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SPECIAL62 SECTION DARTMOUTH’S 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL ALUMNI ]No. 1 A list for the ages, as selected by a Service. faculty panel in celebration of the College’s 250th anniversary. 82 HOW WE CHOSE THE TOP 25
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8 |FIRST LOOK READINGS AND NOTES What’s past is prologue: Four rarely seen 39 | 250 FROM THE EARLY YEARS DARTMOUTH images of the College transport viewers across the decades. 106 42 |CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL Baker Library 1769-1816 27 |DEAR DARTMOUTH What do George Washington, J. Edgar Hoover and Ray Kroc have in common? 49 |THE GREAT NATIONAL CALAMITY All wrote letters to the College. A deep dive When all the post-war hurrahs into the archives died in sorrow
34 |DATA POINT 50 |ROOTS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS? Myth, memory, and the ancient How many undergraduates have matricu- nobility of pines DARTMOUTH 250 lated at Dartmouth in its 250 years? 53 |BUSTED 116 Long before Dean Wormer’s “double River Scene 58 |GRAPHIC STORY DOWNRIVER AND BEYOND secret probation,” there was the one An illustrated look at the amazing life and and only President Samuel Colcord times of John Ledyard, Dartmouth’s class of Bartlett, class of 1836. 1776 poster boy for adventure 55 |PRESIDENTIAL RANGE Memorable words from several 97 |INFOGRAPHIC esteemed members of the Wheelock CAN YOU SAY SESTERCENTENNIAL? Succession A random miscellany of ephemera, factoids, Dover Table, Franklin Chairs, Franklin Bowfront Server, Rug by Inner Asia and marginalia from two and a half centu-
250 ries of the College on the Hill. A four-page DARTMOUTH foldout section 118 |CLASS NOTES 122 Lone Pine & E THETFORD, VT FLAGSHIP SHOWROOM + WORKSHOP • S BURLINGTON, VT • HANOVER, NH • CONCORD, NH Bartlett Tower 172 |UNDYING IN THE PAINT: The 1902 basketball squad Uncommon knowledge about the original big (above) and other athletes fade to color in a NASHUA, NH • BOSTON, MA • NATICK, MA • W HARTFORD, CT • PHILADELPHIA, PA ILLUSTRATIONS BY man on campus, founder Eleazar Wheelock gallery of images that starts on page 86. STEVE THOMAS POMPY.COM • 800.841.6671 • We Offer National Delivery
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What do J. Edgar Hoover, George Washington, and Ray Kroc have in common? All wrote letters to the College. A DEEP DIVE INTO THE ARCHIVES DEAR DARTMOUTH
MALICIOUS SNARLINGS Jan. 25, 1772 Rev. and Dear Sir,…Dartmouth College has many bitter enemies, who stick not at the most horrid falsities to injure us; but perseverance will overcome their mali- cious snarlings. Truth will prevail. Their newspaper publications are infamous, and deserve no answer. Indeed, they are so flimsy and apparently spiteful that they are despised. After this year I think all your difficulties are done….I beg leave to assure you that no man whatever can be more happy in the establishment of the College or in promoting your personal happi- ness than, dear sir, Your very affectionate friend, J. Wentworth Portsmouth, NH NOTE: The author was the royal governor.
A WORK IN PROGRESS April the 7th, 1776 y h
a p Most Honored and Revrind Sir, I tack a graid deil of Plaishire writing to the Doctor at this time. I am well h o t g r at Presait, thanks be to god for it. I hoap these Fue lines h u e P
n o will find the Doctor in good health. I staid at Cam- bridge till after Boston was takin, and then our Regt m y D o was ordert into town, and I dident Lick to stay thear…. © A we Expect to imbark to Night For Newyork, and from thence to Phelledelfe, and then to Verginey, and from thence to Carreliney, and then to Fort Pit. thrue the The Perfect Setting for an Exquisite Wedding goodness of god, our Ennemies Fleeth when no man Porshueth….I had Privet inteligints from a worthe gentleman that King Gorge has geen up Quback and is Vermont’s Most Beautiful Address. Novecoshe to the frinch, and I Ernistly wish it may be For our good….Pray, Revrind Sir, Remember me The Woodstock Inn & Resort, one of New England’s most scenic, romantic, and luxurious destinations in your humbil Prayers. I, most Revrind Sir, with all for a Vermont wedding, is ready to make your celebration perfect in every way. Our experienced staff will Respect and Submition, your Verrey humbil Servint, assist you with every detail — from room reservations to dinner menus, wedding cakes to rehearsal dinners. Joseph Verrieul NOTE: Verrieul came from Quebec to Hanover in 1771, when he caught the attention of Eleazar Wheelock. PERSONAL WEDDING COORDINATOR • FULL WEDDING VENUE SERVICES The president later wrote that he was “determined EXQUISITE WEDDING CAKES • CUSTOMIZED WEDDING MENUS • BRIDAL PACKAGES AT THE SPA to carry [Verrieul] through a collegiate course at his YEAR-ROUND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES • EXCLUSIVE ROOM RATES own expense” due to his “lively, ingenious” personality. Instead, Verrieul joined the colonial army and, after The World’s Best Hotels ~ Travel + Leisure this letter, was heard from no more.
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behalf, I thank you with grateful sincerity. To the animated spirit of freedom that pervaded our country, and to the firm temper of our citizens, which braved all dangers in defence of their privileges (under the protecting care of Divine Providence), are we indebted for the blessings of political indepen- dence. To the enlightened policy which has directed our publick councils we owe the reform and establish- ment of our Federal Constitution. Under its auspi- cious influence, aided by the industry of those citizens CELEBRATE DARTMOUTH who compose the great family of our Union, we may Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty congratulates Dartmouth College on their 250 th anniversary! hope for the substantial enjoyment of individual hap- I should“ piness and national honor. From your superintending take it as a care, Gentlemen, as the guardians of a seminary and grait an important source of science, we are to derive great NOT IN MY BACKYARD assistance in accomplishing these desiderata. Spring, 1777 Favour if you would That your labors may be crowned with success Docr Wheelock: Sir, I should take it as a grait Favour put up your and render you happy in its consequences, is my sin- if you would put up your small pigs, for they Daly Do small pigs, cere prayer. me Damage; and as you are knowing to it, I shall take for they GEORGE WASHINGTON it unkind if you don’t take care of them. Daly Do me NOTE: The nation’s first president had been elected in March. He had planned to visit the “interior country” From your humble Servt., Damage. 22 THE RIDGE MOUNTAINTOP SERENITY AND THE VIEW! GEORGE EAGER of the Granite State in November 1789 but could not This residence evokes the finest qualities of New England Privacy, expansive views, yet 10 minutes to Hanover, Magnificently crafted Timberframe home make the trip after visiting Portsmouth, New Hamp- living. Carriage barn, patio, pool, guest cottage, workshop and Dartmouth College campus, DHMC. This traditional New with amazing 100-mile Mountain Views. exquisite custom details inside to suit modern living. England home sits in the middle of a 52-acre property. A must-see property! GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS shire. The College’s second president, John Wheelock, Eleazar’s eldest son, had prepared a speech for the oc- ORFORD, NH | $995,000 | MLS#4680550 HANOVER, NH | $2,400,000 | MLS#4722306 WEATHERSFIELD, VT | $935,000 | MLS#4693161 14th of June, 1778 LEAH MCLAUGHRY | C: 603.359.8622 LINDA MAYO | C: 802.345.5202 MELISSA ROBINSON | C: 603.667.7761 ” casion. It concluded with these words: “Guarded and Reverend Sir, Your [proposition of secession] to the directed by the auspices of our divine parent, you have General Assembly of the State of Vermont appears justly merited these sublime and endearing epithets: to me Reasonable….[I] Shall use my Influence that the savior of your country and the founder of a new this Assembly Take the College under their Patron- empire.” age, and Invest yourself with Civil Authority in the manner you Desire…. A SIMPLE “NO” WOULD SUFFICE Permit me, reverend sir, to assure you that in all Revd Nathan Lord D.D. things I will exert myself to strengthen your hands; President of Dartmouth College and I pray that the Blessing of God may accompany 8 Nov., 1838 your Labour, to the Great Happiness and building up of this State and the Eternal Well-being of many Souls Dear Sir, The obliging terms in which your Letter CONTEMPORARY HOME WITH RIVER VIEWS ADIRONDACK STYLE HOME A QUIET AND COMFORTABLE SPOT A lovely three bedroom Contemporary home located at the Embrace the beauty that is New Hampshire’s ski country Contemporary-designed home provides privacy, and a in the world to come. of the 15th ult. urges my acceptance of the invita- end of a private driveway situated on 4.18 acres with westerly surrounded by your choice of mountains, lakes, exquisite comfortable open concept featuring two fireplaces, formal living I am, Reverend Sir, with Due Deference, tion tendered me by the two Literary Societies of views of the Connecticut River and into Vermont. dining, shopping and the region’s four seasons of recreation. room and newly finished exercise/play room in the basement. Your most Obedient & Most Huml Servant, the undergraduates of Dartmouth College to address HANOVER, NH | $599,999 | MLS#4676107 BARTLETT, NH | $1,999,999 | MLS#4717743 HANOVER, NH | $830,000 | MLS#4727295 ETHAN ALLEN them on their next Anniversary, demand my grateful JUDY CASHMAN | C: 603.998.9386 LINDA ROSENTHALL | C: 603.455.1252 AL MICHELOVIC | C: 603.359.4547 Bennington, Vermont acknowledgements. NOTE: Allen schemed to create the state of Vermont to They increase also my regret at finding myself thwart New York’s acquisitive territorial interests. For compelled to meet so flattering a request with any other a time, Wheelock threw in with Allen, thanking him for answer than immediate and cheerful compliance. his “friendly and Charitable Patronage.” Among the learned Seminaries of education in the land, Dartmouth College stands in the line of the AMERICAN FABIUS highest rank. To be deprived of the opportunity of adding a word of encouragement and exhortation to 22d day of August, 1789 the pursuit of liberal studies, and generous morals, to Gentlemen, In assigning so important an agency to which her youthful pupils are daily stimulated by the Photo: Likeness only. the endeavors of an individual, as mentioned in your precept and example of their immediate instructors, STUNNING VIEWS TREETOPS IS COMING SUMMER 2019 IN THE HEART OF HANOVER [invitation to visit Dartmouth], you render a tribute is a disappointment to me which I hope will plead my Designed to embrace the 5.4 acre hilltop location with forever Perhaps the finest new construction project in years. Urban Located on a quiet residential street adjacent to Occom Pond, views of Little Lake Sunapee, New London Village and the Contemporary style with a setting that is purely New England. this three-story home makes living easy. 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“MORAL WELFARE” fence which has brought me into the unfortunate PIN ACTION May 2, 1887 position which I now occupy; and deeply regretting March 10, 1904 the fact that I have been influenced against any bet- To the President and Faculty of Dartmouth College: ter judgment to compromise my honor as a student Dear Sir: Have you personally, or in your mind has the Gentlemen, I am now keeping a strictly Temperance of Dartmouth College, by committing a dishonest College, any objection to a Bowling Alley in Hanover? Hotel, and, provided the prohibition which prevents act while under examination, I do petition you, The Bowling is now a recognized sport in New England, College students from boarding at my Hotel shall President and Faculty of Dartmouth College to allow in Hanover it would, as an athletic sport, fill in the be removed, I hereby promise that no me to resume, at once, my former place in college and gap in the dull Winter between the outdoor sports. intoxicating drinks of any kind shall be to place myself under the recent act of the student An alley would give employment to three or sold or furnished to any one, directly or body—the adoption of the Honor System. Should your four college men. Any questions will be cheerfully indirectly, on or about the premises, and honorable and just body see fit to grant this, my prayer answered. that the Hotel shall be kept free from for reinstatement, I promise to the system an earnest, Respectfully yours, whatever is objectionable and incom- FRANK E. CUDWORTH ’01 faithful and conscientious support and to the College We are“ shipping patible with the moral welfare of the a never failing loyalty in the observance of all its laws, Portsmouth Bowling Alleys community. you today rules and regulations. Portsmouth, N.H. G.F. KIBLING another No. 12 Very respectfully, NOTE: Kibling received the following un- NOTE: The following reply was sent. Hammond on WALTER T. SUMNER GREAT LEAP FORWARD Dear Sir, In reply to your questionnaire of Jan. 22nd I which we signed reply: “In view of the above pledge 27 March, 1909 the President and Faculty withdraw the submit the following information. Seven countries— believe you will prohibition.” PROSPEROUS SON Mr. E.M. Hopkins, Canada, Dominican Republic, Armenia, Japan, Egypt, find the special Febr. 12th, 1902 Dear Sir: We are shipping you today another No. 12 Greece, Hawaii. Each country sends 1 student except spacing, together with FORECAST: SHOWERS My dear [William Jewett] Tucker: Your letter of De- Hammond on which we believe you will find the spe- Canada which sends 2. cial spacing, together with the No. 26 type shuttle, a —No foreign Graduate Students the No. 26 type Nov. 25, 1891 cember 20th followed me to Egypt where we spent perfect match for your multigraph work. The ribbon shuttle, a the most of December on the Nile, returning to Italy —No special committee My dear [President Bartlett]: A few gen- sent on the machine may be a trifle too light to satisfy —No clubs perfect match in January and coming gradually via Naples, Rome tlemen, Alumni of the college, had some you. If so, drop us a card by return mail, and we will at —The foreign students have no difficulty in find- for your and Florence to Monte-Carlo…. talk or conversation here yesterday as to once send you on spools a more heavily inked ribbon ing rooms multigraph I have received the photographs you sent me and [how] the gymnasium is now practically that may blur a little, but perhaps will not be very —No special classes in English are held for the work. am glad to see the handsome and substantial building, of little use, especially in winter for want noticeable in simply filling in so few words as you foreigners “College Hall.” of heat, and that there are no accommo- usually fill in, we believe. Please send us the result of your investigation. The physical improvements in [Hanover] are go- dations for bathing in the building; That Should be glad to hear how you like the machine…. Secretary to the President ing on evidently hand in hand with the increase in it is not properly protected against the use or abuse Very truly yours, influence and usefulness of the College. It is a pleasure ” by the town boys, and on the whole the building is THE HAMMOND TYPEWRITER CO. to see the old institution marching forward in line G-MAN not now accomplishing the purpose for which it was with all that is modern and liberal, after its period of November 17, 1941 erected, to the extent at least that it ought to. DATA QUEST lethargy that lasted for fifty years or more. I hope your Dear Dr. Hopkins: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Statements were made to the effect that Dart- January 22, 1914 mouth is falling so far behind other colleges in this Board of Trustees will be strengthened as opportunity communication of November 10, 1941, and to thank you offers, by the election of men of position and ability, matter of athletics, that young men go to other col- The gymnasium“ Dear Sir: As the chairman of the Board of Advisers for your courtesy in communicating with me. leges for that reason. It is of course true that it is not and of action, who will do their share to help on the to foreign students, I am gathering some informa- In order that additional information may be ob- is now good work of which you bear the brunt…. the chief object, or the first purpose of the college practically of tion about the distribution of the foreign students tained concerning the activities to which you have I am glad to see that it will be the aim of the [Tuck] to turn out physical athletes, at the same time it is little use, in American universities and their choice of work…. referred, arrangements have been made with Mr. V.W. School to bring the student in touch with practical said to be true that as a matter of fact opportunities especially in How many countries are represented by your foreign Peterson, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of business men. There is much that can be taught young for athletics now play quite a part in the decision of winter for want student body? Which countries?.... Investigation, United States Department of Justice, men regarding the essential conditions of success, the question with young men, where they shall go to of heat, —Are there any foreign students enrolled in the 10 Post Office Square Building, Room 1016, Boston, zeal, promptness, indefatigability, exactitude, seeking college. It was not so in your or my day, but if it is the and…there Graduate School?.... Massachusetts, for you to be interviewed by an Agent always to be more useful, the consciousness that in fact, it is the part of wisdom to acknowledge it and act are no accom- —Do you have a special committee in charge of from our Boston Office. In this manner we will be able accordingly…[to] (try at least to) raise $30,000….It is modations for business to forget a thing is a crime, etc., etc., which, these students? to obtain a full and complete picture of the activities the desire of the Alumni Association to go to work bathing in the up to this time, successful men have had to learn by —Do you have a Cosmopolitan Club? Chinese to which you refer. at once if their proposition is favorably considered. building. experience, unless they knew them by instinct. Club? Latin-American Club? Etc. Sincerely yours, Very Truly Yours, I believe these qualities can be cultivated in many, —Have the foreign students any difficulty in find- J. ED. HOOVER J.B. RICHARDSON when they might otherwise lie dormant…. ing agreeable and suitable rooms? Washington, D.C. Boston Yours Ever, —Do you have special classes in English for foreign NOTE: The FBI director was responding to the fol- EDWARD TUCK students? lowing letter from President Ernest Martin Hopkins. ” Monte-Carlo, Hotel de Paris Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation, PRODIGAL SON NOTE: Philanthropist Tuck, class of 1862 and Tucker’s I am very sincerely yours, Dear Mr. Hoover: Some number of us who are not, I Nov. 22, 1897 former roommate, donated $300,000 in 1899 to endow J.A.C. HILDNER think, given to hysteria and who are likely in general To the President and Faculty of Dartmouth College: the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, University of Michigan, to look on charges of fifth columnist activities with Gentlemen: Fully realizing the seriousness of the of- since renamed the Tuck School of Business. Ann Arbor, Michigan agnostic eye are curious about some of the activities
30 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 31 letters Capturing the spirit, character, and diverse accomplishments of Dartmouth College’s first 250 years going on here in the upper Connecticut Valley and to the north of us in some of the White Mountain resorts. There isn’t, I think, the slightest question about where the sympathies of some of the people are who are coming into the region or who have established organizations within it, but whether these sympathies go further than mental attitudes, we do not know. At any rate, I have some data that I should be glad to turn over to responsible parties if you would advise me to whom to go. Might I ask for your counsel in this matter? Yours very truly, ERNEST HOPKINS EXPEL! April 25, 1969 Gentlemen: In these most trying times, when true courage is needed, let us not forget that “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” Dartmouth College[’s] undergraduate body, se- lected with great care, contains, unfortunately, some BARE TRUTH subversive elements, probably inspired and supported May 3, 1974 by those who would destroy not only the College, but our Nation and our intellectual freedom. Basically, I Dear Mr. President: Although I have never thought of believe that it is the Communists, including the in- Baker Library as being a House of Humor, exactly, I ternational organization as well as those who follow find I have another anecdote to pass along to you, ema- the party line, who would destroy America…. nating from these precincts, which has struck me as Let me urge you to expel from the College all who hilariously funny and may, indeed, amuse you, as well. I understand“ would destroy it, regardless of the position of the With regard to the recent incident in which, as individual, whether that of undergraduate, graduate from the you know, three “streakers” made a nocturnal dash student, or in any other manner connected with the news accounts through the Reserve Corridor of Baker, one of my College…. that the administrative colleagues went down, the next morn- Be courageous! At the risk of losing a majority ‘streakers’ ing, to check with the staff member—a woman aged Dartmouth Undying: of the student population, expel those who, through were wearing sixty-plus—who had been in charge of the Reserve violent means, would destroy the College and the ski masks. Desk the night before. The supervisor, after making intellectual freedom which the College has always a few general inquiries about the matter, said: “I un- A Celebration of Place and Possibility believed in and provided the forum for. derstand from the news accounts that the ‘streakers’ Sincerely, were wearing ski masks.” GEORGE V. PARKHURST ” “Oh,” replied the Reserve Desk lady, with evident Class of 1930, former member, Alumni Council surprise; “I didn’t notice the ski masks!” Yours ever, EDWARD CONNERY LATHEM PATERNALLY GRATEFUL Dean of Libraries Edited by David Shribman ’76 and Jim Collins ’84 May 8, 1969 and Librarian of the College Dear Sir: I regret to state that my son [name redacted], a sophomore, was involved in the recent demonstra- “All will agree that whatever else Dartmouth has been, it has been adventurous,” Earl Cranston, Class of 1919, tion or sit-in. This situation is painfully embarrassing EGGHEAD MCMUFFIN and reflects a paternal failure to engender a stimula- July 26, 1977 wrote in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 1944. That sense of adventurism, richly chronicled in these tion towards positive dissent with an appreciation John [Kemeny]….You have restored my faith in higher pages, colors the College’s storied past, defines its far-flung alumni, and animates the world-changing work for law and order. learning. I don’t like eggheads—you are one of us and Your reaction was most dynamic and positive and a regular guy. God bless. that has emerged from Dartmouth’s teachers, researchers, students, and graduates. met completely the demands of the confrontation. I RAY KROC am certainly proud that my son has the benefit of your McDonald’s type of leadership. Naturally I would prefer to avoid any publicity. Letters to Dartmouth presidents are sealed at Rauner This note is of a personal nature to express my admira- Library for 25 years following the end of an adminis- tion and compliments for a job well done. tration. President James O. Freedman’s records will [name redacted] be unsealed in 2023. Order your copy today at dartgo.org/250book
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100,723 TOTAL100 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH723 COLLEGE, 1771-2018 How We Got office, the office of institu- Associated Schools General records and got a nifty tional research’s Fact Book, Catalogue, we found all kinds spreadsheet that tallied all This Number the College archivist. Lots of of numbers—and names of classes since 1940: 73,942. There was no one-stop suggestions, but nobody had every alumnus from the first We had our magic number* shopping or simple calcula- a solid number. It was going class of 1771 through the —which had just rolled into tion to arrive at what we to be a slog to get data from class of 1939. The book lists six figures. referred to as the “magic Dartmouth’s first 150 years, a total of 26,781 undergradu- number” during our months- even though the classes back ate alumni (including 8,290 long quest to find out how then were tiny. Then we who did not graduate) for many undergraduate alumni turned to the old college those years. (It also includes * Undergraduates who ma- the College has produced in histories gathering dust on every alum’s birthday, triculated and whose classes all its years. We started with DAM’s office bookshelves. In address, job title, and, when have graduated. Does not the usual suspects: alumni one precious 1940 volume, relevant, date of death.) Next, include honorary degree records, the registrar’s Dartmouth College and we went back to alumni recipients or adopted alums.
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THE CLASS OF 1771 By the Numbers OPENING CEREMONY X 1700s The earliest Commencement, held in 1771, featured bigtime barbecue, speeches in Latin, and lousy linen. BY W.D. QUINT, CLASS OF 1887 9th t was a great event for the wil- Dartmouth annals….There is no gloomy RANK OF THE COLLEGE AMONG THE NATION’S OLDEST derness. Riding up from Ports- cloud of scepticism over the statement (OUR CHARTER IS DATED DECEMBER 13, 1769) mouth on horseback came that Governor Wentworth paid for the Governor Wentworth with a ox that was barbecued on the green, nor company of sixty gentlemen, that a barrel of rum was broached, to the making camp two nights on the way. Four great satisfaction of the settlers for miles 270-300 Istudents took their degrees as bachelors around. HEIGHT, IN FEET, OF GIANT PINES THAT WERE FELLED of arts: Levi Frisbie, Sylvanus Ripley, But to the president, this first Com- TO CREATE THE CAMPUS Samuel Gray, and John Wheelock, all mencement was not an unalloyed joy. of whom had emigrated from their Yale Madame Wheelock was too ill to receive classes to graduate at Dartmouth. The any guests, and the presidential cook, exercises, which took place on August with the almost inevitable instinct of 35 28, were as follows: that profession, seized upon the occa- ACRES CLEARED OF TREES BY 1771 1. A Salutatory Oration in English, by sion to get drunk. But Eleazar Whee- Ripley, upon the Virtues, succeeded by lock was ever of undaunted soul, and an Anthem. he invited the dashing governor and his Assisted Wheelock for several years Studied law and became assistant 2. A Clyosophic Oration in Latin, by merry suite to dinner, some of which he after graduating. Ordained as a commissary general during the 200 Frisbie. perhaps prepared with his own hands. minister in May 1772. Revolutionary War before serving in ACRES CLEARED BY 1774 3. A Syllogistic Disputation, wherein Under the circumstances it could hardly Served as pastor of First Church in Connecticut courts for more than four Gray held the question, An vera cognitio have been a luxurious feast, yet some of Ipswich, Massachusetts, for remainder decades. Honored as a guest at 1827 of his life. Dei Luce Naturae acquiri potest [Can a the Portsmouth visitors were of mean Commencement. True Knowledge of God Be Obtained by and little souls enough to sneer at the 92 the Light of Reason]? Opposed by Fris- bareness of their entertainment after HANOVER POPULATION IN 1767 bie, Wheelock, and Ripley; and they had returned home. 4. A Valedictory Oration in Latin, Wheelock’s answer…in its simplic- by Wheelock, “followed by an anthem ity, its dignity, and its touch of pathos, composed and set to music by the young must have made those snobbish critics 342 gentlemen, candidates for a degree.” ashamed of themselves. “We were in- HANOVER POPULATION IN 1773 This appeal to the Muses must have deed,” he said, “in very trying circum- been a moving performance. Whee- stances; but we got along as well as we lock says that Ripley’s oration “pro- could, depending on the candor and duced tears from a great number of the clemency of our friends. As to the table- $15,000 learned,” and this, too, before the punch linen, which I hear is complained of, that COST TO BUILD DARTMOUTH HALL IN 1791 was ladled from the silver bowl. Frisbie must come, I suspect, wholly upon me, recited an original poem. Semi-official through my poverty….As to the College, history says that the various orations, dis- it owns but one [tablecloth], that was putations, and the poem were delivered lately given by a generous lady in Con- 16 STUDENTS ADMITTED THE FIRST YEAR: 5 SENIORS, al fresco, a crude stage of logs and hewn necticut, and of her own manufacture. boards, to which access was given by a But we are getting along, and things are 2 JUNIORS, 5 SOPHOMORES, 4 FRESHMEN broad, inclined hemlock plank, furnish- growing better.” ing the rostrum for the four who were forever to hold their conspicuous place in From The Story of Dartmouth (1914) 75% GRADUATION RATE OF THOSE 16 STUDENTS Wait a Minute ecause the first board couldn’t get its act Btogether, the original Dartmouth graduates Led a religious mission among Lt. colonel in Continental Army X received only a “recommendatory testimonial” or Native tribes in Canada. during the Revolutionary War and later The class of 1771 had to “Certificate of Degree” instead of an A.B. The board Married Wheelock’s daughter, Abigail, a professor at the College. At 25 he 188 BOOKS IN ELEAZAR WHEELOCK’S LIBRARY WHEN HE wait for its diplomas. didn’t deliver diplomas until two years later. Mean- and served as a trustee and professor of succeeded his dad as Dartmouth’s divinity. Died at 37 after being thrown president. Survived a shipwreck but not But each graduate while, the town of Dummer, New Hampshire, gave DIED, A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER FOR THE TIME from a sleigh driven by a student. the trustees, who ousted him in 1815. received 300 acres in each graduate 300 acres. In 1795 three of the lot the Granite State. owners, behind on property taxes, sold their rights.
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ARTIFACT ficient on penalty of one HORSE THIEF? LORD OF THE Notice in the local pa- CAMPUS FLIES shilling lawful money.” CONFIDENTIAL “Samuel Taggart, 1774, (Fines often served as per in December 1799: was absentminded and punishments.) “Strayed or Stolen. From eccentrick, caught flies in a pasture in Hanover…a dark gray Mare, four years prayers at the college cha- WHEELOCK’S X old, about 13 or 14 hands 1769-1816 pel, and being reproved RULES, PART III high—trots all. Whoever for inattention, vindicated “It is earnestly recom- has taken up said mare, himself by repeating all mended and injoyned and will give informa that had been said in the upon the students that - devotion.” they observe neatness and tion where she may be cleanliness in their rooms obtained, shall be hand- somely rewarded.” LONG LINE OF and in their dress and avoid every practice in, —THADDEUS OSGOOD PROFESSORS STUDENT, One family served the upon or about the College DARTMOUTH COLLEGE College for 135 years: that may be disagreeable Ebenezer Adams, class of and offensive.” DUBIOUS NEWS Conch Shell 1791, taught mathematics The Dartmouth boldly Dartmouth founder Eleazar Wheelock used at the College from 1810 claims to be “America’s it as a horn. When students heard its call until 1833, when he was oldest college newspa- they came running, as glorified in a 19th- succeeded by his son-in- per,” but at least seven century College song by E.E. Parker, class of law, Ira Young, whose son other college newspapers 1869, and Addison Andrews, class of 1878: “It Charles taught astronomy. make similar claims. The called the students from their play, to work, Charles’ daughter married D traces its lineage to the to prayers, with potent spell; Ill fared he HAIR RAISER trustee short of a quorum, John C. Proctor, a profes- 1799 Dartmouth Gazette— who dared disobey the summons of the Old A report from Com- the 12-member board sor of Greek from 1870 a paper that had no ties to Conch Shell.” Freshmen were tasked with mencement held on had to reassemble 11 days to 1879, and their son, the College. blowing the conch horn. Some were better September 19, 1787, later. Charles Proctor, class of than others. in Dartmouth Hall: “A 1900, became an assistant MOURNING BANDS number of spectators SQUIRMY professor of mathemat- After George Washington climbed up the sides of SITUATION ics and later physics. He died in 1799, Dartmouth’s the official platform, and A bizarre plague of worms retired in 1945. president and executive it suddenly collapsed, in July 1770 led to food SCHEMES WITH officers donned black and dignitaries and shortages during Whee- SERIOUS TITLES STRIPES crepe on their arms for spectators were scat- lock’s first winter (1770- Lately received at Hanover A stuffed zebra housed in two months to mourn his tered promiscuously on 71). The worms, up to four Bookstore, October 1799: the College Museum was passing. the floor. Some of the inches long, reportedly St. Pierre’s Studies of a regular target of campus reverend gentlemen, we covered houses “within Nature, Winterbotham’s pranks in the 1790s. “Un- HIGHER are told, ‘had to look for and without…but left no History of China, like a properly regulated STANDARD themselves in one place, wheat or corn behind Robison’s Proof of a museum piece, it was in President Francis Brown and for their wigs in an- them.” The inexplicable Conspiracy of the the habit of appearing in served this notice to men other.’ ” invaders were brown with Illuminati…, and Elliot’s incongruous places, such seeking admission in 1816: black and yellow stripes. Medical Pocket Book. as the roof of the chapel or “They must be versed in FOOD FRIGHT The only remedy that the belfry of [Dartmouth common Arithmetick as After hearing from early worked: digging trench- 8 JOHN WHEELOCK’S Number of Hall], thus requiring labo- far as the Square Root.” es where accumulated students about the Col- RULES, PART I college rious transportation back worms could be crushed. lege’s vile victuals, N.H. “That no scholar send for newspapers, to its normal abode.” EARLY PRESS Gov. Wentworth wrote or procure any spiritous including For a short time, Dart- SUNKEN Wheelock that students liquors without a permit The Dartmouth, PROBABLY mouth Hall was home were “unhealthy and TREASURE from the President or a DIDN’T TASTE to one of the first known When a ship sank off Cape that claim to be debilitated, their con- Tutor for which he shall the oldest in the LIKE CHICKEN printing presses in the Cod in 1784, a fund of As a student, Daniel stitutions impaired, and apply in person unless es- country colonies. The press was their friends and parents £5,000 (nearly $1 million Webster once visited housed there in 1779 by Copper Horn College Seal pecially detained at which In the latter half of the 19th century The first order of business for College trustees highly disgusted.” today) headed to College his father’s friends near publishers Alden Spooner time he may send for one students didn’t suffer in silence when at their August 1773 meeting was to vote on a coffers went down with it. Hanover. “The only thing and Judah-Padock by a Freshman by whom professors doled out less-than-glowing Dartmouth seal. Its designer is As a result, the College they had to eat was a Spooner of the weekly HOME EQUITY he shall assign the reason grades. As many as 200 masked students unknown, although speculation abounds Students dismantled held a lottery to fund bundle of green grass and Dresden Mercury and The for not coming himself….” would vent their ire by assembling outside that founder Eleazar Wheelock drew it up. Wheelock’s decaying log Dartmouth Hall. a little hog’s lard; and they Universal Intelligencer. a prof’s home at night to blow copper horns “The result is a piece of late-colonial kitsch,” hut in the early 1780s actually subsisted on this WHEELOCK’S and toss rocks at windows. President according to an article about the seal’s despite the protests of grass fried in the hog’s RULES, PART II GOD HELP US William Jewett Tucker demanded an end history that appeared in the Dartmouth some professors. “That no student be ab- fat,” it was reported. But Eleazar Wheelock pro- to the practice in 1896, when he expelled 10 College Library Bulletin in 1997. In 1957 sent from his study af- Webster didn’t mind: “It claimed that the site for students for “horning” and forced students an error on the seal was corrected: SLOW START ter nine o’clock at night was not so bad. They fried his College was “not to sign an agreement to end what he called It mistakenly stated the College’s founding Only six trustees attended without liberty or such up a great platter of it and determined by any private “clumsy, ungentlemanly” behavior. year as 1770. the first board meeting occasion as President or I made my supper and interest or party on earth, on October 11, 1770. One Tutors shall think suf- breakfast off it.” but the Redeemer’s.” ARTIFACTS: JOHN SHERMAN ARTIFACTS:
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ROOF DINING ROOM - Scored major points with my foodie resident Eleazar Wheelock father-in-law, getting front row seats for the sold-out appointed his son, John Celebrity Chef event with Lidia Bastianich, Jacques Pépin Wheelock, to succeed him upon his death in 1779. John and Andre Soltner. Pwas 25 and seemed insufficiently quali- fied. Hesitant to approve his posting, the trustees eventually relented, due in part to Wheelock’s willingness to serve with- FREE WI-FI - I Skyped into a conference call with London out salary. Eager to cultivate respect and support, the younger Wheelock proved and L.A. in the morning, then Skyped with my daughter that too fervent in his efforts to govern the night. school, alienating students and the Daniel Webster trustees. By 1809, opposition to Wheelock’s College to “Dartmouth University” (call- sel. Older members of the college com- presidency took hold of the board and ing the College a “University” has been munity recalled Webster’s Dartmouth slowly converted a majority of the profes- a grave offense ever since), increased arrival in 1797. Webster was dressed in IT’S TRULY AMAZING TO THINK OF WHAT UNFOLDS sors to its point of view. After impeaching the number of trustees from 12 to 21, homespun clothing, dyed by his mother, Wheelock in 1815, the trustees elected and created a board of overseers with whose colors had bled upon contact with AT 50 VANDERBILT. YOU CAN REMINISCE AND Reverend Francis Brown as his successor. veto power over trustee decisions. Dart- rain. Such was the humble beginning of Wheelock, having no desire to yield, mouth was effectively transformed from a future senator and secretary of state. RECONNECT, CELEBRATE AND STAY IN SHAPE, ALL IN convinced New Hampshire’s Democrats a private college to a state university. Webster lodged his support behind to join him in his struggle against the The resulting controversy would outlive the College’s original trustees. He sug- trustees, whom he accused of various of- Wheelock himself, who died in 1817. gested they file suit against William H. THE MIDDLE OF MIDTOWN. A 22-STORY HOME FOR fenses against the College. In 1816, these Daniel Webster, class of 1801 and of Woodward, former treasurer of Dart- Democrats, by means of the state legis- growing repute, had been courted by both mouth, demanding return of the charter, DARTMOUTH ALUMNI IN NEW YORK CITY. lature, changed the name of Dartmouth sides of the dispute to serve as legal coun- seal, records, and account books seized (continued on next page)
FACULTY ATHLETIC - Finally, a gym that’s a gym, not a scene. I like that. You’re Hired! r. Smith agrees to settle as Pro- Mfessor of English, Latin, Greek, X Hebrew, Chaldee, etc., in Dartmouth LIBRARY - Studied for the GREs, caught a few Zs. Excerpts from the College, to teach which, and as many 1777 salary agreement of these and other such languages as he for Mr. John Smith, shall understand, as the Trustees shall MAIN BAR - Sure, I have time for another. I’m just two minutes Dartmouth’s judge necessary and practicable for one first professor man, and also to read lectures on them, from the 7:05. as often as the president, tutors, etc., with himself shall judge profitable for the Seminary. He also agrees to serve as tutor to a class of students in the College. Dr. Wheelock agrees to give him (the said Mr. Smith) one hundred pounds annually as a salary to be paid one half in money and the other half in money or in such necessary articles for a family as wheat, Indian corn, rye, beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, hay, pasturing, etc., as long as he shall continue profes- sor as aforesaid, and that he shall have these articles delivered to him at the 50 Vanderbilt Avenue same price for which they were usually sold before the commencement of the New York, NY 10017 present war in America. Doctor Wheelock also agrees that Mr. Smith’s salary 212-986-3232 shall not be diminished when his business as professor shall be so great that [email protected] it will render it impracticable for him to serve as a tutor to a class in College.
www.dartmouthclub.com OF CONGRESS LIBRARY RIGHT: TOP LIBRARY; SMITH COLLEGE NEAR RIGHT: Smith’s contract stipulated that he receive an acre of land.
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ADMISSIONS by him. The original trustees were de- feated in the Superior Court of New Hampshire, but had their grievances The Idle and Vicious elevated to the federal judiciary. They Need Not Apply then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. X Webster, for a fee of $1,000, agreed to Early students led scripted represent them against the state. He lives—or else. 1979. would argue that New Hampshire’s ac- tions were unconstitutional. 1811—The qualifications for admission into Webster testified on March 10, 1818, the Freshman class are, a good moral character, in the case of Dartmouth v. Woodward, a good acquaintance with Virgil, Cicero’s Select Your alma mater put before Chief Justice John Marshall. Orations, the Greek Testament, knowledge to Webster’s four-hour oration stands as translate English into Latin, and an acquaintance one of the most memorable in U.S his- with the fundamental rules of Arithmetic. The mem- tory. “This, sir, is my case. It is the case bers of the classes, in rotation, declaim before the officers not merely of that humble institution; it in the chapel every Wednesday, at two o’clock, p.m. you in a position to is the case of every college in our land.… The Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes, successively pronounce such It is more. It is, in some sense, the case orations and other compositions, written by themselves, as the president of every man who has property of which and professors shall direct, on the last Wednesday of November, the second he may be stripped—for the question is Wednesday of March, and the third Wednesday of May. Tragedies, plays, and succeed. Which also simply this: shall our state legislature be all irreligious expressions and sentiments are sacredly prohibited. allowed to take that which is not their The Languages, the Arts, and Sciences are studied in the following order: own, to turn it from its original use, and The Freshman Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Arithmetic, apply it to such ends or purposes as they, English Grammar and Rhetoric. in their discretion, shall see fit?…Sir, you The Sophomore Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Logic, Ge- put you in a position may destroy this little institution. It is ography, Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Conic Sections, weak. It is in your hands! I know it is one Surveying, Belles-lettres and Criticism. of the lesser lights in the literary horizon The Junior Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Geometry, Natural of the country. You may put it out. But if and Moral Philosophy, and Astronomy. to graciously return you do so, you must carry through your The Senior Class read Metaphysics, Theology, and…Political Law. work. You must extinguish, one after an- All classes are publicly examined at stated periods; those who are found other, all those great lights of science deficient lose their standing in the class. It is a fixed rule that the idle and which, for more than a century, have vicious shall not receive the honors of college. thrown their radiance over our land. It The punishments inflicted on offenders are admonition, suspension the favor in is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and and expulsion. The president attends morning and evening prayers with the yet, there are those who love it.” students in the chapel, and often delivers lectures to them on ecclesiastical Webster’s lip quivered and his voice history, on the doctrines of the Christian religion, or other important sub- choked as he delivered the final words. jects. He hears the recitations of the Senior class; his fund of general science Justice Marshall’s eyes were reportedly renders this an interesting part of collegiate life. moist with tears. A decision was post- —From an official statement published by the trustees 2019. poned for a year as the justices pondered the case. In February of 1819 the Supreme TRADITIONS he cane rush has had a most varied career Court ruled in favor of the trustees and There; at times forbidden by the faculty the College. Only one dissenting vote Rites and and lying dormant for a few years, then in- was cast. In his magisterial opinion, evitably reappearing. 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ICONS in vogue as early as 1854 manding view, its dreamy and as late as 1870, after rustling overhead made which it was replaced by the Old Pine the poetic ROOTS the ceremony of breaking and imaginative spot in the pipes against the tree college life for more than X at a given signal, followed half a century. Much Myth, memory, by a rush for mementoes. generous sentiment has and the ancient nobility This custom was contin- clustered about it and of pines ued until 1893. been said and sung by un- July 29, 1887, the Old dergraduate and alumnus. BY HERBERT DARLING FOSTER, Pine was struck by light- More than sixty gen- CLASS OF 1885, AND HENRY G. JESUP ning, and on June 14, erations of college class- 1892, its main branch was es who have venerated it broken by a whirlwind. As will find their veneration 1896—The “Old Pine,” judged from its carefully if it were an old friend, voiced in these sponta- and independently counted 112 rings, may be the word passed around neous words of genuine safely assigned, according to the best arbori- among alumni “the Old reverence by Dr. John culturists, to within a year or two of 1785, for Pine is dying.” Its friends Ordronaux of the class its origin. tried to save it in 1894, of 1850: “I have known Jacob Gale, class of 1833, is the earliest alum- but, in spite of the greatest it since 1846 and never nus to report as current in his college days, a care, it failed to replace its approached its hoary vague legend of three Indians singing about a brown needles with green presence without a feel- tree their farewell song, beginning, “When shall Its“ dreamy ones in the following ing of reverence, for I rec- we three meet again….” rustling spring. After witnessing ognized in it a member The earliest reminiscence of the Old Pine is overhead its last Class Day, it was of the ancient nobility of from Jas. F. Joy, class of 1833, who writes: “The made the cut down July 23 and 24, Pines, the sentinel tribe ‘Old Pine’ was standing of course in my day, and Old Pine the 1895. A shot was found of our Northern Forests. there were stories current then about some class poetic and in the seventy-ninth ring Had I been one of the imaginative which graduated just before I entered college from the outside. The ‘genus veritabile vatum,’ spot in college total height was seventy- I should long since have gathering about that tree and singing ‘Auld Lang life for more Syne’ before parting.” Such stories might natu- than half a one feet. The stump, four made it speak in verse rally have grown into the Indian legend. century. feet high, is left standing like Tennyson’s Talking In the 1840s the Old Pine had become and has been treated with Oak, and surely it would more generally known, and from this time on a preservative. tell of many pleasant un- it tells its story not by legend but by personal Its legends, its asso- written chapters in the reminiscences of alumni. An alumnus of 1840 ciations, its age, its com- Epic of College Life.” says: “Some of us would occasionally, when out ” for recreation, sing the hymn which tradition ARBOR VITAE told us the three Indians composed and sang.” A graduate of 1845 writes: “We, like all other classes, had many meetings around the Old Pine for gossiping, storytelling, and music and some other exercises.” One of these “other exercises” “Let us take a backward glimpse, was the tarring and feathering of a man charged for a moment, with the spirit of the Old Pine. with crime. “The class of 1844 at the time of its Towering above its companions on this graduation held memorial services around it and eminence, for nearly a century it greeted first smoked the pipe of peace,” writes the Rev. Thos. the rising sun and was the last to catch its Wilson, class of 1844. Yet four other members declining rays. Over this pleasant valley it of 1844 state the class had no exercises. One re- watched by day and sighed its gentle song with members none, another gives probably the true the night breezes. Its stately form, so it is said, conclusion: “Perhaps some who were smokers sheltered the solemn parting of three Indian did as Mr. Wilson remembers.” chiefs. To it the early residents must have From 1854 until 1895, with the exception of turned as to a beacon light. And I like to think 1855 and a few years when Class Day was omitted Adapted from of the strength and cheer which this valiant on account of quarrels over class elections, the “Historical Sketch monarch of the forest has contributed to the Old Pine witnessed Class Day celebrations con- of the ‘Old Pine’ ” hundreds of Dartmouth men who came to look sisting of singing, an address, smoking the pipe by Foster, upon it with reverence.” a history of peace, sometimes from a single pipe passed professor, and —ARTHUR WARD GILBERT ’21 around, sometimes from long clay pipes….The Jesup, a botany CLASS DAY ADDRESS ON JUNE 18, 1921
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58 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 59 60 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 61 #1 DANIEL WEBSTER #2 THEODOR GEISEL #3 ROBERT FROST #4 ROBERT SMITH #5 SALMON P. CHASE #6 THADDEUS STEVENS #7 NELSON ROCKEFELLER #8 OWEN CHAMBERLAIN #9 GEORGE PERKINS MARSH #10 SAMUEL KATZ #11 EDWARD LORENZ #12 C. EVERETT KOOP #13 LOUISE ERDRICH #14 GEORGE BISSELL #15 GEORGE SNELL #16 ANNETTE GORDON-REED #17 BASIL O’CONNOR THE #18 SYLVANUS THAYER #19 MICHAEL ARAD #20 ALBERT BICKMORE #21 FRED ROGERS #22 GRANT TINKER M #23 E.E. JUST O #24 ROB WATSON 25S T #25 JAMES NACHTWEY INFLUENTIALA list for the ages, as selected by our faculty panel in celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary 25X ALUMNI
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DANIEL WEBSTER CLASS OF 1801 STATESMAN AND ORATOR
Even U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall had she says. “Webster’s great speeches in defense tears in his eyes that March day in 1818 as Daniel of our union delivered many timeless truths that Webster reached the climax of his impassioned are just as relevant today as when they echoed X 1four-hour argument. Webster fixed his intense through the old Senate chamber.” Webster’s fierce gaze on Marshall and uttered the words every Dart- eyes, deep voice, commanding presence, and care- Webster’s 1mouth graduate knows: “It is, as I have said, sir, a fully researched arguments produced a stunning small school, but there are those who love it.” impact. His powerful speeches in Congress and fierce eyes, Trustees of Dartmouth v. Woodward was one of around the country cultivated a national spirit more than 200 cases Webster argued before the that had barely existed before. deep voice, U.S. Supreme Court, many of them landmark rul- In January 1830, he gave perhaps the most commanding ings that shaped our interpretation of the Constitu- eloquent address in Senate history: his celebrat- tion. But the orator and statesman known as “the ed reply to South Carolina Sen. Robert Hayne, presence, godlike Daniel” left a far greater imprint. who had proclaimed that states should be able and carefully A swarthy complexion and jet-black hair to ignore or “nullify” federal laws they disliked. earned this Salisbury, New Hampshire, native Webster’s fiery dissent: Nullification would rip researched the nickname “Black Dan.” His titanic ego was the country apart. “Liberty and union, one and evident early—he skipped his Dartmouth gradua- inseparable, now and forever!” he thundered, arguments tion because he wasn’t selected as the valedictory earning him the accolade “Defender of the Con- produced speaker. Soon after, he took up the law. Told that stitution.” In far-off Illinois, newly minted lawyer the field was too crowded, he allegedly replied: Abraham Lincoln was among those he inspired. a stunning “There’s always room at the top.” That’s certainly Webster could be arrogant, profligate, and where he wound up. “For over a century and may- venal. He made many enemies—John Quincy impact. be more,” current U.S. Chief Justice John Rob- Adams said he had a “rotten heart.” He hungered erts tells DAM, “Daniel Webster represented for to be president, but when he ran in 1836 he came X Americans what a lawyer was, both good and bad.” in the last of four candidates. Webster was a prolific Supreme Court ad- Webster was secretary of state for three vocate, often arguing more than 10 cases a year. presidents. He negotiated an important treaty The court frequently drew on Webster’s words with Great Britain and established a self-defense in decisions that staked out broad powers for doctrine still used in international law. At age 68, the federal government. Today a small bronze back in the Senate, he made his last great speech statue of him adorns the lawyers’ lounge at the on behalf of the Compromise of 1850, seeking to high court. “The gaze on the statue is so stern it forestall a crisis between North and South. “I wish always had the effect of scaring me,” says Roberts, to speak today not as a Massachusetts man, nor as who frequently argued cases there before being a Northern man, but as an American,” he began. appointed chief justice. “I suspect Webster had Secession was averted, but the respite was fleet- that effect on others in real life.” ing—war came a decade later. Webster’s stand Webster reached his greatest heights in the cost him dearly. His supporters repudiated him U.S. Senate, where he fought to preserve the union as a traitor. The senator resigned but remained in the face of a growing North-South divide. To- resolute. “I shall stand by the union…with ab- day New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sits at solute disregard of personal consequences.” As Webster’s Senate desk. “It’s humbling to have the fitting an epitaph as any for one of the towering desk of someone with such a profound legacy,” statesmen of the 19th century. —Rick Beyer ’78 NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN GALLERY, PORTRAIT NATIONAL
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He is the Shakespeare of children’s literature. because its No person has made more kids happier than realities were Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). At least 650 2million copies of his 45 books have been pub- hard-earned. 2lished in 20 languages. For decades to come, chil- dren will nestle on parents’ laps and giggle at the zany doings of Sam I Am, Thing One and Thing X Two, Cindy Lou Who, Mr. Gump (who owned a seven-hump Wump), and Aunt Annie’s alligator. He conjured words such as wocket, truffula, fiffer- X feffer-feff, diffendoofer, thneeds, grickily gructus, and oodles more, including nerd. AD Geisel visited Paris in the early 1920s, and No person has Dali, Klee, and Miro influenced his art. His “di- made more vinely idiotic” tales, as one critic described them, took young readers to super-surreal Whoville, universal. Horton learns to respect individuals, kids happier Solla Sollew, McElligot’s Pool, and Katroo, the no matter how small. Sneetches warn of anti- place where the birthday birds live. Semitism, or perhaps merely the woes of snob- than Theodor Twenty-seven publishers rejected his first bery. The greedy Grinch repents his worship of Geisel. book, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, in consumerism. The Lorax protects nature. 1936. Some said it was too silly. Others objected to Love of liberty pulses through everything its rollicking anapestic tetrameter rhyme scheme, Geisel wrote. (He knew war firsthand. Assigned to X a meter its mischievous author knew would en- a documentary-filmmaking unit, he was trapped trance young readers. for three days behind enemy lines during the At the time, Geisel, 33, a successful commer- Battle of the Bulge.) cial illustrator, was ready to give up as a writer. When Dartmouth gave him an honorary de- He was lugging his portfolio home when he saw gree in 1955, the citation hailed his creative dar- his friend Marshall McClintock ’26 on Madison ing: “You single-handedly have stood as St. George Avenue in New York City. By chance McClintock between a generation of exhausted parents and had just been hired as a children’s book editor, and the demon dragon of unexhausted children on by day’s end Geisel had a book deal. a rainy day.” Fame came slowly before his literary star Geisel courted controversy in 1984 with The went supernova with the 1957 publication of The Butter Battle Book, which suggested that no na- Cat in the Hat. He wrote it after being challenged tion in a nuclear arms race could claim moral by an editor to create a fun book for first-graders, superiority. one brimming with maximum merriment that He also wrote 13 books under the semi-ana- would encourage a love of reading—and use as gramic name of Theo LeSieg, as well as two for few simple words as possible. adults, including You’re Only Old Once! (A Book A perfectionist, Geisel chose a bold red and for Obsolete Children), which appeared in 1990, a brilliant blue for its illustrations, hues he knew one year before his death at the age of 87. would appeal to children. His mad-hatted cat His influence on young people remains strong has sold more than 7 million copies, making it at Dartmouth. Freshmen dine on green eggs and the ninth bestselling children’s book of all time, ham at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. The 2012 re- according to Publisher’s Weekly, which lists it as naming of the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School one of 15 Seuss titles in its top 100 list. of Medicine recognized his substantial gifts to ROBERT FROST The sly Seuss (his middle name, which he the College. 3 first used inThe Jack-O-Lantern and thought Geisel’s children are everywhere. He had 3 should be pronounced soice) told timeless tales. none of his own. “You have them,” he once said. Their themes of love, courage, and decency are “I’ll entertain them.” —George M. Spencer LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY
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ROBERT FROST, CLASS OF 1896 X POET
Robert Frost’s place in American culture is easy to measure Chase set and impossible to overstate. From his first book A( Boy’s Will, 1915) up a national to his recitation of “The Gift Outright” at President Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, Frost dominated the literary landscape. He won four banking system Pulitzers for poetry. He was nominated more than 30 times for the Nobel Prize in literature, and he received a Congressional Gold and issued the Medal. government’s Frost took 19th-century tools of meter and rhyme and made ROBERT SMITH them new. He radically reinvented the narrative poem, combining CLASS OF 1902 first-ever technical brilliance with ordinary speech—the colloquialisms of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COFOUNDER New England hill farmers. Unlike pastoral poets who preceded paper currency. him, Frost brought a dirt-under-the-fingernails understanding Heavy drinking punctuated Robert Smith’s of husbandry and botany to his poetry. He was a farmer. He lived college days. “After high school came four years X through hard times and personal tragedy. His poetry transcended 4in one of the best colleges in the country, where sentiment because it was real, and its realities were hard-earned. drinking seemed to be a major extra-curricular Like the poet himself, his poetry endured. 4activity,” he wrote later in life. Frost’s poems examined the facts of the world. “A brook, a new Smith became a surgeon and kept drinking— calf, neighbors at work, the death of a child, a solitary walk; without heavily. “I used pills and booze every day,” Smith preaching, the poet treats each subject with a loving care until the said. “I woke up in the morning with the jitters, heart of the matter rises up, seemingly from our own eyes,” wrote took a sedative to steady my hands for surgery.... fellow New England poet Steven Ratiner in 1981. “Using broad de- Sometimes, in the operating room, I’d be high as scriptive strokes and a perfectly balanced tension between what is a kite. Lucky I haven’t killed somebody.” told and what is held back for the reader to imagine, Frost’s images In 1935, in Akron, Ohio, he met fellow alco- lift up off the page. Though they are simple in nature, the wonder holic Bill Wilson, a New York City stockbroker. of his lyrics is that they conjure strong and vibrant histories that Wilson, who had recently stopped drinking, spent we somehow have shared all along.” 30 days helping Smith do the same. That year Uncle Sam printed a special edition of Frost’s poems for troops they created Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which fighting in World War II. Frost went to the Soviet Union as a cultural changed how the world views alcoholism, once re- ambassador and met Premier Nikita Khrushchev. A performance garded as a moral weakness and now considered OF CONGRESS LIBRARY 5 artist before the term was invented, this white-haired, rumpled man a disease. Smith and Wilson’s 12-step program 5 with a New England accent came into everyone’s homes on radio is still used today. Wilson tends to get most of and TV and became the face and voice of American letters. “He was the credit for founding AA, but Smith is equally SALMON P. CHASE, CLASS OF 1826 and issued the government’s first-ever paper currency, known as not only a poet but a public institution,” wrote author Danny Heit- deserving. Known to AA members as “Dr. Bob,” he POLITICIAN AND JUDGE greenbacks. (He also added the phrase, “In God We Trust,” to coins.) man in 2014. “His presence is as familiar to his fellow Americans was, according to those who knew him, a humble Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ’68 admires Chase’s as the Grand Canyon or the Washington Monument.” Indeed, at man who never sought the limelight. Salmon P. Chase ticked off the offices on his rapid rise up the creativity in bankrolling the war, but not the decision to put his own the dedication of Amherst’s Robert Frost Library, Kennedy called AA is grounded in a belief in a “higher power” political ladder: governor of Ohio, senator, secretary of the U.S. portrait on the $1 bill. “I don’t want to criticize a fellow Dartmouth Frost one of “the granite figures of our time” whose art was one of and that having a spiritual awakening can lead to Treasury, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He helped found graduate, but I think Washington was a better choice,” he tells DAM. “the deeper sources of American strength.” a life of sobriety. In addition, the program stresses the Republican Party and was a leader in the fight to abolish slavery. Chase frequently sought to promote his political ambitions, Frost always insisted his goal was “just to lodge a few poems the importance of finding a fellow alcoholic (or Missing from his impressive resume is the job he most desired and often at Lincoln’s expense. “He didn’t serve the president as well where they’ll be hard to get rid of.” His austere meditations live in sponsor) and attending meetings to find support was convinced he richly deserved: president of the United States. as he might have,” says Paulson. Eventually Lincoln wearied of our collective psyche. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” from other alcoholics. Chase was 6 feet tall and looked every inch the statesman. Chase’s antics and accepted his resignation. Nevertheless, Lincoln “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” “After Apple- “Working together, the two founders created He neither drank nor smoked. If he had a sense of humor, it es- nominated Chase to be chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a Picking,” “Fire and Ice,” “Design,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” a program that was based on religious and psy- caped anyone’s notice. “He seldom told a story without spoiling few months later. “That demonstrates Lincoln’s greatness,” says explore themes of duty, isolation, free will, youthful spirit, mercy, chological truths, as well as their own practical it,” quipped The Atlantic Monthly. Deeply religious, he combined Paulson, pointing to the president’s ability to look past personal the brevity of life, and the inevitability of death. experience, and turned it into a simple 12-step moral rectitude with nakedly opportunistic ambition. His self- differences and recognize Chase’s abilities. For all the accolades and influence Frost had, his greatest im- program that has helped tens of millions around regard was a byword among his peers. “He thinks there is a fourth Even serving as chief justice failed to slake Chase’s ambition. pact is on the thousands of ordinary individuals who read poetry the world,” Dr. Irving A. Cohen, a distinguished person in the (holy) trinity,” cracked Ohio Sen. Benjamin Wade. He changed parties to seek the Democratic presidential nomina- because of the introduction he gave them and who have richer fellow of the American Society of Addiction Chase’s life was marked by tragedy. He married three women, tion in 1868. Four years later he changed parties again for another lives as a result. Medicine, tells DAM. each of whom died young. He relied heavily on his daughter, Kate, failed attempt at the top job. He died of a stroke in 1873. “Dartmouth is my chief college,” Frost liked to say, “the first Dubbed the “Prince of Twelfth Steppers,” who presided at social functions and acted as his chief advisor. Ultimately, Chase may simply have been a victim of bad tim- one I ran away from. I ran from Harvard later, but Dartmouth first.” Smith personally helped more than 5,000 alco- After he lost the Republican nomination in 1860, Chase grudg- ing. “Chase was a great man,” said Chief Justice William Howard For generations of American readers, Frost remains the chief poet, holics pro bono. When he died in 1950, he had ingly joined Lincoln’s cabinet as secretary of the treasury. To fi- Taft 50 years after Chase’s death. “He has had the disadvantage in the first one they read and did not run away from. Jim— Collins ’84 been sober for 15 years. —Lambeth Hochwald nance the Union’s war efforts, he set up a national banking system history of comparison to Lincoln.” —Rick Beyer ’78
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NELSON ROCKEFELLER ’30 OWEN POLITICIAN AND PHILANTHROPIST CHAMBERLAIN ’41 PHYSICIST In November 1927 the White and Connecticut rivers overflowed their banks, burying White River Junction, Vermont, in mud. Owen Chamberlain made a scientific break- 7Among the hundreds of Dartmouth students who rushed to help through of cosmic proportions. He proved the was Nelson Rockefeller. Requesting to be sent to work at a remote 8existence of the antiproton, or antimatter. His X 7stretch of riverfront, away from prying reporters and photogra- 8achievement, which earned him (and his Univer- Stevens strove phers, he explained, “If we get our picture in the paper, Father cuts sity of California, Berkeley mentor Emilio Segré) our allowances.” the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, became a cor- “to ameliorate His obscurity would be short-lived. While in his 20s, Rockefeller nerstone of the Standard Model, the physics aided his redoubtable mother, Abby, in establishing New York City’s theory that explains what the universe is and the condition groundbreaking Museum of Modern Art. At the same time, he back- what holds it together. of the poor, stopped his father in building nearby Rockefeller Center. In his “The discovery of antiprotons,” says Nobel 30s Rockefeller waged economic and social warfare against South physicist William Phillips, “illustrates one of the the lowly, the American Nazis at the behest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, his lifelong most remarkable, appealing aspects of scientific political hero and the first of three presi- research” because it built upon earlier discoveries downtrodden dents he would serve as an appointee. and confirms that all particles have perfect twins of every race.” Art, commerce, politics—as the most differing only in their electric charge. dynamic of John D. Rockefeller’s grand- The continuous nature of scientific discovery children, Rockefeller might be forgiven fueled three intertwined loves of Chamberlain’s X for believing that he could have—and life: learning, physics, and teaching. In high school do—it all. Including the presidency. Like he was fascinated by solving physics puzzles, Theodore Roosevelt, in whose lap he once unraveling their mysteries for fun and zipping sat as a child, Rocky believed Americans through complex science and math homework must justify their wealth by promoting in minutes. capitalism with a conscience. At Dartmouth he was drawn to physics be- Toward that end, after WW II he cause “it was always the easiest thing to do,” he created Latin American companies recalled. He won the prestigious Thayer Prize in whose profits went to build schools and Mathematics and the Kramer Fellowship, which combat disease in the region. At the or- funded his initial graduate studies at Berkeley, Northern editors referred to him as an “evil genius.” ganizing conference of the United Na- where he taught from 1948 to 1989. During World THADDEUS STEVENS Stevens was an imposing 6 feet tall and had a perpetual grimace. tions in 1945, Rockefeller engineered a War II he was one of the physicists who developed CLASS OF 1814 He tried to hide his bald head with a preposterous brown wig that clause in its charter that permitted free the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. CONGRESSMAN AND ABOLITIONIST fooled no one. He loved to gamble and had a slashing wit. Interrupted nations to form defensive coalitions—the Professor Chamberlain was beloved for be- on the House floor, Stevens shot back: “I yield to the gentleman for forerunners of NATO. ing an approachable mentor. “His informality “No man assailed him without danger or conquered him without a few feeble remarks.” For 20 years he lived with his mixed-race For 15 years, beginning in 1959, he was New York’s innovat- came as a major cultural shock to me. I had been scars,” declared one contemporary of Thaddeus Stevens. The con- housekeeper, Lydia Smith. It was widely believed they were living ing, if costly, governor. Insisting that state’s rights must yield to a brought up to think of professors as remote dei- 6gressman was a warrior. He agitated ceaselessly against slavery as man and wife, though Stevens denied it. state’s responsibilities, Rockefeller spent more in the mid-1960s to ties whose first names were known only by their 6and for the rights of blacks. He was instrumental in the passage of Stevens didn’t just want the slaves freed, he wanted them to combat pollution, support higher education, and promote the arts mothers,” says former Chamberlain student, col- the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865. He took on have the vote, education, and land of their own. When President than Uncle Sam did in the other 49 states combined. The original league, and biographer Herbert Steiner. “He was a president who opposed him and nearly removed him from office. Andrew Johnson failed to act swiftly to give blacks their rights, Rockefeller Republican, he opposed the death penalty and sup- who we would go to when we did not understand Full of vitriol, both hater and hated, Stevens gave no quarter. Stevens convinced the House of Representatives in 1868 to im- ported abortion rights. something. As one of our graduate students once His Dartmouth roommate recalled that Stevens was “inor- peach Johnson. Then 73 and gravely ill, Stevens was carried to Possibility was in his DNA. “There is no problem that can- put it: ‘He is one smart dude.’ ” dinately ambitious, bitterly envious of all who outranked him as the Senate in a chair to deliver the news. Three months later, the not be solved,” Rockefeller maintained. This staunch refusal to Chamberlain died in 2006 at the age of 85. scholars, and utterly unprincipled.” Stevens was selected as the president evaded conviction in the Senate by one vote, and Stevens acknowledge limits produced Albany’s Empire State Plaza and He spent the latter half of his life advocating for 1814 Commencement speaker but was enraged when he was not died shortly thereafter. Manhattan’s Battery Park City, and it fashioned the State University world peace, free speech, and human rights. He di- elected to Phi Beta Kappa. “My lifelong regret is that I have lived so long and so uselessly,” of New York into the world’s largest institution of higher learning. rected the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation dedi- Stevens practiced law in Pennsylvania, where he became a the dying congressman told a reporter. A more fitting tribute lies A disappointing term as Gerald Ford’s vice president, and three cated to creating a nuclear weapon-free world. committed abolitionist and was elected to the U.S. House of Rep- in the words he spoke after passage of the 13th Amendment: “I will unsuccessful presidential campaigns of his own, fed a sense of fail- Although his discovery was momentous, resentatives. During the Civil War he was a leader of the Radical be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus, ‘Here lies one who ure. He had much in common with one of Dartmouth’s other would- Chamberlain emphasized he was merely one Republicans, who favored immediate abolition and harsh measures never rose to any eminence, and who only courted the low ambi- be presidents—Daniel Webster. Both were men whose principles got person in the history of curious physicists. “Each against the South. “Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every tion to have it said that he had striven to ameliorate the condition in the way of their ambitions, but that didn’t stifle their influence. generation of scientists,” he said in his Nobel ac- rebel mansion,” he thundered. Southerners returned his hatred. One of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language “What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him ceptance speech, “stands upon the shoulders of
newspaper editor labeled him “this wicked man…this demon.” Even and color.’ ” —Rick Beyer ’78 OF CONGRESS LIBRARY immortality,” said Webster. —Richard Norton Smith those who have gone before.” —Maryellen Duckett
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GEORGE PERKINS MARSH CLASS OF 1820 ENVIRONMENTALIST X George Perkins Marsh’s 1864 book, Man and Nature, a pioneering work of ecology and advo- Marsh gave birth SAMUEL KATZ ’48, DMS’50 cacy, earned him the title “The Prophet of Con- PEDIATRICIAN AND VIROLOGIST servation.” Marsh drew on a lifetime of observing to the nation’s 9 He may not wear a cape, but Dr. Samuel Katz is a superhero to deforestation in Vermont. He documented alpine 9erosion in the Italian alps, the devastating effects environmental the millions of kids he has saved. His superpower: researching, of overgrazing and logging in the once-great for- consciousness. developing, and championing vaccines. Katz helped pioneer and 10promote widespread use of the measles vaccine, which wiped out ests of the Roman Empire, the negative effects on water quality and changed weather patterns, 10the disease in the United States and transformed global children’s and the cascading side effects of industry. X health. While his measles work is legendary, it is only an early “Man is everywhere a disturbing agent,” he chapter in a 60-plus-year-and-counting medical career devoted wrote. “Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies to bringing the biggest infectious disease breakthroughs to the of nature are turned to discords.” Written two years planet’s smallest patients—children. before the term “ecology” was coined, his book “The impact Sam Katz has had on medicine and humanity came at a time when people accepted the notion of is staggering,”AD says Dr. William Steinbach, chief of the pediatric an abundant nature whose bounty was boundless. infectious diseases division at Duke University, where Katz is the Marsh argued that humans were fouling their own chairman emeritus of pediatrics. “Aside from the countless nest at a rate that would be catastrophic unless people he directly influenced as a trusted mentor, invalu- reversed. He sparked the Arbor Day movement, able colleague, physician, and friend, his measles vaccine inspired the creation of New York’s Adirondack has saved an estimated 118 million lives worldwide, about Park, laid the foundation for the U.S. national forest one-third of the current U.S. population.” system, and—alongside writings by contempo- Katz didn’t set out to be a disease fighter. Music was raries John Muir and Henry David Thoreau—gave his passion growing up. When World War II depleted the birth to the nation’s environmental consciousness. pool of local percussionists, Katz landed dance hall drumming A century later, U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart gigs. A penchant for marching to his own beat led him to leave Udall wrote that Man and Nature was “the begin- Dartmouth to enlist in the Navy in 1944. Upon being posted to a ning of land wisdom in this country.” hospital training school, he discovered his true calling—medicine. A Renaissance man, Marsh had other mind- After the war Katz earned his undergraduate degree in 1948, boggling accomplishments. In the mid-19th cen- graduated from the then two-year Dartmouth Medical School tury he was the nation’s foremost Scandinavian program, completed his pediatric residency, and worked at Boston scholar and expert on railroads, Renaissance Children’s Hospital with Nobel laureate John Enders for 12 years art, and camels. A gifted linguist proficient in developing the measles vaccine. 20 languages (seven of which he picked up at Before it was licensed for human use in 1963 (after it was Dartmouth), Marsh wrote the monumental book, proven safe and effective in monkeys), Katz demonstrated his The Origin and History of the English Language confidence in his work by inoculating himself and his four chil- (and a text on Icelandic grammar). dren. That same year Katz traveled to Nigeria to help implement Born in Woodstock, Vermont, in 1801, Marsh its vaccination program, a mission that transformed him from was a lawyer, sheep farmer, newspaper editor, a self-described “parochial, naive young man” into a passionate and owner of a woolen mill and marble quarry. global health advocate. While representing Vermont in Congress in the “When we went to Nigeria I learned mothers would say, ‘You 1840s, his eloquent speech in the U.S. House of don’t count your children until measles has passed,’ because they Representatives laid out a persuasive framework knew how many children died,” said Katz. He later applied his for the creation of the Smithsonian Institution, measles vaccine experience to fighting pediatric AIDS. Katz and his unlocking funds frozen more than a decade by pediatric infectious disease specialist wife, Dr. Catherine Wilfert, squabbling politicians. were the first in the United States to treat children with AZT, the He later became ambassador to Turkey and first FDA-approved AIDS medication. then Italy, becoming the second-longest-serving Katz also has been involved in studies of vaccinia, polio, ru- U.S. diplomat after Benjamin Franklin. While bella, influenza, pertussis, dengue, and HIV, among others. But it living abroad he presented the plan, based on his is his work outside of the lab—teaming up with the World Health detailed measurements of Egyptian obelisks, that Organization to push for worldwide measles vaccinations—that reshaped the construction of the Washington has earned him the title “Vaccine Ambassador”—an apt identity Monument. —Jim Collins ’84 for a real-life superhero. —Maryellen Duckett LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY
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In 1972 Edward Lorenz asked, “Does the flap Faulkner, one of of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado the great in Texas?” The phrase has become one of the 11most vivid images in science, an elegant warning American 11that the order we take for granted is an illusion. Lorenz’s research founded the new discipline of regionalists, chaos theory, which overthrew the accepted view bearing the dark that the universe functions according to a clock- work plan. C. EVERETT KOOP ’37 knowledge of “Perhaps the butterfly, with its seeming U.S. SURGEON GENERAL frailty and lack of power, is a natural choice for a her place.” symbol of the small that can produce the great,” C. Everett Koop changed the way American medicine was Lorenz wrote years later. practiced—and that was before he became the nation’s top doctor. X As with many great discoveries, chaos theory 12He began his career as a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital was discovered by chance. In 1959 at MIT, Lorenz 12of Philadelphia in 1946, at a time when pediatric surgery wasn’t a found that if initial conditions in his weather medical specialty. Through the next 35 years he developed safer forecasting models were altered even slightly, the anesthesia for infants and toddlers and performed surgeries once output would stray wildly. At first he thought his dismissed as impossible, successfully operating on newborns with computer was to blame. But there was no error, spina bifida and cleft palate and pioneering a new method of repair- only a sensitivity that made complex systems ing hernias. He established the nation’s first neonatal surgical unpredictable, or, as Lorenz put it, chaotic. intensive care unit. He separated dozens of conjoined twins. He As a child in Connecticut, Lorenz had been proved that conditions once thought hopeless were correctable. enthralled by New England’s famously changeable He saved the lives of thousands. weather. He came to Dartmouth in 1934 intending Koop is most widely remembered as America’s most influential to study math. While he was in Hanover, pinball surgeon general. Part of his prominence came from his presence. became popular. As Lorenz recalled in his biog- He stood more than 6 feet tall, had a stentorian voice and a bushy, raphy, “Town authorities decided the machines biblical-looking chinstrap beard that reflected his stern religious violated the gambling laws” because the game beliefs, and wore a white dress U.S. public health service uniform presumably relied on luck, not skill. Lorenz was with gold-braid and epaulettes. perplexed: Pinball did involve skill. But why could Putting science and public health above ideology, Koop from no one exhibit it with any consistency? 1982 to 1989 challenged the Reagan administration’s positions on “The reason was chaos,” he wrote. controversial issues. He refused to issue a report that said abortions His theory is best known for its influence were harmful to women because data didn’t support those findings. on climatology, but it has also informed a host He authored withering reports that revealed smoking was an even of other scientific disciplines. Cancer experts greater health hazard than previously believed. He condemned the now know that tumor growth can be drastically tobacco industry’s deceptive advertising and publicized the deadly altered by a single mutation. Urban planners use consequences of second-hand smoke. He laid the groundwork for chaos theory to study traffic patterns, which can laws that banned smoking in many public places. During his watch, by utterly unpredictable. the percentage of Americans who smoked fell by nearly 25 percent. He made a discovery about the world at large, His greatest achievement may have been educating Americans not some detail within it. He saw that the mecha- about AIDS, a then little-understood and much-dreaded disease nistic understanding of the natural world in place that some feared would turn into the century’s greatest public since the Enlightenment was woefully simplistic. health catastrophe. Koop spoke out about intravenous drug use, When Lorenz received the Kyoto Prize (Japan’s gay sex, and condom use. “I’m the nation’s doctor, not the nation’s equivalent of the Nobel) in 1991, he was hailed chaplain,” he said, adding that he made policy decisions “dictated for making “one of the most dramatic changes in by scientific integrity and Christian compassion.” mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton.” To dispel myths and fight fear, his office sent the plainspoken Lorenz died in 2008 at the age of 90. Since brochure, Understanding AIDS, to all 107 million U.S. households, 2011, MIT has hosted the Lorenz Center, which the largest mass-mailing in American history. He singlehandedly studies climate. “Lorenz was from the old shifted the debate from morality to medical care and compassion. school,” says one of its chairs, Kerry Emanuel. He remained a vocal advocate for medical research and educa- LOUISE13 ERDRICH “He was a man driven by his curiosity, not by tion—and a model of public service—until his death in 2013 at the 13 fame or wealth.” —Alex Nazaryan ’02 age of 96. —Jim Collins ’84 NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK JEN ACKERMAN/ REDUX;
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LOUISE ERDRICH ’76 AUTHOR GEORGE BISSELL Growing up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, CLASS OF 1845 Louise Erdrich collected her first royalties in the INDUSTRIALIST form of pocket change. Her father shelled out five cents for each of her childhood manuscripts— While visiting his mother in his hometown stories of lonely girls with hidden talents. Forty of Hanover in 1853, George Bissell paid a social years later, after she had won most of America’s 14call on Dr. Dixi Crosby, the College’s professor of top literary honors, he gave her a roll of antique 14surgery and obstetrics. Bissell noticed a jar labeled nickels. He owed her. “rock oil” on his shelf. Crosby said another alum GEORGE SNELL ’26 A biracial citizen of the Turtle Mountain had brought it from western Pennsylvania and GENETICIST Band of Chippewa, Erdrich draws on Anishinaabe claimed it had intriguing properties as a lubricant oral tradition and Germanic lore in her 30 pub- and illuminant. George Snell was a lifesaver, thanks to the organ and tissue lished books—poetry, memoirs, short fiction, and Bissell took note. As it happened, his life was transplants made possible by his pioneering genetics research. He the 16 epically interwoven novels for which she in a muddle. Yellow fever epidemics had chased 15earned a 1980 Nobel Prize for decades of work in immunology. He is most celebrated. him out of New Orleans, where he’d been an edu- identified genetic factors (the major histocompatibility complex, “She is, like Faulkner, one of the great Ameri- 15 cator and newspaperman. He planned to study or MHC) in mice required for successful transplantation. MHC can regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of law, but now the little jar held his attention. regulates immune responses, and since mice are biologically similar her place,” Philip Roth once said, referencing the Almost from that moment, Bissell saw two to people, Snell’s discovery paved the way for human transplant fictional North Dakota reservation where much things plain. The oil, properly refined, could surgery. of her work is set. “She is by now among the very replace scarce, expensive whale oil as the pre- “George is one of the giants of biomedical research,” says Dave best American writers.” dominant fuel for artificial light. And there was Serreze, a professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Erdrich arrived auspiciously at Dartmouth no reason why it couldn’t be extracted from deep Maine, where Snell conducted groundbreaking genetics research in red cowboy boots as a member of its first coed underground, as water was. He also sensed that and, late in his career, served as one of Serreze’s mentors. In ad- class and first modern indigenous cohort, and oil’s moment was about to arrive—and that he dition to enabling transplantation, Snell’s immunology discovery she graduated in a pair of refurbished moccasins. needed to act immediately. improved the effectiveness of vaccines and may have important She worked odd jobs—waiting tables, editing a Within 18 months he created America’s first future implications for the prevention of autoimmune diseases, newspaper, teaching poetry to inmates—while oil company, Pennsylvania Rock Oil. He pur- such as Type I diabetes and arthritis. Snell also generated the first establishing herself as a poet, then as a short story chased 105 acres for $5,000 along Oil Creek near strains of mice that became staples of modern genetics study. Much writer, and, finally, in 1984 as a bestselling au- Titusville, Pennsylvania. The next few years were of today’s immunological research is possible because of Snell’s thor with her debut novel Love Medicine, whose difficult. Investors grew impatient and caused innovative work, according to Serreze. “beauty…keeps us from being devastated by its repeated crises. Bissell’s unusual methods were A Massachusetts native, Snell had old-fashioned Yankee in- power,” raved Toni Morrison. mocked. The drilling kept coming up dry. The genuity and a keen scientific intellect. He credited his father’s Erdrich’s stories blend the hyper-realistic enterprise seemed to founder. Then on August relatives (three of whom held patents) for instilling his penchant with the mystical and the apocalyptic with the 27, 1859, at a depth of 69 feet, his rig struck oil. for invention, and his mother, an avid gardener whom he called a mundane to remind readers how bizarre reality While others celebrated, Bissell quickly bought “natural planner,” for his attention to detail and organizational can be. In her universe, a violin lost for decades as much nearby land as he could. skills. Summer vacations spent working on his family’s South washes ashore in an abandoned canoe. A woman Before long he became the world’s first oil Woodstock, Vermont, farm nurtured Snell’s lifelong interest in enters into a marriage pact with a lake spirit. Her baron. He wisely built a barrel-making factory, gardening, farming, and forestry. recurring characters—Indian boarding school X and soon had additional interests in railroads, It was Snell’s experience as a biology major, however, that survivors, German immigrants, and veterans- banks, hotels, and insurance. He was widely most shaped his future. “A genetics course taught by professor turned-priests—draw on shared memories and “It was praised for his acumen, intelligence, and honesty. John Gerould proved particularly fascinating,” he wrote in his ancestral geography, and each new chapter in Bissell’s early “Among the great oil pioneers, Bissell was a autobiography. “It was that course that led me to the choice of a her saga feels bracingly original and brutally giant,” wrote oil historian Neil McElwee in 2007. career.” On Gerould’s recommendation, Snell earned his Ph.D. in sincere. vision that “It was Bissell’s early vision, initiative, unwav- genetics at Harvard under Dr. William Castle, one of the world’s Today Erdrich runs an independent book- ering commitment, personal sacrifice, proven most influential geneticists. store in Minneapolis. She still composes her first put the integrity, and 15 years of entrepreneurial risk Snell died in 1996 at the age of 92. While his impressive achieve- drafts by hand. She is not slowing down. Her latest American oil that put the American oil industry on its feet.” ments include a Nobel Prize and a legacy as the father of an entire novel, Future Home of the Living God, published Bissell remained a great friend of Dartmouth. scientific discipline, immunogenetics, one of Snell’s most coveted to acclaim, took a dystopian turn, inspiring some industry When he gave the College funds in 1867 to build honors eluded him. “George was such an avid gardener that when he to compare her to Kurt Vonnegut. She brushes a new gym, he insisted it include six bowling al- won his Nobel he actually was a bit disappointed,” Serreze recalls. off comparisons. After all, there will never be on its feet.” leys “in remembrance of disciplinary troubles When the call came, “He was hoping he had finally won a state another Faulkner or Vonnegut. There won’t be in which he’d fallen because of his indulgence fair prize for his vegetables. I remember his secretary telling him, another Erdrich either. —Savannah Maher ’17 in this sinful sport.” —Charles Monagan ’72 ‘No, George, you won the Nobel Prize.’ ” —Maryellen Duckett X LIBRARY UNIVERSITY YALE
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ANNETTE GORDON-REED ’81 HISTORIAN
It was one of the biggest controversies in American history: Did Thomas Jefferson father 16 the seven children of his slave, Sally Hemings? 16 For two centuries the debate raged. Was it true? “ THERE’SImpossible? Almost every Jefferson biographer dismissed the story. BASIL O’CONNOR Annette Gordon-Reed proved it. She had long CLASS OF 1912 pondered Jefferson and Hemings. As a senior at HUMANITARIAN Dartmouth she wanted to write her history thesis HISTORYon the subject, but her professor nixed the idea. In WE Basil O’Connor asked everyone in America to spare a dime. 1997, while a professor at New York Law School, That’s how he conquered polio. A lawyer and longtime confidante she wrote Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: 17of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, O’Connor’s true gift lay in mar- An American Controversy outlining the evidence. 17keting and organizational management. A year later DNA tests vindicated her. They “His accomplishment was organizational, it was humanitarian, ASPIREshowed that Jefferson almost certainly fathered TOit was medical, and it will always stand as a hallmark of the advance Hemings’ children. In 2008 Gordon-Reed delved of medical science,” wrote March of Dimes archivist David Rose in further into their family in The Hemingses of his book, Friends and Partners: The Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt Monticello: An American Family. This biography and Basil O’Connor in the History of Polio. ANDof Sally and her relatives was a magisterial HISTORY feat. O’Connor’s lifelong crusade began in 1927 when he became head It blew up long-standing beliefs about slavery. of the Warm Springs Foundation, energizing the rural Georgia spa It changed the way Monticello approached its where FDR went for therapy. After serving on FDR’s brain trust of past, and it forever altered how Americans see advisors in 1932, O’Connor, at FDR’s request, led the National Foun- the iconic Jefferson. dation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as the March of Dimes. THATHemingses of Monticello became one of REALLYthe A snappy dresser with slicked-back hair who always tucked a most honored books in publishing history. It won carnation in his lapel, he looked like tough-guy movie star Humphrey 16 awards. It was only the third book to receive the Bogart. “I was never a public do-gooder and had no aspirations of that National Book Award for history and the Pulitzer kind,” said O’Connor. “But once a crisis demanded action, I started Prize for nonfiction. Gordon-Reed became the enjoying it.” He conjured up revolutionary fundraising schemes that WAS.”first black writer to win the Pulitzer for history. are now commonplace. He created awareness through mass-market Within two years of its publication, President advertising featuring heartrending photos of disabled children. He Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 Barack Obama awarded her the National Hu- convinced stars such as Bing Crosby and Ginger Rogers to make Author,manities historian, Medal. The legal MacArthur scholar Foundation fundraising pitches on radio. Thegave Call her to its Lead so-called supporter genius award fellowship, The brilliance of the March of Dimes lay in amassing massive X and William & Mary (Jefferson’s alma mater) sums through tiny gifts. When the campaign launched in 1938, awarded her an honorary degree. Americans sent an avalanche of 2,680,000 dimes to the White House. “Annette Gordon-Reed is the preeminent Ultimately more than $500 million went to fight polio. “Her work scholar on Sally Hemings and the Hemings family In 1950, five years before Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine was first illuminates the of Monticello,” says Leslie Greene Bowman, the used, O’Connor’s fight against the paralyzing disease became per- president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. sonal—polio killed his daughter. Friends said the tragedy made the stories of one “No one has done more to bring their stories out autocratic O’Connor more compassionate. of the shadows and into public dialogue. Annette’s Beyond his marketing skills, he originated the model for today’s enslaved family work illuminates the stories of one enslaved fam- charitable health organizations, creating more than 3,100 centrally at Monticello. It Nowily at Monticello.is our time It holds to a questionmirror on America conventional wisdom.controlled local fundraising chapters. Dozens of other nonprofits today, asking us to remember and learn.” saw his amazing successes. They reorganized themselves around holds a mirror on NowGordon-Reed is our time has longto answerbeen one to The upend Call to Lead. his model and eagerly adopted his money-raising tactics. America today.” the status quo. As a first-grader in East Texas O’Connor also made strategic decisions that focused scientific she left the all-black school where her mother research on the polio virus. “He was one of the best investors ever,” taught to become the only black student in a white says former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. By target- X elementary school. At Dartmouth she served on a ing millions of dollars in that direction, O’Connor sped the cure. committee searching for ways to hire more black As head of the American Red Cross in the late 1940s, O’Connor faculty. Now a professor at Harvard Law School, expanded his humanitarian efforts, raising funds to combat birth she served on the College’s board of trustees from defects and arthritis. He remained president of the March of Dimes
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GordonReid_DAM_2pg_Ad_FNL.indd 1 9/27/18 1:08 PM 25 25Most INFLUENTIAL ALUMNI 24 “feel a sense of community and compassion as much love as you possibly could to a per- ROB WATSON ’84 18 and stoicism and courage,” he said. Arad son who needs it,” he once said. In all 895 ENVIRONMENTALIST SYLVANUS THAYER recently unveiled a permanent memorial episodes his message was the same: “You An Eagle Scout, black belt, mountain- CLASS OF 1807 to the “Emanuel Nine,” the victims of the are special, and so is your neighbor.” The eer, and crew racer, Watson has always been SUPERINTENDENT OF WEST POINT 2015 Charleston, South Carolina, church epitome of modesty and virtue, Rogers nei- a leader. “We are either going to be losers He lived like a monk. He was punctual, shootings. ther drank nor smoked. He was a vegetarian. or heroes,” he said. “There’s no room any- and he had no vices. No wonder President “I don’t want to eat anything that has a more for anything in between.” The father James Monroe appointed Thayer superin- mother,” he once said. He rose every day at of Leadership in Energy and Environmental tendent of West Point in 1817. It was a fail- 20 5 to swim, and he napped every day, too. For Design (LEED), he started the movement ing institution with lax academic and moral 20 30 years his weight of 143 pounds remained in 1993 to create environmentally conscious standards. Thayer, who attended the acad- ALBERT BICKMORE the same. He believed that number stood structures. He devised the Green Building emy after Dartmouth, came to Monroe’s CLASS OF 1860 for “I love you,” because there is one letter Rating System guidelines that require eco- attention because he planned and directed NATURALIST AND MUSEUM FOUNDER in “I,” four in “love,” and three in “you.” His friendly components, construction, and the defense of Norfolk, Virginia, during the Born into a poor family on the Maine sweater, a symbol of his warm embrace, is building management. LEED has proven War of 1812. The British captured many coast, Bickmore had a treasured childhood in the Smithsonian. that green buildings can be more cost-effi- coastal forts, but not Thayer’s, and Uncle moment—being allowed to hold a book on cient to build and operate than old-style Sam rewarded the stalwart young engineer natural history. He loved collecting speci- structures. Since 1998 more than 80,000 by sending him to Paris for advanced train- mens on the shore and in the woods. After projects have been built to its standards, college he trekked in Siberia and East Asia 22 saving vast amounts of energy and resourc- ing. During his 16-year tenure at the acad- emy, he became the embodiment of its and penned Jules Verne-style true-life trav- GRANT TINKER ’47 es. “Rob Watson was seminal in LEED’s motto: “Duty. Honor. Country.” A stern, yet elogues with headings such as “To the Land TV PRODUCER AND EXECUTIVE creation,” says Rick Fedrizzi, former CEO beloved, leader with ramrod posture and of the Cannibals,” “Pits for the Rhinoceros,” “First be best, then be first” was Tinker’s of the U.S. Green Building Council. “It has piercing blue eyes, Thayer transformed and “A Boiling Pool.” He watched a mentor motto. During a career that spanned a half- transformed the real estate market.” West Point into the nation’s first engineer- start a Boston zoology museum and—believ- century in radio and TV, this genial media ing school while insisting on strict disci- ing museums should be temples of science, pioneer produced programs unlike any ever pline. At age 82 he gave Dartmouth funds to art, and history, not the slap-dash affairs broadcast. His 1960s drama I Spy made its 25 establish its own such school in 1867 and that many U.S. museums were at the time— black and white heroes equals. The Mary 25 helped select its leader, Robert Fletcher, he conceived and founded the American Tyler Moore Show of the 1970s depicted a JAMES NACHTWEY ’70 ensuring that the Thayer School of Engi- Museum of Natural History in 1869. He single career woman who didn’t need a hus- PHOTOJOURNALIST neering would also meet his Olympian raised funds from financier J.P. Morgan and band to be happy. (Its star, his wife of the For more than 35 years acclaimed standards. Teddy Roosevelt’s philanthropist father. A same name, said Tinker “uniquely under- photographer Nachtwey has crisscrossed bold orator, Bickmore held the radical belief stood that the secret to great TV content the globe to show magazine readers the worst that museums should support public educa- was freedom for its creators and performing the world has to offer—wars, famine, disaster, tion. Science classes were a rarity in schools artists.”) Hill Street Blues in the 1980s used pollution, and homelessness. Of his work 19 then, and Bickmore gave lectures to almost cinéma vérité to depict life in a hurly-burly Beta Kappa at Dartmouth and the only and that of his peers, he says, “We question MICHAEL ARAD ’91 20,000 teachers using high-tech tools such urban police station. As CEO and chairman magna cum laude graduate in his class, Just X the powerful. We hold decision-makers ac- ARCHITECT as stereopticons and lantern slides, a pre- of NBC, he led his lagging network to first was denied the honor of giving a Com- countable. The chain we help forge links the Growing up in Jerusalem, Arad lived electric PowerPoint. Museum curators place with hits whose quirky characters mencement speech. Because he was the E.E. Just’s people we encounter in the field to millions with the threat of terror every day. He loved across the country marveled. Following his seemed like next-door neighbors. Always only black student in his class, the College of other individual minds and sensibilities. to visit Israel’s national hilltop cemetery lead, they forever changed the scope and self-effacing, Tinker lavished credit for his decided it would have been embarrassing study of And once mass consciousness evolves into for its beauty, silence, and forested grounds. purpose of museums and education. success on others, saying, “I had the good to let him play such a prominent role. After healthy cells a shared sense of conscience, change be- A U.S.-Israeli citizen, he served for three luck to be around people who did the kinds nearly dying of typhoid as a child, he had comes not only possible; it becomes inevi- years in Israel’s army after his first year at of work that audiences appreciate.” to teach himself how to read and write laid a strong table.” Nachtwey has repeatedly risked his Dartmouth. “I never thought about not do- 21 again. When he was 16 his mother sent him life to capture decisive moments. He was ing my military service,” he said. On 9/11 21 from Charleston, South Carolina, to a New foundation injured by a grenade in Baghdad, shot in Arad, now an architect, was living in the FRED ROGERS ’50 23 Hampshire boarding school—without for sickle Thailand, and had to hide in a Sri Lankan East Village and saw the second plane ex- TV PERSONALITY 23 knowing if he would be admitted. One of monastery for three weeks until it was safe plode into the South Tower. Witnessing the Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian E.E. JUST the first black students to earn a Ph.D. from cell anemia, to flee.Time magazine in 2018 devoted an horror made him begin to draw sketches minister who said he never wanted to be a CLASS OF 1907 the University of Chicago, Just did most of leukemia, entire issue to his “Opioid Diaries” docu- and create mockups of a memorial—even preacher. In truth, this unassuming, gentle BIOLOGIST his research and teaching in Europe be- menting that drug epidemic. The world trav- before a competition was announced. A man had one of the nation’s most influential “Just Too Early” might have made a fit- cause of racism at home. In 1940 he was and cancer eler has won numerous honors, including lone visionary, Arad worked without a team pulpits: For 33 years he hosted Mister Rog- ting epitaph for this groundbreaking biolo- briefly imprisoned by the Nazis. Freed Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven or partner. Judges chose his Reflecting Ab- ers’ Neighborhood, the PBS show he created gist who pioneered our understanding of through the intervention of the U.S. govern- research. times), World Press Photo Award (twice), sence design for the World Trade Center that taught children lessons in kindness, cellular behavior. His study of healthy cells ment, he returned home ailing and died and the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times). Memorial over 5,200 other entries. His compassion, and love. “The whole idea is to laid a strong foundation for sickle cell ane- soon thereafter of cancer, his already rich goal? To create a place where people could look at the television camera and present mia, leukemia, and cancer research. Phi career cut too short. X Profiles 18-25 written by George M. Spencer DARTMOUTH COLLEGE DARTMOUTH
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Top 25 How We Chose the Top 25 INFLUENTIAL ALUMNI Our efforts to rank the College’s most in- on the difficult issues. How is it possible to positions of great notoriety by respond- “She completely, fundamentally changed fluential alumni—an idea inspired by the weigh the established legacy of a long-dead ing to the existing shape of public opinion how we think about Jefferson,” Butler con- human fondness for lists, rankings, and the alum with the ongoing achievements of a with exquisitely calibrated instincts,” he tended. Architectural scholar Heck insisted 6 arguments that ensue—required deep dig- living alum? What does the word influential said. “Then there are those who create a that 9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad ARE LIVING ging. For 10 years (no, that’s not a typo) we mean? Should having a negative impact be new shape and in the most extreme cases ’91 (No. 19) made the definitive contribu- drew up lists. We deliberated. We wrestled cause for elimination? would be seen as heroic—such as Lincoln, tion to America’s processing of that day. with an ever-growing slate of candidates. Consensus quickly developed that a who inserted the opinion that slavery was Will articulated the lasting contributions 2 Nothing came easy. ranked alum’s influence should be positive. bad into a debate about expanding slavery of Louise Erdrich ’76 (No. 13) to literature NEVER GRADUATED In the end, we decided not to decide. Panel members were relieved when they real- into the territories.” and Native American studies. “She is one Instead we asked professors to do the ized few alums would be dinged on that basis. Will added that the humanities value of the most incredible writers living today,” rigorous intellectual work and heavy lifting. “We may not have a Hitler, but we do have people who contribute “a deepening of our Will said. 17 We called on faculty members from eight some people who I think bring discredit to aesthetic and understanding of the world. Whitfield later addressed a matchup GRADUATED IN THE 20TH CENTURY disciplines to serve as our panel of experts. the institution. I will be upset if the list in- I’m thinking of Robert Frost [class of 1896], between the arts and science: “The work of DAM board member James “Jed” Dobson of cludes someone who does that,” said Roskies. a vernacular poet, but not until one or two Ed Lorenz ’38 [No. 11] is particularly timely the English department embraced the role of “I was struck by a guideline suggested generations later did we realize he was a as we consider the future of the earth’s cli- 5 chairman, undaunted by the task of bring- by the editors that we should ask ourselves great American poet.” mate. This makes him one of the top five RECEIVED EITHER A NOBEL OR ing faculty members to consensus. Joining if the world would be different if the alum The panel grew self-conscious about its on my list, although I wouldn’t place him PULITZER PRIZE (CHAMBERLAIN, FROST, him were Leslie Butler (history), Marlene hadn’t existed,” said Heck. “That’s why task, aware that this public enterprise was higher than Frost because of his lack of GEISEL, GORDON-REED, SNELL) Heck (art history), Russell Muirhead (gov- weighing contemporaries is so hard.” more than an academic exercise. Several recognition in the broader public sphere.” ernment), Adina Roskies (philosophy and At this point the conversation veered professors worried about “the optics” of After dessert and coffee, each professor psychological and brain sciences), Bruce into the possibility of having multiple lists: the list. How would it look, one wondered, wrote a new list based on all they’d heard, 6 Sacerdote ’90 (economics), James Whit- living alumni, the dead, a separate ranking if an alum who hadn’t graduated topped leaving it up to DAM to run the numbers ARE PICTURED ON A U.S. POSTAGE STAMP field (physics and astronomy), and associate for women. This was quickly squashed by the list? (The College considers anyone and the final rankings. The panelists waved (FROST, GEISEL, JUST, ROGERS, goodbye and headed off—no homework for dean of arts and humanities Barbara Will the editors. One list to serve them all. If the who matriculates to be an alum.) What if THAYER, WEBSTER) (English). list skews white, male, and 19th-century, so a certain world-famous children’s author this group. The editors calculated the re- Dobson asked each to submit by email be it. No revisionist history, please. were ranked higher than a globe-straddling sults, presented here for the first time. his or her own top 25 after considering a list What about living alums who are celeb- statesman? Did the panel do a good job? Its list is of about 100 candidates winnowed down by rities—people who are famous for being fa- Ultimately, the panel got around to the well balanced: six come from politics, eight 3 ARE RECIPIENTS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL DAM editors from a much larger list. Panel- mous? Butler observed that some would say hard work of culling and ranking. No one from the arts, and 11 from science and medi- MEDAL OF FREEDOM (KOOP, ROCKEFELLER, ists were also allowed to introduce addi- Kim Kardashian is an influential cultural held back. “I feel my soul shrinking,” said cine. Despite disagreements, 21 of the final tional candidates. When the lists arrived, figure because of her millions of Twitter Will in response to a colleague’s support of 25 got votes from all eight panelists, and ROGERS) Dobson tallied the points with the help of followers. “Not a quantitative metric in my one candidate. “So-and-so ranked above so- the top 13 garnered more than 100 points, Sacerdote and produced a shortlist worthy view,” she quickly added. and-so just seems crazy,” a frustrated profes- with Daniel Webster, class of 1801, atop of debate—and dinner. Muirhead chimed in, observing it’s sor grumbled. “This is hard,” sighed another. the leaderboard with 196. DAM leaves the 1801 On a November night in 2017 the panel not enough to be famous. One must have Dinner was served and so were passion- ultimate decision up to you, our reader, to CLASS YEAR OF OLDEST ALUM ON THE LIST convened with the editors at the Paganucci impact, too. “In political philosophy we ate endorsements. Butler made a case for decide. We believe it’s all arguable—and we (DANIEL WEBSTER) Lounge. The discussion quickly focused distinguish between people who rise to including Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 (No. 16). welcome an ongoing debate. —The Editors OUR PANEL 1991 CLASS YEAR OF YOUNGEST ALUM (MICHAEL ARAD) 3 ARE NAMED GEORGE
LESLIE BUTLER JAMES DOBSON MARLENE HECK RUSSELL ADINA ROSKIES BRUCE JAMES BARBARA WILL 4 History English Art History MUIRHEAD Philosophy, SACERDOTE WHITFIELD English FINALISTS WHO GOT FIRST-PLACE VOTES: Government Psychological and Economics Physics and WEBSTER (4), FROST (2), CHASE (1), GEISEL (1) Brain Sciences Astronomy
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Grand opening of Baker Medical School opens. (1797) Students shun filthy dorms for private lodgings. (1846) Housing shortage forces building Students start anti-slavery Thayer School opens. (1871) Library. (1928) Mail is no longer delivered to dorm rooms. (1951) Carnival Queen contest is abolished. (1972) First Dartmouth building: Three students fire a cannon and blast a hole First Class Day held at the Old Pine. (1850) of 13 new dorms. (1894) President Jim Wright announces society. (1835) Poet Walt Whitman speaks at Commencement. Edwin Sanborn, class of 1878, Dorm staff no longer make student beds. (1952) First Pow Wow. (1973) Wheelock’s log cabin. (1770) in Dartmouth Hall. They are expelled. (1811) Alumni Association is founded and The Green’s fence is torn down (1893) Student Life Initiative to improve CAMPUS Fence protects Green from A poor public speaker, he is barely heard. (1872) funds eponymous library. (1929) Ike speaks at Commencement. Secret Service agents ROTC phases out (1969-73) CAMPUS U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton Literary Adelphi club founded. (1799) It morphs Shattuck Observatory opens. (1854) and rebuilt. (1899) out-of-classroom experience. (1999) grazing cattle. (1836) Trustees appoint committee to study Orozco begins murals. (1932) don caps and gowns. (1953) and returns. (1985) receives honorary degree. (1790) into Alpha Delta frat, inspiration for Pro-slavery President Nathan Lord Clement’s Swamp becomes Occom Pond. (1900) The house system is created. (2015) coeducation—it never reports back. (1872) A second Dartmouth Hall fire Modernist Hopkins Center opens. (1962) Hood Museum opens to acclaim. (1985) 1978’s Animal House. resigns. (1863) Dartmouth Hall burns (1904) and reopens. (1906) forces renovation. (1935)
Students found with cards or dice Richard Hovey, class of 1885, writes Students are forbidden to leave their rooms on Students “horn” profs by laying “Wah-hoo-wah!” is yelled for the first time. (1879) Girls and drinking banned from dorm rooms. (1945) First women’s secret society—Cobra—forms. (1978) College rule requires “fagging”— in dorm rooms are fined $5. (1822) “Men of Dartmouth.” (1894) Keggy! (2003) Sundays except to eat and go to church. siege to their homes with annoying First secret society, Sphinx, is founded. The Dartmouth goes daily. (1920) Sigma Nus truck in a two-ton block of frozen orange Dartmouth Review is launched. (1980) freshmen must run errands for seniors. First black student Edward Mitchell ’28 The Old Pine is cut down. (1895) First Dartmouth Idol. (2008) STUDENT LIFE Daily chapel at 5 a.m. late-night ruckuses. The Aegis appears. (1886) Girls and “moderate” drinking permitted juice to be carved into a Carnival sculpture. (1950) DGALA is founded. (1984) STUDENT LIFE Students ignore ban on keeping is admitted. (1824) First Dartmouth Night parade. (1904) Students run multiple laps around bonfire Each graduating class must pull up Green is adopted as the College’s Lightning strikes the Old Pine. (1887) in dorm rooms. (1934) Dean forbids hazing ritual of N.H. raises drinking age to 20 (1979) then 21. (1985) chickens in dorms. Last stump is pulled Alumni magazine begins publishing. (1905) for final time. (2017) at least one stump from the Green. color. (1866) First bonfire lit on the Green. (1888) nonconsensual haircuts. (1951) Safer Sex kit debuts on campus. (1987) from the Green. (1836) Winter Carnival begins. (1911)
First classes begin with 20 students Mandatory freshman classes on sex, To be admitted, students must First woman graduates—with a Nation’s first mandatory evolution class College admits 75 women and four tutors. alcohol, and hygiene end. (1957) A descendant of Samson Occom graduates. (2000) be familiar with Freshman fall curriculum: Livy, Roman antiquities, Only two electives—French and calculus. (1870) master’s in biology. (1896) for freshmen is offered. (1920) as exchange students. (1969) Eleazar Wheelock buys C’est bon! Funds found to hire Coed exchanges with other Dartmouth names a record 12 valedictorians PROFESSORS & the New Testament in Greek Greek grammar. (1822) First graduate degree is awarded—a Ph.D. (1885) Tuck School founded. (1900) Selective admissions begin. (1921) Native American program is established. (1970) PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS “philosophical instruments” a French professor. (1859) schools begin. (1963) and salutatorians. (2015) ACADEMICS and Cicero’s orations Private tutors teach French. (1820s) Teaching of classical and modern art begins. (1890) Course credit given for summer Biology prof William Patten discovers new fish Trustees unanimously approve coeducation. (1971) —an air pump, telescope, Biologist Hannah Croasdale becomes first Cheating scandal claims 64 students. (2015) and the Aeneid in Latin. military training. (1916) species. Names it Dartmuthia gemmifera Patten. (1931) Women’s studies launches. (1978) thermometer, and a barometer. (1783) tenured female professor. (1964)
Skaters play “shinney,” an early form of hockey, Back-to-back Ivy football champs. Gridders are Ivy League Eleazar Wheelock Quoits (a game like horseshoes) Dartmouth plays its first intercollegiate Hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah leads Students exercise with military drills and marching. on the river. (1860s) Hockey team plays on (1969-1973; 1981-82; 1990-92) champs. (1996, 2015) calls “playing debuts. football game against Amherst and wins, 1-0. (1881) First game at Memorial Field. (1923) College’s winningest teams—until 2017— SPORTS Wickets, a type of croquet, is played. “Base-ball” is the first outdoor rink. (1905) Women’s sports: tennis, lacrosse, basketball, Swimming, diving teams are SPORTS with balls and bowls… Canoeing. Boxing. Swimming. Dartmouth loses its last-ever intercollegiate National football champs: 8-0-0. (1925) with 302-239-11 record. (1937-67) First college team: cricket. intercollegiate sport. (1866) Dartmouth Outing Club founded. (1909) skiing, squash, and field hockey. (1972) temporarily abolished. (2002) puerile.” (1770) Fencing. tug-of-war. (1892) First U.S. downhill ski race at Moosilauke. (1928) Skiway opens. (1957) First gym boasts six Ski jump is dismantled. (1993) Indoor hockey rink opens. (1930) bowling alleys. (1866)
Special holiday trains run to Boston, New York, Dartmouth Coach runs vans to Logan New Hampshire’s first highway, Sixteen-passenger stagecoaches hitched First horseless carriage Commercial flights take off to New York, Norwich-Hanover bridge and Chicago from Norwich. (1930s) Airport (1990s) the Wolfeborough road, links Dartmouth First steamboat service to Hanover offered Train stations open in Lebanon (1847) to six horses ply the Boston-to-Hanover route. arrives. (1901) Montreal, and elsewhere from Direct flights to Detroit, Chicago, and six other cities GETTING HERE opens (1796) and collapses. (1804) The Appalachian Trail opens (1937) and runs and buses to N.Y.C. (2009) GETTING HERE and the governor’s estate 90 miles away. (1771) aboard The John Ledyard. (1831) and in Norwich. (1848) The trip takes a day and a half. Last ferry crosses Lebanon Airport. (1948) from Lebanon Airport. (1969) Stagecoach to Boston takes at least three days. down Main Street. Uber! (2017) Norwich ferry costs 1 cent. (1776) No “coach sickness” refunds given. the river. (1908) Norwich I-91 exit opens. (1966) Train from N.Y.C. takes 6.5 hours. (1938) Train to N.Y.C. still takes 6.5 hours. (2019)
Presidential candidates begin Town is established. (1761) Settlers arrive. (1765) Legislature meets here, making Hanover One-third of all students fall ill First street—South Main—is paved. (1901) Lou’s opens. (1947) Pop. 11,260 (2010) Town requires pig and cattle owners flocking to New Hampshire. Students with smallpox are quarantined. (1777) the state’s temporary capital. (1795) Visitor Ralph Waldo Emerson during typhoid epidemic. (1875) Wheelock Hotel closes and reopens as the Dutch elm disease and Starbucks opens. (2012) HANOVER to keep their beasts off the streets. (1852) Record low of -40 on February 16, 1943. Record high temp of 103 on Aug. 2, 1975. HANOVER The Dresden Mercury, the Upper Valley’s first First public water system is built. (1805) calls Hanover “a very pretty village.” (1829) Dartmouth Hotel burns. (1887) Hanover Inn under the College’s control. (1901) cable TV arrive. (mid-1950s) Bye-bye, EBAs (2017), Dartmouth Telegraph office opens. (1853) Record 31-inch snowfall on newspaper, is published. (1779) Dartmouth Hotel opens. (1813) Wheelock Hotel opens on same site. (1889) Nugget Theater opens. Tickets are 10¢. (1916) Local TV station WRLH goes on air. (1966) Bookstore. (2018) Christmas Day. (1978)
A nation is born. (1776) Bell Telephone is founded, Students opposed to U.S. entry into A cannon is fired Women take staff and teaching jobs. (1941-45) War strains the College’s purse An economic depression from 1839 to 1843 Six hundred fifty-two students, alums, and and the “long-wished-for” marvel rings World War I gather to protest. (1917) The G.I. Bill benefits more than 300 Vietnam rages. Students occupy Parkhurst. (1969) Eleven alums die on 9/11. (2001) on the Green to Military service and education combine in WORLD EVENTS and brings fear of Indian raids. causes enrollment to collapse future students fight for the Union, for the first time in Hanover. (1877) Global influenza epidemic strikes. students returning to the College from Apartheid protest on the Green. (1985) Occupy Wall Street becomes Occupy WORLD EVENTS celebrate Napoleon’s defeat. the V-12 Naval Training Program. Trainees Students leave to fight for freedom. from 341 (1840) to 179 (1845). The College’s 44 for the Rebs. (1861-65) (Bell’s president, Gardiner Hubbard, class of 1841, Alumni Gym becomes a sick ward. service in WW II and Korea. Shanties destroyed. (1986) Dartmouth in front of Collis. (2011-12) (1814) outnumber students 3:1. (1943-46) (1776-81) finances are severely strained. will oversee its transition into AT&T.) 325 students fall ill. Five die. (1918)
Commencement dress code: Hip flasks. Letter sweaters. Raccoon coats. “Black coat, waist coat and small clothes, Era of pantaloons (trousers) begins. Top hats. Bye-bye, beanies. Freshmen go capless. (1973) J. Crew opens in Hanover. (2013) Knee britches rule. Goodbye, top hats. The wet look for hair. Trousers are “delegged” in -30 temps for Narrow bow ties. (1951) FASHION large silver shoe buckles, black silk gloves, Beaver hats. Frock coats partner with vests. Streakers do their thing. (1974) Canada Goose parkas and FASHION Hello, bowlers. (1882) High collars and sock garters. (1915) “the supreme pleasure of complete leg Freshmen burn beanies. (1963) and a black cocked hat.” Hair powdered white White gloves for formal occasions. Spats complete the look. Rugby shirts, down vests, and long hair. (1977) tattoos make their mark. freedom.” (1930) and “cued down with a black ribbon.” (1795)
Campus cable TV All computing is done with quill pens, Dorms get running water for bathing. premieres. (1977) Dartmouth launches first web page. (1994) Students defy ban on Radio club is founded. (1922) Candles. chalk, and pencils. The stapler is invented. Some older alums object to the WDCR-AM begins broadcasting. (1958) Computer cost included in Campus goes wireless. (2001) indoor wood chopping. Gas lighting is installed. (1872) Profs use photostat machines to create handouts. TECHNOLOGY Axes. Bucksaws. Wood stoves begin replacing fireplaces. (1824) Bureaucracy ensues. (1866) “softening” of college life. (1894) College gets its first computer—an 800-pound, financial aid. (1984) iPhone! (2007) TECHNOLOGY Horn is blown to call Steam heat comes to Reed Hall. (1876) Computer in N.Y.C. is remotely accessed Fireplaces. Early photographers capture Electric lights! (1895) desk-sized LGP-30. (1959) Blitzmail! (1987) College application is available only online. (2007) students to classes. (1779) from McNutt Hall—a world first. (1940) first images of the College. (1837) Central heating plant is built. (1898) Students required to own a Last pay phone removed from campus. (2014) computer. (1991)
20 (1771) 174 (1810) 341 (1840) 368 (1860) 291 (1880) 642 (1900) 1,815 (1920) 2,599 (1950) 3,483 (1980) 4,410 (2017) ENROLLMENT/ £15.20 or payment in horses, cattle, wheat, or woolen ENROLLMENT/ TUITION $21.60 (1800) $26 (1820) $31.50 (1850) $90 (1880) $125 (1910) $450 (1940) $1,400 (1960) $2,550 (1970); $4,445/term (1988) $53,496 (2018) TUITION goods (room and board included). 1869-1893 1894-1918 1919-1943 1944-1968 1969-1993 1994-2019
Grand opening of Baker Medical School opens. (1797) Students shun filthy dorms for private lodgings. (1846) Housing shortage forces building Students start anti-slavery Thayer School opens. (1871) Library. (1928) Mail is no longer delivered to dorm rooms. (1951) Carnival Queen contest is abolished. (1972) First Dartmouth building: Three students fire a cannon and blast a hole First Class Day held at the Old Pine. (1850) of 13 new dorms. (1894) President Jim Wright announces society. (1835) Poet Walt Whitman speaks at Commencement. Edwin Sanborn, class of 1878, Dorm staff no longer make student beds. (1952) First Pow Wow. (1973) Wheelock’s log cabin. (1770) in Dartmouth Hall. They are expelled. (1811) Alumni Association is founded and The Green’s fence is torn down (1893) Student Life Initiative to improve CAMPUS Fence protects Green from A poor public speaker, he is barely heard. (1872) funds eponymous library. (1929) Ike speaks at Commencement. Secret Service agents ROTC phases out (1969-73) CAMPUS U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton Literary Adelphi club founded. (1799) It morphs Shattuck Observatory opens. (1854) and rebuilt. (1899) out-of-classroom experience. (1999) grazing cattle. (1836) Trustees appoint committee to study Orozco begins murals. (1932) don caps and gowns. (1953) and returns. (1985) receives honorary degree. (1790) into Alpha Delta frat, inspiration for Pro-slavery President Nathan Lord Clement’s Swamp becomes Occom Pond. (1900) The house system is created. (2015) coeducation—it never reports back. (1872) A second Dartmouth Hall fire Modernist Hopkins Center opens. (1962) Hood Museum opens to acclaim. (1985) 1978’s Animal House. resigns. (1863) Dartmouth Hall burns (1904) and reopens. (1906) forces renovation. (1935)
Students found with cards or dice Richard Hovey, class of 1885, writes Students are forbidden to leave their rooms on Students “horn” profs by laying “Wah-hoo-wah!” is yelled for the first time. (1879) Girls and drinking banned from dorm rooms. (1945) First women’s secret society—Cobra—forms. (1978) College rule requires “fagging”— in dorm rooms are fined $5. (1822) “Men of Dartmouth.” (1894) Keggy! (2003) Sundays except to eat and go to church. siege to their homes with annoying First secret society, Sphinx, is founded. The Dartmouth goes daily. (1920) Sigma Nus truck in a two-ton block of frozen orange Dartmouth Review is launched. (1980) freshmen must run errands for seniors. First black student Edward Mitchell ’28 The Old Pine is cut down. (1895) First Dartmouth Idol. (2008) STUDENT LIFE Daily chapel at 5 a.m. late-night ruckuses. The Aegis appears. (1886) Girls and “moderate” drinking permitted juice to be carved into a Carnival sculpture. (1950) DGALA is founded. (1984) STUDENT LIFE Students ignore ban on keeping is admitted. (1824) First Dartmouth Night parade. (1904) Students run multiple laps around bonfire Each graduating class must pull up Green is adopted as the College’s Lightning strikes the Old Pine. (1887) in dorm rooms. (1934) Dean forbids hazing ritual of N.H. raises drinking age to 20 (1979) then 21. (1985) chickens in dorms. Last stump is pulled Alumni magazine begins publishing. (1905) for final time. (2017) at least one stump from the Green. color. (1866) First bonfire lit on the Green. (1888) nonconsensual haircuts. (1951) Safer Sex kit debuts on campus. (1987) from the Green. (1836) Winter Carnival begins. (1911)
First classes begin with 20 students Mandatory freshman classes on sex, To be admitted, students must First woman graduates—with a Nation’s first mandatory evolution class College admits 75 women and four tutors. alcohol, and hygiene end. (1957) A descendant of Samson Occom graduates. (2000) be familiar with Freshman fall curriculum: Livy, Roman antiquities, Only two electives—French and calculus. (1870) master’s in biology. (1896) for freshmen is offered. (1920) as exchange students. (1969) Eleazar Wheelock buys C’est bon! Funds found to hire Coed exchanges with other Dartmouth names a record 12 valedictorians PROFESSORS & the New Testament in Greek Greek grammar. (1822) First graduate degree is awarded—a Ph.D. (1885) Tuck School founded. (1900) Selective admissions begin. (1921) Native American program is established. (1970) PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS “philosophical instruments” a French professor. (1859) schools begin. (1963) and salutatorians. (2015) ACADEMICS and Cicero’s orations Private tutors teach French. (1820s) Teaching of classical and modern art begins. (1890) Course credit given for summer Biology prof William Patten discovers new fish Trustees unanimously approve coeducation. (1971) —an air pump, telescope, Biologist Hannah Croasdale becomes first Cheating scandal claims 64 students. (2015) and the Aeneid in Latin. military training. (1916) species. Names it Dartmuthia gemmifera Patten. (1931) Women’s studies launches. (1978) thermometer, and a barometer. (1783) tenured female professor. (1964)
Skaters play “shinney,” an early form of hockey, Back-to-back Ivy football champs. Gridders are Ivy League Eleazar Wheelock Quoits (a game like horseshoes) Dartmouth plays its first intercollegiate Hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah leads Students exercise with military drills and marching. on the river. (1860s) Hockey team plays on (1969-1973; 1981-82; 1990-92) champs. (1996, 2015) calls “playing debuts. football game against Amherst and wins, 1-0. (1881) First game at Memorial Field. (1923) College’s winningest teams—until 2017— SPORTS Wickets, a type of croquet, is played. “Base-ball” is the first outdoor rink. (1905) Women’s sports: tennis, lacrosse, basketball, Swimming, diving teams are SPORTS with balls and bowls… Canoeing. Boxing. Swimming. Dartmouth loses its last-ever intercollegiate National football champs: 8-0-0. (1925) with 302-239-11 record. (1937-67) First college team: cricket. intercollegiate sport. (1866) Dartmouth Outing Club founded. (1909) skiing, squash, and field hockey. (1972) temporarily abolished. (2002) puerile.” (1770) Fencing. tug-of-war. (1892) First U.S. downhill ski race at Moosilauke. (1928) Skiway opens. (1957) First gym boasts six Ski jump is dismantled. (1993) Indoor hockey rink opens. (1930) bowling alleys. (1866)
Special holiday trains run to Boston, New York, Dartmouth Coach runs vans to Logan New Hampshire’s first highway, Sixteen-passenger stagecoaches hitched First horseless carriage Commercial flights take off to New York, Norwich-Hanover bridge and Chicago from Norwich. (1930s) Airport (1990s) the Wolfeborough road, links Dartmouth First steamboat service to Hanover offered Train stations open in Lebanon (1847) to six horses ply the Boston-to-Hanover route. arrives. (1901) Montreal, and elsewhere from Direct flights to Detroit, Chicago, and six other cities GETTING HERE opens (1796) and collapses. (1804) The Appalachian Trail opens (1937) and runs and buses to N.Y.C. (2009) GETTING HERE and the governor’s estate 90 miles away. (1771) aboard The John Ledyard. (1831) and in Norwich. (1848) The trip takes a day and a half. Last ferry crosses Lebanon Airport. (1948) from Lebanon Airport. (1969) Stagecoach to Boston takes at least three days. down Main Street. Uber! (2017) Norwich ferry costs 1 cent. (1776) No “coach sickness” refunds given. the river. (1908) Norwich I-91 exit opens. (1966) Train from N.Y.C. takes 6.5 hours. (1938) Train to N.Y.C. still takes 6.5 hours. (2019)
Presidential candidates begin Town is established. (1761) Settlers arrive. (1765) Legislature meets here, making Hanover One-third of all students fall ill First street—South Main—is paved. (1901) Lou’s opens. (1947) Pop. 11,260 (2010) Town requires pig and cattle owners flocking to New Hampshire. Students with smallpox are quarantined. (1777) the state’s temporary capital. (1795) Visitor Ralph Waldo Emerson during typhoid epidemic. (1875) Wheelock Hotel closes and reopens as the Dutch elm disease and Starbucks opens. (2012) HANOVER to keep their beasts off the streets. (1852) Record low of -40 on February 16, 1943. Record high temp of 103 on Aug. 2, 1975. HANOVER The Dresden Mercury, the Upper Valley’s first First public water system is built. (1805) calls Hanover “a very pretty village.” (1829) Dartmouth Hotel burns. (1887) Hanover Inn under the College’s control. (1901) cable TV arrive. (mid-1950s) Bye-bye, EBAs (2017), Dartmouth Telegraph office opens. (1853) Record 31-inch snowfall on newspaper, is published. (1779) Dartmouth Hotel opens. (1813) Wheelock Hotel opens on same site. (1889) Nugget Theater opens. Tickets are 10¢. (1916) Local TV station WRLH goes on air. (1966) Bookstore. (2018) Christmas Day. (1978)
A nation is born. (1776) Bell Telephone is founded, Students opposed to U.S. entry into A cannon is fired Women take staff and teaching jobs. (1941-45) War strains the College’s purse An economic depression from 1839 to 1843 Six hundred fifty-two students, alums, and and the “long-wished-for” marvel rings World War I gather to protest. (1917) The G.I. Bill benefits more than 300 Vietnam rages. Students occupy Parkhurst. (1969) Eleven alums die on 9/11. (2001) on the Green to Military service and education combine in WORLD EVENTS and brings fear of Indian raids. causes enrollment to collapse future students fight for the Union, for the first time in Hanover. (1877) Global influenza epidemic strikes. students returning to the College from Apartheid protest on the Green. (1985) Occupy Wall Street becomes Occupy WORLD EVENTS celebrate Napoleon’s defeat. the V-12 Naval Training Program. Trainees Students leave to fight for freedom. from 341 (1840) to 179 (1845). The College’s 44 for the Rebs. (1861-65) (Bell’s president, Gardiner Hubbard, class of 1841, Alumni Gym becomes a sick ward. service in WW II and Korea. Shanties destroyed. (1986) Dartmouth in front of Collis. (2011-12) (1814) outnumber students 3:1. (1943-46) (1776-81) finances are severely strained. will oversee its transition into AT&T.) 325 students fall ill. Five die. (1918)
Commencement dress code: Hip flasks. Letter sweaters. Raccoon coats. “Black coat, waist coat and small clothes, Era of pantaloons (trousers) begins. Top hats. Bye-bye, beanies. Freshmen go capless. (1973) J. Crew opens in Hanover. (2013) Knee britches rule. Goodbye, top hats. The wet look for hair. Trousers are “delegged” in -30 temps for Narrow bow ties. (1951) FASHION large silver shoe buckles, black silk gloves, Beaver hats. Frock coats partner with vests. Streakers do their thing. (1974) Canada Goose parkas and FASHION Hello, bowlers. (1882) High collars and sock garters. (1915) “the supreme pleasure of complete leg Freshmen burn beanies. (1963) and a black cocked hat.” Hair powdered white White gloves for formal occasions. Spats complete the look. Rugby shirts, down vests, and long hair. (1977) tattoos make their mark. freedom.” (1930) and “cued down with a black ribbon.” (1795)
Campus cable TV All computing is done with quill pens, Dorms get running water for bathing. premieres. (1977) Dartmouth launches first web page. (1994) Students defy ban on Radio club is founded. (1922) Candles. chalk, and pencils. The stapler is invented. Some older alums object to the WDCR-AM begins broadcasting. (1958) Computer cost included in Campus goes wireless. (2001) indoor wood chopping. Gas lighting is installed. (1872) Profs use photostat machines to create handouts. TECHNOLOGY Axes. Bucksaws. Wood stoves begin replacing fireplaces. (1824) Bureaucracy ensues. (1866) “softening” of college life. (1894) College gets its first computer—an 800-pound, financial aid. (1984) iPhone! (2007) TECHNOLOGY Horn is blown to call Steam heat comes to Reed Hall. (1876) Computer in N.Y.C. is remotely accessed Fireplaces. Early photographers capture Electric lights! (1895) desk-sized LGP-30. (1959) Blitzmail! (1987) College application is available only online. (2007) students to classes. (1779) from McNutt Hall—a world first. (1940) first images of the College. (1837) Central heating plant is built. (1898) Students required to own a Last pay phone removed from campus. (2014) computer. (1991)
20 (1771) 174 (1810) 341 (1840) 368 (1860) 291 (1880) 642 (1900) 1,815 (1920) 2,599 (1950) 3,483 (1980) 4,410 (2017) ENROLLMENT/ £15.20 or payment in horses, cattle, wheat, or woolen ENROLLMENT/ TUITION $21.60 (1800) $26 (1820) $31.50 (1850) $90 (1880) $125 (1910) $450 (1940) $1,400 (1960) $2,550 (1970); $4,445/term (1988) $53,496 (2018) TUITION goods (room and board included). THE EARTH-SHATTERING ARRIVAL OF COEDUCATION IN 1972 DIDN’T COME WITHOUT PLENTY OF FRETTING BY AN ALL-MALE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. HERE’S THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RESHAPING OF THE COLLEGE IN ITS HISTORY. “KEEP THE DAMNED WOMEN BY NANCY WEISSO MALKIEL UT”* The headline for this story comes from a quote by a member of the class of 1929 who voiced his objections to coeducation in January 1970. in January coeducation to objections his voiced who of 1929 of the class a member by from a quote comes story this for The headline * Excerpted from “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation by Nancy Weiss Malkiel. © 2016 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission. 120 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE MCQUADE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 101 resident John Kemeny went home after a meeting of the board of trust- ees on Saturday, November 20, 1971, “very tired and worried,” he later recalled. Jean Kemeny, his wife, said he was, uncharacteristi- cally, “quite depressed.” The board had met all day to consider reports and discuss Pthe many issues involved in year-round operation and coedu- cation. The vote would be taken on Sunday. Kemeny had been president for only 21 months, and he had a modest reservoir of shared experience with his trustee col- leagues. He had inherited a study about coeducation launched by his predecessor, and even though he had come to the presi- dency as a member of the study committee, it was not the sort of scenario for accomplishing major institutional change that a governance expert would have scripted. As the board approached the moment of decision, Kemeny wasn’t certain he could win a vote for coeducation. For all of Kemeny’s personal conviction about the desir- ability of coeducation, he had not been able to build the sure command over his board that characterized Robert Goheen’s leadership at Princeton or to equal the strong influence that Kingman Brewster wielded at Yale. “I don’t have the votes,” Kemeny said to his wife. She told him to list how he thought each trustee would vote. He made three columns—“Yes,” “Maybe,” and “No.” “The first was the shortest and the last the longest,” he recalled. “It looked like I needed all the people listed as ‘Maybe’ just to get a bare majority.” Back in October the board unanimously approved five principles under which coeducation would be administered: All prospective undergraduates would apply to and be evalu- ated by the same admission office. Financial aid and student employment would be administered equally for all undergradu- ates. A single faculty would be responsible for undergraduate senior years, one of which would be a summer term, normally either pro or con. Each member of the board, I am confident, with coeducation by 57 to 42 percent. The board also reviewed education. All undergraduates would be subject to the same before or after the junior year. Students would be able to create will vote his own conscience and vote for what he considers reports by the consulting firm Cresap, McCormick, and Paget, regulations with respect to housing and dining, medical care, personalized academic calendars, taking account of the seasons to be in the best interests of keeping Dartmouth as, hopefully, one about coeducation at Yale and Princeton, the other assess- counseling, and other services. Finally, all undergraduates who (Was spending the winter in Hanover appealing or not? Were the preeminent undergraduate college in the United States.” ing Dartmouth’s estimates of the costs of admitting women. fulfilled degree requirements would be awarded Dartmouth there special educational programs—ecology, for example—that How that would unfold, however, was far from clear as the Alumni opposed to coeducation had argued that Dartmouth degrees. Approval of the principles did not mean that the trust- could best be accomplished at certain times of year?) and hav- board prepared to make a decision. should wait to see how things were going at Yale and Princeton. ees would approve coeducation when they met in November. ing the chance to make room for significant job experiences or Although their motive—to slow down the prospect of coedu- Rather, it meant that if coeducation were to be instituted, the foreign study. “The plan has generated enormous excitement at cation at Dartmouth—may have been suspect, there was real principles would be honored. the college,” Kemeny told the Times. “What all started out as usefulness in the analysis of finances, academics, and social Knowing already that the faculty strongly favored coedu- a means of expanding economically for coeducation has now life at the two schools. The reports concluded that the effect of cation, the trustees also asked for a faculty vote on the year- emerged as a new pattern for higher education.” immerman’s assurances were well coeducation had been “overwhelmingly positive.” round operation of the College. That vote triggered an article What was not accurate was the article’s headline: “Dart- founded. The board was not about to The board was briefed by a Washington, D.C., attorney in The New York Times on October 27. The paper accurately mouth Acts to Admit Coeds.” “Disastrous,” board chair Charles be pressured into any decisions. But about the political and legal environment with respect to equal described the proposal for year-round operation, together J. Zimmerman, class of 1923, told his colleagues. The Times there was more work to be done be- rights legislation. The College had been following closely the with coeducation, that would be presented to the board at its story “created an outburst of indignation on the part of many fore the late-November 1971 meet- effort by U.S. Rep. Edith Green (D-Oregon) to prohibit dis- late-November meeting. Dartmouth would have four terms alumni,” who “have felt that the ground has been cut out from ing, when the board would be ready crimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or of about ten weeks each. Students would normally complete under the board to the extent where a fair, objective, and inde- to show its hand. activities at institutions receiving federal aid. The concern their degree requirements in eleven rather than twelve terms: pendent decision by the board has become an impossibility.” In early November the board was how Green’s initiative would affect Dartmouth should it a traditional freshman year of three terms on campus, followed That was not true, Zimmerman assured angry correspon- asked for a vote of the student body. The results favored coedu- choose to embark on coeducation, because equal access was by eight out of twelve possible terms for sophomore, junior, and dents: “The board will not be pressured into making a decision Zcation by a margin of 72 to 27 percent and year-round operation never part of the conversation in Hanover. With the presumed
102 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 103 KEMENY CALLED IT “A NEW VENTURE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION.”
quota on the number of women to be admitted, some female ap- suggested, for example, that they might announce a decision expansion of the physical plant. It is our firm conviction that recalled “a very difficult evening at a 50th reunion banquet” plicants would surely be denied admission in favor of men with for coeducation but postpone implementation for two years, a this new plan will make Dartmouth even more attractive to soon after he became president. The speaker had given “an elo- lesser credentials, clear evidence of discrimination. Whether prospect that appealed to a number of reluctant trustees. The young men and women who prize freedom of choice.” quent speech against change, particularly against coeducation.” establishing an associated school or coordinate college would governor of New Hampshire, Walter Peterson ’47, serving on the Responses from alumni, predictably, were divided. Plenty As Kemeny told the story, “Ten years later, that distinguished be legally permissible was not yet known. In the end, the Senate board by virtue of his office, spoke up forcefully to oppose that of enthusiasts waxed eloquent about their delight. A member alumnus sent an ‘emissary.’ If he admitted via the emissary that did not include a sex discrimination amendment in the Higher proposal. His political experience, he said, told him that unpopu- of the class of 1918 declared, “Dartmouth in the future is sure he had been wrong on coeducation, would I receive him and Education Act, and the House struck the Green amendment lar moves ought to be made quickly and decisively. Postponing to be a greater College with coeds than it could possibly be please not mention the issue?” Kemeny agreed, and the two when it approved the bill in early November. The decision gave implementation would give the opposition time to rally to get without them.” A member of the class of 1947 wrote, “I am men had what he later characterized as “a very pleasant visit.” Dartmouth the flexibility it desired to proceed. the decision reversed. Peterson was “so persuasive,” Kemeny delighted with the enlightened decision of dear old Dartmouth The common ground that enabled the good conversation: the recalled, that “he single-handedly changed the board’s mind on to go coeducational at last. Now I can contemplate in good alumnus’ granddaughter, “who was having a wonderful time that one issue.” The margin in favor of coeducation was 12 to 4. conscience sending my son—repeat son—to Dartmouth, should at Dartmouth.” One opponent suggested that if coeducation had to happen, he be admissible and wish to go.” Jean Kemeny recalled a lunch John had with an alumnus it would be better to have a unanimous vote. But only two of There were also plenty of outspoken opponents. “The board in the South. “My two sons and I went to Dartmouth,” the man he night before the vote, Jean the dissenters were willing to switch their votes, so the public of trustees choked on the gutless decision of Dartmouth coeds,” told Kemeny. “For years, the three of us have worked hard for Kemeny studied the names on announcement followed the board’s normal practice of not wrote a member of the class of 1940. A member of the class of her. But when the trustees voted to make the College coed, we her husband’s list and focused disclosing the actual vote count. This action stood in contrast 1922 put it this way: “By vote of the trustees this revered col- decided to have nothing more to do with Dartmouth.” After a immediately on one man John to Princeton’s handling of its trustee vote, wherein a decision lege has, in effect, been destroyed.…The Dartmouth we knew long pause, the alumnus continued, “On the other hand, my had listed as a “No”—Lloyd Brace was made to be candid about differences of opinion—indeed, as will be gone forever.” daughter—a sophomore at Dartmouth—has shown us the ’25, chairman of the First Na- Princeton president William G. Bowen reflected, “to celebrate error of our ways!” tional Bank of Boston. He had them as evidence that real thought, and not pressure, had led In the spring of 1979, a woman in the senior class wrote to led the search committee that to the affirmative vote.” Kemeny, almost on the spur of the moment, in the wake of a selected Kemeny as president and served as chair of the In a statement following the meeting, the trustees explained discussion in her feminist philosophy course. “We were talking Ttrustees from 1967 to 1970. Jean recalled the story Brace had their decision: The historic purpose of Dartmouth College has s the ensuing years passed, some loyal about givens in the use of language—Adam and Eve, men and told them about the discrimination his daughter encountered been to train leaders for society. It is clear that women now will alumni who had been strongly opposed women, boys and girls—how men always came first,” she said in medical school and surgical training. That experience, she be playing an increasing role of leadership in our society and to coeducation changed their minds later. “President Kemeny,” she wrote at the time, “during my thought, would lead Brace to vote yes. that Dartmouth can, and should, contribute to their education, as they came to know individual fe- four years at Dartmouth you have always addressed student As John recorded later, Brace “took the floor” in the Sunday making it possible for them to become, as Dartmouth men have male students and as their daugh- audiences as ‘Men and Women of Dartmouth.’ When you are meeting and explained, calmly and eloquently, “why he felt it through two centuries, outstanding doctors, lawyers, business ters and granddaughters began to addressing my graduating class, would you please say ‘Women was essential for Dartmouth to admit women. The world was leaders, scientists, and leaders in government. In endorsing both matriculate. A woman in the class of 1977, who sang with and Men of Dartmouth’?” changing…the traditional reasons for all-male colleges were coeducation and the Dartmouth Plan for year-round operation the a cappella group Dartmouth Distractions, recounted her When Kemeny did that at Commencement, the audience disappearing. Our students needed to learn to work with both we are acting to assure that Dartmouth will continue to serve as Aexperience at a dinner in Boston at the outset of coeducation. erupted in wild applause. A woman in the class of 1980 recalled: men and women. And we did not want to eliminate half the a leader in innovation in undergraduate education. Each of the Distractions was seated with a group of alumni. “ ‘Women and men of Dartmouth’—it reverberated through the leadership talent in admitting students.” Given Brace’s stand- Although Dartmouth lagged behind Princeton and Yale Her table consisted of men she estimated to be close to cel- audience.…The symbolism was not lost on any of us. It was a ing and influence, he swayed a number of votes. in making the decision for coeducation, it trumped them in ebrating their 50th reunion. As she sat down, one of the men dramatically different statement from ‘Men and women of The board voted unanimously to adopt the Dartmouth Plan making an affirmative case for why the College should be in the said, “Oops! We were going to be the anti-coeducation table!” Dartmouth.’ Tears came to our eyes, shivers went down our for year-round operation and, by a “substantial majority,” to business of educating women and in the way it accommodated After the Distractions sang, she recalled, “the distinguished spines, and cheers (mostly female) resounded through the admit the first female candidates for the Dartmouth degree, the planned increase in numbers through year-round operation. looking fellow sitting next to me put his arm around me and audience. We knew we had made it, that we belonged, and that effective in September 1972. Projected enrollment would be Zimmerman said that the latter constituted “a breakthrough in said, ‘If they are all like you, I’m going to have to change my people who mattered wanted it that way.” 3,000 males, 1,000 females. The total number of undergradu- making higher education more effective and more economical.” mind about coeducation!’ Pretty soon most of the gentlemen Dartmouth had moved a step closer to real coeducation. ates on campus would be limited to about 3,400. Kemeny called it “a new venture in American higher education,” were discussing how to get their granddaughters interested in To the last, board members who were uneasy about co- a “creative design for expanding student enrollment without applying to the College.” NANCY WEISS MALKIEL is a professor of history, emeritus, at education did what they could to slow it down. Zimmerman over-crowding and without major capital expenses for the The conversion experience was widely shared. Kemeny Princeton University.
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When Dartmouth celebrates its tricentennial 050 years from now, what will the student body look like? Will football be played? And how high can tuition go?
A variety of profs, administrators, and students weigh in with predictions Eleazar never could 6 have imagined. by MICHAEL WINERIP
120 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 109 ILLUSTRATION BY MARC BURCKHARDT 9 the previous 50. In 1969 tuition, room, and board curiosities unearthed during an archaeological came to $5,704. Today, with fees, it is $70,791. At dig. The male-female ratio was 5 to 1. The aptly nyone who tells you he this pace, in 2069 it will hit $1 million. Scholar- named Professor Mann began every question ships, which until now have served as a buffer for to a female student with, “As a woman, what is “ soaring costs, may not be able to keep up. Even your reading of the text?” So, Barreca says, she can predict the future with a $500,000 scholarship, who wants to take “started prefacing every answer with the phrase, out a half-million-dollar loan? ‘As a woman, I think Shakespeare means…’ or ‘As can’t predict the future,” No one we talked to had given much thought a woman, it strikes me that Tennyson’s point is….’ says Joshua Kim, whose job as director of digi- Main and Wheelock. College arborist Brian Beaty ENROLLMENT to whether Dartmouth will continue to exist as Among early Dartmouth women, it became a form tal learning initiatives is planning Dartmouth’s expects it to be dead and gone by then. Age (elms an elite college where gifted professors conduct of greeting. ‘As a woman, I think I’ll have the meat- online future. usually don’t live past 175) or development (it was important research and teach some of the bright- loaf for dinner.’ ” Forewarned and yet undeterred, DAM set out barely spared from a recent underground utility est students anywhere. The presumption seems In 2018, there were 2,251 men and 2,166 to interview students, professors, and administra- upgrade) could do it in. The spectacular fall foli- to be that, like England, there will always be a women. tors about what the future might hold for the Col- age? Muted, as warming temperatures and bugs Dartmouth. As Lee Coffin, dean of admissions, The class of 1970 included 12 black men. By lege. We asked, “What will Dartmouth be like 50 kill trees with the most colorful leaves—sugar says, “The centrality of the ‘Dartmouth experience’ the class of 1973 there were 90, partly as a result of Ayears from now, in 2069, on its 300th anniversary?” maples, birches, and ashes. On the other hand, does not feel like something that will ever be open a recruitment program for “boys with underprivi- Questions ranged from the hyperlocal—will there the magnificent elms along the Green that were to reinterpretation.” leged backgrounds.” Many of those black students still be an elm at the corner of North Main and ravaged by Dutch elm disease in the 1950s and benefited from the Alumni Fund, which that year Wheelock? (probably not)—to the existential—will 1960s have been replaced by a disease-resistant 1969 financed 103 scholarships and 12 slide rules. there still be a Dartmouth? (highly likely). variety that should be 100 feet tall in the 2060s. Total undergrads: good reminder of how much could Though Dartmouth’s original mission was Some of the predictions were grounded in That fall, when alums return for Homecom- 3,252 change in the next 50 years is to consider to educate Native Americans, as of 1969 only 19 science, some were educated guesses. ing, football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 predicts how much has changed in the last 50. had graduated. In the last 50 years the College Pretty much everyone seems to agree that col- there will be a game. He thinks kickoffs may be AThe short answer: an awful lot. has taken that mission to heart with 1,180 Native laborative education is the future of undergradu- gone to reduce high-speed collisions that cause Whether driven by technology, scientific American graduates. ate studies, although it’s hard to know what form concussions and players may be required to stand breakthroughs, civil rights, feminism, or govern- Of course, there is a difference between Dart- that could take. The Dartmouth Applied Learning upright in a two-point stance so they’re slower off mental mandate—you never would have guessed mouth mandating change and campus culture and Innovation (DALI) lab, which is a national the line (that’s not a misprint). But the game will most of it, a very humbling thought. changing. Bruce Duthu ’80, a professor of Native model for educating undergraduates in tech de- still be recognizable as football. When Roger Sloboda is asked to name some- American studies, says when he was a student, sign, has the feel of a Silicon Valley startup. Its At the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, thing he never envisioned as a new professor “people had no compunction about coming up and teams of students have developed, among other Mary Flanagan, professor in digital humanities, teaching biology in 1978, the first thing he does— saying, ‘How do you feel about taking the place of a things, virtual reality software for NASA astro- asked fellow panelists, “What if we throw out the even before mentioning gene modification or se- better-qualified white guy?’ ” By the mid-90s, most nauts. Though many say it has been their most idea of university—I’m at a university, so apologies 2019 quencing—is wiggle his smart phone in the air. of that was gone, he says. Even so, change is rarely exciting learning experience at Dartmouth—only to Dartmouth—as a one-time thing.” Retraining Total undergrads: “Exhibit A,” he says. “Who would have thought I ubiquitous or linear. While trustees abolished the 15 percent who apply are accepted—they get no would become the focus of higher education, not 4,417 could hold all the knowledge in the world in my use of the Indian mascot in 1974, online shop- academic credit. Rather, they are paid up to $15 an afterthought, as people lose their jobs to robots hand?” pers can still go to the Dartmouth Review website an hour and, if they do poorly, instead of getting and start over in the workplace, again and again. His Exhibit B was the astronomical cost of and purchase clothing with the logo, including a a D, they can be fired. David Kotz ’86, professor of computer sci- research today. When Sloboda arrived 40 years woman’s thong emblazoned with the Indian head. How the College will remake itself in the face ence and former acting provost, thinks parking ago, he got a $5,000 stipend to set up his lab. Today In 1972 the federal government enacted Title IX, of considerable institutional rigidity is murky. will be better. new biology professors can get upwards of $1 mil- which requires that women have as many opportuni- Barbara Will, associate dean of arts and humani- With the prevalence of international and lion. A state-of-the art microscope is $400,000, a ties to play sports as men. Coach Teevens remem- ties, doesn’t see a major restructuring. She thinks mixed-race marriages increasing in this country, centrifuge $40,000. Chemicals, reagents, enzymes, bers its early years: “For the JV basketball program, professors and deans are too protective of their particularly among the well-educated, racial and antibodies, and tissue culture solution for a mod- women were recruited from the dining hall.” own turf. “In the next couple of decades, I can’t ethnic diversity may no longer be as dominant est-sized laboratory can approach $100,000 per Today, in accordance with the law, there are see any departments we have willingly giving up an issue on campuses in two generations. But year. Even a month’s worth of mice can be $1,000. 18 women’s teams and 16 men’s teams. their identities to merge or just say, ‘We’re just if economic disparities continue to widen, and 2069 The face of the student body could hardly be What students major in is profoundly differ- all Dartmouth professors,’ ” she says. the financial gap between scholarship and non- Total undergrads: ? more different than it was 50 years ago. ent. The study of the humanities, which for years Seniors should have a particular stake in scholarship students continues to grow, income In 1969 a Dartmouth education was still for has been in decline, was in full ascent 50 years DAM’s question, since they’ll likely still be diversity could be the real flashpoint. men only, though it was understood those days ago. There were 31 faculty members in the English around. What do they hope to see when they re- Organic chemistry, “Chem 51 and 52,” were the were numbered. At his 50th reunion that June, department and 28 in Romance languages and turn for their 50th reunion? killer courses for premeds a half century ago. They Dr. Robert M. Stecher, class of 1919, delivered a literature, compared with 25 in biology, 24 in math, Shannon Rubin ’19 mentioned the bonfire, remain so today, and by 2069, even as we colonize speech predicting how Dartmouth would change and 18 in economics. Lucy Tantum ’19, Winter Carnival. Mars, premeds could still be cramming for a quiz on by 2019. “It will contain a substantial proportion Last year 217 undergrads majored in the hu- “Lou’s!” says Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valen- the stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes. of women,” he said. “That is threatening.” manities, 541 in the sciences, 911 in the social cienne ’19. Of course, none of this may come to pass if Indeed, they landed in 1972. As Gina Barreca sciences. There were 270 economics majors in What they won’t see, in all likelihood, is the the cost of a Dartmouth education continues to ’79 recounts in her memoir, Babes In Boyland, 2017, compared with 46 English and creative towering 125-year-old elm at the corner of North grow in the next 50 years at the pace it did during during those early days women were treated like writing majors.
110 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 111 College is often a place where an individual’s kids will put an electrode on their head, and I’ll push politics take root. Fifty years ago, the Baby Boomers a button and zzzt, all the information will go in, and In 50 years, current protested the Vietnam War. Dozens of Dartmouth they’ll walk away happy,” says Sloboda. (He seemed students, calling for the end of ROTC on campus, went to be joking). to jail for occupying Parkhurst Hall. That June, John In the next 50 years will Dartmouth have a fe- measures of diversity D.W. Beck ’69, a speaker at his Commencement, said male president? Among the Ivies, only Columbia and the graduation robe “makes me feel like death and Dartmouth have not. Or perhaps a president who is could be obsolete. stagnancy” and urged classmates to remove theirs. African-American, Hispanic, or Native American? At graduation last June, many in the class of In 2069 most courses may be taught using what 1968, now in their 70s, wore white armbands, a is known pedagogically as the “flipped classroom” protest aimed at President Donald Trump. “I was model. It is a more effective way of learning than the astonished not only by how many classmates wore COST OF “classic classroom” model: Show up for a lecture in admissions process so impacted by intermarriage pay $70,000 a year.” the armbands, but also how quickly they put them RESEARCH your pajama bottoms, borrow a friend’s notes, fall that in 50 years, current measures of diversity The higher costs go, the wealthier a family has on,” says Gerry Bell ’68, the 50th reunion chair. “You behind on the reading as you balance the demands could be obsolete. In 2002, fewer than 1 percent to be to afford the full freight, and the greater the can take the boys out of the sixties, but you can’t of other courses, a busy social life, and much-needed of Dartmouth students identified themselves as divide between scholarship and non-scholarship take the sixties out of the boys. We still think we can sleep, then cram wildly at the end of the semester mixed race. Of this year’s freshman class, 7 percent students. change the world.” by pulling all-nighters. Finally, near death, emerge do, compared with 4 percent Native American, 9 In 1970 annual costs at Dartmouth were about And when the class of 2019 returns for its 50th? on the other end with a grade that won’t let your percent black, and 12 percent Latino. The trend is $5,700. Families with two working parents—a Taken as a whole, the students have not been the parents down. national. According to the Pew Research Center, school secretary and newspaper copy editor, for protestors that the ’69s were, though, according to The flipped model is being used for introduc- the share of recently married blacks with a spouse example—could send a child to college without a The Dartmouth, at least 50 carpooled to Washington, tory courses such as “Bio 13,” which may have 50 of a different race or ethnicity is 18 percent. It’s 27 scholarship. Today that middle-class kid would D.C., to participate in the Women’s March in January or more students in a class. They watch videos of percent for Hispanics and 29 percent for Asians. need a major scholarship. 2017. There have also been “Take Back the Night” and 1979 the prerecorded lectures before coming to class. Among newlyweds who have bachelor’s degrees, “At some point in the next decade or so, Dart- “Black Lives Matter” protests on campus as well as Stipend to set up They take online assessments that vary based on 20 percent of men and 18 percent of women were mouth and our peers will likely cost roughly support for the #MeToo movement—in November a biology lab: $5,000 skill levels. When they arrive for class, the profes- intermarried. $100,000 a year,” says Coffin. “That will be a stag- group of women filed a $70-million lawsuit accusing sor knows where the group, as a whole, stands, and Coffin says racial diversity will remain “criti- gering data point.” three professors of sexual assault. where each student is. Class time is spent working cally relevant,” but adds that “there will be a con- Is there anything that might reverse the spiral- One of the most popular recent humanities in small groups guided by paid undergraduate teach- tinuing reimagining of how we see ourselves.” ing upward costs in the next 50 years? courses, according to Will, was “The Sixties.” A har- ing assistants. “The professor can walk around and He tells a story from his time in admissions at Higher ed is caught up in an arms race over binger of activism to come? Or a dose of nostalgia? work with individuals or groups of students,” says Tufts, about a pair of Dominican-American twins. salaries and facilities. In 2011 the biology depart- Kim, the digital director. One checked the boxes on the admissions applica- ment moved into the Life Sciences Center, an Guessing what the student body might look like tion indicating she was Dominican and black, the award-winning, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient hen it comes to the next 50 years, Pro- in 50 years offers wildly divergent possibilities. One other marked Dominican and Hispanic. One was building that cost $90 million. Could Sloboda still fessor Kotz is an inveterate optimist. unknown factor is the outcome of the current trial in referred to the black cultural center, the other to be doing his work in the old building? “It prob- He thinks parking will improve thanks which Harvard is defending itself against allegations the Hispanic center. “They called and said, ‘How ably could have been modified, yes,” he says. “But Wto autonomous vehicles that will drive themselves it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. is it possible these twin sisters are on two differ- if we’re recruiting a new faculty person, and we 2019 to lots at the far reaches of campus. “The same way Stipend to set up The suit alleges that for years the university has ent lists?’ I said they answered the questions in showed them a lab in a cement-block building and you hail a cab today, you will hail your own car. As biology lab: $1 million rejected Asian Americans who are better qualified their own way.” another university had state-of-the-art laborato- you walk out the door, you’ll just say, ‘Come get me,’ than some non-Asian students it has accepted, as Duthu, a member of the Houma tribe, sees the ries? It’s part of playing the game.” and your car will drive up three minutes later to measured by tests scores and grades. same issues among Native Americans. “This idea Several professors complain that too many take you home.” Harvard counters that it relies on a holistic ap- of Noah’s Ark—we need two of these, two of those— administrators are paid too much. “The president More than 10 percent of the core campus’ 269 proach to admissions, with race as one consideration may seem like a weird, archaic system.” Fifty years gets a million dollars, Rick Mills, his executive vice acres is used for parking. If Kotz is correct, that could among many, in an effort to assemble a class that is from now, could there be legal battles over who’s president, and the provost make something like free 27 acres for other uses, including dorms to ease also diverse economically, by gender and national- Native enough to qualify for a Dartmouth educa- $700,000 each,” says Sloboda. “These are huge residential overcrowding. ity, as well as a mix of student-scholars, scientists, tion? “It’s a very volatile kind of situation. I have salaries, and if they keep going up it’s going to be But as Professor Sloboda points out, techno- artists, athletes, and legacies. no idea how that will work out,” says Duthu. Much a huge, huge part of the budget.” logical advances don’t necessarily translate into The Ivies, including Dartmouth, which has a can be at stake. Some tribes that operate casinos According to the College’s 2015 tax return, behavioral gains. The first day of introductory biol- freshman class that is 21 percent Asian-American, have fought protracted legal battles with millions the latest publicly available, then-provost Carolyn ogy, almost every student brings a laptop for taking 2069 have filed a brief supporting Harvard. In contrast, of dollars in the balance over whether an individual Dever earned $783,890, Mills earned $660,089, notes. Then he shows them a study that indicates Stipend to set up for the last 20 years the University of California, has enough of a tribal lineage to share profits. and President Philip Hanlon ’77, $1.25 million. students who have a laptop open during class retain biology lab: ? Berkeley’s admissions office has relied heavily on During an interview at the Hanover Inn, sit- Sound like a lot? The presidents of Brown, Colum- 10 percent less information than those who do not. test scores and grades, resulting in a student body ting among alums and parents checking in, Shan- bia, and UPenn make, respectively, $1.28 million, “Next class, out of 50, I had one kid with a lap- that is about 45 percent Asian-American. non Rubin ’19 points out something you almost $2.5 million, and $3.5 million. top,” he says. If Harvard loses, could Dartmouth look more never hear: “They always say half of Dartmouth One Dartmouth administrator suggests that How about an example of technology that en- like Berkeley? “It could,” says Coffin. students get scholarships, but that means half dramatically cutting costs would mean hiring hances learning? “Fifty years from now, probably At the other end of the spectrum would be an don’t and come from families that can afford to fewer tenured professors and more adjuncts. The
112 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 113 the humanities rose to 14 percent from 10 percent in student at the DALI lab makes the most 2013, according to admissions dean Coffin. compelling argument for why Dartmouth Among the Ivies, only The numbers Will cites are minuscule in the con- in 2069 will still be Dartmouth, why a Dart- text of a 50-year timeframe, but she has history on her mouthA education will still count for a lot, why remote Columbia and Dartmouth have not side. For more than two centuries, Ivy League students education cannot replace it, and why students will still studied the liberal arts and went into the world to journey to Hanover to learn from great professors and had a female president. learn their craft. For example, Dartmouth has never each other and to socialize and waste time together. offered a major in journalism. Students learn at the “Collaborative learning” was the short answer College paper and through internships. from John Kotz ’19 (son of David). At the DALI lab Chances are that any new academic majors will be teams work on extraordinary projects, such as the built around newly hired professors. A prime example $1.2-million NASA grant the lab shared with the average tenured professor at Dartmouth, who has the traditional master’s candidate. So in terms of is digital humanities, a young discipline still taking COST OF Geisel School of Medicine to develop virtual real- a guaranteed job for life and gets a paid year off cost, remote learning at Dartmouth in its present root at Dartmouth. It involves, among other things, DARTMOUTH ity software that reduces astronaut anxiety during every seven years for sabbatical, makes $248,000, form is part of the problem, not the solution. the study of computer code and the development of lengthy space missions. Astronauts can put on a according to the American Association of Univer- There is one blip. Last September the Uni- video games that teach worthy human values—such virtual reality headset and for a half hour be “trans- sity Professors. That lags behind UPenn professors versity of Pennsylvania announced that next fall as protecting the environment, inspiring girls to study ported” back to earth, perhaps to sit on a park bench ($281,000 average), Columbia ($306,000), and it will offer an online bachelor’s for a four-year science, and encouraging vaccinations. It sounds like and observe life going by or view a mountain stream Princeton ($307,000). The more colleges spend tuition cost of about $75,000—approximately one- fluff, but it requires considerable academic rigor. How or watch puppies at play. to attract the best, the more they have to spend to fourth the cost of a Dartmouth degree. To date, do you determine that kids are learning what a game For another project, students built a functioning attract the best. “That’s the wicked spiral of higher undergraduate education at Dartmouth has been purports to teach? The games created need to be fun, desktop computer mounted on a board 2 feet tall and 3 education,” says Coffin. exclusively campus-based. Could that change? “It’s but the research indicates that if kids know they’re feet wide and framed with plexiglass, with each com- Still another contributor to the wicked spiral possible,” Kotz says. “I have to be very careful with good for them, the games won’t be as effective. For ponent separated so it could be clearly identified and is the penchant for adding without subtracting: my provost hat on.” example, Awkward Moment, which was originally de- the circuitry illuminated by flashing colored lights. Although new educational fields are continually veloped at Dartmouth, is sold in the games department 1969 It is beautiful to behold, and far more powerful Total cost: $5,704 being added to keep up with societal changes, at Barnes & Noble—not the educational department. than an ordinary laptop—it can run virtual reality rarely is an academic department shut down. he most discussed academic trend dur- Professor Mary Flanagan pretty much invented experiences and be used in interactive touch-screen “There’s a lot of inertia,” says Kotz. ing the last decades has been the dra- digital humanities as an academic discipline. At the demonstrations of projects. No one had assigned Will agrees. She says that while there’s an matic drop in students studying arts and University of Buffalo in 1999, with a $200,000 National the project. It was just an idea some of the students ongoing turnover from retirement, “tenure can Thumanities. Dartmouth is no exception. In 2008, Science Foundation grant, she created The Adven- found interesting. create a certain kind of sclerosis. Russian studies just as the Great Recession hit, there were 448 tures of Josie True, a video game aimed at encouraging “Completely out of the blue we wanted it to hap- is a small department, they just made a few really humanities majors. By 2016, with students—and girls to go into STEM fields. Next stop was Hunter pen, so it happened,” says Kotz. It would not have good hires. They are going to want to hang on to parents—still traumatized about the job market, College, where she started Tiltfactor, a research lab happened online, he says. “When you’re added to a their departmental status for as long as possible, that fell to a then modern low of 256. that designs games to promote learning as well as group online—say you’re in a Facebook messenger in part because if they lose their department, they Whither the humanities? Or perhaps, wither changes in attitude and behavior. After Dartmouth group—it’s easy for you to step back and let other won’t have the visibility on campus that would al- the humanities? won a $10-million grant from the Sherman Douglas people speak. When someone has an idea, you’re low them to contribute to hiring decisions.” Will is optimistic, even though the number Foundation in 2005 to endow two professorships in 2019 not necessarily responding to say, ‘Okay, how can As for cutting costs, invariably the first words of humanities majors dropped from 291 in 2017 “emerging fields in the faculty of arts and sciences,” Total cost: $70,791 I improve this idea?’ It’s the serendipity and the out of the experts’ mouths are “remote learning,” to 217 in 2018. She says that scandals involving Flanagan was hired and brought the Tiltfactor lab physicality of us all being here. Like I would pass meaning online lectures and exams. Facebook and Twitter may dampen enthusiasm with her in 2008. Adam Rinehouse ’19 or Ben Cooper ’18—they helped Dartmouth, like most elite colleges, has re- for science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) For students, there’s excitement in being present design this. I would be walking around campus, and I sisted the idea when it comes to undergraduates, courses. “The STEM bubble may be bursting a when something new takes shape. At first, Flanagan’s was like, ‘Hey, have you thought any more about this but in recent years it has developed two largely little bit,” she says. “The bad publicity around Sili- Tiltfactor team designed games that it assumed had project?’ Some of the coolest ideas I’ve had have just online, 18-month master’s programs, in healthcare con Valley hubris has been good for the humani- a positive impact, but didn’t have proof. With guid- been random exchanges that happen in person. I don’t delivery sciences and public health. The model ties.” Indeed, science majors fell from 595 in 2017 ance from researchers at the Dartmouth Institute, the believe major innovation can happen without it.” differs from most online programs. The master’s in to 541 in 2018. team devised behavioral studies to compare attitudes Toward the end of the project, when it was time to healthcare delivery requires enrollees to spend six She believes there’s been a shift in the type of schoolchildren who hadn’t played the game with mount the computer, about a dozen students showed weeks on campus spread across four visits. There of student being admitted since Hanlon became those who had. In this manner, the team discovered up and helped them finish the job in just two hours. are online seminar discussions, virtual one-on- president in 2013 and brought in Coffin in 2016 that its game Pox—in which characters who are not 2069 Asked who had the original idea to build it, Kotz says one office hours, and collaborative group projects. as admissions director. “Phil immediately started vaccinated die—was not as effective as the Zombie Pox Total cost: ? he couldn’t remember. “And I don’t want to remember Courses are taught by the same Dartmouth profes- to address Dartmouth’s Animal House reputation version, where the unvaccinated turn into zombies. because, honestly, the coolest thing about it was that sors who teach on campus. with a series of important measures,” says Will, “Zombies made players more empathetic,” says Max we all germinated in our own minds together.” “We worked to ensure it’s premium quality, who chaired Hanlon’s 2014 Moving Dartmouth Seidman ’12, a lab project manager. like everything at Dartmouth,” says Kim, the digital Forward committee that, among other sugges- At present there is no major—Flanagan teaches MICHAEL WINERIP is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. director. That includes premium prices—total cost tions, recommended the campus hard liquor ban in the film studies department. But in recent years In his 30-plus years at The New York Times, he was a for the master’s program in healthcare delivery for that went into effect the following year. Indeed, funding has been allocated to hire three new faculty staff writer, national political correspondent, investi- the class of 2020 is $108,375, about the same as for the percentage of 2018 freshmen interested in members in the digital humanities. gative reporter, and education columnist.
114 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 115 250 DARTMOUTH class notes 1938-1946 The Classes Happy new year 2019! I have no news Dad has said many times, and it has served him offensive quality-control coach for the Big Green. to offer about this amazing class. How- well many times,” writes Elizabeth. “If possible, I Brownson becomes the first known full-time fe- 38ever, I have received mail from mem- would like to send our best to Ed Small and Bruce male football coach at the Division I level.” I invite bers from other classes, for which I say thank you Espey ’40 and their families.” Andy and all writers to help me fill this column. for your very kind words relating to past columns. Sally Combes Leahey wrote to me of the death I have one for next column. Stay tuned. In the From Tucker Richard ’86: “I enjoyed your of her father, Abbott C. Combes, on October 29, meantime, Merry Christmas and a peaceful 2019! entry in the Sept./Oct. edition of the DAM about 2018. While he was at Dartmouth he was a member —Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New the freshman arriving so many years ago. And it of Psi U, Dragon, and Green Key and was the execu- York, NY 10021; [email protected] seems to me an excellent question as to how his tive manager of athletics. Following military ser- experience might compare to those of 2018 or, vice in World War II, he and his wife, Mary, settled Just two classmates made it to Ha- for that matter, any other era. I would think there in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. A couple of nover to set a dubious record for all- is no one answer as so many people come from days before he died he asked for his Dartmouth 43time low attendance for a 75th class such a variety of perspectives. In my close, thank cane to make sure it was in a safe place. (It is.) A reunion. I was not one of them! Well, two is better you for this type of insight; it is most interesting.” lifelong Red Sox fan, he found out just before he than one, and far better than zero. They were Ed From Nathan DeLuke ’02: “Thank you for died that they won the World Series! Bock of Syracuse, New York, and Bob Lappin of submitting the letter from a freshman circa 1934- I received notice from the College of the death Swamscott, Massachusetts. 35 to Dartmouth’s alumni magazine. I enjoyed it of Bob Feller in October. Ed was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth dur- immensely and, although my freshman year was If anyone else in the class has a thought, do ing our final days on campus. Both were members 1998, it brought back some great memories. Maybe send it to me. of Palaeopitus. it has changed in the 20 years since then, but I Dum vivimus vivamus! And many thanks to the class of 1948 for wel- suspect that while things on sale have changed, —Jane Hanks, 2630 Kings Crown, Fort Myers, FL coming Ed and Bob and their families to their two their usefulness has not—even the ever-present 33908; [email protected] dinner receptions. It was much appreciated. laundry service. Hope this is a wonderful fall for Imagine—75 years ago our Commencement you, as we do not get much of one down here in Since it is almost the 75th anniversary date was listed as January 1, 1943. Our “last sup- Atlanta.” I really don’t know what to say except of the end of WW II, it seemed fitting per” date was actually December 12, 1942. It was please know how much you’ve touched my heart 42to explore Dartmouth at War once in Thayer Hall’s main dining room. President Hop- for acknowledging your enjoyment of learning again. One of my editors has been helping me and kins and Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, president and about past and older classes and previous experi- presented two contrasting biographical essays. publisher of The New York Times, were the keynote ences. It brings joy and a little laughter in a very Guy Swenson wrote a vividly detailed, 6,000- speakers. No pomp, no valedictorian, no Bema, no bleak and sad world. word account of his varied experiences. After honorary degrees, no cap and gown, no family. The “Dear freezing New York—I’m writing this basic, then specialized training in Miami, 1942 dinner ended with hugs and teary eyes. We scat- from the hospital, Dick’s House, where I will be to 1943, Guy was commissioned a second lieuten- tered in different directions the next morning. We taking a rest for a day or two. Now, Mother, don’t ant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, as cryptographic were facing World War II in its darkest moments. say you expected it all along. It wasn’t the skis’ specialist. He served in California, India, and fi- Ninety-one percent of the class was headed fault. I had a little trouble making them agree on nally China, and learned of peace following atomic for the armed forces. The other 9 percent went to the same direction while skiing on Velvet Rocks bombings in Japan in August 1945. He was treated medical school, dental college, or divinity school or and, as a result, I found myself upside down in a in Shanghai for hepatitis, returned to the United were unable to serve. I was in the U.S. Army three hemlock grove. My ankle’s only a little strained States by sea, and recovered slowly in Concord, days later. I enlisted on December 15, 1942, at Fort and will be all right in a week or so. Anyhow, the New Hampshire. He attended Harvard Law Snelling, Minnesota. The Army had recruited me skis were not broken.” That being said, let’s all School, married, raised three sons, and enjoyed a in April 1942 to attend its military intelligence be careful out there and stay warm and healthy! splendid civilian career. Guy died in 2013. service language school (for Japanese language —Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road O-139, Wil- A relative prepared a 34-word account of instruction). Three days later I was at Camp braham, MA 01095 the career of John Lee Williams. “Jack” became a Savage, Minnesota, where non-stop education member of the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1942, in Japanese language, military terms, and customs I thought this column was closed be- was leader of a rifle platoon in Guadalcanal, and were drummed into about 200 niseis. cause I had no class contact for a few then New Britain, and died in 1994. Editors in Would we see each other ever again? We lost months. Now I have received a fine let- a postscript report that Jack was married June 23 classmates in WW II. Our class was destined 41 George McCol- ter from Elizabeth Bouquet, one of 1945. He was recalled to duty on September 1950, early on to travel, courtesy of Uncle Sam, over the lum’s daughters. She says her dad is now enjoying served in combat in South Korea, and survived an girdled earth. WW II ended on September 3, 1945. his 99th summer on the New Jersey shore. He air crash in January 1951. —George Shimizu, 2642 Saklan Indian Drive, Apt. has warm memories of off-campus eating clubs, This very same editor made history this 2, Walnut Creek, CA 94595-3052; (925) 937-2504; where comfort foods were served to appreciative month with the following headline from the Pitts- [email protected] Dartmouth students. Sunday dinners at the home burgh Post-Gazette: “At 98, Scholar has Written 64 of Uncle Jim (a professor of English) were times Books”—and he is still writing. That is our very I have just returned from a stimu- to connect with family. Skating, running, fishing, own Bob Gale. Give Bob a rouse! lating and nostalgic 2018 Class Of- studying, and recreational times spent with his In other news from Dartmouth, “Dartmouth 46ficers Weekend September 21-22 in friends made a memorable four years for a young Hires Female Football Coach.” Buddy Teevens Hanover, where I represented our class as your man about to go in the Navy and serve his country ’79, the Robert L. Blackman Football Coach, an- secretary and president. Our class was the oldest Class of 1865 in World War II. “Dartmouth was a good choice, nounced the hiring of Callie Brownson to be the represented by a class officer. A central theme of
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the weekend was the announcement of plans to him and get an update of Dartmouth hockey of 70 each awardee gets a plaque and written confirma- New news first. The class had a mini on the A nice letter from Rick Austin brought news of celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th year, officially tak- years ago, as he remembered it. To him, it was as tion. We agreed to search for a way to pass the re- Harvard Homecoming Weekend and it started the death of his wife, Jo, last May. Rick and Jo lived Give a Rouse▲ ing place in 2019, and Dartmouth’s vision for the if it occurred yesterday! The first line was made sidual funds along that will keep remembrance for with a bus ride Friday afternoon and dinner at in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Rick, a lifelong future. I expressed my concern at every meeting up of Bruce Mather, Bruce Cunliffe and Ralph. They the class of 1948. The only other ongoing program Ravine Lodge at Moosilauke with Brownlea and squash and tennis star, took up golf after knee- I could attend that weekend, including during a were unstoppable. Who can ever forget the rink on we have is for the Hanover Inn rocking chairs, Bob Kirby, Stephanie and Joe Medlicott, Karen and replacement surgery; he and Jo were frequent >>> Longtime New Jersey Rotarian H. Peter personal conversation with President Hanlon, Wheelock? Open the wooden shutters and, presto, which typically costs $2,000-$3,000 annually, Dave Taylor, Meredith and Doug Smith, Jacques Har- partners on the golf course. Schaub ’44 was honored for his 71 years of about the lack of representation under the Alumni you made ice. Yes, it was that cold all winter. For which does not go through the College. Warren low and new bride “Rusty” Rodrigues, Marge (Mrs. Other recent deaths: Nase Hurowitz, Bob Moore, service to the nonprofit, most recently as a Council Constitution, which allows only a total of Ralph, probably the high point was being part of Daniell advised that we were given the Harvey P. “Fizz”) Nichols, Jilly and Jack Harned (and a child or Stan Shipper, and Bill Terry. We mourn their loss. member of the Rotary Club of the Caldwells. three representatives to represent all classes col- the U.S. team in the 1948 Olympics that played in Hood 1918 Award for setting a participation record two) and your scribe and Victoria Hicks (daughter —Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL >>> Val Armento ’73 of San Mateo, California, lectively who have celebrated their 55th reunions. St. Moritz, Austria. The team was coached by Dart- of 53.2-percent gifting to the College fund for a of roomie and best pal Ort Hicks ’49). 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail. has earned the National Level Honor Pin All other classes from 1965 to the present are al- mouth’s own Eddie Jeremiah and included the class celebrating its 70th reunion. His goal is to Saturday followed with the usual morning com from the Girl Scouts of Northern California lowed one delegate to represent their classes in Riley brothers, Jack ’44 and Billy ’46. Dartmouth increase this rate for Dartmouth’s 250th this year. class meeting, the game, and a dinner in Norwich, for her volunteer efforts. She has served as a the Alumni Council. In order to follow through was well represented. Ralph went on to play pro- —Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY Vermont, with Sunday homeward bound. On behalf of the 1952 class officers, camping certification trainer for more than 30 and try to make early class representation hap- fessionally for three years before calling it a day. 13323; (315) 853-3582; [email protected] We had hoped that Katherine and George let us be among the first to wish you years and co-chairs the committee overseeing pen, our distinguished classmate Frank Guarini has He is quite amazing, rattling off scores of games Woodwell and Terri and Bill Carpenter would be and your family all the best in good national and international travel programs. Don Page 52 nominated me to the Dartmouth Alumni Council that far back. When wrote the class It looks as though 134 classmates are joining us, but George took a pass and “Carp” was health for 2019. This is a memorable year for your >>> Dr. Susan Domchek ’90, an to fill one of two vacant alumni-nominated seats column and obituaries, he requested classmates still with us as of late October 2018; facing a serious operation that week so Terri sent alma mater, founded 250 years ago in December oncology professor and exec- on the Dartmouth board of trustees in June. write information about their careers, families, or 49however, 20 are listed as “not inter- regrets. 1769, but the College will be celebrating all year. utive director of Penn Medi- Class sympathies to families of deceased anything else so he could include it in his column ested.” Let’s hope several dozen of us make it to our Our recently deceased classmates include Our class has been a proud and an active part of cine’s Basser Center for BRCA, classmates and widow. Jean C. Davis called and when the time came. I found my “obituary,” but it’s 70th reunion on September 27-29. Dale Jacobson Robert Curtis Mckee, Edward Julien Zebrowski, M.D., Dartmouth for more than a quarter of this his- has earned the John Allen Blue informed me of the death of her husband, Paul True in serious need of an update. If you want to send expects to be there, despite having a triple bypass Edward Andrew Wilde Jr., Leonard Nelson Radlo, tory (actually 28 percent) and for those of you Award for her work in breast Davis, who died December 24, 2017. He served on a me something, I’ll keep it on file. Don’t forget to and subsequent infection two years ago. After a Robert Eldon Graham, John Leon Dutton, Leonard whose fathers and/or grandfathers are Dartmouth cancer research, treatment, PT boat, was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and send the Green Cards to Liz; it’s not easy to put long career with Exxon, Dale lives in a condo in Morton Stein, Thomas Myer Green III, and Clifton H. alumni, your life history is as much as 35-percent and education. Her research Sphinx, and earned his M.B.A. from Tuck. He was out a newsletter without them. Somers, New York, and sounds as though he’s in Whiteman III. of the College’s background. We hope you will has focused on therapies tar- an expert on energy economic research and taught I regret to report the deaths of Eugene P. Whit- good spirits and better health now. Contact me at the address below. follow all the events of the year and especially geting mutations in the genes BRCA 1 and at Dartmouth and Stanford. Rosemary Marlette, tier, M.D., of Greenfield, Massachusetts, on July George Day is battling macular degeneration —Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8 Concord Greene, Unit 5, the reenactment of the famous Dartmouth Col- 2, which put patients at an increased risk widow of John E. “Jack” Marlette and mother of ’75, 27, 2018; Warren O. Husler of Bronx, New York, on while living at home with his wife, Clara, in Cedar Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@ lege case on the weekend of March 1 and 2. In the for breast cancer. ’84, and ’87 alums, died July 13, 2018. She was the August 9, 2018; and Joseph B. Paul on November Rapids, Iowa. George is planning to make it to Ha- aol.com meantime, we are happily staying in touch. Recent >>> Former hockey teammates Bob Gaudet first woman to serve on Nichols School board of 11, 2017. nover with his usual grit and a big smile. Bill Ballard messages come from Dr. Ray Alexanian (Houston), ’81 and Rich Ryerson ’80, who led Dartmouth trustees and chair of the board of AAA Western in —Joseph D. Hayes, P.O. Box 697, Rye Beach, NH also has severe eye problems, with glaucoma, so Al Moses is the author of a fascinat- Howie Van Valzah (Roscoe, Illinois), Hank Waters to consecutive NCAA Frozen Four cham- central New York. She was very active in reunion 03871; [email protected] reading and travel are problematic. Bill is doing ing new book, Bucharest Diary, which (Naples, Florida), Jon Walton (St. Clair Shores, pionships in 1979 and 1980, have been in- and class affairs and named the Marlette Room at reasonably well, along with his partner, Edie, in chronicles his years (1994-97) as U.S. Michigan), Winchell Craig (Bethell, Washington), ducted into the New Hampshire Legends McNutt Hall for her deceased husband. Retired Our 70th reunion held at the Hanover Daytona Beach, Florida. His wit and humor remain 51ambassador to Romania. That period has been Jim Churchill (Mission, Kansas), Alan Smith (In- of Hockey Hall of Fame. Concord native Marine Corps Col. Charles Hammond Bodley died Inn, with the gracious hospitality of as sharp as ever, burnished by his many years in described as central to Romania’s “journey from dialantic, Florida), Doug Corderman (Hamilton, Ryerson played wing in 111 games and reg-
July 11, 2018. He served with the Marine Corps the College for the classes of ’43, ’48, advertising and designing crossword puzzles. darkness to light” following the brutal years of the Virginia), Dr. Bennett Stein (Bernardsville, New istered 29 goals for the College from 1976 48 Eugene Raymond Kelly Alden Fiertz for 30 years, since being part of its V-12 program and ’53, was a grand success. We had a group of died on September 19, Ceausescu regime. Jersey), (Brattleboro, Vermont), and to 1980. Gaudet, now in his 22nd season on campus. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta some 50 people, including 10 alumni, 13 widows, 2017, in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he lived. Al is widely credited with helping to nurture Marcel Durot (Oak Park, Illinois). The messages, as Dartmouth men’s hockey coach, was a and Sphinx. Walter Medley Wingate died July 8, wives, and guests, attending. At our Friday eve- Gene spent most of his career practicing internal Romania’s nascent democratic institutions and reported in detail in our class newsletter, range goaltender as an undergrad, setting a school 2018. He was a pilot with the U.S. Navy for three ning reception and dinner we were entertained by medicine and cardiology in Westfield, New Jer- set the stage for the country’s integration with with family news (all generations), travel, health, record with 2,129 saves in 76 career games. years, and at Dartmouth was a member of Casque the Dartmouth Aires, a very cheerful and accom- sey. After Dartmouth he studied at five universi- the west. His understanding of and affection for reunions, military service, some professional ac- >>> Healthcare industry veteran Gail Koziara & Gauntlet and Psi Epsilon. Joseph Bradley Quig plished group. President Hanlon spoke and expur- ties—Penn, George Washington, Columbia, Johns Romania and Romanians make for engaging read- tivity, and, most of all, connection to and interest Boudreaux ’82 is No. 5 on Fortune magazine’s Jr. died July 18, 2018. Joe was a neighbor of mine gated speech notes are as follows: “A sense of place, Hopkins, and Duke—which must be a class record ing. Al currently serves as the chair of UN Watch in Dartmouth and our class. Note the geographic list of “Most Powerful Women.” Before she who lived on Midchester Avenue in White Plains, a tight-knit community, commitment to the liberal for a nonacademic. Gene is survived by a daughter in Geneva. distribution here. (“Thou ’round the girdled earth became president and CEO of Indianapo- New York, where we both walked to and attended arts, an adventuresome spirit—these are the heart and three sons, including Dr. Christopher Kelly ’88. My last column inadvertently failed to in- they roam, her spell on them remains.”) It is very lis, Indiana-based Anthem, which provides the Post Road Junior High School. At Dartmouth and soul of Dartmouth. Broad knowledge of the Frank Elliot Bateman died on July 17, 2018, clude Mo Monahan in a list of highly decorated ’51s rewarding that we stay in touch. By the time you health insurance to more than 40 million he was varsity catcher for the baseball team. He world, the experience of having done a deep dive near Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, where he lived. who served in Korea following our graduation. I’m read this, the football season will be long gone, but customers, Boudreaux served in leadership was in the Marine Corps V-12 program, and later into one subject, and a suite of timeless, generally After receiving his M.B.A. from Tuck, Frank ran sorry to have omitted Mo’s valiant service. the excitement this fall was impressive and the roles with Aetna and UnitedHealth Group. retired from DuPont. John Horton Smith died Sep- applicable intellectual skills, such as the ability to his family department store in Lexington, Mas- I checked in with members of the ’51 family record even better. Beating Harvard in terrible >>> Brad Ausmus ’91 has been tember 9. He was in the Navy V-12 program, a communicate, critical thinking, a well-developed sachusetts. When mall competition prevailed, living in the southeastern United States following weather in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend named manager of the Los An- member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and served as an creative mind, the ability to work effectively with he operated an interior design firm. He moved to last fall’s catastrophic hurricanes. Some had har- was a memorable experience, for sure. (See also geles Angels, which he served ensign and gunnery officer in the Pacific. others, leadership skills—these are the goals of a New Hampshire in 1970, and renovated several rowing tales to tell, but, fortunately, all emerged Dartmouth at Princeton in the hurricane on No- as special assistant to the GM —John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White liberal arts education. Dartmouth believes that churches. Frank is survived by his wife, Dorothy, unscathed despite widespread damage. Jim Cava- vember 25, 1950. Were you there?) By the way, we last year. Ausmus played 18 Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 these habits of mind are the best preparation to four daughters, and a son. nagh (Tallahassee, Florida) reports many downed had no class event this Homecoming Weekend. major league seasons with (fax); [email protected] lead with creativity and confidence in today’s in- Robert William Belfit Jr. died on August 29, trees and power lines. North Carolinians experi- You didn’t miss anything. We regret to report the four franchises as a catcher creasingly volatile and complex world.” 2018, near Midland, Michigan, where he lived. Bob encing strong winds and flooding included Ruth loss of another classmate, Roy C. Megargel, who and then spent four seasons as I received a note from our 2018 fund At our annual meeting class president Bud received his Ph.D. from Penn State and worked at Ann Southworth (John’s widow) in Wilmington, Ed passed away on September 22, 2018, in Essex, manager of the Detroit Tigers drive chair, Alan Epstein, reporting that Munson advised that we now have only three active Dow Chemical for 29 years. He was an avid golf Isbey (Asheville), Jim Culberson (Asheboro), and Maryland. Stay in touch. from 2014 to 2017. we raised $40,247 from 46 classmates. class members on the executive committee and, player. Bob leaves his wife, Sandy, son Curt, and Betty Sutton (widow of Jack) in Winston-Salem. —William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Ha- >>> Adoption advocate Dan Gisser ’87 has 47 Bill Stout Roughly 40 percent came from class widows. although we are performing all necessary func- daughters Barcie and Kelly. The same was true of (Savannah, Geor- nover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@ received a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award We can certainly thank Joan McCullough, Andy’s tions for an active class and looking forward to our —John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, gia), Chester Cotter (Beauford, South Carolina), aol.com widow, for her efforts in making that happen. mini-reunion next year, we need to consider what Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966- and Doris Lindner (Joe’s widow), who was evacu- from the Congressional Coalition on Adop- Stan Geller made a very generous gift of $100,000 actions should be taken when the class becomes 2943 (fax) ated from Hilton Head. It is fun to reconnect with The years have thinned our ranks, tion Institute. Gisser, who is the father of a to create the Stanley Geller Scholarship Fund. inactive. As we have adequate funds in the trea- these old friends. I had not seen Ruth Ann since lined our faces, and turned our hair, daughter from Vietnam, is on the board of The class thanks you very much. Alan called me sury, it was agreed to cancel future dues require- I will be attempting to be your worthy the early 1960s. And Ed and I cooked up a get- but they have not lessened the joy of Adoption Network Cleveland, an adoption Nev Cham- 53 and foster care organization in Ohio. and the College mailed me information about our ments. If no action is taken, residual funds in the scribe now that good pals together in Chicago, where he regularly attends seeing our classmates and reconnecting with classmate Ralph Warburton. He is being named a treasury would simply go to the College without berlain and Alex Hoffman have left us, meetings of the ophthalmologists association. I them. It was obvious that time had not dimmed >>> Ambika Singh ’07, CEO of Seattle-based 50 fashion rental subscription service Armoire, recipient of the first Malcolm Chase Memorial further recognition to the class of 1948. Our 1948 but I have to warn you that I don’t do much online. would be pleased to provide contact information our spirits. Indeed, it only enhanced those quali- Hockey Award for services of a Rhode Islander to scholarship athlete is funded and requires no ac- But write to me if you would like details on obitu- for classmates interested in reaching out to long- ties, which made this reunion, in a sense, grander has been named to Puget Sound Business the game of hockey. I called Ralph to congratulate tion for perpetuity. It’s a popular program, and aries and I will do my best to mail them to you. lost Dartmouth friends. than all others. It was certainly the happiest that Journal’s “40 Under 40.”
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I can remember. From the time we boarded the health institutions in Ghana. He broke the project lation. He was born February 1937, and was 15 bus to Mount Moosilauke until the last ’53 left into three phases. The first phase entailed gather- years old in September 1952. Lincoln was born in town, our spirits were high as we basked in the ing logistics, “surveying” the land, and recruit- China and lived in San Antonio, Texas, since 1973. light of Dartmouth and shared our stories. The ing. His team partnered with the brain clinic in I have long believed that I was the fifth-youngest evening and dinner at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, addition to other mental health institutions and in the class at matriculation with a December with laughing, singing, and dancing, set the tone traveled across the country to educate itself about 1935 birthday, but was not 100-percent certain. for the weekend. We shared a fun bus ride and the state of recordkeeping in hospitals in general, This has now been supported by a recent listing delicious meal and were introduced to the new and mental health institutions in particular. Since from the alumni relations office of those students lodge. And what a lodge that is! How welcom- coming back to the United States, the team has it believes may be the 10 youngest members of the ing were its gorgeously placed timbers! What an been working to identify which electronic medi- class (the office reminds me that records can be entrée to such a singular weekend! Our Saturday cal records may be most suitable for a platform inaccurate). The list includes No. 2 John K. Van de class meeting was fun, as were the tours, the panel, specifically aimed at Ghana’s healthcare system. Kamp (recently deceased), born February 1936; and the singalong that night. Associate professor We regret the passing of Pete Bullis and Walter No. 3 Roger Tolins (deceased), born January 1936; of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva treated us to a Tumeniuk. No. 4 Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, born January 1936; No. brilliant lecture, “Underground Astronauts: The —Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 6 Alan Levenson (deceased), born December 1935; Search for Early Human Fossils in South Africa.” 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouth No. 7 Herbert J. Dahl (deceased), born November He held our rapt attention as he related his and graphics.com 1935; No. 8 William E. Loyer, born October 1935; others’ efforts to find and identify human and No. 9 Bernard A. Faber (deceased), born October humanoid fossils. Many thanks to chairman Put Friday night’s 41-18 win over Yale on 1935; and No. 10 Frank P. Strong Jr. (deceased), Blodgett and his hardworking committee of Dave October 5 was momentous and I hope born October 1935. I do not think that the 10 old- Halloran, Bob Henderson, Allen Collins, Dick Fleming a portent of the rest of 2018. Let’s re- est members of the class would like to see that in Forest Anderson, 55 and his attendance committee, call in 1953, the fall of our junior year, glued to print, so we’ll skip that. Dick Blum, Peter Bridges, Leo Clancy, Bob Malin, Don radio, we listened to a victory in the same Yale I received official notification that Donald McMichael, George Sarner, Fred Stephens, Bernie Su- Bowl, 32-0. (Dartmouth was 0-5 going into the Francis Hamson and Peter Clinton Lauterbach have dikoff, and, of course, Angela Stafford ’91. We had game.) At zero dark 30 Sunday morning the Dart- passed away. I also got an email from the alumni a great time. Kudos to Ron Lazar and his wondrous mouth Coach buses brought the victors to the inn office thatJohn Koehring has passed and the wife group of agents: 72.4 percent of our classmates corner, and we students poured out of the dorms of Frederick S. Lowry informed Bob Faulkner that contributed to the Dartmouth Fund this year, a and fraternities to greet them with cheers and Fred has passed. As the Barbary Coast jazz band record for reunion classes. And with 130 fewer college songs. Team captain Dave McLaughlin ’54 plays a mournful tune and the procession marches members this year than at the last reunion, we stood on the front bumper and led cheers for the up Main Street, we, the living, all bow our heads gave $100,000 more. Remarkable! Sadly, I must long-awaited victory. Fast forward to the 1980s; in silent tribute. report the loss of our dear classmates David Lewis, Dave was now president of the College and came to I received a batch of limericks that Pharis Kelly McBride Jr., Pete Patterson, Prasong Sukhum, our alumni dinner in Portland, Maine. He fielded Horton penned in honor of the 65th birthday of Lee Tuttle, and Ed Weltman and offer the condo- the usual questions about the state of the institu- his brother, Sherm ’51, who served 10 years on the lences of the class to their families. tion. When asked, “Tell us about John Dickey,” N.H. Supreme Court. I close with one of his poems. —Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam he responded, “President Dickey had a serious There was a big greener named Hort, Valley, NY 10579; (845)603-5066; dartmark@ stroke and was in Dick’s House for a short time. Who would take, time to time, a good snort; gmail.com He wanted a stay there, and we wanted him to, but But lordy alive, Hanover regulations precluded that. However, a He is now 65, Mark Dominguez ’19 writes: “I want few visits from me allowed this exception. One And has found other things better sport. to extend the largest of thanks to the day in that wonderful fall weather, I pushed his —Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; 54class of 1954 for honoring me with the wheelchair to football practice. John’s outfit in- (603) 863-3360; [email protected] title of the 2018 Class of 1954 Dickey Center In- cluded his beloved green-and-white scarf. When tern. Without your generous gift of funding these practice ended the entire team came to the side- Bruce Sloane has been busy working international internships, I would not have been line, put their helmets under their left arms, and to elect a Democrat in Virginia’s Fifth able to embark on what I consider to be one of sang ‘Men of Dartmouth.’ President Dickey cried, District, but still found time to join the most formative and fulfilling journeys of my I cried, and the whole team cried.” 57our celebrated authors, Mike Lasser and Chris Wren, life. Even in Shanghai I found myself surrounded John Braestrup reports on the recent wedding by issuing a new book. Bruce has published two, by friends, fellow Dartmouth students, and an of his eldest son, Paul, and that son Carl is coming in fact: an e-book about his experiences receiving atmosphere that still excites my inspirations to up. John notes that the new $3 billion capital cam- a cochlear implant and Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow, see more of the world. As I write this thank you, paign suggests two things: that we are competing both available through Amazon. I once again find myself on the other side of the with Harvard and Yale and that the Big Green is By the time you read this, Dartmouth will world in Beijing. It is because of the class of 1954’s leaning toward university status. be celebrating its 250th anniversary. It puts our support and the resources of the Dickey Center Tom Roulston’s widow, Lois, writes that she relatively recent 1957 into perspective, for sure. that I am able to visualize a future of confidence worked for professor John Finch during Tom’s Remembering John Sloan Dickey’s promise— and excitement abroad. To be named the Class postgrad year, and truly felt she was a Dartmouth “There is nothing wrong with the world that of 1954 Dickey Center Intern encourages me to ’55 and Smith ’54. Their eldest son, Scott, and better human beings cannot fix”—leads me once 250 YEARS OF DARTMOUTH share my stories more often.” daughter Heather are both Big Green. again to our class website, www.class-57@listserv Osei-Karaki Kingsly ’19, our second Dickey Sadly, we report the passing of Dean Allard, dartmouth.edu, managed by Adam Block. I have These iconic images were commissioned by Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and created by the talented artist Steve Thomas. intern, is a neuroscience major from Ghana. On Paul Andrieni, Chic Gilgore, Ron Campion, Dick Tar- encouraged you to sign on in the last two columns. Framed 18" x 24" in black Arena molding $159.99. Unframed 18" x 24" $29.99. campus he is involved with the African Students gett, and Larry Veator. I do so again today. The website is a kind of mini Association, he is a writer for IvyInspire, and he —John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME “Great Issues” course in itself, with passionate plays intramural soccer. He is passionate about the 04357; (207) 252-7442; [email protected] expressions of all that is dear and important to Order online at DartmouthCoop.com brain and mental health sciences and restructur- us. These guys are not always on the same side ing the healthcare administrations of developing I recently received a call from Lincoln of an issue, but I urge you to tune in and join your Yu SHOP IN THE STORE countries to keep up with the best methods in that got me contemplating the very classmates daring to be better and hoping to fix 21 SOUTH MAIN, HANOVER other parts of the world. As a Dickey intern in fall 56youngest members of the class. For the world. OR ORDER ONLINE 2017, he pursued a project aimed at developing a those who do not know it, Lincoln was the young- And speaking of “Great Issues,” you’ll re- digital patient record-keeping system for mental est person in our class at the time of matricu- member that our class of 1957 endowment fund FIND US ON
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is being mirrored by the class of 1982, extending our commitment another 25 years. Well that mir- roring has now been replicated by the class of 2007. That’s three classes, each 25 years apart. Tom Macy and Mike Smith met with the leadership of the 1982 and 2007 classes to assure that these three funds will keep the world’s great issues a priority for Dartmouth at least 50 years into the future, long after we’re gone. John Sloan Dickey would be proud. It’s fun to know just how personal and meaningful the 1957-1982 connection really is. Fourteen of our classmates had children in Dartmouth’s class of 1982: Don Burkhardt, Tom Donahoe, Grover Farrish, Jim Howe, Byron Krantz, Bill Newman, Bob Ohl, Mal Robinson, Al Rollins, Wendell Smith, Dick Sunderland, Mike Tompkins, Tom Watt, and Chuck Winslow. Sincere wishes for a great and happy new year to all. —John W. Cusick, 251 Sabal Palm Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; [email protected]
Blame it on an uncooperative calen- dar. The October 28 deadline for this 58column falls on the weekend of our Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover, so new news and views from classmates gleaned thereat will have to wait for the next Class Notes column two months hence. Alas. If past is prologue, those of us who couldn’t be there missed a lively Saturday class dinner at the Lyme Inn, arranged by Frank Gould and pre- sided over by John Trimble. Not to mention the pre-Harvard game brunch hosted by Dave Bradley following the class meeting, where Sam Smith and Mike Simberkoff debuted in their respective new jobs of vice president and treasurer. Homecoming postscript from John: The weather was “awful” and the Green “won a squeaker” over Harvard. We have three departures to report since our super 60th reunion in June. One is the tragic death of Bob Gilges and his wife, Carroll, in a flash flood last spring on their way home from a family function in Virginia. Bob retired in 1995 after a distinguished career in management consultancy at KPMG. John Kavanagh sends word of Dan Palant’s passing on August 18, 2018, of complications following a fall at his home in Lexington, Mas- sachusetts. The musically adept Dan was John’s roommate in Hanover and lifelong buddy. His tribute to his pal will appear in the next Sound & Fury newsletter. The most recent death notice from Hanover informs us of Stephen Jay Wilson’s September 6, 2018, passing from causes unknown in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Steve spent his ca- reer in the paper industry, where he served in a series of top-level corporate positions. —Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; [email protected]
A class mini-reunion, orchestrated by Cathy and Al Munro, was held in Hanover on the second weekend of 59 1895 October. Particulars will be recounted on the Students and Friends class website. One of the events of each fall mini- on Stagecoaches reunion is an annual class meeting that includes,
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among other agenda items, a discussion of the ing to Naples, Florida, in 1990, Joe soon became into a class that “makes things happen.” Congratu- about the world as I saw it as a Navy fighter pi- proposed budget for the forthcoming year. Our president of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest lations to all 1961s for a job well done! lot and later as a 747 captain with Northwest class’ revenues consist mostly of receipts from Florida and is looking forward to his 23rd year —Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY Airlines.” Dave has written op-ed pieces for the dues, and disbursements consist of communi- and the 250th anniversary of his favorite institu- 11030; (516)446-3977; [email protected] Minneapolis Star-Tribune from his home in the cations and other administrative expenses and tion. Staying grounded, he drives VIPs in black Lake Minnetonka area in Minnesota, where he contributions to the five student-related projects cars from airports to hotel conventions. In his Honoring Dartmouth’s 250th anni- resides with Mary, his wife of almost 50 years. supported by the class as well as a payment to the spare time he manages the endowment of a faith- versary in 2019, several classmates Dave served as a naval aviator in Guantanamo College under the memorial books program. The based charitable corporation. shared their thoughts about the Col- Bay, Cuba, and in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast Shel Gisser 62John Clark size of both revenues and disbursements is in summarizes his Cuba adventure: lege. put it succinctly: “What I love of North Vietnam. He joined Northwest in 1969. the $20,000-$25,000 range, and the results are “Our trip was an eye-opening experience, hard to most about Dartmouth is the incredible loyalty The Leightons raised three children. Dave can be generally around break-even. call a vacation, but enjoyable and extremely inter- it nurtures to the College and one’s classmates.” reached at [email protected]. Two other matters discussed at the recent esting. We really felt like we were in a throwback Among others, Dick Bragaw and Roger Usborne Charlie and Claire Logan organized a Psi U meeting were the 60th reunion to be held on June to some time and place in the past. It is a place seconded the sentiment, Rog adding “I find it gathering in Roanoke, Virginia, that included Sam 10-13, and the College’s 250th birthday, which that is being held back by its government and amazing that after 60 years there are so many of and Deamie Cabot, Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer, officially occurs on December 13 (the charter economics, as well as the U.S. embargo, which us who are close friends.” Among Peter Knight’s Gerry and Mary Sullivan, John and Althea Hicks, Da- was granted on that day in 1769). On that day in has lasted since the Eisenhower administration. fondest memories is the traditional annual Trip vid and Michele Halstead, Pete Suttmeier, Wick ’62 2019 it is expected that a number of iconic venues If the economic climate changes, along with the to the Sea by canoe initiated by John Ledyard in and Liz Warrick and Skip ’61 and Patsy Kendall. around the globe, including Niagara Falls, the passage of government by the Castro brothers, 1773. The modern tradition began in 1921. Jim The get-together included “wonderful tours and World Trade Center, and the Eiffel Tower, will the dying out of the old wealthy Cubans who fled Young added: “Peter failed to mention that he is guides of the National D-Day Memorial, Thomas be illuminated in green light. to Miami in the 1950s, and a more open-minded the co-holder (with Jon Fairbanks) of the record Jefferson’s second home in Poplar Forest, and the You will be hearing frequently about our U.S. government, Cuba could escape its time warp set in a nonstop, no-holds-barred race in 1960 of Natural Bridge, ” reports Sam Cabot. 60th reunion from co-chairs Chris Cundey and and come into the 21st century.” the 220 miles in 33 hours 50 minutes.” While memories of our 55th last June remain Jim Wooster and about the College’s birthday So, besides Batchelder and myself (Uber and Our peripatetic ex-prez, Alan Rapoport, and vivid, what particularly stands out are individual from the organizers of the various celebrations Lyft), how many of you drive for a living? Arja traveled through northern Italy and Bor- conversations with classmates whom I may have that will occur throughout 2019. —Sid Goldman, 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040- deaux last summer, visiting Mike Howard and Ngila known in passing or might not have known at all in Even though most of us are now long retired 6114; (305) 745-3645; [email protected] in their “spectacular home in a small French vil- our undergraduate years. Two of these encounters from our working careers, accolades for career lage.” “Great wine” was mentioned. They also occurred in front of Baker Library at dinner with “We’ve made so many new friends.” achievements continue. Last June Sam Werner Congratulations to the great class of visited Arja’s native Finland to celebrate her Rich Edelson and wife Judy of Bethesda, Mary- was awarded the Clifford Shull Prize for his 1961 for being awarded Class of the birthday. land, and Doug Bell and wife Michelle of Denver; You will too, as part of a vibrant senior community meticulously contributions to neutron science. Sam, a world 61Year (for all alumni classes out more Speaking of wine: While visiting Jim Blair and both men are physicians, the former a neurologist designed for independent residents only 10 minutes from the leader in the field of neutron interferometry, is a than 25 years) in September for the fiscal year Wendy in upstate New York, New Jersey neighbor and the latter an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and Dartmouth Green. Faculty and alumni say they chose The Woodlands professor emeritus of the University of Missouri ended June 30, 2018. Thirteen class officers (the Dan Tompkins and wife Drew Humphries were throat). Rich, who retired in 2003 after a success- because it is just the right size to have the sense of community they and currently a guest researcher at the National largest representation from any class) were in treated to a 1984 vintage cabernet sauvignon, ful recovery from a serious bike accident, took up Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaith- attendance at Class Officers Weekend in Sep- a 25th-reunion gift from the winery of the late piano, volunteers at a clinic, enjoys his grandchil- value, with the amenities they want all under one roof. ersburg, Maryland. tember when the award was announced at the Jay Fritz. Jim reports: “It was indeed remarkable, dren, and travels. Doug, who also recovered well Recent columns have chronicled marriages College-wide annual alumni class officers dinner. an extraordinary, well-aged bottle.” Toasts were from medical issues, teaches at the University of among classmates and sisters of classmates, We knew that our class had a lot to offer and that rendered “to the class of ’62 and the wonderful Colorado Medical School, bikes long distances, which one of us, perhaps ruing that he came close we were in the hunt, but there were other excel- women who have joined us.” Toujours galant. and indulges his grandchildren. but didn’t quite make the club, calls “class incest.” lent classes also in the running. Hear! Hear! At the 55th I bumped into football vet Frank The most recent column on the subject listed five It would be easy to list the names of the four Mini-reunion co-chairs Mike Schaefer and Ir- Finsthwait, who teaches English and coached such marriages, but omitted the marriage of Dick or five key class officers or even to list all of the win Kramer report attendance at this year’s Home- in Atlanta for more than 40 years, and Vaughn Bareuther’s sister, Jean, to Bill Zebedee. class’ 19 officers (including three spouses) and coming mini-reunion totaled 37 classmates of 65 Skinner, also a football standout and now an avid —Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA possibly a few non-officer classmates who made total attendees. Our thanks to Mike’s significant golfer who lives near Syracuse, New York, and is 02050; (781) 834-7194; [email protected] specific contributions during the year, but that other, Heide Bruegmann, for her tireless contribu- retired from finance. I recently spoke with Ellen would not be doing the class of 1961 justice. Why? tion to the event. Kardon of Weston, Massachusetts, wife of Steve Call Peggy Cooper at 603-443-9575 to schedule your visit. Dudley Smith writes: “Thanks to each Because this award would not and could not have Sadly, Colin Harley reports the passing of Steve Kardon, who died in 2014. A football fan, Ellen classmate who celebrated his 80th been won by our class without the efforts and con- Serlin, M.D., who succumbed to cancer on Sep- alerted me to Dartmouth’s victory over Yale and www.TheWoodlandsNH.org birthday in Key West, Florida, paid tributions from a great many classmates and in tember 13, 2018. Steve practiced obstetrics and 4-0 record in early October. Ellen recounted her 60class dues, gave to the Dartmouth College Fund, some instances from most of our classmates. Our gynecology in the vicinity of Lake George, New precious memories of meeting Steve on a bike trip attended class luncheons, and came to Home- class won the award because we had the statistics, York. We also mourn the passing of Mike Bliss of in France and how later in their marriage they coming. The class of 1960 is the only honorable the creativity, and the cohesiveness, which is the Concord, Massachusetts, on August 31, 2018. For recreated their trip in the Loire Valley. mention for the 2018 Class of the Year Award most important ingredient of them all. Robert many years Mike practiced law in Massachusetts. I regret to report the death of Larry Keyes. out of approximately 45 eligible alumni classes Frost would have been proud of the class of ’61. Roommate Bob Sprafkin remembers Mike as “an —Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY Do you need Are you more than 26 years out of Dartmouth. You should This was the second Class of the Year Award extremely kind and thoughtful person, with a 11201; (917) 541-8162; [email protected] be justifiably proud of the tremendous and sus- for our class in 57 years, but it was our second win great fund of knowledge.” a lawyer? a lawyer, tained support you give to Dartmouth.” during the past four years. Yes, we have won vari- —David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX If you like science fiction, you will Find a but not a Reed Browning writes, “I’m pleased to an- ous special recognition awards throughout the 77554; (775) 870-2354; [email protected] want to watch Steve Kelso’s low-bud- nounce that I’ve just self-published a new murder decades, but only two Class of the Year awards. get movie, Mind Rider, which can Dartmouth alum member of the Dave 64 mystery that further tracks the sleuthing adven- Many classes have never won this award, only a The Best Seat in the House is be viewed on YouTube at Howdy Grace Media. tures of two intrepid senior citizens. Death at the few classes have won the award more than once, Leighton’s first book about the naval Steve started with our class and almost finished in the Dartmouth Reunion is $16.95 a copy; contact browninr@ and even fewer more than twice. Our old and un- 63aviation and airline worlds 1963- until he left during his senior year. As expected, Dartmouth Lawyers kenyon.edu.” usually small class has been referred to as a well- 2001. In the author’s words, “What started as a he got drafted, so he joined the Navy, where he DARTMOUTH John Goyette hosted an 80th birthday party oiled management and participation machine whimsical little coffee table book for folks close stayed for a while before being discharged. He Lawyers Association? for 30 Pinkerton Academy classmates. Pinkerton among Dartmouth alumni classes. to me, turned out to be a significant project and finished his degree at University of Washington LAWYERS is a public-private hybrid with more than 3,500 An unidentified wise person once said that a bigger part of my life than I expected.” Writing in creative writing. He continued his education Association Join today students. Robert Frost taught there. John has there were three types of people: those who make on the book’s website, www.bestseat-leighton. at San Francisco State with a master’s in writ- at remained class president since elected in 1953. things happen, those who watch them happen, and com, Dave explains, “It is 250-plus pages of mus- ing. During his long career he wrote for produc- directory at ASSOCIATION Joe Batchelder and wife Barrie celebrated those who wonder what happened. I am proud to ings and mutterings, anecdotes and bantering, tion companies making educational films and bit.ly/dlafi nd bit.ly/dlajoin his 80th birthday in Key West in August. Retir- say that our class has evolved through the decades interesting facts, beautiful photos, and stories worked for the Washington State Health Depart- Are you a lawyer, but 128 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 129 not a member of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association? Join today at dla.org class notes 1965-1966
ment. Along the way he married Terry, his wife Don Bradley, Linda and Steve Fowler, Marcia and over Harvard in the rain, snow, and sleet in Ha- of 52 years. Terry is retired from a career as a Pete Frederick, Betsy and Mike Gonnerman, Deb- nover on Homecoming Weekend. Among the psychotherapist. They have a daughter and two bie and Jim Griffiths, Nancy and Roger Hanson, many contributors to the win we must, indeed, grandchildren. Their other daughter died in an French and Bob McConnaughey, Emma and John count the class of 1966 mini-reunion contingent. auto accident in 1988. In retirement he writes McGeachie, John Rogers, Carol and Korky Terada, Rain, snow, and sleet notwithstanding, 90 people, and paints. Steve also attended Evergreen State Linda Waterhouse, and Jane and George Wittreich. a class record, attended the Friday pre-bonfire College and studied filmmaking. Steve and Terry The mini kicked off on Thursday evening, October supper and 45 classmates and significant others, live in Olympia, Washington. 11, with a reception and dinner at the Moosilauke another record, the Saturday night dinner at the Michael Marriott writes that the 50th reunion Ravine Lodge. Several of us stayed in the 1965 Norwich Inn. In between, our classmates cheered was a milestone moment for him and for his be- cabin that night. Friday morning Dave and Susan the 11 to victory. loved wife, Claudia. Though he came alone to Beattie, Gonnerman, and I gathered to attempt the The weekend was a team effort. Special ku- the reunion, he and Claudia had spent the pre- mountain. Beattie and Gonnerman took off like dos to mini-reunion chairman Al Keiller, class vious 25 years together working in numerous mountain goats. Sue Beattie would have followed, president Jim Lustenader, and Margo and Paul less-developed countries around the world that but stayed behind to shepherd yours truly through Doscher for hosting the class meeting and pre- were in conflict (i.e., war zones). Michael was a a much easier climb when we discovered that game brunch at their Norwich, Vermont, home. team leader of community-level peace building my reach vastly exceeded my grasp. We returned One of the classmates at the Homecoming and truth and reconciliation projects, and Claudia (limped, in my case) to Etna, New Hampshire, reunion was novelist Stephen Hayes, who’s just was a sought-after consultant in health profes- and Pierce’s, then to Jim and Debbie Griffiths’ published his third book in six years, The Dance sions education. home for a delicious meal, an impressive bonfire, Man, “a Southern novel laced with Southern hu- Once retired, Michael and Claudia decided camaraderie, and songs. mor” available on Amazon and elsewhere. He was to travel to places they had not lived in together. Saturday morning featured a trip through the raised in Delaware, but both of Steve’s parents The top of their list was New York, followed by steam tunnel (remember how the snow melted hailed from Alabama, so he has tapped into his a wonderful visit with friends to Dartmouth, a in a straight line across the Green?). Several of Southern roots in his latest work. couple of fall weeks in Vermont and New Hamp- us stopped on the way to the tailgate lunch at the What accounts for this mid-life creative shire, then other places around the world. Then, a Class of 1965 Galleries, Rauner Library (formerly spurt? “My favorite course at Dartmouth was year ago, Claudia accidentally fell off a wall while Webster Hall), to view a student-curated project, creative writing with professor Noel Perrin,” happily picking figs. She fell four meters onto Coeds and Cohogs: The Struggle Over Female In- Steve explains, “but my writing over the subse- concrete and died in Michael’s arms. Michael tegration at Dartmouth College. Fascinating to quent 45 years was largely confined to reports, spent much of this last year in shock and deep see the College’s 1990s policy on rape and abuse, press releases, and speeches while working in grief, but he has now written a book about life with which would pass for a 2018 policy. Evening fea- and out of the federal government in D.C. Now I’m Claudia because he wants the world to know how tured ’tails and dinner at Pierce’s, followed by the retired and, with more time, the ‘inner novelist’ exceptional this lady who consented to marry him Decibelles. Gonnerman chaired the Sunday class has emerged.” was. Michael writes, “I am like a sailor, who sets meeting, after which we were off to our various As of this summer, Steve and wife Barbara off to cross the ocean with a trusted and beloved haunts. are happily ensconced in their new, down-sized companion. But halfway across the ocean, my Merriam Webster’s Time Traveler website home in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia—a vintage companion dies and my engine fails. I am adrift, notes that these words first appeared in print in 1830 townhouse with a 100-year-old magnolia alone. I do not have the parts to fix the engine 1965: convenience store (wait a minute—what tree in the courtyard. and I cannot navigate alone. I just wait for death about Ethel’s Cut Rate Drugs?), rapid eye move- Speaking of mini-reunions, three of our to claim me. Now I begin the search for a literary ment sleep (which we need plenty of), hippie, most loyal alums and their wives got together in agent and remain ready to return to peace and Black Panther, teeny bopper, and stagflation. And early September in Westport, Connecticut. The reconciliation work.” dudes (1877), unless you shoot me your hot skinny couples—Myra and Hector Motroni, Carol and Dean I encourage writers, film producers, musi- (1957), you are at risk of seeing more of these Spatz, and Kathy and Wayne LoCurto—have much cians, and artists in any medium, or anyone else, nuggets (I have not yet hit “Xerox as a transitive in common. They all knew each other at Dart- to write me so I can share your experiences with verb”). So send me your reflection on Dartmouth’s mouth and have been married 50-plus years, they the class. 250th year…or an update on what you’re up to…or a each have graduate degrees from Dartmouth, and Please note our 55th reunion is scheduled thought on the Dartmouth education of the future. they all have children who graduated from Dart- in Hanover June 10-13 and coincides with the Otherwise, it’s going to be more lexical sundriana. mouth. They also share the experience of cruising College’s 250th anniversary. Details are coming Finally, we have learned with sadness of the on Wayne’s boat across Long Island Sound to their by email. Please put it on your calendar and plan passing of classmates Bob Busch, Jeff North, and mini-reunion lunch in Port Jefferson. to join us for a great occasion. Rob Shretz. Obits will appear on our website, big- In what could be a first, but most likely will —Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, green65.com. not be the last, Jane and Bill Higgin’s granddaugh- California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@ —John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Val- ter, Claire Aube (her mother is Molly Higgins gmail.com ley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@ Aube ’92), will be a member of the Dartmouth comcast.net class of 2023. Claire, a nationally ranked squash About the time you get this, Hanover player, was admitted early as a recruited athlete. will be in the grips of the great north- Happy new year, one and all! Her twin sister, Haley, is going to Stanford. ern winter, as will my not-too-primi- As you read this a few days be- We note with profound sadness the passing 65 John tive Minnesota alcazar. Wherever you are, I hope fore 2019 (that’s no misprint), you of two esteemed, multifaceted classmates: 66 Harbaugh you will settle in, grasp the cup from which co- will know how well the Dartmouth football team , a teacher, musician, rower, and poet; meth relaxation and quiet pleasure, and enjoy this finished the 2018 season. Did they sweep mighty and Kevin Hughes, a banker, skier, woodworker, alumni magazine issue dedicated to Dartmouth’s Princeton, gritty Cornell, and upset-minded and volunteer. More information is available 250th anniversary. You have at your fingertips a Brown to complete an undefeated season? That online. look at what the campus may be like in 50 years, a would be only the sixth perfect record in the 137 Signed up yet for our 75th birthday party in report on how the College went coed, and a gate- years of Dartmouth football (two of those seasons, Newport, Connecticut? Details are on the class fold timeline of Dartmouth highlights. And, of of course, happened while we were undergradu- webpage and newsletter. course, this report on class doings. ates—just saying). Or did the Big Green fall just Start the new year by sharing the latest with The Hanover mini-reunion included Hank CIRCA 1940 short? classmates and friends. Amon, Mahala and Rich Beams, Susan and Dave Dartmouth Outing Club As we write this before Halloween, the Big —Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, Beattie, Sharon and Bob Blake, Marianne and Green is a robust 7-0 and just off a key victory NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; [email protected]
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In celebration of the College’s 250th, As products of the social ferment of don’t make it a priority.” we asked classmates “what aspect/ 1968, it’s no surprise we have a strong Sad news: Paul Boymel died June 30, 2014; Dr. 67ethos of Dartmouth should remain un- 68social commitment with many chal- Peter Godfrey died July 24, 2018; and Don Clausing changed during the next 250 years?” Responses lenging ideas. Here are some responses in our died September 12, 2018. Full obituaries are on the varied considerably. Charlie Hoeveler spoke for 50th reunion essays to the prompt, “How to Make Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website. many: “I hope what never changes are two vital the World a Better Place 50 Years From Now.” —Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe aspects of Dartmouth: maintaining its under- Ponder the full essays at www.dartmouth68.org/ Park, MI 48230; [email protected] graduate orientation and sustaining the highest assets/68-reunion-essays.pdf. level of student satisfaction. There is one com- Peter Temple: “Require American high school We will take another look at the sta- mon thread among virtually all of the various graduates to engage in two years of mandatory tus of our upcoming 50th, remind- grads I’ve met—they each love Dartmouth and national service.” ing you to go to our website, www. Bob Tarr 69 their experience there for four years! May that : “Fairly equal distribution of wealth dartmouth69.org, see who has committed to join not change in the next 250!” Bill White hopes to and opportunities throughout the world.” the festivities, and sign up if you haven’t already. retain “the emphasis on undergraduate educa- Bob Tharinger: “Swing thinking to appre- We still show about 300 classmates who have tion and a love of the out-of-doors: the Second ciation of the common good. De-accentuate the responded, but some of them are saying “maybe” College Grant, the Moosilauke complex, our heart short-term gain, favoring the long-term benefit and we would really like to change those to a solid and soul, with its 4,800-foot peak, soaring vistas, to as many as possible.” “yes” so there will be more friends with whom freshman hikes, Ravine Lodge, and—dare I say— Russ Andrews: “Equality of opportunity: All we can reconnect. Some of them will be friends the ’67 Bunkhouse.” Harry Jaffe more succinctly citizens shall have access to basic but complete from long ago. Remember there is more going on offered this from John Sloan Dickey, “Your busi- healthcare without significant charge.” than just our reunion: Our Class Connections ness here is learning. We will do everything that Rick Thorner: “For the next 50 years to be truly program with the ’19s will allow us to be there for we can to help you,” and this from John Belushi, better than the past, everyone needs to have their their graduation, and the College is celebrating “There’s a lot more to your education than what hard drives erased so that biases around religion, Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary with events and DYNAMIC ASSISTED LIVING goes on in the classroom.” Others, while they loved race, or ethnicity are things of the past.” exhibits we can all enjoy. their Dartmouth experience, expressed worries Bob Bednarz: “A strong liberal-arts-based Dimitri Gerakaris, our class blacksmith and based on social, technical, and climate trends education for all.” finder of worthwhile student-driven projects & MEMORY CARE that what they value about the College might not Wells Chandler: “Compassion, communica- to support, this year proposed the Dartmouth even be around in 250 years. Ed Arnold: “A signifi- tion, and understanding among the people of plan- ski patrol, a student organization that has been IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN cant impetus behind my coming to Dartmouth et Earth to better the common concerns of all.” allied with the College longer than ourselves. in 1963 was its environment, but in the face of Bob Block: “For-profit healthcare is destroy- Both Dimitri and Andy McLane were members WHITE RIVER JUNCTION rapid climate change and the pressure on living ing the nation.” of this organization and can attest to the value it space caused by population growth, it seems un- Tom Stonecipher: “Intelligent, increased so- provides. It patrols all hours of operation, trains likely that Dartmouth will be able to maintain cialization of healthcare and breaking and radi- year-round to maintain medical skills, and does its it.” Don Garni, just back from his annual hardship cally reducing the for-profit aspects of medicine own fundraising for medical equipment, updated stay in France, wishes he was off the grid and and pharmacy.” medical handbooks, and supplies. Upon Dimi- says he’s “going to pass on philosophizing about Ted Bovill: “The two greatest problems tri’s recommendation, the executive committee Dartmouth’s next 250 years.” Tad Campion says, confronting us are the explosion of worldwide unanimously agreed and committed to a $10,000 NOW OPEN! “As for the next 250 years, simply surviving is populations and the current challenges to liberal contribution. As the ski patrol was having its in- an ambitious and optimistic goal. Given what democracy.” tense two-day refresher session, Dimitri attended global warming (not to mention nuclear war) Dave Dibelius: “Find a new planet for us to live the lunch break and, after being given the floor by Come discover The Village at White River Junction, an could do, the state of the planet may no longer on. Eventually our current planet will become the Skiway manager, announced our donation to be able to support healthy societies and luxuries too depleted, polluted, and over-populated and the group. After a stunned silence they erupted Assisted Living and Memory Care community purposefully such as liberal education. So just try to survive, we will have to leave.” into a burst of gratitude. He then asked for ’19s designed to provide a vibrant, arts-rich lifestyle found Dartmouth, and work to convince others to create Dow Stewart: “America’s most severe problem to raise their hands, reminded them we would a survivable world.” One who is doing just that is is its federal government. It is bloated, unrespon- be marching before them at Commencement, only in historic downtown White River Junction. Dick Clapp, who was recently awarded the Har- sive to its citizenry, corrupt, and pernicious to the and noted it is comforting to know the ski patrol vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni society it should be enriching.” would be behind us to tend to any who dropped. From excellent care services to outstanding amenities, Award of Merit, which recognized him for his Pete Wonson: “Take better care of the planet. Look for a recap of Homecoming activities important research contributions, excellence in Place the health of Earth above the corporate in the next edition; however, as a preview we have the Upper Valley’s newest Assisted Living and Memory teaching, and his commitment to service. His profit motive.” learned the town of Hanover is allowing a bonfire citation includes this: “Dr. Clapp puts true mean- Kim Ritchey: “The last 50 years have been this year. Rick Willets reports we will have more Care community offers a quality of life that you or your ing and dignity into public health, serving as an characterized by an increasing distance between than two dozen attendees and a new post-bonfire outstanding example of the engaged academic the haves and the have-nots. We need to bring the gathering spot provided, thanks to the efforts of loved one won’t find anywhere else in the area. The scholar-citizen—a personification of the school’s disparate groups together.” Paul Tuhus. thoroughly modern design is custom-built for those who highest goals.” Tom Maramaa recently published Sarr Blumson: “We need to enlarge our sense The November mini-reunion in Charleston, his book, Reykjavik, spanning the decades since of community. Most of the world’s problems come South Carolina, attracted several classmates from wish to experience a wealth of social and cultural oppor- the 1980s and the summit between Reagan and from a sense of us vs. them.” the area and there will be a report on attendees Gorbachev in 1986. Another great ’67 author, Fred Woody Thompson: “Do away with the Elec- and activities in the next column. tunities, with the added convenience, safety and security Price (writing as “David Hirschberg”), published toral College.” Work on the reunion book continues, and it of a supportive senior living community. My Mother’s Son in May. Noel Augustyn: “A reversal of many decisions was gratifying to receive remembrances of de- Plan to attend the 36th annual Boston din- made by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the parted classmates to be included with their names ner, at the Wellesley College Club on February 2 First and Fourteenth Amendments might pos- in that book. Answering that call to speak up with (contact Curt Anderson, curt.anderson@medical- sibly reverse the decline in our civilization, but memories of friends, roommates, or just class- &$// 72/($51025( billings.com); CarniVail in Vail, Colorado, on Feb- it is probably too late.” mates were several ’69s, including Dan Cooperman, ruary 22-24 (contact John Lobitz, johnlobitz@ Paul Smith: “Create a binding world govern- Alan Lake (who sent memories of four men), Ted :::7+(9,//$*($7:5-&20 gmail.com); and the Washington, D.C., dinner on ment elected by the peoples of the world.” Baehr, Dave Wakelin, Stevan Naylor, Tim Greist, Dona Gates& 7KH9LOODJHDW:KLWH5LYHU-XQFWLRQ8QLIRUP&RQVXPHU'LVFORVXUHIRUPLVDYDLODEOHE\UHTXHVW Dickson March 23 (contact John Isaacs, [email protected]). Marshall Wolff: “It is inexcusable that we have Heller, Bill Berentsen, and several others. We are —Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01338; the means to take a big bite out of hunger and grateful for all the contributions made on behalf [email protected] poverty in this country, much less the world, and of our fallen classmates and for those of you who THE VILLAGE AT WHITE RIVER JUNCTION | 101 CURRIER STREET | WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT 05001 132 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.THEVILLAGEATWRJ.COM | 802.295.7500 | [email protected] class notes 1970-1973
have stepped up to add to their stories. alwaystheresa.com). Save the date for our 50th This column will reach you some- Please continue to send your stories about reunion, June 11-16, 2020. time in the holiday season. That got happenings in your lives to Allen Denison for inclu- —Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; 72me thinking about what we all may sion in our newsletter and to me. [email protected] have been doing in 1968 during our first holiday —Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, break. I asked a random selection of our class- Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@ Classmates, I’m introducing survey mates to tell me about their first holiday. Their outlook.com questions as a new feature in Class stories reveal something about the world we lived Notes. I invite you to respond to these in 50 years ago. 71 Chris Brewster A cold, wet Nor’easter blows outside— survey questions when they appear periodically. remembers: “I took the bus leftover from Hurricane Willa—and I anticipate that your insightful and witty com- from White River Junction to that miserable 70cramps local Halloween parades and ments will add to the reading pleasure of Class Greyhound station in Boston, which bordered celebrations as I write this column for Dart- Notes. As I’m subject to a strict 500-word limit on on the ‘Combat Zone.’ The name alone was suf- mouth’s 250th year. Class Notes published in the DAM, I may not be ficiently scary to keep me inside the station, where Denny Brown says that retirement was not as able to include all of the responses you submit. Not the greatest danger was the sandwiches in the anticipated. Ann Marie and he have survived a to worry. I publish an expanded Class Note on our vending machine. I took a shuttle to Logan and, gypsy year of suitcase living between New Hamp- class website, 1971.dartmouth.org, that accom- after waiting several hours, I took a flight to Chi- shire, Connecticut, Maine, and California, not the panies each of the Class Notes in the DAM. The cago. Twelve hours later, with no sleep, I got on carefree, glorious travel that they had hoped. They expanded Class Note doesn’t have a word limit. the plane to Indianapolis, Indiana, and flew home. are finalizing a move from Hanover to Niantic, Here’s the first survey question: This year and next The whole trip took me close to 24 hours. When Connecticut, to a condo lifestyle near their daugh- almost all of us turn 70. What thoughts have been my parents later booked me a direct flight back ter’s growing family. He retired from Dartmouth in roused by this milestone? Have you been inspired to Boston I didn’t object.” May of 2017 from a career in educational (mostly to develop a new habit (or kick an old one)? Pursue John Collier relates the following: “My parents higher education) fundraising. They are looking a new goal (or abandon an obsolete one)? Or is this had moved to London just after high school gradu- forward to new adventures, progress on the bucket the first time you’ve even thought about it? Send ation, so my freshman break was a trip through list, and rediscovering old friends and classmates your responses or any other personal or class news JFK to Heathrow airport and into the city. It was wherever they can find them. They hope to see to me at [email protected]. a gray, rainy December and my focus became the many friends at the 50th reunion. Reach him at A newswire article recently reported that purchase of a reel-to-reel tape recorder so my [email protected]. Mitchell Wallerstein is stepping down as president parents could record all of the well-cared-for LPs Mitch Wonson was sad to read of the passing of of Baruch College in N.Y.C. Interim chancellor that they could borrow from the library. After Chris Henderson and Robert King from such a small Vita C. Rabinowitz stated in the news article that visiting the local pubs, I came home an enthu- contingent at the (Sigma) Nu lodge. All is well up Mitchell “has been one of CUNY’s most innovative siast for Worthington E, a brew that was a bit in the far reaches of the Northeast Kingdom. He and effective leaders of the past decade. He firmly more intriguing than the Budweiser that was so is still “quasi” gainfully employed as a land-use established Baruch as a renowned driver of social ubiquitous in Richardson Hall.” consultant. Business has been so poor over the and economic mobility. He raised graduation rates Chip Carstensen says, “I definitely remember last decade that, for all intents and purposes, he is and strengthened the faculty.” where I spent Thanksgiving. My dad explained retired, still poor as a church mouse, but happy as Bob Joy has been selected by his peers for that unless I could pay my own way home, I would a lark. Mitch spends a great deal of time outdoors inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2019. need to choose between Christmas and Thanks- on his land along the brook or road walking or Bob is a member of the management committee giving for his one contribution. Since he already putting a mile in on the local lake. He lends a great of Morgan, Brown & Joy. His practice is in employ- paid for all my tuition, books, room and board I deal of help to the Town of Holland/Derby Line, ment and labor law. saw his point. I spent a very lonely Thanksgiving Vermont, as planning commission chair, modera- Numerous class events will take place in weekend in Hanover. I never forgot it and was tor, and Green Up Day coordinator. Cheers, Mitch 2019. In February a mini-reunion dinner will be never so broke again.” ([email protected]). held in Denver. Jim and Yola Rager will host the Jim Borchert offered this: “My December Pete Bradstreet agrees the loss of Chris Hen- annual Naples, Florida, mini-reunion from March break was a trip home to Minnesota to see fam- derson and Bob King is truly sad. They were good 28 to 31. Special activities are being planned to ily and friends and play a little hockey, but it men and good (Sigma Nu) brothers. Pete is in his celebrate our 70th birthday party. There are nu- turned out to include an event that changed my 26th year as a trial judge in New York, elected as a merous attractions to this popular event. March is life. I ran into a good friend who was a Ranger in county judge and then appointed as an acting su- high season in Naples. The weather is sunny with Vietnam. I was in Army ROTC, and I asked him preme court justice. He ages out this year and is at temperatures in the mid 80s. It’s perfect weather what Vietnam was really like. He told me that peace with forced retirement. He has had enough for golf, fishing, and boating. The Everglades are it was ‘an awful bunch of crap.’ He said, ‘I went of murder trials and tragic situations. Pete plans only 25 minutes away if you’re interested in taking over there to help keep the world safe from com- on moving to Kentucky and teaching in a Christian an airboat tour. In May you can join Dartmouth munism, but we’re not doing that. They lied to university in a town where two of my six children students on a canoe trip down the Connecticut us. We’re burning farms and villages and killing and five of my 12 grandkids live. Pure coincidence. River. Pete Webster hosts a dinner event at the everybody; it’s total BS.’ That was the last time I Reach him at [email protected]. end of the trip. Richard Wooster will once again saw him because he came home in a box four to Erick Derrickson reports from Rome, Italy, that host the annual N.Y.C. mini-reunion dinner at the five months later. My conversation with him led he retired from the U.S. State Department as a Yale Club in June. The final summer event will me to question what I thought I knew. Leaving Foreign Service officer in 2011. He married a lovely be the Nantucket, Massachusetts, mini-reunion ROTC then, and withdrawing from the College Italian woman in 2012 and is enjoying the life in from August 25 to 28, hosted by Michael Maynard later, was the start of going down ‘the road not Italy. He says it’s great traveling around the coun- and Ilene Greenberg, Frank and Georgine Anton, taken’ by many.” try to cities large and small, historic and modern, and Alice Reno and Jim Malone. Our class is also Powerful stuff! Let me hear from you. In the with great food, some with beautiful beaches, oth- planning numerous other gatherings to coincide meantime, stay well. ers with hillside views. The challenging politics, with Dartmouth’s scheduled celebrations of its —David Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH economy, and infrastructure of Rome create a 250-year anniversary. My expanded Class Note 03087; [email protected] grim mood, especially for fixed-income Italians, that’s published on our class website, 1971.dart- who aren’t sure how to manage it all. mouth.org. covers additional past events. such as An important year looms! We have two more adoptees in our class. Class Officers Weekend and Homecoming. This year marks the College’s 1988 Please welcome Merrily Gerrish ([email protected]) —Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; 250th anniversary as well as our Commencement Theresa Bennett-Wilkes 73 and (tbennett-wilkes@ [email protected] 45th (46th) reunion June 13-16. Plan to attend!
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Please be sure class officers have current con- At the end of June Ken Cuddeback You all will likely be reading this tact info: www.dartgo.org/update. (There is no retired as the business manager around the year-end holidays. If so, I uniform nomenclature for a 250th, all contend- 74 of the Bement School in Deerfield, 75wish you all a very happy new year and ers—quartermillennial, semiquincentennial, and Massachusetts, a school for children in kin- hope to see you at our 45th in Hanover June 13-16. sestercentennial—are awkward.) With events dergarten through ninth grade. Ken earned an I suspect that our class treasurer, Jeff Sassorossi, nationwide and abroad all year, look for one near M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts would think very kindly of you if you were to pay you. What is one thing you imagine all Dartmouth after Dartmouth and enjoyed a career in market- your class dues well in advance of this blessed graduates share with the four members of the ing, manufacturing, and purchasing roles with event. The dues support the work of our class and first graduating class of 1771? Channing Bete Company Inc., a publisher and go a long way to making the reunion a memorable Tuck ’75 grad David Chemerow was appointed printer, and with American Pen and Paper, before event. effective October 1 to the board of directors of joining Bement 17 years ago. Ken’s wife, Denise, I am sure you will begin to receive numer- RiceBran Technologies. He also is a member of retired from the University of Massachusetts ous mailings about our reunion and the various the board of directors of Dunham’s Athleisure in Amherst in November 2017. He and Denise events. I am not sure I have the energy to plan a Corp., and served for 15 years as a board mem- are looking forward to traveling to new desti- full-blown supported bicycle ride, but I am hope- ber at Playboy Enterprises Inc. David has held nations in the United States and abroad. Ken’s ful of getting my hands on a bike and heading numerous key executive roles in both public and plans also include carpentry, woodworking, and out for a jaunt while I am there. I have to redeem private companies during his distinguished ca- more skiing. Ken will continue to be involved in myself for the failed mini-reunion bike ride ear- reer, garnering significant expertise managing local governance in Deerfield, having served for lier this year. It was anticipated to be such an early-stage growth companies; conducting merg- more than 30 years on the school committee, the amazing event that Kevin McGillicuddy chimed in ers, acquisitions, turnarounds, and divestitures; planning board, and other subcommittees. Ken with, “I’ll notify the Austin City Council. They’ve and developing long-term corporate growth and Denise have a daughter, Rachel, a teacher been depending on the hotel tax revenue.” Let me strategies. in Needham, Massachusetts, who lives with her know if you want to ride in Hanover that weekend, At an October ceremony recognizing Girl family in South Boston. Her two boys are the true maybe we can get a gang together. It is a short ride Scouts of Northern California volunteers, Val joys of Ken’s and Denise’s lives. Ken and Denise over to the Etna Store and I think they sell beer. Armento received the National Level Honor in. also have a son, Seth, who lives in Los Angeles, A recent note from Coleman Tuggle follows: In part, the citation read: “As a troop camping where he works as a freelance cinematographer “I stopped off this summer, for the third or fourth certification trainer for more than 30 years, this while also writing and producing independent time, to visit our classmate and my fellow TriKap honoree teaches outdoor skills so adults and girls film projects. Nick Hunt and his wife in Atlantic, Iowa, where he feel comfortable in the outdoors. She contributes Ken keeps in touch with Herman Laturnau, has a third-generation farm, growing 2,000 acres to the development of outdoor curriculum as a retired from Fred C. Church Insurance and liv- of corn to fatten 2,500 head of cattle (he’s halfway member of the consortium of Girl Scout learn- ing in New Hampshire, and with Bill Fitzpatrick, to Denver, where my daughter lives, so it breaks ing facilitators, which consists of five councils. retired from his career as an architect and living up our trips to visit her). Pretty amazing seeing As long-time co-chair for the destinations com- in Florida. where your food comes from—and where some mittee, her passion for helping girls expand their Tim Lunney retired and spent the past five ’75s ended up (his dad went to Dartmouth as well). horizons through travel is essential. Destina- years caring for his elderly parents in Cape Eliza- I think he’s also planning to be at the reunion.” tions is a wonderful opportunity for older girls beth, Maine. Tim’s parents have now moved into Well there are two reunion-goers! to participate in national and international travel an assisted living facility, and Tim is returning How about those 6-0 footballers! Can they programs.” to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tim noted that his go all the way—or did I just jinx them. Handcrafted Football dominated this fall, (including shut- family’s research into assisted living facilities Vox clamantis in Tejas. outs against Georgetown and Sacred Heart). At uncovered how wonderful some are. He advises —Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX the time of writing, undefeated first place in the families to tour facilities and learn about options 77550; (650) 302-8739; [email protected] Excellence Ivy League and ranked 20th overall! well before elderly or ailing parents must decide Belatedly, the College learned of the 2017 about moving. While in Maine Tim rediscovered The tidal wave of ’76 grandchildren A gift as unique as your death of Joan Snell, eldest classmate and wife of a passion for U.S. history. Tim has followed his has begun. This month I’m reaching professor Laurie Snell. She earned her second father’s footsteps and joined the Sons of the out for good grandparent names. I’m Dartmouth experience 76 Order your personalized gifts bachelor’s degree in 1973. In 2008 Joan shared American Revolution. The local chapter his- not in need yet myself but want to be ready with part of her third-person autobiography with your torian encouraged Tim to conduct research on ’76-level creativity when the time comes. I’ve in- scribe, which includes: “Here it is, Sunday morn- his Revolutionary War ancestor, Elias Taylor. vited a few classmates we haven’t heard from in a simonpearce.com | 800 774 5277 ing. Here she is, under an elm in front of the li- Tim set out to learn all that he could about Elias while to submit Granny-Gramps alternatives they brary, about to graduate. A brass band, on the steps Taylor and was shocked by what he found. Mr. used as kids or are called now. Please email your of the English department wing, plays a fanfare, Taylor and his eldest son both died of smallpox suggestions for the next issue. Of course, being and the two front rows of graduating seniors stand at Fort Ticonderoga in May 1777 and were buried tradition-defying ’76ers, we have glorious outliers up, ready to process toward the platform. Off they in a mass grave with thousands of fellow sol- such as Joe Dempsey, whose two adorable children A Real Estate Team go, and the next two rows stand. Eventually the diers who died in the same epidemic. Mr. Taylor’s (ages 4 and 7) you may have met at reunion last two rows that include her stand. And then go. As widow was left to raise six children by herself year. Joe and his wife, Beverly, served as foster With Proven she walks past the faculty, she sees her husband on the edge of the Maine wilderness. To honor parents in the New Jersey child welfare system Results! grinning at her. Up the steps to the platform, she their service, sacrifice, and memory after more prior to adopting their two and are a wonderful, mustn’t stumble. She’s next. There’s a shuffle. The than 200 years, Tim led a campaign to have the enthusiastic resource for those seeking state care Whether you are selling your fi rst home, president himself comes forward to give her her Manchester, Maine, historical society erect a adoption information. Caroline Ballard, who with vacation home, estate, condominium, degree. He shakes her hand and then kisses her historical marker in September to memorialize her husband has sold their veterinary practice and land or seeking your dream home cheek! On the way back to her chair, she notices Elias Taylor, his son, and their homestead. retired to Vermont, comes by her quirky humor in the picturesque Upper Valley and fellow graduates are staring at her, wide-eyed.” Please remember to mark your calendars naturally. Her grandmother was called “Ogie” surrounding areas we can help. Theater professor and playwright Paul Jack- for our 45th reunion from Thursday, June 13, (short for ogre) and her great-grandmother was Denise Dame, Linde K. McNamara, Barbara Heyl son succumbed to a heart attack in August. through Sunday, June 16, and watch for news “Th’other Nanny.” The ever-effervescent Peter 44 South Main Street, Hanover, NH Obituaries for both Paul and Joan can be about Dartmouth’s upcoming sestercentennial Friedensohn and sparkly wife Pat Hopkins are found at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine. year. aptly known as “Poppop” and “Glamma” to grand- 603.643.4900 [Offi ce] 603.277.0067 [Cell] com/obits. Be safe and send news. sons Robby (5) and Cody (3). Steve Bell reports [email protected] | LindeMac.com —Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA —Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, his newest grandchild, Henry, born in Cambodia, Over 25 Years Experience in Real Estate Sales 94403; [email protected] Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; [email protected] will most likely follow the lead of his older cousin,
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Cara, of Los Angeles, who calls Steve “Papa.” An- called Launch Mode that makes fun of the wacki- other “Papa” is the husband of Lori Radke Bessette, ness of searching for a job. It was spawned from who is “Mimi” to their two sons’ kids born within his work counseling young people prepping for the five days of each other last spring. Lori, a former job market. Find it online through retailers or at obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Rochester, New www.youlaunchu.com. “Whether you’ve applied York, with her husband, an orthopedic surgeon. I for a job, had a job, or lost a job, you’ll get a kick bet those lucky grandkids will grow up sailing in out of it.” Peter Mills is working on a new business the Bessette family sailboat on Lake Ontario. Coke called Track3t that enables companies to track McClure is Father McClure to his congregation precisely their inventory, equipment, and tooling but Grandpa Coke (or sometimes Pepsi!) to his as they move through a factory or warehouse. He 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. loves to bicycle around the Bay Area with his wife, Coke’s thoughtful correspondence detailed his Mary. Mary McDougall is a vice president at Astia, a career chapters, including Presbyterian pastor, social enterprise that provides access to venture stockbroker, and Episcopal priest. For the last capital and networks for women-led ventures. She 10 years he has served congregations in Idaho, attended the forum to meet female entrepreneurs California, Kentucky, and Nebraska. Our new mi- and to recruit male and female alums who wish to ni-reunion chair Jim Beattie (begged, wheedled, help as Astia advisors and Astia Angel investors. whined, and cajoled into service by a cadre of Learn more at www.astia.org. convincers) will be inviting you soon to a mini- Bernie Lambek, who has practiced law in -reunion not to be missed! Get ready for a fabulous Montpelier, Vermont, for the past 26 years, has fiesta to welcome the onslaught of 65th birthdays written a legal mystery titled Uncivil Liberties. as well as Dartmouth’s 250th. We’re enlisting a The story focuses on the circumstances surround- whole new crop of bear-huggers (plus some repeat ing the death of a young and promising gay high champs) to greet you for a weekend of fun, food, school student in a small Vermont town. As the hikes, bikes, shops, spas, and, per your request community deals with her death, issues arise from the last reunion, more time to just catch up about hate speech and free speech, cyberbully- with each other. Meanwhile, treat yourself to our ing and privacy, and religious and sexual freedom. class website updated by tech guru Joe Jasinski. “A splendid legal mystery with savvy political In addition to our Freshman Book and reunion ethics and vivid characters,” writes Howard Nor- photos, there are links to current Dartmouth news man; an “intriguing book, especially for addicts of and sports and, my favorite, a webcam on Baker courtroom drama,” says Simon Mawer. See more Library (www.1976.dartmouth.org). Huge thanks at www.bernielambek.com. to Jim Burns, who has graciously agreed to carry Please mark your calendars right now for on the mighty editorial tradition of Judy Csatari our 65th birthday bash. It will be held on August as newsletter editor. We are so lucky to have so 27-30, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The more many talented and willing classmates! classmates who come, the more fun we will all —Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit have. See you there! 4B, Boston, MA 02108; [email protected] —Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; [email protected]; Eric Edmondson, Signal Jeff Stone and his wife, Susan, re- Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San cently enjoyed a Dartmouth alumni Francisco, CA 94104; [email protected]; travel trip to Uganda. Bushwhacking Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Wash- 77through the aptly named Bwindi Impenetrable ington, DC 20037; [email protected] National Park to reach a troop of mountain goril- las was the highlight of the expedition. Nearly as News from near and far as we celebrate cool were encounters with many primates, daily the 250th birthday of the College on game-watching opportunities (rhinos, lions, el- 78the Hill. ephants, giraffes, birds), climbing to the top of the Four-dozen members of the class of ’78 trav- thunderous Murchison Falls, and a rare meet-up eled to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in October with some very short-statured Batwa people, na- for the dedication of the Class of 1978 Bunkhouse. tive to the Uganda-Congo border. A real draw was The ceremony was the culmination of a signifi- the company of faculty trip leader Nate Dominy, cant fundraising effort (more than $1.1 million) whose commentary added perspective and detail. and volunteer construction blitzes over the Ellen Sen is still an engineer with GE Avia- summer and fall. Class president Barbie Snyder tion, working on helicopter engines, volunteering Martinez served as emcee (and my embedded re- with Girls Inc., a nonprofit promoting “strong, porter!). Charley Wise, who along with Dave Graham smart, and bold” young women through after- co-chaired the bunkhouse steering committee, school mentoring and leadership programs. She related the epic tale of how the bunkhouse came and her husband, Ron, enjoy traveling to visit their to be. He then revealed the donor recognition four kids and two grandkids. Ellen keeps up with board (great work by Nancy Mayer Freedman and her roommate Janet O’Neill Selling. Janet and her others on the design), with the names of more than husband, Tom, are “promoting the works of Luisa 400 ’78s who contributed their time, talent, and Piccarreta, an Italian woman under consideration treasure to the project, and presented the bunk- for canonization by the Catholic Church.” house as a gift to the College. Class vice president John Storella, who practices patent law with Jim Bassett presented former dean Ralph Manuel early-stage biotech companies in Berkeley, Cali- ’58 with a plaque that will hang in the bunkhouse. fornia, met up with classmates at a Dartmouth (Manuel, looking at a 40-year-old picture of him- 1970s Entrepreneurial Forum in San Francisco. Doug self, quipped: “I haven’t changed a bit!”) Barbie Sledding Ireland has created a career-focused card game presented appreciation boards to Dave, Charley,
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and Tim McNamara for their “vision, perseverance, If there is any Dartmouth value that has stuck Shanahan, Meg Blakey, Carol Pelmas and Barbara and leadership in bringing the bunkhouse to frui- with me, it’s that. My understanding of the voice and Curt Flight. Several hours of friendship and tion.” This is an effort by the entire class that we in the wilderness is that it is not about a lone voice conversation left everyone warm and revitalized. can all take pride in! crying out in despair, but is instead about the one Earlier this fall the Flights hosted the wed- An unusual alignment of the stars occurred at in the desert hearing a voice and receiving a call ding of their daughter, Casey, in Sunapee, New a mineral exploration conference held in Sonora, to action. We can stay in the desert or we can get Hampshire. The weekend’s festivities included Mexico, when three ’78s—Dave Jones, Phil Pyle, in the game, engage with our community, and not only a golf tournament, but also a welcome re- and Steve Maynard—were scheduled speakers in serve each other. Thanks, Eleazar (and Isaiah)!” ception complete with “tent activities.” “Alpo” and the same afternoon session. A fourth ’78, John Peggy Epstein Tanner: “Hey, Eleazar, what did Jerry were among those joining the celebration. Interior Design Larson, heckled from the audience. Says Steve: you put in the Kool-Aid that caused the still north Last summer Carol, Meg, and Lisa joined “Tequila ensued.” to be in our hearts and the hill winds in our veins? Monica Knox, Lori Florio, Anne Van Roden, and class- Custom Fabrication Tom Thaler reports that he and his wife, Beth, Who knew a four-year residential college experi- mate-in-spirit Susan Funk ’81 at a mini-reunion recently returned from Thailand, where they took ence could provide a lifetime of friendships, a love hosted by Tom and Margie Gart in Vail, Colorado. Renovations a team of U.S. high school students to the Inter- of the outdoors, a love of learning, and enduring Round-number birthdays, that from the photos national Earth Science Olympiad. “We have been connections. Thank you, Dartmouth, and thank appear to be grossly overstated, provided the the mentors for this program for 12 years. We you to my awesome class of ’79 family!” impetus for hiking, fishing, yoga, and fun in the run a national assessment and invite the most Mark Winkler: “Eleazar, even though you Rockies. Monica traveled from Munich, again Visit our extensive home qualified students to come to a one-week inten- graduated from Yale, you redeemed yourself late winning the award for traveling the furthest, over furnishings showroom. sive in all things earth science-related held at in life by founding Dartmouth. You were 60 at the those who ventured from New York, Seattle, and the University of Vermont. Team USA took first first commencement in 1771. Exactly 200 years Portland, Oregon. place among 37 other countries attending. All of after you died, our class graduated to continue The D recently featured Jeneen ’96 and Andy our students took home gold medals and also did championing your cross-cultural legacy of en- Graham in an article on married couples who met Cheryl Boghosian well in international team events. But the reason lightenment. You’re best known for what you did at Dartmouth. Our new newsletter editor, Bill Interior Designer, ASID we do this is not to win medals for our country. after 60; our promise is, ‘So will we!’ Stay tuned.” Goodspeed, will be following up with a series on It is to address issues such as climate change, What would you tell Eleazar? Please email classmate couples. Please send backstories to Bill sea-level rise, ocean acidification, topsoil loss, your responses to us so we can sprinkle them at [email protected]. “Speed” has Hanover, NH etc. We need to have young earth scientists who throughout our remaining 2019 Class Notes pledged to do his best to fill the very large shoes can not only excel at the science, but also be able columns. of Eric Pfieffer, who did an outstanding job for a 603-643-3727 to collaborate with a team of international peers.” It is with great sadness that we must close decade. Please help him out with news and photos. Inspiring Design When they are not running this project, Tom and by noting the passing of Joe Asch, our devoted Save the dates: Next fall’s Homecoming is gilberteinteriors.com Beth do volunteer work in Haiti as part of the classmate and one of Dartmouth’s most passion- October 11-12. This will be the last one before Vermont Haiti Project. ate, albeit controversial, alums. Our thoughts and our 40th reunion, to take place June 18-21, 2020. Class officer awards:Harriet Travilla Reynolds prayers go out to Joe’s family. His life is memorial- Cathy McGrath and Alex Frank have graciously accepted the Donald C. Smith ’53 Award in Rec- ized at the “In Memory” page on our class website agreed to co-chair. Anyone wishing to assist with ognition of Outstanding Mini-Reunion Program (www.1979.dartmouth.org). the planning should get in contact with Cathy or for Classes 26 years Out and Older. And yours Don’t forget to highlight June 17-21, 2020, in Alex. We are having a contest for our reunion logo truly was named Class Secretary of the Year for your calendars, when we’ll come together for our and slogan. Submit entries by December 31, and the same cohort of classes, an unexpected honor, 40th reunion to celebrate friends here and gone. the winner will receive 40-percent off reunion which I greatly appreciate. Happy New Year! registration fees. Send news. —Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; —Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL —Rick Beyer, 190 Bridge St., #4409, Salem, MA (917) 428-0852; [email protected]; John Cur- 33611; (813) 835-7722; [email protected]; Wade 01970; [email protected] rier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) Herring, 1 Verdell Drive, Savannah, GA 31406; (912) 649-2577; [email protected] 944-1639; [email protected]; Frank It’s about time to close the book on Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; another year and welcome in 2019, Homecoming Weekend kicked off (610) 581-8889; [email protected] 79which marks the 250th anniversary with the alumni parade and bonfire of the founding of Dartmouth. Yearlong cel- on a gorgeous Friday night. Saturday When we started our collective Dart- ebratory events—including this special issue of 80 mouth experience, we were young, morning neither rain nor sleet nor chilly mist of DAM—have been in the planning since 2015 and fall dampened spirits at the tailgate Cathy McGrath 81bright, optimistic, and true. Honest can be found at 250.dartmouth.edu. Juan and co-hosted with the ’79s and ’81s. Those prepared curiosity motivated us. The College, at its ini- I thought we would help bring the 250th to our for the weather headed over to Memorial Field to tiation, resonated the same spirit. With patina, class by asking some ’79s to briefly respond to watch Big Green football defeat Harvard 24-17 transcendent truths remain. We are one. this anniversary-themed question: “If you could for our first home victory over the Johnnies in In an effort to reflect on ties that bind us in talk to our founding father, Eleazar Wheelock, 25 years. Harvard tears continued to fall as both our personal 60th year and the College’s 250th HISTORIC SUMNER MANSION about which aspect of Dartmouth’s ethos is most of our soccer teams and men’s hockey scored vic- year, your class executive committee initiated meaningful or inspirational to you, what would tories, hockey in an overtime thriller. Only a loss an email-based approach named the Big Ques- you tell him?” Here are four sample responses. in field hockey and an upset defeat in women’s tions Series; first one: What moment would you 4 STATION ROAD | HARTLAND, VT Laurie Laidlaw: “Eleazar, thank you for Dart- rugby precluded a clean sweep. re-experience? The response of Linda Gundal was, Considered one of the state’s finest examples of Federal architecture, the SCOTT ROME | Owner/CEO/Agent mouth and the versatile motto you adopted for More than 30 classmates left the chilly fields “Spontaneously a feeling came to mind. I had just generations of students to find meaning in ac- for the rustic and cozy Pierce’s Inn to gather for finished playing an interdormitory water polo mansion was built in 1807 by architect Benjamin Asher for prominent [email protected] cording to their unique personal circumstances. our annual class dinner. Attendees included our game. It was nighttime. I was walking alone across businessman and State Legislator, David Sumner. The mansion has been a O: (802) 295-7525 | C: (603) 560-3411 Vox. Voice. My voice. Our voices. In making my class co-presidents Susan Fagerstrom and Mark the Green back to my dorm, hair still a bit wet, landmark of Vermont for two centuries and has been remarkably restored way in this world and hoping to be a part of making Alperin, Bart Littlefield, Mary Jo and John Wilen, weather cold, crisp, and clear. And a moment of and maintained with no detail spared. The breathtaking entryway and great BRICK & BARN REAL ESTATE GROUP it better, developing, growing, and using my voice Susie ’87 and Todd Pellett, Debbie Leggat, Ken and freshness and belonging overwhelmed me and felt has been an important aspect of the journey. 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with my future husband (class of ’77) at Occom did not sweep every category, there is still more Pond.” Michael Holmes responded that a highlight work to do…. of his college experience was the night he was It was extra-special that Cheryl Bascomb was tapped for Casque & Gauntlet: “We all had our there to welcome all alums back for COW—her little corners, but this felt like campus-wide rec- first as vice president of alumni relations. And ognition. That meant something.” Two members Alumni Council president Tee Lotson was in recalled Moosilauke. Dave Focardi recalls “my Hanover too. Ann Neumeyer was in town for her freshman trip summit was so clear we could see husband’s Dartmouth Medical School reunion. the Green Mountains in Vermont. Though I’ve Philippa Guthrie, Laura Murray Dobbin, Vaune Dugan, had many summits since, none were that clear.” Barb Power, and Sarah Melcher were in Hanover cel- Chip Bettencourt noted the warm post-freshman ebrating 40 years of women’s rugby at Dartmouth. trip feeling of “walking into Moosilauke Ravine We had a meeting with members of the class Lodge.” Jon Herron wrote, “Sitting down to din- of 1957 to discuss our new class project—the Class ner backstage with the Grateful Dead before of 1982 Fund for Great Issues Innovation at the their concert while working as a cook and stage John Sloan Dickey Center for International Un- crew freshman fall.” In terms of further exciting derstanding. The fund will promote extracur- moments, Steve Pignatiello recalls “the day John ricular and co-curricular activities that focus on Rassias asked me to be his teaching assistant identifying, analyzing, and solving the current and in Blois, France, for the spring 1980 term.” We future great issues of the world; instill in Dart- all owe a great debt to our teachers, but there is mouth students a desire to make a difference a special debt Vaughn Halyard owes to recently in the world through a deeper understanding of named chairman of mathematics at Oregon State international issues; and rely on innovation and University Bill Bogley. Apparently, Bill’s assis- reflect grounding in the liberal arts. Dartmouth tance with Math 3 freshman year eliminated the founded the Dickey Center in 1982 and our part- “very good chance I would be graduating this nership with the class of 1957 was serendipitous, week from a community college somewhere in since at our first meeting we realized that most of Wisconsin.” The experience aided Bill also, since the ’57s were 82 years old. Kudos to Robin Shaf- he has earned numerous graduate and under- fert, Cathy Judd-Stein, and David Plekenpol for graduate teaching awards and developed one getting this project off the ground. of the first-in-the-world web-based courses in Finally, 2019 marks the 250th birthday of differential calculus called CalculusQuest. Dartmouth. There will be a series of events this In “give a rouse” news, our co-presidents coming year, culminating in Boston on December Pat Berry and Robert Goldbloom were awarded 13, which is the date when the College charter the 2018 Class President of the Year Award and was issued in 1769. A kickoff event will be held in our very own Lynne Hamel Gaudet was honored Hanover on January 10. Go to 250.dartmouth.edu at Homecoming as an Alumni Award winner. for more information. In honor of Dartmouth’s Bob Gaudet was inducted into the New Hamp- sestercentennial, I will close this column with shire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame just a few two questions for you. What is one thing that you weeks earlier. imagine all Dartmouth graduates share with the Stay tuned for the next installment ques- four members of that first graduating class in tion for our Big Questions Series, and respond as 1771? And, if you had the chance to give founder many times as you wish or write to us spontane- Eleazar Wheelock a one-hour tour of the campus ously. Long live the inspired. today, where would you take him? —Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Uti- Happy holidays and happy new year! ca, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@ —David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los An- gmail.com; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista geles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Jennifer Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864- Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave. NW, Washington, 4491; [email protected] DC 20016; [email protected]
“And the 2018 Reunion Class of the Whether you adhere to traditions or Year is the great class of 1982.” Those find them maddening, you’ll probably 82words and the following shouts of 83agree that Dartmouth has many, as do joy made this year’s Class Officers Weekend some of our classmates. Shortly after graduating, (COW) especially sweet. The annual gathering a group of our classmates established a tradi- of all class officers took place in Hanover at the tion of getting together regularly for dinner and end of September among beautiful fall weather. a movie. Among the regulars were Bob Gray, Bob Danny Black led our contingent of class leaders, Dinan, Barb Dinan, Bob Blum, Caryn “C.C.” Ginsberg, including Robin Shaffert, David Plekenpol, Matt Walter Foster, Anne Marie Healey, and James McKim Hoffman, Carol Davis, Betsy Leggat, Mike Berg, Jon (yes, an eclectic crowd). With family and work Baker, Steve Berger and me. Our record-breaking commitments and relocations, the get-togethers 35th reunion attendance in June was a key factor became less frequent through the years, but the in winning our sixth Class of the Year Award. We group still keeps in touch and the friendships immediately texted Mary Thomson Renner and endure. Anne Marie Healey and James McKim Cathy Judd-Stein, who were instrumental in lead- got together with Bob Gray in Reading, Mas- ing us to this triumph. sachusetts, shortly after Bob’s mother, Sandra, David Plekenpol also won Treasurer of the passed away last month. Bob works at the family Year—for the third time. And Ralph McDevitt, Sally 2010 company, Cushman & Marden. Anne Marie is McCoy, and Al Dotson won Gift Planning Chairs Flag Football project manager of the project on race and gender of the Year. It was an ’82 lovefest. But since we in science and medicine at the Harvard Univer-
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FREEDOM sity Hutchins Center. She and her husband live in Somerville, Massachusetts, and recently be- came empty-nesters when their son, Liam, left to enjoy each day for college in Georgia. After a stint at Hewlett Packard, James McKim is advising startups on to the fullest! organizational development and infrastructure. He and his wife live in Goffstown, New Hamp- shire. Similarly, after Dan Scherman accepted a position with financial advisors Waddell & Reed in Kansas City, Kansas, two years ago, he and Art Blackman began hosting micro-reunions for ’83s Live the lifestyle you choose with the at Art’s home in Mission Hills, Kansas. Accord- peace of mind that comes with living ing to Dan, a strong affinity for premium cigars and fine wine is a plus, but any “son of a gun for in a Lifecare community. Freedom is an beer” is okay too. Likewise, Elliot Stultz and Dina important concept at Kendal at Hanover, Baker Smallman meet in Palm Springs, California, each October for a long weekend of mid-century t modern, swapping the granite of New Hampshire for the desert sun. Closer to the “lone pine above with an array of services to set you free—free from worry her,” James McKim enjoyed two micro-miniature reunions when he had coffee recently with John about the chores...about the weather...about the future. Flanders. John is chief of operations at the N.H. Learn more, visit our website or call to schedule a tour. Community Loan Fund and on the forefront of business startup programs. He too will become KAH.Kendal.org | 603-643-8900 an empty-nester in the spring. Hours later, James ran into Rob Hirschfeld, also an empty-nester (see
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Dickey for help. Keith was a Latin major. Or a on a picture-perfect day at Allison’s farm in Nor- ting his master’s at University of Illinois with 1, so watch the newsletter and your email for call for book suggestions, here is a wide range of introducing me to my husband, Tim!” Susan Allen classics major. Definitely one of those. He has wich, Vermont. Surrounded by many of their plans to teach high school band. Jeanne’s life news of ’87 events in Hanover that weekend. additional selections. Adam Rabiner wrote that Cera: “The Perry family, my next-door neighbors a Ph.D. in classical archaeology. He’s also been adoring family and friends, including ’85s Jen- story is “warmth, cold, loss, bliss, struggle, fam- Here is more good news from Washington, he enjoyed two books that were companions of a growing up. Father was Fred Perry. Three boys to Greece. I figured I would write the column, nifer Archibald Williams, Valerie Hartman, Dr. Ali- ily.” Jeff Houseshares that his twin daughters D.C.: The Congressional Coalition on Adoption sort: Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, fol- all went to Dartmouth in the late 1970s and early Keith would sprinkle in some Latin phrases, and, son Cooper Phillips, and yours truly, the limitless graduated from Dartmouth. Sydney graduated Institute honored Dan Gisser in September as a lowed by War of Two, written by John Sedgwick, 1980s.” Catherine Baggia Duwan: “I applied early ipso facto, we’re all set. So I proceeded to look energy of the mother of the groom kept the dance cum laude with a double major in economics and recipient of a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award, which is about the long-running rivalry between decision because I saw a picture of Charlie Win- him up. It seems that Keith works for Michigan floor rocking under a star-filled sky. Meanwhile, government and is starting a consulting firm job which recognizes people and organizations that Hamilton and Aaron Burr, as illuminated by cor- slow ’82 on the cover of a Men of the Ivy League Medicine. It sounds like a great job and it’s a very Alison Phillips used the reception as training in Boston. Ashley graduated with an economics have made extraordinary contributions on behalf respondence between Hamilton and the author’s calendar. Never met him, but his brother, Jon impressive website, but I don’t think Keith has for the Lake George Half Ironman. Proving she degree with post-baccalaureate plans for medi- of children in need of families. Dan is a board ancestor. Perfect for you history majors! Paul Winslow ’87, married Nellie Huang!” a job that uses very much Latin. Also, I’m pretty is truly an Ironwoman, Alison finished first in cal school. Jeff’s life story is “K.C., Dartmouth, member at Adoption Network Cleveland, a non- Blackburn, who lives in Hood River, Oregon, said Karyn Olivier wrote, “Things are super hec- sure Keith’s pictured on the website wearing a her age group at the Labor Day Weekend event. travel, family, consulting, golf.” Gina Cannon’s life profit adoption and foster care organization in he loved the latest Stephen King novel 11/23/63, tic here, but great! I am an associate professor tie that he “borrowed” from me in 1982. Decided Speaking of doctors and sports, radiologist story is “New Hampshire, husband, daughter, Ohio. As parents of a daughter from Vietnam, and also is still pondering a novel he read long and program head of the sculpture department to avoid the awkward conversation. Dr. Kathleen Buckley continues accumulating Labrador, retired, joy.” Kendall Burney Wilson’s Dan and his wife have worked to ensure that she ago, The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in What about our classmates who became hardware on the paddle tennis courts, trans- life story is “exciting, unexpected, challenging, is connected with her birth family. Dan attended Roberta Millstein recommends Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Philadelphia. I was awarded the Rome Prize, an real teachers? They might be able to help. Af- ferring her tennis-playing skills to the outdoor blessed, beautiful, full.” Jeffrey Morrison’s life in the ceremony in Washington, D.C., and not only book, Between the World and Me, which she said 11-month fellowship at the American Academy ter all, teachers know Latin. This could be the winter sport. And Jennifer Gabler has dominated seven words: “Just completed 30 years teaching met with members of Congress and senators is styled as a letter from the author to his teen- in Rome. My work often intersects and collapses solution to my problem, without having to in- the worldwide squash courts, amassing numer- at GFA.” I had to look up Greens Farms Academy, the “chaotic” day before the Kavanaugh-Blasey age son and helped her more fully understand multiple histories with present-day narratives. teract with the tie-stealer. I quickly looked up ous victories and honors along the way, as well and found a school newsletter with photos of Jeff Ford confirmation hearings, but was also able the impact of structural racism. Roberta also (I’ve completed two public works this past year Beth McGee, who teaches at Thetford (Vermont) as supporting and promoting youth squash pro- from 30 years ago and recently. André Cramblit to squeeze in a visit with Baltimore resident Jim enjoyed recently re-reading Margaret Atwood’s that engage these complex histories—The Battle Elementary School. This seemed promising. Un- grams. Jenny is not a doctor but her husband, writes, “New job: Native cultural resource spe- Goodrich. Jim impressively stays in touch with Cat’s Eye, which she had read at Dartmouth and is Joined in Vernon Park in Philadelphia and fortunately, Beth teaches art and theater. Unless Stephen Bloch ’84, was a radiology resident at cialist.” Liz McClintock’s life story is “Joy from quite a few ’87s: This summer he had a nostal- she said is an “unblinking depiction of the com- Witness at the University of Kentucky.) Rome is Beth is teaching the students to make statues Mass General with Kathleen. Yes, the world family, friends, and negotiation adventures.” gic dinner at Jesse’s with Peter DeLong and a plexity of girls’ friendships.” Jennifer Arlin tells the ultimate site to continue this investigation without arms, I realized that she would not be is small. So small that at a women’s collegiate Patrick Donovan writes, “Well, I have some news. visit with Janet (Mailing) Wittenberg in her New me she expects to curl up with a lot of books this into multiple and conflicting histories. The end much help in the Latin department. Also, Beth lacrosse tournament in Cambridge, Massachu- On May 8 I was sworn in as the 109th associate Hampshire home. “Janet helped me decipher my winter, but, instead of novels, they will be related goal is to fabricate artworks that are in dialogue recently wrote a moving essay about her rela- setts, this past fall, Linda Cooper Marshall (cheer- justice of the N.H. Supreme Court. After 28 years own handwriting in letters I had written to her to the history of the Germanic language family. with my researched public artworks and sites. I tionship to the College, which is posted on our ing in the stands for Big Green daughter Claire of practicing law as a state homicide prosecutor while I was in the Peace Corps 30 years ago,” Jim That is because she started a Ph.D. program in am still very much in touch with Anita Hamilton class Facebook page. Unlike this column, Beth’s ’21) had occasion to catch up with relatively new and private practitioner, I closed my practice said. “My 23-year-old self sounded a lot like me linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in in N.Y.C., Donielle Howard, Adriane Harris, and, of essay has a point and is largely true. Well, to each Boston resident Valerie Hartman (oldest son, for a spot on New Hampshire’s highest court. now. I am not entirely sure what to make of that!” August. With two children in college and one course, my twin, Karla Olivier!” their own, or, as they say in Latin, suum cuique. Charlie ’19) and reconnected with Donna Fraser My four kids are proud and my wife seems to David Toll also has an impressive accom- having graduated from college, Jennifer reports Colette Ellis writes, “My coaching business, On to Pam Ross. Pam molds impressionable Gourdeau (oldest son, John ’21). Then all three of be taking it in stride, but she refuses to call me plishment to report: self-publication of his first it was a perfect time for this new challenge. She InStepConsults, is my primary focus these days. minds as a fourth-grade teacher at the Oyster- these senior-year roommates spotted Dr. Buck- Justice Patrick.” John Menides writes, “Moved on book, A Cartoon Lover’s Guide to Private Equity. and Sam Braverman now split their time between Now living in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.C. Happy Adams Bilingual School, which is located in ley, even though Kathleen was on the opposite and not looking back.” Marie Longo writes: “I am After his experiences with drawing magazine Philadelphia and New York, where Sam contin- times this summer were times I made it out to Washington, D.C. This could be perfect. Emo- side of the stands cheering on daughter Olivia the chief advancement officer at the Walnut Hill cartoons and designing private equity training, ues with his active law practice. Now that you Rockaway Beach. I went up to Dartmouth last tionally, I am often compared to a fourth-grader. Gill (Harvard ’22). Seems Kathleen and husband School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, a “I figured I could combine the two into a private have plenty of material for your reading lists this July when I was invited to speak for the Young Not always favorably. Anyway, Pam was very Tom’s two children have both followed their dad private arts boarding high school where I also equity primer that serves as a vehicle for my winter, I want to conclude with two important African Leaders Initiative Mandela Washington helpful. She pointed out sestercentennial is not to the dark side—crimson. advise students.” Here’s her six-word life story, cartoons,” David said. The book is available for pieces of information from the Class Officers Fellows Program that the College hosts every the best word choice for this auspicious event. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has re- “former theater nerd fundraising for same.” Jim free download at www.privateequitycartoon. Weekend I attended in September. The first is year.” There are far better words, according to Pam. cently acquired one of four seasonal self-por- Citron wrote, “travels, Mexico, finds love at 52.” com, and you can order hard copies by contacting that our own Ann Jackman was awarded Newslet- Julia Powell O’Brien writes, “We had a great Sure, other schools have already used the ever traits, Fall: Artist Eats Pho 2011, by Daniel Hey- This next six-word life story made me laugh. David at [email protected]. All after-tax ter Editor of the Year for her extremely well-done Hartford mini-reunion with Kerry Kiesel Jones, popular semiquincentennial and bicenquinqua- man. An etching made on nine copper plates, it Celeste Boatwright Grace: “Armpit deep in a horse’s profits go to the Robert Toigo Foundation, an work that truly helps bring this class together. Catherine Baggia Duwan, Mike Blechner, Jason Lobo, genary. However, the best Latin word for 250 of is available to see in the museum’s print study rectum.” Peter Arnold poses a slightly different organization that encourages women and mi- Kudos to you, Ann! The second is that, with the and Russell Wolf. I am in touch with Jen Large all, quarter millennial, is still available. That’s it! room. With all due respect to the Hobbs’ family question: “Can you tell our class history in six norities to pursue careers in finance. College celebrating its 250th birthday in 2019, Bowman, Gesine Albrecht, Nicole Moser, Bridget We should all urge the College to change sester- trifecta, a single piece of art acquired by the Met words? Answer: There is no ‘0’ in ’86.” Laura Gil- David still gets together with fellow New there will be events all year long providing great Fawcett, Mary Kay Caricato, Laurie Sammis, Martha centennial to quarter millennial before it’s too is pretty darn awesome. Daniel sends a special lespie writes, “Without a map, made it home.” Jersey resident (and law school classmate of opportunities for us to gather with fellow ’88s, to Boss Bennett, Heidi Briggs Buonanno, Kate Enroth, late. Imagine, if successful, we would all finally shout-out to all who have helped and inspired From Vermont, Alice Rudd Elder and Brooks Elder mine) John Ashbrook. David joked that, “In 31 rekindle old friendships, and to make new ones. and Jen Block Cromheecke. My husband and I become millennials, if only fractionally. him along the way. Let us all give a rouse back quote Paul Simon for their life story: “Still crazy years I’ve never had a mention in Class Notes, but I look forward to seeing you! have lived in West Hartford, Connecticut, for 22 —Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT to Daniel. after all these years.” Bonnie (Austin) Cluxton’s I thought I’d give it a shot!” You, too, can see your —Victoria Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West years and we have three great kids. I am the VP 06525; (203) 710-7933; [email protected]; Until our next column update, send us your life story is “a life of family, friends, love.” Keith name in print by simply sending me an email Hartford, CT 06119; [email protected] and general counsel at BL Cos. and it continues Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, news—we will print it here. Noyes writes from China, “graduated, married, with your news. to be a lot of fun.” NY 13104; [email protected] All the best to all of you! two kids, rock on.” In beauty, it is finished. —Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA The year 2019—our 30th reunion On a sad note, I regret to inform everyone —Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Green- —Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del 94121; [email protected] and the 250th anniversary of the Col- that Chesley Adler passed away September 21, Speaking of freshmen, you are no wich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@ Mar, CA 92625; [email protected] lege—coincidence? Reunion is June 2018. Chesley will be remembered for her spirit, John MacManus 89 Ken Horton, Shannon doubt familiar with the term “tri- yahoo.com; , 188 Ringwood Road, Greetings, fellow ’88s! As you receive 13-16, and reunion co-chairs humor, passion, and grace. We will honor and 85 fecta,” describing a horse-racing bet Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@ In 2019 Dartmouth is celebrating the this issue of the alumni magazine, it Reid, and Meg Wade are asking everyone to save celebrate Chesley and our other classmates who challenging the gambler to select the first-, sec- aol.com 250th anniversary of the signing of its 88 is likely cold or wet or dark or all of the dates. Details are on our class of ’89 Face- are no longer with us at our reunion in June. ond-, and third-place finishers in the correct or- charter, with a year’s worth of events the above, at least for most of us in Northern book page and our ’89 class website (www.1989. It’s sad to write in this column about two Neil Maher 87 Melinda Harrington der. Quite an accomplishment, and a big payday writes: “Dear fellow ’86s, reflecting on Dartmouth’s past and future. The Hemisphere (yes, I see you, dartmouth.org). classmates passing in the same year. I urge you for anyone able to achieve it. We are broadening while many of your children have grand kickoff happens on January 12, “Green- Fenton-Smith, basking in Australia’s summer In this issue you see the 25 most influential to reach out now to connect—or reconnect—with the use of the word for this column to highlight either heard from their colleges of lighting Day,” when Niagara Falls, One World right now, and you too, Bob Yee, living in always Dartmouth alumni as voted by the faculty. But your fellow ’89s. Beth Gilman Hobbs and husband Bill’s parental 86choice or are waiting for April decisions, my Tower in N.Y.C., and other locations around the sunny Hawaii), so this column is devoted to help- who were your most influential alumni? Steve —Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo trifecta, having matriculated their oldest—trip- oldest son is heading off to…kindergarten next world will be lit green. If you are in a “greenlit” ing you find a great book to read while curled Blank: “Ted Geisel ’25, Bob Keeshan ’42 (a.k.a. Beach, CA 90278; [email protected] lets Elizabeth, Henry, and Will—with the class year. And I have another boy who will be join- location, post a photo on our Facebook page! On up by a warm fire on a wintry afternoon. Two Captain Kangaroo), and Fred Rogers ’50.” Himraj of 2022. Does that mean Beth now gets three ing him two years from now in school! So next January 31 former U.S. solicitor general Greg of my recent favorites were Bill Gifford’s Spring Dang: “Mike Colby ’84. We share a deep common On the Saturday night of Home- “DP”s after her ’85? Beth’s youngest son, Sam, fall, when you’re dropping off your freshman, Garre and former acting U.S. solicitor general Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), interest in environmental economics.” Lenora coming Weekend, about 40 ’90s is currently a high school senior. Can you say remember to send some energy my way—I’m (and my husband’s law school housemate and which was fascinating and funny, and Matthew Inez Brown: “Jerry Zaks ’67. Knowing his the- and several spouses gathered at the Jeanne and John Clark Lansburgh 90 “quadfecta”? going to need it.” ’s daughter, friend) Neal Katyal ’91 will reenact the Dart- ’s award-winning short story collec- ater background made it all the more possible.” Hanover Inn for ’tails and dinner to celebrate Last August witnessed the wedding of the Lisa, graduated summa cum laude from Franklin mouth College case before the U.S. Supreme tion, Outside Is The Ocean, which was poignant Heidi Reich: “My answer is always Jeff Hoover our 50th birthdays. Highlights included a brief eldest son of Allison Shutz Moskow, Zac ’14, to & Marshall, where she was also a member of its Court in Washington, D.C. Greg and Neal will and powerful. I highly recommend both. And, ’88.” Maryann Mungovan Murphy: “My brother, performance by Noah Drazen ’21 and his fellow Rebekah Hamil. The happy couple tied the knot Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Their son, Joe, is get- reprise the reenactment at Dartmouth on March with thanks to our classmates who answered my John Mungovan ’86, and Dan Driscoll ’86, for Dartmouth Aires—and, because Noah’s daddy
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Brad Drazen and I made it a condition of the gig, —Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA we got to perform with them! (Cue Glory Days.) 02493; [email protected] During the dinner Cheryl Shepherd and Brad (who co-organized the event) delivered an informal When this issue reaches you, we will speech on what turning 50 means to all of us. be on the cusp of the 250th anniver- At times hilarious and poignant, they brilliantly 91 sary of the founding of Dartmouth captured our collective mindset at this juncture College. The year 2019 will be full of celebrations in our lives—gratitude for joyful moments and re- dedicated to “honoring our past, inspiring our lationships that have endured, sorrow for dreams future.” All of the activities are at 250.dartmouth. and loved ones lost, the evolution of our defini- edu, but I want to draw the attention of the class tion of “success,” the myriad, difficult challenges of 1991 to March 1-2. If you can make it to Ha- that 50-year-olds such as us are facing right now, nover, plan to attend the Dartmouth College Case and the special meaning that Dartmouth College Symposium, as our own Neal Katyal will be part retains in our lives. of a group of attorneys, judges, and distinguished After dinner Jay Davis, director of First Year alumni reenacting the oral arguments from the Student Enrichment Program (FYSEP), gave Supreme Court case Trustees of Dartmouth Col- us an overview of this remarkable program he lege v. Woodward. Tom Burack ’82 will perform directs at Dartmouth—and which our class sup- Daniel Webster’s famous peroration: “It is, sir, ports through class dues. (FYSEP’s website sum- as I have said, a small college. And yet there are marizes it well: “Through one-on-one mentor- those who love it.” The event is open to the entire mentee meetings, social events, retreats, and Dartmouth community. workshops, FYSEP students learn the mechanics Your class officers had a productive call in of a successful Dartmouth experience while forg- October, and one of the items we discussed was ing a strong peer network that will continue even publishing a few paper (snail mail) newsletters in after graduation.”) And then Jay introduced two 2019. Cindy Greene has agreed to take the helm for ’21s, both the first in their families to attend col- the winter 2019 newsletter, and will be collect- lege, who took turns eloquently explaining the ing any photos, stories, or news you have at this positive impact of FYSEP in their lives during email address: [email protected]. their first-year-plus at Dartmouth. The dinner We’d love to hear if you have any plans (big or concluded with a rousing rendition of “Happy small) for your 50th birthday or if you have seen Birthday” (to Jay Davis and the rest of us). To all any fellow ’91s lately! On the call we also made of you who attended, thank you for making the plans to celebrate our collective 50th birthday trip! And to all of you who couldn’t make it, we in Hanover at Homecoming next fall. So, another missed you, but you were there in spirit! item to add to your calendar: October 10-11. Plan Now, here is Part III of your responses to to attend, celebrate with classmates, and root “What are your salient memories of your fresh- against Yale! man trip?” (Part IV still to come.) Kathy Heafey: Other big Dartmouth news is the “auda- “My memory of canoeing is a little different than cious” Call to Lead campaign that kicked off Elizabeth Allen Edgar’s [in the July/August issue this year. President Hanlon and his team came of DAM]. Being a ‘suburban pool child’ raised to Stamford, Connecticut, in October, and I was by city-kid parents, I had never taken a hike able to attend the exciting event. The evening and was devoid of any outdoor skills. Since I included a poignant video of Dartmouth’s his- was a lifeguard, it seemed I could make the cut tory, presentations by recent graduates and their for a canoeing trip: so 105F it was! As it turned professors, and a reception that featured scenes out (and as Martin Short might say), I was not of some of Dartmouth’s iconic buildings, a Win- such a strong paddler. We canoed for miles and ter Carnival-themed photo booth, and superb miles each day (and portaged too!). I am eternally food (including reasonable facsimiles of mini grateful to Mike ‘Spider’ Lee for picking up my EBAs chicken sandwiches)! A few photos from slack. Our route was not linked with cabins, so the event are on our class Facebook page. Class we slept sans tents in the great wide open (and of ’91s in attendance included Julie Grace Burke, woke up one morning surrounded by cows!). The Mike Lazar, Sara Burbine Potter, and Deb Van Winkle see-your-breath-kind-of-cold at night had us Dulsky. I encourage you all to attend the Call to huddling close in our sleeping bags. Hysterically, Lead programs in 2019 if you live near any of my lifeguarding skills ended up being relevant. these cities: Palo Alto, California, February 7; We had a last-minute addition to our trip—Maz, a Washington, D.C., March 27; New York City, April new grad student from Pakistan who mistakenly 2; Dallas, April 8; Houston, April 10; Denver, May arrived in Hanover weeks before his classes were 7; Hanover, May 17. to begin. His joie de vivre was infectious, but his In other news, our classmate and my “new swimming skills were non-existent. (Thankfully, dorm” (a.k.a. East Wheelock cluster) friend Brad I did not need to make a rescue!) After gradua- Ausmus was named the new manager of the Los tion Spider and I each landed in Chicago and Angeles Angels baseball team. ESPN quoted Brad lived blocks apart in Lincoln Park. In line for a as saying, “I’m very excited to have an opportu- beer at an epic party at an apartment he shared nity to lead a club like this with so many great with Les Morant ’89 and Michael Keller, I met my players.” Brad was drafted by the Yankees in June now-husband. In turn, Spider married a child- of 1987, right before coming to Dartmouth. He hood friend of mine. And, happily, I see another was able to play in the minor leagues during his trip-mate, Sarah Fjelstul, at least once a month, terms away from Dartmouth. Congrats to Brad! 2013 as we have been in the same book club for more In keeping with the College’s 250th theme, Homecoming than 20 years.” here’s a question for all of you: Daniel Webster,
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BRIDGE class of 1801, said, “It is, sir, as I have said, a include a five-year run from 2004 through 2008 small college. And yet there are those who love under the tutelage of the late Michael McGean it.” What do you love most about Dartmouth? ’49 (whom they continue to honor) and his Please email your responses to me at the address daughter, Loren McGean ’92.” Their Future below. I’ll publish them in an upcoming column! Check out our latest newsletter (1992. Happy holidays and happy new year! dartmouth.org) for additional classmate news, —Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, photos from Class Officers Weekend and Home- CT 06824; [email protected] coming, and more. Speaking of which: In an email promoting It’s truly an honor to wish Dartmouth its Homecoming issue, America’s oldest college a happy sestercentennial! newspaper claimed the class of 1992 bonfire 92 For the next column I’ll be “failed to light at all.” The article went on to say reaching out to you to ask: Which ’92 has influ- our fire did not “burn.” Always looking out for the enced you the most? This time I’ll tell you about interests of our class, I wrote in their comments more classmates who have been featured in the section (thedartmouth.com): “Setting the record media for their achievements. straight: The class of 1992 bonfire didn’t ‘fail to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education reported light at all,’ as your email stated. It did burn—it Tuck Business Bridge is a total that the National Humanities Center announced just never collapsed. We had a hot, towering fire the appointment of its new board chairman, Ben to run around 92 times, no barricades. (So yes, immersion business program designed Vinson III. Last year he became the provost at Case classmates ran up to it, lit a cigarette, burned off STUDENTS AIMING FOR to prepare top liberal arts, science, and Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Ben, eyebrows, melted jacket sleeves, spent the night who earned a doctorate degree in Latin American at Dick’s House; maybe they started this whole TOP COLLEGES: engineering undergrads for challenging history from Columbia University, previously mess—or blame the ’89s who hazed them into careers in business and beyond. served as dean of George Washington Univer- it.) We still call ourselves the ‘Standing Bonfire’ sity’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences in class, and attribute our bonfire’s refusal to col- Receive strategic advice, tools, and guidance from Washington, D.C. lapse to superior craftsmanship (and the green In just a few weeks, the Tuck Business Jesse Bradley, pastor of Grace Community wood we were given).” the nation’s premier college consultants, helping Bridge Program®, held at the Tuck School Church in Auburn, Washington, was featured —Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. students for over 20 years. on the Sports Spectrum podcast. It’s a fascinat- SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; of Business at Dartmouth College, delivers ing conversation about Jesse’s experience with [email protected] a comprehensive business curriculum soccer and religion at Dartmouth, his brush with • Unparalleled success rate death in Africa (where he went with Tommy Clark I had the pleasure of hearing from taught by Tuck’s top-ranked MBA faculty, to play soccer), and his career path. Jesse also John Beebe, who wrote that after 20 • Advising and facilitating every step of the way interviews myriad people about their beliefs on years in Madison, Wisconsin, and a capstone team project, recruiting, 93 • Lessen stress and increase college choices his own podcast, available at www.Exploring- four in Baltimore, he moved back to New Eng- and one-on-one career guidance, to give Faith.com. He has released two books, Rooted land. John missed the reunion this year because in Grace and A New Season. he was moving into his new home in northeast students the tools they need to get a job The host of the Support is Sexy podcast Massachusetts. Join us for personal admissions counseling. and succeed. (which features female entrepreneurs) inter- He said he’s been working for Philips Call now for information. viewed Jennifer Sandoval Faherty, a certified HealthTech for the past four and a half years; Scholarships are available! financial planner and coach and founder of Fi- he moved earlier this year to its clinical innova- nancial Wealth-being. I listened to the episode tions team in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where and enjoyed hearing Jennifer talk about her ho- he’s verification lead for its NICU of the Future * TopTierAdmissions.com 2019 Tuck Business Bridge Program listic approach to helping clients manage their project, working on solutions to improve how Session 1: June 9–July 3 relationship with money. care is provided for prematurely born infants. 781.530.7088 Variety reported that Tim Greenberg’s series This effort is dear to my heart, since I’m the Session 2: July 7–31 Living With Yourself will be released on Netflix mother of two children born prematurely (my [email protected] *Program dates subject to change and will star Paul Rudd, who “will play dual roles son, born at 36 weeks weighing just under seven in the series, which follows a man struggling in pounds, gave us much more of a scare than the 2019 December Bridge Program life who undergoes a new treatment to become 32-week-old daughter who weighed in at under a better person.” three pounds at birth). December 1–20 The Dartmouth gave ’92s some well-de- John said he’s been married for 21 years and served respect in its sports coverage. In Septem- has a retired racing greyhound. For fun, John ber the paper recognized Sal Sciretto’s unbroken said he likes gardening and is a big movie and Ohana Family Camp record: “Isiah Swann ’20 catalyzed a lockdown history buff. Create lifetime memories defensive effort…vs. the College of the Holy In September John made his first trip to for your family this summer Cross, hauling in three interceptions within the Hanover in many years. “So many changes in on peaceful Lake Fairlee in first half. Swann’s historic performance was the town and on campus, but the nostalgia was fun Vermont. Cozy cabins with first of its kind since Sal Sciretto ’92 intercepted as I watched new students getting ready for their fireplaces. Farm-fresh meals. three passes in 1990.” freshman trips,” he wrote. “It’s so great to be back Dartmouth College . Hanover, NH In October The D commended the success- in the Dartmouth area!” Swimming, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking, 603-646-6459 ful figure skating program, which Loren McGean We are of course all saddened by the pass- launched and coached with her father. “Dart- ing of Beth Krakower in September. While I had biking, tennis, crafts, and [email protected] mouth club figure skating has accumulated an the honor of knowing her, I’m grateful that Jeff more. Delighting generations bridge.tuck.dartmouth.edu impressive amount of trophies over the past Middents was willing to write her obituary for of families since 1905. two decades since its 1997 inception, qualify- this issue. Imagine your family right here. ing for the National Collegiate Figure Skating —Suzanne Spencer Rendahl, 224 Route 120, Plain- Team Championships every year since 2000 field, NH 03781; suzanne.spencer.rendahl@gmail. www.OhanaCamp.org while winning six titles. Their championships com
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In just more than six months we Cape Town, South Africa, to compete in a mara- there is no NCAA in Australia.” will meet in Hanover to celebrate thon and raise money for ALS in honor of Vuyi More from our international classmates in and reminisce about our years at Radebe, who lives in Johannesburg with his wife the next issue. Keep your news coming! 94 Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes Dartmouth College. If you haven’t marked your and two children. Warren reported: “We had a — , 2 Bishops Lane, Hing- calendar, stop here! Pick up your device of choice great experience running the marathon (inspir- ham, MA 02043; [email protected] and block out June 13-16 on your calendar. We ing place to do it—the pacesetters had drums and want you to be part of our 25th reunion! were singing the whole way!). We completed in a As 2018 comes to a close, I am awash Now that you have appropriately saved the respectable 4:24, mostly thinking of Vuyi to get with exciting, inspiring updates in- date, there is still a lot that needs to happen dur- us through. He is doing amazingly well spiritually 96 volving so many of our classmates— ing the next six months. A snow-covered campus and appreciated all the support he has had from many of whom are doing amazing things in their needs to thaw and burst with shades of green; his friends at Dartmouth, especially rugby and communities, industries, or (in some cases) both. days need to lengthen so we can linger under the ’95 class more generally. Anyone who wants I could dedicate entire columns to any one of our class tent; you need to contact your friends to support can contribute to Compassionate Care their stories, so I’m afraid I’ll have to be brief in and make a plan to meet up in June; and you ALS. Thanks for your help!” summarizing the great news! need to register for reunion! Registration will From elsewhere ’round the girdled earth, First, Timothy Chow was selected as No. 67 be online later this winter and early spring. You Alex Lesk writes: “I’ve just started a new job at on The Financial Times’ 2018 “OUTstanding will be invited to link to the registration page my high school alma mater, having returned to Top 100 LGBT+ Executives” list. Tim serves electronically. Vancouver with my family seven years ago to be as general counsel for Latin America and the Reunion co-chairs Jen Susie Hagelston and close to my parents. It is wonderful and strange Caribbean for global distillery giant Diageo PLC. Samantha Stoddard welcome your help and in- to have come full circle: teaching high school “This comes almost exactly 20 years after I came put in planning day or evening events. If you English and journalism, coaching sports in my out, and my law school self’s mind would have are interested in volunteering, contact me or old gym, scolding girls for mis-wearing the same been blown to know that not only would LGBT class president Deme Navab Taleghani at demetra. uniform I once wore, and teaching alongside my professionals and their organizations be recog- [email protected]. During our reunion we former teachers from 30 years ago! My family nized in this manner, but also that I would ever be will also vote on a new slate of class officers. is thriving. Seb is almost as tall as me and just included. Much work still to do, but tremendous Anyone interested in a position and to find out started high school. Spencer is audacious and progress.” The son of a Chinese surgeon who about exciting ways to re-engage with fellow full of questions I can’t answer. Paul is loving emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in classmates, other Dartmouth grads, as well as the the flexibility of his job at UBC as the director the late 1960s and an American mother of Dutch- College, reach out to Deme for more information. of the clean energy research center and as an English descent, Chow grew up in a small, rural During the next six months you can work on independent energy consultant.” town in Michigan. “I was one of those kids who sharpening memory recall with a class-favorite Andrea Wetzler left the United States in 2001 never knew which box to tick when they asked challenge, Flashback Fridays. Deme will con- after graduating from Wharton to pursue a posi- for your racial background because ‘other’ wasn’t tinue sending these fun, adorable, and somewhat tion with Accenture’s strategy department in an option,” Chow says. “We were the minority, regrettable pictures of classmates through email London. “I ended up meeting a Frenchman while but growing up in a small town gave me a re- on Fridays. If you are not receiving these and there and moved to Toulouse, France, when we ally strong sense of community, and I could see would like to, please let me know so you can be got married. I continue to work as a strategy con- the impact my parents had on people’s lives as added to the class list. sultant and travel throughout Europe to see cli- respected members of that community. That Are you too excited to wait until June to ents. My travels take me to beautiful and diverse stuck with me.” reconnect? You’re in luck! We have several mini- cities such as Dublin, Geneva, Zürich, Frankfurt, Mariya Rosberg was named “2018 Working reunions planned for 2019 in various cities, such and Copenhagen. I have four kids, so I try to avoid Mother of the Year” by Working Mother maga- as Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, cross-continental client work. Daily life is less zine. She is partner, corporate and institutional and Boston. As the exact locations and dates are convenient than in the United States but rich in banking, at management consulting firm Oliver finalized, we will share them with you through experience. For instance, food shopping is an al- Wyman and mom to twins Redmond and Delia, email and Facebook. If you would like to plan a most daily venture and consists of going to local 6. “As a firm leader, Mariya sits on the partner- mini-reunion in your city, please contact Cath- markets where there are different stands for fish, ship committee, driving crucial decisions for the erine Adams Stanzler at [email protected]. poultry, beef, cheeses, and produce. Everything future of the firm. As a mentor, she is determined She will help you make that happen. is fresh and sourced locally, so food in general is to connect with and cultivate junior female tal- If you like the friendly competition of Flash- delicious and not as taxing on the environment. I ent at the firm. Mariya also devotes time to the back Fridays and don’t want to wait until June, keep in touch with classmates, but there are not family life colleague network and often finds then you are going to like this new challenge. many alumni opportunities for me in Toulouse. herself mentoring colleagues navigating the Class leaders are running another competition Julie Erikson writes: “We moved in Decem- courses of parenthood and consulting. Mariya for the person who attends the most mini-re- ber 2010 to Christchurch, New Zealand, for six seeks to attain balance between her work and unions leading up to our 25th reunion in Hanover weeks. We had planned for everything…except personal life. Mariya’s children inspire her. She in June. The rules are straightforward. You must for a devastating earthquake that reduced the says that they are the most grounding and joyful send Deme or Catherine a photo from each of city and our house to rubble. Fortunately, the forces in her life.” the mini-reunions you attend. The classmate container ship with our belongings was a few Next, our own Tyler Stableford won an Emmy who attends the most mini-reunions will win days from arriving at port so we simply redi- Award from the National Academy of Television the grand prize of (drum roll) a free admission rected it back to the States. After recovering from Arts and Sciences’ Rocky Mountain division for ticket to reunion and, perhaps more importantly, that experience, we applied for permanent resi- his direction and photography of an episode of bragging rights. dency in Australia and moved to Melbourne in the Turning Point documentary series. Tyler Stay tuned for more updates and news in 2014. We’ve lived here for the past five years and says, “I am even more excited to be sending the two months. are in the final stages of Australian citizenship. Emmy statue to the person who deserves it most: —Laura Hardegree Davis, 1664 Cambridge Court, Our motivation for moving overseas wasn’t the Rev. Richard Joyner. Richard is the subject of Bethlehem, PA 18015; [email protected] pull of a job or family or a push to leave the po- the documentary; he was named one of CNN’s litical climate of the United States, but simply a ‘Top 10 Heroes’ for his work transforming the Though ’round the girdled earth we desire to try something new and expose our son, hard-hit town of Conetoe, North Carolina, from roam, her spell on us remains. Warren Ethan, to new places, people, and culture. Ethan a food desert to a place of healing. Richard is the 1990 95 Valdmanis and Adam Dixon proved the is now exploring the possibility of returning to most compassionate and visionary man I have Class Day truth of this in September when they traveled to the States for his undergraduate years, since ever met. To Richard Joyner and the devoted
152 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 153 Live vibrant. Live local. Live here. Weddings class notes 1997-1999 Graduation Celebrations Create a Lifestyle Family Reunions You Love... gatherings of all kinds people at the Conetoe Family Life Center: You exchanged our classes and a few kind words. attending home games as an undergraduate. One Focused on the have my deepest admiration. Enjoy the Emmy There are just about no other academic or social Also writing in from the San Diego area, Lani Award, you deserve it!” families that I have belonged to that have shared (Sipe) Curtis shared that she is the new director of Activities You Love Finally, Brad Parks can add another award this kind of bond and have possessed such love development at the Oceanside Museum of Art, to his increasingly crowded trophy collection. and loyalty to their mother institution. I cherish a San Diego museum that exhibits contempo- Most, Not Housework His recent novel, Say Nothing, won the Library my Dartmouth family.” rary southern California artists. Lani loves the of Virginia People’s Choice Award as announced Lindsey Noecker: “Having just come back museum and the work—as an art history major, at a recent black tie gala in Richmond, Virginia. from Hanover last night, I have to say that I love she is excited to once again work with art. Lani Morgan Orchards’ His subsequent novel, Closer Than You Know, how a trip to Dartmouth always feels like return- recently visited Dara Denberg in New York City. maintenance-free lifestyle is available now, and his forthcoming The Last ing home. Home is where the heart is—so true!” Dara is a partner at the law firm Latham & Wat- Act is slated for release in March. Fun fact: Brad Jeff Longnecker: “I love the Dartmouth com- kins. The two ’98s shared a wonderful weekend allows you to ditch winter remains the only writer to have won the Shamus, munity. Alums are afforded a very strong com- catching up and seeing lots of art. chores for winter fun. Nero, and Lefty awards, three of crime fiction’s mon connection with fascinating people in all In other ’98 southern California art news, most prestigious prizes. walks of life throughout the world.” Mark Brosseau recently exhibited his work in Los Let our staff take care of the Congratulations to all our winners! More to Rain Minns: “Phi Tau coed fraternity, the Angeles at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run come in our next column! government honors thesis program, and my on- space that builds community through art. Mark home maintenance chores —Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, campus summer! Writing my thesis and having moved from Philadelphia to Greenville, South so you can enjoy more of the Canton, GA 30115; [email protected] meetings with my thesis advisor once to twice a Carolina, about two years ago. He lives with his week was an incredible experience that allowed wife and two dogs and he teaches at Clemson things you love. At Class Officers Weekend in Sep- me to explore my ideas about justice that have University and the Greenville Center for Cre- tember, Tony Field and I ran into Sariya shaped my entire legal career and values in life. ative Arts. Join our 55+ community 97 Sharp and Lynne (Campbell) Soutter at I also used the analytical and writing skills to Matt Wakeman, who is still in Philadelphia, today and spend more time Murphy’s. They were in Hanover for a women’s later write in legal publications in immigration wrote that he is staying busy growing an analyt- rugby reunion. Sariya is a radiologist in Cooper- and civil rights that had a meaningful impact.” ics consulting practice with a software engi- 1-, 1+den & 2-bedroom cultivating a life you’ll love. stown, New York. She and her husband have a Courtenay (Petersen) Barlow: “I love the peo- neering company. For the past five years Matt apartments now available! 15-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son. Lynne ple and friendships I formed at Dartmouth. I love has been the president of the Dartmouth Club is firm counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, where the beauty of the campus, the remote location, of Philadelphia, the 2014 and 2018 winner of kithkinstudio.com she lives with husband Morgan Soutter, a teacher the seasons, reunions, and the sense of belonging the Dartmouth Alumni Large Club of the Year 802-649-9096 at Boston College High School, and their 14-year- I feel whenever I am there.” Award. Matt wrote that he runs into Elizabeth www.MorganOrchards.com old and 12-year-old sons. Robbie Ashe: “Easy answer—my lifelong Magner every once in a while and the two catch Randolph Center, Vermont As I write this, Dartmouth just defeated friends.” up about everything. Harvard in a riveting Homecoming football Happy sestercentennial, Dartmouth! Here’s I have so enjoyed reconnecting and hearing game, the first win against the Crimson at Me- to another 250 years! what is going on with the class of 1998. Please morial Field since our freshman year 25 years Take care and please send me your news. drop me a line to update me on whatever is go- You can find ago. I vaguely remember attending that game, —Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, ing on, personally, professionally, or otherwise. but would never have guessed a quarter century TX 77096; [email protected] —Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave, Nashville, TN would pass until a repeat victory at home. Go, 37209; [email protected] DAM online Big Green! Hello, fellow ’98s. Let me begin by And it’s been 200 years since Daniel Web- congratulating Dartmouth on the big Hello, ’99s! ster, class of 1801, argued before the U.S. Su- 98 anniversary. Looking good at 250! Here we are at the end of 2018 Gifts, Jewelry & Home Décor for Every Person, Season & Occasion and on Facebook! preme Court in Trustees of Dartmouth College And some news of my own: On September 1 my 99 and, as I reflect on the great year our v. Woodward, and delivered his famous tribute wife, Evelyn, and I welcomed Martha Cate Gal- class had reconnecting at our 20th reunion, I am to Dartmouth: “It is, sir, as I have said, a small letti into the world. We are overjoyed, as Mar- eagerly looking forward to what 2019 has in store college, and yet there are those who love it.” tha and big brother Louis, age 2, are happy and for the class of ’99! www.DartmouthAlumni In honor of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary, healthy. To finish out the 2018 news, a hearty con- I asked classmates what they love most about the In honor of the milestone, Brad Jefferson gratulations to Tony Perry, who wrote a book that Magazine.com College. Here are some responses. wrote of a tradition shared by ’98s on the foot- was published in October. Tony writes, “Chula Dinsie Williams: “Dartmouth is a small uni- ball team. Each year they try to meet at a game the Fox is a historical fiction book about a Chicka- versity, yet you can find our alumni everywhere.” to cheer on their teammate and NFL assistant saw (Native American) boy in the early 1700s Kelley Hart: “It’s a magical place that at- coach Matt Burke. Matt is now defensive coordi- who comes to terms with the loss of his father www.facebook.com/ tracts a certain kind of person (as students and nator of the Miami Dolphins. As I write, Matt’s in an enemy attack. He vows to avenge his fa- teachers)—people of great kindness, generosity, Dartmouth teammates plan to join him at the ther’s death and prove himself as a warrior but curiosity, and community-mindedness. The Col- Dolphins’ game against the Green Bay Packers discovers that revenge may not give the peace he DartmouthAlumniMagazine lege has so much contagious good energy. Going in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on November 11. The expected it to.” The book is “targeted at pre-teen back for reunions makes my heart ache, though. following gaggle of ’98s plans to attend along readers” and is published by the White Dog Press, I miss my classmates so much. Even after all with Brad: Ken Bollens, Will Harper, Erik Swanson, a fiction imprint of the Chickasaw Press, which these years!” Lloyd Lee, Damon Blechen, Forest Wester, Kevin is the official publisher of the Chickasaw Nation. Kathy Celenza Behling: “The camaraderie Ritter, Dave Regula, Jason Cecchini, Trevor Keenan, In conjunction with Dartmouth’s 250th an- among alumni and students. Seeing another and Dominic Lanza. This last ’98 has news of his niversary year-long celebration, the ’99s will Dartmouth grad out in the real-world results own: On September 6 Dominic was confirmed be launching the Class of 1999: 250 Points of Dartmouth College Accent Pillow and Snow Globe in an instant bond, which transcends genera- to be a U.S. District Court judge for the District Light initiative in 2019. Class president Robert Truly distinctive pieces celebrating the College on the Hill; our colorfully tions, professions, and socioeconomic standing. of Arizona. Tichio writes, “Our executive committee wants embroidered pillow and locally designed snow globe make excellent gifts DAM Several years ago I was wearing a Dartmouth John (Yalcin) Anderson checked in from San to lead our class to achieve 250 Points of Light for graduates, alumni, faculty, and any Big Green fans near and far. Visit us T-shirt in a grocery store 300-plus miles from Diego, where he moved in 2010 after finishing by identifying and celebrating engagement of on Main Street or call to order – we’re happy to ship anywhere in the U.S. the Upper Valley in a suburb of Philadelphia. law school. About one year ago he started a tax our class to the College.” These points of light Available exclusively at Lemon Tree. An older gentleman, who ended up being a Dart- representation firm, which keeps him busy. John will be achieved when you help us find lost class- ONLINE mouth alumnus, got out of his checkout line and has also been keeping up with Dartmouth’s cur- mates, attend a class event, give to the College, 28 South Main Street • Hanover, NH 03755 • 603.643.5388 traversed half the length of the grocery store just rent football team as it continues its outstanding participate in an upcoming service date, and PowerHouse Mall • West Lebanon, NH 03784 to meet me. We chatted for a few minutes and play. For John it brings back fond memories of more. Robert will be hosting a mini-reunion at
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his home in New York City on February 2, the our national parks and of reading good books of his research on social networks in medicine 200th anniversary of the date of the decision of (see her blog, Queen of Booklandia). published in Nature Communications. Susan the Dartmouth College case. Until next issue. Kown Lee and her husband, David, welcomed Also look for mini-reunions or a virtual get- —Kate Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO daughter Iris Lee to their family in October. together on April 9 to mark the 99th day of the 63112; [email protected] The ’01 family continues to grow, and based C
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CMY ’99s and other alumni can come together to give notes I sent out an email asking what with Meeta. I like those odds. CongratulationsK service to their communities. traditions you have maintained with to all. 01 Rachel Milstein Sondheimer In order to engage with as many of you as Dartmouth friends since graduation. One type — aWay , 143 Branchville EviE StEvEnS ’05 tradES onE faSt track for anothEr by we can, we need updated contact information. of response dominated all the rest: The class Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel. quitting hEr Wall StrEEt job for Unfortunately, many of our classmates are miss- of 2001 continues to have babies. I received [email protected] thE profESSional cycling tour. ing, and we would love to reconnect. If you think eight updates for this column, and six of them some of your information might be outdated, involved new children. Two updates involved Hello, ’02s! please visit www.dartgo.org/update. If you know Meeta Agrawal, but more on that later. Leyla (Kamalick) King and her Jan/Feb 2011 of any of our classmates who are not receiving Jen Feltner shared a nice tradition that she husband, Ben, welcomed their third Five Dollars WI&R_8.125x10.875_WeddingAd_P+C_4.eps 1 11/11/10 10:57 AM 02 c1-c4dam_jf11.indd 2 12/9/10 2:54 PM mailings or emails from the class or the College, created with her friends from the fencing team. (and final!) child on June 27. Tobias “Toby” Jo- please encourage them to update their informa- This crew gets together for Mardi Gras-themed seph joins big brother Fred (7) and sister Bea- tion as well. Also, visit our class page at www. fencing reunions, a tradition that sprang up fol- trice (3 1/2). They live in rural Tennessee at the dartmouth.org/classes/99 to find ways to con- lowing Jen’s time living near New Orleans. Far University of the South in Sewanee (about 50 nect with our class on social media. If you need from Louisiana, Jen is studying mountain lions miles north of Chattanooga), where Leyla teach- help or have any questions, please reach out. and their competitors (think wolves and grizzly es beginning Arabic in addition to her work as a Let’s make 2019 a great year to connect with bears) north of Jackson, Wyoming, during her priest at Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church other ’99s! fifth year in a Ph.D. program in wildlife biology in Chattanooga. She would love to see any Dart-
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MY all of you, who was the most influentialperson Georges Dyer and his wife are moving to London. cent move and classmates that she’s seenCY recent-
CMY of your Dartmouth experience? Was it a room- He will still be running the Intentional Endow- ly: “I’m moving to Portland in October,K and have mate, a professor, a graduate teaching assistant, ments Network from there and looks forward to reconnected with Andreas Stavrapolous, staying or even an EBAs delivery driver? Maybe there connecting with Dartmouth friends in the United with him, his lovely wife, and their 6-month-old was someone that influenced your freshman Kingdom. Abraham Mahshie is returning to the daughter, Sybil, on my house-hunting trips. I’d year or your Sophomore Summer? Drop me a United States after spending four years in Spain. love to meet up with any Portland-area ’02s. I note and let me know, I’d love to hear from you. He is currently writing a travel essay-style book am still running the Good Food Foundation and Until next time. on Spanish bullfighting as well as reporting on recently traveled to Italy with Alice Waters, an —Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, crime and the midterm elections for the Macon honorary ’04, for a big Slow Food gathering. I Five Dollars Mar/Apr 2011 B:8.675 in Dover, NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dart County News in the Smoky Mountains. have been collaborating with Sue AnderBois T:8.125 in S:7 in [email protected] And now to those babies. Abby Nova and Tim ’05, now Rhode Island’s director of food strategy. c1-c4dam_ma11.indd 2 1/31/11 3:47 PM Wright welcomed Benjamin Fowler Nova-Wright This summer in New York I saw Michael Rozas, WHAT IS THE SIGN OF A GOOD DECISION?SM Congrats to Dara Sanandaji on the pre- in February. He joins big brother Alex (9). Abby her husband, Bruno Carvalho ’04, and theirPreparing smi -for a rainy day while making miere of his new documentary film is a partner and producer at Stand Sure Media ley baby, Lola. They were getting ready to yourmove today a little sunnier. ’ 00 about mental health, Breaking the and Tim recently joined Guggenheim Invest- to Boston, where Bruno has taken a tenured posi- Silence. In it he describes his personal journey ments. They recently moved from Manhattan to tion at Harvard. Michael is an architect (working of healing and redemption after psychosis and Brooklyn and were lucky enough to live upstairs on some of the Harvard buildings!) and glowing explores broader questions about mental health from Meeta Agrawal and family. Meeta has the new mom. Last year I also stopped in to Denver and the human brain. He wrote, produced, and distinction of being mentioned in two indepen- to see Nicolette Krickl and her gorgeous and hilari- T:10.875 in B:11.125 in codirected the film. He lives in Chicago. dent responses to this request for information. ous mini-me, Naia Indigo Rose, who is about 4.” S:9.675 in Nils Ericson was recently named one of the Alka Singal wrote about her whirlwind trip to Congratulations to all! “100 Coolest Dads in America” by the digital pub- Mexico City with Sylvia Kindermann and Meeta. —Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New lication Fatherly, which says his home photos Meeta will be starting as the arts and leisure York, NY 10025; [email protected] “are much better than your home photos.” For editor at The New York Times. Sylvia and her Helping you reach your fi nancial goals is what we do. Off ering a range of high-quality participating insurance products, including whole life insurance, is one way we do it. When you’re a MassMutual his part, Nils said, “I want my photos to feel like husband, Case Dorkey ’99, recently had a baby, Greetings, ’03s! participating policyholder, you’re also an owner of the company.1 Th is means you benefi t from MassMutual’s growth, and may receive a dividend each year.2 We’ve paid dividends every year since the 1860s. Our whole life insurance gives you the security of knowing your loved ones will be protected Dissenting OpiniOn when they’re on their own. Also, as the policy develops cash value over time, you can take care of black and white, but in color.” He’s a Protland, and it was on Alka’s birthday. So much to cel- Our 15th reunion is mere 3 more immediate needs, like paying college tuition or supplementing your retirement income. Visit MassMutual.com/AfricanAmerican to learn about our range of fi nancial products and download Oregon-based professional photographer and he ebrate! Andy Pease is an assistant professor of months away (June 14-16). Registhe top 10 questions -to ask to secure your fi nancial future. LIFE INSURANCE + RETIREMENT/401(K) PLAN SERVICES + DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE + LONG TERM CARE INSURANCE + ANNUITIES
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Ben Wakelin’s architectural career is thriv- his wife, Lisa Samols (Columbia ’04), recently from our class. Much to celebrate in HanoverMassMutual.indd 1 9/29/10 12:25 PM New cvr 1.indd 2 10/5/10 1:49 PM ing—he was promoted to associate at ELS Archi- added to their family with the arrival of Maya with the Call to Lead campaign underway and Catch the 3:00 AM Client: Mass Mutual: Component: Print Ad Live: 7.25x9.75 Trim: 8x10.5 Pub: Ivy League IssueDate: 9/10 PROD: Mary Kuhn 972-775-2510 TRAF: XXX Find our back issues online at tecture & Urban Design in Berkeley, California. Samols Pease in June. Their older son, Ben (3), the College’s pending 250th anniversary! Footsteps:VP 200 Varick St. New York, NY 10014 212 924-6432 to Boston/Logan His work includes reconfiguring the Stonestown is currently thrilled to be a big brother but it Kamil Walji would still welcome any help from www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com Galleria mall in San Francisco. He and his wife is unclear if that goodwill will last through the classmates to plan and execute the reunion. International have two children and live in the Bay Area. printing of this column. Pavan Nihalani wrote in I heard from Laura Troullie, who told me she Airport! Finally, and sadly, I wanted to note the news to report the arrival of Bodhi Doshi Nihalani in has never written in to Class Notes previously. I of Carrie Dunsmore’s passing last summer. Many New York City in August. An already impres- hope others will be similarly inspired, particularly of you probably read a moving article about her sive child, little Bodhi managed to sleep through as we plan to gather again in Hanover. Laura re- that was published in The Boston Globe. She died most of the 13-hour flight back to Dubai when ports that she went on to complete a Ph.D. after DartmouthCoach.com of complications of colon cancer. She leaves he was just 4 weeks old. Well done. Amar Dhand Dartmouth and worked at Northwestern Univer- behind a beautiful family—husband Jon Flynn and Charlene Ong welcomed Daphne Cleopatra sity and the Adler Planetarium as an astronomer. and children Nate, Peter, and Nora—as well as Dhand in September and are planning a visit up She’s currently at Adler leading programs to en- a legacy of public service in the law and love of to Dartmouth soon. Amar also recently had some gage the public in research from Zooniverse.org
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(online citizen science with nearly 2 million October, you might have had three different ’04s Here are some other quick updates. Sasha participants worldwide) to Project Aquarius as your physicians. Catherine (Dale) Kling is an (Rogers) Baker ran into James Baehr in Baghdad, (working with Chicago teens to recover mete- abdominal transplant surgeon who requested of all places, in July. She has been in Washington, orites from Lake Michigan). She was recently infectious disease consultations from Alex D.C., for the past 10 years and currently serves as promoted to vice president of citizen science. Lankowski, a senior fellow in infectious diseases Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s national security advi- She lives in the Chicago area with her husband working with Rachel Bender Ignacio, an assistant sor. Matt Heineman’s A Private War debuted on the and two young daughters. Thanks for sending professor and attending physician on the Trans- big screen in September and brought the world in news, Laura! plant Infectious Diseases service. Because the closer to legendary war correspondent Marie Erica Zilioli shares the news of Grace Lee’s world is incredibly small, Rachel and Alex also Colvin. Abigail Davidson was recently named CEO wedding to Troy Campbell on September 30, collaborate in HIV research and recently worked of Cubic Aerospace located in Reston, Virginia. 2018. She notes that many ’03s attended the in Peru together. Alex also belatedly reports that Make sure to check out all the other news beautiful event. Congrats, Grace and Troy! he got married to a lovely woman named Shaadi and information we post on Facebook and Tara Maller reports she joined McKinsey & and they had a baby (Inez Louise Lankowski- Instagram. Co. as risk manager, public and social sectors, Baylor, born December 11, 2017). He says that Have a great start to the year all! Americas in September. She’ll be remaining in both married life and fatherhood have been a —Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, Washington, D.C. Good luck at the new gig, Tara! dream so far. MD 20816; [email protected] Jennifer Casler-Goncalves tells me she is try- Snowden Wright’s novel American Pop will ing to restart the Dartmouth Club of Central New be published by HarperCollins on February 5. Hi, ’06s. York. She urges anyone (’03 or otherwise) who Congratulations, Snowden! Greetings from Hanover! I write is interested in getting involved to reach out to Tristan Perry and his wife, Sarah, had their 06 to you from Homecoming Week- her. The group hopes to relaunch in December. first baby in June: a boy named Bridger Dean end full of school spirit and complete with the You can find them on Facebook at www.facebook. Schindler Perry! Jacyln Stife also had her first bonfire, a campus tour, breakfast at Lou’s, and com/groups/913709379019661. baby, Dean Michael Sullivan, on May 3, 2018! cheering on the Big Green to wins in football In addition to help with the reunion, we are Keep the updates coming, and have a great and hockey. still looking for anyone interested in serving as start to 2019! Earlier in the week I attended the New York a class officer. We will elect a slate of officers at —Cliff Campbell, 10001 Venice Blvd., Apt. 215, Los City mini-reunion hosted by mini-reunion chair reunion. If you’d like to help lead our class for Angeles, CA 90034; [email protected] Matthew Schwartz, and it was wonderful to catch the next five years, please get in touch with one up with Ricky (Adamah) Cole, Bill Quirk, and the of our current class officers: me,Jaime Shatsman, Happy new year, all. I missed a sub- classes of ’07 and ’08. It was a fun visit on the Mike Vidmar, or Kamil Walji. mission and have quite a bit from the East Coast, and I also visited buddy Anthony Gar- Are you planning to attend reunion? Send 05 back half of 2018 to update everyone giulo and his wife, Rachel, at their home in North me an update to print in one of our remaining col- on. But first, our 15th reunion will take place Jersey. We spent time with their 1 1/2-year-old umns before we descend on Hanover! I’ll be there June 14 to 16. Be sure to check your email and the Lucas, who is walking and talking and showed with my husband and oldest child in tow and I class website for real-time news and registration me all his toy trucks, and their puppies Mac and look forward to catching up with many of you. information. We hope everyone will make it back Morgan. —Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, to Hanover to celebrate! On to classmate news, first from Matt Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@ Babies were plentiful in 2018. Kevin Gold- Schwartz. After more than five years working gmail.com stein and wife Sarah moved to Chicago and as a corporate entertainment attorney, Matt left welcomed their second child, August, in May. traditional TV and moved into the technology Our reunion is just six months Laura (Randolph) Vor Broker and family welcomed sector. He joined the New York City headquar- away! Please reach out to class of- daughter Caroline in June. Kaitlin (Bell) Barnett ters of FourSquare and will be primarily respon- 04 ficers if you’d like to help organize and family welcomed second child, Reuben Ga- sible for an array of partnerships and commer- the festivities. briel, in July. My wife, Casey ’06, and I welcomed cial transactions in the four-person office of the Here are a few updates from our awesome our second, son Holt, in July. Matt Nielsten and general counsel. class as we say goodbye to 2018 and hello to the wife Meg welcomed their second, son Teddy, in Gavin Phillips married Megan Gast in Boise, new year. July. Jesse Klempner and Betsy Williamson wel- Idaho, in an epic celebration at the Bogus Basin Steph Annear (along with husband Chris and comed their third, son Benjamin, in August. Matt Ski Resort this fall. Among others, Dartmouth their sons, Gannon and Soren) spent the last four Oppenheimer and wife Emily welcomed their alums in attendance included Crawford Arnold, months in Vietnam with a group of college stu- first, daughter Alice, in August. Megan (Christian) Ralph Callaway, Ryan Counter, Scott Feighner, Travis dents studying abroad from Hobart and William Dague and husband Jason welcomed their sec- Helms (who officiated at the ceremony), John and Smith Colleges and Union College. The family ond child, Madelyn, in August. Brandon Wright Paul Huelskamp, Joe Killefer, Senam Kumahia, Dan of four was last in Vietnam in 2016 and all were and wife Laura welcomed their second, daugh- Oberlin, Sean and Lauren Offers, Sam Rendall, and excited to be back working on their Vietnamese ter Elizabeth, in the early morning on August Molly Pierce Daniels. and eating! 31. A few hours later Pat Keeley and wife Jess There is lots of baby news this issue: Jona- Back in June Megan Fontanella Remmelts, welcomed their third, daughter Charlotte, to than and Stephanie (Cochran) Landsberg welcomed Jayson Remmelts, Laura Delaney Nichol, Mark Nichol, the family. Congratulations to all the parents, son Henry Steven in August. In September An- Carly O’Connell Abrahamson, Robin Deliso Wood- old and new. drew Mayer and his wife, Veronica, welcomed cock (and husband Patrick), Clare Gupta (and Weddings were also plentiful in 2018. Claire baby girl Gabriella, and Jamie Coffin and Katie husband Drew), and Rachel Holmes Kelly (and Dewalt married Nick Clark on July 14 in Detroit. (Wolf) Coffin welcomed baby boy Oliver (“Ol- husband Miles) all got together in Martha’s Vine- Claire and Nick met at business school and cur- lie”). Griffin Gordon and his wife, Casey, wel- yard, Massachusetts, with their families. There rently reside in New York City. Dave Gardner also comed daughter Parker Emma to the world in were nine kids under the age of 5 in one house got married on July 14. Dave married Laura Bar- early October. and everyone survived (including the house!). nett in Crystal Mountain, Michigan. No surprise, Jordan Edmonson and Alana Finley announce Miguella Mark-Carew got married to John both weddings had epic alumni showings from the birth of son Knox. They are grateful to all Fluharty in May in Tobago. The couple moved many members of our class. Bret Anderson mar- their ’06 friends who have provided support and alumni.dartmouth.edu/travel to London with their two dogs in October! ried Joanna Chow in Newport, Rhode Island, in encouragement from ’round the girdled earth! alumni.dartmouth.edu/travel If you happened to be a recipient of an or- August. Finally, Isaac Kardon married Lindsay Patrick Lynch and his wife, Anna, had first baby gan transplant at the University of Washington Lieberman on September 23, also in Newport. James, who was delivered by Dr. Ingrid Wecht Medical Center in Seattle during the month of Best wishes to all of the newlyweds! ’90. Annie and Michael Ribero welcomed a baby
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earlier in the summer. I have some fascinating updates to truly professional team in Birmingham will be Be sure to check out the Class Notes online share from the class of 2008 around a reality with Birmingham Legion FC. A truly at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes and see any the girdled earth. wild success story. Congrats to Evon, who has 08Matthew Siegfried photos that are included in these updates. There is leaving Stanford and now moved to California. is also an ’06s “In the News” section with news starting as an assistant professor at Colorado I didn’t start a soccer team, but I did coau- articles about classmates. Recently this section School of Mines in January. Somewhat inconve- thor a book, The Contagious Commandments: has featured Gillian Apps, Cayelan Carey, Ty Mane- niently, he’ll be in the middle of the West Antarc- Ten Steps to Brand Bravery, out now from Pen- gold, Ben Lovejoy, and Nick Taranto. tic Ice Sheet on his first day of work. He headed guin Business UK. It feels weird to write about Thanks again to all those who have sub- off to start his eighth field season in October. it, but it’s my duty as class secretary to share. mitted news—I look forward to hearing from You can see what he’s been up to on Twitter at So there it is. you soon. @MinesGlaciology, where he posts updates via Until next time! —Cindy Tsai, Synchrony Financial, 222 W Adams satellite phone. —Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN St., 27th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606; cindaaay@ Some more updates on the job front. Sidd 55413; (609) 405-9153; [email protected] gmail.com Singhal writes in to share that his current job is to manage Totino’s Pizza Rolls. If anyone is having Happy holidays, ’09s! Jillian (Hamma) From the first crunch of freshly fallen a Dartmouth reunion (big or small) and wants to Chingos and Tim Chingos ’08 wel- leaves under our feet that fall when celebrate with pizza rolls, he’s happy to help hook comed their first child, Emma Elise, RuDee Sade Lipscomb 09 07 we arrived on campus, our time at them up! is working with on October 10, 2018. Their house in El Granada, Dartmouth made an enduring impact on each an indigenous rights and community advocacy California, has been in a flurry of renovations in of us. Since then, we’ve carried those lessons, nonprofit in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. preparation for her arrival. friendships, and traditions with us, sometimes And Emily Frank remains in the Bay Area teach- Diana Dinescu wrote, “Lina Isabel Strother hilariously. ing public school in Oakland, California, and was born on May 14, 2018, right on her due date. Like George Oh, who recounts, “When I go to practicing medicine as a pediatrician. If you’re in She is the cutest baby we have ever seen, and a new diner that looks like it has the ingredients, the area, get in touch and you can arrange to visit we could not love her more.” Georgina Emerson I will ask them to make me a Billy Bob Jr., eggs her class sometime; they would love to have you! teaches high school humanities in New York over medium, and the kitchen will usually oblige. Approaching two years sober, Joshua Turn- City. She loves it because she gets to design her It’s never as good.” Just another example of the bull is engrossed and enjoying his first year at own courses and teach about anything and every- Dartmouth difference, I guess. Pitt Law. He writes, “It’s not been an easy path thing. This year she launched a nonprofit called Karen (Heighes) Perez shares, “The bells used but as our graduation theme told us: ‘You have Teach About Women, with the goal of bringing to play the alma mater on campus every day at brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. intersectional feminist and gender-inclusive 6 p.m. It’s one of my favorite memories, linking You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’ resources into K-12 classrooms. Among other up arms and singing with a friend on our way to There can be no doubt I’ve paid my dues. It’s projects, they are creating a global history cur- dinner. Here at our house, 6 o’clock is as chaotic great to finally share some good news.” He keeps riculum that explores the relationship between as you’d expect a house with little kids, so we don’t the rhyming up to solicit visitors to his neck of gender and power. maintain quite the same tradition. But we do play the woods: “Need some Dartmouth visitors in Kyle Finnegan is an associate at Katten the Aires’ version nearly every day. My 5-year-old Pittsburgh, singly or in twos (Hi, Mitch/Stiffy), Muchin Rosenman LLP and received an award has our alma mater memorized!” it’s up to yous.” from the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil As the last class to celebrate Tubestock, On the wedding front, Adria Buchanan wed Rights for his housing discrimination pro bono sadly, one of the old traditions did, well, fail on Aleksey Karulin in Rancho Palos Verdes, Cali- work. Denton King and Lauren King welcomed our watch. (Shout out to the Save Tubestock com- fornia, on March 27, 2018. They were joined by a little girl, McKell King, to the family on April mittee though!) While Dan Linsalata confesses, family and friends, including fellow Casque & 27. She joins big brother Wesley. Please let him “Mostly, I just miss a time in my life when I en- Gauntlets Abe Holland, Ian Tapu, Lena Martinez- know any advice on dealing with two! joyed the taste of Keystone,” many of you wrote Wolfinger, Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, and David Kopec married Rebecca Driesen at in to share memories and traditions that you Uma Shankoor. Adria and Aleksey just returned Dartmouth in Rollins Chapel on October 6, 2018. fondly recall. from their honeymoon in Vietnam and recom- Neil Kandler, Asafu Suzuki, Molson Hart, David Short, They include Sarah Overton’s memories mend it to anyone! and Tom McDermott were in attendance, as well hiking “the 50” from Hanover to Moosilauke And Evon Noyes shares the amazing story of as professor Gordon Gribble. and canoeing on the Trip to the Sea and Hannah what he’s been up to for the past half-decade or Joanne Nachio and Harrison St. Germain (Burzynski) McCullar’s recollection of DOC trips (“I so. He and four friends were tired of waking up (Wake Forest ’09, Notre Dame Law School J.D. love that the Dartmouth community gives incom- a 7 a.m. to watch the English Premier League, ’12) got engaged on September 2, 2018, at the ing students such a unique and wholehearted so they started what they hoped would become Hollywood Brown Derby at Disney’s Hollywood welcome. The happy memories of sleeping in a a professional soccer team in his adopted home- Studios in Walt Disney World. They are planning cabin, swimming in an icy-cold river, and watch- town of Birmingham, Alabama. They put togeth- a wedding in South Florida for October 19. She ing the incredible Lodge Crew show will stay with er exhibition matches in 2013 to raise money also recently started at McAlpin Conroy, P.A., me forever”). Plus, Blair (Burgreen) Chan’s favorite and awareness, and then recruited a coach and in Brickell in Miami, practicing admiralty and tradition teaching the incoming freshmen how college players to play a full exhibition season in maritime litigation. to do the “Salty Dog Rag” before those trips and 2014 in front of crowds of 400 to 500 people. Le- Greg O’Sullivan married Jessica Felts on Peter Kenseth’s love of Winter Carnival 2005, A veraging that success, they earned an expansion October 6, 2018, in Atlanta. I was there along Dartmouth Neverland: “The Winter Carnival charter in the National Premier Soccer League with many other Psi U and Dartmouth ’09s to snow sculptures were always amazing, but the in 2015, and for the next three years Evon was a celebrate! Greg is starting the second year of life-sized pirate ship from A Dartmouth Never- forensic accountant by day and part-time minor his M.B.A. at MIT Sloan. Greg and Jessica will land was truly epic.” league soccer team owner by night. be spending the first half of 2019 studying and Our short time at Dartmouth changed each Without employees, the founder group ran working in London. of us and our lives forever. As she celebrates her everything from merchandise sales to security, Julian Thomas got married in July and will be 250th anniversary, we are proud to count our- drawing more than a thousand people to some starting an international M.B.A. in January at the selves among her sons and daughters and will games and beating Nashville in the Vanderbilt Lisbon M.B.A. program in Portugal bleed green forever. Stadium to win the I-65 Cup. In 2017 they sold —Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Hen- 2010 —Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, the team to investors with a United Soccer In the Lab derson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d. Chicago, IL 60613; [email protected] League franchise, and in 2019 the dream of a [email protected]
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How far have all of the alums who joined us for this special day! bedcoverings, turndown service, free WiFi, and COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT www.thelymeinn.com. the ’11s come in the 11 years since we first arrived Looking forward to receiving your news! gourmet farm-to-fork breakfasts. Our floor-to-ceil- HANOVER/LEBANON at the College on the Hill? And where will we be Also, don’t forget to tell me what you hope the ing fieldstone fireplace is a delight in cold months. Located just minutes from Dartmouth College. 506 ON THE RIVER INN in another 11?! College will look like in 250 years! jacksonhouse.com. Shuttle service, high-speed Internet, fitness center, Minutes from Woodstock Village, this award- —Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, Unit 304, Tu- —Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort breakfast café and dinner menu. winning boutique is recognized for its beautiful stin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@ Washington, PA 19034; jrwomack1991@gmail. 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HILTON GARDEN INN HANOVER LEBANON a/c, free local calls, continental breakfast. AAA. 1653 West Woodstock Road, Woodstock, VT; storied institution, one with many alumni across The key outcome of that note was my boss’s boss Brand new hotel and event center near Dartmouth. Two miles south on Main Street (Route 10); (802) 457-5000; the world who work hard to make change in a coming by my desk and saying, “What did the HGILebanon.com, (603) 448-3300. (603) 298-8721. www.ontheriverwoodstock.com. multitude of different ways. I’ve been proud to content ever do to you?” My sincerest apologies. be a Dartmouth alumna, and there are countless In the time since I drafted the last edition ways I’ve used lessons I learned at Dartmouth of our Class Notes, news has come out that the Alina Plavsky is in her first job out of Stoltzfuses, welcomed Arthur William, future Teale Orme and Zach Rioux are living in Salt (both inside and outside of the classroom) to Canoe Club will be closing. Students are forbid- residency working as an internist at member of the class of 2041! Lake City, Utah. Teale is a small-animal veteri- work to become a better person. I met people den from running more than one lap around the Kaiser Permanente in Washington Lily Eom recently relocated to Seattle to work narian and Zach works for a private equity advi- from a variety of backgrounds and experiences bonfire at Homecoming. Joseph Asch ’79, known 10state and she’s getting married this summer in for Microsoft: “If anyone is in Seattle or passing sor. They tied the knot in September in nearby during my time at the College that broadened my for his commentary on the College through the France! by, let’s hang out!” Heber Valley, where numerous Big Green friends perspective, challenged me, and helped shape website Dartblog, passed away at age 60. Dart- Bret Vallacher and Blair (Sullivan) Vallacher Andrew Smith got engaged to Jenna Pallay; helped them celebrate, including Kyle Betts, Mike me, and I personally hope that, in another 250 mouth hired the first female Division I college ' ' " ' #!" are delighted to announce that they welcomed they’re both living in N.Y.C. Biondi, Ian Blumenthal, Diane Cheney ’09, Chase years, Dartmouth thrives as a place that pushes football assistant coach. As they say, the only daughter Catherine Anne Vallacher (’40?) this Claire Wagner: “Happy to report that I re- Decker, Taylor DiGloria, James Francis, Samantha people out of their comfort zones and nurtures constant is change. Lest the old traditions fail. #' past June. cently got married to Josh Klein (Penn alum). Haw, Lucas Henderson ’09, Sharat Raju, Hannah students who are open, global citizens. So, what On the note of traditions, in this issue we "" "'$ Tay Stevenson formed Envoy Public Labs We live in Boston’s South End and love seeing Sehn, and John Smith ’09. do you think Dartmouth will look like in another celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Since in June. He stopped by the College on the way Dartmouth folks around town. I am finishing Short column this time. Wishing you all 250 years? Send me your updates for next issue the celebration has been stretched to well over ' ! ' ' " to hiking Mount Madison with Sam Edandison my M.D./M.B.A. at Harvard and looking ahead good health and much happiness in 2019! with an answer to this question! Now on to this a year, it feels we will not be too out of line in ' % ' ' &' " in September! to the next adventure! —Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane, month’s news. doing a bit of reflection for the next issue. I re- In September Ellie Stoltzfus and Dan Cham- Sara Coffin and Tyler Young ’09 welcomed Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; jenniferashley On October 7 Kelly Brait ran the Chicago ceived such wonderful thoughts from classmates G LF berlain, now collectively the Chamberlain- their first baby, Elizabeth “Tibby,” this fall. [email protected] Marathon. Even though it rained, it did not when we used this space to share memories of
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time spent at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and English, and the Korea Bridge Initiative, which took for granted how easy it was to actually get THE WOODSTOCK INN & RESORT I would love to hear from you again. is geared toward students who cannot afford a meal, sometimes with a complete stranger, Farm-fresh cuisine, carefully harvested ingre- In the spirit of celebrating 250 years of English preparatory classes for college admis- while being a student at Dartmouth. Maybe it’s dients and regional recipes inspire the seasonal the College on the Hill, please share with us a sions standardized tests. In her free time Nicole the small size of the student body or the strong menus at the Woodstock Inn & Resort’s distinct Dartmouth tradition you hold dear or a personal explores her local community in Mokpo and even sense of community that is cultivated starting restaurants. The talented culinary team prepares tradition with classmates that has endured since ventures out to other cities, such as Busan, Seoul, from first-year trips. All I know is that I built creative entrées and innovative cocktails, resulting graduation. Daegu, and Ginzhu. While in Mokpo, she enjoys many strong relationships that started with, in exceptional Northeastern cuisine that showcases In the meantime, as an update on our class- free kayaking in the port, going to arcades, and ‘Let’s get a meal sometime!’ ” the essence of Vermont. Call (844) 545-4178 mates, Marina Plesons and Amanda Zieselman have befriending locals and foreigners alike. When Sarah Rote wrote, “Though it’s not talked or visit www.woodstockinn.com. continued work on their global health nonprofit, she is out of Mokpo, she typically attends cul- about as often, one of my favorite traditions is Health Advocacy Innovations, founded while at tural festivals. For instance, this fall she went the midnight snowball fight on the Green after LATHAM HOUSE TAVERN AT DOWDS’ Dartmouth. Recently they received a major grant to Andong for a mask festival that showcased the first significant snowfall. Large groups of COUNTRY INN from TB Reach, a project of the UN, to support traditional mask culture and performance in people, summoned by a Dr. Seuss Blitz, mill about The Tavern hosts a rustic atmosphere with a their efforts to improve treatment for children Korea. Although she adores teaching in Asia, until snow starts flying in all directions. It’s dark seasonal menu featuring local ingredients, with tuberculosis. Nicole is considering a change in scenery after out and chaotic, so I might have launched a few tavern-inspired cocktails, and 18 draft beers on tap Two people have recently reached out to the academic year ends, likely close to her family snowballs into unsuspecting clusters and then featuring the best craft beer from NH and abroad. me about columns they have read here, and I in New York. run the opposite way.” Just minutes north of Hanover on Route 10. Visit am grateful to them for checking in on our class Back on the East Coast, rather than in the Andi Norman wrote, “Class Day was really our website for full menu and hours. when they receive the alumni magazine. To both eastern hemisphere, is Katie Vareika, who is a special for me. I got to experience the ’16 Class “Good Food. Good Beer. Good Times.”
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Katie is particularly Then I asked, “This fall we celebrated our Hanover’s only real New York pizza, featuring 5 minutes from Dartmouth campus [email protected] delighted to be at home because her parents just first Homecoming as alumni. What’s your favor- traditional, Sicilian and brick-oven specialty www.thebarnathappyhill.com got an adorable puppy, Ruby. ite Homecoming memory?” pizzas, salads, subs, calzones, the biggest beer in town and much more. [email protected] Elizabeth and Jeffrey Reed ‘76, Happy new year, ’16s! For those, who didn’t know, Katie is one of Lindsay Salem wrote, “My favorite Home- I have a few quick updates from the wonderful head agents for the class of ’17. coming memory is running around the bonfire Casual atmosphere, deliveries. 603.252.2257 proprietors 16 our classmates. Penelope Williams just Early in September alums returned to campus with my dad, Steve Salem ’87. Sharing that expe- Open ’til midnight 7 days. started a new job in design thinking consulting for the annual Class Officers Weekend. During rience with him will always be one of my favorite 9 East South Street, Hanover; at Accenture in Boston. this weekend there were speakers, panels, work- Dartmouth memories.” (603) 643-9500. Hanover Hilltop Natalie Cantave started a new job as a mar- shops, and social events for the various class Finally, “What do you love most about keting and communications coordinator for officers. On the Friday of her arrival, Katie was Dartmouth?” SIMON PEARCE RESTAURANT the HealthTech Program at MassChallenge, a relieved to spend a quiet night relaxing in the Andrew Sun wrote, “ ‘Dartmouth Undying’ & NEW BAR startup accelerator in Boston. MassChallenge Hanover Inn and eating her favorite meal from has a line—‘Dartmouth…the gleaming, dream- Award-winning, farm-to-table restaurant is a nonprofit that focuses on innovation and the Hop. However, she received a phone call and ing walls of Dartmouth, miraculously builded in overlooking the Ottauquechee River. Sip a hand- supporting startups and entrepreneurs. If you was told to take the long trek to the Life Sci- our hearts.’ I’m not sure I can put it much better crafted cocktail, watch our master glassblowers work for or know of any interesting digital health ences Center for a gala. Quite unexpectedly, Katie than that. Dartmouth holds a special place in and find the perfect gift. Open daily. startups, definitely reach out to Natalie! learned that the reason she was called over was my memory—not because it was a perfect ex- (802) 295-1470; SimonPearce.com. After being in New York City for the past that the class of 2017 won the award for Class perience; it was far from perfect. My Dartmouth two years, Colby Ye is excited to be in Boston, of the Year for all classes 25 years and younger! experience was fraught with struggle, deep real- where he is now working for Berkshire Partners. Although Katie was shocked and wearing jeans izations, and sometimes painful self-discovery. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Great views to Vermont from this colonial on 5 acres. 3+ bedrooms 3.5 baths I hope you all have a wonderful start to the during the fancy gala, she went on stage with Yet I do feel I came out a better and stronger with end of the road privacy. Minutes to campus or DHMC. $890,000. new year. And don’t hesitate to email in news decorum and represented us well. Additionally, person. So whenever I think about Dartmouth, WHERE TO about you and your friends! 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The endless love and Get your golfing gear with the Dartmouth take a look at what a couple of our neapolis, MN 55403; (973) 986-5988; dorallen@ support of the Dartmouth community extends College logo. The Pro Shop has a wide variety of 17 shirts, jackets, umbrellas and golfing equipment. classmates have been up to these past few comcast.net far past the grandiose pines of New Hampshire. I months. fell in love with Dartmouth during my interview Need something special? We do special orders! Out in the small part city of Mokpo, South Happy new year, ’18s! This year Dart- after hearing my interviewer reminisce about (603) 646-2000; www.golf.Dartmouth.edu. Korea, is ’17’s own Nicole Simineri. Nicole has been mouth celebrates its 250th anniver- this magnificent college on the hill and its lasting out east teaching English since graduation, and 18 sary. To mark the occasion, I pulled traditions. Welcomed by the Dartmouth Club of she is currently in South Korea as a teaching together a set of prompts so that everyone Los Angeles after being admitted, I knew that assistant as part of her Fulbright scholarship. could share some of their favorite Dartmouth Dartmouth had become my home even before Nicole majored in Asian and Middle Eastern memories. Here were some highlights from your stepping foot on campus. To me, Dartmouth is MAKE studies and was eager to immerse herself in the responses. more than just my college; it’s an identity that I culture of South Korea, a country in which she First I asked, “Tell us about a Dartmouth am truly proud to uphold and celebrate around dam had never lived. Although she did not speak a tradition you hold dear or about a tradition you the girdled earth.” CONTACT YOUR word of Korean beforehand, she enjoys her role share with your classmates.” Thank you to everyone who shared their re- CLASS and has formed close bonds with her students. 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Additionally, the Dartmouth Club of Sub- Grads urban New Jersey reported that its Joseph A. Deaths Carter III Scholarship recipient for the 2018- I received the following message from Roland 19 academic year is Millenah L. Nascimento ’21 The following is a list of deaths reported to us LIVE HANOVER Adams (MALS’98), who is a member of the MALS from Newark. She had a great freshman year, since the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually Alumni Council. embarking on premed studies and enjoying many written by the class secretaries, may appear on the He now lives in Greene, Maine (an hour extracurricular programs, including providing DAM website at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com, northwest of Portland), with his wife, Sandy. assistance to theatrical productions. This past where friends and classmates may post their own They have been there since 2011. Roland retired summer she assisted at the Madeira School in remembrances of the deceased. Please contact from his position as director of media relations McLean, Virginia, as part of its GirlsFirst em- alumni records at (603) 646-2253 to report an for Dartmouth in mid-2010, after working at powerment summer camp. She is an alumna of alumnus death. the College for 20 years, and he spent another that school, attending it as part of the NJ SEEDS Louis Frederick Oldershaw ’39 • Oct. 19, 2018 three-plus years at Bates College as senior com- program. James Alexander Browning ’44 • Oct. 8, 2018 IN THE HEART OF HISTORIC HANOVER munications advisor before getting semi-serious Dorothy Carter ’58 and David Dietze ’78 con- Robert Benjamin Jabara ’45 • Sept. 26, 2018 about a real retirement. gratulate her on all of her accomplishments. The William Lamson Swartzbaugh ’45 • Oct. 17, 2018 In the heart of historic Hanover Center, this hip roofed Georgian Revival style colonial is an exact - club is very proud of her successes. Frederick J. Beddiges ’46 He has continued to work since then as a • Sept. 2018 ing replica of the William Wellington House located strategic communications consultant for vari- In the next state over, Dan O’Brien ’09, com- John Horton Smith ’46 • Sept. 9, 2018 in Waltham, Massachusetts, originally constructed ous higher-education institutions and private munications chair for the Dartmouth Club of Phila- Donald Wayne Edwards ’47 • Sept. 27, 2018 in 1779. This 1982 recreation offers the charm high schools. This includes Agnes Scott College, delphia reported on several recent activities. The Robert William Belfit Jr. ’49 • Aug. 29, 2018 and sense of place found in a historic home with the Loomis Chaffee School, and Emma Willard club participated in the Big Green Affair, which Philip Walling Brown Jr. ’50 • Sept. 19, 2018 the convenience, systems and technologies of School, among others. He also works for various included organizing several local happy hours, Thomas Myer Green III ’50 • Aug. 16, 2018 modern construction. Sited for privacy on over 71 other organizations, both profit and nonprofit. and they began the initial stages of planning Alexander Carr Hoffman ’50 • Aug. 6, 2018 acres but conveniently located just a few minutes to downtown Hanover, Dartmouth College and the Sandy, former assistant vice president of for Philadelphia-based celebrations in honor H. Clifton Whiteman III ’50 • Sept. 8, 2018 Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. strategic communications for the DMS-DHMC of the College’s 250th. The Dartmouth Club of Nason Arthur Hurowitz ’51 • Oct. 16, 2018 Hanover, NH | $1,995,000 | MLS#4601444 advancement office, also continues to work as a Philadelphia is also gearing up for some great Robert H. Moore ’51 • Aug. 6, 2018 communications consultant. Her clients have end-of-year programs, such as the Princeton- J. Howard Reynolds ’51 • May 14, 2017 Rick Higgerson included the University of Michigan, Northwell Dartmouth game, a day of service in November, William Hall Terry ’51 • Aug. 31, 2018 17 1/2 Lebanon St. | Hanover, NH 03755 [email protected] Health on Long Island, and the University of and the annual holiday party. John Chester Klein ’52 • July 23, 2018 O: 603.643.6070 | C: 802.291.0436 Maine at Farmington. Ken Bower ’94 wrote in from the Dartmouth Gerald C. Lukeman ’52 • Aug. 26, 2018 FourSeasonsSIR.com However, both Roland and Sandy now have Club of St. Louis. The club is looking forward to Roy C. Megargel ’52 • Sept. 22, 2018 DartmouthEach Office is Independently 1/6 Vert Owned SPA and Operated. Ad 2016.qxp_Layout 1 9 much more free time for personal pursuits. welcoming former President Jim Wright to town William C. Quimby ’52 • Sept. 16, 2018 These include periodic travels to destinations November 12 for a speech he is making at the David L. Lewis ’53 • Sept. 22, 2015 they both enjoy. Roland occasionally presents Missouri History Museum. A final event for the A. Kelly McBride Jr. ’53 • July 9, 2016 communication seminars for the Maine Associa- year will be a Christmas-holiday dinner at the Peter H. Patterson ’53 • Sept. 9, 2016 tion of Nonprofits, and he is also a member of the Log Cabin Club on November 29 with new Dart- Prasong Sukhum ’53 • May 6, 2017 board of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council. mouth Provost Jim Helble. More than 60 alumni Peter Eberth Bullis ’54 • Sept. 4, 2018 Sandy’s sideline is as a photo artist whose works and spouses will be in attendance to welcome Myles Livingston Jacobs ’54 • Oct. 11, 2018 have been exhibited in several galleries. (She has him to his first official speech outside of Hanover! Walter Tumeniuk ’54 • Sept. 15, 2018 even sold some!) In Massachusetts Tracey Taylor ’87, president Dean Conrad Allard Jr. ’55 • Sept. 27, 2018 They are not often back in the Upper Valley, of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod, organized a C. Raymond Durkee ’55 • Sept. 24, 2018 but do follow developments here and at Dart- club luncheon meeting at the Hyannis Yacht Richard Marshmont Targett Jr. ’55 • Sept. 9, 2018 mouth closely. They wish all the best for the Col- Club on September 21. Hayden Lizotte, senior Laurence Russell Veator Jr. ’55 • Sept. 20, 2018 lege and their many friends in the Upper Valley. assistant director of admissions, was the fea- James Alexander Cochrane Jr. ’56 • Oct. 2, 2018 90 I am writing this on Dartmouth Homecom- tured guest speaker. Hayden was an excellent Richard B. Foster Jr. ’56 • Sept. 25, 2018 ing Weekend and just want to say that I am so and dynamic speaker and gave the attendees Donald Francis Hamson ’56 • Aug. 18, 2018 sorry all of you were not able to watch the spec- firsthand insight into how the admissions office Herbert David Kleber ’56 • Oct. 5, 2018 tacular bonfire on the Green on Friday night. It narrows down more than 22,000 applicants to John William Koehring ’56 • Sept. 16, 2018 was an event not to be missed—and the snow the lucky few (8.7 percent for the class of 2022) Frederick Sherwood Lowry ’56 • Dec. 25, 2017 flurries didn’t even begin until Saturday! who are admitted. It’s an impressive process. James Russell Donnelley ’57 • Sept. 25, 2018 Delight —Jane Welsh, 175 Greensboro Road, Hanover, Finally, Tom Skilton ’89 and Curtis Leitner ’04 Michael Harry Dikman ’58 • Oct. 7, 2018 all your senses. NH 03755; (603-643-3789; m.jane.welsh.gr@ provided an update from the Dartmouth Lawyers Laurence Hamblen Shaw ’58 • Sept. 23, 2018 dartmouth.edu Association (DLA). The DLA and the Women of Stephen Jay Wilson ’58 • Sept. 6, 2018 Restore your Mind and Body! Dartmouth jointly sponsored a timely event on Hibbard Gough Davis ’62 • Nov. 18, 2011 August 2, 2018, featuring Curtis Leitner, Khris- William Reinhold Hjortsberg ’62 • April 22, 2017 Connect with nature through tina Gonzalez ’04, and Alyssa Rower ’01. The three Stephen Marc Serlin ’62 • Sept. 13, 2018 unique seasonal treatments Clubs & alumni led a panel discussion called “The Im- Richard Kristian Anderson ’63 • Nov. 17, 2010 that capture the essence pact of #MeToo: On the Job, In the Home, and Lawrence Halstead Keyes ’63 • Aug. 30, 2018 of Vermont. Groups on Campus.” The event was followed by a lively Robert Gene Busch ’65 • Oct. 7, 2018 Massages & Body Treatments discussion lasting longer than expected due to Robert Savin Shertz ’65 • Sept. 28, 2018 Skin Care Dartmouth clubs and groups around the coun- the engagement with the crowd. It was a great John Borland Harbaugh ’66 • Sept. 3, 2018 Bridal Services try were busy organizing events this fall. The forum for alumni to engage with each other on Robert Kevin Hughes ’66 • Sept. 19, 2018 Manicures & Pedicures Dartmouth Club of Suburban New Jersey recently a charged topic in a thoughtful and respectful William Walter Roberts ’66 • Oct. 9, 2017 Hair styling, Makeup & Waxing hosted a football watching party with great turn- manner. Donald James Clausing ’68 • Sept. 12, 2018 Day Packages out. About 30 alumni and friends of Dartmouth Please send me brief updates about the great Robert Alan Paley ’70 • May 2018 gathered at a sports bar in downtown Summit events that your club, association, or affiliated Joan Perry Snell ’73 • April 3, 2017 to cheer on Dartmouth’s Big Green as it pre- group have organized! Newsletters and other Calvin Eugene Conyers ’74 • Aug. 16, 2018 vailed over Yale on October 5. Event organizers email updates are also welcomed. Michael Louis Nemeth ’74 • Sept. 11, 2018 888.364.6110 included David Dietze ’78, club president, and Tara 1960s —Stina Brock ’01, PO Box 9274, Jackson, WY 83002; Joseph Charles Asch ’79 • Oct. 9, 2018 Bookstore www.woodstockinn.com Gulla ’95, club officer. [email protected] Chesley Helen Adler ’89 • Sept. 21, 2018
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King George III, Benjamin Franklin, and Benedict Arnold all donated money to help Wheelock develop his Indian Charity School. The founder proposed naming the College after New Hampshire governor John Wentworth, whose approval was necessary to obtain the charter. The governor declined the offer. A minister, Wheelock had purchased his doctor of divinity certificate. The University of Edinburgh, which granted degrees upon “acceptable recommendations,” charged about 10 pounds. He owned several slaves. Wheelock considered Albany, New York, as a location for the College, but a friend denounced its townspeople for “Corousing frolicking Cursing and Damming their own Souls and Sutch Great wickedness I Never Saw In my Life Before.” Although he disapproved of hard liquor and drank for medicinal purposes only, Wheelock established Hanover’s first tavern in 1771. Among provisions he brought with him to Hanover were eight pounds of chocolate, 31 gallons of rum, and several beaver hats for students. When smallpox broke out in 1777, Wheelock kept a room about a mile south of the Green where he could “be sick and likely die in within a few days,” he wrote, prematurely. His original gravestone, unearthed during cem- etery repairs in 1954, is stored in Rauner Library. The U.S. Navy commissioned the S.S. Eleazar Wheelock in 1942. The Liberty ship was positioned off Omaha Beach on D-Day. —COMPILED BY SUE SHOCK
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BIRTHPLACE: Windham, Connecticut PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Minister. Educator. Farmer. Founder of Dartmouth in 1769. PERSONAL: Married Sarah Davenport Maltby in 1735. After her death in 1746, he married Mary Brinsmead. He had eight children with his wives and two stepchildren. EDUCATION: Yale, class of 1733
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