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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 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

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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

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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. , 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/

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John Wheelock, 1771 (1779–1815)

Rev. Francis Brown, 1805 (1815–1820)

Rev. , 1788 (1820–1821) Is There A Secret Formula? The College’s longest running Rev. (1822–1828) presidencies may hold some Rev. (1828–1863) answers , 1830 (1863–1877)

Rev. , 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, enjoyed considerable growth, both in student en- non, , 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. 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 (1835) and Gilman Marston (1837), a out of the wilderness, Wheelock was also thoroughly President Nathan Lord. A graduate of Bowdoin Col- general in the Union Army. Finally, in 1863, the Dart- practical and throughout the difficult years of the lege and a Congregational minister, Lord remained mouth Trustees were asked to remove Dr. Lord from Revolutionary War forged the political alliances and at the helm of Dartmouth College for 35 years, longer office. Instead, he tendered his resignation. raised the funds necessary to keep the fledgling than any president except John Wheelock. Lord enterprise open. was an independent thinker, an athlete and a strict , disciplinarian. He is said to have preached scripture Class of 1901 (1916–1945) John Wheelock, from memory, unbeknownst to his audience to whom Class of 1771 (1779–1815) his eyes were always camouflaged by dark glasses. At the dedication of the Hopkins Center in 1962, John Wheelock assumed the presidency of Dart- Lord was also a prodigious fund raiser, establish- the speaker, then-Governor of Nelson mouth upon his father’s death in 1779. Neither a ing the College’s first alumni association and A. Rockefeller ‘30, turned to the man for whom cleric nor an academic, Dartmouth’s second and securing $50,000 in a general solicitation that the building was named and said, “I came to youngest president was confronted with the task enabled Dartmouth to build Thornton and Wentworth Dartmouth because of you.” of building up Dartmouth’s finances and physical Halls, the two Greek Revival buildings flanking A Dartmouth graduate himself, Ernest Martin Hop- resources after the ravages of the Revolutionary Dartmouth Hall. kins did not fit the typical mold of a college president Left to right: The previous sixteen presidents of Dartmouth College, starting with Rev. Eleazar Wheelock and ending with James E. Wright.

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Asa Dodge Smith, 1830 (1863–1877)

Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett, 1836 (1877–1892)

Rev. , 1861 (1893–1909)

Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–1916)

Ernest Martin Hopkins, 1901 (1916–1945)

John Sloan Dickey, 1929 (1945–1970)

when he was selected by the Trustees in 1916. He John George Kemeny (1970–1981) was not an academic, had never held a teaching position and had spent the bulk of his career in the David Thomas McLaughlin, 1954 & T1955 (1981–1987) business world. But any doubts about his leader- ship qualities were quickly dispelled and he showed James Oliver Freedman (1987–1998) himself to be a champion of academic freedom in Management at the outset of World War II. President an era when that basic tenet of scholarship was Hopkins was the recipient of at least 15 honor- James E. Wright (1998–2009) under attack. ary degrees, and, while president of Dartmouth, As a young man growing up in , he declined an invitation to serve as president of the worked in a granite quarry and decided to attend in order, according to a 1964 was committed to making Dart- Dartmouth for his undergraduate education over the New York Times obituary, “to continue development mouth the best liberal arts college in the country. stern objections of his father. So strong were the of his ideas of what an undergraduate liberal arts A graduate of Dartmouth (1929) and Harvard Law impressions he made in Hanover during his student education should encompass.” The articulation School, he had a varied career before assuming years that then-President William Jewett Tucker of these ideas during the Hopkins administration the presidency: partner at a major law firm, employed him as a clerk and supported him with a has become an enduring legacy that continues at special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State scholarship during the depression of the 1890s. Dartmouth today. and later to the Secretary of State, a member of the The administration of Ernest Martin Hopkins Office of Inter-American Affairs and the division of John Sloan Dickey, spanned two world wars and he was called to serve World Trade Intelligence, and Director of the State his country on several occasions. In World War I he Class of 1929 (1945–1970) Department’s Office of Public Affairs. Even after he was named Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Regularly welcoming freshmen at Convocation assumed office in 1945 he was a principal actor in Relations and served in the Office of Production and with the phrase “your business here is learning,” >> continued on page 7 sept 2009 BEYOND THE GREEN | 6

would be thrilled to learn that, with last - season’s accomplishments, he is now ed to lock themselves in a room together Green Gossip techies and film/tv producers who decid with Jeff Beyer fantasy football league in which I also a web application that allows users to the “first ever two-time winner” of the and nerd out.” Animoto’s first release is participate, along with other ’98s David upload photos which are then turned into Pichler, Noah Schneiderman, Steve professionally produced videos using the Zrike, Josh Freeman, and Dong Shen. company’s patent-pending technology. GreetingsI wanted to fellow begin ’98s! by extending a hearty In fact, at the time this newsletter is go- Anomito’s been getting a lot of buzz and congratulations, on behalf of the entire ing to press, preparations for the 2009 winning lots of web awards, so we look class, to four well-deserving members of season are well under way. forward to following Brad’s and Jason’s Class of ’98 who were inducted this past progress in this exciting endeavor. If all This past spring, we heard from Peter May into the Wearers of the Green— goes well, perhaps Animoto’s plans to ac- Lanfer, who checked in from Los Ange- Dartmouth’s Athletics Hall of Fame. les, proudly reporting on several guest- quire Google will come to fruition sooner Congratulations to , Brent Boehlert starring roles that his wife Sarah had Jeff Tam-Sing, Giancarlo Corti and Joe of catching up with Michelyne Pinard been featured in on the small-screen. rather than later! I also had the pleasure , all members of the national Fitzgerald Sarah appeared in an episode of “Castle” over the summer. Michelyne is entering champion men’s water polo team back on ABC, and in an episode of “In Plain her eighth season as the head coach of in 1997. The Wearers of the Green was Sight” on the USA Network. Sarah also the Williams College women’s soccer pro- founded in 1984 and an induction cer- landed a series regular role on an new gram. Michelyne’s teams have achieved ABC show called “Inside the Box.” And, fantastic success in recent years, includ- The honor bestowed upon Brent, Jeff, Gi- ing posting a 19-1-1 record last season, emony occurs just once every five years. of course, the big question – will we be ancarlo and Joe is truly one of the highest seeing Sarah in any more episodes of an undefeated conference record and that an athlete at the College can attain. “Mad Men” this summer and fall? Peter, conference championship, and a run all Also in awards news, we’ve received ear- ly word that Belinda Chiu will be receiv- comes word from Jim Hunnicutt, who NCAA tournament. While Michelyne was be sure to let us know! Also out West the way to the national semifinals of the ing one of the College’s 2009-10 Young recently departed from his former Salt Alumni Distinguished Service Awards accomplishments with the Williams soc- extremely humble about her significant next spring. A hearty congratulations to own and co-found his very own law cer program, she did offer that she was Lake City law firm to forge out on his Belinda, and we hope to catch up more practice, Hunnicutt & Curtis, PLLC. absolutely “loving working with such with you between now and when you for- According to the announcement of his amazing young people.” Catherine Ster- ling also checked in earlier this year to - pass along a new home address: P.O. Box mallyRyan Broderickreceive your checked award in May,a while 2010! back firm’s opening (which I was thrilled to tation for a wide array of legal issues, 401, Kents Hill, 04349. from New York, where he and his wife receive), Jim’s new firm offers represen including divorce and family law, busi- Irene are currently living after return- In baby news, I heard through the grape- ness and commercial matters, and con- ing from a stint in Boston, where, after tract and construction disputes. Best of medical school, Ryan did postgraduate member of the Columbia Journalism luck on running your own practice, Jim. vine that journalist/anchor/newscaster/ training at Brigham and Women’s Hos- School faculty-extraordinaire Jamie pital. When Ryan and I chatted recently, And from the West Coast back to the Bedrin gave birth to a lovely baby boy, he let me know that he is a cardiology East Coast, an interesting article crossed Henry, in early March of this year. Con- fellow at New York-Presbyterian Hos- my desk this past June, regarding the pital, where in a “how many Dartmouth New York-based production company overdue baby news, Kim (Rogers) Leslie gratulations Jamie! In slightly more doctors can work at the same hospital” Animoto Productions, whose co-found- checked in a while back to report that coincidence, James Horowitz is also a ers include Brad Jefferson and Jason she and her husband, Jason, welcomed cardiology fellow. Ryan also thought that Hsiao. As their highly entertaining web- their new baby daughter, Indigo Wild the other members of the Class of ’98 site explains, the company is a “bunch of Leslie into the world last December 2, | 7

>> presidencies continued from page 5 As you can see below, we have lots of fun with baby public policy, serving on President Truman’s 1947 Committee on Civil Rights, the United pictures here at the newsletter, so send us pictures Nations Collective Measures Committee in 1951, of your little angels/angelinas. and as consultant to Secretary of State Acheson on disarmament.

John Sloan Dickey’s commitment to the liberal arts, or, as he termed them “the liberating arts,” was perhaps best expressed in an innovative 2008. And from the sounds of it, Indigo course on “Great Issues,” designed to intro- duce seniors to the problems of national and turned one month old, owing to the mas- international relations they would face as citizens. got her first skiing in before she had even President Dickey also reintroduced doctoral sive amounts of powdery snow that hit programs to Dartmouth, as well as a Northern the Hood River, Oregon area right around Studies program and a Russian Civilization department. Dickey sought to expand the horizons of currently reside at P.O. Box 1714, Hood Dartmouth beyond Hanover and introduced foreign the time she was born! Kim and family studies programs, a public affairs internship, and River, Oregon 97031. Kim also passed various social action programs. The William Jewett along the news that Anna (Moran) Tucker Foundation was opened by President Dickey, Anderson also gave birth to a baby girl, offering students opportunity and academic credit for social activism. Lauryn, also on December 2, 2008. With above Papa Maks Royzen and Mama Gabi the same birthday and their moms being During his 25-year tenure, President Dickey headed Sarhos take a self portrait with baby two capital campaigns, doubled African American old Dartmouth friends and former room- below Pavl Ioan Sarhos Royzen student enrollment, reinvigorated the Dartmouth mates, wouldn’t it make sense for Indigo Medical School, built the Hopkins Center and insti- and Lauryn to end up going to Dartmouth tuted continuing education for alumni. Consistent together? with his concern for awareness of and involvement in the great movements of the time, he saw the In addition, Class Treasurer Rachel emerging importance of computers—a field then in its infancy—and built the Kiewit Computation gave birth to a baby (Bogardus) Drew Center in 1966. After stepping down as president, he boy, Aaron, in April. Aaron joins big sister continued his affiliation with the College by teaching Leah in the ever-growing Drew family. Canadian-American relations as the Bicentennial Professor of Public Affairs. Rachel and her husband Jonathan Drew live in Arlington, MA. Rachel was, up until Text courtesy of Trustees of Dartmouth College, Aaron’s birth, working at Harvard Uni- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/succesion/ versity at a research center that studies but departed last spring. Rachel is taking housing policy (for more than 7 years!) advantage of the summer to spend some Inauguration of Jim Yong Kim time with the family before beginning a 17th President of Dartmouth Ph.D. in public policy at the University of September 21 and 22, 2009 this coming fall. Best of Jim Yong Kim will be inaugurated least, my co-newsletter editor, Gabi Sar- as Dartmouth’s 17th president on luck, Rachel! And last, but certainly not hos and husband Maksim Royzen ‘98, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 in a formal welcomed a lovely baby boy – Pavl Ioan ceremony at 11 a.m. on the Dart- Sarhos Royzen – into the world on the mouth Green. The ceremony will be evening of May 8, 2009. Congratulations broadcast live via webcast on the to all of the new moms and dads in the Dartmouth homepage. Class of 1998, and best of luck and health Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 for the remainder of 2009.

That’s it for now. Please keep those green Social Change. Spaulding Auditorium. 4 p.m. Reflections on Leadership for cards coming, or even better, shoot me Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 an e-mail, day or night, to jeffrey.beyer@ 11 a.m. Inauguration of President Jim gmail.com to let me know what’s being Yong Kim. The Green. going on in your lives. Looking forward to hearing from you. Until next time!! Bonfire © Dora Fang, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorafang/

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