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That said, DAM should have provided additional ist, xenophobic, and homophobic ideas. context and more rounded reporting to explain the role of Carlson’s show in to- As an institution we may have no choice day’s political culture. The magazine’s editorial board and I have held extensive but to tolerate the existence of The Review discussions about your feedback and the shortcomings in our story. The editors on campus, but for DAM to highlight how will be more rigorous moving forward. one of its alums has now gone on to pro- A week after DAM published the issue, CNN reported on July 10 that Neff mote hateful ideas on a national scale with had posted racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments on an online forum Carlson is a bridge too far. THISTLE HILL RETREAT GOOSE POND FOREST PRESERVE LAKE FAIRLEE WATERFRONT ESTATE using a pseudonym. 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A number of alumni wrote letters to express their dismay at Neff and the POMFRET, VT | $1,775,000 | MLS# 4811307 CANAAN, NH | MULTI-PRICED LOTS FAIRLEE, VT | $2,200,000 | MLS# 4813770 Dartmouth has wonderful alumni doing magazine, and we’re devoting extra pages to include many of them in this issue. DEREK COSENTINO | C: 802.369.0268 EVAN PIERCE | C: 201.401.4934 PENNY LOSCHIAVO | C: 802.299.7738 important work, but in light of the racist, We published all letters on our website in early August. misogynistic, and homophobic comments One thing I noticed in the letters: some misunderstanding about DAM’s re- that he has posted online over the past few lationship to the College. As the masthead says: “Editorially independent since years, Neff is not one of them. Please re- 1905.” DAM’s mission, according to its charter, is to deliver “news of the College move your profile of him in the current and its alumni, provide a medium for the exchange of views concerning College magazine. The College has nothing to be affairs, and in other ways provide editorial content that relates to the shared and proud of in calling him an alumnus. diverse experiences and interests of Dartmouth alumni.” SHARON GRAYZEL ’87 To those who wrote to ask if DAM is somehow proud of Neff, the emphatic PEACEFUL COUNTRY SETTING TREETOPS COMPLEX IMAGINATIVE RESTORATION Portland, Oregon answer is no. The editors condemn Neff’s reprehensible actions, which in no way Quality crafted home at the end of a private road A seventy-five unit complex combines features of urban This totally repurposed 1909 library building is a landmark reflect the views of this magazine. with nearby trails, skiing, and parks completes the contemporary style with a New England setting. Covered with a prime West Lebanon location. Currently configured Unfortunate timing for the Neff profile, Thank you for writing, and thank you for reading. 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Given Carlson’s regular racist, only imagine the impact on students and into a highly remunerative career path and sexist, and false remarks, the institution alumni of color. how frequently they are mentioned in this could easily have anticipated that at one DAFNA SARNOFF ’85 publication. CEDAR SPRING FARM ON 114 ACRES CONNECTICUT RIVER FRONTAGE LUXURY AND SOPHISTICATION point Neff would cross the line. New York City I cannot be the only alumna who cring- A horseman’s paradise! Well known state-of -the-art training, This historically significant property boasts over 700 feet Offering 13 private acres of elegant oasis with exquisite ERIN KLEIN ’13 es whenever someone like Neff makes the rehab and breeding barn with 26 stalls and Kentucky style of Connecticut River frontage, extreme views of Vermont’s landscaping, mountain views, and access to hiking trails. Chicago It should be noted that Neff began his il- riding arena, plus a custom timber frame home. Mt. Ascutney, and surrounding beautiful farm fields. MANCHESTER, VT | $4,900,000 | MLS# 4813653 lustrious career in journalism at The Re- CHARLOTTE, VT | $2,425,000 CORNISH, NH | $249,000 | MLS# 4798470 ADRIENNE SHERWOOD | C: 802.688.3342 DOTTIE WALLER | C: 802.343.4370 TYLER HALL | C: 802.359.2687 LYNN RAWSON | D: 802.362.8022 Really? Out of all the remarkable Dartmouth view. Neff’s journey from being a bigot in WRITE TO US alumni since 1769, you had to pick Neff? a small town in New Hampshire to being a We welcome letters. The editor reserves the ETHAN BRAUNSTEIN ’67 bigot on the national stage should remind right to determine the suitability of letters Flagstaff, Arizona us that The Review remains a stain on the for publication and to edit them for accuracy Dartmouth experience and serves only to and length. We regret that not all letters can be published, nor can they be returned. You picked the wrong person to lionize. create a pathway to influence and fame for Letters should run no more than 200 words The Dartmouth Review tormented Native the worst of our College. Yet again, The Re- in length, refer to material published in the and Black students for years. We were tor- view and its alums have brought shame to magazine, and include the writer’s full name, mented by the Neffs of the world at a Col- our great institution. address, and telephone number. 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news for a provocative tweet or screed, then I was so disappointed to find out that Neff is just right and wrong. of, Carlson and his racism and misogyny. It important intelligence work during World in his answers to the questions about his earns another mention in an alumni publi- is a Dartmouth alum. We certainly do not MIRIAM INGBER ’01 AND PETER VASSILEV ’00 would appear to be a pretty clear call that War II and knew far more than he was becoming a welding teacher and how he cation. What responsibility do we have as want to celebrate him. He’s offensive and Westport, Connecticut this son of Dartmouth’s accomplishments telling. describes one of his toughest assignments, an institution to opt out of promoting those an embarrassment. do not deserve celebration. The embarrass- What has stayed with me all these when he had to weld upside down using a alumni whose careers are a constant test LAURA FRIEDMAN KLEIN ’91 What a “nice” coincidence to have Carol ment from Neff’s resignation because of years was his explanation of the knowl- mirror for orientation. of the line between political opinion and Brookeville, Maryland Muller’s interview [“A Failure to Dig Deep- his own postings of racist and misogynistic edge Prime Minister Churchill and the Al- Also on page 17, “Blast from the Past” inflammatory hate speech? Is it necessary er,” July/August] on the same wall space views under the shield of a pseudonym is lies had of the Nazi extermination camps describes the time when the Spanish to write sympathetically about convicted Yet another member of The Review joins as the recognition of Neff’s achievements! just confirmation. and the decision they came to with respect influenza epidemic of 1918 hit campus. felon Dinesh D’Souza ’83? Must a book by the ranks of the disgraced. I’m rolling on Reminders of a couple of Dartmouth’s lega- While Dartmouth is a great institution, to how to deal with them. Our leaders un- Students’ isolation and restrictions then Laura Ingraham ’85 be noticed? the floor laughing my ass off as I wallow in cies—of John Kemeny, an important mentor not everything its alumni do is great, even derstood that until armies on the ground mirror some of those we see today, with When alumni profit from white su- schadenfreude. of mine [who oversaw Dartmouth’s decision if influential. I am sure there are many like could actually reach them, there was little the coronavirus slamming communities premacy and exclusionary politics that JOHN CHAMBERLIN ’70 to go coed], and also of the College’s insular, me—who graduated and, without fanfare, that could be done to help them. Perhaps so hard. conflict directly with the College’s values, Falls Church, Virginia sometimes racist and sexist, environment. worked hard and became leaders in their more significant was the decision that if Joy opposing misery. The placement of why must we remain neutral? Plenty of NEIL HENRY, ADV’60 communities—who have a difficult time the Nazis were willing to divert precious these two succinct and pithy articles side- other media outlets with distributions Yet again I find myself incredibly disap- Richmond, Virginia seeing their values in this editorial choice. resources from the fight to prevent the ad- by-side was most intriguing and heartfelt. exponentially greater than DAM’s will pointed by Dartmouth. It is totally appalling It is possible someone may wish to turn vance of the Allied armies to the operation Well done. continue covering their every utterance. that DAM would publish a feature on Neff. As a parent of a Dartmouth ’16, ’18, and ’21 my comments into a partisan attack. Noth- of these camps, our leaders were prepared FIONA BAYLY ’89 We cannot revoke their diplomas or deny Regardless of the fact that he was just re- as well as the wife of a Tuck board member, ing could be further from my point. There to permit them to do so, as the “better” of New York City their alumni status, but let’s at least decide cently caught posting racist and misogynist I am horrified by the news of Neff and his are legitimate and illegitimate conservative the choices available. to stop including notices about them in diatribes online, he writes for a racist and racist posts. I would hope that DAM will perspectives just as there are legitimate Those of us who were children during In the Booth alumni publications. misogynist TV host and lets us know that hold Neff accountable and run a follow- and illegitimate liberal perspectives. Carl- World War II and came of age during the Thank you for profiling Aileen Chaltain ANDREA GREER ’93 those are his words that Carlson is saying on up article condemning Neff and exploring son, and the hateful words he spews, bear Korean and Cold wars, and actually met [“Look Who’s Talking,” July/August]. I ush- Houston TV. He’s proud of that, of course, but should the role Dartmouth has played, if any, in almost no resemblance to, for example, and knew at Dartmouth refugees from the ered at the Hopkins Center during my four DAM be? I fail to understand how someone forming or allowing his racist views and George Will, David Brooks, and The Wall 1956 rebellion in Hungary, learned that years at Dartmouth, first as a volunteer and Congratulations on your timely piece about writing for a TV personality who has a clear the College’s current race culture. Street Journal. in the field of ethical and moral decision- then as a paid head usher. Aileen was the Neff on the eve of his firing. Have you con- disdain for women and for people of color SONIA F. MCARDLE GEORGE STRANDER ’84 making the predominant “color” is “gray.” manager at that time, and it’s wonderful to sidered running similar articles about should be celebrated. Does the College feel Chicago Albion, Michigan That is why it is so disappointing that the hear that she is still a leader at the Hop all Dartmouth grads serving time on death row proud of the job it did educating [Neff] if teachers and administrators of our current these years later. I have excellent memories or in hospitals for the criminally insane? these are the views he graduated with? I The timing of the article highlighting Neff Good Question generation of “woke” students have failed of the movies and musical and theatrical GREG PRENTISS ’66 would hope the College is working to edu- may have simply been unfortunate, and “My Arrest” [“Personal History,” July/Au- to help them learn that in matters of good performances that occurred. I also fondly Lakeview, Arkansas cate and graduate students who value and DAM would never knowingly publish a gust] by Keith Boykin ’87 was timely and and evil there are few vivid “colors” to as- remember the monthly head usher meet- celebrate diversity and graduating white glowing article about an alum who proudly alarming. Why would a Black CNN politi- sist us. The world is far from as simple as ings led by Aileen. Her warmth and humor To find a feature in the most recent issue people who understand the privilege that espouses racism, homophobia, and sex- cal reporter and teacher at Columbia Uni- they apparently believe. really made the job fun. about Neff under the headline “The Right they were born with and that they carry as ism. We are hoping that his unmasking and versity, who was photographing a protest ALAN M. SHAVER ’60 ELIZABETH TERRY ’92 Stuff” is truly disgusting. It gets worse. Ivy League graduates. Lord knows the Col- subsequent dismissal from Fox was exactly on New York City’s streets after George Brunswick, Maine Cambridge, Massachusetts The magazine flippantly adds that Mr. Neff lege needs more diversity—and celebrating at the same time as this article was being Floyd’s murder, get arrested? Boykin con- worked for The Daily Caller as if it were graduates such as Neff certainly won’t help written, printed, and mailed. veys the absurdity of his experience—ar- President Thad! Cover Offense some innocuous broadsheet instead of a it attract a student body population that it Neff does not reflect conservatism, and rested and in the custody of the NYPD for I enjoyed the “Dad Thad” piece [May/ Your choice of Lis Smith ’05 and the man- publication that has published a number of needs to be a successful school. he does not live up to the standards of being six hours that ended with him locked up June]. I loved Dean Seymour. He was as ner of representing her on the cover of white supremacists, anti-Semites, and big- BROOKE LIERMAN ’01 a daughter or son of Dartmouth College let in a jail cell with 34 other inmates before fine a man as I’ve ever known. He talked DAM [“Trail Blazer,” January/February] ots. DAM owes the Dartmouth community Baltimore alone a human being with any level of basic he was released. He was simply a middle- me out of dropping out when I was a scared offends me, as I can determine no merit in an apology. People such as Neff, Laura In- human decency. aged Black reporter photographing another freshman. He loaned me his car to pick up her style, substance, or attraction as it per- graham, and Dinesh D’Souza should never My husband and I are both alums and were We are ashamed to see that he is an protest. I hope DAM prints more about the my date in “White Rivah,” Vermont. tains to what I hoped from my Dartmouth be featured. These people have no business frankly appalled to see the article about alumnus but unfortunately not surprised words, thoughts, and actions of Black and My six college warnings brought us up experience of the early 1960s. Many of us being anywhere near the Dartmouth we Neff. To have that article come out the that he is a former Review staffer. His in- white undergraduates who are working close and personal on many occasions. did not learn to drink responsibly, regard all love. week Carlson besmirched Tammy Duck- tolerance and cruelty is typical of some of hard to help release all of us from the grip I’ll never forgive Dartmouth for not women respectfully, or have the privilege NICK BERNSTEIN ’84 worth—a disabled woman of color and war the more notable Review alums. of systemic racism. naming him president. He would have of matriculating with them. Perhaps this Brooklyn, New York hero—was ridiculous. And Carlson is so Please write an addition or correction WILLIAM HENGST ’61 been perfect. is why I shed my graduation gown faster racist and sexist that many advertisers acknowledging who and what Neff is and Philadelphia MARSH POTTERTON ’62 than Houdini shed a strait jacket when There is no place for the racist, sexist com- will not even pay for ads on his show. But what he’s done, and that the College does Northfield, Illinois immersed 20 feet in New York Harbor, ments of Neff in the Dartmouth commu- I held off on saying anything until learning not condone his vile views and, in fact, ab- Spy Games anxious to see the real world again at last. nity. I’m incredibly embarrassed to have why Neff had to resign from Fox News. I hors and rejects them. The Rick Beyer ’78 article, “The Professor Doubleplusgood Your choice of adulating Smith graphically graduated the same year. The recent article am shocked but not surprised. This is ex- IKE ANYANWU-EBO ’94, TH’96, Was a Spy” [July/August], took me back One particularly excellent page from the and pictorially must offend a great many misrepresents what kind of person he is actly the kind of person who would commit AND CARMEN HARDEN ’96 to the pleasure experienced when I took May/June edition of DAM both delighted women and men who were culled from the and undesirably draws more attention to themselves to working for Carlson. You Thornton, Colorado professor Eldredge’s course on propaganda and fascinated me. The “Look Who’s Talk- best of the best to benefit from Dartmouth. I his connection with Dartmouth. owe all of us an apology for normalizing in my senior year. I disagree, however, that ing” column on page 17 featured Jimmy had hoped my College had come a long way. JANE CAI ’13 and glamorizing this work. There aren’t I was disappointed to see your piece on “his students never knew.” It was eminently Martell, the College welder, with great hu- PETER DORSEN ’66 New York City two sides to every story. Sometimes there Neff, a kindred spirit with, and mouthpiece clear to us that Eldredge had engaged in mor and spark (pun intended). I delighted Eagan, Minnesota

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WASHINGTON CAPITALS PHOTOGRAPHY CAPITALS WASHINGTON —Sean Plottner SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 17 BY THE NUMBERS CAMPUS notes from around the green LOOK WHO’S TALKING “I think > MATTHEW DELMONT Professor of history and burnout is special advisor to the president a real Varsity Blues

VISITING VOICES issue.” COMMENCEMENT ▲ 1,914 Degrees conferred Can you explain the purpose of your new role in during the virtual the president’s office? ceremony June 14 Trying to provide advice to Dartmouth leadership about how Dartmouth can do better to serve stu- CLASS OF 2020 dents, faculty, and staff of color. I don’t have decision- On July 9 the College announced making power. Part of my job is to convey a sense the elimination of five varsity sports: of urgency and possibility to leadership, to push both swimming and diving teams, them to do things they might not normally be both golf teams, and the men’s ICONOGRAPHY 12 comfortable doing. lightweight rowing team. Valedictorians and Additionally, Hanover Country Club salutatorians “The guardians What’s your most important goal? has been shuttered. Winds of Change recognized at Increasing the number and success of faculty Commencement of the status quo Controversial weathervane comes down for good. are always on of color on campus. On June 25, after nearly a century atop the highest point What are the current numbers on that SPORTS 110 > on Dartmouth’s campus, Baker Library’s weathervane hand with their front? Athletes who played for was taken down from its perch. In the weeks leading up to its The number of Black faculty has remained the cut teams removal, students and alumni joined a petition that criticized oxygen tents to around 3 percent for nearly two decades. 0 The College is much more diverse at the un- the weathervane’s design for its “racist” and “stereotypical” Athletic contests to keep the old portrayal of Native Americans. be held by Ivy League dergraduate level than it was two decades The weathervane depicts Dartmouth’s founder, Eleazer schools this fall. There order alive.” ago. The faculty hasn’t kept pace, and that Wheelock, sitting on a stump above a feather-clad Native will be no sports until —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., MAY 23, 1962, poses a problem because a lot of students 15 Positions cut from the athletics at least January. IN 105 DARTMOUTH HALL of color turn to faculty of color as mentors, American man smoking a pipe. A round object—presumed to department, including eight coaches be a barrel of rum—rests behind Wheelock. as advisors, and that places a tremendous “It was a lampoon of Native Americans that shouldn’t have amount of pressure on those faculty. I think taken 92 years to come down,” says David Vincelette ’84, who burnout is a real issue. created the online petition in late May demanding the weath- How do other Ivy schools compare? ervane’s removal. It garnered nearly 900 signatures. $2 million Dartmouth has a national reputation, earned or Amount the College claims it The removal marks the College’s latest step in addressing unearned, as a particularly white space among will reap in savings from the course its historically troubled relationship with Indigenous peoples. the Ivies. More so than Columbia, Penn, even and team cuts Though chartered as an institution for educating “youth of Harvard, it’s seen as a very kind of white, coun- the Indian tribes,” Dartmouth did not graduate its first Native try clubish college. On the faculty side, none of American student until 20 years after its founding. Two years the Ivies are doing very well. I really think that if ago Dartmouth relocated its controversial Hovey murals— Dartmouth were to commit to this seriously, in five to which illustrate a legend of the College’s creation involving seven years we could be the leader among Ivies. We’re 18 visibly inebriated Native American men and half-nude Native a small enough institution that making real com- Years since the swimming and American women. The weathervane, to art history professor diving teams were last dropped by mitments to this can move the needle very quickly. the College, before reinstatement Marlene Heck, was yet another “expansion of the myth” that What do you think of the College’s goal to have for 2003 Wheelock successfully educated and evangelized Native Ameri- 25-percent minority faculty by 2025? cans. Meanwhile, Native American iconography still appears in other places on campus, such as chandeliers featuring “Indian I don’t think that’s a super-ambitious goal. If we just heads” in the Paganucci Lounge in ’53 Commons. keep doing business as usual, we’re not going to get The process of taking down the weathervane was “pretty there. 98 quick and easy,” according to capital renewal project manager How do you respond to people who claim racism is Years since Hanover Country Club Patrick O’Hern. The College initially considered bringing in a not an issue on campus? added nine holes to become an helicopter for the job, but a crane proved to be a more efficient Listen to members of our community to understand 18-hole course option. Around 7:30 on the morning of its removal, the crane lifted how the Dartmouth experience is different for dif- two workmen to the top of Baker Library, where they hooked ferent people. I think this is true for students, it’s the weathervane onto a basket and brought it to the ground. true for faculty, for staff, it’s true for queer or dis- The 600-pound copper relic is currently stored in an off- abled members of the community. There are plenty campus facility maintained by the Hood Museum of Art. Vice of people whose identity shapes their lived experi- 1904 Year that golf became a varsity president of communications Justin Anderson has been placed ence of Dartmouth, and I think if we are serious sport at the College. Later came in charge of a working group to produce designs for a new weath- CELESTIAL VISITOR about creating an inclusive community, we have The appearance of comet NEOWISE brought a bit of swimming (1921), lightweight rowing ervane and determine other changes to designs around campus. excitement to a hot and quiet month of July. to be willing to listen to the lived experience of (1948), women’s swimming (1973), TOP: ROB STRONG ’04; BOTTOM: ELI BURAKIAN ’00 ELI BURAKIAN BOTTOM: ’04; ROB STRONG TOP: —Elizabeth Janowski ’21 being here. —Svati Kirsten Narula ’13 and women’s golf (1981) DULLAWAY SANNA COLORIZATION COLLEGE, DARTMOUTH

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- - Circuit Court of Appeals and worked for 10 in Baltimore. She is now a high schoollitigation. teacher years asanattorney incomplex commercial care? to long so America brother orGeorge Floyd. Why hasittaken kind oftragic agony. Itdidnotstartwithmy mothers andfathers have gone through this So many Blacksisters andbrothers and who has suffered this kind of devastation. repercussions. lice officer wasshattering, anditstillhas brother’s death at thehandsofawhite po- $3.3-million settlement for ourfamily, my treated asifthey donotmatter. Despite a Black lives remain shattered whenthey’re wounds. Thepainwillnever go away. and countless others have reopened But hecannot. brightening thelives ofthose around him. He would stillbeplaying practical jokes and repairing homesfor peoplehedidnotknow. ting grass for seniors in our church and dren, ElijahandAbigail. have beenanadoringuncleto Ian’s chil on his college basketball team. Ernie would cheered ourlittle brother Ian asheplayed would have visited me at Dartmouth and would stillbea fun, supportive brother. He TRACEY R.GAINOR officers—and I have. get over thefear andhatred Ihadfor police with thestate’s attorney’s office.I wanted to to dopro bono work, Iworked inNorwalk have beenhappy. To fulfilla requirement mitted into Columbia Law School.Ishould pression senior year, even after beingad- A few friendsknew. Ifell into adeepde about theheartbreak ofmy brother’s death. spite repeated requests, henever has. But Iwanted himto say hewas sorry. De- granted himaccelerated rehabilitation. afamily to provide for.”“had Thejudge later charges against Russo andsaid theofficer later disciplined by thepolicedepartment. room roughed upjournalists, andninewere their shoulders. Officers outsidethecourt support Russo andhadtheiryoung kidson on. Somepoliceofficers actually came to charge ofunlawfully discharging hisweap Ernie would have beenvoluntarily cut- Were Erniealive today, Iimaginehe At Dartmouth I never really talked The judge was notamenableto pressing I’m not the only sister in this country The horrificmurders ofGeorge Floyd He cannot breathe anymore. I’m aChristian.Ihave forgiven Russo. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020

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25 - - - - notebook S 26 ture students whoattend StudioNorth, a the culminating achievements of architec Mount Ascutney. birch timbers that form anapse that faces service—is made of dozens of statuesque gatherings, yoga classes, even amemorial And theBirch Pavilion—a placefor family open-air structure serves as a tea house. maple syrup evaporator. Inthe summer the entirely ofsplitfirewood used to fire up a hill at theedge ofaforest, haswalls made The Consumable Sugar Shack,nestledona that glows like aJapanese lantern at night. Chapel, afiberglass-wrapped chicken coop tional architecture. There’s theChicken by Studio North workshops. architecture through his inspires unconventional Keith Moskow ’83 Space Creative in Newton, Massachusetts. After hauling at theedge ofa10-acre swath ofwetlands designed a580-square-foot gathering place architecture competition. Moskow and Linn $7,000 inmaterials, andachanceto win an our own clients.” desires and wishes. This is a chance to be take years, andwe are responding to clients’ period,” Moskow says. “Normally projects ing andbuildingastructure inaseven-day rewarding to work with students design Moskow LinnArchitects inBoston. “It’s Moskow andRobert Linn, his partner at one-week summerworkshop runby Keith

DAR ABIGAIL JONES’03 outside thebox.” “We like thinking These whimsical, artfulstructures are The ideabegan in2009, withaswamp, ARCHITECTURE sized structures that defy conven Norwich, Vermont, sitseven pint- cattered across asprawling farm in MUHAL TMOUTH UMNI MAGAZINE

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SEP EBROTBR2020 TEMBER/OCTOBER 27 ARCHITECTURE COME BACK, BRIDGE the materials into the remote location, they dollars,’ ” Moskow says. “Students learn that MAKE A DIFFERENCE built four teepee-like structures (a dining you can have a concept, but when you actu- TM hut, two sleeping huts, and a cleansing hut ally have to do it yourself, you realize how TH with a pantry, storage, and composting toi- hard it is.” Their Future JOIN THE 40 let) surrounding a central outdoor deck and Dartmouth attracts all kinds of students, fireplace. They named it Swamp Hut. but it’s a safe bet that few freshmen arrive “It wasn’t only thinking and drawing; with dreams of becoming boat builders. That ANNUAL PROUTY it was sweating and building,” Moskow was Moskow. During his off-term junior says. “We like thinking outside the box fall, he set up a shop at his parents’ house in and looking at the way you can improve an Newton, Massachusetts, and built Carolina urban situation by inserting a small piece dories—small motor boats, often used for of architecture.” commercial fishing. In search of more op- portunities to solve problems and interact with others, he became an architect. Moskow and Linn created the win- “This is a chance to ning design for Massport’s 9/11 Memo- Tuck Business Bridge rial at Logan Airport in Boston. (Moskow is a business immersion program Dean Duane Compton, PhD be our own clients.” calls it “a chapel for looking at the sky in a with Joanne Conroy, MD, ‘77, different way.”) Their 20-footIce Chimes designed to prepare top liberal arts, CEO and President Since founding their firm in 1990, he and sculpture—which creates music from col- science, and engineering students for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Linn have developed ambitious concepts lected ice and snow—was exhibited at the challenging careers in business and beyond. that challenge the fundamentals of architec- Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, then “ Prouty funds are absolutely critical when ture and everyday life. In addition to design- at Dartmouth. Their design for the Conser- In just a few weeks, the Tuck Business ing schools, offices and high-end residential vation Law Foundation headquarters won Bridge Program®, held at the Tuck investigators are getting started. These funds homes, they also have drawn up theoretical the first Sustainable Design Award from provide an immense resource to help launch projects such as a floating champagne bar the Boston Society of Architects. They are School of Business at Dartmouth, delivers that elevates above the Charles River and a now working on a 48-unit housing devel- a comprehensive business curriculum careers and support forward-thinking innovation.” space-saving rental car storage unit à la Pez opment in Newburyport, Massachusetts, taught by Tuck’s top-ranked MBA faculty, dispenser for Zipcars. with net-positive energy homes, food from a Duane Compton, PhD Swamp Hut did not win the compe- year-round greenhouse, and shared electric a capstone team project, recruiting, Dean, Geisel School of Medicine tition, but it did inspire Studio North. At vehicles powered by a solar canopy. and one-on-one career guidance, to give Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology first, even Moskow was skeptical of the idea: “As architects, we’ve done much big- “Come to Norwich, Vermont, work with two ger projects with much bigger budgets, but students the tools they need to get an architects you’ve never heard of, and de- there’s something satisfying about these internship or job and succeed. sign and build something—and by the way, little projects,” Moskow says of Studio you have to pay for the experience?” (The North. “I have 30 years of experience, and Financial aid is available! BIKE, WALK, ROW, GOLF TO FIGHT CANCER! workshop fee of $1,100 covers the cost of it’s a way to transfer some of my knowledge A premier Upper Valley event benefiting cancer research and patient supportive materials and food.) He was shocked when to another generation of architects.” 
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28 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 29 ON THE JOB Twilight ceremony notebook at Dartmouth orientation, 2018 Stories With Purpose “It is our duty to be thoughtful about what we put out into the world,” says children’s book author Minh Lê ’01. by JOSEPH BABCOCK ’08

t was 3 a.m. in early March 2015, and Minh Lê needed a new idea for his next children’s book. A call from his agent Iearlier that evening had brought good news: Illustrator Dan Santat wanted to collabo- rate. But Lê had to pitch an idea fast, in the next day or two, before Santat went on tour to celebrate winning the Caldecott Medal, the Pulitzer Prize of picture books. Lê (pronounced “lay”) had brought his newborn son home from the hospital a day earlier. Lê held his son in his arms, rock- ing the baby to sleep as he paced back and forth, brainstorming. “How do you come up with an idea for someone who just won the biggest award in children’s literature?” Lê remembers thinking. Then he spotted a Vietnamese lacquer painting hanging on the wall. It depicted a grandfather and grandson writing calligra- phy together. Something clicked. As a child, Lê had trouble communi- cating with his grandparents, who spoke only Vietnamese. “I’d go to their house and spend a lot of time with them, and I loved them so much,” Lê says. “But the fact that I couldn’t communicate with them through language was something that always gave TODAY’S STUDENTS me pause.” Lê wanted to write a story that “hon- ored the depths of love that exist there, but TOMORROW’S LEADERS also the struggles that come with not being able to communicate and having to find a way to make a connection despite that,” At Dartmouth, we are committed to preparing he says. our students to lead boldly in the world. When you The result was Drawn Together, a pic- ture book that tells the story of a young boy make a planned gift to support financial aid today, who learns to connect with his grandfather you’re creating a legacy of leadership that will last through drawing. A commercial and criti- for generations. cal success, the book won several awards, including a 2019 Asian/Pacific American Learn more: dartgo.org/giftplanning or 800-451-4067 Literature Award, and starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal, which KID STUFF action from readers. “What’s been great about having the book out described Drawn Together as “perfectly Lê believes a book has there is being out on tour and going to readings. I’ll get a lot of people paced to express universal emotions that the potential to be a who come up with a similar experience,” Lê says during a video call child’s friend for life. connect generations separated by time, His latest, Lift, was from his home north of San Diego, where he moved this year with experience, and even language.” published in May. his wife and two sons. The writer focuses mostly on the re- Lê was interested in writing children’s books even during his Dartmouth Gift Planning

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undergrad days at Dartmouth, where he majored in psychology. “I was known as the person who had a journal full of half-baked ideas,” Lê says. It wasn’t until 2014, when he was working in Washington, D.C., as an early childhood policy expert, that he first gave it a try. Lê was part of a team of federal experts who were writing the first compre- hensive national childcare regulations in nearly 20 years. During the day he examined health and safety data and anecdotes from STUDENTS AIMING FOR TOP COLLEGES: across the country on a tough subject—fa- talities in early childhood settings. Receive strategic advice, tools, and guidance from the nation’s premier It was important work and something college consultants, helping students for over 20 years. that Lê remains proud of. “But I also needed some creative relief,” he says. “To go home • Unparalleled success rate • Advising and facilitating every step of the way and write something that was also ideally • Lessen stress and increase college choices benefiting kids created a nice balance.” Lê’s first book,Let Me Finish!, came Join us for personal admissions counseling. Call or email for information. out a few years later and was selected as a “Best Book of 2016” by National Public Radio. Since then, he has written stories for three other picture books, as well as a 781.530.7088 middle-grade graphic novel for DC Comics TopTierAdmissions.com | [email protected] called Green Lantern: Legacy. His latest project is another collabora- tion with Santat. Lê says he enjoys working with the illustrator because of his artistic vision and the inspiration he brings to their projects. For example, in Drawn Together Santat, who is Thai American, created Thai characters. Lift, their new book published in May, tells the story of a young girl who discovers a magical elevator button in her bedroom that transports her to fantastical worlds. Lê sees a connection to the collaborative process of writer and illustrator working together to tell a story. “A manuscript to me is kind of like having a magic elevator button—you don’t know what’s going to happen on the other end,” he recently told an online audience. Both adults and chil- dren had logged on to watch Lê and Santat perform a live reading of Lift. “I want to create something, in partner- ship with the illustrator and the editor, that will potentially resonate with all different POLITICAL SCIENCE 102: age groups,” Lê says. “As a picture book au- Experimental Methods in Political Discourse with People whose Views May Differ Sharply from Yours thor, one of the things I love to think about is, if you do create something that really In the course of your Club membership, you’ll find that good spirits abound at the Main Bar: humungous martinis, does resonate with a kid, then that’s like a handcrafted cocktails, animated conversation —all within minutes of commuter trains and subway lines. friend the kid will take with them for their whole life.”

For information on membership and all our other offerings, The Dartmouth Club JOSEPH BABCOCK is a writer based in Cali- visit www.dartmouthclub.com or call 212.986.3232. fornia. He teaches at the University of of New York in residence at The Yale Club of New York City 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 San Diego. For more on Lê’s work, go to minhlebooks.com.

32 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE YC dartmouth ad 9.12.indd 1 9/13/12 11:40 AM notebook W 34 “upwardses andonwardses.” Acartoonist meetshismuse—and isinspired to new House Call mater. Igot hisaddress from thealumni shortened by thefact we shared analma I figured the odds of his replying would be ing to TheodorGeisel ’25, Dr. a.k.a. Seuss. improve my skills. and wouldpaid. Experience,hefelt, steadily find aplace—any place—to get published critical lookat my work andadvised meto me how hecreated hiscartoons. He took a who remains amentor andfriend,showed tion to hishome.During my visitBousquet, answered my call. Flattery got mean invita ber andwas pleasantly surprised when he in whowasist DonBousquet, enjoying success contacted legendary RhodeIslandcartoon I neededguidance.Inthespringof1984 something Ialways loved: drawing cartoons. and was deniedentry. I sent a lackluster application to grad school work before they got any career satisfaction. ever, they lamented theyears they hadto When Ispoke to thearchitects there, how before moving onto anadvanced degree. Island, with hopes of getting field experience a reputable contractor inNewport, Rhode Before graduating I secured a grunt job with goal was to becomearestoration architect. AFTER ILEFTDARTMOUTH, MYCAREER in hopeofalucky break. approach as close to the house as I could way, butuntil itdid,Iwas determined to lawn. Ianticipated trouble comingmy I took careful steps across theimmaculate Seussian creatures that might bepatrolling. security. That’s whenIgot thinkingabout against entry and threatened aresponse by the property wasn’t fenced, signswarned California,in LaJolla, Ipaused. Though plated my intention to willfullytrespass. stood fearfully before hishomeandcontem onedayabout to findout, backin1985, asI DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Yankee magazine. Ifound hisphonenum To turncartooning into apaying job, When Igot laidoff, I resorted to doing In front of his magnificent hilltop home In thefall Iplayed alongshotby writ- MENTORS of Dr. Seuss? That’s what I was tures might guard theproperty hat kind of fantastical crea ------near alarge picture window Isaw awoman, and hewould wait inthecar. seeing where Seuss lived. Iwould go in alone one of my California hosts, liked the idea of my four-year Dartmouth roommate. Badger, panying mewas Dave “Weasel” Badger ’83, by dropping inwithoutinvitation. Accom- neighborhood anddecidedto risk offense my intentions. I felt justified. I went to his I HADHISADDRESS.WARNED OF didn’t hearback. I wrote Geisel to request ameeting,butI famous penpalinLaJolla ontheitinerary. to visitfriendswithhopesofincludingmy 1985 I planned a trip to southern California to meet my unmet mentor. In the spring of a professional cartoonist. sumed theproceeds, butat 23 Ihadbecome office to pick up the $8 check likely con tol, Rhode Island. The drive to and from the Phoenix-Times Newspapers based in Bris sold my first drawing in March 1985 to the men, Iwent onaquestfor publication. I another mentor. for such a thoughtful reply. I had gained was astonished that he would take thetime sending work to prospective publishers. I He told meto keep themailmanbusy by struggle to findapublisher for hisfirst book. He urged persistence andnoted hisown aged my pursuit ofacareer asacartoonist. his two-page, typed letter Geisel encour with aone-linereturn address: Dr. Seuss. In piece ofmail.Thestationery was light blue direction. Iincludedcopiesofmy bestwork. office and reverentially wrote a request for by I started across the lawn. When I got

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STEVE BROSNIHAN have given me ahigher compliment.” drawn.” My reply isalways, “You couldn’t looks like something Dr. Seuss might have dence, Rhode Island, I often hear, “Hey—that ist at Hasbro Children’s Hospital inProvi ized children inmy role asresident cartoon six decades ofupwardses andonwardses!” note included abenedictionfor “thenext ence in my choice of our team name. His Eyed Flies!”No doubthesensed hisinflu- Team intheWorld ofSports istheCross- “OurFavoritecot withtheannouncement, had drawn a dialogue bubble from his mas own. OnhisCat intheHat stationery, Geisel Eyed Flies. Geisel included a cartoon of his own volleyball team was called theCross- short biography. Thebiomentioned that my Monthly Magazine andwere printed witha lished cartoons. They appeared inVolleyball cluded acopy ofmy first nationally pub spring Ihadsent himapackage that in from Seuss, thisonehandwritten. That could have spent more timewithme. much better. She wrote that Seuss wished he he’d spent timeinthehospital butwas now he had been very ill the day I visited and that sent by his secretary, letting me know that piece ofmailfrom Seuss. Itwas anapology what might befollowing me. retired across thelawn, stilljittery about hand, thanking him for his kindness. I then once again shookthat marvelously talented hospital that afternoon. Iunderstood and He hadpneumoniaandwas headedfor the sit down and talk. He said it wasn’t possible. After initialpleasantries Iasked ifwe could he figured it was me. He had gotten my note. myself. Inahoarse voice heletmeknow that approach, extending his hand as I identified his house inalongtime.He was kindinhis looked grizzled,like amanwho hadn’t left pristine patio, Seuss came toward me.He matic architecture. AsIstood stillonthe that featured animpressive poolanddra- my actandwaved meto thebackofhouse. had written aboutvisiting.He interpreted pantomime to indicate that Iwas theguywho Geisel, who looked out to find me goinga into instruct her to hold off on the call. It was haired man rose beside her and seemed to luck Then had a runbearded, out. gray- and rapid grab ofaphone,Iconcludedmy possibly Audrey Geisel. Byherexpression Today whenI’m drawing withhospital After returning home I received another I nervously moved into acourtyard In July of 1991 Ireceived my lastnote SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020

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A VAN FOR ALL SEASONS Mary Hollendoner ’98 SOMETIMES THE BEST ESCAPE and her family embarked on the FROM THE WORLD ultimate road trip nearly three years ago. They made an IS TO DRIVE RIGHT INTO IT. early stop in the Alabama Hills of California’s Sierra Nevada. BY SVATI KIRSTEN NARULA ’13

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36 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 37 rossing a border in South America with a U.S. vehicle can be unusually complicated, says Mary Hollen- doner ’98. In the past few years she Chas crossed quite a few of them with her husband, John Stanfield, and daughter Lilly, who is now 9. There was the time they left Guatemala for El Salvador—and spent an hour stuck in “no man’s land” between the two countries, waiting to submit papers to a customs officer who hadn’t returned from his lunch break. More daunting was when their van broke down at the border of Ecuador and Peru. They had been stamped out of Ecuador and were about 2 miles from the Peru customs office, where they would file paperwork for themselves and for the van, which requires a new permit in nearly ev- ery country. The engine suddenly began to make clunking noises, and Hollendoner wasn’t sure whether they should risk driving those 2 miles. Stanfield, a mechanical engineer, is the designated van fixer and troubleshooter, but he couldn’t find anything wrong. It was a Saturday, and they were unlikely to find any working mechanics to help. After some handwringing under the blazing sun and facing a $390 fine for every day they kept the van in Ecuador past its permit date, they drove the 2 miles, cringing all the way. It had been nearly two years since they had begun living nomadically, on an ambitious road trip from California to Argentina, and this was the first time they had significant van trouble. It turned into the lowest point of the trip thus far. It took a month of meetings, miscommunications, ROAD WARRIORS and arguments with various mechanics at differ- During the past three ent shops to get the van repaired, while the family years Hollendoner’s family has ventured stayed in a motel for two weeks, then lived in their through 14 countries van at a mechanic’s shop for two more. of Latin America in its The family had no difficulty adjusting to life on 1999 Ford E-350 van. the road when they started out three years ago. The only problems they’ve faced on the journey had to do with the van breaking down. The van was fine the first 18 months, Hollendoner says from their current stop in Capilla del Monte, Argentina, but then kept having problems. “That’s really getting John down the most, because he’s the mechanic.” “It’s been kind of a heartbreak for me,” says Stanfield, who spent nearly a year researching and looking for the vehicle, a diesel-powered 1999 Ford E-350. “The battery blew up twice,” says Lilly, be- fore explaining that on New Year’s Eve in Ecuador, where it’s a tradition to draw and burn “a bad mem- ory of the year,” she drew a picture of a van battery. Hollendoner and Stanfield intended the trip to be an 18-month sabbatical from their careers in Silicon Valley, where she worked in operations for Google and he was the cofounder of a trans- portation startup that was acquired by Zipcar. The couple had experienced overlanding, or van camping, in Australia during their honeymoon and decided that was what they wanted to do again to

38 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 39 spend more time outdoors. They budgeted 12 to “WITHIN THREE MONTHS ON THE ROAD 18 months at approximately $75 per day to drive down the Pan American Highway, from their home WE REALIZED ‘WE LIKE THIS. to the bottom of Argentina. WE THINK WE MIGHT DO THIS FOR MORE In September 2017—after quitting their jobs, THAN A YEAR.’” selling most of their belongings, and renting out their house in Mountain View, California—they officially moved into the Ford, dubbed “Vancito.” Stanfield had refurbished the interior with cabi- nets, bench seats, and a table, which Hollendoner says is essential for homeschooling Lilly, although it takes up valuable real estate. There’s a pop-up tent on the roof that, when extended, provides enough space for everyone to stand up inside. Driving through 14 countries wound up tak- ing more time and money than Hollendoner and Stanfield had planned on. That’s okay with them. “Within three months on the road, we realized, ‘We like this. We think we might do this for more than a year,’ ’’ Hollendoner says. The family had a loose routine: wake up, eat breakfast, do a few hours of homeschooling, then decide whether to stay where they were or keep moving. Sometimes they stayed for weeks in one place, such as the small town of El Remate, Gua- temala, where the couple volunteered as English teachers for half a month. In Challuabamba, Ecua-

BREAKDOWNS? dor, they stayed for three months—renting a house They’ve had a few. But and enrolling Lilly in a local school. for the most part, the “The places we are passing through and the family’s road trip— people we are meeting—that’s been much more sometimes offroad—in “Vancito” has been like amazing than the van life aspect,” Hollendoner an extended study- says. It has been more of an extended study-abroad abroad experience. experience for the family than just a way to be outdoors a lot, she adds, though the many nights and mornings they’ve spent en plein air are what keep them happy. “I learned at Dartmouth that I just really feel happy and at peace and relaxed when I’m out- doors,” says the former math major, who was born in London. “I’d always been a city girl—pubs and clubs and shopping,” she says. “And Dartmouth turned me into an outdoors person. This is such a great way to fulfill that longing.” As of mid-summer, the family remains in Ca- pilla del Monte, where they had decided before the pandemic to rent a house and enroll Lilly in a local school. Hollendoner, who documented the majority of her family’s road trip on a blog called Monkeys on the Road, is now writing a book about the journey and will be shopping the manuscript to publishers next year. If the trip is a cultural immersion experience combined with nature therapy, it’s also been an early but temporary retirement. “We basically ac- cept that we’re going to have to work again later,” says Hollendoner, who adds that she’d rather live out of a van in her 40s than in her 50s. Especially since she gets quality time with her daughter: “Lilly’s small and loves being with me, and when she’s a teenager she won’t.”

40 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 41 FOR ASTROBIOLOGIST KEVIN PETER HAND ’97, THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE ALIEN QUEST BEGINS UNDER THE ICE ON PLANET EARTH.

BY DANIEL OBERHAUS PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIC / NATIONAL MARK THIESSEN BY PHOTOGRAPH 42 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE bout a mile from the Red Shed, the living quarters shared by “He was determined to do this hike,” Kevin Peter Hand and about 90 others at Casey Station in Ant- Thorstensen says. “He didn’t quite make it arctica, the NASA crew had cut a square hole in the ice exposing to Moosilauke, but he made it a long way. the frigid waters below. Every few days Hand and his team would He was a person with a lot of energy, focus, Aride snowmobiles to the site to drop their underwater robot into and drive.” the water and let it roam the underbelly of the ice. When Hand was a senior, Thorstensen It didn’t take long for Hand and his team to attract spectators. gave him a key to the College’s Shattuck While working at the site one morning, Hand looked up to find a Observatory, which quickly became some- group of Adélie penguins warily eyeing the NASA scientists from thing of a second home. Hand would bring a nearby embankment. Inquisitive by nature, the penguins quickly his sleeping bag to the observatory and, grew accustomed to the team’s presence and would frequently after a long night watching the cosmos, wander into the test site to get a better look at the action. The he’d fall asleep outside beneath the statue bizarre encounters amused Hand. of Robert Frost, class of 1896, scratching “Here we have these sapiens wrenching away on their robot, away on a notepad. Hand credits the clear which has a bit of intelligence in its onboard brain so it can try to NOW THAT WE night skies of the Northeast with stoking better understand organisms in the ocean, and these curious birds KNOW LIFE CAN his passion for the search for life beyond wander up to us to see what the heck is going on,” Hand recalls. Earth. “You just can’t help but question “It’s organisms studying organisms studying organisms.” THRIVE BENEATH if we’re alone when you sleep out under Many people assume Antarctica’s ocean is a barren, lifeless EARTH’S ICE those stars.” place. Compared with Earth’s other oceans, it certainly is. You CAPS, SEVERAL In December 1995, NASA’s Galileo won’t find the dazzling reefs and rainbow fish native to warmer spacecraft began its orbit around Jupiter climates, but Antarctica has a diverse aquatic ecosystem home to ICY MOONS IN THE and then spent almost the next decade gigantic algae blooms, krill, sea stars, and many other creatures OUTER SOLAR studying the gas giant and its moons. Eu- that don’t mind the cold. Although scientists are just beginning ropa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, proved to understand the dynamics of life in Earth’s frozen ecosystems— SYSTEM SEEM to be of particular interest. Evidence from known as its cryosphere—it’s abundantly clear that life can thrive TO BE FERTILE Earth-based telescopes and Galileo sug- in far more extreme conditions than was thought possible just a ALIEN HUNTING gested that Europa harbored a planet-wide few decades ago. liquid water ocean beneath its thick icy “People assume there is little under the surface because it looks GROUNDS. crust. Some scientists went so far as to pro- so extreme with all the ice and not a lot is visible, but they couldn’t pose that conditions in Europa’s oceans be more wrong,” says Peter Convey, a terrestrial ecologist and might sustain prebiotic molecules or per- expert in polar environments with the British Antarctic Survey. haps even simple life forms. At the time it “The seafloor community found in many parts of the continental COLD COMFORT like a sunny, cold spring day in the White woods behind our house and find an alien spaceship.” was a controversial opinion, but today many planetary scientists shelf and coastal regions around Antarctica has been called second Hand helped invent a Mountains than a day on the shores of the As a devotee of Sagan’s brand of extraterrestrial evangelism, agree that if there’s extraterrestrial life in our solar system, Europa only to coral reefs in its species richness and biomass.” robot named BRUIE— coldest place on Earth.” Hand arrived at Dartmouth in 1993 determined to turn alien hunt- is the best place to find it. Buoyant Rover for As Hand describes in his new book, Alien Oceans: The Search Under-Ice Explora- Temperatures breached 5 degrees be- ing into a career. He made an unusual choice of a double major— More than 400 million miles from where Hand dozed beneath for Life in the Depths of Space, the Antarctic biosphere has big tion—which collects low by the end of Hand’s second week at physics and psychology—both essential tools in this pursuit. The Frost’s unwavering gaze, Galileo continued to collect data that data as it crawls Casey, and the NASA team had to cut its training in physics would help him find the aliens; psychology built a case for an ocean on Europa. It would be years before the implications for the search for life beyond Earth. The search for along the underside extraterrestrial life in our solar system has historically focused of frozen lakes. stay short. But it had accomplished what would help him communicate with them. Some of Hand’s physics significance of the data was fully understood, but the spacecraft on Mars, which is believed to have once had a large liquid water it set out to do. The robot had worked like professors gently tried to persuade him to take up a more “seri- ultimately shaped the course of Hand’s career. ocean and an atmosphere as thick as Earth’s. But now that we a charm on its first missions beneath the ous” occupation. After graduating, Hand moved to California and did a brief know life can thrive beneath Earth’s ice caps, several icy moons Antarctic ice and pointed to a promising But Hand found a sympathetic ear in the late Jack Baird ’60, stint as a research assistant at the SETI Institute, a nonprofit or- in the outer solar system seem to be fertile alien hunting grounds. new direction for the exploration of oceans a professor of psychology who had advised NASA on the agency’s ganization in Silicon Valley dedicated to the search for intelligent These so-called “water worlds” are believed to harbor vast oceans both on and off the earth. Hand hopes this search for extraterrestrial life. Baird’s book on the subject, The alien life. In 2001 he enrolled at Stanford to pursue a master’s in beneath their thick, icy shells. robot’s progeny will be the first to encounter Inner Limits of Outer Space, still sits on a shelf in Hand’s office in mechanical engineering that focused on robotics. Shortly there- If there’s life beneath the ice in Antarctica, the thinking goes, extraterrestrial life. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, after, Hand enrolled as a doctoral student in Stanford’s geological perhaps there’s life beneath the ice there, too. where he works on the cutting edge of the search for alien life— and environmental sciences program. His dissertation was about Hand had not been to Antarctica in nearly 20 years, and when albeit of the non-intelligent variety. the physics and chemistry of Europa’s ice shell and subsurface he returned this past November it wasn’t as he remembered. It was MAGIC OF THE SKIES Hand spent most of his free time at Dartmouth with the Out- ocean. By this point, it was established that Europa was the most too...warm. It had been colder at his childhood home in Manchester, ing Club exploring the White Mountains or climbing around the likely place to support extraterrestrial life in the solar system, and Vermont, than it was on the base the previous time he had visited. Hand has always been fascinated with United States with the Mountaineering Club. On occasion it could Hand was determined to help find it. Now temperatures on the frozen continent were hovering at just the possibility of extraterrestrial life, an be difficult to balance his passion for astronomy with his thirst But in 2003 Hand received a call that put his Ph.D. ambitions under 5 below zero—positively balmy by Antarctic standards. obsession he attributes to growing up un- for exploration. Hand’s thesis advisor, physics and astronomy on hold. It was from his friend George Whitesides, who now serves This was bad news. Hand and his NASA colleagues had flown der the star-studded Vermont night sky. professor John Thorstensen, recalls traveling to Kitt Peak Na- as CEO of the space tourism company Virgin Galactic, and he had to Casey Station, one of Australia’s three Antarctic outposts, for Hollywood sci-fi also played a role. “I read tional Observatory in Arizona when Hand was a senior to conduct a remarkable proposition. James Cameron, director of Titanic a three-week sojourn to test their new underwater robot. But if Carl Sagan’s books and watched Cosmos research. Thorstensen and Hand returned from the trip just a few and The Terminator, was going on an expedition to the bottom of temperatures rose any higher, Casey’s runway would become too repeatedly,” says Hand. “ET made a huge hours after the Outing Club set out on its annual 54-mile hike to the ocean. He wanted to make a film about life in the deep sea and soft for planes to take off and carry the team back to civilization. impression, too. I wanted to be Elliott, and Mount Moosilauke. Undeterred, Hand set out on his own that what it implied about the possibility of life on Europa. Was Hand

“It was very disconcerting,” Hand says. “It was still cold, but more I always hoped that someday I’d go into the MARK THIESSEN same night to try to catch up with the group. interested in joining Cameron on the journey?

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“At first, I didn’t want to go,” Hand says. “I thought it would be then compel NASA to send a robot to its surface. During his time a distraction from my Ph.D. and the work I was doing.” at JPL, Hand has worked on two Europa lander concepts, but nei- While most people would jump at the chance to explore Earth’s ther has been tapped to proceed from concept to hardware. It’s not last uncharted regions with a Hollywood A-lister, Hand was con- for a lack of engineering know-how; Hand says the technology is Deep Trouble flicted. The adventure with Cameron would take months. After ready if NASA decides to fund a Europa lander tomorrow. Instead, IN AN EXCERPT FROM HIS NEW BOOK, KEVIN PETER HAND ’97 a conversation with his friend and mentor, microbiologist Ken missions to Europa’s surface have been stymied by politics and DESCRIBES BEING STRANDED ON THE OCEAN’S FLOOR. Nealson, Hand accepted the offer. As he recounts inAlien Oceans, competing scientific priorities. the two were standing on a dock one evening on Catalina Island, Given the bureaucratic roadblocks to a Europa lander, Hand California, when Nealson grabbed Hand’s shoulder and offered estimates it could be 30 years before human technology touches WE WERE STUCK ON THE BOTTOM. Batteries were run- So there we sat, on the bottom of some sage advice. “You’re overthinking it,” Nealson said. “If there’s down on the surface of the Jovian moon and perhaps another 30 ning low. Our air was running out. We had no way to com- the ocean. Viktor, the pilot, tried ev- even the slightest chance you get to go to the bottom of the ocean, years before there’s a mission beneath the surface. While some municate with the other submersible or with the team on ery trick in the book before resigning you better go!” might be discouraged by these time frames, Hand doesn’t let it get the boat some 10,000 feet above us. We were nestled in a himself to relaxing in the sub. From So, less than a month after taking the call from Whitesides, him down. “I like to view these big missions as the cathedrals of metal sphere, perched on some rocks at the bottom of the his demeanor, either he had accepted Hand found himself on a Russian research ship in the middle of the our day,” he says. “They are generational tasks, and I feel fortunate Atlantic Ocean. the fate of a watery death for us all Atlantic, preparing to dive 2 miles below the surface of the ocean. to be a part of that.” This was my first trip to the ocean floor, and it had the or he knew that some sort of search The plan was to explore Menez Gwen, a seamount covered with In the meantime, Hand is testing prototype Europa explor- makings to be my last. protocol would kick in and our job was hydrothermal vents spewing a blazing hot and nutrient-rich sludge ers on Earth. Since 2011 Hand and his colleagues at JPL have The year was 2003 and I was in the midst of my Ph.D. to sit and wait. from deep in the Earth into the ocean. Cameron and Hand would been working on the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, studying the physics and chemistry of Europa, Jupiter’s My mind wandered as I looked descend in separate submersibles with two other team members or BRUIE, a small robot that looks like a rugged version of a toy ice-covered moon, when I got a phone call: James Cam- out the porthole, staring at a red shrimp-like creature and during the course of nine dives would spend hours roaming hoverboard. Its meter-long body is essentially an orange, hexagonal eron, filmmaker ofTitanic and many other successful exploring the surface of a rock. My imagination drifted the ocean floor and collecting samples. axle flanked by wheels covered with gear-like teeth, which it uses movies, was looking for a young scientist to talk about from our ocean to the possibility of oceans beyond Earth. What Hand saw at the bottom of the ocean was Earth’s own to slowly crawl along the underside of the ice. A small pole laden Europa while exploring the depths of our oceans. The scene through that porthole could be what “home” alien world. At these depths the darkness is total, temperatures with sensors protrudes from the middle of its body, where onboard And so, a month after that phone call, I found myself looks like to most of life in our universe. Recent explo- hover near the freezing point, and pressures are 350 times greater computers run sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to help on the Russian research vessel Keldysh, floating above rations of our solar system have taught us that—while than at sea level. It’s the last place on Earth you’d expect to find the craft autonomously navigate underwater. the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, preparing to explore the planets like Earth may be comparatively rare (one per life, but Hand found a thriving ecosystem clustered around the As one of BRUIE’s inventors, Hand was intimately involved darkness below instead of the stars above. solar system, if you’re lucky)—worlds with deep oceans, thermal vents. On the surface, life is dependent on light to drive in its creation. In the early days of the rover’s development, Hand covered with ice and cut off from any sky or atmosphere photosynthesis and provide the energy for plants and microbes. helped with everything from sensor integration to writing BRUIE’s BEING IN A SUBMERSIBLE at the bottom of the ocean above, could be ubiquitous. But at the bottom of the ocean, microbial life feeds on the molten code. Now that the team has grown, Hand says he has taken on a feels like a hot air balloon ride, scuba dive, and space mis- In our solar system, these worlds are actually moons metals delivered from deep in the earth, and these microbes form leadership role to ensure that the robot can meet the team’s sci- sion rolled into one. The Russian Mir submersibles offer of the giant planets, with names like Europa, Ganymede, the basis of the deep sea food chain. entific goals and is ready for deployment in the field. a small (approximately 8-inch) porthole from which to Callisto, Titan, Enceladus, and Triton. These are worlds “Ken was absolutely right,” Hand says. “Those experiences on In many respects BRUIE is a spacecraft for Earth. Hand says peer out into the depths: one porthole for each occupant, that likely harbor oceans of liquid water today, right now. the sea floor changed my life forever.” the rover repurposes a lot of hardware and software used in small three in total. You can’t stand up, but there’s enough room Microbes and sea creatures that inhabit our ocean Hand already knew there was life on the bottom of the ocean, satellites. “When it comes to the exploration of distant worlds, for a cramped, hunched-over shuffle if one person needs depths might do fine under the physical and chemical but as he gazed out from the submersible, he was struck by the one of my passions is that it also helps us better understand our to trade places with another. conditions thought to exist within the oceans of Europa, profound implications of what he was seeing for his own work on own planet. NASA has invested tens of millions of dollars into As you descend, light begins to fade. Blue goes to black. Enceladus, and Titan. Europa. “The scene through that porthole could be what ‘home’ space applications, so let’s take some of that and use it to explore The sub starts to cool. You can’t feel that you’re falling, but looks like to most life in our universe,” Hand writes in Alien Oceans. our own ocean.” the sounds from the acoustic communication system serve ALTHOUGH IT SEEMED as though we were stranded The microbes and sea creatures at the bottom of our own ocean BRUIE is a dramatic departure from other NASA-funded as a metronome reminding you of the distance between on the ocean floor for a long time, it could not have been may be able to thrive in the salty waters of Europa or other water robots that have probed Antarctica’s ocean in the past. Most have you and the rest of the world. more than 45 minutes. It had grown humid inside the sub worlds in the solar system. “Deep, dark, seemingly desolate ocean been submersibles, which are designed to sink to a desired depth After some initial exploration of the seafloor, we man- from the condensed water of our own biology. Each breath floors may be some of the best real estate for biology.” and use propellers to swim through the water. BRUIE, by contrast, aged to track down a site rich with hydrothermal vents. we took converted precious oxygen into water vapor and If Hand is right, an abundance of life could be waiting to be is designed to float. This allows it to ditch the propeller and roll For hours we cruised over the flanks of the Menez Gwen carbon dioxide. The curved orange walls of the sub were discovered in the oceans beneath the frozen surfaces of other along the ice, conserving the robot’s limited energy supply and seamount (basically a volcano on the bottom of the ocean) dripping. It was cold, damp, dark, and quiet. planetary bodies. Now he’s building the tech to help find out. preventing its movements from disturbing the fragile aquatic and collected samples with the robotic arm from the gush- Then, through the porthole a faint light appeared. ecosystem the robot is meant to study. ing superheated vents. The light grew, slowly meandering on a path that brought Hand and his colleagues at JPL have conducted numerous tests But we overextended our stay. It had been a long dive it closer and closer to us. Finally, the light revealed its NEXT STOP, EUROPA of a supercharged version of BRUIE in Alaska, where it is used and we had explored quite a large area of the seamount. source—our sister sub, the Mir 1. They had found us. to study lakes that contain unusually high amounts of methane. Both Mir 1 and Mir 2 were at the bottom, and we had Knowing that Cameron and the Mir 1 team were run- When he’s not in Antarctica, Hand usually can be found working as There, BRUIE has demonstrated the ability to roam the undersides worked in tandem to sample and film much of the region. ning cameras that would be able to see us, we wrote a note a coinvestigator on NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission. In of frozen lakes untethered and beam data up to satellites. The ver- But now our sub (Mir 2) had lost track of Mir 1, and we on a piece of paper and pressed it against a porthole. The 2025 NASA will send the spacecraft on the first dedicated mission sion that Hand brought to Antarctica is relatively unsophisticated were starting to run low on battery power. note said simply: “Must surface.” We watched the camera to the Jovian moon, where it will spend at least three years taking by comparison. It stays attached to a tether that is used to relay In addition, our communications link was failing, and pan and tilt, inspecting us, assessing the situation. They pictures of the surface and probing beneath the ice with ground- data and never ventures more than 300 feet away from where it is our low batteries meant that we could not send strong signals had gotten the message. penetrating radar. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft ever deployed. Since this was BRUIE’s first time in Antarctica, Hand back to the Keldysh or to Mir 1. On top of everything else, to venture into deep space. It will be packed full of instruments, and his colleagues wanted to play it safe. the carbon dioxide scrubber was starting to fail, turning our Adapted with permission from Kevin Peter Hand’s Alien some of which will be able to detect chemical signatures of life on “We were quite nervous, but, thankfully, everything worked little sphere into a ball of toxic gas. Oceans © 2020 Princeton University Press. Europa if the spacecraft happens to fly through a plume of water beautifully,” Hand says. “It was also quite a relief not having to erupting from the moon’s surface. constantly look over our shoulders for polar bears; down in Ant- Evidence pointing to the existence of life on Europa could arctica all we had to worry about were the (continued on page 87)

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AFTER EL CHAPO

FEDERAL PROSECUTOR TOM SHAKESHAFT ’89 HELPED TAKE DOWN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS DRUG LORDS. NOW HE’S FIGHTING TO RECOVER FROM THE AFTERMATH.

BY RICHARD BABCOCK ’69 ILLUSTRATION BY P.J. LOUGHRAN

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 49 welve years ago, Tom Shakeshaft flew to Monterrey, for you,” the man said, after closing the door. “I have two clients who young. I introduce myself, ‘Tom Shakeshaft, his car, a message for the twins: “Tell those f***ers to shut up or Mexico, to meet with a high-level drug dealer. Before live in Mexico.” The cartel federation had cracked. Two of the cartels I’m from the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago.’ we’ll send you his head.” Shakeshaft had to break the news to the that fraught encounter, which contributed a decade supplying the twins had each issued an ultimatum: Deal our dope and He said, ‘I’m Pedro Flores.’ ” brothers. The father is presumed dead. “My adversary was the most later to the conviction of drug czar Joaquin “El Chapo” only our dope or else. “My clients don’t think that’s going to end very Through the course of the day, Flores pro- murderous human being on the face of the planet,” Shakeshaft Guzman, he wrote a letter to his wife. In it he told her well for them,” the lawyer said, “and they would like to explore the vided an overview of the twins’ operation. Under says of El Chapo. “I woke up every morning like, ‘Jesus Christ. how much he loved her. He acknowledged his mission involved possibility of cooperating with the United States.” the terms of the cooperation agreement, they God, help me get through this thing.’” Tdanger, but as the lead prosecutor on a potentially crucial drug “You have my attention,” Shakeshaft told him. The Sinaloa would keep running the business from Mexico, Lorino, the DEA agent, says, “Tom internalized a lot of what investigation, he told her he felt a sense of duty. Even with a wife Cartel stood at the pinnacle of a multibillion-dollar, international helping to gather evidence. Shakeshaft was back was happening out on the street on himself, [worrying] about and newborn, he couldn’t ask someone else to go in his place. drug-trafficking business with tentacles throughout the Mexican on a plane to Chicago that night, “feeling absolute whether somebody was going to get hurt because of a decision.” Shakeshaft sealed the letter, wrote his wife’s name on the government. “We all of a sudden had a case that went right to the top relief,” he recalls. Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker writer who has reported envelope and closed it in the top drawer of his desk at the U.S. at- extensively on El Chapo, interviewed Shakeshaft for a 2016 New torney’s office in Chicago. He told one colleague about the letter. Yorker podcast that featured the Chicago investigation. The two “This could go badly,” the man said of the trip. “It’s like sliding became friends. “I think if you listen to that [podcast] you can into Hitler’s Germany.” hear—it’s not a word I throw around—but you can hear some of “If something bad happens, just make sure she gets it,” Shake- the residual trauma in his voice from that experience,” Keefe says. shaft said. “ MY ADVERSARY The intense story of the drug investigation inevitably folds Shakeshaft survived the trip without being gunned down in into the story of Shakeshaft’s alcohol abuse, and some of his pain a flurry of drug violence, but it led to him facing another insidi- seems to spring from his surprise at how things have turned out. ous danger. He spent the next seven anxious years shepherding a WAS THE MOST He came to Dartmouth from Ames, Iowa, in 1985 as a standout sprawling drug prosecution that drove him into heavy drinking. By athlete. After quarterbacking the freshman football team, he com- the time of El Chapo’s conviction in a federal court in Brooklyn in MURDEROUS HUMAN peted for the starting QB role through two varsity seasons. “Tom February 2019, Shakeshaft had been in and out of rehab. He was was very thoughtful, very receptive, very competitive, and just a living alone, practicing law by himself, seeing his young kids only BEING ON THE FACE highly intelligent guy,” says Buddy Teevens ’79, who arrived for his after being cleared by Soberlink, a remote breathalyzer device. first stretch as Dartmouth head football coach when Shakeshaft Shakeshaft, 53, today says his journey was worth it. El Chapo was a junior. The two have remained in touch. now languishes in a federal prison in Colorado—“under a mountain,” OF THE PLANET. Although his 6-1 frame has puffed out somewhat, Shakeshaft as Shakeshaft puts it—and the investigation Shakeshaft ran brought still carries himself with the assurance of an athlete. “The reason down the biggest drug operation in Chicago history. “The one thing I I became a trial lawyer was I tried to find the closest thing in the lost out of all this is my marriage, and I loved my wife,” he says. The professional world that approximated competitive athletics,” divorce counts as “one of my largest regrets in the world.” But, he he says. adds, “I’m a Teddy Roosevelt, man-in-the-arena guy. I would rather of the cartel food chain—it went” to Chapo himself,” says Shakeshaft. For a month the twins continued making UNDER After the University of Iowa Law School and a federal clerk- PRESSURE have gotten a bullet in the head in Monterrey than not have gone.” Arranging the complex logistics of a meeting with the twins deals, recording scores of conversations. The ship, he worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City Many evenings Shakeshaft was working in narcotics as an assistant U.S. at- took several months. Because of the existing indictment, they most significant were with El Chapo himself, during the investiga- and made partner at McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago. In torney in 2007 when a garden-variety drug bust on Chicago’s West couldn’t come to the United States, so the meeting would be in including the first recorded conversation to tion, Shakeshaft and 2004 he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District Side led to the arrest of a 340-pound dealer who went by the street Mexico. The DEA, the FBI, and the U.S. Diplomatic Security Ser- place the drug kingpin in the middle of a deal. colleagues would gather at a favorite of Illinois. He took a pay cut of several hundred thousand dollars, name “Fat Mike.” In a meeting the next day, Shakeshaft asked Fat vice all had a hand. The Mexican government couldn’t know— “It was the single biggest piece of evidence in bar for beer or wine. but he carried a strong commitment to public service instilled by Mike who supplied him. “The twins,” he replied. given El Chapo’s network, someone could tip him off. For the visit, the entire case,” says David Lorino, the DEA “It was the one time his father, who had earned a Silver Star in the Battle of the Bulge agent in charge of the Chicago investigation. I could shut my Drug insiders knew the twins—Pedro and Margarito Flores, Shakeshaft had to pretend he was a tourist. brain off for a and became a beloved political science professor at Iowa State. a matching pair of young Mexican Americans who had created The meeting was set for November 6, 2008, in Monterrey, a city Meantime, agents seized almost all the twins’ little bit,” he says. By then, Shakeshaft was dating the woman who would become a huge drug-trafficking operation with a distribution network outside Sinaloa territory in a region controlled by a rival cartel. dope coming into the United States, obviously “And then at some his wife. (She declined to comment for this story and asked that point it turned that stretched across the country. They’d grown up bilingual in One of the twins, Pedro, would attend along with his lawyer. The limiting the lifespan of the subterfuge. Shake- to Scotch.” her name not be used.) They married in 2006, and their first child a Hispanic neighborhood of Chicago, the sons of a small-time day before leaving, Shakeshaft wrote the letter to his wife. “I wasn’t shaft and Lorino were working one Sunday was born two years later. dealer. Though still in their 20s, they’d built an astonishing busi- worried that I was going to get killed because I was me,” he says, when it became clear El Chapo would soon During the investigation, Shakeshaft reasoned that there ness infrastructure, including a fleet of semi-trailers with hidden “but when you’re meeting with a cartel member in Mexico, it’s the know the twins had betrayed him. The prose- was relatively little risk to himself or his family, which in 2010 compartments on their roofs, above the sniffing range of dogs crossfire, it’s the inadvertent.” Pedro Flores was also at great risk. cutors needed the brothers alive to back up the grew to three children with the birth of twins. He assumed the trained to smell drugs. Under the guise of a legitimate shipment “Cartel guys are watched, not so much by the Mexican government recordings. “If Pedro and Margarito are killed, cartels wouldn’t go after a federal prosecutor or agent because of, say, produce, the twins shipped heroin and cocaine to Chicago but by rival cartels and their own cartels.” Being spotted talking to we got no case on anybody,” Shakeshaft says. the response would seriously upend business. Still, when the on the top of a truck and sent cash back to Mexico the same way. an American official would amount to a death sentence. The Americans had the twins flown out Department of Justice arranged to install a security system in the The money involved was staggering: Between 2005 and 2008 the The actual trip featured scenes that could have been lifted that day, while their families left almost im- house of Shakeshaft’s boss, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who twins moved $1.8 billion in drug money from the United States to from Homeland. In Monterrey an armored SUV met Shakeshaft mediately for the States in a caravan of Range had been deeply involved in Al Qaeda cases, Fitzgerald ordered Mexico, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern at the airport and the next day carried him to the American con- Rovers and then scattered across the country. a system for Shakeshaft’s house, too. The equipment amounted District of Illinois. sulate. A squad of agents armed to the hilt waited behind a huge Back in the States, the twins pretended to deal, to a regular ADT electronic security system, wired to alert both Already facing indictment in Milwaukee, the Flores twins steel door. “It’s a f***ing armory,” Shakeshaft recalls thinking. “I gathering evidence against their network of ADT and the U.S. Marshals Service. had fled several years before to Guadalajara, Mexico, where they am sitting there scared out of my mind and I’m running the show.” distributors. Once the operation finally shut Not long after, several marshals visited the Shakeshaft house were living lavishly with their wives and children while running The American team loaded up in a convoy of SUVs and roared down, Shakeshaft and his colleagues spent to inspect the installation. One ran through standard security their operation through Chicago. The twins acquired the drugs around the streets of Monterrey to make sure they weren’t being years deciphering the tapes and making cases. advice for Shakeshaft’s wife: Don’t take your kids on a walk in on consignment from a federation of Mexican traffickers, chiefly followed before ending up at a Radisson hotel. Meanwhile, the pressure increased on the same direction at the same time on consecutive days. “You the Sinaloa Cartel, headed by the savage kingpin El Chapo. In the The twins’ lawyer had flown separately to Monterrey and was Shakeshaft. For their protection, the twins could have seen the fire come out of her eyes,” Shakeshaft recalls. course of doing business, the brothers had come to know El Chapo. with Pedro Flores. Following plans, an agent called the lawyer from were regularly moved from one Midwestern As both a private lawyer and a prosecutor, Shakeshaft had They had even visited him at his mountain hideaway. a hotel room and told him to be there with his client in 20 minutes. lockup to another. When their father defied enjoyed consistent success, never losing a case. Still, he couldn’t Not long after the arrest of Fat Mike, a Chicago lawyer asked to Shortly after, the dealer walked in. “He’s wearing a polo sweater,” warnings and returned to Mexico, abductors shake a growing fear of failure. Through the Flores twins’ investiga- meet Shakeshaft in his office in the federal building. “I have a proposal Shakeshaft recalls. “He could have been any young [man], really RICH HEIN/ SUN-TIMES grabbed him at a pool hall and left a note on tion, he was overseeing several dozen cases (continued on page 86)

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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND AWARDS

2020Thank you to all the dedicated Dartmouth College Fund donors and volunteers for your tireless work and dedication in 2020. In these unprecedented times, you helped make countless Dartmouth moments possible for thousands of students and advanced the College’s distinctive liberal arts experience. Congratulations to our volunteers and classes, listed below, wilderness in the voices for your unparalleled achievements this year. Our community has never been stronger—thanks to each of you. pursuits

CENTENNIAL CIRCLE CLASS AWARD STEPHEN F. MANDEL 1952 SOCIETY RAYMOND J. RASENBERGER Greatest number of new Alumni volunteers who provide visionary 1949 AWARD Centennial Circle members leadership in raising gifts through Greatest number of non-reunion donors Class of 1990 the Dartmouth College Fund Class of 1988: 441 2020 Nominees: SPOTLIGHT FRED A. HOWLAND 1887 AWARD CLASS OF 1960 AWARD Kyle Gore '84 Greatest increase in non-reunion donors Class awarded the greatest number Elizabeth Donohoe Cook '94 of DCF Scholars Class of 1984: 15 GABRIEL REDEL-TRAUB ’14 Classes of 1988, 1996 ANDREW J. SCARLETT 1910 AWARD JOHN H. DAVIS 1925 AWARD Greatest increase in non-reunion dollars Largest non-reunion dollar total CLASS OF 1938 AWARD Class of 1994: $482,635 Words as Largest reunion dollar total Class of 1978: $1,785,443 Class of 1980: $4,379,783 CLASS OF 2003 AWARD JOSHUA A. DAVIS 1927 AWARD Reunion class with the greatest number Medicine CLASS OF 1948 AWARD Greatest percent improvement of donors whose previous gift was 5+ Highest reunion dollar multiple in non-reunion dollars The new doctor writes his way years ago, and fi rst-time donors Class of 1995: 7.1 Class of 1996: 168% through pandemic. Class of 2009: 15 ROGER C. WILDE 1921 AWARD PEGGY EPSTEIN TANNER 1979 AWARD GROWING UP, HE PICTURED HIMSELF CLASS OF 1953 AWARD Class with best post-reunion retention New reunion dollar record becoming a medical detective like Dr. House, the Greatest number of reunion donors Class of 1959: 89% Class of 2010 (10th): $475,095 cranky TV genius who seems to save patients by Class of 1979: 570 Class of 1960 (60th): $1,205,260 force of intellect. Instead, Redel-Traub gradu- NEW NON REUNION YEAR OUT ated seven weeks early from the NYU Grossman MELVIN O. ADAMS 1871 AWARD DOLLAR RECORDS CLASS OF 1964 AWARD School of Medicine to confront the helplessness Greatest number of non-reunion Class of 1952: $273,889 Greatest number of reunion of treating New York City’s surge of coronavirus 1769 Society members Class of 1977: $1,022,484 1769 Society members patients. Class of 1991: 105 Class of 1978: $1,785,443 Class of 1980: 94 “I thought my first time as a doctor I was go- Class of 1996: $939,139 BRUCE MILLER 1974 AWARD ing to be healing people, and so the fact that often MARK R. ALPERIN 1980 AWARD Non-reunion class with the greatest NEW NON REUNION YEAR OUT what I was doing…was taking someone who was Highest reunion participation number of donors whose previous gift PARTICIPATION RECORDS really sick and shepherding them as gracefully as Class of 1960: 75.3% was 5+ years ago, and fi rst-time donors Class of 1953: 72.2% possible toward passing away, it was not what I Class of 1993: 22 CHARLES F. MOORE, JR. 1925 AWARD Class of 1974: 48.1% felt like I had worked so long to accomplish,” says Greatest improvement in donors of the former philosophy major. JOHN R. MASON 1915 AWARD a reunion class over the prior year His hometown’s crisis has ebbed, but Redel- Highest non-reunion participation Class of 1965: 6.0% See these awards and the Dartmouth Traub knows it could flow again at any moment, Class of 1961: 78.1% College Fund volunteers recognized for and he has learned to find peace in comforting HARVEY P. HOOD 1918 AWARD Outstanding Volunteer Performance at those he can’t save. Inspired by his mother, Vic- CHARLES J. ZIMMERMAN 1923 AWARD New reunion participation record dartgo.org/outstanding. toria Redel ’80, a novelist and poet, he finds writ- Greatest percentage improvement Class of 2010 (10th): 46.1% ing to be therapeutic. His recent observations in non-reunion donors on grappling with this historic moment have Class of 1984: 5.1% been featured in New York magazine, Slate, and Medscape. In June Redel-Traub transitioned from Bel- The Parents and Grandparents Fund extends a special thank you to the chairs of the levue Hospital to Columbia University Irving Family Leadership and Fundraising Committee, Sandra and Paul Allen P’20,’21, the chairs emeriti Medical Center, where he will continue his in- Beatrice Mitchell and Paul Sperry P’16,’20, and the entire committee. ternal medicine residency in hopes of becoming a cardiologist—and a witness who continues to chronicle wherever it is medicine is heading. “It remains to be seen how this is going to affect a new generation of doctors,” he says. 800-228-1769 | 603-646-3621 Dartmouth College Fund —Lisa Kocian ’94

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20-091_DCF_VolunteerAwards_DAMad_vFINAL3.indd 1 7/23/20 11:25 AM <<<< It’s no surprise PURSUITS that CuriosityStream’s voices in the wilderness CEO majored in history.

BRAD PARKS ’96

Man of Mystery CLINT STINCHCOMB ’89 New thriller is set in Hanover.

AN ACCLAIMED MYSTERY WRITER, PARKS PREV- iously had a thriving career in journalism. At Dartmouth On a Roll he majored in geography and launched a weekly sports Documentary streamer grows report, The Sports Weekly. (“I’ve always been good with with stay-at-home audience. names,” he quips.) Next came a dozen years at The Wash- ington Post and The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, “WE AIM TO BE THE LEADING ON-DE- mostly in sports—“a haven for the inebriated, profane, and mand destination in the world for fact-based malodorous,” the novelist has recalled, fondly. entertainment,” says Stinchcomb, CEO of In November 2004 Parks had just left sportswriting CuriosityStream. Located in Silver Spring, LIZ TUNICK CEDAR ’05 to become a general feature reporter when a quadruple Maryland, the company specializes in video murder occurred in Newark. He parlayed his reporting streaming of documentaries. The site fea- on the case into the fictionalFaces of the Gone (2009), tures more than 3,000 titles, ranging from a Heritage the first of six mysteries that chronicle the adventures of recent release on the history of homes (nar- investigative reporter Carter Ross. The Ross books have rated by Nick Offerman) toStephen Hawk- Preserved alternated with standalone novels, and now Thomas & ing’s Favorite Places, a 2017 Emmy Award- winning series. Meet the Smithsonian’s cultural ambassador. Mercer is publishing Interference, a science-based thriller. Interference will be familiar to Dartmouth readers. After Stinchcomb was promoted to The book features a fictional Dartmouth physics professor, the top spot in mid-2018, CuriosityStream SOON AFTER TUNICK CEDAR ARRIVED AT DART- Matt Bronik, and is set on the campus and in Hanover. The raised $140 million in the second half of the mouth, she and her parents took a stroll through the Hood heroine, Brigid Bronik, is a librarian at Baker Library. “This year. “My goal was to expand and diversify Museum of Art. is a very, very Dartmouth book,” Parks says. “Dartmouth our streams of revenue,” Stinchcomb says. “My father is an art dealer, so we paused at a painting isn’t just a setting in the novel, it’s a character—and one I Rather than relying on a traditional single- and he asked me whether I thought it might have been know and love.” payer model, which the company still of- done by more than one artist. And I said, ‘Well, the hand of Parks has been attracting attention from movie people. fers at $2.99 per month, CuriosityStream this figure looks really different from all the other ones.’” His most recent novel, The Last Act, has been optioned by partnered with businesses and educational “That’s amazing, Lizzie,” her dad said. “You should take SkyDance Media, and Interference is being shopped around. institutions to offer the service to employees an art history class.” The novelist lives in the Tidewater area of Virginia with and students. Stinchcomb also worked with Good advice. Tunick Cedar majored in art history, his wife, Melissa Taylor ’96 (they met during Sophomore cable companies and TV providers to add it earned her master’s at Williams College, and now manages Summer), and their two school-aged children. Parks is a to their bundled packages. global cultural sustainability programs in the Smithson- self-confessed “incorrigible ham” and was playing the lead The pace of growth has quickened as the ian Institution Office of International Relations. During role in the Williamsburg Players’ production of The Scarlet coronavirus has forced people indoors. “In the the past seven years, in 18 countries so far, she has helped Pimpernel when the Covid crisis intervened. first quarter of 2020 we added more direct-to- museums of all shapes and sizes become accessible sites His artist’s café of choice is a Hardee’s. It’s the only consumer subscribers than we did during the for learning and beacons of national pride. place Parks could find open at 6 a.m., and he loves writing first two years of the company’s operations,” In war-torn Colombia, her Smithsonian team helped to there. Next is a novel tentatively titled Unthinkable. “It’s he says. The CEO has been able to maintain create a national museum that can pave the way for recon- about an ordinary stay-at-home dad who is told he has to business partnerships through the pandemic ciliation. “So we talked about some of the issues we dealt kill his wife or a billion people must die,” he says. “Cheery, by switching from in-person to virtual meet- with at the National Museum of the American Indian and no?” —Rand Richards Cooper ings, and says April was the company’s best how to ensure that all communities feel represented in the month ever in terms of revenue. stories exhibitions tell,” Tunick Cedar says. In Iraq’s Mosul Stinchcomb has a lot of plans for the Museum, the challenge is to assess damage from recent future. The company rolled out a live feature, attacks. Uzbekistan is getting help from the Smithsonian mimicking traditional TV, which chooses a to develop sites within Ichan Qala, a World Heritage Site. program for indecisive viewers. Curiosity- “One reason I love my job is that I’m often working in Stream recently announced a partnership places I’ve never been. It’s an incredible learning experi- with wildlife production company Doclights ence,” she says. to add 50 original natural history documen- It’s also a major juggling act. She and her husband, taries to its services. Stinchcomb also finds Andrew, are the parents of 2-year-old Will and his baby time to enjoy being with his four children. sister, Abigail. Although his history major drew him to his “I love spending family time at home in Brooklyn,” job, it’s the people who keep him around. says Tunick Cedar. “But being welcomed into places where Dartmouth itself is “I’m really proud of the team we built here,” people are sharing difficult parts of their history and figur- a character in he says. “I enjoy coming to work every day.” ing out ways to talk about that and create safe spaces—that’s Parks’ latest novel. —Christopher Cartwright ’21 <<<< really humbling.” —Charlotte Albright HARRIS SARA JENNIFER VALLINA

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Celebrating over 50 years of Service, Knowledge & Results EDITOR’S▲ PICKS

WARREN VALDMANIS ’95 Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

Harper Business Lively and highly readable, this book explores how capitalism, particularly as practiced by the Fortune 500, is to blame for the current state of pernicious inequal- ity, catastrophic climate change, and global instability. It details a road map to reshape the corpo- rate landscape and rebuild the economy to generate prosperity High Point • Newbury, NH Gills Hilltop Farm • Barnard, VT School House Farm • Nelson, NH TOMMY BUTLER ’92 without peril.

LAURA (ZACHMAN) JAMISON ’97 The Hole Truth All The Right Mistakes

She Writes Press READERS OF BEFORE YOU GO, TOMMY BUTLER’S In her debut novel, attorney- tricky, charming, often quite somber debut novel, will turned-author Jamison crafts a initially be under the impression that it’s a sort of heartwarming story about five high-concept metaphysical comedy along the lines college friends, just turned 40, of Good Omens and The Good Place, two recent TV who discover that one of them has written a tell-all book exposing hits about supernatural bureaucrats mucking about the central life mistakes of each of in the lives of ordinary folk. the other four. The resulting drama In this case the angelic functionaries are Merriam sheds light on the complex nature of adult relationships, the defini- and Jollis, who have been tasked with designing the tion of success, and happiness in a prototype human “traveler” about to be sent to live world filled with obstacles. Before You Go on Earth. In a last-minute tweak of the design, Merry HARPER creates an empty space next to the human heart—a MICHAEL LEONG ’00 Warner Hill Farm • Reading, VT Echo Ledge Farm • Woodstock, VT 272 PP. $26.99 perhaps ill-advised innovation that dooms us all to Contested Records: The Turn to lifetimes of dissatisfaction with our respective lots. Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry “They’ll feel it,” Jollis moans, “and they’re going to constantly be look- ing for things to fill it with. They’ll eat too much. They’ll fall in love with University of Iowa Press the wrong people. They’ll hoard money, and watch too much television, Leong explores why many modern and buy useless crap from holiday catalogs, like potato scrubbing gloves or poets turn to public documents as inspiration for their art. Drawing a spoonula.” (A spoonula? Never mind.) on works by poets such as Amiri Some of these dire forecasts—in particular the one about falling in love Baraka and Claudia Rankine, the with the wrong people—come predictably true in the life of Butler’s signifi- work explores not only the source cantly named protagonist, Elliot Chance. After a childhood of feeling mis- documents but also each poet’s process of selection and curation. understood and insufficiently loved (and finding temporary solace in a vivid fantasy life that his parents and older brother fail utterly to appreciate), Elliot LINDSAY MAITLAND HUNT ’09 settles down to an even less satisfactory adulthood as an accountant in New Help Yourself: A Guide to Gut York City during the dot-com boom. Health for People Who Love At a suicide-prevention therapy group—yes, he has considered killing Delicious Food himself—Elliot meets Bannor, an older gentleman who claims to have visited Houghton Mifflin Harcourt the future and has foreseen his own suicide, and Sasha, a young ad copy writer Writer and cook Hunt follows up on Briar Hill • Hopkinton, NH Judge Wilder Home • Weston, VT Densmore Brook Farm • Hartland, VT and frustrated novelist who slips coded messages into ads and is desperately Healthyish, her 2018 success, again 5196 curious about what happens, if anything, when we die. providing recipes that are nourish- HIGH POINT: 10.19± Acres • $1,690,000 ECHO LEDGE FARM: 91.87± Acres • $3,485,000 To explain how Butler’s cosmic story scaffolding is both more and less than ing, delicious, and good for the gut. Select Offices: The former studio art major shows Chris Lang | 802-274-4048 | [email protected] Story Jenks | 802-238-1332 | [email protected] Four The Green, Woodstock, VT 05091 it seems would constitute a string of spoilers. He uses various literary sleights that eating tasty food that makes 802-457-4977 of hand to draw his readers into a moving, decidedly realistic tale about one us feel good is not so hard after all. GILLS HILLTOP FARM: 191.16± Acres • $1,475,000 BRIAR HILL: 36.3± Acres • $985,000 man’s search for the meaning of life and his dawning recognition that confu- Story Jenks | 802-238-1332 | [email protected] Kristin Hayes Claire | 603-494-9448 | [email protected] One Capitol Street, Suite 300, Concord, NH 03301 sion and sadness are simply parts of the human experience. 603-228-2020 Additional titles and excerpts can be found SCHOOL HOUSE FARM: 202± Acres • $1,350,000 JUDGE WILDER HOME : 2.48± Acres • $795,000 That hole in our hearts turns out to be all too real, but in Before You Go, Ten Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109 on the DAM website. Kristin Hayes Claire | 603-494-9448 | [email protected] Story Jenks | 802-238-1332 | [email protected]

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Lone Scholar Social distancing has never been hard to achieve on campus, as this student demonstrates in a 1939 Gates & image by former College Dickson photographer Adrian Bouchard. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 59 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LIBRARY COLLEGE DARTMOUTH CLASS NOTES 1938-1949

tual presentation on longevity June 2 at the to September 3, 1945. I write this from a Portsmouth (New one after the other their own improvisations of Dartmouth Club of New York. More than 45, In the summer of 1945 I was on the island Hampshire) Hospital bed because in popular and older songs and melodies. Music Give a Rouse▲ The Classes including me, attended. Jon has a booklet of his of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. WW late May I took a fall while leaving my was his passion, and after Dartmouth he went program titled “26 Miles at 96 and Why I Enjoy II ended on August 15, 1945. More than 12,000 47 house, severely injuring my back. I was told later on to study at the New England Conservatory Good Health and You Can Too.” Jon would be POWs and Japanese civilians were in stockades that four local ambulances showed up. After a of Music and then take a master’s from the Har- >>> Owen Fiss ’59, the Once upon a time, in the year 1933, delighted to send a copy to you. It details diet and ready to return to Japan. The landing ship week in the hospital I was transferred to a local vard Graduate School of Education. During these Sterling Professor Emeritus a young traveler found his way to and exercises. tanks that we were to board for the invasion of rehab facility for two more weeks, and that was years and while he was establishing a psycho- of Law at Yale Law School, the Kingdom of Hanover in New I spoke with Stu Finch the other day, who re- Japan on October 1, 1945, were instead returning under quarantine. I couldn’t leave the room and therapy practice, he was a part of the jazz scene has been awarded the 2020 38 ports he holds a meeting every Friday for people the Japanese to their homeland. Then, in early Hampshire—he was coming for a short visit, a all the nurses showed up in masks and gowns. in Boston. He then joined the nationally known Henry M. Phillips Prize minimum of four years. It was a new experience in his senior living residence to bring items for September, I got sick with a fever of 103.8. I was in Sally was driven to the center for a window visit, Black Eagle Jazz Band for the mainstay of his in Jurisprudence by the for this journeyman that, eventually, became the repair—Stu also raised money to create a put- the 24th Division hospital when a major told me, which proved unsuccessful. So we communi- music career. American Philosophical first mile in a lifelong experience. This young ting green—all of which can be done with proper “George, you’re too sick for us to handle. We’re cated by phone. I did have a TV and was able to —Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt 331, New Society in recognition of man had no idea where the next approximately social distancing and masks. Covid-19 has cre- sending you by hospital plane to a huge Army talk to family by Zoom. That was cool. Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@ lifetime contributions and 85 years would take him, but I’m sure he knew ated positive things. He says at cocktail hour the hospital on Leyte.” I was admitted to the intensive So now I’m finishing this column at home, verizon.net important publications in the field of that this was just the beginning of an experience residents go out on their balconies with a cocktail care unit in the hospital on Leyte, another island taking my painkillers, getting help from lo- jurisprudence. Fiss has taught procedure, that would be with him forever. It is now 2020, or glass of wine and wave at each other. in the Philippines, for 105 days. I really thought cal physical therapy people, waiting for the Well, coronavirus has drastically legal theory, and constitutional law at Yale, and this man of the world has turned 104 years, I received a letter from Bob Gale expressing I was a goner. I was only 25, and I only wanted okay to drive—and thankful that I don’t have changed the way our class lives, par- and four of his articles have been named as a milestone to be celebrated—and celebrated it concern over the removal of the weathervane to see my Mary back in Los Angeles. More later. coronavirus. ticularly those in retirement homes. among the top 100 most-cited law review was, in fine style. This gentleman of Dartmouth from Baker Library. To Gale the image was that Our class sends heartfelt condolences to 49 There’s a dearth of news from the College, No visitors, two at a time in an elevator, meals articles of all time. is Fred Klein ’37, the most senior resident of of Wheelock teaching an American Indian—the the family of Robert “Bob” Bowman, who died on as it’s shut down. It’s hard to believe that through delivered to rooms, etc. Class prez Ray Truncellito >>> Norm Fine ’55, Th’56, has earned a sil- Saddlebrooke, Arizona. Fred truly enjoyed the basis of the founding of Dartmouth. I called Jon April 18 in Vero Beach, Florida. all the wars, strikes, and sit-ins and outs that had half his belongings moved into his future ver medal at the 24th Annual Independent huge parade that passed his house on the morn- Mendes and Stu Finch—who registered similar —George Shimizu, 2140 Sepulveda Ave., Milpitas, have occurred through the years we get knocked assisted living residence when the new rules Publishers Book Awards for Blind Bombing: ing of April 25—it was reportedly one of the most feelings, though they also said if the image was CA 95035-6142; (408) 930-2488; marymariko@ out by a virus most of us never heard of before. stopped him cold; in late June he is still in his How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to memorable birthdays of his life. objectionable to Dartmouth Native American comcast.net I did get a note from Lee Coffin, dean of home in Manchester, New Hampshire. My own D-Day and Victory in World War II. Fine, a “Organized by his fellow swimmers from students, faculty, and graduates who want its admissions and financial aid, announcing that snowbird wings got clipped after 38 years, so retired electronics engineer and publisher the Saddlebrooke Swim Club with a lot of help removal, they would go along with its removal. One of the silver linings of the slower Dartmouth is admitting 1,881 students to the I’m stuck in Sarasota, Florida, until next April. of an annual engineering design series in from many other service groups, Fred saw more Stu wondered if the song “Eleazar Wheelock” pace of life imposed by 2020 events class of 2024. The new year is only two months Fred F. Tilden died on February 16 at his the 1990s, earned the award in the world than 220 vehicles pass his house. More than 150 was to be eliminated from the songbooks and is that when your president, Matt away—can you imagine a whole class, never home in Hartford, Connecticut. Fred spent history category. 45Marshall birthday cards were dropped in a basket along various other musical programs. , asked me to serve as secretary for the mind a college, learning from home? We will his career in business, retiring as chairman of >>> Crystal Crawford ’87 has with balloons, signs, and even a roll of toilet pa- I have the sad duty to report the death of great class of 1945 I was able to accept with plea- get through this, and I send a sincere hope that Venus-Estabrook Ltd., England. He is survived been named executive direc- per! Someone even left a book from Dartmouth Harry Jacobs May 5 and John C. Harding May 8. The sure. Recently I was vice president for alumni re- you all wear masks and keep your distance from by his wife, Barbara, sons Fred Jr. and Peter, and tor of the Los Angeles-based with a letter in it written by the president con- class of ’42 extends condolences to their families. lations at Dartmouth but from the very beginning each other. daughter Cynthia. Western Center on Law & gratulating Fred on reaching 104. Due to social I also noted the passing of Charles Kreter ’78, son I was Spence and Connie Johnson’s daughter. I am I am saddened to report the death of William Burgess Preston Standley died on March 12 Poverty, California’s oldest distancing guidelines in effect, only golf carts and of Warren Kreter. Our condolences to his family. delighted to introduce myself, Martha Johnson B. Enright of San Diego on March 7. at his home in Medfield, Massachusetts. Mike and largest legal services sup- cars could participate in the parade, which was —Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New Beattie ’76, a member of the first coed freshman —Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; advised universities on design and construction port center. Crawford brings led by Golder Ranch Fire District in its firetruck. York, NY 10021; [email protected] class. Harry Hampton keeps in touch with me on a [email protected] of new science facilities, then spent 22 years as to the role 20 years of senior When it passed by, Fred proudly stood at atten- regular basis from Exeter, New Hampshire. He director of planning at Mass General Hospital in management experience in the tion, saluting our first responders. He saluted Coronavirus, shelter-at-home, social invited me to join the ’45 holiday luncheons year We moved last November to a retire- Boston. He was deeply involved in all kinds of civic legal, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, the firefighter, who, in turn, saluted the WW II distancing—never in my lifetime (I after year when I was VP and grapefruit from ment community in northern New activities in Medfield. He leaves his wife, Caroline, most recently as a program director at the veteran. It was a party, all done with social dis- 43just turned 100) did I dream we, as Harry and his wife, Peg, arrives on my doorstep Jersey and a couple of weeks later son Dabney ’83, and daughters Caroline and Anne. California Wellness Foundation. tancing, and one truly deserved of the occasion.” a nation, would be capitulating to an invisible each December. Harry too had asked if I might 48 Glenn Mohrman went down to our winter golf condo in Naples, died on May 1 in Princeton, >>> William Neukom ’64, a Dartmouth trust- I received notification of the event men- disease. Education is at a standstill, bar exams take on the secretary duties. With thanks and Florida. Due to Covid-19, we’re still there at this New Jersey, where he lived. Glenn, who had a ee from 1994 to 2006, has been awarded tioned above from Philip Serlin ’60, M.D., who have been postponed, first-responders are in need admiration for all he has done, I want to dedicate writing. Best way to reach me is through our law degree from the University of Virginia, spent the 2020 American Bar Association (ABA) adds, “I hope you can recognize and mention of personal protective gear, and face masks are this, my first column, to him. I have found that email and cell phone number below. his career in advertising and market research, Medal. A retired partner in the Seattle office Fred, a neighbor. More than 250 people feted required when outside. As one wag pointed out: I have big shoes to fill. With a little research I Sonny “Rem” Drury died from Covid-19 in specializing in pretesting pharmaceutical of K&L Gates, Neukom was the lead lawyer him—much fun!” Certainly this marvelous event “It’s better six feet apart than six feet under!” discovered that Bud Elder was named “Secretary May. He enjoyed talking with people and as company ads. He is survived by his wife, for Microsoft Corp. for 25 years, served as had to be mentioned and recognized. Many happy Rewind to the summer of 1942. As seniors of the Year” in 2007. I was saddened to receive our chronicler handled Class Notes for many Waltraud (“Trudy”), sons Brooks and Mace, and president of the ABA in 2007, and founded birthday wishes are sent to Fred from the class we all knew we were old enough to serve. After notice of our loss of Edward “Ed” Crane, M.D., years. He and Colin Stewart, who went on to the daughters Darby and Morgan. the World Justice Project as an ABA initia- graduation on December 12, 1942, we scattered to who passed away in May of this year in Frisco, of ’38. Thank you, Dr. Serlin, for contacting me. Olympics, were brought up in Hanover and Russell Wolfertz Sr. died on November 25, tive in 2006. The class of ’38 is always with me and, as all corners of the United States. We were worried Colorado, where he had lived since his retirement anchored the championship Dartmouth ski team. 2018, in Rockland, Maine, where he lived, the >>> Caroline Choi ’90—senior VP of cor- and wondered what was in our future. WW II was in 1987. After Dartmouth Ed graduated from usual, holds a very special place in my heart. Stay Sonny traveled the world for Gulf Oil, ending College has recently learned. Russ’s career was porate affairs at Southern healthy and follow the rules! No. 1 on everyone’s to-do list. No one knew where the University of Vermont Medical School and up in Houston, where, virtually blind and tapping in real estate. He was survived by his wife, Eliza- California Edison, one of the —Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road, O-139, Wil- we would be next year or in two or three years. served in both the Army and Air Force. Skiing his cane, he commuted from home to work by beth, two sons and four daughters. largest electric utilities in braham, MA 01095; [email protected] In the summer of 1943, about 200 Nisei remained a lifelong passion for Ed. He raced on bus until his retirement. His wife, Joan, passed Alan S. Harvey died on January 15, 2015, in the United States—has been were ordered to Camp Shelby in Mississippi for the masters circuit until he was 82 and volun- away last year. His daughter, Susan, was able to Manchester, New Hampshire, the College has named one of the “Coolest This is the 97th day of March or at three months basic training with the recently teered with the Summit Seniors in many roles, spend some time with him before he died and recently learned. Alan had several occupations— in L.A.” by nonprofit Climate least that is how it feels after being formed 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This including president. Our condolences go to his noted how, as always, he was uncomplaining, professional actor, teacher, writer, and antique Resolve. Choi was recognized isolated for 111 days. In fact, Phase was composed of Japanese American troops wife, Anne, four children, four stepchildren, patient, and appreciative of others. store owner. He left no survivors. for her efforts to implement 42 whose families, for the most part, were behind 16 grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren. 2 just happened this past Monday, permitting us Bob Pilsbury died of Covid-19 May 12 in the John W. Whelden died on August 26, 2014, Pathway 2045, the utility’s to eat outdoors in restaurants and get a haircut. barbed wire in 10 isolated internment camps At the time of this column, there is still a small Bedford, Massachusetts, VA hospital. He was probably in Framingham, Massachusetts, where blueprint for carbon-free power to cus- There have been some peaceful marches in my due to the executive order signed by FDR. I was chance that some ’45s will be back on campus brought up and went to school in Newton, Mas- he lived, the College has recently learned. John tomers by 2045. neighborhood. Every night at 7 there is clap- one of six GIs who qualified as “expert” with the this fall for the 75th reunion, but we realize it sachusetts, and was drafted into the Army during was a component engineer with Raytheon. Ap- >>> Andy Shamel ’05 has been named chap- ping, cheering, and horns blown in thanks to M1 Garand rifle. may be wiser to cancel. If not, I look forward his freshman year at Dartmouth. He went to of- parently, he had no survivors. lain of Lincoln College at the University of the medical workers caring for Covid patients. In the summer of 1944 I was an interroga- to seeing you there. Send me news by phone or ficer candidate school and served with valor as a Richard A. Eckhart died on December 5, 1998, Oxford. Shamel was ordained in the Epis- Social activity for me has been shopping with tor of Japanese prisoners of war at the Allied letter please. I look forward to getting to know lieutenant during the Korean War, during which the College has recently learned. Dick, a Navy copal Church in 2010, previously served mask and gloves infrequently. I miss the personal Translators Interpreters Section just outside my dad’s classmates. he was awarded three Bronze stars. V-12, spent his career as a geologist with Sun Oil. as chaplain at Stanford University, and ex- interaction but have survived with emails, phone, of Brisbane, Australia. The section was later —Martha J. Beattie ’76, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, Following in the footsteps of his father and —John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, pects to complete his D.Phil. in philosophy and Zoom visits. awarded the prestigious Presidential Unit Cita- NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; mbeattie76@gmail. a cousin, Bob was a natural-born piano player. Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966- within the year. In spite of isolation Jon Mendes gave a vir- tion for outstanding services rendered from 1942 com At family outings the three of them would play 2943, fax

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Dear classmates, this is my version of Jim Culberson, Chuck Fitzsimmons, Bob Fullerton, to write personal journals about their changed As we write these notes prior to an- cated that many Indian tribes thought that it was Brasilia, purchased in Paraguay while serving a Gershwin number of the 1930s that Bill Merkle, Bill Rugg, and Mo Monahan. lives. Eight of my staff of 18 are participating, and nouncements by the College con- an honor to have such a symbol for a prestigious in the Peace Corps. 50 the Injunaires did called “Bidin’ My —Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL today I asked a few of my newspaper alums, now 55 cerning the fall term, the 65th is still school such as Dartmouth. I can understand why Bruce Bernstein provides a fitting close to Time.” (Those of you who are voting Republican, 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail. in middle school or high school, to contribute, too. scheduled, but uncertainty exists. The result of some might find the proximity of the rum barrel this column, recalling adventures with his ’53 go back to bed!) com Those diaries, I hope, can fill all four pages of an all this was presented in the class newsletter to be offensive, and a move to remove that item Plymouth Duster: “We’re just lucky to be alive,” Joe Biden’s my kind edition in early June.” this summer. makes more sense to me. However, the rum bar- he says. ’Cause that’s the kinda guy I am Seventy-two years ago we began our I am certain Aaron would have loved such an Norm Fine advises that the judges of the 24th rel and the Indian are no more related than the And that’s the way we were. While other folks are Trumpin’ Dartmouth journey, all 715 of us. That opportunity when he was in elementary school. Annual Independent Publishers Book Awards pine tree and the rum barrel. Each item stands —John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation I keep stumpin’ for Biden’s my kind. was the fall of 1948. Now, here we are, When he is not busy with that he has become a gave his book, Blind Bombing, a silver medal in alone as a historical symbol of the school, and I Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; This year, this year 52 gourmet cook. Perhaps he can have the kids taste this year’s national competition in the “world for one do not hold with tearing down statues [email protected] still some 200 strong, plus an equal number of Election’s bound to happen loyal active widows and partners, experiencing a his food and critique it in their paper. history” category. and destroying historical symbols. This year, this year most tumultuous and unprecedented period that I was delighted to hear from Anton Phillips. On the advice of Dick Barr, I obtained a copy I received notice of the passing of two class- This was written in June, just after I’ll just keep on rappin’. is yet unresolved. Under these circumstances, From Naarden, a suburb of Amsterdam, Holland, of American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from mates—John A. Nicolette and Stephen M. Winslow. the latest Sound & Fury, but I’ll try For Biden’s my guy and at our age, it seems inappropriate to report he writes that they have been dealing with the the Hood Museum Art, neatly and sensitively They follow the Barbary Coast jazz band as it to keep it as fresh as I can when you Bonnie MacAdam 58 (Don’t ask me why) anecdotal stories of what we have been doing Covid-19 virus there as well and with many of compiled by with inclusions plays a mournful tune and marches up Main read it in August. There’s no regrettin’ most recently, since, for most of us, it is “ little the same problems we are experiencing here. and citations from 1955—a worthy addition for Street. All march three times around the Green Today brought an email from Larry Hamp- On Joe I’m bettin’ or nothing.” They are actively tracing and testing, which has your library. as we, the living, bow our heads in silent tribute. ton alerting us that Forbes (my former stomp- Biden’s my kind. Therefore, we offer no casual stories in this allowed them to reopen their schools. He keeps I had an engaging phone call from Roger Dol- I close with the first stanza of my poem titled ing ground) has designated Portugal’s Algarve Call me up and I’ll sing it for you (along with report. What we have been doing, of course, is busy counseling young people on their choice of liver, a pal from our first year in Gile. Turns out “The Dartmouth Indians.” (his and Helga’s longtime stopping ground) as my uke)! learning how best to protect our lives and the major in college and future careers, adding that among other things, he is an accomplished fly Dartmouth College beneath the Old Pine, the No. 1 place to live after the pandemic. We —Tom Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA lives of our families and our fellow citizens he does this in his garden, keeping a safe distance. fisherman. He and Doc Hall were good friends, Begun seventeen-sixty-nine; knew Larry was bright, and this proves it. Forbes 01742; (978) 369-5879; [email protected] and, at the same time, maintain some quality of Congratulations to Dick O’Connor, our new class exchanged tales, and were able to fish together. The rules guarantee, cited chapter and verse—year-round sunshine, life. This includes the full spectrum of health, president, and Donna Reilly, our new class vice Roger lives in west Texas and spends time in Indians can go free, low-cost healthcare, great beaches, lots of golf I am shamelessly borrowing from a economy, and social behavior. Most members president. Our class is fortunate to have you both. Idaho and Montana and the wonderful streams A brave symbol no way did malign. courses, affordable cost of living. Says Larry: recent class of ’52 column that analyzed of the class are either already nonagenarians or Now, sadly, I have to report what has become an and rivers there. He has fished the Allagash in —Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; “You can live in the Algarve very comfortably the demographics of that class since its will be in the next 12 months, and we are a high- ever-increasing number of losses to our class. We Maine with roomie Glen Wathen. He related the (603) 863-3360; [email protected] indeed on $30,000 a year and less elsewhere in 51 Charles enrollment 70-plus years ago. risk group. Therefore, we sincerely hope you and offer our condolences to the families of story of fishing with his son in Idaho and marvel- Portugal where prices are even lower.” Forbes’ Here are our numbers: Our Green Book your families are safe and well. And to those who Talamo, Brandon Schnorf Jr., Peter Grenquist, Alan ing at the skills of a woman further upstream. Cars—Bob Copeland started this car second and third choices are Mazatlan, Mexico, profiled 654 new freshmen arriving in 1947. have been more seriously impacted, we offer hope Miller, Thomas Trager, Fred Pollard, and Robert After a time they were able to meet and make thing several months ago when he and Cayo, Belize. Four years later, according to our Aegis, 546 of that the response and care is enabling you to get Morris. introductions—the best fisherperson he had ever talked about his ’49 Mercury having Tryg Myhren weighed in with upbeat Mark H. Smoller 57 us graduated. Today, the number of living ’51s is through the crisis successfully. — , 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam seen was Sandra Day O’Connor! snow tires, chains, and a keg in the back seat. thoughts: “Terrific newsletter. You and the con- 180, just more than one-quarter of our entering In Hanover, not surprisingly, life is quiet Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5066; dartmark@ Mo Kaufman reports from Spokane Valley, Remember your first car? Gentlemen, start your tributors kept me turning the pages. I’m particu- class and one-third of our graduates. Two hundred and promises to remain so until fall. Those who gmail.com Washington, “We are not too severely affected engines. larly sad about all of the fellows who died from forty-two widows are increasingly active members are now in retirement communities here, and by the pandemic; we are not able to visit or be Jim Taylor’s first was the ’35 Dodge he and the virus. But so many good ’58s are still alive.” of the ’51 family; six of them serve on the class probably everywhere, are residing in some level We did it! With the last gift of $2,000 visited by our family, which is spread out away John Roberts drove from Mount Hermon to visit We’ve had three Covid-19 victims: Brad Hubert, executive committee. We have sent at least 150 of enforced lockdown. The rest of us are not much from Paul Dalton, solicited by Dick from us. My work is either in my small office or college campuses. Al Rollins’ was a ’40 Ford con- Ev Lindgren, and Arnold Tenenbaum (plus wife of our children and grandchildren to Dartmouth. different. Dartmouth will keep you informed of Page, we accomplished our goal of in very remote places in British Columbia where vertible that he loved, rebuilt the engine, and Lorlee, lost five days later to the virus). Also miss- 54 Seaver Peters Bob Slaughter Frank We arrived from 38 states, heavily weighted College activities through other channels, but if raising $100,000 for the athletic normal people don’t go. When I am there, I see painted fire engine red. ’s was a ing from our ranks since the last DAM are toward the East and Northeast. Only seven you would like to keep up on your own and you sponsor endowment. Our total is $100,700 and only my partner or contractors who occasionally canary yellow ’49 Plymouth convertible that Blatz, former mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey, entering students came from outside the United have access to a computer or smart phone, just will grow. This endowment ensures that the class work for us. Judith’s main interest, outside of he kept pristine with plastic seat covers. John in riotous times; Bob Rosenberg, a productive States. Fewer than a dozen were Black, Latino, type “Dartmouth college news” and a wealth of of ’54 will almost double its previous level of sup- growing a great garden, is fly fishing, which is Harper remembers being stranded in a blizzard physician-biophysicist whose seminal work on or Asian. Contrast these numbers with the class stories will be at your fingertips. port for this great program and do it in perpetu- very good in this region.” at Middlebury and driving his ’51 Mercury to the the blood thinner heparin saved lives; Phillip Mc- entering Dartmouth this fall. The class of ’24 has Sadly, in the very recent past, we have lost ity. I never cease to marvel at the willingness of Nick Kotz was remembered recently on the police station for a safe night in jail. Chris Wren Clanahan, whose no-load mutual funds benefitted 1,150 students—half of whom are women. They four more classmates, Dr. Donald Gann, M.D., our class to support Dartmouth and do it with DAM homepage for “Lives that Matter.” A click recalls that his ’55 Studebaker was inconvenient clients of a large investment firm;Harvey Bloom, come from all 50 states (42 percent from the of Brooklandville, Maryland; John “Jock” R.D. generosity and enthusiasm. This endowment on his photo brought one to the memorable obitu- for dating because the transmission separated an Oregon physician who sent five kids to Dart- West and South) and 71 foreign countries. Fifteen McClintock of North Andover, Massachusetts; sets yet another ’54 benchmark for other classes ary from The New York Times. the front seats. Howie Howland says his ’57 Chevy, mouth, classes ’87 through ’95; Mike Margulies, a percent are first-generation college students. One- Edmund “Ted” W. Sanderson of Appleton, to strive to match. Sadly, we report the passing of Robert Wenz. complete with a “DU” decal on the windshield, linguist who was fluent in five languages, pianist, third of the admits are students of color. Clearly, Wisconsin; and Douglas F. Perthel of Boulder Following is the first of the comments from —Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, had a bench seat that precluded any of the prob- and pilot; and Rick Martin, a man of divine incli- “global” and “diverse” are key characteristics of City, Nevada. None of these four classmates were our new set of interns. Anindu Rentala ’21 is #1106, Durham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; lems Chris experienced with his Studebaker. nations who roamed the world with his guitar the new class. reported as victims of Covid-19. the Richard A. Pearl ’54 Dartmouth Center for [email protected] David Keith remembers lusting after seeking elusive peace. Could we get in today? Doubtful! Please let us know how you are doing. Social Impact 2020 class of 1954 sponsored in- upperclassman Gene Cesari’s Bugatti until Finally, this tongue-in-cheek note from Ron Where have we gone and what have we done —William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, tern at the Georgetown Law School criminal The first two lines of the second verse he purchased a ’36 seven-passenger Lincoln Zwart in late June: “Thanks for continuing to since graduation? Nearly 60 percent of us now live Hanover, NH 03755, 603-643-0261; wmontgod52@ justice clinic in Washington, D.C. She writes: “I of the College alma mater are “Dear V-12 limousine. Herb Roskind says his first at publish the Sound & Fury—the glue that holds in California and Florida. Only four live outside of aol.com worked closely with a team of attorneys and law 56 old Dartmouth set a watch, Lest the Dartmouth was a ’50 Chevrolet, but admits the the class of ’58 together—including your ‘In Me- the United States. More than half (308) went on professors, taking on pro bono criminal defense old traditions fail.” Sadly, ever since I gradu- most fun was the ’41 Packard hearse that he moriam’ section with touching tributes to the for advanced degrees, especially M.B.A.s (101, of In these challenging times, Aaron cases. I went to crime scenes and canvassed for ated, old traditions have been failing. The latest called his “ski-sleeper.” classmates we have lost. With no disrespect to which nearly half were awarded by Tuck). Class of Epstein has found a way to make use witnesses, went to jail to meet with clients, and change being the removal of the weathervane Not all firsts were at Dartmouth. Upon grad- the deceased, and seeking pardon for the pun, ’51 members earned 53 degrees in medicine, 41 in of his not unimposing talents. In a helped attorneys with trial preparation. I met from atop Baker Library. For many alums, old uation Bert O’Neil ordered a Morgan Plus-4 road- have you thought of retitling this section ‘The law, and eight in theology. Thirty-three are Ph.D.s. 53 with low-income clients and African Americans traditions are a treasured part of our youth. This ster directly from the German factory to enjoy Quickel and the Dead?’ ” very newsy letter he writes that he is no longer More than 60 became professors, elementary and reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court or the U.S. and began to understand the condition of the particular symbol is of importance to me for the the lack of speed limits during his new military —Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. secondary teachers, or academic administrators. Justice Department. He has learned to work with American project. It’s the guilty project. For most following reason. Back in the 1980s, my wife went assignment. Bob Marchant brought a new Chevy F-310, Media, PA 19063; [email protected] (Note: these numbers are close but not perfect; kid journalists in the elementary school. “I choose of our clients, their stories were tragic. The job to a crafts fair where the person who made the convertible with him from the Navy when he they come from multiple sources, prepared at them, teach them, assign them to stories, discuss of the public defender is to tell those stories.” Baker weathervane had a replica on display. She joined our class. He remembers the scholarship Was our 60th just a year ago? How different times.) their drafts, work with them to improve their re- We mourn the passing of Larry Mamlet, Ed- bought a wall-hanging version for my birthday committee having big problems with his owning things have changed. Those idyllic Perhaps the most striking contrast to today’s porting and writing, and, ultimately produce the win Bruce Haertl, Luke Case, David Snow, Donn Hill, and it has been displayed on the front of my house the car, but his service to country won out in the times on the Hanover Plain, be it in Thomas Osborn, Robert Basset, Nelson Putnam Gary Gilson 59 graduates: 73 percent of us served in the U.S. final product in a high-quality newspaper avail- , and ever since. I have no plans to remove it. I do not end. ’s first, a ’51 Olds Rocket 88, let the 1950s or during recent visits still anchor our armed forces. Military service is rare today among able both in print and online. Everything is dif- James Conlin. display it to denigrate anyone, since I believe that him down in a 1958 snowstorm returning from personalities. I spent four and a half years under new college grads. ferent now, of course. With schools closed, I had —Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; the Indian symbol in fact honors Native Ameri- Quantico to his home in Waterbury, Connecti- water while in submarines of the U.S. Navy. And We mourn the recent loss of six classmates: to cancel assignments. Instead, I’ve asked them (201) 933-4102; [email protected] cans. A survey conducted many years ago indi- cut, and Bob Mowbry’s first was his Volkswagen I was asked many times: “How did you do that,

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isolated for months?” From that experience I taken on so much importance in our lives. We photographed the unusual incident. It turns out something that reflects not only my passion about This column provides the opportu- have dear friends and I have two brothers (also offer some tips for our current isolation. have linked up with friends unseen for years. that the College selected the image as a “Photo of the problem of inequality, but also my own experi- nity to write to all classmates. The dear friends, of course). On the leg from Wiscon- Sanitize: Wash those hands and clean those Nearby neighbors, all younger than we are, have the Week” in June. This small incident illustrates ence” as a first-generation college student from 64 world today is full of change and sin to Maine we’ll tow our Rangeley guide boat, surfaces used in food preparation. Envision what offered to pick up provisions for us. There seems how we are all looking after the Robert Frost a family of modest economic means, Lou said. challenge. We may be retired, but we need not sit which we’ll leave in Maine where she belongs. an intestinal bug would do on a submarine with to be a sense of kinship with fellow passengers statue, which has been looking after all of us in the In Richmond, Virginia, Ralph Hambrick, on the sidelines. Share your thoughts as members Social distancing will be observed throughout.” 130 folks and five toilets. trapped in the same lifeboat.” Jack Ford says, “On class of 1961 and at the College for nearly 24 years. retired professor of public policy, published of a transformative generation. How do we or Tom Bettman adds, “Stayin’ alive here in Establish a routine: Get out of bed on time March 3, 2019, my wife, Lorna, died, overcome by —Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY Transforming the James River in Richmond (The should we handle the corona contagion, the new Eugene [Oregon], where Covid is still rare. and get out of those pjs before noon. Shave or put her interstitial lung disease. On November 23, 11030; (516)446-3977; [email protected] History Press), about how citizens, public-private Cold War, racial injustice, conflicting thought on Daughter Amanda ’12 is managing to survive on your cosmetics. 2019, Jennifer, my firstborn, like her maternal partnerships, government leaders, advocates and campus, and increased partisanship in govern- and still working from home in Boston. Up til Get dressed (and I don’t mean slipping into grandmother and mother before her, died after an Welcome to life in the time of volunteers brought about change. ment? What lessons can our generation pass on the pandemic closed things down I was tutoring a sweatsuit). eight-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. Covid-19. On Martha’s Vineyard, south of Cape to the next? Likewise, what experiences enriched math, science, and Spanish at one of our local Hydrate: Water will help your immune sys- Covid-19 is just another reminder that the only Zaida and Peter Knight in Rio Cod, Massachusetts, retired PBS broadcaster your lives and should be shared? high schools as a volunteer for 20-plus hours 62 John Merrow tem stay tuned up. thing I can control is myself and listening to God de Janeiro, Brazil: “We’re in good health, shel- biked his age—79 miles—on June Controversy can enhance the engagement of a week; now I am useful only to my dog and as- Exercise: Spend at least 20 to 30 minutes a in prayer!” Bill Gundy says, “Now that our world tering in place above Copacabana Beach in our 8 with donations earmarked for nonprofits in active minds: It would enliven this column. So sorted fruit trees.” day in exercise. Walk or use light weights. We all is topsy-turvy, we decided it was time to turn our gilded cage with dawn outings to walk on the communities of color affected by coronavirus share your wildest thoughts! For example, I think Tom Balogh wrote a marvelous, painful remi- think about exercise, now we must do it. own world upside down: We sold our condo of beach. When the water is not too rough, I go and protests over the murder of George Floyd. At the College mascot should be the “evergreen.” niscence that begins, “Where were you 50 years Moderate food and drink. If you concentrate 17 years in Vero Beach, Florida, and are buying paddleboarding.” home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Jeanne and It has the advantage of multiple meanings. Our ago? Where were you for the first moon landing on minor decreases, clothes fit better. Resist that a unit in a retirement community in Westwood, Susan and Peter Brink, back in Norwich, Mike Prince anticipated their 39th annual ride, July teams should be called the Evergreens. After all, and the Woodstock festival in the summer of temptation for extra wine or cocktails. Massachusetts. How’s that for keeping our feet Vermont, managed to avoid being stranded in 5 to raise money for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock the unofficial logo or mascot of Stanford is the 1969?” He speaks of his experience in Vietnam, Plan on measurable projects; make them firmly planted?”Dave Hambleton says, “Frankly Cape Town, South Africa, in March by switching Norris Cotton Cancer Center. It would be virtual redwood. What do you think? losing friends and a classmate, Stephen MacVean. small and manageable. It may be to clean out we’re counting our blessings! It is wonderful to airlines, returning to Boston via Dubai. Four days and include their three sons and granddaughter. I’m not the designated author-at-large, just I will return to Tom’s piece in the newsletter or a drawer or get six items ready for Goodwill or have time to catch up on so many things right here later South Africa was totally locked down. While all minis, including our 2021 80th the class secretary. For obvious reasons there is biggreen65.com. write or email four high school friends. at home!” Jim Gallagher says, “We’re surviving the Carl Herbold, Claremont, California, reports birthday event, were canceled till further notice, very little going on by way of Dartmouth alumni Finally, thank you all for reading and com- Limit your time in front of a screen, com- plague until it passes, part time at our lake house the state lockdown forced postponement of two virtual Zoom events in May and June came events to report. So I need your news to make this menting. It has been a signal honor to write the puter, or the TV. Be selective. Get away from and the rest in Charlotte, North Carolina.” their move to a retirement community. In off with great success. column worth reading: Write in! ’65 story these past five years. I hope you will constant “news.” Give yourself a break—find a —Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, addition to walking the dog for an hour daily, The Psi U mini started with a toast and —Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, continue to help Murph tell more of it in this comedy. CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail. Carl keeps a journal of the “plague experience” a lively song, according to Sam Cabot, a.k.a. NH 03753; [email protected] column. I’ll be looking forward to your longer- Stay connected. We are all wired to be social com for his granddaughter and the archives of the “Cabbage.” Other partakers included Gerry and form news for the newsletter. in nature and thrive at being “in touch.” On sub- local historical society, of which Carl is a past Mary Sullivan, Deamie Cabot, John and Althea The much-anticipated 55th reunion —John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Val- marines, family communications were limited, Covid-19 simply will not go away! president. Hicks, David and Michele Halsted, Dick Friedman, got the Covid-19 shove into 2021. ley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@ but we were always close to one of 120 shipmates. Some areas have performed much Neil Drobny retired from Ohio State in May Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick, Charlie and Claire Keep an eye on this column for comcast.net Logan, Pete Suttmeier, Jim Irvin 65 Check in with a few acquaintances each day. better than others; some areas have after a rewarding 16-year second career as an and M’Adele , and more details as we and the College navigate the 61 Chris Wiedenmayer No matter which ocean, operating a sub- performed more poorly than others. Some areas academic. Betty and Neil are downsizing for a and Anne . unknown. We’re still here—and so is Covid-19. marine was full of surprises and anxiety. But performed poorly early on but have improved move in July to Schoolcraft, Michigan, where Thirteen classmates and spouses at the Being, as we are, liberally educated mod- I’m writing this on June 26, with the the memories of Dartmouth have not changed. dramatically; some areas that performed well they will enjoy lakeside living and proximity to annual south Florida virtual mini in June ern sorts, we held the annual meeting that is 66 virus very much alive and the world Think about Dartmouth when you feel that you early on have deteriorated dramatically. The bot- Western Michigan University. celebrated the birth of Samuel Matthew Williams, always a part of the reunion by Zoom. Thirty-odd suddenly humming with the prospect of change— are about to lose it. tom line at this time is that Covid-19 is not yet Bonnie and David French relocated to a grandchild of Art and Sandra Williams, among participants included Hank Amon, Carl Boe, Dave social, educational, political. Who knows where Dave Marshall and Barry Smith continue to under control. Also, the virus’ direct and indirect continuing care retirement center in Dover, New other classmate grandchildren, with Bob and Beth Beattie, Ted Bracken, Don Bradley, Duncan Burke, we’ll be or what will be happening when you read work the fall mini details, recognizing that the effects on our class and our classmates are be- Hampshire. Bysshe, Dennis and Kay Eagle, John and Tatiana Brian Butler, Gerry D’Aquin, Rick Davey, Brad Dewey, this in late August. final plans will be dependent on College posture. coming more apparent. As of June, at least three Dick Brooks in Quechee, Vermont: “Staying Kubacki, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Norris and Willie Bob Ernst, Pete Frederick, Mike Gonnerman, Jim Classmates have been sharing their news —Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, classmates, unfortunately, had succumbed to this at home to avoid the Covid-19 infection, I have Siert, and Chuck Wessendorf. Griffiths, Walt Harrison, Gary Herbst, Bill Hicks, Stu and views about the past few months of forced CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@ virus. Our anticipated mini-reunion scheduled become more keenly aware of Mother Nature. In Los Altos Hills, California, retired heart Keiller, Jaan Lumi, John McGeachie, Bob Murphy, Ken confinement and upheaval. Here is what a few msn.com for this past April in San Diego had to be canceled Myrna and I take our dog for a walk along Dewey’s surgeon Gary Silver and spouse MaryEllen enjoyed McGruther, Mike Orr, Joe Picken, John Rogers, Joel had to say. at the last minute. Our anticipated mini-reunion Pond in Quechee nearly every day where we a visit in May from son Zachary and family. In Sternman, Bill Webster, Tom Wise, George Wittreich, “Doctors didn’t think I was going to survive,” We have the following haikus from scheduled for this October is ready to go but is see Canada geese and ducklings, red-winged Sandy Springs, Georgia, senior class president Allen Zern, and Bob Ziemian. Bruce Hamilton thankfully reports from Bensalem, classmates. Ken Johansen: “Nineteen- awaiting final clearance from the College. blackbirds and waterside plants, flowers, and Jim Valentine strummed his 12-string guitar I should mention that Gonnerman is the Pennsylvania, “but I missed that memo and sur- sixty class/Reunion has been post- Though the aforementioned observations trees. With the iPhone app Picture This I can for wife Pam and friends. Writing in his daily instigator and driving force behind our assimila- vived anyway.” Glad you did, Bruce! Bruce waged 60 Karl Mayer Steve Bank poned/Will meet again soon.” : “Sweet do not present a particularly cheerful outlook for identify just about every plant or tree. We also journal in Middletown, Connecticut, tion of internet technology into our class activi- a courageous battle with Covid-19 that involved Fayerweather/Have a sip of beer today/And the current situation, at least one event occurred spot a black bear occasionally.” Dick reports “a recalled the birth of son Josh, June 7, 1968, one ties. He and Stu Keiller have given us all bragging four weeks in critical care including six days some old music.” Rick Hite: “I want to be where/ recently that was indicative of a thoughtful and very strange empty feeling” pervades Hanover day following the murder of Robert Kennedy in rights as savvy old guys boogying into the 21st on a respirator and three weeks in sub-critical Noisy crows critique the dawn/The day and the positive gesture indicating clearly that we are all and the Green these days. that tumultuous year. century. We are grateful for their leadership. care with rehab. “My wife, Pat, my kids, and the dusk.” Gene Kohn: “From DOC trip/Adventure in in this together and that we are all here within I regret to report our first loss to Covid-19, The death of George Floyd on Memorial Day, Although the reunion may have to wait a grandkids are all doing well,” Bruce says, “but wide, wide world/You last one standing.” Dun- the Dartmouth community to look out for each John D. (“Sparky”) Ryder, who died May 1. John E. May 25, stirred Ed Mazer in Bradenton, Florida, year, a new slate of officers does not. Griffiths going stir crazy in quarantine. The grandkids in can Mathewson: “Memories are alive/Life in the other. One day in mid-June, a research scientist Mann lost a hard-fought battle with leukemia on to share feelings with classmates. In Chicago, chaired the nominating committee for the particular (two are 16 and two are 14) are feel- Upper Valley/Good times remembered.” Bill Mc- at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and June 4. Charlie Gaillard, former CEO of General Tom Jester recalled the police shooting of Laquan quinquennial beginning July 1. The officers pro- ing bottled up.” Clung: “Covid go away/Little Billy wants to play/ Clinical Practice was walking past the Robert Mills, died of pancreatic cancer on June 14. McDonald in 2014 while in Margate, New Jersey; posed and unanimously elected are president, “In these trying months,” Peter Cleaves Don’t come back some day.” Kevin O’Sullivan: “The Frost statue near the Bema and noticed a cloth General Thomas S. (“Tom”) Moorman Jr., former former police defense attorney Bill Subin wrote Don Bradley; vice president, Mike Gonnerman; wrote from Austin, Texas, “I’ve tried to put the Dartmouth magic/Lacked one vital element/ facial mask with “D” lettering lying on the ground. vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, died on “the Minneapolis incident should never have treasurer, Mark Sheingorn; secretary/DAM col- downtime to good use for our family history, Coeducation!” Jim Nolan: “Baker to Bema/Big Realizing that Robert Frost was sitting without June 18. happened.” We would not know the reaction of umn editor, Bob Murphy; Dartmouth College bi-national appreciation, and the Dartmouth Green memories linger/Thanks, Eleazer.” Jim a face mask on, she picked up the face mask and —David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX Newsday police reporter Len Levitt, whose May Fund head agent, Joel Sternman; planned giving/ heritage of engendering adventurous youth.” Marlow: “The brush of the wind/Paints a thick gently placed it on the face of the statue to make 77554; (775) 870-2354; [email protected] 18 passing was recorded in a significantNew York Bartlett Tower Society, Hank Amon; webmaster, Peter did all this by discovering, then preparing coat of quiet/On the summer’s day.” Mike Heitner: sure Frost was practicing medically approved and Times obituary. Stu Keiller; newsletter editor, John Rogers. and editing the notes, tapes, and photos his dad, “She and I marooned/Together in our cabin/Our socially acceptable anti-coronavirus precautions. Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM I regret to report also the passing of Bob In response to the question, “What are you Dick ’32, made about his epic bicycle trip from reunion.” She then took a picture of this unusual rendition and 2013 Dartmouth honorary de- Burros of New York City on May 7. Classmate doing during the pandemic?” Brian Butler wrote, Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City 88 years ago on Nick Muller says, “I am too prolix for five- of the Frost statue. That same day a member of gree recipient, donated $4.8 million obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine “Carolyn and I will live the class motto in July the just-inaugurated Pan American Highway. seven-five syllables. One book out in March, the College administration also walked by the 63in April to benefit high-achieving, low-income online edition. and August, driving from Arizona to visit family Kindle Amazon will soon be publishing A Mexico The Rebel the Tory, two more underway.” Steve Frost statue and noticed a socially distanced Dartmouth students with a demonstrated inter- —Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY and friends in Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, Escape 1936: Biking the Pan American Highway. Gell says, “We’re hunkering down like most and appropriately face-masked Robert Frost est in science, technology, engineering, and math 11201; (917) 541-8162; [email protected] Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Maine. We’ll For the past 25 years Paul Doscher has helped classmates. It’s amazing the way Zoom has contemplating our world of today. He too (STEM). “My path to Dartmouth led me to do spend about three weeks in Maine, where we lead the Tuck Business Bridge program, an inten-

64 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 65 CLASS NOTES 1967-1970 Engaging. Enriching. Transforming. Discover something new sive, three-week management course for liberal staff, and everyone in Hanover who interacts students with reading deficits. had already welcomed women to our ranks. The every day. Whether it’s a new arts and sciences students normally held on cam- with students should be tested—100 percent, Ric Gruder wrote to say that he hopes I’m film Early Daughters of Dartmouth: Blazing the friend, a new lecture series or pus during the summer. It became “entirely vir- no exceptions.” “well and playing music all [I] can.” He’s still Trail to Coeducation is now available online at tual” this year. “I miss most the interaction with Harry Jaffe thinks “It’s too difficult and -ex working full-time at his law practice, although preunions.dartmouth.edu. a new physical activity, Kendal students and their parents,” Paul says, “and the pensive to test all of the students and faculty on- things have slowed because his business clients Shedding our rain-soaked gowns and look- long-term relationships that have grown from campus on a recurring, regular basis, so I think have seen a drop in activity. Ric adds that he ing for our rolled-up diplomas spread out in the at Hanover’s resident-driven Bridge, with 6,800 graduates.” that it will have to remain an online education has “hunkered down to live a dull life filled with gym, we didn’t realize how much we would ulti- lifestyle provides a wide range For years Chuck Vernon has been putting his until a vaccine is available.” family” on Long Island. Frederic, you haven’t mately have in common with the class of 1919. home shop in Windsor, Connecticut, to good use, Tom Smith stresses the importance of stu- been dull for a moment since our days at Teaneck By graduation they had survived three waves of opportunities for you— constructing and then donating Lego tables to dent engagement and performance review: “We (New Jersey) High. As for me, I do play music on of H1N1 avian flu and a pandemic that killed plus the security of a Life Plan schools, churches, and daycares. With the lock- focus on the easy part (content presentation) Saturday Night Jazz at www.wwno.org, 7 p.m. 675,000 Americans, including fellow students. down he’s been making the attractive and sturdy and excuse the hard parts (student engagement to CDT. World War I, which claimed the lives of 112 Community. tables for grandparents to give to their grandkids and performance review). Students who come Another former Jerseyite, Richard Livingston, Dartmouth men, ended during their senior year. with the money Chuck receives going to St. Jude to a small, teaching-oriented, and highly selec- says that he’s involved in a couple of engineering Dartmouth Memorial Field, completed in Visit us online or call to Children’s Research Hospital or FoodShare in tive college must be engaged, challenged, and projects that aren’t ready for public disclosure, 1923, is dedicated to the memory of those who schedule a tour to learn more. the buyer’s name. Nice! reminded why they are there. The whole online but we do know that he continues his activities have served their country in war and peace, The pandemic has demonstrated to Will experience can become too routine.” involving construction materials at the National and the elegant 2015 sculpture “The Hill Wind KAH.Kendal.org Wilkoff how good a decision it was for him and Russell Pae concurs: “If the students can’t Institute of Standards and Technology Center Knows Their Name,” by Dimitri Gerakaris symbol- Marilyn to settle in Harpswell, Maine, on the be on campus, then it is essential that all stu- for Neutron Research, as well as work connected izes the unbreakable bonds of memory that unite 603-643-8900 Atlantic coast. “There is no better feeling than dents be able to have good virtual contact with with Catholic University. us. Among the names we can find members of ® getting up with the sunrise and rowing several their professors. Unless professors are willing to My ROTC and 101st Airborne/Vietnam col- the class of 1919. miles on flat ocean water,” Will reports. “It’s change how they deal with students in an online league Terry Lichty sent me a copy of the 1970 The class of 1919 held father-son dinners at KENDAL just me and the seals and the eider ducks.” Will environment, then colleges and universities such orders on which we were both promoted to cap- the Dartmouth Outing Club, which our class is is also hoping that “in some way the pandemic as Dartmouth will need to count on a vaccination tain. Terry retired from Raytheon to Cape Cod, renovating. John Myers and Tom Hunt have worked will be a kind of Sputnik moment that restores to get its students back on campus. Without the Massachusetts, in 2011 and soon after bought a tirelessly to raise money for the Dartmouth Col- at Hanover in this country a reverence for science and the campus life and the outstanding professors, there place on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, where he lege Fund (DCF), and our class has responded. Together, transforming the experience of aging.® scientific method.” is not much reason to go to Dartmouth. Save your became friends with Gerry Hills. Terry and Susan When giving to the DCF, classmates may allocate Toni and Tim Urban have been watching the money and go to a community college. Covid-19 are sequestered there, but “at an elevation that a portion to our 50th reunion class gift, the DOC unfolding swirl of unprecedented events during quickly becomes a direct attack on quality uni- affords us great breezes and great views of the renovation. Go to dartgo.org/1969doc to con- A Not-for-Profit Continuing Care Retirement Community the past few months from Winter Park, Colorado, versity education.” Caribbean.” They read. They sip. They commune tribute to the DCF, the DOC House renovation, EQUAL HOUSING Serving Older Adults in the Quaker Tradition OPPORTUNITY ©2016 KENDAL giving Tim a chance to conclude, “We are on a Christian Smith believes the College should with birds. They endure. or both. Contributions can also be mailed to the trajectory of great social change. We may look “make the on-campus experience available for Andy Hotaling has just retired after a 35-year Gift Recording Office, 6066 Development Office, back in 10 years (those of us still kicking) and students who choose it. Other students could career as a pediatric otolaryngologist, the last 29 Hanover, NH 03755. wonder how we made so many transformative have the option of taking part online or of skip- of which were spent at Loyola University Medi- We also salute the class of 1970, whose 50th changes in our way of life, coping with climate ping the term.” cal Center in Maywood, Illinois. His wife, Ann, reunion plans were disrupted by the pandemic, change, human health, public education, social Larry McArthur thinks “online distance learn- and son Jeff are also medical professionals, con- and the class of 2020, the first to create a virtual CamdenWriters.com media, and, of course, social and racial justice. ing should be minimized if it is considered at all.” tinuing to work on the front lines on the Covid-19 celebration. Norm Jacobs reports from the Alumni Bring it on!” Bill Bredehoft says, “The one thing that should not pandemic. Praise and thanks to all. Council, where President Hanlon praised the Stay well. Be safe. And start planning for our change is a willingness to be flexible, to change as At this point, we’re hoping to know soon class of 2020: “They will depart the Dartmouth 55th reunion next June in Hanover! things develop. Nobody foresaw all the changes about how and where to plan our fall class com- campus missing their senior spring and the op- —Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, that occurred during the last three months, and mittee meeting and possible attendant activities, portunity to celebrate together at Commence- NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; [email protected] there will be many more this fall and beyond.” including those involving the Frederick Douglass ment,” he said, “and my ask of you is to rally the On a sad note, it is with a very heavy heart bust. In the meantime, please continue to stay alumni community to let the class of ’20 know Recently I asked, “If you were at that I must report the recent passing of Beirne smart and safe. that Dartmouth cares and that the Dartmouth the table wrestling with plans and Lovely. His obituary will appear in a forthcom- Now give a thought to Lucy Anich. Her hus- fellowship is there for them, now and forever.” options for resuming in September ing alumni magazine and on our website, 1967. band of 44 years, Steven Golladay, died this past The class of 1969 rises to shout our support! 67 William E. and making the tough choices Covid-19 will dartmouth.org. December 9. Also, we note with sadness that require that Dartmouth make, what would —Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA See you on the radio. “Bill” Ferguson passed away on June 116. I’ve sent be the one thing you believe should remain 01339; [email protected] —Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; a note to our email list and our next column will unchanged?” (504) 388-2645; [email protected] include remembrances. Wayne Letizia, Jim Rooks, and Dave Larson First, a mea culpa regarding the last —John “Tex” Talmadge, 3519 Brookline Lane, agreed on not changing the freshman trip, as it issue’s column: I got the extended At our 50th reunion the class of Farmers Branch, TX 75234; (214) 673-9250; is “very important for building a sense of com- 68 deadline wrong and posted late, so 1969 gave a rouse for the graduating [email protected] munity in the incoming frosh.” there was no room for what follows here, now 69 class of 2019. Unlike our 1969 Considering the financial impact of the slightly edited from the original, unpublished Commencement, washed out by a summer In these turbulent times, we remem- pandemic, Jon Bash would save the need-blind submission. Some of our classmates have worked storm, the 2019 event was joyous, sun- ber this Commencement address, admission policy and “provide extra financial hard to stand “as sister stands by brother” by drenched, and near-perfect. At our 50th few delivered on June 14, 1970, by our 70Wallace Ford Dartmouth College Rowing 2007-08 assistance to students coping with the added continuing their Dartmouth community in our gray-haired gang could recall details of classmate . financial burdens of this health crisis and eco- service activities, each of which, perhaps not our connection to the class of 1919, although “We are gathered here this morning to cel- nomic collapse.” Others focused on Dartmouth’s surprisingly, involves education. George Spivey many of those alumni were with us for our ebrate what is supposed to be a great day, a day educational quality and engaged in the “resi- follows, as he has throughout his life as an turbulent 1969 Commencement. Christopher J. of significance and a day of meaning for all those dence vs. online education debate.” educator, the guideline spoken at his mother’s Stillbach reminds us that 50 years ago, Robert involved. But what does this day mean for us, the here is no strength without unity. Rick Geissinger says he “would never drop funeral to “help somebody” in his mentoring and Stecher, class of 1919 (a legendary physician, Black students who have survived the Dartmouth the residency requirement for students to be in community service work; Richard Lappin works philanthropist, and educator), predicted that by College experience? T Hanover. That is such a rich and important part through his Providence Promise organization 2019 Dartmouth would change: “It will contain “This day means that we recognize ourselves Histories & Memoirs for families & businesses of the Dartmouth experience.” to promote financial awareness by and support a substantial proportion of women,” Dr. Stecher as being the result of years of labor and sacrifice, But John Manopoli says it depends on testing: for students in Rhode Island; and Jim Morrison’s said to the men assembled on the lawn, “and that the labor of fathers, the sacrifice of mothers, the References from Dartmouth alumni available on request. “Should students return to campus in person, work with the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is threatening.” Nonetheless, we are confident encouragement and help from brothers and sis- Camden Writers 207.542.9392 [email protected] every student, every member of the faculty and provides a multisensory accommodation for that he was secretly pleased that the class of 1969 ters, the support of friends. 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this labor, this sacrifice, this encouragement, pandemic; reminiscing about our fathers who in clinical psychology with an internship at the As if the pandemic wasn’t enough, Sue Burt completed his general surgery internship Tennessee, where he was the first Black editor this help, this support, we can never pay back fought valiantly in World War II and the scant University of Rochester and a daughter who lives Stetson and Steve Stetson also experienced the at Brown University and returned to Pitt to of a city magazine in the country. In 2009, after in material terms no matter how hard we try. information we received from them given their in Nashville. Unfortunately, my schedule did severe tornado devastating the Chattanooga, complete his residency training. He is the David 16 years as an editor at The Atlanta Journal- “If we are to make the years of labor and reluctance to share details on their experiences; not allow us to get together this time, but we are Tennessee, area in mid-April. A large tree fell in Silver Professor and chairman of the department Constitution, he dipped in and out of retirement sacrifice meaningful, then we must dedicate and recalling some of the great College professors planning to do so when Jack next comes down their yard and many trees were uprooted directly of orthopedic surgery at the University of until taking the plunge for good in 2013. ourselves to our people. We must dedicate we were privileged to know. Participating in Wil- for a family visit. behind them, but “miraculously we escaped any Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a Currently, in his words, “I’ve also been ourselves to Black freedom and Black peace of lis’s Zoom conference calls were Sam Cuddeback, Joe Davis reported in to say that in May he damage.” They moved to Tennessee three years distinguished service professor at UP. Freddie teaching adult literacy since 2010, first as a vol- mind, no matter the obstacles, no matter the Malcolm Jones, Dick Wenzel, Greg Schelkun, Dave retired as the chief operating officer of BKV ago to be near their grandchildren. specializes in sports medicine and serves as unteer working with American adults and since barriers, no matter the side alleys that lead to Paradise, Dan Clouse, Roger Prince, Peter Graves, Corp., the natural gas company he helped to In Virginia, Greg Barry reported, “We’re head team physician for UP and the Pittsburgh last fall on a paid, part-time basis working with dead ends of frustration and negation. Bernie Wysocki, Peter Pratt, Bob Lider, Doug Jones, start in 2014. Joe will continue as a director of both okay (wife Donna Sorkin, exchange ’72). Ballet Theater. adult English as a second language students. “When we were first put in chains, our Mac Barrett, Jon Osgood, Don Ebberly, Bob Cordy, the company and will “continue to champion We are living in McLean and walk daily (as we Freddie reinvented how doctors deal with Of course now, with the Covid outbreak, all my ancestors were surprised; when Reconstruction Steve Hoverman, Janet Rosa, John Hanley, Michael natural gas as the low-carbon complement to have been for 15 years) and are staying home. anterior cruciate ligament repairs. Innumerable classes are online, which has been challenging was found to be a sick white joke, we were Maynard, Pete Webster, Albert Lamarre, Joe Cecere, renewable energy while the world transitions to Northern Virginia has been hit fairly hard and amateur and professional athletes have benefited but interesting. Personally, I’m living solo in an surprised; when Marcus Garvey was railroaded Simon Potter, David Aylward, John Eaton David Kra- sustainable energy sources.” Well done, Joe! He we are mourning the likely cancellation of a trip from his research and skills in this area. For 40 Atlanta suburb, have a grown son in Fort Worth, to prison, we were surprised; when Emmett koff, and others. Congratulations to Bob Cordy, also tells me that he recently heard from Lawrie to the Galapagos with my son and his wife, to say years he has had the most publications in this Texas, and, most importantly, my cutie grand- Till and Mack Parker were murdered, we were who has retired from active law firm duty but Lieberman, who is now living in Montana. Lawrie nothing of our trip to Norway during the sum- specialty. His state-of-the-art sports medicine daughter turned 1 year old on June 8. When it surprised; when Malcolm X, the prince of still remains on senior status call. Jim Smith has just celebrated his 48th wedding anniversary. mer.” Further south in Old Dominion, Dave Pel- complexes provide the comprehensive care for seems safe to fly again, first thing I’m booking is Blackness, was murdered in cold blood, we were retired from Webster Bank after years of dedi- He and his bride, Moira, were married in Rollins land shared, “We’ve hunkered down at home for patients of all ages and athletes at all levels. a ticket to Texas.” surprised; when Martin Luther King, the prince cated leadership and service. Under the direction Chapel a few days before we graduated in 1972. the last two-and-one-half months. Fortunately, Freddie Fu is recognized throughout the Well, get on over here, Larry! He is still in of peace, was killed, we were still surprised; when of David Aylward, editor of our 50th reunion Congratulations, Lawrie and Moira! we did make our annual trip to Florida in late world as representing excellence and innova- regular touch with several ’75s, including Jerome Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed by the book, Jim Rager has asked classmates serving Ragnvald Bratz dropped me a note from Nor- February-early March to see friends and take tion in sports medicine. His leadership has Taylor, Rick Jones, Jeff Hunter, and Darryl Lewis. animals that masquerade as Chicago police, we as captains and volunteers to email the follow- way to say that life is “slack” for a 73-year-old in some baseball spring training games before been frequently acknowledged nationally and Rich Yurko describes himself as “one of those were still surprised; and even last month, when ing excerpted letter to members of fraternities, retired guy, “but children (four boys) and grand- the pandemic hit. Happy to be retired and not internationally as well as within the community. silent readers of the Class Notes who always more of our brothers and sisters were shot down sports teams, clubs, organizations, societies, etc.: children (two girls and a boy) keep us halfway trying to teach calculus online. If all goes well, He oversees more than 200 surgeons as head of mean to write but almost never do.” Well, he did in Augusta and Jackson, we were surprised. “Classmates, the heart of our class 50th reunion busy.” He and Kristin, his wife of 44 years, spend by our 50th reunion the pandemic should be just orthopedics at Pitt. In addition, he oversees one this month! Rich is still a practicing lawyer in “The time has now come for us to believe in book will be the individual entries that you and about half the year in Oslo and the other half up an unpleasant memory.” of the best and most ethnically and gender-diver- Boston, having founded his own firm, a business ourselves. The time has come to make ourselves our classmates submit. We hope that you will do in the mountains north of there. Ragnvald says From upstate New York, Mark Elmer noted, “I sified orthopedic residency training programs in litigation boutique, 25 1/2 years ago and is now in free. Our stars of freedom still shine and our this in the spring or the summer, at the latest. that, thankfully, the impact of the coronavirus am well enough, and although I did supervise one the country. He has been honored with more than an “of counsel” role. He has always maintained saints of righteousness do live. You only have Start by signing into the class reunion website, has been milder in Norway than in the rest of graduating math major this spring, I am happy 300 professional awards and was inducted to the outside interests, and after 10 years, including to look around. dartmouth71.reuniontechnologies.com. You can Europe. He keeps in touch with John Musser, who to have retired. I live a quiet life with my pets, 2016 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports two as president, he just rolled off the board at “That is what we are about, that is what to- fill in the blanks under your name, write a short is in the Boston area, and with Jan Opsahl, who reading, some math, and birdwatching. I ride Medicine Hall of Fame. For Freddie’s pioneering GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), day means for us. To best sum up our feelings, essay, and share a few pictures. To save you time, is retired in the countryside outside of London. about the village on my recumbent trike. Before work and his contributions to UPMC and UP, the the “legal group that got marriage equality recog- though, I would like to quote a poem written by we have already downloaded all the information Thanks for reaching out, Ragnvald! my daughter moves to Ithaca for graduate school UPMC Sports Medicine Center was renamed nized throughout New England and then in the brother Herschel Johnson, of this class, as this that you entered for the 45th reunion book, if any, Sadly, I must close by reporting the death in the fall, she is living with me, a happy shock the UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center. U.S. Supreme Court. As a member of the Supreme poem speaks for the souls and spirits of all of us. as well as the latest contact and other informa- of two classmates. Bill French died at home in to my existence!” Freddie credits DMS Dean James Strickler Court bar, I was in the well of the courtroom For you mothers with dirt-rough hands tion the College has for you.” July from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Charlie Boarman reported from St. Peters- ’50, DMS’51 (a Pittsburgh native), for encourag- when our lawyer successfully argued our cause.” For you with backs aching from bending Follow these steps to update your entry. He is survived by Janet, his wife of 38 years, and burg, Florida. “We have beautiful weather, golf ing him to work with Dr. Albert Ferguson ’41, His family still owns the Lyme, New Hamp- And flushing and scrubbing First, use your browser to go to dartmouth71. his son, William French III ’08. Peter Kaczowka courses remained open, bike trails and public DMS’42, orthopedics chair in sports medicine shire-based B&B, Breakfast on the Connecticut, For all you women on transit reuniontechnologies.com. Then click on the passed away under hospice care in April at his space provided options to exercise. My wife and at UP. Freddie exemplifies Dr. Ferguson’s phi- and Rich is able to see lots of grads and lots of You with brown bags under your arms “Login” button and log in using your Dartmouth home in Adams, Massachusetts. He is survived I have remained civil. Without a vaccine or effec- losophy: “Do the right thing, take care of your parents of current students as a result. He has Bringing home the leavings of white folks NetID and password. (If you don’t know your by his two sons, Aaron and Ethan. Our heartfelt tive treatment, this may be with us for another 18 patients, and they will take care of you.” remained in close touch with Hoyt Zia, with whom Bringing it to your children NetID call the help desk at 603-646-3202 or condolences are extended to the families and months or more. It’s hard to predict the strain on The Dartmouth tradition continues he and a couple of other high school friends gath- For all you Black mothers and fathers email [email protected] and ask for friends of these sons of Dartmouth. The hill the social fabric that would produce.” throughout the Fu family with brother Frank ’76 ered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, late last year. Hoyt Who had to live with humility your NetID and help setting your password.) winds know their names. While no virus-based classmate deaths and children Gordon ’99 and Joyce ’03. Freddie has just retired as general counsel at Hawai- And yet have had the pride to survive Once you are logged in, click on “My Reunion As Jim Morrison said, “Strange days have have been reported thus far, 1973 spouses, fam- remains on the board of overseers for Geisel ian Airlines. He also stays in touch with one of For you Black mothers and fathers Book Entry” and follow the instructions to enter found us.” Please check in with me to report on ily members, and relatives did succumb, as did School of Medicine. Freddie cohosts an annual his former roommates, Dr. Mark Greenstein, who who raised up your reunion book submission. You’ll find that how you are doing during these difficult times. alumni from across the decades; all the class reception for incoming Dartmouth freshmen just retired from teaching at the UConn Medical Your men are now with you. your basic contact information has already been —David Hetzel, 997 State Blvd., Franklin, TN officers extend heartfelt condolences to everyone in the region to welcome them. He maintains a School. “Finally, there are our classmates who “Thank you and may a beautiful Black peace loaded with whatever Dartmouth has on record 37064; [email protected] who lost someone dear. residence in Hanover. Nominated by classmates worked for The Daily D. We stay in touch via always be with you.” for you. Use the screens that follow to update —Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA Oge Young and Doug Hamlin, he received the 2018 Facebook and Instagram and poke each other —Gary Miller, 7 E Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; your information. Tiresome summer ended! 94403; [email protected] Distinguished Alumni Award. when the news warrants it.” [email protected] Classmates, stay safe and well. Did readers catch the “Stagecraft” Freddie is married to Hilda Pang Fu, a por- Rich has promised to tell me over a beer —Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; article and great photo of Lorna Mills Hi, everyone. celain painter and founder and president of a about his trip out of China in January and Aus- Willis Newton 73Hill Matt Putnam Wah hoo wah to for [email protected] and her life’s work in this magazine’s May/ and the executive Pittsburgh-based nonprofit formed to broaden tralia after that, escaping the virus and wildfires. hosting Zoom calls for West Coast June issue? committee are hard at work on fun- minds and inspire innovation. They have five Indiana Jones? Jack 74 classmates that have since been ex- I was so pleased to hear from Shortly before everyone’s life went sideways, draising, class projects, and our 50th reunion. grandchildren. Vox clamantis in Tejas. 71 Vayda Owen Kelly Don Lepley Rick Ranger Stephen D. Gray panded to include classmates across the coun- and recently. Jack drove 300-plus miles from Lassen I read in ’s recent newsletter that he Please send me news. — , 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX try. Every Wednesday classmates participate was headed to Nashville from the County, California, to the Bay Area, where he will be taking over bios on our classmates, which —Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, 77550; (650) 302-8739; [email protected] 72 Jim Dougherty in informative and entertaining discussions on New York City metro area and suggested that and caught the last pre-shutdown really makes sense since he doesn’t have the word NH 03053; [email protected] a wide variety of interesting topics, including we three have a mini class reunion to catch up. San Francisco Symphony concert. Don wrote: limit that we do. Forty-eight falls ago we converged on but not limited to reminiscing about how we Jack is a lawyer in New York City and is still “The chief [Covid-19] impact on me was the extra So I am going to finish with this profile of This installation of our Class Notes Hanover from various vantage points prepared to flunk our pre-induction physical to practicing there and in Brazil, where he was born. load of emails and virtual meetings and telework Freddie Fu, M.D. I had the pleasure of knowing features a couple of classmates with 76 and life experiences, each with a sto- avoid being drafted; discussing the merits of the He was coming south to visit his two daughters adjustments, as the U.S. Forest Service picks its Freddie, taking many classes with him, and, as a 75 whom we have not been in touch for ry, each wondering what college would be like former ROTC program; sharing the new normal (one a Dartmouth ’10) and his grandson, who way through this turbulent time. I applied for doctor myself, always took pleasure in knowing quite some time. and how we would fit in. I am asked more often and impact of Covid-19 on our lives (including live here in Music City. Owen is retired after a retirement two years ago but chickened out—this I “knew him when….” First comes news from Larry Conley, who, than I could ever have expected what it was like sheltering at home with our families), the arts, long career in the financial services industry and time I’ve gone through with it. I may still have Freddie graduated summa cum laude, after Dartmouth and Columbia, has spent to be in the first class of coeducation. Mine is traveling, medical care, and how the College still lives with his wife of 44 years, Ann Kelly, in involvement with the botany program in Lassen received his B.M.S. in 1975 from Dartmouth almost 40 years as a communicator, teacher, just one of 177 answers to that question, the one is addressing the challenges of providing the Nashville, where he is active in the nonprofit National Forest, but for now I’m relieved to be Medical School and earned his M.D. in 1977 and primarily journalist. His journalism career commonality being that it required strength. In Dartmouth experience to students during the world. They have a son who is finishing his Ph.D. off-schedule!” from the University of Pittsburgh (UP). He covered various cities, including Memphis, our chrysalis state of developing identity, we, like

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our male counterparts, sought safety in the com- on “Impressionist Paintings You Should Know,” More responses to last issue’s ques- It’s 6 p.m. on Father’s Day and John and Finally, to the more than 600 classmates ever, I am grateful for the College, the beauty of its fort of what the College now refers to as affinity highlighting collections across the United States. tion: What will you no longer take for I have just finished talking about what whose names have yet to appear in this column, place in the world, and longtime friends. groups. Although a natural inclination and jus- In May President Phil Hanlon gave a Zoom granted in 2021? “Spontaneity,” is Har- we want to say in this, our last Class we want to hear from you! Please send news to Don Henley decided the heart of the matter 78riet Schwartz Crew 79 tifiable survival tactic, this comfort-clustering talk for the class about the “uncharted territory” ’s one-word answer. “Haircuts!” Notes column. We are waxing nostalgic about our [email protected] and help Janie hit the ground is forgiveness. I will gratefully accept forgiveness, reduced our range of social interactions. Fortu- the College is navigating. “Profoundly dedicat- writes Julie Hill Fulcher, adding: “Family dinners, dads, thinking about how much we miss them, running. but as we remember what is important and why nately, I continue to meet new friends and learn ed educators” have made the switch to online sitting down in a restaurant, and anti-bacterial when we learn that these men we loved, admired, Refresh, enjoy, and travel on, good people. we have been called to be present in this strange their stories at reunions, mini-reunions, and in learning possible. The faculty report more one- dish soap!” On the other hand, says Julie, her and respected died in our arms, mine just a month —Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; and charged time, I turn again to faith, hope, and researching this column. I am increasingly awed on-one meetings with students than ever. The whole family is now Zoom proficient, including before our fifth reunion at the age of 58. The mem- (917) 428-0852; [email protected]; John love. And the greatest of these is love. by the strength of our approximately 20 intrepid College projects significant losses for this year her 92-year-old dad. ory of how proud he looked when we arrived on Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) —Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9484, Savannah, GA 31412; Black female classmates. I knew a few and am and next. Hiring and salary freezes have been “The simple pleasure of giving a solid campus freshman fall is still strong in me, like the 649-2577; [email protected] (912) 944-1639; [email protected] grateful to be connecting with others. I first met implemented. Another major round of budget handshake to both colleagues and clients,” writes granite of New Hampshire that was made part of Donna Humphrey, Debbie Humphrey, and Andrea cuts will be imposed this summer. Neverthe- David King. “Being able to spend time with my us ’til death. Equally strong is the gratitude John A quarantine is like college: no hair- No one does it alone. At times of great- Lewis in our North Mass enclave, one of two all- less, Phil reiterated the College’s commitment father,” says Andy Ebbott. “He lives in a locked- and I feel at having been given the opportunity to cuts, no dentist, no church, no visits est difficulty, someone helps, some female dorms. Donna’s warmth, humanity, and to need-blind admissions, noting that the admit- down memory care facility. He doesn’t have much serve as class secretaries. Thank you for allowing 80to parents, but flexible schedules and 81thoughts inspire, and hope and commu- humor continue to inform me. Debbie’s good- ted class of 2024 is the most socioeconomically time left and I hope I’ll be able to give him at least us to share your news and tell your stories—it has too much drinking. The word quarantine, as we all nity coalesce. This is the essence of the big ques- ness and serenity remain an anchor. Andrea’s diverse in history. Ninety-six percent of admitted one more hug and tell him how much he’s meant been an honor and a privilege. now know, derives from the Italian word for 40. tion about the concept of “trail magic,” a term used unwavering sense of principle and fearlessness students are in the top 10 percent of their high to me.” For Ellen Meyer Shorb it is the ability to We are thrilled to be passing the torch to Janie Forty marks a time of waiting, preparing, by long-distance hikers to describe an unexpected made her the perfect unofficial first-floor sentry school class. The pandemic has highlighted the fly to Guatemala twice a year. “I sit on the board Simms Hamner, a loyal daughter of Dartmouth, testing. Pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. We have been occurrence that lifts spirits, inspires gratitude, or during that crazy fall of 1972. Her verbal reaming importance of a liberal arts education to prepare of a school that serves children whose parents starting with the November/December issue of out of college for 40 years. Forty is a long time, otherwise eases the strain of an arduous journey, of an unwitting, inebriated football player who leaders—at all levels of society and throughout scavenge the Guatemala City dump for a living. DAM. But before we do, I thought I would take a whatever you are marking. like the one we all find ourselves on during this wandered in to harass one of our dormmates late the world. A major challenge facing the College I never thought I would not be able to visit the few paragraphs to reflect on my many years in this Our reunion, of course, has been postponed. time of pandemic and social awareness. one night made her my instant hero. Decades is how to maintain the unique sense of com- school and community on a regular basis.” role, the most rewarding of them being the last The 110 lawyers in our class best understand that Philip Gibbs relates, “Most of this pandemic later, she is elegant and eloquent regaling me munity and place that distinguishes Dartmouth And from someone whose mind is clearly on five working alongside my brother from another we have all received an extension of time. We’ll has been pretty lousy. I have friends who are with tales of her travels with Sharon Ali, Cynthia from its peers. something other than Covid-19: “I won’t take for mother, John “Juan” Currier. I could not have asked meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when. sick and relatives of friends who have passed Taylor, Karen Evans, and the Humphreys. I recently In June Dee Dee Granzow Simpson, Dr. Dan Lu- granted that all Major League Baseball teams play for a better wing man. Many thanks to reunion chairs Cathy McGrath away. That said, perhaps we will appreciate learned about Juneteenth in Amanda Green’s rich cey, and Susan Dentzer joined Dr. Steve Mentzer on by the rules,” says Chris Morris about MLB’s base- It occurs to me that “Building Bridges,” the and Alex Frank for their hard work. They are still some of the things that really matter. My trail reminiscences of multi-generational family cel- a class Zoom call about the SARS-CoV-2 corona- stealing controversy. “The Red Sox and Astros welcoming 40th reunion theme coined by Dawn on the hook for when we do gather together. Cathy magic moment occurred when my daughter, ebrations published in the PBS publication Re- virus. Steve is a thoracic surgeon and professor of should be harshly penalized.” I long for the day Hudson and Otho Kerr, our can-do co-chairs, aptly and Alex determined long ago (in March) that our who is doing her sophomore spring term in her wire. Professor Karen Turner shared her historical surgery at Harvard Medical School. He discussed when we can have more arguments about things describes the job John and I have been doing reunion would not take place this year. Who could bedroom, said to me, ‘I’m okay; there are people perspective on Juneteenth in an interview with the research findings he and colleagues recently like this! during our tenures as class secretaries. We have have seen this coming? Cathy and Alex did. with much bigger problems.’ Good kid.” Weyman Kay Angrum of New York’s NBC affiliate. Karen published in The New England Journal of Medi- Will Fraizer has a new gig. He is operations derived immense satisfaction from connecting Susan Fagerstrom and Mark Alperin have been Lundquist seems to have both received and created has dedicated her career to teaching, explaining, cine. Steve’s group of international researchers engineering manager for Freeport LNG with a broad and diverse spectrum of classmates, most excellent co-presidents, encouraging new trail magic. “My trail magic was getting Small researching, and sharing as a journalist, radio recognized early that Covid-19 produced unique Development, L.P., which operates the world’s particularly those who, for any number of good ideas while keeping us focused on getting things Business Administration approval for a Paycheck reporter, mayoral press secretary, Temple Uni- signs of disease in the lungs. This realization largest electric motor-driven liquefied natural gas reasons, have been reluctant to respond to class done. Our 60th birthday party in Scottsdale, Protection Program loan for my company, West versity professor, and director of the university’s spurred a hunt for autopsied lungs from Co- (LNG) production and export facility, on Quintana outreaches in the past. With 54 columns and more Arizona, was a highlight of their administration. Coast Magnetics. With close to 100 employees in academic center on research in diversity. J.B. vid-19 victims in Europe. The lungs revealed Island along the Texas Gulf Coast. “I am enjoying than 2,500 birthday greetings in the rearview Susan and Mark are writing a book about alumni the United States and 150 south of the border, a lot Redding (coauthor with Monica Hargrove and numerous blood clots, illustrating that Covid-19 the opportunity to work with some very talented mirror, we hope our message of inclusivity has volunteerism titled Herding Cats. of people are relying on me. It has been a wild three Eileen Cave of the 1974 report on institutional is a vascular as well as respiratory ailment. In people and use my international LNG experience come through loud and clear: “We are grateful for Frank Fesnak and Rob Daisley were great co- weeks, very stressful. I have been able to dial back racism at Dartmouth) recently opened up about addition to the relentless assault it makes on again,” says Will, “not to mention the interesting you” (thank you, Gemma Lockhart!); you all matter. secretaries, bringing new wit and perspective to the cortisol with regular trips to the bay to race a lifetime of humiliating, scary, and exhausting the immune system, it can cause massive organ technical challenges, combined with regular ocean Since penning my first column nearly a decade these pages. Our partnership was a troika that with my buddies on my hydrofoil windsurfer.” John experiences with the police. Her pain was made failure and death. Dan, Susan, and Steve agreed views.” ago, I have written about 142 of you (including worked. Curtis suggests a cyclical nature to the beneficence even more poignant when I read J.B.’s mission as on the need “to keep vigilant” by wearing masks, Bob Kaler reports he is still a partner with the nine guest columns) and mentioned 113 others, Lisa Shanahan carefully steered the committee of trail magic. “As some of you know, I stepped in to founder of Caring Hands, a Maryland organiza- washing hands regularly, and socially distancing law firm of Holland & Knight. He and his wife, Liri, chronicling your families, careers, activities, that selected the recipients of the Parker Small rescue a botanic garden several years ago. During tion committed to providing homes for adults as Covid caseloads continue to rise in more than live in the Boston area. They have a son finishing successes, and tribulations. You are educators, Award. The names of the honorees will be the pandemic we elected to remain open. A worker with disabilities: to “honor the wishes of the half the states. These precautions are especially up at Dartmouth as a math and music major and authors, surgeons, politicians, philanthropists, kept under wraps awaiting a public ceremony. emailed: ‘The garden is looking lovely. We had a individual, accept people as they are, give oppor- necessary for the 60-plus set, such as us, whose a daughter finishing up at NYU. social workers, artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, While preparing for reunion, Lisa was running nurse visit and become a member almost in tears, tunity for full lives in the community, maximize immune systems become less robust with age. I am sad to report the passing of two scientists, and so much more. Sadly, we have also for election to the common council in Norwalk, thanking us for being open and providing a much- healthy outcomes, and preserve dignity.” Deep On July 1 Gina Russo will become the chair classmates. Charlie Kreter died on April 20 in mourned the passing of 22 of our 52 deceased Connecticut. Lisa received the most votes in needed escape.’ After working with the local police gratitude for these friends is the magnifying glass of the board of advisors of Dartmouth’s Hood Severna Park, Maryland. Susan Fera Assmann lost classmates, the most recent being the death of her district and more than double the vote totals on how to stay open to support visitors’ well-being that brings the term “systemic racism” into sharp Museum. She looks forward to working with her battle with cancer on May 30 in Waltham, Doug Egan on May 14. John and I have always received by her Republican challengers. Is Lisa’s and getting staff behind our approach, this email focus, revealing the life-and-death urgency of Director Stomberg and his amazing team, plus Massachusetts. Look for remembrances of them regarded you as an exceptionally talented, kind, victory a harbinger of November? was the trail magic to keep me hiking.” this hour. Understanding our classmates’ stories other board members, including Maud Welles. on the class website: http://1978.dartmouth.org/ caring, and supportive collection of individuals; With sorrow, I report the sudden passing Greg Slayton sees magic all around him. and generational history precludes any arms- The Hood concluded a multi-year renovation in-memoriam. what we couldn’t have fully appreciated without of Andy Glassberg in early June. With his “Early one morning many years ago our 5-year- length observation of injustice. The burden to and expansion in early 2019. This project rei- The May/June column on remembering lost meeting you or reconnecting with you through our positive energy, intellectual curiosity, and warm old (Christian ’15) asked why I was leaving so early explain, prove, educate, and take action can no magined the physical spaces of the museum classmates generated more response than any class secretary efforts, however, is the incredible hospitality, Andy embodied the Dartmouth spirit. for work. When I told him I wanted to be sure longer be borne solely by our Black classmates and the way in which the collection was hung other I’ve written. Gordon Holbein wrote: “Thank breadth and depth of your humanity. You are a Last reunion, Andy stood with me on the dais in we could send him to Dartmouth, he volunteered who have been doing it for too long. It is the re- and interpreted for the public. Increased gallery you from my heart for the most sincere and remarkable group! Rollins Chapel and helped read the names of our to stay 5 years old for the rest of his life so I sponsibility of all of us. spaces, a public concourse connecting to the meaningful piece I have ever read in our Class We want to thank Dawn, Otho, and the 50- deceased classmates. When we meet again, we wouldn’t have to work so hard.” The Covid-19- —Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit campus arts district, and three state-of-the-art, Notes.” Gordon added that it “moved me to reflect plus members of their 40th reunion committee for will read Andy’s name. Thoughts and prayers for inspired question caused Betsy Slotnick Rubinstein 4B, Boston, MA 02108; [email protected] smart classrooms are all hallmarks of the new and to see some important things more clearly.” their hard work during the past year and commend Barbara and their two daughters. to write an appropriate 19-stanza poem that will Hood. Please try a virtual visit at hoodmuseum. I heard from members of other classes as well. them for successfully pivoting to a series of joyful Pandemics are a time to remember what is be reproduced in the ’81 newsletter. She ends her This winter George Shackelford (who dartmouth.edu. “What a wonderful sentiment,” emailed Jonathan virtual reunions following the postponement of important. Dartmouth is important. The Upper oeuvre with: “For all the magic that has shone, knows a little something about Im- —Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ London ’90, “to make sure that everyone’s life our eagerly anticipated physical reunion. Despite Valley is important. Old friends are important. Upon this unmarked trail, Has lit our path, will 77 pressionism) joined Hood Museum 08540; [email protected]; Eric Edmondson, is acknowledged and celebrated in some small our shared disappointment, there is much to look The ties that bind are important. lead us on, And proves we will prevail.” of Art Director John Stomberg for a private visit DC Advisory, 425 California St., Suite 19, San way, even if it has to be posthumously.” Thanks forward to when we return to Dartmouth next Reunions are about the here and now, not Lastly, I wish to thank heartily my fellow to the exhibition Monet: Places at the Denver Art Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail. to everyone who reached out. I am glad it was June or July, including lots of 60-something-year- old glory days. Moving forward through time, my co-secretary Veronica Wessels, who ends her five- Museum. Attendees included Brian Deevy and com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, meaningful. Send news! old dancing to classic 1975-1979 tunes culled from connections to Dartmouth and my friendships year stint with this column. She has injected her John Grant. This spring Dartmouth on Location Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton. —Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, your responses to the music committee’s online with classmates have grown and deepened, obvious passion, top-notch organizational talent, took the show online for a series of programs com IL 60605; [email protected] “Battle of the Bands” contests. enriched with layers of meaning. Now more than and a very special level of creativity to her role.

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Thankfully, she will continue involvement in “In Memoriam” at the top for more information based inequities in their policy arenas. After the everyone else in the islands has been fishing, so life In the face of the ongoing global health Haley ’20. We send our best wishes to Greg Lesko various communications initiatives for the class. about them and all the members of our class who popularity of the N.Y.C. and Boston first Friday is full of thrilling fishing stories and fresh ’ah and pandemic, national protests addressing systemic and his bride, Kelly, as they celebrate their 27th Cheers, Vee! have died. You can share a memory or a photo on lunches organized by Dave Ellis and Patty Shepard, ono. Sharing the home time with our two teenage racism and an overdue overhaul of policing, wedding anniversary this year. Congratulations —Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH, the page of a deceased classmate by sending an respectively, other regions have recently begun fol- boys has been an added bonus.” fallout from the economic shutdown, and are due to Jonathan Skurnik, director of Becom- 03860; (802)345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail. email to Matt Hoffman at [email protected]. lowing their footsteps. In May Elliot Stultz and Becky Fishing, hiking, plastic surgery—just be sure associated future uncertainty for so many, it is ing Johanna, a documentary about navigating com; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Stay healthy and safe! Ankeny hosted the first virtual lunch for classmates to write me a thank you note after visiting all of easy to despair. Rather, perhaps we will seize transgender identity, which aired multiple times Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; —David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los living in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Not these great classmates. I’ll be waiting to hear from this moment to face these challenges, no longer on PBS through July 7. Synopsis: When Johan- [email protected] Angeles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Jenny to be outdone, Maren Christensen, Shanta Sullivan, you. looking through a prism of individual fear and na, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC and Ian Wiener hosted the first West Coast virtual —Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, excuses, but with a focused lens of collective transition and gets kicked out of her home and By the time you read this column, I 20016; [email protected] cocktail hour in June. NY 13104; [email protected]; Eric Grubman, 2 opportunity. We are all learning and adjusting, school, she finds a foster family who loves her imagine we will still be dealing with —Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710- and we hope you are staying healthy and safe. May and a supportive school principal who helps the coronavirus and its impacts. In the As Sam Sanders recently said during Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail. 7933; [email protected] your voice be heard, your actions be constructive, her graduate and thrive. Jonathan participated 82 Elliot Stultz last column Jenny shared thoughts from several his NPR podcast It’s Been a Minute, “It com; , 421 West Melrose St., #8A, and we will be part of the solution toward making in a live question-and-answer session through class leaders on how being a member of the Dart- 83feels like we’re living in three movies at Chicago, IL 60657; [email protected] Writing this column as our shut-in a difference. Eventbrite to discuss his movie with viewers. The mouth community has helped them cope with this once: a satire, and a horror movie and a Spike Lee spring evolves into essentially a stay- All the best to all of you! documentary was included in PBS’ SoCal events pandemic. For Part II of “Vox Clamantis in Pan- Joint.” The recent national wave of conversations The world’s been on lockdown but one in-place summer (and who knows —Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road Greenwich, celebrating Pride Month (June), noting that the demus,” I reached out to classmates living abroad. about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, systemic day we will all travel again. As your 85 CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; [email protected]; film “painted an insightful picture of the LGBTQ what next?) is an attempt to provide some ele- According to my very unofficial count, there are racism, unemployment, and the U.S. Supreme trusty co-secretary, I am ignoring the ment of “normal” during these unprecedented John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, movement.” It is finished in beauty. 84 Mae Drake Hueston at least 28 members of our class who live outside Court’s rulings protecting LGBTQ employees students in my Zoom classroom for however long times. So let me begin with a shout-out to our PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; [email protected] — , P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, of the United States. and supporting the DACA program makes the first it takes to write this column. I’ll guide you toward class webmaster, Jeff Weitzman, for his creative CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail. Sean Burke writes from Paris: “France went six months of 2020 an historic and momentous some interesting places to visit once the pandemic redesign of our website (www.dartmouth85.com). First, I’d like to thank Liz Babb for com into a strict lockdown on March 17. Only grocery time. Peter Kilmarx, M.D., writes that since March is over. And who said travel agents were obsolete! The site incorporates links to our Shades of Green using her valuable skills, a lot of time, stores, pharmacies, and some takeout restaurants 13 he has been working from home in Bethesda, For those of you living on the East Coast, why class newsletter, cleverly curated by Lisa Sweeney and hard work to improve our class Difficult times such as these make us Kate Hotchkiss 86 were open. To be outside of our homes, we needed Maryland, and alternatively from his farm in Lyme, not drive to Maine? You could visit . Herrington and Margaret Warram Marder—be sure communication tools. Because of her efforts, appreciate the things in life we may to carry a signed self-declaration explaining why New Hampshire. In his role at the National Insti- Kate is debuting her first book,On Harbor’s Edge, to read the spring 2020 edition that includes sto- we now have an up-to-date class website (1986. 87have taken for granted before Cov- we were out. There were only a few valid reasons: tutes of Health he is supporting global Covid-19 the first in a series of dramatic, generationally ries about classmates who have chosen a career dartmouth.org), a larger Facebook public group id-19: leisure time with family, connecting with work (in some circumstances), food shopping, research partnerships, SARS-CoV-2 genomic sur- layered stories from 1912 to the present, against in religion, either as clergy or staff, including (www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986), an awe- friends, comforting food and drink, being outside medical appointments. We could exercise veillance, contact tracing challenges, and many the backdrop of Maine island imagery that award- Bo Beatty, Claudia Broeker Egger, Ellen Jennings, some digital May newsletter (also on the class in the fresh air, and positive news of any and all outdoors, but only alone and no more than half a other projects. Peter has given many updates on winning author Susan Conley describes as “so rich Blaine Richard, and Greg Somerville. The website website), and the amazing class Zoom calls. It is kinds. Susannah Drake and Katherine Faulkner are mile from home. In my spare time indoors, during Covid-19 research and epidemiology including it is its own character.” Kate is empty-nesting with also contains an entertaining visual of our Hol- always so wonderful to see all your faces, as we celebrating just such good news: Earlier this year April, I wrote rhymes about life in lockdown.” Sean a webinar, “What’s Needed to Re-open Safely” her husband, Ellard, on a Maine island with their lywood Squares way of staying connected while catch up or talk about issues that concern us all in the American Institute of Architects recognized wrote a total of 30 poems. Email me if you would for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. adult sons’ dogs. remaining socially distant—check out the Zoom this stage of our lives and prepare to meet back on them as fellows, the organization’s highest honor, like a copy of his “Quarantine Chronicles.” Since May, people have been vigorously coming And if you live on the West Coast, why not call screenshots. campus in 2021. John Hueston and I are thrilled to bestowed on members with exceptional work Bob Faber shared the following from Bulgaria: together worldwide in record numbers in response drive up to Alaska? Gas is cheap now. The roads Our site is an easy way to review updates co-chair our 35th ’86 class reunion—“It’s So Easy and contributions to architecture and society. “Camaraderie and creativity are two important to multiple video recordings of police officers and are empty. Shouldn’t take too long. We have four on important initiatives, such as our class Being Green”—from June 17-20, 2021. Thanks to An associate professor of architecture and land- aspects of life at Dartmouth that I remember white supremacists brutalizing and sometimes classmates living in Anchorage: Sarah, Steve, Jan- project, co-chaired by Veronica Jenkins and Todd Gomez, Jayne Daigle Jones, Liz Babb, Jona- scape architecture at the University of Colorado fondly and always try to recreate, wherever killing Black people and other people of color over ice and Ken. (There will be a quiz later.) And if Pamela Ponce-Johnson. We are teaming up with than Skurnik, Laura Gillespie, Dawn Carey, Harry Boulder, Susannah also reports that her firm, my travels take me. When Bulgaria entered its minor violations, suspicion, or simply living while you’re not feeling well, never fear, as we have two Dartmouth Partners in Community Service Carrel, Kelly Keller, Lynn Tracy Nerland, Jonno Wil- DLANDstudio, is one of five landscape architec- lockdown, every aspect of life here turned upside Black. These protests also shine a light on increas- doctors. Sarah Burrell Troxel, M.D., is a plastic sur- to provide scholarship aid and mentoring to liams, Ned Groves, Alex Rossides, Mike Moody, Liz ture firms in the country asked to reimagine the down. Our work with children through the PINK ing violence against trans women of color. Brian geon. Steve Compton, M.D., is a cardiologist. Steve current undergraduates pursuing social impact McClintock, and Burgie Howard for agreeing to join landscape of the National Mall in Washington, Foundation came to a screeching halt. Within a Roy, attorney for UnitedLex in Richmond, Virginia, writes: “My wife and I have two college-age boys internships. Ann Schonfield was a winter 2020 the reunion committee. (Reunion updates post D.C., to address the effect of climate change on few days I realized morale would quickly sink if likens the recent profound bipartisan, multiracial, who are back for the summer and who knows how mentor, and currently serving as our class to website.) Please catch Bill Rodgers’ commen- the city’s beloved cherry trees. “Just the other we didn’t do something proactive to raise spirits interfaith union of people to two earlier events he much longer. Alaska is probably the easiest state mentors (albeit remotely connecting with their tary, “Black Americans Have No Choice but to day I saw [co-head class agent] Peter Murane and among the team, so I organized weekly Zoom experienced firsthand. In the early 1990s Brian to socially distance. We’ve been getting outside, mentees) are Sue Finegan and Ted Meisel. Anyone Protest,” published by Barron’s on June 4. Bill is [class alumni councilor] Anne Kubik and helped meetings just to give us a way to share news and arrived in Los Angeles within days of the Rodney hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking.” Janice Tanaka interested in participating in this program, please professor of public policy and chief economist at Peter out with the design of his own garden,” encourage each other. These times together gave King beating on March 3. 1991. Ten years later Tower is the owner of Tower Health. Ken Miller is reach out to either Veronica (jenkinsvnj@gmail. the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development Susannah said. “It was fun to connect!” rise to activities such as distributing food parcels Brian was a newly appointed attorney for Morgan president of Denali FSP Fundraising Consultants. com) or Pam ([email protected]). at Rutgers University. He was chief economist at In another entry in the good news column, to hungry families, preparing home use materials Stanley, with offices in the World Trade Center Ken writes: “I have been doing well, in contact Our website also highlights “in memoriam” the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont included a for children out of school, and developing an in New York City. Fortunately, on the morning of with a few fellow classmates, including Peter Ellis news of classmates. It is with profound sadness He serves on New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Re- shout-out to our very own Skip Kodak in a online story hour to teach and entertain local 9/11, Brian and his new wife were in Maui, Hawaii, and Gary Witherspoon. I have been active in the that I share the most recent news of the passing start and Recovery Commission. Josh Greenberg televised address broadcast by WTIC-TV in preschoolers. We even held an impromptu on the second day of their honeymoon. In New conversations around anti-racism and remain of Sarah Snyder Morris at her home in Salem, currently serves as the vice president of govern- Hartford, Connecticut. Based at Lego’s American Facebook live fundraiser to support summer Jersey, Maddie Thomas of Glen Rock resonantly privileged to mentor and support young men of Oregon, on May 15, after a courageous battle with ment relations at Boston Children’s Hospital. headquarters in Enfield, Connecticut, Skip is the programs for children at risk.” marched in a Black Lives Matter protest and last color. Beautiful summer so far in Alaska but miss metastatic breast cancer. Sarah is survived by her Josh shares, “I have been lucky to host several executive vice president of the Americas market And John Henderson writes from Asia: “Here week celebrated Juneteenth, a tradition passed traveling to the Lower 48.” loving husband of nearly 20 years, Russ Morris, groups of Dartmouth Partnership in Community group at Lego, overseeing sales and marketing in in Myanmar things aren’t too far from normal. down through the generations of her family. As Traveling past Anchorage, you could visit her mother, three sisters, and seven nieces and Service health-focused summer placements in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, People know what’s going on in the rest of the a senior writer for Bloomberg News focusing on Jennifer Reynolds in Fairbanks, where she’s a nephews. Boston for informal dinners with discussions and Brazil. Gov. Lamont complimented Skip’s world, but mostly they don’t have a personal business and economic news and global equal- professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Believe it or not, efforts on planning our with health policy figures about what they are and the Enfield headquarters’ success in fully connection to Covid-19. Official numbers here in ity, Karen Toulon writes: “It’s essential to include School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences. Or drive 35th class reunion are well underway with the experiencing on the ground. The students are transitioning to 100-percent staff telecommuting mid-June are just around 250 infected and just voices and perspectives from all communities and south on the Highway 1 and stop at the Kenai guidance of our reunion chair, Beth Parish. We are active thinkers from multiple undergraduate ma- during the Covid-19 crisis, “taking social under 10 died in a country of more than 50 million. cultures—in our newsrooms and as sources in our peninsula to see Katie Tongue Bramante, accountant cautiously optimistic that this cluster reunion jors. To a person they care deeply about eliminat- distancing seriously,” and keeping the infection I am lucky enough to be able to keep consulting stories.” Dave Wallinga and his family live in St. Paul, at Peninsula Internal Medicine. will take place in Hanover from June 17-21, 2021. ing health disparities and recognize the impact rate “extraordinarily low.” As an example of how from my Yangon apartment and to keep taking Minnesota, just a few miles away from the site in Or you could sail out to Hawaii. Just think of Anyone eager to chair the committee on evening that poverty, underemployment, and structural businesses can help the community and “stick long bike rides nearly every day. Since the start Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. the excuses you’d have to get off that Zoom call. entertainment, please let your interest be known racism can have on their clients’ health. We’ve together” during the crisis, Gov. Lamont praised of the pandemic some Dartmouth pals organized Dave reports the official lines of communication “Sorry, I’m losing you. Boat has limited wi-fi.” via the centralized email: reunion@dartmouth85. drawn on the wider Boston Dartmouth commu- Lego’s donation of 1,600 games to every first- a twice-monthly happy hour on Zoom. It’s now among the city, police, and citizens have been al- In Honolulu you could visit Terry Yee, M.D., com. And the reunion committee is interested in nity, including fellow ’86 Mary Beckman for their grader in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where there morphed into an online book club—nice!” most nonexistent for years. Dave has worked at two in case you got sick on the boat. hearing from you about what you want to do, see, insights.” Gary Greene shared, “Last week Carolyn, had been a spike of virus cases. Nice work, Skip! I am saddened to report the deaths of nonprofit organizations dealing with agriculture Monica Latini King also lives in Hawaii but over and hear when we gather next year so please take Emily ’17, and I were in Hanover for graduation so I would love to hear your good-news-during- classmates Anchie Kuo and Kerek Frierson. and the environment. Both organizations are now in Kauai, where she’s been the editor of Hawaii a moment to complete this short survey (www. that we could celebrate with Alison ’20.” He also Covid-19 story. Please email me at the address Please visit 1982.dartmouth.org and click on intensively addressing race-based and non-race- Fishing News since 1984. Monica writes: “Almost dartmouth85.com/35-reunion-interest-survey). was there with Peter Ramsden and his daughter, below. As I have mentioned in the past, you have a

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100-percent chance of seeing your name in print! you with news, updates, and stories to share. counting) of family dinner with all four of us of 1992 executive committee liaison to the Black —Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA —Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West (husband, son aged 21, daughter aged 18) in at- Alumni at Dartmouth Association (BADA). 94121; [email protected] Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@ tendance, leisurely one- to two-hour dinners Kimberly wrote: “As a former president of gmail.com followed by all-family clean ups and movie or the Dartmouth Afro-American Society (AAm) Greetings, ’88s! As I write this column, game nights. No one wanted this drastic change and, ironically, having been our class historian, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to By the time you read this in late of pace, but Brent and I are cherishing it.” Mark I look back on our years at Dartmouth with 88 spread, with some areas of the world August, some students will be pre- Sternman: “I’ve gotten to grow my first beard since both nostalgia and angst, as I contemplate these impacted more severely than others, and I hope 89paring to return to Dartmouth and my Edinburgh foreign study program. On a more challenging times in our nation and in our world. all of our classmates are staying healthy. Since some will be preparing to take classes virtually. serious note, I’ve done multiple Zoom calls with “Speaking from a podium on the Green in the pandemic hit, I am taking more neighborhood We still don’t know at this writing how it will Tor Blaisdell, Roth Herrlinger, Jamie Pringle, and our senior spring, I and others sought to bring walks than ever, and I see an abundance of color- be decided, but for ’24s, their first year will be Scott Spring. The old banter never fails to cheer awareness, at Dartmouth, to the cause of justice ful yard signs thanking healthcare providers and radically different than our first year in Hanover. me.” Josh Vogel: “Renewed family time has been and the scourge of police brutality. When I other front-line workers for all they are doing. It’s unclear how first-year trips will be made up, an unexpected treat. I never expected to once agreed to serve as the class of 1992 committee’s Many of our classmates fall into these categories. but I’m hoping that Homecoming can happen again have us all together, with time to really con- liaison to BADA during our reunion in 2017, I Did you know we have nearly 100 medical doctors October 2 safely for students and alumni by then. nect. I find that my children have become mature, could hardly have known that the events of 2020 in our class, not to mention scores of others who I’m writing this at the end of June and thoughtful, caring individuals whose company I would so clearly punctuate the current need to are playing important roles in this public health so much has happened since May 2, when I really enjoy. Having a taste of retirement has been have mechanisms in place to amplify Black voices crisis? I will highlight just a few of our medical submitted our Class Notes for July/August. We a nice treat as well. My wife and I haven’t spent and perspectives. doctors who are doing amazing things. were only 45 days into Covid-19 lockdown and this much time together since before we were “Black lives matter. With that said, our Tom Chiller is an epidemiologist who went George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were still alive. married.” Quincy Vale: “The ability of humans class leadership team invites you to listen to the to Tulane School of Medicine and now works at Suddenly, posting pictures of our kids, what I’m to adapt to change is truly remarkable. I look at contributors whom we’ve asked to share their the Centers for Disease Control as chief of the grilling, or cars seems less important. I know that the wrenching change in lifestyles wrought by experiences, both past and present, herein. Our mycotic (fungal) diseases branch. He also serves fellow ’89s are hurting, and I want to understand the global pandemic in a few short months and hope is that we all will more consciously embrace on the faculty of Emory School of Medicine, and help. I want to listen and learn. it makes me hopeful that the collective, global the ever-present challenge to move from listening division of infectious diseases, and practices at Our 30th reunion theme of “Many Roads, ‘we’ will be able to address climate change in a to ‘hearing’ and from hearing to action when it the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Atlanta. One Spirit” seems incredibly pertinent, now meaningful manner. The money can be found and comes to confronting racism and systems of Ed Merrens serves as the chief clinical officer more than ever. Our diversity and ability to invested. The laws and policies can be enacted. inequity and supporting intentional efforts toward at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where respect the different roads classmates took to The technologies can be repurposed, developed, equity and justice.” his work focuses on clinical operations, service get to Dartmouth as well as the roads they have and deployed at scale. And we can do it quickly Christine Griffith-Legette, in her essay, lines, and care across the hospital system. He traveled afterward are all valid, we are united and efficiently in a way to minimize loss of life and “Turning 50 Amidst Two Pandemics,” described trained as an internist after graduating from as one under Dartmouth. Our voices may be our natural world. In short, one positive of all this her personal battle with Covid-19, encouraging Geisel School of Medicine, and also graduated different, and it’s worthwhile to respect other is that it is a good dress rehearsal for what we all classmates to research systemic racism and anti- from the master’s in healthcare delivery science voices and also understand how our words may need to do during the coming 20 years to manage racism. She wrote: “As members of the class of ’92, program at Dartmouth and the Tuck School of affect others. and mitigate the unintended impact we are hav- most of you should remember the protests about Call shane Business. Our own ’89 Cares group has been there for ing on our home planet. We can do it, and we will.” the Rodney King verdict that were a significant Genevieve Neal-Perry this spring was named fellow classmates suffering from individual or Jane Blum DeMarchi: “I have to admit I am enjoying part of our senior spring. In viewing pictures from To Rediscover What You Loved chair of University of North Carolina School community loss, and I want to reiterate that ’89 spending so much time with my college-aged those protests, I realized that we could have taken of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Cares is here to assist any of our classmates in children. I thought they were gone for good and many of the signs that we were carrying across About The Upper Valley Gynecology. She previously worked at University need. You can reach it on our class site at 1989. now I get to eat lunch with them!” Sue Domchek: campus in 1992 and recreated them to join one of Washington, where she was a division director, dartmouth.org. “At the risk of sounding flippant, given that I work of the current protests. It disgusts me that these SHANE MACDONALD, REALTOR and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Again, I know I don’t have the answer, but in a hospital and things have been stressful (and protests are still necessary 28 years later. These She earned her medical degree and a Ph.D. in I’m willing to be in conversations that may be I fully realize that the following is a First World experiences cause undue stress to Black people. #1 IN LEBANON, NH HOME SALES 2019 pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical uncomfortable, because I know my discomfort problem), I learned how to color my own hair. Our mental health is challenged by the graphic C: 603.252.6757 O: 603.643.6406 School and the University of Medicine and is slight in comparison to others. I look forward However, I have no intention of continuing this footage and inconsiderate comments made by Dentistry of New Jersey. to our Saturday Zoom calls to have many newfound skill on the other side.” Brad Drazen: those who do not value the lives lost or those of us [email protected] Betsey (Cuervo) Tilson serves as state health conversations—difficult or not—with all of our “The five of us have really enjoyed reconnecting still fighting for our lives and our rights.” director and chief medical officer for the North classmates together. I’ll continue to post the as a family unit. It’s been a decade since we sat Willie W. Williams wrote “Reflections on Carolina Department of Health and Human details in our class Facebook page and class down at the dinner table consistently, and we’ve Police Misconduct: From Rodney King to George Services. She went to medical school at Johns emails from time to time. The frequency may found a great sense of comfort in being together. Floyd.” He also looked back on spring 1992: “It TheCBLife.com Hopkins University and also received a master’s have changed by October, but I think the need will I believe one of the positive, long-lasting results was our senior year and graduation was taking of public health from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a still be there to connect with classmates around of the pandemic will be that nuclear families will center stage; however, the situation in Los pediatrician and preventive medicine physician. the girdled earth, and we will make it happen. remain stronger and more cohesive for years to Angeles grabbed our attention, particularly those Our classmates also include emergency I regret to inform the class that Dennis come.” Gary Katz: “The one positive thing that has in the Black community. I had a front row seat medicine physicians, such as Stuart Michelson in Donnelly passed away on June 5. Dennis’ full come out of the Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders working on the executive committee of the AAm the Lake Tahoe, Nevada, area, and Tom Swoboda, obituary is on our 1989 class page and you can are the Wednesday night ‘virtual house meetings’ and with other allies interested in speaking up for who currently runs the emergency medicine send me any remembrances of Dennis to add to we have been having on Zoom with the Sigma Nu justice. At the time I was editor of the Black Praxis GIFTS AS MEMORABLE AS YOUR residency program in Henderson, Nevada, as the “Class Reflections” on his page. ’90s, including Bruce Sacerdote, Quincy Vale, Todd newspaper, which was the official publication of DARTMOUTH EXPERIENCE ITSELF. well as primary care physicians, mental health —Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Eagle, Brian Mittman, Rob Fasciano, Bob Galindo, the AAm. In the ensuing student actions, I was treaters, and a wide range of medical specialists. Beach, CA 90278; [email protected] Chris Farrens, Jon Ezrow, Mike Kanarick, and Matt a reporter, photographer, and participant. We Personalize a handcrafted design to A huge thank you to all ’88 healthcare providers Hemry. I’m embarrassed to admit, though, that planned marches, a rally, and a sit-in at Parkhurst. and other frontline workers who are facing the Back in late April, way before our given our age we have adjusted the start time We quickly published a special edition of the add meaning all your own. pandemic with courage and vision. successful, awesome 30th reunion from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m.” Black Praxis that we personally delivered door Let’s now switch gears to celebrate some on Zoom in mid-June, I asked ’90s, —Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA to door because we wanted to express ourselves 15 South Main St, Hanover NH Paul Steinwald 90 simonpearce.com wonderful news. Laura and “Please tell us one positive thing that’s come out 02493; [email protected] to the Dartmouth community. Beyond expressing welcomed a baby girl, who joins her three older of the Covid-19 pandemic for you or a member of our anger, we gained modest support for diversity 800.774.5277 sisters. And Charlene Perilla and Saad Iqbal had your family.” Here is Part II. Ted Carleton: “First As I write this, the June edition of our goals from college leadership.” He recounts twins in May, a boy and a girl. Congratulations time in my life I’ve ever been deemed essential. ’92 newsletter, The Standing Bonfire, experiences since then, concluding with: “I am to all! So, like Carl Spackler, I’ve got that going for me.” was just emailed. It begins with an tired. I am emotionally drained. I remain hopeful.” Kim Lewis 92 Kimberly Malone Bobb Be well, and I look forward to hearing from : “I’ve had 42 consecutive nights (and introduction by , the class I don’t have sufficient space to convey the full

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impact of these essays here. Be sure to carve out as a result of the pandemic.…Let us redouble our Congratulations to our new class of- will do double-duty, since she decided to run continue to persecute specific members of our their primaries—so it’s on to the general election! some time to visit 1992.dartmouth.org/june2020 efforts to build a world that is equitable, diverse, ficers! Alyse (Kornfeld) Streicher, our for class treasurer while serving as our reunion society, and who have fully asserted that Black And last year we provided the research to sup- and read the entire newsletter. and inclusive, free from racism, bigotry, and senior class president, will be our treasurer, which is still needed since we haven’t Lives Matter. I have received or seen so many port the legalization of recreational cannabis use Kelly Shriver Kolln 95 — , 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. hate. Let us give voice to the values that unite class president for the next five years. She lives in had our reunion yet! updates of classmates who have protested, who in Illinois, which included a first-in-the-nation SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; us rather than divide us. No threat is too grave Westchester County, New York, with her husband, And speaking of reunions, our class reunion have affected change within their businesses proposal to set aside a portion of the resulting [email protected] if we face it together.” David, and their three kids (10, 11, and 13.) Alyse book online will be kept open through next sum- and communities, or who have simply made the tax revenue for communities disproportionately Apologies for the back-to-back weighty is doing some private investing after having run mer, so please start or update your page anytime. statement aloud that inherently racist structures affected by mass incarceration.” The nation and When Natalie and I completed the Class Notes, looking forward to mixing in more a nonprofit for three years, before which she If you have questions about it, drop me a line. must be removed from our society once and for our political leaders truly need their consultative last issue’s Class Notes, I think we news and bold-font names of our classmates was with Accenture for about 20 years. “It’s an More from our other new officers in the next all—I simply can’t do them all justice. Thank services perhaps now more than ever, so I truly 93both assumed that a once-in-a-100- going forward! honor to be class president and I look forward issue. In the meantime, keep your news coming! you all for your powerful messages and please hope Evitarus is called on more in the weeks year pandemic might be the heaviest of issues To that end and until next time, to working with and connecting with many of —Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hing- continue to let your voices be heard. The world and months ahead! we’d tackle during our tenure. Little did we please send us your news: Dwight Fenton you. I hope to see you at our reunion next June!” ham, MA 02043; [email protected] is listening. I do also want to extend congratulations to know. As I write this next one in late June (Nata- ([email protected]) or Nata- Kate Chamberlain, Teru Clavel, and Jonathan With all the Covid-specific updates in the David Kasregis, as he and his now-wife, Sara, were lie and I will be alternating issues generally go- lie Weidener Kupinsky (natalie.weidener.kupin- Weinberger are our newsletter editors. Teru lives This year has been unlike any other last column, I was unable to include that our wed in June! Further congrats to Susie (Brown) ing forward) the country is experiencing a Covid [email protected]). in New York City with her two teenage boys and in our tenures as alumni, not to men- own Shakari (Cameron) Byerly had published Sax on the nomination for her album, Under the resurgence and historic civil protests following —Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, NY, a ’tween girl. Her first book,World Class, was tion our tenures as human beings. a coauthored article titled “More than Spare Surface, for an Independent Music Award for the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. NY 10021; [email protected]; a bestseller and the paperback is coming out 96 When last I wrote, we were in the initial throes Change: A Case Study of Contact and Voter Sup- best folk singer-songwriter album! I also want I’ll leave the correlations between them to Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods with some amazing endorsements, including of a global pandemic that had shut down most of port for the Homeless in Los Angeles County, to congratulate Holly Parker, who, after leaving the historians to sort out, but there is a clear, Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener. from Arne Duncan, secretary of education un- the globe, isolated so many of us to our respec- California” in Urban Affairs, a peer-reviewed her role a year ago as associate director at the palpable sense of uncertainty and unrest in this [email protected] der President Obama; Sen. Richard Blumenthal; tive homes, and truly redefined what it is to be a journal. She and her husband, Rodrego Byerly University of New England North to work in country that we have to face. Both pandemics are and the Organization for Economic Cooperation society in a changing world. In the months since, ’98, are founders and owners of Evitarus, a Los its provost’s office, now returns as the interim complex and what that path forward looks like Hi, class of ’94. I have two bits of and Development’s Andreas Schleicher. Teru horrifying events across the United States have Angeles-based public opinion research and pub- director! She will be working and collaborating is unclear, so I find myself looking all around for exciting news to share with you. recently appeared on Fareed Zakaria’s Global forced American (and global) society to address lic policy consulting firm that delivers action- with people throughout the North Atlantic re- the right pieces to inform how to engage most 94 During the past few months good Public Square on CNN, discussing her education its effects on many of the individuals that make able strategic advice and data to public policy, gion to “support resilient communities, healthy authentically and effectively. Every day is an things have still been happening beneath the findings, “which are even more relevant now: up the very fabric of our nation. political, and corporate decision-makers. Their environments, and thriving economies in Maine evolution. We would love to know what others overriding arc of alarming headlines, and I’m equity, teacher preparation, education funding, I have a few updates to include in this col- firm had served as one of the pollsters for U.S and elsewhere throughout the region.” are doing, reading, watching, etc., during this happy to share them with you below. and governance, community, parent involvement umn, but I want to first applaud the many ’96s Sen. Kamala Harris’ presidential run. “Our two Everyone please stay safe and be good to time. Feel free to write Natalie or me directly at Pam Kunz has recently moved into a new all through a global lens. Working on my next who have made their voices heard in taking a local candidates this cycle, Los Angeles County each other. the addresses below or go to our Facebook page, leadership role at Yale School of Medicine as two projects—hope some good news about those strong stand against racism, made loud state- supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and California —Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, “Dartmouth Class of 1993.” the leader of gastrointestinal cancer programs. soon. Fingers crossed!” ments against hierarchical structures that State Senate budget chair Holly Mitchell, won Canton, GA 30115; [email protected] I recently exchanged texts with Sophie (Cof- This new position brings Pam and her family Two years ago Kate bought her family’s man) Shabel (married to Alan Shabel ’92 with two to New Haven, Connecticut, from the Palo Alto Hanover home in the neighborhood behind kids) to find out what the life of an obstetrician- area in California. Pam joins the Yale team from Chase Field. “My parents moved to Lebanon gynecologist in the Bay Area is like during this Stanford University School of Medicine, where [New Hampshire], and a year later my brother time of Covid. “Our curve has been so flat that she has served as the director of the Stanford moved to Pike, so we’re close together geographi- it’s been barely perceptible at work apart from neuroendocrine tumor program and leader of cally for the first time since our move in 1991, the extra personal protective equipment, of the endocrine research group. Prior to both com- when I came to Dartmouth and they went to course.” That curve may not stay as flat during pleting her clinical and research fellowship in Munich.” Kate is a senior director of develop- this next stage as the cases in California seem medical oncology and serving as chief resident ment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, working to Inspiring to be spiking, but I will keep my fingers crossed in internal medicine at Stanford University, she use data to inform strategy and investment in that they are able to gain control again by the graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in the hospital’s fundraising operation. “Hanover time you read this. 2001. Pam’s professional accomplishments are has been an interesting vantage point for this Also some news from John Sargent. John’s impressive, but I will always remember Pam’s dramatic year. The town without students is Design business, BroadReach is one of the only or- supportive ear and warm smile for her many such a different place, yet the Baker bells are ganizations that is scaling population-based friends and fellow Tri-Delts. Congratulations still ringing. I’m singing with the Handel Society Covid-19 solutions in middle east Africa. “In and welcome back to the East Coast, Pam! again (or will be when it’s safe to do so) fighting partnership with Microsoft, we have to date Congratulations also go out to Elizabeth Cook invasive species in my yard, and learning about screened more than 2 million people for Co- Donohue, who was inducted into Dartmouth’s the local N.H. political scene. At the moment Interior Design vid-19, are helping governments manage the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society in April. For those we’re mobilizing to ensure everyone will be able pandemic in their public health systems, and of you not familiar with this honor, the Stephen to vote in the fall.” Custom Fabrication are working with Microsoft to spread their work F. Mandel ’52 Society recognizes alumni vol- Steve Fagell is joining Lou Spelios as co-head to more countries.” I hope John keeps us posted unteers who provide distinguished service and agent. Steve lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with Renovations on this important work. visionary leadership for the Dartmouth College his wife, Phyllis (Steinberg) Fagell, and their three Finally, I wanted to share the edifying words Fund. As many of you know, Beth has been an children. “We’re very excited that my oldest, of College President Hanlon as, if your inbox active Dartmouth volunteer for years and an ex- Ben, will be a Dartmouth ’24 in the fall! I work A Comprehensive is like mine, there’s a good chance you missed traordinary class fundraising leader. As a class, in Washington, D.C., at the law firm Covington & Showroom and Interior them the first time. we are fortunate to have Beth in this position! Burling LLP, where I serve as global co-chair of Design Service “The forces that seek to divide us, the voices Year after year she is constantly willing to serve; the white collar defense and investigations prac- that sow bigotry and hate, are strong and loud at she generously gives her time, heart, and energy tice group. Phyllis is the author of Middle School Guiding Your Project - this moment. Racism continues to be a stain on to the College on behalf of her classmates; and Matters (Hachette, 2019), regularly contributes Concept to Completion our nation. We are outraged by deplorable acts she demonstrates her savvy abilities by meeting to The Washington Post and other national pub- of violence against Black men and women, such and exceeding lofty goals set by the Dartmouth lications on parenting issues, and serves as the as the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud College Fund. Beth deserves the College’s re- counselor at the K-8 Sheridan School.” Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. And by the less vis- cent recognition and honor, as well as our class’ Our treasurer, Rose Mitchell, lives in Hills- ible structural forms of racism that lead people thanks! Cheers to Beth! borough, New Jersey, not far from Princeton, Hanover, NH of color to disproportionately shoulder the bur- Please send me updates and news to share with her husband of two years, Jeff, and their res- 603-643-3727 dens of poverty and inequality as has been so in the next column. cue dogs Marty and Amelia. Rose is a pediatric strikingly evident in the higher incidence of —Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, optometrist at University Children’s Eye Center, gilberteinteriors.com illness, job loss, and death they are experiencing Brentwood, TN 37027; [email protected] where she’s worked for the past 13 years. Rose

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Free (603) 298-8721. lawyers Elizabeth and Sara; physician Martha, a inspiring.” I connected with fellow attorney James Jung, high-speed wireless Internet plus a business center. Dartmouth graduate; wealthy homemaker Car- Regarding future books, about 100 pages who checked in from northern Virginia and wrote Sixteen acres with swimming pond, trails and men, also a Dartmouth graduate; and famous tech of science history and thermodynamics details that he is wrapping up active duty service as an gardens. 40 Etna Road, Hanover, NH 03755. 506 ON THE RIVER INN executive Heather, the most successful of the were cut from Alien Oceans, “so that may serve as officer in the Navy Judge Advocate General (603) 643-2370; (800) 651-5141; Minutes from Woodstock Village, this award- group. When Heather writes a women’s advice good starting material for a book I want to write Corps. We reflected on our time in Hanover and [email protected]; winning boutique is recognized for its beautiful book detailing what she characterizes as her four about the physics of life.” (Read more about his our new perspectives on a Dartmouth education www.trumbullhouse.com. balance of casual elegance and rustic charm. The friends’ mistakes, her friends are understandably work on page 42.) in light of Covid-19. As it turns out, James and I 45-room & suite hotel offers a country breakfast, hurt. The novel explores the unique obstacles —Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, are both big fans of the New York Mets, so we indoor pool, hot tub & sauna, game rooms, spa- the women face as they wonder whether their TX 77096; [email protected] spent the bulk of our time strategizing my next BREAKFAST ON THE CONNECTICUT cious grounds, as well as the 506 Bistro & Bar, lives might have been different had they followed steps as his co-counsel for a class-action suit High on a knoll overlooking the Connecticut River, serving a locally inspired & seasonal menu, and Heather’s advice. Look for numerous fun College Hello, ’98s. I reached out to you for against Mets ownership on behalf of aggrieved we have 15 spacious bedrooms, each with in-suite selection of microbrews and crafted cocktails. references throughout. your thoughts, including whether and emotionally harmed fans everywhere. private bath. Also a 3-bedroom guest cottage. Ca- 1653 West Woodstock Road, Woodstock, VT; I asked Laura what inspired her to write the 98current events made you rethink your As a history major, I can appreciate the noes/kayaks are complimentary. Open year-round. (802) 457-5000; book. “I was visiting my parents when the idea Dartmouth experience. Here is what I found out. significance of the times in which we live. On Our gracious B&B is the perfect place to escape www.ontheriverwoodstock.com. for the book came to me. I read a news item that Christine Lin took a break from Zoom to one hand, I am astounded to be witnessing the for a weekend, a vacation, a retreat, or reunion. A Ivanka Trump was writing a book about how write in for the first time! During the pandemic events of 2020. On the other, I just hope that you hearty breakfast and real maple syrup make getting women could architect their lives to be successful. Christine has reconnected with Kimberly Coffey all are staying safe and sane. Please continue up each morning a treat. WOODSTOCK INN & RESORT ‘Here we go again,’ I thought. Another book geared through regular Zoom chats. Christine has also to keep me updated, as I love hearing from you. 651 River Road, Lyme, NH 03768; MOUNTAIN VIEW B&B Located in idyllic Woodstock, Vermont, the toward telling women, not institutions or society, had Zoom reunions with classmates from her —Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN (603) 353-4444. In Norwich, Vermont; 4 miles to Hanover. Woodstock Inn & Resort defines country sophistica- to change themselves (and from an author who I summer 1995 foreign study program (FSP) 37209; [email protected] www.breakfastonthect.com. Cozy, 150 acres, pond, trails, private bathrooms, tion in one of New England’s most charming and doubted had a perspective that would be relevant in Beijing: Joan Ai, Lilei Huang, Eric White, Gary Wi-Fi/AC/TV, 4 bedrooms, $125-$300/night/BR. popular year-round vacation destinations. The to most moms). Exhausting and irritating. But Jan, and Kevin Nguyen. They have been joined Hello, ’99s! (603) 667-7791, 142-room, AAA Four Diamond Resort and member Ivanka, after all, is a person who is trying to be by Kenneth Leon and his wife, Meier Hsu, along Sara Zrike updated me on her THE JACKSON HOUSE INN [email protected]. of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, offers award-winning helpful, in her way. What if she was your friend, with Christina Campo and Young Bae. While family news. She has a new baby, Located on the edge of one of Vermont’s most dining in two restaurants, a Robert Trent Jones Sr. 99 even your best friend? And so the idea for All the these ’98s would not have thought to meet named Isabella Sara Casey, who was born on beautiful villages, the Inn offers refined lodging 18-hole golf course, Suicide Six Family Ski Resort, Right Mistakes was born.” before the world shut down, they have had a ton February 7. “Her dad, Ryan Casey, and I were with luxurious touches, and is the perfect setting RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTT Athletic Club and a LEED-certified Spa, creating a Laura wrote the book in 2016 and spent the of fun reminiscing, catching up, and laughing. supposed to get married on August 1 of this year, for a romantic getaway, get-together with friends, or HANOVER/LEBANON luxury resort getaway. (844) 545-4178; next four years working toward publication. “It The group also has a soundtrack, as Christine but I’ve had to postpone the wedding. We bought intimate wedding or reunion. Set in lush perennial The preferred all-suite hotel in the Upper Valley. Easy www.woodstockinn.com. was weekends, and a fair amount of writing from unearthed a mix tape of songs playing in Beijing a new house in Roslindale, Massachusetts, and gardens, the Inn offers the service and amenities of access off I-89 and just 2 miles from Dartmouth the sidelines of my kids’ soccer practices.” She nightclubs during the FSP that she shared via both work for the Boston public schools. He is a a boutique hotel, including Frette linens, Anichini College. Free shuttle service to campus is available. noted the characters reflect her experiences and Spotify. Christine also wrote that, although math teacher and math coach and I am a director bedcoverings, turndown service, free WiFi, and Complimentary breakfast. A pet-friendly hotel. DOWDS’ COUNTRY INN those of her friends and colleagues, but the book Dartmouth could have done better at promoting of instruction at one of the bilingual schools in gourmet breakfasts. Our floor-to-ceiling fieldstone 32 Centerra Pkwy, Lebanon NH; Historic New England home with modern comforts. and the women are purely fiction. “I’m probably certain values, her experience there contributed the city.” Congratulations, Sara and Ryan! fireplace is a delight in winter. (603) 643-4511; Family owned and operated, the Inn has served closest to Elizabeth and Sara, because, like them, to her pursuing a career as an attorney in social Let us also give a rouse to our class treasurer, (802) 457-2065, www.marriott.com/lebri the Upper Valley for 30 years. Our 1780s home was I work full-time as an attorney. But, in truth, there justice and advocating and representing asylum Jeffery Loeb, and Ashley Feder, who were married (800) 448-1890, carefully renovated to host 20 guest rooms and a is a little of me in all of the five women.” seekers and refugees. For the past eight years in June at San Moritz Lodge in California. jacksonhouse.com. 200-seat banquet facility. A full country breakfast is Kevin Hand’s latest book, Alien Oceans: The Christine has worked at the University of Abigail Marsh wrote an opinion piece for The COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT served with every stay. We also host weddings and Search for Life in the Depths of Space, should also California, Hastings, College of the Law Center Washington Post titled, “How We Can Keep Fear HANOVER/LEBANON events of all sizes. Only 10 miles north of Hanover. be on your reading list. The book explores the for Gender and Refugee Studies. from Spiraling Out of Our Control,” published on ENFIELD SHAKER MUSEUM Located just minutes from Dartmouth College with Home of the Latham House Tavern. Enjoy the science behind the search for life on water-rich Natalie (Wood) Vogel wrote in from Reno, June 23. Abigail writes, “We have endured denials Stay in an 1841 Shaker dwelling house, 20 minutes free shuttle service upon request. Free Wi-Fi, fitness comforts of home while you explore the best that moons at the solar system’s outer reaches. I asked Nevada, where she resides with husband Alex of risk, confusing information, and inadequate from Hanover. Included: private bath, free WiFi, center, business center, indoor pool, bar, and bistro the Upper Valley has to offer. Kevin about his interest in life beyond Earth. Vogel and their two kids, 9 and 12. Recently they tools with tragic consequences: needless deaths, Museum admission. serving breakfast and dinner. “The Place to Gather, for Business or Pleasure.” “I credit the clear night skies of Vermont enjoyed a socially distanced, back-deck reunion shamefully inequitable outcomes for minority (603) 632-4346; 10 Morgan Drive, Lebanon NH; 9 Main Street, Lyme, NH 03768; where I grew up and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with with Nora (Bryan) and Scott Behrens and their three communities, and widespread fear and anxiety. [email protected]. (603) 643-5600; www.marriott.com/lebcy (603) 795-4712; really getting me hooked. One can’t help but kids. Both Natalie and Alex work in healthcare, But we need not succumb to fear. Instead, we wonder whether we’re alone in the universe when allowing them to see firsthand the effects of should harness it to minimize transmission while you’re bathed in starlight, looking up on a cold, Covid-19. Natalie is the chief medical officer making judicious efforts to serve higher goals— clear winter night.” of a small health center that cares for indigent educating our children, reducing inequities, and Do you need Are you While Kevin was an undergraduate, patients, Alex is an interventional radiologist. doing what we can to support local businesses IT’S NOT TOO LATE the Galileo spacecraft began returning data Natalie opined that 2020 has been quite a year. and each other—to avoid compounding a lawyer? a lawyer, TO BECOME indicating an ocean beneath the icy surface of She and Alex feel optimistic that our country’s the tragedy” (www.washingtonpost.com/ Find a but not a Jupiter’s moon Europa, still Kevin’s research newfound attention and energy will lead to real opinions/2020/06/23/era-covid-19-our-fear- A DOCTOR focus. “The Dartmouth physics department was change at every level. Natalie also hopes that our doesnt-have-define-us). Abigail is a professor Dartmouth alum member of the • Intensive, full-time preparation for medical great—I had the keys to the Shattuck Observatory Dartmouth family is making it through this with of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown school in one year and could go look at Jupiter, and the rest of the curiosity, love, and kindness, our strongest tools. University and authored the book, The Fear in the Dartmouth • Early acceptance programs at select medical night sky, whenever I wanted. When I was a Denise (Saunders) Norse is happy to report that Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, schools—more than any other postbac program Dartmouth Lawyers junior, professor John Thorstensen brought she, her husband, and three sons are all doing well. Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between. • Supportive, individual academic and me to Kitt Peak in Arizona, where Dartmouth Denise teaches math and introductory computer —Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover, DARTMOUTH premedical advising Lawyers Association? had time on a pair of telescopes. That was my programming at Shelton (Connecticut) High NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dartmouth99@ VISIT US AT WWW.BRYNMAWR.EDU/POSTBAC first experience at a large observatory, working School. Recently she has encouraged students to gmail.com Association LAWYERS Join today participate in Girls Go CyberStart, which fosters [email protected] with a research-class telescope, and it was creativity and problem-solving through exploring Hello, ’01 family. As I write this in directory at at 610-526-7350 phenomenal.” ASSOCIATION Kevin hopes to get a lander on Europa’s cybersecurity. Last year Denise had five students June, I truly have no idea what Sep- bit.ly/dlajoin surface to search for signs of life. “In some sign up. This year the number increased to 17, tember will be looking like. Wherever bit.ly/dlafi nd BRYN MAWR COLLEGE 01 ways the science is perhaps easier than the and Denise’s top four students were invited to you are, whatever you are doing, I hope that you Are you a lawyer, but 78 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 79 not a member of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association? Join today at dla.org SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION CLASS NOTES 2002-2008 WHERE TO DINE and yours are healthy, safe, and enjoying each Hi, ’04s! I hope everyone contin- didate for Manhattan district attorney living in their third child, Georgianna McDermott Cro- Laura would love to hear from anyone looking other’s company. Even though everyone is still ues to be physically and mentally New York City. Janos has been involved with foot, also in May. Lastly, Oliver Harker-Smith and for personal training in the surrounding area THE WOODSTOCK INN & RESORT pretty cooped up in late June, our ’01 family healthy and safe during these very the criminal justice movement there for many wife Laura welcomed their first, son Teddy, in (laliston@gmail). Farm-fresh cuisine, carefully harvested ingre- Chance Hill 04 remains busy. is enjoying his time trying times in our nation’s history. From the years and during these challenging months of June. Congratulations to all parents, especially As always, you can view Class Notes online dients and regional recipes inspire the seasonal as one of nine elected University of Colorado Covid-19 pandemic to the continuing racial protest has been in steady communication with the new ones! at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes. On our class menus at the Woodstock Inn & Resort’s distinct regents overseeing the college system. He got injustices we have all witnessed in these last elected officials, Black Lives Matter activists, —Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, website you can also pay class dues, learn more restaurants. The talented culinary team prepares married in December, and he and his wife, few months, 2020 has not been for the faint of and other community members trying to for- MD 20816; [email protected] about class efforts, and read about other ’06s creative entrées and innovative cocktails, resulting Nicole, were able to honeymoon in Jamaica heart. But even in the most difficult of times, ward constructive changes. who have been featured in the news. in exceptional Northeastern cuisine that showcases before the lockdowns. If you are looking for there is always hope and room to acknowledge Andy Foery is a speech-language pathologist Hi ’06s, I look forward to hearing from you for fu- the essence of Vermont. Call (844) 545-4178 something to read this fall, we have another those who are on the frontlines fighting to make in the Boston metro area. He works in nursing It was great to speak with ev- ture columns! or visit www.woodstockinn.com. class author in our midst. Aaron B. Wilkinson’s the world a better place for all of us. So I want homes that have been utterly devastated by 06 eryone for this column and hear —Cindy Tsai, 343 West Wolf Point Plaza, #1310, book, Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom, to take this opportunity to celebrate our ’04 Covid-19. Now that the initial wave has passed how you are all staying busy. Chicago, IL 60654; [email protected] LATHAM HOUSE TAVERN AT DOWDS’ will be published by the University of North heroes by sharing some of their stories below. in the region, he is focused on helping surviving Stephanie Lawrence recently launched Trav- COUNTRY INN Carolina Press this fall. Thank you for all that you are doing and do not residents recover any abilities that were lost eling Spoon online cooking classes. The compa- Hi there, Austin Lewis here from Los The Tavern hosts a rustic atmosphere with a We have some ’01s taking on some new jobs. forget that your classmates and the rest of the during that time. ny now has more than 70 private online classes Angeles. Jaime Padgett asked me to seasonal menu featuring local ingredients, After 13 years at Nixon Peabody, Leah Threatte world are here cheering you on! To all of my ’04s, continue to stay safe and and was dubbed by Forbes as “reinventing the 07 guest write this edition of Class tavern-inspired cocktails, and 18 draft beers on tap is now corporate counsel for AMRI, a research Rachel Bender Ignacio, assistant profes- be well! future of food tourism.” Traveling Spoon also Notes. I jumped at the chance to take a break featuring the best craft beer from NH and abroad. and manufacturing organization. Joe McKnight sor of infectious diseases at the University of —Johanna Thomas, 14 Logan Circle, NW, Wash- announced its acquisition of Meal Sharing, a from my never-ending game of online Scrabble Just minutes north of Hanover on Route 10. Visit recently took a management role on Amgen’s Washington Medical School and the director of ington, DC 20005; [email protected] Chicago-based company. Meal Sharing founder (coronavirus has made my life infinitely more our website for full menu and hours. cardiovascular marketing team and is looking the university’s clinical AIDS trials, has been Jay Savsani will join the Traveling Spoon team, interesting) to share news and updates from “Good Food. Good Beer. Good Times.” to relocate to either Connecticut or California. running the UW/Novartis study of hydroxy- I need to, unfortunately, start this and his hosts will be integrated into the Travel- our class. Stay safe, everyone! 9 Main Street, Lyme, NH 03768. (603) 795-9995. Ricky Joshi cofounded Saatva, a luxury, direct- chloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment—a badly column with some very sad news. ing Spoon host community. Yasemin Elci moved from Istanbul, Turkey, to-consumer mattress company that is one of needed, full-scale clinical trial. Classmate Christopher “Zeke” Mc- Echo Brown was named on Esquire’s list to Luxembourg last year with her husband. Yas- www.lathamhousetavern.com. Heather Tanana 05Mullen-Laird www.dowdscountryinn.com. the fastest growing e-commerce brands ever. is the founder of the In- unexpectedly passed away on June of Black authors telling essential stories. Her emin works as an art writer and hosts a radio Kelly (Keene) Horst, her husband, Adam dian law section of the Utah bar. Recently, she 18. His tragic passing came just a few short debut young adult novel, Black Girl Unlimited: show about art. She also is an art consultant on RAMUNTO’S BRICK & BREW ’00, and their three children recently moved helped launch Utah Tribal Covid-19 Relief in weeks after writing in to provide an update The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard, is independent projects. Elci says Luxembourg re- Hanover’s only real New York pizza, featuring to Rochester, Minnesota, where the adults will partnership with various state agencies and to our class. about a fictional Echo Brown. The book was minds her of Dartmouth a lot because there are traditional, Sicilian and brick-oven specialty take on roles at the Mayo Clinic. Kelly will join other organizations to help Utah’s eight tribes Please take a moment to visit Zeke’s memo- deemed by Esquire as “the arrival of a bold new more trees than people. She and her husband the faculty in the department of radiology. She during the pandemic. You can learn more and rial website, https://christopherquentin.com/ literary imagination” and tells the story of a often go hiking in the woods. pizzas, salads, subs, calzones, the biggest was also recently recognized by the Indiana support her efforts at http://indianlaw.utahbar. memorial, to learn more about his wonderful teen wizard who travels between two dimen- Katherine Kalaris is starting a doctor of phi- beer in town and much more. High School Cross Country Hall of Fame. Con- org/covid-19-tribal-relief-fund.html. life, many musical accomplishments, family, sions: the troubled dimension where her fam- losophy program in evidence-based healthcare Casual atmosphere, deliveries. gratulations to all of these great ’01s! Hemant Joshi is an anesthesiologist in Bos- and friends. All who knew him at Dartmouth are ily lives and the rarefied dimension where she at Oxford University in Oxford, England, this Open ’til midnight 7 days. —Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville ton. He shares, “It’s tough taking care of these encouraged to submit a tribute, memory, story, attends school. fall. She will study clinical and operational 9 East South Street, Hanover; Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-6938; folks (intubating, putting in intravenous lines, recipe, or photo to the site as well. There have Helen Parsons was named the 2020 Order of interventions to improve neonatal outcomes (603) 643-9500. [email protected] etc.) in hot, space-suit-like contraptions while been so many wonderful tributes already shared the Eastern Star Scholar. This honor recognizes in Kenya. SIMON PEARCE RESTAURANT also not infecting or contaminating myself or with so many online. It is clear through these Helen’s commitment to the Masonic Cancer Amanda Greenberg and her husband, Noah, Hello, ’02s! my family when I leave the hospital. Unfortu- tributes that Zeke’s loving nature, extreme care Center and to the order’s commitment to sup- welcomed a second baby boy on April 2. His & NEW BAR I hope you all are weathering nately, I have realized I am the last face some for others, and joy for life will be sorely missed by porting the development of novel therapies and name is Range Morris Greenberg. He’s cute Award-winning, farm-to-table restaurant the Covid-19 pandemic intact. patients see or voice they hear before they pass family and friends. Rest in peace, Zeke. new treatments in the quest to cure cancer. and cuddly and has a message for you—wear overlooking the Ottauquechee River. Sip a hand- 02 Cara Kinsey Tif- Brian Taylor crafted cocktail, watch our master glassblowers I heard from : “The last few away, so that’s a heavy burden. I am very for- A conversation on implicit bias with executive produced Showtime’s a mask so he can meet his grandparents soon. months have really allowed for connecting tunate to have the opportunity to take care of fany Harper sponsored by Women of Dartmouth The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke in Congratulations, Amanda! and find the perfect gift. Open daily. with my Dartmouth friends around the world these patients and also fortunate to have my took place virtually on June 12. More than 350 his television debut. The show is based on the Beata Lobel married Daniel Scholfield in (802) 295-1470; SimonPearce.com. and across the decades with virtual meetings. job and health during these times, as there are alumni and friends joined to hear from Tiffany National Book Award-winning novel of the a tiny, socially distant wedding in Hartford, Dartmouth alums who I’ve become ‘friends’ many folks in much tougher situations.” as she instructed how we can identify and chal- same name. The series tells the story of fiery Connecticut, on June 21. Cara Foster Karim was with on social media through other friends I’ve Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, the com- lenge our own biases and incorporate what we freedom fighter John Brown, who dreamed of a at the small ceremony. Beata and Daniel com- now had real conversations with on Zoom! I’ve pany founded by Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus and have learned to help take action to dismantle land where all people could live free and equal— bined their names and now answer to “Dr. and spent hours discussing life and playing games. his dad, offered its Danbury, Connecticut, fac- systemic inequity. even a boy who chose to dress like a girl. The Mr. Belfield.” The newlyweds plan to move to I’ve had intelligent conversations with people tory as an emergency overflow hospital space, In other news, we would like to introduce series premiered on August 9. Syracuse, New York, this fall. Any ’07s in Syra- other than my cat. It’s been like mini-reunions though thankfully, it has not been needed. They this year’s Class of 2005 Fund for Entrepre- After studying Python on her own for a cuse? If so, please reach out to Beata. Beata will every week!” also created a respirator mask that can be made neurship grant recipient. Our winner is Ayan while and getting to know Insomniac’s engine start her work as a minimally invasive general Matt Jones filled me in on his many life using a full-face snorkeling mask. Agarwal ’20 and his startup, Blabl, a mobile- and tools, Alexis Ruegger has accepted the qual- surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. changes: “Making up for lost time, I got mar- Ben Wade is the senior vice president of based tool for speech therapy. Ayan’s goal is to ity assurance engineer position she has been Jaime here. That was fun, right? As I have ried to Danielle Suarez (Hunter ’04), got a dog, strategy and marketing at Stamford Health, increase access to speech therapy, especially for working toward for a long time. Husband Nate’s been your class secretary for more than three bought a house, and celebrated the birth of my helping to lead the hospital’s response in a coro- marginalized students. We are proud to support short horror film Trust Me now has a home on years now(!), I thought you may enjoy hearing first child, all within about two years. This year navirus hotspot. an undergraduate social entrepreneur who is YouTube’s top horror channel, Alter. from some new voices. Interested in guest writ- will mark my 10 years since founding Molten The owner of Flower City Psychiatry, Alli- striving to improve the world. Many thanks Sean Anthony and his wife, Kaitlin, had their ing? Let me know! And, as always, we all hope Metal Works, a community metal shop in Los son Giordano is continuing to work with her child as always to Ashley Shackelton and Andy Rankin first child, Noah Wells Anthony, on May 30. to hear from you soon! dam Angeles, teaching welding for sculpture, furni- and adolescent patients using telemedicine. for their leadership here on behalf of the class. They are loving life as a now bigger family in —Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, ture, and general do-it-yourself.” Yan Somoza is a clinical psychologist with Lastly, the ’05 family has continued to grow Columbus, Ohio. Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dart- dam Our 20th reunion is less than a year the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs, Cali- throughout 2020 with many new additions. Ben Laura Liston married her longtime love, [email protected] away—June 18-20, 2021. Mark your calendars fornia. As one of the leaders in medical treat- Grinnell and wife Courtney welcomed their third Jason Greenberg (Penn State ’00) in a beauti- ONLINE and come help us with the planning— email ment in the areas, the Desert AIDS Project has son, George Hudson, to the world in January. ful sunset ceremony on her sister’s five-acre It has been quite a year so far, to [email protected] to join the stayed open during the pandemic to provide Deane Somerville and his partner, Claire, wel- property. After a change to all the original wed- say the least. But our classmates ONLINE committee. You can also join us in the class Covid-19 diagnoses. It has also expanded its comed daughter Maeve, their first, into pre- ding plans, Laura’s mom and sister pulled off an continue to find bright spots. Facebook group or follow us on Instagram behavioral health services, so, in addition to pandemic London in February. Andy Rankin intimate celebration, including nuptials that 08Zachary Dorner published his first book in www.DartmouthAlumniMagazine.com @dartmouth2002 for more class news and his usual patients, Yan is caring for frontline and wife Ally welcomed their first child, Sophie took place under a gorgeous birch arbor chup- June, a history of early modern medicine and www.DartmouthAlumniMagazine.com information. medical staff, patients impacted by a diagnosis Francis Rankin, in April. David Gardner and wife pah. Laura and her husband hope to celebrate empire from the University of Chicago Press. —Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, of Covid-19, and the community at large. Laura welcomed their first, daughter Elle, in with all of their friends and family in 2021. They Congrats, Zack! Buy it and support a struggling New York, NY 10025; [email protected] Janos Marton is a civil rights lawyer and can- May. Nick Crofoot and wife Elizabeth welcomed reside in the Haddonfield, New Jersey, area and academic!

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Glavy Cruz continues working at Lynn ding they’d been planning for two-plus years or have already begun with former Dartmouth In June our executive committee is- CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@ comes, you can use your powers for good. Heal (Massachusetts) Community Health Center, just them and an officiant. They landed with students of mine from my 2018 semester teach- sued the following message.While the dartmouth.edu others. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know where she is part of the care team for patients something very close to the latter for safety ing as they have transitioned to life in New York 11 submissions via Google Forms have how to convert pain into poetry. It will continue diagnosed with Covid-19. She engages patients and invite you to raise a glass with them at 3 City as artists and activists in their own right.” since closed, please get in touch with us at dart- For this month’s issue, the class of to be my toolkit for publicizing a revolution our in psychotherapy in both Spanish and English p.m. October 3. “We could end up celebrating Zoe Lawrence: “I have spent much of the [email protected] with any 2012 wanted to take a pause from ancestors predicted would not be televised. If and has led a couple of forums for youth in Lynn with so many more than we had planned!” says final three months of my internal medicine comments you would like to share. 12 our regularly scheduled program- there is one thing I’m proud to say they didn’t and nearby Lawrence, providing safe spaces Kiersten. “Together, apart.” residency at N.Y.U. working in makeshift Co- “Dear 2011 classmates, our hearts are ex- ming to discuss the role artists can be playing get quite right, it is that. to share perspectives about racial tension and —Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN vid intensive care units at Bellevue, one of the traordinarily heavy. We have been saddened in the current global movement for change. Our —Liz Sullivan, 1811 Wyoming Ave NW, #44, discuss steps toward racial equity. 55413; (609) 405-9153; [email protected] largest public hospitals in the United States. and enraged by the recent murders of Ahmaud guest columnist is classmate Joan Leslie, spoken Washington, DC 20009; elizabeth.a.sullivan.12@ After spending the last 22 months staying The devastation wrought by this pandemic is Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony Mc- word artist and nonprofit fundraiser based out dartmouth.edu home with her daughter, Van, Rachel Hochman I hope everyone is healthy and doing heartbreaking, but the resilience of the N.Y.C. Dade, Rayshard Brooks, Dominique Fells, and of Atlanta. To join this journey, consider looking started work as an aerospace engineer at the UC well. I missed having the chance community has been inspiring. The daily 7 p.m. the countless others who have had their lives cut into your local Black Lives Matter movement Hello, ’13s. Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. In June she and 09 to catch up with everyone at the cheers for essential workers have quieted down short due to police brutality and systemic rac- and your city’s vendor database of independent I hope this will find you, your fam- her husband took their daughter backpacking reunion but hope we all have the chance to see and the hospital is finally starting to return to ism and oppression. We condemn racism, white artists to follow their work. ily, and your friends safe and well. As I for the first time—hoping she will be a future each other soon. a (new) normal—so here’s hoping that we can supremacy, and state-sanctioned and extralegal Every movement illuminating issues facing 13 write this, we remain in the midst of the Covid-19 member of the Dartmouth Outing Club! I have a few updates from our classmates see one another in person for our next reunion!” violence, and we stand in solidarity with our Black Americans has had a soundtrack. Dur- pandemic and the incredible changes and uncer- Kids are keeping plenty of ’08s occupied. and some sad news to share. Ellen (Pettigrew) Devon Saliga started Beepboop.us, a com- Black classmates and the Black communities ing and post slavery we had spirituals. During tainty that it has brought. We are also in the midst Benjamin David Brown was born on May 18 to Cousins ’08 and Robert Cousins welcomed a pany that provides groups of language learners around the globe: Black Lives Matter. the Jim Crow era we had freedom songs, and of the continued cries for racial justice that urge parents Robin (McKechnie) Brown and Will Brown daughter, Adelyn Sophia, on May 11. She was free on-demand access to live language learn- “We have heard from you and seen some today we have a plethora of genres that share us all to both reflect and take action in a myriad of ’07 and big sister Abby. Neil Willis and his wife, born at DHMC and her car ride home began with ing online (like drill!). In September 2019 it of your reactions to the present moment and the sentiments of the people. Music is one art ways. Though these are difficult times, we hope Lilly, are expecting a baby boy in December. a trip around the Green. Johannes Lohmann moved launched its first product, medical Spanish know many of you are working to learn and un- form that has always had that power, and as a you will continue to lean on your Dartmouth com- And Angela Libby and her husband, Anwar, wel- to London with his wife and is now the head of drills. Because of Covid-19’s disproportionate learn. You are supporting our peers and other poet, I’m proud to say poetry has had a seat at munity for both support and action. comed their first child, Calista Libby Ragep, in employment and organizational behavior at the effect on the Spanish-speaking population, the friends and colleagues. You are mobilizing in the that table as well. We have a few updates this edition, so let’s October. Angela was also promoted to partner Behavioural Insights Team, where he works on product became so popular that its systems streets, donating, and challenging yourselves, It all comes down to how words move us get to them. First, we received a note about our in the restructuring department at Davis Polk solutions to social challenges based on behavioral were crashing under the 35-percent week-over- your family members, coworkers, and each and speak life into dead situations, systems, classmate Allie Young, who is a Navajo tribal & Wardwell LLP last July. economics. Let him know if you are in London week growth. As of today, the 10 Mexico-based other. We write to you to ask that you continue and ideologies. As an artist, it is not just my member and creator of “Protect the Sacred,” a Tim Chingos and his wife, Jillian (Hamma) or happen to come through. instructors have helped thousands of health- this throughout the summer and beyond. Do responsibility to deliver the poems to a people social media campaign calling on youth to protect Chingos ’09, are being kept busy with their Taylor (Dryman) Wilmer is excited to share care professionals learn the basic Spanish not let this momentum fade away! It will feel seeking inspiration. It’s my job to be a connec- their elders, their language, and their culture. You 21-month-old daughter, Emma. Emma’s favor- that she and her husband, Harry, welcomed son they need to build stronger connections with uncomfortable, but there cannot be a return to tor. Artists have a responsibility to have our can check out Allie’s work in numerous outlets, ite words are “move” and “owl” and she gets very Wyatt on May 30. They look forward to intro- patients. The company will be expanding drill ‘normal.’ We must remember: Our agency, our ears to the ground so we are giving the people including NBC News, the Tamron Hall show, and upset when things don’t go her way. ducing him to the class of ’09 at next year’s re- offerings this summer to include conversational actions, and our futures are all interconnected, what they need during turmoil. Some days I The Hollywood Reporter. Incredible work, Allie! Katherine Michelis and her husband, Chad, scheduled reunion! On March 14 Laura Romain Spanish and Spanish for teachers. Feel free to and we owe it to ourselves and each other to help may not have the words, but on those days I Courtney Karol recently graduated from the welcomed son Milo Theodore Priest on April married Neil Templeton in Jersey City, New book a free drill at www.beepboop.us. Inter- build a better world. In the words of Fannie Lou share the art. I share the graffiti, the portraits, University of Arizona College of Medicine and 20. “He’s been the best distraction,” she says. Jersey. Bridesmaids were Elizabeth Teague and ested in investing? Contact Devon at inves- Hamer, ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.’ the animations, the pottery. I share reminders has traded the desert of Tucson, Arizona, for Katherine finished her eighth and final year Whitney Buckholz (in absentia). I’m deeply sad- [email protected]. We must all speak up and show up whenever that there is no struggle we are facing that the the mountains of Denver to start her pediatric of post-medical school training at the end of dened to share that our classmate and friend In other news, Leah Weisman completed and wherever there is injustice. generations before us have not seen. residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She June and will join the Dallas Veterans Affairs Whitney Buckholz passed away on June 5 at her a master’s in natural science education this “As your class executive committee, it is We have the privilege of social media and also writes that she’s found a beautiful Big Green Medical Center as an advanced heart failure home in Brooklyn after a brave battle with meta- summer and is currently embarking on a bi- our job to serve as liaisons between you and the lightning fast communication (depending on coincidence in that Julia Hudnut Bueller will be attending this fall. static breast cancer. You can read more about her cycle journey through the Colorado River College. We are always here to communicate the wi-fi provider). And what a privilege it is her chief resident! ’Round the girdled earth we Before the pandemic began Emily Chen and her many contributions to our community Basin. Along with three other women, she is your questions, suggestions, and concerns to to share clips of Amber Riley singing Beyonce’s roam! Sarah Aronson Fischell graduated from her traveled to Australia for a meditation retreat in the magazine online. I’m so sorry for the loss conducting place-based watershed education Dartmouth leadership, and we are especially “Freedom” in the streets of L.A. so my West Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She pursued and stopped over in Sydney to catch up with to our community, and my condolences to her and collecting stories of people who depend on committed to using our platform to do so at this Coast friends can follow her and the movement a partnership program between the National Jeanie Lau for a fancy dinner overlooking Syd- many loved ones. the river, ultimately documenting the river’s time, particularly since we know issues related on the ground there. The power of sharing sto- Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of ney Harbour. —Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., value and impact on all aspects of life in the to race, access, and inclusion are, of course, ries of injustice is in this generation’s hands Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She Jeffrey Coleman got promoted to associate Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; arid Southwest. Reach out and follow along deeply rooted and pervade every aspect of our right along with their cell phones and social will be returning to medical school at UMSOM professor with tenure at Marquette University, [email protected] with her at www.waterbicycle.org, especially society—including Dartmouth. If Dartmouth mediums. to finish her clerkships.Reese Ramponi has been his first book (The Necropolitical Theater: Race if you live in the watershed! leadership continues to rhetorically emphasize Our stories as a nation are art no matter working as a psychiatric advanced practice and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish In this time of protest and pandemic, Laurel Marcus graduated with her M.B.A. the importance of ‘diversity,’ they must actu- how tragic they may be, and it’s our duty to share nurse and just got grant funding to start a Stage) came out with Northwestern University I asked classmates to share activities from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management ally confront and dismantle the College’s own those stories with as many people as we can multidisciplinary program that includes both Press in May, and he launched a podcast called they are engaged in relating to civil with a certificate in sustainability. institutional racism and meet the intellectual, through our various gifts. In the spoken word mental and medical health for transgender teens. 10 Phil Aubart Tinterías (the first Spanish-language podcast rights, protests, or fighting Covid. : “I’m just moving to the D.C. area., physical, mental, emotional, financial, and so- community, we often embrace the notion that Maggie (Conners) Deforge got married in about fountain pens and stationery). Kari Cholnoky: “I feel lucky to have been living in Springfield, and working at Fort Belvoir cial needs of all students. when a poem comes to you, it is no longer yours. May 2019 to Robby Deforge. They just bought Ian Tapu graduated from the University of out on the street protesting through the cur- in the Army’s contact and fiscal law litigation “As alumni, our voices carry weight. As We go even further to suggest that we are required a house in Durham, North Carolina, with a big Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law few in New York City in one of the largest civil division.” the committee communicates with the Col- to give it to the world because someone is waiting back yard for their dogs Rugger and Skipper. She this past May. He is proposing to his partner, rights actions in 50 years. Every single action Eric Sanabria went “all-in” on changes this lege regarding these issues over the next few to hear it. I’ve accepted that when the world gives will be starting a yearlong geriatric psychology Alika Masei, in July on the beach, so expect I participated in during the last three weeks year. After 10 years of living in the Bay Area, months and throughout our tenure, we want me tragedy, I am allowed to grieve first, but then occupational therapy fellowship at the Durham an Hawaiian sunset wedding in a year or two. has been organized by a Black New Yorker—it Eric moved to Mexico City and moved in with our correspondence to be informed by your spe- I am also required to give others tools to help Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September. Elliott Dial is currently in Windsor, Con- has been incredible to observe firsthand the his girlfriend, whom he met during his sabbatical cific feedback and calls for action. If you have them grieve as well. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and her husband, Jacob necticut, and was just married to Molly Giorgio. powerful grassroots leadership of Black Lives last year. He left Google and is now the VP of questions, recommendations, or solutions you How many times have you heard a song or Lightner, recently moved to the Capitol Hill They weren’t able to have anyone in attendance, Matter and youth Black-led movements in the revenue and operations for Oyster.io, a neobank would like us to relay, please submit them here read a poem or analyzed a piece of art and been neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she’ll but the party part of the ceremony is expected city (almost all of which has been female-led). focused on empowering small businesses and by June 30, and we will communicate them to amazed that someone managed to capture your be doing dissertation research for her Ph.D. in next year in Vermont. Elliott will be the junior As an adjunct at SUNY Purchase with a job this entrepreneurs. President Hanlon and other leaders on behalf exact sentiments in a language foreign to you? It art history. She would love to connect with other dean at Loomis Chaffee next year and is look- fall, I feel fortunate to be reconsidering my role Congrats to Cory Kendrick and her husband of the members of the class of 2011. We also are happens to me daily. At a time when we all need alums in the area! Finally, Teo Larsson Sax, Libby ing for educators who might want a change of as an educator and working to incorporate not Alexander Berger, who welcomed a baby girl, working to create a coalition with other young some encouragement and inspiration, it is crucial (Hamlin) Sax, and 2-year-old Eva welcomed Emma scenery. only the political climate, but also the status of Max, in May. alumni classes and regional clubs so that they that we elevate artist voices in this movement for into the family in late April. Congratulations! Kiersten Hallquist and her partner, Mike, are community health and my life as an artist in my All my best—and Black lives matter. may do the same. national policing reform and drastic changes to Thank you everyone for your submissions, getting married in October. As things started fall semester. This time can feel paralyzing and —Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle “Thank you for your time and energy. Be infrastructures built on systemic racism. and we hope to hear from you again soon! to take off in March, they promised to marry intimidating until you comprehend your poten- Lane, Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; well and stay safe.” I also urge artists to practice self-care first —Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, each other—whether it was the 175-person wed- tial for positive change. These conversations [email protected] —Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, and foremost. But know that when your healing VA 22903; [email protected]

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Mariah Claw writes, “Two things. One ’17 who has been doing a great job of tion availability and access across the United than $6,500, recently donating to Covid-19 relief Given the restrictions on gathering, Arthur Judson II ’52 • May 1 First, Black lives matter. Second, social distancing, soaking up the sun, and con- States during the Covid-19 pandemic.” and Black Lives Matter organizations. Dartmouth clubs and groups largely did not John R.D. McClintock ’52 • May 1 with the removal of the weathervane ducting productive work is Briana Franklin. After Ryan Monasch has been volunteering to help James MchLaughlin, Clay Kirwood, and Nate hold events. A few were able to transition some Garry H. Meyers ’52 • June 11 15from Baker Tower, many Indigenous students graduation Briana moved back home to Atlanta; with the beautification of the outdoor spaces in Stuart raised $22,000 for Feeding America meetings to virtual events. Douglas F. Perthel ’52 • Feb. 25 and alumni (including myself) have expelled however, she has always had a dream of moving his neighborhood. He has been planting flowers, through their Covid-19 mustache fundraiser. The Dartmouth Alumni Association of San Edmund W. Sanderson ’52 • May 30 a collective: ‘It’s about damn time.’ The deci- to the West Coast. In the fall of 2019 Briana flew clearing debris, and doing other outdoor work. Sam Greenberg worked in the Upper Valley Diego hosted a Zoom graduation party on June Peter C. Grenquist ’53 • April 27 sion to remove the distasteful iconography from out to the Bay Area to attend Afrotech, one of the Ryan also reports that he has been having tightly as an emergency medical technician. 14. Unfortunately, only one 2020, Mary Tobin ’20, Allan L. Miller ’53 • April 26 the highest point in Hanover comes only after largest multicultural tech conferences in the contested games of Quiplash over Zoom with Angelina Choi solicited her Dartmouth com- was able to join. Also on the call were Neil Tarzy Thomas H. Trager ’53 • May 9 decades of hard-fought battles to have the In- United States, and listen to the stories, engage David Jelke and Danny Li to keep in touch and munity to raise more than $11,000 for Black ’76, club president, Stuart Yee ’03, Roger Usborne Larry Mamlet ’54 • April 8 dian mascot eradicated from campus. Given with the Black tech community, and explore keep laughing. Lives Matter charities. ’62, Maren Christensen ’83, and Peter Nytzen, Tu’89. Nelson B. Putnam ’54 • May 26 the widespread call for institutions to commit some professional opportunities. She even re- Christopher Colby wrote that he’s made Morgan Mason and Kennedy Mason founded The Dartmouth Club of Suburban New Jersey Joseph F. Bachman ’55 • Nov. 8, 2019 to antiracist policies, it is pertinent that the connected with some fellow Dartmouth alums plans to move to England in the fall to pursue a Heartfelt Cases, a phone case company, and have had its very first virtual event in May. David Di- John A. Nicolette ’56 • May 3 Dartmouth community push Phil Hanlon to such as Isaiah Matthews. master’s in classics at the University of Oxford raised hundreds of dollars for at-risk communi- etze ’78, club president, served as host, and after James B. Dawson ’57 • May 30 go beyond measures of performativity. While Briana’s trips and networking out West paid through a fellowship. He has also spent time ties during these difficult times. introductions, Marco Zarbin ’78, M.D., provided George E. Dodge Jr. ’57 • April 13 removing the weathervane is a tiny step in the off and she eventually pursued an opportunity working remotely for a law firm, doing advocacy Other classmates earned prestigious aca- insights on how the pandemic is affecting New Ronald C. Fuerstner ’57 • May 26 right direction, it means nothing without the with Orangetheory Fitness in the Bay Area; work in the form of research contributing to demic scholarships. Jersey. Bill Cunningham ’78 previewed a possible Daniel P. Harrington ’57 • Jan. 11 banning and condemning of Indian head logos, a however, she’s been spending the majority of amici briefs that could be used for upcoming Garrett Muscatel was awarded a Knight-Hen- future talk on wildflowers in New Jersey.Jona - William H. Muldoon III ’57 • May 3 holistic investment in Indigenous students, and her time on her own entrepreneurial venture, U.S. Supreme Court cases that deal with con- nessy scholarship to pursue a J.D. at Stanford than Rabinowitz ’74 discussed preliminary plans David Bathrick ’58 • April 30 sincere ownership by the administration for the the Prosp(a)rity Project. Briana started this stitutional law. Christopher’s goal this summer Law School. for next year’s annual seminar plus semi-annual John R. Germani ’58 • June 24 way Dartmouth has upheld systemic racism by initiative as a means for equipping young Black is to get his nonprofit, which will focus on legal Sarah Pearl was awarded a Marshall scholar- luncheon events, and Tara Gulla ’95 gave an up- Jaegwon Kim ’58 • Nov. 27, 2019 dismissing the concerns of Indigenous students. girls and women with the tools necessary for activism and education for the average citizen, ship to study physics and environmental studies date on Dartmouth’s fastest-growing affiliated James A. Block ’59 • May 7 Instead of continuing to (re)issue statements achieving personal, professional, and financial off the ground. in the United Kingdom. group, Women of Dartmouth. They also heard David E. Dennehy ’59 • March 13 such as ‘The institution is tremendously proud success. Since starting this project she has had a Anneliese Thomas shared that Steffi Colao Katrina Keating, Sloane Sambuco, Sabena about how the latest admission cycle worked Dennis H. Lacoss ’59 • April 26 of its historic, although sometimes flawed, com- lot of success. In just a few months she gathered will be starting law school at the University of Allen, Mychaela Anderson, and Mary Tobin were out in New Jersey. F. Phillip Langley ’59 • April 11 mitment to welcoming and educating its accom- more than 1,000 responses on her initial survey California, Los Angeles. Steffi has been named awarded Fulbright scholarships and are pur- Women of Dartmouth organized several Kenneth A. Rogers ’59 • Dec. 6, 2019 plished Native American students.’ Dartmouth to collect data on Black, Native American, and to the distinguished scholars program at the suing English teaching assistant positions and virtual events recently. One was a workshop Stephen V. Spaulding III ’59 • May 28 owes its community, especially prospective people of color experiences; launched the Eco- law school. graduate education abroad beginning in January titled “While Navigating Uncharted Waters” Maxwell F. Eveleth ’60 • June 21 students, a truthful discussion of how Eleazar nomic Empower Fund, a fundraiser aimed at Finally, I want to congratulate Liz Michel and 2021. Mary noted that she “applied to Germany on May 8 with Dr. Catherine Florio Pipas, DMS’11, Donald W. Hall ’60 • Jan. 22 Wheelock betrayed Samson Occom’s trust to attacking financial inequality through sources Henry Cawthorne on their engagement! because I fell in love with the country” on her an award-winning faculty member at the Geisel Robert C. Rhines ’60 • April 16 benefit white, wealthy, cisgendered men. Too such as student debt relief and financial coach- Thank you to everyone who shared updates Berlin language study abroad. School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute Neal B. Davis ’61 • unknown long, didn’t read. Dartmouth College is not be- ing; and brought on two codirectors, including for this column. I always look forward to keep- And many of our peers will continue their for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Karyn L. Benjamin Fauver II ’61 • Oct. 13, 2018 yond racism and settler colonialism; it was built Cori Lopez. ing in touch with and hearing from my fellow athletic journeys in professional or college Crosby, Tu’14, also launched an international, William J. Flanigan ’61 • May 9, 2009 on and is steeped in violence and pain.” Keep up the great work, Briana! You’re mak- ’19s! Please always feel free to send updates to capacities. virtual book club for Women of Dartmouth that Ira Gorman ’61 • April 18 Deby Xiadani is bouncing between Brooklyn; ing a real impact! [email protected]. Isiah Swann signed an NFL contract with has more than 250 participants. Harold A. Knott ’61 • April 22 Hoboken, New Jersey; and Cambridge, Massa- —Dorian J. Allen, 33 Kensington Terrace, Maple- —Morgan Lee, 417 Grand St., Apt. D1705, New the Cincinnati Bengals and Niko Lalos signed an Please stay safe and send me updates Edmond Lau ’61 • unknown chusetts; directing comedy; hosting fundraisers; wood, NJ 07040; [email protected] York, NY 10002; [email protected] NFL contract with the New York Giants. Says about the great virtual events that your club, John J. Linczmajer ’61 • April 26, 2009 studying for the MCAT; and teaching fitness—all Niko: “Thank you to the team, my coaches, and association, or affiliated group has organized. Alan R. Orschel ’61 • June 1 of course, virtually! She says reach out if you’d Hi, ’19s! Hi, ’20s, and congratulations! While other ’20s for helping me make this opportunity —Stina Brock ’01, P.O. Box 9274, Jackson, WY W. Scott Piper III ’61 • Dec. 2, 2019 like to fitness or coffee together! For this edition of Class Notes, our time together at Dartmouth possible!” 83002; [email protected] Charles W. Gaillard ’62 • June 14 In May Hannah Seulgee Jung graduated from 19 I asked you to share your (or a class- 20 came to an early, unprecedented Several cross country and track and field John E. Mann ’62 • June 4 UCLA School of Law with a J.D., specializing in mate’s) experiences doing good in the world: end, I have never been more proud of the tire- athletes will continue their student-athlete ca- Thomas S. Moorman Jr. ’62 • June 18 international and comparative law coupled with supporting charitable endeavors, working on less efforts of our class and community. I’m so reers, running for other universities while pur- John D. Ryder ’62 • May 1 public interest law and policy. She is currently advocacy efforts, or otherwise lending a hand or excited to see how we all continue to positively suing graduate studies. Cha’Mia Rothwell will run Deaths Robert D. Burros ’63 • May 7 working as a research and advocacy fellow to raising your voice. I’m so impressed by the work affect the world as alumni. at Duke, Sean Laverty will run at the University Throop C. Brown Jr. ’64 • April 8 the UN special rapporteur on contemporary that my fellow ’19s are doing in the world and For the next five years I’ll be updating you of Oregon, Henry Raymond will run at Arizona The following is a list of deaths reported to us Peter R. Akley ’65 • May 1 forms of racism. She would love to (re)connect share this work here. I also share some exciting on all of the fun, awesome, and inspiring things State University, Lauren Sapone will run at the since the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually Ray A. Meyer ’65 • Feb. 21, 2019 with anyone, including students interested in life updates from our classmates. our classmates are doing. Please send your up- University of Notre Dame, and Georgia Fear will written by the class secretaries, may appear on David A. Oesterheld ’65 • June 9 antiracism work specifically and international Jarely Lopez has been elected to the board dates to me to highlight in the next Class Notes run for the University of Virginia. Says Georgia: the DAM website at dartmouthalumnimagazine. Frank B. Leib ’66 • March 18 human rights work broadly. She can be reached of trustees of the Oxnard, California, school column at [email protected]. “I’m so thankful for my time at Dartmouth and com, where friends and classmates may post Donald C. Hansen ’67 • April 9 at [email protected]. district. Jarely is hoping to advocate for civic Whether you’re moving to a new city, starting the moments I’ve had with my teammates. I’m their own remembrances of the deceased. Please Lewis E. Hitchner ’67 • June 18 Adam Schneider was promoted to the rank engagement and youth leadership and hopes to a new career, or simply spending time with excited to learn more and improve—and for the contact alumni records at (603) 646-2253 to F. Beirne Lovely Jr. ’67 • June 7 of lieutenant on June 1 and continues to serve facilitate classroom conversations about race other ’20s, I hope you share your many achieve- warmer weather! report an alumnus death. George W. Cobb ’68 • May 6 aboard the warship USS Manchester as the and inequality. She is also currently working ments with me so that we can all celebrate them Many thanks to everyone who wrote in. Charles E. Compton ’38 • June 16 Allen L. Skean ’68 • Dec. 18, 2019 navigator. After separating from the Navy at as a contractor for the Navy. together. Wishing you all the best of luck as we navigate Harry A. Jacobs Jr. ’42 • May 5 William E. Ferguson ’69 • June 11 the end of the summer, he will be pursuing a Matthew Rauner shared that Charlotte Evans, Many ’20s developed innovative solutions our early 20s in this turbulent world. I can’t wait Frank P. Sherwood ’43 • Aug. 28, 2019 Benedict J. Semmes III ’71 • June 18 joint J.D./M.P.P. at the Harvard Kennedy School Io Jones, and Tara Gallagher have built a web- or pivoted the focus of current organizations to to celebrate our accomplishments during our in- Kenneth F. Eldredge ’45 • June 8 Richard J. Roby ’73 • May 28 of Government and Georgetown Law Center. site that tracks the recent changes that have address problems created or revealed through person Commencement! Until then, FaceTime Donald J. Evans ’47 • April 17 Herbert J. Hopkins ’74 • June 2 He can’t wait to see all of his friends back in occurred in legislation that governs access to the twin crises of the global pandemic and anti- will have to do. Alan Goldstein ’47 • March 22 Susan F. Assmann ’78 • May 30 Boston and D.C.! reproductive services on a state-by-state level. Black violence. —Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, Donald G. Symer ’47 • June 6 Douglas F. Egan ’79 • May 14 —Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. Charlotte writes, “During the past few weeks we Amy Guan cofounded Give Essential, a plat- CA 94010; [email protected] Thomas J. Williams ’47 • June 7 Andrew M. Glassberg ’80 • June 2 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samw- watched states with already restrictive abortion form that allows individuals to donate extra Francis R. Drury Jr. ’48 • May 27 Kerek E. Frierson ’82 • March 27 [email protected] laws exploit the pandemic to further limit or household items to essential workers. As of Matthew C. Fenton III ’49 • April 28 Sally Adnopoz Gendler ’82 • April 22 outright ban abortion care. We also watched early June, Give Essential had raised more than Dick T. Hollands ’50 • April 12 Anchie H. Kuo ’82 • May 23 Hello, ’17s! I hope you are staying as activists, abortion clinics, and researchers $300,000 and had more than 100 volunteers Clubs & Chester F. Cotter ’51 • June 23 Joel R. Reidenberg ’83 • April 21 safe and well! As the days start to get fought back against these restrictions. Amidst across the country. James M. Culberson Jr. ’51 • May 31 Sarah S. Morris ’85 • May 15 17 cooler and things move indoors, please it all, we questioned how a woman in need of an Uma Ramesh founded Health Access for Groups Robert P. Fullerton ’51 • May 25 Lillie Brown-McNeill ’86 • June 20 remember to take care of yourselves, social dis- abortion could figure whether this is available, All three years ago to raise money for organi- F. Gilbert Merrill III ’51 • Nov. 20, 2019 Dennis C. Donnelly ’89 • June 5 tance, and make efforts to get your daily doses let alone accessible, in her state. Access Atlas zations addressing health disparities in the I hope everyone is getting through these William R. Rugg ’51 • Oct. 18, 2019 Christopher Q. McMullen-Laird ’05 • June 18 of Vitamin D! seeks to provide much-needed clarity on abor- United States. Since then it has raised more challenging times. Donald S. 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Interview by LISA FURLONG “It’s very important to step outside of the realm of the day-to-day, and evaluate the big picture of strategy and “When I first came to Dartmouth I met Mike Breen ’02, who encouraged me to join ROTC by telling me how much fun it is to jump out of an airplane. In where one is leading the company and team.” 2007, when I was doing just that, I wondered, ‘Why did he think I’d enjoy —Patrick Taylor ’95, Tuck Advanced Management Program participant this?’ Nonetheless, when he became CEO of Human Rights First [HRF] and recruited me, I decided to take a metaphorical leap.” “I’m in a nontraditional role for a human rights organization. It’s a hybrid of what a chief product officer would do at a startup, responsible for the application of technology being developed in-house, while also serving as a chief information security officer.” “A couple of things have transferred across the weird, interesting jobs I’ve held. One is being able to game out potential scenarios; the other is resilience to events, which has come into play between the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests.” “We’ve all seen the United States pull back on commitments to human rights at home and abroad. We’ve all been witnesses to inhumane policies such as family separations at the border and to detainees in ICE facilities put at risk from the pandemic. HRF has enlisted the Harvard College Data Analytics Group to track Covid-19 in those facilities, and our lawyers have secured the release of five detained clients. We want to evolve to take unilateral action when necessary, especially when America doesn’t live up to its founding ideals.” “Human rights face severe challenges from advanced surveillance, climate change, economic inequity, and authoritarian governments taking advan- tage of events such as the pandemic to limit civil liberties.” “While technology can enable massive human rights abuses, tools such as encryption can help defend activists and protesters. Technology companies can do more to ensure their programs and tools don’t fall into the wrong hands, but activists and movement leaders should educate themselves about the best ways to use technology both offensively and defensively.” “Human rights abusers, from white supremacists to military officers commit- ting genocide, leave behind physical and digital trails of evidence. Human rights organizations must master the collection of this evidence to bring these individuals to justice.” “It’s the cross-pollination of ideas that’s really going to deliver on the promise of tech to improve lives. Often when I have conversations about human rights issues, my first reaction is to suggest we apply technology, and the HIS STORY people I’m talking with aren’t aware that such tools exist.” Notable: At Human Rights First, a New York City- and Washington, “I wrote my dissertation on how people perceive accountability systems psycho- D.C.-based nongovernmental organization (NGO), develops apps logically. I learned that technology is just going to make you more of who that can be used on the ground by those protesting oppression; Leadership and Strategic Impact Advanced Management Program you already were. Someone who already felt accountable to public scrutiny has researched how technology can be used to identify and ad- Oct. 25 to 30, 2020 (virtual) | May 16 to 21, 2021 July 11 to 23, 2021 would feel that even more intensely if being recorded, but body cameras dress disinformation campaigns; served in Iraq as an Army officer haven’t stopped police officers from committing horrendous acts.” and with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency For high-potential executives seeking to cultivate their strategic For experienced executives seeking to develop an enterprise-wide Career: Previously senior researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied “I don’t buy the argument that tech is ‘just a tool like a gun, and guns don’t Physics Laboratory, Center for Strategic and International Studies, leadership style and maximize their organizational effectiveness mindset and visionary approach to leadership kill people, people kill people.’ Technology doesn’t kill people, but it can Truman National Security Project LSI.TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU AMP.TUCK.DARTMOUTH.EDU enable a lot of massive abuses.” Education: A.B., government/Asian and Middle Eastern studies; M.A., security studies, Georgetown, 2013; M.A. and Ph.D., psychol- “For us to help our partners on the ground, we need their trust. No human ogy, University of Pennsylvania, 2015, 2017 rights organization in the United States can be a credible messenger on Personal: Lives in Washington, D.C., with wife Meredith Wilson Tuck Executive Education | exec.tuck.dartmouth.edu/alumni | 603-646-2839 | [email protected] human rights anywhere if America doesn’t get its own house in order.” Chang ’07 and baby son Apollo We hope you or a colleague will join us. Dartmouth alumni and their referrals enjoy a 10% discount. Group discounts are also available. 88 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE illustration by JOHN CUNEO

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