarians hope
to make this a big one and, in this regard, our class
president, Frank Logan, has asked Gene Cesari to
chair our weekend in Hanover. Gene is an excellent
choice, a retired college president, an active and
loyal member of our class, and a nearby resident
in South Ryegate, Vermont. He and his wife, Judy,
might even give us a ride in one of his restored Bu-
gattis! The exact date of the weekend has not been
set, but mid-September is a good guess. Details will
be forthcoming, and you can be assured, with help
from the College, that it will be respectful of our
age and the health issues of the moment. We have
always had good turnouts for our reunions and we
hope this meeting of lifelong friends will continue.
As with our last reunion our class “tent” will be the
Hanover Inn and all events will be nearby. Pencil
it in. We will not be climbing Mount Moosilauke,
by the way. In the meantime, things have been
relatively quiet on the news front, but we have
had an interesting phone visit with Dave Drexler.
He and Judy have abandoned Delaware and are
now living full time in Florida. We also spoke with
Andy Stern, retired professor from Cal and living in
Berkeley. Andy advised us his daughter, Alexandra,
a professor at the University of Michigan, would be
visiting Hanover with her daughter. It happened
and we had a very nice meeting. Also, the baseball
boys, Logan, Jim Churchill, and Buzz Barton were
able to have their annual luncheon gathering in
Boston in August. Finally, Larry Sterne, a longtime
New Yorker, checked in with some questions about
downsizing (sound familiar?) and we had some
good reminiscing about the Marine Corps. We
regret to report the passing of several classmates,
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Donald L. Whittaker, Guy Labalme, Peter Boolukos,

Larry Newman, Edward T. Blair, Frank Heinemann,
Craig Hausman, L. Coleman Dorsey, and Cyril Crowther.
—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Ha-
nover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@
to enlighten us on aspects of Dartmouth’s future.
Confirmed to attend were Bob Adnopoz and Jean,
Jerry Barton and Peggy, Sue Bastian, Don Berlin and
Barbara, Brad Borden, Mimi and Jay Chandler and
Fleur, Kit Dean and son Bill, Mort Galper and Judy,
Sadly, we report the passing of Bill Chapin,
Bill Slater, Bob Stanford, and John “Pete” Wheeler.
—Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Dur-
ham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; kenlundstrom@
yahoo.com
and men, to our list of coaches and life teachers.
Bob Adelizzi, while giving a shout-out to Joel
Levy, named our 50th reunion book, Return to the
Source, as our class treasure. His pick had me scur-
rying to find my copy. Tom Schwarz was the editor
60 Richard Strehle passed away June 3
and made provision in his estate plan
to gift $41,864.29 to Dartmouth. In
line with his intent, this amount is being directed
specifically to support the class’ four projects: dorm
more in prior versions; Word programs changed
several times since I started. The photography
started when I began to post online. The oldest
diary entry is from February 1996, but a computer
accident sometime around then lost older entries.

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aol.com Ron Gold and Eileen, Jerry Goldstein, Dick Gorsey and and it is a gem, indeed. art, athletic sponsors, Dickey Center, and Black Handwritten entries before ’96 are in some closet

53
I was asked by some of the members
of our class to voice their concerns
regarding the removal of the weather-
vane from Baker Library and the erection of a plaza
in the forefront of Dartmouth Row. Though they
disagree with these decisions by the College, their
continued love for Dartmouth prevails. A measure
of this is evidenced in part by their response to
the Dartmouth College Fund this year. Our class
had the highest percentage of donors of any class
Ellen, Lyon Greenberg and Marcia, Rick Hartman,
Mort Heafitz and Roz, Betty Heston, Herb Hillman,
Tony Kane and Jackie Roberts, Tom Kelsey, Pete
Kenyon and Jillian, Ann Low, Carol Mullins, Rose
Murane, Dan Neiditz and Arlene, Dick Page and Jane
plus daughter Sarah, Mike Papantones and Elin-
Marie, Dave Ransom and Louise, Arthur Rauch and
Lynn, Jim Stead and Nancy, Jim Tofias and Joan,
Wayne Weil and Shelia, Shel Woolf and Elisabeth
plus daughter Patricia, and Gary Zwart and Cynthia.
A big thank you to Larry Russell and George
Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, as the
year closes I want to thank Tony Car-
leton, Bob MacKay, Bill Behrens, Cliff
Phelan, John Miles, Roger Emerson, Egil Stigum,
Ben Taylor, Bill Loyer, Eric Jensen, Ted Weymouth,
“Booge” Erwin, Brad Leonard, Lee Gamill, Woody
Gray, Tom Gidley, Dick McClintock, Brew Blackall,
Glen French, et. al., for checking in! All are pursuing
life, liberty, and happiness in the greatest country
ever created. And thanks to Linc Spaulding, Chuck
Woodhouse, and guest Tom Conger ’61 for actu-
The final choice comes from Charles Tseckares,
who selected the bells of Baker Library. Charles
remembers the bells’ routine in starting and ending
our days at Dartmouth. In an article for his com-
munity’s quarterly magazine in Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, he confessed to missing the structure the
bells provided and recalled that after many years,
he returned to Hanover to attend a seminar at Tuck.
Monday morning arrived and he was awakened
by the bells of Baker. “At that instant,” he wrote, “I
realized I had come home.”
Visual Arts Center curators. In round numbers,
this means that each of our projects will receive
$10,000 (one-time) in addition to the $3,000 we
give to them each year, giving them a significant
“bump” in 2021.
By the time this was published we will have
had or not had our mini-reunion and Homecoming
on campus. That lag from submission deadline to
publishing date leads me to comment on other
contemporary methods of keeping up with our
classmates. Howie Frankel, for instance, authors
somewhere.” Find him at www.geologyuppervalley.
com and www.gardendaily.blogspot.com.
Here are links to our class website and forum:
1960.dartmouth.org, www.dartmouth60.org.
With Covid limiting travel, I suggest trying
out some of these connections to continue our
camaraderie. Please send news, including links to
your own blogs, for next year’s DAM notes.
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta,
CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.
com

outside of a reunion class. In addition, we were
No. 2 in participation all told. Many kudos to Ron
Lazar and his committee for another grand year. As
if this were not enough, our class has contracted
to build Put’s Path, about which I wrote earlier. As
of this writing, it is almost complete and should be
ready for the skiers this winter. I was delighted to
Haskins, who volunteered to serve on the obitu-
ary committee. As the numbers of obits grew it
required a lot of work by Dick Page and Tom Kelsey.
Email address correction: paulmartinsr@aol.
com (no period between paul and martin).
We regret the passing of Richard Jennings Jr.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070;
ally putting their sentiments on paper! Linc on
the brand, Chuck on the Indian, and T.C. on the
Band of Boobs, of which I am a proud member!
Chuck writes: “I object to the concluding sentence
in the class of 1956 Class Notes in Dartmouth
Alumni Magazine, ‘The Indian will never die,’ for
a number of reasons. First, the use of the name
All winners. From coaches, teachers, and a
classmate’s smile to the Appalachian Trail, our
reunion book, and the bells of Baker—whatever
your treasure, hear the bells, return to the source.
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero
Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@
aol.com
two blogs and subscribes to Facebook, including
our own class page, which includes only seven of us
in total. Take a moment to look at our class website,
Facebook page, and Howie’s blogs and postings,
which often include wonderful photographs. Here
are his comments regarding the process.
“I did it as much for myself to organize my
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As the class of 1961 heads into its post-
60th reunion period, we are making
some final class decisions. One of these
involves the Class of ’61 Tanzi Plaque, which after
being in the possession of two more classmates
(Michael Murphy and Jim Baum, the two highest bid-

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receive two letters from classmates from whom we (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.com is improper. The correct title of this group of thoughts on the geology blog. The garden blog start- ders from the auction held during our recent 60th

have not heard in years. Dan Boyd writes from his
farm south of Ashland, Oregon, that he, having pur-
chased it in 1983 after he retired, lives there now
with his able assistant and “significant other” Max
the dog. The original farm stock, which consisted
of cattle, horses, ducks, geese, dogs, and goats, has
dwindled to just Max and a horse. Dan’s health is
good except for a few small affronts that don’t seem
to impede him at all. Len Johnson writes that, after
completing a senior fellowship at Dartmouth, he
proceeded on to Harvard for his Ph.D. and then to
University of California, Berkeley, where he spent
his entire career. He continues, “I now realize more
and more how very much Dartmouth still means
to me; it gave me the extraordinary solid founda-
tion on which all the rest still stands.” It was great
hearing from you guys. Let’s stay in touch. I would
love to hear from you with news of your present
55
World events plus the surge in Co-
vid-19 cases, turmoil over masks and
vaccinations, and even a hurricane in
New England have made August a more uncom-
fortable month beyond the traditional “dog days”
sobriquet. However, as we write this column, the
College intends to open on schedule, with a mask
requirement for indoor gatherings. Also, by the
time you see this in print, we will have had our
end of September mini-reunion in Hanover—all
subject to the above noted turbulence.
Ed Wilson sets a refreshing tone advising that
at age 88 he has enjoyed his 80th year of downhill
skiing—23 times this past year! He intends to
keep going until 90 and beyond. He claims to be
semi-retired but quickly adds that most of his
time is occupied with the LightGard product he
Americans is ‘Native Americans.’ In fact, they are The perfidy of your substitute secretary ed as a diary, first written and later on the computer reunion) for one year each, Oscar Arslanian (chair
historically the most native of any Americans oc- is evident by his ignorance of publica- long before I began to post it. I’ve paid more atten- of the original Tanzi project) and Maynard Wheeler
cupying what became the United States when our tion deadlines, so with apologies until tion to grammar and spelling since I began to post. (current class president) will present the “TANZI”
forefathers arrived on this continent. Second, by next issue! I posted on Google blogspot long before I began to New Hampshire license plate plaque to Rauner’s
including this sentence, you signal your support —John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, announce postings on Facebook and Twitter. The permanent collection of Dartmouth memorabilia.
and even encouragement for the use of the Native MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net diary has about 500 pages in its present form and One result of our successful fully virtual 60th
American symbol connected with Dartmouth.
The return of the Native American as a symbol
or brand, if you insist, is long past the use-by date. 2 Unique Senior Communities nestled on the campus of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
It is time for you to recognize this and delete the
phrase from the 1956 note.” “Cowanga” will speak
on the Band of Boobs next year! In conclusion, Al
Friedman has won the summarize-your-life-in-
six-words contest: “Friends and family enrich my
life.” And so, warm holidays, thanks, and prayers.
See you in “The Woods.”
—J.W. Crowley, 15612 SE 42nd Place, Bellevue, WA
98006; (425) 746-1824; jackcrowley@hotmail.com

doings, so please do not hesitate to write or call.
Sadly, I report the deaths of Thomas Dewey, Andrew
Sigler, and Ralph “Skip” Adams. I offer the sincere
condolences of the class. Many thanks.
—Mark Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Val-
ley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5066; dartmark@gmail.
com
invented for Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
in 1986 to monitor computer lab equipment in
answer to an equipment loss problem. Result:
10 U.S. patents; more than 100 devices in use on
campus; labs now open all day, every day; and a
savings to CMU of $12 million a year. A Thayer
grad, Ed actually started his career as an insur-
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A previous column mentioned Gar-
vey Clarke. Mike Lasser immediately
responded: “Garvey’s laugh,” he said,
“rich, genuine and frequent, is one of our class
treasures.” Voila! A new column was born.
Bob Marchant’s class treasure is coaches.

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Message from Shel Woolf: “Since this
report is printed after the date for our
scheduled September 24-27 mini-
reunion in Hanover, I can tell you only what we
planned and who indicated they would attend. I
can also predict that if the reunion took place, it
was a wonderful gathering and a good time was had
by all. If Covid reared its ugly head and forced us
to cancel, we will try for the third time to gather in
the fall of 2022. All promised to stay well and fully
expect to attend in 2022 with even more classmates
coming.” Three great speakers were lined up: Susan
Wright, Dartmouth’s former first lady and recipi-
ent of an honorary doctorate of humane letters for
her service to the College; Peter Roby ’79, interim
athletic director and prime mover for the future
of Dartmouth athletics; and Jeff Crowe ’78, Dart-
mouth trustee and son of classmate John Crowe,
ance salesman when he was newly married to
Carol, his wife of 61 years, now deceased, after his
military service. During this time he worked with
an inventor on a wireless microphone that Ed had
to redesign to make it work. From that success,
he created his Minatronics Co. Ed developed a
reputation for problem-solving, figuring out how
things work. He had a series of other inventions,
such as an endless loop recording and timing
device. His LightGard wifi fiber optic security
system has a patented battery operating system
and can be used anywhere to monitor potential
theft of valuable equipment, from nuclear mate-
rial (in use at Sandia National Laboratories) to
personal possessions. He continues to bring his
newly patented security alarm systems to market
worldwide, such as in Vietnam. More recently, Ed
spent a week with fraternity brother Dave Flitner
at Dave’s ranch in Greybull, Wyoming.
He named Eddie Jeremiah and Ellie Noyes in
particular and recalls lavish praise for “Doggie”
Julian from Ron Judson, Chick Winslow, and Skip
Bohn, and he remembers Gene Booth called Coach
Julian his “life teacher.” Bruce Bernstein recalls
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Karl Michaels’ impact on Dave Cook, and Cal Perry
credits Tommy Dent’s influence for his four sea-
sons in soccer and lacrosse.
John Lange’s class treasure is Paul Zeller, who
represented Dartmouth to the world through mu-
sic, while Jay Greene’s is the faculty that taught
us. Bob Mowbray named the Appalachian Trail as LIFECARE
his treasure, eliciting agreement from a number Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
of classmates. Bob Copeland, in particular, offered
personal accounts of the significance of this choice: Luxury www.APDLifecare.org Independent and Assisted Living
some 18 cabins and 110 miles of trail maintained Independent Living Lebanon, New Hampshire with Memory Care
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of campus. The trail prompted Bob to add Ross Contact Peggy Cooper at 603-443-9575 or cooperm@apdmh.org
McKenney, builder of snowshoes, cabins, canoes,

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CLASS NOTES
reunion was the decision by our class president,
Maynard Wheeler, to have one day fully virtual
mini-reunions going forward on a quarterly basis.
Pete Bleyler will head this effort, which will begin
in November.
On a more general tack, many classmates have
voiced their concern recently about some of the is-
sues that have arisen as a result of decisions made,
or possibly not made, by the College. Dartmouth is
a unique educational institution. There are other
colleges and universities that have some of the
same qualities, but none that appear to have the
same mix in the same balance, so that the College
is most stable and most successful only when all of
its constituencies are equitably represented. The
balance between the administration (overseen
by the trustees), the faculty, the alumni, and the
students is what has made Dartmouth unique as
an institution.
Based on several issues which have arisen
during the past few years, the Dartmouth admin-
istration (office of the president) perhaps needs
to prioritize and articulate its areas of primary
importance during the long-term as well as those
areas necessary to be dealt with during the short-
term. These objectives and problem areas should
then be published with explanations and reviewed
by all interested Dartmouth constituencies or
their representatives. After a reasonable period
for public comments and feedback, the list should
then be re-reviewed and, if deemed necessary or
desirable, revised by the office of the president and
then approved by the administration, the faculty,
the Alumni Council, and finally by the board of
trustees having the formal vote of approval. If some
reasonable version of the aforementioned is not
being followed, then why not?
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY
11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com
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It is hard to believe that our 60th re-
union is less than a year away! Once
again reunion chairs Dick Brooks and
Bill Pierce are gearing up to make this a special oc-
casion for all classmates, spouses, widows, sons,
and daughters. So put aside these dates: June 13-16,
2022. We want you all to come. Progress reports
will be forthcoming in the coming months as to
featured events, and we welcome any suggestions
for events or speakers you might like to have. Ques-
tions should be directed to Bill at wcpierce@att.
net.
Frank Kehl reports a ’62 sighting of revered
music critic, New Yorker Bob Christgau (www.
robertchristgau.com) on the August 22 CBS Sun-
day Morning show, commenting on physician-
musician Rich Kruger’s dual life. Bob exemplifies
the lucky individual whose life’s work and passion
melded.
Steve Reid writes: “Bill Carpenter’s latest book,
Silence, is a beautifully written novel with a com-
pelling story. I’ve been a fan since reading The
Wooden Nickle. Bill had a 50-year-plus career as
a college English teacher and really knows how to
use the English language to the fullest.”
I’m pleased to report the appointment of
Charlie Giersch’s widow, honorary class member
Mary Vic Giersch, as assistant secretary. Her ap-
pointment reflects the class’ desire to encourage
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participation by wives and widows in class activi-
ties. If there is interest, mayordomo Dan Tompkins
has agreed to establish a dedicated listserv for our
cherished women. If interested in joining the list-
serv or willing to volunteer for class duties and as-
signments, please write david@davidlsmith.com.
We mourn with Wendy and Jim Blair the death
of their daughter, Hillary, who died of breast can-
cer on June 19 at age 40. We are also saddened by
the tragic death of David Feingold’s wife, Heather
Peters, who was struck by a car while bicycling on
April 24. Both Jim (jamesblair@gmail.com) and
David (ophidianfilms@hotmail.com) have asked
me to express their thanks for the many warm
notes of condolence received.
I regret to report the deaths of Charles L.
“Chuck” Simpson of Encinitas, California, on May
8 and Robert C. Herz of Brooklyn, New York, on
November 7, 2020.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX
77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
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The “NW (Northwest) Amigos”,
six from Washington State and two
from Oregon, met on Zoom during
the pandemic with organizer Larry Bailey, who
resides north of Seattle. Recently the group sup-
ported Sturges Dorrance following the passing of
wife Pam. Sturges shared works from Eleazar, a
mysterious personage, created by Sturges’ dad,
Sturges Dick Dorrance Jr. ’36 and Frank Ken-
neth Kappler ’36, whose campus writings baffled
the Dartmouth community between 1933 and
1936. Larry’s recent blog excerpts of Minnesota
author-radio host Garrison Keillor pleased amigo
Mike Emerson, whose “kids both live and work
in Minneapolis,” and Pete Brown, who “traveled
to Minnesota every year to visit high schools”
when he worked in the Dartmouth admissions
office from 1968 to 1975. Pete also covered the
boroughs of New York City, prompting amigo
Rick Wyckoff to jest, “The College seemed eager
to mess with your mind by assigning you to the
five boroughs—along with Minnesota and the
Dakotas.” Pete responded, “It was because I knew
how to fly in and out of O’Hare Airport.” Steve
Brenner, Mike Jarvis, and Bill Spencer round out
the tightly knit group.
John Willetts retired in Sunset Beach, North
Carolina, the state’s southernmost island near
South Carolina. A Spanish and economics major
who studied at Tuck, John wrote for a publisher
of legal briefs and texts used by compliance of-
ficers and broker dealers. John and Susan have
three married children and 10 grandchildren. A
self-styled “gym rat,” John recovered this summer
from a broken femur suffered in a freak accident.
John hopes to resume traveling throughout Eu-
rope, including Portugal, the only country there
he has not yet visited.
Mike and Jeanne Prince biked to raise more
than $6,000 for Norris Cotton Cancer Center
for the 36th consecutive year. Barry Elson, whose
death was reported here, recorded instructive
commentary for cancer patients on a YouTube
video in 2012. Former class president and recent
class scholars chair Marty Bowne died in August
following magna cum laude graduation of scholar
Danny McClafferty ’21. I regret to report the pass-
ing of Rick Asher and Mike Whelan. Obituaries by
Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY
11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com
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Pick up the pace, accelerate
Retire, take off with your first mate
Take flight, tempt fate, it’s not too late
Over the reefs don’t hesitate.
The above was written as I retired and head-
ed south on our boat. We need challenges to keep
our lives relevant. I asked classmates whether
they were adopting a “sedimentary” pace or step-
ping on the gas as the clock ticked.
Duncan Hughes and his wife broke loose from
their Covid bonds with a road trip around Lake
Michigan visiting Ray Neff and others. Don Mut-
terperl writes that he and his wife, after surviv-
ing severe bouts of Covid, launched a somewhat
sedentary trip to Maine and visited Jim Latham
on their swing back home. John Lane and his wife
have been busy meeting some great folks on trav-
els to China, India, South America, and Alaska.
Jerry Kolski writes that he has also been doing
some post-vaccination traveling.
Jim Stewart says for orthopedic reasons he
has given up tennis, golf, and kayaking. He chose
instead the low-impact sport of skydiving this
year as a vet representing the 82nd Airborne.
He has also taken up the challenge of painting,
following the example of Vincent Van Gogh. Bob
Reidy is “dealing with time and relevance” after
a career in ophthalmology. He recently traveled
from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Boston to visit Chip
Noecker. Chip has been taking on the challenge of
sponsoring young women from Middle Eastern
countries to attend universities in North America.
Dan Dimancescu used his Covid timeout to
catch up with his writing and film production,
completing several short books on Romania and a
children’s animation film. He recently caught up
with Tom Seymour in Boston to reminisce about
their 1966 kayak expedition in Japan. Lou Good-
man has likewise been busy teaching interna-
tional relations full-time at American University.
This necessitated a dozen trips abroad in 2019,
including one to Wuhan, China in November. He
says, “I got tested right away to make sure I was
not patient No. 1.”
Steve Sherman has been sailing the coasts of
England, Portugal, and Spain, while Steve Blecher
has augmented his East Coast sailing with a trip
to the San Juan Islands and Puget Sound. He
notes that we are at risk of becoming sedentary
well before our remains become sedimentary.
—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA
02332; gjevans222@gmail.com
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Writing in mid-August, it’s impossible
in this Covid era to even predict wheth-
er our October mini-reunion will or has
taken place. I hope to have notes for the next issue.
One advantage of living in Hanover is access to
Dartmouth events, of which the annual Pow Wow
is one of the most interesting. Our classmate Rich
Beams is a regular at our Upper Valley monthly
breakfasts, where his diverse interests ranging
from opera to Native American art always provide
interesting conversational twists. Here’s what he
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is up to now. annual Pow Wow.” Health administrator and proud resident of Straf-
Rich writes: “Inspired by the recent article I regret to report the loss of classmates Jim ford, Vermont, writes: “I’m thankful to live where
in the May/June Dartmouth Alumni Magazine by Hofrichter and Rick Suberman. Check the class I don’t need to lock my door (I probably have a key
Betsy Vereckey, ‘Heartbeat of the People: There’s website for obituaries and other updates: www. here, somewhere) or need air-conditioning and
more to the annual Pow Wow than meets the eye,’ biggreen65.com. can fill my freezer with wild blueberries, ski half
I have begun planning an illustrated book titled A —Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH of the year, and surf the Internet on a beam of light
Journey in Time; a Pow Wow Through Pottery. In 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net through a thin fiber anytime.”
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the article, painter Mateo Romero ’89, a member Susan and John Colby are thankful that Hur-
of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribe, describes the Pow With a tough year behind us and ricane Henri in August eased up a bit and didn’t
Wow as a spiritual moment; so too is the making Thanksgiving on the horizon we asked damage their North Kingston, Rhode Island, home,
of pueblo pottery with its connection to commu- some classmates what they were most or that of friends Evelyn and Ed Long in nearby
nity, nature, and ancestors—even as it has become thankful for. Jamestown.
very much a commercial enterprise today. Using Bill Ramos, a gynecologist in Las Vegas, writes: Saleh Jabarin, professor emeritus at the Uni-
my extensive Native American pottery collection, “I am most thankful to God and fate for giving me versity of Toledo College of Engineering who
which goes from pre-historic, historic, to the con- the skills (heart, hands, brain) to pursue a long and came to the United States from Palestine in 1962,
temporary, I hope to illustrate and examine the successful medical career. I am also grateful to is thankful that his book, My Journey: Finding
organic interdependence of Native Americans and Dartmouth and my wife for the education and mo- Relevance Through the Pursuit of Learning, has
their communities built around the making of their tivation. It’s been a wonderful life (not done yet).”  been published. “This book tells the story of my
pottery, a journey through time, or rather a Pow Norm Shaffer, retired Goldman Sachs invest- experiences professionally, personally, and in com-
Wow through pottery. As Lonnie Vigil, an award- ment banker and part-time children’s story author, munity involvement.” Available at https://store.
winning Nambé Pueblo potter writes, ‘Each pot writes: “What I’m most thankful for now is that I bookbaby.com/book/The-Journey5.
speaks to the continuity in the identity of family can see family again and actually do things with my For a clear understanding of the administra-
and community [and is] simultaneously an act of (three) children and (four) grandchildren. tion’s new antimonopoly initiatives, check out Nel-
connection between the potter, the Earth Mother, Lance Roberts, founder and partner of retire- son Lichtenstein’s op-ed in the July 13 New York
and the ancestral spirits that guide them.’ My plan ment investment advisor CIFmarketplace, writes Times.
is to have as many Dartmouth Native Americans he is thankful for his “spouse and West Virginia.” Our deepest sympathies to the family and
as possible comment on the various pots, making Lance’s wife, Jackie, “is eight years younger and friends of Roc Cavino, an architect, painter, and
whatever observations or associations they may keeps me jumping both mentally and physically active community participant who passed away
bring to mind. If it all comes together as a book, I’ll (saddlebred horseback riding),” and “Charleston, in his adopted state of Maine in early July.
donate all proceeds to student fundraising efforts West Virginia, is charming.” —Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY
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CLASS NOTES
67
Most everyone continues to be dis-
rupted somehow by Covid. John Hager
reports he was able to “travel for the
engagement of our son, Christopher, but Covid
and red tide forced cancellation of vacation with
my older brother and his son and daughter-in-
law traveling from Canada.” Jack Brock was “just
beginning to feel encouraged about the trajectory
of the Covid virus but becoming more uneasy and
will continue to isolate at our cabin in Leadville,
Colorado, for the rest of the summer.”
Bob Smith is “still in our Covid-19 (Cov-
id-21?) foxhole, addicted to Spelling Bee, spend-
ing this summer at Lake Tahoe, California, with
family visits (there are now 22 of us) and work-
ing with my son-in-law (a ’96 and nephew of
Russ Hoverman) building a mountain bike trail.”
Lance Nelson “sort of stumbled into mountain bike
touring and just finished a solo 130-mile loop
around the Finger Lakes in upstate New York,
in segments of 25 to 46 miles with 40 pounds of
camping gear and food on board. It’s a lot more
fun than it is strenuous.”
Jim Grotta is “still healthy and able to con-
tinue skiing, sailing, biking, kayaking, and oth-
er recreational interests but more often than
not having to go solo these days and limited by
pandemic and age-related precautions.” Larry
Rosen is “doing fine in Ukiah, California. It is
hot outside and Lake Mendocino is drying up,
but I’m surviving in air-conditioned comfort on
our 160-acre ranch. I broke my hip in a fall last
year and am still recovering with a walker, so I
don’t travel.” Howard Sharfstein says, “Nothing is
really new in my life, which is just wonderful. I
am well, enjoying my free time, reading more,
cherishing family, and opening myself to deeper
self-reflection. I am very grateful.”
Bob Ruxin is “still full time, practicing inter-
nal medicine and endocrinology in Ridgefield,
Connecticut. My daughter, Lisa, is in Wellesley,
Massachusetts, and my son, Josh, is in Kigali,
Rwanda.” Jock Gill “continues to take photos
for Peacham (Vermont) Historical Association
projects, most recently for a book looking at
early Peacham history.” Bruce Pacht “belongs to
two choruses within the Barbershop Harmony
Society, and our first return to a free, one-hour
show will be outdoors as part of the Lebanon,
New Hampshire, Opera House’s Nexus Music
and Arts Festival.”
Mike Gfroerer “recently assumed the role
of a Frank Lloyd Wright docent at the Currier
Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire,
which owns two nearby Wright houses open to
the public, one a Usonian and the other a rare
Usonian Automatic.” Go look it up.
Responses to the recent announcement of
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Grandparental advisory: The following
is rated PG-75 for euphemisms and
public unconcealment.
A College email displaying recent campus
summer scenes was as a petite-madeleine dipped
in tea to several classmates. Their thoughts and
senses were cast back to undergraduate summers
spent in Hanover. Several synesthetic recollec-
tions of Proustian detail were shared about warmly
remembered academic and social situations, all
of which revealed gratitude for being there and
descriptions of Hanover summers as “magical.”
Dave Gang’s 1967 Hanover summer of pre-
med physics study with roommate Ted Renna was
highlighted by two extracurricular events. The first
earned him a lifetime ban from Storrs Pond, after
he and a girlfriend from Smith attempted an au
naturel natatorial visit but were interrupted by the
local gendarmerie. On another occasion, the same
couple ignored towering thunderheads and the
revealing absence of other boaters for a canoeing
stint on Lake Mascoma. They rolled their vessel
in reaction to frighteningly close lightning and
thunder, but were rescued by observers onshore,
who “were not at all surprised to learn that we had
come from Dartmouth.”
Gary Horlick did some local canoeing too. In
1966 he spent six summer weeks working for a
Thayer professor on the “relatively compact cam-
pus.” In afternoons not darkened by storm clouds or
lit by thunderbolts he’d walk from Middle Mass to
the calm Connecticut for paddling sessions.
Tom Stonecipher recalled the summer of 1967,
when he, Henry Homeyer, and Joe Carbonari were
running an office of economic opportunity chil-
dren’s program in Norwich, Vermont. He and Hen-
ry housed with Barbara Barnes (later a Dartmouth
dean) and hitchhiked to Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
and the Montreal World’s Fair. Tom also recalled
trips with the program’s kids to watch ox-pulling
contests at the Norwich Fair and go blueberry pick-
ing. He gave J.D. Salinger’s daughter a piggyback
ride on the Norwich Green.
Jim Lawrie is hard to top for undergraduate
summers in Hanover. He spent three, the first while
taking a 20-week organic chemistry course in just
eight, and the others doing data analysis in the
psychiatry department at the Med School. Write
to Jim to enroll in the class community service
program and ask him if he remembers any organic
chemistry.
The Peace Corps language-culture training
for Francophone West Africa was on campus in
the summers of 1966 and 1967, and Warren Cooke
spent that time there working with John Rassias.
Warren and Mark Waterhouse, who also stayed in
Hanover for two summers while working for the
psychology department, shared happy memories
clothed Dave Gang.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123;
(504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com
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About the time we were getting the
Covid vaccination booster, Hurricane
Henri made landfall near the home of
Peter Schaeffer, our tireless stoic philosopher in
residence. Contacted by phone, Pete reported that
“the storm is a nothing-burger,” so this was just a
typical day in his remarkable life. He has battled
illness and aging, but he’s not planning to go quietly.
At our 50th he spoke eloquently about his home-
grown, hard-won stoicism. He joined Peter Elias,
Arthur Fergenson, and professor Margaret Graver,
chair of the classics department, to explore “death
and its uncertainty and how that may impact our
time left on this earth.” (Contact me for the reading
list.) We discussed Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s essay,
“Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Then 61, Emanuel wrote
that at 75 he will not get flu shots, take antibiotics,
do cancer screening, or take extra medical steps to
prolong life. Most ’69s reach 75 this year or next,
but judging from our class activities since the re-
union, we’re not done yet.
Speaking of snow on the roof and fire in the
furnace, both Craig Miller and Don Cole report that
the blazes in the Northwest make life hazard-
ous and the water shortage is getting worse. Be
careful out there!
The Dartmouth Traveling Players enjoyed a
hilarious afternoon performing The Royal Family
on Zoom. The usual suspects included Jon Mark,
Allen Denison, John Myers, Arthur, and Tex, but
the women stole the show: Nanalee Raphael, Carol
Dudley, Lynn Lobban, and Binky Wood are so gifted
we must wonder why Dartmouth took so long to
recognize them.
In the latest casual conversation, Dimitri Gera-
karis kept us spellbound exploring his internation-
ally renowned art. Many of his works, including
several on campus, are featured on his website.
Also worth a hearty toast: Bruce Alpert leads the
Jewish culture discussions on Zoom, a diverse
group including Steve Horwitz, Tim Means, Michael
Simon, Bill Stableford, and others. Beyond spiritual
life, guest authors and professors discuss notable
books, current events, and history. All are welcome.
We mourn the loss of Tom Stuver, who passed
this summer. A band of brothers kept up with Tom,
including Phil Bush, Jeff Kelley, William “Nick” Nich-
ols, Jim Gainfort, Dennis Young, and Andy Lafrenz.
Tom was a self-described “country lawyer,” a poly-
math who loved the outdoors, deep conversation,
and lasting friendships. Our heartfelt sympathy
goes out to Elizabeth and the family.
The resurgence of Covid may affect plans for
Homecoming and our ribbon-cutting to celebrate
70
Chip Cody is still in N.Y.C. with an aca-
demic practice (breast surgical on-
cology at Memorial Sloan Kettering).
His spouse, Myung-Hi Kim, is retired from a long
career with the New York Philharmonic (violin).
All three daughters are in the N.Y.C. area. On the
minus side, his mediocre squash and tennis are in
decline, and deer continue to eat his garden (“deer
resistant” is an oxymoron). On the plus side, cycling
and skiing are still okay and the Lionel trains are
coming out of storage—a Proustian experience on
entering the “grandparent zone.”
Bob Fraser is retired from his radiation oncol-
ogy career in Charlotte, North Carolina. His wife,
Norinne, and he enjoy duplicate bridge, garden-
ing and trips abroad. During Covid they spent lots
of time at their beach house on Figure 8 Island
(Wilmington, North Carolina). They raised two
sons as “Tarheels,” but it stuck for just one (Ja-
mie), who is an orthopedic surgeon in Charlotte.
He and his wife Lisa are raising three girls under 8
years old. Their older son, Rob, chose Stanford and
fell in love with surfing and a California girl. He’s
in private equity and lives in Manhattan Beach,
California.
“Arbus” Whitcomb keeps fairly busy because
his and his family’s health remains “pretty good.”
He writes a weekly column for news website GoLo-
cal24.com, runs a little site called newenglandiary.
com, and does book projects, the latest being Maine
Oysters: Stories of Resilience and Innovation. (Hint:
It’s about more than oysters and Maine.) He’s also
been promoting the nonprofit Lapham’s Quarterly,
a journal of history and ideas. For most of his career,
he held senior editorial positions at the Providence
Journal Bulletin. He also did a three-year stint in
Paris. He and wife Nancy are still living in the old
house in Providence, Rhode Island, which they
moved into in 1990. One daughter still lives in
Providence, the other in New York.
—Stu Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, New
York 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
71
Greetings to my classmates! Following
in the very big footsteps of Bob Lider,
I am writing this first column as your
secretary. Please feel free to contact me with any
information I can share in these bimonthly issues!
The more the merrier—I can always edit to meet
the limits of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Dan Clouse reports that the Northwest was
busy with mini-reunions this summer. “On July
31 a mini-reunion cruise was organized by Tom
Hancock. His friends Dean and Patti Orrico took
a group of us out on lakes Union and Washington
on their cruiser. Judith Dern brought chocolate
cupcakes. Dan Clouse brought memento T-shirts
with a patch designed by ’71 graphics czar Mark
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 and Alice Reno Malone got together
chael Maynard
in July with Frank Anton to help support the Nan-
tucket Fund. We hope next year we can recreate

our island mini.
Due to concerns about Covid, our class de-
cided to cancel all official ’71 activities at Home-

coming, including the class meeting breakfast
and social events. At present the College has not
decided to cancel the game! In any event, we stand
ready to cheer on the Big Green whenever!
Speaking of get-togethers and reunions, the
following are being planned for 2022, Covid per-
mitting: February 25-27, CarniVail, Vail, Colorado;
March 24-27, mini-reunion, Naples, Florida; and
June 13-15, 50-plus-one reunion, Hanover (note
these dates are the Monday-Wednesday following
’22 graduation). Details to follow.
A series of virtual dinners is also in the works
for N.Y.C., Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Finally, in April and May of 2022, the Dart-
mouth alumni travel office is scheduling two trips
that many of our class have expressed interest in Share
joining: Dutch waterways and a Mississippi River remembrances of
cruise. Watch for details and consider coming our times together
along.
By the time you read these notes, you should
at Dartmouth.
have received our 1,032-page 50th reunion book— Bonfires
“not a coffee table book, but an actual coffee table!” Roadtrips
Thanks to all for their help and perseverance in
this endeavor!
All nighters…
I regret to report the passing of our classmate
Charles B. Duncan on May 3. A remembrance will Tell us about your
appear at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits. family, career, and
—Alice Reno Malone, 834 Colridge Drive, Charlot-
tesville, VA 22903; tammyarm@aol.com
what you’re doing
now.
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Another long year bows out!
Michael McKinley is a Florida at-
torney based in Punta Gorda, having
earned his J.D. at the University of Florida in 1978.
Since 1981 he has served as attorney for the school
board of Charlotte County and also represents the
school boards of Glades and Hardee counties as
well as the supervisor of elections for Charlotte
County. Mike has developed extensive experience
in local government, real estate, business and land
development, and corporate law. He is active in the
community and currently serves on the board of
trustees of Goodwill Industries.
Lee Rosengard spent pandemic time teaching.
“Although retired as a litigator from the firm where
I spent my entire professional career, I continued
as an adjunct professor at Penn Law School (year
10) and Villanova Law School (year 20), all on
Zoom. The most fun was teaching nursery school
with my wife, Andrea. Two of our three daughters
and their families live in the Philly suburbs a few
blocks apart, and both families have little girls who


our 55th reunion on September 23-24, 2022, in of special times. the DOC House renovation. Check the website, Bellonby. Also in attendance were Malcolm Jones, turned 3 years old in 2020. Their nursery school 




Hanover have been quite strong. Those who have Peter Wonson spent seven summers in Ha- email list, and newsletter for updates. The good Ron and Masami Olsen, David and Kay Reingold. was closed for most of the 2020-21 school year, so
yet to reply should contact Bruce Pacht (bruce- nover, but after graduation, first as a member of the news is that our Zoom mini-reunions in cyber- Dan’s reaction: “Golly, it was fun.” we formed a Covid bubble. We spent three morn-
pacht67@gmail.com) for details.





And finally, on a very sad note, we report the
passing of Robert Rolf Kugler on July 6 and Sam
Wesley Cockrel on July 17. Their obituaries can be
found on our website, 1967.dartmouth.org, and
will appear later on the DAM website.
—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339;
1967damnotes@gmail.com
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rock band, Tracks, and later while taking M.A.L.S.
coursework. He mentioned liking the slower pace
of the campus scene in those years.
In present day events, Cedric Kam is antici-
pating a Cape Cod meeting with Sam Swisher and
Dennis Donahue, and Frederic Gruder has been enjoy-
ing monthly Zoom sessions with fellow Pi Lams,
doctors Ted Levin, Freddy Appelbaum, and a fully
space are definitely here to stay: stage plays, 12-step
meetings, “Saturday Night at the Movies,” casual
conversations, cultural interest groups!
Make your reservations for Homecoming,
send news, get vaccinated, and wear your masks!
—John “Tex” Talmadge, 3519 Brookline Lane,
Farmers Branch, TX 75234; (214) 673-9250;
johntalmadgemd@gmail.com
Later that week John Hanley visited the Re-
ingolds in Portland, Oregon, and then on his way
back to Seattle stopped by Dan Clouse’s, where
they “had great fun talking about the Navy and
game theory.” Three minis in one week—give the
Class of ’71 a round of applause!
Even though the Nantucket, Massachusetts,
mini-reunion for 2021 was Covid-cancelled, Mi-





ings a week teaching in one of their basement play- 
rooms turned into a preschool. It’s hard to say who 


benefited more; two granddaughters, who learned
their ABCs from adoring grandparents, or Andrea

and I, who kept our sanity and sense of humor by
being with little kids! Each of our preschoolers has
a sister, one age 7 and one age 1, and we got to spend
time with them as well. We resorted to FaceTime
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CLASS NOTES
to stay connected to our Santa Monica daughter’s
family with their two kids, ages 3 and 1.”
Ron Bast and Leslie “Mac” Rood operating as
Bast & Rood Architects maintain architectural
offices in Warren and Hinesburg, Vermont. Both
have been involved with Yestermorrow Design
Build School in Warren, where Mac is a teacher
as well as on the board of directors. He is mar-
ried to Bobbie Cohen Rood, a Wheaton exchange
student our junior year. Mac collaborated with
William McDonough on the Innovations for a Cir-
cular Economy House in Davos, Switzerland, at
the World Economic Forum. Bill serves on the
advisory board at Yestermorrow. Ron has served
on the Hinesburg planning commission, including
a term as chair, as well as two stints on the Hines-
burg selectboard, with multiple periods as chair.
Ron also has been president and a board member
of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and
currently is chair of the board of directors at the
Snelling Center for Government, which is dedi-
cated to fostering responsible and ethical civic
leadership, encouraging public service, and pro-
moting informed citizen participation in shaping
public policy in Vermont.
Weymoth Crowell succumbed to a pulmonary
embolism in July. T.W., a key member of the 1970-
1972 Ivy football championship teams, practiced
anatomic pathology and family medicine in Loui-
siana and Mississippi.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA
94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
74
Dear classmates, as Yogi Berra allegedly
said, it’s “déjà vu, all over again.” Two
months ago I said, “We are enduring
the record-breaking temperatures of the late June
heat wave.” Now it is late August and we have the
same temperatures in the middle 90s combined
with tropical humidity. By now, fall air has usually
arrived, making it feel like September—but not this
year. Well, I hope tomorrow.
From class president Matt Putnam actual: “A
few of you may recognize the military ring of the
preceding sentence. I feel fortunate to have actu-
ally learned it—on the job. I am sending this note
to all of you with my head and heart aching this
morning from awareness of the pain soldiers and
Afghans are feeling today (August 27 post ISIS-
K attack in Kabul). I suspect Afghanistan feels a
world away for almost all, but I have learned dur-
ing the last few years from classmates who have
traveled to this seemingly forsaken, but hauntingly
beautiful, part of the world in the course of your
life since Dartmouth. I mention all of this because
class leadership has, in working with the mortal-
ity working group, made progress toward a 50th
reunion project(s) that will ask us all to engage
with the world as it is today with hopes of making
a better world tomorrow. More details will follow
in the coming months. Here’s to a good, productive,
and graceful fall 2021!”
John Haulenbeek, our head agent, sent the fol-
lowing: “Our class enjoys a well-deserved reputa-
tion for its high participation in the Dartmouth
College Fund. The College has benefited from the
generosity of our classmates who consistently do-
nate funds that fuel financial aid. A big part of this
success is the result of the dedication of our class
68 D A R T M O U T H A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
agents. They are an excellent group to work with
and we are always looking for additional help. Most
agents reach out to classmates they know to solicit,
which allows them to maintain connections forged
in Hanover. If you have any interest in being part
of this team, please reach out to me.”
Jerry Bowe and Peter DeNatale, our reunion
chairmen, continue their efforts on planning our
50th reunion. Please mark your calendar.
Don’t forget to check out the class website,
curated by Ken Hall. It’s been improved and you
can get early information on class events, mini-
reunions, correspondence, obituaries, and video
interviews with classmates.
There is also an online Green Card to get in-
formation to Rick and me more quickly, especially
now that his snail mail is in Africa. Please send
us updates using 1974.dartmouth.org (click on
“News,” then “Send Us News”).
Sadly, after a three-month pause, I just re-
ceived notice of the deaths of two more class-
mates. Please see Rick Sample’s class obituaries
at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.
Hope you are all having a great fall. I noticed
that Homecoming was finally moved back to peak
“leaf-peeping” time in early October. That rocks!
Blessings.
—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH
03053; p.stebs@comcast.net
75
Many of us are now among the retired
or near retired, but Jack Foley has made
it official. He had a very long, successful,
and laudable run at Clark University. After 45 years
he is hanging up the cleats. We often hear stories
of budding entrepreneurs writing business plans
on the back of a napkin. However, 27 years ago
Jack and Clark’s president jotted down notes on a
napkin that became the blueprint for a transfor-
mative relationship between the university and
community.
From the periodical Clark Now comes this,
“From those scrawled lunchtime notes emerged
the vision for the University Park Neighborhood
Restoration Partnership, a nationally acclaimed
model of collaboration between Clark, the Main
South Community Development Corp., and the city
of Worcester that has yielded affordable housing,
youth development and education opportunities,
and small-business creation, helping transform a
struggling neighborhood into a more vibrant place
to live, learn, and work.”
When I saw Jack’s picture in the article, I saw
the same smile I remembered from his Dartmouth
days. It prompted me to take a look at my yearbook,
which I keep at close quarters to my desk. With
one quick look I was transported back to the early
1970s in Hanover and realized that we had some
classmates with amazing hair. After all it was the
age of Aquarius, or nearly so. Our yearbook is full
of great hair, check out Vernon Chadwick, Joel Cardis,
Bob Hittle, Rich Laffin, Rich Lane, Bill Ray, and Fred
Pelczar. Having been married for 46 years, I know
better than to call out any of the women in our
class—all of whom look amazing!
I also had a quick catch up with Jim Bildner,
who continues to do some amazing work through
Draper Richards Kaplan and the Kresge Founda-
tion. In a world that seems increasingly chaotic,
Jim and Jack represent only two of our many class-
mates who have devoted countless hours mak-
ing our communities better, more humane, and
productive places for all. Thanks, guys, and to all
the other women and men of 1975 who are doing
the same.
Vox clamantis in Tejas.
—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX
77550; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com
76
Once again, news of your challenges
and victories fills me with hope and
admiration. Nessa Flax reports from
her “piece of heaven in the Vermont woods” that
having survived a subarachnoid hemorrhage in
2019, she wakes up every morning “grateful to be
alive, able to go into my own kitchen and make my
own cup of tea.” The ever-creative Nessa is doing a
lot more than that. After a 25-year gig as a weekly
columnist for the Journal Opinion newspaper, she
still contributes a biweekly column and is busier
than ever with freelance editing work. She writes,
“I currently have three clients: a doctor writing
his first novel, an 82-year-old woman writing her
memoir, and a Ph.D. candidate completing her dis-
sertation. It feels like a natural extension of the
16-year teaching career I left in 1993.” Bill Duke
serves his small town of Andes, New York, as a
yoga teacher and emergency services volunteer.
He adds, “I go down to the city every four months
where [periodontist] Matt Neary helps me keep my
teeth in my head.” Jack Horak graduated from Notre
Dame Law School in 1980 and spent 36 years in pri-
vate practice in Hartford, Connecticut, as a special-
ist in tax exempt organizations. He “retired” in 2016
to help develop The Alliance for Nonprofit Growth
and Opportunity (TANGO), creating partnerships
between nonprofit and for-profit organizations to
help nonprofit organizations thrive. Jack wrote
TANGO’s training manual and continues to teach
its methods in professional development settings.
Jeff Zesiger’s career as a “family doc” has morphed
into hospice work and palliative care. He writes, “It
allows me to use my love of science, interpersonal
skills, teaching (including some tricks learned from
professor John Rassias), and yearning to bring some
relief and even joy to those going through their
toughest times.” Jeff and his artist wife, Dorien,
who, Jeff says, “brings such beauty into my life,”
worked for two years in a Seattle hospice residence
before returning to their home base of Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts. Thanks to a class newsletter
article from Jack Bothwell, Jeff was able to recon-
nect with Jack in Seattle. To read more inspiring
news from both Nessa and Jeff, please check our
website 1976.dartmouth.org and class newsletter.
For your own reconnections, gather with us June
16-19, 2022. The growing group of enthusiastic
planners led by Rick Zimmerman and Steve Melikian
now includes Sharon Ali, Mary Kay Beach, Martha and
Jim Beattie, Jim Burns, Judy Csatari, Rick Hill, Rich
Horan, Joe Jasinski, Naomi Baline Kleinman, Andrea
Lewis, Ann Paulson, Jeff Reed, Cindy Shannon, Tom
Reinhart, Dana Rowan, Andy Shaw, John Sherman,
Steffi Valar, Bruce York, and Randy White. Arrive early
for a June 15 Moosilauke Ravine Lodge kickoff
with hikes, food, friends, and all that lodge manager
Margaret Nichols ’20, daughter of our very fun
classmate Larry Nichols, can stir up.
1 9 74 -1 9 7 7
—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St.,
FREEDOM
Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@
gmail.com to enjoy each day
77
Ellen Carter has published an histori-
cal novel titled To March or to Marry
to the fullest!
under the pen name Violet Snow. Set
in New York City in the early 1900s, the novel
chronicles how two young women find their friend-
ship torn apart when one abandons the dignified,
middle-class feminism of their women’s club to Live the lifestyle you choose with the
join suffragettes marching for the vote. Ellen is peace of mind that comes with living
an author, journalist, and teacher. Her fiction has
been published in Otter Magazine, Pilgrimage, and in a Lifecare community. Freedom is an
Tinker Street, while her articles have appeared
in The New York Times Disunion blog, Civil War
important concept at Kendal at Hanover,
Times, Woodstock Times, American Ancestors, and t
Jewish Currents. Ellen also teaches workshops
about writing memoir and family history through with an array of services to set you free—free from worry
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secretary of state on international economic policy.
His position is often referred to as the senior eco-
nomic diplomat in the United States.
Doug Morgan was recently named director of
the division of gastroenterology and hepatology
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He
focuses on cancer prevention in Hispanic-Latino
populations in the United States and Central
America, concentrating primarily on stomach can-
cer. After graduating from Dartmouth and Thayer,
Doug served three years in the Peace Corps in Hon-
duras, working on rural electrification in remote
communities. He became aware of the area’s tre-
mendous healthcare needs and challenges. Upon
his return to the States, Doug attended medical
school and specialized in gastroenterology and
public health, reconnecting with Honduras follow-
ing Hurricane Mitch. On site in Central America
frequently, he oversees research and service initia-
tives and welcomes collaboration. Doug received
the Ohtli Award from the government of Mexico
for programs serving North Carolina immigrant
populations and an honorary degree from the Na-
tional Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Leon.
This just in from the reunion committee:
Carve your 2022 calendars for Dartmouth’s 45th
reunion from Thursday, June 16, to Sunday, June
19, 2022! Leslie Bradford and her trusty commit-
tee (including Lapres, Cholnoky, Dana, Replogle,
and Duffy) have made great plans for a fantastic
weekend. Highlights include craft beer and natural
wine tasting at chez Volonakis Thursday evening,
dinner at a surprise venue Friday, and a wingding
finale on the presidential lawn of Gail Gentes and
Phil Hanlon Saturday evening. Gary Hoss Rodgers
and Rory Laughna of True North Ales are brewing
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 Call sal CLASS NOTES
To Rediscover What You Loved
About The Upper Valley a specialty concoction just for us and all reuning
classes on campus that weekend. Everybody must
come! Yes, that means you! To join the committee,
SAL CANIA, REALTOR ping leslie.e.bradford@gmail.com.
C: 603.286.0016 O: 603.643.6406 —Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540;
robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, DC Advi-
Sal@TheCBLife.com
sory, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA
94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger,
2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037;
TheCBLife.com akintzinger@hunton.com
78
I handed over a big chunk of this col-
umn to our esteemed class president
Barbie Snyder Martinez. Here’s what
Do you need Are you she has to say.
“By the time you are reading this, many of us
a lawyer? a lawyer, will (I hope) have gathered in Hanover, in person
Find a but not a for the first time in nearly two years! Thanks to
mini-reunion chairs Harriet Travilla Reynolds and
Dartmouth alum member of the Ann Hoover Maddox for coordinating a fun weekend
and most of all to hosts Bartie Leber and Drew
in the Dartmouth Rockwell for hosting us at their lovely home post-
Lawyers game! After several fun virtual mini-reunions with
Dartmouth
DARTMOUTH Mark Lennon, Marc Capobianco, and Valerie Steel, it
Lawyers Association? was great gathering together at Dartmouth! If you
Association LAWYERS Join today have a talent, hobby or area of expertise you’d like
to share via a virtual mini, please contact Ann at
directory at ASSOCIATION at annhmaddox@aol.com.
“Speaking of opportunities to get together in
bit.ly/dlafind bit.ly/dlajoin person, save the dates June 15-19, 2022, for ‘Peace-
ful, Easy Feeling: ’78 at 45!’ Plans are already in
full swing, and, if past experience running a class
Are you a lawyer, but reunion is any indication of things to come, with
not a member of the reunion ‘veterans’ Barb Kelly Hack, Steve Adnopoz,
and Todd Anderson (with a combined six reunions
Dartmouth Lawyers
Handcrafted
between them) heading up our 45th (yes, I can do
math and it will technically be our 44th) we’re all
Association? in for a great time! While most of the key positions
Join today at dla.org on the reunion committee have been filled, there’s
Excellence always room for more ’78s to join in. Maybe you
are retired and have a little more time on your
hands or can’t commit to a big role but want to
A gift as unique as your help out. Please reach out to Barb at bkellyhack@
gmail.com.
Dartmouth experience “The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of
Order your personalized gifts coeducation at Dartmouth and Chris Simpson Brent
and Mary Kendall Brown are representing the class
simonpearce.com | 800 774 5277 of ’78 on a committee planning events, including
some during next June’s reunions for the classes
of ’76, ’77, and ’78, the first three classes to ma-
triculate women.”
Thank you, Barbie!
I asked Jim Lattin what’s going on in his life
way out there on the left coast. His response:
“Marilyn and I decided that after 18-plus months
of Covid restrictions, it was time to attend to some
deferred maintenance: having the house tented
MAKE
for termites, doing repair work (new windows
NEWS
and a new patio door), and some painting. We
are learning (the hard way) about the impact of
the pandemic on supply chains: New windows
require a 26-week lead time and other materials
are similarly unavailable either because factory
CONTACT YOUR supply chains are below capacity or shipments
CLASS are held up off-shore waiting to be unloaded. I’m
sure we are not the only ones dealing with this.”
SECRETARY As Jim thoughtfully notes, Covid has caused
TODAY. far worse problems for many. Still, it is fascinating
to see all the unexpected ramifications it has had.
70 D A R T M O U T H A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
Send news.
—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago,
IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com
79
Gina Barreca texted friends and fam-
ily, “Michael and I are headed to the
emergency room right now: I believe
he had a stroke.”
Gina believed her 76-year-old, otherwise-
healthy husband had a stroke because of telltale
global forgetfulness, fogginess, and repetitive
questioning.
“For nearly three hours the small hospital
administered every apparently useful test—CAT
scans, MRIs—but nothing seemed definitive. His
transient global amnesia, as I learned to call his
forgetting of central facts but not all information,
did not necessarily indicate a stroke.
“During the admission process that May
night, Michael’s heart stopped beating. Just
stopped.
“His blood pressure had been astronomically
high; he was attached to multiple monitors, but
these monitors had not been—because of error
of a new staff member—connected to the central
nurse’s station. There were no alerts except on
his private monitor. Nobody was coming. Nobody
knew he was flat lining.
“Michael had stuttered, ‘The lights are going
out,’ and looked at me. Then his eyes rolled back
into his head, his jaw fell open, and his skin went
whiter than the pillowcase.
“That’s when I started to yell. I went to the
door because I wouldn’t let myself leave the room
and, like 50 generations of women screaming
into the abyss, yelled, ‘My husband is dying! Get
somebody in here! He’s dying now!’
“Everybody came. The staff member who
hadn’t connected the monitor applied CPR. Then
the crash cart arrived, and a doctor administered,
intravenously, a drug that brought Michael back.
“He did indeed return; he had been gone.
They took him to a larger medical center, yet
more trouble was to follow: The pacemaker they
inserted pierced his pericardial sac, there were
complications. It went on for weeks.
“He’s recovering now, but it was tough.
“What did I learn?
“I learned to ask physicians to explain and
repeat their explanations until I understood. I
plan to work harder for healthcare for all, since
I had the best of it and it was nevertheless a diz-
zying challenge.
“When family and friends asked if I needed
help or company, I wished I had cried out, ‘Yes!’
in the same loud voice I used to cry for help for
Michael. I recognize now that spending the first
days on my own was foolish and arrogant.
“One way I learned this was by joining a class
of ’79 gal pal Zoom that happened to be scheduled
for two days after Michael’s cardiac arrest. There
was no set agenda. I wasn’t even sure I’d be able
to get myself together, but I decided to sign in
and tell our group (some I know, some I’d never
met) what I was going through. I asked for advice,
patience, and support.
“The response was more personal, fierce,
formidable, and encouraging than I could have
asked for. Not only were our classmates kind
1 9 78 -1 9 8 0
and helpful—they were sincere. Many followed
up, sent notes, told their own stories. I felt a gath-
ering of community that I hadn’t realized was
essential…or available.”
—Janie Simms Hamner, M.D., 7327 Centenary Ave.,
Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com
80
This August I had the pleasure of
spending a weekend in Bar Harbor,
Maine, with Lauri Livesey Sanduski
and her husband, Jim. Lauri and I were togeth-
er on the same freshman trip, when we quickly
bonded. It was the beginning of a lifetime friend-
ship. We hiked in Bar Harbor, more slowly than
we did 45 years ago, but with no less enthusiasm.
Lauri recently retired from IBM, her one and only
employer since she graduated from Tuck in 1981.
Our drive home took us through the quaint
coastal village of Camden, where Peter Kesser,
FOR SALE!
former general counsel of two large public com- Remarkable and highly visible
panies, now runs the Camden Maine Stay Inn, a
historic bed-and-breakfast. Peter’s shift from
34.7+/- acre parcel of land,
lawyer to innkeeper came somewhat fortuitously ideally located on Route 5
when the former owners of the inn—whom Pe- South and Hopson Road in
ter and his wife, Janis, got to know from years
Norwich, VT and only 2 miles
of being guests—announced they were ready to
retire and wanted to sell. Peter says although he to Hanover, NH and Dartmouth
left behind his legal career in Memphis, Ten-
College. Fogg’s Hardware and
nessee, “I did not retire, nor was I burned out
on the law or escaping corporate life. In fact, I Lumber, The Norwich Farmer’s
loved being a lawyer.” Peter is thriving in his new Market and King Arthur Baking
role. “I most enjoy meeting and talking with our
guests—people of all ages, with widely varying Company are all within 1/4
backgrounds and careers, and from all parts of the mile away. Currently zoned
United States and the world.” He also loves living Rural Residential, there are
in Maine, where “I can hike a mountain and sail
on Penobscot Bay in the same day and all within many possibilities for the
a few minutes from the inn.” Peter welcomes all future owners of this beautiful
’80s—indeed all Dartmouth grads—to visit him
in Camden. You can check out the elegantly ap-
pointed inn at camdenmainestay.com.
land. Approximately 50% of
the land is open with some
Speaking of traveling to Maine, Merle Adel- gently sloping wooded areas
man let me know she is planning a trip to Portland
in September to take part in the Maine Light- at the rear of the property.
house Ride with fellow rider Laurel Smith. The Several different entrances
60-mile route hugs the coast starting in South
Portland, home of Peg Stewart and Ursula Mathers
to the property are possible.
Nehrt, to Cape Elizabeth, home to Susan Green The town of Norwich has
Spagnola and John Moloney, to Scarborough, Old conducted feasibility studies
Orchard Beach, and back to Portland, home of
Rich Entel. Maybe she will see some of our class- for possible uses for the land.
mates along the way. This is an incredible parcel
Like many of our classmates, Rich is a phy-
sician, specializing in addiction medicine. Rich
with great opportunities.
is also an acclaimed visual artist who studied at
the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
and was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell
Colony. Take a look at his amazing sculptures of
soulful animals made of discarded cardboard and
pieces of musical instruments at entelmenagerie.
squarespace.com
I end my column with a plug to read the
thoughtful and inspiring interview of trustee
emeritus John Rich called “We are Finally Talk-
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John credits his medical career addressing the Office: 603.298.8904
effects of racial trauma to his study of English langmclaughrycommercialrealestate.com
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—Meg Coughlin LePage, 8 Brookside Drive, Cum-
berland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@
pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848,
Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@
huntermaclean.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St.,
South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069;
dinsmo@earthlink.net
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After our July-August column about
’81 classmates in show business, Pe-
ter Smith, an adopted member of the
class of ’35 and emeritus director of the Hopkins
Center, wrote from the United Kingdom request-
ing that we thank everyone whose name was in
boldface. Here for an encore are Vaughn Halyard,
Stephen Godchaux, Dan Gilroy, John Gilroy, Pamela
Mason Wagner, Sharon Washington, Mark Hansson,
Chris Meledandri, Nancy Green Oey, Mark Frawley,
Mark Lotito, or “some fellow cast members in
Cyrano De Bergerac—one a freshman advisee—
some shining in Working (what a beehive the
Hop was in those years)!” Smith went on, “Please
add that Justin Monjo, working upside down, had
a recent success with Storm Boy. It’s well worth
checking out. It would be invidious of me to try to
assign the ‘Most Talented Class’ award, but 1981
is surely one of the strongest possible claimants.”
Indeed. He also said he would love to hear from
any of us at ps22@columbia.edu.
Speaking of talent, The Boston Globe just
announced that our own Bob Higgins, surgeon-
in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital and director
of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, has been tapped by Mass General
Brigham to be president of Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and charged with “pushing two of the
country’s top medical centers into becoming a
more unified hospital system.” Way to go, Bob!
We also received news that David B. Edelson,
senior vice president and chief financial officer
of Loews Corp., is the chair-elect of the board of
governors of the Hebrew Union College Jewish
Institute of Religion, whose mission is to prepare
Jewish leaders for the 21st century. Congratula-
tions, David!
Speaking of the 21st century, your class
communications officers are contemplating
how we can highlight the many ways we have
all changed—and ideally, grown—since the last
century: our steady progress and successes, as
rousingly exemplified by Bob and David, yes, but
also our pivots, whether into a new industry or
retirement into full-time golf.
Some ’81s have embraced this idea with
more energy and boldness than others. Jennifer
Hoadley had a noteworthy career in advertising at
Grey and Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and then in
publishing at The Atlantic, Harper’s, and Forbes.
In 2010 she started prerequisites for nursing
school. “After losing my parents in the 2000s, I
decided I really wanted to take care of others. I
graduated from an accelerated B.S.N. program
(11 months) at Pace in 2013 and I’ve worked in
hospitals and practices in obstetrics and gyne-
cology since. It’s a really fun specialty; I love all
the babies!”
Let us know what you’ve been up to as we all
take inspiration from and pride in our pivots and
steady-ons. If anyone is willing to share a hard-
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left turn or even a crash and burn, that would
be awesome. It’s those that lead to true growth.
Wishing you and yours very happy holidays!
—Ann Jacobus Kordahl, P.O. Box 470443, San Fran-
cisco, CA, 94147; ajkordahl@gmail.com; Emil Mis-
kovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH, 03860;
emilmiskovsky@gmail.com
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The year 2021 was a time to reflect
on what really matters to each of us.
Some ’82s are already retiring, some
are heading in new directions, and we are each
facing new challenges and taking stock of where
we want to be with the time we have left. At the end
of July Dan Gaulin wrote: “Some of the best times
lately have included ’82s and water. Bruce Randall
and I went out on Jon Sadick’s sailboat, which he
now moors in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Last
weekend Bruce, Mike Berg, and I went out on the
Hudson on Jason Klein’s cruiser. Tomorrow I’m
going to the ‘WooSox’ game with Jon Sadick. His
dad, a WW II vet, will be honored before the game.
I am retired and have returned to an old pastime—
baseball—in a league for 55-year-olds and up. I can
still hit a bit but sometime in the last few decades
my arm turned into a pool noodle. I also enjoy
making things with the trees in the neighborhood,
maple syrup and nocino (black walnut liquor).”
David Noonan wrote about turning 61, “The joys of
my post-pandemic existence include still having
a job but not really working, falling asleep when I
should be awake and staying awake when I should
be sleeping, maintaining golf mediocrity despite
diligent practice, and forgetting everyone’s name
at the same time.” Some lucky ’82s are traveling
overseas again. Before he wrapped up his law
practice of 28 years, my class co-secretary, David
Eichman, made it to O’ahu, Hawaii, where he got
together with Matt Yee. While they were hiking
together Matt and David FaceTimed with Leslie
Fleming, who has moved back to O’ahu (from San
Francisco) with her husband and is teaching art.
Also during the summer, Tom Daniels met up with
longtime Parisian resident Alex Blumrosen, and
Brian McDonough set out for London to work on the
new Peninsula Hotel near Hyde Park. Thinking
about traveling to Iceland? Check in with Peter
Feer, who traveled there in July to compete with
one of his sons in The Rift, a gravel bike race, or
ask Dan Gilman to share his photos from his fam-
ily’s exploration of the “Land of Fire and Ice” with
cameras in hand on a Dartmouth Alumni Travel
excursion. Keep on exploring and be safe, ’82s!
With sadness I must report the deaths of Charles
Nierman of Malden, Massachusetts, on June 24,
and Jeffrey Given of Lafayette, California, on July
9. A reminder that you can contribute reflections
about Chaz and Jeff or submit a tribute for any of
our deceased classmates and we’ll publish them
on the “In Memoriam” pages of our Class website:
www.1982.dartmouth.org. Also, please keep us
updated if you have a new email address so you
will continue to receive Class Notes and news.
Did you know that we each have a dartmouth.edu
email account? Claim your personal dartmouth.
edu email address by emailing the alumni help
desk at alumni.help@dartmouth.edu.
—Jenny Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW,
Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.
com; David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net
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“Hey, hey, hey, hey”: Jean Hanff Korelitz
was a guest on The Tonight Show Star-
ring Jimmy Fallon after her novel, The
Plot, was chosen by viewers as the winner, out of
six books, of the show’s summer book club. During
a playful discussion with the host about the book,
including various accusations that Jean stole the
novel’s plot (the book is all about a stolen plot),
Jean shared some of the most amusing accusa-
tions. Throughout the summer readers followed
Jimmy Fallon’s Instagram and The Tonight Show’s
social media channels to discuss the book. When
asked if her book will be turned into a movie, Jean
admitted The Plot has been optioned for television,
but beyond that her lips are sealed. Stay tuned.
Another class author, John Fanestil, has written a
second book, One Life to Give: Martyrdom and the
Making of the American Revolution, which was
released in August. Erik R. Seeman, chair of the his-
tory department at the University of Buffalo, says,
“Fanestil makes a persuasive case that religion
shaped the course and outcome of the revolution.”
Other academics and writers of religion and history
have drawn parallel to present day times. John’s
writing has also been featured in The Christian
Century and The San Diego Union Tribune. Based
in San Diego, John, an ordained elder in the United
Methodist Church and a former Rhodes scholar,
is the executive director of Via International and
has worked for years to advance social justice, in-
cluding the Central American peace movement.
Spanning the globe to bring you…new from Japan:
Sam Reckford’s daughter, Molly Reckford ’15, and
her teammate, Michelle Sechser, competed at the
Olympic Games in rowing in the women’s double
sculls. She and her partner finished fifth, just one
second out of first place! In the semi-final they
rowed the second-fastest time ever in the event—
just .18 seconds off the record, which was set by the
Italians who beat them in that race and also won
gold in the final. In other news, Rich Roberts, a part-
ner at the law firm of Halloran Sage in Hartford,
Connecticut, was recently included in the 2022
list of the “Best Lawyers in America.” He was rec-
ognized for his land use and zoning law, municipal
law, and real estate law practices. “Rocky mountain
high, Colorado”: d’Andre “Dee” Willis is heading west
after being selected as the new campus architect
and director of planning for the University Colo-
rado, Boulder. With her consulting practice in
D.C. and as a vice president at the architecture
firm HGA, some of Dee’s architectural highlights
include the Folger Shakespeare Library, the North-
ern Virginia Science Center, the Contemplative
Site and the African American Burial Ground at
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and many build-
ings for the campuses of the University of Virginia,
Marquette University, and Wheaton College. By the
time you read this column our class will have just
collectively celebrated our 60th birthdays during
our virtual party. Happy birthday to you! Happy
birthday to you. Happy birthday!
—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com;
Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago,
IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com
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Here’s something you may not know:
There is nothing in the rules that
says that either co-secretary Juliet
Aires Giglio or I have to mention any of you in our
column. We could write this entire column about
ourselves every month and there is absolutely
nothing anyone can do to stop us. The only thing
that stops us is the word limit of the column. Five
hundred words can’t possibly tell you enough
about either of your co-secretaries. Thus, some
news about the rest of you. What is our theme
this month? Is it classmates who have won some
award at work? Nope, too many of those. Those
who have been paroled from prison? Nope, that
would be a whole column about Bob Lucic. Those
whose only birthday gift was a single Amazon gift
card? Again, Bob Lucic. Now I love Bob as much
as the next guy, but he can’t possibly carry an
entire column. Maybe a single run-on sentence,
but not 500 words.
Suddenly, it hit me: The deadline for this
column is on my birthday. I should use the col-
umn to highlight those classmates who share that
birthday, the birthday buddies column.
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Our next birthday buddy is Caroline Berg-
man Gottschalk. Caroline spent her summer on
Nantucket, Massachusetts. The remainder of
her year is spent in New York, where Caroline
is an attorney. Since this is our birthday col-
umn, we’ll focus on our birthday, rather than her
“other” life. Anyway, neither Derek Chow nor Jan
Gordon showed up for our joint birthday party
(Nantucket chapter). I don’t know if this makes
Caroline feel any better, but Derek and Jan didn’t
show up for my birthday party (Woodbridge,
Connecticut, chapter) either. Perhaps they were
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Evelyn Abernathy shares our birthday. Ev-
elyn, who is a pathologist, lives not 10 minutes
from my house. Accordingly, Evelyn and I will
host a joint birthday party (Woodbridge) next
year. For that one day, her friends will be my
friends. And she can share my friend, if he shows
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Friends, while I missed the virtual
reunion in June, we did have a won-
derful mini-reunion in Deep Creek,
Maryland, hosted by Pam and Barry Bass and fea-
turing (“featuring” might be a bit strong here, as
this wasn’t really a performance) Kathy ’83 and
Russ Mitchell, Eileen ’83 and Jack Sylvia, and Lynne
Zeisler Petkovic. The weekend was full of food,
beverages, biking, boating, dancing, pickleball,
and, most importantly, long-term friendships.
Cindy asked me recently what things make me
happy—that weekend had it all!
We have news from Missouri (and what col-
umn is complete without Missouri news) about
our own Linda Blockus. Linda, currently the di-
rector of the office of undergraduate research at
the University of Missouri–Columbia, has been
elected to the executive board of the Council on
Undergraduate Research (CUR). Representing
CUR’s undergraduate research programs divi-
sion, Linda began a three-year term on the board
this summer. A biology major at Dartmouth, Lin-
da earned her Ed.M. in educational leadership
from BU and her Ph.D. in educational leader-
ship and policy analysis at University of Mis-
souri–Columbia. She also was a visiting student
at Ohio State (as an undergrad) and Stanford
(as a graduate student), as well as a fellow at the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science Center for Advancing Science & En-
gineering Capacity. Linda served on the CUR
executive board, 2009-11, and as a councilor in
CUR’s at-large division, 2002-05. CUR supports
faculty development for high-quality undergrad-
uate student-faculty collaborative research and
scholarship. Way to go, Linda!
Sadly, I must share the passing of two class-
mates. Rob Patterson passed away in June. While
I don’t have other details, our best wishes go to
Rob’s family.
We also lost Doug Tillman in July. A release
stated: “It is with shock and terrible sadness that
we share the unexpected death of Doug Tillman,
due to a cardiac event. A Dartmouth ’85, Doug
was a petty officer, second class, in the U.S. Navy
from 1991 to 1996. During his Navy stint, he dis-
covered a love of programming, which led to his
successful career in computer programming at
Grainger, Textura, and lastly as director of devel-
opment operations and project management for
the construction and engineering global business
unit at Oracle. He had an insatiable curiosity,
deep intellect, and a love of life. He was passion-
ate about his dogs, books, travel, piano, cooking,
great wine and spirits, and many languages. His
greatest accomplishment was his wonderful
family, which he loved fiercely. A longtime resi-
dent of Gurnee, Illinois, Doug leaves behind his
beloved wife of 28 years, Cathy Cook Tillman;
three children; and three grandchildren.” For
more details go to www.dignitymemorial.com/
obituaries/gurnee-il/douglas-tillman-10260434.
In these unsettled times, I’m sure we’re all
looking for something to make us feel good and
happy. Might I suggest watching Ted Lasso. I’m
very confident it will bring a smile to your face
and warmth to your heart.
—John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont,
PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com;
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Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road Greenwich,
CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com
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David Schnabel, our class’ Bartlett
Tower Society chair, and husband
Rob bequeathed a gift in support of
the Triangle House and the LGBTQIA+ com-
munity at Dartmouth. If you are interested in
learning more about making a planned gift to
the College, please contact David at davidjsch-
nabel@gmail.com or click the Bartlett Tower
Society link on our class website. Go back and
read Kathy Gord Callahan’s article, “Dog House,”
in July/August ’21 issue of Dartmouth Alumni
Magazine. Since our last DAM Class Notes, An-
drew Gutow was in Hanover for the birthday of his
son, Josh, in June. He did his best to represent
our class by himself in front of the Hanover Inn.
Tom Berry, Kevin Sankey, Mike McTernan, and Peter
Gibson played golf at the Bald Peak Colony Club
in Melvin Village, New Hampshire. Jonathan
Skurnik’s rom-com, My Imaginary Girlfriend, is
a semifinalist in the ISA Genre Busting Comedy
Screenplay Competition. Brian Moore, Richard
Thorner, Bon Gray ’83, and Mary Frances Sobo had
a mini-reunion in Worchester, Massachusetts.
Karen Blodgett, and Kevin and Laura (Lindner) San-
key had a spontaneous baseball game reunion
in San Francisco. Dina Bloom Browne, Jennifer
Culliton Paul, Kathy Keith, Alicia Lindgren, Lynne
TenHoopen Lear, and Terry Perkins Mitman met at
the Hanover Inn. In August John Hueston and I
were cycling along the Hudson River Park bike
path and came upon one of the sculptures in an
exhibition, Re:Growth, a Celebration of Art, Riv-
erside Park and the New York Spirit, curated by
Karin Bravin of BravinLee program and another
Dartmouth alum, Dan Garodnick ’94. Karin or-
ganized 24 contemporary artists, creating the
largest art show in the park’s history, according to
the Riverside Park Conservancy, which produced
it. Congratulations, Karin, and great work. While
on the East Coast we had the pleasure of meet-
ing up with Ned Groves and Deb Rhodes, as well
as Jonno and Julie Williams. We got busy making
plans for Homecoming and post-Covid world
travel plans. We had many celebrate wedding
anniversaries this year: John and Mae (Drake)
Hueston, 35 years; Claire Rehnberg and Sean Nich-
olson, 32 years; Scott and Melissa Isherwood, 32
years; Lance Lazar and Marieke Peleman, 30; Susan
Smith and Bart Sambrook, 30 (her daughter, Sa-
mantha, graduated from St. Lawrence in 2020).
Beth Robinson was named to the federal appellate
court in Vermont by President Biden. Liz Babb
created a 10-memoir ’86 book club called Read It
and Weap. We just finished our first memoir, by
the former Brat Pack member Andy McCarthy,
Brat: An ’80s Story. Please update your email with
the College to join us for the remaining books,
including Educated, There’s a Hole in my Bucket,
Small Fry, Wild Game, Freckled, Memorial Drive,
Greenlights, and Born a Crime. Jonathan Pelson’s
book came out on September 28 this year and is
titled Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domi-
nation of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back. It is
about China, 5G, and American innovation. Send
me your updates and events you have celebrated
this year. In beauty, it is finished.
—Mae (Drake) Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del
Mar, CA 92625; dart86news@gmail.com
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Welcome to my first column as your
new class secretary! I’m very excited
about hearing from you and sharing
your news.
I was thrilled when my Alpha Theta brother
and class reunion chair Tim Parker reached out to
me about a year ago and asked me to join the 35th
reunion committee. That role led to another, as
a member of our class social justice task force,
headed up by Tim, which was formed to identify
specific tools and tangible ways for members of
our class to combat inequality and racism while
promoting social justice. Through a series of ac-
tive discussion sessions, I have learned a tremen-
dous amount from my fellow task force members
Tim, Julie (Park) Hubble, Peter Murane, Beth Papp,
Scott Rusert, Holly Silvestri, and Regina Speed-Bost.
We are now working on ways to broaden our im-
pact and get more of our class involved in these
important discussions.
Speaking of reunion, our virtual 35th re-
union took place during the weekend of June
17-20. More than 150 people registered to attend
the reunion and the various events had enthusias-
tic participation. The class-specific programing
started off with a warm greeting on Friday night
from Tim and our class president Tracey Salmon-
Smith. This was followed by a Zoom dance party
that was also attended by ’85s and ’86s. Partiers
were dazzled by the impressive musical knowl-
edge and sharp dance moves of Regina, Nathan
Gilliatt, Andrea Hayes-Jordan, and Vic and Leslie
(Collins) Trautwein, among many others.
On Saturday we listened to ’87 TED talks
featuring thoughtful and engaging presenta-
tions from Julie, Andrew McAllister, Pat Quinton,
and Scott Taylor. The TED talks were followed
by our inaugural classwide social justice task
force event, a social justice listening session,
which began with a short film based on the book
The Color of Law. This was followed by a con-
versation between Scott and Tim about how we
can communicate in a way that fosters peace,
justice, and respect. The day wrapped up with
a virtual cocktail hour and the chance to mingle
and chat casually.
As part of the reunion weekend the class
nominating committee, chaired by Bob Charles,
presented its slate of nominees for the upcoming
period from 2021-27. Subsequently elected by
a vote of our class were Tracey, who will con-
tinue serving as our president; along with Bren-
dan Connell and Tim, who were elected co-vice
presidents; and Evan Azriliant, who was elected
treasurer.
As fun as the virtual reunion was, the re-
union committee is already planning our next
event, which will be an in-person “off the Green”
reunion in Chicago on September 15-18, 2022.
Make sure to save the date!
Finally, I am very sad to report the passing
of a beloved classmate, Michael McGinn. A tribute
to Mike appeared in the September issue of our
class newsletter, which is posted on the class
web page.
Send me news! Please share your joys and
successes and also your challenges and “growth
experiences.”
—Lisa Snyder, 430 Ward St., Newton, MA, 02459;
dartmouth87classnews@gmail.com
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Greetings, ’88s!
In my last column I invited you
to share your memories from Sopho-
more Summer, and I am pleased to highlight several
classmates’ recollections from that memorable
summer of 1986.
Jeff Green, who was promoted this year to full
professor in the psychology department at Vir-
ginia Commonwealth University, remembers the
“surreal” experience during Sophomore Summer
of having his mother on campus. She took a com-
puting course at Dartmouth, lived in MidMass,
and even befriended the chair of the psychology
department, whom Jeff did not know even though
he was a psych major. Jeff also recalls loving the
classes he took that summer, including a psychol-
ogy statistics class that he views as sowing the
seeds of his becoming a social psychology profes-
sor. Finally, Jeff told me he talked to Frank Wang
every day summer term about the Red Sox, who
then broke their hearts in October.
I also heard from Bill Gifford, who is living
in Salt Lake City, Utah, and reports having skied
nearby with Sturgis Woodberry and Jonathan Altman
this past winter. Bill took time out from working
on a sequel to his book, Spring Chicken, about the
science of longevity, to tell me his Sophomore Sum-
mer memory: setting his “then-fabulous” hair on
fire in his dorm room and feeling lucky there was
a sink nearby.
Julia (Mairs) Weisbecker, who is a physical
therapist and is in training to compete in her fifth
Ironman triathlon, remembers a hilarious drive
with Amy Beller from Minnesota to Hanover for
summer term. They took Amy’s stick-shift car,
which Julia did not exactly know how to drive but
took turns driving anyway. Julia also said it was a
dream to live for the summer in her sorority house
with Kajy (Rejaie) Vicinelli and many other good
friends.
Peter Ryan, who chairs the department of ge-
ology at Middlebury and recently published the
second edition of his textbook, recalls listening
during Sophomore Summer to great reggae and
ska music. He cites those influences on his music
even now, including the album All Over the Place
his band, The Almendros, recently released. Pe-
ter also told me about a three-on-three basketball
tournament summer term in which his teammates
Dave McCusker and Luke Smith, as hockey players,
“did all the dirty work and let me take more shots
than I could count.”
Matthew Garcia said two memories from Soph-
omore Summer stand out for him: spending a lot of
time partying with Paula Zagrecki and discovering
Kurt Vonnegut, all of whose books in Baker Library
Matthew then aimed to read during the summer.
Chuck Young lived with Jay Sotos and Bash
Derti in Mid-Fayer Sophomore Summer, and he
remembers the three of them competing in what
they called the “leisure olympics,” complete with
a handmade scoreboard. Chuck also participated
in the summer cabaret and did a parody of Miami
Vice that was called Hanover Vice and featured
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Scott Bertetti and Chuck as skateboarding campus
security officers.
Hope you enjoyed this flashback to 1986, and
please keep in touch!
—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hart-
ford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@gmail.com
89
797 North Road - Barnard, Vermont
It was great to be back on campus in Set on 27 pastoral acres, this modern Greek revival
July visiting our daughter during her farmhouse was designed and built by the current
owners in 2008. Combining historically inspired
Sophomore Summer. I saw Ray Prado details with modern construction techniques and
(who’s working on storyboards for multiple new state-of-the-art systems, the owners created a
projects, but I’m sworn to secrecy) and his wife, home with space and volume (throughout the first
Gesine, and am hoping that by the time you read floor are 12-foot ceilings) combined with a
functional and organized floor plan (off the front
this I will have seen many more ’89s at Homecom- hall is a large mudroom with a washer/dryer and
ing this October. an open shower for dogs or muddy boots.) Large
On that East Coast trip I had coffee with Bar- windows and elegant room proportions create
interiors that are graceful and comfortable. The
bara Krautheimer in Amherst, Massachusetts, and
land includes open meadows, a spring-fed pond,
it turned out she and my wife had colleagues in fenced paddocks and pastures, and a riding arena.
common—small world! Barbara is now the dean Trails wind through wooded areas on either side of
of the college of the humanities and fine arts at the property, all less than a mile from Silver Lake
and the center of Barnard.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I had tried
to connect with Chris DeFrancis, Andrew McCallum, www.northroadvt.com
and Kyoungho Koh, but hope we’ll connect next trip. Rick Higgerson
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I heard from John Sveen several months ago:
“All is well. I live outside of Syracuse, New York,
on Skaneateles Lake. My wife, Anne, and I have Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.
three daughters, Sarah (23), Mia (19), Lily (11). I’m
an ophthalmologist and my wife is a pediatrician
specializing in dermatology. Sarah will be starting
Boston University dental school this summer, Mia
is a sophomore at Colgate, and Lily is my little fifth-
grade buddy. I reconnected with Chris Bailey and
Deanna Emberley Bailey a few years back and we’ve
had several nice summer visits. We are hoping to
visit them one day in Bali now that they’ve moved! Creating
What a fun surprise to see my old roommate Dave
Frey on 60 Minutes a week ago [on a segment about
Camp Ritchie, the World War II military intel- Beautiful Rugs
ligence training center]! Super cool. Hoping he and
Beth Wood Frey will stop by one day when they are
visiting their daughter at University of Rochester
for
Medical School!”
I caught up with Greg Williams on our biweekly Beautiful Places
Zoom meeting; he recently spent two years running
the nonprofit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Greg
moved back to Seattle as his daughter wanted to
finish high school there and is living in the CHOP
neighborhood. He still keeps in touch with his
sister, Laura Williams Gal ’91 and her husband,
Christian Gal ’91; his sister-in-law, Bridget Mc-
Caffrey ’88; Jeff Zarse; Dave Heisterkamp; Marcus
Weiss ’90; and Laurie Adams ’88, who is the CEO
of Women for Women International, a nonprofit
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—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach,
CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com
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I recently asked ’90s, “What’s your fa-
vorite album that was recorded after
we graduated in 1990 or who’s your
favorite musical artist whom you discovered af-
ter we graduated in 1990?” Here is Part 2 of your
answers. Allison Berger writes, “Radiohead. Hail to
the Thief may be their best album.” Cristina (Infante)
Smith writes, “The album that immediately comes
to mind is Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome:
The Seeger Sessions. It is a family favorite, espe-
cially for long trips in the car. My husband and I
heard it for the first time as we sat on my cousin’s
porch drinking whiskey at ‘dusk,’ which I put in
quotes because we were in Norway that summer
for a family reunion and dusk was at 2 a.m. or so.
The wonderful folk songs on that album have been
the background music for so many of our family
adventures. I just love it.” Derek Symer writes, “I’m
a pretty big new music nerd and former AM 1340
DJ. I’m going to skip over the grunge bands of the
’90s and the Smashing Pumpkins, which get an
honorable mention in my book. Recently I’ve been
really grooving on Manchester Orchestra’s new LP
The Million Masks of God. However, my vote goes
to Jason Isbell. I admire his guitar mastery, lyrical
genius, and songcraft almost as much as his dedi-
cation to his personal sobriety, justice, and equal
rights.” Two days later Derek wrote me a second
email: “I’m having my morning coffee and saying to
myself, ugh, you idiot! Radiohead, of course. How
could you forget Radiohead or Wilco?!” Quincy Vale
writes, “One band that is absolutely fantastic is the
Finnish progressive band, Nightwish. Their North
American tour this fall will be the first live music
I have seen since the onset of the Covid-19 pan-
demic.” Michelle Brownlee writes, “Maceo Parker.
Before he became a solo artist, Maceo was James
Brown’s saxophone player. His brother, Kellis
Parker, was a professor at Columbia Law School,
and I took a music contracts class with him. Kellis
talked about Maceo all the time in class, but I didn’t
think much of it until I finally had the chance to
go see Maceo play a show. I’ve definitely seen him
live more than any other artist, at least 10 times.
The last time I went to see him, two or three years
ago, he reminisced onstage about his law professor
brother, Kellis, who died very young, a few years
after I graduated law school. Maceo’s tribute to my
professor made that show the best of all.” Ute Otley
writes, “I am a huge Beyonce fan. Her Homecoming
concert is the most entertaining thing I’ve seen or
heard in music in a long time. The flirtatious girl
power vibe is a winner! In other news, one of my
CVU basketball players, Mekkena Boyd, will be
playing at Dartmouth this year. I feel like a proud
mom sending one of my basketball offspring to my
alma mater!” Christian Henrich writes, “Stone Sour.”
—Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA
02493; crawdaddy37@gmail.com
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Greetings, ’91s!
My Connecticut neighbor Deb Kara-
zin Owens asked me to fill in as contribu-
tor for this column as we transition to a new slate
of class officers. Huge thanks to Deb for keeping
up with our class news during the last five years!
Even though our 30th reunion was canceled
this year, I know that some classmates gathered
for their own mini reunions with close friends this
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spring and summer. Shoot me an email to tell me
about any ’91 gatherings you attended!
The world began to open this spring as people
got vaccinated and we could go places! Priscilla Huff
says one great feature of the post-vaccination
world is finally getting to catch up with people. She
flew up to Rochester, New York, on a family mat-
ter and caught up with Megan Vaules. They talked
about how much they wish we could all meet in
Hanover and how our lives have changed during
the past 18 months. The other thing Priscilla is
talking about with classmates and alumni from
neighboring classes is the sale of the radio station,
WFRD-WDCR.
Sadly, the Dartmouth radio station family lost
one of its own last year, fellow classmate Marc Bap-
tiste. Marc’s friends from Dartmouth radio shared
many fond memories of the DJ known as “Bat-
man,” “Grover,” and “Furry Muppet.” Neel Chatterjee
writes: “Marc was one of the most inspirational
people in my formative experiences on WDCR
and WFRD. He was a great DJ. I loved hearing his
Trinidad accent showering the airwaves playing
some of the greatest ’80s and ’90s rock. He also took
on one of the hardest jobs in the radio station: He
made sure the radio system worked. I remember
him driving up the side of an icy hill to deal with
an antenna one snowy night. Most people would
just say, ‘Hey, it’s cold outside. I’m not getting paid
anything for this. I’m good.’ But not Marc. He was a
selfless person who really did everything he could
to make us all better.”
Marc Wachen ’89 writes: “Marc was awe-
some—he was so dedicated to the station. What
I remember most about Marc is he was always
smiling, always wanting to learn more about how
the station worked, always willing to lend a hand.
I remember him doing the hard-to-fill 9 p.m.-to-
midnight Friday night shift and never complaining.
And he was happy to do the dirty work around
the station—I can still picture Marc as technical
director, with toothpick in hand, cleaning out all
the cart machines with care and love because he
just wanted the station to be great.”
Carolyne Allen ’89 writes: “I remember him as
such a gung-ho, upbeat, and sweet guy, contributing
so much to the spirit of the station. He was always
willing to help, take on more at either station. Such
a good person, so fun to be around.”
Diane DePriest ’89 writes: “Marc was a terrific
person. I have many fond memories of Grover en-
thusiastically hanging out at the station, helping in
any capacity, and willing to take unpopular shifts.
I remember his curious spirit, big puppy-like eyes
and caring heart. I remember this dedication to
things he cared about and his stories of Trinidad.”
Priscilla summed it up with, “Marc was loyal and
loved and such a people person.”
As the College embarks on its year of home-
coming, I hope we can all find ways to reconnect
with each other in person. Stay safe and send me
your updates!
—Sara Burbine Potter, 108 Hillcrest Road, Fairfield,
CT 06824; sara_burbine@yahoo.com
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Thanks to many of you for posting or
emailing your news—keep it coming!
Alex Bernadotte was a featured
speaker at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum
in September. Alex is the award-winning founder
and CEO of Beyond 12, a highly recognized orga-
nization that increases the number of low-income,
first-generation, and historically underrepresented
students who graduate from college. The virtual
event was sponsored by the Magnuson Center of
Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth (magnuson.dart-
mouth.edu), which serves as a hub, aggregating
resources, advice, and networking opportunities
for Dartmouth community members involved in
innovation, entrepreneurship, or venture capital.
It’s moving this year into a new building on the
west end of campus.
The always inspirational Jesse Bradley ap-
peared on Good Morning America’s “Faith Fri-
day” segment in July (you can find the link in our
Facebook group). He said, “It was a joy to share
about Dartmouth, the close relationships formed
and the character shaping that happened through
the men’s soccer team.” A few of Jesse’s words of
wisdom from the interview: “We really need each
other. We need each other so much. Let’s step up
together. If someone’s hurting, simply be there for
them. Listen.” He added: “We started a new site
during the pandemic to spread hope with all free
resources: jessebradley.org.”
James Osborne lost his mother in 2008 to ce-
rebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with sub-
cortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADA-
SIL), a rare, degenerative, and fatal genetic disease
that affects blood vessels in the brain. His efforts
to help find a cure were recently featured in a Uni-
versity of Washington Medicine publication. With
the support of close friends, including L. Nicholas
Brosnahan, he launched the CADASIL Eradication
Project to support cutting-edge genomic research
to tackle rare diseases. James, the narrative techni-
cal director for 343 Industries (makers of Halo),
said, “I realized that my real opportunity in the
advocacy space was to go big on funding hard-
science research aimed at understanding—at a
genetic level—how this particular monogenetic
disease operates.” To find out more, visit notch3.
org. James and his wife, Kathy (Winant) Osborne,
live in Kirkland, Washington.
Good news from Chitra Narasimhan: “I have
been honored to serve as the ’92 Alumni Council
representative. This year I have been the vice-chair
of the lifelong learning committee and we created
a go-to guide of educational resources available
to alumni, sent out in September. I am happy to
share that I was elected as the next president of
the Alumni Council (currently serving as the pres-
ident-elect) and will begin my term in June 2022.
My recent Dartmouth adventure was celebrating
turning 50 with Annie Kaskade, Whitney Allen, and
Julie Kenerson with a bonus visit with Lou Bregou
and Jill Blumberg!”
Tyrone Rachal, president of Urban Key Capi-
tal Partners, has been appointed global governing
trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is
currently vice-chair for ULI Atlanta and is past
chair of Public-Private Partnership Council na-
tionally. ULI is a nonprofit education and research
institute. Its mission is to shape the future of the
built environment for transformative impact in
communities worldwide. “On a personal note,” Ty
wrote, “I spent the 4th of July weekend in Atlanta
with fraternity brothers Alex Rundlet and DeVere
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Beard and we memorialized the occasion with a
round of ‘Ty shots!’ No one was harmed during
this reunion.” (See their photo in our September
newsletter, archived at 1992.dartmouth.org/news.)
Speaking of super-fun reunions with beloved
friends—you know our 30th is coming up, June
16-19, to be exact, right? Check our website or Face-
book group (or email me) for details!
­—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave.
SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192;
dartmouth92news@gmail.com
93
As I (Natalie) write this, summer term
is wrapping up and the ’25s are getting
ready to join the Big Green family. And,
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Selen Unsal posted that, “My daughter, Leyla,
will be a ’25 starting in a few weeks. (My husband,
Paul Jacoby, is a ’92.) We’re excited for her to meet
all the other ’93 kids!”
Jennifer Campbell Whalen said, “I married T.J.
Whalen; our daughter, Campbell, is a ’22; and our
son, Cooper, will be a freshman this fall—a newly
minted ’25!”
Douglas Chia reported that he has “twins
(boy-girl) going into the class of 2025.” He also
mentioned that U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney has a child
at Dartmouth.
Chad Thomas, who is married to Cathleen Millett
Thomas, said, “Our eldest son, Griffin, is a ’24. He
made the best of a tough year. Can’t wait for him to
Home
experience ‘real’ Dartmouth this fall.”
Rich Lytle wrote that he and his wife, Kelly
Bell Lytle ’94, have a son, Richard, who is in the
class of 2024.
Kristin Vinson reports, “My daughter, Caro-
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dogs?” Yes, ma’am!
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Heidi Smith passed along, “I think there are
quite a few.” She mentioned Doug Chia’s twins
and gave a shout-out to Veree Hawkins Brown and
Todd Sisitsky as having Dartmouth offspring as well.
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scribes, not any part of the admissions process),
and we hope everyone stays healthy and well!
—Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods
Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.ku-
pinsky.93@dartmouth.edu; Dwight Fenton, 200
E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021;
dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu
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Hi, ’94s! I’m light on news to share, but
at least the piece I have is good.
Classmate Amy Candido was fea-
tured in one of our columns back in 2018, and now,
thanks to a press release from her new firm, we
have an update. Amy continues to practice intel-
lectual property law, protecting some of the biggest
names and ideas in the technology sector. Recently
she joined the trial and intellectual property liti-
gation practice as a partner in the San Francisco
office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Amy
represents clients including market leaders and
innovative disruptors, regularly speaks as an ex-
pert at conferences, publishes on a wide range of
intellectual property topics, and litigates antitrust
and complex commercial matters. Congratula-
tions to Amy, as she continues to wow as one of
the Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Women Litigators
in California.”
While Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gener-
ously allows our class column up to 650 words per
issue, I’m sadly out of news. Still, there are many
disregarded words, just wasted, floating out there,
wanting to be used to tell your story. Please contact
me with your update for the next column.
—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane,
Brentwood, TN 03755; lauradavis723@mac.com
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Congratulations to Aya Kamaya on
the recent publication of the second
edition of her 2015 book, Diagnostic
Ultrasound of the Abdomen and Pelvis. Aya has
written four books on the topic of ultrasound. She
is a professor of radiology at Stanford University,
where she is chief of the division of body imag-
ing. Aya is also a course director for the Winter
Imaging in Beaver Creek conference from CME
Science. Calling all radiologists out there, you can
get your continuing education points and ski with
Aya this January!
David Yuan may be interested. He’s a radiolo-
gist at Kern Radiology in Bakersfield, California.
David went to medical school in Syracuse, New
York, where he met his wife, Ellen. David did a
fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging and then
moved out to California. He has three kids, the
eldest of whom is applying for colleges and hopes
to go to Dartmouth.
Amy Barnhorst, an emergency and inpatient
psychiatrist, is on faculty at the University of Cali-
fornia Davis School of Medicine and is director
of the BulletPoints Project for the UC Firearm
Violence Prevention Center. “My wingwoman on
this project is Rocco Pallin ’13, and our project,
funded by a generous grant from the State of Cali-
fornia, is the first of its kind in the nation, though
certainly will not be the last, given the interest
it has generated.” Amy and Rocco are nationally
recognized experts in gun violence prevention and
the role of healthcare providers in prevention of
firearm injury and death. The BulletPoints Proj-
ect, which provides clinical tools for preventing
firearm injury, has attracted interested collabora-
tors and funders from across the nation, ranging
from healthcare organizations such as Kaiser and
Northwell to research organizations such as Affirm
to advocacy organizations such as Moms Demand
Action and the Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.
Interested in learning more? Check out their web-
site, bulletpointsproject.org.
I end this column with the devastating news
of two classmates’ deaths in August. The bells of
Baker Tower ring for Michael Chen of Hong Kong,
who died of cancer, and our class Empathos com-
mittee co-chair Brenda Rangel, who passed away
unexpectedly from Covid-19 in Texas. They both
will be terribly missed. To quote Henri-Frédéric
Amiel, “Life is short. We don’t have much time to
gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with
us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.”
I will add to that, remember your classmates. If
there’s someone you were close to during our col-
lege days whom you miss or wonder about, reach
out to them; call, text, arrange to meet in Hanover
(perhaps at our July 2022 reunion) or somewhere
down the street. You can use the alumni direc-
tory or search our class reunion book (dartmouth.
brightcrowd.com/1995) and reach out. It’s one spe-
cial way to honor the memories of Mike, Brenda,
and all those we’ve lost.
—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham,
MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu
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This past year and a half living under
global pandemic conditions has been
challenging for all of us. Many have
used this time to evaluate what means most to
them and, perhaps, even make a change to their
day-to-day lives. In particular, our class authors
have utilized this time of great introspection to
produce works across a wide gamut of genres—
some with their first published works.
In March our own Alexandra Zissu released
her sixth eco-related book, titled Earth Squad:
Fifty People Who Are Saving the Planet. A work
of juvenile nonfiction, her book is intended to
inspire young eco-activists with stories of other
environmental crusaders dedicated to making
our world a better place; it further provides tips
that anyone can do to help save the earth—thereby
invoking the “Earth Squad” in which we can all
be part. Alexandra has gained a reputation as a
“green guru” and “green goddess,” having served
as an environmental and sustainability focused
writer, editor, and content consultant for a number
of publications and private firms. She also sits on
the board of Clean and Healthy New York. Her
previous works include The Conscious Kitchen,
The Complete Organic Pregnancy, Planet Home,
and The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat. Alex-
andra, husband Olli Chanoff, and their family reside
in the Hudson Valley area of New York, where they
live close to the farms that feed them.
Entering the literary world with his own eye
toward the importance of connection to nature,
one of our class authors emerged from the tra-
vails of Covid by releasing his first book in July.
Seán O’Donoghue published The Forest Reminds
Us Who We Are via North Atlantic Press. The book
explores personal, cultural, and ecological healing
specifically through connection with wild plants.
More specifically, it acts as a guidebook to allow its
readers to tap into the medicinal power of wild flora
and its ability to promote “spiritual, emotional,
and mental well-being” through herbalist rituals
designed to deepen connections between our own
bodies and the land.
From the other end of the literary spectrum
and with an air of escapism from the times in
which we live, one of our more prolific and sto-
ried class authors produced the latest work within
his thriller-based oeuvre. Unthinkable—the latest
novel from our own bestselling Brad Parks—was
also released in July. The protagonist of this new-
est Parksian book is Nate Lovejoy, a stay-at-home
dad thrust into an impossible (nay, unthinkable)
situation that could potentially save the lives of a
billion people, if and only if Nate makes the right
choices to save them. Brad himself was excited
for the arrival of his book; he posted: “With all due
respect to my birthday, Father’s Day, and most of
the other 365 contestants, the day when finished
books arrive from the publisher is absolutely one
of my favorites of the year. And, okay, maybe I took
Unthinkable to bed with me last night.”
I recently came across a saying from Philip
Pullman (author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark
Materials) in which he said, “After nourishment,
shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing
we need most in the world.” In the case of these
three dynamic class authors and particularly in
times such as the ones we have all lived of late,
those “stories” can equally provide the nourish-
ment, shelter, and companionship we need to make
ourselves and the world a little better by having
read them. Congrats to all our amazing literarily
inclined classmates on the publication of their
respective works, and may the years ahead be filled
with inspiration and continued good writing!
—Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive,
Canton, GA 30115; ggdr@alum.dartmouth.org
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Congratulations to Carolyn Wolff Dor-
ros, who recently opened Agnes Café &
Provisions, a Mediterranean-inspired
neighborhood restaurant in Houston. Carolyn
teamed up with her childhood friend Molly Voor-
hees to launch the new all-day café and boutique
grocery. Carolyn, who is the executive vice presi-
dent of the commercial real estate firm Wolff Cos.,
told the Houston Business Journal, “I love cooking,
entertaining, and traveling, and, over the past year,
have truly missed some of my favorite dishes from
around the world.” She continued, “With only a few
restaurant options in the area, we wanted to create
a relaxed yet elegant gathering place, walkable for
neighbors to catch up with friends over a fantastic
meal, coffee, or glass of wine.”
I checked in with Carolyn, who wrote, “Agnes
Café & Provisions has been open for three months
and is doing well! We are lucky to have a large, airy
space and patio. Definitely looking forward to some
fall outdoor dining weather!”
She and husband Chris Dorros are parents
to 11-year-old Sam and 14-year-old Eliza, who
works as a barista at Agnes, along with Amelia
Montgomery, the daughter of Joel Montgomery and
wife Sarah.
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Hello, ’98s. I write with a renewed af-
You can find
finity for you and for Dartmouth. Last
month I visited the College; my first
time there in nearly 10 years. It was wonderful
to walk the now-sprawling campus with my wife
and kids (2 and 5). I also met up with old friends
Belinda Chiu and Dave Smith. Another highlight
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was staying at a bed and breakfast in Lyme, New
Hampshire, and talking Dartmouth with proprietor
Rich Yurko ’75.
Jen Tetler and wife Emily Battle ’05 now have
two 2.5-year-olds. Jen and Emily were pregnant
at the same time—they swapped embryos and www.DartmouthAlumni
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is finally getting easier. This summer Jen had a
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In addition Jen teaches science at an independent
high school in Oakland, California.
Shannon (Jarosh) Walsh wrote en route to South
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five more children at home, ranging in age from 2
to 15. Shannon is an emergency medicine physi-
cian at an academic medical center in Richmond,
Virginia. Covid has deeply impacted her day-to-
day experience. Last August she contracted the
virus. Thankfully, her symptoms were mild and
her family stayed healthy. For Shannon it is difficult
to see Covid case numbers trending in the wrong
direction. She encourages anyone who has not to
get vaccinated.
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physician. During the pandemic her emotions have
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Hill, who will be writing three columns
for us this year. Send your news!
—Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis,
MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com
tion to the College Fund in his memory. Our con-
dolences to the Cobin family and Jeremy’s friends.
Lisa (Goodman) Marin reports that she recently
began a new job. She’s now a senior statistician at
Adelphi Research. Congrats on the new gig, Lisa!
I heard from Jillian (Rockoff) Sykes, who had
secretary for Near Eastern affairs, recently came
on official travel to Algeria. While there, Joey
met with Sonia and Adam Sigelman ’05, who is
also serving in the country as the cultural affairs
officer. What great Dartmouth representation in
such an important region.
Lawrence Reyes, to the world in August 2020.
Big brother Thomas is adjusting well and looks
forward to “sharing” all of his toys with baby Jack.
Lastly, our class raised $118,579 for Dart-
mouth students in fiscal year 2021. We stayed
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Andrea (Stern) Himoff and Adam Himoff appre-
ciate how living in Park City, Utah, has allowed
them and their two girls to get outdoors during
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Happy holidays, ’01s! This year seems to
have passed by in a blur; not quite what
anyone expected but still coming to a
close. I am excited to share some of the great work
of our ’01 classmates. Chris Miranda completed his
residency in family medicine with OhioHealth
lots of news to share. She started her own physical
therapy practice, Orthopedic Manual Physical
Therapy Services LLC, in November 2019. She
welcomed her third child, Eden Ruby, on August
14, 2020. Eden joins big brother Washington Ellis
(7) and big sister Sceery Laura (5) and arrived
just in time for the family’s move 10 days later
James Turner shared that he and his wife,
Kelsey Rush ’05, jumped at the opportunity of
permanent remote work to relocate their family
(they have two kids) to Hanover and could not
be more excited to be back. They have already
booked tickets to all the Hop concerts, downed
several breakfasts at Lou’s, and located the per-
more than 330 donors. Kudos and thanks to all
who contributed. To the rest of you slackers, let’s
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and Adam to prioritize what matters. Adam has
turned most of his focus to his art, creating con-
temporary and pop-infused linocut, digital, and
painted pieces with a humorous and provocative
twist. You can check out Adam’s work on Insta-
gram. Andrea has leaped into politics to launch
this past July and started a fellowship in hospi-
tal medicine and critical care in downtown Co-
lumbus, Ohio. He and his wife, Ashley, and four
children are settled in Dublin, Ohio, and would
welcome visits from any classmates traveling
through central Ohio. In addition to quarantining
from Boston to Scituate, Massachusetts. For her
40th birthday Jillian received a surfboard and
reports you can follow her adventures with it @
inamedmysurfboardzoloft, where she discusses
women’s mental health activism. Thanks for all
the updates, Jillian!
fect spot in their basement for a pong table. Most
importantly, they cannot wait to host old friends
visiting town.
Congratulations are in order for Yan Somoza,
who recently started a new position with the
Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage
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magazine. In many ways it has felt like both a
long and short year. Our class executive board

the U.S. senate campaign of Becky Edwards, a for-
mer Utah legislator running against Mike Lee in
2022. Andrea and Adam have recently had fewer
visitors than usual. Nonetheless, they welcomed
Peter Lanfer and wife Sarah Drew, who was act-
ing in a new TV series filming in Salt Lake City.
The Himoffs also saw Kara (Josephberg) Paldino
and family during their stays in Park City and
Aspen, Colorado. Despite recently evacuating
her house due to a wildfire threat, Andrea wrote
that life is good.
And there you have it—the latest from our
class. Keep the updates coming. I love hearing
from you.
with her two boys, Alden, 4 years old, and Axton,
1 year old, Jenny Alden is starting a new business.
She and her husband, Kirk Spahn ’99, are building
ICL Academy, an online private school for grades
7-12 that is tailored for students with a personal
passion, such as tennis, music, dance, or skiing.
Their goal is to provide students in search of ex-
cellent academics and flexible scheduling with
compassionate, first-rate teachers.
Looking forward to hearing from and, I hope,
seeing many of you in 2022!
—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road,
Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-6938; rachel.sond-
heimer@gmail.com
Robert Cotto checks in with the news that he
and Viana Cotto ’05 welcomed their second son,
Ismael “Izzy” Oscar Cotto, on June 12. Izzy joins
big brother Bobby (4), and the family is doing well.
Congratulations on the new addition!
In more baby news, Ashley Nowygrod and hus-
band Jeff Doane, UVM ’07, announce the birth of
their second son, Jack Everett Doane, on June
21. Jack joins big brother Ellsworth (23 months)
while Ashley and Jeff try to remember how to
function on three hours of sleep or less. Good
luck with that, Ashley!
Justin Johnson sent me a note to share the
news that he was promoted to senior vice presi-
(greater Palm Springs area) as lead psycholo-
gist. He will continue working one-on-one with
patients and also be developing a collaborative
care model within the Eisenhower Medical Cen-
ter system to increasingly integrate behavioral
health in primary care settings. Bravo, Yan!
And in the spirt of the Dartmouth Outing
Club, Cindy Torres wrote to say that she and her
11-year-old twins, Lucia and Arielle, finished
hiking the 48 tallest mountains in New Hamp-
shire this summer. It took them two years overall.
They started on Mount Moosilauke in October
2019 and finished on Mount West Bond this Au-
gust. Their efforts were a part of the Appalachian
dam
was happy to see you all at events virtually, and
we look forward to continuing to connect. Wish-
ing you all a happy holiday season with family
and loved ones.
Kaethe Henning caught up with ’06s visiting
Seattle in July. She hung out with Libby Ludlow,
her husband, Jake Dudek ’08, and Pete Anderson.
Libby and Jake live in Boise, Idaho, and were in
the Pacific Northwest visiting for the summer.
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02
—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN dent, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Mountain Club’s challenge, and they are keep- international race circuit before then.
37209; galletti@gmail.com Hello, ’02s! his company, Jacobs, a publicly traded engineer- ing their fingers crossed the club will be able to After three postponements due to Covid,

99
Hello, ’99s!
It is back-to-school time in my
house, and I wanted to send a big
thank you to all the ’99 teachers, educators, and
school support staff who are in the midst of an-
other unique school year. Our classmate, Ann
Sharfstein began her 10th year teaching at Leba-
non (New Hampshire) High School.
Alexis Bunten, a Native Alaskan scholar and
author of So, How Long Have You Been Native,
was recently quoted in The Washington Post
in a piece on the rise of Indigenous tourism. “I
think we’re about to see it blow up in the next few
years,” she said. “I know people are really hungry
for it.” (Read more at “The Nez Perce are no lon-
ger leaving their story to others. They’ve become
Yvette Nameth sent me a quick
update: “I started a job at Stripe as an
engineering manager in May 2020. A year later, I
haven’t been to the office, don’t have a badge, and
haven’t met my employees in person. Thankfully,
because of the Covid vaccine, I did get to have a
lovely dinner with Eli Diament with our partners
when they were passing through Seattle in July!”
I also heard from Deanna (Kasperski) Hill: “Seth
and I still live in San Diego and work at UCSD.
Seth is a professor of political science and I am
an academic internist. We welcomed our third
child in May. Oliver joins proud older sisters Abby
and Madelyn, and we are enjoying being a family
of five!”
It’s been 20 years since Homecoming week-
end our senior fall (2001) and 10 years since the
ing and professional services firm based in Dallas.
Congratulations on the promotion, Justin!
Alexis Jhamb sends in news from afar—she,
husband Rafael Rosengarten ’01, and their two
children have relocated to Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
She’s taken a position as a secondee to an energy
joint venture, leading the commercial group.
Her new hobbies include ice fishing, testing her
(poor) Russian skills in local markets, and long
runs along the Ural River. Despite the continued
challenges of the pandemic, the family is settling
in nicely and enjoying the new adventure. Con-
grats on the new job and the big move!
That’s it for this time, ’03s. As usual, please
send any updates to the email below.
—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW,
Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@
have its awards banquet next spring. Cindy and
her family are also very excited to now climb the
tallest peaks in Vermont and Maine. Well done,
Cindy, Lucia, and Arielle!
As we start to close the chapter on this year,
’04s, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving
and a festive December holiday season. While
I know we still must be cautious with the Delta
and other Covid-19 variants in our midst, I do
hope you get some quality time with your loved
ones this season to express gratitude for each
other and celebrate all the wonderful develop-
ments this year has brought. Continue to be safe
and well, and I look forward to continuing our
conversations next year!
—Johanna Thomas, 14 Logan Circle, NW, Wash-
ington, DC 20005; johannarthomas@gmail.com
Eugene Oh was finally able to marry Linna Loang-
kote on July 24 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Benjamin Waters, Alex Gelman, and Michael Val-
monte were in attendance as well as a bunch of
’04s and ’05s.
Paul Huelskamp and his wife, Reny, had baby
boy, Henry “Hank” Rowen Huelskamp, on April 1.
John Huelskamp and his wife, Jessica, welcomed
Forrest Thomas Huelskamp on July 3. Baby For-
rest tipped the scales at 8 pounds, 13 ounces and
measured 21.5 inches long. Paul and John live
right down the street from one another, so it will
be amazing to see their sons grow up together.
Jamie Coffin and Katie Wolf Coffin welcomed
Summer Frances Coffin on August 2. Funny
enough, she also tipped the scales at 8 pounds,
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Amir Katz reached out with some wonder-
ful news: “I wanted to write to share that my
husband, Chandler Arnold (Harvard ’98), and I
welcomed our daughter, Fletcher Aziza Arnold,
on July 9 after a more than four-year journey
marking?
I hope you all are well and keep sending in
your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New
York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com
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Hi, ’04s! It’s hard to believe that 2021
is quickly coming to an end. It feels
like just yesterday we were toasting
to the new year, and now we will soon be celebrat-
Happy holidays to all! Our class had
a busy end to summer and only a few
people wrote in to share news.
Katharine Norton checked in to tell us that
she and her partner, John Pearson ’02, welcomed
welcomed a baby girl, Daphne, this summer. She
has two older sisters, Violet (5) and Penny (3),
who adore her. Kelly and Chris probably have
their work cut out for them with three daughters,
but for now Kelly is enjoying maternity leave with
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to have another child. Fletcher’s older brother,
Zander (age 6), is as delighted as we are that his
little sister is here, and in addition to showering
her with affection, has been a tremendous help
fetching anything his dads need when one of them
is sitting and holding the baby (and therefore
completely and utterly incapable of movement).”
Until next time!
—Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover,
NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dartmouth99@
gmail.com
03
Dear, ’03s, I’m sorry to start this col-
umn with sad news. Our classmate
Jeremy Cobin passed away on May 6.
A memorial was held for him in his hometown,
Ridgewood, New Jersey, on July 18. Dartmouth
alumni including his brother, Jon Cobin ’95, John
Apostolides, Joe Calandrelli, Josh Cushman, Courtney
(Anderson) DaCosta, Jason DaCosta, and Tim Whelan
attended. A full remembrance will be posted on
the DAM website and our class has made a dona-
ing the end of the year with family and friends.
It’s amazing how time flies, but I hope 2021 has
brought you some joyous moments and lasting
memories. Before you turn the page to a new year
though, I am pleased to share a few updates on
our classmates.
Sonia Tarantolo currently is a U.S. diplomat
working as the regional counterterrorism coor-
dinator at the embassy in Algiers, and she shared
that the U.S. State Department’s highest-ranking
diplomat for the region, Joey Hood ’96, assistant
their son, Afton, in May 2020. Both Katharine and
John are teachers in Atlanta and would love to
hear from fellow alumni who are local or passing
through the area.
Tim Millikin is still in San Francisco and work-
ing at TPG. His son, Wilder, is 2 years old and
his daughter, Merrick, turned 1 in July. Please
look Tim and his awesome family up if you are
in northern California.
Andres Reyes wrote to tell us that he and his
wife, Maggie, welcomed their second son, Jack
their last baby.
Skin Care
Joe Killefer and his wife, Jen, welcomed their
second daughter, Hazel Grace Killefer, earlier Bridal Services
this year. Beauty Treatments
You can always view the Class Notes online Massages & Body Treatments
with photos at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes.
On our class website you can also pay class dues, 888.364.6110
learn more about class efforts, and read about
other ’06s who have been featured in the news. www.woodstockinn.com
—Cindy Tsai, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Woodstock, Vermont
Hanover, NH 03755; cindaaay@gmail.com

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Well, well, well, look who has found
their way to the back of the magazine.
Welcome, reader, and thanks for join-
ing us for another edition of Class Notes. As al-
ways, we have some babies, weddings, and other
miscellany for you.
First, the babies. Cher Zhao and her husband,
Markus Nemitz, welcomed their first child, Eliza-
beth “Ellie” Tian Nemitz, in June. “We’re looking
forward to teaching her how to play pong at the
reunion next year,” says Cher. Zach Nass is think-
ing along the same lines. He and his wife, Jinting,
welcomed a son, Myles, born on July 23. “On a
related note, we also bought a ping pong table—
never too early to start pong training,” says Zach.
Alert the bloggers.
Alex Sherman and his wife, Arielle, had a baby
boy, Fletcher Miles, at the beginning of August.
“Despite rumors of New York’s demise due to Co-
vid, we continue to live in Manhattan,” says Alex.
Andrew Berry and his wife, Taylor Stepien,
welcomed baby Arden Stepien Berry to the fam-
ily in March. In August he (Andrew, not the baby)
started as an assistant professor in the department
of medical social sciences at Northwestern Uni-
versity. “I’ll contribute my expertise in human-
centered design to a variety of projects in health
services research and health informatics,” says
Andrew. They’ll be moving from Seattle to Chi-
cago during the summer of 2022 and would love
to reconnect with Chicago area alumni.
Veronica de Zayas and her husband had a baby,
Charlotte Anne Ingalls-Zayas, on July 1. And Lyd-
ia Islan and her partner, Alpha, welcomed baby
Sneath to their family in August. “Class of 2044,
perhaps?” ponders Lydia.
On to the weddings. Jon Hopper married
Dominic Pepper this September in Old Saybrook,
Connecticut. He was surrounded by many Dart-
mouth classmates, including David Lamb as part
of his wedding party. And Jenna Sherman married
Mark Kobey at an intimate, outdoor gathering in
Sunriver, Oregon, on August 1 with the wedding
officiated by none other than Rabbi Frank Glaser.
Though the wedding was small and pandemic-
safe, there were several ’08s in attendance: Alex-
andra Mesa Wentzell, David Glovsky, Gabe Mahoney,
Sarah Stern, and Stephanie Zamorano. Sheila Dunning
was the virtual maid of honor, as she delivered a
healthy, beautiful baby boy three days prior. The
wedding guests participated in a river float the
day before the wedding, which was described as
“better than the Tubestock we never had.”
As for the miscellany, Conor Frantzen is enjoy-
ing life in Denver with his better half and their dog
and looking forward to some trips to see friends
and family this fall. And Olivia Gilliatt and Matthew
Cohn will be hosting Games classes in N.Y.C. this
fall with their theater lab, Book Club. Olivia de-
veloped Book Club’s Games practice—participa-
tory, structured-but-zany creative exercises done
just for fun—while studying and then teaching at
NYU’s grad acting program. Book Club is a project
of The New Wild, a multidisciplinary art lab spear-
headed by Marina McClure ’04 and John Bair ’06
and sometimes hosted by VoxLab, currently run by
Matt and Nicolle Allen ’16. For more information
or to join in the fun, check out bookclubtheater.org.
“You don’t need to be a ‘professional’ creative to
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play, just a curious person. So, if you’re in the city,
come on down!” says Mathew.
Finally, Daewoong “Dillon” Lee is leaving Mayo
Clinic in Minnesota for the Hoosier State, and
looking forward to the warmer climate. He will
lead the IU Health Advanced Pain Center starting
this October. “Three boys and one more coming,”
he adds.
Thanks to all who wrote in!
—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN
55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com
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Hello, ’09s! Read on for some exciting
news from our classmates.
Brian Chao graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania last year with a doc-
torate in political science and is now an assistant
professor of national security affairs at the Naval
War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Johannes
Lohmann is living in London with his wife, Eva.
They are enjoying getting to know their newborn
baby, Charlotte, and are trying to squeeze the most
out of every minute of parental leave. Once that
ends, Johannes will be back at the Behavioural
Insights Team as its head of work and finance.
Pete Mathias has been appointed to the Council on
Foreign Relations as a term member. Jenna New-
gard and her husband, Nate Abbott, welcomed a
healthy baby girl in July. Shannon Prince has a book
coming out this November called Tactics for Racial
Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and
Community. Marcy (Van Arnam) Saltaformaggio and
her husband, Robert, welcomed their second baby
girl, Reagan, in July. Zach Swiss and his wife wel-
comed their daughter, Elizabeth Blake, in late July.
Nat and Christine (Paquin) Wells welcomed their
second daughter, Ophelia Kent Wells, on June 27.
—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd.,
Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669;
elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com
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Michaela Yule and her husband, John,
had baby Adelaide Rose in May this
year.
Eli Mitchell got married to Tejas Sathian (Har-
vard ’10) during a two-day Western and Indian
wedding combo on September 4-5 in Solitude,
Utah. Plenty of Dartmouth friends were in atten-
dance, including Eli’s parents, Debbie Bray and Bill
Mitchell ’79; officiant Bruce Reeves ’80; brides-
maids Jen Argote, Frances Dales, Sarah Koo, Isabelle
(Schless) Nichols, and Kristine Torres-Lockhart; and
ring bearer Billy Reeves ’14.
Uma (Mullapudi) Gempeler and her husband,
Steve, are excited to announce the arrival of their
son, Ashwin Otto Gempeler. Ashwin was born on
July 8 in Washington, D.C. They look forward to in-
troducing him to Dartmouth friends in the future!
Kathleen Farley and David Imamura are proud
to announce the birth of their son, Leo Eamon
Imamura, born on April 23. Leo is strongly cau-
tioned against going to law school. This warning
unfortunately comes too late for his parents. Kate
is now a First Amendment and media attorney
at Davis Wright Tremaine and David is serving
as chair of the New York State Independent Re-
districting Commission, which is responsible for
redrawing New York’s congressional and state
legislature lines.
Tay Stevenson writes: “I’ll be moving to D.C.
in 2021. Envoy Public Labs is in year three of op-
eration and has grown to five full-time employees
and continues to make an impact in the advanced
nuclear reactor industry.”
Kevin Jackson and his wife, Aneliya, recently
found out the gender of their baby (yes, they did
the gender reveal thing, but no, there were no fire-
works involved, Kevin tells me). Adrian Alejan-
dro Jackson-Ignatov is eagerly expected around
December 15.
Vlad Dobru and his wife, Dinora, welcomed the
birth of their first child, Julian Sebastian Dobru,
in the early hours of May 2. Baby Julian already
loves his Dartmouth onesies!
Danielle Fuschetti is living in San Francisco
and enjoying her first year as law firm partner,
practicing civil rights and employment law.
Alex Rivadeneira married his partner of nine
years, Ben Fong (Stanford ’08), in September in
the San Francisco Bay Area. Alex and Ben met
when they were both living and working in D.C.
and they now live in Berkeley, California. Matt
Forman ’11 was in the wedding party and the cer-
emony was presided over by the attorney general
of California. Alex says, “After many delays due
to Covid, we’re grateful to be able to celebrate in
person with family and friends.”
Tom Shanahan writes: “Kelcey Simpson, Tu’18,
and I got married on June 5 in Bend, Oregon. It
was an amazing celebration with all our friends
and family, filled with singing, dancing, and end-
less laughter. We’re so thankful so many of our
loved ones were able to make the trip! (And yes,
the Cords performed!)”
Madeline Kaye reports that she had a baby,
Alex Bernard Weiner, in April. “I hope we will
get to bring him to Dartmouth sometime soon!”
Katie Porter moved to Vermont in the spring
and would love to see any old friends in the area
and introduce them to new Bernedoodle puppy
Maple!
Nichole Davis recently moved to Durham,
North Carolina, to start a new role as in-house
counsel for Duke University. She has been enjoy-
ing meeting up with fellow Dartmouth ’10s in the
area, Deja Kemp and Allen Odeniyi.
—Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane,
Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; jenniferashley
chong@gmail.com
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Two of our classmates have completed
some notable literary works lately! I list
them in the order that these updates
came to me.
First, a secret admirer wrote in regarding a
fellow classmate. While the rest of us were spend-
ing the pandemic watching Tiger King and Bridg-
erton, our own Drew Joseph was working on critical
journalism. Drew was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for
his breaking news reporting on Covid, published
in Stat News in Boston. The Pulitzer Prize board
described his work as “prescient, expert, and ac-
cessible coverage of the emergence of Covid-19.”
Go, Drew!
Second, Nicole Yunger Halpern is publishing a
book about the intersection of quantum physics,
information, and energy. Quantum Steampunk:
The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow introduces
2008-2013
the general public to a field emerging at the cut-
Go all in
to end cancer.
ting edge of technology and theory. In addition to
delving into the discoveries, the book relates anec-
dotes, history, and a woman’s journey into science.
The book is now available for preordering through
the usual sources (bookshop.org, Amazon, etc.).
Congratulations to both! As always, please
write in with your updates. We love hearing from
you, and we welcome all notes from and about
classmates. “I’m proud to be a part of the Prouty
—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo,
community that helps raise important
CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@
dartmouth.edu
dollars for Dartmouth’s Cancer Center which
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Hi, ’13s!
We hope everyone is doing well—
fuel life-saving research for the world
can you believe it is already fall of
2021?! The year has flown by. Lots of exciting
and meaningful services for patients
updates from our classmates this edition, so let’s in our community.”
get to it.
Priscilla Nguyen recently moved back to Los
Angeles to work in television as a writers produc-
tion assistant on a new series. In exchange for
making coffee and managing the office, she gets
to sit in the writers room and see how the sausage Judy Burrows Csatari ’76
is made. She has already connected with many Friends of Norris Cotton
alumni working in entertainment and is always Cancer Center, Board Chair
looking to meet more! After enjoying his time
clerking for a federal judge in San Diego, Joshua
Lee recently moved to Greenville, South Carolina,
for another judicial clerkship. He looks forward to
connecting with friends and alumni in the area.
Kyle Lawson bought a house and moved from
N.Y.C. to Vermont at the end of last year with his
fiancée, Daryl Concha ’11; they were motivated by Judy ‘76 and Tom
the pandemic preventing her from playing roller ‘74 Csatari
derby and a need for more space (we hear that!).
They’ve also adopted a cat, named Flartner, that
they walk on a leash and take on hikes. He and Da- Make a difference. Join us in 2022! The Prouty is a
ryl were also recently married at an inn in southern
family-friendly fundraising event combining cycling,
Vermont in a service officiated by Aylin Woodward
’15! After four years in Denver working on mater- walking, rowing, golfing, and more to raise funds for ground-breaking
nal mortality prevention and health equity in the research and meaningful patient support services at Dartmouth
pandemic response, Shivani Bhatia is moving back and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
home to N.Y.C. She is joining a small consulting
firm and they are hiring! Save The Date: TheProuty.org
Jules Sarkar currently runs the only law prac-
tice in California with a dedicated practice area for July 9, 2022 info@TheProuty.org | 603-653-0711
representing attorney applicants against the State
Bar of California. He recently argued and won an
appeal in the California First District Court of
Appeals against the State Bar of California in a
case involving the California Bar Exam. He is very
humbled to have received this year’s San Francisco
Trial Lawyers Association’s Outstanding New
Lawyer of the Year Award. Tanisha Panditharatne
finished up her M.B.A. at the University of Texas
and joined Whole Foods as its newest product
manager. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her hus- Thinking about buying property in Hanover or the Upper Valley?
band and is excited to catch up with any ’13s who Commercial-Investment, Residential, Land--Please give me a call!
live in the area!  William H. “Star” Johnson, Broker (Class of '70)
Joanna Schneider and Brannon Cavalier ’12 Representing Buyers and Sellers
welcomed their son, Jack Cooper Cavalier, on July
24. They have already read him his first book— Big Green Real Estate Phone: 603-643-3942
Dr. Seuss, of course! They live in Durham, North 5 Olde Nugget Alley, Ste. 5 Cell: 603-381-8603
Carolina, where Joanna is in residency at Duke Hanover, NH 03755 www.biggreenre.com
and Brannon works as an engineer while working
toward his executive M.B.A. at UNC. Megan Bun- Big Green Real Estate is not affiliated with nor officially sanctioned by Dartmouth College
nell and husband Eric Schlobohm ’11 welcomed
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a baby boy, William, in July, and he has already
visited Dartmouth! Sophie Palitz and her husband,
Jacob, welcomed daughter Callie into the world.
Sophie also graduated with her Ph.D. in clinical
psychology this summer. Finally, Chelsea (Hassett)
Brunda and her husband, John, Tu’14, welcomed
son Collin Michael Brunda on January 28 in At-
lanta. Welcome to the newest Big Green family
members!
Thank you all and see you next time!
—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville,
VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com
venue who managed every part of this extremely
complicated endeavor with diligence and kindness,
and I also can’t say enough about the athletes who
produced world records and incredible moments
of camaraderie (Google ‘high jumpers share gold’)
and who handled the inevitable heartbreak with
incomprehensible strength. I am biased, but there
is no better Olympic sport than track and field and
there are few cities more thrilling than Tokyo. At
the end of quarantine I was able to get out for a few
delicious bowls of ramen, and I absolutely can’t
wait to be back and truly explore.”
have enough time? Are you at a transition point
in your life? Are you interested in psychology, an-
thropology, sociology, linguistics, history, physics,
or philosophy? If you answered yes to any of those
questions, It’s About Time is perfect for you! Every
episode offers tangible steps for handling chal-
lenges such as avoiding procrastination and taking
time to slow down and savor meaningful moments.
You can listen to It’s About Time on Apple Podcasts
and Spotify.
Aside from being a podcast extraordinaire,
Rebecca has been quite busy this past year. She
Love was truly in the air this summer! Josie
Yalovitser and Raphael Sacks ’17 were engaged in
July while vacationing in beautiful Aruba! Josie
and Raphael are currently living in Burlington,
Vermont, with their Siberian Husky Shurik. They
are super excited for this next chapter in their lives.
Congratulations to you both!
In June Cindy Li moved to Boulder, Colorado,
quit her job, and started a new specialty tea com-
pany called Uproot. Her new company sources
directly from family farms to bring consumers the
freshest tea possible. You can learn more about

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Hello ’14s! Sarah and I hope you’ve had
a fantastic fall. Wedding season is in full
gear as I write this, and there are many
special occasions to provide updates on.
Andrew Roberts and Maddie Garcia were mar-
ried on July 24 in Warren, New Jersey, and there
Please reach out to us at dartmouth2014class-
notes@gmail.com! We’d love to incorporate your
updates into our next column.
—John Daniels, 1495 Wisteria Drive, Ann Arbor, MI
48104; (617) 240-6007; john.h.daniels.14@gmail.
com; Sarah Rossow, 119 Heath St., London NW3 6SS;
(651) 769-7344; s.m.rossow@gmail.com
worked as a producer and engagement editor for
The Christian Science Monitor. She traveled for
three months, including a five-week road trip from
Jackson, Wyoming, to Los Angeles with Graham
Rigby. This fall Rebecca is excited to move to L.A.,
but will only be a stone’s throw away from her
hometown of Santa Monica.
Uproot at uprootteas.com. Congratulations on this
exciting new venture, Cindy—we’re “uprooting”
for you!
This summer Caroline Petro joined Ameri-
Corps and moved to California to start a year of Tuck Business Bridge
service at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family is a business immersion program
Services. Caroline also took a beautiful trip to Spain

was a Big Green crew more than 20 strong to help
celebrate. Another dual Dartmouth couple, Kather-
ine Hickey and Robert King, tied the knot on August
14 in Sea Island, Georgia, where an amazing fire-
works show followed. Izzy Terhorst and Sam Philip
were married in beautiful Manchester, Vermont,
on August 7. Kelley Bloomer and Brendan Cronin ’15
chose the same special day but a bit further north
in Stowe, Vermont, where they were greeted with
a lucky bolt of lightning as they recited their vows.
Michael Saltzman and Sarah Phillips were married
in Sag Harbor, New York, on July 24. Nick Judson
and Leila Pikus said “I do” on June 26 in Suffield,
Connecticut, where Will Scheiman led the ceremony
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Brett Szalapski and Kirsten Seagers
were married on June 19 in Los Gatos,
California, surrounded by family and
friends, many of whom are also Dartmouth alums.
Chase Schoelkopf has moved from California
back to the Philly area to start his small animal
surgery residency.
Valerie Orellana just moved down to Boston for
law school and is excited to reconnect with class-
mates. Valerie is also the newly elected Dartmouth
Association for Latino Alumni (DALA) secretary.
Please reach out to dala.execboard@gmail.com if
you’re interested in joining the DALA community!
Next, congratulations to Raphael Sacks, who
got engaged to Josie Yalovitser ’18! Raphael popped
the question while on a sunset dinner cruise in Aru-
ba this summer. He’d like to give a special shout-
out to the boat crew that set up a beautiful table
with a view, brought champagne and flowers, and
even arranged for the onboard singer to perform
some Sinatra. Raphael and Josie met right before
graduation in 2017 in the backyard of Sigma Delt;
he was playing in a pong tournament and she was
dying her friends’ hair in the backyard. It’s been
history ever since!
Raphael and Josie have been living in Burl-
ington, Vermont, since August 2020. Raphael and
this summer with Jerrel Catlett and had a fantastic
time exploring Madrid and Barcelona. She hopes
everyone is staying safe and doing well! Congratu-
lations on an exciting summer and on the amazing
work you’ll be doing this year, Caroline!
Thanks to everyone who submitted their sto-
ries and updates for the column. It’s so good to hear
about all the amazing experiences our class had this
summer! This column will be our last of 2021, so
I hope everyone has a lovely holiday season and a
happy New Year. Cheers to 2022!
—Emily Choate, 172 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3,
Boston, MA 02116; (603) 305-5346; eschoate@
gmail.com
designed to prepare top liberal arts,
science, and engineering students for
challenging careers in business and beyond.
In just a few weeks, the Tuck Business
Bridge Program®, held at the Tuck
School of Business at Dartmouth, delivers
a comprehensive business curriculum
taught by Tuck’s top-ranked MBA faculty,
a capstone team project, recruiting,

as officiant.
Tyler Bradford and Jojo Miller were engaged
in August and will soon add to our ever-growing
—Sarah Lucas, 450 Folsom St., Apt 2102, San Fran-
cisco, CA 94105; (307) 413-3055; 15classupdates@
gmail.com
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Josie love Vermont’s beautiful scenery and abun-
dance of activities. They frequently go on sunset
walks on the Lake Champlain boardwalk, hike, ski,
Hi, ’19s!
and one-on-one career guidance, to give
I hope you are staying warm and students the tools they need to get an

list of class of 2014 married couples. Lilly Maguire
is recently engaged to Ryan Hockstad. They are
planning their 2022 wedding in Washington, D.C.,
where the couple lives. Bridesmaids include fel-
low Dartmouth rowers Anna Harty, Morgan Weller,
Juliet Hollingsworth, Molly Leen ’15, and Gianna
Guarino ’15. Roger Melick and Meg Tomlinson got
engaged in June and recently welcomed a sweet
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Hello, ’16s! It’s an honor to be your new
class secretary. Shout-out to outgoing
class secretary Feyaad Allie (good luck
with your Ph.D.!).
Victoria Li and Xiang Siow held their wedding
celebration on August 7 in Chicago with family
and friends, including ones from Dartmouth. They
fish, and explore the Burlington brewery scene.
Last fall they adopted a bilingual Siberian Husky
named Shurik; yes, you read that right—Shurik
responds to commands in both English and Rus-
sian! Shurik loves the snow, so Raphael hopes to
try skijoring with the pup this winter.
—Dorian J. Allen, 33 Tuckernuck Ave., Oak Bluffs,
MA 02557; dorallen@comcast.net
having a joyous holiday season spent
with family and friends! I am writing this column internship or job and succeed.
in August and can’t even imagine cold weather at
this moment, but look forward to the autumn and Need-based financial aid is available!
cooler temperatures that come in November and
December. Let’s get into the class news! Winter Bridge
The class of 2019 has a lot of future lawyers!
Three ’19s wrote in for this edition of Class Notes Session 1: November 28– December 17, 2021

dog-ter named Chili into their family. Ross Collins
proposed to Hayley Brown ’15 on a pristine July
summer day in Hanover.
Luke Suydam and Caroline Steffen welcomed
their son, John Anderson Suydam, into the world
on August 14. The family is doing great and can’t
wait until little John gets to visit campus!
Amelia Acosta shared an exciting update after
arriving back in the United States from Tokyo:
“For all of you who have ever dreamed of making
it to the Olympic Games with a complete lack of
athletic talent, I’m here to represent you! I lead the
track-and-field research efforts for NBC Sports,
which involves preparing and supporting our on-
air talent and broader production team with athlete
information, statistics, key storylines, and editorial
were married August 26, 2020, and postponed the
celebration to 2021. “Everytime We Touch” by
Cascada was played on the dance floor and Victoria
writes, “Of course, we did the dance from trips!”
In August Kaira Lujan moved from Boston to
Houston. Kaira says she “would love to connect
with anyone in the area!”
Mrynna Cervantes and Tayshon Rutan got mar-
ried on August 21 in Minneapolis.
In September Amelia Rosch started her Ph.D.
in history at Queens University in Kingston, On-
tario, Canada.
Thanks everyone who wrote in for this issue of
Class Notes! I’m always excited to hear life updates.
—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Dur-
ham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com
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Hi, ’18s! The years 2020 and 2021 have
been full of ups and downs. For many
of us, the warmer weather and miracle
of vaccinations helped make this past summer a
highlight in an otherwise challenging time. For
the last column of 2021 I asked you at the end of
the summer to share your stories and updates with
the class. It was great to hear about some exciting
life updates and about the good times that were
enjoyed during the summer. I’m writing this col-
umn at the end of August, and while it’s impossible
to know what the future holds for us (or what will
have happened between now and when this column
is published at the end of the year), it is so nice to
revel in the joys of this pleasant moment. Thank
to share that they were starting law school. Marlene Open to Dartmouth students only.
Arias started at Yale Law School, while Celeste Ke- Session 2: January 2–21, 2022 (Virtual)
arney started at Columbia Law School.
After Billy Kosmidis spent the past two years
in public sector consulting in Boston, primarily Summer Bridge
working on guiding the states of Vermont and Mas- Session 1: June 13–July 1, 2022
sachusetts through the Covid-19 pandemic, he is Session 2: July 8–July 26, 2022
returning to his midwestern roots to attend the
University of Chicago Law School. Alongside his
J.D., Billy will also be completing a dual program
at the University of Chicago Booth School of Busi-
ness. Billy would love for any classmates who are
bridge.tuck.dartmouth.edu
considering law school and might have questions
or any alumni who have attended law school and
have any advice on surviving the next three years
to reach out to him.

guidance for all things track and field. This sum-
mer I spent three weeks in Eugene, Oregon, for
the U.S. Olympic trials and then on to Tokyo for
the Games themselves. It feels cliché to say but
this was an Olympic experience unlike any other—
strict Covid-19 protocols meant extremely limited
spectators in the stands, regular testing, and a 14-
day ‘soft quarantine.’ I can’t say enough about the
Olympic committee staff and volunteers at our
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It’s about time…it’s about time to listen
to Rebecca Asoulin’s podcast, It’s About
Time! In this science series Rebecca
interviews experts with all sorts of backgrounds.
Tune in to hear from sci-fi writer Ted Chiang,
cultural critic Brittney Cooper, and composer
and performer Jerome. It’s About Time appeals
to just about everyone. Do you feel like you don’t
you for sharing your updates!
This summer Will Tremml got engaged to Olivia
Champ ’19 on their road trip to the Grand Canyon.
This fall will mark six years since they first met in
the Alpha Chi Alpha basement after being intro-
duced by mutual friends. They recently moved
from Washington, D.C., to Boston, and look forward
to watching the Dartmouth-Harvard game together
in person. Congratulations, Will and Olivia!
Switching gears, this summer Camille John-
son and Milla Anderson picked up rugby again and
started playing with the Scion Sirens in D.C. Their
team took first at nationals in Seattle and Tatjana
Toeldte ’16 and Morgan McGonagle ’18, fellow
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brary, then for the first-year student enrichment
program, and most recently at the Collis Center—
Alexander Cotnoir is moving to Washington, D.C.,
to pursue his master of arts in teaching with a
concentration in museum education at George
Washington University. In D.C. he’ll be volunteer-
ing at Iona Senior Services and training for his first
marathon and is excited to connect with fellow
Dartmouth ’19s in the area! Alexander wants to
congratulate friends Miranda Worl for beginning her
master’s at Brown, Hanover Vale ’20 for entering
a Ph.D. program in geography, and Yolanda Huerta
and Dalia Rodriguez Caspeta ’18 for beginning their
next adventures after an impactful few years spent
supporting Dartmouth’s sustainability office.
I also, unfortunately, have some difficult news
to pass along. Andrew J. Laub passed away in the
early summer. Andrew grew up in New Canaan,
Connecticut, and attended New Canaan Country
School and St. Luke’s School. He was a physics
major and computer science minor at Dartmouth.
After graduation he moved to Colorado Springs,
Colorado, to work at CACI, where he worked on a
team that managed the Air Force’s global array of
satellites and earth stations. He was an avid hiker,
leading overnight camping trips on campus with
the DOC’s Cabin & Trail sub-group. He was certi-
fied as a wilderness first responder and obtained
his pilot’s license. Andrew also conducted research
on campus with professor Hans-Reinhard Müller.
His family described him as a kind soul, blessed
with an insatiably inquisitive mind. He attended
St. Luke’s School with fellow ’19s Malcolm Joung,
who described the world as “worse off without An-
drew,” and Monika Gabriele, who described Andrew
as a “special, special friend.” He is survived by his
parents, George Laub and Heidi Farrish Laub ’84,
as well as siblings Nick, Kristin, and Elizabeth and
dogs Roger and Blake.
Be well, ’19s! As always, if you have any Class
Notes to share, don’t hesitate to reach out.
—Morgan Lee, 417 Grand St., Apt. D1705, New York,
NY 10002; morganwlee@gmail.com
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Hi, everyone, and happy holidays! Curl
up this season with three stories from
our classmates on pandemic hard-
ships and gratitudes.
Yi Fei Yan writes: “The past year was a difficult
year for me for various reasons, but I feel grateful
that I found solace in the discordant states of both
solitude and community. This hyper-connected era
that we live in has made solitude a less attractive,
if not heretical, proposition, but it is precisely this
nature of the modern world that makes it valuable
to seek refuge from time to time in order to preserve
mental sanity and integrity. Meditation was an in-
fallible companion during these times, and I highly
recommend everyone incorporate such practices
into their quotidian lives, pandemic or not.
“Yet sustained solitude becomes seclusion and
finding communities that accept us for who we are
is just as important as self-reflection. Fortunately,
when I moved to San Francisco I stumbled upon
welcoming communities: local Dartmouth alumni,
company new grads, climbing pals, and many more.
The magic of great communities is that they make
even the most foreign land feel like the promised
land. Special thanks to mushroom queen Anna
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Dodson for spores of new friends!
Shae Wolfe writes: “When Covid-19 disrupted
my post-graduation plans to join the Peace Corps in
Peru, I thought I would have to settle on a different
path. Instead I’ve spent the last year bursting with
passion and motivation, discovering interests I
didn’t know I had. I work at Boston Medical Center
conducting research on harm reduction and opioid
overdose prevention. Our study aims to understand
how a counseling intervention may impact the risk
and rate of opioid overdose.
“I spend my days recruiting participants,
introducing them to our study, screening them
for eligibility, and interviewing them about their
substance use, witnessed or experienced over-
dose events, and more. I feel extremely grateful
for the opportunity to get to know my participants
so deeply and to listen to such intimate stories.
“I’ve always known that I wanted to be a doc-
tor, but I was unsure what I wanted to choose as a
specialty. My experiences this past year have not
only solidified my interest in addiction medicine,
they have also given me the opportunity to model
the kind of care provider I want to be: someone
who doesn’t speak for those who are voiceless, but
instead gives people their own mic.”
Adam Riegler writes: “Before March 2020 I
expected to leave Dartmouth with purpose, but
when June came around, I felt confused. I spent
four years studying theater only to find the live
arts extinguished overnight—and their future
uncertain. I moved home and spent almost a year
reflecting on my path and wondering if I had made
a wrong move somewhere.
“The result was an understanding of the value
of what I learned in Hanover. I was too caught up
on the minutia; what Dartmouth had truly taught
me was how to create my own path and pursue
success despite limitations.
“I refused the idea that theater needed to
be paused and created a plan to safely build the
life for which I had prepared. Leveraging the im-
mense talent of Dartmouth peers (Holden Harris,
Gray Christie, Sophia Kinne, and Max Samuels ’15),
the connectivity of Zoom, and the available room
in my parents’ house, I directed and filmed a live
play: Albert Names Edward by Louis Nowra.
“I feel grateful to Dartmouth for teaching me
how to overcome obstacles in order to fulfill my
passions and giving me the resources to take back
control in my life.”
Hugs.
—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough,
CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu
Clubs &
Groups
I hope that everyone is having a good fall. Dart-
mouth clubs and groups continued to bring alumni
together with a mix of virtual and limited in-person
events as we navigate continually changing guide-
lines for gatherings.
Richard Hefler ’72, president of the Dartmouth
Club of St. Louis, wrote in to share news from the
club’s first in-person gathering since the beginning
of the COVID pandemic. Traditionally, the club
holds a send-off party in late August for students
heading back to campus. In 2020 the event was
held via Zoom and had only a few participants. This
year the club hosted an event at the home of the He-
flers and had a great turn out. Eighteen Dartmouth
alumni, ranging in class years from 1956 to 2024,
attended and all had a great time. People seemed
eager to get together in person again. The event
was held in the Heflers’ backyard on a nice, warm
afternoon in St Louis, Missouri. Alumni played
cornhole and badminton and enjoyed great food
and engaging conversations. Attendees included
Larry Furrer ’56, Jim Lemen ’62, Bill Hobson ’66, Ste-
phen Zegel ’66, Eliot Sherman, Tu’67, Don Wiviott
’77, Luisa Figliola ’92, Ken Bower ’94, Sarah Hobson
’97, Brooking Gatewood ’05, Andrew Eastman ’07,
Andrew King, Tu’19, Leann Bo, Tu’19, Josh Foster, Tu’19,
Katheryn Caplinger ’20, William Boyce, DMS’20, and
Grace V. Farr ’24. The club was pleased to have Lesley
Wellman, the curator of education at the Hood
Museum of Art at Dartmouth from 1990 to 2016,
also attend the gathering.
John Bash ’67, president of the Dartmouth Club
of Sarasota and Manatee, Florida, wrote in to share
that on June 21 Lt. Paul Cernansky of the Sarasota
County sheriff’s office spoke to the club about law
enforcement issues. Roger Stephenson ’60 invited
the sheriff's deputy and Ed Mazer ’67 handled the
technical aspects of Zoom. In addition, Big Apple
Circus founder Paul Binder ’63, announced that an
audio version of his book Never Quote the Weather
to a Sea Lion would be coming out shortly. Based
on the results of a poll of members, the club plans
to revert to in-person lunch meetings when the
next season begins on October 15.
Thank you for continuing to share your news.
Please stay safe and send me updates about the
great events that your club, association, or affiliated
group has organized.
—Stina Brock ’01, PO Box 9274, Jackson, WY 83002;
stina.brock@gmail.com
Deaths
The following is a list of deaths reported to us since
the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually writ-
ten by the class secretaries, may appear on the
DAM website at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com,
where friends and classmates may post their own
remembrances of the deceased. Please contact
alumni records at (603) 646-2253 or obituary@
dartmouth.edu to report an alumnus death.
B. Bernei Burgunder Jr. ’41 • July 8
Frank N. Youngman Jr. ’45 • June 14
Donald Budinoff ’46 • May 28, 2019
Julian Farb ’46 • April 13
Leonard A. Fritz ’46 • Dec. 28, 2019
Robert O. Jones ’46 • July 11
Harold Mahmarian ’46 • July 30
Joseph J. Miliano ’46 • April 24, 2019
Alan K. Whitney ’46 • May 29, 2019
Lawrence B. Goodman ’47 • Aug. 4
Gordon K. Mann ’48 • July 1
Ronald I. Spiers ’48 • June 24
Abraham Shalo ’49 • July 18
Allen B. Wrisley III ’50 • Jan. 26
Jerome M. Block ’51 • Dec. 18, 2020
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Arthur C. Moulton ’51 • Jan. 11, 2020
Robert C. Rugen ’51 • June 2, 2019
Edward T. Blair ’52 • July 15
Peter J. Boolukos ’52 • July 4
Frank C. Heinemann ’52 • July 20
Guy E. Labalme ’52 • July 5
Lawrence Newman ’52 • July 22
Donald L. Whittaker ’52 • June 9
Ralph A. Adams ’53 • Aug. 5
E. Thomas Dewey Jr. ’53 • July 21
Andrew C. Sigler ’53 • July 11
John H. Sigler ’53 • July 8
Richard W. Perkins Jr. ’54 • March 18, 2020
William B. Chapin III ’55 • July 8
John K. Foster ’55 • June 23
William B. Slater Jr. ’55 • July 12
Robert R. Stanford ’55 • unknown
Matthew B. Weinberg ’55 • June 26
John N. Wheeler Jr. ’55 • June 21
William R. Crate ’56 • Aug. 4
Norman S. Fridlund ’56 • June 26
Richard J. Taft ’56 • July 6
Albert E. Tompkins ’56 • Jan. 20
John R. Jeanneney ’57 • July 5
Richard E. Lindseth ’57 • May 4
C. Frederick Mueller IV ’57 • Aug. 8
John T.A. Price ’57 • June 26
Sidney G. Starobin ’57 • July 26
Charles L. Bradford Jr. ’58 • Aug. 7
Joel A. Farrell ’58 • July 5
Eugene K. Laff ’58 • Jan. 9, 2020
Walter R. Meissner Jr. ’59 • July 2
George F. Moser ’59 • Aug. 9
Gene P. Wegner ’59 • July 19
Charles L. Simpson ’62 • May 8
Sidney D. Trapp Jr. ’62 • May 26
Frederick M. Asher ’63 • June 26
Barry R. Elson ’63 • June 7
Michael V. Whelan ’63 • Aug. 6
H. James Hofrichter ’65 • Aug. 5
Rick I. Suberman ’65 • June 25
Roc R. Caivano ’66 • July 8
Frank A. Opaskar ’66 • June 23
Kenneth G. Whitmore ’66 • June 20
Robert E. Corrigan ’67 • July 30
Robert R. Kugler ’67 • unknown
Richard D. Toothman ’68 • June 9
Howard W. Robertson ’69 • March 20
Joseph W. Serene ’69 • May 1
Peter M. Stone ’70 • Aug. 3
Lisbon U. Tillman Jr. ’70 • July 10, 2019
Lynda Woods Cleary ’71 • Feb. 1
David R. Bellows ’72 • Nov. 26, 2020
Weymoth T. Crowell ’73 • July 17
Bradford M. Davis ’74 • Aug. 5
Miguel P. Pulido IV ’74 • July 25
Harry Shulman ’80 • June 21
Jeffrey D. Given ’82 • July 9
Charles S. Nierman ’82 • June 24
Matthew J. Haley ’83 • July 24
Robert E. Patterson III ’85 • June 24
Douglas E. Tillman ’85 • July 5
David E. Lust ’90 • July 23
Daniel W. Offit ’90 • July 6
Marc Baptiste ’91 • July 12
Jessie W. Levine ’92 • June 26
Michael M.F. Chen ’95 • Aug. 8
Jeremy D. Cobin ’03 • May 6
Andrew J. Laub ’19 • May
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John White ’61 into strong leaders

A UFO researcher on what’s out there
Interview by L I S A F U R L O N G Wenhan Sun ’24
Great Issues Scholar
“When I was 8 years old in 1947 and read that the Army Air Force had recov- Dartmouth Outing Club
ered a crashed ‘flying saucer’ in Roswell, New Mexico, I was fascinated—even
after they retracted their statement the very next day and said it was a Student House Leader
weather balloon.”
“At Dartmouth I stumbled across Duke professor J.B. Rhine’s The Reach of the Mind
(1947), which grounded in science my interest in the paranormal. I needed that Financial aid allowed Wenhan Sun
badly, because I was an ROTC student, studying naval science, and understood to discover his own strengths
the need for careful, credible observations and studies.”
“I had a brief, spontaneous insightful experience in my 20s, during which I
as a mentor, scholar, and leader.
discovered a dimension to reality far beyond anything I had intellectu-
ally understood. It was a breakthrough in consciousness and showed me
there are aspects to reality that science is unable to explain—beyond the Your gifts provide life-changing
four forces of energy [gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force, strong opportunities to students who
nuclear force] that science deals with.”
“My interest in UFOs escalated when I was in the Navy, when I began to correspond
are ready to change the world.
with researchers and people who were mentioned in coverage of sightings.”
“There’s no scientific basis on which to say, ‘We humans are the only form of life
in the universe.’ Surveys indicate more than 50 percent of Americans believe
in UFOs.”
“My former boss, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, told me he was utterly con-
vinced that we humans are in contact with aliens, primarily because high-ranking
officials of several national governments, on the basis of their military stud-
ies, told him so.”
“The recent admission by the Pentagon that UFOs are real and demonstrate ad-
vanced technology and inexplicable flight characteristics [the June report from the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force] is probably part of a larger operation
in which they are preparing the public to receive information that otherwise
could freak out a whole lot of people.”
“Despite recent revelations, I still believe there is a government coverup of actual
contact between select members of the military and the intelligence community
and aliens. I can only guess the purpose is the arranging and exchange of
information about alien technology for tacit permission to continue abduc-
tions of people.”
“I believe the ultimate revelation yet to come is the admission there are hybrid
HIS STORY
alien-humans among us. My research leads me to believe children have indeed
resulted from abductions, and these children may well have been reintroduced
to human society—for what purpose remains to be seen.”
Notable: An educator focused on consciousness and Share your strength
human development; chronicled accounts of UFO
“I’ve concluded there is no single answer to explain UFOs. There are reports cred- sightings and alien encounters since childhood; lec-
and support our students
ibly rendered by sane and sensible people that are best understood as terres- tured widely and hosted annual conferences on UFOs; with your gift at
trial in origin, rather than extraterrestrial. Others could be meta-terrestrial. published several books, including The UFO Experi-
There may be a more advanced civilization, which began on this planet but ence: From Alien Abductions to Zeta Reticuli (2015) dartgo.org/strongleaders
was able to adapt to an underwater environment and develop technology at Career: Director of education, Institute of Noetic Sci-
ences, founded by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell;
the same time. Reports of UFOs bursting up from the ocean and taking off
president, Alpha Logics; worked in corporate com-
into the sky are not necessarily Venusians or Martians—they may be another munications for two Connecticut utilities
form of Earth life.” Education: A.B., English; master’s in teaching, Yale,
“At 82, I’m committed to deepening my own understanding of metaphysical 1969
and spiritual traditions—and enjoying big doses of ‘Vitamin G’: time with my Personal: Lives with wife Barbara in Cheshire, Con-
grandchildren.” necticut; father of four; grandfather of seven

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