Class of 1998 Newsletter Fields © Microsoft Clip Library sept BEYOND THE GREEN 2009 And now for a more personal introduction. One early March evening, two months before our baby was due, Maksim came home with the news: he had been laid off in an amazing managerial move that eliminated all but two members of his department at the pharmaceutical company where he had worked for just nine months. So here we were, two unemployed, overeducated people about to have a baby. Granted, breakfasts were IN THIS EDITION more fun in twos and impromptu trips a pleasure. A few days before the baby came, we even planned a grand escape to Utah in early fall when the baby could handle a long trip. And when I Editor’s Letter went into labor, we were watching the Mets play the Phillies in Queens at the new CitiField. We did do some work some of the time, and little work most of the time: I helped prepare Maks’s applica- This Is What tions for teaching positions and volunteered my time designing the new space for an artists’ collab- They Did! orative in Long Island City. What Did You Do? The Big Green Bus Where am I going with this, you ask? Not far, I answer. I write merely to say that what could’ve Summer 2009 Tour been a disastruous situation (and it still teeters on the brink of chaos) was actually a very pleasant experience of spending time together before our baby was to change our lives forever. What this Around the College, means for you, dear classmates, is that I did not work on a newsletter in March or April, and Past and Present nevermind in May, June, July or August. Past Presidents of Dartmouth College So here now, at the beginning of September 2009, Jeff Beyer and I are back with a vengeance, Green Gossip best like to use the forum of this newsletter, our class website, our class project, our class fundrais- joined by a tremendous group of officers who would like to hear from you as to how you would ing. Do please let us hear from you. Haste makes waste, so don’t hurry, but do write to anyone of us. A_Gabi list ofSarhos officers and emails is available to you on the following page. Cheers! sept 2009 BEYOND THE GREEN | 2 1 2 3 1 The old Big Green Bus 2008 2 Big Green Bus motto 3 New, improved Big Green Bus for the 2009 tour 4 Tracing the bus across the land, summer 2009 itinerary 5 The Big Green Bus returns to campus after their summer 2009 tour across the nation This Is What They Did! What Did You Do? The Big Green Bus Summer 2009 Tour 5 Photo by Joseph Mehling ‘69 | 3 4 Thoughts? Ideas? Must be heard? Want to get involved? Write to anyone of us at the email addresses below. Class of ‘98 Executive Committee Photos and Graphic from Big Green Bus.org Officers Anil Doshi, President [email protected] Eric Petitt, VP many people, and made a showing at a [email protected] Bus have taken a trip across the country concerts and events where they could For five summers, the folks at Big Green Jo Golub, Secretary in a uniquely Green vehicle. reach as many people as they could. All [email protected] According to the group’s web site, the bus along the way, the group posted their Rachel Drew, Treasurer burns waste vegetable oil (WVO), which observations, discoveries, and dialogues [email protected] is the leftover oil used in deep fryers in a blog entitled: The Big Green Bus—15 Co-Head Agents to cook food. The waste vegetable oil is Students, 12,000 miles and 1 Waste Veggie collected from various sources, pumped Oil Powered Bus on a Mission for a Greener Marene Jennings [email protected] Tomorrow. out any particles down to a half micron, Abby Smith through a series of filters which strain and is then heated before going to the en- Marissa Knodel ‘09, an Environmental [email protected] gine. There’s more to this process, which Studies major with a minor in Public Pol- icy and International Relations, posted a Webmaster Green Bus have outlined nicely in words number of eco-tips. She posted one of my Jon Drew for our benefit the good folks at the Big [email protected] and a graphic: http://www.thebiggreen- favorite eco-tips from Arizona, writing bus.org/the_bus/how_it_works.html. that “in Phoenix, Arizona, the desert heat Newsletter Editors makes a green, grassy lawn a very water- Who are the folks behind the Big Green Gabi Sarhos Bus? They are a group of Dartmouth intensive and high-maintenance endeav- [email protected] College students out to change the or. Instead, many homeowners practice Jeff Beyer world—some new, some long-time envi- xeriscaping and xerogardening: the use of [email protected] ronmentalists—”driven and united in a sand, rocks, drought-resistant plants, and common belief that a group of enthusias- other techniques that reduce the need for 15th Reunion Chair tic, informed individuals armed with the supplemental irrigation.” I love the idea Javier Garcia [email protected] right information can change the world and the sound of xerogardening. for the better. “ Sounds like a fun summer to me. Read Alumni Council Chosing to spend the summer together, more about their travels, inroads, and To be announced these committed students are out to challenges at their website www.thebig- “teach Americans about climate change Mini-Reunion Chairs greenbus.org where they provide links to and the energy issues facing our nation, To be announced as well as—and this is the important news items, photos and more. part—what they can do about it.” This is what they did. Now, I’d love to Members-At-Large To be announced Starting out in Hanover, then to New hear what you did during your summer, York on June 17, the group travelled whether work or play, large or small. many miles, spoke with legislators, met Write to me at [email protected]. sept 2009 BEYOND THE GREEN | 4 Around the College, Past and Present Presidents of Dartmouth College As Dartmouth welcomes its seventeenth president’s job description—“The Opportunity president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, we at the news- for Leadership at Dartmouth” found at letter took this opportunity to revisit the past www.dartmouth.edu/presidentsearch—was and maybe learn from it. Whether short-lived a lengthy manifesto for the college’s future, or long-lasting, each presidency left its legacy, Dr. Kim’s tenure promises to be a challenging each man made his mark. Given that the new and an interesting one. We wish him luck! Graphics, Gabi Sarhos Info, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~presoff/succession/ 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (1769–1779) John Wheelock, 1771 (1779–1815) Rev. Francis Brown, 1805 (1815–1820) Rev. Daniel Dana, 1788 (1820–1821) Is There A Secret Formula? The College’s longest running Rev. Bennet Tyler (1822–1828) presidencies may hold some Rev. Nathan Lord (1828–1863) answers Asa Dodge Smith, 1830 (1863–1877) Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett, 1836 (1877–1892) Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (1769–1779) War. While his relationship with the state legisla- ture led to a legal crisis for the College and cast a Eleazar Wheelock founded Dartmouth College in shadow over his administration, Dartmouth made 1769 and served as its first president. Wheelock had tremendous progress under his leadership. Two of Under the leadership of Nathan Lord Dartmouth earlier established Moor’s Charity School in Leba- the College’s most renowned alumni, Daniel Webster enjoyed considerable growth, both in student en- non, Connecticut, to provide education to young (1801) and Sylvanus Thayer (1807) graduated during rollments and in the physical campus. But many of American Indian men and train them for missionary his tenure, and he was instrumental in founding the Lord’s strongly held views brought him into conflict work. Hoping to expand his school into a college, fourth medical school in the nation in 1797 under Dr. but unable to gain a charter in Connecticut, Whee- with the campus and the external world. He looked lock looked to the north, where settlements were Nathan Smith. John Wheelock also began building on academic awards and other symbols of student growing and, with them, the need for educational the historic Dartmouth Hall, which has become one achievement as subversive forces in what he consid- institutions. Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian and of the country’s best-known collegiate buildings. ered to be the higher pursuits of virtue and wisdom, one of Wheelock’s first students, was instrumental in and held strong pro-slavery views. As the nation making Wheelock’s dream a reality by raising funds Rev. Nathan Lord (1828–1863) entered into Civil War, those views became more and more repugnant to Dartmouth’s constituencies, and goodwill from English and Scottish missionary The relative brevity of the Dana and Tyler adminis- including several prominent alumni, among them organizations. Devoted to the College he had carved trations was more than offset by the long tenure of Amos Tuck (1835) and Gilman Marston (1837), a out of the wilderness, Wheelock was also thoroughly President Nathan Lord.